...

.claude/settings.local.json

@@ -26,7 +26,11 @@
       "Bash(.venv/bin/python *)",
       "Bash(python *)",
       "Bash(QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen .venv/bin/python -m pytest tests/test_controller_features.py -q -p no:cacheprovider)",
-      "Bash(QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen .venv/bin/python -c ' *)"
+      "Bash(QT_QPA_PLATFORM=offscreen .venv/bin/python -c ' *)",
+      "Bash(git push *)",
+      "Bash(git remote *)",
+      "Bash(grep -v '^$')",
+      "Bash(.venv/bin/pip install *)"
     ]
   }
 }

.env.example

@@ -40,6 +40,17 @@ ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID=
 #VAD_SILENCE_END_SEC=1.2
 #VAD_MAX_UTTERANCE_SECONDS=15
 #VAD_MIN_UTTERANCE_SECONDS=0.4
+#VAD_GRACE_SECONDS=4            # how long to wait for you to start talking
+
+# ── Follow-up listening (optional) ──────────────────────────────────────────
+# When a reply ends on a question, the pet keeps listening for your answer
+# instead of dropping back to idle and making you say the wake word again.
+# FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS caps how many question-and-answer rounds can chain
+# without you re-triggering it (0 = no cap) — a stop on runaway loops if the
+# server ends every reply with "?" and the mic keeps feeding it noise.
+#FOLLOW_UP_LISTEN=true
+#FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS=3
+#FOLLOW_UP_GRACE_SECONDS=7      # longer than VAD_GRACE_SECONDS: you were asked something
 
 # ── Pet window (optional) ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
 #PET_SIZE=160
@@ -63,12 +74,36 @@ ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID=
 #PET_EDGE_SNAP=true
 #PET_SNAP_MARGIN=48
 
-# ── Barge-in (optional) — talk over the pet to cut it off ───────────────────
-# Threshold defaults to 4x VAD_RMS_THRESHOLD because the mic also hears the
-# pet's own voice out of the speakers. Raise it if playback self-interrupts.
+# ── Barge-in (optional) — interrupt the pet mid-sentence ────────────────────
+# BARGE_IN_MODE decides what counts as an interruption:
+#   wake   — only the wake word cuts playback (default). Background noise,
+#            coughs and the TV can't stop it mid-sentence.
+#   energy — any sustained noise above BARGE_IN_RMS_THRESHOLD does. Faster to
+#            trigger, but interrupts on anything loud. That threshold defaults
+#            to 4x VAD_RMS_THRESHOLD because the mic also hears the pet's own
+#            voice out of the speakers; raise it if playback self-interrupts.
 #BARGE_IN=true
-#BARGE_IN_RMS_THRESHOLD=1200
-#BARGE_IN_FRAMES=4
+#BARGE_IN_MODE=wake
+#BARGE_IN_RMS_THRESHOLD=1200   # energy mode only
+#BARGE_IN_FRAMES=4             # energy mode only
+# Wake mode only. Blank tracks the live WAKE_WORD_THRESHOLD (tray tuner);
+# set a number to make interrupting harder than waking the pet from idle,
+# e.g. if Bolt's own voice occasionally trips the model.
+#BARGE_IN_WAKE_THRESHOLD=0.6
+
+# ── Auto-update (optional) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Watches the Gitea releases page for a tag newer than bolt_pet.__version__,
+# then `git checkout`s it and restarts — only ever between turns, never
+# mid-conversation. Requires the install to be a git clone; a working tree
+# with local changes is skipped (never stashed), and any failure after the
+# checkout rolls back to the ref that was live before.
+#AUTO_UPDATE=true
+#UPDATE_REPO_API=https://git.themajesticnetwork.com/api/v1/repos/TheMajesticNetwork/Bolt-Pet
+#UPDATE_CHECK_INTERVAL_SECONDS=3600
+#UPDATE_GIT_REMOTE=origin
+#UPDATE_INSTALL_DEPS=true
+# Only needed if the repo is private (a Gitea token with read:repository).
+#UPDATE_TOKEN=
 
 # ── Streaming TTS (optional) — starts talking on the first chunk ────────────
 #TTS_STREAMING=true
@@ -104,6 +139,19 @@ ELEVENLABS_VOICE_ID=
 #WAKE_NEAR_MISS_MARGIN=0.2
 #WAKE_NEAR_MISS_LIMIT=40
 
+# ── sudo password prompts (optional) ────────────────────────────────────────
+# The pet has no terminal, so a server-relayed `sudo` would block forever on
+# a tty nobody is watching. With this on, bare `sudo` becomes `sudo -A` and
+# the password is collected in a desktop dialog you have to answer — a real
+# askpass binary if one is installed, otherwise a generated zenity/kdialog
+# wrapper in ~/.cache/bolt-pet/askpass.sh.
+# Set it to false if you'd rather Bolt never be able to ask for root: sudo
+# commands then just fail. Read the dialogs — that box is the only thing
+# between "Bolt decided to run sudo" and it running.
+#SUDO_ASKPASS_PROMPT=true
+#SUDO_ASKPASS_HELPER=            # blank = auto-detect
+#SUDO_COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=180  # long enough for a human to answer
+
 # ── Misc (optional) ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 #COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS=30
 #HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_SECONDS=60

.gitignore

@@ -3,3 +3,5 @@ __pycache__/
 *.pyc
 .env
 .pytest_cache/
+.claude
+CLAUDE.md

CLAUDE.md

@@ -79,11 +79,16 @@ logs a missing-config message and exits its thread instead of starting.
   `play_stream()` start playback on the first chunk; `chunks_to_int16()`
   carries odd bytes across HTTP chunk boundaries, without which everything
   after the first split sample plays as static — falling back to whole-clip
-  PCM then offline `pyttsx3`), `barge_in.py` (`BargeInDetector`: N consecutive
-  loud mic frames while the pet is talking cuts playback and starts the next
-  turn; threshold is deliberately ~4x the VAD one because the mic hears the
-  pet's own voice). Each accepts an injectable stream/model/protocol so tests
-  don't need real audio hardware or a display.
+  PCM then offline `pyttsx3`), `barge_in.py` (two detectors behind one
+  `reset()`/`check()` shape, chosen by `BARGE_IN_MODE` via `make_detector`:
+  **wake** (default) scores every frame with the same openWakeWord model the
+  idle listener uses, so only the wake phrase cuts playback; **energy** is the
+  original N-consecutive-loud-frames rule, threshold ~4x the VAD one because
+  the mic hears the pet's own voice. Wake mode shares `_default_model` with
+  the idle listener — the two never run concurrently — and `reset()`s it on
+  detection so the tail of one reply can't count toward the next). Each
+  accepts an injectable stream/model/protocol so tests don't need real audio
+  hardware or a display.
 - **`pet_actions.py`** — `petctl` pseudo-commands (`petctl move top-left`,
   `petctl emote wave`, `say`/`wander`/`nap`). The desk API has no "move the
   pet" payload type and this repo can't change the server, so these ride the
@@ -103,6 +108,33 @@ logs a missing-config message and exits its thread instead of starting.
   `dbus-monitor`, parses Notify calls (pure `iter_notifications()`), filters
   and rate-limits them (`NotificationGate`), and the controller forwards
   survivors through `converse()`. Off by default — each one is a round trip.
+- **`sudo_askpass.py`** — makes server-relayed `sudo` usable from a process
+  with no terminal, by pointing sudo's `SUDO_ASKPASS` at a GUI helper and
+  rewriting bare `sudo` to `sudo -A` (`add_askpass_flag`, a conservative regex
+  that skips anything already carrying a flag and anything inside quotes).
+  Prefers a real askpass binary and falls back to generating a
+  zenity/kdialog wrapper in `~/.cache/bolt-pet/askpass.sh`. Resolution order
+  is injectable (`is_executable`/`which`) so it's testable on a machine with a
+  different set installed. See the security notes — the dialog is the boundary.
+- **`updater.py`** — self-update from the Gitea releases API. Polls
+  `<UPDATE_REPO_API>/releases/latest` for a tag newer than
+  `bolt_pet.__version__` and moves the checkout to it with
+  `git fetch --tags` + `git checkout tags/<tag>`, so "downloading an update"
+  is just git and rolling back is one command. Three safety rules: a **dirty
+  working tree is skipped, never stashed** (silently discarding your
+  work-in-progress beats running an old version); everything after the
+  checkout — dependency install, then an **import smoke test in a
+  subprocess** (this process still has the old modules loaded, so importing
+  in-process would prove nothing) — is guarded, and any failure rolls back to
+  the exact ref that was live before, branch name or SHA; and the restart only
+  happens once the new code imports, so a broken release costs a log line
+  rather than a pet that won't start. Git goes through an injectable
+  `run(args) -> (code, output)` callable so apply/rollback is unit-tested
+  against a fake git; version comparison and release parsing are pure.
+  `controller._maybe_update` drives it from the wake-listener tick (so the pet
+  is IDLE and between turns by construction) and the actual `os.execv` happens
+  in `ui/app.py` *after* `app.exec()` returns — that ordering is what
+  guarantees the mic is released before the new process opens it.
 - **`history.py`** — rolling transcript (`HISTORY_LIMIT` turns) behind the
   tray's History window and click-to-copy on the bubble.
 - **`hotkey.py`** — global push-to-talk via `pynput`; soft-fails with a logged
@@ -113,7 +145,13 @@ logs a missing-config message and exits its thread instead of starting.
   covered) strips markdown, emoji, URLs and stray symbols the voice would read
   literally ("asterisk asterisk"), turns bullet lists into full sentences, and
   words a few symbols (`&` → "and"). `for_display()` is the looser version for
-  the speech bubble — markdown syntax gone, emoji kept. Pure string logic, no
+  the speech bubble — markdown syntax gone, emoji kept. `is_question()` decides
+  whether a reply leaves the pet waiting on an answer: it tests the *spoken*
+  form (so a '?' inside a stripped code block or URL doesn't count) and only a
+  trailing one counts, since a question asked in passing isn't awaiting a
+  reply. `controller._should_follow_up` uses it to keep listening without the
+  wake word, capped by `FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS` so a server that ends every reply
+  with a question can't loop forever off mic noise. Pure string logic, no
   Qt/audio imports.
 - **`ui/`** — `app.py` wires `QApplication` + `PetWindow` + `PetTray` + the
   history/tuner windows + the push-to-talk hotkey + the controller thread
@@ -155,6 +193,22 @@ detection. Swap `WAKE_MODEL_FILE` to point at a differently-trained `.onnx`
 model to change the wake phrase — everything downstream (STT, server call,
 TTS) is unaffected.
 
+**openwakeword's `Model.reset()` is not enough to forget a detection.** It
+clears the *prediction* buffer only; the rolling audio window the classifier
+actually scores lives in `model.preprocessor` (`raw_data_buffer` — 10s of raw
+audio — plus `melspectrogram_buffer` and a ~120-frame `feature_buffer`) and
+`AudioFeatures` has no reset method at all. So after a detection the wake
+phrase is still in the window, and the next frame fed to the model re-fires on
+it. Symptom when this bites: the pet cuts itself off a word into every reply,
+because wake-mode barge-in resumes feeding the model and instantly matches the
+"thunderbolt" that *started* the turn. `wake_word.hard_reset(model)` restores
+the preprocessor to its as-constructed (silence) state and is what both
+`listen_for_wake_word` and `WakeWordBargeIn.reset()` call — use it, not
+`reset()`, anywhere a detection needs to be genuinely forgotten. The blank
+state is cached on the preprocessor object (not in an `id()`-keyed dict —
+CPython reuses ids after GC), since rebuilding it costs an ONNX pass over 10s
+of silence.
+
 The threshold is tunable at runtime: the tray's **Wake word tuning…** window
 (`ui/wake_tuner.py`) shows the peak score seen and a rolling list of near
 misses (frames within `WAKE_NEAR_MISS_MARGIN` *below* the threshold — i.e.
@@ -191,6 +245,23 @@ matches the trust model of the server repo's other desk clients. Keep
 `DESK_API_KEY` private and don't expose the desk API port to the open
 internet.
 
