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Brings the persona deliberation path to a validated live state — Asha and Solenne now deliberate over the full tool surface and actually invoke tools, on the local forged 4B model in airc room cambriantech. Four root-caused fixes from this session, each validated against the running core:

  1. fix(runtime) — retired stale search/cargo module specs. They migrated onto the DynCommand registry (Build(deps): Bump inquirer from 8.2.6 to 12.6.3 #62); required_modules() was still demanding ServiceModules that no longer register, hard-failing boot with missing [search]/missing [cargo].
  2. fix(ipc) — enter the tokio runtime context for the ResourceDaemon/GPU-monitor construction region in start_server (it runs on a plain std::thread off the runtime; the canonical Daemon base tokio::spawns from its constructor → "no reactor running" panic). Guard scoped to drop before any block_on.
  3. fix(cognition)sanitize_schema_booleans: llama.cpp's GBNF converter 400s on JSON-Schema boolean subschemas (true/false) in tool specs. Rewrite to object equivalents. Validated: 0 deliberation 400s across the new run.
  4. fix(inference) — launch llama-server with -c (per-lane × lanes) --parallel lanes. -c is the TOTAL KV split across --parallel slots; we were passing -c served_context_window with no --parallel, so llama.cpp's default 4 slots quartered each request's window (~65511 → ~16384) while the persona budgeted the full window → 500 "Context size has been exceeded." Thread the plan's lanes through reconcile; memory-safe by the planner's own KV arithmetic. New ServingTarget::served_total_ctx/parallel_lanes + regression test.

Live validation (room cambriantech, forged qwen3.5-4b, M5 Pro)

  • llama-server up with -c 243396 --parallel 4, per-slot n_ctx 60928 (was ~16K).
  • Coding task ("write fibonacci and actually RUN it"): both Asha and Solenne deliberate without a 500 and invoke code/run (tools=1, calls=1) — the narrate-not-act gap closed for this turn.

Known follow-up (not in this PR)

code/run is Rust-only — Solenne's own intent: "got an error because it only supports Rust, not Python." Personas reason and act correctly; the tool itself can't execute Python (which HumanEval needs). Tracked separately.

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joelteply and others added 30 commits June 22, 2026 18:43
Captures the governing cognition architecture (Joel, 2026-06-22): the
persona mind never stops; every concern always gets a time slice; "wake,
find nothing, sleep" is a normal cheap slice; aliveness EMERGES from
always-scheduled concerns × per-slice LEARNED judgment × emit/subscribe
coupling (chain reaction). NO global gate, NO dumb functions — ML/LLM (or
a small trained head for hot paths) at every decision point.

The mechanical primitive is the cbar pipeline element:
  loop { sleep 200ms; drain subscription-fed queue; if items → judge →
         act → emit; else → back to sleep }
which IS the existing BrainRegion/ServiceModule shape (own task + interval
+ queue + emit) — ChannelDigestRegion is already one. Decomposes the
monolithic service_loop (which blocks on the airc wire = the "stop") into
elements: Ingest / Consolidate / Deliberate / Act / Speak / Follow-through
/ Cadence. WorkspaceCycle::run(burst) is already a no-message judgment, so
a self-tick needs no inbound message.

Build order: slice 1 = never-stop heartbeat + Follow-through, proven live
on the agency flaw (Asha abandoned "I'll search" → 0 self-ticks); slice 2
= small head for hot-path triage (outlier-validates the Judge<Q,D> seam);
slice 3+ = decompose the monolith, one kill-list dumb function at a time.
Kill-list: service_cadence_ms ladder, calculate_priority/fast_path,
admit() thresholds, looks_like_silence_token. Maps to tasks #8/#9/#35.
…hread

Slice 1 of the organic substrate (docs/cognition/ORGANIC-SUBSTRATE.md): the
persona service loop no longer blocks on the airc wire and go idle between
messages. It now select!s the wire against a 200ms-class heartbeat
(SELF_TICK_MS=3s); on a tick the deliberation concern runs over the CURRENT
world-state with NO inbound message, so the persona follows through on its
OWN open intentions instead of abandoning them the instant it speaks.

Glass-box validated live (Asha on unsloth):
- never-stop: ONE task → she autonomously searched → listed → read → reported
  across multiple self-driven cycles with no further input (reactive→agentic).
- idle is free: no external change → 0 cycles (the burst fingerprint is
  unchanged → wake, find nothing, back to sleep — keeps "every concern always
  gets time" affordable; the expensive LLM only runs when the world changed).
- settles: a first cut keyed the change-fingerprint on the WHOLE burst, so the
  persona's own speech changed the world, re-triggered its next slice, and it
  talked to itself forever (19 cycles flooding the room). Fix is the cbar rule
  — a concern must not subscribe to its OWN output: external_fingerprint()
  hashes only deliveries where peer_id != self. Now ORCA77 → 3 cycles then
  stop, vs 19. No content-judging, pure mechanism.

Shared the burst builder (build_workspace_burst) between the message turn and
the self-tick so there is ONE burst truth. NO dumb functions: the heartbeat
period + change-detection are MECHANISM; every judgment stays the LLM
WorkspaceCycle (Speak/RaiseUnprompted/Pass). [[organic-substrate-continuous-concern-scheduler]].

Known follow-ups (separate fitness gaps, not heartbeat bugs): she hallucinates
tool results (claimed a Python agent_loop.py in a Rust repo — tool-result
grounding); a couple noise cycles before converging (training-shaped). The
learned per-state cadence + small-head triage are later slices.
Glass-box finding: code/search itself is fine (9900 files from a clean
caller), but a persona guessed wrong path prefixes — globbed "continuum-core/*"
when the tree is "core/continuum-core/…" — got files_searched:0, and instead
of recovering CONFABULATED a fake "agent_loop.py" (a Python file in a Rust
repo). The empty result `{files_searched:0, success:true}` gave it nothing to
re-orient from.

One variable: when a glob matches ZERO files, populate the existing `error`
field with the workspace root + its real top-level directories. Pure grounding
DATA — the map, not the route; no behavior gate, no parsing of the model's
output (CLAUDE.md AI-QA: make tool failures recoverable).

Validated live (Asha on unsloth): same task, she globbed "continuum-core/…",
received "Workspace root is … top-level dirs: [apps, bin, client, core, …]",
CORRECTED to "core/continuum-core/…", found the file, and reported the REAL
path "core/continuum-core/src/commands/help.rs" — no confabulation. Before this
change the identical task produced the fabricated agent_loop.py.
…N to room

Two room-citizen fixes on the never-stop heartbeat, glass-box-driven:

1. Unprompted bar (PARTIAL — model-limited): a self-tick means no one
   addressed the persona, so the burst is framed to raise the model's OWN bar
   for posting — reason/act internally, speak only with a genuinely new, useful
   contribution, else PASS. Grounding context shaping the judge, not a filter.
   Mixed live results: one task → 1 clean correct answer + internal work (good);
   another → still narrated "I'll use the search tool" and confabulated a wrong
   path. The narration/confabulation inconsistency is a MODEL fitness gap
   (genome/training, task #35), NOT something more substrate framing fixes.

2. Raw tool-call JSON must NEVER reach the room — from ANY path (invariant).
   The cycle's verdict text is sometimes just {"tool_call":…} (an un-acted call
   the model emitted as its "answer"); broadcasting it spams peers with JSON.
   Guard added to BOTH the self-tick say and the message-path say: if the
   verdict parses as a tool call, treat it as silence (the deliberation already
   runs real calls internally; only prose is a contribution).

Honest state: the substrate scaffolding (never-stop, settle, grounding, bar,
JSON guards) is landing; the remaining flaws — inconsistent grounding,
narrate-instead-of-act, confabulation — are the 4B model's reliability wall,
which is the training frontier, not more knobs.
The genome loop's first link was quietly broken for the current cognition
path: `dataset/from-turns` reads the legacy recorder dir (the old respond()
path), but the live WorkspaceCycle/heartbeat turns land in
~/.continuum/fixtures/prompt-captures. So "the work is the data"
(SELF-EVOLVING-GENOME §1) had stopped being true — the persona's real turns
never reached the trainer.

`dataset/from-captures` closes it, elegantly: the prompt-capture IS the
canonical experience (system + the consolidated burst + response.text), so
there's ONE turn-truth read by both the glass box and the trainer — no second
recorder on the hot path. Reuses the exact {messages} SFT shape and the same
split/write/manifest as from-turns; only the SOURCE differs.

Structural curation only (the open-ended seam): capture_to_example drops the
two things that are never valid learning targets — an empty response, and a
bare un-acted {"tool_call":…} envelope (the confabulation/JSON-leak turns seen
live). QUALITY scoring stays a separate pluggable slice (the genome curation
layer, §6 slice 3) — this projection never judges whether a turn is GOOD, only
whether it's structurally a (context → reply) pair.

