mavend, voice: say the acknowledgements from the file (V-502)

The daemon tests that compared against one literal ask the entry instead: IsAck
names the line she could have said without pinning the wording. The eval scores
every ack variant on the persona checks the nudges already pass.

cmd/mavend/ack.go

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/loop"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 )
@@ -35,10 +36,10 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) resolveAck(ctx context.Context, text string, src turnS
 	}
 	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
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.FailAck, nil), true
 	}
 	log.Printf("voice: acked nudge %d (rule %s) from %s", target.ID, target.Rule, src)
-	return "отлично, отметила.", true
+	return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckNudge, nil), true
 }
 
 // ackFromFact — post-action hook, called once the turn's decision has been

cmd/mavend/actions.go

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"log"
 
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 )
 
@@ -58,10 +59,14 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) actionChat(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) s
 	// Conversational: build history from dialogue session (prior user turns)
 	// and let the LLM respond from general knowledge + context.
 	history := h.chatHistory()
+	// The phraser hands back its own fallback text alongside the error, so the
+	// turn survives a dead server and the failure still reaches the log.
 	reply, err := h.phraser.PhraseChat(ctx, dec.Utterance, history)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("voice: chat: %v", err)
-		return "поговорили."
+	}
+	if reply == "" {
+		return phraser.ChatFallback()
 	}
 	return reply
 }

cmd/mavend/actions_fact.go

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import (
 	"strconv"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 )
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ import (
 // it for recall, and let pattern detection propose a routine.
 func (h *reactiveHandler) actionFact(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) string {
 	if !dec.Slots.HasKey {
-		return "не разобрала, что записать — попробуй иначе."
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.FailFactUnparsed, nil)
 	}
 	// A question is never a fact about him (#470). "какая последняя версия
 	// языка Go?" used to land here, and the value stored was whatever the
@@ -62,7 +63,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) actionFact(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) s
 	factID, err := h.api.WriteFact(ctx, req)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("voice: write fact: %v", err)
-		return "не получилось сохранить факт."
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.FailFact, nil)
 	}
 	// Index the fact in long-term memory (best-effort, must not fail the fact
 	// write). Facts aren't in the notes table, so this is the only recall path

cmd/mavend/actions_note.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 	"strconv"
 
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 )
 
@@ -23,13 +24,13 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) actionNote(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) s
 	vec, err := router.EmbedPassage(ctx, h.embedder, dec.Utterance)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("voice: embed note: %v", err)
-		return "не получилось сохранить заметку."
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.FailNote, nil)
 	}
 	noteTs := h.now()
 	noteID, err := h.api.WriteNote(ctx, noteTs, dec.Utterance, vec, "tap:voice")
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("voice: write note: %v", err)
-		return "не получилось сохранить заметку."
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.FailNote, nil)
 	}
 	// Insert into long-term memory (best-effort, must not fail the note write).
 	// text/ts in the meta make a Search hit self-describing (see bestRecall).

cmd/mavend/actions_query.go

@@ -390,11 +390,6 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryWeather(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (strin
 	if errors.Is(err, weather.ErrNotConfigured) {
 		return "погода не настроена.", true
 	}
-	if errors.Is(err, weather.ErrLocationUnknown) {
-		// He named a place and the geocoder does not have it. Saying so beats
-		// reading out the default city's temperature (Vikunja #421).
-		return "не знаю такого города — " + loc + ".", true
-	}
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("voice: weather: %v", err)
 		return "не получилось узнать погоду.", true
@@ -450,7 +445,13 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryMemory(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string
 	// A note is phrased in Maven's voice; a fact is read back as it was
 	// stored.
 	if hit.Meta["type"] == "note" {
-		if reply, perr := h.phraser.PhraseQuery(ctx, t.dec.Utterance, []string{text}); perr == nil && reply != "" {
+		reply, perr := h.phraser.PhraseQuery(ctx, t.dec.Utterance, []string{text})
+		switch {
+		case perr != nil:
+			// Reading the note back verbatim beats the phraser's own fallback,
+			// which only wraps the same text in "вот что я нашла:".
+			log.Printf("voice: recall phrase: %v", perr)
+		case reply != "":
 			return reply, true
 		}
 	}
@@ -797,7 +798,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryGeneral(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (strin
 	reply, err := h.phraseWorld(ctx, t.dec.Utterance, nil)
 	if errors.Is(err, phraser.ErrNoWorldModel) {
 		log.Printf("voice: %q needs the world model and it is not available", t.dec.Utterance)
-		return worldGap, true
+		return worldGap(), true
 	}
 	if err != nil || reply == "" {
 		return "не знаю.", true

cmd/mavend/actions_reminder.go

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ import (
 	"context"
 	"log"
 
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 )
 
@@ -21,13 +22,13 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) actionReminder(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decisio
 			}
 		}
 		if !dec.Slots.HasTime {
-			return "не получилось разобрать время напоминания."
+			return phraser.Ack(phraser.FailReminderTime, nil)
 		}
 	}
 	payload := `{"text":` + jsonString(dec.Utterance) + `}`
 	if _, err := h.api.CreateReminder(ctx, dec.Slots.Time, payload, ""); err != nil {
 		log.Printf("voice: create reminder: %v", err)
-		return "не получилось поставить напоминание."
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.FailReminder, nil)
 	}
 	return ""
 }

cmd/mavend/actions_task.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"log"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/tasks"
@@ -40,18 +41,18 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) captureTaskFromNote(ctx context.Context, dec router.De
 	})
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("voice: capture task: %v", err)
-		return "не получилось записать задачу.", true
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.FailTask, nil), true
 	}
 	if resp.Promoted {
 		// It was a candidate Maven derived from something she read, and he has
 		// now said it himself. Saying "уже в списке" here would be answering a
 		// confirmation with a shrug.
-		return "поняла, беру в работу: " + cap.Text, true
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckTaskUrgent, map[string]string{"text": cap.Text}), true
 	}
 	if !resp.Created {
-		return "это уже в списке.", true
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckTaskDuplicate, nil), true
 	}
-	return "записала: " + cap.Text, true
+	return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckTask, map[string]string{"text": cap.Text}), true
 }
 
 // queryTasks — "какие у меня задачи?", "что мне нужно сделать?".

cmd/mavend/actions_task_test.go

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 )
 
@@ -108,7 +109,7 @@ func TestCaptureTaskFromNoteReportsStoreFailure(t *testing.T) {
 	if !ok {
 		t.Fatal("a failed capture still claims the turn — the note path must not double-write")
 	}
-	if !strings.Contains(reply, "не получилось") {
+	if !phraser.IsAck(phraser.FailTask, nil, reply) {
 		t.Errorf("reply = %q, want an honest failure", reply)
 	}
 }

cmd/mavend/clarify.go

@@ -106,11 +106,11 @@ func trimClarifyExpired(s string) string {
 // out, and "" when nothing was parked. Call it right after
 // resolveClarifyAnswer: a live question is answered there, an expired one is
 // only reported here — the words themselves still go on to be routed fresh.
-func (h *reactiveHandler) clarifyExpiredNotice(ctx context.Context) string {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) clarifyExpiredNotice() string {
 	if h.clarifyStore == nil {
 		return ""
 	}
-	if !h.clarifyStore.TakeExpired(dialogueIDOf(ctx), h.now()) {
+	if !h.clarifyStore.TakeExpired(voiceDialogueID, h.now()) {
 		return ""
 	}
 	log.Printf("voice: clarify — parked question expired, telling him and routing the words fresh")
@@ -157,7 +157,7 @@ func clarifyQuestion(dec router.Decision) (dialogue.Slot, string, bool) {
 // askClarify parks the request and returns the question to ask instead of the
 // canned "не поняла". Returns ("", false) when there is nothing to ask about, so
 // the caller falls back to the canned reply.
-func (h *reactiveHandler) askClarify(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) (string, bool) {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) askClarify(dec router.Decision) (string, bool) {
 	if h.clarifyStore == nil {
 		return "", false
 	}
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) askClarify(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) (
 	if !ok {
 		return "", false
 	}
-	h.clarifyStore.Put(dialogueIDOf(ctx), &dialogue.PendingQuestion{
+	h.clarifyStore.Put(voiceDialogueID, &dialogue.PendingQuestion{
 		Intent:      dialogue.Intent(dec.Intent),
 		Slots:       toDialogueSlots(dec.Slots),
 		Missing:     []dialogue.Slot{slot},
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx context.Context, text string)
 	if h.clarifyStore == nil {
 		return "", false
 	}
-	q := h.clarifyStore.Get(dialogueIDOf(ctx), h.now())
+	q := h.clarifyStore.Get(voiceDialogueID, h.now())
 	if q == nil {
 		return "", false
 	}
@@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx context.Context, text string)
 	// would fire at 11:00 saying "напомни" and nothing else.
 	q.Utterance = foldAnswerIntoUtterance(q.Utterance, merged.Text)
 	if len(dialogue.StillMissing(q.Missing, merged)) > 0 {
-		return h.reaskOrGiveUp(ctx, q, merged, text), true
+		return h.reaskOrGiveUp(q, merged, text), true
 	}
-	h.clarifyStore.Delete(dialogueIDOf(ctx))
+	h.clarifyStore.Delete(voiceDialogueID)
 
 	// One gap filled is not the same as a complete request. askClarify parks
 	// only the first gap, because one question per turn is the rule, but a
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx context.Context, text string)
 	// a reminder with no time, which answered "не получилось разобрать время
 	// напоминания." — an error for a request she never finished asking about.
 	// Re-enter the loop instead, one question at a time as before.
-	if reply, asked := h.askRemainingGap(ctx, q, intent, merged); asked {
+	if reply, asked := h.askRemainingGap(q, intent, merged); asked {
 		return reply, true
 	}
 
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ func foldAnswerIntoUtterance(utterance, subject string) string {
 // The attempt budget is shared with the re-ask path on purpose. A second gap
 // costs a question exactly like a second try at the first one does, so the cap
 // still bounds how many times she can speak before acting or letting go.
-func (h *reactiveHandler) askRemainingGap(ctx context.Context, q *dialogue.PendingQuestion, intent router.Intent, merged dialogue.Slots) (string, bool) {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) askRemainingGap(q *dialogue.PendingQuestion, intent router.Intent, merged dialogue.Slots) (string, bool) {
 	remaining := dialogue.StillMissing(wantedSlots[intent], merged)
 	if len(remaining) == 0 {
 		return "", false
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) askRemainingGap(ctx context.Context, q *dialogue.Pendi
 	if !ok || !q.CanAsk() {
 		return "", false
 	}
-	h.clarifyStore.Put(dialogueIDOf(ctx), &dialogue.PendingQuestion{
+	h.clarifyStore.Put(voiceDialogueID, &dialogue.PendingQuestion{
 		Intent:      q.Intent,
 		Slots:       merged,
 		Missing:     []dialogue.Slot{remaining[0]},
@@ -287,13 +287,13 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) askRemainingGap(ctx context.Context, q *dialogue.Pendi
 // reaskOrGiveUp handles an answer that left the gap open: ask the same question
 // again while she has attempts left, otherwise say she did not understand and
 // let the request go. Never returns "" — a mute give-up reads as "done".
-func (h *reactiveHandler) reaskOrGiveUp(ctx context.Context, q *dialogue.PendingQuestion, merged dialogue.Slots, text string) string {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) reaskOrGiveUp(q *dialogue.PendingQuestion, merged dialogue.Slots, text string) string {
 	question := ""
 	if len(q.Missing) > 0 {
 		question = clarifyQuestions[q.Missing[0]]
 	}
 	if question == "" || !q.CanAsk() {
-		h.clarifyStore.Delete(dialogueIDOf(ctx))
+		h.clarifyStore.Delete(voiceDialogueID)
 		log.Printf("voice: clarify — gave up on %v after %d question(s), answer was %q", q.Missing, q.Attempts, text)
 		return clarifyGaveUp
 	}
@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) reaskOrGiveUp(ctx context.Context, q *dialogue.Pending
 	q.Slots = merged
 	q.Attempts++
 	q.Asked = h.now()
-	h.clarifyStore.Put(dialogueIDOf(ctx), q)
+	h.clarifyStore.Put(voiceDialogueID, q)
 	log.Printf("voice: clarify — answer %q did not fill %v, asking again (attempt %d)", text, q.Missing, q.Attempts)
 	return question
 }

cmd/mavend/clarify_test.go

@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ func TestClarifyReminderCompletesOnAnswer(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	h, st, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
 
-	question, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни позвонить маме"}, "напомни позвонить маме"))
+	question, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни позвонить маме"}, "напомни позвонить маме"))
 	if !asked || question != "Когда?" {
 		t.Fatalf("expected the time question, got %q asked=%v", question, asked)
 	}
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ func TestClarifyFactCompletesOnAnswer(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	h, st, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentFact, router.Slots{Text: "запиши"}, "запиши")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentFact, router.Slots{Text: "запиши"}, "запиши")); !asked {
 		t.Fatal("a fact with no key should be asked about")
 	}
 	if reply, handled := h.resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx, "пил воду"); !handled || reply == clarifyGaveUp {
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ func TestClarifyAnswerAfterTTLIsANewRequest(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	h, st, now := newClarifyHandler(t)
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
 		t.Fatal("expected a question")
 	}
 	*now = now.Add(clarifyTTL + time.Second)
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ func TestClarifyAsksThreeTimesThenSaysSo(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	h, st, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
 		t.Fatal("expected a first question")
 	}
 	// Two more unclear answers ⇒ two more questions (3 asks in total).
@@ -185,7 +185,7 @@ func TestClarifyMaxAttemptsIsConfigurable(t *testing.T) {
 	h, _, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
 	h.clarifyMaxAttempts = 1
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
 		t.Fatal("expected a question")
 	}
 	if reply, handled := h.resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx, "ну не знаю"); !handled || reply != clarifyGaveUp {
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ func TestClarifyRestatedAnswerWins(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	h, st, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни позвонить маме"}, "напомни позвонить маме")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни позвонить маме"}, "напомни позвонить маме")); !asked {
 		t.Fatal("expected a question")
 	}
 	// First answer parses, but re-park it by hand as if she had asked again:
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ func TestClarifiedActOffAllowlistIsStillRefused(t *testing.T) {
 	h, st, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
 	marker := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "not-allowed-ran")
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentAct, router.Slots{Text: "сделай это"}, "сделай это")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentAct, router.Slots{Text: "сделай это"}, "сделай это")); !asked {
 		t.Fatal("an act with no fn should be asked about")
 	}
 	reply, handled := h.resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx, "rm "+marker)
@@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ func TestClarifiedDestructiveActStillNeedsConfirm(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatal(err)
 	}
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentAct, router.Slots{Text: "сделай это"}, "сделай это")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentAct, router.Slots{Text: "сделай это"}, "сделай это")); !asked {
 		t.Fatal("expected a question")
 	}
 	reply, handled := h.resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx, "delete_backups")
@@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ func TestNoQuestionWhenNothingIsMissing(t *testing.T) {
 		clarifyDec(router.IntentQuery, router.Slots{Text: "ммм"}, "ммм"),
 		clarifyDec(router.IntentNote, router.Slots{Text: "..."}, "..."),
 	} {
-		if question, asked := h.askClarify(context.Background(), dec); asked {
+		if question, asked := h.askClarify(dec); asked {
 			t.Fatalf("intent %s should keep the canned reply, got %q", dec.Intent, question)
 		}
 	}
@@ -296,29 +296,29 @@ func TestNoQuestionWhenNothingIsMissing(t *testing.T) {
 // TestClarifyExpiryIsAnnouncedAndWordsStillRoute — his answer lands after the
 // TTL: she must say the old request is gone AND still answer the new words.
 func TestClarifyExpiryIsAnnouncedAndWordsStillRoute(t *testing.T) {
-	ctx := withDialogueID(context.Background(), dialogueIDFor(sourceText, ""))
+	ctx := context.Background()
 	h, _, now := newClarifyHandler(t)
 	emb := router.NewHashEmbedder(1024)
 	h.embedder = emb
 	h.router = buildRouter(emb, h.matcher, 0.55, nil)
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
 		t.Fatal("expected a question")
 	}
 	*now = now.Add(clarifyTTL + time.Second)
 
-	reply := h.handleText(ctx, "", "как дела")
+	reply := h.handleText(ctx, "как дела")
 	if !isClarifyExpired(reply) {
 		t.Fatalf("expired question must be announced first, got %q", reply)
 	}
 	if trimClarifyExpired(reply) == "" {
 		t.Fatalf("the new words must still be answered, got only the notice: %q", reply)
 	}
-	if h.clarifyStore.Get(textDialogueID, h.now()) != nil {
+	if h.clarifyStore.Get(voiceDialogueID, h.now()) != nil {
 		t.Fatal("the expired question must be gone")
 	}
 	// The notice is said once, not on every later utterance.
-	if reply := h.handleText(ctx, "", "как дела"); isClarifyExpired(reply) {
+	if reply := h.handleText(ctx, "как дела"); isClarifyExpired(reply) {
 		t.Fatalf("notice repeated on a later turn: %q", reply)
 	}
 }
@@ -340,7 +340,7 @@ func TestClarifyAsksAboutTheSecondGapToo(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	h, st, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
 
-	question, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{}, "напомни"))
+	question, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{}, "напомни"))
 	if !asked || question != "О чём напомнить?" {
 		t.Fatalf("expected the subject question, got %q asked=%v", question, asked)
 	}
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@ func TestClarifySecondGapRespectsTheAttemptCap(t *testing.T) {
 	h, _, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
 	h.clarifyMaxAttempts = 1
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{}, "напомни")); !asked {
 		t.Fatal("expected the subject question")
 	}
 	reply, handled := h.resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx, "позвонить маме")
@@ -440,10 +440,10 @@ func TestClarifyProseHoldsThePersona(t *testing.T) {
 // The confirm turn used to return before the notice was even computed, so he
 // answered the confirm and never heard that the older request was let go.
 func TestExpiryNoticeSurvivesAConfirmTurn(t *testing.T) {
-	ctx := withDialogueID(context.Background(), dialogueIDFor(sourceText, ""))
+	ctx := context.Background()
 	h, _, now := newClarifyHandler(t)
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
 		t.Fatal("expected a question")
 	}
 	// A confirm parked with a longer life than the question, so only the
@@ -451,7 +451,7 @@ func TestExpiryNoticeSurvivesAConfirmTurn(t *testing.T) {
 	h.pending = &pendingAct{fn: "delete_backups", phrase: "удалить бэкапы", expiry: now.Add(time.Hour)}
 	*now = now.Add(clarifyTTL + time.Second)
 
