viberoom 0.5.9 → 0.6.0

package/README.md

@@ -140,6 +140,8 @@ it in a browser tab. Later, `npm install -g viberoom@latest` and the next start
 - **Nothing leaves your machine** except what each agent sends to its own provider. viberoom never
   sees your keys; every agent keeps its own login.
 - **Edit a message.** Fix what you said; the vibemates get the memo, or the conversation rewinds.
+- **Quote a message.** Select a fragment of a bubble, or copy it with Ctrl+C, and it goes into your next
+  message as a quote — with who said it and when, so the vibemates read it as that person's words, not yours.
 - **Your messages on a timeline.** A thin strip on the chat's right edge, one mark per message of yours:
   hover for the message with its neighbours, click to jump there.
 - **Pick a folder from a tree.** Browse the machine's folders when a room needs one; make a new one on the spot.

package/dist/agent-health.js

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+// viberoom - Copyright (c) 2026 Todor Rusev - AGPL-3.0-or-later; see LICENSE
+export function loginState(probe, evidence) {
+    if (!probe)
+        return "unknown";
+    if (probe.env.some((name) => (evidence.env[name] ?? "").trim().length > 0))
+        return "ok";
+    if (probe.files.some((file) => evidence.exists(file)))
+        return "ok";
+    if (probe.fileless?.includes(evidence.platform))
+        return "unknown";
+    return probe.files.length ? "missing" : "unknown";
+}
+const LOGIN_WORDS = /\b(not logged in|log ?in required|login required|please log ?in|unauthori[sz]ed|authentication (failed|required|error)|invalid api key|api key (is )?(missing|not set|invalid)|no credentials|credentials not found|401|403|oauth|token (expired|invalid))\b/i;
+const MISSING_WORDS = /\b(enoent|not found|no such file|is not recognized|command not found|spawn\w* (failed|error))\b/i;
+const TIMEOUT_WORDS = /\b(timed out|timeout|took too long|did not answer|no response)\b/i;
+export function classifyStartFailure(input) {
+    const text = [input.error, ...(input.stderr ?? [])].join("\n");
+    const login = input.loginCommand ? `run \`${input.loginCommand}\` in a terminal, then try again` : `log in to ${input.vendor} in a terminal, then try again`;
+    if (LOGIN_WORDS.test(text) || input.loginState === "missing") {
+        return {
+            kind: "login",
+            what: `${input.vendor} is installed here but the hub could not get past its login.`,
+            advice: `${login}. The hub never asks for credentials itself: it uses the login the vendor's own CLI keeps on this machine.`,
+        };
+    }
+    if (MISSING_WORDS.test(text)) {
+        return {
+            kind: "not-installed",
+            what: `The ${input.vendor} program could not be started: this machine could not find or run it.`,
+            advice: input.installHint ? `Install or repair it: ${input.installHint}. Then run \`viberoom doctor\`, which lists what was found.` : "Reinstall it, then run `viberoom doctor`, which lists what was found.",
+        };
+    }
+    if (TIMEOUT_WORDS.test(text)) {
+        return {
+            kind: "timeout",
+            what: `${input.vendor} started but did not answer the hub in time.`,
+            advice: `Start it yourself once in a terminal (\`${input.loginCommand ?? input.vendor.toLowerCase()}\`): a first run that asks something — a login, a trust prompt, an update — blocks the protocol until it is answered.`,
+        };
+    }
+    if (/\bexited\b|\bexit code\b|\bsignal\b|\bclosed\b/i.test(text)) {
+        return {
+            kind: "crash",
+            what: `${input.vendor} started and then stopped before the hub could talk to it.`,
+            advice: `Run it once in a terminal to see what it prints; \`viberoom logs\` has the hub's side, with the agent's own last lines.`,
+        };
+    }
+    return {
+        kind: "unknown",
+        what: `${input.vendor} could not be started.`,
+        advice: `Run it once in a terminal to see what it says; \`viberoom logs\` has the hub's side, with the agent's own last lines.`,
+    };
+}

