Two product gaps surfaced from the twenty-live debugging session:
1. Vibn frontend now has a healthcheck on / port 3000. Coolify will
wait for the new container to be healthy before swapping traffic,
so deploys no longer drop in-flight chat SSE streams. (Setting was
applied via Coolify API; commit just documents.)
2. apps_domains_set now handles SERVICES (template-based apps like
Twenty CRM, n8n) — not just applications. Setting service_apps.fqdn
in the DB alone gets reverted by Coolify's deploy pipeline, so we
replicate the Livewire EditDomain.php save flow via tinker over SSH:
write fqdn → save → updateCompose() → service.parse(). After this
apps_deploy regenerates Traefik labels with the custom domain.
Auto-detects service vs application by uuid lookup. New { port }
parameter lets the AI pin the upstream port for services that
require one (Coolify hard-fails the save without it).
Tool description rewritten with the new behavior + a worked example
so the AI uses the right pipeline first try.
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Three changes that compound to fix the "4 orphan twenty-* services"
problem we just hit:
1. apps_create is now idempotent within a project. If a service from
the same template already exists in the same Vibn projectId, return
it with alreadyExisted: true instead of creating a clone. Pass
{ force: true } to opt out for legitimate dev/staging duplicates.
2. New apps_unstick tool. SSH-cleans orphan Docker containers
matching the resource UUID so a deploy that hit "Conflict.
The container name X is already in use" can recover without
deleting the entire service.
3. System prompt hardened with two new hard rules:
- ALWAYS apps_list before apps_create (idempotency in spirit, not
just at the API boundary)
- NEVER delete-and-recreate a service to escape an error. The
recovery for container conflicts is apps_unstick + apps_deploy.
Already cleaned the 3 duplicate twenty-* services from prod
(kept twenty-live, freshest healthy). Frees ~9 GB RAM on the host.
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Adds MCP tools so the AI can capture decisions, tasks, ideas, and the
vision in the moment instead of just reading them:
- plan_get read full plan for context
- plan_vision_set update vision when user refines their pitch
- plan_decision_log log a decision PROACTIVELY when one gets settled
(no permission ask) so the next session doesn't
re-litigate it
- plan_task_add track multi-step work or user-side follow-ups
- plan_task_complete mark done as we go
- plan_idea_add park stray ideas
System prompt is updated with a "be the user's scribe" section that
instructs the model to use these proactively with brief acks instead
of long confirmations.
Also reorders the Plan tab UI to: Vision · Tasks · Decisions · Ideas
(Ideas moved to bottom — it's the lowest-signal pile).
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Today the chat shows ✓-icon tool trays with no narration between
calls — the user has no idea WHY the AI just called fs_edit or
ship. Meanwhile Gemini is producing 500-1000 chars of first-person
reasoning per round ("Updating the Express Server: A Quick
Production Deployment / Right, so we have a basic Express server
here, nothing fancy. I need to get a new version live...") and
billing us for those tokens — we just weren't asking for them.
Three layers:
1. lib/ai/gemini-chat.ts
- generationConfig.thinkingConfig.includeThoughts = true (default
true, opt-out via includeThoughts: false). We're already paying
for thinking tokens regardless of this flag — it just controls
whether the model returns the human-readable summary or only the
compressed signature.
- callGeminiChat now returns { text, thoughts, toolCalls,
finishReason } and the parser splits parts by `part.thought`.
CRITICAL bug avoided: previously `if (part.text) text += ...`
would have lumped thoughts into the chat bubble verbatim.
- streamGeminiChat yields `{ type: 'thinking' }` for thought parts.
2. app/api/chat/route.ts
- New SSE event: `data: {"type":"thinking","text":"..."}`
- Emitted on every round alongside text + tool_start.
- Recovery-summary branch also emits thoughts so even when the
model produces no user-facing prose, the user sees the model's
reasoning instead of dead silence.
3. components/vibn-chat/chat-panel.tsx
- Message gains optional `thoughts` field (in-memory only — we do
NOT persist thoughts to fs_chat_messages; they're ephemeral and
cheap to drop).
- New ThinkingBubble component: dashed-border italic pill above
the assistant bubble, collapsed by default to show one-line
preview, click to expand for full chain. Strips Gemini's
"**Section Heading**" prefixes from the preview.
