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Development chronicle — mb613 to mb616 · Live news search, multilingual summaries and hardened async delivery
Mediabot can now search current news, summarise it through Claude, and answer in the language of the IRC channel.
The feature started as a port of the historical news_teuk.tcl …
Development chronicle — mb609 to mb613 · Multilingual AI recap, persistent achievement progress, tunable rarity and truthful async state
This development arc improves two parts of Mediabot that look unrelated at first: AI recaps and achievements.
They actually share the same design goal:…
Development chronicle — mb608 · Channel-aware AI summaries
Mediabot’s ai summary command now follows the language of the IRC room instead of always answering in English.
The change deliberately keeps the summarisation machinery itself stable: the transcript selection, time filters, nic…
Development chronicle — mb606 to mb607 · Offline validation and truthful dry-runs
Plugin v2 has gained a proper workshop.
Until now, writing or checking a sidecar plugin usually meant running Mediabot itself — which also meant a database, an IRC connection, a configured instance and all …
Development chronicle — mb603 to mb605 · Living storage examples, cron state and storage observability
The plugin v2 persistence layer now has something more valuable than a protocol: real inhabitants.
This arc adds two working examples built on top of the storage and cron contracts, exp…
Development chronicle — mb598 to mb602 · Metrics, time events, configuration and persistent state
The plugin v2 gallery is no longer only alive. It can now be observed, configured and given a memory.
This development arc adds Prometheus metrics for plugin activity, detailed partyline ins…
Development chronicle — mb592 to mb597 · Examples, events, observability and final guards
The Plugin Gallery no longer contains only contracts and empty frames.
With this development arc, Mediabot’s plugin v2 architecture gains working examples in Perl, Python and Tcl, real EventBus subs…
Development chronicle — mb586 to mb591 · Plugins v2
A new wing has opened inside Mediabot’s castle.
Plugins are no longer mysterious boxes that must be opened and read before anyone can understand what they provide. They can now declare their identity, commands, access requirements and p…
Development chronicle — mb572 to mb579 · 3.4dev
The castle has completed one of its most careful rounds of work yet.
This chapter began with a bilingual Seer and an improved operator board. It ended with a deeper redesign of Mediabot’s historical memory: live data and archived records ca…
Development chronicle — mb572 to mb574 · 3.4dev
A new set of enchantments has reached the castle.
The horoscope now speaks according to the language of each channel, the partyline status board reveals what is happening behind the scenes, and the archive worker can no longer hide a failur…