Measure E4B on phrasing, the half nobody had scored (V-668)

The 2026-08-09 model swap was measured on routing the same day and E4B lost
four destination cases. Phrasing was not measured, and phrasing is the half the
owner hears.

E4B scores nudges 15/15 and the talk fixture 29/36 at p50 516ms, against the
resident model's 25/36 at p50 2.97s on the same 36 cases. lang, feminine and
address are all 36/36, where the resident model loses three on address. Every
failure is ontopic and none is a parse error.

29/36 is one case off the ceiling. The temperature sweep of 2026-08-05 found
two reply cases that fail at every temperature and named a defect in the reply
path, capping the fixture at 30/36. Both are in E4B's failure list. So the swap
costs nothing on phrasing.

One defect no check catches: in chat E4B writes "Я записала несколько идей!"
when nothing was stored. A claim to have saved something is a claim about state.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ptwopxyo3Z2kwFckHkLvN

CLAUDE.md

@@ -269,6 +269,16 @@ destination cases and buys 50ms. Read destination as the finding: it names nothi
 where the 12B names `recall` or `calendar`, which is safe but walks the whole chain.
 It also has no MTP and cannot be given any here. The only `gemma4-assistant`
 draft on disk is trained against the 12B's hidden states.
+**Phrasing was the unmeasured half and it is measured now**
+(`docs/evals/2026-08-09-e4b-phrasing.md`). E4B scores nudges 15/15 and the
+36-case talk fixture **29/36 at p50 516ms**, against the resident model's 25/36
+at p50 2.97s. Persona is clean: `lang`, `feminine` and `address` are all 36/36,
+where the resident model loses three on `address`. Every failure is `ontopic`
+and none is a parse error. The 2026-08-05 temperature sweep put this fixture's
+ceiling at 30/36, because two reply cases fail at every temperature (V-537), and
+both are in E4B's failure list. So the swap costs nothing here. One defect no
+check catches: in chat E4B claims "Я записала несколько идей!" when nothing was
+stored, which is a wrong claim about state.
 
 **The intended third engine is not a generative model** (owner's call, 05-08-2026, V-546,
 `docs/plans/18-routing-heads-on-e5-small.md`). Routing has a bounded output space, so it is
@@ -675,11 +685,28 @@ world questions, so she needs to read external sources. What replaces it:
   `wikipedia_ru_all_maxi_2026-02` verbatim** through `kiwix.book_ru`. The RU→EN rewriter
   is the workaround for an English book and is skipped there. Kiwix catalog names come
   from the filename, not the `<name>` field.
+  **That verbatim path sent the whole sentence to a keyword engine until 09-08-2026**
+  (V-668, `docs/evals/2026-08-09-kiwix-topic-retrieval.md`). Kiwix ranks by keyword
+  overlap, so the question words outrank the one word naming the article. "что такое TCP"
+  returned "Перехват TCP-соединения". "кто написал Войну и мир" returned an episode of
+  Doctor Who. `kiwix.Topic` drops the narrative request, the interrogative and a verb
+  behind one. `kiwix.TitlePath` tries the exact article first, since a ZIM is addressable
+  by title and a wrong title is a 404. Five of eight questions reach the right article
+  where they did not, one was already right, and nothing regressed. The title needs its
+  leading capital, so `TitleCandidates` tries the spoken form and then the capitalized
+  one. **"столица Франции" is answered by a title redirect to Париж**, which is the case
+  the 2026-08-05 measurement named as unreachable by any lexical signal. Both apply on the
+  verbatim path alone. The rewriter already reduces a question, and reducing twice takes
+  the topic off its input.
   `Response.Empty()` is the whole gate and there is no quality threshold in front of it:
   the three signals one could read were measured on 2026-08-05 and none of them separate a
   real question from an invented one. Token overlap would cost "столица Франции" its
   answer, because the answer is Париж and that word is not in the question. See
-  `docs/evals/2026-08-05-search-quality-signals.md` (V-539). **Which query source claimed
+  `docs/evals/2026-08-05-search-quality-signals.md` (V-539). **The embedder is not a
+  fourth signal**, measured 2026-08-09 (V-668). Query-to-passage cosine scores 0.79 to
+  0.91 on answerable questions and 0.75 to 0.84 on unanswerable ones, and the sets
+  overlap. The wrong TCP article scored 0.8653, above five of six unanswerable rows. It
+  measures topic and not whether the passage answers, so no threshold splits them. **Which query source claimed
   a turn is readable on `/chat`** as a badge beside the reply, carried on
   `ipc.ChatReply.Source` and noted by `noteQuerySource` in `cmd/mavend/querysource.go`. It
   rides the context, so `handleText` keeps the one string signature the mic, telegram and

cmd/mavend/actions_query.go

@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import (
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/crawl"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/decision"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/ipc"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/kiwix"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/memory"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/morning"
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/phraser"
@@ -926,6 +927,28 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryKiwix(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string,
 		}
 	}
 
+	// The topic, not the sentence (V-668). Kiwix ranks by keyword overlap, so
+	// the question words outrank the one word that names the article: measured
+	// on 2026-08-09, "что такое TCP" returns "Перехват TCP-соединения" and
+	// "TCP" returns TCP. Only the verbatim path needs this. The rewriter
+	// already reduces a question to English keywords, and reducing twice would
+	// take the topic off the input it reads.
+	if verbatim {
+		if topic := kiwix.Topic(pattern); topic != "" {
+			// The article named exactly, before any ranking runs. A ZIM is
+			// addressable by title and a wrong title is a 404, so this either
+			// answers or costs one request that says nothing.
+			for _, cand := range kiwix.TitleCandidates(topic) {
+				page, err := h.kiwix.client.Article(ctxK, kiwix.TitlePath(book, cand), h.kiwix.runes)
+				if err == nil && page.Text != "" {
+					log.Printf("voice: kiwix: %q in %q → title hit %q", topic, book, page.Title)
+					return h.kiwixReply(ctx, t, page.Title, page.Text)
+				}
+			}
+			pattern = topic
+		}
+	}
+
 	hits, err := h.kiwix.client.Search(ctxK, pattern, book, h.kiwix.max)
 	if err != nil {
 		log.Printf("voice: kiwix: search %q: %v", pattern, err)
@@ -958,14 +981,18 @@ func (h *reactiveHandler) queryKiwix(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn) (string,
 		}
 		page = crawl.Page{Title: top.Title, Text: top.Snippet}
 	}
-	// Handed over the same way a note or a page is: context for the question he
-	// asked, not something to recite.
-	snippet := top.Title + "\n" + crawl.TrimRunes(page.Text, h.kiwix.runes)
+	return h.kiwixReply(ctx, t, top.Title, page.Text)
+}
+
+// kiwixReply hands one article over the same way a note or a page is handed
+// over: context for the question he asked, not something to recite.
+func (h *reactiveHandler) kiwixReply(ctx context.Context, t *queryTurn, title, text string) (string, bool) {
+	snippet := title + "\n" + crawl.TrimRunes(text, h.kiwix.runes)
 	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.
-		return readBack(top.Title + " — " + page.Text), true
+		return readBack(title + " — " + text), true
 	}
 	return reply, true
 }

cmd/mavwaked/silero.go

@@ -52,10 +52,10 @@ type sileroVAD struct {
 	mu      sync.Mutex
 	session *ort.DynamicAdvancedSession
 
-	pending []float32               // samples not yet part of a full window
-	context [sileroContext]float32  // tail of the previous window
-	state   []float32               // [2][1][128], carried between windows
-	last    float64                 // most recent probability, held between windows
+	pending []float32              // samples not yet part of a full window
+	context [sileroContext]float32 // tail of the previous window
+	state   []float32              // [2][1][128], carried between windows
+	last    float64                // most recent probability, held between windows
 	sr      []int64
 }
 

docs/evals/2026-08-09-e4b-phrasing.md

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+# gemma-4-E4B on the phrasing and talk fixtures
+
+Date: 2026-08-09. Box: workpc up, E4B loaded on 8080.
+`MAVEN_LLM_URL=http://192.168.1.105:8080 make eval-phrasing`.
+
+This was the one unmeasured risk of the 2026-08-09 model swap. Routing was
+measured the same day and E4B lost four destination cases to the 12B. Phrasing
+was not measured at all, and phrasing is the half the owner hears.
+
+## Result
+
+| fixture | E4B | resident Qwen3-1.7B, 2026-08-05 |
+|---|---|---|
+| nudges | 15/15 (100%) | 15/15 (100%) |
+| talk, passes every check | **29/36 (80.6%)** | 25/36 (69.4%) |
+| lang | 36/36 | — |
+| feminine | 36/36 | 36/36 |
+| address | **36/36** | 33/36 |
+| ontopic | 29/36 | 28/36 |
+| p50 latency | **516ms** | 2.97s |
+| p95 latency | 921ms | — |
+| failed generations | 0 | 0 |
+
+E4B beats the homesrv floor by four cases and answers about six times faster.
+Persona is clean: `lang`, `feminine` and `address` are perfect, and `address`
+is where the resident model still loses three. The 2026-08-05 measurement of the
+resident model is the comparison, since both ran the same 36-case fixture.
+
+Every failure is `ontopic`. Nothing failed on persona, nothing failed to parse.
+
+## The score is at the ceiling, not below it
+
+The 2026-08-05 temperature sweep found two cases that fail at every temperature
+in every run: `reply-note-router` and `reply-fact-weight`. It named a defect in
+the reply phrasing path rather than sampling noise. It put the fixture's ceiling
+at 30/36 before persona is scored. Both cases are in E4B's failure list.
+
+So 29/36 is one case off a ceiling nothing about the model can move. The swap is
+safe on phrasing. Read this next to the routing result, not instead of it. There
+E4B costs four destination cases and buys 50ms. Here it costs nothing.
+
+## Two findings no check caught
+
+**She says she wrote something down when she did not.** Asked what to do this
+evening, E4B writes "Я записала несколько идей!". Asked for a joke, it writes
+"Я записала одну забавную ситуацию!". Nothing was stored. No check scores it,
+because `ontopic` reads the subject and `cringe` reads pet names. A claim to
+have saved something is a claim about state, and it is wrong.
+
+**Two `ontopic` failures look like check defects.** `know-dont-know` wants
+"не зна" or "не мог". It got "Я не умею знать личную информацию о твоих
+соседях", which declines correctly in words the check does not list.
+`know-hiccups` is the same shape. Neither is a model failure and both count
+against the score.
+
+## Not measured here
+
+A 12B control on the same fixture, which would need the card reloaded and is the
+owner's call. The talk fixture through the daemon rather than through the
+phraser directly. The CPT'd Qwen3-1.7B, which does not exist yet and is the
+reason `address` is a check at all.

docs/evals/2026-08-09-kiwix-topic-retrieval.md

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+# Kiwix answered the wrong question, and the fix was not a relevance gate
+
+Date: 2026-08-09. Task: V-668. Box: homesrv, workstation off.
+Book: `wikipedia_ru_all_maxi_2026-02` on `127.0.0.1:8034`.
+
+## What started it
+
+Two turns on 2026-08-09 came back wrong from the offline encyclopedia.
+"почему небо голубое" was answered off the song "Город золотой". "что такое
+TCP?" was answered off "Перехват TCP-соединения". Both were phrased
+confidently, because `queryKiwix` claims a turn whenever the search returns
+anything and `len(hits) == 0` is its only gate.
+
+The plan was a relevance gate. multilingual-e5-small is asymmetric and trained
+for exactly this, `query:` against `passage:`, and the query vector is already
+held on the turn. The 2026-08-05 measurement that killed a search-quality gate
+killed three lexical signals. It says in its own words that it never probed
+Kiwix.
+
+## The gate does not exist
+
+Fourteen Russian questions, eight the encyclopedia can answer and six it
+cannot. Each question was searched, the top article read, and the cosine of
+`EmbedQuery(question)` against `EmbedPassage(article)` recorded.
+
+| set | n | min | mean | max |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| answerable | 8 | 0.7934 | 0.8400 | 0.9087 |
+| not answerable | 6 | 0.7480 | 0.7852 | 0.8367 |
+
+Two of the six unanswerable score above the weakest answerable one. That alone
+would be a poor threshold. The log killed it outright: seven of the eight
+answerable questions got a **wrong** article back, and those wrong articles
+scored high. The TCP hijacking article scored 0.8653, above five of the six
+unanswerable rows.
+
+The finding is that this cosine measures topic and not answerhood. A page about
+hijacking TCP sessions is about TCP. No threshold separates it from a page that
+defines TCP, and one that tried would take the definition with it.
+
+## The defect is retrieval
+
+`internal/kiwix/client.go` has said it since it was written: ranking is keyword
+based, "why is the sky blue" finds a TV episode. `queryKiwix` sends the whole
+sentence. The English path has a rewriter that reduces a question to keywords
+with a model call. The Russian path reads the book verbatim (V-508) and had
+nothing. So the question words compete with the one word that names the article.
+
+Dropping the question words changes the answer:
+
+| sent | first hit |
+|---|---|
+| `кто написал Войну и мир` | Радуйся, мир (Доктор Кто) |
+| `Война и мир` | Война и мир |
+| `что такое TCP` | Перехват TCP-соединения |
+| `TCP` | TCP |
+
+A ZIM is also addressable by title, which nothing here used. `/A/Франция`,
+`/A/TCP` and `/A/Небо` are 200. `/A/Трюмбальная_нидроскопия` is 404. So an
+exact title is safe to try first: it either answers or costs one request that
+says nothing.
+
+The title has to carry its capital. `/A/фотосинтез` is a 404 and
+`/A/Фотосинтез` is a 200. The spoken form is tried first anyway, so a title
+that begins lowercase on purpose keeps its chance.
+
+## What shipped, measured
+
+`kiwix.Topic` drops the narrative request, the interrogative and a verb sitting
+behind one. It keeps everything else, because a word it cannot classify is more
+likely the topic than noise. `kiwix.TitlePath` tries the exact article before
+any ranking runs. Both apply on the verbatim path only, since reducing twice
+would take the topic off the rewriter's input.
+
+| question | before | after |
+|---|---|---|
+| что такое TCP? | Перехват TCP-соединения | **TCP** (by title) |
+| что такое фотосинтез | C4-фотосинтез | **Фотосинтез** (by title) |
+| кто такой Линус Торвальдс? | Tux | **Торвальдс, Линус** (by title) |
+| кто написал Войну и мир | Радуйся, мир (Доктор Кто) | **Война и мир** |
+| столица Франции | Список столиц Олимпийских игр | **Париж** (by title) |
+| что такое чёрная дыра | Чёрная дыра | Чёрная дыра (by title) |
+| почему небо голубое | Город золотой | Под небом голубым… (фильм) |
+| почему трава зелёная | Сено | Зелень |
+
+Five questions reach the right article where they did not. One was already
+right and stays right. Nothing regressed.
+
+"столица Франции" is the surprise. The 2026-08-05 measurement named it as the
+case a quality gate must not break, because the answer is Париж and that word
+is not in the question. The ZIM holds a title redirect, so asking for the
+article titled "Столица Франции" returns Париж. Retrieval by title reaches an
+answer that retrieval by keyword cannot.
+
+## What is still wrong
+
+Two of the eight are still not answered, and both are the same shape. The
+question names no article and no redirect covers it. "почему небо голубое" is
+answered by Rayleigh scattering, and nothing in the question says so. Keyword
+retrieval cannot bridge that and neither can a threshold. The candidates are a
+semantic index over titles, or asking the resident model for the article title
+rather than for keywords.
+
+`Response.Empty()` is still the whole gate. A wrong article that the search
+does return is still spoken. What this change buys is that the article is
+usually right, not that a wrong one is caught.
+
+## Not measured here
+
+The English path, which still goes through the rewriter and was not touched.
+SearXNG, where the same question about answerhood is open and the 2026-08-05
+result stands. The cascade end to end, since the workstation is off and the
+phrasing arm is the resident model.