+`sudo_askpass.py` widens that further, by design: with `SUDO_ASKPASS_PROMPT`
+on (the default), a relayed bare `sudo` is rewritten to `sudo -A` and the
+password is collected in a desktop dialog, so commands can escalate to root
+instead of hanging on a tty the pet doesn't have. The dialog is the security
+boundary — it's the only thing between the server deciding to run `sudo` and
+it running, so the prompt is deliberately not suppressible per-command and
+those commands get their own longer timeout (`SUDO_COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS`)
+rather than being made non-interactive. Set `SUDO_ASKPASS_PROMPT=false` to
+take the capability away entirely; sudo commands then fail. Note that
+`sudo -n` / `sudo -A` / `sudo -u …` in a relayed command are never rewritten,
+so an explicit non-interactive sudo stays non-interactive.
+
+**Don't run the pet as root.** It needs no privileges of its own, PortAudio
+can't reach the user's PipeWire socket from a root session (raw ALSA devices
+reject the 16 kHz capture rate — `paInvalidSampleRate`), and every relayed
+command would run unconstrained.
+
 Two newer features widen what leaves this machine, both switchable in `.env`:
 `SCREEN_CONTEXT` appends the focused window's *title* to each utterance
 (titles often contain file paths, document names, or subject lines), and

bolt_pet/__init__.py

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+"""Bolt desktop pet.
+
+__version__ is what the auto-updater compares against the newest tag on the
+Gitea releases page (see updater.py), so bump it in the same commit you tag.
+"""
+
+__version__ = "0.1.0"

bolt_pet/audio/barge_in.py

@@ -1,26 +1,52 @@
-"""Barge-in: notice that the user started talking *while the pet is talking*
-so playback can be cut short mid-sentence.
+"""Barge-in: notice that the user wants to interrupt *while the pet is
+talking* so playback can be cut short mid-sentence.
 
-Deliberately dumber than the utterance VAD in mic.py. The mic hears the pet's
-own voice coming back out of the speakers, so a single loud frame proves
-nothing — this requires several consecutive frames well above the normal
-speech threshold (BARGE_IN_RMS_THRESHOLD defaults to 4x VAD_RMS_THRESHOLD).
-Takes the same injectable stream shape as mic.record_utterance, so tests feed
-it fake frames instead of real audio hardware.
+Two detectors, picked by BARGE_IN_MODE:
+
+- **wake** (default) — the interruption has to be the wake word. Every mic
+  frame goes through the same openWakeWord model the idle listener uses, so
+  a sneeze, a door, or the TV can't cut Bolt off mid-sentence; only saying
+  "thunderbolt" does.
+- **energy** — the original behaviour: N consecutive frames above
+  BARGE_IN_RMS_THRESHOLD. Faster to trigger and needs no model inference,
+  but it fires on any sustained noise. Deliberately dumber than the
+  utterance VAD in mic.py, since the mic hears the pet's own voice coming
+  back out of the speakers, so the threshold defaults to 4x the VAD one.
+
+Both take the same injectable stream shape as mic.record_utterance and expose
+the same reset()/check() pair, so tests feed them fake frames instead of real
+audio hardware and controller.py doesn't care which one it holds.
 """
 
 from __future__ import annotations
 
+from typing import Callable, Optional, Union
+
 import numpy as np
 
 from .. import config
 from .mic import AudioStream, rms
+from .wake_word import WakeModel, _default_model, hard_reset
+
+
+def _read_frame(stream: AudioStream, frame_len: int) -> Optional[np.ndarray]:
+    """One mono frame, or None if the mic hiccuped or gave us nothing. Never
+    raises: a bad frame mid-playback should mean "no barge-in this frame",
+    not a dead reply."""
+    try:
+        chunk, _ = stream.read(frame_len)
+    except Exception:
+        return None
+    frame = np.asarray(chunk)
+    if frame.ndim > 1:
+        frame = frame[:, 0]
+    return frame if frame.size else None
 
 
 class BargeInDetector:
-    """Poll-driven: call check() repeatedly while audio plays. Each call
-    consumes exactly one mic frame (80ms at the default frame length), which
-    is also what paces the playback loop's polling."""
+    """Energy mode. Poll-driven: call check() repeatedly while audio plays.
+    Each call consumes exactly one mic frame (80ms at the default frame
+    length), which is also what paces the playback loop's polling."""
 
     def __init__(
         self,
@@ -44,19 +70,121 @@ class BargeInDetector:
 
     def check(self) -> bool:
         """True once the user has been loud for long enough to count as an
-        interruption. Never raises: a mic hiccup mid-playback should not kill
-        the reply, it should just mean "no barge-in this frame"."""
-        try:
-            chunk, _ = self._stream.read(self._frame_len)
-        except Exception:
-            return False
-        frame = np.asarray(chunk)
-        if frame.ndim > 1:
-            frame = frame[:, 0]
-        if frame.size == 0:
+        interruption."""
+        frame = _read_frame(self._stream, self._frame_len)
+        if frame is None:
             return False
         if rms(frame) >= self._threshold:
             self._loud_frames += 1
         else:
             self._loud_frames = 0  # a single thump/cough shouldn't count
         return self._loud_frames >= self._required
+
+
+class WakeWordBargeIn:
+    """Wake-word mode: only "thunderbolt" interrupts.
+
+    Same per-frame predict() loop as listen_for_wake_word, just driven by the
+    playback poll instead of its own read loop. The model instance is shared
+    with the idle listener by default — the two never run at the same time
+    (the pipeline is either speaking or listening), and reusing it avoids
+    loading a second copy of the ONNX graph.
+
+    Two wrinkles the energy detector doesn't have:
+
+    - The mic hears the pet's own voice, so the model is scoring Bolt's
+      speech too. That's harmless unless Bolt says its own wake word, which
+      is why the threshold can be raised independently
+      (BARGE_IN_WAKE_THRESHOLD) without desensitizing the idle listener.
+    - reset() has to be a *hard* reset. openwakeword keeps ~10s of audio
+      history in its preprocessor, so the "thunderbolt" that started this
+      turn is still in the model's window when playback begins — feed it one
+      new frame and it fires on the old phrase, cutting the reply off a word
+      in. Clearing that window is what makes wake-mode barge-in work at all.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        stream: AudioStream,
+        model: Optional[WakeModel] = None,
+        threshold: Union[float, Callable[[], float], None] = None,
+        frame_len: int = config.FRAME_LEN,
+        on_score: Optional[Callable[[float, float], None]] = None,
+    ):
+        self._stream = stream
+        self._model = model if model is not None else _default_model
+        if threshold is None:
+            threshold = config.BARGE_IN_WAKE_THRESHOLD or config.WAKE_WORD_THRESHOLD
+        self._resolve_threshold = threshold if callable(threshold) else (lambda: threshold)
+        self._frame_len = frame_len
+        self._on_score = on_score
+        self._frames = 0
+        self._peak = 0.0
+        self._last = 0.0
+        self._last_threshold = 0.0
+
+    # Scoring history for the current reply. Without this an interruption is
+    # indistinguishable from a crash in the logs — you can't tell a genuine
+    # "thunderbolt" from the model firing on Bolt's own voice, or on the first
+    # frame (a stale window) versus halfway through (something it heard).
+    @property
+    def frames_checked(self) -> int:
+        return self._frames
+
+    @property
+    def seconds_checked(self) -> float:
+        return self._frames * self._frame_len / config.SAMPLE_RATE
+
+    @property
+    def peak_score(self) -> float:
+        return self._peak
+
+    @property
+    def last_score(self) -> float:
+        return self._last
+
+    @property
+    def last_threshold(self) -> float:
+        return self._last_threshold
+
+    def reset(self) -> None:
+        hard_reset(self._model)  # never raises
+        self._frames = 0
+        self._peak = 0.0
+        self._last = 0.0
+
+    def check(self) -> bool:
+        frame = _read_frame(self._stream, self._frame_len)
+        if frame is None:
+            return False
+        try:
+            scores = self._model.predict(frame)
+        except Exception:
+            return False  # same contract as a mic hiccup: no barge-in, no crash
+        threshold = self._resolve_threshold()
+        best = max(scores.values()) if scores else 0.0
+        self._frames += 1
+        self._last = best
+        self._peak = max(self._peak, best)
+        self._last_threshold = threshold
+        if self._on_score is not None:
+            self._on_score(best, threshold)
+        if scores and best >= threshold:
+            self.reset()
+            return True
+        return False
+
+
+def make_detector(
+    stream: AudioStream,
+    mode: str = None,
+    wake_threshold: Union[float, Callable[[], float], None] = None,
+    on_score: Optional[Callable[[float, float], None]] = None,
+):
+    """Build whichever detector BARGE_IN_MODE asks for. An unrecognized mode
+    falls back to energy rather than raising — a typo in .env shouldn't stop
+    the pet from starting."""
+    mode = (config.BARGE_IN_MODE if mode is None else mode).strip().lower()
+    if mode in ("wake", "wakeword", "wake_word"):
+        return WakeWordBargeIn(stream, threshold=wake_threshold, on_score=on_score)
+    return BargeInDetector(stream)

bolt_pet/audio/mic.py

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ def record_utterance(
     silence_end_sec: float = None,
     max_utterance_s: float = None,
     min_utterance_s: float = None,
+    grace_s: float = None,
     frame_len: int = config.FRAME_LEN,
     sample_rate: int = config.SAMPLE_RATE,
 ) -> Optional[np.ndarray]:
@@ -53,18 +54,24 @@ def record_utterance(
     *should_continue* is polled each frame so a caller can cancel recording
     (e.g. the pet window was closed) without needing threading primitives
     baked into this function.
+
+    *grace_s* is how long to wait for speech to *begin* before giving up.
+    The controller stretches it for follow-up questions, where you're being
+    asked something and need a moment to think rather than having just said
+    the wake word on purpose.
     """
     rms_threshold = config.RMS_THRESHOLD if rms_threshold is None else rms_threshold
     silence_end_sec = config.SILENCE_END_SEC if silence_end_sec is None else silence_end_sec
     max_utterance_s = config.MAX_UTTERANCE_S if max_utterance_s is None else max_utterance_s
     min_utterance_s = config.MIN_UTTERANCE_S if min_utterance_s is None else min_utterance_s
+    grace_s = config.GRACE_SECONDS if grace_s is None else grace_s
 
     frames: list[np.ndarray] = []
     started = False
     silence_frames = 0
     silence_limit = int(silence_end_sec * sample_rate / frame_len)
     max_frames = int(max_utterance_s * sample_rate / frame_len)
-    grace_frames = int(4.0 * sample_rate / frame_len)  # wait up to 4s for speech to begin
+    grace_frames = int(grace_s * sample_rate / frame_len)  # how long to wait for speech to begin
     waited = 0
 
     while should_continue():

