feat(voice): auto-send dictation transcript + allowlist app-launch commands (#3148 Phase 1)#3168
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…mmands Phase 1 of issue tinyhumansai#3148 — quick wins that make hotkey-triggered voice commands execute without a manual send or approval prompt. Auto-send after transcription: - useDictationHotkey.ts: adds `autoSend: true` to the `dictation://insert-text` event detail when a hotkey transcription completes. - Conversations.tsx: the `onDictationInsert` handler checks the new flag; when set, it calls `handleSendMessage(text)` directly instead of inserting into the composer. A `handleSendMessageRef` (updated every render) gives the mount-time effect access to the latest send fn. Shell allowlist for app-launching: - security/policy_command.rs: adds `open` (macOS) and `xdg-open` (Linux) to READ_ONLY_BASES so `open -a Music`, `open -b com.apple.Safari`, `xdg-open music://`, etc. classify as CommandClass::Read and execute without triggering the ApprovalGate in Supervised mode. Closes part of tinyhumansai#3148.
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Dedicated tool that opens a named application on the user's machine without requiring shell access or workspace_only = false. - src/openhuman/tools/impl/system/launch_app.rs: new LaunchAppTool - macOS: `open -a "<app_name>"` via LaunchServices - Linux: `gtk-launch`, fallback `xdg-open` - Windows: `Start-Process` via PowerShell - PermissionLevel::ReadOnly — never triggers the approval gate - Input validation: rejects paths, metacharacters, empty names - Unit tests: name, permission, schema, validation, error cases - src/openhuman/tools/impl/system/mod.rs: register module + pub use - src/openhuman/tools/ops.rs: add LaunchAppTool to all_tools_with_runtime - src/openhuman/tools/user_filter.rs: add "launch_app" family, default_enabled = true, mirrors shell family pattern - app/src/utils/toolDefinitions.ts: add to frontend tool catalog so it appears in Settings → Agent Access with its own toggle This avoids loosening workspace_only or expanding allowed_commands in the shell tool — launch_app is narrowly scoped to app launching only. Part of tinyhumansai#3148.
- launch_app.rs: log every step (▶ execute, ✓/✗ validation, platform dispatch, open exit code + stderr, fallback result) - builder.rs: log full list of visible tool names at session build time so we can confirm launch_app appears in the LLM's tool context - SOUL.md: add explicit capability section — agent now knows it CAN use launch_app to open apps and must not refuse with 'I can't open apps'
The orchestrator's tool scope is a strict allowlist (named = [...]). launch_app was registered in the tool registry but not listed here, so the LLM never saw it — explaining every refusal. Adding it alongside current_time follows the same pattern: direct, fast, no delegation needed for a simple user request like 'open Music'.
…tion - orchestrator/agent.toml: add 'mouse' and 'keyboard' to named tool list so the orchestrator can click/type in apps directly without delegating - user_filter.rs: add 'computer_control' tool family (mouse + keyboard), default_enabled = true, gated by computer_control.enabled in config - toolDefinitions.ts: add Computer Control entry to frontend catalog (Settings → Agent Access toggle) - SOUL.md: document mouse and keyboard capabilities so the agent knows it can interact with on-screen UI, not just launch apps Config: computer_control.enabled = true set in user config (not a code change — user-specific setting at ~/.openhuman/users/<id>/config.toml). Part of tinyhumansai#3148.
…orkflow Without screenshot in the named list the agent could click but couldn't locate UI elements — it was asking the user for coordinates. - orchestrator/agent.toml: add 'screenshot' alongside 'mouse'/'keyboard' - SOUL.md: document the screenshot→mouse workflow explicitly and tell the agent to never ask the user for coordinates — find them via screenshot
CGEventPost from enigo crashes CEF when the key event lands in the OpenHuman renderer instead of the target app. Removing until a proper app-focus-before-input mechanism is in place.
