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Asked "what's my schedule today?", JARVIS took a screenshot and described the monitor.

The cause

Visible in the raw completions, once I stopped guessing and printed them:

[ACTION:SCREEN]

Good evening, sir — let me pull up your calendar and see what the day holds.

The intent was right and the vocabulary was wrong. The calendar and mail lookups already existed and worked — but only the hardcoded English phrase table in detect_fast_action could reach them. They were never offered to the model as action tags. [ACTION:SCREEN] was the only inspection action it had, so it substituted, and a photograph of the monitor came back instead of a schedule.

The fix

Add [ACTION:CALENDAR] and [ACTION:MAIL], wired to the same _lookup_and_report machinery the phrase table already used, and narrow SCREEN's description to the display itself — it photographs a monitor, so it can say nothing about an inbox.

This is not an i18n fix

That was my first assumption and it was wrong. English was equally broken; it was merely masked, because the phrase table intercepts those exact wordings before the model is ever consulted. Anything unlisted fell straight through — "When is my next appointment?" matches no entry, went to SCREEN, and now routes correctly.

Measuring the model directly (calling generate_response and reading the tag, so a misroute costs a token round-trip rather than a screenshot) over 12 phrasings × 3 runs per language:

before after
English 6/21 wrong 0/36
Italian 9/21 wrong 0/36

The phrasings deliberately vary — "Do I have meetings tomorrow?", "When is my next appointment?", "Check my inbox." — rather than repeating the two sentences the fix was developed against, plus conversational controls that must produce no tag at all.

Verified end to end too: "Qual è il mio prossimo appuntamento?"[ACTION:CALENDAR] → real Apple Calendar read → "Your schedule is clear today, sir."

One more thing

The two actions get their own acknowledgement line. The model tends to write prose after the tag, which extract_action parses as the target and strips, so without this the spoken response degraded to a bare "Right away, sir."

Scope

The phrase table is left alone. It is a latency optimisation — it answers without an LLM round-trip — and it is still correct for the wordings it lists. This change fixes what happens to everything else.

Independent of #21 and #22; cut from main.

Testing

pytest tests/ gives 35 passed, 8 failed — identical to main, so no regressions. The 8 pre-existing failures are unrelated: 7 need playwright install, and test_browse_action_keywords imports ACTION_KEYWORDS, a symbol that no longer exists in server.py.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

Asked "what's my schedule today?", JARVIS reached for [ACTION:SCREEN] and
described the monitor. The reason was visible in the raw completions:

  "[ACTION:SCREEN] Good evening, sir — let me pull up your calendar"

The intent was right and the vocabulary was wrong. The calendar and mail
lookups existed, but only the hardcoded English phrase table could reach
them — they were never offered to the model as action tags. SCREEN was the
only inspection action it had, so it substituted, and a monitor photograph
came back instead of a schedule.

Add [ACTION:CALENDAR] and [ACTION:MAIL], wired to the same
_lookup_and_report machinery the phrase table already used, and narrow
SCREEN's description to the display itself.

This is not an i18n fix. English was equally broken; it was merely masked,
because the phrase table intercepts the exact wordings before the model is
consulted. Anything unlisted fell through — "When is my next appointment?"
went to SCREEN too, and now does not.

Measured over 12 phrasings x 3 runs per language, comparing the tag chosen
against the tag expected:

  English   6/21 wrong -> 0/36
  Italian   9/21 wrong -> 0/36

Also give the two actions their own acknowledgement. The model tends to
write prose after the tag, which is parsed as the target and stripped, so
without this the spoken line degraded to a bare "Right away, sir."

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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