bolt_pet/audio/wake_word.py

@@ -64,6 +64,65 @@ class NearMissLog:
         self._peak = 0.0
 
 
+# Where the cached blank state is stashed — on the preprocessor itself
+# rather than in a dict keyed by id(), which CPython reuses after garbage
+# collection and would hand one model another's buffers.
+_BLANK_STATE_ATTR = "_bolt_blank_state"
+
+
+def _blank_state(preprocessor) -> Optional[tuple]:
+    """(feature_buffer, melspectrogram_buffer) as they are on a freshly
+    constructed model — i.e. "having heard nothing". Computing it costs an
+    ONNX pass over 10s of silence, so it's cached on the preprocessor and
+    copied from thereafter. Returns None if openwakeword's internals don't
+    look the way we expect, in which case callers leave the state alone
+    rather than corrupting it."""
+    cached = getattr(preprocessor, _BLANK_STATE_ATTR, None)
+    if cached is not None:
+        return cached
+    try:
+        # Same call the AudioFeatures constructor uses to prime the buffer.
+        state = (preprocessor._get_embeddings(np.zeros(160000).astype(np.int16)), np.ones((76, 32)))
+        setattr(preprocessor, _BLANK_STATE_ATTR, state)
+    except Exception:
+        return None
+    return state
+
+
+def hard_reset(model) -> None:
+    """Make the model forget the audio it has already heard — not just its
+    predictions.
+
+    openwakeword's ``Model.reset()`` clears the *prediction* buffer only.
+    The rolling audio window the classifier actually scores lives in
+    ``model.preprocessor`` (raw_data_buffer / melspectrogram_buffer /
+    feature_buffer, ~10s of history) and has no reset method of its own. So
+    after a detection the wake word is still sitting in that window, and the
+    next frame fed to the model re-fires on it — which is exactly what made
+    the pet interrupt itself a word into every reply: the "thunderbolt" that
+    started the turn was still in the buffer when barge-in resumed feeding it.
+
+    Never raises. A model whose internals don't match (a fake in tests, a
+    future openwakeword release) just gets the plain reset()."""
+    try:
+        model.reset()
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+    preprocessor = getattr(model, "preprocessor", None)
+    if preprocessor is None:
+        return
+    blank = _blank_state(preprocessor)
+    try:
+        if blank is not None:
+            features, melspectrogram = blank
+            preprocessor.feature_buffer = features.copy()
+            preprocessor.melspectrogram_buffer = melspectrogram.copy()
+        preprocessor.raw_data_buffer.clear()
+        preprocessor.accumulated_samples = 0
+    except Exception:
+        pass
+
+
 def _construct_model(model_cls, model_path: str):
     """openwakeword's Model() constructor keyword has drifted across
     releases (wakeword_models -> wakeword_model_paths) and some builds
@@ -112,6 +171,17 @@ class _OpenWakeWordModel:
             self._model = _construct_model(Model, config.WAKE_MODEL_PATH)
         return self._model
 
+    @property
+    def preprocessor(self):
+        """Proxy the wrapped model's audio-feature buffers.
+
+        Without this, hard_reset() sees a wrapper with no `preprocessor` and
+        silently degrades to openwakeword's shallow reset() — which leaves the
+        previous detection sitting in the audio window, i.e. exactly the bug
+        hard_reset exists to fix. Returns None before the model is loaded, so
+        a reset that happens first is a no-op rather than a load."""
+        return getattr(self._model, "preprocessor", None)
+
     def predict(self, frame: np.ndarray) -> dict:
         return self._ensure_model().predict(frame)
 
@@ -136,8 +206,9 @@ def listen_for_wake_word(
 
     Feeds every frame to *model* (the thunderbolt openWakeWord model by
     default) and treats any class score >= *threshold* as a detection,
-    resetting the model's internal state afterward so the next call starts
-    clean — same pattern as desk_client/bolt_desk.py's main loop.
+    clearing the model's internal state (audio window included, see
+    hard_reset) afterward so the next call starts clean — same pattern as
+    desk_client/bolt_desk.py's main loop.
 
     *threshold* may be a number or a zero-argument callable. The callable
     form exists because this function blocks for minutes at a time: the
@@ -180,6 +251,9 @@ def listen_for_wake_word(
             on_score(best, current_threshold)
 
         if scores and best >= current_threshold:
-            model.reset()
+            # hard_reset, not reset: the phrase has to leave the model's audio
+            # window too, or the very next frame we feed it re-fires on the
+            # same "thunderbolt" (see hard_reset's docstring).
+            hard_reset(model)
             return True
     return False

bolt_pet/config.py

@@ -78,19 +78,58 @@ RMS_THRESHOLD = int(os.environ.get("VAD_RMS_THRESHOLD", "300"))
 SILENCE_END_SEC = float(os.environ.get("VAD_SILENCE_END_SEC", "1.2"))
 MAX_UTTERANCE_S = float(os.environ.get("VAD_MAX_UTTERANCE_SECONDS", "15"))
 MIN_UTTERANCE_S = float(os.environ.get("VAD_MIN_UTTERANCE_SECONDS", "0.4"))
+# How long to wait for you to *start* talking before giving up on a turn.
+GRACE_SECONDS = float(os.environ.get("VAD_GRACE_SECONDS", "4"))
+
+# ── follow-up listening ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# When a reply ends on a question, the pet keeps listening for the answer
+# instead of dropping back to idle and making you say the wake word again.
+# The grace period is longer than a normal turn's because you were asked
+# something and may need a beat to think. FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS caps how many
+# question-and-answer rounds can chain without you re-triggering it — a stop
+# on runaway loops if the server ends every reply with a question and the mic
+# keeps feeding it noise. 0 means no cap.
+
+FOLLOW_UP_LISTEN = os.environ.get("FOLLOW_UP_LISTEN", "true").lower() in ("1", "true", "yes", "on")
+FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS = int(os.environ.get("FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS", "3"))
+FOLLOW_UP_GRACE_SECONDS = float(os.environ.get("FOLLOW_UP_GRACE_SECONDS", "7"))
 
 COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = int(os.environ.get("COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", "30"))
+
+# ── sudo password prompts ───────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# The pet has no terminal, so a relayed `sudo` would block on a tty nobody is
+# watching. With this on, bare `sudo` is rewritten to `sudo -A` and the
+# password is collected in a desktop dialog (a real askpass binary if one is
+# installed, otherwise a generated zenity/kdialog wrapper). Turn it off and
+# sudo commands simply fail, which is the safer default if you'd rather Bolt
+# never be able to ask for root at all.
+SUDO_ASKPASS_PROMPT = os.environ.get("SUDO_ASKPASS_PROMPT", "true").lower() in ("1", "true", "yes", "on")
+SUDO_ASKPASS_HELPER = os.environ.get("SUDO_ASKPASS_HELPER", "")  # blank = auto-detect
+# Longer than COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS because a person has to notice the
+# dialog, read it, and type — 30s is nowhere near enough for that.
+SUDO_COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = int(os.environ.get("SUDO_COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS", "180"))
 HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_SECONDS = float(os.environ.get("HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_SECONDS", "60"))
 
-# ── barge-in (interrupt playback by talking over it) ────────────────────────
-# The mic stays live while the pet talks; sustained loud frames cut playback
-# short. The threshold is deliberately well above VAD_RMS_THRESHOLD because
-# the mic also hears the pet's own voice through the speakers — raise it
-# further (or set BARGE_IN=false) if playback keeps interrupting itself.
+# ── barge-in (interrupt playback while the pet is talking) ──────────────────
+# The mic stays live while the pet talks. BARGE_IN_MODE decides what counts
+# as an interruption:
+#   wake   — only the wake word cuts playback (default). Immune to coughs,
+#            doors, and the TV, at the cost of ~a word of extra latency.
+#   energy — any sustained noise above BARGE_IN_RMS_THRESHOLD does. Faster,
+#            but interrupts on background noise. That threshold is well above
+#            VAD_RMS_THRESHOLD because the mic also hears the pet's own voice
+#            through the speakers — raise it further if playback keeps
+#            interrupting itself.
+# Set BARGE_IN=false to make playback uninterruptible either way.
 
 BARGE_IN = os.environ.get("BARGE_IN", "true").lower() in ("1", "true", "yes", "on")
+BARGE_IN_MODE = os.environ.get("BARGE_IN_MODE", "wake")
 BARGE_IN_RMS_THRESHOLD = int(os.environ.get("BARGE_IN_RMS_THRESHOLD", str(RMS_THRESHOLD * 4)))
 BARGE_IN_FRAMES = int(os.environ.get("BARGE_IN_FRAMES", "4"))  # consecutive loud frames (80ms each)
+# Wake-mode sensitivity. Blank means "track the live WAKE_WORD_THRESHOLD from
+# the tray tuner"; set a number to make interrupting deliberately harder than
+# waking the pet from idle (useful if Bolt's own voice trips the model).
+BARGE_IN_WAKE_THRESHOLD = float(os.environ.get("BARGE_IN_WAKE_THRESHOLD") or 0) or None
 
 # ── streaming TTS ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 # ElevenLabs' /stream endpoint + chunked playback: the pet starts talking
@@ -140,6 +179,27 @@ PUSH_TO_TALK_HOTKEY = os.environ.get("PUSH_TO_TALK_HOTKEY", "ctrl+alt+space")
 WAKE_NEAR_MISS_MARGIN = float(os.environ.get("WAKE_NEAR_MISS_MARGIN", "0.2"))
 WAKE_NEAR_MISS_LIMIT = int(os.environ.get("WAKE_NEAR_MISS_LIMIT", "40"))
 
+# ── auto-update ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+# Watches the Gitea releases API for a tag newer than bolt_pet.__version__,
+# then `git checkout`s it in place and restarts (see updater.py). The install
+# has to be a git clone with a clean working tree — a dirty tree is skipped
+# rather than stashed, so local edits are never thrown away. Any failure
+# after checkout rolls back to the ref that was checked out before.
+
+AUTO_UPDATE = os.environ.get("AUTO_UPDATE", "true").lower() in ("1", "true", "yes", "on")
+UPDATE_REPO_API = os.environ.get(
+    "UPDATE_REPO_API",
+    "https://git.themajesticnetwork.com/api/v1/repos/TheMajesticNetwork/Bolt-Pet",
+).rstrip("/")
+UPDATE_CHECK_INTERVAL_SECONDS = float(os.environ.get("UPDATE_CHECK_INTERVAL_SECONDS", "3600"))
+UPDATE_GIT_REMOTE = os.environ.get("UPDATE_GIT_REMOTE", "origin")
+# Only needed if the repo is private — releases on a public repo read fine
+# anonymously. A Gitea access token with read:repository.
+UPDATE_TOKEN = os.environ.get("UPDATE_TOKEN", "")
+# Reinstall requirements.txt when an update changes it. Off means a release
+# that adds a dependency will roll straight back on the import smoke test.
+UPDATE_INSTALL_DEPS = os.environ.get("UPDATE_INSTALL_DEPS", "true").lower() in ("1", "true", "yes", "on")
+
 SAMPLE_RATE = 16000  # mic capture / STT rate
 FRAME_LEN = 1280  # 80ms @ 16kHz — matches bolt_desk.py's chunking
 

bolt_pet/controller.py

@@ -19,7 +19,10 @@ from typing import Optional
 
 from PySide6.QtCore import QObject, Signal
 
-from . import config, history as history_mod, notifications, pet_actions, quiet, screen_context, server_client, speech_text
+from . import (
+    config, history as history_mod, notifications, pet_actions, quiet,
+    screen_context, server_client, speech_text, updater,
+)
 from .audio import barge_in, mic, stt, tts, wake_word
 from .state import PetState, PetStateMachine
 
