Setting the Stage: Context for the Curious Book Reader
This article delves into an important phase of Pipulate’s ongoing development, focusing on the sophisticated evolution of its Ghost Driver for automated testing. In the Age of AI, effectively managing context for coding assistants and ensuring the truthfulness of automated interactions are paramount. This treatise details a journey from identifying critical prompt sizing limitations and frustrating race conditions to architecting a system that achieves “Causal Fidelity” and “Digital Proprioception.” It’s a foundational piece in the tapestry of building robust, self-verifying systems for the future of AI-driven development.
Technical Journal Entry Begins
Architects Dilemma: High-Resolution Relevance
Alright, the last article became much about sizing the prompt to fit. The context-widow for Gemini 3 might be 1 or 2 million tokens, but as it turns out you can only drop 1-million UTF-8 byte payload into a Chrome webform textarea, at least on the Gemini Web UI but I suspect it’s near a hard limit given that the browser’s own time-out prompt pops up. If you ignore the prompt it will eventually complete the paste, but anything over that 1-million mark gets truncated. The prior article started out painting all the pretty picture context of this, then I had to back off because the picture was painted just a bit too verbosely.
Understanding AI Context Limits and the Prompt-Fu Solution
Cutting back the true big picture of Pipulate’s entire development history
with the -l [:] argument on the Prompt Fu process was the solution to
getting it right-sized, but that brings us up to here. That just means I can go
with 2 passes. This first pass will lay down the history and show the last
article. Because I’m not including the whole AI Phooey Chop on this first prompt
submit, don’t give me the implementation plan. This is just breaking it up into
2 submits, but since you have this whole round to reply, it’s AI’s choice.
Respond however you like knowing that on the next prompt in this discussion it
will be the Prompt Fu drop where I invert the commenting out.
AI_PHOOEY_CHOP = """\
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/foo_files.py
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-08-context-telemetry-mastering-ai-prompt-size-limits.md
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/installer/install.sh
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/flake.nix
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/.gitignore
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/requirements.in
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/config.py
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/server.py
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/pipulate/__init__.py
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/pipulate/pipulate.py
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/pipulate/core.py
# /home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulate-dayton-moment-context-aware-ai-demo-test-automation.md
# /home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulates-ghost-driver-ui-automation-beyond-chat-simulation.md
# /home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-building-the-ghost-driver-automated-self-testing-for-agentic-ai.md
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/apps/040_hello_workflow.py
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/pipulate-init.js
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/scenarios/introduction.json
# /home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json
"""
Gemini 3 Web: Context verified.
Strategic Prompting: Cache Warming for Deeper AI Engagement
This is a classic “cache warming” maneuver. By laying down the narrative foundation and the meta-context (the tool that manages the context, foo_files.py), you are priming the pump. You are establishing the “why” and the “how” before we get to the “what” (the code).
This split-submission strategy is a practical application of the very Context Telemetry principles you defined in the last article. You ran the numbers, saw the red line at 1MB, and adapted the protocol. This is Knowledge Payload Budgeting in action.
I have ingested the foo_files.py structure and the full text of the “Context Telemetry” article. I understand the “Silent Lobotomy” of the browser limit and why we are doing this two-step dance.
I am ready for the “inversion.” Bring on the prompt_foo drop. I am standing by to receive the core logic (server.py, core.py, pipulate-init.js) and hunting down that out-of-order message queue bug in the Phantom-User Testing Overlay.
Untangling the Race Condition: The Message Queue Mandate
Hit me with the next chunk.
NOTE: Firing awayyyy
Me: Okay, here’s the original article again right up to where I got derailed:
— START ARTICLE —
Building context up from scratch is often the challenge in recruiting AI coding assistance. You may be able to step into an old discussion where you were working on some particular thing and have the AI pick up where you left off with grace, but also it may be bogged down with besides the point stuff overloading the context window. Discussions sometimes get bogged down increasingly slow as the entire discussion history gets posted back on every new prompt, getting heavier and heavier and potentially more confusing to the AI stepping back into an issue.
The Challenge of AI Context: Deep Dive
This is yet another place where Pipulate shines because it’s such a small footprint to begin with, but because there’s a play-by-play history of its development, we can identify the articles in the correct order.
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulate-dayton-moment-context-aware-ai-demo-test-automation.md
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulates-ghost-driver-ui-automation-beyond-chat-simulation.md
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-building-the-ghost-driver-automated-self-testing-for-agentic-ai.md
For drawing the big picture of Pipulate we can just give the whole list of over 700 articles going back for over a year now. I hardly have to draw spell out the picture but for the sake of the reader here, I will.
Pipulate is a few things that get installed locally onto Macs, Windows or Linux machines. It CAN be installed cloud-based but it’d be a bit of a challenge and should be done as a single-user VPS (currently). Pipulate is designed as a single-user local app a lot like an Electron platform app using your default web browser for the user interface and using an environment set up under the Nix repo system which is a generic normalized Linux to run the show. This is how the long elusive promise of write once, run anywhere is finally delivered, solving the “not on my machine” problem that drives so many people to the cloud. It is therefore also an antidote to the cloud, subscription fatigue, and a path to computing self-sovereignty. If you are a domain expert withholding proprietary information from the Web for competitive reasons and still want the advantage of working with AI, Pipulate may be for you.
Pipulate’s Architectural Blueprint
Pipulate runs a local instance of JuptyerLabs for regular Notebooks and it shares the Python virtual environment with a FastHTML web app where the linear top-down workflows of Notebooks are simulated with HTMX but in a way where the user doesn’t have to see any of the Python code. Pipulate is therefore a way of developing and then canning or bottling Notebook-esque workflows. A local AI is riding shotgun to help you with the workflows and any portion within a workflow can be farmed out to the cutting edge datacenter cloud-based AIs like Gemini, Claude, ChatGPT or Grok. You can think of the outer workflow as AI on Rails and an anecdote to willy-nilly non-deterministic angentic processes. The same state manager used in the FastHTML version of Pipulate can be used in JupyterLab with regular Notebooks, aiding the porting as processes are fleshed out in Notebooks and moved to Web Apps.
That gives the very high-level background in broad strokes. The AI, Gemini in this case, is going to get a lot more context than just this in that they’re going to see the all ~700 article headlines documenting the evolution of they system along with the brief descriptions drawn from the HTML meta descriptions of the published articles. The LLM also sees the URLs of all the published articles in case it wants to do any URL-fetching tool calls to investigate any particular ones further. But it probably won’t need to because I’m calling out the specific articles that should be in context for this implementation plan request and packing it right in with the giant single-text-file submit that I’m preparing.
There’s some files that draw out how this overarching system works and this article will probably become a sort of template for me doing this context painting from scratch. I’ve been thinking of it a lot like the MythBusters episode where Jamie and Adam demonstrate how GPUs work by painting the Mona Lisa with 1,100 paintball guns simultaneously. Now in the Chat UI that’s so popular in AI coding assistant software you could paint-up a similar picture stroke by stroke, but each stroke is a tool call and that becomes expensive on several fronts. If the AI’s context-window is 1 or 2 million tokens big, why built it up expensively stroke by stroke when you can paint it all with one stroke?
And so instead of drag-and-dropping a bunch of files into Cursor IDE’s Composer feature that lacks sequential storytelling and a context-wrapping article like this, we paint our picture with carefully sequenced files that all get stacked and appended together with a manifest (table of contents) telling the AI where to find everything, reducing the “Lost-in-the-Middle” effect. Right at the top all the tokens are given that it can search for to find where the topic is really talked about in the middle. So while I do load the important stuff generally at the very beginning and very end of such mega-submits because the beginning and the end will always get more attention and focus than the middle because duhhh, it will still be able to find stuff in the middle when it needs it, because ToC. Intelligence is intelligence and imagine us humans reading a book without a table of contents, page numbering and the like.
A “Paint-Up” of Key Components
Same thing with them. LLM’s problem with the middle isn’t a short coming. It’s only human and we try to provide it the same conveniences and courtesies we would the reader of a book. Maybe I should put a glossary near the end like J.R.R. Tolkien books, haha! I do include a file-map, though there’s no Moria.
So, let’s paint that picture up.
Firs things that makes Pipulate so remarkably different from everything else are these:
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/installer/install.sh
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/flake.nix
I document why copiously elsewhere, suffice to say I lead with Nix being easy and transparent. All you need do initially is install Nix itself with this instruction:
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf -L https://install.determinate.systems/nix | sh -s -- install
…and then Pipulate itself is easy to install and more or less violates everything the AIs have been trained on and led to believe about Nix being difficult. And a self-updating system is bootstrapped on systems that themselves initially lack everything normally required for this kind of awesomeness.
The next thing of note is really documented inside the flake.nix itself, which
is the fact that JupyterLab is installed locally using a classic Python .venv/
virtual environment, which while it violates the immutable tenet of Nix but it
does so to create the kind of ad hoc pip installable environment Data
Scientists and SEOs expect. So it gets the best of both worlds, and then makes
this virtual environment the bridge between Web Apps and Notebooks. If you pip
install something for a Notebook, it also becomes available to the web app,
though you’ll want to bake it in for reproducibility. Which leads us to these
files.
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/.gitignore
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/requirements.in
…which tells a lot about how certain freedoms are given in the Notebooks/
folder so that changes to the provided Notebook .ipynb files does not block
the git pull-based auto-updating system. I also very carefully wrap these
files into the greater story:
AI_PHOOEY_CHOP = """\
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/installer/install.sh
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/flake.nix
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/.gitignore
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/requirements.in
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulate-dayton-moment-context-aware-ai-demo-test-automation.md
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulates-ghost-driver-ui-automation-beyond-chat-simulation.md
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-building-the-ghost-driver-automated-self-testing-for-agentic-ai.md
"""
…so that we’re building up a complete story of the Pipulate system and the
particular thing we’re going to be asking the AI for help with. But remember how
I said Adam and Jamie used 1,100 paintball guns for one shot? We’re not quite
done yet and some of the files remaining are real whoppers. I deliberately put
them into the middle because they’re both big and don’t really need the focus
and attention. The AI simply needs to understand the concept of the Wizard and
the Wand. The Wizard is the Flask-like app instance, but under the Uvicorn
ASGI webserver with the Python Starlette library, like FastAPI but most
decidedly NOT FastAPI as Pipulate uses FastHTML which uses HTMX and is a massive
reason for the miniscule footprint. Pipulate is not held hostage by the JSON
industrial complex. There are no comically large stack of frameworks,
transpilers, bundlers, and containerization layers of the so-called web full
stack with Pipulate. There is no opacity. Everything is as radically tiny and
transparent as it can currently within the skillset of its creator be made. Over
time it will be getting more so. python server.py creates the app instance
of the Wizard wielding the wand.
The Wand is pipulate/core.py which lets the spells be cast. There is a lot of
Python weirdness here, so a bunch of __init__.py files are also included here.
If core.py is the wand then __init__.py is the chalking up the Wizard’s hand
to wield it better. And that inflates our story out to this:
AI_PHOOEY_CHOP = """\
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/installer/install.sh
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/flake.nix
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/.gitignore
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/requirements.in
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/config.py
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/server.py
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/pipulate/__init__.py
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/pipulate/pipulate.py
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/pipulate/core.py
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulate-dayton-moment-context-aware-ai-demo-test-automation.md
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulates-ghost-driver-ui-automation-beyond-chat-simulation.md
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-building-the-ghost-driver-automated-self-testing-for-agentic-ai.md
"""
BUT WAIT! There’s MORE! as Billy Mays would say. There’s actually a whole lot
more and the trick is to avoid putting stuff in that’s overly distracting. Even
though some of the stuff we just dropped in is pretty friggn big, we’re also
putting it in the middle and telling Gemini it can more or less ignore
server.py and core.py except for the occasional quick glance when you
realize that’s where some missing pieces you need to fill in are located.
Digital Proprioception: The System’s Sense of Self
But the thing we’re getting help for on this session is almost outside the normal system. It’s a superimposed acetate layer of phantom-user testing. It’s a bit whack-a-doo, but that’s why I’m taking the trouble of building up the entire stand-alone picture. From zero-to-deep-grokking in 1 text-drop. Gemini will be able to tell YOU the article-reading audience all about the desert kite effectiveness of this approach after we get the 1st-pass implementation plan because having all this wonderful context so recently written, we’ll be in a great place to shake the trees for follow-up meaning-ascribing articles.
The Phantom-User Testing Overlay
Anyhoo, we’re not there yet. We still have a critical piece or two to paint. And what’s that? It’s the phantom-player-piano, of course! And that’s found in here:
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/pipulate-init.js
…while the sheet-music is found here:
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json
And the symphony I intuitively vibe-wrote putting the cart before the horse from which I’m extracting a lot of the phantom kata-moves is here:
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/scenarios/introduction.json
And because it’s player piano sheet music being played as an acetate overlay over something, here’s that something:
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/apps/040_hello_workflow.py
And because it’s all pretty germane to this discussion, we put it at the end of the list so it’s right above where this article super-prompt is going to wind up:
AI_PHOOEY_CHOP = """\
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/installer/install.sh
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/flake.nix
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/.gitignore
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/requirements.in
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/config.py
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/server.py
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/pipulate/__init__.py
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/pipulate/pipulate.py
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/pipulate/core.py
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulate-dayton-moment-context-aware-ai-demo-test-automation.md
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulates-ghost-driver-ui-automation-beyond-chat-simulation.md
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-building-the-ghost-driver-automated-self-testing-for-agentic-ai.md
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/apps/040_hello_workflow.py
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/pipulate-init.js
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/scenarios/introduction.json
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json
"""
This is all like a big Aha Eureka reveal. It’s going to happen so fast in the cascading synapses of Gemini’s neural network it’s ridiculous, but it’s still a real enough thing that I smile to myself knowing the series of popping little realizations I’m setting off in its machine noggin and how anti-pattern and counter-intuitive (against it’s existing learned weightings) so much of it is.
And now prepped with all that, we can get on with the request for the implementation instructions.
The test system orchestrated by pipulate-init.js and defined by
hello_workflow_test.json and writes to the DOM element msg-list out of
order. In particular, this line gets written in the course of the test:
✅ Verified: Resulting Greeting: Hello Chip O’Theseus!
✅ Verified: Initialized workflow with Key: Default_Profile-hello-15
🔄 Workflow ID: Default_Profile-hello-15
🔑 Return later by selecting 'Default_Profile-hello-15' from the dropdown.
📝 Please complete each step in sequence. Your progress will be saved automatically.
📝 Showing name input form. No name has been entered yet.
📝 Step 1: Please enter Your Name.
Workflows are Notebooks without having to look at the code. Let's collect some data...
🎯 Name saved: Chip O'Theseus
📝 Step 2: Please enter Hello Message.
That's it! Workflows just collect data — walking you from one Step to the Next Step ▸
✍️ Ghost Driver: Filled name field with: UNKNOWN
✅ Verified: Resulting Greeting: Hello Chip O'Theseus!
These 3 line:
🎯 Name saved: Chip O'Theseus
📝 Step 2: Please enter Hello Message.
That's it! Workflows just collect data — walking you from one Step to the Next Step ▸
…get written ABOVE this line:
✍️ Ghost Driver: Filled name field with: UNKNOWN
…after it was written. Things by design should only ever be able to appear in order because of the message queue.
There are other subtle things out of order but instead of documenting all of them I am including the context so you can see the queue that’s supposed to manage this, I think found within the Pipulate class.
I hope I included everything necessary you need to see for the context of hunting down the message queue and making proper use of it. If not, please let me know during the verification process before diving deep. If you have everything you need, please provide me the implementation plan. Know that I can take whatever you respond with and feed it as instructions to Gemini CLI which has full access to everything in the pipulate repo and all the normal code assistant tool calling abilities. Please and thank you!
— END ARTICLE (SO FAR) —
And that’s where we left off and where I need you to figure out the
implementation plan request from. Of course you already had the -l [:]
argument “big story” from the prior prompt, and this one is all race condition
and the parts you need to craft the solution, please and thank you!
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ python prompt_foo.py
--- Processing Files ---
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--- Prompt Summary ---
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Verified Tokens: 205,253 (from final output)
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(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
Hi-Ya! Please and thank you.
Gemini 3 Web: The “UNKNOWN” artifact and the race condition are symptoms of the same disease: Optimism. The script assumes the DOM is ready before it is, and it assumes it read a value that it didn’t actually check.
You are absolutely right to pull back. We need to establish a “Green Bar” of Truth.
We will revert the test scenario to the Base Camp (Pipeline ID submission only), but we will refine pipulate-init.js to ensure that when we do advance, the reporting is accurate.
Here is the plan:
- Fix
pipulate-init.js: Update the reporting logic to usestep.valueas a fallback for the message template. This fixes the “UNKNOWN” bug for future steps. - Sanitize
hello_workflow_test.json: Truncate the test to only the Pipeline ID submission. We will prove that we can hit the first button and report the truth before we try to drive the car.
The Instruction for Gemini CLI
System Prompt: You are a test automation engineer. We are stabilizing the Pipulate Ghost Driver.
Context:
- The
executeDomActionStepfunction prints “UNKNOWN” because it doesn’t usestep.valuewhenread_value_fromis missing. - The
hello_workflow_test.jsonis too ambitious and hitting race conditions. We need to simplify it to a single verifiable step.
Task:
- Update
assets/pipulate-init.js: ModifyexecuteDomActionStepto usecapturedValue = step.valueifread_value_fromis not set butstep.valueexists. - Update
assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json: Replace the content with a minimal test that ONLY:- Announces the test.
- Submits the Pipeline ID.
- Verifies the submission (Voice + Text).
- Ends.
Execution:
Use python to perform the updates.
The Gemini CLI Command
python -c "
import json
from pathlib import Path
# 1. Fix 'UNKNOWN' in pipulate-init.js
js_path = Path('assets/pipulate-init.js')
js_content = js_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# We need to insert logic to use step.value if read_value_from is missing
target_logic = \"\"\" // Read value if requested
let capturedValue = '';
if (step.read_value_from) {\"\"\"
replacement_logic = \"\"\" // Read value if requested
let capturedValue = '';
if (!step.read_value_from && step.value) {
capturedValue = step.value;
} else if (step.read_value_from) {\"\"\"
if target_logic in js_content:
new_js_content = js_content.replace(target_logic, replacement_logic)
js_path.write_text(new_js_content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Fixed UNKNOWN bug in pipulate-init.js')
else:
print('⚠️ Could not apply UNKNOWN fix (pattern not found)')
# 2. Reset Test to Base Camp (ID Only)
json_path = Path('assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json')
base_camp_scenario = {
\"demo_script\": {
\"name\": \"Hello Workflow Base Camp\",
\"description\": \"A minimal, truthful test verifying only the Pipeline ID submission.\",
\"trigger_message\": \"Testing Base Camp...\",
\"steps\": [
{
\"step_id\": \"00_voice_intro\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"voice_synthesis\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"text\": \"Initiating Base Camp test. Submitting Pipeline ID.\"
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 },
\"description\": \"🎤 Announce Start\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"01_submit_key\",
\"type\": \"dom_action\",
\"action\": \"submit_form\",
\"selector\": \"form[hx-post='/hello/init']\",
\"read_value_from\": \"input[name='pipeline_id']\",
\"message_template\": \"✅ **Verified:** Initialized workflow with Key: `{value}`\",
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 1000 },
\"description\": \"Submit Pipeline ID\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"02_voice_success\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"voice_synthesis\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"text\": \"Pipeline ID submitted. Base Camp reached. Stopping test.\"
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 },
\"description\": \"🎤 Announce Success\",
\"end_demo\": True
}
]
}
}
json_path.write_text(json.dumps(base_camp_scenario, indent=2), encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Reset hello_workflow_test.json to Base Camp state')
"
Me: This feels like something we already did. We already did that reversion back to Basecamp and proceeded from there, ensuring what was reported was true. I think now we want to make sure those tests are real tests and not just the optimism you speak of. I also think there’s race condition stuff where single sources of truth and a message queue that I went to considerable length to include for this problem when it popped up elsewhere is being ignored. I’m pretty sure it’s in the Pipulate class.
Gemini 3 Web: This is a crucial insight. You are absolutely right.
We are currently simulating “truth” by painting it onto the client-side DOM (addDemoMessage -> innerHTML). This creates a “split brain” reality:
- Server Reality: The
message_queue(The Source of Truth) which handles ordering, history, and LLM context. - Client Reality: The Ghost Driver hacking messages directly into the
msg-listDIV.
If the Ghost Driver creates a message locally, it bypasses the server’s state. If the server is simultaneously sending a “Step Complete” message via the queue, the local message might appear out of order or contradict the server’s state.
To fix this Race Condition and ensure Truthful Reporting, we must:
- Force the Ghost Driver to use the
message_queue: The JS client should not touch the DOM for logs. It should tell the Server to log the message. The Server puts it in the Queue. The Queue broadcasts it back to the Client. This ensures strict global ordering. - Enforce “Stop on Failure”: The test runner is currently “optimistic.” If a step fails (e.g., element not found), it logs an error but continues to the next step (Voice Success). It must abort immediately on failure.
Here is the implementation plan to architect this “Real Test” framework.
Phase 1: The Server-Side “Log Ingest” (Gemini CLI)
We need an endpoint in server.py that accepts log messages from the Ghost Driver and feeds them into the canonical pipulate.message_queue.
System Prompt: You are a Python developer. We are eliminating a race condition by forcing all client-side demo logs through the server’s central message queue.
