- Remove IMPORTANT FOR CODING section (~1,500 chars of coding guidelines)
- Remove <use_parallel_tool_calls> block (~500 chars)
- Remove unused const_format dependency from g3-core
- Simplify get_system_prompt_for_native() to just return base prompt
- Response Guidelines now cleanly ends the static prompt
Prompt reduced from ~8,500 to ~6,500 characters.
When the scout agent fails (e.g., context window exhaustion), now:
- Captures both stdout and stderr from the scout process
- Detects context window exhaustion errors with specific patterns
- Provides detailed, actionable error messages to the user
- Shows suggestions for how to work around the issue
- Includes technical details (exit code, error output) for debugging
Handles two failure modes:
1. Scout agent exits with non-zero status
2. Scout agent exits successfully but doesn't produce valid report markers
Both cases now surface clear error messages instead of cryptic failures.
The timing footer (e.g., ⏱️ 19.4s | 💭 4.7s) was being saved to the
conversation history as a separate assistant message. This happened
because stream_completion_with_tools returns the timing footer in
TaskResult.response for display, but the caller was also saving it
to context.
Fix: Strip the timing footer (identified by \n\n⏱️) before saving
to context window. The timing footer remains display-only.
Also includes:
- Research tool blank line fix: only add visual separator for research
tool output, not all tools
- Research tool webdriver propagation: pass parent's webdriver browser
choice (Safari vs Chrome headless) to scout subprocess
final_output removal:
- Remove final_output from tool definitions and dispatch
- Update system prompts to request summaries as regular text
- Remove final_output_called field from StreamingState
- Update auto_continue tests to remove final_output_called parameter
- Remove final_output test from tool_execution_test.rs
- Update planner and flock prompts to not reference final_output
- Keep backwards-compat code in feedback_extraction.rs and task_result.rs
Scout report handback:
- Change from file-based to delimiter-based report extraction
- Scout outputs report between ---SCOUT_REPORT_START/END--- markers
- Research tool extracts content between markers, strips ANSI codes
- Add comprehensive tests for extraction and ANSI stripping
657 tests pass.
The research tool now streams the underlying scout agent's output
to the CLI in real-time for visual indication of progress. This
output is displayed but not added to the conversation context.
New tool that spawns a scout agent to perform web research and return
a structured research brief. The scout agent uses webdriver to browse
the web and returns a decision-ready report.
Changes:
- Added 'research' tool definition (12 core tools total)
- Added research tool dispatch in tool_dispatch.rs
- Created tools/research.rs implementation:
- Spawns 'g3 --agent scout <query>' as subprocess
- Captures stdout and extracts last line (report file path)
- Reads and returns the report file contents
- Added exclude_research flag to ToolConfig
- Scout agent (agent_name == 'scout') does NOT have access to research
tool to prevent infinite recursion
- Updated system prompts to describe when to use research tool
- Added scout.md agent prompt with research brief output contract
The research tool is preferred for complex research tasks (APIs, SDKs,
libraries, approaches, bugs). WebDriver can still be used directly for
simple lookups or fine-grained control.
- Remove final_output from tool definitions, dispatch, and misc tools
- Update system prompts to request summaries as regular markdown text
- Remove print_final_output from UiWriter trait and all implementations
- Remove final_output handling from agent core logic
- Rename final_output_summary → summary in session continuation
- Delete final_output test files
- Update tool count tests (12→11, 27→26)
This allows LLM summaries to stream through the markdown formatter
for a more natural, responsive user experience instead of buffering
everything into a tool call.
This fixes a bug where the agent would stop responding abruptly without
calling final_output. The root cause was the allow_multiple_tool_calls
config option (default: false) which caused the agent to break out of
the streaming loop mid-stream after executing the first tool, losing
any subsequent content.
Changes:
- Remove allow_multiple_tool_calls config option entirely
- Always process all tool calls without breaking mid-stream
- Simplify system prompt generation (no longer needs boolean param)
- Let the stream complete fully before continuing to next iteration
- Change find_last_tool_call_start to find_first_tool_call_start
- Remove parser.reset() call on duplicate detection
Benefits:
- Simpler logic with less conditional branching
- No lost content after tool calls
- Consistent behavior for all users
- Reduced config complexity
Agent: carmack
Add get_session() helper function that:
- Checks if webdriver is enabled
- Acquires the session read lock
- Returns the cloned session or an error message
Refactored 12 webdriver tool functions to use this helper:
- execute_webdriver_navigate
- execute_webdriver_get_url
- execute_webdriver_get_title
- execute_webdriver_find_element
- execute_webdriver_find_elements
- execute_webdriver_click
- execute_webdriver_send_keys
- execute_webdriver_execute_script
- execute_webdriver_get_page_source
- execute_webdriver_screenshot
- execute_webdriver_back
- execute_webdriver_forward
- execute_webdriver_refresh
Each function previously had ~10 lines of identical boilerplate.
Now reduced to 4 lines using the helper.
Net reduction: 68 lines (678 -> 610)
All tests pass. Behavior unchanged.
Agent: carmack
databricks.rs:
- Extract ToolCallAccumulator struct to replace opaque (String, String, String) tuple
- Add decode_utf8_streaming() helper for cleaner UTF-8 handling
- Add is_incomplete_json_error() helper for JSON parse error detection
- Add make_final_chunk() helper to reduce duplication
- Add finalize_tool_calls() to convert accumulators to final format
- Refactor parse_streaming_response from ~270 lines to ~100 lines
- Reduce nesting depth from 8+ levels to 4 levels
- Use early returns and let-else for cleaner control flow
file_ops.rs:
- Replace repetitive if-let chains with declarative PATH_CONTENT_KEYS table
- Use match expression instead of nested if-else
- Reduce extract_path_and_content from 44 lines to 20 lines
All tests pass. Behavior unchanged.
macOS uses U+202F (Narrow No-Break Space) in screenshot filenames
between the time and am/pm. When users type or paste these paths,
they use regular spaces, causing file-not-found errors.
Changes:
- Add resolve_path_with_unicode_fallback() to try U+202F variants
- Add resolve_paths_in_shell_command() for shell command paths
- Apply fix to read_file, read_image, and shell tools
- Fix read_image prompt docs: file_path -> file_paths (array)
- Add 6 unit tests for Unicode space normalization
