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+title: "Château du Faune — Tracker / Journal pilot review"
+subtitle: "Findings from the first week of !journal, !goals, !tasks usage across four Signal rooms"
+date: 2026-06-02
+author: aiolabs / Château du Faune
+---
+
+# Executive summary
+
+For the past two weeks, members of the Château du Faune have been
+"going through the motions" of using `!journal`, `!tasks`, `!goals`,
+`!reminder`, `!buy`, `!sidequest`, and related commands across four
+Signal rooms — Operations, Animals, Gardens & Food, Events, and the
+general castle room. Nothing was hooked up yet: the chats are mirrors
+of what the maubot stack on the new Matrix homeserver will eventually
+capture. The point was to *generate signal* — to find out which
+verbs people actually reach for, how they phrase entries, where the
+syntax gets in the way, and which features the protocol spec is
+quietly missing.
+
+This document reads that signal. It is written for both the chateau
+members (who will see their words quoted back and choices made about
+how the bot will treat their phrasing) and for the
+[aiolabs/maubot-plugins][repo] developers (who will turn the
+recommendations into code and spec changes). The
+[community-organizer spec][spec] is the contract; the
+[`tracker/`][tracker] and [`journal/`][journal] plugins are the
+reference implementation; the data we collected over the past two
+weeks is the field test.
+
+**Top-line findings:**
+
+1. **The capture habit is sticking.** The bot doesn't exist yet, and
+   people are still using the syntax — sometimes correcting each
+   other on it. The most surprising data point is that Coco told
+   Helena *"`!journal` is the required format"* unprompted. Social
+   enforcement of a syntax we haven't actually shipped is the best
+   possible adoption signal.
+
+2. **The vocabulary the community reaches for is broader than the
+   spec.** The current spec lists `!task`, `!sidequest`, `!journal`,
+   `!remind`, `!add`, `!done`, `!list`, `!setup`. The chats show
+   people typing `!buy`, `!need`, `!goals`, `!stewards`, `!tasks`,
+   `!task` (singular), `!reminders` (plural), `!idea`, `!plans`,
+   `!priority` (inline), `!side quests`, and a few more. Some of
+   these are per-room shortcuts the spec already accommodates;
+   others want a small protocol-level addition.
+
+3. **The 5-level priority scheme came directly from this pilot.**
+   Coco proposed "1 urgent / 2 crucial / 3 important / 4 future / 5
+   frequent/ongoing" in the operations chat on May 24. It is now
+   §3.3.1 of the spec, exactly as proposed. This loop — observe →
+   spec → implement → re-observe — is the one we want to keep
+   running.
+
+4. **The bot will need to be more grammar-tolerant than the spec
+   currently implies.** Multiple verbs per message, edited messages
+   that add content, `!`-words inside bullet points used as
+   priority markers, pinning as a "this is the current list"
+   signal, no-prefix journals — these are all behaviors the bot
+   doesn't catch today but should.
+
+5. **The community is already designing the bot's voice.** Alfred
+   got named on May 24 ("we trusted him with resource management,
+   safety, tool use, etc."). Photos got captioned, journals got
+   pinned, Cocopis explained what `!tags` are *to other members*.
+   The chateau is treating the bot as a collaborator before it
+   exists. We should lean into that — bot personality is now a
+   design surface.
+
+The rest of this report:
+
+- **§1** What we observed, by room and by pattern
+- **§2** What the existing spec + plugins handle well
+- **§3** Spec changes proposed
+- **§4** Plugin changes proposed
+- **§5** New ideas the data surfaced
+- **§6** How this fits the larger omnixy / aiolabs ecosystem
+- **§7** A phased plan
+- **§8** Open questions for the chateau
+
+[repo]: https://git.atitlan.io/aiolabs/maubot-plugins
+[spec]: ../docs/community-organizer-spec.md
+[tracker]: ../tracker/
+[journal]: ../journal/
+
+---
+
+# 1 — What we observed
+
+## 1.1 Verbs in actual use
+
+A frequency-sorted list of every `!verb` we saw across the four rooms
+(case-folded), grouped by what the spec or current shortcut config
+covers:
+
+| Verb seen | Already in spec | Status |
+|---|---|---|
+| `!journal` | Yes (universal) | Heavy use across all four rooms |
+| `!reminder` / `!reminders` | Spec verb is `!remind` | Mismatch — see §3.1 |
+| `!tasks` / `!task` | Spec verb is `!task` | `!tasks` plural also appears |
+| `!goals` | No | New — see §3.2 |
+| `!stewards` | No (per-room shortcut candidate) | Used as a list/backlog, not a one-off task |
+| `!buy` | Per-room shortcut, fits cleanly | Should ship pre-configured for cdf rooms |
+| `!need` | No | Distinct from `!buy` in usage — see §3.2 |
+| `!sidequest` / `!side quests` | Yes | Used; "side quests" with space appeared once |
+| `!idea` / `!plans` | No | Speculative / design-phase items |
+| `!priority` (inline) | No (priority is a tag) | Used as a bullet-level marker — see §1.4 |
+| `!move` | Mentioned by Ulo as a future verb | Not in spec |
+
+And a usage example per verb so the design instinct is grounded in
+actual phrasing rather than imagined phrasing:
+
+**`!journal` — past-tense daily log, multi-line is the dominant
+form:**
+
+> `!journal`
+> `- opened/closed, watered and fed hens, babies & pacas`
+> `- put insulators on the rebars so they're ready to go for fence`
+> `- mentally plotted potential hidden-in-plain-sight stable locations. I want opinions next`
+> `- should scrape clean duck babes straw tmrw`
+> `- should clean and dry very well sapphis wound again`
+
+Note the mix of past-tense ("opened/closed") and forward-looking
+("should scrape clean tmrw") bullets in the same `!journal`. People
+do not bucket their day cleanly. §3.4 addresses this.
