portable-agent-layer 0.66.0 → 0.66.1

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "portable-agent-layer",
-  "version": "0.66.0",
+  "version": "0.66.1",
   "description": "PAL — Portable Agent Layer: persistent personal context for AI coding assistants",
   "type": "module",
   "bin": {

package/src/cli/index.ts

@@ -1188,9 +1188,8 @@ async function install(targets: Targets) {
   await promptTelos();
   await promptAttribution();
 
-  // After promptIdentity, so an actor minted before the name was known adopts it.
-  const { seedActorLabel, ensureActorRegistered } = await import("../hooks/lib/actor");
-  seedActorLabel();
+  // Registers the label loadActor derives, so it travels on the next export.
+  const { ensureActorRegistered } = await import("../hooks/lib/actor");
   ensureActorRegistered();
 
   // Shared, target-independent state. Every target installer used to repeat these

package/src/hooks/lib/actor.ts

@@ -90,12 +90,31 @@ function repairActor(stored: Partial<ActorIdentity> & { id: string }): ActorIden
   };
 }
 
+/**
+ * The name the principal already told PAL, or nothing. The settings default of
+ * "User" names nobody, so it never becomes a label.
+ */
+function principalName(): string {
+  const name = identity().principal.name.trim();
+  return !name || name === "User" ? "" : name;
+}
+
 /**
  * This person's identity, minted on first call and stable afterwards — across
  * machines, once an export has carried it there.
+ *
+ * The label is derived, not stored-at-mint: while it is still the generated
+ * default, the principal's configured name wins. Seeding it once at install
+ * only held for installs that ran the seeding step, so an actor minted by an
+ * upgrade kept a neutral label forever while settings knew the name all along.
+ * Deriving on read makes the name hold on every install without a step anyone
+ * has to remember. A label the user chose is stored, and is never overridden.
  */
 export function loadActor(home: string = palHome()): ActorIdentity {
-  return loadIdentity(actorFilePath(home), newActor, repairActor);
+  const actor = loadIdentity(actorFilePath(home), newActor, repairActor);
+  if (actor.label !== defaultActorLabel(actor.id)) return actor;
+  const name = principalName();
+  return name ? { ...actor, label: name } : actor;
 }
 
 /** Rename this actor. No stored record is touched — labels resolve on read. */
@@ -133,21 +152,6 @@ export function ensureActorRegistered(home: string = palHome()): ActorIdentity {
   return actor;
 }
 
-/**
- * Adopt the principal's name as the actor label, but only while the label is
- * still the generated default — a chosen label is never overwritten. Runs at
- * install rather than at mint, so an actor created before the name was known
- * still picks it up. The settings default of "User" names nobody, so it is not
- * adopted.
- */
-export function seedActorLabel(home: string = palHome()): ActorIdentity {
-  const actor = loadActor(home);
-  if (actor.label !== defaultActorLabel(actor.id)) return actor;
-  const name = identity().principal.name.trim();
-  if (!name || name === "User") return actor;
-  return setActorLabel(name, home);
-}
-
 /** Authority behind the call currently executing. */
 export function currentAuthority(): Authority {
   return isPalSpawnedInference() ? "agent" : "user";

package/src/tools/agent/thread.ts

@@ -142,7 +142,11 @@ Usage:
       process.exit(1);
     }
     const thread = addThread(values.title, values.context ?? "");
-    emit.data(`Added with id ${thread.id}`);
+    emit.receipt(threadsPath(), {
+      id: thread.id,
+      title: thread.title,
+      status: thread.status,
+    });
   }
 
   if (cmd === "resolve") {
@@ -151,8 +155,15 @@ Usage:
       process.exit(1);
     }
     const resolved = resolveThread(values.id);
-    if (resolved.success) emit.ok(resolved.message ?? "Thread resolved");
-    else emit.data(JSON.stringify(resolved, null, 2));
+    if (!resolved.success) {
+      console.error(resolved.message);
+      process.exit(1);
+    }
+    emit.receipt(threadsPath(), {
+      id: values.id,
+      status: "resolved",
+      title: resolved.thread?.title,
+    });
   }
 
   if (cmd === "list") {

package/src/tools/relationship-reflect.ts

@@ -454,7 +454,12 @@ Output:
     const report = formatReport(period, notes, ratings, opinionChanges);
     const filepath = writeReport(report, period);
     setLastReflectDate(new Date().toISOString().slice(0, 10));
-    emit.ok(`\nCreated reflection report: ${filepath}`);
+    emit.receipt(filepath, {
+      period,
+      notes: notes.length,
+      ratings: ratings.length,
+      opinionChanges: opinionChanges.length,
+    });
 
     const opinions = readOpinions();
     const high = opinions.filter((o) => o.confidence >= 0.85);