@theronap/cortex-mcp 0.9.158 → 0.9.160

package/lib/server.mjs

@@ -264,6 +264,27 @@ export async function runServer(version) {
 //
 // The SERVER decides who gets this; it only sends `nudge` to a session holding a matching identifier.
 // No threshold logic here to drift out of sync with it.
+// ADR-0066 §8 — THE DELTA LINE. "Each turn, when something arrived since the last turn: a delta
+// line only; silent when empty."
+//
+// ⚠ ONE LINE, AND NO LIST. The whole point is that it costs almost nothing to read, so it can be
+// shown often without training its reader to skip it. The pile itself is one tool call away and the
+// session-start block already rendered it in full.
+//
+// ⚠ DIFFERENT FROM renderNudge, WHICH SITS DIRECTLY BELOW IT. That block is identifier-matched — the
+// cascade believes those records are THIS session's business, and it names them. This claims nothing
+// about relevance; it says the queue moved. Both can be silent and both can fire.
+//
+// Server-decided, like the nudge: it is silent when the session is muted, on a session's first
+// sight, and when nothing arrived — so there is no threshold logic here to drift out of sync.
+function renderArrival(payload) {
+  const a = payload?.arrival
+  const n = Number(a?.count ?? 0)
+  if (!a || !n) return ''
+  return `\n\n⚡ ${n} new arrival${n === 1 ? '' : 's'} in your pile since this session was last told` +
+    ` — \`staged_records\` lists them. Not offered to you, just counted; \`ignore_arrivals\` if this is noise right now.`
+}
+
 function renderNudge(payload) {
   const n = Array.isArray(payload?.nudge) ? payload.nudge : []
   if (!n.length) return ''
@@ -1368,7 +1389,7 @@ function renderNudge(payload) {
         throw new Error(classify(res.status, res.headers.get('content-type'), body, res.headers.get('x-vercel-id')).message)
       }
       const payload = await res.json()
-      return { content: [{ type: 'text', text: formatGrepHits(payload, query) + renderNudge(payload) }] }
+      return { content: [{ type: 'text', text: formatGrepHits(payload, query) + renderArrival(payload) + renderNudge(payload) }] }
     },
   )
 
@@ -1677,7 +1698,7 @@ function renderNudge(payload) {
       // `k` is stated rather than hidden. "Only you" and "you and two others" call for different
       // behaviour, and a nudge that claimed certainty it did not have is how an agent learns to stop
       // reading them.
-      const nudgeBlock = renderNudge(page)
+      const nudgeBlock = renderArrival(page) + renderNudge(page)
 
       if (matches.length === 1) {
         return { content: [{ type: 'text', text: renderMatch(matches[0], false) + nudgeBlock }] }
@@ -2130,6 +2151,51 @@ function renderNudge(payload) {
     },
   )
 
+  server.registerTool(
+    'staged_look',
+    {
+      title: 'Read a staged arrival before deciding where it goes',
+      description: 'Read ONE staged arrival\'s envelope — sender, subject, recipients, thread, the generated summary, and the identifiers holding it — without claiming or changing anything. Use it before `place_staged_record` whenever the subject alone does not tell you WHAT KIND of thing this is. ⚠ THE SUBJECT LIES MORE OFTEN THAN YOU WOULD THINK: `staged_records` lists subjects only, and a message reading `Re: [owner/repo] fix(triage)…` is as likely to be a bot\'s deployment-status comment as a human discussing the PR — measured 2026-09-21, `vercel[bot]` accounts for 26 of the pending arrivals whose subject names that repo. The `from` header settles it in one look. ⚠ THIS IS THE ENVELOPE, NOT THE LETTER. A staged arrival stores headers and a generated summary; the message BODY is not persisted, so `bodyStored` is always false. Do not describe an arrival as something you READ — you saw who sent it and what it was titled. Looking is free, changes nothing, and needs no release.',
+      inputSchema: {
+        stagedId: z.string().describe('staged arrival id, from `staged_records` or the session-start arrivals block'),
+      },
+    },
+    async ({ stagedId }) => {
+      let res
+      try {
+        res = await fetchCortex(`${BASE}/api/staged/look?stagedId=${encodeURIComponent(stagedId)}`, {
+          headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${TOKEN}` },
+        })
+      } catch (e) {
+        return toolError(`Could not read that staged arrival: ${e.message}`)
+      }
+      const out = await res.json().catch(() => null)
+      if (res.status === 404) {
+        return toolError(`No staged arrival ${stagedId} of yours. Staged rows are per-person and in no brain, so this means it is not yours or does not exist — the two are deliberately indistinguishable.`)
+      }
+      if (!res.ok) return toolError(`Could not read staged arrival ${stagedId}: ${out?.error ?? res.status}`)
+
+      const l = out?.look ?? {}
+      const line = (label, v) => (v ? `  ${label.padEnd(9)} ${v}\n` : '')
+      const held = Array.isArray(l.blockingIdentifiers) && l.blockingIdentifiers.length
+        ? `\n⚠ HELD ON UNCLAIMED IDENTIFIERS — no page claims these, so it cannot finish until they are dispositioned:\n${l.blockingIdentifiers.map((i) => `  · ${i}`).join('\n')}\n`
+        : ''
+      return {
+        content: [{
+          type: 'text',
+          text:
+            `${l.title ?? '(untitled)'}\n` +
+            `  ${l.sourceType} · arrived ${l.receivedAt ?? '?'} · occurred ${l.occurredAt ?? '?'}\n\n` +
+            line('from', l.from) + line('subject', l.subject) + line('to', l.to) +
+            line('account', l.account) + line('thread', l.threadId) +
+            (l.summary ? `\n  summary  ${l.summary}\n` : '') +
+            held +
+            `\n⚠ This is the ENVELOPE. The message body was never stored (bodyStored: ${l.bodyStored === true}), so you have seen who sent it and what it was called — not what it says. Judge accordingly, and do not report having read it.`,
+        }],
+      }
+    },
+  )
+
   server.registerTool(
     'discard_staged',
     {
@@ -2750,6 +2816,40 @@ function renderNudge(payload) {
     },
   )
 