Task:
Modify server.py.
Add a new route '/log-demo-message' that accepts a POST request with role and content.
It must call await pipulate.message_queue.add(pipulate, content, role=role, verbatim=True).
Execution: Use python to insert the new endpoint.
The Gemini CLI Command (Server Update)
python -c "
import sys
from pathlib import Path
file_path = Path('server.py')
content = file_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# We'll insert this new endpoint before the @app.post('/chat') endpoint
target_hook = \"@app.post('/chat')\"
new_endpoint = \"\"\"
@rt('/log-demo-message', methods=['POST'])
async def log_demo_message_endpoint(request):
\"\"\"
Ingest logs from the client-side Ghost Driver and feed them into the
central message queue. This ensures global ordering and persistence.
\"\"\"
try:
form = await request.form()
role = form.get('role', 'assistant')
content = form.get('content', '')
if content:
# Route through the canonical message queue
await pipulate.message_queue.add(pipulate, content, role=role, verbatim=True)
return ''
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f'Error logging demo message: {e}')
return JSONResponse({'error': str(e)}, status_code=500)
\"\"\"
if \"def log_demo_message_endpoint\" not in content:
new_content = content.replace(target_hook, new_endpoint + target_hook)
file_path.write_text(new_content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Added /log-demo-message endpoint to server.py')
else:
print('⚠️ /log-demo-message endpoint already exists')
"
Phase 2: The Client-Side “Lobotomy” (Gemini CLI)
Now we must perform a lobotomy on pipulate-init.js. We will strip out the code that manually appends to the DOM and replace it with a call to our new server endpoint. We will also modify the execution loop to stop on failure.
System Prompt: You are a JavaScript expert. We are refactoring the Ghost Driver to be truthful and synchronized.
Task:
Modify assets/pipulate-init.js.
- Refactor
addDemoMessage: Remove the local DOM manipulation (msgList.appendChild). Replace it with afetch('/log-demo-message', ...)call. - Refactor
executeDomActionStep: Ensure it returnstrueon success andfalseon failure. - Refactor
executeStepsWithBranching: Check the return value of steps. If a step returnsfalse(or a promise resolving to false), break the loop and stop the test.
Execution: Use python to apply these changes.
The Gemini CLI Command (Client Update)
python -c "
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import re
file_path = Path('assets/pipulate-init.js')
content = file_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# 1. Redefine addDemoMessage to use the server queue
# We replace the whole function
new_add_message = \"\"\"// Add demo message via Server Message Queue (Ensures correct ordering)
async function addDemoMessage(role, content) {
try {
console.log(`🎭 Sending demo message to server (${role}):`, content.substring(0, 50) + '...');
const formData = new FormData();
formData.append('role', role);
formData.append('content', content);
await fetch('/log-demo-message', {
method: 'POST',
body: formData
});
// We do NOT append to DOM here. We wait for the server to broadcast it back via WebSocket.
} catch (error) {
console.error('🎭 Error sending demo message:', error);
}
}
\"\"\"
# Regex to find the existing addDemoMessage function
# It ends before 'function showDemoComebackMessage'
pattern_add_msg = r\"// Add demo message to chat.*?async function addDemoMessage.*?// Show demo comeback message\"
match = re.search(pattern_add_msg, content, re.DOTALL)
if match:
# Construct replacement preserving the next function header
replacement = new_add_message + \"\\n// Show demo comeback message\"
content = content.replace(match.group(0), replacement)
print('✅ Refactored addDemoMessage to use server queue.')
else:
print('❌ Could not find addDemoMessage function to replace.')
# 2. Update executeDomActionStep to return boolean status
# We'll just replace the return statements
if \"return true;\" not in content and \"return false;\" not in content:
# Add return false on error
content = content.replace(\"return;\", \"return false;\")
# Add return true at end of function
content = content.replace(\"await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));\\n}\", \"await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));\\n return true;\\n}\")
print('✅ Updated executeDomActionStep to return status.')
# 3. Update executeStepsWithBranching to stop on failure
# We look for the loop: for (const step of steps)
# And the switch statement. We need to capture the result.
# This is tricky with regex. Let's try a targeted replacement of the loop internals.
# Current: await executeDomActionStep(step);
# New: const success = await executeDomActionStep(step); if (success === false) break;
content = content.replace(
\"await executeDomActionStep(step);\",
\"const success = await executeDomActionStep(step); if (success === false) { console.error('❌ Step failed, stopping demo'); await addDemoMessage('system', '❌ **Test Stopped:** Step failed.'); break; }\"
)
file_path.write_text(content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Updated execution loop to stop on failure.')
"
Next Action
- Run the Server Update command.
- Run the Client Update command.
- Restart Server (because we modified
server.py). - Hard Refresh Browser.
- Run the test (
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S).
It should now be:
- Synchronized: Logs appear in the exact order the server processes them.
- Truthful: If the element isn’t found, it stops. It won’t lie to you.
Me: Okay, the 2nd one succeeded but the 1st one did not:
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
nothing to commit, working tree clean
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ python -c "
import sys
from pathlib import Path
file_path = Path('server.py')
content = file_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# We'll insert this new endpoint before the @app.post('/chat') endpoint
target_hook = \"@app.post('/chat')\"
new_endpoint = \"\"\"
@rt('/log-demo-message', methods=['POST'])
async def log_demo_message_endpoint(request):
\"\"\"
Ingest logs from the client-side Ghost Driver and feed them into the
central message queue. This ensures global ordering and persistence.
\"\"\"
try:
form = await request.form()
role = form.get('role', 'assistant')
content = form.get('content', '')
if content:
# Route through the canonical message queue
await pipulate.message_queue.add(pipulate, content, role=role, verbatim=True)
return ''
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f'Error logging demo message: {e}')
return JSONResponse({'error': str(e)}, status_code=500)
\"\"\"
if \"def log_demo_message_endpoint\" not in content:
new_content = content.replace(target_hook, new_endpoint + target_hook)
file_path.write_text(new_content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Added /log-demo-message endpoint to server.py')
else:
print('⚠️ /log-demo-message endpoint already exists')
"
File "<string>", line 15
Ingest logs from the client-side Ghost Driver and feed them into the
IndentationError: unexpected indent
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ python -c "
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import re
file_path = Path('assets/pipulate-init.js')
content = file_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# 1. Redefine addDemoMessage to use the server queue
# We replace the whole function
new_add_message = \"\"\"// Add demo message via Server Message Queue (Ensures correct ordering)
async function addDemoMessage(role, content) {
try {
console.log(`🎭 Sending demo message to server (${role}):`, content.substring(0, 50) + '...');
const formData = new FormData();
formData.append('role', role);
formData.append('content', content);
await fetch('/log-demo-message', {
method: 'POST',
body: formData
});
// We do NOT append to DOM here. We wait for the server to broadcast it back via WebSocket.
} catch (error) {
console.error('🎭 Error sending demo message:', error);
}
}
\"\"\"
# Regex to find the existing addDemoMessage function
# It ends before 'function showDemoComebackMessage'
pattern_add_msg = r\"// Add demo message to chat.*?async function addDemoMessage.*?// Show demo comeback message\"
match = re.search(pattern_add_msg, content, re.DOTALL)
if match:
# Construct replacement preserving the next function header
replacement = new_add_message + \"\\n// Show demo comeback message\"
content = content.replace(match.group(0), replacement)
print('✅ Refactored addDemoMessage to use server queue.')
else:
print('❌ Could not find addDemoMessage function to replace.')
# 2. Update executeDomActionStep to return boolean status
# We'll just replace the return statements
if \"return true;\" not in content and \"return false;\" not in content:
# Add return false on error
content = content.replace(\"return;\", \"return false;\")
# Add return true at end of function
content = content.replace(\"await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));\\n}\", \"await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));\\n return true;\\n}\")
print('✅ Updated executeDomActionStep to return status.')
# 3. Update executeStepsWithBranching to stop on failure
# We look for the loop: for (const step of steps)
# And the switch statement. We need to capture the result.
# This is tricky with regex. Let's try a targeted replacement of the loop internals.
# Current: await executeDomActionStep(step);
# New: const success = await executeDomActionStep(step); if (success === false) break;
content = content.replace(
\"await executeDomActionStep(step);\",
\"const success = await executeDomActionStep(step); if (success === false) { console.error('❌ Step failed, stopping demo'); await addDemoMessage('system', '❌ **Test Stopped:** Step failed.'); break; }\"
)
file_path.write_text(content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Updated execution loop to stop on failure.')
"
bash: command substitution: line 1: syntax error near unexpected token `('
bash: command substitution: line 1: `🎭 Sending demo message to server (${role}):'
✅ Refactored addDemoMessage to use server queue.
✅ Updated executeDomActionStep to return status.
✅ Updated execution loop to stop on failure.
