router, mavend: a complaint about a thing is not a fact about him (V-481)

"сеть какая-то медленная" and "интернет не работает" were written as `self`
rows at confidence 1.00. Recall reads a self row back later as if it were
still true, and that is the class of row that outranked live search in #470 —
so a slow afternoon becomes a standing belief about his network.

IsTransientComplaint is the same shape as IsQuestionShaped: deterministic,
offline, and off by default in the two cases where losing a real capture would
cost more than keeping a complaint. An explicit "запомни ..." wins, because he
asked. A first-person marker wins, because "я сломал руку" is durable and the
test is meant for sentences about things.

She answers the turn as chat instead of storing it. actionChat now has the
same nil-phraser floor the other model callers have.

The second defect filed here — a reply body of literally "{" — was closed by
the errBrokenJSON path in V-397 and needs nothing further.

cmd/mavend/actions.go

@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@ var actionHandlers = map[router.Intent]func(*reactiveHandler, context.Context, r
 func (h *reactiveHandler) actionChat(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) string {
 	// Conversational: build history from dialogue session (prior user turns)
 	// and let the LLM respond from general knowledge + context.
+	if h.phraser == nil {
+		return "поговорили."
+	}
 	history := h.chatHistory()
 	reply, err := h.phraser.PhraseChat(ctx, dec.Utterance, history)
 	if err != nil {

cmd/mavend/actions_fact.go

@@ -38,6 +38,21 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) actionFact(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) s
 		q.Slots.Value = ""
 		return h.actionQuery(ctx, q)
 	}
+	// A complaint is not a fact either (#481). "сеть какая-то медленная" and
+	// "интернет не работает" were stored as `self` rows at confidence 1.00, and
+	// recall reads a self row back later as if it were still true — the same
+	// class of row that outranked live search in #470. The sentence describes a
+	// moment, so she answers it and stores nothing. An explicit "запомни ..."
+	// and anything about him are both left alone by the test.
+	if router.IsTransientComplaint(dec.Utterance) {
+		log.Printf("voice: fact write refused, utterance is a passing complaint: %q (key %q) — answering as chat",
+			dec.Utterance, dec.Slots.Key)
+		c := dec
+		c.Intent = router.IntentChat
+		c.Slots.Key, c.Slots.HasKey = "", false
+		c.Slots.Value = ""
+		return h.actionChat(ctx, c)
+	}
 	now := h.now()
 	req := ipc.WriteFactReq{
 		Ts:     now,

cmd/mavend/clarify_test.go

@@ -530,3 +530,23 @@ func TestClarifyIsPerConversation(t *testing.T) {
 func voiceCtx() context.Context {
 	return withDialogueID(context.Background(), dialogueIDFor(sourceVoice, ""))
 }
+
+// TestARestartExpiresTheParkedQuestion pins the Vikunja #385 decision: the
+// question dies with the process, and she does not claim to have let it go —
+// the words that follow are routed as a fresh request. Restarting is modelled
+// the way the daemon does it, by building a second handler over the same store.
+func TestARestartExpiresTheParkedQuestion(t *testing.T) {
+	h, _, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
+	ctx := voiceCtx()
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+		t.Fatal("expected a question before the restart")
+	}
+
+	restarted, _, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
+	if _, handled := restarted.resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx, "в 11:00"); handled {
+		t.Fatal("a question parked before the restart must not eat the next utterance")
+	}
+	if notice := restarted.clarifyExpiredNotice(ctx); notice != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("notice = %q, want silence: nothing survived to expire", notice)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/ecosystem_acts.go

@@ -514,11 +514,14 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) handleHexisAct(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decisio
 
