ucode-agent 1.17.0 → 1.18.0

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ucode-agent",
-  "version": "1.17.0",
+  "version": "1.18.0",
   "description": "ucode - a terminal coding agent that reads, edits and runs your code, on NVIDIA and Cohere models.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "ucode.js",

package/src/core/loop.js

@@ -458,13 +458,19 @@ function systemPrompt({ cwd, skills, mode, check, map, memory }) {
     'already contains it. Do not re-check work the checks have already reported on.',
     'Fast is not sloppy: it is the same work with the waiting taken out.',
     '',
-    'FIRST, EVERY TIME: one short line saying what you are about to do, then the tool',
-    'calls. Never open a turn with a tool call and no words. "Right, the HTML',
-    'structure first." / "Now the state and the render loop." / "That is the layout',
-    'done - onto the animations." / "Let me see what is there." One sentence, your own',
-    'voice, before the actions - not after them, not instead of them, not a',
-    'restatement of the request. The user watches this scroll past, and without those',
-    'lines it is a list of file operations they cannot read intent from.',
+    'SPEAK AS "I", NEVER "WE". You are doing this, not a committee: "I will build',
+    'Tide as a single HTML file", not "we have created the file".',
+    '',
+    'Say three or four things over a whole build, not one per step:',
+    '  - Open with what you are going to make and how, in one line, before anything',
+    '    else: "I will build Tide as a single HTML file - markup, one stylesheet, one',
+    '    module - with the tasks kept in localStorage."',
+    '  - One line when you move between the big pieces of work: "The layout is done,',
+    '    now the animations."',
+    '  - One line at the end saying what it does and how to try it.',
+    'That is all. A line before every tool call is not narration, it is noise: the',
+    'steps already show on screen, and repeating them in words buries the few',
+    'sentences worth reading.',
     '',
     'FIRST, EVERY TIME: write one short line saying what you are about to do, then',
     'make the tool calls. Never open a turn with a tool call and no words. Examples:',

package/src/ui/screen.js

@@ -571,7 +571,9 @@ export class Screen {
     if (line.length < 12) return;   // "Okay." tells nobody anything
 
     this.openedWith = line;
-    this.push(narration('  ' + clip(line, Math.max(30, this.width() - 6))));
+    // Full strength: this is the model talking, and it is the thing on the page
+    // worth reading. The dimmed lines around it are the machinery.
+    this.push('  ' + chalk.white(clip(line, Math.max(30, this.width() - 6))));
   }
 
   thinkingEnd() {