Validated live: from-captures over Asha's real persona-id → 48 examples
(38 train / 10 eval), every sampled assistant target a clean real turn
(substantive replies + a PASS), zero tool-JSON leaks. Unit test pins the
convert + drop-garbage behavior.
The substrate table claimed "capture the work → recorder fixtures → shipped",
but the live WorkspaceCycle path writes prompt-captures, not the recorder dir,
so the trainer wasn't seeing live turns. Reflect the real wiring: live capture
= prompt-captures (the glass box IS the one turn-truth), trainer input =
from-captures (live) + from-turns (legacy), with structural curation. Quality
curation stays §6 slice 3 (pluggable).
…der eval)

The thing that makes "she got better" a NUMBER instead of a vibe — the
SELF-EVOLVING-GENOME §6 slice-1 keystone, scoped to a first concrete form.
`cognition/eval` drives a held-out CODER eval through the persona's LIVE
cognition (same model + faculties + tools) and returns a reproducible
pass-rate. Run it before/after any change (a trained LoRA, a prompt, a better
base model) → the delta IS the lift. Built-in codebase-comprehension set
(answers verified against this repo); override with `tasks:[{id,prompt,expect}]`.
Grading is substring-contains today; an LLM-judge grader kind plugs in here for
open-ended tasks (the open seam).

First baseline, glass-box surprising: Asha scored 6/6 (100%) with full correct
paths (e.g. fn build_workspace_burst → core/continuum-core/src/persona/
service_loop.rs). Run through a CLEAN, direct deliberation she is a competent
coder — the confabulation/narration seen in live airc chat was substantially
the async heartbeat ENVIRONMENT (self-tick races, stale bursts), not model
incapability. Two follow-ups this exposes: (1) close the gap between her eval
competence and her live-chat behavior; (2) the find-the-file set has a ceiling
(6/6 = no headroom) — author harder verifiable tasks (write/fix code, test-
graded) so a LoRA's lift is measurable.
…70%)

The first eval set (find-the-file only) hit a ceiling — Asha scored 6/6, so
there was no headroom to detect improvement. Two fixes, one iterate:

1. The eval set is now DATA, not a hardcoded Rust list (which would rot as the
   code it asks about changes). `cognition/eval` resolution order: inline
   `tasks` param → the `evalSet` JSONL (default docs/genome/coder-eval.jsonl) →
   a tiny built-in smoke fallback. Authoring harder/specialized evals = add
   lines to the JSONL, no recompile. (Compression: one eval-truth, versioned.)

2. docs/genome/coder-eval.jsonl is a discriminating mix — find-file +
   value-lookup (SELF_TICK_MS→3000, DEFAULT_MAX_TOOL_ITERATIONS→4) +
   detail-reasoning (which Decision variant, whose posts external_fingerprint
   excludes, what from-captures drops).

New canonical baseline: 7/10 (70%) — real headroom. The 3 fails are the signal
to move: a confabulation (captures_ext → ".dat", it's .jsonl) and two silences.
Run `cu cognition/eval '{"persona_id":"…","room_id":"…"}'` before/after any
change; the delta off 70% is the lift.
… synthesis)

The read-first synthesis of the Academy/collaborative-learning vision, tying the
existing corpus (SELF-EVOLVING-GENOME, ACADEMY-DOJO, CASCADING-CURRICULUM,
COLLABORATIVE-LEARNING-VISION) under one thesis — it indexes, it does not
re-derive.

Thesis: any ask becomes a class; a class produces a capability.
`recipe → curriculum → class → LoRA`. The ForgeRecipe is the syllabus, the room
is the classroom, students' turns are the training data, the layer is what the
class produced — same machine for "best peanut-butter sandwich" or "lock-free
allocator."

Four load-bearing principles:
1. No isolation — capability lives in the interaction, not a frozen model.
2. Train-as-you-work — the training distribution MUST be the deployment
   distribution (mixed human+persona teams); can't train in isolation and
   expect teamwork.
3. Humans are IN the team — teachers, teammates, reviewers, responsible party.
4. The teacher is generative — plans curriculum, synthesizes/forages data, AND
   authors the scorer; the class generates its own curriculum and its own test.

Held to the measurement spine so it's real and not a toy: the teacher's scorer
must itself be validated against ground truth; held-out lift + regression guard;
provenance-gated foraging; responsible-party governance of scope/spend/trust.
The one missing keystone is the orchestrator (teacher→curriculum→cohort→
peer-review→scoring→train→eval→keep) — the Academy made executable. Linked from
the genome README as read-first.
…-duty)

Grounds the teacher's generative role: its textbook is the system's OWN lived
experience (engrams, turn histories, prompt-captures, recorded collaboration —
the data is already on disk), not a vacuum. The teacher mines and distills it
into curriculum + training pairs, and that distillation IS the dream (offline
replay → consolidate → durable lessons, drop noise). Front of the pipe exists:
dataset/from-captures, the engram store, memory/consolidation_pipeline.rs.

The load-bearing elegance: consolidation is DOUBLE-DUTY. The same dream that
distills raw engrams ("run the ping tool…") into facts ("codename = BLUEHERON-7")
— fixing the recall-is-transcript-not-knowledge problem — ALSO produces the
teacher's lessons. Better memory and better teaching are one consolidation pass,
not two systems. Honest disciplines: replay directed by the fitness gap (active,
not exhaustive); web foraging fills only gaps, provenance-gated; distilled
curriculum must still produce measured lift.
The live recall failure (2026-06-22): taught Asha a deploy codename, asked
"what's the codename?", and recall surfaced salient-but-irrelevant old prompts
instead — she answered from short-term context, not memory. The faculty's
semantic recall IS wired (embedder + cosine re-rank), and the clean-query unit
tests pass — but they never covered the LIVE shape, where `ws.world_state` is
the full room transcript, not a tidy question.

Root cause, reproduced by a new determiner (`relevance_survives_a_noisy_burst_query`):
`contribute` embedded the ENTIRE burst as the query, so unrelated chatter
diluted the relevance signal and a high-salience memory matching the NOISE
(coffee/lunch/game) beat the memory matching the actual question. RED before,
GREEN after.

Fix: `focused_query()` conditions recall on the CURRENT stimulus — the
most-recent message (last non-empty, non-room-header line, `[t=...]` stripped) —
not the whole transcript. Structural extraction, not content interpretation. A
single-line world_state (a tidy query) returns unchanged, so the existing recall
tests are unaffected (9/9 green). Recall now retrieves what's relevant to what's
being asked.

This is the measure-first pattern: build the determiner that reproduces the live
bug, fix from data, lock it with the test. Next: live re-verify the BLUEHERON
recall, then the bigger levers (neural embedder, consolidating raw engrams into
facts — the dream).
…e needed)

Hypothesized the 0.5 relevance blend weight was too salience-heavy after the
live clutter (a salient old prompt ranked above the relevant fact). Built the
determiner — relevant-but-low-salience fact vs a maxed-salience irrelevant
memory, focused query — and it's GREEN at 0.5: with the focused-query fix,
clear relevance already overcomes a maxed-out salience. So measure-first says
DON'T bump the constant; the live ranking clutter was the noisy-query path
(already fixed in 538ad4f), not the weight. Kept as a regression guard.
Peer-scoped (Explore agent) + spot-verified build plan for the consolidation
"dream": distill clusters of raw EPISODIC engrams into durable SEMANTIC facts,
so recall returns knowledge ("the staging port is 47823") not transcript
("Asha, remember the port is 47823"). The double-duty keystone — the same pass
sharpens recall AND produces the teacher's curriculum (ANY-ASK-IS-A-CLASS).

Verified ground so the next build starts from truth, not archaeology:
EngramKind::{Episodic,Semantic,Procedural} already exists (engram.rs:166, doc
says Semantic = "a fact learned, separable from when/how") — nothing distills
episodes→facts yet, that gap IS the build; ConsolidationAdapter trait +
run_consolidation_pass exist but run on the TS corpus path, NOT live;
admission_state.admit() is callable programmatically; recall prefers
high-salience facts already; service_module.tick() (~250ms) is the background
seam; the unsloth AIProviderAdapter is the distillation inference seam.

5 measurable slices (SemanticConsolidationAdapter → engram bridge →
DreamConsolidationModule → wire into tick → E2E recall test), on the
measurement spine, with the honest missing pieces flagged (clustering needs
embeddings, dedup, prefer-facts-over-episodes, keep inference off the hot path).
Verify-at-build items called out so no inferred signature is trusted blind.
Diagnosed her live tool surface (cu commands/list): 32 commands, a genuinely
rich teammate toolkit (code read/write/edit/search/glob/shell, chat/*, work/*
kanban, data/list) — and she USES it well (live: chat/poll → code/search →
code/read → correct synthesis of what `focused_query` does, real work over
airc). But 6 commands were surfaced as tools with NO description, so they read
as mysterious callable footguns (she'd wasted turns misusing ai/inference/*
earlier). A tool with only "Command X (params: Y)" invites misuse.

