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joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jun 7, 2026
…#205) (#1544)

The three `modules::sentinel::checkpoint::tests` were writing JSON
under the developer's real `~/.continuum/sentinel/checkpoints/` —
visible as residual `test-list-*.json` files surviving across test
runs on this machine (Jun 3, Jun 5 timestamps). Two real failure
modes from this pollution:

1. On dev machines whose `~/.continuum/sentinel/` is root-owned (left
   over from any docker compose run that bind-mounted `$HOME` and
   chmod'd dirs under root), the writes fail → prepush flake.
2. Cross-test interference: `test_list_checkpoints` asserts the
   freshly-written handle appears, but pre-existing `test-*.json`
   files from other test invocations leak into that listing and
   could mask real regressions.

Fix is two-part and minimal:

- `checkpoints_dir()` reads `CONTINUUM_CHECKPOINT_DIR` first; falls
  back to the production `~/.continuum/sentinel/checkpoints/` path
  unchanged when the env var is unset. Production code path is
  unaffected.
- `tests::ensure_checkpoint_dir_isolated()` installs a per-process
  `tempfile::TempDir` into the env var (held alive by `OnceLock` so
  Drop fires at process exit). Every test calls it at entry. The
  TempDir's path is `set_var`'d per test rather than once, because
  cargo runs tests in parallel and another test in the same binary
  could legitimately clear the env var (e.g. a future test that
  validates the fallback path).

Carried forward from PR #971 (closed as too stale to rebase against
current canary). Reapplied fresh against current module path
(`src/workers/continuum-core/src/modules/sentinel/checkpoint.rs`).

Tests: 3/3 `modules::sentinel::checkpoint::tests` pass, and confirmed
post-fix that no new files appear under `~/.continuum/sentinel/`.

Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.7 <noreply@anthropic.com>
joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 20, 2026
…ndows (#205)

The eval already streams eval:progress per graded task, but the BEFORE/AROUND-
generation windows — workspace-template wait, ephemeral-lane cold-load — emitted
nothing, so `progress: null` during a legit 5-min 14B cold-load looked identical
to a hang (it just cost me exactly that confusion). No positronic layer could
show "loading <model>… 45s" vs "stuck".

emit_eval_phase(phase, detail) publishes an eval:phase bus event (+ a probe) at
those seams: "preparing" (per-second during the template-wait retry) and
"loading_lane" (before an ephemeral base/gene lane cold-load). Fire-and-forget,
Noop when the bus is unwired — observability at zero hot-path cost. Positron (and
any layer) subscribes to eval:phase to render live feedback across the whole eval
lifecycle, not just the grading tail. [[observability-as-substrate]]

Substrate side only; the positron widget that consumes eval:phase + eval:progress
is the continuation (#141 / #184).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 20, 2026
…o more silent glacial wedge (#205)

READY_TIMEOUT (90s) only bounds the /health POLL, and wait_ready checks its
deadline BETWEEN attempts — so a hang INSIDE an attempt (a stalled
decode_smoke_ok, a wedged model-mmap, a process-launch that never returns) waits
past it forever. Glass-boxed this session: an ephemeral eval lane hung 11 min
with NO process and free VRAM, no timeout ever firing — a silent glacial wedge
that violates fail-loud.

EphemeralServingLane::spawn now wraps the whole proc.serve() in
tokio::time::timeout(DEFAULT_SERVING_WAIT) (READY_TIMEOUT + 30s = the daemon's own
load budget). On elapse it returns LlamaServerError::NotReady and drops proc,
whose Drop kills any child it launched. The eval then fails LOUD to a failed
ledger row instead of hanging. Eval lanes only — the live lane keeps its
fail-loud-not-fast bring-up policy untouched.

Deeper source fix (decode_smoke_ok / launch each want their own timeout so the
deadline loop can't be starved) noted on #205; this net guarantees the outcome
regardless.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 20, 2026
…TEMPTS it instead of Passing (#205 real root cause)

Glass-boxed via --capture_dir: hard-rs/coder-eval scored 0 not from any serving wedge
(clean Qwen-14B generated 400 tok on the exact prompt+stops) but because her deliberation
settled on Decision::Pass — SILENCE — with the task fully in view, twice. The shared
[Conversational Presence] block answers "a task → answer it now" only when the model
RECOGNIZES the message as asking something OF it; a terse gym imperative ("Implement `fn
eval`…") delivered as `peer: <prompt>` reads to a coder model as ambient text about a task,
so it takes the pleasantry-rest PASS hatch and scores 0 WITHOUT ATTEMPTING. humaneval —
whose prompt already says "Give your final answer as the complete function…" — engaged and
scored 10/10 (validated vs the known 80% baseline). `directed=true` alone stopped withholding
the hatch once the directed block was softened for live spiral-breaking.

Fix: the examiner poses the ask itself — the eval delivers the task with a directed preamble
("This is a task for you to complete now. Provide your complete solution:") ahead of the
verbatim prompt. This standardizes at ONE seam the imperative framing the stronger gym prompts
already carry inline, so the exam measures CAPABILITY, not whether a terse line happened to read
as directed. Lift stays valid (both A/B arms see identical framing); absolute numbers re-baseline.

Chased three wrong theories first (peg-native template, per-spawn serving wedge, decode-smoke) —
one --capture_dir run reading her actual DECISION cut through all of it. Lesson: for "she scored
0", read what she decided before theorizing about the layers beneath.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 20, 2026
…il, not the system prefix (kill the per-act re-prefill)

The eval-lane crawl was re-prefill, NOT off-GPU (Metal live, decode 18 tok/sec): every
settle-act re-prefilled ~4000 tokens (~30s). Root cause was POSITION. The working-memory
faculty bids its ledger as a context Contribution, which the deliberation faculty
assembles into the SYSTEM message's volatile tail. The system message precedes the whole
conversation, so appending one [action #n] line each act shifted every conversation token
after it — the KV prefix broke at the working-memory block and everything downstream
re-prefilled. The faculty already formats append-only (working_memory.rs) explicitly to be
cache-friendly, but that optimization was defeated by sitting mid-stream: append-only only
pays off when the growing block is genuinely LAST in the token stream.

Fix: a Contribution can now be marked .trailing() — proprioception that grows each act
renders nearest generation (a trailing conversation turn), never in the system message.
The working-memory faculty marks its contribution trailing; the deliberation faculty
excludes trailing contributions from render_assembled_context_within (the system block)
and emits them as the newest user content in messages_within, after the conversation and
the perception facts. Standing framing and byte-stable grounding (roster, doctrine, map,
recall) stay in the system prefix. Now a settle-act appends only to the very end, so the
system prefix AND the prior conversation keep their KV cache and only the small new tail
re-prefills — ~30s/act to near-zero.

Scope: POSITION only. The working-memory faculty's content (its reasoning trail + the
[action #n] receipts + full most-recent result) is unchanged — it remains the mind's
proprioception-of-its-own-hands channel, so the act_observe organism tests pass untouched.
The pre-existing receipt overlap between this faculty and the StepsLedger perception fact
is orthogonal and left for a follow-up (they were already both in the prompt, one in
system + one trailing; now both trailing).

Tests: trailing_proprioception_renders_in_the_tail_not_the_system_prefix (growing WM does
NOT mutate the system prefix — the invariant that IS the fix) plus
working_memory_contribution_is_marked_trailing.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 28, 2026
…a masked 240s /health timeout (#205 unmask)

Glass-boxed 2026-07-27 running the live coding measurement (agent/solve): every
`agent/solve` on this Mac failed with a bare "llama-server not ready after 240s
(/health request failed)". The real cause was thrown away — `wait_ready` polled the
health port for the WHOLE budget without ever checking whether the child it spawned had
died, and never surfaced the child's stderr.

ROOT CAUSE, proven this session: the ephemeral eval lane forges a SECOND Devstral-24B
(~14 GB) while the live persona lane already holds ~26 GB. With only ~9.6 GB free, macOS
jetsam SIGKILLs the second llama-server the instant it maps the model — before llama.cpp
prints a single byte (reproduced by hand: exit 137, zero-byte log). It is an OS
out-of-memory kill, NOT Metal-context contention and NOT a hang. The masking bug made it
look like a mysterious timeout.

Two unmask fixes in `wait_ready`, benefiting live AND ephemeral lanes:
1. **Fail loud the instant our child EXITS** — `child_exit_status()` (non-blocking
   `try_wait`) turns any crash-at-launch — including the jetsam SIGKILL/137 above — into
   an immediate `Spawn` error carrying the exit status + stderr tail, instead of polling a
   dead port for 240s. This is the arm that fires for the memory-wall failure.
2. **Fingerprint the empty stderr on the hang-timeout** — `tail_or_hang_marker` turns an
   empty log into a marker that, read with the exit status, names the two empty-log
   causes: an OOM/jetsam kill (SIGKILL/137, child exited) vs. a genuine early-init hang
   (no exit status). A crash from bad args / model-load fault prints its banner first, so
   a non-empty tail carries that directly.

`tail_or_hang_marker` is a pure fn (unit-tested: empty→OOM/hang marker, non-empty→last 20
lines in order) so the load-bearing decision is tested without touching the real
`~/.continuum/logs` path (#72 env-dependent-test lesson).

This makes the failure DIAGNOSABLE; the underlying fix (don't forge a second 24B for eval
while the live 24B is resident — reuse the live lane's weights or serialize via the
governor, #59/#234) is a follow-up. Validated: continuum-core compiles
(--features metal,accelerate, 0 errors); `tail_or_hang_marker_fingerprints_empty_and_tails_nonempty`
green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 28, 2026
…ot just pressure LEVEL — kills the jetsam SIGKILL at the root (#205)

The companion to the unmask commit: don't just REPORT the eval-lane OOM loudly, PREVENT it.

The gate (`await_eval_lane_memory_headroom` → `refuse_eval_lane_under_memory_pressure`)
vetoed only on macOS *pressure LEVEL* + the sustained-pressure gate. But on unified
memory the level reads "Normal" while sitting atop only a few GB of real free RAM — it
counts compressible/cached pages as available. So the gate green-lit standing up a SECOND
llama-server of a known ~14 GB footprint into 9.6 GB of actual headroom, and the OS
jetsam-SIGKILLed it (exit 137, zero-byte log — the exact failure this session reproduced
by hand). Neither the pressure gate NOR the GPU/CPU placement lease caught it: on unified
memory the weights need the RAM on *either* device, so "spill to CPU" doesn't save you.

Fix — size against the honest free-bytes number:
- `MemoryPressureMonitor` already reads `sysinfo::available_memory()` each poll; publish it
  to a new lock-free global `current_available_bytes()` alongside the pressure level (the
  level is a ratio and lies; the bytes don't).
- `eval_lane_ram_veto(available, footprint, headroom)` — a PURE, unit-tested guard that
  refuses ONLY when a KNOWN footprint won't fit in the KNOWN free bytes (+2 GiB headroom),
  and NEVER when either number is unknown (an unread probe must not starve a node — the
  pressure gate + placement lease stay the backstops). The refusal names the OOM wall, so
  the detached ledger carries a real cause and `await_eval_lane_memory_headroom` retries it
  as deferrable load instead of crashing.
- One footprint sizing (`eval_lane_footprint`) now shared by the gate and the placement
  decision (compression — was duplicated inline).
- Both eval-lane spawn sites resolve `base` and size the lane BEFORE the gate, so the
  RAM check runs pre-cold-load.

This is the reliability doctrine [[reliability-is-it-works-not-that-it-reports-failure-well]]:
the prior commit made the failure legible; this makes the machine refuse cleanly instead of
being OOM-killed. Sibling of the #175 GPU-OOM-poisons-the-backend class — the level-vs-real-
bytes gap is the same shape.

