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The planner still picked the plain "changed" condition for page and news watches, so any change notified the user, including view counters and timestamps.

Now a watch on a page, a feed or the news defaults to "important changes" (noteworthy):

The prompt: directive 10 names noteworthy as the default for pages, feeds and news, and keeps changed for one exact value such as a price or a status.
A guard after the model: if the planner still proposes changed for a script that calls web_fetch, news_search, news_top_headlines or a browser read, the task is saved as noteworthy. So the default holds even when a small model picks the wrong option.
Unchanged: alert and every_run, changed on other tools (an exact price), a watch that was already changed, user edits, and imported Hermes monitor jobs.

Closes #298

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  • New Features
    • Page, feed, and news watches that check an entire fetched page default to noteworthy-change checks, avoiding alerts for changes such as view counters or timestamps alone.
    • Watches that explicitly request any or all changes, or track a single exact value, continue to use change-based checks.
    • Changes to fetched pages are compared line by line, including content nested in lists or dictionaries, so results focus on changed lines.
  • Documentation
    • Clarified when Script jobs use noteworthy checks versus checks for any change, and that each check’s recent status appears under Runs.

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The planner now defaults eligible whole-page watches to noteworthy. It preserves changed for requests that ask for any change and for tasks whose existing script already uses changed. The service applies this selection to accepted initial and corrected scripts. Nested values are flattened for line-based diffs.

Changes: Watch Condition Defaults

Layer / File(s) Summary
Describe watch condition semantics
sentient/tasks/prompts.py, docs/API.md, CHANGELOG.md
The prompt and documentation describe noteworthy for page, feed, and news watches, and changed for exact-value or any-change requests. The changelog describes the default and a recent-check list under Runs.
Detect page results and normalize diffs
sentient/tasks/scripts.py, tests/tasks/test_quiet_monitors.py
Script analysis detects whole fetched-page results and selects eligible conditions. Diff line normalization flattens nested dictionaries and lists. A regression test checks that a page diff emits only the changed content line.
Apply and test planner conditions
sentient/tasks/service.py, tests/tasks/test_scripts_triggers_retry.py
The service applies condition selection to accepted initial and corrected scripts. Tests cover whole-page results, extracted values, search results, explicit any-change requests, existing conditions, and prompt guidance.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant TaskService
  participant Scripts
  TaskService->>Scripts: planner_default(script, request, previous)
  Scripts->>Scripts: Detect whole-page result and request wording
  Scripts-->>TaskService: Return script with selected condition
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to e8fc0

Page watches may sometimes notify on routine changes or miss an explicit any-change request in edge cases. The change is mergeable, but these heuristics should be tightened.

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to e8fc0

The impact is limited to watch behavior, with existing execution restrictions preserved. However, a later request to report every change can be overridden by the original request, leaving notifications filtered when the user asked otherwise.

Retained concerns

  • Low · architecture · observed: A later explicit all-change request can be overridden by creation-time intent. Chat changes reach the planner through chat_history, but accepted scripts pass through a new guard that examines only original_prompt. For an existing noteworthy watch originally requested as “watch this page,” a valid changed proposal responding to “tell me about every change” is converted back to noteworthy. Subsequent valid negative judgments can suppress notifications or follow-up runs while advancing the baseline. Existing changed watches and direct edits are protected, and configured plan approval provides an opportunity to inspect the resulting policy.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is watch-specific: more accepted page watches send changed source text through the existing judgment path, which can affect that watch’s notification or preselected follow-up action. The inspected defaulting code does not itself expand tool privileges or select another task’s state; wider tenant or deployment isolation was not established.

Security Findings and Attack Paths

  • observed — Source content enters the judgment request as diff text. The response handler accepts a Boolean decision and a bounded summary; a valid false decision suppresses action and consumes the change into the baseline. This identifies an integrity-sensitive decision boundary, but does not demonstrate a successful content-injection attack.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Condition conversion occurs before the proposed script is saved. Planning normally saves approval_pending and requires approval unless configuration permits automatic approval. Direct edits retain their explicit condition. These controls bound the intent-override concern but do not make the new guard consult the latest request.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — As hardening for the expanded use of content-based judgment, explicitly distinguish fetched text from user instructions and assess adversarial content that requests a false verdict. Treat this as a defense-in-depth proposal, not a verified vulnerability.
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Linked Issues check Passed Issue #298 requires page, feed, and news watches to default to noteworthy, while explicit any-change requests and exact values can use changed. PLANNER_SYSTEM_PROMPT states these rules. `planner…
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- Around line 98-100: Update the page-tool matching logic in reads_pages to
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if isinstance(node, ast.Attribute) and isinstance(node.value, ast.Name) and node.value.id == "tools":
name = node.attr # tools.web_fetch(...)
elif isinstance(node, ast.Call) and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name) and node.func.id == "call_tool" and node.args:

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Recognize aliases of the tools import.

