Rebuilt on top of dev's RFC #883 state-machine UI rather than the now-defunct
StoredFile shape:
- Extend StoredFileInfo with fileName/size/uploadedAt/isUserUpload
- Populate metadata from on-disk stats in RagService.getStoredFiles
- Add fileSourceSchema validator + getFileContent/downloadFile endpoints
scoped to the uploads directory only (tighter than the original PR — matches
docs_service traversal pattern)
- KnowledgeBaseModal: sortable Size and Uploaded columns; View/Download
buttons on upload-bucket rows; new FileViewerModal for in-browser text
preview. Bucket grouping preserved — sort applies within each bucket.
- Use formatBytes from ~/lib/util rather than redefining
BullMQ instantiates a fresh ioredis client per Queue/Worker when handed a
plain {host, port} config object, and under sustained ZIM ingestion the
embed pipeline leaked ~1 client/sec until Redis maxclients was exhausted.
Pass a single shared ioredis instance (maxRetriesPerRequest: null, as
required by BullMQ) so all queues and workers reuse one client pool.
Workers still duplicate the connection once for their blocking client,
which is expected and bounded.
Closes#885
* feat: replace legacy Kolibri image default with latest v19 image
* feat(supply-depot): add content migration instructions for Edu Platform Gen 1 to 2
Adds the MeshCore web client to the Supply Depot catalog (host port 8500),
alongside the existing Meshtastic apps. Uses aXistem's prebuilt image of Liam
Cottle's MeshCore client (MeshCore is a sibling LoRa mesh project to Meshtastic).
The image is stock nginx serving a static Flutter build over HTTP, but the
client reaches radios via Web Bluetooth / Web Serial, which browsers only allow
from a secure (HTTPS) context. So we serve it over HTTPS: a new preinstall hook
generates a self-signed cert + a small SSL nginx config into storage/meshcore-web,
both bind-mounted into the container (the config over the image's default.conf),
publishing 443. Same one-time browser-warning approach as Vaultwarden, whose
openssl cert generation is refactored into a shared _ensureSelfSignedCert helper.
Also adds a NOMAD-specific docs section + Manage>Docs anchor, and registers the
IconAntenna icon. Meshtastic Web left unchanged.
Validated on NOMAD3 (v1.33.0-rc.1): the image + SSL config + self-signed cert
serves the MeshCore Flutter app over HTTPS 200 with working SPA fallback.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Curated catalog apps could be installed, stopped, and force-reinstalled,
but never removed — the only path off a device was manual docker + DB
surgery. Custom apps already had delete; this adds the equivalent for
curated apps.
POST /api/system/services/uninstall stops and removes the app's
container (optionally its image, same best-effort semantics as custom
app delete) and flips the record back to not-installed so the card
returns to the available catalog. Host bind-mount data is deliberately
left on disk, so a later reinstall picks the app back up where it left
off — unlike force-reinstall, which clears volumes.
Guards: custom apps are rejected (use delete), dependency services are
rejected, and uninstalling a not-installed app is a 409.
UI: installed curated cards get an Uninstall action in the card menu,
with a confirm modal that explains data is preserved and offers the
same remove-image checkbox as custom app delete.
Refresh the in-app Markdoc docs for the v1.33 feature set:
- Repoint dead /settings/apps links to the Supply Depot (/supply-depot)
across home, getting-started, and faq; reword "Apps page" / "Settings
-> Apps" to "Supply Depot". The old /apps route now redirects to the
Supply Depot.
- Expand supply-depot-apps.md with a "Managing your apps" section (Docs/
Edit/Logs/Stats/Update/Remove, version + update-available visibility,
custom launch URLs, per-app auto-update toggle) and a "Bringing your
own app" section for custom Docker containers.
- Add a new "Updates" doc (updates.md) covering the auto-update trilogy
(core/apps/content), manual updates, and the Early Access channel;
wire it into DOC_ORDER and cross-link from home, getting-started, faq.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Only Wikipedia had version cleanup; every other curated map and non-Wikipedia
ZIM left its prior version on disk when a newer one installed, so users silently
accumulated orphaned content (potentially hundreds of GB). (#634)
The install paths already record each resource via InstalledResource
{resource_id, resource_type, version, file_path}, so the authoritative old-file
path for a resource is known. On install of a new version we now capture the
prior row before updateOrCreate repoints it, then delete the old file — gated
behind a pure, fully unit-tested decision function with strict safety rails:
- tracked-only: requires a prior InstalledResource row for the same
resource_id, so sideloaded/untracked files are never touched
- genuine replacement: old and new file paths must differ
- new-file-verified: the new file must be confirmed on disk first
- strictly-newer: a re-install or downgrade can't wipe a newer file
- within-storage-dir: the old path must resolve under the content store
ZIM cleanup deletes the old file directly (NOT via this.delete(), which would
drop the InstalledResource row by resource_id that updateOrCreate just
repointed) and rebuilds the Kiwix library only if a file was actually removed,
so its XML never references a deleted ZIM. Maps need no library step. Wikipedia
keeps its own existing cleanup path. All deletions are best-effort and logged;
a failure never breaks the install.
Closes#634
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
`getChatSuggestions` previously picked the largest installed model by file
size, on the assumption that bigger models give better suggestions. This
is unsafe: if any installed model exceeds available VRAM (e.g.
llama3.1:405b on a 96 GB GPU), Ollama spends minutes trying to load it
and the request 500s — making the chat page unusable for anyone who
happens to keep a flagship-sized model on disk.
Chat suggestions are short prompts that don't benefit from a flagship
model anyway. Prefer the user's selected `chat.lastModel` when set, and
fall back to the smallest installed model otherwise. `OllamaService.getModels()`
already excludes embedders, so the fallback always picks a chat model.
listTags() follows the registry's Link-header pagination, but the next-page
URL is relative per the OCI/Docker registry spec (e.g.
