Normalize every intake path into one event envelope (#283)

Things arrive at Maven from eight directions — a relayed Android
notification on POST /api/ambient, mail candidates from mavmaild, RSS
items, changed pages from the crawler, zenmoney and wg reads from
mavpoll, CalDAV events, presence probes, meeting transcripts and image
descriptions. Each grew its own shape and its own log line, and nothing
could answer "what came in today, from where".

internal/event is that answer: a flat source-agnostic envelope (Source,
Kind, EntityIDs, Title, Body, Priority, OccurredAt, Payload) plus a
bounded in-memory journal. Both are pure — Publish and Normalize take
`now` as a parameter, so no clock read sits on a path a replay would
drive.

Adopting it did not touch eight callers, because every intake path
already converges on three ipc.CoreAPI methods: WriteFact, WriteNote and
CaptureTask. cmd/mavend/intake.go decorates that ONE interface, so
mavweb, mavcaldav, mavpoll, mavmaild and the in-core feed/crawl/capture/
vision workers publish envelopes without knowing events exist. The lone
exception is cmd/mavend/mail.go, which captures through the store
directly and now publishes explicitly.

Nothing dispatches on an event. It is a report that something arrived,
never an instruction to speak — "a feed item appeared" becoming a
notification is the nag this repo refuses. Digestion may read the
journal later; it will still go through internal/loop's rules and the
severity/presence routing table.

Read surface: ipc.MethodRecentEvents (AuthRead, daemon-cached like
TickTrace — a bare store cannot serve a ring) and a read-only /events
page in mavweb.

Production is unchanged when nobody is watching: a nil *event.Bus makes
Publish a no-op and newIntakeAPI returns the wrapped API untouched, so
config.intake_journal < 0 leaves no decorator on the call path at all.
The default is 512 entries; the "off unless configured" rule is for
capabilities that reach out, and a bounded in-memory log of writes core
already performed reaches nowhere.

Verified: make build, make test (go test -race) both clean. New tests
cover the envelope and ring (internal/event, 95.7%), the decorator's
invariants — a failed write publishes nothing, a deduped capture
publishes nothing, OccurredAt is the fact's Ts and not notice time — and
the /events page including escaping of feed-supplied titles.

internal/ipc/api.go

@@ -660,6 +660,31 @@ type CoreAPI interface {
 	// (router → dialogue → action → replier) and returns the reply text.
 	// No audio or stt/tts — for text channels (mavweb, telegram).
 	Chat(ctx context.Context, text string) (string, error)
+
+	// RecentEvents returns the daemon's unified intake journal, newest first
+	// (Vikunja #283) — one envelope per thing that arrived, whatever direction
+	// it came from: a relayed notification, a mail candidate, a feed item, a
+	// changed page, a spend, a presence probe.
+	//
+	// Read-only and daemon-cached, the same shape as TickTrace and DayPlan:
+	// the store adapter returns an error, because the journal is a bounded
+	// in-memory ring and not a table. Its contents are a window over intake,
+	// never the durable record — that is still the fact, note or task the
+	// intake path wrote.
+	RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]IntakeEvent, error)
+}
+
+// IntakeEvent — one entry of the unified intake journal on the wire. Mirrors
+// event.Event field for field; the ipc package does not import internal/event
+// so the wire shape stays independent of the in-process type.
+type IntakeEvent struct {
+	Source     string    `json:"source"`
+	Kind       string    `json:"kind"`
+	EntityIDs  []string  `json:"entity_ids,omitempty"`
+	Title      string    `json:"title"`
+	Body       string    `json:"body,omitempty"`
+	Priority   string    `json:"priority"`
+	OccurredAt time.Time `json:"occurred_at"`
 }
 
 // --- Rule trace / explanation DTOs ---

internal/ipc/client.go

@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@ var readOnlyMethods = map[Method]bool{
 	MethodMorningStatus:        true,
 	MethodMCPServers:           true,
 	MethodDayPlan:              true,
+	MethodRecentEvents:         true,
 }
 
 // Dial connects to a core socket at path and returns a Client. The module
@@ -593,6 +594,14 @@ func (c *Client) TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (TickTrace, error) {
 	return t, nil
 }
 
+func (c *Client) RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]IntakeEvent, error) {
+	var e []IntakeEvent
+	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodRecentEvents, nReq{N: n}, &e); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return e, nil
+}
+
 func (c *Client) MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]MCPServerStatus, error) {
 	var s []MCPServerStatus
 	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodMCPServers, nil, &s); err != nil {

internal/ipc/server.go

@@ -211,6 +211,12 @@ func (a *storeAPI) MorningStatus(ctx context.Context) ([]MorningRoutineStatus, e
 	return nil, errors.New("store: morning status not available via direct store API")
 }
 
+// RecentEvents — same shape as TickTrace: the intake journal is a bounded ring
+// in the daemon's memory, not a table, so a bare store cannot serve it.
+func (a *storeAPI) RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]IntakeEvent, error) {
+	return nil, errors.New("store: intake events not available via direct store API")
+}
+
 func (a *storeAPI) MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]MCPServerStatus, error) {
 	return nil, nil // no manager behind a bare store: nothing configured
 }
@@ -884,6 +890,16 @@ var methodTable = map[Method]handlerFunc{
 	MethodMorningStatus: withoutParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI) ([]MorningRoutineStatus, error) {
 		return api.MorningStatus(ctx)
 	}),
+	MethodRecentEvents: withParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI, p nReq) ([]IntakeEvent, error) {
+		out, err := api.RecentEvents(ctx, p.N)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if out == nil {
+			out = []IntakeEvent{}
+		}
+		return out, nil
+	}),
 	MethodMCPServers: withoutParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI) ([]MCPServerStatus, error) {
 		out, err := api.MCPServers(ctx)
 		if err != nil {

internal/ipc/unimplemented.go

@@ -122,6 +122,9 @@ func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (TickTrace, error) {
 func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) MorningStatus(ctx context.Context) ([]MorningRoutineStatus, error) {
 	return nil, ErrNotImplemented
 }
+func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]IntakeEvent, error) {
+	return nil, ErrNotImplemented
+}
 func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]MCPServerStatus, error) {
 	return nil, ErrNotImplemented
 }

internal/ipc/wire.go

@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ const (
 	MethodEnrollSpeaker          Method = "enroll_speaker"
 	MethodListSpeakers           Method = "list_speakers"
 	MethodForgetSpeaker          Method = "forget_speaker"
+	MethodRecentEvents           Method = "recent_events"
 )
 
 // Request — one frame from module to core. Params is the JSON-encoded argument