signal-bot/DOCS-commands.md
Krzysztof kuhy Rudnicki ca38147576 release: 0.1.4 «Eleuteriusz» — the list of commands lives in the chat now
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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017w1HZ3cZ7neL3rFdQ6VMBA
2026-08-30 21:08:02 +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
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

Aliases live in signal_bot/aliases.json, not in source, because they are data: adding one should never mean touching Python.

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.