ramana-saying

name	ramana-saying
description	Return one genuine saying of Ramana Maharshi, drawn verbatim from his recorded talks, with source attribution. Use when delivering an authentic Ramana quote with attribution — not a paraphrase or a synthesized reflection. The returned text is a raw quote; add your own brief framing before presenting it.
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ramana-saying

Samples a single question → answer exchange from a bundled, verbatim corpus of Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi and returns it as markdown with source attribution (e.g. (Talk 26)). Takes no arguments. Where the book provides a narrative scene-setting passage for the talk's opening exchange, it is included as an italicized lead-in above the Q&A.

The tool does not add commentary — it hands back the genuine quote so you can frame it in your own voice. A small recent-history file keeps successive calls from repeating the same saying.

Behavior

• Loads the bundled pool (data/sayings.jsonl), skips recently-shown sayings, and picks one at random.
• Returns {status: "ok", text: <markdown quote + attribution>}.
• Returns {status: "error", text: ...} if the pool is missing or empty.

Typical use

When a quote is wanted, call the tool, add one short framing sentence in your own voice, render a card to the canvas with display, then post a brief line to the conversation.

{"thought": "deliver a genuine attributed Ramana saying", "tool": "ramana-saying"}

Refreshing the pool

data/sayings.jsonl is generated once from the source corpus by build_pool.py (reads /data/satsang/ramana/). Re-run that script by hand to rebuild; it is not invoked at runtime.