# Personal boundary, seed scoring vs possession markers, 2026-08-03

Vikunja #495. `что я говорил про бэкапы?` walked past the personal boundary into
SearXNG and came back answered from a Habr article. The boundary matched
possession words only, so a first-person speech verb was not a personal
question.

## What changed

The boundary now scores the turn's query vector against two frozen seed sets.
It claims the turn when the personal side is nearer than the world side. Seeds
and code are in `cmd/mavend/personalboundary.go`. The possession markers stay as
the offline floor for a handler with no embedder.

A regex speech class was written first and dropped. Russian gives every verb a
dozen surface forms, and the "как я говорил, ..." preamble list has no end. Each
form the lexicon missed was one more question reaching the world.

## Measurement

Embedder: multilingual-e5-small int8, the one homesrv runs. Both sides are
embedded on the query side. Cases are held out, none of them a seed. `make test`
runs the offline part. The scored part is opt-in through `MAVEN_ONNX_LIB`, like
`TestONNXRecall`.

    19/19 held-out utterances correct   (TestONNXPersonalBoundary)

    true positive margins   +0.014 to +0.089
    nearest true negative   -0.005  ("кто такой гагарин")

One case missed during the first pass and is not held out any more: `as i said,
what is the population of india`, +0.008 to the personal side. It is a world seed
now.

The gate is the sign of the difference and nothing tighter. The margins are too
thin for a threshold. The asymmetry favours claiming: a false claim costs one
honest "не знаю", a false pass sends his life to an upstream engine.

`make eval-recall` unchanged, 18/27 answered at gate 0.55. Recall does not touch
this path.

## Not verified

The live probe on the deployed box. The daemon was not rebuilt in this session.
The reply to `что я говорил про бэкапы?` with no matching note is still untested
against a real SearXNG.