package/dist/duration.js

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+// viberoom - Copyright (c) 2026 Todor Rusev - AGPL-3.0-or-later; see LICENSE
+export function formatDuration(ms) {
+    const total = Math.max(0, Math.round(ms / 1000));
+    if (total < 60)
+        return `${total} s`;
+    const seconds = String(total % 60).padStart(2, "0");
+    const minutes = Math.floor(total / 60) % 60;
+    const hours = Math.floor(total / 3600);
+    if (!hours)
+        return `${minutes}m ${seconds}s`;
+    return `${hours}h ${String(minutes).padStart(2, "0")}m ${seconds}s`;
+}

package/dist/hub.js

@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ export class Hub extends EventEmitter {
             editor: { ...DEFAULT_EDITOR_SETTINGS },
             appearance: { ...DEFAULT_APPEARANCE },
             checkForUpdates: true,
+            reconnectMode: "replay",
             roomDefaults: {},
             vendorPresets: {},
         };
@@ -185,6 +186,14 @@ export class Hub extends EventEmitter {
         }
         if (!next.diagrams)
             next.diagrams = { preset: "pop", primary: null };
+        if (patch.reconnectMode !== undefined) {
+            const mode = String(patch.reconnectMode);
+            if (mode !== "replay" && mode !== "load")
+                throw new Error("reconnectMode must be replay or load");
+            next.reconnectMode = mode;
+        }
+        if (next.reconnectMode !== "load")
+            next.reconnectMode = "replay";
         if (patch.editor !== undefined && typeof patch.editor === "object" && patch.editor) {
             const e = patch.editor;
             const mode = String(e.mode ?? next.editor?.mode ?? "auto");

package/dist/launcher.js

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // viberoom - Copyright (c) 2026 Todor Rusev - AGPL-3.0-or-later; see LICENSE
 import { existsSync, readFileSync, renameSync, statSync, writeFileSync } from "node:fs";
-import { join, posix, win32 } from "node:path";
+import { join, posix, resolve, win32 } from "node:path";
 const COMMANDS = new Set(["run", "serve", "start", "stop", "status", "open", "logs", "doctor", "help"]);
 export function splitCommand(argv) {
     const first = argv[0];
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ export function readPidFile(dataDir) {
         const parsed = JSON.parse(raw);
         if (typeof parsed.pid !== "number")
             return null;
-        return { pid: parsed.pid, port: Number(parsed.port ?? 0), build: String(parsed.build ?? ""), startedAt: Number(parsed.startedAt ?? 0) };
+        return { pid: parsed.pid, port: Number(parsed.port ?? 0), build: String(parsed.build ?? ""), startedAt: Number(parsed.startedAt ?? 0), ...(parsed.foreground ? { foreground: true } : {}) };
     }
     catch {
         return null;
@@ -41,6 +41,23 @@ export function isProcessAlive(pid) {
         return error.code === "EPERM";
     }
 }
+export function sameDataDir(a, b) {
+    const norm = (p) => {
+        const r = resolve(p).replace(/[\\/]+$/, "");
+        return process.platform === "win32" ? r.toLowerCase() : r;
+    };
+    return norm(a) === norm(b);
+}
+export function hubPortFor(port, portGiven, liveRecord) {
+    if (portGiven || !liveRecord || !liveRecord.port)
+        return port;
+    return liveRecord.port;
+}
+export function foreignHub(identity, dataDir) {
+    if (!identity || !identity.dataDir)
+        return null;
+    return sameDataDir(identity.dataDir, dataDir) ? null : identity.dataDir;
+}
 const LOG_ROTATE_BYTES = 5 * 1024 * 1024;
 export function rotateLog(path, limit = LOG_ROTATE_BYTES) {
     try {

