Listen on the Scarlett, because the fifine returns silence (V-487)

mavwaked has logged zero completed utterances in three days of journal, and
the wake word is not why: the count was zero before it existed too. The fifine
returns RMS 0.00004 over five seconds with its capture switch on and its ALSA
volume at the full 496 of 496, so the silence is in the hardware and no flag
reaches it.

Measured over eight seconds of the same speech: fifine 0.00004, onboard ALC897
0.142 clipping at peak 1.0, USB camera 0.289 clipping, Scarlett Solo 0.003
clean. The two loud ones clip, so the quiet clean one wins.

Named CARD=Gen rather than card 4, because a USB card number moves when
something else is replugged and this daemon must not change ears quietly.

Verified in the room: keyword heard at score 0.999, utterance complete in
1.65s, and she answered "сейчас 17 часов 24 минуты".

CLAUDE.md

@@ -1,805 +1,200 @@
 # CLAUDE.md
 
-This file provides guidance to Claude Code (claude.ai/code) when working with code in this repository.
+Guidance for Claude Code (claude.ai/code) working in this repository.
 
-Maven is a self-hosted, privacy-first voice assistant (Russian + English). Go daemons
-talking over unix sockets; one resident small model for routing + phrasing; whisper.cpp STT, piper TTS.
-Deploy target is a Ryzen laptop (homesrv) with Vulkan offload to the Vega iGPU (`n_gpu_layers: 99`,
-compose passes `/dev/dri` + the render gid) — the resident model stays ≤1.7B either way.
+**This is a rules file.** It loads into every session, so it carries only what
+changes what an agent does. A measurement belongs in `docs/evals/`, dated and
+never edited after the day. A subsystem's reasoning belongs in its living doc
+under `docs/`. Read that doc before changing the subsystem.
 
-**Resident model:** currently **Qwen3-1.7B** (`UD-Q4_K_XL`), stock — not yet the CPT'd one.
-It replaced Qwen3.5-0.8B on 2026-07-31 because it measured better on both fixtures we have:
-67.5% vs 59.7% intent-only on the 77-case RU routing fixture, and 20/27 vs 11-17/27 on the
-talk fixture. See `docs/evals/2026-07-31-model-bakeoff.md`. It is a Thinking variant, so `n_ctx` is 4096
-— reasoning tokens need the room, and 4096 is what the scores above were measured at.
+| Read this | Before |
+|---|---|
+| `docs/routing.md` | touching `internal/router/` or `queryWalk` |
+| `docs/deployment.md` | touching a daemon, compose, a systemd unit or the web UI |
+| `docs/offload.md` | touching a daemon seam or adding a model caller |
+| `docs/world.md` | touching search, Kiwix or the world chain |
+| `docs/language.md` | changing a prompt contract or a Russian word list |
+| `docs/ecosystem.md` | touching Nexus, Praxis or Hexis |
+| `docs/rearchitecture.md`, `docs/design.md` | changing the shape of anything |
+| `docs/workflow.md` | the five stores, the doc tiers, the guards |
+| `AGENTS.md` | local preview, screenshots, model downloads |
 
-The **target** is still the locally CPT'd **Qwen3-1.7B** (Vikunja #122, training in flight).
-Stock already speaks good Russian; what it gets wrong is the persona — it writes `я рад`,
-masculine, where Maven needs `рада`. That is what the CPT is for.
+## What Maven is
 
-**Do not bother with sub-500M models.** LFM2.5-230M and 350M were measured on 2026-07-31 and
-both are unusable in Russian: the 350M routes at 5.2% (worse than guessing) and answers
-"столица Франции?" with the invented non-word "Сторзит"; the 230M replies to Russian in
-Spanish. Their strong published IFEval/BFCL numbers are English-only. Model files live in
-`/mnt/hdd1/llms`, bind-mounted to `/opt/maven/models/llm` — which **shadows** the repo's
-`models/llm/`, so the LFM2.5 gguf sitting there is not loaded by anything. Swapping the resident
-model is a one-line change to `phraser.model_path` in `deploy/mavend.json`.
+A self-hosted, privacy-first voice assistant in Russian and English. Go daemons
+talk over unix sockets. One resident small model routes and phrases. whisper.cpp
+does speech-to-text and piper does text-to-speech.
 
-See `docs/rearchitecture.md` for the target architecture, `docs/design.md` for the folded design spec, and
-`AGENTS.md` for local-preview + model-download recipes.
+The resident model is **Qwen3-1.7B** (`UD-Q4_K_XL`) on homesrv, a Thinking
+variant at `n_ctx` 4096. Keep it at 1.7B or under. Sub-500M models are unusable
+in Russian (`docs/evals/2026-07-31-model-bakeoff.md`). Model files live in
+`/mnt/hdd1/llms`, bind-mounted over the repo's `models/llm/`, so a gguf sitting
+in the repo is loaded by nothing.
 
-**Model work is moving to the workstation** (owner's call, 2026-08-02). homesrv cannot grow a
-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. 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.
+The workstation is workpc and it holds the remote model and speech-to-text.
+**It is never assumed up.** **Fall back silently** when it would only do the job
+better. **Name the gap** when the resident model cannot do the job at all.
 
-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 the owner 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.
+**The embedder stays on homesrv permanently**, because it backs that floor.
+`EmbedQuery` and `EmbedPassage` apply the `query:` and `passage:` prefixes
+multilingual-e5-small was trained with. Calling plain `Embed` on a note is a bug.
 
-**Speech-to-text moved on 2026-08-09** (V-486). `sttSeam` in `cmd/mavend/voicewire.go`
-builds an `stt.Pair` beside `modelSeam`, preferring CrisperWhisper 2.0 turbo on workpc
-with mavsttd as the floor. It takes only the silent half of the rule. A worse
-transcript is still a turn, so `stt.Pair` has no `TranscribeRemote`. The fallback is
-never spoken. CW2 turbo scores **10.4% WER in Russian against 27.5%** for the `ggml-small.bin`
-mavsttd loads, over 200 Golos clips
-(`docs/evals/2026-08-09-crisperwhisper2-russian-wer.md`). It runs in Intended mode, not
-Verbatim, though that corpus cannot separate the two.
-**whisper.cpp cannot load CW2 at all.** It reads its language count off the vocabulary
-size, and CW2's 51897 tokens shift seven special token ids. So it is not a second
-endpoint on mavgpud. It is its own transformers service on port 8081
-(`deploy/cw2/serve.py`), which Maven reaches directly. `stt.HTTPTranscriber`
-posts raw PCM to it with a bearer token, because audio is the most sensitive thing that
-crosses this seam. The switch is `workstation.stt` in
-`deploy/mavend.json`, and deleting the block sends every utterance to mavsttd.
-**mavgpud runs that service as a second child.** That is not an optimisation. CW2 is a
-ROCm process on the same card, so it registers on the KFD like any contender. Under its own
-systemd unit it made mavgpud evict llama-server every few seconds. That took the
-gemma-4-12b arm down for eight minutes on 2026-08-09 before anyone noticed. The card needs
-one owner. Any GPU service added beside this daemon has the same defect, so add it to
-`cmd/mavgpud` and not to systemd. CW2 is on the yield clock and not the idle one. At 1.6GB
-it denies the card to nobody, and unloading it would only send the next voice turn to the
-homesrv floor.
-Text-to-speech has not moved and piper on homesrv is still the only synthesizer.
+## Build and test
 
-## Build & test
-
-CGO daemons (`mavend`, `mavsttd`, `mavttsd`, `mavenclient`) need the vendored toolchain
-and libs wired through the Makefile — **do not** call `go build` on them bare, use `make`:
+CGO daemons (`mavend`, `mavsttd`, `mavttsd`, `mavenclient`) need the vendored
+toolchain wired through the Makefile. **Do not call `go build` on them bare**,
+and **do not hand-write the CGO preamble**. This box runs zsh, so an unquoted
+`-run Test*` dies on "no matches found" before `go` is reached. `make t` also
+carries `-count=1` and sets `MAVEN_ONNX_LIB`. Without that variable the four
+`TestONNX*` measurements self-skip and the run still prints `ok`.
 
 ```sh
-make build          # all 11 binaries
-make build-web      # single daemon (pure-Go ones: web/waked/poll/caldav build without CGO)
-make test           # go test -race across ./internal/... ./cmd/... with CGO env set
-```
-
-Run one package or one test with `make t`. **Do not hand-write the CGO preamble.**
-Past sessions pasted it about 390 times. That is where the shell-quoting failures
-came from. This box runs zsh, so an unquoted `-run Test*` or `--include=*.go`
-dies on "no matches found" before `go` is ever reached.
-
-```sh
-make t PKG=./internal/router/
-make t PKG=./cmd/mavend/ RUN=TestSimulator
+make build   # all 11 binaries. make build-web for one (web/waked/poll/caldav skip CGO)
+make test    # go test -race across ./internal/... ./cmd/... with CGO env set
 make t PKG=./internal/router/eval/ RUN='TestONNX' V=1   # V=1 for -v, RACE=0 to drop -race
 ```
 
-`t` carries `-race`, so a green `make t` cannot turn red under `make test`. It carries
-`-count=1`, so a cached PASS from before your edit is never mistaken for a result.
+## The daemons
 
-It also sets `MAVEN_ONNX_LIB`, which the hand-written recipe did not. The four
-`TestONNX*` measurements self-skip when that variable is unset. The run still prints
-`ok`. So every targeted eval done the old way reported the hash ratchet while reading
-as a real embedder score.
+Eleven binaries under `cmd/`, wired socket-to-socket over `internal/ipc`, not
+linked. `mavend` is the core and owns the DB and the IPC socket.
+`deploy/mavend.json` sets sockets, model paths and the phraser and embedder
+blocks, with `${VAR}` expansion from gitignored `deploy/telegram.env`.
+**`docker-compose.yml` runs five**: `mavend`, `mavsttd`, `mavttsd`, `mavweb`,
+`mavpoll`. Count against compose, not against `make build`. `mavwaked` runs on
+workpc under systemd. `docs/deployment.md` says who else is absent and why.
 
-Pure-Go packages (`router`, `memory`, `mavweb`, …) also run under a plain `go test ./pkg/`,
-but `make t` works everywhere and is one thing to remember.
-
-## The daemons (`cmd/`)
-
-| Binary | Role |
-|---|---|
-| `mavend` | **Core.** Router, phraser, memory, reminders, digestion tick. Owns the DB + IPC socket. |
-| `mavweb` | HTTP UI + PWA (`/dash`, `/history`, `/trace`, `/notifications`, `/tools`); WebAuthn auth. Connects to mavend's socket. |
-| `mavsttd` | Speech-to-text (whisper.cpp, CGO). |
-| `mavttsd` | Text-to-speech (piper subprocess). |
-| `mavwaked` | Wake-word / VAD gate. **Not on homesrv** — see below. |
-| `mavenclient` | Voice loop client (mic → stt → core → tts). **Not on homesrv** — see below. |
-| `mavpoll` | Environment poller: netdata alarms, uptime-kuma, zenmoney, wireguard presence. Writes facts, sends nothing. Telegram is `internal/delivery/telegramsink`, not this. |
-| `mavcaldav` | CalDAV calendar sync. |
-| `mavmaild` | Mail reader (IMAP, read-only). Holds the IMAP password; core never sees it. |
-| `mavgpud` | GPU supervisor. **Runs on workpc, not homesrv** — own unit, `deploy/mavgpud.service`. Keeps llama-server loaded while the card is free (V-488). Maven never asks it for anything, it reads `/health` through `llm.Pair`. |
-| `mavupdate` | Not a daemon. Operator CLI a human runs on the box to deploy a new build. |
-
-Two more binaries have no Makefile target and are built with `go run` or `go build` when
-they are needed. Neither is deployed.
-
-| Binary | Role |
-|---|---|
-| `mavseal` | Recovery tool. Encrypts a live tmpfs working copy back to the ciphertext file when mavend was killed before `defer st.Close()` sealed it. |
-| `labelgen` | Runs the stage 0 grammars over utterances and prints JSONL, the training data for the routing heads (V-546). |
-
-Daemons are wired socket-to-socket, not linked. `internal/ipc` is the client/server wire
-protocol; the config in `deploy/mavend.json` (with `${VAR}` env expansion from gitignored
-`deploy/telegram.env`) sets socket paths, model paths, and the phraser/embedder blocks.
-
-**`docker-compose.yml` runs five: `mavend`, `mavsttd`, `mavttsd`, `mavweb`, `mavpoll`.**
-Count against compose, not against the table. Four of the nine daemons are absent, and each
-absence has a different reason.
-
-`mavmaild` and `mavcaldav` are commented out in compose, each with the reason written
-beside it: the first needs a mail account, the second a CalDAV account, and this box has
-neither. `mavcaldav` used to appear nowhere at all, which was an oversight; it became a
-recorded decision on 07-08-2026 (V-644). Two things ride on that absence and the block
-names them. Agenda questions route to `IntentQuery` at stage 0 (V-498) and the `calendar`
-query source then reads a table nobody writes. And `loop.State.CalendarBusy` is fed by the
-same facts, so the gate's "do not nag mid-meeting" is permanently false. Its password is
-read from a file (`-pass-file`, and `-render-pass-file` for the render collection), never
-taken as a flag value, which is the rule `mavpoll` and `mavmaild` follow too.
-
-**`mavwaked` and `mavenclient` are absent by decision, not oversight** (Vikunja #463,
-`docs/plans/17-where-the-voice-loop-runs.md`).
-homesrv has a microphone — it is a laptop — but it is in the wrong room, so a wake-word
-daemon there listens to nobody. They belong on a client machine where the owner is standing.
-
-**That machine is workpc** (owner's correction, 2026-08-05). This section used to say no
-such machine existed, which was written when the workstation was only a model host. It is
-where he sits most of the day and it has the microphone. `ipc.Dial` already takes
-`tcp://host:port?token=...` through the netaddr seam, so the two daemons need deploying,
-not building. V-515 is that deployment.
-
-Until they are deployed, **the wake word and the VAD gate are covered by unit tests and by
-nothing else**, and push-to-talk through `/dash` is what QA actually covers. Note that
-deploying them does not by itself prove a wake word: `mavwaked` gates on energy and has no
-keyword model (V-487), so the loop runs open until that lands.
+- **Passwords are read from files, never taken as flag values.**
+- **The voice wire is plaintext with no auth.** mavend's voice port stays on
+  homesrv loopback and reaches workpc over ssh. Do not LAN-bind it.
+  `SurfaceVoice` caps acts at L0, and L0 does not cap reading.
+- **A GPU service added beside mavgpud goes in `cmd/mavgpud`, never in systemd.**
+  The card needs one owner. A second unit made mavgpud evict llama-server every
+  few seconds and took the model arm down for eight minutes.
 
 ## The ecosystem: Nexus, Praxis, Hexis
 
-Maven is one of four services. It owns conversation and personal memory. It does not
+Nexus identifies, Praxis observes, Hexis acts, Maven understands. Maven does not
 own identity, operational state, or execution. Full contract in
-`docs/ecosystem.md`.
+`docs/ecosystem.md`. All three are `nil` unless configured and each degrades
+alone. An outage means a named gap, never a broken turn or a guess.
 
-```text
-Nexus identifies.  Praxis observes.  Hexis acts.  Maven understands and coordinates.
-```
-
-| Service | Owns | Maven's client | Configured at |
-|---|---|---|---|
-| **Nexus** | Canonical entity ids, names, aliases, relationships. Projects, services, devices, people, pets, places. | `nexusClient` in `cmd/mavend/ecosystem.go`, `POST /api/v1/resolve` | `nexus.url` (`http://nexus:9740`) |
-| **Praxis** | Operational attention and item lifecycle. What needs looking at, what changed, what is still unresolved. | `praxisClient`, the HTTP tools API under `/api/v1/tools/` | `praxis.url` (`http://praxis:8989`) |
-| **Hexis** | The capability registry and the only path to executing anything. | vendored `github.com/kami/hexis/pkg/client` | `hexis.url` (`http://hexis:9741`) |
-
-All three are `nil` unless configured, and every one of them degrades on its own.
-An outage means a named gap in the answer, never a broken turn and never a guess.
-
-Rules that are not negotiable:
-
-- **No component reads another component's database.** Praxis attention comes over
-  HTTP, never from its SQLite file.
-- **Identity lives in Nexus.** Do not invent a local fact key for something Nexus
-  resolves. `actionFact` already sets `Subject`, and `cmd/mavend/factenrichment.go`
-  resolves it in the background against Nexus.
-- **Free text never reaches a mutating Hexis call.** Resolve to a canonical entity id
-  first. Ambiguous resolution asks the owner, it does not pick.
+- **No component reads another component's database.** Praxis attention comes
+  over HTTP, never from its SQLite file.
+- **Identity lives in Nexus.** Do not invent a local fact key for something
+  Nexus resolves. `cmd/mavend/factenrichment.go` resolves `actionFact.Subject`.
+- **Free text never reaches a mutating Hexis call.** Resolve to a canonical
+  entity id first. Ambiguous resolution asks the owner, it does not pick.
 - **LLM output is not authorization.** Confirmation binds capability id, target
-  entity, arguments, requester and expiry. See `cmd/mavend/confirm.go`.
-- **Praxis lifecycle words mean different things.** Surfaced is not acknowledged,
-  acknowledged is not resolved, execution success is not recovery. Reading an item
-  aloud calls `Surface`, never `Acknowledge`.
-- **No automatic attention-to-action path.** Digestion may summarise Praxis. It may
-  not call Hexis.
+  entity, arguments, requester and expiry (`cmd/mavend/confirm.go`).
+- **Praxis lifecycle words differ.** Surfaced is not acknowledged, acknowledged
+  is not resolved, execution success is not recovery. Reading an item aloud
+  calls `Surface`, never `Acknowledge`.
+- **No automatic attention-to-action path.** Digestion may summarise Praxis and
+  may not call Hexis.
+- Every cross-service call carries a correlation id minted once per action
+  (`withCorrelationID`), a contract version header, and `X-Requested-By: maven`.
 
-Every cross-service call carries a correlation id minted once per action
-(`withCorrelationID`), a contract version header, and `X-Requested-By: maven`.
+## Routing
 
-## Routing — read this before touching the router
+**Read `docs/routing.md` before touching `internal/router/` or `queryWalk`.** It
+carries the reasoning, the measurements and every rule's why. A route produces
+two decisions. **Intent** is one of seven values. **Source** is where the answer
+lives and is read on `IntentQuery` alone. Score them separately. The cascade is
+stage 0 grammars, then the routing heads, then the resident model, then the
+classifier. Every stage may decline and the next one answers.
 
-`internal/router/` has TWO layered engines. **The LLM router is now the default and it is
-on in deploy** — this section used to say it was wired `nil`, which stopped being true on
-2026-07-31.
+- **The classifier is the floor, not dead code.** It answers when the resident
+  model is off, absent, or erroring. **Any model error falls through.**
+- **`baselineGrammars` in `eval_test.go` mirrors `buildRouter`.** A grammar
+  added to one belongs in both, or the fixture scores a set nobody runs.
+- **Go's `\b` is ASCII-only** and never fires after a Cyrillic letter. A Russian
+  pattern needs an explicit `(\s|[?!.]|$)`.
+- **`PraxisGrammars()` is the only path to Praxis**, not a faster one.
+- **`voice.embedder.heads_path` must never point at `model_path`.** Recall
+  depends on the resident e5-small scoring what it scored. Fine-tune a copy.
+- **Routing traces are retained 14 days**, enforced on write and again on start.
+- **Bump `tokenizerRev` on any change to what `encodeWord` emits**, so a
+  tokenizer fix triggers `ReembedAll` the way swapping the model file does.
+- **A new rung in the `runTurn` ladder needs its name in `preRouteLadder`**
+  (`cmd/mavend/decisiontrace.go`), or it is missing from the decision record.
 
-- **LLM router (the intended design, docs/rearchitecture.md):** the resident Qwen3-1.7B (`llmrouter.go`)
-  emits GBNF-constrained structured JSON, and the SAME model phrases replies. Embedder is
-  demoted from a routing gate to a RAG hint. Wired at `voice.go:214` via
-  `pickLLMRouter(cfg.Voice.UseLLMRouter(), llmClient)`; the flag is `voice.llm_router`
-  (`config.go`), `DefaultLLMRouter` is **on**, and `deploy/mavend.json` sets it `true`.
-- **Classifier cascade (the failure floor, not dead code):** `classifier.go` +
-  `embedder.go` nearest-neighbour over frozen seed phrases. It runs when the LLM router is
-  off, when there is no llama-server to talk to (`pickLLMRouter` logs that and degrades),
-  and on any per-turn LLM error. Do not delete it — routing by seed similarity is the known
-  cause of weak RU query handling, but a turn must never break on the model.
+**`queryWalk` takes query sources out and moves none** (`actions_query.go`). That
+is the safety argument and it is not negotiable. The table's order is
+load-bearing and carries "the owner's data first, then the world".
+`SourceUnknown` is the floor and walks the whole chain. A named destination
+removes only the sources marked `guesses: true`, so a source that looks rather
+than guesses is always asked. **The personal boundary is the one exception and
+it is deliberate.** It guesses, so naming `SourceWorld` drops it. **Only a stage
+0 grammar may drop it** (owner's call, V-666). `queryWalk` reads
+`Decision.SourceAnchored` for the source marked `boundary: true` and no other.
 
