Replace manual _active_spinner + _pause_spinner/_resume_spinner with
_ThinkingSpinner class that owns the spinner lifecycle via __enter__/
__exit__ and provides a pause() context manager for temporarily
stopping the spinner during progress output.
Benefits:
- Restores Pythonic context manager pattern matching original code
- Eliminates duplicated start/stop boilerplate between single-message
and interactive modes
- pause() context manager guarantees resume even if print raises
- _active flag prevents post-teardown resume from async callbacks
The Rich console.status() spinner ('nanobot is thinking...') was not
cleared when tool call progress lines were printed during processing,
causing overlapping/garbled terminal output.
Replace the context-manager approach with explicit start/stop lifecycle:
- _pause_spinner() stops the spinner before any progress line is printed
- _resume_spinner() restarts it after printing
- Applied to both single-message mode (_cli_progress) and interactive
mode (_consume_outbound)
Closes#1956
Replace fire-and-forget consolidation with archive_messages(), which
retries until the raw-dump fallback triggers — making it effectively
infallible. /new now clears the session immediately and archives in
the background. Pending archive tasks are drained on shutdown via
close_mcp() so no data is lost on process exit.
PR #881 (commit 755e424) fixed the race condition between normal consolidation
and /new consolidation, but did so by making /new wait for consolidation to
complete before returning. This hurts user experience - /new should be instant.
This PR restores the original immediate-return behavior while keeping safety:
1. **Immediate return**: Session clears and user sees "New session started" right away
2. **Background archival**: Consolidation runs in background via asyncio.create_task
3. **Serialized consolidation**: Uses the same lock as normal consolidation via
`memory_consolidator.get_lock()` to prevent concurrent writes
If consolidation fails after session clear, archived messages may be lost.
This is acceptable because:
- User already sees the new session and can continue working
- Failure is logged for debugging
- The alternative (blocking /new on every call) hurts UX for all users
- Add CONTRIBUTING.md with detailed contribution guidelines
- Add branching strategy section to README.md explaining main/nightly branches
- Include maintainer information and development setup instructions
Phase 1 _decide() now includes "Current date/time: YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM UTC"
in the user prompt and instructs the LLM to use it for time-aware scheduling.
Without this, the LLM defaults to 'run' for any task description regardless
of whether it is actually due, defeating Phase 1's pre-screening purpose.
Closes#1929
Instead of adding a separate load_skill tool to bypass workspace restrictions,
extend ReadFileTool with extra_allowed_dirs so it can read builtin skill paths
while keeping write/edit tools locked to the workspace. Fixes the original issue
for both main agent and subagents.
Made-with: Cursor
When restrictToWorkspace is enabled, the agent cannot read builtin skill
files via read_file since they live outside the workspace. This adds a
dedicated load_skill tool that reads skills by name through the SkillsLoader,
which accesses files directly via Python without the workspace restriction.
- Add LoadSkillTool to filesystem tools
- Register it in the agent loop
- Update system prompt to instruct agent to use load_skill instead of read_file
- Remove raw filesystem paths from skills summary
Replace the static provider-level supports_vision check with a
reactive fallback: when a model returns an image-unsupported error,
strip image_url blocks from messages and retry once. This avoids
maintaining an inaccurate vision capability table and correctly
handles gateway/unknown model scenarios.
Also extract _safe_chat() to deduplicate try/except boilerplate
in chat_with_retry().
- Add field to ProviderSpec (default True)
- Add and methods in LiteLLMProvider
- Filter image_url content blocks in before sending to non-vision models
- Reverts session-layer filtering from original PR (wrong layer)
This fixes the issue where switching from Claude (vision-capable) to
non-vision models (e.g., Baidu Qianfan) causes API errors due to
unsupported image_url content blocks.
The provider layer is the correct place for this filtering because:
1. It has access to model/provider capabilities
2. It only affects non-vision models
3. It preserves session layer purity (storage should not know about model capabilities)
With custom_llm_provider kwarg handling routing, the openrouter/ prefix
caused model names like anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6 to become
openrouter/anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6, which OpenRouter API rejects.
- Add nanobot/utils/evaluator.py: lightweight LLM tool-call to decide notify/silent after background task execution
- Remove magic token injection from heartbeat and cron prompts
- Clean session history (no more <SILENT_OK> pollution)
- Add tests for evaluator and updated heartbeat three-phase flow
Appends a strict instruction to background task prompts (cron and heartbeat)
directing the agent to return a `<SILENT_OK>` token if there is nothing
material to report. Adds conditional logic to intercept this token and
suppress the outbound message to the user, preventing notification spam
from autonomous background checks.
