Ported from the private repo via bin/publish.sh, plus a manual catch-up
on files that had drifted out of sync before today:
- launch_nexus.ps1: health-check based restart decisions instead of a
bare port-listen check (a wedged leftover process squatting a port
used to look "already running" and block the real service from
starting), a script-path quoting fix for Start-Process, hidden
console via a wscript.exe wrapper (bin/launch_nexus_hidden.vbs), and
a taskbar/window icon for the native app window.
- Sidebar: slim icon+text nav rows instead of bulky bordered buttons,
tighter spacing throughout.
- Settings: full-width layout, a Vite dev-server Start/Stop toggle
(synapse/frontend_manager.py + /frontend/* endpoints), and the
Linux-only Icon Branding section now gated on the new /status
`platform` field instead of always rendering.
- Chatbot: a Think toggle next to the model picker, so extended
thinking can be flipped without leaving the chat page.
- management/ncp.py: faster start/stop polling (0.25s steps instead of
1s), Vite no longer blocks `ncp start` on Linux and is skipped
outright on Windows.
Note: the private repo also has a Mail (IMAP/SMTP) feature; it's
intentionally not included here, so the Mail-only pieces of main.py,
App.jsx, and requirements-windows.txt were left out of this port.
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>
Opt-in repair pass: reinstall Python deps on import failure, npm install when
node_modules missing, npm run build when dist missing, fetch Ollama binary.
Plain doctor stays read-only.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Debian apt ships EOL Node 18 which crashes Vite 8. Prep stage installs Node 20
from NodeSource when node is missing or <20; package.json declares engines.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Settings "Auto model routing" picks which installed model fires for chat vs
coding intent when no model is pinned (auto_chat_model / auto_code_model).
_auto_select_model honors the remap; _MODEL_PREFERENCE["code"] prefers real
coder models first.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <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>
3-way action_tool_policy (off/ask/allow). In "ask", the chat stream stays
open and the tool loop awaits approval: emits event:tool_request, the UI
shows Approve/Deny, POST /chat/approve resumes the same stream. Declined
actions return a denied result; a timeout denies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Conversations bind to a project on creation; RAG scopes to the
conversation's project, not the global setting.
- Action tools (web_search/fetch_url/remember) are withheld unless
allow_action_tools is enabled (off by default). Settings toggle.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Projects/workspaces: documents grouped into projects; chat RAG scopes to the
active project. Switcher in the Documents page.
- Agentic action tools: web_search, fetch_url, and remember (first write tool),
allowlist-gated per playbook.
- Local Whisper STT (faster-whisper, no torch): on-device dictation replacing
the browser Web Speech API. POST /stt + GET /stt/status; browser fallback.
- Vector index extended to conversation recall (message_vectors), with the
brute-force cosine scan kept as the fallback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Chunker: char overlap across boundaries + hard-split of oversized paragraphs.
- Retrieval knobs: rag_top_k / rag_min_score in settings + Settings UI.
- Vector index: sqlite-vec ANN over document embeddings, dual-written and
backfilled, with brute-force cosine as the guaranteed fallback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Upload endpoint (base64 JSON, no multipart dep): extracts text from
pdf/docx/txt/md via pypdf + python-docx, then runs the existing
chunk/embed pipeline. Documents page uploads files straight through.
- Citations: the chat stream emits an SSE `sources` event listing the
documents that fed the answer; the UI shows them as chips under the reply.
- Deps: pypdf, python-docx (both pure-Python, Windows-safe).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Process scope for the current window, LocalMachine RemoteSigned so it persists
and ncp works from later shells without -ExecutionPolicy Bypass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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