package/dist/main.js

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
 import { Hub } from "./hub.js";
 import { Logger } from "./log.js";
 import { startServer } from "./server.js";
-import { appWindowArgs, recordedWindowPlacement, savedWindowPlacement, browserAdvice, findChromium, isProcessAlive, logFilePath, openUrlCommand, pidFilePath, readPidFile, rotateLog, splitCommand, tailFile, writePidFile, } from "./launcher.js";
+import { appWindowArgs, recordedWindowPlacement, savedWindowPlacement, browserAdvice, findChromium, foreignHub, hubPortFor, isProcessAlive, logFilePath, openUrlCommand, pidFilePath, readPidFile, rotateLog, splitCommand, tailFile, writePidFile, } from "./launcher.js";
 import { aumidSyncScript, installShortcuts, windowsShortcutPaths } from "./shortcuts.js";
 import { askEnter, renderInstalled, runMenu, unicodeSupported } from "./tui.js";
 import { listRecipes } from "./recipes.js";
@@ -17,11 +17,13 @@ function parseArgs(argv) {
     const options = {
         command,
         port: 4810,
+        portGiven: false,
         dataDir: process.env.VIBEROOM_DATA_DIR ? resolve(process.env.VIBEROOM_DATA_DIR) : resolve(homedir(), ".viberoom"),
         name: undefined,
         open: true,
         browser: false,
         menu: true,
+        force: false,
     };
     for (let i = 0; i < rest.length; i++) {
         const arg = rest[i];
@@ -34,6 +36,7 @@ function parseArgs(argv) {
         switch (arg) {
             case "--port":
                 options.port = Number(next());
+                options.portGiven = true;
                 break;
             case "--name":
                 options.name = next();
@@ -49,6 +52,9 @@ function parseArgs(argv) {
                 options.open = false;
                 options.menu = false;
                 break;
+            case "--force":
+                options.force = true;
+                break;
             case "--browser":
                 options.browser = true;
                 options.menu = false;
@@ -74,8 +80,9 @@ Commands
                process and open the window; if a hub is already running, open it (or replace it
                when this build is newer)
   start        run the hub hidden in the background (log in <data-dir>/hub.log) and open the window
-  stop         stop the background hub
-  status       show whether a hub is running, its build and address
+  stop         stop this data folder's hub (found through its pid file; a hub of another folder on
+               the port is left alone; --port names a port explicitly)
+  status       show whether this data folder's hub is running, its build and address
   open         open the window of the running hub
   logs         print the last lines of the background hub's log
   doctor       check Node, the browser, the coding agents and the hub; say what is missing and why
@@ -88,11 +95,11 @@ Options
   --browser    open the default browser instead of a Chromium app window
 `);
 }
-import { checkForUpdate } from "./update.js";
+import { checkForUpdate, newerSourceThanBuild } from "./update.js";
 function buildInfo() {
     const pkg = JSON.parse(readFileSync(fileURLToPath(new URL("../package.json", import.meta.url)), "utf8"));
     const built = statSync(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)).mtime;
-    return { name: pkg.name, version: pkg.version, build: built.toISOString() };
+    return { name: pkg.name, version: pkg.version, build: built.toISOString(), staleSource: newerSourceThanBuild(import.meta.url) };
 }
 async function runningInstance(port) {
     const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/`;
@@ -110,14 +117,21 @@ async function runningInstance(port) {
     try {
         const res = await fetch(`${url}api/version`, { signal: AbortSignal.timeout(1500) });
         if (!res.ok)
-            return { url, build: null };
+            return { url, build: null, dataDir: null, pid: null };
         const info = (await res.json());
-        return { url, build: typeof info.build === "string" ? info.build : null };
+        return { url, build: typeof info.build === "string" ? info.build : null, dataDir: typeof info.dataDir === "string" ? info.dataDir : null, pid: typeof info.pid === "number" ? info.pid : null };
     }
     catch {
-        return { url, build: null };
+        return { url, build: null, dataDir: null, pid: null };
     }
 }
+function liveRecord(dataDir) {
+    const record = readPidFile(dataDir);
+    return record && isProcessAlive(record.pid) ? record : null;
+}
+function otherHubMessage(port, other, mine) {
+    return `port ${port} is used by a viberoom hub whose rooms are in ${other}, not in ${mine}; it was left alone. Run this one on another port (--port ${port + 1}) or stop that hub first: viberoom stop --data-dir "${other}"`;
+}
 async function waitUntil(check, timeoutMs, stepMs = 250) {
     const deadline = Date.now() + timeoutMs;
     while (Date.now() < deadline) {
@@ -225,7 +239,9 @@ async function runDoctor(options, info) {
     const found = recipes.filter((r) => !r.unavailableReason);
     lines.push(`${found.length ? "ok  " : "warn"} coding agents: ${found.length ? found.map((r) => r.vendor).join(", ") : "none found"}${found.length ? "" : " (install and log in to at least one: Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, OpenCode or GitHub Copilot)"}`);