-Cascade order: `stage0.go` exact-match fast-path → LLM router (when non-nil) → classifier
-fallback. Any LLM error falls through to the classifier so a turn never breaks on the model.
+Judge a routing change against the classifier (76.0% intent, 36.4% destination)
+and the resident model (80.2% intent), since those always answer. The fixture
+has grown from 77 cases to 96, so a number compares only to another number on
+the same fixture.
 
-**A stage-0 decision is slot-extracted too, since 06-08-2026** (V-572). `fillMatchedSlots`
-in `router.go` runs the stage-2 extractor over whatever a grammar built and fills only the
-slots it left empty — a matched value always wins, because the rule read a literal pattern
-and the extractor guesses. It did not run before, so `ReminderGrammar` handed the daemon
-`HasTime: false` for "напомни в 11:00 позвонить маме" and `missingFor` read the silence as
-absence and asked "Когда?". It applies to every grammar and is inert for all but the
-reminder: `Extract` fills Time, Fn and Key and nothing else, and the query, clock, agenda,
-feed, list, task and narrative rules all emit intents with no such slot. Benchmarked at
-20000x, a stage-0 query costs 3.7µs against 3.9µs before. **`Slots.Text` is deliberately not
-filled** — a grammar that left it empty meant it, and `agendaQueryBuild` hands the query
-chain the utterance itself. Fixture unchanged at 64/91, with "slots deferred to daemon"
-6 → 0.
+## Language: model output and Russian
 
-Measured on the 77-case RU fixture. **Re-measured 2026-08-02: the classifier scores 68.8%
-full accuracy at p50 16.6µs**, not the 36.8% at p50 31ms that stood here from
-`docs/evals/2026-07-31-model-bakeoff.md`. That older figure predates the stage 0 rules and the
-seed additions, both of which now score inside the classifier baseline. Qwen3-1.7B scores
-77.9% intent-only / 72.7% through the cascade. So the router buys about 4 points of accuracy,
-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.
+Both contracts are in `docs/language.md`. What must not be broken:
 
-**Re-measured 2026-08-05 on the fixture as it now stands, 91 cases** (V-320 item 2,
-`docs/evals/2026-08-05-routing-resident-model.md`): cascade + resident model scores
-**75.8% full / 80.2% intent-only at p50 1.19s / p95 1.65s**. That is a new baseline and not
-a movement, because 14 cases were added since the 77-case number above. The model alone
-scores 37.4% full against 61.5% intent-only, and the gap is slots rather than routing: it
-routes `reminder` and leaves the time to the daemon, which is what the contract asks. To
-re-run it, start a **second** llama-server on a fixed host port — the resident one binds
-`--port 0` inside the container and no host process can reach it.
+- **One parser for model text, `parseResponseMood`** in
+  `internal/phraser/parse.go`. Every phrasing path reaches it. Mood is an enum.
+- **The router prompt is a separate contract** over 7 intents, and
+  `llm/check_prompt_parity.py` keeps the Go and relabelling copies identical.
+- **Russian words are matched by three mechanisms and no fourth**:
+  `internal/lexicon` for closed classes, `internal/morph` for grammar, and
+  `cmd/mavend/topics.go` with the embedder for open sets. A regex whose output
+  is a fact or a route is the defect. A regex over structured input is not.
+- **Seeds are scoring data.** Editing one moves a recogniser and must be
+  re-measured against the `TestONNX*` tests, not eyeballed.
 
-**The numbers above are the homesrv floor, not the ceiling.** With the workstation up, routing
-completes through `llm.Pair` against the model mavgpud holds, which is better than the resident
-model and about 2.5× faster. gemma-4-12b scored **84.4% full / 93.5% intent-only at p50 329ms**
-(`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.
+## Non-goals and hard constraints
 
-**The workstation runs gemma-4-E4B since 2026-08-09** (owner's call), and it is a
-step down measured the same day (`docs/evals/2026-08-09-e4b-vs-12b-routing.md`).
-Against a same-session 12B control it scores **83.3% full / 89.6% intent-only,
-destination 19/33 against 23/33, at p50 294ms against 344ms**. So it costs four
-destination cases and buys 50ms. Read destination as the finding: it names nothing
-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.
+Not a nag, not autonomous.
+**The persona is feminine.** Russian self-reference takes feminine forms: `рада`
+not `рад`, `поняла` not `понял`. The owner is male and she speaks to him
+informally. Use "ты", singular, never "вы" or "ваш", and never "он" or "его".
+She talks TO the owner, not about him. Pet names such as "милый" are forbidden.
+The name "Ками" is not. `CheckAddress`, `CheckFeminine` and `CheckCringe` in
+`internal/phraser/eval/checks.go` enforce this, scored by `make eval-phrasing`.
 
-**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
-classification, and the 118M multilingual-e5-small is already resident. Three heads on one
-forward pass: intent, mood, and BIO slot tags. Roughly 5e15 FLOPs to train, so 10 to 30
-minutes on the workstation. A 100M decoder from scratch is 10 to 20 GPU hours. Two things
-it buys that a decoder cannot. No grammar is needed, because a softmax cannot emit a value
-that does not exist. And max softmax is a calibratable confidence, where `Confidence: 1.0`
-was a hardcode. **Fine-tune a copy of the weights.** The resident embedder backs memory
-recall. Training it in place couples routing accuracy to recall@1, with nothing in the
-suite to name the trade.
+**"Never phones home" is deprecated** (owner's call, 2026-07-31). She reads
+external sources, and `docs/world.md` carries that chain. What holds regardless:
 
-**Two of those heads are trained as of 08-08-2026, and they are not the three
-above** (V-661, `docs/evals/2026-08-08-routing-heads-two-head.md`). Intent and
-destination share one masked mean pool. Destination scores a mean **80.8%** over
-three seeds, best **29/33 (87.9%)**. The classifier cascade scores 12/33 and the
-cascade with gemma-4-12b scores 24/33, so a 118M encoder beats the 12B teacher it
-was distilled from. Read the best run as one seed and not a headline, because one
-case is 3 points on a fixture this small.
-Recall is 15/15 and world is 5/5. Intent is 93.6% mean over three seeds. That is
-**not** comparable to the 76.0% and 84.4% those two arms scored: a softmax has no
-clarify class, so the head's fixture is the 88 cases carrying an intent.
-
-**A fourth head asks instead of guessing, same day** (V-661,
-`docs/evals/2026-08-08-clarify-head-four-head.md`). Clarify is not a value
-of intent, so a softmax cannot emit it. It is a second question over the
-same pooled vector: can Maven act on this at all. That is why the head's
-fixture was 88 cases and not 96. Over three seeds it catches **7.0 of the 8
-`want_clarify` cases and produces 2.3 false clarifies of 88**. The cascade
-today misses 1 and produces 2, so this is parity with no rules in front of
-it. Accuracy is the wrong number here and a head that never asks scores
-91.7%. Confidence is the other half. Max softmax over the intent head reads
-**0.851 where it is right against 0.604 where it is wrong**, ranking right
-above wrong in 83.4% of pairs. `Confidence: 1.0` was a hardcode, and this
-replaces it with a signal. The two are not the same signal: one says which
-intent is unclear, the other says the utterance carries too little to act
-on. **The fourth head is not free the way the third was.** Intent,
-destination and slot F1 each move down one to four points, inside the seed
-spread. `поужинал` is a false clarify on every seed, which is the same
-defect `thinSingleToken` was narrowed for on 2026-08-01.
-
-The corpus for it is generated, because every existing row is answerable by
-construction. **The router-prompt agreement filter cannot work here**, since
-`routeGrammar` has no clarify value and a generated line always agrees with
-itself. A gemma judge replaces it. The first judge called 24 of 40
-answerable rows underspecified, because it judged against a generic
-assistant rather than against Maven's contract.
-
-**Mood is cut, not deferred.** The enum describes her own reply state, not the
-speaker's emotion, and no dataset maps onto it.
-
-**A third head landed the same day** (`docs/evals/2026-08-08-slot-head-three-head.md`).
-BIO slot tags had no Maven-domain corpus, which was true of found corpora and
-false of made ones. `label_slots.py` distils spans out of gemma-4-12b under a
-GBNF closed over Maven's own five slots. A span survives only when it is a
-literal substring of the utterance, so the agreement filter costs no second
-call. 2178 spans over 1702 rows, 37 dropped, nothing unparsed. Three heads score
-intent **92.8%**, destination **82.8%** and slot span F1 **72.4%** over three
-seeds. The slot head is free: both other numbers move less than their own seed
-spread. Epoch selection reads the intent dev slice alone. Slot F1 is still
-climbing when it stops, which costs about 4 points.
-
-The MASSIVE warm-start of step 2 is worth nothing here. Stock e5-small ties it on
-intent and leads by a third of a case on destination. Nothing argues for keeping
-that step.
-
-The floor was a corpus defect and it is fixed. The first 120 floor rows carried
-one sentence shape, so the head named a destination where the fixture says walk
-the chain. Rotating six shapes took the floor 3/7 to 6/7 and destination 75.8% to
-80.8%. What is left is calendar at 3/6 on every seed, which training cannot move:
-the possessive agenda rules claim those cases at stage 0 and name nothing, so no
-label reaches the head. That is the same trade V-660 flagged and it wants the
-owner's call.
-
-**The heads run in Go and route every turn, since 08-08-2026** (V-664,
-`docs/evals/2026-08-08-routing-heads-in-go.md`). This section used to say
-nothing of it ran. `RouterHeads` in `internal/router/heads.go` loads
-`router_heads.onnx` and reads intent, destination and clarify off one forward
-pass. It is stage 0b: after the grammars, **before** the resident model, and the
-classifier is still behind both. Through the cascade it scores intent **96.9%**
-and destination **75.8%** at p50 27.9ms. That beats the gemma-4-12b cascade,
-84.4% and 72.7%, at a twelfth of its 329ms. The workstation stays the better
-phraser and is no longer the better router.
-
-Three rules around it. The **clarify head decides first**, before the intent
-threshold. It answers a different question. A thin utterance scores low
-intent by construction, so gating it cost 6 of 8 ambiguous cases. The
-**destination head is read on `IntentQuery` only**, since no other intent
-reaches `queryWalk`. And `headsThreshold` is 0.6, the measured knee: every value
-to 0.85 drops right answers and keeps the same two wrong ones.
-
-`voice.embedder.heads_path` is the whole switch. Empty, missing or unloadable
-means the heads are nil and the cascade is byte-for-byte what shipped before
-them. **It must never be pointed at `model_path`.** The resident e5-small must
-not be replaced by the fine-tuned copy. Recall depends on that file scoring
-what it scored.
-
-**The hand-written tokenizer read every long word backwards** until this task
-(`encodeWord`, `onnxembedder.go`). It cost recall@1 7.4 points and recall@3 11.1.
-Nothing caught it because seeds and queries were mangled the same way, so cosine
-survived. The heads found it. They are trained through transformers and read
-through this. The embedder id now carries a tokenizer revision
-(`@384/tok2`), so fixing the tokenizer triggers `ReembedAll` the way swapping the
-model file does. Bump `tokenizerRev` on any change to what it emits.
-
-`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
-`gateLLMDecision` in `router.go`. Note the second half of that bug: the LLM branch never
-consulted `r.threshold` at all, so a correct low confidence would have been discarded anyway.
-
-Re-measured on the fixture after the fix: **missed clarify 6/6 → 1**, at the cost of 3 false
-clarifies and 2.6pt of full accuracy (72.7% → 70.1%, intent-only 67.5% → 74.0%). Two of the
-three false clarifies are acts the model mis-routed and the gate caught — asking beats wrongly
-executing, so the fixture and the daemon disagree about what is correct there. The third,
-`"поужинал"`, was a real defect: the single-token rule was an English intuition and does not
-transfer to Russian, where one word is routinely a whole sentence.
-
-Narrowed 01-08-2026. `thinSingleToken` (`internal/router/singletoken.go`) still thins a bare
-one-word nominal — "вода", "бэкап" — but spares two classes: a closed lexicon of social and
-control singles ("привет", "спасибо", "стоп", "yes"), and any token carrying a Russian verb
-ending (past tense, 2nd person, reflexive), because a verb already contains its subject. Both
-tests are offline and cost nothing. Re-measured: **false clarifies 3 → 2, intent-only 74.0% →
-75.3%, full accuracy unchanged at 70.1%, missed clarify still 1.** The two remaining false
-clarifies are the act-with-no-allowlisted-fn arm of the gate, not this rule.
-
-Agenda questions taken off the model, 01-08-2026. `AgendaQueryGrammars` (`stage0.go`, wired
-after the clock rules in `buildRouter`) routes "что у меня сегодня", "во сколько у меня
-встреча" and anything naming a calendar to `IntentQuery` at stage 0. They were going to
-`IntentSystem`, where `replySystem` has no agenda arm and answered "пока не умею" — the
-fixture had said `query` since ru-query-019 was written. Measured: **full accuracy 70.1% →
-72.7%, intent-only 75.3% → 77.9%, calendar 0/2 → 2/2**, clarify counts unchanged. Note that
-Go's `\b` is ASCII-only and never fires after a Cyrillic letter; the pattern needs an
-explicit `(\s|[?!.]|$)`.
-
-Two more shapes taken off the model, 04-08-2026 (V-498). `rest-of-day-query` inside
-`AgendaQueryGrammars` claims "что дальше?" / "what's next", and `NarrativeQueryGrammar`
-(`stage0.go`, wired **last** in `buildRouter`, after the capture marker) claims "расскажи про
-X", "объясни X", "опиши X". Neither carries a question mark or an interrogative, so the model
-called both `IntentFact`; the write was caught downstream by `IsQuestionShaped`, so this was a
-latency and fixture defect, not a correctness one. The narrative rule reads the same
-`narrativeRequests` lexicon `IsQuestionShaped` reads, and declines `chatNarrativeTopics` — a
-joke, a bedtime story, herself — because the query chain has no source that answers those.
-New fixture cases ru-query-024 and ru-query-025. Classifier + ONNX baseline **56/80 (70.0%) →
-58/82 (70.7%)**, no case regressed, no new false clarify. The LLM arm was not measured (no
-llama-server in that run), so judge it again before quoting a cascade number.
-
-Praxis taken off the model, 05-08-2026 (V-516). `PraxisGrammars()`
-(`internal/router/praxis.go`, wired in `buildRouter` before the capture marker because
-"отметь" is a capture verb) fills `Slots.Fn` with a Praxis capability name.
-**These grammars are the only path to Praxis, not a faster one.** Measured
-2026-08-05 with the resident model as router (V-517,
-`docs/evals/2026-08-05-reach-llm-router.md`): the model alone reaches Praxis
-**0/12**, the same as the classifier alone, because nothing in the router
-prompt names a Praxis capability and there is no string for it to write.
-Through the cascade it is 11/12. Deleting these rules costs every point. Praxis reach
-was **0/12 and structurally so**: `handlePraxisAct` compares `Slots.Fn` to a capability
-alias, and that slot is filled from the deployment's enabled tool names, which no Praxis
-alias is on. Measured **16/30 → 27/30 overall, praxis 0/12 → 11/12, lifecycle 0/5 → 5/5**
-(`docs/evals/2026-08-05-praxis-reach.md`). Two rules to know before editing: a **stative**
-lifecycle word ("готово", "принято") needs an item named beside it, while a bare
-**imperative** ("закрывай") may ask which one. The bare arm additionally requires that
-the sentence name no object of its own, or "закрой шторы в комнате" goes to Praxis instead
-of the house. A demonstrative ("отметь это как сделанное") resolves against
-`h.surfacedItems` only when exactly one item was spoken. Otherwise the turn goes back to
-the cascade rather than transitioning the wrong item.
-
-**Who claimed a turn is now recorded, and so is who did not** (V-564, umbrella
-V-558). Arbitration between the claimants on the utterance stream is order,
-hardcoded in the pre-route resolver ladder, in `buildRouter` and in
-`querySources`. `internal/decision` records one `Record` per turn: every
-claimant, what it would have made the turn, the score it reported, and whether
-it won, declined, lost on score, was thinned by a gate or was **never asked**.
-The record rides the context, the same seam `querysource.go` uses, so a claim
-site cannot change a route and a context with no record costs nothing. It is
-installed in `runTurn`, so the mic, telegram and the web all leave the same
-trail. Storage is a 25-turn in-memory ring on the handler (`decision.Ring`),
-read over `ipc.TurnDecisions` and rendered as the second table on `/trace`.
-**It also persists, since 06-08-2026, and that reverses what this section used to
-say** (V-629, `docs/plans/21-persisting-the-routing-trace.md`). The old rule was
-that nothing persists, because a turn record is read minutes later or never. The
-owner reversed it: the routing heads (V-546) cannot be fitted or calibrated
-without real utterances, and 9 of the 31 modes in `internal/modes` have no seed
-example at all. The ring did not move. It is still what `/trace` reads and still
-what a test with no store gets. `cmd/mavend/routingtrace.go` is a second sink
-beside it, writing `routing_traces` (migration #23). The utterance is stored in
-clear, because a 384-dimension vector of a short sentence is substantially
-recoverable and storing vectors instead would be a privacy claim we cannot
-support. What makes it safe is the same thing that makes the fact store safe.
-Retention is 14 days, enforced on write and again on start, so a box that goes
-quiet does not keep every row. Nothing reads it outward, and the rule
-that his notes and facts are never search input covers this table. `Store.Wipe`
-deletes it with everything else. A correction (V-630) is promoted out into a
-seed-shaped row in `routing_labels` (migration #24) and kept, because a label is
-not a transcript. The transcript still expires. The gesture that writes one is
-two buttons beside the reply on `/chat`, reached over `ipc.CorrectTurn` and the
-trace id that now rides back on `ipc.ChatReply`. A turn marked wrong with no
-target is a usable negative, so naming the intent is never required. The target
-is one of the seven intents and never free text. **All three reaches offer it as
-of 06-08-2026**, and this section used to say only `/chat` did. Voice is the
-`repair` rung, which has read spoken corrections since V-455 and now writes the
-durable label beside the classifier seed it always wrote; a spoken negative with
-no target is its own rung, `repair-negative` (V-636, `docs/plans/22-correcting-a-turn.md`).
-Telegram is an inline keyboard under the reply, and it needed the chat to become
-readable first — **telegram is no longer outbound only** (V-637,
-`docs/plans/23-inbound-telegram.md`). The poller is dark unless the `telegram`
-block says `intake`, it long-polls because the box takes no inbound connections,
-it accepts `chat_id` and no other sender, and it drops whatever queued while the
-daemon was down. It reaches the daemon through `ipc.CoreAPI` alone, so a chat
-turn takes the path `POST /api/chat` takes. Note that the turn source is still
-`tap:text` for both, so provenance cannot tell a chat turn from a typed one.
-Adding a rung to the ladder
-in `runTurn` means adding its name to `preRouteLadder` in
-`cmd/mavend/decisiontrace.go`, or that rung is silently missing from the record.
-
-**A route now says where the answer lives, not only that the turn is a question**
-(V-655, 07-08-2026). `query` was a shrug. The cascade sorted an utterance into one of
-seven intents, with stage 0, the resident model and the classifier behind it. Then
-`IntentQuery` handed the turn to `querySources` in the daemon. That is twenty-two branches
-deciding by seed similarity in a fixed order. It has no fixture and no accuracy
-number, no model arm and no floor. `Decision.Source` (`internal/router/source.go`) is
-the second half of the route. Twelve destinations, not twenty-two. The three recall
-passes plus `fact-by-key` are one destination from outside. So are search, Kiwix and
-the URL reader.
-
-**`SourceUnknown` is a real value and it is the floor.** Nothing named a destination,
-so the daemon walks the whole chain. That is byte-for-byte what shipped before the
-field existed. The classifier arm names nothing, so a box whose model is down routes
-queries exactly as it did.
-
-`queryWalk` in `cmd/mavend/actions_query.go` takes sources **out** and moves none.
-That is the safety argument and it is not negotiable. The table's order is
-load-bearing. Every comment on it argues a reason between two sources, and above all
-it carries "the owner's data first, then the world". Naming `SourceWorld` does not
-send the turn outside on its own. His notes and his facts still run first, because
-they look rather than guess.
-
-**The personal boundary is the one exception and it is deliberate.** It guesses,
-so naming `SourceWorld` drops it. That is what stops it answering "кто такой
-Линус Торвальдс?" with "не нашла у тебя такой записи", which it did on
-2026-08-07. `TestNamingRecallKeepsTheBoundary` pins the other half: naming
-`SourceRecall` keeps the boundary in front of the world.
-
-**Only a stage 0 grammar may drop it** (owner's call, 09-08-2026, V-666). The
-question of who is allowed to was open until then. Three deciders name a
-destination and two of them infer it: the routing heads and the resident model.
-An inferred `SourceWorld` on a question about him would reach SearXNG, and that
-widens what is asked rather than costing a local answer. So `Decision.SourceAnchored`
-carries the provenance. It is a field and not `Stage == 0`. Stage 0 also means
-confidence 1.0 and an anchored claim band, and one of those could stop implying
-the others. `queryWalk` reads it for the source marked `boundary: true` and for
-no other. So every other guesser still comes off the turn, whoever named the
-destination. `TestOnlyAGrammarMayDropTheBoundary` pins both directions.
-`definitionQueryPattern` claims "кто такой X", so the 2026-08-07 case is still
-anchored and still answered.
-
-What comes out is only the sources that **guess**. Those decide a turn is theirs by
-cosine against frozen seeds, then answer whatever they claimed. They hold no table
-that could come back empty. Weather is the pure case and has no local data at
-all. It was measured on the box on 2026-08-07
-(`docs/evals/2026-08-07-week-of-usage.md` section 4). It answered both "что такое
-TCP?" and "сколько будет 17 на 23?" with "для какого города?". The feed answered "какой у меня любимый язык?" with kernel headlines.
-The personal boundary answered "кто такой Линус Торвальдс?" with "не нашла у тебя
-такой записи". A source that guesses is marked `guesses: true` in the table. One that
-looks is not, and it is always asked.
-
-Stage 0 fills the destination where a rule already knows it. `WorldQueryGrammars()`
-(`internal/router/worldquery.go`) claims "что такое X" and "сколько будет 17 на 23".
-It is wired after the agenda rules and **before** the feed and list rules.
-"что такое лента" is a definition question, and the feed rule would take it on the
-noun alone.
-`calendar-query` and `event-time-query` name the calendar. The possessive agenda rules
-deliberately do not. "что у меня в списке покупок" matches `agenda-query`, and naming
-the calendar there would take the list source off the turn.
-
-Fixture unchanged at **69/91 classifier+ONNX**, measured both sides. That is the
-expected result, because it scores intent and no case here changes intent.
-
-**The destination has its own fixture and its own number as of 08-08-2026**
-(V-659, `docs/evals/2026-08-08-destination-fixture.md`). This section used to say
-it had neither. `want_source` on `eval.Case` is a pointer, because the destination
-has three states and a bare string has two. Absent is every intent but query,
-which never reaches `queryWalk`. Present and empty is the `SourceUnknown`
-contract: name nothing and walk the chain. Present and named is a destination the
-route must produce. Thirty-three of ninety-six cases carry one.
-
-A destination miss does **not** fail the case. It lands in `Outcome.SourceReason`
-and never in `Reasons`, so `Accuracy` and `IntentAccuracy` mean what they meant
-and `SourceAccuracy` is a second number over the labelled cases only. Intent and
-destination are two decisions, and one number hides which one moved. A route that
-lost its intent scores no destination hit, or a clarify would satisfy an empty
-label for free.
-
-Measured classifier+ONNX: intent **73/96 (76.0%)**, destination **12/33 (36.4%)**.
-The split is the finding. World is 5/5, because a stage 0 rule names it. The
-`SourceUnknown` floor is 5/7. Calendar is 2/6, because the possessive agenda
-rules deliberately do not name it. And **recall is 0/15, because nothing
-anywhere names it**. Those turns are still answered, since the chain walks
-recall early. Recall is the number the fourth head has to move.
-
-Seven cases assert the floor and five of them are homelab operations. They
-cluster because `SourceRecall`, `SourceNetwork` and `SourceAttention` overlap on
-every question about the box. The other two are `ru-query-005` and
-`ru-query-014`. No query source reads the reminder store, and a deadline could
-sit in tasks, the calendar or Praxis. `mavpoll` writes its netdata and uptime-kuma
-observations into the fact store recall reads. That is a finding about the enum,
-not a gap in the labelling. The owner confirmed all seven floor labels on
-08-08-2026, so they are a decision rather than an agent's guess.
-
-`baselineGrammars` in `eval_test.go` mirrors `buildRouter` and had drifted:
-`WorldQueryGrammars` was wired into the daemon by V-655 and not into the mirror,
-so the fixture scored a grammar set nobody runs. Fixed by V-659, worth 3 points of
-destination and nothing else. Check that function when adding a grammar.
-
-**The model arm landed the same day** (V-660,
-`docs/evals/2026-08-08-destination-model-arm.md`). `routeGrammar` carries a
-`source` rule closed over `router.Sources` plus the empty floor, so the model
-cannot emit a destination that does not exist. The prompt lists the twelve in
-Russian and says `""` is a normal answer to give often. `LLMRouter.Route` reads it
-back through `ValidSource` and on `IntentQuery` alone. Against gemma-4-12b on the
-workstation the cascade scores destination **24/33 (72.7%)** with intent unmoved
-at 84.4%, and **recall goes 0/15 to 14/15**. The resident Qwen3-1.7B is
-unmeasured, because it binds `--port 0` inside the container.
-
-**Stage 0 now costs four destination points.** It did not before. The four cases
-the cascade loses and the model alone wins are all calendar. The possessive
-agenda rules claim them first and name nothing on purpose. That caution was free
-while nothing downstream could name anything either. It is not free now, and the
-fix is the owner's call rather than a quiet edit.
-
-The last arm is V-546. Intent, mood and BIO slot tags were already three heads on
-one forward pass of the resident e5-small. Destination is a fourth head on the
-same pass, and 72.7% from a 12B teacher is the label source for training it.
-
-## LLM output contract
-
-All phrasing paths emit `{"response":"...","mood":"..."}`, with fallback to plain text when
-the model skips the JSON. **One parser, `parseResponseMood` in
-`internal/phraser/parse.go`**, and every path reaches it: the six `LLMPhraser` methods,
-`PhraseWorld`, and `Replier.PhraseReply`, which `cmd/mavend/replier_llm.go` wraps — that file
-holds the stub fallback and no parsing of its own. The legacy `{"body","summary"}` fallback
-was deleted on 2026-08-06 (V-397): it was the contract before `{"response","mood"}` replaced
-it, no prompt asks for that shape, the GBNF cannot emit it, and no test covered it.
-Mood is a fixed enum. Router prompt is a separate contract:
-`[{"intent":<enum>, key?, value?, text?, verb?}, ...]`, 7 intents (`fact, reminder,
-note, query, act, chat, system`). `llm/check_prompt_parity.py` in the training
-workspace enforces that the Go and relabelling prompts remain identical.
-
-## Russian patterns — three mechanisms, no fourth
-
-Hand-written Russian stem patterns were swept out on 2026-08-04 (owner's call: not a
-pattern, and the resident model cannot be asked per turn either). A regex whose output is a
-fact or a route is the defect; a regex over structured input — HTML, MIME, JSON, a URL, an
-argv list — is not. Before writing a Russian word list, pick one of these:
-
-- **`internal/lexicon`** — closed classes, in `lexicon_ru_v1.json`. Interrogatives,
-  capture verbs, reminder verbs, cardinals, day offsets, parts of day, weekdays, months,
-  spoken hours. Editing a word is a data change, and there is exactly one copy: months used
-  to live in three files. Cardinals carry the oblique forms, because a spoken time declines
-  and `в семь` / `к семи` are one hour.
-- **`internal/morph`** — grammar, from the vendored golem Russian dictionary. `IsVerbForm`
-  and `SameWord`. Note that lemma matching is BROADER than stem-plus-one-ending, so a verb
-  slot that means the imperative must be matched exactly — `говори` and `говорил` are one
-  lemma and only one of them is a command (`cmd/mavend/quiet_toggle.go`).
-- **`cmd/mavend/topics.go` and the embedder** — open sets, where the question is what a
-  turn is ABOUT. Frozen seeds per subject plus a real `other` class, scored against the
-  turn's own query vector. Same shape as the personal boundary in `personalboundary.go`,
-  with one difference: a topic must clear the runner-up by `topicMargin`, because a false
-  claim here spends a network scan rather than one honest "не знаю". The old keyword tests
-  stay as the offline floor and may remain narrow, since they are no longer the only answer.
-- **The ecosystem trio** — when the answer is not in the utterance at all. Identity is
-  Nexus's, never a local pattern.
-
-Seeds are scoring data. Editing one moves a recogniser and must be re-measured against the
-`TestONNX*` tests, not eyeballed.
-
-## Non-goals (hard constraints)
-
-Not a nag, not autonomous. Maven's persona is **feminine** — Russian
-self-reference must use feminine forms — `рада`, not `рад`; `поняла`, not `понял`. The owner
-is male and is addressed informally: "ты", singular, never "вы"/"ваш" and never "он"/"его"
-(she talks TO the owner, not about the owner). Pet names ("милый", "дорогой") are forbidden; the name
-("Ками") is not. The eval enforces this: `CheckAddress`, `CheckFeminine` and `CheckCringe` in
-`internal/phraser/eval/checks.go`, scored by `make eval-phrasing`.
-
-**"Never phones home" is DEPRECATED** (owner's call, 2026-07-31). It used to be a hard
-constraint and it is not one any more: a 0.8B — and a 1.7B — does not know enough to answer
-world questions, so she needs to read external sources. What replaces it:
-
-- **No telemetry, no cloud model, no third-party account.** That part never changes. Nothing
-  about Maven is reported to anyone, and inference stays on the box.
-- **The owner's data first, then the world.** Every source that reads the owner's facts, notes, calendar,
-  tasks or house runs before anything outside, and the personal boundary sits between them.
-  Reading beats recalling for a small model.
-- **In the world, live search leads and the ZIMs are the fallback** (owner's call,
-  2026-08-02). A self-hosted SearXNG (`search` block) answers first; the Kiwix ZIMs on
-  homesrv answer when the search is empty, unreachable, or the line is down.
-  **Verified with the line down on 2026-08-05** (V-508,
-  `docs/evals/2026-08-05-kiwix-offline-fallback.md`): a stopped SearXNG costs nothing,
-  the ZIM answers in the same turn budget. A blackholed host cost 8 seconds the owner waited
-  through. So the connect phase alone is capped at `dialTimeout` (1.5s), while a slow
-  instance that did connect keeps the full 8. **A Russian question reads
-  `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). **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
-  the web share.
-- **External search is allowed and off unless configured**, like the weather and telegram
-  capabilities. The code default is still off. `deploy/mavend.json` now ships a `search`
-  block (owner's call, 2026-08-02), so it is on for this box and deleting the block turns
-  it off again.
-- **The owner's notes and facts are never search input.** Looking up why the sky is blue and
-  sending the owner's stored personal notes to an upstream engine are different acts. Only the utterance goes
-  out, never the persona block, history, or matched notes.
-
-## Web UI conventions
-
-Server-rendered pages share `cmd/mavweb/static/ui.css` (served at `/ui.css`) and the 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`.
-
-## Vikunja
-
-This repo is project **Maven** (ID 2) in Vikunja. MCP: `http://localhost:9100/mcp` (or
-`http://192.168.1.104:9100/mcp` from workpc). Feature/bug/deploy tasks go there.
-
-Vikunja is the durable task store. A task holds the goal, the constraints and the
-assumption ledger. Work without a task id is work nobody can resume, so a session that
-has no id asks for one before it starts.
-
-The MCP tool schemas are deferred, so load the four you actually use in ONE call at the
-start of a session rather than one lookup per first use:
-
-```text
-ToolSearch("select:mcp__vikunja__list_tasks,mcp__vikunja__get_task_details,mcp__vikunja__create_task,mcp__vikunja__update_task")
-```
-
-**Close a finished task with `done: true` and nothing else** (owner's call, 07-08-2026).
-Do not write a completion summary into the description on the way out. It is lost anyway,
-and the durable record is the commit messages and the merged PR. Note that `update_task`
-carrying a `description` resets `done` to false, which is why a write-up ever took two
-calls.
+- **No telemetry, no cloud model, no third-party account.** Inference stays on
+  the box and nothing about Maven is reported to anyone.
+- **The owner's data first, then the world.** Every source reading his facts,
+  notes, calendar, tasks or house runs first, and the personal boundary sits
+  between them and anything outside.
+- **His notes and facts are never search input.** Only the utterance goes out,
+  never the persona block, the history, or matched notes.
+- **External search is allowed and off unless configured.** Deleting the
+  `search` block in `deploy/mavend.json` turns it off.
+- **`Response.Empty()` is the whole gate** on a world answer. There is no
+  quality threshold in front of it and four candidate signals all failed.
 
