Shows the evaluation provider/model used for the latest successful goal audit in the UI.
Persists evaluation model metadata on session goals and covers it in tests.
Adds diagnostic logging for small-model calls and session-goal audit parsing.
Re-checks authoritative session status after the quiet window
Skips auditing while a direct child session is still busy or retrying
Retries the quiet window when live status data is unavailable
Compaction fixes (observed in a real long run):
- the summary message's zeroed tokens froze the goal counter at its
pre-compaction value; segments now close with the previously displayed
total as a continuity floor
- audits and continuations after a summary tail now take execution params
(provider/model/agent/variant) from the newest non-summary assistant
turn instead of inheriting agent 'compaction' and the summarize model
File-backed objectives:
- the objective text lives in <data-dir>/goals/<sessionId>.md, keyed by
session id (one goal per session, a new goal overwrites the file);
metadata carries only an objectiveFile flag so session.updated fanout
stays light, and never a path — ids are pattern-validated before any
filesystem access
- limit raised to 5000 chars, no snapshot field: the UI fetches content
via PUT/GET/DELETE /api/goals/objective/:sessionId (behind the blanket
/api auth gate), writes the file before stamping metadata, and falls
back to an inline objective when the write fails
- the loop reads the file fresh on every tick, so objectives are
live-editable mid-goal; a missing file falls back to the inline text
- scheduled goal tasks write the objective file server-side; VS Code
degrades to the audit note (route unavailable there by design)
Arm the target button in the composer and the next prompt becomes a goal:
the server keeps the session working toward it (idle tick -> small-model
audit -> continuation) until the objective is verifiably complete, blocked,
or out of budget — even with the UI closed.
Server (packages/web/server/lib/session-goal):
- event-driven loop on the global SSE hub; goal state lives in
session.metadata.openchamber.goal (merge-safe patches, stale-write guard
by goal id), so it survives restarts and syncs to every client for free
- the small-model audit (objective + last assistant turn only, language
pinned to the objective) is the sole termination authority; blocked needs
3 consecutive verdicts, audit outages tolerate one unaudited continuation
then stop the goal as resumable-blocked
- hard stops: optional token budget, auto-continuation cap (Resume grants a
fresh allowance), turn errors; user abort pauses the goal instead of
blocking it, and resuming over an aborted tail nudges immediately
- token accounting as a snapshot of the latest turn (input + cache.read +
output), goal-relative via a creation baseline and segmented across
compactions; a compaction summary skips the audit and continues
- continuations reuse the session's own provider/model/agent/variant
UI:
- three-mode target button (arm / disarm / manage dialog), informational
goal strip with inline pause/resume and an Evaluating indicator, sidebar
state glyph, objective length counter (2000-char server clamp),
read-only completed goals
- goal entry points: composer (sessions and drafts), start-new-session-
from-answer dialog, plan implement dialog (plan content becomes the
objective), scheduled tasks (Run as goal + budget)
- Settings -> Chat -> Goal: feature toggle + default token budget with
three-layer parity (web server, client persistence, VS Code bridge);
VS Code renders goal state but hides the entry points (the loop runs in
the web server only)
Notifications: per-turn "ready" notifications are suppressed while a goal
is active; settling sends one final notification (desktop, web-push, APNs
generic titles with the session name as body) honoring the completion
toggle. Error/question/permission notifications are untouched.
Docs: user guide (session-goals) in all 9 locales + sidebar entry,
scheduled-tasks cross-reference, server module DOCUMENTATION.md.
Alexandre Reyes Martins