"/v2/ollama/ollama/tags/list?last=0.9.3-rc5&n=1000"). The code assigned that
raw relative path straight back to `url` and re-fetched it, so fetch() threw
"Failed to parse URL from /v2/...". Any image repo with more than 1000 tags
paginates, so the entire tag list — and therefore the update check — failed
silently for ollama/ollama and filebrowser/filebrowser.
That's the root cause of #945 ("won't update past 0.24.0"): the Ollama
update check never completed, so no newer version was ever offered.
Resolve the next-page URL against the registry origin with
new URL(next, `https://${registry}`), which also passes absolute next-URLs
through unchanged for registries that return those.
Closes#945
The map style names each source by its date-stripped region (both
"washington.pmtiles" and "washington_2025-12.pmtiles" -> "washington").
When an old and new copy of the same region are both on disk, the style
emitted two sources with the same key and duplicate layer ids, which
MapLibre rejects outright -- blanking the ENTIRE map, not just that region.
Old copies linger when a newer curated version installs (#634), so a user
who updates maps can silently lose all map rendering until the stale file
is removed by hand.
generateSourcesArray() now keeps only the newest file per region: a dated
build beats an undated legacy file, and between two dated builds the later
YYYY-MM wins. The skipped duplicate is logged. The style stays valid even
when stale files are present.
Complements #981, which removes superseded curated files on install. This
is the runtime safety net that also recovers installs already in the broken
state (which a cleanup-on-install alone can't reach).
Refs #634
Dense source content produces chunks that exceed the embedding model's
context window (nomic-embed-text:v1.5 defaults to 2048 tokens). Two paths
hit this even after the prior pre-cap:
- Older Ollama (e.g. 0.18.1, #944) ignores the num_ctx=8192 we send on
/api/embed, so it stays at the model's 2048 default.
- The OpenAI-compat /v1/embeddings fallback didn't pass num_ctx/truncate
at all, so any Ollama drops to 2048 whenever it lands on the fallback.
When a chunk overflowed, the 400 was swallowed and the chunk was silently
dropped from Qdrant. Worse, the failure propagated to EmbedFileJob, which
re-embeds the entire file on each of its 30 BullMQ attempts — the "endless
queue loop" / "api/embed for weeks" / pegged GPU reported in #944/#959.
Fix:
- OllamaService.embed(): on a context-length error, retry once with an
aggressive 2048-safe cap (EMBED_CONTEXT_SAFE_CHARS = 2000) so the chunk
is embedded (start-of-chunk) instead of dropped. Native-path context
errors now bubble to this retry instead of falling through to the
smaller-context fallback. Split the native+fallback attempt into
_embedWithFallback().
- Pass truncate/num_ctx on the /v1/embeddings fallback too (Ollama's
OpenAI-compat shim forwards them).
- EmbedFileJob: classify "input length exceeds context length" as an
UnrecoverableError so one permanently-oversized chunk can't trigger 30
full-file re-embeds.
- Add OllamaService.isContextLengthError() shared by both.
Graceful degradation: a truncated chunk loses its tail but is kept in the
index, which is strictly better than today's silent drop + retry storm.
Refs #881. Supersedes the #369/#670 symptom closures that never fixed the
fallback path.
reconcileFromFilesystem() skipped every ZIM whose filename starts with
`wikipedia_en_`, on the assumption that all such files are managed by the
WikipediaSelection model. But curated category tiers ship Wikipedia-themed
ZIMs (e.g. Medicine → Comprehensive includes `wikipedia_en_medicine_maxi`),
so those files were skipped during reconcile and their InstalledResource
rows got wiped on every restart — silently downgrading the detected tier.
Skip only the single file actually tracked by WikipediaSelection, matched
by exact filename instead of the `wikipedia_en_` prefix.
Reimplemented in-house from @johno10661's PR #774 (which was trapped on a
stale base); credit to them for the diagnosis and fix.
Closes#774
A multi-GB service update (e.g. nomad_ollama pulling ~6.5 GB) left the
Update button clickable with no feedback, so users clicked again thinking
it was stuck. The second click raced a concurrent updateContainer run into
Docker 304/400 errors (stop/rename on a container the first run had already
moved). The backend lock was in-memory only and never written to the DB, so
nothing durable signaled "update in progress" to the UI, and a page reload
mid-pull re-enabled the button.
Backend (docker_service.updateContainer):
- Set installation_status='installing' when the update starts and reset it
to 'idle' in a finally on every exit path. This mirrors the install path,
survives a page reload, and is visible to other tabs/clients.
- Reject a second update with a clear message when installation_status is
already 'installing', instead of letting it race into Docker errors.
Frontend (settings/apps.tsx):
- Track in-flight updates per service. Seed optimistically on click and
reconcile with the durable installation_status from the server.
- Disable the per-service Update button and show "Updating..." while in
flight. Drop the fullscreen spinner for updates so the table and the
activity feed (live pull/stop/start progress) stay visible.
Closes#931
Kiwix runs in library mode reading kiwix-library.xml via --monitorLibrary.
Today a missing or corrupt XML is only repaired on the download path
(rebuildFromDisk after a completed download), so if the file is lost or
truncated outside that flow — storage relocation, an interrupted write, manual
deletion — Kiwix comes up serving an empty library with no path to recovery.
Add KiwixLibraryService.ensureLibraryXmlHealthy(): reads the XML, and if it's
missing (ENOENT) or fails to parse / lacks a <library> root, rebuilds it from
the ZIM files on disk. A well-formed but empty library is treated as valid (no
spurious rebuild), and filesystem errors other than ENOENT are surfaced rather
than masked. The boot provider calls it on the already-in-library-mode path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Let users override an app's "Open" link with a reverse-proxy or
local-DNS address (e.g. https://jellyfin.myhomelab.net). Falls back to
the default host+port when unset. Metadata-only — no container changes.
Every Docker pull went through `followProgress(pullStream, resolve)`, passing
the Promise's resolve as dockerode's onFinished(err, output) callback — so the
error argument was ignored and a failed pull (dropped/metered connection, bad
manifest, registry error, disk full mid-pull) resolved as if it had succeeded.
