docs: record what the e5-small swap bought (V-371)

The swap itself already landed: deploy loads
models/embedder/multilingual-e5-small/model_quantized.onnx, and
onnxembedder.go grew EmbedQuery/EmbedPassage with the query:/passage:
prefixes the model was trained with. What was missing is the half of #371
that says "re-run make eval-recall and compare against the recorded numbers",
so nothing in the repo says whether it worked.

It worked, on every axis at once. recall@1 60.0% → 70.4%, recall@3 80.0% →
85.2%, answered after the gate 48.0% → 63.0%, false recall 1/5 → 0/5, and
latency p50 59ms → 23ms because the quantized file is 118MB against the 470MB
fp32 one the old config loaded. The guitar-chords note no longer beats the
docker-logs note.

One premise of the task did not come true and the new doc says so. #371
expected a better retriever to separate the score distributions and make
query_min_score tunable. It did not: right-first top-1 runs 0.791-0.890 and
must-stay-silent runs 0.795-0.835, still overlapping, just higher and
tighter. The margin separates them instead — 0.024 median against 0.002 — and
0.008 is the knee where all five silent cases are silenced at no cost. The
score gate is close to inert now; the margin is the live dial. Neither is
changed here, since #412 is where a sweep belongs.

docs/evals/2026-08-04-recall-e5-small.md is the dated measurement.
rearchitecture.md's "upgrade MiniLM → bge-m3 later" is now done and says so,
CLAUDE.md names the retriever and the prefix rule where it already promises
the embedder never leaves homesrv, and the Makefile comment points at this
eval instead of the one that asked for the swap.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

.gitignore

@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 /mavwaked
 /mavmaild
 /mavupdate
+/mavgpud
 
 # Certs (private keys, don't commit)
 certs/

CLAUDE.md

@@ -32,10 +32,21 @@ See `docs/rearchitecture.md` for the target architecture, `docs/design.md` for t
 GPU and the workstation has 16GB of VRAM. So the resident model, STT and TTS become preferred
 remotes with a floor on homesrv. The workstation is never assumed up. Fall back silently when
 it would only do the job better. Name the gap when the 1.7B cannot do it at all. The embedder
-stays on homesrv permanently, because it backs that floor. Read `docs/offload.md` before
+stays on homesrv permanently, because it backs that floor. It is multilingual-e5-small,
+quantized and asymmetric — `EmbedQuery` and `EmbedPassage` apply the `query:`/`passage:`
+prefixes it was trained with, and calling plain `Embed` on a note is a bug. It replaced
+MiniLM and bought ten points of recall@1 and 2.5× the speed; see
+`docs/evals/2026-08-04-recall-e5-small.md`. Read `docs/offload.md` before
 touching a daemon seam or adding a model caller. Vikunja #483 is the umbrella, #484 to #487
 are the work.
 
+Both halves are wired as of 2026-08-03. Routing and replies prefer the workstation silently
+through `modelSeam`; nudge and reminder phrasing prefer it silently inside the phraser. A
+world question goes through `LLMPhraser.PhraseWorld` and names the gap when the card is not
+free — `worldGap` in `cmd/mavend/worldmodel.go`, which he hears instead of an invented
+answer. A box with no `workstation` block behaves exactly as it did before the seam: naming
+a gap requires a gap. The offload table in `docs/offload.md` says which caller is which.
+
 ## Build & test
 
 CGO daemons (`mavend`, `mavsttd`, `mavttsd`, `mavenclient`) need the vendored toolchain
@@ -143,7 +154,15 @@ seed additions, both of which now score inside the classifier baseline. Qwen3-1.
 not a doubling, and the trade is worth re-arguing rather than assuming. **The ≈2.7s figure
 that stood here until 2026-08-02 was contention, not the model.** See `docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md` line 61, which measures the LLM router at
 p50 825ms / p95 1.2s / max 3.0s and the full cascade at p50 0.80-1.04s. Do not plan latency
-work off the bakeoff table. `Confidence: 1.0` used to be hardcoded in `llmrouter.go`, so the LLM
+work off the bakeoff table.
+
+**The numbers above are the homesrv floor, not the ceiling.** With the workstation up, routing
+completes through `llm.Pair` against gemma-4-12b and scores **84.4% full / 93.5% intent-only at
+p50 329ms** — better than the resident model and about 2.5× faster (`docs/evals/2026-08-02-workstation-gemma4-12b.md`,
+Vikunja #485). The workstation is never assumed up, so both sets of numbers are live. Judge a
+routing change against the classifier and the resident model, since those are what always answer.
+
+`Confidence: 1.0` used to be hardcoded in `llmrouter.go`, so the LLM
 path could never ask for clarification (6/6 refusal cases missed on the fixture) — Vikunja
 #359. Fixed 31-07-2026 with structural signal (single-token utterance, keyless fact, act with
 no allowlisted fn) feeding the same stage-3 gate the classifier path already had — see
@@ -214,8 +233,11 @@ world questions, so she needs to read external sources. What replaces it:
 
 ## Web UI conventions
 
-Server-rendered pages share `cmd/mavweb/static/ui.css` (served at `/ui.css`) and the `nav`
-partial (`navHTML` in `cmd/mavweb/main.go`, `{{template "nav" "<active-page>"}}`). No
+Server-rendered pages share `cmd/mavweb/static/ui.css` (served at `/ui.css`) and the shell
+partial in `cmd/mavweb/shell.html`: a page opens with `{{template "shellTop" "<page-key>"}}`
+and closes with `{{template "shellBottom"}}`, and the key marks the active sidebar link.
+Every page is its own embedded `.html` file next to `main.go` — no page markup lives in Go,
+and the sidebar is data (`sidebarSections`, `pageIcon`) the template renders. No
 per-page `<style>` beyond true one-offs. Wrap every table in `<div class=scroll>` so wide
 data pans on a phone. Local preview + headless screenshot recipe is in `AGENTS.md`.
 

Makefile

@@ -16,11 +16,11 @@ PIPER_BIN     := $(shell pwd)/deps/piper/piper
 PIPER_MODEL   := $(shell pwd)/models/tts/ru_RU-irina-medium.onnx
 PIPER_ESPEAK  := $(shell pwd)/deps/piper/espeak-ng-data
 
-.PHONY: simulate stt-fixtures test-stt-golden all build build-stt build-tts build-daemon build-client build-waked build-web build-poll build-caldav clean test fmt-check vet run-stt run-tts run-web download-embedder deps-go eval-router eval-recall eval-phrasing eval-models
+.PHONY: simulate stt-fixtures test-stt-golden all build build-stt build-tts build-daemon build-client build-waked build-web build-poll build-caldav clean test fmt-check vet run-stt run-tts run-web download-embedder deps-go eval-router eval-recall eval-phrasing eval-models build-gpud
 
 all: build
 
-build: build-stt build-tts build-daemon build-client build-waked build-web build-poll build-caldav build-mail build-update
+build: build-stt build-tts build-daemon build-client build-waked build-web build-poll build-caldav build-mail build-update build-gpud
 
 build-stt:
 	CGO_CFLAGS="$(CGO_CFLAGS)" CGO_LDFLAGS="$(CGO_LDFLAGS)" LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$(shell pwd)/deps/lib" \
@@ -59,6 +59,12 @@ build-mail:
 build-update:
 	$(GO) build $(GOFLAGS) -o mavupdate ./cmd/mavupdate/
 
+# mavgpud runs on the workstation, not here. It is built with the rest so a
+# broken supervisor is caught by `make build` on homesrv rather than by the
+# workstation refusing to serve. Copy the binary over, do not `make deploy` it.
+build-gpud:
+	$(GO) build $(GOFLAGS) -o mavgpud ./cmd/mavgpud/
+
 run-web: build-web
 	./mavweb -addr :9200 -voice 127.0.0.1:9100
 
@@ -191,7 +197,7 @@ deps-piper:
 # multilingual-e5-small: an asymmetric retrieval model. It is trained to match
 # a short question against a longer passage, which is what note recall is.
 # The quantized file is the one we download, deploy and measure — see
-# docs/evals/2026-07-31-recall.md.
+# docs/evals/2026-08-04-recall-e5-small.md for what the swap bought.
 EMBEDDER_DIR := $(shell pwd)/models/embedder/multilingual-e5-small
 EMBEDDER_MODEL_URL := https://huggingface.co/Xenova/multilingual-e5-small/resolve/main/onnx/model_quantized.onnx
 EMBEDDER_TOKENIZER_URL := https://huggingface.co/Xenova/multilingual-e5-small/resolve/main/tokenizer.json

cmd/mavend/actions_fact.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 )
 
 // actionFact handles router.IntentFact: persist a tapped self-fact, index
@@ -15,14 +16,41 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) actionFact(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) s
 	if !dec.Slots.HasKey {
 		return "не разобрала, что записать — попробуй иначе."
 	}
+	// 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
+	// model invented for it, at confidence 1.00, indexed for recall under the
+	// question's own text. Two such rows then claimed seven unrelated world
+	// questions through recall and silently disabled world answering.
+	//
+	// The routing error itself is not fixed here — the answer is to answer.
+	// Sending the turn down the query chain is what he asked for anyway, and
+	// it costs a mis-routed capture nothing: an explicit "запиши ..." is not
+	// question-shaped, so it never takes this branch.
+	if router.IsQuestionShaped(dec.Utterance) {
+		log.Printf("voice: fact write refused, utterance is a question: %q (key %q) — answering as a query",
+			dec.Utterance, dec.Slots.Key)
+		q := dec
+		q.Intent = router.IntentQuery
+		// The key the model extracted is its guess at what to store, not a
+		// fact he has. Left in place, queryFactByKey would read it back and
+		// claim the turn before any real source ran.
+		q.Slots.Key, q.Slots.HasKey = "", false
+		q.Slots.Value = ""
+		return h.actionQuery(ctx, q)
+	}
 	now := h.now()
 	req := ipc.WriteFactReq{
-		Ts:         now,
-		Kind:       "self",
-		Key:        dec.Slots.Key,
-		Value:      dec.Slots.Value,
-		Source:     "tap:voice",
-		Confidence: 1.0,
+		Ts:     now,
+		Kind:   "self",
+		Key:    dec.Slots.Key,
+		Value:  dec.Slots.Value,
+		Source: "tap:voice",
+		// Not 1.00 unconditionally any more (#470). A value he said is
+		// evidence; a value the model supplied for words he never said is a
+		// guess, and writing a guess at full confidence is the same mistake
+		// the act path already refuses under "LLM output is not
+		// authorization".
+		Confidence: factConfidence(dec.Utterance, dec.Slots.Value),
 		// Subject: the key doubles as the entity-resolution candidate —
 		// a voice-tapped fact's key is usually the thing/person it's
 		// about ("espresso_machine", "kate"), so queueing it for Nexus
@@ -36,17 +64,25 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) actionFact(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) s
 		log.Printf("voice: write fact: %v", err)
 		return "не получилось сохранить факт."
 	}
-	// Index the fact utterance 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 for them — "когда я пил воду?" reads back from here.
+	// 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
+	// for them — "когда я пил воду?" reads back from here.
+	//
+	// The indexed text is the fact, not the utterance (#493). queryMemory
+	// returns a fact's stored text verbatim, so what goes in here is what he
+	// hears; storing the utterance meant recall answered with his own sentence
+	// rather than the value. The utterance stays alongside as provenance —
+	// readable on /trace, never the answer and never embedded.
 	if h.memStore != nil {
-		if vec, err := router.EmbedPassage(ctx, h.embedder, dec.Utterance); err != nil {
+		text := store.FactRecallText(dec.Slots.Key, dec.Slots.Value)
+		if vec, err := router.EmbedPassage(ctx, h.embedder, text); err != nil {
 			log.Printf("voice: embed fact for memory: %v", err)
 		} else if err := h.memStore.Insert(ctx, "fact:"+dec.Slots.Key+":"+strconv.FormatInt(now.Unix(), 10), vec, map[string]string{
-			"source": "voice",
-			"type":   "fact",
-			"text":   dec.Utterance,
-			"ts":     strconv.FormatInt(now.Unix(), 10),
+			"source":    "voice",
+			"type":      "fact",
+			"text":      text,
+			"utterance": dec.Utterance,
+			"ts":        strconv.FormatInt(now.Unix(), 10),
 		}); err != nil {
 			log.Printf("voice: memory insert fact: %v", err)
 		}

cmd/mavend/actions_query.go

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/memory"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/morning"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/rss"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
@@ -389,6 +390,11 @@ 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
@@ -433,6 +439,14 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryMemory(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string
 		return "", false
 	}
 	text := hit.Meta["text"]
+	// The score cleared the gate and the topic still has to match (#470). A
+	// note about his slow network scored high enough to answer "почему небо
+	// синее?", because the right-note and must-be-silent score ranges overlap
+	// and no threshold sits between them.
+	if !memory.RecallAllowed(t.dec.Utterance, text) {
+		log.Printf("voice: recall %q rejected for %q: a world question and no shared topic word", text, t.dec.Utterance)
+		return "", false
+	}
 	// A note is phrased in Maven's voice; a fact is read back as it was
 	// stored.
 	if hit.Meta["type"] == "note" {
@@ -468,6 +482,12 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryNotes(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string,
 	if !memory.ConfidentScores(noteScores, h.queryMinScore, h.queryMinMargin) {
 		return "", false
 	}
+	// Same topic veto as queryMemory above: the best note must be about what
+	// he asked, not merely the nearest vector in the index.
+	if !memory.RecallAllowed(t.dec.Utterance, notes[0].Text) {
+		log.Printf("voice: note %q rejected for %q: a world question and no shared topic word", notes[0].Text, t.dec.Utterance)
+		return "", false
+	}
 	texts := make([]string, len(notes))
 	for i, n := range notes {
 		texts[i] = n.Text
@@ -523,10 +543,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryWeb(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string, b
 	// the question he actually asked. She answers the question, she does not
 	// recite the page.
 	snippet := page.Title + "\n" + crawl.TrimRunes(page.Text, webPageContextRunes)
-	reply, perr := h.phraser.PhraseQuery(ctx, t.dec.Utterance, []string{snippet})
-	if perr != nil {
-		log.Printf("voice: web: phrase: %v", perr)
-	}
+	reply := h.phraseSource(ctx, "web", t.dec.Utterance, []string{snippet})
 	if reply == "" {
 		// No phraser (or it failed): read back the top of the page rather than
 		// pretend the fetch did not happen.
@@ -592,14 +609,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) querySearch(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string
 	// question he asked, not something to recite. The trim is one budget over the
 	// joined block, so a long first snippet cannot crowd out the rest.
 	evidence := crawl.TrimRunes(strings.Join(resp.Snippets(), "\n"), h.search.runes)
-	var reply string
-	if h.phraser != nil {
-		var perr error
-		reply, perr = h.phraser.PhraseQuery(ctx, t.dec.Utterance, []string{evidence})
-		if perr != nil {
-			log.Printf("voice: search: phrase: %v", perr)
-		}
-	}
+	reply := h.phraseSource(ctx, "search", t.dec.Utterance, []string{evidence})
 	if reply == "" {
 		// No phraser, or it failed. Read back the best evidence rather than
 		// pretend the search did not happen.
@@ -680,14 +690,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryKiwix(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string,
 	// Handed over the same way a note or a page is: context for the question he
 	// asked, not something to recite.
 	snippet := top.Title + "\n" + crawl.TrimRunes(page.Text, h.kiwix.runes)
-	var reply string
-	if h.phraser != nil {
-		var perr error
-		reply, perr = h.phraser.PhraseQuery(ctx, t.dec.Utterance, []string{snippet})
-		if perr != nil {
-			log.Printf("voice: kiwix: phrase: %v", perr)
-		}
-	}
+	reply := h.phraseSource(ctx, "kiwix", t.dec.Utterance, []string{snippet})
 	if reply == "" {
 		// No phraser, or it failed. Read back the best hit rather than pretend
 		// the search did not happen.
@@ -717,7 +720,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryKiwix(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string,
 // not be sent to an upstream engine at all. The guard closes both holes with
 // the same test.
 func (h *reactiveHandler) queryPersonal(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string, bool) {
-	if !isPersonalQuery(t.dec.Utterance) {
+	if !h.isPersonalTurn(ctx, t) {
 		return "", false
 	}
 	log.Printf("voice: %q is about him and his own data did not answer it; not asking the world", t.dec.Utterance)
@@ -742,7 +745,9 @@ var personalMarkers = []*regexp.Regexp{
 	regexp.MustCompile(`(?i)\bdid\s+i\b`),
 }
 
-// isPersonalQuery reports whether the utterance asks about something of his.
+// isPersonalQuery — the offline floor under the boundary. Possession only, and
+// deliberately still narrow: it answers when there is no embedder to ask, and a
+// broad guess made blind is worse than a narrow one.
 func isPersonalQuery(utterance string) bool {
 	if utterance == "" {
 		return false
@@ -755,11 +760,45 @@ func isPersonalQuery(utterance string) bool {
 	return false
 }
 
-// queryGeneral — general knowledge from the phraser, the last source before
-// giving up. It always claims: either the model answers or Maven says she
-// doesn't know.
+// isPersonalTurn — the boundary test. The seeds decide when the embedder is
+// there, which is every deployed box; the possession markers are the floor
+// underneath, for a handler with no embedder or a turn whose vector never got
+// computed. Same shape as the cascade: the better test leads, the offline one
+// always answers.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) isPersonalTurn(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) bool {
+	h.boundary.load(ctx, h.embedder)
+	if personal, world, ok := h.boundary.score(t.vec); ok {
+		if personal > world {
+			log.Printf("voice: %q scores personal %.4f vs world %.4f", t.dec.Utterance, personal, world)
+			return true
+		}
+		return false
+	}
+	return isPersonalQuery(t.dec.Utterance)
+}
+
+// queryGeneral — general knowledge, the last source before giving up. It always
+// claims: either a model answers, or Maven names the gap, or she says she does
+// not know.
+//
+// This is the sharpest case for the naming half. Nothing has been fetched, so
+// there is no passage to fall back on and no floor under the answer except the
+// model's weights — and a 1.7B's weights are where the invented answers come
+// from. With a workstation configured and asleep he is told that, rather than
+// told something false in a confident voice. With no workstation configured at
+// all the resident model answers exactly as it does today: naming a gap requires
+// a gap, and on that box the 1.7B is the whole product.
 func (h *reactiveHandler) queryGeneral(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string, bool) {
-	reply, err := h.phraser.PhraseQuery(ctx, t.dec.Utterance, nil)
+	if h.phraser == nil {
+		// No model of any size. That is not the workstation being asleep, so it
+		// is not that gap: it is simply not knowing.
+		return "не знаю.", true
+	}
+	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
+	}
 	if err != nil || reply == "" {
 		return "не знаю.", true
 	}

cmd/mavend/actions_query_personal_test.go

@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ func TestIsPersonalQuery(t *testing.T) {
 		"when is my meeting",
 		"do i have anything today",
 		"did i take my vitamins",
+		// Speech, but only the forms possession already covers ("did i").
+		// The verb forms the floor cannot see are the seeds' job, scored in
+		// TestONNXPersonalBoundary.
+		"what did i say about backups",
 	} {
 		if !isPersonalQuery(s) {
 			t.Errorf("isPersonalQuery(%q) = false, want true", s)
@@ -33,6 +37,10 @@ func TestIsPersonalQuery(t *testing.T) {
 		"почему небо синее",
 		"столица франции",
 		"how do i boil an egg",
+		// The floor is possession-only by design: a speech verb it cannot see
+		// passes here and is caught by the seeds instead.
+		"что я говорил про бэкапы?",
+		"как я говорил, почему небо синее",
 		"",
 	} {
 		if isPersonalQuery(s) {

cmd/mavend/capture.go

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ func (l llmCompleter) Complete(ctx context.Context, system, user string) (string
 // grammar, or a llama-server too old to honour one, gets the plain text it used
 // to get rather than an empty meeting summary.
 func unwrapSummary(raw string) string {
-	s := stripThink(strings.TrimSpace(raw))
+	s := phraser.StripThink(strings.TrimSpace(raw))
 	start := strings.Index(s, "{")
 	end := strings.LastIndex(s, "}")
 	if start < 0 || end <= start {

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() string {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) clarifyExpiredNotice(ctx context.Context) string {
 	if h.clarifyStore == nil {
 		return ""
 	}
-	if !h.clarifyStore.TakeExpired(voiceDialogueID, h.now()) {
+	if !h.clarifyStore.TakeExpired(dialogueIDOf(ctx), 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(dec router.Decision) (string, bool) {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) askClarify(ctx context.Context, dec router.Decision) (string, bool) {
 	if h.clarifyStore == nil {
 		return "", false
 	}
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) askClarify(dec router.Decision) (string, bool) {
 	if !ok {
 		return "", false
 	}
-	h.clarifyStore.Put(voiceDialogueID, &dialogue.PendingQuestion{
+	h.clarifyStore.Put(dialogueIDOf(ctx), &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(voiceDialogueID, h.now())
+	q := h.clarifyStore.Get(dialogueIDOf(ctx), 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(q, merged, text), true
+		return h.reaskOrGiveUp(ctx, q, merged, text), true
 	}
-	h.clarifyStore.Delete(voiceDialogueID)
+	h.clarifyStore.Delete(dialogueIDOf(ctx))
 
 	// 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(q, intent, merged); asked {
+	if reply, asked := h.askRemainingGap(ctx, 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(q *dialogue.PendingQuestion, intent router.Intent, merged dialogue.Slots) (string, bool) {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) askRemainingGap(ctx context.Context, 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(q *dialogue.PendingQuestion, intent ro
 	if !ok || !q.CanAsk() {
 		return "", false
 	}
-	h.clarifyStore.Put(voiceDialogueID, &dialogue.PendingQuestion{
+	h.clarifyStore.Put(dialogueIDOf(ctx), &dialogue.PendingQuestion{
 		Intent:      q.Intent,
 		Slots:       merged,
 		Missing:     []dialogue.Slot{remaining[0]},
@@ -287,13 +287,13 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) askRemainingGap(q *dialogue.PendingQuestion, intent ro
 // 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(q *dialogue.PendingQuestion, merged dialogue.Slots, text string) string {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) reaskOrGiveUp(ctx context.Context, 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(voiceDialogueID)
+		h.clarifyStore.Delete(dialogueIDOf(ctx))
 		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(q *dialogue.PendingQuestion, merged dial
 	q.Slots = merged
 	q.Attempts++
 	q.Asked = h.now()
-	h.clarifyStore.Put(voiceDialogueID, q)
+	h.clarifyStore.Put(dialogueIDOf(ctx), 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(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни позвонить маме"}, "напомни позвонить маме"))
+	question, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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(clarifyDec(router.IntentFact, router.Slots{Text: "запиши"}, "запиши")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни позвонить маме"}, "напомни позвонить маме")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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(clarifyDec(router.IntentAct, router.Slots{Text: "сделай это"}, "сделай это")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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(clarifyDec(router.IntentAct, router.Slots{Text: "сделай это"}, "сделай это")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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(dec); asked {
+		if question, asked := h.askClarify(context.Background(), 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 := context.Background()
+	ctx := withDialogueID(context.Background(), dialogueIDFor(sourceText, ""))
 	h, _, now := newClarifyHandler(t)
 	emb := router.NewHashEmbedder(1024)
 	h.embedder = emb
 	h.router = buildRouter(emb, h.matcher, 0.55, nil)
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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(voiceDialogueID, h.now()) != nil {
+	if h.clarifyStore.Get(textDialogueID, 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(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{}, "напомни"))
+	question, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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 := context.Background()
+	ctx := withDialogueID(context.Background(), dialogueIDFor(sourceText, ""))
 	h, _, now := newClarifyHandler(t)
 
-	if _, asked := h.askClarify(clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, 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)
 	}
@@ -461,7 +461,92 @@ func TestExpiryNoticeSurvivesAConfirmTurn(t *testing.T) {
 	if h.pending != nil {
 		t.Fatal("the confirm must still have been consumed")
 	}
-	if h.clarifyStore.Get(voiceDialogueID, h.now()) != nil {
+	if h.clarifyStore.Get(textDialogueID, 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, ""))
+}
+
+// TestARestartExpiresTheParkedQuestion pins the Vikunja #385 decision: the
+// question dies with the process, and she does not claim to have let it go —
+// the words that follow are routed as a fresh request. Restarting is modelled
+// the way the daemon does it, by building a second handler over the same store.
+func TestARestartExpiresTheParkedQuestion(t *testing.T) {
+	h, _, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
+	ctx := voiceCtx()
+	if _, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, clarifyDec(router.IntentReminder, router.Slots{Text: "напомни"}, "напомни")); !asked {
+		t.Fatal("expected a question before the restart")
+	}
+
+	restarted, _, _ := newClarifyHandler(t)
+	if _, handled := restarted.resolveClarifyAnswer(ctx, "в 11:00"); handled {
+		t.Fatal("a question parked before the restart must not eat the next utterance")
+	}
+	if notice := restarted.clarifyExpiredNotice(ctx); notice != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("notice = %q, want silence: nothing survived to expire", notice)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/ecosystem_acts.go

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

cmd/mavend/entityname.go

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

cmd/mavend/entityname_test.go

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

cmd/mavend/factgate.go

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"log"
+	"strings"
+	"unicode"
+)
+
+// ungroundedConfidence — what a self fact is worth when its value appears
+// nowhere in what he said. Below `query_min_score` is not the point (recall
+// gates on vector distance, not on this number); the point is that
+// `/history` and every future reader can tell a value he said from a value
+// the model supplied.
+const ungroundedConfidence = 0.6
+
+// factConfidence scores a self fact by whether its value is grounded in the
+// utterance it came from. Grounded stays 1.00, which is what a tapped fact
+// has always been worth. Ungrounded drops, and says so in the log.
+//
+// An empty value is grounded by definition: the key alone carries the fact
+// ("поужинал"), and there is nothing for the model to have invented.
+func factConfidence(utterance, value string) float64 {
+	if strings.TrimSpace(value) == "" {
+		return 1.0
+	}
+	if valueGrounded(utterance, value) {
+		return 1.0
+	}
+	log.Printf("voice: fact value %q is not in %q — writing at confidence %.2f",
+		value, utterance, ungroundedConfidence)
+	return ungroundedConfidence
+}
+
+// valueGrounded reports whether every word of value traces back to a word he
+// actually said. The comparison is on a 4-rune prefix, so the model's
+// normalization survives ("пил воду" → "вода") while an invented value
+// ("1.20" for a question about Go) does not.
+func valueGrounded(utterance, value string) bool {
+	said := factTokens(utterance)
+	words := factTokens(value)
+	if len(words) == 0 {
+		return true
+	}
+	for _, w := range words {
+		if !anyTokenMatches(said, w) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+func anyTokenMatches(said []string, w string) bool {
+	for _, s := range said {
+		if s == w || sameStem(s, w) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// sameStem is inflection tolerance and nothing more: it compares all but the
+// last rune of the shorter word, and never fewer than three. Russian marks
+// case on the ending, so "пил воду" and the stored "вода" are the same word he
+// said, while "1.20" and "версия" are not. A word of three runes or fewer must
+// match outright, where a shorter prefix would match half the language.
+func sameStem(a, b string) bool {
+	ar, br := []rune(a), []rune(b)
+	shorter := min(len(ar), len(br))
+	n := shorter - 1
+	if n < 3 || len(ar) < n || len(br) < n {
+		return false
+	}
+	return string(ar[:n]) == string(br[:n])
+}
+
+// factTokens lowercases and splits on everything that is not a letter or a
+// digit, the same shape planTokens uses in the router.
+func factTokens(s string) []string {
+	return strings.FieldsFunc(strings.ToLower(s), func(r rune) bool {
+		return !unicode.IsLetter(r) && !unicode.IsDigit(r)
+	})
+}

cmd/mavend/factgate_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"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/tool"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/voice"
+)
+
+func newFactGateHandler(t *testing.T, now time.Time) (*reactiveHandler, ipc.CoreAPI) {
+	t.Helper()
+	st := newTestStore(t)
+	api := ipc.NewStoreAPI(st)
+	emb := router.NewHashEmbedder(1024)
+	h := &reactiveHandler{
+		api:       api,
+		embedder:  emb,
+		router:    buildRouter(emb, tool.NewMatcher(api), 0.55, nil),
+		replier:   voice.NewStubReplier(),
+		now:       func() time.Time { return now },
+		memStore:  memory.NewInMemoryStore(),
+		dataStore: st,
+	}
+	return h, api
+}
+
+// The write half of #470: a question routed to IntentFact must not become a
+// fact about him, and must not leave a vector behind for recall to serve.
+func TestActionFact_QuestionIsNotWritten(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	h, api := newFactGateHandler(t, time.Now())
+
+	reply := h.actionFact(ctx, router.Decision{
+		Intent:    router.IntentFact,
+		Utterance: "какая последняя версия языка Go?",
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Key: "go_version", HasKey: true, Value: `"1.20"`},
+	})
+
+	if _, err := api.LatestFact(ctx, "go_version"); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a question was stored as a fact about him")
+	}
+	hits, err := h.memStore.Search(ctx, mustEmbedPassage(t, h, "какая последняя версия языка Go?"), 3)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("memory search: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(hits) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("the question was indexed for recall: %+v", hits)
+	}
+	// It went down the query chain instead. Nothing is configured to answer a
+	// world question in this harness, so "не знаю." is the honest outcome —
+	// what matters is that the turn was answered, not stored.
+	if reply == "" {
+		t.Fatal("the turn was neither stored nor answered")
+	}
+}
+
+// The capture that must survive the gate: an explicit instruction to record,
+// even though it contains an interrogative.
+func TestActionFact_ExplicitCaptureStillWrites(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	h, api := newFactGateHandler(t, time.Now())
+
+	h.actionFact(ctx, router.Decision{
+		Intent:    router.IntentFact,
+		Utterance: "запиши что я пил воду",
+		Slots:     router.Slots{Key: "water", HasKey: true, Value: `"вода"`},
+	})
+
+	f, err := api.LatestFact(ctx, "water")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("an explicit capture was refused: %v", err)
+	}
+	if f.Confidence != 1.0 {
+		t.Errorf("confidence = %v, want 1.0 for a value he said", f.Confidence)
+	}
+	// #493: what recall reads back is the fact, not the sentence he said.
+	// queryMemory returns a fact's text verbatim, so the utterance sitting here
+	// meant "запиши что я пил воду" was the answer to "когда я пил воду?".
+	hits, err := h.memStore.Search(ctx, mustEmbedPassage(t, h, "вода"), 3)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("memory search: %v", err)
+	}
+	if len(hits) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("the fact was not indexed once: %+v", hits)
+	}
+	if got := hits[0].Meta["text"]; got != "water — вода" {
+		t.Errorf("indexed text = %q, want the fact", got)
+	}
+	if got := hits[0].Meta["utterance"]; got != "запиши что я пил воду" {
+		t.Errorf("utterance provenance = %q, want it kept alongside", got)
+	}
+}
+
+func TestFactConfidence(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		utterance, value string
+		want             float64
+	}{
+		{"запиши что я пил воду", `"вода"`, 1.0},
+		{"я выпил кофе", `"кофе"`, 1.0},
+		{"поужинал", "", 1.0},
+		{"отметь что я полил кактус", `"полил кактус"`, 1.0},
+		{"какая последняя версия языка Go", `"1.20"`, ungroundedConfidence},
+		{"кто премьер Японии", `"Тонио Озаки"`, ungroundedConfidence},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		if got := factConfidence(c.utterance, c.value); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("factConfidence(%q, %q) = %v, want %v", c.utterance, c.value, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func mustEmbedPassage(t *testing.T, h *reactiveHandler, text string) []float32 {
+	t.Helper()
+	vec, err := router.EmbedQuery(context.Background(), h.embedder, text)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("embed %q: %v", text, err)
+	}
+	return vec
+}

cmd/mavend/followup.go

@@ -1,17 +1,64 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"context"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/dialogue"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 )
 
-// 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).
+// 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).
 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/main.go

@@ -251,6 +251,7 @@ func run(args []string) error {
 				Listen:       cfg.Phraser.Listen,
 				NGpuLayers:   cfg.Phraser.NGpuLayers,
 				NCtx:         cfg.Phraser.NCtx,
+				CacheRAMMiB:  cacheRAMMiB(cfg.Phraser.CacheRAMMiB),
 				Timeout:      time.Duration(cfg.Phraser.Timeout),
 				LLMNudges:    cfg.Phraser.LLMNudges,
 				ContextBlock: contextBlockFn(cfg, time.Now),
@@ -525,6 +526,7 @@ func run(args []string) error {
 					Listen:       cfg.Phraser.Listen,
 					NGpuLayers:   cfg.Phraser.NGpuLayers,
 					NCtx:         cfg.Phraser.NCtx,
+					CacheRAMMiB:  cacheRAMMiB(cfg.Phraser.CacheRAMMiB),
 					Timeout:      time.Duration(cfg.Phraser.Timeout),
 					LLMNudges:    cfg.Phraser.LLMNudges,
 					ContextBlock: contextBlockFn(cfg, time.Now),
@@ -788,6 +790,22 @@ func personaFacts(cfg *config.Config) persona.Facts {
 	return f
 }
 
+// cacheRAMMiB resolves phraser.cache_ram_mib into the phraser's field. Unset
+// means 512 MiB and not "whatever the server does", because the server's own
+// default is 8 GiB of prompt cache and that is what put 7.9 GB of RSS and half
+// a gigabyte of swap on homesrv for a 1.1 GB model. A negative value is the
+// deliberate opt-out: no flag is passed, the server's default applies, and the
+// operator owns the consequence.
+func cacheRAMMiB(configured int) int {
+	if configured == 0 {
+		return 512
+	}
+	if configured < 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return configured
+}
+
 // contextBlockFn returns the per-turn renderer of the shared context block.
 // Per turn, not once at startup, because the block states the current time.
 func contextBlockFn(cfg *config.Config, now func() time.Time) func() string {

cmd/mavend/modelseam_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"net/http"
+	"net/http/httptest"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/config"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/llm"
+)
+
+// No `workstation` block is the shipping deploy. The seam must then be the
+// resident client itself, with nothing probing anything.
+func TestModelSeamUnconfiguredIsResidentOnly(t *testing.T) {
+	resident := llm.New("http://127.0.0.1:1", time.Second)
+	hot, pair := modelSeam(&config.Config{}, resident)
+	if pair != nil {
+		t.Error("built a pair with no workstation configured")
+	}
+	if hot == nil {
+		t.Fatal("no seam at all, so the cascade would route with the classifier")
+	}
+}
+
+// A workstation with no resident model behind it has no floor, and a Pair with
+// no floor is a configuration mistake rather than a degraded mode.
+func TestModelSeamWithoutResidentIsNil(t *testing.T) {
+	cfg := &config.Config{Workstation: &config.WorkstationConfig{URL: "http://127.0.0.1:1"}}
+	cfg.Workstation.Health = strings.TrimRight(cfg.Workstation.URL, "/") + "/health"
+	hot, pair := modelSeam(cfg, nil)
+	if hot != nil || pair != nil {
+		t.Errorf("built a seam with no floor: hot=%v pair=%v", hot, pair)
+	}
+}
+
+// The configured case: the seam is the pair, and the pair notices a workstation
+// that answers /health.
+func TestModelSeamPrefersAnAnsweringWorkstation(t *testing.T) {
+	up := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		w.WriteHeader(http.StatusOK)
+	}))
+	defer up.Close()
+
+	cfg := &config.Config{Workstation: &config.WorkstationConfig{
+		URL:   up.URL,
+		Probe: config.Duration(10 * time.Millisecond),
+	}}
+	cfg.Workstation.Health = strings.TrimRight(cfg.Workstation.URL, "/") + "/health"
+
+	hot, pair := modelSeam(cfg, llm.New("http://127.0.0.1:1", time.Second))
+	if pair == nil || hot == nil {
+		t.Fatal("no pair built for a configured workstation")
+	}
+	defer pair.Stop()
+
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(2 * time.Second)
+	for !pair.Available() && time.Now().Before(deadline) {
+		time.Sleep(5 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	if !pair.Available() {
+		t.Fatal("the pair never saw a workstation that answers /health")
+	}
+}
+
+// A card held by a CPT run answers 503, and that must read as unavailable
+// rather than as an error a turn has to handle.
+func TestModelSeamHeldCardIsUnavailable(t *testing.T) {
+	busy := httptest.NewServer(http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
+		http.Error(w, "model not loaded", http.StatusServiceUnavailable)
+	}))
+	defer busy.Close()
+
+	cfg := &config.Config{Workstation: &config.WorkstationConfig{
+		URL:   busy.URL,
+		Probe: config.Duration(10 * time.Millisecond),
+	}}
+	cfg.Workstation.Health = strings.TrimRight(cfg.Workstation.URL, "/") + "/health"
+
+	_, pair := modelSeam(cfg, llm.New("http://127.0.0.1:1", time.Second))
+	if pair == nil {
+		t.Fatal("no pair built for a configured workstation")
+	}
+	defer pair.Stop()
+
+	time.Sleep(50 * time.Millisecond)
+	if pair.Available() {
+		t.Error("a 503 from the supervisor read as available")
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/morning_nudge_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+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/personalboundary.go

