tool clarity + luma is male: get_news preferred over web_search, sharper codex/websearch descriptions, luma he-pronouns

fjerkroa_bot/codex.py

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """Codex Mechanicus search tool (SPEC-014, FDB-019).
 
 Luma's own sacred archive — the Codex Mechanicus at binaric.tech — as a
-function tool. She searches the codex index and answers Cult Mechanicus
+function tool. He searches the codex index and answers Cult Mechanicus
 lore from real, sourced inscriptions instead of inventing it. The index
 is fetched over HTTPS (SSRF-guarded, size-bounded, cached in memory) and
 every field returned to the model is sanitized (SAF-03), because even

fjerkroa_bot/news.py

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ DEFAULT_SUMMARY_CHARS = 200
 DEFAULT_NEWS_KEEP = 400
 FETCH_TIMEOUT_S = 15
 _ATOM = "{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}"
+_RSS1 = "{http://purl.org/rss/1.0/}"  # RSS 1.0 / RDF (e.g. 4gamer.net) namespaces <item>/<title>/<link>
 _TAG_RE = re.compile(r"<[^>]+>")
 
 
@@ -36,22 +37,28 @@ def _clean_summary(raw: str, max_len: int = 300) -> str:
     return re.sub(r"\s+", " ", text).strip()[:max_len]
 
 
+def _rss_items(root: Any, ns: str, source: str) -> List[Dict[str, str]]:
+    """RSS 2.0 (ns='') and RSS 1.0/RDF (ns=_RSS1) both use <item><title><link><description>."""
+    out: List[Dict[str, str]] = []
+    for item in root.iter(f"{ns}item"):
+        title = (item.findtext(f"{ns}title") or "").strip()
+        link = (item.findtext(f"{ns}link") or "").strip()
+        summary = _clean_summary(item.findtext(f"{ns}description") or "")
+        if title:
+            out.append({"title": title, "link": link, "source": source, "summary": summary})
+    return out
+
+
 def parse_feed(data: bytes, source: str = "") -> List[Dict[str, str]]:
-    """Parse RSS or Atom bytes into [{title, link, source}] (tolerant)."""
+    """Parse RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, or Atom bytes into [{title, link, source, summary}] (tolerant)."""
     try:
         root = ElementTree.fromstring(data)
     except Exception as err:
         # malformed XML or a blocked entity/DTD attack — tolerate, never raise (NEWS-01)
         logging.warning(f"news: unparseable/unsafe feed {source!r}: {err!r}")
         return []
-    items: List[Dict[str, str]] = []
-    # RSS: <rss><channel><item><title/><link/><description/>
-    for item in root.iter("item"):
-        title = (item.findtext("title") or "").strip()
-        link = (item.findtext("link") or "").strip()
-        summary = _clean_summary(item.findtext("description") or "")
-        if title:
-            items.append({"title": title, "link": link, "source": source, "summary": summary})
+    # RSS 2.0 (unqualified) + RSS 1.0/RDF (namespaced, e.g. 4gamer) share <item><title><link><description>
+    items: List[Dict[str, str]] = _rss_items(root, "", source) + _rss_items(root, _RSS1, source)
     # Atom: <feed><entry><title/><link href=/><summary|content/>
     for entry in root.iter(f"{_ATOM}entry"):
         title = (entry.findtext(f"{_ATOM}title") or "").strip()
@@ -184,9 +191,10 @@ class NewsPoster:
 
 GET_NEWS_TOOL = {
     "name": "get_news",
-    "description": "Fetch recent real-world news the bot has collected from its RSS feeds (local, national, world, sport, "
-    "culture). Use when someone asks what is new or what is happening, optionally about a topic or from a particular "
-    "source. Returns headlines with a short summary and a link to read more.",
+    "description": "Fetch news the bot has collected from its RSS feeds — this is the SAME news that gets posted in the "
+    "server's news channels (e.g. #news, #newsjp / ニュース). Use this FIRST, before web_search, for anything about "
+    "current news or about something someone saw in a news channel; filter by topic (a keyword, also matches the source "
+    "label) or by source. Returns headlines with a short summary and a link; follow up with fetch_url for the full text.",
     "parameters": {
         "type": "object",
         "properties": {