 ## Session workflow
 
-`~/.local/bin/task` owns the branch, the commit identity and the PR. One task, one
-session, one PR.
+`docs/workflow.md` carries the five stores, the doc tiers and the guards. One
+task, one session, one PR. `/pickup` opens a session and `/wrap` closes it. Wrap
+at roughly half context rather than letting the session compact.
 
 ```sh
 task start <vikunja-id>   # branch off origin/master, write TASK.md, fetch review comments
 task pr                   # push, open or refresh the PR, label Vikunja, notify
-task comments             # re-pull this branch's review comments into .task/
+ToolSearch("select:mcp__vikunja__list_tasks,mcp__vikunja__get_task_details,mcp__vikunja__create_task,mcp__vikunja__update_task")
 ```
 
-Around that, `/pickup` opens a session and `/wrap` closes it. Wrap at roughly half
-context rather than letting the session compact.
-
-Five stores, and each one owns something the others must not hold:
-
-| Store | Holds | Lifetime |
-|---|---|---|
-| Vikunja task | goal, constraints, assumption ledger, status | durable |
-| `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md` | what an agent must know before touching code | durable |
-| `docs/` | design, measurements, decisions | durable |
-| `TASK.md` | the brief for this branch, written by `task start`, immutable | one branch |
-| `HANDOFF.md` | only what the next agent needs to resume | one session |
-
-`TASK.md` and `.task/` are excluded through `.git/info/exclude`. `HANDOFF.md` is
-gitignored and injected at session start. If a line in the handoff would still matter
-next week, it is in the wrong file.
-
-Docs are tiered by path, so staleness is visible from the filename. Files directly under
-`docs/` are living and carry a `Last verified: <date> @ <sha>` line. Files under
-`docs/evals/` are dated measurements and are never edited after the day, so a newer
-number is a new file. Files under `docs/archive/` are dead and read by nobody by default.
-
-## Git guards
-
-Two hooks in `.githooks/`, tracked, wired with `core.hooksPath`. Fresh clone:
-
-```sh
-git config core.hooksPath .githooks
-```
-
-- `pre-commit` refuses master, and refuses more than 300 changed lines in non-markdown
-  files. Markdown is exempt and may land as one batch.
-- `commit-msg` requires the subject to end with `(V-<id>)`. `V-` and not `#`, because
-  Gitea autolinks `#123` to a Gitea issue, which is the wrong tracker.
-
-Two more guards live outside the repo, in `~/.claude/hooks/`. `diff-budget.sh` blocks
-further edits past 600 changed lines on a `task/` branch. `prose_lint_hook.py` checks
-prose on every write. Both measure against `origin/master`, so a local master that is
-ahead of the remote makes the diff budget read high.
-
-`--no-verify` exists. Using it means saying why in the commit body.
+- This repo is Vikunja project **Maven** (ID 2), MCP at
+  `http://localhost:9100/mcp`, or `http://192.168.1.104:9100/mcp` from workpc.
+- **A session with no task id asks for one before it starts**, because work
+  without one is work nobody can resume.
+- **Close a finished task with `done: true` and nothing else** (owner's call,
+  2026-08-07). `update_task` carrying a `description` resets `done` to false.
+- **`pre-commit` refuses master** and more than 300 changed lines in
+  non-markdown files. Markdown is exempt and may land as one batch.
+- **`commit-msg` requires the subject to end with `(V-<id>)`.** `V-` and not
+  `#`, because Gitea autolinks `#123` to the wrong tracker.
+- **`diff-budget.sh` blocks edits past 600 changed lines** on a `task/` branch.
+- **`--no-verify` exists.** Using it means saying why in the commit body.

cmd/mavwaked/main.go

@@ -12,10 +12,17 @@
 // samples and the capture frame is 480, so silero.go re-chunks. This comment
 // used to say the two matched, which was true of silero v4.
 //
-// There is still no wake-word model, so anything spoken near the microphone
-// becomes a turn (V-487 stage two). The SurfaceVoice auth layer caps all
-// commands at L0 (no destructive acts), which is what makes an accidental
-// trigger safe rather than expensive.
+// The keyword is "Мэйвен" and it is required, when -wake-model points at the
+// head (V-487 stage two). Without it anything spoken near the microphone
+// becomes a turn, which the SurfaceVoice auth layer makes safe rather than
+// expensive: it caps all commands at L0, no destructive acts. It does not cap
+// reading, so an open gate still lets the room hear his facts read back.
+// wakeword.go holds the cadence and wakefeatures.go the three models.
+//
+// The conn carries both directions. mavwaked sends utterances and receives
+// proactive nudges on it, and it is opened at startup rather than at the first
+// utterance, because mavend registers a voice session on accept. See nudge.go
+// for why a nudge that is not heard is worse than one that is not delivered.
 //
 // While a reply is playing the capture side is muted (half-duplex): without
 // it, Maven's own voice comes back in through the mic and she answers
@@ -57,6 +64,12 @@ const (
 	defaultAddr     = "127.0.0.1:9100"
 	defaultLang     = "ru"
 	defaultReadSize = 4096 // max PCM bytes per read from arecord (fits multiple frames)
+
+	// defaultWakeWindowMs — how long the keyword stays good for. He says
+	// "Мэйвен" and then a sentence, and the VAD does not close the utterance
+	// until he stops, so this has to outlive the word by the length of what
+	// follows it. It is spent on dispatch: one keyword, one turn.
+	defaultWakeWindowMs = 8000
 )
 
 func main() {
@@ -81,12 +94,18 @@ func run(args []string) error {
 	vadModel := flag.String("vad-model", "", "silero-vad onnx file; empty runs the energy threshold instead")
 	vadThreshold := flag.Float64("vad-threshold", defaultSileroThreshold, "speech probability a frame must clear")
 	onnxLib := flag.String("onnx-lib", os.Getenv("MAVEN_ONNX_LIB"), "libonnxruntime.so, needed with -vad-model")
+	wakeModel := flag.String("wake-model", "", "keyword head onnx; empty ships every utterance, as before V-487")
+	wakeMel := flag.String("wake-mel", "", "melspectrogram.onnx, required with -wake-model")
+	wakeEmbed := flag.String("wake-embed", "", "embedding_model.onnx, required with -wake-model")
+	wakeThreshold := flag.Float64("wake-threshold", defaultWakeThreshold, "score the keyword must clear")
+	wakeWindowMs := flag.Int("wake-window-ms", defaultWakeWindowMs, "ms an utterance may still start after the keyword")
 	flag.CommandLine.Parse(args)
 
 	ctx, stop := signal.NotifyContext(context.Background(), syscall.SIGINT, syscall.SIGTERM, syscall.SIGHUP)
 	defer stop()
 
-	// Voice client — reused across utterances; SendRequest reconnects on error.
+	// Voice client — one conn carrying both directions. SendRequest reconnects
+	// on error, and the push receiver redials on its own clock.
 	vc := voice.Dial(*addr)
 	defer vc.Close()
 
@@ -165,6 +184,29 @@ func run(args []string) error {
 	}
 	sess := newSession(vad, newAplayPlayer(), &voiceSender{vc: vc}, *lang, barge)
 
