Reported again: "::task translate" and its four lines showing as text above
the exercise they had been rendered into. The previous fix dropped
everything from the first line beginning "::", and could not see this one,
because by the time it ran the colons were gone:
**Example sentence**
*나 바다*
task translate <- the "::" removed, the items left as prose
나 바다
lib/blocks.js removes each block by string surgery, and a block's
terminator `(?:\n::|$)` is inside its own match, so removing one block
takes the two colons belonging to the NEXT one with it. Last time the
casualty was ::task before ::words; this reply put ::gloss first and the
casualty was ::task. Repairing that body cannot be made to work in general.
So the body is no longer repaired, it is derived: proseOf() reads the RAW
text, where the markers are always intact, and keeps every line outside a
block. The grammar is small -- a line of exactly "::" closes, any other
"::" line opens, a block runs until closed, until the next opens, or to the
end -- and nothing compares exact strings, because this model ends every
line with markdown's two trailing spaces.
An unclosed ::gloss is handled too, and every local model tested forgets
that closer. lib then reads the following paragraph as gloss parts, so two
sentences of English rendered as Korean example text inside the card. A
gloss row is `한글 | English | note` and a translation starts with "=";
anything else ends the block. The stranded prose goes back into the
message, and the gloss is now rebuilt unconditionally rather than only for
multi-sentence blocks, since the single-sentence case is exactly where this
bites.
Separately, MessageBody degrades gracefully on markdown instead of showing
it raw. The prompt forbids all of it and says so outright, but the backend
is pluggable now and a local model ignores the rule: a bulleted list of the
ten consonants arrived as lines starting with a hyphen, "*What we learn:*"
kept its asterisks, "---" showed as three dashes. Bullets, headings, rules
and *italic* now render quietly.
Verified by serving the exact reported reply through the real app: 10
bullets rendered as rows, no literal markup, no directive text, the gloss
card holding only 나 | 바다 = "I sea", and the exercise as real UI.
Also worth recording: three browser checks in this session were reading a
stub-generated turn synced down from Postgres, not the model. The app boots
on 수업, so the local stand-in writes the opening turn before a server can
be configured, and a fresh client then pulls the old transcript. Sending a
message after connecting is what actually exercises the remote path.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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