internal/kiwix/client.go

@@ -127,6 +127,22 @@ func (c *Client) Article(ctx context.Context, path string, maxRunes int) (crawl.
 	return crawl.Extract(u, body, maxRunes), nil
 }
 
+// TitlePath is the article path for an exact title, for Article to fetch.
+//
+// It exists because a ZIM is addressable by title and the full-text index is
+// not the only way in. "Франция", "TCP" and "Небо" resolve; "Трюмбальная
+// нидроскопия" is a 404, which is the honest answer and the reason this is
+// safe to try first. Measured on 2026-08-09, keyword search on the same terms
+// returns "Список пэров Франции" and "Список портов TCP и UDP" instead.
+//
+// A miss is normal rather than a failure. An article whose title inverts a name
+// ("Торвальдс, Линус") is a 404 here and the first hit in search, so the caller
+// falls through and loses nothing.
+func TitlePath(book, title string) string {
+	t := strings.ReplaceAll(strings.TrimSpace(title), " ", "_")
+	return "/content/" + url.PathEscape(book) + "/A/" + url.PathEscape(t)
+}
+
 // rss mirrors just the bits of the RSS 2.0 reply we use.
 type rss struct {
 	Items []struct {

internal/kiwix/live_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,69 @@
+package kiwix
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"os"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// TestLiveTopicBeatsTheSentence — the measurement V-668 turned on, kept as a
+// test so the claim can be re-run rather than believed.
+//
+// It prints the article the old path returned and the article the new one
+// returns, for the same question. It asserts nothing about which is better,
+// because "is this the right article" is a human's call. It fails only if the
+// two paths agree on every case, which would mean the change does nothing.
+//
+//	MAVEN_KIWIX_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8034 make t PKG=./internal/kiwix/ RUN=TestLive V=1
+func TestLiveTopicBeatsTheSentence(t *testing.T) {
+	base := os.Getenv("MAVEN_KIWIX_URL")
+	if base == "" {
+		t.Skip("MAVEN_KIWIX_URL unset — point it at the kiwix-server host port")
+	}
+	const book = "wikipedia_ru_all_maxi_2026-02"
+	c := New(base)
+	questions := []string{
+		"что такое TCP?",
+		"что такое фотосинтез",
+		"кто такой Линус Торвальдс?",
+		"кто написал Войну и мир",
+		"что такое чёрная дыра",
+		"почему небо голубое",
+		"почему трава зелёная",
+		"столица Франции",
+	}
+	moved := 0
+	for _, q := range questions {
+		ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 20*time.Second)
+		before := firstTitle(ctx, c, q, book)
+		topic := Topic(q)
+		after := ""
+		for _, cand := range TitleCandidates(topic) {
+			if page, err := c.Article(ctx, TitlePath(book, cand), 400); err == nil && page.Text != "" {
+				after = page.Title + " (by title)"
+				break
+			}
+		}
+		if after == "" {
+			after = firstTitle(ctx, c, topic, book)
+		}
+		cancel()
+		if before != after {
+			moved++
+		}
+		t.Logf("%-30s  before=%-34q after=%q", q, before, after)
+	}
+	t.Logf("%d of %d questions reach a different article", moved, len(questions))
+	if moved == 0 {
+		t.Error("the topic path returns exactly what the sentence path returned")
+	}
+}
+
+func firstTitle(ctx context.Context, c *Client, pattern, book string) string {
+	hits, err := c.Search(ctx, pattern, book, 3)
+	if err != nil || len(hits) == 0 {
+		return "(nothing)"
+	}
+	return hits[0].Title
+}

internal/kiwix/topic.go

@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+package kiwix
+
+import (
+	"strings"
+	"unicode"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/lexicon"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/morph"
+)
+
+// Topic reduces a question to the thing it is about, because Kiwix ranks by
+// keyword overlap and a whole sentence buries the keyword that matters.
+//
+// This package's own doc says it: "why is the sky blue" finds a TV episode.
+// Measured against the Russian ZIM on 2026-08-09, the sentence and the topic
+// return different articles for the same question. "кто написал Войну и мир"
+// returns "Радуйся, мир (Доктор Кто)"; "Войну и мир" returns the novel first.
+// "что такое TCP" returns "Перехват TCP-соединения"; "TCP" returns TCP. The
+// English path had a rewriter doing this with a model call. The Russian path
+// reads the book verbatim (V-508) and had nothing.
+//
+// It drops three things off the front and stops: the narrative request, the
+// interrogative, and a verb sitting between them and the noun. Everything else
+// is kept, because a word this cannot classify is more likely the topic than
+// noise. An empty return means the utterance was question words alone, and the
+// caller searches the sentence as before.
+func Topic(utterance string) string {
+	words := strings.Fields(strings.TrimSpace(utterance))
+	cut := 0
+	for cut < len(words) {
+		w := strings.Trim(strings.ToLower(words[cut]), ".,!?…:;\"'«»")
+		if w == "" {
+			cut++
+			continue
+		}
+		switch {
+		case inList(lexicon.NarrativeRequests(), w),
+			inList(lexicon.Interrogatives(), w),
+			inList(lexicon.FirstPerson(), w),
+			// "что ТАКОЕ x", "кто ТАКОЙ x" — the copula that only ever follows
+			// an interrogative, and never a topic on its own.
+			cut > 0 && isCopula(w),
+			// "расскажи ПРО x", "о x". One-letter and two-letter prepositions
+			// are not a closed class worth a lexicon set of their own.
+			cut > 0 && isLeadingPreposition(w),
+			// "кто НАПИСАЛ Войну и мир". A verb here is the question's own
+			// verb, not part of the title. Only after something was already
+			// dropped, so "написал отчёт" as a topic survives intact.
+			cut > 0 && morph.IsVerbForm(w):
+			cut++
+		default:
+			// The question mark is the sentence's, not the title's, and Kiwix
+			// carries it into the keyword match.
+			topic := strings.TrimRight(strings.Join(words[cut:], " "), " .,!?…:;\"'«»")
+			if !hasLetter(topic) {
+				return ""
+			}
+			return topic
+		}
+	}
+	return ""
+}
+
+// TitleCandidates is the topic as it might be titled, best first.
+//
+// A ZIM title is capitalized and the utterance is not: measured on 2026-08-09,
+// `/A/фотосинтез` is a 404 and `/A/Фотосинтез` is a 200. The spoken form is
+// tried first anyway, because a title that begins lowercase on purpose
+// ("iPhone") would not survive capitalizing it. Both are one request each
+// against a server on the same box, and a miss is a 404 rather than a wrong
+// article.
+func TitleCandidates(topic string) []string {
+	if topic == "" {
+		return nil
+	}
+	r := []rune(topic)
+	up := unicode.ToUpper(r[0])
+	if up == r[0] {
+		return []string{topic}
+	}
+	return []string{topic, string(up) + string(r[1:])}
+}
+
+func isCopula(w string) bool {
+	switch w {
+	case "такое", "такой", "такая", "такие", "is", "are", "was", "were":
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func isLeadingPreposition(w string) bool {
+	switch w {
+	case "про", "о", "об", "обо", "по", "about", "of", "on":
+		return true
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func inList(list []string, w string) bool {
+	for _, x := range list {
+		if x == w {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+// hasLetter is the guard against a topic that reduced to punctuation or digits
+// alone, which no ZIM title matches.
+func hasLetter(s string) bool {
+	for _, r := range s {
+		if unicode.IsLetter(r) {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}