+	// Keyword gate. A model that will not load is logged and not fatal, for
+	// the same reason silero's is not: an open gate is the daemon he had
+	// yesterday, and a daemon that refuses to start is not.
+	if *wakeModel != "" {
+		w, err := newWakeWord(*wakeMel, *wakeEmbed, *wakeModel, *onnxLib, *wakeThreshold)
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("mavwaked: wake word unavailable, every utterance is a turn: %v", err)
+		} else {
+			defer w.Close()
+			sess.UseWakeWord(w, time.Duration(*wakeWindowMs)*time.Millisecond)
+			log.Printf("mavwaked: wake word from %s, threshold %.3f, window %dms",
+				*wakeModel, *wakeThreshold, *wakeWindowMs)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Listen for nudges alongside capture. Connect eagerly so mavend has a
+	// voice session before he has said anything: without one, a nudge routed
+	// to voice finds nobody home and goes to the away channels instead.
+	if err := vc.Connect(ctx); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("mavwaked: voice server not reachable yet, retrying in background: %v", err)
+	}
+	go runNudgeReceiver(ctx, vc, sess)
+
 	return captureLoop(ctx, src, sess)
 }
 

cmd/mavwaked/nudge.go

@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+package main
+
+// The receiving half of the voice reach (V-671).
+//
+// mavwaked used to send and never listen. It wired no PushHandler, and
+// SendRequest discards a push frame when there is none. The consequence was
+// not a missing feature but a silent one: mavend routes a nudge to the voice
+// session that spoke most recently, and once mavwaked had spoken once it WAS
+// that session. PushToMostRecent succeeded, the dispatcher counted the nudge
+// delivered and stopped rerouting to telegram and ntfy, and mavwaked threw the
+// audio away. He heard nothing, anywhere.
+//
+// So the connection is opened at startup rather than at the first utterance,
+// and it is held open. A client that has never connected has no session, and
+// the dispatcher must be able to tell "he is not at the machine" from "he is,
+// and she has nothing to say".
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"log"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/voice"
+)
+
+// nudgeRetry is how long to wait before dialling again after the conn ends.
+// mavend restarts on every deploy, and a listener that gives up then is a
+// listener that is deaf until the next reboot.
+const nudgeRetry = 5 * time.Second
+
+// nudgeHandler decodes a push and hands the audio to the session, which
+// speaks it through the same player the reply path uses. It does not play
+// anything itself: the half-duplex gate and barge-in live on the capture
+// loop, and a nudge has to sit under both.
+type nudgeHandler struct{ sess *session }
+
+func (h *nudgeHandler) OnPush(p voice.Push) {
+	if p.Kind != voice.PushKindAudioNudge {
+		log.Printf("mavwaked: ignoring push of unknown kind %q", p.Kind)
+		return
+	}
+	var ap voice.AudioNudgePush
+	if err := json.Unmarshal(p.Params, &ap); err != nil {
+		log.Printf("mavwaked: nudge: decode: %v", err)
+		return
+	}
+	log.Printf("mavwaked: nudge from rule %q (severity %d): %q (%.2fs audio)",
+		ap.RuleName, ap.Severity, ap.Text, ap.Audio.Duration())
+	if len(ap.Audio.Bytes) == 0 {
+		// mavttsd was down or the text was empty. Say so rather than going
+		// quiet: the dispatcher already counted this one as delivered.
+		log.Printf("mavwaked: nudge %q carried no audio, nothing to speak", ap.RuleName)
+		return
+	}
+	h.sess.Nudge(ap.Audio)
+}
+
+// runNudgeReceiver keeps a push handler wired for as long as ctx lives,
+// redialling whenever the conn ends. Returns when ctx is cancelled.
+func runNudgeReceiver(ctx context.Context, vc *voice.Client, sess *session) {
+	h := &nudgeHandler{sess: sess}
+	for {
+		err := vc.RunPushReceiver(ctx, h)
+		if ctx.Err() != nil {
+			return
+		}
+		if err != nil {
+			log.Printf("mavwaked: nudge receiver: %v", err)
+		} else {
+			log.Printf("mavwaked: voice connection ended, reconnecting in %s", nudgeRetry)
+		}
+		select {
+		case <-ctx.Done():
+			return
+		case <-time.After(nudgeRetry):
+		}
+	}
+}

cmd/mavwaked/nudge_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,170 @@
+package main
+
+// The receiving half: a nudge pushed by mavend has to reach the speaker, and
+// it has to obey the same two gates a reply obeys (V-671).
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"encoding/json"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/audio"
+	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/voice"
+)
+
+func nudgeAudio() audio.Audio {
+	return audio.Audio{Format: audio.PCM16kMono, Bytes: make([]byte, 8000)}
+}
+
+// pushFrame builds the frame mavend's voicesink sends.
+func pushFrame(t *testing.T, a audio.Audio) voice.Push {
+	t.Helper()
+	body, err := json.Marshal(voice.AudioNudgePush{
+		RuleName: "test-rule",
+		Severity: 3,
+		Audio:    a,
+		Text:     "пора пить воду",
+		Ts:       time.Unix(0, 0),
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("marshal push: %v", err)
+	}
+	return voice.Push{Kind: voice.PushKindAudioNudge, Params: body}
+}
+
+// The defect itself: the push arrived and nothing came out of the speaker.
+func TestNudgeReachesThePlayer(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, p, snd := newTestSession(bargeInConfig{})
+	(&nudgeHandler{sess: sess}).OnPush(pushFrame(t, nudgeAudio()))
+
+	if p.plays != 0 {
+		t.Fatal("nudge played from the push goroutine; it must wait for the capture loop")
+	}
+	if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), silentBytes()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if p.plays != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("plays = %d, want 1", p.plays)
+	}
+	if len(p.last.Bytes) != 8000 {
+		t.Errorf("played %d bytes, want the nudge audio", len(p.last.Bytes))
+	}
+	if sess.nudges != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("nudges = %d, want 1", sess.nudges)
+	}
+	if len(snd.sent) != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("a nudge must not be shipped back to the daemon as an utterance")
+	}
+}
+
+// A push of some other kind, or one carrying no audio, must not reach the
+// player and must not wedge the one that follows.
+func TestNudgeIgnoresUnusablePushes(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, p, _ := newTestSession(bargeInConfig{})
+	h := &nudgeHandler{sess: sess}
+
+	h.OnPush(voice.Push{Kind: "something-else", Params: json.RawMessage(`{}`)})
+	h.OnPush(voice.Push{Kind: voice.PushKindAudioNudge, Params: json.RawMessage(`not json`)})
+	h.OnPush(pushFrame(t, audio.Audio{Format: audio.PCM16kMono}))
+
+	if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), silentBytes()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if p.plays != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("plays = %d, want 0", p.plays)
+	}
+
+	h.OnPush(pushFrame(t, nudgeAudio()))
+	if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), silentBytes()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if p.plays != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("plays after a usable nudge = %d, want 1", p.plays)
+	}
+}
+
+// The half-duplex gate covers a nudge exactly as it covers a reply: she does
+// not start one over herself, and the mic stays muted while it runs.
+func TestNudgeWaitsForTheReplyToFinish(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, p, _ := newTestSession(bargeInConfig{})
+	speakThenPause(t, sess)
+	if !p.Playing() {
+		t.Fatal("expected the reply to be playing")
+	}
+	plays := p.plays
+
+	(&nudgeHandler{sess: sess}).OnPush(pushFrame(t, nudgeAudio()))
+	for i := 0; i < 20; i++ {
+		if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), silentBytes()); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+	if p.plays != plays {
+		t.Fatalf("nudge cut across the reply: plays = %d, want %d", p.plays, plays)
+	}
+
+	p.playing = false
+	if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), silentBytes()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if p.plays != plays+1 {
+		t.Fatalf("nudge never played after the reply ended: plays = %d", p.plays)
+	}
+}
+
+// Speaking a nudge must not leave half a sentence in the VAD. The frames
+// captured before it are pre-nudge speech, and splicing them onto whatever he
+// says afterwards ships one utterance that is two.
+func TestNudgeResetsTheVAD(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, p, snd := newTestSession(bargeInConfig{})
+	loud := frameAt(0.35)
+	speechFrames := (defaultSpeechMs + defaultFrameMs - 1) / defaultFrameMs
+	for i := 0; i < speechFrames+5; i++ {
+		if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), loud); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+
+	(&nudgeHandler{sess: sess}).OnPush(pushFrame(t, nudgeAudio()))
+	if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), silentBytes()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if p.plays != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("nudge did not play: plays = %d", p.plays)
+	}
+
+	// Playback ends, silence follows. The half-formed utterance must be gone
+	// rather than closing on the first quiet frame.
+	p.playing = false
+	silenceFrames := (defaultSilenceMs+defaultFrameMs-1)/defaultFrameMs + 2
+	for i := 0; i < silenceFrames; i++ {
+		if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), silentBytes()); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+	if len(snd.sent) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("sent %d utterances after a nudge, want 0", len(snd.sent))
+	}
+}
+
+// Two nudges queued back to back: the newer one is what he hears. The
+// PushHandler contract in internal/voice says the next nudge replaces the
+// stale one rather than dogpiling on it.
+func TestNudgeReplacesAnUnspokenOne(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, p, _ := newTestSession(bargeInConfig{})
+	h := &nudgeHandler{sess: sess}
+
+	h.OnPush(pushFrame(t, audio.Audio{Format: audio.PCM16kMono, Bytes: make([]byte, 4000)}))
+	h.OnPush(pushFrame(t, audio.Audio{Format: audio.PCM16kMono, Bytes: make([]byte, 12000)}))
+
+	if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), silentBytes()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if p.plays != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("plays = %d, want 1", p.plays)
+	}
+	if len(p.last.Bytes) != 12000 {
+		t.Errorf("played %d bytes, want the newer nudge", len(p.last.Bytes))
+	}
+}

cmd/mavwaked/session.go

@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ package main
 import (
 	"context"
 	"log"
+	"sync"
 	"time"
 
 	"github.com/kami/maven/internal/audio"
@@ -19,6 +20,15 @@ type utteranceSender interface {
 	Send(ctx context.Context, utt audio.Audio, lang string) (audio.Audio, error)
 }
 
+// keywordGate answers whether the keyword has just been spoken. The
+// production one is wakeWord; tests substitute a recorder, because a gate that
+// can only be exercised with three ONNX files is a gate nobody tests.
+type keywordGate interface {
+	Feed(frame []int16) bool
+	Reset()
+	Score() float64
+}
+
 // bargeInConfig holds the two numbers barge-in needs. Zero Frames disables
 // barge-in entirely — the half-duplex gate still runs.
 type bargeInConfig struct {
@@ -62,11 +72,29 @@ type session struct {
 	// whenever playback ends.
 	loudFrames int
 
+	// wake is the keyword gate, or nil when no model was loaded. wakeUntil is
+	// how long a keyword stays good for: he says "Мэйвен" and then a sentence,
+	// and the VAD does not close the utterance until he stops, so the window
+	// has to outlive the word by the length of what follows it.
+	wake       keywordGate
+	wakeWindow time.Duration
+	wakeUntil  time.Time
+
+	// pending holds a nudge the push receiver handed over, waiting for the
+	// capture loop to speak it. It is the one field written from another
+	// goroutine, hence the mutex; everything else in this struct belongs to
+	// the capture loop alone.
+	nudgeMu sync.Mutex
+	pending *audio.Audio
+
 	// counters, read by tests and logged on the way out.
 	suppressed int // frames dropped because she was speaking
 	dropped    int // frames dropped as round-trip backlog
 	bargeIns   int // times playback was cut because he spoke over her
 	sent       int // utterances shipped to the daemon
+	nudges     int // proactive pushes spoken through the speaker
+	wakes      int // times the keyword opened the gate
+	ignored    int // complete utterances dropped because the keyword was absent
 
 	// loudSum and loudSeen accumulate the energy of suppressed frames, so
 	// the operator can read what the room actually measures and set
@@ -79,6 +107,12 @@ func newSession(vad *VAD, p player, s utteranceSender, lang string, barge bargeI
 	return &session{vad: vad, player: p, sender: s, lang: lang, barge: barge, now: time.Now}
 }
 
+// UseWakeWord puts the keyword gate in front of dispatch. Without it every
+// utterance is shipped, which is what mavwaked did before V-487 stage two.
+func (s *session) UseWakeWord(w keywordGate, window time.Duration) {
+	s.wake, s.wakeWindow = w, window
+}
+
 // frameDuration is the wall time one captured frame represents.
 const frameDuration = defaultFrameMs * time.Millisecond
 
@@ -138,6 +172,7 @@ func (s *session) feed(ctx context.Context, frame []byte) error {
 		s.bargeIns++
 		s.loudFrames = 0
 		s.vad.Reset()
+		s.resetWake()
 		log.Printf("mavwaked: barge-in — stopped playback")
 		s.replayRecent()
 		return nil
@@ -148,15 +183,101 @@ func (s *session) feed(ctx context.Context, frame []byte) error {
 	if s.loudFrames != 0 {
 		s.loudFrames = 0
 		s.vad.Reset()
+		// The wake word saw nothing during playback, so what it holds is from
+		// before she spoke. Judging what he says next on it would score a
+		// sentence that ended a reply ago.
+		s.resetWake()
 	}
 
-	utt, state := s.vad.Feed(PCMToI16(frame))
+	if s.startPendingNudge() {
+		return nil
+	}
+
+	// The keyword is scored on the same frames the VAD sees, and only on the
+	// ones that reach here: every path above returns while she is speaking, so
+	// her own voice saying "Мэйвен" cannot wake her.
+	pcm := PCMToI16(frame)
+	if s.wake != nil && s.wake.Feed(pcm) {
+		s.wakes++
+		s.wakeUntil = s.now().Add(s.wakeWindow)
+		log.Printf("mavwaked: keyword heard (score %.3f), listening for %s",
+			s.wake.Score(), s.wakeWindow)
+	}
+
+	utt, state := s.vad.Feed(pcm)
 	if state == StateSpeech || utt.Bytes == nil {
 		return nil
 	}
 	return s.dispatch(ctx, utt)
 }
 
+// Nudge hands proactive audio to the session, to be spoken as soon as the
+// capture loop finds a quiet moment. Safe to call from the push receiver
+// goroutine; nothing else here is.
+//
+// A nudge arriving while one is already waiting REPLACES it. That is the
+// contract internal/voice states for PushHandler: the next nudge replaces the
+// stale one in his attention rather than dogpiling on it.
+func (s *session) Nudge(a audio.Audio) {
+	if len(a.Bytes) == 0 {
+		return
+	}
+	s.nudgeMu.Lock()
+	if s.pending != nil {
+		log.Printf("mavwaked: nudge replaced one still waiting to be spoken")
+	}
+	s.pending = &a
+	s.nudgeMu.Unlock()
+}
+
+// takeNudge removes and returns the waiting nudge, or nil.
+func (s *session) takeNudge() *audio.Audio {
+	s.nudgeMu.Lock()
+	defer s.nudgeMu.Unlock()
+	a := s.pending
+	s.pending = nil
+	return a
+}
+
+// startPendingNudge speaks a waiting nudge and reports whether it started
+// one. It runs on the capture loop, past the half-duplex gate, so a nudge
+// never cuts across a reply and never plays into a backlog drain.
+//
+// The VAD is reset first. Playback is about to suppress every frame until it
+// ends, and a half-heard sentence left in the VAD would splice onto whatever
+// he says afterwards. Barge-in needs no special case: it reads the player,
+// and the player does not care which audio it is playing.
+func (s *session) startPendingNudge() bool {
+	a := s.takeNudge()
+	if a == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	s.vad.Reset()
+	s.nudges++
+	log.Printf("mavwaked: speaking nudge (%.2fs audio)", a.Duration())
+	s.player.Play(*a)
+	return true
+}
+
+// awake reports whether an utterance ending now was addressed to her.
+//
+// With no wake word loaded every utterance is, which is exactly what mavwaked
+// did before this gate existed. An operator with no model file gets the old
+// daemon rather than a daemon that refuses to hear anything.
+func (s *session) awake() bool {
+	if s.wake == nil {
+		return true
+	}
+	return s.now().Before(s.wakeUntil)
+}
+
+// resetWake drops the gate's streaming state when there is a gate.
+func (s *session) resetWake() {
+	if s.wake != nil {
+		s.wake.Reset()
+	}
+}
+
 // keepRecent stores a copy of one barge-in trigger frame, keeping at most
 // barge.Frames of them.
 func (s *session) keepRecent(frame []byte) {
@@ -197,6 +318,19 @@ func (s *session) replayRecent() {
 // whole backlog straight into the VAD, and a Send error did the same on every
 // failed turn, so a dead socket drove a retry loop off nothing but backlog.
 func (s *session) dispatch(ctx context.Context, utt audio.Audio) error {
+	if !s.awake() {
+		s.ignored++
+		log.Printf("mavwaked: utterance ignored, keyword not heard (%.2fs, %d ignored so far)",
+			utt.Duration(), s.ignored)
+		s.vad.Reset()
+		s.resetWake()
+		return nil
+	}
+	// One keyword, one turn. A window that renewed itself on every reply would
+	// leave the microphone open for as long as he kept talking, which is the
+	// state this gate exists to end.
+	s.wakeUntil = time.Time{}
+
 	log.Printf("mavwaked: utterance complete (%.2fs, %d bytes), sending...", utt.Duration(), len(utt.Bytes))
 	start := s.now()
 	reply, err := s.sender.Send(ctx, utt, s.lang)
@@ -225,6 +359,7 @@ func (s *session) dispatch(ctx context.Context, utt audio.Audio) error {
 // recorded before she started speaking.
 func (s *session) dropBacklog(start time.Time) {
 	s.vad.Reset()
+	s.resetWake()
 	s.loudFrames = 0
 	s.recent = s.recent[:0]
 	if elapsed := s.now().Sub(start); elapsed > 0 {

cmd/mavwaked/wakefeatures.go

@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+package main
+
+// The three models behind the wake word (V-487 stage two).
+//
+// openWakeWord's pipeline, run in a row:
+//
+//	audio      -> melspectrogram.onnx -> 32-bin mel frames, one per 10ms
+//	76 frames  -> embedding_model.onnx -> one 96-dim embedding per 80ms
+//	16 embeds  -> maven_wakeword.onnx  -> one score
+//
+// The first two are frozen and pretrained. Only the last was trained here,
+// which is why it is 100KB and the other two are megabytes. The shapes are
+// not guesses: 2.0s of 16kHz audio measures 197 mel frames, and 76-frame
+// windows at stride 8 give exactly the 16 embeddings the head was fitted on.
+//
+// This file knows ONNX and nothing about the 80ms cadence. wakeword.go knows
+// the cadence and nothing about tensors.
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+
+	ort "github.com/yalue/onnxruntime_go"
+)
+
+const (
+	// melHop — samples per mel frame. 10ms at 16kHz.
+	melHop = 160
+	// melBins — mel bins per frame, fixed by melspectrogram.onnx.
+	melBins = 32
+	// embedFrames — mel frames one embedding is computed over, 760ms.
+	embedFrames = 76
+	// embedStride — mel frames between embeddings, 80ms.
+	embedStride = 8
+	// embedDim — the embedding width.
+	embedDim = 96
+	// headWindow — embeddings the head scores at once, 1.28s of audio.
+	headWindow = 16
+
+	// melContext — samples of history prepended to each incremental mel
+	// call, chosen so the eight frames this call yields continue exactly
+	// where the previous call's eight stopped.
+	//
+	// melspectrogram.onnx returns N/160-3 frames for N samples, and frame i
+	// covers [i*160, i*160+400). With 480 samples of history the buffer is
+	// 1760 samples, which is 8 frames, and the oldest of them starts one hop
+	// after the newest of the previous call. Less history leaves a gap: the
+	// first frames of a bare chunk would be computed against silence.
+	melContext = 480
+
+	// chunkSamples — audio per embedding step, 80ms.
+	chunkSamples = embedStride * melHop
+)
+
+// wakeModels holds the three ONNX sessions. It runs on CPU threads beside
+// silero and never touches the GPU. That is a rule, not a result: a wake word
+// that waits on card admission is not a wake word.
+type wakeModels struct {
+	mel  *ort.DynamicAdvancedSession
+	emb  *ort.DynamicAdvancedSession
+	head *ort.DynamicAdvancedSession
+}
+
+// newWakeModels loads all three. melPath and embedPath are openWakeWord's
+// frozen feature models; headPath is the keyword head trained for "Мэйвен".
+func newWakeModels(melPath, embedPath, headPath, libPath string) (*wakeModels, error) {
+	if !ort.IsInitialized() {
+		if libPath != "" {
+			ort.SetSharedLibraryPath(libPath)
+		}
+		if err := ort.InitializeEnvironment(); err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("wake word: onnx runtime: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+	// One thread per session, not the default of every core. Measured on
+	// workpc: the default took mavwaked from 68% of one core to 335% of
+	// three, for three graphs that each run in well under 80ms single
+	// threaded. An always-on gate that eats a quarter of the workstation is
+	// not a gate he will leave running.
+	opts, err := ort.NewSessionOptions()
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("wake word: session options: %w", err)
+	}
+	defer opts.Destroy()
+	if err := opts.SetIntraOpNumThreads(1); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("wake word: intra-op threads: %w", err)
+	}
+	if err := opts.SetInterOpNumThreads(1); err != nil {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("wake word: inter-op threads: %w", err)
+	}
+	open := func(p string, in, out []string) (*ort.DynamicAdvancedSession, error) {
+		s, err := ort.NewDynamicAdvancedSession(p, in, out, opts)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, fmt.Errorf("wake word: load %s: %w", p, err)
+		}
+		return s, nil
+	}
+	m := &wakeModels{}
+	if m.mel, err = open(melPath, []string{"input"}, []string{"output"}); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if m.emb, err = open(embedPath, []string{"input_1"}, []string{"conv2d_19"}); err != nil {
+		m.Close()
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if m.head, err = open(headPath, []string{"embeddings"}, []string{"score"}); err != nil {
+		m.Close()
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return m, nil
+}
+
+// Close releases the three sessions.
+func (m *wakeModels) Close() {
+	if m == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	for _, s := range []*ort.DynamicAdvancedSession{m.mel, m.emb, m.head} {
+		if s != nil {
+			s.Destroy()
+		}
+	}
+	m.mel, m.emb, m.head = nil, nil, nil
+}
+
+// melFrames runs one buffer of samples and returns the mel frames it yielded.
+func (m *wakeModels) melFrames(buf []float32) ([][melBins]float32, error) {
+	in, err := ort.NewTensor(ort.NewShape(1, int64(len(buf))), buf)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer in.Destroy()
+
+	n := int64(len(buf)/melHop - 3)
+	if n < 1 {
+		return nil, fmt.Errorf("wake word: %d samples yield no mel frames", len(buf))
+	}
+	out, err := ort.NewEmptyTensor[float32](ort.NewShape(1, 1, n, melBins))
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	defer out.Destroy()
+
+	if err := m.mel.Run([]ort.Value{in}, []ort.Value{out}); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	data := out.GetData()
+	frames := make([][melBins]float32, n)
+	for i := range frames {
+		for j := 0; j < melBins; j++ {
+			// The scaling openWakeWord applies between the two feature
+			// models, and the head was fitted on its output.
+			frames[i][j] = data[i*melBins+j]/10.0 + 2.0
+		}
+	}
+	return frames, nil
+}
+
+// embedding runs embedFrames mel frames through the frozen embedder.
+func (m *wakeModels) embedding(mels [][melBins]float32) ([embedDim]float32, error) {
+	var e [embedDim]float32
+	flat := make([]float32, 0, embedFrames*melBins)
+	for _, f := range mels {
+		flat = append(flat, f[:]...)
+	}
+	in, err := ort.NewTensor(ort.NewShape(1, embedFrames, melBins, 1), flat)
+	if err != nil {
+		return e, err
+	}
+	defer in.Destroy()
+	out, err := ort.NewEmptyTensor[float32](ort.NewShape(1, 1, 1, embedDim))
+	if err != nil {
+		return e, err
+	}
+	defer out.Destroy()
+	if err := m.emb.Run([]ort.Value{in}, []ort.Value{out}); err != nil {
+		return e, err
+	}
+	copy(e[:], out.GetData())
+	return e, nil
+}
+
+// score runs the trained head over headWindow embeddings.
+func (m *wakeModels) score(embeds [][embedDim]float32) (float64, error) {
+	flat := make([]float32, 0, headWindow*embedDim)
+	for _, e := range embeds {
+		flat = append(flat, e[:]...)
+	}
+	in, err := ort.NewTensor(ort.NewShape(1, headWindow, embedDim), flat)
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	defer in.Destroy()
+	out, err := ort.NewEmptyTensor[float32](ort.NewShape(1, 1))
+	if err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	defer out.Destroy()
+	if err := m.head.Run([]ort.Value{in}, []ort.Value{out}); err != nil {
+		return 0, err
+	}
+	return float64(out.GetData()[0]), nil
+}