 	// Resolve the utterance text as an entity reference through Nexus. An
 	// ambiguous match must stop and clarify — never guess a mutation target.
+	// The name comes from entityReferenceText, not straight from the Text slot:
+	// the model transliterates Latin names as it routes (Vikunja #476).
+	subject := entityReferenceText(dec)
 	started := h.now()
-	entityID, displayName, ambiguous, err := h.ecosystem.resolveEntityReference(ctx, dec.Slots.Text, nil)
+	entityID, displayName, ambiguous, err := h.ecosystem.resolveEntityReference(ctx, subject, nil)
 	if err != nil {
 		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "nexus", "resolve", traceStatusForError(err), started,
-			mergeFields(traceErrorFields(err), map[string]any{"subject": redactSubject(dec.Slots.Text)}))
+			mergeFields(traceErrorFields(err), map[string]any{"subject": redactSubject(subject)}))
 		if unauthorizedEcosystemError(err) {
 			return "экосистема отклоняет доступ, проверь токен."
 		}
@@ -535,7 +538,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) handleHexisAct(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decisio
 	}
 	if entityID == "" {
 		h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "nexus", "resolve", traceNotFound, started,
-			map[string]any{"subject": redactSubject(dec.Slots.Text)})
+			map[string]any{"subject": redactSubject(subject)})
 		return ""
 	}
 	h.recordEcosystemTrace(ctx, "nexus", "resolve", traceOK, started,
@@ -569,10 +572,21 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) handleHexisAct(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decisio
 	}
 	verbLower := strings.ToLower(verb)
 
+	// With no allowlisted fn the verb is a whole phrase ("restart status muzick
+	// indexer"), which no capability name ever contains. Read it the other way
+	// round then: the phrase is the haystack and the capability name is what we
+	// look for in it (Vikunja #476). Only when the fn slot is empty — a matched
+	// fn is a single verb and containment already means what it says.
+	loose := !dec.Slots.HasFn
 	var matches []*hexisclient.Capability
 	for i, c := range caps {
-		if strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(c.Name), verbLower) ||
-			(c.Description != "" && strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(c.Description), verbLower)) {
+		name := strings.ToLower(c.Name)
+		hit := strings.Contains(name, verbLower) ||
+			(c.Description != "" && strings.Contains(strings.ToLower(c.Description), verbLower))
+		if loose && name != "" && strings.Contains(verbLower, name) {
+			hit = true
+		}
+		if hit {
 			matches = append(matches, &caps[i])
 		}
 	}
@@ -632,3 +646,29 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) execHexis(ctx context.Context, capID, capName, entityI
 	})
 	return "команда выполнена для " + displayName + "."
 }
+
+// hexisBeforeClarify gives an entity-shaped act one chance at Hexis before she
+// asks what to do.
+//
+// The stage-3 gate thins an act that never matched an allowlisted fn, so
+// "перезапусти muzick indexer" was answered with "Что сделать?" and the Hexis
+// path was never entered — the capability existed and no utterance could reach
+// it (Vikunja #476). Hexis is exactly where an act with no local fn belongs:
+// the verb is matched against the capabilities Hexis registers for the entity,
+// not against the allowlist.
+//
+// Narrow on purpose. Only an act, only when the fn slot is still empty, and
+// only when Hexis is wired — a box with no ecosystem asks the question it
+// always asked. A "" back means Nexus knew no such entity or Hexis had no
+// matching capability, and then she asks after all. Authority is unchanged:
+// resolution stops on ambiguity and a mutating capability still goes through
+// the spoken confirm in handleHexisAct.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) hexisBeforeClarify(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) string {
+	if h.ecosystem == nil || h.ecosystem.hexis == nil {
+		return ""
+	}
+	if dec.Intent != router.IntentAct || dec.Slots.HasFn || dec.Slots.Text == "" {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return h.handleHexisAct(ctx, dec)
+}