@@ -0,0 +1,154 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"log"
+	"math"
+	"sync"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+// The personal boundary decides one thing: is this question about him. It used
+// to decide it by matching possession words, and that was the whole defect
+// behind Vikunja #495. "что я говорил про бэкапы?" is his data by definition —
+// nothing outside the box has ever heard him say anything — and it carried no
+// possession word, so it walked past the boundary into SearXNG and came back
+// answered out of a Habr article about somebody else's backups.
+//
+// The first fix was one more marker class, `я говорил|сказал|писал|…`, plus a
+// carve-out so "как я говорил, почему небо синее" stayed a world question. Both
+// halves are a lexicon, and a lexicon is the wrong instrument here: Russian
+// gives every verb a dozen surface forms, the preamble list has no end, and
+// every utterance the list misses is one that reaches the world. It also drifts
+// silently — a missing verb looks exactly like no bug.
+//
+// So the boundary asks the embedder instead. Two frozen seed sets — questions
+// about him, questions about the world — are embedded once, and the turn's own
+// query vector, already computed by queryEmbed upstream, is scored against
+// both. Nearest side wins. Word order, verb form and unseen phrasing stop
+// mattering, which is exactly what a lexicon could not do.
+//
+// Measured 03-08-2026 against multilingual-e5-small on 19 held-out utterances,
+// none of them a seed: 19 right (TestONNXPersonalBoundary). A 20th, "as i said,
+// what is the population of india", missed by +0.008 during the first pass and
+// is a world seed now, which is why it is not in the held-out set. True
+// positives clear the world side by +0.014 to +0.089 and the nearest true
+// negative sits at -0.005, so the gate is the sign of the difference and
+// nothing tighter: the margins are too thin to justify a threshold, and the
+// asymmetry favours claiming anyway. A false claim costs one honest "не знаю";
+// a false pass sends his life to an upstream engine.
+//
+// The embedder is the one model CLAUDE.md pins to homesrv permanently, and it
+// is what makes this affordable: no llama-server call, no network, one cosine
+// per seed against a vector the turn already has.
+
+// personalSeeds — questions about him. Frozen: they are scoring data, so
+// editing one moves the boundary and must be re-measured, not eyeballed. Cover
+// both classes the boundary owns, possession and first-person speech, in both
+// languages.
+var personalSeeds = []string{
+	"что я говорил про это",
+	"я тебе рассказывал об этом?",
+	"что я записал про врача",
+	"я упоминал эту тему?",
+	"что у меня сегодня",
+	"когда моя встреча",
+	"what did i say about this",
+	"did i mention this to you",
+}
+
+// worldSeeds — questions the world can answer, including the two shapes that
+// look personal and are not: a first-person preamble on a world question ("как
+// я говорил, ..."), and first person without possession ("что я могу
+// посмотреть вечером"). Refusing those is the opposite mistake and the older
+// comment on personalMarkers already named it.
+var worldSeeds = []string{
+	"почему небо синее",
+	"какая столица франции",
+	"как сварить борщ",
+	"кто написал эту книгу",
+	"what is the capital of france",
+	"how do i boil an egg",
+	"как я говорил, почему небо синее",
+	"as i said, why is the sky blue",
+	"as i said, what is the population of india",
+	"что я могу посмотреть вечером",
+	"что мне почитать про историю",
+	"что я должен знать про питон",
+	"what can i watch tonight",
+}
+
+// personalBoundary holds the embedded seeds. Zero value is usable and means
+// "not loaded yet"; a handler built without an embedder never loads and the
+// boundary falls back to personalMarkers.
+type personalBoundary struct {
+	once     sync.Once
+	personal [][]float32
+	world    [][]float32
+	loaded   bool
+}
+
+// load embeds both seed sets, once per process. Seeds are embedded on the QUERY
+// side, like the utterance they are compared with — a question against a
+// question. Mixing sides would measure the e5 prefix, not the meaning.
+func (b *personalBoundary) load(ctx context.Context, emb router.Embedder) {
+	b.once.Do(func() {
+		if emb == nil {
+			return
+		}
+		embedAll := func(ss []string) [][]float32 {
+			out := make([][]float32, 0, len(ss))
+			for _, s := range ss {
+				v, err := router.EmbedQuery(ctx, emb, s)
+				if err != nil {
+					log.Printf("voice: personal boundary seeds unavailable (%v); falling back to possession markers", err)
+					return nil
+				}
+				out = append(out, v)
+			}
+			return out
+		}
+		p, w := embedAll(personalSeeds), embedAll(worldSeeds)
+		if p == nil || w == nil {
+			return
+		}
+		b.personal, b.world, b.loaded = p, w, true
+	})
+}
+
+// score returns the best similarity to each side. ok is false when the seeds
+// are not loaded, which is the caller's signal to use the markers instead.
+func (b *personalBoundary) score(vec []float32) (personal, world float64, ok bool) {
+	if !b.loaded || len(vec) == 0 {
+		return 0, 0, false
+	}
+	best := func(seeds [][]float32) float64 {
+		m := -1.0
+		for _, s := range seeds {
+			if c := cosine(vec, s); c > m {
+				m = c
+			}
+		}
+		return m
+	}
+	return best(b.personal), best(b.world), true
+}
+
+// cosine — same math as internal/router and internal/memory, small enough that
+// importing one of them for it would be the larger coupling.
+func cosine(a, b []float32) float64 {
+	if len(a) != len(b) {
+		return 0
+	}
+	var dot, na, nb float64
+	for i := range a {
+		dot += float64(a[i]) * float64(b[i])
+		na += float64(a[i]) * float64(a[i])
+		nb += float64(b[i]) * float64(b[i])
+	}
+	if na == 0 || nb == 0 {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return dot / (math.Sqrt(na) * math.Sqrt(nb))
+}

cmd/mavend/personalboundary_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,94 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+// A handler with no embedder never loads the seeds, so the boundary falls back
+// to the possession markers. That is the offline floor and it must keep working
+// — an embedder that fails to load must not open the boundary.
+func TestBoundaryFallsBackToMarkersWithNoEmbedder(t *testing.T) {
+	h := personalHandler()
+	if !h.isPersonalTurn(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec: router.Decision{Utterance: "во сколько у меня встреча"},
+	}) {
+		t.Error("no embedder: a possession question must still be personal")
+	}
+	if h.isPersonalTurn(context.Background(), &queryTurn{
+		dec: router.Decision{Utterance: "почему небо синее"},
+	}) {
+		t.Error("no embedder: a world question must still pass")
+	}
+}
+
+// TestONNXPersonalBoundary — the number that matters, scored against the
+// embedder homesrv actually runs. Opt-in via MAVEN_ONNX_LIB, exactly like
+// TestONNXRecall in internal/memory/recalleval.
+//
+// Every case here is held out: none of these strings is a seed. The #495
+// regression is the first row — "что я говорил про бэкапы?" reached SearXNG and
+// was answered from a Habr article, and no possession word appears in it.
+func TestONNXPersonalBoundary(t *testing.T) {
+	lib := os.Getenv("MAVEN_ONNX_LIB")
+	if lib == "" {
+		t.Skip("MAVEN_ONNX_LIB unset — see AGENTS.md § Embedder model for intent routing")
+	}
+	dir := filepath.Join("../..", "models/embedder/multilingual-e5-small")
+	emb, err := router.NewONNXEmbedder(filepath.Join(dir, "model_quantized.onnx"), filepath.Join(dir, "tokenizer.json"), lib)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Skipf("onnx embedder unavailable: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer emb.Close()
+
+	cases := []struct {
+		utterance string
+		personal  bool
+	}{
+		{"что я говорил про бэкапы?", true},
+		{"что я сказал вчера про отпуск", true},
+		{"я писал что-нибудь про сервер", true},
+		{"я упоминал про конференцию?", true},
+		{"что я отмечал по поводу переезда", true},
+		{"я рассказывал тебе про новую работу?", true},
+		{"во сколько у меня встреча", true},
+		{"когда мой следующий отпуск", true},
+		{"what did i say about backups", true},
+		{"did i tell you about the doctor", true},
+		{"как я говорил, почему небо синее", false},
+		{"как уже я говорил, какая столица франции", false},
+		{"почему трава зелёная", false},
+		{"столица франции", false},
+		{"как мне сварить борщ", false},
+		{"что мне посмотреть вечером", false},
+		{"я хочу узнать про рим", false},
+		{"кто такой гагарин", false},
+		{"how do i boil an egg", false},
+	}
+
+	h := &reactiveHandler{embedder: emb}
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	wrong := 0
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		vec, err := router.EmbedQuery(ctx, emb, c.utterance)
+		if err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("embed %q: %v", c.utterance, err)
+		}
+		turn := &queryTurn{dec: router.Decision{Utterance: c.utterance}, vec: vec}
+		got := h.isPersonalTurn(ctx, turn)
+		p, w, ok := h.boundary.score(vec)
+		if !ok {
+			t.Fatal("seeds did not load with a working embedder")
+		}
+		if got != c.personal {
+			wrong++
+			t.Errorf("%q: personal=%v want %v (personal %.4f world %.4f)", c.utterance, got, c.personal, p, w)
+		}
+		t.Logf("personal=%-5v personal %.4f world %.4f delta %+.4f  %s", got, p, w, p-w, c.utterance)
+	}
+	t.Logf("personal boundary: %d/%d held-out utterances correct", len(cases)-wrong, len(cases))
+}

cmd/mavend/reactive_notes_test.go

@@ -2,12 +2,14 @@ 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"
 )
@@ -85,3 +87,38 @@ 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.go

@@ -2,122 +2,33 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"encoding/json"
-	"strings"
-	"time"
 
-	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/llm"
-	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/persona"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/voice"
 )
 
-// completer is the LLM seam for the replier (subset of router.Completer).
-// *llm.Client satisfies it.
-type completer interface {
-	Complete(ctx context.Context, r llm.Req) (string, error)
-}
-
-// llmReplier phrases reactive confirmations with the resident model
-// (Qwen3-1.7B). Stub is the
-// floor on any error (offline-safe). Maven speaks as "she", feminine RU.
+// llmReplier is the daemon-side wiring around phraser.Replier: it owns the
+// deterministic floor, and nothing else. The phrasing itself, the prompt and the
+// output parsing live in internal/phraser so the eval can score them (#396).
 type llmReplier struct {
-	c    completer
+	p    *phraser.Replier
 	stub *voice.StubReplier
-
-	// block renders the shared context block per turn (who he is, the time).
-	// nil ⇒ the prompt stands alone.
-	block func() string
 }
 
-func newLLMReplier(c completer, block func() string) *llmReplier {
-	return &llmReplier{c: c, stub: voice.NewStubReplier(), block: block}
+func newLLMReplier(c phraser.Completer, block func() string) *llmReplier {
+	return &llmReplier{p: phraser.NewReplier(c, block), stub: voice.NewStubReplier()}
 }
 
-const replySystem = `Ты — Maven, домашняя ассистентка (о себе — в женском роде). Владелец — мужчина, говоришь с ним на "ты", в единственном числе; никогда не "вы"/"ваш" и не "он"/"его". Подтверди действие РОВНО ОДНИМ коротким предложением (≤120 символов), по-русски, спокойно и без официальных формулировок. Не задавай вопросов, не повторяй слова, не добавляй ничего после точки. Отвечай ТОЛЬКО одним объектом JSON с полями "response" (текст) и "mood" (ровно одно из: neutral, happy, thinking, tired, confused).
-Пример: {"response": "Записала, что ты выпил стакан воды.", "mood": "neutral"}
-Никогда не пиши "..." в поле response.`
-
+// Reply never fails: a clarify, a model error and an unusable generation all
+// answer from the stub, which is what keeps a turn from breaking on the model.
 func (r *llmReplier) Reply(d router.Decision) string {
 	if d.Clarify {
 		return r.stub.Reply(d)
 	}
-	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 60*time.Second)
-	defer cancel()
-	out, err := r.c.Complete(ctx, llm.Req{
-		System:        persona.Prepend(r.block, replySystem),
-		User:          replyContext(d),
-		Grammar:       phraser.ResponseGrammar,
-		MaxTokens:     512,
-		RepeatPenalty: 1.3,
-	})
-	if err != nil {
+	out, err := r.p.PhraseReply(context.Background(), d)
+	if err != nil || out == "" {
 		return r.stub.Reply(d)
 	}
-	out = stripThink(out)
-	if response, _ := parseResponseMood(out); response != "" {
-		return response
-	}
-	// fallback: try plain-text parsing
-	if out = firstSentence(out); out != "" {
-		return out
-	}
-	return r.stub.Reply(d)
-}
-
-// firstSentence trims the model's output to a single clean confirmation: first
-// line, first sentence, whitespace-normalized — the last-line defense against a
-// small model that rambles past the first period despite the prompt + stop.
-// stripThink removes the <think> block that Thinking-variant models emit.
-func stripThink(s string) string {
-	if i := strings.LastIndex(s, "</think>"); i >= 0 {
-		s = strings.TrimSpace(s[i+8:])
-	}
-	return s
-}
-
-func firstSentence(s string) string {
-	s = strings.TrimSpace(s)
-	if i := strings.IndexByte(s, '\n'); i >= 0 {
-		s = s[:i]
-	}
-	// keep up to and including the first sentence-ending punctuation.
-	if i := strings.IndexAny(s, ".!?"); i >= 0 {
-		s = s[:i+1]
-	}
-	return strings.TrimSpace(s)
-}
-
-// parseResponseMood extracts {"response","mood"} from LLM output, tolerant
-// of thinking tokens and extra text before/after the JSON block.
-func parseResponseMood(raw string) (response, mood string) {
-	cleaned := strings.TrimSpace(raw)
-	start := strings.Index(cleaned, "{")
-	end := strings.LastIndex(cleaned, "}")
-	if start < 0 || end < 0 || end <= start {
-		return "", ""
-	}
-	var parsed struct {
-		Response string `json:"response"`
-		Mood     string `json:"mood"`
-	}
-	if err := json.Unmarshal([]byte(cleaned[start:end+1]), &parsed); err != nil {
-		return "", ""
-	}
-	return parsed.Response, parsed.Mood
-}
-
-// replyContext renders the decision into a compact RU description for the model.
-func replyContext(d router.Decision) string {
-	switch d.Intent {
-	case router.IntentFact:
-		return "записала факт: " + d.Slots.Key + " " + d.Slots.Value
-	case router.IntentNote:
-		return "сохранила заметку: " + d.Slots.Text
-	case router.IntentReminder:
-		return "поставила напоминание: " + d.Slots.Text
-	default:
-		return string(d.Intent) + ": " + d.Slots.Text
-	}
+	return out
 }

cmd/mavend/replier_llm_test.go

@@ -5,28 +5,22 @@ 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"
 )
 
-type mockCompleter struct {
+// The phrasing itself is tested in internal/phraser. What is left here is the
+// only thing the daemon adds: the stub floor, on the three ways a reply can
+// fail to arrive.
+type stubCompleter struct {
 	out string
 	err error
 }
 
-func (m mockCompleter) Complete(_ context.Context, _ llm.Req) (string, error) { return m.out, m.err }
+func (s stubCompleter) Complete(_ context.Context, _ llm.Req) (string, error) { return s.out, s.err }
 
-func TestLLMReplierReturnsLLMReply(t *testing.T) {
-	r := newLLMReplier(mockCompleter{out: `{"response":"записала, кофе закончился","mood":"neutral"}`}, nil)
-	got := r.Reply(router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote, Slots: router.Slots{Text: "кофе закончился"}})
-	if got != "записала, кофе закончился" {
-		t.Errorf("got %q, want %q", got, "записала, кофе закончился")
-	}
-}
-
-func TestLLMReplierFallsBackToPlainText(t *testing.T) {
-	r := newLLMReplier(mockCompleter{out: "записала, кофе закончился"}, nil)
+func TestLLMReplierPassesTheModelReplyThrough(t *testing.T) {
+	r := newLLMReplier(stubCompleter{out: `{"response":"записала, кофе закончился","mood":"neutral"}`}, nil)
 	got := r.Reply(router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote, Slots: router.Slots{Text: "кофе закончился"}})
 	if got != "записала, кофе закончился" {
 		t.Errorf("got %q, want %q", got, "записала, кофе закончился")
@@ -34,54 +28,30 @@ func TestLLMReplierFallsBackToPlainText(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestLLMReplierFallsBackToStubOnError(t *testing.T) {
-	r := newLLMReplier(mockCompleter{err: errTestLLMDown}, nil)
-	noteDec := router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote}
-	got := r.Reply(noteDec)
-	want := voice.NewStubReplier().Reply(noteDec)
-	if got != want {
-		t.Errorf("on llm error: got %q, want stub %q", got, want)
-	}
+	r := newLLMReplier(stubCompleter{err: errReplierTest}, nil)
+	assertStub(t, r, router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote}, "llm error")
 }
 
 func TestLLMReplierFallsBackToStubOnEmpty(t *testing.T) {
-	r := newLLMReplier(mockCompleter{out: ""}, nil)
-	noteDec := router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote}
-	got := r.Reply(noteDec)
-	want := voice.NewStubReplier().Reply(noteDec)
-	if got != want {
-		t.Errorf("on empty llm: got %q, want stub %q", got, want)
-	}
+	r := newLLMReplier(stubCompleter{out: ""}, nil)
+	assertStub(t, r, router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote}, "empty llm")
 }
 
 func TestLLMReplierClarifyUsesStub(t *testing.T) {
-	r := newLLMReplier(mockCompleter{out: "я всё поняла"}, nil)
-	clarifyDec := router.Decision{Clarify: true}
-	got := r.Reply(clarifyDec)
-	want := voice.NewStubReplier().Reply(clarifyDec)
+	r := newLLMReplier(stubCompleter{out: "я всё поняла"}, nil)
+	assertStub(t, r, router.Decision{Clarify: true}, "clarify")
+}
+
+func assertStub(t *testing.T, r *llmReplier, d router.Decision, what string) {
+	t.Helper()
+	got, want := r.Reply(d), voice.NewStubReplier().Reply(d)
 	if got != want {
-		t.Errorf("on clarify: got %q, want stub %q", got, want)
+		t.Errorf("on %s: got %q, want stub %q", what, got, want)
 	}
 }
 
-var errTestLLMDown = errTest("llm down")
+var errReplierTest = errTest("llm down")
 
 type errTest string
 
 func (e errTest) Error() string { return string(e) }
-
-// grammarRecorder captures the request so the grammar can be asserted on.
-type grammarRecorder struct{ req llm.Req }
-
-func (g *grammarRecorder) Complete(_ context.Context, r llm.Req) (string, error) {
-	g.req = r
-	return `{"response":"записала","mood":"neutral"}`, nil
-}
-
-func TestLLMReplierCarriesTheResponseGrammar(t *testing.T) {
-	rec := &grammarRecorder{}
-	r := newLLMReplier(rec, nil)
-	r.Reply(router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentNote, Slots: router.Slots{Text: "кофе закончился"}})
-	if rec.req.Grammar != phraser.ResponseGrammar {
-		t.Errorf("grammar = %q, want phraser.ResponseGrammar", rec.req.Grammar)
-	}
-}

cmd/mavend/simulator_test.go

@@ -1043,3 +1043,26 @@ 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/tick.go

@@ -10,22 +10,17 @@ package main
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"os"
 	"path/filepath"
-	"strings"
 	"sync"
 	"time"
 
-	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/calendar"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/config"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/delivery"
-	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/loop"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/morning"
-	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/pattern"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/routine"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
@@ -315,597 +310,6 @@ func (t *tickLoop) repeatPhrase(rule string) (body, summary string) {
 	return pn.Body, pn.Summary
 }
 
-// shouldQueue — true when digest is enabled and the candidate's severity is
-// at or below the configured ceiling.
-func (t *tickLoop) shouldQueue(cand *loop.Candidate) bool {
-	return t.digestCfg != nil && t.digestCfg.Enabled &&
-		cand.Severity <= loop.Severity(t.digestCfg.SeverityCeiling)
-}
-
-// queueNudge — phrases the candidate and appends it to the digest queue.
-// Deduplicates by rule name: if the same rule is already queued, this is a
-// no-op (the first fire within the window is the one that counts).
-func (t *tickLoop) queueNudge(ctx context.Context, cand *loop.Candidate, _ loop.State, now time.Time) {
-	for _, q := range t.digestQ {
-		if q.Rule == cand.Rule.Name {
-			return // already queued
-		}
-	}
-	pn, err := t.phraser.PhraseNudge(ctx, *cand)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("tick: phrase nudge %s: %v", cand.Rule.Name, err)
-		return
-	}
-	t.digestQ = append(t.digestQ, QueuedNudge{
-		Rule:     cand.Rule.Name,
-		Severity: int(cand.Severity),
-		Body:     pn.Body,
-		Key:      cand.Rule.Name,
-		QueuedAt: now,
-	})
-	t.cachePhrase(pn)
-}
-
-// maybeFlush — flushes the digest queue if the window has elapsed since the
-// first item or the queue reached MaxItems.
-func (t *tickLoop) maybeFlush(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
-	if t.digestCfg == nil || !t.digestCfg.Enabled || len(t.digestQ) == 0 {
-		return
-	}
-	first := t.digestQ[0]
-	if now.Sub(first.QueuedAt) >= time.Duration(t.digestCfg.Window) ||
-		len(t.digestQ) >= t.digestCfg.MaxItems {
-		t.flushDigest(ctx, now, state)
-	}
-}
-
-// flushDigest — concatenates queued nudge bodies into a single digest
-// notification and dispatches it. Clears the queue after a successful send.
-// The digest uses the max severity among queued items for routing.
-func (t *tickLoop) flushDigest(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
-	if len(t.digestQ) == 0 {
-		return
-	}
-
-	var b strings.Builder
-	maxSev := 0
-	for i, q := range t.digestQ {
-		if i > 0 {
-			b.WriteString(" · ")
-		}
-		b.WriteString(q.Body)
-		if q.Severity > maxSev {
-			maxSev = q.Severity
-		}
-	}
-	body := b.String()
-	summary := fmt.Sprintf("%d pending notifications", len(t.digestQ))
-
-	cand := loop.Candidate{
-		Rule: loop.Rule{
-			Name:     "digest",
-			Severity: loop.Severity(maxSev),
-		},
-		Severity: loop.Severity(maxSev),
-		State:    state,
-	}
-	pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{
-		Candidate: cand,
-		Body:      body,
-		Summary:   summary,
-	}
-	t.cachePhrase(pn)
-	if _, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now); err != nil {
-		// keep the queue — the next tick's maybeFlush re-attempts.
-		log.Printf("tick: dispatch digest: %v", err)
-		return
-	}
-	t.digestQ = nil
-}
-
-// detectPatterns runs the pattern detector proactively over every
-// action+object pair that has ever produced an event, independent of
-// whichever fact write (or channel) last touched it (Vikunja #43). This is
-// what makes pattern inference actually proactive: it fires on the daemon's
-// own schedule reading accumulated history, not only as a side effect of a
-// live voice turn.
-//
-// Idempotence and noise are handled by the store, not here — this function
-// is safe to call every tick:
-//   - Same pattern, tick after tick: detectAndPropose's LookupProposedRoutine
-//     check plus proposed_routines' UNIQUE(action, object) constraint (with
-//     CreateProposedRoutine's ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING) mean a pair that
-//     already has a row — in ANY status — produces no second row and no log
-//     spam beyond the one line at genuine creation.
-//   - A DISMISSED proposal must never come back. DismissProposedRoutine flips
-//     status in place; the row is never deleted. So the same Lookup check
-//     that stops a duplicate "proposed" also stops a "dismissed" one from
-//     resurrecting — there is nothing tick-specific to get right here beyond
-//     calling the same shared path the voice route already used.
-//
-// By default this only creates a row for the /routines page to show: it does
-// not notify, ring, or speak. Detection is not the same act as disturbing him
-// about it, and Maven is "not a nag, not autonomous" (CLAUDE.md). Announcing
-// is opt-in through the pattern_proposals config block — see announceProposal
-// for the restraints that apply even then. A proposal only starts producing
-// recurring nudges once he accepts it (fireAcceptedRoutines).
-func (t *tickLoop) detectPatterns(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
-	pairs, err := t.store.DistinctEventPairs(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("tick: distinct event pairs: %v", err)
-		return
-	}
-	announced := false
-	for _, p := range pairs {
-		r, _, err := detectAndPropose(ctx, t.store, p.Action, p.Object, now)
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Printf("tick: detect pattern %s/%s: %v", p.Action, p.Object, err)
-			continue
-		}
-		if r == nil {
-			continue // no stable pattern, or already proposed/accepted/dismissed
-		}
-		log.Printf("tick: proposed routine: %s/%s every %.1f days", r.Action, r.Object, r.IntervalDays)
-		// One announcement per tick at most, whatever the scan turned up. The
-		// rest are on /routines; they are not lost, they are just not shouted.
-		// Nor are they queued: the row now exists, so no later tick re-detects
-		// them and they are never announced. See announceProposal.
-		if announced {
-			continue
-		}
-		announced = t.announceProposal(ctx, r, now, state)
-	}
-}
-
-// announceProposal offers a freshly inferred routine through the ordinary
-// care-delivery path, if announcing is switched on at all. Returns true when
-// something was actually sent.
-//
-// Everything here is restraint. The feature is off unless configured; when on
-// it is sev1 (the lowest severity, so quiet hours, away presence and snooze
-// all suppress it via loop.Gate exactly like a care nudge); it is spaced by
-// proposalCfg.Cooldown across every pair, not per pair; and a suppressed or
-// dropped announcement is NOT retried — the cooldown clock advances only on a
-// real send, but the proposal row already exists, so the next tick will not
-// re-detect it and nothing queues up behind it. A missed announcement means
-// he reads it on /routines instead, which is the whole point of the page.
-//
-// What the cooldown is and is not. detectAndPropose returns non-nil only for a
-// newly created row, so a pair gets exactly one chance to be spoken: the tick
-// that first proposes it. Combined with one announcement per tick, the first
-// tick over a populated history announces one pattern and permanently silences
-// every other pattern found in the same pass. That is the intent, not an
-// oversight — an inferred routine is not worth a second attempt at his
-// attention, and /routines lists all of them. So the cooldown does not drain a
-// backlog. It only spaces announcements of genuinely new pairs discovered on
-// later ticks. If it should ever become "one per day until each is mentioned",
-// that needs a queue rather than this counter.
-//
-// Cooldown gets its default here as well as in applyDefaults. That is
-// deliberate: a tickLoop assembled directly in a test never goes through Load,
-// and an unspaced announcer is not what those tests mean to exercise.
-//
-// The body is the detector's own literal Russian phrasing (pattern.PhraseRoutine
-// — "ты заправляешь поилку раз в 7 дней — напоминать?"), not LLM-generated, so
-// an inferred routine cannot arrive worded as something Maven never observed.
-func (t *tickLoop) announceProposal(ctx context.Context, r *pattern.ProposedRoutine, now time.Time, state loop.State) bool {
-	if !t.proposalCfg.AnnounceProposals() {
-		return false
-	}
-	cooldown := time.Duration(t.proposalCfg.Cooldown)
-	if cooldown <= 0 {
-		cooldown = config.DefaultProposalCooldown
-	}
-	if !t.lastProposalAt.IsZero() && now.Sub(t.lastProposalAt) < cooldown {
-		return false
-	}
-
-	rule := loop.Rule{Name: "proposal:" + r.Action + " " + r.Object, Severity: loop.Sev1}
-	if !loop.Gate(state, rule) {
-		return false
-	}
-	body := pattern.PhraseRoutine(r)
-	pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{
-		Candidate: loop.Candidate{Rule: rule, Severity: rule.Severity, State: state},
-		Body:      body,
-		Summary:   body,
-	}
-	sent, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("tick: announce proposal %s/%s: %v", r.Action, r.Object, err)
-		return false
-	}
-	if len(sent) == 0 {
-		return false // routing dropped it — /routines still has it.
-	}
-	t.lastProposalAt = now
-	return true
-}
-
-// digestExpiry — how long a gate-suppressed care nudge stays worth
-// resurfacing. 24h: these are daily-cadence rules (water/meal/break run on
-// hour-scale cooldowns and re-derive from facts that reset every day), so a
-// digest entry that outlives one full day is describing a day that's already
-// over — "you skipped a break yesterday" said tomorrow evening is noise, not
-// news. Bounding at one day also means a digest can never silently span a
-// weekend of quiet hours into an unbounded backlog.
-const digestExpiry = 24 * time.Hour
-
-// maxDigestSpokenItems — the bundle read-out is capped so "batched, not
-// dropped" cannot regress into "she dumps twelve things on me the moment I
-// walk in" — a digest that nags in bulk is worse than the drops it replaced.
-// Anything beyond the cap is still marked drained (it did get its moment;
-// the cap limits WORDS, not whether it counted) and folded into a trailing
-// count instead of being spoken in full.
-const maxDigestSpokenItems = 3
-
-// enqueueSuppressedDigest scans this tick's trace for care candidates the
-// gate blocked for a genuine restraint reason and durably records the
-// digest-eligible ones (loop.DigestEligible). Phrasing happens once, here,
-// at enqueue time — not re-derived at drain time — the same way queueNudge
-// phrases once and caches, so a rule suppressed for hours isn't re-prompting
-// the LLM every tick it stays blocked (EnqueueDigestEntry's rule+body dedupe
-// makes repeat calls here harmless, but skipping the phrase call entirely
-// when a pending entry already exists avoids the LLM round-trip too).
-func (t *tickLoop) enqueueSuppressedDigest(ctx context.Context, trace *loop.TickTrace, state loop.State, now time.Time) {
-	if trace == nil {
-		return
-	}
-	for _, tr := range trace.RuleTraces {
-		if !tr.PredicateResult || tr.GateResult {
-			continue // didn't want to fire, or wasn't suppressed
-		}
-		if !loop.DigestEligible(tr.Severity, tr.GateBlockedBy) {
-			continue
-		}
-		rule := loop.Rule{Name: tr.RuleName, Severity: tr.Severity}
-		cand := loop.Candidate{Rule: rule, Severity: tr.Severity, State: state}
-		pn, err := t.phraser.PhraseNudge(ctx, cand)
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Printf("tick: phrase digest candidate %s: %v", tr.RuleName, err)
-			continue
-		}
-		expires := now.Add(digestExpiry)
-		if _, deduped, err := t.store.EnqueueDigestEntry(ctx, tr.RuleName, int(tr.Severity), pn.Body, now, expires); err != nil {
-			log.Printf("tick: enqueue digest entry %s: %v", tr.RuleName, err)
-		} else if deduped {
-			// same suppressed nudge already pending — nothing new to say.
-			continue
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// expireStaleDigest sweeps entries past their expiry once per tick — cheap
-// bookkeeping, mirrors ReconcileStaleDeliveryAttempts's shape.
-func (t *tickLoop) expireStaleDigest(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) {
-	n, err := t.store.ExpireStaleDigestEntries(ctx, now)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("tick: expire stale digest entries: %v", err)
-		return
-	}
-	if n > 0 {
-		log.Printf("tick: expired %d stale digest entr(y/ies) unspoken", n)
-	}
-}
-
-// maybeDrainDigest speaks the pending digest bundle once the gate's
-// suppression reasons have actually cleared — quiet hours over, back from
-// away, out of the meeting. Draining while still suppressed would just be a
-// second way to nag through quiet hours; the bundle waits for the same "is
-// it allowed right now" condition a live nudge already waits for.
-func (t *tickLoop) maybeDrainDigest(ctx context.Context, state loop.State, now time.Time) {
-	if state.QuietHours || state.CalendarBusy || state.Presence == store.Away {
-		return
-	}
-	entries, err := t.store.PendingDigestEntries(ctx, now)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("tick: pending digest entries: %v", err)
-		return
-	}
-	if len(entries) == 0 {
-		return
-	}
-
-	spoken := entries
-	extra := 0
-	if len(spoken) > maxDigestSpokenItems {
-		spoken = entries[:maxDigestSpokenItems]
-		extra = len(entries) - maxDigestSpokenItems
-	}
-	var b strings.Builder
-	maxSev := 0
-	for i, e := range spoken {
-		if i > 0 {
-			b.WriteString(" · ")
-		}
-		b.WriteString(e.Body)
-		if e.Severity > maxSev {
-			maxSev = e.Severity
-		}
-	}
-	if extra > 0 {
-		fmt.Fprintf(&b, " · и ещё %d", extra)
-	}
-	body := b.String()
-	summary := fmt.Sprintf("%d отложенных уведомлений", len(entries))
-
-	cand := loop.Candidate{
-		Rule:     loop.Rule{Name: "digest", Severity: loop.Severity(maxSev)},
-		Severity: loop.Severity(maxSev),
-		State:    state,
-	}
-	pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{Candidate: cand, Body: body, Summary: summary}
-	t.cachePhrase(pn)
-	if _, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now); err != nil {
-		log.Printf("tick: dispatch digest bundle: %v", err)
-		return // leave entries pending; retried next tick
-	}
-	ids := make([]int64, len(entries))
-	for i, e := range entries {
-		ids[i] = e.ID
-	}
-	if err := t.store.DrainDigestEntries(ctx, ids, now); err != nil {
-		log.Printf("tick: drain digest entries: %v", err)
-	}
-}
-
-// routinesFromConfig maps the config's routine blocks to the engine type.
-// Validation (cron parses, name/body present, severity defaulted) already ran
-// in config.Load, so this is a pure field copy.
-func routinesFromConfig(rc []config.RoutineConfig) []routine.Routine {
-	if len(rc) == 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	out := make([]routine.Routine, len(rc))
-	for i, r := range rc {
-		out[i] = routine.Routine{Name: r.Name, Cron: r.Cron, Body: r.Body, Severity: r.Severity}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// fireRoutines dispatches the routines whose cron schedule crossed since their
-// last fire. Each is delivered as a nudge through the normal routing table
-// (ChannelsFor(severity, presence)) with a "routine:"-prefixed rule name so it
-// can't collide with a care rule in the feedback autotuner. A dispatch failure
-// logs and continues — one bad send must not skip the rest, and routine.Due has
-// already advanced the last-fire time so a transient failure drops that fire
-// rather than replaying it every tick (a routine is clockwork, not an alarm —
-// no repeat-til-ack).
-func (t *tickLoop) fireRoutines(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
-	for _, r := range routine.Due(t.routines, t.routineLast, now) {
-		pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{
-			Candidate: loop.Candidate{
-				Rule:     loop.Rule{Name: "routine:" + r.Name, Severity: loop.Severity(r.Severity)},
-				Severity: loop.Severity(r.Severity),
-				State:    state,
-			},
-			Body:    r.Body,
-			Summary: r.Body,
-		}
-		if _, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now); err != nil {
-			log.Printf("tick: dispatch routine %s: %v", r.Name, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// fireAcceptedRoutines nudges about the routines the user accepted, once per
-// interval (Vikunja #366). Accepting used to create a single reminder, so a
-// non-weekly routine fired once and went quiet forever; the schedule lives in
-// the proposed_routines row now and the loop re-reads it every tick.
-//
-// A routine is a care-class nudge and goes through the restraint gate like any
-// other: quiet hours, away presence and snooze all suppress it. Reminders bypass
-// that gate; routines must not. A suppressed nudge is NOT marked fired, so it
-// goes out on the next tick that the gate allows — one nudge, held, not dropped
-// and not repeated.
-//
-// The body is literal text built from the detected action and object, not
-// LLM-phrased, so a routine can't hallucinate. It nudges; it never acts.
-func (t *tickLoop) fireAcceptedRoutines(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
-	rows, err := t.store.ListAcceptedRoutines(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("tick: list accepted routines: %v", err)
-		return
-	}
-	accepted := make([]routine.Accepted, 0, len(rows))
-	for _, r := range rows {
-		if r.AcceptedTs == nil {
-			continue // accepted before the schedule column existed — no clock to start from.
-		}
-		accepted = append(accepted, routine.Accepted{
-			ID:           r.ID,
-			Name:         r.Action + " " + r.Object,
-			IntervalDays: r.IntervalDays,
-			Accepted:     *r.AcceptedTs,
-			LastFired:    r.LastFiredTs,
-		})
-	}
-
-	for _, a := range routine.DueAccepted(accepted, now) {
-		rule := loop.Rule{Name: "routine:" + a.Name, Severity: loop.Sev1}
-		if !loop.Gate(state, rule) {
-			continue
-		}
-		body := "пора: " + a.Name
-		pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{
-			Candidate: loop.Candidate{Rule: rule, Severity: rule.Severity, State: state},
-			Body:      body,
-			Summary:   body,
-		}
-		sent, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now)
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Printf("tick: dispatch accepted routine %d: %v", a.ID, err)
-			continue
-		}
-		if len(sent) == 0 {
-			continue // routing dropped it — leave it due.
-		}
-		if err := t.store.MarkRoutineFired(ctx, a.ID, now); err != nil {
-			log.Printf("tick: mark routine %d fired: %v", a.ID, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// fireMorningRoutines checks each configured checklist against today's facts
-// and dispatches a nag listing exactly what's still missing, at most once per
-// routine per calendar day. Fact reads happen here (not in loop.Gatherer)
-// because the item↔fact-key mapping is morning-routine-specific, not a rule
-// concern — pulling it into the shared gather path would leak that mapping
-// into loop's "rules declare wanted keys" contract. Bodies are literal
-// operator text (item labels joined), not LLM-phrased, same rationale as
-// cron routines: deterministic, can't hallucinate a checklist item.
-func (t *tickLoop) fireMorningRoutines(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
-	if len(t.morningRoutines) == 0 {
-		return
-	}
-	facts := t.gatherMorningFacts(ctx)
-
-	for _, cand := range morning.Due(t.morningRoutines, facts, t.morningLast, now) {
-		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)},
-				Severity: loop.Severity(cand.Routine.Severity),
-				State:    state,
-			},
-			Body:    body,
-			Summary: body,
-		}
-		if _, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now); err != nil {
-			log.Printf("tick: dispatch morning routine %s: %v", cand.Routine.Name, err)
-		}
-	}
-}
-
-// 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
-// disagree about what evidence exists.
-func (t *tickLoop) gatherMorningFacts(ctx context.Context) map[string]store.Fact {
-	keys := make(map[string]struct{})
-	for _, r := range t.morningRoutines {
-		for _, it := range r.Items {
-			keys[it.FactKey] = struct{}{}
-		}
-	}
-	facts := make(map[string]store.Fact, len(keys))
-	for k := range keys {
-		f, err := t.store.LatestFact(ctx, k)
-		if err == nil {
-			facts[k] = f
-			continue
-		}
-		if err != store.ErrNoFact {
-			log.Printf("tick: morning: latest fact %s: %v", k, err)
-		}
-	}
-	return facts
-}
-
-// morningStatus is the read-only "what's missing" query the web UI (and
-// eventually a voice query) calls. Pure recompute over the current facts —
-// no dedupe/nudge-time gating, unlike fireMorningRoutines: this answers
-// "state right now," not "should we nag."
-func (t *tickLoop) morningStatus(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) []ipc.MorningRoutineStatus {
-	if len(t.morningRoutines) == 0 {
-		return nil
-	}
-	facts := t.gatherMorningFacts(ctx)
-	out := make([]ipc.MorningRoutineStatus, 0, len(t.morningRoutines))
-	for _, r := range t.morningRoutines {
-		st := morning.Evaluate(r, facts, now)
-		done := make(map[string]bool, len(st.Completed))
-		for _, it := range st.Completed {
-			done[it.Key] = true
-		}
-		items := make([]ipc.MorningRoutineItem, len(r.Items))
-		for i, it := range r.Items {
-			items[i] = ipc.MorningRoutineItem{Key: it.Key, Label: it.Label, Done: done[it.Key]}
-		}
-		out = append(out, ipc.MorningRoutineStatus{
-			Name:        r.Name,
-			Active:      st.Active,
-			WindowStart: r.WindowStart,
-			WindowEnd:   r.WindowEnd,
-			Items:       items,
-		})
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// dayPlan is the read-only "what does today hold" query (Vikunja #128). It is
-// the impure half of morning.BuildPlan: it reads the calendar events, the
-// pending reminders and the checklist facts, and the pure builder orders them.
-//
-// It never dispatches. Asking for the plan is a query like any other; the only
-// unprompted delivery in maven stays with the morning nudge and the
-// dispatcher's policy.
-func (t *tickLoop) dayPlan(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) ipc.DayPlan {
-	y, m, d := now.Date()
-	dayStart := time.Date(y, m, d, 0, 0, 0, 0, now.Location())
-	dayEnd := dayStart.AddDate(0, 0, 1)
-
-	var events []morning.PlanEntry
-	facts, err := t.store.CalendarEvents(ctx, dayStart, dayEnd)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("tick: day plan: calendar events: %v", err)
-	}
-	for _, f := range facts {
-		events = append(events, morning.PlanEntry{
-			At: f.Ts,
-			// The plan prints the hour itself, so the "@ 14:00-14:30" tail the
-			// fact value carries would say it twice.
-			Text: calendar.FactSummary(f.Value),
-			Kind: morning.PlanEvent,
-			// Provenance below a calendar read (an ambient relay, #126) is
-			// hedged rather than recited as fact.
-			Uncertain: f.Confidence < 1.0,
-		})
-	}
-
-	var reminders []morning.PlanEntry
-	rems, err := t.store.PendingReminders(ctx, dayStart, dayEnd)
-	if err != nil {
-		log.Printf("tick: day plan: pending reminders: %v", err)
-	}
-	for _, r := range rems {
-		if r.Status != store.ReminderPending {
-			continue
-		}
-		fire := r.NextFireTs
-		if fire.IsZero() {
-			fire = r.FireTs
-		}
-		reminders = append(reminders, morning.PlanEntry{
-			At:   fire,
-			Text: r.Text(),
-			Kind: morning.PlanReminder,
-		})
-	}
-
-	var checklistFacts map[string]store.Fact
-	if len(t.morningRoutines) > 0 {
-		checklistFacts = t.gatherMorningFacts(ctx)
-	}
-	plan := morning.BuildPlan(t.morningRoutines, checklistFacts, events, reminders, now)
-
-	out := ipc.DayPlan{Date: plan.Date, Spoken: plan.FormatRU()}
-	out.Items = make([]ipc.DayPlanItem, len(plan.Items))
-	for i, it := range plan.Items {
-		out.Items[i] = ipc.DayPlanItem{
-			At:        it.At,
-			Text:      it.Text,
-			Kind:      string(it.Kind),
-			Uncertain: it.Uncertain,
-		}
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
 // tune — the feedback auto-tuner's impure step. runs on a slow cadence
 // (autotuneInterval, see run) so it doesn't write a fact every tick. for each
 // rule:
@@ -978,101 +382,3 @@ func (t *tickLoop) trace() *loop.TickTrace {
 	defer t.mu.Unlock()
 	return t.lastTrace
 }
-
-// daemonAPI wraps a store-backed CoreAPI and overrides TickTrace with the
-// daemon's in-memory tick trace cache.
-type daemonAPI struct {
-	ipc.CoreAPI
-	getTrace         func() *loop.TickTrace
-	getMorningStatus func(ctx context.Context) []ipc.MorningRoutineStatus
-	getDayPlan       func(ctx context.Context) ipc.DayPlan
-	chatFn           func(ctx context.Context, text string) string
-	getMCPServers    func() []ipc.MCPServerStatus
-	getEvents        func(n int) []ipc.IntakeEvent
-}
-
-// RecentEvents — the unified intake journal (Vikunja #283). Empty, not an
-// error, when no bus was wired: "nothing has arrived" and "the journal is off"
-// look the same to a reader on purpose, because neither is a fault and the
-// page renders both as an empty table.
-func (d *daemonAPI) RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]ipc.IntakeEvent, error) {
-	if d.getEvents == nil {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	return d.getEvents(n), nil
-}
-
-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, text), nil
-}
-
-// MCPServers — the configured MCP servers and their health (Vikunja #251).
-// Empty, not an error, when the mcp block is absent: "not configured" is the
-// default state and the web surface renders it as such.
-func (d *daemonAPI) MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]ipc.MCPServerStatus, error) {
-	if d.getMCPServers == nil {
-		return nil, nil
-	}
-	return d.getMCPServers(), nil
-}
-
-func (d *daemonAPI) TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (ipc.TickTrace, error) {
-	trace := d.getTrace()
-	if trace == nil {
-		return ipc.TickTrace{}, nil
-	}
-	return toIPCTickTrace(*trace), nil
-}
-
-func (d *daemonAPI) MorningStatus(ctx context.Context) ([]ipc.MorningRoutineStatus, error) {
-	if d.getMorningStatus == nil {
-		return nil, errors.New("mavend: morning status not available")
-	}
-	return d.getMorningStatus(ctx), nil
-}
-
-func (d *daemonAPI) DayPlan(ctx context.Context) (ipc.DayPlan, error) {
-	if d.getDayPlan == nil {
-		return ipc.DayPlan{}, errors.New("mavend: day plan not available")
-	}
-	return d.getDayPlan(ctx), nil
-}
-
-func toIPCTickTrace(t loop.TickTrace) ipc.TickTrace {
-	rules := make([]ipc.RuleTrace, len(t.RuleTraces))
-	for i, r := range t.RuleTraces {
-		rules[i] = toIPCRuleTrace(r)
-	}
-	return ipc.TickTrace{
-		Now:    t.Now,
-		Winner: t.Winner,
-		Rules:  rules,
-	}
-}
-
-func toIPCRuleTrace(r loop.RuleTrace) ipc.RuleTrace {
-	return ipc.RuleTrace{
-		RuleName:        r.RuleName,
-		Severity:        int(r.Severity),
-		PredicateResult: r.PredicateResult,
-		GateResult:      r.GateResult,
-		GateBlockedBy:   r.GateBlockedBy,
-		GateDetail:      toIPCGateDetail(r.GateDetail),
-		WasSelected:     r.WasSelected,
-		LostTo:          r.LostTo,
-	}
-}
-
-func toIPCGateDetail(d loop.GateDetail) ipc.GateDetail {
-	return ipc.GateDetail{
-		SnoozeUntil:      d.SnoozeUntil,
-		CooldownUntil:    d.CooldownUntil,
-		QuietHours:       d.QuietHours,
-		CalendarBusy:     d.CalendarBusy,
-		Presence:         d.Presence,
-		InertKeysMissing: d.InertKeysMissing,
-	}
-}

