The web silence detector previously ran RMS over getByteFrequencyData
bytes (which are already dB-scaled) and re-log'd the result, producing
numbers that didn't line up with real dBFS. Combined with a static
-40 dB threshold that sat right on top of room ambient, silence
detection rarely fired and the user had to click stop manually.
- Rewrite useSilenceDetector to use getFloatTimeDomainData for honest
linear RMS → dBFS.
- Silence threshold is now dynamic: track session peak dBFS and treat
"silent" as 15 dB below peak. Auto-calibrates per mic/room.
- Grace period (1500 ms) at start so the user can begin speaking
before checks arm; static -45 dB fallback until peak clears -25 dB
so dead-silent sessions don't spin forever.
- Silence duration bumped 1500 → 2000 ms for breathing room.
Visual: detached red radial-gradient disc sits behind the mic in a
wrapper; the button no longer scales, so the white mic icon stays
legible on top while the halo grows from 1x to ~2.6x with live
amplitude. Much more obvious "you are live" signal than the prior
subtle box-shadow pulse.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The mic button now scales and glows proportional to the silence
detector's RMS amplitude instead of sitting static. Gives obvious
feedback that audio is actually being picked up — silence still
breathes via a 0.1 floor, loud input caps at ~1.18x scale so it
doesn't punch through the input bar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both the /news discuss button and the briefing discuss button now call a
shared seed_article_discussion() helper that stages the synthetic
read_article tool exchange and the conversational seed prompt — behavior
stays byte-identical across entry points. /news also auto-starts
generation so the chat screen lands on an in-flight stream.
First assistant reply in a seeded article conversation is persisted as a
Note (tags: article-summary + article topics) and backlinked via
rss_items.discussion_note_id, so the knowledge base stops being amnesiac
about articles the user has engaged with.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The frontend hardcoded think=true on every chat send (ChatPanel full +
widget variants, KnowledgeView minichat), which defeated the _should_think
gate on the backend and made qwen3:14b spend 5-20s on chain-of-thought
reasoning for every turn — even "hi". This was the root cause of the
warm-path TTFT variance tracked in followup_ttft_variance.md: the logged
ttft_ms was really prefill + full thinking phase, bouncing with the depth
of the model's reasoning, not with cache or eviction.
All three frontend callers now pass think=false and let _should_think be
authoritative. The classifier is now a real content-based gate: explicit
think_requested=True still forces on as an override (briefing discuss
actions, future UI toggles, MCP callers), otherwise messages <80 chars
without reasoning keywords skip thinking, messages >=400 chars or
containing keywords like why/explain/analyze/debug/review/etc. get it.
Generation timing now separately records think_requested, the final
think decision, first_token_ms (first any chunk), and thinking_ms
(duration of the thinking phase). ttft_ms keeps its existing semantic
(first content token) so existing log analysis still works. The timing
log line surfaces all four fields so the old "just a big ttft number"
ambiguity is gone.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merge create_task into create_note (set status='todo' for tasks, omit
for notes), merge delete_task into delete_note, consolidate entity
tools (create/update_person → save_person, create/update_place →
save_place), rename get_note → read_note with clearer descriptions,
move calculate out of rag.py into utility.py, and extract shared
duplicate detection into check_duplicate() helper.
Updates all downstream references in generation_task.py, quick_capture.py,
ToolCallCard.vue, and WorkspaceView.vue.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The .btn-new-conv class has flex:1 for the sidebar row layout, but
when reused inside .no-conversation (a column flex), it stretched
vertically to fill the entire viewport — appearing as a giant
purple rectangle. Override with flex:none in the no-conversation
context.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
KnowledgeView and WorkspaceView were passing explicit titles
("Knowledge chat", "Project — Workspace") to createConversation(),
which prevented the backend's auto-title generation from firing
(condition: `not conv_title`). Pass no title so the background
title generator names conversations after their first message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The type-badge template had no v-else-if for task, so tasks fell
through to the v-else which renders 'List'.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Task card was the outlier in the Knowledge view: half-width fade-to-
transparent gradient bar while note/list use full-width two-stop
gradients, and the type badge was purple while the border+bar were gold.
- k-card--task::before: full width with gold→amber gradient (#d4a017
→ #fbbf24) matching the two-stop pattern
- badge--task: switched from purple to amber so the badge matches
the card chrome
Three visual improvements for the briefing conversation:
1. Intermediate tool-call messages (empty content, briefing_intermediate:
true) now render as a compact dashed status row with per-tool pills
showing result counts, instead of an empty assistant bubble followed
by a stack of ToolCallCards. Click to expand the full cards.
