Replace the fixed 30-round cap with a Settings value (AiMaxToolRounds,
Settings → AI Assistant). 0 = unlimited, for long automation runs left
going for hours. The chat's Send button turns into Stop while the agent
is running so any run — bounded or unlimited — can be aborted (via the
CancellationToken; the loop also checks it each round).
Docs: ARCHITECTURE gains the configurable-limit note and a generic
"pair with a self-hosted gateway = hardware assistant" usage section
(no private endpoints).
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The AI Chat pane's message area moves from RichTextBox to WebView2:
- Real chat bubbles (user right, AI left) with full Markdown via Markdig
(code blocks, tables, lists, inline code).
- Sending a prompt shows an animated "…" thinking bubble that clears when
the reply lands (AgentHost Status "thinking" → showThinking; AssistantText
→ hideThinking + bubble).
- HTML/CSS/JS template inlined in Ai/ChatHtml.cs (NavigateToString, no
external deps); C# drives it via ExecuteScriptAsync. Calls made before
WebView2 is ready are queued and flushed on NavigationCompleted. User-data
folder under %LocalAppData%\ETTerms\WebView2.
Bottom bar (input / model dropdown / Send), [AI] serial tagging and PDU
confirmations are unchanged. Adds Microsoft.Web.WebView2 + Markdig; needs
the WebView2 Runtime (built into Windows 11). Publish verified to include
the native WebView2Loader.dll.
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Settle the AI chat pane on a clean, terminal-consistent layout instead of
faux bubbles in a RichTextBox:
- Messages: user right-aligned accent, AI left, tool activity quiet gray,
"thinking" folded into the Send button (no transcript spam).
- Bottom bar: input (fill) + bottom-right column (model dropdown over Send).
- Model dropdown lists the endpoint's /v1/models, switches on the fly, and
is remembered — Settings → AI Assistant now only holds Base URL / API Key
/ system prompt (configured = Base URL set). OpenAiChatClient.Model is
mutable + ListModelsAsync.
Real chat bubbles + Markdown via WebView2 are logged as a v0.7.0 option in
ARCHITECTURE Future Extensions rather than hacked onto RichTextBox.
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Open it from the toolbar (✨ AI Chat) and lay it out next to a Serial
session with Layout (1×2, 2×2…) — chat on one side, watch the terminal
on the other, like Claude Code / Kiro. Previously it was a full-page
Activity Rail view that couldn't sit beside a live session.
WorkspaceView.Session is now abstracted to hold either a SessionPage or
an AiChatView via a Content property; group/log/script actions skip AI
panes. Removed the standalone Ai rail view; Settings → AI Assistant
(provider config) is unchanged.
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Add a GUI AI Assistant view (✨ rail) that drives serial + PDU in plain
language, without depending on Claude/Kiro. In-process function calling
(no MCP hop): Ai/OpenAiChatClient (minimal OpenAI-compatible client) +
Ai/AgentHost (hand-written agent loop) + Ai/AiTools (serial via the
existing SerialBridge with [AI] echo; PDU via ETTerms.PduCore).
BYO endpoint: Base URL / Model / API Key set in Settings → AI Assistant,
blank by default = disabled. No private endpoint ships in the app; API
key lives in Windows Credential Manager, never in settings.json or code.
Safety: destructive PDU actions (outlet off / power-cycle) require a GUI
confirmation; every tool call is written to AppLogger. Existing Serial/
PDU MCP servers (Settings → AI MCP) are unaffected and keep serving
external AI CLIs.
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Settings -> Terminal gains a 'Show script trace in terminal' checkbox
(AppSettings.ShowScriptTrace, default on). When off, TTL trace lines
([wait] progress, sent-command echo, errors) are no longer drawn in
the terminal. dispstr moves to a dedicated Display event and always
shows, since it is the script explicitly printing something.
Trace was already display-only (never written to session logs, the AI
serial bridge, or the device) - docs now state this explicitly.
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Terminal:
- cache font variants + single reusable brush in render hot path;
resolve cell colors once per cell; dispose GDI resources
- scrollback: List+RemoveRange -> O(1) ring buffer
- follow new output only when already at bottom (no more yank-to-bottom
while reading history)
- alt-screen mouse wheel -> arrow keys (vim/htop scroll)
- answer DSR (ESC[5n/6n) and DA (ESC[c) queries so TUIs no longer hang
- remove dead code in OnKeyPress
Encoding correctness (garbled CJK across chunk boundaries):
- stateful UTF-8 Decoder in TTLInterpreter.OnData, SerialBridgeServer
rx forwarding, and SessionLogger.Write
Sessions:
- ShellChannel: free proc-thread attribute list, close hProcess,
notify '[ETTerms] shell process exited' in the tab
- SshChannel: surface ErrorOccurred / ShellStream.Closed in the tab;
Write no longer throws into the UI thread on a dead connection
PDU:
- new shared ETTerms.PduCore project replaces the two drifted copies of
PduController (GUI + PduMcp); logging via injected delegates
- batched SNMP GET (GetAllPortsStatus): 12-port poll is 3 UDP
round-trips instead of 36 (StatusView polling + pdu_status tool)
Scripting:
- cap TTL receive buffer at 1MB; skip re-scan in wait when buffer
length unchanged
- merge ScriptRunner.RunAsync/RunGroupAsync; new TtlScript helper
dedups script picking + group-command checks (3 copies -> 1)
Misc:
- ConnectionStore: parse LastUsedUtc with InvariantCulture/RoundtripKind
- version 0.4.0; About changelog; CLAUDE.md notes (intentional group
barrier behavior, SSH.NET reflection resize caveat)
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- New left-rail Status view (StatusView.cs) hosting the PDU tab; PDU panel moved out of SettingsView and auto-polls all 12 outlets every 3s on a background thread (no manual Refresh).
