img-17: cache image-only posts; news pipeline notes

2026-07-13 16:50:58 +02:00
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@@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ SAF-08/MEM-09).
 Bot-generated images are ingested like uploads (user `assistant`), so
 "make a variant of that" remix chains work on the bot's own output.

+### IMG-17 — Image-only messages are cached (coverage: test)
+
+A message consisting only of attachments (no text) is ingested into
+the cache and recorded as an observation, even though no reply is
+produced — the image must be available for later `picture_edit` and
+vision follow-ups. (Previously the empty-text early-return dropped
+such posts entirely.)
+
 ### IMG-16 — The prompt announces editable images (coverage: test)

 When the answer channel has cached images, the context suffix states