2. Slot badge on non-intermediate briefing messages — "Full Briefing"
for compilation, "Morning/Midday/Afternoon Update" for slot
injections. Slot updates get a softer bubble treatment (transparent
background, muted border, smaller text) so the compilation stays
visually dominant.
3. Slot separator now triggers on briefing_slot metadata (not the
compilation-only rss_item_ids), and uses a look-behind so it only
fires when there's a prior slot message — no separator above the
first briefing of the day.
New component: BriefingToolStatusRow.vue handles the intermediate
pill row and delegates to ToolCallCard when expanded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace the hand-edit-JSON instructions in Settings → API Keys with a
tabbed UI (Claude Code / Claude Desktop / Other). The Claude Code tab
leads with the `claude mcp add` command, pre-filled with FABLE_URL and
the most recently generated API key, plus copy-to-clipboard buttons on
every snippet. Recommend `uv tool install` or `pipx install` over bare
`pip install` so fable-mcp reliably lands on PATH under PEP 668.
Also fix incorrect priority values in fable-mcp tool docstrings — the
enum is `none|low|medium|high`, not `low|normal|high`.
DRY pass: extract shared `copyToClipboard()` helper used by both
`copyApiKey` and the new snippet buttons; reuse existing
`btn btn-secondary btn-sm` for the copy buttons instead of a bespoke
class.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The standalone current-conditions div showed just a bare temperature with no
forecast context, making the weather panel look incomplete. Now the live
temperature from /weather/current is patched directly into the WeatherCard's
current_temp so it stays fresh without a second display block.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ProjectListView: add an overall task completion bar above the per-milestone
bars showing the percentage of all project tasks that are done.
ProjectView: milestones where every task is complete now start collapsed
by default, keeping the view clean for projects with many finished stages.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Exposes birthday, organization, address (person) and website, category (place)
from entity_meta in the knowledge API response; updates KnowledgeView cards
to display organization and category as visible meta chips/text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When note type is 'person', replace the main TipTap editor with a contact card form
(Relationship, Birthday, Email, Phone, Organization, Address). The TipTap editor moves
to a collapsible 'Notes' section below the form, auto-expanded when existing body content
is present. Person fields are removed from the sidebar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- build_context: when conversation_type is 'briefing', inject a system
prompt instruction telling the model to answer from conversation history
and article context instead of searching the web
- Consolidate briefing conversation type detection to one DB query (was
being checked twice — once for the system prompt addition, once for
article context injection)
- ChatPanel: render a visual 'New Briefing Update' separator line before
2nd+ briefing slot messages (identified by metadata.rss_item_ids)
- types/chat.ts: add metadata field to Message interface
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Route now logs every synthesis request (char count, voice, speed)
- Route logs char count + text preview when the 8000-char limit is hit
- Route logs empty audio with preview (helps spot no-chunk-produced edge case)
- Route logs success with byte count and duration
- Kokoro synthesise() logs per-call: samples produced, elapsed, chars/s
- Kokoro synthesise() logs warning when zero audio chunks returned with preview
- Kokoro synthesise() catches and logs pipeline-internal errors with preview
- Frontend: console.warn now includes char count + 80-char preview on failure and retry
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Account tab: SSO users see an info banner instead of email/password forms
- Briefing tab: remove Office Days section (work days now come from Profile)
- Remove unused toggleWorkDay function
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- New Timezone section with text input + Detect button
- Detect auto-fills from browser Intl API
- Save calls PUT /api/settings (which now propagates to scheduler)
- Briefing tab firing timezone hint reads stored value instead of live browser API
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
POST /api/briefing/articles/<id>/discuss injects stored article content
as a persisted read_article tool exchange before triggering generation.
The LLM sees the article as already read; follow-ups retain context via
the fixed history builder. Frontend Discuss button now calls the new
endpoint instead of inlining article text in the user message.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Startup now pulls Config.OLLAMA_MODEL (system default chat model) — previously only
embedding and background models were pulled; the primary chat model was skipped
- _warm_user_models expanded to also pull user-configured default_model and
background_model overrides that are missing from Ollama, rather than logging and
skipping them; pulls run before warm/KV-cache priming
- Add background_model to _MODEL_KEYS in settings route so clearing the dropdown
deletes the DB row instead of saving "", which caused Ollama failures in tag
suggestions, title generation, project summaries, and RSS classification
- Add http/https scheme validation to PUT /api/admin/base-url matching the CalDAV
route pattern; a bad value no longer silently breaks invite/password-reset links
- Update admin voice config description: "Reload models" button exists to avoid
a server restart, so the old "restart required" text was misleading
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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