cmd/mavwaked/wakeword.go

@@ -0,0 +1,195 @@
+package main
+
+// The wake word, "Мэйвен" (V-487 stage two).
+//
+// Silero answers "is this frame speech". It does not answer "was this said to
+// her", and until this file existed nothing did: every utterance near the
+// microphone became a turn. What made that safe rather than expensive was
+// SurfaceVoice capping acts at L0, and L0 does not cap reading, so the room
+// could still hear his facts read back.
+//
+// This file owns the 80ms cadence and the three rings of state between the
+// models. wakefeatures.go owns the tensors.
+//
+// Nil is a working value, and it is the CLOSED gate rather than the open one.
+// Feed on a nil receiver reports no keyword; session.go asks separately
+// whether a gate exists at all. That split is deliberate: a nil that answers
+// "yes, keyword" reads as a working wake word in every log line it produces.
+
+import (
+	"log"
+	"sync"
+)
+
+// defaultWakeThreshold — score above which the keyword was said.
+//
+// Picked from the false-accept rate on held-out Russian speech, not from
+// accuracy: a miss costs him a repeat, a false accept costs a turn nobody
+// asked for. Over 65 minutes of Common Voice, 0.99 woke her three times and
+// 0.999 once, and the difference in recall was one render out of 126. So the
+// default is the strict one. `docs/evals/2026-08-09-wake-word.md` has both
+// tables.
+const defaultWakeThreshold = 0.999
+
+// wakeWord is the streaming state around wakeModels. It is fed the same
+// capture frames the VAD sees and answers whether the keyword has just been
+// spoken.
+type wakeWord struct {
+	mu sync.Mutex
+	m  *wakeModels
+
+	threshold float64
+
+	// pending holds captured samples not yet part of a full 80ms chunk, and
+	// history holds the melContext samples before them.
+	pending []float32
+	history []float32
+
+	// mels is the newest embedFrames mel frames, oldest first.
+	mels [][melBins]float32
+	// embeds is the newest headWindow embeddings, oldest first.
+	embeds [][embedDim]float32
+
+	last float64 // most recent score, held between chunks
+}
+
+// newWakeWord loads the models and wraps them in the streaming gate.
+func newWakeWord(melPath, embedPath, headPath, libPath string, threshold float64) (*wakeWord, error) {
+	m, err := newWakeModels(melPath, embedPath, headPath, libPath)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	if threshold <= 0 {
+		threshold = defaultWakeThreshold
+	}
+	return &wakeWord{m: m, threshold: threshold}, nil
+}
+
+// Close releases the models.
+func (w *wakeWord) Close() {
+	if w == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	w.mu.Lock()
+	defer w.mu.Unlock()
+	w.m.Close()
+	w.m = nil
+}
+
+// Feed takes one capture frame and reports whether the keyword was heard on
+// it. A nil wakeWord hears nothing.
+func (w *wakeWord) Feed(frame []int16) bool {
+	if w == nil {
+		return false
+	}
+	w.mu.Lock()
+	defer w.mu.Unlock()
+
+	for _, v := range frame {
+		w.pending = append(w.pending, float32(v)/32768.0)
+	}
+	fired := false
+	for len(w.pending) >= chunkSamples {
+		chunk := w.pending[:chunkSamples]
+		if w.step(chunk) {
+			fired = true
+		}
+		w.history = append(w.history[:0], tailFloat32(append(w.history, chunk...), melContext)...)
+		// Slide the remainder to the front rather than reslicing. This runs
+		// every 80ms for as long as the daemon lives.
+		w.pending = append(w.pending[:0], w.pending[chunkSamples:]...)
+	}
+	return fired
+}
+
+// Reset drops the streaming state, so a fresh utterance is not judged on audio
+// from before it. Called after every dispatch and after barge-in, for the same
+// reason silero is: echo-era history must not score the next sentence, and her
+// own voice saying the keyword must not wake her.
+func (w *wakeWord) Reset() {
+	if w == nil {
+		return
+	}
+	w.mu.Lock()
+	defer w.mu.Unlock()
+	w.pending, w.history = w.pending[:0], w.history[:0]
+	w.mels, w.embeds = nil, nil
+	w.last = 0
+}
+
+// Score returns the most recent score, for the operator to read out of the
+// journal when picking a threshold for his room.
+func (w *wakeWord) Score() float64 {
+	if w == nil {
+		return 0
+	}
+	w.mu.Lock()
+	defer w.mu.Unlock()
+	return w.last
+}
+
+// step runs one 80ms chunk through all three models. It returns true when the
+// score crosses the threshold on this chunk.
+func (w *wakeWord) step(chunk []float32) bool {
+	buf := make([]float32, 0, melContext+len(chunk))
+	if pad := melContext - len(w.history); pad > 0 {
+		buf = append(buf, make([]float32, pad)...)
+	}
+	buf = append(buf, tailFloat32(w.history, melContext)...)
+	buf = append(buf, chunk...)
+
+	frames, err := w.m.melFrames(buf)
+	if err != nil {
+		// A failed inference must not silence the microphone. Hold the last
+		// score and let the next chunk try again.
+		log.Printf("mavwaked: wake word: mel: %v", err)
+		return false
+	}
+	w.mels = tailMel(append(w.mels, frames...), embedFrames)
+	if len(w.mels) < embedFrames {
+		return false
+	}
+	e, err := w.m.embedding(w.mels)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("mavwaked: wake word: embedding: %v", err)
+		return false
+	}
+	w.embeds = tailEmbed(append(w.embeds, e), headWindow)
+	if len(w.embeds) < headWindow {
+		return false
+	}
+	score, err := w.m.score(w.embeds)
+	if err != nil {
+		log.Printf("mavwaked: wake word: head: %v", err)
+		return false
+	}
+	// Report the crossing, not the state. A keyword held above the threshold
+	// for a second is one wake, and firing on every chunk of it would make the
+	// gate look open when it is merely slow to fall.
+	crossed := score >= w.threshold && w.last < w.threshold
+	w.last = score
+	return crossed
+}
+
+// The three rings. Each keeps the newest n entries and nothing older.
+
+func tailFloat32(s []float32, n int) []float32 {
+	if len(s) <= n {
+		return s
+	}
+	return s[len(s)-n:]
+}
+
+func tailMel(s [][melBins]float32, n int) [][melBins]float32 {
+	if len(s) <= n {
+		return s
+	}
+	return append(s[:0], s[len(s)-n:]...)
+}
+
+func tailEmbed(s [][embedDim]float32, n int) [][embedDim]float32 {
+	if len(s) <= n {
+		return s
+	}
+	return append(s[:0], s[len(s)-n:]...)
+}

cmd/mavwaked/wakeword_test.go

@@ -0,0 +1,174 @@
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"testing"
+	"time"
+)
+
+// fakeGate fires on demand instead of running three ONNX models. The gate's
+// own arithmetic is measured on real audio in docs/evals; what these tests
+// cover is the thing that decides whether an utterance is shipped.
+type fakeGate struct {
+	fireOn int // fire when this many frames have been fed, 0 never fires
+	fed    int
+	resets int
+}
+
+func (g *fakeGate) Feed(_ []int16) bool {
+	g.fed++
+	return g.fireOn > 0 && g.fed == g.fireOn
+}
+func (g *fakeGate) Reset()         { g.resets++ }
+func (g *fakeGate) Score() float64 { return 1 }
+
+// wakingSession wires a session whose gate fires on the first frame it sees.
+func wakingSession(fireOn int, window time.Duration) (*session, *fakePlayer, *fakeSender, *fakeGate) {
+	sess, p, snd := newTestSession(bargeInConfig{})
+	g := &fakeGate{fireOn: fireOn}
+	sess.UseWakeWord(g, window)
+	return sess, p, snd, g
+}
+
+func TestKeywordlessSpeechNeverReachesSTT(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, p, snd, g := wakingSession(0, 8*time.Second)
+	speakThenPause(t, sess)
+
+	if len(snd.sent) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("sent %d utterances, want 0 — this is the whole point of V-487", len(snd.sent))
+	}
+	if sess.ignored != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("ignored = %d, want 1", sess.ignored)
+	}
+	if p.plays != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("plays = %d, want 0", p.plays)
+	}
+	if g.fed == 0 {
+		t.Error("the gate was never fed a frame")
+	}
+}
+
+func TestKeywordOpensTheGate(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, p, snd, _ := wakingSession(1, 8*time.Second)
+	speakThenPause(t, sess)
+
+	if len(snd.sent) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("sent %d utterances, want 1", len(snd.sent))
+	}
+	if sess.wakes != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("wakes = %d, want 1", sess.wakes)
+	}
+	if sess.ignored != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("ignored = %d, want 0", sess.ignored)
+	}
+	if p.plays != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("plays = %d, want 1", p.plays)
+	}
+}
+
+// One keyword buys one turn. Without this the microphone stays open for as
+// long as he keeps talking, which is the state the gate exists to end.
+func TestOneKeywordBuysOneTurn(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, p, snd, _ := wakingSession(1, 8*time.Second)
+	speakThenPause(t, sess)
+	p.Stop()         // she finished her reply
+	sess.discard = 0 // the backlog drain is not what this measures
+	speakThenPause(t, sess)
+
+	if len(snd.sent) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("sent %d utterances, want 1: the second had no keyword", len(snd.sent))
+	}
+	if sess.ignored != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("ignored = %d, want 1", sess.ignored)
+	}
+}
+
+// The keyword is heard, then he says nothing for longer than the window. What
+// he says after that is not addressed to her.
+func TestTheKeywordExpires(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, _, snd, _ := wakingSession(1, 500*time.Millisecond)
+	now := time.Unix(1750000000, 0)
+	sess.now = func() time.Time { return now }
+
+	if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), silentBytes()); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+	}
+	if sess.wakes != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("wakes = %d, want 1", sess.wakes)
+	}
+	now = now.Add(2 * time.Second)
+	speakThenPause(t, sess)
+
+	if len(snd.sent) != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("sent %d utterances, want 0 — the keyword had expired", len(snd.sent))
+	}
+}
+
+// Barge-in cuts her off whether or not the keyword was heard. What he says
+// after cutting her off still has to carry it.
+func TestBargeInStillInterruptsHer(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, p, _, g := wakingSession(0, 8*time.Second)
+	sess.barge = bargeInConfig{RMS: 0.2, Frames: 3}
+	p.playing = true
+	loud := frameAt(0.35)
+	for i := 0; i < 4; i++ {
+		if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), loud); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("feed %d: %v", i, err)
+		}
+	}
+	if sess.bargeIns != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("bargeIns = %d, want 1", sess.bargeIns)
+	}
+	if p.stops != 1 {
+		t.Errorf("stops = %d, want 1", p.stops)
+	}
+	if g.resets == 0 {
+		t.Error("barge-in left pre-playback audio in the gate")
+	}
+}
+
+// Her own reply must not wake her. Frames captured while the player runs never
+// reach the gate, and the gate is cleared when playback ends.
+func TestHerOwnVoiceNeverReachesTheGate(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, p, _, g := wakingSession(1, 8*time.Second)
+	p.playing = true
+	for i := 0; i < 10; i++ {
+		if err := sess.feed(context.Background(), frameAt(0.35)); err != nil {
+			t.Fatalf("feed: %v", err)
+		}
+	}
+	if g.fed != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("gate was fed %d frames while she was speaking, want 0", g.fed)
+	}
+	if sess.wakes != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("wakes = %d, want 0", sess.wakes)
+	}
+}
+
+// No model, no gate: the daemon behaves exactly as it did before V-487 stage
+// two. An operator with a missing file gets yesterday's mavwaked, not one that
+// refuses to hear anything.
+func TestNoGateShipsEveryUtterance(t *testing.T) {
+	sess, _, snd := newTestSession(bargeInConfig{})
+	speakThenPause(t, sess)
+
+	if len(snd.sent) != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("sent %d utterances, want 1", len(snd.sent))
+	}
+	if sess.ignored != 0 {
+		t.Errorf("ignored = %d, want 0", sess.ignored)
+	}
+}
+
+// A nil *wakeWord is the closed gate, not a crash and not an open one.
+func TestNilWakeWordHearsNothing(t *testing.T) {
+	var w *wakeWord
+	if w.Feed([]int16{0, 0, 0}) {
+		t.Error("a nil wake word reported the keyword")
+	}
+	if w.Score() != 0 {
+		t.Error("a nil wake word reported a score")
+	}
+	w.Reset()
+	w.Close()
+}

deploy/maven-voice-tunnel.service

@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+# maven-voice-tunnel — the ssh leg that carries the voice wire to homesrv.
+#
+# Runs on workpc, as a user unit (`systemctl --user`), beside mavgpud.service.
+#
+# WHY THIS EXISTS AT ALL. internal/voice is plaintext and unauthenticated.
+# Its own server doc says production binds inside the wg tunnel, because "the
+# wg layer IS the L0 floor". workpc is not a wg peer, it sits on wlan0. So ssh
+# is the substitute floor: it authenticates with his key and encrypts the leg,
+# and mavend's published port stays on homesrv loopback (127.0.0.1:9110).
+# Nothing about this puts a Maven port on the LAN.
+#
+# Do not replace this with a LAN bind. SurfaceVoice caps acts at L0, so an
+# unauthorized speaker could not run a destructive tool. It would still hear
+# his facts, his notes and his calendar read back, and L0 does not cap reading.
+#
+#   install: cp to ~/.config/systemd/user/ on workpc
+#            systemctl --user enable --now maven-voice-tunnel.service
+
+[Unit]
+Description=SSH tunnel to mavend's voice wire on homesrv
+After=network-online.target
+Wants=network-online.target
+
+[Service]
+# -N: no remote command, forwarding only.
+# ExitOnForwardFailure: fail loudly rather than sit up with a dead forward,
+# which is what makes Restart meaningful.
+# ServerAlive*: a laptop that suspends drops the tunnel silently otherwise.
+ExecStart=/usr/bin/ssh -N \
+  -o ExitOnForwardFailure=yes \
+  -o ServerAliveInterval=30 \
+  -o ServerAliveCountMax=3 \
+  -o BatchMode=yes \
+  -L 127.0.0.1:9100:127.0.0.1:9110 \
+  kami@192.168.1.104
+Restart=always
+RestartSec=5
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target

deploy/mavwaked.service

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+# mavwaked — always-on listening, on workpc where the microphone is.
+#
+# User unit, beside mavgpud.service and maven-voice-tunnel.service. It is a
+# user unit because it needs his ALSA session and his ssh agent, and because
+# it should stop when he logs out.
+#
+# The keyword is "Мэйвен" and the three -wake- flags are what require it
+# (V-487 stage two). Without them anything spoken near the fifine becomes a
+# turn, which voiceSender makes safe rather than expensive: it sends
+# Surface=SurfaceVoice, capping every command at L0. That does not stop her
+# answering out loud, which is the whole reason the keyword exists.
+#
+# The threshold is 0.999 and it is the binary's default, so it is not passed.
+# It came from 65 minutes of held-out Russian speech through this same binary:
+# 0.9 false wakes an hour against 2.8 at 0.99, for one lost render out of 126
+# (docs/evals/2026-08-09-wake-word.md). If the room proves noisier than the
+# corpus, read the scores out of this unit's journal and pass -wake-threshold.
+# Do not lower it by guessing.
+#
+# A keyword shorter than 1.32s can be heard too late to be used, because the
+# head scores 1.28s of audio and the VAD has closed the utterance by then.
+# "Мэйвен, <request>" is unaffected. A bare "Мэйвен" is the case that fails.
+#
+# -vad-model is passed on purpose. Silero answers "is this frame speech" where
+# the energy floor answers "is this frame loud". It declines white noise at
+# the same RMS 0 frames to 68-99, and still hears all four spoken fixtures
+# (docs/evals/2026-08-09-silero-vad.md). It costs 509us a frame, 1.7% of one
+# core, and never touches the GPU. Drop the flag and the energy floor is back.
+#
+# -barge-in is NOT passed. The threshold is room-specific and this room has no
+# number yet. Turn it on only after reading the "suppressed while speaking"
+# means out of this unit's own journal, never by guessing.
+#
+#   install: cp to ~/.config/systemd/user/ on workpc
+#            systemctl --user enable --now mavwaked.service
+
+[Unit]
+Description=Maven always-on listening (silero VAD, "Мэйвен" keyword)
+# The tunnel is the only path to mavend and the only thing authenticating it.
+Requires=maven-voice-tunnel.service
+After=maven-voice-tunnel.service
+
+[Service]
+# The Scarlett Solo 4th Gen, and not the fifine. The fifine was the device
+# here for three days and mavwaked never logged one utterance in them, because
+# it returns RMS 0.00004 with its capture switch on and its ALSA volume at the
+# full 496 of 496. That silence is in the hardware, so no flag reaches it.
+#
+# Named CARD=Gen and not card 4, because a USB card number moves when
+# something else is replugged and this daemon must not change ears quietly.
+# Not "default" either: that follows whatever pipewire last decided.
+#
+# plughw and not hw. mavwaked asks arecord for 16kHz mono, which is what the
+# whole pipeline is canonical in. Neither microphone offers it, so bare hw
+# dies on "Channels count non available" before a frame is read. plughw puts
+# ALSA's downmix and resampler in front. Any replacement wants the same.
+#
+# The Scarlett measured RMS 0.003 against 0.14 on the onboard input, so its
+# front-panel gain is the thing to raise if she mishears. That is a knob, not
+# a control ALSA exposes. The two loud devices, the onboard ALC897 and the
+# camera, both clip at peak 1.0 and are worse candidates, not better ones.
+Environment=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%h/.local/lib
+ExecStart=%h/.local/bin/mavwaked \
+  -device plughw:CARD=Gen,DEV=0 \
+  -addr 127.0.0.1:9100 \
+  -lang ru \
+  -vad-model %h/.local/share/maven/models/silero_vad.onnx \
+  -wake-model %h/.local/share/maven/models/maven_wakeword.onnx \
+  -wake-mel %h/.local/share/maven/models/melspectrogram.onnx \
+  -wake-embed %h/.local/share/maven/models/embedding_model.onnx \
+  -onnx-lib %h/.local/lib/libonnxruntime.so
+Restart=on-failure
+RestartSec=5
+
+[Install]
+WantedBy=default.target

