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Summary

  • Inline ghost text completions: New InlineSearchMenuUI renders completions as grayed-out ghost text after the cursor (like VS Code), with arrow key cycling and Tab accept. Toggleable via @shell set ui.inlineCompletions true/false
  • Fix completion sort order: Preserve backend group ordering so grammar completions ("by") appear before entity completions (song titles), matching CLI behavior
  • Fix NFA wildcard self-loop completions: Property completions only fire at the wildcard entry state (before any tokens consumed), not from the self-loop state — prevents stale entity suggestions after partial wildcard matches

Test plan

  • Type play → ghost text shows first completion with counter (e.g., "1/N")
  • Arrow up/down cycles through completions
  • Tab accepts the completion, ghost disappears
  • Type play Shake It Off → ghost shows "by" (not "Shake It Off" again)
  • @shell set ui.inlineCompletions false → switches to dropdown menu mode
  • @shell set ui.inlineCompletions true → switches back to inline ghost
  • @config commands also show inline completions
  • Escape dismisses ghost text

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steveluc and others added 30 commits February 2, 2026 21:51
- Add terminalUI module with EnhancedSpinner, TerminalLayout, InputBox,
  CompletionMenu classes
- EnhancedSpinner supports output-above-spinner pattern and streaming text
- InputBox provides bordered input areas with emoji-aware width handling
- CompletionMenu adds trigger-based autocompletion (@ for agents, / for commands)
- Add ESM module support and string-width dependency for Unicode handling
- Include demo script and design documentation

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add --testUI flag to CLI interactive command for enhanced terminal UI
- Convert debug output to use 'debug' npm package across grammar/cache modules
- Restore async grammar generation mode (fire-and-forget) for faster command responses
- Add grammar result display when new rules are added to cache
- Fix terminal input double-echo and cursor position issues
- Fix prompt bracket overlap with emoji icons

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Fix manifest grammarFile paths to be manifest-relative (for patchPaths resolution)
- Add NFA type extraction in AgentGrammar.validateEntityReferences to allow
  generated rules to reference types like TrackName, ArtistName from base grammar
- Remove diagnostic console.log statements, keep debug() logging

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add single console.log showing generated rule or rejection reason
- Remove verbose startup logging from setupGrammarGeneration
- Keep debug() logging for detailed tracing when needed

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Include the generated rule in rejection messages to help diagnose
entity validation failures and other rule addition errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Call registerBuiltInEntities() in setupGrammarGeneration to register
  Ordinal, Cardinal, CalendarDate converters
- Make entity registry check case-insensitive (ordinal matches Ordinal)
- Include generated rule in rejection messages for debugging

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…itive matching

- Revert case-insensitive entity validation (too dangerous for all symbols)
- Register lowercase aliases (ordinal, cardinal, calendarDate) alongside
  PascalCase versions to match paramSpec convention from .pas.json schemas

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Use ClientIO notify for grammar rule notifications instead of console.log
- Log grammar notifications to ~/.typeagent/grammar.log in CLI
- Suppress startup agent errors (use debug logging instead of error notifications)
- Fix entityWildcardPropertyNames: exclude basic wildcard types (wildcard, word, number, string) from being treated as entity wildcards

The entity wildcard fix resolves the smoke test failure where $(listName:wildcard) was incorrectly added to entityWildcardPropertyNames, causing "Invalid entity wildcard property name" errors.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The first getList rule was too greedy - "what's on the shopping list?"
was matching with wildcard capturing "on the shopping" instead of
just "shopping".