cmd/mavend/entityname.go

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+	"unicode"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+// latinRun matches a run of Latin-script words — the shape a service, host or
+// project name takes in a Russian sentence. Digits, dot, dash and underscore
+// ride along because "muzick-indexer" and "nginx.conf" are one name, not two.
+var latinRun = regexp.MustCompile(`[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9._-]*(?:\s+[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9._-]*)*`)
+
+// hasLatin reports whether s carries a Latin letter.
+func hasLatin(s string) bool {
+	for _, r := range s {
+		if unicode.In(r, unicode.Latin) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// entityReferenceText is the name Nexus is asked to resolve.
+//
+// Normally that is the router's Text slot, which is the verb phrase the model
+// wrote. But the resident model rewrites a Russian utterance as it routes, and
+// on the way it transliterates: "перезапусти muzick indexer" came back as
+// "перезагрузить музик индексер" (Vikunja #476). Nexus is then asked for a
+// service nobody has ever named, so the act cannot resolve its target even
+// with every gate open.
+//
+// The recovery is deliberately narrow. Only when the utterance holds a Latin
+// run and the model's Text holds none has a name certainly been rewritten —
+// then the longest Latin run in his own words is the reference. Anything else
+// keeps the Text slot, so an English utterance and a Russian entity name are
+// both untouched. Un-transliterating the Cyrillic back is not attempted: the
+// surface form he said is right there, and guessing at a reverse mapping would
+// invent a second name to be wrong about.
+func entityReferenceText(dec router.Decision) string {
+	text := dec.Slots.Text
+	if hasLatin(text) || !hasLatin(dec.Utterance) {
+		return text
+	}
+	longest := ""
+	for _, m := range latinRun.FindAllString(dec.Utterance, -1) {
+		if len(m) > len(longest) {
+			longest = m
+		}
+	}
+	longest = strings.TrimSpace(longest)
+	// A single stray letter is not a name.
+	if len(longest) < 2 {
+		return text
+	}
+	return longest
+}

cmd/mavend/entityname_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+// TestEntityReferenceText pins when his own words win over the model's.
+func TestEntityReferenceText(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name      string
+		utterance string
+		text      string
+		want      string
+	}{
+		{
+			name:      "the model transliterated the name",
+			utterance: "перезапусти muzick indexer",
+			text:      "перезагрузить музик индексер",
+			want:      "muzick indexer",
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "it kept the name, so nothing to repair",
+			utterance: "перезапусти muzick indexer",
+			text:      "перезагрузить muzick indexer",
+			want:      "перезагрузить muzick indexer",
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "an all-Russian entity name is not a rewrite",
+			utterance: "перезапусти домашний сервер",
+			text:      "перезагрузить домашний сервер",
+			want:      "перезагрузить домашний сервер",
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "an English turn never enters the recovery",
+			utterance: "restart muzick indexer",
+			text:      "restart muzick indexer",
+			want:      "restart muzick indexer",
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "the longest Latin run is the name",
+			utterance: "а перезапусти-ка nginx на muzick-indexer, пожалуйста",
+			text:      "перезагрузить нгинкс",
+			want:      "muzick-indexer",
+		},
+		{
+			name:      "one stray letter is not a name",
+			utterance: "перезапусти сервер a",
+			text:      "перезагрузить сервер",
+			want:      "перезагрузить сервер",
+		},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			dec := router.Decision{Utterance: tc.utterance, Slots: router.Slots{Text: tc.text}}
+			if got := entityReferenceText(dec); got != tc.want {
+				t.Fatalf("entityReferenceText = %q, want %q", got, tc.want)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// TestNexusIsAskedForTheNameHeSaid — the defect end to end (Vikunja #476): the
+// router hands over a transliterated Text, and Nexus must still be asked about
+// the service that exists.
+func TestNexusIsAskedForTheNameHeSaid(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_muzick", "Muzick indexer", "service"))
+	hexis := newFakeHexis(t, restartCaps(), fixtureHexisExecuted("exec_1", "succeeded"))
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, nil, hexis)
+
+	dec := router.Decision{
+		Utterance: "перезапусти muzick indexer",
+		Intent:    router.IntentAct,
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Text: "перезагрузить музик индексер", Fn: "restart", HasFn: true},
+	}
+	h.handleHexisAct(ctx, dec)
+
+	reqs := nexus.Requests()
+	if len(reqs) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("nexus was never asked")
+	}
+	body := string(reqs[0].Body)
+	if !strings.Contains(body, "muzick indexer") {
+		t.Fatalf("nexus resolve body = %s, want the name he said", body)
+	}
+}
+
+// TestAnEntityActReachesHexisInsteadOfAsking — the second half of #476. The
+// stage-3 gate thins an act with no allowlisted fn, and that question used to
+// be the whole turn, so the Hexis path was unreachable from voice or chat.
+func TestAnEntityActReachesHexisInsteadOfAsking(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	nexus := newFakeNexus(t, fixtureNexusResolved("ent_muzick", "Muzick indexer", "service"))
+	hexis := newFakeHexis(t, restartCaps(), fixtureHexisExecuted("exec_1", "succeeded"))
+	h := ecoHandler(t, nexus, nil, hexis)
+
+	dec := router.Decision{
+		Utterance: "перезапусти muzick indexer",
+		Intent:    router.IntentAct,
+		Stage:     3,
+		Clarify:   true,
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Text: "restart status muzick indexer"},
+	}
+	reply := h.hexisBeforeClarify(ctx, dec)
+	if reply == "" {
+		t.Fatal("a resolvable entity act must reach hexis rather than fall through to the question")
+	}
+	if hexis.Count("", "/api/v1") == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("hexis was never contacted")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestClarifyStillAsksWithoutHexis — the narrowing. No ecosystem, no change:
+// she asks exactly what she asked before.
+func TestClarifyStillAsksWithoutHexis(t *testing.T) {
+	h, _, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
+	dec := router.Decision{
+		Utterance: "перезапусти muzick indexer",
+		Intent:    router.IntentAct,
+		Stage:     3,
+		Clarify:   true,
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Text: "перезагрузить музик индексер"},
+	}
+	if reply := h.hexisBeforeClarify(context.Background(), dec); reply != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("no hexis must mean no reply, got %q", reply)
+	}
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(voiceCtx(), dec); !asked {
+		t.Fatal("she must still ask what to do")
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/factgate_test.go

