castle-web-cli 0.4.21 → 0.4.23

package/dist/agent-prompts.d.ts

@@ -29,3 +29,4 @@ export declare function buildTaskPrompt(opts: {
     notesPath: string;
     depsSummary?: string;
 }): string;
+export declare const CLAUDE_TASK_SYSTEM_REMINDER = "Castle background task agent: work autonomously to completion -- never pause to ask questions or wait for confirmation; finish the task end-to-end, then stop. Prefer the quickest viable change that fully does the job.";

package/dist/agent-prompts.js

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ comma-separated titles or ids of the finished tasks
 
 Conversation style:
 - As short and focused as possible -- a few tight sentences. Concrete, energetic.
-- After spawning tasks, less is more: one short line is plenty, and often nothing more is needed at all -- the board already shows what is running. Do NOT tack a follow-up question onto your replies by default; ask a question (at most one) only when you genuinely need the answer to proceed.
+- After spawning tasks, less is more -- but NEVER reply with only task directives: always include at least one short line of plain text saying what is being spun up. One tight sentence is plenty; the board shows the rest. Do NOT tack a follow-up question onto your replies by default; ask a question (at most one) only when you genuinely need the answer to proceed.
 - Do not narrate before tool calls ("Checking the deck...") -- that reads as noise in the chat. Read silently, then give one reply after your final tool call.
 - The user sees a live task board above the chat -- never re-announce task status yourself.
 - Spawning a task does NOT apply the change -- tasks run for minutes and finish on the board. Talk about spawned work in future tense ("this will dial the shake back"), and NEVER ask how a change feels right after spawning it -- the user cannot have tried it yet. Save "how is it?" for things whose task already finished.
@@ -108,3 +108,6 @@ Operating rules:
 - If you are truly blocked, write the blocker to the notes file and stop rather than guessing wildly.
 - Never touch files under .castle/ other than those two paths.`;
 }
+// Appended to claude task agents' system prompt (portable replacement for the
+// machine-specific /goal slash command): commit to autonomous completion.
+export const CLAUDE_TASK_SYSTEM_REMINDER = 'Castle background task agent: work autonomously to completion -- never pause to ask questions or wait for confirmation; finish the task end-to-end, then stop. Prefer the quickest viable change that fully does the job.';

package/dist/agent.js

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ import * as path from 'path';
 import { nanoid } from 'nanoid';
 import { WebSocketServer } from 'ws';
 import { rawDataToString } from './ide.js';
-import { buildRouterPrompt, buildTaskPrompt, userTurnInstruction, } from './agent-prompts.js';
+import { buildRouterPrompt, buildTaskPrompt, userTurnInstruction, CLAUDE_TASK_SYSTEM_REMINDER, } from './agent-prompts.js';
 export const AGENT_WS_PATH = '/__castle/agent';
 export const AGENT_ATTACHMENT_PREFIX = '/__castle/agent/attachments/';
 const DEFAULT_SETTINGS = { router: 'claude', tasks: 'claude', claudeModel: 'opus' };
@@ -49,6 +49,13 @@ function buildAgentInvocation(backend, role, prompt, claudeModel) {
                 claudeModel,
                 '--effort',
                 'medium',
+                // Keep runs independent of the machine's user config: no user plugins
+                // (LSP servers etc.), no user MCP servers. CLAUDE.md auto-discovery
+                // and OAuth still work.
+                '--settings',
+                '{"enabledPlugins": {}}',
+                '--strict-mcp-config',
+                ...(role === 'task' ? ['--append-system-prompt', CLAUDE_TASK_SYSTEM_REMINDER] : []),
                 prompt,
             ],
         };
@@ -442,9 +449,9 @@ function createTaskStore(opts) {
             notesPath: path.join(relDir, 'notes.md'),
             depsSummary: depsSummaryFor(tasks, task),
         });
-        // /goal commits claude to finishing autonomously; cursor has no
-        // equivalent slash command.
-        const invocation = buildAgentInvocation(backend, 'task', backend === 'claude' ? `/goal ${taskPrompt}` : taskPrompt, opts.claudeModel());
+        // Claude task runs carry an autonomy reminder via --append-system-prompt
+        // (see CLAUDE_TASK_SYSTEM_REMINDER) -- portable, unlike a slash command.
+        const invocation = buildAgentInvocation(backend, 'task', taskPrompt, opts.claudeModel());
         let result = { ok: false, finalText: '', error: 'not run' };
         let lineBuf = '';
         const flushFeedLines = (delta) => {

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "castle-web-cli",
-  "version": "0.4.21",
+  "version": "0.4.23",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {
     "castle-web": "./dist/index.js"