@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker 2.7.8 → 2.7.9

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@polycode-projects/the-mechanical-code-talker",
-  "version": "2.7.8",
+  "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/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}"`),