Was fanning out to 3 rows because the 152px max-width (3 icons +
2 gaps exact) had no slack — subpixel rounding could push the
third icon over and trigger another wrap. Bumped to 158px in the
in-grid mode (600px breakpoint) and 180px in the absolute-overlay
mode (380px breakpoint, where the 22px padding-left from the
gradient fade was also eating into the 3-icon row width).
Was wrapping into 4+ rows at narrow widths because the cluster's
grid column could shrink below the 3-icon cap. Set both min-width
and max-width to the 3-icon row width and justify-self:end on the
cluster so the icons stay glued to the right edge instead of
sliding toward the middle when the cluster is wider than its
content.
The 600px / 380px breakpoints were @container docpane queries but
the email reader isn't inside a docpane container — they never
fired and the cluster wrapped to 3+ rows at narrow widths. Added
container-type:inline-size + container-name:emailreader on
.email-reader-header and switched the queries to that container,
so the 2-row cap now actually applies.
Three-step shrink:
1. > 600px pane: cluster sits in col 2 as 1 row of 6
2. 380-600px pane: cluster capped at 3-icon width so wrapping
stops at 3 + 3 (max 2 rows) — chips share width with the 2-row
cluster instead of multiplying into 3+ rows
3. < 380px pane: cluster snaps to absolute overlay with left-edge
box-shadow, still capped at 3-icon width so it's the same 2-row
shape but floating above the truncated chips
Grid tracks now:
- col 1: minmax(60px, 250px) — chip natural width capped at 250px,
with the 60px (4 char) floor enforced on From / To / Cc alike
- col 2: minmax(48px, 1fr) — takes the rest, shrinks first when
the pane narrows
Removed the hard max-width on the action cluster so on wide panes
it stays as one row of 6. Once col 2 shrinks below the 1-row width,
flex-wrap kicks in and the icons re-stack to 3+3. Chips only start
to shrink past that point.
- Action cluster's max-width is calc(48*3 + 4*2) so the 6 icons
always lay out as 3 top / 3 bottom by default.
- When the pane narrows the chips in col 1 shrink first (with 60px
min so 4 chars + ellipsis stay visible).
- At <380px the cluster snaps to absolute overlay with a left-edge
box-shadow so it reads as floating above the truncated chip.
Two-step shrink behavior:
1. As the pane narrows, the action cluster (max-width:50% of meta)
wraps to a 2-row icon stack first
2. Then the recipient chip span starts overflow-scrolling, but
keeps a 60px min-width (~4 chars) so the first chars of the
sender/recipient name stay visible
Previously only the From row affected the action cluster's column
width — To/Cc detail rows spanned both columns and ignored the
cluster. Now:
- meta-details lives in col 1 only so the To/Cc chips shrink
together with the From chip when the pane narrows
- action cluster spans rows 1 and 2 so its width is set by the
widest col-1 content; a long To/Cc list triggers the wrap to a
2-row icon stack just like a long From sender does
Meta switched to CSS grid in undocked mode:
- row 1, col 1: From row (label + chip + chevron)
- row 1, col 2: action cluster
- row 2, span: To/Cc details
The cluster shrinks alongside the chip and flex-wraps into a 2-row
icon stack before crowding the chip. At very narrow pane widths
(< 380px via @container docpane) it snaps back to absolute overlay
so From: still fits.
Docked mode overrides meta back to flex column so the cluster
flows naturally last — under From, and under To/Cc when expanded.
Was rendering as a transparent ghost — From chip / sender text bled
through the gaps between icons. Added a left-fading gradient
backed by var(--bg) so the cluster reads as an opaque overlay
while chips poking out from underneath blend smoothly into its
left edge.
- Window-level recipient-chip click handler now bails if the chip
is inside .email-reader-meta — the per-reader handler still
toggles the expanded-address view on click.
- The from-sender (magnifying glass) search button SVG is now
tinted with var(--accent-primary) so it stands out as a deliberate
search action against the neutral Reply / Forward / etc icons.
Moved the action cluster out of the From row to a sibling of meta
inside .email-reader-meta. Undocked: cluster is absolute-positioned
top-right of the header so it overlays the From line as before.
Docked: cluster is in-flow at the bottom of the meta column, so it
sits below the From row when collapsed and below the To/Cc rows
when the user expands the recipient details via the chevron.
The previous commit read toggleState.mode before it was declared
(send-time site near line 632) and outside its closure (assistant
finalize site near line 3426). Both threw ReferenceError / TDZ on
first send, which crashed the chat send + render pipeline.