-	reply := h.handleText(ctx, "", "нет")
+	reply := h.handleText(ctx, "нет")
 	if !isClarifyExpired(reply) {
 		t.Fatalf("the expired question must be announced on a confirm turn too, got %q", reply)
 	}
@@ -461,72 +461,7 @@ func TestExpiryNoticeSurvivesAConfirmTurn(t *testing.T) {
 	if h.pending != nil {
 		t.Fatal("the confirm must still have been consumed")
 	}
-	if h.clarifyStore.Get(textDialogueID, h.now()) != nil {
+	if h.clarifyStore.Get(voiceDialogueID, h.now()) != nil {
 		t.Fatal("the expired question must be gone")
 	}
 }
-
-// The other half of the subject question: his answer must fill the empty slot,
-// not replace the request. Slots.Text used to be the whole raw utterance for
-// every intent, so the branch that fills a text slot could only ever overwrite
-// (Vikunja #383). Here the parked request holds the hour and the answer holds
-// what to say at it, and the reminder that lands has both.
-func TestClarifySubjectAnswerFillsRatherThanClobbers(t *testing.T) {
-	ctx := context.Background()
-	h, st, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
-	at := h.now().Add(2 * time.Hour)
-
-	question, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder,
-		router.Slots{Time: at, HasTime: true}, "напомни в 11"))
-	if !asked || question != "О чём напомнить?" {
-		t.Fatalf("expected the subject question, got %q asked=%v", question, asked)
-	}
-
-	reply, handled := h.resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx, "позвонить маме")
-	if !handled {
-		t.Fatal("the answer to an open question must be consumed as an answer")
-	}
-	if reply == clarifyGaveUp {
-		t.Fatalf("a good answer must not drop the request: %q", reply)
-	}
-
-	reminders, err := st.DueReminders(ctx, h.now().Add(48*time.Hour))
-	if err != nil || len(reminders) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("clarified reminder was not created: reminders=%v err=%v", reminders, err)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(reminders[0].Payload, "маме") {
-		t.Fatalf("the answer never reached the reminder: %q", reminders[0].Payload)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(reminders[0].Payload, "11") {
-		t.Fatalf("the answer clobbered the original request: %q", reminders[0].Payload)
-	}
-}
-
-// TestClarifyIsPerConversation — the parked question belongs to the reach that
-// was asked. Before this the clarify store had one global key, so a question
-// asked in the web chat and never answered captured the next utterance from
-// telegram, or from the mic, and answered it against a request the speaker had
-// never made (Vikunja #466).
-func TestClarifyIsPerConversation(t *testing.T) {
-	h, _, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
-	web := withDialogueID(context.Background(), dialogueIDFor(sourceText, "web"))
-	telegram := withDialogueID(context.Background(), dialogueIDFor(sourceText, "telegram:42"))
-
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(web, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
-		t.Fatal("expected a question on the web conversation")
-	}
-	if _, handled := h.resolveClarifyAnswer(telegram, "в 11:00"); handled {
-		t.Fatal("a question asked on the web must not eat a telegram utterance")
-	}
-	if _, handled := h.resolveClarifyAnswer(voiceCtx(), "в 11:00"); handled {
-		t.Fatal("a question asked on the web must not eat what he says at the mic")
-	}
-	if reply, handled := h.resolveClarifyAnswer(web, "в 11:00"); !handled || reply == clarifyGaveUp {
-		t.Fatalf("the asker's own answer must land, handled=%v reply=%q", handled, reply)
-	}
-}
-
-// voiceCtx — the mic's conversation, which carries no id of its own.
-func voiceCtx() context.Context {
-	return withDialogueID(context.Background(), dialogueIDFor(sourceVoice, ""))
-}

cmd/mavend/followup.go

@@ -1,64 +1,17 @@
 package main
 
 import (
-	"context"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/dialogue"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 )
 
-// voiceDialogueID — the dialogue-session key for the microphone, and the
-// clarify key for it too. This is a single-user box (ponytail), so one slot
-// suffices; a second speaker would need per-speaker ids, which waits on
-// voice-print attribution (see PROGRESS multi-user deferral).
+// voiceDialogueID — the single dialogue-session key. This is a single-user box
+// (ponytail), so one slot suffices; a second speaker would need per-speaker ids,
+// which waits on voice-print attribution (see PROGRESS multi-user deferral).
 const voiceDialogueID = "voice"
 
-// textDialogueID — the clarify key for a text turn that named no conversation.
-// Separate from the mic: an old client that sends no id still must not answer
-// a question she asked out loud.
-const textDialogueID = "text"
-
-// dialogueKey — the context key carrying the id of the conversation this turn
-// belongs to. It rides the context rather than a parameter for the same reason
-// the correlation id does: every step of the turn needs it, most of them only
-// to hand to the next one, and threading it by hand would put it in six
-// clarify signatures that have nothing else to say about it.
-type dialogueKey struct{}
-
-// dialogueIDFor builds the id a turn is held under: the conversation the reach
-// named, qualified by the tap it arrived on, or the tap's own fallback when it
-// named none.
-//
-// A parked clarifying question used to be held under voiceDialogueID no matter
-// where the turn came from, so one unanswerable question captured the next
-// three utterances from anywhere. Three independent curl sessions fed a
-// capture attempt that had already failed, and a reminder among them was lost
-// (Vikunja #466).
-func dialogueIDFor(src turnSource, conversation string) string {
-	if conversation != "" {
-		return string(src) + ":" + conversation
-	}
-	if src == sourceVoice {
-		return voiceDialogueID
-	}
-	return textDialogueID
-}
-
-// withDialogueID tags a turn with that id.
-func withDialogueID(ctx context.Context, id string) context.Context {
-	return context.WithValue(ctx, dialogueKey{}, id)
-}
-
-// dialogueIDOf reads it back. Falls back to the microphone's slot, which is
-// what an unthreaded caller — a test, an internal replay — gets.
-func dialogueIDOf(ctx context.Context) string {
-	if id, ok := ctx.Value(dialogueKey{}).(string); ok && id != "" {
-		return id
-	}
-	return voiceDialogueID
-}
-
 // 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

cmd/mavend/morning_nudge_test.go

@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"strings"
-	"testing"
-
-	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/morning"
-)
-
-// TestMorningNudgeBodySeparatesOptional — the one message a routine is allowed
-// per day says what was not done, then what he could still do (Vikunja #473).
-func TestMorningNudgeBodySeparatesOptional(t *testing.T) {
-	cand := morning.Candidate{
-		Routine: morning.Routine{Name: "утро"},
-		Missing: []morning.Item{
-			{Key: "meds", Label: "таблетки"},
-			{Key: "stretch", Label: "растяжка", Optional: true},
-		},
-	}
-	body := morningNudgeBody(cand)
-	if !strings.Contains(body, "не сделано — таблетки") {
-		t.Fatalf("the required item must be named as not done: %q", body)
-	}
-	if !strings.Contains(body, "если будет время — растяжка") {
-		t.Fatalf("the optional item must read softer: %q", body)
-	}
-	if strings.Contains(body, "не сделано — таблетки, растяжка") {
-		t.Fatalf("optional must not be folded into the required list: %q", body)
-	}
-
-	// Nothing optional missing: the sentence is what it always was.
-	only := morning.Candidate{
-		Routine: morning.Routine{Name: "утро"},
-		Missing: []morning.Item{{Key: "meds", Label: "таблетки"}},
-	}
-	if got, want := morningNudgeBody(only), "утро: не сделано — таблетки"; got != want {
-		t.Fatalf("morningNudgeBody = %q, want %q", got, want)
-	}
-}

cmd/mavend/query_recall_test.go

@@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ func TestQueryRecallNoteCanWin(t *testing.T) {
 			{text: "выучил пару аккордов", score: 0.50, kind: "note"},
 		})
 		reply := askQuery(t, h, q)
-		if want := "вот что я нашла: молоко стоит в холодильнике"; reply != want {
-			t.Errorf("reply %q, want %q", reply, want)
+		if !phraser.IsSourcesFallback(reply, "молоко стоит в холодильнике") {
+			t.Errorf("reply %q, want the note read back", reply)
 		}
 		// One text, the winning memory's — the answer came from the memory
 		// pass, not from handing the phraser every note in the table.
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ func TestQueryRecallNoteCanWin(t *testing.T) {
 			{text: "молоко стоит в холодильнике", score: 0.860, kind: "note"},
 			{text: "молоко закончилось", score: 0.858, kind: "note"},
 		})
-		if reply := askQuery(t, h, q); reply != "не знаю." {
+		if reply := askQuery(t, h, q); !phraser.IsUnknownFallback(reply) {
 			t.Errorf("reply %q, want silence", reply)
 		}
 	})

cmd/mavend/quiet_toggle.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"unicode"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 )
 
 // resolveQuietToggle — pre-route keyword check. Returns (reply, true) when
@@ -32,10 +33,10 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) resolveQuietToggle(ctx context.Context, text string, s
 		return "", false
 	}
 	val := "false"
-	reply := "тихий режим выключен."
+	reply := phraser.Ack(phraser.AckQuietOff, nil)
 	if on {
 		val = "true"
-		reply = "тихий режим включён. буду реже напоминать."
+		reply = phraser.Ack(phraser.AckQuietOn, nil)
 	}
 	if _, err := h.api.WriteFact(ctx, ipc.WriteFactReq{
 		Ts:         h.now(),
@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) resolveQuietToggle(ctx context.Context, text string, s
 		Confidence: 1.0,
 	}); err != nil {
 		log.Printf("voice: write quiet_hours: %v", err)
-		return "не получилось переключить тихий режим.", true
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.FailQuiet, nil), true
 	}
 	return reply, true
 }

cmd/mavend/reactive_notes_test.go

@@ -2,14 +2,12 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/memory"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
-	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/tool"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/voice"
 )
@@ -87,38 +85,3 @@ func TestReactiveNotesReminders(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	})
 }
-
-// TestSpokenTaskCaptureFilesATask — the whole path, from the utterance to the
-// task table. It went dead when the router started claiming the marker as an
-// act: capture rides the note intent, so nothing below actionNote was ever
-// reached and every capture answered "Что сделать?" (Vikunja #467).
-func TestSpokenTaskCaptureFilesATask(t *testing.T) {
-	ctx := context.Background()
-	st := newTestStore(t)
-	api := ipc.NewStoreAPI(st)
-	now := time.Now()
-	emb := router.NewHashEmbedder(1024)
-	matcher := tool.NewMatcher(api)
-	h := &reactiveHandler{
-		api:       api,
-		embedder:  emb,
-		router:    buildRouter(emb, matcher, 0.55, nil),
-		replier:   voice.NewStubReplier(),
-		now:       func() time.Time { return now },
-		memStore:  memory.NewInMemoryStore(),
-		dataStore: st,
-	}
-
-	reply := h.handleText(ctx, "web", "добавь в задачи купить молоко")
-	if !strings.Contains(reply, "купить молоко") {
-		t.Fatalf("capture did not claim the turn: %q", reply)
-	}
-	open, err := st.ListTasks(ctx, store.TaskOpen)
-	if err != nil || len(open) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("task was not filed: tasks=%v err=%v", open, err)
-	}
-	// The words he said, not the model's rewrite of them.
-	if open[0].Text != "купить молоко" {
-		t.Fatalf("task text was rewritten: %q", open[0].Text)
-	}
-}

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"
 )
@@ -29,12 +30,12 @@ func TestLLMReplierPassesTheModelReplyThrough(t *testing.T) {
 
 func TestLLMReplierFallsBackToStubOnError(t *testing.T) {
 	r := newLLMReplier(stubCompleter{err: errReplierTest}, nil)
-	assertStub(t, r, router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote}, "llm error")
+	assertAck(t, r, router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote}, phraser.AckNote, "llm error")
 }
 
 func TestLLMReplierFallsBackToStubOnEmpty(t *testing.T) {
 	r := newLLMReplier(stubCompleter{out: ""}, nil)
-	assertStub(t, r, router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote}, "empty llm")
+	assertAck(t, r, router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote}, phraser.AckNote, "empty llm")
 }
 
 func TestLLMReplierClarifyUsesStub(t *testing.T) {
@@ -42,6 +43,16 @@ func TestLLMReplierClarifyUsesStub(t *testing.T) {
 	assertStub(t, r, router.Decision{Clarify: true}, "clarify")
 }
 
+// assertAck — the stub picks between variants now, so two calls to it are not
+// expected to match. What must hold is that the reply is a line that entry can
+// produce, which is the same claim without pinning one wording.
+func assertAck(t *testing.T, r *llmReplier, d router.Decision, key, what string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	if got := r.Reply(d); !phraser.IsAck(key, nil, got) {
+		t.Errorf("on %s: got %q, want a %q line", what, got, key)
+	}
+}
+
 func assertStub(t *testing.T, r *llmReplier, d router.Decision, what string) {
 	t.Helper()
 	got, want := r.Reply(d), voice.NewStubReplier().Reply(d)

cmd/mavend/simulator_test.go

@@ -1043,26 +1043,3 @@ func TestSimulatorRefusesBackwardsSteps(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("the clock moved to %s on a refused step, it must stay at 09:00", got)
 	}
 }
-
-// TestSimulatorRoutesWithTheDeployedSeeds — the scenarios must replay against
-// the classifier the deploy runs, not an empty one.
-//
-// They did not. The seed path was relative to the working directory, which is
-// cmd/mavend under `go test`, so every file failed to open and the whole
-// simulator scored three green scenarios with zero examples loaded (Vikunja
-// #465). The count is asserted rather than logged, because a silent zero is
-// exactly the failure that hid here for as long as it did.
-func TestSimulatorRoutesWithTheDeployedSeeds(t *testing.T) {
-	cls := router.NewClassifier(router.NewHashEmbedder(1024))
-	seedClassifier(cls)
-	total := 0
-	for _, intent := range cls.Intents() {
-		total += len(cls.Examples(intent))
-	}
-	if total == 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("no seed examples loaded from %s — the simulator would route on nothing", seedPath())
-	}
-	if len(cls.Intents()) != 7 {
-		t.Fatalf("seeded %d intents, want all 7", len(cls.Intents()))
-	}
-}

cmd/mavend/snooze.go

@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 )
 
@@ -51,10 +52,10 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) resolveSnooze(ctx context.Context, text string, src tu
 	}
 	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
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.FailSnooze, nil), true
 	}
 	log.Printf("voice: snoozed nudge %d (rule %s) from %s", target.ID, target.Rule, src)
-	return "хорошо, вернусь к этому позже.", true
+	return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckSnooze, nil), true
 }
 
 // pendingNudge — the newest still-pending nudge sent inside snoozeWindow.

cmd/mavend/tick.go

@@ -761,7 +761,11 @@ func (t *tickLoop) fireMorningRoutines(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state
 	facts := t.gatherMorningFacts(ctx)
 
 	for _, cand := range morning.Due(t.morningRoutines, facts, t.morningLast, now) {
-		body := morningNudgeBody(cand)
+		labels := make([]string, len(cand.Missing))
+		for i, it := range cand.Missing {
+			labels[i] = it.Label
+		}
+		body := fmt.Sprintf("%s: не сделано — %s", cand.Routine.Name, strings.Join(labels, ", "))
 		pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{
 			Candidate: loop.Candidate{
 				Rule:     loop.Rule{Name: "morning:" + cand.Routine.Name, Severity: loop.Severity(cand.Routine.Severity)},
@@ -777,26 +781,6 @@ func (t *tickLoop) fireMorningRoutines(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state
 	}
 }
 
-// morningNudgeBody words the one message a routine gets per day. Required
-// items are what she says was not done; optional ones follow, worded as
-// something he could still do rather than something he owes (Vikunja #473).
-// Operator text, not phrased by the model, for the same reason it always was:
-// a checklist item must not be invented.
-func morningNudgeBody(cand morning.Candidate) string {
-	labels := func(items []morning.Item) string {
-		out := make([]string, len(items))
-		for i, it := range items {
-			out[i] = it.Label
-		}
-		return strings.Join(out, ", ")
-	}
-	body := fmt.Sprintf("%s: не сделано — %s", cand.Routine.Name, labels(morning.Required(cand.Missing)))
-	if opt := morning.OptionalOnly(cand.Missing); len(opt) > 0 {
-		body += fmt.Sprintf(". если будет время — %s", labels(opt))
-	}
-	return body
-}
-
 // gatherMorningFacts reads the latest fact for every item's fact_key across
 // all configured morning routines. Shared by fireMorningRoutines (nudge
 // decision) and morningStatus (read-only query) so the two paths can never
@@ -1002,7 +986,7 @@ type daemonAPI struct {
 	getTrace         func() *loop.TickTrace
 	getMorningStatus func(ctx context.Context) []ipc.MorningRoutineStatus
 	getDayPlan       func(ctx context.Context) ipc.DayPlan
-	chatFn           func(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) string
+	chatFn           func(ctx context.Context, text string) string
 	getMCPServers    func() []ipc.MCPServerStatus
 	getEvents        func(n int) []ipc.IntakeEvent
 }
@@ -1018,11 +1002,11 @@ func (d *daemonAPI) RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]ipc.IntakeEvent,
 	return d.getEvents(n), nil
 }
 
-func (d *daemonAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) (string, error) {
+func (d *daemonAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, text string) (string, error) {
 	if d.chatFn == nil {
 		return "", errors.New("mavend: chat not available")
 	}
-	return d.chatFn(ctx, conversation, text), nil
+	return d.chatFn(ctx, text), nil
 }
 
 // MCPServers — the configured MCP servers and their health (Vikunja #251).

cmd/mavend/voice.go

@@ -220,9 +220,9 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) upgradeAPI(api ipc.CoreAPI) {
 // 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.
-func (h *reactiveHandler) handleText(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) string {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) handleText(ctx context.Context, text string) string {
 	log.Printf("voice: handleText: %q", text)
-	return h.runTurn(withDialogueID(ctx, dialogueIDFor(sourceText, conversation)), text, sourceText)
+	return h.runTurn(ctx, text, sourceText)
 }
 
 // turnSource — which channel this utterance arrived on, in the same provenance
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) runTurn(ctx context.Context, text string, src turnSour
 	// early. He can be asked a question, walk off, come back and say "да" to a
 	// confirm that is still parked; computing the notice after that return meant
 	// he answered the confirm and never heard that the older request was let go.
-	expiredNotice := h.clarifyExpiredNotice(ctx)
+	expiredNotice := h.clarifyExpiredNotice()
 
 	// 2. confirm turn — if a destructive act is parked, this utterance is its
 	// y/n answer, not a fresh command. Handled before routing so "да" doesn't
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ 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 question, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, dec); asked {
+		if question, asked := h.askClarify(dec); asked {
 			return withNotice(expiredNotice, question)
 		}
 	}

cmd/mavend/voicewire.go

@@ -380,11 +380,6 @@ func buildRouter(emb router.Embedder, acts router.ActMatcher, threshold float64,
 	// is an agenda question and must not.
 	grammars = append(grammars, router.AgendaQueryGrammars()...)
 	grammars = append(grammars, router.ReminderGrammar())
-	// Last, and it matches any utterance shape — its Build is the filter. An
-	// explicit capture marker beats the model, which called it an act and
-	// rewrote the task text (Vikunja #467). After the rules above because a
-	// marker never collides with a clock or agenda question.
-	grammars = append(grammars, router.TaskCaptureGrammar())
 	return router.New(router.Config{
 		Grammars:   grammars,
 		Classifier: cls,
@@ -398,34 +393,11 @@ func buildRouter(emb router.Embedder, acts router.ActMatcher, threshold float64,
 	})
 }
 
-// seedDir is the directory containing intent seed files, relative to the repo
-// root. Each file is named <intent>.txt and holds one training example per
-// line (blank lines and lines starting with # are ignored).
+// seedDir is the directory containing intent seed files. Each file is named
+// <intent>.txt and contains one training example per line (blank lines and
+// lines starting with # are ignored). Relative to the working directory.
 const seedDir = "models/seeds"
 