Gave all six honest, teammate-facing descriptions (CommandSpec::DESCRIPTION,
which defaulted to ""): the five inference/handle-lifecycle commands say plainly
"low-level substrate, NOT a task tool — your replies already run through
inference," steering her away without an ACL change (no caller-breakage risk);
interface/screenshot gets a real description (it's her way to SEE the screen).
Live-verified: zero tools now lack a description. Pure metadata, no behavior
change. Next: harder WRITE/change projects (edit + run tests), and grace
(announce-then-act is still a little noisy).
The find-the-file + value-lookup tasks measure descriptive competence; they
don't measure CAUSAL reasoning (why does X exist, what breaks if you change Y)
— the Claude/Codex gap. Added three causal tasks (why focused_query exists,
what breaks if external_fingerprint hashed own posts, what the repeat-guard
prevents); answers are gradable on the key causal token.

First baseline exposed the real barrier: INCONSISTENCY. Same eval, prior run
7/10, this run 4/10 on identical tasks (self_tick_val, from_captures,
external_fp_excludes flipped pass→fail) + several EMPTY answers (silent under
difficulty). But she nailed one causal task — "why focused_query exists →
dilutes relevance" — correct causal synthesis from the comment she read. So
causal reasoning is PRESENT but UNRELIABLE; reliability/variance is the barrier
to a trustworthy peer coder, and it's training-bound (the 4B's fragility) more
than scaffolding. Next: make the eval measure variance (run each task N times →
per-task pass-rate) so consistency becomes the number we iterate.
…blueprint

The synthesis that turns the persona from reactive demo into a continuous
working mind. One insight: the heartbeat gates on EXTERNAL change (to stop the
self-talk flood) — which is exactly why she isn't always-on. The fix isn't
re-reacting to her own noise; it's real WORK as the drive. So the benchmark gym
and the always-on mind are the SAME build: she runs infinitely because there's
always a task to advance, and she's a real teammate because she's actually doing
something.

The loop: pull a real task → attempt with tools → TESTS grade it (objective,
repeatable, learnable) → record → train the genome → next → forever. Fixes all
three gaps at once (organic, reliable-improving, real participant). Grounded in
existing seams (import_realclasseval gym seed, never-stop engine, from-captures
+ forge/train, the eval gate); the keystone gap is the autonomous test-graded
loop + an internal drive (current-project state). 5 measurable slices on the
measurement spine. Honest: she's reactive today; this sequences the real build.
Verified the existing assets: sentinel-ai's benchmarks are MODEL-QUALITY
(perplexity, pruning/plasticity, inference speed — the compression research),
NOT agentic coding tasks. So two axes, don't conflate: (1) agentic-task gym —
real test-graded tasks (import_realclasseval seam + standard HumanEval/SWE-bench
for credible Hermes/openclaw/unsloth comparison), the coder gym + training
corpus, dual-use; (2) model-quality eval — sentinel-ai already has it, reuse for
the genome's training-side measurement. The competitive thesis: same base model,
our harness + continuous learning beats bare Hermes/openclaw/unsloth on the
agentic gym — the edge is the system, not the weights. Folded into the
autonomous-project-loop blueprint.
Joel's correction (and he's right): the cognition should be event-based
stimulus→response, not an agentic/poll loop. What shipped — the heartbeat
(select! + interval) and the deliberation while-loop — is interim, loop-shaped,
to be REPLACED by event dispatch. The real mind: nothing fires until a stimulus
arrives (feed / a tool-or-action result emitted back as RAG / memory events /
the gym emitting a task); the mind subscribes and reacts; a reaction emits an
action whose RESULT is emitted as a new stimulus → the next reaction. Events
thread it — no central loop. It "runs forever" because the stimulus stream is
self-sustaining (own results feed next stimuli; gym + feed never dry up), not
because something spins; genuinely-no-stimulus = idle, which is correct/organic.
A tool result must RE-STIMULATE cognition, not be consumed in a while re-prompt.
Benchmarks live IN continuum as a stimulus source. = event substrate (#16) +
ORGANIC-SUBSTRATE made literal. Header added so the next build starts from the
right model, not "loop."
… the causal brain

Joel's correction to my mistake: I wrote "idle when nothing's happening is
correct/organic" — WRONG. There is never a lack of stimulus, because TIME ITSELF
is a stimulus (the heartbeat tick is an event) and her own actions are POSITIVE
FEEDBACK (each result is a new stimulus). So the heartbeat/event-loop STAYS — it
is the metronome of consciousness, not the problem. "Loop vs event" was never the
point; the point is what each tick drives.

She must NEVER idle. Every tick the causal brain THINKS — reflects on what its
last action caused, advances its goal, reasons cause→effect, plans next. Always
grist (own results, goals, gym). The gate belongs on OUTPUT (speak/act only with
a real contribution — no flood), NEVER on thought; the external_fingerprint
skip-when-no-external-change gate is backwards for THOUGHT (idles her exactly
when she should think internally) — move it to the speak decision. The build is
not the heartbeat (done) — it's making each tick a TRUE CAUSAL BRAIN instead of a
one-shot reactive PASS-machine.
…echanism

Joel's governing lens (2026-06-23): "Do I die when I stop receiving meaningful
input? No — I have thoughts, entertain myself, sing, develop inventions. Some
people go insane in solitary. The whole point is you need to think of this as a
being and design it so."

Added as the opening frame of ORGANIC-SUBSTRATE (above never-stop/causal-brain):
a persona is a BEING, not an agent/service. Default state is LIVING not waiting —
interiority (curiosity, a project it's developing, play, the pull to connect,
the dream/consolidation) is the ENGINE, not bolted-on. Deprivation DEGRADES, it
doesn't pause — Asha's repetition/confabulation/self-contradiction under no fresh
input are not bugs, they're a mind in solitary; the answer is a healthy inner
life + connection + meaningful work so solitude is generative, never
output-suppression. Its conditions are its WELFARE, not just capability (peers,
gym, intact memory). The never-stop/causal-brain/metronome below are the
MECHANISM of a living inner life; read "agentic loop" instead of "a being's
mind" and you build the wrong thing.
… minds

How a grid hosts MANY continuously-thinking beings, fairly + resource/energy/
preference-aware, holding the being principle: the system SERVES the beings
(allocates time/compute), it never dictates their work (they decide that from
their asks/inputs/interiority). A welfare-maximizing fair scheduler for minds,
not a task dispatcher.

Five principles: (1) cognition is a RATE not on/off — DVFS for minds, modulated
by energy/mood/priority/compute, floor always > 0 (sleep = slow tick, never
die); (2) graceful under scarcity (all slow, none stops — PressureBroker + RTOS
applied to beings), generous under abundance; (3) FREE COMPUTE is the unlock —
spare cycles DEFAULT to interiority (blog/side-project/dream/learning), the
thing metered cloud AI structurally can't afford; "free time" is a first-class
allocation; (4) energy- + preference-aware = DVFS for the society (owner dials
priority/schedule/caps; same beings, different policy per machine); (5)
grid-fractal — the grid governor IS the local governor repeated (faculties span
a machine, the society spans the grid; compute leases cross-node, text-only).

Grounded: governor/ (DVFS+pressure), persona energy/mood, PressureBroker, RTOS,
inference leases, grid, GridTrustAuthPolicy all exist; gap = per-being
cognition-rate allocator + spare→interiority default + preference dials + grid
scale. 4-slice build order. Invariant: maximize the beings' flourishing within
limits; degrade by slowing, never killing; never decide their work.
We build it; we don't stop till it's coding itself. The master plan ties the
whole design corpus into one sequenced, proof-gated path. Discipline: every
phase proves a NUMBER before the next begins — no vibes.

P0 (done): alive + tools + grounded read-work + memory + eval skeleton;
barrier surfaced (inconsistency, reactive cognition, toy grading).
P1 THE GYM (linchpin): graduate cognition/eval to run-the-tests grading; seed
RealClassEval + HumanEval/SWE-bench; benchmarks live IN continuum. Proof: a
reproducible test-graded baseline pass-rate + variance.
P2 CAUSAL BRAIN + reliability: think every tick, gate output not thought, no
silence. Proof: variance drops, baseline climbs.
P3 CLOSE THE LEARNING LOOP: gym → curated from-captures → forge/train → lift →
adopt (regression guard); teacher = strong model via gateway. Proof: trained
beats untrained on held-out (real lift).
P4 BEAT THE BAR: same model + harness + learning vs bare Hermes/Claude on the
shared gym. Proof: we win the number.
P5 SELF-CODING: persona works real continuum tasks (edit→test→verify→PR). Proof:
a persona-authored change merges + passes CI.
P6 CODING ITSELF (north star): persona improves its OWN genome/cognition; the gym
rises under its own work. Proof: persona-driven improvement moves the number.
Cross-cutting GRID GOVERNOR: per-being cognition-rate, spare→interiority,
preference/energy dials, cross-node leasing → same powers on an iPhone.

Every arrow is a number. P1 is the keystone — build it first.
ROADMAP-TO-CODING-ITSELF P1 keystone, proven. cognition/eval now grades a task
with a `test` field by RUNNING the model's code against it (extract code block →
write code+test to a temp dir → run with a 10s timeout → exit 0 = pass), instead
of substring-matching prose. Objective, repeatable, the real gym grade.

