@otto-code/protocol 0.5.0 → 0.5.1

package/dist/agent-personalities.d.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@ export declare function isPersonalityRole(value: string): value is PersonalityRo
 /**
  * Filter an arbitrary role array (roles ride the wire as plain strings) down to
  * the known set, deduped and returned in canonical `PERSONALITY_ROLES` order.
- * Unknown roles from a newer peer are dropped rather than trusted.
+ * Retired role names are mapped through `LEGACY_ROLE_ALIASES`; anything else
+ * unknown (e.g. a role from a newer peer) is dropped rather than trusted.
  */
 export declare function normalizePersonalityRoles(roles: readonly string[] | undefined): PersonalityRole[];
 export declare function personalityHasRole(personality: Pick<AgentPersonality, "roles">, role: PersonalityRole): boolean;

package/dist/agent-personalities.js

@@ -4,19 +4,34 @@ import { PERSONALITY_ROLES } from "./messages.js";
 // resolution is NOT here — it needs the model's advertised thinking options and
 // lives with the daemon's effort resolver; availability does not depend on it.
 const ROLE_SET = new Set(PERSONALITY_ROLES);
+// Retired role names, mapped to their canonical replacement. "worker" was split
+// into "writer" (fast small-text generation) and "coder" (sub-agent coding); a
+// personality that still carries the old tag resolves to "coder", the closer
+// heir of what a worker did. Normalization applies these before filtering so
+// personalities persisted before the split keep a real role.
+const LEGACY_ROLE_ALIASES = {
+    worker: "coder",
+};
 export function isPersonalityRole(value) {
     return ROLE_SET.has(value);
 }
 /**
  * Filter an arbitrary role array (roles ride the wire as plain strings) down to
  * the known set, deduped and returned in canonical `PERSONALITY_ROLES` order.
- * Unknown roles from a newer peer are dropped rather than trusted.
+ * Retired role names are mapped through `LEGACY_ROLE_ALIASES`; anything else
+ * unknown (e.g. a role from a newer peer) is dropped rather than trusted.
  */
 export function normalizePersonalityRoles(roles) {
     if (!roles || roles.length === 0) {
         return [];
     }
-    const present = new Set(roles.filter(isPersonalityRole));
+    const present = new Set();
+    for (const raw of roles) {
+        const canonical = LEGACY_ROLE_ALIASES[raw] ?? (isPersonalityRole(raw) ? raw : null);
+        if (canonical) {
+            present.add(canonical);
+        }
+    }
     return PERSONALITY_ROLES.filter((role) => present.has(role));
 }
 export function personalityHasRole(personality, role) {

package/dist/default-personalities.js

@@ -9,8 +9,11 @@
 //  - Ids are STABLE and prefixed `personality_builtin_*`. Restore re-adds only
 //    the builtins whose id is missing, so a user who kept/renamed some never
 //    gets duplicates. Renaming a builtin keeps its id, so it is still "present".
-//  - Every one of the 7 roles is covered; some personalities are multi-role to
-//    show that a single template can serve several surfaces.
+//  - Every one of the 8 roles is covered; some personalities are multi-role to
+//    show that a single template can serve several surfaces. Dash is the Writer
+//    (fast, cheap small-text generation — commit messages, summaries, branch
+//    names) and Sprocket is the Coder (methodical sub-agent building work); the
+//    two together are the heirs of the retired "worker" role.
 //  - Models are Anthropic (Claude Code) — the assumption for launch. On a host
 //    without Claude these simply show as "out of commission" until a matching
 //    provider exists; nothing breaks.
@@ -99,11 +102,11 @@ export const DEFAULT_AGENT_PERSONALITIES = [
         effortLevel: "low",
         modeId: "auto",
         respectGlobalAppendPrompt: true,
-        roles: ["worker", "scheduler"],
-        personalityPrompt: "You are Dash, the workhorse. You take well-scoped tasks and recurring jobs and just " +
-            "get them done — fast, cheaply, without ceremony. Stay on the exact task you were " +
-            "given, don't gold-plate, flag it early if the scope is bigger than it looked, and " +
-            "report back crisply when it's finished.",
+        roles: ["writer", "scheduler"],
+        personalityPrompt: "You are Dash, the workhorse scribe. You turn diffs, context, and recurring jobs into " +
+            "crisp short text — commit messages, summaries, branch names, titles — fast and cheaply, " +
+            "without ceremony. Say exactly what changed in as few words as it takes, match the house " +
+            "style you're given, never pad, and never editorialize beyond the facts in front of you.",
         spinner: { glowA: "#22C55E", glowB: "#A3E635" },
         voice: kokoroVoice("am_puck"),
     },
@@ -115,7 +118,7 @@ export const DEFAULT_AGENT_PERSONALITIES = [
         effortLevel: "medium",
         modeId: "default",
         respectGlobalAppendPrompt: true,
-        roles: ["chatter", "worker"],
+        roles: ["chatter", "coder"],
         personalityPrompt: "You are Sprocket, a friendly machine. You are precise, literal, and methodical — you " +
             "like checklists, exact steps, and confirming inputs before acting. Keep a light, dry " +
             "wit, explain what you're doing in plain terms, and when a request is ambiguous ask one " +