docker-compose.yml

@@ -53,6 +53,19 @@ services:
     # the decrypted working copy lives in RAM (see db_tmpfs in mavend.json).
     tmpfs:
       - /dev/shm
+    # the voice wire, for mavwaked and mavenclient on workpc (V-515).
+    #
+    # LOOPBACK ONLY, and that is the whole security argument. internal/voice
+    # is plaintext with no auth: its own server doc says production binds
+    # inside the wg tunnel, "the wg layer IS the L0 floor". workpc is not a wg
+    # peer, it is on wlan0. So the tunnel is ssh instead, terminated on this
+    # loopback address, and nothing new is on the LAN. Anyone who could reach
+    # a LAN-bound port here could push audio and hear his facts read back.
+    # SurfaceVoice caps acts at L0; it does not cap reading.
+    #
+    # Host 9100 is Vikunja's MCP, hence 9110. The container side stays 9100
+    # so mavweb keeps reaching mavend:9100 by name.
+    ports: ["127.0.0.1:9110:9100"]
 
   mavsttd:
     <<: *image

docs/deployment.md

@@ -0,0 +1,208 @@
+# Deployment: the boxes, the models, the daemons
+
+*Last verified: 2026-08-09 @ a9b480a*
+
+What runs where, and why each choice was made. `CLAUDE.md` carries only the
+rules. This file carries the reasoning.
+
+## The two boxes
+
+**homesrv** is a Ryzen 5 5600U laptop and the deploy target. It offloads to the
+Vega iGPU over Vulkan (`n_gpu_layers: 99`). Compose passes `/dev/dri` and the
+render gid (993), and without both Vulkan enumerates zero devices and
+llama-server falls back to CPU silently.
+
+**workpc** is the workstation, 16GB of VRAM, reached as `kami@workpc` at
+192.168.1.105. Model work moved there on 2026-08-02 by the owner's call, because
+homesrv cannot grow a GPU.
+
+Three rules govern the seam:
+
+- **The workstation is never assumed up.**
+- **Fall back silently** when it would only do the job better.
+- **Name the gap** when the resident model cannot do the job at all.
+
+A world question goes through `LLMPhraser.PhraseWorld` and returns `worldGap`
+(`cmd/mavend/worldmodel.go`) rather than an invented answer. A box with no
+`workstation` block behaves exactly as it did before the seam. `docs/offload.md`
+says which caller is which.
+
+## The resident model
+
+**Qwen3-1.7B** (`UD-Q4_K_XL`), stock, not yet the CPT'd one. It is a Thinking
+variant, so `n_ctx` is 4096. Reasoning tokens need the room, and 4096 is what
+every score was measured at.
+
+The target is the locally CPT'd Qwen3-1.7B (V-122, training in flight). Stock
+already speaks good Russian. What it gets wrong is the persona. It writes `я рад`
+where Maven needs `рада`.
+
+**Do not bother with sub-500M models.** LFM2.5-230M and 350M were measured on
+2026-07-31 and both are unusable in Russian
+(`docs/evals/2026-07-31-model-bakeoff.md`). Their published IFEval and BFCL
+numbers are English-only.
+
+Model files live in `/mnt/hdd1/llms`, bind-mounted to `/opt/maven/models/llm`.
+That **shadows** the repo's `models/llm/`, so a gguf sitting there is not loaded
+by anything. Swapping the resident model is a one-line change to
+`phraser.model_path` in `deploy/mavend.json`.
+
+The workstation model is gemma-4-E4B as of 2026-08-09, replacing the 12B by the
+owner's call. Keep the 12B gguf. It is the better teacher for label runs, at
+72.7% destination against E4B's 57.6%.
+
+## The embedder
+
+**It stays on homesrv permanently**, because it backs the floor. It is
+multilingual-e5-small, quantized and asymmetric. `EmbedQuery` and `EmbedPassage`
+apply the `query:` and `passage:` prefixes it was trained with. Calling plain
+`Embed` on a note is a bug. See `docs/evals/2026-08-04-recall-e5-small.md`.
+
+The vendored onnxruntime under `deps/` has two copies, and the stale one is
+1.17.1. The live runtime is 1.26.0, and the Go binding asks for API 26. Anything
+shipped to another box needs `deps/onnxruntime-linux-x64-1.26.0`.
+
+## Speech-to-text
+
+`sttSeam` in `cmd/mavend/voicewire.go` builds an `stt.Pair` beside `modelSeam`.
+It prefers CrisperWhisper 2.0 turbo on workpc with mavsttd as the floor. It takes
+only the silent half of the rule, because a worse transcript is still a turn. So
+`stt.Pair` has no `TranscribeRemote` and the fallback is never spoken.
+
+CW2 turbo scores 10.4% WER in Russian against 27.5% for the `ggml-small.bin`
+mavsttd loads, over 200 Golos clips
+(`docs/evals/2026-08-09-crisperwhisper2-russian-wer.md`).
+
+**whisper.cpp cannot load CW2 at all.** It reads its language count off the
+vocabulary size. CW2's 51897 tokens shift seven special token ids. So CW2 is its
+own transformers service on port 8081 (`deploy/cw2/serve.py`).
+`stt.HTTPTranscriber` posts raw PCM to it with a bearer token, because audio is
+the most sensitive thing that crosses this seam. The switch is `workstation.stt`
+in `deploy/mavend.json`, and deleting the block sends every utterance to mavsttd.
+
+**mavgpud runs that service as a second child.** This is not an optimisation.
+CW2 is a ROCm process on the same card, so it registers on the KFD like any
+contender. Under its own systemd unit it made mavgpud evict llama-server every
+few seconds. That took the model arm down for eight minutes on 2026-08-09. The
+card needs one owner. CW2 is on the yield clock and not the idle one. At 1.6GB
+it denies the card to nobody.
+
+Text-to-speech has not moved. piper on homesrv is the only synthesizer.
+
+## The daemons
+
+| Binary | Role |
+|---|---|
+| `mavend` | **Core.** Router, phraser, memory, reminders, digestion tick. Owns the DB and IPC socket. |
+| `mavweb` | HTTP UI and PWA (`/dash`, `/history`, `/trace`, `/notifications`, `/tools`), WebAuthn auth. |
+| `mavsttd` | Speech-to-text (whisper.cpp, CGO). |
+| `mavttsd` | Text-to-speech (piper subprocess). |
+| `mavwaked` | Wake-word and VAD gate. Runs on workpc. |
+| `mavenclient` | Voice loop client (mic, stt, core, tts). Not deployed. |
+| `mavpoll` | Environment poller: netdata alarms, uptime-kuma, zenmoney, wireguard presence. Writes facts, sends nothing. Telegram is `internal/delivery/telegramsink`. |
+| `mavcaldav` | CalDAV calendar sync. |
+| `mavmaild` | Mail reader (IMAP, read-only). Holds the IMAP password, core never sees it. |
+| `mavgpud` | GPU supervisor. **Runs on workpc**, own unit `deploy/mavgpud.service`. Keeps llama-server loaded while the card is free (V-488). Maven never asks it for anything and reads `/health` through `llm.Pair`. |
+| `mavupdate` | Not a daemon. Operator CLI a human runs on the box to deploy a new build. |
+
+Two binaries have no Makefile target and neither is deployed. `mavseal` encrypts
+a live tmpfs working copy back to the ciphertext file when mavend was killed
+before `defer st.Close()` sealed it. `labelgen` runs the stage 0 grammars over
+utterances and prints JSONL, the training data for the routing heads.
+
+Daemons are wired socket-to-socket, not linked. `internal/ipc` is the wire
+protocol. `deploy/mavend.json` sets socket paths, model paths and the phraser and
+embedder blocks, with `${VAR}` expansion from gitignored `deploy/telegram.env`.
+
+### Who is in compose, and who is not
+
+**`docker-compose.yml` runs five**: `mavend`, `mavsttd`, `mavttsd`, `mavweb`,
+`mavpoll`. Count against compose, not against the table above.
+
+`mavmaild` and `mavcaldav` are commented out, each with the reason beside it. The
+first needs a mail account and the second a CalDAV account, and this box has
+neither. Two things ride on the CalDAV absence (V-644). Agenda questions route to
+`IntentQuery` at stage 0, and the `calendar` query source then reads a table
+nobody writes. And `loop.State.CalendarBusy` is fed by the same facts, so the
+gate's "do not nag mid-meeting" is permanently false.
+
+`mavenclient` is still absent. `mavwaked` moved to workpc on 2026-08-09 (V-515).
+
+### The voice wire
+
+`internal/voice` is plaintext with no auth. Its own server doc says production
+binds inside the wg tunnel, because the wg layer is the L0 floor. workpc is not
+a wg peer, it sits on wlan0. So the tunnel is ssh instead.
+
+mavend publishes the voice port to homesrv loopback only, `127.0.0.1:9110`.
+Host 9100 is Vikunja's MCP, hence 9110. The container side stays 9100 so mavweb
+keeps reaching `mavend:9100` by name. `deploy/maven-voice-tunnel.service` on
+workpc forwards it over his key.
+
+**Do not replace this with a LAN bind.** `SurfaceVoice` caps acts at L0, so an
+unauthorized speaker could not run a destructive tool. L0 does not cap reading,
+so they would still hear his facts, notes and calendar read back.
+
+Both `mavwaked` and `mavenclient` speak `voice.Dial`, not `ipc.Dial`. The
+`netaddr` token guards the daemon-to-daemon IPC seam and never touches this one.
+`ipc.Dial` does take `tcp://host:port?token=...`, which is why V-515 was filed
+as a config change. That premise was wrong, and the ssh leg is the correction.
+
+The voice loop belongs on a client machine where the owner is standing, and that
+machine is workpc (V-463, `docs/plans/17-where-the-voice-loop-runs.md`). homesrv
+has a microphone, because it is a laptop, but it is in the wrong room.
+
+### mavwaked on workpc
+
+`deploy/mavwaked.service`, a user unit beside `mavgpud.service`. Two flags are
+deliberate.
+
+`-vad-model` is passed. Silero answers "is this frame speech" where the energy
+floor answers "is this frame loud". It declines white noise at the same RMS, 0
+frames against 68 to 99, and still hears all four spoken fixtures
+(`docs/evals/2026-08-09-silero-vad.md`). It costs 509µs a frame and never touches
+the GPU. A model that will not load is logged and not fatal.
+
+`-barge-in` is not passed. The threshold is room-specific and this room has no
+number yet. Read the "suppressed while speaking" means out of the journal first.
+
+The device is `plughw:0,0` and not `hw:0,0`. The fifine offers 2 channels at
+44100 or 48000 and nothing else, and mavwaked asks arecord for 16kHz mono. Bare
+`hw` dies on "Channels count non available" before a frame is read.
+
+The three `-wake-` flags require the keyword "Мэйвен" (V-487 stage two). Drop
+them and the loop runs open, which is what it did before. The threshold is the
+binary's default of 0.999 and is not passed. Over 65 minutes of held-out
+Russian speech it woke her 0.9 times an hour against 2.8 at 0.99. That cost one
+lost render out of 126 (`docs/evals/2026-08-09-wake-word.md`).
+
+The three sessions are pinned to one thread each. onnxruntime otherwise sizes
+its pool to every core and spins between runs, which took mavwaked from 68% of
+one core to 335%. With the cap it sits at 81%, so the gate costs about 13%.
+
+A keyword shorter than 1.32s can be heard too late to be used. The head scores
+1.28s of audio, and the VAD has closed the utterance by then.
+"Мэйвен, <request>" is unaffected. A bare "Мэйвен" is the case that fails.
+
+mavwaked connects at startup and holds the conn, so a nudge routed to voice
+reaches the speaker before he has said anything (V-671). It used to connect
+lazily, which made the failure silent rather than absent: after one utterance
+the session existed, `PushToMostRecent` succeeded, the dispatcher stopped
+rerouting to telegram and ntfy, and mavwaked discarded the audio.
+
+**Passwords are read from files, never taken as flag values.** `mavcaldav` uses
+`-pass-file` and `-render-pass-file`. `mavpoll` and `mavmaild` follow the same
+rule.
+
+## Web UI conventions
+
+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 and headless
+screenshot recipes are in `AGENTS.md`.

docs/ecosystem.md

@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ Maven is the user-facing control center, but not the source of truth for identit
 
 Maven provides the human interface over the other systems.
 
+| Service | Owns | Maven's client | Configured at |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| **Nexus** | Canonical entity ids, names, aliases, relationships. Projects, services, devices, people, pets, places. | `nexusClient` in `cmd/mavend/ecosystem.go`, `POST /api/v1/resolve` | `nexus.url` (`http://nexus:9740`) |
+| **Praxis** | Operational attention and item lifecycle. What needs looking at, what changed, what is unresolved. | `praxisClient`, the HTTP tools API under `/api/v1/tools/` | `praxis.url` (`http://praxis:8989`) |
+| **Hexis** | The capability registry and the only path to executing anything. | vendored `github.com/kami/hexis/pkg/client` | `hexis.url` (`http://hexis:9741`) |
+
 It is responsible for:
 
 - interpreting Russian and English utterances

docs/evals/2026-08-09-wake-word.md

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+# The "Мэйвен" wake word: what it hears and what it invents
+
+*Measured 2026-08-09 on workpc and homesrv. V-487, stage two of two.*
+
+Stage one gave mavwaked silero-vad, which answers "is this frame speech".
+Nothing answered "was this said to her", so every utterance near the
+microphone became a turn. SurfaceVoice caps acts at L0, which made that safe
+rather than expensive. L0 does not cap reading, so the room could still hear
+his facts read back.
+
+The keyword is "Мэйвен". openWakeWord's two frozen feature models do the
+hearing and a 100KB head trained here draws the boundary. It runs on CPU
+beside silero and never touches the GPU.
+
+## Why a per-window accuracy is not a number anyone can act on
+
+The gate scores every 80ms. A 1.7% false-accept rate per window sounds small
+and means a wake every few seconds. The useful question is how many times an hour
+it wakes on speech that was not the keyword. So every table below counts
+threshold crossings over whole clips and divides by the audio duration.
+
+A crossing, not a window above the threshold. A keyword held high for half a
+second is one wake, not six.
+
+## The data
+
+Positives are 600 silero TTS renders of three stressings of the keyword, six
+speakers, ten trailing phrases, augmented eight ways each. Hard negatives are
+560 renders of confusable Russian words. Real speech is Common Voice ru and Golos.
+The 74257 Common Voice clips were already on workpc from the CrisperWhisper
+work. The 200 Golos clips came from the CW2 WER eval.
+
+Splits are by source file. Augmented copies of one render on both sides of a
+split would measure memorisation.
+
+Golos was never trained on at any stage, so it answers the harder question:
+does this survive a change of speakers and rooms.
+
+## Three heads
+
+Each row is a full retrain. The false-accept column is 8.89 hours of Common
+Voice that no stage of training had seen.
+
+| trained on | recall (window) | false wakes/hour @0.99 |
+|---|---|---|
+| TTS + 13.7 min of Golos | 0.869 | not measurable |
+| + 4000 Common Voice clips | 0.836 | 21.9 |
+| + 3837 mined hard negatives | 0.784 | 4.2 |
+| + 753 more mined | 0.810 | 3.4 |
+
+The first row is why the second exists. Thirteen minutes of held-out speech
+cannot measure a rate for a gate that scores twelve times a second. A head
+trained only against TTS learns to tell TTS from not-TTS.
+
+Mining is the whole story after that. Random negatives teach the head what
+most speech sounds like. They do not teach it the few syllable sequences that
+score high, because 4000 clips barely contain them. So the current head was
+run over 20000 fresh clips, keeping every window it scored above 0.05. That
+found 3837 windows in 855512. Repeating those ten times in the next training
+run cut the rate five-fold.
+
+The second round found 753 in 852240, a fifth of the yield, and bought a
+further 20%. It also recovered recall, which the first round had cost. Whether
+a third round is worth 25 minutes of workpc is untested.
+
+## Where the threshold came from
+
+Both columns are held out. Positives are the 126 renders in the test split.
+Speech is 65.1 minutes of Common Voice, disjoint from every training and
+mining pool. Both were run through the built `mavwaked` binary reading PCM from a
+file, not through the python that trained the head.
+
+| threshold | renders shipped | false wakes/hour |
+|---|---|---|
+| 0.99 | 116 / 126 | 2.8 |
+| 0.999 | 115 / 126 | 0.9 |
+
+One render against a third of the false wakes. `defaultWakeThreshold` is
+0.999.
+
+Golos disagrees. It gave 2 wakes in 14 minutes at every threshold, which is
+8.7 per hour. Two events is not a rate. What it does say is that a handful of real utterances score above 0.999
+and no threshold will move them.
+
+## What it costs him
+
+Ten of the 126 held-out renders were heard and still dropped, and every one
+was an utterance shorter than 1.32s. The head scores 16 embeddings, or 1.28s of
+audio. The score therefore peaks up to a second after a short keyword ends.
+By then the VAD has closed the utterance and dispatch has already asked.
+
+Real commands are "Мэйвен, <request>" and run past two seconds, which gives
+the head the whole request to peak during. A bare "Мэйвен" with nothing after
+it is the case that fails. One fix would hold an ignored utterance for a grace
+period and ship it if the keyword lands late. It is not built.
+
+## What it costs the workstation
+
+Under systemd on workpc, mavwaked sat at 335% of a core with the gate on and
+68% with only silero. onnxruntime sizes its thread pool to every core and spins
+between runs, and this gate runs three graphs twelve times a second. Pinning
+all three sessions to one thread brought it to 81%, so the keyword costs about
+13% of one core. The three graphs each finish in well under 80ms that way.
+
+## What was not measured
+
+No room recordings. Every negative above is a clean corpus clip. This gate
+will live among a television, a fan and the far side of a kitchen. None of
+those are in these numbers.
+
+No measurement of him. Training on his voice means copying his transcripts off
+homesrv, which is his call and has not been asked.

docs/language.md

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+# Language: what the model emits, and how Russian is matched
+
+*Last verified: 2026-08-09 @ a9b480a*
+
+Two contracts live here. What a model call is allowed to return, and which
+mechanism is allowed to recognise a Russian word.
+
+## The LLM output contract
+
+All phrasing paths emit `{"response":"...","mood":"..."}`. They fall back to
+plain text when the model skips the JSON.
+
+**One parser, `parseResponseMood` in `internal/phraser/parse.go`.** Every path
+reaches it: the six `LLMPhraser` methods, `PhraseWorld`, and
+`Replier.PhraseReply`. `cmd/mavend/replier_llm.go` wraps the last of those,
+holds the stub fallback, and parses nothing itself. Mood is a fixed enum.
+
+The router prompt is a separate contract:
+
+```text
+[{"intent":<enum>, key?, value?, text?, verb?}, ...]
+```
+
+over 7 intents: `fact, reminder, note, query, act, chat, system`.
+`llm/check_prompt_parity.py` in the training workspace enforces that the Go
+prompt and the relabelling prompt stay identical. They diverged once, and the
+relabelled set then taught a head the Go router never asks for.
+
+## Russian patterns: three mechanisms, no fourth
+
+Hand-written Russian stem patterns were swept out on 2026-08-04 by the owner's
+call. A regex whose output is a fact or a route is the defect. A regex over
+structured input, such as HTML, MIME, JSON, a URL or an argv list, is not.
+
+Before writing a Russian word list, pick one of these.
+
+### `internal/lexicon`, for closed classes
+
+`lexicon_ru_v1.json` holds interrogatives, capture verbs, reminder verbs,
+cardinals, day offsets, parts of day, weekdays, months and spoken hours.
+Editing a word is a data change and there is exactly one copy. Months used to
+live in three files and drifted between them.
+
+Cardinals carry the oblique forms, because a spoken time declines. `в семь` and
+`к семи` are one hour.
+
+### `internal/morph`, for grammar
+
+From the vendored golem Russian dictionary. `IsVerbForm` and `SameWord`.
+
+Lemma matching is BROADER than stem-plus-one-ending. A verb slot that means the
+imperative must be matched exactly. `говори` and `говорил` share a
+lemma and only one of them is a command
+(`cmd/mavend/quiet_toggle.go`).
+
+### `cmd/mavend/topics.go` and the embedder, for open sets
+
+Use these when the question is what a turn is ABOUT. Frozen seeds per subject
+plus a real `other` class, scored against the turn's own query vector.
+
+Same shape as the personal boundary in `personalboundary.go`, with one
+difference. A topic must clear the runner-up by `topicMargin`, because a false
+claim here spends a network scan rather than one honest "не знаю". The old
+keyword tests stay as the offline floor.
+
+### The ecosystem trio
+
+Use it when the answer is not in the utterance at all. Identity is Nexus's,
+never a local pattern.
+
+## Seeds are scoring data
+
+Editing one moves a recogniser. Re-measure against the `TestONNX*` tests rather
+than eyeballing the change.

