GenerationConfig only carried temperature/top_p/max_tokens/stop/seed. Added nullable
topK/minP/repeatPenalty, serialized to the llama.cpp and OpenAI-compat request bodies
via @EncodeDefault(NEVER) so an unset knob is omitted (the model keeps its own default)
and behavior is unchanged unless the operator opts in.
Surfaced as a new [sampling] config section feeding the default stage GenerationConfig
(the main agentic loop) through TomlWorkflowLoader + ExecutionPlanCompiler; the former
hardcoded temperature=0.7/topP=1.0 stage defaults now come from config. Talkie
chat/narration keep their own generation settings.
Vikunja #46 (task 76) — sampling half.
Threads reasoning_content across inference calls and journal renders, filters
markdown noise out of L3 repo-knowledge retrieval, adds PlanLinter H3 checks,
and tightens filesystem tool output/dir-listing behavior surfaced by prior
live QA (see project_readloop_campaign memory).
Adds a nullable `reasoning` field to InferenceResponse and maps the
llama.cpp / OpenAI-compat `reasoning_content` field into it, so local models
that emit their chain-of-thought have it captured. Provider/model side only —
the emit-site event field (reasoningArtifactId) + CAS storage in the
orchestrator are still pending (tracked in Vikunja Correx #4).
- LlamaCppEmbedder: parse llama.cpp --pooling mean nested response [[...]] (was
silently failing every embed with 'unexpected response shape')
- qa-stack: embedder -b/-ub 8192 so docs >512 tokens don't 500; fix default path
- TurboVecL3MemoryStore: send init handshake on startup (was 'Index not initialized'
on every add/query)
- turbovec_sidecar.py: rewrite add/search/save/load against the real turbovec API
(batched ndarray, L2-normalize so IP=cosine, prepare() before search, classmethod
load). The sidecar was scaffolding never run against the real lib.
Two fixes that together let the freestyle analyst/architect stages actually
produce valid artifacts on a local model (verified end-to-end: analyst passed
first try, architect produced a validated plan):
1. Tools-less final emission (SessionOrchestrator): producing the artifact
while tools are in the request is unreliable — llama.cpp's Gemma template
switches to a channel format and leaks <|channel> markers into the text, and
models keep tool-calling until the round cap without ever emitting. After the
tool loop, fire ONE tools-less inference to get clean JSON (also re-enables
the JSON grammar, since grammar+tools is rejected). Gated on the artifact not
already being produced via emit_artifact.
2. GBNF grammar handles arrays/objects (GbnfGrammarConverter): array-typed
properties fell through to a 'string' rule, so the grammar forced a string
where the schema demanded an array — an unwinnable grammar-vs-validator
disagreement. Add generic value/object/array rules and map types correctly.
Note: also needs schema 'items' on array props (runtime schemas updated; mirror
to repo schemas/*.json).
Align the provider's HTTP client timeout with the orchestrator per-stage
timeout (1_800_000ms). A slow local reasoning model with a large prompt and a
multi-thousand-token reasoning budget can exceed 10min on a single call; the
old 600s HTTP timeout failed the inference before the stage timeout applied,
exhausting retries on timeouts alone.
Small local models emit tool calls into message content but truncate them
(unterminated arguments string, missing closing braces), so strict decode
fails and the blob is treated as a failing artifact, exhausting the stage's
retry budget. Add a lenient fallback that recovers the function name and the
first brace-balanced arguments object, gated on a tool-call marker so genuine
artifact JSON is never misread as a call.
Some local models write the tool call as a JSON blob in `content` instead of the
native tool_calls array (toolCalls arrives empty). The orchestrator then treated
the blob as a failing artifact and retry-looped to exhaustion. salvageToolCalls
parses content as a ToolCallRequest (object or array) when tool_calls is empty;
real artifact JSON lacks a `function` field so it's left untouched.
LlamaCppTokenizer posted {"tokens":[text]} but llama.cpp's /tokenize expects
{"content":text}; the server silently answered {"tokens":[]}, so countTokens
returned 0 for every string. Every context entry carried tokenEstimate=0 and
the whole budget/trim pipeline was blind — live QA saw a 34k-token prompt
sail through a 16384 stage budget (three raw file_read results of plan docs),
crater t/s, degrade output, and fail the stage on validation 3x.
Also guard estimateTokens: a zero count for non-blank content falls back to
the chars/4 heuristic so a lying tokenizer can never blind budgeting again.
Two fixes surfaced by the 2026-06-08 QA audit running role_pipeline on a local
llama-server.
F-001: LlamaCppInferenceProvider sent both a GBNF grammar and tools on the same
request; llama.cpp rejects the combination ("Cannot use custom grammar
constraints with tools"), failing every stage that has tools and produces a
schema-constrained artifact. Drop the grammar when tools are present and rely on
post-hoc schema validation + retry (invariant #7 still holds). TODO left for a
first-class emit_artifact tool as the proper fix.
F-005: FileReadTool resolved relative paths via toAbsolutePath() against the JVM
process cwd instead of the bound workspace, so the file-read jail anchored to the
wrong root and disagreed with the Plane-2 PATH_CONTAINMENT check. Add workingDir
to FileReadConfig, wire workspace.workingDir in the per-workspace tool builder,
and give FileReadTool a resolvePath() mirroring FileWriteTool/FileEditTool.