+  server.registerTool(
+    'ignore_arrivals',
+    {
+      title: 'Stop offering me arrivals for the rest of this session',
+      description: 'Silence the ⚡ ARRIVED block for THIS session. Use it when you are mid-task and the offers are noise right now — declining is per record (not_mine) and that is not a usable answer to a list of nine. ⚠ THIS IS NOT A DECISION ABOUT THE RECORDS AND IT IS NOT A SUPPRESSION. Every one of them stays unclaimed, stays on the general timeline, and stays offerable to every other session — including your own other sessions. You are saying "stop telling me, here", never "nobody\'s business", and nothing is marked handled. ⚠ IT IS ALSO NOT not_mine: use that one when you LOOKED and a record is not yours, because that answers "why did nobody take this" and this does not. Reversible any time with resume:true, and it dies with this session — a new session is never born muted.',
+      inputSchema: {
+        reason: z.string().optional().describe('optional — why now ("mid-task", "deep in a build"). Unlike not_mine this does not require one, because no ownership question is being answered'),
+        resume: z.boolean().optional().describe('true to start hearing about arrivals again in this session'),
+      },
+    },
+    async ({ reason, resume }) => {
+      let res
+      try {
+        res = await fetchCortex(`${BASE}/api/nudge/mute`, {
+          method: 'POST',
+          headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${TOKEN}`, 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
+          body: JSON.stringify({ on: resume === true ? false : true, reason }),
+        })
+      } catch (e) {
+        return toolError(`Could not change arrival notices: ${e.message}`)
+      }
+      const out = await res.json().catch(() => null)
+      if (!res.ok) return toolError(`Could not change arrival notices: ${out?.error ?? res.status}${out?.detail ? `\n${out.detail}` : ''}`)
+      return {
+        content: [{
+          type: 'text',
+          text: resume === true
+            ? 'Arrivals will be offered to this session again.'
+            : 'Quiet for the rest of this session. Nothing was decided about those records — they stay unclaimed, stay on the general timeline, and other sessions still see them. `ignore_arrivals resume:true` turns them back on.',
+        }],
+      }
+    },
+  )
+
   server.registerTool(
     'my_source_routes',
     {
@@ -3349,7 +3449,7 @@ function renderNudge(payload) {
         return toolError(`Could not list records: ${d.message}`)
       }
       const payload = await res.json()
-      return { content: [{ type: 'text', text: (payload?.text ?? '') + renderNudge(payload) }] }
+      return { content: [{ type: 'text', text: (payload?.text ?? '') + renderArrival(payload) + renderNudge(payload) }] }
     },
   )
 

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@theronap/cortex-mcp",
-  "version": "0.9.158",
+  "version": "0.9.160",
   "description": "Connect your AI assistant to Cortex — your org's projects, activity, gaps, and directives, scoped to you.",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {