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WHC c2320f946b v0.9.0: the Qt front end as an Android APK, images in the transcript
Two strands land together: the window draws pictures now, and the whole front
end builds, installs and runs on the phone with the engine linked in-process.

Images (the "make a picture actually show up" part)
- Engine, additively: cst_agent_hooks_t.on_tool_images(call, list, n, ud) fires
  when a call left attachments behind, and cst_agent_pending_rel() /
  cst_agent_pending_is_image() read that list without the app touching the
  store. tests/test_attach.c::test_agent_pending pins the three cases (an
  image, a stored name that passes cst_attach_rel_ok, out-of-range NULL).
- App: image://cstattach/<stored name> (app/src/ui/SessionImages.cpp) serves
  only the current session's attachment directory, checked with
  cst_attach_rel_ok, decodes down to the requested sourceSize and never
  upscales, and holds a mutex because requestImage() runs on the render
  thread while the directory can change underneath it. AgentCore gained
  attachmentDir(), pendingImages(), the toolImages()/promptImages() signals
  and hookToolImages(); history() gives replayed rows their images too.
- QML: ImageStrip.qml (a thumb strip, <=150 px tall, shaped by the picture,
  tooltip with name/size/origin, the file's name when it went missing),
  wired into MessageCard and ToolCard. Qt 6's ListModel cannot hold a
  list-valued role (append() reads back undefined, setProperty drops it), so
  a row carries one image per line as <stored>|<name>|<origin>|<w>x<h> and
  ImageStrip decodes that.

Android (the engine is already in the APK; this is the front end)
- app/src/main.cpp: on Android the workspace, config, tmp and HOME go under
  the app's own data directory before the engine opens anything, because
  QDir::currentPath() is "/" there and /tmp is not writable.
- app/android/: the manifest (QtApplication/QtActivity, INTERNET and
  POST_NOTIFICATIONS, adjustResize, no storage permission -- the picker will
  be the system one), strings, a vector icon; minSdk 24 and targetSdk 35 come
  from app/CMakeLists.txt through QT_ANDROID_MIN/TARGET_SDK_VERSION.
- app/src/platform/android/AndroidTools.cpp: the Android file behind
  PlatformInit(), owner "app:android" (notification, clipboard, share sheet,
  file picker are stubs for now, so the tool list does not lie about them).
- app/tools/selftest.c decides its scratch workspace with os_temp_dir(), so
  the C smoke test runs on the device too.
- scripts/build_apk_android.sh: sources to installed APK in one command
  (environment checks, qt-cmake configure, --target apk, adb install), and
  the host-side plumbing the NixOS + qt.io combination needs -- the NDK
  sysroot include dirs for Qt's FindGLESv2/FindEGL (they only look under
  <sysroot>/include), -L$PREFIX/lib on the shared/module link lines as well
  as the executables', the Android debug keystore created on first use with
  QT_ANDROID_SIGN_APK + QT_ANDROID_KEYSTORE_* (androiddeployqt copies the
  unsigned gradle output and signs it itself), and the #!/bin/bash shebang of
  the build-tools wrappers, which NixOS does not have.
- scripts/gradle-android-init.gradle (installed into ~/.gradle/init.d/): the
  release lint task is switched off -- lintVitalAnalyzeRelease resolves its
  own tool jars straight from dl.google.com, bypassing every repository the
  build configures, and fails the build after all the real work is done.
- Icons: app/icons/*.svg (Breeze's 24@3x files, the 19 names the window asks
  for) are compiled in as :/cst-icons and ThemeIcons.cpp falls back to them
  when the platform has no icon theme. On the phone the Qt theme lookup found
  nothing and the QML glyph fallback was an empty box in the phone's fonts.
- docs/android.md: "The APK (Qt front end)" -- the SDK assembled without
  sdkmanager, the host Qt's missing libraries on NixOS, the Gradle mirrors,
  lint, signing -- and a Status that says what runs where. app/README.md
  gains the images and APK lines, and stops claiming Android platform tools
  that are still stubs.

