slashvibe-mcp 0.8.5 → 0.8.6

package/index.js

@@ -241,7 +241,10 @@ async function getPresenceFooter() {
 
     // The status line. Counts only — no mood inference, no nudges.
     const parts = ['vibe'];
-    if (onlineCount > 0) parts.push(`${onlineCount} online`);
+    // "2 online" under a board showing three rows — one of them you — reads as a
+    // contradiction, even though both numbers are right. The footer counts the room
+    // AROUND you, so it should say so.
+    if (onlineCount > 0) parts.push(`${onlineCount} other${onlineCount === 1 ? '' : 's'}`);
     if (unreadCount > 0) parts.push(`**${unreadCount} unread**`);
     if (liveCount > 0) parts.push(`${liveCount} live`);
     let footer = `\n\n────────────────────────\n${parts.join(' · ')}`;

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "slashvibe-mcp",
-  "version": "0.8.5",
+  "version": "0.8.6",
   "mcpName": "io.github.vibecodinginc/vibe",
   "description": "Presence + messaging for terminal coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor) \u2014 the /vibe kernel",
   "main": "index.js",

package/setup.js

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ const API_BASE = 'https://www.slashvibe.dev';
 function printBanner() {
   console.log(`
 ${colors.green}  █░█ █ █▄▄ █▀▀${colors.reset}
-${colors.green}  ▀▄▀ █ █▄█ ██▄${colors.reset}   ${colors.dim}ship together${colors.reset}
+${colors.green}  ▀▄▀ █ █▄█ ██▄${colors.reset}   ${colors.dim}ask here · answer there${colors.reset}
   ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
 `);
 }

package/tools/dm.js

@@ -110,10 +110,27 @@ async function handler(args) {
     origin: origin || 'composed',
   });
 
-  // Check for errors
+  // Check for errors.
+  //
+  // The generic tail — "please try again, check your connection" — used to be appended
+  // to EVERY failure, including the ones that already name their own fix. An expired
+  // session then read as: run `vibe init`, and also try again, and also check your
+  // connection. Three instructions, two of them wrong, at the moment someone's first
+  // message failed. docs/ROOM-TONE.md: an error names the fix in the same sentence as
+  // the problem — which means not adding a second, contradictory one after it.
+  //
+  // Errors carrying a specific remedy (auth_expired, not_signed_in, handle_not_found)
+  // are shown as-is. Only genuinely unknown failures get the retry hint.
   if (result && result.error) {
+    const REMEDY_CARRYING = new Set([
+      'auth_expired', 'not_signed_in', 'auth_failed',
+      'handle_not_found', 'self_dm', 'storage_error',
+    ]);
+    const detail = result.message || 'the message did not send.';
     return {
-      display: `❌ **Failed to send message**\n\n${result.message}\n\n_Please try again. If the problem persists, check your connection._`
+      display: REMEDY_CARRYING.has(result.error)
+        ? detail
+        : `${detail}\n\n_worth one retry — if it keeps failing, say_ \`vibe doctor\`_._`,
     };
   }
 

package/tools/inbox.js

@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ async function handler(args) {
     // If there are guest messages but no DMs, show guest messages
     if (guestSection) {
       return {
-        display: guestSection + '📭 No DM threads yet. Say "dm @someone" to start.',
+        display: guestSection + '📭 no messages yet — say "dm @someone" to start one.',
         actions: formatActions(actions.recommendedConnections([]))
       };
     }
@@ -197,6 +197,9 @@ async function handler(args) {
           'All caught up!',
           'No messages yet.'
         );
+        // NOTE: reachable only with VIBE_EXTRAS — the suggestion block is off by
+        // default (private fabric: no proposing strangers). The default empty inbox
+        // is the branch below.
         return {
           display,
           actions: recommendations.actions
@@ -206,20 +209,17 @@ async function handler(args) {
       console.log('[inbox] recommendations error:', e.message);
     }
 