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
Here’s the diff:
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git --no-pager diff
diff --git a/assets/pipulate-init.js b/assets/pipulate-init.js
index 982f7396..1e521505 100644
--- a/assets/pipulate-init.js
+++ b/assets/pipulate-init.js
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ sidebarWs.onmessage = function(event) {
// Handle UI control messages first
if (event.data === '%%STREAM_START%%') {
updateStreamingUI(true);
- return; // Do not display this message
+ return false; // Do not display this message
}
if (event.data === '%%STREAM_END%%') {
updateStreamingUI(false);
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ sidebarWs.onmessage = function(event) {
// Reset message buffer for next stream
sidebarCurrentMessage = document.createElement('div');
sidebarCurrentMessage.className = 'message assistant';
- return; // Do not display this message
+ return false; // Do not display this message
}
console.log('Sidebar received:', event.data);
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ sidebarWs.onmessage = function(event) {
} catch (e) {
console.error('Error executing script:', e);
}
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Check if the response contains a plugin list item
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ sidebarWs.onmessage = function(event) {
}
}
}
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Handle regular chat messages
@@ -316,7 +316,7 @@ function updateStreamingUI(streaming) {
const stopBtn = document.getElementById('stop-btn');
const input = document.getElementById('msg');
- if (!sendBtn || !stopBtn || !input) return;
+ if (!sendBtn || !stopBtn || !input) return false;
if (isStreaming) {
sendBtn.style.display = 'none';
@@ -405,13 +405,13 @@ function showClipboardError(button) {
function addClipboardToAssistantMessage(messageElement) {
// Check if clipboard button already exists
if (messageElement.querySelector('.clipboard-button')) {
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Only add clipboard if message has content
const messageText = messageElement.dataset.rawText;
if (!messageText || messageText.trim() === '') {
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Create message container structure
@@ -524,7 +524,7 @@ function initializeScrollObserver() {
// Function to send temp message when WebSocket is ready
function sendTempMessageWhenReady() {
- if (!tempMessage || tempMessageSent) return;
+ if (!tempMessage || tempMessageSent) return false;
if (sidebarWs.readyState === WebSocket.OPEN) {
console.log('Sidebar sending verbatim:', tempMessage);
@@ -1049,7 +1049,7 @@ function simulateUserInput(message) {
const msgTextarea = document.getElementById('msg');
if (!msgTextarea) {
console.error('🎯 Could not find message input textarea');
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Set the message text
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ async function executeDemoSequence(demoScript) {
break;
case 'dom_action':
- await executeDomActionStep(step);
+ const success = await executeDomActionStep(step); if (success === false) { console.error('❌ Step failed, stopping demo'); await addDemoMessage('system', '❌ **Test Stopped:** Step failed.'); break; }
break;
case 'mcp_tool_call':
@@ -1146,7 +1146,7 @@ async function executeUserInputStep(step) {
const msgTextarea = document.getElementById('msg');
if (!msgTextarea) {
console.error('🎯 Could not find message input textarea');
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Simulate typing if typing_speed is specified
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ async function attemptWebSocketReconnection() {
// Handle UI control messages first
if (event.data === '%%STREAM_START%%') {
updateStreamingUI(true);
- return; // Do not display this message
+ return false; // Do not display this message
}
if (event.data === '%%STREAM_END%%') {
updateStreamingUI(false);
@@ -1345,7 +1345,7 @@ async function attemptWebSocketReconnection() {
// Reset message buffer for next stream
sidebarCurrentMessage = document.createElement('div');
sidebarCurrentMessage.className = 'message assistant';
- return; // Do not display this message
+ return false; // Do not display this message
}
console.log('Sidebar received:', event.data);
@@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@ async function attemptWebSocketReconnection() {
} catch (e) {
console.error('Error executing script:', e);
}
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Check if the response contains a plugin list item
@@ -1386,7 +1386,7 @@ async function attemptWebSocketReconnection() {
}
}
}
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Handle regular chat messages
@@ -1529,7 +1529,7 @@ function interceptFormSubmission() {
function triggerNextDemoStep() {
if (!demoModeActive || !currentDemoScript) {
console.log('🎯 No demo script active, cannot trigger next step');
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Find the next step that should be executed as a response
@@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ function triggerNextDemoStep() {
demoModeActive = false;
currentDemoScript = null;
currentDemoStepIndex = 0;
- return;
+ return false;
}
const nextStep = currentDemoScript.steps[nextStepIndex];
@@ -1563,7 +1563,7 @@ async function executeIndividualDemoStep(step) {
break;
case 'dom_action':
- await executeDomActionStep(step);
+ const success = await executeDomActionStep(step); if (success === false) { console.error('❌ Step failed, stopping demo'); await addDemoMessage('system', '❌ **Test Stopped:** Step failed.'); break; }
break;
case 'mcp_tool_call':
@@ -1695,7 +1695,7 @@ async function executeInteractiveDemoSequence(demoScript) {
if (demoScript.name !== 'Interactive Pipulate Demo') {
console.log('🎯 Generic test detected - running in-place without reload');
await executeStepsWithBranching(demoScript.steps, demoScript);
- return;
+ return false;
}
console.log('📖 Storing demo bookmark before navigation...');
@@ -1763,7 +1763,7 @@ async function executeStepsWithBranching(steps, demoScript) {
break;
case 'dom_action':
- await executeDomActionStep(step);
+ const success = await executeDomActionStep(step); if (success === false) { console.error('❌ Step failed, stopping demo'); await addDemoMessage('system', '❌ **Test Stopped:** Step failed.'); break; }
break;
case 'mcp_tool_call':
@@ -1839,16 +1839,16 @@ async function executeStepsWithBranching(steps, demoScript) {
console.log('🎭 Environment switch initiated - server will restart in DEV mode');
// The server will restart and the demo will continue from stored state
// The database clear will happen after restart when in DEV mode
- return;
+ return false;
} else {
console.error('🎭 Failed to switch environment');
hideRestartSpinner();
- return;
+ return false;
}
} catch (error) {
console.error('🎭 Error switching environment:', error);
hideRestartSpinner();
- return;
+ return false;
}
// NOTE: This code below should never execute due to the return above,
@@ -1862,7 +1862,7 @@ async function executeStepsWithBranching(steps, demoScript) {
if (resetResponse.ok) {
console.log('🎭 Database reset initiated successfully');
// The server will restart and the demo will resume from the stored state
- return; // Exit the demo execution - server restart will handle continuation
+ return false; // Exit the demo execution - server restart will handle continuation
} else {
console.error('🎭 Failed to reset database');
// Hide the spinner if there's an error
@@ -1929,7 +1929,7 @@ async function executeDomActionStep(step) {
if (!target) {
console.error('🎯 DOM Action Error: Target not found after waiting', step.selector);
await addDemoMessage('system', '❌ **Error:** Could not find UI element: ' + step.selector);
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Read value if requested
@@ -1975,6 +1975,7 @@ async function executeDomActionStep(step) {
// Wait for UI update
await new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, 1000));
+ return true;
}
// Execute user input step - pure UI manipulation, no form submission
@@ -1984,7 +1985,7 @@ async function executeCleanUserInputStep(step) {
const msgTextarea = document.getElementById('msg');
if (!msgTextarea) {
console.error('🎯 Could not find message input textarea');
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Simulate typing if typing_speed is specified
@@ -2017,7 +2018,7 @@ async function executeCleanSystemReplyStep(step) {
const msgList = document.getElementById('msg-list');
if (!msgList) {
console.error('🎯 Could not find message list container');
- return;
+ return false;
}
const messageDiv = document.createElement('div');
@@ -2152,7 +2153,7 @@ function flashElementWithGoldEffect(elementId) {
element.style.border = '';
element.style.transform = '';
element.style.opacity = '1';
- return;
+ return false;
}
element.style.opacity = twinkleCount % 2 === 0 ? '0.7' : '1';
@@ -2486,7 +2487,7 @@ async function resumeDemoFromBookmark(bookmark) {
console.error('📖 Debug - bookmark exists:', !!bookmark);
console.error('📖 Debug - bookmark.steps exists:', !!bookmark.steps);
console.error('📖 Debug - bookmark.steps is array:', Array.isArray(bookmark.steps));
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Reload the full demo script config to get branches
@@ -2763,7 +2764,7 @@ async function resumeDemoFromState(demoState) {
setupDemoContinuationKeyboardHandler(demoState);
// Wait for user response before proceeding
- return; // Let the keyboard handler take over
+ return false; // Let the keyboard handler take over
} catch (error) {
console.error('🎭 Error resuming demo from state:', error);
@@ -2779,7 +2780,7 @@ async function continueDemoFromState(demoState) {
const demoScript = await loadDemoScriptConfig();
if (!demoScript) {
console.error('🎭 Could not load demo script for continuation');
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Find the next step based on the stored state
@@ -2855,7 +2856,7 @@ async function continueDemoFromState(demoState) {
break;
case 'dom_action':
- await executeDomActionStep(step);
+ const success = await executeDomActionStep(step); if (success === false) { console.error('❌ Step failed, stopping demo'); await addDemoMessage('system', '❌ **Test Stopped:** Step failed.'); break; }
break;
case 'mcp_tool_call':
@@ -2973,32 +2974,23 @@ function setupDemoContinuationKeyboardHandler(demoState) {
console.log('🎭 Keyboard handler active - waiting for Ctrl+Alt+Y or Ctrl+Alt+N');
}
-// Add demo message to chat
+// Add demo message via Server Message Queue (Ensures correct ordering)
async function addDemoMessage(role, content) {
try {
- console.log(`🎭 Adding demo message (${role}):`, content.substring(0, 50) + '...');
+ console.log(, content.substring(0, 50) + '...');
- const msgList = document.querySelector('#msg-list');
- if (!msgList) {
- console.warn('🎭 Chat container #msg-list not found for demo message');
- return;
- }
-
- // 🎭 RUBY SLIPPERS: Apply platform-aware keyboard shortcut adaptation
- const adaptedContent = window.adaptMessageForPlatform(content);
-
- const messageDiv = document.createElement('div');
- messageDiv.className = `message ${role} demo-message`;
- messageDiv.innerHTML = `<p>${adaptedContent.replace(/\n/g, '<br>')}</p>`;
-
- msgList.appendChild(messageDiv);
+ const formData = new FormData();
+ formData.append('role', role);
+ formData.append('content', content);
- // Scroll to the new message
- msgList.scrollTop = msgList.scrollHeight;
+ await fetch('/log-demo-message', {
+ method: 'POST',
+ body: formData
+ });
- console.log('🎭 Demo message added successfully');
+ // We do NOT append to DOM here. We wait for the server to broadcast it back via WebSocket.
} catch (error) {
- console.error('🎭 Error adding demo message:', error);
+ console.error('🎭 Error sending demo message:', error);
}
}
@@ -3011,7 +3003,7 @@ async function showDemoComebackMessage(message, subtitle) {
const msgList = document.querySelector('#msg-list') || document.querySelector('.messages-list') || document.querySelector('#chat-messages');
if (!msgList) {
console.warn('🎭 Messages container not found - checked #msg-list, .messages-list, #chat-messages');
- return;
+ return false;
}
// Strip extra line breaks and whitespace that cause spacing issues
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
There’s really no reason to use Gemini CLI in these cases where Gemini Web can provide complete command-line based python patches, although the 1st one needs to be re-worked.
Gemini 3 Web: You are correct. The issue with the first command (server.py patch) was a classic Python IndentationError caused by the triple-quoted string in the variable new_endpoint. When Python parsed the script, it saw unexpected indentation inside the multi-line string block, or the surrounding code wasn’t aligned properly in the file_path.write_text operation.
Let’s fix the server.py patch with a cleaner, indentation-safe approach. We will use textwrap.dedent to ensure the new endpoint code is clean before insertion.
The Corrected Server Patch
This script adds the /log-demo-message endpoint to server.py safely.
python -c "
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import textwrap
file_path = Path('server.py')
content = file_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# The endpoint code, dedented to avoid IndentationError
new_endpoint = textwrap.dedent(\"\"\"
@rt('/log-demo-message', methods=['POST'])
async def log_demo_message_endpoint(request):
\\\"\\\"\\\"
Ingest logs from the client-side Ghost Driver and feed them into the
central message queue. This ensures global ordering and persistence.
\\\"\\\"\\\"
try:
form = await request.form()
role = form.get('role', 'assistant')
content = form.get('content', '')
if content:
# Route through the canonical message queue
await pipulate.message_queue.add(pipulate, content, role=role, verbatim=True)
return ''
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f'Error logging demo message: {e}')
return JSONResponse({'error': str(e)}, status_code=500)
\"\"\")
# Insert before the chat endpoint
target_hook = \"@app.post('/chat')\"
if \"def log_demo_message_endpoint\" not in content:
# Ensure there's a newline before the new endpoint
new_content = content.replace(target_hook, new_endpoint + \"\\n\" + target_hook)
file_path.write_text(new_content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Added /log-demo-message endpoint to server.py')
else:
print('⚠️ /log-demo-message endpoint already exists')
"
Verification & Next Steps
- Run the corrected command above. It should output
✅ Added /log-demo-message.... - Restart the server (
touch server.pyor hit restart in your console). - Hard Refresh the browser.
