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Check name Status Explanation Description Check Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled. Title check The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving any-change requests from watch chat when determining the watch condition. Linked Issues check Issue #370requires user chat messages in watch-condition detection, exclusion of assistant messages, one intervening word in importance qualifiers, and regression tests. The diff adds user-only chat …Out of Scope Changes check The changed service and planner code directly implement issue #370. The tests verify the new watch-preference behavior.changes/370.fixed.mddocuments that behavior. No unrelated dependency, public …Full details: Linked Issues check
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#370requires user chat messages in watch-condition detection, exclusion of assistant messages, one intervening word in importance qualifiers, and regression tests. The diff adds user-only chat collection, passes separate messages toplanner_default, and recognizes phrases such asimportant page changesandsignificant price changes. Tests cover user and assistant roles, qualifier phrases, preference order, unrelated edits, and clarification precedence. The reported qwen3:8b check also confirms the chat flow savedchanged.
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A rabbit reads the watch request,
And sorts each message by its test.
“All changes,” says the user—“changed”;
“Important,” and the watch is rearranged.
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Thanks @syedmustafan, and welcome! I've approved the CI run. We test every change end to end before merging (a real engine with qwen3:8b), so I'm running that on this branch now and will come back with a review. |
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Thanks @syedmustafan, this fixes the case from the issue. I tested it on qwen3:8b with a real engine:
| Message in the task's chat | Stored |
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| "Watch http://127.0.0.1:8783/events.html for new events" | noteworthy ✓ |
| "Actually tell me about any change at all on that page" | changed ✓ (main stores noteworthy) |
Two small things before merge:
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Every chat message is checked now, so ordinary edits count as "any change". I called
planner_defaultwith a whole-page watch onnoteworthyand the planner proposingchanged. Each of these keepschangedwhere main corrects it tonoteworthy:- "Change it to check every 30 minutes" ("change" used as a verb)
- "Thanks for everything"
- "Anything else you need from me?"
- an older "any change" followed by a newer "only important changes"
Could you use only the newest user message that talks about changes (newest wins), and not count "change" used as a verb (change it / change the time)?
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_script_request(sentient/tasks/service.py, from #375) already joins the request, the chat and the answers to clarifying questions._default_conditioncould reuse it instead of building its own list.
Also: in the real run, "only important changes please" after "any change" stayed changed. Once a task is on changed, planner_default returns early (scripts.py, the previous check), so it is never looked at again. If the newest message asks for important changes, switching back to noteworthy would be great. That's fine as a follow-up if you'd rather keep this PR small.
Nit: the CHANGELOG entries around yours start with a short bold sentence, e.g. "- Changing a watch in chat sticks. ...".
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- Around line 516-517: Update the preference-matching logic around
_IMPORTANT_CHANGE to select the last explicit preference expressed in the
message, rather than returning on the first category match. Ensure a later
request for any change yields "changed" even when an earlier request matches
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🟡 Minor · Exclude negated change phrases from preference detection. · scripts.py:502-534
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winExclude negated change phrases from preference detection.
For a whole-page watch,
_change_preferencematchesOnly important changesasnoteworthy, then matches the trailingchangeinnot every changeaschanged. The later match wins, so the planner can savechangedinstead ofnoteworthy.Suggested fix
_ALL_UPDATES = re.compile(r"\b(?:anything|everything)\s+(?:at\s+all|new)\b", re.IGNORECASE) +_NEGATED_CHANGE = re.compile(r"\b(?:not|never)\s+(?:every|any)\s+changes?\b", re.IGNORECASE) def _change_preference(message: str) -> str | None: """``changed`` or ``noteworthy`` when one user message says which updates to report.""" preferences = [(match.start(), "noteworthy", match.span()) for match in _IMPORTANT_CHANGE.finditer(message)] edits = [match.span() for match in _CHANGE_AS_EDIT.finditer(message)] + negated = [match.span() for match in _NEGATED_CHANGE.finditer(message)] preferences += [ (match.start(), "changed", match.span()) for match in _CHANGE.finditer(message) if not any(start <= match.start() < end for start, end in edits) + and not any(start <= match.start() < end for start, end in negated) and not any(start <= match.start() < end for _, _, (start, end) in preferences) ]🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 502-534: Update _change_preference to exclude change matches
covered by negated phrases such as “not every change” or “never any changes,” so
they do not override an earlier preference. Add negated-phrase detection and
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Small heads-up, @syedmustafan: we just switched changelog entries to one file per change (#418). Instead of editing CHANGELOG.md, add |
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@itsskofficial Thanks—addressed in 3c51874. The entry now lives in |
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Thanks @syedmustafan, this is much better! Real run on qwen3:8b with a real engine:
| Message in the watch's chat | Stored |
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| (create the watch) | noteworthy ✓ |
| "Actually tell me about any change at all on that page" | changed ✓ |
| "only important changes please" | back to noteworthy ✓ (main can't do this) |
| "Change it to check every 30 minutes" | left alone ✓ |
Calling planner_default directly, "Change it…", "Thanks for everything", "Anything else…?" and an older "any change" followed by a newer "important changes" all behave now. Reusing _script_request is great too.