The code then tried to create/start a container from a missing or partial
image, surfacing a confusing downstream error rather than the real cause. (#790)
Add a DockerService.pullImage() helper that rejects when followProgress reports
an error, and route all five pull sites through it:
- service install
- AMD ROCm image pull
- service update
- force-reinstall / recreate (forcePull)
- sysbench benchmark image pull
Closes#790
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The Stored Files "partial stall" warning compares chunks in Qdrant against an
expected count from the ratio registry. The registry has an empty-pattern
catch-all (100 chunks/MB) that matches any filename, so a ZIM that matches no
specific pattern still gets a size-based estimate. For archives that are mostly
PDFs, images, or link-out stubs (e.g. irp.fas.org military-medicine), byte size
wildly over-predicts embeddable text: a 75 MB ZIM estimates ~7,236 chunks but
produces ~1, tripping a false "ingestion may have stalled" warning that re-embed
can't clear.
The catch-all is fine for rough aggregate disk-cost estimates, but it should not
drive a per-file stall signal. Add an `ignoreCatchAll` option to the ratio
lookup that excludes the empty-pattern row (returning null when only the
fallback would match), and use it in the warnings path so partial_stall only
fires when the registry has a *specific* expectation for the file. Files that
match a real pattern (wikipedia_, devdocs_, ifixit_, ...) are unaffected;
disk-cost/batch estimates keep using the fallback.
Closes#913
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The service update path stopped and renamed the old container aside before
the new one was confirmed running, but only wired up rollback if
createContainer threw or the 5s health check failed. A throw from
newContainer.start() itself (bad device/GPU config, host port already bound,
image incompatibility) bubbled straight to the outer catch, which returned a
generic 400 and never restored the old container, leaving the service down.
Retrying then wedged: the failed new container still held the service name, so
the next attempt's rename to `<name>_old` collided with the leftover from the
first attempt and threw the same error every time.
- Wrap newContainer.start() so a start failure removes the half-created
container and rolls back to the previous one.
- Clear any stale `<name>_old` before renaming so retries can't collide.
- Dedupe the three rollback sites into a single rollbackToOld() helper (also
removes a non-null assertion in the create-failure path that could itself
throw when no `_old` existed).
Refs #949
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a service fails to install because something on the host already binds its
port, the user saw the raw dockerode error ("Bind for 0.0.0.0:11434 failed:
port is already allocated"), which is meaningless to a non-technical user. The
most common case is a native Ollama install holding 11434.
Add _humanizeDockerError() to map host port-conflict errors to an actionable
message that names the port and, for Ollama/11434, points at the likely cause
(a host Ollama service) with the commands to stop it. Unrecognized errors pass
through unchanged. Wired into the install failure broadcast and the thrown
error.
Closes#934
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a self-update path for the NOMAD admin/core image that runs without a
human in the loop, gated by layered safety checks. Recreation remains the
sidecar's job; this only decides *whether* to update now and requests it.
An hourly job (AutoUpdateJob) evaluates a side-effect-free decision pipeline
(AutoUpdateService.evaluate):
- opt-in: disabled by default
- in a user-configured local-time window (handles midnight wrap)
- an eligible release: same major (major bumps stay manual), strictly newer,
past a configurable cool-off, GA only (no drafts/prereleases), strict semver
- pre-flight: sidecar present, no in-flight system update / downloads / app
installs, and sufficient host disk (estimated from the registry manifest)
When all pass, it drives SystemUpdateService.requestUpdate() with a vetted tag.
Failure backoff auto-disables after 3 genuine update-request failures; transient
release-lookup errors are skips (offline-first appliances are routinely without
connectivity). Re-enabling clears the backoff state.
Settings UI exposes the toggle, window, and cool-off, with live status (eligible
target, in/out of window, last result/error). A `node ace auto-update:dry-run`
command exercises the full pipeline — and a deterministic --scenarios suite the
pure decision logic — without ever triggering an update.
New KVStore keys under autoUpdate.* hold config + last-run state.
_applyHostStorageRoot only rewrote binds carrying the current
NOMAD_STORAGE_PATH and short-circuited when env == resolved root. That
left user-modified/custom apps — whose binds freeze the default prefix at
edit time — mounting an empty dir on the documented "set NOMAD_STORAGE_PATH
+ relocate the volume" path (#938).
- Match either the env value or the hardcoded default prefix; drop the
root == seededRoot no-op, excluding root from the candidates instead so
rewrites stay idempotent.
- Add ADMIN_STORAGE_DEST / DEFAULT_HOST_STORAGE_ROOT constants; replace the
cwd-derived storage dest so admin-mount lookup can't silently break.
- Comment why a transient inspect failure is deliberately not cached.
Child services (Kiwix, Ollama, Qdrant, Flatnotes, Kolibri) are created via the
Docker socket, so their bind mounts use a HOST path. That path was baked into
the services table at seed time from NOMAD_STORAGE_PATH (default
/opt/project-nomad/storage) — and NOMAD_STORAGE_PATH wasn't even present in
management_compose.yaml, so it always fell back to the default.
Result: relocating the admin storage volume in compose (e.g.
/mnt/big/storage:/app/storage) moved the admin's own data but left child apps
mounting the old, now-empty /opt/project-nomad/storage. Kiwix would come up
with no content. (#938)
- Add _resolveHostStorageRoot(): inspect the admin's own container, find the
bind backing /app/storage, and use its host Source as the single source of
truth (cached). Falls back to NOMAD_STORAGE_PATH/default if it can't be
inspected.
- Add _applyHostStorageRoot(): rewrite the host-side prefix of each storage bind
to that root. No-op when it already matches the seeded prefix, so default
installs are unaffected.
- Apply it in _createContainer (covers installs + dependency recursion) and in
the Kiwix library-mode recreate path.
- management_compose.yaml: add an explicit NOMAD_STORAGE_PATH knob and rewrite
the comments so the admin volume, env var, and disk-collector volume that must
agree are spelled out.