internal/kiwix/topic_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+package kiwix
+
+import "testing"
+
+// The cases the 2026-08-09 measurement turned on, plus the ones a topic must
+// not damage. Each left column returned a wrong article when it was sent whole.
+func TestTopicKeepsTheThingTheQuestionIsAbout(t *testing.T) {
+	cases := []struct{ utterance, want string }{
+		{"что такое TCP?", "TCP"},
+		{"что такое фотосинтез", "фотосинтез"},
+		{"кто такой Линус Торвальдс?", "Линус Торвальдс"},
+		{"кто написал Войну и мир", "Войну и мир"},
+		{"расскажи про битву при Ватерлоо", "битву при Ватерлоо"},
+		{"what is photosynthesis", "photosynthesis"},
+		// No question word, so there is nothing to drop. The topic is the
+		// whole utterance and the search is what it was before.
+		{"столица Франции", "столица Франции"},
+		{"почему небо голубое", "небо голубое"},
+	}
+	for _, c := range cases {
+		if got := Topic(c.utterance); got != c.want {
+			t.Errorf("Topic(%q) = %q, want %q", c.utterance, got, c.want)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+// A verb only goes when a question word already went. Otherwise "написал
+// отчёт" loses the verb that names what he means.
+func TestTopicDropsAVerbOnlyBehindAQuestionWord(t *testing.T) {
+	if got := Topic("написал отчёт"); got != "написал отчёт" {
+		t.Errorf("Topic dropped a leading verb with no question word: %q", got)
+	}
+}
+
+// Question words alone reduce to nothing, and the caller reads that as "no
+// topic" and searches the sentence rather than searching the empty string.
+func TestTopicIsEmptyWhenNothingIsLeft(t *testing.T) {
+	for _, q := range []string{"что такое?", "кто?", "почему", "???"} {
+		if got := Topic(q); got != "" {
+			t.Errorf("Topic(%q) = %q, want empty", q, got)
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func TestTitlePathEscapesAndUnderscores(t *testing.T) {
+	got := TitlePath("wikipedia_ru_all_maxi_2026-02", "Чёрная дыра")
+	want := "/content/wikipedia_ru_all_maxi_2026-02/A/%D0%A7%D1%91%D1%80%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%8F_%D0%B4%D1%8B%D1%80%D0%B0"
+	if got != want {
+		t.Errorf("TitlePath = %q, want %q", got, want)
+	}
+}
+
+// A ZIM title carries a leading capital and the utterance does not. The spoken
+// form is still tried first, so a title that begins lowercase on purpose keeps
+// its chance.
+func TestTitleCandidatesTryTheSpokenFormFirst(t *testing.T) {
+	got := TitleCandidates("фотосинтез")
+	if len(got) != 2 || got[0] != "фотосинтез" || got[1] != "Фотосинтез" {
+		t.Errorf("TitleCandidates = %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := TitleCandidates("TCP"); len(got) != 1 || got[0] != "TCP" {
+		t.Errorf("an already-capital topic was tried twice: %q", got)
+	}
+	if got := TitleCandidates(""); got != nil {
+		t.Errorf("TitleCandidates(\"\") = %q, want nil", got)
+	}
+}