Two things left before merge:
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Questions about changes count as asking for every change (
sentient/tasks/scripts.py,_CHANGE). In the real run, "Has anything changed on that page?" switched anoteworthywatch tochanged, and that's probably the most common thing people type in a watch's chat. Calling it directly, "What changed on the page?", "Change to every hour", "I changed my mind…", "Change of plans…" and "Can you change how often it checks?" do the same. Main ignores chat messages, so these are new.Could the "any change" side require a positive request, i.e. any/every/all/whenever + change/update, or "tell me about … changes"? Messages ending in "?" could be skipped entirely.
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"Ignore minor changes" should count for
noteworthy. "Ignore minor changes, I only care about new events" stayedchangedin the real run, and "Only tell me about important stuff. Schedule changes are fine" and "only important updates" still aren't picked up. Treating ignore/skip/don't + minor/small/little changes, and important + stuff/updates, as votes fornoteworthywould cover these.
The one Windows CI failure (test_stuck_runs.py) isn't from your change. It's a known-flaky test, and I've re-run it.
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@itsskofficial Addressed in 25505a4.
Added regression coverage for each example from the review. Ruff, compilation, direct matcher cases, and diff checks pass; the focused pytest file remains unavailable in this fresh checkout because dependencies are not installed. |
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- Around line 509-514: Update _change_preference to exclude negated change
clauses such as “not every change” before selecting the latest preference, so
“Only important changes, not every change” retains the noteworthy preference.
Add a regression test for this phrasing and preserve existing preference
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- Around line 520-521: Update the question guard in the preference-parsing
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Thanks @syedmustafan, this direction looks right! Before I re-test, CI shows one regression on both Linux and Windows: "Tell me when changes" (and probably "whenever it changes" / "if it changes") is an explicit request to hear about any change, so it should still count. Only questions ("Has anything changed?") and edits ("Change it to every hour") should be ignored. Could you widen the explicit-request pattern for that case? I'll re-test on a real engine as soon as CI is green. |
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Thanks @syedmustafan, this round fixes everything I asked for! CI is green and the CI case is back.
Calling planner_default directly:
- all nine questions and edits are ignored;
- "Tell me when changes", "whenever it changes", "if it changes" and "any change at all" count;
- the three "important" messages pick
noteworthy.
On a real engine with qwen3:8b:
| Message | Stored |
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| (create the watch) | noteworthy |
| "Actually tell me about any change at all on that page" | changed |
| "Has anything changed on that page?" | stays changed |
| "only important changes please" | noteworthy |
| "Change it to check every 30 minutes" | left alone |
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One last small thing: questions with any/all next to change or update still count (scripts.py ~510-516; the ? check at ~530 only applies when nothing matched). In the real run, "Any updates?" switched a noteworthy watch to changed, and that's probably the most common thing people type in a watch's chat. "Are there any changes on the page today?" and "Were there any updates since yesterday?" do the same. Could a message ending in "?" count as any change only when it uses a request verb ("tell me", "notify me", "let me know", "alert me")? That keeps "Can you tell me about every change?" working.