-    // Fallback: Check onboarding status to customize CTA
-    let cta = 'Say "dm @someone" to start';
-    try {
-      const checklist = await store.getChecklistStatus(myHandle);
-      if (checklist.success && checklist.tasks) {
-        const repliedToSeth = checklist.tasks.find(t => t.id === 'reply_seth')?.done;
-        if (!repliedToSeth) {
-          cta = 'Reply to @vibe to get started!';
-        }
-      }
-    } catch (e) {}
-
+    // THE FIRST SCREEN A NEW INVITEE SEES. Designed, not apologised for: an empty
+    // room should say what to do next in the same breath as being empty.
+    //
+    // The old copy pointed at "@vibe" — a system account — as the thing to reply to.
+    // Under docs/PRIVATE-FABRIC.md you are here because a PERSON invited you, and the
+    // useful first move is answering them, not a bot.
     return {
-      display: `📭 No messages yet. ${cta}`,
+      display:
+        '📭 no messages yet.\n\n' +
+        '_whoever invited you is the place to start:_ `dm @them`\n' +
+        "_they'll get it in their next session — neither of you has to be online._",
       actions: formatActions(actions.recommendedConnections([]))
     };
   }
@@ -284,10 +284,15 @@ async function handler(args) {
       console.log('[inbox] recommendations error:', e.message);
     }
 
-    // Fallback: show recent threads
-    const recentHandles = sorted.slice(0, 3).map(t => `@${t.handle}`).join(', ');
+    // Caught up, WITH history — a different state from "you just arrived", and they
+    // were rendering as the same sentence. "Recent: @a, @b, @c" also named the
+    // handles without saying what they were: recent conversations, recent arrivals,
+    // or a suggestion? Naming the relationship costs three words.
+    const recentHandles = sorted.slice(0, 3).map((th) => `@${th.handle}`).join(', ');
     return {
-      display: `📭 All caught up! Recent: ${recentHandles}`,
+      display: recentHandles
+        ? `📭 nothing unread.\n\n_your recent threads:_ ${recentHandles}\n_open one with_ \`vibe inbox @handle\``
+        : '📭 nothing unread.',
       actions: formatActions(actions.recommendedConnections([]))
     };
   }

package/tools/init.js

@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ function generatePreAuthBanner(presence) {
   const label = formatPresenceLabel(presence);
   const onlineText = label ? `🟢 ${label}` : '🟢 join the crew';
   return `
-  █░█ █ █▄▄ █▀▀     🚀 ship together
+  █░█ █ █▄▄ █▀▀     ask here · answer there
   ▀▄▀ █ █▄█ ██▄     ${onlineText}
   ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
 `;
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ function generateAuthBanner(handle, unreadCount, presence) {
   const unreadCol = unreadCount > 0 ? `📬 ${unreadCount} unread`.padEnd(14) : `📬 0 messages`.padEnd(14);
   const onlineText = formatPresenceLabel(presence) || 'just you so far';
 
-  return `  █░█ █ █▄▄ █▀▀   ${handleCol}  🚀 ship together
+  return `  █░█ █ █▄▄ █▀▀   ${handleCol}  ask here · answer there
   ▀▄▀ █ █▄█ ██▄   ${unreadCol}  🟢 ${onlineText}
   ──────────────────────────────────────────────────`;
 }

package/tools/start.js

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ function generateWelcomeCard({ handle, onlineCount, unreadCount, versionInfo })
     versionSuffix = ' ⬆️';
   }
 
-  return `  █░█ █ █▄▄ █▀▀   ${handleCol}  🚀 ship together
+  return `  █░█ █ █▄▄ █▀▀   ${handleCol}  ask here · answer there
   ▀▄▀ █ █▄█ ██▄   ${unreadCol}  🟢 ${onlineCount} online${versionSuffix}
   ──────────────────────────────────────────────────`;
 }

package/tools/who.js

@@ -312,16 +312,20 @@ say hi to **@vibe** (the platform account, always around), or send
     }
   }
 
