# Manual Slop

A GUI orchestrator for local LLM-driven coding sessions, built to prevent the AI from running wild and to provide total transparency into the context and execution state.

## Core Management Panels

### Projects Panel

The heart of context management. 

- **Configuration:** You specify the Git Directory (for commit tracking) and a Main Context File (the markdown file containing your project's notes and schema).
- **Word-Wrap Toggle:** Dynamically swaps text rendering in large read-only panels (Responses, Comms Log) between unwrapped (ideal for viewing precise code formatting) and wrapped (ideal for prose).
- **Project Switching:** Switch between different <project>.toml profiles to instantly swap out your entire active file list, discussion history, and settings.

### Discussion History

Manages your conversational branches, preventing context poisoning across different tasks.

- **Discussions Sub-Menu:** Allows you to create separate timelines for different tasks (e.g., "Refactoring Auth" vs. "Adding API Endpoints"). 
- **Git Commit Tracking:** Clicking "Update Commit" reads HEAD from your project's git directory and stamps the discussion. 
- **Entry Management:** Each turn has a Role (User, AI, System). You can toggle entries between **Read** and **Edit** modes, collapse them, or hit [+ Max] to open them in the Global Text Viewer.
- **Auto-Add:** If toggled, anything sent from the "Message" panel and returned to the "Response" panel is automatically appended to the current discussion history.

### Files & Screenshots

Controls what is explicitly fed into the context compiler.

- **Base Dir:** Defines the root for path resolution and tool constraints.
- **Paths:** Explicit files or wildcard globs (e.g., src/**/*.rs). 
- When generating a request, these files are summarized symbolically (summarize.py) to conserve tokens, unless the AI explicitly decides to read their full contents via its internal tools.

## Interaction Panels

### Provider

Switch between API backends (Gemini, Anthropic) on the fly. Clicking "Fetch Models" queries the active provider for the latest model list.

### Message & Response

- **Message:** Your input field. 
- **Gen + Send:** Compiles the markdown context and dispatches the background thread to the AI.
- **MD Only:** Dry-runs the compiler so you can inspect the generated <project>_00N.md without triggering an API charge.
- **Response:** The read-only output. Flashes green when a new response arrives. 

### Global Text Viewer & Script Outputs

- **Last Script Output:** Whenever the AI executes a background script, this window pops up, flashing blue. It contains both the executed script and the stdout/stderr.
- **Text Viewer:** A large, resizable global popup invoked anytime you click a [+] or [+ Maximize] button in the UI. Used for deep-reading long logs, discussion entries, or script bodies.

## System Prompts

Provides two text inputs for overriding default instructions:

1. **Global:** Applied across every project you load.
2. **Project:** Specific to the active workspace.
These are concatenated onto the strict tool-usage guidelines the agent is initialized with.