After refresh, the rendered transcript was showing two unwanted
artifacts in the initial user bubble:
Photo file path: pics/DSC_5171.jpg
please tell me about this photo and what was going on around it
Please write your final answer now without calling any more tools.
Two distinct bugs:
1. Bootstrap was prepending `Photo file path: <path>` (and, in
hybrid mode, the visual description block) into the user-turn
content. The model needed it to call file_path-keyed tools, but
the user could see it in their own bubble on replay.
2. The no-tools fallback ("Please write your final answer now…")
was a synthetic user message we never stripped from history,
so it persisted into training_messages, rendered as a second
user bubble, AND wiped the prior tool-call accumulator inside
load_history (user-turn handler clears pending_tools), which
is why the tool invocations disappeared from the assistant
bubble after refresh.
Fixes:
- New `build_bootstrap_system_message` helper composes the persona
with a `--- PHOTO CONTEXT ---` block (path + optional visual
description). Lives in the system message, not the user turn.
The user's bubble shows only what they typed.
- Streaming agentic loop's no-tools fallback now records its
insertion index and removes the synthetic user prompt from
`messages` after the model responds. Final assistant content
stays — it reads coherently on replay without the synthetic
prompt above it. Applies to both bootstrap and continuation.
3 new tests cover the system-message composer (path-only, with
visual block, persona-trim). Total insight_chat unit tests: 27.
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