Read fresh via Storage.loadToggleState() at each site, defaulting to
'chat' on any error. Mode-tag rendering otherwise unchanged.
Cluster is now in-flow with margin-left:auto and flex-wrap:wrap so
when the chip text grows long enough to crowd it, the buttons split
to a second row of icons before they have to cover the chip. The
absolute-overlay behavior kicks back in at very narrow pane widths
(<380px via @container docpane) so From: still fits on one row when
the pane is truly cramped.
Pulled the From row's negative margin from -8 to -4 so the whole
row (From: label AND chip) sits 4px lower together. Action cluster
below now justifies flex-end so the icons sit at the right edge
of the row instead of left-aligned.
Sometimes the user lands in chat mode without realizing — surface the
mode the message went out on as a small uppercase pill right after the
timestamp in the role header.
- roleTimestamp(when, mode) gains an optional mode arg. Agent renders
in accent; Chat renders in muted/neutral. Other values render
nothing (back-compat for older history without the field).
- The three roleTimestamp call sites pass metadata?.mode through.
- chat.js writes mode into the user-message metadata at send time and
into the assistant metadata when the active-stream render lands,
reading toggleState.mode so research/agent overrides upstream still
flow through correctly.
Historical messages from before this change just don't show the pill —
graceful fallback, no migration needed.
When the modal is docked there's no room to overlay the actions on
the From line. Now:
- From row gets flex-wrap so the action cluster drops to its own
row below the From label + chevron
- Action cluster goes position:static, flex-basis:100%, no gradient
fade, no padding-left, left-aligned
- Whole From row pulled up 8px to claim back vertical space
- Header min-height drops back to 0 since buttons no longer
overlap
Also bumped the gap from From to To/Cc details by 2px (-8 → -6).
opacity 0.55 → 0.45 and explicit color:var(--fg), matching the
.cal-search-icon treatment so the email chip-bar magnifier reads at
the same muted intensity as the calendar search field.
Bumped header min-height to 60px and padding-top to 8px so the
44px-tall action buttons (absolutely positioned inside the From
row) have room without overflowing the header. From row gets
min-height:44px on desktop so the buttons fit cleanly inside it.
Dropped the now-redundant negative margin nudges on the From row
and the strong label.
Search input gets position:relative;top:-1px so the placeholder text
sits 1px higher inside the chip bar.
AI reply choice popover: drop the '...' kebab and the 'Draft with
note' textarea row entirely. Replace the concentric-circle Full icon
with our standard accent dot (filled 6px circle in viewBox 24).
Pinned .email-reader-actions-inline to absolute top:0 right:0 of the
From row with a gradient fade. When the window narrows the cluster
stays on the From line and the recipient-chips span scrolls under
it, so users can swipe/drag to reveal recipients tucked behind the
buttons instead of seeing From: jump above the action row.
Main button: open cached AI draft if one exists, otherwise generate
a fast draft inline. No more intermediate Fast/Full/Note menu.
Caret on the side opens a focused popover with just a textarea +
Generate button — the user types instructions (e.g. 'thank them and
confirm Tuesday at 2', 'decline politely') and submitting fires the
full-mode generation with those instructions as the noteHint.
- _aiReplySplitButtonHtml(data) centralizes the new HTML so all three
reader render sites use the same markup.
- _showAiReplyChoice rewritten — drops the Fast/Full toggle row plus
the kebab + 'Draft with note' two-step. Ctrl/Cmd+Enter submits.
- _handleAiReplyButton routes based on which inner button was clicked
(caret → popover, main → run-or-open).
- The three reader event registrations now listen on .ai-reply-split
so both inner buttons feed the same handler.
- Desktop (>= 769px): From row gets margin-top -4px so the whole
From + action cluster sits 4px higher in the header.
- Mobile @media block untouched.
- To/Cc gap bumped 4px → 6px for slight breathing room.
Strong labels reserve min-width:36px so the chips after each label
start at the same x — From, To, Cc all line up. Killed the
docked/docpane grid-stack overrides that were splitting label and
chips onto separate rows, since chips already scroll horizontally
inside each row when there are too many.
- Docked: From row + action cluster nudged up 4px
- Chevron pulled 4px left so it sits tight to the From chip
- To/Cc detail block pulled up 8px to hug the From row
- 4px gap between To and Cc rows (was 2px)
Found the culprit — the docked-modal CSS forced .email-reader-meta-row
into a single-column grid, which collapsed the From row into a
vertical stack and pushed the action buttons below it.
