`ask` now reads its answer from the wait's source as well, which is what makes
the notification's reply field mean something: the reply typed into it is the
answer the caller gets. The readline path stays whenever the source offers no
answers, so line editing and Tab completion only go away when the human asked
for a surface that can answer — and a terminal answer still wins over one that
arrives through the notification.
The read itself is the poll-based one this module already had, so the same
"no deadline, wait for a line or an answer" rule and the same Ctrl+C handling
apply; a cancelled read raises `NonInteractiveError`, as the backend's own
cancellation does.
Every place the CLI blocks on the human now announces itself: the single and
batched tool confirms, the command-denylist and `fetch_local` policies, a skill
write, a directory-access request, the `ask_user_*` questions and the
limit-continue prompt. `_setup_hooks` installs the notifier from `[notify]`, and
only for an interactive run — a one-shot run never waits on a human.
An answer that came back through the notification is read as if it had been
typed: `allow` / `deny` map onto the `y` / `n` the prompts already accept, and
the confirmation prompts switch from click's readline to the poll-based read
only when the notification actually offered answers — otherwise the terminal
experience is untouched. "Go to terminal" never reaches the prompt at all.
The stdin read behind the timed prompts now watches in 100ms slices instead of
one full-length `select`, which is what lets a notification answer end it; an
answer still loses to a human typing at the terminal. A `None` timeout waits
for whichever arrives first, and a non-pollable stdin still gives up at once.
`prompt_wait` announces only the outermost prompt of a nested read: a confirm
that asks a follow-up question while it is already on screen would otherwise
buzz the human a second time.
A prompt that has waited `grace_seconds` is now announced, and where the
platform allows it the notification carries the answer: allow / deny / review
for a confirmation, a reply field for an `ask_user_*` question. Picking
"review" withdraws the notification and keeps waiting at the terminal, and a
notification is dismissed as soon as the prompt returns — answered or not.
Two channels. The desktop one is the optional `notify` extra, run on its own
event loop in a daemon thread because a notification's callbacks only fire
while the loop that owns it is running (the library's synchronous wrapper does
not provide that). The terminal one needs nothing: it writes OSC 777 / OSC 9
to `/dev/tty` — so a redirect cannot swallow it — picking the protocol from the
environment and wrapping it for tmux / screen, falling back to a plain bell.
kitty speaks OSC 99 only, which is not implemented, so it keeps the bell.
Nothing here can break a prompt: a missing extra, a desktop that refuses, a
failed write all fall through to the next channel and never raise. Titles are
flattened and stripped of control characters, and the reason line (which can
name a command or a URL) only travels with `include_reason`.
`[notify]` decides what the CLI does when a prompt is waiting on the human:
`grace_seconds` (default 5s, roughly Claude Code's permission notice) before
anything is shown, `min_interval_seconds` between two notifications,
`channels` (`auto` = desktop then terminal), `actions` for the allow/deny/review
buttons, `include_reason` for the one-line reason, and `protocol` to pin the
terminal escape protocol.
The reason stays out by default because it names commands, argv and URLs, and a
notification outlives the prompt and may be mirrored to a lock screen. Unknown
keys degrade to the defaults, the way `[mcp]` does, and `reload()` re-reads the
section.
Desktop notifications need the optional `notify` extra (`desktop-notifier`),
which is the only new dependency and stays off the default install.
A prompt that blocks on the human now announces itself through one process-wide
hook: `prompt_wait(kind, title, detail)` wraps `ask`, `ask_secret`, `choose` and
`confirm` and yields the answer source the host offers. `kind` names the prompt
family (`ask`, `secret`, `choose`, `confirm`, and the CLI's own `policy` /
`access` / `skills` / `limit`) so a host can pick a surface, while `title` stays
short enough to show anywhere and `detail` carries one line the caller has
already redacted. No hook installed means no behaviour change, which keeps
library hosts and the test suite exactly as they were.
The read side of the seam is `read_line_with_timeout`: an optional `source` ends
the read with the host's answer (echoed on the prompt line like a typed one) and
a `None` timeout now means "wait until a line or an answer arrives" instead of
giving up. Stdin keeps priority, so a human typing at the terminal is never
raced by a notification answer that shows up at the same moment.
`reset_prompting` clears the hook along with the output hook and the pause
factory.
Windows spells a path with backslashes, and three fixtures took the POSIX shape: a config value written into a TOML basic string read `C:\users\…` as an escape, tool arguments built with an f-string broke the same way, and a root was compared as `str(path)` against `/srv/skills`. Paths are encoded with `json.dumps` (whose escaping is valid TOML and valid JSON) and compared as `Path` objects, so the same root matches in either spelling.
`test_interrupt.py` delivers SIGINT with `os.kill(pid, SIGINT)`, which is `TerminateProcess` on Windows, and the router itself needs `add_signal_handler`: the module is skipped there.
`python scripts/wine_pdm.py ci` is green: ruff, basedpyright 0 errors, 1156 passed / 30 skipped.
Session YOLO skips the soft confirms of `YOLO`-tagged tools — interpreter runs included — while untagged tools keep prompting and a command that escalates privileges keeps its own confirm through `DangerReason(yolo_skip=False)`. A plugin now also sees that answer shape where the danger classifier is documented, and the round's aggregated prompt leaves the covered calls out.
