diff --git a/cmd/mavend/actions_query.go b/cmd/mavend/actions_query.go
index c89c3e9..b192892 100644
--- a/cmd/mavend/actions_query.go
+++ b/cmd/mavend/actions_query.go
@@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ var querySources = []querySource{
 	// below answers from the world's. A question about him that got this far
 	// has no answer in his data, and no outside source can supply one, so this
 	// stops the walk rather than let the encyclopedia and the model guess.
+	// A question about her sits just above the boundary, because it has no
+	// answer below one: refusing it as his says "не нашла у тебя такой записи"
+	// about her own description, and letting it through asks SearXNG about
+	// somebody else's assistant (Vikunja #555).
+	{name: "self", answer: (*reactiveHandler).querySelf},
 	{name: "personal", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryPersonal},
 	// The world, read live. Owner's ruling of 2026-08-02: a metasearch hit beats
 	// a frozen ZIM, so SearXNG asks before Kiwix does. Nothing of his is at
diff --git a/cmd/mavend/self.go b/cmd/mavend/self.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..58afaa9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mavend/self.go
@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"log"
+	"regexp"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
+)
+
+// A question about her — "что ты умеешь", "кто ты" — used to have no answer at
+// all (Vikunja #555). It reached the personal boundary, which claimed it as his
+// and said "не знаю — не нашла у тебя такой записи", because the boundary knows
+// two sides and this is neither: her own description is not his data and it is
+// not the world's either. Letting it past the boundary is no better, because
+// then SearXNG answers about somebody else's assistant.
+//
+// The description does NOT live in the note store. Notes are his. A note about
+// her sitting in his index would come back for "что я записал", would be fed to
+// the digestion worker as something he said, and would be recalled by vector
+// proximity for questions that are not about her at all. It is her own text, so
+// it lives here, in one place, and it is the only copy.
+//
+// This source sits ABOVE the boundary, because a question about her never had
+// an answer below it.
+
+// selfDescription — what she is and what this box actually does. Frozen text,
+// and the one rule for editing it: name only what is really wired. Anything
+// that depends on config — the house, the LAN, the feeds, telegram, search — is
+// named as depending on what he allowed, never claimed outright. Inventing a
+// capability here is the same defect as inventing a fact, and it is worse than
+// silence because he would plan around it.
+//
+// Written in her own voice, feminine, addressing him informally, because it is
+// handed to the phraser as the evidence for the answer and the phraser will
+// keep the words it is given.
+const selfDescription = `Я Мэйвен, твоя помощница. Я живу на твоём сервере, ` +
+	`и наружу уходит только поисковый запрос — больше ничего.
+
+Что я делаю сама: запоминаю, что ты мне говоришь, и потом отвечаю на вопросы ` +
+	`об этом; веду заметки; ставлю напоминания; читаю твой календарь и задачи; ` +
+	`отвечаю на вопросы о мире — сначала поиском, а если сети нет, то по ` +
+	`офлайновой энциклопедии.
+
+Что зависит от того, что ты мне разрешил: дом, локальная сеть, ленты, ` +
+	`список покупок, погода, телеграм. Если что-то из этого не настроено, я ` +
+	`скажу об этом прямо, а не буду выдумывать ответ.
+
+Говорю по-русски и по-английски.`
+
+// selfSeeds — the questions this source claims. Scoring data like every other
+// topic set: editing one moves the recogniser and has to be re-measured against
+// TestONNXTopics.
+//
+// All of them are about HER — what she is, what she can do, who made her. The
+// neighbouring set is topicAttend, "что требует внимания", which asks about the
+// state of his things; the two share almost nothing but the second person.
+var selfSeeds = []string{
+	"что ты умеешь",
+	"что ты можешь делать",
+	"кто ты такая",
+	"расскажи о себе",
+	"какие у тебя возможности",
+	// Added after measuring: it won self by 0.0002, under the margin, and the
+	// floor does not carry it — "способна" names no verb the floor matches.
