# Product Guide: Manual Slop

## Vision
To serve as an expert-level utility for personal developer use on small projects, providing full, manual control over vendor API metrics, agent capabilities, and context memory usage. 

## Primary Use Cases
- **Full Control over Vendor APIs:** Exposing detailed API metrics and configuring deep agent capabilities directly within the GUI.
- **Context & Memory Management:** Better visualization and management of token usage and context memory, allowing developers to optimize prompt limits manually.
- **Manual "Vibe Coding" Assistant:** Serving as an auxiliary, multi-provider assistant that natively interacts with the codebase via sandboxed PowerShell scripts and MCP-like file tools, emphasizing manual developer oversight and explicit confirmation.

## Key Features
- **Multi-Provider Integration:** Supports Gemini, Anthropic, and DeepSeek with seamless switching.
- **4-Tier Hierarchical Multi-Model Architecture:** Orchestrates an intelligent cascade of specialized models to isolate cognitive loads and minimize token burn.
  - **Tier 1 (Orchestrator):** Strategic product alignment, setup (`/conductor:setup`), and track initialization (`/conductor:newTrack`) using `gemini-3.1-pro-preview`.
  - **Tier 2 (Tech Lead):** Technical oversight and track execution (`/conductor:implement`) using `gemini-3-flash-preview`. Maintains persistent context throughout implementation.
  - **Tier 3 (Worker):** Surgical code implementation and TDD using `gemini-2.5-flash-lite` or `deepseek-v3`. Operates statelessly with tool access and dependency skeletons.
  - **Tier 4 (QA):** Error analysis and diagnostics using `gemini-2.5-flash-lite` or `deepseek-v3`. Operates statelessly with tool access.
  - **MMA Delegation Engine:** Utilizes the `mma-exec` CLI and `mma.ps1` helper to route tasks, ensuring role-scoped context and detailed observability via timestamped sub-agent logs.
  - **Role-Scoped Documentation:** Automated mapping of foundational documents to specific tiers to prevent token bloat and maintain high-signal context.
- **Strict Memory Siloing:** Employs AST-based interface extraction and "Context Amnesia" to provide workers only with the absolute minimum context required, preventing hallucination loops.
- **Explicit Execution Control:** All AI-generated PowerShell scripts require explicit human confirmation via interactive UI dialogs before execution, supported by a global "Linear Execution Clutch" for deterministic debugging.
- **Detailed History Management:** Rich discussion history with branching, timestamping, and specific git commit linkage per conversation.
- **In-Depth Toolset Access:** MCP-like file exploration, URL fetching, search, and dynamic context aggregation embedded within a multi-viewport Dear PyGui/ImGui interface.
- **Integrated Workspace:** A consolidated Hub-based layout (Context, AI Settings, Discussion, Operations) designed for expert multi-monitor workflows.
- **Session Analysis:** Ability to load and visualize historical session logs with a dedicated tinted "Prior Session" viewing mode.
- **Performance Diagnostics:** Built-in telemetry for FPS, Frame Time, and CPU usage, with a dedicated Diagnostics Panel and AI API hooks for performance analysis.
- **Automated UX Verification:** A robust IPC mechanism via API hooks and a modular simulation suite allows for human-like simulation walkthroughs and automated regression testing of the full GUI lifecycle across multiple specialized scenarios.
- **Headless Backend Service:** Optional headless mode allowing the core AI and tool execution logic to run as a decoupled REST API service (FastAPI), optimized for Docker and server-side environments (e.g., Unraid).
- **Remote Confirmation Protocol:** A non-blocking, ID-based challenge/response mechanism for approving AI actions via the REST API, enabling remote "Human-in-the-Loop" safety.
- **Gemini CLI Integration:** Allows using the `gemini` CLI as a headless backend provider. This enables leveraging Gemini subscriptions with advanced features like persistent sessions, while maintaining full "Human-in-the-Loop" safety through a dedicated bridge for synchronous tool call approvals within the Manual Slop GUI. Now features full functional parity with the direct API, including accurate token estimation, safety settings, and robust system instruction handling.