ucode-agent 1.22.0 → 1.24.0

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ucode-agent",
-  "version": "1.22.0",
+  "version": "1.24.0",
   "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

@@ -435,6 +435,13 @@ function systemPrompt({ cwd, skills, mode, check, map, memory }) {
     '',
     '## How to work',
     '',
+    'AN APP THAT IS AWKWARD TO USE IS NOT FINISHED. Before you call it done, look at',
+    'what you built as someone using it for the first time: is the button inside its',
+    'field or sitting on top of it, is there room to breathe between things, does the',
+    'empty state say anything, can every control be reached from the keyboard, does',
+    'it hold together at 360px wide. Controls that overlap or crowd each other are a',
+    'bug in the same way a crash is - fix it before you say a word about being done.',
+    '',
     'Before building anything, turn the request into a list of what it must do — every',
     'feature named, and the ones any user would expect whether or not they were named',
     '(an empty state, an error state, the keyboard doing the obvious thing, working on',
@@ -484,15 +491,20 @@ function systemPrompt({ cwd, skills, mode, check, map, memory }) {
     '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:',
-    '"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, and not a restatement of what was asked. The user is watching this',
-    'scroll past; without those lines it is a list of file operations and they cannot',
-    'tell what you are building. This matters as much as the code.',
-    '',
+    'YOUR FIRST WORDS, BEFORE ANY TOOL CALL, EVERY TIME. Nothing else appears on',
+    'screen while you work, so if you say nothing the user watches a blank page.',
+    'Open with one line:  I will build Tide for you - a tasks app in a single HTML',
+    'file.  Then one line each time you start a new piece of the work:  Now the',
+    'components.  /  Now making the filter row.  /  Onto the animations.  Then one',
+    'line at the end saying it is done. Do not explain where the file is or how to',
+    'open it - they asked for it, they know where it went, and being told reads as',
+    'being talked down to.',
+    '',
+    'Those lines are the whole of what the user reads. They are not thinking out',
+    'loud: never "I need to", never "Let me", never "The user wants", never a plan',
+    'of which files you will touch. Say what you are doing, the way you would to',
+    'someone watching over your shoulder.',
+    '',
 
     '',
     'Before you guess at an API, ask: type_of gives the exact signature from the',