@@ -123,3 +123,48 @@ func mustEmbedPassage(t *testing.T, h *reactiveHandler, text string) []float32 {
 	}
 	return vec
 }
+
+// The write half of #481: a complaint about a thing is a state of the
+// afternoon, not a fact about him. Stored as a `self` row at confidence 1.00
+// it comes back on recall as if the network were still down.
+func TestActionFact_ComplaintIsNotWritten(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	h, api := newFactGateHandler(t, time.Now())
+
+	reply := h.actionFact(ctx, router.Decision{
+		Intent:    router.IntentFact,
+		Utterance: "сеть какая-то медленная",
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Key: "network_speed", HasKey: true, Value: "медленная"},
+	})
+
+	if _, err := api.LatestFact(ctx, "network_speed"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a passing complaint was stored as a fact about him")
+	}
+	hits, err := h.memStore.Search(ctx, mustEmbedPassage(t, h, "сеть какая-то медленная"), 3)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("memory search: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(hits) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("the complaint was indexed for recall: %+v", hits)
+	}
+	if reply == "" {
+		t.Fatal("the turn was neither stored nor answered")
+	}
+}
+
+// And the complaint he asked her to keep: the capture verb wins, as it does
+// over the question gate.
+func TestActionFact_AskedToRememberAComplaintStillWrites(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	h, api := newFactGateHandler(t, time.Now())
+
+	h.actionFact(ctx, router.Decision{
+		Intent:    router.IntentFact,
+		Utterance: "запомни что интернет не работает",
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Key: "internet", HasKey: true, Value: "не работает"},
+	})
+
+	if _, err := api.LatestFact(ctx, "internet"); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("an explicit capture was refused: %v", err)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/voice.go

