Three UX improvements requested in #270 review:
- filter_multiselect: Space toggles selection, Enter confirms (was both)
- bottle picker: bottles with extends chains show ancestry labels
(e.g. 'claude-dev <- bot-bottle-dev <- dev') for at-a-glance lineage
- preflight: replaces key-value summary with YAML of the resolved manifest
- `bottle:` in agent frontmatter is now optional; agents without it
are portable and require bottles to be selected at launch.
- Adds `filter_multiselect` to `tui.py`: multi-select picker with
ordered selection list, Space/Enter to toggle, Ctrl-D to confirm.
- `ManifestIndex` gains `all_bottle_names` and `load_for_agent` accepts
`bottle_names: tuple[str, ...]` to merge bottles in order at runtime.
- `merge_bottles_runtime` in `manifest_extends.py` applies the same
field-merge rules as `extends:` to pre-resolved bottle objects.
- `BottleSpec` gains `bottle_names`; `_validate` and `write_launch_metadata`
thread it through so `resume` replays the same bottle configuration.
- `cmd_start` shows the bottle multiselect after agent selection,
pre-populated from the agent's `bottle:` field when present.
- Existing agents with `bottle:` declared continue to work unchanged.
Manifest now holds exactly one agent and one effective bottle (with
git_user overlay already applied). The old multi-agent/bottle
collection is renamed ManifestIndex. BottleSpec.manifest starts as
ManifestIndex from the CLI and becomes Manifest after _validate()
calls load_for_agent(); all provisioning code downstream reads
spec.manifest.agent / spec.manifest.bottle instead of indexing by name.
Broken bottle/agent files no longer block the agent selector or prevent
unrelated agents from loading. Per-file parse errors are collected in
`Manifest.broken_agents`; the CLI selector includes them via
`all_agent_names`, and the error surfaces only when the specific agent
is selected and launch is attempted (in `require_agent`/`bottle_for`).
Closes#236
When a label is given it is now used verbatim as the slug (no random
suffix), so two launches with the same label collide by design. The
CLI re-prompts via the TUI name modal with a disclaimer when the
candidate slug is already in use among running bottles.
The recent refactor partially removed workspace planning and
capability-apply logic. This commit finishes the cleanup so the
test suite imports cleanly:
- Comment out workspace_plan field/property on BottlePlan and the
provision_workspace dispatch.
- Comment out workspace usages in docker.util (build_image_with_cwd),
smolmachines.provision.workspace, agent_provider.provision_git,
smolmachines.backend.
- Comment out capability_apply imports in cli.start and cli.supervise;
add a local CapabilityApplyError placeholder so the supervise CLI
module still imports.
- Break the bottle_state → backend.docker → backend circular import
by lazy-loading docker_mod inside bottle_identity, and by moving the
resolve_common import inside BottleBackend.prepare.
- Delete tests for workspace and capability_apply (unit + integration).
- Update test fixtures to drop removed kwargs (container_name_pinned,
derived_image, env_file, workspace_plan, agent_image_ref) from
DockerBottlePlan / SmolmachinesBottlePlan constructors.
- Delete the obsolete test_smolmachines_prepare.py (tested the old
resolve_plan signature; the shared prepare flow now lives in
BottleBackend.prepare).
- Adjust test_supervise.py for the new Supervise.prepare signature
(dockerfile_content arg removed).
925 → 897 tests, all passing.
Both docker and smolmachines backends use bottle state helpers.
Moving to bot_bottle/ makes the sharing explicit and removes the
cross-backend dependency (smolmachines importing from ..docker).
All callers updated: docker backend, smolmachines backend, cli
modules, and tests.
Chunk 1 (schema + storage): BottleSpec, ActiveAgent, and BottleMetadata
gain label and color fields. Both docker and smolmachines backends
persist them to metadata.json on prepare and surface them in
enumerate_active_agents(). AgentProvider.provision_plan() passes
label/color through to the Claude provider, which injects them into
claude.json so claude-code displays the session name and color in its
header. Codex provider accepts and ignores the knobs.
Chunk 2 (curses modal + display): cmd_start presents a two-step curses
modal — first edit the label (first keystroke replaces the pre-fill),
then optionally pick a color. cli list active renders label with ANSI
escape codes when the terminal supports it, falling back to agent_name
when no label is set.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- 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
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