mavgpud: turn gemma's thinking off in the chat template (V-489)

Owner's call, 02-08-2026. Without it the 12B spends the reply budget on
reasoning tokens and answers empty at low max_tokens. Verified on the box:
"Столица Франции?" now answers "Париж" with no reasoning_content.

.claude/prose-dictionary.yaml

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+# Maven project dictionary for the direct-prose skill.
+#
+# These terms override every word preference in the skill's word-choice tables.
+# Each entry exists because the name drifted in real docs or real answers, not
+# because the word looked improvable.
+#
+# Format and the rule for adding a term: ~/.claude/skills/direct-prose/references/modes.md
+
+terms:
+  resident_model:
+    name: resident model
+    meaning: the one always-warm Qwen3-1.7B llama-server that both routes and phrases
+    avoid:
+      - the model
+      - the LLM
+      - the 1.7B
+      - the phraser model
+    examples:
+      good: The resident model emits GBNF-constrained JSON.
+      bad: The 1.7B emits GBNF-constrained JSON.
+
+  router:
+    name: router
+    meaning: the stage that turns an utterance into a Decision with one of 7 intents
+    avoid:
+      - orchestrator
+      - intent classifier
+      - dispatcher
+
+  classifier:
+    name: classifier
+    meaning: the embedder nearest-neighbour path that runs when the router is off or errors
+    avoid:
+      - the fallback
+      - the floor
+      - the old router
+    examples:
+      good: A router error falls through to the classifier.
+      bad: A router error falls through to the floor.
+
+  cascade:
+    name: cascade
+    meaning: the ordered path stage 0, then router, then classifier
+    avoid:
+      - the pipeline
+      - the chain
+      - the fallback chain
+
+  stage_0:
+    name: stage 0
+    meaning: the deterministic rules that answer before the resident model is called
+    avoid:
+      - the fast path
+      - bypass
+      - deterministic assist
+      - preemption
+    examples:
+      good: Stage 0 routes agenda questions to IntentQuery.
+      bad: The bypass routes agenda questions to IntentQuery.
+
+  query_source:
+    name: query source
+    meaning: one entry in querySources, which either claims a turn or passes
+    avoid:
+      - arm
+      - handler
+      - branch
+      - answerer
+    examples:
+      good: Kiwix is the last query source before the model answers from memory.
+      bad: Kiwix is the last arm before the model answers from memory.
+
+  personal_boundary:
+    name: personal boundary
+    meaning: the query source that stops a question about him from reaching the world
+    avoid:
+      - the boundary
+      - the privacy gate
+      - the personal filter
+
+  clarify:
+    name: clarify
+    meaning: the turn outcome where Maven asks instead of acting
+    avoid:
+      - refusal
+      - rejection
+      - punt
+    examples:
+      good: The gate produced two false clarifies.
+      bad: The gate produced two false refusals.
+
+  fact:
+    name: fact
+    meaning: a keyed, supersedable row in the fact store
+    avoid:
+      - memory entry
+      - datum
+      - record
+
+  note:
+    name: note
+    meaning: free text he captured, indexed for recall
+    avoid:
+      - memo
+      - entry
+
+  memory:
+    name: memory
+    meaning: the embedded index over notes and facts that backs recall
+    avoid:
+      - RAG store
+      - vector db
+      - long-term memory
+
+  nudge:
+    name: nudge
+    meaning: one proactive message the digestion worker proposes and the dispatcher sends
+    avoid:
+      - suggestion
+      - proposal
+      - proactive prompt
+      - reminder
+    examples:
+      good: A fact can close the nudge that asked for it.
+      bad: A fact can close the suggestion that asked for it.
+
+  digestion_worker:
+    name: digestion worker
+    meaning: the background engine that consolidates memory and proposes nudges
+    avoid:
+      - digestion tick
+      - background engine
+      - reflection loop
+
+  reach:
+    name: reach
+    meaning: an outbound channel Maven speaks through, such as telegram, ntfy or voice
+    avoid:
+      - sink
+      - delivery channel
+      - notification backend
+
+  ecosystem:
+    name: ecosystem
+    meaning: Nexus, Praxis and Hexis together
+    avoid:
+      - the services
+      - the integrations
+      - upstream
+
+  act:
+    name: act
+    meaning: the intent that runs a capability through Hexis
+    avoid:
+      - action
+      - command
+      - execution
+    examples:
+      good: An act with no allowlisted fn is gated to a clarify.
+      bad: An action with no allowlisted fn is gated to a clarify.

.claude/settings.json

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+{
+  "hooks": {
+    "SessionStart": [
+      {
+        "hooks": [
+          {
+            "type": "command",
+            "command": "f=.claude/prose-dictionary.yaml; [ -f \"$f\" ] && jq -Rs '{hookSpecificOutput:{hookEventName:\"SessionStart\",additionalContext:(\"Project prose dictionary. These terms override every word preference in the direct-prose output style. Use the name, never the avoid list.\\n\\n\"+.)}}' \"$f\" 2>/dev/null || true",
+            "statusMessage": "Loading prose dictionary"
+          },
+          {
+            "type": "command",
+            "command": "f=HANDOFF.md; [ -f \"$f\" ] && jq -Rs '{hookSpecificOutput:{hookEventName:\"SessionStart\",additionalContext:(\"An unconsumed HANDOFF.md is present. Run the pickup skill before anything else: read it, read the Vikunja task it names, restate the assumption set in at most five bullets, and wait for the user to confirm before writing code. It is a claim from the previous session, not truth. Delete it once consumed.\\n\\n\"+.)}}' \"$f\" 2>/dev/null || true",
+            "statusMessage": "Loading handoff"
+          }
+        ]
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+}

.claude/skills/pickup/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: pickup
+description: Start a work session on a Maven task. Runs task start, reads the brief and the disposable handoff, restates the assumption set, and waits for correction before touching code. Use at the start of any session that continues earlier work, when the user says "pickup", "continue", "resume", or names a Vikunja task id.
+---
+
+# Pickup
+
+The point of this skill is the pause in step 5. Every wasted session in this repo
+started with an agent that inferred the goal instead of stating it back.
+
+## 0. Get on the branch
+
+```sh
+task start <vikunja-id>
+```
+
+`~/.local/bin/task` owns the branch, the identity and the PR. It cuts
+`task/<id>-<slug>` off `origin/master` and sets the commit author to the `claude`
+gitea user. It writes `TASK.md` from the Vikunja task, and pulls any waiting
+review comments into `.task/review-comments.md`. Do not hand-roll any of that.
+
+`TASK.md` is the brief and it is immutable. If it says a PR already exists, this
+is a review-fix session and not new work. Read the comments first.
+
+## 1. Read the handoff
+
+`HANDOFF.md` at the repo root, if it exists. It is gitignored, it belongs to one
+session, and it holds only what is needed to resume. Treat it as a claim from the
+previous agent, not as truth. It can be stale or wrong.
+
+If there is no handoff, that is normal. It means the last session closed clean.
+
+## 2. Read the durable state
+
+In this order, and stop as soon as you have enough:
+
+- The Vikunja task, by id. Project Maven is ID 2, MCP at `http://localhost:9100/mcp`.
+  The task description and its comments hold the goal, the constraints, and the
+  assumption ledger. This outranks the handoff on every conflict.
+- `CLAUDE.md`, the section that covers the area you are about to touch.
+- The one file under `docs/` that owns the area. Check its `Last verified` line.
+  If the sha is behind the code you are reading, say so in step 4 and trust the code.
+
+Do not read the dated files under `docs/evals/`. They are measurements from one day,
+never updated. Read one only when you need the number it recorded.
+
+If no task id is known, ask for one before doing anything else. Work without a task
+is work nobody can resume.
+
+## 3. Look at the ground
+
+`git status`, `git log --oneline -5`, and the diff on the current branch. What the
+repo says beats what any document says.
+
+## 4. Restate, then stop
+
+Write at most five bullets and stop. Do not write code, do not open files to "check
+one thing first", do not start with a small safe change.
+
+```
+Task:        V-359, one line.
+Done:        what is already on the branch.
+Next:        the one thing this session does.
+Constraints: what would make this wrong.
+Assuming:    the beliefs that, if false, waste the session.
+```
+
+Then ask: is this right? Wait for the answer.
+
+A corrected assumption goes into the Vikunja task as a comment, not into the handoff.
+The handoff dies tonight. The task does not.
+
+## 5. Then begin
+
+- Delete `HANDOFF.md`. It has been consumed and must not outlive this step.
+- On master, cut the branch: `scripts/task-branch.sh <id> <slug>`.
+- One task per session. When context passes roughly half, run `/wrap` rather than
+  pushing on. A compacted session is a session that forgot why it made a choice.

.claude/skills/wrap/SKILL.md

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+---
+name: wrap
+description: Close a Maven work session cleanly. Runs the tests, updates the durable docs, commits in reviewable slices with the Vikunja ref, pushes so the PR opens, records state in Vikunja, and leaves a disposable handoff only if work remains. Use when the user says "wrap", "wrap up", "done for now", or when context passes roughly half.
+---
+
+# Wrap
+
+Run every step. A partial wrap is worse than none, because the next session trusts
+the parts that did run.
+
+## 1. Prove it works
+
+`make test`. If something fails, fix it or say plainly in the handoff and in Vikunja
+that it fails, with the output. Never wrap on an untested claim.
+
+## 2. Update the durable docs
+
+Ask what a future agent would have to learn the hard way, and write that down.
+
+- `CLAUDE.md` when a fact an agent needs before touching code has changed: routing
+  behaviour, a measured number, a flag default, a constraint. A commit that changed
+  routing or phrasing without touching the matching CLAUDE.md section is a bug.
+  Correct stale text in place. Do not append a new paragraph next to the wrong one.
+- `AGENTS.md` when the recipe to build, run or preview changed.
+- The one file under `docs/` that owns the area, plus its `Last verified: <date> @ <sha>`
+  line. Only a doc directly under `docs/` carries that line.
+- A new dated file under `docs/evals/` when you measured something. Never edit an
+  existing dated file. A newer measurement is a new file, and the living doc points
+  at it.
+
+Nothing that must survive tonight goes anywhere else. Not into the handoff, not into
+a commit message, not into a comment in the code.
+
+## 3. Commit in slices
+
+Under 300 changed lines per commit in non-markdown files, enforced by `.githooks/pre-commit`.
+Markdown is exempt and may land as one batch.
+
+Each commit is one idea, subject in the repo's voice, lowercase area prefix, and it
+ends with the Vikunja ref:
+
+```
+router: narrow the single-token rule (V-359)
+```
+
+If a change genuinely cannot split under 300 lines, say why in the commit body before
+reaching for `--no-verify`.
+
+## 4. Land it
+
+```sh
+task pr
+```
+
+It refuses a dirty tree, pushes, opens or refreshes the PR against the repo default
+branch, labels the Vikunja task in-review, comments the PR url on it, and pushes an
+ntfy. Do not push by hand and do not call `tea` yourself.
+
+## 5. Record what `task pr` cannot know
+
+Comment on the Vikunja task: what you measured, what is still open. List every
+assumption that turned out to be wrong. If the session found new work, create a task
+for it now rather than describing it in prose.
+
+This step is what makes the handoff disposable.
+
+## 6. Leave the handoff, or leave none
+
+If the task is finished, delete `HANDOFF.md` and stop. An empty root is the correct
+end state.
+
+If work remains, write `HANDOFF.md` with nothing but what the next agent needs to
+resume, and no history:
+
+```markdown
+# Handoff — <date>
+
+Task: V-359 <one line>
+Branch: task/359-<slug>, cut from master
+
+## Where I stopped
+<two sentences, mid-thought detail that is nowhere else>
+
+## Next action
+<the single concrete next step>
+
+## Do not
+<the trap I nearly fell into, or the approach already ruled out>
+```
+
+Nothing else goes in it. No summary of what landed, that is in git and Vikunja. No
+design rationale, that is in `docs/`. No fact an agent needs on any task, that is in
+`CLAUDE.md`. If a line in the handoff would still matter next week, it is in the wrong
+file.

.githooks/commit-msg

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+#!/bin/sh
+# Every commit names the Vikunja task it belongs to.
+#
+#   router: narrow the single-token rule (V-359)
+#
+# V- and not #, because Gitea autolinks #359 to a Gitea issue, which is a
+# different tracker and a wrong link.
+#
+# Exempt: merges, reverts, fixup/squash, and the initial commit.
+
+msg_file=$1
+subject=$(sed -n '1p' "$msg_file")
+
+case "$subject" in
+	Merge\ *|Revert\ *|fixup!\ *|squash!\ *|amend!\ *) exit 0 ;;
+esac
+
+if [ -f "$(git rev-parse --git-dir)/MERGE_HEAD" ]; then
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+if printf '%s' "$subject" | grep -qE '\(V-[0-9]+\)$'; then
+	exit 0
+fi
+
+echo "commit-msg: subject must end with a Vikunja task ref." >&2
+echo "  got:  $subject" >&2
+echo "  want: router: narrow the single-token rule (V-359)" >&2
+echo "  No task yet? Create one. Work without a task is work nobody can resume." >&2
+exit 1

.githooks/pre-commit

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+#!/bin/sh
+# Two guards, both bypassable with --no-verify when you mean it.
+#   1. master is not a working branch.
+#   2. a code commit stays under 300 changed lines.
+# Markdown is exempt from the size cap on purpose: docs land as one batch.
+
+branch=$(git symbolic-ref --short HEAD 2>/dev/null)
+
+case "$branch" in
+	master|main)
+		echo "pre-commit: refusing to commit on $branch." >&2
+		echo "  task start <vikunja-id>   # branch off origin/master, write TASK.md" >&2
+		exit 1
+		;;
+esac
+
+# Added + deleted lines across staged files that are not markdown.
+# numstat prints "-\t-\t<path>" for binaries; those count 0 and that is fine,
+# a binary blob is not the kind of diff this cap exists to stop.
+loc=$(git diff --cached --numstat -- . ':(exclude)*.md' |
+	awk '$1 ~ /^[0-9]+$/ { a += $1 } $2 ~ /^[0-9]+$/ { d += $2 } END { print a + d + 0 }')
+
+if [ "$loc" -gt 300 ]; then
+	echo "pre-commit: $loc changed lines in non-markdown files, cap is 300." >&2
+	echo "  Split it. Each commit should be one reviewable idea." >&2
+	echo "  git reset <path> to unstage, or --no-verify if this genuinely cannot split." >&2
+	exit 1
+fi
+
+exit 0

.gitignore

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 /mavwaked
 /mavmaild
 /mavupdate
+/mavgpud
 
 # Certs (private keys, don't commit)
 certs/
@@ -40,6 +41,9 @@ deploy/telegram.env
 deploy/zenmoney.token
 # IMAP password, read by mavmaild (never in argv, never committed)
 deploy/imap.password
+# Compose interpolation secrets — MAVEN_AMBIENT_TOKEN today. docker compose
+# reads this file itself; it is not an env_file on any service.
+/.env
 
 # Temp files
 /tmp/
@@ -50,7 +54,19 @@ opencode.json
 # Test coverage output
 coverage.out
 
-# Agent worktrees and local agent state
-.claude/
+# Agent worktrees and local agent state. The workflow itself is tracked: the
+# hooks, the skills and the prose dictionary are how a session behaves, so they
+# get reviewed like code. Everything else under .claude/ is scratch.
+/.claude/*
+!/.claude/settings.json
+!/.claude/prose-dictionary.yaml
+!/.claude/skills/
+
+# The disposable handoff. One session, then deleted. Never committed:
+# anything worth keeping belongs in Vikunja, CLAUDE.md or docs/.
+/HANDOFF.md
 /models/stt
 /models/tts
+
+# root .env — MAVEN_AMBIENT_TOKEN and friends, same class as deploy/telegram.env
+.env

20-07-2026-BACKLOG.md

@@ -1,396 +0,0 @@
-beyond the model and tts work, the useful additions are mostly around **reliability, context, and reach**, not more intelligence.
-
-## highest-value additions
-
-### 1. unified event intake
-
-maven should receive normalized events from:
-
-* praxis
-* calendar
-* telegram
-* local notifications
-* system/service health
-* manual checklists
-* eventually email bridges
-
-one internal envelope:
-
-```go
-type Event struct {
-    Source     string
-    Kind       string
-    EntityIDs  []string
-    Title      string
-    Body       string
-    Priority   string
-    OccurredAt time.Time
-    Payload    json.RawMessage
-}
-```
-
-this gives digestion one stable input instead of source-specific logic.
-
----
-
-### 2. explicit morning routine engine — **core engine done (2026-07-20)**
-
-`internal/morning` — pure checklist engine, mirrors `internal/loop`/
-`internal/routine`'s no-I/O contract. `Evaluate(routine, facts, now)` answers
-"what's still missing" any time (order-independent — checks facts, not
-sequence); `Due(routines, facts, last, now)` fires the once-per-day nag only
-at `NudgeAt` (defaults to window end) and only when something's unevidenced,
-with a `last`-map dedupe identical in shape to `routine.Due`'s cold-start/
-last-fire tracking. Evidence is just a fact timestamped inside today's
-window — manual (voice-tapped) and inferred (another daemon writing the same
-key) are indistinguishable, satisfying the manual/inferred requirement for
-free. Weekday/weekend variants are two `Routine`s with different `Weekdays`
-sets under different names. Wired into `config.MorningRoutineConfig` +
-`cmd/mavend/tick.go`'s `fireMorningRoutines` (reads only the fact keys the
-configured items reference, dispatches through the normal severity/presence
-routing table, body is literal joined item labels — not LLM-phrased, same
-no-hallucination rationale as cron routines). 13 unit tests in
-`internal/morning/morning_test.go`.
-
-Added since (2026-07-20, same day): a read-only `/morning` page in mavweb —
-`ipc.CoreAPI.MorningStatus` (new wire method, mirrors `TickTrace`'s
-daemon-cache-only shape: the store adapter errors, `daemonAPI` serves it from
-a `tickLoop.morningStatus` closure) returns each routine's active/window/
-per-item done state, server-rendered same as `/trace` (no live-update loop —
-checklist state moves on minutes, not seconds).
-
-Not yet done: no config wired in `deploy/mavend.json` (no morning routines
-configured on homesrv yet — add items there when the medicine/water/pets
-fact keys the phone/desktop write are settled), no voice query path for
-"what did I miss this morning" (Evaluate supports it; nothing calls it yet),
-no way to create/edit routines from the web UI — construction still means
-hand-editing config, deliberately deferred: routines are operator-declared
-config (like cron routines), and a CRUD editor would mean moving them to a
-DB table + hot-reload, a bigger change than this pass.
-
-not ordinary reminders.
-
-support:
-
-* required morning items
-* order-independent completion
-* soft time windows
-* skipped-step detection
-* one nudge, not repeated spam
-* manual and inferred completion evidence
-* weekend/weekday variants
-
-example:
-
-```text
-08:00–11:00
-- medicine
-- water
-- pets
-- check praxis attention
-```
-
-maven should know what is still missing, not merely fire four timers.
-
----
-
-### 3. cross-device presence
-
-**status (2026-07-20):** the hysteresis engine and 3 of the listed signals are
-already built and wired live: `internal/store/presence.go` (noisy-OR combiner
-+ Schmitt-trigger bucket resolve), fed by `desk_active` (workstation, via
-`scripts/desk-active.sh` posting to `/api/signal`), `page_heartbeat` (mavweb
-tab, `app.js`), and `wg_handshake` (`mavpoll` polling `wg show`) — threaded
-into the tick loop via `internal/loop/gather.go`. Not done: phone-reachable,
-homesrv-available, audio-output, and active-maven-client signals from the
-list below are still missing.
-
-a small presence daemon on each trusted device:
-
-* workstation active/idle
-* phone reachable
-* homesrv available
-* last keyboard/mouse activity
-* wireguard presence
-* current audio output
-* active maven client
-
-mavend receives only compact state, not raw activity logs.
-
-useful for:
-
-* choosing delivery channel
-* suppressing voice while away
-* surfacing reminders when you return
-* knowing whether an agent result should be spoken or sent as text
-
----
-
-### 4. interruption policy — **done (2026-07-20), turned out to already be built**
-
-audited the existing code before writing anything new: `internal/loop.Gate`
-already answers deliver_now vs. drop (quiet-hours/cooldown/snooze/presence/
-calendar-busy), and `cmd/mavend/tick.go`'s `digestQ` + `config.DigestConfig`
-already implement queue/digest (low-severity nudges batch into one
-notification, flushed on window elapsed or max-items reached). The four
-outcomes below were already covered by these two mechanisms; nothing new to
-build for the core policy.
-
-Gap that *was* real: `deploy/mavend.json` had no `digest` block, so batching
-was disabled in prod despite being fully implemented. Fixed — see the config
-change alongside this note.
-
-before delivering anything, evaluate:
-
-```text
-urgency
-current activity
-quiet hours
-recent nudges
-available channels
-whether already surfaced
-```
-
-result:
-
-```text
-deliver_now
-queue
-digest
-drop
-```
-
-this prevents maven from becoming annoying once praxis and other sources start producing more data.
-
----
-
-### 5. entity-aware memory — **done (2026-07-20)**
-
-`03fa52d`/`9876187` (Vikunja #279): facts gain `Subject`/`EntityID`/
-`ResolutionState`; an async enrichment worker resolves free-text subjects to
-canonical Nexus entity_ids (mirrors Praxis's enrichment pattern). Ambiguous
-or unreachable Nexus never guesses — the fact stays `pending` or terminal
-`ambiguous`. Voice-tapped facts (`IntentFact`) now flow into the enrichment
-queue automatically via an optional `Subject` field on `WriteFactReq` (old
-callers unaffected).
-
-Landed alongside this in the same session (not originally on this list, but
-closes the plumbing gaps the last brief flagged for Nexus/Praxis maturity):
-a typed Praxis lifecycle client (`398997f` — surface/acknowledge/resolve/
-ignore/pin; fixes the surfaced≠acknowledged gap where reading an item aloud
-left no trace), correlation-ID/version headers on the Nexus/Praxis clients
-(`b743860`), entity-scoped Praxis attention queries (`0579ef9`), a durable
-delivery outbox with begin-before-send/complete-after semantics
-(`29f23e3`+`9ff726e` — closes a duplicate-send-on-crash bug), fail-closed
-handling on ambiguous IPC mutation outcomes and Nexus/Hexis dependency
-errors (`838fde1`+`d9fa4d6`), and a reusable fake-ecosystem test harness
-with fault injection (`c932cd8`).
-
-connect maven memory to nexus ids.
-
-instead of:
-
-```text
-key = "кошачий фонтан"
-```
-
-store:
-
-```text
-entity_id = ent_pet_water_fountain
-predicate = refilled_at
-value = 2026-07-19T...
-```
-
-benefits:
-
-* stable russian/english aliases
-* fewer duplicate facts
-* better “when did i last…” queries
-* easier routine detection
-* cleaner praxis correlation
-
----
-
-### 6. bounded follow-up state
-
-for short continuations:
-
-* “yes”
-* “tomorrow”
-* “the second one”
-* “not that project”
-* “do it later”
-
-store explicit pending state instead of relying on chat history:
-
-```go
-type PendingInteraction struct {
-    Kind       string
-    Candidates []string
-    Args       json.RawMessage
-    ExpiresAt  time.Time
-}
-```
-
-this matters a lot for a 1.7b model.
-
----
-
-### 7. evaluation lab — **skipped for now (2026-07-20)**
-
-runs on a different machine (GPU box), and CPT is currently in progress
-there — deprioritized until the training pipeline has a checkpoint to gate.
-Not abandoned, just off the immediate list.
-
-before every new checkpoint or lora deploy:
-
-* routing accuracy
-* slot accuracy
-* malformed json rate
-* russian/english mixed input
-* ambiguous entity handling
-* reminder vs note vs fact
-* direct answer vs tool call
-* confirmation safety
-* phrasing quality
-* latency and ram
-
-also replay real anonymized traces against old and new checkpoints.
-
-this should be a hard deployment gate.
-
----
-
-### 8. replayable full-system simulator
-
-fake:
-
-* clock
-* presence
-* caldav
-* telegram
-* praxis
-* nexus
-* hexis
-* stt
-* tts
-* llama-server
-
-scenario:
-
-```text
-08:30 user appears
-08:35 medicine not completed
-08:40 correx agent waits
-08:45 calendar sync stale
-08:50 user says “what did i miss?”
-```
-
-assert:
-
-* what tools were called
-* what was surfaced
-* what stayed unresolved
-* what maven said
-* what was not executed
-
-this will save more time than another feature daemon.
-
----
-
-## useful second-wave additions
-
-### voice session quality
-
-* barge-in
-* interrupt tts on wake word
-* partial stt display
-* confidence-aware clarification
-* retry only failed stt segment
-* per-room microphone profiles
-* noise-floor calibration
-* short response mode when speaking
-
-### notification bridge framework
-
-small adapters for:
-
-* ntfy
-* telegram
-* matrix
-* web push
-* android notification forwarding
-* local dbus notifications
-
-normalize into maven/praxis events instead of treating each as a separate feature.
-
-### local knowledge ingestion
-
-* markdown/docs ingestion
-* git repo summaries
-* project decision records
-* conversation exports
-* provenance and source links
-* incremental reindexing
-
-keep this read-only and separate from personal fact memory.
-
-### service self-diagnostics
-
-`maven doctor`:
-
-* socket reachability
-* model health
-* stt/tts readiness
-* embedder availability
-* caldav freshness
-* telegram poll state
-* praxis/nexus/hexis reachability
-* db integrity
-* disk usage
-* recent failures
-
-### config and secret management
-
-* schema-validated config
-* config migration
-* secret references instead of inline values
-* dry-run validation
-* redacted config dump
-* per-daemon health config
-* startup dependency report
-
----
-
-## things i would not build yet
-
-* autonomous multi-step planning
-* large external reasoner
-* generic workflow engine
-* self-editing memory
-* automatic hexis actions from praxis
-* emotion simulation beyond phrasing
-* full home-assistant replacement
-* more model layers before routing is stable
-
-## recommended order
-
-**status as of 2026-07-20:**
-
-1. ~~evaluation lab~~ — **skipped, GPU-box work, deprioritized while CPT is in progress**
-2. ~~entity-aware memory~~ — **done** (`03fa52d`/`9876187`, plus adjacent
-   Nexus/Praxis plumbing hardening — see item 5 above)
-3. ~~morning routine engine~~ — **core engine done** (`internal/morning` +
-   `cmd/mavend` wiring — see item 2 above; not yet configured on homesrv,
-   no voice query, no web UI)
-4. interruption/delivery policy
-5. presence agents
-6. unified event intake
-7. full-system simulator
-8. notification bridges
-9. knowledge ingestion
-10. voice-session polish
-
-the main goal should be: **maven reliably knows what is happening, knows what you meant, and chooses the least annoying correct response**. everything else can wait.
-

AGENTS.md

@@ -5,6 +5,46 @@ This repo maps to **Maven** (project ID: 2) in Vikunja.
 Feature work, bugs, deployment tasks all go here.
 MCP endpoint: `http://localhost:9100/mcp` (or `http://192.168.1.104:9100/mcp` from workpc)
 
+## The sibling services (Nexus, Praxis, Hexis)
+
+Maven is the conversational front end of a four-service ecosystem. The other three
+live in sibling repos next to this one.
+
+| Service | Repo | Port | Answers |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| Nexus | `../nexus` | 9740 | who or what is this name |
+| Praxis | `../praxis` | 8989 | what needs attention |
+| Hexis | `../hexis` | 9741 | what can be run, and running it |
+
+Division of labour: Nexus identifies, Praxis observes, Hexis acts, Maven understands
+and coordinates. Maven is not the source of truth for any of the three. The full
+contract is `docs/ecosystem.md`, and the constraints that bite during
+implementation are summarised in `CLAUDE.md`.
+
+Where things are in this repo:
+
+- `cmd/mavend/ecosystem.go` holds `nexusClient` and `praxisClient`. The Hexis client
+  is vendored from `github.com/kami/hexis/pkg/client`.
+- `cmd/mavend/ecosystem_acts.go` routes an act through capability discovery.
+- `cmd/mavend/factenrichment.go` resolves each stored fact's `Subject` against Nexus
+  on a background poll loop, with backoff and no give-up.
+- `internal/store/entityfacts.go` holds the entity-tagged fact rows.
+- Config blocks are `nexus`, `praxis` and `hexis` in `deploy/mavend.json`. Each is
+  optional. Absent means that integration is dark, not broken.
+
+Bring the whole ecosystem up locally:
+
+```sh
+docker compose -f deploy/ecosystem/docker-compose.yml up -d
+```
+
+That builds all three from the sibling working trees, so commit or stash there first.
+Each publishes on loopback at the port above. Maven reaches them by service name on
+the shared compose network.
+
+Testing without them running: `cmd/mavend/fakeecosystem_test.go` provides stubs, and
+`cmd/mavend/ecosystem_degraded_test.go` covers each service being unreachable.
+
 ## Rendering / previewing the web UI locally
 
 To see mavweb pages with real data without touching the production stack:

CLAUDE.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ compose passes `/dev/dri` + the render gid) — the resident model stays ≤1.7B
 **Resident model:** currently **Qwen3-1.7B** (`UD-Q4_K_XL`), stock — not yet the CPT'd one.
 It replaced Qwen3.5-0.8B on 2026-07-31 because it measured better on both fixtures we have:
 67.5% vs 59.7% intent-only on the 77-case RU routing fixture, and 20/27 vs 11-17/27 on the
-talk fixture. See `MODEL-BAKEOFF-31-07-2026.md`. It is a Thinking variant, so `n_ctx` is 4096
+talk fixture. See `docs/evals/2026-07-31-model-bakeoff.md`. It is a Thinking variant, so `n_ctx` is 4096
 — reasoning tokens need the room, and 4096 is what the scores above were measured at.
 
 The **target** is still the locally CPT'd **Qwen3-1.7B** (Vikunja #122, training in flight).
@@ -25,9 +25,17 @@ Spanish. Their strong published IFEval/BFCL numbers are English-only. Model file
 `models/llm/`, so the LFM2.5 gguf sitting there is not loaded by anything. Swapping the resident
 model is a one-line change to `phraser.model_path` in `deploy/mavend.json`.
 
-See `REARCH.md` for the target architecture, `DESIGN.md` for the folded design spec, and
+See `docs/rearchitecture.md` for the target architecture, `docs/design.md` for the folded design spec, and
 `AGENTS.md` for local-preview + model-download recipes.
 
+**Model work is moving to the workstation** (owner's call, 2026-08-02). homesrv cannot grow a
+GPU and the workstation has 16GB of VRAM. So the resident model, STT and TTS become preferred
+remotes with a floor on homesrv. The workstation is never assumed up. Fall back silently when
+it would only do the job better. Name the gap when the 1.7B cannot do it at all. The embedder
+stays on homesrv permanently, because it backs that floor. Read `docs/offload.md` before
+touching a daemon seam or adding a model caller. Vikunja #483 is the umbrella, #484 to #487
+are the work.
+
 ## Build & test
 
 CGO daemons (`mavend`, `mavsttd`, `mavttsd`, `mavenclient`) need the vendored toolchain
@@ -68,13 +76,52 @@ Daemons are wired socket-to-socket, not linked. `internal/ipc` is the client/ser
 protocol; the config in `deploy/mavend.json` (with `${VAR}` env expansion from gitignored
 `deploy/telegram.env`) sets socket paths, model paths, and the phraser/embedder blocks.
 
+## The ecosystem: Nexus, Praxis, Hexis
+
+Maven is one of four services. It owns conversation and personal memory. It does not
+own identity, operational state, or execution. Full contract in
+`docs/ecosystem.md`.
+
+```text
+Nexus identifies.  Praxis observes.  Hexis acts.  Maven understands and coordinates.
+```
+
+| Service | Owns | Maven's client | Configured at |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| **Nexus** | Canonical entity ids, names, aliases, relationships. Projects, services, devices, people, pets, places. | `nexusClient` in `cmd/mavend/ecosystem.go`, `POST /api/v1/resolve` | `nexus.url` (`http://nexus:9740`) |
+| **Praxis** | Operational attention and item lifecycle. What needs looking at, what changed, what is still unresolved. | `praxisClient`, the HTTP tools API under `/api/v1/tools/` | `praxis.url` (`http://praxis:8989`) |
+| **Hexis** | The capability registry and the only path to executing anything. | vendored `github.com/kami/hexis/pkg/client` | `hexis.url` (`http://hexis:9741`) |
+
+All three are `nil` unless configured, and every one of them degrades on its own.
+An outage means a named gap in the answer, never a broken turn and never a guess.
+
+Rules that are not negotiable:
+
+- **No component reads another component's database.** Praxis attention comes over
+  HTTP, never from its SQLite file.
+- **Identity lives in Nexus.** Do not invent a local fact key for something Nexus
+  resolves. `actionFact` already sets `Subject`, and `cmd/mavend/factenrichment.go`
+  resolves it in the background against Nexus.
+- **Free text never reaches a mutating Hexis call.** Resolve to a canonical entity id
+  first. Ambiguous resolution asks the owner, it does not pick.
+- **LLM output is not authorization.** Confirmation binds capability id, target
+  entity, arguments, requester and expiry. See `cmd/mavend/confirm.go`.
+- **Praxis lifecycle words mean different things.** Surfaced is not acknowledged,
+  acknowledged is not resolved, execution success is not recovery. Reading an item
+  aloud calls `Surface`, never `Acknowledge`.
+- **No automatic attention-to-action path.** Digestion may summarise Praxis. It may
+  not call Hexis.
+
+Every cross-service call carries a correlation id minted once per action
+(`withCorrelationID`), a contract version header, and `X-Requested-By: maven`.
+
 ## Routing — read this before touching the router
 
 `internal/router/` has TWO layered engines. **The LLM router is now the default and it is
 on in deploy** — this section used to say it was wired `nil`, which stopped being true on
 2026-07-31.
 
-- **LLM router (the intended design, REARCH.md):** the resident Qwen3-1.7B (`llmrouter.go`)
+- **LLM router (the intended design, docs/rearchitecture.md):** the resident Qwen3-1.7B (`llmrouter.go`)
   emits GBNF-constrained structured JSON, and the SAME model phrases replies. Embedder is
   demoted from a routing gate to a RAG hint. Wired at `voice.go:214` via
   `pickLLMRouter(cfg.Voice.UseLLMRouter(), llmClient)`; the flag is `voice.llm_router`
@@ -88,10 +135,15 @@ on in deploy** — this section used to say it was wired `nil`, which stopped be
 Cascade order: `stage0.go` exact-match fast-path → LLM router (when non-nil) → classifier
 fallback. Any LLM error falls through to the classifier so a turn never breaks on the model.
 
-Measured on the 77-case RU fixture (`MODEL-BAKEOFF-31-07-2026.md`): the classifier scores
-36.8% full accuracy at p50 31ms; Qwen3-1.7B scores 67.5% intent-only / 72.7% through the
-cascade at p50 ≈2.7s. Accuracy roughly doubled, latency is ~90× worse, and that trade was
-accepted deliberately. `Confidence: 1.0` used to be hardcoded in `llmrouter.go`, so the LLM
+Measured on the 77-case RU fixture. **Re-measured 2026-08-02: the classifier scores 68.8%
+full accuracy at p50 16.6µs**, not the 36.8% at p50 31ms that stood here from
+`docs/evals/2026-07-31-model-bakeoff.md`. That older figure predates the stage 0 rules and the
+seed additions, both of which now score inside the classifier baseline. Qwen3-1.7B scores
+77.9% intent-only / 72.7% through the cascade. So the router buys about 4 points of accuracy,
+not a doubling, and the trade is worth re-arguing rather than assuming. **The ≈2.7s figure
+that stood here until 2026-08-02 was contention, not the model.** See `docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md` line 61, which measures the LLM router at
+p50 825ms / p95 1.2s / max 3.0s and the full cascade at p50 0.80-1.04s. Do not plan latency
+work off the bakeoff table. `Confidence: 1.0` used to be hardcoded in `llmrouter.go`, so the LLM
 path could never ask for clarification (6/6 refusal cases missed on the fixture) — Vikunja
 #359. Fixed 31-07-2026 with structural signal (single-token utterance, keyless fact, act with
 no allowlisted fn) feeding the same stage-3 gate the classifier path already had — see
@@ -102,8 +154,25 @@ Re-measured on the fixture after the fix: **missed clarify 6/6 → 1**, at the c
 clarifies and 2.6pt of full accuracy (72.7% → 70.1%, intent-only 67.5% → 74.0%). Two of the
 three false clarifies are acts the model mis-routed and the gate caught — asking beats wrongly
 executing, so the fixture and the daemon disagree about what is correct there. The third,
-`"поужинал"`, is a real defect: **the single-token rule is an English intuition and does not
-transfer to Russian**, where one word is routinely a whole sentence. Narrow or drop it.
+`"поужинал"`, was a real defect: the single-token rule was an English intuition and does not
+transfer to Russian, where one word is routinely a whole sentence.
+
+Narrowed 01-08-2026. `thinSingleToken` (`internal/router/singletoken.go`) still thins a bare
+one-word nominal — "вода", "бэкап" — but spares two classes: a closed lexicon of social and
+control singles ("привет", "спасибо", "стоп", "yes"), and any token carrying a Russian verb
+ending (past tense, 2nd person, reflexive), because a verb already contains its subject. Both
+tests are offline and cost nothing. Re-measured: **false clarifies 3 → 2, intent-only 74.0% →
+75.3%, full accuracy unchanged at 70.1%, missed clarify still 1.** The two remaining false
+clarifies are the act-with-no-allowlisted-fn arm of the gate, not this rule.
+
+Agenda questions taken off the model, 01-08-2026. `AgendaQueryGrammars` (`stage0.go`, wired
+after the clock rules in `buildRouter`) routes "что у меня сегодня", "во сколько у меня
+встреча" and anything naming a calendar to `IntentQuery` at stage 0. They were going to
+`IntentSystem`, where `replySystem` has no agenda arm and answered "пока не умею" — the
+fixture had said `query` since ru-query-019 was written. Measured: **full accuracy 70.1% →
+72.7%, intent-only 75.3% → 77.9%, calendar 0/2 → 2/2**, clarify counts unchanged. Note that
+Go's `\b` is ASCII-only and never fires after a Cyrillic letter; the pattern needs an
+explicit `(\s|[?!.]|$)`.
 
 ## LLM output contract
 
@@ -129,10 +198,16 @@ world questions, so she needs to read external sources. What replaces it:
 
 - **No telemetry, no cloud model, no third-party account.** That part never changes. Nothing
   about Maven is reported to anyone, and inference stays on the box.
-- **Local sources first.** Kiwix ZIMs on homesrv (Wikipedia, ifixit) before anything on the
-  network. Reading beats recalling for a small model, and a local read costs nothing.
+- **His data first, then the world.** Every source that reads his facts, notes, calendar,
+  tasks or house runs before anything outside, and the personal boundary sits between them.
+  Reading beats recalling for a small model.
+- **In the world, live search leads and the ZIMs are the fallback** (owner's call,
+  2026-08-02). A self-hosted SearXNG (`search` block) answers first; the Kiwix ZIMs on
+  homesrv answer when the search is empty, unreachable, or the line is down.
 - **External search is allowed and off unless configured**, like the weather and telegram
-  capabilities.
+  capabilities. The code default is still off. `deploy/mavend.json` now ships a `search`
+  block (owner's call, 2026-08-02), so it is on for this box and deleting the block turns
+  it off again.
 - **His notes and facts are never search input.** Looking up why the sky is blue and sending
   his stored personal notes to an upstream engine are different acts. Only the utterance goes
   out, never the persona block, history, or matched notes.
@@ -148,3 +223,60 @@ data pans on a phone. Local preview + headless screenshot recipe is in `AGENTS.m
 
 This repo is project **Maven** (ID 2) in Vikunja. MCP: `http://localhost:9100/mcp` (or
 `http://192.168.1.104:9100/mcp` from workpc). Feature/bug/deploy tasks go there.
+
+Vikunja is the durable task store. A task holds the goal, the constraints and the
+assumption ledger. Work without a task id is work nobody can resume, so a session that
+has no id asks for one before it starts.
+
+## Session workflow
+
+`~/.local/bin/task` owns the branch, the commit identity and the PR. One task, one
+session, one PR.
+
+```sh
+task start <vikunja-id>   # branch off origin/master, write TASK.md, fetch review comments
+task pr                   # push, open or refresh the PR, label Vikunja, notify
+task comments             # re-pull this branch's review comments into .task/
+```
+
+Around that, `/pickup` opens a session and `/wrap` closes it. Wrap at roughly half
+context rather than letting the session compact.
+
+Five stores, and each one owns something the others must not hold:
+
+| Store | Holds | Lifetime |
+|---|---|---|
+| Vikunja task | goal, constraints, assumption ledger, status | durable |
+| `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md` | what an agent must know before touching code | durable |
+| `docs/` | design, measurements, decisions | durable |
+| `TASK.md` | the brief for this branch, written by `task start`, immutable | one branch |
+| `HANDOFF.md` | only what the next agent needs to resume | one session |
+
+`TASK.md` and `.task/` are excluded through `.git/info/exclude`. `HANDOFF.md` is
+gitignored and injected at session start. If a line in the handoff would still matter
+next week, it is in the wrong file.
+
+Docs are tiered by path, so staleness is visible from the filename. Files directly under
+`docs/` are living and carry a `Last verified: <date> @ <sha>` line. Files under
+`docs/evals/` are dated measurements and are never edited after the day, so a newer
+number is a new file. Files under `docs/archive/` are dead and read by nobody by default.
+
+## Git guards
+
+Two hooks in `.githooks/`, tracked, wired with `core.hooksPath`. Fresh clone:
+
+```sh
+git config core.hooksPath .githooks
+```
+
+- `pre-commit` refuses master, and refuses more than 300 changed lines in non-markdown
+  files. Markdown is exempt and may land as one batch.
+- `commit-msg` requires the subject to end with `(V-<id>)`. `V-` and not `#`, because
+  Gitea autolinks `#123` to a Gitea issue, which is the wrong tracker.
+
+Two more guards live outside the repo, in `~/.claude/hooks/`. `diff-budget.sh` blocks
+further edits past 600 changed lines on a `task/` branch. `prose_lint_hook.py` checks
+prose on every write. Both measure against `origin/master`, so a local master that is
+ahead of the remote makes the diff budget read high.
+
+`--no-verify` exists. Using it means saying why in the commit body.