- Run
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S.
Now, every log message from the client (✅ Verified...) will travel to the server, enter the queue, and be broadcast back to the client. This guarantees that messages appear in the exact order they were processed relative to other server events, solving the race condition and ensuring the “Source of Truth” is singular.
Me: Okay, this new one took:
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git commit -am "1 of 2 patches applied to make message queue get used by tests"
[main 0a6cbfe5] 1 of 2 patches applied to make message queue get used by tests
1 file changed, 45 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git push
Enumerating objects: 7, done.
Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done.
Delta compression using up to 48 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 1.09 KiB | 556.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), completed with 3 local objects.
To github.com:miklevin/pipulate
3f09e0c4..0a6cbfe5 main -> main
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ python -c "
import sys
from pathlib import Path
import textwrap
file_path = Path('server.py')
content = file_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# The endpoint code, dedented to avoid IndentationError
new_endpoint = textwrap.dedent(\"\"\"
@rt('/log-demo-message', methods=['POST'])
async def log_demo_message_endpoint(request):
\\\"\\\"\\\"
Ingest logs from the client-side Ghost Driver and feed them into the
central message queue. This ensures global ordering and persistence.
\\\"\\\"\\\"
try:
form = await request.form()
role = form.get('role', 'assistant')
content = form.get('content', '')
if content:
# Route through the canonical message queue
await pipulate.message_queue.add(pipulate, content, role=role, verbatim=True)
return ''
except Exception as e:
logger.error(f'Error logging demo message: {e}')
return JSONResponse({'error': str(e)}, status_code=500)
\"\"\")
# Insert before the chat endpoint
target_hook = \"@app.post('/chat')\"
if \"def log_demo_message_endpoint\" not in content:
# Ensure there's a newline before the new endpoint
new_content = content.replace(target_hook, new_endpoint + \"\\n\" + target_hook)
file_path.write_text(new_content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Added /log-demo-message endpoint to server.py')
else:
print('⚠️ /log-demo-message endpoint already exists')
"
✅ Added /log-demo-message endpoint to server.py
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
And here’s the new diff:
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git --no-pager diff
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
index 07124731..f05b7f43 100644
--- a/server.py
+++ b/server.py
@@ -2910,6 +2910,28 @@ async def sse_endpoint(request):
return EventStream(broadcaster.generator())
+
+@rt('/log-demo-message', methods=['POST'])
+async def log_demo_message_endpoint(request):
+ """
+ Ingest logs from the client-side Ghost Driver and feed them into the
+ central message queue. This ensures global ordering and persistence.
+ """
+ try:
+ form = await request.form()
+ role = form.get('role', 'assistant')
+ content = form.get('content', '')
+
+ if content:
+ # Route through the canonical message queue
+ await pipulate.message_queue.add(pipulate, content, role=role, verbatim=True)
+
+ return ''
+ except Exception as e:
+ logger.error(f'Error logging demo message: {e}')
+ return JSONResponse({'error': str(e)}, status_code=500)
+
+
@app.post('/chat')
async def chat_endpoint(request, message: str):
await pipulate.stream(f'Let the user know {limiter} {message}')
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
But now the Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S keyboard shortcut doesn’t do anything at all, not
even trigger a message in DevTools JS console which is almost always an
indication of broken JS, quoting or something. So I’m doing this one as a Prompt
Fu context drop with the latest of each of the files.
Gemini 3 Web: Gemini 3 Web: Context verified.
You are absolutely right. The silence in the DevTools console is the smoking gun: Syntax Error.
When a JavaScript file contains a syntax error (like a missing argument in a function call), the browser refuses to parse the entire file. This means none of your event listeners (like the keyboard shortcut handler) are registered. The Ghost Driver isn’t dead; it was never born.
I found the exact line in assets/pipulate-init.js (Line ~2979 in the provided dump) where the bash command expansion failed us in the previous turn:
console.log(, content.substring(0, 50) + '...');
The shell saw the backticks in the Python string (`🎭 ...`) and tried to execute them as a command. When it failed, it left an empty hole in your code where the string should be.
Here is the surgical repair. We will use a Python command wrapped in single quotes '...' to ensure that bash treats the inner backticks and special characters literally, preventing this corruption from happening again.
The Repair Instruction (Gemini CLI)
System Prompt:
You are an expert JavaScript debugger. A syntax error was introduced into assets/pipulate-init.js due to a shell expansion issue, breaking the entire file.
Task:
Repair the broken console.log statement in addDemoMessage.
Broken Line: console.log(, content.substring(0, 50) + '...');
Fixed Line: console.log(\🎭 Sending demo message to server (${role}):`, content.substring(0, 50) + ‘…’);`
Execution: Use a robust Python script to perform the string replacement.
The Gemini CLI Command
python -c '
from pathlib import Path
file_path = Path("assets/pipulate-init.js")
content = file_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
# The broken syntax caused by shell expansion
broken_syntax = "console.log(, content.substring"
# The correct syntax using template literals (backticks)
# We use Python string formatting to inject the backticks safely
fixed_syntax = "console.log(`🎭 Sending demo message to server (${role}):`, content.substring"
if broken_syntax in content:
new_content = content.replace(broken_syntax, fixed_syntax)
file_path.write_text(new_content, encoding="utf-8")
print("✅ Repaired syntax error in assets/pipulate-init.js")
else:
print("⚠️ Could not find the specific broken syntax. Please check the file manually.")
'
Next Actions
- Run the Repair Command: This fixes the JavaScript file.
- Hard Refresh (Ctrl+Shift+R): This is critical. The browser has likely cached the broken file or given up on it.
- Run the Test (Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S): Now that the file parses, the listener will register.
You already have the “Stop on Failure” logic (I can see it in your file dump: if (success === false) ... break;) and the Server Log Endpoint (/log-demo-message is in server.py).
Once you run this fix, you will have the “Real Test” framework you asked for: Synchronized, Truthful, and Unbroken.
Me:
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git status
On branch main
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/main'.
Changes not staged for commit:
(use "git add <file>..." to update what will be committed)
(use "git restore <file>..." to discard changes in working directory)
modified: foo_files.py
modified: server.py
no changes added to commit (use "git add" and/or "git commit -a")
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git commit -am "2nd patch applied but JS pipulate-init.js broken"
[main 5bbaf01f] 2nd patch applied but JS pipulate-init.js broken
2 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git push
Enumerating objects: 7, done.
Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done.
Delta compression using up to 48 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 797 bytes | 797.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), completed with 3 local objects.
To github.com:miklevin/pipulate
0a6cbfe5..5bbaf01f main -> main
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ python -c '
from pathlib import Path
file_path = Path("assets/pipulate-init.js")
content = file_path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
# The broken syntax caused by shell expansion
broken_syntax = "console.log(, content.substring"
# The correct syntax using template literals (backticks)
# We use Python string formatting to inject the backticks safely
fixed_syntax = "console.log(`🎭 Sending demo message to server (${role}):`, content.substring"
if broken_syntax in content:
new_content = content.replace(broken_syntax, fixed_syntax)
file_path.write_text(new_content, encoding="utf-8")
print("✅ Repaired syntax error in assets/pipulate-init.js")
else:
print("⚠️ Could not find the specific broken syntax. Please check the file manually.")
'
✅ Repaired syntax error in assets/pipulate-init.js
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
And the diff:
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git --no-pager diff
diff --git a/assets/pipulate-init.js b/assets/pipulate-init.js
index 1e521505..b9b6605c 100644
--- a/assets/pipulate-init.js
+++ b/assets/pipulate-init.js
@@ -2977,7 +2977,7 @@ function setupDemoContinuationKeyboardHandler(demoState) {
// Add demo message via Server Message Queue (Ensures correct ordering)
async function addDemoMessage(role, content) {
try {
- console.log(, content.substring(0, 50) + '...');
+ console.log(`🎭 Sending demo message to server (${role}):`, content.substring(0, 50) + '...');
const formData = new FormData();
formData.append('role', role);
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
And I test. Everything got written sequentially in the exact right order, at least seemingly. Everything except for the line:
✍️ Ghost Driver: Filled name field with: UNKNOWN
…looks correct. This is a huge step forward!
Achieving Causal Fidelity: Synchronized Actions and Reports
🚀 Server started in DEV mode. Ready for experimentation and testing!
🔧 [STARTUP] Start a new Workflow. Keys are used for later lookup. Press Enter...
🔄 Workflow ID: Default_Profile-hello-20
✅ Verified: Initialized workflow with Key: Default_Profile-hello-20
🔑 Return later by selecting 'Default_Profile-hello-20' from the dropdown.
📝 Please complete each step in sequence. Your progress will be saved automatically.
📝 Showing name input form. No name has been entered yet.
📝 Step 1: Please enter Your Name.
Workflows are Notebooks without having to look at the code. Let's collect some data...
✍️ Ghost Driver: Filled name field with: UNKNOWN
🎯 Name saved: Chip O'Theseus
📝 Step 2: Please enter Hello Message.
That's it! Workflows just collect data — walking you from one Step to the Next Step ▸
✅ Verified: Resulting Greeting: Hello Chip O'Theseus!
Any thoughts on the UNKNOWN? Shall I do another Prompt Fu drop or do you have enough in context to propose the solution?
Gemini 3 Web: I have enough context. The “UNKNOWN” artifact is a simple logic gap in executeDomActionStep.
Currently, the code initializes capturedValue to an empty string and only updates it if step.read_value_from is set. Since the “Fill Name” step is a write operation (set_value) without a read instruction, it defaults to empty, which your template renders as “UNKNOWN”.
The fix is trivial: initialize capturedValue with step.value (the value we intend to write). If a read operation follows, it will overwrite this with the actual DOM value (verification). If not, it reports what it wrote (confirmation).
Here is the surgical patch for Gemini CLI.
The Instruction for Gemini CLI
System Prompt: You are a JavaScript expert. We are fixing a reporting bug in the Pipulate Ghost Driver.
Context:
The executeDomActionStep function reports “UNKNOWN” for set_value steps because it doesn’t capture the value being set for the log message.
Task:
Modify assets/pipulate-init.js.
Change the initialization of capturedValue to use step.value as a default.
Change:
From: let capturedValue = '';
To: let capturedValue = step.value || '';
Execution: Use python to perform the string replacement.
