fix(auto-query): widen signal patterns to match natural recall phrases

jphein · claude · jphein · commit 33e780e3cb1b · 2026-05-23T12:19:43.000-07:00
The _EXPLICIT_RE pattern only matched "remind me" but not "remember",
"did we get", "do you know", etc. Added: remember, did we/you, recall,
check if/whether, was/were there.

Also fixed palace-auto-query.sh: moved turn counter before pre-filter
(turn-1 resumption needs TURN defined), widened shell grep to be a
superset of Python signals.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 &lt;noreply@anthropic.com&gt;
diff --git a/mempalace/auto_query/signals.py b/mempalace/auto_query/signals.py
@@ -27,13 +27,18 @@
 # Explicit hint patterns (spec section 1.1.4)
 _EXPLICIT_RE = re.compile(
     r"\b(remind\s+me"
-    r"|do\s+we\s+have"
-    r"|did\s+we\s+ever"
-    r"|what\s+did\s+we"
+    r"|(?:do\s+you\s+)?remember"
+    r"|do\s+(?:we|you)\s+(?:have|know)"
+    r"|did\s+(?:we|you)(?:\s+ever)?"
+    r"|what\s+(?:did|was|were)\s+(?:we|the)"
     r"|history\s+of"
     r"|prior\s+to"
     r"|earlier\s+we"
-    r"|have\s+we\s+ever)\b",
+    r"|have\s+we\s+ever"
+    r"|recall"
+    r"|was\s+there"
+    r"|were\s+there"
+    r"|check\s+(?:if|whether))\b",
     re.IGNORECASE,
 )
 