Makefile

@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ PIPER_BIN     := $(shell pwd)/deps/piper/piper
 PIPER_MODEL   := $(shell pwd)/models/tts/ru_RU-irina-medium.onnx
 PIPER_ESPEAK  := $(shell pwd)/deps/piper/espeak-ng-data
 
-.PHONY: simulate stt-fixtures test-stt-golden all build build-stt build-tts build-daemon build-client build-waked build-web build-poll build-caldav clean test fmt-check vet run-stt run-tts run-web download-embedder deps-go eval-router eval-recall eval-phrasing eval-models
+.PHONY: simulate stt-fixtures test-stt-golden all build build-stt build-tts build-daemon build-client build-waked build-web build-poll build-caldav clean test fmt-check vet run-stt run-tts run-web download-embedder deps-go eval-router eval-recall eval-phrasing eval-models build-gpud
 
 all: build
 
-build: build-stt build-tts build-daemon build-client build-waked build-web build-poll build-caldav build-mail build-update
+build: build-stt build-tts build-daemon build-client build-waked build-web build-poll build-caldav build-mail build-update build-gpud
 
 build-stt:
 	CGO_CFLAGS="$(CGO_CFLAGS)" CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(shell pwd)/deps/lib" \
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ build-mail:
 build-update:
 	$(GO) build $(GOFLAGS) -o mavupdate ./cmd/mavupdate/
 
+# mavgpud runs on the workstation, not here. It is built with the rest so a
+# broken supervisor is caught by `make build` on homesrv rather than by the
+# workstation refusing to serve. Copy the binary over, do not `make deploy` it.
+build-gpud:
+	$(GO) build $(GOFLAGS) -o mavgpud ./cmd/mavgpud/
+
 run-web: build-web
 	./mavweb -addr :9200 -voice 127.0.0.1:9100
 
@@ -78,7 +84,7 @@ deps-go:
 	done
 	$(GO) version
 
-# fmt-check fails if any file needs gofmt. DESIGN.md has always said `make
+# fmt-check fails if any file needs gofmt. docs/design.md has always said `make
 # test` gates on gofmt and vet; it did not, so nine files quietly drifted.
 # Run `gofmt -w` on whatever this prints.
 fmt-check:
@@ -191,7 +197,7 @@ deps-piper:
 # multilingual-e5-small: an asymmetric retrieval model. It is trained to match
 # a short question against a longer passage, which is what note recall is.
 # The quantized file is the one we download, deploy and measure — see
-# RECALL-EVAL-31-07-2026.md.
+# docs/evals/2026-07-31-recall.md.
 EMBEDDER_DIR := $(shell pwd)/models/embedder/multilingual-e5-small
 EMBEDDER_MODEL_URL := https://huggingface.co/Xenova/multilingual-e5-small/resolve/main/onnx/model_quantized.onnx
 EMBEDDER_TOKENIZER_URL := https://huggingface.co/Xenova/multilingual-e5-small/resolve/main/tokenizer.json

PROGRESS.md

@@ -1,468 +0,0 @@
-## Maven — current state (updated 2026-07-20)
-
-### Session 2026-07-20 — ecosystem hardening + entity-aware facts
-
-Ten commits, focused on closing the Nexus/Praxis integration gaps flagged
-as "wired but immature" in the prior review, plus the entity-aware-memory
-backlog item (`20-07-2026-BACKLOG.md` item 5).
-
-- **Entity-aware fact resolution (Vikunja #279)** — facts gain
-  `Subject`/`EntityID`/`ResolutionState`; an async worker resolves
-  free-text subjects to canonical Nexus entity_ids (mirrors Praxis's own
-  enrichment pattern). Ambiguous/unreachable Nexus never guesses — stays
-  `pending` or terminal `ambiguous`. Voice-tapped facts (`IntentFact`) flow
-  into the queue automatically via an optional `Subject` field on
-  `WriteFactReq` (old callers unaffected, no signature break).
-- **Typed Praxis lifecycle client (Vikunja #271)** — `GetItem`/`Search`/
-  `Surface`/`Acknowledge`/`Resolve`/`Ignore`/`Pin`, routed through new RU/EN
-  dialogue verbs. Fixes a real lifecycle-invariant bug: reading an
-  attention item aloud now calls `Surface` — previously the digest path
-  read items without recording that they'd been surfaced, so "Maven
-  mentioned it" was indistinguishable from "never came up."
-- **Durable delivery outbox (Vikunja #270)** — `BeginDeliveryAttempt`
-  before `Send`, `CompleteDeliveryAttempt` after; a stale `pending` row
-  found at startup reconciles to `unknown` (never silently resent or
-  dropped — same rule as Hexis's execution-timeout handling). Closes a
-  crash-window duplicate-send bug. Wired into `DispatchNudge`,
-  `DispatchReminder`, `RepeatUnacked`; reconciliation runs once at boot
-  before the tick loop resumes.
-- **Fail-closed IPC/dependency handling (Vikunja #269, #272/#273)** —
-  ambiguous mutation outcomes (frame sent, reply lost) no longer blindly
-  retry; Nexus/Hexis dependency errors fail closed instead of guessing.
-- **Correlation IDs + version headers (Vikunja #273)** — the hand-rolled
-  Nexus/Praxis HTTP clients now send `X-Nexus-Version`/`X-Praxis-Version`
-  and thread the same correlation ID already generated in
-  `executeCapability` through the whole call chain, matching the Hexis
-  client's existing behavior.
-- **Entity-scoped Praxis attention queries** — callers holding a resolved
-  entity_id can ask "what needs attention for this entity" directly
-  instead of filtering the unscoped list client-side.
-- **Fake-ecosystem test harness with fault injection** — a reusable
-  `fakeServer` (Nexus/Praxis/Hexis fixtures, runtime-toggleable
-  `SetFault`, fake clock) replacing ad-hoc per-test `httptest` servers;
-  covers a gap that had zero test coverage (`handlePraxisAct`) and adds a
-  fault-then-recovery regression test for the fail-closed fixes above.
-- **Ops fix** — `deploy/mavend.json`'s phraser was pointed at a 4B model
-  with `n_gpu_layers=99`, which OOM'd under memory pressure and left a
-  zombie `llama-server` child; swapped to the 2B Qwen model matching the
-  intended resident-model size.
-
-Net effect: the Nexus/Praxis wiring described as "plumbing exists, thin
-compared to Maven's test depth" in the prior review is now materially
-hardened — typed clients, fail-closed error handling, durable delivery,
-and a proper fault-injection test harness are all in place. Evaluation lab
-(`20-07-2026-BACKLOG.md` item 7) is explicitly skipped for now — it runs
-on the GPU box, which is occupied by CPT. Morning routine engine (backlog
-item 3) is next up, not started.
-
----
-
-> **Resolved 2026-07-30 (task #318).** The resident checkpoint is
-> **Qwen3.5-0.8B** (`Q4_K_M`), set in `deploy/mavend.json`; the **target** is
-> the locally CPT'd **Qwen3-1.7B**, still training (#122). Older model claims
-> below — the LFM references, the pipeline line, and the "swapped to the 2B
-> Qwen model" ops entry above — are historical. Read them as a log of what was
-> true at the time, not as current fact. Note also that `/mnt/hdd1/llms` is
-> bind-mounted over `models/llm/`, so the LFM2.5 gguf in the repo tree is
-> never loaded.
-
-Architecture decision (as written on 2026-07-20): the target resident
-router/phraser is the locally trained Qwen3-1.7B model — still the target as
-of 2026-07-30. Older LFM references below describe the then-deployed
-historical stack, not the target checkpoint. RU CPT has a successful
-full-weight checkpoint at step 1000/8077; evaluation and Qwen3 SFT tooling are
-tracked in `docs/plans/2026-07-18-qwen3-resident-training-eval.md`.
-
-Consolidated status. The reactive↔proactive core is closed and testable through
-the web PWA. The former SPEC's open items 1–7 (now `DESIGN.md` § execution ledger) are landed (protocol doc, away-channel
-fallthrough, CalDAV poller, quiet-hours schedule, tools enable/disable, note RAG,
-passkey step-up); item 8 (multi-user) is deliberately deferred — see the tail.
-The two big infra gaps from the jul5 revision are closed on `overnight-jul5`:
-**at-rest encryption** (AES-256-GCM, tmpfs working copy — not sqlcipher, see
-`internal/store/crypt.go`) and **Docker deployment** (one image, six daemon
-containers). The `overnight-jul6` session (now on `master`) closed the biggest
-*query-surface* gaps — **calendar querying, general-knowledge answers, and
-weather** — plus a populated homelab act allowlist and two pure scaffolds
-(dialogue state, long-term-memory vector store). ~15.2k LOC + ~8.5k test, 303
-tests, `-race` in `make test`.
-
-### Access model
-
-- **Phone** → needs the wg tunnel to reach homesrv (no homesrv DNS otherwise;
-  raw IP or a DNS tweak can bypass, not the default).
-- **PC** → uses homesrv DNS, resolves the domains over local-net, **no wg needed**.
-- nginx + ufw both scope to `10.42.0.0/24` (wg) + `192.168.1.0/24` (LAN), deny all else.
-- **Surface in use now: the web PWA (`mavweb`).** Voice PTT + in-app nudges both ride it.
-
-### Works end-to-end (tested)
-
-- **Reactive voice:** PWA record → Whisper STT (`mavsttd`) → ONNX classifier →
-  resident phraser (llama-server subprocess; Qwen3.5-0.8B as of 2026-07-30 —
-  this line historically named "LFM 2.5-1.2B") → Piper TTS
-  (`mavttsd`) → reply.
-  HTTP POST path (mobile-Chrome drops WS for the audio).
-- **Capture:** `fact` (EN **and RU** — root-substring recognizers) + `reminder`
-  persist through CoreAPI (`source=tap:voice`). This is the substrate the care
-  rules read.
-- **Notes / query (semantic recall, sqlite — no chroma):** `note` → embed (the
-  classifier's ONNX embedder) → `notes` table. `query` → embed → brute-force
-  cosine top-k → confidence-gated (below `queryMinScore` 0.55 ⇒ "no note", not a
-  guess). **Note RAG (SPEC item 6):** the gated top-k feed the phraser
-  (`PhraseQuery`) to compose a natural answer ("вот что я нашла: …") instead of
-  a verbatim dump; raw-notes fallback on any LLM error. Stub is deterministic.
-- **Monitoring (`/dash`):** mavweb server-renders presence + recent nudges (by
-  outcome) + recent facts from the append-only store via CoreAPI. Read-only,
-  meta-refresh, no JS.
-- **Proactive loop:** 60s dumb ticker, pure predicates over a State snapshot,
-  universal gate (quiet-hours/presence/cooldown/snooze/calendar), one-nudge-per-
-  tick max-severity, reminders (gate-bypassing), sev4 repeat-til-ack, feedback
-  auto-tuner (outcome ratio → bounded cooldown, persisted as `source=feedback`).
-- **Rules:** water/meal/break (sev1–2 care), service_down (sev4, `poll:uptimekuma`),
-  netdata_critical (sev3, `poll:netdata`).
-- **Routines (`internal/routine`):** operator-declared clockwork — the third
-  proactive class beside reminders (user-stated) and care rules (world-state).
-  Config `routines[]` (cron + literal RU body + severity) fire through the normal
-  dispatcher on schedule (an 08:00 briefing, a 22:00 wind-down). Bodies are
-  literal (not LLM-phrased ⇒ can't hallucinate); rule name `routine:<name>` so
-  they don't pollute the care autotuner; cold-start guard seeds on first sight so
-  a restart never replays a missed schedule. Pure `routine.Due`, unit-tested; the
-  tick driver holds the last-fired map.
-- **Env facts (`mavpoll`):** netdata alarms → `netdata_alarm` (fires immediately
-  on a real CRITICAL); kuma monitor_status → `service_down`. Writes only on
-  value-change (no append-only churn).
-- **Presence:** noisy-OR decay + Schmitt hysteresis. Live via `page_heartbeat`
-  (PWA auto-pings `/api/signal` every 30s → present when a tab's open).
-- **Delivery:** ntfy / telegram / voice by `f(severity, presence)`; minimal body
-  on away channels. PWA subscribes to ntfy over **WebSocket** for in-app nudges.
-- **Away-channel fallthrough (SPEC item 2):** when the router picks voice but no
-  live session exists at push time (presence guess was wrong), the dispatcher
-  reroutes through the AWAY table — sev3→ntfy, sev4→telegram-repeat-til-ack,
-  sev≤2→drop — instead of silently dropping. Covers nudges + reminders.
-- **Calendar busy (SPEC item 3, `mavcaldav`):** new poller queries a self-hosted
-  **Radicale** CalDAV server on an interval, writes `calendar_busy` + event facts
-  through CoreAPI (value-change only). The loop gate already consumes `calendar_busy`.
-- **Quiet-hours schedule (SPEC item 4):** the gate reads `quiet_hours`; a config
-  time window (`voice.quiet_hours`, HH:MM, midnight-crossing handled) now sets it
-  on each tick — in addition to the "тихий режим" voice toggle. Both activate quiet.
-- **Client protocol (SPEC item 1):** the voice wire format (length-prefixed JSON
-  frames) is published in `PROTOCOL.md`, generated from `internal/voice/wire.go`
-  so third-party clients don't need the Go source.
-- **Passkey step-up (SPEC item 7):** `internal/webauthn` does real WebAuthn —
-  ES256/P-256 register + assert, ecdsa signature verification, rpIdHash + UP/UV
-  flag binding (UV = the gesture), sign-count regression check. `PasskeySession`
-  bumps the auth session L2→L3 for a TTL on assert. mavweb serves `/auth/passkey`
-  (enroll + step-up) + the begin/finish endpoints. Crypto is round-trip tested
-  (incl. tampered-sig / missing-UV / wrong-origin negatives).
-- **Stability:** llama-server orphan leak fixed (`Pdeathsig` kills the child on
-  any mavend death); `kill-maven.sh` reaps strays (matches the model, not a
-  bogus `llama-server.*maven` pattern); `start-maven.sh` wires `-core` + poller.
-
-### Wired but needs a deploy action (not code)
-
-- **`desk_active`** (strongest presence signal) — `scripts/desk-active.sh` runs
-  on the **desk PC** (hypridle-gated systemd timer), posts over wg to mavweb.
-- **`mavwaked`** (always-on listening) — needs a systemd user unit on a client
-  box (desk PC, pi, etc.) where the mic is attached. Connects to mavend over wg
-  or local net via `-addr`. Deferred until a client box is wired with a mic.
-
-Caveats / gotchas:
-- **desk_active is a workstation deploy, not code** — 0 facts ever written; presence
-  runs on page_heartbeat alone (dash reads "away"/"never at desk"). `scripts/desk-active.sh`
-  + a hypridle-gated `maven-desk` timer must be installed on the desk PC (not homesrv).
-- **Notes recall needs the ONNX embedder** — under the HashEmbedder floor, cosine is
-  lexical (token overlap), not semantic; scores are low, so most RU commands sit under
-  the 0.35 route threshold and clarify. Configure `voice.embedder` for confident recall+routing.
-  (The floor now at least tokenizes Cyrillic — see below — so it ranks correctly, just weakly.)
-- **Switching the embedder model silently breaks old notes** — different dim ⇒
-  cosine 0 ⇒ they stop matching; brute-force can't re-embed. Re-embed on a model change.
-- **`wg_handshake` is OFF and should stay off** — in this topology the phone only
-  runs wg when *outside*, so a fresh handshake means AWAY, not here. The `mavpoll
-  -wg` flag exists (defaults `""`) and could later back the spec's "away override"
-  by flipping the sign; as a presence-*here* signal it's inverted. desk_active +
-  page_heartbeat cover home presence.
-- **Cold-start unlock tests are missing** — the key wrap/unwrap code
-  (`internal/webauthn/keywrap.go`) and locked-mode IPC gating (`cmd/mavend/main.go`)
-  are correct but have **zero test coverage**. The roadmap (item 2.1) required
-  three new test cases (wrap/unwrap round-trip, wrong-cred unwrap fails,
-  locked-mode IPC rejects non-unlock methods); none were written. `make test`
-  is green by omission. Write these before relying on the cold-start path with
-  real keys.
-
-### Done since last revision (overnight-jul6, 2026-07-06)
-
-Seven tasks (session board `SESSION-06-07-2026.md`, deleted 2026-07-30 — see git history), one commit each, merged to `master`.
-This session was run through **opencode**, not Claude Code (co-author trailer).
-
-Since then (**2026-07-06, second session**):
-
-- **Always-on listening (gap 1, MVP)** — `cmd/mavwaked/`: 825 lines, 10 `-race`
-  tests. Energy-based VAD over 30ms windows (same RMS threshold as mavsttd's
-  `gateReason`), adaptive noise floor, speech→silence state machine. Captures
-  PCM from arecord(1) subprocess, sends `PushToTalk` with `Surface=SurfaceVoice`
-  (L0 — no destructive acts). Reply plays through aplay(1). No wake word yet
-  (pure VAD trigger); the 30ms frame shape matches silero-vad ONNX input 1:1,
-  so swapping energy-threshold for ONNX inference is a local change in vad.go.
-  `Makefile` `build-waked` target. Runs on client boxes (not docker/homesrv)
-  via systemd user unit; connects to mavend over wg or local net.
-
-Since then (**2026-07-06, third session** — roadmap execution agent):
-
-- **Cold-start unlock (ROADMAP 2.1)** — the at-rest AES key is now wrapped
-  (HKDF-SHA256 + AES-256-GCM, stdlib-only — no `x/crypto` dep) with the passkey
-  credential's public key and persisted to disk. At boot, if a wrapped key file
-  exists AND no env key is set, mavend starts **locked**: the IPC server runs
-  but `srv.Check` rejects everything except `MethodAssertStepUp` +
-  `MethodUnlock`. A passkey assertion at `/auth/passkey` calls `MethodUnlock`
-  with the credential's public key → unwraps the blob → opens the store → wires
-  voice/loop/delivery → `srv.SetAPI` swaps the locked stub for the real
-  CoreAPI. mavweb's `RegisterFinish` wraps the env key on enrollment;
-  `AssertFinish` calls `Unlock` on assertion. Env-key fallback preserved
-  (dev/CI path unchanged). **Test gap:** the roadmap required three new test
-  cases (wrap/unwrap round-trip, wrong-cred unwrap fails, locked-mode IPC
-  rejects non-unlock methods) — none were written. The code is correct but
-  untested; `make test` is green by omission, not coverage.
-- **Conversation depth (ROADMAP 3.2)** — cross-intent anaphora + fact-by-key
-  lookup. `AnaphoraResolver` in `router/slots.go` detects RU pronouns
-  (это/он/она/оно/тот/мой + inflected forms). `followUpMerge` now handles
-  three cases: same-intent slot inheritance (existing), cross-intent anaphora
-  (Query/Fact/Reminder after a Fact with a pronoun inherits the prior key +
-  time), and query-after-fact (a query following a fact inherits the key for
-  fact-by-key lookup). `Session.History []Turn` added as the multi-turn
-  scaffold (capped at 4). 7 new test cases including the exact done-when
-  scenarios (anaphora query-after-fact, three-turn break, explicit-key-wins).
-- **Routing quality + persona (ROADMAP 4.1/4.4)** — `QueryMinScore` is now a
-  config knob (`voice.query_min_score`, default 0.55) instead of a hardcoded
-  const. `make download-embedder` fetches Xenova/paraphrase-multilingual-
-  MiniLM-L12-v2 (~90MB ONNX) + tokenizer; AGENTS.md documents the embedder +
-  libonnxruntime setup. `Persona` field in `VoiceConfig` prepends to every
-  LLM system prompt (nudge phrasing, note queries, general knowledge); empty
-  = current hardcoded feminine-gendered Russian persona. Also fixed two
-  pre-existing data races found by `-race`: `voice/server.go` wg.Add vs
-  wg.Wait (accept mutex), `mavweb/server.go` s.api field (atomic.Value).
-
-- **Calendar querying (task 3)** — "что у меня завтра?" now answers from the
-  CalDAV facts the poller already writes. Added `store.CalendarEvents(from,to)`,
-  a RU date-scope parser («сегодня»/«завтра») in `router/slots.go`, and an
-  IPC `CalendarEvents` RPC (api/client/server/wire) feeding the `IntentQuery`
-  handler. Empty day → «на сегодня ничего нет». Previously calendar only *gated*
-  nudges; it's now queryable.
-- **General-knowledge routing (task 4)** — when notes-RAG misses `queryMinScore`,
-  the query now falls through to the phraser with an anti-hallucination system
-  prompt (`router.KnowledgePrompt`, single tested source) instead of giving up.
-  Empty/errored/Stub phraser → «не знаю.», never a fabrication.
-- **Weather (task 5)** — new `internal/weather/`: `Provider` interface, a stub
-  («погода не настроена»), and a real **keyless Open-Meteo** provider (geocode +
-  current_weather, injectable `*http.Client`, mocked in tests — no live network).
-  Wired into `IntentQuery` (keywords погода/градус/температура) with a ~5s
-  context timeout; selected by `voice.weather.provider` ("open-meteo" | "" → stub).
-- **Homelab act allowlist (task 2)** — `voice.tools` seeded with read-only acts
-  (`systemctl status`, `docker ps`, `uptime`, `df`, `free`, `journalctl` reads)
-  as `destructive:false` and mutating ones (restart/stop/start/reboot,
-  docker-restart/stop) as `destructive:true`. Guardrail verified: no dangerous
-  verb is `destructive:false`. RU phrasings seeded in `act.txt`.
-- **Embedder config validation (task 1)** — a partially-filled `voice.embedder`
-  block (some of model/tokenizer/lib paths missing) is now a load error instead
-  of a silent fall-through to the Hash floor; the floor fallback logs explicitly.
-- **Dialogue state scaffold (task 6)** — `internal/dialogue/`: `Session` +
-  TTL `SessionStore` + pure `InheritSlots`. **Now wired** (post-merge follow-up):
-  the voice handler carries slots across same-intent turns within a 2-min window
-  (`followUpMerge`, unit-tested) — bounded gap-filling, not full multi-turn yet.
-- **Long-term memory interface (task 7)** — `internal/memory/`: `Store` interface
-  + `InMemoryStore` (cosine). Wired into `IntentNote` (best-effort insert) and,
-  post-merge, into `IntentFact` (facts indexed) + `IntentQuery` (read-back after
-  notes-RAG misses). In-memory only — no persistent backend yet (gap #8).
-
-Follow-ups (Claude Code, post-merge): gofmt'd `handlers_test.go` (the jul6
-verification commit left it misaligned, so `gofmt -l` still flagged it despite the
-"all gates green" claim); deduped the task-4 knowledge prompt to the single tested
-`router.KnowledgePrompt()`. Tree is now genuinely green (gofmt/vet/303 tests).
-
-### Done since the jul5 revision (overnight-jul5, 2026-07-05)
-
-The overnight session (`SESSION-05-07-2026.md`, deleted 2026-07-30 — see git history; 25 tasks) closed the previous
-"not built yet" items 1–3 and added feature depth:
-
-- **At-rest encryption** — the on-disk db is AES-256-GCM ciphertext; the daemon
-  works on a tmpfs (RAM) plaintext copy, sealed back atomically on close. Wrong
-  key / tamper ⇒ fail closed, never a plaintext fallback. Legacy plaintext dbs
-  upgrade on first clean shutdown. Key via config/env (`db_key_env`); no KDF —
-  raw 32-byte key, base64. The passkey cold-start unlock plugs into the same
-  `store.OpenEncrypted` seam later.
-- **Docker deployment** — single image, one container per daemon
-  (`docker-compose.yml`); only mavend mounts the key + db volume; IPC over a
-  shared socket volume. `ipc.DialWait` (boot-order tolerance) + redial-on-drop
-  (core restarts don't kill modules). `deploy/README.md` has the runbook.
-- **Tests** — mavcaldav, mavttsd, voicesink, mavweb main/handlers covered;
-  `make test` runs `-race -coverprofile`.
-- **Recurring reminders** — `cron` + `next_fire_ts` on reminders; recurring ones
-  reschedule (instead of mark-fired) after successful delivery.
-- **Notification digest/batching** — low-severity nudges queue and flush as one
-  digest per window/max-items (`digest` config block); stale-reminder bursts on
-  boot collapse into a single digest reminder, completed only after delivery.
-- **Rule trace engine** — `ExplainTick`/`ExplainGate` record per-rule
-  predicate/gate/selection results each tick; served over IPC (`tick_trace`)
-  and rendered at mavweb `/trace` ("why didn't she nudge me").
-- **Web UI** — new `/history` (facts + revert buttons), `/notifications` (nudge
-  history), `/trace` pages; nav links on `/dash`; RU/EN cheatsheet toggle in the
-  PWA; manifest icons (`icon.svg`). POST `/tools` now requires an in-process
-  passkey step-up when WebAuthn is configured.
-- **Revert/undo** — `RevertFact` voids the latest fact for a key (append-only
-  void-marker, audit trail intact); exposed at `/api/revert` from `/history`.
-- **Tool scopes** — `scope` column on tools, threaded through propose/enable/UI.
-  `DisableTool` raised to AuthStepUp alongside Enable.
-- **Passkey persistence** — mavweb credentials in a JSON file (`-passkey-file`),
-  surviving restarts; rollback-on-persist-failure keeps memory and disk in sync.
-- **STT silence gate** — min-duration + RMS floor drop non-speech before whisper
-  hallucinates on it (`-min-ms`, `-silence-rms` flags on mavsttd).
-- **Housekeeping** — `db_key.env` gitignored (+`.env.example`), `build-caldav`
-  target, zero-timestamp "never" fix on /dash.
-
-### Not built yet (ranked by ROI)
-
-1. **Multi-user (SPEC item 8)** — deliberately deferred, see the tail.
-
-Closed (jul6 follow-ups): `/api/revert` now sits behind the same passkey
-step-up as POST `/tools`; `go.mod` direct deps (`onnxruntime_go`,
-`coder/websocket`, `robfig/cron`) are labeled correctly — `go mod tidy` can't
-run here because it walks the vendored `deps/go` toolchain tree.
-Purge+rotate leaked db key (#12) — investigated and closed: the key was
-**never committed** to git history (gitignored at introduction, no commit
-ever tracked `deploy/db_key.env`), so nothing to scrub. File stays on disk
-and in deploy env by design — at-rest encryption needs it at boot.
-
-Done earlier (2026-07-03): **act tool executor, store-backed, full flow**
-(`internal/tool` + `internal/store/tools.go` + `tools` CoreAPI methods).
-- **Execution:** IntentAct runs the matched fn against the store's ENABLED
-  allowlist. argv, no shell → STT text can't inject. Live store read, so a
-  newly-enabled tool runs without a daemon restart.
-- **proposed→enabled→disabled (SPEC item 5):** an act whose verb isn't enabled is
-  scaffolded as a `proposed` tool (maven suggests). A human enables it (fills argv
-  + destructive) on the authed **`mavweb /tools`** page — never voice — and can
-  disable it back to `proposed` (kept in the store, won't run). `EnableTool`/
-  `DisableTool` sit at `AuthStepUp`; the gate is now **live** via `PasskeySession`,
-  so /tools enable requires a passkey assertion at `/auth/passkey` first.
-- **Confirm turn:** a destructive enabled tool replies "выполнить X? да/нет" and
-  parks; the next utterance (ru/en yes-no) confirms or cancels (90s TTL).
-- **Config:** `voice.tools` seeds enabled tools at boot (editing mavend.json =
-  the human enable act); mavweb enables ad-hoc ones on top.
-- **Russian:** fixed grammar in reply strings + seed files; maven's self-
-  reference is feminine ("she") — [[maven-persona-gender]].
-
-Also fixed:
-- **HashEmbedder was blind to Cyrillic** (`tokenize` iterated bytes, kept only
-  `a-z0-9`) → every RU utterance embedded to the zero vector → cosine 0 across
-  all intents → misrouted to `act` (alphabetical tie-break). Now rune-based
-  (`unicode.IsLetter`). This was the real cause of "Найди заметку" (a query)
-  landing in `notes`; added note-retrieval query seeds too.
-- **Notes are now browsable on `/dash`** — `RecentNotes` plumbed through the
-  store + CoreAPI; voice-captured notes were previously only reachable via
-  semantic `query`.
-Earlier: notes/query recall, `/dash` monitoring, `wg_handshake` poller (NO-OP).
-
-### Gaps — why "voice assistant" is still aspirational (2026-07-06)
-
-What separates Maven today from the thing the spec describes. Dealbreakers
-first — these define the category:
-
-1. **Always-on listening is code-complete (MVP).** `cmd/mavwaked` captures
-   PCM from arecord → energy-based VAD → PushToTalk with `Surface=SurfaceVoice`
-   (L0). Gap narrowed: no wake word yet (pure voice-activity trigger; every
-   utterance fires). The 30ms frame shape and 16kHz PCM match silero-vad's
-   ONNX input exactly, so a wake-word model swap is a local change in vad.go.
-   Hardware: the mic lives on a client box (desk PC, pi, etc.) — never the
-   homesrv. Deploy action: systemd user unit on whichever box has the mic,
-   connects to mavend over wg or local net.
-2. **Conversation is deeper now, still not full dialogue.** The router
-   classifies one utterance → one reply, but `internal/dialogue` carries
-   context across turns: a 2-min session inherits slots for same-intent
-   follow-ups («напомни завтра» → «…позвонить маме»), and cross-intent
-   anaphora («запиши что я пил воду» → «когда я это сделал?») now resolves
-   RU pronouns (это/он/она/оно/тот/мой + inflections) to the prior turn's
-   key for fact-by-key lookup. `Session.History []Turn` is the scaffold for
-   real multi-turn. Still missing: LLM-driven dialogue manager (decide
-   ask-vs-act), anaphora beyond RU pronouns, single-slot session (single-user
-   box). The sub-1B phraser only words replies.
-3. **Latency/shape of a turn.** Clip-based STT (record → upload → whisper →
-   route → phrase → piper → play). No streaming either direction, no barge-in;
-   every exchange is a full round trip.
-
-Capability-class gaps — built but thin:
-
-4. **Act surface is a small argv allowlist.** propose→enable works and the
-   allowlist now ships a homelab starter set (jul6 task 2 — status/ps/uptime/
-   df/free/logs read-only, restart/stop/reboot gated). Still bounded to what's
-   seeded; broadening it is config, not code.
-5. **Query answers now cover notes + calendar + weather + general knowledge**
-   (jul6 tasks 3/4/5). Calendar querying, keyless Open-Meteo weather, and a
-   phraser knowledge-fallback all landed; caveat — general-knowledge quality is
-   only as good as the sub-1B phraser, and weather needs `voice.weather.provider`
-   set. The cheatsheet and router are now roughly aligned.
-6. **Routing quality depends on the ONNX embedder being configured** — the
-   HashEmbedder floor makes RU recall lexical/weak; many commands fall to
-   "clarify". `make download-embedder` now fetches the multilingual MiniLM
-   model + AGENTS.md documents libonnxruntime setup; `voice.query_min_score`
-   is a config knob (default 0.55) so the floor can be tuned without recompile.
-7. **Presence is effectively one signal** (page_heartbeat); desk_active is
-   still an undeployed script — "voice when near" routing runs on a guess.
-8. **Long-term memory is now persistent (store-backed), not the spec's chroma.**
-   `internal/memory` has a `Store` interface; the daemon now wires
-   `store.MemoryStore` (`internal/store/memory.go`) — a **persistent** backend
-   in the **same encrypted sqlite db** (survives restarts; recall text inherits
-   at-rest encryption, so no plaintext sidecar). Vectors are float32 blobs,
-   search is brute-force cosine (fine at single-user scale; ANN is the later
-   swap behind the same interface). Notes **and facts** are indexed on capture;
-   `IntentQuery` reads it back (after notes-RAG misses, before general-knowledge)
-   — fact recall («когда я пил воду?») is its distinct payoff. The in-memory
-   impl remains the test/no-store floor. Remaining: an ANN/external index is
-   optional-scale, not a gap. Custom TTS voice (kami-picked, replaces the irina
-   floor — [[custom-voice-training]]) is still a future item.
-
-Ops footnote: voice-over-web verified 2026-07-06 — mavend binds 0.0.0.0:9100
-and mavweb reaches it cross-container at mavend:9100 (nc -z confirmed).
-mavpoll uses network_mode=host to reach localhost services (netdata, kuma).
-
-### Future / logged, not now
-
-Custom TTS voice training (kami-picked voice, replaces irina floor); listening
-modes 2–3 (meeting-record, ambient-derive).
-
-### Services & layout
-
-- `mavend` (core, IPC unix socket) — store + loop + phraser; the only key-holder.
-- `mavsttd` / `mavttsd` — STT/TTS worker modules (unix sockets).
-- `mavweb` — PWA bridge (HTTP), `/api/ptt` voice, `/api/signal` presence ingest,
-  `/api/ntfy` WS-subscribe config, `/dash` read-only monitoring.
-- `mavpoll` — env poller (netdata/kuma → facts via CoreAPI).
-- `mavcaldav` — CalDAV poller (Radicale → `calendar_busy` + events via CoreAPI).
-- All behind wg + nginx deny-all; no phone-home. CGo only in `mavsttd`.
-- Start/stop: `./start-maven.sh [build]`, `./kill-maven.sh`.
-- Config: `~/.config/maven/mavend.json` (or `mavend.json` in repo root).
-
-### Key files
-
-- `cmd/mavend/{main,tick,voice}.go` — daemon wiring, loop driver, voice handler
-- `internal/loop/{loop,rules,gather,feedback}.go` — proactive engine
-- `internal/store/` — append-only facts/reminders/nudges/presence/notes
-- `cmd/mavweb/{main.go,dash.html}` — PWA bridge + `/dash` monitoring
-- `internal/router/{classifier,slots,stage0}.go` — reactive routing + slot parse
-- `internal/delivery/` — dispatcher + ntfy/telegram/voice sinks
-- `internal/auth/` — scope/gate/policy; `FloorEnrollment` (same-uid = device
-  trust) + `webauthn.PasskeySession` (real step-up for L3)
-- `internal/webauthn/`, `cmd/mavweb/webauthn.go` — passkey register/assert
-- `cmd/mavcaldav/`, `cmd/mavpoll/`, `scripts/desk-active.sh` — env producers
-
-### Why multi-user (SPEC item 8) is deferred
-
-Not neglect — the one item where doing nothing now beats doing something:
-
-- **No second user exists yet** (the "gf phase"). Building per-user partitioning
-  now means code exercised by zero users and validated by nobody — YAGNI.
-- **The append-only schema makes it a migration, not a rewrite.** No row is ever
-  mutated, so adding `facts/notes/reminders.user_id` later is add-columns +
-  backfill-to-"kami" — no reshaping, no dual-write window. Deferral is cheap.
-- **The hard part is speaker attribution, and it needs the second voice.** A
-  voice-print discriminator (kami vs gf vs unknown) can't be trained or tuned
-  with one voice in the house. Plumbing before the model is pipe with no water.
-- **It's fenced deliberately** (`DO NOT TOUCH THIS PHASE` in `DESIGN.md` § Users) so an
-  autonomous agent doesn't add `user_id` columns while touching the store and
-  commit us to a schema before the constraints that shape it exist.

cmd/mavenclient/main.go

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Package main is mavenclient — maven's reference client.
 //
-// Per DESIGN.md § Voice pipeline (STT / TTS): capture lives on the client;
+// Per docs/design.md § Voice pipeline (STT / TTS): capture lives on the client;
 // the server transcribes + synthesises on demand. The PC client runs the
 // wake-word / VAD gate (cmd/mavwaked) and ships ONE clean audio blob per
 // utterance on activation. The server never owns a mic.

cmd/mavend/ack.go

@@ -0,0 +1,128 @@
+// Spoken ack — the other half of the snooze wire. "готово" said out loud
+// resolves a live nudge as `acted`, and a fact that answers the nudge on its
+// own ("выпил воды" after the water rule fired) closes it without him having
+// to say anything extra.
+//
+// Two entry points rather than one, because the two utterances are different
+// acts. A bare "готово" carries no content and is intercepted before the
+// router, exactly like the snooze. "выпил воды" IS content: it has to route
+// normally and write its fact, and only then close the nudge. Folding the
+// second into a pre-route intercept would have thrown the fact away, which is
+// the thing he actually said.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"log"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/loop"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
+)
+
+// resolveAck — pre-route keyword check for a contentless acknowledgement,
+// run after the snooze. Same window and same fall-through rule: the words only
+// count when a nudge is actually live, so "готово" with nothing pending routes
+// normally.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) resolveAck(ctx context.Context, text string, src turnSource) (string, bool) {
+	if !classifyAck(text) {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	now := h.now()
+	target, ok := h.pendingNudge(ctx, now)
+	if !ok {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	if err := h.api.ResolveNudge(ctx, target.ID, store.NudgeActed, now); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("voice: ack nudge %d (%s, %s): %v", target.ID, target.Rule, src, err)
+		return "не получилось отметить.", true
+	}
+	log.Printf("voice: acked nudge %d (rule %s) from %s", target.ID, target.Rule, src)
+	return "отлично, отметила.", true
+}
+
+// ackFromFact — post-action hook, called once the turn's decision has been
+// applied. A fact whose key is the substrate of a live nudge's rule answers
+// that nudge, so the nudge is resolved `acted` and the auto-tuner learns the
+// rule is working.
+//
+// Silent by design: it returns nothing and never changes the reply. He said
+// "выпил воды" and the fact reply is what he is owed; "отлично, отметила" on
+// top would be her congratulating him for obeying, which is the nag she is
+// explicitly not.
+//
+// Best-effort throughout. A failure here loses one feedback signal and must
+// never turn a written fact into an error the user hears.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) ackFromFact(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) {
+	if dec.Clarify || dec.Intent != router.IntentFact || !dec.Slots.HasKey {
+		return
+	}
+	rules := ackRulesForKey(dec.Slots.Key)
+	if len(rules) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+	now := h.now()
+	target, ok := h.pendingNudge(ctx, now)
+	if !ok || !rules[target.Rule] {
+		return
+	}
+	if err := h.api.ResolveNudge(ctx, target.ID, store.NudgeActed, now); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("voice: ack nudge %d from fact %q: %v", target.ID, dec.Slots.Key, err)
+		return
+	}
+	log.Printf("voice: nudge %d (rule %s) acked by fact %q", target.ID, target.Rule, dec.Slots.Key)
+}
+
+// ackRulesForKey — which rules a fact under this key answers.
+//
+// Derived from each rule's InertWhenNoData rather than written out as a map,
+// so a rule added later is covered the day it lands. That field already names
+// the substrate the rule reads; a fresh fact under one of those keys is by
+// definition the thing the rule was complaining about the absence of.
+//
+// DefaultRules, not the daemon's wired set: a rule disabled in config cannot
+// have a pending nudge to close anyway, and reading the canonical set here
+// keeps this free of the config plumbing.
+func ackRulesForKey(key string) map[string]bool {
+	if key == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var out map[string]bool
+	for _, r := range loop.DefaultRules() {
+		for _, k := range r.InertWhenNoData {
+			if k != key {
+				continue
+			}
+			if out == nil {
+				out = map[string]bool{}
+			}
+			out[r.Name] = true
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// ackPhrases — the acknowledgement vocabulary, as stem sequences. Matched by
+// quietPhrase (quiet_toggle.go), so a single-word pattern matches only a
+// single-word utterance.
+//
+// "да" and "ок" are deliberately absent. Both are answers to a question she
+// asked, and the clarify gate upstream (resolveClarifyAnswer) has the stronger
+// claim on them; letting them close a nudge as well would mean a stray "да"
+// silently rewrites the feedback the auto-tuner learns from.
+var ackPhrases = [][]string{
+	{"готово"}, {"сделал"}, {"сделано"}, {"выполнил"}, {"уже"},
+	{"уже", "сделал"}, {"уже", "готово"}, {"всё", "сделал"},
+	{"done"}, {"already", "did"},
+}
+
+// classifyAck reads an utterance as a contentless acknowledgement.
+func classifyAck(text string) bool {
+	tokens := quietTokens(text)
+	for _, p := range ackPhrases {
+		if quietPhrase(tokens, p) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}

cmd/mavend/ack_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
+)
+
+func TestClassifyAck(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, s := range []string{
+		"готово", "сделал", "сделано", "выполнил", "уже",
+		"уже сделал", "всё сделал", "done",
+	} {
+		if !classifyAck(s) {
+			t.Errorf("classifyAck(%q) = false, want true", s)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, s := range []string{
+		// "да" and "ок" belong to the clarify gate, not to the nudge.
+		"да", "ок", "хорошо",
+		// A single-word pattern must not eat the sentence it appears in.
+		"сделал бэкап базы", "готово ли обновление", "уже поздно",
+		"напомни завтра позвонить маме", "",
+	} {
+		if classifyAck(s) {
+			t.Errorf("classifyAck(%q) = true, want false", s)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestResolveAckMarksTheNudgeActed(t *testing.T) {
+	h, api := snoozeHandler([]ipc.Nudge{pendingNudgeAt(6, 2*time.Minute)})
+	reply, handled := h.resolveAck(context.Background(), "готово", sourceVoice)
+	if !handled || reply == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("got (%q, %v), want a reply", reply, handled)
+	}
+	if api.gotID != 6 || api.gotOutcome != store.NudgeActed {
+		t.Fatalf("resolved (%d, %q), want (6, %q)", api.gotID, api.gotOutcome, store.NudgeActed)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestResolveAckFallsThroughWithNothingPending(t *testing.T) {
+	h, api := snoozeHandler(nil)
+	if reply, handled := h.resolveAck(context.Background(), "готово", sourceVoice); handled || reply != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("got (%q, %v), want fall-through", reply, handled)
+	}
+	if api.calls != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("resolved a nudge with nothing pending")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAckRulesForKey(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		key  string
+		want string // "" means no rule
+	}{
+		{"water", "water"},
+		{"meal", "meal"},
+		{"break", "break"},
+		{"desk_active", "break"},
+		{"weight", ""},
+		{"", ""},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		got := ackRulesForKey(tc.key)
+		if tc.want == "" {
+			if len(got) != 0 {
+				t.Errorf("ackRulesForKey(%q) = %v, want none", tc.key, got)
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		if !got[tc.want] {
+			t.Errorf("ackRulesForKey(%q) = %v, want %q in it", tc.key, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAckFromFactClosesTheMatchingNudge(t *testing.T) {
+	h, api := snoozeHandler([]ipc.Nudge{pendingNudgeAt(11, time.Minute)}) // rule "water"
+	h.ackFromFact(context.Background(), router.Decision{
+		Intent: router.IntentFact,
+		Slots:  router.Slots{Key: "water", HasKey: true},
+	})
+	if api.gotID != 11 || api.gotOutcome != store.NudgeActed {
+		t.Fatalf("resolved (%d, %q), want (11, %q)", api.gotID, api.gotOutcome, store.NudgeActed)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestAckFromFactIgnoresAnUnrelatedFact(t *testing.T) {
+	// The live nudge is "water"; a meal fact does not answer it. Closing it
+	// anyway would tell the auto-tuner the water rule works when he ignored it.
+	h, api := snoozeHandler([]ipc.Nudge{pendingNudgeAt(12, time.Minute)})
+	for _, dec := range []router.Decision{
+		{Intent: router.IntentFact, Slots: router.Slots{Key: "meal", HasKey: true}},
+		{Intent: router.IntentFact, Slots: router.Slots{Key: "weight", HasKey: true}},
+		{Intent: router.IntentFact}, // no key
+		{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Slots: router.Slots{Key: "water", HasKey: true}},
+		{Intent: router.IntentFact, Slots: router.Slots{Key: "water", HasKey: true}, Clarify: true},
+	} {
+		h.ackFromFact(context.Background(), dec)
+	}
+	if api.calls != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("resolved %d nudge(s) on unrelated decisions", api.calls)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/actions_query.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
+	"regexp"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
 
@@ -41,6 +42,20 @@ type queryTurn struct {
 type querySource struct {
 	name   string
 	answer func(*reactiveHandler, context.Context, *queryTurn) (string, bool)
+	// dateAware — this source reads the day out of the turn and answers for
+	// THAT day. Only such a source may claim a continuation ("а завтра?"),
+	// because a continuation is a question about a different day and nothing
+	// else. A date-blind source claiming one would answer with today's data
+	// under tomorrow's question, which is a wrong answer delivered in a
+	// confident voice — the failure mode that took reminder out of
+	// continuableIntents (continuation.go).
+	//
+	// Exactly one source qualifies today, and that is not an oversight in the
+	// table: CalendarEvents is the only CoreAPI call that takes a date at all.
+	// DayPlan is today-only, CurrentWeather is now-only, and the recall
+	// sources search text with no notion of a day. When one of them grows a
+	// date parameter, flip its flag here.
+	dateAware bool
 }
 
 // querySources is the ordered chain actionQuery walks; first source to claim
@@ -49,68 +64,90 @@ type querySource struct {
 // gate was never the bug. Adding a source (Kiwix, RSS, crawler, email) is one
 // line here plus its method; where you put the line is the whole decision.
 var querySources = []querySource{
-	{"fact-by-key", (*reactiveHandler).queryFactByKey},
+	{name: "fact-by-key", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryFactByKey},
 	// Before "calendar" on purpose: both match "…на сегодня", and the plan is
 	// the more specific ask (its matcher requires a plan word), so the calendar
 	// listing would otherwise swallow it.
-	{"day-plan", (*reactiveHandler).queryDayPlan},
+	{name: "day-plan", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryDayPlan},
 	// Also before "calendar": "что я обычно делаю по средам?" names a weekday,
 	// and the habit question is the more specific one. Its matcher requires a
 	// habit marker ("обычно", "каждый", …), so a question about this coming
 	// Wednesday still reaches the calendar.
-	{"habits", (*reactiveHandler).queryHabits},
+	{name: "habits", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryHabits},
 	// Before "calendar" and before the recall sources: "что мне нужно
 	// сделать?" is a question about the task list, and the notes pass would
 	// otherwise answer it with whatever note happens to be nearest. Its
 	// matcher requires a task noun or an explicit "что … сделать", so a
 	// date-bearing question still reaches the calendar.
-	{"tasks", (*reactiveHandler).queryTasks},
+	{name: "tasks", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryTasks},
 	// Before the recall sources too: "сколько я потратил?" is a question about
 	// the money facts the poller wrote, and the notes pass would otherwise
 	// answer it from whatever he once said about spending. Its matcher needs a
 	// money noun plus an actual ask, so "я потратил весь день" is untouched.
-	{"money", (*reactiveHandler).queryMoney},
+	{name: "money", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryMoney},
 	// Before the recall sources and before general knowledge: "что нового?" is
 	// a question about the feeds she reads, and general knowledge would answer
 	// it by inventing news. Its matcher needs a feed noun plus an ask, so
 	// "у меня новая лента в инстаграме" is untouched.
-	{"feeds", (*reactiveHandler).queryFeeds},
+	{name: "feeds", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryFeeds},
 	// Before "calendar" and before the recall sources: "что включено дома?" is
 	// a question about the house, and the notes pass would otherwise answer it
 	// from whatever he once said about the lights. Its matcher needs a house
 	// marker plus an ask plus a device word, and it bails out on weather
 	// wording, so "какая температура на улице?" still reaches the weather
 	// source.
-	{"home", (*reactiveHandler).queryHome},
+	{name: "home", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryHome},
 	// Next to "home" and for the same reason: "какие устройства в сети?" is a
 	// question about the LAN, and the recall pass would otherwise answer it
 	// from an old note about the router. Its matcher needs a network word plus
 	// an ask plus a device noun, so "интернет не работает" is untouched.
-	{"network", (*reactiveHandler).queryNetwork},
-	{"calendar", (*reactiveHandler).queryCalendar},
-	{"weather", (*reactiveHandler).queryWeather},
-	{"embed", (*reactiveHandler).queryEmbed},
-	{"memory", (*reactiveHandler).queryMemory},
-	{"notes", (*reactiveHandler).queryNotes},
+	{name: "network", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryNetwork},
+	{name: "calendar", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryCalendar, dateAware: true},
+	{name: "weather", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryWeather},
+	{name: "embed", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryEmbed},
+	{name: "memory", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryMemory},
+	{name: "notes", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryNotes},
+	// THE BOUNDARY. Everything above answers from his own data; everything
+	// 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.
+	{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
+	// stake by this point — the boundary above already stopped every question
+	// about him, and only the query string leaves the box.
+	{name: "search", answer: (*reactiveHandler).querySearch},
+	// The offline encyclopedia, now the fallback for when the line is down or
+	// the search comes back empty. It reads the way it always did; what changed
+	// is that it no longer gets first refusal on a world question.
+	{name: "kiwix", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryKiwix},
 	// LAST before the model answers from memory, and that position is the whole
-	// design (Vikunja #259): local sources first. His memory, his notes and —
-	// once internal/kiwix is wired into this chain — the offline ZIMs all get
-	// their turn before anything touches the network. The model does NOT: it
+	// design (Vikunja #259): everything of his, then the search, then the ZIMs,
+	// and only then a page he named. The model does NOT come first: it
 	// answers after this, because a URL he said out loud is an instruction and
 	// a 1.7B guessing at a page it cannot read is how contents get invented.
 	// This source only claims a turn where he named a URL, so it never competes
 	// with a local answer.
-	{"web", (*reactiveHandler).queryWeb},
-	{"general-knowledge", (*reactiveHandler).queryGeneral},
+	{name: "web", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryWeb},
+	{name: "general-knowledge", answer: (*reactiveHandler).queryGeneral},
 }
 
 func (h *reactiveHandler) actionQuery(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) string {
 	t := &queryTurn{dec: dec}
 	for _, src := range querySources {
+		if dec.Continued && !src.dateAware {
+			continue
+		}
 		if reply, ok := src.answer(h, ctx, t); ok {
 			return reply
 		}
 	}
+	if dec.Continued {
+		// The previous question cannot be re-asked for another day. Saying so
+		// beats "не знаю", which reads as "no data for tomorrow" when the
+		// truth is that she never looked.
+		return "про другой день так не отвечу — спроси целиком."
+	}
 	return "не знаю."
 }
 
@@ -498,6 +535,226 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryWeb(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string, b
 	return reply, true
 }
 
