Every generated document now goes through a second, independent Ollama call
(synth/counter_run.py) before anything is written to output/: it checks quotes,
figures, named theoretical connections, and cross-source correlations against
the exact context the original synthesis pass saw, dropping anything that
doesn't trace back to it. A quote the model claims is grounded also gets a
deterministic substring-search backstop, since that's the one claim type
checkable without trusting the verifying call's own word for it.
The verifier shares the same RCI-derived theoretical basis as the document
it's checking, not a neutral outside standard — its job is confirming the
underlying facts are real and the theory genuinely matches their structure,
not flagging correct Marxist analysis as unverifiable for being theoretical
rather than a bare fact.
Fails safe in one direction only: a document that can't be verified at all
(Ollama unreachable a second time) is kept but marked unverified, never
silently passed through unchecked and never blanked outright. A document that
fails entirely is replaced with an honest "withheld pending verification"
placeholder.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KPD1RhBsjdFKFLpMCLiVT6
Rewrites synth/prompts/political.md's editorial stance: prioritize material
economics (labour disputes, capital concentration, capital export, trade wars)
over horse-race/personality politics, curate and quote rather than summarize
everything, apply Marx's labour theory of value and Lenin's imperialism by
name when an entry's structure genuinely matches (e.g. a merger -> Lenin's
tendency towards monopoly), correlate findings across news/financial/traffic
data explicitly on the globe view, and add a hard anti-speculation rule so
every claim traces to something actually in the context.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KPD1RhBsjdFKFLpMCLiVT6
Implements both new subsystems from the project plan end to end:
- hosts/thin-client/: Debian live-build Sway kiosk image — greetd autologin,
wayvnc (replaces RDP, per open decision #1), thinclient-agent (HA MQTT
discovery + swaymsg control, the sole LLM-reachable surface), mpv/mpv-mpris,
spotifyd/Steam Link, minimal-chrome Firefox with uBlock Origin/SponsorBlock
preinstalled, a fullscreen-aware now-playing widget, persistent audio-output
selection, outbound RDP/VNC via Remmina, HA mobile-app text/pointer remote
control via ydotool, an optional opt-in gesture-control camera (MediaPipe
hand tracking, off by default at two independent gates), a maintenance-shell
keybind, a German default keymap, and an idle-timeout photo slideshow from a
new gallery SMB share on the container host.
- digest-engine/: quarter-daily LLM digest — email/Signal/Telegram/Discord/
WhatsApp ingestion (WhatsApp via a headful-Chromium bridge, opt-in, highest
risk), news (including RCI/marxist.com theoretical sources and a broad
mainstream/state-affiliated outlet list), financial indicators, flight/naval
traffic and an OPNsense Suricata-alerts summary as political-analysis
evidence, Grocy/CalDAV household ingestion, an evening-only recipe and
shopping-list suggestion from soon-to-expire stock, and a vendored
digest-canvas SDK (globe/window/glow) rendering compact and full views. A
digest that goes unviewed (no thin-client canvas display or voice playback)
is merged into the next run instead of being discarded, tracked via a
retained MQTT message on the shared broker.
Both are wired into hosts/container-host/scripts/setup-container-host.sh via
the existing ENABLE_X/X_BLOCK pattern, off by default. docs/project-plan.md and
README.md are updated to match; remaining open decisions and manual-
verification items are tracked in-repo (project-plan.md §4, digest-engine/
README.md, hosts/thin-client/README.md).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01KPD1RhBsjdFKFLpMCLiVT6
Amir Alexander Abdelbaki