@@ -34,6 +37,7 @@ class PetController(QObject):
     log = Signal(str)
     action = Signal(dict)  # parsed petctl action for the UI to perform
     napping = Signal(bool)  # quiet hours / fullscreen do-not-disturb
+    restart_requested = Signal(str)  # version we just updated to
     finished = Signal()
 
     def __init__(self):
@@ -59,6 +63,16 @@ class PetController(QObject):
         self._nap_forced: Optional[bool] = None  # petctl nap on/off overrides the schedule
         self._last_nap_check = 0.0
 
+        # When a reply ends on a question the pet keeps listening for the
+        # answer. _follow_ups counts how many have chained without you
+        # re-triggering, so a server that ends every reply with "?" can't
+        # loop forever off mic noise.
+        self._pending_follow_up = False
+        self._follow_ups = 0
+
+        self._last_update_check = 0.0
+        self._update_pending = False  # applied on disk, waiting for the restart
+
         self._notification_watcher: Optional[notifications.NotificationWatcher] = None
         self._notification_gate = notifications.NotificationGate(
             config.NOTIFICATION_FILTER, config.NOTIFICATION_MIN_INTERVAL_SECONDS
@@ -124,7 +138,19 @@ class PetController(QObject):
             return
 
         if config.BARGE_IN:
-            self._barge_in = barge_in.BargeInDetector(self._stream)
+            # In wake mode the detector shares the idle listener's model and
+            # its live threshold, so the tray tuner's slider applies to
+            # interrupting as well as waking (unless BARGE_IN_WAKE_THRESHOLD
+            # pins it to a fixed, stricter number).
+            self._barge_in = barge_in.make_detector(
+                self._stream,
+                wake_threshold=(
+                    config.BARGE_IN_WAKE_THRESHOLD
+                    if config.BARGE_IN_WAKE_THRESHOLD is not None
+                    else self.wake_threshold
+                ),
+            )
+            self.log.emit(f"Barge-in: {config.BARGE_IN_MODE} mode.")
 
         with self._stream:
             try:
@@ -181,9 +207,21 @@ class PetController(QObject):
         self._near_misses.observe(score, threshold, time.time())
 
     def _handle_conversation_turn(self) -> None:
+        # A turn you started yourself ends any follow-up chain in progress.
+        following_up, self._pending_follow_up = self._pending_follow_up, False
+        if not following_up:
+            self._follow_ups = 0
+
         self._state.transition(PetState.LISTENING)
-        pcm = mic.record_utterance(self._stream, should_continue=self._should_continue)
+        pcm = mic.record_utterance(
+            self._stream,
+            should_continue=self._should_continue,
+            # Answering a question deserves longer than saying the wake word
+            # on purpose does — you were just asked something.
+            grace_s=config.FOLLOW_UP_GRACE_SECONDS if following_up else None,
+        )
         if pcm is None:
+            self._follow_ups = 0  # silence ends the chain
             self._state.transition(PetState.IDLE)
             return
 
@@ -251,11 +289,63 @@ class PetController(QObject):
             on_error=lambda exc: self.log.emit(f"TTS failed: {exc}"),
             should_stop=should_stop,
         )
+        # Read the scoring history *before* resetting, or the log reports the
+        # blank counters instead of what actually fired.
+        detail = self._barge_in_detail()
+        if self._barge_in is not None:
+            # Playback fed the pet's own voice into the wake model's rolling
+            # window. Clear it before the idle listener starts scoring again,
+            # or Bolt's last sentence is still in there being re-scored.
+            self._barge_in.reset()
         if not completed:
             # You talked over it — take that as the start of the next turn
             # rather than making you say the wake word again.
-            self.log.emit("Interrupted — listening.")
+            self.log.emit(f"Interrupted — listening. {detail}")
+            self._follow_ups = 0  # you're clearly engaged; start the count over
             self._talk_now.set()
+        elif self._should_follow_up(text):
+            self._follow_ups += 1
+            cap = config.FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS
+            self.log.emit(
+                f"Asked a question — listening for your answer "
+                f"({self._follow_ups}{'/' + str(cap) if cap > 0 else ''})."
+            )
+            self._pending_follow_up = True
+            self._talk_now.set()
+
+    def _should_follow_up(self, text: str) -> bool:
+        """Whether *text* leaves the pet waiting on an answer.
+
+        Muted is excluded because mute means "don't listen to me" — an
+        automatic turn would walk straight past it. Napping isn't: quiet
+        hours suppress the pet *starting* something, and a question is only
+        ever asked in reply to you."""
+        if not config.FOLLOW_UP_LISTEN or self._muted:
+            return False
+        if not speech_text.is_question(text):
+            return False
+        # Only worth mentioning the cap on a reply that would otherwise have
+        # kept listening, or it fires on every statement the pet makes.
+        if config.FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS > 0 and self._follow_ups >= config.FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS:
+            self.log.emit("Follow-up limit reached — say the wake word to keep going.")
+            return False
+        return True
+
+    def _barge_in_detail(self) -> str:
+        """Why the interruption fired, for the log. How far into playback it
+        happened is the tell: frame 1 means the detector was still holding
+        audio from before this reply started, whereas a hit several seconds
+        in is something the mic actually heard."""
+        detector = self._barge_in
+        if isinstance(detector, barge_in.WakeWordBargeIn):
+            return (
+                f"(wake score {detector.last_score:.3f} >= {detector.last_threshold:.2f}, "
+                f"peak {detector.peak_score:.3f}, at frame {detector.frames_checked} / "
+                f"{detector.seconds_checked:.1f}s into playback)"
+            )
+        if isinstance(detector, barge_in.BargeInDetector):
+            return f"(loud frames {detector.loud_frames}, threshold {config.BARGE_IN_RMS_THRESHOLD})"
+        return ""
 
     # ── quiet hours / do-not-disturb ─────────────────────────────────────
 
@@ -323,10 +413,53 @@ class PetController(QObject):
                 self._speak(reply)
                 self._state.transition(PetState.IDLE)
 
+    # ── auto-update ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+    def _maybe_update(self) -> None:
+        """Poll the Gitea releases page and, if there's a newer tag, apply it
+        and ask the UI to restart.
+
+        Only ever runs from the wake-listener's tick, so the pet is IDLE and
+        between turns by construction — an update can't land mid-sentence.
+        Failures are logged and the interval resets, so a server that's down
+        (or a release that rolls back) costs one log line an hour, not a
+        retry storm."""
+        if not config.AUTO_UPDATE or self._update_pending:
+            return
+        now = time.monotonic()
+        if now - self._last_update_check < config.UPDATE_CHECK_INTERVAL_SECONDS:
+            return
+        self._last_update_check = now
+        try:
+            release = updater.check_for_update()
+        except updater.UpdateError as exc:
+            self.log.emit(f"Update check failed: {exc}")
+            return
+        if release is None:
+            return
+
+        self.log.emit(f"Update available: {release.tag} — applying.")
+        try:
+            previous = updater.apply_update(release.tag, on_log=self.log.emit)
+        except updater.UpdateError as exc:
+            self.log.emit(f"Update to {release.tag} failed: {exc}")
+            return
+
+        self._update_pending = True
+        self.log.emit(f"Updated {previous} -> {release.tag}; restarting.")
+        if not self._napping:
+            # Napping means no proactive noise, so a silent restart it is.
+            self._speak(f"Updating to {release.tag}. Back in a second.")
+            self._state.transition(PetState.IDLE)
+        self.restart_requested.emit(release.tag)
+
     # ── heartbeat ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
     def _maybe_heartbeat(self) -> None:
         self._refresh_nap_state()
+        self._maybe_update()
+        if self._update_pending:
+            return  # on the way out — don't start a conversation now
         now = time.monotonic()
         if now - self._last_heartbeat < config.HEARTBEAT_INTERVAL_SECONDS:
             return

bolt_pet/server_client.py

@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ from typing import Callable, Optional
 
 import requests
 
-from . import config
+from . import config, sudo_askpass
 
 _MAX_RELAY_HOPS = 16
 
@@ -42,12 +42,25 @@ def check_health(timeout: float = 10.0) -> dict:
 def run_local_command(command: str, timeout: int = None) -> str:
     """Execute a command relayed by the server, exactly as bolt_desk.py does —
     "full desktop control" for things like "open firefox" or "how full is my
-    disk". Runs as the current desktop user. See README security notes."""
+    disk". Runs as the current desktop user. See README security notes.
+
+    `sudo` gets special handling: the pet has no terminal, so sudo would sit
+    waiting on a tty that nobody is looking at. With SUDO_ASKPASS_PROMPT on,
+    bare `sudo` becomes `sudo -A` and the password is collected in a desktop
+    dialog you have to answer — which also gives those commands a longer
+    timeout, since a human has to notice the window and type."""
+    env = None
+    if config.SUDO_ASKPASS_PROMPT and sudo_askpass.needs_password_prompt(command):
+        helper = sudo_askpass.find_helper()
+        if helper:
+            env = sudo_askpass.environment(helper)
+            command = sudo_askpass.add_askpass_flag(command)
+            timeout = timeout or config.SUDO_COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS
     timeout = timeout or config.COMMAND_TIMEOUT_SECONDS
     try:
         completed = subprocess.run(
             command, shell=True, capture_output=True, text=True,
-            timeout=timeout, cwd=str(Path.home()),
+            timeout=timeout, cwd=str(Path.home()), env=env,
         )
         output = (completed.stdout or "") + (completed.stderr or "")
         return f"[exit {completed.returncode}]\n{output}"[:6000]

bolt_pet/speech_text.py

@@ -118,6 +118,22 @@ def for_speech(text: str) -> str:
     return text.strip()
 
 
+def is_question(text: str) -> bool:
+    """True if the reply *ends* by asking the user something — the cue for
+    the pet to keep listening instead of making you say the wake word again.
+
+    Deliberately only looks at the end. A reply that asks something in
+    passing ("What time is it? It's 7:15.") isn't waiting on an answer,
+    whereas one that finishes on a question mark is. The test runs on the
+    spoken form, so a '?' that only exists inside a stripped code block or a
+    URL doesn't count, and trailing decoration (emoji, quotes, brackets) is
+    peeled off first so "Ready to go? 🚀" still reads as a question."""
+    spoken = for_speech(text)
+    while spoken and not (spoken[-1].isalnum() or spoken[-1] == "?"):
+        spoken = spoken[:-1]
+    return spoken.endswith("?")
+
+
 def for_display(text: str) -> str:
     """What the speech bubble shows: markdown syntax removed (the bubble
     can't render it) but emoji and layout-ish punctuation left alone."""