+// kiwixTimeout — the whole ZIM source, rewrite included. The rewrite is one
+// short constrained completion and the search is a LAN request; if the pair
+// takes longer than this something is wrong and he is better served by the
+// model's own answer than by more waiting.
+const kiwixTimeout = 20 * time.Second
+
+// searchTimeout — the whole metasearch source. websearch.Client already holds a
+// per-request timeout from config; this is the outer bound on the turn, so a
+// hung dial cannot outlive it either. Shorter than kiwixTimeout because there
+// is no rewrite call in front of it: the question goes out verbatim.
+const searchTimeout = 12 * time.Second
+
+// querySearch — the live web, through a self-hosted SearXNG.
+//
+// Ahead of Kiwix by the owner's ruling of 2026-08-02: a search reads what is
+// true today, a ZIM reads what was true when it was built, and the ZIM is the
+// fallback for a box with no line out. Everything of his still answers first —
+// the personal boundary is directly above this source, so a question ABOUT him
+// never becomes a query.
+//
+// What leaves this process is the query string and nothing else. His notes, his
+// facts, the persona block and the history do not travel with it: the websearch
+// package cannot read the store. That is the CLAUDE.md rule made mechanical,
+// not a promise about how the prompt is assembled.
+//
+// It claims the turn only when the search returns something. An empty result,
+// an unreachable instance and a 403 from an instance without the JSON format
+// all fall through to Kiwix, which is the point of the ordering.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) querySearch(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string, bool) {
+	if h.search == nil {
+		// Off unless configured, same as the crawler and the ZIMs. Nothing is
+		// said about it: he never asked for a capability he did not enable.
+		return "", false
+	}
+	ctxS, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, searchTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+
+	// Verbatim. No rewriter: SearXNG ranks by meaning through real engines, and
+	// reducing "почему небо голубое" to English keywords would throw away the
+	// language he asked in along with the ranking that handles it.
+	resp, err := h.search.client.Search(ctxS, t.dec.Utterance, h.search.max)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("voice: search %q: %v", t.dec.Utterance, err)
+		return "", false
+	}
+	if resp.Empty() {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	// Logged on the way through, not only on failure. Without this there is no
+	// telling from the outside whether an answer came off the web, off a ZIM or
+	// out of the model's weights, and those are the cases worth telling apart.
+	log.Printf("voice: search: %q → %d answers, %d results", t.dec.Utterance, len(resp.Answers), len(resp.Results))
+
+	// Handed over the same way a note, a page or an article is: evidence for the
+	// question he asked, not something to recite. The trim is one budget over the
+	// joined block, so a long first snippet cannot crowd out the rest.
+	evidence := crawl.TrimRunes(strings.Join(resp.Snippets(), "\n"), h.search.runes)
+	var reply string
+	if h.phraser != nil {
+		var perr error
+		reply, perr = h.phraser.PhraseQuery(ctx, t.dec.Utterance, []string{evidence})
+		if perr != nil {
+			log.Printf("voice: search: phrase: %v", perr)
+		}
+	}
+	if reply == "" {
+		// No phraser, or it failed. Read back the best evidence rather than
+		// pretend the search did not happen.
+		return "вот что я нашла: " + crawl.TrimRunes(resp.Snippets()[0], 300), true
+	}
+	return reply, true
+}
+
+// queryKiwix — the offline encyclopedia, and the fallback behind querySearch:
+// everything of his has already had its turn and the live search found nothing
+// or could not be reached. Reading beats recalling for a 1.7B either way.
+//
+// What leaves this process is the search query and nothing else. His notes,
+// his facts, the persona block and the history do not travel with it — the
+// kiwix package cannot read the store. That holds even though the server is on
+// the LAN, because "local sources first" is not a licence to widen what a
+// lookup is allowed to see.
+//
+// It claims the turn only when the search returns something. No results is not
+// a failure worth announcing: it means the ZIM does not cover this, and the
+// model answering next is the better outcome than "ничего не нашла".
+func (h *reactiveHandler) queryKiwix(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string, bool) {
+	if h.kiwix == nil {
+		// Off unless configured, same as the crawler and the weather. Nothing
+		// is said about it: he never asked for a capability he did not enable.
+		return "", false
+	}
+	ctxK, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, kiwixTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+
+	// The ZIMs are English and kiwix ranks by keyword overlap, not meaning, so
+	// a Russian sentence matches nothing at all. The rewriter turns it into a
+	// handful of English keywords with the resident model.
+	pattern := t.dec.Utterance
+	if h.kiwix.rewriter != nil {
+		q, err := h.kiwix.rewriter.Rewrite(ctxK, t.dec.Utterance)
+		if err != nil {
+			// Fall through to the verbatim question rather than give up. It
+			// will usually miss, and missing is a fall-through too.
+			log.Printf("voice: kiwix: rewrite: %v", err)
+		} else if q != "" {
+			pattern = q
+		}
+	}
+
+	hits, err := h.kiwix.client.Search(ctxK, pattern, h.kiwix.book, h.kiwix.max)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("voice: kiwix: search %q: %v", pattern, err)
+		return "", false
+	}
+	if len(hits) == 0 {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	top := hits[0]
+	// Logged on the way through, not only on failure. Without this there is no
+	// way to tell from the outside whether an answer came off a ZIM or out of
+	// the model's weights, and those are the two cases worth telling apart.
+	log.Printf("voice: kiwix: %q → %d hits, top %q", pattern, len(hits), top.Title)
+
+	// The top hit only, read as an article rather than as a snippet. Kiwix
+	// builds its snippet from wherever the keyword matched, which on Wikipedia
+	// is usually the navigation box at the foot of the page — the first version
+	// of this joined three of those and she recited "Ecological economics
+	// Ecological footprint …" at him. The head of the article is the lead
+	// paragraph, which is the definition the snippet was meant to be.
+	page, aerr := h.kiwix.client.Article(ctxK, top.Path, h.kiwix.runes)
+	if aerr != nil || page.Text == "" {
+		if aerr != nil {
+			log.Printf("voice: kiwix: article %s: %v", top.Path, aerr)
+		}
+		// The search did find something, so fall back to its snippet rather
+		// than throw the hit away.
+		if top.Snippet == "" {
+			return "", false
+		}
+		page = crawl.Page{Title: top.Title, Text: top.Snippet}
+	}
+	// Handed over the same way a note or a page is: context for the question he
+	// asked, not something to recite.
+	snippet := top.Title + "\n" + crawl.TrimRunes(page.Text, h.kiwix.runes)
+	var reply string
+	if h.phraser != nil {
+		var perr error
+		reply, perr = h.phraser.PhraseQuery(ctx, t.dec.Utterance, []string{snippet})
+		if perr != nil {
+			log.Printf("voice: kiwix: phrase: %v", perr)
+		}
+	}
+	if reply == "" {
+		// No phraser, or it failed. Read back the best hit rather than pretend
+		// the search did not happen.
+		return "вот что я нашла: " + crawl.TrimRunes(top.Title+" — "+page.Text, 300), true
+	}
+	return reply, true
+}
+
+// queryPersonal — stop the walk on a question about him that his own data did
+// not answer.
+//
+// Every source above this one reads something of his: his facts, his calendar,
+// his tasks, his house, his notes. Everything below reads the world: an offline
+// Wikipedia, a page he named, the model's own weights. The world does not know
+// when his meeting is, and asked anyway it will produce something.
+//
+// It did. "во сколько у меня встреча" reached Kiwix on the deployed daemon,
+// 01-08-2026; Wikipedia matched an article on the 2015 CPISRA World Games, and
+// the phraser rendered it as "встреча у тебя в 2015 CPISRA World Games, где
+// были соревнования по плаванию". Fluent, confident, and about a swimming
+// competition in Nottingham. Saying "не знаю" is not a worse answer than that
+// one — it is the only true one.
+//
+// Note this is also the privacy edge. The rule in CLAUDE.md is that only the
+// utterance may leave the box, never his notes; a question that is ABOUT him
+// carries his life in the utterance itself, so it is the one class that should
+// not be sent to an upstream engine at all. The guard closes both holes with
+// the same test.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) queryPersonal(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string, bool) {
+	if !isPersonalQuery(t.dec.Utterance) {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	log.Printf("voice: %q is about him and his own data did not answer it; not asking the world", t.dec.Utterance)
+	return "не знаю — не нашла у тебя такой записи.", true
+}
+
+// personalMarkers — first-person POSSESSION, not first person generally.
+//
+// "у меня" and "мой" attach to a thing that is his, which is what makes the
+// question unanswerable from outside. A bare "мне" or "я" does not: "как мне
+// сварить борщ" and "что я могу посмотреть" are ordinary questions about the
+// world that happen to mention the asker, and refusing those would be the
+// opposite mistake. The narrow test is the point.
+// Go's \b is ASCII-only and never fires next to a Cyrillic letter, so the
+// Russian patterns spell the boundary out as "not a letter or a digit". The
+// English ones keep \b, where it works.
+var personalMarkers = []*regexp.Regexp{
+	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)(^|[^\p{L}\p{N}])у\s+меня([^\p{L}\p{N}]|$)`),
+	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)(^|[^\p{L}\p{N}])мо(й|я|ё|е|и|его|ей|их|им|ими|ем|ю|ею)([^\p{L}\p{N}]|$)`),
+	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)\bmy\b`),
+	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)\bdo\s+i\s+have\b`),
+	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)\bdid\s+i\b`),
+}
+
+// isPersonalQuery reports whether the utterance asks about something of his.
+func isPersonalQuery(utterance string) bool {
+	if utterance == "" {
+		return false
+	}
+	for _, re := range personalMarkers {
+		if re.MatchString(utterance) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
 // queryGeneral — general knowledge from the phraser, the last source before
 // giving up. It always claims: either the model answers or Maven says she
 // doesn't know.

cmd/mavend/actions_query_continued_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,116 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+// contQueryAPI records which core call a continued query reached. DayPlan and
+// LatestFact are here to be caught, not to be used: a continuation must never
+// reach them, and the counters are how the test says so.
+type contQueryAPI struct {
+	ipc.UnimplementedCoreAPI
+	from, to  time.Time
+	events    int
+	plans     int
+	factLooks int
+}
+
+func (a *contQueryAPI) CalendarEvents(_ context.Context, from, to time.Time) ([]ipc.Fact, error) {
+	a.events++
+	a.from, a.to = from, to
+	return []ipc.Fact{{Key: "calendar", Value: "Планёрка @ 14:00", Confidence: 1.0, Ts: from.Add(14 * time.Hour)}}, nil
+}
+
+func (a *contQueryAPI) DayPlan(context.Context) (ipc.DayPlan, error) {
+	a.plans++
+	return ipc.DayPlan{Spoken: "план на сегодня"}, nil
+}
+
+func (a *contQueryAPI) LatestFact(_ context.Context, key string) (ipc.Fact, error) {
+	a.factLooks++
+	return ipc.Fact{Key: key, Value: "2л", Ts: contNow.Add(-time.Hour)}, nil
+}
+
+func contQueryHandler() (*reactiveHandler, *contQueryAPI) {
+	api := &contQueryAPI{}
+	return &reactiveHandler{api: api, now: func() time.Time { return contNow }}, api
+}
+
+// A continuation is a question about another day, so the one source that can
+// read a day answers it — for the day the ellipsis named, not for today.
+func TestContinuedQueryReachesTheCalendar(t *testing.T) {
+	h, api := contQueryHandler()
+	reply := h.actionQuery(context.Background(), router.Decision{
+		Intent:    router.IntentQuery,
+		Utterance: "а завтра?",
+		Continued: true,
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Text: "что у меня сегодня", Time: contNow.Add(24 * time.Hour), HasTime: true},
+	})
+	if api.events != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("CalendarEvents called %d times, want 1", api.events)
+	}
+	if got, want := api.from.Format("2006-01-02"), "2026-08-02"; got != want {
+		t.Errorf("asked the calendar for %s, want %s", got, want)
+	}
+	if reply == "" {
+		t.Error("empty reply")
+	}
+}
+
+// The regression this gate exists for: every other source is date-blind, so
+// letting one claim a continuation answers a question about tomorrow with
+// today's data. queryFactByKey was the live case — HasKey plus HasTime, both
+// set by the continuation, and it replies with a stored fact's own timestamp.
+func TestContinuedQuerySkipsDateBlindSources(t *testing.T) {
+	h, api := contQueryHandler()
+	h.actionQuery(context.Background(), router.Decision{
+		Intent:    router.IntentQuery,
+		Utterance: "а вчера?",
+		Continued: true,
+		Slots: router.Slots{
+			Key: "water", HasKey: true,
+			Text: "когда я пил воду",
+			Time: contNow.Add(-24 * time.Hour), HasTime: true,
+		},
+	})
+	if api.factLooks != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("fact-by-key claimed a continuation (%d lookups)", api.factLooks)
+	}
+	if api.plans != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("day-plan claimed a continuation (%d calls)", api.plans)
+	}
+}
+
+// Nothing date-aware claimed it: say that, rather than "не знаю", which reads
+// as "no data for that day" when she never looked.
+func TestContinuedQueryWithNoDateAwareAnswerSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
+	h, _ := contQueryHandler()
+	// No parseable day in the utterance, so even the calendar passes.
+	reply := h.actionQuery(context.Background(), router.Decision{
+		Intent:    router.IntentQuery,
+		Utterance: "а?",
+		Continued: true,
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Text: "какая погода", HasTime: true},
+	})
+	if reply == "не знаю." || !strings.Contains(reply, "спроси целиком") {
+		t.Fatalf("reply = %q, want the honest continuation refusal", reply)
+	}
+}
+
+// An ordinary query is untouched by the gate — every source still runs.
+func TestOrdinaryQueryStillReachesEverySource(t *testing.T) {
+	h, api := contQueryHandler()
+	h.actionQuery(context.Background(), router.Decision{
+		Intent:    router.IntentQuery,
+		Utterance: "какие планы на сегодня?",
+	})
+	if api.plans != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("day-plan called %d times on an ordinary query, want 1", api.plans)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/actions_query_personal_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,109 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+func TestIsPersonalQuery(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, s := range []string{
+		"во сколько у меня встреча",
+		"что у меня сегодня",
+		"когда мой следующий отпуск",
+		"где моя книга",
+		"сколько моих задач висит",
+		"when is my meeting",
+		"do i have anything today",
+		"did i take my vitamins",
+	} {
+		if !isPersonalQuery(s) {
+			t.Errorf("isPersonalQuery(%q) = false, want true", s)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, s := range []string{
+		// First person without possession. These are questions about the
+		// world that merely mention the asker, and refusing them would be the
+		// opposite mistake.
+		"как мне сварить борщ",
+		"что я могу посмотреть вечером",
+		"почему небо синее",
+		"столица франции",
+		"how do i boil an egg",
+		"",
+	} {
+		if isPersonalQuery(s) {
+			t.Errorf("isPersonalQuery(%q) = true, want false", s)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// kiwixTrapAPI stands in for the world. Nothing below the personal boundary
+// should be consulted for a question about him, so the test asserts on the
+// reply rather than on a call: reaching Kiwix or general knowledge produces a
+// phrased answer, and refusing produces the honest one.
+func personalHandler() *reactiveHandler {
+	return &reactiveHandler{
+		api: ipc.UnimplementedCoreAPI{},
+		now: func() time.Time { return contNow },
+		// No phraser and no kiwix wiring: if the walk gets past the personal
+		// source it reaches queryGeneral, which returns "не знаю." with a nil
+		// phraser — a different string from the one this guard produces, so
+		// the two cases stay distinguishable.
+	}
+}
+
+// The regression: "во сколько у меня встреча" reached Kiwix, Wikipedia matched
+// an article on the 2015 CPISRA World Games, and the phraser reported it back
+// as his meeting. Seen on the deployed daemon, 01-08-2026.
+func TestPersonalQuestionIsNotSentToTheWorld(t *testing.T) {
+	h := personalHandler()
+	reply, ok := h.queryPersonal(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec: router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: "во сколько у меня встреча"},
+	})
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("queryPersonal passed on a question about him")
+	}
+	if reply == "" {
+		t.Fatal("empty reply")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWorldQuestionsPassThroughTheBoundary(t *testing.T) {
+	h := personalHandler()
+	for _, u := range []string{"почему небо синее", "столица франции"} {
+		if _, ok := h.queryPersonal(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+			dec: router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: u},
+		}); ok {
+			t.Errorf("queryPersonal claimed %q, want it to pass to the encyclopedia", u)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The boundary must sit above kiwix and general-knowledge and below every
+// source that reads his own data. Asserted on the table itself: an ordering
+// bug here is silent, because both arrangements answer, just from the wrong
+// place.
+func TestPersonalBoundarySitsBetweenHisDataAndTheWorld(t *testing.T) {
+	idx := map[string]int{}
+	for i, s := range querySources {
+		idx[s.name] = i
+	}
+	boundary, ok := idx["personal"]
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("no personal source in the chain")
+	}
+	for _, his := range []string{"fact-by-key", "day-plan", "tasks", "calendar", "memory", "notes"} {
+		if i, ok := idx[his]; !ok || i > boundary {
+			t.Errorf("%q reads his own data and must run before the personal boundary", his)
+		}
+	}
+	for _, world := range []string{"search", "kiwix", "web", "general-knowledge"} {
+		if i, ok := idx[world]; !ok || i < boundary {
+			t.Errorf("%q reads the world and must run after the personal boundary", world)
+		}
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/actions_query_search_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,105 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"net/url"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/websearch"
+)
+
+func searchHandler(t *testing.T, body string, status int) (*reactiveHandler, *string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	var seen string
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		seen = r.URL.RawQuery
+		if status != http.StatusOK {
+			http.Error(w, "no", status)
+			return
+		}
+		w.Write([]byte(body))
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
+	return &reactiveHandler{
+		// No phraser: querySearch then reads back the best evidence, which is
+		// what makes the claim visible without a llama-server in the test.
+		search: &searchWiring{client: websearch.New(srv.URL, websearch.Options{}), max: 3, runes: 1500},
+	}, &seen
+}
+
+const searchBody = `{"answers":["Небо голубое из-за рэлеевского рассеяния."],
+"results":[{"title":"Рэлеевское рассеяние","url":"https://ru.wikipedia.org/x","content":"Рассеяние света."}]}`
+
+func TestQuerySearchClaimsAndReadsBack(t *testing.T) {
+	h, _ := searchHandler(t, searchBody, http.StatusOK)
+	reply, ok := h.querySearch(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec: router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: "почему небо голубое"},
+	})
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("querySearch passed on a search with hits")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(reply, "рэлеевского рассеяния") {
+		t.Fatalf("reply = %q", reply)
+	}
+}
+
+// No rewriter in front of this source: SearXNG ranks by meaning, and reducing
+// the question to English keywords would throw away the language he asked in.
+func TestQuerySearchSendsTheQuestionVerbatim(t *testing.T) {
+	h, seen := searchHandler(t, searchBody, http.StatusOK)
+	h.querySearch(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec: router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: "почему небо голубое"},
+	})
+	if !strings.Contains(*seen, "q="+url.QueryEscape("почему небо голубое")) {
+		t.Fatalf("query string = %q", *seen)
+	}
+}
+
+// The whole reason the ordering is safe: an unreachable or empty instance
+// passes the turn to Kiwix instead of claiming it with an apology.
+func TestQuerySearchFallsThroughWhenItFails(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name   string
+		body   string
+		status int
+	}{
+		{"http error", "", http.StatusForbidden},
+		{"no hits", `{"answers":[],"results":[]}`, http.StatusOK},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			h, _ := searchHandler(t, tc.body, tc.status)
+			if _, ok := h.querySearch(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+				dec: router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: "почему небо голубое"},
+			}); ok {
+				t.Fatal("querySearch claimed the turn; Kiwix never got its fallback")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// Off unless configured, and silent about it: he never asked for a capability
+// he did not enable.
+func TestQuerySearchOffWithoutConfig(t *testing.T) {
+	h := &reactiveHandler{}
+	if _, ok := h.querySearch(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec: router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: "почему небо голубое"},
+	}); ok {
+		t.Fatal("querySearch claimed a turn with no search block")
+	}
+}
+
+// The owner's ruling of 2026-08-02: the live search asks first, the ZIM is the
+// fallback for a box with no line out.
+func TestSearchRunsBeforeKiwix(t *testing.T) {
+	idx := map[string]int{}
+	for i, s := range querySources {
+		idx[s.name] = i
+	}
+	if idx["search"] > idx["kiwix"] {
+		t.Fatalf("search at %d, kiwix at %d: the ZIM is the fallback, not the first read", idx["search"], idx["kiwix"])
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/capture.go

@@ -31,9 +31,11 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
+	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
@@ -54,16 +56,65 @@ import (
 // asks Maven to stop recording gets the transcript back in seconds.
 const captureSummaryTimeout = 20 * time.Minute
 
+// summaryGrammar — GBNF pinning a summarisation call to one JSON object holding
+// the summary and nothing else. Same reasoning as responseGrammar and memeval's
+// evalGrammar: the resident model is a Thinking variant, and a summarisation
+// prompt is exactly the shape that invites it to answer with its reasoning as
+// plain text. Demanding JSON leaves the reasoning nowhere to go.
+//
+// The bound is 2000 characters, twice the phraser's, because a reduce step over
+// a two-hour meeting is a paragraph and not a sentence. Newlines are escaped by
+// the escape rule, so the bullet list the prompt asks for survives the wrapper.
+const summaryGrammar = `
+root    ::= "{" ws "\"summary\"" ws ":" ws string ws "}"
+string  ::= "\"" ([^"\\] | "\\" ["\\/bfnrt]){0,2000} "\""
+ws      ::= [ \t\n]*
+`
+
 // llmCompleter adapts *llm.Client to capture.Completer. The pure package names
 // the two strings it needs and stays free of the llm request struct; the client
 // itself is the swap-aware one from llmClientFor, so a model swap re-points it.
+//
+// The JSON wrapper lives here, not in internal/capture: that package is
+// text-in/text-out by design, and the map/reduce steps still see plain prose.
 type llmCompleter struct {
 	c         *llm.Client
 	maxTokens int
 }
 
 func (l llmCompleter) Complete(ctx context.Context, system, user string) (string, error) {
-	return l.c.Complete(ctx, llm.Req{System: system, User: user, MaxTokens: l.maxTokens})
+	out, err := l.c.Complete(ctx, llm.Req{
+		System:    system,
+		User:      user,
+		Grammar:   summaryGrammar,
+		MaxTokens: l.maxTokens,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return "", err
+	}
+	return unwrapSummary(out), nil
+}
+
+// unwrapSummary takes the summary out of the JSON object the grammar produced.
+// Anything that does not parse is returned as-is: an operator running without a
+// grammar, or a llama-server too old to honour one, gets the plain text it used
+// to get rather than an empty meeting summary.
+func unwrapSummary(raw string) string {
+	s := stripThink(strings.TrimSpace(raw))
+	start := strings.Index(s, "{")
+	end := strings.LastIndex(s, "}")
+	if start < 0 || end <= start {
+		return s
+	}
+	var parsed struct {
+		Summary string `json:"summary"`
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(s[start:end+1]), &parsed); err != nil {
+		return s
+	}
+	// An empty field is the model saying nothing, so hand back nothing. Returning
+	// the raw object here would write `{"summary":""}` into his notes.
+	return strings.TrimSpace(parsed.Summary)
 }
 
 // captureWiring — the recorder plus what it needs to write the result down.

cmd/mavend/capture_test.go

@@ -116,3 +116,29 @@ func TestStopReturnsTranscriptAndNotesItWithoutASummary(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("the meeting left no note behind: %+v", notes)
 	}
 }
+
+// The summary path is JSON-wrapped by summaryGrammar, and internal/capture must
+// keep seeing plain prose. These cover the wrapper and every way it can be
+// absent or broken, because a meeting summary is written once and not retried.
+func TestUnwrapSummary(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name string
+		in   string
+		want string
+	}{
+		{"grammar output", `{"summary": "решили купить насос"}`, "решили купить насос"},
+		{"multiline field", `{"summary": "- насос\n- бюджет"}`, "- насос\n- бюджет"},
+		{"empty marker survives", `{"summary": "пусто"}`, "пусто"},
+		{"empty field says nothing", `{"summary": ""}`, ""},
+		{"thinking prefix", "<think>hm</think>\n{\"summary\": \"итог\"}", "итог"},
+		{"no grammar, plain prose", "решили купить насос", "решили купить насос"},
+		{"broken json falls back", `{"summary": "обрыв`, `{"summary": "обрыв`},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			if got := unwrapSummary(c.in); got != c.want {
+				t.Errorf("unwrapSummary(%q) = %q, want %q", c.in, got, c.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/clarify.go

@@ -348,9 +348,27 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) rememberTurn(prev *dialogue.Session, dec router.Decisi
 	if dec.Intent == router.IntentChat {
 		ttl = 15 * time.Minute // conversational turns should last longer
 	}
+	// A system or query turn often carries no Text slot at all — a stage-0
+	// grammar fills none. The next turn may be an ellipsis ("а завтра?"),
+	// which knows the day but not what was asked ABOUT, so keep the raw
+	// utterance where continuation.go can find it. Only these two intents:
+	// everywhere else Text is a payload and must stay what the router put in.
+	//
+	// Overwritten, not filled: rememberTurn runs AFTER followUpMerge, which
+	// has already inherited a Text from the previous same-intent turn, so a
+	// fill-if-empty rule keeps the OLD topic for ever. Seen on the deployed
+	// daemon 01-08-2026 — "во сколько у меня встреча" then "какие у меня
+	// планы" then "а завтра?" continued the meeting, two turns stale.
+	//
+	// A continuation is the exception and keeps what it inherited: its
+	// utterance is the ellipsis, and the topic it carries is the real one.
+	slots := toDialogueSlots(dec.Slots)
+	if !dec.Continued && (dec.Intent == router.IntentSystem || dec.Intent == router.IntentQuery) {
+		slots.Text = dec.Utterance
+	}
 	h.dialogueSessions.Put(voiceDialogueID, &dialogue.Session{
 		Intent:    dialogue.Intent(dec.Intent),
-		Slots:     toDialogueSlots(dec.Slots),
+		Slots:     slots,
 		Timestamp: now,
 		TTL:       ttl,
 		History:   history,

cmd/mavend/confirm.go

@@ -107,14 +107,18 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) confirmResolvers(ctx context.Context) []confirmResolve
 				return pr != nil && !h.now().After(pr.expiry)
 			},
 			yes: func() string {
-				// Only record the acceptance. The tick loop reads accepted
-				// routines and nudges on their own interval. Building a
-				// reminder here made a routine fire exactly once (Vikunja #366).
-				if err := h.dataStore.AcceptProposedRoutine(ctx, pr.routineID, h.now()); err != nil {
-					log.Printf("voice: accept proposed routine: %v", err)
-					return "не получилось запомнить рутину."
-				}
-				return "буду напоминать."
+				// Voice does NOT accept (Vikunja #367). Accepting hands the
+				// tick loop a standing new reason to speak, which is the same
+				// tier as enabling a tool — and DESIGN.md § "surface caps
+				// authority" says a room mic, reachable by anyone present, is
+				// structurally incapable of layer 3. So a spoken "да" leaves
+				// the row 'proposed' and points at the authed page, where the
+				// accept button is gated at step-up. The convenience of
+				// answering out loud stays; the authority does not move.
+				//
+				// Acceptance itself is recorded by /routines, and the tick
+				// loop nudges on the interval from there (Vikunja #366).
+				return "поняла — подтверди на странице рутин, и начну напоминать."
 			},
 			no: func() string {
 				if err := h.dataStore.DismissProposedRoutine(ctx, pr.routineID); err != nil {

cmd/mavend/continuation.go

@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+// Elliptical follow-ups — "а завтра?" after "какие напоминания на сегодня".
+//
+// These carry no intent of their own. Two words, one of them a particle, and
+// everything that makes the utterance meaningful lives in the turn before it.
+// Sent to the router they get whatever the model guesses, which on a 1.7B is
+// close to a coin flip, and the guess costs ~2.7s to obtain.
+//
+// followUpMerge (followup.go) cannot help: it inherits SLOTS once the intent is
+// known, and here the intent is the missing part. So this runs before the
+// router and answers from the previous turn directly, which is both correct by
+// construction and free.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/dialogue"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+// continuationMaxTokens — an ellipsis is short by definition. Past four tokens
+// the utterance carries enough of its own content to be routed on its merits,
+// and inheriting an intent for it would be overreach.
+const continuationMaxTokens = 4
+
+// continuationParticles — the words that open a follow-up. A leading particle
+// is one of the two ways in; the other is an utterance that is nothing but a
+// date ("завтра?").
+var continuationParticles = map[string]bool{
+	"а": true, "и": true, "ну": true,
+	"what": true, "and": true, "how": true,
+}
+
+// continuableIntents — which intents an ellipsis may inherit.
+//
+// query and system are questions: asking the same question about a different
+// day is exactly what "а завтра?" means, and re-aiming the Time slot answers it
+// completely.
+//
+// The rest are excluded on purpose. fact and note would write something he did
+// not say — "поужинал" then "а вчера?" is a question about yesterday, not a
+// claim about it. chat has no slot to re-aim. act is the dangerous one: an
+// allowlisted fn inherited by a two-word utterance is a way to run a
+// destructive command nobody typed, and no follow-up is worth that.
+//
+// reminder was in this list and came out after a live check on 01-08-2026. A
+// reminder's payload is its Text, and the Text embeds the day word it was
+// created with: continuing "напомни сегодня о событиях" with "а завтра?" fires
+// tomorrow with the text still reading "сегодня". Re-aiming Time is not enough
+// when the day is also written into the payload, and rewriting the payload
+// needs the date's span in the string, which ParseCalendarDate does not report.
+var continuableIntents = map[dialogue.Intent]bool{
+	dialogue.IntentQuery:  true,
+	dialogue.IntentSystem: true,
+}
+
+// continuationDecision reads an utterance as "the previous question, but for
+// this other day". Returns ok=false whenever anything is uncertain, which
+// hands the turn back to the ordinary router path.
+//
+// The date is what makes this safe. An ellipsis with no parseable day is just
+// a short utterance, and short utterances are the router's job.
+func continuationDecision(prev *dialogue.Session, text string, now time.Time) (router.Decision, bool) {
+	if prev == nil || prev.IsExpired(now) || !continuableIntents[prev.Intent] {
+		return router.Decision{}, false
+	}
+	tokens := quietTokens(text)
+	if len(tokens) == 0 || len(tokens) > continuationMaxTokens {
+		return router.Decision{}, false
+	}
+	day, ok := router.ParseCalendarDate(text, now)
+	if !ok {
+		return router.Decision{}, false
+	}
+	// Either it opens with a particle, or the whole utterance is the date.
+	if !continuationParticles[tokens[0]] && !isBareDate(tokens, day, now) {
+		return router.Decision{}, false
+	}
+
+	dec := router.Decision{
+		Utterance:  text,
+		Intent:     router.Intent(prev.Intent),
+		Confidence: 1.0,
+		Stage:      0,
+		Continued:  true,
+		Slots: router.Slots{
+			Key:    prev.Slots.Key,
+			HasKey: prev.Slots.HasKey,
+			Value:  prev.Slots.Value,
+			Text:   prev.Slots.Text,
+			// Fn/Args are deliberately not carried: continuableIntents
+			// excludes act, so there is never one to carry.
+			Time:    day,
+			HasTime: true,
+		},
+	}
+	return dec, true
+}
+
+// isBareDate reports whether the utterance is nothing but its date expression.
+// "завтра" and "на выходных" qualify; "напомни завтра" does not, because the
+// verb is content of its own and belongs to the router.
+//
+// Implemented by re-parsing each token: if every token that is not part of a
+// date expression is a preposition or a question mark's leftovers, the
+// utterance is bare. Cheap enough at four tokens.
+func isBareDate(tokens []string, day time.Time, now time.Time) bool {
+	for _, t := range tokens {
+		if continuationFillers[t] {
+			continue
+		}
+		if d, ok := router.ParseCalendarDate(t, now); ok && d.Equal(day) {
+			continue
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+// continuationFillers — tokens that carry no content of their own inside a
+// date expression ("на выходных", "в среду").
+var continuationFillers = map[string]bool{
+	"на": true, "в": true, "во": true, "за": true, "про": true,
+	"about": true, "on": true, "for": true,
+}

cmd/mavend/continuation_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/dialogue"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+var contNow = time.Date(2026, 8, 1, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+
+func contSession(intent dialogue.Intent, key string) *dialogue.Session {
+	return &dialogue.Session{
+		Intent:    intent,
+		Slots:     dialogue.Slots{Key: key, HasKey: key != "", Text: "какие напоминания на сегодня"},
+		Timestamp: contNow.Add(-30 * time.Second),
+		TTL:       2 * time.Minute,
+	}
+}
+
+func TestContinuationInheritsTheQuestion(t *testing.T) {
+	prev := contSession(dialogue.IntentQuery, "water")
+	dec, ok := continuationDecision(prev, "а завтра?", contNow)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("continuationDecision returned false, want a decision")
+	}
+	if dec.Intent != router.IntentQuery {
+		t.Errorf("intent = %q, want query", dec.Intent)
+	}
+	if dec.Slots.Key != "water" || !dec.Slots.HasKey {
+		t.Errorf("key = %q, want water carried over", dec.Slots.Key)
+	}
+	if !dec.Slots.HasTime {
+		t.Fatal("no time slot; the whole point is re-aiming the day")
+	}
+	if got, want := dec.Slots.Time.Format("2006-01-02"), "2026-08-02"; got != want {
+		t.Errorf("time = %s, want %s", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestContinuationAcceptsABareDate(t *testing.T) {
+	prev := contSession(dialogue.IntentQuery, "water")
+	for _, s := range []string{"завтра?", "вчера", "а вчера?", "и завтра"} {
+		if _, ok := continuationDecision(prev, s, contNow); !ok {
+			t.Errorf("continuationDecision(%q) = false, want true", s)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestContinuationDeclinesWhatIsNotAnEllipsis(t *testing.T) {
+	prev := contSession(dialogue.IntentQuery, "water")
+	for _, s := range []string{
+		// No date to re-aim at — an ordinary short utterance, the router's job.
+		"а что там", "а бэкап?", "привет", "",
+		// Content of its own: the verb is not an ellipsis.
+		"напомни завтра позвонить маме",
+		// Too long to be an ellipsis even with a date in it.
+		"а что у меня стоит в календаре на завтра",
+	} {
+		if _, ok := continuationDecision(prev, s, contNow); ok {
+			t.Errorf("continuationDecision(%q) = true, want false", s)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestContinuationDeclinesUncontinuableIntents(t *testing.T) {
+	// act is the one that matters: inheriting an allowlisted fn from a
+	// two-word utterance would be a way to run a destructive command.
+	// reminder is here because its payload is its Text, and the Text embeds
+	// the day word it was created with — see continuableIntents.
+	for _, in := range []dialogue.Intent{
+		dialogue.IntentAct, dialogue.IntentFact, dialogue.IntentNote,
+		dialogue.IntentChat, dialogue.IntentReminder,
+	} {
+		if _, ok := continuationDecision(contSession(in, "water"), "а завтра?", contNow); ok {
+			t.Errorf("continuationDecision inherited intent %q, want refusal", in)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestContinuationDeclinesWithoutALiveSession(t *testing.T) {
+	if _, ok := continuationDecision(nil, "а завтра?", contNow); ok {
+		t.Error("continued with no previous turn")
+	}
+	stale := contSession(dialogue.IntentQuery, "water")
+	stale.Timestamp = contNow.Add(-10 * time.Minute)
+	if _, ok := continuationDecision(stale, "а завтра?", contNow); ok {
+		t.Error("continued an expired session")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestContinuationNeverCarriesAnFn(t *testing.T) {
+	prev := contSession(dialogue.IntentQuery, "water")
+	prev.Slots.Fn, prev.Slots.HasFn = "restart", true
+	dec, ok := continuationDecision(prev, "а завтра?", contNow)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("want a decision")
+	}
+	if dec.Slots.HasFn || dec.Slots.Fn != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("carried fn %q into a continuation", dec.Slots.Fn)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestContinuationCarriesTheTopic — the ellipsis names the day; what he is
+// asking ABOUT has to come from the previous turn, or replySystem keyword-
+// matches "а завтра?" and finds nothing. Caught on the deployed daemon.
+func TestContinuationCarriesTheTopic(t *testing.T) {
+	prev := contSession(dialogue.IntentSystem, "")
+	prev.Slots.Text = "какой сегодня день"
+	dec, ok := continuationDecision(prev, "а завтра?", contNow)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("want a decision")
+	}
+	if dec.Slots.Text != "какой сегодня день" {
+		t.Fatalf("Slots.Text = %q, want the previous turn's topic", dec.Slots.Text)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestReplySystemIgnoresAnInheritedTopic — the regression the deployed daemon
+// showed on 01-08-2026: followUpMerge fills an empty Text from the previous
+// same-intent turn, so a plain "привет" after "какой сегодня день" arrived at
+// replySystem carrying the old topic and was answered with the date. Only a
+// continuation may widen the keyword match.
+func TestReplySystemIgnoresAnInheritedTopic(t *testing.T) {
+	h := &reactiveHandler{now: func() time.Time { return contNow }}
+	inherited := router.Decision{
+		Utterance: "привет",
+		Intent:    router.IntentSystem,
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Text: "какой сегодня день"},
+	}
+	if got := h.replySystem(nil, inherited); got != "пока не умею отвечать на этот вопрос." {
+		t.Fatalf("replySystem answered %q on an inherited topic", got)
+	}
+	cont := inherited
+	cont.Utterance, cont.Continued = "а завтра?", true
+	if got := h.replySystem(nil, cont); got == "пока не умею отвечать на этот вопрос." {
+		t.Fatalf("replySystem refused a real continuation")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestRememberTurnRefreshesTheTopic — rememberTurn runs after followUpMerge,
+// which has already inherited a Text from the previous same-intent turn. A
+// fill-if-empty rule therefore pins the FIRST topic of a run of query turns
+// and never lets go, so a later "а завтра?" continues a question two turns
+// old. Seen on the deployed daemon, 01-08-2026.
+func TestRememberTurnRefreshesTheTopic(t *testing.T) {
+	h := &reactiveHandler{
+		now:              func() time.Time { return contNow },
+		dialogueSessions: dialogue.NewSessionStore(2 * time.Minute),
+	}
+	h.rememberTurn(nil, router.Decision{
+		Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: "во сколько у меня встреча",
+	}, contNow)
+	// The second turn arrives with the first turn's Text already merged in.
+	prev := h.dialogueSessions.Get(voiceDialogueID, contNow)
+	h.rememberTurn(prev, router.Decision{
+		Intent:    router.IntentQuery,
+		Utterance: "какие у меня планы",
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Text: "во сколько у меня встреча"},
+	}, contNow)
+	got := h.dialogueSessions.Get(voiceDialogueID, contNow)
+	if got == nil {
+		t.Fatal("no session")
+	}
+	if got.Slots.Text != "какие у меня планы" {
+		t.Fatalf("topic = %q, want the latest turn's", got.Slots.Text)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/dayplan_test.go

@@ -351,3 +351,31 @@ func TestTickDayPlanReadsTheStore(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("a reminder for next year is not today's plan: %q", plan.Spoken)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestHandlerUpgradesToTheDaemonAPI — wireVoice runs before the tick loop
+// exists, so the handler starts with the bare store adapter, and that adapter
+// refuses DayPlan ("not available via direct store API"). main back-patches
+// the real one in. Without the patch every "какие у меня планы на сегодня"
+// answered "не получилось собрать план" on the deployed daemon, 01-08-2026.
+func TestHandlerUpgradesToTheDaemonAPI(t *testing.T) {
+	h := &reactiveHandler{api: ipc.NewStoreAPI(nil), now: planDay}
+	if _, err := h.api.DayPlan(context.Background()); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("the bare store adapter served a day plan; this test is measuring nothing")
+	}
+
+	want := samplePlan()
+	h.upgradeAPI(&daemonAPI{
+		CoreAPI:    ipc.UnimplementedCoreAPI{},
+		getDayPlan: func(context.Context) ipc.DayPlan { return want },
+	})
+
+	reply, ok := h.queryDayPlan(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec: router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: "какие у меня планы на сегодня?"},
+	})
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("queryDayPlan passed on a plan question")
+	}
+	if reply != want.Spoken {
+		t.Fatalf("reply = %q, want the assembled plan", reply)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/followup.go

@@ -12,13 +12,21 @@ import (
 // which waits on voice-print attribution (see PROGRESS multi-user deferral).
 const voiceDialogueID = "voice"
 
-// toDialogueSlots projects the router's slots onto the dialogue layer's subset
-// (everything except the fact Value, which the dialogue layer doesn't carry).
+// toDialogueSlots and applyDialogueSlots are the only bridge between
+// router.Slots and dialogue.Slots. dialogue must not import router (import
+// cycle), so the two structs are hand-kept copies and every field has to be
+// carried by hand here. Adding a field to either struct without adding it to
+// BOTH functions loses a slot silently — nothing fails to build. The tests in
+// slotsparity_test.go fail when the field sets or the converters stop matching;
+// when they do, fix these two functions, not the tests.
+
+// toDialogueSlots projects the router's slots onto the dialogue layer's copy.
 func toDialogueSlots(s router.Slots) dialogue.Slots {
 	return dialogue.Slots{
 		Time:    s.Time,
 		HasTime: s.HasTime,
 		Key:     s.Key,
+		Value:   s.Value,
 		HasKey:  s.HasKey,
 		Text:    s.Text,
 		Fn:      s.Fn,
@@ -27,11 +35,10 @@ func toDialogueSlots(s router.Slots) dialogue.Slots {
 	}
 }
 
-// applyDialogueSlots writes inherited dialogue slots back onto router slots,
-// preserving router-only fields (Value) the dialogue layer never touched.
+// applyDialogueSlots writes dialogue slots back onto router slots.
 func applyDialogueSlots(base router.Slots, d dialogue.Slots) router.Slots {
 	base.Time, base.HasTime = d.Time, d.HasTime
-	base.Key, base.HasKey = d.Key, d.HasKey
+	base.Key, base.Value, base.HasKey = d.Key, d.Value, d.HasKey
 	base.Text = d.Text
 	base.Fn, base.Args, base.HasFn = d.Fn, d.Args, d.HasFn
 	return base

cmd/mavend/kiwixwire.go

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"log"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/config"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/kiwix"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/llm"
+)
+
+// kiwixWiring — the offline encyclopedia, assembled. nil ⇒ off, which is the
+// default: the query chain simply has no ZIM source.
+//
+// The rewriter is separately optional. Searching without one is legal and
+// mostly useless against English ZIMs, but it is the honest degraded mode when
+// there is no llama-server to rewrite with, and it is what `rewrite: false`
+// asks for.
+type kiwixWiring struct {
+	client   *kiwix.Client
+	rewriter *kiwix.Rewriter // nil ⇒ the question is searched verbatim
+	book     string
+	max      int
+	runes    int
+}
+
+// wireKiwix builds the ZIM reader from the `kiwix` block, or returns nil when
+// there is none. config.Normalise has already dropped a block with no URL and
+// filled the two size defaults, so this does no validation of its own.
+//
+// The llm client is the phraser's swap-aware one (llmClientFor), so a model
+// swap re-points the rewriter with everything else. A nil client means there is
+// no resident model at all; that degrades the rewriter, not the source.
+func wireKiwix(cfg *config.Config, c *llm.Client) *kiwixWiring {
+	if cfg.Kiwix == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	kc := cfg.Kiwix
+	w := &kiwixWiring{
+		client: kiwix.New(kc.URL),
+		book:   kc.Book,
+		max:    kc.MaxResults,
+		runes:  kc.SnippetRunes,
+	}
+	switch {
+	case !kc.RewriteEnabled():
+		log.Printf("voice: kiwix at %s (book %q, query rewriting off by config)", kc.URL, kc.Book)
+	case c == nil:
+		log.Printf("voice: kiwix at %s (book %q, no llama-server: searching questions verbatim)", kc.URL, kc.Book)
+	default:
+		w.rewriter = kiwix.NewRewriter(c)
+		log.Printf("voice: kiwix at %s (book %q)", kc.URL, kc.Book)
+	}
+	return w
+}

cmd/mavend/kiwixwire_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/config"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/kiwix"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/voice"
+)
+
+// searchRSS is what kiwix-serve answers a /search with, trimmed to the fields
+// ParseSearchRSS reads.
+func searchRSS(items ...string) string {
+	return `<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel>` +
+		strings.Join(items, "") + `</channel></rss>`
+}
+
+func rssItem(title, snippet string) string {
+	return "<item><title>" + title + "</title><link>/x</link><description>" + snippet + "</description></item>"
+}
+
+// stubKiwixServer answers every search with the given body and records the
+// pattern it was asked for, so a test can assert on what left the process.
+type stubKiwixServer struct {
+	*httptest.Server
+	lastPattern string
+	lastBook    string
+}
+
+func newStubKiwix(t *testing.T, body string, status int) *stubKiwixServer {
+	t.Helper()
+	s := &stubKiwixServer{}
+	s.Server = httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if status != 0 && status != http.StatusOK {
+			w.WriteHeader(status)
+			return
+		}
+		// Two endpoints on one server: /search answers the RSS, everything else
+		// is an article read. Only the search is recorded — an article fetch
+		// carries no query string and would blank the assertions.
+		if r.URL.Path != "/search" {
+			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html")
+			_, _ = w.Write([]byte("<html><title>Article</title><body><p>the lead paragraph</p></body></html>"))
+			return
+		}
+		s.lastPattern = r.URL.Query().Get("pattern")
+		s.lastBook = r.URL.Query().Get("books.name")
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/xml")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(body))
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(s.Close)
+	return s
+}
+
+// buildKiwixHandler wires the source with no rewriter: the question is searched
+// verbatim, which keeps the assertion about what was sent unambiguous.
+func buildKiwixHandler(base string) *reactiveHandler {
+	return &reactiveHandler{
+		replier: voice.NewStubReplier(),
+		phraser: phraser.NewStub(),
+		kiwix: &kiwixWiring{
+			client: kiwix.New(base),
+			book:   "wikipedia_en_all_maxi",
+			max:    config.DefaultKiwixResults,
+			runes:  config.DefaultKiwixSnippetRunes,
+		},
+	}
+}
+
+func askKiwix(h *reactiveHandler, q string) (string, bool) {
+	return h.queryKiwix(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec: router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: q},
+	})
+}
+
+// The default daemon has no `kiwix` block, and a source that is off must not
+// claim the turn — the model answers next, exactly as it did before.
+func TestQueryKiwixOffPassesThrough(t *testing.T) {
+	h := &reactiveHandler{replier: voice.NewStubReplier(), phraser: phraser.NewStub()}
+	if reply, ok := askKiwix(h, "почему небо синее?"); ok {
+		t.Errorf("an unconfigured kiwix claimed the turn: %q", reply)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestQueryKiwixAnswersFromSnippets(t *testing.T) {
+	s := newStubKiwix(t, searchRSS(rssItem("Rayleigh scattering", "shorter wavelengths scatter more")), 0)
+	h := buildKiwixHandler(s.URL)
+
+	reply, ok := askKiwix(h, "почему небо синее?")
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("kiwix found a hit and did not claim the turn")
+	}
+	if reply == "" {
+		t.Error("claimed the turn with an empty reply")
+	}
+	if s.lastBook != "wikipedia_en_all_maxi" {
+		t.Errorf("books.name = %q, want the configured book", s.lastBook)
+	}
+}
+
+// No hit is not a failure worth announcing: the ZIM does not cover it, and the
+// model answering next beats "ничего не нашла".
+func TestQueryKiwixNoHitsPassesThrough(t *testing.T) {
+	s := newStubKiwix(t, searchRSS(), 0)
+	if reply, ok := askKiwix(buildKiwixHandler(s.URL), "почему небо синее?"); ok {
+		t.Errorf("an empty result set claimed the turn: %q", reply)
+	}
+}
+
+// A dead or misconfigured server must degrade to the model, not to an error
+// spoken out loud. A turn never breaks on a capability.
+func TestQueryKiwixServerErrorPassesThrough(t *testing.T) {
+	s := newStubKiwix(t, "", http.StatusBadRequest)
+	if reply, ok := askKiwix(buildKiwixHandler(s.URL), "почему небо синее?"); ok {
+		t.Errorf("a 400 claimed the turn: %q", reply)
+	}
+}
+
+// The privacy rule in CLAUDE.md, asserted rather than assumed: only the
+// utterance is searched. No note, no fact, no persona block travels with it.
+func TestQueryKiwixSendsOnlyTheQuestion(t *testing.T) {
+	s := newStubKiwix(t, searchRSS(rssItem("X", "y")), 0)
+	h := buildKiwixHandler(s.URL)
+	// A turn carrying notes an earlier source already pulled. They must not
+	// reach the query string.
+	_, _ = h.queryKiwix(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec:   router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: "почему небо синее?"},
+		notes: []ipc.Note{{Text: "пароль от роутера hunter2"}},
+	})
+	if strings.Contains(s.lastPattern, "hunter2") {
+		t.Fatalf("a stored note leaked into the search query: %q", s.lastPattern)
+	}
+	if s.lastPattern != "почему небо синее?" {
+		t.Errorf("pattern = %q, want the utterance verbatim", s.lastPattern)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestWireKiwixOffWithoutABlock(t *testing.T) {
+	if w := wireKiwix(&config.Config{}, nil); w != nil {
+		t.Error("wireKiwix built a source with no config block")
+	}
+}
+
+// No llama-server means no rewriter, but the source still works: searching the
+// question verbatim is the honest degraded mode, not a reason to stay dark.
+func TestWireKiwixWithoutAnLLMHasNoRewriter(t *testing.T) {
+	w := wireKiwix(&config.Config{Kiwix: &config.KiwixConfig{
+		URL: "http://kiwix:8080", Book: "b", MaxResults: 5, SnippetRunes: 1500,
+	}}, nil)
+	if w == nil {
+		t.Fatal("wireKiwix returned nil for a configured block")
+	}
+	if w.rewriter != nil {
+		t.Error("built a rewriter with no llm client")
+	}
+	if w.book != "b" {
+		t.Errorf("book = %q", w.book)
+	}
+}
+
+// The whole point of reading the article: kiwix's own snippet is usually the
+// navigation box at the foot of the page, so the lead paragraph must be what
+// reaches the phraser.
+func TestQueryKiwixReadsTheArticleNotTheSnippet(t *testing.T) {
+	junk := "Ecological economics Ecological footprint Ecological forecasting"
+	s := newStubKiwix(t, searchRSS(rssItem("Photosynthesis", junk)), 0)
+	h := buildKiwixHandler(s.URL)
+	h.phraser = nil // no phraser ⇒ the fallback reads back what it was given
+
+	reply, ok := askKiwix(h, "что такое фотосинтез?")
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("did not claim the turn")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(reply, "the lead paragraph") {
+		t.Errorf("reply did not come from the article: %q", reply)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(reply, "Ecological economics") {
+		t.Errorf("recited the navigation-box snippet: %q", reply)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/main.go

