- Add bot_bottle/cli/tui.py: curses filter-select picker that opens
/dev/tty directly so it works with redirected stdout/stdin
- Make `name` positional optional (nargs="?") in cmd_start; show agent
picker when absent
- Show backend picker when no --backend flag and BOT_BOTTLE_BACKEND is
unset; skip when either is explicit or the env var is present
- Add tests/unit/test_cli_tui.py covering _filter_items logic and
short-circuit paths (empty list, unavailable tty)
- Add tests/unit/test_cli_start_selector.py covering all four dispatch
combinations (both explicit, agent-absent, backend-absent, both-absent)
and cancel semantics
- Activate PRD 0051
Splits the 2103-line dashboard.py into two modules. Pure data
structures (QueuedProposal), discovery helpers (discover_pending,
discover_active_agents), derived-value helpers (_is_recent,
_approval_status, _format_agent_row, _detail_lines, etc.), and
argv-builder helpers (_build_split_pane_argv, _build_respawn_pane_argv,
_build_resume_argv_with_fallback, _agent_runtime_args) all move to
dashboard_model.py. The curses TUI, $EDITOR integration, tmux
subprocess flows, and action handlers (approve, reject,
operator_edit_routes, operator_edit_allowlist) remain in dashboard.py,
which re-imports everything from dashboard_model so existing callers and
tests are unaffected.
Adds tests/unit/test_dashboard_model.py covering _approval_status,
_proposed_payload_label, and _suffix_for_tool — three helpers that had
no prior coverage. All 894 unit tests pass.
Closes#158
BottleMetadata gains a backend field (default ""). Docker prepare writes
"docker"; smolmachines prepare writes "smolmachines". read_metadata
deserialises it with "" as the backward-compatible default.
resume now passes metadata.backend to _launch_bottle so a preserved
smolmachines bottle is resumed on the right backend without requiring
BOT_BOTTLE_BACKEND to be set manually.
_bottle_for_slug now reads metadata.backend and constructs a
SmolmachinesBottle for smolmachines slugs instead of always defaulting
to DockerBottle. No-metadata slugs still fall back to Docker.
Closes#137
apply_capability_change is Docker-only teardown/apply code. Before this
change it was called regardless of backend, so approving a capability-block
proposal from a smolmachines agent would run Docker commands against a
slug that has no Docker container.
After this change approve() reads the bottle's metadata: if compose_project
is empty (the smolmachines indicator) it raises CapabilityApplyError with
a clear operator message before any teardown runs. Docker bottles (non-empty
compose_project) and unknown bottles (no metadata) fall through to the
existing Docker path unchanged.
Closes#136
Review feedback on #102: a manifest that can't be read should raise an
exception, not call die() (a SystemExit). That SystemExit was the whole
reason the dashboard had to special-case Die.
manifest.py now raises ManifestError (a plain Exception) for every
validation failure. The CLI dispatcher catches it and prints+exits 1
(same UX as before); the dashboard catches it with a normal
`except ManifestError` and degrades to a status-line warning. Manifest
tests assert on ManifestError + its message.
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The dashboard runs under curses.wrapper and cmd_dashboard only caught
KeyboardInterrupt, so failures vanished:
- die() prints to stderr, but under curses that lands on the alternate
screen and is wiped on exit, so config errors gave no reason.
- Die is a SystemExit, so the new-agent flow's `except Exception` never
caught config errors; they crashed the TUI.
- the startup manifest probe was unguarded.
Now: Die carries its message (+ log.error()); cmd_dashboard re-surfaces
a Die's reason once the terminal is restored and writes any other
crash's traceback to ~/.bot-bottle/logs/dashboard-crash.log; the startup
probe and the new-agent flow degrade a bad config to a status-line
warning instead of crashing.
Closes#100
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Agents may declare git.user (name/email); it overlays the referenced
bottle's git.user per-field at Manifest.bottle_for (agent wins on
non-empty), mirroring the extends: merge. git.remotes is rejected on
agents — it carries credentials and host trust and stays bottle-only.
The overlay lives at bottle_for, the single chokepoint both backends
use, so the docker/smolmachines git provisioners are unchanged. Adds
Manifest.git_identity_summary with per-field (agent)/(bottle)
provenance, printed in both preflights and `info`.
Refs #94
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