bolt_pet/sudo_askpass.py

@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+"""Graphical password prompts for server-relayed `sudo` commands.
+
+The pet has no terminal. When the server relays something like
+`sudo apt update`, sudo tries to read a password from a tty, finds none (or
+finds the terminal the pet was launched from, which you're not looking at),
+and the command fails with no way to answer it.
+
+sudo's own answer to this is SUDO_ASKPASS: with `-A`, it runs a helper
+program and reads the password from the helper's stdout instead of a tty.
+Any GUI prompt that prints what was typed works, so this module finds a real
+askpass binary if one is installed and otherwise generates a one-line wrapper
+around zenity/kdialog, which every desktop has one of.
+
+Worth being clear about what this changes: the prompt is a *feature*, not
+just plumbing. Server-relayed commands already run as your desktop user (see
+server_client.run_local_command); this lets them ask to run as root, and the
+dialog is the only thing standing between "Bolt decided to run sudo" and it
+happening. Leave SUDO_ASKPASS_PROMPT on, and read the dialogs.
+
+The parts that decide *what* to run are pure functions so they're tested
+without a display, a password, or a working sudo.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import re
+import shutil
+import stat
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Callable, Optional
+
+from . import config
+
+# Real askpass binaries, in preference order. These are purpose-built for
+# this (they grab the keyboard, hide the input, and don't leave the password
+# in a process argument), so they win over a generated wrapper.
+_KNOWN_HELPERS = (
+    "/usr/bin/ssh-askpass",
+    "/usr/lib/ssh/ssh-askpass",
+    "/usr/lib/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass3",
+    "/usr/lib/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass",
+    "/usr/libexec/openssh/ssh-askpass",
+    "/usr/bin/ksshaskpass",
+    "/usr/bin/lxqt-openssh-askpass",
+)
+
+# Dialog tools we can wrap when no askpass binary exists. Each must print the
+# typed password to stdout and nothing else.
+_WRAPPABLE = {
+    "zenity": '{tool} --password --title="Bolt" --text="$1" 2>/dev/null',
+    "kdialog": '{tool} --password "$1" --title "Bolt" 2>/dev/null',
+}
+
+# `sudo` at the start of the command or right after a shell separator, not
+# already carrying a flag. Deliberately conservative: a `sudo` inside a
+# quoted string or a heredoc is left alone, because rewriting it could change
+# what the command means.
+_SUDO = re.compile(r"(^|[;&|]\s*|\n\s*)(sudo)(\s+)(?!-)")
+
+
+def add_askpass_flag(command: str) -> str:
+    """Insert `-A` after each bare `sudo`, so it prompts through the helper
+    instead of a tty. Commands that already pass a flag (`sudo -n`, `sudo -A`,
+    `sudo -u bob`) are left exactly as they are — the caller was explicit."""
+    return _SUDO.sub(r"\1\2 -A\3", command or "")
+
+
+def needs_password_prompt(command: str) -> bool:
+    """True if *command* has a `sudo` that might sit waiting on a dialog.
+    Used to give those commands a longer timeout — 30 seconds is fine for a
+    shell command and nowhere near enough for a human to notice a window,
+    read it, and type a password."""
+    return bool(_SUDO.search(command or ""))
+
+
+def helper_script(tool_path: str) -> str:
+    """The wrapper script for a dialog *tool_path*. sudo passes its prompt
+    ("[sudo] password for maji:") as $1, which is worth showing — it names
+    the user the password is for."""
+    name = Path(tool_path).name
+    body = _WRAPPABLE[name].format(tool=tool_path)
+    return f"#!/bin/sh\n# Generated by bolt-pet. Prints the typed password on stdout for sudo -A.\n{body}\n"
+
+
+def _default_cache_dir() -> Path:
+    base = os.environ.get("XDG_CACHE_HOME") or (Path.home() / ".cache")
+    return Path(base) / "bolt-pet"
+
+
+def find_helper(
+    configured: str = None,
+    is_executable: Callable[[str], bool] = None,
+    which: Callable[[str], Optional[str]] = None,
+    cache_dir: Path = None,
+    write: bool = True,
+) -> Optional[str]:
+    """Path to an askpass helper, or None if the desktop has nothing we can
+    use. Order: whatever SUDO_ASKPASS_HELPER names, then a real askpass
+    binary, then a generated wrapper around zenity/kdialog.
+
+    The lookups are injectable so the resolution order is testable on a box
+    with a different set of these installed than yours."""
+    configured = config.SUDO_ASKPASS_HELPER if configured is None else configured
+    is_executable = is_executable or (lambda path: os.path.isfile(path) and os.access(path, os.X_OK))
+    which = which or shutil.which
+
+    if configured:
+        return configured if is_executable(configured) else None
+
+    for candidate in _KNOWN_HELPERS:
+        if is_executable(candidate):
+            return candidate
+
+    for tool in _WRAPPABLE:
+        tool_path = which(tool)
+        if not tool_path:
+            continue
+        if not write:
+            return tool_path
+        return _write_wrapper(tool_path, cache_dir or _default_cache_dir())
+    return None
+
+
+def _write_wrapper(tool_path: str, cache_dir: Path) -> Optional[str]:
+    """Drop the wrapper script somewhere sudo can execute it. Mode 0700: it
+    isn't secret, but it's a thing that pops up a password box, so nobody
+    else on the machine gets to edit it."""
+    try:
+        cache_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        script = cache_dir / "askpass.sh"
+        source = helper_script(tool_path)
+        if not script.exists() or script.read_text(encoding="utf-8") != source:
+            script.write_text(source, encoding="utf-8")
+        script.chmod(stat.S_IRWXU)
+        return str(script)
+    except Exception:
+        return None  # no prompt is better than a crashed command relay
+
+
+def environment(helper: str, base: dict = None) -> dict:
+    """The subprocess environment with SUDO_ASKPASS pointed at *helper*."""
+    env = dict(os.environ if base is None else base)
+    env["SUDO_ASKPASS"] = helper
+    return env

bolt_pet/ui/app.py

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import sys
 from PySide6.QtCore import QThread
 from PySide6.QtWidgets import QApplication
 
-from .. import config
+from .. import config, updater
 from ..controller import PetController
 from ..hotkey import GlobalHotkey
 from ..state import PetState
@@ -91,6 +91,19 @@ def run() -> int:
     elif hotkey.running:
         _log(f"Push-to-talk: {config.PUSH_TO_TALK_HOTKEY}")
 
+    # The updater has already moved the checkout by the time this fires; all
+    # that's left is to let Qt tear down cleanly (so the mic and the tray
+    # icon are released) and then exec the new code. Doing the exec after
+    # app.exec() returns, rather than from the controller thread, is what
+    # guarantees the audio device is free before the new process opens it.
+    pending_restart = {"tag": None}
+
+    def _handle_restart(tag: str) -> None:
+        pending_restart["tag"] = tag
+        app.quit()
+
+    controller.restart_requested.connect(_handle_restart)
+
     def _shutdown() -> None:
         hotkey.stop()
         controller.stop()
@@ -100,4 +113,12 @@ def run() -> int:
     app.aboutToQuit.connect(_shutdown)
 
     thread.start()
-    return app.exec()
+    status = app.exec()
+
+    if pending_restart["tag"]:
+        _log(f"Restarting into {pending_restart['tag']}…")
+        try:
+            updater.restart()  # never returns
+        except Exception as exc:
+            _log(f"Couldn't restart automatically ({exc}) — start the pet again by hand.")
+    return status

