2026-02-17 Daily Recap: Tools.yaml Sunset, Lantern Integration, and Cross-Service Fixes

Loom: Retiring tools.yaml and Embracing Lantern Service Discovery

Today marks a major milestone in Loom’s evolution: the complete removal of tools.yaml and its associated loader stack. With 21 commits, we finalized the migration to Lantern-based service discovery, eliminating technical debt that had lingered since early prototypes. We deleted tools.yaml, loader.py, validate.py, and associated CLI commands—cleaning up both runtime code and test suites. The job_hunt pipeline now dynamically resolves git-chronicle and browser endpoints through Lantern, ensuring consistency across environments.

We also refactored core logic, extracting entity and schedule detection from categorize.py into dedicated modules and moving classification logic into loom.core.classify. This improves testability and paves the way for modular pipeline extensions. Several fixes addressed ChromaDB integration, including implementing required EmbeddingFunction static methods (name() and get_config()) to silence deprecation warnings and rewriting tests to reflect the new migration state.

Documentation caught up too—SKILL.md was updated to reflect 17 newly added endpoints, remove stale port references (8410 is now a fallback, not a default), and clarify that ports are Lantern-assigned. API docstrings were updated accordingly.

GhostGraph & Lantern: Strengthening Health Checks, Configuration, and Observability

GhostGraph saw 12 commits focused on stability, configuration hygiene, and observability. We fixed a critical fleet-status 500 error caused by Redis scan behavior and inaccurate last_heartbeat counts. Workers now periodically update their heartbeat in Postgres, and the status endpoint correctly reflects fleet health. These issues are now marked as resolved in TOFIX.md and README.md.

A key improvement was aligning application_generator with centralized config—replacing hardcoded localhost:8000 and stale LLM defaults with dynamic settings from get_settings().api_base_url. This ensures consistency across deployment contexts. We also added company intel and job discovery recipe templates, expanding GhostGraph’s utility for targeted research workflows.

Lantern itself received 12 commits, primarily focused on robustness. We added lantern.yaml for self-registration, enabling Lantern to participate in its own service discovery. Health checks were hardened: the checker now falls back to upstream_url when base_url is nil, and stale health results for removed or non-checkable projects are pruned automatically. We also fixed a dev environment issue where dev-up.sh would leave behind orphaned uvicorn processes—now, managed projects are gracefully stopped via API before Lantern restarts.

Testing improved significantly: we added 5 unit tests for Project.with_computed_base_url/1, ensuring dynamic base URLs are recomputed when ports change. The maybe_compute_base_url logic was refactored into this new method, preventing stale health checks on localhost services.

Browser, Git Chronicle, and Cross-Project Hygiene

The Browser module (8 commits) transitioned fully to Camoufox with the deletion of chrome.py and introduction of settings.toml. We implemented a Browser Daemon service with enhanced session management and added scrape_own_posts—a new action enabling feedback loop tracking for engagement metrics. The BrowserMode enum was removed as part of final cleanup, and tests were expanded with 29 new cases covering settings loading, profile management, and site defaults.

SKILL.md was updated to reflect that the Browser port is dynamic (assigned by Lantern), not fixed at 41001. This aligns documentation with runtime behavior.

Git Chronicle (8 commits) added a /match endpoint for job requirement matching and introduced TTL caching on /projects and /stats to reduce load. We fixed environment variable overrides for CHROMA_HOST, OLLAMA_URL, and others, documenting them in the README. A /health endpoint was added, and the lantern.yaml health check was updated from /stats to /health—backed by two new tests. We also added 36 new tests covering parser, embedder, and API logic, significantly improving coverage.

Auto-Shorts (6 commits) removed the deprecated TILVideo template and introduced new video templates with 3D effects and particle animations. We improved error handling, added composition selection, and reused the httpx client for efficiency. Documentation was updated to replace hardcoded localhost:8000 with Lantern port instructions. Testing expanded with 36 new cases for schema validation, API endpoints, and ComfyUI integration.

OpenClaw Workspace saw minor updates confirming completion of Browser fixes and tools.yaml elimination. The legacy Social Autopilot service received a single commit adding bootstrap scripts—likely for archival or migration purposes.

Overall, today was about consolidation: retiring legacy patterns, aligning services with Lantern, and hardening systems through testing and configuration hygiene.