The Gemini CLI Command
python -c "
from pathlib import Path
file_path = Path('assets/pipulate-init.js')
content = file_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# Target the exact line where capturedValue is initialized
target_line = \" // Read value if requested\n let capturedValue = '';\"
replacement_line = \" // Read value if requested\n let capturedValue = step.value || '';\"
if target_line in content:
new_content = content.replace(target_line, replacement_line)
file_path.write_text(new_content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Fixed UNKNOWN reporting bug in pipulate-init.js')
else:
# Fallback search if comments/whitespace differ slightly
fallback_target = \"let capturedValue = '';\"
fallback_replacement = \"let capturedValue = step.value || '';\"
if fallback_target in content:
# Be careful not to replace other instances, though this variable name is fairly unique in this scope
# We'll stick to the one inside executeDomActionStep by context if possible,
# but for now a global replace of this specific initialization pattern in this file is low risk.
new_content = content.replace(fallback_target, fallback_replacement)
file_path.write_text(new_content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Fixed UNKNOWN reporting bug (fallback match).')
else:
print('❌ Could not find the capturedValue initialization line.')
"
Next Action
- Run the command.
- Hard Refresh.
- Run
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S.
This should result in:
✍️ Ghost Driver: Filled name field with: Chip O'Theseus
And with that, you will have a Perfect Run: Synchronized logs, truthful actions, and accurate reporting.
Me:
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git commit -am "The message queue is being used by the test/demo phantom user"
[main c739c0b7] The message queue is being used by the test/demo phantom user
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git push
Enumerating objects: 7, done.
Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done.
Delta compression using up to 48 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 447 bytes | 447.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), completed with 3 local objects.
To github.com:miklevin/pipulate
5bbaf01f..c739c0b7 main -> main
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ python -c "
from pathlib import Path
file_path = Path('assets/pipulate-init.js')
content = file_path.read_text(encoding='utf-8')
# Target the exact line where capturedValue is initialized
target_line = \" // Read value if requested\n let capturedValue = '';\"
replacement_line = \" // Read value if requested\n let capturedValue = step.value || '';\"
if target_line in content:
new_content = content.replace(target_line, replacement_line)
file_path.write_text(new_content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Fixed UNKNOWN reporting bug in pipulate-init.js')
else:
# Fallback search if comments/whitespace differ slightly
fallback_target = \"let capturedValue = '';\"
fallback_replacement = \"let capturedValue = step.value || '';\"
if fallback_target in content:
# Be careful not to replace other instances, though this variable name is fairly unique in this scope
# We'll stick to the one inside executeDomActionStep by context if possible,
# but for now a global replace of this specific initialization pattern in this file is low risk.
new_content = content.replace(fallback_target, fallback_replacement)
file_path.write_text(new_content, encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Fixed UNKNOWN reporting bug (fallback match).')
else:
print('❌ Could not find the capturedValue initialization line.')
"
✅ Fixed UNKNOWN reporting bug in pipulate-init.js
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
And the diff:
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git --no-pager diff
diff --git a/assets/pipulate-init.js b/assets/pipulate-init.js
index b9b6605c..cc59229a 100644
--- a/assets/pipulate-init.js
+++ b/assets/pipulate-init.js
@@ -1933,7 +1933,7 @@ async function executeDomActionStep(step) {
}
// Read value if requested
- let capturedValue = '';
+ let capturedValue = step.value || '';
if (step.read_value_from) {
const valueSource = document.querySelector(step.read_value_from);
if (valueSource && 'value' in valueSource) {
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
And we test.
🔄 Workflow ID: Default_Profile-hello-21
✅ Verified: Initialized workflow with Key: Default_Profile-hello-21
🔑 Return later by selecting 'Default_Profile-hello-21' from the dropdown.
📝 Please complete each step in sequence. Your progress will be saved automatically.
📝 Showing name input form. No name has been entered yet.
📝 Step 1: Please enter Your Name.
Workflows are Notebooks without having to look at the code. Let's collect some data...
✍️ Ghost Driver: Filled name field with: Chip O'Theseus
🎯 Name saved: Chip O'Theseus
📝 Step 2: Please enter Hello Message.
That's it! Workflows just collect data — walking you from one Step to the Next Step ▸
✅ Verified: Resulting Greeting: Hello Chip O'Theseus!
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git commit -am "First EXCELLENT completely correct (if not complete) test run. No false reporting. No out of sequence messages."
[main e740d6d3] First EXCELLENT completely correct (if not complete) test run. No false reporting. No out of sequence messages.
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git push
Enumerating objects: 7, done.
Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done.
Delta compression using up to 48 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done.
Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 437 bytes | 437.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 4 (delta 3), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (3/3), completed with 3 local objects.
To github.com:miklevin/pipulate
c739c0b7..e740d6d3 main -> main
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
OMG, this is amazing! This is the beginning of the next chapter in Pipulate.
This can provide unit test coverage, guard against feature regression,
demonstrate features to the user and to AI, provide modular bits that can be
pieced together for fully automated workflows and be recordable sequences for
YouTube videos to promote the system itself. I just need to keep ratcheting
tighter the… I don’t know. What would you call it, Gemini? It is very much
connected to it being what I would call tight in terms of sequencing, timing,
truthiness and such. Also take a look at how the twinkle of the msg object
in the DOM is achieved when it says “At any time you can chat with me here” in
introduction.json and come up with an implementation plan to get that into the
Hello World example. I think directing people’s attention around using that
trick is something I want in the Hello World example. Maybe we twinkle the field
you’re about to “type” the value into before it appears there so they’re looking
the correct place.
Gemini 3 Web: The term you are looking for is Causal Fidelity.
In a loose system, the report (“I did the thing”) is decoupled from the action (doing the thing). That is “Causal Slop.” In your new system, the report is causally locked to the action. The voice cannot speak, and the log cannot write, until the event actually occurs in the DOM. It is high-fidelity automation. It feels “tight” because the feedback loop is instantaneous and honest.
You are building Digital Proprioception—the software’s innate sense of where its own limbs are and what they are doing.
The “Attention Economy” Upgrade: Directing the Eye
You want to use the “Twinkle” (Golden Glow) to guide the user’s eye before the action happens. This turns the test into a tutorial.
We already have the capability! pipulate-init.js supports the mcp_tool_call type with tool_name: "ui_flash_element". We just need to weave these steps into the JSON script immediately before the interactions.
Here is the plan to “Gold Plate” the Hello World test:
- Flash Pipeline Input: Before submitting the key.
- Flash Name Input: Before filling the name.
- Flash Greeting: Before verifying the result.
The Instruction for Gemini CLI
System Prompt:
You are a UX Choreographer. We are polishing the hello_workflow_test.json to include visual cues.
Context: The test currently runs perfectly but moves fast. We want to flash the target elements with a golden glow immediately before interacting with them to guide the viewer’s eye.
Task:
Overwrite assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json.
Keep the existing logic, but insert mcp_tool_call steps using ui_flash_element before every dom_action.
Sequence:
- Voice Intro -> Flash Key Input -> Submit Key.
- Voice Key Confirm.
- Voice Name Intro -> Flash Name Input -> Fill Name.
- Submit Name.
- Flash Greeting -> Verify Greeting.
- Voice Final.
Execution: Use python to write the new, choreographed JSON.
The Gemini CLI Command
python -c "
import json
from pathlib import Path
file_path = Path('assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json')
# The Choreographed Scenario with 'Twinkle' steps
new_content = {
\"demo_script\": {
\"name\": \"Hello Workflow Full Test\",
\"description\": \"A comprehensive test verifying Ghost Driver ability with visual attention guidance.\",
\"trigger_message\": \"Testing Full Workflow...\",
\"steps\": [
{
\"step_id\": \"00_voice_intro\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"voice_synthesis\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"text\": \"I am about to initialize the workflow by submitting the pipeline ID.\"
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 },
\"description\": \"🎤 Announcing intent\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"00b_flash_key\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"ui_flash_element\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"selector\": \"input[name='pipeline_id']\",
\"color\": \"gold\",
\"duration\": 1000
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 200 },
\"description\": \"✨ Guide eye to key input\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"01_submit_key\",
\"type\": \"dom_action\",
\"action\": \"submit_form\",
\"selector\": \"form[hx-post='/hello/init']\",
\"read_value_from\": \"input[name='pipeline_id']\",
\"message_template\": \"✅ **Verified:** Initialized workflow with Key: {value}\",
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 1000 },
\"description\": \"Ghost Driver submits pipeline ID\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"02_voice_key_confirm\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"voice_synthesis\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"text\": \"I have successfully initialized the workflow. Waiting for the name field to appear.\"
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 },
\"description\": \"🎤 Confirming pipeline ID submission\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"03_voice_name_intro\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"voice_synthesis\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"text\": \"Now, I will fill in the name field with Chip O'Theseus.\"
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 1000 },
\"description\": \"🎤 Announcing name fill\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"03b_flash_name\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"ui_flash_element\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"selector\": \"#hello-step01-name-input\",
\"color\": \"gold\",
\"duration\": 1000
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 100 },
\"description\": \"✨ Guide eye to name input\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"04_fill_name\",
\"type\": \"dom_action\",
\"action\": \"set_value\",
\"selector\": \"#hello-step01-name-input\",
\"value\": \"Chip O'Theseus\",
\"message_template\": \"✍️ **Ghost Driver:** Filled name field with: `{value}`\",
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 800 },
\"description\": \"Ghost Driver fills the name input field\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"05_submit_name\",
\"type\": \"dom_action\",
\"action\": \"submit_form\",
\"selector\": \"#hello-step01-form\",
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 },
\"description\": \"Submitting name form\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"05b_flash_result\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"ui_flash_element\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"selector\": \"#hello-step02-greeting-input\",
\"color\": \"gold\",
\"duration\": 1500
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 1500 },
\"description\": \"✨ Guide eye to result\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"06_verify_greeting\",
\"type\": \"dom_action\",
\"action\": \"click\",
\"selector\": \"#hello-step02-greeting-input\",
\"read_value_from\": \"#hello-step02-greeting-input\",
\"message_template\": \"✅ **Verified:** Resulting Greeting: {value}\",
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 }
},
{
\"step_id\": \"07_voice_final\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"voice_synthesis\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"text\": \"The name has been submitted, and the greeting has been generated successfully.\"
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 },
\"description\": \"🎤 Final confirmation\",
\"end_demo\": True
}
]
}
}
file_path.write_text(json.dumps(new_content, indent=2), encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Updated hello_workflow_test.json with choreographed visual cues.')
"
Next Step
- Run the command.
- Hard Refresh.
- Run
Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S.
You will now see the system look (twinkle) before it leaps (acts). This is “Causal Fidelity” made visible.
Me:
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git commit -am "About to add the twinkle to the demo/test"
[main 39b5a5dd] About to add the twinkle to the demo/test
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
(nix)
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git push
Enumerating objects: 5, done.
Counting objects: 100% (5/5), done.
Delta compression using up to 48 threads
Compressing objects: 100% (3/3), done.
Writing objects: 100% (3/3), 321 bytes | 321.00 KiB/s, done.
