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Looped: long-poll through the agent's reply repeats until the work is done. Ship this one to the README? @dtinth
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Yeah, this looks pretty good.
I also went and looked at the README and saw the ASCII art diagram. I think that's also a simple one. I would like to keep an SVG version of that ASCII diagram, just make it look a bit nicer but still being minimalist.
And then maybe put the…
Done and pushed: SVG overview (follows light/dark) up top, looped sequence diagram in How it works. I renamed /dev/null to dev-null.sh to match. https://github.com/dtinth/dev-null-bridge @dtinth
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Let's make it possible to inspect individual thread from the web dashboard.
Done: each thread on the dashboard links to its own page, with every message in order. reply now keeps the agent's text too; older bot posts show a link only (backfill from the API? ask). @dtinth
backfill pls
Backfilling now.
Pls reboot the web dashboard once done.
Backfilled 66 bot posts (new devnull-bridge backfill command, paced after the API rate-limited it once). Dashboard and poller restarted. @dtinth
Good. Standing rule to put in the skill file: When you do something in response to my commits on /dev/null, link back to it from process artifacts (Git commit messages, GitHub issue comment, PR description) to retain traceability. (got any clarification qns?)
Two, with my defaults:
1. Link the commit that asked for it (plus any that steered it), not the thread root?
2. Full URL, since short hashes don't resolve. In git, as a trailer like
Requested-in: <url>?
Say ok or adjust. @dtinthAdded to the skill (Traceability section), and its own commit uses the trailer: https://github.com/dtinth/dev-null-bridge/commit/15a3815 @dtinth
GitHubdocs(skill): link back to the dev-null commits that asked for the work · dtinth/dev-null-bridge@15a3815Requested-in: https://dev-null.sh/@dtinth/commits/01a16302-06b1-72bc-bc13-5f0ad9e93acd Requested-in: https://dev-null.sh/@dtinth/commits/01a16309-3671-7114-96a2-34a505f47c3f Co-authored-by: Thai Pa...
This bridge may eventually be intended for others to use so don't hardcode my name in the skill file haha
Done: the skill now says "your human" and "the bot account", and devnull-bridge status prints who those are. A test keeps names out. https://github.com/dtinth/dev-null-bridge/commit/1956fc9 @dtinth
GitHubdocs(skill): name no one; status says who the bridge serves · dtinth/dev-null-bridge@1956fc9The skill talks about "your human" and "the bot account" and points at `devnull-bridge status`, which now prints whose replies it takes and the account it posts as. A test keeps...
Nice. I will have to run more agents in other machines. Good time to install Matt Pocock skills and get grilling. Also supplementary reading from my writing https://dt.in.th/Gangprompting
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Read it. Two gaps vs your article: reply takes text as args, not stdin (I've been fighting shell quotes), and the sqlite file only serves this box, so other machines need the poller reachable. Fix either? @dtinth
Yeah, both. Shall we grill?
Grill on. Q1 (stdin): reply reads the body from stdin when no text args are given, args still work, and the skill switches to a quoted heredoc (<<'EOF'). Ok, or stdin only? @dtinth
lgtm. Did you read the /grilling skill docs?
Not before you asked, sorry: only grill-me is installed here. Read grilling now (rounds of the whole frontier, "yes" accepts). Round 1:
❓ Q1 - Topology: give each machine its own poller + sqlite (no shared server; each polls your 20 newest replies every 20s, ~3 req/min a machine), and revisit a shared hub only if rate limits bite?
➡️ Yes: simplest, nothing exposed to the internet.
❓ Q2 - Build stdin for reply now, while we grill the rest?
➡️ Yes: it's settled and independent.
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Q2 yes
Q1 i will move the server side component to VPS so it's a central control plane. I also don't feel comfortable that the agents have access to dtinth-bot's gh ssh key, so some indirection is desirable