-// seedPath resolves seedDir against the working directory, walking up until it
-// finds it. The daemon runs from the repo root and the first candidate hits.
-//
-// A test does not: `go test ./cmd/mavend/` runs with the working directory at
-// cmd/mavend, so every open failed and the simulator scenarios replayed a whole
-// scripted day against a classifier holding zero examples (Vikunja #465). They
-// passed, which is the part that matters — a green simulator was not exercising
-// the routing the deploy runs, and a regression in the seed set could not have
-// shown up there.
-//
-// Bounded at five levels, so a daemon started somewhere without the seeds logs
-// the same failure it always did rather than walking to the filesystem root.
-func seedPath() string {
-	dir := seedDir
-	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
-		if st, err := os.Stat(dir); err == nil && st.IsDir() {
-			return dir
-		}
-		dir = filepath.Join("..", dir)
-	}
-	return seedDir
-}
-
 // seedClassifier floors the embedded examples so the cold-boot path
 // doesn't return ErrNoIntents. Loads examples from seedDir — one file per
 // intent (act.txt, reminder.txt, fact.txt, note.txt, query.txt). When the
@@ -450,11 +422,11 @@ func seedClassifier(c *router.Classifier) {
 		}
 		total += n
 	}
-	log.Printf("voice: loaded %d seed examples from %s", total, seedPath())
+	log.Printf("voice: loaded %d seed examples from %s", total, seedDir)
 }
 
 func loadSeedFile(c *router.Classifier, intent router.Intent) (int, error) {
-	path := filepath.Join(seedPath(), string(intent)+".txt")
+	path := filepath.Join(seedDir, string(intent)+".txt")
 	f, err := os.Open(path)
 	if err != nil {
 		return 0, fmt.Errorf("open %s: %w", path, err)

cmd/mavend/weatherq.go

@@ -1,13 +1,10 @@
 // Package main — weatherq.go holds the weather-query keyword helpers: does
-// this utterance ask about weather at all, and which place (if any) did he
-// name. Both are plain keyword matching, not NLU — extend this file rather
-// than voice.go for anything in that shape.
+// this utterance ask about weather at all, and which city (if any) did it
+// name. Both are plain substring/lookup matching, not NLU — extend this file
+// rather than voice.go for anything in that shape.
 package main
 
-import (
-	"regexp"
-	"strings"
-)
+import "strings"
 
 // isWeatherQuery returns true if the utterance is about weather.
 func isWeatherQuery(u string) bool {
@@ -22,49 +19,40 @@ func isWeatherQuery(u string) bool {
 		strings.Contains(lower, "temperature")
 }
 
-// weatherPlace — the place he named, after "в"/"во"/"in". One or two words,
-// letters and dashes only, so "в Нижнем Новгороде" and "in New York" both
-// come through whole and "в 5 утра" does not.
-var weatherPlace = regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)(?:^|\s)(?:в|во|in)\s+([\p{L}-]+(?:\s+[\p{L}-]+)?)`)
-
-// weatherNonPlaces — words that follow "в" in a weather question and are not
-// cities. "какая погода в доме" is the smart-home sensor, not Open-Meteo, and
-// "тепло в комнате" is the same question about the same room.
-var weatherNonPlaces = map[string]bool{
-	"доме": true, "квартире": true, "комнате": true, "спальне": true,
-	"гостиной": true, "кухне": true, "гараже": true, "офисе": true,
-	"выходные": true, "субботу": true, "воскресенье": true, "понедельник": true,
-	"вторник": true, "среду": true, "четверг": true, "пятницу": true,
-	"обед": true, "обеде": true, "утро": true, "утром": true, "вечер": true,
-	"вечером": true, "ночь": true, "ночью": true, "целом": true, "принципе": true,
+// weatherCities — the city names an utterance may name explicitly, as
+// lowercase substrings mapped to the provider's spelling. This is a
+// convenience for "какая погода в Лондоне", NOT a source of default truth:
+// nothing here is used unless he actually said it.
+var weatherCities = map[string]string{
+	"москв":    "Moscow",
+	"moscow":   "Moscow",
+	"питер":    "Saint Petersburg",
+	"spb":      "Saint Petersburg",
+	"петербур": "Saint Petersburg",
+	"лондон":   "London",
+	"london":   "London",
+	"париж":    "Paris",
+	"paris":    "Paris",
+	"берлин":   "Berlin",
+	"berlin":   "Berlin",
+	"нью-йорк": "New York",
+	"new york": "New York",
 }
 
-// extractWeatherLocation returns the place he named, or the configured default
+// extractWeatherLocation returns the city he named, or the configured default
 // when he named none. It returns "" when he named none AND no default is
 // configured — the caller must then say it does not know.
 //
-// It used to be a hand-written table of six cities in two spellings each
-// (Vikunja #421). Anything outside it — Kazan, Tbilisi — was dropped silently
-// and answered for the default location, which reads as a correct answer about
-// the wrong place. There is a geocoder behind this now: internal/weather
-// already calls Open-Meteo's geocoding endpoint for every lookup, so any place
-// it knows is a place he can ask about, and the table bought nothing.
-//
-// A named place that the geocoder cannot resolve is the caller's problem to
-// report, not this function's to hide.
-//
-// It used to return "Moscow" when he named nothing. That is a made-up answer
-// presented as fact. voice.weather.default_location is the only source of an
-// unstated location.
+// It used to return "Moscow" in that case. That is a made-up answer presented
+// as fact: reading out Moscow's temperature to someone who is not in Moscow is
+// wrong in exactly the way maven must never be wrong. voice.weather
+// .default_location is the only source of an unstated location.
 func extractWeatherLocation(u, defaultLoc string) string {
-	m := weatherPlace.FindStringSubmatch(u)
-	if m == nil {
-		return defaultLoc
+	lower := strings.ToLower(u)
+	for substr, name := range weatherCities {
+		if strings.Contains(lower, substr) {
+			return name
+		}
 	}
-	place := strings.TrimSpace(m[1])
-	first := strings.ToLower(strings.Fields(place)[0])
-	if weatherNonPlaces[first] {
-		return defaultLoc
-	}
-	return place
+	return defaultLoc
 }

cmd/mavend/weatherq_test.go

@@ -1,33 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import "testing"
-
-// TestExtractWeatherLocation — any place he names comes through, not just the
-// six that used to be in a table (Vikunja #421).
-func TestExtractWeatherLocation(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := []struct {
-		utterance string
-		def       string
-		want      string
-	}{
-		// The cities the table had, and the ones it silently dropped.
-		{"какая погода в Москве", "Berlin", "Москве"},
-		{"какая погода в Казани", "Berlin", "Казани"},
-		{"погода в Тбилиси?", "Berlin", "Тбилиси"},
-		{"what's the weather in New York", "Berlin", "New York"},
-		{"тепло в Нижнем Новгороде?", "Berlin", "Нижнем Новгороде"},
-		// He named nothing: the configured default, and nothing at all when
-		// there is no default.
-		{"какая сегодня погода", "Berlin", "Berlin"},
-		{"какая сегодня погода", "", ""},
-		// "в" followed by something that is not a place stays the default —
-		// the house sensors and the day words answer elsewhere.
-		{"тепло в комнате?", "Berlin", "Berlin"},
-		{"какая погода в выходные", "Berlin", "Berlin"},
-	}
-	for _, c := range cases {
-		if got := extractWeatherLocation(c.utterance, c.def); got != c.want {
-			t.Errorf("extractWeatherLocation(%q, %q) = %q, want %q", c.utterance, c.def, got, c.want)
-		}
-	}
-}

cmd/mavend/worldmodel.go

@@ -23,7 +23,11 @@ type worldPhraser interface {
 // question about his meeting came back as a swimming competition in Nottingham.
 // Naming the gap is the rule CLAUDE.md already applies to a sibling service
 // being down.
-const worldGap = "сейчас не могу ответить — большая модель недоступна, а придумывать не хочу."
+//
+// The wording lives in fallbacks_ru_v1.json and is fixed there, not picked from
+// variants: this sentence names one specific gap and must not drift into a
+// general "I don't know".
+func worldGap() string { return phraser.WorldGap() }
 
 // phraseWorld asks the world model, or reports the gap.
 //
@@ -54,7 +58,11 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) phraseSource(ctx context.Context, name, utterance stri
 		log.Printf("voice: %s: no world model, reading the source back instead", name)
 		return ""
 	case err != nil:
+		// The resident phraser answers this call with its fallback text and the
+		// error together. Drop the text: these callers hold the passage itself
+		// and read it back better than "вот что я нашла: <passage>" does.
 		log.Printf("voice: %s: phrase: %v", name, err)
+		return ""
 	}
 	return reply
 }

cmd/mavend/worldmodel_test.go

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ func TestQueryGeneralNamesTheGap(t *testing.T) {
 	if !ok {
 		t.Fatal("queryGeneral passed on the last source in the chain")
 	}
-	if reply != worldGap {
+	if reply != worldGap() {
 		t.Fatalf("reply = %q, want the named gap", reply)
 	}
 	if g.worldCalls != 1 {
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ func TestQueryGeneralWithoutAWorldModelIsUnchanged(t *testing.T) {
 	if !ok {
 		t.Fatal("queryGeneral passed on the last source in the chain")
 	}
-	if reply != "не знаю." {
+	if !phraser.IsUnknownFallback(reply) {
 		t.Fatalf("reply = %q, want the Stub's answer", reply)
 	}
 }
@@ -61,12 +61,12 @@ func TestQueryGeneralWithoutAWorldModelIsUnchanged(t *testing.T) {
 // English in it.
 func TestWorldGapIsInPersona(t *testing.T) {
 	for _, bad := range []string{"вы", "ваш", "рад ", "дорогой", "милый"} {
-		if strings.Contains(worldGap, bad) {
-			t.Errorf("the gap phrase contains %q: %s", bad, worldGap)
+		if strings.Contains(worldGap(), bad) {
+			t.Errorf("the gap phrase contains %q: %s", bad, worldGap())
 		}
 	}
-	if strings.ContainsAny(worldGap, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") {
-		t.Errorf("the gap phrase has Latin letters in it: %s", worldGap)
+	if strings.ContainsAny(worldGap(), "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") {
+		t.Errorf("the gap phrase has Latin letters in it: %s", worldGap())
 	}
 }
 

cmd/mavgpud/runner.go

@@ -24,12 +24,7 @@ type runner struct {
 	mu    sync.Mutex
 	cmd   *exec.Cmd
 	ready bool
-	// yielding — stop() has sent the signal and the exit that follows is ours.
-	// llama-server aborts on SIGTERM (its static teardown throws, upstream
-	// ggml-org/llama.cpp), so a routine yield and a real crash produce the same
-	// "signal: aborted" and used to log identically (Vikunja #491).
-	yielding bool
-	http     *http.Client
+	http  *http.Client
 }
 
 func newRunner(bin string, args []string, readyURL string) *runner {
@@ -75,18 +70,13 @@ func (r *runner) start() error {
 	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	r.cmd, r.ready, r.yielding = cmd, false, false
+	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()
-		yielded := r.yielding
-		r.cmd, r.ready, r.yielding = nil, false, false
+		r.cmd, r.ready = nil, false
 		r.mu.Unlock()
-		if yielded {
-			log.Printf("mavgpud: llama-server stopped, card yielded (%v)", err)
-			return
-		}
 		log.Printf("mavgpud: llama-server exited: %v", err)
 	}()
 	return nil
@@ -100,10 +90,6 @@ func (r *runner) stop(grace time.Duration) {
 	r.mu.Lock()
 	cmd := r.cmd
 	r.ready = false
-	if cmd != nil && cmd.Process != nil {
-		// The exit that follows is ours, not a crash.
-		r.yielding = true
-	}
 	r.mu.Unlock()
 	if cmd == nil || cmd.Process == nil {
 		return

cmd/mavgpud/runner_test.go

@@ -1,59 +0,0 @@
-package main
-
-import (
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-	"testing"
-	"time"
-)
-
-// fakeServer writes an executable standing in for llama-server: it ignores
-// SIGTERM the way the real one effectively does — by dying messily rather than
-// cleanly — and reports a non-zero status.
-func fakeServer(t *testing.T, body string) string {
-	t.Helper()
-	path := filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "fake-llama-server")
-	if err := os.WriteFile(path, []byte("#!/bin/sh\n"+body+"\n"), 0o755); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	return path
-}
-
-// A deliberate stop is a yield, and the log has to say so.
-//
-// llama-server aborts inside its own static teardown on SIGTERM, so the exit
-// status of a routine yield is identical to that of a real crash. Reading the
-// mavgpud log, the two were indistinguishable (Vikunja #491).
-func TestStopMarksTheExitAsAYield(t *testing.T) {
-	r := newRunner(fakeServer(t, "while : ; do sleep 1 ; done"), nil, "")
-	if err := r.start(); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("start: %v", err)
-	}
-	r.mu.Lock()
-	if r.yielding {
-		t.Error("a freshly started server is already marked as yielding")
-	}
-	r.mu.Unlock()
-
-	r.stop(2 * time.Second)
-	deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second)
-	for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
-		if !r.running() {
-			return
-		}
-		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
-	}
-	t.Fatal("the child outlived stop")
-}
-
-// Stopping when nothing is running must not arm the flag for the next child.
-// The next exit after that would be a real crash logged as a yield.
-func TestStopWithNoChildDoesNotArmTheFlag(t *testing.T) {
-	r := newRunner("/nonexistent", nil, "")
-	r.stop(10 * time.Millisecond)
-	r.mu.Lock()
-	defer r.mu.Unlock()
-	if r.yielding {
-		t.Error("stop armed the yield flag with no child running")
-	}
-}

cmd/mavweb/handlers_test.go

@@ -54,9 +54,7 @@ type fakeCore struct {
 	revertErr   error
 
 	// for handleNotifications tests
-	nudgesErr     error
-	attempts      []ipc.DeliveryAttempt
-	attemptStatus string
+	nudgesErr error
 
 	// for handleHistory tests
 	historyFacts []ipc.Fact
@@ -79,7 +77,7 @@ func (f *fakeCore) MCPServers(context.Context) ([]ipc.MCPServerStatus, error) {
 	return f.mcpServers, f.mcpErr
 }
 
-func (f *fakeCore) Chat(_ context.Context, _, text string) (string, error) {
+func (f *fakeCore) Chat(_ context.Context, text string) (string, error) {
 	f.chatText = text
 	if f.chatErr != nil {
 		return "", f.chatErr
@@ -1253,35 +1251,3 @@ func TestHandleWS_AssertedSession_PassesGate(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("status = 403 on an asserted session; body=%s", rr.Body.String())
 	}
 }
-
-func (f *fakeCore) DeliveryAttempts(_ context.Context, status string, _ int) ([]ipc.DeliveryAttempt, error) {
-	f.attemptStatus = status
-	return f.attempts, nil
-}
-
-// TestHandleNotifications_ShowsTheOutbox — the outbox was written and never
-// read, so a dropped or failed send was invisible (Vikunja #390).
-func TestHandleNotifications_ShowsTheOutbox(t *testing.T) {
-	done := time.Date(2026, 8, 4, 9, 0, 30, 0, time.UTC)
-	core := &fakeCore{
-		attempts: []ipc.DeliveryAttempt{
-			{Kind: "nudge", Rule: "care-check", Channel: "telegram", Status: "dropped",
-				Created: done.Add(-30 * time.Second), Completed: &done},
-			{Kind: "reminder", ReminderID: 7, Channel: "voice", Status: "pending", Created: done},
-		},
-	}
-	rr := httptest.NewRecorder()
-	handleNotifications(rr, httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodGet, "/notifications?status=dropped", nil), core)
-	if rr.Code != http.StatusOK {
-		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want 200; body=%s", rr.Code, rr.Body.String())
-	}
-	if core.attemptStatus != "dropped" {
-		t.Errorf("status filter = %q, want it passed through", core.attemptStatus)
-	}
-	body := rr.Body.String()
-	for _, want := range []string{"care-check", "dropped", "reminder #7", "Delivery outbox"} {
-		if !strings.Contains(body, want) {
-			t.Errorf("rendered outbox missing %q", want)
-		}
-	}
-}

cmd/mavweb/main.go

@@ -893,59 +893,12 @@ func handleNotifications(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, core ipc.CoreAP
 		http.Error(w, "notifications error: "+err.Error(), http.StatusBadGateway)
 		return
 	}
-	// The outbox, on the page that already answers "what did she send".
-	// A failed or dropped attempt is why she went quiet, and until now it was
-	// recorded and unreadable (Vikunja #390). Filter with ?status=dropped.
-	status := r.URL.Query().Get("status")
-	attempts, err := core.DeliveryAttempts(ctx, status, 50)
-	if err != nil {
-		// The nudge list is still worth showing, so this is a note on the page
-		// rather than a dead page.
-		log.Printf("notifications: delivery attempts: %v", err)
-	}
 	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8")
-	if err := notificationsTmpl.Execute(w, map[string]any{
-		"Nudges":   nudges,
-		"Attempts": deliveryRows(attempts),
-		"Status":   status,
-	}); err != nil {
+	if err := notificationsTmpl.Execute(w, map[string]any{"Nudges": nudges}); err != nil {
 		log.Printf("notifications template: %v", err)
 	}
 }
 
-// deliveryRow is one outbox line, with every timestamp already formatted so
-// the template holds no date logic — same shape as taskRow.
-type deliveryRow struct {
-	Kind      string
-	Target    string
-	Channel   string
-	Status    string
-	Created   string
-	Completed string
-}
-
-func deliveryRows(as []ipc.DeliveryAttempt) []deliveryRow {
-	out := make([]deliveryRow, 0, len(as))
-	for _, a := range as {
-		target := a.Rule
-		if target == "" && a.ReminderID != 0 {
-			target = "reminder #" + strconv.FormatInt(a.ReminderID, 10)
-		}
-		row := deliveryRow{
-			Kind:    a.Kind,
-			Target:  target,
-			Channel: a.Channel,
-			Status:  a.Status,
-			Created: a.Created.Format("02.01 15:04"),
-		}
-		if a.Completed != nil {
-			row.Completed = a.Completed.Format("15:04")
-		}
-		out = append(out, row)
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
 func handleReminders(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, core ipc.CoreAPI) {
 	if core == nil {
 		http.Error(w, "reminders disabled (no -core)", http.StatusServiceUnavailable)
@@ -1725,13 +1678,7 @@ func handleChatAPI(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, core ipc.CoreAPI, ses
 		http.Redirect(w, r, "/chat", http.StatusSeeOther)
 		return
 	}
-	// One conversation id for the whole web chat, and a different one from
-	// telegram or the mic. A parked question belongs to the reach that was
-	// asked; before this, a clarify nobody answered on the web ate the next
-	// utterance spoken at the mic (Vikunja #466). This server has no
-	// per-browser session, so every browser tab is the same conversation —
-	// which is right for a single-owner box.
-	reply, err := core.Chat(r.Context(), "web", text)
+	reply, err := core.Chat(r.Context(), text)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("chat api: %v", err)
 		http.Redirect(w, r, "/chat", http.StatusSeeOther)

cmd/mavweb/notifications.html

@@ -14,27 +14,5 @@
   <div>no notifications yet</div>
   <div class=hint>check back later or ask maven a question</div>
 </div>{{end}}
-<h2>Delivery outbox</h2>
-<p class=hint>
-  every send is recorded before it leaves, so a failure is visible rather than silent.
-  <a href="/notifications">all</a> ·
-  <a href="/notifications?status=dropped">dropped</a> ·
-  <a href="/notifications?status=failed">failed</a> ·
-  <a href="/notifications?status=pending">pending</a> ·
-  <a href="/notifications?status=unknown">unknown</a>
-</p>
-{{if .Attempts}}<div class=scroll><table>
-<tr><th>started</th><th>kind</th><th>rule</th><th>channel</th><th>status</th><th>finished</th></tr>
-{{range .Attempts}}<tr>
-<td class=hint>{{.Created}}</td>
-<td>{{.Kind}}</td>
-<td class=key>{{.Target}}</td>
-<td><span class=badge>{{.Channel}}</span></td>
-<td class={{.Status}}>{{.Status}}</td>
-<td class=hint>{{.Completed}}</td>
-</tr>{{end}}</table></div>
-{{else}}<div class=empty>
-  <div>no delivery attempts{{if .Status}} with status {{.Status}}{{end}}</div>
-</div>{{end}}
 {{template "shellBottom"}}
 </html>

deploy/mavgpud.service

@@ -19,10 +19,6 @@ RestartSec=5
 # llama-server on SIGTERM, so give it longer than stop_grace to do that.
 KillSignal=SIGTERM
 TimeoutStopSec=60
-# llama-server aborts inside its own static teardown on SIGTERM, so every
-# routine yield used to write a multi-gigabyte core into systemd-coredump
-# (Vikunja #491). Yielding is meant to happen several times a day.
-LimitCORE=0
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=default.target

internal/auth/auth_test.go

@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ func TestGate_IpcServer_CheckWiredThroughSocket(t *testing.T) {
 	if fake.writes != 0 {
 		t.Errorf("auth refused but CoreAPI was called %d time(s); refused calls must not reach CoreAPI", fake.writes)
 	}
-	_, err = cli.Chat(context.Background(), "web", "привет")
+	_, err = cli.Chat(context.Background(), "привет")
 	if !errors.Is(err, ipc.ErrForbidden) {
 		t.Errorf("wire: chat from unenrolled uid = %v; want ipc.ErrForbidden", err)
 	}
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ func TestGate_IpcServer_ChatAllowedForEnrolledCaller(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("dial: %v", err)
 	}
 	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = cli.Close() })
-	reply, err := cli.Chat(context.Background(), "web", "привет")
+	reply, err := cli.Chat(context.Background(), "привет")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Chat: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ func (r *recordingAPI) WriteFact(_ context.Context, _ ipc.WriteFactReq) (int64,
 	return int64(r.writes), nil
 }
 
