@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker 2.7.8 → 2.7.10

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker",
-  "version": "2.7.8",
+  "version": "2.7.10",
   "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/adventure.mjs

@@ -91,6 +91,15 @@ async function openAdventure(opening, { planHolder, memoryDir, sessionId, env, c
       note: "ADVENTURE — opening declined: the world's shard failed to load",
     };
   }
+  // A world sharing this pack but shaped for a different game entirely (e.g.
+  // spider-fly, which has no player-controlled entity at all — its board is
+  // reusable static content, and player/spider/fly individuals are minted
+  // fresh by that game's own opener, never shipped in the pack) has no
+  // starting player placement. Decline cleanly rather than load a broken
+  // adventure session — the same "not necessarily an adventure ask at all"
+  // fallthrough an unrecognized name already gets, so whichever lane DOES
+  // own this name gets a chance to claim it instead.
+  if (!payload.facts.some((f) => f.subject === "player")) return null;
 
   const tag = worldProvenanceTag(world);
   await appendFacts(memoryDir, payload.facts.map((f) => ({
@@ -490,7 +499,12 @@ 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/services/spider-fly-turn.mjs

@@ -26,12 +26,14 @@ import { appendFacts, appendRule, loadMemory, readFactRows } from "../adapters/m
 // ---- recognizers: the closed opening/stop/tick/address set -------------------
 
 // The opener names the game without requiring a specific phrasing order —
-// "watch the spider and the fly" / "play spider and fly" / "start the
-// spider game" all match. Closed vocabulary only (watch/play/start/begin,
-// spider, fly, game) — no general "start X" grammar, matching this
-// project's standing preference and adventure.mjs's own opener style.
+// "watch the spider and the fly" / "play spider and fly" / "play spider fly"
+// (the "and" is optional — playtests/PLAYTEST_LOG_006.md found it's a
+// natural drop) / "start the spider game" all match. Closed vocabulary only
+// (watch/play/start/begin, spider, fly, game) — no general "start X"
+// grammar, matching this project's standing preference and adventure.mjs's
+// own opener style.
 const SPIDER_FLY_OPEN_RE =
-  /^(?:let'?s\s+)?(?:watch|play|start|begin)\s+(?:the\s+)?spider(?:\s+and\s+(?:the\s+)?fly)?(?:\s+game)?[.!?\s]*$/i;
+  /^(?:let'?s\s+)?(?:watch|play|start|begin)\s+(?:the\s+)?spider(?:\s+(?:and\s+)?(?:the\s+)?fly)?(?:\s+game)?[.!?\s]*$/i;
 // "stop watching" is this game's own stop word (there's nothing to "play" in
 // the sense of typing moves — you watch, or address an agent), kept
 // alongside "stop playing" so either reads naturally depending on how the