Fix:
- Merged the primary + secondary action rows into one flat
.email-reader-actions-inline cluster inside the From row
- Made the cluster flex-wrap so it stays inline when undocked and
wraps below the chip when truly cramped (docked, narrow tab)
- Excluded .email-reader-meta-from from the docked-modal and
narrow-docpane grid-stack rules — those overrides now only
apply to the To/Cc detail rows
Absolutely-positioned 13px search SVG at the left edge of the chip bar
(same circle+line glyph used elsewhere). Bar padding-left bumped 8→26
to leave room. pointer-events:none on the icon so clicks still land
on the input, opacity 0.55 to match other muted prefix icons.
Star → bookmark banner SVG also in the card title row (em.is_flagged
glyph) and the inbox toolbar's _starIcon / _starFilledIcon, so every
favorites affordance matches the chats sidebar bookmark.
Search dropdown gains a third suggestion kind:
- kind: 'email' rows surface emails from the snapshot whose subject or
sender name match the typed term (top 4, scored by startsWith vs
substring). Render row carries a small envelope glyph + bolded
subject + 'from name' on the right.
- Picking one closes the dropdown and expands that exact card via
_toggleCardPreview, scrolling it into view.
Restructured the DOM so the Reply / Reply-all / Forward row lives
INSIDE the email-reader-meta-from div (after the chips span), and
the Summary / AI / More row sits directly below as a sibling of
From inside the meta. Killed the outer email-reader-actions
wrapper that kept letting the buttons drift out of position.
CSS now pushes the primary row right via margin-left:auto on the
From row and right-aligns the secondary row below it.
Reorganized the action cluster into two visible rows so each fits
the available width:
- Top row (on the From line): Reply / Reply-all / Forward
- Bottom row (under it): Summary / AI reply / More
Action cluster goes back to flex-direction:column, the row
wrappers are flex rows again (no more display:contents flatten).
After picking a filter from the dropdown the pill was 'icon + Unread'.
Drop the text — the icon is the affordance — so the pill collapses to
just the glyph + ×. Hover surfaces the friendly label via the title
attribute. Contact + text pills still carry their text label.
align-items: flex-start on the header keeps the action cluster
locked to the From line when the user expands the To/Cc details
— previously it drifted to vertical center as the meta grew taller.
Typing a filter keyword now surfaces the matching filter row in the
autocomplete (each with its existing dropdown icon). Picking one pins
a filter pill and drives the global filter state.
Keyword catalog (_LIB_FILTER_OPTIONS):
- has-attachments ← 'attachment', 'attachments', 'has attachment', 'attach'
- unread ← 'unread', 'new', 'unseen'
- favorites ← 'favorite', 'starred', 'star', 'flagged'
- undone ← 'undone', 'pending', 'todo'
- reminders ← 'reminder', 'reminders'
- unanswered ← 'unanswered', 'unreplied', 'no reply'
- pending_30d ← 'pending 30d', 'pending', 'recent pending'
- stale_30d ← 'stale', 'old', 'stale 30d'
- tag:urgent ← 'urgent', 'critical'
- tag:reply-soon ← 'reply soon', 'reply', 'follow up'
- tag:spam ← 'spam', 'junk'
- tag:newsletter ← 'newsletter', 'newsletters', 'subscriptions'
- tag:marketing ← 'marketing', 'promo', 'promotional'
Filter pill behaviour:
- Only one filter pill is active at a time — adding a new one replaces
any existing filter pill.
- _applyFilterPillSideEffect drives the existing #email-lib-filter
select (or the #email-attach-btn toggle for has-attachments). The
server-side list refetch follows for free via the existing 'change'
handler.
- Removing the filter pill clears the side effect.
Pill render gains the filter icon as a leading glyph; the suggestion
row renders icon + label in the accent colour so it visually reads as
a filter, not a contact.
After the toolbar reshuffle the action block is now two stacked rows
(Summary/More above Reply/Forward/AI), making it taller than the meta
block. The mobile header rule was align-items:center, which then pulled
the From:/To: rows down into the vertical middle of the header — the
'From: is in the middle' symptom. Switch to flex-start so meta sticks
to the top edge where the user expects it.
With the meta collapsed to a single visible From row + chevron,
there is room to put the action cluster on that same row as a
right-aligned sibling. Dropped the absolute positioning and
gradient-fade overlap — actions now flex-end via margin-left:auto
so From sits on the left and Reply / Reply-all / Forward / AI /
Summary / More all sit on the right of the same row.
Also moved the chevron inside the recipient-chips span so it sits
adjacent to the sender chip instead of wrapping onto a second line.