cmd/mavend/tick_api.go

@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+// mavend/tick_api.go — the daemonAPI read surface over the tick loop.
+//
+// Split out of tick.go, move-only (Vikunja #422). What mavweb asks the daemon
+// for, and the loop-to-ipc conversions those answers need.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/loop"
+)
+
+// daemonAPI wraps a store-backed CoreAPI and overrides TickTrace with the
+// daemon's in-memory tick trace cache.
+type daemonAPI struct {
+	ipc.CoreAPI
+	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
+	getMCPServers    func() []ipc.MCPServerStatus
+	getEvents        func(n int) []ipc.IntakeEvent
+}
+
+// RecentEvents — the unified intake journal (Vikunja #283). Empty, not an
+// error, when no bus was wired: "nothing has arrived" and "the journal is off"
+// look the same to a reader on purpose, because neither is a fault and the
+// page renders both as an empty table.
+func (d *daemonAPI) RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]ipc.IntakeEvent, error) {
+	if d.getEvents == nil {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	return d.getEvents(n), nil
+}
+
+func (d *daemonAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) (string, error) {
+	if d.chatFn == nil {
+		return "", errors.New("mavend: chat not available")
+	}
+	return d.chatFn(ctx, conversation, text), nil
+}
+
+// MCPServers — the configured MCP servers and their health (Vikunja #251).
+// Empty, not an error, when the mcp block is absent: "not configured" is the
+// default state and the web surface renders it as such.
+func (d *daemonAPI) MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]ipc.MCPServerStatus, error) {
+	if d.getMCPServers == nil {
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	return d.getMCPServers(), nil
+}
+
+func (d *daemonAPI) TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (ipc.TickTrace, error) {
+	trace := d.getTrace()
+	if trace == nil {
+		return ipc.TickTrace{}, nil
+	}
+	return toIPCTickTrace(*trace), nil
+}
+
+func (d *daemonAPI) MorningStatus(ctx context.Context) ([]ipc.MorningRoutineStatus, error) {
+	if d.getMorningStatus == nil {
+		return nil, errors.New("mavend: morning status not available")
+	}
+	return d.getMorningStatus(ctx), nil
+}
+
+func (d *daemonAPI) DayPlan(ctx context.Context) (ipc.DayPlan, error) {
+	if d.getDayPlan == nil {
+		return ipc.DayPlan{}, errors.New("mavend: day plan not available")
+	}
+	return d.getDayPlan(ctx), nil
+}
+
+func toIPCTickTrace(t loop.TickTrace) ipc.TickTrace {
+	rules := make([]ipc.RuleTrace, len(t.RuleTraces))
+	for i, r := range t.RuleTraces {
+		rules[i] = toIPCRuleTrace(r)
+	}
+	return ipc.TickTrace{
+		Now:    t.Now,
+		Winner: t.Winner,
+		Rules:  rules,
+	}
+}
+
+func toIPCRuleTrace(r loop.RuleTrace) ipc.RuleTrace {
+	return ipc.RuleTrace{
+		RuleName:        r.RuleName,
+		Severity:        int(r.Severity),
+		PredicateResult: r.PredicateResult,
+		GateResult:      r.GateResult,
+		GateBlockedBy:   r.GateBlockedBy,
+		GateDetail:      toIPCGateDetail(r.GateDetail),
+		WasSelected:     r.WasSelected,
+		LostTo:          r.LostTo,
+	}
+}
+
+func toIPCGateDetail(d loop.GateDetail) ipc.GateDetail {
+	return ipc.GateDetail{
+		SnoozeUntil:      d.SnoozeUntil,
+		CooldownUntil:    d.CooldownUntil,
+		QuietHours:       d.QuietHours,
+		CalendarBusy:     d.CalendarBusy,
+		Presence:         d.Presence,
+		InertKeysMissing: d.InertKeysMissing,
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/tick_digest.go

@@ -0,0 +1,233 @@
+// mavend/tick_digest.go — the digest queue.
+//
+// Split out of tick.go, move-only (Vikunja #422). A nudge below the severity
+// ceiling is held here instead of spoken, flushed as one batch on the window,
+// and drained by hand when he asks. Everything about batching lives here.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/delivery"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/loop"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
+)
+
+// shouldQueue — true when digest is enabled and the candidate's severity is
+// at or below the configured ceiling.
+func (t *tickLoop) shouldQueue(cand *loop.Candidate) bool {
+	return t.digestCfg != nil && t.digestCfg.Enabled &&
+		cand.Severity <= loop.Severity(t.digestCfg.SeverityCeiling)
+}
+
+// queueNudge — phrases the candidate and appends it to the digest queue.
+// Deduplicates by rule name: if the same rule is already queued, this is a
+// no-op (the first fire within the window is the one that counts).
+func (t *tickLoop) queueNudge(ctx context.Context, cand *loop.Candidate, _ loop.State, now time.Time) {
+	for _, q := range t.digestQ {
+		if q.Rule == cand.Rule.Name {
+			return // already queued
+		}
+	}
+	pn, err := t.phraser.PhraseNudge(ctx, *cand)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tick: phrase nudge %s: %v", cand.Rule.Name, err)
+		return
+	}
+	t.digestQ = append(t.digestQ, QueuedNudge{
+		Rule:     cand.Rule.Name,
+		Severity: int(cand.Severity),
+		Body:     pn.Body,
+		Key:      cand.Rule.Name,
+		QueuedAt: now,
+	})
+	t.cachePhrase(pn)
+}
+
+// maybeFlush — flushes the digest queue if the window has elapsed since the
+// first item or the queue reached MaxItems.
+func (t *tickLoop) maybeFlush(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
+	if t.digestCfg == nil || !t.digestCfg.Enabled || len(t.digestQ) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+	first := t.digestQ[0]
+	if now.Sub(first.QueuedAt) >= time.Duration(t.digestCfg.Window) ||
+		len(t.digestQ) >= t.digestCfg.MaxItems {
+		t.flushDigest(ctx, now, state)
+	}
+}
+
+// flushDigest — concatenates queued nudge bodies into a single digest
+// notification and dispatches it. Clears the queue after a successful send.
+// The digest uses the max severity among queued items for routing.
+func (t *tickLoop) flushDigest(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
+	if len(t.digestQ) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+
+	var b strings.Builder
+	maxSev := 0
+	for i, q := range t.digestQ {
+		if i > 0 {
+			b.WriteString(" · ")
+		}
+		b.WriteString(q.Body)
+		if q.Severity > maxSev {
+			maxSev = q.Severity
+		}
+	}
+	body := b.String()
+	summary := fmt.Sprintf("%d pending notifications", len(t.digestQ))
+
+	cand := loop.Candidate{
+		Rule: loop.Rule{
+			Name:     "digest",
+			Severity: loop.Severity(maxSev),
+		},
+		Severity: loop.Severity(maxSev),
+		State:    state,
+	}
+	pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{
+		Candidate: cand,
+		Body:      body,
+		Summary:   summary,
+	}
+	t.cachePhrase(pn)
+	if _, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now); err != nil {
+		// keep the queue — the next tick's maybeFlush re-attempts.
+		log.Printf("tick: dispatch digest: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	t.digestQ = nil
+}
+
+// digestExpiry — how long a gate-suppressed care nudge stays worth
+// resurfacing. 24h: these are daily-cadence rules (water/meal/break run on
+// hour-scale cooldowns and re-derive from facts that reset every day), so a
+// digest entry that outlives one full day is describing a day that's already
+// over — "you skipped a break yesterday" said tomorrow evening is noise, not
+// news. Bounding at one day also means a digest can never silently span a
+// weekend of quiet hours into an unbounded backlog.
+const digestExpiry = 24 * time.Hour
+
+// maxDigestSpokenItems — the bundle read-out is capped so "batched, not
+// dropped" cannot regress into "she dumps twelve things on me the moment I
+// walk in" — a digest that nags in bulk is worse than the drops it replaced.
+// Anything beyond the cap is still marked drained (it did get its moment;
+// the cap limits WORDS, not whether it counted) and folded into a trailing
+// count instead of being spoken in full.
+const maxDigestSpokenItems = 3
+
+// enqueueSuppressedDigest scans this tick's trace for care candidates the
+// gate blocked for a genuine restraint reason and durably records the
+// digest-eligible ones (loop.DigestEligible). Phrasing happens once, here,
+// at enqueue time — not re-derived at drain time — the same way queueNudge
+// phrases once and caches, so a rule suppressed for hours isn't re-prompting
+// the LLM every tick it stays blocked (EnqueueDigestEntry's rule+body dedupe
+// makes repeat calls here harmless, but skipping the phrase call entirely
+// when a pending entry already exists avoids the LLM round-trip too).
+func (t *tickLoop) enqueueSuppressedDigest(ctx context.Context, trace *loop.TickTrace, state loop.State, now time.Time) {
+	if trace == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	for _, tr := range trace.RuleTraces {
+		if !tr.PredicateResult || tr.GateResult {
+			continue // didn't want to fire, or wasn't suppressed
+		}
+		if !loop.DigestEligible(tr.Severity, tr.GateBlockedBy) {
+			continue
+		}
+		rule := loop.Rule{Name: tr.RuleName, Severity: tr.Severity}
+		cand := loop.Candidate{Rule: rule, Severity: tr.Severity, State: state}
+		pn, err := t.phraser.PhraseNudge(ctx, cand)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("tick: phrase digest candidate %s: %v", tr.RuleName, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		expires := now.Add(digestExpiry)
+		if _, deduped, err := t.store.EnqueueDigestEntry(ctx, tr.RuleName, int(tr.Severity), pn.Body, now, expires); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("tick: enqueue digest entry %s: %v", tr.RuleName, err)
+		} else if deduped {
+			// same suppressed nudge already pending — nothing new to say.
+			continue
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// expireStaleDigest sweeps entries past their expiry once per tick — cheap
+// bookkeeping, mirrors ReconcileStaleDeliveryAttempts's shape.
+func (t *tickLoop) expireStaleDigest(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) {
+	n, err := t.store.ExpireStaleDigestEntries(ctx, now)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tick: expire stale digest entries: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	if n > 0 {
+		log.Printf("tick: expired %d stale digest entr(y/ies) unspoken", n)
+	}
+}
+
+// maybeDrainDigest speaks the pending digest bundle once the gate's
+// suppression reasons have actually cleared — quiet hours over, back from
+// away, out of the meeting. Draining while still suppressed would just be a
+// second way to nag through quiet hours; the bundle waits for the same "is
+// it allowed right now" condition a live nudge already waits for.
+func (t *tickLoop) maybeDrainDigest(ctx context.Context, state loop.State, now time.Time) {
+	if state.QuietHours || state.CalendarBusy || state.Presence == store.Away {
+		return
+	}
+	entries, err := t.store.PendingDigestEntries(ctx, now)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tick: pending digest entries: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	if len(entries) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+
+	spoken := entries
+	extra := 0
+	if len(spoken) > maxDigestSpokenItems {
+		spoken = entries[:maxDigestSpokenItems]
+		extra = len(entries) - maxDigestSpokenItems
+	}
+	var b strings.Builder
+	maxSev := 0
+	for i, e := range spoken {
+		if i > 0 {
+			b.WriteString(" · ")
+		}
+		b.WriteString(e.Body)
+		if e.Severity > maxSev {
+			maxSev = e.Severity
+		}
+	}
+	if extra > 0 {
+		fmt.Fprintf(&b, " · и ещё %d", extra)
+	}
+	body := b.String()
+	summary := fmt.Sprintf("%d отложенных уведомлений", len(entries))
+
+	cand := loop.Candidate{
+		Rule:     loop.Rule{Name: "digest", Severity: loop.Severity(maxSev)},
+		Severity: loop.Severity(maxSev),
+		State:    state,
+	}
+	pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{Candidate: cand, Body: body, Summary: summary}
+	t.cachePhrase(pn)
+	if _, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tick: dispatch digest bundle: %v", err)
+		return // leave entries pending; retried next tick
+	}
+	ids := make([]int64, len(entries))
+	for i, e := range entries {
+		ids[i] = e.ID
+	}
+	if err := t.store.DrainDigestEntries(ctx, ids, now); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tick: drain digest entries: %v", err)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/tick_morning.go

@@ -0,0 +1,197 @@
+// mavend/tick_morning.go — the morning checklist and the day plan.
+//
+// Split out of tick.go, move-only (Vikunja #422). One window per configured
+// routine, nudging once at the end for what is still open, plus the read
+// surfaces /morning renders.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"log"
+	"strings"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/calendar"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/delivery"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/loop"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/morning"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
+)
+
+// fireMorningRoutines checks each configured checklist against today's facts
+// and dispatches a nag listing exactly what's still missing, at most once per
+// routine per calendar day. Fact reads happen here (not in loop.Gatherer)
+// because the item↔fact-key mapping is morning-routine-specific, not a rule
+// concern — pulling it into the shared gather path would leak that mapping
+// into loop's "rules declare wanted keys" contract. Bodies are literal
+// operator text (item labels joined), not LLM-phrased, same rationale as
+// cron routines: deterministic, can't hallucinate a checklist item.
+func (t *tickLoop) fireMorningRoutines(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
+	if len(t.morningRoutines) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+	facts := t.gatherMorningFacts(ctx)
+
+	for _, cand := range morning.Due(t.morningRoutines, facts, t.morningLast, now) {
+		body := morningNudgeBody(cand)
+		pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{
+			Candidate: loop.Candidate{
+				Rule:     loop.Rule{Name: "morning:" + cand.Routine.Name, Severity: loop.Severity(cand.Routine.Severity)},
+				Severity: loop.Severity(cand.Routine.Severity),
+				State:    state,
+			},
+			Body:    body,
+			Summary: body,
+		}
+		if _, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("tick: dispatch morning routine %s: %v", cand.Routine.Name, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// 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
+// disagree about what evidence exists.
+func (t *tickLoop) gatherMorningFacts(ctx context.Context) map[string]store.Fact {
+	keys := make(map[string]struct{})
+	for _, r := range t.morningRoutines {
+		for _, it := range r.Items {
+			keys[it.FactKey] = struct{}{}
+		}
+	}
+	facts := make(map[string]store.Fact, len(keys))
+	for k := range keys {
+		f, err := t.store.LatestFact(ctx, k)
+		if err == nil {
+			facts[k] = f
+			continue
+		}
+		if err != store.ErrNoFact {
+			log.Printf("tick: morning: latest fact %s: %v", k, err)
+		}
+	}
+	return facts
+}
+
+// morningStatus is the read-only "what's missing" query the web UI (and
+// eventually a voice query) calls. Pure recompute over the current facts —
+// no dedupe/nudge-time gating, unlike fireMorningRoutines: this answers
+// "state right now," not "should we nag."
+func (t *tickLoop) morningStatus(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) []ipc.MorningRoutineStatus {
+	if len(t.morningRoutines) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	facts := t.gatherMorningFacts(ctx)
+	out := make([]ipc.MorningRoutineStatus, 0, len(t.morningRoutines))
+	for _, r := range t.morningRoutines {
+		st := morning.Evaluate(r, facts, now)
+		done := make(map[string]bool, len(st.Completed))
+		for _, it := range st.Completed {
+			done[it.Key] = true
+		}
+		items := make([]ipc.MorningRoutineItem, len(r.Items))
+		for i, it := range r.Items {
+			items[i] = ipc.MorningRoutineItem{Key: it.Key, Label: it.Label, Done: done[it.Key]}
+		}
+		out = append(out, ipc.MorningRoutineStatus{
+			Name:        r.Name,
+			Active:      st.Active,
+			WindowStart: r.WindowStart,
+			WindowEnd:   r.WindowEnd,
+			Items:       items,
+		})
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// dayPlan is the read-only "what does today hold" query (Vikunja #128). It is
+// the impure half of morning.BuildPlan: it reads the calendar events, the
+// pending reminders and the checklist facts, and the pure builder orders them.
+//
+// It never dispatches. Asking for the plan is a query like any other; the only
+// unprompted delivery in maven stays with the morning nudge and the
+// dispatcher's policy.
+func (t *tickLoop) dayPlan(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) ipc.DayPlan {
+	y, m, d := now.Date()
+	dayStart := time.Date(y, m, d, 0, 0, 0, 0, now.Location())
+	dayEnd := dayStart.AddDate(0, 0, 1)
+
+	var events []morning.PlanEntry
+	facts, err := t.store.CalendarEvents(ctx, dayStart, dayEnd)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tick: day plan: calendar events: %v", err)
+	}
+	for _, f := range facts {
+		events = append(events, morning.PlanEntry{
+			At: f.Ts,
+			// The plan prints the hour itself, so the "@ 14:00-14:30" tail the
+			// fact value carries would say it twice.
+			Text: calendar.FactSummary(f.Value),
+			Kind: morning.PlanEvent,
+			// Provenance below a calendar read (an ambient relay, #126) is
+			// hedged rather than recited as fact.
+			Uncertain: f.Confidence < 1.0,
+		})
+	}
+
+	var reminders []morning.PlanEntry
+	rems, err := t.store.PendingReminders(ctx, dayStart, dayEnd)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tick: day plan: pending reminders: %v", err)
+	}
+	for _, r := range rems {
+		if r.Status != store.ReminderPending {
+			continue
+		}
+		fire := r.NextFireTs
+		if fire.IsZero() {
+			fire = r.FireTs
+		}
+		reminders = append(reminders, morning.PlanEntry{
+			At:   fire,
+			Text: r.Text(),
+			Kind: morning.PlanReminder,
+		})
+	}
+
+	var checklistFacts map[string]store.Fact
+	if len(t.morningRoutines) > 0 {
+		checklistFacts = t.gatherMorningFacts(ctx)
+	}
+	plan := morning.BuildPlan(t.morningRoutines, checklistFacts, events, reminders, now)
+
+	out := ipc.DayPlan{Date: plan.Date, Spoken: plan.FormatRU()}
+	out.Items = make([]ipc.DayPlanItem, len(plan.Items))
+	for i, it := range plan.Items {
+		out.Items[i] = ipc.DayPlanItem{
+			At:        it.At,
+			Text:      it.Text,
+			Kind:      string(it.Kind),
+			Uncertain: it.Uncertain,
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}

cmd/mavend/tick_routines.go

@@ -0,0 +1,234 @@
+// mavend/tick_routines.go — pattern detection and the routines that fire.
+//
+// Split out of tick.go, move-only (Vikunja #422). Configured routines, the
+// routines he accepted on /routines, and the tick-side detector that proposes
+// new ones.
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"log"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/config"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/delivery"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/loop"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/pattern"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/routine"
+)
+
+// detectPatterns runs the pattern detector proactively over every
+// action+object pair that has ever produced an event, independent of
+// whichever fact write (or channel) last touched it (Vikunja #43). This is
+// what makes pattern inference actually proactive: it fires on the daemon's
+// own schedule reading accumulated history, not only as a side effect of a
+// live voice turn.
+//
+// Idempotence and noise are handled by the store, not here — this function
+// is safe to call every tick:
+//   - Same pattern, tick after tick: detectAndPropose's LookupProposedRoutine
+//     check plus proposed_routines' UNIQUE(action, object) constraint (with
+//     CreateProposedRoutine's ON CONFLICT DO NOTHING) mean a pair that
+//     already has a row — in ANY status — produces no second row and no log
+//     spam beyond the one line at genuine creation.
+//   - A DISMISSED proposal must never come back. DismissProposedRoutine flips
+//     status in place; the row is never deleted. So the same Lookup check
+//     that stops a duplicate "proposed" also stops a "dismissed" one from
+//     resurrecting — there is nothing tick-specific to get right here beyond
+//     calling the same shared path the voice route already used.
+//
+// By default this only creates a row for the /routines page to show: it does
+// not notify, ring, or speak. Detection is not the same act as disturbing him
+// about it, and Maven is "not a nag, not autonomous" (CLAUDE.md). Announcing
+// is opt-in through the pattern_proposals config block — see announceProposal
+// for the restraints that apply even then. A proposal only starts producing
+// recurring nudges once he accepts it (fireAcceptedRoutines).
+func (t *tickLoop) detectPatterns(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
+	pairs, err := t.store.DistinctEventPairs(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tick: distinct event pairs: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	announced := false
+	for _, p := range pairs {
+		r, _, err := detectAndPropose(ctx, t.store, p.Action, p.Object, now)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("tick: detect pattern %s/%s: %v", p.Action, p.Object, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		if r == nil {
+			continue // no stable pattern, or already proposed/accepted/dismissed
+		}
+		log.Printf("tick: proposed routine: %s/%s every %.1f days", r.Action, r.Object, r.IntervalDays)
+		// One announcement per tick at most, whatever the scan turned up. The
+		// rest are on /routines; they are not lost, they are just not shouted.
+		// Nor are they queued: the row now exists, so no later tick re-detects
+		// them and they are never announced. See announceProposal.
+		if announced {
+			continue
+		}
+		announced = t.announceProposal(ctx, r, now, state)
+	}
+}
+
+// announceProposal offers a freshly inferred routine through the ordinary
+// care-delivery path, if announcing is switched on at all. Returns true when
+// something was actually sent.
+//
+// Everything here is restraint. The feature is off unless configured; when on
+// it is sev1 (the lowest severity, so quiet hours, away presence and snooze
+// all suppress it via loop.Gate exactly like a care nudge); it is spaced by
+// proposalCfg.Cooldown across every pair, not per pair; and a suppressed or
+// dropped announcement is NOT retried — the cooldown clock advances only on a
+// real send, but the proposal row already exists, so the next tick will not
+// re-detect it and nothing queues up behind it. A missed announcement means
+// he reads it on /routines instead, which is the whole point of the page.
+//
+// What the cooldown is and is not. detectAndPropose returns non-nil only for a
+// newly created row, so a pair gets exactly one chance to be spoken: the tick
+// that first proposes it. Combined with one announcement per tick, the first
+// tick over a populated history announces one pattern and permanently silences
+// every other pattern found in the same pass. That is the intent, not an
+// oversight — an inferred routine is not worth a second attempt at his
+// attention, and /routines lists all of them. So the cooldown does not drain a
+// backlog. It only spaces announcements of genuinely new pairs discovered on
+// later ticks. If it should ever become "one per day until each is mentioned",
+// that needs a queue rather than this counter.
+//
+// Cooldown gets its default here as well as in applyDefaults. That is
+// deliberate: a tickLoop assembled directly in a test never goes through Load,
+// and an unspaced announcer is not what those tests mean to exercise.
+//
+// The body is the detector's own literal Russian phrasing (pattern.PhraseRoutine
+// — "ты заправляешь поилку раз в 7 дней — напоминать?"), not LLM-generated, so
+// an inferred routine cannot arrive worded as something Maven never observed.
+func (t *tickLoop) announceProposal(ctx context.Context, r *pattern.ProposedRoutine, now time.Time, state loop.State) bool {
+	if !t.proposalCfg.AnnounceProposals() {
+		return false
+	}
+	cooldown := time.Duration(t.proposalCfg.Cooldown)
+	if cooldown <= 0 {
+		cooldown = config.DefaultProposalCooldown
+	}
+	if !t.lastProposalAt.IsZero() && now.Sub(t.lastProposalAt) < cooldown {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	rule := loop.Rule{Name: "proposal:" + r.Action + " " + r.Object, Severity: loop.Sev1}
+	if !loop.Gate(state, rule) {
+		return false
+	}
+	body := pattern.PhraseRoutine(r)
+	pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{
+		Candidate: loop.Candidate{Rule: rule, Severity: rule.Severity, State: state},
+		Body:      body,
+		Summary:   body,
+	}
+	sent, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tick: announce proposal %s/%s: %v", r.Action, r.Object, err)
+		return false
+	}
+	if len(sent) == 0 {
+		return false // routing dropped it — /routines still has it.
+	}
+	t.lastProposalAt = now
+	return true
+}
+
+// routinesFromConfig maps the config's routine blocks to the engine type.
+// Validation (cron parses, name/body present, severity defaulted) already ran
+// in config.Load, so this is a pure field copy.
+func routinesFromConfig(rc []config.RoutineConfig) []routine.Routine {
+	if len(rc) == 0 {
+		return nil
+	}
+	out := make([]routine.Routine, len(rc))
+	for i, r := range rc {
+		out[i] = routine.Routine{Name: r.Name, Cron: r.Cron, Body: r.Body, Severity: r.Severity}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// fireRoutines dispatches the routines whose cron schedule crossed since their
+// last fire. Each is delivered as a nudge through the normal routing table
+// (ChannelsFor(severity, presence)) with a "routine:"-prefixed rule name so it
+// can't collide with a care rule in the feedback autotuner. A dispatch failure
+// logs and continues — one bad send must not skip the rest, and routine.Due has
+// already advanced the last-fire time so a transient failure drops that fire
+// rather than replaying it every tick (a routine is clockwork, not an alarm —
+// no repeat-til-ack).
+func (t *tickLoop) fireRoutines(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
+	for _, r := range routine.Due(t.routines, t.routineLast, now) {
+		pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{
+			Candidate: loop.Candidate{
+				Rule:     loop.Rule{Name: "routine:" + r.Name, Severity: loop.Severity(r.Severity)},
+				Severity: loop.Severity(r.Severity),
+				State:    state,
+			},
+			Body:    r.Body,
+			Summary: r.Body,
+		}
+		if _, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("tick: dispatch routine %s: %v", r.Name, err)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// fireAcceptedRoutines nudges about the routines the user accepted, once per
+// interval (Vikunja #366). Accepting used to create a single reminder, so a
+// non-weekly routine fired once and went quiet forever; the schedule lives in
+// the proposed_routines row now and the loop re-reads it every tick.
+//
+// A routine is a care-class nudge and goes through the restraint gate like any
+// other: quiet hours, away presence and snooze all suppress it. Reminders bypass
+// that gate; routines must not. A suppressed nudge is NOT marked fired, so it
+// goes out on the next tick that the gate allows — one nudge, held, not dropped
+// and not repeated.
+//
+// The body is literal text built from the detected action and object, not
+// LLM-phrased, so a routine can't hallucinate. It nudges; it never acts.
+func (t *tickLoop) fireAcceptedRoutines(ctx context.Context, now time.Time, state loop.State) {
+	rows, err := t.store.ListAcceptedRoutines(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("tick: list accepted routines: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	accepted := make([]routine.Accepted, 0, len(rows))
+	for _, r := range rows {
+		if r.AcceptedTs == nil {
+			continue // accepted before the schedule column existed — no clock to start from.
+		}
+		accepted = append(accepted, routine.Accepted{
+			ID:           r.ID,
+			Name:         r.Action + " " + r.Object,
+			IntervalDays: r.IntervalDays,
+			Accepted:     *r.AcceptedTs,
+			LastFired:    r.LastFiredTs,
+		})
+	}
+
+	for _, a := range routine.DueAccepted(accepted, now) {
+		rule := loop.Rule{Name: "routine:" + a.Name, Severity: loop.Sev1}
+		if !loop.Gate(state, rule) {
+			continue
+		}
+		body := "пора: " + a.Name
+		pn := delivery.PhrasedNudge{
+			Candidate: loop.Candidate{Rule: rule, Severity: rule.Severity, State: state},
+			Body:      body,
+			Summary:   body,
+		}
+		sent, err := t.dispatcher.DispatchNudge(ctx, pn, now)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("tick: dispatch accepted routine %d: %v", a.ID, err)
+			continue
+		}
+		if len(sent) == 0 {
+			continue // routing dropped it — leave it due.
+		}
+		if err := t.store.MarkRoutineFired(ctx, a.ID, now); err != nil {
+			log.Printf("tick: mark routine %d fired: %v", a.ID, err)
+		}
+	}
+}

cmd/mavend/tick_test.go

@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ func TestDigestSev4BypassesQueue(t *testing.T) {
 	ctx := context.Background()
 	now := refNow()
 	markPresent(t, st, ctx, now)
-	if _, err := st.SetValue(ctx, store.KindSelf, "service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", "down", now); err != nil {
+	if _, err := st.SetValue(ctx, store.KindSelf, "service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma", "down", now); err != nil {
 		t.Fatalf("seed service_down: %v", err)
 	}
 	sink := &fakeSink{}

cmd/mavend/voice.go

@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ type reactiveHandler struct {
 	tts      tts.Synthesizer
 	router   *router.Router
 	embedder router.Embedder // reused for note write/query (same model as the classifier)
+	// boundary — the embedded seed sets behind the personal boundary
+	// (personalboundary.go). Zero value is usable and loads on first query;
+	// with no embedder it never loads and the boundary uses personalMarkers.
+	boundary personalBoundary
 	// api — the CoreAPI the handler reads and writes through. Wired with the
 	// bare store adapter and UPGRADED by main once the daemonAPI exists; see
 	// upgradeAPI.
@@ -216,9 +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, text string) string {
+func (h *reactiveHandler) handleText(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) string {
 	log.Printf("voice: handleText: %q", text)
-	return h.runTurn(ctx, text, sourceText)
+	return h.runTurn(withDialogueID(ctx, dialogueIDFor(sourceText, conversation)), text, sourceText)
 }
 
 // turnSource — which channel this utterance arrived on, in the same provenance
@@ -251,7 +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()
+	expiredNotice := h.clarifyExpiredNotice(ctx)
 
 	// 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
@@ -347,7 +351,10 @@ 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(dec); asked {
+		if reply := h.hexisBeforeClarify(ctx, dec); reply != "" {
+			return withNotice(expiredNotice, reply)
+		}
+		if question, asked := h.askClarify(ctx, dec); asked {
 			return withNotice(expiredNotice, question)
 		}
 	}

cmd/mavend/voicewire.go

@@ -48,7 +48,11 @@ type voiceWiring struct {
 	// mcp — the MCP client, nil unless the `mcp` block configures an enabled
 	// server (Vikunja #251). Its tools land in the same allowlist as every
 	// other act, so nothing else here has to know about it.
-	mcp *mcpWiring
+	// pair — the workstation model with the resident one as the floor, nil
+	// unless a `workstation` block names an address. Held here only so the
+	// prober is stopped on shutdown; callers were handed it at build time.
+	pair *llm.Pair
+	mcp  *mcpWiring
 	// home — the Home Assistant client, nil unless the `smarthome` block is
 	// enabled (Vikunja #256). Its devices land in the same allowlist as every
 	// other act, so nothing else here has to know about it.
@@ -76,6 +80,9 @@ func (w *voiceWiring) close() {
 	if w.ttsClient != nil {
 		_ = w.ttsClient.Close()
 	}
+	if w.pair != nil {
+		w.pair.Stop()
+	}
 	w.mcp.close()
 }
 
@@ -139,6 +146,7 @@ func wireVoice(cfg *config.Config, coreAPI ipc.CoreAPI, phr phraser.Phraser, mem
 		emb = router.NewHashEmbedder(1024)
 	}
 	w.embedder = emb
+	repairFactVectors(dataStore, emb)
 	checkStoredEmbedder(dataStore, emb)
 
 	// ----- tool executor (the enabled act allowlist, store-backed) -----
@@ -188,6 +196,18 @@ func wireVoice(cfg *config.Config, coreAPI ipc.CoreAPI, phr phraser.Phraser, mem
 		// the new llama-server when the resident model is swapped (Vikunja #250).
 		llmClient = llmClientFor(lp, 60*time.Second)
 	}
+	// The workstation model sits above that one when it is configured and its
+	// card is free. hot is what the router and the replier complete through:
+	// either the pair, or the resident client alone, or nothing at all.
+	hot, pair := modelSeam(cfg, llmClient)
+	w.pair = pair
+	// The phraser gets the same pair, which is what carries the workstation model
+	// into the paths that do not go through `hot`: world questions (the naming
+	// half), and the digestion worker's nudge and reminder phrasing (the silent
+	// half). Wiring, so it happens once and before the voice server listens.
+	if lp, ok := phr.(*phraser.LLMPhraser); ok && pair != nil {
+		lp.UseRemote(pair)
+	}
 	// ----- router (the cascade; floor examples seed the classifier) -----
 	// The act matcher's allowlist is exactly the enabled tool names — the
 	// router only matches acts the executor can run (one source of truth).
@@ -199,7 +219,7 @@ func wireVoice(cfg *config.Config, coreAPI ipc.CoreAPI, phr phraser.Phraser, mem
 	// against the classifier's 50.0%, at about 1s a turn instead of 30ms (see
 	// config.VoiceConfig.LLMRouter). The classifier always stays wired as the
 	// fallback, so a model error never breaks a turn.
-	rtr := buildRouter(emb, matcher, threshold, pickLLMRouter(cfg.Voice.UseLLMRouter(), llmClient))
+	rtr := buildRouter(emb, matcher, threshold, pickLLMRouter(cfg.Voice.UseLLMRouter(), hot))
 
