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WHC 82dee65942 v0.8.15: custom providers and model parameters under Advanced options
The settings dialog could pick a preset, a model and a key and nothing else.
Two things were missing: a provider the presets do not know, and what the
model is asked to do while it answers. Both live under "Advanced options"
now, next to the entry they belong to.

Custom providers (engine)
- cst_models_user_set_provider() / cst_models_user_drop_provider() write the
  engine's own user layer, <config>/cst-agent/models.json:
  {"providers": {"myllm": {"api_base": ..., "key_env": ...,
                           "default_model": ..., "models": [...]}}}
  and reload the registry, so the provider is at once in the provider list,
  in the wire models[] and in the CLI's /provider -- the file a hand-written
  override would go into is the same one, so the GUI and an editor agree.
  The name is checked (1-31 of letters, digits, '.', '_', '-'), a preset's
  name overrides that preset (a self-hosted endpoint, a proxy), everything
  else in the file (model rules) is kept, and a file that is not a JSON
  object is never overwritten. Dropping only removes the user's own entry.
- AgentCore::providers() gained "custom" (source == "user"), and
  addProvider() / removeProvider() drive the two calls above.

Model parameters (engine + wire)
- cst_agent_config_t and cst_llm_request_t carry temperature, top_p and
  max_tokens. 0 means the field is not sent at all -- an absent field is the
  provider's own default, which "temperature": 0 is not (deterministic
  decoding is a real choice), so cst_llm_build_body() only adds what was set.
  tests/test_llm_body.c:test_gen_params pins both halves.
- settings.json keeps them per provider ("params": {...}) via
  cst_settings_remember_params(); cst_settings_remember() carries them along
  with the provider choice, and cst_agent_create() reads them, so a CLI or
  TUI run sends what the window was set to. An all-zero config (the CLI)
  leaves what the GUI saved alone.
- AgentCore::genParams() / setGenParams(), and useProvider() applies both the
  remembered parameters of the provider it lands on and a base URL that was
  edited in the dialog.

The dialog
- Rewritten around one scrolling body with a fixed footer: a long model list
  used to push the key field and the buttons out of the dialog. The model
  chips are filtered (a filter field appears past twelve) and capped at 40
  with "... +N more", which is what a router with hundreds of models needs.
- "Advanced options" folds out the provider entry (name, base URL, key
  variable, default model, models; Save provider / Remove from models.json)
  and the model parameters (temperature, top-p, max tokens; empty = not
  sent). The fields follow the picked provider and are what gets saved, so a
  hand-typed edit is never lost to a stale property.

Verified: --uitest 67/67 (15 new checks: parameters round-trip through the
engine, a provider added through the form and removed again, a bad name
refused, a preset not removable), --selftest, ctest cst-app-selftest, and
make check with the new body test.

Version 0.8.15.

mode = coding
2026-10-11 13:26:02 +08:00
WHC 3fd039cb51 v0.8.14: icons from the desktop's theme (Breeze), readable text, composer frame
The window drew its icons with unicode glyphs -- a clip emoji for attach, a
gear, a hamburger, a chevron, a multiplication sign for delete. Those render
in whichever font happens to cover them (colour emoji in a grey toolbar) and
are a box on a machine without that glyph. They now come from the icon theme,
the way every other desktop app gets them.

Icons
- app/src/ui/ThemeIcons.{h,cpp}: a QQuickImageProvider for
  image://csttheme/<name>?color=%23rrggbb -- QIcon::fromTheme() in the
  desktop's theme (whatever the platform theme set, else breeze-dark, breeze,
  hicolor), tinted with QPainter's SourceIn and rasterised at the requested
  size and the screen's device pixel ratio. Qt only builds its theme search
  paths from XDG once a theme name is set, so the provider fills them itself
  (GenericDataLocation/icons, ~/.icons and, on NixOS,
  /run/current-system/sw/share/icons, for a shell started outside the desktop
  session). An unknown name yields a null image, which QML reports as
  Image.Error.
- app/qml/ThemeIcon.qml: the one component that asks for an icon. Every use
  still names the old character as `glyph:`, so a host with no icon theme
  degrades to exactly what the window looked like before instead of going
  blank. installThemeIcons() is called by main() and by --uitest, so the test
  loads the same icons the app does.
- Replaced: nav (application-menu), settings (settings-configure), attach
  (mail-attachment), copy (edit-copy), session delete (edit-delete), new
  session (list-add), expand/collapse (arrow-right/arrow-down), jump to the end
  (go-down), the plan checklist (task-complete/box). A tool card also shows
  what kind of tool ran -- Theme.toolIcon(): pencil for patch/write, text page
  for read, folder for list/glob, magnifier for grep, braces for a shell,
  globe for web, list for a plan. Toolbar icons are 22 px (Breeze's toolbar
  size), card and row icons 14-16 px.