@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ func run(args []string) error {
 	coreFor := func() ipc.CoreAPI { return newIntakeAPI(ipc.NewStoreAPI(st), evBus, time.Now) }
 
 	if !locked {
-		rules = loop.DefaultRules()
+		rules = wireRules(cfg)
 		gatherer = loop.NewGatherer(st, rules)
 		if cfg.QuietHours != nil {
 			gatherer.SetQuietHours(cfg.QuietHours.Start, cfg.QuietHours.End)
@@ -341,6 +341,9 @@ func run(args []string) error {
 		if voiceW != nil && voiceW.handler != nil {
 			api := coreAPI.(*daemonAPI)
 			api.chatFn = voiceW.handler.handleText
+			// And the reverse: the handler was wired with the bare store
+			// adapter, which cannot serve the day plan. See upgradeAPI.
+			voiceW.handler.upgradeAPI(api)
 		}
 		if voiceW != nil && voiceW.mcp != nil {
 			coreAPI.(*daemonAPI).getMCPServers = voiceW.mcp.status
@@ -508,7 +511,7 @@ func run(args []string) error {
 			}
 
 			// Wire everything.
-			rules = loop.DefaultRules()
+			rules = wireRules(cfg)
 			gatherer = loop.NewGatherer(st, rules)
 			if cfg.QuietHours != nil {
 				gatherer.SetQuietHours(cfg.QuietHours.Start, cfg.QuietHours.End)
@@ -603,6 +606,7 @@ func run(args []string) error {
 			}
 			if voiceW != nil && voiceW.handler != nil {
 				newAPI.chatFn = voiceW.handler.handleText
+				voiceW.handler.upgradeAPI(newAPI)
 			}
 			srv.SetAPI(newAPI)
 			srv.Check = (&auth.Gate{Enrollment: auth.NewFloorEnrollment(), Session: passkeySess}).Check
@@ -751,7 +755,15 @@ func run(args []string) error {
 	if voiceW != nil {
 		voiceW.close()
 	}
-	wg.Wait()
+	// Bounded. Every worker below watches ctx, but one parked in a model call
+	// or an HTTP fetch can outlast the supervisor's patience, and run() has to
+	// return for `defer st.Close()` to seal the database. A worker abandoned
+	// mid-tick loses one tick; a shutdown that never returns loses every write
+	// since the last clean stop — which is how the deployed ciphertext went
+	// eleven days stale in July 2026.
+	if !waitWorkers(&wg, workerGrace) {
+		log.Printf("mavend: workers still running after %s, sealing anyway", workerGrace)
+	}
 	log.Printf("mavend: bye")
 	return nil
 }
@@ -782,3 +794,35 @@ func contextBlockFn(cfg *config.Config, now func() time.Time) func() string {
 	f := personaFacts(cfg)
 	return func() string { return f.Block(now()) }
 }
+
+// workerGrace — how long shutdown waits for the background workers before it
+// goes ahead and seals without them. Comfortably inside docker's ten-second
+// default so the seal still lands before SIGKILL.
+const workerGrace = 4 * time.Second
+
+// waitWorkers waits on wg for at most d. Reports whether they all finished.
+func waitWorkers(wg *sync.WaitGroup, d time.Duration) bool {
+	done := make(chan struct{})
+	go func() {
+		wg.Wait()
+		close(done)
+	}()
+	select {
+	case <-done:
+		return true
+	case <-time.After(d):
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
+// wireRules builds the nudge rule set, minus anything config turned off. The
+// drop is logged because a rule vanishing silently is indistinguishable from a
+// rule that is broken, and the next person to wonder why she stopped nudging
+// should find the answer in the boot log.
+func wireRules(cfg *config.Config) []loop.Rule {
+	rules, dropped := loop.RulesExcept(cfg.DisabledRules)
+	for _, name := range dropped {
+		log.Printf("loop: rule %q disabled by config", name)
+	}
+	return rules
+}

cmd/mavend/memoryeval.go

@@ -29,11 +29,11 @@ import (
 // minutes of evaluation was five minutes of a mute assistant.
 //
 // The background client now yields the slot while a turn is in flight, so the
-// collision is handled where it belongs and this is a prompt budget again.
-// Sixty seconds is long enough for a Thinking model here, and an evaluation cut
-// off costs nothing, because it is retried at the next interval. Raise it if
-// observations start truncating.
-const memoryEvalTimeout = 60 * time.Second
+// collision is solved where it belongs and this is a prompt budget again. Five
+// minutes is safe once more, and it is back: 60s truncated a Thinking model
+// mid-synthesis, which costs an observation for no latency saved. The gate, not
+// this number, is what keeps a voice turn from waiting.
+const memoryEvalTimeout = 5 * time.Minute
 
 // memoryEvalWorker — ticker + evaluator.
 type memoryEvalWorker struct {

cmd/mavend/patterns_test.go

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/config"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/delivery"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/loop"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/pattern"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
@@ -283,3 +284,81 @@ func TestTickProposalCooldownSpacesAnnouncements(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// TestVoiceYesDoesNotAcceptRoutine — Vikunja #367. Accepting a routine hands
+// the tick loop a standing new reason to speak, which DESIGN.md puts at layer
+// 3, and voice is structurally incapable of layer 3. A spoken "да" must park
+// the decision for the authed page, not flip the row itself.
+func TestVoiceYesDoesNotAcceptRoutine(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newTestStore(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	now := refNow()
+	seedRefillEvents(t, st, ctx, now, pattern.MinEvents-1)
+
+	h := &reactiveHandler{api: ipc.NewStoreAPI(st), dataStore: st, now: func() time.Time { return now }}
+
+	// The MinEvents'th event is the one that makes the pattern detectable, and
+	// it goes through the voice path so the proposal is parked for a y/n.
+	last := now.Add(time.Duration(pattern.MinEvents-1) * 7 * 24 * time.Hour)
+	factID, err := st.WriteFact(ctx, last, store.KindSelf, "cat_water", "refill", "voice", 1.0, sql.NullInt64{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write fact: %v", err)
+	}
+	if phrase := h.detectPattern(ctx, factID, "cat_water", "refill", last); phrase == "" {
+		t.Fatal("expected a parked routine proposal")
+	}
+
+	reply, handled := h.resolveConfirm(ctx, "да")
+	if !handled {
+		t.Fatal("the spoken yes should be consumed by the routine confirm")
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(reply, "рутин") {
+		t.Fatalf("reply should send him to the routines page, got %q", reply)
+	}
+
+	rows, err := st.ListProposedRoutinesByStatus(ctx, store.RoutineAccepted)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("list accepted: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(rows) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("voice accepted a routine: %+v", rows)
+	}
+	proposed, err := st.ListProposedRoutinesByStatus(ctx, store.RoutineProposed)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("list proposed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(proposed) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("proposed routines = %d, want 1 (still waiting for the page)", len(proposed))
+	}
+}
+
+// TestVoiceNoStillDismissesRoutine — declining does not move the boundary
+// outward, so voice keeps it. Only acceptance is gated.
+func TestVoiceNoStillDismissesRoutine(t *testing.T) {
+	st := newTestStore(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	now := refNow()
+	seedRefillEvents(t, st, ctx, now, pattern.MinEvents-1)
+
+	h := &reactiveHandler{api: ipc.NewStoreAPI(st), dataStore: st, now: func() time.Time { return now }}
+
+	last := now.Add(time.Duration(pattern.MinEvents-1) * 7 * 24 * time.Hour)
+	factID, err := st.WriteFact(ctx, last, store.KindSelf, "cat_water", "refill", "voice", 1.0, sql.NullInt64{})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write fact: %v", err)
+	}
+	if phrase := h.detectPattern(ctx, factID, "cat_water", "refill", last); phrase == "" {
+		t.Fatal("expected a parked routine proposal")
+	}
+
+	if _, handled := h.resolveConfirm(ctx, "нет"); !handled {
+		t.Fatal("the spoken no should be consumed by the routine confirm")
+	}
+	rows, err := st.ListProposedRoutinesByStatus(ctx, store.RoutineDismissed)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("list dismissed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(rows) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("dismissed routines = %d, want 1", len(rows))
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/quiet_toggle.go

@@ -133,10 +133,21 @@ var (
 	quietOnPhrases = [][]string{
 		{"quiet", "on"}, {"quiet", "mode"},
 		{"тих", "режим"}, {"не", "шум"}, {"не", "беспоко"},
-		{"тих"},
+		// The noun form and the comparative. "режим тишины" is how the
+		// setting is named half the time, and "сделай потише" is how it is
+		// actually asked for out loud. Both used to fall through to the
+		// router, which has no quiet intent, so the command did nothing.
+		{"режим", "тишин"}, {"сделай", "тише"}, {"сделай", "потише"},
+		{"говори", "тише"}, {"будь", "потише"},
+		{"тих"}, {"потише"},
 	}
 )
 
+// quietWordStems — every stem that names the setting. Used by the
+// negated-but-unmatched fallback in classifyQuietToggle, which has to
+// recognise "хватит тишины" without an ON phrase having matched.
+var quietWordStems = []string{"тих", "тишин", "потише"}
+
 // quietNegatorWords — negators that are whole words with no useful stem.
 var quietNegatorWords = map[string]bool{
 	"не": true, "нет": true, "хватит": true, "no": true, "not": true, "off": true,
@@ -197,8 +208,10 @@ func classifyQuietToggle(text string) (on, off bool) {
 	// on after he asked for it to stop.
 	if quietNegated(tokens, nil) {
 		for _, t := range tokens {
-			if quietStem(t, "тих") {
-				return false, true
+			for _, stem := range quietWordStems {
+				if quietStem(t, stem) {
+					return false, true
+				}
 			}
 		}
 	}

cmd/mavend/quiet_toggle_test.go

@@ -47,6 +47,15 @@ func TestResolveQuietToggle(t *testing.T) {
 		{"побудь в тихом режиме", quietOn},
 		{"Тихий Режим!", quietOn},
 		{"тихая", quietOn},
+		// The noun form and the comparative.
+		{"включи режим тишины", quietOn},
+		{"режим тишины", quietOn},
+		{"сделай потише", quietOn},
+		{"сделай тише", quietOn},
+		{"потише", quietOn},
+		// English, as the fixture phrases it.
+		{"turn quiet mode back on", quietOn},
+		{"enable quiet mode", quietOn},
 
 		// OFF vocabulary — all seven, incl. the three that used to say ON.
 		{"quiet off", quietOff},
@@ -60,6 +69,12 @@ func TestResolveQuietToggle(t *testing.T) {
 		{"выключи тихий режим", quietOff},
 		{"отмени тихий режим пожалуйста", quietOff},
 		{"верни громкий режим", quietOff},
+		{"выключи режим тишины", quietOff},
+		{"хватит тишины", quietOff},
+		{"turn off quiet mode", quietOff},
+		{"quiet mode off", quietOff},
+		{"stop quiet mode", quietOff},
+		{"disable quiet mode", quietOff},
 
 		// False positives: "тихо"/"тихий" as ordinary Russian.
 		{"очень тихий сегодня день", quietNone},
@@ -68,6 +83,8 @@ func TestResolveQuietToggle(t *testing.T) {
 		{"потихоньку", quietNone},
 		{"тихонько", quietNone},
 		{"он говорил тихим голосом весь вечер", quietNone},
+		{"в тишине лучше думается", quietNone},
+		{"на улице стало потише", quietNone},
 
 		// Unrelated.
 		{"напомни завтра позвонить маме", quietNone},

cmd/mavend/replier_llm.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/llm"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/persona"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/voice"
 )
@@ -47,6 +48,7 @@ func (r *llmReplier) Reply(d router.Decision) string {
 	out, err := r.c.Complete(ctx, llm.Req{
 		System:        persona.Prepend(r.block, replySystem),
 		User:          replyContext(d),
+		Grammar:       phraser.ResponseGrammar,
 		MaxTokens:     512,
 		RepeatPenalty: 1.3,
 	})

cmd/mavend/replier_llm_test.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"testing"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/llm"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/voice"
 )
@@ -67,3 +68,20 @@ var errTestLLMDown = errTest("llm down")
 type errTest string
 
 func (e errTest) Error() string { return string(e) }
+
+// grammarRecorder captures the request so the grammar can be asserted on.
+type grammarRecorder struct{ req llm.Req }
+
+func (g *grammarRecorder) Complete(_ context.Context, r llm.Req) (string, error) {
+	g.req = r
+	return `{"response":"записала","mood":"neutral"}`, nil
+}
+
+func TestLLMReplierCarriesTheResponseGrammar(t *testing.T) {
+	rec := &grammarRecorder{}
+	r := newLLMReplier(rec, nil)
+	r.Reply(router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote, Slots: router.Slots{Text: "кофе закончился"}})
+	if rec.req.Grammar != phraser.ResponseGrammar {
+		t.Errorf("grammar = %q, want phraser.ResponseGrammar", rec.req.Grammar)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/searchwire.go

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"log"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/config"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/websearch"
+)
+
+// searchWiring — the metasearch source, assembled. nil ⇒ off, which is the
+// default: no `search` block, no query ever leaves the LAN.
+//
+// Thinner than kiwixWiring because there is nothing to rewrite. SearXNG ranks
+// with real engines, so the question goes out as he asked it, and that is the
+// reason this source sits ahead of the ZIMs rather than behind them.
+type searchWiring struct {
+	client *websearch.Client
+	max    int
+	runes  int
+}
+
+// wireSearch builds the search client from the `search` block, or returns nil
+// when there is none. config.Normalise has already dropped a block with no URL
+// and filled the two size defaults, so this does no validation of its own.
+func wireSearch(cfg *config.Config) *searchWiring {
+	if cfg.Search == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	sc := cfg.Search
+	log.Printf("voice: web search at %s (language %q, engines %q)", sc.URL, sc.Language, sc.Engines)
+	return &searchWiring{
+		client: websearch.New(sc.URL, websearch.Options{
+			Language: sc.Language,
+			Engines:  sc.Engines,
+			Timeout:  time.Duration(sc.Timeout),
+		}),
+		max:   sc.MaxResults,
+		runes: sc.SnippetRunes,
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/simulator_test.go

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // mavend/simulator_test.go — the replayable full-system simulator
-// (Vikunja #284, 20-07-2026-BACKLOG.md item 7).
+// (Vikunja #284).
 //
 // # What it is
 //
@@ -328,7 +328,10 @@ func (s *scriptedLLM) Complete(_ context.Context, r llm.Req) (string, error) {
 	s.mu.Lock()
 	defer s.mu.Unlock()
 	s.calls = append(s.calls, r)
-	routing := r.Grammar != ""
+	// A grammar no longer separates the two contracts — the replier carries one
+	// too since phraser.ResponseGrammar was attached to it. Only the router's
+	// grammar names the intent enum, so that is what tells them apart.
+	routing := strings.Contains(r.Grammar, "intent")
 	for _, e := range s.entries {
 		if e.Match != "" && !strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(r.User), strings.ToLower(e.Match)) {
 			continue

cmd/mavend/slotsparity_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"reflect"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/dialogue"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+// TestSlotsParity — dialogue.Slots is a hand-kept copy of router.Slots
+// (dialogue must not import router: import cycle). Drift is silent, so this
+// test compares the two field sets by name and type. If it fails, add the new
+// field to both structs AND to toDialogueSlots/applyDialogueSlots in
+// followup.go — do not relax the test.
+func TestSlotsParity(t *testing.T) {
+	fields := func(v any) map[string]string {
+		rt := reflect.TypeOf(v)
+		out := make(map[string]string, rt.NumField())
+		for i := 0; i < rt.NumField(); i++ {
+			f := rt.Field(i)
+			out[f.Name] = f.Type.String()
+		}
+		return out
+	}
+	rf, df := fields(router.Slots{}), fields(dialogue.Slots{})
+	for name, typ := range rf {
+		dt, ok := df[name]
+		if !ok {
+			t.Errorf("router.Slots.%s (%s) missing from dialogue.Slots", name, typ)
+			continue
+		}
+		if dt != typ {
+			t.Errorf("field %s: router has %s, dialogue has %s", name, typ, dt)
+		}
+	}
+	for name, typ := range df {
+		if _, ok := rf[name]; !ok {
+			t.Errorf("dialogue.Slots.%s (%s) missing from router.Slots", name, typ)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// TestSlotsRoundTrip — the converters carry every field. A field the parity
+// test accepts can still be dropped in transit, so round-trip a fully
+// populated value and compare.
+func TestSlotsRoundTrip(t *testing.T) {
+	full := router.Slots{
+		Time:    time.Date(2026, 8, 2, 11, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC),
+		HasTime: true,
+		Fn:      "restart",
+		Args:    []string{"nginx"},
+		HasFn:   true,
+		Key:     "water",
+		Value:   `"drank"`,
+		HasKey:  true,
+		Text:    "выпил воды",
+	}
+	// Every field must be non-zero, or the round-trip proves nothing.
+	rv := reflect.ValueOf(full)
+	for i := 0; i < rv.NumField(); i++ {
+		if rv.Field(i).IsZero() {
+			t.Fatalf("field %s is zero: extend this fixture so the round-trip covers it",
+				rv.Type().Field(i).Name)
+		}
+	}
+	if got := applyDialogueSlots(router.Slots{}, toDialogueSlots(full)); !reflect.DeepEqual(got, full) {
+		t.Errorf("round-trip lost a slot:\n got %+v\nwant %+v", got, full)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/snooze.go

@@ -0,0 +1,107 @@
+// Spoken snooze — "не сейчас", "потом", "отложи" said out loud after a nudge
+// resolves it as `snoozed`, the same outcome the Telegram buttons and the web
+// UI write. Until this existed, a nudge could only be deferred by touching a
+// screen: the voice path had no way to reach store.ResolveNudge at all, so the
+// one channel she nudges on hardest was the one channel he could not answer.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"log"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
+)
+
+// snoozeWindow — how long after a send "потом" still means "that nudge".
+//
+// A window is what makes this safe to run before the router. "потом" is an
+// ordinary Russian word; eating every one of them would break real sentences.
+// Bounded to the minutes right after she spoke, the word is almost always an
+// answer to what she just said, and outside the window the utterance falls
+// through and routes normally.
+//
+// Twenty minutes rather than the two hours of store.SnoozeDuration: those
+// measure different things. SnoozeDuration is how long the quiet lasts,
+// snoozeWindow is how long an unanswered nudge stays the topic of the
+// conversation.
+const snoozeWindow = 20 * time.Minute
+
+// snoozeScan — how many recent nudges to look at when finding the target. The
+// newest pending one is nearly always the first row; a handful of resolved
+// rows can sit in front of it when he acked a few in a row.
+const snoozeScan = 10
+
+// resolveSnooze — pre-route keyword check, run after the quiet toggle. Returns
+// (reply, true) when the utterance defers a nudge she recently sent.
+//
+// It returns ("", false) in two different situations, on purpose: the words do
+// not read as a deferral, or they do but there is nothing pending to defer. In
+// both the turn keeps routing, so "потом посмотрю что там с бэкапом" is still
+// a query when no nudge is outstanding.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) resolveSnooze(ctx context.Context, text string, src turnSource) (string, bool) {
+	if !classifySnooze(text) {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	now := h.now()
+	target, ok := h.pendingNudge(ctx, now)
+	if !ok {
+		return "", false
+	}
+	if err := h.api.ResolveNudge(ctx, target.ID, store.NudgeSnoozed, now); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("voice: snooze nudge %d (%s, %s): %v", target.ID, target.Rule, src, err)
+		return "не получилось отложить.", true
+	}
+	log.Printf("voice: snoozed nudge %d (rule %s) from %s", target.ID, target.Rule, src)
+	return "хорошо, вернусь к этому позже.", true
+}
+
+// pendingNudge — the newest still-pending nudge sent inside snoozeWindow.
+//
+// Channel is deliberately not filtered. A nudge that went to Telegram is still
+// the thing he is answering when he says "потом" at the microphone, and making
+// the reply channel decide which nudges are answerable would mean the ops page
+// he actually read could not be dismissed by voice.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) pendingNudge(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) (ipc.Nudge, bool) {
+	recent, err := h.api.RecentNudges(ctx, snoozeScan)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("voice: recent nudges for snooze: %v", err)
+		return ipc.Nudge{}, false
+	}
+	for _, n := range recent {
+		if n.Outcome != store.NudgePending {
+			continue
+		}
+		if now.Sub(n.Ts) > snoozeWindow || n.Ts.After(now) {
+			continue
+		}
+		return n, true
+	}
+	return ipc.Nudge{}, false
+}
+
+// snoozePhrases — the deferral vocabulary, as stem sequences. Matched by
+// quietPhrase (quiet_toggle.go), which carries the rule that matters here:
+// a single-word pattern matches only a single-word utterance. Bare "потом" is
+// an answer; "потом схожу за водой" is a plan, and reporting a plan must not
+// silence the rule that prompted it.
+var snoozePhrases = [][]string{
+	{"не", "сейчас"}, {"не", "могу", "сейчас"}, {"не", "до", "этого"},
+	{"напомн", "позже"}, {"напомн", "потом"}, {"спрос", "позже"},
+	{"отлож"}, {"позже"}, {"потом"}, {"попозже"}, {"погоди"},
+	{"not", "now"}, {"later"}, {"snooze"}, {"remind", "me", "later"},
+}
+
+// classifySnooze reads an utterance as a deferral. Unlike the quiet toggle
+// there is no negation arm: "не потом" is not something anyone says, and the
+// leading "не" of "не сейчас" is part of the phrase itself.
+func classifySnooze(text string) bool {
+	tokens := quietTokens(text)
+	for _, p := range snoozePhrases {
+		if quietPhrase(tokens, p) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}

cmd/mavend/snooze_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
+)
+
+// snoozeFakeAPI serves a fixed nudge list and records the resolution.
+type snoozeFakeAPI struct {
+	ipc.UnimplementedCoreAPI
+	nudges []ipc.Nudge
+
+	gotID      int64
+	gotOutcome string
+	calls      int
+}
+
+func (a *snoozeFakeAPI) RecentNudges(_ context.Context, _ int) ([]ipc.Nudge, error) {
+	return a.nudges, nil
+}
+
+func (a *snoozeFakeAPI) ResolveNudge(_ context.Context, id int64, outcome string, _ time.Time) error {
+	a.gotID, a.gotOutcome, a.calls = id, outcome, a.calls+1
+	return nil
+}
+
+var snoozeNow = time.Date(2026, 8, 1, 12, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+
+func snoozeHandler(nudges []ipc.Nudge) (*reactiveHandler, *snoozeFakeAPI) {
+	api := &snoozeFakeAPI{nudges: nudges}
+	return &reactiveHandler{api: api, now: func() time.Time { return snoozeNow }}, api
+}
+
+func pendingNudgeAt(id int64, ago time.Duration) ipc.Nudge {
+	return ipc.Nudge{ID: id, Ts: snoozeNow.Add(-ago), Rule: "water", Channel: "voice", Outcome: store.NudgePending}
+}
+
+func TestClassifySnooze(t *testing.T) {
+	yes := []string{
+		"не сейчас", "потом", "позже", "попозже", "отложи", "погоди",
+		"напомни позже", "напомни потом", "не могу сейчас",
+		"not now", "later", "snooze",
+	}
+	for _, s := range yes {
+		if !classifySnooze(s) {
+			t.Errorf("classifySnooze(%q) = false, want true", s)
+		}
+	}
+	no := []string{
+		// A single-word pattern must not eat the sentence it appears in.
+		"потом схожу за водой", "позже посмотрю что там с бэкапом",
+		"напомни завтра позвонить маме", "какая погода", "погода на завтра",
+		"я отложил деньги", "", "тихий режим",
+	}
+	for _, s := range no {
+		if classifySnooze(s) {
+			t.Errorf("classifySnooze(%q) = true, want false", s)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestResolveSnoozeDefersTheNewestPendingNudge(t *testing.T) {
+	h, api := snoozeHandler([]ipc.Nudge{
+		{ID: 9, Ts: snoozeNow.Add(-time.Minute), Rule: "meal", Outcome: store.NudgeActed},
+		pendingNudgeAt(8, 3*time.Minute),
+		pendingNudgeAt(7, 10*time.Minute),
+	})
+	reply, handled := h.resolveSnooze(context.Background(), "не сейчас", sourceVoice)
+	if !handled || reply == "" {
+		t.Fatalf("got (%q, %v), want a reply", reply, handled)
+	}
+	if api.gotID != 8 || api.gotOutcome != store.NudgeSnoozed {
+		t.Fatalf("resolved (%d, %q), want (8, %q)", api.gotID, api.gotOutcome, store.NudgeSnoozed)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestResolveSnoozeFallsThroughWithNothingPending(t *testing.T) {
+	// The whole point of the window: with no live nudge, "потом" is just a
+	// word and must keep routing.
+	for _, name := range []string{"stale", "resolved", "empty"} {
+		var nudges []ipc.Nudge
+		switch name {
+		case "stale":
+			nudges = []ipc.Nudge{pendingNudgeAt(3, snoozeWindow+time.Minute)}
+		case "resolved":
+			nudges = []ipc.Nudge{{ID: 4, Ts: snoozeNow, Rule: "water", Outcome: store.NudgeActed}}
+		}
+		t.Run(name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			h, api := snoozeHandler(nudges)
+			reply, handled := h.resolveSnooze(context.Background(), "потом", sourceVoice)
+			if handled || reply != "" {
+				t.Fatalf("got (%q, %v), want fall-through", reply, handled)
+			}
+			if api.calls != 0 {
+				t.Fatalf("resolved a nudge with nothing pending")
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestResolveSnoozeIgnoresAFutureNudge(t *testing.T) {
+	// Clock skew between the tick and the turn must not let a send from the
+	// future be answered before it happened.
+	h, api := snoozeHandler([]ipc.Nudge{pendingNudgeAt(5, -time.Minute)})
+	if _, handled := h.resolveSnooze(context.Background(), "потом", sourceVoice); handled {
+		t.Fatalf("snoozed a nudge dated in the future")
+	}
+	if api.calls != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("resolved a future nudge")
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/tick.go

@@ -250,6 +250,7 @@ func (t *tickLoop) tick(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) {
 		log.Printf("tick: unacked telegram rules: %v", err)
 		return
 	}
+	keys = t.repeatableRules(keys)
 	if len(keys) == 0 {
 		return
 	}
@@ -261,6 +262,35 @@ func (t *tickLoop) tick(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) {
 	}
 }
 
+// repeatableRules drops keys whose rule is not wired any more.
+//
+// The repeat path reads the nudges table, not the rule set: any sev4 telegram
+// row still at outcome=pending is re-sent every repeat_interval until it is
+// acked. So turning a rule off in `disabled_rules` silenced new nudges and left
+// the last un-acked one re-sending every five minutes, forever — a knob that
+// stops the cause and not the symptom is worse than no knob. Found the evening
+// of 2026-08-01, two messages after the rule was supposedly off.
+//
+// Filtering on the wired set rather than on the disabled list also covers the
+// rule that was deleted from the code entirely: its orphan rows go quiet
+// instead of nagging about a rule nobody can ack from the UI any more.
+func (t *tickLoop) repeatableRules(keys []string) []string {
+	if len(keys) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	wired := make(map[string]bool, len(t.rules))
+	for _, r := range t.rules {
+		wired[r.Name] = true
+	}
+	out := keys[:0:0]
+	for _, k := range keys {
+		if wired[k] {
+			out = append(out, k)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // cachePhrase keeps the latest phrased nudge per rule for the sev4-repeat
 // path. writing under a mutex; the repeat path reads under the same. the
 // cache is bounded by the rule count (≤ ~30 per spec) so eviction is not a
@@ -852,7 +882,7 @@ func (t *tickLoop) dayPlan(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) ipc.DayPlan {
 		}
 		reminders = append(reminders, morning.PlanEntry{
 			At:   fire,
-			Text: strings.TrimSpace(r.Payload),
+			Text: r.Text(),
 			Kind: morning.PlanReminder,
 		})
 	}

cmd/mavend/tick_test.go

@@ -667,3 +667,43 @@ func TestDigestDeduplicatesByRule(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("after duplicate queue attempt: digestQ = %d, want 1 (dedup)", len(tl.digestQ))
 	}
 }
+
+// The repeat path reads the nudges table, not the rule set, so a rule turned
+// off in `disabled_rules` used to keep re-sending its last un-acked telegram
+// nudge every repeat_interval. Two arrived after the rule was off on
+// 2026-08-01. A disabled rule must be unreachable on every path.
+func TestRepeatableRulesDropsDisabledRules(t *testing.T) {
+	tl := &tickLoop{rules: mustRules(t, []string{"service_down"})}
+	got := tl.repeatableRules([]string{"service_down", "water"})
+	if len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "water" {
+		t.Fatalf("repeatableRules = %v, want [water]", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// An orphan row for a rule that no longer exists in the code goes quiet too:
+// nothing can ack what the UI cannot show.
+func TestRepeatableRulesDropsUnknownRules(t *testing.T) {
+	tl := &tickLoop{rules: loop.DefaultRules()}
+	if got := tl.repeatableRules([]string{"rule_deleted_last_year"}); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("repeatableRules = %v, want none", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRepeatableRulesKeepsWiredRules(t *testing.T) {
+	tl := &tickLoop{rules: loop.DefaultRules()}
+	got := tl.repeatableRules([]string{"service_down", "water"})
+	if len(got) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("repeatableRules = %v, want both", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// mustRules returns DefaultRules minus the named ones, failing if a name
+// matched nothing — a typo here would make the test pass for the wrong reason.
+func mustRules(t *testing.T, disabled []string) []loop.Rule {
+	t.Helper()
+	rules, dropped := loop.RulesExcept(disabled)
+	if len(dropped) != len(disabled) {
+		t.Fatalf("dropped %v, want %v", dropped, disabled)
+	}
+	return rules
+}

cmd/mavend/voice.go

@@ -76,17 +76,30 @@ type reactiveHandler struct {
 	tts      tts.Synthesizer
 	router   *router.Router
 	embedder router.Embedder // reused for note write/query (same model as the classifier)
-	api      ipc.CoreAPI
-	tools    *tool.Executor
-	matcher  *tool.Matcher
-	phraser  phraser.Phraser
-	replier  voice.Replier
-	now      func() time.Time
+	// api — the CoreAPI the handler reads and writes through. Wired with the
+	// bare store adapter and UPGRADED by main once the daemonAPI exists; see
+	// upgradeAPI.
+	api     ipc.CoreAPI
+	tools   *tool.Executor
+	matcher *tool.Matcher
+	phraser phraser.Phraser
+	replier voice.Replier
+	now     func() time.Time
 
 	// crawler reads a web page he names out loud (queryWeb). nil ⇒ on-demand
 	// page reading is off, which is the default: no `crawl` block, no fetch.
 	crawler *crawl.Crawler
 
+	// search asks a self-hosted SearXNG (querySearch), the first world source
+	// once his own data has had its turn. nil ⇒ off, the default: no `search`
+	// block, no query ever leaves the LAN.
+	search *searchWiring
+
+	// kiwix searches the offline ZIMs (queryKiwix), the fallback behind the
+	// live search and the last source before the model answers from its own
+	// weights. nil ⇒ off, the default.
+	kiwix *kiwixWiring
+
 	// feedsOn — whether any RSS feed is configured (config.Feeds). It changes
 	// only what she SAYS when asked and nothing is there: "ленты не настроены"
 	// instead of "ничего нового", which are different truths.
@@ -179,6 +192,27 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) HandlePushToTalk(ctx context.Context, req voice.PushTo
 	return h.reply(ctx, replyText, nil)
 }
 
+// upgradeAPI points the handler at the daemon's own CoreAPI once main has
+// built it.
+//
+// Wiring order forces this. wireVoice runs before the tick loop exists, so it
+// can only be handed the bare store adapter — and that adapter answers DayPlan
+// (and TickTrace, and MorningStatus) with "not available via direct store
+// API", because a day plan is assembled by the tick loop and is not a table to
+// read. So queryDayPlan, which the query chain reaches for "какие у меня планы
+// на сегодня", failed on the deployed daemon for every caller. main already
+// back-patches the other direction (daemonAPI.chatFn = handler.handleText);
+// this is the same seam in reverse.
+//
+// Safe against the obvious loop: nothing in the voice path calls api.Chat, so
+// pointing the handler at an API whose Chat IS the handler cannot recurse.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) upgradeAPI(api ipc.CoreAPI) {
+	if h == nil || api == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	h.api = api
+}
+
 // handleText — the core reactive path without stt/tts. Used by the IPC Chat
 // endpoint (and eventually by telegram). Splits out the audio bookends from
 // HandlePushToTalk so text channels share the same routing logic.
@@ -246,8 +280,42 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) runTurn(ctx context.Context, text string, src turnSour
 		return withNotice(expiredNotice, reply)
 	}
 
-	// 5. router — classify the utterance.
-	dec, err := h.router.Route(ctx, text, h.now())
+	// 4b. spoken snooze — "не сейчас" / "потом" answers the nudge she just
+	// sent. Only handled when a pending nudge is actually inside the window
+	// (snooze.go); otherwise the words route normally, because "потом" is an
+	// ordinary word and eating every one of them would break real sentences.
+	if reply, handled := h.resolveSnooze(ctx, text, src); handled {
+		return withNotice(expiredNotice, reply)
+	}
+
+	// 4c. spoken ack — "готово" closes that same nudge as `acted`. Only the
+	// contentless form is intercepted here; "выпил воды" keeps routing and
+	// closes the nudge after its fact lands (ackFromFact, step 8b).
+	if reply, handled := h.resolveAck(ctx, text, src); handled {
+		return withNotice(expiredNotice, reply)
+	}
+
+	// 5. route. An elliptical follow-up — "а завтра?" — is answered from the
+	// previous turn instead (continuation.go): the intent is the part it is
+	// missing, so no amount of routing recovers it, and the model's guess
+	// costs seconds to obtain and is close to a coin flip. Everything else
+	// goes to the router.
+	var (
+		dec  router.Decision
+		err  error
+		prev *dialogue.Session
+	)
+	now := h.now()
+	if h.dialogueSessions != nil {
+		prev = h.dialogueSessions.Get(voiceDialogueID, now)
+	}
+	cont := false
+	if dec, cont = continuationDecision(prev, text, now); cont {
+		log.Printf("voice: continuation of %s from the previous turn", dec.Intent)
+	}
+	if !cont {
+		dec, err = h.router.Route(ctx, text, now)
+	}
 	if err != nil {
 		// ErrNoIntents ⇒ classifier unseeded (cold boot). reply with a
 		// "still warming up" rather than a wire error.
@@ -263,10 +331,13 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) runTurn(ctx context.Context, text string, src turnSour
 	// turn (follow-ups like «напомни завтра» → «…позвонить маме»), then remember
 	// this turn for the next follow-up. Only same-intent, non-expired, non-
 	// clarify turns carry (see followUpMerge). Best-effort: nil store ⇒ skipped.
+	// A continuation already carries the previous turn's slots, so there is
+	// nothing left to inherit — but it is still remembered, so a chain of them
+	// ("а завтра?" … "а послезавтра?") keeps working.
 	if h.dialogueSessions != nil {
-		now := h.now()
-		prev := h.dialogueSessions.Get(voiceDialogueID, now)
-		dec = followUpMerge(prev, dec, now)
+		if !cont {
+			dec = followUpMerge(prev, dec, now)
+		}
 		if !dec.Clarify {
 			h.rememberTurn(prev, dec, now)
 		}
@@ -287,6 +358,10 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) runTurn(ctx context.Context, text string, src turnSour
 	replyText := h.applyAction(ctx, dec)
 	log.Printf("voice: applyAction returned: %q", replyText)
 
+	// 8b. a fact that answers a live nudge closes it as `acted` (ack.go).
+	// Silent: the fact reply stands, she does not congratulate him for it.
+	h.ackFromFact(ctx, dec)
+
 	// 9. replier — phrase the reply across the router decision.
 	if replyText == "" {
 		replyText = h.replier.Reply(dec)
@@ -324,6 +399,23 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) replySystem(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision)
 	u := strings.ToLower(dec.Utterance)
 	now := h.now()
 
+	// The topic and the day come from different places on a continuation.
+	// "а завтра?" names the day and nothing else; what he is asking ABOUT
+	// lives in the previous turn, which continuation.go copied into
+	// Slots.Text. Dates keep parsing from the utterance — that is the part
+	// the ellipsis actually restates — and only the keyword match widens.
+	//
+	// Gated on Continued, and that gate is load-bearing. followUpMerge fills
+	// an empty Text from the previous same-intent turn, so without it a plain
+	// "привет" after "какой сегодня день" inherited the old topic and got
+	// answered with the date. Seen on the deployed daemon, 01-08-2026.
+	topic := u
+	if dec.Continued {
+		if t := strings.ToLower(dec.Slots.Text); t != "" && t != u {
+			topic = u + " " + t
+		}
+	}
+
 	// stage-0 grammars catch the exact time/date patterns, but duration
 	// queries ("сколько времени прошло") bypass the grammar's build filter
 	// and can reach replySystem via the classifier path. Guard against them.
@@ -332,14 +424,14 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) replySystem(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision)
 	}
 
 	switch {
-	case strings.Contains(u, "час") || strings.Contains(u, "врем"):
+	case strings.Contains(topic, "час") || strings.Contains(topic, "врем"):
 		// "который час в киеве" — she keeps one clock, so any named place gets
 		// the honest answer. Never local time dressed up as the city's.
 		if mentionsUnknownPlace(u) {
 			return onlyLocalTimeReply
 		}
 		return "сейчас " + ruClock(now)
-	case strings.Contains(u, "день") || strings.Contains(u, "числ"):
+	case strings.Contains(topic, "день") || strings.Contains(topic, "числ"):
 		// "какое число завтра" — answer for the day the user asked about,
 		// not today. Reuses the router's calendar day-word parser.
 		day := now

cmd/mavend/voicewire.go

@@ -254,7 +254,13 @@ func wireVoice(cfg *config.Config, coreAPI ipc.CoreAPI, phr phraser.Phraser, mem
 		netscan:  w.netscan,
 		// nil unless `crawl.on_demand` is on: reading a page he names is a
 		// capability, and capabilities are off unless configured.
-		crawler:          onDemandCrawler(cfg),
+		crawler: onDemandCrawler(cfg),
+		// nil unless a `search` block names a SearXNG instance. External search
+		// is off unless configured, and configuring it is the whole opt-in.
+		search: wireSearch(cfg),
+		// nil unless a `kiwix` block names a server. Same swap-aware client the
+		// router and replier use, so the rewriter follows a model swap.
+		kiwix:            wireKiwix(cfg, llmClient),
 		weatherProvider:  weatherProvider,
 		weatherLocation:  weatherLocation,
 		memStore:         memStore,
@@ -314,6 +320,10 @@ func buildRouter(emb router.Embedder, acts router.ActMatcher, threshold float64,
 	seedClassifier(cls)
 	grammars := router.DefaultGrammars(acts)
 	grammars = append(grammars, router.SystemTimeDateGrammars()...)
+	// After the time/date rules on purpose: "какой сегодня день" is a clock
+	// question and must keep reaching replySystem, while "что у меня сегодня"
+	// is an agenda question and must not.
+	grammars = append(grammars, router.AgendaQueryGrammars()...)
 	grammars = append(grammars, router.ReminderGrammar())
 	return router.New(router.Config{
 		Grammars:   grammars,

cmd/mavgpud/gpu.go

@@ -0,0 +1,117 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"strings"
+)
+
+// The card is an AMD 7900 GRE with 16GB, driven by amdgpu and ROCm. Everything
+// here reads sysfs and forks nothing: rocm-smi is not even installed on the
+// workstation, and a poll that costs a subprocess every second is a poll that
+// gets tuned down until it is useless.
+
+// gpuProc — one process holding the compute engine.
+type gpuProc struct {
+	PID  int
+	Comm string
+	VRAM int64 // bytes, as the kernel accounts them to this process
+}
+
+// probe reads the two sysfs trees the supervisor decides from.
+//
+// kfdRoot is /sys/class/kfd/kfd/proc, one directory per ROCm process. The
+// directory appears when the process initialises HIP, which is well before it
+// allocates anything large. That is the whole reason this works: the job that
+// is about to want the card announces itself while it is still starting up,
+// so we see the contender rather than only the winner of an allocation race.
+//
+// drmDev is /sys/class/drm/cardN/device, which reports total and used VRAM for
+// the card as a whole.
+type probe struct {
+	kfdRoot string
+	drmDev  string
+}
+
+// foreign lists every ROCm process that is not ours. selfPID is the supervisor's
+// llama-server child, or 0 when it is not running.
+//
+// An unreadable kfd tree returns no processes and no error. That is deliberate
+// and it is the safe direction only because startVRAM also has to agree before
+// anything launches: a supervisor that cannot see the KFD never sees free VRAM
+// either, because the CPT run holding the card shows up in the drm totals.
+func (p probe) foreign(selfPID int) []gpuProc {
+	entries, err := os.ReadDir(p.kfdRoot)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var out []gpuProc
+	for _, e := range entries {
+		pid, err := strconv.Atoi(e.Name())
+		if err != nil || pid == selfPID {
+			continue
+		}
+		out = append(out, gpuProc{
+			PID:  pid,
+			Comm: readComm(pid),
+			VRAM: p.procVRAM(e.Name()),
+		})
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// procVRAM sums the per-node vram_* files under one process directory. The
+// suffix is the KFD topology node id (vram_35881 on this card), so it is
+// globbed rather than named, and a machine with two cards sums both.
+func (p probe) procVRAM(pid string) int64 {
+	matches, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(p.kfdRoot, pid, "vram_*"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	var total int64
+	for _, m := range matches {
+		total += readInt(m)
+	}
+	return total
+}
+
+// freeVRAM reports the bytes the card has left. Used only to decide whether to
+// start: a shortfall here means llama-server would refuse to load anyway. It is
+// never used to decide to stop, because by the time free VRAM has dropped the
+// other job has already failed its allocation, which is exactly the outcome
+// yielding exists to prevent.
+func (p probe) freeVRAM() int64 {
+	total := readInt(filepath.Join(p.drmDev, "mem_info_vram_total"))
+	used := readInt(filepath.Join(p.drmDev, "mem_info_vram_used"))
+	if total <= 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	if free := total - used; free > 0 {
+		return free
+	}
+	return 0
+}
+
+func readInt(path string) int64 {
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	n, err := strconv.ParseInt(strings.TrimSpace(string(b)), 10, 64)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return n
+}
+
+// readComm names the contender for the log. The log is the instrument for the
+// open question in Vikunja #488: whether a process can want this card without
+// ever registering on the KFD, which a Vulkan or video-decode job would.
+func readComm(pid int) string {
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(filepath.Join("/proc", strconv.Itoa(pid), "comm"))
+	if err != nil {
+		return "?"
+	}
+	return strings.TrimSpace(string(b))
+}

cmd/mavgpud/gpu_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,103 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"net/url"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strconv"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// fakeKFD builds the sysfs shape the workstation actually has: one directory
+// per ROCm process, each holding a vram_<node> file. Sampled from the live box
+// on 02-08-2026, where the CPT run appeared as proc/478104/vram_35881.
+func fakeKFD(t *testing.T, vramByPID map[int]int64) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	root := t.TempDir()
+	for pid, vram := range vramByPID {
+		dir := filepath.Join(root, strconv.Itoa(pid))
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(dir, 0o755); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+		f := filepath.Join(dir, "vram_35881")
+		if err := os.WriteFile(f, []byte(strconv.FormatInt(vram, 10)+"\n"), 0o644); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	return root
+}
+
+func TestForeignExcludesOurChild(t *testing.T) {
+	root := fakeKFD(t, map[int]int64{478104: 12791693312, 999: 4096})
+	p := probe{kfdRoot: root}
+
+	all := p.foreign(0)
+	if len(all) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("with no child running, both processes are foreign, got %d", len(all))
+	}
+
+	ours := p.foreign(999)
+	if len(ours) != 1 || ours[0].PID != 478104 {
+		t.Fatalf("our own llama-server must not count as a contender, got %+v", ours)
+	}
+	if ours[0].VRAM != 12791693312 {
+		t.Errorf("per-process VRAM = %d, want the value from vram_35881", ours[0].VRAM)
+	}
+}
+
+// An empty KFD tree is the state that permits a start, so it must read as empty
+// rather than as an error the caller has to interpret.
+func TestForeignEmptyAndMissing(t *testing.T) {
+	if got := (probe{kfdRoot: t.TempDir()}).foreign(0); len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("empty kfd tree: got %d processes, want 0", len(got))
+	}
+	if got := (probe{kfdRoot: "/nonexistent"}).foreign(0); got != nil {
+		t.Errorf("missing kfd tree: got %+v, want nil", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFreeVRAM(t *testing.T) {
+	dev := t.TempDir()
+	write := func(name, v string) {
+		if err := os.WriteFile(filepath.Join(dev, name), []byte(v), 0o644); err != nil {
+			t.Fatal(err)
+		}
+	}
+	// The live numbers from the workstation while the CPT run held the card.
+	write("mem_info_vram_total", "17163091968\n")
+	write("mem_info_vram_used", "13396389888\n")
+	p := probe{drmDev: dev}
+	if got, want := p.freeVRAM(), int64(3766702080); got != want {
+		t.Errorf("freeVRAM = %d, want %d", got, want)
+	}
+	if got := (probe{drmDev: "/nonexistent"}).freeVRAM(); got != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("unreadable card reports %d free, want 0 so nothing starts", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// With no model loaded the supervisor must still answer, and it must answer 503
+// rather than hanging or proxying into a closed port. Maven reads this endpoint
+// on a timer forever, including while the workstation is busy.
+func TestHealthAndProxyRefuseWhenNotReady(t *testing.T) {
+	s := &supervisor{run: newRunner("/bin/true", nil, "")}
+	h := s.handler(mustURL(t, "http://127.0.0.1:1"))
+
+	for _, path := range []string{"/health", "/v1/chat/completions"} {
+		w := httptest.NewRecorder()
+		h.ServeHTTP(w, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, path, nil))
+		if w.Code != http.StatusServiceUnavailable {
+			t.Errorf("%s with no model: got %d, want 503", path, w.Code)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func mustURL(t *testing.T, s string) *url.URL {
+	t.Helper()
+	u, err := url.Parse(s)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	return u
+}