Added a more specific rule for "what's on (my)? $(listName) (list)?"
that takes precedence over the generic pattern.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…rminal rendering

- Fix smoke test failure: "what's on the shopping list" was parsing "the shopping"
  as list name instead of "shopping" - added (the)? as optional article in grammar rules
- Add marked and marked-terminal dependencies for CLI markdown rendering
- Add convertMarkdownToTerminal function for styled terminal markdown output
- Enhance HTML-to-text conversion with better formatting for track lists
- Support DisplayType "markdown" in CLI content rendering

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Actions like pause, resume, next, previous, status don't have parameters
in their schema. The evaluators in dfaMatcher.ts and environment.ts were
always adding `parameters: {}` which caused validation to fail with:
"Action schema parameter type mismatch: player.pause"

Now only include parameters if there are any to include.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Add grammar rules for:
- next -> nextTrack
- skip -> nextTrack
- skip track -> nextTrack

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Remove custom selectors using invalid format names (orderedList,
unorderedList, listItem, dataTable) that caused "format is not a
function" errors. Use only valid built-in formats (block, inline, skip).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The rule (what's)? (show)? (me)? (the)? (my)? $(listName:wildcard) list
could match with ALL optionals empty, becoming just $(listName:wildcard) list
which captured everything before "list" as the list name.

Split into specific rules that each require at least one fixed word:
- what's (the)? (my)? $(listName:wildcard) list
- show (me)? (the)? $(listName:wildcard) list
- the $(listName:wildcard) list
- my $(listName:wildcard) list

This prevents "add bread, milk, flour to the shopping list" from being
incorrectly parsed as getList with listName="add bread, milk, flour to the shopping"

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fix issue where "list?" wouldn't match "list" in grammar rules. Also adds
local test file for faster grammar testing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replace regex-based punctuation stripping with a simple loop that
runs in O(n) time where n is the number of trailing punctuation chars.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add grammar normalization for passthrough rules before NFA construction
  Passthrough rules like `@ <S> = <C>` are converted to explicit form
  `@ <S> = $(_result:<C>) -> $(_result)` during preprocessing

- Add popEnvironment flag for exiting nested rules without parent capture
  When rules like `(<Item>)?` create environments but the parent doesn't
  capture their result, we now properly pop the environment stack

- Track anyRuleCreatedEnvironment to avoid unnecessary pops
  Rules like `(the)?` that don't create environments don't trigger a pop

- Skip CalendarDate test pending grammar imports work

Fixes "play the second track" returning trackNumber: undefined instead of 2

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Implement comprehensive Windows settings control through natural language:
- 47 new settings actions across 14 categories (Network, Display, Taskbar, Mouse, Privacy, Power, Accessibility, etc.)
- C# handlers in AutoShell_Settings.cs using Win32 APIs, Registry, WMI, and COM
- Grammar patterns supporting 300+ natural language variations
- Full TypeScript integration with action schema, connector mapping, and grammar compilation
- 100% test pass rate (32/32 test cases)

This enables users to control Windows settings like "turn on bluetooth", "increase brightness", "center taskbar", "set mouse speed to 12" through TypeAgent.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The TypeScript test file was causing compilation errors:
- Missing Jest configuration and type definitions
- Invalid import path for 'action-grammar' package
- Unused variables flagged by compiler

Functional testing is already provided by test-grammar-matching.mjs
which successfully tests all 32 grammar patterns with 100% pass rate.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Follow the code agent pattern by organizing Windows settings actions
into focused sub-groups for better discoverability and maintainability.

**Changes:**
- Keep 26 common actions at top level (window management, volume, wifi, bluetooth, brightness)
- Organize 44 specialized actions into 7 sub-categories:
  - desktop-display: Night light, scaling, orientation (5 actions)
  - desktop-personalization: Transparency, title bars, contrast (3 actions)
  - desktop-taskbar: Auto-hide, alignment, widgets, clock (7 actions)
  - desktop-input: Mouse/touchpad settings (8 actions)
  - desktop-privacy: Camera, microphone, location access (3 actions)
  - desktop-power: Battery saver, power modes (3 actions)
  - desktop-system: Accessibility, file explorer, time, focus, etc. (15 actions)

**Technical:**
- Created `src/windows/` subdirectory with 7 schema files
- Updated `manifest.json` with `subActionManifests` section
- Created `allActionsSchema.ts` for internal type unions
- Main `actionsSchema.ts` reduced from 704 to 274 lines
- All actions remain fully functional via connector.ts
- Build passes: tsc ✅ asc ✅ agc ✅