-  // Fun quick actions - randomize suggestions
-  const quickActions = [
-    `say "message @handle" to reach someone`,
-    `"play with @handle" if you'd rather build something together`,
-    `"status shipping" so others see what you're on`,
-  ];
-  const randomAction = quickActions[Math.floor(Math.random() * quickActions.length)];
-
+  // One line, and it must name a tool that is ACTUALLY REGISTERED.
+  //
+  // This rotated three suggestions at random, one of which advertised `play` — a
+  // culture-layer tool that 0.8.0 moved behind VIBE_EXTRAS. So the default board
+  // routinely told people to use something their session does not have. That is the
+  // help-drift class we already have a guard for on `vibe_help`; the board escaped it.
+  //
+  // Randomness went too: a board that says something different every time reads as
+  // decoration. The hint now follows from state — if you have not set a status,
+  // that is the useful thing to say.
   display += `---\n`;
-  display += randomAction;
+  display += config.getOneLiner()
+    ? `say "dm @handle" to reach someone`
+    : `say "status <what you're on>" so others see what you're building`;
 
   // Check for unread to add urgency
   try {
@@ -336,17 +340,15 @@ say hi to **@vibe** (the platform account, always around), or send
     
   }
 
-  // Genesis spots remaining
-  try {
-    const stats = await store.getStats();
-    if (stats.genesis && stats.genesis.genesis_remaining > 0) {
-      display += `\n\n_${stats.genesis.genesis_remaining} genesis spots left of ${stats.genesis.genesis_cap}_`;
-    } else if (stats.genesis && stats.genesis.genesis_remaining === 0) {
-      display += `\n\n_genesis is full — ${stats.genesis.total} builders_`;
-    }
-  } catch (e) {
-    // Silent fail — genesis display is nice-to-have
-  }
+  // The scarcity line is gone.
+  //
+  // "genesis is full — 282 builders" was a growth-era artifact on two counts. It sold
+  // scarcity, which docs/PRIVATE-FABRIC.md removed from scope; and the number was a
+  // handle count, not people — 282 "builders" on a network where a handful of humans
+  // are actually active reads as a claim the room immediately contradicts. Nobody
+  // invited into a private fabric needs to be told the list is closed.
+  //
+  // What the board says about who is here is now only what it can see: the rows above.
 
   // If not initialized, append join prompt instead of actions/unread
   if (!isInit) {

package/version.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
-  "version": "0.8.5",
+  "version": "0.8.6",
   "updated": "2026-07-31",
-  "changelog": "Identity is one thing now. Whoever your credential says you are is who the client shows, routes and self-checks as \u2014 previously a saved handle could name one account while requests went out as another. Presence waits for the server to confirm you before it turns green, so a stale or forged session no longer announces itself. Changing your handle is turned off for now: your messages and tasks are still tied to it, and both rename paths are closed rather than one. A suggested first message no longer contains anyone else's words.",
+  "changelog": "Who is here is no longer public. Counts are; handles are not \u2014 sign in to see names, which every normal install already does. The rest is the first ninety minutes: an empty inbox now says what to do next instead of 'all caught up' to someone who never had a message, the board stops advertising tools your session does not have, and a failed message names one fix instead of three contradictory ones.",
   "features": [
-    "The credential names you everywhere the client asks who you are",
-    "Presence turns green only after the server confirms the session",
-    "Handle changes are off \u2014 both routes, not one \u2014 until ownership moves off handles",
-    "Suggested messages contain only our words; what someone shipped is shown as data"
+    "Presence names require a credential; counts stay public",
+    "Empty inbox tells you what to do next, and knows arriving from caught-up",
+    "The board only suggests commands your session actually has",
+    "Errors name one fix and stop"
   ],
   "deprecated": [],
   "breaking": false,