get_status() called get_avg_duration() unconditionally, and that helper globs
and JSON-parses every file under the research data dir. The SSE status stream
polls get_status() roughly once a second, so with a few saved reports each poll
re-read and re-parsed all of them, including for sessions that are not active
(the disk branch never even used the value).
Compute avg_duration only for active sessions and memoize it on the task entry,
so a long stream computes it once instead of on every poll. Behaviour is
unchanged: active streams still report avg_duration.
Adds tests/test_research_status_avg_duration.py: an inactive session does no
avg scan, and an active session computes it once across many polls.
* refactor(constants): single source of truth for data dir + merge core/src constants
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* docs(contributing): use named src.constants for data paths, drop core/constants references
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The STOP_PROMPT did not include the target round count, so the LLM
could decide to stop after 2-3 rounds even when the user requested 8.
Additionally, min_rounds was capped at 3 regardless of max_rounds.
- Add max_rounds to STOP_PROMPT so the LLM knows the target
- Change min_rounds from min(3, max_rounds) to max(2, max_rounds - 2)
Fixes#2863
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Deep research generated search queries from the LLM's training-cutoff
knowledge, so it emitted stale-year queries like "best Python tutorials
2025" when the actual year is later (issue #1341). The chat/agent path
already grounds the model with "Today is ..." (src/agent_loop.py); the
deep research planning and query-generation prompts had no equivalent.
Add a small current_date_context() helper and prepend it at the plan and
query-generation prompt sites (and the research_handler plan preview path
that reuses RESEARCH_PLAN_PROMPT). System-TZ local, portable strftime.
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Surfaces the research_run_timeout_seconds setting (added in #783) in
Settings → Research as a "Max Time" field, and lets 0 disable the
wall-clock cap entirely for long deep-research runs.
- settings.py: document that 0 disables the cap; default stays 1800s.
- research_handler.py: resolve 0 (or negative) to no timeout
(asyncio.wait_for timeout=None); other values stay bounded to
[60, 86400] as before.
- index.html / settings.js: "Max Time" input bound to
research_run_timeout_seconds, validated to {0} ∪ [60, 86400], with
copy making explicit that 0 = no limit (unbounded model/API cost).
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Deep research asks 2-3 clarifying questions first. When the user answers
with a bare affirmation ('yes', 'ok', 'go ahead'), that short message
becomes latest_message and the query-synthesis fallback returned it
verbatim, so research ran on the literal word 'yes'.
In ResearchHandler.synthesize_query, when synthesis can't run (history
too short) or fails, fall back to the earliest substantive user message
(the original ask) only when the latest message is an explicit
affirmation/continuation phrase or is empty/punctuation-only. There is
deliberately no length heuristic: a short answer like 'UK', 'C++', or
'Rust' in a clarification flow is a real topic and is left untouched.
Tests cover query/topic selection: bare 'yes' -> original ask, short
answers (UK, C++) kept, short-only-substantive message kept, and a
multi-word follow-up still flows through synthesis.
The 600s wall-clock cap in research_handler.start_research was too short
for local / edge LLMs to finish a deep-research synthesis — long
extraction passes plus a slow final report routinely blew past 10
minutes and the run was killed with partial results.
Introduce research_run_timeout_seconds (default 1800s = 30 min) in
DEFAULT_SETTINGS and resolve it at start_research entry when the caller
hasn't pinned hard_timeout. Bound the resolved value at [60, 86400] so a
misconfigured settings.json can't either disable the safety net or
explode into a multi-day hang. Existing call sites in research_routes.py
and chat_routes.py keep working unchanged — they don't pass hard_timeout
and now pick up the new default.
Closes#595.
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