Keep message navigation and progress state synchronized, and preserve
sequential split-flap count updates with a bounded queue.
Publish the Obelisk skill under skills/obelisk for npx skills, sharing
the same staging layout between CI and local releases with regression coverage.
SessionDetail live update:
- Extract session-view-state.mjs: capture scroll position, disclosure
(open/skill-md-open) state, and visible-UUID anchor before refresh;
reconcile messages by UUID (in-place update, append tail only); restore
scroll and disclosure state after DOM patch. findLastMessageAtOrAbove uses
binary search (O(log n)) instead of linear scan.
- scrollRevision tracks user scrolls during refresh to avoid stale anchors
overriding manual navigation.
- Throttle onScroll to one rAF per frame.
Tool renderer:
- Extract tool-renderer.js: standalone module for rendering tool call cards
(Read/Write/Edit diffs, Bash terminal output, search results, JS/TS
syntax highlighting). Replaces inline rendering in SessionDetail.
- tests/app-tool-renderer.test.mjs covers escaping, highlighting, and
terminal formatting.
Input tokens semantics migration:
- Claude provider now sums input_tokens + cache_creation_input_tokens +
cache_read_input_tokens into a single input_tokens value (was previously
only the raw field, undercounting when cache tokens are present).
- One-time index-wide re-parse triggered when the marker
__claude_input_tokens_include_cache_v1__ is absent and the DB already
has token data (self-healing on first build after upgrade).
- App indexer.ts carries the same marker check for the app's build path.
Also:
- PRODUCT.md: product register (users, purpose, brand, design principles,
accessibility targets).
- README.md: minor wording updates.
Co-Authored-By: Codex (GPT-5) <noreply@openai.com>
Rewrite README to reflect the current state of the project:
- Describe both surfaces: skill (agent-first retrieval) and app (human browser).
- Add Codex support section (unified schema, source tagging, child-thread mapping).
- Update Structure tree to match the packages/core workspace layout with all
TypeScript modules (providers, persist, tx, write-coordinator, writer-lease).
- Document generated build outputs (packages/core/dist, dist/obelisk-skill).
- License badge corrected to AGPL-3.0 (skill artifact is MIT; source is AGPL).
- Skill invocation examples updated to /obelisk-skill.
- Add recap flow documentation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add a GitHub Actions workflow that builds the readable, non-bundled skill
artifact (`npm run build:skill`) and force-pushes it to the dedicated
tommy0103/obelisk-skill public repo whenever the main branch is updated.
The skill repo is a pure derivative — no manual commits, no PRs; the source
of truth stays in tommy0103/obelisk.
- .github/workflows/publish-skill.yml: checkout → npm ci → build:skill →
clone skill repo → replace content → commit + force push. Auth via
SKILL_REPO_DEPLOY_KEY (SSH deploy key with write access to obelisk-skill).
- packaging/skill-README.md: the README placed in the skill repo (install
instructions + link back to source + "auto-published, don't PR here").
- packaging/skill-LICENSE: MIT license for the skill artifact (relicensed
from the AGPL-3.0 source by the copyright holder).
- packaging/publish-skill.sh: local convenience script for manual publish.
- packaging/skill-package.json: license field updated to MIT.
- README.md: install command updated to tommy0103/obelisk-skill.
- package.json: add publish:skill script.
The skill repo is MIT-licensed for zero adoption friction (local tool, no
library API, no derivative works expected); the source repo stays AGPL-3.0.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implement the full ADR-0006 plan: three-layer separation of transaction
correctness, retry policy, and cross-process writer coordination.
Layer 1 — scripts/tx.ts (transaction correctness):
- runWriteTransaction executes work exactly once; no internal retry.
- BEGIN IMMEDIATE takes the write lock up front (avoids SQLITE_BUSY_SNAPSHOT).
- Guarded rollback: checks inTransaction() via adapter before attempting
ROLLBACK; never masks the primary exception.
- WriteTxDiagnostics attached to errors: phase, code, label,
rollbackSucceeded, rollbackError, transactionActive.
- Binding adapters (betterSqliteTransactionAdapter, nodeSqliteTransactionAdapter)
mapping better-sqlite3's `.inTransaction` and node:sqlite's `.isTransaction`.
- configureConnection centralizes WAL + synchronous + busy_timeout.
Layer 2 — scripts/write-coordinator.ts (retry policy):
- runRetryableWriteTransaction: bounded retry with total time budget.
- Only retries when the transaction confirmed ended (transactionActive=false)
and the error is SQLITE_BUSY during work/commit phase.
- BEGIN-phase BUSY = abort entire build (isBeginBusyFailure); the caller
returns `{ deferred: true, reason: 'writer_busy' }` instead of waiting.
- hasUnusableTransaction detects a still-active transaction after failure;
aborts the build immediately, never retries.
Layer 3 — scripts/writer-lease.ts (cross-process coordination):
- acquireWriterLease: dedicated writer.lock.sqlite with busy_timeout=0 +
BEGIN IMMEDIATE. Non-blocking attempt; bounded wait with retryDelayMs.