1. Multiple pills now AND together — 'alice + bob' means both alice
AND bob are somewhere on the email, not 'from alice OR from bob'.
(some → every in the filter.)
2. Default autocomplete focus is now -1 (no row pre-selected) so plain
Enter commits the input as a text pill — typing then Enter behaves
like a normal search. ArrowDown / ArrowUp + Enter still picks a
contact suggestion. Tab still autocompletes the most-relevant match
regardless of arrow state.
3. Pill × button nudged up 4px so it sits on the visual centerline
inside the 18px pill height.
Only the From row shows by default. When the email has To and/or
Cc recipients, a small chevron sits next to the From chip — click
it to inline-expand the To/Cc rows below (rotates 180deg open).
Trims the header to a single visible row in the common case,
leaving the action cluster plenty of vertical headroom to stay
on a single row.
Reverted the single-row meta strip — misread the user's ask. Each
meta field gets its own row (From / To / Cc stacked), label sits
tight to the chips on the same line, recipient chips inside the
row still scroll horizontally so long lists slide under the
floating action cluster.
Three stacked meta rows wasted vertical space — From, To, Cc now
share one horizontal strip with each label tight to its chips. The
strip itself scrolls horizontally so the action cluster (still
floating top-right) can cover the right edge and the user can drag
to reveal recipients hidden underneath.
This also gives the actions a single shared row, since the meta
no longer dictates a multi-row header height.
Four fixes from the first round of usage:
1. Pill height was larger than the chip-bar's row — shrink to a fixed
18px-tall pill (line-height + height pinned) so it sits inside
the input row.
2. List refresh wiped pill state — when _loadEmails replaces
state._libEmails (refresh, folder switch, etc.), refresh the
snapshot to the new list and re-apply the pill filter so pills
persist instead of resetting to 'show all emails'.
3. Click-to-add only worked inside the open email reader. Extend the
capture-phase handler to ALSO catch clicks on .email-meta-sender
inside the library grid — the list card's sender name is the most
natural place to want to pivot from.
4. Esc inside the chip-input didn't close the modal. New behaviour:
if the autocomplete dropdown is open, Esc closes only the dropdown
(and swallows the event); otherwise Esc blurs the input and bubbles
so the existing modal Esc handler can close the library.
Also wires data-email + data-name on .email-meta-sender so the click
handler has reliable targeting.
The primary/secondary row wrappers were still creating nested flex
containers — even with parent flex-direction:row the two row divs
sized to content and could stack visually. Switching the wrappers
to display:contents collapses them entirely so all 6 buttons
become direct flex children of .email-reader-actions and lay out
on a single row guaranteed.
Replace the single text-input + IMAP search round-trip with a deterministic
local chip-bar filter modelled on the gallery's tag pills.
What lives in the bar
- Each filter is a pill: { type: 'contact', name, email } or
{ type: 'text', text }.
- Click anywhere in the bar lands the cursor in the input field.
- Typing populates a dropdown of matching contacts + recently-seen senders
(cached per modal open via _buildSuggestionSource).
- Tab / Enter on a highlighted suggestion → adds a contact pill.
- Enter on free text with no suggestion match → adds a text pill.
- Backspace on empty input → pops the last pill.
- × on a pill removes that one.
- Arrow keys navigate the suggestion list.
Filtering
- _applyPillFilter snapshots the loaded list once, then for every render
shows emails where ANY pill matches:
contact pill — from_address equals OR to/cc contains the pill's email
text pill — broad substring match across subject/from/snippet
Click-to-add
- Capture-phase click handler on .recipient-chip inside the email reader
drops the person into the library as a contact pill (and reopens the
library window if it was closed/minimized).
Removed the debounced /api/email/search IMAP call and its 'Loading emails'
side effect. The dropped server search was the source of the 'type
jonathan, get stuck on Loading' bug.
Reply / Reply all / Forward / AI / Summary / More now flow inline
on one row instead of being split into a primary (Summary+More) and
secondary (Reply group) stack. Mobile + docked overrides also
flipped from column to row.
From/To/Cc back on the left, action cluster (Reply / Reply-all /
Forward / AI / Summary / More) absolute-positioned top-right with a
gradient fade so chips that overflow slide cleanly underneath. The
recipient-chips lists no longer wrap — they scroll horizontally,
matching the account-chip strip pattern, so users can drag/swipe
to reveal recipients hidden under the action cluster.
Mobile (@media max-width:768px) gets the same row+absolute layout
instead of the previous column with actions on top. The narrow
container query (docpane max-width:460px) still falls back to
in-flow column so it doesn't overlap on very narrow panes.
