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+# Statistics
+
+## What is recorded
+
+One row per message in `message_events`: sender uuid and the display name they
+had at the time, the Signal send timestamp, the Warsaw day and hour, the media
+kind and count, the character length, and whether it was a command or a reply.
+
+**Never the message body.** `tests/test_stats_events.py` asserts the column set
+exactly, so a later edit cannot quietly add one. Reactions are not messages and
+stay out. The bot's own posts never count — decided by which envelope branch
+carried the payload, not by comparing identities, because the account is
+spelled as a uuid on some frames and a +E.164 number on others.
+
+A photo posted without a caption counts. Before 0.1.0 it was worth zero, which
+is why everyone's numbers jumped on release.
+
+## Days
+
+A day is a calendar day in **Europe/Warsaw**, computed when the event is
+recorded and stored as a string. Every query groups on that string rather than
+on a range of timestamps, because Warsaw days are not all 24 hours long —
+2026-03-29 is 23 and 2026-10-25 is 25 — and a timestamp range moves the
+boundary twice a year.
+
+Two consequences worth knowing before editing anything here:
+
+- "Yesterday" is `date - timedelta(days=1)` on the *date*. Subtracting 86400
+  seconds lands at 23:00 the previous evening on a short day.
+- Elapsed-time arithmetic must convert to UTC first. Subtracting two aware
+  datetimes that share a tzinfo gives the *wall-clock* difference, so the naive
+  spelling reports every day as exactly 24 hours and hides the bug.
+
+## The nightly report
+
+Posted at `REPORT_HOUR:REPORT_MINUTE` for the previous full day: the table,
+members who said nothing at 0, a summary line, and up to three highlights
+chosen from around twenty candidates — one per family, so a record, a share
+and a crown streak about the same person do not become three lines.
+
+Capped at twelve lines. Names are not padded: Signal renders a proportional
+font, so `ljust` lines up in a terminal and on nobody's phone.
+
+Only people whose display name has been seen are named. Somebody who has never
+written is counted, not named — the group listing knows them only as a raw
+uuid or a phone number, and printing either into a chat is a leak.
+
+## Outages
+
+Nothing is ever deleted, and the last day reported is recorded per group.
+
+- **Missed counts** come back on their own. An event carries Signal's own send
+  timestamp, signal-cli keeps receiving in json-rpc mode while the bot is
+  down, and the replay on reconnect is absorbed by the `(group, uuid,
+  sent_at_ms)` primary key. Messages sent during an outage are filed under the
+  day they were actually sent.
+- **Missed reports** are posted when the bot returns, oldest first, bounded at
+  a week. A day nobody spoke on is marked settled rather than reconsidered
+  forever; a day whose *send* failed is left unmarked so the next run retries
+  it.
+
+## The backfilled day
+
+2026-08-30 in the real group is carried over from the pre-0.1.0 counter, which
+had no timestamps. Its totals are real; its hours and lengths are not, and its
+window was 22 hours rather than a day. It is marked in `group_meta`, claims no
+average message length, and is excluded from every record and average — a
+merged day would otherwise hand somebody a personal best they never set.
+
+The counter could not be split across the two days it spanned. Four places
+were checked for a real inbound timestamp: journald (commands only),
+signal-cli's `account.db` (no inbound table), Signal Desktop (unlinked, and it
+does not backfill on link), and `signal-api/attachments` (dated, but media
+only and with no sender). The attachment mtimes put 12 files on 29 August
+against 79 on the 30th inside that window, which is why the whole counter sits
+on the 30th.
+
+## Debugging the wire format
+
+`LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG` makes the dispatcher log each frame's *shape* — keys and
+value types, never values, with a small allowlist for MIME and groupInfo types
+that are format rather than content. Libraries stay at WARNING whatever the
+bot is set to.
+
+    journalctl --user -u signal-bot -f | grep 'envelope shape'
+
+Captured shapes live in `DOCS-signal-envelopes.md`. Read that before changing
+anything that parses an envelope: `quote` carries its own nested `attachments`
+array belonging to the *quoted* message, and counting it would credit a
+replier with somebody else's photo.
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 # signal-bot
 
-A Signal group bot: `!cat` / `!dog` / `!gekon` image commands and a daily tally.
+A Signal group bot: `!cat` / `!dog` / `!gekon` image commands, `!papież`, and
+group message statistics.
 
 Runs on its **own registered Signal number** (or, if you prefer, as a linked
 device on an existing account) via
@@ -221,15 +222,14 @@ quietly posting the day's report into one group's chat.
 The `per_group_isolation` scenario is the gate: one person asks in both groups
 inside a single cooldown window and must get two images, one in each.
 
-## Daily tally
+## Statistics
 
-Every non-sticker, non-reaction message in a watched group increments its
-sender's count **for that group**. At `REPORT_HOUR:REPORT_MINUTE` (default
-21:37) each group is posted its own tally, in its own chat, and reset. A group
-where nobody spoke is logged and **not** posted into — otherwise every quiet
-group the bot has ever been added to would get a nightly ping. A group that
-refuses the report keeps its counts and does not cost the others theirs.
-Counts live in SQLite and survive a restart.
+One row of metadata per message — sender, Warsaw day, hour, media, length —
+and **never the message body**. At `REPORT_HOUR:REPORT_MINUTE` (default 21:37)
+each group gets its report for the previous full calendar day: silent members
+at 0, up to three highlights. Sundays close a week, month ends a month. Ask it
+things: `!staty` `!wczoraj` `!tydzień` `!miesiąc` `!rok` `!rekordy` `!korona`
+`!dni` `!ja`. Full behaviour: `DOCS-statistics.md`.
 
 ## Develop