+
+**`!goals` — a *list of current intentions*, often nested with
+sub-categories:**
+
+> `!goals & notes next week for garden/kitchen crew`
+>
+> `GARDEN`
+> `- documentation & journaling process`
+> `- prepping & starting the Lady Godiva pumpkin patch.`
+> `…`
+>
+> `KITCHEN`
+> `- forage, harvest & food processing resource improvements (ex. cherries into vinegars…)`
+> `- filling the shop up (& soon looking into certifying our kitchen/lab)`
+> `…`
+
+`!goals` lists evolve over days — Coco's gardens `!goals` on May 27
+and June 2 are *the same list*, refined. This is the strongest
+argument we found for **replaceable-event semantics** (§3.3).
+
+**`!reminder` — a future-pointed list, often with embedded
+@-mentions and `!priority` markers inside bullets:**
+
+> `!goals this week/soon`
+> `- attempt to secure alpaca deposit & arrival of the boys`
+> `- !priority confirm if teeth & nails will also be done by the shearer 'sometime in july'`
+> `- !priority diagnosis of sapphis skin condition be made by a vet in person.`
+> `!reminder following shearing, immediately start sapphis skin infection protocol`
+> `- fencing add in doors & handles. Start soon on setting up 2nd stable paddock`
+
+Look at that message carefully: it is *one* `!goals` entry, with
+`!priority` and `!reminder` appearing **inside bullets as inline
+markers**, not as new commands. This is the single most important
+parser decision we have to make — see §4.1.
+
+**`!buy` — shopping list, sometimes added-to over days via edit:**
+
+> `!buy`
+> `- roll out flypaper for stable(s)`
+> `- door handles for electric (or from laura)`
+> `- la fourche order, sesame & produce will be thursday, 28th`
+> `- buy more pans & x2 induction adapters`
+
+**`!need` — semantically distinct from `!buy`. Means "stock is
+low" rather than "purchase this":**
+
+> `!need puppy & cat food, hay & straw soon`
+
+Coco used both in the same week. The distinction matters because
+`!need` items become `!buy` items only after someone agrees to act
+on them, where `!buy` is already a decision.
+
+## 1.2 Cadence patterns — the recurring chore problem
+
+The operations chat opened with a chores list dominated by
+*recurring* items with fuzzy intervals:
+
+> `pacas:`
+> `- every ~3 days scoop manure`
+> `- every ~3 days fluff bedding`
+> `- every 2 wks to 1 month - change out whole bedding`
+> `- daily fresh water`
+> `- daily light green/yellow hay`
+> `- training - max 1x/day - approach with treats in a bucket…`
+>
+> `hens & ducks:`
+> `- am let out, pm close in`
+> `- every ~3 days fresh water & food`
+> `- every 1 week change out straw`
+> `- spend time with the puppies every day`
+
+Coco flagged the problem herself: *"weird thing is tasks that are
+every few days or variable timeframes?"*
+
+The spec partially anticipates this with `priority:5` ("frequent /
+ongoing"), but `priority:5` is a marker, not a cadence. "Every 3
+days" and "daily" are different cadences and the bot should know.
+RFC 5545 `RRULE` is the canonical answer; NIP-52 doesn't yet
+codify recurrence (§11 of the spec lists this as open). A
+lightweight stopgap is proposed in §3.5.
+
+## 1.3 Multi-verb messages
+
+Helena posted in the Gardens & Food room:
+
+> `!journal`
+> `• bigger Team meet and on board of Marta what we did the last weeks…`
+> `• weeding`
+> `• getting fresh alpaca manure and distributing`
+> `• collecting seeds for next year planting`
+>
+> `!task`
+> `- research thing for rain tank`
+> `- update online garden map`
+> `- check on sprouting pumpkin seeds and plant when ready`
+
+This is one Matrix message but **two distinct entries** — a
+`!journal` and a `!task` list. The current tracker dispatch regex
+matches the first verb at start-of-message and stops. The plugin
+will silently drop Helena's `!task` block.
+
+This is a real bug, not a theoretical one — Helena was the first
+person who naturally typed in this shape, and the bot would have
+lost the task list. §4.2 fixes it.
+
+Skye independently did the same thing on the same day:
+
+> `!goals !tasks`
+> `- [ ] organise conversation about image ai making with pat and coco`
+> `- [ ] Look into creation of the funding via our socials…`
+> `- [ ] For flyers/posters the !goals is to make one for pats new events app for ariege…`
+
+`!goals !tasks` on one line is yet another shape: two verbs sharing
+one body. Likely "this entry belongs to both lists" — but the spec
+needs to say so explicitly.
+
+## 1.4 Inline `!priority` and `!reminder` markers
+
+Returning to Coco's May 27 `!goals`:
+
+> `- !priority confirm if teeth & nails will also be done by the shearer 'sometime in july'`
+> `- !priority diagnosis of sapphis skin condition be made by a vet in person.`
+> `!reminder following shearing, immediately start sapphis skin infection protocol`
+
+`!priority` and `!reminder` are appearing **inside body content** as
+bullet-level annotations, not as commands. A naïve parser that
+matches `!\w+` anywhere in a message would interpret these as new
+commands and produce four entries from one message.
+
+The fix is the rule the journal plugin already enforces: a `!verb`
+counts as a verb **only** if it is at the very start of the message
+(or, with §4.2 in place, at the very start of a top-level block).
+Everything else is body content with inline tags.
+
+But "inline tags" is itself a feature worth keeping: a bullet
+starting with `!priority` is a natural way to mark *that bullet*
+as urgent within a larger list. The bot can:
+
+1. Treat the inline `!priority` as a *tag on the bullet body*
+   (preserves the user's intent).
+2. Leave the parent entry's priority alone (the user didn't priority
+   the *list*; they priority'd one item in it).
+
+A renderer can then surface that bullet as priority-1 within the
+parent entry. This is a richer model than the spec currently
+sketches, but it matches what users are actually doing. §3.3
+proposes the wire format.
+
+## 1.5 Pinning as state
+
+Across all four rooms, the dominant `!goals` / `!tasks` / `!stewards`
+messages are **pinned to the room**. When the list evolves, the new
+version is pinned and the old one is unpinned. Matrix has native
+support for this (`m.room.pinned_events`).