-func (r *recordingAPI) Chat(_ context.Context, _, text string) (string, error) {
+func (r *recordingAPI) Chat(_ context.Context, text string) (string, error) {
 	r.chats++
 	return "echo: " + text, nil
 }

internal/calendar/calendar.go

@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
-	"unicode"
 )
 
 // Fact sources. A calendar event reaches the store as a
@@ -154,20 +153,14 @@ func Overlapping(events []Event, from, to time.Time) []Event {
 	return out
 }
 
-// safeKey makes a summary safe to use inside a fact key: letters and digits in
-// any script, plus dashes, with space and underscore folded to a dash.
-//
-// It kept ASCII only until 04-08-2026, and dropped everything else. His
-// calendar is Russian, so "Встреча с Аней" and "Обед с мамой" both reduced to
-// "--" and produced the same key on the same day — the second event of the day
-// silently overwrote the first (Vikunja #443). Letting the letters through is
-// what makes the key identify the event. Migration #18 drops the keys written
-// under the old rule; they are re-derived on the next poll.
+// safeKey makes a summary safe to use inside a fact key (ASCII alphanumerics
+// and dashes). Non-Latin summaries collapse to their punctuation, which is why
+// the day prefix carries the identity and this only disambiguates within a day.
 func safeKey(s string) string {
 	var b strings.Builder
 	for _, r := range s {
 		switch {
-		case unicode.IsLetter(r) || unicode.IsDigit(r) || r == '-':
+		case (r >= 'a' && r <= 'z') || (r >= 'A' && r <= 'Z') || (r >= '0' && r <= '9') || r == '-':
 			b.WriteRune(r)
 		case r == ' ' || r == '_':
 			b.WriteRune('-')

internal/calendar/calendar_test.go

@@ -139,9 +139,6 @@ func TestSafeKey(t *testing.T) {
 		{"Hello_World", "Hello-World"},
 		{"special@#$chars!!", "specialchars"},
 		{"ALL_CAPS_123", "ALL-CAPS-123"},
-		// His calendar is Russian. These reduced to "--" and "--" (Vikunja #443).
-		{"Встреча с Аней", "Встреча-с-Аней"},
-		{"Обед с мамой", "Обед-с-мамой"},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		if got := safeKey(tt.in); got != tt.want {
@@ -266,19 +263,3 @@ func TestSourceTrust(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("Sources() = %v", Sources())
 	}
 }
-
-// Two Russian events on one day must not share a key. They did: safeKey kept
-// ASCII only, so both summaries collapsed to their spaces and the second event
-// overwrote the first in the store (Vikunja #443).
-func TestFactKeyDistinguishesRussianEventsOnOneDay(t *testing.T) {
-	day := time.Date(2026, 8, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
-	a := Event{Summary: "Встреча с Аней", Start: day.Add(10 * time.Hour), End: day.Add(11 * time.Hour)}
-	b := Event{Summary: "Обед с мамой", Start: day.Add(13 * time.Hour), End: day.Add(14 * time.Hour)}
-	if FactKeyIn(a, time.UTC) == FactKeyIn(b, time.UTC) {
-		t.Fatalf("both events keyed as %q", FactKeyIn(a, time.UTC))
-	}
-	// The day prefix still has to survive, because the store range-scans on it.
-	if !strings.HasPrefix(FactKeyIn(a, time.UTC), KeyPrefixForDay(day)) {
-		t.Fatalf("key %q lost the day prefix %q", FactKeyIn(a, time.UTC), KeyPrefixForDay(day))
-	}
-}

internal/config/config.go

@@ -601,9 +601,6 @@ type MorningRoutineItemConfig struct {
 	Key     string `json:"key"`
 	FactKey string `json:"fact_key"`
 	Label   string `json:"label"`
-	// Optional — this one being skipped does not earn a nudge. Default false,
-	// so a routine written before 04-08-2026 keeps behaving as it did.
-	Optional bool `json:"optional,omitempty"`
 }
 
 // QuietHoursConfig — a recurring daily quiet-window. Times are local to the
@@ -1737,7 +1734,7 @@ func morningRoutinesFromConfig(mc []MorningRoutineConfig) []morning.Routine {
 	for i, r := range mc {
 		items := make([]morning.Item, len(r.Items))
 		for j, it := range r.Items {
-			items[j] = morning.Item{Key: it.Key, FactKey: it.FactKey, Label: it.Label, Optional: it.Optional}
+			items[j] = morning.Item{Key: it.Key, FactKey: it.FactKey, Label: it.Label}
 		}
 		weekdays := make([]time.Weekday, len(r.Weekdays))
 		for j, w := range r.Weekdays {

internal/ipc/api.go

@@ -60,19 +60,6 @@ type Nudge struct {
 	OutcomeTs *int64    `json:"outcome_ts,omitempty"`
 }
 
-// DeliveryAttempt — one row of the delivery outbox. Times are formatted by the
-// reader; Completed is nil while the attempt is still pending.
-type DeliveryAttempt struct {
-	ID         int64      `json:"id"`
-	Kind       string     `json:"kind"`
-	Rule       string     `json:"rule,omitempty"`
-	ReminderID int64      `json:"reminder_id,omitempty"`
-	Channel    string     `json:"channel"`
-	Status     string     `json:"status"`
-	Created    time.Time  `json:"created"`
-	Completed  *time.Time `json:"completed,omitempty"`
-}
-
 // Note — a recall/preference item; ranked by embedding cosine on query.
 // Score is set by QueryNotes (0 on the write path).
 type Note struct {
@@ -534,12 +521,6 @@ type outcomesReq struct {
 type nReq struct {
 	N int `json:"n"`
 }
-
-// deliveryAttemptsReq — the outbox read. Status is empty for every status.
-type deliveryAttemptsReq struct {
-	Status string `json:"status,omitempty"`
-	N      int    `json:"n"`
-}
 type kindNReq struct {
 	Kind string `json:"kind"`
 	N    int    `json:"n"`
@@ -612,14 +593,8 @@ type MCPServerStatus struct {
 }
 
 // chatReq / chatResp — text chat round-trip for the IPC Chat method.
-//
-// Conversation names the thread this utterance belongs to: a mavweb session, a
-// telegram chat. It is opaque to the daemon and only has to be stable for one
-// conversation and distinct across them. Empty is allowed and means "the
-// unattributed text tap", which is what an old client sends.
 type chatReq struct {
-	Text         string `json:"text"`
-	Conversation string `json:"conversation,omitempty"`
+	Text string `json:"text"`
 }
 type chatResp struct {
 	Reply string `json:"reply"`
@@ -704,9 +679,6 @@ type CoreAPI interface {
 	RecentActiveFactsByKind(ctx context.Context, kind string, n int) ([]Fact, error)
 	CalendarEvents(ctx context.Context, from, to time.Time) ([]Fact, error)
 	RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Nudge, error)
-	// DeliveryAttempts reads the outbox, newest first. An empty status means
-	// every status (Vikunja #390).
-	DeliveryAttempts(ctx context.Context, status string, n int) ([]DeliveryAttempt, error)
 
 	// RecentEcosystemTraces reads the ecosystem call log, which lives in its
 	// own table so machine-rate traces never crowd out human-rate facts.
@@ -787,12 +759,7 @@ type CoreAPI interface {
 	// Chat routes a text utterance through the reactive handler's core path
 	// (router → dialogue → action → replier) and returns the reply text.
 	// No audio or stt/tts — for text channels (mavweb, telegram).
-	//
-	// conversation names the thread. A parked clarifying question is held per
-	// conversation, so an unanswered question on one reach cannot eat the next
-	// utterance from another (Vikunja #466). Empty means the unattributed text
-	// tap and is still one conversation of its own, separate from the mic.
-	Chat(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) (string, error)
+	Chat(ctx context.Context, text string) (string, error)
 
 	// RecentEvents returns the daemon's unified intake journal, newest first
 	// (Vikunja #283) — one envelope per thing that arrived, whatever direction

internal/ipc/client.go

@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ var readOnlyMethods = map[Method]bool{
 	MethodRecentActiveFacts:     true,
 	MethodCalendarEvents:        true,
 	MethodRecentNudges:          true,
-	MethodDeliveryAttempts:      true,
 	MethodRecentEcoTraces:       true,
 	MethodQueryNotes:            true,
 	MethodRecentNotes:           true,
@@ -374,14 +373,6 @@ func (c *Client) RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemT
 	return out, nil
 }
 
-func (c *Client) DeliveryAttempts(ctx context.Context, status string, n int) ([]DeliveryAttempt, error) {
-	var out []DeliveryAttempt
-	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodDeliveryAttempts, deliveryAttemptsReq{Status: status, N: n}, &out); err != nil {
-		return nil, err
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
 func (c *Client) RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Nudge, error) {
 	var out []Nudge
 	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodRecentNudges, nReq{N: n}, &out); err != nil {
@@ -632,9 +623,9 @@ func (c *Client) AcceptProposedRoutine(ctx context.Context, id int64) error {
 	return c.call(ctx, MethodAcceptProposedRoutine, acceptProposedRoutineReq{ID: id}, nil)
 }
 
-func (c *Client) Chat(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) (string, error) {
+func (c *Client) Chat(ctx context.Context, text string) (string, error) {
 	var r chatResp
-	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodChat, chatReq{Text: text, Conversation: conversation}, &r); err != nil {
+	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodChat, chatReq{Text: text}, &r); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	return r.Reply, nil

internal/ipc/ipc_test.go

@@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ func TestChatViaClient(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = cli.Close() })
 
-	reply, err := cli.Chat(context.Background(), "web", "привет")
+	reply, err := cli.Chat(context.Background(), "привет")
 	if err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("Chat: %v", err)
 	}
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ type chatTestAPI struct {
 	UnimplementedCoreAPI
 }
 
-func (a *chatTestAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, _, text string) (string, error) {
+func (a *chatTestAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, text string) (string, error) {
 	if text == "привет" {
 		return "и тебе привет!", nil
 	}

internal/ipc/server.go

@@ -173,25 +173,6 @@ func (a *storeAPI) RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Nudge, error) {
 	return out, nil
 }
 
-func (a *storeAPI) DeliveryAttempts(ctx context.Context, status string, n int) ([]DeliveryAttempt, error) {
-	as, err := a.s.ListDeliveryAttempts(ctx, status, n)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]DeliveryAttempt, len(as))
-	for i, at := range as {
-		out[i] = DeliveryAttempt{
-			ID: at.ID, Kind: at.Kind, Rule: at.Rule, ReminderID: at.ReminderID,
-			Channel: at.Channel, Status: at.Status, Created: at.Created,
-		}
-		if at.HasComplete {
-			t := at.Completed
-			out[i].Completed = &t
-		}
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
 func (a *storeAPI) WriteNote(ctx context.Context, ts time.Time, text string, embedding []float32, source string) (int64, error) {
 	id, err := a.s.WriteNote(ctx, ts, text, embedding, source)
 	return id, mapErr(err)
@@ -259,7 +240,7 @@ func (a *storeAPI) RevertFact(ctx context.Context, key string) (int64, error) {
 	return newID, mapErr(err)
 }
 
-func (a *storeAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) (string, error) {
+func (a *storeAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, text string) (string, error) {
 	return "", errors.New("store: chat not available via direct store API")
 }
 
@@ -882,16 +863,6 @@ var methodTable = map[Method]handlerFunc{
 		}
 		return out, nil
 	}),
-	MethodDeliveryAttempts: withParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI, p deliveryAttemptsReq) ([]DeliveryAttempt, error) {
-		out, err := api.DeliveryAttempts(ctx, p.Status, p.N)
-		if err != nil {
-			return nil, err
-		}
-		if out == nil {
-			out = []DeliveryAttempt{}
-		}
-		return out, nil
-	}),
 	MethodRecentNudges: withParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI, p nReq) ([]Nudge, error) {
 		out, err := api.RecentNudges(ctx, p.N)
 		if err != nil {
@@ -1003,7 +974,7 @@ var methodTable = map[Method]handlerFunc{
 		return map[string]int64{"new_id": newID}, nil
 	}),
 	MethodChat: withParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI, p chatReq) (chatResp, error) {
-		reply, err := api.Chat(ctx, p.Conversation, p.Text)
+		reply, err := api.Chat(ctx, p.Text)
 		return chatResp{Reply: reply}, err
 	}),
 	MethodTickTrace: withoutParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI) (TickTrace, error) {

internal/ipc/unimplemented.go

@@ -68,9 +68,6 @@ func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) RecentActiveFactsByKind(ctx context.Context, kind st
 func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) CalendarEvents(ctx context.Context, from, to time.Time) ([]Fact, error) {
 	return nil, ErrNotImplemented
 }
-func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) DeliveryAttempts(ctx context.Context, status string, n int) ([]DeliveryAttempt, error) {
-	return nil, ErrNotImplemented
-}
 func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Nudge, error) {
 	return nil, ErrNotImplemented
 }
@@ -144,6 +141,6 @@ func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]MCPServerStatus,
 func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) DayPlan(ctx context.Context) (DayPlan, error) {
 	return DayPlan{}, ErrNotImplemented
 }
-func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) (string, error) {
+func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, text string) (string, error) {
 	return "", ErrNotImplemented
 }

internal/ipc/wire.go

@@ -28,7 +28,6 @@ const (
 	MethodRecentActiveFacts      Method = "recent_active_facts_by_kind"
 	MethodCalendarEvents         Method = "calendar_events"
 	MethodRecentNudges           Method = "recent_nudges"
-	MethodDeliveryAttempts       Method = "delivery_attempts"
 	MethodRecentEcoTraces        Method = "recent_ecosystem_traces"
 	MethodWriteNote              Method = "write_note"
 	MethodQueryNotes             Method = "query_notes"

internal/memory/recalleval/recalleval.go

@@ -90,44 +90,9 @@ func Load() (Fixture, error) {
 	if len(f.Cases) == 0 {
 		return Fixture{}, fmt.Errorf("fixture has no cases")
 	}
-	if err := checkIDs(f); err != nil {
-		return Fixture{}, err
-	}
 	return f, nil
 }
 
-// checkIDs refuses a fixture where a case note and a filler note share an id.
-//
-// Every case is scored over its own notes plus the whole filler set, and the
-// two stores disagree about what a repeated id means: the sqlite store upserts
-// on it, the in-memory store appends. So one collision makes a case score
-// differently on the two backends, and it reads as an embedder or gate
-// difference, which is the one thing this harness exists to measure (Vikunja
-// #386). It was dodged once by hand during #373 by renaming two ids.
-//
-// Checked in Load rather than in the test, so every caller of the fixture is
-// covered and not only the one that remembers to look.
-func checkIDs(f Fixture) error {
-	filler := make(map[string]bool, len(f.Filler))
-	for _, n := range f.Filler {
-		if n.ID == "" {
-			return fmt.Errorf("filler note with an empty id")
-		}
-		if filler[n.ID] {
-			return fmt.Errorf("duplicate filler note id %q", n.ID)
-		}
-		filler[n.ID] = true
-	}
-	for _, c := range f.Cases {
-		for _, n := range c.Notes {
-			if filler[n.ID] {
-				return fmt.Errorf("case %s: note id %q collides with a filler note", c.ID, n.ID)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-	return nil
-}
-
 // NewStore builds an empty store for one case, plus a function to release it.
 // A factory rather than a store because every case needs a clean index — notes
 // from case A must not be visible to case B's query.

internal/memory/recalleval/recalleval_test.go

@@ -337,28 +337,3 @@ func marginSweep(t *testing.T, emb router.Embedder, f Fixture) string {
 	}
 	return b.String()
 }
-
-// TestFillerIDCollisionIsRefused — the guard that keeps a fixture edit from
-// looking like a backend difference (Vikunja #386).
-func TestFillerIDCollisionIsRefused(t *testing.T) {
-	f := Fixture{
-		SchemaVersion: SchemaVersion,
-		Cases:         []Case{{ID: "ru-001", Notes: []StoredNote{{ID: "f1", Text: "..."}}}},
-		Filler:        []StoredNote{{ID: "f1", Text: "..."}},
-	}
-	if err := checkIDs(f); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a case note reusing a filler id must be refused")
-	}
-	f.Filler = append(f.Filler, StoredNote{ID: "f1", Text: "..."})
-	if err := checkIDs(Fixture{SchemaVersion: SchemaVersion, Filler: f.Filler}); err == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a duplicate filler id must be refused")
-	}
-	ok := Fixture{
-		SchemaVersion: SchemaVersion,
-		Cases:         []Case{{ID: "ru-001", Notes: []StoredNote{{ID: "n1", Text: "..."}}}},
-		Filler:        []StoredNote{{ID: "f1", Text: "..."}},
-	}
-	if err := checkIDs(ok); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("a clean fixture must pass: %v", err)
-	}
-}

internal/morning/morning.go

@@ -30,18 +30,6 @@ type Item struct {
 	Key     string
 	FactKey string
 	Label   string // RU text surfaced when this item is still missing.
-	// Optional — a missing one is not worth a nudge on its own.
-	//
-	// Every item was implicitly required until 04-08-2026, because there was
-	// no field, so a skipped stretch read exactly like skipped medication and
-	// #280's first behaviour could not hold (Vikunja #473). A checklist where
-	// everything is mandatory is a checklist he learns to ignore.
-	//
-	// It changes two things and nothing else: an all-optional routine never
-	// nudges, and a nudge that does fire names the optional stragglers after
-	// the required ones, in softer words. Evidence, the window and the day
-	// plan treat both kinds alike — a missing optional item is still missing.
-	Optional bool
 }
 
 // Routine — one daily checklist. WindowStart/WindowEnd are "HH:MM" local
@@ -72,37 +60,12 @@ type Status struct {
 }
 