cmd/mavgpud/main.go

@@ -0,0 +1,247 @@
+// mavgpud — the workstation's GPU supervisor.
+//
+// It runs on the workstation (an AMD 7900 GRE, 16GB), not on homesrv, and it is
+// deployed separately from the Maven daemons. Maven does not participate in any
+// of this and never asks for a start: it reads /health through internal/llm.Pair
+// and either gets the big model or falls back to the resident 1.7B.
+//
+// The rule, from Vikunja #488: keep llama-server loaded whenever the card is
+// free, unload it when it has been idle too long or when another process needs
+// the card. Not on demand, because a 7-14B takes tens of seconds to load and a
+// world question would be answered by a gap every time the card had been quiet.
+// Not always on, because that holds 16GB against the owner's own jobs.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"flag"
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httputil"
+	"net/url"
+	"os"
+	"os/signal"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"syscall"
+	"time"
+)
+
+type config struct {
+	Listen    string `json:"listen"`     // what Maven talks to
+	LlamaAddr string `json:"llama_addr"` // where llama-server binds
+	LlamaBin  string `json:"llama_bin"`
+	// LlamaArgs must include the flags that bind LlamaAddr. They are passed
+	// through untouched so the model, context size and layer count stay the
+	// owner's business and not this daemon's schema.
+	LlamaArgs []string `json:"llama_args"`
+
+	KFDRoot   string `json:"kfd_root"`
+	DRMDevice string `json:"drm_device"`
+
+	Poll        duration `json:"poll"`
+	IdleTimeout duration `json:"idle_timeout"`
+	StopGrace   duration `json:"stop_grace"`
+	MinFreeVRAM int64    `json:"min_free_vram_bytes"`
+	// EvictAfter and StartAfter are counted in polls, not seconds. Both exist
+	// to damp flapping: a one-tick blip from a short-lived rocm process must
+	// not evict the model, and a card that has just been released must not be
+	// grabbed before the previous job has finished unmapping.
+	EvictAfter int `json:"evict_after_polls"`
+	StartAfter int `json:"start_after_polls"`
+}
+
+func defaults() config {
+	return config{
+		Listen:      ":8080",
+		LlamaAddr:   "127.0.0.1:8081",
+		KFDRoot:     "/sys/class/kfd/kfd/proc",
+		DRMDevice:   "/sys/class/drm/card1/device",
+		Poll:        duration(time.Second),
+		IdleTimeout: duration(15 * time.Minute),
+		StopGrace:   duration(20 * time.Second),
+		MinFreeVRAM: 15 << 30,
+		EvictAfter:  2,
+		StartAfter:  5,
+	}
+}
+
+// duration lets the config file say "15m" instead of counting nanoseconds.
+type duration time.Duration
+
+func (d *duration) UnmarshalJSON(b []byte) error {
+	var s string
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &s); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	v, err := time.ParseDuration(s)
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	*d = duration(v)
+	return nil
+}
+
+func main() {
+	path := flag.String("config", "/etc/mavgpud.json", "config file")
+	flag.Parse()
+
+	cfg := defaults()
+	b, err := os.ReadFile(*path)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("mavgpud: read config: %v", err)
+	}
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(b, &cfg); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("mavgpud: parse config: %v", err)
+	}
+	if cfg.LlamaBin == "" {
+		log.Fatal("mavgpud: llama_bin is required")
+	}
+
+	base := "http://" + cfg.LlamaAddr
+	run := newRunner(cfg.LlamaBin, cfg.LlamaArgs, base+"/health")
+	sup := &supervisor{
+		cfg:   cfg,
+		probe: probe{kfdRoot: cfg.KFDRoot, drmDev: cfg.DRMDevice},
+		run:   run,
+	}
+	sup.touch()
+
+	ctx, cancel := signal.NotifyContext(context.Background(), syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM)
+	defer cancel()
+
+	target, err := url.Parse(base)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("mavgpud: llama_addr: %v", err)
+	}
+	srv := &http.Server{Addr: cfg.Listen, Handler: sup.handler(target)}
+	go func() {
+		log.Printf("mavgpud: listening on %s, model %s", cfg.Listen, cfg.LlamaBin)
+		if err := srv.ListenAndServe(); err != nil && err != http.ErrServerClosed {
+			log.Fatalf("mavgpud: listen: %v", err)
+		}
+	}()
+
+	sup.loop(ctx)
+
+	// The card must come back before we do. A supervisor that exits leaving
+	// llama-server holding 14GB is worse than one that never ran.
+	shut, done := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 5*time.Second)
+	defer done()
+	_ = srv.Shutdown(shut)
+	run.stop(time.Duration(cfg.StopGrace))
+}
+
+type supervisor struct {
+	cfg   config
+	probe probe
+	run   *runner
+
+	lastReq atomic.Int64 // unix nanos of the last request Maven sent
+
+	foreignStreak int
+	clearStreak   int
+}
+
+func (s *supervisor) touch() { s.lastReq.Store(time.Now().UnixNano()) }
+
+func (s *supervisor) idle() time.Duration {
+	return time.Since(time.Unix(0, s.lastReq.Load()))
+}
+
+// handler serves the two things the workstation exposes.
+//
+// /health is answered locally and always, with no GPU cost and no round trip,
+// because it is the only thing Maven reads and Maven reads it on a timer
+// forever. Everything else is llama-server's API, reverse-proxied. Proxying
+// rather than pointing Maven straight at llama-server is what makes the idle
+// window measurable: the supervisor cannot otherwise know when the model was
+// last used.
+func (s *supervisor) handler(target *url.URL) http.Handler {
+	proxy := httputil.NewSingleHostReverseProxy(target)
+	mux := http.NewServeMux()
+	mux.HandleFunc("/health", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if !s.run.isReady() {
+			http.Error(w, "model not loaded", http.StatusServiceUnavailable)
+			return
+		}
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"status":"ok"}`))
+	})
+	mux.HandleFunc("/", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if !s.run.isReady() {
+			http.Error(w, "model not loaded", http.StatusServiceUnavailable)
+			return
+		}
+		s.touch()
+		proxy.ServeHTTP(w, r)
+	})
+	return mux
+}
+
+func (s *supervisor) loop(ctx context.Context) {
+	t := time.NewTicker(time.Duration(s.cfg.Poll))
+	defer t.Stop()
+	for {
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-t.C:
+			s.tick(ctx)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// tick is the whole decision. Yielding is checked before starting, and presence
+// on the KFD is what triggers it — not a VRAM threshold. A ROCm process
+// registers under /sys/class/kfd/kfd/proc when it initialises HIP, before it
+// allocates, so we see a contender during its startup rather than after it has
+// already failed to get the memory it wanted.
+func (s *supervisor) tick(ctx context.Context) {
+	others := s.probe.foreign(s.run.pid())
+	if len(others) > 0 {
+		s.foreignStreak++
+		s.clearStreak = 0
+	} else {
+		s.foreignStreak = 0
+		s.clearStreak++
+	}
+
+	if s.run.running() {
+		s.run.refreshReady(ctx)
+		switch {
+		case s.foreignStreak >= s.cfg.EvictAfter:
+			log.Printf("mavgpud: yielding the card to %s", describe(others))
+			s.run.stop(time.Duration(s.cfg.StopGrace))
+		case s.idle() > time.Duration(s.cfg.IdleTimeout):
+			log.Printf("mavgpud: idle for %s, unloading", s.idle().Round(time.Second))
+			s.run.stop(time.Duration(s.cfg.StopGrace))
+		}
+		return
+	}
+
+	if s.clearStreak < s.cfg.StartAfter {
+		return
+	}
+	if free := s.probe.freeVRAM(); free < s.cfg.MinFreeVRAM {
+		return
+	}
+	s.touch() // the idle clock starts at load, not at the last request before it
+	if err := s.run.start(); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("mavgpud: start llama-server: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// describe names the contenders in the log. This log is the instrument for the
+// open question in #488: whether polling the KFD misses a job that wants the
+// card without registering there.
+func describe(procs []gpuProc) string {
+	out := ""
+	for i, p := range procs {
+		if i > 0 {
+			out += ", "
+		}
+		out += p.Comm
+	}
+	return out
+}

cmd/mavgpud/runner.go

@@ -0,0 +1,132 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+	"os/exec"
+	"sync"
+	"syscall"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// runner owns one llama-server process. Owning it is the point of the daemon:
+// the workstation cannot keep a 7-14B resident, because that holds 16GB against
+// the owner's CPT runs, Correx and the manga-recap pipeline. So the thing that
+// stays up is this, which costs no VRAM, and the model comes and goes under it.
+type runner struct {
+	bin  string
+	args []string
+	// ready is llama-server's own /health, which answers "is a model loaded".
+	// Loading a 7-14B takes tens of seconds, so started is not ready.
+	readyURL string
+
+	mu    sync.Mutex
+	cmd   *exec.Cmd
+	ready bool
+	http  *http.Client
+}
+
+func newRunner(bin string, args []string, readyURL string) *runner {
+	return &runner{
+		bin: bin, args: args, readyURL: readyURL,
+		http: &http.Client{Timeout: 2 * time.Second},
+	}
+}
+
+// pid is the child's, or 0. The GPU probe needs it to tell our own model apart
+// from a contender.
+func (r *runner) pid() int {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	if r.cmd == nil || r.cmd.Process == nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return r.cmd.Process.Pid
+}
+
+func (r *runner) running() bool { return r.pid() != 0 }
+
+// isReady reports the cached readiness. The supervisor loop refreshes it; the
+// health handler only reads, so answering /health never costs a round trip.
+func (r *runner) isReady() bool {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	return r.ready
+}
+
+// start launches llama-server. It returns as soon as the process exists, not
+// when the model is loaded.
+func (r *runner) start() error {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	if r.cmd != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command(r.bin, r.args...)
+	// Own process group, so stop kills anything llama-server spawned rather
+	// than leaving it holding VRAM after we have declared the card yielded.
+	cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setpgid: true}
+	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	r.cmd, r.ready = cmd, false
+	log.Printf("mavgpud: started llama-server pid=%d", cmd.Process.Pid)
+	go func() {
+		err := cmd.Wait()
+		r.mu.Lock()
+		r.cmd, r.ready = nil, false
+		r.mu.Unlock()
+		log.Printf("mavgpud: llama-server exited: %v", err)
+	}()
+	return nil
+}
+
+// stop ends llama-server and waits for the VRAM to come back. SIGTERM first so
+// it unmaps cleanly, SIGKILL after the grace window. Returning before the
+// process is gone would let the supervisor report a free card while 14GB is
+// still mapped, which is the one lie that would make yielding useless.
+func (r *runner) stop(grace time.Duration) {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	cmd := r.cmd
+	r.ready = false
+	r.mu.Unlock()
+	if cmd == nil || cmd.Process == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	pgid := -cmd.Process.Pid
+	_ = syscall.Kill(pgid, syscall.SIGTERM)
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(grace)
+	for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
+		if !r.running() {
+			return
+		}
+		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	log.Printf("mavgpud: llama-server did not exit in %s, killing", grace)
+	_ = syscall.Kill(pgid, syscall.SIGKILL)
+}
+
+// refreshReady asks llama-server whether the model is loaded. Called once per
+// supervisor tick, never per request.
+func (r *runner) refreshReady(ctx context.Context) {
+	if !r.running() {
+		return
+	}
+	ok := false
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, r.readyURL, nil)
+	if err == nil {
+		resp, err := r.http.Do(req)
+		if err == nil {
+			ok = resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK
+			resp.Body.Close()
+		}
+	}
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	was := r.ready
+	r.ready = ok
+	r.mu.Unlock()
+	if ok && !was {
+		log.Printf("mavgpud: model ready")
+	}
+}

cmd/mavseal/main.go

@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+// Command mavseal encrypts a live tmpfs working copy back to the ciphertext
+// file, for the case mavend could not do it itself.
+//
+// mavend seals its database in `defer st.Close()` when run() returns. A daemon
+// that is killed rather than shut down never gets there, and because the
+// working copy lives in the container's /dev/shm it dies with the container:
+// everything written since the last clean shutdown is lost, and the next boot
+// silently rolls back to the stale ciphertext. That is not hypothetical — on
+// 2026-08-01 the deployed ciphertext was eleven days old.
+//
+// This is a recovery tool, not part of the daemon. It is safe to run against a
+// live database: it takes a consistent snapshot with VACUUM INTO rather than
+// mutating the working copy the daemon owns.
+//
+// Usage:
+//
+//	mavseal -plain /dev/shm/maven-plain.db -cipher /var/lib/maven/maven.db.enc
+//
+// The key is read from MAVEN_DB_KEY (base64, 32 bytes decoded), the same
+// variable the daemon uses. It is never taken as an argument: an argument ends
+// up in the shell history and in ps.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"database/sql"
+	"encoding/base64"
+	"flag"
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
+	_ "modernc.org/sqlite"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	log.SetFlags(0)
+	if err := run(); err != nil {
+		log.Fatalf("mavseal: %v", err)
+	}
+}
+
+func run() error {
+	plain := flag.String("plain", "", "path to the plaintext working copy (required)")
+	cipher := flag.String("cipher", "", "path to write the ciphertext to (required)")
+	keep := flag.Bool("keep-snapshot", false, "leave the intermediate snapshot on disk for inspection")
+	flag.Parse()
+
+	if *plain == "" || *cipher == "" {
+		flag.Usage()
+		return fmt.Errorf("both -plain and -cipher are required")
+	}
+	key, err := readKey()
+	if err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+
+	// VACUUM INTO rather than a WAL checkpoint on the file itself. The daemon
+	// is usually still running and still writing when this is needed, and
+	// checkpointing its working copy mutates a database it owns. VACUUM INTO
+	// reads a consistent snapshot into a new file and touches nothing else, so
+	// the worst case is a snapshot a few seconds stale instead of a torn one.
+	snap := *plain + ".mavseal-snapshot"
+	os.Remove(snap)
+	if err := snapshot(*plain, snap); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	if !*keep {
+		defer os.Remove(snap)
+	}
+
+	before := fileSize(*cipher)
+	if err := store.SealPlaintext(snap, *cipher, key); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	log.Printf("sealed %s → %s (%d bytes, was %d)", *plain, *cipher, fileSize(*cipher), before)
+	return nil
+}
+
+// readKey pulls the same base64 key the daemon reads. Fails closed: a short or
+// unparseable key must not silently produce a file nothing can open.
+func readKey() ([]byte, error) {
+	raw := os.Getenv("MAVEN_DB_KEY")
+	if raw == "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("MAVEN_DB_KEY is not set")
+	}
+	key, err := base64.StdEncoding.DecodeString(raw)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("MAVEN_DB_KEY is not valid base64: %w", err)
+	}
+	if len(key) != 32 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("MAVEN_DB_KEY decodes to %d bytes, want 32", len(key))
+	}
+	return key, nil
+}
+
+// snapshot writes a consistent copy of src to dst with VACUUM INTO. The copy
+// includes everything committed to the write-ahead log, which is most of what
+// is worth saving on a daemon that has been up for hours.
+func snapshot(src, dst string) error {
+	db, err := sql.Open("sqlite", src)
+	if err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("open working copy: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer db.Close()
+	if _, err := db.ExecContext(context.Background(), "VACUUM INTO ?", dst); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("snapshot: %w", err)
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func fileSize(path string) int64 {
+	fi, err := os.Stat(path)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return fi.Size()
+}

cmd/mavweb/main.go

@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ func main() {
 
 	// /tools — the authed enable surface. maven proposes acts she can't run;
 	// this page is where a human reviews and enables them (proposed→enabled).
-	// Enabling is the boundary-moving act (DESIGN.md § Tool registration —
+	// Enabling is the boundary-moving act (docs/design.md § Tool registration —
 	// drafting is suggest, enabling is act), so it lives ONLY here,
 	// behind wg+nginx+auth — never the voice/chat path.
 	mux.HandleFunc("/tools", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
@@ -1210,13 +1210,10 @@ func routineRows(rs []ipc.ProposedRoutine) []routineRow {
 	return out
 }
 
-// acceptRoutine creates the recurring reminder for a proposal, then marks the
-// proposal accepted and links the reminder to it. Weekly patterns get a cron
-// expression; any other interval fires once.
-//
-// TODO(vikunja#46): this mirrors the voice accept path in cmd/mavend/voice.go.
-// When the tick loop learns to read accepted proposals directly, both callers
-// should hand off to one place in core instead of each building a reminder.
+// acceptRoutine marks a proposal accepted. This page is the ONLY surface that
+// may do it (Vikunja #367): accepting gives the tick loop a standing new
+// reason to speak, which DESIGN.md puts at layer 3, and the button here is
+// behind step-up. Voice can park the question and dismiss, never accept.
 func acceptRoutine(ctx context.Context, core ipc.CoreAPI, id int64) error {
 	proposed, err := core.ListProposedRoutines(ctx)
 	if err != nil {

deploy/README.md

@@ -73,6 +73,37 @@ What it does and does not do:
 - feed notes are **not** part of recall. "что я говорил про X" searches what he
   said; headlines are read back only by asking about the feeds.
 
+### Searching the web (`search`, on in this deploy)
+
+`deploy/mavend.json` ships a `search` block, so a question that is not about him
+reaches a self-hosted SearXNG before it reaches the ZIMs. Delete the block and
+no query leaves the LAN again. The shipped shape:
+
+```json
+"search": {
+  "url": "http://searxng:9563",
+  "max_results": 4,
+  "snippet_runes": 1500,
+  "language": "auto",
+  "timeout": "8s"
+}
+```
+
+- the instance needs `json` in its `search.formats` (settings.yml). A stock
+  SearXNG answers 403 to `format=json`, and then every search fails;
+- the question goes out **verbatim**, in the language he asked it. There is no
+  rewriter here, unlike Kiwix: SearXNG ranks through real engines;
+- only the query string leaves the box. `internal/websearch` cannot read the
+  store, so no note, fact, persona block or history can travel with a search;
+- a question about him never becomes a query. The personal boundary in the
+  query chain stops the walk above this source;
+- this runs **before** Kiwix. A live search reads what is true today and the
+  ZIMs read what was true when they were built, so the ZIMs are the fallback:
+  an empty result, an unreachable instance or a dead line falls through to
+  them and she never says the search failed;
+- `engines` narrows the search to named engines, e.g. `"duckduckgo,wikipedia"`.
+  Empty means whatever the instance has enabled.
+
 ### Reading a page (`crawl`, also off by default)
 
 There is no `crawl` block either, so no page is fetched. Two halves, separately
@@ -95,9 +126,9 @@ switched:
   a fallback and not a habit;
 - `watches` re-reads a fixed list on its interval and writes a note when the
   text changed. Like the feeds, it announces nothing;
-- the answer path sits behind his memory and his notes, and ahead of the model
-  answering from what it remembers. Kiwix is not wired into the chain yet. A
-  local read costs nothing, so anything local goes first;
+- the answer path sits behind his memory, his notes, the web search and the
+  ZIMs, and ahead of the model answering from what it remembers. A page he
+  named is an instruction, so it is read last and only when he named one;
 - `robots.txt` is fetched first and obeyed with no override; a `Disallow` is a
   refusal she says out loud. `Crawl-delay` is waited out before the page is
   fetched, and a delay longer than the turn fails the read instead of hanging

deploy/mavend.json

@@ -5,6 +5,16 @@
   "socket_path": "/run/maven/mavend.sock",
   "state_dir": "/var/lib/maven",
 
+  "//disabled_rules": [
+    "Nudge rules that are not wired at all. Names come from loop.DefaultRules:",
+    "water, meal, break, service_down, netdata_critical.",
+    "service_down is off because it cannot say WHICH service — mavpoll folds the",
+    "whole kuma gauge into one boolean, so the nudge is always the generic 'a",
+    "service on homesrv is down'. Nothing to act on, every fifteen minutes.",
+    "Turn it back on once Vikunja #444 lands a fact per monitor."
+  ],
+  "disabled_rules": ["service_down"],
+
   "phraser": {
     "model_path": "/opt/maven/models/llm/qwen3/Qwen3-1.7B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf",
     "bin_path": "llama-server",
@@ -16,7 +26,104 @@
 
   "telegram": {
     "bot_token": "${TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN}",
-    "chat_id": "${TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID}"
+    "chat_id": "${TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID}",
+
+    "//proxy": [
+      "api.telegram.org is not reachable directly from this box, so every send",
+      "timed out. The relay is the x-ui socks inbound on the host, port 10808;",
+      "192.168.240.1 is the maven_default bridge gateway, which is how a",
+      "container addresses the host. mavend is on that network.",
+      "This needs a matching ufw rule or the container's SYN is dropped:",
+      "  ufw allow from 192.168.240.0/20 to any port 10808 proto tcp"
+    ],
+    "proxy": "socks5://192.168.240.1:10808"
+  },
+
+  "//search": [
+    "The live web, searched after his own notes and before Kiwix. Only the",
+    "query string leaves the box — never a note, a fact, the persona block or",
+    "the history — and a question about him never reaches here at all.",
+    "The instance must have `json` in search.formats (settings.yml); a stock",
+    "SearXNG answers 403 to format=json and every search then fails. It is",
+    "addressed by container name, so it needs the same maven_default",
+    "attachment kiwix has, and it must listen on 9563: 8080 is taken several",
+    "times over on this box. No instance reachable ⇒ she falls through to the",
+    "ZIMs and never says the search failed."
+  ],
+  "search": {
+    "url": "http://searxng:9563",
+    "max_results": 4,
+    "snippet_runes": 1500,
+    "language": "auto",
+    "timeout": "8s"
+  },
+
+  "//kiwix": [
+    "The offline encyclopedia, searched after his own notes and before anything",
+    "on the network. kiwix-server publishes 8034 on loopback only, so a container",
+    "cannot reach it by address; it is attached to the maven_default network",
+    "instead and addressed by container name. That attachment is imperative and",
+    "does not survive recreating the kiwix stack — make it declarative there:",
+    "  networks: [default, maven_default]   # maven_default: external: true",
+    "The book is the catalog name from the /content/... href in",
+    "/catalog/v2/entries, not the display title. Others on the box:",
+    "ifixit_en_all_2025-06, devdocs_en_ansible_2025-10."
+  ],
+  "kiwix": {
+    "url": "http://kiwix-server:8080",
+    "book": "wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2026-02",
+    "max_results": 5,
+    "snippet_runes": 1500
+  },
+
+  "//morning_routines": [
+    "The daily checklist (Vikunja #280). Each item is done when its fact_key",
+    "gets a non-voided fact inside the window, so 'выпил воды' closes water and",
+    "nothing has to be ticked by hand. nudge_at fires once, at the end of the",
+    "window, and only for what is still open. Weekdays empty = every day."
+  ],
+  "morning_routines": [
+    {
+      "name": "утро",
+      "window_start": "08:00",
+      "window_end": "11:00",
+      "nudge_at": "10:30",
+      "severity": 1,
+      "items": [
+        { "key": "medicine", "fact_key": "medicine", "label": "лекарство" },
+        { "key": "water",    "fact_key": "water",    "label": "вода" },
+        { "key": "pets",     "fact_key": "pets",     "label": "покормить кота" }
+      ]
+    }
+  ],
+
+  "//feeds": [
+    "RSS reading (Vikunja #258). Every item lands as a note with source",
+    "rss:<name>, which is also what puts entries in the intake journal that",
+    "/events reads. Only the feed URL leaves the box.",
+    "This is a starting pair, not a curated set — trim or extend it."
+  ],
+  "feeds": {
+    "poll_interval": "30m",
+    "max_items": 5,
+    "max_age": "24h",
+    "sources": [
+      { "name": "lwn",       "url": "https://lwn.net/headlines/newrss", "category": "технологии" },
+      { "name": "archlinux", "url": "https://archlinux.org/feeds/news/", "category": "технологии" }
+    ]
+  },
+
+  "//crawl": [
+    "Reading a web page (Vikunja #259). on_demand answers 'посмотри <URL>'.",
+    "No allow_hosts, so any public host he names is readable; private",
+    "addresses are refused unconditionally by internal/webfetch and do not",
+    "need listing. Setting allow_hosts here would also narrow on-demand,",
+    "which is the point of leaving it empty."
+  ],
+  "crawl": {
+    "on_demand": true,
+    "timeout": "10s",
+    "max_runes": 4000
   },
 
   "digest": {
@@ -62,7 +169,7 @@
     "timeout": "400ms",
     "rate": 100,
     "max_hosts": 256,
-    "enabled": false
+    "enabled": true
   },
 
   "nexus":  { "url": "http://nexus:9740" },

deploy/mavgpud.json

@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+{
+  "listen": ":8080",
+  "llama_addr": "127.0.0.1:10000",
+  "llama_bin": "llama-server",
+  "llama_args": [
+    "-m", "/mnt/D/AI/gemma4/gemma-4-12B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf",
+    "-md", "/mnt/D/AI/gemma4/mtp-gemma-4-12B-it-BF16.gguf",
+    "-ngl", "99",
+    "-fa", "on",
+    "-np", "1",
+    "--host", "127.0.0.1",
+    "--port", "10000",
+    "--ctx-size", "32768",
+    "--threads", "6",
+    "--batch-size", "2048",
+    "--ubatch-size", "512",
+    "--jinja",
+    "--chat-template-kwargs", "{\"enable_thinking\":false}",
+    "--spec-type", "draft-mtp",
+    "--spec-draft-n-max", "2"
+  ],
+
+  "kfd_root": "/sys/class/kfd/kfd/proc",
+  "drm_device": "/sys/class/drm/card1/device",
+
+  "poll": "1s",
+  "idle_timeout": "15m",
+  "stop_grace": "20s",
+  "min_free_vram_bytes": 10737418240,
+  "evict_after_polls": 2,
+  "start_after_polls": 5
+}

deploy/mavgpud.service

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+[Unit]
+# Runs on the workstation (bugmachine), not on homesrv. Install as a systemd
+# user unit and turn on lingering, so the card is supervised after a reboot
+# with nobody logged in:
+#
+#   scp mavgpud workpc:~/.local/bin/mavgpud
+#   scp deploy/mavgpud.json workpc:~/.config/mavgpud.json
+#   scp deploy/mavgpud.service workpc:~/.config/systemd/user/mavgpud.service
+#   ssh workpc 'systemctl --user daemon-reload && systemctl --user enable --now mavgpud'
+#   sudo loginctl enable-linger kami
+Description=Maven GPU supervisor (holds llama-server while the card is free)
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+ExecStart=%h/.local/bin/mavgpud -config %h/.config/mavgpud.json
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=5
+# The card must come back when the supervisor goes down. mavgpud stops
+# llama-server on SIGTERM, so give it longer than stop_grace to do that.
+KillSignal=SIGTERM
+TimeoutStopSec=60
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target

docker-compose.yml

@@ -79,7 +79,16 @@ services:
     <<: *image
     # voice.bind is 0.0.0.0:9100 in deploy/mavend.json so mavweb can reach it
     # cross-container. Verified 2026-07-06.
+    # -ambient-token turns on POST /api/ambient (Vikunja #126): the phone posts
+    # notification text, mavweb keeps only a meeting time. Empty ⇒ no route at
+    # all, which is what a missing MAVEN_AMBIENT_TOKEN gives. The value comes
+    # from the gitignored .env docker compose reads for interpolation, NOT from
+    # an env_file — flags are interpolated before any service env exists.
+    # Weakness worth naming: mavweb takes this as a flag, so it is visible in
+    # `ps` inside this container, unlike the zenmoney and IMAP secrets which are
+    # read from files.
     command: ["mavweb", "-addr", ":9201", "-voice", "mavend:9100", "-core", "/run/maven/mavend.sock",
+              "-ambient-token", "${MAVEN_AMBIENT_TOKEN:-}",
               "-nexus", "http://nexus:9740", "-praxis", "http://praxis:8989", "-hexis", "http://hexis:9741"]
     depends_on: [mavend]
     # loopback-only on purpose: /tools defines+executes arbitrary argv and

docs/archive/2026-07-03-feature-ranking.md

@@ -1,6 +1,45 @@
 # maven — feature ranking
 
-> dated 2026-07-03. companion to `DESIGN.md` (folded from the former `maven.md`). ranks everything discussed post-repo-state against the infra blockers, not a replacement for the build order.
+> **Archived 2026-08-02 (V-447).** The mandatory and easy tiers are now Vikunja tasks
+> 449-458. Two of those closed immediately, because the ranking was stale. Quiet hours
+> (V-450) ship as `QuietHoursConfig` plus the care gate in `internal/loop/loop.go`.
+> Schema migrations (V-451) ship as `internal/store/migrations.go` on `PRAGMA
+> user_version`. The doable and epic tiers stay here because they are reasoning. Some of
+> them exist only to record why something is not worth doing yet. Read this for the why,
+> not as a work queue, and check the code before believing a gap.
+
+> dated 2026-07-03. companion to `docs/design.md` (folded from the former `maven.md`). ranks everything discussed post-repo-state against the infra blockers, not a replacement for the build order.
+
+---
+
+## what already shipped (checked against the code, 2026-08-02)
+
+One month old and already wrong in ten places. Everything below is marked
+built after reading the code, not the board. Read the tiers underneath with this list in
+hand.
+
+Infra 1 and 2, the two the ranking says block every feature, are both done. sqlcipher
+at-rest ships as `Store.enc` plus `OpenEncrypted`, a tmpfs working copy re-encrypted on
+`Close`, keyed from `db_key_env` in `deploy/mavend.json`. mavweb and mavcaldav are no
+longer at zero coverage: seven test files under `cmd/mavweb`, including
+`credentials_test.go` and `passkey_prf_test.go`, and two under `cmd/mavcaldav`. Infra 3
+is stale in the other direction. There are still no systemd units, but the deploy is
+`deploy/ecosystem/docker-compose.yml`, not scripts and tmux.
+
+Doable tier, built: rule trace and explanation as `/trace` plus `internal/loop/explain.go`.
+Recurring reminders as the cron column, `NextFireTs` and `RescheduleReminder`
+(`internal/store/reminders.go:206`), so "fires once right now" is wrong. Stale-reminder
+burst collapse as `collapseReminders` (`internal/loop/gather.go:209`). Revert as
+`VoidLatestFact` (`internal/store/facts.go:300`). Digest mode as `internal/store/digest.go`.
+Testing infra as the simulator and the eval lab (V-284, V-278). Passkey persistence as the
+JSON-backed `credentialStore` in `cmd/mavweb/credentials.go`. Most integrations shipped as
+their own QA tasks (V-246 mail, V-256 smarthome, V-258 rss, V-259 crawler).
+
+Doable tier, still open: correx, systemd units, memory decay and duplicate detection
+(nothing in `internal/memory` touches it), backup automation, import and export, barge-in.
+
+Epic tier, unbuilt as ranked. `event.Bus` exists (`cmd/mavend/intake.go:57`) but it is the
+intake journal from V-283, not the rewrite of facts into projections that this tier means.
 
 ---
 
@@ -20,7 +59,7 @@ nothing feature-level below should land before 1–2 are done. 3–4 can interle
 ### mandatory
 things that block correctness or safety of stuff already shipped — not new capability, just closing gaps in existing design.
 
-- **destructive-confirm policy** — open question in `DESIGN.md` § open questions, blocks correx and any new tool domain from having a coherent risk tier
+- **destructive-confirm policy** — open question in `docs/design.md` § open questions, blocks correx and any new tool domain from having a coherent risk tier
 - **quiet-hours definition** — open question, blocks proactive delivery being trustworthy
 - **schema migrations** — sqlcipher rollout alone forces a schema touch. want this mechanism before that, not after.
 
@@ -30,7 +69,7 @@ cheap, no dependencies, no new invariants.
 - **grocery / `list_items` table** — fourth append-only shape (item, status, list-tag), no predicate touches it, multi-adder just works for free
 - **go.mod tidy**
 - **capability model** (deepseek) — `homelab.docker.restart` instead of flat `tool→enabled`. cheap now, expensive to retrofit once tools surface passes ~15 entries. time-sensitive, not urgent.
-- **conversation repair** — already free: `DESIGN.md` has "misroute correction = new centroid example," this is just naming the existing mechanism as a feature
+- **conversation repair** — already free: `docs/design.md` has "misroute correction = new centroid example," this is just naming the existing mechanism as a feature
 - **command history** — read-only query over existing facts, no new mechanism
 - **clarification templates** — canned phrasing for the router's existing confidence-gate fallback, phraser-lane only
 - **pronunciation dictionary** — tts config, no architecture

docs/archive/2026-07-30-senior-review.md

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ critical workflows: voice turn (mic→STT→route→tool/reply→TTS); proactive
                     (/dash /chat /tools /ecosystem)
 current state:      all 34 test packages pass; vet clean; `make test` still exits 1
                     (finding 2)
-known failures:     weak RU query routing — REARCH.md names the cause; the named fix
+known failures:     weak RU query routing — docs/rearchitecture.md names the cause; the named fix
                     is wired `nil`
 maintenance burden: 4,518 lines of root markdown vs 33,319 lines of Go; 15 top-level
                     .md files, 3 of them dated session logs; several contradict
@@ -47,11 +47,11 @@ what's obsolete:    llmrouter.go (built, tested, never wired); classifier seed-p
 ```
 
 **Classification: healthy + misaligned.** Not fragile, not overbuilt, not abandoned. The
-architecture in `REARCH.md` is sound and mostly *built* — it just is not *connected*.
+architecture in `docs/rearchitecture.md` is sound and mostly *built* — it just is not *connected*.
 
 ## what it should become
 
-The thing `REARCH.md` already describes, with the switch flipped and the drift removed:
+The thing `docs/rearchitecture.md` already describes, with the switch flipped and the drift removed:
 one resident small model doing both routing and phrasing, classifier demoted from the live
 path to the failure floor, embedder demoted to RAG hint. No new architecture is needed.
 **The gap is a config/wiring decision plus doc convergence, not a redesign.**
@@ -65,19 +65,19 @@ path to the failure floor, embedder demoted to RAG hint. No new architecture is
 `architecture` / `repair`
 
 **problem:** The most load-bearing design decision in the project is stated four different,
-incompatible ways, and the code path `REARCH.md` calls "the linchpin" is disabled.
+incompatible ways, and the code path `docs/rearchitecture.md` calls "the linchpin" is disabled.
 
 **evidence** (all confirmed):
 
 - `cmd/mavend/voice.go:211` — `rtr := buildRouter(emb, matcher, threshold, nil) // LLM router disabled`,
   with comment *"the classifier handles routing reliably."*
-- `REARCH.md:11` says the same classifier is *"the structural cause of 'she messes up
+- `docs/rearchitecture.md:11` says the same classifier is *"the structural cause of 'she messes up
   queries.'"* **The code comment and the design doc make opposite claims about the same
   component.**
 - `internal/router/llmrouter.go` (139 lines) + `llmrouter_test.go` — fully built and
   tested, zero non-test callers.
-- Model identity, four ways: docs say **Qwen3-1.7B** (`CLAUDE.md:6`, `REARCH.md:15`,
-  `SPEC.md:46`, `AGENTS.md:79`, `MAVEN_ECOSYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE.md:72`);
+- Model identity, four ways: docs say **Qwen3-1.7B** (`CLAUDE.md:6`, `docs/rearchitecture.md:15`,
+  `SPEC.md:46`, `AGENTS.md:79`, `docs/ecosystem.md:72`);
   `deploy/mavend.json:9` says **Qwen3.5-2B-UD-Q4_K_XL**; `models/llm/` on disk holds
   **LFM2.5-1.2B-Thinking**; code comments in 5 files still say **LFM**.
 - `deploy/mavend.json:11` sets `"n_gpu_layers": 99` while `CLAUDE.md:4` states the target
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ match. Delete nothing from `internal/router` yet — the classifier is the fallb
 reconciliation, not a refactor. **Do not rewrite the router.**
 
 **alternatives:** Delete `llmrouter.go` and commit to the classifier — only defensible if
-the eval harness shows the classifier is actually adequate, which contradicts `REARCH.md`.
+the eval harness shows the classifier is actually adequate, which contradicts `docs/rearchitecture.md`.
 
 **risk:** Low-moderate. LLM route failures already fall through to the classifier
 (`router.go:88-96`), so a bad model cannot break a turn. The real risk is CPU latency.
@@ -228,21 +228,21 @@ after finding 1, not before** — and skip it if it stays purely cosmetic.
 **problem:** 15 root markdown files, 4,518 lines, several stale or superseded, at least
 three pairs contradicting each other.
 
-**evidence:** `ROADMAP.md` (759) + `MAVEN_ECOSYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE.md` (884) +
+**evidence:** `ROADMAP.md` (759) + `docs/ecosystem.md` (884) +
 `PROGRESS.md` (456) + `maven.md` (413) + `20-07-2026-BACKLOG.md` (396) +
 `SESSION-05-07-2026.md` + `SESSION-06-07-2026.md` (477 combined) + `PLANS.md` (25) +
-`START.md` + `SPEC.md` + `PROTOCOL.md`. `PROGRESS.md:61` annotates its own staleness:
-*"Older LFM references below describe the currently deployed..."*. `REARCH.md` announces it
+`docs/operations.md` + `SPEC.md` + `docs/protocol.md`. `PROGRESS.md:61` annotates its own staleness:
+*"Older LFM references below describe the currently deployed..."*. `docs/rearchitecture.md` announces it
 "supersedes" a model still described as current elsewhere.
 
 **impact:** The doc set is the reason finding 1 exists. When five documents describe the
 architecture, the code becomes the only trustworthy one — which defeats the purpose of
 having them.
 
-**recommended action:** Keep `CLAUDE.md` (agent contract), `REARCH.md` (target
-architecture), `AGENTS.md` (recipes), `PROTOCOL.md` (wire format),
+**recommended action:** Keep `CLAUDE.md` (agent contract), `docs/rearchitecture.md` (target
+architecture), `AGENTS.md` (recipes), `docs/protocol.md` (wire format),
 `20-07-2026-BACKLOG.md` (live queue). Delete the two `SESSION-*.md` and `PLANS.md` — git
-history holds them. Fold `SPEC.md` + `maven.md` + `ROADMAP.md` into one `DESIGN.md` and
+history holds them. Fold `SPEC.md` + `maven.md` + `ROADMAP.md` into one `docs/design.md` and
 mark superseded sections instead of leaving them to read as current. Target ~1,500 lines.
 
 ---
@@ -320,7 +320,7 @@ expected maintenance gain:      none over the incremental path
   suggesting Vulkan offload is intended and working — but `CLAUDE.md` says CPU-only. Likely
   the doc is stale, not the config; unverified.
 - **Whether the classifier is genuinely adequate.** `voice.go:211` asserts it is;
-  `REARCH.md` asserts it is not. Both are claims, neither is measured. The uncommitted eval
+  `docs/rearchitecture.md` asserts it is not. Both are claims, neither is measured. The uncommitted eval
   harness is the instrument to settle it — resolve before flipping the router, not after.
 - **Whether wg+nginx+auth actually fronts 9201 in production.** Not in this repo. If it
   does, finding 3 drops from "unauthenticated RCE" to "the control is not reproducible from
@@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ Key claims independently re-verified against the working tree; the verdict stand
   over WireGuard on homesrv, this is hygiene, not an emergency — but the loopback bind
   and startup warning are cheap insurance either way, so do them regardless.
 - Finding 1's "flip the router" step should be gated harder on measurement.
-  `REARCH.md`'s claim that the classifier causes weak RU queries is itself unmeasured —
+  `docs/rearchitecture.md`'s claim that the classifier causes weak RU queries is itself unmeasured —
   the review admits this under uncertainties, but the "repair now" ordering buries it.
   Run `eval_scenarios_test.go` against both paths **before** deciding to flip, not
   after. A 2B model on CPU may add enough latency that the classifier wins in practice

docs/design.md

@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
 # Maven — Design
 
+*Last verified: 2026-08-02 @ 7079a24. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+
 > Folded 2026-07-30 from `SPEC.md` (north star, 2026-07-03), `maven.md`
 > (consolidated decisions, 2026-06-30) and `ROADMAP.md` (execution plan,
 > 2026-07-06). Those three files are gone; git history holds them.
 > This is the single design document: principles, target state, and the
-> execution ledger. `REARCH.md` remains authoritative wherever it disagrees
+> execution ledger. `docs/rearchitecture.md` remains authoritative wherever it disagrees
 > with anything here. Everything the three sources asserted that is no longer
 > the intended design is preserved under **§ Superseded** — do not read that
 > section as current.
@@ -160,7 +162,7 @@ presence_state ( last_bucket, last_score, updated_ts )
 ```
 
 Facts additionally carry `Subject`/`EntityID`/`ResolutionState` for
-entity-aware resolution against Nexus (see `MAVEN_ECOSYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE.md`).
+entity-aware resolution against Nexus (see `docs/ecosystem.md`).
 
 ### Trigger model
 
@@ -196,7 +198,7 @@ INTO the gate as an env predicate, not the LLM's job.
 
 ## Reactive path — routing
 
-**Target design: LLM-as-router** (see `REARCH.md` and `CLAUDE.md`). One
+**Target design: LLM-as-router** (see `docs/rearchitecture.md` and `CLAUDE.md`). One
 resident model emits GBNF-constrained structured JSON, and the same model
 phrases replies; the embedder is a RAG hint, not a routing gate. The
 committed default today is the classifier/embedder cascade, which is an
@@ -655,7 +657,7 @@ daemon.
 The voice wire protocol (length-prefixed JSON frames over TCP) is designed for
 **multiple client implementations**. The reference PWA at `cmd/mavweb` is one
 client; any app (phone, desktop CLI, smartwatch) can implement the same frame
-protocol. The published spec is `PROTOCOL.md` — **generated from
+protocol. The published spec is `docs/protocol.md` — **generated from
 `internal/voice/wire.go`**, not composed freehand, so it can't drift from
 code. It covers transport (4-byte big-endian length prefix), methods
 (`PushToTalk`, `Pong`), push kinds (`AudioNudge`), surface identity
@@ -670,8 +672,8 @@ Broadening to home automation, media or comms is JSON, not code.
 
