@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker 2.11.2 → 2.11.3

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker",
-  "version": "2.11.2",
+  "version": "2.11.3",
   "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/services/chat.mjs

@@ -3163,6 +3163,14 @@ async function unknownAdjectiveFallback(payload, { memoryDir, sessionId, lexicon
   if (!m) return null;
   const [, det, subjectRaw, verb, objectRaw] = m;
   if (PLACE_ADVERB_OBJECT_RE.test(objectRaw)) return null; // a place adverb is never a property
+  // An ARTICLED complement ("a dog is a mammal") is a noun-phrase kind claim,
+  // never an adjective property — but UNKNOWN_SUBJECT_RE strips the object's
+  // article before capture, so objectRaw alone can't show the difference from
+  // "the cache is bespoke". Without this re-check, a fact-grounded subject
+  // silently minted the kind claim as an mgx:hasProperty garble that the isa
+  // read-back then denied. Declining here lands on the honest teach-miss,
+  // whose nudge already names the storable form ("every dog is a mammal").
+  if (/\s+(?:is|are)\s+an?\s+[\w-]+[.!?]*\s*$/i.test(String(payload).trim())) return null;
   const { loadLexicon, lookupNoun, lookupAdjective, classify } = await import("../domain/grammar/lexicon.mjs");
   const lex = lexicon || loadLexicon();
   // Y already a known NOUN or a fact-grounded CLASS term — a genuine class-