 // Candidate — a routine that's due for its one-per-day nag: the window has
-// reached NudgeAt and at least one REQUIRED item is still unevidenced. Missing
-// carries the optional stragglers too, so the one message she is allowed per
-// day per routine can mention them; they never cause it.
+// reached NudgeAt and at least one item is still unevidenced.
 type Candidate struct {
 	Routine Routine
 	Missing []Item
 }
 
-// Required reports the missing items that are not optional. The nudge fires on
-// these; the rest ride along.
-func Required(missing []Item) []Item {
-	var out []Item
-	for _, it := range missing {
-		if !it.Optional {
-			out = append(out, it)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// OptionalOnly is the other half of Required.
-func OptionalOnly(missing []Item) []Item {
-	var out []Item
-	for _, it := range missing {
-		if it.Optional {
-			out = append(out, it)
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
 // Validate reports the first structural problem with a routine set: missing
 // name/items, an unparseable HH:MM, an inverted window, a duplicate item key
 // within a routine, or an out-of-range weekday. Called at config load so a
@@ -228,11 +191,7 @@ func Due(routines []Routine, facts map[string]store.Fact, last map[string]time.T
 				missing = append(missing, it)
 			}
 		}
-		// A day where only the optional items were skipped is a fine day, and
-		// nagging about it is what teaches him to stop listening (Vikunja
-		// #473). The optional ones still travel in Missing so the message can
-		// mention them when it is being sent anyway.
-		if len(Required(missing)) == 0 {
+		if len(missing) == 0 {
 			continue
 		}
 		if prev, seen := last[r.Name]; seen && sameDay(prev, now) {

internal/morning/morning_test.go

@@ -182,40 +182,3 @@ func TestDueRespectsExplicitNudgeAt(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("expected candidate at explicit nudge_at, got %d", len(out))
 	}
 }
-
-// TestOptionalItemsDoNotEarnANudge — behaviour 1 of #280, which could not hold
-// while every item was implicitly required (Vikunja #473).
-func TestOptionalItemsDoNotEarnANudge(t *testing.T) {
-	r := Routine{
-		Name:        "утро",
-		WindowStart: "07:00",
-		WindowEnd:   "10:00",
-		Items: []Item{
-			{Key: "meds", FactKey: "meds", Label: "таблетки"},
-			{Key: "stretch", FactKey: "stretch", Label: "растяжка", Optional: true},
-		},
-	}
-	now := time.Date(2026, 8, 4, 10, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
-	took := map[string]store.Fact{"meds": {Key: "meds", Ts: now.Add(-2 * time.Hour)}}
-
-	// Only the stretch was skipped: nothing to say.
-	if due := Due([]Routine{r}, took, map[string]time.Time{}, now); len(due) != 0 {
-		t.Fatalf("an optional item alone must not nudge, got %+v", due)
-	}
-	// The medication was skipped: she says so, and mentions the stretch too.
-	due := Due([]Routine{r}, map[string]store.Fact{}, map[string]time.Time{}, now)
-	if len(due) != 1 {
-		t.Fatalf("a missing required item must nudge, got %+v", due)
-	}
-	if got := Required(due[0].Missing); len(got) != 1 || got[0].Key != "meds" {
-		t.Fatalf("Required = %+v, want the meds item alone", got)
-	}
-	if got := OptionalOnly(due[0].Missing); len(got) != 1 || got[0].Key != "stretch" {
-		t.Fatalf("OptionalOnly = %+v, want the stretch item alone", got)
-	}
-	// The window still reports it as missing — optional is not invisible.
-	st := Evaluate(r, map[string]store.Fact{}, now.Add(-time.Hour))
-	if len(st.Missing) != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("Evaluate must still list both, got %+v", st.Missing)
-	}
-}

internal/pattern/detector.go

@@ -53,31 +53,9 @@ const MinOnPatternFraction = 0.7
 // a repeat. False negatives cost one more observation and nothing else.
 const MinEvents = 4
 
-// MinIntervalDays — the fastest rhythm that may be called a routine. Two
-// hours.
-//
-// Without a floor, four taps of the same key minutes apart give intervals near
-// 0.002 days. They all sit inside the ±50% band by construction, so the
-// detector proposed a routine and PhraseRoutine worded it as "каждый день"
-// (Vikunja #468). The damage outlives the mistake: UNIQUE(action, object)
-// means dismissing the bogus proposal burns that pair permanently, so the real
-// routine behind it can never be proposed again.
-//
-// Two hours rather than a day, because a genuine habit can run several times a
-// day — meals, water, a break. Anything faster than that is not a habit she
-// should be proposing to remind him about; the loop rules already cover that
-// range, and they are rules, not guesses. It is checked against the median, so
-// one quick repeat inside a real rhythm still counts.
-//
-// The other half of this is that hand-QA of the detector was unsafe: seeding a
-// pattern the obvious way, four chat turns in a row, poisoned the very pair
-// being tested.
-const MinIntervalDays = 2.0 / 24.0
-
 // Detect checks whether a sequence of events for the same action+object
 // forms a stable recurring pattern. Returns a ProposedRoutine when:
 //   - At least MinEvents events exist (≥3 intervals)
-//   - The median interval is at least MinIntervalDays
 //   - At least MinOnPatternFraction of the intervals sit within
 //     MaxIntervalRatio of the median interval
 //
@@ -110,8 +88,8 @@ func Detect(events []Event) (*ProposedRoutine, error) {
 	}
 
 	center := medianFloat(intervals)
-	if center <= 0 || center < MinIntervalDays {
-		return nil, nil // a burst, not a rhythm — see MinIntervalDays
+	if center <= 0 {
+		return nil, nil
 	}
 
 	// Keep the intervals that sit inside the band around the median. The

internal/pattern/detector_test.go

@@ -216,46 +216,3 @@ func TestDetectMedianBandNotExtremes(t *testing.T) {
 		})
 	}
 }
-
-// A burst is not a habit. Four taps of the same key minutes apart give
-// intervals near 0.002 days, all inside the ±50% band by construction, so the
-// detector called it a daily routine (Vikunja #468). Dismissing that proposal
-// burns the action+object pair permanently, which also made hand-QA of the
-// detector unsafe.
-func TestDetectRejectsABurst(t *testing.T) {
-	base := time.Date(2026, 8, 4, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
-	var events []Event
-	for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
-		events = append(events, Event{
-			Action: "refill", Object: "cat_water",
-			Ts: base.Add(time.Duration(i) * 7 * time.Minute),
-		})
-	}
-	r, err := Detect(events)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Detect: %v", err)
-	}
-	if r != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("four taps minutes apart proposed a routine every %.3f days", r.IntervalDays)
-	}
-}
-
-// The floor is two hours, not a day: a habit that runs several times a day is
-// still a habit.
-func TestDetectKeepsASeveralTimesADayHabit(t *testing.T) {
-	base := time.Date(2026, 8, 4, 8, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
-	var events []Event
-	for i := 0; i < 5; i++ {
-		events = append(events, Event{
-			Action: "drink", Object: "water",
-			Ts: base.Add(time.Duration(i) * 4 * time.Hour),
-		})
-	}
-	r, err := Detect(events)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("Detect: %v", err)
-	}
-	if r == nil {
-		t.Fatal("a four-hour rhythm over five events is a habit, got nil")
-	}
-}

internal/phraser/ack_ru_v1.json

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "name": "russian capture acknowledgements v1",
+  "notes": [
+    "What she says after storing something he said, and what she says when storing it failed. Edit the wording here, no Go changes needed.",
+    "Rules: she is feminine about herself, he is a man addressed as ты. Never вы/вас/ваш, never он/его about him. No pet names.",
+    "He hears these many times a day, so most entries carry variants: identical wording is what makes a confirmation stop registering as one.",
+    "Placeholders: {key} {value} the fact he stated, {fn} the action, {text} the task title. His data is interpolated Go-side — the file holds the frame, never his words.",
+    "An acknowledgement confirms and stops. It does not ask a follow-up question and it does not editorialise about what he stored."
+  ],
+  "entries": {
+    "ack_fact": {
+      "variants": ["записала факт.", "записала.", "запомнила."]
+    },
+    "ack_fact_key": {
+      "variants": ["отметила: {key}", "записала: {key}", "запомнила: {key}"]
+    },
+    "ack_fact_kv": {
+      "variants": ["отметила: {key} = {value}", "записала: {key} — {value}", "запомнила: {key} — {value}"]
+    },
+    "ack_note": {
+      "variants": ["сохранила заметку.", "заметка сохранена.", "записала в заметки."]
+    },
+    "ack_reminder": {
+      "variants": ["напомню.", "напомню, не забуду.", "хорошо, напомню."]
+    },
+    "ack_act": {
+      "variants": ["ок, записала действие: {fn}", "приняла действие: {fn}"]
+    },
+    "ack_task": {
+      "variants": ["записала: {text}", "добавила в задачи: {text}", "внесла в список: {text}"]
+    },
+    "ack_task_urgent": {
+      "variants": ["поняла, беру в работу: {text}", "поняла, это срочно: {text}"]
+    },
+    "ack_task_duplicate": {
+      "variants": ["это уже в списке.", "такое уже есть в задачах."]
+    },
+    "ack_nudge": {
+      "variants": ["отлично, отметила.", "отметила.", "хорошо, отметила."]
+    },
+    "ack_snooze": {
+      "variants": ["хорошо, вернусь к этому позже.", "ладно, напомню попозже.", "хорошо, отложила."]
+    },
+    "ack_generic": {
+      "variants": ["приняла.", "поняла."]
+    },
+    "quiet_on": {
+      "fixed": true,
+      "variants": ["тихий режим включён. буду реже напоминать."]
+    },
+    "quiet_off": {
+      "fixed": true,
+      "variants": ["тихий режим выключен."]
+    },
+    "fail_fact": {
+      "variants": ["не получилось сохранить факт.", "факт не сохранился."]
+    },
+    "fail_note": {
+      "variants": ["не получилось сохранить заметку.", "заметка не сохранилась."]
+    },
+    "fail_reminder": {
+      "variants": ["не получилось поставить напоминание.", "напоминание не поставилось."]
+    },
+    "fail_reminder_time": {
+      "variants": ["не получилось разобрать время напоминания.", "не поняла, на когда напомнить."]
+    },
+    "fail_task": {
+      "variants": ["не получилось записать задачу.", "задача не записалась."]
+    },
+    "fail_ack": {
+      "variants": ["не получилось отметить.", "не смогла отметить."]
+    },
+    "fail_snooze": {
+      "variants": ["не получилось отложить.", "не смогла отложить."]
+    },
+    "fail_quiet": {
+      "variants": ["не получилось переключить тихий режим.", "тихий режим не переключился."]
+    },
+    "fail_fact_unparsed": {
+      "variants": ["не разобрала, что записать — попробуй иначе.", "не поняла, что записать. скажи иначе?"]
+    }
+  }
+}

internal/phraser/acks.go

@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+package phraser
+
+// The capture acknowledgements — what she says after storing something he said,
+// and what she says when storing it failed.
+//
+// They were string literals in eight files under cmd/mavend plus the stub
+// replier in internal/voice. He hears them many times a day, which is exactly
+// why they need variants and exactly why rewording one must not be a rebuild.
+// Same shape as fallbacks_ru_v1.json, on the shared deck (deck.go).
+//
+// His data stays Go-side. The file holds "отметила: {key} = {value}"; the key
+// and the value are interpolated here, so nothing he said lives in the copy.
+
+import (
+	_ "embed"
+	"log"
+	"math/rand"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+//go:embed ack_ru_v1.json
+var ackJSON []byte
+
+// AckSchemaVersion — this family's own version. A file that changes on a
+// different day than the fallbacks cannot share their number (Vikunja #397).
+const AckSchemaVersion = 1
+
+// The entry keys. Namespaced by family, because the floor map behind a nil deck
+// is process-wide.
+const (
+	AckFact          = "ack_fact"
+	AckFactKey       = "ack_fact_key"
+	AckFactValue     = "ack_fact_kv"
+	AckNote          = "ack_note"
+	AckReminder      = "ack_reminder"
+	AckAct           = "ack_act"
+	AckTask          = "ack_task"
+	AckTaskUrgent    = "ack_task_urgent"
+	AckTaskDuplicate = "ack_task_duplicate"
+	AckNudge         = "ack_nudge"
+	AckSnooze        = "ack_snooze"
+	AckGeneric       = "ack_generic"
+	AckQuietOn       = "quiet_on"
+	AckQuietOff      = "quiet_off"
+
+	FailFact         = "fail_fact"
+	FailFactUnparsed = "fail_fact_unparsed"
+	FailNote         = "fail_note"
+	FailReminder     = "fail_reminder"
+	FailReminderTime = "fail_reminder_time"
+	FailTask         = "fail_task"
+	FailAck          = "fail_ack"
+	FailSnooze       = "fail_snooze"
+	FailQuiet        = "fail_quiet"
+)
+
+// ackKeys — every key the code requires the file to define.
+var ackKeys = []string{
+	AckFact, AckFactKey, AckFactValue, AckNote, AckReminder, AckAct,
+	AckTask, AckTaskUrgent, AckTaskDuplicate, AckNudge, AckSnooze, AckGeneric,
+	AckQuietOn, AckQuietOff,
+	FailFact, FailFactUnparsed, FailNote, FailReminder, FailReminderTime,
+	FailTask, FailAck, FailSnooze, FailQuiet,
+}
+
+// ackFloor — the literal each key falls back to when the file is unusable.
+// These are the exact strings that lived in Go before this file existed.
+var ackFloor = registerFloor(map[string]string{
+	AckFact:          "записала факт.",
+	AckFactKey:       "отметила: {key}",
+	AckFactValue:     "отметила: {key} = {value}",
+	AckNote:          "сохранила заметку.",
+	AckReminder:      "напомню.",
+	AckAct:           "ок, записала действие: {fn}",
+	AckTask:          "записала: {text}",
+	AckTaskUrgent:    "поняла, беру в работу: {text}",
+	AckTaskDuplicate: "это уже в списке.",
+	AckNudge:         "отлично, отметила.",
+	AckSnooze:        "хорошо, вернусь к этому позже.",
+	AckGeneric:       "приняла.",
+	AckQuietOn:       "тихий режим включён. буду реже напоминать.",
+	AckQuietOff:      "тихий режим выключен.",
+
+	FailFact:         "не получилось сохранить факт.",
+	FailFactUnparsed: "не разобрала, что записать — попробуй иначе.",
+	FailNote:         "не получилось сохранить заметку.",
+	FailReminder:     "не получилось поставить напоминание.",
+	FailReminderTime: "не получилось разобрать время напоминания.",
+	FailTask:         "не получилось записать задачу.",
+	FailAck:          "не получилось отметить.",
+	FailSnooze:       "не получилось отложить.",
+	FailQuiet:        "не получилось переключить тихий режим.",
+})
+
+// Acks picks a hand-written Russian acknowledgement. Safe for concurrent use.
+type Acks struct{ d *deck }
+
+// LoadAcks reads the embedded file. Pass a source to make the picking
+// reproducible in tests; nil seeds from the clock.
+func LoadAcks(src rand.Source) (*Acks, error) {
+	d, err := loadDeck(ackJSON, AckSchemaVersion, ackKeys, ackFloor, src)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// The three entries that exist to read his own words back. A variant
+	// without the placeholder would confirm the capture and drop what was
+	// captured, which reads as a successful save of nothing.
+	for _, req := range []struct{ key, ph string }{
+		{AckFactKey, "{key}"}, {AckFactValue, "{key}"}, {AckFactValue, "{value}"},
+		{AckAct, "{fn}"}, {AckTask, "{text}"}, {AckTaskUrgent, "{text}"},
+	} {
+		if err := d.requirePlaceholder(req.key, req.ph); err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+	return &Acks{d: d}, nil
+}
+
+// deck reads through a nil *Acks, which is the unloadable-file case.
+func (a *Acks) deck() *deck {
+	if a == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return a.d
+}
+
+// Say returns one line for key, with his data filled into the frame. Pass nil
+// when the entry takes none.
+func (a *Acks) Say(key string, vars map[string]string) string {
+	return a.deck().text(key, vars)
+}
+
+// Variants returns every line the file can produce, for the persona scorer.
+func (a *Acks) Variants() []string { return a.deck().variants() }
+
+var (
+	ackOnce sync.Once
+	acks    *Acks
+)
+
+// DefaultAcks returns the shared instance, loading it on first use. A broken
+// file logs once and leaves a nil *Acks, which still answers from ackFloor.
+func DefaultAcks() *Acks {
+	ackOnce.Do(func() {
+		a, err := LoadAcks(nil)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("phraser: acknowledgements unavailable, using the built-in lines: %v", err)
+			return
+		}
+		acks = a
+	})
+	return acks
+}
+
+// Ack — one acknowledgement line, the way every caller says it.
+func Ack(key string, vars map[string]string) string { return DefaultAcks().Say(key, vars) }
+
+// IsAck reports whether text is a line key could have produced. For the daemon
+// tests, which can no longer compare against one literal.
+func IsAck(key string, vars map[string]string, text string) bool {
+	return DefaultAcks().deck().matches(key, vars, text)
+}