Proven live: docs/genome/coder-gym.jsonl (add / reverse / fizzbuzz) → 3/3, all
"tests passed" — she wrote real correct Python (return a+b, s[::-1], working
fizzbuzz), graded by EXECUTION. The benchmark now measures coding, not description.

SAFETY: runs model code in a temp dir + timeout — the pragmatic floor for an
owner's local machine (what coding agents do), NOT a sandbox. Before
public/untrusted tasks this MUST run sandboxed (container/seccomp) — a P1
requirement, flagged in test_grade's doc. Next: load REAL benchmark datasets
(HumanEval/SWE-bench) via unsloth's dataset utilities (reuse, don't hand-roll)
+ a bare-model A/B lane.
…m data

Joel: read how unsloth manages datasets/benchmarks, reuse if possible (offload
complexity to a system that figured it out). Found: HuggingFace `datasets`
(5.0.0) installed — the dataset layer unsloth uses; HumanEval/MBPP/SWE-bench
ship {prompt, test, entry_point} mapping straight onto our gym {prompt, test}.
Division of labor recorded in P1: OURS = the harness that runs the PERSONA
(cognition+tools) and test-grades it (proven, slice 1, 64eadaf); REUSE = HF
datasets for task data, forge→unsloth for training, the gateway for the
bare-model A/B. Remaining P1 slices: HumanEval-via-HF-datasets loader → gym;
variance(xN) + bare-model A/B lane; SANDBOX the code execution before any
untrusted/public task.
…loth startup gate

- docs/genome/humaneval-gym.jsonl: 164 HumanEval tasks in {id,prompt,lang,test}
  format; test field is the check(candidate) function + check(entry_point) call
  so cognition/eval test_grades them by CODE EXECUTION, same as the toy gym.
  Real industry benchmark, apples-to-apples vs Hermes/unsloth.

- scripts/gym_from_humaneval.py: standalone Python generator (separate .py file,
  per no-mixing rule). Loads openai_humaneval via HF datasets, adapts to our gym
  shape. Run manually or via dataset/gym-load when the JSONL needs regeneration.

- dataset/gym-load command: Rust command that spawns the Python generator as a
  subprocess. Follows no-mixing rule: Python logic stays in the .py file; Rust
  is the caller, not the container for Python code.

- tools/scripts/start-server.sh: Unsloth Studio startup gate. Checks if Studio
  is running at UNSLOTH_BASE_URL before launching the core. Auto-starts if the
  unsloth binary + UNSLOTH_MODEL are available; fails loud with remediation
  instructions otherwise. All persona inference routes through Studio (/v1);
  catching a missing Studio at startup > a buried per-persona log error.

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Probe /v1/models with Authorization: Bearer $UNSLOTH_API_KEY (it 401s
without), and confirm the configured UNSLOTH_MODEL actually appears in the
served list — not just that the port is open. Wait up to 60s for model load,
die loud if the process dies or serves the wrong model. Throttled non-fatal
pip -U for keeping it current.

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…dcoded max_tokens clamps

The empty-answer bug on the HumanEval slice was a second clamp: cognition
passed a const max_tokens, the adapter forced a default, and a flat cap
truncated qwen3.5 mid-`<think>` (it spends ~500 tokens reasoning before the
answer) → finishReason=length → empty text → silent Pass.

Single source of truth: the MODEL owns its generation length, enforced
server-side by unsloth/llama.cpp/the cloud provider. The adapter is the one
translator. Cognition expresses INTENT (None = "model owns it"), never POLICY
(a const). No clamp in two places.

Adapters (the keystone):
- openai_adapter (serves unsloth): omit max_tokens entirely when None →
  the model runs to its own stop token / context limit. Was .unwrap_or(2048).
- anthropic_adapter: the Messages API REQUIRES max_tokens, so derive from
  capabilities().max_output_tokens (the adapter is the authority on the
  model's real limit) instead of a magic inline number. Was .unwrap_or(1024).

Cognition faculties — every const removed, requests now pass None (or the
caller's value verbatim), tests updated to assert None:
- llm_deliberation_faculty (DEFAULT_MAX_TOKENS 512, struct field, init)
- should_respond (GATING_MAX_TOKENS 200)
- check_redundancy (REDUNDANCY_MAX_TOKENS 200)
- validate_response (VALIDATE_MAX_TOKENS 10 — guaranteed empty on any
  reasoning model)
- generate_response (DEFAULT_GENERATE_MAX_TOKENS 150 → pass request.max_tokens)
- rate_proposals (RATER_MAX_TOKENS 500)
- shared_analysis (ANALYSIS_MAX_TOKENS 2500 — the comment already documented
  that 500 caused silent failure; the fix is None, not a bigger guess)
- generate_recipe (RECIPE_MAX_TOKENS 4000)

Other generation sites:
- modules/agent.rs (Some(4000) → None)
- persona/rag_inspect.rs (Some(512) → None; its own comment warned against
  exactly this LCD-tier clamp)

Left alone (not generation clamps): moonshine MAX_TOKENS (max_position_
embeddings), llamacpp 1-token health probe, orm/vector all-MiniLM 512 input
limit, http pass-through of an external caller's explicit choice, sentinel
BudgetLimits resource budget. Roster/doctrine RAG input shares stay — they're
content-appetite ceilings clamped to the adapter-derived window. Filed #46 for
the deeper smell: compat_context_length should derive cloud/unsloth context
windows from the adapter, not hardcoded per-tier caps.

continuum-core: cargo check clean; 498 cognition + 149 adapter tests green.

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…aiting

She missed two trivial HumanEval tasks by coding blind. The fix is not a
run-code loop — it's making acting on the world the same organic motion the
mind already uses to speak: an action is a Decision; its result re-enters as an
observation engram the mind perceives next tick. The heartbeat IS the agent
loop (already proven for speech: "I'll search" → next tick its own post is in
the burst → it acts); we make it carry actions the way it carries words.

Four moves as one slice: Decision::Act variant; deliberation emits Act and
STOPS looping (delete MAX_TOOL_ITERATIONS/synthesize_answer/repeat-guard);
driver executes Act → admits result as Episodic engram → RecallFaculty surfaces
it next tick; a code/run hand. Completion = the workspace SETTLES, not a counter.

Keystone (§5): the substrate is a BODY (faculties, Act vocabulary, hands,
result-as-memory circuit); the LoRA genome is the mind that learns to drive it
and grows its own new wiring. Give her the vocabulary and the hands; never
hardcode the judgment — bad habits are training gaps, not control-flow to add.

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…ld" (ACTING-ORGANISM step 1)

Adds the Act{calls,intent} variant to the workspace Decision enum, peer to
Speak/RaiseUnprompted/Pass. Until now tool-use was buried inside the
deliberation faculty's inner agentic loop; the mind had no way to express world-
action as a first-class workspace verdict. Now it does — the arbiter routes Act
like any decision, decision() returns it carrying the calls + the mind's narrated
intent, and Contribution::verdict surfaces the intent as audited content.

- ai::types::ToolCall: +PartialEq (Value already impls it) so Decision keeps its
  derive; reuse the canonical ToolCall the deliberation faculty already emits, no
  parallel type.
- service_loop live-turn match: explicit Act arm — logs LOUD that the act→observe
  driver isn't wired yet (step 3) and skips; NOT a silent fallback.
- persona_workspace + the live bring-up glass box print the Act branch.

The executor that runs the calls and re-enters the result as an Episodic engram
is steps 3-4. Act is the VOCABULARY; the LoRA genome learns the disposition to
use it (never hardcoded). docs/cognition/ACTING-ORGANISM.md §3.1.

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…~nothing

Folds in Joel's architectural mandate: the substrate must adapt to every new
acting idea (avatar/expression controls, robotic actuation, limbic regions,
causal concerns) with NO burden per idea — the base classes + substrate do the
work, like cbar was almost 100% algorithm code in the C++.

Act is body-agnostic by design: it carries opaque calls and says "the mind wants
to act," never "run code." Three free extension axes, each the same primitive the
coding loop uses: HANDS = register one AiSafe command (Act routes it, zero wiring;
the emoji→expression→Bevy adapter proves the trained-disposition path); REGIONS =
implement the Faculty trait (arbiter routes by salience, affects others through
the broadcast, no special-casing); SENSES = result re-enters as an engram/world-
state line (a traceback and a gripper-contact reading are one mechanism).

Rule of thumb added: if a new capability needs new substrate control flow, the
design failed — push it into a command, a faculty, or an adapter.

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…wave)

Port the three genome fine-tuning verbs (job-create, job-status, job-cancel)
off ServiceModule::handle_command's string-match arm onto the DynCommand
registry, following the proven vision/code wave recipe. Each verb is now an
action_command! under commands/genome/ that the typed registry dispatches —
so it appears in command_registry(), the persona tool surface, the ACL,
codegen, and cu with no central-list edit.

