Ported from downstream development. Four independent defects.
1. The memory dump was unrestorable. iterdump() serializes sqlite_vec virtual
tables as a raw INSERT INTO sqlite_master(...) followed by inserts into a
table the replaying connection cannot see, so replaying memory.db.sql died
on "no such table: vec_messages" and left ZERO tables behind. dump_db() now
loads the vec0 extension and filters the derived vec tables out of the
iterdump stream, matched on each statement's target table rather than as a
substring - a chat message whose text mentions vec_messages is an
INSERT INTO "messages" and has to survive.
compare() reported an unreadable dump as "diverged", which read like a real
verdict and made both guards refuse backup AND restore, locking the machine
out of syncing in either direction. Unreadable is now its own verdict.
_extra() compared updated_at against a "" default, but the column is REAL,
so the comparison raises TypeError on the first conversation the other side
lacks - exactly the case it counts. It tests membership first now. The
direction test declared updated_at TEXT, which is why this survived: the
test compared str to str while the field compared str to float.
2. The memory curator invented facts. It attributed the ASSISTANT's words to
the user, wrote absence claims read off the existing-memory block, and added
judgements ("favorite") the user never used. The prompt now scopes the USER
line as the only source, and two deterministic guards drop absence claims
and facts whose distinctive tokens appear nowhere in the user's message -
prompt wording alone did not hold on a 7B curator.
3. _best_vulkan_device scored Mesa's llvmpipe above an integrated GPU, pinning
Ollama to a software rasterizer advertising 31 GiB of "VRAM" - CPU inference
with Vulkan overhead on top. Software rasterizers are dropped.
4. Models.jsx compared catalog names to installed names literally, but Ollama
resolves a bare name to ":latest", so an untagged entry (nomic-embed-text)
read as missing forever and the Required gate never opened. Chatbot.jsx
fetched the model list once on mount although App keeps the page mounted
behind display:none, so a newly pulled model never appeared in the picker
until a full browser reload.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Models page redesign: tabs (Required/Recommended/Installed) with a
multi-column card grid, required models (memory curator + embeddings)
surfaced first and gating the rest until both are installed. Adds a
qwen2.5:14b tier to the hardware-fit catalog for high-VRAM machines.
Installer and restore messaging updated to match. Also declares pytest
in requirements-base.txt so bin/check.sh's test suite is reproducible
on a fresh venv.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Models.jsx clipped the whole card with overflow:hidden while only the
"Available Models" section (never visible when the hardware-recommended
list alone filled the card) had its own scroll — the installed-models
list was unreachable with no scrollbar. The whole card now scrolls as
one region instead.
install-windows.ps1's original (non-elevated) window printed "Requesting
administrator privileges..." and exited immediately, so all real
progress and the "installed!" banner only ever appeared in the separate
elevated window — making the original window look like it silently
quit. It now waits (-Wait -PassThru) and reports success/failure itself.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Windows installer no longer auto-downloads models; points to the Models tab.
synapse/hardware.py detects RAM + best-effort VRAM and a curated catalog;
GET /models/recommended annotates each model with fit (gpu/ram/no); the Models
page shows detected RAM/VRAM with fit badges and per-row Pull buttons.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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