GSoC’25 Week 11 Update by Om Santosh Suneri

[omsuneri]

Week 11 Progress Report by Om Santosh Suneri

Project: AI-powered Debugger for Music Blocks
Mentors: Walter Bender Sumit Srivastava
Assisting Mentors: Devin Ulibarri
Reporting Period: 2025-08-11 - 2025-08-17

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Goal for This Week

Finalize and polish the entire AI debugger stack (frontend + backend) to make it production-ready and suitable for upstream merge.

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This Week’s Achievements

Introduction

This week, my main focus was on refining the entire debugger system to ensure it is production-ready and can be safely merged upstream. I worked on polishing both the frontend widget code and the FastAPI backend, improving code structure, adding helpful logs for developers, handling errors gracefully, and cleaning up the overall implementation. Additionally, I added a proper license to align with community standards. With these changes, the AI-powered debugger is now stable, clean, and ready for long-term maintenance.

What I Did

1. Widget Code Finalization

This week was all about refining the AI debugger widget both in terms of code quality and developer ergonomics.

Key frontend changes (aidebugger.js):

• Improved user interaction with subtle focus/hover effects for input fields and buttons.

• Added internal logging with console.log() for:

  console.log("AI Debugger Backend URL:", BACKEND_CONFIG.BASE_URL);

• Handled backend connection failures gracefully with:

  if (!response.ok) {
    throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}: ${response.statusText}`);
  }

• Provided consistent and timestamped system messages for events like:

  this.activity.textMsg(_("Conversation reset."));

• Fine-tuned backend call structure and payload tracking via:

  const payload = {
    code: projectData,
    prompt: message,
    history: history,
    prompt_count: this.promptCount
  };

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2. Backend API Polishing

Major changes in api.py:

• Added robust logging to help developers track error sources:

  print(f"Received request data: {data}")
  print(f"Parsed - code length: {len(raw_json_code)}, prompt: '{user_prompt}'")

• Improved JSON decoding and validation:

  try:
      json_data = json.loads(raw_json_code)
  except json.JSONDecodeError as e:
      return JSONResponse(status_code=400, content={"error": f"Invalid JSON: {str(e)}"})

• Graceful fallback for context/LLM/embedding failure:

  except Exception as e:
      context_chunks = []

• Introduced differentiated system tone logic based on interaction depth:

  if prompt_count < 2:
      tone = "curious and friendly"
  else:
      tone = "direct and helpful"

• All responses are now guaranteed to be returned in a structured format:

  return JSONResponse(content={ "response": gemini_response })

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Preview

The final debugger widget is now live — merged upstream in this PR

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Why It Matters

These refinements make the AI-powered debugger:

• More maintainable – future contributors now have logs and clean API traces.
• More user-friendly – better responsiveness and feedback for Music Blocks users.
• Merge-ready – all components (frontend/backend) are now clean, stable, and consistent with community standards.
• Error-resilient – prevents crashes due to malformed input or unexpected backend failure.

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Final Thoughts

Shipping a polished, production-grade AI-powered debugger required focused attention to DX (Developer Experience) and UX (User Experience). Thanks to mentor and community feedback in the last few weeks, this week's progress made the system robust, responsive, and user-centric.

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Next Week’s Roadmap

For the final week (Week 12), my goal is to deliver two structured documentation guides:

Developer Guide

• Architecture explanation
• Codebase walkthrough
• How to debug/debugger 😄
• How to contribute and maintain

User Guide

• How to use the Debugger widget
• Features of the AI assistant
• Examples of typical usage and benefits

These will be hosted within the project repository and made available via the in-app links.

Resources & References

• Repository: AI-powered Debugger for Music Blocks
• Debugger Streamlit App: Music Blocks Debugger

Acknowledgments

Grateful as always to my mentors and the Sugar Labs community especially for pushing me to meet upstream standards, prioritize accessibility, and always keep the user's learning journey front and center.

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[omsuneri]

@pikurasa here is the week 11 update by me !!
please review this !!

[github-actions]

🎉 All Checks Passed!

Status: ✅ Ready to merge

✅ Completed Workflows

Workflow	Status	Details
🔨 Continuous Integration	✅ Passed	Build completed successfully
📝 Code Linting	✅ Passed	All formatting and style checks passed

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🚀 This PR is ready for review and can be safely merged to main branch!

Great work! Your code meets all quality standards. 👏

[sa-fw-an]

Note that there was a recent PR merged that changes the .png format pics to .webp format. It is advised to update the link of the banner image of the blog post to avoid image rendering errors.
All that needs to be done is just change the .png to .webp.

[github-actions]

🎉 All Checks Passed!

Status: ✅ Ready to merge

✅ Completed Workflows

Workflow	Status	Details
🔨 Continuous Integration	✅ Passed	Build completed successfully
📝 Code Linting	✅ Passed	All formatting and style checks passed

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🚀 This PR is ready for review and can be safely merged to main branch!

Great work! Your code meets all quality standards. 👏