Open WebUI 0.9.0 introduced chat-history virtualization that
unmounts off-screen assistant messages and reconstructs them from
persisted shape; `files` attached mid-stream by a tool don't
survive the round-trip — the image flashes in during streaming
and disappears the moment the message commits.
Both image tools now upload via Open WebUI's file store as before
but surface the result as a markdown image injected into the
assistant message via a `message` event, which is part of the
persisted shape and renders reliably across remounts. Trade-off:
loses the file-attachment chrome (thumbnail + download button).
Each tool has a TODO marking the swap site with the original
`files` payload inlined for one-line revert once upstream fixes
the regression.
smart_image_gen.py 0.7.8 -> 0.7.9
smart_image_pipe.py 0.1.0 -> 0.1.1
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
William Gill
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