Was: from/to/cc/date meta on the left, action cluster (Reply / Reply
all / Forward / AI reply / Summary / More) pinned to the right of
the header. Now: actions stretch across the top in their two existing
sub-rows, the from/to/cc meta sits below.
Pure CSS — no template restructure. The .email-reader-header flexbox
flips to flex-direction:column, .email-reader-actions gets order:-1
to render first, and the existing flex-end aligned action-row rules
swap to flex-start so buttons read left-to-right across the top
toolbar. Mobile media query overrides bend the same way so the
layout is consistent across breakpoints.
The Fast/Full popover now has a kebab (three-dot) button alongside the
two preset choices. Clicking it expands a textarea below with a
'Draft with note' send button. The textarea is for the user to tell
the AI how to reply ('confirm Tuesday at 2', 'decline politely', 'say
we'll need an extra week') instead of accepting a generic draft.
Plumbing:
- emailLibrary.js: kebab button + note panel inside .email-ai-reply-choice
menu. Submitting calls _runAiReplyFromButton with mode='ai-reply-full'
and a noteHint string.
- _runAiReplyFromButton signature gains noteHint; passes it through
state._onEmailClick as opts.noteHint.
- emailInbox.js consumer: forwards opts.noteHint into _openEmail's new
5th arg, which puts it in the /api/email/ai-reply POST body as
user_hint.
- routes/email_routes.py /ai-reply: reads user_hint, appends a
'User's instructions for THIS reply' section to the user message
(priority over default tone/length). Also skips the per-message
AI-reply cache when a hint is set — the cached generic draft would
silently override the instructions otherwise.
Restructure the action cluster so it stays as two visible rows inside
.email-reader-actions instead of flattening via display:contents:
- Top row: Summary, More
- Bottom row: Reply, Reply all (conditional), Forward, AI reply
Dropped the Search button — wasn't part of the requested layout.
CSS: .email-reader-actions becomes flex column with both rows
right-aligned; .email-reader-actions-row becomes a real flex row
(no more display:contents flattening) so each row stays on its own
line. Whole block continues to sit beside the From/To meta inside
.email-reader-header.
After dropping the 'Default' chip, _loadAccounts started setting
state._libAccountId asynchronously while _loadEmails fired in parallel
with the still-null id. The list request was going out with no
account_id (so the server defaulted) while subsequent per-email reads
used the explicit id set after _loadAccounts resolved — back to the
same desync the chip-removal was meant to fix.
Sequence them: await _loadAccounts first, then kick off the folders /
reminders / emails fetches. The list always carries the right
account_id from the very first call.
Replying from an email opened in a new tab was dragging that window to
the left-sidebar dock — same treatment as the main email library, even
though the user had explicitly opted to pop it into its own floating
viewer. Annoying when the viewer is mid-screen and Reply yanks it.
Add an early bail in _snapEmailModalToLeftSidebar for modals whose id
starts with 'email-view-' (the 'open in new tab' reader). Compose still
opens; the floating viewer just stays where it is, on top of the
library. User can move/close it themselves.
Bug: clicking the dot to change the server-side default account while
viewing 'Default' left a desynced state — the email list still showed
the OLD default's cached UIDs, but the server's default now pointed
at a different account. Opening any email used the visible UID +
account_id='' on the read endpoint, which resolved against the NEW
default account → wrong email content (or older mail entirely).
Fix: remove the 'Default' chip. _loadAccounts now auto-selects the
is_default account (or the first one) into state._libAccountId so the
list view + every per-email request always carries an explicit
account_id and can't desync from set-default.
The dot button still lives on each account chip for changing which
account the server treats as the default — but it no longer affects
which account the list is currently displaying.
- .email-reader-actions flex-wrap nowrap → wrap so when the cluster
exceeds the room next to a tall multi-recipient meta block, the
buttons wrap within the actions area instead of pushing the whole
block onto its own row below From/To.
- New rule: .email-reader-more-wrap gets order:99 so the More kebab
sits at the far right of the flattened flex row instead of in the
middle (its source order put it ahead of the secondary row's AI
Reply / Summary buttons after display:contents flattening).
The All/Unread/Favorites/etc selector was a native <select>, which
can't render SVG inside <option>. Replace it with a custom picker
that:
- Keeps the existing <select id="email-lib-filter"> as the value
store (hidden via display:none). All existing 'change' listeners
keep working — the picker just dispatches a change event after
updating the select's value.