+
+We propose treating "the latest pinned message matching `!goals`
+from a given room" as the **current state of that group's working
+list**. This gives every room a queryable "what's on our plate
+right now" view without requiring users to remember an item id.
+
+§3.3 + §4.5 develop this.
+
+## 1.6 Implicit subjects — animals, people, places
+
+The animals room is full of entries like:
+
+> `- thinking of long-term solutions for pups barking and neighbors.`
+> `- 45 min in the alpaca paddock with both pups, no electricity.`
+> `- carefully choose feeding station(s) so they are isolated and don't compete with any other animals`
+>
+> *(and elsewhere)*
+>
+> `lets clean sapphis wound again soon?`
+> `also just realized the shearer will come in july`
+
+The community has named entities — *Sapphi*, *Loki*, *Leia*,
+*Tango*, *Morrigan*, *the alpacas*, *the pups*, *the hens*, *the
+south paddock*, *the orchard*, *the coop* — that recur across many
+entries. A useful query is "show me everything mentioning Sapphi
+this month" or "what tasks involve the south paddock?".
+
+NIP-52 already supports `["p", "<pubkey>"]` for *people*. Animals
+and places need a convention — see §3.6.
+
+## 1.7 Inline @-mentions = informal assignment
+
+> `- location & plans for stable, cont. @coco`
+> `- closing the main property gate? guardian dogs sign @coco`
+> `- pruning & landscaping @Thomasss**]`
+> `- following a budget per person for food orders, picking up produce @Skye 🌟`
+
+People mention each other inline to mean "this bullet is yours". The
+bot can extract these into structured `["p", …]` tags and a
+renderer can surface a per-person "your bullets" view. §4.6.
+
+## 1.8 Cross-group routing ambiguity
+
+Skye said in the Events room:
+
+> *"organise a mini meeting to talk about ai image making etc with
+> pat/coco …. I'm not sure which chat to put these social things in
+> hehe"*
+
+Some items belong to multiple groups. The current 1-room ↔
+1-community mapping makes this expensive — you'd have to type the
+same entry twice. Coco's answer (*"i think events would be the
+fitting place"*) is the human workaround; the bot should help.
+§5.2 proposes optional multi-room fan-out.
+
+## 1.9 No-prefix journal-shaped content
+
+Lots of messages look like journals without using any command:
+
+> `today plan for me:`
+> `- working in other groups on animals and operations`
+
+> `Today's plan for me:`
+> `- making bulk buckwheat zucchini burgers some for today and rest in freezer`
+
+> `journal`
+> `started but did not complete: bathroom clean, mapping stables, fencing the internal 150m paddock`
+
+The chateau is explicitly standardizing on `!journal` (Coco
+corrected Helena on this in real time). So we **should not** make
+the bot fuzzy-match — they want explicit syntax. But the data
+suggests an opt-in *"capture every non-command message in this
+specific room"* mode could be valuable for very-low-friction rooms
+(e.g. a private journal room per member). Default: off. §5.1.
+
+## 1.10 Capitalization, punctuation, language
+
+The same intent appears as `!journal`, `Journal:`, `journal`, `!journal:`,
+`Today plan for me`, `today plan:`, sometimes mixed with French.
+
+The bot's regex needs to be:
+- case-insensitive on the verb (`!Journal` == `!journal`)
+- tolerant of a trailing colon (`!journal:` is fine)
+- bilingual on body content (already true — body is opaque text)
+
+The current `_CMD_RE = re.compile(r"^!(\w+)(?:[ \t\r\n]+(.*))?$", re.DOTALL)`
+in `tracker.py:52` *does* match `!Journal` because `\w` is
+case-insensitive in unicode mode, and the dispatch already calls
+`.lower()`. But it does **not** match `!journal:` because the colon
+follows the verb with no whitespace. One-line fix in §4.3.
+
+## 1.11 Edits matter
+
+Two distinct edit patterns appeared:
+
+**A. Edit-to-append.** Coco edited a `!journal` post-hoc and
+commented: *"just added that i also fed puppies 2x today"*. The
+intent is "this is the same entry, with more content".
+
+**B. Edit-to-correct.** Coco scheduled a vet appointment for "June
+5 @ 14h", then edited the same entry to "May 30 @ 15h" with the
+note *"updated to May 30 @ 15h because they need the vaccination
+within the month"*.
+
+The tracker's current known-quirks note (`tracker/README.md:133`)
+says:
+
+> *"Edited messages don't re-trigger the bot. Matrix sends edits
+> as a separate `m.replace` event that maubot doesn't pass to
+> handlers. Type a fresh message instead of editing."*
+
+This is solvable — `m.replace` events *are* visible to maubot; the
+handler just needs to be wired. §4.4.
+
+---
+
+# 2 — What the existing spec and plugins handle well
+
+Before proposing changes, let's mark what's already right. The pilot
+*validates* a lot of the design.
+
+## 2.1 The split between universal verbs and per-room shortcuts
+
+The spec says: every implementation must recognize the universal
+verbs (`!task`, `!journal`, etc.); per-room shortcuts (`!buy`,
+`!harvest`, …) expand to them. The data agrees: every room developed
+its own dialect (animals uses `!journal` heavily, operations uses
+`!buy` and `!stewards`, events uses `!goals`). A single plugin
+serves all of them.
+
+We just need to **pre-configure** the cdf rooms with sensible
+shortcuts so members don't have to `!setup add buy task #buy` on day
+one. §4.7.
+
+## 2.2 The passive regex / multi-line story
+
+The journal plugin's switch to `@command.passive` with a regex was
+right. Every multi-line entry we observed (and many one-line ones)
+would have been silently dropped under `@command.new`. The CLAUDE.md
+footgun is real and the plugin avoided it.
+
+## 2.3 The 5-level priority scheme
+
+`priority:1..5` with the labels urgent / crucial / important / future
+/ frequent-ongoing came out of the pilot. The renderer plan is to
+surface labels rather than numbers; the wire tag stays `priority:N`
+for sort stability. The data didn't push back on this — Coco's
+proposal landed exactly as written.