bolt_pet/updater.py

@@ -0,0 +1,323 @@
+"""Self-update from the Gitea releases page.
+
+Polls `<UPDATE_REPO_API>/releases/latest` for a tag newer than
+``bolt_pet.__version__`` and, if there is one, moves the checkout to that tag
+and restarts the pet. The install is expected to be a git clone (which is how
+it's deployed), so "download the update" is just `git fetch` + `git checkout`
+— atomic, and the previous ref is one command away if anything goes wrong.
+
+Safety rules, in the order they're enforced:
+
+1. **A dirty working tree is never touched.** Local edits are skipped over,
+   not stashed — the pet silently discarding your work-in-progress would be
+   far worse than running an old version.
+2. **Everything after checkout is guarded.** Dependency install and an import
+   smoke test both run before the restart; if either fails, the checkout is
+   rolled back to the exact ref that was live before (branch name if we were
+   on one, otherwise the commit) and the deps reinstalled from it.
+3. **The restart only happens once the new code imports.** So a broken
+   release costs you a rollback and a log line, not a pet that won't start.
+
+The git side goes through an injectable *run* callable — ``(args) ->
+(returncode, output)`` — so the whole apply/rollback dance is unit-tested
+against a fake git rather than a real repo. Version comparison and release
+parsing are pure functions for the same reason.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+from dataclasses import dataclass
+from pathlib import Path
+from typing import Callable, Optional, Tuple
+
+import requests
+
+from . import config
+
+# (returncode, combined stdout+stderr)
+GitResult = Tuple[int, str]
+GitRunner = Callable[[list], GitResult]
+
+_GIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS = 300
+
+
+class UpdateError(Exception):
+    """Raised when an update can't be applied. If it's raised *after* the
+    checkout moved, the rollback has already run."""
+
+
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class Release:
+    tag: str
+    name: str
+    body: str
+    prerelease: bool
+
+
+# ── pure logic ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def parse_version(tag: str) -> tuple:
+    """``"v1.2.3"`` -> ``(1, 2, 3)``. Leading "v" optional; a trailing
+    suffix ends the parse (``"1.2.3-beta1"`` -> ``(1, 2, 3)``), so a
+    prerelease of a version compares equal to it rather than sorting
+    randomly. Junk parses to ``()``, which is never newer than anything."""
+    parts: list[int] = []
+    for chunk in (tag or "").strip().lstrip("vV").split("."):
+        digits = ""
+        for char in chunk:
+            if not char.isdigit():
+                break
+            digits += char
+        if not digits:
+            break
+        parts.append(int(digits))
+    return tuple(parts)
+
+
+def is_newer(candidate: str, current: str) -> bool:
+    """True if *candidate* is a strictly newer version than *current*.
+    Compares zero-padded, so 1.2 == 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 > 1.2."""
+    new, old = parse_version(candidate), parse_version(current)
+    if not new:
+        return False
+    width = max(len(new), len(old))
+    return new + (0,) * (width - len(new)) > old + (0,) * (width - len(old))
+
+
+def release_from_payload(payload: dict) -> Optional[Release]:
+    """Gitea's release JSON -> Release, or None if it's a draft or has no
+    tag. /releases/latest already excludes drafts and prereleases, but the
+    same parser is used for the full list."""
+    if not isinstance(payload, dict) or payload.get("draft"):
+        return None
+    tag = str(payload.get("tag_name") or "").strip()
+    if not tag:
+        return None
+    return Release(
+        tag=tag,
+        name=str(payload.get("name") or tag),
+        body=str(payload.get("body") or ""),
+        prerelease=bool(payload.get("prerelease")),
+    )
+
+
+# ── talking to Gitea ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def fetch_latest_release(api_url: str = None, token: str = None, timeout: float = 15.0) -> Optional[Release]:
+    """Newest published release, or None if the repo has no releases yet
+    (a fresh repo 404s here, which is not an error worth logging every hour).
+    Raises UpdateError if the server is unreachable or answers with junk."""
+    api_url = (api_url if api_url is not None else config.UPDATE_REPO_API).rstrip("/")
+    if not api_url:
+        raise UpdateError("UPDATE_REPO_API is not set")
+    token = config.UPDATE_TOKEN if token is None else token
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"token {token}"} if token else {}
+    try:
+        response = requests.get(f"{api_url}/releases/latest", headers=headers, timeout=timeout)
+    except Exception as exc:
+        raise UpdateError(f"couldn't reach the releases API: {exc}") from exc
+    if response.status_code == 404:
+        return None
+    try:
+        response.raise_for_status()
+        payload = response.json()
+    except Exception as exc:
+        raise UpdateError(f"bad response from the releases API: {exc}") from exc
+    return release_from_payload(payload)
+
+
+def check_for_update(current_version: str = None, **kwargs) -> Optional[Release]:
+    """The whole "is there anything new?" question in one call. Returns the
+    Release to move to, or None if we're already current."""
+    from . import __version__
+
+    current = __version__ if current_version is None else current_version
+    release = fetch_latest_release(**kwargs)
+    if release is None or not is_newer(release.tag, current):
+        return None
+    return release
+
+
+# ── git ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def git_runner(repo: Path = None) -> GitRunner:
+    repo = Path(repo or config.HERE)
+
+    def run(args: list) -> GitResult:
+        try:
+            completed = subprocess.run(
+                ["git", *args], cwd=str(repo), capture_output=True,
+                text=True, timeout=_GIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS,
+            )
+        except Exception as exc:
+            return 1, f"git {' '.join(args)} failed to start: {exc}"
+        return completed.returncode, ((completed.stdout or "") + (completed.stderr or "")).strip()
+
+    return run
+
+
+def is_git_clone(run: GitRunner) -> bool:
+    return run(["rev-parse", "--git-dir"])[0] == 0
+
+
+def working_tree_dirty(run: GitRunner) -> bool:
+    code, output = run(["status", "--porcelain"])
+    return code != 0 or bool(output.strip())
+
+
+def current_ref(run: GitRunner) -> str:
+    """The branch name if we're on one, else the commit SHA — i.e. whatever
+    `git checkout` needs to put things back exactly as they were."""
+    code, output = run(["symbolic-ref", "--quiet", "--short", "HEAD"])
+    if code == 0 and output.strip():
+        return output.strip()
+    code, output = run(["rev-parse", "HEAD"])
+    if code != 0 or not output.strip():
+        raise UpdateError("couldn't work out the current git ref")
+    return output.strip()
+
+
+def already_at_tag(run: GitRunner, tag: str) -> bool:
+    """True if HEAD is already the commit *tag* points at.
+
+    Guards the loop you get when a release is cut without bumping
+    __version__ in the tagged commit: the checkout succeeds (it's a no-op),
+    the pet restarts, reads the same old __version__, sees the same "newer"
+    tag, and does it again — a restart every check, forever."""
+    code, head = run(["rev-parse", "HEAD"])
+    if code != 0 or not head.strip():
+        return False
+    code, target = run(["rev-parse", f"tags/{tag}^{{commit}}"])
+    if code != 0 or not target.strip():
+        return False  # tag isn't known locally yet, so we're certainly not on it
+    return head.strip() == target.strip()
+
+
+def _requirements_changed(run: GitRunner, before: str, after: str) -> bool:
+    code, output = run(["diff", "--name-only", before, after, "--", "requirements.txt"])
+    return code == 0 and bool(output.strip())
+
+
+def _install_deps(repo: Path) -> None:
+    completed = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, "-m", "pip", "install", "-r", "requirements.txt"],
+        cwd=str(repo), capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=_GIT_TIMEOUT_SECONDS,
+    )
+    if completed.returncode != 0:
+        raise UpdateError(f"pip install failed: {(completed.stderr or '')[-500:]}")
+
+
+def _smoke_test(repo: Path) -> None:
+    """Import the freshly checked-out package in a *subprocess* — this one
+    still has the old modules loaded, so importing here would prove nothing.
+    Catches the common broken release (syntax error, missing dependency)
+    before we hand the session over to it."""
+    completed = subprocess.run(
+        [sys.executable, "-c", "import bolt_pet; import bolt_pet.controller"],
+        cwd=str(repo), capture_output=True, text=True, timeout=120,
+    )
+    if completed.returncode != 0:
+        raise UpdateError(f"the new version failed to import: {(completed.stderr or '')[-500:]}")
+
+
+def apply_update(
+    tag: str,
+    run: GitRunner = None,
+    repo: Path = None,
+    on_log: Callable[[str], None] = lambda _msg: None,
+    install_deps: bool = None,
+    verify: Callable[[Path], None] = None,
+) -> str:
+    """Move the checkout to *tag*, rolling back to where it was if anything
+    downstream of the checkout fails. Returns the ref we came from (handy for
+    logging / a manual `git checkout` back). Raises UpdateError otherwise."""
+    repo = Path(repo or config.HERE)
+    run = run or git_runner(repo)
+    install_deps = config.UPDATE_INSTALL_DEPS if install_deps is None else install_deps
+    verify = _smoke_test if verify is None else verify
+
+    if not is_git_clone(run):
+        raise UpdateError("not a git clone — auto-update only works on a git checkout")
+    if working_tree_dirty(run):
+        raise UpdateError("working tree has local changes — skipping (nothing was touched)")
+
+    previous = current_ref(run)
+    code, output = run(["fetch", "--tags", "--prune", config.UPDATE_GIT_REMOTE])
+    if code != 0:
+        raise UpdateError(f"git fetch failed: {output}")
+
+    if already_at_tag(run, tag):
+        from . import __version__
+
+        raise UpdateError(
+            f"already checked out {tag}, but __version__ still reads {__version__} — "
+            f"bump it in the tagged commit, or every check re-applies the same release"
+        )
+
+    code, output = run(["checkout", "--force", f"tags/{tag}"])
+    if code != 0:
+        raise UpdateError(f"git checkout {tag} failed: {output}")
+    on_log(f"Checked out {tag} (was {previous}).")
+
+    # Past this point every failure has to put the checkout back.
+    try:
+        if install_deps and _requirements_changed(run, previous, f"tags/{tag}"):
+            on_log("requirements.txt changed — installing.")
+            _install_deps(repo)
+        verify(repo)
+    except UpdateError as exc:
+        _rollback(run, previous, repo, on_log, install_deps)
+        raise UpdateError(f"{exc} — rolled back to {previous}") from exc
+    except Exception as exc:  # a verify() that blows up is still a failed update
+        _rollback(run, previous, repo, on_log, install_deps)
+        raise UpdateError(f"update failed ({exc}) — rolled back to {previous}") from exc
+
+    return previous
+
+
+def _rollback(
+    run: GitRunner,
+    previous: str,
+    repo: Path,
+    on_log: Callable[[str], None],
+    install_deps: bool,
+) -> None:
+    """Best-effort return to *previous*. Never raises — it's already running
+    inside a failure path, and the caller's UpdateError is the thing worth
+    surfacing. A rollback that itself fails gets its own loud log line,
+    because that's the one case needing a human."""
+    code, output = run(["checkout", "--force", previous])
+    if code != 0:
+        on_log(f"ROLLBACK FAILED — the checkout is stranded. Run: git checkout {previous}  ({output})")
+        return
+    on_log(f"Rolled back to {previous}.")
+    if install_deps:
+        try:
+            _install_deps(repo)
+        except Exception as exc:
+            on_log(f"Rolled back, but reinstalling the old requirements failed: {exc}")
+
+
+# ── restart ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def restart() -> None:
+    """Replace this process with a fresh `python -m bolt_pet`.
+
+    execv rather than spawn-and-exit so there's no window with two pets
+    holding the same mic, and no orphan if the parent dies first. Never
+    returns when it works; callers should have shut the Qt app and released
+    the audio device before calling it.
+
+    chdir first because `-m bolt_pet` resolves the package from the working
+    directory: the pet may well have been launched from somewhere else
+    (autostart entry, run.sh invoked by path), and the new process has to
+    land on the checkout the update was just applied to."""
+    os.chdir(str(config.HERE))
+    os.execv(sys.executable, [sys.executable, "-m", "bolt_pet"])

tests/test_barge_in.py

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
-"""Barge-in detection, driven by a fake mic stream (no audio hardware)."""
+"""Barge-in detection, driven by a fake mic stream and a fake wake model
+(no audio hardware, no ONNX runtime)."""
 
 import sys
 from pathlib import Path
@@ -7,7 +8,7 @@ import numpy as np
 
 sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
 
-from bolt_pet.audio.barge_in import BargeInDetector
+from bolt_pet.audio.barge_in import BargeInDetector, WakeWordBargeIn, make_detector
 
 
 class FakeStream:
@@ -63,3 +64,155 @@ def test_a_mic_error_mid_playback_is_not_fatal():
 
     detector = BargeInDetector(BrokenStream(), threshold=1000, required_frames=1)
     assert detector.check() is False
+
+
+# ── wake-word mode ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+class FakeModel:
+    """Scores frames from a canned list, mimicking openWakeWord's
+    {class_name: score} return. Records reset() calls."""
+
+    def __init__(self, scores):
+        self._scores = list(scores)
+        self.resets = 0
+
+    def predict(self, frame):
+        score = self._scores.pop(0) if self._scores else 0.0
+        return {"thunderbolt": score}
+
+    def reset(self):
+        self.resets += 1
+
+
+def _wake_detector(scores, threshold=0.5, amplitudes=None):
+    stream = FakeStream(amplitudes if amplitudes is not None else [500] * len(scores))
+    return WakeWordBargeIn(stream, model=FakeModel(scores), threshold=threshold), stream
+
+
+def test_loud_noise_alone_does_not_interrupt_in_wake_mode():
+    """The whole point of wake mode: a slammed door is deafening and scores
+    nothing, so the pet keeps talking."""
+    detector, _ = _wake_detector([0.01] * 6, amplitudes=[30000] * 6)
+    assert not any(detector.check() for _ in range(6))
+
+
+def test_the_wake_word_interrupts():
+    detector, _ = _wake_detector([0.1, 0.2, 0.9])
+    assert [detector.check() for _ in range(3)] == [False, False, True]
+
+
+def test_a_single_frame_is_enough_when_it_clears_the_threshold():
+    detector, _ = _wake_detector([0.55])
+    assert detector.check() is True
+
+
+def test_scores_just_under_the_threshold_do_not_fire():
+    detector, _ = _wake_detector([0.49, 0.499], threshold=0.5)
+    assert not any(detector.check() for _ in range(2))
+
+
+def test_detecting_resets_the_model_so_the_tail_is_not_reused():
+    model = FakeModel([0.9])
+    detector = WakeWordBargeIn(FakeStream([500]), model=model, threshold=0.5)
+    assert detector.check() is True
+    assert model.resets == 1
+
+
+def test_reset_clears_the_models_audio_window_not_just_predictions():
+    """The regression that made the pet interrupt itself a word into every
+    reply: openwakeword's reset() clears only the prediction buffer, so the
+    "thunderbolt" that started the turn was still in the preprocessor's
+    rolling window when playback began, and the first frame fed to the model
+    re-fired on it."""
+
+    class FakePreprocessor:
+        def __init__(self):
+            self.raw_data_buffer = [1, 2, 3]
+            self.feature_buffer = np.ones((120, 96))
+            self.melspectrogram_buffer = np.zeros((76, 32))
+            self.accumulated_samples = 4096
+
+        def _get_embeddings(self, audio):
+            return np.zeros((120, 96))
+
+    model = FakeModel([0.9])
+    model.preprocessor = FakePreprocessor()
+
+    WakeWordBargeIn(FakeStream([500]), model=model, threshold=0.5).reset()
+
+    assert model.preprocessor.raw_data_buffer == []
+    assert model.preprocessor.accumulated_samples == 0
+    assert not model.preprocessor.feature_buffer.any()  # blank, not the old audio
+    assert model.preprocessor.melspectrogram_buffer.all()  # restored to ones
+
+
+def test_the_lazy_wrapper_exposes_its_preprocessor():
+    """The pet holds _default_model — a lazy *wrapper* around openwakeword's
+    Model. If the wrapper stops proxying .preprocessor, hard_reset() finds
+    nothing to clear and silently degrades to the shallow reset that leaves
+    the last detection in the audio window. That failure is invisible: no
+    exception, no log, the pet just interrupts itself again."""
+    from bolt_pet.audio.wake_word import _OpenWakeWordModel
+
+    wrapper = _OpenWakeWordModel()
+    assert hasattr(wrapper, "preprocessor")
+    assert wrapper.preprocessor is None  # not loaded yet: a no-op, not a load
+
+    class FakeInner:
+        preprocessor = object()
+
+        def reset(self):
+            pass
+
+    wrapper._model = FakeInner()
+    assert wrapper.preprocessor is FakeInner.preprocessor
+
+
+def test_a_model_without_a_preprocessor_still_resets():
+    """Fakes in tests, and any future openwakeword whose internals moved."""
+    model = FakeModel([0.0])
+    WakeWordBargeIn(FakeStream([500]), model=model, threshold=0.5).reset()
+    assert model.resets == 1
+
+
+def test_a_callable_threshold_is_read_every_frame():
+    """The tray tuner's slider has to apply mid-playback, not just mid-idle."""
+    threshold = {"value": 0.9}
+    detector = WakeWordBargeIn(
+        FakeStream([500] * 2), model=FakeModel([0.6, 0.6]),
+        threshold=lambda: threshold["value"],
+    )
+    assert detector.check() is False
+    threshold["value"] = 0.5
+    assert detector.check() is True
+
+
+def test_a_model_that_blows_up_mid_playback_is_not_fatal():
+    class BrokenModel:
+        def predict(self, frame):
+            raise RuntimeError("onnx session died")
+
+        def reset(self):
+            raise RuntimeError("still dead")
+
+    detector = WakeWordBargeIn(FakeStream([500]), model=BrokenModel(), threshold=0.5)
+    assert detector.check() is False
+    detector.reset()  # must not raise either
+
+
+def test_a_mic_error_is_not_fatal_in_wake_mode():
+    class BrokenStream:
+        def read(self, frames):
+            raise OSError("device disappeared")
+
+    detector = WakeWordBargeIn(BrokenStream(), model=FakeModel([0.9]), threshold=0.5)
+    assert detector.check() is False
+
+
+def test_make_detector_picks_the_mode():
+    stream = FakeStream([0])
+    assert isinstance(make_detector(stream, mode="wake"), WakeWordBargeIn)
+    assert isinstance(make_detector(stream, mode="energy"), BargeInDetector)
+    # A typo in .env shouldn't stop the pet from starting.
+    assert isinstance(make_detector(stream, mode="waek"), BargeInDetector)

