With no production instance yet, there is no reason to carry two ways
of configuring the agent. Every environment variable that duplicated a
config key is gone; the environment now supplies only the secrets the
file references by ${…}, plus NISSE_CONFIG and NISSE_ENV to find the
files.
- AgentConfig loads from a file (load, from_file) or a parsed tree
(from_tree, for tests); a missing file is an error naming the example
- The from_env constructors on LiteLLMClient, AnthropicPassthroughClient,
GiteaClient, MatrixConfig and RoleMap are removed, with the env
reading for max output tokens; clients take their settings from config
- The live integration tests share a committed agent config,
tests/integration/nisse-test.yaml, aimed at test resources, and one
conftest that loads it and builds clients. NISSE_LIVE_PLANNER_MODEL
becomes its planner role; NISSE_CAPABILITY_MODELS stays as a per-run
switch
- A missing secret now fails the live tests instead of skipping them
- CI passes only the three tokens
- .env.example is secrets only; spec A5 says config comes from the file
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A frontier model receives a scoped sub-task, works autonomously with
full tool access, and hands back; the local loop reads the handback
note and the file state, never the reasoning.
- Branch at delegation start, and abort discards it. That required
committing each turn's work onto the branch: without commits,
deleting a branch discards nothing, so "abort discards the work"
was a comforting phrase rather than a fact. The caller's own
in-flight changes are committed to their branch first, so an abort
cannot destroy work nobody delegated
- Hard caps on turns and wall clock; a breach is a defined failure
return, and its result is not usable, so the caller gates rather
than resuming on a half-edited tree
- Every event is checkpointed as it arrives, so a crash mid-delegation
leaves the branch at a known commit and a truthful transcript
- Handback is validated locally: blank fields or a non-boolean success
flag are refused and the delegation continues rather than accepting
a useless note
Two failure modes found by running it against a real model:
- A success claim with nothing changed was accepted. The handback plus
file state is the entire interface back, so a note describing work
that does not exist is worse than no note. Success now requires a
successful mutating tool call; reporting failure still does not,
since "this is impossible" is a legitimate finding
- The delegate invented the absolute path /workspace, wrote there, ran
its tests there, and handed back truthfully — with the repo empty
and git seeing nothing. Writes outside the workspace are now refused
with a message naming the real root, and both prompts state where
the workspace is instead of leaving the model to guess. This is not
sandboxing: work outside the repo is invisible to git, so the
milestone would publish an empty PR
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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