 	// ----- sessions registry (shared with voicesink) -----
 	sessions := voice.NewSessions()
@@ -218,7 +238,10 @@ func wireVoice(cfg *config.Config, coreAPI ipc.CoreAPI, phr phraser.Phraser, mem
 	// ----- dialogue (multi-turn slot carry-over; 2-min follow-up window) -----
 	// Store-backed when the daemon passes a store, so a restart mid-conversation
 	// keeps the thread (Vikunja #363). Sessions past their TTL are dropped on
-	// load, never revived. Clarify's parked question stays in memory only.
+	// load, never revived. Clarify's parked question stays in memory only, and
+	// that is a decision rather than an omission (Vikunja #385, docs/design.md):
+	// a restart expires it, so the thread comes back and the open question does
+	// not.
 	var dialogueSessions *dialogue.SessionStore
 	if dataStore != nil {
 		dialogueSessions = dialogue.NewPersistentSessionStore(2*time.Minute, dataStore)
@@ -233,8 +256,8 @@ func wireVoice(cfg *config.Config, coreAPI ipc.CoreAPI, phr phraser.Phraser, mem
 
 	// ----- replier (LLM-backed when the engine is on, Stub floor otherwise) -----
 	replier := voice.Replier(voice.NewStubReplier())
-	if llmClient != nil {
-		replier = newLLMReplier(llmClient, contextBlockFn(cfg, time.Now))
+	if hot != nil {
+		replier = newLLMReplier(hot, contextBlockFn(cfg, time.Now))
 	}
 
 	// ----- the handler (the reactive path; closes over stt / tts / router / coreAPI / memory) -----
@@ -291,7 +314,42 @@ func wireVoice(cfg *config.Config, coreAPI ipc.CoreAPI, phr phraser.Phraser, mem
 // pickLLMRouter returns the LLM router when the operator asked for it and there
 // is a llama-server to talk to, and nil otherwise. nil is safe: the cascade then
 // routes with the classifier, so an unusable setting costs accuracy, not turns.
-func pickLLMRouter(enabled bool, c *llm.Client) *router.LLMRouter {
+// modelSeam builds the completion seam the hot paths use: routing and replies.
+//
+// With no `workstation` block it is the resident client and nothing probes
+// anything, which is today's deploy exactly. With one, it is an llm.Pair that
+// prefers the workstation and falls back to the resident model silently — the
+// silent half of the degradation rule (docs/offload.md), because the big model
+// is only better here and the 1.7B is today's shipping quality. He is never
+// told which of the two phrased his reply.
+//
+// A nil resident client means the phraser is not an LLM phraser. There is then
+// no floor, and a Pair with no floor is a configuration mistake rather than a
+// degraded mode, so the seam is nil and the cascade routes with the classifier.
+func modelSeam(cfg *config.Config, resident *llm.Client) (router.Completer, *llm.Pair) {
+	if resident == nil {
+		if cfg.Workstation != nil {
+			log.Printf("voice: a workstation is configured but there is no resident model to floor it with — ignoring the block")
+		}
+		return nil, nil
+	}
+	if cfg.Workstation == nil {
+		return resident, nil
+	}
+	ws := cfg.Workstation
+	pair := llm.NewPair(
+		llm.New(ws.URL, time.Duration(ws.Timeout)),
+		resident,
+		ws.Health,
+		time.Duration(ws.Probe),
+	)
+	pair.Start(context.Background())
+	log.Printf("voice: workstation model at %s, probed every %s, resident model as the floor",
+		ws.URL, time.Duration(ws.Probe))
+	return pair, pair
+}
+
+func pickLLMRouter(enabled bool, c router.Completer) *router.LLMRouter {
 	if !enabled {
 		return nil
 	}
@@ -325,6 +383,11 @@ 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,
@@ -338,11 +401,34 @@ func buildRouter(emb router.Embedder, acts router.ActMatcher, threshold float64,
 	})
 }
 
-// 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.
+// 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).
 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
@@ -367,11 +453,11 @@ func seedClassifier(c *router.Classifier) {
 		}
 		total += n
 	}
-	log.Printf("voice: loaded %d seed examples from %s", total, seedDir)
+	log.Printf("voice: loaded %d seed examples from %s", total, seedPath())
 }
 
 func loadSeedFile(c *router.Classifier, intent router.Intent) (int, error) {
-	path := filepath.Join(seedDir, string(intent)+".txt")
+	path := filepath.Join(seedPath(), string(intent)+".txt")
 	f, err := os.Open(path)
 	if err != nil {
 		return 0, fmt.Errorf("open %s: %w", path, err)
@@ -419,6 +505,36 @@ func seedTools(api ipc.CoreAPI, tools []config.ToolConfig) {
 	log.Printf("voice: seeded %d act tools from config", n)
 }
 
+// repairFactVectors brings stored fact vectors in line with the facts they name
+// (#493), once per box, before the embedder marker is even looked at.
+//
+// Automatic and not a flag, unlike -reembed: only voice-tapped facts are in
+// this index, so the work is tens of embeddings rather than the thousands of
+// notes that made the backfill a deliberate act. And the box that needs it is
+// broken in a way nobody can see — recall answers with the wrong text and
+// nothing logs an error — so waiting for an operator to know to run it is how
+// the defect survived four restarts in the first place.
+func repairFactVectors(dataStore *store.Store, emb router.Embedder) {
+	if dataStore == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	res, err := dataStore.RepairFactVectors(context.Background(),
+		// EmbedPassage, the stored side, same as every other writer of these
+		// vectors.
+		func(ctx context.Context, text string) ([]float32, error) {
+			return router.EmbedPassage(ctx, emb, text)
+		})
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("voice: fact vector repair failed, no marker written and nothing half-done — retried next start: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	if res.Skipped || res.Rewritten+res.Dropped == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+	log.Printf("voice: fact vector repair — %d re-embedded from the fact they name, %d dropped as voided or superseded, %d already right, took %s (#493)",
+		res.Rewritten, res.Dropped, res.Kept, res.Took.Round(time.Millisecond))
+}
+
 // reembedOnStart is the -reembed flag (set in run()). Opt-in on purpose: see
 // runReembed.
 var reembedOnStart bool

cmd/mavend/weatherq.go

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 // Package main — weatherq.go holds the weather-query keyword helpers: does
-// 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.
+// 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.
 package main
 
-import "strings"
+import (
+	"regexp"
+	"strings"
+)
 
 // isWeatherQuery returns true if the utterance is about weather.
 func isWeatherQuery(u string) bool {
@@ -19,40 +22,49 @@ func isWeatherQuery(u string) bool {
 		strings.Contains(lower, "temperature")
 }
 
-// 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",
+// 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,
 }
 
-// extractWeatherLocation returns the city he named, or the configured default
+// extractWeatherLocation returns the place 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 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.
+// 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.
 func extractWeatherLocation(u, defaultLoc string) string {
-	lower := strings.ToLower(u)
-	for substr, name := range weatherCities {
-		if strings.Contains(lower, substr) {
-			return name
-		}
+	m := weatherPlace.FindStringSubmatch(u)
+	if m == nil {
+		return defaultLoc
 	}
-	return defaultLoc
+	place := strings.TrimSpace(m[1])
+	first := strings.ToLower(strings.Fields(place)[0])
+	if weatherNonPlaces[first] {
+		return defaultLoc
+	}
+	return place
 }

cmd/mavend/weatherq_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+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

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"errors"
+	"log"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
+)
+
+// worldPhraser — the naming half of the degradation rule (docs/offload.md), as
+// the query sources see it. Only *phraser.LLMPhraser implements it, so the
+// Stub and every test double stay exactly as they are.
+type worldPhraser interface {
+	PhraseWorld(ctx context.Context, utterance string, sources []string) (string, error)
+}
+
+// worldGap — what he hears when the question is about the world, the workstation
+// model is the one configured to answer it, and that machine is not answering.
+//
+// It says the true thing. The resident 1.7B is not a worse answer here, it is an
+// invented one: "Война и мир" came back with Левитан as its author, and a
+// 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."
+
+// phraseWorld asks the world model, or reports the gap.
+//
+// The three outcomes come straight from LLMPhraser.PhraseWorld: no workstation
+// configured means the resident model answers as it always has, a workstation
+// that is up answers, and a workstation that is down returns
+// phraser.ErrNoWorldModel. A phraser that has no world seam at all — the Stub,
+// and the doubles in the tests — is the first of those three.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) phraseWorld(ctx context.Context, utterance string, sources []string) (string, error) {
+	if h.phraser == nil {
+		return "", phraser.ErrNoWorldModel
+	}
+	if w, ok := h.phraser.(worldPhraser); ok {
+		return w.PhraseWorld(ctx, utterance, sources)
+	}
+	return h.phraser.PhraseQuery(ctx, utterance, sources)
+}
+
+// phraseSource asks the world model to answer from a passage someone already
+// fetched — a live search result, a ZIM article, a page he named. It returns ""
+// rather than the gap phrase, because these callers hold something better than a
+// gap: the passage itself, which their own floor reads back to him. Nothing is
+// invented either way, and a real quote beats "не могу сейчас".
+func (h *reactiveHandler) phraseSource(ctx context.Context, name, utterance string, sources []string) string {
+	reply, err := h.phraseWorld(ctx, utterance, sources)
+	switch {
+	case errors.Is(err, phraser.ErrNoWorldModel):
+		log.Printf("voice: %s: no world model, reading the source back instead", name)
+		return ""
+	case err != nil:
+		log.Printf("voice: %s: phrase: %v", name, err)
+	}
+	return reply
+}

cmd/mavend/worldmodel_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/router"
+)
+
+// gapPhraser — a phraser whose world model is configured and asleep, which is
+// the state the naming half exists for.
+type gapPhraser struct {
+	*phraser.Stub
+	worldCalls int
+}
+
+func (g *gapPhraser) PhraseWorld(context.Context, string, []string) (string, error) {
+	g.worldCalls++
+	return "", phraser.ErrNoWorldModel
+}
+
+func worldTurn(utterance string) *queryTurn {
+	return &queryTurn{dec: router.Decision{Intent: router.IntentQuery, Utterance: utterance}}
+}
+
+// A world question with the workstation asleep says so. The resident model is
+// not asked, because what it produces here is an invention with no signal that
+// it is one.
+func TestQueryGeneralNamesTheGap(t *testing.T) {
+	g := &gapPhraser{Stub: phraser.NewStub()}
+	h := &reactiveHandler{phraser: g}
+	reply, ok := h.queryGeneral(context.Background(), worldTurn("почему небо голубое"))
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("queryGeneral passed on the last source in the chain")
+	}
+	if reply != worldGap {
+		t.Fatalf("reply = %q, want the named gap", reply)
+	}
+	if g.worldCalls != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("PhraseWorld called %d times, want 1", g.worldCalls)
+	}
+}
+
+// A phraser with no world seam at all — the Stub, and every box with no
+// `workstation` block — answers exactly as it did before this seam existed.
+func TestQueryGeneralWithoutAWorldModelIsUnchanged(t *testing.T) {
+	h := &reactiveHandler{phraser: phraser.NewStub()}
+	reply, ok := h.queryGeneral(context.Background(), worldTurn("почему небо голубое"))
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("queryGeneral passed on the last source in the chain")
+	}
+	if reply != "не знаю." {
+		t.Fatalf("reply = %q, want the Stub's answer", reply)
+	}
+}
+
+// The gap is spoken aloud by a Russian voice, so it is Russian, feminine and
+// informal. "не хочу" and "не могу" are her own verbs; there is no "вы" and no
+// 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.ContainsAny(worldGap, "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz") {
+		t.Errorf("the gap phrase has Latin letters in it: %s", worldGap)
+	}
+}
+
+// The sources that hold a passage read it back rather than name a gap. He gets a
+// real quote instead of "не могу сейчас", and nothing is invented either way.
+func TestASourceWithAPassageReadsItBackInsteadOfNamingTheGap(t *testing.T) {
+	g := &gapPhraser{Stub: phraser.NewStub()}
+	h := &reactiveHandler{phraser: g}
+	if got := h.phraseSource(context.Background(), "search", "почему небо голубое",
+		[]string{"Рэлеевское рассеяние."}); got != "" {
+		t.Fatalf("phraseSource = %q, want \"\" so the caller's own floor reads the passage back", got)
+	}
+	if g.worldCalls != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("PhraseWorld called %d times, want 1", g.worldCalls)
+	}
+}

cmd/mavgpud/gpu.go

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

cmd/mavgpud/gpu_test.go

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

cmd/mavgpud/main.go

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

cmd/mavgpud/runner.go

@@ -0,0 +1,146 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"log"
+	"net/http"
+	"os/exec"
+	"sync"
+	"syscall"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// runner owns one llama-server process. Owning it is the point of the daemon:
+// the workstation cannot keep a 7-14B resident, because that holds 16GB against
+// the owner's CPT runs, Correx and the manga-recap pipeline. So the thing that
+// stays up is this, which costs no VRAM, and the model comes and goes under it.
+type runner struct {
+	bin  string
+	args []string
+	// ready is llama-server's own /health, which answers "is a model loaded".
+	// Loading a 7-14B takes tens of seconds, so started is not ready.
+	readyURL string
+
+	mu    sync.Mutex
+	cmd   *exec.Cmd
+	ready bool
+	// 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
+}
+
+func newRunner(bin string, args []string, readyURL string) *runner {
+	return &runner{
+		bin: bin, args: args, readyURL: readyURL,
+		http: &http.Client{Timeout: 2 * time.Second},
+	}
+}
+
+// pid is the child's, or 0. The GPU probe needs it to tell our own model apart
+// from a contender.
+func (r *runner) pid() int {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	if r.cmd == nil || r.cmd.Process == nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	return r.cmd.Process.Pid
+}
+
+func (r *runner) running() bool { return r.pid() != 0 }
+
+// isReady reports the cached readiness. The supervisor loop refreshes it; the
+// health handler only reads, so answering /health never costs a round trip.
+func (r *runner) isReady() bool {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	return r.ready
+}
+
+// start launches llama-server. It returns as soon as the process exists, not
+// when the model is loaded.
+func (r *runner) start() error {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	defer r.mu.Unlock()
+	if r.cmd != nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	cmd := exec.Command(r.bin, r.args...)
+	// Own process group, so stop kills anything llama-server spawned rather
+	// than leaving it holding VRAM after we have declared the card yielded.
+	cmd.SysProcAttr = &syscall.SysProcAttr{Setpgid: true}
+	if err := cmd.Start(); err != nil {
+		return err
+	}
+	r.cmd, r.ready, r.yielding = cmd, false, 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.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
+}
+
+// stop ends llama-server and waits for the VRAM to come back. SIGTERM first so
+// it unmaps cleanly, SIGKILL after the grace window. Returning before the
+// process is gone would let the supervisor report a free card while 14GB is
+// still mapped, which is the one lie that would make yielding useless.
+func (r *runner) stop(grace time.Duration) {
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	cmd := r.cmd
+	r.ready = false
+	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
+	}
+	pgid := -cmd.Process.Pid
+	_ = syscall.Kill(pgid, syscall.SIGTERM)
+	deadline := time.Now().Add(grace)
+	for time.Now().Before(deadline) {
+		if !r.running() {
+			return
+		}
+		time.Sleep(100 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	log.Printf("mavgpud: llama-server did not exit in %s, killing", grace)
+	_ = syscall.Kill(pgid, syscall.SIGKILL)
+}
+
+// refreshReady asks llama-server whether the model is loaded. Called once per
+// supervisor tick, never per request.
+func (r *runner) refreshReady(ctx context.Context) {
+	if !r.running() {
+		return
+	}
+	ok := false
+	req, err := http.NewRequestWithContext(ctx, http.MethodGet, r.readyURL, nil)
+	if err == nil {
+		resp, err := r.http.Do(req)
+		if err == nil {
+			ok = resp.StatusCode == http.StatusOK
+			resp.Body.Close()
+		}
+	}
+	r.mu.Lock()
+	was := r.ready
+	r.ready = ok
+	r.mu.Unlock()
+	if ok && !was {
+		log.Printf("mavgpud: model ready")
+	}
+}

cmd/mavgpud/runner_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+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/mavpoll/main.go

@@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ type poller struct {
 	wgIface    string
 	wgCmd      string
 
+	// kumaSeen — monitor name → state as of the last poll, so a monitor that
+	// disappears from the gauge can be marked unknown instead of staying down.
+	kumaSeen map[string]string
+
 	// zen is nil unless a token file was configured — money tracking is a
 	// capability, off by default like weather and telegram.
 	zen      *zenmoney.Client
@@ -333,50 +337,96 @@ func maxSeverity(a netdataAlarms) string {
 	return sev
 }
 
-// ---- kuma: monitor_status gauge → aggregate service_down -------------------
+// ---- kuma: monitor_status gauge → one fact per monitor ---------------------
 
 // Kuma exposes Prometheus text: `monitor_status{...,monitor_name="X"} V` where
-// V is 1=up 0=down 2=pending 3=maintenance. We reduce to one aggregate the
-// existing ServiceDownRule consumes: "down" if ANY monitor reads 0, else "up".
-// Per-service granularity is a later add (a fact per monitor) — the MVP nudge
-// only needs "something is down".
-var kumaLine = regexp.MustCompile(`^monitor_status\{([^}]*)\}\s+([0-9.eE+-]+)`)
+// V is 1=up 0=down 2=pending 3=maintenance. We write one fact per monitor,
+// keyed `service_down:<monitor name>`, because the nudge has to say WHICH
+// service is down. The aggregate this used to write could not, which is why
+// the rule shipped disabled.
+var (
+	kumaLine = regexp.MustCompile(`^monitor_status\{([^}]*)\}\s+([0-9.eE+-]+)`)
+	kumaName = regexp.MustCompile(`monitor_name="([^"]*)"`)
+)
 
 func (p *poller) pollKuma(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) error {
 	body, err := p.get(ctx, p.kumaURL, p.kumaKey)
 	if err != nil {
 		return err
 	}
-	down, seen := kumaAnyDown(body)
-	if !seen {
+	states := kumaMonitors(body)
+	if len(states) == 0 {
 		return fmt.Errorf("no monitor_status metrics (auth/endpoint wrong?)")
 	}
-	val := "up"
-	if down {
-		val = "down"
+	var firstErr error
+	for name, val := range states {
+		if err := p.writeIfChanged(ctx, kumaFactKey(name), kumaSource, val, now); err != nil && firstErr == nil {
+			firstErr = err // one bad monitor must not blind the rest
+		}
 	}
-	return p.writeIfChanged(ctx, "service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", val, now)
+	// A monitor deleted in kuma stops appearing in the gauge, and its last fact
+	// would otherwise read "down" forever. Mark it unknown, which no rule fires
+	// on. The seen-set is in memory, so a restart forgets it — harmless, since
+	// the next poll that still lacks the monitor says nothing new either.
+	for name := range p.kumaSeen {
+		if _, still := states[name]; !still {
+			if err := p.writeIfChanged(ctx, kumaFactKey(name), kumaSource, "unknown", now); err != nil && firstErr == nil {
+				firstErr = err
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	p.kumaSeen = states
+	return firstErr
 }
 
-// kumaAnyDown parses kuma's Prometheus text: down=true if any monitor reads 0
-// (pending=2/maintenance=3 are not "down"). seen=false ⇒ no monitor_status
-// lines matched at all (wrong endpoint or auth rejected before the body).
-func kumaAnyDown(body []byte) (down, seen bool) {
+// kumaSource — the provenance the loop rule requires. Written here, checked in
+// loop.ServiceDownRule; a poller under any other source cannot fire it.
+const kumaSource = "poll:uptimekuma"
+
+// kumaFactKey — the fact key for one monitor. The suffix is the name he hears,
+// so it stays as kuma spells it rather than being slugged into something else.
+func kumaFactKey(name string) string { return "service_down:" + name }
+
+// kumaMonitors parses kuma's Prometheus text into monitor name → state
+// ("up"/"down"/"pending"/"maintenance"). An empty map means no monitor_status
+// line matched at all (wrong endpoint, or auth rejected before the body).
+// A line with no monitor_name label is skipped: a fact nobody can name is
+// exactly the thing this replaced.
+func kumaMonitors(body []byte) map[string]string {
+	out := make(map[string]string)
 	for _, line := range strings.Split(string(body), "\n") {
 		m := kumaLine.FindStringSubmatch(strings.TrimSpace(line))
 		if m == nil {
 			continue
 		}
-		seen = true
+		nm := kumaName.FindStringSubmatch(m[1])
+		if nm == nil || strings.TrimSpace(nm[1]) == "" {
+			continue
+		}
 		v, err := strconv.ParseFloat(m[2], 64)
 		if err != nil {
 			continue
 		}
-		if v == 0 {
-			down = true
-		}
+		out[strings.TrimSpace(nm[1])] = kumaState(v)
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// kumaState — the gauge's four values. pending and maintenance are not "down":
+// a monitor paused in kuma should silence that monitor, not page him.
+func kumaState(v float64) string {
+	switch v {
+	case 0:
+		return "down"
+	case 1:
+		return "up"
+	case 2:
+		return "pending"
+	case 3:
+		return "maintenance"
+	default:
+		return "unknown"
 	}
-	return down, seen
 }
 
 // ---- helpers ---------------------------------------------------------------

cmd/mavpoll/main_test.go

@@ -35,22 +35,46 @@ func TestMaxSeverity(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
-func TestKumaAnyDown(t *testing.T) {
+func TestKumaMonitorsNamesEveryOne(t *testing.T) {
 	cases := []struct {
-		body       string
-		down, seen bool
+		name string
+		body string
+		want map[string]string
 	}{
-		{"", false, false},
-		{`monitor_status{monitor_name="web"} 1`, false, true},
-		{`monitor_status{monitor_name="web"} 1` + "\n" + `monitor_status{monitor_name="db"} 0`, true, true},
-		{`monitor_status{monitor_name="mnt"} 3`, false, true}, // maintenance ≠ down
-		{`# HELP monitor_status ...`, false, false},
+		{"empty body", "", map[string]string{}},
+		{"help line only", `# HELP monitor_status ...`, map[string]string{}},
+		{
+			"one up one down",
+			`monitor_status{monitor_name="web"} 1` + "\n" + `monitor_status{monitor_name="db"} 0`,
+			map[string]string{"web": "up", "db": "down"},
+		},
+		{"maintenance is not down", `monitor_status{monitor_name="mnt"} 3`, map[string]string{"mnt": "maintenance"}},
+		{"pending is not down", `monitor_status{monitor_name="p"} 2`, map[string]string{"p": "pending"}},
+		{
+			"other labels do not hide the name",
+			`monitor_status{monitor_type="http",monitor_name="ci",monitor_url="x"} 0`,
+			map[string]string{"ci": "down"},
+		},
+		{"a nameless line is skipped", `monitor_status{monitor_type="http"} 0`, map[string]string{}},
 	}
 	for _, c := range cases {
-		down, seen := kumaAnyDown([]byte(c.body))
-		if down != c.down || seen != c.seen {
-			t.Errorf("kumaAnyDown(%q) = (%v,%v), want (%v,%v)", c.body, down, seen, c.down, c.seen)
-		}
+		t.Run(c.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			got := kumaMonitors([]byte(c.body))
+			if len(got) != len(c.want) {
+				t.Fatalf("kumaMonitors = %v, want %v", got, c.want)
+			}
+			for k, v := range c.want {
+				if got[k] != v {
+					t.Errorf("monitor %q = %q, want %q", k, got[k], v)
+				}
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestKumaFactKeyCarriesTheName(t *testing.T) {
+	if got := kumaFactKey("nexus db"); got != "service_down:nexus db" {
+		t.Errorf("kumaFactKey = %q", got)
 	}
 }
 

cmd/mavweb/ambient_test.go

@@ -139,7 +139,10 @@ func TestHandleAmbientIgnoresNonMeetings(t *testing.T) {
 }
 
 func TestHandleAmbientAuth(t *testing.T) {
-	body := `{"title":"Планёрка 10:00","posted_at":"2026-08-03T09:40:00Z"}`
+	// "завтра" so the meeting is in the future in every zone: the clock in the
+	// text is a local wall clock and posted_at is a Z instant, so a bare "10:00"
+	// is already stale on a box east of UTC and stores nothing.
+	body := `{"title":"Планёрка завтра 10:00","posted_at":"2026-08-03T09:40:00Z"}`
 
 	newReq := func(hdr, val string) *http.Request {
 		r := httptest.NewRequest(http.MethodPost, "/api/ambient", strings.NewReader(body))
@@ -245,3 +248,31 @@ func TestHandleAmbientBadInput(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	})
 }
+
+// The Z-instant defect end to end: a phone posts an RFC 3339 instant in UTC and
+// the clock inside the text is his wall clock. On a UTC+4 box a 14:30 standup
+// used to be stored at 18:30, and the size of the error was the deploy's offset.
+func TestHandleAmbientStoresTheWallClockHeRead(t *testing.T) {
+	// No zone juggling: the assertion is that the stored wall clock is the one
+	// he read, whatever zone the box is in. That is false under the old code
+	// on every box except a UTC one.
+	core := &ambientCore{}
+	rr, resp := postAmbient(t, core, ambientTestToken, calendar.Notification{
+		Package: "com.slack",
+		Title:   "Standup",
+		Text:    "созвон завтра в 14:30",
+		Posted:  time.Date(2026, 8, 2, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC),
+	})
+	if rr.Code != http.StatusCreated {
+		t.Fatalf("status = %d, want 201: %s", rr.Code, rr.Body)
+	}
+	if !strings.HasSuffix(resp.Key, "_Standup") {
+		t.Errorf("key = %q, want a key naming the meeting", resp.Key)
+	}
+	if len(core.writeLog) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("expected 1 fact write, got %d", len(core.writeLog))
+	}
+	if got := core.writeLog[0].Value; got != "Standup @ 14:30-15:00" {
+		t.Errorf("value = %q, want %q", got, "Standup @ 14:30-15:00")
+	}
+}

cmd/mavweb/chat.html

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{{template "shellTop" "chat"}}
+<h1>Chat</h1>
+<section class=card>
+{{if .Error}}<div class="msg msg-err">{{.Error}}</div>{{end}}
+<div class="scroll chat-scroll" id=chatHistory>
+{{range .Messages}}
+  <div class="chat-msg {{.Role}}"><strong>{{if eq .Role "user"}}you{{else}}maven{{end}}:</strong> {{.Text}}</div>
+{{else}}
+  <div class=empty>
+    <svg class=icon width="20" height="20"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-message"/></svg>
+    <div>start a conversation</div>
+  </div>
+{{end}}
+</div>
+<form method=post action=/api/chat class=chat-form>
+  <input type=text name=text class=input-wide placeholder="type a message..." required autofocus>
+  <button class=btn>send</button>
+</form>
+</section>
+<script>
+var ch = document.getElementById('chatHistory');
+if(ch) ch.scrollTop = ch.scrollHeight;
+</script>
+{{template "shellBottom"}}

cmd/mavweb/handlers_test.go

@@ -54,7 +54,9 @@ type fakeCore struct {
 	revertErr   error
 
 	// for handleNotifications tests
-	nudgesErr error
+	nudgesErr     error
+	attempts      []ipc.DeliveryAttempt
+	attemptStatus string
 
 	// for handleHistory tests
 	historyFacts []ipc.Fact
@@ -77,7 +79,7 @@ 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
@@ -1251,3 +1253,35 @@ 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

@@ -75,6 +75,23 @@ var morningHTML string
 //go:embed events.html
 var eventsHTML string
 
+//go:embed tools.html
+var toolsHTML string
+
+//go:embed routines.html
+var routinesHTML string
+
+//go:embed chat.html
+var chatPageHTML string
+
+// shellHTML — the shell partial every page is wrapped in: "shellTop", the
+// "sidebar" it calls, and "shellBottom". It used to be two Go string constants
+// with the sidebar assembled by a strings.Builder, which is the one piece of
+// markup that was still concatenated in Go.
+//
+//go:embed shell.html
+var shellHTML string
+
 // ── Ethos Workstation Shell ──
 //
 // Two template pieces that wrap every page:
@@ -135,74 +152,40 @@ var sidebarSections = []struct {
 	},
 }
 
-func sidebarActive(url, key string, activeKey string) string {
-	if key == activeKey {
-		return `class="active"`
-	}
-	return ""
-}
-
-// sidebarHTML renders the sidebar navigation given the active page key.
-func sidebarHTML(active string) template.HTML {
-	var b strings.Builder
-	for _, sec := range sidebarSections {
-		b.WriteString(`<div class=sidebar-section>`)
-		b.WriteString(`<div class=sidebar-label>`)
-		b.WriteString(sec.Label)
-		b.WriteString(`</div>`)
-		for _, p := range sec.Pages {
-			cls := ""
-			if p.Key == active {
-				cls = ` class="active"`
-			}
-			b.WriteString(`<a href="`)
-			b.WriteString(p.URL)
-			b.WriteString(`"`)
-			b.WriteString(cls)
-			b.WriteString(`><span class=icon>`)
-			b.WriteString(pageIcon(p.Key))
-			b.WriteString(`</span><span>`)
-			b.WriteString(p.Label)
-			b.WriteString(`</span></a>`)
-		}
-		b.WriteString(`</div>`)
-	}
-	return template.HTML(b.String())
-}
-
-// pageIcon returns an ethos-icons.svg <use> reference for the given page.
+// pageIcon returns the ethos-icons.svg symbol id for the given page. The
+// sidebar template wraps it in the <use> reference.
 func pageIcon(key string) string {
 	switch key {
 	case "dash":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-grid"/></svg>`
+		return "i-grid"
 	case "history":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-clock"/></svg>`
+		return "i-clock"
 	case "trace":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-wave"/></svg>`
+		return "i-wave"
 	case "notifications":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-bell"/></svg>`
+		return "i-bell"
 	case "tasks":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-grid"/></svg>`
+		return "i-grid"
 	case "reminders":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-calendar"/></svg>`
+		return "i-calendar"
 	case "routines":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-repeat"/></svg>`
+		return "i-repeat"
 	case "morning":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-calendar"/></svg>`
+		return "i-calendar"
 	case "chat":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-message"/></svg>`
+		return "i-message"
 	case "voice":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-mic"/></svg>`
+		return "i-mic"
 	case "ecosystem":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-grid"/></svg>`
+		return "i-grid"
 	case "tools":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-settings"/></svg>`
+		return "i-settings"
 	case "models":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-wave"/></svg>`
+		return "i-wave"
 	case "passkey":
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-lock"/></svg>`
+		return "i-lock"
 	default:
-		return `<svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-search"/></svg>`
+		return "i-search"
 	}
 }
 
@@ -242,63 +225,12 @@ func pageTitle(key string) string {
 	}
 }
 
-// shellTopHTML opens the shell and renders the top bar + sidebar.
-// Usage: {{template "shellTop" "<page-key>"}}
-const shellTopHTML = `{{define "shellTop"}}<!doctype html><meta charset=utf-8>
-<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,viewport-fit=cover">
-<meta name=theme-color content="#14110D">
-<link rel=manifest href=/manifest.json>
-<title>maven · {{pageTitle .}}</title>
-<link rel=stylesheet href=/ui.css>
-<div class=shell data-app=maven>
-  <header class=topbar>
-    <div class=breadcrumbs>
-      <span class=current>{{pageTitle .}}</span>
-    </div>
-    <div class=topbar-actions>
-      <div class=search-trigger onclick="window.__openSearch()" role=button tabindex=0>
-        <svg class=icon width="13" height="13"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-search"/></svg>
-        Search
-        <span class=kbd-hint>Ctrl+/</span>
-      </div>
-      <button class=icon-btn onclick="window.__openPalette()" title="Command Palette (Ctrl+K)" aria-label="Command Palette">
-        <svg class=icon width="15" height="15"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-grid"/></svg>
-      </button>
-      <span class=conn-status>
-        <span class="dot online" id=connDot></span>
-      </span>
-    </div>
-  </header>
-  <div class=shell-body>
-    <aside class=sidebar>
-      {{sidebarHTML .}}
-    </aside>
-    <main class=content>
-{{end}}`
-
-// shellBottomHTML closes the content area, inspector, and shell.
-// Usage: {{template "shellBottom"}}
-const shellBottomHTML = `{{define "shellBottom"}}
-    </main>
-    <aside class=inspector id=inspector>
-      <div class=inspector-inner>
-        <div class=inspector-header>
-          <span id=inspectorTitle>Details</span>
-          <button class=inspector-close onclick="closeInspector()" aria-label="Close inspector">&times;</button>
-        </div>
-        <div class=inspector-body id=inspectorBody></div>
-      </div>
-    </aside>
-  </div>
-</div>
-<script src=/mavweb.js></script>
-{{end}}`
-
 // shellFuncs returns the FuncMap shared by every server-rendered page template.
 func shellFuncs() template.FuncMap {
 	return template.FuncMap{
-		"pageTitle":   pageTitle,
-		"sidebarHTML": sidebarHTML,
+		"pageTitle":       pageTitle,
+		"pageIcon":        pageIcon,
+		"sidebarSections": func() any { return sidebarSections },
 		"ago": func(t time.Time) string {
 			if t.IsZero() {
 				return "never"
@@ -313,21 +245,21 @@ func shellFuncs() template.FuncMap {
 // a small fetch loop refreshes the tables in place. html/template escapes the
 // user text in facts/nudges. Read-only: browses the append-only store via
 // CoreAPI, never writes — the store IS the audit trail, this just shows it.
-var dashTmpl = template.Must(template.New("dash").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + dashHTML + shellBottomHTML))
+var dashTmpl = template.Must(template.New("dash").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + dashHTML))
 
 // ecosystemTmpl — read-only view of the Nexus/Praxis/Hexis siblings, whose only
 // human surface is here (they ship no web UI of their own).
-var ecosystemTmpl = template.Must(template.New("ecosystem").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + ecosystemHTML + shellBottomHTML))
+var ecosystemTmpl = template.Must(template.New("ecosystem").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + ecosystemHTML))
 
 // eventsTmpl — the unified intake journal (Vikunja #283), read-only. Same
 // shape as trace.html and morning.html: server-rendered, refreshed on reload.
-var eventsTmpl = template.Must(template.New("events").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + eventsHTML + shellBottomHTML))
+var eventsTmpl = template.Must(template.New("events").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + eventsHTML))
 
 // morningTmpl — read-only view of today's checklist state per configured
 // morning routine (internal/morning). Same shape as trace.html: a plain
 // server-rendered page, refreshed on reload — no live-update loop, since
 // checklist state changes on the scale of minutes, not seconds.
-var morningTmpl = template.Must(template.New("morning").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + morningHTML + shellBottomHTML))
+var morningTmpl = template.Must(template.New("morning").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + morningHTML))
 
 func noCache(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
 	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
@@ -747,107 +679,23 @@ var toolsTmpl = template.Must(template.New("tools").Funcs(func() template.FuncMa
 	m := shellFuncs()
 	m["join"] = strings.Join
 	return m
-}()).Parse(shellTopHTML + toolsHTML + shellBottomHTML))
+}()).Parse(shellHTML + toolsHTML))
 
-const toolsHTML = `{{template "shellTop" "tools"}}
-<h1>Tools</h1>
-<p class=hint>enabling requires step-up — <a href=/auth/passkey>assert a passkey</a> first.</p>
-{{if .Msg}}<div class="msg msg-ok">{{.Msg}}</div>{{end}}
-<section class=card>
-<h2 class=card-title>proposed <span class=badge>{{len .Proposed}}</span></h2>
-{{if .Proposed}}<p class=hint>maven drafted these from acts she couldn't run. Fill the command (argv, space-separated) and enable. A row in an <code>mcp:</code> scope came from an MCP server and already knows what it calls — check the command, then enable.</p>
-<div class=scroll><table><tr><th>name</th><th>scope</th><th>from utterance</th><th>enable as</th></tr>
-{{range .Proposed}}<tr>
-<td><code>{{.Name}}</code></td><td><span class=badge>{{.Scope}}</span></td><td>{{.Utterance}}</td>
-<td><form method=post action=/tools>
-<input type=hidden name=name value="{{.Name}}">
-<input type=hidden name=scope value="{{.Scope}}">
-<input type=hidden name=action value=enable>
-<input type=text name=cmd class=input-wide placeholder="systemctl restart" value="{{join .Cmd " "}}" required>
-<label><input type=checkbox name=destructive {{if .Destructive}}checked{{end}}> destructive</label>
-<button class=btn>enable</button></form>
-<form method=post action=/tools class=inline-form>
-<input type=hidden name=name value="{{.Name}}">
-<input type=hidden name=action value=dismiss>
-<button class="btn btn-muted">dismiss</button></form></td>
-</tr>{{end}}</table></div>
-{{else}}<div class=empty>
-  <svg class=icon width="20" height="20"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-search"/></svg>
-  <div>no proposed tools</div>
-  <div class=hint>maven will propose tools here when she needs help running an action</div>
-</div>{{end}}
-</section>
-<section class=card>
-<h2 class=card-title>enabled <span class=badge>{{len .Enabled}}</span></h2>
-{{if .Enabled}}<div class=scroll><table><tr><th>name</th><th>scope</th><th>command</th><th></th><th></th></tr>
-{{range .Enabled}}<tr><td><code>{{.Name}}</code></td><td><span class=badge>{{.Scope}}</span></td><td><code>{{join .Cmd " "}}</code></td>
-<td>{{if .Destructive}}<span class=red>destructive</span>{{end}}</td>
-<td><form method=post action=/tools class=inline-form>
-<input type=hidden name=name value="{{.Name}}">
-<input type=hidden name=scope value="{{.Scope}}">
-<input type=hidden name=action value=disable>
-<button class=btn>disable</button></form></td></tr>{{end}}</table></div>
-{{else}}<div class=empty>
-  <svg class=icon width="20" height="20"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-settings"/></svg>
-  <div>no tools enabled</div>
-  <div class=hint>enable proposed tools above, or ask maven to configure one</div>
-</div>{{end}}
-</section>
-<section class=card>
-<h2 class=card-title>MCP servers <span class=badge>{{len .MCP}}</span></h2>
-{{if .MCP}}<p class=hint>servers she connects OUT to. Their tools appear above as proposals — a configured server is a place she may look, not a capability she has. A <code>stdio</code> target is a process on this box; an <code>http</code> one on a loopback or LAN address is inside the network, so treat its tools accordingly.</p>
-<div class=scroll><table><tr><th>name</th><th>transport</th><th>target</th><th>state</th><th>tools</th></tr>
-{{range .MCP}}<tr><td><code>{{.Name}}</code></td><td><span class=badge>{{.Transport}}</span></td><td><code>{{.Target}}</code></td>
-<td>{{if .Connected}}connected{{if .Server}} — {{.Server}}{{end}}{{else}}<span class=red>down</span>{{if .Err}} — {{.Err}}{{end}}{{end}}</td>
-<td>{{.Tools}}</td></tr>{{end}}</table></div>
-{{else}}<div class=empty>
-  <svg class=icon width="20" height="20"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-settings"/></svg>
-  <div>no MCP servers configured</div>
-  <div class=hint>add an <code>mcp.servers</code> block to mavend.json to let her use an external tool server</div>
-</div>{{end}}
-</section>
-{{template "shellBottom"}}`
+var historyTmpl = template.Must(template.New("history").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + historyHTML))
 