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Keep refactored schema structure with sub-categories.
Include smoke tests, full test scenarios, debugging tips, and success criteria.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Update package.json to compile each sub-schema separately with asc:* scripts
- Add compiledSchemaFile to all sub-action manifests (without grammarFile)
- Update actionHandler to use AllDesktopActions type
- Each sub-schema now generates its own .pas.json file for action resolution

Note: Grammar system doesn't yet support schemaName field passthrough
Need to implement post-processing or NFA matcher fix for sub-schema routing
Brings in 38+ commits with:
- Enhanced terminal UI features
- Grammar generation improvements
- NFA matching fixes
- CLI prompt and completion functionality

# Conflicts:
#	ts/pnpm-lock.yaml
steveluc and others added 22 commits February 11, 2026 21:15
…refactoring

- Add kp (Knowledge Processor) package: keyword indexing, dictionary enrichment,
  LLM answer generation with aiclient/GPT-5-Mini primary and agent SDK fallback
- Email agent: online RAG search (provider API -> chunks -> LLM answer) as
  primary search path, offline kp index as async background enrichment
- Self-reference expansion ("me", "myself") to logged-in user email in
  send/find actions, body placeholder resolution for [Your Name]
- User identity injection into answer generation prompts
- Calendar/email provider abstraction: Google Calendar and Gmail providers
  alongside existing MS Graph providers
- Calendar action handler enhancements
- Built-in entity and grammar matching improvements

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Windows 11 TaskbarAl registry: 0 = left, 1 = center (was swapped).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Merges Curtis's grammar import system (#1920), undefined variable
validation (#1921), and duplicate variable detection (#1922) with
our normalization and entity changes.

Conflict resolution in grammarCompiler.ts: kept both main's
validateVariableReferences + duplicate var detection AND our
hasValue logic for single-literal and passthrough rules.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…improvements

- New chat-ui package: shared rendering (setContent, ChatPanel, CSS) used
  by both Electron shell and Chrome extension side panel
- Chrome extension chat panel: connects to dispatcher via service worker
  WebSocket, full send/receive with agent messages
- Per-request browser routing: shell commands use embedded browser,
  extension commands use Chrome tabs
- Follow link improvements: navigable href filtering, window.location.href
  for proper history (goBack works), ancestor/sibling link discovery
- Chat panel UX: collapsible action details, status message cleanup,
  input box fix, connection banner with auto-reconnect
- Email RAG search integration with knowledge processor

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add license/author/homepage/repository to chat-ui package.json
- Sort package.json files (chat-ui, browser, kp) per sort-package-json
- Remove accidentally committed scratch files
- Fix XSS in OAuth error display (googleCalendarClient, googleEmailClient)
- Fix URL substring check in browserViewManager (use hostname comparison)
- Add data: and vbscript: protocol checks in domUtils hasNavigableHref
- Apply prettier formatting to action-grammar, graph-utils, browser, chat-ui

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Use Node.js base64url encoding instead of manual regex replacement
- Use bounded quantifiers in calendar time range regex
- Strip residual angle brackets in HTML-to-plaintext conversion
- Bound email pattern and sentence splitter quantifiers in kp

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Loop the tag-removal regex until stable to handle nested constructs
like <scr<script>ipt> before removing residual angle brackets.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When types imported from .ts files (@import { Foo } from "schema.ts")
are used as variable types in grammar rules, they are now automatically
added to the grammar's entities list. This bridges the new import system
with the existing entity validation infrastructure, ensuring the NFA
interpreter validates matched tokens against registered entity validators.

Also fixes the player grammar to require the "device" keyword in "use"
rules, preventing "use <anything>" from matching as selectDevice.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ice validation

Custom typed wildcards (e.g. MusicDevice) now fail in the NFA interpreter
when no synchronous validator is registered, preventing greedy matches.
Player grammar changed to use checked_wildcard pattern for device names
(like trackName/artistName) with proper validation and completion support.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Modernize chat message styling: softer colors, rounded bubbles, subtle shadows
- Add rich HTML now-playing card with album art, progress bar, device info
- Consolidate track list rendering into single HTML path with flexbox layout
- Simplify window title to just app name (remove agent emojis, zoom, version)
- Remove shade tabs (Settings/Metrics/Help banner) from chat view
- Remove dark mode toggle button (still accessible via chat command)
- Remove chat-title overlay div
- Add comprehensive dark mode theme with matching color palette
- Polish chat input with rounded corners and purple focus ring

