Root cause (owner repro, verified in a real browser 2026-09-06): the
five navbar views (Chat, RAG, Sources, Tuning, History) were separate
HTML documents, so a navbar click was a REAL cross-document navigation
— the chat page unloaded, the in-flight SSE fetch was aborted, and the
phase-48 teardown (app/api/chat.py `finally`, "chat: turn cancelled")
stopped the model. Observed: send question -> click RAG mid-stream ->
click Chat -> the answer never finished: no `query_log` row, and on
return a dangling question with no brain record (the pre-token pagehide
partial persist skips because `acc` is empty).
Phase-48 LOCKED-DECISION REFINEMENT (owner-confirmed 2026-09-06,
flagged per AGENTS.md rule 3, not silently deviated): "real navigation
cancels the fetch" now means LEAVING THE APP — tab close,
external/other-document navigation, the Stop button. In-app navbar
switches are client-side view switches and no longer cancel.
Fix — Option A (SPA shell), chosen over B (Service Worker owns the
stream) and C (server-side turn registry + resume):
- frontend/index.html is the shell: ONE `<main id="main">` holds the
five `<section class="view">` blocks; hidden views carry BOTH
`hidden` and `inert` (WCAG — no focus/keyboard traversal). The
shared header, the single `doc-modal-*` skeleton, and the
`#app-version` footer each exist exactly once; the per-view copies
from the four folded pages are dropped.
- New frontend/assets/router.js (vanilla module — no framework, no
bundler, No-CDN rule intact): lazy-imports a view module on FIRST
show only (mount-once, hide-forever — the chat view's in-flight SSE
reader persists across switches; that persistence IS the fix);
intercepts same-shell navbar links with preventDefault +
history.pushState (never a document load); handles popstate; single
writer of `.nav-link` active state (is-active + aria-current),
document.title, and the per-view meta description (values carried
over from the old pages' heads, brand-resolved at write time).
- Each folded page's JS becomes `export async function mount(root)` —
root-scoped queries; `initSharedHeader()` dropped (the header boots
once in the shell via the chat module; the admin flag comes from the
same cached `fetchIsAdmin()` promise — zero extra requests).
- app/main.py: a small list-driven route factory serves the shell for
/tuning.html, /sources.html, /git-sources.html, /history.html —
registered AFTER the API routers and BEFORE the static catch-all
(routes-first). The phase-33 caching middleware applies no-cache +
`?v=` rewriting unchanged; app/core/caching.py needed NO change
(the view paths did not change — pinned by the integration tests).
- The four old view .html files are DELETED (one source of truth);
deep links to the old URLs keep working (the router picks the view
from the pathname); `/?chat=<id>` is unaffected; the Containerfile
bundles router.js (inlining the lazy view modules) and drops the
folded page files.
- app/schemas.py: HistoryTurn.text cap 4000 -> 32000 — the shell
keeps long saved answers in the chat, and the old cap (stricter than
the 24_000-char total history budget) 422-rejected any second turn
in such a chat (found by the phase-42 E2E suite on the shell).
Boundaries: login.html, shared.html, doc-edit.html, document.html
REMAIN separate documents (flow pages, not navbar tabs); a mid-stream
navigation to doc-edit/document.html still cancels per phase 48
(follow-up candidate, out of scope). The SSE API is unchanged. Real
departures still cancel the turn — phase 48 intact (pinned by
tests/e2e/test_stop_generation.py, unchanged, and by the new suite's
real-departure control).
Tests:
- Phase-20 suite REWRITTEN to the new semantics
(tests/e2e/test_sources_midstream_bug.py): a navbar switch no longer
cancels — the stream survives the switch and the FULL answer
settles; the pagehide partial persist REMAINS for real departures
(the partial's exact shape — first streamed chunk prefix, no done
metadata — is still pinned there).
- NEW story suite tests/e2e/test_nav_switch_keeps_stream.py (mock
LLM): the owner repro (send -> RAG mid-stream -> Chat: window
sentinel survives = same document, FULL answer, exactly one brain
turn in bor.chat.v1, exactly one settled query_log row, auto-saved
row matches) + the same mid-stream switch against the other three
views + the real-departure-still-cancels control + the no-switch
baseline.
- tests/unit/test_frontend_router.py: source-level pins of the router
invariants (click interceptor targets ONLY same-shell view paths,
pushState-only switches, mount-once guard, hidden+inert pair,
single-writer active state/title); shell-route integration tests
(each folded path serves the shell with no-cache + `?v=` body; a
non-view path still 404s); the file-reading unit pins re-pointed at
the shell (the four view files are gone — the shell is the source
of truth).
