Merge pull request #3763 from qvink/empty_message_injection

Fix for generation interceptors messing with WI timed effects

public/scripts/constants.js

@@ -14,3 +14,11 @@ export const debounce_timeout = {
     /** [5 sec] For delayed tasks, like auto-saving or completing batch operations that need a significant pause. */
     extended: 5000,
 };
+
+/**
+ * Used as an ephemeral key in message extra metadata.
+ * When set, the message will be excluded from generation
+ * prompts without affecting the number of chat messages,
+ * which is needed to preserve world info timed effects.
+ */
+export const IGNORE_SYMBOL = Symbol.for('ignore');

public/scripts/openai.js

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ import { Popup, POPUP_RESULT } from './popup.js';
 import { t } from './i18n.js';
 import { ToolManager } from './tool-calling.js';
 import { accountStorage } from './util/AccountStorage.js';
+import { IGNORE_SYMBOL } from './constants.js';
 
 export {
     openai_messages_count,
@@ -523,6 +524,13 @@ function setOpenAIMessages(chat) {
         let role = chat[j]['is_user'] ? 'user' : 'assistant';
         let content = chat[j]['mes'];
 
+        // If this symbol flag is set, completely ignore the message.
+        // This can be used to hide messages without affecting the number of messages in the chat.
+        if (chat[j].extra?.[IGNORE_SYMBOL]) {
+            j++;
+            continue;
+        }
+
         // 100% legal way to send a message as system
         if (chat[j].extra?.type === system_message_types.NARRATOR) {
             role = 'system';

public/scripts/st-context.js

@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@ import { convertCharacterBook, getWorldInfoPrompt, loadWorldInfo, reloadEditor,
 import { ChatCompletionService, TextCompletionService } from './custom-request.js';
 import { ConnectionManagerRequestService } from './extensions/shared.js';
 import { updateReasoningUI, parseReasoningFromString } from './reasoning.js';
+import { IGNORE_SYMBOL } from './constants.js';
 
 export function getContext() {
     return {
@@ -225,6 +226,9 @@ export function getContext() {
         parseReasoningFromString,
         unshallowCharacter,
         unshallowGroupMembers,
+        symbols: {
+            ignore: IGNORE_SYMBOL,
+        },
     };
 }