ucode-agent 1.49.0 → 1.51.0

package/README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 A coding agent that lives in your terminal. It reads your code, edits it, runs
 your commands, and keeps every conversation on disk. It runs on NVIDIA,
-Cohere and Nex AGI models, all of them free.
+Cohere, Nex AGI, DeepSeek and Qwen models, all of them free.
 
 It opens on a quiet screen — the name, the place to type, and the version in the
 corner:
@@ -87,8 +87,8 @@ Needs Node 22 or newer.
 
 ## The models
 
-Six, and no picker full of names nobody recognises. NVIDIA, Cohere and Nex AGI
-all serve capable models free, and all handle tool calling
+Eight, and no picker full of names nobody recognises. NVIDIA, Cohere, Nex AGI,
+DeepSeek and Qwen all serve capable models free, and all handle tool calling
 properly, which is the thing an agent actually depends on.
 
 | Model | Context | For |
@@ -99,6 +99,8 @@ properly, which is the thing an agent actually depends on.
 | Nemotron 3 Nano Omni | 256k | small, fast, reasoning tuned |
 | **North Mini Code** ★ | 256k | the default — built for code and interface work, quick to answer |
 | Nex N2.5 Pro | 262k | new agentic coder, on trial — can stall on big builds |
+| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1M | fast DeepSeek coder, on trial |
+| Qwen 3.8 | 262k | compact Qwen coder, on trial |
 
 `/model` shows them and switches. `ucode -m cohere/north-mini-code:free`
 starts on one.

package/package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
   "name": "ucode-agent",
-  "version": "1.49.0",
-  "description": "ucode - a terminal coding agent that reads, edits and runs your code, on NVIDIA, Cohere and Nex AGI models.",
+  "version": "1.51.0",
+  "description": "ucode - a terminal coding agent that reads, edits and runs your code, on NVIDIA, Cohere, Nex AGI, DeepSeek and Qwen models.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "ucode.js",
   "bin": {
@@ -39,7 +39,9 @@
     "nvidia",
     "nemotron",
     "cohere",
-    "nex-agi"
+    "nex-agi",
+    "deepseek",
+    "qwen"
   ],
   "author": "om dixit",
   "license": "ISC",

package/src/core/loop.js

@@ -1911,6 +1911,31 @@ export class Agent {
       this.reads.set(key, seen + 1);
     }
 
+    // create_app again for the app this turn already made. DeepSeek scaffolded
+    // tasker with no files, then called create_app twice more — once with no
+    // folder or name at all — and was refused both times while the empty
+    // starter sat there. The folder and name are known, so fill them in; with
+    // no files there is nothing to create, and the next step is batch_write.
+    if (call.name === 'create_app' && this.apps?.length === 1) {
+      const made = this.apps[0];
+      const args = (call.args ??= {});
+      if (!args.folder) args.folder = path.relative(this.cwd, made) || '.';
+      if (!args.name) args.name = path.basename(made);
+      const files = args.files;
+      const none = files == null || files === ''
+        || (Array.isArray(files) ? !files.length : typeof files === 'object' && !Object.keys(files).length);
+      if (none && path.resolve(this.cwd, String(args.folder)) === made) {
+        const show = path.relative(this.cwd, made) || '.';
+        throw new ToolFailure({
+          kind: 'already_made',
+          attempted: `creating ${show}`,
+          failed: `${show} was already created this turn, with the starter files in it.`,
+          fix: `Do not call create_app again. Write the app into ${show} with one batch_write, `
+            + 'replacing the starter files with the finished ones.',
+        });
+      }
+    }
+
     // Starting a second app instead of fixing the first.
     //
     // A traced build hit a problem in todo/, abandoned it and made todo-fixed/
@@ -2683,7 +2708,7 @@ ${out.content}` });
     this.ui.blank();
   }
 
-  /** The six models, and this session's spend. */
+  /** The eight models, and this session's spend. */
   async cmdModel(arg) {
     if (arg) {
       try {

package/src/core/provider.js

@@ -46,11 +46,11 @@ dotenv.config({ path: join(PACKAGE_ROOT, '.env'), quiet: true });
 /**
  * The whole model list. Not a starting point — the list.
  *
- * ucode runs on NVIDIA, Cohere and Nex AGI only. All three serve genuinely
- * capable models free through OpenRouter, all handle tool calling properly,
- * and keeping the set to six means every one of them has been used in anger
- * rather than listed on the strength of a benchmark. A picker offering sixty
- * models is a picker nobody reads.
+ * ucode runs on NVIDIA, Cohere, Nex AGI, DeepSeek and Qwen only. All of them
+ * serve genuinely capable models free through OpenRouter, all handle tool
+ * calling properly, and keeping the set to eight means every one of them has
+ * been used in anger rather than listed on the strength of a benchmark. A
+ * picker offering sixty models is a picker nobody reads.
  *
  * `name` is what the status bar shows. `note` is what the picker shows.
  */
@@ -89,6 +89,18 @@ export const MODELS = {
     context: 262_144,
     note: 'new agentic coder, on trial — can stall on big builds',
   },
+  // Both free on OpenRouter with tool calling, added untested: on trial, not
+  // the default and not in FALLBACKS until a real ucode build has run on them.
+  'deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash-0731:free': {
+    name: 'DeepSeek V4 Flash',
+    context: 1_048_576,
+    note: 'fast DeepSeek coder, 1M context — on trial',
+  },
+  'qwen/qwen3.8-27b:free': {
+    name: 'Qwen 3.8',
+    context: 262_144,
+    note: 'compact Qwen coder, 262k context — on trial',
+  },
 };
 
 /**
@@ -173,7 +185,7 @@ export function setModel(id) {
     throw new Failure({
       kind: 'bad_model',
       attempted: `switching to "${wanted}"`,
-      failed: 'ucode only runs NVIDIA, Cohere and Nex AGI models, and that is not one of them.',
+      failed: 'ucode only runs NVIDIA, Cohere, Nex AGI, DeepSeek and Qwen models, and that is not one of them.',
       fix: `Run /model to choose from: ${Object.keys(MODELS).join(', ')}`,
     });
   }

package/src/tools/index.js

@@ -581,6 +581,18 @@ function check(name, args) {
     return ['the arguments must be a JSON object'];
   }
 
+  // One file named as "path" where the tool takes a list called "paths".
+  // DeepSeek did it to four read_files at once, a whole round trip spent being
+  // told a plural it could simply have been given.
+  for (const key of schema.required ?? []) {
+    const one = key.endsWith('s') ? key.slice(0, -1) : '';
+    if (args[key] == null && one && !schema.properties[one] && args[one] != null
+      && schema.properties[key]?.type === 'array') {
+      args[key] = Array.isArray(args[one]) ? args[one] : [args[one]];
+      delete args[one];
+    }
+  }
+
   for (const key of schema.required ?? []) {
     if (args[key] === undefined || args[key] === null) problems.push(`"${key}" is required and missing`);
   }
@@ -709,7 +721,7 @@ export function describe(name, args = {}) {
       // untrue on screen while the opposite happens on disk.
       return `Creating ${clip(args.name || args.folder, 30)} from the ` +
         `${args.template === 'next-shadcn' ? 'Next.js' : 'HTML'} starter` +
-        `${files ? ` with ${files} file${files === 1 ? '' : 's'}` : ''}`;
+        `${files ? ` with ${files} file${files === 1 ? '' : 's'}` : ''}`;
     }
     case 'look_at_app':
       return `Looking at ${clip(args.url, 40)} on a phone and a desktop`;