- LlamaCppInferenceProvider: check HTTP status and surface the real error body instead of masking it as a ChatCompletionResponse deserialization failure
- PromptRenderer: render the live conversation layer (L1) last so the user turn is the final message (fixes Qwen 'No user query found' 500 when L3 recall is present)
- TomlWorkflowLoader: resolve stage prompts relative to the workflow file's own dir (bundle), CWD-independent; config-dir fallback for globals
- SessionOrchestrator: hard-fail a stage whose declared prompt can't resolve (was a silent user-less request)
- move healthcheck prompts next to the example workflow (examples/workflows/prompts/)
Vendor-agnostic ResourceProbe (commons): NvidiaResourceProbe reads nvidia-smi
(injectable runner) for whole-device VRAM/util and /proc/<pid>/status for the
managed llama-server RSS, both fail-soft to null; UnavailableProbe for non-GPU
hosts / the static path. DefaultModelManager.currentPid() + LlamaProcess.pid
expose the managed pid. ServerMessage.ResourceStatus (resource.status,
NonEventMessage, all-nullable) pushed every 2.5s on the global stream plus one
in the initial snapshot. Live gauge only — never event-sourced (feeds no core
decision), so invariants #8/#9 hold. Main wires the NVIDIA probe on the managed
path when nvidia-smi is present, else UnavailableProbe.
Tests: csv parsing (single/multi/malformed), gpu+rss combine, fallbacks.
Plan: docs/plans/2026-05-31-model-lifecycle-management.md (slice 4 of 5).
[[models]] config (ModelConfig/ModelsSettings) parsed by ConfigLoader;
InfrastructureModule.createModelManager + modelConfigToDescriptor; Main.kt
managed boot path spawns the default llama-server when [[models]] is present
(static [[providers]] path preserved when absent) and kills it on shutdown.
Plan: docs/plans/2026-05-31-model-lifecycle-management.md (slice 1 of 5).
Adds [router.embedder] and [router.l3] sections to CorrexConfig with
backend selectors. Ships LlamaCppEmbedder that hits llama.cpp's
/embedding endpoint (handles OpenAI-compatible, simple, and array
response shapes; validates dimension). InfrastructureModule gains
createEmbedderFromConfig and createL3MemoryStoreFromConfig that
dispatch on backend value.
Defaults preserve current behavior (noop embedder + in-memory L3).
Switching to "llamacpp" / "turbovec" is a config-only change — no code
edits required. For turbovec backend, the bundled python sidecar
script is extracted from classpath to ~/.cache/correx/ on first use.
Extract message-rendering logic from LlamaCppInferenceProvider into a
provider-agnostic PromptRenderer in core:inference. SessionOrchestrator
now serializes the rendered ChatMessage list as JSON for the prompt
artifact, so the audit trail reflects what the LLM actually saw.
Resolves the TODO at SessionOrchestrator.kt:691.
- GlobalStreamHandler.handleCreateGrant validates scope (SESSION/STAGE)
and sends ProtocolError to client on validation failure instead of
silent log.warn + drop.
- Derive event stageId directly from GrantScope type, removing
redundant stageIdForEvent tuple.
- SessionOrchestrator integrates ApprovalEngine to check active grants
before requesting user approval for T2+ tool calls.
- ContextEntry gains EntryRole (SYSTEM/USER/ASSISTANT/TOOL) field for
proper chat message role mapping.
- RouterContextBuilder.build is now suspend; uses Tokenizer for
accurate token estimation with fallback to character-based estimate.
- LlamaCppInferenceProvider maps EntryRole to ChatMessage role instead
of heuristic layer-based inference.
Implements the full conversational router facade: RouterState, RouterReducer,
RouterProjector, RouterRepository, RouterContextBuilder, RouterFacade, protocol
types, WebSocket wiring, infrastructure factory, and deterministic test suite.
Also fixes spec divergences found in post-implementation review:
- Add SteeringNote domain object to core:context (epic prerequisite)
- Rename RouterFacade.handleChat → onUserInput per spec interface contract
- Add in-memory ConcurrentHashMap conversation history to DefaultRouterFacade
- Make RouterRepository.getRouterState suspend
- Rename RouterConfig.keepLast → conversationKeepLast, fix defaults (6, 4096)
- Refactor InfrastructureModule.createRouterFacade to self-assemble internally
- Fix FileReadTool: allowedPaths was dead constructor param (@SuppressUnusedParameter);
now stored as private val and enforced in validateRequest
- Disable koverVerify on modules tested via testing/ submodules or with
hardware/integration dependencies (24 modules); build gate now passes clean
- SessionOrchestrator: wire T2/T3/T4 approval gate before tool execution;
emit OrchestrationPausedEvent/ApprovalRequestedEvent, await decision,
return rejection as ERROR context entry so LLM sees the denial;
propagate tool ERROR entries as StageExecutionResult.Failure
- SandboxedToolExecutor: remove dead code and simplify
- InfrastructureModule: minor wiring cleanup
- LlamaCppInferenceProvider / build.gradle: related build fixes
New core:artifacts-store interface + infrastructure/artifacts-cas
implementation: segment files + SQLite index, Blake3 hashing,
group-commit fsync via flushBefore, recovery tail-scan, manual
compactor, and oldest-first disk-cap evictor.
Inference events now carry promptArtifactId / responseArtifactId;
orchestrators put bytes before emitting. SqliteEventStore wraps
its txn in artifactStore.flushBefore so segment data is fsynced
before the event commit, making the crash window non-corrupting
(TailScanner re-indexes orphan tail records on reopen).
Compactor and evictor are mutually exclusive via maintenanceMutex.
Step 9 (cloud sync) deferred to a later epic.
See docs/reviews/2026-05-18-cas-steps-1-8-review.md for the final
review.
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