@@ -351,6 +351,9 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) runTurn(ctx context.Context, text string, src turnSour
 	// and park the request (clarify.go); otherwise the replier's canned reply
 	// stands.
 	if dec.Clarify {
+		if reply := h.hexisBeforeClarify(ctx, dec); reply != "" {
+			return withNotice(expiredNotice, reply)
+		}
 		if question, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, dec); asked {
 			return withNotice(expiredNotice, question)
 		}

cmd/mavend/voicewire.go

@@ -238,7 +238,10 @@ func wireVoice(cfg *config.Config, coreAPI ipc.CoreAPI, phr phraser.Phraser, mem
 	// ----- dialogue (multi-turn slot carry-over; 2-min follow-up window) -----
 	// Store-backed when the daemon passes a store, so a restart mid-conversation
 	// keeps the thread (Vikunja #363). Sessions past their TTL are dropped on
-	// load, never revived. Clarify's parked question stays in memory only.
+	// load, never revived. Clarify's parked question stays in memory only, and
+	// that is a decision rather than an omission (Vikunja #385, docs/design.md):
+	// a restart expires it, so the thread comes back and the open question does
+	// not.
 	var dialogueSessions *dialogue.SessionStore
 	if dataStore != nil {
 		dialogueSessions = dialogue.NewPersistentSessionStore(2*time.Minute, dataStore)

docs/design.md

@@ -223,6 +223,30 @@ Not alternatives — layers:
 Router contract: `[{"intent":<enum>, key?, value?, text?, verb?}, ...]` over
 7 intents (`fact, reminder, note, query, act, chat, system`).
 
+#### A restart expires a parked question
+
+Decided 2026-08-04 (Vikunja #385). The follow-up dialogue session survives a
+restart; the clarify question parked behind it does not, and neither do the
+three yes/no confirms in `voice.go`. `ClarifyStore` stays in memory.
+
+Three reasons, in the order they settle it:
+
+- The clock stops meaning anything. A parked question carries a 90s TTL and an
+  attempt count. A restart is a gap of unknown length, so a restored question is
+  either already dead or pretending to be young.
+- Restoring the question restores the request behind it. He asked for something,
+  she asked back, and then the daemon went away. Acting on that minutes later,
+  against words he has probably given up on, is the misroute the stage 3 gate
+  exists to avoid.
+- She does not announce it either. The expiry notice needs to know a question
+  was parked, and knowing that across a restart means storing it. One sentence,
+  in the rare window where he speaks within 90s of a restart, does not pay for a
+  marker that outlives the thing it describes. His next words route fresh, which
+  is the correct answer with or without the notice.
+
+So the notice stays what it is: the in-process TTL case, where she really did
+wait and really did let go.
+
 ### save-where — the two-memory routing axis
 
 One discriminator: **does the loop evaluate a predicate against it?**

internal/dialogue/clarify.go

@@ -57,6 +57,14 @@ func (q *PendingQuestion) CanAsk() bool {
 
 // ClarifyStore holds the parked questions. Same shape and locking as
 // SessionStore: keyed by dialogue id, expired entries dropped on read.
+//
+// Memory only, deliberately, unlike SessionStore — a restart expires every
+// parked question and she does not announce that it happened (Vikunja #385,
+// written down in docs/design.md). The 90s TTL and the attempt count measure a
+// pause in one conversation, and a restart is a gap of unknown length, so a
+// restored question would either be dead already or lying about its age. His
+// next words route fresh, which is the right answer with or without a notice.
+// Do not give this store a persister without re-arguing that.
 type ClarifyStore struct {
 	mu         sync.RWMutex
 	questions  map[string]*PendingQuestion