     for (const r of recipes.filter((r) => r.unavailableReason))
-        lines.push(`     ${r.vendor}: ${r.unavailableReason}`);
+        lines.push(`     ${r.vendor}: ${r.unavailableReason} (${r.installHint})`);
+    for (const r of found.filter((r) => r.loginState === "missing"))
+        lines.push(`warn ${r.vendor}: installed, not logged in: run \`${r.loginCommand}\``);
     const running = await runningInstance(options.port);
     lines.push(running ? `ok   hub running at ${running.url} (build ${running.build ?? "unknown"})` : `info no hub on port ${options.port}: start one with "viberoom start" (or "viberoom start --browser" without a Chromium browser)`);
     lines.push(`     data: ${options.dataDir}`);
@@ -238,6 +254,9 @@ async function runHub(options, log, info) {
     const background = options.command === "serve";
     if (!background) {
         const running = await runningInstance(options.port);
+        const other = foreignHub(running, options.dataDir);
+        if (other)
+            throw new Error(otherHubMessage(options.port, other, options.dataDir));
         if (running && running.build === info.build) {
             log.info(`viberoom is already running at ${running.url} (same build); opening it.`);
             process.stdout.write(`${running.url}\n`);
@@ -265,14 +284,13 @@ async function runHub(options, log, info) {
         log.info("shutting down: closing agent sessions");
         await hub.shutdown();
         server?.close();
-        if (background)
-            rmSync(pidFilePath(options.dataDir), { force: true });
+        rmSync(pidFilePath(options.dataDir), { force: true });
         process.exit(0);
     };
     const listenDeadline = Date.now() + 15_000;
     for (;;) {
         try {
-            server = await startServer(hub, options.port, log.child("http"), info, () => void shutdown());
+            server = await startServer(hub, options.port, log.child("http"), info, () => void shutdown(), () => handOverToFreshHub(options, log));
             break;
         }
         catch (error) {
@@ -294,9 +312,10 @@ async function runHub(options, log, info) {
                 log.warn(`update check failed: ${update.error}`);
         });
     }
-    if (background)
-        writePidFile(options.dataDir, { pid: process.pid, port: options.port, build: info.build, startedAt: Date.now() });
+    writePidFile(options.dataDir, { pid: process.pid, port: options.port, build: info.build, startedAt: Date.now(), ...(background ? {} : { foreground: true }) });
     log.info(`viberoom ${info.version} (build ${info.build}) is open at ${server.url} (data: ${hub.dataDir}; rooms: ${[...hub.rooms.values()].map((r) => r.name).join(", ")})`);
+    if (info.staleSource)
+        log.warn(`the code on disk is newer than this build (${info.staleSource} changed after dist/ was compiled): the UI is served live, the hub is not; rebuild and restart with: node scripts/update.mjs`);
     process.stdout.write(`${server.url}\n`);
     if (options.open && !background)
         openWindow(server.url, options, log);
@@ -304,10 +323,22 @@ async function runHub(options, log, info) {
     process.on("SIGTERM", () => void shutdown());
     process.on("SIGHUP", () => void shutdown());
 }
+function handOverToFreshHub(options, log) {
+    const args = [fileURLToPath(import.meta.url), "start", "--force", "--port", String(options.port), "--data-dir", options.dataDir, "--no-open"];
+    if (options.name)
+        args.push("--name", options.name);
+    const child = spawn(process.execPath, args, { cwd: options.dataDir, detached: true, stdio: "ignore", windowsHide: true });
+    child.unref();
+    log.info(`restart requested from the window: a fresh hub is starting (pid ${child.pid})`);
+}
 async function startBackground(options, log, info) {
-    const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${options.port}/`;
-    const running = await runningInstance(options.port);
-    if (running && running.build === info.build) {
+    const port = hubPortFor(options.port, options.portGiven, liveRecord(options.dataDir));
+    const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/`;
+    const running = await runningInstance(port);
+    const other = foreignHub(running, options.dataDir);
+    if (other)
+        throw new Error(otherHubMessage(port, other, options.dataDir));
+    if (running && running.build === info.build && !options.force) {
         log.info(`viberoom is already running at ${url} (same build).`);
         process.stdout.write(`${url}\n`);
         if (options.open)
@@ -317,20 +348,20 @@ async function startBackground(options, log, info) {
     if (running) {
         log.info(`an older viberoom build is running at ${url}; replacing it with the build from ${info.build}`);
         if (!(await stopInstance(url, log)))
-            throw new Error(`the older viberoom hub on port ${options.port} did not stop; try: viberoom stop`);
+            throw new Error(`the older viberoom hub on port ${port} did not stop; try: viberoom stop`);
     }
     mkdirSync(options.dataDir, { recursive: true });
     const logPath = logFilePath(options.dataDir);
     rotateLog(logPath);
     const fd = openSync(logPath, "a");