- Renders a styled button + drop-out menu built from the select's
options (preserves optgroup labels like 'Tags').
- Each option carries an SVG icon: lines for All, ringed dot for
Unread, star for Favorites, empty checkbox for Undone, bell for
Reminders, reply arrow for Unanswered/Reply-soon, clock for
Pending, calendar-x for Stale, exclamation-triangle for Urgent,
ban for Spam, newsletter and megaphone for the marketing tags.
- Icons use var(--accent) so they pick up the user's theme color.
- Click outside / Esc closes the menu (Esc handler is capture-phase
+ stopPropagation so it doesn't bubble to the modal-close listener
and shut the whole email window).
CSS scoped under .email-filter-picker.
More menu reorganization:
- Group 1: Open in new tab, Remind to reply
- Group 2 (state): Mark as Unread/Read, Mark as Done/Not Done, Move to
Archive, Save sender to contacts
- Group 3 (destructive, unchanged): Move to Spam, Move to Trash,
Delete Permanently
- Renames: Done→'Mark as Done', Archive→'Move to Archive', Mark
Read/Unread→'Mark as Read'/'Mark as Unread'.
- Mark Unread moves out of group 1 down into the state-change group
alongside Done; Save sender to contacts moves down into the same
state group.
Toolbar row reshuffle (applies to both the email-list card reader and
the email document view):
- Row 1 (primary): Reply, Reply all, Forward, Search, More — Forward
no longer has to fight Search/More for space in the secondary row.
- Row 2 (secondary): AI reply, Summary — gets its own dedicated row.
The 6px dot was easy to miss on touch / small-cursor setups. Replace
padding-only sizing with explicit width:18px;height:18px on the
button, dot centered inside via justify-content. Anchor moved from
right:9 → right:6 so the visible dot stays where it was; the extra
clickable area extends inward from the chip edge.
Found the reason yesterday's tool-retrieval drop wasn't taking effect:
in _build_agent_prompt, when relevant_tools was provided, it computed
tool_names = set(ALWAYS_AVAILABLE) | set(relevant_tools)
which silently re-added every tool get_tools_for_query had just
deliberately discarded. So when a 'save this for <person>' query
dropped manage_memory from the retrieved set, the prompt builder put
it right back, and the model saw both tools again.
Trust the relevant_tools set. get_tools_for_query already starts from
ALWAYS_AVAILABLE — any discard there is intentional and should
propagate. Only force-include ask_user and update_plan here as belt-
and-suspenders since the agent loop relies on those for its own
control flow.
Other callers (task_scheduler) already union ALWAYS_AVAILABLE or
ASSISTANT_ALWAYS_AVAILABLE into relevant_tools before passing it in,
so they're unaffected.
GET /api/contacts/config masks the saved password as '***' (or ''
when none). Mirror that into the password input's placeholder so users
can see at a glance that a password is on file — matching the email
account form's '(unchanged)' pattern.
Description-level steering wasn't enough — even with the explicit 'DO
NOT use for info about another person' in manage_memory's description,
models kept choosing memory over manage_contact. They can't if memory
isn't in the toolset.
New logic in ToolIndex.get_tools_for_query: detect three contact-save
patterns and discard manage_memory from the returned set (overriding
ALWAYS_AVAILABLE):
1. 'save [up to 3 words] for/to <name>' where <name> isn't a timing /
pronoun stopword (later, tomorrow, me, you, future, etc.). Catches
the canonical 'save this for X' and the wider 'save this address
for X', 'save it for X'.
2. 'to/in/into (my) contacts' or 'address book'. Catches both 'add X
to my contacts' and 'put this in my address book for X'.
3. Possessive: 'save (his/her/their) (address/phone/email/...)'.
Stronger signal — also force-adds manage_contact to the set in
case the keyword fallback missed it.
Verified: 8 positive contact patterns all drop memory, 10 false-
positive 'save X for later/tomorrow/me/the next thing' all keep it.
Even with manage_contact in the retrieved tool set, models were still
defaulting to manage_memory when the user pasted an address + 'save for
<person>'. Both tools were in front of the model and it picked memory.
Tighten both descriptions to steer at decision-time:
- agent_loop.py manage_memory description: clarify scope is facts
about the USER, with an explicit 'DO NOT use for info about another
person' + a 'use manage_contact instead' line.
- tool_index.py manage_memory description: same in shorter form, so the
embedded retrieval signal is consistent with the prompt-time
description.
The contacts manager in Settings was stuck at name+email inline only —
no address field, no phone input on add, no search to find anything in
a list of 100+ contacts.
