@lanes-sh/link 0.7.0 → 0.7.1

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@lanes-sh/link",
-  "version": "0.7.0",
+  "version": "0.7.1",
   "description": "A self-hostable MCP gateway for all your connections, memory, tasks, files, and secrets",
   "license": "Apache-2.0",
   "homepage": "https://lanes.sh/link",

package/src/cli/config-repair.ts

@@ -156,6 +156,13 @@ export function ensureReservedConnection(
 }
 
 /** Whether a repair did anything, without a caller adding up two lists. */
+/** `memory, tasks, assets, skills, vault, setup and entities`, in repair order. */
+function listSurfaces(): string {
+  const names = [...DEFAULT_SURFACES];
+  const last = names.pop();
+  return names.length === 0 ? String(last) : `${names.join(', ')} and ${last}`;
+}
+
 export function repaired(repair: SurfaceRepair): boolean {
   return repair.changes.length > 0 || repair.granted.length > 0;
 }
@@ -293,9 +300,11 @@ export async function repairOwnerLayer(
 
       say(ok(`gave ${style.bold(name)} its own owner layer`));
       for (const change of repairLines(repair)) say(`      ${style.dim(change)}`);
-      say(
-        `      ${style.dim('memory, tasks, assets, skills, vault and setup — your own material, no account behind any of them')}`,
-      );
+      // Built from `DEFAULT_SURFACES` rather than typed out. The typed-out
+      // version still named six after a seventh had been added, so a person
+      // watching a deploy was told entities had arrived on the line above and
+      // that the layer was six things on the line below.
+      say(`      ${style.dim(`${listSurfaces()} — your own material, no account behind any of them`)}`);
     } catch (error) {
       say(
         warn(

package/src/providers/entities/provider.ts

@@ -207,17 +207,21 @@ export const entitiesProvider: ProviderDefinition = defineLocalProvider({
         });
 
         if (matches.candidates.length === 0) {
-          return {
-            content: [
-              {
-                type: 'text',
-                text:
-                  `Nothing on ${context.connection.key} matches ${describe(criteria)}. ` +
-                  'Do not use an address that is not here — `entities.write` declares a new one, ' +
-                  'or ask the owner.',
-              },
-            ],
-          };
+          // An empty directory and a query that matched nothing are different
+          // answers and a caller does something different with each. Told
+          // "matches no criteria" it learns neither: that is what `describe({})`
+          // produces when a bare listing finds an empty store, and it reads like
+          // a parser error rather than an empty one.
+          const text =
+            matches.scanned === 0
+              ? `No entities are declared on ${context.connection.key} yet. ` +
+                '`entities.write` declares one. Until then there is nothing here to address ' +
+                'anyone by, so ask rather than using an address from somewhere else.'
+              : `Nothing on ${context.connection.key} matches ${describe(criteria)}. ` +
+                'Do not use an address that is not here — `entities.write` declares a new one, ' +
+                'or ask the owner.';
+
+          return { content: [{ type: 'text', text }] };
         }
 
         if (matches.candidates.length > 1) {