Agent callsigns, spoken identity, and version in the title bar - #21
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A Settings > Behavior toggle (app-wide, persisted in panel-state.json)
names new agents from a curated 500+ callsign pool - construct-crew,
phreak, and cypher-energy handles, no real people or properties - dealt
from a shuffled deck that never repeats until exhausted, skips names
open tabs are wearing, and falls back to numbers if all are taken.
Tests pin the pool contract: 500+ unique well-formed names, cycle
without repeats, collision skip, numbered fallback.
The window title now reads MandoCode Desktop v{version}, sourced from
the assembly version the update checker already compares.
The tab's name now reaches the model and the transcript. AgentSession
stamps Config.AgentName (new in the engine, null-safe for the CLI) via
its Title setter BEFORE building AIService, so the baked system prompt
introduces the agent as '{name}, running on MandoCode' from the first
message. Renaming a tab notifies the live conversation through the
workspace-note channel. Reply cards are labeled with the agent's name
instead of a hardcoded MandoCode - the platform stays the stage, the
agent is the actor. Rolls the harness pin for AgentName support.
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Summary
Gives agents real identities. A new app-wide setting names each new agent from a curated pool of 500+ callsigns instead of "Agent 1, Agent 2" — and the named agent actually knows its name: reply cards carry it, and the model introduces itself by it. Also puts the app version in the window title.
What's new (plain language)
1. Callsign names (Settings → Behavior, off by default). Turn it on and new agents draw names like Morphy, Crunch, Blazor, Kaos, or Wichita from a 500+ name deck — shuffled, no repeats until the whole deck has been dealt, never colliding with an open tab. The pool is hand-curated street-energy: breaking-cypher, phone-phreak, and construct-crew flavor, with no real people or owned properties referenced (distinctive real handles were riffed, not copied). Numbered names remain the default, and renaming a tab by hand always works.
2. Agents know who they are. Before: a tab named Blazor still said "Hi, I'm MandoCode" because that identity was hardcoded in the AI's instructions, forcing one word to mean both the app and the voice — visibly confusing smaller models. Now the model is told "You are Blazor, a local AI coding assistant running on MandoCode", reply cards are labeled with the agent's name, and renaming a tab informs the live conversation. MandoCode stays the platform; agents are characters on it. The engine side (MandoCode PR #68, pinned here) is null-safe — the CLI's classic identity is untouched.
3. Version in the title bar. "MandoCode Desktop v0.1.0", from the same single version source the update checker uses.
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