+	"на что ты способна",
+	"чем ты можешь помочь",
+	"what can you do",
+	"who are you",
+}
+
+// selfFloor — the offline floor, for a handler with no embedder or a turn whose
+// vector never got computed. Narrow on purpose, like every other floor here: it
+// answers only when the seeds cannot, and a broad guess made blind is worse
+// than a narrow one.
+//
+// Go's \b is ASCII-only and never fires next to a Cyrillic letter, so the
+// Russian patterns spell the boundary out.
+var selfPatterns = []*regexp.Regexp{
+	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)(^|[^\p{L}\p{N}])ты\s+(умеешь|можешь)([^\p{L}\p{N}]|$)`),
+	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)(^|[^\p{L}\p{N}])кто\s+ты([^\p{L}\p{N}]|$)`),
+	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)(^|[^\p{L}\p{N}])(расскажи|поведай)\s+о\s+себе([^\p{L}\p{N}]|$)`),
+	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)\bwhat\s+can\s+you\s+do\b`),
+	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)\bwho\s+are\s+you\b`),
+}
+
+func selfFloor(utterance string) bool {
+	for _, re := range selfPatterns {
+		if re.MatchString(utterance) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// querySelf answers a question about her from selfDescription. The description
+// goes through the phraser as evidence so the answer is shaped to what he
+// asked — "что ты умеешь" and "кто ты" want different halves of it — and falls
+// back to the text itself, which is already readable, if the model is down.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) querySelf(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string, bool) {
+	if !h.turnIsAbout(ctx, t, topicSelf, selfFloor) {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	var reply string
+	if h.phraser != nil {
+		var err error
+		reply, err = h.phraser.PhraseQuery(ctx, t.dec.Utterance, []string{selfDescription})
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("voice: phrase self: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+	if reply == "" {
+		reply = phraser.Q(phraser.QueryFound, map[string]string{"text": selfDescription})
+	}
+	return reply, true
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mavend/self_test.go b/cmd/mavend/self_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..816201f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmd/mavend/self_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+// TestSelfFloorClaimsAQuestionAboutHerAndNothingElse — the offline floor, which
+// is what answers with no embedder. Narrow on purpose, so the rows that must
+// NOT match are the point.
+func TestSelfFloorClaimsAQuestionAboutHerAndNothingElse(t *testing.T) {
+	claimed := []string{
+		"что ты умеешь",
+		"что ты можешь",
+		"а что ты умеешь?",
+		"кто ты",
+		"кто ты такая?",
+		"расскажи о себе",
+		"what can you do",
+		"who are you",
+	}
+	for _, u := range claimed {
+		if !selfFloor(u) {
+			t.Errorf("%q is a question about her and the floor missed it", u)
+		}
+	}
+	declined := []string{
+		"что у меня сегодня",
+		"расскажи про байкал",
+		"кто изобрёл телефон",
+		"что требует внимания",
+		"запиши что я пил воду",
+		// The floor spells its own word boundaries out, because Go's \b never
+		// fires next to a Cyrillic letter. Without that these would match.
+		"кто тыкал в розетку",
+		"расскажи о себестоимости",
+	}
+	for _, u := range declined {
+		if selfFloor(u) {
+			t.Errorf("%q is not about her and the floor claimed it", u)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestSelfSourceAnswersFromTheDescription — with no embedder the source falls
+// to the floor, and the answer has to be the description rather than silence.
+func TestSelfSourceAnswersFromTheDescription(t *testing.T) {
+	h := personalHandler()
+	reply, claimed := h.querySelf(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec: router.Decision{Utterance: "что ты умеешь"},
+	})
+	if !claimed {
+		t.Fatal("a question about her must be claimed above the boundary")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(reply, "напоминания") {
+		t.Errorf("the answer must come from the description: %q", reply)
+	}
+	if _, claimed := h.querySelf(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec: router.Decision{Utterance: "почему небо синее"},
+	}); claimed {
+		t.Error("a world question must pass this source")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestSelfDescriptionHoldsThePersona — it is her own text and she reads it out,
+// so the same rules the phrasing eval enforces apply to it. Feminine
+// self-reference, informal address, no pet names.