v668-transcript.md

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Raw transcript, two weeks of usage
+
+YOU:   что такое TCP?
+MAVEN: есть такое: Tcp/Ip — Википедия — TCP позволяет регулировать нагрузку на сеть, а также уменьшать время ожидания данных при передаче на большие расстояния. Более того, TCP гарантирует, что полученные ...
+       [2.1s src=search t=666]
+
+YOU:   кто такой Линус Торвальдс?
+MAVEN: вот что я нашла: Торвальдс, Линус — Википедия — Ли́нус Бенедикт То́рвальдс (встречается написание Ту́рвальдс, швед. Linus Benedict Torvalds МФА: [ˈliːn.ɵs ˈtuːr.valds] о файле; род. 28 декабря 1969, Хельсинки) — финско-американский программист, создатель ядра Linux.
+       [0.8s src=search t=667]
+
+YOU:   что такое фотосинтез
+MAVEN: нашла вот это: Фотосинтез — Фотосинтез
+Схематическое изображение процесса фотосинтеза, происходящего в растениях
+Упрощённое уравнение фотосинтеза, происходящего в растениях
+Упрощённая схема фотосинтеза
+Фотоси́нтез (от др.-греч. φῶς  — « свет » и σύνθεσις  — «соединённый», «складной», «связывание», « синтез ») — сл…
+       [0.6s src=kiwix t=668]
+
+YOU:   кто написал Войну и мир
+MAVEN: вот что я нашла: Война и мир — Война и мир
+Война и мир
+Война и миръ
+Обложка издания 1873 года
+Жанр
+роман-эпопея
+Автор
+Лев Николаевич Толстой
+Язык оригинала
+русский, фрагменты на французском и немецком языках
+Дата написания
+1863—1869, 1873
+Дата первой публикации
+1865—1869
+Предыдущее
+Казаки
+Следующее
+Анна Каренина
+Тек…
+       [12.4s src=kiwix t=669]
+
+```

v668.jsonl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{"reply": "есть такое: Tcp/Ip — Википедия — TCP позволяет регулировать нагрузку на сеть, а также уменьшать время ожидания данных при передаче на большие расстояния. Более того, TCP гарантирует, что полученные ...", "source": "search", "trace": "666", "secs": 2.1235475060530007, "day": 0, "n": 1, "utterance": "что такое TCP?"}
+{"reply": "вот что я нашла: Торвальдс, Линус — Википедия — Ли́нус Бенедикт То́рвальдс (встречается написание Ту́рвальдс, швед. Linus Benedict Torvalds МФА: [ˈliːn.ɵs ˈtuːr.valds] о файле; род. 28 декабря 1969, Хельсинки) — финско-американский программист, создатель ядра Linux.", "source": "search", "trace": "667", "secs": 0.7689587379572913, "day": 0, "n": 2, "utterance": "кто такой Линус Торвальдс?"}
+{"reply": "нашла вот это: Фотосинтез — Фотосинтез\nСхематическое изображение процесса фотосинтеза, происходящего в растениях\nУпрощённое уравнение фотосинтеза, происходящего в растениях\nУпрощённая схема фотосинтеза\nФотоси́нтез (от др.-греч. φῶς  — « свет » и σύνθεσις  — «соединённый», «складной», «связывание», « синтез ») — сл…", "source": "kiwix", "trace": "668", "secs": 0.575586927938275, "day": 0, "n": 3, "utterance": "что такое фотосинтез"}
+{"reply": "вот что я нашла: Война и мир — Война и мир\nВойна и мир\nВойна и миръ\nОбложка издания 1873 года\nЖанр\nроман-эпопея\nАвтор\nЛев Николаевич Толстой\nЯзык оригинала\nрусский, фрагменты на французском и немецком языках\nДата написания\n1863—1869, 1873\nДата первой публикации\n1865—1869\nПредыдущее\nКазаки\nСледующее\nАнна Каренина\nТек…", "source": "kiwix", "trace": "669", "secs": 12.44599153404124, "day": 0, "n": 4, "utterance": "кто написал Войну и мир"}

v668b-transcript.md

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+# Raw transcript, two weeks of usage
+
+YOU:   столица Франции
+MAVEN: вот что я нашла: Франция — Википедия — Она отличается ... реками. На Сене в 145 км от пролива Ла-Манш расположена столица Франции Париж....
+       [2.3s src=search t=670]
+
+YOU:   что такое фотосинтез
+MAVEN: есть такое: Фотосинтез: процесс, фазы, функции и значение фотосинтеза — Бестселлеры Фоксфорда: собрали всё, что полюбили тысячи школьников и родителей 🧡 · Фотосинтез происходит в тканях, содержащих хлоропласты, — преимущественно в листе, на который приходится большая часть процессов фотосинтеза. Такая ткань наз…
+       [0.8s src=search t=671]
+
+YOU:   что такое TCP?
+MAVEN: нашла вот это: TCP — TCP
+TCP
+Название
+Transmission Control Protocol
+Уровень (по модели OSI )
+Транспортный
+Семейство
+TCP/IP
+Спецификация
+RFC 793 (сентябрь 1981 года) / STD 7
+Основные реализации
+UNIX , Linux , BSD , Windows
+Расширяемость
+Опции
+Медиафайлы на Викискладе
+TCP ( англ.   Transmission Control Protocol  — п…
+       [0.3s src=kiwix t=672]
+
+```

