feat: authored first-message presets — auto-seed on session-create (v0.19.8)

Codifies 'give an agent a first message' (Worldtree #347): new module
ratatoskr.first_message (FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS + seed_preset_first_message)
seeds a preset agent's opening as a #347 authored turn-0 on every new session,
wired into all three create paths — cli._amain (--send --new), tui._resolve_then_run
(bare --new), web._create_session_endpoint (POST /api/sessions).

seed_preset_first_message is strictly best-effort (INV-001): it soft-guards its
inputs (return None, never assert), bounds the write with asyncio.wait_for so a
stalled /history can't block create (the CLI/TUI clients disable read timeout for
SSE), and swallows every exception except asyncio.CancelledError (which
propagates) — so it can NEVER raise into or block the session-create path it is
wired into. Per-content idempotency key → idempotent replay, no dup.

Seeded with ratatoskr:sindra, whose opening greeting moved out of her card:
her live system_prompt was PATCHed (non-destructive) to drop the Startup
workaround the #347 first-message now replaces.

Quality gate (both cross-frontier panels): heid-code-review returned zero
implementation drift (2 test-only fixups applied); heid-bug-hunt caught the
gap the conformance lens can't see — code matched the contract's narrow
ERROR_ROUTING but INV-001's 'never raises' is broader — driving the broad-except
+ soft-guard + wait_for hardening above.

Contract docs/contracts/first_message.contract.md (module-scoped, validated).
TDD: 12 unit + 1 web wire-in; the 3 existing sindra bind tests gained a
history-endpoint mock (creating a preset agent now auto-seeds). Suite 615 green,
ruff+mypy clean. Auto-seed live-proven generation-free against personal :8081.
This commit is contained in:
vh
2026-07-06 14:23:53 -07:00
parent 4aec3061d5
commit be171304f5
11 changed files with 435 additions and 6 deletions
Generated
+1 -1
View File
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ wheels = [
[[package]]
name = "ratatoskr"
version = "0.19.7"
version = "0.19.8"
source = { editable = "." }
dependencies = [
{ name = "httpx" },