-    const args = [fileURLToPath(import.meta.url), "serve", "--port", String(options.port), "--data-dir", options.dataDir, "--no-open"];
+    const args = [fileURLToPath(import.meta.url), "serve", "--port", String(port), "--data-dir", options.dataDir, "--no-open"];
     if (options.name)
         args.push("--name", options.name);
     const child = spawn(process.execPath, args, { cwd: options.dataDir, detached: true, stdio: ["ignore", fd, fd], windowsHide: true });
     child.unref();
     closeSync(fd);
     log.info(`hub started in the background (pid ${child.pid}); log: ${logPath}`);
-    const up = await waitUntil(async () => (await runningInstance(options.port))?.build === info.build, 20_000);
+    const up = await waitUntil(async () => (await runningInstance(port))?.build === info.build, 20_000);
     if (!up)
         throw new Error(`the hub did not come up within 20 s; see ${logPath}`);
     process.stdout.write(`${url}\n`);
@@ -338,23 +369,27 @@ async function startBackground(options, log, info) {
         openWindow(url, options, log);
 }
 async function stopBackground(options, log) {
-    const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${options.port}/`;
-    const record = readPidFile(options.dataDir);
+    const live = liveRecord(options.dataDir);
+    const port = hubPortFor(options.port, options.portGiven, live);
+    const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/`;
+    const other = foreignHub(await runningInstance(port), options.dataDir);
+    if (other)
+        throw new Error(`the hub on port ${port} keeps its rooms in ${other}, not in ${options.dataDir}, so it was left running. To stop that one: viberoom stop --data-dir "${other}"`);
     if (await isUp(url)) {
         const ok = await stopInstance(url, log);
         if (ok) {
-            log.info(`hub on port ${options.port} stopped`);
+            log.info(`hub on port ${port} stopped`);
             rmSync(pidFilePath(options.dataDir), { force: true });
             return;
         }
     }
-    if (record && isProcessAlive(record.pid)) {
-        log.warn(`the hub did not answer on ${url}; terminating pid ${record.pid}`);
+    if (live) {
+        log.warn(`the hub did not answer on ${url}; terminating pid ${live.pid}`);
         try {
-            process.kill(record.pid);
+            process.kill(live.pid);
         }
         catch (error) {
-            throw new Error(`could not terminate pid ${record.pid}: ${String(error)}`);
+            throw new Error(`could not terminate pid ${live.pid}: ${String(error)}`);
         }
         rmSync(pidFilePath(options.dataDir), { force: true });
         return;
@@ -363,15 +398,22 @@ async function stopBackground(options, log) {
     log.info("no hub is running");
 }
 async function showStatus(options) {
-    const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${options.port}/`;
-    const running = await runningInstance(options.port);
     const record = readPidFile(options.dataDir);
+    const live = record && isProcessAlive(record.pid) ? record : null;
+    const port = hubPortFor(options.port, options.portGiven, live);
+    const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/`;
+    const running = await runningInstance(port);
     if (running) {
-        const pid = record && isProcessAlive(record.pid) ? ` (background pid ${record.pid}, started ${new Date(record.startedAt).toLocaleString()})` : " (foreground or another data folder)";
-        process.stdout.write(`running at ${url}${pid}\nbuild: ${running.build ?? "unknown (older build)"}\ndata: ${options.dataDir}\nlog: ${logFilePath(options.dataDir)}\n`);
+        const other = foreignHub(running, options.dataDir);
+        const who = other
+            ? ` (a hub of another data folder: ${other}; this folder's hub is not running)`
+            : live
+                ? ` (${live.foreground ? "pid" : "background pid"} ${live.pid}, started ${new Date(live.startedAt).toLocaleString()})`
+                : " (foreground or another data folder)";
+        process.stdout.write(`running at ${url}${who}\nbuild: ${running.build ?? "unknown (older build)"}\ndata: ${other ?? options.dataDir}\nlog: ${logFilePath(other ?? options.dataDir)}\n`);
     }
     else {
-        process.stdout.write(`not running on port ${options.port}${record ? ` (stale pid file: ${record.pid})` : ""}\n`);
+        process.stdout.write(`not running on port ${port}${record ? ` (stale pid file: ${record.pid})` : ""}\n`);
         if (record && !isProcessAlive(record.pid))
             rmSync(pidFilePath(options.dataDir), { force: true });
     }
@@ -394,9 +436,10 @@ async function main() {
             await showStatus(options);
             return;
         case "open": {
-            const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${options.port}/`;
+            const port = hubPortFor(options.port, options.portGiven, liveRecord(options.dataDir));
+            const url = `http://127.0.0.1:${port}/`;
             if (!(await isUp(url)))
-                throw new Error(`no hub is running on port ${options.port}; start one with: viberoom start`);
+                throw new Error(`no hub is running on port ${port}; start one with: viberoom start`);
             openWindow(url, options, log);
             return;
         }