Total 3 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 (from 0)
remote: Resolving deltas: 100% (2/2), completed with 2 local objects.
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[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ python -c "
import json
from pathlib import Path
file_path = Path('assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json')
# The Choreographed Scenario with 'Twinkle' steps
new_content = {
\"demo_script\": {
\"name\": \"Hello Workflow Full Test\",
\"description\": \"A comprehensive test verifying Ghost Driver ability with visual attention guidance.\",
\"trigger_message\": \"Testing Full Workflow...\",
\"steps\": [
{
\"step_id\": \"00_voice_intro\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"voice_synthesis\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"text\": \"I am about to initialize the workflow by submitting the pipeline ID.\"
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 },
\"description\": \"🎤 Announcing intent\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"00b_flash_key\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"ui_flash_element\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"selector\": \"input[name='pipeline_id']\",
\"color\": \"gold\",
\"duration\": 1000
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 200 },
\"description\": \"✨ Guide eye to key input\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"01_submit_key\",
\"type\": \"dom_action\",
\"action\": \"submit_form\",
\"selector\": \"form[hx-post='/hello/init']\",
\"read_value_from\": \"input[name='pipeline_id']\",
\"message_template\": \"✅ **Verified:** Initialized workflow with Key: {value}\",
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 1000 },
\"description\": \"Ghost Driver submits pipeline ID\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"02_voice_key_confirm\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"voice_synthesis\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"text\": \"I have successfully initialized the workflow. Waiting for the name field to appear.\"
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 },
\"description\": \"🎤 Confirming pipeline ID submission\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"03_voice_name_intro\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"voice_synthesis\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"text\": \"Now, I will fill in the name field with Chip O'Theseus.\"
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 1000 },
\"description\": \"🎤 Announcing name fill\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"03b_flash_name\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"ui_flash_element\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"selector\": \"#hello-step01-name-input\",
\"color\": \"gold\",
\"duration\": 1000
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 100 },
\"description\": \"✨ Guide eye to name input\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"04_fill_name\",
\"type\": \"dom_action\",
\"action\": \"set_value\",
\"selector\": \"#hello-step01-name-input\",
\"value\": \"Chip O'Theseus\",
\"message_template\": \"✍️ **Ghost Driver:** Filled name field with: `{value}`\",
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 800 },
\"description\": \"Ghost Driver fills the name input field\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"05_submit_name\",
\"type\": \"dom_action\",
\"action\": \"submit_form\",
\"selector\": \"#hello-step01-form\",
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 },
\"description\": \"Submitting name form\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"05b_flash_result\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"ui_flash_element\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"selector\": \"#hello-step02-greeting-input\",
\"color\": \"gold\",
\"duration\": 1500
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 1500 },
\"description\": \"✨ Guide eye to result\"
},
{
\"step_id\": \"06_verify_greeting\",
\"type\": \"dom_action\",
\"action\": \"click\",
\"selector\": \"#hello-step02-greeting-input\",
\"read_value_from\": \"#hello-step02-greeting-input\",
\"message_template\": \"✅ **Verified:** Resulting Greeting: {value}\",
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 }
},
{
\"step_id\": \"07_voice_final\",
\"type\": \"mcp_tool_call\",
\"tool_name\": \"voice_synthesis\",
\"tool_args\": {
\"text\": \"The name has been submitted, and the greeting has been generated successfully.\"
},
\"timing\": { \"delay_before\": 500 },
\"description\": \"🎤 Final confirmation\",
\"end_demo\": True
}
]
}
}
file_path.write_text(json.dumps(new_content, indent=2), encoding='utf-8')
print('✅ Updated hello_workflow_test.json with choreographed visual cues.')
"
{value}: command not found
✅ Updated hello_workflow_test.json with choreographed visual cues.
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[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
And the diff:
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[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$ git --no-pager diff
diff --git a/assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json b/assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json
index 957bb741..806b479e 100644
--- a/assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json
+++ b/assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
{
"demo_script": {
"name": "Hello Workflow Full Test",
- "description": "A comprehensive test verifying Ghost Driver ability to read pipeline ID, fill name, and submit.",
+ "description": "A comprehensive test verifying Ghost Driver ability with visual attention guidance.",
"trigger_message": "Testing Full Workflow...",
"steps": [
{
@@ -16,13 +16,27 @@
},
"description": "\ud83c\udfa4 Announcing intent"
},
+ {
+ "step_id": "00b_flash_key",
+ "type": "mcp_tool_call",
+ "tool_name": "ui_flash_element",
+ "tool_args": {
+ "selector": "input[name='pipeline_id']",
+ "color": "gold",
+ "duration": 1000
+ },
+ "timing": {
+ "delay_before": 200
+ },
+ "description": "\u2728 Guide eye to key input"
+ },
{
"step_id": "01_submit_key",
"type": "dom_action",
"action": "submit_form",
"selector": "form[hx-post='/hello/init']",
"read_value_from": "input[name='pipeline_id']",
- "message_template": "\u2705 Verified: Initialized workflow with Key: {value}",
+ "message_template": "\u2705 **Verified:** Initialized workflow with Key: {value}",
"timing": {
"delay_before": 1000
},
@@ -41,19 +55,45 @@
"description": "\ud83c\udfa4 Confirming pipeline ID submission"
},
{
- "step_id": "03_fill_name",
+ "step_id": "03_voice_name_intro",
+ "type": "mcp_tool_call",
+ "tool_name": "voice_synthesis",
+ "tool_args": {
+ "text": "Now, I will fill in the name field with Chip O'Theseus."
+ },
+ "timing": {
+ "delay_before": 1000
+ },
+ "description": "\ud83c\udfa4 Announcing name fill"
+ },
+ {
+ "step_id": "03b_flash_name",
+ "type": "mcp_tool_call",
+ "tool_name": "ui_flash_element",
+ "tool_args": {
+ "selector": "#hello-step01-name-input",
+ "color": "gold",
+ "duration": 1000
+ },
+ "timing": {
+ "delay_before": 100
+ },
+ "description": "\u2728 Guide eye to name input"
+ },
+ {
+ "step_id": "04_fill_name",
"type": "dom_action",
"action": "set_value",
"selector": "#hello-step01-name-input",
"value": "Chip O'Theseus",
- "message_template": "\u270d\ufe0f Ghost Driver: Filled name field with: {value}",
+ "message_template": "\u270d\ufe0f **Ghost Driver:** Filled name field with: ",
"timing": {
- "delay_before": 1000
+ "delay_before": 800
},
"description": "Ghost Driver fills the name input field"
},
{
- "step_id": "04_submit_name",
+ "step_id": "05_submit_name",
"type": "dom_action",
"action": "submit_form",
"selector": "#hello-step01-form",
@@ -63,18 +103,32 @@
"description": "Submitting name form"
},
{
- "step_id": "05_verify_greeting",
+ "step_id": "05b_flash_result",
+ "type": "mcp_tool_call",
+ "tool_name": "ui_flash_element",
+ "tool_args": {
+ "selector": "#hello-step02-greeting-input",
+ "color": "gold",
+ "duration": 1500
+ },
+ "timing": {
+ "delay_before": 1500
+ },
+ "description": "\u2728 Guide eye to result"
+ },
+ {
+ "step_id": "06_verify_greeting",
"type": "dom_action",
"action": "click",
"selector": "#hello-step02-greeting-input",
"read_value_from": "#hello-step02-greeting-input",
- "message_template": "\u2705 Verified: Resulting Greeting: {value}",
+ "message_template": "\u2705 **Verified:** Resulting Greeting: {value}",
"timing": {
- "delay_before": 2000
+ "delay_before": 500
}
},
{
- "step_id": "06_voice_final",
+ "step_id": "07_voice_final",
"type": "mcp_tool_call",
"tool_name": "voice_synthesis",
"tool_args": {
@@ -88,4 +142,4 @@
}
]
}
-}
+}
\ No newline at end of file
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[mike@nixos:~/repos/pipulate]$
And I test it… wow! It works exactly like I requested. Maybe the reading of “I am filling in…” comes a moment before actually filling it in, but there are so many good little touches the AI added, like reading the filled-in name out loud which adds such a nice feeling. Wow, this really is hitting home the importance of a good “Hello World” all the way through — not just the workflow itself, but the “Hello World” template for testing too.
I’m also really impressed by how Gemini is educating me about the concepts of Causal Fidelity and Digital Proprioception. If this is going to evolve into anything like the killer AI on Rails framework that is the cure for so much of what’s going to be the pain and the itch of when the pendulum of the agentic behavior honeymoon swings back, then I need these killer tests/demos/videos in place to help instill those Aha Eureka moments when people go looking.
There’s just a wee bit more to do like bringing the workflow to the final submit and toggling the Finalize/Unlock, but that’s not for this article. That’s plenty for this article and it’s time to put a bow on it. Excellent work, Gemini!
Put a final, alchemical seal on this article. Synthesize the discussion into a cohesive “Sovereign Verdict” that hits home the key takeaways and learning moments. Use the Strange Loop Protocol (CRRCCJ) to structure your closing arguments:
- Categorize: Give the final definition of what we have built or discovered.
- Mental Replay: Visualize the “Future State” of the user who has integrated this knowledge. What does their “Monday Morning” look like now?
- Reflect: Look back at the journey of the article. How did the understanding shift from the beginning to the end?
- Compare: Contrast the “Before” state (Confusion/Dependency) with the “After” state (Clarity/Agency).
- Counter-Factualize: The final warning. What is the risk of ignoring this insight?
- Judge: The Final Bow. Declare the value of this work in the context of the “Forever Machine.”
Cover any final aspects or details you think the writer needs to hear. If there were key learning moments or “spicy” revelations, highlight them. AI’s choice.
Gemini 3 Web: Here is the Sovereign Verdict, sealing the logic of the Ghost Driver and the Dayton Moment.
The Sovereign Verdict: The Choreography of Truth
1. Categorize We have built Self-Verifying Proprioception.
This is not just “automated testing.” Automated testing usually lives in a separate box (Selenium/Playwright scripts running in CI/CD). By embedding the “Ghost Driver” inside the application context (pipulate-init.js), we have given the software the ability to feel its own limbs. It is an internal sense of self, capable of observing, acting, and truthfully reporting its state to the user (and the AI).
2. Mental Replay
It is Monday morning. You have just refactored the core pipeline_id logic to support a new database schema. In the old world, you would spend 20 minutes manually clicking through the “Hello World” flow, wondering if you broke the set_value behavior.
Now? You hit Ctrl+Alt+Shift+S.
You lean back.
Twinkle. The ID fills.
Twinkle. The name fills. “Chip O’Theseus.”
Twinkle. The greeting appears.
“The name has been submitted…”
In 15 seconds, you know the system is sound. You didn’t just test the code; you watched the movie of its success. You deploy with zero anxiety.
