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>
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>
install-windows.ps1 now removes everything under assets\ except
NexusOS.ico (the only file anything on Windows reads) right after the
desktop shortcut step - the GTK/KDE/XFWM4/Plymouth theme has nothing to
theme without a matching desktop environment under it.
Ported via bin/publish.sh from NexusOS-jon.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- install-windows.ps1: warn about a leftover profile-based ncp() that
would shadow ncp.cmd; the "press any key to close" footer now skips
the wait when stdin is redirected (was hanging indefinitely) and
exits cleanly instead of Stop-Process when it owns the window; pulls
nomic-embed-text alongside the chat/memory models.
- management/ncp.py: ncp start / start -b bring Ollama up automatically;
longer timeout + real error message on a slow model warm.
- synapse/nexus_config.py: DEFAULT_EMBED_MODEL, single source of truth
alongside DEFAULT_CHAT_MODEL/DEFAULT_MEMORY_MODEL.
- synapse/ollama_manager.py: is_available() cached instead of spawning a
process per /status poll; is_running() timeout dropped 2s -> 0.5s so a
healthy backend stops reading as dead; embed() reads the new default
instead of a hardcoded string; de-duplicated serve-env setup.
Ported via bin/publish.sh from NexusOS-jon.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ctrl+C in PS 5.1 kills the whole script, so the advertised way to skip the
download was also the way to abort the install before its final steps. Now a
'Download them now? [Y/n]' prompt, so declining continues to the end. The
default-model seed moves above the pull - it only writes a settings row and was
being lost along with the download. A test forbids offering Ctrl+C again.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Windows pulled into %USERPROFILE%\.ollama while ncp and doctor looked in
nexus-core\models. The installer now sets OLLAMA_MODELS for its pulls and moves
an existing default store across first (instant on the same volume, no
refetch), and ollama_manager sets OLLAMA_MODELS on every platform. The env block
was duplicated in two methods, which is why the carve-out existed twice; folded
into _serve_env().
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A process reads PATH once, at startup, so the shell the installer ran in can
never resolve ncp. The ending now says that and closes the window. Uses
Stop-Process -Id $PID rather than 'exit', which only closes the window when the
host was started with -File.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
'Press Enter to close' closed nothing when run from an existing shell, and
closing unconditionally would kill the caller's session and any transcript in
it. Adds an -OwnsWindow switch passed only to the elevated run the script starts
for itself; that run may close its own window, a guest run returns quietly.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
PowerShell resolves ExternalScript (.ps1) ahead of Application (.cmd), and both
lived in the directory the installer puts on PATH -- so in PowerShell `ncp` ran
the .ps1 and was execution-policy-bound again, the exact thing the .cmd exists
to avoid. Its other justification (giving ncp to pwsh on Linux) stopped being
true once /usr/local/bin/ncp existed: pwsh runs a PATH symlink to a shell script
as an Application. A test now prevents the file coming back.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Piping winget to Out-Host defeats its carriage-return redraw, so every spinner
and progress-bar frame lands as its own line. Filters the frames, keeps the
messages. Block characters spelled by code point to keep the file ASCII.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
taskkill writes to stderr when the process isn't running, and with
$ErrorActionPreference = Stop PowerShell 5.1 promotes native stderr to a
terminating error (2>$null doesn't prevent it). The normal case -- Ollama not
running -- threw and printed a failure warning for work that had succeeded.
Uses Get-Process | Stop-Process instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
winget draws its progress bar with UTF-8 block characters, but PowerShell
decodes native output using the console codepage (437), turning each block into
three Latin characters and burying the real messages. Sets
[Console]::OutputEncoding to UTF-8 in install-windows.ps1, and chcp 65001 in
ncp.cmd for the check marks and em-dashes ncp.py prints.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ctrl+C in PS 5.1 kills the whole script, and the multi-GB model pull sat in the
middle -- skipping the download also skipped the ncp PATH registration and the
desktop shortcut. Moves the pull after them. Also drops the pipe that buffered
ollama's progress bar (a running download looked like a hang) and replaces a
try/catch that native commands never trigger with $LASTEXITCODE checks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Ports the ncp PATH work from upstream. Registering ncp as a shell-profile
function failed three ways on Windows: the default Restricted execution policy
blocks the profile itself, profiles don't exist outside PowerShell (cmd, Win+R,
Task Scheduler), and the self-elevating installer writes the admin's profile.
Windows now ships management/ncp.cmd and the installer appends management\ to
the Machine PATH via [Environment]::SetEnvironmentVariable -- never setx, which
truncates PATH at 1024 chars. A .cmd is exempt from the execution policy.
Linux symlinks /usr/local/bin/ncp -> management/nexus-cli.sh, falling back to
the old .bashrc function when sudo is unavailable.
Also renames requirements-wsl.txt to requirements-windows.txt and purges stale
WSL references, including vite.config.js's dev-server comment and
controlpanel.py's "Check WSLg." error string.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
management/ncp.py replaces the bash CLI's logic; nexus-cli.sh and the new
ncp.ps1 are thin wrappers, so Linux keeps its entry point and Windows gains one.
psutil handles process and port work on both platforms.
install-windows.ps1 registers ncp in the PowerShell profile. The panel VPN
switch now resolves its WireGuard connection through NetworkManager instead of
a hardcoded name, and the .ps1 ASCII guard globs rather than naming files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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