+
+## 2.4 Sidequests as a separate kind
+
+`!sidequest` (with a `🎯` emoji ack) gives a distinct surface for
+"would be cool to do" items. Coco's *"`!side quests` lists which are
+different from the rest of the tasks"* is exactly the use case. The
+spec already excludes sidequests from default `!list` output, which
+is the right default.
+
+## 2.5 The Matrix-only Phase 1 posture
+
+The tracker is `matrix-only` for v1 — no Nostr publishing yet. This
+turns out to be the right call: the four-week dataset shows the
+community is still finding its vocabulary. Publishing to a public
+relay before the vocabulary stabilizes would make schema migrations
+visible to anyone subscribed. Stay matrix-only until the verb set is
+stable, then bridge.
+
+## 2.6 The journal plugin's append-only stance
+
+The spec's "`!done` on a journal entry is undefined behavior;
+implementations SHOULD reject it" matches the data: nobody tried to
+close a journal. They edit, they re-journal, they pin — they don't
+close. Good call.
+
+---
+
+# 3 — Spec changes proposed
+
+These are protocol-level additions to `docs/community-organizer-spec.md`.
+Each is small. None breaks existing conformance — they extend, they
+don't refactor.
+
+## 3.1 Plural aliases for universal verbs
+
+`!reminders` and `!tasks` should be accepted as equivalents of
+`!remind` and `!task`. `!sidequests` likewise. This is a one-line
+parser change; it costs nothing and removes a footgun (users will
+naturally pluralize when a list is multi-item).
+
+> *Spec change:* in §3.1, add a row:
+> *"Implementations MUST accept the bare plural form of each verb
+> (`!tasks`, `!sidequests`, `!reminders`) as equivalent."*
+
+## 3.2 New universal verbs: `!goals` and `!need`
+
+Both verbs got real, repeated, distinct-from-existing usage. Both
+deserve protocol-level status, not per-room shortcut status, because:
+
+- They had identical meaning across all four rooms. A bakery co-op
+  reading this spec should be able to use them without re-configuring.
+- The shortcut mechanism is for *vocabulary the community invented*
+  (e.g. `!harvest`, `!brewery`). `!goals` and `!need` are not
+  vocabulary inventions — they're a category the spec missed.
+
+| New verb | Purpose | Underlying kind |
+|---|---|---|
+| `!goals <text>` | A list of current intentions for the author/group/period. Replaceable per `(author, room, period?)`. | 31922 with `["t", "goals"]` |
+| `!need <text>` | A supply that is running low. Distinct from `!buy` (which is "I will purchase this"). Default lifecycle: open → `!buy` (converts to task) or `!done`. | 31922 with `["t", "need"]` |
+
+`!goals` deserves §3.3 (replaceable semantics) since the goals lists
+visibly evolved over days in the pilot.
+
+## 3.3 Replaceable-event semantics for `!goals` (and stewards lists)
+
+NIP-52 kind 31922 is a *parameterized replaceable event* keyed by
+`d`-tag. Today the tracker assigns a unique `d` per entry. For
+`!goals` (and the per-room `!stewards` list pattern), we want the
+opposite: the latest `!goals` from a given `(author, room)` pair
+should *replace* the previous one.
+
+> *Spec change:* in §3.3, add:
+> *"Implementations MAY designate certain verbs as replaceable per
+> `(author, room, period?)`. When a verb is replaceable, the bot
+> reuses the same `d`-tag for successive captures, so the relay
+> retains only the latest version. Recommended replaceable verbs:
+> `goals`, `stewards`."*
+
+The `period` qualifier lets `!goals this week` and `!goals next week`
+coexist. Suggested encoding: a `period:` tag (e.g. `period:2026-w22`).
+For v1 we keep it simple — no period qualifier, latest wins.
+
+The pinning UX hooks straight in: when a `!goals` message is the
+latest replaceable entry from its author, the bot can ask Matrix to
+pin it (and unpin the previous one). This makes the room's pinned
+message a live mirror of the relay state.
+
+## 3.4 Forward + retrospective in a single `!journal`
+
+The data shows people blend "did X" and "will do Y tomorrow" in the
+same `!journal`. The spec currently says journals are past-tense and
+append-only. Rather than fight the user, we accept the blend.
+
+> *Spec change:* in §3.1, clarify:
+> *"`!journal` is append-only; implementations MUST NOT close
+> journals. Bodies MAY contain forward-looking statements; the
+> classifier MAY surface these as candidate tasks at review time but
+> MUST NOT auto-create derived task entries."*
+
+The "candidate task" idea is a v2 nicety: a weekly digest that pulls
+"should…" bullets out of journals and offers them as `!task`
+candidates. Not in v1.
+
+## 3.5 Recurrence tags (lightweight, pre-RRULE)
+
+For the chore-list problem (`every ~3 days scoop manure`, `daily
+fresh water`), we propose a `frequency:` tag namespace that lives
+inside the existing `["t", …]` mechanism. Renderers parse it.
+
+Suggested values:
+
+| Tag | Meaning |
+|---|---|
+| `frequency:daily` | Once per day |
+| `frequency:weekly` | Once per week |
+| `frequency:3d` | Every 3 days |
+| `frequency:2w` | Every 2 weeks |
+| `frequency:as-needed` | No fixed cadence; on demand |
+
+This is a stopgap. When NIP-52 or a sibling NIP defines proper
+recurrence, we migrate. For now, the eink renderer can group
+`frequency:daily` items into a "today" panel and `frequency:weekly`
+into a "this week" panel without parsing RRULE.