Tiny optional one: "Don't tell me about every change" on a changed watch stays changed. A negated every-change request could count for noteworthy.
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@itsskofficial Addressed in
Added regression cases for these phrases. Ruff, Python compilation, direct matcher checks, and diff checks pass. |
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@itsskofficial I completed a full audit of every review summary, inline comment, and follow-up against the combined final diff. The latest review is addressed in
All earlier reported functional findings remain addressed. The previous audit also found and fixed the adjacent past-tense informational-question case in Validation for |
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Thanks @syedmustafan, everything from every round passes now! I called planner_default directly with all the earlier cases and they all behave. On a real engine with qwen3:8b:
| Message | Stored |
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| (create the watch) | noteworthy |
| "any change at all" | changed |
| "Any updates?" | stays changed |
| "only important changes please" | noteworthy |
| "Change it to check every 30 minutes" | left alone |
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One small thing I found with a new phrasing: "Ignore all minor changes" (and "Skip all the minor changes") stores changed, the opposite of what was asked. The ignore rule (scripts.py ~507) allows only one word before "minor", so "all minor changes" matches the any-change rule (~520), and being later in the message, it wins. On a real engine, "Ignore all minor changes" followed by "Has anything changed?" saved changed. Could an any-change match that sits inside a noteworthy match, or right after ignore/skip, be skipped (e.g. add ignore/skip to _NEGATED_REQUEST_PREFIX)? A test for those two phrasings, and then I'll merge.
Optional: "Thanks for all the updates" and "Can you tell me what changes were made?" also count as any change. Skipping "thanks for…" and "what changes" would cover them.
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@itsskofficial The latest review is fully addressed in
Final validation is green: focused task module 83 passed; Ruff and Python compilation passed; desktop typecheck/tests/build passed; Ubuntu engine suite passed; Windows engine suite passed with 2,790 tests passed, 2 skipped, and no reruns. All required PR checks are green, and the branch merges cleanly with current |
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Thanks @syedmustafan, this round nails it! 🎉 Every case from all rounds behaves when calling planner_default, including "Ignore all minor changes", "Skip all the minor changes", "Thanks for all the updates" and "Can you tell me what changes were made?".
On a real engine with qwen3:8b:
| Message | Stored |
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| (create the watch) | noteworthy |
| "any change at all" | changed |
| "Any updates?" | stays changed |
| "Ignore all minor changes" | noteworthy |
| "Has anything changed?" | stays noteworthy |
CI is green and it merges cleanly. A few optional phrasings are collected in #489 for later. Approving and merging. Thanks for your patience across the rounds!
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What and why
Closes #370.
Changing an existing page watch in task chat to “tell me about any change” can leave the saved condition as
noteworthy, because the default selection reads only the original request. Include user chat messages in that decision and exclude assistant messages. Also retain importance qualifiers with one intervening word, such as “important page changes” and “significant price changes.”Adds regression coverage and an Unreleased changelog entry. Prepared with AI assistance using Codex (gpt-6.1-sol).
Draft status: local implementation and validation are complete. Hosted CI has not run (
action_required), and the CLA check awaits the human contributor’s agreement. Final independent review found no code/style/security blocker and judged the test evidence adequate, but withheld ready approval while those external requirements remain unresolved.How I tested it
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0bada12de8fb0e0142de2a4699fd93613c4cb4d7:PYTHONPATH=. python -m pytest -q tests/tasks: 315 passed in the configured coding sandbox.python -m ruff check sentient tests packaging: passed.git diff --check --cached: passed.changed. Temporary state and synthetic example.org task; the plan remained approval-pending and no generated script was executed.Regression evidence on the original base: the new test selection failed three cases before the fix. A real local qwen3 planner proposed
changed, but the app savednoteworthy; after the fix it savedchanged. The same model acceptance check passed again on the refreshed base.The first container invocation had 17 fixture errors because Docker’s temporary filesystem blocked the tests’ fake Claude launcher. Making only that ephemeral test directory executable allowed the full suite above to pass; no source, dependency declaration, coding-sandbox or network-permission changes were needed. Earlier host-sandbox failures and the corrected container-startup results are preserved locally.
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