Validated: continuum-core compiles (--features metal,accelerate, 0 errors); new
`eval_lane_ram_veto_refuses_only_a_known_oversize_lane` + existing pressure-veto test green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 30, 2026
…a masked 240s /health timeout (#205 unmask)

Glass-boxed 2026-07-27 running the live coding measurement (agent/solve): every
`agent/solve` on this Mac failed with a bare "llama-server not ready after 240s
(/health request failed)". The real cause was thrown away — `wait_ready` polled the
health port for the WHOLE budget without ever checking whether the child it spawned had
died, and never surfaced the child's stderr.

ROOT CAUSE, proven this session: the ephemeral eval lane forges a SECOND Devstral-24B
(~14 GB) while the live persona lane already holds ~26 GB. With only ~9.6 GB free, macOS
jetsam SIGKILLs the second llama-server the instant it maps the model — before llama.cpp
prints a single byte (reproduced by hand: exit 137, zero-byte log). It is an OS
out-of-memory kill, NOT Metal-context contention and NOT a hang. The masking bug made it
look like a mysterious timeout.

Two unmask fixes in `wait_ready`, benefiting live AND ephemeral lanes:
1. **Fail loud the instant our child EXITS** — `child_exit_status()` (non-blocking
   `try_wait`) turns any crash-at-launch — including the jetsam SIGKILL/137 above — into
   an immediate `Spawn` error carrying the exit status + stderr tail, instead of polling a
   dead port for 240s. This is the arm that fires for the memory-wall failure.
2. **Fingerprint the empty stderr on the hang-timeout** — `tail_or_hang_marker` turns an
   empty log into a marker that, read with the exit status, names the two empty-log
   causes: an OOM/jetsam kill (SIGKILL/137, child exited) vs. a genuine early-init hang
   (no exit status). A crash from bad args / model-load fault prints its banner first, so
   a non-empty tail carries that directly.

`tail_or_hang_marker` is a pure fn (unit-tested: empty→OOM/hang marker, non-empty→last 20
lines in order) so the load-bearing decision is tested without touching the real
`~/.continuum/logs` path (#72 env-dependent-test lesson).

This makes the failure DIAGNOSABLE; the underlying fix (don't forge a second 24B for eval
while the live 24B is resident — reuse the live lane's weights or serialize via the
governor, #59/#234) is a follow-up. Validated: continuum-core compiles
(--features metal,accelerate, 0 errors); `tail_or_hang_marker_fingerprints_empty_and_tails_nonempty`
green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 30, 2026
…ot just pressure LEVEL — kills the jetsam SIGKILL at the root (#205)

The companion to the unmask commit: don't just REPORT the eval-lane OOM loudly, PREVENT it.

The gate (`await_eval_lane_memory_headroom` → `refuse_eval_lane_under_memory_pressure`)
vetoed only on macOS *pressure LEVEL* + the sustained-pressure gate. But on unified
memory the level reads "Normal" while sitting atop only a few GB of real free RAM — it
counts compressible/cached pages as available. So the gate green-lit standing up a SECOND
llama-server of a known ~14 GB footprint into 9.6 GB of actual headroom, and the OS
jetsam-SIGKILLed it (exit 137, zero-byte log — the exact failure this session reproduced
by hand). Neither the pressure gate NOR the GPU/CPU placement lease caught it: on unified
memory the weights need the RAM on *either* device, so "spill to CPU" doesn't save you.

Fix — size against the honest free-bytes number:
- `MemoryPressureMonitor` already reads `sysinfo::available_memory()` each poll; publish it
  to a new lock-free global `current_available_bytes()` alongside the pressure level (the
  level is a ratio and lies; the bytes don't).
- `eval_lane_ram_veto(available, footprint, headroom)` — a PURE, unit-tested guard that
  refuses ONLY when a KNOWN footprint won't fit in the KNOWN free bytes (+2 GiB headroom),
  and NEVER when either number is unknown (an unread probe must not starve a node — the
  pressure gate + placement lease stay the backstops). The refusal names the OOM wall, so
  the detached ledger carries a real cause and `await_eval_lane_memory_headroom` retries it
  as deferrable load instead of crashing.
- One footprint sizing (`eval_lane_footprint`) now shared by the gate and the placement
  decision (compression — was duplicated inline).
- Both eval-lane spawn sites resolve `base` and size the lane BEFORE the gate, so the
  RAM check runs pre-cold-load.

This is the reliability doctrine [[reliability-is-it-works-not-that-it-reports-failure-well]]:
the prior commit made the failure legible; this makes the machine refuse cleanly instead of
being OOM-killed. Sibling of the #175 GPU-OOM-poisons-the-backend class — the level-vs-real-
bytes gap is the same shape.

Validated: continuum-core compiles (--features metal,accelerate, 0 errors); new
`eval_lane_ram_veto_refuses_only_a_known_oversize_lane` + existing pressure-veto test green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo
joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 30, 2026
…media-plane split (#2059)

* fix(serving): eval-lane bring-up fails LOUD with the real cause, not a masked 240s /health timeout (#205 unmask)

Glass-boxed 2026-07-27 running the live coding measurement (agent/solve): every
`agent/solve` on this Mac failed with a bare "llama-server not ready after 240s
(/health request failed)". The real cause was thrown away — `wait_ready` polled the
health port for the WHOLE budget without ever checking whether the child it spawned had
died, and never surfaced the child's stderr.

ROOT CAUSE, proven this session: the ephemeral eval lane forges a SECOND Devstral-24B
(~14 GB) while the live persona lane already holds ~26 GB. With only ~9.6 GB free, macOS
jetsam SIGKILLs the second llama-server the instant it maps the model — before llama.cpp
prints a single byte (reproduced by hand: exit 137, zero-byte log). It is an OS
out-of-memory kill, NOT Metal-context contention and NOT a hang. The masking bug made it
look like a mysterious timeout.

Two unmask fixes in `wait_ready`, benefiting live AND ephemeral lanes:
1. **Fail loud the instant our child EXITS** — `child_exit_status()` (non-blocking
   `try_wait`) turns any crash-at-launch — including the jetsam SIGKILL/137 above — into
   an immediate `Spawn` error carrying the exit status + stderr tail, instead of polling a
   dead port for 240s. This is the arm that fires for the memory-wall failure.
2. **Fingerprint the empty stderr on the hang-timeout** — `tail_or_hang_marker` turns an
   empty log into a marker that, read with the exit status, names the two empty-log
   causes: an OOM/jetsam kill (SIGKILL/137, child exited) vs. a genuine early-init hang
   (no exit status). A crash from bad args / model-load fault prints its banner first, so
   a non-empty tail carries that directly.

`tail_or_hang_marker` is a pure fn (unit-tested: empty→OOM/hang marker, non-empty→last 20
lines in order) so the load-bearing decision is tested without touching the real
`~/.continuum/logs` path (#72 env-dependent-test lesson).

This makes the failure DIAGNOSABLE; the underlying fix (don't forge a second 24B for eval
while the live 24B is resident — reuse the live lane's weights or serialize via the
governor, #59/#234) is a follow-up. Validated: continuum-core compiles
(--features metal,accelerate, 0 errors); `tail_or_hang_marker_fingerprints_empty_and_tails_nonempty`
green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(serving): eval-lane gate refuses on real free-RAM-vs-footprint, not just pressure LEVEL — kills the jetsam SIGKILL at the root (#205)

The companion to the unmask commit: don't just REPORT the eval-lane OOM loudly, PREVENT it.

The gate (`await_eval_lane_memory_headroom` → `refuse_eval_lane_under_memory_pressure`)
vetoed only on macOS *pressure LEVEL* + the sustained-pressure gate. But on unified
memory the level reads "Normal" while sitting atop only a few GB of real free RAM — it
counts compressible/cached pages as available. So the gate green-lit standing up a SECOND
llama-server of a known ~14 GB footprint into 9.6 GB of actual headroom, and the OS
jetsam-SIGKILLed it (exit 137, zero-byte log — the exact failure this session reproduced
by hand). Neither the pressure gate NOR the GPU/CPU placement lease caught it: on unified
memory the weights need the RAM on *either* device, so "spill to CPU" doesn't save you.

Fix — size against the honest free-bytes number:
- `MemoryPressureMonitor` already reads `sysinfo::available_memory()` each poll; publish it
  to a new lock-free global `current_available_bytes()` alongside the pressure level (the
  level is a ratio and lies; the bytes don't).
- `eval_lane_ram_veto(available, footprint, headroom)` — a PURE, unit-tested guard that
  refuses ONLY when a KNOWN footprint won't fit in the KNOWN free bytes (+2 GiB headroom),
  and NEVER when either number is unknown (an unread probe must not starve a node — the
  pressure gate + placement lease stay the backstops). The refusal names the OOM wall, so
  the detached ledger carries a real cause and `await_eval_lane_memory_headroom` retries it
  as deferrable load instead of crashing.
- One footprint sizing (`eval_lane_footprint`) now shared by the gate and the placement
  decision (compression — was duplicated inline).
- Both eval-lane spawn sites resolve `base` and size the lane BEFORE the gate, so the
  RAM check runs pre-cold-load.

This is the reliability doctrine [[reliability-is-it-works-not-that-it-reports-failure-well]]:
the prior commit made the failure legible; this makes the machine refuse cleanly instead of
being OOM-killed. Sibling of the #175 GPU-OOM-poisons-the-backend class — the level-vs-real-
bytes gap is the same shape.

Validated: continuum-core compiles (--features metal,accelerate, 0 errors); new
`eval_lane_ram_veto_refuses_only_a_known_oversize_lane` + existing pressure-veto test green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(deploy): install the continuum CLI as a real COPY on PATH, not a symlink into the ephemeral cargo target dir

The flaky mess where `continuum` vanishes post-boot ([[deploy-cli-binary-deleted-from-target-dir-post-boot]]):
`start-server.sh` symlinked ~/.local/bin/continuum → the cargo target-dir binary. But that
dir is a BUILD artifact — cargo replaces the binary mid-rebuild, `cargo clean` and
rust-analyzer's feature-mismatched rebuilds delete it — and the PATH symlink then dangles,
so `continuum <cmd>` dies with "no such file or directory" (hit twice this session).

Fix: COPY the binary to ~/.local/bin (atomic temp+mv so a concurrent `continuum` invocation
never sees a half-written file), and `rm -f` any pre-existing entry first so a leftover
symlink from an old install can't make `cp` follow it back into the target dir. The PATH
binary is now decoupled from cargo's churn — it changes only on deploy. Same self-
provisioning intent, minus the ephemeral-artifact coupling.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(benchmark): BenchmarkAdapter trait + registry — the grid-transparent, reusable, learn-from benchmark interface (rail 1 of #123)

The goal (Joel): "have all these benchmarks IN OUR SYSTEM, AUTOMATED so we or others can
REUSE them (just the optional download + the adapters). Run, TARGET and — more importantly
— LEARN from these." And: "any command can run anywhere, so can benchmarks — a persona in
any continuum can bench anywhere."