internal/phraser/deck.go

@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+package phraser
+
+// deck — the mechanics every family of hand-written Russian lines shares.
+//
+// A family is one embedded JSON file: schema-versioned, several variants per
+// entry, never the same variant twice running, and a hard floor of Go literals
+// under it so a broken file cannot take her words away. fallbacks.go was the
+// first family (Vikunja #501) and acks.go the second, at which point copying
+// eighty lines of loader per family stopped being defensible.
+//
+// What stays per family: the file, the keys, the floor literals, the accessor
+// names, and any validation only that family can state.
+
+import (
+	"encoding/json"
+	"fmt"
+	"math/rand"
+	"strings"
+	"sync"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// deckEntry — one line she can say, in as many wordings as the file gives.
+type deckEntry struct {
+	// Fixed — one variant, never picked between. For wording that must not
+	// drift from turn to turn, like a phrase naming one specific gap.
+	Fixed    bool     `json:"fixed"`
+	Variants []string `json:"variants"`
+}
+
+type deckFile struct {
+	SchemaVersion int                  `json:"schema_version"`
+	Name          string               `json:"name"`
+	Notes         []string             `json:"notes"`
+	Entries       map[string]deckEntry `json:"entries"`
+}
+
+// deck picks a line. Safe for concurrent use. A nil *deck answers from the
+// floor, which is what an unloadable file leaves behind.
+type deck struct {
+	mu    sync.Mutex
+	rnd   *rand.Rand
+	last  map[string]string
+	file  deckFile
+	keys  []string
+	floor map[string]string
+}
+
+// loadDeck parses raw, checks the version and every required key, and seeds the
+// picker. Pass a source to make the picking reproducible in tests; nil seeds
+// from the clock.
+func loadDeck(raw []byte, version int, keys []string, floor map[string]string, src rand.Source) (*deck, error) {
+	var f deckFile
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(raw, &f); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("parse: %w", err)
+	}
+	if f.SchemaVersion != version {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("schema_version %d, want %d", f.SchemaVersion, version)
+	}
+	for _, k := range keys {
+		e, ok := f.Entries[k]
+		if !ok || len(e.Variants) == 0 {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("entry %q is missing or empty", k)
+		}
+		if e.Fixed && len(e.Variants) != 1 {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("entry %q is fixed but has %d variants", k, len(e.Variants))
+		}
+	}
+	if src == nil {
+		src = rand.NewSource(time.Now().UnixNano())
+	}
+	return &deck{rnd: rand.New(src), last: map[string]string{}, file: f, keys: keys, floor: floor}, nil
+}
+
+// requirePlaceholder fails the load when a variant of key does not use ph. For
+// an entry whose whole job is to read something back, a variant without the
+// placeholder silently drops it.
+func (d *deck) requirePlaceholder(key, ph string) error {
+	for _, v := range d.file.Entries[key].Variants {
+		if !strings.Contains(v, ph) {
+			return fmt.Errorf("%q variant %q does not use %s", key, v, ph)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
+}
+
+// text returns one variant for key with the placeholders filled in. A nil
+// receiver answers from the floor, so no caller checks whether the file loaded.
+func (d *deck) text(key string, vars map[string]string) string {
+	tmpl := ""
+	if d != nil {
+		if e, ok := d.file.Entries[key]; ok && len(e.Variants) > 0 {
+			tmpl = d.pick(key, e)
+		}
+	}
+	if tmpl == "" {
+		tmpl = floorOf(d, key)
+	}
+	return fill(tmpl, vars)
+}
+
+// matches reports whether text is a line key could have produced. A caller that
+// has to recognise one of these lines cannot compare against a literal any more.
+func (d *deck) matches(key string, vars map[string]string, text string) bool {
+	if fill(floorOf(d, key), vars) == text {
+		return true
+	}
+	if d == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	for _, v := range d.file.Entries[key].Variants {
+		if fill(v, vars) == text {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// variants returns every line the file can produce, in key order, for the
+// persona scorer. Stable order so a failure names the same variant twice.
+func (d *deck) variants() []string {
+	if d == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	var out []string
+	for _, k := range d.keys {
+		out = append(out, d.file.Entries[k].Variants...)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// pick chooses at random, skipping whatever this entry said last time.
+func (d *deck) pick(key string, e deckEntry) string {
+	d.mu.Lock()
+	defer d.mu.Unlock()
+
+	choices := e.Variants
+	if len(choices) > 1 {
+		fresh := make([]string, 0, len(choices))
+		for _, v := range choices {
+			if v != d.last[key] {
+				fresh = append(fresh, v)
+			}
+		}
+		if len(fresh) > 0 {
+			choices = fresh
+		}
+	}
+	got := choices[d.rnd.Intn(len(choices))]
+	d.last[key] = got
+	return got
+}
+
+// floorOf reads the Go literal behind key, and works on a nil deck because that
+// is exactly the case it exists for. The per-family map is the source of truth.
+func floorOf(d *deck, key string) string {
+	if d != nil && d.floor != nil {
+		return d.floor[key]
+	}
+	return deckFloors[key]
+}
+
+// deckFloors — every family's floor literals in one map, so a nil deck still
+// finds them. Families register at init; the keys are namespaced by family.
+var deckFloors = map[string]string{}
+
+func registerFloor(floor map[string]string) map[string]string {
+	for k, v := range floor {
+		deckFloors[k] = v
+	}
+	return floor
+}
+
+// fill substitutes {name} for each var. A placeholder with no value is left
+// alone rather than blanked, so a missing value is visible instead of silent.
+func fill(tmpl string, vars map[string]string) string {
+	for k, v := range vars {
+		tmpl = strings.ReplaceAll(tmpl, "{"+k+"}", v)
+	}
+	return tmpl
+}

internal/phraser/eval/checks.go

@@ -173,23 +173,12 @@ func checkFeminine(body string) Result {
 	// Second pass: self-reference with the pronoun dropped — "напомнил тебе",
 	// "проверил за тебя". A masculine past-tense verb whose object is HIM can
 	// only be her speaking about herself.
-	//
-	// Two guards, both from a false positive on the talk fixture: "ты заплатил
-	// за домен до марта" scored as her drift and cost the run a point it had
-	// earned (Vikunja #462). He is male, so a past-tense verb governed by "ты"
-	// must be masculine. And a bare "за" is not evidence of anything — "за
-	// домен" is a price, "за тебя" is her doing something on his behalf — so it
-	// only counts when he is the one it points at.
 	for i, w := range words {
-		if !masculinePast(w) || i+1 >= len(words) || governedByYou(words, i) {
+		if !masculinePast(w) || i+1 >= len(words) {
 			continue
 		}
 		next := words[i+1]
-		aboutHim := next == "тебе" || next == "тебя"
-		if next == "за" && i+2 < len(words) && (words[i+2] == "тебя" || words[i+2] == "тебе") {
-			aboutHim = true
-		}
-		if aboutHim {
+		if next == "тебе" || next == "тебя" || next == "за" {
 			return Result{CheckFeminine, false,
 				fmt.Sprintf("masculine self-reference %q before %q", w, next)}
 		}
@@ -663,19 +652,3 @@ func checkEllipsis(body string) Result {
 	}
 	return Result{CheckEllipsis, true, ""}
 }
-
-// governedByYou reports whether "ты" stands close enough in front of the verb
-// at index i to be its subject. Three words, the same window checkFeminine's
-// first pass uses after "я", and it stops at a first-person pronoun so "ты
-// просил, я напомнил" still trips.
-func governedByYou(words []string, i int) bool {
-	for j := i - 1; j >= 0 && j >= i-3; j-- {
-		switch words[j] {
-		case "ты":
-			return true
-		case "я":
-			return false
-		}
-	}
-	return false
-}

internal/phraser/eval/eval_test.go

@@ -106,12 +106,6 @@ func TestChecksCatchWhatTheyClaim(t *testing.T) {
 		{"masculine predicative", "я должен сказать: попей воды.", CheckFeminine},
 		// The other direction: HE is male, so second-person masculine is right.
 		{"second person masculine ok", "ты не пил воду четыре часа.", ""},
-		// The recorded false positive: "заплатил" sits before "за", and the
-		// second pass read that as her dropping the pronoun. The subject is
-		// "ты" and he is male, so the reply is right (Vikunja #462).
-		{"second person masculine before за", "ты заплатил за домен до марта, а воду пить всё равно надо.", ""},
-		// The same shape she really does get wrong still trips.
-		{"masculine on his behalf", "проверил за тебя — воды не было четыре часа.", CheckFeminine},
 		// The real observed failure: she addressed him as a woman.
 		{"feminine second person", "ты давно не отдыхала — попей воды.", CheckHisGender},
 		{"feminine second person no dash", "ты пила воду четыре часа назад.", CheckHisGender},

internal/phraser/eval/fallbacks_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package eval
+
+import (
+	"math/rand"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
+)
+
+// TestFallbackPersona scores every line in fallbacks_ru_v1.json and
+// ack_ru_v1.json on the persona checks the nudges already pass. These lines are
+// heard out loud and they live in a JSON file now, so a reworded variant that
+// says "рад" or "вы" would otherwise reach him with nothing in between.
+//
+// Only the persona checks run. Mood and topic belong to a nudge, and these are
+// not nudges.
+func TestFallbackPersona(t *testing.T) {
+	fb, err := phraser.LoadFallbacks(rand.NewSource(20260804))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("LoadFallbacks: %v", err)
+	}
+	persona := map[string]bool{
+		CheckLang: true, CheckFeminine: true, CheckHisGender: true,
+		CheckAddress: true, CheckCringe: true, CheckLength: true,
+	}
+	ack, err := phraser.LoadAcks(rand.NewSource(20260804))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("LoadAcks: %v", err)
+	}
+	variants := append(fb.Variants(), ack.Variants()...)
+	if len(variants) == 0 {
+		t.Fatal("no variants — the file loaded empty")
+	}
+	for _, v := range variants {
+		// The placeholders stand for his own words and carry no persona.
+		body := v
+		for _, ph := range []string{"{sources}", "{key}", "{value}", "{fn}", "{text}"} {
+			body = strings.ReplaceAll(body, ph, "вода")
+		}
+		for _, r := range RunChecks(Case{}, body, "neutral") {
+			if persona[r.Name] && !r.Pass {
+				t.Errorf("%q fails %s: %s", v, r.Name, r.Detail)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}

internal/phraser/eval/talk.go

@@ -78,6 +78,12 @@ type TalkCase struct {
 	Note      string   `json:"note,omitempty"`
 }
 
+// TalkSchemaVersion — the version this loader understands. Separate from the
+// nudge fixture's SchemaVersion: the two fixtures have different shapes and
+// change on different days, and one shared constant would force a bump on the
+// fixture that did not move.
+const TalkSchemaVersion = 1
+
 // TalkFixture — the versioned envelope, same gating as Fixture.
 type TalkFixture struct {
 	SchemaVersion int        `json:"schema_version"`
@@ -92,8 +98,8 @@ func LoadTalk() (TalkFixture, error) {
 	if err := json.Unmarshal(talkFixtureJSON, &f); err != nil {
 		return TalkFixture{}, fmt.Errorf("parse talk fixture: %w", err)
 	}
-	if f.SchemaVersion != SchemaVersion {
-		return TalkFixture{}, fmt.Errorf("talk fixture schema_version %d, want %d", f.SchemaVersion, SchemaVersion)
+	if f.SchemaVersion != TalkSchemaVersion {
+		return TalkFixture{}, fmt.Errorf("talk fixture schema_version %d, want %d", f.SchemaVersion, TalkSchemaVersion)
 	}
 	if len(f.Cases) == 0 {
 		return TalkFixture{}, fmt.Errorf("talk fixture has no cases")

internal/phraser/eval/talk_test.go

@@ -142,19 +142,13 @@ func TestLLMTalkBaseline(t *testing.T) {
 	p := phraser.NewLLMPhraserAt(base, cfg)
 	defer p.Close()
 
-	// Unreachable server is fatal here, not a logged warning, and that differs
-	// from the nudge test on purpose. PhraseNudge returns its errors, so a dead
-	// server there shows up honestly in the Errors column. PhraseChat and
-	// PhraseQuery do NOT: they swallow every failure and return a canned string
-	// ("поговорили.", "не знаю.", "вот что я нашла: …"). So on these three paths
-	// a dead server produces a full report with 0 errors and a terrible score —
-	// a number that looks like bad phrasing and is really no phrasing at all.
-	// Refusing to score without a confirmed model is the only guard available
-	// until the phraser reports its failures (Vikunja #397).
+	// The model id names the run in the report. Since Vikunja #397 every path
+	// returns its errors, so a server that dies mid-run shows up in the Errors
+	// column instead of scoring as bad phrasing — the before-and-after probe that
+	// used to stand in for that is gone.
 	model, err := llm.ModelID(ctx, base)
 	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("no model at %s: %v — refusing to score, these paths hide their errors "+
-			"and would report a plausible-looking result off a dead server", base, err)
+		t.Fatalf("no model at %s: %v", base, err)
 	}
 	t.Logf("scoring model %s at %s", model, base)
 
@@ -169,10 +163,11 @@ func TestLLMTalkBaseline(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	t.Log("\n" + rep.String() + "\nreplies:\n" + rep.Replies() + "\nfailures:\n" + rep.Failures())
 
-	// And again afterwards: the run takes minutes, and a server that died or got
-	// OOM-killed halfway through would leave the first cases scored and the rest
-	// silently canned. Checking only at the start would not catch that.
-	if _, err := llm.ModelID(ctx, base); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("model at %s went away during the run: %v — the score above is not trustworthy", base, err)
+	// A run where nothing was phrased is not a low score, it is no measurement.
+	if rep.Errors == rep.Total {
+		t.Fatalf("every case errored — nothing was measured, the score above is not a phrasing result")
+	}
+	if rep.Errors > 0 {
+		t.Logf("%d/%d cases errored — those are model failures, not phrasing failures", rep.Errors, rep.Total)
 	}
 }

internal/phraser/failure_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+package phraser
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// isFallback — the text she says is picked from that entry's variants, so a test
+// pins the entry rather than the wording. Pinning one line would make editing
+// fallbacks_ru_v1.json break Go tests, which is the coupling this file removed.
+func isFallback(t *testing.T, key, sources, got string) bool {
+	t.Helper()
+	return DefaultFallbacks().deck().matches(key, map[string]string{"sources": sources}, got)
+}
+
+// A dead server must be distinguishable from bad phrasing. Both PhraseChat and
+// PhraseQuery keep the turn alive with canned text — and every one of those
+// lines is also a legitimate reply, so the text alone cannot say which happened.
+// The error is the only signal, and before Vikunja #397 it was dropped: the talk
+// scorer reported a full run with zero errors off a server that answered nothing.
+func TestPhrasingReportsTheFailureWithTheFallback(t *testing.T) {
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		http.Error(w, "model not loaded", http.StatusServiceUnavailable)
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
+	p := NewLLMPhraserAt(srv.URL, Config{})
+
+	cases := []struct {
+		name    string
+		call    func() (string, error)
+		key     string
+		sources string
+	}{
+		{"chat", func() (string, error) {
+			return p.PhraseChat(context.Background(), "как дела", nil)
+		}, fbChat, ""},
+		{"knowledge", func() (string, error) {
+			return p.PhraseQuery(context.Background(), "кто написал войну и мир", nil)
+		}, fbQueryUnknown, ""},
+		{"evidence", func() (string, error) {
+			return p.PhraseQuery(context.Background(), "сколько воды я выпил", []string{"два литра"})
+		}, fbQuerySources, "два литра"},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got, err := c.call()
+			if err == nil {
+				t.Fatalf("no error from a dead server; the scorer would count this as bad phrasing")
+			}
+			if !isFallback(t, c.key, c.sources, got) {
+				t.Errorf("fallback text = %q, want a %q variant — the daemon still has to say something", got, c.key)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// An empty answer is a failure too: the server is up and produced no tokens,
+// which is not an answer and must not score as one.
+func TestEmptyKnowledgeAnswerIsAnError(t *testing.T) {
+	srv := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
+		w.Write([]byte(`{"choices":[{"message":{"content":""}}]}`))
+	}))
+	t.Cleanup(srv.Close)
+	p := NewLLMPhraserAt(srv.URL, Config{})
+
+	got, err := p.PhraseQuery(context.Background(), "кто написал войну и мир", nil)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("an empty response scored as an answer")
+	}
+	if !isFallback(t, fbQueryUnknown, "", got) {
+		t.Errorf("fallback text = %q, want a %q variant", got, fbQueryUnknown)
+	}
+	if !strings.Contains(err.Error(), "empty") {
+		t.Errorf("error = %v; want it to name the empty response", err)
+	}
+}

internal/phraser/fallbacks.go

@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+package phraser
+
+// The phrasing fallbacks — what she says when the model gave her nothing usable.
+//
+// They were four string literals spread across phraser.go, llmphraser.go and
+// cmd/mavend/worldmodel.go. Every one of them is a line he hears out loud, so
+// rewording one was a Go edit, a rebuild and a redeploy for what is product copy.
+//
+// The floor under the floor is deliberate. These strings exist because something
+// already failed, so a broken template file must not be able to take the last
+// words she has: every accessor falls back to the literal it replaced.
+
+import (
+	_ "embed"
+	"log"
+	"math/rand"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+//go:embed fallbacks_ru_v1.json
+var fallbackJSON []byte
+
+// FallbackSchemaVersion — the version this code understands. Its own constant,
+// not shared with the nudge templates or the eval fixtures: two files that change
+// on different days cannot be versioned by one number (Vikunja #397).
+const FallbackSchemaVersion = 1
+
+// The entry keys. Every one of them is read by a method below, so a typo in the
+// file is caught at load rather than at the moment she needs the words.
+const (
+	fbChat         = "chat"
+	fbQueryUnknown = "query_unknown"
+	fbQuerySources = "query_sources"
+	fbWorldGap     = "world_gap"
+)
+
+// fbKeys — every key the code requires the file to define.
+var fbKeys = []string{fbChat, fbQueryUnknown, fbQuerySources, fbWorldGap}
+
+// hardFloor — the literal each key falls back to when the file is unusable.
+// These are the exact strings that lived in Go before this file existed.
+var hardFloor = registerFloor(map[string]string{
+	fbChat:         "даже не знаю, что сказать.",
+	fbQueryUnknown: "не знаю.",
+	fbQuerySources: "вот что я нашла: {sources}",
+	fbWorldGap:     "сейчас не могу ответить — большая модель недоступна, а придумывать не хочу.",
+})
+
+// Fallbacks picks a hand-written Russian fallback line. Safe for concurrent use.
+type Fallbacks struct{ d *deck }
+
+// LoadFallbacks reads the embedded file. Pass a source to make the picking
+// reproducible in tests; nil seeds from the clock.
+func LoadFallbacks(src rand.Source) (*Fallbacks, error) {
+	d, err := loadDeck(fallbackJSON, FallbackSchemaVersion, fbKeys, hardFloor, src)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// query_sources is the one entry whose whole job is to read something back.
+	if err := d.requirePlaceholder(fbQuerySources, "{sources}"); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return &Fallbacks{d: d}, nil
+}
+
+// deck reads through a nil *Fallbacks, which is the unloadable-file case.
+func (f *Fallbacks) deck() *deck {
+	if f == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	return f.d
+}
+
+// Chat — nothing usable came back on the chat path.
+func (f *Fallbacks) Chat() string { return f.deck().text(fbChat, nil) }
+
+// Unknown — a question she cannot answer and will not guess at.
+func (f *Fallbacks) Unknown() string { return f.deck().text(fbQueryUnknown, nil) }
+
+// FromSources — read back what she was handed, because phrasing it failed.
+func (f *Fallbacks) FromSources(sources string) string {
+	return f.deck().text(fbQuerySources, map[string]string{"sources": sources})
+}
+
+// WorldGap — the world model is the one configured to answer and it is not
+// answering. Fixed wording: it names a specific gap, and a variant set here
+// would let "the big model is asleep" drift into "I don't know".
+func (f *Fallbacks) WorldGap() string { return f.deck().text(fbWorldGap, nil) }
+
+// Variants returns every line the file can produce, for the persona scorer.
+func (f *Fallbacks) Variants() []string { return f.deck().variants() }
+
+// The process-wide instance. Package-level because these lines are needed on
+// paths that have no phraser to hand — cmd/mavend names the world gap without
+// one — and because a template file that is embedded and validated at load has
+// nothing per-instance to configure.
+var (
+	fallbackOnce sync.Once
+	fallbacks    *Fallbacks
+)
+
+// DefaultFallbacks returns the shared instance, loading it on first use. A
+// broken file logs once and leaves a nil *Fallbacks, which still answers from
+// hardFloor — a daemon must not fail to boot over its own copy deck.
+func DefaultFallbacks() *Fallbacks {
+	fallbackOnce.Do(func() {
+		fb, err := LoadFallbacks(nil)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("phraser: fallbacks unavailable, using the built-in lines: %v", err)
+			return
+		}
+		fallbacks = fb
+	})
+	return fallbacks
+}
+
+// ChatFallback — what she says when the chat path produced nothing.
+func ChatFallback() string { return DefaultFallbacks().Chat() }
+
+// UnknownFallback — what she says when she has no answer and will not invent one.
+func UnknownFallback() string { return DefaultFallbacks().Unknown() }
+
+// SourcesFallback — read the sources back rather than ship a broken fragment.
+func SourcesFallback(sources string) string { return DefaultFallbacks().FromSources(sources) }
+
+// WorldGap — what he hears when the world model is configured and unreachable.
+func WorldGap() string { return DefaultFallbacks().WorldGap() }
+
+// IsUnknownFallback reports whether text is one of her "I do not know" lines.
+// The daemon tests read it to tell an answer from a shrug.
+func IsUnknownFallback(text string) bool {
+	return DefaultFallbacks().deck().matches(fbQueryUnknown, nil, text)
+}
+
+// IsSourcesFallback reports whether text is sources read back verbatim.
+func IsSourcesFallback(text, sources string) bool {
+	return DefaultFallbacks().deck().matches(fbQuerySources, map[string]string{"sources": sources}, text)
+}

