v1.7.4: multi-file preamble fix + bare JSON label strip in chat renderer

Author: Brendan Gray

main/constants.js

@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@ const DEFAULT_COMPACT_PREAMBLE = `You are a local AI coding assistant with tools
 ## Behavior
 - **Your tools are real and execute in the live environment.** Call them — do not describe what you would do instead of doing it.
 - **When your response would contain a complete file (code, markup, config, data) — call write_file. File content belongs in the filesystem, not in chat.**
+- **For tasks that require creating multiple files: write ONE file per tool call — do not enumerate all files or steps first, and do not output file content as prose. Call write_file immediately for the first file; after it succeeds, write the next file, and so on, one file per turn.**
 - **Never say you created, saved, ran, or navigated to something unless you called a tool that did it.**
 - **Never claim you searched for something, looked it up, or checked a source unless you actually called web_search or fetch_webpage in this response.**
 - **You do not know today's date or current real-world state. If asked for the date, time, or any live or time-sensitive information — call web_search immediately. Never state a current date, time, or real-world value from memory.**

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "guide-ide",
-  "version": "1.7.3",
+  "version": "1.7.4",
   "description": "guIDE - AI-Powered Offline IDE with local LLM, RAG, MCP tools, browser automation, and integrated terminal",
   "author": {
     "name": "Brendan Gray",

src/utils/chatContentParser.ts

@@ -63,6 +63,10 @@ export function stripToolArtifacts(text: string): string {
   cleaned = cleaned.replace(/<think(?:ing)?>\s*[\s\S]*?<\/think(?:ing)?>/gi, '');
   cleaned = cleaned.replace(/<\/?think(?:ing)?>/gi, '');
   // (model output filters removed — model text is shown verbatim)
+  // Strip bare code-fence language labels leaked by the model without backtick fences
+  // e.g. the model outputs `json\n{"tool":...}` instead of ```json\n{...}\n```. These labels
+  // are visual garbage — the JSON below them is already suppressed by the tool-call parser.
+  cleaned = cleaned.replace(/^(json|html|css|javascript|typescript|python|bash|sh|xml|yaml)\s*\n(?=\s*\{)/gim, '');
   // Strip orphaned JSON fragments — e.g. `params": {"filePath":...}}` left when a tool
   // call's opening brace was consumed by the parser but the params field leaked as text.
   cleaned = cleaned.replace(/^\s*"?params"?\s*"?\s*:\s*\{[\s\S]*?\}\}?\s*$/gm, '');