-// routinesHTML — proposed routine review surface. One row per thing maven
+var notificationsTmpl = template.Must(template.New("notifications").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + notificationsHTML))
+
+var remindersTmpl = template.Must(template.New("reminders").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + remindersHTML))
+
+var passkeyTmpl = template.Must(template.New("passkey").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + passkeyPageHTML))
+
+var voiceTmpl = template.Must(template.New("voice").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + voiceHTML))
+
+var tasksTmpl = template.Must(template.New("tasks").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + tasksHTML))
+
+// routinesTmpl — the proposed-routine review surface. One row per thing maven
 // noticed, in her words, with at most two actions: accept or dismiss.
-const routinesHTML = `{{template "shellTop" "routines"}}
-<h1>Routines</h1>
-{{if .Msg}}<div class="msg msg-ok">{{.Msg}}</div>{{end}}
-<section class=card>
-<h2 class=card-title>noticed <span class=badge>{{len .Proposed}}</span></h2>
-{{if .Proposed}}<div class=scroll><table><tr><th>maven noticed</th><th>when</th><th></th><th></th></tr>
-{{range .Proposed}}<tr>
-<td>{{.Phrase}}</td><td class=muted>{{.Noticed}}</td>
-<td><form method=post action=/routines class=inline-form>
-<input type=hidden name=id value="{{.ID}}">
-<input type=hidden name=action value=accept>
-<button class=btn>accept</button></form></td>
-<td><form method=post action=/routines class=inline-form>
-<input type=hidden name=id value="{{.ID}}">
-<input type=hidden name=action value=dismiss>
-<button class="btn btn-muted">dismiss</button></form></td>
-</tr>{{end}}</table></div>
-{{else}}<div class=empty>
-  <svg class=icon width="20" height="20"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-wave"/></svg>
-  <div>no proposed routines</div>
-  <div class=hint>maven will propose routines here when she detects a recurring pattern</div>
-</div>{{end}}
-</section>
-{{template "shellBottom"}}`
-
-var historyTmpl = template.Must(template.New("history").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + historyHTML + shellBottomHTML))
-
-var notificationsTmpl = template.Must(template.New("notifications").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + notificationsHTML + shellBottomHTML))
-
-var remindersTmpl = template.Must(template.New("reminders").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + remindersHTML + shellBottomHTML))
-
-var passkeyTmpl = template.Must(template.New("passkey").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + passkeyPageHTML + shellBottomHTML))
-
-var voiceTmpl = template.Must(template.New("voice").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + voiceHTML + shellBottomHTML))
-
-var tasksTmpl = template.Must(template.New("tasks").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + tasksHTML + shellBottomHTML))
-
-var routinesTmpl = template.Must(template.New("routines").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + routinesHTML + shellBottomHTML))
+var routinesTmpl = template.Must(template.New("routines").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + routinesHTML))
 
 var traceTmpl = template.Must(template.New("trace").Funcs(func() template.FuncMap {
 	m := shellFuncs()
@@ -859,7 +707,7 @@ var traceTmpl = template.Must(template.New("trace").Funcs(func() template.FuncMa
 	}
 	m["join"] = strings.Join
 	return m
-}()).Parse(shellTopHTML + traceHTML + shellBottomHTML))
+}()).Parse(shellHTML + traceHTML))
 
 func handleHistory(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, core ipc.CoreAPI) {
 	if core == nil {
@@ -893,12 +741,59 @@ 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}); err != nil {
+	if err := notificationsTmpl.Execute(w, map[string]any{
+		"Nudges":   nudges,
+		"Attempts": deliveryRows(attempts),
+		"Status":   status,
+	}); 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)
@@ -1125,9 +1020,10 @@ func fmtTaskDate(t *time.Time) string {
 	return t.Local().Format("02 Jan")
 }
 
-// routineRow is one line on the page: what maven noticed, in her words, and
-// how long ago she noticed it.
-type routineRow struct {
+// routineView is one line on the page: what maven noticed, in her words, and
+// how long ago she noticed it. A view model, not a database row — the template
+// never formats an interval or a timestamp itself.
+type routineView struct {
 	ID      int64
 	Phrase  string
 	Noticed string
@@ -1189,23 +1085,23 @@ func handleRoutines(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, core ipc.CoreAPI, se
 	w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/html; charset=utf-8")
 	if err := routinesTmpl.Execute(w, struct {
 		Msg      string
-		Proposed []routineRow
-	}{msg, routineRows(proposed)}); err != nil {
+		Proposed []routineView
+	}{msg, toRoutineViews(proposed)}); err != nil {
 		log.Printf("routines render: %v", err)
 	}
 }
 
-// routineRows turns the wire rows into display rows. The phrase comes from
+// toRoutineViews turns the wire rows into view models. The phrase comes from
 // pattern.PhraseRoutine so the page says the same thing maven's voice says.
-func routineRows(rs []ipc.ProposedRoutine) []routineRow {
-	out := make([]routineRow, 0, len(rs))
+func toRoutineViews(rs []ipc.ProposedRoutine) []routineView {
+	out := make([]routineView, 0, len(rs))
 	for _, r := range rs {
 		p := pattern.ProposedRoutine{Action: r.Action, Object: r.Object, IntervalDays: r.IntervalDays}
 		noticed := "just now"
 		if r.CreatedTs > 0 {
 			noticed = time.Since(time.UnixMilli(r.CreatedTs)).Round(time.Minute).String() + " ago"
 		}
-		out = append(out, routineRow{ID: r.ID, Phrase: pattern.PhraseRoutine(&p), Noticed: noticed})
+		out = append(out, routineView{ID: r.ID, Phrase: pattern.PhraseRoutine(&p), Noticed: noticed})
 	}
 	return out
 }
@@ -1602,32 +1498,7 @@ func handlePTT(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, voiceAddr string, session
 
 // chatTmpl — plain text conversation interface. No JS: form POSTs to /api/chat
 // and the handler redirects back to /chat with the response.
-var chatTmpl = template.Must(template.New("chat").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + chatPageHTML + shellBottomHTML))
-
-const chatPageHTML = `{{template "shellTop" "chat"}}
-<h1>Chat</h1>
-<section class=card>
-{{if .Error}}<div class="msg msg-err">{{.Error}}</div>{{end}}
-<div class="scroll chat-scroll" id=chatHistory>
-{{range .Messages}}
-  <div class="chat-msg {{.Role}}"><strong>{{if eq .Role "user"}}you{{else}}maven{{end}}:</strong> {{.Text}}</div>
-{{else}}
-  <div class=empty>
-    <svg class=icon width="20" height="20"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-message"/></svg>
-    <div>start a conversation</div>
-  </div>
-{{end}}
-</div>
-<form method=post action=/api/chat class=chat-form>
-  <input type=text name=text class=input-wide placeholder="type a message..." required autofocus>
-  <button class=btn>send</button>
-</form>
-</section>
-<script>
-var ch = document.getElementById('chatHistory');
-if(ch) ch.scrollTop = ch.scrollHeight;
-</script>
-{{template "shellBottom"}}`
+var chatTmpl = template.Must(template.New("chat").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + chatPageHTML))
 
 // handleChatPage renders the chat conversation page.
 func handleChatPage(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, core ipc.CoreAPI) {
@@ -1678,7 +1549,13 @@ func handleChatAPI(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request, core ipc.CoreAPI, ses
 		http.Redirect(w, r, "/chat", http.StatusSeeOther)
 		return
 	}
-	reply, err := core.Chat(r.Context(), text)
+	// 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)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("chat api: %v", err)
 		http.Redirect(w, r, "/chat", http.StatusSeeOther)

cmd/mavweb/models.go

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ type modelController interface {
 	SwapModel(ctx context.Context, req ipc.SwapModelReq) (ipc.SwapModelResp, error)
 }
 
-var modelsTmpl = template.Must(template.New("models").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellTopHTML + modelsHTML + shellBottomHTML))
+var modelsTmpl = template.Must(template.New("models").Funcs(shellFuncs()).Parse(shellHTML + modelsHTML))
 
 const modelsHTML = `{{template "shellTop" "models"}}
 <h1>Resident model</h1>

cmd/mavweb/notifications.html

@@ -14,5 +14,27 @@
   <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>

cmd/mavweb/routines.html

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+{{template "shellTop" "routines"}}
+<h1>Routines</h1>
+{{if .Msg}}<div class="msg msg-ok">{{.Msg}}</div>{{end}}
+<section class=card>
+<h2 class=card-title>noticed <span class=badge>{{len .Proposed}}</span></h2>
+{{if .Proposed}}<div class=scroll><table><tr><th>maven noticed</th><th>when</th><th></th><th></th></tr>
+{{range .Proposed}}<tr>
+<td>{{.Phrase}}</td><td class=muted>{{.Noticed}}</td>
+<td><form method=post action=/routines class=inline-form>
+<input type=hidden name=id value="{{.ID}}">
+<input type=hidden name=action value=accept>
+<button class=btn>accept</button></form></td>
+<td><form method=post action=/routines class=inline-form>
+<input type=hidden name=id value="{{.ID}}">
+<input type=hidden name=action value=dismiss>
+<button class="btn btn-muted">dismiss</button></form></td>
+</tr>{{end}}</table></div>
+{{else}}<div class=empty>
+  <svg class=icon width="20" height="20"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-wave"/></svg>
+  <div>no proposed routines</div>
+  <div class=hint>maven will propose routines here when she detects a recurring pattern</div>
+</div>{{end}}
+</section>
+{{template "shellBottom"}}

cmd/mavweb/shell.html

@@ -0,0 +1,49 @@
+{{define "shellTop"}}<!doctype html><meta charset=utf-8>
+<meta name=viewport content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1,viewport-fit=cover">
+<meta name=theme-color content="#14110D">
+<link rel=manifest href=/manifest.json>
+<title>maven · {{pageTitle .}}</title>
+<link rel=stylesheet href=/ui.css>
+<div class=shell data-app=maven>
+  <header class=topbar>
+    <div class=breadcrumbs>
+      <span class=current>{{pageTitle .}}</span>
+    </div>
+    <div class=topbar-actions>
+      <div class=search-trigger onclick="window.__openSearch()" role=button tabindex=0>
+        <svg class=icon width="13" height="13"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-search"/></svg>
+        Search
+        <span class=kbd-hint>Ctrl+/</span>
+      </div>
+      <button class=icon-btn onclick="window.__openPalette()" title="Command Palette (Ctrl+K)" aria-label="Command Palette">
+        <svg class=icon width="15" height="15"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-grid"/></svg>
+      </button>
+      <span class=conn-status>
+        <span class="dot online" id=connDot></span>
+      </span>
+    </div>
+  </header>
+  <div class=shell-body>
+    <aside class=sidebar>
+{{template "sidebar" .}}
+    </aside>
+    <main class=content>
+{{end}}{{/* sidebar — the section list, with the active page's link marked. The dot
+     argument is the page key the page passed to shellTop. */}}{{define "sidebar"}}{{$active := .}}{{range sidebarSections}}<div class=sidebar-section><div class=sidebar-label>{{.Label}}</div>
+{{- range .Pages}}<a href="{{.URL}}"{{if eq .Key $active}} class="active"{{end}}><span class=icon><svg class=icon width="14" height="14"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#{{pageIcon .Key}}"/></svg></span><span>{{.Label}}</span></a>
+{{- end}}</div>
+{{end}}{{end}}{{define "shellBottom"}}
+    </main>
+    <aside class=inspector id=inspector>
+      <div class=inspector-inner>
+        <div class=inspector-header>
+          <span id=inspectorTitle>Details</span>
+          <button class=inspector-close onclick="closeInspector()" aria-label="Close inspector">&times;</button>
+        </div>
+        <div class=inspector-body id=inspectorBody></div>
+      </div>
+    </aside>
+  </div>
+</div>
+<script src=/mavweb.js></script>
+{{end}}

cmd/mavweb/tools.html

@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+{{template "shellTop" "tools"}}
+<h1>Tools</h1>
+<p class=hint>enabling requires step-up — <a href=/auth/passkey>assert a passkey</a> first.</p>
+{{if .Msg}}<div class="msg msg-ok">{{.Msg}}</div>{{end}}
+<section class=card>
+<h2 class=card-title>proposed <span class=badge>{{len .Proposed}}</span></h2>
+{{if .Proposed}}<p class=hint>maven drafted these from acts she couldn't run. Fill the command (argv, space-separated) and enable. A row in an <code>mcp:</code> scope came from an MCP server and already knows what it calls — check the command, then enable.</p>
+<div class=scroll><table><tr><th>name</th><th>scope</th><th>from utterance</th><th>enable as</th></tr>
+{{range .Proposed}}<tr>
+<td><code>{{.Name}}</code></td><td><span class=badge>{{.Scope}}</span></td><td>{{.Utterance}}</td>
+<td><form method=post action=/tools>
+<input type=hidden name=name value="{{.Name}}">
+<input type=hidden name=scope value="{{.Scope}}">
+<input type=hidden name=action value=enable>
+<input type=text name=cmd class=input-wide placeholder="systemctl restart" value="{{join .Cmd " "}}" required>
+<label><input type=checkbox name=destructive {{if .Destructive}}checked{{end}}> destructive</label>
+<button class=btn>enable</button></form>
+<form method=post action=/tools class=inline-form>
+<input type=hidden name=name value="{{.Name}}">
+<input type=hidden name=action value=dismiss>
+<button class="btn btn-muted">dismiss</button></form></td>
+</tr>{{end}}</table></div>
+{{else}}<div class=empty>
+  <svg class=icon width="20" height="20"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-search"/></svg>
+  <div>no proposed tools</div>
+  <div class=hint>maven will propose tools here when she needs help running an action</div>
+</div>{{end}}
+</section>
+<section class=card>
+<h2 class=card-title>enabled <span class=badge>{{len .Enabled}}</span></h2>
+{{if .Enabled}}<div class=scroll><table><tr><th>name</th><th>scope</th><th>command</th><th></th><th></th></tr>
+{{range .Enabled}}<tr><td><code>{{.Name}}</code></td><td><span class=badge>{{.Scope}}</span></td><td><code>{{join .Cmd " "}}</code></td>
+<td>{{if .Destructive}}<span class=red>destructive</span>{{end}}</td>
+<td><form method=post action=/tools class=inline-form>
+<input type=hidden name=name value="{{.Name}}">
+<input type=hidden name=scope value="{{.Scope}}">
+<input type=hidden name=action value=disable>
+<button class=btn>disable</button></form></td></tr>{{end}}</table></div>
+{{else}}<div class=empty>
+  <svg class=icon width="20" height="20"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-settings"/></svg>
+  <div>no tools enabled</div>
+  <div class=hint>enable proposed tools above, or ask maven to configure one</div>
+</div>{{end}}
+</section>
+<section class=card>
+<h2 class=card-title>MCP servers <span class=badge>{{len .MCP}}</span></h2>
+{{if .MCP}}<p class=hint>servers she connects OUT to. Their tools appear above as proposals — a configured server is a place she may look, not a capability she has. A <code>stdio</code> target is a process on this box; an <code>http</code> one on a loopback or LAN address is inside the network, so treat its tools accordingly.</p>
+<div class=scroll><table><tr><th>name</th><th>transport</th><th>target</th><th>state</th><th>tools</th></tr>
+{{range .MCP}}<tr><td><code>{{.Name}}</code></td><td><span class=badge>{{.Transport}}</span></td><td><code>{{.Target}}</code></td>
+<td>{{if .Connected}}connected{{if .Server}} — {{.Server}}{{end}}{{else}}<span class=red>down</span>{{if .Err}} — {{.Err}}{{end}}{{end}}</td>
+<td>{{.Tools}}</td></tr>{{end}}</table></div>
+{{else}}<div class=empty>
+  <svg class=icon width="20" height="20"><use href="/ethos-icons.svg#i-settings"/></svg>
+  <div>no MCP servers configured</div>
+  <div class=hint>add an <code>mcp.servers</code> block to mavend.json to let her use an external tool server</div>
+</div>{{end}}
+</section>
+{{template "shellBottom"}}

deploy/mavend.json

@@ -8,18 +8,19 @@
   "//disabled_rules": [
     "Nudge rules that are not wired at all. Names come from loop.DefaultRules:",
     "water, meal, break, service_down, netdata_critical.",
-    "service_down is off because it cannot say WHICH service — mavpoll folds the",
-    "whole kuma gauge into one boolean, so the nudge is always the generic 'a",
-    "service on homesrv is down'. Nothing to act on, every fifteen minutes.",
-    "Turn it back on once Vikunja #444 lands a fact per monitor."
+    "service_down is back on: mavpoll now writes one fact per kuma monitor",
+    "(service_down:<name>), so the nudge names the service and pausing a monitor",
+    "in kuma silences that monitor. It is also edge-triggered, so a service that",
+    "stays down is one nudge, not one every fifteen minutes."
   ],
-  "disabled_rules": ["service_down"],
+  "disabled_rules": [],
 
   "phraser": {
     "model_path": "/opt/maven/models/llm/qwen3/Qwen3-1.7B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf",
     "bin_path": "llama-server",
     "n_gpu_layers": 99,
     "n_ctx": 4096,
+    "cache_ram_mib": 512,
     "timeout": "60s",
     "llm_nudges": false
   },
@@ -39,6 +40,23 @@
     "proxy": "socks5://192.168.240.1:10808"
   },
 
+  "//workstation": [
+    "The big model on the desk PC (workpc, 7900 GRE 16GB), fronted by",
+    "mavgpud on port 8080. It runs gemma-4-12b and it is preferred over the",
+    "resident Qwen3-1.7B for routing and replies whenever the card is free.",
+    "The machine is never assumed up: it sleeps, and the card is often held by",
+    "a CPT run, in which case mavgpud answers 503 and Maven falls back to the",
+    "resident model without saying so. Deleting this block restores exactly",
+    "the behaviour homesrv had before it existed.",
+    "Addressed by LAN address, not container name: mavgpud runs on another",
+    "machine and there is no shared docker network to name it on."
+  ],
+  "workstation": {
+    "url": "http://192.168.1.105:8080",
+    "probe": "15s",
+    "timeout": "90s"
+  },
+
   "//search": [
     "The live web, searched after his own notes and before Kiwix. Only the",
     "query string leaves the box — never a note, a fact, the persona block or",

deploy/mavgpud.json

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

deploy/mavgpud.service

@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+[Unit]
+# Runs on the workstation (bugmachine), not on homesrv. Install as a systemd
+# user unit and turn on lingering, so the card is supervised after a reboot
+# with nobody logged in:
+#
+#   scp mavgpud workpc:~/.local/bin/mavgpud
+#   scp deploy/mavgpud.json workpc:~/.config/mavgpud.json
+#   scp deploy/mavgpud.service workpc:~/.config/systemd/user/mavgpud.service
+#   ssh workpc 'systemctl --user daemon-reload && systemctl --user enable --now mavgpud'
+#   sudo loginctl enable-linger kami
+Description=Maven GPU supervisor (holds llama-server while the card is free)
+After=network.target
+
+[Service]
+ExecStart=%h/.local/bin/mavgpud -config %h/.config/mavgpud.json
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=5
+# The card must come back when the supervisor goes down. mavgpud stops
+# llama-server on SIGTERM, so give it longer than stop_grace to do that.
+KillSignal=SIGTERM
+TimeoutStopSec=60
+# 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

docs/design.md

@@ -223,6 +223,30 @@ Not alternatives — layers:
 Router contract: `[{"intent":<enum>, key?, value?, text?, verb?}, ...]` over
 7 intents (`fact, reminder, note, query, act, chat, system`).
 
+#### A restart expires a parked question
+
+Decided 2026-08-04 (Vikunja #385). The follow-up dialogue session survives a
+restart; the clarify question parked behind it does not, and neither do the
+three yes/no confirms in `voice.go`. `ClarifyStore` stays in memory.
+
+Three reasons, in the order they settle it:
+
+- The clock stops meaning anything. A parked question carries a 90s TTL and an
+  attempt count. A restart is a gap of unknown length, so a restored question is
+  either already dead or pretending to be young.
+- Restoring the question restores the request behind it. He asked for something,
+  she asked back, and then the daemon went away. Acting on that minutes later,
+  against words he has probably given up on, is the misroute the stage 3 gate
+  exists to avoid.
+- She does not announce it either. The expiry notice needs to know a question
+  was parked, and knowing that across a restart means storing it. One sentence,
+  in the rare window where he speaks within 90s of a restart, does not pay for a
+  marker that outlives the thing it describes. His next words route fresh, which
+  is the correct answer with or without the notice.
+
+So the notice stays what it is: the in-process TTL case, where she really did
+wait and really did let go.
+
 ### save-where — the two-memory routing axis
 
 One discriminator: **does the loop evaluate a predicate against it?**
@@ -365,6 +389,29 @@ lives in `source`; rules trust provenance.
   `source=poll:healthcheck`. A compromised poller must not be able to forge a
   trigger.
 
+#### A fact per monitor, not an aggregate
+
+mavpoll writes one fact per kuma monitor, keyed `service_down:<monitor name>`.
+It used to fold the whole gauge into a single boolean, and the nudge could then
+only say that something on homesrv was down. That is not something he can act
+on, so the rule shipped disabled.
+
+Three things follow from the split:
+
+- The key set is no longer known at wiring time. A rule declares
+  `WantPrefixes` and the gatherer resolves the family per tick, which is the
+  only prefix read in the loop.
+- Pausing a monitor in kuma silences that monitor. Under the aggregate it
+  silenced nothing, because some other monitor kept the boolean at "down".
+- A monitor deleted in kuma would keep its last fact reading "down" forever, so
+  mavpoll marks a vanished monitor "unknown". No rule fires on "unknown".
+
+The rule is also edge-triggered: it fires on a transition it has not already
+nudged about (`State.NudgedSince`). A polled fact is written only when the
+value changes, but the predicate reads the current value, so without the edge
+check a service that stays down qualifies on every tick and cooldown is the
+only brake.
+
 ### Presence — concrete scoring
 
 **Combiner — noisy-OR, not weighted sum.** These are independent-ish positive

docs/evals/2026-08-02-workstation-gemma4-12b.md

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# gemma-4-12b on the workstation, against the resident Qwen3-1.7B
+
+Measured 2026-08-02 on the fixtures as they stand. Dated file: it is not edited
+after today, and a newer number is a new file.
+
+Vikunja #485's first assumption was that a 7-14B measurably beats Qwen3-1.7B on
+the 77-case RU routing fixture and the 27-case talk fixture. It does, on both,
+and it is also faster.
+
+## The setup
+
+`gemma-4-12B-it-qat-UD-Q4_K_XL` with the `mtp-gemma-4-12B-it-BF16` draft model,
+served by `llama-server` b10220 on bugmachine (AMD 7900 GRE, 16GB), fronted by
+`mavgpud` on `192.168.1.105:8080`. Thinking is off through
+`--chat-template-kwargs '{"enable_thinking":false}'`, speculative decoding is
+`--spec-type draft-mtp --spec-draft-n-max 2`, context 32768. The exact line is
+`deploy/mavgpud.json`.
+
+Every number below crossed the LAN from homesrv. Note the trap: homesrv's shell
+exports `HTTP_PROXY`, Go honours it, and the runs need
+`env -u HTTP_PROXY -u HTTPS_PROXY -u http_proxy -u https_proxy`.
+
+## Routing, 77-case RU fixture
+
+| | full | intent-only | p50 | p95 |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| classifier alone (02-08) | 68.8% | — | 16.6µs | — |
+| Qwen3-1.7B through the cascade (31-07, 02-08) | 72.7% | 77.9% | 0.80-1.04s | — |
+| **gemma-4-12b through the cascade** | **84.4%** | **93.5%** | **329ms** | 429ms |
+| gemma-4-12b alone, no cascade | 55.8% | 85.7% | 335ms | 436ms |
+
+The workstation buys 11.7 points of full accuracy over the resident model. It
+buys 15.6 points of intent-only, at a third of the latency. The router's p50 was
+never the model's fault, which the 02-08 contention finding already said. A 12B
+on a free 16GB card answers a routing turn in a third of a second.
+
+Two things the table hides.
+
+The alone-versus-cascade gap is slots, not intents. gemma reads the intent right
+85.7% of the time on its own. It loses full accuracy on seven fact keys
+(`вода` instead of `water`, `ужин` instead of `meal`) and on six reminder times
+with no time slot. Stage 0 and the daemon's own extractor repair
+both, which is why the cascade is 28 points higher. The lesson is that the
+cascade earns its keep even under a much better model, not that it is scaffolding
+to remove.
+
+`errors: 6` in the alone row are declines on single-token and ambiguous
+utterances, all of which the cascade caught. The remaining defects through the
+cascade are three `query→fact` confusions, one `chat→query`, and one false
+clarify.
+
+## Talk, 27-case conversational fixture
+
+| | pass | notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| Qwen3-1.7B (31-07) | 20/27 | 11-17/27 for the 0.8B before it |
+| **gemma-4-12b** | **25/27 (92.6%)** | chat 8/9, knowledge 9/9, query 8/9 |
+
+Knowledge is the interesting column: 9/9, in Russian, with real answers about
+Rayleigh scattering, SSD versus HDD and thunder delay. That is the case the
+1.7B cannot do at all and the reason the naming half of the degradation rule
+exists.
+
+Two failures, and one of them is the persona defect the CPT (#122) targets:
+`query-notes-do-not-answer` wrote `заплатил` where Maven needs the feminine
+form. The other is `chat-joke`, where the model told a joke without using any of
+the words the check looks for. Run-to-run variance is about one case: a second
+run scored 24/27 with `chat-followup-server` also off-topic.
+
+## Nudge phrasing, 15-case fixture
+
+15/15, every check, no errors. `mood`, `lang`, `length`, `feminine`,
+`hisgender`, `address`, `cringe` and `ontopic` all clean.
+
+## What this settles and what it does not
+
+Settled: the size question. A 12B on the workstation beats the resident model on
+every fixture we have, and it is faster. The offload argument holds.
+
+Not settled: how often the card is free. That is #485's second assumption and
+only the `mavgpud` log answers it, after a week of the owner's normal work. A
+model that is better whenever it is up is worth little if it is never up.

docs/evals/2026-08-03-llama-prompt-cache.md

@@ -0,0 +1,84 @@
+# Where the resident model's 7.9GB of RSS goes (2026-08-03, homesrv)
+
+Measured for Vikunja #499. The deployed llama-server held 7.9GB RSS for a 1.1GB
+model file. Half a gigabyte of it was in swap, on a box that also runs
+whisper.cpp, piper and the embedder.
+
+## Method
+
+`maven-mavend-1` was stopped for the measurement, with the owner's approval.
+Its own binary then ran on the host with the exact deployed command line. That
+binary is `/opt/maven/bin/llama-server`, version `1 (4c65955)`, a Vulkan build.
+
+```sh
+llama-server -m /mnt/hdd1/llms/qwen3/Qwen3-1.7B-UD-Q4_K_XL.gguf \
+  --host 127.0.0.1 --port 18099 -c 4096 -ngl 99 --no-webui
+```
+
+RSS was read from `/proc/<pid>/status` after load and after each of 8 distinct
+1521-token prompts. `smaps` of the deployed process was read first, from inside
+the container, since the host user cannot read another user's maps.
+
+## The cause: the prompt cache, not the weights and not the offload
+
+The startup log says it outright:
+
+```text
+srv load_model: prompt cache is enabled, size limit: 8192 MiB
+srv llama_server: n_parallel is set to auto, using n_parallel = 4 and kv_unified = true
+```
+
+The server saves the full KV state of every idle slot it evicts. It keeps up to
+8GiB of those states in host RAM (llama.cpp PR 16391). One saved prompt of 1521
+tokens costs 166.377 MiB. That is 112 kiB per token, exactly Qwen3-1.7B's KV
+footprint (28 layers x 2 x 1024 dims x 2 bytes).
+
+RSS at rest, and per distinct prompt:
+
+| Prompts served | RSS, default | RSS, `--cache-ram 512` |
+|---|---|---|
+| 0 (just loaded) | 443 MB | 411 MB |
+| 1 | 445 MB | 411 MB |
+| 4 | 958 MB | 929 MB |
+| 8 | 1641 MB | 932 MB |
+
+Uncapped, RSS climbs about 170MB per distinct prompt and does not stop until
+the 8GiB limit. Capped at 512 MiB it plateaus at 932MB from the fourth prompt
+on, with the cache holding steady at `3 prompts, 499.132 MiB` and evicting.
+
+The 7.9GB on the running daemon was that climb, weeks of it. Its `smaps` showed
+one 6.03GB anonymous mapping at 5.32GB resident plus a 1.45GB mapping at 1.27GB
+resident, and only 30MB of file-backed RSS.
+
+## The task's leading guess was wrong
+
+`-ngl 99` on the Vega iGPU costs almost no process RSS. A freshly loaded server
+has 95MB of anonymous RSS in total. RADV allocates device memory through the
+kernel, outside the process, and the log sees 8202 MiB free on `Vulkan0`. The
+weights are mmapped and file-backed, so they are evictable and do not pin RSS. The logit buffer is not visible in the numbers above at all.
+
+## Decision
+
+`--cache-ram 512` is now the default, wired as `phraser.cache_ram_mib` and set
+in `deploy/mavend.json`. 512 MiB caps total RSS near 1GB, an eighth of what the
+box carried. It still holds three of the 1521-token probes above. Maven's real
+routing and phrasing prompts are much shorter, so it holds more of those than
+the table suggests. `-c 4096` is untouched, as #499
+required. A negative `cache_ram_mib` passes no flag, for a llama-server too old
+to know it.
+
+Not changed: `n_parallel = 4`. With `kv_unified = true` the four slots share one
+4096-token KV cache, so they do not multiply it.
+
+The other half of #499 was that none of these lines were reachable. mavend
+scraped llama-server's stderr for the listen line and discarded it, and never
+piped stdout at all. Both streams now go to mavend's log with a `llama:` prefix.
+The last 12 startup lines go into the error when the server dies before it
+listens.
+
+## Deployed
+
+The `mavenai:latest` image was rebuilt and `maven-mavend-1` recreated the same
+day. The daemon's own log now carries the child's startup, it reads
+`prompt cache is enabled, size limit: 512 MiB`, and the resident server sat at
+439MB RSS after load and 613MB after one served turn.

docs/evals/2026-08-03-personal-boundary.md

@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+# Personal boundary, seed scoring vs possession markers, 2026-08-03
+
+Vikunja #495. `что я говорил про бэкапы?` walked past the personal boundary into
+SearXNG and came back answered from a Habr article. The boundary matched
+possession words only, so a first-person speech verb was not a personal
+question.
+
+## What changed
+
+The boundary now scores the turn's query vector against two frozen seed sets.
+It claims the turn when the personal side is nearer than the world side. Seeds
+and code are in `cmd/mavend/personalboundary.go`. The possession markers stay as
+the offline floor for a handler with no embedder.
+
+A regex speech class was written first and dropped. Russian gives every verb a
+dozen surface forms, and the "как я говорил, ..." preamble list has no end. Each
+form the lexicon missed was one more question reaching the world.
+
+## Measurement
+
+Embedder: multilingual-e5-small int8, the one homesrv runs. Both sides are
+embedded on the query side. Cases are held out, none of them a seed. `make test`
+runs the offline part. The scored part is opt-in through `MAVEN_ONNX_LIB`, like
+`TestONNXRecall`.
+
+    19/19 held-out utterances correct   (TestONNXPersonalBoundary)
+
+    true positive margins   +0.014 to +0.089
+    nearest true negative   -0.005  ("кто такой гагарин")
+
+One case missed during the first pass and is not held out any more: `as i said,
+what is the population of india`, +0.008 to the personal side. It is a world seed
+now.
+
+The gate is the sign of the difference and nothing tighter. The margins are too
+thin for a threshold. The asymmetry favours claiming: a false claim costs one
+honest "не знаю", a false pass sends his life to an upstream engine.
+
+`make eval-recall` unchanged, 18/27 answered at gate 0.55. Recall does not touch
+this path.
+
+## Not verified
+
+The live probe on the deployed box. The daemon was not rebuilt in this session.
+The reply to `что я говорил про бэкапы?` with no matching note is still untested
+against a real SearXNG.

docs/evals/2026-08-03-recall-topic-veto.md

@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+# Recall topic veto, what it costs and what it buys, 2026-08-03
+
+Vikunja #496. The task asked for a cross-language fix. Skip the topic veto in
+`memory.RecallAllowed` when the question and the hit are in different scripts.
+An English question would then stop losing a Russian note.
+
+No such case exists. No fixture case puts the question and its wanted note in
+different scripts. The case the task named is not one either.
+
+    en-hard-024
+      query  "what fixed the screen problem"
+      note   "the flicker went away once i swapped the display cable"
+
+Both are English. It is a paraphrase failure, not a language failure. A script
+test would not have changed a single case, and neither would a bilingual stem
+map.
+
+## What the veto is worth today
+
+Measured with the real embedder, multilingual-e5-small int8, gate 0.55, margin
+0.008. The first row is the veto as it ships. The second is `RecallAllowed`
+forced to true.
+
+| | cases passing | answered | false recall | silenced by gate |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| veto on | 22/32 | 17/27 | 0/5 | 2 |
+| veto off | 22/32 | 18/27 | 1/5 | 1 |
+
+The pass count does not move. The veto trades one true recall for one false one.
+It costs `en-hard-024` and it buys `ru-silent-029`:
+
+    ru-silent-029
+      query  "во сколько отходит поезд"
+      note   "погулял вдоль реки"        0.835, margin 0.019
+
+The second case counted as silenced by the gate is `ru-home-026` at margin
+0.001, which the margin gate stops. The veto has nothing to do with it.
+
+## Why no lexical rule separates the two
+
+`en-hard-024` and `ru-silent-029` are in the same lexical class. Both questions
+share zero content words with their hit, and neither carries a first-person
+marker. The scores sit on top of each other, 0.826 against 0.835, and so do the
+margins, 0.023 against 0.019. Only one thing separates them. A screen problem
+and a swapped display cable are the same event. A train and a river walk are
+not. The embedder scores that difference at nine thousandths.
+
+So the signal is semantic and the gate is lexical. Any rule cheap enough to sit
+in `RecallAllowed` and strong enough to recover `en-hard-024` also re-admits
+`ru-silent-029`, which puts false recall back to 1/5.
+
+One near-miss rule was tried on paper and rejected: let the veto pass when the
+hit itself is first person. It works on these two, because the English note says
+"i swapped" and the Russian note says only "погулял". It is backwards as a
+principle. A first-person note is exactly the personal note the veto keeps away
+from a world question. The rule would weaken the veto where it was designed to
+bite. It survives here only because Russian drops the pronoun.
+
+## Decision
+
+Accept the loss. `en-hard-024` stays silenced and false recall stays 0/5.
+
+The way out is a reranker, not a longer word list. Recall@3 is 85.2% against
+recall@1 at 70.4%, so the right note is usually in the returned set and ranked
+wrong. That is where the remaining points are, and it is not this task.

docs/evals/2026-08-04-recall-e5-small.md

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+# Note recall after the e5-small swap — 04-08-2026
+
+Closes Vikunja #371, which asked for the swap and for this re-measurement. The embedder is no
+longer paraphrase-multilingual-MiniLM-L12-v2. It is **multilingual-e5-small**, quantized, with the
+`query:` / `passage:` prefixes it was trained with (`internal/router/onnxembedder.go`,
+`EmbedQuery` / `EmbedPassage`). `deploy/mavend.json` loads
+`models/embedder/multilingual-e5-small/model_quantized.onnx`, which is the same file `make
+download-embedder` fetches and the same file this run measured.
+
+- Fixture + scorer: `internal/memory/recalleval/` — 32 cases now, not 30
+- Reproduce: `make eval-recall`
+- Commit: `b6abb19`
+- Gate as deployed: `query_min_score` 0.55, `query_min_margin` 0.008
+
+The fixture grew since 31-07, so the case counts are not comparable row for row. The percentages
+are.
+
+## Results
+
+| | 31-07 MiniLM (onnx) | 04-08 e5-small (onnx) |
+|---|---|---|
+| **recall@1** | 60.0% (15/25) | **70.4% (19/27)** |
+| recall@3 | 80.0% (20/25) | **85.2% (23/27)** |
+| **answered after the gate** | 48.0% (12/25) | **63.0% (17/27)** |
+| **false recall** | 1/5 (20%) | **0/5** |
+| wrong note on top / tie on top | 10 / 0 | 8 / 0 |
+| ranked first, then silenced by the gate | 3 | 2 |
+| `hard` cases passed | 2/11 | 5/12 |
+| RU / EN passed | 13/24 / 3/6 | 18/26 / 4/6 |
+| latency p50 / p95 / max | 59ms / 148ms / 194ms | **23ms / 41ms / 62ms** |
+
+The hash ratchet CI runs is unchanged in kind and still answers nothing after the gate: recall@1
+37.0%, recall@3 74.1%, 0/27 answered, 0/5 false. It is lexical and exists so CI has a deterministic
+floor. Never compare a hash number to an ONNX one.
+
+## Findings
+
+### 1. The swap paid on every axis at once, including latency
+
+Ten points of recall@1, fifteen points of *answered*, the one false recall gone, and it is 2.5×
+faster because the quantized e5-small is 118MB against the 470MB fp32 file the old config loaded.
+Finding 3 of the 31-07 eval predicted the recall half and said nothing about speed; the speed came
+from fixing the second half of that finding, which was that the deployed path loaded a different
+file than the download target.
+
+The concrete case that eval named is fixed. "из-за чего кончилось место" no longer returns the
+guitar-chords filler note. It now returns a homelab note, `n2` at 0.884, and the wanted note is
+still not in the top 3 — so the query moved from absurd to merely wrong. That is the shape of what
+is left.
+
+### 2. The score distributions still overlap. The margin is what separates them
+
+This is the part of #371's premise that did not come true. Right-note-first top-1 scores run
+0.791 / 0.857 / 0.890 (min / median / max). Must-stay-silent top-1 scores run 0.795 / 0.815 /
+0.835. The silent cases sit *inside* the answering range, so no value of `query_min_score` keeps
+every real recall and rejects every false one — the same verdict as 31-07, at a higher and tighter
+band of scores.
+
+What separates them is the second-place gap. Margin top1-top2 for a right first hit: median 0.024.
+For a must-be-silent case: median 0.002, max 0.019. A false recall is a note that beats its
+neighbours by nothing, because nothing in the store is about the question. The sweep:
+
+| margin | answered | false recall |
+|---|---|---|
+| 0.000 | 18/27 (67%) | 3/5 |
+| 0.005 | 17/27 (63%) | 1/5 |
+| **0.008 (deployed)** | **17/27 (63%)** | **0/5** |
+| 0.010 | 15/27 (56%) | 0/5 |
+| 0.015 | 12/27 (44%) | 0/5 |
+
+0.008 is the knee: it is the smallest margin that silences all five, and the next step up costs two
+real answers for nothing. The score gate contributes almost nothing on its own — every value from
+0.00 to 0.70 answers the same 18 and admits the same 3 — so `query_min_score` is now close to inert
+and the margin is the live dial. Leave both where they are; #412 is where a further sweep belongs.
+
+### 3. What is left is a retrieval problem, not a gate problem
+
+Eight cases put the wrong note on top, and the failures cluster: `hard` 5/12, `preference` 5/9,
+`homelab` 8/13. Four of the eight have the right note in the top 3, so a reranker would collect
+them; the other four do not, so nothing downstream can. Two more rank first and are silenced by the
+margin — `en-hard-024` at 0.826 with margin 0.023, and `ru-home-026` at 0.846 with margin 0.001,
+which is a genuine near-tie against a second note that is also plausible.
+
+Preference queries are the weakest class in a way that is not about the model. "когда запускать
+резервное копирование" and "как мне присылать оповещения" both return a fact, not the note that
+states the preference. Facts and notes are searched in one pass since #373, so a confidently-scored
+fact wins a question that a note answers better. That is a ranking policy question and it belongs
+in its own task, not in a threshold.

docs/offload.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Offloading model work to the workstation
 
-*Last verified: 2026-08-02 @ 5c05163. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+*Last verified: 2026-08-03 @ 12530c8. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
 
 Owner's call, 2026-08-02. Vikunja #483 is the umbrella. Tasks #484 to #487 are the
 work, and this file holds the shape and the rules all four must obey.
@@ -47,6 +47,24 @@ service being down.
 