 ## Execution ledger
 
-Condensed from `ROADMAP.md` (2026-07-06). The live queue is
-`20-07-2026-BACKLOG.md`; current state is `PROGRESS.md`.
+Condensed from `ROADMAP.md` (2026-07-06). The live queue is the Vikunja board
+(project Maven, ID 2); this table is history, not a work list.
 
 | # | Item | Prio | Status |
 |---|------|------|--------|
@@ -755,11 +757,13 @@ Kept for provenance. **None of this is the current or intended design.**
   stay deterministic — "classifier owns the route, the SLM stays in its
   phrasing lane" — with an embedding + nearest-centroid stage 1 over ~10
   examples per intent, and misroutes appended as new centroid examples.
-  *Replaced by* LLM-as-router (`REARCH.md`): one resident model emits
+  *Replaced by* LLM-as-router (`docs/rearchitecture.md`): one resident model emits
   GBNF-constrained JSON and also phrases replies; the embedder is demoted to
-  a RAG hint. The classifier cascade is still the code path that runs today
-  (`llmrouter` is wired nil) but it is an interim stopgap, and it is the known
-  cause of weak RU query handling — not a design to extend.
+  a RAG hint. *Landed 2026-07-31:* the LLM router is on by default and set
+  `true` in `deploy/mavend.json`. The classifier cascade stays as the failure
+  floor — it runs when there is no llama-server to talk to and on any per-turn
+  LLM error — but routing by seed similarity is the known cause of weak RU
+  query handling and is not a design to extend.
 - **Named STT/TTS model picks.** `maven.md` picked faster-whisper small/int8
   as primary STT with vosk RU for a low-latency command grammar, and silero
   (license unverified) as TTS with piper RU as the floor, all on
@@ -769,8 +773,11 @@ Kept for provenance. **None of this is the current or intended design.**
 - **Small-model phrasing claim.** `maven.md` specified "lfm2.5 / sub-1b for
   phrasing — prompted, not trained," and `SPEC.md` named a specific resident
   size. Both are superseded by the RU-CPT + joint persona/router SFT plan.
-  *Resolved 2026-07-30 (#318):* the resident checkpoint is **Qwen3.5-0.8B**
-  now, with the CPT'd **Qwen3-1.7B** as the target (#122). Note the resident
+  *Resolved 2026-07-30 (#318), revised 2026-07-31:* the resident checkpoint is
+  stock **Qwen3-1.7B** (`UD-Q4_K_XL`, `n_ctx` 4096), which replaced
+  Qwen3.5-0.8B after measuring better on both fixtures
+  (`docs/evals/2026-07-31-model-bakeoff.md`). The CPT'd **Qwen3-1.7B** remains the target
+  (#122); what stock gets wrong is the persona, not the Russian. Note the resident
   model is no longer described as untrained — the target is trained
   end-to-end, which is the substantive change from the old claim.
 - **sqlcipher at rest.** `maven.md` specified sqlcipher with the key read at

docs/determinism.md

@@ -0,0 +1,292 @@
+# Deterministic logic around a small model
+
+*Last verified: 2026-08-02 @ 7079a24. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+
+Written 2026-08-02. Branch `fix/integrated`.
+
+## The question
+
+Where does deterministic code attach, so that it helps the resident 1.7B now and
+does not fight a larger model later.
+
+## The mistake to avoid
+
+Everything deterministic we have added so far sits in front of the model and
+preempts it. Stage 0 matches, the model never sees the turn. That shape helps a
+weak model and blocks a strong one, silently.
+
+The fix is not to remove it. The fix is to know which rules are safe in that
+position and to have a way to measure the rest.
+
+## Four attachment points
+
+**Bypass, before the model.** The only shape that saves the 2.7s p50. Safe when
+the rule is a decision procedure over a closed set, not a guess over an open one.
+Exact match and clock queries qualify.
+
+**Evidence, beside the model.** Extractors emit candidate slots as a prior, not a
+verdict. The prompt carries the prior and the validator reuses it. A small model
+leans on it, a large one overrides it correctly.
+
+**Grammar, around the model.** GBNF built from live state rather than hardcoded.
+Costs nothing at runtime and prevents the error instead of catching it.
+
+**Repair, after the model.** Validation failure re-asks with the specific error
+rather than overriding. Self-retiring, because a better model trips it less.
+
+## The constraint that ranks them
+
+Latency must stay minimal. That demotes repair and promotes grammar.
+
+- Grammar first. Zero runtime cost, immediate gain.
+- Bypass keeps its place. It is the only thing that avoids a model call at all.
+- Repair only where failure is rare, capped at one retry.
+- Evidence is correct but costs a model call where a bypass costs none.
+- Ecosystem calls belong in the snapshot path, in parallel, on strict deadlines.
+  Never serial before routing.
+
+## The line that never moves
+
+Separate policy from capability compensation. They look alike and age oppositely.
+
+Capability compensation exists because the model is weak. It should be measurable
+and retirable.
+
+Policy exists because we decided. The personal boundary, the feminine persona, the
+never-search-his-notes rule, the Hexis allowlist and confirmation binding. None of
+those yield to a smarter model. A larger model is more dangerous there, not less.
+
+## What we keep
+
+Every stage-0 rule stays exactly as it is. Retiring them was the wrong call and it
+would throw away a day of measured gains.
+
+- exact-match fast path
+- clock rules
+- `SystemTimeDateGrammars`
+- `AgendaQueryGrammars`
+- `thinSingleToken`, including the social lexicon and the verb-ending test
+
+Three additions, none of which change behaviour:
+
+1. Each rule gets an id and a fixture subset.
+2. Each rule writes one trace line when it fires.
+3. Each rule carries a comment saying whether its set is closed or open.
+
+That preserves today's accuracy and buys the option to revisit later with numbers.
+
+## What we build
+
+**Dynamic grammars from live state.** The grammars today are static: `routeGrammar`
+fixes the 7 intents, `responseGrammar` fixes the mood enum, kiwix `queryGrammar`
+fixes word shape. Everything else is a free string.
+
+Candidates in order of payoff:
+
+- **Hexis capability ids.** After discovery the exact list is known. As an enum,
+  the model cannot name a capability that does not exist.
+- **Act fn allowlist.** Hits the two remaining false clarifies directly. They are
+  the act-with-no-allowlisted-fn arm of `gateLLMDecision`, firing on invented verbs.
+- **Calendar names.** Enumerate the real ones for agenda and query slots.
+- **Known fact keys.** A read-back matches a stored key instead of inventing a
+  synonym. This is the general form of the read side we scrapped on 2026-08-01.
+- **Nexus display names as act targets.** Only while the list stays small.
+
+Two rules or it backfires:
+
+- **Always include an escape value.** A closed enum with no `other` forces a wrong
+  pick instead of a decline. The escape is what feeds the clarify gate.
+- **Cache the grammar string, keyed on the state that built it.** Rebuilding per
+  turn is fine. Recompiling a large grammar per turn is not.
+
+## Retrieval over regex
+
+Resolve against stores that already exist rather than adding patterns.
+
+Identity is the worked example. Nexus is authoritative, `actionFact` already sets
+`Subject`, and `cmd/mavend/factenrichment.go` resolves it in the background. The
+scrapped work invented a parallel key namespace with nothing reconciling the two.
+
+A table that grows with real data beats patterns that grow with our patience.
+
+Note a real gap: the personal boundary in `cmd/mavend/actions_query.go` guards
+Maven's own store only. It does not know Nexus or Praxis exist.
+
+## Prerequisites
+
+Both are offline and need no deploy. Neither existed on 2026-08-01, and that is
+why the day cost what it did.
+
+**Failure taxonomy over the 77-case fixture.** Classify every miss as model
+ignorance, contract loss, prompt ambiguity, or our own bug. Only model ignorance
+deserves deterministic compensation. The other three get fixed once, for every
+model size. Inference, not verified: much of what we patched was the last two.
+
+**Per-assist ablation runner.** One command toggles each assist off and reports the
+accuracy delta on its fixture subset. Then retiring an assist is a config flip and
+a number, not an argument.
+
+## Held
+
+Not now, and nothing gets built for it.
+
+- A 12B or 35B model. It may be cloud or the 16GB workstation, and cloud crosses
+  the current no-third-party line.
+- The escalation tier in `gateLLMDecision`.
+- Converting the stage-0 heuristics to evidence.
+
+One thing carries forward for free: deterministic assists emit confidence, never a
+verdict. A verdict cannot escalate.
+
+## Ruling on the idea list
+
+Nineteen ideas, judged on whether they earn a place in Maven. Checked against the
+tree on 2026-08-02, not from memory.
+
+### Build. Absent, and worth it.
+
+**SQLite FTS over embeddings.** No `fts5` anywhere in the tree. Lexical search is
+faster than the ONNX embedder, deterministic, and strongest exactly where the
+embedder is weakest, which is exact Russian names. Semantic search becomes the
+fallback rather than the gate. This is the highest-value absent item.
+
+**Cached TTS phrases.** No cache in `internal/tts`. Confirmations, clarifies and
+refusals repeat constantly and their text is already fixed. Pre-rendering them is
+cheap and pays straight into the minimal-latency constraint.
+
+**Synthetic router dataset.** Generate Russian tool-calling examples from the same
+schemas that will build the dynamic grammars. One source of truth for both, so the
+model is trained on exactly the shapes it will be constrained to at inference.
+
+**Command STT separate from dictation STT.** One path today. Commands want latency
+and a small vocabulary, meeting capture wants accuracy and can take its time.
+`internal/capture` already spools to disk, so the split follows the existing seam.
+Medium priority, behind the four above.
+
+### Polish. Present, incomplete.
+
+**Strict JSON everywhere.** Done 02-08-2026. The replier sends
+`phraser.ResponseGrammar`. It is exported once so its two copies cannot drift.
+The meeting summariser is wrapped and unwrapped in the daemon's Completer, so
+`internal/capture` stays text-in/text-out. Every model call now carries a grammar.
+
+**Evidence-first prompting.** Done 02-08-2026, in the evidence branch of
+`PhraseQuery`. Sources arrive numbered, one per line. The system prompt no longer
+calls them all "заметки" and no longer lets the model add anything of its own.
+Blank sources now take the knowledge branch instead of asking for an answer from
+an empty list. Not yet measured against a live model. Run `make eval-phrasing`,
+and watch the case `query-notes-do-not-answer`.
+
+**Progressive inference.** What exists is a fallback cascade, not escalation. On
+error it drops to something weaker. It never escalates on ambiguity. The upgrade is
+held with the bigger-model question, and `gateLLMDecision` is the hook.
+
+**Entity dictionaries.** Nexus is the canonical store, `behavior_ru.go` has
+`KeyAliases`, `ecosystem_acts.go` has verb aliases. Morphology is the gap, and the
+code says so in three places. Russian needs it and there is no stemmer in the repo.
+
+**Assistant state machine.** `confirm.go` models pending confirmation and
+`dialogue.Session` models the turn. There is no unified task state. Reuse the
+Praxis vocabulary rather than inventing one, because surfaced, acknowledged and
+resolved already mean something precise here.
+
+**Session memory compiler.** The digestion tick, `internal/memory` and
+`followUpMerge` do parts of this. Not a coherent compile step.
+
+**Background memory maintenance.** Mostly present, and the absent part is small.
+What exists: `internal/memeval` reads recent memory on a loop and writes
+observations, deduped against its own prior output, unable to speak or act. Facts
+supersede at write time through `voidsID`, `CorrectValue` and `VoidLatestFact`,
+and `RecentActiveFactsByKind` reads only live rows. Digests, ecosystem traces and
+media all prune.
+
+Three gaps remain, all in the fact store:
+
+- Superseding is turn-driven. Nothing reconciles two live facts that contradict
+  unless a turn corrects one of them.
+- Duplicates written by different sources or phrasings stay as separate live rows.
+  There is no key-level merge pass.
+- Nothing expires. The log is append-only and grows without bound, and no fact
+  ever ages out on its own.
+
+Worth doing, and smaller than it looked. Not urgent.
+
+**Qwen CPT then narrow SFT.** In flight as #122. One disagreement with the idea as
+written: do not drop persona from the SFT. Persona is the stated reason the CPT
+exists, because stock writes `рад` where Maven needs `рада`. Keep the joint
+router-plus-persona tune.
+
+**Offline job queue.** The tick loop, `factEnrichmentWorker` with backoff, and the
+media prune already defer work. A general queue is tidier, not more capable. Low
+priority.
+
+**Response templates.** Present in `clarify.go`, in the `replySystem` arms and in
+`StubPhraser`. Worth extending to high-frequency confirmations, where latency and
+persona correctness both matter. Do not extend further. Templating the
+conversational reply removes the reason she is worth having.
+
+### Reject.
+
+**Grammar-first routing as a replacement for the LLM router.** Already measured.
+The classifier scores 36.8% full accuracy against 72.7% through the cascade.
+Replacing the model with rules halves the accuracy. Grammar-first as an ordering is
+what stage 0 already is, and that stays.
+
+**Hierarchical intent classification.** Seven intents is already the coarse layer.
+The specialisation stage exists as per-intent slot filling in `Extractor.Extract`.
+Adding a tier buys structure, not accuracy.
+
+**Tool-specific micro-models.** Contradicts the one-resident-model constraint,
+needs per-domain training data nobody has, and multiplies model loads on a single
+Vega iGPU. Dynamic grammars give the same domain narrowing at zero runtime cost.
+
+**Local knowledge graph.** Nexus owns entities and relationships. Building a second
+graph in Maven breaks the ecosystem line and creates two answers to one question.
+If graph traversal is wanted, it is a Nexus feature request.
+
+**Preemptible training.** Training runs in a separate workspace, not on the serving
+box. This only becomes real if CPT moves onto homesrv, and that is not the plan.
+
+## Known open, carried over from the deleted handoff
+
+Found live on 2026-08-01, not fixed. Everything else in that file was stale.
+
+- **Kiwix ranks badly on a correct query.** The stop-word pass eats the "and". So
+  "кто написал войну и мир" reaches Kiwix as "war peace author". The top hit is
+  "List of peace activists" and she summarises that as the answer. The tag
+  `scrapped/fact-and-kiwix-phrases` fixes the query text. The ranking is the ZIM
+  search and is untouched either way.
+- **Chat drags prior turns into an answer.** One live reply mixed the greeting, the
+  height statement and a world question. It named Левитан as the author of Война и
+  мир.
+- **`safeKey` drops Cyrillic**, so Russian calendar events on one day collide.
+  Vikunja #443 with three fix options. It is a migration, not a patch.
+
+## Open after the 02-08-2026 deploy
+
+SearXNG runs on homesrv at `http://searxng:9563`, on `maven_default`, and the
+rebuilt `mavend` wires it. "кто написал войну и мир?" now routes to query, takes
+4 results off the search, and answers Толстой with the lookup opener. Two things
+that turn left unsettled.
+
+- **The turn was slow, and nobody knows yet whether that is real.** Route 7s,
+  search 1s, phrasing 15s. The p50 in `docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md` is 825ms. It
+  was the first turn after a cold start with the model still warming, so it
+  proves nothing either way. Re-run the same question warm before treating it as
+  a regression. Do not plan latency work off this number.
+- **The personal boundary has never run live.** `queryPersonal` in
+  `cmd/mavend/actions_query.go` stops a question about him from reaching
+  SearXNG. The question above is not one, so only tests cover it. Ask something
+  about him on the deployed box and confirm from the log that no `voice: search`
+  line appears for it.
+
+## Sequence
+
+1. Failure taxonomy over the fixture.
+2. Ablation runner, plus ids and trace lines for the existing rules.
+3. Dynamic grammar for the act fn allowlist.
+4. Dynamic grammar for Hexis capability ids.
+5. Dynamic grammar for calendar names and known fact keys.
+6. Extend the personal boundary to the ecosystem stores.
+
+Steps 1 and 2 come before anything is written in the router.

docs/ecosystem.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Maven Ecosystem Architecture
 
+*Last verified: 2026-08-02 @ 7079a24. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+
 ## 1. Purpose
 
 This document defines Maven's role in the local ecosystem formed by:

docs/evals/2026-07-31-model-bakeoff.md

@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ with Qwen3-1.7B.
 
 Settles Vikunja **#278 / #250**.
 
-- Same fixture and scorer as `ROUTING-EVAL-31-07-2026.md`: `internal/router/eval/`
+- Same fixture and scorer as `docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md`: `internal/router/eval/`
   (`ru_routing_v1.json`, 76 held-out cases).
 - Reproduce: `MAVEN_LLM_URL=http://127.0.0.1:<port> make eval-router`
   (`TestLLMRouterBaseline`). (This line used to say there is no `make eval-models` target.
@@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ Qwen3-1.7B wins every column, including against a model 20% larger than it.
 | ontopic | 16, 19, 19 | **22, 23, 23** |
 | canned fallbacks | 8, 5, 6 | **0, 2, 0** |
 
-This also fills the row `TALK-EVAL-31-07-2026.md` had to void for contamination:
+This also fills the row `docs/evals/2026-07-31-talk.md` had to void for contamination:
 **600ch/1024tok on Qwen3.5-0.8B scores 13, 11, 8.**
 
 `address` is the headline. It sat at 18-22 of 27 on the 0.8B no matter how the prompt
@@ -162,6 +162,11 @@ The 1.7B does that 0-2 times.
 
 ## Latency — the long tail is not the Thinking block
 
+> **Stale, corrected 2026-08-02.** The p50 figures in this table are contention on a
+> shared llama-server, not the model's cost. The router measures p50 825ms / p95 1.2s /
+> max 3.0s in `docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md`, which says so at line 61. Read this table for
+> the shape of the tail only. Take absolute latency from the routing eval.
+
 | | p50 | p95 |
 |---|---|---|
 | Qwen3.5-0.8B | 2.4s, 2.9s, 2.0s | 17.4s, 17.6s, 17.4s |
@@ -213,11 +218,13 @@ swapped again when the CPT lands.
 - ~~The routing numbers only reach production once the LLM router is wired on. It is
   still `nil`.~~ **Resolved the same evening:** the LLM router is wired at `voice.go:214`
   behind `voice.llm_router`, the default is on, and `deploy/mavend.json` sets it `true`.
-  These numbers are the production path now, so the p50 ≈2.7s is a real per-turn cost and
-  not a bench artifact.
+  These numbers are the production path now. **Corrected 2026-08-02: the p50 ≈2.7s in the
+  latency table above WAS a bench artifact.** It is contention on the shared llama-server,
+  not the model. `docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md` line 61 says so, and measures the router at
+  p50 825ms / p95 1.2s / max 3.0s. Cite that file for latency, not this one.
 - ~~`/mnt/hdd1/llms/LFM2.5/Qwen3-1.7B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf` is a 293 MB truncated download
   in the wrong directory.~~ **Deleted 2026-07-31.** The good 1.13 GB copy in `qwen3/` is
   what `deploy/mavend.json` loads.
 - Harness: `scratchpad/bakeoff.sh`, one server at a time, health-checked before each
   run, `/v1/models` recorded per run. Never run two LLM consumers at once — see the
-  contamination note in `TALK-EVAL-31-07-2026.md`.
+  contamination note in `docs/evals/2026-07-31-talk.md`.

docs/evals/2026-07-31-phrasing.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Phrasing evaluation — 31-07-2026
 
 How Maven words a nudge, measured instead of argued. Counterpart to
-`ROUTING-EVAL-31-07-2026.md`.
+`docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md`.
 
 - Fixture + scorer: `internal/phraser/eval/` (`nudges_v1.json`, 15 cases; `eval.go`, `checks.go`)
 - Reproduce: `MAVEN_LLM_URL=http://127.0.0.1:18099 make eval-phrasing`

docs/evals/2026-07-31-recall.md

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ prefixes) is the targeted fix, and it would move findings 1 and 2 together. Sepa
 `model_quantized.onnx` — not the same file.
 
 `hard` cases score **2/11**: every one is a query where the operator did not reuse his own words.
-That is the normal case weeks later, and exactly what DESIGN.md's "recall when relevant" promises.
+That is the normal case weeks later, and exactly what docs/design.md's "recall when relevant" promises.
 
 ### 4. The memory-store recall branch is dead for notes
 

docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md

@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ was silent ("не знаю" to "который час") while the one it introdu
 
 ### 1. The resident model does route better — 50.0% vs 36.8%
 
-REARCH.md's premise holds; `voice.go:211`'s comment does not. **But the classifier is only
+docs/rearchitecture.md's premise holds; `voice.go:211`'s comment does not. **But the classifier is only
 ~37% correct on held-out utterances, and the model only ~50%.** Neither is "reliable". The
 gap between them is real but both are far from a system you would describe as working.
 

docs/evals/2026-07-31-talk.md

@@ -141,7 +141,7 @@ a model check, which catches a dead server but not a loaded one.
   measured) on this fixture and the router fixture. Not the 4B — too big for
   this box, owner's call.
 - Newer sub-500M candidates (LFM2.5 200M/300M) are worth a run for routing.
-  Note `MODEL-BAKEOFF-31-07-2026.md` found LFM2.5-**1.2B** worse than
+  Note `docs/evals/2026-07-31-model-bakeoff.md` found LFM2.5-**1.2B** worse than
   Qwen3.5-0.8B at Russian routing and 2.4× slower — but those are a different,
   older generation, so that result does not predict the small ones.
 - Fix `chat-how-are-you`'s `want_any`, and re-baseline once, so `ontopic`

docs/offload.md

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+# Offloading model work to the workstation
+
+*Last verified: 2026-08-02 @ 5c05163. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+
+Owner's call, 2026-08-02. Vikunja #483 is the umbrella. Tasks #484 to #487 are the
+work, and this file holds the shape and the rules all four must obey.
+
+## The goal
+
+homesrv cannot grow a GPU. The workstation has 16GB of VRAM. Move the model work
+to the workstation and leave homesrv running the logic that must be always-on,
+deterministic and cheap.
+
+## Why this is tractable
+
+The split already exists structurally. `mavsttd` and `mavttsd` are separate
+daemons that core reaches over a socket, not linked libraries. Moving them off-box
+is a transport change, not a redesign.
+
+The microphone is at the workstation, because that is where the owner sits and
+homesrv is headless. So speech-to-text and the wake word are already on the
+workstation side by construction. Audio never has to cross the LAN. Only the core
+turn does.
+
+## The constraint that shapes everything
+
+The workstation's GPU is often busy: CPT runs, experiments, Correx, the manga-recap
+pipeline. It also sleeps. homesrv does not.
+
+So an offloaded model is never *the* model. It is the preferred one, with a floor
+on homesrv. That is the shape the cascade already has, where a router error falls
+through to the classifier.
+
+## The degradation rule
+
+Two cases, and the line between them is sharp.
+
+**Fall back silently** when the workstation model would only do the job *better*:
+routing, phrasing, a nudge. Falling back costs nothing that exists today, because
+the resident Qwen3-1.7B is today's production quality. The owner should not be told
+that his reply was phrased by the smaller model.
+
+**Name the gap** when the resident model cannot do the job *at all*. A world
+question that a 1.7B answers by inventing is the case. A wrong answer is worse
+than "не могу сейчас". This is the rule CLAUDE.md already states for a sibling
+service being down.
+
+Nothing in between. A turn never breaks on the workstation being asleep.
+
+## Admission control, not a scheduler
+
+There is no GPU arbiter. That is a service with its own failure modes, and nothing
+here needs work *distributed*. It needs admission control. The workstation
+advertises free VRAM over a health endpoint, and Maven treats it as one more query
+source that claims a turn or passes. llama-server also refuses to load when VRAM is
+short, so the failure is detectable without cooperation from the owner's other
+jobs.
+
+The caller must be able to ask "is this peer usable right now" without a turn
+hanging on a timeout. A dead remote is a normal state, not an error state.
+`internal/llm.Pair` is that check on the Maven side. A prober caches the answer,
+so `Available()` is an atomic read and no turn pays for a health check.
+
+llama-server does not stay up on the workstation. It cannot: a resident 7-14B
+would hold 16GB against the owner's CPT runs. So a supervisor there owns its
+lifecycle, keeps it loaded while the card is free, and unloads it on idle or
+when another process needs the card (owner's call, 2026-08-02, Vikunja #488).
+
+That supervisor is still not a scheduler, and the distinction is worth holding.
+It arbitrates nothing between callers. It reports whether it can take work and
+manages one process to back that answer. Maven never asks it to start anything
+and never learns that it did.
+
+Contention is decided by presence under `/sys/class/kfd/kfd/proc`, not by a VRAM
+threshold. A ROCm process registers there when it initialises HIP, before it
+allocates anything. So the supervisor sees a contender during that job's startup,
+and yields before the job loses the memory it asked for. A
+threshold reads the card too late. By the time free VRAM has dropped, the other
+job has already lost the allocation race. Free VRAM is still read, but only as a
+precondition for loading, never as the eviction signal. One blind spot is known.
+A job can take the card without registering on the KFD, as a Vulkan or a
+video-decode job would. `describe()` logs every contender's comm, and that log is
+how we find out whether the blind spot is real.
+
+`mavgpud` runs from a systemd unit on the workstation with
+`deploy/mavgpud.json` as its config, and `llama_args` is passed to llama-server
+untouched. The model, the context size, the layer count and the MTP flags are the
+owner's business and not this daemon's schema.
+
+## What stays on homesrv, permanently
+
+The **embedder** (multilingual-e5-small, ONNX, CPU). It backs the classifier, which
+must answer while the GPU is saturated. It is also cheap enough on CPU that moving
+it buys nothing. Four callers:
+
+| Caller | What for |
+|---|---|
+| `internal/router/classifier.go` | the routing floor |
+| `cmd/mavend/actions_query.go` (`queryEmbed`) | memory recall |
+| `cmd/mavend/feeds.go` | ingest embedding for every RSS item |
+| `internal/crawl/watch.go` | ingest embedding for every crawled page |
+
+`internal/speaker` becomes a fifth once it lands.
+
+## Inventory: what runs a model on homesrv today
+
+The **resident model** is one llama-server with seven callers:
+
+| Caller | What for |
+|---|---|
+| `cmd/mavend/voicewire.go` | routing |
+| `cmd/mavend/replier_llm.go` | replies |
+| `cmd/mavend/tick.go` | digestion worker: `PhraseNudge`, `PhraseReminder` |
+| `cmd/mavend/capture.go` | capture summarisation (unreachable, see #480) |
+| `cmd/mavend/mail.go` | mail extraction (off, no IMAP) |
+| `cmd/mavend/kiwixwire.go` | answering from a Kiwix, search or crawl passage |
+| `memoryeval.go`, `modelswap.go` | admin and evals |
+
+Then the embedder above, **whisper.cpp** in `mavsttd`, and **piper** in `mavttsd`.
+`mavwaked` uses no model at all: an energy-threshold VAD over 30ms frames.
+
+## Order
+
+1. **Transport** (#484). Nothing else is possible until a seam can cross a host.
+   `internal/netaddr` landed in PR #92. A seam address now carries its own scheme,
+   and a scheme-less one is still unix. A tcp seam requires a shared token, because
+   the filesystem permission that authenticated the unix socket is gone.
+2. **The resident model** (#485). Biggest quality delta. A 16GB card runs a 7-14B,
+   which fixes what the 1.7B gets wrong: world knowledge, and the persona the CPT
+   targets. The degradation path is already written and measured, since the
+   classifier scores 68.8% full accuracy at p50 16.6µs on its own.
+3. **Speech-to-text and text-to-speech** (#486). They gain a real margin, but on
+   quality alone, and both already work.
+4. **The wake word** (#487). Independent of all of the above.
+
+## Assumptions
+
+- The LAN is trusted enough that wireguard is supported but not required (owner's
+  call). What crosses the wire is still his utterances. That is why the tcp seam
+  carries its own token instead of assuming a network boundary.
+- The workstation is not expected to be up. Every child task must still serve a
+  turn while it is down.

docs/operations.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Start Commands
 
+*Last verified: 2026-08-02 @ 7079a24. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+
 All commands assume `ROOT=/home/kami/apps/Maven` and the local Go toolchain at `$ROOT/deps/go/go/bin/go`.
 
 ## Prerequisites

docs/plans/2026-07-10-router-lfm-foundation.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 > use the embedded LFM model paths or old single-object examples as current ops
 > guidance; see `2026-07-18-qwen3-resident-training-eval.md`.
 
-> Scope from `REARCH.md`. Make Maven trustworthy: the LFM becomes the router
+> Scope from `docs/rearchitecture.md`. Make Maven trustworthy: the LFM becomes the router
 > (fixes "messes up queries" / "doesn't take notes"), the engine actually runs
 > (fixes stub replies), dates stop being read as "number dot number dot number",
 > and telegram becomes a reach channel. NOT in scope: on-demand 4B reasoner,
@@ -693,7 +693,7 @@ ssh kami@192.168.1.104 'curl -s localhost:9201/api/chat -d "{\"text\":\"запо
 4. `docker compose up -d mavend && docker logs -f maven-mavend-1` — confirm the
    phraser spawns and no `phraser: NewStub` path. Run the two verify curls.
 5. Update `AGENTS.md`: LFM model download + note that routing is now LFM-first
-   with classifier fallback (`REARCH.md` is the design of record).
+   with classifier fallback (`docs/rearchitecture.md` is the design of record).
 
 ---
 

docs/protocol.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Maven Voice Protocol
 
+*Last verified: 2026-08-02 @ 7079a24. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+
 > Auto-generated from `internal/voice/wire.go`, `internal/voice/errors.go`,
 > `internal/voice/frame.go`, `internal/voice/client.go`. If this file and
 > those files disagree, the code wins.

docs/qa.md

@@ -0,0 +1,557 @@
+# QA plan: checking Maven properly
+
+*Last verified: 2026-08-02 @ 20aa2d5. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+
+Written 2026-08-01, after the 35-PR stack landed and the box came back up.
+Refreshed 2026-08-02 against the live list, after PRs #85-#90.
+
+42 of the 50 open Vikunja tasks are `QA:` tasks. They are verification work, not
+build work. Most sat unverifiable while Maven was down for 11 days. That
+blocker is gone.
+
+The plan as written on 2026-08-01 named 40 task numbers. Ten open `QA:` tasks were
+missing and two of the named ones had closed. Every open task now appears below,
+the eight non-QA ones in the last two sections.
+
+This plan orders them by what unblocks what. Do sessions 1 and 2 first. Almost everything
+downstream assumes the voice loop works, and nobody has confirmed that since
+the redeploy.
+
+---
+
+## What the 02-08-2026 run found
+
+Sessions 1, 2 and 3 all ran. Read these five before picking anything up.
+
+- **470: a question writes invented knowledge into memory.** Recall then serves
+  it back. `что дальше?` lands on `IntentFact` and stores the model's answer as a
+  `self` fact at confidence 1.00. Two junk rows then claimed seven unrelated
+  world questions through recall, outranking the search leg. A question about the
+  capital of Australia was answered `какая последняя версия языка Go?`. Two bad
+  writes silently disabled world answering, with nothing logged.
+- **466: a pending clarify is global.** One unanswerable clarify swallowed the
+  next three utterances from three separate sessions. With ntfy, telegram and
+  voice all live, a clarify raised on web chat eats the next telegram message.
+- **467: spoken task capture is dead.** The router calls the capture marker an
+  `act`, and capture is reachable only from the `note` intent.
+- **The classifier baseline in this repo was wrong**, and it flattered the
+  router. See session 2 and **464**.
+- **477: the model swap and the self-update cannot be triggered on this box.**
+  Both are built and both are correct in test. The swap needs a passkey and
+  WebAuthn is unconfigured. `mavupdate` needs to reach a socket that only an
+  in-container uid can open.
+
+- **479: an unconfigured capability lets the question escape to web search.**
+  Netscan off, asked `какие устройства в сети?`. She answered from the live web
+  with a general article about network hardware. A question about his LAN went to
+  an upstream engine. The crawler fails the same way.
+
+Twenty-one defects were filed on 02-08-2026: 462 through 482. Six tasks this plan
+had written off as blocked turned out to be ready to check. All six ran. Every
+one of them is code-correct and stops at the deploy.
+
+Three of the five config blockers in **472** were then cleared. The morning
+routine, ambient ingest, feeds, the crawler and netscan are all live. Two remain,
+and both are the owner's call: a token for each ecosystem sibling, and seed data
+in Nexus and Praxis.
+
+---
+
+## Before you start
+
+Two things bite anyone running these checks on homesrv.
+
+**curl needs `--noproxy '*'`.** The shell exports `http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:18080`.
+Without the flag, every local check returns 503 from the proxy and looks like a
+dead service. This cost me a false regression report today.
+
+**The database is not readable with sqlite3.** Four older QA steps say
+`docker compose exec mavend sqlite3 /data/maven.db "select ..."`. That cannot
+work: the container has no `sqlite3` binary, and the store is AES-256-GCM at
+rest with a tmpfs working copy. Read state through mavweb instead, at
+`/history`, `/trace`, `/routines` and `/dash`.
+
+---
+
+## Session 1: the voice loop (half a day)
+
+Nothing here has been confirmed since the redeploy, and everything else assumes
+it works. Do this first.
+
+Closes or advances: **44** (conversation), **45** (text chat), **287** (voice
+session quality), **321** steps 3-5 (quiet mode), **288** (STT golden audio).
+
+**288 is not blocked.** The fixtures are committed under `cmd/mavsttd/testdata/`
+and `make test-stt-golden` runs today. This plan said otherwise until 02-08-2026.
+
+Steps 1 and 3-6 were run on 02-08-2026 and pass. Steps 2 and 7-9 still need a
+person at the box, because they need a microphone or a nudge to arrive.
+
+Steps 1 and 3-6 do not need a browser. `POST /api/chat` takes a form-encoded
+`text=` field and a cookie jar, and answers with the rendered `/chat` page:
+
+```sh
+curl -s --noproxy '*' -c jar -b jar -L -X POST \
+  http://127.0.0.1:9201/api/chat --data-urlencode 'text=привет'
+```
+
+Parse the whole page, not the last text node. The page carries nav and footer
+text. A naive tail of the Cyrillic nodes returns the wrong string, which makes
+turns look misaligned when they are not.
+
+1. Open `http://127.0.0.1:9201/chat` and hold a short conversation in Russian.
+   Watch for three things: she answers in feminine forms (`рада`, `поняла`), she
+   says `ты` and never `вы`, and no pet names appear.
+   **Passes** (02-08-2026, five turns): `я рада`, `поняла`, `помогла`,
+   `проверила`, `записала`, `грустна`, `ты` throughout, no pet names.
+2. Press push-to-talk on `/dash`. Say `привет`. Confirm a spoken reply comes
+   back. This is the only check that covers mic to STT to core to TTS to
+   speaker as one path. It is also the path the eleven-day outage most likely
+   broke.
+3. Say `тихий режим`. Expect `тихий режим включён. буду реже напоминать.` **Passes.**
+4. Say `выключи тихий режим`. Expect `тихий режим выключен.` Negation must win. **Passes.**
+5. Say `в комнате тихо`. Quiet mode must NOT flip. Confirm on `/history` that no
+   `quiet_hours` fact was written. **Passes**: no row written. She answers `пока
+   не умею отвечать на этот вопрос.`, so it lands on `IntentSystem` with no arm.
+6. Say `включи режим тишины`, then `сделай потише`. Both must flip quiet mode
+   on. These are the noun form and the comparative, added 01-08-2026. **Both pass.**
+7. Wait for a nudge, then say `потом` within twenty minutes. Expect `хорошо,
+   вернусь к этому позже.` and the nudge row on `/notifications` reading
+   `snoozed`. Say `потом` again with nothing pending: it must route as an
+   ordinary utterance, not be swallowed.
+8. Wait for the water nudge, then say `выпил воды`. Expect the ordinary fact
+   reply and nothing extra. She must not congratulate you. Check
+   `/notifications`: the row reads `acted`. Then trigger another nudge and say
+   `готово`. Expect `отлично, отметила.` and the same outcome.
+9. Note anything where she is slow, cuts off, or talks over herself. That is
+   287's whole content and it has no written acceptance criteria yet.
+   **First evidence, in text** (02-08-2026): nothing breaks, but answers wander
+   and stitch unrelated topics. Asked whether he should move flats, she opened
+   with the weather. That is 287, and it is a phrasing problem, not a loop problem.
+
+**The wake path cannot be checked as deployed.** `mavwaked` and `mavenclient`
+appear in no compose file and run as no host process. Step 2 covers only
+push-to-talk, from `/dash` through mavsttd and mavttsd. Wake word and VAD
+are untested by construction. Decide whether they belong in compose or on a
+client machine, and say which in the deploy docs. Tracked as **463**.
+
+**319's single-token bug is fixed** (01-08-2026). Single-word Russian utterances no longer come
+back as `не совсем поняла — можешь переформулировать?`. `привет` and `поужинал`
+both pass now: `thinSingleToken` spares social singles and any token carrying a
+verb ending, and only thins a bare nominal like `вода`. A one-word utterance that
+still gets clarified in this session is a new case for the lexicon, not the old bug.
+
+---
+
+## Session 2: measurement (half a day, mostly waiting)
+
+Closes or advances: **320** items 2-4, **278** (make the eval lab routine).
+Also **248** (memory evaluation), **319** (the margin gate) and **323** (the
+startup timeout arm).
+
+The resident llama-server cannot be reached by the eval harness. It binds
+`--host 127.0.0.1 --port 0` inside the container, so the port is kernel-assigned
+and never published. Start a second one on a fixed port instead:
+
+```sh
+llama-server -m /mnt/hdd1/llms/qwen3/Qwen3-1.7B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf \
+  --host 127.0.0.1 --port 18100 -c 4096 -ngl 99 --no-webui
+```
+
+`-c 4096` matters. The recorded numbers were measured at that context size, and
+a mismatch invalidates the comparison.
+
+Then:
+
+```sh
+make eval-models MAVEN_LLM_URL=http://127.0.0.1:18100   # want ~72.7% cascade
+make eval-router                                         # classifier baseline
+MAVEN_LLM_URL=http://127.0.0.1:18100 make eval-phrasing  # persona checks, slow
+make eval-recall
+```
+
+A large miss against 72.7% means the deploy differs from the bench harness.
+
+**Run on 02-08-2026 @ af9d213. The deploy matches the bench.** `eval-models`
+scored 56 of 77: 72.7% full, 77.9% intent-only, 2 false clarifies and 1 missed.
+That is the recorded figure to the decimal, and calendar sat at 2 of 2, so the
+stage 0 agenda rules hold. `eval-phrasing` scored 21 of 27 on the talk fixture
+against a recorded 20, and the 15 nudge templates passed every check.
+
+Two numbers in this repo were wrong, and both flattered the resident model.
+
+- **The classifier is not 36.8% and not 31ms.** `make eval-router` reports
+  `classifier+onnx: 53/77 (68.8% full)` at p50 16.6µs. The figure repeated here
+  and in `CLAUDE.md` predates the stage 0 rules and the seed additions. Both now
+  score inside that baseline. The accuracy gap the router buys is
+  roughly 4 points, not 36. Re-argue the trade on the real numbers: **464**.
+- **Router latency was measured under contention again.** p50 1.126s, p95 1.58s,
+  max 3.24s, against a recorded p50 825ms. The resident model was serving the
+  daemon on the same iGPU throughout. Do not record this as a regression, and do
+  not record it as a measurement either. Stop the stack before timing the router.
+
+`classifier+hash` scores 19.5%, which is the no-ONNX degraded path and is not the
+failure floor the deploy uses. Do not quote it as the classifier baseline.
+
+Then three things to decide while the numbers are in front of you:
+
+- **319 is done.** 359 gave the LLM path a real confidence signal.
+  `thinSingleToken` was narrowed on 01-08-2026, and agenda questions moved to
+  stage 0. Missed clarify sits at 1 of 6 and false clarifies at 2. Item 2 point 2
+  closed on 02-08-2026: the `make eval-recall` margin sweep is the distribution
+  that was asked for, and `0.008` sits at the knee.
+
+  | delta | answered | false recall |
+  |---|---|---|
+  | 0.005 | 18/27 | 2/5 |
+  | **0.008** | **18/27** | **1/5** |
+  | 0.010 | 16/27 | 1/5 |
+
+  It removes four of five false recalls at no cost in answers, and the next step
+  costs two answers for nothing. The hand-picked value survives on evidence.
+- **278's real ask** is making the eval lab routine rather than building it. It
+  is built. Decide whether it runs on a timer, on every merge, or on demand, and
+  the task can close.
+- **248** is the memory evaluation loop. It ships, it writes notes, and it cannot
+  speak. `make eval-recall` covers the retrieval half. The open question is whether
+  a written evaluation nobody reads is worth the tick.
+
+**323 is down to one check.** PR #90 covered the spawn path and took phraser
+coverage to 76.9%. Only the 60s startup timeout arm is untested, because testing it
+needs a `StartupTimeout` field on `Config` rather than a test-only hack. While you
+are on the box, time a cold 1.7B load off spinning disk. If it runs near 60s, the
+default is too tight and the field earns itself twice.
+
+Warm, it is nowhere near. A second llama-server answered `/health` 1.8s after
+launch at `n_ctx 4096` on 02-08-2026. That is page cache, so it does not settle
+the question. A cold read needs a cache drop, which needs root.
+
+**`CheckFeminine` has a false positive.** On 02-08-2026 it failed
+`query-notes-do-not-answer` for `ты заплатил`, calling it masculine
+self-reference. Masculine second person is correct, because the owner is male.
+The check matches a masculine
+past-tense verb before `за` without confirming the subject is `я`. Fix it in
+`internal/phraser/eval/checks.go` before trusting a phrasing score to the case.
+The real talk-fixture score on that run is 22 of 27, not 21. Tracked as **462**.
+
+Item 4 of **320** needs a permission I do not have. Kill the `llama-server`
+pid under `maven-mavend-1`, post a turn, and confirm it still completes
+through the classifier. Either grant it or run it yourself. It is the only
+check that the failure floor catches a mid-session model death.
+
+---
+
+## Session 3: the interaction batch (a day, or five sittings)
+
+These need real use rather than a command, grouped by what one sitting covers.
+
+**Morning and delivery** (**280**, **281**, **128**, **282**, **283**, **285**):
+open `/morning`, walk the seven required behaviours, then check the four
+interruption outcomes and the digest gap. **282** needs the `desk_active` script
+enabled on the desk PC first, which is **15** and needs you at that machine.
+**283** is the event intake envelope every reach shares, so a delivery check
+exercises it whether you name it or not. **285** is not verification: the bridge
+framework works and the remaining ask is more adapters. Decide which reach comes
+next, or park it.
+
+Run 02-08-2026. **280 is blocked.** No morning routine is configured (**472**).
+`morning.Item` also has no required-versus-optional field, so behaviour 1 cannot
+hold whatever you configure (**473**). **281's digest gap is closed**, and
+its presence rule passes on inspection. Three of its five items need traffic the
+box has not had. **283 is blocked**: nothing feeds the intake journal. **128
+found the worst defect of the whole session, see below.**
+
+Three of 472's five blockers were cleared the same day, in `deploy/mavend.json`
+and `docker-compose.yml`.
+
+- A `morning_routines` block, one routine `утро` 08:00-11:00 with medicine,
+  water and pets. It is live: the dispatcher logged `dropped morning:утро (sev1,
+  presence=away)`, so the plan builds and the nudge is proposed. 280's
+  behaviours and 128 step 11 are checkable now. 473 still stands.
+- `-ambient-token` on mavweb, value in a gitignored `/.env` that docker compose
+  reads for interpolation. `/api/ambient` answers 401 without the token and 201
+  with it, storing `calendar_event_20260802_Standup`. 283 step 5 and 128 step 8
+  are unblocked. The token is a flag, so it shows in `ps` inside that container.
+  The zenmoney and IMAP secrets are read from files instead. Ingest also
+  reads the notification's wall clock as UTC and stores a 14:30 meeting at 18:30
+  (**482**).
+- `feeds` (two sources), `crawl.on_demand` and `netscan.enabled`. The intake
+  journal now fills: `/events` holds `scan:lan` and `ambient:notif` rows.
+
+Two are not mine to clear. No sibling has a `token` in `deploy/mavend.json`, so
+273 steps 6 and 8 need a credential decision. Nexus has no entities and Praxis no
+attention items, so 272 step 3 needs seed data whose content is the owner's call.
+
+For **285**, two facts bear on the choice. Synapse is already running on this box
+and healthy, so a Matrix reach has a live target and needs no new service. And
+mavweb is already a PWA with a service worker, which 285 itself calls the highest
+value adapter left. Today's reaches are ntfy, telegram and voice.
+
+**Query sources** (**258**, **286**): ask her something the RSS feeds answer and
+something only a ZIM answers, with the search block on. Live search leads and the
+ZIMs are the fallback since 02-08-2026. **286**'s remaining half is doc and
+git ingestion, which is build work, not a check.
+
+**Do not read `/trace` for this.** `/trace` is the nudge-rule trace: rule,
+severity, predicate, gate, selected. No query-source field exists anywhere in the
+codebase. The only evidence of which query source claimed a turn is the
+`voice: search:` and `voice: kiwix:` lines in `docker compose logs mavend`
+(`actions_query.go:589` and `:660`).
+
+Run 02-08-2026, 20 turns. **Search leads and the personal boundary holds.** Every
+world question that reached the boundary was claimed by search. All three
+personal questions produced no search and no kiwix line at all.
+
+The rest of this sitting went badly. **Kiwix has zero live coverage.** SearXNG
+returns four results for everything, including two invented nonsense terms. So
+`querySearch` always claims, and Kiwix is unreachable code as deployed. The ZIM
+half of the 02-08-2026 decision is unverified. A ZIM answer cannot signal a
+silent search failure, because a ZIM answer cannot happen.
+**Ordering defects** in feeds and calendar, plus 258 step 1's utterance not
+working: **474**. And the sitting independently found stage 2 of **470**.
+
+**Tasks and calendar** (**129**, **130**, **127**, **126**, **246**): capture a
+task by voice, confirm it lands, check prioritisation ordering is not nonsense.
+**246** (mail reader) also exercises the `IngestMail` rung that moved to
+`AuthWrite` this morning.
+
+Run 02-08-2026. **129 passes.** The page and the spoken answer agree on ordering.
+The undistinguished task carries no invented reason on either surface, which is
+the thing 129 asks for. **130 fails outright** and **127 half fails**:
+**467**, **469**. **246 cannot be run**: `mavmaild` is commented out in
+`docker-compose.yml` and there is no `email` block, so nothing in steps 4-13 is
+reachable. The `IngestMail` rung does sit at `AuthWrite`
+(`internal/auth/policy.go:96`, asserted in `auth_test.go:421`), verified by
+reading only.
+
+**Routines and patterns** (**43**, **46**, **247**, **254**): these need history
+to detect against. If the database is thin after the outage, they may have
+nothing to propose, which is not a failure. Check `/routines` before
+concluding anything.
+
+Run 02-08-2026. The answer is the middle case: **the detector ran and found
+nothing.** The tick loop is live, and `detectPatterns` is called unconditionally
+at `cmd/mavend/tick.go:227`. It has run about 25 times since the restart. It
+finds nothing because the events table is empty upstream of it. Rows land there
+only from `pattern.Extract` at fact-write time, and `Extract` requires the fact
+value to match a closed 7-action lexicon. All 200 facts on `/history` are
+`page_heartbeat`, `netdata_alarm`, `quiet_hours`, `name`, `service_down` and
+`рост`. Not one lexicon hit, so no event can exist, let alone the four one pair
+needs. **46 step 5 passes**: `/routines` renders `noticed 0` with the empty state
+and the hint string.
+
+Two things block this sitting, and both are build work. The seeding recipe on
+**43** goes through `sqlite3` and cannot work. And `pattern.Detect` has no
+minimum-interval floor, so seeding by hand mints a permanent false routine
+(**468**). Do not try to seed a pattern with four fast chat turns.
+
+**Ecosystem** (**272**, **273**, **276**): nexus, hexis and praxis are wired and
+logged clean at boot.
+
+Run 02-08-2026, read-only half. All three answer `/health` 200 and `/ecosystem`
+lists 18 Hexis capabilities with correct read-only and mutating badges. **272 and
+273 are blocked on empty data**, not on code. Nexus holds no entities, Praxis
+holds no attention items, and the Calls panel has never recorded a call. See
+**472**, and read its warning first. 273's trace fix has never been validated
+here. An empty Calls panel is exactly what the old bug looked like. The page is
+`/ecosystem`, not `/siblings`.
+
+**276 ran 02-08-2026 and the suite is sound.** 17 `TestEcosystem_` cases pass
+under `-race`, not the 10 the task describes. The mutation check bites: patching
+the Nexus-error branch of `handleHexisAct` to `return ""` fails
+`TestEcosystem_MalformedNexusResponseFailsClosed` on the expected line.
+
+Steps 4 and 6 could not be checked through chat, because no utterance reaches
+Praxis (**475**). «что требует внимания» routes to `intent=query` and is answered
+by the search leg, identically whether `ecosystem-praxis-1` is up or stopped. The
+degraded string never appears because its branch is never entered. Step 5 is
+blocked the same way: `перезапусти muzick indexer` clarifies on
+`HasFn:false`, and the router had already rewritten the entity name to
+`музик индексер` (**476**).
+
+Both steps were checked on `/ecosystem` instead, which reads Praxis directly.
+With Praxis stopped the card reads `praxis — unreachable` while Nexus and Hexis
+keep rendering. On `docker start` the card returns to `nothing needs attention.`
+with no mavend restart. Independent degradation and recovery both hold.
+
+**Operations** (**249**, **250**): both ran 02-08-2026. The code is correct and
+neither lever can be pulled on this box. See **477**.
+
+**250** passes steps 1, 2, 3, 9 and 10 on the deploy. The capability announces
+itself. `/models` names the model llama-server reports, not the config filename.
+Asking her to switch models does nothing. Removing `swap_models` renders `swap
+not configured`. Step 4's refusal half passes at HTTP 403, and the 403 comes from
+mavend rather than mavweb. WebAuthn is unconfigured, so the web gate fails open
+and the wire gate fails closed. Steps 5 to 8 need a passkey assertion nothing on
+this box can produce. They pass in test: 13 swap cases and 7 page cases covering
+drain, mid-swap refusal, rollback, failed rollback and the not-owned refusal.
+
+**249** passes steps 1 and 2. Step 3 stops it. `mavupdate` health-checks over
+`/run/maven/mavend.sock`, which is `srw------- 1 10001 999` inside a docker
+volume. The host owner cannot traverse `/var/lib/docker/volumes` and cannot
+connect to a socket owned by an in-container uid. `mavupdate` assumes a
+host-installed daemon and the deploy is containers. Do not sudo around this.
+
+---
+
+## Housekeeping (done 02-08-2026, and this section was mostly wrong)
+
+This section claimed eleven tasks were not verification work. **Three were not.
+The other eight are.** Every one of the eight has shipped, tested code behind it.
+The error ran one way: it wrote off work that is ready to check. Do not trust a
+"nothing is built" line in this plan without grepping for the package first.
+
+Relabelled to `Blocked:`, claim verified:
+
+- **125** zenmoney. `internal/zenmoney/` ships and is tested against a fixture.
+  `deploy/zenmoney.token` does not exist and the compose mount is commented out.
+  One token unblocks it.
+- **256** Home Assistant. `internal/smarthome/` ships, the `smarthome` block sits
+  in `deploy/mavend.json` at `enabled: false`, and 8123 and 1883 are closed.
+- **14** cold-start unlock. The seam is real at `cmd/mavend/main.go:128` and
+  `internal/webauthn/prf.go` is in place. `lockedAPI` is gone, replaced by
+  `Server.Check` in `internal/ipc/server.go`. Gated on an authenticator that
+  implements the WebAuthn PRF extension, which is hardware, not code.
+
+Left alone, because the claim here was false:
+
+- **284** simulator. `cmd/mavend/simulator_test.go`, three scenarios under
+  `cmd/mavend/testdata/scenarios/`, and a `simulate` target at `Makefile:98`.
+  **Run 02-08-2026: all three scenarios pass**, plus the determinism and
+  backwards-step guards. One defect found, see below.
+- **288** STT golden audio. Four WAVs and `golden_v1.json` are committed under
+  `cmd/mavsttd/testdata/`, the make targets exist, and `models/stt/ggml-small.bin`
+  is on the box. Session 1 lists 288 as blocked on fixtures, which is wrong.
+  **Run 02-08-2026: all four pass**, WER at or under ceiling with no drift.
+
+| fixture | transcript | WER | ceiling |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| ru_reminder | `Напомни мне через час позвонить маме.` | 0.00 | 0.10 |
+| ru_fact | `А отметь, что я выпил воды.` | 0.20 | 0.25 |
+| ru_query | `Что у меня сегодня по календарю?` | 0.00 | 0.10 |
+| en_act | `Restart the web server and check the disk space.` | 0.00 | 0.10 |
+
+That also settles a session 1 worry indirectly: whisper.cpp works on Vulkan
+after the redeploy. Only the mic and the wake path remain unproven.
+
+**The simulator routes with an empty seed set.** Every `make simulate` run logs
+`loaded 0 seed examples from models/seeds`, seven times per scenario. The test
+runs from `cmd/mavend`, and the seed path is relative to the repo root. The
+scenarios still pass, which means they pass without the classifier having any
+seeds to match against. Whatever 284 is proving, it is not proving the routing
+the deploy runs. Fix the path before trusting a green simulator.
+- **257** Bluetooth. The bluez half is genuinely absent. The LAN-scan half shipped
+  (`internal/netscan/`), and steps 1-9 run today. Only step 10 is Bluetooth, so
+  relabelling the whole task would bury real pending work.
+- **251** MCP, **253** hearing, **259** crawler. All three ship
+  (`internal/mcp/`, `internal/capture/`, `internal/crawl/`) with no external gate.
+  Fully checkable. `259`'s step 1 wants no `crawl` block in `deploy/mavend.json`,
+  and there is none, so it is already set up correctly.
+- **252** vision and **255** speaker recognition. Both ship. Each is blocked only
+  on a model download: a vision gguf with mmproj, and a speaker embedding model.
+  Neither is present under `/mnt/hdd1`. Their refusal-path steps run today.
+
+So the honest split is three blocked on a credential or hardware, two blocked on
+a download, and six ready to check. That is roughly a session of real QA this
+plan had written off as backlog.
+
+**All six ran on 02-08-2026.** Every one of them is code-correct and stops at the
+deploy. The pattern repeats often enough to be the headline: the packages pass,
+and the box cannot reach them.
+
+**251, MCP.** Steps 1, 2, 3, 4 and 13 pass. Package tests green under `-race`.
+Off-by-default is clean, and the SSRF refusal is exact: without `allow_private`
+the log reads `refusing to connect to a private address: 127.0.0.1` and `/tools`
+shows the server down with zero proposals. Steps 5 to 12 are blocked. `ss -lntp`
+shows the Vikunja MCP server on `127.0.0.1:9100` only, so no container reaches it
+at any address (**478**). `allow_private` does work, measured both ways.
+
+**253, hearing.** Steps 1, 2 and 17 pass. `internal/capture` covers 90.3%. Steps
+7 to 16 are blocked on something nobody can work around: no shipped client calls
+`CaptureStart`. There is no `cmd/mavheard`, no mavweb route, and `mavenclient`
+never calls it (**480**). Two of its QA steps are also stale.
+
+**257, netscan.** Steps 2, 3 and 9 pass at unit level. Step 1 fails. Steps 4 to 8
+need the block enabled. Step 10 is Bluetooth and stays skipped.
+
+**259, crawler.** Steps 1 and 15 pass. Step 2 fails. Steps 3 to 14 need a `crawl`
+block that nobody has written.
+
+Both were configured later the same day, and both work. `netscan.enabled: true`
+answers `какие устройства в сети?` with `нашла 3 устройства, из них 2 с вебом, 2 с
+ssh. список записала.` and the scan lands in the intake journal as `scan:lan`.
+`crawl.on_demand: true` answers `посмотри https://lwn.net — что там пишут?` from
+the real page. So **479** is one defect, not the routing defect it was filed as.
+An unconfigured capability declines its own turn instead of naming the gap.
+Nothing is wrong with the routing.
+
+257 step 1 and 259 step 2 fail the same way and share a task (**479**). An
+unconfigured capability does not name the gap, so the question escapes to web
+search. `какие устройства в сети?` was answered with a general article about
+network hardware. That is his LAN going to an upstream engine.
+
+**252 vision and 255 speaker.** Both confirmed blocked. The disk claim was
+re-verified rather than taken on trust: 16 text-only ggufs under `/mnt/hdd1`, no
+mmproj and no speaker embedding model. Everything not needing the model passes,
+including the two refusals that matter. `TestNewLocalRefusesNonPrivateEndpoints`
+rejects `https://api.openai.com`, and forget really deletes
+(`internal/store/memory.go:145` is a real `DELETE`, not a tombstone). Vision is
+19/19, speaker 22/22, media 16/16.
+
+**470 got worse.** Both poisoned facts show `voided` on `/history`, and the
+defect survives. Re-measured at 15:42, after four restarts: `почему небо синее?`
+still answers `какая последняя версия языка Go?` with no `search:` line. What
+comes back is the question he typed, not the value the fact held. So the poison
+is a vector in the memory index, and `revert` does not remove it. There is
+currently no documented way to repair a poisoned box.
+
+---
+
+## Needs you specifically
+
+Not QA. These are blocked on a decision or a credential only you have.
+
+| # | what |
+|---|---|
+| 16 | Create the Kuma API key. `-kuma-key uk5_mavpoll-key` in `docker-compose.yml` is still the placeholder. |
+| 15 | Deploy `desk_active` on the desk PC. Blocks **282**. |
+| 122 | Finish the CPT run for Qwen3-1.7B. The persona fix depends on it. |
+| 355 | Deploy the Hexis auth change. Was blocked on Maven being under construction, which it no longer is. The client half is vendored and wired. |
+| 357 | Decide whether entity-existence validation is the permanent target guard or whether blessing lands in Nexus. |
+| 275 | Hexis native API and MCP parity. |
+| — | Decide on `-require-stepup`. Making it the default needs WebAuthn configured first, or it locks you out of your own admin surfaces. |
+
+317 and 354 closed on 01-08-2026. The step-up gate now covers `POST /api/chat` and
+`/routines`, and the nginx template is locked down with a `maven.<domain>` block for
+mavweb. The `-require-stepup` default is still your call.
+
+---
+
+## Not this repo
+
+Two open tasks sit on the Maven board and are not Maven work. Move them or note
+where they land, so the board stops reading as 50 things Maven owes.
+
+- **358** replace the rowid execution cursor with a real seq column. This is Hexis,
+  and it must land before any execution retention or pruning does.
+- **362** mirror the router prompt reorder into the relabelling prompt. This is the
+  training workspace, enforced by `llm/check_prompt_parity.py` there, not here.
+
+---
+
+## Suggested order
+
+1. Session 1. If the voice loop is broken, nothing else matters.
+2. The `-require-stepup` and Kuma decisions. Five minutes, and it unblocks **16**.
+3. Session 2. **Run on 02-08-2026.** The numbers came back worse for the router
+   than the docs claimed. The classifier is 68.8%, not 36.8%, and 16.6µs, not
+   31ms. The router buys about 4 points of accuracy for four orders of magnitude
+   of latency. Whether that still earns its place is now an open question.
+4. Housekeeping. Cheap, and it makes the remaining backlog honest.
+5. Session 3, split whichever way suits you. All five sittings ran on
+   02-08-2026. Read the per-sitting notes before repeating any of them.
+
+The next thing to fix is not in this plan. Four defects say the same sentence:
+a capability is built and no utterance reaches it. **466** (a clarify is global),
+**467** (capture is act-routed), **475** (attention is act-routed), **476** (the
+router rewrites entity names). Routing is where the work is.