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Add [GRAMMAR] console.log tracing for grammar rule generation and NFA matching
- Fix command backstack to exclude previous session history (flaky CI test)
- Fix speech recognition null safety when microphone selector not in DOM

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ovements

- NFA completion engine: accepts token arrays, token-over-wildcard preference,
  minimal (next-token) completions with property completions for checked wildcards
- Shell requests completions only at token boundaries (spaces), filters locally
  between boundaries, backspace re-requests at last boundary
- Grammar cache: strip optional LLM-inferred parameters instead of rejecting,
  add schema optionality info to ParameterValidationInfo
- Calendar events open in embedded browser (target="_blank") like email links
- Player agent: fix artist property name matching for NFA completions
- Completion groups: add kind field (literal/entity), sorted groups support

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
# Conflicts:
#	ts/packages/cache/src/cache/grammarStore.ts
#	ts/packages/shell/src/renderer/assets/styles.less
#	ts/pnpm-lock.yaml
…ams from cache

- Sort browser package.json devDependencies and scripts for policy compliance
- Strip optional LLM-inferred parameters from grammar cache instead of rejecting
- Apply prettier formatting fixes across actionGrammar and shell packages
- Open calendar event links in embedded browser instead of system browser
- Add backspace recovery for mid-word completion filtering

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…ocal manifest paths

- Remove console.log [GRAMMAR] diagnostics from grammarStore.ts (debug() calls remain)
- Fix Spotify setVolume URL: remove stray ?volume_percent from base URL that caused
  double query param after getUrlWithParams was rewritten in PR #1923
- Fix playerLocal manifest to use agents/playerLocal/dist/... path convention
  matching getPackageFilePath expectations

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The oracle schema was removed in PR #1930 (agent cleanup), breaking
the @config schema smoke test. Use calendar instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…adata

- Add InlineSearchMenuUI: ghost text completions (like VS Code) as alternative
  to dropdown menu, with arrow key cycling and Tab accept
- Add inlineCompletions setting toggle (ui.inlineCompletions, default true)
  controllable via @shell set ui.inlineCompletions true/false
- Fix completion sort order to preserve backend group ordering (grammar
  completions like "by" appear before entity completions like song titles)
- Fix NFA wildcard self-loop: don't emit property completions from loopState,
  only from entry state — wildcard is token+ so completions after consumed
  tokens come from following grammar, not the entity list again
- Wire inline mode through SearchMenu, PartialCompletion, ChatView, SettingsView

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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curtisman added a commit to curtisman/TypeAgent that referenced this pull request Apr 5, 2026
In Electron, use RemoteSearchMenuUI (rendered in a separate WebContentsView)
so the completion menu can overlay beyond the chat view bounds. Falls back to
LocalSearchMenuUI in non-Electron environments.

This was removed in microsoft#1933 when inline ghost text completions were added.
github-merge-queue bot pushed a commit that referenced this pull request Apr 5, 2026
## Summary

Restore `RemoteSearchMenuUI` usage in Electron so the completion menu
renders in a separate `WebContentsView` that can overlay beyond the chat
view bounds.

When PR #1933 added inline ghost text completions, it replaced the
`RemoteSearchMenuUI`/`LocalSearchMenuUI` branching with
`InlineSearchMenuUI`/`LocalSearchMenuUI`, leaving `RemoteSearchMenuUI`
as dead code. The remote search menu infrastructure (IPC handlers,
`electronSearchMenuUI.ts`, `searchMenuView.ts`, preload bindings) was
never removed and remains fully intact.

## Changes

- **`packages/shell/src/renderer/src/search.ts`**: When not in inline
mode, use `RemoteSearchMenuUI` in Electron (via `isElectron()` check)
and fall back to `LocalSearchMenuUI` in non-Electron environments. This
matches the original behavior before #1933.
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