ucode-agent 1.50.0 → 1.51.0

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ucode-agent",
-  "version": "1.50.0",
+  "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",

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/

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`;