- SSE handler accumulates thinking chunks onto the in-flight
assistant message.
UX impact: instead of staring at fs.read ✓ fs.edit ✓ ship ✓ icons,
the user sees "Examining the target server file..." → "Shipping the
twenty-crm project..." in real time. Costs zero additional tokens
(we already paid for the thoughts).
Cleanup: removed scripts/probe-gemini-raw.ts and
scripts/probe-recovery-summary.ts — diagnostic scripts that
identified this opportunity, no longer needed in-tree.
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After "ship" succeeded the AI was burning 7+ follow-up tool calls
(gitea_repos_list, gitea_credentials, shell.exec×4, apps_list) trying
to verify what actually got pushed and where it deployed. That ate
through MAX_TOOL_ROUNDS and the user got tool-icon spam with no
narrative summary.
Three fixes:
1. ship now returns commitSha (parsed from `git rev-parse HEAD`),
giteaCommitUrl, giteaBranchUrl, coolifyDeployUrl, coolifyAppUuid,
and a summaryHint string telling the AI exactly what to say next.
2. ship's tool description now explicitly tells Gemini "do NOT call
gitea_*, shell_exec, or apps_* afterwards to verify — the result
is authoritative."
3. MAX_TOOL_ROUNDS 12 → 18 as a safety net for genuinely long chains.
Net effect: ship goes from ~12 tool calls to verify a deploy down to
1 (just ship itself), and the next text turn has the SHA + URL
inline.
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Five focused improvements rolled into one deploy:
1. Pre-allocated preview ports + Traefik labels.
Bake docker labels for ports 3000-3009 into every dev-container
compose at ensureDevContainer() time. Each port has its own
subdomain: preview-<slot>-<projectSlug>-<token>.preview.vibnai.com.
Token is derived from projectId so URLs are stable across restarts
but not enumerable across projects. Joins the coolify external
network so Traefik can reach the container.
This avoids the runtime compose-mutation approach (which would
have required a Coolify redeploy on every dev_server.start, ~30s
latency). The trade-off is a hard cap of 10 concurrent dev servers
per project — fine for the "frontend + API" scenario, the only one
we can practically envision.
Wildcard DNS + Traefik DNS-01 cert remain a manual one-time setup
(see vibn-dev/PREVIEWS.md).
2. dev_server.start: port-collision handling.
Detect listeners via `ss` + `lsof` before launching. Three outcomes:
- port out of slot range → PortOutOfRangeError → 400 with allowedRange
- port owned by a different process → PortBusyError → 409
- port owned by a tracked vibn dev server (same project) → kill
the stale row and reuse the slot (most-recent-write-wins; matches
AI mental model when it does an edit-restart loop)
Surfaced via dedicated MCP error codes so the AI can recover
intelligently instead of looping the same start call.
3. gitea_file_{read,write,delete}: hard-removed from AI tool list.
These tools competed with fs.* and tempted the AI into the slow
path. Pulled from VIBN_TOOL_DEFINITIONS but kept in the MCP
dispatcher for 30 days for any external clients still using them.
System prompt rewritten to make Path B the only documented way to
author code; gitea_repo_* + gitea_branches_* remain because they
handle one-time orchestration with no fs.* equivalent.
4. System prompt: HMR + preview-port discipline.
New section covering Vite HMR (clientPort:443 wss), Next dev
(-H 0.0.0.0), and Express (HOST=0.0.0.0). Explicit "ports must be
3000-3009" rule + "if PORT_BUSY don't blindly retry" guidance.
5. Cron docs (vibn-dev/CRON.md).
/etc/cron.d/vibn-path-b template + smoke commands for autosave
and idle-sweep. Wires both 5-minute jobs that already have admin
endpoints (POST /api/admin/path-b/{autosave,idle-sweep}).
MCP version bump 2.6.0 -> 2.7.0. Smoke test: 65 tool defs (down from
68 after gitea_file_* removal), all accepted by Gemini.