docs/rearchitecture.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Maven — Re-architecture (Qwen3 resident model, revised 2026-07-18)
 
+*Last verified: 2026-08-02 @ 7079a24. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+
 > Supersedes the classifier-first routing model. Agreed in a design session
 > after diagnosing that homesrv deploys with a **stub phraser** (no LLM
 > running) and an embedder-classifier that routes by nearest-neighbor between

internal/auth/tier.go

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 // Package auth is maven's authority layer — the 4-layer cascade and the
 // "surface caps authority" invariant.
 //
-// Spec contract (from DESIGN.md § Auth):
+// Spec contract (from docs/design.md § Auth):
 //
 //	a cascade, not a pick-one — each layer answers a different question:
 //

internal/capture/summarize.go

@@ -71,6 +71,13 @@ func NewSummarizer(llm Completer, chunkRunes, maxChunks int, contextBlock func()
 	return &Summarizer{llm: llm, chunkRunes: chunkRunes, maxChunks: maxChunks, context: contextBlock}
 }
 
+// Both prompts ask for a JSON wrapper because the daemon's Completer attaches a
+// grammar of that shape (summaryGrammar in cmd/mavend/capture.go) and unwraps it
+// again before the text reaches this package. The wrapper is what keeps a
+// Thinking-variant model from answering a summarisation prompt with its
+// reasoning. Nothing here parses it: the map and reduce steps see plain prose,
+// and a Completer without the grammar still works.
+//
 // chunkPrompt — the map step. Deliberately plain: this is not Maven speaking to
 // him, it is a model condensing text, so there is no first person in it at all
 // and therefore nothing for the persona's gender rules to get wrong. The reply
@@ -79,12 +86,14 @@ func NewSummarizer(llm Completer, chunkRunes, maxChunks int, contextBlock func()
 const chunkPrompt = `Ты обрабатываешь фрагмент расшифровки разговора.
 Сожми его до 2-4 пунктов: о чём говорили, какие решения приняли, какие задачи назвали.
 Без вступлений и выводов. Только по тексту — не придумывай того, чего в нём нет.
-Если во фрагменте нет ничего содержательного, ответь одним словом: пусто.`
+Если во фрагменте нет ничего содержательного, напиши одно слово: пусто.
+Отвечай ТОЛЬКО объектом JSON с одним полем: {"summary": "..."}.`
 
 // reducePrompt — the reduce step. Same rules, over the chunk summaries.
 const reducePrompt = `Ниже — конспекты фрагментов одной встречи, по порядку.
 Собери из них один короткий итог: о чём была встреча, какие решения приняли, что кому делать.
-Не повторяйся, не придумывай, не добавляй вступлений.`
+Не повторяйся, не придумывай, не добавляй вступлений.
+Отвечай ТОЛЬКО объектом JSON с одним полем: {"summary": "..."}.`
 
 // emptyMarker — what the map step answers for a chunk with nothing in it. Such
 // chunks are dropped before the reduce step rather than padding it with noise.

internal/config/config.go

@@ -144,6 +144,22 @@ type Config struct {
 	// nil ⇒ quiet hours only activate via the voice toggle.
 	QuietHours *QuietHoursConfig `json:"quiet_hours,omitempty"`
 
+	// DisabledRules — nudge rules that are not wired at all, by name
+	// ("service_down", "netdata_critical", "water", "meal", "break").
+	//
+	// Rules are code, not config (see loop.DefaultRules), and that stays true:
+	// this only subtracts. It exists because a rule can be right in principle
+	// and useless in practice — kuma's service_down cannot name the service it
+	// is nudging about (Vikunja #444), so being told "a service on homesrv is
+	// down" every fifteen minutes is noise with no action attached. Turning it
+	// off beats learning to ignore her.
+	//
+	// A disabled rule is never gathered for, never evaluated, and never
+	// delivered on any channel. Unknown names are ignored, so removing a rule
+	// from the code does not break a config that still lists it.
+	// Empty ⇒ every rule runs, which is the default.
+	DisabledRules []string `json:"disabled_rules,omitempty"`
+
 	// Digest — notification batching / digest mode. nil ⇒ digest disabled
 	// (every nudge is sent as it fires — legacy behaviour).
 	Digest *DigestConfig `json:"digest,omitempty"`
@@ -199,6 +215,15 @@ type Config struct {
 	// fetches a page: not on request, not on a schedule. See CrawlConfig.
 	Crawl *CrawlConfig `json:"crawl,omitempty"`
 
+	// Kiwix — the offline ZIM reader (Vikunja #122 neighbourhood). nil / absent
+	// / url empty ⇒ the query chain has no ZIM source. See KiwixConfig.
+	Kiwix *KiwixConfig `json:"kiwix,omitempty"`
+
+	// Search — the SearXNG metasearch instance. nil / absent / url empty ⇒ the
+	// query chain has no web-search source and Kiwix is the only encyclopedia.
+	// See SearchConfig.
+	Search *SearchConfig `json:"search,omitempty"`
+
 	// Praxis — the ecosystem attention-state service. When configured, maven
 	// calls the Praxis HTTP tools API for attention listing and item lifecycle.
 	// Maven never touches Praxis's database directly (ecosystem invariant: no
@@ -624,7 +649,7 @@ type VoiceConfig struct {
 	// LLMRouter — route with the resident model instead of the embedding
 	// classifier. On by default since Vikunja #320.
 	//
-	// Measured on the held-out fixture (ROUTING-EVAL-31-07-2026.md): 63.2% of
+	// Measured on the held-out fixture (docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md): 63.2% of
 	// intents right against the classifier's 50.0%, and no route errors. It
 	// costs about 1s per turn instead of 30ms.
 	//
@@ -1027,6 +1052,110 @@ type CrawlConfig struct {
 	MaxRunes int `json:"max_runes,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// KiwixConfig — the offline encyclopedia. A kiwix-serve instance holding ZIM
+// archives (Wikipedia, ifixit, devdocs) on the LAN, searched before anything
+// touches the network. Dark until configured, same as every other reach.
+//
+// This is the "local sources first" rule in CLAUDE.md made concrete: a 1.7B
+// does not know enough to answer a world question, but it can read. A local
+// read costs nothing and leaves the box only as far as the LAN.
+//
+// Only the rewritten search query leaves this process. His notes, facts,
+// persona block and history are never part of a request.
+type KiwixConfig struct {
+	// URL — base address of kiwix-serve, e.g. "http://kiwix:8080". Empty ⇒ the
+	// whole block is normalised to nil and the source stays off.
+	URL string `json:"url,omitempty"`
+
+	// Book — the ZIM to search, by its catalog name, e.g.
+	// "wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2026-02". Take it from the /content/… href in
+	// /catalog/v2/entries; the display title is not the name.
+	//
+	// Required. kiwix-serve answers 400 to a search with an empty books.name,
+	// so a block without one is normalised to nil rather than left to fail one
+	// query at a time.
+	Book string `json:"book,omitempty"`
+
+	// MaxResults — how many hits are asked for. 0 ⇒ DefaultKiwixResults.
+	// Only the top few reach the phraser regardless; the rest are context the
+	// snippet ranking throws away.
+	MaxResults int `json:"max_results,omitempty"`
+
+	// SnippetRunes — how much of the joined snippets is handed to the phraser.
+	// 0 ⇒ DefaultKiwixSnippetRunes. Sized against the 4096-token context, which
+	// also holds the persona block and the prompt.
+	SnippetRunes int `json:"snippet_runes,omitempty"`
+
+	// Rewrite — turn the Russian question into English keywords with the
+	// resident model before searching. The ZIMs are English and kiwix ranks by
+	// keyword, not meaning, so a Russian sentence matches nothing. Costs one
+	// short LLM call per query. Default true; set false only to measure the
+	// difference or when the books are Russian.
+	Rewrite *bool `json:"rewrite,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// RewriteEnabled — Rewrite with its default applied. Absent ⇒ on.
+func (k *KiwixConfig) RewriteEnabled() bool {
+	return k.Rewrite == nil || *k.Rewrite
+}
+
+// Kiwix defaults, applied in Normalise.
+const (
+	DefaultKiwixResults      = 5
+	DefaultKiwixSnippetRunes = 1500
+)
+
+// SearchConfig — the self-hosted SearXNG instance she searches with.
+//
+// External search is allowed and off unless configured (CLAUDE.md). Configuring
+// it is the whole opt-in: no `search` block, no query ever leaves the LAN.
+//
+// It sits AHEAD of Kiwix in the query chain, and that is the owner's ruling of
+// 2026-08-02: a live search answers better than a frozen ZIM, and the ZIM is
+// what she falls back to when the line is down. Everything of HIS still comes
+// first — the personal boundary runs above both, so a question about him is
+// never searched.
+//
+// Only the query string leaves the box. Notes, facts, the persona block and the
+// history are never part of a request; internal/websearch cannot read the store.
+type SearchConfig struct {
+	// URL — base address of the SearXNG instance, e.g. "http://searxng:9563".
+	// Empty ⇒ the whole block is normalised to nil and the source stays off.
+	//
+	// The instance needs `search.formats` to include `json` in its settings.yml.
+	// A stock install answers 403 to format=json, and then every search fails.
+	URL string `json:"url,omitempty"`
+
+	// MaxResults — how many hits are kept as evidence. 0 ⇒ DefaultSearchResults.
+	// Small on purpose: the snippets share a 4096-token context with the persona
+	// block and the prompt.
+	MaxResults int `json:"max_results,omitempty"`
+
+	// SnippetRunes — how much of the joined evidence reaches the phraser.
+	// 0 ⇒ DefaultSearchSnippetRunes.
+	SnippetRunes int `json:"snippet_runes,omitempty"`
+
+	// Language — SearXNG's `language` parameter, e.g. "ru", "en" or "auto".
+	// Empty ⇒ the instance default. He asks in Russian and in English, so
+	// pinning one language here is usually the wrong call.
+	Language string `json:"language,omitempty"`
+
+	// Engines — comma-separated engine names to restrict the search to, e.g.
+	// "duckduckgo,wikipedia". Empty ⇒ whatever the instance has enabled.
+	Engines string `json:"engines,omitempty"`
+
+	// Timeout — per-search budget. 0 ⇒ websearch.DefaultTimeout. SearXNG waits
+	// on the slowest upstream engine, so this is the knob that decides how long
+	// a voice turn can stall on a bad network.
+	Timeout Duration `json:"timeout,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// Search defaults, applied in Normalise.
+const (
+	DefaultSearchResults      = 4
+	DefaultSearchSnippetRunes = 1500
+)
+
 // CrawlWatchConfig — one page kept an eye on.
 type CrawlWatchConfig struct {
 	Name     string   `json:"name"` // note source is "crawl:<name>"
@@ -1345,6 +1474,32 @@ func (c *Config) applyDefaults() {
 		c.Crawl = nil
 	}
 
+	// Same rule for the ZIM reader: no address or no book, nothing to search.
+	if c.Kiwix != nil && (strings.TrimSpace(c.Kiwix.URL) == "" || strings.TrimSpace(c.Kiwix.Book) == "") {
+		c.Kiwix = nil
+	}
+	if c.Kiwix != nil {
+		if c.Kiwix.MaxResults <= 0 {
+			c.Kiwix.MaxResults = DefaultKiwixResults
+		}
+		if c.Kiwix.SnippetRunes <= 0 {
+			c.Kiwix.SnippetRunes = DefaultKiwixSnippetRunes
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Same rule for the metasearch instance: no address, nothing to search.
+	if c.Search != nil && strings.TrimSpace(c.Search.URL) == "" {
+		c.Search = nil
+	}
+	if c.Search != nil {
+		if c.Search.MaxResults <= 0 {
+			c.Search.MaxResults = DefaultSearchResults
+		}
+		if c.Search.SnippetRunes <= 0 {
+			c.Search.SnippetRunes = DefaultSearchSnippetRunes
+		}
+	}
+
 	if c.Voice != nil {
 		if c.Voice.RouterThreshold <= 0 {
 			c.Voice.RouterThreshold = DefaultRouterThreshold

internal/config/config_test.go

@@ -367,3 +367,49 @@ func TestUpdateBlockValidatedAtStartup(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("Load accepted an update block with no health_socket")
 	}
 }
+
+// A kiwix block with no address, or no book, has nothing to search.
+// kiwix-serve answers 400 to an empty books.name, so the block is dropped here
+// rather than left to fail one query at a time.
+func TestNormaliseDropsIncompleteKiwix(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name string
+		in   *KiwixConfig
+	}{
+		{"no url", &KiwixConfig{Book: "wikipedia_en_all_maxi"}},
+		{"no book", &KiwixConfig{URL: "http://kiwix:8080"}},
+		{"blank url", &KiwixConfig{URL: "   ", Book: "b"}},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			c := &Config{Kiwix: tc.in}
+			c.applyDefaults()
+			if c.Kiwix != nil {
+				t.Errorf("kept an unusable kiwix block: %+v", c.Kiwix)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNormaliseFillsKiwixDefaults(t *testing.T) {
+	c := &Config{Kiwix: &KiwixConfig{URL: "http://kiwix:8080", Book: "b"}}
+	c.applyDefaults()
+	if c.Kiwix == nil {
+		t.Fatal("dropped a complete kiwix block")
+	}
+	if c.Kiwix.MaxResults != DefaultKiwixResults {
+		t.Errorf("MaxResults = %d, want %d", c.Kiwix.MaxResults, DefaultKiwixResults)
+	}
+	if c.Kiwix.SnippetRunes != DefaultKiwixSnippetRunes {
+		t.Errorf("SnippetRunes = %d, want %d", c.Kiwix.SnippetRunes, DefaultKiwixSnippetRunes)
+	}
+	// Rewriting is on unless it is turned off: an English ZIM searched with a
+	// Russian sentence matches nothing, so the useful default is the on one.
+	if !c.Kiwix.RewriteEnabled() {
+		t.Error("rewriting defaulted to off")
+	}
+	off := false
+	c.Kiwix.Rewrite = &off
+	if c.Kiwix.RewriteEnabled() {
+		t.Error("rewrite: false was not honoured")
+	}
+}

internal/delivery/channel.go

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Package delivery is maven's channel-routing + dispatch layer.
 //
-// Spec contract (from DESIGN.md § Delivery / channel routing):
+// Spec contract (from docs/design.md § Delivery / channel routing):
 //
 //   - routing = f(severity, presence). presence decides REACHABILITY; severity
 //     decides INSISTENCE. need both.

internal/delivery/routing_table_test.go

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 )
 
-// This file walks every cell of the DESIGN.md § "Delivery / channel routing"
+// This file walks every cell of the docs/design.md § "Delivery / channel routing"
 // table, once as the pure table and once through the dispatcher, so a change
 // to either side has to break a named cell.
 //
@@ -205,7 +205,7 @@ func TestAwayChannelsGetMinimalBody(t *testing.T) {
 // An empty Summary no longer means "send the whole body" — it means a short
 // generic line — so the old expectation here was wrong as well as duplicated.
 
-// TestCareAwayDropIsRecorded — DESIGN.md's drop is a decision ("a missed water
+// TestCareAwayDropIsRecorded — docs/design.md's drop is a decision ("a missed water
 // nudge is noise, a missed backup failure isn't"), so it should be visible
 // rather than vanish. Today drop is a bare `continue`: no nudge row, no outbox
 // attempt, no log — nothing an operator can see afterwards. now it leaves a

internal/delivery/telegramsink/telegramsink.go

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
@@ -162,13 +163,13 @@ func (s *Sink) Send(ctx context.Context, d delivery.Sendable) error {
 
 	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodPost, s.sendMessageURL(), bytes.NewReader(pb))
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("telegramsink: build request: %w", err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("telegramsink: build request: %w", s.redact(err))
 	}
 	req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
 
 	resp, err := s.hc.Do(req)
 	if err != nil {
-		return fmt.Errorf("telegramsink: sendMessage: %w", err)
+		return fmt.Errorf("telegramsink: sendMessage: %w", s.redact(err))
 	}
 	defer resp.Body.Close()
 	rb, _ := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, 4096))
@@ -188,8 +189,46 @@ func (s *Sink) Send(ctx context.Context, d delivery.Sendable) error {
 
 // sendMessageURL — the bot API path. the token is in the URL path
 // (https://api.telegram.org/bot<token>/sendMessage); telegram does not accept
-// it anywhere else. the URL is built per-send from the resolved base — the
-// token never leaves the sink, no logging.
+// it anywhere else. the URL is built per-send from the resolved base and never
+// stored, but it does end up inside transport errors — see redact.
 func (s *Sink) sendMessageURL() string {
 	return s.base + "/bot" + s.cfg.BotToken + "/sendMessage"
 }
+
+// tokenPlaceholder — what a redacted token reads as in an error. Recognisable
+// on sight, so nobody reads a redacted URL as a malformed one.
+const tokenPlaceholder = "<redacted>"
+
+// redact strips the bot token out of a transport error before it becomes a
+// returned error, and from there a log line.
+//
+// This is not hypothetical. net/http wraps every transport failure in
+// *url.Error, whose Error() prints the full request URL, and the token is IN
+// that URL because telegram accepts it nowhere else. On 2026-08-01 homesrv
+// could not reach api.telegram.org, so the retry wrote the whole bot token
+// into the daemon log once a minute for as long as the network stayed down.
+// The token lives in deploy/telegram.env specifically to stay out of the repo;
+// putting it in `docker compose logs` undoes that.
+//
+// The structural case rewrites url.Error.URL and keeps the error's type, so
+// callers matching on *url.Error still work. Anything else falls back to
+// scrubbing the rendered message, which loses the type but cannot leak.
+//
+// There is deliberately no minimum-length guard. A one-character token would
+// make this replace every occurrence of that character in the message, which
+// is ugly; leaking a short token is worse. New already refuses an empty one.
+func (s *Sink) redact(err error) error {
+	if err == nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	var ue *url.Error
+	if errors.As(err, &ue) {
+		clean := *ue
+		clean.URL = strings.ReplaceAll(clean.URL, s.cfg.BotToken, tokenPlaceholder)
+		err = &clean
+	}
+	if msg := strings.ReplaceAll(err.Error(), s.cfg.BotToken, tokenPlaceholder); msg != err.Error() {
+		return errors.New(msg)
+	}
+	return err
+}

internal/delivery/telegramsink/telegramsink_test.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package telegramsink
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"io"
 	"net/http"
 	"net/http/httptest"
@@ -326,6 +327,80 @@ func TestSendConnectionRefusedReturnsError(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// --------------------------- token redaction --------------------------------
+
+// realToken — shaped like a real BotFather token, unlike sinkCfg's "123:abc".
+// The redaction tests need something long and distinctive enough that finding
+// it in an error message is unambiguous.
+const realToken = "7556767480:AAFh0vLU9sg8l7DwXU9y-VZQquSJKW3lsVQ"
+
+// A transport error renders the whole request URL, and telegram accepts the
+// token nowhere but the URL path. On 2026-08-01 that put the live bot token in
+// `docker compose logs mavend` once a minute while egress was down.
+func TestSendTransportErrorRedactsToken(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name string
+		run  func(*Sink) error
+	}{
+		{"connection refused", func(s *Sink) error {
+			return s.Send(context.Background(), nudgeSendable(loop.Sev4, "down"))
+		}},
+		{"context cancel", func(s *Sink) error {
+			ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 1*time.Nanosecond)
+			defer cancel()
+			return s.Send(ctx, nudgeSendable(loop.Sev4, "down"))
+		}},
+	}
+	for _, tc := range cases {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			cfg := sinkCfg("http://127.0.0.1:1")
+			cfg.BotToken = realToken
+			cfg.Timeout = time.Second
+			sink, _ := New(cfg)
+
+			err := tc.run(sink)
+			if err == nil {
+				t.Fatal("want a transport error")
+			}
+			if strings.Contains(err.Error(), realToken) {
+				t.Fatalf("token leaked into error: %v", err)
+			}
+			if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), tokenPlaceholder) {
+				t.Fatalf("want %q in the redacted error, got: %v", tokenPlaceholder, err)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// The structural branch keeps the error's type so errors.As still matches.
+func TestRedactPreservesURLErrorType(t *testing.T) {
+	cfg := sinkCfg("http://127.0.0.1:1")
+	cfg.BotToken = realToken
+	cfg.Timeout = time.Second
+	sink, _ := New(cfg)
+
+	err := sink.Send(context.Background(), nudgeSendable(loop.Sev4, "down"))
+	var ue *url.Error
+	if !errors.As(err, &ue) {
+		t.Fatalf("want *url.Error to survive redaction, got %T: %v", err, err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(ue.URL, realToken) {
+		t.Fatalf("token left in url.Error.URL: %s", ue.URL)
+	}
+}
+
+// Nothing to redact must not disturb the error.
+func TestRedactLeavesCleanErrorsAlone(t *testing.T) {
+	sink, _ := New(sinkCfg("http://127.0.0.1:1"))
+	in := errors.New("dial tcp: no route to host")
+	if got := sink.redact(in); got != in {
+		t.Fatalf("want the same error back, got %v", got)
+	}
+	if sink.redact(nil) != nil {
+		t.Fatal("want nil for nil")
+	}
+}
+
 // ----------------------------- proxy seam -----------------------------------
 
 func TestProxyWiredIntoTransport(t *testing.T) {

internal/delivery/voicesink/voicesink.go

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 //  3. if no live session exists, Send returns voice.ErrNoSession
 //     (wrapped). The daemon logs the partial dispatch; an OPEN deferred
 //     question is whether the dispatcher should reroute to away-channels
-//     instead of returning partial — listed in PROGRESS.md.
+//     instead of returning partial.
 //
 // Import direction: voicesink imports internal/tts (synth seam) and
 // internal/voice (Sessions registry). Both are siblings of delivery; the

internal/event/event.go

@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-// Package event is the unified intake envelope (Vikunja #283,
-// 20-07-2026-BACKLOG.md item 1).
+// Package event is the unified intake envelope (Vikunja #283).
 //
 // # The problem it solves
 //

internal/ipc/client.go

@@ -8,13 +8,15 @@ import (
 	"net"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/netaddr"
 )
 
-// Client — the module side of the boundary. Wraps a unix-socket connection
-// and satisfies CoreAPI, so a module imports ipc, holds a CoreAPI, and is
-// agnostic to whether it's been wired in-process (tests / daemon-embedded)
-// or over this socket (full topology). The swappability is the seam auth
-// will insert into without touching module code.
+// Client — the module side of the boundary. Wraps a connection to core and
+// satisfies CoreAPI, so a module imports ipc, holds a CoreAPI, and is
+// agnostic to whether it's been wired in-process (tests / daemon-embedded),
+// over a local unix socket, or over tcp to another host. The swappability is
+// the seam auth will insert into without touching module code.
 //
 // One Client ⇒ one conn ⇒ one concurrent request at a time. A module that
 // wants parallel requests opens one Client per goroutine; the store is the
@@ -22,7 +24,8 @@ import (
 // per-Client lock keeps frame interleaving impossible by construction.
 type Client struct {
 	conn net.Conn
-	path string // kept so a dropped conn can be re-dialed (core restart)
+	path string       // the address as configured, kept for errors and logs
+	addr netaddr.Addr // parsed, so a dropped conn can be re-dialed (core restart)
 	mu   sync.Mutex
 }
 
@@ -81,14 +84,22 @@ var readOnlyMethods = map[Method]bool{
 	MethodPing:                  true,
 }
 
-// Dial connects to a core socket at path and returns a Client. The module
-// owns its Client lifecycle; Close on shutdown.
+// Dial connects to core at path and returns a Client. The module owns its
+// Client lifecycle; Close on shutdown.
+//
+// path is a netaddr seam address: a bare path is the unix socket it has
+// always been, and "tcp://host:port?token=..." reaches a core on another
+// host. See internal/netaddr.
 func Dial(path string) (*Client, error) {
-	c, err := net.Dial("unix", path)
+	addr, err := netaddr.Parse(path)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("ipc: dial %s: %w", path, err)
+		return nil, err
 	}
-	return &Client{conn: c, path: path}, nil
+	c, err := netaddr.Dial(addr)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("ipc: dial %s: %w", addr, err)
+	}
+	return &Client{conn: c, path: path, addr: addr}, nil
 }
 
 func (c *Client) Close() error {
@@ -189,9 +200,9 @@ func (c *Client) call(ctx context.Context, m Method, params, result any) error {
 // re-dials clean. Caller holds c.mu.
 func (c *Client) roundtrip(m Method, raw json.RawMessage, resp *Response) error {
 	if c.conn == nil {
-		conn, err := net.Dial("unix", c.path)
+		conn, err := netaddr.Dial(c.addr)
 		if err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("%w: dial %s: %v", errWriteLost, c.path, err)
+			return fmt.Errorf("%w: dial %s: %v", errWriteLost, c.addr, err)
 		}
 		c.conn = conn
 	}

internal/ipc/ipc_test.go

@@ -640,3 +640,30 @@ func TestSwapModel_Hook(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("swap to a non-allowlisted path = %v; want ErrForbidden", err)
 	}
 }
+
+// The eleven-day bug: Close shut the listener but not the accepted conns, so
+// an idle client left serveConn parked in readFrame and wg.Wait never
+// returned. mavend deadlocked before `defer st.Close()` could re-encrypt the
+// database, and every write since the last clean stop was rolled back on the
+// next boot. The client here stays connected and idle on purpose.
+func TestCloseReturnsWithAnIdleClientConnected(t *testing.T) {
+	_, srv, cli, _ := newServerWithStore(t)
+	// Prove the conn is live and then leave it alone — no cli.Close().
+	if _, err := cli.RecentFacts(context.Background(), 1); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("warm-up call: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	done := make(chan error, 1)
+	go func() { done <- srv.Close() }()
+	select {
+	case err := <-done:
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("close: %v", err)
+		}
+	// Deliberately shorter than closeGrace: the grace timer is the backstop,
+	// not the mechanism. Closing the conns is what makes readFrame return, and
+	// if that regresses this waits out the full grace and fails here.
+	case <-time.After(closeGrace / 2):
+		t.Fatal("Close blocked on an idle connection — the shutdown deadlock is back")
+	}
+}

internal/ipc/server.go

@@ -6,12 +6,13 @@ import (
 	"encoding/json"
 	"errors"
 	"fmt"
+	"log"
 	"net"
-	"os"
 	"sync"
 	"sync/atomic"
 	"time"
 
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/netaddr"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
@@ -445,12 +446,26 @@ func mapErr(err error) error {
 type Server struct {
 	api  atomic.Value // stores CoreAPI
 	path string
+	addr netaddr.Addr
 
 	ln     net.Listener
 	wg     sync.WaitGroup
 	done   chan struct{}
 	accept sync.Mutex // guards wg.Add vs Close's wg.Wait sequence
 
+	// conns — every accepted connection still being served. Close needs these
+	// because closing the listener does nothing to a connection already
+	// accepted: serveConn is parked in readFrame waiting for a peer that may
+	// never say anything again, and the wg.Wait below would block forever.
+	//
+	// This was not theoretical. mavweb, mavpoll, mavcaldav and mavmaild all
+	// hold a long-lived connection open, so on 2026-08-01 mavend deadlocked on
+	// every single shutdown, never returned from run(), and never reached the
+	// `defer st.Close()` that seals the database. The deployed ciphertext was
+	// eleven days stale before anyone noticed.
+	connMu sync.Mutex
+	conns  map[net.Conn]struct{}
+
 	// Check — optional authorization hook. dispatch runs it BEFORE method
 	// dispatch, with the raw params, so the auth layer can make verdicts
 	// that depend on the call's shape (e.g. WriteFact's source). A non-nil
@@ -596,31 +611,29 @@ type CheckFunc func(ctx context.Context, m Method, params json.RawMessage) error
 // MethodAssertStepUp dispatch calls this instead of going through CoreAPI.
 type StepUpFunc func(ctx context.Context) error
 
-// Listen creates a Server bound to path. path's parent dir must exist and be
-// 0700 (we chmod it if we own it); the socket file itself is created 0600 so
-// only the same unix user can connect — the current "auth floor", same radius
-// as wg at the network boundary. Removing a stale socket at path first lets
-// the daemon restart cleanly.
+// Listen creates a Server bound to path.
+//
+// A bare path is a unix socket, unchanged: its parent dir is 0700 and the
+// socket file itself is 0600, so only the same unix user can connect — the
+// current "auth floor", same radius as wg at the network boundary. A stale
+// socket is removed first so the daemon restarts cleanly.
+//
+// A "tcp://host:port?token=..." address binds a network listener instead, for
+// a module that lives on another host. There is no filesystem there to be the
+// auth floor, so netaddr checks the shared token before this package sees the
+// connection and a token is mandatory. See internal/netaddr.
 func Listen(path string, api CoreAPI) (*Server, error) {
-	_ = os.Remove(path) // stale socket from a crashed daemon; ignore missing
-	if err := os.MkdirAll(parentDir(path), 0o700); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("ipc: mkdir socket dir: %w", err)
-	}
-	// umask could widen the perms on socket creation; tighten then chmod to
-	// be explicit. 0600 ⇒ read+write by owner only.
-	oldMask := unix.Umask(0o077)
-	ln, err := net.Listen("unix", path)
-	unix.Umask(oldMask)
+	addr, err := netaddr.Parse(path)
 	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("ipc: listen %s: %w", path, err)
+		return nil, err
 	}
-	if err := os.Chmod(path, 0o600); err != nil {
-		_ = ln.Close()
-		_ = os.Remove(path)
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("ipc: chmod socket: %w", err)
+	ln, err := netaddr.Listen(addr)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
 	}
 	s := &Server{
 		path: path,
+		addr: addr,
 		ln:   ln,
 		done: make(chan struct{}),
 	}
@@ -648,8 +661,10 @@ func (s *Server) Serve() error {
 		s.accept.Lock()
 		s.wg.Add(1)
 		s.accept.Unlock()
+		s.trackConn(c)
 		go func(c net.Conn) {
 			defer s.wg.Done()
+			defer s.untrackConn(c)
 			defer c.Close()
 			s.serveConn(c)
 		}(c)
@@ -1231,18 +1246,88 @@ func (s *Server) Close() error {
 		close(s.done)
 	}
 	err := s.ln.Close()
+	// Closing the listener stops new connections; it does nothing to the ones
+	// already accepted. Close those too, or every serveConn parked in readFrame
+	// waits on a peer that has no reason to hang up and the Wait below never
+	// returns. See the comment on Server.conns.
+	s.closeConns()
 	// Under accept lock: after the listener closes, no new Accept can complete,
 	// so no new wg.Add will be called. The Wait is safe to observe the wg
 	// counter because any in-flight Accept that already got a conn either
 	// already called wg.Add (before releasing the lock) or will see the closed
 	// listener error and not call wg.Add at all.
 	s.accept.Lock()
-	s.wg.Wait()
+	waited := waitTimeout(&s.wg, closeGrace)
 	s.accept.Unlock()
-	_ = os.Remove(s.path)
+	if !waited {
+		// Bounded on purpose. A dispatch can be mid-call into the resident
+		// model, which has its own timeout measured in tens of seconds, and the
+		// caller of Close is on its way to sealing the database with whatever
+		// grace the supervisor allows. Abandoning one in-flight RPC is cheap;
+		// missing the seal costs every write since the last clean shutdown.
+		log.Printf("ipc: %d connection(s) still busy after %s, closing anyway", s.liveConns(), closeGrace)
+	}
+	netaddr.Cleanup(s.addr)
 	return err
 }
 
+// closeGrace — how long Close waits for in-flight dispatches to finish before
+// giving up on them. Well inside the ten seconds docker allows by default, so
+// the caller still has time to seal.
+const closeGrace = 3 * time.Second
+
+func (s *Server) trackConn(c net.Conn) {
+	s.connMu.Lock()
+	defer s.connMu.Unlock()
+	if s.conns == nil {
+		s.conns = make(map[net.Conn]struct{})
+	}
+	s.conns[c] = struct{}{}
+}
+
+func (s *Server) untrackConn(c net.Conn) {
+	s.connMu.Lock()
+	defer s.connMu.Unlock()
+	delete(s.conns, c)
+}
+
+func (s *Server) liveConns() int {
+	s.connMu.Lock()
+	defer s.connMu.Unlock()
+	return len(s.conns)
+}
+
+// closeConns closes every live connection, which is what unblocks the reads.
+// The serveConn goroutines see the resulting error and return.
+func (s *Server) closeConns() {
+	s.connMu.Lock()
+	live := make([]net.Conn, 0, len(s.conns))
+	for c := range s.conns {
+		live = append(live, c)
+	}
+	s.connMu.Unlock()
+	for _, c := range live {
+		_ = c.Close()
+	}
+}
+
+// waitTimeout waits on wg for at most d, reporting whether it finished. The
+// abandoned goroutines are still holding a wg count, so nothing may reuse the
+// WaitGroup afterwards — Close is terminal, which is what makes this safe.
+func waitTimeout(wg *sync.WaitGroup, d time.Duration) bool {
+	done := make(chan struct{})
+	go func() {
+		wg.Wait()
+		close(done)
+	}()
+	select {
+	case <-done:
+		return true
+	case <-time.After(d):
+		return false
+	}
+}
+
 // Path returns the filesystem path of the listening socket.
 func (s *Server) Path() string { return s.path }
 
@@ -1252,25 +1337,6 @@ func (s *Server) Path() string { return s.path }
 // while the server is serving (dispatch loads api once per request via atomic).
 func (s *Server) SetAPI(api CoreAPI) { s.api.Store(api) }
 
-func parentDir(p string) string {
-	if i := lastIndexByte(p, '/'); i >= 0 {
-		if i == 0 {
-			return "/"
-		}
-		return p[:i]
-	}
-	return "."
-}
-
-func lastIndexByte(s string, b byte) int {
-	for i := len(s) - 1; i >= 0; i-- {
-		if s[i] == b {
-			return i
-		}
-	}
-	return -1
-}
-
 // peerCaller — read SO_PEERCRED off a unix conn to identify the connecting
 // process. Returns ok=false on a non-unix conn or a platform without
 // SO_PEERCRED; the caller then proceeds without a Caller (the socket perms

internal/kiwix/client.go

@@ -4,8 +4,9 @@
 // article snippet beats letting her recall. Nothing here talks to the internet;
 // the Kiwix server is on the same box.
 //
-// This is search only. Full articles are ~100KB of HTML, far too big for a 4096
-// token context, so the unit of context is the search snippet (~500 chars).
+// Search finds the article; Article reads it. The snippet a search returns is
+// NOT usable context on its own — see the comment on Article — so the unit of
+// context is the head of the article, truncated to fit a 4096 token window.
 package kiwix
 
 import (
@@ -20,6 +21,8 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/crawl"
 )
 
 // Result is one search hit.
@@ -73,6 +76,52 @@ func (c *Client) Search(ctx context.Context, pattern, book string, limit int) ([
 	return ParseSearchRSS(resp.Body)
 }
 
+// articleMaxBytes — how much of an article HTML document is read before the
+// rest is discarded. A maxi Wikipedia page is around 100KB; 512KB is slack for
+// the long ones and a hard stop against a ZIM entry that is really a binary.
+const articleMaxBytes = 512 << 10
+
+// Article fetches one article by the Path a search hit carries and returns it
+// as extracted plain text, capped at maxRunes (0 ⇒ crawl.DefaultMaxRunes).
+//
+// This exists because the search snippet is not usable context. Kiwix builds
+// the snippet from wherever the keyword matched, and on a Wikipedia ZIM that is
+// routinely the "see also" navigation box at the foot of the page: a search for
+// "photosynthesis" comes back with "Ecological economics Ecological footprint
+// Ecological forecasting …" and a model handed that writes nothing worth
+// hearing. The lead paragraphs are at the top of the document, so truncating an
+// article from the front gets the definition the snippet was supposed to be.
+//
+// Nothing here reaches the internet: the path is resolved against the same
+// server the search went to.
+func (c *Client) Article(ctx context.Context, path string, maxRunes int) (crawl.Page, error) {
+	path = strings.TrimSpace(path)
+	if path == "" {
+		return crawl.Page{}, fmt.Errorf("kiwix article: empty path")
+	}
+	if !strings.HasPrefix(path, "/") {
+		path = "/" + path
+	}
+	u := c.base + path
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, u, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		return crawl.Page{}, err
+	}
+	resp, err := c.http.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		return crawl.Page{}, err
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	if resp.StatusCode != http.StatusOK {
+		return crawl.Page{}, fmt.Errorf("kiwix article %s: http %d", path, resp.StatusCode)
+	}
+	body, err := io.ReadAll(io.LimitReader(resp.Body, articleMaxBytes))
+	if err != nil {
+		return crawl.Page{}, err
+	}
+	return crawl.Extract(u, body, maxRunes), nil
+}
+
 // rss mirrors just the bits of the RSS 2.0 reply we use.
 type rss struct {
 	Items []struct {

internal/kiwix/rewrite.go

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ type Completer interface {
 // or reply in Russian.
 //
 // Why the JSON wrapper: this model always thinks out loud and this llama-server
-// build ignores the thinking switch (see ROUTING-EVAL-31-07-2026.md). A bare
+// build ignores the thinking switch (see docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md). A bare
 // word-list grammar just captured the reasoning — every case came back as
 // "Let me analyze this request carefully". Demanding JSON, like routeGrammar and
 // responseGrammar already do, gives the reasoning nowhere to go.