If a planner script uses from sentient_tools import tools as t and calls t.web_fetch(...), reads_pages returns False. The new watch keeps changed and reports page noise without the relevance check. Resolve the imported binding before matching page-tool calls.

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Update the page-tool matching logic in reads_pages to resolve aliases imported
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Thanks @n-o-t-mugen, the prompt change works well. In a real run with qwen3:8b, "watch this page and tell me about new events" planned as noteworthy on its own. It stayed silent through the first check and two unchanged ones, then sent exactly one notification when a new event appeared, even though the view counter changed too.

The guard in planner_default (sentient/tasks/scripts.py ~109-116) is too broad, though. In the same run:

  • "Tell me whenever anything at all on this page changes": the planner proposed changed twice, and the guard saved noteworthy both times. That goes against the user's own words, and the fast model may now hide a change they explicitly asked to hear about.
  • "Tell me when the price changes": the planner proposed changed twice, as your new prompt says to for one exact value, and the guard saved noteworthy. Most price watches read the price with web_fetch, so the guard makes changed impossible for them. CodeRabbit flagged this too.

Could you either drop the guard and rely on the prompt default, or narrow it so it applies only when the script returns the whole fetched page, and never when the user asks for any change? A prompt line like "If the user wants to hear about any change at all, use changed" would help too.

Please also add a test where a web_fetch script returns one extracted value and stays changed, and relabel the internet_search case, which is a search, not an exact value. Hermes imports and later edits are fine as they are.

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Thanks for testing it for real! I dropped the guard: the planner's condition is now stored as proposed, so "anything at all changes" and price watches keep changed. I added your line to the prompt ("If the user wants to hear about any change at all, use "changed"."), and the planner test now covers a page watch (noteworthy), "anything at all" on a whole page (changed), a single price extracted with web_fetch (changed), and the search case, relabelled as a search (changed). tests/tasks and tests/migrate pass and ruff is clean. On today's main, two tests/proactivity/test_brief.py tests fail with and without this change (the calendar is missing from the brief), so they look date-related.

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Thanks @n-o-t-mugen. Dropping the guard fixed the "any change" and price cases: in a real run with qwen3:8b, both always planned changed. The page watch didn't come out as noteworthy, though. On today's main, "Every 10 minutes watch this page and tell me about new events" was planned as changed in 4 out of 4 runs. As changed, a change to the view counter alone sent a notification, a raw dump of the page. The same task switched to noteworthy stayed quiet on the counter and sent one clear notification for the new event ("A new event titled 'Seed library swap' was added"), so the check itself works well.

Since the prompt line alone isn't enough for small models, could you bring back a narrow default? Use noteworthy only when all three of these hold:

  • the planner proposes changed;
  • the script returns the whole result of tools.web_fetch (the page or its content);
  • the request doesn't ask about any change ("anything", "any change").

One extracted value, a search, or "tell me whenever anything changes" should keep changed. Please add tests for both sides.

Please also rebase on main. docs/API.md (the script-job paragraph) and tests/tasks/test_scripts_triggers_retry.py conflict, so CI hasn't run the engine tests yet. Keep main's paragraph and add your two lines, and keep both tests.

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- Around line 158-162: Update _is_fetch to recognize content-preserving cleanup,
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def _default_condition(task: dict, script: dict) -> dict:
"""A page watch the planner left on plain ``changed`` becomes ``noteworthy`` (#298, ``scripts.planner_default``)."""
previous = task.get("script") if task.get("task_type") == "script" else None
return scripts.planner_default(script, str(task.get("original_prompt") or ""), previous)

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Use the latest change request when checking any-change intent.

If a user changes an existing noteworthy page watch to “tell me about any change,” the planner can propose changed. _default_condition checks only original_prompt, so an original request for important updates causes planner_default to restore noteworthy. The saved task can miss changes requested in the latest chat message. Check the latest applicable user instruction as well as the original request.

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Update _default_condition’s call to planner_default so its any-change intent
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Thanks @n-o-t-mugen, this is close. I ran it for real with qwen3:8b on a fresh home. The page watch now works end to end: "Every 10 minutes watch and tell me about new events" was proposed as changed and stored as noteworthy in 2 of 2 runs. Running it through an unchanged check, a view counter change and a new event sent exactly one notification: "A new event 'Seed library swap' was added". "Tell me whenever anything at all on changes" kept changed.

One problem is the price request. "Every 10 minutes check the price on and tell me when the price changes" was proposed as changed every time, but in one run qwen's script returned value['content'] (the whole page), so it was stored as noteworthy. The any-change check only knows "anything" and "any change", so these become noteworthy too:

  • "tell me about every change to "
  • "tell me when changes"
  • "let me know if the page changes at all"

Someone who says "change" wants to hear about changes, so a small AI check shouldn't decide that for them.