tests/test_controller_features.py

@@ -81,6 +81,44 @@ def test_petctl_nap_also_flips_the_controller_state(ctrl):
 
 # ── barge-in ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 
+def test_the_interrupt_log_reports_what_fired_not_the_reset_counters(monkeypatch, ctrl):
+    """_speak resets the detector after playback so the pet's own voice
+    doesn't linger in the wake model's window. Reading the stats after that
+    reset reports 0.000 at frame 0 for every interruption, which is worse
+    than no instrumentation — it looks like hard evidence and isn't."""
+    from bolt_pet.audio import barge_in as barge_in_mod
+
+    class Detector(barge_in_mod.WakeWordBargeIn):
+        def __init__(self):
+            self._frames, self._peak, self._last, self._last_threshold = 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0.5
+            self._frame_len = 1280
+            self.reset_calls = 0
+
+        def reset(self):
+            self.reset_calls += 1
+            self._frames, self._peak, self._last = 0, 0.0, 0.0
+
+    detector = Detector()
+    ctrl._barge_in = detector
+    logs = _capture(ctrl.log)
+
+    def interrupted_playback(text, on_error=None, should_stop=None):
+        # What really happens: frames get scored during playback, then one
+        # clears the threshold and playback aborts.
+        detector._frames, detector._peak, detector._last = 7, 0.81, 0.81
+        return False
+
+    monkeypatch.setattr(controller_mod.tts, "speak", interrupted_playback)
+
+    ctrl._speak("a very long explanation")
+
+    interrupted = next(m for m in logs if "Interrupted" in m)
+    assert "0.810" in interrupted and "frame 7" in interrupted
+    # Once before playback (clear the window) and once after (drop the pet's
+    # own voice) — the point is that the *read* happens between them.
+    assert detector.reset_calls == 2
+
+
 def test_interrupted_playback_queues_an_immediate_next_turn(monkeypatch, ctrl):
     logs = _capture(ctrl.log)
     monkeypatch.setattr(controller_mod.tts, "speak",
@@ -99,6 +137,110 @@ def test_uninterrupted_playback_does_not_queue_a_turn(monkeypatch, ctrl):
     assert not ctrl._talk_now.is_set()
 
 
+# ── follow-up listening ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+@pytest.fixture
+def spoke(monkeypatch):
+    """Playback that always completes, so only the follow-up rule decides
+    whether another turn is queued."""
+    monkeypatch.setattr(controller_mod.tts, "speak",
+                        lambda text, on_error=None, should_stop=None: True)
+
+
+def test_a_reply_ending_in_a_question_keeps_listening(spoke, ctrl):
+    logs = _capture(ctrl.log)
+
+    ctrl._speak("You're still in ~/Documents/bolt-pet. Ready to run a command?")
+
+    assert ctrl._talk_now.is_set()      # no wake word needed for the answer
+    assert ctrl._pending_follow_up      # and the next turn knows it's an answer
+    assert any("listening for your answer" in message for message in logs)
+
+
+def test_a_statement_does_not_keep_listening(spoke, ctrl):
+    ctrl._speak("It's 7:15 AM on July 23, 2026.")
+    assert not ctrl._talk_now.is_set()
+    assert not ctrl._pending_follow_up
+
+
+def test_a_question_in_passing_does_not_count(spoke, ctrl):
+    """Only a reply that *ends* on a question is waiting for an answer."""
+    ctrl._speak("What time is it? It's 7:15 AM.")
+    assert not ctrl._talk_now.is_set()
+
+
+def test_follow_ups_stop_at_the_cap(spoke, monkeypatch, ctrl):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(controller_mod.config, "FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS", 2)
+    logs = _capture(ctrl.log)
+
+    for _ in range(2):
+        ctrl._speak("Want me to keep going?")
+        ctrl._talk_now.clear()
+    assert ctrl._follow_ups == 2
+
+    ctrl._speak("Want me to keep going?")
+
+    assert not ctrl._talk_now.is_set()  # chain broken until you re-trigger it
+    assert any("Follow-up limit reached" in message for message in logs)
+
+
+def test_the_cap_is_not_announced_on_ordinary_replies(spoke, monkeypatch, ctrl):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(controller_mod.config, "FOLLOW_UP_MAX_TURNS", 1)
+    ctrl._follow_ups = 1
+    logs = _capture(ctrl.log)
+
+    ctrl._speak("Done — the file is saved.")
+
+    assert not any("Follow-up limit" in message for message in logs)
+
+
+def test_starting_a_turn_yourself_resets_the_chain(spoke, monkeypatch, ctrl):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(controller_mod.mic, "record_utterance",
+                        lambda *a, **kw: None)  # you said nothing
+    ctrl._follow_ups = 3
+
+    ctrl._handle_conversation_turn()
+
+    assert ctrl._follow_ups == 0
+
+
+def test_an_answered_question_gets_a_longer_grace_period(spoke, monkeypatch, ctrl):
+    """You were just asked something — you get longer to think than when you
+    deliberately said the wake word."""
+    grace = []
+    monkeypatch.setattr(controller_mod.mic, "record_utterance",
+                        lambda *a, **kw: grace.append(kw.get("grace_s")) or None)
+
+    ctrl._handle_conversation_turn()                 # you started this one
+    ctrl._pending_follow_up = True
+    ctrl._handle_conversation_turn()                 # this one answers a question
+
+    assert grace == [None, controller_mod.config.FOLLOW_UP_GRACE_SECONDS]
+
+
+def test_muting_stops_follow_ups(spoke, ctrl):
+    ctrl._muted = True
+    ctrl._speak("Shall I continue?")
+    assert not ctrl._talk_now.is_set()  # mute means don't listen, question or not
+
+
+def test_follow_up_can_be_turned_off(spoke, monkeypatch, ctrl):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(controller_mod.config, "FOLLOW_UP_LISTEN", False)
+    ctrl._speak("Shall I continue?")
+    assert not ctrl._talk_now.is_set()
+
+
+def test_being_interrupted_restarts_the_chain(monkeypatch, ctrl):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(controller_mod.tts, "speak",
+                        lambda text, on_error=None, should_stop=None: False)
+    ctrl._follow_ups = 3
+
+    ctrl._speak("a very long explanation")
+
+    assert ctrl._follow_ups == 0  # you're clearly engaged
+    assert ctrl._talk_now.is_set()
+
+
 def test_speech_is_recorded_in_the_history(monkeypatch, ctrl):
     monkeypatch.setattr(controller_mod.tts, "speak",
                         lambda text, on_error=None, should_stop=None: True)

tests/test_speech_text.py

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ from pathlib import Path
 
 sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
 
-from bolt_pet.speech_text import for_display, for_speech
+from bolt_pet.speech_text import for_display, for_speech, is_question
 
 
 def test_bold_markers_are_not_spoken():
@@ -57,3 +57,23 @@ def test_blank_and_symbol_only_input():
 def test_display_keeps_emoji_but_drops_markdown():
     assert for_display("**Done** ✅") == "Done ✅"
     assert for_display("* one\n* two") == "• one • two"
+
+
+def test_is_question_only_fires_on_a_trailing_question():
+    assert is_question("Ready to run a command or start a project?")
+    assert is_question("It's 7:15 AM. Want me to set a timer?")
+    assert not is_question("It's 7:15 AM on July 23, 2026.")
+    assert not is_question("What time is it? It's 7:15 AM.")  # asked in passing
+
+
+def test_is_question_ignores_trailing_decoration():
+    assert is_question("Ready to go? 🚀")
+    assert is_question('Shall I continue?"')
+    assert is_question("Want me to fix it? **")
+
+
+def test_is_question_ignores_question_marks_that_are_not_spoken():
+    # The '?' here is inside a URL query string, which for_speech strips.
+    assert not is_question("Docs are at https://example.com/x?y=1")
+    assert not is_question("")
+    assert not is_question(None)