+
+> *Spec change:* in §3.3, add:
+> *"`frequency:<spec>` is reserved for recurrence hints. Recommended
+> values: `daily`, `weekly`, `Nd` (every N days), `Nw` (every N weeks),
+> `monthly`, `as-needed`. Implementations MAY define additional
+> values."*
+
+## 3.6 Subject tags — animals and places, not just people
+
+NIP-52 has `["p", <pubkey>]` for people but no convention for
+non-human subjects. We propose a namespaced `t`-tag:
+
+| Tag | Meaning |
+|---|---|
+| `subject:animal/sapphi` | Animal named Sapphi |
+| `subject:animal/loki` | Animal named Loki |
+| `subject:place/south-paddock` | A named place on the property |
+| `subject:object/electric-fence` | A named asset/object |
+
+A community can define its own subject vocabulary via `!setup`:
+
+```
+!setup subjects animal/sapphi animal/loki animal/leia
+!setup subjects place/south-paddock place/orchard
+```
+
+When typing, members can reference subjects with a `@`-prefix as
+shorthand:
+
+```
+!journal cleaned @sapphi's wound, fed @hens at noon
+```
+
+The bot expands `@sapphi` to `subject:animal/sapphi` tags and
+preserves the original text in the body. Renderers can then offer
+"recent entries about Sapphi" without the bot needing to do NLP.
+
+For *people* the existing `["p", "<mxid-or-pubkey>"]` already works;
+inline `@person:name` (or just `@`-mentions resolved through the
+Matrix room's member list) feeds straight into that.
+
+## 3.7 Inline `!verb` markers within a body are tags, not commands
+
+This is half a spec change, half a clarification:
+
+> *Spec change:* in §3.3, add:
+> *"A `!verb` occurring at the start of a message (or, with multi-verb
+> support, at the start of a top-level block) is a command. A `!verb`
+> appearing inside body content is body content and MAY be extracted
+> by the bot as an `inline:<verb>` tag on the parent entry. This
+> preserves user intent without spawning ghost entries."*
+
+So Coco's `- !priority diagnosis of sapphis skin condition…` bullet
+gets recorded as part of the parent `!goals` entry, *and* the parent
+gets an `inline:priority` tag. A renderer can surface that bullet
+with priority styling.
+
+## 3.8 Multi-line entries with sub-headers
+
+A small content-format convention so renderers can do something
+sensible with Coco's `GARDEN` / `KITCHEN` sub-headers:
+
+> *Spec change:* in §10, add:
+> *"Bodies MAY use Markdown-style headers (`#`, `##`) as in-body
+> section markers. Renderers MAY surface them as visual groupings.
+> The body remains a single content blob; sub-headers do not split
+> the entry."*
+
+---
+
+# 4 — Plugin changes proposed
+
+These are concrete edits to `tracker/`, `journal/`, and a small
+amount of `wiki/` if we want cross-plugin discovery. Each maps to a
+specific file path so the work is sized.
+
+## 4.1 Parse inline `!verb` markers as tags, not commands
+
+`tracker/tracker.py:184` — the `dispatch` handler matches a verb at
+start-of-message. Today, anything else is unmatched and the message
+is dropped (correct). We extend: after dispatching the top-level
+verb, scan the body for inline `!verb` occurrences and add them as
+`inline:<verb>` tags on the recorded entry. Implementation is a
+single pass over the body before recording.
+
+This makes Coco's `- !priority …` bullets actually do something
+useful at the entry level without inventing ghost entries.
+
+## 4.2 Split multi-verb messages
+
+`tracker/tracker.py:52` — the `_CMD_RE` regex anchors at
+start-of-string and captures everything to end-of-string. We change
+to a *two-pass* parse:
+
+1. Split the message at every line that starts with `!verb` (and
+   only such lines — bullets like `- !priority …` are NOT split
+   points).
+2. Each split block becomes its own captured entry.
+
+Helena's `!journal … !task …` message becomes two entries. Skye's
+`!goals !tasks` on a single line stays as one entry but gets *both*
+tags applied. This requires a second regex for the multi-verb-one-line
+case.
+
+The order matters: split first on newline-prefixed `!verb`s, then on
+the single-line multi-verb case.
+
+## 4.3 Tolerate trailing colon and case on verb
+
+`tracker/tracker.py:52` — change the regex to allow an optional
+trailing colon and explicit case-insensitive flag:
+
+```python
+_CMD_RE = re.compile(r"^!(\w+):?(?:[ \t\r\n]+(.*))?$", re.DOTALL | re.IGNORECASE)
+```
+
+(The `.lower()` already happens in `dispatch`; the regex flag is for
+unicode `\w` consistency. Trailing colon is the visible change.)
+
+Apply the same change to `journal/journal.py:34` for `_JOURNAL_RE`.
+
+## 4.4 Handle Matrix edits
+
+`tracker/tracker.py` — register a handler for `m.room.message` events
+with `rel_type == "m.replace"`. The handler:
+
+1. Looks up the original event id in the items table (we need to
+   start recording it — schema change below).
+2. If the original is a captured entry, treat the edit as a body
+   update on that entry. Bump a `last_edited_ts`.
+3. Reply with a small ack ("✏️ Updated entry `42`").
+
+Schema change: add `mx_event_id TEXT` column to `items`, indexed.
+This is a real change to `upgrade_table` — add as `upgrade_v2`.
+
+`tracker/README.md:133` — strike the "Edited messages don't
+re-trigger the bot" caveat.
+
+This is the single change that unlocks the most observed user
+behavior. People *do* edit, and treating edits as no-ops loses
+substantial information.
+
+## 4.5 Detect pin events; mark replaceable verbs as pinned
+
+`tracker/tracker.py` — subscribe to `m.room.pinned_events`. When a
+captured entry's source Matrix message becomes pinned, mark the
+entry as `pinned=true`. When a `!goals` entry is recorded, the bot
+*itself* asks Matrix to pin the message (and unpin the previous
+`!goals` from the same author).
+
+This makes the pinned-message UX a transparent mirror of the relay
+state, without users needing to manually pin/unpin.
+
+(This requires the bot to have pin-event permission in the room. The
+admin can grant it via Element. Document in the README.)
+
+## 4.6 Extract inline @-mentions as `p`-tags
+
+`tracker/tracker.py` — alongside the existing `_TAG_RE` extraction
+for `#tag`, add an `_MENTION_RE` extraction for `@user`. Resolve
+against the Matrix room's member list (best-effort; if it doesn't
+resolve, store the literal string).