Could you keep changed whenever the request talks about a change at all (change, changes, changed, changing), plus "anything" and "every"? "Tell me about new events" has none of those, so it still becomes noteworthy. Please add those phrasings to the parametrized test on the changed side.

Optional: CodeRabbit's .strip() note is worth taking, since result(page.get("content", "").strip()) is still the whole page.

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Thanks for running it again! Done: a request that talks about a change (change, changes, changed, changing), or says "anything" or "everything", now keeps changed, so the price request and all three phrasings you listed stay changed. They're in the parametrized test now, including the price script returning value['content']. One note: I didn't match a bare "every", because "Every 10 minutes watch this page and tell me about new events" would then stay changed; "every change" is already caught by "change". I also took the .strip() note: page.get("content", "").strip() counts as the whole page. Full suite passes and ruff is clean.

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🟡 Minor · Track page rebindings in source order. · scripts.py:170-185

sentient/tasks/scripts.py:170-185
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Track page rebindings in source order.

returns_whole_page keeps page in pages after the non-fetch assignment page = page["content"].split("$")[1]. It therefore classifies the later result(page) as returning the whole page. planner_default can then change an exact-value watch from changed to noteworthy.

Process assignments and result/print calls in source order. Remove a name from the fetch bindings when a non-fetch assignment rebinds it. Evaluate each result call against the bindings at that point.

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-    pages: set[str] = set()
-    for node in ast.walk(tree):
-        if isinstance(node, ast.Assign) and _is_fetch(node.value, pages):
-            pages.update(t.id for t in node.targets if isinstance(t, ast.Name))
-    return any(
-        isinstance(node, ast.Call) and isinstance(node.func, ast.Name) and node.func.id in ("result", "print")
-        and len(node.args) == 1 and _is_fetch(node.args[0], pages)
-        for node in ast.walk(tree)
-    )
+    pages: set[str] = set()
+    events = sorted(
+        (node for node in ast.walk(tree) if isinstance(node, (ast.Assign, ast.Call))),
+        key=lambda node: (node.lineno, node.col_offset),
+    )
+    for node in events:
+        if isinstance(node, ast.Assign):
+            targets = {t.id for t in node.targets if isinstance(t, ast.Name)}
+            if _is_fetch(node.value, pages):
+                pages.update(targets)
+            else:
+                pages.difference_update(targets)
+        elif (
+            isinstance(node.func, ast.Name)
+            and node.func.id in ("result", "print")
+            and len(node.args) == 1
+            and _is_fetch(node.args[0], pages)
+        ):
+            return True
+    return False
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Review comment at @sentient/tasks/scripts.py around lines 170 - 185:
Update returns_whole_page to process assignments and result/print calls in
source order, removing assigned names from pages when a non-fetch assignment
rebinds them. Evaluate each result or print call using the fetch bindings active
at that point, so a rebinding to extracted content is not classified as
returning the whole page.
🟡 Minor · Exclude “important changes” from the any-change exception. · scripts.py:147-149

sentient/tasks/scripts.py:147-149
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Exclude “important changes” from the any-change exception.

_ANY_CHANGE matches the word changes in “alert me to important changes”. planner_default therefore keeps a whole-page script on changed, so counters or timestamps can trigger alerts without the noteworthy AI check. This affects both the initial and corrected planner script paths.

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-_ANY_CHANGE = re.compile(r"\bchang(?:e|es|ed|ing)\b|\bany\s?thing\b|\bevery\s?thing\b", re.IGNORECASE)
+_ANY_CHANGE = re.compile(
+    r"\b(?:any\s?thing|every\s?thing)\b|(?<!important )\bchang(?:e|es|ed|ing)\b",
+    re.IGNORECASE,
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Review comment at @sentient/tasks/scripts.py around lines 147 - 149:
Update `_ANY_CHANGE` so “important changes” does not trigger the any-change
exception, while preserving matches for other change-related wording and
“anything” or “everything.” Ensure this applies to both initial and corrected
planner script paths through their shared use of the pattern.
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tests/tasks/test_scripts_triggers_retry.py: 1

336-337: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Use an extracted price for the price-watch fixture.

WHOLE_PRICE_CODE returns the full page. With changed, any page difference can trigger the watch, even when the price is unchanged. Use the extracted-value fixture for this row. Keep whole-page cases only for requests that explicitly ask about any page change.