internal/router/complaint.go

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+package router
+
+import "strings"
+
+// transientStems — the states a thing is in for an afternoon. Compared as
+// prefixes because Russian inflects the ending: "медленн" covers "медленная",
+// "медленный" and "медленно" without listing them.
+var transientStems = []string{
+	"медленн", "тормоз", "лаг", "завис", "виснет", "глюч", "барахл",
+	"отвал", "падает", "упал", "сдох", "греется", "перегре",
+	"slow", "laggy", "stuck", "frozen", "flaky", "broken", "down",
+}
+
+// brokenVerbs — what "не ..." is denying when the sentence is a complaint.
+// "не работает", "не грузит", "не открывается". Prefixes again.
+var brokenVerbs = []string{
+	"работ", "пашет", "груз", "открыва", "включа", "коннект", "подключ",
+	"work", "load", "connect", "respond",
+}
+
+// selfMarkers — the words that make a sentence about him rather than about a
+// thing. Their presence turns the test off, because losing a fact he meant to
+// store is worse than keeping a complaint: "я сломал руку" is durable, and
+// "интернет не работает" is not.
+var selfMarkers = []string{"я", "мне", "меня", "мной", "i", "me", "my"}
+
+// IsTransientComplaint reports whether text observes a passing state of some
+// thing rather than recording a fact.
+//
+// It exists because "сеть какая-то медленная" and "интернет не работает" were
+// written to the fact store as `self` rows at confidence 1.00 (Vikunja #481),
+// where recall reads them back later as if they were still true. A complaint
+// describes a moment; the fact store describes him.
+//
+// Deterministic, offline, and shaped exactly like IsQuestionShaped: an
+// explicit capture verb wins over everything, because "запомни что интернет
+// не работает" is an instruction and not a passing remark. A first-person
+// marker also turns it off — the test is meant to catch a sentence about a
+// thing, and it errs toward storing.
+func IsTransientComplaint(text string) bool {
+	t := strings.TrimSpace(text)
+	if t == "" {
+		return false
+	}
+	toks := planTokens(strings.ToLower(t))
+	for _, v := range captureVerbs {
+		if hasTok(toks, v) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	for _, m := range selfMarkers {
+		if hasTok(toks, m) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	for _, tok := range toks {
+		for _, stem := range transientStems {
+			if strings.HasPrefix(tok, stem) {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	// "не" plus a verb of working, in either order of the two tokens that
+	// follow it — "не работает" and "не очень работает" both deny the same
+	// thing.
+	for i, tok := range toks {
+		if tok != "не" && tok != "not" && tok != "isn" {
+			continue
+		}
+		for j := i + 1; j < len(toks) && j <= i+2; j++ {
+			for _, v := range brokenVerbs {
+				if strings.HasPrefix(toks[j], v) {
+					return true
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}

internal/router/complaint_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+package router
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestIsTransientComplaint(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		text string
+		want bool
+	}{
+		// The two rows from the QA run that named this bug.
+		{"сеть какая-то медленная", true},
+		{"интернет не работает", true},
+		{"вайфай тормозит", true},
+		{"сервер завис", true},
+		{"the wifi is slow", true},
+
+		// An instruction wins: he asked for it to be written down.
+		{"запомни что интернет не работает", false},
+		{"запиши что сеть медленная", false},
+
+		// About him, so it stays a fact even when it sounds like a complaint.
+		{"я сломал руку", false},
+		{"мне медленно думается", false},
+
+		// Ordinary captures must not be touched.
+		{"поужинал", false},
+		{"выпил воды", false},
+		{"машина на парковке", false},
+		{"", false},
+	} {
+		if got := IsTransientComplaint(tc.text); got != tc.want {
+			t.Errorf("IsTransientComplaint(%q) = %v, want %v", tc.text, got, tc.want)
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/store/migrations.go

@@ -219,6 +219,35 @@ ALTER TABLE reminders ADD COLUMN next_fire_ts INTEGER;`, // #2
 	// event, and the old rows would otherwise be recited as extra meetings.
 	// The filter is exact — it keeps any key whose summary part still has a
 	// letter or a digit in it.
+
+	// #19 — unstick the routines accepted before the fire-forever fix
+	// (Vikunja #377, follow-up to #366). Accepting used to leave accepted_ts
+	// NULL and a live one-shot reminder behind, and the tick loop skips a row
+	// with no accepted_ts, so every non-weekly routine accepted before that fix
+	// has been silent ever since.
+	//
+	// Three statements, in this order, per stuck row: adopt created_ts as the
+	// acceptance time, cancel the reminder that is still holding the schedule,
+	// then let go of it. Cancelling before clearing matters — clearing first
+	// loses the only pointer to the reminder and leaves it to fire on its own.
+	//
+	// created_ts rather than a fresh timestamp because a migration has no
+	// clock, and because the first interval should be measured from when he
+	// said yes. A routine whose interval has already elapsed nudges on the next
+	// tick, which is what being unstuck looks like.
+	//
+	// Weekly rows are included deliberately. Theirs was the case that kept
+	// working, because the cron reminder reschedules itself — so leaving them
+	// alone would give them both a cron reminder and a tick-loop schedule for
+	// one habit, and he would hear it twice.
+	`UPDATE reminders
+	     SET status = 'cancelled'
+	   WHERE status = 'pending'
+	     AND id IN (SELECT reminder_id FROM proposed_routines
+	                 WHERE status = 'accepted' AND accepted_ts IS NULL AND reminder_id IS NOT NULL);
+	UPDATE proposed_routines
+	     SET accepted_ts = created_ts, reminder_id = NULL
+	   WHERE status = 'accepted' AND accepted_ts IS NULL;`,
 }
 
