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Move configuration to a YAML file, and make the tuning knobs configurable
The thresholds Part H says to tune on the real inference hardware were
hardcoded, so every adjustment would have been a PR. They now live in a
`tuning:` section of a YAML config file, which also replaces flat
environment variables as the home for structure (#32).

- The file (NISSE_CONFIG, default ./nisse-dev.yaml) carries structure
  and holds no secrets: credentials are ${VAR} references resolved from
  the environment, and a reference to an unset variable is an error
- The environment still wins: every existing NISSE_* variable overrides
  its key, and the file is optional, so .env and CI work unchanged
- Validation stays fail-fast and reports every problem at once; unknown
  keys are errors, so a misspelt knob fails at startup instead of
  silently doing nothing
- The config file joins the state store and .env in the check that
  refuses to start when they sit inside the workspace clone
- Tuning covers the executor's turn and failure limits, the consult
  budget, the delegation caps, the command timeout and the tool output
  limit, which Workspace now takes as a setting; the defaults are the
  values the agent already ran with
- llm.max_output_tokens reaches both LLM clients from the config

docs/Tuning-Guide.md explains the knobs for someone learning local
model tuning: how weights, quantization and the KV cache spend VRAM,
what each knob does and what goes wrong at either extreme, and an order
to tune in. nisse-dev.example.yaml documents every key and is checked
by a test so it cannot drift.

Closes #32

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-23 23:14:07 +00:00

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# Example configuration for nisse-dev. Copy to nisse-dev.yaml (or point
# NISSE_CONFIG at your copy) and edit.
#
# - Structure lives here. Secrets do not: write them as ${VARIABLE} references,
# resolved from the environment (or .env) at startup.
# - Environment variables win. Every NISSE_* variable in .env.example
# overrides the key noted beside it here.
# - Keep this file outside the workspace clone. Startup refuses otherwise,
# because the agent commits and pushes everything in the clone.
# - Unknown keys are errors, so a misspelt knob fails at startup instead of
# silently doing nothing.
state_db: ~/nisse-demo-workspace/state.db # NISSE_STATE_DB
workspace: ~/nisse-demo-workspace/project # NISSE_WORKSPACE, the clone
project: demo # NISSE_PROJECT
llm: # A5: LiteLLM is the only LLM destination
base_url: http://litellm.example:4000 # NISSE_LLM_BASE_URL
token: ${NISSE_LLM_TOKEN}
# Ceiling on each response. Must fit inside a local model's context window
# alongside the prompt; see docs/Tuning-Guide.md.
max_output_tokens: 16384 # NISSE_MAX_OUTPUT_TOKENS
roles: # A11: role -> LiteLLM model alias
executor: local-fast # NISSE_ROLE_EXECUTOR
planner: claude-opus-5 # NISSE_ROLE_PLANNER
delegate: claude-opus-5 # NISSE_ROLE_DELEGATE
consultant: claude-opus-5 # NISSE_ROLE_CONSULTANT
matrix: # A1
homeserver: https://matrix.example # NISSE_MATRIX_HOMESERVER
user_id: "@nisse-dev:example" # NISSE_MATRIX_USER_ID
token: ${NISSE_MATRIX_TOKEN}
room_id: "!roomid:example" # NISSE_MATRIX_ROOM_ID
operators: ["@you:example"] # NISSE_MATRIX_OPERATORS (comma-separated)
gitea: # B2
url: https://gitea.example # NISSE_GITEA_URL
token: ${NISSE_GITEA_TOKEN}
repo: owner/demo-repo # NISSE_GITEA_REPO
operators: [your-gitea-login] # NISSE_GITEA_OPERATORS (comma-separated)
base_branch: main # NISSE_BASE_BRANCH
# What each knob does, and how to choose a value: docs/Tuning-Guide.md.
# These are the defaults; the section can be left out entirely. The file is
# read at startup, so a change takes effect on the next restart.
tuning:
executor:
max_turns: 24 # model calls per milestone before it stops as capped
failure_limit: 2 # consecutive failed commands before escalating (A12)
expert:
consult_budget: 3 # ask_expert calls per milestone (A14)
delegation: # hard caps on one delegation (A13)
max_turns: 30
max_tokens: 200000
wall_clock_s: 900
tools:
command_timeout_s: 120 # one run_command before it is killed
max_output_chars: 4000 # tool output kept for the model; the rest is cut