package/dist/mcp-skills-server.js

@@ -124,6 +124,19 @@ const TOOLS = [
             required: ["why"],
         },
     },
+    {
+        name: "read_message",
+        description: "One message of this room by its number: the whole of a message that was quoted to you as \"> Name (#N, time): …\", or any message whose #N you have seen. Returns who wrote it, to whom, when, its text, its images as file paths and, with around > 0, up to that many messages before and after it. Read-only; the human sees the call like any other tool call.",
+        inputSchema: {
+            type: "object",
+            properties: {
+                seq: { type: "integer", description: "the message number, the N of #N" },
+                around: { type: "integer", minimum: 0, maximum: 5, description: "optional: how many neighbouring messages to include on each side (default 0, at most 5)" },
+            },
+            required: ["seq"],
+        },
+        annotations: { readOnlyHint: true },
+    },
 ];
 let readySent = false;
 function send(message) {
@@ -263,6 +276,17 @@ async function handle(message) {
                 reply(id, { content: [{ type: "text", text: String(res.body.message ?? "proposed") }] });
                 return;
             }
+            if (name === "read_message") {
+                const seq = Number(args.seq);
+                if (!Number.isInteger(seq))
+                    return fail(id, -32602, "read_message needs seq: the message number, the N of #N");
+                const around = Number(args.around);
+                const res = await hub(`/api/mcp/message?token=${encodeURIComponent(TOKEN)}&seq=${seq}${Number.isInteger(around) && around > 0 ? `&around=${around}` : ""}`);
+                if (!res.ok)
+                    return errorResult("the message could not be read", res);
+                reply(id, { content: [{ type: "text", text: JSON.stringify(res.body, null, 2) }] });
+                return;
+            }
             fail(id, -32602, `unknown tool: ${name}`);
             return;
         }