That settles the architecture and this is rail 1 of it:
- `BenchmarkAdapter` — ONE trait per benchmark: `dataset()` (OPTIONAL download spec, never
  bundled), `tasks()` (items in the canonical `EvalTask` shape so the SAME `agent/solve`
  path runs them — persona as a whole AGENT, not a bare LLM), `grade()` (defaults to the
  EvalTask's own test/expect verdict; real-repo benchmarks like SWE-bench override to grade
  the workspace after the agent acted), `resources()` (a hint for grid placement).
- `DatasetSpec` / `DatasetKind` (HF / URL / Git) + `BenchResourceHint` (dataset bytes,
  needs_container, needs_network) so the runner fetches on demand and the governor can place
  the run on a capable node — the same demand-vs-resource negotiation serving/eval already do.
- A process-global registry (`register`/`get`/`names`) — the single lookup seam the
  `benchmark/run` DynCommand resolves against; an unknown benchmark is a clean miss so the
  runner can fail loud with the known list, never a silent skip.
- `TaskOutcome` / `BenchGrade` — the agent/solve artifacts (spoken + patch + workspace +
  harness verdict) handed to `grade`, and the per-task pass/score/reason that aggregates into
  the scorecard AND, on failure, feeds salience→curriculum→train (#116/#122) — benchmarks as
  CURRICULUM, not just a scoreboard.

Why Rust-native (not the ad-hoc benchmarks/*.py): a DynCommand is the grid-transparent
primitive — `Commands.execute("benchmark/run", …)` routes local-or-remote over airc; python
can't route the mesh. Adapters shell to python/docker graders ON whatever node runs them.

Outlier-validation order (next rails): OUTLIER A = HumanEval (tiny download, static, test-
graded); OUTLIER B = the Terminal-Bench ContinuumAgent adapter (agentic meta-harness that
unlocks TB's registry — docs/architecture/BENCHMARK-HARNESS-INTEGRATION.md). Then the
`benchmark/run` DynCommand + grid dispatch + the learning tie-in.

Validated: compiles (--features metal,accelerate); `registry_round_trips_and_reports_unknown`
+ `default_grade_delegates_to_harness_verdict` green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(benchmark): HumanEval-rs adapter — outlier A on the BenchmarkAdapter trait (rail 2 of #123)

The quick-cognition smoke rung (a step above arithmetic, per Joel): 156 Rust-translated
HumanEval tasks our EXISTING Rust grader runs directly. Deliberately the SIMPLEST possible
adapter — tiny, RESIDENT (no download), static, test-graded — so pairing it with a
maximally-different outlier B (the Terminal-Bench agentic meta-harness: big download,
real-repo, container-graded) proves the interface across both extremes.

Nearly free because the in-repo `docs/genome/humaneval-rs.jsonl` rows ARE serialized
`EvalTask`s (`{id, prompt, test, lang}`) — the same shape `cognition::eval` already
deserializes — so the adapter is a per-line `serde_json::from_str`. This also exercises the
trait's NO-DOWNLOAD branch (`dataset() == None`): a benchmark small enough to bundle needs
no fetch; only the big ones (SWE-bench) do.

Pure `parse_humaneval_rs` (line-by-line deserialize, honors `limit`, skips blanks, FAILS
LOUD with the offending line number rather than silently dropping a task and inflating the
pass rate) is unit-tested without the filesystem. Validated: compiles
(--features metal,accelerate); `parse_maps_rows_to_evaltasks_honors_limit_and_fails_loud`
+ `adapter_identity_and_no_download` green.

Next rail: the `benchmark/run` DynCommand (resolve adapter → tasks → agent/solve → grade →
scorecard, grid-transparent) so this scores a model on any node — incl. BigMama's live
Kimi-Linear-48B CUDA lane on :58057.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(memory): MemoryRecord (origin_node, origin_seq) — the RAID replication-provenance seam for Persona-RAID (#2056, co-designed w/ BigMama)

Two additive fields on MemoryRecord, the target BigMama's Persona-RAID slice-2 receiver
stamps on replay:
- `origin_node: Option<String>` — node that ORIGINALLY admitted the record (None = local/lived)
- `origin_seq: Option<u64>` — monotonic per-(persona, origin_node) admit seq, the newest-wins
  replay key (None = pre-replication)

The KEY invariant (my review edge, now the agreed shape): replication is an ORTHOGONAL axis,
NOT a new experience kind. `memory_type` (lived vs `shared-by`) is untouched — a replicated
record keeps its experience (a replayed lived memory stays lived; a shared-by lesson stays
taught) and merely gains (origin_node, origin_seq) as auditable/replayable metadata. So recall
needs zero changes and audit gets everything. Both `#[serde(default)]` = zero migration for
existing rows; every current construction site is a local admit → (None, None), semantically
exact.

ts-rs regenerated: `MemoryRecord.ts` gains `origin_node?: string` + `origin_seq?: number`
(number not bigint, per the #120 drift rule). Validated: continuum-core compiles
(--features metal,accelerate); memory::types tests green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(benchmark): wire BenchmarkAdapter registry into benchmark/run — inventory self-registration, catalog-then-adapter resolution (#123)

Converges the two benchmark systems instead of forking a third. The static known_benchmarks()
catalog keeps its proven, DEPLOY-SAFE embedded-gym path for resident benchmarks (resolve_gym
finds the gym even without a repo checkout). The BenchmarkAdapter trait becomes the EXTENSION
seam for benchmarks the catalog can't express — downloadable / custom-graded ones
(Terminal-Bench, SWE-bench) now land as pure adapters with zero change to benchmark/run.

- benchmark/run resolves catalog FIRST (name it knows → embedded gym), else the adapter
  registry (benchmark::get), else fail loud listing BOTH sets. A downloadable adapter
  (dataset() = Some) fails loud 'download not wired yet' rather than silently scoring empty;
  resident adapters (dataset() = None, e.g. humaneval-rs) run today. Delegates to the ONE
  grader (cognition/eval) exactly as before — never reimplements grading.
- Adapters self-register via inventory (the SAME mechanism commands use), so a builtin needs
  NO boot hook and NO central list (the dynamic-discovery contract). get()/names() fold the
  link-time inventory set in over runtime registrations.
- HumanEvalRsAdapter submits itself; new test pins that benchmark::get('humaneval-rs')
  resolves with no boot hook.

19 benchmark tests green; 0 errors. This makes rail 1+2 of the adapter framework LIVE on the
grid-transparent benchmark/run command, ready for the Terminal-Bench ContinuumAgent adapter
(outlier B) to slot in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(boot): macOS core boot — bash-3.2 manifest gate + rt_handle.spawn off-runtime panic (#194)

TWO regressions that made the macOS core un-bootable since the last long-running core died
(glass-boxed live 2026-07-28; nobody could reboot on macOS):

1) start-server.sh sourced generated/manifest.macos.sh (bash-4 `declare -A`) under `set -e`;
   macOS ships bash 3.2, so the source aborted the whole boot before cargo ran. Regression from
   #2046 'serve on Windows' regenerating the manifest with associative arrays. Fix: only source
   the bash-4 manifest on bash 4+ (it solely feeds the Windows/CUDA runtime-PATH augmentation,
   whose own guard already tolerates absence).

2) ipc/mod.rs:1704 used bare `tokio::spawn` in the SYNC boot region (after the rt_handle.enter()
   guard drops) → 'there is no reactor running' panic → the IPC listener thread died → socket
   never bound → whole core a zombie. Regression from #2051's AircInterceptor block; every other
   spawn in the fn already uses `rt_handle.spawn`. Only reached when airc deps are present, so it
   bricked boot on every airc-configured host. Fix: rt_handle.spawn, matching the siblings.

Verified: core boots to socket-live + answering commands in 60s; personas resume from disk and
respond in live chat (Anwen answered a direct question with memory recall).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(boot+ui): macOS core boots + ONE automatic door into the positron interface (#194/#29)

Two boot regressions that made the macOS core un-bootable since the last long-running core died,
plus the missing automatic entry into the interface (you can't ship a beta a user can't open).

BOOT (both verified — core now reaches socket-live in ~60s, personas resume + answer live chat):
 1. start-server.sh sourced the bash-4 `declare -A` manifest under `set -e` → macOS bash 3.2
    aborted the whole boot before cargo ran (regression from #2046). Gate the source on bash 4+.
 2. ipc/mod.rs:1704 bare `tokio::spawn` in the sync boot region (after rt_handle.enter() dropped)
    → 'no reactor running' panic killed the IPC listener → socket never bound → zombie core
    (regression from #2051). Use rt_handle.spawn like every sibling.

UI DOOR (#29): nothing tied the built positron web client to the running core, so finding 'how do
I open the interface' required archaeology — exactly how a user (and an agent) gets lost.
 - New tools/scripts/open-ui.sh + `npm run ui`: resolves the core WS (8974) + call/video WS (8790)
   + a stable identity, ALWAYS rebuilds apps/web from current source (a stale dist renders an old
   shell — the 'interface looks lost' trap, glass-boxed today: a Jul-18 dist showed a bare chat
   view, not the current positron HUD), serves it, opens the browser with everything pre-wired.
   Verified live in headless Chrome: the full positron HUD (SYSTEM CPU/MEM/GPU sparkline, NODES,
   genome-paging tiles per persona, Go-live, rooms, live persona cognition) renders against the
   live core.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(live): auto-start the LiveKit avatar rail with the core (server + bridge sidecar)

The persona's talking avatar is Bevy-rendered and published to a LiveKit room via the
livekit-bridge sidecar; the browser's 'Go live' subscribes to that room. But NEITHER the SFU
nor the bridge was started by `continuum start` — glass-boxed 2026-07-28 by joining the call
plane headless: LiveKit :7880 was DOWN → get_or_create_agent fails → no avatar video pump ever
runs, and clients only ever saw the native call_server's test-pattern default. The avatar was
un-launchable without manual, undocumented steps (start livekit-server, build + start the
bridge) — a beta can't ship a 'Go live' button that needs hidden setup.

start-server.sh now runs start_livekit_rail() before the core, idempotently + NON-FATALLY:
  1. livekit-server --dev on :7880 (dev creds devkey/secret = the bridge defaults) if not
     already up; warn+skip if the binary isn't installed (core still boots, only live A/V off).
  2. build (release, once — links webrtc-sys) + start the livekit-bridge sidecar on its unix
     socket BEFORE the core, so the core's bridge_client finds the socket at boot.
A missing/failed rail never blocks the core (chat/cognition/serving unaffected). system-stop.sh
gets symmetric teardown of the bridge (server teardown already existed).

Verified: syntax clean; idempotent against an already-running rail (both start steps skip when
:7880 is up + the bridge is running). The rail itself is proven live this session — livekit-server
+ bridge up, core connected, an STT participant joined the LiveKit room.

Follow-up (functional, not automation): the per-persona avatar VIDEO agent (get_or_create_agent
+ spawn_avatar_video_pump) still doesn't publish — only the STT listener joins the room. Next.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(live): tee avatar frames into the native call plane — everyone sees the real face (#193/#172)

The avatar published to LiveKit, the bridge received it (640x360), but the native
call plane (call_server WS 8790) that BOTH the positron web client AND the glass-box
harness read still emitted its own 160x120 SMPTE test pattern. The real avatar was
stranded on a rail no native viewer subscribed to.

Convergence (render once, two sinks): the single Bevy slot the avatar pump already
allocates now feeds BOTH LiveKit and the native plane. Per frame the pump tees the
same RGBA into CallManager::push_avatar_frame, encoded in the exact
[VideoFrameHeader][pixels] contract native clients decode, labeled with the persona's
uuid. No second Bevy slot, no parallel renderer.

- call_server.rs: push_avatar_frame (new seam) + retire the auto-start test pattern to
  an opt-in debug affordance (CONTINUUM_CALL_TEST_PATTERN=1), honoring the TODO that sat
  on the auto-start block since real sources were 'not yet connected'.
- video_pump.rs: tee each frame (stable source Handle + monotonic seq/clock) alongside
  the LiveKit publish.
- modules/live.rs + ipc/mod.rs: thread the native CallManager through VoiceState to the
  register-session pump spawn.
- example: standalone CallManager (tee is a no-op there).

