Pause during games too, not only in presentation mode

The status registry's effective presentation is the OR of the manual
flag and status.gaming, which the shell's game detector writes;
statusctl presentation get reads only the manual half and printed 0
with a game running. presenting() now reads both files.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

2 files changed, 27 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 0e58c38..9542840 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -194,6 +194,13 @@ utterance to whisper. No keybind, no VAD.
   No watcher needed. Considered and not chosen: skipping when another app
   already records from the mic (`pactl list source-outputs`, sound server is
   PipeWire with the Pulse API); fallback if presentation mode gets forgotten.
+- **Games (2026-09-26):** the shell's game detector writes a separate
+  `status.gaming`, and the registry's effective presentation is
+  `presentation OR gaming`. `statusctl presentation get` reads only the
+  manual half: it printed `0` with pcsx2 running, so the assistant would
+  have answered during games. `presenting()` now reads both files (the
+  registry's documented interface). Live: press ignored with pcsx2
+  running, normal again after it closed.
 
 ### Push-to-talk round trip with whisper-server (2026-09-25)
 
@@ -440,8 +447,6 @@ mic, TTS, glue); push-to-talk came for free from the mic button. Open, in
 no particular order:
 
 - **Run as a service/autostart** (it currently runs by hand).
-- **Check presentation mode during games:** `statusctl presentation get`
-  reads the stored flag; confirm it is 1 while a game holds it on.
 - **Latency:** STT ~1.2 s is the biggest share; the double encoder pass
   (detect + transcribe) is the target if it matters.
 - **Phase 2 tools:** tools that write or modify (events, messages,
diff --git a/assistant.py b/assistant.py
index 7724b73..3bd4b20 100644
--- a/assistant.py
+++ b/assistant.py
@@ -119,12 +119,20 @@ def mic_on():
     return out.rstrip().endswith("values=on")
 
 
-def presenting():
+def presenting(d=None):
     # During calls the user turns on presentation mode; the button then
-    # belongs to the call, not to us.
-    r = subprocess.run([os.path.expanduser("~/bin/statusctl"), "presentation", "get"],
-                       capture_output=True, text=True)
-    return r.stdout.strip() == "1"
+    # belongs to the call, not to us. Presentation is the OR of the manual
+    # flag and the game detector's (quickshell status registry: the files are
+    # its interface); `statusctl presentation get` reads only the manual half.
+    d = d or os.environ.get("XDG_RUNTIME_DIR", "/tmp")
+
+    def flag(name):
+        try:
+            with open(os.path.join(d, f"status.{name}")) as f:
+                return f.read().strip() == "1"
+        except OSError:                   # a missing file means off
+            return False
+    return flag("presentation") or flag("gaming")
 
 
 def latin(text):
@@ -500,6 +508,13 @@ def test():
         assert run_tool(tools, "nope", "{}", d) == "error: no tool named nope"
         assert run_tool(tools, "echo", "{bad", d) == "error: arguments are not valid JSON"
         assert run_tool(tools, "echo", "[1]", d) == "error: arguments are not valid JSON"
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as d:
+        assert not presenting(d)
+        for name, value, want in (("gaming", "1", True), ("gaming", "0", False),
+                                  ("presentation", "1\n", True)):
+            with open(os.path.join(d, f"status.{name}"), "w") as f:
+                f.write(value)
+            assert presenting(d) == want, (name, value)
     calls = {}
     collect_calls(calls, [{"index": 0, "id": "c1", "type": "function",
                            "function": {"name": "weather", "arguments": "{"}}])