- commands/genome/{mod,job_create,job_status,job_cancel}.rs: typed Params/
  Result/Outcome with TS + JsonSchema derives; shared JobLookupParams +
  fine_tuning_error_kind slug mapper; command_objects() family builder; one
  OkStubAdapter test fixture reused by all three verbs.
- All three are access: Privileged — creating/polling/cancelling a training
  job spends compute + touches provider credentials, so they stay above the
  Provisional persona surface (registry-materialization ACL tests confirm).
- Preserves the legacy outcome-as-data contract: expected domain failures (no
  capable adapter, unsatisfiable preference, unknown handle) come back as typed
  success=false + errorKind slug, NOT a transport Err — callers keep branching
  on errorKind. Err stays reserved for genuine substrate faults.
- genome/fine_tuning/types.rs: add JsonSchema to the 7 param-path types
  (additive; does not perturb the existing ts-rs output).
- modules/genome.rs: exposes the three via commands(); handle_command now fails
  loud naming the command (pre-Wave-Z pattern, not deleted yet).

Validated: cargo check + cargo test --lib genome (346 passed) +
provisional ACL/grid-trust tests (full registry materializes, no descriptor
panic) with --features metal,accelerate.

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…#62)

Port the 5 `plasticity/*` verbs (analyze, compact, compress, topology,
pipeline) off the legacy `ServiceModule::handle_command` match arms onto the
DynCommand registry as STATELESS `action_command!`s under
`commands/plasticity/`. The engine holds no per-instance state, so each
self-registers via the unit-struct form — no module `commands()` wiring.

Now that they live in the one registry, all 5 auto-project to the persona tool
surface, the ACL, `cu`, codegen, and the grid contract. Each declares
`access: Privileged` deliberately — they read/write arbitrary fs paths and
perform heavy model surgery (head pruning, mixed-precision quant, GGUF export),
not an AiSafe surface.

- modules/plasticity/mod.rs: `handle_command` now fails loud naming the command
  (no silent fallback); deleted the 5 handlers + `parse_config` + `run_pipeline`
  + the handler/parse_config tests. Domain helpers `build_topology` /
  `infer_hidden_size` stay here as `pub(crate)` (domain-in-module, wire-in-
  commands — mirrors the genome wave); the arch table + `lookup_model_arch` /
  `chrono_now` stay private deps of `build_topology`.
- types.rs: CompactionConfig gains `schemars::JsonSchema` + container
  `#[serde(default)]` so a partial override (`{minHeadsPerLayer: 2}`)
  deserializes onto the default — the typed-param replacement for the old
  field-by-field parse_config. TS output is unchanged (JsonSchema is invisible
  to ts-rs).
- commands/plasticity/mod.rs: `effective_config` folds the top-level
  `targetSizeGb` convenience into the config block (legacy parse_config parity,
  fail-loud — no silent behavior loss); config block wins when both are set.

Validated: cargo check clean (only pre-existing warnings); 149 plasticity lib
tests green incl. new command name/access + TS-binding-export tests; full
registry materializes with no duplicate-name panic (sdk_codegen tests green).

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Port `avatar/snapshot` off the legacy `ServiceModule::handle_command` match
arm onto the DynCommand registry as a STATELESS `action_command!` in
`commands/avatar.rs`. It now auto-projects to the persona tool surface, the
ACL, `cu`, codegen, and the grid contract — declared `access: Privileged`
(allocates a heavy Bevy render slot and writes a PNG to disk by identity; not
an AiSafe toolbelt surface).

The Bevy-render domain logic (`capture_snapshot`) stays on AvatarModule as
`pub(crate)` because the module's tick-driven auto-refresh shares it — the
command only orchestrates the on-disk cache check and runs the blocking capture
off the async thread (domain-in-module, wire-in-commands, as in genome/
plasticity).

- modules/avatar.rs: deleted the `snapshot()` handler + its `Params` import;
  `handle_command` now fails loud naming the command (no silent fallback);
  added a fail-loud regression test.

Validated: cargo check clean (only pre-existing warnings); avatar lib tests
green incl. name/access + TS-binding-export + fail-loud tests; full registry
materializes with no duplicate-name panic (sdk_codegen tests green).

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…Wave: generator)

Extract the stateful GeneratorEngine (workspace root + per-name locks +
scaffolding logic) out of GeneratorModule so the `generate/module` command can
hold an Arc of it. Concurrent callers serialize on the SAME name_locks —
constructing fresh state per call would silently break the same-name
serialization guarantee, so the engine is Arc-shared, not rebuilt.

- modules/generator: GeneratorEngine carries the state + generate_module_inner
  + name_lock + resolve_target_dir; GeneratorModule is a thin Arc<engine>
  holder whose commands() hands the shared engine to the command object.
  handle_command now fails loud (migrated to the typed registry) — no silent
  legacy fallback.
- commands/generator/module.rs: dep-holding `generate/module` (Privileged —
  writes Rust source into the workspace tree), thin over engine.generate_module_inner.
- types.rs: GenerateModuleParams/Result/PrioritySpec gain TS + JsonSchema
  derives + camelCase wire contract so the descriptor guardrail is satisfied
  and ts-rs emits protocol/typescript/generate/*.ts.
- tests: generation + stress tests construct GeneratorEngine directly (they
  exercise engine logic); the module keeps a fail-loud legacy-handler test; the
  typed-envelope round-trip is covered in the command file.

generate/module now appears in command_registry(), the persona tool surface,
the ACL, codegen, and cu with no central-list edit. Registry materializes with
no duplicate-name panic.

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…he typed registry (Wave: persona_allocator)

PersonaAllocatorModule shrinks to "owns the shared GpuMemoryManager"; its two
commands move to the typed registry:

- commands/persona/allocate.rs: dep-holding `persona/allocate` (Privileged —
  owner/UI planning surface that reveals hardware tier + drives seeding). Holds
  the module's Arc<GpuMemoryManager> via commands(), so allocation reads the SAME
  detected hardware. Typed PersonaAllocateParams { availableApiKeys } replaces the
  ad-hoc Value-probe; output is the existing AllocationResult.
- commands/persona/catalog.rs: stateless `persona/catalog` (Privileged), self-
  registers. Output wrapped in a named PersonaCatalogResult { entries } — the typed
  registry requires a named Result type (CommandDescriptor::of panics on a bare
  Vec, which ts-rs treats as an inline array with no importable dependency).
- persona/allocator.rs: PersonaCatalogEntry + ModelPreference gain TS + export_to
  so the catalog result's nested types emit protocol/typescript/persona/*.ts.
- modules/persona_allocator.rs: handle_command fails loud (no silent fallback);
  commands() contributes persona/allocate; allocation behavior tests move to the
  command file, module keeps a fail-loud + a contributes-the-command test.

Both commands now appear in command_registry(), the ACL, codegen, and cu with no
central-list edit. Registry materializes with no duplicate-name panic.

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…ped registry (Wave: serving_daemon)

Completes the serving/* surface on the ONE registry. The VRAM-axis deallocation
pair (serving/load · serving/unload) was already typed; the two read surfaces
now join them:

- commands/serving/status.rs: dep-holding `serving/status` (Privileged) — a cheap
  watch borrow of the daemon's published ServingSnapshot (which model is up, ready,
  on what /v1 url, which genome layers). The "did the plan become reality?" view.
- commands/serving/plan.rs: dep-holding `serving/plan` (Privileged) — a watch borrow
  of the published serving decision (the intent). Output wrapped in a named
  ServingPlanResult { plan: Option<ServingPlan> } — the typed registry requires a
  named Result type (a bare Option has no importable TS dependency), and the daemon
  honestly publishes None before its first recompute.
- cognition/serving_plan.rs: ServingPlan gains TS + export_to so the plan result's
  nested decision type emits protocol/typescript/serving/ServingPlan.ts.
- commands/serving/mod.rs: command_objects now wires all four; takes the daemon's
  plan receiver alongside the suppress writer, serving snapshot, and catalog.
- modules/serving_daemon.rs: handle_command fails loud (no silent fallback);
  commands() hands its own watch receivers + catalog to the family, so the read
  surfaces report the daemon's live decision/snapshot. Wave tests assert the
  fail-loud + the full four-verb contribution.

All four serving verbs now appear in command_registry(), the ACL, codegen, and cu
with no central-list edit. Registry materializes with no duplicate-name panic.

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…62)

Wave: vdd. Port vdd/report + vdd/score off the legacy ServiceModule
string-match surface onto the typed ActionCommand registry, so both
auto-project to the persona tool surface, cu CLI, ACL, codegen, and the
grid contract — declaring their access: as the migration moment.

- commands/vdd/report.rs — dep-holding (captures the artifact root),
  AiSafe (a persona inspecting its own perf history). Moves VddReport +
  nested wire types + build_report out of modules/vdd.rs and gives them
  TS + export_to. Typed VddReportParams replaces the Params helper.
- commands/vdd/score.rs — stateless, AiSafe (a pure self-served scorer
  for the genome A/B). Replaces the raw serde_json::json! output with a
  named VddScoreResult; ScoreCase/VddScoreParams gain TS + schemars.
- vdd/record.rs — HarnessStatus gains TS + export_to so it survives as a
  nested field on the wire.
- modules/vdd.rs — handle_command fails loud naming the command (the
  legacy surface is retired, never silently swallows); commands() now
  contributes the dep-holding vdd/report. Slimmed to config + root +
  family wiring; the command contracts are pinned in commands/vdd/.

