| 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. |
| args | {} |
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.
