ucode-agent 1.20.1 → 1.21.0

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ucode-agent",
-  "version": "1.20.1",
+  "version": "1.21.0",
   "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/tools/index.js

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ import { addBlock, BLOCK_NAMES } from './blocks.js';
 import { typeOf } from './types.js';
 import { runCommand, runCommands } from './shell.js';
 import { webSearch } from './web.js';
-import { lookAtApp } from './browser.js';
 import { createApp, TEMPLATE_NAMES, TEMPLATE_NOTES } from './scaffold.js';
 import { deploy } from './deploy.js';
 import { clip, READ_LINES } from './shared.js';
@@ -492,7 +491,14 @@ const run = {
   run_command: runCommand,
   run_commands: runCommands,
   web_search: webSearch,
-  look_at_app: lookAtApp,
+  /**
+   * Loaded when it is used, not when ucode starts.
+   *
+   * browser.js pulls in playwright-core, which costs a second of start-up on
+   * its own. Nothing reaches for the browser until someone types /look, so
+   * nobody should wait for it before the first prompt.
+   */
+  look_at_app: async (args, opts) => (await import('./browser.js')).lookAtApp(args, opts),
   create_app: createApp,
   deploy,
 };

package/ucode.js

@@ -12,12 +12,22 @@ import { readFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
 import { realpathSync } from 'node:fs';
 import { pathToFileURL, fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
 
-import { Agent } from './src/core/loop.js';
-import { setModel, modelName, MODELS, DEFAULT_MODEL, ENV_FILE } from './src/core/provider.js';
 import { VERSION } from './src/core/version.js';
-import { Plain } from './src/ui/plain.js';
 import { blue, dim, sky } from './src/ui/theme.js';
 
+/**
+ * The agent and the provider are loaded when a session actually starts.
+ *
+ * Between them they pull in the OpenAI SDK and every tool, which is most of
+ * the two and a half seconds ucode used to take before printing anything at
+ * all — including for `--version`, which needs none of it.
+ */
+const heavy = () => Promise.all([
+  import('./src/core/loop.js'),
+  import('./src/core/provider.js'),
+  import('./src/ui/plain.js'),
+]);
+
 function parseArgs(argv) {
   const args = { debug: false, model: null, cwd: process.cwd(), help: false, plan: false, version: false };
 
@@ -34,7 +44,8 @@ function parseArgs(argv) {
   return args;
 }
 
-function usage() {
+async function usage() {
+  const [, { MODELS, modelName, DEFAULT_MODEL, ENV_FILE }] = await heavy();
   const entries = Object.entries(MODELS);
   const width = Math.max(...entries.map(([, m]) => m.name.length));
   const models = entries
@@ -112,6 +123,8 @@ async function main() {
     }
   }
 
+  const [{ Agent }, { setModel }, { Plain }] = await heavy();
+
   if (args.model) {
     try {
       setModel(args.model);