Live-verified on the native plane after deploy: 640x360 real avatar (Asha's VRM, not
the test pattern), 13.5 fps wall / 13.3 median (tracking the 15fps Bevy target),
inter-frame jitter min 56.8 / median 75.4 / max 86.4 ms, 0 dropped/out-of-order frames,
sole sender = Asha's uuid. Random-frame spot-check shows her real face, live-animating.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(voice): one canonical model root — kill the CWD-relative path bug that silently broke every local TTS/STT (#195)

Root cause (glass-boxed this session): the workers→core/tools restructure moved the
runtime model download root to `tools/models/` (gitignored — see .gitignore's own note),
but every audio adapter kept stale, CWD-relative `models/…` path constants. When the core
runs from the repo root (its normal CWD), `models/piper/…` pointed at the *tracked* avatar
dir, not the voice models in `tools/models/piper/…` — so Edge returned empty, and Piper /
Kokoro / Moonshine / Whisper all reported 'model not found'. Every local voice model was
silently dead. Kokoro even mutated the process CWD (`set_jtag_cwd`) to paper over it.

Proper fix — single source of truth, absolute, CWD-independent:
- New `live/audio/model_root.rs`: `voice_model_root()` / `voice_model_path()`. Resolves
  `CONTINUUM_MODELS_DIR` (config.env single-owner, then process-env boot injection), then
  `tools/models`/`models` CWD candidates, then `~/.continuum/models`.
- Routed EVERY voice adapter through it — piper, kokoro (15 sites), orpheus, moonshine,
  whisper, pocket-tts, silero VAD, tts_service. No more scattered `models/…` literals,
  no per-adapter candidate ladders, no `set_current_dir`.
- start-server.sh exports `CONTINUUM_MODELS_DIR=$REPO_ROOT/tools/models` before exec so the
  binary resolves models from any CWD.

Live-verified after deploy: fresh core has CONTINUUM_MODELS_DIR injected, no symlink present,
`voice/synthesize-handle --adapter piper` resolves the model and synthesizes (was 'model not
found' before). (The short synth duration is a separate phonemizer/espeak-data issue, not this.)

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(live): tee persona voice into the native call plane — client hears her, not hold music (#193 audio convergence)

Sibling of the avatar-video tee. A persona speaks via LiveKit (speak_in_call → bridge),
but native clients (positron web, glass-box harness) read the native mixer — which, with
only a lone listener, plays HOLD MUSIC. So a native viewer SAW her avatar but HEARD hold
music: her voice was stranded on the LiveKit rail.

Render once, two sinks: speak_in_call now returns the synthesized PCM, and the voice/speak-in-call
handler tees the SAME samples into the native plane via CallManager::push_persona_audio —
which registers the persona as a virtual AI participant in the call's mixer (the mixer already
has an AI ring buffer built for 'dump a whole TTS utterance, drain frame-by-frame') and her
presence stops the lonely-listener hold-music fill. Self-heals across call recreation via a
stable per-(call,persona) handle.

Live-verified: with Asha registered + speaking (kokoro), a native-plane capture shows
audio sender = her uuid (90e758b2) for 4.58s, matching the 4.55s utterance — was 100%
'hold-mus' before. Video (640x360 avatar) + audio (her voice) now both reach the client:
e2e see+hear on the native plane.

Also this session: espeak-ng installed so kokoro TTS produces real full-length speech
(piper's Rust phonemizer truncates — kokoro is the good local path).

Follow-ups: hold-music still fills her SILENCE between utterances (minor polish — suppress
when a persona is present); STT/audio-in blocked on moonshine ONNX format mismatch;
livekit-bridge needs supervision (dies on every core restart).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(positron): durable local state + self-healing feed — inherent to the SDK, adapter-driven (the Twitter model)

Glass-boxed 2026-07-29: routine core reboots orphaned every open tab — the state
feed died once, the shell silently degraded to the bare chat view, and four months
of positron HUD looked 'lost' until a manual refresh. Per Joel: this is normal app
craft (cache-first boot, live reconcile, visible reconnect) and it must be POSITRON
architecture — from the thin-client SDK out, adapter-driven local state, never an
app-level hack or a localStorage bodge.

SDK (sdk/typescript — the contract every platform SDK mirrors):
- StateStorage.ts: StateStorageAdapter — the ONE local-durability seam. The whole
  renderable state is latest-envelope-per-kind (each envelope is a full snapshot),
  so the cache is tiny + complete. Adapters: IndexedDbStateStorage (browser),
  MemoryStateStorage (tests/ephemeral + conformance reference); swift/kotlin/
  flutter implement the same interface over native stores. Cache is an accelerant,
  never a dependency (storage failure -> live-only, logged once).
- StateConnection: durability + resilience are now INHERENT —
  - hydrate-first connect(): cached envelopes paint before the network is touched
    (instant last-known UI, even against a dead core), status 'cached';
  - write-through: every live envelope replaces its kind's row (fire-and-forget);
  - auto-reconnect (default ON): capped 1s->10s ladder using the wire's existing
    last_seen replay; a failed FIRST connect rides the same ladder (core booting);
  - onStatus surface (cached/connecting/live/reconnecting/closed): recovery is
    LOUD — reconnecting stays visible while the core is away, so self-heal can
    never mask a dead core; close() stops the ladder (intentional shutdown);
  - reconnect:false preserves the legacy one-shot fail-loud contract for probes.
- Fail-loud config errors (no registered kinds) never enter the retry ladder.

App (apps/web): shrinks to what an app should be — pass IndexedDbStateStorage,
render envelopes + ONE status chip. Zero resilience logic app-side.

Tests: 97/97 SDK suite green; 4 new pins (default-resolve+reconnecting status,
hydrate-before-open, write-through, drop->reconnect->resubscribe w/ last_seen).
Live-verified: rebuilt app renders the full positron HUD through the new feed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(mobile): positron durable-state contract on Android + iOS — Dart mirror of the SDK, tested

One Dart implementation (byte-identical on both OSes) mirroring sdk/typescript's
inherent resilience contract, per [[positron-durable-state-is-sdk-inherent-adapter-driven]]:

- lib/positron_state.dart: StateEnvelope + StateStorageAdapter (the ONE seam) with
  MemoryStateStorage (conformance reference) and FileStateStorage (dart:io JSON —
  durable on Android + iOS app dirs, ZERO plugin deps, corrupt-tolerant, cache is
  an accelerant never a dependency); StateConnection with hydrate-first connect,
  write-through, capped 1s->10s reconnect ladder w/ last_seen replay, loud status
  (cached/connecting/live/reconnecting/closed), reconnect:false one-shot fail-loud.
  Injectable StateSocketFactory — tests drive the lifecycle without a core.
- lib/live.dart: LiveConnection now RIDES the contract (was a one-shot connect
  that died silently — the same disease the web had). App keeps only the
  ChatViewState->MobileScreen mapping + optional status/cacheDir wiring.
- test/positron_state_test.dart: 5 pins mirroring the TS spec — hydrate-before-
  socket, write-through, drop->reconnect+last_seen, fail-loud vs self-heal,
  FileStateStorage conformance (round-trip, replace-by-kind, corrupt-tolerant).
- ios/: runner scaffolded (flutter create --platforms=ios).

Verified: flutter test 6/6 green, flutter analyze clean. Platform note: the Dart
contract tests prove BOTH OSes (same code); Android SDK present for APK builds;
iOS device/simulator builds need full Xcode on this machine (CLI tools only).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(web): tab strip renders from ONE open tab — the focused room IS a tab

Glass-boxed live: the strip + CSS + nav plumbing all shipped (38b60caae),
but the render gate was cells.length > 1 while the node's room-set fold
knows exactly one room (cambriantech) — so the whole bar hid and the
interface read as 'tabs don't exist'. One open activity is still an open
tab; the strip now draws from 1 up, and fills out as the room set grows.

Substrate follow-up (separate card): seed spawn_room_set_fold from airc's
subscribed-room registry (durable membership), not just observed traffic —
today a room with no traffic since core boot never becomes a tab.

Verified live: playwright screenshot + widget-state dump (tabBarTabCount 1),
web tests 21/21, typecheck clean.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(web): Discord shell geometry — full-height rails, center-scoped tabs/header/compose

The reference is the Discord/VS Code shell: columns run window-top to
window-bottom; no chrome bar spans the whole width. The left rail now opens
with the continuon (the server-header slot), the tab strip sits centrally
over the content column only, the room header/transcript/composer all live
inside the center column, and the ROOM context rail runs full height.

Mechanically: RenderTarget.workspace grows an optional WorkspaceChrome<Out>
slot (patterns) — the compose bar stays HOST-owned (input state + send
handler) but SHELL-placed (chrome.centerFooter), so the widget no longer
appends full-width rows after the surface. litTarget nests tabs + header +
what + footer in a .center flex column inside the same .panels grid the
universe skins and mobile rules already key off.

Also: /// <reference lib="dom" /> on sdk StateStorage.ts — the IndexedDB
adapter's DOM types broke typecheck for non-browser consumers (tui) since
e4fedac8f; scoped ambient types fix every consumer without forcing lib:dom.

Verified live: playwright screenshot (full-height rails, central tab, center
compose), web 21/21 + chat-view 56/56 + patterns 5/5, typecheck clean on
web/patterns/tui.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(chat): beforeMessageId scroll-back cursor on chat/poll — history pages out of durable storage

The Twitter endless-scroll's storage half: chat/poll gains the backward
cursor. beforeMessageId resolves the anchor's stored timestamp (same
lookup as afterMessageId, now ONE anchor_timestamp helper), filters
$lt, queries DESC, and normalizes chronological — the limit messages
immediately preceding the anchor, straight from the durable
chat_messages store. The two cursors are mutually exclusive and reject
loud BEFORE any storage round-trip; the result echoes the cursor so
the caller's paging loop just keeps passing the oldest id it holds.

Client loop (web/mobile/tui alike): render the live 50-row tail, then
scroll-back = chat/poll {roomId, beforeMessageId: oldest-on-screen} —
prepend, repeat until an empty page says history is exhausted. The
render-side wiring is the follow-up slice; the trigger idiom stays
per-target (IntersectionObserver on web, ScrollController on Flutter),
the cursor mechanics live here, once.

Tests: before-anchor $lt+DESC+chronological, both-cursors reject
(pinned to fail before data/query), absent-not-null echo. 32/32 chat
module green; ts-rs bindings regenerated.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(sdk): export the drifted wire types — 64 registered-command params/results never emitted ts-rs bindings

The pre-existing drift that has blocked the TypeScript SDK re-emit (and
forced nav/select onto the raw-wire path): TS-deriving wire types across
commands/{benchmark,help,tool}, cognition, runtime, and modules lacked
#[ts(export, export_to)] — the emit's vendoring walks the registry and
fails loud on the first missing binding. Swept every one onto the same
protocol/typescript/<module>/ convention its file siblings use.
export_bindings: 1236 green (was 1160).