+func TestSelfDescriptionHoldsThePersona(t *testing.T) {
+	lower := strings.ToLower(selfDescription)
+	for _, bad := range []string{"я рад ", "я готов ", "вы ", "ваш", "милый", "дорогой"} {
+		if strings.Contains(lower, bad) {
+			t.Errorf("the description breaks the persona on %q", bad)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{"тво", "ты"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(lower, want) {
+			t.Errorf("the description must address him directly, missing %q", want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestSelfDescriptionClaimsNothingUnconditionally — the constraint that makes
+// this text safe to read out. Every capability that depends on config has to be
+// named as depending on it, and inventing one here is the same defect as
+// inventing a fact.
+func TestSelfDescriptionClaimsNothingUnconditionally(t *testing.T) {
+	conditional := selfDescription[strings.Index(selfDescription, "Что зависит"):]
+	for _, cap := range []string{"дом", "локальная сеть", "ленты", "список покупок", "погода", "телеграм"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(conditional, cap) {
+			t.Errorf("%q is configured, not wired — it must sit under the conditional half", cap)
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/cmd/mavend/topics.go b/cmd/mavend/topics.go
index 322a8b6..acf6316 100644
--- a/cmd/mavend/topics.go
+++ b/cmd/mavend/topics.go
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ const (
 	topicAttend  topicLabel = "attention"
 	topicFeed    topicLabel = "feeds"
 	topicList    topicLabel = "list"
+	topicSelf    topicLabel = "self"
 	topicOther   topicLabel = "other"
 )
 
@@ -155,6 +156,14 @@ var topicSeedSets = map[topicLabel][]string{
 		"what is on my shopping list",
 		"read me the grocery list",
 	},
+	// Questions about her (Vikunja #555). The set lives in self.go beside the
+	// description it unlocks, so the two are edited together — a seed claiming
+	// a question the description does not answer is the failure mode.
+	//
+	// "что ты умеешь" was a topicOther seed until this existed, put there so an
+	// attention question had something to lose to. It is a self seed now, and
+	// it cannot be both: a phrasing on two sides never clears the margin.
+	topicSelf: selfSeeds,
 	topicOther: {
 		// A task question is not a list read-back. They collide on "что у меня",
 		// and the list has its own table to lose to as well.
@@ -185,8 +194,6 @@ var topicSeedSets = map[topicLabel][]string{
 		"что я говорил про бэкапы",
 		"что у меня сегодня по календарю",
 		"напомни мне позвонить маме",
-		// An attention question is about the state of his things; this is not.
-		"что ты умеешь",
 		"what did i say about backups",
 		// World questions that name a day (Vikunja #553). Weather was the only
 		// topic whose seeds carry a day word — four of its eight do — so every
diff --git a/cmd/mavend/topics_test.go b/cmd/mavend/topics_test.go
index b999558..10ae58d 100644
--- a/cmd/mavend/topics_test.go
+++ b/cmd/mavend/topics_test.go
@@ -124,6 +124,14 @@ func TestONNXTopics(t *testing.T) {
 		{"как устроен телефон внутри", topicOther, isNetworkQuery},
 		// The control: a real scan is still a scan.
 		{"какие устройства подключены к вайфаю", topicNetwork, isNetworkQuery},
+		// Questions about her (Vikunja #555), held out from selfSeeds.
+		{"а что ты вообще умеешь делать", topicSelf, selfFloor},
+		{"какие у тебя навыки", topicSelf, selfFloor},
+		{"расскажи мне о себе", topicSelf, selfFloor},
+		{"what are you able to do", topicSelf, selfFloor},
+		// The control: an attention question is about the state of his things,
+		// and it is the neighbour these seeds could have taken.
+		{"что требует внимания у меня в сервисах", topicAttend, isAttentionQuery},
 	}
 
 	h := &reactiveHandler{recall: recallWiring{embedder: emb}}