- Each outlet row gets a Control button (DataGridViewButtonColumn) that toggles the port via SNMP off the UI thread, re-reads after ~400ms, and resets the grid on disconnect.
- fix(shell): ShellChannel falls back to the user home folder when StartupDirectory no longer exists (avoids CreateProcess 267).
- docs: update ARCHITECTURE / CLAUDE / README / README.zh-TW and About changelog; bump version to 0.3.2.
- Add owner-drawn DarkScrollBar (slim, dark, rounded thumb) to TerminalView; content width excludes the bar so text isn't covered; synced on feed/wheel/resize.
- Support bracketed paste (DEC mode 2004): wrap multi-line paste in ESC[200~..ESC[201~ when the app enables it (PSReadLine/Kiro CLI), so pasted lines aren't each submitted immediately.
- Clear text selection after right-click copy so the user knows it worked.
- Bump version to 0.3.1; rewrite v0.3.0 changelog in plain language and add v0.3.1 entry; update ARCHITECTURE.md / CLAUDE.md.
New ETTerms.PduMcp stdio MCP server lets AI agents (Kiro/Claude CLI)
control SNMP PDU outlets directly. Unlike serial, SNMP is non-exclusive
so it talks to the PDU directly without bridging through the GUI.
Tools: pdu_connect / pdu_list / pdu_set_port / pdu_get_port / pdu_status
/ pdu_power_cycle / pdu_disconnect.
- McpRegistrar now registers both etterms-serial and etterms-pdu in one click
- Settings -> AI MCP shows both server paths
- publish target (PublishMcpServers) bundles both MCP servers
- bump version to 0.3.0, update About changelog, ARCHITECTURE.md, CLAUDE.md
PublishSerialMcp target now inherits the GUI's SelfContained setting, so a --self-contained true publish also produces a runtime-free ETTerms.SerialMcp. Document both publish variants in ARCHITECTURE.md / CLAUDE.md: framework-dependent ETTerms_v{Version}\ and portable ETTerms_v{Version}_portable\ (no .NET runtime install needed).
Add Settings -> AI MCP tab with McpRegistrar to one-click register/remove the Serial MCP server into Claude Code (~/.claude.json) and Kiro (~/.kiro/settings/mcp.json); read-modify-write preserves other servers, atomic write-back. Each card shows a CLI verify command.
Add PublishSerialMcp MSBuild target so a single GUI publish auto-bundles ETTerms.SerialMcp into the \ETTerms.SerialMcp\ subfolder, aligning with McpRegistrar.ResolveServerExe(). Bump version to 0.2.1. Update ARCHITECTURE/CLAUDE/README/README.zh-TW and About changelog.
- About: add v0.2.0 "Beta Version Release" changelog entry.
- MainForm: title bar now shows "ETTerms vX.Y.Z" (drop the word "Version").
- ARCHITECTURE.md + CLAUDE.md: document the publish convention --
output to src\ETTerms\Publish\ETTerms_v{Version}\, main exe renamed to
"ETTerms v{Version}.exe", ETTerms.SerialMcp published into a subfolder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Phase 9 (AI integration) complete -- AI agents can send/receive serial
while the user watches live in the GUI, with the GUI as sole COM-port owner.
- ETTerms.SerialMcp: stdio MCP server (net8.0 + ModelContextProtocol SDK)
exposing serial_list / serial_attach / serial_write / serial_read
(waitFor + timeoutMs) / serial_detach; forwards over named pipe.
- GUI SerialBridgeServer (pipe etterms-serial) + SerialBridge endpoint;
SessionPage.WriteFromAi echoes MCP-sourced TX tagged [AI] (magenta).
- App icon: window title bar / taskbar / exe now use Choco_256x256.ico
(embedded via AppAssets); title bar shows ETTerms Version vX.Y.Z.
- About page: large Choco icon (Zoom, no crop).
- Docs: ARCHITECTURE.md + CLAUDE.md mark Phase 9 done; docs/serial-mcp-guide.md.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
GUI holds the COM port exclusively; ETTerms.SerialMcp becomes a thin client that bridges over a local named pipe (SerialBridgeServer). AI TX/RX flows through the GUI channel so it is visible live in the terminal view. Tools change from open/close to attach/detach.
- Add TeraTerm-compatible sprintf2 (C printf formatting into a string var)
- Fix SVOS power-cycle script racing ahead by gating prompt waits behind output-completion markers
- Bump version to 0.1.2; docs and README updates
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