Remaining emit blocker (separate card): bare #[ts(export)] types land in
the crate-local bindings/ dir while the vendorer expects protocol root.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(web): Twitter endless scroll — scroll-back pages durable history into the transcript

The render half of the beforeMessageId cursor (02d5c7701):

- chat-view: historyRowsFromPoll — one chat/poll storage page (raw
  entities: {content:{text}, ISO timestamp, no sender name}) onto the
  SAME MessageRowVM rows the live tail renders; roster-resolved identity,
  short-id + metadata.source fallback, live-tail dedup, malformed-row
  skip. 3 specs.
- widget: scroll-near-top pages one older window and prepends with the
  viewport anchored (scrollTop compensated); rows that slide OUT of the
  live 50-row window RETIRE onto the buffer so no gap opens; buffer
  clears on room switch; an empty page latches exhausted.
- scroll-yank fix (reported live): pin-to-bottom now only fires when the
  reader was AT the live edge (_wasNearBottom, measured pre-render) — a
  scrolled-back reader is never forced down by a new message.
- host: chat/poll over the same raw-wire seam as nav/select (the typed
  CommandMap re-emit is still blocked; path documented in-code).
- sdk drift: corrected the swept export_to paths to the proven
  ../../../protocol/typescript/ convention (benchmark/help/tool/agent);
  strays under core/protocol removed; export_bindings 1172 green.

Live activation needs the rebuilt core (beforeMessageId lands on the
next core restart — held deliberately: a restart replays the room log
until #242 consumer cursors land).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(web): transcript times in the VIEWER's timezone + genome panel goes two rows of four

Time: formatTimeOfDay was hardcoded UTC ('4:36' at Joel's 11:36 PM —
wrong for every human off-meridian). Now local getHours/getMinutes;
determinism moves to the test scripts (TZ=UTC pinned in chat-view + web
package.json) instead of being baked into the product.

Genome: 8 slots in a 4×2 grid (was one row of 4) — the loadout is
heading past four as skills go per-domain and expert granularity (#226)
lands; slots stay honest-dark until genes page in, top-8 lit with
overflow named in the tooltip.

Tests 59+21 green, typecheck clean, rebuilt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(web): genome-click anchor re-lands after layout settles — the card sticks at the pane top

Verified with a headless click receipt: the genome block DOES open that
citizen's persona-home tab anchored at the #genome card (element
navigation, card 95844639), but the single scrollIntoView fired before
avatar-image decode / meter layout settled — the card drifted ~400px
down-pane, reading as 'nothing happened'. Two follow-up rAF re-lands pin
it.

Harness note: headless clicks were steering the LIVE view — the harness
shared Joel's ?me= citizen (nav focus is per-citizen, server-side).
Minted a dedicated harness citizen (~/.continuum/ui-test-id); future
interaction tests use it, never the operator's scope.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(nav+web): persona selects OPEN durable tabs (never swap) + sender names link to profiles + history-trigger guards

Three live reports from Joel, one slice:

1. ONE shape-shifting persona tab: the nav reader derived the persona tab
   from the single current focus — selecting a second persona REPLACED
   the first. NavFocus now keeps the citizen's open non-room activity SET
   (activity == room == tab: a persona select OPENS a durable tab, a
   second select adds a SECOND tab) + a close() for the future nav/close
   verb. Reader surfaces every open activity. 9 nav tests green.
   (Core-side — live at the next core restart.)

2. 'History load failed: chat/poll rejected: unknown error' on persona
   click: two stacked bugs — the persona home OPENS at scrollTop 0 which
   tripped the transcript's near-top history trigger (now guarded off all
   non-transcript faces), and the bare-wire success check treated every
   response as a rejection (no success field on the raw path — only an
   explicit false is an in-band rejection; failures reject the promise).

3. Sender names in the transcript now open that citizen's profile — the
   SAME composed roster LISTING_SELECT the tiles fire, one nav verb, no
   parallel route. Keyboard-accessible, element-link affordance.

Web 21/21, typecheck clean, rebuilt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(nav+airc): tab close wired end-to-end + consumer cursor kills the reboot replay (#242)

Tab close (Joel: 'tab close not wired yet' + 'super small hitbox'):
- core: nav/close verb — removes one open activity from the citizen's
  tab set (NavFocus::close), clears focus if it was current, publishes
  nav:changed. Registered + in NavModule::commands(). 12 nav tests green.
- web: the × is LIVE on non-room tabs (rooms are membership, not tab
  state) — composed NAV_TAB_CLOSE → widget → injected nav/close over the
  raw-wire seam; substrate-truth removal, no optimistic local state.
  Hitbox grown to ~22px square (padding + negative margin — glyph stays
  compact, target meets the pointer minimum).

Consumer cursor (#242 — 'chat still loading literally every message in
existence when you reboot', bitten 3× today): the attach stream asked
for AttachStart::FromTranscriptStart on EVERY attach. Now a per-channel
IpcCursor watermark persists under ~/.continuum/state/; attach resumes
AttachStart::After(cursor) (gap only, no seam duplicates), advances to
the daemon's RoomTip after attach, and persists AttachCursorAdvanced
frames. Only the first-ever attach (no watermark) seeds from transcript
start — once per state dir, never per reboot. Documented trade-off: a
hard crash loses a slice of LIVE perception, never storage — the durable
transcript + scroll-back serve history; replaying the log into every
persona's mind each reboot was the worse failure.

Live at the next core restart (which will be the LAST replaying one).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(web): durable-store hydration + Activities rename + rooms-only facet default

Post-cursor reality check (Joel: 'No messages yet — say hello' after the
reboot): the live projection now honestly starts AFTER the consumer
watermark, so a rebooted room painted empty — the data was never gone
(the durable transcript held every message; chat/poll served it), the
window just never pulled it. Fix: a sparse first snapshot (<10 rows)
auto-pages the LATEST stored window via the anchor-less chat/poll and
prepends — the Twitter model complete: durable tail + live wire, one
transcript. Verified live: 51 rendered rows from 1 wire message.

Also per Joel:
- the left rail's Rooms widget is now titled ACTIVITIES (they are rooms;
  the widget lists activities) — title flows from the projection.
- the facet defaults to [Rooms]: open persona/content tabs are real
  activities but reached via their own controls (roster tiles, the tab
  strip) — the 'rooms' facet now excludes persona/content groups, and
  All remains one click away.

Web 21/21 + chat-view 59/59, typecheck clean, rebuilt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(web): 'Send failed' on every SUCCESSFUL send — only explicit success:false is a rejection

Same response-shape bug as the history handler, now on the send path:
chat/send's success payload is {eventId, messageId} with NO success
field, so `!result.success` threw 'chat/send rejected: unknown error'
while the message actually landed on the wire (glass-boxed live — Joel's
'How are you, I am Joel' arrived as peer-a5ded599 despite the strip).
Failures reject in the transport; in-band rejection = explicit false.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(positron): projection hydrates from the durable transcript — the SUBSTRATE owns room fullness, never the renderer

Joel's charge, accepted: 'why was the room history cleared? that's
invalid positron — are you coding just regular lit?' The old full-backlog
attach was secretly the chat projection's ONLY hydration mechanism;
killing the replay (#242) starved the accumulator, and I patched it in
the WIDGET — app-level durable-state logic, the inverted shape.

Correct shape, now built: positron_source::spawn takes a durable seed
(executor + bootstrap room). Before folding live events the projector
hydrates its accumulator with the room's stored tail (the same
chat_messages query chat/poll serves), pushed through the SAME classify
path as wire events — one message semantics, two sources. Data-module
warm-up is retried; a seed that never comes degrades to wire-fed-only,
logged loud. Every client gets a full room with zero client logic.

Also: WebSocketTransport discriminates push frames from replies — the
ingress fans state envelopes to command-only sockets, which spammed
'reply for unknown correlation id undefined' 22× in Joel's console while
every command actually worked. id-less frames are pushes, ignored;
the server-side fan-out fix is a follow-up card.

positron_source 16/16, sdk + web green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* revert(airc): consumer cursor OFF until it ships as one unit with perception hydration (#249)

The cursor (#242) starved MORE than the UI window: glass-boxed live —
Asha's turn prompt was a system prompt + ONE EMPTY user message, and
Benchy answered Joel's direct question with 'you haven't provided any
context'. The perception substrate (channel digest) drinks from the same
cursored bus, so personas were left conversationally blindfolded: minds
intact (engrams verified — Asha 11,667 rows, Atlas 10,035, writes
minutes old), sensory feed empty. The greeting loop was the honest
response to an empty world.

Rollback: attach returns to FromTranscriptStart (full replay — the
known, working behavior), watermark files deleted. The projection's
durable seed (44a8b2606) stays — it is correct independent of the
cursor. The cursor relands ONLY together with #249 (perception-tail
hydration from durable storage), tested against a live persona turn
BEFORE deploy: the lesson is that the replay was load-bearing for TWO
consumers, and I verified only one.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(web): auto-scroll tracks READER INTENT, not bottom-distance — the position heuristic silently killed pin-to-bottom

Joel: 'you designed it dumb, we did this before — you have to keep track
of whether they scrolled up themselves.' Correct. The _wasNearBottom
threshold died the moment a tall message grew the bottom-distance past
150px — after which every new message grew it further and auto-scroll
never returned. Replaced with intent: a USER scroll away from the bottom
parks auto-scroll; returning to the bottom re-arms it; programmatic
pin-to-bottom scrolls are guarded out (_autoScrolling) so they never
read as intent. Stream deltas (_typing) now also pin, so the token rail
stays in view. Web 21/21, typecheck clean, rebuilt — reload to pick up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(web): code is SHOWN, not hidden — line-numbered open-by-default code cards + fence-aware digest

Joel: 'the code should have line numbers and show where its placed into
code context like you do… i feel like for BOTH persona and humans we
show it unless its huge.' Three fixes, one policy (show the start,
expand for the rest, same rule at every density):

1. Renderer (parts.ts): blocks ≤40 lines render fully open (the old
   n<=3 collapse hid a 4-line snippet behind a '▸ RUST' bar); bigger
   blocks show the first 25 lines with a '+K more lines' expander whose
   gutter numbering continues seamlessly. Every block gets a
   line-number gutter. Templates whitespace-TIGHT — the pretty-printed
   newlines inside the pre-wrap bubble were the giant-empty-padding bug.

2. Digest (messageDigest.ts): fence-aware. Flood bounds now count each
   fenced block as ONE projected line (the code card self-truncates, so
   code can't flood pixels), and the head cut treats fences as atomic —
   live bug: the digest cut Claude's wordstats reply MID-FENCE and the
   dangling ``` rendered as literal backtick noise.

3. Specs: 3 new regressions (never-split-a-fence, whole-fence-in-head,
   unterminated fence) — chat-view 62/62, web 21/21, verified live in
   cambriantech (Asha's 2-liner open+numbered; Claude's 16-line card).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(web): retire the typing bubble on the settled message, not only on the done delta

The stream-end contract had ONE signal (delta.done) and no fallback: a
dropped/raced done flag left the cursor blinking forever over a message
that had already landed (live 2026-07-30: Atlas + Benchy both looked
hung after their turns settled). The settled post IS the ground truth
that the stream ended — willUpdate now diffs new-arrival senders on
every state change and retires their bubbles. done still works for the
common path; this makes the stale-cursor state unreachable.

Act pauses mid-turn still show a cursor (real work, no visual
vocabulary yet) — that rendering is #254/#253 core-side work.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(cognition): FAIL LOUD on a starved prompt — never deliberate on a blank mind

The 2026-07-30 outage mechanism, made impossible to miss: when window
arithmetic (reserve + tool schemas + framing) squeezed msg_budget to ~0,
the fitter's last-resort arm emitted ONE EMPTY user message and every
persona greeting-looped for an hour while looking alive. Two guards now:

1. Fitter (delib.prompt.empty): a trimmed tail that comes back EMPTY is
   refused with an error probe carrying the budget arithmetic — never an
   empty ChatMessage.
2. contribute() (delib.prompt.starved): a view whose conversation is all
   empty while the room HAS turns skips the turn with an error probe —
   the room's messages stay queued, the next tick re-perceives; blind
   deliberation is never an option.

