Verification, as the task asked. Drove что такое фотосинтез through
/api/chat with the search reachable, with the container stopped, and with
the host blackholed. Kiwix claims the turn in both failure cases, and a
stopped container costs nothing: DNS fails and the ZIM answers inside the
same second.
The blackhole is the case that hurts. The search waited its full 8-second
budget before the ZIM was asked and the turn took 15.4s against 3.5, which
he sits through with nothing being said. So the connect phase alone is now
capped at 1.5s. A reachable instance that is merely slow keeps the whole
budget, because it is fanning out to real engines.
The RU Wikipedia ZIM is on the box (owner moved it into the kiwix zims
dir), and kiwix-serve picked it up. A Cyrillic question now searches
book_ru verbatim and skips the RU->EN rewrite: that rewriter is the
workaround for an English book, and against a Russian one it is a
translation of his own words back at him. Catalog names come from the
filename, not the <name> field — books.name=wikipedia_ru_all returns
nothing.
Measurement in docs/evals/2026-08-05-kiwix-offline-fallback.md. The RU book
answering a driven turn needs a rebuild and is not verified yet.
Two things that were each half-done.
The prompts handed the model copyable examples. chatSystemPrompt lost its
openers this morning and the "Я подумала, что" tic went with them, but "не
забыл ли я" appeared in its place: the removed example had been suppressing
the masculine self-reference by accident. Two predicatives are not enough
signal, so the rule is now stated as morphology (-ла) rather than as a pair of
words — a suffix rule generalises where an example only gets copied.
querySystemPrompt had the same defect and gets the same treatment; its "вот что
я нашла: " opener is deliberate and stays.
internal/kiwix had no caller. actions_query.go said "once internal/kiwix is
wired into this chain" and that never happened. It is wired now, between the
notes pass and the web source: everything of his answers first, and only what
is left over is looked up. Off unless a `kiwix` block names a server and a book.
Reading the search snippet does not work. Kiwix builds it from wherever the
keyword matched, which on Wikipedia is the navigation box at the foot of the
page — the first version of this answered "что такое фотосинтез?" by reciting
"Ecological economics Ecological footprint Ecological forecasting …". Client
grows an Article method; the head of the article is the lead paragraph, which
is the definition the snippet was meant to be. Verified on the box: the same
question now answers correctly off the ZIM.
Only the rewritten query leaves the process. A test asserts it: a turn carrying
a stored note must not put that note in the search string.
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