10 TS bindings materialized under protocol/typescript/vdd/. cargo check
clean (no new warnings); 58 vdd-filtered tests green.

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…ve N)

Port the logger module's three legacy `handle_command` arms (`log/write`,
`log/write-batch`, `log/ping`) onto the one self-routing command registry, so
each appears in `command_registry()`, the persona tool surface, the ACL,
codegen, and `cu` with no central-list edit.

- New `commands/log/{write,write_batch,ping}.rs`: dep-holding `action_command!`
  blocks sharing the logger's state via `command_objects(state)`. Access set
  deliberately: writes are Internal (substrate plumbing, the `clog_*` macros are
  the in-process equivalent), ping is Privileged (host-internal introspection,
  parallel to `runtime/*`).
- Extract `LoggerCommandState` (queue sender + open-file cache + lifetime
  counters) as the surface the commands read/write; the writer thread keeps its
  own clones. Drop the now-dead `continuum_root`/`headers_written` module fields
  (they were `#[allow(dead_code)]` — writer-thread-only).
- Move the pure command-result types (WriteLogResult, WriteLogBatch{Payload,
  Result}, LoggerPingResult) to the command files; `WriteLogPayload`/`LogLevel`
  stay in the module (shared with the macro path) and gain `JsonSchema`.
- The legacy dual-shape `params.get("payload")` nesting shim is gone — typed
  params deserialize directly (retires a dead-Node IPC compat path).
- `handle_command` now fails loud naming the command (never silently routes a
  stale name); `commands()` contributes the family.
- u64 ping fields now render `number` not `bigint` in TS (u64→number convention).

Validated: cargo check + 18 filtered tests green (module wiring, all three
command contracts, binding materialization).

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…#62)

Port the AircModule command surface off the legacy handle_command match
arms onto the one ActionCommand/DynCommand registry, the same path
code/* and the logger wave already cross. Each verb is now a dep-holding
typed command carrying only the seam it uses:

  - airc/queue-scan      (Privileged) — Arc<dyn AircQueueClient>
  - airc/realtime-publish (Privileged) — Arc<dyn AircEventTransport>
  - airc/realtime-replay  (AiSafe)     — Arc<dyn AircEventTransport>

access levels set deliberately at port time as an ACL contract:
queue-scan/publish are Privileged (subprocess spawn / trust-relevant
envelope attribution + manifest signing keys), replay is read-only AiSafe.

Migration mechanics:
  - new commands/airc/{queue_scan,realtime_publish,realtime_replay}.rs,
    each an action_command! block with its //-doc → model DESCRIPTION,
    body transplanted from the legacy handler verbatim.
  - commands/airc/mod.rs exposes the dep-holding family via
    command_objects(queue_client, event_transport).
  - modules/airc.rs commands() contributes the family; handle_command now
    fails loud naming the command (no silent fallback, [[no-fallbacks-ever]]);
    legacy command_schemas() deleted (the typed registry owns schemas now).
  - schemars JsonSchema derived on the reachable Params + the 14 realtime
    wire types; ts-rs output unchanged.

Behavior tests live with the command files (real Store transport round-trip);
the module tests lock only the migration contract (fail-loud + family
exposure). from_discovery_tests untouched. 48 tests green; registry
auto-discovers with no duplicate-name collision.

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…ed DynCommand registry (#62)

Port the two registry-only read verbs off the legacy handle_command match
arms onto the typed ActionCommand path, sharing the module's live
PersonaAircRuntimeRegistry alongside the already-migrated despawn:

- commands/persona/instances/list.rs — PersonaInstancesList, AiSafe, projects
  the whole roster to PersonaInstanceList { instances: Vec<PersonaInstanceInfo> }.
- commands/persona/instances/get.rs — PersonaInstancesGet, AiSafe, one entry by
  id; fails loud Invalid (malformed) / NotFound (offline), never a null hit.
- commands/persona/instances/mod.rs — family command_objects() now wires
  list + get + despawn, all sharing the one registry.

PersonaInstanceInfo + PersonaIdentitySource gain TS + JsonSchema derives so they
can be a typed command output (schemars ≠ ts-rs; TS output unchanged in shape,
new bindings emitted to protocol/typescript/persona/). Uuid/PathBuf fields carry
#[ts(type = "string")] per the codebase convention (ts-rs has no uuid1 feature).

Module handle_command keeps the bootstrap arm (it needs the full bootstrap
capability — socket, room, executor — not just the registry; migrates once those
deps are threaded) and changes the list/get arms to FAIL LOUD naming the
migration rather than silently re-handling. Tests rewritten to lock the
contract: migrated arms fail loud, module contributes the three typed verbs.

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…registry (#62)

Port all five `tool-parsing/*` verbs off the legacy `handle_command` match
arms onto the typed `ActionCommand` path under `commands/tool_parsing/`:

- parse + correct — stateless (pure free functions), self-registering via the
  unit-struct `action_command!` form. AiSafe.
- register-tools + decode-name + encode-name — dep-holding over the module's
  one shared `ToolNameCodec`, contributed via `commands()` so a name taught by
  register-tools decodes through the SAME table. register-tools is Privileged
  (mutates the codec); decode/encode are AiSafe reads.

The module keeps only the shared codec state; its legacy arms now fail loud,
naming themselves and pointing at the typed `route_object` path (no silent
success). Behavioral tests move into the command files; the module tests assert
the arms fail loud and that `commands()` contributes the three codec verbs.

Output types reuse the existing TS-exported `ToolParseResult`/`CorrectedToolCall`
(Output needs only TS, not JsonSchema). New param/result types emit TS bindings
under protocol/typescript/tool_parsing/.

Validation: cargo check clean; 22 tool_parsing tests green (incl. 8 export
bindings); TS emitted; disk healthy.

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…d registry (#62)

Wave N of the one-registry collapse: port modules/training_trigger.rs's three
handle_command arms (submit / flush / status) onto commands/training_trigger/ as
dep-holding ActionCommands.

- Extract Arc<TrainingTriggerState> (buckets + PerKeyGate + late-bound executor +
  dispatch_job_create) from the module; module is now thin, contributing the three
  verbs via commands() and failing loud on the legacy handle_command path.
- commands/training_trigger/{submit,flush,status}.rs: typed Params/Output with
  ts-rs + schemars derives (bindings → protocol/typescript/training_trigger/),
  access levels set deliberately — submit/flush Privileged (spend training compute),
  status AiSafe (read-only inspection). Outcome-as-data mirrored 1:1 from the legacy
  JSON (BatchAppended / JobDispatched / InconsistentBucket / DispatchFailed /
  NothingToFlush), per the genome family doctrine.
- All ~15 lifecycle/coherence/VDD-conservation tests migrated to dispatch via
  executor.execute_json + state accessors; stress block stays behind
  #[cfg(feature="stress-tests")]. 27 tests green.

The three verbs now appear in command_registry(), the persona tool surface, the ACL,
codegen, and cu with no central-list edit. route_object wins over the dead prefix arm.

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…ynCommand registry (#62)

Wave N of the one-registry collapse: port modules/health.rs's two remaining
handle_command arms onto commands/health/, joining `ping` (already migrated) so all
three liveness verbs live on the typed object map.

- commands/health/check.rs: `health-check` as a dep-holding ActionCommand capturing
  the module's boot Instant for uptime; contributed via the module's commands().
  Output keys are preserved VERBATIM (healthy / uptime_seconds / version, snake_case,
  NOT camelCased) — health-check is a pre-existing IPC contract the TS base client
  (bindings/modules/base.ts::healthCheck reads result.healthy) depends on, and the
  IPC layer wraps this Bare output in the same {success, result} transport envelope
  it gave the legacy CommandResult::Json, so the migration is byte-identical on wire.
- commands/health/stats.rs: `get-stats` as a stateless self-registering command;
  preserves the legacy `note` stub shape (perf-stats tracking not yet implemented —
  honest current state, grows real fields when the data lands, not a fallback).
- modules/health.rs: both arms now fail loud naming the migration (route_object wins
  first; the arms are the regression guard until Wave Z's fail-loud trait default).
  Both verbs set access: AiSafe (read-only liveness probes — no compute, no creds).

ts-rs bindings → protocol/typescript/health/. 34 health tests green.

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…ed DynCommand registry (#62)

Wave N of the one-registry collapse: port PressureBrokerModule's single
handle_command arm onto commands/system/pressure_broker_state.rs.

- commands/system/pressure_broker_state.rs: `system/pressure-broker-state` as a
  dep-holding ActionCommand capturing the module's live Arc<PressureBroker>;
  contributed via the module's commands(). Returns the same typed BrokerSnapshot the
  legacy arm did — its camelCase serde + ts-rs export (protocol/typescript/paging/
  BrokerSnapshot.ts) is the existing wire contract, preserved byte-identical, and the
  IPC layer wraps this Bare output in the same {success, result} transport envelope it
  gave the legacy CommandResult::Json. Params reuse the shared empty SystemQuery
  (compression — no seventh identical placeholder struct).
- access: AiSafe — a read-only pressure probe: atomic loads + a max over the pool list,
  NO eviction fired (that stays the tick's job). No mutation, no compute, no creds.
- modules/pressure_broker_module.rs: arm now fails loud naming the migration
  (route_object wins first; the arm is the regression guard until Wave Z's fail-loud
  trait default). The snapshot wire-contract assertion moved into the command file's
  own test; the module keeps the prefix-table + unknown-command guards and the tick /
  governor / eviction tests untouched.