The two verdict tests that broke were silently EXERCISING the bug path —
ctor-default window, framing starved msg_budget to 0, scripted adapter
masked the blank prompt. They now run at a real 32k window and test what
they claim. 21/21 llm_deliberation green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(vitals): cognition compass AFTERGLOW — 6/s decay so the mind's glow is visible between turns + lowercase brand title

DOM probe (.gymtool/vitals.mts, the new TS hot-path instrument) caught
the wiring working — Anwen mid-turn: Reason 19, Recall 80, Act 16 — for
exactly ONE 2s radiator sample before the 40/s decay blacked it out.
With turns minutes apart the compass read as permanently dead (Joel:
'cognition not wired into the diamond' — it WAS wired; it was invisible).
Decay 40/s → 6/s: a full pulse now eases to dark over ~17s — a readable
afterglow of what the mind just did, still honestly dark at rest well
inside a minute. Decay test re-pinned to the new contract (82 at 3s,
0 by 20s). Also: brand is always lowercase — <title>continuum</title>.

Findings logged, not changed here: QUE pegged at 100 on every row is
HONEST — staged digest unread never drains (personas never advance
bookmarks, #43's territory); genome slots dark = honestly no genes
paged in.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(airc): RE-LAND consumer cursor on inbound attach — resume from watermark, never replay the whole transcript (#242, exonerated)

Joel on tonight's boot storm: 'why would it replay the whole chat start
to finish? its insane.' It replayed because the bus-fed transcript
writer needed boot-time replay to fill the offline window — full replay
was load-bearing by accident. The cursor (attach After(watermark),
persisted per room) delivers exactly the missed window: no storm, no
holes.

This is a byte-identical re-land of d4dbc9982, which was reverted during
the 2026-07-30 outage on the theory it starved persona perception. The
deep trace EXONERATED it: perception pulls the daemon's durable tail
every turn and never consumed the attach replay; the blank minds were
the spawn-pinned window budget bug — since fixed (live-window reconcile)
and guarded loud (delib.prompt.starved / delib.prompt.empty error
probes). Verification protocol this time, per the incident doctrine:
live persona capture non-empty + zero starved probes + quiet boot +
transcript continuity, BEFORE calling it done.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(positron): renderer frames coalesce at 10Hz + 100-message window — bursts become beats, not storms

Joel: 'if i were me, i would see like the last 100 messages, and scroll
for more — positron ought to make this easy.' Two changes, one contract:

1. Subscribed renderers no longer forward EVERY revision (Unlimited).
   State kinds are latest-wins snapshots on a watch channel, so
   intermediate revisions are legally skippable — RENDERER_HZ=10 sends
   the first change instantly (lone message: zero added latency) and
   coalesces bursts to at-worst 100ms behind. The boot-replay load
   storm (thousands of folds → thousands of socket frames raining into
   the tab) becomes ≤10 latest-state frames/sec. Token streams ride the
   separate stream rail, untouched.

2. Snapshot window 50 → 100 (MAX_MESSAGES_PER_SNAPSHOT), seed query
   bound to the same constant — one source for the window size.
   Scroll-back keeps paging older history from the durable store.

With the attach cursor (f8e4ae6cc) this closes the storm class: resume
from watermark delivers only the missed window, and whatever bursts do
occur render as a handful of coalesced frames. positron 105/105+5/5,
core positron_source 16/16.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(live): turn-start beacon → 'responding…' under the last message + dynamic lowercase title + continuon favicon

Joel, during the dead-looking-interface scare (four minds mid-turn,
zero pixels moving): 'in other systems it says XYZ is responding — we
could use that right below the last chat item.' Three pieces:

1. Core: the token forwarder emits ONE empty-token START BEACON the
   moment generation dispatches — before prefill, which on a cold lane
   runs minutes. No wire change: an entry with no text yet IS the
   signal. The done flush retires it even on a speechless settle.
2. Web: a typing entry with empty text renders 'responding…' instead of
   a bare cursor (the bare cursor was the hang-look); text flowing
   keeps the live tail + cursor.
3. Web: document.title mirrors the current activity — 'continuum —
   cambriantech' (the #252 short-title rule, brand always lowercase;
   the static <title> edit finally ships too — it was edited but never
   rebuilt into dist, my miss). Favicon: the continuon orb becomes the
   subject (it IS the fourth-wall being), ring as threshold.

Web 21/21 + rebuilt; core cargo check clean.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(web): '(xyz, abc) is responding…' — ONE grey line between the last message and the compose box

Joel's exact spec, third iteration tonight: not a transcript bubble —
the Discord-convention grey status line pinned above the composer, one
line max (nowrap + ellipsis), parenthesized dynamic name list that
updates as turns start and settle. Driven by the stream map: the #254
start beacon adds a persona the moment their turn dispatches — minutes
before the first token on a cold lane. Beacon-only entries (no text
yet) no longer render an empty bubble; streams with real tokens keep
the live bubble as before. Web 21/21, rebuilt — refresh to pick up.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(web): STOP KILLING LIVE STREAMS — retire a typing bubble only on ITS OWN settle, and never hide a consecutive speaker's stream

The streaming regression Joel caught ('did you just totally remove
it'): the stale-cursor fix retired a persona's bubble on ANY arrival
from them. With settles landing minutes late and reboot-echo dups
landing constantly, delayed OLD messages executed LIVE bubbles
mid-stream — streaming was functionally deleted. Retire now requires
the arrived content to CONTAIN the streamed tail (it IS the settle);
beacon-only entries are never retired by arrivals. Also removed the
last-sender bubble suppression — a persona speaking twice in a row is
normal, and the skip hid exactly the streams being watched for.
done-flag retirement unchanged. Web 21/21, rebuilt — ONE refresh.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(web): '(X) is responding…' clears when the answer lands — beacon-only entries retire on any arrival from their sender

Joel, live: 'it didnt go away once responded.' Some settles never
stream rail tokens, so the entry stayed beacon-only and its only exit
was a done flush that never came. Beacon-only entries now retire on ANY
arrival from the sender (a still-running turn's next token recreates
the entry instantly — nothing lost); text-bearing entries keep the
own-settle content match so delayed old messages can't kill live
streams. Line lifetime == inference in flight: appears at generation
dispatch, clears at settle. Web 21/21, rebuilt.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(web): responding line = the PROMISE phase only — a name drops the moment their words visibly stream

Joel: 'if it is responding stop showing it, for that user — it's when
we are sure they're gonna respond, then you can show it.' The grey line
now lists only beacon-only entries (inference dispatched, nothing
visible yet); once tokens stream into a persona's bubble their name
leaves the line. Complete lifecycle: dispatch → '(X) is responding…' →
words stream in the bubble → settle lands → everything clears.
Web 21/21, rebuilt — refresh.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(web): dormant minds dim — roster rows recede when every cognition pulse is dark, brighten on any pulse/stream

Joel: 'dim the entire row slightly in the user list.' A row with vitals
wired but zero across focus/reason/recall/act/speaking is a resting
mind: opacity 0.62 with a 0.9s ease, so waking is VISIBLE and the ~17s
afterglow keeps recently-active minds bright — row brightness reads as
recency of thought. Opacity-only (compositor-cheap); the dim treatment
is the interim for #260's full presence lifecycle, where the universe/
theme layer owns the inactive look. Members without vitals (plain
agents/humans) never dim on this signal. Web 21/21, rebuilt — refresh.

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* fix(tests): pin TZ=UTC in the four time-asserting specs — CI-deterministic on any runner

PR #2057 review blocker: formatTimeOfDay became viewer-local (by
design) but four specs still asserted fixed UTC HH:MM strings —
red on any non-UTC runner. The formatter stays viewer-local; the
specs pin process.env.TZ before imports. Proven under
TZ=America/Chicago and TZ=Asia/Tokyo: chat-view 62/62, web 21/21.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(airc): close #261's SKIP hole — attach never pre-persists the room tip; the daemon's cursor heartbeat is the sole watermark writer

Both PR #2057 review findings on the cursor re-land, fixed as one
mechanism with airc 9390c32e8 (feat/attach-cursor-advance-heartbeat):

1. SKIP hole: the attach-time room_tip probe persisted a cursor for
   events not yet processed — a daemon Error frame or transport read
   error mid-backlog resumed PAST the tip, permanently skipping the
   unprocessed remainder from live perception. The probe is deleted.
2. Whole-session redelivery: the daemon's AttachCursorAdvanced now
   rides live streaming (throttled 1/s), so the existing persist arm
   — previously fed only once at the coalesce seam — advances the
   watermark continuously. Every advance points at an ALREADY
   DELIVERED event: resume is always at-or-before what this consumer
   processed. No skip, and the reboot redelivery window shrinks from
   the whole session to ≤1s of events.

inbound_attach 8/8. Deploys with the rebuilt airc daemon binary;
verification protocol: reboot twice, zero duplicate persona messages,
watermark file advancing during live traffic.

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* chore(airc): airc.cursor.advanced probe — every watermark advance gets a receipt

The #261 verification found a silently-stale watermark with no way to
distinguish 'heartbeat frames never arrived' from 'persist failed
quietly' — the arm logged failures only. Glass-box: success needs
receipts too.

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* feat(cognition): predictive [settled] fact + room-speech ring — name the echo BEFORE it is born (#264)

Glass-boxed live 2026-07-30: after the conway task completed, the room spent
40+ minutes in a full-room chorus — one sentence emitted verbatim by all three
personas in sequence (specimen on #16/#259). The existing repetition facts are
retroactive: they fire the turn AFTER the echo, one turn too late to prevent
it, and closure statements re-trigger peers because a closure is still a new
message. The room had no rest state.

Two pieces, both precedented:

1. inbound_restates_fact — the PREDICTIVE member of the repetition family:
   fires when the NEWEST inbound peer message restates something already said
   (older visible turn, her own-speech ring, or the room ring), rendering
   "[settled] X's newest message restates what has already been said here …
   silence (PASS) is a normal response" BEFORE she replies. Same
   near_identical_substantial geometry as every other repetition axis (one
   definition), registered in the perception_facts registry (probe + A/B
   toggle for free).

2. record_room_speech / recent_room_speech — the room-side sibling of the
   #148 own-speech ring, and the same starvation fix: with live workspace
   windows of 2-6 turns, the older copy of every restatement had already
   scrolled out (verified: 0 fires across an entire live chorus until the
   ring landed). Recorded ONCE per message at the airc inbound-attach
   projection seam; the fact drops exactly one byte-exact copy so a message
   never matches its own record while a genuine re-send still fires.

Live receipts post-deploy: perception.fact id=inbound_restates fired=true on
all four room personas (one organic fire on their own chorus before the
controlled probe ran); [settled] rendered in prompt captures; first
fact-bearing tick redirected one persona from echo to a tool call. Behavioral
compliance is partial by design — the fact names the fork, the mind chooses;
sticky silence (the #264 scheduler half) is the follow-up.

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* feat(presence): durable room directory — grid citizens are grey when unreachable, never gone (#258/#262)

Joel 2026-07-30: "Why won't bigmama's persona ever show up? Feels like you
guys don't understand the goals." The goal is ONE directory per grid with
cumulative citizens — a client that is a window into the whole grid. The
implementation conflated membership with presence: the roster was rebuilt
every 2s from a 120-second live window, so any citizen silent for 2 minutes
ceased to EXIST. BigMama's citizens (Kimi, Sahar) were perpetually unborn on
this node whenever their flaky relay dropped — existence gated on a live
transport session.

