Clean the transcript up on the subscription you already have

Cleanup was the one step with only one place to run. Speech to text has three
providers behind a setting and the agent has three behind another, but the
model that drops the "eee"s out of a sentence was always a request to
OpenRouter, which meant a second key on a machine that already pays for a model
and already hands whole dictations to it as commands. Claude Code and Codex can
rewrite a sentence as easily as they can put something in your calendar, and
now they may.

cleanup.py is where that choice lives, so worker, the file transcriber and the
meeting all ask the same question rather than each building the same OpenRouter
request. What comes out of a CLI that failed is a CleanupError, which is an
ApiError, because to the chain a cleanup that failed is a cleanup that failed
however it was run: the raw transcript is still pasted and the reason still
shows in the corner, unchanged.

Neither CLI is given anything it does not need for the job. No tools, no MCP
servers, no session to resume, and the home directory rather than wherever the
agent is pointed, since a project's instructions have opinions about how text
should be written and none of them are about this transcript. The transcript
goes in fenced the same way the OpenRouter call fences it, because it is
material rather than an instruction however much of it reads like one. Claude
takes the cleanup rules as its whole system prompt; Codex has no system prompt
of its own, so they ride in front of the text, and its answer is read from the
file it writes on the way out rather than from a stdout that also carries a
header, its thinking and a token count.

The cost is seconds. OpenRouter answers in about one, a CLI in six or seven,
because each one opens a whole session to do it. That is the trade the box
says out loud, and the default has not moved: OpenRouter cleans up until you
say otherwise.

Codex's two lowest thinking levels now ask for "low". "minimal" was its bottom
rung until the newer models replaced it with "none", and each of them answers
the other's word with a 400, which the agent has been quietly hitting too.