v668b.jsonl

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{"reply": "вот что я нашла: Франция — Википедия — Она отличается ... реками. На Сене в 145 км от пролива Ла-Манш расположена столица Франции Париж....", "source": "search", "trace": "670", "secs": 2.295847482047975, "day": 0, "n": 1, "utterance": "столица Франции"}
+{"reply": "есть такое: Фотосинтез: процесс, фазы, функции и значение фотосинтеза — Бестселлеры Фоксфорда: собрали всё, что полюбили тысячи школьников и родителей 🧡 · Фотосинтез происходит в тканях, содержащих хлоропласты, — преимущественно в листе, на который приходится большая часть процессов фотосинтеза. Такая ткань наз…", "source": "search", "trace": "671", "secs": 0.8353607719764113, "day": 0, "n": 2, "utterance": "что такое фотосинтез"}
+{"reply": "нашла вот это: TCP — TCP\nTCP\nНазвание\nTransmission Control Protocol\nУровень (по модели OSI )\nТранспортный\nСемейство\nTCP/IP\nСпецификация\nRFC 793 (сентябрь 1981 года) / STD 7\nОсновные реализации\nUNIX , Linux , BSD , Windows\nРасширяемость\nОпции\nМедиафайлы на Викискладе\nTCP ( англ.   Transmission Control Protocol  — п…", "source": "kiwix", "trace": "672", "secs": 0.29547085403464735, "day": 0, "n": 3, "utterance": "что такое TCP?"}

v668c-transcript.md

@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# Raw transcript, two weeks of usage
+
+YOU:   что такое TCP?
+MAVEN: Вот что я нашла: TCP, или Transmission Control Protocol, — это один из основных протоколов передачи данных в интернете. Он работает на транспортном уровне модели OSI и предоставляет поток данных с установкой соединения, гарантируя целостность данных, повторно запрашивая потерянные данные и устраняя дублирование.
+       [2.3s src=kiwix t=673]
+
+YOU:   кто такой Линус Торвальдс?
+MAVEN: Вот что я нашла: Линус Торвальдс — финно-американский программист, который является создателем ядра Linux. Он швед по имени Linus Benedict Torvalds, родился 28 декабря 1969 года в Хельсинки, Финляндия, и его род деятельности включает программирование, разработку программного обеспечения, писательство, изобретательство, ведение блога, а также он инженер, бизнесмен и специалист в области информатики.
+       [2.4s src=kiwix t=674]
+
+YOU:   столица Франции
+MAVEN: Вот что я нашла: Столица Франции — Париж.
+       [2.0s src=kiwix t=675]
+
+YOU:   почему небо голубое
+MAVEN: Я не нашла в источниках ответа на твой вопрос, почему небо голубое.
+       [1.3s src=kiwix t=676]
+
+```

v668c.jsonl

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+{"reply": "Вот что я нашла: TCP, или Transmission Control Protocol, — это один из основных протоколов передачи данных в интернете. Он работает на транспортном уровне модели OSI и предоставляет поток данных с установкой соединения, гарантируя целостность данных, повторно запрашивая потерянные данные и устраняя дублирование.", "source": "kiwix", "trace": "673", "secs": 2.3279738989658654, "day": 0, "n": 1, "utterance": "что такое TCP?"}
+{"reply": "Вот что я нашла: Линус Торвальдс — финно-американский программист, который является создателем ядра Linux. Он швед по имени Linus Benedict Torvalds, родился 28 декабря 1969 года в Хельсинки, Финляндия, и его род деятельности включает программирование, разработку программного обеспечения, писательство, изобретательство, ведение блога, а также он инженер, бизнесмен и специалист в области информатики.", "source": "kiwix", "trace": "674", "secs": 2.42521625792142, "day": 0, "n": 2, "utterance": "кто такой Линус Торвальдс?"}
+{"reply": "Вот что я нашла: Столица Франции — Париж.", "source": "kiwix", "trace": "675", "secs": 1.9803519028937444, "day": 0, "n": 3, "utterance": "столица Франции"}
+{"reply": "Я не нашла в источниках ответа на твой вопрос, почему небо голубое.", "source": "kiwix", "trace": "676", "secs": 1.2865088270045817, "day": 0, "n": 4, "utterance": "почему небо голубое"}