+
+The recorded entry gets `["p", "<mxid>"]` tags for each resolved
+mention, *and* keeps the `@user` substring in the body for human
+readability. A renderer can then offer a "your bullets" view per
+person.
+
+## 4.7 Ship sensible default shortcuts for the cdf rooms
+
+`tracker/tracker.py` — add a one-time bootstrap that, on first
+`!setup` (or first capture) in a room whose name matches a known
+chateau room, pre-populates shortcuts. Suggested defaults:
+
+| Room name | Shortcuts |
+|---|---|
+| Animals | `!buy task #buy`, `!chores task #priority:5`, `!vet task #vet`, `!need need` |
+| Gardens | `!buy task #buy`, `!harvest task #harvest`, `!plant task #plant`, `!need need` |
+| Operations | `!buy task #buy`, `!steward task #steward`, `!repair task #repair`, `!need need` |
+| Events | `!host task #host`, `!ticket task #ticket` |
+
+These are starting points, not a final list. Communities edit them
+via `!setup` once they're in.
+
+A safer way to ship this is a `default_shortcuts.yaml` config the
+plugin reads, so changes don't need a code redeploy.
+
+## 4.8 New universal verbs implementation
+
+`tracker/tracker.py:56` — add to `UNIVERSAL_VERBS`:
+
+```python
+UNIVERSAL_VERBS = {
+    "add", "task", "tasks", "sidequest", "sidequests",
+    "remind", "reminders", "done", "list", "setup",
+    "goals", "need", "needs",
+}
+```
+
+(Plural aliases per §3.1.)
+
+Add `_handle_goals` and `_handle_need` handlers. `!goals` uses
+replaceable-event semantics (§3.3) — for the matrix-local v1, this
+means *upserting* on `(user, room, kind='goals')` rather than
+inserting. One row per author per room.
+
+`!need` records a `kind='need'` item that stays open until
+either `!done` (we got some) or another verb explicitly converts it
+to a `!buy` task.
+
+## 4.9 Frequency tag parsing in `!list`
+
+`tracker/tracker.py:302` — when listing items, group by
+`frequency:` tag so the chore-list renders as:
+
+```
+**Daily (3):**
+- `5` fresh water for alpacas
+- `7` fresh water for ducks
+- `12` open & close hens
+
+**Every 3 days (2):**
+- `19` scoop alpaca manure
+- `23` fluff alpaca bedding
+
+**Weekly (1):**
+- `4` change out hen straw
+```
+
+This is rendering, not protocol — the spec just stores tags.
+
+## 4.10 Replace the `tracker/README.md` quirk note
+
+After §4.4 lands, strike the edit caveat. Add a paragraph on the
+new pin behavior, the new universal verbs, and the multi-verb
+splitting.
+
+---
+
+# 5 — New ideas the pilot surfaced
+
+## 5.1 Opt-in "private journal room" mode
+
+For a per-user *private* journal room (one bot account, one human
+member), the prefix friction adds nothing — every message is
+journal content by definition. We can add a per-room flag
+`auto_journal: true` (default `false`) that records every plain
+message as a `!journal` entry. This is *opt-in per room* and the
+bot acks loudly the first time it activates so nobody is surprised
+by it.
+
+For shared rooms — which is everywhere in the pilot — the default
+stays explicit-prefix-only, matching Coco's "`!journal` is the
+required format" enforcement.
+
+## 5.2 Multi-room fan-out
+
+Skye's "I'm not sure which chat to put these social things in"
+suggests an entry can sometimes belong to multiple rooms. We
+propose a `+#room` syntax:
+
+```
+!task +#events +#general organize image-AI brainstorm with pat and coco
+```
+
+This records the entry in *both* communities. The same entry has
+two `a`-tags (one per NIP-72 community). Renderers in either room
+see it. `!done` closes it in both.
+
+Implementation: parse `+#<roomname>` tokens out of the body, resolve
+to room ids the bot is also a member of, and insert one row per
+target room with a shared `link_id`. v2 work, not v1.
+
+## 5.3 Photo / link / media in entries
+
+Helena's "checked feathered babies" entry was actually a photo +
+caption. Thomas shares YouTube links. Coco shared a PDF on toxic
+plants. The body field today is text; the bot can capture media
+attachments by storing their `mxc://` URI in a `media` JSON column.
+A renderer can fetch and display.
+
+Especially valuable for the eink panel — a photo of the daily chores
+list, a graph of fed/watered checkmarks, the duck-pool-water-runoff
+diagram.
+
+## 5.4 Calendar feed for timed entries
+
+Pat already saw the vet appointment on the castle calendar — *"nice
+i already see it on the castle calendar"*. This integration should
+be documented: where it lives, what feeds it. If it's manual, it
+should be automated; if it's automated, it should be tested for
+all `kind 31923` timed entries.
+
+The natural shape: an iCalendar feed at
+`https://docs.ariege.io/calendar.ics` produced from the bot's
+timed-entry table. Castle members subscribe in their calendar app
+of choice.
+
+## 5.5 Daily / weekly digests
+
+The pilot showed the value of *summary*. Coco pins a current
+`!goals`. Ulo posts meeting summaries. Helena writes "homework"
+recaps. The bot can produce these on a cron:
+
+- **Morning digest** (per room): "Yesterday's journal entries (3),
+  Open tasks this week (12), Goals pinned (1)."
+- **Weekly digest** (Sunday evening): "This week's completed tasks
+  (28), Open carry-over (15), Journal highlights (a sampling)."
+
+This is a content surface, not protocol. The data is already there.
+Implementation = a cron handler + a markdown template + posting to
+the room. Maubot has cron support via `asyncio` + `croniter`.
+
+## 5.6 Bot personality — Alfred
+
+The community named the bot Alfred (the butler). Replies should
+match: a slightly formal, helpful, occasionally dry tone.
+
+Concretely:
+- Current acks: `📥 Logged for @alice.`
+- Alfred-flavored: `Very good, @alice. Logged.`
+
+A `personality` config field with `default | alfred | minimal`
+lets other adopting communities pick. Keep `default` deadpan and
+neutral.