tests/test_sudo_askpass.py

@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+"""Graphical sudo prompts: command rewriting and helper resolution.
+Pure logic — no display, no sudo, no password."""
+
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
+
+from bolt_pet import sudo_askpass
+
+
+# ── rewriting ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "command,expected",
+    [
+        ("sudo apt update", "sudo -A apt update"),
+        ("sudo  apt update", "sudo -A  apt update"),  # spacing preserved
+        ("apt update && sudo apt upgrade", "apt update && sudo -A apt upgrade"),
+        ("ls; sudo reboot", "ls; sudo -A reboot"),
+        ("echo hi | sudo tee /etc/motd", "echo hi | sudo -A tee /etc/motd"),
+        ("sudo systemctl restart x\nsudo systemctl status x",
+         "sudo -A systemctl restart x\nsudo -A systemctl status x"),
+    ],
+)
+def test_bare_sudo_gets_the_askpass_flag(command, expected):
+    assert sudo_askpass.add_askpass_flag(command) == expected
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "command",
+    [
+        "sudo -n apt update",     # explicitly non-interactive
+        "sudo -A apt update",     # already asking
+        "sudo -u bob whoami",     # the caller was explicit
+        "ls -la",                 # no sudo at all
+        "echo 'run sudo later'",  # inside a quoted string
+        "pseudo --version",       # not the word sudo
+    ],
+)
+def test_commands_that_must_not_be_rewritten(command):
+    assert sudo_askpass.add_askpass_flag(command) == command
+
+
+def test_blank_input():
+    assert sudo_askpass.add_askpass_flag("") == ""
+    assert sudo_askpass.add_askpass_flag(None) == ""
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "command,expected",
+    [
+        ("sudo apt update", True),
+        ("ls && sudo reboot", True),
+        ("ls -la", False),
+        ("echo 'sudo'", False),
+        ("", False),
+    ],
+)
+def test_which_commands_get_the_longer_timeout(command, expected):
+    assert sudo_askpass.needs_password_prompt(command) is expected
+
+
+# ── helper resolution ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_a_configured_helper_wins():
+    found = sudo_askpass.find_helper(
+        configured="/opt/my-askpass", is_executable=lambda p: p == "/opt/my-askpass",
+    )
+    assert found == "/opt/my-askpass"
+
+
+def test_a_configured_helper_that_is_not_executable_is_not_silently_replaced():
+    """Better to have sudo fail than to quietly prompt with something the
+    user didn't choose."""
+    assert sudo_askpass.find_helper(
+        configured="/opt/typo", is_executable=lambda p: False, which=lambda t: "/usr/bin/zenity",
+    ) is None
+
+
+def test_a_real_askpass_binary_beats_a_generated_wrapper():
+    found = sudo_askpass.find_helper(
+        configured="", is_executable=lambda p: p == "/usr/bin/ksshaskpass",
+        which=lambda tool: "/usr/bin/zenity",
+    )
+    assert found == "/usr/bin/ksshaskpass"
+
+
+def test_falls_back_to_wrapping_a_dialog_tool(tmp_path):
+    found = sudo_askpass.find_helper(
+        configured="", is_executable=lambda p: False,
+        which=lambda tool: "/usr/bin/zenity" if tool == "zenity" else None,
+        cache_dir=tmp_path,
+    )
+    script = tmp_path / "askpass.sh"
+    assert found == str(script)
+    assert "zenity --password" in script.read_text()
+    assert script.stat().st_mode & 0o777 == 0o700  # nobody else edits the password box
+
+
+def test_no_helper_available_at_all():
+    assert sudo_askpass.find_helper(
+        configured="", is_executable=lambda p: False, which=lambda tool: None,
+    ) is None
+
+
+def test_the_wrapper_passes_sudos_prompt_through():
+    """sudo hands the helper its prompt as $1 — it names the account the
+    password is for, which is worth showing in the dialog."""
+    script = sudo_askpass.helper_script("/usr/bin/zenity")
+    assert script.startswith("#!/bin/sh")
+    assert '"$1"' in script
+
+
+def test_environment_points_sudo_at_the_helper():
+    env = sudo_askpass.environment("/tmp/askpass.sh", base={"PATH": "/usr/bin"})
+    assert env["SUDO_ASKPASS"] == "/tmp/askpass.sh"
+    assert env["PATH"] == "/usr/bin"  # the rest of the environment survives

tests/test_updater.py

@@ -0,0 +1,237 @@
+"""Auto-updater: version comparison, release parsing, and the apply/rollback
+dance driven by a fake git (no network, no real repo, nothing checked out)."""
+
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import pytest
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent))
+
+from bolt_pet import updater
+
+
+# ── version comparison ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "tag,expected",
+    [
+        ("v1.2.3", (1, 2, 3)),
+        ("1.2.3", (1, 2, 3)),
+        ("V0.1.0", (0, 1, 0)),
+        ("1.2", (1, 2)),
+        ("1.2.3-beta1", (1, 2, 3)),  # suffix ends the parse
+        ("", ()),
+        ("nightly", ()),
+    ],
+)
+def test_parse_version(tag, expected):
+    assert updater.parse_version(tag) == expected
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "candidate,current",
+    [("0.2.0", "0.1.0"), ("1.0.0", "0.9.9"), ("0.1.1", "0.1"), ("v2.0", "1.9.9")],
+)
+def test_is_newer_accepts_newer_versions(candidate, current):
+    assert updater.is_newer(candidate, current)
+
+
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "candidate,current",
+    [
+        ("0.1.0", "0.1.0"),
+        ("0.1.0", "0.2.0"),
+        ("0.1", "0.1.0"),  # zero-padded: equal, not newer
+        ("", "0.1.0"),
+        ("nightly", "0.1.0"),  # unparseable is never newer
+    ],
+)
+def test_is_newer_rejects_same_or_older(candidate, current):
+    assert not updater.is_newer(candidate, current)
+
+
+def test_release_parsing_skips_drafts_and_untagged():
+    assert updater.release_from_payload({"tag_name": "v1.0.0", "draft": True}) is None
+    assert updater.release_from_payload({"name": "no tag"}) is None
+    release = updater.release_from_payload({"tag_name": "v1.0.0", "name": "One", "prerelease": True})
+    assert (release.tag, release.name, release.prerelease) == ("v1.0.0", "One", True)
+
+
+# ── fake git ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+class FakeGit:
+    """Records every git invocation and answers from a canned script.
+    *failures* maps a leading-args tuple to the (code, output) it should
+    return, so a test can make exactly one command fail."""
+
+    def __init__(self, ref="main", dirty=False, failures=None, requirements_changed=False,
+                 head="abc1234", tag_commit="def5678"):
+        self.calls = []
+        self._ref = ref
+        self._dirty = dirty
+        self._failures = failures or {}
+        self._requirements_changed = requirements_changed
+        self._head = head
+        self._tag_commit = tag_commit  # equal to head = "already on this tag"
+
+    def __call__(self, args):
+        self.calls.append(list(args))
+        for prefix, result in self._failures.items():
+            if tuple(args[: len(prefix)]) == prefix:
+                return result
+        head = args[0]
+        if head == "rev-parse" and args[1] == "--git-dir":
+            return 0, ".git"
+        if head == "status":
+            return 0, " M bolt_pet/config.py" if self._dirty else ""
+        if head == "symbolic-ref":
+            return (0, self._ref) if self._ref else (1, "")
+        if head == "rev-parse":
+            return 0, self._tag_commit if args[1].startswith("tags/") else self._head
+        if head == "diff":
+            return 0, "requirements.txt" if self._requirements_changed else ""
+        return 0, ""
+
+    def commands(self):
+        """Just the verbs, for asserting on the sequence."""
+        return [call[0] for call in self.calls]
+
+
+def test_apply_update_checks_out_the_tag(tmp_path):
+    git = FakeGit()
+    previous = updater.apply_update(
+        "v1.0.0", run=git, repo=tmp_path, install_deps=False, verify=lambda repo: None
+    )
+    assert previous == "main"
+    assert ["fetch", "--tags", "--prune", "origin"] in git.calls
+    assert ["checkout", "--force", "tags/v1.0.0"] in git.calls
+
+
+def test_a_dirty_working_tree_is_left_completely_alone(tmp_path):
+    git = FakeGit(dirty=True)
+    with pytest.raises(updater.UpdateError, match="local changes"):
+        updater.apply_update("v1.0.0", run=git, repo=tmp_path, install_deps=False)
+    assert "fetch" not in git.commands()
+    assert "checkout" not in git.commands()
+
+
+def test_a_non_git_install_refuses_before_touching_anything(tmp_path):
+    git = FakeGit(failures={("rev-parse", "--git-dir"): (128, "not a repository")})
+    with pytest.raises(updater.UpdateError, match="not a git clone"):
+        updater.apply_update("v1.0.0", run=git, repo=tmp_path, install_deps=False)
+    assert "checkout" not in git.commands()
+
+
+def test_a_failed_smoke_test_rolls_back_to_the_previous_ref(tmp_path):
+    git = FakeGit(ref="main")
+
+    def broken(repo):
+        raise updater.UpdateError("the new version failed to import: boom")
+
+    with pytest.raises(updater.UpdateError, match="rolled back to main"):
+        updater.apply_update("v1.0.0", run=git, repo=tmp_path, install_deps=False, verify=broken)
+
+    checkouts = [call for call in git.calls if call[0] == "checkout"]
+    assert checkouts == [["checkout", "--force", "tags/v1.0.0"], ["checkout", "--force", "main"]]
+
+
+def test_rollback_targets_the_commit_when_head_is_detached(tmp_path):
+    # No branch to go back to (symbolic-ref fails) — the SHA is the ref.
+    git = FakeGit(ref="")
+
+    with pytest.raises(updater.UpdateError):
+        updater.apply_update(
+            "v1.0.0", run=git, repo=tmp_path, install_deps=False,
+            verify=lambda repo: (_ for _ in ()).throw(RuntimeError("nope")),
+        )
+    assert ["checkout", "--force", "abc1234"] in git.calls
+
+
+def test_a_verify_that_raises_something_unexpected_still_rolls_back(tmp_path):
+    git = FakeGit()
+
+    def exploding(repo):
+        raise ValueError("not even an UpdateError")
+
+    with pytest.raises(updater.UpdateError, match="rolled back"):
+        updater.apply_update(
+            "v1.0.0", run=git, repo=tmp_path, install_deps=False, verify=exploding
+        )
+    assert ["checkout", "--force", "main"] in git.calls
+
+
+def test_a_release_tagged_without_bumping_the_version_does_not_loop(tmp_path):
+    """Cut a release but forget to bump __version__ in the tagged commit and
+    every check would see the same "newer" tag: check out (a no-op), restart,
+    read the old version, repeat — a restart loop every check interval."""
+    git = FakeGit(head="same1234", tag_commit="same1234")
+
+    with pytest.raises(updater.UpdateError, match="bump it in the tagged commit"):
+        updater.apply_update("v0.2.1", run=git, repo=tmp_path, install_deps=False,
+                             verify=lambda repo: None)
+
+    assert "checkout" not in git.commands()  # nothing moved, so nothing to restart into
+
+
+def test_an_unknown_tag_is_not_mistaken_for_being_already_on_it(tmp_path):
+    git = FakeGit(failures={("rev-parse", "tags/"): (128, "unknown revision")})
+    # The failure key matches by prefix, so make it explicit that a tag we
+    # can't resolve means "not there yet" rather than "already applied".
+    assert updater.already_at_tag(git, "v9.9.9") is False
+
+
+def test_a_failed_fetch_never_moves_the_checkout(tmp_path):
+    git = FakeGit(failures={("fetch",): (1, "could not resolve host")})
+    with pytest.raises(updater.UpdateError, match="git fetch failed"):
+        updater.apply_update("v1.0.0", run=git, repo=tmp_path, install_deps=False)
+    assert "checkout" not in git.commands()
+
+
+def test_a_stranded_checkout_is_logged_loudly(tmp_path):
+    """Rollback itself failing is the one case a human has to fix by hand."""
+    git = FakeGit(failures={("checkout", "--force", "main"): (1, "index locked")})
+    logs = []
+
+    with pytest.raises(updater.UpdateError):
+        updater.apply_update(
+            "v1.0.0", run=git, repo=tmp_path, install_deps=False, on_log=logs.append,
+            verify=lambda repo: (_ for _ in ()).throw(updater.UpdateError("bad build")),
+        )
+    assert any("ROLLBACK FAILED" in line and "git checkout main" in line for line in logs)
+
+
+def test_deps_are_only_reinstalled_when_requirements_actually_changed(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    installs = []
+    monkeypatch.setattr(updater, "_install_deps", lambda repo: installs.append(repo))
+
+    updater.apply_update(
+        "v1.0.0", run=FakeGit(requirements_changed=False), repo=tmp_path,
+        install_deps=True, verify=lambda repo: None,
+    )
+    assert installs == []
+
+    updater.apply_update(
+        "v1.0.0", run=FakeGit(requirements_changed=True), repo=tmp_path,
+        install_deps=True, verify=lambda repo: None,
+    )
+    assert installs == [tmp_path]
+
+
+# ── release checking ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+
+
+def test_check_for_update_returns_nothing_when_current(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        updater, "fetch_latest_release",
+        lambda **kwargs: updater.Release("v0.1.0", "0.1.0", "", False),
+    )
+    assert updater.check_for_update(current_version="0.1.0") is None
+    assert updater.check_for_update(current_version="0.0.9").tag == "v0.1.0"
+
+
+def test_no_releases_yet_is_not_an_error(monkeypatch):
+    monkeypatch.setattr(updater, "fetch_latest_release", lambda **kwargs: None)
+    assert updater.check_for_update(current_version="0.1.0") is None