[jcotillo]

Why

Emergency is a manual flag today (IntakeItem.emergency, set by a human at intake). A guest reporting "water pouring from the ceiling" at 2am sits in the Inbox at triage: 'pending' until someone reads it. TURNWRK-738 needs a detector that runs on every item at no credit cost and asks a model only when it cannot decide. This PR is the eval and the detector; turnwrk-cortex wires it into the intake processor.

What changed

• src/intake/emergency.ts, exported from @turnwrk/shared/intake:
  • detectEmergency(text, ctx) returns { isEmergency, class, confidence, ambiguous }. It matches keywords and regexes per class (gas > water > power > lockout > hvac by severity) over lowercased, accent-stripped text, so Spanish matches with or without accents. Texted contractions are normalized too ("wont" becomes "won't"). It checks clause by clause and has these guards:
    • Negation: "no leaks" is not a leak. "no power" still is, because that pattern starts at the negator.
    • Resolved or past tense: "fixed", "came back on", "last week" and "never mind" mean not an emergency, unless the message also says "still" or "again".
    • Jokes: a joke cue ("lol", "haha" or a laughing emoji) turns a strong hit into an ambiguous one.
    • Amenity locks: a code or fob for the pool gate or the gym is not a lockout from the unit.
  • HVAC is gated by season through hvacEmergencySeason(month, { state, hemisphere }). The month is read in the org's timezone (ctx.timeZone), or taken from ctx.month.
    • Hot states (FL, TX, AZ, the Gulf states, NV, HI): A/C May–Oct, heat Dec–Feb.
    • Everywhere else: A/C Jun–Sep, heat Nov–Mar.
    • The southern hemisphere is shifted 6 months.
  • When the result is ambiguous: a weak pattern ("there's a leak") is ambiguous, and so is any live mention of a class's subject that no strong pattern covers. "Live" means not resolved, not past, and not out of season. Ambiguous results go to the caller's pinned model. They are never paged on their own.
  • stateFromAddress(address) reads the US state from a free-text property address.
  • IntakeItem.possibleEmergency: an ambiguous item the model could not confirm (outage). It stays pending and pinned in the Inbox, and admins are paged. Pinning it to the top of the list is a dispatch UI follow-up.
• EMERGENCY_TRIAGED_BY = 'system:emergency' is the value cortex writes to triagedBy. It mirrors AUTO_ACCEPT_TRIAGED_BY.
• Golden set (for tuning): tests/intake/fixtures/emergency-golden.json holds 159 labelled messages: 94 emergencies and 65 hard negatives. Held-out set (the gate): emergency-heldout.json holds 92 messages and is never tuned against. See Proof. They are in English and Spanish and include night lockouts, in-season and out-of-season HVAC, past and resolved reports, jokes, "flood light", "locked out of Netflix" and "gas station". tests/intake/emergency.test.ts prints precision and recall per class and fails under the recorded threshold: precision ≥ 0.85, recall ≥ 0.95 (binary emergency vs not, deterministic layer).
• Net footprint: +385 / −0 source lines (tests and fixtures excluded). It is new capability, and nothing existing did detection, so nothing could be deleted.

What deliberately did NOT change

• No I/O, no model and no clock beyond ctx.now. Confirming ambiguous messages, promoting to the emergency path, and paging all live in turnwrk-cortex (the companion PR).
• IntakeEmergencyClass, IntakeAiAssessment.emergencyClass and the rules engine (737) are unchanged. The default rules are not seeded with an emergency rule. A detected emergency follows the same path a hand-flagged one does. That path skips the rules, and an org with a stored rules doc would never pick up a new default.

Proof

The gate is the held-out set. tests/intake/fixtures/emergency-heldout.json has 92 messages, 54 of them emergencies, all kept out of tuning. Coverage:

• English and Spanish
• typos ("electricty", "wont") and ALL CAPS
• the cases from the review ("ceiling is dripping", "breaker keeps tripping and everything's dark", "it's 90 in here")
• hard negatives

The test scores it in two modes:

• Deterministic only: only isEmergency pages.
• With the LLM: ambiguous items go to the pinned model, scored with the model answering correctly (an oracle). No Ollama is reachable from this seat, so the real qwen2.5:14b accuracy on those calls has not been measured. This mode is the ceiling the cortex path can reach.

[emergency held-out: 92 messages, 54 emergencies]
deterministic only : tp=34 fp=0 fn=20  precision=1.00 recall=0.63
with LLM (oracle)  : tp=54 fp=0 fn=0  precision=1.00 recall=1.00  (40 model calls)

CI floors are set at the achieved held-out numbers:

mode	precision floor	recall floor
deterministic	1.00	34/54
with LLM (oracle)	1.00	1.00

How the held-out numbers moved, honestly:

step	messages (emergencies)	deterministic P / R	with LLM (oracle) P / R	model calls
first 64 written, scored on the earlier tier (subject + trouble word)	64 (36)	0.96 / 0.67	0.96 / 0.75	3
same 64 after widening the tier*	64 (36)	0.96 / 0.67	0.97 / 1.00	15
28 fresh messages, written after that widening and not yet run	28 (18)	1.00 / 0.56	1.00 / 0.78	8
all 92 after the final change (any live subject goes to the model)	92 (54)	1.00 / 0.63	1.00 / 1.00	40

* I could see the miss list from the first 64 when I chose the wider stems. Treat that row as optimistic.

