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NEW FUNCTIONALITY

  • Added uv run kb server, which now owns and manages the knowledge base. It must be run alongside jarvis-sync and the webapp. The kb commands do not need it as they read the index directly from the database. This fixes the bug where chat searches failing with "the index is likely damaged: run uv run kb reindex" when nothing was damaged. Every process opened its own copy of the knowledge base without any synchronisation process which causes stale index in the copy kept by the webapp when jarvis-sync rewrote them (PR #4).

  • Turned off third-party telemetry. HuggingFace usage reporting was on by default and was never disabled (PR #4).

  • The knowledge-base directory is now created with 0700 permission (PR #4).

  • Added the ability to stop a reply while it is being generated (PR #3).

  • Ctrl-C on uv run webapp now cancels every live turn on the way out (PR #3).

  • Added an indicator for compaction, which used to happen invisibly (PR #3).

  • Update Jarvis into a general assistant and introduced OpenRouter (PR #1):

  • Added support to use OpenRouter instead of just Anthropic or Ollama. Model can be switched mid conversation and a real time cost is shown. The model picker reads the list of models from the config file. Thus, new models can be added without restarting the webapp (PR #1).
  • Added support to store schema for vault notes.
  • Added support for agent to write documents into a folder outside of the vault, and ui to reveal the location for user to manually copy to their vault or wherever they want. Agents can suggest changes to the document which must be approved or rejected by the user ala git diff style.
  • Added a document (latex, md, txt, csv) editor to the webapp. Editor is provided by CodeMirror API. Documents can be previewed in the webapp and exported into PDF file when needed.
  • Added version history for documents. Every earlier version is kept and can be restored from the editor. Restoring is itself undoable.

  • Added automatic clean up of the draft folder. Documents untouched for 30 days are swept, unless marked to keep.

  • Added new CLI commands to inspect what is indexed and what is available (PR #1): kb schema, kb list --notes, kb models, kb drafts.

  • Webapp prints its configuration on startup, and ⋮ → Show config… shows the same thing in the UI. API keys show as set or not set, not their value (PR #1).

  • Prompts used to instruct agent on how to behave and how to summarise and select papers for paper digest are now editable from the UI. Default prompts now exist in the repo and are copied to ~/.jarvis/prompts/ on first run. In the UI, ⋮ → Edit prompts… edits the copy, and a revert button puts the default back (PR #1).

BREAKING CHANGES

  • Remove vault chat access via terminal to simplify codebase and deprecate features that are hardly used (PR #1).

  • Chat tools renamed to make naming reflect more of a general assistant (PR #1):

  • retrieve_papers + search_notes became one search_kb
  • list_papers became list_documents.

  • Update ~/.jarvis/system_prompt.md if you have one naming the old tools. The built in prompt was rewritten but an override is left alone.

  • Webapp routes renamed (PR #1):

  • /papers, /papers/meta, /papers/remove became /documents*, with ?kind=notes. This will break any bookmarks if any.

  • Removed skills as nothing was using it (PR #1).

MAJOR CHANGES

  • All three providers now stream every request This is what makes a turn interruptible, since closing the connection is the only stop generating signal Ollama, Anthropic and OpenRouter offer (PR #3).

  • Knowledge base writes are now all or nothing (PR #3).

  • Paper digest are turned off by default in a switch to make Jarvis more general assistant. Feature can be turned back on through config file (PR #1).

  • Sessions store conversation transcript in a model agnostic format (PR #1). This enable model switching within each session without losing context. When switching model within a session, the existing one is converted to the format accepted by the model before loaded.

  • Functions that do privacy checks now no longer checking whether provider is Anthropic. A new generic is_cloud_provider function replaces it. An unknown provider is by default treated as a cloud provider (PR #1).

  • Introduced new config to support changes introduced for making Jarvis more of a general assistant (PR #1): [drafts], [openrouter], [models], [chat], [auth].

  • Simplify changelog (PR #2).

MINOR CHANGES

  • PDF export from the editor no longer gives up after a minute. The ceiling on one LaTeX or pandoc run ([drafts] compile_timeout_seconds) is now 180 seconds, since the first Markdown export on a machine spends minutes building a font cache before it even starts on the document (PR #1).

  • The PDF button now shows how long an export has been running, and is disabled while it runs so a second click cannot stack another LaTeX run on the first. After 20 seconds the counter also says why a first export can take minutes (PR #1).

  • Fix a test in test_security.py that had quietly stopped testing anything. Its fake provider did not accept the new cancel argument, so the webapp caught the TypeError in its crash handler and the test carried on passing (PR #3).

  • Dropped the stale docs/TODO.md and docs/ROADMAP.md references from the repository tree in DESIGN.md (PR #3).

  • Change the header bar on the UI so it is more readable (PR #1). The header now shows which model is currently used by the session. If openrouter/auto model is used, then the model name that is handling the prompt is showed (PR #1).

  • Further UI polish (PR #1):

  • Dropped the vault path from the header.
  • The header's ⋮ button is replaced with a plain wrench icon.
  • Dropped the trailing "…" from every item in the ⋮ menu.
  • The editor toggle button now reads "Show editor" / "Hide editor" instead of "Editor" / "Hide editor".
  • Remove some captions from the prompt editor page.
  • Add icons to the UI header's next to cost and model name.
  • Add explicit "USD" next to cost.

BUG FIXES

  • Fix re-adding a document leaving you with nothing when the add process failed part way. Re-adding deletes the old entry and indexes the new one, and those used to be two separate writes, so a failure or a stop in between wiped the old entry without putting the new one in. They now happen in one write (PR #3).

  • Fix errors being silently swallowed in thirteen places. Exceptions were caught but not logged, making troubleshooting almost impossible. Introduced a logger in ~/.jarvis/logs/jarvis.log and printing errors out now to help troubleshooting (PR #1).

  • Fix a stale database index reported as index corruption. This used to tell the user to rebuild the whole database when in actual fact an index-vault to update it is all that is needed (PR #1).

  • Fix kb reindex could not run on a database store that is too corrupt to read. New kb reindex --from-storage was introduced to fix corrupt HNSW index by using the chunked text (either full doc or LLM summary) stored in sqlite. That way, the rechunking or the expensive LLM summary doesn't need to be repeated when reindexing (PR #1).

  • Fix kb doctor died without output instead of diagnosing when the index was badly corrupt (PR #1).