+
+This is low-priority but it costs nothing and the data shows the
+community will engage with the bot more if it feels like a
+collaborator. "What should we name our assistant?" — *"Alfred would
+be my go to"* — *"doiittt"* is a community taking ownership of the
+tool before it exists.
+
+## 5.7 LLM fallback inside the chateau network
+
+The spec's classifier conformance level 2 is LLM fallback. The
+chateau has an existing Ollama setup or can run one on the same
+host as maubot. The fallback fires only when:
+
+- The user typed `!add` (explicit ambiguity),
+- The rules classifier returned `unclassified`,
+- The LLM is reachable.
+
+If any condition fails, the entry stays in the inbox until
+human-sorted (level 0 fallback). The architecture stays
+self-hostable.
+
+Smallest reasonable model for this is in the `llama3:1b` /
+`phi3:mini` size range — runs comfortably on the maubot host.
+
+## 5.8 Wiki / docs lookup inside the tracker context
+
+The wiki plugin already exists. Inside a tracker reply, if an entry
+mentions e.g. *"recycling"*, the bot could surface a `[?]` hint:
+"Related: `docs.ariege.io/spaces/waste-recycling`". One-line link,
+ignorable.
+
+This makes the chateau's docs site organically discoverable from
+chat without anyone needing to remember URLs. Implementation:
+inside the tracker's record path, fire a quick keyword query at the
+wiki plugin's index and append top-1 result if confidence is high.
+
+---
+
+# 6 — How this fits the larger omnixy / aiolabs ecosystem
+
+The Château pilot is one community using one piece of the stack. The
+broader picture:
+
+## 6.1 The protocol survives the implementation
+
+The community-organizer spec is CC0 and references only open
+standards (RFC 5545 VTODO, NIP-52, NIP-72, ActivityStreams). If the
+maubot plugin disappears tomorrow, the events on the relay are still
+readable by any NIP-52 client. The chateau's organizational memory
+is not coupled to maubot. That's the design property we're
+protecting.
+
+## 6.2 Nostr bridge (Phase 2)
+
+Today the tracker is matrix-only. When the vocabulary stabilizes
+(probably 2-4 more weeks of pilot), Phase 2 bridges to Nostr:
+
+- Bot writes captured entries to a community Nostr relay.
+- The relay can be private (auth-gated) or public per the
+  `publish` posture config.
+- Renderers (the eink panel, a future webapp dashboard) subscribe
+  to the relay and surface the data.
+
+This is the unlock for the *inky-impression* panel in the foyer —
+the data shape it consumes is exactly the events the bot will be
+producing.
+
+## 6.3 Identity — the signer abstraction
+
+Today everything is signed by the bot. The spec's §7.2 / §12
+develop the per-user-signing endgame: a sidecar
+`nsecbunkerd` on the same host, the bot holding only scoped NIP-46
+connection tokens.
+
+At chateau scale (10-20 members), this is overkill for v1. We run
+v1 (trust the bot, `author` tag carries the human MXID) for as long
+as the community is small and physical-trust-bounded. We migrate to
+per-user signing when:
+
+- More than one community is using the same bot account, *or*
+- An external party (visitor, woofer, neighbor) needs to write
+  entries without being a fully-trusted member, *or*
+- LNbits #18 (the bunker integration) ships and we want a single
+  identity story across the stack.
+
+The signer abstraction is *already* in the spec, so the migration
+is design-for-it-now, do-it-later.
+
+## 6.4 LNbits / Lightning
+
+Two Lightning hooks the pilot suggests:
+
+**Marketplace / payable buy items.** A `!buy` item could optionally
+carry a price and produce a Lightning invoice via LNbits when
+clicked through. "Roll-out flypaper — €12 — pay" with the invoice
+generated against the chateau's funding wallet. Useful for outside
+contributors who want to chip in a specific item.
+
+**Visa funding stream.** Coco's alpaca funding stream (€23k over
+time) is exactly the kind of recurring-pledge use case LNbits has.
+This is a partnership channel between the tracker and the LNbits
+extension at the marketplace level, not v1.
+
+## 6.5 Events app
+
+Coco's events-app side-project is in the pilot data:
+*"developing the app & biz plan for tech company of an
+ariege-wide calendar of events app"*. The tracker's NIP-52 31923
+events are the right shape to feed that calendar. The webapp
+consumes NIP-52 already (per the bunker spec discussion). One data
+shape, two surfaces: the bot records, the events app displays.
+
+## 6.6 Continuwuity homeserver
+
+The Matrix homeserver running this is Continuwuity, deployed via
+`deploy/server-deploy/modules/services/matrix.nix`. The maubot
+daemon registers via the admin-room token flow (see
+`~/dev/CLAUDE.md` Matrix-homeserver section). All bot accounts in
+this report (`@journalbot`, future `@trackerbot`, `@wikibot`, etc.)
+are regular Matrix users on that homeserver.
+
+The bot-as-user pattern means a chateau member can DM the bot
+privately (e.g. for personal `!journal` entries the public room
+shouldn't see). The current journal plugin already supports this —
+just invite the bot to a 1-1 room.
+
+## 6.7 Wiki cross-cutting
+
+The wiki plugin (`!ask`, `!doc`) reads `docs.ariege.io`. The
+chateau's documentation should grow alongside the tracker — when a
+new community-life protocol gets agreed on at a meeting (e.g.
+"who feeds the cat"), it should land in `docs.ariege.io/spaces/...`
+and be `!ask`-able. The pilot showed several decisions that would
+benefit from durable documentation: the chickens' opening time, the
+puppy training schedule, the vet's number.
+
+This argues for a small `tracker → wiki` integration: when a
+`!journal` entry contains a *decision* (heuristically: contains
+"we decided" / "rule" / "from now on"), the bot pings the room with
+"This looks like a durable decision — would you like to file it
+as a docs page?". One-click → wiki page draft.
+
+---
+
+# 7 — Phased plan
+
+A 5-phase rollout that keeps each step small, deployable, and
+reversible.
+
+## Phase 0 — Verb normalization and edit handling (next 1-2 weeks)
+
+Small parser / dispatch changes. No schema migrations beyond
+`mx_event_id`.