UI:
- Add form gets phone and address inputs alongside name/email. The
email-required gate becomes name-OR-email so address/phone-only
entries are creatable.
- Edit form gets an address input, threaded into the PUT body.
- Search input above the list filters client-side by name / emails /
phones / address (debounced 80ms). Count badge shows N/M when a
filter is active.
Backend:
- /api/contacts/{uid} PUT now accepts address and routes it through
_update_contact (which already supports it after the previous
commit). Validation loosened: name OR email OR address.
- /api/contacts/add POST now accepts phone + address. Phone goes
through an immediate _update_contact since _create_contact's
signature only takes name+email+address.
8px ring read as a sliver next to the chip label. Bump to a 10x10 SVG
with stroke-width:3 for the hollow ring so it presents like the
sidebar notif dot at this size. Chip padding-right bumped 20→24 so
the larger glyph isn't crushed against the text.
The literal phrase 'add to contacts' missed when there was a name
between 'add' and 'to', e.g. 'add Pat to my contacts'. Anchor on the
tail with 'to my contacts', 'to contacts', 'to address book' so word
boundaries fire regardless of what sits in front.
Replace the star polygon with a small 8px circle dot — filled +
accent-tinted on the default account, hollow + muted on others.
Vertical position bumped up 2px via top: calc(50% - 2px) so it
visually centers against the chip's text baseline instead of
geometric center.
Closes the gap that pushed the agent into manage_memory when the user
pasted an address and said 'save this for X'. manage_contact now
accepts an optional address arg end-to-end:
- routes/contacts_routes.py:
- _normalize_contact carries an 'address' field
- _build_vcard emits ADR:;;<address>;;;; (street component of the
RFC-6350 7-part ADR), only when address is non-empty
- _parse_vcards reads ADR, joins non-empty components with ', '
- _create_contact and _update_contact thread address through;
update preserves existing address when caller passes empty
- src/tool_implementations.py do_manage_contact:
- add accepts address; require at least name+address or email
(was: email required) so address-only contacts are addable
- update accepts address; require name OR emails OR address
- src/tool_schemas.py: schema gets a single 'address' string field
- src/tool_index.py + src/agent_loop.py: descriptions get one
'address' arg mention and a 'use this for save-X-for-person /
address pastes / phone-with-name' steering line. Net: a few
bytes added, not a paragraph.
Also: removed a stray name from the schema's manage_contact example
strings ('save Jonathan's email…') — no real names in the codebase.
- The 'All (default)' chip showed only the default account, so the
label was misleading. Rename to just 'Default' to match behavior.
- Each user account chip gets a star button (filled if it IS the
default, hollow otherwise). Clicking calls the existing
POST /api/email/accounts/{id}/set-default and refreshes the strip.
Cross-account aggregation (a true 'All') is a separate bigger lift
that needs UID namespacing and merge/sort in _list_emails_sync;
flagged for follow-up rather than smuggled into this change.
When the user dumps a postal address or phone number alongside a
person's name and says 'save this for X', the vector retriever was
missing manage_contact because its description only mentioned the
literal word 'contact'. The model defaulted to manage_memory (which is
in ALWAYS_AVAILABLE), so the saved fact ended up as un-named memory
that wouldn't surface on a later 'what's X's address?' search.
- Rewrite manage_contact's index description to anchor on the
semantics: 'save info about another person', including postal/
mailing address, ZIP, phone, etc. Now it embeds close to address-
paste queries.
- Extend the keyword intent-map with 'save this for', 'save it for',
'mailing address', 'postal code', 'their address', etc. — common
ways users say 'this belongs to a contact' without the literal word
'contact'.
Closes the auto-send hole that let earlier models invent signatures
(e.g. signing 'David' for a user named Felix) and SMTP them to real
recipients before the user could review.
New setting: agent_email_confirm (default True).
When on, the MCP send_email and reply_to_email tools no longer SMTP
directly — they write the composed email to scheduled_emails with a new
status 'agent_draft' (far-future send_at so the scheduled-send poller
ignores them) and return a {pending: true, pending_id, to, subject,
body, message: ...} payload. The model surfaces that to the user.
Backend endpoints to approve / cancel:
- GET /api/email/pending → list staged drafts for the owner
- POST /api/email/pending/{id}/approve → flip status to 'pending' +
backdate send_at so the
existing scheduled-send
poller delivers immediately
- DELETE /api/email/pending/{id} → status = 'cancelled'
UI:
- Settings / AI Defaults gets a new 'Email Safety' card with the
toggle, default on.