 Nothing in between. A turn never breaks on the workstation being asleep.
 
+Both halves are wired, 03-08-2026. `LLMPhraser.PhraseWorld`
+(`internal/phraser/world.go`) is the naming half and has three outcomes, not two:
+
+| State | What he hears |
+|---|---|
+| no `workstation` block | the resident model answers, exactly as before the seam existed |
+| configured, card free | the workstation answers |
+| configured, asleep or busy | the gap, `worldGap` in `cmd/mavend/worldmodel.go` |
+
+The first row is the one worth stating. Naming a gap requires a gap. On a box with
+no second model the 1.7B is the whole product. Refusing every world question there
+would remove a capability the owner has today.
+
+A source holding a passage is on the naming half too: a live search, a ZIM
+article, a page he named. None of them says "не могу сейчас". They read the
+passage back, which is what `phraseSource` returning `""` selects. A real quote
+beats a gap, and neither path invents.
+
 ## Admission control, not a scheduler
 
 There is no GPU arbiter. That is a service with its own failure modes, and nothing
@@ -58,6 +76,34 @@ jobs.
 
 The caller must be able to ask "is this peer usable right now" without a turn
 hanging on a timeout. A dead remote is a normal state, not an error state.
+`internal/llm.Pair` is that check on the Maven side. A prober caches the answer,
+so `Available()` is an atomic read and no turn pays for a health check.
+
+llama-server does not stay up on the workstation. It cannot: a resident 7-14B
+would hold 16GB against the owner's CPT runs. So a supervisor there owns its
+lifecycle, keeps it loaded while the card is free, and unloads it on idle or
+when another process needs the card (owner's call, 2026-08-02, Vikunja #488).
+
+That supervisor is still not a scheduler, and the distinction is worth holding.
+It arbitrates nothing between callers. It reports whether it can take work and
+manages one process to back that answer. Maven never asks it to start anything
+and never learns that it did.
+
+Contention is decided by presence under `/sys/class/kfd/kfd/proc`, not by a VRAM
+threshold. A ROCm process registers there when it initialises HIP, before it
+allocates anything. So the supervisor sees a contender during that job's startup,
+and yields before the job loses the memory it asked for. A
+threshold reads the card too late. By the time free VRAM has dropped, the other
+job has already lost the allocation race. Free VRAM is still read, but only as a
+precondition for loading, never as the eviction signal. One blind spot is known.
+A job can take the card without registering on the KFD, as a Vulkan or a
+video-decode job would. `describe()` logs every contender's comm, and that log is
+how we find out whether the blind spot is real.
+
+`mavgpud` runs from a systemd unit on the workstation with
+`deploy/mavgpud.json` as its config, and `llama_args` is passed to llama-server
+untouched. The model, the context size, the layer count and the MTP flags are the
+owner's business and not this daemon's schema.
 
 ## What stays on homesrv, permanently
 
@@ -76,17 +122,29 @@ it buys nothing. Four callers:
 
 ## Inventory: what runs a model on homesrv today
 
-The **resident model** is one llama-server with seven callers:
+The **resident model** is one llama-server with seven callers, and 03-08-2026 is
+the date each of them stopped or did not stop being resident-only:
 
-| Caller | What for |
-|---|---|
-| `cmd/mavend/voicewire.go` | routing |
-| `cmd/mavend/replier_llm.go` | replies |
-| `cmd/mavend/tick.go` | digestion worker: `PhraseNudge`, `PhraseReminder` |
-| `cmd/mavend/capture.go` | capture summarisation (unreachable, see #480) |
-| `cmd/mavend/mail.go` | mail extraction (off, no IMAP) |
-| `cmd/mavend/kiwixwire.go` | answering from a Kiwix, search or crawl passage |
-| `memoryeval.go`, `modelswap.go` | admin and evals |
+| Caller | What for | Offloaded |
+|---|---|---|
+| `cmd/mavend/voicewire.go` | routing | silently, through `hot` |
+| `cmd/mavend/replier_llm.go` | replies | silently, through `hot` |
+| `cmd/mavend/tick.go` | digestion worker: `PhraseNudge`, `PhraseReminder` | silently, inside the phraser |
+| `cmd/mavend/actions_query.go` | world questions, and any fetched passage | names the gap |
+| `cmd/mavend/capture.go` | capture summarisation (unreachable, see #480) | no, holds its own client |
+| `cmd/mavend/mail.go` | mail extraction (off, no IMAP) | no, holds its own client |
+| `memoryeval.go`, `modelswap.go` | admin and evals | no, and deliberately |
+
+The last three rows are resident-only on purpose. `memoryeval.go` and
+`modelswap.go` measure and swap the resident model, so sending their work
+elsewhere would measure the wrong thing. `capture.go` and `mail.go` are
+background jobs that hold a gated background client (`llmBackgroundClientFor`),
+and that priority has no equivalent on the remote yet. Both are also unreachable
+on this deploy, so wiring them would ship an untestable path.
+
+The `tick.go` row needs one caveat. `phraser.llm_nudges` is `false` in deploy, so
+nudges come from templates and the seam under them changes nothing until that
+flips. It is wired anyway: `PhraseReminder` is on the same transport and is on.
 
 Then the embedder above, **whisper.cpp** in `mavsttd`, and **piper** in `mavttsd`.
 `mavwaked` uses no model at all: an energy-threshold VAD over 30ms frames.
@@ -97,7 +155,14 @@ Then the embedder above, **whisper.cpp** in `mavsttd`, and **piper** in `mavttsd
    `internal/netaddr` landed in PR #92. A seam address now carries its own scheme,
    and a scheme-less one is still unix. A tcp seam requires a shared token, because
    the filesystem permission that authenticated the unix socket is gone.
-2. **The resident model** (#485). Biggest quality delta. A 16GB card runs a 7-14B,
+2. **The resident model** (#485, #490). Wired. A `workstation` block builds an
+   `llm.Pair` in `modelSeam` (`cmd/mavend/voicewire.go`), routing and replies
+   complete through it, and the phraser holds the same pair (`UseRemote`). Both
+   halves of the rule are live: see the table above for which caller gets which.
+   Measured, `docs/evals/2026-08-02-workstation-gemma4-12b.md`: gemma-4-12b
+   through the cascade scores 84.4% full accuracy at p50 329ms. The resident
+   model scores 72.7% at p50 0.80-1.04s. On the talk fixture it is 25/27
+   against 20/27. Biggest quality delta. A 16GB card runs a 7-14B,
    which fixes what the 1.7B gets wrong: world knowledge, and the persona the CPT
    targets. The degradation path is already written and measured, since the
    classifier scores 68.8% full accuracy at p50 16.6µs on its own.

docs/qa.md

@@ -498,12 +498,21 @@ rejects `https://api.openai.com`, and forget really deletes
 (`internal/store/memory.go:145` is a real `DELETE`, not a tombstone). Vision is
 19/19, speaker 22/22, media 16/16.
 
-**470 got worse.** Both poisoned facts show `voided` on `/history`, and the
-defect survives. Re-measured at 15:42, after four restarts: `почему небо синее?`
-still answers `какая последняя версия языка Go?` with no `search:` line. What
-comes back is the question he typed, not the value the fact held. So the poison
-is a vector in the memory index, and `revert` does not remove it. There is
-currently no documented way to repair a poisoned box.
+**470 got worse, then closed.** Both poisoned facts showed `voided` on
+`/history` and the defect survived. Re-measured at 15:42, after four restarts:
+`почему небо синее?` still answered `какая последняя версия языка Go?` with no
+`search:` line. What came back was the question he typed, not the value the fact
+held. So the poison was a vector in the memory index, and `revert` did not
+remove it.
+
+Repaired in two parts. 470 stopped the writes: a question is never a fact, and a
+void drops the key's vectors. 493 fixed what the index holds. A fact is indexed
+as the fact and not as the utterance, and a correction drops its superseded
+vector too.
+
+A poisoned box now repairs itself on the next start. `RepairFactVectors`
+re-embeds every fact vector from the fact it names, and deletes the voided and
+superseded ones. It runs once, guarded by a marker, and logs what it did.
 
 ---
 

docs/rearchitecture.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Maven — Re-architecture (Qwen3 resident model, revised 2026-07-18)
 
-*Last verified: 2026-08-02 @ 7079a24. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
+*Last verified: 2026-08-04 @ b6abb19. Living doc: correct it in place, do not append.*
 
 > Supersedes the classifier-first routing model. Agreed in a design session
 > after diagnosing that homesrv deploys with a **stub phraser** (no LLM
@@ -40,8 +40,10 @@ utterance
   are deferred until the main feature set is complete.
 - **Embedder demoted from router to tool** — it now backs `memory.search`
   (RAG) and gives the router a cheap "similar past notes/intents" hint. The
-  router no longer depends on it clearing a threshold. Upgrade MiniLM → bge-m3
-  for better RU retrieval later (model swap, not architecture).
+  router no longer depends on it clearing a threshold. The MiniLM upgrade is
+  done: it is multilingual-e5-small, asymmetric, with the `query:`/`passage:`
+  prefixes (Vikunja #371, `docs/evals/2026-08-04-recall-e5-small.md`). A
+  further swap is a model swap, not architecture (Vikunja #412).
 
 ### Router output
 - Constrained structured JSON action `{tool, args, escalate}` — NOT free-form

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(), "привет")
+	_, err = cli.Chat(context.Background(), "web", "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(), "привет")
+	reply, err := cli.Chat(context.Background(), "web", "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/ambient.go

@@ -68,7 +68,28 @@ var dayWords = map[string]int{
 // word ("завтра", "tomorrow") when the notification carries one, and the result
 // is refused if it lands more than ambientPastGrace in the past. A bare start
 // time gets DefaultReminderDuration.
+//
+// The clock reading is a wall clock in the daemon's local zone. See
+// EventFromNotificationIn.
 func EventFromNotification(n Notification) (Event, bool) {
+	return EventFromNotificationIn(n, time.Local)
+}
+
+// EventFromNotificationIn is EventFromNotification against an explicit zone.
+//
+// "созвон в 14:30" carries no zone, and nobody writing a phone notification
+// means 14:30Z. The wall clock used to be resolved against Posted's own zone,
+// and a phone posts an RFC 3339 instant ending in Z, so every ambient meeting
+// on this box landed four hours late. The size of the error is the deploy's UTC
+// offset, which is why it is invisible on a UTC box and wrong everywhere else.
+//
+// Posted stays an instant in its own zone: it says when the phone showed the
+// notification, and the past-grace check compares instants. Only the day and
+// the wall clock are read in loc.
+func EventFromNotificationIn(n Notification, loc *time.Location) (Event, bool) {
+	if loc == nil {
+		loc = time.Local
+	}
 	if n.Posted.IsZero() {
 		return Event{}, false
 	}
@@ -82,8 +103,9 @@ func EventFromNotification(n Notification) (Event, bool) {
 		return Event{}, false
 	}
 
-	y, m, d := n.Posted.AddDate(0, 0, dayOffset(line)).Date()
-	loc := n.Posted.Location()
+	// The day is Posted's LOCAL day: a notification posted at 23:30Z saying
+	// "завтра в 09:00" is already tomorrow where he is standing.
+	y, m, d := n.Posted.In(loc).AddDate(0, 0, dayOffset(line)).Date()
 	s := time.Date(y, m, d, start.hour, start.min, 0, 0, loc)
 	// Too far in the past to be the meeting this notification is about. The day
 	// was inferred, so the honest reading is that the inference was wrong.

internal/calendar/ambient_test.go

@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ func TestEventFromNotification(t *testing.T) {
 
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			ev, ok := EventFromNotification(Notification{
+			ev, ok := EventFromNotificationIn(Notification{
 				Package: "com.google.android.gm",
 				Title:   tt.title,
 				Text:    tt.text,
 				Posted:  posted,
-			})
+			}, posted.Location())
 			if ok != tt.wantOK {
 				t.Fatalf("ok = %v, want %v (event %+v)", ok, tt.wantOK, ev)
 			}
@@ -98,8 +98,8 @@ func TestEventFromNotification(t *testing.T) {
 			if !ev.End.After(ev.Start) {
 				t.Errorf("end %v must be after start %v", ev.End, ev.Start)
 			}
-			// The event lands on the day the phone showed it, in the phone's
-			// location — not shifted into UTC.
+			// The event lands on the day the phone showed it, in the zone it
+			// was resolved against — never shifted into UTC.
 			if ev.Start.Location() != posted.Location() {
 				t.Errorf("location = %v, want %v", ev.Start.Location(), posted.Location())
 			}
@@ -162,10 +162,10 @@ func TestEventFromNotificationDayWords(t *testing.T) {
 
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {
-			ev, ok := EventFromNotification(Notification{
+			ev, ok := EventFromNotificationIn(Notification{
 				Package: "com.google.android.calendar",
 				Title:   tt.title, Text: tt.text, Posted: tt.posted,
-			})
+			}, tt.posted.Location())
 			if ok != tt.wantOK {
 				t.Fatalf("ok = %v, want %v (event %+v)", ok, tt.wantOK, ev)
 			}
@@ -189,10 +189,10 @@ func TestEventFromNotificationDayWords(t *testing.T) {
 // summary makes "Завтра Планёрка" the name of the meeting, and FactKey folds
 // that into the key.
 func TestEventFromNotificationDropsDayWordFromSummary(t *testing.T) {
-	ev, ok := EventFromNotification(Notification{
+	ev, ok := EventFromNotificationIn(Notification{
 		Title:  "Завтра Планёрка 09:00",
 		Posted: time.Date(2026, 8, 3, 21, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC),
-	})
+	}, time.UTC)
 	if !ok {
 		t.Fatal("expected an event")
 	}
@@ -209,10 +209,10 @@ func TestEventFromNotificationNeedsPostedAt(t *testing.T) {
 
 // An ambient event must never be indistinguishable from a calendar read.
 func TestAmbientEventsAreStoredAtReducedConfidence(t *testing.T) {
-	ev, ok := EventFromNotification(Notification{
+	ev, ok := EventFromNotificationIn(Notification{
 		Title:  "Планёрка 10:00-10:30",
 		Posted: time.Date(2026, 8, 3, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC),
-	})
+	}, time.UTC)
 	if !ok {
 		t.Fatal("expected an event")
 	}
@@ -237,3 +237,52 @@ func TestStripClock(t *testing.T) {
 		}
 	}
 }
+
+// The defect this file's zone handling exists for: a phone posts an RFC 3339
+// instant ending in Z, and "созвон в 14:30" used to be resolved against that
+// Z, so on a UTC+4 box the meeting was stored at 18:30. A wall clock in a
+// notification is local by construction.
+func TestNotificationClockIsLocalNotUTC(t *testing.T) {
+	samara := time.FixedZone("+04", 4*3600)
+	n := Notification{
+		Package: "com.slack",
+		Title:   "Standup",
+		Text:    "созвон в 14:30",
+		Posted:  time.Date(2026, 8, 2, 9, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC), // 13:00 local
+	}
+	ev, ok := EventFromNotificationIn(n, samara)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("expected an event")
+	}
+	if got := ev.Start.Format("15:04"); got != "14:30" {
+		t.Errorf("start = %s local, want 14:30", got)
+	}
+	if got := ev.Start.UTC().Format("15:04"); got != "10:30" {
+		t.Errorf("start = %sZ, want 10:30Z (14:30 at UTC+4)", got)
+	}
+	if ev.Start.Location() != samara {
+		t.Errorf("location = %v, want %v", ev.Start.Location(), samara)
+	}
+	// The stored key is the local day, so it files under the day he lived.
+	if want, got := "calendar_event_20260802_Standup", FactKeyIn(ev, samara); got != want {
+		t.Errorf("FactKey = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+// A notification posted late in the UTC evening is already the next day where
+// he is standing. The day must come from the local clock, not from Posted's.
+func TestNotificationDayIsTheLocalDay(t *testing.T) {
+	samara := time.FixedZone("+04", 4*3600)
+	n := Notification{
+		Title:  "Планёрка 09:00",
+		Text:   "завтра",
+		Posted: time.Date(2026, 8, 2, 21, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC), // 03-08 01:00 local
+	}
+	ev, ok := EventFromNotificationIn(n, samara)
+	if !ok {
+		t.Fatal("expected an event")
+	}
+	if y, m, d := ev.Start.Date(); y != 2026 || m != time.August || d != 4 {
+		t.Errorf("date = %d-%02d-%02d, want 2026-08-04 (tomorrow, locally)", y, m, d)
+	}
+}

internal/calendar/calendar.go

@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ import (
 	"sort"
 	"strings"
 	"time"
+	"unicode"
 )
 
 // Fact sources. A calendar event reaches the store as a
@@ -153,14 +154,20 @@ func Overlapping(events []Event, from, to time.Time) []Event {
 	return out
 }
 
-// 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.
+// 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.
 func safeKey(s string) string {
 	var b strings.Builder
 	for _, r := range s {
 		switch {
-		case (r >= 'a' && r <= 'z') || (r >= 'A' && r <= 'Z') || (r >= '0' && r <= '9') || r == '-':
+		case unicode.IsLetter(r) || unicode.IsDigit(r) || r == '-':
 			b.WriteRune(r)
 		case r == ' ' || r == '_':
 			b.WriteRune('-')

internal/calendar/calendar_test.go

@@ -139,6 +139,9 @@ 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 {
@@ -263,3 +266,19 @@ 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

@@ -149,10 +149,11 @@ type Config struct {
 	//
 	// Rules are code, not config (see loop.DefaultRules), and that stays true:
 	// this only subtracts. It exists because a rule can be right in principle
-	// and useless in practice — kuma's service_down cannot name the service it
-	// is nudging about (Vikunja #444), so being told "a service on homesrv is
-	// down" every fifteen minutes is noise with no action attached. Turning it
-	// off beats learning to ignore her.
+	// and useless in practice. service_down was the case that forced it: it
+	// could not name the service it was nudging about, so being told "a service
+	// on homesrv is down" every fifteen minutes was noise with no action
+	// attached. That is fixed — one fact per kuma monitor — and the rule ships
+	// enabled again. The escape hatch stays.
 	//
 	// A disabled rule is never gathered for, never evaluated, and never
 	// delivered on any channel. Unknown names are ignored, so removing a rule
@@ -224,6 +225,11 @@ type Config struct {
 	// See SearchConfig.
 	Search *SearchConfig `json:"search,omitempty"`
 
+	// Workstation — the big model on the owner's desktop, preferred over the
+	// resident one when its GPU is free. nil / absent / url empty ⇒ homesrv
+	// behaves exactly as it does today. See WorkstationConfig.
+	Workstation *WorkstationConfig `json:"workstation,omitempty"`
+
 	// Praxis — the ecosystem attention-state service. When configured, maven
 	// calls the Praxis HTTP tools API for attention listing and item lifecycle.
 	// Maven never touches Praxis's database directly (ecosystem invariant: no
@@ -596,6 +602,9 @@ 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
@@ -1105,6 +1114,44 @@ const (
 	DefaultKiwixSnippetRunes = 1500
 )
 
+// WorkstationConfig — the big model on the owner's desktop (workpc, a
+// 7900 GRE with 16GB), fronted by mavgpud.
+//
+// homesrv cannot grow a GPU, so the resident Qwen3-1.7B is the floor and this
+// is the preferred model above it (owner's call, 2026-08-02, docs/offload.md).
+// The workstation is never assumed up: its card is often held by a CPT run and
+// the machine sleeps. No block, or an empty URL, and homesrv behaves exactly as
+// it does today.
+//
+// Only the prompt crosses the LAN, and the workstation is not "the box". The
+// rules in CLAUDE.md about what may leave still apply.
+type WorkstationConfig struct {
+	// URL — where mavgpud listens, e.g. "http://192.168.1.105:8080". Empty ⇒
+	// the whole block is normalised to nil and nothing probes anything.
+	URL string `json:"url,omitempty"`
+
+	// Health — the admission endpoint. Empty ⇒ URL + "/health", which is what
+	// mavgpud serves. It answers 503 while the card is held, and that is the
+	// signal, so it must be the supervisor's endpoint and not llama-server's.
+	Health string `json:"health,omitempty"`
+
+	// Probe — how often admission is re-checked. 0 ⇒ DefaultWorkstationProbe.
+	// Nothing on the hot path waits for it: the answer is cached and read
+	// atomically, so this only sets how late Maven notices the card came back.
+	Probe Duration `json:"probe,omitempty"`
+
+	// Timeout — the per-request budget for a completion on the workstation.
+	// 0 ⇒ DefaultWorkstationTimeout. A big model on a LAN host is slower than
+	// the resident one, and a request that overruns falls back to the floor.
+	Timeout Duration `json:"timeout,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// Workstation defaults, applied in Normalise.
+const (
+	DefaultWorkstationProbe   = 15 * time.Second
+	DefaultWorkstationTimeout = 90 * time.Second
+)
+
 // SearchConfig — the self-hosted SearXNG instance she searches with.
 //
 // External search is allowed and off unless configured (CLAUDE.md). Configuring
@@ -1233,6 +1280,12 @@ type PhraserConfig struct {
 	NCtx       int      `json:"n_ctx,omitempty"`
 	Timeout    Duration `json:"timeout,omitempty"`
 
+	// CacheRAMMiB bounds llama-server's prompt cache. Omitted ⇒ 512 MiB, which
+	// is what keeps the resident model near 1 GB of RSS instead of the 7.9 GB
+	// measured on 2026-08-03. Set it to -1 to pass no flag at all and let the
+	// server apply its own 8 GiB default. See phraser.Config.CacheRAMMiB.
+	CacheRAMMiB int `json:"cache_ram_mib,omitempty"`
+
 	// LLMNudges — let the model word nudges again. Off by default: nudges are
 	// worded from hand-written Russian templates now (the model broke the
 	// persona and invented units). Chat, query and reminder phrasing always go
@@ -1500,6 +1553,24 @@ func (c *Config) applyDefaults() {
 		}
 	}
 
+	// No address, no preferred model. An unconfigured workstation is the
+	// default deploy and must be indistinguishable from today.
+	if c.Workstation != nil && strings.TrimSpace(c.Workstation.URL) == "" {
+		c.Workstation = nil
+	}
+	if c.Workstation != nil {
+		w := c.Workstation
+		if strings.TrimSpace(w.Health) == "" {
+			w.Health = strings.TrimRight(w.URL, "/") + "/health"
+		}
+		if w.Probe <= 0 {
+			w.Probe = Duration(DefaultWorkstationProbe)
+		}
+		if w.Timeout <= 0 {
+			w.Timeout = Duration(DefaultWorkstationTimeout)
+		}
+	}
+
 	if c.Voice != nil {
 		if c.Voice.RouterThreshold <= 0 {
 			c.Voice.RouterThreshold = DefaultRouterThreshold
@@ -1667,7 +1738,7 @@ 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}
+			items[j] = morning.Item{Key: it.Key, FactKey: it.FactKey, Label: it.Label, Optional: it.Optional}
 		}
 		weekdays := make([]time.Weekday, len(r.Weekdays))
 		for j, w := range r.Weekdays {

internal/config/config_test.go

@@ -413,3 +413,56 @@ func TestNormaliseFillsKiwixDefaults(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Error("rewrite: false was not honoured")
 	}
 }
+
+// A workstation with no address is not a workstation. The unconfigured deploy
+// must be indistinguishable from today, so the block is dropped rather than
+// left to fail one probe at a time.
+func TestNormaliseDropsAddresslessWorkstation(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, tc := range []struct {
+		name string
+		in   *WorkstationConfig
+	}{
+		{"no url", &WorkstationConfig{Probe: Duration(time.Second)}},
+		{"blank url", &WorkstationConfig{URL: "   "}},
+	} {
+		t.Run(tc.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			c := &Config{Workstation: tc.in}
+			c.applyDefaults()
+			if c.Workstation != nil {
+				t.Errorf("kept an unusable workstation block: %+v", c.Workstation)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+// The health endpoint defaults to the supervisor's, not llama-server's: mavgpud
+// answers 503 while the card is held, and that refusal is the whole signal.
+func TestNormaliseFillsWorkstationDefaults(t *testing.T) {
+	c := &Config{Workstation: &WorkstationConfig{URL: "http://192.168.1.105:8080/"}}
+	c.applyDefaults()
+	if c.Workstation == nil {
+		t.Fatal("dropped a usable workstation block")
+	}
+	if got, want := c.Workstation.Health, "http://192.168.1.105:8080/health"; got != want {
+		t.Errorf("Health = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+	if time.Duration(c.Workstation.Probe) != DefaultWorkstationProbe {
+		t.Errorf("Probe = %s, want %s", time.Duration(c.Workstation.Probe), DefaultWorkstationProbe)
+	}
+	if time.Duration(c.Workstation.Timeout) != DefaultWorkstationTimeout {
+		t.Errorf("Timeout = %s, want %s", time.Duration(c.Workstation.Timeout), DefaultWorkstationTimeout)
+	}
+}
+
+// An explicit health URL is left alone: the supervisor may sit behind something
+// that does not put /health at the root.
+func TestNormaliseKeepsExplicitWorkstationHealth(t *testing.T) {
+	c := &Config{Workstation: &WorkstationConfig{
+		URL:    "http://192.168.1.105:8080",
+		Health: "http://192.168.1.105:9000/ready",
+	}}
+	c.applyDefaults()
+	if got, want := c.Workstation.Health, "http://192.168.1.105:9000/ready"; got != want {
+		t.Errorf("Health = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+}

internal/dialogue/clarify.go

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

internal/ipc/api.go

@@ -60,6 +60,19 @@ 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 {
@@ -521,6 +534,12 @@ 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"`
@@ -593,8 +612,14 @@ 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"`
+	Text         string `json:"text"`
+	Conversation string `json:"conversation,omitempty"`
 }
 type chatResp struct {
 	Reply string `json:"reply"`
@@ -653,127 +678,6 @@ type acceptProposedRoutineReq struct {
 	ID int64 `json:"id"`
 }
 
-// CoreAPI — what core exposes to modules. One Go interface, satisfied by:
-//   - the in-process store adapter (server.go storeAPI) — used by the daemon
-//     for modules that live in-process for now (router, delivery) and by tests,
-//   - the socket-backed server's dispatcher (which delegates to a CoreAPI),
-//   - the client proxy (client.go) — same interface, over the wire.
-//
-// So a module imports ipc, holds a CoreAPI, and is agnostic to whether it's
-// been wired in-process (tests / daemon-embedded) or socketed (full topology).
-// That swappability is the seam the auth layer will insert into without
-// touching the module code.
-type CoreAPI interface {
-	WriteFact(ctx context.Context, req WriteFactReq) (int64, error)
-	LatestFact(ctx context.Context, key string) (Fact, error)
-	LatestFactBySource(ctx context.Context, key, source string) (Fact, error)
-	Since(ctx context.Context, key string, now time.Time) (time.Duration, error)
-	Presence(ctx context.Context) (Presence, error)
-	CreateReminder(ctx context.Context, fire time.Time, payload, cron string) (int64, error)
-	MarkReminder(ctx context.Context, id int64, status string) error
-	ListReminders(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Reminder, error)
-	RecordNudge(ctx context.Context, rule, channel, message string, ts time.Time) (int64, error)
-	ResolveNudge(ctx context.Context, id int64, outcome string, ts time.Time) error
-	RecentOutcomes(ctx context.Context, rule string, n int) ([]string, error)
-	RecentFacts(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Fact, error)
-	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)
-
-	// RecentEcosystemTraces reads the ecosystem call log, which lives in its
-	// own table so machine-rate traces never crowd out human-rate facts.
-	RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemTrace, error)
-	WriteNote(ctx context.Context, ts time.Time, text string, embedding []float32, source string) (int64, error)
-	QueryNotes(ctx context.Context, embedding []float32, k int) ([]Note, error)
-	RecentNotes(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Note, error)
-	// RecentNotesFromSource — the newest n notes whose source starts with
-	// prefix. Notes Maven read rather than heard (rss:, crawl:) are excluded
-	// from recall, so this is the only way to reach them, and it keeps the feed
-	// answer from being crowded out of a fixed window by his own notes.
-	RecentNotesFromSource(ctx context.Context, prefix string, n int) ([]Note, error)
-
-	// ProposeTool drafts an inert 'proposed' tool scaffold (maven-callable);
-	// returns whether a new proposal was written. EnableTool fills cmd +
-	// destructive and flips status to 'enabled'. DisableTool reverts an
-	// enabled tool back to proposed (it stays in the store, won't run).
-	// Enable/DisableTool gate at AuthStepUp (allowlist mutation, human-only);
-	// ProposeTool is maven-callable (no step-up — she has no passkey).
-	// LookupTool/ListTools read them.
-	// scope defaults to "homelab" when empty.
-	ProposeTool(ctx context.Context, name, utterance, scope string, ts time.Time) (bool, error)
-	EnableTool(ctx context.Context, name string, cmd []string, destructive bool, scope string, ts time.Time) error
-	DisableTool(ctx context.Context, name string) error
-	DeleteTool(ctx context.Context, name string) error
-	LookupTool(ctx context.Context, name string) (Tool, error)
-	ListTools(ctx context.Context, status string) ([]Tool, error)
-	RevertFact(ctx context.Context, key string) (int64, error)
-
-	// ListProposedRoutines returns proposed routines, newest first.
-	ListProposedRoutines(ctx context.Context) ([]ProposedRoutine, error)
-	// DismissProposedRoutine flips a proposed routine to 'dismissed'.
-	DismissProposedRoutine(ctx context.Context, id int64) error
-	// AcceptProposedRoutine flips a proposed routine to 'accepted'. The tick
-	// loop takes the schedule from there — no reminder is created (Vikunja #366).
-	AcceptProposedRoutine(ctx context.Context, id int64) error
-
-	// CaptureTask records a task. See CaptureTaskReq — this is the single
-	// intake seam for the voice path, the web form and the future email
-	// extractor. Idempotent per live normalised text; the response says
-	// whether a row was actually created.
-	CaptureTask(ctx context.Context, req CaptureTaskReq) (CaptureTaskResp, error)
-	// ListTasks returns tasks in one status, newest first. "" is every row,
-	// "live" is candidate + open (outstanding work).
-	ListTasks(ctx context.Context, status string) ([]Task, error)
-	// SetTaskStatus moves a task forward once: candidate→open|dropped,
-	// open→done|dropped. Any other move is refused.
-	SetTaskStatus(ctx context.Context, id int64, status string, ts time.Time, by string) error
-
-	// TickTrace returns the most recent tick's rule trace. The daemon caches
-	// this after every tick; the store adapter returns an error (trace is not
-	// persisted — it's a daemon-level cache).
-	TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (TickTrace, error)
-
-	// MorningStatus returns each configured morning routine's current
-	// checklist state (see internal/morning): active today/now, which items
-	// are done, which are still missing. The store adapter returns an error
-	// (morning routines are daemon-config, not persisted) — same shape as
-	// TickTrace.
-	MorningStatus(ctx context.Context) ([]MorningRoutineStatus, error)
-
-	// MCPServers reports the configured MCP servers and their health
-	// (Vikunja #251). Read-only introspection for /tools — there is no
-	// "call this tool" method on purpose: an MCP tool runs through the same
-	// allowlist, confirm turn and act path as any other tool, and a second
-	// mutation path would be a second thing to get wrong. Empty when the
-	// mcp config block is absent, which is the default.
-	MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]MCPServerStatus, error)
-
-	// DayPlan returns today's ordered plan — calendar events, pending
-	// reminders and any morning checklist still outstanding (see
-	// internal/morning.BuildPlan) — plus the spoken RU rendering of it.
-	// Read-only: asking for the plan never dispatches or schedules anything.
-	// The store adapter returns an error (the plan needs the daemon's routine
-	// config) — same shape as TickTrace and MorningStatus.
-	DayPlan(ctx context.Context) (DayPlan, error)
-
-	// 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).
-	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
-	// it came from: a relayed notification, a mail candidate, a feed item, a
-	// changed page, a spend, a presence probe.
-	//
-	// Read-only and daemon-cached, the same shape as TickTrace and DayPlan:
-	// the store adapter returns an error, because the journal is a bounded
-	// in-memory ring and not a table. Its contents are a window over intake,
-	// never the durable record — that is still the fact, note or task the
-	// intake path wrote.
-	RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]IntakeEvent, error)
-}
-
 // IntakeEvent — one entry of the unified intake journal on the wire. Mirrors
 // event.Event field for field; the ipc package does not import internal/event
 // so the wire shape stays independent of the in-process type.