Closes#938
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add NOMAD-specific getting-started docs for all 9 curated Supply Depot apps,
the catalog/install fixes each one surfaced, and a way to reach the docs from
each app card.
Docs:
- New in-app Markdoc page admin/docs/supply-depot-apps.md covering all 9 apps
(Stirling PDF, File Browser, Calibre-Web, IT Tools, Excalidraw, Homebox,
Vaultwarden, Jellyfin, Meshtastic Web): first run/login, where data lives,
and offline behaviour. Registered in docs_service DOC_ORDER.
- Manage > Docs dropdown item linking each app to its section
(/docs/supply-depot-apps#<anchor>): anchor map in constants/supply_depot_docs.ts,
heading anchors via Markdoc {% #id %}, and hash-scroll on the docs page.
Install / catalog fixes:
- Stirling PDF: open straight to the tools (SECURITY_ENABLELOGIN=false; the old
v1 DOCKER_ENABLE_SECURITY flag was dead).
- File Browser: seed a known admin/nomad login (bcrypt) instead of a random
log-only password; scope visibility to content folders via mount selection and
move the DB out of the browsable root.
- Calibre-Web: bundle an empty Calibre library and seed it on install so setup
doesn't dead-end at db config (_runPreinstallActions__CalibreWeb).
- Homebox: swap the archived hay-kot image for the maintained sysadminsmedia fork.
- Vaultwarden: generate a self-signed cert on install and serve HTTPS by default
(_runPreinstallActions__Vaultwarden + ROCKET_TLS + ui_location https:8480), so
the web vault has the secure context it requires.
- Jellyfin: pre-create storage/media/{Movies,TV Shows,Music,Photos} so each
library points at its own subfolder, avoiding the overlapping-path issue that
silently hides content (_runPreinstallActions__Jellyfin).
- Seeder run() now also syncs ui_location for non-modified curated services, so a
catalog link/scheme/port change reaches existing installs on update.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds a user-facing trigger to rebuild the Kiwix library index from the
ZIM files currently on disk. Covers the sideload case: a user copies a
.zim onto the box (USB, SSH, network share) outside NOMAD's download
flow, and Kiwix has no way to discover it without regenerating the
library index.
Reuses the existing native KiwixLibraryService.rebuildFromDisk() (which
also extracts embedded favicons natively), so no kiwix-tools container
and no icon-patch step are needed. In library mode (--monitorLibrary)
kiwix-serve hot-reloads the XML automatically; only legacy glob-mode
containers are restarted.
- KiwixLibraryService.rebuildFromDisk now returns the book count; adds
getBookCount() for the before/after delta
- ZimService.rescanLibrary() orchestrates rebuild + legacy restart
- POST /api/zim/rescan-library + ZimController.rescanLibrary
- "Rescan Library" button on the Content Manager page (shown when Kiwix
is installed) with a success toast reporting books found
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Users often saw the assistant disclaim ("Sorry, I couldn't find specific
context regarding X, but here's a general answer...") even when material
that directly answered the query was embedded. Two compounding causes,
both on the read/generation side:
1. The rag_context system prompt explicitly authorized the hedge: it told
the model to fall back to general knowledge and "acknowledge the
limitations," and mandated "According to the information available..."
citations that pushed small models into meta-commentary preambles.
Rewrote it to treat the retrieved context as the primary, authoritative
source, lead with the answer, fall back to general knowledge *silently*,
and never emit "couldn't find specific context" phrasing, while still allowing
the model itself to make some "sanity-check" decisions if the retrieved context
seems wildly incorrect or unrelated to the user's query.
2. The injected context labeled each block with a raw relevance score
(e.g. "Relevance: 42.3%"). nomic-embed cosine scores for genuinely
relevant passages sit ~0.4-0.6, so the number primed the model to
distrust correct context. Dropped the model-visible score (it stays in
the logs) and replaced it with a neutral source-title label.
Also added a conservative, score-scaled heading boost in rerankResults:
when query keywords match a chunk's section/article title (ZIM metadata we
already fetch), nudge its rank. Same diminishing-returns shape as the
existing boosts and gated behind the existing semantic-quality threshold,
so it can't promote a weak match.
Scope note: this removes the visible hedge and improves ranking of
already-retrieved chunks. It does NOT fix retrieval recall — diluted
1500-token chunks that never reach dense search's top-k are unaffected.
That's a follow-up (smaller chunks + BM25/RRF hybrid).
The Stored Files modal and per-file warnings panel both enumerate
distinct 'source' values in the qdrant content collection. The
existing implementation scrolls every point in the collection, 100 per
page, just to learn the unique sources. On a fully-ingested NOMAD this
is brutally slow: NOMAD3's 3.1M-point collection takes 50+ seconds to
return its ~40 distinct sources, and the same scan runs twice per modal
open (getStoredFiles + computeFileWarnings each pay it independently).
Qdrant 1.10+ supports a facet aggregation that returns the distinct
values of a payload field with their counts in a single call.
@qdrant/js-client-rest@1.16.2 (already pinned) exposes this as
`client.facet()`. Swap the three scroll loops:
- RagService.getStoredFiles
- RagService.computeFileWarnings
- RagService.\_scanAndSync (the source-set used for skip-already-embedded
decisions)
As a bonus, computeFileWarnings's per-source chunk count comes back
inline from the facet, so the secondary scroll that was incrementing a
counter is also gone.
`exact: true` everywhere because the counts feed Warning A's
zero_chunks decision and could mis-fire near thresholds otherwise. New
RagService.FACET_SOURCE_LIMIT = 10000 caps the facet response; real
NOMADs run ~100 sources max, this is comfortable headroom.
Expected impact on NOMAD3 (3M points, 40 sources): ~50s -> ~100ms per
endpoint. On an empty/fresh KB: no measurable change either way.
Since PR #36b6d8e moved tier-installation tracking from a client-side
persistence model to a server-side derive-from-disk model, the card
display only ever updates once every file in a tier is fully on disk.
