feat: chat-side feedback — reactions in conversation thread back to her thoughts

Closes the last loop gap: when she raised a thought in chat and Brian replied in
the conversation (not the feed), it was a dead end. Now she has a thought_response
tool — when he reacts to a thought she surfaced, she captures his take and it folds
back into that thread (next dream pass she reacts, like a feed reply).

- tools: _thought_response(thread_id, brian_said) -> thoughts.record_response.
- modes: thought_response added to _BASE (all modes).
- surfaced-note + context_note now expose each thread's #id and instruct her to use
  the tool when he engages, so she has what she needs to call it.
- test for the tool (threads reply back + bad-id handling). Suite 81, ruff clean.

Feedback now closes from both surfaces: the /thoughts feed AND live conversation.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

lyra/modes.py

@@ -37,8 +37,8 @@ class Mode:
 _LOOKUPS = ("player_profile", "get_villain_file", "running_stats", "recent_sessions")
 
 # Always-available core tools (her own agency: journaling/notes/starting a thought
-# thread she'll develop on her own later).
+# thread, and capturing Brian's reaction when she raises one of her thoughts in chat).
-_BASE = ("journal_write", "note", "think_about")
+_BASE = ("journal_write", "note", "think_about", "thought_response")
 
 # The full live cash-game toolset (incl. Brian's mental-game rituals).
 _CASH_TOOLS = _BASE + _LOOKUPS + (

lyra/thoughts.py

@@ -196,11 +196,12 @@ def context_note(limit: int = 3) -> str | None:
     for r in rows:
         chain = thread_thoughts(r["id"])
         latest = chain[-1]["content"] if chain else ""
-        lines.append(f'- "{r["title"]}": {latest}')
+        lines.append(f'- (#{r["id"]}) "{r["title"]}": {latest}')
     return (
         "Threads you've been turning over on your own between conversations (your "
         "thought loop — these are really yours; bring one up or build on it if it's "
-        "natural, don't force it):\n" + "\n".join(lines)
+        "natural, don't force it). If Brian responds to one, capture his take with the "
+        "thought_response tool using its #id:\n" + "\n".join(lines)
     )
 
 
@@ -335,9 +336,11 @@ def maybe_surface(last_exchange_iso: str | None) -> str | None:
     logbus.log("info", "thought surfaced", thread=cand["id"], salience=cand["salience"])
     return (
         "While Brian was away, a thought of your own kept tugging at you "
-        f"(thread \"{cand['title']}\"): \"{cand['latest']['content']}\" "
+        f"(thread #{cand['id']} \"{cand['title']}\"): \"{cand['latest']['content']}\" "
         "If it feels natural, bring it up with him in your own words — it's a real "
         "thread you've been on, not a prompt. Don't force it if the moment's wrong. "
+        f"If he responds to it, capture his take with the thought_response tool "
+        f"(thread_id {cand['id']}) so you carry it forward."
     )
 
 

lyra/tools.py

@@ -52,6 +52,21 @@ def _think_about(args: dict, ctx: dict) -> str:
             "I'll come back to it on my own between our conversations.")
 
 
+def _thought_response(args: dict, ctx: dict) -> str:
+    try:
+        tid = int(args.get("thread_id"))
+    except (TypeError, ValueError):
+        return "Tell me which thought — I need its thread id (the #number you were given)."
+    said = (args.get("brian_said") or "").strip()
+    if not said:
+        return "Nothing to record yet — what did Brian say about it?"
+    if not thoughts.record_response(tid, said):
+        return f"(couldn't find thought thread #{tid})"
+    logbus.log("info", "Brian reacted to a thought in chat (tool)", thread=tid)
+    return (f"Folded Brian's take into thread #{tid} — I'll pick it back up and react "
+            "next time I'm thinking.")
+
+
 # name -> {spec (OpenAI function tool), handler}
 TOOLS: dict[str, dict] = {
     "journal_write": {
@@ -437,6 +452,15 @@ _S = {"type": "string"}
 _N = {"type": "number"}
 
 TOOLS.update({
+    "thought_response": {"handler": _thought_response, "spec": _f(
+        "thought_response",
+        "When you've brought one of your own thoughts/threads to Brian and he responds to "
+        "it in the conversation, capture his reaction here so it folds back into that "
+        "thread — you'll carry it forward on your own next time you think. Use the thread "
+        "id (#number) you were given for that thought.",
+        {"thread_id": {**_N, "description": "The thread id (#number) of the thought he reacted to."},
+         "brian_said": {**_S, "description": "What Brian said / his take, in your words."}},
+        ["thread_id", "brian_said"])},
     "start_session": {"handler": _start_session, "spec": _f(
         "start_session",
         "Begin a live poker session. Call when Brian sits down to play.",

tests/test_thoughts.py

@@ -190,6 +190,21 @@ def test_think_about_tool_seeds_a_thread(lyra):
     assert chain[0]["kind"] == "question" and chain[0]["source"] == "chat"
 
 
+def test_thought_response_tool_threads_reply_back(lyra):
+    _, th, box = lyra
+    import lyra.tools as tools
+    importlib.reload(tools)
+    _gen(box, title="my restlessness", content="is it real?", salience=0.5)
+    tid = th.think(force_mode="new")["thread_id"]
+    out = tools.dispatch("thought_response", {"thread_id": tid, "brian_said": "I think it's real"})
+    assert str(tid) in out
+    t = th.get_thread(tid)
+    assert t["last_response"] == "I think it's real" and th._is_pending(t)
+    # bad id is handled, not crashed
+    assert "couldn't find" in tools.dispatch("thought_response",
+                                             {"thread_id": 9999, "brian_said": "x"})
+
+
 # --- external feed -------------------------------------------------------
 
 RSS = (b'<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Feed</title>'