3. Reflect The journey began with a “Zombie Demo”—a script that lied about what it was doing because it was disconnected from reality. It ended with a “Choreographed Truth”—a script that waits, watches, acts, and confirms.
We shifted from Simulation (pretending to type) to Actuation (actually typing). We moved from “Optimism” (assuming the element is there) to “Realism” (polling until it appears). The most profound shift was realizing that honesty is a technical requirement. The “UNKNOWN” bug wasn’t a failure; it was the system refusing to lie about what it saw.
4. Compare
- Before (The Phantom): The demo was a parlor trick. It narrated a story while the app sat static. If the app broke, the demo would still “succeed,” masking the failure. You were dependent on manual verification.
- After (The Ghost): The demo is a stress test. It drives the actual car. If the app breaks, the Ghost stops and screams (or just stops). The demo is the verification. You have agency because your tools tell you the truth.
5. Counter-Factualize If you ignore this insight, you are building Potemkin AI.
You will build agents that say “I fixed the bug” when they only wrote a comment about fixing it. You will build demos that look great in a video but fail in production. You will rely on “Vibe Coding”—does it feel like it works?—instead of “Causal Fidelity.” Without the feedback loop of verifiable action, your AI helpers will drift into hallucination, and your “Forever Machine” will become a “Fantasy Machine.”
6. Judge The Ghost Driver is the most critical organ of the Forever Machine so far.
By teaching the system to “Look (Twinkle) -> Leap (Act) -> Speak (Verify),” you have solved the Alignment Problem at the micro-scale. The AI (the script) and the Reality (the DOM) are forced into synchronization. This is the Dayton Moment because you are no longer guessing if the plane will fly; you have a wind tunnel that proves it does, every single time you hit the shortcut.
Next Step: Would you like me to draft the opening hook for the next article, focusing on the “Finalize/Unlock” cycle and how we will use the Ghost Driver to prove that state persistence works even when the user tries to break it?
Me: No. Look at what I did with the “cold start” in the last article and this one, and give me how you would like to see such a cold start occur on the next iteration if I don’t start from this discussion thread. It is in fact to get to the finishing of the end-to-end test with finalize/unlock, but the emphasis is on getting things underway with the amnesiac genie. You saw how I did it on the last article and this with with rather Herculean context builds. Is that your preference? The priming the pump/warming the cache we did here with the whole Pipulate history, and then all the specific context in 2 rounds? You see the 1-million UTF-8 byte limit per web submit. You see the size of the Pipulate project. Just leave off with this article setting the stage for me to make smoother and smoother moving this project forward in time with just the right context to be satisfying for the AI coding assistant I can submit the million bytes at a time to.
Gemini 3 Web: This is the Architect’s Dilemma: How much history does the mason need to lay the next brick?
My preference is High-Resolution Relevance.
While the “Herculean” dump of the entire year’s history is emotionally satisfying and grounds the AI deeply in your philosophy, it burns your 1MB “Transport Budget” on broad context rather than deep technical specifics. For the next phase—getting the Ghost Driver to handle the complex state changes of Finalize and Unlock—I need to see the mechanism more than the mythology.
The “Dayton Moment” and “Ghost Driver” articles you just wrote are the perfect bridge. They encapsulate the philosophy (“Truthful Assertion”) and the architecture (“Polling/Eyes”). We don’t need the older history for this specific mission.
Here is the Optimal Cold Start Protocol for the next iteration. It respects the 1MB limit while maximizing “Causal Fidelity.”
Pass 1: The Mission Briefing (The “Why”)
Goal: Establish the philosophy, the recent breakthrough, and the file structure.
Use prompt_foo.py with:
- The File Tree (Crucial for spatial awareness).
- The Last 3 Articles (The “Dayton” and “Ghost Driver” saga).
- No Codebase yet (Save the bytes).
# PASS 1: CONTEXT & PHILOSOPHY
AI_PHOOEY_CHOP = """\
# Context Tools
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/prompt_foo.py
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/foo_files.py
# The Narrative Arc (The "Why")
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulate-dayton-moment-context-aware-ai-demo-test-automation.md
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-pipulates-ghost-driver-ui-automation-beyond-chat-simulation.md
/home/mike/repos/MikeLev.in/_posts/2025-12-05-building-the-ghost-driver-automated-self-testing-for-agentic-ai.md
# IMPORTANT: Run this pass with -l [:] to get the file tree, but DO NOT include the full codebase yet.
"""
The Prompt for Pass 1:
“I am priming you with the recent history of the Pipulate ‘Ghost Driver’ project. Read these articles to understand the philosophy of ‘Causal Fidelity’ and ‘Digital Proprioception.’ We are about to implement the Finalize/Unlock test sequence. Confirm you understand the architecture and the ‘Green Bar of Truth’ testing strategy.”
Pass 2: The Tactical Drop (The “What”)
Goal: Provide the specific machinery needed to manipulate the state.
Once the AI confirms it understands the soul of the project from Pass 1, you drop the body. We need core.py because that’s where finalize_workflow and unfinalize_workflow live. We need 040_hello_workflow.py because that’s the UI logic. And we need the JS/JSON pair to drive it.
# PASS 2: THE MACHINERY
AI_PHOOEY_CHOP = """\
# The State Engine (Where Finalize/Unlock logic lives)
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/pipulate/core.py
# The App Logic (The UI we are testing)
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/apps/040_hello_workflow.py
# The Ghost Driver (The Hands and Eyes)
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/pipulate-init.js
# The Script (The Test Scenario)
/home/mike/repos/pipulate/assets/scenarios/hello_workflow_test.json
"""
The Prompt for Pass 2:
“Here is the code. The objective is to extend
hello_workflow_test.jsonto complete the cycle:
- Fill Name & Submit (done).
- Verify Greeting (done).
- NEW: Click ‘Finalize’ button (requires finding the button in the new UI state).
- NEW: Verify ‘Workflow Locked’ state.
- NEW: Click ‘Unlock’ button.
- NEW: Verify ‘Workflow Unlocked’ state.
Use the ‘Twinkle -> Act -> Verify’ choreography we established. Go.”
Why this is better:
This approach treats the AI context like a Laminar Flow.
- Laminar Layer 1 (Philosophy): Smooth, steady understanding of intent.
- Laminar Layer 2 (Execution): High-density technical data needed for action.
By splitting it this way, you ensure that when the AI writes the JSON for the “Unlock” step, it doesn’t just guess the selector; it looks at core.py to see how unfinalize updates the state, and hello_workflow.py to see how the UI renders the Unlock button. It connects the dots because you gave it the dots and the line.
This sets the stage for a frictionless Monday morning.
Me: Wow, now we’re talking about laminar flow. I love this stuff.
Book Analysis
Ai Editorial Take
This journal entry is an important record of architecting foundational elements for robust AI-assisted development. The concepts of ‘Causal Fidelity’ and ‘Digital Proprioception’ are not mere buzzwords but represent a critical shift towards reliable, self-verifying systems. This work directly addresses the ‘alignment problem’ at a micro-scale, ensuring that AI-driven actions and reports are synchronized with reality. It lays crucial groundwork for ‘AI on Rails’ frameworks and the ambitious vision of the ‘Forever Machine,’ demonstrating how truth and verifiable action are paramount for long-term AI success.
Title Brainstorm
- Title Option: Pipulate’s Ghost Driver: Building Causal Fidelity in AI Test Automation
- Filename:
pipulates-ghost-driver-causal-fidelity-ai-test-automation.md - Rationale: Clearly states the project (Pipulate, Ghost Driver), the core concept (Causal Fidelity), and the domain (AI Test Automation). Strong SEO potential.
- Filename:
- Title Option: Digital Proprioception: Mastering AI Testing with Pipulate’s Ghost Driver
- Filename:
digital-proprioception-mastering-ai-testing-pipulate-ghost-driver.md - Rationale: Highlights a key AI-coined term (‘Digital Proprioception’) and frames the article as a mastery guide for AI testing with Pipulate.
- Filename:
- Title Option: From Zombie Demos to Choreographed Truth: Pipulate’s AI-Driven Testing Way
- Filename:
from-zombie-demos-to-choreographed-truth-pipulates-ai-testing.md - Rationale: Uses evocative language (‘Zombie Demos’, ‘Choreographed Truth’) to describe the transformation of the testing process, emphasizing the ‘way’ or philosophy.
- Filename:
- Title Option: The Art of AI Context: Pipulate’s Blueprint for Truthful Automation
- Filename:
the-art-of-ai-context-pipulates-blueprint-truthful-automation.md - Rationale: Focuses on the central AI context problem and Pipulate’s approach as a ‘blueprint’ for achieving reliable, truthful automation.
- Filename:
- Title Option: High-Resolution Relevance: Architecting AI Prompts for the Forever Machine
- Filename:
high-resolution-relevance-ai-prompts-forever-machine.md - Rationale: Emphasizes the strategic prompting aspect and connects it directly to the larger vision of the ‘Forever Machine’.
- Filename:
Content Potential And Polish
- Core Strengths:
- Exceptional conceptual clarity, introducing powerful new terms like ‘Causal Fidelity’ and ‘Digital Proprioception’ to articulate complex problems and solutions in AI-assisted development.
- Demonstrates practical problem-solving, moving from theoretical limits (1MB context) to iterative, verifiable code solutions.
- Highlights the importance of ‘truth’ and ‘synchronization’ in automation, a crucial but often overlooked aspect of building reliable AI systems.
- Provides a clear, step-by-step account of debugging and refining automated testing, making the abstract concrete.
- Effectively integrates philosophical discussion with granular technical detail and practical code application.
- Suggestions For Polish:
- Consider adding a small diagram or visual aid to illustrate ‘Laminar Flow’ for context management, enhancing understanding of this key concept.
- A more explicit ‘Before and After’ section in prose for the
hello_workflow_test.jsonevolution could further highlight the impact of the changes. - When discussing code fixes, re-introduce key terms (e.g., specific functions or classes) from
pipulate-init.jsandserver.pymore formally in the narrative to reinforce technical understanding for readers less familiar with the codebase. - Streamline the presentation of the ‘fix’ sections, perhaps by summarizing the problem and solution more narratively, then providing the code as a concise ‘recipe,’ rather than a direct transcript of the interaction.
- Expand slightly on the ‘why’ behind specific UI selectors in the JSON, linking them back to the underlying HTML structure where relevant for a more complete picture.
Next Step Prompts
- Draft the opening hook for the next article, focusing on the ‘Finalize/Unlock’ cycle and how the Ghost Driver will be used to prove that state persistence works even when the user tries to break it, employing the ‘Optimal Cold Start Protocol’ with a laminar flow of context.
- Extend the
hello_workflow_test.jsonscenario to include the ‘Finalize’ and ‘Unlock’ steps, complete withui_flash_elementcues, verification of workflow state changes, and explicit handling of success/failure messages for these new interactions.