A user who picks Standard sees a blank card for the duration of the
download (often hours for large tiers like Wikibooks). Worse, if some
files finish before others, the card briefly shows a lower tier (e.g.
Essential) before promoting to the selected tier on completion, which
reads as "the system didn't accept my pick."
Backend: compute a sibling `downloadingTierSlug` by unioning installed
resource IDs with the IDs from active RunDownloadJob queue entries
(waiting + active + delayed, failed deliberately excluded), then
resolving the highest tier whose every resource is in that union. Set
only when it differs from `installedTierSlug` — no point reporting
"downloading Standard" when Standard is already fully installed.
Frontend: unify the prominent corner badge logic in CategoryCard to a
single `badgeTier` derived from selectedTier > downloadingTier >
installedTier. Spinner + "(downloading)" suffix when in flight,
checkmark for installed/selected. The pill row and lime border follow
the same source.
Verified on NOMAD3: backend correctly resolves the downloading tier
from in-flight BullMQ jobs; CategoryCard shows the spinner badge
immediately on Submit and switches to the checkmark variant when
downloads complete.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Lift the hardcoded 'nomic-embed-text:v1.5' string out of both
RagService and OllamaService into a shared EMBEDDING_MODEL_NAME
constant in constants/ollama.ts. The duplicate in OllamaService
existed only to dodge a circular import with RagService; the
constants module has no service imports, so a shared constant
eliminates both the duplication and the drift risk called out
in the inline "keep in sync" comment.
Surfaces NOMAD's previously-silent model-stacking behavior and enforces a
"one chat model in VRAM at a time" invariant (the embedding model is
always exempt). Addresses Chris's NOMAD3 testing observation that
switching the dropdown in the chat header was invisibly slow on low-VRAM
hardware because the prior model was never unloaded — Ollama would
either evict it under memory pressure or load the new one on CPU after
the runner choked.
Three integration points all funnel through one new helper:
- **User changes the model dropdown** in an active chat session →
confirm modal "Switch to {newModel}? Switching to {newModel} will
start a new chat. Your current conversation stays available in the
sidebar." On confirm, fire `keep_alive: 0` against the previous chat
model, clear active session, set the new selection. Cancel snaps the
visible dropdown back to the previous value (no popup state leaks
into `selectedModel`).
- **User clicks a session in the sidebar** → no popup (system-initiated).
Restore the session's stored model into the dropdown and fire
`unloadChatModels(targetModel)` so anything that isn't the target
gets the unload hint.
- **Chat page first mount** → page-load normalization. Anything stacked
from a prior session gets the unload hint with the current selected
model as the target-to-preserve. Guarded by a ref so it only fires
once per page lifetime; gated on `selectedModel` being populated.
Backend surface is a single new helper and a single new route:
`OllamaService.unloadAllChatModelsExcept(targetModel: string | null)`
→ queries `/api/ps`, filters out (a) the embedding model name
(hardcoded `nomic-embed-text:v1.5` to avoid the RagService circular
import) and (b) `targetModel`, fires `POST /api/generate` with empty
prompt + `keep_alive: 0` in parallel against everything else.
Returns the names that were hinted. Best-effort: network or Ollama
errors are logged and swallowed so callers don't fail on housekeeping.
`POST /api/ollama/unload-chat-models` → thin wrapper validating
`{ targetModel?: string | null }`.
Why `keep_alive: 0` is safe against in-flight inference: per Ollama's
scheduler semantics, the hint sets the post-completion eviction timer
to zero — the runner is not terminated. If Session A is mid-response
on gemma when Session B fires the unload, gemma stays resident until
A's request completes, then evicts. The user-visible worst case is the
race where A's longer-running request re-extends the timer back to the
default and the unload is no-op'd; the next transition (or page reload)
gets another chance, and Ollama's own LRU catches up under memory
pressure regardless. Robust in-flight tracking deferred to a follow-up
if we see stale-state in the wild.
Base `rc`: v1.40.0 will inherit everything from rc.6 via the backmerge.
Frontend tests deferred to a follow-up PR; existing inertia tsconfig
errors are pre-existing and unrelated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Return a discriminated `EmbedSingleFileResult` from `RagService.embedSingleFile`
with `code: 'not_found' | 'inflight' | 'delete_failed' | 'dispatch_failed'` on
failure. `RagController.embedFile` now maps those codes to the correct status
instead of collapsing every failure to 409:
- not_found → 404
- inflight → 409
- delete_failed → 500
- dispatch_failed → 500
The `code` is also included in the JSON body so clients can branch without
string-matching `error`.
Closes the Manual-mode UX dead-end: after toggling 'Auto-index new content
for AI?' to Manual, a freshly-downloaded ZIM (or any pending_decision file)
had no UI path to opt in for embedding short of the global Sync Storage /
Re-embed All bulk actions. Per RFC #883 §5, each Stored Files row now
carries a state pill and an adaptive single-button action.
State pill (left of any existing warning chips):
- 'Indexed' — green; row had chunks in Qdrant or state row is 'indexed'
- 'Not Indexed' — neutral; state is pending_decision or browse_only
- 'Failed' — red
- 'Stalled' — amber
- admin_docs collapsed row has no pill ('Managed by NOMAD' carries it)
Adaptive action button (paired with the existing Delete button per row):
- pending_decision → 'Index' (force=false)
- browse_only → 'Index' (force=true)
- failed / stalled → 'Retry' (force=true)
- indexed + warning chip → 'Re-embed' (force=true; confirm modal first)
- indexed healthy / null → no action button (bulk Re-embed All covers it)
Backend: GET /api/rag/files now returns
{ files: Array<{ source, state, chunksEmbedded }> }
instead of a flat string[]. State + chunk-count come from a single
KbIngestState query unioned into the existing Qdrant-derived source list
(no new round trips). New POST /api/rag/files/embed validates the source is
known, refuses if any inflight job already targets the same filePath
(prevents double-click duplicate-chunk hazard), pre-deletes Qdrant points
when force=true, then dispatches via the existing _dispatchEmbedJobsFor
helper used by reembedAll.