Verification (this commit): full suite green — 1565 unit+integration
tests, app/ coverage 99% (>90% floor); ruff + pyright clean; the
phase's E2E suites green in isolation (house protocol, AGENTS.md rule
9). Owner repro verified in a real browser against the real LLM
(dev server :8010, headful Chromium): "tell me about everquest" ->
RAG mid-stream -> Chat — the answer completed with one brain bubble
and no error banner, `query_log` gained exactly one settled row
(deflected=True: the dev KB holds no EverQuest docs — the settle, not
the topic, is the proof), zero "chat: turn cancelled" lines for that
turn; the control (real navigation to /shared.html mid-stream) still
cancelled (no settled row, the cancel line logged, the partial
persisted on return). Screenshots: .agents/screenshots/76_manual_*.
Phase 76 (76_spa_nav_shell) complete — moved to
.agents/phases/complete/.
One env var (BOR_APP_NAME, default "Brain of Reese") now drives the app's
display name everywhere (TODO.md L12 — owner ask: "a way to customize the
name for 'Brain of'. Should be an env var."). The existing app_name setting
is the source of truth (phase locked decision — no new variable, no rename);
with the variable unset the app is byte-identical to before.
Endpoint (A10 public/stateless, no secrets):
GET /api/config → exactly {app_name, version} (app/api/config.py, the
health.py pattern; registered before the static mount). Integration tests:
anonymous 200, default values, a Settings override follows, key set is
exactly two keys — no other setting may leak in later.
Frontend brand layer (A11 — runtime fetch, static templates stay static):
assets/brand.js — a CLASSIC script, first on all six pages, so its top
level runs at parse time: window.BOR_BRAND = "Brain of Reese"
synchronously (the default renders immediately, no blank flash), then a
no-store fetch of /api/config applies the name — document.title (global
replace), every .brand-text (a name starting "Brain of " keeps the bold
split Brain of <strong>rest</strong>, any other name renders plain; the
operator-controlled name is HTML-escaped before innerHTML), a TreeWalker
over text nodes (script/style rejected — page source never rewritten),
and the aria-label/placeholder/meta-content attributes. Fetch failure
keeps the default + console.warn (the loadHealth house style).
app.js (status labels, typing label, elapsed-hint aria, tool labels) and
document.js (viewer titles) read window.BOR_BRAND at CALL time via
brand() — a label set after the fetch lands carries the configured name.
Containerfile: esbuild minify line for brand.js (classic, like markdown.js);
the phase-33 ?v= cache-busting picks the new asset ref up automatically.
E2E (A16 — one story, one file, isolated): test_configurable_brand.py boots
a SECOND app instance (same DB/mock-LLM/admin-auth env block, port APP_PORT+1,
BOR_APP_NAME="Brain of Testy") — the shared conftest server keeps the
default name so every other suite's title/label assertions stay untouched —
and asserts /api/config on both instances, the index title/brand/greeting/
#messages aria-label, the sources + login page titles, and one pre-token
chat turn (think out loud marker) whose #send-status reads "Brain of Testy
is thinking"; the no-op regression pins the shared server's default bytes.
Docs: .env.example App section + README configuration reference — what it
affects (titles, header brand, status labels, aria text), the default, the
bold-split rendering rule.
Gates: 695 unit+integration passed, app/ coverage 99% (>90%), story E2E
green in isolation (two consecutive runs), brand-string suites (smoke,
shared header, header consistency, chat persistence) green, ruff + pyright
clean.
Phase 33 (story: .agent/user_stories/cache-busting.md).
- app/core/caching.py: asset_version() — git short SHA (a commit is a
deploy), stable content-hash fallback for non-git checkouts, "dev"
for a missing static dir; computed once per process. CachingMiddleware
— the five HTML pages revalidate (no-cache) with ?v=<token> asset refs
rewritten in flight; /assets/* is public, max-age=31536000, immutable;
everything else (all /api/*, the SSE chat stream in particular) passes
through byte-identical.
- tests/e2e/test_cache_busting.py: fresh-Chromium wire assertions —
document no-cache, versioned CSS/JS request URLs sharing one token,
immutable asset headers, /api/health baseline headers, SSE chat to
done (mock LLM).
- README 'Caching / deploys' section + story file.
Also fixed two prod-image defects surfaced by this phase's podman smoke
(the full app would not boot):
- Containerfile: ship the scripts/ package — app/api/sync.py (phase 32)
imports scripts.git_sync / scripts.import_docs at module level, so the
container crashed on boot (ModuleNotFoundError: No module named
'scripts').
- compose.yaml: pass BOR_ADMIN_PASSWORD / BOR_SESSION_SECRET through to
the app service (:- defaults keep 'podman compose up -d db' working;
the app's own fail-loud gate still names missing admin auth).
Smoke: podman compose --profile prod up -d on a fresh image + a fresh
Chromium profile — /, /sources.html and /login.html all served
Cache-Control: no-cache; all 8 asset requests versioned with one shared
token (content-hash fallback inside the image — no .git there);
/assets/* immutable for a year.
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