ucode-agent 1.26.0 → 1.26.2

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ucode-agent",
-  "version": "1.26.0",
+  "version": "1.26.2",
   "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

@@ -493,17 +493,18 @@ function systemPrompt({ cwd, skills, mode, check, map, memory }) {
     '',
     '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.',
+    'Open with one plain sentence naming the thing and the shape of it:',
+    '  I will build Tide for you - a tasks app in a single HTML file, dark with a',
+    '  teal accent.',
+    'Then one line whenever you start a new piece of the work:  Now the filter row.',
+    'Then one line at the end saying it is done.',
+    '',
+    'Plain words only. No methodology, no "component-based approach", no',
+    '"structured design", no listing the qualities the work will have. Never',
+    '"I need to", never "Let me", never a plan of which files you will touch, never',
+    'the request repeated back. Say it the way you would to someone watching over',
+    'your shoulder, who can already see the screen.',
     '',
 
     '',
@@ -1220,7 +1221,12 @@ export class Agent {
           continue;
         }
 
-        this.push({ role: 'assistant', content: reply.text });
+        // An assistant message with no content and no tool calls is not a turn,
+        // it is a hole. Providers reject the whole conversation as malformed
+        // once one is in it — which showed up as HTTP 400 on every request
+        // after the model went quiet, with the conversation at 0% full and
+        // "usually an oversized conversation" printed underneath it.
+        if (reply.text?.trim()) this.push({ role: 'assistant', content: reply.text });
         if (!reply.text?.trim()) {
           // Silence after being asked to speak is not a finished turn. Saying
           // "Done" here is the worst thing available: the user believes it,