package/dist/persona.js

@@ -108,6 +108,8 @@ export function describeSettings(current) {
     });
 }
 export const IMAGE_MARKER_PATTERN = /\[img\s+(\d+)\]/gi;
+export const QUOTE_MARKER_PATTERN = /\[quote\s+(\d+)\]/gi;
+const MARKER_PATTERN = /\[(img|quote)\s+(\d+)\]/gi;
 export function promptText(parts) {
     return parts.map((p) => (p.type === "text" ? p.text : "")).join("");
 }
@@ -117,6 +119,18 @@ function imageMarker(image) {
     const who = image.forNames.length ? ` · for ${image.forNames.join(", ")}` : "";
     return `[img ${image.n} · ${image.ref}${who} · ${image.path}]`;
 }
+export function formatQuoteTime(ts) {
+    const d = new Date(ts);
+    const p = (n) => String(n).padStart(2, "0");
+    return `${d.getFullYear()}-${p(d.getMonth() + 1)}-${p(d.getDate())} ${p(d.getHours())}:${p(d.getMinutes())}`;
+}
+export function quoteBlock(quote) {
+    const head = `> ${quote.fromName} (#${quote.seq}, ${formatQuoteTime(quote.ts)}):`;
+    const lines = quote.text.split(/\r?\n/);
+    if (lines.length === 1)
+        return `${head} ${lines[0]}`;
+    return [head, ...lines.map((l) => `> ${l}`)].join("\n");
+}
 function messageParts(line) {
     const parts = [];
     let text = "";
@@ -125,32 +139,70 @@ function messageParts(line) {
             parts.push({ type: "text", text });
         text = "";
     };
-    const place = (image) => {
-        text += imageMarker(image);
+    const images = line.images ?? [];
+    const quotes = line.quotes ?? [];
+    const placedImages = new Set();
+    const placedQuotes = new Set();
+    let breakAfterQuote = false;
+    const append = (s) => {
+        if (!s)
+            return;
+        if (breakAfterQuote) {
+            if (!s.startsWith("\n"))
+                text += "\n";
+            s = s.replace(/^[ \t]+/, "");
+            breakAfterQuote = false;
+        }
+        text += s;
+    };
+    const placeImage = (image) => {
+        append(imageMarker(image));
         if (image.attached) {
             flush();
             parts.push({ type: "image", image });
         }
     };
-    const images = line.images ?? [];
-    const placed = new Set();
+    const placeQuote = (quote) => {
+        if (breakAfterQuote)
+            text += "\n";
+        text = text.replace(/[ \t]+$/, "");
+        if (text && !text.endsWith("\n"))
+            text += "\n";
+        text += quoteBlock(quote);
+        breakAfterQuote = true;
+    };
     let last = 0;
-    for (const match of line.text.matchAll(IMAGE_MARKER_PATTERN)) {
-        const image = images.find((i) => i.n === Number(match[1]));
-        if (!image || placed.has(image.n))
-            continue;
-        placed.add(image.n);
-        text += line.text.slice(last, match.index);
-        place(image);
+    for (const match of line.text.matchAll(MARKER_PATTERN)) {
+        const n = Number(match[2]);
+        if (match[1].toLowerCase() === "img") {
+            const image = images.find((i) => i.n === n);
+            if (!image || placedImages.has(n))
+                continue;
+            placedImages.add(n);
+            append(line.text.slice(last, match.index));
+            placeImage(image);
+        }
+        else {
+            const quote = quotes.find((q) => q.n === n);
+            if (!quote || placedQuotes.has(n))
+                continue;
+            placedQuotes.add(n);
+            append(line.text.slice(last, match.index));
+            placeQuote(quote);
+        }
         last = (match.index ?? 0) + match[0].length;
     }
-    text += line.text.slice(last);
+    append(line.text.slice(last));
+    for (const quote of quotes)
+        if (!placedQuotes.has(quote.n))
+            placeQuote(quote);
+    breakAfterQuote = false;
     for (const image of images) {
-        if (placed.has(image.n))
+        if (placedImages.has(image.n))
             continue;
         if (!text.endsWith("\n") && (text || parts.length))
             text += "\n";
-        place(image);
+        placeImage(image);
     }
     flush();
     return parts;
@@ -247,6 +299,9 @@ export function buildBrief(settings, persona, roster, previousNotes, skills) {
         lines.push(...skillsSection(skills));
     lines.push("");
     lines.push(`How prompts look: <room-header> (who you are, who is here, the hop counter, hub notes), then <messages> (everything posted since your previous turn, oldest first, as "Name -> @Target: text"; room events as "· text"), then "Reply as ${persona.name}." Your own earlier messages are not repeated. Reply with the text of your message only.`);
+    lines.push(`A line "> Name (#N, date time): …" inside a message quotes an earlier message of this room, pasted by the writer: those are Name's words, not the writer's, and #N is the hub's number of that message. ${skills?.channel === "tool"
+        ? "When the fragment is not enough, the viberoom tool read_message takes the number and returns the whole message (around: N adds its neighbours)."
+        : "When the fragment is not enough, ask in the room for the whole message."}`);
     if (previousNotes && previousNotes.trim()) {
         lines.push("");
         lines.push(`Notes from your previous session (written by you): ${previousNotes.trim()}`);

