@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker 2.7.7 → 2.7.9

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker",
-  "version": "2.7.7",
+  "version": "2.7.9",
   "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/domain/grammar/ace.mjs

@@ -492,9 +492,15 @@ const VERB_SYNONYMS = new Map([
   ["pick up", "take"], ["pick", "take"], ["grab", "take"],
   ["put down", "drop"], ["set down", "drop"], ["leave", "drop"],
   ["talk to", "talk"], ["speak to", "talk"], ["speak with", "talk"], ["talk", "talk"], ["speak", "talk"],
+  ["chat with", "talk"], ["converse with", "talk"],
   ["look at", "examine"], ["examine", "examine"], ["inspect", "examine"],
+  ["have a look at", "examine"], ["take a look at", "examine"], ["check out", "examine"],
   ["shut", "close"],
 ]);
+// The longest entry's token count — resolveImperativeVerb tries prefixes
+// longest-first down to 2, so a multi-word idiom ("have a look at") is
+// consumed whole before any shorter prefix inside it gets a chance to match.
+const VERB_SYNONYM_MAX_PREFIX = Math.max(...[...VERB_SYNONYMS.keys()].map((k) => k.split(" ").length));
 
 const VERB_FUZZY_CANDIDATES = [...new Set([...IMPERATIVE_VERBS, ...VERB_SYNONYMS.values()])];
 const IMPERATIVE_FUZZY_BOUND = 1; // this project's existing distance-1 tolerance elsewhere (interpret/fuzzy.mjs)
@@ -518,10 +524,10 @@ const NEVER_FUZZY_VERB = new Set(["walk", "wake", "make"]);
  *  fuzzy tier. Null when nothing at all recognises the leading token(s). */
 function resolveImperativeVerb(toks) {
   const first = toks[0].toLowerCase();
-  if (toks.length > 1) {
-    const twoWord = `${first} ${toks[1].toLowerCase()}`;
-    const twoHit = VERB_SYNONYMS.get(twoWord);
-    if (twoHit) return { verb: twoHit, consumed: 2, corrected: null };
+  const lower = toks.map((t) => t.toLowerCase());
+  for (let n = Math.min(VERB_SYNONYM_MAX_PREFIX, toks.length); n >= 2; n -= 1) {
+    const hit = VERB_SYNONYMS.get(lower.slice(0, n).join(" "));
+    if (hit) return { verb: hit, consumed: n, corrected: null };
   }
   if (IMPERATIVE_VERBS.has(first)) return { verb: first, consumed: 1, corrected: null };
   const oneHit = VERB_SYNONYMS.get(first);

package/src/services/adventure.mjs

@@ -490,7 +490,12 @@ async function runWorldCommand(cmd, { world, memoryDir, env, graph, cache }) {
     const digest = await worldDigest(object, { memoryDir, memory, rows, state, graph });
     const body = digest ?? `nothing more about the ${object} is written down yet.`;
     const containerNote = !person && isContainer(rows, object) ? ` ${containerStatusPhrase(object, { state })}` : "";
-    const text = person ? `the ${object} doesn't have much to say, but you know: ${body}` : `${body}${containerNote}`;
+    // Framing follows the VERB the player typed, not the object's type: talking
+    // to a lamp still reads as an attempted conversation (nothing replies, but
+    // you learn what's known), and examining a person still reads as a plain
+    // inspection, never the "doesn't have much to say" framing that belongs to
+    // a failed talk attempt.
+    const text = cmd.verb === "talk" ? `the ${object} doesn't have much to say, but you know: ${body}` : `${body}${containerNote}`;
     return answer(
       text,
       noteFor(`${cmd.verb} — an extractive completions digest over the current world facts mentioning "${object}"`),

package/src/surfaces/web/memory-ask-browser.bundle.js

@@ -21709,7 +21709,7 @@ ${codeblock}`, options);
   });
 
   // src/domain/grammar/ace.mjs
-  var PATTERN_SUB_CLASS_OF, PATTERN_TYPE_ASSERTION, PATTERN_RELATION, PATTERN_SOME_VALUES_FROM, PATTERN_CARDINALITY, PATTERN_DISJOINT_WITH, PATTERN_POSSESSIVE, PATTERN_ADJECTIVE, PATTERN_CAPABILITY, PATTERNS, IMPERATIVE_VERBS, VERB_SYNONYMS, VERB_FUZZY_CANDIDATES;
+  var PATTERN_SUB_CLASS_OF, PATTERN_TYPE_ASSERTION, PATTERN_RELATION, PATTERN_SOME_VALUES_FROM, PATTERN_CARDINALITY, PATTERN_DISJOINT_WITH, PATTERN_POSSESSIVE, PATTERN_ADJECTIVE, PATTERN_CAPABILITY, PATTERNS, IMPERATIVE_VERBS, VERB_SYNONYMS, VERB_SYNONYM_MAX_PREFIX, VERB_FUZZY_CANDIDATES;
   var init_ace2 = __esm({
     "src/domain/grammar/ace.mjs"() {
       init_lexicon();
@@ -21747,11 +21747,17 @@ ${codeblock}`, options);
         ["speak with", "talk"],
         ["talk", "talk"],
         ["speak", "talk"],
+        ["chat with", "talk"],
+        ["converse with", "talk"],
         ["look at", "examine"],
         ["examine", "examine"],
         ["inspect", "examine"],
+        ["have a look at", "examine"],
+        ["take a look at", "examine"],
+        ["check out", "examine"],
         ["shut", "close"]
       ]);
+      VERB_SYNONYM_MAX_PREFIX = Math.max(...[...VERB_SYNONYMS.keys()].map((k) => k.split(" ").length));
       VERB_FUZZY_CANDIDATES = [.../* @__PURE__ */ new Set([...IMPERATIVE_VERBS, ...VERB_SYNONYMS.values()])];
     }
   });