| 2026-10-09 |

profiles: restricted profiles for ordinary users, and a role gate that holds
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`is_admin_only` was checked in one place out of nine and was not read from
config.json at all, so all seven profiles were reachable by every account with
role `user`. The flag now lives in config.json — the file is the baseline, a
`profile_overrides` row still wins on top of it — and one predicate,
`admin_only_blocked`, is the single place the rule is expressed. The nine
surfaces that list, switch to, spawn or resolve a profile all consult it:
`POST /sessions`, the WebSocket, switch_profile, list_profiles, the system
prompt's "Available profiles" block, spawn_agent and the Synapse reaction
runner. The prompt cache is now keyed by (profile, role), so a user's prompt
can never be served an admin's profile list.
The seven existing profiles (developer, discuss, dispatcher, modeler_3d,
navi_code, secretary, server_admin) are marked admin-only. Three new ones take
their place for ordinary users: assistant, designer_3d and coder. They share one
native tool set — ssh_exec, peer, reload_tools, create_mcp_server, test_mcp_tool,
image_view and gmail are withheld — and differ only in system prompt, model and
MCP groups. navi-web's raw `request` group, and the whole of gnexus-creds and
tgclient, are withheld too.
MCP per-user keys gain the missing half of the rule: a server that declares a
`user_key` slot is refused to anyone but an admin who has no personal key, and
is left out of their tool list entirely, instead of quietly falling back to the
owner's credential and appearing as a tool that cannot work. The refusal names
the server and points at Settings.
Also closes `GET /agents/prompts`, which served every profile's system prompt to
anyone, with no user dependency at all.
The accepted residual risk is written down in docs/profiles.md: the working
directory is a convention, not a sandbox.
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
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3 hours ago
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| 2026-10-08 |

profiles: tool_developer folds into developer
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The profile was a duplicate on every axis we could measure. 22 of its 26
native tools were already developer's; the four it alone held —
reload_tools, create_mcp_server, test_mcp_tool, mcp_status — are 2.9 KB of
schema. Its model chain was the same seven models. Of its 14 KB prompt,
about 8 KB was copied verbatim from developer's (the whole `## Orchestration
model` block and everything from `## Editing policy` down), and most of the
remainder restated manuals/create_mcp_server.md, which already carried the
same ten-step workflow in more detail. It was not a specialisation, it was a
snapshot: `git log -S '"reload_tools"'` shows the tool lived in developer
until 61fa370 rewrote that profile around MCP and cut it off.
What kept it alive was a premise that no longer holds — that Navi's own
capabilities would be written as in-repo tools. They are MCP servers now,
and an MCP server is not a file in this repository with a life of its own:
it is an isolated process registered from mcp_servers.d/. So there is no
reason left for a profile whose only distinct feature is a toolset a general
developer profile can hold, and every reason to stop maintaining a second
prompt that drifts against the first.
- developer: + reload_tools, create_mcp_server, test_mcp_tool, mcp_status
(24 → 28 native). Its sub-agent gains tool_manual, which is what it
actually needed to reach the manual while writing a server — the previous
tool_developer sub-agent had it, developer's did not.
- server_admin: + reload_tools only (24 → 25). Adding a third-party MCP
server is something this profile does as often as developer does.
Deliberately not to its sub-agent: reconnecting the MCP manager is a
process-wide operation belonging to the main agent.
- The prompt and the manual took on what the deleted profile knew and
create_mcp_server.md did not: reload_tools before the first test_mcp_tool
(a freshly registered server is not connected, so the test fails and the
iteration is wasted), the smoke test read by exit code — 124 means timeout
killed a server still running, 0 means it exited on its own, usually a
main() without parentheses — absolute command/cwd, mcp_status as discovery
only, and the steps that stay inline instead of going to a sub-agent.
mcp_status and test_mcp_tool were built without an MCP manager, and their
fallback did `from navi.api.deps import _mcp_manager` — a name that does not
exist, so a live call raised ImportError rather than the intended "MCP
manager not available". The tools always passed a manager in tests, which is
why nothing caught it. Both now receive the manager at construction and fall
back to the live one lazily.
Sessions and profile_overrides are reassigned before the restart: agent.py
resolves the session's profile without a guard, so a deleted profile turns
every session that referenced it into an uncaught ProfileNotFound. Nothing
in the test suite pins the profile inventory, and profiles are read once at
import time — reload_tools does not re-read them — so this ships as a
restart, and the restart is also what makes it take effect.
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
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8 hours ago
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| 2026-10-07 |
mcp keys: tool-management tools aligned with BYOK (test_mcp_tool runs on user key, mcp_status marks key slots)
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
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| 2026-05-23 |
Pass explicit ToolContext to tools instead of hidden ContextVars
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Add ToolContext dataclass (session_id, event_sink, stop_event, model,
user_id, user_role, user_info) and thread it through the execution chain:
Agent._execute_tools_with_sink → ToolExecutor → tool.execute().
All ~25 tools updated to accept ctx parameter. Tools that previously
read ContextVar now prefer ctx when provided, falling back to
ContextVar for backward compatibility.
Tests updated to pass ToolContext explicitly — no more test fixtures
that set current_session_id / current_user_id ContextVars.
ContextVar setters remain as fallback for non-tool consumers
(ai_helper, context_builder, planning) and will be removed in a
follow-up refactor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
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on 23 May
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| 2026-05-15 |
Refactor: move tool helper modules into _internal subpackage
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Moves non-tool infrastructure out of navi/tools/ root so that only
actual tool classes live there:
base.py → _internal/base.py
loader.py → _internal/loader.py
middleware.py → _internal/middleware.py
logging_middleware.py → _internal/logging_middleware.py
_time_parser.py → _internal/time_parser.py
All imports updated across core/, api/, mcp/, tools/, and tests/.
No proxy files remain in navi/tools/ root.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
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on 15 May
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feat: add create_mcp_server and test_mcp_tool builtins
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create_mcp_server:
- Scaffolds mcp-servers/<name>/ directory with venv, pyproject.toml,
app/__init__.py, and annotated mcp_server.py template
- Runs pip install -e . in isolated thread to avoid event-loop issues
- Validates template with python -m py_compile
test_mcp_tool:
- Execute a single MCP tool call for isolated testing
- Detailed diagnostics: not connected, empty response, timeout, crash
- Fallback to module-level _mcp_manager if startup wiring skipped
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Eugene Sukhodolskiy
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on 15 May
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