Brian caught that the spec stated a frame and then violated it. The test is
'does it produce or derive facts -> BIT; does it require knowing Brian -> Lyra.'
The git observer produces facts and knows nothing about Brian; cadence health
derives from BIT's own time_logs and goal fields. Both belong in BIT.
Putting them in Lyra would have made BIT's data true only while Lyra was
running -- the exact coupling the separable frame exists to prevent. It also
makes BIT better standalone: auto-logged time plus cadence on the project
cards, which today show only a creation date.
Restructured into Part A (BIT, deterministic, no LLM) and Part B (Lyra, the
pick and the surfacing). Observer ships in BIT's repo but runs on the host and
POSTs over HTTP, so repos need no volume mounts.
Long-horizon project tracking. Key finding: BIT records every project as
last-touched 2026-03-21 while project-lyra has 177 commits across 30 working
days since. A manual tracker doesn't decay to neutral, it decays to actively
demoralizing — absence of records looks like absence of work.
Frame mirrors the pokerlog: BIT is the system of record, Lyra is a client.
BIT enumerates what's possible (/actionable returns 68 tasks); Lyra picks one.
Also found: the sessions table already exists as TimeLog on BIT's dev branch
(Feb 2026, never deployed), along with project goals and a pomodoro widget.
The blockers branch (deployed) has the dependency graph and actionable view.
Neither branch has both; divergence is 3 commits.
Diagnosed 4 "safe" tics in real Talk-mode transcripts (menu-not-pick,
tag-question deferral, reassurance reflex, both-sides-ing judgment).
Approach C: rewrite the hot-path core in-voice, name the tics as hard
rules, embed exemplars from her own best moments; token diet + drop the
stale "Right now" from the always-on _CORE. Files: personas/lyra.md,
persona.py.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G796GsLCvJQKVN7hwV2cDx
The message-type-prompts plan (sub-project 2) predated the scouting desk + roster
build on this branch. Readjust it so the prompting work starts from reality:
- Add a "Readjustment 2026-07-04" section: the real failure shifted from mush to
MISSED TOOL CALLS; two new message types (READ, TABLE); HAND gains a
hero-vs-observed split; the scouting desk is a live per-turn injection layer to
compose with (not duplicate); BASE must cover the expanded toolset + identity
rules; source card grew to modes.py:67-169; Phase A still unbuilt.
- Taxonomy → READ | HAND | TABLE | MENTAL | STATUS | LOG | CHAT, with READ above
HAND (a villain's action lands on their file, not Brian's).
- New READ + TABLE fragments; BASE routes the full current tool set; STATUS
narrowed to pure logistics; classify tests add READ/TABLE + the READ↔HAND edge.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Observed live: an overheated MI50 returns a single char repeated ("?????") as a
successful 200, which neither the timeout nor the exception fallback catches — so
a degraded GPU would silently save capped garbage gists. Validate each summary
call's output: flag text (>=24 non-space chars) whose most-common non-whitespace
char exceeds 50%, raise DegenerateOutput, and let the existing retry->cloud
fallback handle it. Real prose (top char <20%) won't false-positive; short output
is exempt; cloud garbage raises rather than looping.
Tests: _looks_degenerate flags repeated-char / passes real prose / ignores short;
degenerate MI50 output falls back to cloud; cloud garbage raises. 177 pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015yrEb5qpPGv2FjyxrB7LLk
Phase A pipeline fixes (suppress the misfiring _route mood nudge + the
always-on mode-menu note in poker mode), Phase B classifier
(HAND/STATUS/MENTAL/LOG/CHAT) + per-type fragments replacing the
monolithic _CASH_CARD, Phase C MI50 tool-calling. NLH-only HAND
reasoning; PLO hands logged/replayed but not analyzed this pass.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G796GsLCvJQKVN7hwV2cDx
Decompose into two sub-projects: (1) harden poker.py into a standalone
logging service with a complete REST API, a first-class documented
tool/API contract, and a human UI to log/edit/correct everything —
usable by Brian alone, zero LLM dependency; (2) wire Lyra in as a
client (classifier + message-type prompts), parked. Contract is
first-class because it's the shared seam for the cloud model, a
fine-tuned MI50 poker model, RTO, the human UI, and a future MCP wrap.
MCP deferred until a second host app exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G796GsLCvJQKVN7hwV2cDx
Two-track poker interaction: dumb data capture (stack/buyin/cashout)
that bypasses the LLM, plus a message-type classifier that injects
type-specific prompt fragments (HAND/STATUS/MENTAL/LOG/CHAT) in place
of the one broad poker card. Kills the false tilt-reads and the
coaching-essay-on-every-turn behavior. Includes the iOS-PWA bottom
safe-area fix and the 2nd input box from Brian's screenshot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01G796GsLCvJQKVN7hwV2cDx
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