package/dist/quotes.js

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+// viberoom - Copyright (c) 2026 Todor Rusev - AGPL-3.0-or-later; see LICENSE
+export const QUOTES_PER_MESSAGE = 6;
+export const QUOTE_MAX_CHARS = 4000;
+export const READ_AROUND_MAX = 5;
+export function resolveQuotes(inputs, messages) {
+    const out = [];
+    const used = new Set();
+    let next = 1;
+    for (const input of inputs.slice(0, QUOTES_PER_MESSAGE)) {
+        const seq = Number(input?.seq);
+        const source = Number.isInteger(seq) ? messages.find((m) => m.seq === seq) : undefined;
+        if (!source)
+            throw new Error(`quoted message #${String(input?.seq)} is not in this room`);
+        if (source.kind !== "chat")
+            throw new Error(`message #${seq} is not a chat message; only those can be quoted`);
+        const text = String(input.text ?? "").trim().slice(0, QUOTE_MAX_CHARS) || source.text.trim().slice(0, QUOTE_MAX_CHARS);
+        if (!text)
+            throw new Error(`message #${seq} has no text to quote`);
+        const wanted = Number(input.n);
+        let n = Number.isInteger(wanted) && wanted > 0 && !used.has(wanted) ? wanted : 0;
+        if (!n) {
+            while (used.has(next))
+                next += 1;
+            n = next;
+        }
+        used.add(n);
+        out.push({ n, seq, from: source.from, fromName: source.fromName, ts: source.ts, text });
+    }
+    return out;
+}
+export function visibleToAgents(message) {
+    return message.kind !== "hidden" && message.audience !== "human";
+}
+export function agentReadableWindow(messages, seq, around) {
+    const visible = messages.filter(visibleToAgents);
+    const index = visible.findIndex((m) => m.seq === seq);
+    if (index < 0)
+        return null;
+    const span = Math.min(READ_AROUND_MAX, Math.max(0, Math.floor(Number(around) || 0)));
+    return { message: visible[index], before: visible.slice(Math.max(0, index - span), index), after: visible.slice(index + 1, index + 1 + span) };
+}