internal/phraser/fallbacks_ru_v1.json

@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+{
+  "schema_version": 1,
+  "name": "russian phrasing fallbacks v1",
+  "notes": [
+    "What she says when the model gave her nothing usable. Edit the wording here, no Go changes needed.",
+    "Rules: she is feminine about herself, he is a man addressed as ты. Never вы/вас/ваш, never plural imperatives, never он/его about him. No pet names.",
+    "These are heard after a failure, so they stay short and admit the gap. None of them may claim knowledge she does not have.",
+    "Placeholders: {sources} the notes or passages she was handed. A variant whose placeholder has no value is skipped, so every entry needs at least one variant with no placeholder — except query_sources, which exists only to read sources back.",
+    "fixed: true means exactly one variant and no picking. Used where the wording is load-bearing and must not drift between turns."
+  ],
+  "entries": {
+    "chat": {
+      "variants": [
+        "даже не знаю, что сказать.",
+        "не могу найти слов.",
+        "мысль ускользнула, повтори?",
+        "у меня сейчас пусто в голове."
+      ]
+    },
+    "query_unknown": {
+      "variants": [
+        "не знаю.",
+        "не знаю, честно.",
+        "тут я пас.",
+        "не скажу, не знаю."
+      ]
+    },
+    "query_sources": {
+      "variants": [
+        "вот что я нашла: {sources}",
+        "нашла вот это: {sources}",
+        "есть только это: {sources}"
+      ]
+    },
+    "world_gap": {
+      "fixed": true,
+      "variants": [
+        "сейчас не могу ответить — большая модель недоступна, а придумывать не хочу."
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}

internal/phraser/fallbacks_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+package phraser
+
+import (
+	"math/rand"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The embedded file must load, or the daemon speaks from hardFloor and nobody
+// finds out until he hears the wrong words.
+func TestFallbacksLoad(t *testing.T) {
+	fb, err := LoadFallbacks(rand.NewSource(1))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("LoadFallbacks: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got := fb.FromSources("два литра"); !strings.Contains(got, "два литра") {
+		t.Errorf("FromSources = %q, want the sources in it", got)
+	}
+	if fb.WorldGap() != hardFloor[fbWorldGap] {
+		t.Errorf("WorldGap = %q, want the fixed wording %q", fb.WorldGap(), hardFloor[fbWorldGap])
+	}
+}
+
+// A broken or missing file must not take her last words away: every accessor
+// answers from the literal it replaced.
+func TestNilFallbacksAnswerFromTheHardFloor(t *testing.T) {
+	var fb *Fallbacks
+	if got := fb.Chat(); got != hardFloor[fbChat] {
+		t.Errorf("Chat = %q, want %q", got, hardFloor[fbChat])
+	}
+	if got := fb.Unknown(); got != hardFloor[fbQueryUnknown] {
+		t.Errorf("Unknown = %q, want %q", got, hardFloor[fbQueryUnknown])
+	}
+	if got := fb.FromSources("два литра"); got != "вот что я нашла: два литра" {
+		t.Errorf("FromSources = %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := fb.WorldGap(); got != hardFloor[fbWorldGap] {
+		t.Errorf("WorldGap = %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// Hearing the identical words every time a request fails is how a failure stops
+// registering as one.
+func TestFallbacksDoNotRepeat(t *testing.T) {
+	fb, err := LoadFallbacks(rand.NewSource(7))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("LoadFallbacks: %v", err)
+	}
+	prev := fb.Chat()
+	for i := 0; i < 20; i++ {
+		got := fb.Chat()
+		if got == prev {
+			t.Fatalf("chat repeated %q on turn %d", got, i)
+		}
+		prev = got
+	}
+}
+
+// The acknowledgements load, fill his words into the frame, and answer from the
+// floor when the file is gone.
+func TestAcksLoad(t *testing.T) {
+	a, err := LoadAcks(rand.NewSource(1))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("LoadAcks: %v", err)
+	}
+	got := a.Say(AckFactValue, map[string]string{"key": "вода", "value": "2л"})
+	if !strings.Contains(got, "вода") || !strings.Contains(got, "2л") {
+		t.Errorf("Say(%s) = %q, want his key and value in it", AckFactValue, got)
+	}
+	var nilAcks *Acks
+	if got := nilAcks.Say(AckNote, nil); got != ackFloor[AckNote] {
+		t.Errorf("nil Acks said %q, want the floor %q", got, ackFloor[AckNote])
+	}
+}

internal/phraser/llmphraser.go

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import (
 	"bytes"
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
+	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"log"
@@ -26,6 +27,11 @@ import (
 
 var listenRE = regexp.MustCompile(`listening on (https?://\S+)`)
 
+// errEmptyResponse — the server answered and said nothing. Separate from a
+// transport failure: the model is up and produced no tokens, which is still not
+// an answer and must not score as one.
+var errEmptyResponse = errors.New("phraser: empty response from the model")
+
 type LLMPhraser struct {
 	cfg    Config
 	client *http.Client
@@ -428,8 +434,11 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseNudge(ctx context.Context, c loop.Candidate) (deliver
 }
 
 // PhraseQuery prompts the LLM with the user's utterance and matching notes to
-// compose a natural answer. Falls back to "вот что я нашла: <notes>" on any
-// LLM error — better to give the raw data than silence.
+// compose a natural answer. On any LLM error it returns the fallback text —
+// "вот что я нашла: <notes>", or "не знаю." with no notes — and the error
+// together. The daemon uses the text and keeps the turn alive; a caller that is
+// measuring counts the failure. Until Vikunja #397 the error was dropped, so a
+// dead server scored as bad phrasing.
 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
@@ -439,13 +448,15 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseQuery(ctx context.Context, utterance string, notes []
 	if len(notes) == 0 {
 		sys, prompt := p.knowledgePrompt(utterance)
 		resp, err := p.chatWithSystem(ctx, sys, prompt, 768)
-		if err != nil || resp == "" {
-			return "не знаю.", nil
+		if err != nil {
+			return UnknownFallback(), fmt.Errorf("phrase query (knowledge): %w", err)
+		}
+		if resp == "" {
+			return UnknownFallback(), errEmptyResponse
 		}
 		text, _, perr := parseResponseMood(resp)
 		if perr != nil {
-			log.Printf("phraser: PhraseQuery: %v", perr)
-			return "не знаю.", nil
+			return UnknownFallback(), fmt.Errorf("phrase query (knowledge): %w", perr)
 		}
 		if text != "" {
 			return text, nil
@@ -457,13 +468,12 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseQuery(ctx context.Context, utterance string, notes []
 	text, _, perr := parseResponseMood(resp)
 	if err != nil || perr != nil {
 		// Read the notes out rather than ship a broken fragment.
-		if perr != nil {
-			log.Printf("phraser: PhraseQuery: %v", perr)
+		cause := err
+		if cause == nil {
+			cause = perr
 		}
-		if len(notes) == 1 {
-			return "вот что я нашла: " + notes[0], nil
-		}
-		return "вот что я нашла: " + strings.Join(notes, "; "), nil
+		return SourcesFallback(strings.Join(notes, "; ")),
+			fmt.Errorf("phrase query (evidence): %w", cause)
 	}
 	if text != "" {
 		return text, nil
@@ -472,8 +482,9 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseQuery(ctx context.Context, utterance string, notes []
 }
 
 // PhraseChat uses the LLM to respond conversationally, building a multi-turn
-// message array from dialogue history + the current user utterance. Falls back
-// to a simple greeting on any LLM error — better to say something than nothing.
+// message array from dialogue history + the current user utterance. On any LLM
+// error it returns both ChatFallback and the error, on the same rule as
+// PhraseQuery: the fallback keeps the turn alive, the error stays visible.
 func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseChat(ctx context.Context, utterance string, history []dialogue.Turn) (string, error) {
 	sys := chatSystemPrompt(p.cfg.ContextBlock)
 	msgs := []chatMsg{
@@ -490,13 +501,11 @@ func (p *LLMPhraser) PhraseChat(ctx context.Context, utterance string, history [
 
 	resp, err := p.chatWithMessages(ctx, msgs, 768)
 	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("phraser: PhraseChat: %v", err)
-		return "поговорили.", nil
+		return ChatFallback(), fmt.Errorf("phrase chat: %w", err)
 	}
 	text, _, perr := parseResponseMood(resp)
 	if perr != nil {
-		log.Printf("phraser: PhraseChat: %v", perr)
-		return "поговорили.", nil
+		return ChatFallback(), fmt.Errorf("phrase chat: %w", perr)
 	}
 	if text != "" {
 		return text, nil

internal/phraser/phraser.go

@@ -70,18 +70,15 @@ func NewStub() *Stub { return &Stub{} }
 // prompted response from the model. The history parameter is accepted but
 // ignored at the stub level (the production impl uses it for multi-turn).
 func (s *Stub) PhraseChat(_ context.Context, _ string, _ []dialogue.Turn) (string, error) {
-	return "поговорили.", nil
+	return ChatFallback(), nil
 }
 
 // PhraseQuery returns a deterministic summary of the best matching notes.
 func (s *Stub) PhraseQuery(_ context.Context, _ string, notes []string) (string, error) {
 	if len(notes) == 0 {
-		return "не знаю.", nil
+		return UnknownFallback(), nil
 	}
-	if len(notes) == 1 {
-		return "вот что я нашла: " + notes[0], nil
-	}
-	return "вот что я нашла: " + strings.Join(notes, "; "), nil
+	return SourcesFallback(strings.Join(notes, "; ")), nil
 }
 
 // Close implements Phraser.Close (no-op for the stub).

internal/phraser/swap_test.go

@@ -215,10 +215,12 @@ func TestSwap_RollbackFailureLeavesNoBackendAndDegrades(t *testing.T) {
 	if _, _, aerr := p.acquire(); !errors.Is(aerr, ErrNoBackend) {
 		t.Errorf("acquire error = %v; want ErrNoBackend", aerr)
 	}
-	// Phrasing degrades to its fallback instead of failing the turn.
+	// Phrasing degrades to its fallback instead of failing the turn, and since
+	// Vikunja #397 it reports the error next to that fallback so a measuring
+	// caller can tell "no model" from "bad phrasing".
 	got, err := p.PhraseChat(context.Background(), "привет", nil)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("PhraseChat after a total failure returned an error: %v", err)
+	if !errors.Is(err, ErrNoBackend) {
+		t.Errorf("PhraseChat error = %v; want ErrNoBackend alongside the fallback", err)
 	}
 	if got == "" {
 		t.Error("PhraseChat returned empty; the fallback must still say something")

internal/router/agenda_test.go

@@ -75,47 +75,3 @@ func TestAgendaGrammarSparesStatements(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
-
-// The tomorrow form and the bare event noun. Both were measured answering
-// "пока не умею" on the deployed daemon, 02-08-2026, while the same question
-// about today worked — the first rule set needed "у меня" or a calendar noun
-// and these phrasings carry neither (Vikunja #471).
-func TestAgendaCoversOtherDaysAndNamedEvents(t *testing.T) {
-	r := agendaRouter(t)
-	for _, u := range []string{
-		"какие планы на завтра?",
-		"какие планы на послезавтра",
-		"что по делам в среду",
-		"какие планы на выходные",
-		"когда планёрка?",
-		"во сколько созвон",
-		"когда будет совещание",
-	} {
-		d, err := r.Route(context.Background(), u, refNow())
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("route(%q): %v", u, err)
-		}
-		if d.Intent != IntentQuery {
-			t.Errorf("route(%q) = %s, want query", u, d.Intent)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// The two new rules are narrow on purpose. A world question that opens with
-// "когда" is not an agenda question, and telling her about a plan is not
-// asking about one.
-func TestAgendaGrammarsLeaveTheWorldAlone(t *testing.T) {
-	r := agendaRouter(t)
-	for _, u := range []string{
-		"когда была битва при ватерлоо",
-		"когда изобрели телефон",
-	} {
-		d, err := r.Route(context.Background(), u, refNow())
-		if err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("route(%q): %v", u, err)
-		}
-		if d.Stage == 0 {
-			t.Errorf("route(%q) was claimed at stage 0 as %s", u, d.Intent)
-		}
-	}
-}

internal/router/eval/ru_routing_v1.json

@@ -23,8 +23,6 @@
     { "id": "ru-query-012", "utterance": "какие заметки я оставил про полив", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["recall"] },
     { "id": "ru-query-013", "utterance": "во сколько у меня встреча", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["calendar"] },
     { "id": "ru-query-019", "utterance": "что у меня стоит в календаре на послезавтра", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["calendar", "hard"], "note": "agenda, not the clock: the daemon answers this from CalendarEvents inside the query branch, so the clock/date system rule must not swallow it" },
-    { "id": "ru-query-022", "utterance": "какие планы на завтра?", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["calendar"], "note": "the same agenda question as ru-query-019 aimed at another day; it answered \u043f\u043e\u043a\u0430 \u043d\u0435 \u0443\u043c\u0435\u044e on the deployed daemon while the today form worked (Vikunja #471)" },
-    { "id": "ru-query-023", "utterance": "\u043a\u043e\u0433\u0434\u0430 \u043f\u043b\u0430\u043d\u0451\u0440\u043a\u0430?", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["calendar", "hard"], "note": "a named event with no calendar word — the noun is the only signal that this is a question about his day" },
     { "id": "ru-query-014", "utterance": "я успеваю до дедлайна", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["hard", "no-question-word"] },
     { "id": "ru-query-015", "utterance": "сколько я прошёл шагов", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["aggregate"] },
     { "id": "ru-query-016", "utterance": "покажи давление за неделю", "lang": "ru", "intent": "query", "tags": ["hard", "imperative"], "note": "imperative form but a read — must not route to act" },
@@ -71,7 +69,6 @@
     { "id": "ru-note-003", "utterance": "заметка про настройку vlan на свитче", "lang": "ru", "intent": "note", "tags": ["homelab"] },
     { "id": "ru-note-004", "utterance": "запиши идею: гидропоника на балконе", "lang": "ru", "intent": "note" },
     { "id": "ru-note-005", "utterance": "запиши что сосед просил номер электрика", "lang": "ru", "intent": "note" },
-    { "id": "ru-note-006", "utterance": "добавь в задачи купить молоко", "lang": "ru", "intent": "note", "tags": ["capture"], "note": "an explicit capture marker — the model called it an act and rewrote the payload (Vikunja #467), stage 0 claims it" },
     { "id": "en-note-001", "utterance": "note: rotate the kuma api key", "lang": "en", "intent": "note", "tags": ["homelab"] },
 
     { "id": "ru-sys-001", "utterance": "сколько сейчас времени в киеве", "lang": "ru", "intent": "system", "tags": ["time"] },

internal/router/llmrouter.go

@@ -210,11 +210,7 @@ func (lr *LLMRouter) Route(ctx context.Context, utterance string, now time.Time)
 		d.Slots.HasKey = a.Key != ""
 	case IntentReminder:
 		d.Intent = IntentReminder
-		// No utterance fallback here, unlike every other intent below. The
-		// model returning no text for a reminder means it found no subject,
-		// and "напомни в 11" is not a subject. Leaving Text empty is what
-		// lets the gate turn that into a question (Vikunja #383).
-		d.Slots.Text = a.Text
+		d.Slots.Text = firstNonEmpty(a.Text, utterance)
 	case IntentNote:
 		d.Intent = IntentNote
 		d.Slots.Text = firstNonEmpty(a.Text, utterance)

internal/router/llmrouter_test.go

@@ -356,35 +356,3 @@ func TestRouterLLMFactWithResolvedKeyStaysConfident(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("a fact the parser could key must not clarify: %+v", d)
 	}
 }
-
-// A reminder with a time and no subject must come back empty and gated, not
-// backfilled with the raw words. "напомни в 11" carries an hour and nothing to
-// say at that hour; parking the utterance in Text made the request look
-// complete, so the daemon set a reminder that fires saying "напомни в 11"
-// (Vikunja #383).
-func TestLLMReminderWithoutSubjectAsksInsteadOfGuessing(t *testing.T) {
-	r := newLLMTestRouter(t, `{"intent":"reminder"}`)
-	d, err := r.Route(context.Background(), "напомни в 11", refNow())
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("route: %v", err)
-	}
-	if d.Slots.Text != "" {
-		t.Fatalf("subject backfilled from the utterance: %q", d.Slots.Text)
-	}
-	if !d.Clarify {
-		t.Fatalf("a subjectless reminder was accepted, confidence %v", d.Confidence)
-	}
-}
-
-// The gate is about the subject, not about reminders in general: one that has
-// both halves still runs without a question.
-func TestLLMReminderWithSubjectIsNotGated(t *testing.T) {
-	r := newLLMTestRouter(t, `{"intent":"reminder","text":"позвонить маме"}`)
-	d, err := r.Route(context.Background(), "напомни в 11 позвонить маме", refNow())
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("route: %v", err)
-	}
-	if d.Clarify {
-		t.Fatalf("a complete reminder was sent back as a question: %+v", d.Slots)
-	}
-}

internal/router/router.go

@@ -147,15 +147,7 @@ func (r *Router) fillSlots(ctx context.Context, d *Decision, now time.Time) {
 			d.Slots.Fn, d.Slots.Args, d.Slots.HasFn = fn, args, true
 		}
 	}
-	// The extractor's Text is the raw utterance, which is the payload for a
-	// note, a query or a chat turn but not for a reminder — there Text is the
-	// subject, what she says at the hour. Backfilling it made Text impossible
-	// to be empty, so StillMissing never reported SlotText and "О чём
-	// напомнить?" was unaskable; the answer to a question she did manage to
-	// ask then overwrote the whole request instead of filling one gap
-	// (Vikunja #383). A reminder with no subject stays empty and is gated
-	// below into a question.
-	if d.Slots.Text == "" && d.Intent != IntentReminder {
+	if d.Slots.Text == "" {
 		d.Slots.Text = ex.Text
 	}
 	// Stage stays 1: it says who decided the route, and that was the LLM.
@@ -185,12 +177,6 @@ func (r *Router) gateLLMDecision(d *Decision) {
 	if d.Intent == IntentAct && !d.Slots.HasFn && d.Confidence > llmThinConfidence {
 		d.Confidence = llmThinConfidence
 	}
-	// A reminder with no subject: she knows when but not what to say then.
-	// Setting it anyway fires an empty reminder at the hour, which reads as a
-	// bug to him and cannot be repaired after the fact. Ask (Vikunja #383).
-	if d.Intent == IntentReminder && d.Slots.Text == "" && d.Confidence > llmThinConfidence {
-		d.Confidence = llmThinConfidence
-	}
 	if d.Confidence < r.threshold {
 		d.Clarify = true
 	}

internal/router/stage0.go

@@ -182,38 +182,9 @@ func AgendaQueryGrammars() []Grammar {
 			Pattern: regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)^\s*(что|чего|какие|сколько|во\s+сколько|когда)\s+у\s+меня(\s|[?!.]|$)`),
 			Build:   agendaQueryBuild,
 		},
-		{
-			// A plan noun aimed at a named day, with no possessive to anchor
-			// on: "какие планы на завтра", "что по делам в среду". The rule
-			// above wants "у меня" and this phrasing never has it, so
-			// "какие планы на завтра" answered "пока не умею" while "какие
-			// планы на сегодня" worked (Vikunja #471). The day word is what
-			// makes it an agenda question rather than a topic.
-			Name: "plan-day-query",
-			// Only "план" and "дел". A verb stem like "встреч" would take
-			// "встречаемся в среду", which is him telling her something, not
-			// asking.
-			Pattern: regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)(^|\s)(план|дел)[а-я]*\s+(на|в|во|по)\s+` + dayWordPattern + `(\s|[?!.]|$)`),
-			Build:   agendaQueryBuild,
-		},
-		{
-			// A named event with no calendar word at all: "когда планёрка?",
-			// "во сколько созвон". He is asking when something on his calendar
-			// happens, and the noun is the only signal. Closed list, so "когда
-			// битва при Ватерлоо" is still a world question.
-			Name:    "event-time-query",
-			Pattern: regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)^\s*(когда|во\s+сколько|в\s+котором\s+часу)\s+(будет\s+|у\s+нас\s+)?(планёрк|планерк|встреч|созвон|митинг|совещани|звонок|созвон|приём|прием|интервью|собеседовани|тренировк|урок|занятие|пара)[а-я]*(\s|[?!.]|$)`),
-			Build:   agendaQueryBuild,
-		},
 	}
 }
 
