The runtime media-attachment mechanism was broken for streaming channels
(e.g. WebSocket): the _streamed flag caused _send_once to skip the final
OutboundMessage that carried generated media, so images were never delivered.
Rather than adding complex coordination between streaming and media delivery,
delegate image delivery to the LLM: after generate_image returns artifact
paths, the next_step prompt now instructs the LLM to call the message tool
with the paths in the media parameter. This works uniformly across all
channels, streaming or not.
Remove generated_media from TurnContext, _assemble_outbound, and _state_save.
Update prompts in identity.md, SKILL.md, message tool description, and
artifacts.py to reflect the new flow.
Runtime context (time, channel, sender) changes every turn, so placing
it before user content invalidated the prompt-cache prefix. Appending it
after user content keeps the prefix stable and improves KV cache hit
rates. The stripping logic in _save_turn was simplified from 16 lines
to 6 as a side benefit.
Past assistant turns in history were prefixed with "[Message Time: ...]"
just like user turns. The model treated these as in-context demos and
started prefixing its own replies with the same marker, leaking
metadata to the user. Prompt-level warnings could not beat dozens of
prior assistant samples.
Annotate only user turns and proactive deliveries
(_channel_delivery=True, i.e. cron / heartbeat pushes whose timing is
the whole point and which are too infrequent to act as demos). Adjacent
user-side timestamps still pin every normal assistant reply for
relative-time reasoning. The now-redundant identity.md warning is
removed along with the demonstration source.
Cover two untested boundaries from #3412:
- _truncate_to_token_budget with positive budget exercises tiktoken
- _MAX_HISTORY_CHARS caps Recent History section in system prompt
Made-with: Cursor
Move all behavioral instructions out of identity.md into SOUL.md so that
each file has a single clear purpose:
- identity.md: capability facts only (runtime, workspace, format hints,
tool guidance, untrusted content warning)
- SOUL.md: behavioral rules (name, personality, execution rules)
The "Act, don't narrate" rule is refined into layered behavior: act
immediately on single-step tasks, plan first for multi-step tasks. This
eliminates the contradiction where identity said "never end with a plan"
but user SOUL.md said "always plan first".
- Convert skills summary from verbose XML (4-5 lines/skill) to compact
markdown list (1 line/skill) with inline path for read_file lookup
- Exclude always-loaded skills (e.g. memory) from the skills index to
avoid duplicating content already in the Active Skills section
- Skip injecting the Memory section when MEMORY.md still matches the
bundled template (i.e. Dream hasn't populated it yet)
