feat: proactive weather ability#233
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Implement weather capability to fetch and summarize weather data based on user location. Signed-off-by: Melody Gui <122416115+melodygui@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: Melody Gui <122416115+melodygui@users.noreply.github.com>
Added a README for the Proactive Weather ability, detailing installation and usage instructions. Signed-off-by: Melody Gui <122416115+melodygui@users.noreply.github.com>
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Signed-off-by: Melody Gui <122416115+melodygui@users.noreply.github.com>
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Added methods to handle city updates and location parsing for weather checks. Signed-off-by: Uzair Ullah <uzairullahmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Uzair Ullah <uzairullahmail@gmail.com>
Refactor weather fetching and geocoding to use asyncio for better performance. Signed-off-by: Uzair Ullah <uzairullahmail@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Uzair Ullah <uzairullahmail@gmail.com>
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Hi @melodygui , I’ve applied several fixes and improvements to improve stability, SDK compliance, and voice UX.
In main.py, I added a voice format guard to prevent markdown in spoken output, wrapped blocking HTTP calls in asyncio.to_thread(), and introduced a proper city save confirmation flow along with support for updating the saved city via natural phrases. KV handling was improved with a create-or-update pattern and helper functions for cleaner access, along with a one-time city override so user queries don’t overwrite saved preferences. I also removed duplicate and redundant calls and ensured flow cleanup is handled correctly.
In background.py, I fixed a critical bug with saved value access that was causing crashes, removed unnecessary technical details from alerts, added a voice format guard, and fixed JSON handling to prevent corruption.
Approved for community.
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What does this Ability do?
Provides on-demand weather queries with a concise voice-friendly forecast summary, and runs a background daemon that silently monitors conditions every 10 minutes and proactively interrupts the conversation if severe weather is detected. Also writes local_weather.md to persistent storage so the Personality stays passively aware of local weather conditions throughout the session.
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community/my-ability-name/main.pyfollows SDK pattern (extendsMatchingCapability, hasregister_capability+call)README.mdincluded with description, suggested triggers, and setupresume_normal_flow()called on every exit pathprint()— usingeditor_logging_handlerredis,user_config)asyncio.sleep()orasyncio.create_task()— usingsession_tasksAnything else?
This ability uses the new background.py daemon infrastructure introduced in the March 2026 SDK update. It is an Interactive Combined ability: main.py handles the reactive weather query flow and background.py runs as a persistent daemon for the entire session.