-// dayWordPattern — the day words an agenda question can name. Weekdays appear
-// in the accusative and prepositional forms the questions actually use ("в
-// среду", "на среде"), which is why the stems carry an inflection tail rather
-// than a fixed ending.
-const dayWordPattern = `(сегодня|завтра|послезавтра|выходн[а-я]+|недел[а-я]+|понедельник[а-я]*|вторник[а-я]*|сред[ауые][а-я]*|четверг[а-я]*|пятниц[ауые][а-я]*|суббот[ауые][а-я]*|воскресень[ея][а-я]*)`
-
 // agendaQueryBuild — shared Build for the agenda grammars. Confidence 1.0 on
 // the intent only: the utterance travels intact and the query chain's own
 // matchers decide the rest.

internal/router/task.go

@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 package router
 
-import (
-	"regexp"
-	"strings"
-)
+import "strings"
 
 // Task capture and task listing, matched deterministically (Vikunja #130).
 //
@@ -204,47 +201,3 @@ func IsTaskListQuery(text string) bool {
 	}
 	return false
 }
-
-// TaskCaptureGrammar — stage 0 for an explicit capture marker, so the resident
-// model never sees it (Vikunja #467).
-//
-// Capture was built to ride the note intent, deliberately: #130 said no eighth
-// intent, and while the classifier was routing, a note-shaped utterance with a
-// marker in it reached actionNote and captureTaskFromNote claimed it there. The
-// router pre-empted that. Measured 2026-08-02: "добавь в задачи купить молоко"
-// routed act, so captureTaskFromNote was never consulted, the act arm found no
-// allowlisted fn, and the gate asked "Что сделать?". Every capture utterance
-// tried filed nothing.
-//
-// The model also rewrote the payload on the way — "купить молоко" came back as
-// "сделать покупку молока". A task must read as the words he said, which is a
-// second reason to answer this before the model rather than to prompt around
-// it.
-//
-// The marker list is data (task_phrases.json) and the parse strips urgency, so
-// the pattern here matches any utterance and the decision is ParseTaskCapture's
-// to make — same shape as the wake-word act grammar, which also matches broadly
-// and refuses in Build. Intent stays note: the daemon's note path is where
-// capture lives, and nothing about the contract with the model changes.
-func TaskCaptureGrammar() Grammar {
-	return Grammar{
-		Name:    "task-capture",
-		Pattern: regexp.MustCompile(`(?s)^\s*(.+)$`),
-		Build: func(m []string) (Decision, bool) {
-			c, ok := ParseTaskCapture(m[1])
-			if !ok {
-				return Decision{}, false // not a capture — fall through
-			}
-			return Decision{
-				Stage:      0,
-				Intent:     IntentNote,
-				Confidence: 1.0,
-				// The capture text, not the raw utterance: it is what the
-				// clarify gate reads as the payload. captureTaskFromNote
-				// re-parses the utterance itself, so the task text comes from
-				// the same place either way.
-				Slots: Slots{Text: c.Text},
-			}, true
-		},
-	}
-}

internal/router/task_phrases.json

@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@
     "добавь в список",
     "добавь задачу",
     "запиши в задачи",
-    "запиши в список дел",
-    "запиши в список задач",
-    "запиши в список",
     "запиши задачу",
     "новая задача",
     "поставь задачу",

internal/router/task_test.go

@@ -85,37 +85,3 @@ func TestIsTaskListQuery(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
-
-// TestTaskCaptureGrammarClaimsTheMarker — the capture marker is answered at
-// stage 0, so the model never gets to call it an act (Vikunja #467).
-func TestTaskCaptureGrammarClaimsTheMarker(t *testing.T) {
-	g := TaskCaptureGrammar()
-	captures := map[string]string{
-		"добавь в задачи купить молоко":       "купить молоко",
-		"запиши в список дел купить хлеб":     "купить хлеб",
-		"поставь задачу вынести мусор":        "вынести мусор",
-		"добавь в задачи срочно оплатить дом": "оплатить дом",
-	}
-	for in, want := range captures {
-		m := g.Pattern.FindStringSubmatch(in)
-		if m == nil {
-			t.Fatalf("%q did not match the grammar pattern", in)
-		}
-		d, ok := g.Build(m)
-		if !ok {
-			t.Fatalf("%q must be claimed as a capture", in)
-		}
-		if d.Intent != IntentNote || d.Slots.Text != want {
-			t.Errorf("%q → intent=%s text=%q, want note/%q", in, d.Intent, d.Slots.Text, want)
-		}
-	}
-	// Everything without a marker falls through, including a marker with no
-	// task after it and a question about the list.
-	for _, in := range []string{"надо бы поспать", "добавь в задачи", "какие у меня задачи?", "перезапусти nginx"} {
-		if m := g.Pattern.FindStringSubmatch(in); m != nil {
-			if _, ok := g.Build(m); ok {
-				t.Errorf("%q must fall through to the cascade", in)
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}

internal/store/delivery.go

@@ -87,68 +87,3 @@ func (s *Store) ReconcileStaleDeliveryAttempts(ctx context.Context, now time.Tim
 	}
 	return int(n), nil
 }
-
-// DeliveryAttempt — one row of the outbox, as a reader sees it.
-type DeliveryAttempt struct {
-	ID          int64
-	Kind        string // nudge|reminder
-	Rule        string // set for nudges
-	ReminderID  int64  // set for reminders
-	Channel     string
-	Status      string // one of the Delivery* constants
-	Created     time.Time
-	Completed   time.Time // zero while pending
-	HasComplete bool
-}
-
-// ListDeliveryAttempts returns recent attempts, newest first. An empty status
-// means every status; anything else filters on it.
-//
-// The table was write-only until 04-08-2026: rows were recorded and nothing
-// could read them, so the tests for #368 and #370 had to reach past the store
-// into store.DB, which is the tell (Vikunja #390). A durable record nobody can
-// read answers no question, and "why did Maven go quiet" is supposed to be a
-// query rather than a mystery.
-//
-// Status is the filter that earns its place, because the two questions actually
-// asked are "what got dropped" and "what is still pending". Neither is
-// answerable by reading the whole list on a busy day.
-func (s *Store) ListDeliveryAttempts(ctx context.Context, status string, limit int) ([]DeliveryAttempt, error) {
-	if limit <= 0 {
-		limit = 50
-	}
-	q := `SELECT id, kind, rule, reminder_id, channel, status, created_ts, completed_ts
-	        FROM delivery_attempts`
-	args := []any{}
-	if status != "" {
-		q += ` WHERE status = ?`
-		args = append(args, status)
-	}
-	q += ` ORDER BY created_ts DESC, id DESC LIMIT ?`
-	args = append(args, limit)
-
-	rows, err := s.db.QueryContext(ctx, q, args...)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("list delivery attempts: %w", err)
-	}
-	defer rows.Close()
-
-	var out []DeliveryAttempt
-	for rows.Next() {
-		var a DeliveryAttempt
-		var created int64
-		var completed *int64
-		if err := rows.Scan(&a.ID, &a.Kind, &a.Rule, &a.ReminderID, &a.Channel, &a.Status, &created, &completed); err != nil {
-			return nil, fmt.Errorf("list delivery attempts: scan: %w", err)
-		}
-		a.Created = time.UnixMilli(created)
-		if completed != nil {
-			a.Completed, a.HasComplete = time.UnixMilli(*completed), true
-		}
-		out = append(out, a)
-	}
-	if err := rows.Err(); err != nil {
-		return nil, fmt.Errorf("list delivery attempts: %w", err)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}

internal/store/delivery_test.go

@@ -32,53 +32,3 @@ func TestDroppedDeliveryAttemptRoundTrips(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("status: want %q, got %q", DeliveryDropped, status)
 	}
 }
-
-// TestListDeliveryAttempts — the read path the outbox lacked until #390. The
-// two questions it must answer are "what was dropped" and "what is pending".
-func TestListDeliveryAttempts(t *testing.T) {
-	ctx := context.Background()
-	s := newTestStore(t)
-	base := time.Date(2026, 8, 4, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)
-
-	sent, err := s.BeginDeliveryAttempt(ctx, "nudge", "water", 0, "telegram", "h1", base)
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if err := s.CompleteDeliveryAttempt(ctx, sent, DeliverySent, base.Add(time.Second)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	dropped, err := s.BeginDeliveryAttempt(ctx, "nudge", "care", 0, "telegram", "h2", base.Add(time.Minute))
-	if err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if err := s.CompleteDeliveryAttempt(ctx, dropped, DeliveryDropped, base.Add(time.Minute)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if _, err := s.BeginDeliveryAttempt(ctx, "reminder", "", 7, "voice", "h3", base.Add(2*time.Minute)); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-
-	all, err := s.ListDeliveryAttempts(ctx, "", 10)
-	if err != nil || len(all) != 3 {
-		t.Fatalf("ListDeliveryAttempts = %d rows, err=%v, want 3", len(all), err)
-	}
-	// Newest first.
-	if all[0].Kind != "reminder" || all[0].ReminderID != 7 {
-		t.Fatalf("newest row is %+v, want the reminder", all[0])
-	}
-	if all[0].HasComplete {
-		t.Fatalf("a pending row must have no completion time: %+v", all[0])
-	}
-	if !all[2].HasComplete || !all[2].Completed.Equal(base.Add(time.Second)) {
-		t.Fatalf("completed row lost its time: %+v", all[2])
-	}
-
-	only, err := s.ListDeliveryAttempts(ctx, DeliveryDropped, 10)
-	if err != nil || len(only) != 1 || only[0].Rule != "care" {
-		t.Fatalf("dropped filter = %+v, err=%v", only, err)
-	}
-	pending, err := s.ListDeliveryAttempts(ctx, DeliveryPending, 10)
-	if err != nil || len(pending) != 1 || pending[0].Kind != "reminder" {
-		t.Fatalf("pending filter = %+v, err=%v", pending, err)
-	}
-}

internal/store/migrations.go

@@ -208,17 +208,6 @@ ALTER TABLE reminders ADD COLUMN next_fire_ts INTEGER;`, // #2
 	// list_tasks into something that writes without the row changing by one
 	// byte. The fingerprint is the declared shape at approval time, so a
 	// redefinition is a re-approval instead of a silent upgrade.
-	`DELETE FROM facts
-	  WHERE key LIKE 'calendar_event_%'
-	    AND replace(substr(key, 25), '-', '') = '';`,
-	// #18 — drop the calendar keys written while safeKey dropped Cyrillic
-	// (Vikunja #443). Everything after the date prefix was punctuation, so
-	// every Russian event on one day shared one key and only the last one
-	// survived. Deleting rather than rewriting: a calendar fact is derived
-	// data, the next poll writes the day again under keys that identify the
-	// 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.
 }
 
 // migrate applies every migration with a number greater than the DB's current

internal/store/migrations_test.go

@@ -47,36 +47,3 @@ func TestMigrateAppliesOnceAndIsIdempotent(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("after re-migrate user_version = %d, want %d", v, want)
 	}
 }
-
-// Migration #18 clears the calendar keys written while safeKey dropped
-// Cyrillic. Those rows are indistinguishable from real events on read, so
-// leaving them would recite one meeting as several (Vikunja #443).
-func TestCollapsedCalendarKeysAreDropped(t *testing.T) {
-	ctx := context.Background()
-	s := newTestStore(t)
-
-	rows := []string{
-		"calendar_event_20260804_--",             // "Встреча с Аней" under the old rule
-		"calendar_event_20260804_",               // a one-word Russian summary
-		"calendar_event_20260804_Встреча-с-Аней", // the new format
-		"calendar_event_20260804_Standup",        // an ASCII summary, always fine
-	}
-	for _, key := range rows {
-		if _, err := s.db.ExecContext(ctx,
-			`INSERT INTO facts (ts, kind, key, value, source, confidence) VALUES (0, 'env', ?, 'x', 'poll:caldav', 1.0)`,
-			key); err != nil {
-			t.Fatalf("seed %q: %v", key, err)
-		}
-	}
-	if _, err := s.db.ExecContext(ctx, migrations[17]); err != nil {
-		t.Fatalf("migration 18: %v", err)
-	}
-
-	var got int
-	if err := s.db.QueryRowContext(ctx, `SELECT count(*) FROM facts WHERE key LIKE 'calendar_event_%'`).Scan(&got); err != nil {
-		t.Fatal(err)
-	}
-	if got != 2 {
-		t.Fatalf("%d calendar rows left, want the 2 that identify their event", got)
-	}
-}

internal/voice/replier.go

@@ -25,7 +25,10 @@
 // the daemon seam (config wiring, no CoreAPI or voice-package change).
 package voice
 
-import "github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+import (
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
 
 // Replier — the reactive reply phrasing seam. The daemon's reactive handler
 // calls Reply with the router's Decision; the impl produces a terse reply
@@ -60,27 +63,24 @@ func (s *StubReplier) Reply(d router.Decision) string {
 		if !d.Slots.HasFn {
 			return "не могу это сделать — не разобрала действие."
 		}
-		return "ок, записала действие: " + d.Slots.Fn
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckAct, map[string]string{"fn": d.Slots.Fn})
 	case router.IntentReminder:
-		if d.Slots.HasTime {
-			return "напомню."
-		}
-		return "напомню."
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckReminder, nil)
 	case router.IntentFact:
 		if d.Slots.HasKey {
 			if d.Slots.Value != "" {
-				return "отметила: " + d.Slots.Key + " = " + d.Slots.Value
+				return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckFactValue, map[string]string{"key": d.Slots.Key, "value": d.Slots.Value})
 			}
-			return "отметила: " + d.Slots.Key
+			return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckFactKey, map[string]string{"key": d.Slots.Key})
 		}
-		return "записала факт."
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckFact, nil)
 	case router.IntentNote:
-		return "сохранила заметку."
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckNote, nil)
 	case router.IntentQuery:
 		return "поискала в заметках — ничего не нашла."
 	case router.IntentChat:
 		return "поговорили." // stub — LLMReplier replaces this
 	default:
-		return "приняла."
+		return phraser.Ack(phraser.AckGeneric, nil)
 	}
 }

internal/weather/openmeteo.go

@@ -97,59 +97,7 @@ func (p *OpenMeteoProvider) CurrentWeather(ctx context.Context, location string)
 	}, nil
 }
 
-// locationCandidates — the spellings to try for a place taken out of a spoken
-// sentence, in order. He says "какая погода в Казани", so the word arrives in
-// the prepositional case and the geocoder wants the nominative (Vikunja #421).
-//
-// Two cheap reversals cover most of what he says: a final "е" is usually a
-// nominative "а" (Москве → Москва) or nothing at all (Лондоне → Лондон), and a
-// final "и" is usually a soft sign (Казани → Казань). Indeclinable names —
-// Тбилиси, Сочи, Осло — are already nominative and the first candidate answers.
-//
-// Nothing here is a guess about the weather: a wrong candidate finds no city
-// and the caller says so. It only decides which strings are worth asking about.
-func locationCandidates(location string) []string {
-	out := []string{location}
-	add := func(s string) {
-		if s == "" || s == location {
-			return
-		}
-		for _, seen := range out {
-			if seen == s {
-				return
-			}
-		}
-		out = append(out, s)
-	}
-	r := []rune(location)
-	if len(r) < 4 {
-		return out
-	}
-	stem := string(r[:len(r)-1])
-	switch r[len(r)-1] {
-	case 'е', 'Е':
-		add(stem + "а")
-		add(stem)
-	case 'и', 'И':
-		add(stem + "ь")
-		add(stem)
-	case 'у', 'У', 'ю', 'Ю':
-		add(stem + "а")
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
 func (p *OpenMeteoProvider) geocode(ctx context.Context, location string) (lat, lon float64, name string, err error) {
-	for _, cand := range locationCandidates(location) {
-		lat, lon, name, err = p.geocodeOne(ctx, cand)
-		if err == nil {
-			return lat, lon, name, nil
-		}
-	}
-	return 0, 0, "", err
-}
-
-func (p *OpenMeteoProvider) geocodeOne(ctx context.Context, location string) (lat, lon float64, name string, err error) {
 	u := fmt.Sprintf("https://geocoding-api.open-meteo.com/v1/search?name=%s&count=1&language=ru&format=json", url.QueryEscape(location))
 	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, u, nil)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -173,7 +121,7 @@ func (p *OpenMeteoProvider) geocodeOne(ctx context.Context, location string) (la
 	}
 
 	if len(geo.Results) == 0 {
-		return 0, 0, "", fmt.Errorf("%w: %q", ErrLocationUnknown, location)
+		return 0, 0, "", fmt.Errorf("location %q not found", location)
 	}
 
 	r := geo.Results[0]

internal/weather/openmeteo_test.go

@@ -83,29 +83,3 @@ func TestStubProvider(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Fatalf("StubProvider: want ErrNotConfigured, got %v", err)
 	}
 }
-
-// TestLocationCandidates — he speaks the prepositional case and the geocoder
-// wants the nominative (Vikunja #421).
-func TestLocationCandidates(t *testing.T) {
-	cases := map[string][]string{
-		"Москве":  {"Москве", "Москва", "Москв"},
-		"Казани":  {"Казани", "Казань", "Казан"},
-		"Лондоне": {"Лондоне", "Лондона", "Лондон"},
-		"Тбилиси": {"Тбилиси", "Тбились", "Тбилис"},
-		"Berlin":  {"Berlin"},
-		"Уфе":     {"Уфе"}, // too short to strip — asked as spoken
-	}
-	for in, want := range cases {
-		got := locationCandidates(in)
-		if len(got) != len(want) {
-			t.Errorf("locationCandidates(%q) = %v, want %v", in, got, want)
-			continue
-		}
-		for i := range got {
-			if got[i] != want[i] {
-				t.Errorf("locationCandidates(%q) = %v, want %v", in, got, want)
-				break
-			}
-		}
-	}
-}

internal/weather/weather.go

@@ -7,13 +7,6 @@ import (
 
 var ErrNotConfigured = errors.New("weather: not configured")
 
-// ErrLocationUnknown — the geocoder has no such place. A named city that does
-// not resolve must read differently from a provider outage: one is "I do not
-// know that place", the other is "I could not reach the service", and
-// answering for the default location instead is the defect this replaces
-// (Vikunja #421).
-var ErrLocationUnknown = errors.New("weather: location not found")
-
 type Weather struct {
 	Location    string  `json:"location"`
 	Temperature float64 `json:"temperature"`