The no-tools conversational agent was dragging the full project context (this
repo's CLAUDE.md, the MCP server configs, local settings) plus the dynamic
system-prompt sections into every voice turn — ~45k input tokens -> ~3.4s
time-to-first-token (measured against the live pod, 2026-06-21).
Add --setting-sources user + --exclude-dynamic-system-prompt-sections to both
the gateway (json) and realtime (stream-json) conversational argvs: context
drops to ~23k and TTFT to ~2.1s (~1.3s/turn faster) with no change to the
reply. Helps the portal-assistant v1 gateway AND the v2 realtime agent (both
run the same turn). The /execute agent path is untouched.
Investigation ruled out the assumed culprits: CLI startup is only ~0.5s, and a
warm prompt cache does NOT lower TTFT (turn 2 read all 45k from cache yet TTFT
was unchanged) — the cost was the context size, not the spawn.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Adds stream=true support to POST /v1/chat/completions (it previously 400'd).
When streaming, it runs the no-tools `conversational` agent via
`claude -p --output-format stream-json --include-partial-messages --verbose`
and relays each content_block_delta as an OpenAI chat.completion.chunk SSE
event, ending with finish_reason=stop + [DONE]. Free CLI/subscription auth, no
tools, no API key.
Stateless by design: the full message history is flattened into the prompt
(prior assistant turns kept), so an OpenAI-style client that re-sends history
each turn — e.g. Pipecat's OpenAILLMService — can stream from us directly. The
non-streaming path (recruiter-triage workspace agent) is unchanged.
This is phase 1 of the Pipecat realtime full-duplex voice-agent rebuild for
portal-assistant (continuous audio, VAD endpointing, barge-in, ~seconds to
first words). New pure helpers (stream_argv/delta_text/openai_chunk/
synthesise_chat_prompt) are unit-tested; the SSE endpoint has a mocked-subprocess
integration test. 429 passing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The portal-assistant voice gateway needs a Claude that is conversational, free
(on the cluster subscription, no metered API), and safe to sit behind a public
edge. Add POST /v1/conversational: it drives a new no-tools `conversational`
agent with per-conversation --resume so a voice turn keeps context, and is lean
on purpose — no workspace clone, no tools, and crucially NO
--dangerously-skip-permissions (so even a leaked agent can't execute anything).
This is deliberately NOT /v1/chat/completions, which clones the git-crypt infra
repo and runs a Bash-enabled agent per turn (portal-assistant ADR-0002).
The conversational agent replies in the speaker's language (Bulgarian/English),
short and TTS-friendly. Tests cover the argv builder (new vs resume), the happy
path, multi-turn resume across calls, auth, and failure → 503. Full suite green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