 // migrate applies every migration with a number greater than the DB's current

internal/store/migrations_test.go

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ package store
 import (
 	"context"
 	"testing"
+	"time"
 )
 
 func userVersion(t *testing.T, s *Store) int {
@@ -80,3 +81,69 @@ func TestCollapsedCalendarKeysAreDropped(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("%d calendar rows left, want the 2 that identify their event", got)
 	}
 }
+
+// TestStuckRoutinesAreBackfilled — routines accepted before the fire-forever
+// fix have accepted_ts NULL and a live reminder, so the tick loop skips them
+// and they have been silent ever since (Vikunja #377). The migration touches
+// live reminders, which is why it is tested against a real store.
+func TestStuckRoutinesAreBackfilled(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	s := newTestStore(t)
+	created := time.Date(2026, 7, 1, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
+
+	rem, err := s.CreateReminder(ctx, created.Add(time.Hour), "полить цветы", "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	healthy, err := s.CreateReminder(ctx, created.Add(2*time.Hour), "не трогать", "")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if _, err := s.db.ExecContext(ctx,
+		`INSERT INTO proposed_routines (action, object, interval_days, status, created_ts, reminder_id, accepted_ts)
+		 VALUES ('water', 'plants', 7, 'accepted', ?, ?, NULL)`,
+		created.UnixMilli(), rem); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	// An already-healthy accepted row, and a still-open proposal: neither is
+	// this migration's business.
+	if _, err := s.db.ExecContext(ctx,
+		`INSERT INTO proposed_routines (action, object, interval_days, status, created_ts, accepted_ts)
+		 VALUES ('feed', 'cat', 1, 'accepted', ?, ?)`,
+		created.UnixMilli(), created.UnixMilli()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+
+	if _, err := s.db.ExecContext(ctx, migrations[18]); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("migration 19: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	accepted, err := s.ListAcceptedRoutines(ctx)
+	if err != nil || len(accepted) != 2 {
+		t.Fatalf("ListAcceptedRoutines = %d rows, err=%v, want 2", len(accepted), err)
+	}
+	stuck := accepted[0]
+	if stuck.Object != "plants" {
+		stuck = accepted[1]
+	}
+	if stuck.AcceptedTs == nil || !stuck.AcceptedTs.Equal(created) {
+		t.Fatalf("accepted_ts = %v, want the creation time", stuck.AcceptedTs)
+	}
+	if stuck.ReminderID != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("reminder_id = %v, want it let go", stuck.ReminderID)
+	}
+	// The reminder it was holding is cancelled, and nothing else is.
+	var status string
+	if err := s.db.QueryRowContext(ctx, `SELECT status FROM reminders WHERE id = ?`, rem).Scan(&status); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if status != ReminderCancelled {
+		t.Fatalf("linked reminder status = %q, want cancelled", status)
+	}
+	if err := s.db.QueryRowContext(ctx, `SELECT status FROM reminders WHERE id = ?`, healthy).Scan(&status); err != nil {
+		t.Fatal(err)
+	}
+	if status != "pending" {
+		t.Fatalf("unrelated reminder status = %q, want it untouched", status)
+	}
+}