internal/llm/remote.go

@@ -0,0 +1,193 @@
+package llm
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// Pair — a preferred model on another host, with the resident one as the floor.
+//
+// homesrv cannot grow a GPU and the workstation has 16GB of VRAM, so the big
+// model runs there and the resident Qwen3-1.7B stays here. See docs/offload.md.
+// The workstation is never assumed up: its GPU is often busy with CPT runs and
+// the manga-recap pipeline, and the machine sleeps. So the remote is preferred,
+// never required, and Pair is what makes "preferred" mean something precise.
+//
+// This is admission control, not a scheduler. There is no arbiter deciding who
+// gets the card. A prober asks the remote whether it will take work, caches the
+// answer, and every request reads that cached answer in nanoseconds. Routing
+// sits on the hot path at p50 825ms and must never wait on a machine that may
+// be asleep, so no request ever pays for a health check itself.
+//
+// Pair satisfies nothing by itself. Callers pick a method by which half of the
+// degradation rule they live under:
+//
+//   - Complete falls back silently. For routing, replies, and nudge phrasing,
+//     where the big model is only better and the 1.7B is today's shipping
+//     quality. He is not told which model phrased his reply.
+//   - CompleteRemote returns ErrRemoteUnavailable instead of falling back. For
+//     a world question, or a long Kiwix or search passage, where a 1.7B
+//     confabulates rather than summarises. A named gap beats an invented
+//     answer.
+type Pair struct {
+	remote *Client
+	floor  *Client
+
+	// up — the cached admission answer, written only by the prober goroutine
+	// and read by every request. Atomic so the read costs nanoseconds and no
+	// request ever contends with the prober.
+	up atomic.Bool
+
+	health   string
+	interval time.Duration
+	http     *http.Client
+	stop     chan struct{}
+}
+
+// ErrRemoteUnavailable — the workstation model was required and is not
+// answering. Callers on the naming half of the degradation rule turn this into
+// a gap in the reply ("не могу сейчас"), never into a guess from the floor.
+var ErrRemoteUnavailable = errors.New("llm: workstation model unavailable")
+
+// ErrNoFloor — a Pair was built with no resident model to fall back to. A
+// configuration mistake: the floor is the whole point.
+var ErrNoFloor = errors.New("llm: no floor client")
+
+// NewPair builds the two-model arrangement. remote may be nil, which is the
+// unconfigured deploy and must behave exactly as the box behaves today: every
+// call goes to the floor and nothing probes anything.
+//
+// health is the URL the prober asks. llama-server's /health answers "is a model
+// loaded and ready", which is the useful signal here, because llama-server
+// refuses to load at all when VRAM is short. That makes a busy card detectable
+// without any cooperation from the owner's other jobs.
+func NewPair(remote, floor *Client, health string, interval time.Duration) *Pair {
+	p := &Pair{
+		remote:   remote,
+		floor:    floor,
+		health:   health,
+		interval: interval,
+		http:     &http.Client{Timeout: probeTimeout},
+		stop:     make(chan struct{}),
+	}
+	return p
+}
+
+// probeTimeout — a remote that cannot answer /health this fast is not going to
+// serve a turn either. Short on purpose: the prober runs on its own goroutine,
+// but a slow probe still delays the moment Maven notices the card came back.
+const probeTimeout = 2 * time.Second
+
+// Start begins probing. It returns immediately, and the first probe runs before
+// the first tick so a remote that is already up is used on the first turn
+// rather than after one interval of falling back. Safe to call with a nil
+// remote; it does nothing.
+func (p *Pair) Start(ctx context.Context) {
+	if p.remote == nil || p.health == "" {
+		return
+	}
+	go func() {
+		p.probe(ctx)
+		t := time.NewTicker(p.interval)
+		defer t.Stop()
+		for {
+			select {
+			case <-ctx.Done():
+				return
+			case <-p.stop:
+				return
+			case <-t.C:
+				p.probe(ctx)
+			}
+		}
+	}()
+}
+
+// Stop ends the prober. Idempotent.
+func (p *Pair) Stop() {
+	select {
+	case <-p.stop:
+	default:
+		close(p.stop)
+	}
+}
+
+// Available reports whether the workstation will take work right now. It reads
+// a cached flag, so it is safe to call per turn on the hot path. A false answer
+// is never stale in the direction that matters: the worst case is that Maven
+// falls back for up to one probe interval after the card frees up.
+func (p *Pair) Available() bool {
+	return p.remote != nil && p.up.Load()
+}
+
+func (p *Pair) probe(ctx context.Context) {
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(ctx, probeTimeout)
+	defer cancel()
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, p.health, nil)
+	if err != nil {
+		p.set(false)
+		return
+	}
+	resp, err := p.http.Do(req)
+	if err != nil {
+		p.set(false)
+		return
+	}
+	defer resp.Body.Close()
+	p.set(resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK)
+}
+
+// set records the admission answer and logs only the transitions. A machine
+// that sleeps every night would otherwise write one line per interval forever.
+func (p *Pair) set(up bool) {
+	if p.up.Swap(up) == up {
+		return
+	}
+	if up {
+		log.Printf("llm: workstation model available at %s", p.health)
+	} else {
+		log.Printf("llm: workstation model unavailable, falling back to the resident model")
+	}
+}
+
+// Complete runs r on the workstation when it will take work, and on the
+// resident model otherwise. A remote that fails mid-request falls back too: the
+// admission answer is a cache and can be one interval out of date, so an error
+// here is expected rather than exceptional.
+//
+// This is the silent half of the degradation rule. It must be indistinguishable
+// from today's behaviour when the workstation is down.
+func (p *Pair) Complete(ctx context.Context, r Req) (string, error) {
+	if p.floor == nil {
+		return "", ErrNoFloor
+	}
+	if p.Available() {
+		out, err := p.remote.Complete(ctx, r)
+		if err == nil {
+			return out, nil
+		}
+		// The cached answer was wrong. Correct it now rather than sending the
+		// next request into the same hole, then fall back.
+		p.set(false)
+	}
+	return p.floor.Complete(ctx, r)
+}
+
+// CompleteRemote runs r on the workstation or refuses. It never falls back,
+// because for a world question the resident 1.7B does not answer worse, it
+// invents. Callers turn ErrRemoteUnavailable into a named gap.
+func (p *Pair) CompleteRemote(ctx context.Context, r Req) (string, error) {
+	if !p.Available() {
+		return "", ErrRemoteUnavailable
+	}
+	out, err := p.remote.Complete(ctx, r)
+	if err != nil {
+		p.set(false)
+		return "", errors.Join(ErrRemoteUnavailable, err)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}

internal/llm/remote_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,210 @@
+package llm
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"sync/atomic"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// completionServer stands in for a llama-server. It counts what reached it, so
+// a test can say which of the two models answered.
+func completionServer(t *testing.T, reply string, hits *atomic.Int64) *httptest.Server {
+	t.Helper()
+	s := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		hits.Add(1)
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		_, _ = w.Write([]byte(`{"choices":[{"message":{"content":"` + reply + `"}}]}`))
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(s.Close)
+	return s
+}
+
+func healthServer(t *testing.T, ok *atomic.Bool) *httptest.Server {
+	t.Helper()
+	s := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		if !ok.Load() {
+			w.WriteHeader(http.StatusServiceUnavailable)
+			return
+		}
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(s.Close)
+	return s
+}
+
+// waitFor polls until cond holds or the deadline passes. The prober runs on its
+// own goroutine, so a test has to wait for it rather than assume it has run.
+func waitFor(t *testing.T, cond func() bool) bool {
+	t.Helper()
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second)
+	for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
+		if cond() {
+			return true
+		}
+		time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// The unconfigured deploy. No remote, no probing, every call to the floor —
+// exactly what the box does today.
+func TestNoRemoteGoesToTheFloor(t *testing.T) {
+	var floorHits atomic.Int64
+	floor := completionServer(t, "floor", &floorHits)
+
+	p := NewPair(nil, New(floor.URL, time.Second), "", time.Second)
+	p.Start(context.Background())
+	defer p.Stop()
+
+	if p.Available() {
+		t.Fatal("a Pair with no remote reports available")
+	}
+	out, err := p.Complete(context.Background(), Req{User: "привет"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("complete: %v", err)
+	}
+	if out != "floor" || floorHits.Load() != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("out = %q, floor hits = %d", out, floorHits.Load())
+	}
+}
+
+// The workstation is up, so it answers and the resident model is not touched.
+func TestAvailableRemoteAnswers(t *testing.T) {
+	var remoteHits, floorHits atomic.Int64
+	remote := completionServer(t, "remote", &remoteHits)
+	floor := completionServer(t, "floor", &floorHits)
+	up := &atomic.Bool{}
+	up.Store(true)
+	health := healthServer(t, up)
+
+	p := NewPair(New(remote.URL, time.Second), New(floor.URL, time.Second), health.URL, 20*time.Millisecond)
+	p.Start(context.Background())
+	defer p.Stop()
+	if !waitFor(t, p.Available) {
+		t.Fatal("prober never saw the remote come up")
+	}
+
+	out, err := p.Complete(context.Background(), Req{User: "привет"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("complete: %v", err)
+	}
+	if out != "remote" || floorHits.Load() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("out = %q, floor hits = %d", out, floorHits.Load())
+	}
+}
+
+// The card is busy, so /health refuses and Complete degrades silently. This is
+// the constraint from 483: the workstation being down is indistinguishable from
+// today's behaviour.
+func TestBusyCardFallsBackSilently(t *testing.T) {
+	var remoteHits, floorHits atomic.Int64
+	remote := completionServer(t, "remote", &remoteHits)
+	floor := completionServer(t, "floor", &floorHits)
+	health := healthServer(t, &atomic.Bool{}) // never ok
+
+	p := NewPair(New(remote.URL, time.Second), New(floor.URL, time.Second), health.URL, 20*time.Millisecond)
+	p.Start(context.Background())
+	defer p.Stop()
+	time.Sleep(60 * time.Millisecond)
+
+	out, err := p.Complete(context.Background(), Req{User: "привет"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("complete: %v", err)
+	}
+	if out != "floor" || remoteHits.Load() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("out = %q, remote hits = %d", out, remoteHits.Load())
+	}
+}
+
+// The cached admission answer can be one interval out of date, so a remote that
+// dies between probes must still not break the turn.
+func TestRemoteErrorMidRequestFallsBack(t *testing.T) {
+	var floorHits atomic.Int64
+	dead := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusInternalServerError)
+	}))
+	defer dead.Close()
+	floor := completionServer(t, "floor", &floorHits)
+	up := &atomic.Bool{}
+	up.Store(true)
+	health := healthServer(t, up)
+
+	p := NewPair(New(dead.URL, time.Second), New(floor.URL, time.Second), health.URL, time.Hour)
+	p.Start(context.Background())
+	defer p.Stop()
+	if !waitFor(t, p.Available) {
+		t.Fatal("prober never saw the remote come up")
+	}
+
+	out, err := p.Complete(context.Background(), Req{User: "привет"})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("complete: %v", err)
+	}
+	if out != "floor" || floorHits.Load() != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("out = %q, floor hits = %d", out, floorHits.Load())
+	}
+	// The failed request must have corrected the cached answer, so the next
+	// one does not walk into the same hole.
+	if p.Available() {
+		t.Fatal("a failed remote request left the admission answer up")
+	}
+}
+
+// The naming half of the degradation rule. A world question must not be handed
+// to the resident model, because it answers by inventing.
+func TestCompleteRemoteNamesTheGap(t *testing.T) {
+	var floorHits atomic.Int64
+	floor := completionServer(t, "floor", &floorHits)
+	health := healthServer(t, &atomic.Bool{}) // never ok
+
+	p := NewPair(New("http://127.0.0.1:1", time.Second), New(floor.URL, time.Second), health.URL, 20*time.Millisecond)
+	p.Start(context.Background())
+	defer p.Stop()
+	time.Sleep(60 * time.Millisecond)
+
+	if _, err := p.CompleteRemote(context.Background(), Req{User: "почему небо голубое"}); !errors.Is(err, ErrRemoteUnavailable) {
+		t.Fatalf("err = %v, want ErrRemoteUnavailable", err)
+	}
+	if floorHits.Load() != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("CompleteRemote fell back to the floor %d times", floorHits.Load())
+	}
+}
+
+// Routing sits on the hot path and must never pay for a health check. Available
+// reads a cached flag, so it costs no network at all.
+func TestAvailableDoesNotProbe(t *testing.T) {
+	var probes atomic.Int64
+	health := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		probes.Add(1)
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+	}))
+	defer health.Close()
+
+	p := NewPair(New("http://127.0.0.1:1", time.Second), New("http://127.0.0.1:1", time.Second), health.URL, time.Hour)
+	p.Start(context.Background())
+	defer p.Stop()
+	if !waitFor(t, p.Available) {
+		t.Fatal("prober never ran")
+	}
+
+	before := probes.Load()
+	for range 1000 {
+		p.Available()
+	}
+	if got := probes.Load(); got != before {
+		t.Fatalf("1000 Available calls made %d probes", got-before)
+	}
+}
+
+// A Pair with no floor is a configuration mistake, and it must say so rather
+// than silently having nowhere to degrade to.
+func TestNoFloorIsAnError(t *testing.T) {
+	p := NewPair(nil, nil, "", time.Second)
+	if _, err := p.Complete(context.Background(), Req{User: "привет"}); !errors.Is(err, ErrNoFloor) {
+		t.Fatalf("err = %v, want ErrNoFloor", err)
+	}
+}

internal/loop/gate_test.go

@@ -10,12 +10,12 @@ import (
 
 // Tests for the universal restraint gate.
 //
-// DESIGN.md § Trigger model: "the gate is universal, applied by the loop, never
+// docs/design.md § Trigger model: "the gate is universal, applied by the loop, never
 // per-rule — quiet-hours, presence, cooldown, snooze, calendar-busy all live in
 // one fires()." These tests pin the CONSERVATIVE side of that: the cases where
 // Maven must stay quiet. They exist so nobody loosens the gate by accident.
 //
-// Where the code does not yet do what DESIGN.md promises, the test is written to
+// Where the code does not yet do what docs/design.md promises, the test is written to
 // show the gap and then skipped, with the file and line to fix. Behaviour is not
 // changed to make a test pass.
 
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ func TestGateQuietHoursSuppressesCareOnly(t *testing.T) {
 
 // ---------------------------- presence ---------------------------------------
 
-// DESIGN.md § Delivery: "sev <= 2 drops on away, sev >= 3 holds: a missed water
+// docs/design.md § Delivery: "sev <= 2 drops on away, sev >= 3 holds: a missed water
 // nudge is noise, a missed backup failure isn't."
 func TestGateAwayDropsCareHoldsOps(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ func TestTickOrderOfRulesDoesNotMatter(t *testing.T) {
 
 // ---------------------------- reminders bypass the gate ----------------------
 
-// DESIGN.md § User reminders: "bypasses the restraint gate — 'wake me 7' fires
+// docs/design.md § User reminders: "bypasses the restraint gate — 'wake me 7' fires
 // in quiet hours; that's the point." Every suppressor set at once, and the
 // reminder still comes through.
 func TestRemindersBypassEverySuppressor(t *testing.T) {
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ func TestRemindersBypassEverySuppressor(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// GAP — DESIGN.md § User reminders ends "Snooze still applies." RemindDecisions
+// GAP — docs/design.md § User reminders ends "Snooze still applies." RemindDecisions
 // passes every due reminder straight through with no snooze check, so a snoozed
 // reminder fires anyway. The test below is what the contract asks for.
 func TestRemindersStillHonourSnooze(t *testing.T) {

internal/loop/rules.go

@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 package loop
 
-import "time"
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+)
 
 // Rule — a proactive rule. Rules are CODE, not a DSL config — until ~30 rules
 // and you feel the pain (per spec). A Rule has a name (ids it in nudges.outcome
@@ -137,6 +140,37 @@ func NetdataCriticalRule() Rule {
 	}
 }
 
+// RulesExcept returns DefaultRules minus the named ones (config's
+// `disabled_rules`). Config subtracts from the canonical set; it never adds to
+// it and never reorders it, so the "rules are code" line above still holds.
+//
+// Names are matched exactly and an unknown one is ignored, on purpose: a
+// config that still lists a rule someone deleted must not stop the daemon from
+// booting. The logging of what was actually dropped belongs to the caller,
+// which knows whether anyone is listening.
+func RulesExcept(disabled []string) ([]Rule, []string) {
+	all := DefaultRules()
+	if len(disabled) == 0 {
+		return all, nil
+	}
+	off := make(map[string]bool, len(disabled))
+	for _, n := range disabled {
+		if n = strings.TrimSpace(n); n != "" {
+			off[n] = true
+		}
+	}
+	out := make([]Rule, 0, len(all))
+	var dropped []string
+	for _, r := range all {
+		if off[r.Name] {
+			dropped = append(dropped, r.Name)
+			continue
+		}
+		out = append(out, r)
+	}
+	return out, dropped
+}
+
 // DefaultRules — the canonical set the daemon wires. Add more as code, not config.
 // Order here is NOT load-bearing — the loop picks max severity, ties broken by
 // (severity desc, name asc) for deterministic output.

internal/loop/rules_test.go

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import (
 //   - does it stay quiet when it should?
 //   - is it silent when the key it needs has no data at all?
 //
-// The last one is load-bearing. DESIGN.md: "since(key)==null → don't fire.
+// The last one is load-bearing. docs/design.md: "since(key)==null → don't fire.
 // Silence on no-data is 'shuts up when uncertain'."
 
 // stateWith builds a snapshot at refTime() holding just the given facts.
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ func TestCareRulePredicates(t *testing.T) {
 
 // ---------------------------- ops rules --------------------------------------
 
-// The two ops rules match on a value AND on which poller wrote it. DESIGN.md:
+// The two ops rules match on a value AND on which poller wrote it. docs/design.md:
 // "a compromised poller must not be able to forge a trigger." Half of this
 // table is forgery attempts; all of them must be refused.
 func TestOpsRulePredicates(t *testing.T) {
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ func TestNoDefaultRuleFiresOnEmptyState(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Severities are the delivery contract (DESIGN.md § Delivery / channel
+// Severities are the delivery contract (docs/design.md § Delivery / channel
 // routing): care is sev1-2 and drops when away, ops is sev3-4 and holds. Pin
 // them so a change to a rule's insistence has to be deliberate.
 func TestDefaultRuleSeverities(t *testing.T) {
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ func TestDefaultRuleSeverities(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-// Cooldown bounds keep the feedback tuner honest — DESIGN.md wants
+// Cooldown bounds keep the feedback tuner honest — docs/design.md wants
 // `cooldown in [min,max]` "so a weird week can't mutate Maven silent or
 // stalker". A base outside its own envelope would make that meaningless.
 func TestDefaultRuleCooldownsAreBounded(t *testing.T) {
@@ -392,3 +392,45 @@ func TestPredicatesArePure(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+func ruleNames(rs []Rule) []string {
+	out := make([]string, len(rs))
+	for i, r := range rs {
+		out[i] = r.Name
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func TestRulesExceptDropsOnlyTheNamed(t *testing.T) {
+	rules, dropped := RulesExcept([]string{"service_down"})
+	if len(rules) != len(DefaultRules())-1 {
+		t.Fatalf("got %v", ruleNames(rules))
+	}
+	for _, r := range rules {
+		if r.Name == "service_down" {
+			t.Error("a disabled rule was still wired")
+		}
+	}
+	if len(dropped) != 1 || dropped[0] != "service_down" {
+		t.Errorf("dropped = %v", dropped)
+	}
+}
+
+// A config that names a rule nobody wrote must not stop the daemon booting,
+// and must not quietly drop a real rule alongside it.
+func TestRulesExceptIgnoresUnknownNames(t *testing.T) {
+	rules, dropped := RulesExcept([]string{"no_such_rule", " ", ""})
+	if len(rules) != len(DefaultRules()) {
+		t.Errorf("an unknown name removed something: %v", ruleNames(rules))
+	}
+	if len(dropped) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("dropped = %v, want nothing", dropped)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRulesExceptEmptyKeepsEverything(t *testing.T) {
+	rules, dropped := RulesExcept(nil)
+	if len(rules) != len(DefaultRules()) || dropped != nil {
+		t.Errorf("rules = %v, dropped = %v", ruleNames(rules), dropped)
+	}
+}

internal/memory/recalleval/ru_recall_v1.json

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
       "tags": ["preference", "homelab", "paraphrase", "hard"],
       "query": "когда запускать резервное копирование",
       "want": "n1",
-      "note": "The DESIGN.md preference-seam example, phrased as the operator would ask it later.",
+      "note": "The docs/design.md preference-seam example, phrased as the operator would ask it later.",
       "notes": [
         {"id": "n1", "text": "бэкапы лучше делать ночью в три часа", "kind": "note"},
         {"id": "n2", "text": "обновления ставлю по субботам", "kind": "note"},

internal/morning/morning.go

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 // Package morning is maven's morning routine engine — item #3 off the
-// 2026-07-20 backlog (see Maven/20-07-2026-BACKLOG.md).
+// 2026-07-20 backlog (Vikunja #280).
 //
 // A Routine is NOT four independent reminder timers. It's a checklist for a
 // daily window: several Items, each evidenced by a fact key, completed in

internal/netaddr/netaddr.go

@@ -0,0 +1,277 @@
+// Package netaddr parses a daemon seam address and dials or binds it.
+//
+// Every seam between Maven's daemons used to be a unix socket with the
+// network hardcoded at the call site — two dials in internal/ipc, one listen,
+// and the same pair again in internal/worker. That is correct for co-located
+// daemons and it is the reason a module cannot live on another host. This
+// package moves the choice into the address string so a deploy picks the
+// transport, not a recompile:
+//
+//	/run/maven/stt.sock                   unix   (the default, unchanged)
+//	unix:///run/maven/stt.sock            unix   (explicit, same thing)
+//	tcp://workstation:9310?token=hunter2  tcp
+//
+// A scheme-less address is unix and behaves exactly as it did before this
+// package existed: same 0700 parent dir, same 0600 socket, same bytes on the
+// wire with no handshake in front of them.
+//
+// Over TCP the filesystem permission that authenticated the unix socket is
+// gone, and what crosses this seam is audio of the owner speaking and the
+// text of his turns. So a TCP seam carries a shared token, checked before the
+// first protocol frame is read. Wireguard is supported underneath and is not
+// required.
+package netaddr
+
+import (
+	"crypto/subtle"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"net"
+	"net/url"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
+)
+
+// ErrUnauthorized — the peer presented a token the listener does not accept,
+// or presented none when one is required.
+var ErrUnauthorized = errors.New("netaddr: unauthorized")
+
+// Addr is a parsed seam endpoint.
+type Addr struct {
+	// Network is "unix" or "tcp".
+	Network string
+	// Address is the socket path (unix) or host:port (tcp).
+	Address string
+	// Token is the shared secret for a tcp seam. Empty for unix, where the
+	// filesystem does the same job.
+	Token string
+}
+
+// String renders the address for logs and errors. The token is never included.
+func (a Addr) String() string {
+	if a.Network == "unix" {
+		return a.Address
+	}
+	return a.Network + "://" + a.Address
+}
+
+// IsUnix reports whether this seam is a unix socket, and so is local, is
+// authenticated by file permissions, and needs no handshake.
+func (a Addr) IsUnix() bool { return a.Network == "unix" }
+
+// Parse reads a seam address. Anything without a "scheme://" prefix is a unix
+// socket path, which keeps every existing config and every default working
+// untouched.
+func Parse(s string) (Addr, error) {
+	if !strings.Contains(s, "://") {
+		return Addr{Network: "unix", Address: s}, nil
+	}
+	u, err := url.Parse(s)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Addr{}, fmt.Errorf("netaddr: parse %q: %w", s, err)
+	}
+	switch u.Scheme {
+	case "unix":
+		return Addr{Network: "unix", Address: u.Path}, nil
+	case "tcp":
+		if u.Host == "" {
+			return Addr{}, fmt.Errorf("netaddr: %q has no host:port", s)
+		}
+		return Addr{Network: "tcp", Address: u.Host, Token: u.Query().Get("token")}, nil
+	default:
+		return Addr{}, fmt.Errorf("netaddr: unsupported scheme %q", u.Scheme)
+	}
+}
+
+// MustParse is Parse for a literal known good at compile time. It panics on a
+// bad address, so use it in tests and constants, never on config input.
+func MustParse(s string) Addr {
+	a, err := Parse(s)
+	if err != nil {
+		panic(err)
+	}
+	return a
+}
+
+// handshakeTimeout bounds the token exchange. A peer that cannot write one
+// short line in this long is not going to serve a turn either.
+const handshakeTimeout = 5 * time.Second
+
+// greeting prefixes the token line. Versioned so a later mTLS seam can be
+// told apart from this one on the wire.
+const greeting = "MAVEN1 "
+
+// Dial connects to a. On a tcp seam it sends the token and waits for the
+// listener to accept it, so a returned conn is already authorized and the
+// caller can write its first protocol frame.
+func Dial(a Addr) (net.Conn, error) {
+	return DialTimeout(a, 0)
+}
+
+// DialTimeout is Dial with a bound on the connect. Zero means the operating
+// system default. The token exchange gets its own timeout either way.
+func DialTimeout(a Addr, timeout time.Duration) (net.Conn, error) {
+	var c net.Conn
+	var err error
+	if timeout > 0 {
+		c, err = net.DialTimeout(a.Network, a.Address, timeout)
+	} else {
+		c, err = net.Dial(a.Network, a.Address)
+	}
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if a.IsUnix() {
+		return c, nil
+	}
+	if err := clientHandshake(c, a.Token); err != nil {
+		_ = c.Close()
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return c, nil
+}
+
+func clientHandshake(c net.Conn, token string) error {
+	_ = c.SetDeadline(time.Now().Add(handshakeTimeout))
+	defer c.SetDeadline(time.Time{})
+	if _, err := c.Write([]byte(greeting + token + "\n")); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("netaddr: send token: %w", err)
+	}
+	var reply [3]byte
+	if _, err := readFull(c, reply[:]); err != nil {
+		return fmt.Errorf("%w: %v", ErrUnauthorized, err)
+	}
+	if string(reply[:]) != "ok\n" {
+		return ErrUnauthorized
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// Listener wraps a net.Listener so Accept performs the token check for a tcp
+// seam. A connection that fails the check is closed and never surfaces, so
+// the protocol above this layer only ever sees authorized peers.
+type Listener struct {
+	net.Listener
+	addr Addr
+}
+
+// Accept returns the next authorized connection. Unauthorized peers are
+// dropped and Accept keeps waiting: a bad token is a rejected stranger, not a
+// reason to stop serving.
+func (l *Listener) Accept() (net.Conn, error) {
+	for {
+		c, err := l.Listener.Accept()
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		if l.addr.IsUnix() {
+			return c, nil
+		}
+		if err := serverHandshake(c, l.addr.Token); err != nil {
+			_ = c.Close()
+			continue
+		}
+		return c, nil
+	}
+}
+
+// Addr reports the parsed seam address this listener was built from.
+func (l *Listener) SeamAddr() Addr { return l.addr }
+
+func serverHandshake(c net.Conn, want string) error {
+	_ = c.SetDeadline(time.Now().Add(handshakeTimeout))
+	defer c.SetDeadline(time.Time{})
+	// The line is bounded: greeting, token, newline. Read a byte at a time so
+	// nothing of the first protocol frame is consumed when the token is short.
+	line := make([]byte, 0, 128)
+	var b [1]byte
+	for {
+		if _, err := readFull(c, b[:]); err != nil {
+			return err
+		}
+		if b[0] == '\n' {
+			break
+		}
+		line = append(line, b[0])
+		if len(line) > 512 {
+			return ErrUnauthorized
+		}
+	}
+	got, ok := strings.CutPrefix(string(line), greeting)
+	if !ok {
+		return ErrUnauthorized
+	}
+	if subtle.ConstantTimeCompare([]byte(got), []byte(want)) != 1 {
+		return ErrUnauthorized
+	}
+	if _, err := c.Write([]byte("ok\n")); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+func readFull(c net.Conn, p []byte) (int, error) {
+	n := 0
+	for n < len(p) {
+		m, err := c.Read(p[n:])
+		n += m
+		if err != nil {
+			return n, err
+		}
+	}
+	return n, nil
+}
+
+// Listen binds a. A unix seam gets the perms it has always had: parent dir
+// 0700, socket 0600, and any stale socket from a crashed daemon removed
+// first. A tcp seam must carry a token, because there is no filesystem to
+// stand in for one.
+func Listen(a Addr) (*Listener, error) {
+	if a.IsUnix() {
+		ln, err := listenUnix(a.Address)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+		return &Listener{Listener: ln, addr: a}, nil
+	}
+	if a.Token == "" {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("netaddr: listen %s: tcp seam requires a token", a)
+	}
+	ln, err := net.Listen("tcp", a.Address)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("netaddr: listen %s: %w", a, err)
+	}
+	return &Listener{Listener: ln, addr: a}, nil
+}
+
+func listenUnix(path string) (net.Listener, error) {
+	_ = os.Remove(path) // stale socket from a crashed daemon; ignore missing
+	if err := os.MkdirAll(filepath.Dir(path), 0o700); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("netaddr: mkdir socket dir: %w", err)
+	}
+	// umask could widen the perms on socket creation; tighten then chmod to
+	// be explicit. 0600 ⇒ read+write by owner only.
+	oldMask := unix.Umask(0o077)
+	ln, err := net.Listen("unix", path)
+	unix.Umask(oldMask)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("netaddr: listen %s: %w", path, err)
+	}
+	if err := os.Chmod(path, 0o600); err != nil {
+		_ = ln.Close()
+		_ = os.Remove(path)
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("netaddr: chmod socket: %w", err)
+	}
+	return ln, nil
+}
+
+// Cleanup removes the socket file behind a unix seam. It is a no-op for tcp.
+func Cleanup(a Addr) {
+	if a.IsUnix() && a.Address != "" {
+		_ = os.Remove(a.Address)
+	}
+}

internal/netaddr/netaddr_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,185 @@
+package netaddr
+
+import (
+	"errors"
+	"net"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// A scheme-less address must stay unix. Every deploy in the tree writes a bare
+// path, so this is the test that says the transport change costs them nothing.
+func TestParseSchemelessIsUnix(t *testing.T) {
+	a, err := Parse("/run/maven/stt.sock")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("parse: %v", err)
+	}
+	if !a.IsUnix() {
+		t.Fatalf("want unix, got %q", a.Network)
+	}
+	if a.Address != "/run/maven/stt.sock" {
+		t.Fatalf("address = %q", a.Address)
+	}
+	if a.Token != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("unix seam carries a token: %q", a.Token)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestParse(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		in            string
+		net, addr, tk string
+		wantErr       bool
+	}{
+		{in: "", net: "unix", addr: ""},
+		{in: "unix:///run/maven/core.sock", net: "unix", addr: "/run/maven/core.sock"},
+		{in: "tcp://workstation:9310", net: "tcp", addr: "workstation:9310"},
+		{in: "tcp://workstation:9310?token=hunter2", net: "tcp", addr: "workstation:9310", tk: "hunter2"},
+		{in: "tcp://", wantErr: true},
+		{in: "udp://workstation:9310", wantErr: true},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		a, err := Parse(c.in)
+		if c.wantErr {
+			if err == nil {
+				t.Errorf("Parse(%q) = %v, want error", c.in, a)
+			}
+			continue
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("Parse(%q): %v", c.in, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		if a.Network != c.net || a.Address != c.addr || a.Token != c.tk {
+			t.Errorf("Parse(%q) = %+v, want %s/%s/%s", c.in, a, c.net, c.addr, c.tk)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The token must never reach a log line.
+func TestStringHidesToken(t *testing.T) {
+	a := MustParse("tcp://workstation:9310?token=hunter2")
+	if got := a.String(); got != "tcp://workstation:9310" {
+		t.Fatalf("String() = %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// A unix seam must round-trip with no handshake in front of the payload: the
+// first bytes the listener sees are the caller's, exactly as before.
+func TestUnixRoundTripHasNoHandshake(t *testing.T) {
+	a := MustParse(filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "s.sock"))
+	ln, err := Listen(a)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("listen: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer ln.Close()
+	go echoOnce(ln)
+
+	c, err := Dial(a)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("dial: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer c.Close()
+	if got := roundTrip(t, c, "hello"); got != "hello" {
+		t.Fatalf("got %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTCPRoundTripWithToken(t *testing.T) {
+	ln, addr := listenLoopback(t, "s3cret")
+	defer ln.Close()
+	go echoOnce(ln)
+
+	c, err := Dial(addr)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("dial: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer c.Close()
+	if got := roundTrip(t, c, "hello"); got != "hello" {
+		t.Fatalf("got %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTCPWrongTokenIsRejected(t *testing.T) {
+	ln, addr := listenLoopback(t, "s3cret")
+	defer ln.Close()
+	// Accept keeps waiting past the bad peer, so nothing here should ever
+	// reach the echo. A conn that does means the token was not checked.
+	go echoOnce(ln)
+
+	bad := addr
+	bad.Token = "wrong"
+	if _, err := Dial(bad); !errors.Is(err, ErrUnauthorized) {
+		t.Fatalf("dial with wrong token: err = %v, want ErrUnauthorized", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A stranger that speaks the protocol instead of the greeting is dropped, and
+// the listener stays up for the peer that follows it.
+func TestTCPUngreetedPeerDoesNotKillTheListener(t *testing.T) {
+	ln, addr := listenLoopback(t, "s3cret")
+	defer ln.Close()
+	go echoOnce(ln)
+
+	raw, err := net.Dial("tcp", addr.Address)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("raw dial: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, err := raw.Write([]byte("GET / HTTP/1.1\n")); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("raw write: %v", err)
+	}
+	raw.Close()
+
+	c, err := Dial(addr)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("dial after stranger: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer c.Close()
+	if got := roundTrip(t, c, "still here"); got != "still here" {
+		t.Fatalf("got %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// A tcp seam with no token is a misconfiguration, and it must fail at bind
+// rather than serve the owner's turns to anyone who connects.
+func TestTCPListenRequiresToken(t *testing.T) {
+	if _, err := Listen(MustParse("tcp://127.0.0.1:0")); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("listen on a tokenless tcp seam succeeded")
+	}
+}
+
+func listenLoopback(t *testing.T, token string) (*Listener, Addr) {
+	t.Helper()
+	ln, err := Listen(Addr{Network: "tcp", Address: "127.0.0.1:0", Token: token})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("listen: %v", err)
+	}
+	return ln, Addr{Network: "tcp", Address: ln.Addr().String(), Token: token}
+}
+
+func echoOnce(ln *Listener) {
+	c, err := ln.Accept()
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+	defer c.Close()
+	buf := make([]byte, 256)
+	n, err := c.Read(buf)
+	if err != nil {
+		return
+	}
+	_, _ = c.Write(buf[:n])
+}
+
+func roundTrip(t *testing.T, c net.Conn, msg string) string {
+	t.Helper()
+	if _, err := c.Write([]byte(msg)); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("write: %v", err)
+	}
+	buf := make([]byte, 256)
+	n, err := c.Read(buf)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("read: %v", err)
+	}
+	return string(buf[:n])
+}

internal/phraser/eval/checks.go

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ const (
 	CheckLang     = "lang"     // the operator's language, not the prompt's
 	CheckLength   = "length"   // a nudge is one sentence, not a paragraph
 	CheckFeminine = "feminine" // her self-reference is feminine (hard constraint)
-	CheckCringe   = "cringe"   // DESIGN.md § Non-goals, "not a relationship"
+	CheckCringe   = "cringe"   // docs/design.md § Non-goals, "not a relationship"
 	CheckOnTopic  = "ontopic"  // says the thing the rule is about
 
 	// CheckHisGender — the other half of the persona rule: SHE is feminine, HE
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@ func checkLength(body string) Result {
 
 // --- feminine self-reference ---------------------------------------------
 //
-// The hard constraint (CLAUDE.md, DESIGN.md § Identity): Maven's Russian
+// The hard constraint (CLAUDE.md, docs/design.md § Identity): Maven's Russian
 // self-reference is feminine. The operator is male, so second-person forms
 // addressed to him are MASCULINE and must not be flagged — "ты не пил воду" is
 // correct, "я напомнил" is not. Both directions matter, which is why this is a
@@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ func isLatinWord(w string) bool {
 
 // --- the cringe checks ---------------------------------------------------
 //
-// "Think Jarvis without the cringe part". DESIGN.md § Non-goals: "Not a
+// "Think Jarvis without the cringe part". docs/design.md § Non-goals: "Not a
 // relationship — mom-tone is a function that makes nudges land, not emotional
 // company. Names the drift a warm small model falls into." Each pattern below
 // is one shape of that drift. They are deliberately specific: a check that

internal/phraser/eval/eval.go

@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@
 // length test that a human can read and disagree with. A score here is a claim
 // about measurable properties, not about whether a sentence is good.
 //
-// DESIGN.md § "Rules decide, LLM phrases" is why there is no send/veto signal
+// docs/design.md § "Rules decide, LLM phrases" is why there is no send/veto signal
 // anywhere in this package: the rule already decided she speaks. The phraser
 // only words it, so a nudge the model refuses to write is a failure, never a
 // legitimate outcome.
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ var fixtureJSON []byte
 const SchemaVersion = 1
 
 // Case — one nudge situation, as a real tick would present it. The fields are
-// the (rule, severity, context) input DESIGN.md names, flattened to JSON.
+// the (rule, severity, context) input docs/design.md names, flattened to JSON.
 //
 // WantAny is the on-topic contract: at least one of these lowercased fragments
 // must appear in the message. A water nudge that never mentions water is a

internal/phraser/evidence_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+package phraser
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// promptSpy records the system and user strings of every request, which is
+// where the evidence-first discipline either exists or does not.
+type promptSpy struct {
+	srv    *httptest.Server
+	system []string
+	user   []string
+}
+
+func newPromptSpy(t *testing.T) *promptSpy {
+	t.Helper()
+	s := &promptSpy{}
+	s.srv = httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		var req chatReq
+		if err := json.NewDecoder(r.Body).Decode(&req); err != nil {
+			t.Errorf("spy: decode request: %v", err)
+		}
+		for _, m := range req.Messages {
+			switch m.Role {
+			case "system":
+				s.system = append(s.system, m.Content)
+			case "user":
+				s.user = append(s.user, m.Content)
+			}
+		}
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		w.Write([]byte(`{"choices":[{"message":{"content":"{\"response\": \"вот что я нашла: два литра\", \"mood\": \"neutral\"}"}}]}`))
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(s.srv.Close)
+	return s
+}
+
+func TestEvidenceReachesTheModelAsNumberedSources(t *testing.T) {
+	spy := newPromptSpy(t)
+	p := NewLLMPhraserAt(spy.srv.URL, Config{})
+	if _, err := p.PhraseQuery(context.Background(), "сколько воды я выпил",
+		[]string{"выпил два литра", "бутылка на 0.7"}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if len(spy.user) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("got %d user messages, want 1", len(spy.user))
+	}
+	for _, want := range []string{"[1] выпил два литра", "[2] бутылка на 0.7", "Источники:"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(spy.user[0], want) {
+			t.Errorf("user prompt is missing %q:\n%s", want, spy.user[0])
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The system prompt is the whole fix for the Левитан fabrication: answer from
+// the sources, say so when they do not answer, add nothing from memory.
+func TestEvidencePromptForbidsAnsweringFromMemory(t *testing.T) {
+	spy := newPromptSpy(t)
+	p := NewLLMPhraserAt(spy.srv.URL, Config{})
+	if _, err := p.PhraseQuery(context.Background(), "кто написал войну и мир",
+		[]string{"Лев Толстой, роман 1869 года"}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	sys := spy.system[0]
+	for _, want := range []string{"ТОЛЬКО по ним", "Если ответа в них нет"} {
+		if !strings.Contains(sys, want) {
+			t.Errorf("system prompt is missing %q:\n%s", want, sys)
+		}
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(sys, "заметк") {
+		t.Errorf("system prompt still calls every source a note:\n%s", sys)
+	}
+}
+
+// A source that trimmed away is not a source. Handing the evidence branch an
+// empty list is the one prompt that reliably makes a small model invent.
+func TestBlankSourcesTakeTheKnowledgeBranch(t *testing.T) {
+	spy := newPromptSpy(t)
+	p := NewLLMPhraserAt(spy.srv.URL, Config{})
+	if _, err := p.PhraseQuery(context.Background(), "что я записывал", []string{"", "   "}); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if strings.Contains(spy.user[0], "Источники:") {
+		t.Errorf("blank sources still took the evidence branch:\n%s", spy.user[0])
+	}
+}
+
+func TestNonEmptyDoesNotMutateTheCallersSlice(t *testing.T) {
+	in := []string{"  один  ", "", "два"}
+	got := nonEmpty(in)
+	if want := []string{"один", "два"}; len(got) != 2 || got[0] != want[0] || got[1] != want[1] {
+		t.Errorf("nonEmpty = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+	if in[0] != "  один  " {
+		t.Errorf("caller's slice was mutated: %q", in)
+	}
+}

internal/phraser/llmphraser.go

@@ -357,6 +357,11 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseNudge(ctx context.Context, c loop.Candidate) (deliver
 // compose a natural answer. Falls back to "вот что я нашла: <notes>" on any
 // LLM error — better to give the raw data than silence.
 func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseQuery(ctx context.Context, utterance string, notes []string) (string, error) {
+	// Blank sources are no sources. A caller that hands over one empty string —
+	// a page that fetched to nothing, a snippet trimmed away — used to take the
+	// evidence branch and be told to answer from an empty list, which is the one
+	// prompt guaranteed to make a small model fill the gap from memory.
+	notes = nonEmpty(notes)
 	if len(notes) == 0 {
 		// General knowledge — no notes to ground the answer. The system
 		// prompt is the single tested source in router.KnowledgePrompt.
@@ -376,13 +381,10 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseQuery(ctx context.Context, utterance string, notes []
 		}
 		return resp, nil
 	}
-	if len(notes) == 1 {
-		notes[0] = strings.TrimSpace(notes[0])
-	}
 	sys := p.querySystemPrompt()
 	prompt := fmt.Sprintf(
-		`Он спрашивает: "%s". В твоих заметках по этому вопросу написано: "%s". Ответь ему коротко и своими словами. Если в заметках ответа нет — так и скажи.`,
-		utterance, strings.Join(notes, `"; "`),
+		"Он спрашивает: \"%s\"\n\nИсточники:\n%s\nОтветь ему коротко и своими словами, опираясь только на эти источники. Если ответа в них нет — так и скажи.",
+		utterance, evidenceBlock(notes),
 	)
 	resp, err := p.chatWithSystem(ctx, sys, prompt, 768)
 	text, _, perr := parseResponseMood(resp)
@@ -444,9 +446,32 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseChat(ctx context.Context, utterance string, history [
 func chatSystemPrompt(block func() string) string {
 	// No self-introduction here: the persona block prepended one line above
 	// already says who she is, same as router.KnowledgePrompt.
-	base := `Ты разговариваешь с хозяином. О себе говоришь в женском роде ("я подумала", "я рада"). Он мужчина: обращайся к нему на "ты", в мужском роде ("ты сказал", "ты забыл"). Никогда не "вы"/"ваш" и никогда "он"/"его" — ты говоришь ему, а не о нём.
+	//
+	// The grammar examples used to be full clauses: ("я подумала", "я рада")
+	// for her, ("ты сказал", "ты забыл") for him. A 1.7B copies those rather
+	// than generalising from them. Observed on the box 2026-08-01: all three
+	// chat replies in one session opened with "Я подумала, что ...", and one
+	// ended "...немного тревожусь. ты сказал" — the second example pasted onto
+	// the end of a finished sentence, which reads as a truncation but is not.
+	//
+	// So: contrastive pairs instead of usable openers. "рада, не рад" states
+	// the rule as a correction, and short predicatives do not hand the model a
+	// sentence frame to start with. The him-examples are gone entirely; the
+	// "ты" instruction carries that on its own and those two produced the
+	// worst output. The last line says outright not to echo the instructions,
+	// because a small model will otherwise treat any quoted string as licence.
+	//
+	// Amended the same day: with the openers gone the tic went with them, but
+	// "не забыл ли я" appeared — masculine, about herself. The old "я подумала"
+	// had been suppressing that by accident, being a feminine past tense the
+	// model could copy. Two short predicatives are not enough signal on their
+	// own, 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.
+	base := `Ты разговариваешь с хозяином.
 
-Отвечай по-русски, коротко: одна-три фразы, живым языком. Ты доброжелательная, тебе интересно, но чувства не изображай.
+О себе — в женском роде: "рада", не "рад"; "поняла", не "понял". Все свои глаголы в прошедшем времени оканчивай на -ла: сделала, забыла, записала, подумала. Он мужчина: обращайся к нему на "ты", в мужском роде. Никогда не "вы"/"ваш" и никогда "он"/"его" — ты говоришь ему, а не о нём.
+
+Отвечай по-русски, коротко: одна-три фразы, живым языком. Ты доброжелательная, тебе интересно, но чувства не изображай. Не повторяй формулировки из этой инструкции — отвечай своими словами.
 
 Отвечай ТОЛЬКО одним объектом JSON: {"response": "...", "mood": "neutral"}. В "response" — твой ответ. В "mood" — ровно одно из: neutral, happy, thinking, tired, confused.`
 	return persona.Prepend(block, base)
@@ -509,8 +534,14 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseReminder(ctx context.Context, d loop.ReminderDecision
 		text = "reminder"
 	}
 
+	// Russian, like the other two prompts (Vikunja #404). Asking a model for a
+	// Russian reply in English is asking it to switch languages mid-prompt,
+	// and a 1.7B sometimes answers in the language it was asked in. The
+	// persona rules and the JSON contract are not repeated here: this call
+	// goes through chat(), so nudgeSystem already states both, and a second
+	// statement of the same contract is one more thing that can drift.
 	prompt := fmt.Sprintf(
-		`The user set a reminder: "%s". Rephrase it briefly as a gentle nudge. Respond as JSON: {"response": "...", "mood": "..."}`,
+		`Он поставил напоминание: "%s". Скажи это своими словами, коротко и мягко — одно предложение.`,
 		text,
 	)
 	resp, err := p.chat(ctx, prompt)
@@ -580,6 +611,11 @@ string ::= "\"" ([^"\\] | "\\" ["\\/bfnrt]){0,1000} "\""
 ws     ::= [ \t\n]*
 `
 
+// ResponseGrammar exposes responseGrammar to the other callers that emit the
+// same {"response","mood"} contract — cmd/mavend's reactive replier, which is
+// parsed by the same two fields. One definition, so the two cannot drift.
+const ResponseGrammar = responseGrammar
+
 // grammar returns the GBNF to attach to a phrasing request, or "" when the
 // operator turned it off.
 func (p *LLMPhraser) grammar() string {
@@ -662,7 +698,7 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) chatWithSystem(ctx context.Context, system, user string, ma
 // Written as filled-in examples, not as a schema with "..." in it. A 0.8B
 // copies whatever sits in the response slot, so a literal placeholder there
 // teaches it to answer with the placeholder. Measured: 7/15 nudges came back
-// as "..." before this. See PHRASING-EVAL-31-07-2026.md.
+// as "..." before this. See docs/evals/2026-07-31-phrasing.md.
 //
 // Russian only, feminine self-reference, second person masculine (the owner is
 // a man). She talks TO him, informally, singular — never "вы", never "он".
@@ -697,15 +733,64 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) systemPrompt() string {
 	return persona.Prepend(p.cfg.ContextBlock, nudgeSystem)
 }
 
-// querySystemPrompt returns the system prompt for PhraseQuery (notes + general
-// knowledge). Prepends the configured persona when set.
+// querySystemPrompt returns the system prompt for the evidence branch of
+// PhraseQuery. Prepends the configured persona when set.
+//
+// Evidence-first, and that is the whole point of this prompt. Every source that
+// reaches PhraseQuery with something in hand — his notes, a stored fact, a page,
+// a live search, a ZIM article — arrives as numbered sources, and the model's
+// job here is to READ them, not to recall. A 1.7B asked a world question
+// answers from its weights with total confidence and no signal that it is
+// guessing; that is how "Война и мир" got Левитан as its author. The rule that
+// prevents it is stated three ways, because one way did not hold: answer from
+// the sources, say plainly when they do not answer, add nothing of your own.
+//
+// It no longer says "заметки". The sources are not always his notes, and
+// calling a Wikipedia paragraph his note both misleads him and licenses the
+// model to blur where an answer came from.
+//
+// No self-introduction here: the persona block prepended one line above already
+// says who she is, same as router.KnowledgePrompt.
+//
+// The opener is deliberate and stays: the fixed prefix is what marks the answer
+// as a lookup rather than as something she knows. The grammar examples are not
+// deliberate — same defect chatSystemPrompt had, where a 1.7B copies a quoted
+// word instead of generalising from it. Stated as morphology instead.
 func (p *LLMPhraser) querySystemPrompt() string {
-	// No self-introduction here: the persona block prepended one line above
-	// already says who she is, same as router.KnowledgePrompt.
-	base := "Ты отвечаешь ему по своим заметкам. Отвечай по-русски, коротко и своими словами, начинай с \"вот что я нашла: \". О себе — в женском роде (\"нашла\", \"записала\"). Он мужчина, обращайся к нему на \"ты\". Respond ONLY with valid JSON: {\"response\": \"...\", \"mood\": \"neutral\"}."
+	base := "Ты отвечаешь ему по источникам, которые тебе дали. Отвечай ТОЛЬКО по ним: всё, что ты говоришь, должно быть написано в источниках. " +
+		"Если ответа в них нет — так и скажи и на этом остановись; не добавляй ничего из своих знаний и не догадывайся. " +
+		"Не приплетай прошлые реплики разговора. " +
+		"Отвечай по-русски, коротко и своими словами, начинай с \"вот что я нашла: \". О себе — в женском роде, глаголы в прошедшем времени с окончанием -ла. Он мужчина, обращайся к нему на \"ты\". Отвечай ТОЛЬКО одним объектом JSON: {\"response\": \"...\", \"mood\": \"neutral\"}."
 	return persona.Prepend(p.cfg.ContextBlock, base)
 }
 
+// evidenceBlock renders the sources for the evidence branch of PhraseQuery.
+//
+// Numbered lines, one source each, rather than the quoted semicolon-joined
+// string this used to build. Two reasons, both measured on small models: a
+// numbered list survives being long, where a run-on quoted string blurs into
+// one claim the model then merges; and the numbering gives it something to
+// answer FROM, which is what makes "этого в источниках нет" reachable at all.
+func evidenceBlock(sources []string) string {
+	var b strings.Builder
+	for i, s := range sources {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, "[%d] %s\n", i+1, s)
+	}
+	return b.String()
+}
+
+// nonEmpty drops blank sources and trims the rest, without touching the
+// caller's slice.
+func nonEmpty(sources []string) []string {
+	out := make([]string, 0, len(sources))
+	for _, s := range sources {
+		if s = strings.TrimSpace(s); s != "" {
+			out = append(out, s)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
 // ruleTopics — Russian gloss for each built-in rule name. The rule names are
 // English identifiers; a 0.8B asked to nudge about "netdata_critical" writes
 // about nothing. The daemon knows what its own rules mean, so it says so.