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Completes the rest of the Path B tool surface:
- dev_server.{start,stop,list,logs}: nohup processes inside the dev
container, track PID/port/preview-url in fs_dev_servers. Each gets
a randomized preview subdomain (preview.vibnai.com base; Traefik
wildcard wiring is staged in /vibn-dev/PREVIEWS.md but the Coolify
compose hot-update step is deferred — see file for the recommended
pre-allocated-port-range approach).
- ship: git init (if needed) -> add/commit/push to the project's
Gitea repo via the workspace bot PAT, then triggers a Coolify
production deploy if the project is linked to one. Returns push
output + deployment_uuid.
- /api/admin/path-b/autosave [POST { projectId | sweep:true }]:
force-pushes /workspace to vibn-autosave/main in Gitea. Throttled
to once per 5 min per project. Records every push in fs_dev_autosaves
for audit. Treat Gitea as canonical, container disk as ephemeral.
- /api/admin/path-b/idle-sweep [POST?minutes=30]: suspends every
running dev container whose last_active_at is older than `minutes`.
Wire to a 5-min cron. Idempotent.
- Compose template hardened: pull_policy: never (use locally-built
image, no registry round-trip) + per-project bridge network
(vibn-dev-net-<slug>) so dev containers can't reach internal Vibn
services.
- vibn-dev/setup-on-coolify.sh: one-shot script to build vibn-dev:latest
on the Coolify host. Run before first chat session uses Path B.
- vibn-tools.ts: dev_server_{start,stop,list,logs} + ship Gemini tool
defs added. Smoke test passes — 68 tool definitions accepted.
- MCP version 2.5.0 -> 2.6.0 so /api/mcp tells us when the new build
is live.
Plan doc updated to reflect what shipped vs what's still manual
(DNS wildcard, Traefik cert, build-on-host script run, gitea_file_*
hard-remove deferred to allow A/B).
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Kicks off Path B (AI_PATH_B_EXECUTION_PLAN.md): each Vibn project gets
its own vibn-dev Coolify service that the AI drives directly via shell
and filesystem tools. Sub-second iteration vs the 5-min Gitea redeploy
loop.
What's in this commit (week 1, slice 1):
- vibn-dev Dockerfile: small Ubuntu base (~500 MB target). git, ripgrep,
python3, mise. Language toolchains lazy-install on first use.
- lib/dev-container.ts: ensureDevContainer / suspend / resume /
execInDevContainer. Backed by a new fs_project_dev_containers table.
- lib/feature-flags.ts + /api/admin/path-b/{disable,enable}: kill switch.
Bearer NEXTAUTH_SECRET flips path_b_disabled, propagates in ~10s.
- New MCP tools wired into /api/mcp: devcontainer.{ensure,status,suspend},
shell.exec, fs.{read,write,edit,list,delete,glob,grep}. All enforce
workspace isolation via fs_projects ownership check.
- vibn-tools.ts: 11 new Gemini tool defs (smoke test passes, 63 total).
- chat system prompt: shell-first guidance; gitea_file_* marked
deprecated for iterative work (still available, removed week 3).
Safety nets baked in:
- pathBGuard() returns 503 from every Path B tool when the kill switch
flips
- fs.* paths locked to /workspace
- ensureResourceInWorkspaceProjects via fs_project_dev_containers PK
- per-project resource limits (1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM) on the compose spec
Still pending (queued):
- dev_server.* (preview URLs through Traefik)
- ship tool (push to Gitea + trigger prod deploy)
- auto-push autosave to vibn-autosave/main every 5 min
- idle-suspend cron after 30 min inactivity
- HMR-through-Traefik spike
- eval harness
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Closes the AI's self-reported gap: "I cannot directly commit or push code".
New MCP capabilities (8) — all scoped to the workspace's Gitea org via
requireGiteaOrg + ensureRepoOwnerInOrg:
- gitea.repos.list — discover existing repos
- gitea.repo.get — metadata (default branch, clone URL)
- gitea.repo.create — mint a new private repo with auto-init
- gitea.file.read — read a file (or list a directory)
- gitea.file.write — create/update one file in one commit
- gitea.file.delete — delete a file (auto-resolves sha)
- gitea.branches.list — list branches with head sha
- gitea.branch.create — branch off an existing branch
Wired through:
- lib/gitea.ts: giteaReadFile, giteaListContents, giteaListBranches,
giteaCreateBranch, giteaListOrgRepos, giteaDeleteFile.