Colours (the "some text is unreadable" part)
- textFaint #6d757b -> #8d959c: ~3.4:1 -> ~5:1 on the card fill. It carries
  hints, provider URLs, session metadata and placeholders, so it is text, not
  decoration.
- A selected provider row and the open session row write on the accent fill;
  they now use accentText / accentTextDim / okOnAccent instead of faint grey
  and green on blue (named "accentText", not "onAccent": QML reads any `onFoo`
  property as a signal handler and refuses the assignment).
- The filled buttons (Send, Use this) take their ink from Theme.accentInk.

Composer
- The frame is one Theme.pad around its column on every side (anchors.fill,
  implicitHeight + 2*pad). With the top margin alone the last row -- the clip
  and Send -- hung over the lower border, which is what put the clip on the
  frame instead of inside it.

app/README.md gains an "Icons, colors" section (the provider, why the theme
search paths are filled by hand, the qtsvg requirement for rasterising Breeze,
the tool map, and the contrast rules).

Verified: --uitest 52/52, --selftest OK, and the 0.8.14 window relaunched in
the Plasma session (no QML warnings).

Version 0.8.14.

mode = coding
2026-10-11 12:53:49 +08:00
WHC be4025e276 v0.8.11: theme the settings dialog's fields and buttons
The Basic style paints its own controls: the two text fields came out as white
boxes on the dark panel and the buttons looked nothing like the rest of the
window. Both fields now carry the surface, border and focus colors the chat
cards use (same shape as AskDialog's field), and the buttons follow the
composer: Close is a quiet bordered button, Use this is the accent one.

No behavior change; 36/36 UI checks still pass and the dialog was looked at
again through CST_APP_SHOT.

Version 0.8.11.
2026-10-11 12:27:44 +08:00
WHC 69842edf16 v0.8.10: settings dialog (provider, model, key), window starts on a provider
The window could be started, but it could not be pointed anywhere: a provider,
a model and a key only came in on the command line. The gear in the header now
opens a dialog that changes all three on the engine's live config.

AgentCore (app/src/core/AgentCore.*):
- providers(): the engine's preset table (cst_provider_count/at), with base
  URL, the remembered or preset model, whether a key exists and where it comes
  from (cst_creds_resolve: "saved", or the environment variable), the preset's
  key variable and the source ("built-in" / "user"). A key is read into a local
  buffer only to answer "is there one"; it never leaves the C++ side.
- modelChoices(provider): the provider's own list (cst_provider_models), the
  fetched cache (cst_ps_cached -- which writes through its out-parameters, so
  it takes a real int, not NULL: passing one cost a segfault) and the
  remembered pick. No network. modelInfo() is cst_model_info + its "200K ·
  text only" label; usage() is cst_agent_usage for the session and the turn.
- useProvider(provider, model, key) -> "" or a reason: a different provider
  goes through cst_ps_switch_provider() (the key is verified against /models
  before it is saved; offline it is kept unverified and the header says so),
  a key for the current one through cst_ps_set_key(), and the model is
  remembered in settings.json. syncConfig() takes the engine's config back
  over the app's copy, so provider/model/approval read correctly afterwards.
  The engine's session is never touched by a switch.
- open() no longer starts with an empty provider: it takes the one the engine
  used last (settings.json), else the built-in default, plus that provider's
  base URL and model. Without this the first turn could not be sent at all and
  no entry in the dialog was "in use".

QML (app/qml/SettingsDialog.qml, Main.qml):
- a modal dialog with the themed surface the other dialogs use (the Basic
  style's light panel washes out the dark theme), the provider list with its
  key state, a model field with the info label and clickable candidates, a
  password field for a new key, the session's token counters, and a note that
  reports what the last "Use this" answered.

Tests: 8 more checks -- the presets are readable, an unknown provider is
refused, the counters are readable, the gear opens the panel, the rows exist, a
model typed into the field reaches the engine, the note says so, Close puts the
dialog away. 36 checks pass. --uitest also points XDG_CONFIG_HOME at its
scratch directory now, so a run cannot rewrite the user's settings.json or
credentials, and CST_APP_SHOT writes shot.png at the end plus
shot-settings.png while the dialog is open (that is how the dialog above was
reviewed on a machine without a screen).

Verified: 36/36 UI checks, --selftest, ctest cst-app-selftest, make check rc=0,
and a screenshot of the dialog.

Version 0.8.10.
2026-10-11 12:25:33 +08:00