docs/routing.md

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+# Routing
+
+*Last verified: 2026-08-09 @ 31b5093*
+
+How an utterance becomes a `Decision`, why each stage exists, and what every
+stage has measured. `CLAUDE.md` carries the rules an agent must not break. This
+file carries the reasoning and the history behind them.
+
+Two decisions come out of a route. **Intent** is one of seven values. **Source**
+is where the answer lives, and it is read on `IntentQuery` alone. They are scored
+separately, because one number hides which one moved.
+
+## The cascade
+
+| Stage | What it is | Where |
+|---|---|---|
+| 0 | Deterministic grammars over the utterance | `stage0.go`, `praxis.go`, `worldquery.go` |
+| 0b | Four ONNX heads on one e5-small forward pass | `heads.go` |
+| 1 | The resident model, GBNF-constrained JSON | `llmrouter.go` |
+| 2 | Nearest neighbour over frozen seed phrases | `classifier.go`, `embedder.go` |
+
+Every stage may decline, and the next one answers. Any error at stage 0b or 1
+falls through, so a turn never breaks on a model.
+
+The resident model arm is wired at `voice.go:214` through
+`pickLLMRouter(cfg.Voice.UseLLMRouter(), llmClient)`. The flag is
+`voice.llm_router` in `config.go`, `DefaultLLMRouter` is on, and
+`deploy/mavend.json` sets it `true`. With no llama-server to talk to,
+`pickLLMRouter` logs that and degrades to the classifier.
+
+The classifier is the floor and not dead code. It runs when the resident model
+is off, when there is no llama-server to talk to, and on any per-turn error.
+Routing by seed similarity is the known cause of weak Russian queries. Deleting
+it would make a model outage a broken turn.
+
+### Why there are two engines at all
+
+The original design was the classifier alone. `docs/rearchitecture.md` replaced
+it with a model that emits structured JSON. The same weights phrase the reply.
+That demoted the embedder from a routing gate to a hint for recall. The model
+became the default on 2026-07-31.
+
+The gap it buys is smaller than the design assumed. Measured 2026-08-02 on the
+77-case Russian fixture, the classifier scores 68.8% full accuracy at p50 16.6µs.
+Qwen3-1.7B scores 72.7% through the cascade. Four points, not a doubling.
+
+An older figure of 36.8% for the classifier stood in `CLAUDE.md` until then. It
+predates the stage 0 rules and the seed additions. Both now score inside the
+classifier baseline.
+
+Latency was misreported the same way. A figure of 2.7 seconds stood for two
+days and was contention rather than the model.
+`docs/evals/2026-07-31-routing.md` line 61 measures the router at p50 825ms and
+the cascade at p50 0.80s to 1.04s.
+
+## Numbers
+
+Three arms answer, so three numbers are live. Judge a routing change against the
+classifier and the resident model, since those are what always answer.
+
+| Arm | Intent | Destination | p50 | Measured |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| classifier + ONNX | 76.0% (73/96) | 36.4% (12/33) | 16.6µs | 2026-08-08 |
+| resident Qwen3-1.7B, cascade | 80.2% | not measured | 1.19s | 2026-08-05 |
+| routing heads, cascade | 96.9% | 75.8% | 27.9ms | 2026-08-08 |
+| gemma-4-12b, cascade | 84.4% | 72.7% | 329ms | 2026-08-02 |
+| gemma-4-E4B, cascade | 89.6% | 57.6% (19/33) | 294ms | 2026-08-09 |
+
+The fixture grew from 77 cases to 91 to 96. So a number is comparable only to
+another number on the same fixture. Sources:
+`docs/evals/2026-08-05-routing-resident-model.md`,
+`docs/evals/2026-08-02-workstation-gemma4-12b.md`,
+`docs/evals/2026-08-09-e4b-vs-12b-routing.md`,
+`docs/evals/2026-08-08-routing-heads-in-go.md`,
+`docs/evals/2026-08-08-destination-fixture.md`.
+
+The resident model alone scores 37.4% full against 61.5% intent-only. The gap is
+slots and not routing. It routes `reminder` and leaves the time to the daemon,
+which is what the contract asks.
+
+To re-run the resident model as router, start a **second** llama-server on a
+fixed host port. The resident one binds `--port 0` inside the container and no
+host process can reach it.
+
+### The workstation is not the better router any more
+
+It was, from 2026-08-02 until the heads landed. gemma-4-12b beat everything on
+the box at 84.4% intent and 72.7% destination. The heads beat it on both at a
+twelfth of the latency. The workstation stays the better phraser.
+
+E4B replaced the 12B on 2026-08-09 by the owner's call. It is a step down on
+routing. Against a same-session 12B control it costs four destination cases and
+buys 50ms. Read destination as the finding. It names nothing where the 12B names
+`recall` or `calendar`, which is safe but walks the whole chain. It has no MTP
+and cannot be given any here. The only `gemma4-assistant` draft on disk is
+trained against the 12B's hidden states.
+
+## Stage 0: what the grammars claim, and why
+
+A rule at this stage is a claim. Either the model gets this wrong, or it wastes a
+second getting it right. Every rule was added against a measurement.
+
+- **Agenda questions** (`AgendaQueryGrammars`, 2026-08-01). "что у меня сегодня",
+  "во сколько у меня встреча" and anything naming a calendar go to `IntentQuery`.
+  They were going to `IntentSystem`, where `replySystem` has no agenda arm and
+  answered "пока не умею". Worth 2.6 points of full accuracy and calendar 0/2 to
+  2/2.
+- **Rest of day and narrative** (V-498, 2026-08-04). `rest-of-day-query` claims
+  "что дальше?". `NarrativeQueryGrammar` claims "расскажи про X", "объясни X" and
+  "опиши X". Neither carries a question mark or an interrogative, so the model
+  called both `IntentFact`. `IsQuestionShaped` caught the write downstream, so
+  this was a latency and fixture defect rather than a correctness one. The
+  narrative rule declines `chatNarrativeTopics`, because the query chain has no
+  source that answers a joke or a bedtime story.
+- **Praxis** (V-516, 2026-08-05). `PraxisGrammars()` fills `Slots.Fn` with a
+  capability name. These grammars are the **only** path to Praxis and not a
+  faster one. The model reaches Praxis 0/12 alone, the same as the classifier.
+  Nothing in the router prompt names a Praxis capability, so there is no string
+  for it to write. Through the cascade it is 11/12. Measured overall 16/30 to
+  27/30, lifecycle 0/5 to 5/5
+  (`docs/evals/2026-08-05-praxis-reach.md`,
+  `docs/evals/2026-08-05-reach-llm-router.md`).
+  `handlePraxisAct` compares `Slots.Fn` to a capability alias. Otherwise that
+  slot is filled from the deployment's enabled tool names, and no Praxis alias
+  is on that list.
+- **World questions** (`WorldQueryGrammars`, V-655, 2026-08-07). "что такое X"
+  and "сколько будет 17 на 23". Wired after the agenda rules and **before** the
+  feed and list rules. "что такое лента" is a definition question, and the feed
+  rule would take it on the noun alone.
+
+`calendar-query` and `event-time-query` name the calendar as the destination.
+The possessive agenda rules deliberately do not. "что у меня в списке покупок"
+matches `agenda-query`, and naming the calendar there would take the list source
+off the turn. That caution now costs four destination cases. See the model arm
+below.
+
+Go's `\b` is ASCII-only and never fires after a Cyrillic letter. A pattern needs
+an explicit `(\s|[?!.]|$)`.
+
+`baselineGrammars` in `eval_test.go` mirrors `buildRouter` and has drifted before.
+`WorldQueryGrammars` was wired into the daemon by V-655 and not into the mirror,
+so the fixture scored a grammar set nobody runs. Fixed by V-659, worth 3 points
+of destination.
+
+### Praxis lifecycle rules
+
+A **stative** lifecycle word ("готово", "принято") needs an item named beside it.
+A bare **imperative** ("закрывай") may ask which one. It also requires a sentence
+naming no object of its own. Otherwise "закрой шторы в комнате" goes to Praxis
+instead of the house. A demonstrative ("отметь это как сделанное") resolves
+against `h.surfacedItems` only when exactly one item was spoken. Otherwise the
+turn goes back to the cascade rather than transitioning the wrong item.
+
+### Slots on a stage 0 decision
+
+`fillMatchedSlots` runs the stage 2 extractor over whatever a grammar built
+(V-572, 2026-08-06). It fills only the slots the grammar left empty. A matched
+value always wins, because the rule read a literal pattern and the extractor
+guesses.
+
+It did not run before. So `ReminderGrammar` handed the daemon `HasTime: false`
+for "напомни в 11:00 позвонить маме", and `missingFor` read the silence as
+absence and asked "Когда?". It is inert for every grammar but the reminder:
+`Extract` fills Time, Fn and Key and nothing else. A stage 0 query costs 3.7µs
+against 3.9µs before, benchmarked at 20000x.
+
+`Slots.Text` is deliberately not filled. A grammar that left it empty meant it,
+and `agendaQueryBuild` hands the query chain the utterance itself.
+
+## Stage 0b: the routing heads
+
+Routing has a bounded output space, so it is classification rather than
+generation (owner's call, V-546,
+`docs/plans/18-routing-heads-on-e5-small.md`). The 118M multilingual-e5-small is
+already resident. A softmax cannot emit a value that does not exist, so no
+grammar is needed. Max softmax is a calibratable confidence, where
+`Confidence: 1.0` was a hardcode. Training costs roughly 5e15 FLOPs, so 10 to 30
+minutes on the workstation. A 100M decoder from scratch is 10 to 20 GPU hours.
+
+**Fine-tune a copy of the weights.** The resident embedder backs memory recall.
+Training it in place couples routing accuracy to recall@1, with nothing in the
+suite to name the trade.
+
+Four heads share one masked mean pool, trained over three days. The measurements
+are `docs/evals/2026-08-08-routing-heads-two-head.md`,
+`docs/evals/2026-08-08-slot-head-three-head.md`,
+`docs/evals/2026-08-08-clarify-head-four-head.md` and
+`docs/evals/2026-08-08-massive-warm-start.md`.
+
+| Head | Score | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| intent | 92.8% mean over 3 seeds | fixture is the 88 cases carrying an intent |
+| destination | 80.8% mean, best 29/33 | beats the 12B teacher it was distilled from |
+| slot BIO tags | 72.4% span F1 | still climbing when epoch selection stops it |
+| clarify | catches 7.0 of 8, 2.3 false of 88 | parity with the cascade, no rules in front |
+
+Read the best destination run as one seed and not a headline. One case is 3
+points on a fixture this small. Head intent accuracy is **not** comparable to the
+cascade's 76.0% and 84.4%. A softmax has no clarify class, so the head's fixture
+is 88 cases and not 96.
+
+Recall is 15/15 and world is 5/5.
+
+**Mood is cut, not deferred.** The enum describes her own reply state, not the
+speaker's emotion, and no dataset maps onto it.
+
+### The clarify head
+
+Clarify is not a value of intent, so a softmax cannot emit it. It is a second
+question over the same pooled vector: can Maven act on this at all. Accuracy is
+the wrong number here and a head that never asks scores 91.7%.
+
+Confidence is the other half. Max softmax over the intent head reads 0.851 where
+it is right and 0.604 where it is wrong. It ranks right above wrong in 83.4% of
+pairs.
+
+It is not free the way the slot head was. Intent, destination and slot F1 each
+move down one to four points, inside the seed spread. `поужинал` is a false
+clarify on every seed. That is the same defect `thinSingleToken` was narrowed for
+on 2026-08-01.
+
+The corpus is generated, because every existing row is answerable by
+construction. The router-prompt agreement filter cannot work here. `routeGrammar`
+has no clarify value, and a generated line always agrees with itself. A gemma
+judge replaces it. The first judge called 24 of 40 answerable rows underspecified.
+It judged against a generic assistant rather than against Maven's contract.
+
+### The slot head
+
+BIO slot tags had no Maven-domain corpus. That was true of found corpora and
+false of made ones. `label_slots.py` distils spans out of gemma-4-12b under a
+GBNF closed over Maven's own five slots. A span survives only when it is a
+literal substring of the utterance, so the agreement filter costs no second call.
+2178 spans over 1702 rows, 37 dropped, nothing unparsed.
+
+Epoch selection reads the intent dev slice alone. That costs the slot head about
+4 points.
+
+### Warm start and the floor
+
+The MASSIVE warm-start of step 2 is worth nothing here. Stock e5-small ties it on
+intent and leads by a third of a case on destination. Nothing argues for keeping
+that step.
+
+The floor was a corpus defect and it is fixed. The first 120 floor rows carried
+one sentence shape, so the head named a destination where the fixture says walk
+the chain. Rotating six shapes took the floor 3/7 to 6/7 and destination 75.8% to
+80.8%.
+
+What is left is calendar at 3/6 on every seed, which training cannot move. The
+possessive agenda rules claim those cases at stage 0 and name nothing, so no
+label reaches the head.
+
+### Reading them in Go
+
+`RouterHeads` in `internal/router/heads.go` loads `router_heads.onnx` (V-664,
+2026-08-08). It reads intent, destination and clarify off one forward pass.
+
+Three rules around it, each measured:
+
+- The **clarify head decides first**, before the intent threshold. It answers a
+  different question. A thin utterance scores low intent by construction, so
+  gating it cost 6 of 8 ambiguous cases.
+- The **destination head is read on `IntentQuery` only**, since no other intent
+  reaches `queryWalk`.
+- `headsThreshold` is 0.6, the measured knee. Every value up to 0.85 drops right
+  answers and keeps the same two wrong ones.
+
+`voice.embedder.heads_path` is the whole switch. Empty, missing or unloadable
+means the heads are nil. The cascade is then byte-for-byte what shipped before
+them.
+
+### The tokenizer bug the heads found
+
+`encodeWord` in `onnxembedder.go` read every long word backwards until 2026-08-08.
+It cost recall@1 7.4 points and recall@3 11.1. Nothing caught it, because seeds
+and queries were mangled the same way and cosine survived. The heads found it.
+They are trained through transformers and read through this.
+
+The embedder id now carries a tokenizer revision (`@384/tok2`). So fixing the
+tokenizer triggers `ReembedAll` the way swapping the model file does. Bump
+`tokenizerRev` on any change to what it emits.
+
+## Clarify
+
+`Confidence: 1.0` was hardcoded in `llmrouter.go`. So the model path could never
+ask for clarification, and it missed 6 of 6 refusal cases (V-359). The bug had a
+second half. The model branch never consulted `r.threshold` at all, so a correct
+low confidence would have been discarded anyway.
+
+Fixed 2026-07-31 with structural signal feeding the same stage 3 gate the
+classifier path already had (`gateLLMDecision` in `router.go`). Three signals: a
+single-token utterance, a keyless fact, an act with no allowlisted fn.
+
+Re-measured: missed clarify 6/6 to 1, at the cost of 3 false clarifies and 2.6
+points of full accuracy. Two of the three false clarifies are acts the model
+mis-routed and the gate caught. Asking beats wrongly executing, so the fixture
+and the daemon disagree about what is correct there.
+
+The third, `поужинал`, was a real defect. The single-token rule was an English
+intuition. It does not transfer to Russian, where one word is routinely a whole
+sentence.
+
+Narrowed 2026-08-01. `thinSingleToken` (`internal/router/singletoken.go`) still
+thins a bare one-word nominal. It spares two classes. One is a closed lexicon of
+social and control singles ("привет", "стоп", "yes"). The other is any token
+carrying a Russian verb ending, because a verb already contains its subject. Both
+tests are offline and cost nothing. False clarifies 3 to 2, intent-only 74.0% to
+75.3%.
+
+The two remaining false clarifies are the act-with-no-allowlisted-fn arm of the
+gate, not this rule.
+
+## The destination
+
+`query` was a shrug. The cascade sorted an utterance into one of seven intents,
+then `IntentQuery` handed the turn to `querySources` in the daemon. That is
+twenty-two branches deciding by seed similarity in a fixed order. It had no
+fixture, no accuracy number, no model arm and no floor.
+
+`Decision.Source` (`internal/router/source.go`) is the second half of the route
+(V-655, 2026-08-07). Twelve destinations, not twenty-two. The three recall passes
+plus `fact-by-key` are one destination from outside. So are search, Kiwix and the
+URL reader.
+
+`queryWalk` in `cmd/mavend/actions_query.go` takes sources **out** and moves none.
+That is the safety argument. The table's order is load-bearing. Every comment on
+it argues a reason between two sources. Above all it carries "the owner's data
+first, then the world". Naming `SourceWorld` does not send the turn outside on its
+own.
+
+What comes out is only the sources that **guess**. Those decide a turn is theirs
+by cosine against frozen seeds, then answer whatever they claimed. They hold no
+table that could come back empty. Weather is the pure case and has no local data
+at all. It was measured on the box 2026-08-07
+(`docs/evals/2026-08-07-week-of-usage.md` section 4). It answered both "что такое
+TCP?" and "сколько будет 17 на 23?" with "для какого города?". The feed answered
+"какой у меня любимый язык?" with kernel headlines.
+
+### Who may drop the personal boundary
+
+The personal boundary guesses, so naming `SourceWorld` drops it. That is what
+stops it answering "кто такой Линус Торвальдс?" with "не нашла у тебя такой
+записи", which it did on 2026-08-07.
+
+Three deciders name a destination and two of them infer it: the heads and the
+resident model. An inferred `SourceWorld` on a question about him would reach
+SearXNG. That widens what is asked rather than costing a local answer. So only a
+stage 0 grammar may drop it (owner's call, V-666, 2026-08-09).
+
+`Decision.SourceAnchored` carries the provenance. It is a field and not
+`Stage == 0`. Stage 0 also means confidence 1.0 and an anchored claim band, and
+one of those could stop implying the others. `definitionQueryPattern` claims "кто
+такой X", so the 2026-08-07 case is still anchored and still answered.
+
+`queryWalk` reads `SourceAnchored` for the query source marked `boundary: true`
+and no other. Every other guesser still comes off the turn, whoever named the
+destination. `TestOnlyAGrammarMayDropTheBoundary` and
+`TestNamingRecallKeepsTheBoundary` pin both directions.
+
+### The destination fixture
+
+`want_source` on `eval.Case` is a pointer, because the destination has three
+states and a bare string has two. Absent is every intent but query. Present and
+empty is the `SourceUnknown` contract: name nothing and walk the chain. Present
+and named is a destination the route must produce. Thirty-three of ninety-six
+cases carry one.
+
+A destination miss does **not** fail the case. It lands in `Outcome.SourceReason`
+and never in `Reasons`, so `Accuracy` and `IntentAccuracy` mean what they meant.
+`SourceAccuracy` is a second number over the labelled cases alone.
+A route that lost its intent scores no destination hit. Otherwise a clarify would
+satisfy an empty label for free.
+
+Seven cases assert the floor and five of them are homelab operations. They cluster
+because `SourceRecall`, `SourceNetwork` and `SourceAttention` overlap on every
+question about the box. `mavpoll` writes its netdata and uptime-kuma observations
+into the fact store recall reads. That is a finding about the enum, not a gap in
+the labelling. The other two are `ru-query-005` and `ru-query-014`. No query
+source reads the reminder store, and a deadline could sit in tasks, the calendar
+or Praxis. The owner confirmed all seven floor labels on 2026-08-08.
+
+### The model arm
+
+`routeGrammar` carries a `source` rule closed over `router.Sources` plus the
+empty floor (V-660, 2026-08-08). So the model cannot emit a destination that does
+not exist. The prompt lists the twelve in Russian and says `""` is a normal answer
+to give often. `LLMRouter.Route` reads it back through `ValidSource` and on
+`IntentQuery` alone.
+
+Against gemma-4-12b the cascade scores destination 24/33 with intent unmoved, and
+recall goes 0/15 to 14/15.
+
+**Stage 0 now costs four destination points.** It did not before. The four cases
+the cascade loses and the model alone wins are all calendar. The possessive agenda
+rules claim them first and name nothing on purpose. That caution was free while
+nothing downstream could name anything either. It is not free now, and the fix is
+the owner's call (V-660 open).
+
+## The decision trace
+
+Arbitration between the claimants on the utterance stream is order. It is
+hardcoded in the pre-route resolver ladder, in `buildRouter` and in
+`querySources`. Nothing recorded who lost until V-564.
+
+`internal/decision` records one `Record` per turn. It holds every claimant, what
+it would have made the turn, the score it reported, and how it ended. A claimant
+won, declined, lost on score, was thinned by a gate or was **never asked**.
+
+The record rides the context, the same seam `querysource.go` uses. So a claim
+site cannot change a route, and a context with no record costs nothing. It is
+installed in `runTurn`, so the mic, telegram and the web leave the same trail.
+
+Adding a rung to the ladder in `runTurn` means adding its name to `preRouteLadder`
+in `cmd/mavend/decisiontrace.go`. Otherwise that rung is silently missing from the
+record.
+
+### Why it persists now
+
+The original rule was that nothing persists, because a turn record is read minutes
+later or never. Storage was a 25-turn in-memory ring read over `ipc.TurnDecisions`
+and rendered on `/trace`.
+
+The owner reversed it on 2026-08-06 (V-629,
+`docs/plans/21-persisting-the-routing-trace.md`). The routing heads cannot be
+fitted or calibrated without real utterances. And 9 of the 31 modes in
+`internal/modes` have no seed example at all.
+
+The ring did not move. `cmd/mavend/routingtrace.go` is a second sink beside it,
+writing `routing_traces` (migration #23). The utterance is stored in clear. A
+384-dimension vector of a short sentence is substantially recoverable, so storing
+vectors instead would be a privacy claim we cannot support. What makes it safe is
+the same thing that makes the fact store safe. Retention is 14 days, enforced on
+write and again on start, so a box that goes quiet does not keep every row.
+Nothing reads it outward. `Store.Wipe` deletes it with everything else.
+
+### Corrections
+
+A correction is promoted out into a seed-shaped row in `routing_labels`
+(migration #24) and kept, because a label is not a transcript. The transcript
+still expires.
+
+A turn marked wrong with no target is a usable negative, so naming the intent is
+never required. The target is one of the seven intents and never free text.
+
+All three reaches offer it as of 2026-08-06:
+
+- `/chat` offers two buttons beside the reply, over `ipc.CorrectTurn` and the
+  trace id that rides back on `ipc.ChatReply`.
+- Voice offers the `repair` rung, which has read spoken corrections since V-455.
+  It now writes the durable label beside the classifier seed it always wrote. A
+  spoken negative with no target is its own rung, `repair-negative` (V-636,
+  `docs/plans/22-correcting-a-turn.md`).
+- Telegram offers an inline keyboard under the reply. It needed the chat to become
+  readable first (V-637, `docs/plans/23-inbound-telegram.md`). The poller is dark
+  unless the `telegram` block says `intake`. It long-polls, because the box takes
+  no inbound connections. It accepts `chat_id` and no other sender, and it drops
+  whatever queued while the daemon was down. It reaches the daemon through
+  `ipc.CoreAPI` alone.
+
+The turn source is still `tap:text` for both telegram and the web. So provenance
+cannot tell a chat turn from a typed one.

