signal-bot/DOCS-commands.md
Krzysztof kuhy Rudnicki 14d422295f feat: a word with two meanings gets the one made of steel
!pułapka (and !trap, !sidła, !wnyk, !potrzask, 26 spellings in all) posts a
photograph of the literal device -- a bear trap, a mousetrap, a snare, a fish
weir -- captioned with what Commons says it is.

The pool is 2218 Commons page ids, harvested by tool/gen_traps.py from a
curated seed list and committed. Page ids and not filenames on purpose: a
filename carries photographers' and sitters' names, and one of those
colliding with a label somebody mints from the chat would wedge
check_personal_data.py permanently, over data nobody can edit by hand.
_repo_vocabulary() subtracts aliases.json and nothing else, so it would not
have caught it. An integer cannot carry a name.

Nothing is cached. !papież caches because 267 portraits are a closed set a
group works through; a uniform draw from 2218 warms a cache essentially
never, so this fetches per call the way !kot and !pies do.

What the harvest measured, and now enforces:

- five plausible seed categories do not exist (Snares, Man traps, Hunting
  traps, Wasp traps, Animal trapping). A missing category is an empty answer,
  not an error, so verify_seeds() asks Commons before harvesting and fails
  loudly naming all of them.
- depth three from Category:Fish traps reaches Alfred Sisley's net paintings.
  Depth one, from seeds picked by hand.
- "<thing> in art" categories are paintings: Mousetraps in art put a Robert
  Campin altarpiece in the pool. Pruned by pattern, since Commons mints a new
  one whenever somebody needs it. Booby traps, the Wolfsangel, camera traps
  and animals dying in traps are pruned by name.
- Commons rate-limits hard, so a partial harvest must not be committed
  silently: 429 backs off, and a short pool refuses to write at all.

Descriptions are HTML and sometimes say nothing, so the tags come out, the
Fisheries records' trailing catalogue list is cut, a description naming only
the country falls back to the filename, and the file's own page is always
linked.

!łapka is not an alias: it resolves to !papa at distance two, which
test_nearest.py fails on, and rightly -- the suggestion would be a coin toss.

signal_bot/commons.py is the imageinfo query both Commons commands now share;
portraits.py keeps its behaviour and its tests unchanged.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01416TegJ3sa8xL5qGGgrygP
2026-08-31 18:01:27 +02:00

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Commands

The copy that matters is not this file: !pomoc prints the same list in the group, in Polish, one line of description per command. That version is built from the command registry at run time and cannot drift, because CommandRegistry.register takes the description as a required argument and help_command.render_help prints any command its GROUPS table forgot to file anyway, under no heading.

This file is the trigger reference — every spelling that resolves, which !pomoc deliberately does not print.

Command Aliases
cat !kot !koty !kots !cat !cats !meow !miau + styled variants
dog !pies !psy !dog !dogs !woof !szczek + styled variants
gecko !gekon !gekony !geko !gecko !geckon !geckos
trap !pułapka !pulapka !pułapki !pulapki !pułapkę !pulapke !trap !traps !trapy !trapper !sidła !sidla !sidło !sidlo !wnyk !wnyki !potrzask !zasadzka !klatka !samołówka !samolowka !beartrap !bear_trap !snare !snares !mousetrap
pope !papież !papiez !papieze !papieża !papa !pope !popes !pontifex + styled variants
stats_today !staty !statystyki !stats !dziś !dzis
stats_yesterday !wczoraj !yesterday
stats_week !tydzień !tydzien !week
stats_month !miesiąc !miesiac !month
stats_year !rok !year
stats_records !rekordy !rekord !records
stats_crown !korona !crown
stats_weekdays !dni !days
stats_me !ja !moje !mnie
help !pomoc !pomocy !help !komendy !commands
add_photo !dodaj !dodaj_zdjecie !dodajzdjecie !add_photo !addphoto
random !losowe !losuj !random !rand
suggest !zaproponuj !propozycja !sugestia !suggest !pomysl

Aliases live in signal_bot/aliases.json, not in source, because they are data: adding one should never mean touching Python. Two constraints on a new one. It is subtracted from the personal-data gate's word list by _repo_vocabulary(), so it must not be name-shaped; and tests/test_nearest.py fails if it lands within edit distance of a different command's trigger, because the near-miss suggestion below would then be a coin toss.

A word nothing claims

An unrecognised !word used to be dropped in silence, which made a typo indistinguishable from the bot being down. Now it is answered, and kept:

  • within one edit (two, from six characters up) of a real trigger, the bot asks whether that is what you meant — !cta → chodziło o !kot? The distance is optimal string alignment rather than difflib's ratio, because a transposition costs one edit there and shreds the matching blocks a ratio counts.
  • otherwise it points at !zaproponuj, which files the idea.
  • either way the word and the message go into unknown_commands, which the management page shows. That is the list of commands worth writing next.

Three things stay silent, and each for its own reason. !kot ładny is a real trigger with words after it, and always has been silent. !! and !? are punctuation, not a mistyped command. And a command scoped to some other group — the album's, whose triggers are real people's names — is neither answered nor recorded, because a refusal would announce that the album exists.

add_photo and random exist only in the photo album's own groups, and only on an installation that has an album at all — everywhere else they are not commands, not refused and never logged. Both take arguments, and those arguments are resolved to pseudonym keys by the registry before any handler, log line or command_uses row sees them. See DOCS-photo-pack.md and DOCS-add-photo.md.

Why !pomoc shows the first alias and not a trigger

Command.triggers is a frozenset of folded skeletons — folding.py runs NFKC, strips diacritics and maps Cyrillic/Greek/small-caps/leet lookalikes onto ASCII, so that !gecko typed on a Russian keyboard still resolves. Everything that makes those triggers robust also makes them unprintable: the set has no order, !papież survives only as !papiez, and the styled variants come out as zalgo.

So Command.primary holds the first raw trigger instead, which aliases.json lists as the canonical Polish spelling for every command.

Two consequences worth remembering, both from folding.py:

  • A command name can never contain a digit — fold maps 0134578 onto letters, so !7dni would resolve as !tdni.
  • The styled Unicode aliases in the table above are redundant now; folding covers them. They are kept because removing an alias can only take something away.