Per-file Re-embed (force=true on an already-indexed file) routes through a
StyledModal confirmation since it deletes existing vectors before queueing
a fresh job — same destructive-action weight as Delete's inline confirm but
heavier since it affects search until the rebuild finishes.
Folds in PR #907's blank-screen fix because my new render needs the same
generic restored: `<StyledTable<KbFileGroup>>` and `record.displayName`
(instead of the unresolved `sourceToDisplayName(record.source)` that ships
in rc.5 and ReferenceErrors on modal open). PR #907 also adds title
tooltips on the three bulk-action buttons; those tooltips are NOT included
here — let PR #907 land first or independently for that part.
Multi-select bulk-opt-in deferred per discussion: most Manual-mode users
ingest 1-2 files at a time, the existing global toggle covers the bulk
case, and checkboxes would expand scope past what rc.6 should hold. Will
file a follow-up issue for an 'Index N pending files' single-click button
once this lands.
Tests-in-PR scope was limited to keeping `kb_file_grouping.spec.ts` green
after the StoredFileInfo[] signature change (added asInfos() wrapper).
Dedicated unit tests for embedSingleFile (unknown source / inflight refused
/ force=true delete-then-dispatch) and the new state-pill rendering will
land in a follow-up PR alongside Playwright coverage of the row actions.
Verification path: NOMAD3 currently runs project-nomad-admin:integration-
rc6-preview (PRs #907 + #908 atop rc.5). After this branch is built into a
new integration tag, I'll re-run targeted Playwright UAT on the KB modal
covering: state pill rendering per state, Index click on pending_decision
opts in cleanly, Retry on failed re-dispatches successfully, Re-embed
confirmation modal copy + delete-then-dispatch on the military-medicine
partial-stall row, and Delete flow untouched.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
When a user opens AI Chat with content available but no global ingest
policy yet recorded, surface a one-time banner above the chat header
asking how they want new content handled:
- 'Index existing content' -> sets rag.defaultIngestPolicy=Always and
triggers a sync so pending_decision files queue immediately
- 'Maybe later' -> sets policy=Manual; existing and future content
waits in pending_decision until the user opts in from the KB modal
After either button is clicked the banner never reappears, because both
write the policy KV (the same one #894 manages via the KB modal toggle).
There is intentionally no 'dismiss without deciding' X — that would just
re-show the banner forever.
Backend
- New GET /api/rag/policy-prompt-state returns
{shouldPrompt, hasContent, totalFiles}
- RagService.getPolicyPromptState() reads KVStore('rag.defaultIngestPolicy')
and counts kb_ingest_state rows; shouldPrompt is true only when policy
is null AND scanner has seen >=1 file (avoids prompting on empty NOMADs)
Frontend
- New KbPolicyPromptBanner component (~120 LOC) handles the two-button
decision flow with optimistic loading state, success/error toasts, and
invalidates kbPolicyPromptState + ingestPolicy + embed-jobs + storedFiles
on success
- Mounted in components/chat/index.tsx as the first child of the main
content column so it sits above the chat title bar without taking space
when shouldPrompt is false (renders nothing)
- Reads aiAssistantName from Inertia page props so banner copy matches
the user's chosen assistant name
Stacks on feat/kb-policy-toggle (#894) because the policy KV mechanism
it writes through is introduced there. Both can land in rc.5; this PR
auto-rebases to rc once #894 merges.
Existing users on first upgrade to v1.32.0 will see this banner on first
chat visit post-upgrade — an explicit opt-in moment for content that was
already on disk. New users see it the first time they have curated
content downloaded.
Closes the 'zero_chunks warning has no row to attach to' gap surfaced by
the 2026-05-14 integration UAT. Before this fix RagService.getStoredFiles
returned only file paths that appeared in Qdrant's payload.source — so
files with 0 embedded chunks (video-only ZIMs, browse_only opt-outs,
ingestions that failed before producing any chunks) silently disappeared
from the KB panel's Stored Files table.
The fix unions the Qdrant scroll result with the disk-backed file paths
recorded in kb_ingest_state. Effect:
- lrnselfreliance_en_all_2025-12.zim (3.97 GB video-only ZIM, 0 chunks)
now appears in the table, picks up its zero_chunks warning chip
- Files in pending_decision under Manual policy show up so the user can
see what's waiting for opt-in
- Files in browse_only / failed states have a row for future per-card
Retry / Re-index actions (forthcoming, blocked on #886)
The state-machine query is wrapped in its own try/catch so a transient
DB error degrades to the Qdrant-only list rather than 500-ing the whole
panel — same defensive posture as the outer try/catch.
Stacks on feat/kb-ingest-state-machine (#888) because the union depends
on the kb_ingest_state table that PR introduces. Will rebase to rc once
#888 merges. Completes the second half of #895's warning surface; the
first half (partial_stall) already worked because those files have at
least some chunks in Qdrant.
`computeFileWarnings()` previously caught all errors and returned an empty
map, which the frontend rendered as "every file is healthy" — reintroducing
exactly the silent-failure mode this surface exists to expose.
Return `{ ok, warnings }`; flip `ok: false` from the catch. KB modal renders
an inline amber notice under the Stored Files header when `ok === false`,
leaving per-row warning rendering untouched. Transient failures self-heal on
the next 30s poll; no toast spam.
Surfaces two silent failure modes that the prior binary
"any-chunks-in-Qdrant ⇒ embedded" check could not distinguish from
healthy ingestion:
- **Warning A — Zero-chunk file** (file_size > 100 MB, chunks = 0)
Fires on video-only / image-only ZIMs (`lrnselfreliance_en_all`,
TED talks, etc.) that the pipeline completes "successfully" with no
extractable text. AI Assistant literally cannot reference these.
- **Warning B — Partial-embed stall** (chunks < 50% of expected from
the ratio registry). Surfaces the simple_wiki "266 of 600,000 chunks"
case observed during NOMAD1 ingestion testing — previously these
looked identical to fully-completed embeds in the UI.
