docs: add umbrella + journal READMEs

Root README orients new contributors on the build/upload/iterate
loop and points at ~/dev/CLAUDE.md for maubot patterns. journal/
README covers the three commands, the SQLite schema, known
quirks (edits don't re-trigger, subcommand detection scope), and
documents why this plugin uses @command.passive instead of the
more obvious @command.new.

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# maubot-plugins
Umbrella for [maubot](https://github.com/maubot/maubot) plugins used by
the aiolabs / Château du Faune Matrix stack. The maubot daemon itself
is provisioned via `server-deploy/modules/services/maubot.nix` on the
castle hosts; the actual plugin code lives here.
## Plugins
| Plugin | Purpose |
|---|---|
| [`journal/`](./journal/) | Farm-journal bot. `!journal <text>` records what you did, scoped per-user/room/timestamp. `!journal show [@user]` and `!journal today` query back. |
## Building a plugin
A `.mbp` is just a zip containing `maubot.yaml` + the plugin's Python
modules at the root. No special tooling needed:
```sh
cd <plugin>/
zip -j ../<plugin>.mbp maubot.yaml *.py
```
(`-j` strips the directory prefix so files land at the zip root.)
## Uploading / iterating
1. Open the maubot UI (e.g. `https://maubot.<domain>/_matrix/maubot/`).
2. **Plugins → +** (first time) or click the existing plugin → upload
the new `.mbp`. Maubot keys plugins by `id`; uploading a new
`version` of the same `id` replaces the old one.
3. **Hit Save** on the affected instance after upload — toggling
Enabled without Save will revert. Easy facepalm.
Bump `version:` in `maubot.yaml` for every meaningful change so the
maubot UI surfaces it cleanly and old `.mbp` files in
`/var/lib/maubot/plugins/` aren't ambiguous.
## Bot account convention
Each plugin attaches to a Matrix client (a regular Matrix user account
controlled by maubot). For the journal bot: `@journalbot:ariege.io`.
Bot accounts are created the same way as any user — issue a
registration token from the Continuwuity admin room
(`!admin token issue --once`) and register through Element, then add
the client in the maubot UI.
Invite the bot to whichever rooms it should serve via `/invite
@<bot>:<domain>` — maubot's autojoin handles new invites that arrive
after the client's sync loop is up.
## Patterns + gotchas
Maubot-specific patterns (command decorators, multi-line caveats,
`database_type` in `maubot.yaml`, etc.) live in `~/dev/CLAUDE.md`
under "Maubot plugin development". Read that before writing a new
plugin — there are several footguns that look fine but silently lose
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# journal
Daily-journal Matrix bot. Each room member can record what they did,
and anyone in the room can query the log.
## Commands
```
!journal <what you did> record an entry (multi-line OK)
!journal show [@user:domain] last 10 entries, optionally filtered by user
!journal today all entries from today (UTC)
```
Multi-line works either inline or after a newline:
```
!journal Did three things today:
- planted garlic
- mucked out the goat pen
- finished the irrigation patch
```
```
!journal
- planted garlic
- mucked out the goat pen
```
Both record the full body verbatim.
## Storage
One SQLite database per maubot instance, at
`/var/lib/maubot/plugin-dbs/journal.db` on the host. Schema (managed
by `mautrix.util.async_db.UpgradeTable`):
```sql
CREATE TABLE entries (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
user TEXT NOT NULL, -- @sender:domain
room TEXT NOT NULL, -- !roomid:domain
ts BIGINT NOT NULL, -- ms since epoch (from evt.timestamp)
text TEXT NOT NULL -- raw entry body
);
CREATE INDEX entries_user_ts ON entries (user, ts DESC);
CREATE INDEX entries_ts ON entries (ts DESC);
```
Wipe data via the maubot UI's per-instance **Database** tab:
```sql
DELETE FROM entries;
DELETE FROM sqlite_sequence WHERE name = 'entries';
```
(The second line resets the auto-increment counter; skip it if you'd
rather keep IDs monotonic across resets.)
## Known quirks
- **Edited messages don't re-trigger the bot.** Matrix sends edits as
a separate `m.replace` event that bots don't react to. If you typed
`!journal` then edited the message to add content, the bot saw only
the empty `!journal` and won't record. Send a fresh message instead
of editing.
- **`!journal show <random text>` runs the show query with that text
as the user filter.** If it doesn't match any MXID, you get
"No entries." Use a fully-qualified MXID like `@pat:ariege.io`.
- **Subcommand detection only looks at the first line.** Anything
starting with `show ` or `today` on the first line dispatches to
the query handlers; anything else (including prose that happens to
contain "show" mid-text) records as an entry.
## Architecture note
This plugin uses `@command.passive` with a regex matcher rather than
`@command.new`. The reason — and why other plugins should consider the
same pattern for prose-input commands — is documented in `~/dev/CLAUDE.md`
under "Multi-line freeform parent commands". Short version:
`@command.new` silently drops `!journal\n<content>` because maubot's
parser only treats space as the command/args delimiter, leading to
invisible data loss when users naturally hit Enter after the command.