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claude 18d5f5bfc0 Make Piggy part of the product rather than a guest in it
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Piggy arrived as a chat panel bolted onto a CRM and then grew a workspace
around it. The layout was already right — the audit found the approval card
to be the best-designed object in the repo, and the account page's empty
panels less finished than anything in the workspace. What was wrong was
vocabulary: nobody had written the small things down, so both halves kept
inventing them.

Piggy was drawn with five different marks — a pig in the dock, a sparkle in
the sidebar and again on the model picker, a speech bubble on the Ask
buttons, and a stock robot glyph on every assistant message, which is the
one people look at most. There is now one mark. The composer, which is the
first control in the product since sign-in lands on /piggy, was the only
un-adapted shadcn field left: 6px radius against a 12px Send button it sat
8px from. A stat tile had been reinvented six times at three numeral scales,
and the same uppercase micro-label existed in five variants, two of them one
tab apart in the same rail. There were 63 hand-written font sizes: not a
scale, sixty-three opinions.

Underneath that, the focus ring was invisible. The global rule used
ring-accent, which Tailwind deliberately aliases onto the hover tint, so the
ring measured 1.01:1 against the light canvas — no visible focus indicator
anywhere in the product, for any accent, in either theme. It is ring-brand
now and measures 17:1. The warning, positive and info tones were darkened
until each clears 4.5:1 on a card, on inset and on its own chip, and the
light canvas moved to 98% so a card lifts without leaning on its shadow.

The mobile work is the part worth reading. A landscape phone gave the
transcript 28% of the viewport and a keyboard-up phone 16%, against a 45%
floor — and the fixed tab bar painted over the composer, covering the safety
sentence and half the Send button, because two source comments asserted the
bar stood down on short viewports and it never had. Both fixed and measured
by hit-testing rather than by screenshot. The composer itself was 64px tall
for a blank second line nobody typed, because the auto-resize effect sizes
to scrollHeight and scrollHeight counts rows — a CSS height could not win
against an inline style, so the attribute was the honest lever.

Verified across both themes driven through the app's own control: no
horizontal overflow on 15 routes at four viewports, 672 stat values that fit,
297 labels at exactly 11px/500, Escape returning focus to its opener rather
than the body on every overlay, and a rejected write no longer reporting
"Succeeded" with a green check.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 18:22:15 -07:00
claude f0173440e4 Put Piggy on Prime Agent, and let it write to the book
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Piggy was a hand-rolled OpenAI tool loop. It is now a Prime Agent session —
Prime Intellect's own harness, embedded as a Node library — answering from
PIG's tools and, for the first time, able to put information into the CRM
rather than only read it out.

The harness is a coding agent, so the first job was taking the coding agent
away from it. `noTools: 'all'` plus an explicit allowlist leaves the model
with PIG's ten `pig_*` tools and no bash, no filesystem, no IPython. That
holds under attack: a hostile extension, a skill and a settings file planted
in the agent's own directory, then `setActiveToolsByName` called with every
built-in, still leaves ten tools, all ours. Both lines are load-bearing —
`noTools` alone registers nothing, and the allowlist is what admits our own.

Writing is gated rather than assumed. A change is proposed, not made: the
tool returns a description, the transcript renders a diff card, and nothing
reaches the database until someone presses Apply. Contracts, commitments,
allocations and compliance always stop for a human whatever the mode. Every
write runs through `executeMutation` as the calling user, so their
capabilities and the audit trail apply exactly as they would to a human's.

Four things about the SDK are wrong in its own documentation and cost a
debugging cycle each: models.json does not resolve an env var name for
`apiKey`, it sends the literal string; there is no built-in prime-inference
provider in 0.84.1; a ResourceLoader you pass in is never reloaded for you;
and the stock system prompt is a coding-assistant prompt that must be
replaced — but replacing it also silently removes the tool list, because the
harness only renders that section when it owns the prompt. AGENTS.md records
all four.

The expensive one was thinking level. The harness defaults to `medium`, and
nemotron spent an entire 4,096-token budget reasoning and returned an empty
answer. `low` was worse; `off` omits the parameter so the endpoint's default
wins. An explicit `reasoning_effort: none` via `thinkingLevelMap` took a turn
from 6,195 output tokens to 149.

And a turn is now bounded. The harness loop is `while (true)` with no
iteration cap; a runaway on a frontier model would have eaten the credit it
is supposed to report on. Ceilings on model calls and tokens, enforced both
through the harness hook and independently from the event stream, plus a
per-user daily spend limit — and the ledger now records spend on turns that
fail, which it previously discarded.

Signing in lands on /piggy, which is a workspace: conversations down one
side, the agent in the middle, what it did and what it cost beside it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-14 05:26:28 -07:00