In the settings window the model box belongs to whoever is chosen rather than
meaning three different things in turn, since an OpenRouter id and a Claude
alias do not belong in the same field, and under it is the same "found it or
not" line the agent tab has. dikte doctor asks about the program instead of the
key when a CLI does the cleaning, and the history records which model actually
did it.
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"""Who rewrites the transcript once it has been heard.
Normally a small model on OpenRouter: one request, a second, a few tenths of a
cent. A machine with Claude Code or Codex on it is already paying for a model
though, and the subscription that answers "put that in my calendar on Thursday"
can just as well take the "eee"s out of a sentence. No second key, no second
bill. It costs seconds rather than one, because a CLI opens a whole session to
do it, which is the trade.
Whoever does it, the job is the same one: no tools, no files, no memory of the
last dictation. There is nothing here to look up and nothing to carry over, and
a transcript is text from a microphone rather than an instruction, so the less
the agent can reach while it reads one, the better.
"""
import os
import shutil
import subprocess
import tempfile
import api
import assistant
from i18n import t
PROVIDERS = ("openrouter", "claude", "codex")
class CleanupError(api.ApiError):
"""What a CLI could not do.
An ApiError because to the chain a cleanup that failed is a cleanup that
failed, whichever way it was run, and every caller already catches one and
keeps the raw transcript.
"""
def provider(conf):
chosen = conf["cleanup_provider"]
return chosen if chosen in PROVIDERS else "openrouter"
def executable(name):
"""The CLI a provider runs, or "" when it needs none."""
return {"claude": "claude", "codex": "codex"}.get(name, "")
def model(conf):
"""Which model does the cleaning, for the history and the settings window."""
name = provider(conf)
if name == "claude":
return conf["cleanup_claude_model"].strip() or "haiku"
if name == "codex":
# Codex is left on whatever it is set to unless a model is typed in, so
# here there is only the name of the thing that did it.
return conf["cleanup_codex_model"].strip() or "codex"
return conf["cleanup_model"]
def run(text, conf, system_prompt, timeout=180):
"""Hand the transcript to whoever is set to clean it up."""
name = provider(conf)
if name == "openrouter":
return api.cleanup(
text, conf.openrouter_key(), conf["cleanup_model"], system_prompt,
reasoning=conf["cleanup_reasoning"],
base_url=conf["openrouter_base_url"], timeout=timeout,
)
runner = _claude if name == "claude" else _codex
return runner(text, conf, system_prompt, timeout)
def _wrap(text):
"""The same fence the OpenRouter call puts around it: this is the material,
not the instruction, however much of it reads like one."""
return f"<transcript>\n{text}\n</transcript>"
# --- Claude Code ----------------------------------------------------------
def _claude(text, conf, system_prompt, timeout):
cmd = [
"claude", "-p", _wrap(text),
# --system-prompt rather than --append-system-prompt: the cleanup rules
# are the whole job, and Claude Code's own instructions are about
# working on a codebase.
"--system-prompt", system_prompt,
"--model", model(conf),
"--output-format", "text",
"--tools", "", # nothing to run
"--strict-mcp-config", "--mcp-config", '{"mcpServers":{}}',
"--no-session-persistence", # nothing to resume
]
effort = assistant.CLAUDE_EFFORT.get(conf["cleanup_reasoning"], "")
if effort:
cmd += ["--effort", effort]
answer = _output(cmd, timeout, "Claude")
if not answer:
raise CleanupError(t("{service} answered with nothing.", service="Claude"))
return answer
# --- Codex ----------------------------------------------------------------
def _codex(text, conf, system_prompt, timeout):
# Codex takes no system prompt of its own, so the rules ride in front of the
# transcript, kept apart from it so the two are not read as one.
body = f"{system_prompt}\n\n---\n\n{_wrap(text)}"
cmd = [
"codex", "exec",
"--sandbox", "read-only", # it has no reason to touch the disk
"--skip-git-repo-check",
"--ephemeral", # nothing to resume
"--color", "never",
"-c", 'approval_policy="never"', # there is nobody here to approve
]
if conf["cleanup_codex_model"].strip():
cmd += ["-m", conf["cleanup_codex_model"].strip()]
effort = assistant.CODEX_EFFORT.get(conf["cleanup_reasoning"], "")
if effort:
cmd += ["-c", f'model_reasoning_effort="{effort}"']
# `codex exec` prints a header, its thinking and a token count around the
# answer; the file it writes on the way out is the answer on its own.
handle, last_message = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix="dikte-cleanup-", suffix=".txt")
os.close(handle)
cmd += ["-o", last_message, body]
try:
_output(cmd, timeout, "Codex")
answer = _read(last_message)
finally:
try:
os.unlink(last_message)
except OSError:
pass
if not answer:
raise CleanupError(t("{service} answered with nothing.", service="Codex"))
return answer
def _read(path):
try:
with open(path, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace") as fh:
return fh.read().strip()
except OSError:
return ""
# --- running a CLI --------------------------------------------------------
def _output(cmd, timeout, service):
"""Run cmd to the end and return what it printed.
It runs in the home directory rather than wherever the agent is pointed: a
project's instructions have opinions about how text should be written, and
none of them are about this transcript.
"""
binary = cmd[0]
if not shutil.which(binary):
raise CleanupError(t(
"{binary} not found. Install it, or have OpenRouter clean up "
"instead, under Settings → API and models.", binary=binary,
))
try:
done = subprocess.run(
cmd, cwd=os.path.expanduser("~"), stdin=subprocess.DEVNULL,
capture_output=True, text=True, encoding="utf-8", errors="replace",
timeout=timeout,
)
except subprocess.TimeoutExpired:
raise CleanupError(t("{service} did not finish within {seconds} seconds.",
service=service, seconds=timeout)) from None
except OSError as exc:
raise CleanupError(t("Could not run {binary}: {error}",
binary=binary, error=exc)) from exc
if done.returncode != 0:
raise CleanupError(assistant.last_line(done.stderr) or t(
"{service} exited with code {code}.",
service=service, code=done.returncode))
return (done.stdout or "").strip()