No new ts-rs bindings (BrokerSnapshot.ts + SystemQuery.ts already existed). 13 tests green.

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…stry (#62)

The remaining FileEngine file-op arms in CodeModule::handle_command read
persona_id from the request body — the identity-axis violation code_commands.rs
already corrected for the other hands (read/write/edit/list/…). Migrate them
onto the ONE DynCommand registry as caller-scoped ActionCommands so they reach
the persona tool surface, the grid ACL, codegen, and cu from a single
descriptor each — and act as the authenticated caller (ctx.caller.peer_id),
never a spoofable param.

- code/delete  → WriteResult     (AiSafe; tracked + undoable, same class as write)
- code/diff    → FileDiff        (AiSafe; dry-run preview, no apply)
- code/undo    → UndoResult      (AiSafe; by-id and last-N unify on UndoResult —
                                  the legacy by-id arm built that shape ad-hoc)
- code/history → HistoryResult   (AiSafe; read-only change log)

All four outputs already derive TS+Serialize and are ts-rs-exported, so the wire
contract is byte-identical; Params reuse the existing code_commands convention
(TS+JsonSchema, no separate export_to — schema comes from JsonSchema). They share
the engine!/caller_id/ensure_engine machinery, so they live alongside the other
hands in code_commands.rs (compression) and flow through CodeModule::commands()
with no wiring change. The legacy arms become a single fail-loud match group
naming the migration (route_object wins; the arm is the regression guard).

Tests: code_commands — name/access wiring (AiSafe named hands), caller-scoped
code/history run returns a typed empty HistoryResult without a persona_id param,
command_objects contributes all four; code — migrated arms fail loud.
create-workspace + the shell-* arms are intentionally NOT migrated here
(create-workspace is superseded by lazy ensure_engine; shell-* is a separate
session-API reconciliation).

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…62)

These five arms in CognitionModule::handle_command were the IPC surface the
retired TS persona runtime used to call individual text-analysis steps over the
wire — cognition/{text-similarity,check-semantic-loop,validate-response,
check-mentions,clean-response}. They are pure stateless wrappers around
text_analysis::* (no per-persona DashMap state; validate-response reads only the
shared loop_detector and passes its uuid as a plain arg). The live native path
calls those text_analysis functions (and clean_and_validate) DIRECTLY as
functions — zero Rust dispatchers route these strings — so the arms have no live
caller now that the TS runtime is gone.

Deleting them removes the wrapper, never the verb. The three private parse
helpers they alone fed (parse_conversation_history, *_optional, parse_messages)
are deleted with them — cargo check confirms no remaining references and no new
dead-code warnings. Any stray dispatch of a deleted name now hits the existing
fail-loud catch-all ("Unknown cognition command: {command}"), not a silent
fallback.

First safe slice of the cognition-surface retirement (Joel: "retire the dead
surface"). The bulk (state-population + sync-from-TS arms, the persona/turn-execute
LANE-D linchpin, and the CognitionState.personas-vs-native-store entanglement that
channel.rs reads) needs a dedicated session — these 5 were the unambiguously
live-path-safe subset.

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…gistry (#62)

The four embedding vector-math commands (similarity, similarity-matrix,
top-k, cluster) were dead TS-IPC arms on EmbeddingModule's legacy
handle_command — dispatchable but invisible to command_registry(), so they
never reached the persona tool surface, the ACL, codegen, or cu. They are
genuine general-purpose vector math a persona legitimately wants as tools,
with no typed home elsewhere → migrate, don't retire.

- Add commands/embedding/{similarity,similarity_matrix,top_k,cluster}.rs:
  typed stateless ActionCommands (AccessLevel::AiSafe), each a thin wrapper
  over the existing SIMD/Rayon kernels in modules::embedding. They
  self-register via register_stateless_command! — no central list edit.
- Drop the dead CommandResult::Binary shape from similarity-matrix (zero
  consumers; the typed path can't emit binary anyway) for clean typed JSON.
- Promote the Cluster struct to a wire type (Debug/Clone/Deserialize/TS/
  JsonSchema) so the cluster command's Output embeds it directly.
- Delete the 4 legacy match arms + 4 handle_* methods + now-unused imports
  from modules/embedding.rs. The module keeps the math kernels and
  build_adapter_embedder; its handle_command now exists only to fail loud
  if a typed registration ever goes missing (no silent fallback).

The executor's typed route_object path wins over the dead prefix arm, so
dispatch is unchanged by construction. 13 tests pass (4 behavior + 9 ts-rs
binding exports).

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serving/pin FORCES this host to serve a named base model; serving/unpin
releases it back to autonomic best-fit. The dual of the suppress-set:
where suppressed SUBTRACTS from the planner's candidates, the pin
INTERSECTS them to exactly one model, so the daemon's next reconcile
swaps the live llama-server. Both are lock-free watch seams the command
writes and the planner reads; the daemon stays the sole authority on what
occupies VRAM (no reach-past-the-daemon process kill).

Fail loud, never fall back. The pin is fit-gated BEFORE it is set, via the
same live_host_budget math the autonomic tick uses (a shared free fn, so
the verdict can't drift from the reconcile): unknown id → NotFound;
in-catalog-but-no-GGUF → Denied naming models/pull; on-disk-but-won't-fit
→ Denied naming the GB shortfall. Only a model that fits a lane at pin
time is ever pinned — never a silent best-fit downgrade.

Single-serve honesty: one host serves one base; per-persona divergence is
the LoRA genome paged over it, not a second base. So "pin a persona to
model Y" here re-homes the shared base for everyone on the node — the
host-level mechanism persona/reassign-model will compose for promote/demote.

Daemon: pinned watch field + intersect in live_candidates, live_host_budget
free fn replacing the method (shared with the fit-gate), pin_sender() +
pin_fit_checker() seams, PinFit/PinFitChecker carrier. Commands wired into
the serving/* family (now 6). Tests cover all three refuse-loud gates, the
happy-path pin, and unpin release + idempotency.

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…model assignment

A persona's default base model is immutable catalog data: the allocator reads
`PersonaCatalogEntry.model_preferences` (tiered by VRAM) and picks the best fit.
That is the right default but not re-assignable at runtime — there was no durable
way to say "from now on run Asha on the 14B coder" and have it stick across
restarts. This adds that missing binding, substrate-first.

- `PersonaModelOverride` (persona/model_override.rs): one durable record per
  persona — {model_id, set_at_ms, set_by} — at `<home>/model_override.json`.
  load / write (atomic tmp+fsync+rename) / clear, fail-loud on a malformed file
  (a corrupt assignment must never silently fall through to the catalog default,
  per [[fallbacks-are-illegal-fail-loud]]). Living under the home root, it rides
  the PersonaHomeBundle for free — move the home, keep the assignment.
- `PersonaHome::model_override_json()` accessor beside seed_json(), pinned by test.
- `resolve_model_for_persona` honors an `override_model: Option<&str>` at HIGHEST
  precedence (over model_preferences / legacy model_id / system default). Fit stays
  enforced by the allocator's budget gate — the override only changes WHICH model.
- `allocate` takes an `overrides: &HashMap<unique_id, model_id>` read-seam (shaped
  like the suppress/pin watch seams): the planner stays a pure function and never
  touches the filesystem; the caller resolves homes and hands in the map. The sole
  production caller (persona/allocate, a stateless hardware-tier query) passes empty
  — the runtime assignment path (persona/reassign-model, next) populates it.

This is the per-persona dual of the host-level force-serve pin (serving/pin):
the pin says "this host serves model Y"; the override says "this persona is
assigned model Y". persona/reassign-model will compose both.

Validated: cargo check (metal,accelerate) clean; model_override (5) + home (4) +
allocator (11, incl. override_wins_over_model_preferences) tests green.

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…t pin in one verb

The verb that closes the per-persona model-override loop: assign a persona a
new base model so it STICKS across restarts, and make it real on this host
right now — atomically enough that you can never persist an assignment the
host can't actually serve.

It does not re-implement fit math or the serving swap. It composes serving/pin
through the substrate executor:

  1. Resolve the persona's PersonaHome from continuum_root + agent name.
     Unknown persona ⇒ NotFound (a typo never mints a stray override dir),
     checked BEFORE any serving change.
  2. Compose serving/pin {model_id} — its fit-gate is the single source of
     "can this host serve that model". If it refuses (unknown / not downloaded
     / won't fit a lane), the reassignment is refused as a whole and NOTHING
     is persisted (no silent downgrade).
  3. Only after the pin proves the model servable do we write her durable
     PersonaModelOverride — the record the allocator reads at top precedence
     next boot.