docs/workflow.md

@@ -0,0 +1,80 @@
+# Session workflow: the five stores and the guards
+
+*Last verified: 2026-08-09 @ a9b480a*
+
+How a session starts, where each kind of writing belongs, and what the hooks
+refuse. `CLAUDE.md` carries the commands. This file carries the reasoning.
+
+## Five stores
+
+Each owns something the others must not hold.
+
+| Store | Holds | Lifetime |
+|---|---|---|
+| Vikunja task | goal, constraints, assumption ledger, status | durable |
+| `CLAUDE.md`, `AGENTS.md` | what an agent must know before touching code | durable |
+| `docs/` | design, measurements, decisions | durable |
+| `TASK.md` | the brief for this branch, written by `task start`, immutable | one branch |
+| `HANDOFF.md` | only what the next agent needs to resume | one session |
+
+`TASK.md` and `.task/` are excluded through `.git/info/exclude`. `HANDOFF.md` is
+gitignored and injected at session start. If a line in the handoff would still
+matter next week, it is in the wrong file.
+
+## Doc tiers
+
+Tiered by path, so staleness is visible from the filename.
+
+- Files directly under `docs/` are living. They carry a
+  `Last verified: <date> @ <sha>` line and are corrected in place.
+- Files under `docs/evals/` are dated measurements and are never edited after
+  the day. A newer number is a new file, not an edit.
+- Files under `docs/archive/` are dead and read by nobody by default.
+
+## Vikunja
+
+This repo is project **Maven** (ID 2). MCP at `http://localhost:9100/mcp`, or
+`http://192.168.1.104:9100/mcp` from workpc. Feature, bug and deploy tasks go
+there.
+
+A task holds the goal, the constraints and the assumption ledger. A session
+without a task id cannot be resumed by anyone, so a session with none asks for
+one first.
+
+**Close a finished task with `done: true` and nothing else** (owner's call,
+2026-08-07). Do not write a completion summary into the description on the way
+out. It is lost anyway, and the durable record is the commit messages and the
+merged PR. `update_task` carrying a `description` resets `done` to false, which
+is why a write-up ever took two calls.
+
+## The branch tool
+
+`~/.local/bin/task` owns the branch, the commit identity and the PR. One task,
+one session, one PR.
+
+```sh
+task start <vikunja-id>   # branch off origin/master, write TASK.md, fetch review comments
+task pr                   # push, open or refresh the PR, label Vikunja, notify
+task comments             # re-pull this branch's review comments into .task/
+```
+
+`/pickup` opens a session and `/wrap` closes it. Wrap at roughly half context
+rather than letting the session compact.
+
+## Guards
+
+Two hooks in `.githooks/`, tracked, wired with `core.hooksPath`. A fresh clone
+needs `git config core.hooksPath .githooks`.
+
+- `pre-commit` refuses master, and refuses more than 300 changed lines in
+  non-markdown files. Markdown is exempt and may land as one batch.
+- `commit-msg` requires the subject to end with `(V-<id>)`. `V-` and not `#`,
+  because Gitea autolinks `#123` to a Gitea issue, which is the wrong tracker.
+
+Two more guards live outside the repo, in `~/.claude/hooks/`. `diff-budget.sh`
+blocks further edits past 600 changed lines on a `task/` branch.
+`prose_lint_hook.py` checks prose on every write. Both measure against
+`origin/master`, so a local master that is ahead of the remote makes the diff
+budget read high.
+
+`--no-verify` exists. Using it means saying why in the commit body.

docs/world.md

@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+# The world chain
+
+*Last verified: 2026-08-09 @ a9b480a*
+
+What happens when the answer is not his. `CLAUDE.md` carries the boundary rule.
+This file carries the mechanism and the measurements behind it.
+
+## What replaced "never phones home"
+
+That promise was deprecated on 2026-07-31 by the owner's call. A 1.7B does not
+know enough to answer world questions, so she reads external sources. Four rules
+replaced it:
+
+- **No telemetry, no cloud model, no third-party account.** That part never
+  changes. Nothing about Maven is reported to anyone and inference stays on the
+  box.
+- **The owner's data first, then the world.** Every source reading his facts,
+  notes, calendar, tasks or house runs before anything outside. The personal
+  boundary sits between them. Reading beats recalling for a small model.
+- **The owner's notes and facts are never search input.** Only the utterance
+  goes out. Never the persona block, the history, or matched notes.
+- **External search is allowed and off unless configured**, like weather and
+  telegram. The code default is off. `deploy/mavend.json` ships a `search`
+  block, so it is on for this box and deleting the block turns it off again.
+
+**Live search leads and the ZIMs are the fallback** (owner's call, 2026-08-02).
+A self-hosted SearXNG answers first. The Kiwix ZIMs on homesrv answer when the
+search is empty, unreachable, or the line is down.
+
+## The gate is emptiness and nothing else
+
+`Response.Empty()` is the whole gate. There is no quality threshold in front of
+it. Four signals were tried and none separates a real question from an invented
+one.
+
+Token overlap was the closest and it still fails. "столица Франции" would lose
+its answer, because the answer is Париж and that word is not in the question
+(`docs/evals/2026-08-05-search-quality-signals.md`).
+
+**The embedder is not a fifth signal.** Query-to-passage cosine measures topic
+and not whether the passage answers. The two sets overlap
+(`docs/evals/2026-08-09-kiwix-topic-retrieval.md`).
+
+## Timeouts
+
+The connect phase alone is capped at `dialTimeout`, 1.5s, because a blackholed
+host once cost the owner 8 seconds. A slow instance that did connect keeps the
+full 8 (`docs/evals/2026-08-05-kiwix-offline-fallback.md`).
+
+## Kiwix
+
+**A Russian question reads `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.
+
+**Kiwix ranks by keyword overlap.** Never send it a whole sentence. `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. `TitleCandidates` tries the spoken form and
+then the capitalized one. Both apply on the verbatim path alone. The rewriter
+already reduces a question, and reducing twice takes the topic off its input
+(V-668).
+
+## Which source answered
+
+**The claiming query source is readable on `/chat`** as a badge beside the
+reply. It is 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 the web share.

internal/voice/client.go

@@ -9,15 +9,18 @@
 //
 // The wire is symmetric: a Request from the client is answered by a
 // Response with a matching ID, OR a server-initiated Push frame (no ID)
-// may arrive interleaved. SendRequest loops reading frames, drops Push
-// frames to the harness if a receiver is running (or silently if not),
-// and returns the first Response with the matching ID.
+// may arrive interleaved. One reader goroutine per connection owns the
+// socket. It hands each Response to whichever SendRequest is waiting on
+// that ID and each Push to the handler, so a client may send and listen
+// at the same time on one conn. mavwaked needs exactly that: it speaks
+// utterances and it must hear nudges, and the server routes a nudge to
+// the session that spoke most recently, so a second listening conn would
+// never be picked (V-671).
 package voice
 
 import (
 	"context"
 	"encoding/json"
-	"errors"
 	"fmt"
 	"io"
 	"net"
@@ -41,13 +44,22 @@ type PushHandler interface {
 // Client — one connection to the voice.Server.
 type Client struct {
 	addr   string
-	mu     sync.Mutex
-	c      net.Conn
 	nextID atomic.Uint64
 
-	// pushCh fan-out: a reader goroutine (started by RunPushReceiver)
-	// writes Push frames here; SendRequest also drains it when no reader
-	// is running (drops the frame in that case).
+	mu sync.Mutex
+	c  net.Conn
+	// pending holds one channel per in-flight request, keyed by frame id.
+	// The reader goroutine delivers the Response here and deletes the entry.
+	pending map[uint64]chan *Response
+	// dead is closed by the reader goroutine when this conn ends, so a
+	// waiting SendRequest fails at once instead of at its own deadline.
+	dead chan struct{}
+
+	// wmu serialises writes. Frames must not interleave on the wire.
+	wmu sync.Mutex
+
+	// pushH is set by RunPushReceiver and survives a reconnect, because the
+	// client that wants pushes wants them on whatever conn it ends up with.
 	pushMu sync.Mutex
 	pushH  PushHandler
 }
@@ -55,6 +67,15 @@ type Client struct {
 // Dial returns a Client that will connect to addr on first use.
 func Dial(addr string) *Client { return &Client{addr: addr} }
 
+// Connect opens the conn now rather than on the first request. mavwaked calls
+// it at startup: the server registers a session on accept, and a client that
+// has never connected cannot be sent a nudge.
+func (c *Client) Connect(ctx context.Context) error {
+	c.mu.Lock()
+	defer c.mu.Unlock()
+	return c.ensureConnLocked(ctx)
+}
+
 // Close releases the conn. Idempotent.
 func (c *Client) Close() error {
 	c.mu.Lock()
@@ -75,12 +96,14 @@ func (c *Client) PushToTalk(ctx context.Context, a audio.Audio, lang string) (Pu
 	return out, err
 }
 
+// requestTimeout bounds a round-trip with no deadline on its context. It is
+// generous because the far end runs speech-to-text, a router and a voice.
+const requestTimeout = 120 * time.Second
+
 // SendRequest sends one Request frame and waits for the matching Response.
-// Push frames received while waiting are dropped on the floor UNLESS a
-// PushHandler has been wired via RunPushReceiver, in which case the handler
-// is invoked inline (still synchronous with the SendRequest caller's
-// read). For sanity, the reference client runs either one-shot (no
-// receiver) or interactive (RunPushReceiver, no concurrent SendRequest).
+// Push frames arriving meanwhile go to the handler on the reader goroutine,
+// so listening and sending on one Client is supported rather than merely
+// tolerated.
 func (c *Client) SendRequest(ctx context.Context, m Method, params any, out any) error {
 	body, err := marshalParams(params)
 	if err != nil {
@@ -94,58 +117,69 @@ func (c *Client) SendRequest(ctx context.Context, m Method, params any, out any)
 		c.mu.Unlock()
 		return err
 	}
-	conn := c.c
+	conn, dead := c.c, c.dead
+	ch := make(chan *Response, 1)
+	c.pending[id] = ch
 	c.mu.Unlock()
 
-	if dl, ok := ctx.Deadline(); ok {
-		_ = conn.SetDeadline(dl)
-	} else {
-		_ = conn.SetDeadline(time.Now().Add(120 * time.Second))
-	}
-	defer conn.SetDeadline(time.Time{})
-
-	if err := writeFrame(conn, &req); err != nil {
-		c.teardown()
+	c.wmu.Lock()
+	err = writeFrame(conn, &req)
+	c.wmu.Unlock()
+	if err != nil {
+		c.forget(id)
+		c.teardownConn(conn)
 		return err
 	}
-	for {
-		resp, push, err := readOneFrame(conn)
-		if err != nil {
-			c.teardown()
-			return err
-		}
-		if push != nil {
-			c.deliverPush(*push)
-			continue
-		}
-		if resp.ID != id {
-			continue // not ours; ignore (singleplex ⇒ shouldn't happen)
-		}
-		if resp.Error != nil {
-			return hydrate(resp.Error)
-		}
-		if out != nil {
-			if err := json.Unmarshal(resp.Result, out); err != nil {
-				return fmt.Errorf("voice: unmarshal result: %w", err)
-			}
-		}
-		return nil
+
+	timer := time.NewTimer(requestTimeout)
+	defer timer.Stop()
+
+	var resp *Response
+	select {
+	case resp = <-ch:
+	case <-dead:
+		c.forget(id)
+		return fmt.Errorf("voice: connection closed before reply")
+	case <-ctx.Done():
+		c.forget(id)
+		return ctx.Err()
+	case <-timer.C:
+		c.forget(id)
+		c.teardownConn(conn)
+		return fmt.Errorf("voice: no reply within %s", requestTimeout)
 	}
+
+	if resp.Error != nil {
+		return hydrate(resp.Error)
+	}
+	if out != nil {
+		if err := json.Unmarshal(resp.Result, out); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("voice: unmarshal result: %w", err)
+		}
+	}
+	return nil
 }
 
-// RunPushReceiver spawns a reader goroutine that delivers Push frames to h
-// until the conn closes or Close is called. Today's reference client uses
-// this in -listen mode (proactive voice playback). SendRequest and
-// RunPushReceiver SHOULD NOT be used concurrently on the same Client — the
-// wire is singleplex at the reference client's scale; production picks one
-// mode per conn. Returns when the goroutine ends (ctx cancel or conn close).
+// forget drops an abandoned request so a late Response is discarded rather
+// than delivered to nobody.
+func (c *Client) forget(id uint64) {
+	c.mu.Lock()
+	delete(c.pending, id)
+	c.mu.Unlock()
+}
+
+// RunPushReceiver wires h and blocks until the conn ends or ctx is
+// cancelled. Frames are read by the per-conn reader goroutine, so a client
+// may call SendRequest on the same Client while this is running. Returns nil
+// when the conn ended, so a caller that wants to stay reachable reconnects
+// and calls it again.
 func (c *Client) RunPushReceiver(ctx context.Context, h PushHandler) error {
 	c.mu.Lock()
 	if err := c.ensureConnLocked(ctx); err != nil {
 		c.mu.Unlock()
 		return err
 	}
-	conn := c.c
+	dead := c.dead
 	c.mu.Unlock()
 
 	c.pushMu.Lock()
@@ -158,21 +192,34 @@ func (c *Client) RunPushReceiver(ctx context.Context, h PushHandler) error {
 		c.pushMu.Unlock()
 	}()
 
+	select {
+	case <-ctx.Done():
+		return ctx.Err()
+	case <-dead:
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
+// readLoop owns conn for its whole life. It ends on any read error, which is
+// how a closed conn, a killed server and a cancelled dial all arrive here.
+func (c *Client) readLoop(conn net.Conn, dead chan struct{}) {
+	defer close(dead)
 	for {
-		select {
-		case <-ctx.Done():
-			return ctx.Err()
-		default:
-		}
-		_, push, err := readOneFrame(conn)
+		resp, push, err := readOneFrame(conn)
 		if err != nil {
-			if errors.Is(err, io.EOF) || errors.Is(err, net.ErrClosed) {
-				return nil
-			}
-			return err
+			c.teardownConn(conn)
+			return
 		}
 		if push != nil {
 			c.deliverPush(*push)
+			continue
+		}
+		c.mu.Lock()
+		ch := c.pending[resp.ID]
+		delete(c.pending, resp.ID)
+		c.mu.Unlock()
+		if ch != nil {
+			ch <- resp
 		}
 	}
 }
@@ -196,13 +243,19 @@ func (c *Client) ensureConnLocked(ctx context.Context) error {
 		return fmt.Errorf("voice: dial %s: %w", c.addr, err)
 	}
 	c.c = conn
+	c.pending = make(map[uint64]chan *Response)
+	c.dead = make(chan struct{})
+	go c.readLoop(conn, c.dead)
 	return nil
 }
 
-func (c *Client) teardown() {
+// teardownConn closes conn and forgets it, but only if it is still the live
+// one. A reconnect may already have replaced it, and closing the new conn
+// because the old one died takes the client down on every hiccup.
+func (c *Client) teardownConn(conn net.Conn) {
 	c.mu.Lock()
 	defer c.mu.Unlock()
-	if c.c != nil {
+	if c.c != nil && c.c == conn {
 		_ = c.c.Close()
 		c.c = nil
 	}

internal/voice/voice_test.go

@@ -221,3 +221,113 @@ func TestClientListenModeReceivesPush(t *testing.T) {
 type pushHandlerFunc func(Push)
 
 func (f pushHandlerFunc) OnPush(p Push) { f(p) }
+
+// The whole point of the per-conn reader (V-671): mavwaked speaks utterances
+// and must hear nudges, and the server routes a nudge to the session that
+// spoke most recently. A second listening conn would never be picked, so both
+// directions have to share one conn.
+func TestClientSendsAndListensOnOneConn(t *testing.T) {
+	l := newTestListener(t)
+	sess := NewSessions()
+	h := &stubHandler{}
+	srv := NewServer(l.Addr().String(), h, sess)
+	if err := srv.Listen(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("listen: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer func() {
+		_ = srv.Close()
+		waitPort()
+	}()
+	go func() { _ = srv.Serve() }()
+
+	c := Dial(l.Addr().String())
+	defer c.Close()
+
+	got := make(chan audio.Audio, 4)
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
+	defer cancel()
+	go func() {
+		_ = c.RunPushReceiver(ctx, pushHandlerFunc(func(p Push) {
+			var ap AudioNudgePush
+			if err := json.Unmarshal(p.Params, &ap); err == nil {
+				got <- ap.Audio
+			}
+		}))
+	}()
+
+	for i := 0; i < 100 && sess.Active() < 1; i++ {
+		time.Sleep(10 * time.Millisecond)
+	}
+	if sess.Active() != 1 {
+		t.Fatalf("active sessions = %d, want exactly 1", sess.Active())
+	}
+
+	// A round-trip while the receiver is running. Before the reader owned the
+	// conn, this and the receiver raced for every frame.
+	resp, err := c.PushToTalk(context.Background(), audio.Audio{Format: audio.PCM16kMono, Bytes: []byte("hello")}, "ru")
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("PushToTalk with a receiver running: %v", err)
+	}
+	if resp.ReplyText != "got it" {
+		t.Fatalf("ReplyText = %q, want %q", resp.ReplyText, "got it")
+	}
+
+	// And the nudge still arrives, on the session that just spoke.
+	err = sess.PushToMostRecent(context.Background(), AudioNudgePush{
+		RuleName: "after-speaking",
+		Audio:    audio.Audio{Format: audio.PCM16kMono, Bytes: []byte("proactive")},
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("PushToMostRecent: %v", err)
+	}
+	select {
+	case a := <-got:
+		if string(a.Bytes) != "proactive" {
+			t.Fatalf("received %q, want the nudge audio", string(a.Bytes))
+		}
+	case <-time.After(2 * time.Second):
+		t.Fatal("nudge never reached the handler after the client had spoken")
+	}
+}
+
+// A request abandoned by its context must not leave its slot behind, or a
+// long-running client leaks one channel per timeout.
+func TestClientForgetsAbandonedRequests(t *testing.T) {
+	l := newTestListener(t)
+	sess := NewSessions()
+	srv := NewServer(l.Addr().String(), &blockingHandler{}, sess)
+	if err := srv.Listen(); err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("listen: %v", err)
+	}
+	defer func() {
+		_ = srv.Close()
+		waitPort()
+	}()
+	go func() { _ = srv.Serve() }()
+
+	c := Dial(l.Addr().String())
+	defer c.Close()
+
+	ctx, cancel := context.WithTimeout(context.Background(), 100*time.Millisecond)
+	defer cancel()
+	_, err := c.PushToTalk(ctx, audio.Audio{Format: audio.PCM16kMono, Bytes: []byte("x")}, "ru")
+	if err == nil {
+		t.Fatal("expected the round-trip to fail on its context")
+	}
+
+	c.mu.Lock()
+	n := len(c.pending)
+	c.mu.Unlock()
+	if n != 0 {
+		t.Fatalf("pending = %d after an abandoned request, want 0", n)
+	}
+}
+
+// blockingHandler never answers, so the client's context is what ends the
+// round-trip.
+type blockingHandler struct{}
+
+func (blockingHandler) HandlePushToTalk(ctx context.Context, _ PushToTalkReq, _ uint64) (PushToTalkResp, error) {
+	<-ctx.Done()
+	return PushToTalkResp{}, ctx.Err()
+}