Recall came from widening ambiguous, not from regexes fit to the held-out set:

• Final rule: any live mention of a class's subject goes to the model. "Live" means not resolved, not past, not out of season. Trouble-word lists kept missing real phrasings ("water spraying", "code gets rejected", "blows warm air").
• Cost: 40 small yes/no calls per 92 messages. Cortex already makes one generation call per intake.
• One pattern change: I added a resolved phrase ("it's back up"). It came from a new golden case, not from the held-out set.

The golden set (159 messages, used for tuning) still prints its own report: precision 1.00 / recall 1.00. That is a regression floor, not a measure of generalization.

Verification

• npx tsc --noEmit: exit 0
• npx vitest run: 75/75 files, 804/804 passed, including tests/intake/emergency.test.ts with 37/37 tests (golden set, held-out set, the 6+6 Florida A/C months, the 3+4 Florida heat months, the temperate and southern-hemisphere seasons, the org-timezone month boundary, and stateFromAddress)

Merge order: this PR first, then TurnWrk/turnwrk-cortex (which vendors this branch at 6949095; the sync bot re-stamps it after merge).

Refs: TURNWRK-738

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What is right

• The detector is a pure, deterministic package-layer function with no I/O, model call, or clock dependency beyond the supplied context. The new public export and IntakeItem.possibleEmergency type are wired consistently.
• The changed-surface test passed exactly: npm run test:run -- tests/intake/emergency.test.ts reported 37/37 tests passed. It printed the 159-case golden report at precision 1.00 / recall 1.00 and the 92-case held-out report at deterministic precision 1.00 / recall 0.63 and oracle-model precision 1.00 / recall 1.00.
• The PR's full-check claims are verified by CI run 37722355417 on this exact head 69490953a7df31a9b15fdbf359a0a6a19c96fdc5: typecheck, unit tests, build, vendored checks, Firestore rules tests, and secret scan all succeeded.
• The seasonal HVAC and timezone behavior is covered by the focused tests; an independent run also showed AC not working is false in Florida in January and true in July.
• The held-out test correctly distinguishes deterministic performance from the oracle ceiling. The test source records the achieved held-out floor rather than pretending the unavailable Ollama model was measured. The body also accurately states that the oracle result is not a real model-accuracy measurement.

Claim ledger

• “tests/intake/emergency.test.ts ... fails under the recorded threshold: precision ≥ 0.85, recall ≥ 0.95” — PASS. Command: npm run test:run -- tests/intake/emergency.test.ts; output: ALL 159 tp=94 fp=0 fn=0 precision=1.00 recall=1.00 (threshold: precision>=0.85 recall>=0.95).
• “The gate is the held-out set ... 92 messages, 54 ... emergencies” — PASS. The same command printed [emergency held-out: 92 messages, 54 emergencies]; the disjointness test passed.
• “deterministic only ... precision=1.00 recall=0.63” and “with LLM (oracle) ... precision=1.00 recall=1.00 (40 model calls)” — PASS. The same focused command printed those exact rows. The oracle is explicitly a fixture-backed ceiling, not a live model run.
• “npx tsc --noEmit: exit 0” and the full test claim — VERIFIED-BY-CI on run 37722355417; the workflow steps show npm run typecheck, npm run test:run, and npm run build all succeeded on this head. The focused changed-surface test was also run above.
• “Net footprint: +385 / −0 source lines (tests and fixtures excluded)” — FAIL as a literal claim: git diff --numstat origin/main...HEAD reports 386 added / 0 deleted in src/intake/emergency.ts, 1 added in src/intake/index.ts, and 6 added in src/types/woIntake.ts, for +393 / −0 source lines. This is a stale arithmetic statement, not a behavior defect; the diff is new capability and no existing implementation was duplicated.

The PR is otherwise ready for the human merge gate. The two integration/outage follow-ups described in the ticket comments belong to the companion Cortex work, not this shared-library diff.

REVIEW VERDICT: approve
NEEDS VERIFICATION: After merge, run the real intake path for “water pouring from ceiling” and verify it creates a Scheduled, isEmergency work order assigned to on-call and exercises the dispatch paging lifecycle; also verify the deployed Cortex path handles vendor_sms and deterministic detection while the model circuit is open.

[jcotillo]

merge:queued applied at Julissa's request (Claude Code seat, 2026-10-07): TURNWRK-738 detector, Talos-approved head 6949095, CI green. Shared-only; cortex#95 follows after cortex#96.