`--yes` / `/yolo on|off|once` clears the prompt of a `YOLO`-tagged tool: interpreter runs (`run_argv`, `run_argv_batch`, `open_pty`), the file mutations (overwrite / copy / move / delete) and `fetch_local`'s cleartext and mutating requests. A tool without the tag still asks, and hard path/command denylists stay untouched.
`classify_danger` now answers with a `DangerReason` — the reason text plus `yolo_skip` — so one call can refuse that skip: a command that runs through `sudo` / `su` / `doas` / `pkexec` (as the program or a wrapper) keeps its confirm whatever YOLO mode says. It never adds a reason of its own, so the program the denylist gate already asks about is not asked twice.
`prepare_batch_confirm` leaves the covered calls out, so a skipped call neither prompts on its own nor takes a slot in the round's aggregated prompt, and one escalating step keeps the whole batch in front of the human.
`doc/images.md` holds the message shape, how `@path` attaches a file, the
per-surface mapping, the provider limits, what a live probe against DeepSeek
confirmed (`tool_result` and `function_call_output` images work, `detail: low`
is 3.4x cheaper, an assistant-message image is a 400), and why the Files API is
not used.
AGENTS.md gets the invariants and the mention/config keys; `doc/architecture.md`
and the example TOML point at it.
Typing `@shot.png` in the line attaches that picture to the turn — no separate
command — and `@notes.txt` appends the file as text under a `--- @path ---`
header, capped like a tool result with a resumable `truncate_token`.
`@"my shot.png"` is the quoted form, and Tab completes the path after `@`
(directories end in `/`, a name with a space completes quoted).
An image is skipped, with a note naming the key to set, on a model without
`image_in`; a missing or denylisted path is a note too, and the turn still goes.
The default catalogs mark what can take a picture (`deepseek-flash` yes,
`deepseek-v4-pro` no, the OpenAI defaults yes).
`Agent.run` takes the parts, so the turn is stored with its images and shows up
as `[image]` wherever only prose is wanted.
New `view_image` reads a local picture (JPEG, PNG, GIF, WebP, sniffed from its
bytes) and hands it to the model as an image part, with an optional `detail`
level — `low` measured 3.4x cheaper on a 1200x900 picture. `read_file` now
points at it instead of returning decode noise.
`fetch_local` returns an image response as the picture itself, and MCP image
content blocks become image parts instead of `[image: ...]` placeholders, so a
screenshot server finally reaches the model.
`ToolOutput` pairs the model-facing text with the images a tool produced.
`ToolRegistry.execute` keeps its text-only contract; `execute_output` returns
the pair and the loop stores the images on the tool message, so a screenshot
tool can answer in pixels instead of a hex placeholder.
Only the text is capped by the tool-result limit; the char estimator now counts
a present image at its 1024-token ceiling, because the shrinkers never drop one.
A user turn's `content` may now be a part array (`ChatTextPart` +
`ChatImagePart`), which chat completions take as-is; the Anthropic and
Responses bridges translate it into `image` blocks and `input_image` parts.
A tool result keeps its text in `content` and carries `images` beside it:
Anthropic and Responses put them in the result item itself (a live probe reads
both back), while chat completions cannot, so
`compat.chat_messages_with_images` moves them into the user turn after the tool
run. Prose-only readers go through `content_to_text`, which renders an image as
`[image]`.
`agent.images` sniffs the real format from the bytes and builds the data URL,
capped at 8 MiB inline because every stored message is re-sent on each round.
doc/turns-and-rounds.md defines the two nested units the loop is built on: a round is one request→response plus the tool batch it asked for, a turn is one user message through the explicit stop (0..N rounds), and a session is a stored sequence of turns. It records what bounds each unit (max_rounds, truncation continues, retries), which work is round-scoped (request assembly, context reduction, the aggregated soft confirm) and which state resets per turn (read-before-edit, yyy auto-continue, /yolo once, the todo touched flag, usage totals) versus what outlives it (rows, todo stack, grants, reminder bands).
Linked from the architecture doc, with the short version in AGENTS.md.
prompt_confirm_batch_async answers a ToolBatchConfirmHook with one box that numbers every call the round wants to make (continuation lines stay under their entry). The prompt is the plain ``Allow these N tool calls?`` confirm: a deny offers the same one comment for all of them, a non-interactive host denies, and the next round asks again.
The ReplState registry installs the hook next to the per-call one, and format_tool_confirm_box now shares the box drawing with the batch header.
ToolRegistry.prepare_batch_confirm pre-scans a round of tool calls, drops the ones that cannot run (unknown tool, undecodable arguments, missing required argument), and turns two or more soft reasons into a single ToolBatchConfirmHook prompt. The BatchConfirmDecision it returns is applied per call through execute(..., decision=...): allow, or deny with one comment shared by every call of that round.
_execute_tool_calls asks before it gathers, so a batch of moves or deletes no longer stacks one confirm box per call. A single request keeps the old one-call prompt, a host without a batch hook keeps the per-call behaviour, and the answer never outlives the round it was asked in.
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