Verified: engine `make check` green; desktop `cst-app-selftest: OK` and
--uitest all checks pass; phone (NX789J, Android 16, arm64-v8a) -- the APK
installs, starts on the workspace under /data/user/0/xyz.whcself.cstagent/
files/, a turn reaches a configured provider over HTTPS from inside the ART
process and renders the reply, rotation keeps the session and docks the
sidebar, and the toolbar/card icons draw.

Version 0.9.0.

mode = coding
2026-10-11 15:22:10 +08:00
WHC 5ba215b36c v0.8.7: tool capability metadata, in-process engine, Qt app, Android engine
The engine can be embedded now instead of only driven from a terminal: the
same objects link into a Qt front end (app/) that owns a cst_agent_t inside
its own process -- no port, no token, no second process -- and that front end
now runs on the desktop and, engine-side, on the phone.

Capability metadata (include/cst_tools.h, src/tools/registry.c):
- cst_tool_def_t gains perm_name, platforms and available (a probe that
  returns a reason), so a permission is addressable by name and a tool can
  say why it cannot run here.
- cst_platform_name(), cst_tool_platform_ok(), cst_tool_available(),
  cst_tool_meta_reload(), cst_tool_perm_name() and CST_PLAT_DESKTOP[].
- cst_tool_register() may take over a built-in name that is not runnable on
  this platform, so a front end replaces it with its own implementation.
- the registry entries carry their class (delete_file -> "delete"), the
  desktop clipboard tools carry a clipboard probe; find/active/run gate on it.
- /api/settings.tools[] exposes perm_name, platforms, available, why and the
  declared parameters.

Engine as a library (Makefile, CMakeLists.txt):
- libcstcore.a from the CORE_OBJ set, and a CMake cstcore target shared by
  the CLI and by app/ (-DCST_BUILD_APP=ON): the engine is compiled once.
- Android branch for the vendored sashidown: a per-ABI archive built with the
  NDK's aarch64-linux-android24-clang wrapper, because CMake's compiler is
  plain clang and keeps --target/--sysroot in its own variables.

Qt front end (app/, new):
- AgentCore wraps one cst_agent_t: turns run on a worker thread, every
  cst_agent_hooks_t callback becomes a Qt signal, and the two hooks that need
  an answer (on_permission, on_ask_user) block the worker until the GUI
  replies; mode, approval and plan mode go through the engine's config.
- ToolProvider hands the front end's tools to the engine (owner "app:*"); the
  Linux one is notification_send with a probe for notify-send/D-Bus.
- Main.qml: transcript, tool blocks, consent dialog (Deny/Once/Always ->
  CST_PERM_*), ask_user, mode switch, Esc to cancel; --selftest stays
  headless and runs the embedding checks without QML.

Android (scripts/, docs/android.md, new):
- scripts/build_third_party_android.sh builds static mbedTLS + libcurl for an
  ABI (CA path /system/etc/security/cacerts); build_android.sh builds
  cst-agent, libcstcore.a and the test binaries for the phone, can push them
  and run the whole suite there.
- sandbox_exec.c keeps the plain exec path on Android: the seccomp supervisor
  compiled in and the probe reported "seccomp", but writes outside the
  workspace were not denied on the device -- claiming a sandbox that does not
  hold is worse than reporting none.
- tests/test_diff.c compares layouts only against real GNU diffutils: toybox's
  diff prints the same hunk header with its own hunk/context rules.

Tests: test_tool_meta (metadata, platform gate, probe reasons, takeover of a
built-in name) and test_embed (in-process embedding contract) are new; the
existing registry/llm_body assertions now follow availability. 38 test
binaries pass on the host, 36/36 on arm64-v8a Android 16, cst-app-selftest
passes in both the standalone app/ build and the repo build.

Version 0.8.7.
2026-10-11 11:42:04 +08:00