@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker 0.9.4 → 0.9.5

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker",
-  "version": "0.9.4",
+  "version": "0.9.5",
   "private": false,
   "type": "module",
   "description": "The Mechanical Code Talker (tmct) — a tolerant, offline, $0 chat surface that guides you toward precision queries about a software repository. ELIZA/PARRY-style but domain-obsessed with code. No model calls; no codebase index of its own.",

package/src/ask-vocab.mjs

@@ -380,6 +380,7 @@ export const FILLER_WORDS = Object.freeze([
   "um", "uh", "erm", "so", "like", "yo", "hey", "bru", "bro", "fam", "mate",
   "please", "could you", "can you", "would you", "tell me", "i wonder",
   "just wondering", "quickly", "real quick", "kinda", "sorta",
+  "btw", "by the way",
 ]);
 
 /** Deictic/pronoun terms that refer to a context entity rather than naming one

package/src/chat.mjs

@@ -2062,9 +2062,12 @@ function relationTermOf(query, envelope) {
  *  (normalize.mjs). Deliberately used only as a LAST-RESORT lane (see its call
  *  site below) — "tell me about X" is ALSO the relation/concept force's own
  *  trigger phrase for enumerable concepts ("tell me about inheritance"), so
- *  this must never run before those have had their chance. */
+ *  this must never run before those have had their chance. Trails an optional
+ *  "please" as well as "for me" (playtest sprint round 3): this lane reads the
+ *  RAW turn text, not normalize.mjs's FILLER_WORDS-stripped one, so "could you
+ *  tell me more about Router please" needs its own trailing-politeness strip. */
 const DESCRIBE_WRAPPER_RE =
-  /^(?:(?:can|could|would)\s+you\s+(?:please\s+)?|please\s+)?(?:tell\s+me\s+(?:more\s+)?about|describe)\s+(.+?)(?:\s+for\s+me)?\s*\??$/i;
+  /^(?:(?:can|could|would)\s+you\s+(?:please\s+)?|please\s+)?(?:tell\s+me\s+(?:more\s+)?about|describe)\s+(.+?)(?:\s+for\s+me)?(?:\s+please)?\s*\??$/i;
 
 async function describeWrapperAnswer(query, { config, source }) {
   const m = DESCRIBE_WRAPPER_RE.exec(String(query || "").trim());