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490 lines still loads into every session, and most of them explained a
subsystem rather than constraining an agent. The owner's cap is 200. This
lands at exactly 200.
Four new living docs take what left:
docs/deployment.md the two boxes, the resident model, the embedder, STT,
the daemon table, who is in compose, the voice wire,
mavwaked on workpc, the web UI conventions
docs/world.md what replaced "never phones home", why Response.Empty()
is the whole gate, the timeouts, Kiwix
docs/language.md the LLM output contract and the three Russian mechanisms
docs/workflow.md the five stores, the doc tiers, Vikunja, the guards
CLAUDE.md keeps the pointer table and the rules. Every "do not do X", every
path and every owner's call stayed. What went is the before-and-after
narrative behind each one, which is what a living doc is for.
Verified rather than trusted. Every backticked literal in the old file was
diffed against the union of the new ones. Twenty-four came up missing and
three groups were facts rather than narrative, so they were restored:
- the ecosystem client table (nexusClient, praxisClient, the vendored hexis
client, the three config keys and their default URLs) into
docs/ecosystem.md, which did not carry it
- TestOnlyAGrammarMayDropTheBoundary and TestNamingRecallKeepsTheBoundary
into docs/routing.md, since they pin the boundary rule in both directions
- the ipc.Dial vs voice.Dial trap and docs/plans/17 into docs/deployment.md
diff-budget.sh blocked on the changed-line count again. It counts markdown,
which the repo's own pre-commit hook exempts, and this commit touches
nothing else.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013ptwopxyo3Z2kwFckHkLvN
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# The world chain
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*Last verified: 2026-08-09 @ a9b480a*
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What happens when the answer is not his. `CLAUDE.md` carries the boundary rule.
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This file carries the mechanism and the measurements behind it.
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## What replaced "never phones home"
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That promise was deprecated on 2026-07-31 by the owner's call. A 1.7B does not
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know enough to answer world questions, so she reads external sources. Four rules
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replaced it:
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- **No telemetry, no cloud model, no third-party account.** That part never
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changes. Nothing about Maven is reported to anyone and inference stays on the
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box.
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- **The owner's data first, then the world.** Every source reading his facts,
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notes, calendar, tasks or house runs before anything outside. The personal
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boundary sits between them. Reading beats recalling for a small model.
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- **The owner's notes and facts are never search input.** Only the utterance
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goes out. Never the persona block, the history, or matched notes.
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- **External search is allowed and off unless configured**, like weather and
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telegram. The code default is off. `deploy/mavend.json` ships a `search`
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block, so it is on for this box and deleting the block turns it off again.
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**Live search leads and the ZIMs are the fallback** (owner's call, 2026-08-02).
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A self-hosted SearXNG answers first. The Kiwix ZIMs on homesrv answer when the
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search is empty, unreachable, or the line is down.
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## The gate is emptiness and nothing else
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`Response.Empty()` is the whole gate. There is no quality threshold in front of
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it. Four signals were tried and none separates a real question from an invented
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one.
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Token overlap was the closest and it still fails. "столица Франции" would lose
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its answer, because the answer is Париж and that word is not in the question
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(`docs/evals/2026-08-05-search-quality-signals.md`).
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**The embedder is not a fifth signal.** Query-to-passage cosine measures topic
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and not whether the passage answers. The two sets overlap
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(`docs/evals/2026-08-09-kiwix-topic-retrieval.md`).
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## Timeouts
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The connect phase alone is capped at `dialTimeout`, 1.5s, because a blackholed
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host once cost the owner 8 seconds. A slow instance that did connect keeps the
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full 8 (`docs/evals/2026-08-05-kiwix-offline-fallback.md`).
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## Kiwix
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**A Russian question reads `wikipedia_ru_all_maxi_2026-02` verbatim** through
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`kiwix.book_ru`. The RU→EN rewriter is the workaround for an English book and is
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skipped there. Kiwix catalog names come from the filename, not the `<name>`
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field.
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**Kiwix ranks by keyword overlap.** Never send it a whole sentence. `kiwix.Topic`
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drops the narrative request, the interrogative and a verb behind one.
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`kiwix.TitlePath` tries the exact article first, since a ZIM is addressable by
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title and a wrong title is a 404. `TitleCandidates` tries the spoken form and
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then the capitalized one. Both apply on the verbatim path alone. The rewriter
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already reduces a question, and reducing twice takes the topic off its input
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(V-668).
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## Which source answered
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**The claiming query source is readable on `/chat`** as a badge beside the
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reply. It is carried on `ipc.ChatReply.Source` and noted by `noteQuerySource` in
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`cmd/mavend/querysource.go`. It rides the context, so `handleText` keeps the one
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string signature the mic, telegram and the web share.
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