Memories grow per-flag witness checkboxes (you / host / guest) that
auto-submit on change via HTMX. The new POST route emits a manual_edit
event with target_kind=memory_witness and a {flag, value} payload;
prior_value mirrors the same shape so an inverse edit restores the
flag. The drawer's recent-memories query now selects the three
witness columns alongside the existing fields so the template can
render checkbox state without a second query per row.
When a host->candidate edge already exists from a prior chat, the
Add-guest form renders the prose textarea disabled with an "already
know each other" note. Submission without the explicit "re-seed
anyway" toggle skips seed_inter_bot_edges so existing edge content
(affinity, trust, knowledge, summaries) survives — guest_added and
group_node_initialized still fire. A small inline script enables /
disables the textarea per-option based on a pre-computed
existing_guest_edges dict surfaced by the GET handler.
Adds the four POST routes whose state-layer support was already
dispatched by the manual_edit projector (edge_trust, edge_summary,
memory_pov_summary) plus a new edge_knowledge_fact dispatch branch for
add/remove fact list manipulation. Drawer template gains editable
textareas, sliders, and add/remove fact controls. Remove semantics on
knowledge_fact match by string (not index) so concurrent edge_update
events appending facts between drawer renders don't desync the form.
T18 review (Phase 1) noted the NICE-tier trim drops previous-scene
FIRST while §6.3 spec lists previous-scene LAST in the NICE tier
group. Decision: keep the existing greedy order (previous-scene
first), and document why.
Rationale (now in code at the trim ladder):
1. Cheapest-impact-first — a per-POV previous-scene summary loses
less narrative continuity than the older dialogue turns or
memory hits it competes with.
2. Greedy lookahead is more expensive than the marginal narrative
loss. Dropping previous-scene typically clears the soft-budget
slack in one step.
Test added: test_nice_trim_order_documented pins the observed order
(previous-scene -> memories -> dialogue) so a future refactor can't
silently invert it. Sized so that all-NICE config overflows soft but
dropping just previous-scene fits — proves memories and older
dialogue turns survive while previous-scene is the FIRST drop.
Phase 2 T43 added a SECOND ACTIVITIES: block to render guest activity
separately from you+speaker. Two consecutive ACTIVITIES: headers can
read as a duplicate-section bug to the LLM and bloat the prompt.
Consolidate to a single ACTIVITIES: block whose body is composed from
up to three bullets (you, speaker, guest). The block itself is
MUST-tier (always renders); bullet-level trim drops bullets in the
order guest -> group node -> you -> other edges, with the speaker
bullet as the MUST-tier floor (the speaker's own current activity is
the load-bearing slice).
Implementation chose Option B from the polish plan: pre-truncate the
bullets list at trim time before _build_activity_block runs, rather
than introduce a granular tier mode in the trim machinery. Rationale
documented in code; the existing block-level trim ladder gains a
single new toggle (include_you_activity) and the SHOULD-tier
guest_activity_block is gone.
Tests:
- test_single_activities_block_with_three_bullets_when_3_entities:
exactly one ACTIVITIES: header with all three entity bullets.
- test_tight_budget_drops_guest_activity_bullet_first: speaker bullet
survives, guest bullet absent under tight budget.
- Existing test_assemble_with_tight_budget_drops_guest_activity_first
still passes (asserts on bullet absence, not block-header absence).
Phase 2 T46 pinned the witness mask contract on search_memories with a
witness_role parameter (host/guest/you). The prompt-assembly call site
in assemble_narrative_prompt was hardcoded to "host", which silently
returned the wrong rows when the speaker was the guest bot.
Derive the witness role from chat membership via a new private helper
_witness_role_for(speaker_bot_id, host_bot_id), and apply it at the
search_memories call. Behaviour is identical when the speaker is the
host (or when no guest is present); the fix is load-bearing only when
the guest bot is the speaker — exactly the scenario Phase 2 T43 added
support for.
Tests: pin both directions (host-as-speaker and guest-as-speaker) by
patching the imported search_memories reference and asserting the
witness_role argument the call site emits.
Rewrites post_turn for the multi-entity world:
- Addressee detection via case-insensitive whole-word match against the
guest name; defaults to host on no-match or both-match.
- Multi-entity prompt assembly: forwards guest_id so the prompt sees
the third party's activity / edges / group-node.
- Multi-witness memory write: record_turn_memory_for_present writes one
memory per present bot witness when a guest is in the room.
- Multi-pair state-update: compute_state_updates_for_present emits one
edge_update per directed pair (6 with a guest, 2 without).
- Interjection branch (T39): when a guest is present and the primary
beat completes, the silent witness may follow on. detect_interjection
decides; on True we stream a second narrative as the witness, append a
second assistant_turn linked to the same user_turn_id, and re-run the
multi-pair state update + memory write for the follow-on beat. Cancel
collapses both halves; a cancelled interjection skips its downstream
passes so we don't classifier-spam against a half-formed beat.
- Scene-close runs after both beats so apply_scene_close_summary sees
the full closing scene; T45's guest-aware summarizer handles per-POV
rewrites for each present witness.
regenerate.py mirrors the prompt / memory / state-update changes for
1:1 and multi-entity scenes. Per the Phase 2 spec, interjection
regeneration is deferred to Phase 2.5 — regenerate only re-streams the
addressee turn for v2.
Tests: adds 5 cases to tests/test_turn_flow.py covering the no-guest
regression, multi-bot without interjection, multi-bot with interjection,
scene-close per-POV rewrites, and addressee routing on a named-bot
prose. Each test pins its own canned MockLLMClient queue with the call
shape documented in the docstring.
The kickoff parse-and-confirm route was 500-ing intermittently because
Hermes-3 + Featherless's response_format={"type":"json_object"} only
guarantees JSON output, NOT a particular schema. The model was inventing
its own field names (sceneTime, entities, settingDetails) instead of
the KickoffParse fields, causing Pydantic validation to fail on both
classify() retries.
Three changes:
1. Include the Pydantic JSON schema in the system prompt so the model
knows exactly which keys to produce. Affects every classify() call
(kickoff parse, turn parse, scene-close detect, significance,
state-update, scene summarize). Strip ```json fences if the model
wraps its output. Bump retries 2 → 3 (model is stochastic; one extra
attempt closes most of the remaining gap).
2. parse_kickoff() now passes a default empty KickoffParse so the
route degrades to a fillable form instead of 500 when the classifier
ultimately fails. The confirm form is the human-in-the-loop; an
empty form is strictly better UX than a stack trace.
3. Tests updated: bumped canned-failure arrays from 2 → 3 entries to
match the new attempt count; renamed kickoff test from
"raises_when_classifier_fails_twice" to
"falls_back_to_empty_when_classifier_fails" reflecting the new
degraded-but-usable behavior.
Verified live with all 3 sample bots (maya/eli/sam) — kickoff route
returns 200 across multiple attempts. Full suite: 168 passed.
Joseph Doherty