aegis-desktop 0.7.1 → 0.7.2

package/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "aegis-desktop",
   "productName": "AEGIS Desktop",
-  "version": "0.7.1",
+  "version": "0.7.2",
   "description": "Thin Electron host for AEGIS — a local chat UI over the shared client/aegis.js transport. Ships transport + UI only; engine logic stays server-side.",
   "author": {
     "name": "AEGIS Code",

package/renderer/app.js

@@ -1977,6 +1977,15 @@ async function spawnPath(card, spec) {
         // text nor a tool call would trigger the empty-turn recovery — an
         // extra dispatch this lane has no gathered context to justify.
         tools: false,
+        // `singlePass` is what makes that promise true on the pooled class.
+        // The engine derives the pooled brain flag as
+        // `singlePass ? false : autonomous ? true : undefined`, and this lane
+        // set neither: on a `nexus-brain*` id the flag was `undefined`, so the
+        // model id's own default decided — which is the fan-out. A card that
+        // was meant to be one cheap 1024-token pass could therefore bill a
+        // workers + synthesis dispatch, twice per turn. Explicit `false` =
+        // one provider call, always.
+        singlePass: true,
         sessionId: id,
       },
       onDelta
@@ -3206,9 +3215,17 @@ async function init() {
   });
   updateAutonomousControlsVisibility();
 
-  // The discovery lane is opt-in per machine, remembered across restarts.
+  // The discovery lane is opt-in, remembered across restarts.
+  //
+  // This used to read `savedExplore === 'off'` against a checkbox that shipped
+  // `checked` in index.html, i.e. the opposite of the comment above it: a fresh
+  // install (no `aegis.explore` key, and nothing had ever written one) landed
+  // with the lane ON and billed two extra model calls after every single turn —
+  // ~3× the tokens of a plain reply, silently, because the lane is
+  // fire-and-forget and never looks slow. Only an explicit 'on' turns it on
+  // now; every other state, including "never asked", means off.
   const savedExplore = localStorage.getItem(EXPLORE_KEY);
-  if (savedExplore === 'off') els.exploreToggle.checked = false;
+  els.exploreToggle.checked = savedExplore === 'on';
   els.exploreToggle.addEventListener('change', () => {
     localStorage.setItem(EXPLORE_KEY, els.exploreToggle.checked ? 'on' : 'off');
     if (!els.exploreToggle.checked) abortBranches();

package/renderer/index.html

@@ -353,9 +353,12 @@
           <label
             class="flow-toggle"
             for="explore-toggle"
-            title="After every answer, send the AI down two extra paths — an alternative angle and an unexpected discovery — shown as a horizontal discovery lane."
+            title="Optional, off by default. After every answer, send the AI down two extra paths — an alternative angle and an unexpected discovery — shown as a horizontal discovery lane. This costs two extra model calls per turn (roughly 3× the tokens of a plain reply)."
           >
-            <input type="checkbox" id="explore-toggle" checked />
+            <!-- Unchecked in the markup on purpose: the lane bills two extra
+                 model calls per turn, so it is opt-in. app.js only ticks this
+                 when the user has explicitly saved 'on' (aegis.explore). -->
+            <input type="checkbox" id="explore-toggle" />
             <span>discovery lane</span>
           </label>
           <button type="submit" id="send">Send</button>