+
+- §4.1 inline `!verb` markers as tags
+- §4.2 multi-verb-per-message splitter
+- §4.3 trailing-colon + case
+- §4.4 edit handling (schema v2: add `mx_event_id`)
+- §4.8 new universal verbs (`!goals`, `!need`, plural aliases)
+- §4.10 README updates
+
+After Phase 0, the bot won't drop any of the entries we observed.
+
+## Phase 1 — Replaceable goals and pinning (2-4 weeks)
+
+- §3.3 replaceable-event semantics in spec
+- §4.5 pin/unpin behavior on `!goals` recording
+- §4.7 default shortcuts for cdf rooms
+- §4.9 `!list` grouping by frequency
+
+After Phase 1, `!goals` becomes a living list per author and the
+chore-recurrence model is at least visible to renderers.
+
+## Phase 2 — Subjects, mentions, recurrence (4-6 weeks)
+
+- §3.5 `frequency:` tag in spec
+- §3.6 subject tags (animals, places)
+- §4.6 inline `@`-mention extraction
+- §3.7, §3.8 grammar clarifications in spec
+- §5.5 daily/weekly digests
+
+After Phase 2, the eink panel can render meaningful views without
+needing protocol changes.
+
+## Phase 3 — Nostr bridge (6-10 weeks)
+
+- Wire the tracker's local SQLite to a Nostr publisher.
+- Subscribe to events tagged with the bot's communities for
+  bidirectional sync.
+- Eink panel goes live against the relay.
+
+## Phase 4 — Per-user signing and identity (when LNbits #18 ships)
+
+- Operator-IdP + sidecar bunker per spec §12.
+- Chat-handle ↔ pubkey binding via LNbits.
+- Bot acquires scoped NIP-46 tokens per member.
+- `BotSigner` becomes the fallback only.
+
+---
+
+# 8 — Open questions for the Château
+
+Things the team should weigh in on before we lock the next phase:
+
+1. **Verb names.** Is `!goals` the right word, or `!intentions` /
+   `!focus` / `!agenda`? Same for `!need` vs `!stock` vs `!low`. The
+   bot will accept what the community uses — but the spec name will
+   stick.
+
+2. **Default shortcuts per room.** §4.7 lists candidates. Anything
+   missing? Anything wrong? Specifically: does the Animals room
+   want `!vet` and `!med` as separate kinds, or one `!health`?
+
+3. **Subject vocabulary.** Which animals, places, and assets are
+   worth naming as subjects? Suggested first pass: **animals** —
+   Sapphi, Loki, Leia, Tango, Morrigan, plus group names
+   (alpacas, hens, ducks, pups, hatchlings). **Places** — orchard,
+   south-paddock, coop, garage, kitchen, lab, dependence. **Assets** —
+   tractor, electric-fence, van, irrigation.
+
+4. **Calendar integration.** Today *something* turns dated journal
+   entries into castle-calendar items. Who owns that pipeline?
+   Should the bot own it? Should we publish an `.ics` feed off the
+   maubot host?
+
+5. **Photo / media capture.** Does it matter that journal entries
+   capture the photos attached to them, or is text enough for v1?
+   (Materially affects storage and the eink panel.)
+
+6. **The "Alfred" persona.** Yes / no / opt-in per room?
+
+7. **The private-journal room mode.** Would members value a 1-1 DM
+   with the bot where every message is auto-journaled, or does the
+   explicit `!journal` everywhere feel cleaner?
+
+8. **LLM fallback.** Comfortable running a local model on the same
+   host that classifies `!add` entries? Or stay rules-only?
+
+9. **Cross-room fan-out.** Do members value `+#room1 +#room2`
+   syntax, or is "I'll just repost in the other room" fine?
+
+---
+
+# Appendix A — Glossary
+
+- **Verb** — A `!`-prefixed word at the start of a message that the
+  bot recognizes as a command (e.g. `!journal`, `!task`).
+- **Tag** — A `#`-prefixed word inside a message that gets attached
+  to the entry as metadata (e.g. `#buy`, `#priority:1`).
+- **Subject** — A `@`-prefixed word that names an entity (animal,
+  place, asset) the entry is about.
+- **Shortcut** — A per-room alias that expands to a universal verb
+  + tags (e.g. `!buy` expands to `!task #buy`).
+- **Replaceable event** — A NIP-52 event keyed by a `d`-tag, where
+  newer events overwrite older ones with the same key. Used for
+  living lists like `!goals`.
+- **Inbox** — Where `!add` entries land when the classifier can't
+  determine a kind. Cleared via `!sort` or `!reclassify`.
+- **Bot** — The maubot plugin instance attached to a Matrix client
+  account (e.g. `@journalbot:ariege.io`).
+- **Renderer** — Any output surface (eink panel, webapp dashboard,
+  mobile notification) that consumes captured events.
+
+---
+
+# Appendix B — File map
+
+Concrete files this report's proposals would change:
+
+| File | Change |
+|---|---|
+| `docs/community-organizer-spec.md` | §3.1 plural aliases, §3.2 new verbs, §3.3 replaceable, §3.5 frequency, §3.6 subjects, §3.7 inline markers, §3.8 sub-headers |
+| `tracker/tracker.py:52` | Regex updates (case-insensitive, trailing colon) |
+| `tracker/tracker.py:56` | `UNIVERSAL_VERBS` additions |
+| `tracker/tracker.py:184` | Dispatch — multi-verb + inline tag extraction |
+| `tracker/tracker.py` | New `_handle_goals`, `_handle_need`, `_handle_edit` |
+| `tracker/tracker.py` (upgrade table) | `upgrade_v2` — `mx_event_id`, `link_id`, `pinned` columns |
+| `tracker/classify.py` | Optional — LLM fallback wiring |
+| `tracker/README.md:133` | Strike the edit caveat, document new behaviors |
+| `journal/journal.py:34` | Regex update consistent with tracker |
+| `wiki/wiki.py` | Optional `!ask`-from-tracker integration |
+
+---
+
+*End of report.*
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