Suggested fix
-        # a price request whose script returns the whole page still asks about a change
         ("Every 10 minutes check the price on https://example.org/item and tell me when the price changes",
-         WHOLE_PRICE_CODE, "changed", "changed"),
+         PRICE_CODE, "changed", "changed"),
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Change the price-watch row in the test cases using WHOLE_PRICE_CODE to use
PRICE_CODE instead, so the trigger compares extracted price values rather than
whole-page content. Keep whole-page fixtures for requests that explicitly ask
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Review comments at @sentient/tasks/scripts.py:
- Around line 170-185: Update returns_whole_page to process assignments and
result/print calls in source order, removing assigned names from pages when a
non-fetch assignment rebinds them. Evaluate each result or print call using the
fetch bindings active at that point, so a rebinding to extracted content is not
classified as returning the whole page.
- Around line 147-149: Update `_ANY_CHANGE` so “important changes” does not
trigger the any-change exception, while preserving matches for other
change-related wording and “anything” or “everything.” Ensure this applies to
both initial and corrected planner script paths through their shared use of the
pattern.

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Review comments at @tests/tasks/test_scripts_triggers_retry.py:
- Around line 336-337: Change the price-watch row in the test cases using
WHOLE_PRICE_CODE to use PRICE_CODE instead, so the trigger compares extracted
price values rather than whole-page content. Keep whole-page fixtures for
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Thanks @n-o-t-mugen, the change-word rule works. I ran it with qwen3:8b:

  • "tell me when the price changes" stayed changed, even when qwen's script returned .get('content', '').strip().
  • "anything at all … changes" and "let me know if the page changes at all" stayed changed in 2 of 2 runs.
  • "tell me about new events" became noteworthy.

Leaving out a bare "every" makes sense.

One problem showed up when I ran the events watch through its checks. After the first check and an unchanged check, a change to only the view counter sent "A new event was added…", and four more counter-only checks gave 3 more false alerts. The cause is in scripts._lines: when the script returns the whole web_fetch dict, it is JSON-dumped, so the page text is one line and the judge sees the whole page as removed and re-added. With the same judge prompt and qwen3:8b, that shape gave "new event" 5 of 5 times. With string values split into lines, the diff is only Page views: 1155 → 1163: qwen said it wasn't noteworthy 5 of 5 times, and a real new event was still caught 3 of 3. Since this PR sends these watches to the judge, could you split strings inside dicts and lists in _lines? For example:

def _lines(value: Any) -> list[str]:
    if isinstance(value, dict):
        return [f"{k}: {line}" for k in sorted(value, key=str) for line in _lines(value[k])]
    if isinstance(value, list):
        return [line for item in value for line in _lines(item)]
    text = value if isinstance(value, str) else json.dumps(value, ensure_ascii=False, default=str)
    return [line.rstrip() for line in text.splitlines() if line.strip()]

Please add a test that two web_fetch results differing only in a counter give a one-line diff.

Also, as CodeRabbit noted, "tell me about important changes" keeps changed. Please don't count "change" as asking for any change when a qualifier (important, big, major, significant, meaningful) comes right before it, and add those to the test.

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Thanks for tracing the false alerts to _lines! Done: _lines now splits text inside dicts and lists into key: line, so a counter-only change to a whole web_fetch result is a one-line diff (- content: Page views: 1155 / + content: Page views: 1163), with a test for exactly that. The existing diff_text test now expects - price: 100 instead of the JSON-dump format. A change word right after important, big, major, significant or meaningful no longer counts as asking for any change, so "tell me about important changes" becomes noteworthy; those five are in the parametrized test. Full suite passes and ruff is clean.

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# the user asks to hear about a change itself ("when it changes", "anything", "everything"): no AI check decides that.
# Not a bare "every": "every 10 minutes" is a schedule. "important changes" (group 1) asks for the AI check.
_ANY_CHANGE = re.compile(
r"\b(?:(important|big|major|significant|meaningful)\s+)?chang(?:e|es|ed|ing)\b|\bany\s?thing\b|\bevery\s?thing\b",

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Recognize modifiers separated from “changes.”

If a user asks for “important page changes,” _ANY_CHANGE matches “changes” without its modifier. planner_default then retains changed for a whole-page watch. Routine page changes can trigger notifications instead of reaching the relevance check. Classify the full request phrase before treating “changes” as an unqualified request.

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Update _ANY_CHANGE and the planner_default classification flow so requests
containing a modifier such as “important” before “changes” are recognized as a
qualified request before “changes” is treated as unqualified; preserve the
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Approved after a real end-to-end test.

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Thanks @n-o-t-mugen, this is great work, and thank you for sticking with it through several rounds! I ran it again with qwen3:8b on a fresh home:

  • "Watch … tell me about new events" and "tell me about important changes on " were both saved as noteworthy.
  • "Tell me when the price changes" stayed changed.
  • Running the events watch through an unchanged check, five counter-only checks and a new event gave exactly one notification: "A new event titled 'Seed library swap' was added". With your _lines change the judge now sees only Page views: 1142 → 1155.

Merged. One small follow-up is in #370, a good first issue if you'd like it: when a watch is changed in chat to "any change", the default should also read the chat messages.

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Planner: default page and news watches to "tell me when something important changes"

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