diff --git a/internal/delivery/telegramsink/correction.go b/internal/delivery/telegramsink/correction.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c09d6de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/delivery/telegramsink/correction.go
@@ -0,0 +1,101 @@
+// correction.go — the correction gesture as it appears in the chat (V-637).
+// Two taps at most: "не то" opens the seven intents, and one of them writes the
+// label. The web's version of the same gesture is cmd/mavweb/chat.go.
+package telegramsink
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// CorrectionTargets — the intents a correction may name, in the order the
+// buttons are drawn. It mirrors the seven the web offers, and it is a closed
+// list for the same reason: V-632 fits prototypes from the label table, and a
+// label nothing can score is worse than no label.
+var CorrectionTargets = []string{"fact", "note", "reminder", "query", "act", "chat", "system"}
+
+// correctionKeyboard — the one gesture beside the reply. Nothing when the turn
+// did not persist: a button that cannot name a row would report a failure the
+// owner cannot act on.
+func (p *Poller) correctionKeyboard(traceID int64) *inlineKeyboard {
+	if traceID <= 0 || p.correct == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return &inlineKeyboard{Rows: [][]inlineButton{{
+		{Text: "не то", Data: fmt.Sprintf("%s%d", prefixAsk, traceID)},
+	}}}
+}
+
+// targetKeyboard — the seven intents, plus the cheap half kept reachable. He
+// opened the row without knowing he had to name something, and closing it with
+// no way out would price the negative he was willing to give.
+func targetKeyboard(traceID int64) *inlineKeyboard {
+	var rows [][]inlineButton
+	row := []inlineButton{}
+	for _, t := range CorrectionTargets {
+		row = append(row, inlineButton{Text: t, Data: fmt.Sprintf("%s%d:%s", prefixTarget, traceID, t)})
+		if len(row) == 4 {
+			rows, row = append(rows, row), nil
+		}
+	}
+	if len(row) > 0 {
+		rows = append(rows, row)
+	}
+	return &inlineKeyboard{Rows: append(rows, []inlineButton{
+		{Text: "просто неверно", Data: fmt.Sprintf("%s%d:", prefixTarget, traceID)},
+	})}
+}
+
+// Callback data is capped at 64 bytes by telegram, so it carries the trace id
+// and the target and nothing else.
+const (
+	prefixAsk    = "w:"
+	prefixTarget = "t:"
+)
+
+type callbackKind int
+
+const (
+	callbackUnknown callbackKind = iota
+	callbackAskTarget
+	callbackTarget
+)
+
+// parseCallback reads button data. An unparseable id, or a target that is not
+// one of the seven, is callbackUnknown — the data came off the wire, and a
+// label the fitting code cannot score is worse than no label.
+func parseCallback(data string) (traceID int64, target string, kind callbackKind) {
+	switch {
+	case strings.HasPrefix(data, prefixAsk):
+		id, err := strconv.ParseInt(strings.TrimPrefix(data, prefixAsk), 10, 64)
+		if err != nil || id <= 0 {
+			return 0, "", callbackUnknown
+		}
+		return id, "", callbackAskTarget
+	case strings.HasPrefix(data, prefixTarget):
+		rest := strings.TrimPrefix(data, prefixTarget)
+		idPart, target, ok := strings.Cut(rest, ":")
+		if !ok {
+			return 0, "", callbackUnknown
+		}
+		id, err := strconv.ParseInt(idPart, 10, 64)
+		if err != nil || id <= 0 {
+			return 0, "", callbackUnknown
+		}
+		if target != "" && !isCorrectionTarget(target) {
+			return 0, "", callbackUnknown
+		}
+		return id, target, callbackTarget
+	}
+	return 0, "", callbackUnknown
+}
+
+func isCorrectionTarget(s string) bool {
+	for _, t := range CorrectionTargets {
+		if t == s {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
diff --git a/internal/delivery/telegramsink/correction_test.go b/internal/delivery/telegramsink/correction_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b0c89f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/internal/delivery/telegramsink/correction_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+package telegramsink
+
+import "testing"
+
+// Button data comes off the wire. An unparseable id or an intent that is not one
+// of the seven must not reach the label table V-632 fits prototypes from.
+func TestParseCallbackRejectsWhatCannotBeALabel(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, data := range []string{
+		"", "nonsense", "w:", "w:0", "w:-3", "w:abc",
+		"t:77", "t:0:note", "t:abc:note", "t:77:погода", "t:77:fact:extra",
+	} {
+		if _, _, kind := parseCallback(data); kind != callbackUnknown {
+			t.Errorf("%q was accepted, want callbackUnknown", data)
+		}
+	}
+	if id, target, kind := parseCallback("t:77:reminder"); id != 77 || target != "reminder" || kind != callbackTarget {
+		t.Errorf("got %d %q %v, want the reminder correction", id, target, kind)
+	}
+}
+
+// Every intent the web offers has a button here, so a new intent cannot exist
+// with no way to correct a chat turn into it.
+func TestIntakeTargetsAreTheSeven(t *testing.T) {
+	if len(CorrectionTargets) != 7 {
+		t.Fatalf("%d targets, want the seven public intents", len(CorrectionTargets))
+	}
+	if isCorrectionTarget("") {
+		t.Error("empty is the absence of a target, not one of them")
+	}
+}
diff --git a/internal/delivery/telegramsink/telegramsink.go b/internal/delivery/telegramsink/telegramsink.go
index bbf157b..b4016ee 100644
--- a/internal/delivery/telegramsink/telegramsink.go
+++ b/internal/delivery/telegramsink/telegramsink.go
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ type Config struct {
 	// Timeout — per-request; 0 = DefaultTimeout. a dead relay can't hang the
 	// tick loop.
 	Timeout time.Duration
+
+	// Intake — read the chat as well as write to it (V-637). Off by default,
+	// like the search and weather blocks: a bot that only pushes cannot be
+	// talked into anything, and turning that off has to stay a deletion. When
+	// set, a message from ChatID becomes a turn and its reply carries the
+	// correction gesture. ChatID is the only accepted sender.
+	Intake bool `json:"intake,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // Sink — implements delivery.Sink via the telegram bot sendMessage API. one
@@ -130,6 +137,11 @@ type sendMessageReq struct {
 	Text                string `json:"text"`
 	DisableNotification bool   `json:"disable_notification"` // false = ring (always — these are alarms)
 	ProtectContent      bool   `json:"protect_content"`      // true = no forwarding out of chat
+
+	// ReplyMarkup — the inline keyboard, used only by the intake half (V-637):
+	// a reply to a turn he typed carries the correction gesture. nil on every
+	// push the sink sends, and omitted from the wire when nil.
+	ReplyMarkup *inlineKeyboard `json:"reply_markup,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // telegramResp — the shape telegram returns. ok=false on logical error with