Both warnings render only when their condition is met (silent by
default; noisy only on real problems).
Base is `feat/kb-ratio-registry` (#891) because Warning B's "expected
chunks" estimate comes from `KbRatioRegistry.estimateChunks()`. GitHub
fast-forwards to `rc` once #891 merges.
- `app/utils/kb_warning_decision.ts` — pure `decideWarnings(inputs)`
with thresholds (`100 MB`, `0.5×`) as exported constants. 10 unit
tests cover the healthy case, both warnings, the under/at/over
boundary, the registry-miss suppression, and the video-only registry
case (`expectedChunks: 0` correctly skips Warning B).
- `RagService.computeFileWarnings()` — single Qdrant scroll tallies
chunks per source, filesystem walk fills in zero-chunk files,
ratio registry estimates the expectation, decision function emits.
- New endpoint `GET /api/rag/file-warnings` returns
`Record<source, FileWarning[]>` (sources with no warnings are
omitted, so the frontend can `warnings[source] ?? []` for clean
defaults).
- KB modal: warnings render inline under the file name as amber-tinted
pills. Polled every 30s alongside the existing health check.
- Warning C — chunks skipped due to length. PR #890 (#881 fix) prevents
the silent drop at the embed boundary, so the underlying condition
shouldn't fire anymore. If we still want to surface "we truncated
N chunks to fit", that needs separate `skipped_count` tracking in
EmbedFileJob — a Phase 2 follow-up.
- Suppressing Warning B during active mid-ingestion. The user can cross-
reference the Processing Queue to know it's in-flight; suppressing
warnings while a job runs would mask real stalls where the job died
mid-batch. Will revisit when per-card status is wired through.
- Use of `kb_ingest_state.chunks_embedded` (#888) as the chunk count
source. This PR uses Qdrant scroll directly so it can land
independently of #888.
- 10 new unit tests on `decideWarnings`, all pass
- Type-check clean
- Hot-patch + browser smoke test deferred until #891 lands (the ratio
registry needs to exist in the DB for `estimateChunks()` to return
non-null estimates — without it, only Warning A fires which is still
useful but Warning B stays dormant)
* feat(KB): per-file ingest state machine (Phase 1 of RFC #883)
Adds a persistent state machine for AI knowledge-base ingestion so the
scanner can distinguish "fully indexed", "user opted out", "failed", and
"stalled" from each other — none of which were derivable from the prior
binary "any chunks in Qdrant ⇒ embedded" check.
## What lands
- New table `kb_ingest_state` keyed by `file_path` with enum state column
(`pending_decision | indexed | browse_only | failed | stalled`).
Independent of `installed_resources` so it covers both curated downloads
and manually-uploaded KB files.
- New KV key `rag.defaultIngestPolicy` (string: `Always | Manual`).
Registered now but not consumed yet — JIT prompt + wizard step land in
Phase 3 of the RFC.
- `EmbedFileJob.handle` writes state on terminal outcomes:
- Success (final batch) → `indexed` + chunks count
- `UnrecoverableError` → `failed` + error message
- Retryable errors are left to BullMQ's existing retry path
- `scanAndSyncStorage` swaps the binary qdrant check for a state-aware
decision tree (see `decideScanAction`). Existing installs auto-backfill
on first scan: files with chunks in Qdrant but no state row become
`indexed`; new files start as `pending_decision`.
- `deleteFileBySource` drops the state row last, so removed files
disappear entirely instead of leaving an orphan that the next scan
would re-dispatch into nothing.
## What does NOT land here
- Ratio registry (separate PR) — needed for partial-stall detection and
cost estimates, but a separable concern.
- #880 follow-up initial-progress anchor (separate tiny PR).
- Phase 2 UI (status pill, per-card actions, conditional warnings).
- Phase 3 policy surfaces (wizard step, JIT prompt, guardrail modal).
- PR #886's bulk-action hookup — `_deletePointsBySource` / Re-embed All
/ Reset & Rebuild would also want to set state, but #886 isn't merged
yet; that wiring goes in a follow-up once #886 lands.
## Target
This is forward work for v1.40.0 (RFC #883). Branching off `rc` because
that's the current latest base and post-GA Jake will sync rc→dev; a
retarget at PR-open time is a fast-forward if requested.
## Tests
- 9 new unit tests for `decideScanAction` covering all five states plus
the no-row / chunks-present / chunks-missing combinations
- Type-check clean
- Smoke-tested end-to-end on NOMAD3 via hot-patch:
- Backfill: 5 ZIMs + 2 KB uploads with existing chunks in Qdrant all
came back `indexed` on first scan
- Pending dispatch: a video-only ZIM with no chunks (`lrnselfreliance`)
came back `pending_decision` and was correctly re-dispatched (Bull
deduped to its historical `:completed` jobId — bgauger's #886 fix
drains that)
- Delete hook: deleting a KB upload via `DELETE /api/rag/files`
removed both the disk file and the state row
* feat(KB): Always/Manual ingest policy toggle (RFC #883 §1/§4)
Activates the `rag.defaultIngestPolicy` KV registered in Phase 1
(#888) so users on a fresh install (or anyone who picks Manual mode)
no longer get every new ZIM auto-dispatched to the embed pipeline.
## Stacks on #888
This PR's base is `feat/kb-ingest-state-machine` (#888). The state
machine has to be in place for the decision function to be policy-aware;
GitHub will fast-forward the base to `rc` once #888 merges.
## Backend changes
- `decideScanAction` now takes a `policy: 'Always' | 'Manual'` argument
(defaults to `Always` for backward compatibility).
- New `ScanAction` kind: `create_pending`. Manual mode records that the
scanner has seen a new file (so the UI can surface a per-card Index
affordance later) without dispatching an EmbedFileJob.
- `scanAndSyncStorage` reads the KV and passes it through. The scan-result
log line now includes the active policy and a `waiting on user` count
for Manual-mode hits.
