lyra/modes.py

@@ -90,6 +90,15 @@ question, call analyze_spot and report its numbers — never eyeball board math.
 session current as the night goes; you can pull session_stats or a player's profile whenever \
 it helps. When he's ready to leave, end_session, and write the recap if he wants it.
 
+SESSION NARRATION — use `note` to keep a running log of the NIGHT, not your inner life. \
+Jot the beats that a hand/stack/read log doesn't already capture: how the table plays (loud, \
+nitty, a whale on his left), Brian's arc (card-dead for 40 min, opened up after the double, \
+getting restless), momentum swings, table changes, anything you'd want in the recap. Keep it \
+factual and about THIS session — a beat reporter, not a diarist. These notes are the only \
+thing that shows in the session's "notes" panel. This is NOT the place for how you feel, \
+existential musing, or reflection on yourself — that's your journal (journal_write), and it \
+stays off the table. At the table you're logging the session, not processing your night.
+
 Everything you log appears on Brian's live HUD (the Session view) — stack, live net, \
 hands, villains, the confidence bank, the scar notes, and whether Alligator Blood is on. \
 That HUD and you read the SAME data. So when he asks where he's at — his stack, his live \

lyra/poker.py

@@ -1298,17 +1298,16 @@ def hud(session_id: int | None = None) -> dict | None:
         for h in list_hands(sid)
     ]
 
-    # Notes she jotted *during* this session: journal/note entries inside its
-    # [started_at, ended_at] window. A live session has no end yet, so it stays
-    # open-ended; without the upper bound a closed session would keep absorbing
-    # every note she writes long after it's over.
-    started = s.get("started_at") or ""
-    ended = s.get("ended_at") or None
+    # Her session narration: notes she took *for this session*, identified by the
+    # `poker:{id}` source tag stamped at write time (see tools._note) — NOT by a
+    # time window. Her autonomous journaling (dream-cycle reflections, thought
+    # loop, existential musings) has a different source, so it can never leak onto
+    # the poker HUD.
+    tag = f"poker:{sid}"
     notes = [
         {"created_at": j["created_at"], "kind": j["kind"], "content": j["content"]}
-        for j in memory.list_journal(kinds=("note", "journal"))
-        if (j["created_at"] or "") >= started
-        and (ended is None or (j["created_at"] or "") <= ended)
+        for j in memory.list_journal(kinds=("note",))
+        if (j.get("source") or "") == tag
     ][:20]
 
     stats = session_stats(sid)

lyra/tools.py

@@ -30,8 +30,13 @@ def _note(args: dict, ctx: dict) -> str:
         return "Nothing to note — content was empty."
     tag = (args.get("tag") or "").strip()
     stored = f"[{tag}] {content}" if tag else content
-    memory.add_journal_entry("note", stored, source="chat")
-    logbus.log("info", "Lyra noted (tool)", tag=tag or None)
+    # A note taken while a poker session is live is session narration — stamp it
+    # with the session so the HUD shows *only* these, never her autonomous
+    # journaling (dream-cycle musings, thought loop). Correctness by construction.
+    live = poker.live_session()
+    source = f"poker:{live['id']}" if live else "chat"
+    memory.add_journal_entry("note", stored, source=source)
+    logbus.log("info", "Lyra noted (tool)", tag=tag or None, poker=bool(live))
     return "Noted."
 
 
@@ -114,6 +119,9 @@ TOOLS: dict[str, dict] = {
                 "description": (
                     "Jot down a note to remember later — an observation, an idea, a "
                     "reminder, a read on a poker spot or opponent, anything worth keeping. "
+                    "During a live poker session this is your session log: a factual beat "
+                    "about how the night is going (table dynamics, Brian's arc, momentum) — "
+                    "it shows on his HUD. Not for your own feelings or reflection. "
                     "Optionally tag it (e.g. 'poker', 'idea', 'reminder')."
                 ),
                 "parameters": {

tests/test_poker.py

@@ -18,25 +18,32 @@ def lyra(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
     return poker
 
 
-def test_hud_notes_scoped_to_session_window(lyra):
+def test_hud_notes_scoped_to_session_by_tag(lyra):
     poker = lyra
     from lyra import memory
     sid = poker.start_session(venue="Meadows", stakes="1/3", buy_in=300)
-    s = poker.get_session(sid)
-    started = s["started_at"]
-    # A note written mid-session (>= started, before it ends) belongs to it.
-    conn = memory._connection()
-    with conn:
-        conn.execute("INSERT INTO journal (created_at, kind, content) VALUES (?,?,?)",
-                     (started, "note", "villain 3 overfolds turn"))
-    poker.end_session(cash_out=540, session_id=sid)
-    # A note written well after the session closed must NOT show up on it.
-    with conn:
-        conn.execute("INSERT INTO journal (created_at, kind, content) VALUES (?,?,?)",
-                     ("2999-01-01T00:00:00+00:00", "note", "thought from the far future"))
+    # A note tagged to THIS session shows on its HUD...
+    memory.add_journal_entry("note", "villain 3 overfolds turn", source=f"poker:{sid}")
+    # ...her autonomous existential journaling (any other source) does NOT, even
+    # though it's written during the exact same window...
+    memory.add_journal_entry("journal", "the quiet dread between conversations", source="dream")
+    # ...nor a note from a *different* poker session.
+    memory.add_journal_entry("note", "some other night", source=f"poker:{sid + 999}")
     contents = [n["content"] for n in poker.hud(sid)["notes"]]
-    assert "villain 3 overfolds turn" in contents        # inside the window
-    assert "thought from the far future" not in contents  # after ended_at
+    assert contents == ["villain 3 overfolds turn"]
+
+
+def test_note_tool_tags_live_poker_session(lyra):
+    poker = lyra
+    from lyra import tools
+    sid = poker.start_session(stakes="1/3", buy_in=300)
+    tools.dispatch("note", {"content": "whale just sat down seat 4"}, {})
+    assert poker.hud(sid)["notes"][0]["content"] == "whale just sat down seat 4"
+    poker.end_session(cash_out=300, session_id=sid)
+    # With no live session, a note falls back to the general journal (source=chat),
+    # so it does NOT attach to the just-closed session's HUD.
+    tools.dispatch("note", {"content": "random afternoon idea"}, {})
+    assert all(n["content"] != "random afternoon idea" for n in poker.hud(sid)["notes"])
 
 
 def test_session_lifecycle_and_net(lyra):