- Tool descriptions for send_email and reply_to_email now include the
pending behavior + an explicit 'DO NOT invent a signature, do not
type a person's name' guardrail.
Pass 2 (next): inline chat card with Send / Discard buttons so the user
doesn't have to type a confirmation reply. Today's prompt + the listing
endpoint give the model a clean path to surface drafts.
Old rule fixed the loading wrap at min-height:180px so the spinner
landed near the top of the email-list section. Switch to
position:absolute inset:0 over the grid (with #email-lib-grid set to
position:relative) so the whirlpool + 'Loading emails' label center
within the entire visible email area regardless of section height.
- 'Marking done' / 'Marking read' / 'Marking unread' label was 2px low
vs. the whirlpool spinner inside the Actions button. The existing
loading-label CSS only scoped to #email-lib-bulk-delete; extend it
to also cover #email-lib-bulk-actions and bump top from 0 to -2px.
- 'All' checkbox label was inline-styled top:2px so the box + text sat
lower than the surrounding bulk-action items. Reset to top:0 to
match memory + skills select-all rows.
Two pain points:
- IMAP server search is genuinely slow.
- The grid blanked to a whirlpool on every keystroke, so even fast
searches felt dead because you couldn't see your own results.
Fix:
- _localSearchFilter runs synchronously on every keystroke, filtering
the pre-search snapshot by subject / from-name / from-address /
snippet so the grid responds immediately. Snapshot is taken on the
first non-empty keystroke and restored when the input is cleared.
- _doSearch no longer renders the loading-whirlpool spinner into the
grid. The local filter already shows useful results; surface
'Searching…' in the stats badge to indicate the server search is in
flight.
- When server results land, they replace the grid; if the user has
already typed past them, the seq guard skips the stale render.
Before: only delete showed a spinner/disabled buttons. Picking Done on
92 selected emails fired off 184 sequential HTTP calls (mark-answered
+ mark-read) with zero UI feedback, so it looked like the click did
nothing for the ~20-30 seconds it took to grind through.
- All five bulk actions (delete / archive / done / read / unread) now
swap the target button into a whirlpool+verb-ing state, dim siblings,
and show 'N/M…' progress in the count label that ticks as each
request resolves.
- Per-uid work runs in parallel with a hard cap of 6 in flight, so a
90-email Done finishes in ~3 server round-trips of latency instead
of 90, but we still don't open 90 simultaneous IMAP-backed connections.
Group 1 — per-email view actions:
Open in new tab → Mark Unread/Read → Remind to reply
Group 2 — non-destructive state changes:
Save sender to contacts → Done/Not Done → Archive
Group 3 — destructive (own divider):
Move to Spam → Move to Trash → Delete Permanently
Adds support for { separator: true } items in the actions array,
rendered as .dropdown-divider rows.
Repro: filter Undone → Select All → uncheck a few → Actions → Done →
nothing visible happens. Reason: the bulk-Done branch only flipped
em.is_answered on the in-memory entries; the cards stayed in
state._libEmails so they kept rendering, but now with the done check
ticked. From the user's POV — still 'undone' filter, cards still
there — it looked like the action was a no-op.
When the filter is 'undone' specifically, treat marking done as a
view-removal (same animate-then-prune step archive/delete uses).
When clicking an email higher up in the list, its top edge can be hiding
behind the modal header or off-screen. After applying the
.email-card-expanded class + the new minHeight, scrollIntoView(block:start)
on the next animation frame so the user sees the whole card.
The expanded email card painted a kebab menu in its title row because
the per-card .memory-item-actions menu at the bottom was hidden while
expanded. Both pointed at _showCardMenu(em). Remove the duplicate:
- Drop the email-card-header-menu button (and its rightCluster
wrapper) — title row now just holds the nav arrows.
- Remove the CSS rule that hid .memory-item-actions on
.email-card-expanded so the bottom kebab stays visible.
- Unread-dot insert point retargets to .email-card-nav-arrows now
that the rightCluster is gone.
state._selectedUids holds whatever the server returns for em.uid (string
or number); the bulk action looped Array.from(...) and did strict ===
against state._libEmails entries. When the types disagreed, the find()
returned undefined, the in-memory is_answered flip never happened, and
the post-loop _renderGrid() painted the cards back into their original
not-done state — looking like 'mark done' did nothing even though the
server-side call had succeeded.
- Compare via String() on both sides so the in-memory state actually
flips.
- Surface HTTP failure from mark-answered/mark-read so the existing
failedReadSync toast can fire if the calls don't go through.