- writerLockPathFor derives lock path from the target DB path.
- Lease held for the entire build; released on completion or failure.
- Lock DB uses DELETE journal (not WAL); crash/close auto-releases.
- All consumers obey: skill acquires at build start (returns deferred if
unavailable); app daemon (via worker) acquires for its build cycle.
Build semantics changes:
- affectedSessionIds updated only after successful commit.
- BuildIndexResult gains skipped/skippedFiles for observability.
- Skill finalize failure now fails the build (was silently warned).
- Checkpoint changed to PASSIVE (TRUNCATE reserved for maintenance/exit).
- Skill buildIndex returns { deferred, reason } on lease contention;
indexer-service reschedules the build (deferredRetryMs) without publishing
a heartbeat (so the build-deferred state is visible to cross-process
arbitration).
- Service publishes heartbeat immediately on start() for correct arbitration.
Tests:
- tests/write-transaction.test.mjs: single-shot execution, diagnostics
propagation, auto-rolled-back transaction detected, rollback failure
captured as metadata, BEGIN IMMEDIATE semantics.
- tests/writer-lease.test.mjs: acquire/release, contention returns null,
bounded wait with release during budget.
- tests/app-writer-lease.test.mjs: better-sqlite3 adapter integration.
- tests/app-rollback-guard.test.mjs: rewritten — transient BUSY recovered
by coordinator, persistent BUSY skips file, begin-busy aborts build,
live-transaction aborts build, phantom affectedSessionIds prevented.
- tests/daemon-arbitration.test.mjs: skill defers to fresh app heartbeat,
builds when heartbeat is stale.
- tests/app-indexer-service.test.mjs: new cases for deferred-retry
scheduling and immediate heartbeat on start.
- app/tests/electron-concurrency.mjs + child: dual-child IPC structure for
real better-sqlite3 contention (holder acquires lock → build child starts
→ delayed release → result collected; persistent contention bounded).
ADR-0006 updated to reflect the implemented design.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Introduce a Settings view for configuring the Claude data directory
(with WSL auto-detection on Windows), sidebar project grouping module,
and an empty-state onboarding screen for SessionList. Refactor
recap-patterns.md into per-card reference files under references/recap/
with separate retrieval and writing guides. Remove the legacy panel.html.
On the data layer: incremental indexing via changedPaths, per-session
live-update IPC (obelisk:session-updated), and session dirty-tracking
in the renderer.
Introduce a Spotify-Wrapped-style recap feature: five themed cards
(Cover, Path, Vibe, Workflow, Closing) rendered per archetype palette,
with keyboard/swipe navigation and image export via capture IPC. Add
RecapList, RecapDetail, RecapExport views and recap component library.
Wire recap:list/read/updated IPC channels through preload, document the
retrieval-to-card contract in references/recap-patterns.md, and bundle
dist-renderer for production use.
Extract schema DDL into scripts/schema.sql shared between CLI and app.
Add an in-process chokidar-based indexer-service that watches ~/.claude/projects
for JSONL changes, debounces, and triggers background rebuilds via a worker
thread. Rename Usage view to Activity, flesh out MemoryDetail and SubagentDetail
views, and refine App.vue layout/routing. The main process now starts/stops the
indexer lifecycle and notifies renderer windows on index updates.
Introduce an Electron app with session browser, memory list, and usage
views (vanilla JS + Vue scaffolding). On the data layer: add content_type
and is_meta to messages for transcript control-plane filtering, introduce
FTS5-backed memory recall with safe tokenization, support memory archival
via forget() through the renamed --attune runtime, and expose anchors on
memory records.
Resolves current project from cwd, lists all known projects with session
and memory counts, and returns the current project's recent sessions and
memories in one call. Enables the agent to orient itself at the start of
a retrieval without multiple exploratory queries.
Add a memories table (survives index rebuilds) for agent-written
conclusions with provenance (session, message range, project). The agent
writes markdown files via Write tool (user-approved), then registers
them via a --remember CodeAct script with remember(). Recall via
memories() in --query scripts, filtered by project/session/time.
Separates query (read-only, assertReadOnlySql) from remember (write)
execution contexts in runtime.mjs.
Split the monolithic skill prompt into three tiers:
- Core API (search/context/sql) stays in the first prompt
- Structured helpers listed as one-liners with filter signatures
- Detailed patterns and pitfalls extracted to references/
Add references/query-patterns.md (copyable CodeAct recipes) and
references/pitfalls.md (scope, FTS, ordering, compactness traps).
Clarify project scope semantics (slug vs path vs cwd) throughout.
Add ORDER BY timestamp DESC to failures() for newest-first default.
Previously the session metadata accumulator started from zero on every
reindex pass, so an incremental update would overwrite started_at and
message_count with values derived only from the new lines.
Now reads the existing session row first and merges new data on top.
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