- lib/ai/vibn-tools.ts: 8 new Gemini tool declarations (53 total).
- app/api/chat/route.ts: system prompt now teaches the end-to-end
scaffold-then-deploy recipe so the AI stops deferring to the user.
MCP capability descriptor bumped to version 2.5.0.
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Each Vibn project now gets its OWN Coolify project named
vibn-{workspace-slug}-{project-slug}. All apps/databases/services
deployed for the project land inside that Coolify project, giving
us clean grouping, cascading delete, and per-project domain
namespaces.
Changes:
- New lib/projects.ts: ensureProjectCoolifyProject (idempotent
create/lookup), getProjectCoolifyUuid, getOwnedCoolifyProjectUuids
- /api/projects/create: pre-insert row, mint per-project Coolify
project, then complete the row with productData (preserves the
coolifyProjectUuid that was just set)
- apps.list (MCP): without projectId, aggregates across ALL
workspace-owned Coolify projects; with projectId, scopes to
that project's Coolify project. Returns coolifyProjectUuid
on each result so the AI knows where things live.
- apps.create (MCP): accepts projectId; auto-mints the Vibn
project's Coolify project on first deploy if missing
- apps_list/apps_create tool defs: projectId param surfaced
- System prompt: Project as first-class — planning + live as
facets of ONE thing, never as separate worlds. AI told to
always pass projectId on apps_create.
Stage 2 (next): set-aware ensureResourceInProject across all
single-resource MCP tools (apps.get/delete/exec/etc.) and
cascading delete via projects.delete.
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Gemini's function_declarations validator requires:
- ARRAY types must declare items schema
- Free-form OBJECT (without properties) is rejected
Renamed free-object params to *Json string fields (envsJson, patchJson,
headersJson) and added server-side JSON.parse before forwarding to MCP.
Any param ending in "Json" is automatically unpacked into its real key
(e.g. envsJson string is parsed into envs object).
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The Gemini REST API returns thoughtSignature as a sibling part field:
{ "functionCall": {...}, "thoughtSignature": "..." }
not inside functionCall. We were reading part.functionCall.thought_signature
(always undefined) and writing fc.thought_signature inside the functionCall
object (also wrong). Now correctly reads part.thoughtSignature and writes
part.thoughtSignature when building history.
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Gemini 3.1 Pro thinking model requires thought_signature to be echoed
in functionResponse. SSE stream doesn't reliably include it in individual
chunks. Switch tool-calling rounds to non-streaming generateContent which
always returns the complete response with thought_signature present.
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Thinking models attach a thought_signature to functionCall parts.
Must be echoed back in functionResponse or API returns 400.
Carry it through ToolCall -> ChatMessage -> toGeminiContents().
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Gemini can now:
- Search GitHub for MIT-licensed OSS repos matching any description
- Read specific files from any public repo (READMEs, design systems,
package.json, docker-compose.yml, component libraries, etc.)
- Fetch any public URL for docs, APIs, or reference material
No hardcoded pipelines — Gemini decides how to use these tools
based on what the user asks for.
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- Right-docked chat panel on all workspace pages ([workspace]/layout.tsx)
- Streaming SSE responses with Gemini 3.1 Pro preview via generativelanguage API
- Full tool-calling loop (up to 6 rounds): deploys apps, lists projects, registers
domains, fetches logs — all via existing MCP dispatcher
- Persistent conversation history: fs_chat_threads + fs_chat_messages tables (Postgres)
- Thread management: create, list, rename (auto-title from first message), delete
- Panel collapses to a tab; open state persisted to localStorage
- Read-only mode hint when no MCP token is present
- Graceful content margin shift when panel is open
Made-with: Cursor
- gemini-client.ts: replaces Vertex AI REST + service account auth with
direct generativelanguage.googleapis.com calls using GOOGLE_API_KEY.
Removes all Firebase credential setup code.
- summarize/route.ts: same migration, simplified to a single fetch call.
- No longer depends on gen-lang-client-0980079410 GCP project for AI calls.
Co-authored-by: Cursor <cursoragent@cursor.com>
