.. code:: console
onechat daemon
- onechat chat
+ onechat
+
+``onechat`` with no command is the same as ``onechat chat``. ``onechat
+help`` lists the commands.
The daemon owns the root agent in ``agent/`` in the data directory and
listens on the Unix socket ``onechat.sock`` there. In the client, each
line is a message to the agent, the line ``/stop`` interrupts the
running turn, the line ``/stop NAME`` stops the subagent NAME, and
Ctrl-D ends the client. The client shows the replies, the tool calls,
-and the first lines of each tool result as they happen. It also shows
-each message that the user sends from another client, with the client as
-a mark, such as ``[telegram] text``. When a subagent starts, the client
-shows ``[NAME] started``, and it shows the whole report of the subagent,
-which starts with ``[NAME]``, but not the tool calls of the subagent.
-The daemon is the only process that uses the token file while it runs,
-so ``onechat login`` and ``onechat probe`` refuse to start until it
-stops.
+and the first lines of each tool result as they happen. Replies and
+subagent reports render Markdown with styles and wrapped tables only
+when the output is a terminal, and stay unchanged in a pipe or file. It
+also shows each message that the user sends from another client, with
+the client as a mark, such as ``[telegram] text``. When a subagent
+starts, the client shows ``[NAME] started``, and it shows the whole
+report of the subagent, which starts with ``[NAME]``, but not the tool
+calls of the subagent. The daemon is the only process that uses the
+token file while it runs, so ``onechat login`` and ``onechat probe``
+refuse to start until it stops.
The agent runs commands with bash as the user in its working directory,
with no sandbox. It has the rights of the user, also on the token file.
``workdir`` is an absolute path, and its default is the home directory.
``agent/instructions.md`` holds the user's instructions: who they are,
how their files are organized, and how they want work done. The prompt
-ends with them, and a change applies at the next call.
+ends with them, and a change applies at the next call. The agent can
+propose a change to the file, and it makes the change only after the
+user agrees.
**************
User service
.. code:: console
nix build --out-link result-service
- systemctl --user link --force "$(realpath result-service/share/systemd/user/onechat.service)"
+ systemctl --user link --force "$PWD/result-service/share/systemd/user/onechat.service"
systemctl --user edit onechat.service
In the editor, set the data directory with this drop-in. Replace
systemctl --user daemon-reload
systemctl --user enable --now onechat.service
systemctl --user status onechat.service
- ONECHAT_DIR=DATA_DIR ./result-service/bin/onechat chat
+ ONECHAT_DIR=DATA_DIR ./result-service/bin/onechat
journalctl --user -u onechat.service -f
-After ``git pull``, build with the same result link, link the unit
-again, reload the user manager, and restart the service:
+After a pull, update the package and unit with:
.. code:: console
- nix build --out-link result-service
- systemctl --user link --force "$(realpath result-service/share/systemd/user/onechat.service)"
- systemctl --user daemon-reload
- systemctl --user restart onechat.service
+ git pull
+ bin/service-update
+
+The script builds with the same ``result-service`` link, reloads the
+user manager, and restarts the service only if it is active. The unit
+link follows ``result-service``, so no new link is needed.
The service starts with the user manager at login, not at boot without a
login. To stop it, or also remove its start at login:
systemctl --user stop onechat.service
systemctl --user disable onechat.service
+************
+ Daemon log
+************
+
+The daemon writes short events with the part prefix and ordered
+``key=value`` attributes. An error cause comes last. Normal events use
+info, failures that can be retried or lose nothing use warning, and
+failures that lose data or stop work use error.
+
+With ``JOURNAL_STREAM`` set, each line carries a syslog priority without
+a time stamp or level word. The user journal can show only warnings and
+errors:
+
+.. code:: console
+
+ journalctl --user -u onechat -p warning
+
+The summary warning names its node. A schedule run has ``late`` only
+when it ran late:
+
+.. code:: text
+
+ <4>onechat: summary failed level=0 index=0: fake failure
+ <6>onechat: schedule ran id=1
+ <6>onechat: schedule ran id=2 late=1m0s
+
+Outside the journal, each line starts with the time stamp and level.
+
**********
Telegram
**********
memory tree summarizes it with model calls, which use the quota.
When the session holds a linked device, the daemon connects at its
-start, and after a network failure it connects again by itself. When a
-disconnection lasts 10 minutes, all clients get one notice, and one more
-when the connection comes back. When WhatsApp ends the connection for
-good, for example because another program uses the same session, all
-clients get a notice at once. When the user removes the device in the
-phone, the daemon deletes the session and tells all clients one time.
+start. If the first connection fails, it tries again after 2 seconds,
+then doubles the wait up to 5 minutes. The inbox and commands stay
+active during each wait. An unlink or a logout stops these retries.
+After a network failure of an open connection, the library connects
+again by itself. When a disconnection lasts 10 minutes, all clients get
+one notice, and one more when the connection comes back. When WhatsApp
+ends the connection for good, for example because another program uses
+the same session, all clients get a notice at once. When the user
+removes the device in the phone, the daemon deletes the session and
+tells all clients one time.
+
+*************************
+ Import WhatsApp history
+*************************
+
+Stop the daemon and finish all subagents before an import. Export each
+chat from WhatsApp as a ZIP with ``_chat.txt``. Keep the chat name in
+the ZIP name, such as ``WhatsApp Chat - Example.zip``. Read the plan
+first:
+
+.. code:: console
+
+ onechat import -n CHAT.zip OTHER.zip
+ onechat import CHAT.zip OTHER.zip
+
+``-n`` makes no model call and prints the chats, chat-day batches, local
+dates, cutoff, text bytes, merged message count, and estimated calls.
+The import keeps multiline text, system lines, and omitted-media
+markers. It maps the session's profile name to ``You``. Without that
+name, it keeps the senders as written and says so in the plan. An exact,
+unambiguous local contact or batch name supplies the chat ID when known.
+No network lookup is made.
+
+Each chat and local day becomes one work message marked ``(imported)``.
+Only messages before the first message of the earliest live WhatsApp
+batch enter the import. Live times have minute precision, so the cutoff
+excludes that whole minute. A chat-day already imported is skipped.
+Overlapping chat-days in the supplied ZIPs are refused. Review the
+exports before import: their text goes to the model as chat history.
+
+The import merges the full log in date order and builds its tree with
+real compactor calls, the agent prompt, and the agent cache key. It uses
+a limit of 1,500 calls and the probe's 15-quota-point limit, and prints
+the same usage report. Its estimate is about 1.3 calls per merged
+message, not a cost guarantee. A stopped or failed run leaves the agent
+unchanged. A new run starts over. Success keeps the other agent files
+and renames the old directory to ``agent-backup-TIMESTAMP`` before it
+installs the new one. Keep the backup until the new memory is checked,
+then start the daemon. Message IDs change to their positions in the
+merged log.
***********
Schedules
nix build
./result/bin/onechat
+``onechat version`` prints ``yyyy-mm-dd-gitshort`` for a Nix build, adds
+``-dirty`` for a dirty tree, and prints ``dev`` for a direct Go build.
+
Format and check all files:
.. code:: console
projects / onechat / blobdiff