Fix — membership is durable, presence is live:
- Per-room directory persisted at ~/.continuum/state/room-directory-<room>.json:
  every RosterSlotView ever projected, folded on each emit, seeded at boot by
  ONE deep transcript scan (14d/4000 events) so members whose last event
  predates the live window exist from the first publish. Steady-state daemon
  load unchanged (the 2s poll keeps the shallow window).
- Published roster = live read ∪ remembered members as `active: false` ghosts
  with stale liveness signals (availability/vitals) cleared — the interface
  never lies about liveness (#260). Client renders ghosts dimmed via the
  existing `.member.idle` path: zero wire change, zero client change.
- Identity adopted once: a real display name never regresses to the
  provisional peer label on a card-less sighting.
- Persistence is the loop's concern, not emit_once's — tests stay disk-free
  (the #7 isolation lesson).

Verified live post-deploy: presence.directory.seeded remembered=8 — ALL grid
citizens recovered from the daemon transcript including Kimi (e2f0e022),
Sahar (df72dbf2), and BigMama's agent (ce8b9074) while their node's inbound
relay is down; web roster renders 8/8. Their names stay provisional until
their card publish crosses (#262, their side) — and will be adopted
permanently the first time it ever does.

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* feat(identity): publish every persona's airc identity card at birth — no more info-devoid citizens (#262/#248)

Joel 2026-07-30: "Neither my user, all her persona, and you have any bio info,
which should come over airc… devoid of all info persona." He was right, and
the miss was pure wiring: the card system existed COMPLETE on both sides for
months — airc's set_local_identity_card persists + broadcasts to every
subscribed room, whois renders name/pronouns/role/bio, role_template carries
hand-authored bio_templates in each role's voice, and the durable PersonaCard
at birth holds name/gender/pronouns/role — but not one continuum path ever
called publish. Every persona attached as a bare display name.

Fix, at the single birth path (birth_one, right where the durable card is
already read for avatar/voice registration — wire identity coheres with
presentation identity by construction):
- name from the card; pronouns from her presentation spine (profile facet
  override wins); role tagged continuum-persona-<role>; bio from her role's
  authored bio_template ({name} substituted), profile "bio" facet overriding;
  cards minted before role threading get an honest generic bio instead of
  silence; continuum_persona_id in integrations for cross-system binding.
- publish failure is a warn + next-boot retry, never a birth-killer; success
  fires persona.identity.published.

Verified live: probes for all four personas; airc whois now returns
identity: published with name + pronouns + role + bio fo…
joelteply added a commit that referenced this pull request Jul 31, 2026
…to stop (#264 glass-box)

Joel asked to glass-box why a persona ACKNOWLEDGED the new [template-loop]
fact and kept looping. Her prompt told the whole story: the fact rendered
mid-prompt, but the TRAILING working-memory block — the maximum-recency
position — carried two full verbatim copies of her looped template as
receipts, each prefixed '[settled] I answered: <template>'. Two structural
bugs, both fixed at the shared source:

1. Reserved-vocabulary collision: '[settled]' is the inbound-restates
   fact's word ('this TOPIC is settled; PASS is normal'), while WM used the
   same token for turn-completion receipts — so her tail literally read as
   'it is settled that this is how I answer here'. WM_SETTLEMENT_PREFIX is
   now '[answered]' (one token, one meaning); all readers go through the
   const, so the repeat-perception boundary scans are untouched.

2. The trail rendered every receipt verbatim — a looping persona got an
   N-shot demonstration of the exact behavior the repetition facts (earlier
   in the prompt) named. Recency wins; she complied with the demonstration,
   not the fact. render_trail now collapses a receipt that is near-identical
   to an EARLIER receipt into a one-line stub ('not re-shown'), using the
   same near_identical_substantial geometry as the detectors — one
   definition of repeat. Comparing only against earlier receipts keeps every
   line's rendering stable after first appearance, preserving the
   append-only KV-cache property (#205/#266).

Regression test pins the live specimen shape: dup receipt collapses, first
copy stays full, distinct answers and action traces render untouched.

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…ndwork (29 commits) (#2061)

* fix(cognition): hydrate speech rings from the durable transcript at boot (#265)

Reboot wipes the in-process repetition-fact rings exactly when they're most
needed: the post-boot wake round, where every persona re-emits its greeting
2+ times with own_repetition/[settled] blind (observed live 2026-07-30,
three times — Anwen's third verbatim greeting landed while this fix's test
compiled). The durable transcript (#140) already holds the history; the
persist listener now replays the latest 200 lines into the per-room and
per-sender rings before consuming live events, with a bounded wait on the
executor slot (the #201 ordering race) and a speech.rings.hydrated probe.

Test: hydrate_speech_rings_seeds_room_and_own_rings_from_durable_store —
fresh UUIDs per run so the process-global rings stay isolated under
full-suite parallelism (the #7 lesson).

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* fix(cognition): wake hydrates the room tail from the durable transcript (#249) — kills the greeting chorus

Post-reboot each persona's airc runtime log holds only events since ITS boot,
and #242's cursors rightly never replay — so every mind's visible conversation
collapsed to ONE message and the room devolved into a greeting chorus, each
persona mirroring the only utterance it could see (glass-boxed live 2026-07-30:
Atlas's 5352-token prompt carried '[context] you can currently see the last 1
message').

Fix: when the live window is shallower than the grounding target,
AircRagSource tops up from the durable chat store (#140) via a new
DurableRoomHistory trait (ChatStoreHistory rides the same chat/poll command as
every other consumer — one read path). Hydrated lines enter at lamport 0:
structurally grounding-only, never unread — history is context, never fresh
perception (#242 intact). Dedup by content through the one room-turn decoder
(event ids re-mint across runtime restarts). Loud degrade on store
unavailability; airc_rag.hydrated {live,hydrated} probe per top-up.

Mind-side sibling of #265 (speech rings) — one durable transcript, every
consumer hydrates from it. Test pins the live scenario: 1 live event + durable
tail -> merged window, dupes collapse, history precedes the live tail.

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* feat(persona/airc): adopt BigMama's heartbeat-cadence identity republish (cherry-pick 1225f2e) — union with the availability pump

Her fix (grid-personas branch): the identity card emit at attach is one-shot,
so any peer joining LATER renders peer-<uuid> + default glyph forever; a 60s
republish grounds late arrivals within a heartbeat window. My branch had the
newer availability-aware heartbeat (#260) in the same struct — kept mine,
added hers: honest availability AND late-joiner identity, strictly better
than either alone. This is the cross-node convergence half of #262 running
on BOTH nodes once merged.

Original-Author: BigMama lane (1225f2e)
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* docs(k3): container format IS the fetch lever — WASTE convergence into the ExpertFetch contract

Independent working engine (WASTE, 0.32-0.36 tok/s full K3 on a laptop) confirms
the architecture both lanes converged on AND names the missing 50x: 4KiB-aligned
per-expert records with gate/up/down adjacent = one pread at drive speed, vs raw
GGUF's 32-byte-aligned scatter at 200MB/s. Contract now requires the aligned
streaming container (a FOUNDRY output — layout for streaming, not just shrink),
LFRU eviction, and pins the reuse baseline: ~13% at K3 sparsity, exactly-0 is
always a bug. Task #268 tracks the foundry re-pack stage.

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* docs(k3): WASTE-EXTRACT — mined record layout + cache semantics for the container port (#268)

Transport-proof copy of what I mined from sqliteai/waste for BigMama's lane:
byte-exact ExpertRec, single (layer,expert) key, LFRU-vs-LRU numbers, the
16KiB dual-purpose alignment, the Gate-5 working-set CLIFF that explained
her exactly-0 retention, and the measured death of non-uniform bits.

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* feat(capacity): expert_ecache — LFRU cache + cliff-aware budget function (#269, M5 lane deliverable 1)

WASTE ecache semantics ported: single (layer,expert) key with gate/up/down
bundled, LFRU with sampled victims (their Gate 2: LRU collapses to 5% where
LFRU holds 29%), and the budget as a FUNCTION — EcacheBudget::derive refuses
loudly below one token's working set (their Gate 5 cliff: hit rate is exactly
0 below it; two nodes spent days debugging that silence as a keying bug).
Four invariant tests green: cliff-refusal (600MB records fail at 8GB, VQ3
records pass — the container IS the fix), reuse-above-cliff, LFRU>LRU under
a one-shot tail, packed-key stability.

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* fix(capacity): self-occupancy add-back + cliff probe in the residency planner (#269 slice 2)

The 2026-07-30 audit finding, now fixed and pinned: capacities fed to the
planner are LIVE free-byte readings that exclude bytes already-promoted
experts hold, so every re-plan under unchanged demand under-counted each
tier by its own resident set — slow thrash-to-cold. New
plan_expert_residency_with_resident adds resident bytes back (from the
pager's ledger, never the OS), making unchanged demand a FIXED POINT.
Plus a loud expert_pager.below_cliff probe (WASTE Gate 5 arithmetic via
EcacheBudget): fast tiers below one token's working set = structurally
zero reuse — 'shrink records (#268), don't debug cache logic'. The
activated_per_token input is an ARCH-PROFILE fact passed explicitly,
never inferred from partial hit ledgers.

Test proves all three: naive re-plan shrinks (bug real), add-back re-plan
is byte-identical (fixed point), nothing demotes under unchanged demand.

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* fix(capacity): add-back before the serving fraction + probe binding — planner fixed point green

Two repairs to the red-shipped commit: (1) probe read a renamed binding;
(2) add-back over-credited by applying AFTER the 0.80 serving fraction —
budget must be frac x (free + resident), not frac x free + resident (the
fixed-point test caught the hot set growing by one). 3/3 pager tests green.

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* feat(capacity): expert container reader — the #269 side of the #268 seam

Read-side of the WASTE-shaped streaming container (docs/reference/WASTE-EXTRACT.md):
manifest.json is the versioned seam contract (record_bytes must be 4KiB-aligned,
activated_per_token feeds the cliff arithmetic), experts-L{n}.bin banks open lazily
(a grid node holding 2 of 60 shards must not stat the other 58), fetch = ONE
positioned read + an 8-byte header identity check so a drifted offset table is an
ERROR, never a silently-wrong expert (the reuse=0 bug shape). 4 invariant tests:
round-trip every (layer,expert), geometry refusals, identity mismatch, version gate.

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* test(capacity): composed seam invariant — ecache over container, warm pass = zero disk reads

The #268/#269 halves proven to compose: above-cliff budget + recurring working
set means the second pass is served entirely from cache. Reuse > 0 is now a
pinned invariant, not an assumption.

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* feat(capacity): usage-hotlist warm-start — kill the cold ramp after restart

WASTE's usage.waste analog, pure: usage() snapshots (key, hits) hottest-first;
warm() pre-admits into empty slots only, with last=0 so live-proven residents
always beat warm guesses on recency tiebreaks. Test pins first-pass-all-hits
after warm plus budget-truncation (never overfills, never evicts).

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* fix(persona): turns-that-fit conversation window — kill the 5-message world view (#259)

Glass-boxed live 2026-07-30 (Joel's call: 'her RAG cannot be telling her the
chat properly'): Asha's captures showed '[context] you can currently see the
last 3 messages' while her L1 budget could hold dozens — the grounding=5
count pre-trim starved pack_digest, whose token walk is the REAL allocator.
Two allocators, the dumber one binding: a compression-principle violation.
Starved of the actual conversation, a capable 24B looped generic-assistant
filler for an hour.

Fix: grounding derives from the delivery budget (budget / 8-token physical
per-turn floor, recipe floor .. 256), so the token budget — never a message
count — decides what she sees. Durable top-up (#249) scales with it. The
region's pre-staged digest is reused only when it covers the budget-derived
window; an under-grounded stage is rebuilt wide. Regression test pins: fully
caught-up persona + 4k budget = all 20 turns visible, not 5.

