Voice Persistence:
- Add voice/model saving to localStorage for persistent settings
- Load voice from URL → localStorage → default priority order
- Voice selection now persists across browser sessions and page refreshes
Dynamic Room Links:
- Add updateRoomLinksWithCurrentParams() function to update sidebar room links
- Room links now dynamically update with current username, model, and voice settings
- Both desktop and mobile room links stay synchronized with current parameters
- Fixes issue where clicking room links would lose user's current settings
Technical improvements:
- Enhanced syncInputsAndQueryString() to save to localStorage and update room links
- Initial sync call on page load ensures proper state from the start
- Maintains backwards compatibility with existing functionality
- Add username field to right sidebar and mobile modal with 'guest' default
- Implement real-time username sync with URL query string updates
- Add opencompletion.com button and new room creation in left sidebar
- Implement room name slugification (e.g. "a whole new world" → "a-whole-new-world")
- Create shared utils.js for common functions like slugify
- Add single search result auto-redirect functionality
- Remove redundant UI elements ("Create New Room" header, docs link)
- Preserve user settings (username, model, voice) across redirects and room creation
Technical improvements:
- Consolidated duplicate code into shared utility functions
- Enhanced search logic with parameter preservation
- Improved mobile/desktop sync for all input fields
- Better URL handling and query string management
- Separate username/model header from message content using distinct DOM elements
- Fix button positioning to appear on left side of messages
- Ensure TTS only reads clean message content, not username/model header
- Add support for stopping current TTS when auto-play is toggled off
- Improve DOM structure with message-body wrapper for proper layout
- Fix streaming messages to maintain header display throughout entire stream
Backend changes:
- Send username, model_name, and is_first_chunk as separate fields
- Keep actual content separate from header formatting
- Cleaner separation of concerns in streaming protocol
Frontend changes:
- Build display content with header only for visual rendering
- Keep messageBuffers clean (content only) for TTS processing
- TTS now processes pure content without username headers
This fixes the issue where TTS was reading 'fxhp (model):' prefix
- Fixed querySelector to find Play button specifically, not first button
- Regular messages used Array.from().find() correctly
- Streaming messages were using querySelector('button') which found Delete button
- This explains why streamed messages never got added to TTS queue
- Added console.log statements to streaming TTS logic
- Will help identify why streamed messages aren't being added to TTS queue
- Debug info includes autoPlayTTS state, completion status, buffer content
Major improvements to battleship game feedback accuracy and user experience:
## New Multi-Prompt Feedback System
- Replaced single feedback with 3 specialized prompts: Shot Report, Ship Status, Game Over
- Each prompt has individual metadata filtering to see only relevant data
- Shot Report only sees hit/miss data, Ship Status only sees ship destruction data
- Added STFU token system to suppress empty messages (filtered out automatically)
## Technical Implementation
- Added per-prompt metadata_filter support in YAML structure
- Updated app.py and guarded_ai.py to handle prompt-specific filtering
- Legacy single-prompt system still works with transition-level filtering
- Added comprehensive test suite for feedback system validation
## User Experience Fixes
- Fixed TTS queue blocking JavaScript execution (async promises instead of await)
- Ship Status now correctly reports who destroyed which ship (role confusion fixed)
- Game Over only appears when game actually ends (no more random messages)
- Maintained dramatic storytelling while ensuring factual accuracy
## Battleship-Specific Improvements
- Ship destruction messages only appear when ships actually sink
- Clear separation of concerns: hits/misses vs ship destruction vs game over
- Eliminated false positive ship destruction reports
- Fixed role reversal where wrong player got credit for destruction
The battleship narrator now provides accurate, contextual feedback while preserving the dramatic naval warfare atmosphere.
- Fix battleship feedback perspective confusion with better Hermes prompting
- Add auto-play TTS button with localStorage persistence and queueing system
- Move activity controls below model/voice selectors in sidebar
- Add activity controls to mobile hamburger menu
- Fix model/activity dropdowns to stay within container bounds
- Filter activities API to only show .yaml/.yml files
- Clean up system message labels by moving to usernames (System (Feedback), System (Question))
- Apply black formatting to app.py
The app seems to queue the category, feedback/content_blocks question
The strange part is the set_background happens in the middle of the
script after category but it comes first and FAST! In about a second
while the other messages take about 4 secs to finally arrive.
modified: app.py
modified: research/activity29-battleship.yaml
modified: templates/chat.html
