Thirteen commands, and the only list of them was a README table nobody in a
Signal group can read — which had itself gone stale two releases earlier,
still advertising four commands after nine more had shipped. 0.1.1 gave each
command an output that says what the command is; that only helps once you
already know to type it.
!pomoc (also !pomocy, !help, !komendy, !commands) prints all fourteen,
grouped, one Polish line each.
The interesting part is that it cannot go stale. CommandRegistry.register now
takes the description as a REQUIRED argument, so a command that does not
explain itself does not compile; and render_help prints any command that
help_command.GROUPS forgot to file, under no heading, rather than dropping
it. Two independent ways to fail closed, because the README proved that a
hand-maintained second list is a list that drifts.
Command also gained `primary`, the first raw alias. The trigger set could not
supply it: those are folded skeletons in an unordered frozenset, so all that
survives of "!papież" there is "!papiez", and the styled Unicode aliases come
out as zalgo. aliases.json already lists the canonical Polish spelling first.
The full trigger table moves to DOCS-commands.md. It did not fit in README —
that file was already sitting exactly on the shared 250-line cap, and the
gate caught the overflow on the first commit attempt.
Exercised in testbot at the unbumped version before this bump: the live
dispatcher ran it and posted the list, journal clean. pytest 708 green at
100% branch coverage, e2e green including a new scenario that asserts !pomoc
mentions a command registered by a different module.
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!staty, !wczoraj, !tydzień, !miesiąc, !rok, !rekordy, !korona, !dni and
!ja, under 29 triggers with both Polish spellings of each.
None takes an argument. registry.resolve matches the whole folded body
against a trigger, so "!ja mithra" resolves to nothing; teaching it to
split on whitespace would silently make "!kot pls" fire where today it
does nothing. Each question gets its own trigger instead.
!wczoraj renders through the same code path as the nightly post, which
is not a convenience: the bot cannot trigger its own 21:37 report, so
without byte-identical output there is no way to check the headline
feature of this release short of waiting for the evening.
Two guards worth naming:
- test_every_trigger_is_unique builds the whole registry.
DuplicateTriggerError subclasses ValueError, and ValueError is in
startup_retry.RETRYABLE -- so a colliding alias would not crash the
bot, it would retry forever logging "signal-cli not reachable yet".
Checked at test time instead of never.
- No trigger may contain a digit: fold() maps 0134578 onto letters, so
"!7dni" would resolve as "!tdni". Also asserted.
Every command answers on an empty history rather than crashing, which is
the state the group will actually be in for the next few days: records,
the crown and the weekday table all say "za mało danych" because their
only day so far is the backfilled one, and they exclude it.
Verified against a copy of the live database -- all nine render
correctly on the real group's data.
One test bug caught while writing it: it seeded "today" and excluded
2026-08-30, which on the day it was written were the same date, so it
passed for the wrong reason. Fixed dates now.
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Adds !papież / !papiez / !pope: a random pope as a photo, captioned with his
Latin name, reign and pl.wikipedia link. popes.json already carried a Commons
portrait filename for all 267 and nothing had ever consumed it.
The Latin name comes from the Latin column of Poczet papieży, not from the
la.wikipedia sitelink. The sitelink resolved for all 267 and was still wrong:
la.wikipedia numbers several popes differently, so #154 came out as
"Stefan IX — Stephanus X" in a single caption, which reads as an off-by-one.
The table's own column says "Stephanus Nonus" and cannot disagree with the
name beside it. LATIN_OVERRIDES ships empty; it is a tripwire, not a backlog.
Portraits are cached on disk under CacheDirectory=signal-bot, named from the
ordinal so no upstream string ever reaches a path, and bounded at 267 entries
so nothing needs evicting. Verified that CacheDirectory wins against
ProtectHome=read-only before relying on it.
Also adds POST /_selftest and scripts/selftest.sh. Signal never delivers an
account its own sends, so no command has ever been exercised end-to-end
without asking a human to type it. This injects a real frame into the live
dispatcher; it is loopback-only and refuses any group not in SELFTEST_GROUPS,
which is empty by default.
Verified against the real endpoints, not just the fake: 267/267 portraits
resolve on Commons, regeneration is byte-identical on every previously
shipped field, and !papież was driven 7 times through the live dispatcher in
testbot, returning distinct popes.
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The bot did not work. `run.sh` started a FastAPI app whose
`@app.on_event("startup")` awaited `asyncio.gather()` on two infinite
tasks, so uvicorn never finished starting up and no HTTP was ever served;
the readme's `python main.py` was a no-op with no `__main__` block and no
`uvicorn.run()` call. All three CI workflows were red, one referencing an
`environment.yml` that does not exist.
Rewritten as a package behind an injectable transport seam, which is what
makes the offline environment possible.
Bugs fixed:
- startup deadlock: lifespan spawns the loops instead of awaiting them
- sticker filter read dataMessage.sticker even on syncMessage envelopes, so
the account's own stickers were never filtered (e038772, 53028cc, 07fa90d,
2416cef all fought this symptom)
- no websocket reconnect: a container restart killed the bot silently
- blocking `requests` inside async functions stalled the event loop
- every counted message DMed the whole tally to the bot itself
- images were written to CWD under a filename taken from the remote URL
- one global 10s cooldown shared across all users and commands
- dead code: RECEIVE_URL, get_attachments (no call site), USER_MESSAGE_COUNT
- .env.sample declared PRIMARY/SECONDARY_PHONE_NUMBER and MODE, none read
Scoping is now an enforced invariant. A linked device receives every DM and
every group on the account; GROUP_ID was the only thing narrowing that and
defaulted to "". Config refuses to start unscoped, direct messages are
dropped explicitly rather than by a falsy check, and a scenario asserts that
DMs and other groups produce zero outbound messages.
Offline environment: fake_signal/ serves the real protocol surface, so the
unmodified bot connects to it by pointing API_BASE_URL at it. scripts/e2e.sh
boots both, replays 7 scenarios and exits non-zero on mismatch. A local
Signal server is not achievable (signal-cli compiles its endpoints and trust
store in; Signal-Server needs FoundationDB), so faking this boundary is the
only way to test every feature without an account.
Transport pinned to bbernhard/signal-cli-rest-api:0.100 with
MODE=json-rpc-native. The readme pinned 0.167-dev; the dev tag series counts
separately, so that was older than 0.100, not newer. /v1/receive is only a
WebSocket in a json-rpc mode, so the mode is verified at startup.
Repo standards: ruff select=ALL, mypy --strict, 189 tests at 100% branch
coverage, 250-line cap, exact pins at newest stable, shared gates delegated
to ~/utils, one CI workflow replacing three red ones. No noqa, no
type: ignore, no coverage omits anywhere.
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