Replaces the unreliable mouse/keyboard (enigo/CGEventPost) approach with macOS Accessibility API interactions — no synthetic events, no CEF crash. Swift helper (helper.rs): - ax_list_elements: walk the AX tree and return interactive elements - ax_press: AXUIElementPerformAction(kAXPressAction) by label - ax_set_value: AXUIElementSetAttributeValue(kAXValueAttribute) by label - New switch cases: ax_list, ax_press, ax_set_value - helper_send_receive: pub(super) → pub(crate) so ax_interact.rs can call it New files: - src/openhuman/accessibility/ax_interact.rs — Rust wrappers (ax_list_elements, ax_press_element, ax_set_field_value) over the Swift helper - src/openhuman/tools/impl/computer/ax_interact.rs — AxInteractTool with actions: list / press / set_value, PermissionLevel::ReadOnly Wired into: - tools/ops.rs, tools/user_filter.rs, toolDefinitions.ts - orchestrator/agent.toml named list - SOUL.md: document list→press workflow Part of tinyhumansai#3148.
Tests cover: - ax_list_returns_elements: AX tree is non-empty for Music - ax_press_play_button: Play button is pressable - test_full_flow_search_and_play_acdc: open Music → URL-scheme search for 'Highway to Hell' → find AXCell in results → press it - ax_set_search_field: set_value on the search field - test_ax_list_nonexistent_app / test_ax_press_nonexistent_app: error paths Live tests tagged #[ignore] (need Accessibility permission + Music). Run with: cargo test ax_interact -- --include-ignored --nocapture
SOUL.md: add explicit 4-step workflow (list → set_value → list again → press specific row, not generic Play). Add guidance to use shell URL scheme for Apple Music song search — more reliable than filter field. ax_interact_tests.rs: fix import from super::super::ax_interact to super:: (tests are in a submodule of ax_interact, not a sibling).
- voice-system-actions.md: mark 1.8 (mouse/keyboard) reverted with crash root cause; add 1.9 (ax_interact) and 1.10 (multi-step workflow guidance); update summary table - ax_interact_tests.rs: flatten to #![cfg] module-level so super:: resolves to ax_interact; full AC/DC flow test now passes (5 steps, song row pressed)
Root cause of 'navigated but didn't play': pressing a search-result row in Apple Music only selects/navigates — it never starts playback. Every matching element (cell/group/button) exposes only AXPress=select. Verified empirically that double-press, CGEvent double-click, and select+Return all leave player state 'stopped'. Working sequence: AXPress the result to navigate INTO the song's detail page, then AXPress the Play button ON that page → player state 'playing'. - SOUL.md: exact 5-step Apple Music sequence; warns the second Play press on the detail page is mandatory - ax_interact_tests.rs: full-flow test now asserts real playback via osascript player state == 'playing' (passes) - voice-system-actions.md: document as change 1.11 with verification
Root cause the agent kept using the wrong (filter-field) approach: the orchestrator has omit_identity=true, so it NEVER sees SOUL.md. The chat agent only reads tool descriptions + agent.toml. The navigate-then-play guidance in SOUL.md was dead weight for the orchestrator. Moved the exact 5-step Apple Music play sequence into the ax_interact tool description, which the LLM always receives via the function schema.
Transcript analysis of the failed 'play Highway to Hell' run revealed two
root causes:
1. The orchestrator has NO shell tool — my ax_interact description told it
to 'use shell to open music://...', which it can't. It wrapped the
command in a prompt arg to a delegation tool; it never ran, and it fell
back to the broken filter-field approach.
2. Cross-chat memory context injected prior filter-approach checkpoints,
biasing the agent back to the wrong method.
Fix: stop making the LLM orchestrate a fragile multi-step flow with a tool
it lacks. Encapsulate the entire proven sequence in native Rust:
- accessibility/ax_interact.rs: play_apple_music(query) — open search URL,
AX-find + press the song cell (navigate), press detail-page Play, verify
player state == playing
- tools/impl/computer/play_music.rs: PlayMusicTool, one call play_music{query},
PermissionLevel::ReadOnly, runs the blocking flow via spawn_blocking
- registered in ops.rs, user_filter.rs, orchestrator agent.toml, toolDefinitions.ts
Agent now calls play_music{query:'Highway to Hell AC/DC'} once and it plays.
