ucode-agent 1.62.6 → 1.62.7

package/README.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ corner:
          add a dark mode toggle that remembers the choice
 
 
-                                                                           v1.62.6
+                                                                           v1.62.7
 ```
 
 A light crosses the wordmark once as it opens, and the three lines under the box

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "ucode-agent",
-  "version": "1.62.6",
+  "version": "1.62.7",
   "description": "ucode - a terminal coding agent that reads, edits and runs your code, on Google Gemini models.",
   "type": "module",
   "main": "ucode.js",

package/src/core/loop.js

@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ import { serversReadySince } from '../tools/shell.js';
 import { formatDuration } from '../ui/activity.js';
 import { MAX_FILE_OUTPUT } from '../tools/shared.js';
 import { openInBrowser } from './opener.js';
-import { withScope } from './scope.js';
+import { withScope, isNoise } from './scope.js';
 import { chooseFile, projectFiles, loadAttachments } from './attach.js';
 import { runDoctor } from './doctor.js';
 import { JS_LOGIC } from './jslogic.js';
@@ -594,6 +594,11 @@ function systemPrompt({ cwd, skills, mode, check, map, memory }) {
     '',
     '## How to work',
     '',
+    'BUILD ONLY WHEN ASKED. Make or change an app only when the message asks for one.',
+    'A greeting, a question, a single word, or anything unclear gets a short plain',
+    'answer - or one question back about what they would like - never an app. "What',
+    'can you do?" is answered in words; "make a quiz app" is built.',
+    '',
     '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',
@@ -1126,6 +1131,15 @@ export class Agent {
         continue;
       }
 
+      // "+" on its own is the "+ file" button typed — the way to it on Windows,
+      // where the terminal sends no clicks. Other symbols alone are not a request:
+      // a live "+" was built into a calculator nobody asked for.
+      if (input === '+' && this.ui.addAttachment) { await this.attachFile(); continue; }
+      if (isNoise(input)) {
+        this.ui.note('Say what you would like to build or ask. To add a picture or file, type + or press ctrl+o.');
+        continue;
+      }
+
       try {
         await this.turn(input);
       } catch (err) {
@@ -1259,7 +1273,7 @@ export class Agent {
     // Nothing to look up in an empty folder, so those tools do not go out with
     // the request. Decided per turn: the moment there is code, they are back.
     this.fresh = !hasCode(this.map);
-    request.content = withScope(input, { fresh: this.fresh }) + added.text;
+    request.content = withScope(input) + added.text;
     this.wantsWeb = WANTS_WEB.test(input);
     await this.persist();
 

package/src/core/scope.js

@@ -13,11 +13,30 @@ export const SCOPE_NOTE =
   'for - no extra views or tools such as timers, calendars, kanban boards, analytics, stats or an ' +
   'editor for making your own, unless the request names them.)';
 
-/** A request that may be for a new app. Loose on purpose: the note it adds says "if". */
-export const BUILD_ASK =
-  /\b(?:make|build|create|design|code|write|generate|develop)\b|\bi\s+(?:want|need)\b|\b(?:app|game|website|site|page|tracker|calculator|quiz)\b/i;
+/**
+ * A request for something to be built: a making word, then a thing to make.
+ *
+ * It used to fire on any message in an empty folder, and on a bare "app" or
+ * "make". A user who typed "+" in their home folder got the note, and the
+ * model took it as a request and built a calculator nobody asked for.
+ */
+const MAKE = String.raw`\b(?:make|build|create|design|generate|develop|code)\b`;
+const THING = String.raw`\b(?:apps?|games?|website|site|page|tracker|calculator|quiz|tool|dashboard|list|timer|stopwatch|clock|form|portfolio|planner|converter|board|tic[- ]?tac[- ]?toe|snake|sudoku)\b`;
+const BUILDS = [
+  new RegExp(`${MAKE}\\s+(?:me\\s+|us\\s+)?(?:an?|some|my|our)\\s`, 'i'),   // make a stopwatch, build me a …
+  new RegExp(`${MAKE}[^.?!\\n]{0,60}?${THING}`, 'i'),                           // make tic tac toe, create the quiz page
+  /\bi\s+(?:want|need)\s+(?:a|an)\s+\S+/i,                                    // i want a homework tracker
+];
+/** Asking, not telling: "what can you make?", "how does it work". */
+const QUESTION = /\?\s*$|^\s*(?:what|how|why|when|where|who|which|can|could|does|do|is|are|should|would)\b/i;
 
-/** The request as the model sees it: one in an empty folder, or shaped like a build, carries the note. */
-export function withScope(input, { fresh = false } = {}) {
-  return fresh || BUILD_ASK.test(input) ? `${input}\n\n${SCOPE_NOTE}` : input;
+/** Does this message ask for something to be built? Never for a question. */
+export const asksToBuild = (input) => !QUESTION.test(input) && BUILDS.some((re) => re.test(input));
+
+/** The request as the model sees it: one that asks for an app carries the note. */
+export function withScope(input) {
+  return asksToBuild(input) ? `${input}\n\n${SCOPE_NOTE}` : input;
 }
+
+/** A message with no letters or digits in it ("+", "?", "...") — nothing to answer or build. */
+export const isNoise = (input) => !/[\p{L}\p{N}]/u.test(String(input ?? ''));