/** * Reading what a model wrote, and cutting what it is handed: shortening text, * and finding the structure in it. * * One concept, not a grab-bag: every function here takes free-form assistant * text and makes something reliable out of it. They were each written three to * five times across the workflows, the reporters and the extension, and the * copies had already started to drift - one `truncate` that trimmed and one that * did not, two identical brace scanners maintained apart. * * A model does not answer in a format. It answers in prose with the format * somewhere inside, decorated with whatever markdown it felt like adding, which * is why these are lenient by design. */ /** * `1 turn`, `2 turns`, `0 turns`. * * One rule in one place, because a count is shown in a widget, a notification * and a listing at once, and they have to agree. Zero takes the plural, because * English does. */ export function plural(count: number, word: string): string { return `${count} ${word}${count === 1 ? "" : "s"}`; } /** * One line, whitespace flattened, at most `max` characters with an ellipsis. * * `max` has no default on purpose: the width belongs to whoever is drawing, and * a shared default would be the one number nobody chose. */ export function truncate(text: string, max: number): string { const flat = text.replace(/\s+/g, " ").trim(); return flat.length > max ? `${flat.slice(0, max - 1)}…` : flat; } /** * The first `max` characters, marked when something was cut. * * For what goes into a prompt: the start of a diff says more than its end, and * an agent handed half a megabyte writes a worse message than one handed the * first pages and told they were cut. `what` names the thing in the marker. */ export function head(text: string, max: number, what = "text"): string { return text.length > max ? `${text.slice(0, max)}\n\n[${what} truncated at ${max} bytes]` : text; } /** * The last `max` characters, marked when something was cut. * * For a check's output: the failure is at the end, after everything that * passed, and the end is what a reader needs. `dropped` counts what a reader * of a stream already let go before `text`, so the mark says the whole. */ export function tail(text: string, max: number, dropped = 0): string { // Past what was dropped, `text` starts mid-output: a blank there is not the output's edge. const trimmed = dropped === 0 ? text.trim() : text.trimEnd(); const cut = dropped + Math.max(0, trimmed.length - max); return cut === 0 ? trimmed : `[…${cut} bytes cut]\n${trimmed.slice(-max)}`; } /** The first line, or `""`. What a collapsed row shows of a command. */ export function firstLine(text: string): string { return text.split("\n", 1)[0] ?? ""; } /** A value as text: strings as they are, anything else as JSON, never `undefined`. */ export function scalar(value: unknown): string { return typeof value === "string" ? value : (JSON.stringify(value) ?? ""); } /** * Whether `word` stands alone on one of the lines. * * The convention three workflows depend on - `LGTM`, `APPROVED`, `READY` - and * the reason it is lenient: a model that has been told to answer with one word * still writes `**LGTM**`, `## APPROVED` or `READY.`, and a strict match would * loop forever waiting for a verdict already given. Decoration is stripped, case * is ignored; a line with anything else on it still does not count. */ export function saysWord(output: string, word: string): boolean { return output .trim() .split("\n") .some((line) => line.replace(/[*_`#\s.]/g, "").toUpperCase() === word.toUpperCase()); } /** * Every top-level JSON object in `output`, parsed, in order. * * A balanced-brace scan rather than a regular expression, because the objects * are nested and a regex cannot count. Strings and their escapes are tracked, so * a `}` inside a quoted value does not end an object. Anything that fails to * parse is skipped rather than raised: the surrounding prose, the fence markers * and the model's own commentary are all expected here. */ export function* jsonObjects(output: string): Generator { let depth = 0; let start = -1; let inString = false; let escaped = false; for (let i = 0; i < output.length; i++) { const char = output[i]; if (inString) { if (escaped) escaped = false; else if (char === "\\") escaped = true; else if (char === '"') inString = false; continue; } if (char === '"') inString = true; else if (char === "{") { if (depth === 0) start = i; depth++; } else if (char === "}" && depth > 0) { depth--; if (depth === 0 && start >= 0) { try { yield JSON.parse(output.slice(start, i + 1)); } catch { // not JSON after all - keep scanning } start = -1; } } } }