Profiled where the ~6s actually went, and it was not where I assumed.
Haiku defaults to extended thinking, so it spent 225 output tokens and
1.9s deliberating before emitting an 80-character answer about the height
of a tower. MAX_THINKING_TOKENS=0: 43 output tokens, time-to-first-text
2657ms -> 1122ms, wall clock 5.7s -> ~2.4s, answer unchanged.
Two things measured NOT to be the bottleneck, recorded in the comment so
nobody optimises them later: process startup (0.12s boot plus 28ms to
fire the request, so a warm/persistent process saves nothing) and prompt
size (184 input tokens, no bloat to trim).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
No API key and no separate billing: qs-ask now shells out to `claude -p`,
which draws on the existing subscription already authenticated on this
host. The trade is latency — Claude Code boots a Node process per
question, ~6s measured against the raw API's ~1s — so the launcher now
races Wikipedia and Claude instead of chaining them. Wikipedia fills the
card in under a second and Claude supersedes it on arrival; chaining
would have left the card blank for six seconds on every question.
Isolation, verified: --safe-mode drops CLAUDE.md, skills, hooks, plugins
and MCP while leaving auth working, which matters for correctness and not
just speed — the global CLAUDE.md here asks for caveman-mode replies and
that would have leaked into answers. --no-session-persistence writes no
transcript, and a dedicated empty cwd keeps launcher questions out of any
project's history or auto-memory. Confirmed no project namespace, no
transcript and no memory write after a run.
Not --bare, which looks right and is a trap: its auth is strictly
ANTHROPIC_API_KEY, so it cannot use the subscription at all.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Silence on stdout is the launcher's fall-back-to-Wikipedia signal, so it
has to stay clean — but that made a misconfigured key indistinguishable
from a working fallback. Every reason now prints on stderr, which the
launcher discards and a human running qs-ask by hand can read.
Drops curl -f so a 4xx body's own error message ("API key is invalid.")
surfaces instead of just an exit code, and guards the specific mistake of
pasting the sk-ant-... placeholder literally.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds qs-ask on the mediaserver — the Anthropic key lives there and nowhere
else, so neither desktop holds a credential and there's one place to
rotate it. The launcher pipes the question over the same SSH path the
server monitor already uses; the query goes over stdin because
`ssh host cmd arg` would re-parse arg through the remote shell.
Claude answers first, Wikipedia is the fallback. The script is the
feature gate: with no key it exits silently, which is the same signal as
a failed call or an UNKNOWN reply, so the Wikipedia path stays the
default with zero configuration. The card names whichever answered.
Haiku 4.5, no thinking and no effort (effort errors on Haiku) — a
one-sentence fact needs no reasoning tokens. ~$0.0005 per query.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
"where is K2" had no scoring signal at all — "where" is a stopword and
"k2" fell under the 3-char term floor, so every sentence tied at zero and
the card fell back to the opening line. Fixes:
- answer-type hints: a "where" question scores sentences carrying the
vocabulary of place, "when" of dates, "who" of attribution. Stems, not
whole words — the Telephone intro says "granted a United States
patent", never "invented". "is a"/"was a" deliberately excluded, since
they match the definitional opening of every article.
- term floor down to 2 chars so "K2" and "UK" count.
- fetch 3 candidates and choose: an exact title match wins, and a
disambiguated title loses unless the query asked for that sense.
Search rank alone put "Chernobyl (miniseries)" above the city.
Verified 11/11 on live responses by running the generated QML functions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Wikipedia search+extract in one request gives the article for a
natural-language query, then the intro's sentences are ranked so the card
leads with the one that actually answers: +3 per query term, +4 for a
digit when a number was asked for, ties to the earliest sentence. Title
words are dropped from the terms unless they're the attribute asked
about, which is what makes "mount everest height" return 8,848.86 m
instead of a sentence restating the subject.
Fires on a 600ms debounce, only for query shapes that aren't app
searches, cached per query — Wikipedia throttles bursts, so restraint is
correctness here. Every triggered query goes to Wikipedia.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Results become one flat list — apps, then files, then a web fallback —
so a single set of arrow keys walks all of it and activate() dispatches
on the item kind.
Files come from one fd run per settled keystroke, scoped to $HOME and
capped with --max-results so fd exits as soon as it has enough; no index
and no daemon, so nothing is ever stale. Spaces in the query become
gaps ("report 2024" finds report-2024.pdf) and regex metacharacters are
escaped so a query can't make fd bail.
Web row is last and always there, with bangs (!yt !gh !no !np !w) to
retarget it. Suppressed for arithmetic so Enter keeps copying the sum.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Pinned apps move out of the results list into their own tile grid, three
across, wrapping to further rows. Drag a tile onto another slot to
reorder; the id list is rewritten on release rather than mid-drag, so
nothing shifts under the cursor.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Type arithmetic in the launcher ("3+3") and a result card appears above
the list; click or Enter copies it. Right-click any result to pin it to
the top — pins persist in ~/.local/state and outrank ties in search.
CPU/RAM rows in the server card use a new knobless MeterBar instead of
PillSlider, which read as draggable controls.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Fixed hues stayed legible but read as pasted on. Mix each 25% toward
base0D so they land in the wallpaper's family: err #e0525f -> #b86872,
ok #68c17c -> #5ebb88. statusHarmony is the one knob.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Stylix base01/base02 come off the wallpaper and land off-hue (purple card
over a slate bar). Tint base00 instead: #1c1f26 -> #2f3440 -> #434a5b.
base08-base0C collapse to the same cyan on monochrome wallpapers, so
warning and critical were indistinguishable. Replace with fixed err/warn/
ok/info/alt tokens; base0D stays the themed accent.
Also fixes Theme.base06, which was referenced but never declared.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Shrinks external-access blip after ISP re-IP (was waiting up to 5min for
the dyndns timer). Adds journal logging so WAN events are auditable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Flushes stale NAT conntrack on WAN IP change; renews lease then restarts
networkd if internet stays down. ntfy on action. Fixes needing a manual
reboot after the ISP re-IP'd us.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