internal/ipc/client.go

@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ var readOnlyMethods = map[Method]bool{
 	MethodRecentActiveFacts:     true,
 	MethodCalendarEvents:        true,
 	MethodRecentNudges:          true,
+	MethodDeliveryAttempts:      true,
 	MethodRecentEcoTraces:       true,
 	MethodQueryNotes:            true,
 	MethodRecentNotes:           true,
@@ -373,6 +374,14 @@ 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 {
@@ -623,9 +632,9 @@ 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, text string) (string, error) {
+func (c *Client) Chat(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) (string, error) {
 	var r chatResp
-	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodChat, chatReq{Text: text}, &r); err != nil {
+	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodChat, chatReq{Text: text, Conversation: conversation}, &r); err != nil {
 		return "", err
 	}
 	return r.Reply, nil

internal/ipc/coreapi.go

@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+package ipc
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// CoreAPI and the eight domain interfaces it composes (Vikunja #408).
+//
+// It used to be one flat block of forty methods, and the cost of that shape
+// was paid three times over: every method added an arm to the dispatcher, a
+// stub to the daemon's locked API, and a stub to every test double. Two of
+// those three are already gone — the dispatcher is a table (methodTable in
+// server.go), and UnimplementedCoreAPI took the padding out of the doubles and
+// out of lockedAPI, which no longer exists.
+//
+// What was left is the interface itself, and this file is that half. CoreAPI
+// is unchanged as a type: the same forty methods, in the same order, so the
+// wire contract, the client proxy and the store adapter are all untouched.
+// What it gains is a named seam per domain, so a caller that only reads facts
+// can say FactAPI and a reader can see which cluster a method belongs to
+// without counting lines.
+//
+// Add a method to the domain it belongs to, not to CoreAPI.
+
+// FactAPI — the fact store: write, read the current value, read history, and
+// undo. Presence sits here because it is a hysteresis view over presence
+// facts, not a store of its own.
+type FactAPI interface {
+	WriteFact(ctx context.Context, req WriteFactReq) (int64, error)
+	LatestFact(ctx context.Context, key string) (Fact, error)
+	LatestFactBySource(ctx context.Context, key, source string) (Fact, error)
+	Since(ctx context.Context, key string, now time.Time) (time.Duration, error)
+	Presence(ctx context.Context) (Presence, error)
+	RecentFacts(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Fact, error)
+	RecentActiveFactsByKind(ctx context.Context, kind string, n int) ([]Fact, error)
+	CalendarEvents(ctx context.Context, from, to time.Time) ([]Fact, error)
+	RevertFact(ctx context.Context, key string) (int64, error)
+}
+
+// ReminderAPI — scheduled sends the owner asked for.
+type ReminderAPI interface {
+	CreateReminder(ctx context.Context, fire time.Time, payload, cron string) (int64, error)
+	MarkReminder(ctx context.Context, id int64, status string) error
+	ListReminders(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Reminder, error)
+}
+
+// NudgeAPI — proactive sends Maven proposed, their outcomes, and the outbox
+// they went out through.
+type NudgeAPI interface {
+	RecordNudge(ctx context.Context, rule, channel, message string, ts time.Time) (int64, error)
+	ResolveNudge(ctx context.Context, id int64, outcome string, ts time.Time) error
+	RecentOutcomes(ctx context.Context, rule string, n int) ([]string, 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)
+}
+
+// NoteAPI — free text he captured, plus the embedded recall over it.
+type NoteAPI interface {
+	WriteNote(ctx context.Context, ts time.Time, text string, embedding []float32, source string) (int64, error)
+	QueryNotes(ctx context.Context, embedding []float32, k int) ([]Note, error)
+	RecentNotes(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Note, error)
+	// RecentNotesFromSource — the newest n notes whose source starts with
+	// prefix. Notes Maven read rather than heard (rss:, crawl:) are excluded
+	// from recall, so this is the only way to reach them, and it keeps the feed
+	// answer from being crowded out of a fixed window by his own notes.
+	RecentNotesFromSource(ctx context.Context, prefix string, n int) ([]Note, error)
+}
+
+// ToolAPI — the capability allowlist and its read side.
+//
+// ProposeTool drafts an inert 'proposed' tool scaffold (maven-callable);
+// returns whether a new proposal was written. EnableTool fills cmd +
+// destructive and flips status to 'enabled'. DisableTool reverts an
+// enabled tool back to proposed (it stays in the store, won't run).
+// Enable/DisableTool gate at AuthStepUp (allowlist mutation, human-only);
+// ProposeTool is maven-callable (no step-up — she has no passkey).
+// LookupTool/ListTools read them.
+// scope defaults to "homelab" when empty.
+type ToolAPI interface {
+	ProposeTool(ctx context.Context, name, utterance, scope string, ts time.Time) (bool, error)
+	EnableTool(ctx context.Context, name string, cmd []string, destructive bool, scope string, ts time.Time) error
+	DisableTool(ctx context.Context, name string) error
+	DeleteTool(ctx context.Context, name string) error
+	LookupTool(ctx context.Context, name string) (Tool, error)
+	ListTools(ctx context.Context, status string) ([]Tool, error)
+
+	// MCPServers reports the configured MCP servers and their health
+	// (Vikunja #251). Read-only introspection for /tools — there is no
+	// "call this tool" method on purpose: an MCP tool runs through the same
+	// allowlist, confirm turn and act path as any other tool, and a second
+	// mutation path would be a second thing to get wrong. Empty when the
+	// mcp config block is absent, which is the default.
+	MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]MCPServerStatus, error)
+}
+
+// RoutineAPI — the shapes of his day: routines Maven noticed and proposed, the
+// morning checklist, and today's plan.
+//
+// MorningStatus and DayPlan are daemon-computed rather than stored, so the
+// store adapter returns an error for both — the same shape as TickTrace.
+type RoutineAPI interface {
+	// ListProposedRoutines returns proposed routines, newest first.
+	ListProposedRoutines(ctx context.Context) ([]ProposedRoutine, error)
+	// DismissProposedRoutine flips a proposed routine to 'dismissed'.
+	DismissProposedRoutine(ctx context.Context, id int64) error
+	// AcceptProposedRoutine flips a proposed routine to 'accepted'. The tick
+	// loop takes the schedule from there — no reminder is created (Vikunja #366).
+	AcceptProposedRoutine(ctx context.Context, id int64) error
+
+	// MorningStatus returns each configured morning routine's current
+	// checklist state (see internal/morning): active today/now, which items
+	// are done, which are still missing.
+	MorningStatus(ctx context.Context) ([]MorningRoutineStatus, error)
+
+	// DayPlan returns today's ordered plan — calendar events, pending
+	// reminders and any morning checklist still outstanding (see
+	// internal/morning.BuildPlan) — plus the spoken RU rendering of it.
+	// Read-only: asking for the plan never dispatches or schedules anything.
+	DayPlan(ctx context.Context) (DayPlan, error)
+}
+
+// TaskAPI — outstanding work, whatever surface it arrived from.
+type TaskAPI interface {
+	// CaptureTask records a task. See CaptureTaskReq — this is the single
+	// intake seam for the voice path, the web form and the future email
+	// extractor. Idempotent per live normalised text; the response says
+	// whether a row was actually created.
+	CaptureTask(ctx context.Context, req CaptureTaskReq) (CaptureTaskResp, error)
+	// ListTasks returns tasks in one status, newest first. "" is every row,
+	// "live" is candidate + open (outstanding work).
+	ListTasks(ctx context.Context, status string) ([]Task, error)
+	// SetTaskStatus moves a task forward once: candidate→open|dropped,
+	// open→done|dropped. Any other move is refused.
+	SetTaskStatus(ctx context.Context, id int64, status string, ts time.Time, by string) error
+}
+
+// SystemAPI — what the daemon knows about itself, plus the one method that
+// runs a whole turn.
+type SystemAPI interface {
+	// TickTrace returns the most recent tick's rule trace. The daemon caches
+	// this after every tick; the store adapter returns an error (trace is not
+	// persisted — it's a daemon-level cache).
+	TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (TickTrace, error)
+
+	// RecentEcosystemTraces reads the ecosystem call log, which lives in its
+	// own table so machine-rate traces never crowd out human-rate facts.
+	RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemTrace, error)
+
+	// RecentEvents returns the daemon's unified intake journal, newest first
+	// (Vikunja #283) — one envelope per thing that arrived, whatever direction
+	// it came from: a relayed notification, a mail candidate, a feed item, a
+	// changed page, a spend, a presence probe.
+	//
+	// Read-only and daemon-cached, the same shape as TickTrace and DayPlan:
+	// the store adapter returns an error, because the journal is a bounded
+	// in-memory ring and not a table. Its contents are a window over intake,
+	// never the durable record — that is still the fact, note or task the
+	// intake path wrote.
+	RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]IntakeEvent, error)
+
+	// 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)
+}
+
+// CoreAPI — what core exposes to modules. One Go interface, satisfied by:
+//   - the in-process store adapter (storeapi.go) — used by the daemon
+//     for modules that live in-process for now (router, delivery) and by tests,
+//   - the socket-backed server's dispatcher (which delegates to a CoreAPI),
+//   - the client proxy (client.go) — same interface, over the wire.
+//
+// So a module imports ipc, holds a CoreAPI, and is agnostic to whether it's
+// been wired in-process (tests / daemon-embedded) or socketed (full topology).
+// That swappability is the seam the auth layer inserts into without touching
+// the module code.
+type CoreAPI interface {
+	FactAPI
+	ReminderAPI
+	NudgeAPI
+	NoteAPI
+	ToolAPI
+	RoutineAPI
+	TaskAPI
+	SystemAPI
+}

internal/ipc/frame.go

@@ -36,6 +36,13 @@ const maxFrame = 4 << 20
 // (we read the length but not the body), so the caller must close it.
 var ErrFrameTooLarge = errors.New("ipc: frame too large")
 
+// The framing is hand-rolled and it stays that way (Vikunja #410): ninety
+// lines, readable on the wire with socat, and every standard replacement
+// brings schema machinery this boundary does not want. The condition is that
+// it is defended by tests rather than inherited untested — truncated header,
+// truncated body, partial reads, frame boundaries and a non-JSON body all
+// live in frame_test.go.
+//
 // writeFrame encodes v as JSON and frames it as a 4-byte big-endian length
 // prefix + body. length-prefixed JSON (not a tighter binary schema) is the
 // deferred-but-picked wire format: debuggable with `socat`/`nc`, trivial to

internal/ipc/frame_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+package ipc
+
+import (
+	"bytes"
+	"encoding/binary"
+	"errors"
+	"io"
+	"testing"
+)
+
+// The framing is hand-rolled, and it is the protocol all nine daemons depend
+// on, so a bug in it is a bug everywhere (Vikunja #410). The review asked
+// whether to replace it with something standard. It stays: length-prefixed
+// JSON over a unix socket is ninety lines, it is readable with socat, and the
+// alternatives (net/rpc, gRPC, a codec library) all buy schema machinery this
+// boundary does not want. What was wrong was inheriting it untested. These
+// are the paths a real socket produces that the round-trip test never does.
+
+// A short header is not EOF. EOF means the peer closed cleanly between
+// frames, which the server treats as a normal disconnect; a header that stops
+// halfway is a truncated frame and must be reported as an error, or a peer
+// that dies mid-write looks like one that hung up politely.
+func TestReadFrameTruncatedHeader(t *testing.T) {
+	var v any
+	err := readFrame(bytes.NewReader([]byte{0, 0, 4}), &v)
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a three-byte header must fail")
+	}
+	if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
+		t.Fatalf("err = %v, want a truncation error, not EOF", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A header promising more body than follows. Same reasoning: the frame never
+// arrived, so it must not decode into a zero value the caller then trusts.
+func TestReadFrameTruncatedBody(t *testing.T) {
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	var hdr [4]byte
+	binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(hdr[:], 32)
+	buf.Write(hdr[:])
+	buf.WriteString(`{"m":"pi`)
+
+	var got map[string]string
+	if err := readFrame(&buf, &got); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a body shorter than its prefix must fail")
+	}
+	if len(got) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("decoded %v from a truncated frame", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// Nothing at all is EOF, and only this is.
+func TestReadFrameEmptyIsEOF(t *testing.T) {
+	var v any
+	if err := readFrame(bytes.NewReader(nil), &v); !errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
+		t.Fatalf("err = %v, want io.EOF", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// byteAtATime returns one byte per Read, which is what a socket is allowed to
+// do and what a bytes.Reader never does. readFrame uses io.ReadFull for both
+// the header and the body; this is the test that would fail if either turned
+// into a bare Read.
+type byteAtATime struct {
+	b []byte
+	i int
+}
+
+func (r *byteAtATime) Read(p []byte) (int, error) {
+	if r.i >= len(r.b) {
+		return 0, io.EOF
+	}
+	if len(p) == 0 {
+		return 0, nil
+	}
+	p[0] = r.b[r.i]
+	r.i++
+	return 1, nil
+}
+
+func TestReadFrameReassemblesPartialReads(t *testing.T) {
+	type payload struct {
+		Msg string `json:"m"`
+		N   int    `json:"n"`
+	}
+	want := payload{Msg: "привет", N: 7}
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	if err := writeFrame(&buf, want); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("writeFrame: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	var got payload
+	if err := readFrame(&byteAtATime{b: buf.Bytes()}, &got); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("readFrame: %v", err)
+	}
+	if got != want {
+		t.Fatalf("got %+v, want %+v", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+// Two frames written back to back must come back as two frames. A reader that
+// consumed more than one frame's body would desynchronize the connection, and
+// the symptom would be a reply attributed to the wrong request.
+func TestReadFrameStopsAtTheFrameBoundary(t *testing.T) {
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	for _, m := range []string{"first", "second"} {
+		if err := writeFrame(&buf, map[string]string{"m": m}); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("writeFrame: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+	r := &byteAtATime{b: buf.Bytes()}
+	for _, want := range []string{"first", "second"} {
+		var got map[string]string
+		if err := readFrame(r, &got); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("readFrame(%s): %v", want, err)
+		}
+		if got["m"] != want {
+			t.Fatalf("got %q, want %q", got["m"], want)
+		}
+	}
+	var extra map[string]string
+	if err := readFrame(r, &extra); !errors.Is(err, io.EOF) {
+		t.Fatalf("after two frames: err = %v, want io.EOF", err)
+	}
+}
+
+// A body that is not JSON is an error, not a zero value. The peer is either
+// broken or not speaking this protocol; either way the caller must not read
+// on as though it decoded.
+func TestReadFrameRejectsNonJSONBody(t *testing.T) {
+	var buf bytes.Buffer
+	var hdr [4]byte
+	body := []byte("not json at all")
+	binary.BigEndian.PutUint32(hdr[:], uint32(len(body)))
+	buf.Write(hdr[:])
+	buf.Write(body)
+
+	var got map[string]string
+	if err := readFrame(&buf, &got); err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("a non-JSON body must fail")
+	}
+}

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(), "привет")
+	reply, err := cli.Chat(context.Background(), "web", "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/maperr_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+package ipc
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"go/ast"
+	"go/parser"
+	"go/token"
+	"io/fs"
+	"strings"
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
+)
+
+// mapErr turns a store sentinel into its wire twin so a module can errors.Is
+// without importing internal/store. The design is right and the failure mode is
+// quiet: add a sentinel to store, forget the switch, and the client gets an
+// untyped error that no caller can branch on. These two tests are the alarm.
+
+// mapErrPairs — every store sentinel that has a wire twin, and the twin.
+var mapErrPairs = []struct {
+	name  string // the store identifier, for the coverage test below
+	from  error
+	wants error
+}{
+	{"ErrNoFact", store.ErrNoFact, ErrNoFact},
+	{"ErrConfidence", store.ErrConfidence, ErrConfidence},
+	{"ErrVoidsMissing", store.ErrVoidsMissing, ErrVoidsMissing},
+	{"ErrNudgeNotFound", store.ErrNudgeNotFound, ErrNudgeNotFound},
+	{"ErrNudgeOutcome", store.ErrNudgeOutcome, ErrNudgeOutcome},
+	{"ErrReminderNotFound", store.ErrReminderNotFound, ErrReminderNotFound},
+	{"ErrReminderState", store.ErrReminderState, ErrReminderState},
+	{"ErrToolNotFound", store.ErrToolNotFound, ErrToolNotFound},
+}
+
+// unmappedStoreErrors — store sentinels that deliberately have no wire twin,
+// each with the reason it stays store-side. A new sentinel is in neither list
+// and fails TestMapErrCoversEveryStoreSentinel, which is the point: whether a
+// module can branch on an error is a decision, not a default.
+var unmappedStoreErrors = map[string]string{
+	"ErrKeyLen":  "unlock path — the key never crosses CoreAPI",
+	"ErrDecrypt": "unlock path — the key never crosses CoreAPI",
+
+	"ErrToolCmd": "write-side validation of an allowlist mutation; the caller is the owner at a step-up, not a module branching on the verdict",
+
+	"ErrProposedRoutineNotFound": "no module branches on a routine id that vanished; accept and dismiss are owner clicks",
+	"ErrProposedRoutineExists":   "the propose path already reports 'nothing new' through its bool return",
+	"ErrRoutineStatus":           "an unknown status is a caller bug, not a state a module recovers from",
+
+	"ErrTaskNotFound": "the task surfaces re-list rather than branch",
+	"ErrTaskEmpty":    "input validation — the surface refuses empty text before it gets here",
+	"ErrTaskStatus":   "an illegal status move is a caller bug; the surface offers only legal ones",
+}
+
+// The mapping itself, through a wrap, because every real caller wraps.
+func TestMapErrMapsEveryPair(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, p := range mapErrPairs {
+		got := mapErr(fmt.Errorf("storeapi: %w", p.from))
+		if got != p.wants {
+			t.Errorf("mapErr(store.%s) = %v, want %v", p.name, got, p.wants)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// Anything mapErr does not recognise passes through untouched. A module that
+// cannot branch on an error must still see the original text.
+func TestMapErrPassesUnknownThrough(t *testing.T) {
+	if mapErr(nil) != nil {
+		t.Error("mapErr(nil) must stay nil")
+	}
+	own := fmt.Errorf("socket closed")
+	if got := mapErr(own); got != own {
+		t.Errorf("mapErr(%v) = %v, want the same error back", own, got)
+	}
+}
+
+// The parity half: every exported sentinel in internal/store is either mapped
+// or listed with a reason. Read off the source, so a sentinel added in a file
+// this package never touches still trips it.
+func TestMapErrCoversEveryStoreSentinel(t *testing.T) {
+	mapped := map[string]bool{}
+	for _, p := range mapErrPairs {
+		mapped[p.name] = true
+	}
+
+	for _, name := range storeSentinelNames(t) {
+		if mapped[name] || unmappedStoreErrors[name] != "" {
+			continue
+		}
+		t.Errorf("store.%s is a new sentinel with no verdict: add it to mapErr and mapErrPairs, "+
+			"or to unmappedStoreErrors with the reason a module cannot branch on it", name)
+	}
+}
+
+// storeSentinelNames reads internal/store for exported package-level error
+// values: `var ErrX = errors.New(...)`, inside a block or on its own.
+func storeSentinelNames(t *testing.T) []string {
+	t.Helper()
+	fset := token.NewFileSet()
+	pkgs, err := parser.ParseDir(fset, "../store", func(fi fs.FileInfo) bool {
+		return !strings.HasSuffix(fi.Name(), "_test.go")
+	}, 0)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("parse internal/store: %v", err)
+	}
+	var out []string
+	for _, pkg := range pkgs {
+		for _, f := range pkg.Files {
+			for _, d := range f.Decls {
+				gd, ok := d.(*ast.GenDecl)
+				if !ok || gd.Tok != token.VAR {
+					continue
+				}
+				for _, spec := range gd.Specs {
+					vs, ok := spec.(*ast.ValueSpec)
+					if !ok {
+						continue
+					}
+					for i, n := range vs.Names {
+						if !strings.HasPrefix(n.Name, "Err") || !n.IsExported() {
+							continue
+						}
+						if i < len(vs.Values) && isErrorsNew(vs.Values[i]) {
+							out = append(out, n.Name)
+						}
+					}
+				}
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if len(out) < len(mapErrPairs) {
+		t.Fatalf("found %d sentinels in internal/store, fewer than the %d already mapped — the scan is broken, not the store", len(out), len(mapErrPairs))
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func isErrorsNew(e ast.Expr) bool {
+	call, ok := e.(*ast.CallExpr)
+	if !ok {
+		return false
+	}
+	sel, ok := call.Fun.(*ast.SelectorExpr)
+	if !ok || sel.Sel.Name != "New" {
+		return false
+	}
+	id, ok := sel.X.(*ast.Ident)
+	return ok && id.Name == "errors"
+}

internal/ipc/server.go

@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ package ipc
 
 import (
 	"context"
-	"database/sql"
 	"encoding/json"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"log"
 	"net"
@@ -13,430 +11,9 @@ import (
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/netaddr"
-	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
 	"golang.org/x/sys/unix"
 )
 
-// storeAPI — adapts *store.Store to CoreAPI. The daemon constructs one of
-// these inside the core process; the socket Server calls it through the
-// CoreAPI interface, so over-the-wire and in-process callers behave
-// identically. The translation here is the only place store sentinels cross
-// the wire: store.ErrNoFact becomes ipc.ErrNoFact, etc. — keeping the module
-// view of errors stable regardless of transport.
-type storeAPI struct {
-	s *store.Store
-}
-
-// NewStoreAPI wraps a *store.Store as a CoreAPI. The store is the sqlcipher-
-// unlocked handle held ONLY in core's address space; this adapter never
-// returns it to a caller — core mediates.
-func NewStoreAPI(s *store.Store) CoreAPI { return &storeAPI{s: s} }
-
-func (a *storeAPI) WriteFact(ctx context.Context, req WriteFactReq) (int64, error) {
-	var voids sql.NullInt64
-	if req.VoidsID != nil {
-		voids = sql.NullInt64{Int64: *req.VoidsID, Valid: true}
-	}
-	id, err := a.s.WriteFactAboutSubject(ctx, req.Ts, store.FactKind(req.Kind), req.Key, req.Subject, req.Value, req.Source, req.Confidence, voids)
-	return id, mapErr(err)
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) LatestFact(ctx context.Context, key string) (Fact, error) {
-	f, err := a.s.LatestFact(ctx, key)
-	if err != nil {
-		return Fact{}, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	return toFact(f), nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) LatestFactBySource(ctx context.Context, key, source string) (Fact, error) {
-	f, err := a.s.LatestFactBySource(ctx, key, source)
-	if err != nil {
-		return Fact{}, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	return toFact(f), nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) Since(ctx context.Context, key string, now time.Time) (time.Duration, error) {
-	d, err := a.s.Since(ctx, key, now)
-	return d, mapErr(err)
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) Presence(ctx context.Context) (Presence, error) {
-	b, score, upd, err := a.s.LoadPresenceState(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return Presence{}, fmt.Errorf("ipc: load presence: %w", err)
-	}
-	return Presence{Bucket: Bucket(b), Score: score, Updated: upd}, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) CreateReminder(ctx context.Context, fire time.Time, payload, cron string) (int64, error) {
-	id, err := a.s.CreateReminder(ctx, fire, payload, cron)
-	return id, mapErr(err)
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) MarkReminder(ctx context.Context, id int64, status string) error {
-	return mapErr(a.s.MarkReminder(ctx, id, status))
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) ListReminders(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Reminder, error) {
-	rs, err := a.s.ListReminders(ctx, n)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]Reminder, len(rs))
-	for i, r := range rs {
-		out[i] = toReminder(r)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) RescheduleReminder(ctx context.Context, id int64, now time.Time) error {
-	return mapErr(a.s.RescheduleReminder(ctx, id, now))
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) RecordNudge(ctx context.Context, rule, channel, message string, ts time.Time) (int64, error) {
-	id, err := a.s.RecordNudge(ctx, rule, channel, message, ts)
-	return id, mapErr(err)
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) ResolveNudge(ctx context.Context, id int64, outcome string, ts time.Time) error {
-	return mapErr(a.s.ResolveNudge(ctx, id, outcome, ts))
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) RecentOutcomes(ctx context.Context, rule string, n int) ([]string, error) {
-	out, err := a.s.RecentOutcomes(ctx, rule, n)
-	return out, mapErr(err)
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) RecentFacts(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Fact, error) {
-	fs, err := a.s.RecentFacts(ctx, n)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]Fact, len(fs))
-	for i, f := range fs {
-		out[i] = toFact(f)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) RecentActiveFactsByKind(ctx context.Context, kind string, n int) ([]Fact, error) {
-	fs, err := a.s.RecentActiveFactsByKind(ctx, store.FactKind(kind), n)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]Fact, len(fs))
-	for i, f := range fs {
-		out[i] = toFact(f)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) CalendarEvents(ctx context.Context, from, to time.Time) ([]Fact, error) {
-	fs, err := a.s.CalendarEvents(ctx, from, to)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]Fact, len(fs))
-	for i, f := range fs {
-		out[i] = toFact(f)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemTrace, error) {
-	trs, err := a.s.RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx, n)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]EcosystemTrace, len(trs))
-	for i, tr := range trs {
-		out[i] = EcosystemTrace{
-			ID: tr.ID, Ts: tr.Ts, Service: tr.Service, Operation: tr.Operation,
-			Status: tr.Status, DurationMs: tr.DurationMs, CorrelationID: tr.CorrelationID,
-			CausationID: tr.CausationID, HTTPStatus: tr.HTTPStatus, Fields: tr.Fields,
-		}
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Nudge, error) {
-	ns, err := a.s.RecentNudges(ctx, n)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]Nudge, len(ns))
-	for i, ng := range ns {
-		out[i] = toNudge(ng)
-	}
-	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)
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) QueryNotes(ctx context.Context, embedding []float32, k int) ([]Note, error) {
-	ns, err := a.s.QueryNotes(ctx, embedding, k)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]Note, len(ns))
-	for i, n := range ns {
-		out[i] = toNote(n)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) RecentNotesFromSource(ctx context.Context, prefix string, n int) ([]Note, error) {
-	ns, err := a.s.RecentNotesFromSource(ctx, prefix, n)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]Note, len(ns))
-	for i, note := range ns {
-		out[i] = toNote(note)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) RecentNotes(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Note, error) {
-	ns, err := a.s.RecentNotes(ctx, n)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]Note, len(ns))
-	for i, note := range ns {
-		out[i] = toNote(note)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) ProposeTool(ctx context.Context, name, utterance, scope string, ts time.Time) (bool, error) {
-	ok, err := a.s.ProposeTool(ctx, name, utterance, scope, ts)
-	return ok, mapErr(err)
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) EnableTool(ctx context.Context, name string, cmd []string, destructive bool, scope string, ts time.Time) error {
-	return mapErr(a.s.EnableTool(ctx, name, cmd, destructive, scope, ts))
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) DisableTool(ctx context.Context, name string) error {
-	return mapErr(a.s.DisableTool(ctx, name))
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) LookupTool(ctx context.Context, name string) (Tool, error) {
-	t, err := a.s.LookupTool(ctx, name)
-	if err != nil {
-		return Tool{}, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	return toTool(t), nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) RevertFact(ctx context.Context, key string) (int64, error) {
-	_, newID, err := a.s.VoidLatestFact(ctx, key, "feedback", time.Now())
-	return newID, mapErr(err)
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, text string) (string, error) {
-	return "", errors.New("store: chat not available via direct store API")
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (TickTrace, error) {
-	return TickTrace{}, errors.New("store: tick trace not available via direct store API")
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) MorningStatus(ctx context.Context) ([]MorningRoutineStatus, error) {
-	return nil, errors.New("store: morning status not available via direct store API")
-}
-
-// RecentEvents — same shape as TickTrace: the intake journal is a bounded ring
-// in the daemon's memory, not a table, so a bare store cannot serve it.
-func (a *storeAPI) RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]IntakeEvent, error) {
-	return nil, errors.New("store: intake events not available via direct store API")
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]MCPServerStatus, error) {
-	return nil, nil // no manager behind a bare store: nothing configured
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) DayPlan(ctx context.Context) (DayPlan, error) {
-	return DayPlan{}, errors.New("store: day plan not available via direct store API")
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) ListTools(ctx context.Context, status string) ([]Tool, error) {
-	ts, err := a.s.ListTools(ctx, status)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]Tool, len(ts))
-	for i, t := range ts {
-		out[i] = toTool(t)
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) DeleteTool(ctx context.Context, name string) error {
-	return mapErr(a.s.DeleteTool(ctx, name))
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) CaptureTask(ctx context.Context, req CaptureTaskReq) (CaptureTaskResp, error) {
-	res, err := a.s.CaptureTask(ctx, store.Task{
-		CreatedTs:  req.Ts,
-		Text:       req.Text,
-		Source:     req.Source,
-		Evidence:   req.Evidence,
-		ExternalID: req.ExternalID,
-		Status:     req.Status,
-		Due:        req.Due,
-		Weight:     req.Weight,
-	})
-	if err != nil {
-		return CaptureTaskResp{}, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	return CaptureTaskResp{ID: res.ID, Created: res.Created, Promoted: res.Promoted}, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) ListTasks(ctx context.Context, status string) ([]Task, error) {
-	ts, err := a.s.ListTasks(ctx, status)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]Task, len(ts))
-	for i, t := range ts {
-		out[i] = Task{
-			ID:         t.ID,
-			CreatedTs:  t.CreatedTs,
-			Text:       t.Text,
-			Source:     t.Source,
-			Evidence:   t.Evidence,
-			ExternalID: t.ExternalID,
-			Status:     t.Status,
-			Due:        t.Due,
-			Weight:     t.Weight,
-			Resolved:   t.ResolvedTs,
-			ResolvedBy: t.ResolvedBy,
-		}
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) SetTaskStatus(ctx context.Context, id int64, status string, ts time.Time, by string) error {
-	return mapErr(a.s.SetTaskStatus(ctx, id, status, ts, by))
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) ListProposedRoutines(ctx context.Context) ([]ProposedRoutine, error) {
-	rs, err := a.s.ListProposedRoutines(ctx)
-	if err != nil {
-		return nil, mapErr(err)
-	}
-	out := make([]ProposedRoutine, len(rs))
-	for i, r := range rs {
-		out[i] = ProposedRoutine{
-			ID:           r.ID,
-			Action:       r.Action,
-			Object:       r.Object,
-			IntervalDays: r.IntervalDays,
-			Status:       r.Status,
-			CreatedTs:    r.CreatedTs.UnixMilli(),
-		}
-		if r.ReminderID != nil {
-			out[i].ReminderID = r.ReminderID
-		}
-	}
-	return out, nil
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) DismissProposedRoutine(ctx context.Context, id int64) error {
-	return mapErr(a.s.DismissProposedRoutine(ctx, id))
-}
-
-func (a *storeAPI) AcceptProposedRoutine(ctx context.Context, id int64) error {
-	return mapErr(a.s.AcceptProposedRoutine(ctx, id, time.Now().UTC()))
-}
-
-func toTool(t store.Tool) Tool {
-	return Tool{
-		Name: t.Name, Scope: t.Scope, Cmd: t.Cmd, Destructive: t.Destructive,
-		Status: t.Status, Utterance: t.Utterance, Created: t.CreatedTs, Updated: t.UpdatedTs,
-	}
-}
-
-func toReminder(r store.Reminder) Reminder {
-	return Reminder{
-		ID:         r.ID,
-		CreatedTs:  r.CreatedTs,
-		FireTs:     r.FireTs,
-		NextFireTs: r.NextFireTs,
-		Payload:    r.Payload,
-		Status:     r.Status,
-		Cron:       r.Cron,
-	}
-}
-
-func toNote(n store.Note) Note {
-	return Note{ID: n.ID, Ts: n.Ts, Text: n.Text, Source: n.Source, Score: n.Score}
-}
-
-func toNudge(n store.Nudge) Nudge {
-	out := Nudge{
-		ID: n.ID, Ts: n.Ts, Rule: n.Rule, Channel: n.Channel,
-		Message: n.Message, Outcome: n.Outcome,
-	}
-	if n.OutcomeTs.Valid {
-		v := n.OutcomeTs.Int64
-		out.OutcomeTs = &v
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-func toFact(f store.Fact) Fact {
-	out := Fact{
-		ID:         f.ID,
-		Ts:         f.Ts,
-		Kind:       string(f.Kind),
-		Key:        f.Key,
-		Value:      f.Value,
-		Source:     f.Source,
-		Confidence: f.Confidence,
-	}
-	if f.VoidsID.Valid {
-		v := f.VoidsID.Int64
-		out.VoidsID = &v
-	}
-	return out
-}
-
-// mapErr — store sentinel ↔ ipc sentinel. An unrecognized store error is
-// wrapped but not mapped (server-side dispatch surfaces it as codeInternal,
-// keeping internal text off the wire except to the daemon log).
-func mapErr(err error) error {
-	if err == nil {
-		return nil
-	}
-	switch {
-	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrNoFact):
-		return ErrNoFact
-	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrConfidence):
-		return ErrConfidence
-	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrVoidsMissing):
-		return ErrVoidsMissing
-	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrNudgeNotFound):
-		return ErrNudgeNotFound
-	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrNudgeOutcome):
-		return ErrNudgeOutcome
-	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrReminderNotFound):
-		return ErrReminderNotFound
-	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrReminderState):
-		return ErrReminderState
-	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrToolNotFound):
-		return ErrToolNotFound
-	}
-	return err
-}
-
 // Server — the core side of the boundary. Listens on a unix domain socket,
 // accepts module connections, frames requests to a CoreAPI and responses back.
 // One Server per daemon process; concurrent connections are handled in their
@@ -863,6 +440,16 @@ 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 {
@@ -974,7 +561,7 @@ 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.Text)
+		reply, err := api.Chat(ctx, p.Conversation, p.Text)
 		return chatResp{Reply: reply}, err
 	}),
 	MethodTickTrace: withoutParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI) (TickTrace, error) {

internal/ipc/storeapi.go

@@ -0,0 +1,455 @@
+// ipc/storeapi.go — the sqlite-backed CoreAPI.
+//
+// Split out of server.go, move-only (Vikunja #423). server.go was two
+// unrelated things: this adapter, and the dispatcher that calls it over the
+// socket. Nothing here knows there is a wire.
+package ipc
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"database/sql"
+	"errors"
+	"fmt"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
+)
+
+// storeAPI — adapts *store.Store to CoreAPI. The daemon constructs one of
+// these inside the core process; the socket Server calls it through the
+// CoreAPI interface, so over-the-wire and in-process callers behave
+// identically. The translation here is the only place store sentinels cross
+// the wire: store.ErrNoFact becomes ipc.ErrNoFact, etc. — keeping the module
+// view of errors stable regardless of transport.
+type storeAPI struct {
+	s *store.Store
+}
+
+// NewStoreAPI wraps a *store.Store as a CoreAPI. The store is the sqlcipher-
+// unlocked handle held ONLY in core's address space; this adapter never
+// returns it to a caller — core mediates.
+func NewStoreAPI(s *store.Store) CoreAPI { return &storeAPI{s: s} }
+
+func (a *storeAPI) WriteFact(ctx context.Context, req WriteFactReq) (int64, error) {
+	var voids sql.NullInt64
+	if req.VoidsID != nil {
+		voids = sql.NullInt64{Int64: *req.VoidsID, Valid: true}
+	}
+	id, err := a.s.WriteFactAboutSubject(ctx, req.Ts, store.FactKind(req.Kind), req.Key, req.Subject, req.Value, req.Source, req.Confidence, voids)
+	return id, mapErr(err)
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) LatestFact(ctx context.Context, key string) (Fact, error) {
+	f, err := a.s.LatestFact(ctx, key)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Fact{}, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	return toFact(f), nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) LatestFactBySource(ctx context.Context, key, source string) (Fact, error) {
+	f, err := a.s.LatestFactBySource(ctx, key, source)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Fact{}, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	return toFact(f), nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) Since(ctx context.Context, key string, now time.Time) (time.Duration, error) {
+	d, err := a.s.Since(ctx, key, now)
+	return d, mapErr(err)
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) Presence(ctx context.Context) (Presence, error) {
+	b, score, upd, err := a.s.LoadPresenceState(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Presence{}, fmt.Errorf("ipc: load presence: %w", err)
+	}
+	return Presence{Bucket: Bucket(b), Score: score, Updated: upd}, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) CreateReminder(ctx context.Context, fire time.Time, payload, cron string) (int64, error) {
+	id, err := a.s.CreateReminder(ctx, fire, payload, cron)
+	return id, mapErr(err)
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) MarkReminder(ctx context.Context, id int64, status string) error {
+	return mapErr(a.s.MarkReminder(ctx, id, status))
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) ListReminders(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Reminder, error) {
+	rs, err := a.s.ListReminders(ctx, n)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]Reminder, len(rs))
+	for i, r := range rs {
+		out[i] = toReminder(r)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) RescheduleReminder(ctx context.Context, id int64, now time.Time) error {
+	return mapErr(a.s.RescheduleReminder(ctx, id, now))
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) RecordNudge(ctx context.Context, rule, channel, message string, ts time.Time) (int64, error) {
+	id, err := a.s.RecordNudge(ctx, rule, channel, message, ts)
+	return id, mapErr(err)
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) ResolveNudge(ctx context.Context, id int64, outcome string, ts time.Time) error {
+	return mapErr(a.s.ResolveNudge(ctx, id, outcome, ts))
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) RecentOutcomes(ctx context.Context, rule string, n int) ([]string, error) {
+	out, err := a.s.RecentOutcomes(ctx, rule, n)
+	return out, mapErr(err)
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) RecentFacts(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Fact, error) {
+	fs, err := a.s.RecentFacts(ctx, n)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]Fact, len(fs))
+	for i, f := range fs {
+		out[i] = toFact(f)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) RecentActiveFactsByKind(ctx context.Context, kind string, n int) ([]Fact, error) {
+	fs, err := a.s.RecentActiveFactsByKind(ctx, store.FactKind(kind), n)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]Fact, len(fs))
+	for i, f := range fs {
+		out[i] = toFact(f)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) CalendarEvents(ctx context.Context, from, to time.Time) ([]Fact, error) {
+	fs, err := a.s.CalendarEvents(ctx, from, to)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]Fact, len(fs))
+	for i, f := range fs {
+		out[i] = toFact(f)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemTrace, error) {
+	trs, err := a.s.RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx, n)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]EcosystemTrace, len(trs))
+	for i, tr := range trs {
+		out[i] = EcosystemTrace{
+			ID: tr.ID, Ts: tr.Ts, Service: tr.Service, Operation: tr.Operation,
+			Status: tr.Status, DurationMs: tr.DurationMs, CorrelationID: tr.CorrelationID,
+			CausationID: tr.CausationID, HTTPStatus: tr.HTTPStatus, Fields: tr.Fields,
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) RecentNudges(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Nudge, error) {
+	ns, err := a.s.RecentNudges(ctx, n)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]Nudge, len(ns))
+	for i, ng := range ns {
+		out[i] = toNudge(ng)
+	}
+	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)
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) QueryNotes(ctx context.Context, embedding []float32, k int) ([]Note, error) {
+	ns, err := a.s.QueryNotes(ctx, embedding, k)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]Note, len(ns))
+	for i, n := range ns {
+		out[i] = toNote(n)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) RecentNotesFromSource(ctx context.Context, prefix string, n int) ([]Note, error) {
+	ns, err := a.s.RecentNotesFromSource(ctx, prefix, n)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]Note, len(ns))
+	for i, note := range ns {
+		out[i] = toNote(note)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) RecentNotes(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]Note, error) {
+	ns, err := a.s.RecentNotes(ctx, n)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]Note, len(ns))
+	for i, note := range ns {
+		out[i] = toNote(note)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) ProposeTool(ctx context.Context, name, utterance, scope string, ts time.Time) (bool, error) {
+	ok, err := a.s.ProposeTool(ctx, name, utterance, scope, ts)
+	return ok, mapErr(err)
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) EnableTool(ctx context.Context, name string, cmd []string, destructive bool, scope string, ts time.Time) error {
+	return mapErr(a.s.EnableTool(ctx, name, cmd, destructive, scope, ts))
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) DisableTool(ctx context.Context, name string) error {
+	return mapErr(a.s.DisableTool(ctx, name))
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) LookupTool(ctx context.Context, name string) (Tool, error) {
+	t, err := a.s.LookupTool(ctx, name)
+	if err != nil {
+		return Tool{}, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	return toTool(t), nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) RevertFact(ctx context.Context, key string) (int64, error) {
+	_, newID, err := a.s.VoidLatestFact(ctx, key, "feedback", time.Now())
+	return newID, mapErr(err)
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) (string, error) {
+	return "", errors.New("store: chat not available via direct store API")
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (TickTrace, error) {
+	return TickTrace{}, errors.New("store: tick trace not available via direct store API")
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) MorningStatus(ctx context.Context) ([]MorningRoutineStatus, error) {
+	return nil, errors.New("store: morning status not available via direct store API")
+}
+
+// RecentEvents — same shape as TickTrace: the intake journal is a bounded ring
+// in the daemon's memory, not a table, so a bare store cannot serve it.
+func (a *storeAPI) RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]IntakeEvent, error) {
+	return nil, errors.New("store: intake events not available via direct store API")
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]MCPServerStatus, error) {
+	return nil, nil // no manager behind a bare store: nothing configured
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) DayPlan(ctx context.Context) (DayPlan, error) {
+	return DayPlan{}, errors.New("store: day plan not available via direct store API")
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) ListTools(ctx context.Context, status string) ([]Tool, error) {
+	ts, err := a.s.ListTools(ctx, status)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]Tool, len(ts))
+	for i, t := range ts {
+		out[i] = toTool(t)
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) DeleteTool(ctx context.Context, name string) error {
+	return mapErr(a.s.DeleteTool(ctx, name))
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) CaptureTask(ctx context.Context, req CaptureTaskReq) (CaptureTaskResp, error) {
+	res, err := a.s.CaptureTask(ctx, store.Task{
+		CreatedTs:  req.Ts,
+		Text:       req.Text,
+		Source:     req.Source,
+		Evidence:   req.Evidence,
+		ExternalID: req.ExternalID,
+		Status:     req.Status,
+		Due:        req.Due,
+		Weight:     req.Weight,
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		return CaptureTaskResp{}, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	return CaptureTaskResp{ID: res.ID, Created: res.Created, Promoted: res.Promoted}, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) ListTasks(ctx context.Context, status string) ([]Task, error) {
+	ts, err := a.s.ListTasks(ctx, status)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]Task, len(ts))
+	for i, t := range ts {
+		out[i] = Task{
+			ID:         t.ID,
+			CreatedTs:  t.CreatedTs,
+			Text:       t.Text,
+			Source:     t.Source,
+			Evidence:   t.Evidence,
+			ExternalID: t.ExternalID,
+			Status:     t.Status,
+			Due:        t.Due,
+			Weight:     t.Weight,
+			Resolved:   t.ResolvedTs,
+			ResolvedBy: t.ResolvedBy,
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) SetTaskStatus(ctx context.Context, id int64, status string, ts time.Time, by string) error {
+	return mapErr(a.s.SetTaskStatus(ctx, id, status, ts, by))
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) ListProposedRoutines(ctx context.Context) ([]ProposedRoutine, error) {
+	rs, err := a.s.ListProposedRoutines(ctx)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, mapErr(err)
+	}
+	out := make([]ProposedRoutine, len(rs))
+	for i, r := range rs {
+		out[i] = ProposedRoutine{
+			ID:           r.ID,
+			Action:       r.Action,
+			Object:       r.Object,
+			IntervalDays: r.IntervalDays,
+			Status:       string(r.Status),
+			CreatedTs:    r.CreatedTs.UnixMilli(),
+		}
+		if r.ReminderID != nil {
+			out[i].ReminderID = r.ReminderID
+		}
+	}
+	return out, nil
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) DismissProposedRoutine(ctx context.Context, id int64) error {
+	return mapErr(a.s.DismissProposedRoutine(ctx, id))
+}
+
+func (a *storeAPI) AcceptProposedRoutine(ctx context.Context, id int64) error {
+	return mapErr(a.s.AcceptProposedRoutine(ctx, id, time.Now().UTC()))
+}
+
+func toTool(t store.Tool) Tool {
+	return Tool{
+		Name: t.Name, Scope: t.Scope, Cmd: t.Cmd, Destructive: t.Destructive,
+		Status: t.Status, Utterance: t.Utterance, Created: t.CreatedTs, Updated: t.UpdatedTs,
+	}
+}
+
+func toReminder(r store.Reminder) Reminder {
+	return Reminder{
+		ID:         r.ID,
+		CreatedTs:  r.CreatedTs,
+		FireTs:     r.FireTs,
+		NextFireTs: r.NextFireTs,
+		Payload:    r.Payload,
+		Status:     r.Status,
+		Cron:       r.Cron,
+	}
+}
+
+func toNote(n store.Note) Note {
+	return Note{ID: n.ID, Ts: n.Ts, Text: n.Text, Source: n.Source, Score: n.Score}
+}
+
+func toNudge(n store.Nudge) Nudge {
+	out := Nudge{
+		ID: n.ID, Ts: n.Ts, Rule: n.Rule, Channel: n.Channel,
+		Message: n.Message, Outcome: n.Outcome,
+	}
+	if n.OutcomeTs.Valid {
+		v := n.OutcomeTs.Int64
+		out.OutcomeTs = &v
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+func toFact(f store.Fact) Fact {
+	out := Fact{
+		ID:         f.ID,
+		Ts:         f.Ts,
+		Kind:       string(f.Kind),
+		Key:        f.Key,
+		Value:      f.Value,
+		Source:     f.Source,
+		Confidence: f.Confidence,
+	}
+	if f.VoidsID.Valid {
+		v := f.VoidsID.Int64
+		out.VoidsID = &v
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// mapErr — store sentinel ↔ ipc sentinel. An unrecognized store error is
+// wrapped but not mapped (server-side dispatch surfaces it as codeInternal,
+// keeping internal text off the wire except to the daemon log).
+func mapErr(err error) error {
+	if err == nil {
+		return nil
+	}
+	switch {
+	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrNoFact):
+		return ErrNoFact
+	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrConfidence):
+		return ErrConfidence
+	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrVoidsMissing):
+		return ErrVoidsMissing
+	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrNudgeNotFound):
+		return ErrNudgeNotFound
+	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrNudgeOutcome):
+		return ErrNudgeOutcome
+	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrReminderNotFound):
+		return ErrReminderNotFound
+	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrReminderState):
+		return ErrReminderState
+	case errors.Is(err, store.ErrToolNotFound):
+		return ErrToolNotFound
+	}
+	return err
+}

internal/ipc/unimplemented.go

@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@ 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
 }
@@ -141,6 +144,6 @@ func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) MCPServers(ctx context.Context) ([]MCPServerStatus,
 func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) DayPlan(ctx context.Context) (DayPlan, error) {
 	return DayPlan{}, ErrNotImplemented
 }
-func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, text string) (string, error) {
+func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) Chat(ctx context.Context, conversation, text string) (string, error) {
 	return "", ErrNotImplemented
 }

internal/ipc/wire.go

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ 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/llm/client.go