- `rag.defaultIngestPolicy` added to `SETTINGS_KEYS` so it's reachable
through the existing `GET/PATCH /api/system/settings` surface — no new
endpoint.
## Frontend changes
- New section in the KB panel between "Why upload" and "Processing Queue":
"Auto-index new content for AI? [Always | Manual]" — segmented radio
with copy explaining the 5-10× disk multiplier. Default Always.
- `useQuery('ingestPolicy')` reads the current value; clicking the
inactive option mutates and shows a notification confirming the new
behavior.
## Tests
- 14 unit tests on `decideScanAction` (was 9) — split into Always-mode
cases (preserves Phase 1's contract) and Manual-mode cases
(`create_pending`, `pending_decision → skip`, etc.).
- Type-check clean.
- Hot-patch + browser verification deferred until #888 lands; the state
machine smoke-tested cleanly on NOMAD3 in #888's PR, and this PR's
decision-tree changes are exhaustively unit-tested.
## RFC open question §3 — policy-change re-trigger
Switching Manual → Always doesn't auto-dispatch existing `pending_decision`
rows immediately. The next scan re-evaluates and dispatches them under
the new policy. This matches the RFC's "treat the switch as I've-
thought-about-it" instinct for the guardrail; full guardrail
implementation lands in Phase 3 task 14.
---------
Co-authored-by: Jake Turner <52841588+jakeaturner@users.noreply.github.com>
The OpenAI-compatible /v1/embeddings fallback path can't pass
`truncate:true` / `num_ctx:8192` to the model, so any chunk that
exceeds the model's loaded context_length (often 2048 for
nomic-embed-text:v1.5) returns a 400 BadRequestError and is silently
dropped from Qdrant. Two CPU-only ingestion runs on NOMAD1 hit this
on dense technical content (medlineplus, arduino.stackexchange) even
after PR #763's num_ctx fix on the native path.
Pre-cap each input string at 4000 chars before either backend call.
That's ~1000-2000 tokens depending on density, comfortably under the
model's 2048 default. The chunker in RagService is sized for
MAX_SAFE_TOKENS=1600 (3200 chars at its conservative 2 chars/token
estimate), so well-formed inputs are never touched; this is purely a
runtime safety net for the edge cases that slip through.
Also stop swallowing the original error in the catch. The bare
`} catch {}` here has masked recurring "input length exceeds context
length" failures for months (#369, #670, #881). Capture and warn-log
the message so future investigations see why we fell back.
Same root cause as #369 and #670 which were closed without an actual
fix to the fallback path.
Adds a persistent state machine for AI knowledge-base ingestion so the
scanner can distinguish "fully indexed", "user opted out", "failed", and
"stalled" from each other — none of which were derivable from the prior
binary "any chunks in Qdrant ⇒ embedded" check.
## What lands
- New table `kb_ingest_state` keyed by `file_path` with enum state column
(`pending_decision | indexed | browse_only | failed | stalled`).
Independent of `installed_resources` so it covers both curated downloads
and manually-uploaded KB files.
- New KV key `rag.defaultIngestPolicy` (string: `Always | Manual`).
Registered now but not consumed yet — JIT prompt + wizard step land in
Phase 3 of the RFC.
- `EmbedFileJob.handle` writes state on terminal outcomes:
- Success (final batch) → `indexed` + chunks count
- `UnrecoverableError` → `failed` + error message
- Retryable errors are left to BullMQ's existing retry path
- `scanAndSyncStorage` swaps the binary qdrant check for a state-aware
decision tree (see `decideScanAction`). Existing installs auto-backfill
on first scan: files with chunks in Qdrant but no state row become
`indexed`; new files start as `pending_decision`.
- `deleteFileBySource` drops the state row last, so removed files
disappear entirely instead of leaving an orphan that the next scan
would re-dispatch into nothing.
## What does NOT land here
- Ratio registry (separate PR) — needed for partial-stall detection and
cost estimates, but a separable concern.
- #880 follow-up initial-progress anchor (separate tiny PR).
- Phase 2 UI (status pill, per-card actions, conditional warnings).
- Phase 3 policy surfaces (wizard step, JIT prompt, guardrail modal).
- PR #886's bulk-action hookup — `_deletePointsBySource` / Re-embed All
/ Reset & Rebuild would also want to set state, but #886 isn't merged
yet; that wiring goes in a follow-up once #886 lands.
## Target
This is forward work for v1.40.0 (RFC #883). Branching off `rc` because
that's the current latest base and post-GA Jake will sync rc→dev; a
retarget at PR-open time is a fast-forward if requested.
## Tests
- 9 new unit tests for `decideScanAction` covering all five states plus
the no-row / chunks-present / chunks-missing combinations
- Type-check clean
- Smoke-tested end-to-end on NOMAD3 via hot-patch:
- Backfill: 5 ZIMs + 2 KB uploads with existing chunks in Qdrant all
came back `indexed` on first scan
- Pending dispatch: a video-only ZIM with no chunks (`lrnselfreliance`)
came back `pending_decision` and was correctly re-dispatched (Bull
deduped to its historical `:completed` jobId — bgauger's #886 fix
drains that)
- Delete hook: deleting a KB upload via `DELETE /api/rag/files`
removed both the disk file and the state row
Co-authored-by: Jake Turner <52841588+jakeaturner@users.noreply.github.com>
onWikipediaDownloadComplete was deleting every file whose name starts
with `wikipedia_en_`, treating distinct corpora (simple, medicine,
wikivoyage, climate_change, etc.) as competing versions of the same
selection slot. Whichever wiki finished second silently wiped the
other from disk.
Match by filename stem instead — strip the trailing `_YYYY-MM(-DD).zim`
date suffix and only delete files with the same stem as the new
download. Different release dates of the same variant still get cleaned
up; distinct variants are preserved.
Extracted the predicate to `app/utils/zim_filename.ts` so the boundary
is covered by unit tests (8 cases incl. the #884 repro scenario).
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