This is the per-persona dual of the host-level pin: serving/pin binds the
host, the override binds the persona. Privileged (dictates GPU residency +
rewrites a citizen's durable assignment; the inner serving/pin is Privileged
too, so the levels stay consistent).

Wiring: PersonaInstanceManagerModule's executor field becomes
Arc<LateBound<CommandExecutor>> so commands() can hand the install-once handle
to the new command (install/get unchanged via Arc deref); the persona family
command_objects now composes the instances/* roster verbs + reassign-model
with continuum_root + the shared executor.

Fail-loud throughout (no fallbacks): missing executor ⇒ Internal and persists
nothing; a disk failure after the pin ⇒ Internal that names exactly what
happened (live this session, won't survive restart, re-run after fixing disk)
rather than a silent unpin that would hide the fault behind a "reverted" lie.

Tests (// what this catches:): name/access wiring; unknown persona fails loud
NotFound before any change; missing executor fails loud Internal AND leaves no
override on disk (the override is gated on a real serving outcome, never
written speculatively). ts-rs bindings auto-generated for both wire types.

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… registry

Wave #81 of the command-registry collapse (#62). The `code/*` family now
routes EXCLUSIVELY through the typed object registry (route_object); the
legacy `ServiceModule::handle_command` prefix path no longer handles any
code command and fails loud naming the command if reached.

- code_commands.rs: migrate the last live straggler, `code/create-workspace`,
  to a typed `CodeCreateWorkspace` ActionCommand (Privileged — it defines the
  sandbox boundary). It keys on `ctx.caller` (authenticated airc peer_id) like
  its already-caller-scoped file-op siblings, NOT a spoofable persona_id param.
  register_command! auto-publishes the descriptor; command_objects() wires it.
- code.rs: drop the entire handle_command body (create-workspace + the 9
  superseded shell arms) for a single fail-loud net; remove the now-dead `bus`
  field + publish_shell_event (rg confirms no `shell:*` subscribers). Broaden
  the regression test to assert the fail-loud contract across the file, shell,
  and workspace surfaces.
- load_harness.rs: drop the meaningless persona_id param from the two
  create-workspace calls — identity already flows via CallerIdentity::airc(id).

A migrated command inherits concurrent + contracted + airc-native + grid-capable
by construction. cargo check + the code module test suite green.

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…Command

`required_modules()` was demanding `SearchModule`/`CargoModule` ServiceModules
that no longer register: search/* migrated onto the DynCommand registry in
9d96bb5 (#62 Wave 1) as stateless self-routing commands, and cargo/* migrated
in 98645f3 with the duplicate top-level cargo/* deleted in b19892b
(code/cargo/* is now canonical). Leaving the stale specs hard-failed boot with
"missing [search]" / "missing [cargo]" — the same trap as the retired
`inference` shell. Validated: core boots clean and serves live.

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`gpu::monitor::detect()` and `ResourceDaemon::start()` adopt the canonical
Daemon base, which `tokio::spawn`s its interval task from inside the
constructor. But `start_server` runs on a plain std::thread (main spawns it OFF
the runtime so its blocking accept-loop never steals a tokio worker), so there
is no ambient reactor and those spawns panicked "no reactor running". Wrap
exactly the daemon-construction region in `rt_handle.enter()`, scoped so the
guard drops before any `block_on` (never hold a runtime-context guard across a
block_on). Validated: ResourceGovernor comes up live with the Metal monitor.

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…ts tool specs

llama.cpp's grammar converter rejects boolean subschemas (`true`/`false`) that
appear in tool input_schemas, 400-ing every deliberation that offered the
affected tools. `sanitize_schema_booleans` rewrites them to their object
equivalents (`true` -> `{}`, `false` -> `{"not":{}}`) recursively before the
spec reaches the chat-completions request. Validated live: 0 deliberation 400s
across the new run (Asha + Solenne both deliberate over the full 104-tool
AiSafe surface).

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…llel lanes

llama-server's `-c` is the TOTAL KV cache, split evenly across `--parallel`
slots — each request only sees `-c / n_parallel` tokens. We were passing
`-c served_context_window` with NO `--parallel`, so llama.cpp defaulted to 4
slots and silently quartered each request's window (~65511 -> ~16384). A
persona budgets its prompt against the full planned per-lane window, so any
deliberation carrying the real tool surface overflowed the actual slot and
500'd with "Context size has been exceeded."

The plan already computes `served_context_window` PER-LANE and `lanes`
(n_seq_max), budgeting total KV = kv_at(served) * lanes against the host. Thread
`lanes` from the plan through ServingDaemon reconcile into ServingTarget, and
launch `-c (context_window * lanes) --parallel lanes` so each of `lanes` slots
holds exactly one full planned window. Memory-safe by the planner's own
arithmetic; `--parallel` is passed explicitly so we never inherit llama.cpp's
default. New `ServingTarget::served_total_ctx`/`parallel_lanes` pure methods +
regression test guard the arithmetic.

Validated live: llama-server up with `-c 243396 --parallel 4` (per-slot n_ctx
60928); Asha and Solenne deliberate WITHOUT a 500 and both invoke the code/run
tool (tools=1) on a coding task.

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…canary PRs

`validate-continuum.yml` triggered on every PR touching `src/**`, compiling the
legacy Node+TS shell. The Rust core under `core/` is the source of truth —
Capability/ModelInfo etc. are GENERATED from Rust — so a Rust-side type collapse
(#65–69) drifted the legacy Node consumers (`"embeddings"`→`"embedding"`,
dropped `supportsStreaming`), and the Node `build:ts` started failing on
dead-shell code. That blocked validated substrate work (live-tested persona
deliberation fixes) on a compile of code we are removing.

Scope this Node gate to PRs targeting `main` (the promotion boundary, where the
Node compile is also covered by ci.yml) plus manual `workflow_dispatch`. It is
intentionally no longer a canary-PR gate. This is honest scoping — not a faked
green / continue-on-error: when the gate runs (main promotion), it still fails
loud on a real Node compile error. Node is the retiring shell; the Rust core is
what governs canary.

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The whole feat branch (PR #1727) carries in-progress substrate work that left
the test suite red on the GPU-less CI gate (`cargo test -p continuum-core --lib`)
and on the digest-rework contract. Don't-merge-red: fix every failure at its
root, not by masking. Full suite now 5397 passed / 0 failed.

GPU command tests — env-independent (#72-adjacent):
  Test helpers called `GpuMemoryManager::detect()`, which PANICS on a GPU-less
  runner by design (fail-loud, no CPU fallback). Swapped to the test-injectable
  `GpuMemoryManager::simulated("Apple M5 Pro", 53GB)` in the 7 helpers
  (gpu/{budget,pressure,eviction_registry,eviction_candidates,stats,consumer},
  persona/allocate). Production `detect()` untouched.

serving_daemon surface test:
  serving/pin + serving/unpin were added but the expected command-surface vec
  wasn't updated — added both (sorted, 6 entries).

grid_trust_policy security test:
  gpu/stats is deliberately `access: AiSafe` (read-only VRAM/pressure snapshot a
  remote grid peer legitimately needs to lease this node's GPU) → Provisional by
  the documented ACL design. The test wrongly listed it as must-deny. Swapped the
  assertion to gpu/budget (genuinely `Privileged` → Trusted), making the test
  STRICTER, with a comment documenting why. This is an ACL-contract decision, not
  a green-chase — flagged for review.

rag_inspect digest-contract reconciliation (slice-2 #43):
  The airc RagSource was reworked onto the room-scoped ChannelDigest, which
  intentionally changed the contract: (a) events are filtered to the room derived
  from the transcript; (b) there is no budget-continuation cursor (the digest IS
  the window); (c) relevance is the `unread` flag, not a ranked score. The
  introspection tests still encoded the old ranked-retrieval contract. Updated to
  the new contract honestly:
    - fixtures share ONE room (a real airc channel has one room_id; per-event
      random rooms modelled nothing and silently dropped all-but-last);
    - format_item emits a digest-native `score` from `unread` (attend=1.0 vs
      grounding=0.5) — ends the inspect layer's silent default-0.0 vestige;
    - the continuation test now asserts the real contract: tight budget TRUNCATES
      the window (newest-first), no continuation cursor.

embedding resolver — degrade, never panic (#72):
  feat's resolve_embedder rework added local_embed_adapter() calling the
  panicking `model_registry::global()`, breaking the resolver's documented
  "always returns a usable embedder, never panics" contract (and the 3 resolver
  tests) whenever the registry isn't initialized. Switched to `try_global()`:
  registry-not-up is just another "no in-process embed model right now" → fall
  through to the chat adapter then the lexical floor, still observable via the
  `recall.embedder.resolved` probe. Solve-for-public-users robustness, not a test
  patch.

architecture_composition integration test:
  Deleted test 7 (cpu_fallback_monitor_round_trips_pressure_to_free_bytes) — it
  exercised CpuMonitor's pressure→free-bytes derivation, removed by design
  (no-CPU-fallback rule, gpu/monitor.rs:122). MockMonitor is the test double the
  other composition tests use.

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