fjerkroa_bot/websearch.py

@@ -24,9 +24,10 @@ FETCH_TIMEOUT_S = 15
 
 WEB_SEARCH_TOOL = {
     "name": "web_search",
-    "description": "Search the open web for current information when the user asks you to look something up and it is not "
-    "covered by game info (IGDB), the Codex, the news store, or a URL they pasted. Returns result titles, URLs, and a short "
-    "snippet; follow up with fetch_url on a result link for the full article.",
+    "description": "Search the open web for general information. Use ONLY when the answer is not in your own sources: for "
+    "the server's news use get_news, for Adeptus Mechanicus / Warhammer 40k lore use codex_search, for video-game facts use "
+    "the game tools, for a specific URL someone pasted use fetch_url. Returns result titles, URLs, and a short snippet; "
+    "follow up with fetch_url on a result link for the full article.",
     "parameters": {
         "type": "object",
         "properties": {

specs/SPEC-013-news.md

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Replaces the broken pre-1.0-openai `news_feed.py`. A CLI
 `AIResponder.message` injects into the `{news}` slot. Feeds are
 external input and operator-configured.
 
-### NEWS-01 — RSS and Atom parse to items (coverage: test)
+### NEWS-01 — RSS (2.0 and 1.0/RDF) and Atom parse to items (coverage: test)
 
 `parse_feed(bytes, label)` extracts `{title, link, source}` from both
 RSS (`<item>`) and Atom (`<entry>`) documents, tolerates malformed

specs/SPEC-014-codex.md

@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 # SPEC-014 — Codex Mechanicus search
 
-Luma is an Adeptus Mechanicus tech-priest; her lore has a real home —
+Luma is an Adeptus Mechanicus tech-priest; his lore has a real home —
 the priest's own Codex Mechanicus at `binaric.tech` (an Astro/MDX
-archive, five tongues). A `codex_search` function tool lets her consult
+archive, five tongues). A `codex_search` function tool lets him consult
 that archive and answer from sourced inscriptions instead of inventing
 lore. The index is public but still untrusted by the time it reaches a
 prompt: the fetch is SSRF-guarded (SPEC-011 shares `guard_url`),

tests/test_spec_news.py

@@ -29,6 +29,16 @@ ATOM = b"""<?xml version="1.0"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
 <entry><title>Atom headline</title><link href="https://ex.com/a"/></entry>
 </feed>"""
 
+RSS1 = (
+    '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>'
+    '<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/">'
+    '<channel rdf:about="https://ex.jp"><title>Feed</title></channel>'
+    '<item rdf:about="https://ex.jp/1"><title>ゲームニュース</title><link>https://ex.jp/1</link>'
+    "<description>本文ここ</description></item>"
+    '<item rdf:about="https://ex.jp/2"><title>Second</title><link>https://ex.jp/2</link></item>'
+    "</rdf:RDF>"
+).encode("utf-8")
+
 
 class TestParse(unittest.TestCase):
     def test_rss(self):
@@ -44,6 +54,13 @@ class TestParse(unittest.TestCase):
         self.assertEqual(items[0]["title"], "Atom headline")
         self.assertEqual(items[0]["link"], "https://ex.com/a")
 
+    def test_rss1_rdf(self):
+        """NEWS-01: RSS 1.0/RDF (namespaced <item>, e.g. 4gamer.net) parses like RSS 2.0."""
+        items = parse_feed(RSS1, "JP")
+        self.assertEqual([i["title"] for i in items], ["ゲームニュース", "Second"])
+        self.assertEqual(items[0]["link"], "https://ex.jp/1")
+        self.assertEqual(items[0]["summary"], "本文ここ")
+
     def test_malformed_never_raises(self):
         """NEWS-01: garbage XML returns [] without raising."""
         self.assertEqual(parse_feed(b"<not xml", "bad"), [])