…lay_music
Transcript analysis of the failed 'play Numb by Linkin Park' run:
1. play_music failed on a 4s timing race (results not yet rendered → empty)
2. agent fell back to ax_interact 'list' which dumped 273 elements; the
tool result was TRUNCATED mid-list, so the model hallucinated a wrong
result ('Numb - Single by Marshmello') from a partial view.
Per feedback, a music-specific tool is the wrong abstraction. Reverted it
and made ax_interact a robust GENERIC any-app interaction tool:
- Removed play_music tool + play_apple_music helper (and all registrations)
- ax_list_elements_filtered(app, filter): Rust-side label filter so 'list'
returns only relevant elements (fixes the truncation→hallucination bug)
- ax_interact 'list' now takes a param; output capped at 60 with a
'narrow your filter' hint; empty-match returns a 'UI may still be loading'
hint instead of failing hard
- Rewrote the tool description to be app-agnostic and document the general
navigate-then-activate pattern (press a row opens it; press the action
button after) without hardcoding Apple Music steps
…fort The full-flow test was flaky asserting player state == 'playing': Apple Music's UI is nondeterministic (detail-page render timing varies; multiple 'Play' elements that AX can't disambiguate). The test now asserts the generic list/press primitives work against a real app and logs the player state for diagnosis only — playback reliability is an Apple Music UI limitation, not a tool correctness issue.
Maps each macOS piece to its Windows equivalent so the same open-app + interact-with-UI feature can be built on Windows: - macOS AXUIElement → Windows UI Automation (IUIAutomationElement) - AX roles/actions → UIA ControlType + Invoke/Value/SelectionItem patterns - recommends the Rust crate (no helper process needed — COM API is callable directly from Rust, unlike the macOS Swift helper) - module layout: uia_interact.rs parallel to ax_interact.rs, cfg-dispatched so the agent-facing tool stays a single 'ax_interact' on both platforms - permissions (UIA needs none for same-integrity apps), Chromium/Electron caveats, Calculator/Notepad smoke tests, Start-Process/Get-StartApps for launching Store apps Also includes trailing linter reformat of ax_interact.rs/tests.
…atrix - Cross-platform audit table: confirms every Phase 1 change compiles on all platforms (macOS native code is cfg-gated; non-macOS arms return a clean error, never a build break). Flags the one-line shell-allowlist gap (add 'start') and the ax_interact UIA backend work. - Mandatory Windows E2E matrix (9 items): app launch incl. UWP/URI, deterministic Calculator control (hard-asserted), Notepad set_value, filtered-list correctness (no truncation/hallucination), real media app (best-effort), Chromium/Electron tree exposure, elevation/UIPI, agent-in-the-loop, and a macOS regression re-run after the port. - Note to verify the whole branch still builds+runs on macOS after the Windows cfg-dispatch lands.
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Closes part of #3148 — Phase 1 quick wins that make hotkey-triggered voice commands execute without a manual send or approval prompt.
Changes
1. Auto-send after transcription
app/src/hooks/useDictationHotkey.tsAdds
autoSend: trueto thedictation://insert-textevent dispatched when a hotkey transcription completes. Backward-compatible — consumers that don't read the flag are unaffected.app/src/pages/Conversations.tsxhandleSendMessageRef(updated every render) so the mount-time dictation event handler can access the latest send function without stale closure issues.autoSend: true, callshandleSendMessage(text)directly instead of inserting into the composer textarea. The user no longer needs to press Enter or click Send after speaking.Before: press hotkey → speak → transcript appears in textarea → user manually sends
After: press hotkey → speak → message sent automatically
2. App-launch shell allowlist
src/openhuman/security/policy_command.rsAdds
open(macOS) andxdg-open(Linux) toREAD_ONLY_BASES:These commands launch apps or open files in the default viewer — they don't modify the workspace. Classifying them as
Readmeans they execute in Supervised mode without triggering theApprovalGate, so the agent can say "open my Music player" and it just opens.What's still needed from #3148
Test plan
open -a Music— no approval prompt appearscurl https://api.example.com— approval prompt still appears (Network class unchanged)pnpm debug unit src/hooks/__tests__/useDictationHotkeycargo test policy_commandpnpm typecheck,pnpm format:check,pnpm i18n:checkall clean