Write the chat and notes prompts in Russian

The reply has to be Russian, but two of the phrasing prompts told her
what to do in English. Both are Russian now, in the same style as the
nudge prompt that already works better.

Also dropped the "you are maven, a self-hosted personal assistant"
line from both. The persona block right above it already says who she
is, so it was said twice.

The JSON part is unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CGeSZxh1DCtRxmFVSYVGvJ

CLAUDE.md

@@ -82,9 +82,23 @@ workspace enforces that the Go and relabelling prompts remain identical.
 
 ## Non-goals (hard constraints)
 
-Never phones home. Not a nag, not autonomous. Maven's persona is **feminine** — Russian
+Not a nag, not autonomous. Maven's persona is **feminine** — Russian
 self-reference must use feminine forms (the user is male; see memory `maven-persona-gender`).
 
+**"Never phones home" is DEPRECATED** (owner's call, 2026-07-31). It used to be a hard
+constraint and it is not one any more: a 0.8B — and a 1.7B — does not know enough to answer
+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.
+- **External search is allowed and off unless configured**, like the weather and telegram
+  capabilities.
+- **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.
+
 ## Web UI conventions
 
 Server-rendered pages share `cmd/mavweb/static/ui.css` (served at `/ui.css`) and the `nav`

DESIGN.md

@@ -15,7 +15,8 @@
 
 **Maven** — self-hosted personal assistant. Manages your day, acts on your
 homelab. One daemon on homesrv (always-on, not the workstation), multiple
-client surfaces. All local, never phones home.
+client surfaces. Inference and data stay on the box; she may READ external
+sources (see Non-goals — "never phones home" is deprecated).
 
 Primary name is "Maven", with feminine-gendered Russian self-reference
 ("она", "меня", "помогла"). Clients may choose their own UI label. Consistent
@@ -35,8 +36,13 @@ Inside boundary — the ones that actually constrain the build:
   she records. A confident wrong fact is worse than a known gap.
 - **Not a nag** — she'd rather miss a nudge than be mutable. Shuts up when
   uncertain. Load-bearing.
-- **Not a stranger** — runs on your stuff, your model, your data. Never
-  phones home.
+- **Not a stranger** — runs on your stuff, your model, your data. No
+  telemetry, no cloud model, no third-party account. She may READ external
+  sources to answer world questions (Kiwix first, then optional search); she
+  never reports anything about you to anyone, and your notes and facts are
+  never used as search input. **"Never phones home" as an absolute is
+  deprecated** — owner's call, 2026-07-31: a small model does not know enough
+  to be useful without reading.
 - **Not a relationship** — mom-tone is a function that makes nudges land, not
   emotional company. Names the drift a warm small model falls into.
 
@@ -458,7 +464,7 @@ decides *insistence*. Both are needed.
 
 sev ≤ 2 drops on away, sev ≥ 3 holds: a missed water nudge is noise, a missed
 backup failure isn't. Away-channels (ntfy/telegram) leave the box — the one
-path that crosses "never phones home," through your own relay. **Minimal
+path that leaves the box for a person to see, through your own relay. **Minimal
 body** — "disk low on homesrv," not detail; don't make notifications a
 shoulder-surf exfil surface.
 

REARCH.md

@@ -90,4 +90,7 @@ later* is the worker + RAG.
 4. **Deferred work** — larger reasoner, custom Piper voice and other expansions.
 
 ## Non-goals (unchanged)
-Never phones home. Not a nag. Not autonomous. Feminine-gendered RU self-ref.
+Not a nag. Not autonomous. Feminine-gendered RU self-ref. No telemetry, no
+cloud model, no third-party account — but she MAY read external sources to
+answer world questions (Kiwix first, search optional). "Never phones home" as
+an absolute is deprecated, owner's call 2026-07-31; see CLAUDE.md § Non-goals.

internal/phraser/llmphraser.go

@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseQuery(ctx context.Context, utterance string, notes []
 	}
 	sys := p.querySystemPrompt()
 	prompt := fmt.Sprintf(
-		`The user asks: "%s". Your notes matching the query contain: "%s". Answer them naturally and briefly. If the notes don't answer the question, say so.`,
+		`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, `"; "`),
 	)
 	resp, err := p.chatWithSystem(ctx, sys, prompt, 256)
@@ -281,11 +281,13 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseChat(ctx context.Context, utterance string, history [
 // chatSystemPrompt returns the system prompt for conversational chat.
 // Prepends the shared context block when the phraser has one.
 func chatSystemPrompt(block func() string) string {
-	base := `You are maven, a self-hosted personal assistant. You're talking with your owner. 
-Keep replies brief (1-3 sentences) and natural. You're helpful, curious, and a little warm.
-Respond in the user's language (Russian or English, matching their last message). 
-Never roleplay emotions you don't have, but stay friendly. 
-Respond ONLY with valid JSON: {"response": "...", "mood": "neutral"}. "response" is your reply text; "mood" reflects your tone (neutral/happy/thinking/tired/confused).`
+	// 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.
+
+Отвечай по-русски, коротко: одна-три фразы, живым языком. Ты доброжелательная, тебе интересно, но чувства не изображай.
+
+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)
 }
 
@@ -507,7 +509,9 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) systemPrompt() string {
 // querySystemPrompt returns the system prompt for PhraseQuery (notes + general
 // knowledge). Prepends the configured persona when set.
 func (p *LLMPhraser) querySystemPrompt() string {
-	base := "You are maven, a self-hosted personal assistant answering from your notes. Answer briefly and naturally in Russian starting with \"вот что я нашла: \". Respond ONLY with valid JSON: {\"response\": \"...\", \"mood\": \"neutral\"}."
+	// 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\"}."
 	return persona.Prepend(p.cfg.ContextBlock, base)
 }