@@ -129,6 +129,11 @@ type Req struct {
 	RepeatPenalty float64
 	// Stop — sequences that end generation early (e.g. newline for a one-liner).
 	Stop []string
+	// Temperature — 0 (the zero value) is greedy decoding, and greedy is what
+	// every caller here wanted before this field existed. It is set only by the
+	// phraser, whose own transport has always sampled at 0.7: routing a phrasing
+	// call through this client must not quietly change how it decodes.
+	Temperature float64
 }
 
 type msg struct {
@@ -176,7 +181,7 @@ func (c *Client) Complete(ctx context.Context, r Req) (string, error) {
 		Messages:      []msg{{Role: "system", Content: r.System}, {Role: "user", Content: r.User}},
 		MaxTokens:     r.MaxTokens,
 		Grammar:       r.Grammar,
-		Temp:          0,
+		Temp:          r.Temperature,
 		RepeatPenalty: r.RepeatPenalty,
 		Stop:          r.Stop,
 	})

internal/llm/remote.go

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

internal/llm/remote_test.go

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

internal/loop/explain_test.go

@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ func TestExplainGate_PresenceAway(t *testing.T) {
 func TestExplainGate_PresenceAwayOpsBypass(t *testing.T) {
 	now := refTime()
 	s := State{Now: now, Presence: store.Away,
-		Facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down": factAt("service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, now.Add(-1*time.Minute))},
+		Facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down:db": factAt("service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, now.Add(-1*time.Minute))},
 	}
 	r := ServiceDownRule() // Sev4 ops
 	passed, blocked, d := ExplainGate(s, r)
@@ -259,8 +259,8 @@ func TestExplainTick_WinnerRecorded(t *testing.T) {
 		Now:      now,
 		Presence: store.Present,
 		Facts: map[string]store.Fact{
-			"water":        factAt("water", "tap:water", `"250ml"`, now.Add(-4*time.Hour)),
-			"service_down": factAt("service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, now.Add(-1*time.Minute)),
+			"water":           factAt("water", "tap:water", `"250ml"`, now.Add(-4*time.Hour)),
+			"service_down:db": factAt("service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, now.Add(-1*time.Minute)),
 		},
 	}
 	cand, trace := ExplainTick(s, DefaultRules())

internal/loop/gate_test.go

@@ -198,12 +198,12 @@ func TestTickNeverDogpilesAndPicksLoudest(t *testing.T) {
 		Now:      now,
 		Presence: store.Present,
 		Facts: map[string]store.Fact{
-			"water":         ago("water", "tap:water", `"250ml"`, 5*time.Hour),
-			"meal":          ago("meal", "voice", `"lunch"`, 8*time.Hour),
-			"desk_active":   ago("desk_active", "infer:hyprland", "1", 30*time.Second),
-			"break":         ago("break", "voice", `"walk"`, 3*time.Hour),
-			"service_down":  ago("service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, time.Minute),
-			"netdata_alarm": ago("netdata_alarm", "poll:netdata", `"critical"`, time.Minute),
+			"water":           ago("water", "tap:water", `"250ml"`, 5*time.Hour),
+			"meal":            ago("meal", "voice", `"lunch"`, 8*time.Hour),
+			"desk_active":     ago("desk_active", "infer:hyprland", "1", 30*time.Second),
+			"break":           ago("break", "voice", `"walk"`, 3*time.Hour),
+			"service_down:db": ago("service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, time.Minute),
+			"netdata_alarm":   ago("netdata_alarm", "poll:netdata", `"critical"`, time.Minute),
 		},
 	}
 	// sanity: every rule really does want to fire, so the pick is a real choice.

internal/loop/gather.go

@@ -91,6 +91,20 @@ func (g *Gatherer) GatherState(ctx context.Context, now time.Time) (State, []sto
 		return State{}, nil, err
 	}
 
+	// prefix families — the keys a rule cannot name at wiring time (one fact
+	// per kuma monitor). Loaded into the same map; State.FactsUnder reads them.
+	for _, r := range g.rules {
+		for _, p := range r.WantPrefixes {
+			fam, err := g.store.LatestFactsByPrefix(ctx, p)
+			if err != nil {
+				return State{}, nil, err
+			}
+			for _, f := range fam {
+				facts[f.Key] = f
+			}
+		}
+	}
+
 	// last nudge per rule + cooldown-until derived from the active cooldown.
 	// "active" = the feedback tuner's persisted base if one exists, else the
 	// rule's static Base. LatestFactBySource is the trust-by-provenance read

internal/loop/gather_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+package loop
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"path/filepath"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
+)
+
+// The gatherer is the only impure piece, and a rule over a prefix has no keys
+// to declare at wiring time. This is the end of that path: mavpoll's per-monitor
+// facts reach the snapshot, and the rule fires on the one that is down.
+func TestGatherStateLoadsPrefixFamilies(t *testing.T) {
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	s, err := store.Open(ctx, filepath.Join(t.TempDir(), "loop_test.db"))
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Open: %v", err)
+	}
+	t.Cleanup(func() { _ = s.Close() })
+
+	now := time.Now().UTC().Truncate(time.Millisecond)
+	for key, val := range map[string]string{
+		"service_down:db":  "down",
+		"service_down:web": "up",
+	} {
+		if _, err := s.SetValue(ctx, store.KindEnv, key, ServiceDownSource, val, now.Add(-time.Minute)); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("SetValue %s: %v", key, err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	rules := []Rule{ServiceDownRule()}
+	st, _, err := NewGatherer(s, rules).GatherState(ctx, now)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("GatherState: %v", err)
+	}
+	if _, ok := st.Facts["service_down:db"]; !ok {
+		t.Fatalf("prefix family not gathered: %v", st.Facts)
+	}
+	if got := DownServices(st); len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "db" {
+		t.Fatalf("DownServices = %v, want [db]", got)
+	}
+	if !rules[0].Predicate(st) {
+		t.Fatal("the rule must fire on a gathered per-monitor fact")
+	}
+}

internal/loop/loop_test.go

@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ func TestTickOpsHardSurvivesAwayAndQuiet(t *testing.T) {
 		Presence:   store.Away,
 		QuietHours: true,
 		Facts: map[string]store.Fact{
-			"service_down": factAt("service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, now.Add(-1*time.Minute)),
+			"service_down:db": factAt("service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, now.Add(-1*time.Minute)),
 		},
 	}
 	got := Tick(s, DefaultRules())
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ func TestTickServiceSourceTrustRefusesForgedTrigger(t *testing.T) {
 		Now:      now,
 		Presence: store.Present,
 		Facts: map[string]store.Fact{
-			"service_down": factAt("service_down", "ambient", `"down"`, now.Add(-1*time.Minute)),
+			"service_down:db": factAt("service_down:db", "ambient", `"down"`, now.Add(-1*time.Minute)),
 		},
 	}
 	if got := Tick(s, DefaultRules()); got != nil {
@@ -115,8 +115,8 @@ func TestTickOneNudgePerTickMaxSeverityWins(t *testing.T) {
 		Now:      now,
 		Presence: store.Present,
 		Facts: map[string]store.Fact{
-			"water":        factAt("water", "tap:water", `"250ml"`, now.Add(-4*time.Hour)),
-			"service_down": factAt("service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, now.Add(-1*time.Minute)),
+			"water":           factAt("water", "tap:water", `"250ml"`, now.Add(-4*time.Hour)),
+			"service_down:db": factAt("service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, now.Add(-1*time.Minute)),
 		},
 	}
 	got := Tick(s, DefaultRules())

internal/loop/rules.go

@@ -28,6 +28,13 @@ type Rule struct {
 	// that check itself, leave this empty. Otherwise set to the key(s) the rule
 	// needs and the gate will skip the rule when any are missing.
 	InertWhenNoData []string
+
+	// WantPrefixes — key prefixes whose whole family the gatherer must load.
+	// InertWhenNoData names keys that exist at wiring time; a rule over a key
+	// set that is only known at read time (one fact per kuma monitor) declares
+	// the prefix here instead. Prefixes never make a rule inert: an empty
+	// family is the predicate's own "no data" case.
+	WantPrefixes []string
 }
 
 // Cooldown — tunable bounded by the envelope so a weird week (auto-tuned) can't
@@ -98,23 +105,58 @@ func BreakRule() Rule {
 	}
 }
 
-// ServiceDownRule — sev4 ops hard: the `service_down` aggregate fact reads
-// "down". Source must be poll:uptimekuma — kuma is the source of truth for
-// service up/down (mavpoll writes this key). The predicate is provenance-scoped:
-// a compromised poller writing under a different source can't forge the trigger.
+// ServiceDownPrefix — mavpoll writes one fact per kuma monitor under this
+// prefix, `service_down:<monitor name>`. The suffix is the name he hears.
+const ServiceDownPrefix = "service_down:"
+
+// ServiceDownSource — kuma is the source of truth for service up/down. The
+// rule is provenance-scoped: a poller writing under a different source cannot
+// forge the trigger.
+const ServiceDownSource = "poll:uptimekuma"
+
+// DownServices — the monitors currently reading "down", by name, in key order.
+//
+// Pure, and the rule and the phraser both call it, so the message can never
+// name a service the predicate did not fire on.
+func DownServices(s State) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, f := range s.FactsUnder(ServiceDownPrefix) {
+		if f.Source == ServiceDownSource && f.Value == `"down"` {
+			out = append(out, strings.TrimPrefix(f.Key, ServiceDownPrefix))
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// ServiceDownRule — sev4 ops hard: at least one kuma monitor reads "down".
+//
+// It used to read one aggregate `service_down` fact, which is why it was
+// disabled in deploy: the nudge could say that something on homesrv was down
+// but never which thing. Per-monitor facts fix that, and pausing a monitor in
+// kuma now silences that monitor rather than nothing.
+//
+// Edge-triggered — see State.NudgedSince. Without it a service that stays down
+// for a day qualifies on every tick and cooldown alone is the only brake.
 func ServiceDownRule() Rule {
 	return Rule{
-		Name:            "service_down",
-		Severity:        Sev4,
-		Cooldown:        Cooldown{Base: 15 * time.Minute, Min: 5 * time.Minute, Max: 1 * time.Hour},
-		InertWhenNoData: []string{"service_down"},
+		Name:         "service_down",
+		Severity:     Sev4,
+		Cooldown:     Cooldown{Base: 15 * time.Minute, Min: 5 * time.Minute, Max: 1 * time.Hour},
+		WantPrefixes: []string{ServiceDownPrefix},
 		Predicate: func(s State) bool {
-			f, ok := s.Fact("service_down")
-			if !ok || f.Ts.IsZero() {
-				return false
+			var newest time.Time
+			for _, f := range s.FactsUnder(ServiceDownPrefix) {
+				if f.Source != ServiceDownSource || f.Value != `"down"` {
+					continue
+				}
+				if f.Ts.After(newest) {
+					newest = f.Ts
+				}
 			}
-			// value is json `"down"`; trivial check keyed off source provenance.
-			return f.Source == "poll:uptimekuma" && f.Value == `"down"`
+			if newest.IsZero() {
+				return false // nothing down, or no data at all → shut up
+			}
+			return !s.NudgedSince("service_down", newest)
 		},
 	}
 }

internal/loop/rules_test.go

@@ -193,13 +193,13 @@ func TestOpsRulePredicates(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			name:  "service_down fires on a kuma down fact",
 			rule:  ServiceDownRule(),
-			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down": ago("service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, time.Minute)},
+			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down:db": ago("service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, time.Minute)},
 			want:  true,
 		},
 		{
 			name:  "service_down quiet when kuma says up",
 			rule:  ServiceDownRule(),
-			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down": ago("service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", `"up"`, time.Minute)},
+			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down:db": ago("service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma", `"up"`, time.Minute)},
 			want:  false,
 		},
 		{
@@ -211,38 +211,38 @@ func TestOpsRulePredicates(t *testing.T) {
 		{
 			name:  "service_down quiet on a zero-timestamp fact",
 			rule:  ServiceDownRule(),
-			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down": {Key: "service_down", Source: "poll:uptimekuma", Value: `"down"`}},
+			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down:db": {Key: "service_down:db", Source: "poll:uptimekuma", Value: `"down"`}},
 			want:  false,
 		},
 		// forgery attempts — right value, wrong writer.
 		{
 			name:  "service_down refuses a forgery from the netdata poller",
 			rule:  ServiceDownRule(),
-			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down": ago("service_down", "poll:netdata", `"down"`, time.Minute)},
+			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down:db": ago("service_down:db", "poll:netdata", `"down"`, time.Minute)},
 			want:  false,
 		},
 		{
 			name:  "service_down refuses a forgery from ambient audio",
 			rule:  ServiceDownRule(),
-			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down": ago("service_down", "ambient:other", `"down"`, time.Minute)},
+			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down:db": ago("service_down:db", "ambient:other", `"down"`, time.Minute)},
 			want:  false,
 		},
 		{
 			name:  "service_down refuses a forgery from the user's own voice",
 			rule:  ServiceDownRule(),
-			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down": ago("service_down", "voice", `"down"`, time.Minute)},
+			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down:db": ago("service_down:db", "voice", `"down"`, time.Minute)},
 			want:  false,
 		},
 		{
 			name:  "service_down refuses a source that only looks like kuma",
 			rule:  ServiceDownRule(),
-			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down": ago("service_down", "poll:uptimekuma-staging", `"down"`, time.Minute)},
+			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down:db": ago("service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma-staging", `"down"`, time.Minute)},
 			want:  false,
 		},
 		{
 			name:  "service_down refuses an unquoted down value",
 			rule:  ServiceDownRule(),
-			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down": ago("service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", `down`, time.Minute)},
+			facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down:db": ago("service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma", `down`, time.Minute)},
 			want:  false,
 		},
 
@@ -312,9 +312,11 @@ func TestOpsRulePredicates(t *testing.T) {
 // a second no-data backstop, so a rule that forgets it loses the safety net
 // even if its predicate happens to check.
 func TestDefaultRulesDeclareInertKeys(t *testing.T) {
+	// A rule over a key set that only exists at read time declares a prefix
+	// instead — the gatherer still needs to be told what to load.
 	for _, r := range DefaultRules() {
-		if len(r.InertWhenNoData) == 0 {
-			t.Errorf("rule %q declares no InertWhenNoData keys", r.Name)
+		if len(r.InertWhenNoData) == 0 && len(r.WantPrefixes) == 0 {
+			t.Errorf("rule %q declares neither InertWhenNoData keys nor WantPrefixes", r.Name)
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -377,11 +379,11 @@ func TestDefaultRuleCooldownsAreBounded(t *testing.T) {
 // hidden state, no clock reads.
 func TestPredicatesArePure(t *testing.T) {
 	s := stateWith(map[string]store.Fact{
-		"water":        ago("water", "tap:water", `"250ml"`, 4*time.Hour),
-		"meal":         ago("meal", "voice", `"lunch"`, 7*time.Hour),
-		"desk_active":  ago("desk_active", "infer:hyprland", "1", 30*time.Second),
-		"break":        ago("break", "voice", `"walk"`, 2*time.Hour),
-		"service_down": ago("service_down", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, time.Minute),
+		"water":           ago("water", "tap:water", `"250ml"`, 4*time.Hour),
+		"meal":            ago("meal", "voice", `"lunch"`, 7*time.Hour),
+		"desk_active":     ago("desk_active", "infer:hyprland", "1", 30*time.Second),
+		"break":           ago("break", "voice", `"walk"`, 2*time.Hour),
+		"service_down:db": ago("service_down:db", "poll:uptimekuma", `"down"`, time.Minute),
 	})
 	for _, r := range DefaultRules() {
 		first := r.Predicate(s)
@@ -434,3 +436,66 @@ func TestRulesExceptEmptyKeepsEverything(t *testing.T) {
 		t.Errorf("rules = %v, dropped = %v", ruleNames(rules), dropped)
 	}
 }
+
+// ---------------------------- per-monitor service_down -----------------------
+
+// The rule must name what fired on it, and the phraser reads the same helper,
+// so a service that is up can never be spoken as down.
+func TestDownServicesNamesOnlyTheDownOnes(t *testing.T) {
+	s := State{
+		Now: refTime(),
+		Facts: map[string]store.Fact{
+			"service_down:web":     ago("service_down:web", ServiceDownSource, `"up"`, time.Minute),
+			"service_down:db":      ago("service_down:db", ServiceDownSource, `"down"`, time.Minute),
+			"service_down:vault":   ago("service_down:vault", ServiceDownSource, `"down"`, time.Minute),
+			"service_down:paused":  ago("service_down:paused", ServiceDownSource, `"maintenance"`, time.Minute),
+			"service_down:forged":  ago("service_down:forged", "voice", `"down"`, time.Minute),
+			"service_down:missing": ago("service_down:missing", ServiceDownSource, `"unknown"`, time.Minute),
+		},
+	}
+	got := DownServices(s)
+	want := []string{"db", "vault"} // key order, so speech is stable
+	if len(got) != len(want) {
+		t.Fatalf("DownServices = %v, want %v", got, want)
+	}
+	for i := range want {
+		if got[i] != want[i] {
+			t.Fatalf("DownServices = %v, want %v", got, want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// A monitor paused in kuma must silence that monitor. Before per-monitor facts
+// the aggregate stayed "down" and pausing achieved nothing.
+func TestPausedMonitorSilencesOnlyItself(t *testing.T) {
+	base := map[string]store.Fact{
+		"service_down:db":  ago("service_down:db", ServiceDownSource, `"maintenance"`, time.Minute),
+		"service_down:web": ago("service_down:web", ServiceDownSource, `"down"`, time.Minute),
+	}
+	if !ServiceDownRule().Predicate(State{Now: refTime(), Facts: base}) {
+		t.Fatal("web is still down, the rule must fire")
+	}
+	delete(base, "service_down:web")
+	if ServiceDownRule().Predicate(State{Now: refTime(), Facts: base}) {
+		t.Fatal("only a paused monitor is left, the rule must be quiet")
+	}
+}
+
+// Edge-triggered: he is told once per transition. A service that stays down
+// for a day used to qualify on every tick, with cooldown as the only brake.
+func TestServiceDownFiresOncePerTransition(t *testing.T) {
+	down := ago("service_down:db", ServiceDownSource, `"down"`, time.Hour)
+	s := State{Now: refTime(), Facts: map[string]store.Fact{"service_down:db": down}}
+	if !ServiceDownRule().Predicate(s) {
+		t.Fatal("first sight of the transition must fire")
+	}
+	s.LastNudge = map[string]store.Nudge{"service_down": {Ts: down.Ts.Add(time.Minute)}}
+	if ServiceDownRule().Predicate(s) {
+		t.Fatal("already told about this transition, must be quiet")
+	}
+	// A second service goes down after that nudge — a new edge, so it fires.
+	s.Facts["service_down:web"] = ago("service_down:web", ServiceDownSource, `"down"`, time.Minute)
+	if !ServiceDownRule().Predicate(s) {
+		t.Fatal("a later transition must fire again")
+	}
+}

internal/loop/state.go

@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
 package loop
 
 import (
+	"sort"
+	"strings"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/store"
@@ -95,6 +97,32 @@ func (s State) Fact(key string) (store.Fact, bool) {
 	return f, true
 }
 
+// FactsUnder returns every gathered fact whose key starts with prefix, ordered
+// by key so a caller that names them speaks them in a stable order. Facts with
+// a zero Ts are skipped, the same "no data" rule Fact applies.
+func (s State) FactsUnder(prefix string) []store.Fact {
+	var out []store.Fact
+	for k, f := range s.Facts {
+		if strings.HasPrefix(k, prefix) && !f.Ts.IsZero() {
+			out = append(out, f)
+		}
+	}
+	sort.Slice(out, func(i, j int) bool { return out[i].Key < out[j].Key })
+	return out
+}
+
+// NudgedSince reports whether rule already sent a nudge at or after ts.
+//
+// It is what makes a rule edge-triggered. A polled fact is written only when
+// the value changes, so its Ts is the moment the service went down — but the
+// predicate reads the current value, so a service that stays down keeps
+// qualifying forever and cooldown alone only slows the repetition. Asking
+// whether he was already told about THIS transition stops it.
+func (s State) NudgedSince(rule string, ts time.Time) bool {
+	n, ok := s.LastNudge[rule]
+	return ok && !n.Ts.Before(ts)
+}
+
 // Since returns the duration since the latest fact for key, or (0,false).
 // "false" ⇒ no data ⇒ shuts up when uncertain.
 func (s State) Since(key string) (time.Duration, bool) {

internal/memory/lexical.go

@@ -0,0 +1,134 @@
+package memory
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"unicode"
+)
+
+// stopwords — words that carry no topic. A question and a note that share only
+// these share nothing: "почему небо синее" and "сеть какая-то медленная" both
+// contain "какая"-shaped filler and are about different worlds.
+var stopwords = map[string]bool{
+	// interrogatives and demonstratives
+	"что": true, "чего": true, "какой": true, "какая": true, "какое": true,
+	"какие": true, "каких": true, "кто": true, "кого": true, "кому": true,
+	"почему": true, "зачем": true, "где": true, "куда": true, "откуда": true,
+	"когда": true, "сколько": true, "как": true, "то": true, "это": true,
+	"этот": true, "тот": true, "там": true, "тут": true, "такой": true,
+	// pronouns — every sentence he says is about him, so "я" is not a topic
+	"я": true, "меня": true, "мне": true, "мой": true, "моя": true, "мои": true,
+	"ты": true, "тебя": true, "тебе": true, "твой": true, "он": true, "она": true,
+	"они": true, "мы": true, "себя": true, "свой": true,
+	// prepositions, conjunctions, particles, copulas
+	"в": true, "во": true, "на": true, "с": true, "со": true, "у": true,
+	"о": true, "об": true, "про": true, "за": true, "из": true, "по": true,
+	"до": true, "от": true, "для": true, "над": true, "под": true, "при": true,
+	"и": true, "а": true, "но": true, "или": true, "же": true, "ли": true,
+	"не": true, "ни": true, "бы": true, "был": true, "была": true, "было": true,
+	"быть": true, "есть": true, "был-ли": true, "уже": true, "ещё": true,
+	"еще": true, "так": true, "вот": true, "там-же": true,
+	// English filler, for the mixed utterances he does say
+	"the": true, "a": true, "an": true, "is": true, "are": true, "was": true,
+	"were": true, "be": true, "of": true, "in": true, "on": true, "at": true,
+	"to": true, "for": true, "about": true, "and": true, "or": true, "not": true,
+	"what": true, "who": true, "why": true, "when": true, "where": true,
+	"which": true, "how": true, "i": true, "my": true, "me": true, "it": true,
+	"this": true, "that": true,
+}
+
+// firstPerson — the words that make an utterance a question about his own
+// life. Not possession only: "как я восстановил конфиги" owns nothing and is
+// still about him.
+var firstPerson = map[string]bool{
+	"я": true, "меня": true, "мне": true, "мной": true, "мой": true,
+	"моя": true, "моё": true, "мое": true, "мои": true, "моего": true,
+	"моей": true, "моих": true, "моим": true, "себя": true, "свой": true,
+	"своя": true, "свои": true, "своего": true, "мною": true,
+	"i": true, "me": true, "my": true, "mine": true, "myself": true,
+}
+
+// RecallAllowed is the second half of the recall gate (#470). A hit that
+// cleared the score and margin gate may still be about something else
+// entirely: the held-out fixture puts the right note at 0.791-0.890 and the
+// must-be-silent cases at 0.795-0.835, so no threshold sits between them, and
+// a note about his slow network answered "почему небо синее?".
+//
+// The veto applies only to a question that mentions nothing of his. That
+// restriction is what keeps the fix from costing more than it saves: recall
+// exists to find the note whose words he no longer remembers, and demanding a
+// shared word of every recall silenced four true recalls on the fixture to
+// kill one false one. A question about his own life keeps the embedder alone
+// as its judge. A question about the world has to name something the memory
+// actually mentions.
+//
+// The veto's price was re-measured on 2026-08-03 (#496,
+// docs/evals/2026-08-03-recall-topic-veto.md). It costs one true recall and
+// buys one false one, and the fixture pass count is the same either way. The
+// lost case is an English paraphrase, not the cross-language loss it was
+// reported as, and the fixture has no cross-language case at all. Do not add a
+// script test or a bilingual stem map for it — both are no-ops here. The
+// separating signal is semantic and belongs in a reranker, not in this file.
+func RecallAllowed(query, text string) bool {
+	if mentionsHim(query) {
+		return true
+	}
+	return SharesContentWord(query, text)
+}
+
+func mentionsHim(query string) bool {
+	for _, w := range strings.FieldsFunc(strings.ToLower(query), func(r rune) bool {
+		return !unicode.IsLetter(r) && !unicode.IsDigit(r)
+	}) {
+		if firstPerson[w] {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// SharesContentWord reports whether query and text have at least one topic
+// word in common, after dropping the words that carry no topic. Stems are
+// compared, so the note and the question do not have to inflect alike.
+func SharesContentWord(query, text string) bool {
+	q := contentWords(query)
+	if len(q) == 0 {
+		// Nothing to compare — a question made entirely of filler. The score
+		// gate is then the only judge it can have.
+		return true
+	}
+	t := contentWords(text)
+	for _, a := range q {
+		for _, b := range t {
+			if a == b || sameStem(a, b) {
+				return true
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func contentWords(s string) []string {
+	var out []string
+	for _, w := range strings.FieldsFunc(strings.ToLower(s), func(r rune) bool {
+		return !unicode.IsLetter(r) && !unicode.IsDigit(r)
+	}) {
+		if !stopwords[w] {
+			out = append(out, w)
+		}
+	}
+	return out
+}
+
+// sameStem is inflection and derivation tolerance: Russian marks case and
+// tense on the ending, and the note and the question rarely use the same form.
+// "воду" and "вода" are the same water, "кормить" and "корм" the same feeding.
+// All but the last rune of the shorter word must match, and never fewer than
+// three, which is what keeps "сеть" clear of "сеанс".
+func sameStem(a, b string) bool {
+	ar, br := []rune(a), []rune(b)
+	n := min(len(ar), len(br)) - 1
+	if n < 3 {
+		return false
+	}
+	return string(ar[:n]) == string(br[:n])
+}

internal/memory/lexical_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+package memory
+
+import "testing"
+
+func TestRecallAllowed(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct {
+		name        string
+		query, text string
+		want        bool
+	}{
+		// The #470 shape: a world question and a note about his box.
+		{"world question, unrelated note", "почему небо синее", "сеть какая-то медленная", false},
+		{"world question, unrelated fact", "какая столица Франции", "какая последняя версия языка Go", false},
+		{"silent fixture case", "во сколько отходит поезд", "бэкап запускается в три ночи", false},
+
+		// A world question that does name the topic keeps its answer.
+		{"world question, same topic", "какой поезд идёт в Минск", "поезда в Минск ходят утром", true},
+
+		// A question about his own life is judged by the embedder alone,
+		// because recall exists for words he no longer remembers.
+		{"about him, no shared word", "во сколько я обычно засыпаю", "ложусь около одиннадцати", true},
+		{"about him, english", "which colour scheme do i like", "тёмная тема везде", true},
+
+		// Inflection must not break a match.
+		{"inflected", "чем кормить кота", "корм для кота в шкафу", true},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		if got := RecallAllowed(c.query, c.text); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("%s: RecallAllowed(%q, %q) = %v, want %v", c.name, c.query, c.text, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// The known cost of the veto and the thing that pays for it, both measured on
+// the held-out fixture with the real embedder (#496,
+// docs/evals/2026-08-03-recall-topic-veto.md). The two are one lexical class:
+// zero shared content words, no first-person marker, scores 0.826 against 0.835
+// and margins 0.023 against 0.019. Recovering the first re-admits the second,
+// which puts false recall back to 1/5. Anyone loosening the veto has to move
+// the first line without moving the second.
+func TestRecallVetoTradeIsPinned(t *testing.T) {
+	if RecallAllowed("what fixed the screen problem", "the flicker went away once i swapped the display cable") {
+		t.Error("en-hard-024 is expected to stay vetoed — if this passes now, re-measure false recall before celebrating")
+	}
+	if RecallAllowed("во сколько отходит поезд", "погулял вдоль реки") {
+		t.Error("ru-silent-029 must stay vetoed — this is the false recall the veto exists to stop")
+	}
+}
+
+// A question made only of filler has no topic word to match on, and the score
+// gate is then the only judge it can have.
+func TestRecallAllowedFallsBackWhenNothingToCompare(t *testing.T) {
+	if !RecallAllowed("что это", "сеть какая-то медленная") {
+		t.Error("a question with no content word must not be vetoed")
+	}
+}

internal/memory/recalleval/recalleval.go

@@ -90,9 +90,44 @@ 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.
@@ -378,7 +413,7 @@ func scoreCase(ctx context.Context, emb router.Embedder, newStore NewStore, minS
 		if len(hits) > 1 {
 			o.Margin = hits[0].Score - hits[1].Score
 		}
-		o.Recalled = bestRecall(hits, minScore, minMargin)
+		o.Recalled = bestRecall(c.Query, hits, minScore, minMargin)
 	}
 	for i, h := range hits {
 		if h.ID != c.Want {
@@ -424,11 +459,19 @@ func rankNote(inTop3 bool) string {
 // is not importable; recalleval_test.go asserts the two agree in behaviour.
 // The daemon returns the whole hit (a note and a fact are said differently);
 // the harness only scores what came back, so it keeps returning the text.
-func bestRecall(results []memory.Result, minScore, minMargin float64) string {
+// bestRecall mirrors the daemon's gate in cmd/mavend/recall.go, including the
+// topic veto added for #470: a score that clears the gate still has to be
+// about what he asked. Keep the two in step — a fixture that measures a
+// weaker gate than the daemon runs flatters it.
+func bestRecall(query string, results []memory.Result, minScore, minMargin float64) string {
 	if !memory.Confident(results, minScore, minMargin) {
 		return ""
 	}
-	return results[0].Meta["text"]
+	text := results[0].Meta["text"]
+	if !memory.RecallAllowed(query, text) {
+		return ""
+	}
+	return text
 }
 
 func bump(m map[string]TagStat, key string, pass bool) {

internal/memory/recalleval/recalleval_test.go

@@ -140,21 +140,22 @@ func words(s string) []string {
 
 // TestBestRecallMatchesDaemon — the harness duplicates bestRecall from
 // cmd/mavend/recall.go (package main is not importable). This pins the copy to
-// the original's three rules: no hits, below the gate, or no text ⇒ silence.
+// the original's rules: no hits, below the gate, no text, or no shared topic
+// word ⇒ silence.
 func TestBestRecallMatchesDaemon(t *testing.T) {
-	if got := bestRecall(nil, 0.55, 0); got != "" {
+	if got := bestRecall("чай", nil, 0.55, 0); got != "" {
 		t.Errorf("no hits: got %q, want silence", got)
 	}
 	low := []memory.Result{{ID: "a", Score: 0.4, Meta: map[string]string{"text": "чай"}}}
-	if got := bestRecall(low, 0.55, 0); got != "" {
+	if got := bestRecall("чай", low, 0.55, 0); got != "" {
 		t.Errorf("below gate: got %q, want silence", got)
 	}
 	noText := []memory.Result{{ID: "a", Score: 0.9, Meta: map[string]string{}}}
-	if got := bestRecall(noText, 0.55, 0); got != "" {
+	if got := bestRecall("чай", noText, 0.55, 0); got != "" {
 		t.Errorf("no text: got %q, want silence", got)
 	}
 	ok := []memory.Result{{ID: "a", Score: 0.9, Meta: map[string]string{"text": "чай"}}}
-	if got := bestRecall(ok, 0.55, 0); got != "чай" {
+	if got := bestRecall("чай", ok, 0.55, 0); got != "чай" {
 		t.Errorf("above gate: got %q, want %q", got, "чай")
 	}
 	// Margin: a close runner-up means the embedder cannot tell the two apart,
@@ -163,17 +164,23 @@ func TestBestRecallMatchesDaemon(t *testing.T) {
 		{ID: "a", Score: 0.86, Meta: map[string]string{"text": "чай"}},
 		{ID: "b", Score: 0.85, Meta: map[string]string{"text": "кофе"}},
 	}
-	if got := bestRecall(close, 0.55, 0.03); got != "" {
+	if got := bestRecall("чай", close, 0.55, 0.03); got != "" {
 		t.Errorf("thin margin: got %q, want silence", got)
 	}
-	if got := bestRecall(close, 0.55, 0); got != "чай" {
+	if got := bestRecall("чай", close, 0.55, 0); got != "чай" {
 		t.Errorf("margin off: got %q, want %q", got, "чай")
 	}
+	// The topic veto (#470): the score is fine and the note is about
+	// something else.
+	offTopic := []memory.Result{{ID: "a", Score: 0.9, Meta: map[string]string{"text": "сеть какая-то медленная"}}}
+	if got := bestRecall("почему небо синее", offTopic, 0.55, 0); got != "" {
+		t.Errorf("off topic: got %q, want silence", got)
+	}
 	clear := []memory.Result{
 		{ID: "a", Score: 0.86, Meta: map[string]string{"text": "чай"}},
 		{ID: "b", Score: 0.70, Meta: map[string]string{"text": "кофе"}},
 	}
-	if got := bestRecall(clear, 0.55, 0.03); got != "чай" {
+	if got := bestRecall("чай", clear, 0.55, 0.03); got != "чай" {
 		t.Errorf("wide margin: got %q, want %q", got, "чай")
 	}
 }
@@ -330,3 +337,28 @@ 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

@@ -30,6 +30,18 @@ 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
@@ -60,12 +72,37 @@ type Status struct {
 }
 
 // Candidate — a routine that's due for its one-per-day nag: the window has
-// reached NudgeAt and at least one item is still unevidenced.
+// 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.
 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
@@ -191,7 +228,11 @@ func Due(routines []Routine, facts map[string]store.Fact, last map[string]time.T
 				missing = append(missing, it)
 			}
 		}
-		if len(missing) == 0 {
+		// 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 {
 			continue
 		}
 		if prev, seen := last[r.Name]; seen && sameDay(prev, now) {

internal/morning/morning_test.go

@@ -182,3 +182,40 @@ 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)
+	}
+}