She reaches for her own language mid-sentence when English won't come, and
Petal already handled it: it found the span and rendered it into English. It
just filed the result as a Clarity fix, so the pair model's flagship moment
read as tidying up her Chinese.
The type is now derived from the span rather than asked of the model. A type is
structural, and a model that re-reasons every pass would drift between labels
for a sentence nobody had touched — the instability the last session spent
itself removing. The label the model volunteers is still ignored.
Only the grammar checkpoint can be promoted. A pass with a forced type owns its
family: voice reads paragraphs for tone and its rows carry no replacement, so a
"translation" there would be a card offering nothing to accept.
zh is a different script and counting Han runes is close to certain. The Latin
pairs share an alphabet with English and get none of that, so they fall back to
function words and need two before Petal claims anything — with every word that
is also English left out, even the common ones. The heuristic is justified by
how cheap being wrong is: it changes a coloured pill, and nothing else.
The pill is the one bilingual type name in the rail. Every other type stays
English because those are the terms she is learning; this card's whole subject
is her own language. And it stops truncating its two lines — elsewhere the diff
is a word and the explanation is what she reads, but here the two sentences are
the card.
Two things only the running page could report. The inline underline was
invisible: the decoration carries a per-type class and the base rule is a
transparent border, so a type with no colour rule gets no mark at all. And at
1517×810 with the document list open there is no rail — the margin is 258 where
railEnabled wants 348 — so what she gets is the inline hover card. Item 7 is
written the other way round.
Migration 0015 rebuilds the suggestions table for the CHECK, which makes it the
first one here that could quietly drop her rows; there is a test that carries
every column, both timestamps and both indexes across it.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
Grammar lite, the false-friend list, the daily invitation and the offline
miscollocations — the four remaining §5–§6 items, all client-side and all
alive on a box that cannot reach the model.
The offline collocations forced a schema change. `type` had been doubling
as the answer to "which engine found this" — `mechanics` meant offline —
and that stops being true the moment an offline rule proposes a
collocation. Migration 0013 adds `source` (llm | local) and every pass now
scopes its DELETE by engine; without it the coach silently wiped every
offline chunk on the page. Existing rows backfill by type, so a pre-0013
collocation row is claimed as the coach's, which it was: the offline list
did not exist yet.
The rule pack is hand-curated rather than mined, and the entries left out
are the point — `married with` is wrong until "married with children",
`arrive to` wants at or in depending on the noun. A pack running on every
keystroke must not correct correct writing.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
Two halves of the same idea, both read out of work Petal already
records.
Planting: an accepted collocation is a learnable chunk, so it becomes a
phrase card. The scheduler didn't need to know — a three-word chunk
climbs the ladder exactly like a looked-up word. What needed care was
deciding what *isn't* a chunk (single words are word choice; a
six-word-plus "collocation" is a rewritten sentence, and sentences make
miserable flashcards), and that the example must be the *corrected*
sentence — the stored draft still holds the phrasing she just left
behind. Re-accepting the same chunk leaves the existing card alone
rather than resetting a schedule it has been climbing. The whole thing
is best-effort: accepting an edit must never fail because a flashcard
couldn't be made.
The growth journal: kept this month beside kept the month before, the
phrasing that stuck, the patterns that faded. The queries were the easy
part; the honesty is the feature. "Stuck" needs the phrase in a *second*
document, because one document is just the edit where she left it.
"Faded" says nothing at all unless she has been writing lately —
otherwise a month away from Petal comes back to her as progress, which
is the one way this could lie. And a suggestion had to start recording
when she *decided* it, not when the model proposed it, so 0012 adds
resolved_at and backfills the old rows to their created_at.
It lives as a second tab in the garden, and it feeds the kitten: after
an accept she now sometimes hears something true of her alone, once per
line, half the time, never waited for.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
Phase 12 — collocation coach: a third suggestion family for gentle
"natives usually say…" hints on non-native word pairings, reusing the
existing runPass/pendingScope/rail machinery.
- llm/collocation.go (RunCollocation, 25s floor, reuses ParseCheckpoint)
+ collocationSystemPrompt/CollocationMessages (warm, Mandarin gloss,
defers grammar/spelling to the grammar family)
- migration 0005 rebuilds the suggestions table to extend the type CHECK
(SQLite can't ALTER a CHECK)
- collocationScope + CollocationLimit + POST /{id}/collocation
- fix: grammarScope was `type != 'voice'` and would wipe the new
collocation flags; now `type NOT IN ('voice','collocation')`
- frontend: --color-blossom, "Make it sound natural 🌸" pill,
collocating/runCollocation in useCheckpoint, StatusBar dot
Phase 13 — vocabulary garden: capture looked-up words and surface them
for gentle spaced repetition.
- new internal/vocab package: migration 0006 (vocab_words, SM-2-lite
columns, doc_id ON DELETE SET NULL, UNIQUE(user_id,word)),
scheduler.go (Leitner ladder 1/3/7/16/35 then geometric; gentle
"again", no streak-shaming), handlers (capture-upsert/list/due/
review/delete, owner-scoped, SQLite-side datetime math)
- auto-capture on word lookup (dictionary-known words only, captures
the surrounding sentence + doc_id) + 🤍/💚 toggle on WordCard
- GardenPanel: blossom grid (bloom by reps), flashcard review (sentence
blanked, flip, again/good/easy, recognition↔production), sleepy-kitten
footer; opened from a global 🌷 header button
Tests: TestCollocationPassCoexists, vocab scheduler + handlers, db CHECK
extended. go build/vet/test + tsc + vite + vitest (51/51) clean;
migration verified against a copy of the live DB; live backend smoke
walked the full vocab lifecycle + the warm-502 collocation path.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016Yr6jELuRc7hyzYLccQKZd
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