Hailo has always had a voice of its own. Its channel brain finds unexpected links between words, and those links give its replies their character. Sometimes, though, a good idea emerges as a jumble: a misspelled word, an unfinished clause, or a sentence that barely connects to the conversation.
The old MegaHAL interface had an outgoing “moulinette” that cleaned up a handful of familiar mistakes. MB792 carries that attention to the final line forward through Hailo’s existing AI post-editor. The brain still writes the draft; the provider is asked to correct spelling, punctuation, agreement and grammar, then arrange the fragments into a clearer thought. It must keep the draft’s subject, imagery and tone. This is a polishing charm for Hailo’s answer, not a license to invent a different one. ✨
The post-editor receives a detail that previously stopped at the runtime boundary: why Hailo is speaking. A direct reply should address the speaker’s message and answer a question only as far as the Hailo draft supports it. Spontaneous chatter should join the recent topic without pretending someone asked a question. The provider still sees the bounded conversation context, trigger and draft, and it is explicitly told to treat those lines as text rather than instructions.
Clearer prose must not quietly change the answer. The local acceptance check now rejects an edit that removes or introduces explicit negation or changes a number, even if most of the original words remain. The existing limits on line length and lexical overlap continue to apply. If the provider fails, times out or proposes an unacceptable line, Mediabot falls back to the original Hailo draft; the usual delivery and channel checks still decide whether anything is sent.
On the development instance, MB792 passed 109/109 targeted tests, 8,047/8,047 fast-lane tests, and the full suite of 21,005/21,005 tests. The change was committed and pushed as 355ceee (3.6dev-20260925_194600), then mediabot@dev.service restarted and was confirmed active and synchronized.
Those tests establish the request format, runtime handoff, acceptance rules and fallback behavior. They cannot prove that every live provider reply will sound better. The next useful check is an authenticated Hailo conversation on development: compare the draft’s familiar voice with the final answer, watch for corrected errors and better coherence, and flag any case where the meaning drifts. The nbot #i/o pilot remains a separate step.
Hailo keeps the wand. MB792 helps its words land where it meant them to. 🦉
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