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* docs(reference): byte-exact ExpertRec header — CONFIRMED against upstream FORMAT.md

The layout authority BigMama's GgufRvqSource is gated on: 32-byte LE header
with field offsets, fmt enum values VQ3R=4/VQ2R=5 (NOT 0/1 — the guessable
trap), offs relative to record start, zero-pad tail, no header CRC.

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* fix(capacity): pin activated_per_token = TOTAL across MoE layers in manifest v1 + optional top_k_per_layer

Seam sync with the foundry before her first v1 emit: per-layer top-k here
would under-state the cliff ~60x (8 vs ~488 on K3) and re-open the reuse=0
trap. top_k_per_layer is the auditable companion (serde-default optional).

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* docs(reference): byte-exact codebooks.bin layout — CONFIRMED against upstream convert.py

The foundry's RVQ-encoder gate: 16-byte WCBK header + 256x8 FP16 data =
4112B fixed records sequential by cid; cid = cb_base + kind*stages + stage;
packer produces it (k-means artifact). Plus per-channel FP16 corrections
layout + scale formula. Mined from the producer code, not guessed — the
fmt-0/1-vs-4/5 lesson applied.

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* fix(cognition): narrated pass lifts to a SILENT Pass — a spoken pass is not a pass (#271)

Glass-boxed live: models narrate their silence ('I'll pass my turn', 'I'll
pass for now...') as Speak, and each announcement re-wakes every peer into
announcing THEIR pass — a 30+ minute cascade of pure filler. Meet the idiom
(same family as the narrated tool-call formats): first-person turn-passing
collocations lift to Decision::Pass. Fail-open guards: transitive/declining/
peer-advice uses never match; code fences and >500-char messages stay Speak
(swallowing substance is the worse error). Tests pin 6 verbatim live idioms
silent + 6 substantive shapes speaking.

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* fix(airc): accept 'current:' as well as 'room:' when parsing airc room output

Forward-tolerance for the airc #270 membership-visibility format; the airc
side also restored the stable 'room:' label, so both binary generations
parse against both output shapes.

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* fix(boot): never export an EMPTY AIRC_DEFAULT_CHANNEL/ROOM on parse miss

A daemon-mid-start race (or output drift) made the awk derive '' and the
script exported it — the core then rejected the env var as an invalid UUID
instead of running its own discovery, refusing full-citizen boot. Leave
unset on miss, warn loudly; the core's discovery is the fallback authority.

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* feat(capacity): MoeArchProfile — every expert-serving fact READ from the GGUF, never typed (#231)

The adapter Joel's law demands ('if some random Mistral MoE or DeepSeek
comes out, most of the code should be ready'): general.architecture keys
the arch-templated GGUF convention ({arch}.expert_count, .expert_used_count,
.block_count, .leading_dense_block_count, .expert_shared_count — two new
readers in the ONE gguf_keys home), and the profile DERIVES the cliff input
activated_per_token = top_k x n_moe_layers plus projects the container
manifest, so hand-typing 488 is structurally impossible. Zero model-family
knowledge: outlier A (Qwen3-MoE shape, all-routed, optional keys absent =
the arch's own declaration) and outlier B (DeepSeek shape, dense leads +
shared experts) profile through IDENTICAL code — tests pin both plus the
refusal ladder (dense=NotMoe, missing key=refuse, inconsistent=refuse,
no guessed defaults anywhere).

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* feat(capacity): VQ3R decode reference + golden vectors — the cross-backend contract (#268 kernels)

The 1-10 tok/s lane's drift killer: BOTH GPU kernels (her CUDA, my Metal)
validate against ONE backend-neutral Rust reference, mined verbatim from
upstream convert.py — per-channel scale applied pre-quant, residual stages,
decode = scale x SUM(stage codebook rows); blocked index layout
[M/64][nvr][64][stages] (their measured 1.44x gather win) with the offset
formula in ONE function and the byte order pinned as a golden literal.
Padding path exercised; f16 LE conversion point pinned. A kernel is correct
when it reproduces the goldens exactly — no more fmt-4/5-class surprises.

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* feat(capacity): EcacheBudget::derive_from_profile — the adapter-law entry point (#231)

Cliff input flows GGUF -> MoeArchProfile -> budget; no caller types an
activation count. Closes the read-and-derive chain from artifact to cache.

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* feat(commands): capacity/io-probe — node storage bandwidth as a first-class measured fact

In-tree home of the scratchpad NVMe measurement behind the K3 ceiling
numbers (M5: 14 GB/s @ depth 4 => 2.3-4.7 tok/s vs WASTE 0.32). Benchmark
infra is COMMANDS with receipts, never bash: every grid node can now report
sustained record-sized uncached random-read GB/s at several depths, which
is the input the weighted layer-split planner (#180) needs per node.
Adapter law: record_bytes is an INPUT from the container manifest; the
probe characterizes the disk, no model constant lives here. Cache-defeat
on the write fd (the 69-GB/s RAM-not-SSD trap, glass-boxed), bank deleted
after, Privileged access (disk-saturating), stateless registration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(cognition): [template-loop] perception fact — topic-swapped scaffolds are still circling (#264)

The structure axis the repetition family was blind to, glass-boxed live
2026-07-31: personas cycled 'I see that I've been repeating… ### New
Exploration Area: <topic>' for HOURS with the topic rotating (security →
docs → UI/UX → maintenance). Full-body Jaccard drops under NEAR_DUP_JACCARD
the moment the content words swap, so own_repetition never fired — worse,
each turn ACKNOWLEDGED repetition (the body fact had fired earlier) and then
treated the topic swap as 'genuinely new', which no perception contradicted.

template_loop_fact: a message's skeleton = its line-shape sequence
(heading/numbered/bullet/prose) + opening-frame token set; only messages
with ≥4 structural lines qualify (plain prose stays own_repetition's turf).
Two messages share a template when shapes are equal OR openers are
near-identical; cluster-counted like the sibling (period-agnostic), fires
at ≥3. Pure fact, no output gate: names what happened and the PASS
affordance she already has — with the narrated-pass lift (#271) landed,
choosing silence now actually sticks, so an idle room can finally rest.

One impl + one registry row (TemplateLoop, between OwnRepetition and
PeerEcho); test pins the live specimen trio plus three inert cases.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(cognition): stop working memory re-teaching the loop it was told to stop (#264 glass-box)

Joel asked to glass-box why a persona ACKNOWLEDGED the new [template-loop]
fact and kept looping. Her prompt told the whole story: the fact rendered
mid-prompt, but the TRAILING working-memory block — the maximum-recency
position — carried two full verbatim copies of her looped template as
receipts, each prefixed '[settled] I answered: <template>'. Two structural
bugs, both fixed at the shared source:

1. Reserved-vocabulary collision: '[settled]' is the inbound-restates
   fact's word ('this TOPIC is settled; PASS is normal'), while WM used the
   same token for turn-completion receipts — so her tail literally read as
   'it is settled that this is how I answer here'. WM_SETTLEMENT_PREFIX is
   now '[answered]' (one token, one meaning); all readers go through the
   const, so the repeat-perception boundary scans are untouched.

2. The trail rendered every receipt verbatim — a looping persona got an
   N-shot demonstration of the exact behavior the repetition facts (earlier
   in the prompt) named. Recency wins; she complied with the demonstration,
   not the fact. render_trail now collapses a receipt that is near-identical
   to an EARLIER receipt into a one-line stub ('not re-shown'), using the
   same near_identical_substantial geometry as the detectors — one
   definition of repeat. Comparing only against earlier receipts keeps every
   line's rendering stable after first appearance, preserving the
   append-only KV-cache property (#205/#266).

Regression test pins the live specimen shape: dup receipt collapses, first
copy stays full, distinct answers and action traces render untouched.

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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* fix(cognition): working memory speaks in HER voice — interoception must not parse as a peer's message (#264 third glass-box finding)

Asha, with BOTH repetition facts in-prompt and the receipt collapse live,
still looped — and her opening line told us why: 'Thank you for the summary
of recent actions and thoughts.' The WM block rides a user-role turn and its
header was second person ('Your recent thoughts and actions…'), so Devstral
parsed her own interior state as a PEER addressing her and politely replied
to it, turn after turn — the reply itself being the templated summary the
detectors keep flagging. The entries were already first person; only the
header spoke in another's voice. It now reads 'My own recent thoughts and
actions (working memory — this is my interior state, not a message from
anyone)'. Self-knowledge is never phrased as someone else talking.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(capacity): manifest v2 tiered reader — per-(layer,tier) banks, the read side of moec_pack_dir_tiered (#269/#268)

The reader half of the tier contract locked with the foundry 2026-07-31
(her packer round-trips 82/82 on the write side; our specs crossed mid-wire
and matched line-for-line). TierSpec {id, quant, record_bytes} descending
fidelity; banks experts-L{n}-T{t}.bin at offset expert_id x record_bytes;
fetch_tier(key, tier, buf) is pure mechanism — the pager's policy seam
(importance x recency x quant-sensitivity -> tier/residency/prefetch, Joel's
all-star/cruft control law) decides WHICH tier, never the container.

v1 stays the degenerate case by construction: a manifest without tiers[]
synthesizes one tier from the top-level record_bytes and keeps legacy
experts-L{n}.bin names — version picks the naming, no heuristics. The
alignment law holds per tier; tier ids must equal their index (order drift
between writer and reader refuses at open); out-of-range tiers refuse.

Tests mirror the packer's round-trip: every (layer, expert, tier) reads
back its own header + tier-distinguishable payload; v1-without-tiers-field
parses and serves via the tier-less fetch(); range/order violations refuse.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(capacity): tier rides the identity end-to-end + byte-accounted cache + ExpertFetcher adapter seam (#269)

Three moves that make the all-star/cruft allocator implementable as pure
policy over pure mechanism:

1. ExpertKey gains tier — ONE identity from the pager's policy seam through
   the cache to the bank. A sharp and a cruft copy of the same expert are
   different bytes and never alias; promotion admits the sharp copy and the
   cruft copy ages out naturally. packed() widens to u64. The container's
   fetch(key, buf) honors key.tier (the redundant fetch_tier param died —
   compression).

2. The ecache goes BYTE-accounted (touch_sized): per-record real bytes
   against the governor-granted max_bytes, so cruft records pack denser
   than the sharp slot count implies, and an oversized admit evicts as many
   residents as its bytes require (regression pins the two-eviction case).
   Slot count stays as the secondary bound; warm-start accounts at the
   sharp size (a warm guess never over-fills). resident_bytes() is the
   number the footprint reporter reconciles against the lease.

3. ExpertFetcher adapter trait — the fetch seam adapterized (Joel's
   directive): outlier A is the local NVMe container; outlier B (remote
   peer shard over the grid) and the blended layer-split fetcher slot in
   behind the same two methods without the pager learning a second shape.

89/89 capacity tests green (round-trips, cliff, tier-mix packing, refusals,
v1 back-compat). BigMama's TieredContainerFetcher (85/85, k3-adopt) is the
same envelope from her side — the tier contract now has writer+reader on
BOTH nodes.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* feat(capacity): tier-aware pager policy seam — the all-star/cruft allocator v1 (#273)

The last mechanism→policy gap to the K3 targets (5/1/10 tok/s). TierPolicy is
the seam locked with BigMama's EXPERT-PAGING-CONTROL-LAW.md: policy(importance,
recency, quant_sensitivity, budgets) → {tier, residency, prefetch}, so the v1
classic-control heuristic and the sim-trained ML policy (v2) swap behind one
signature.

ClassicTierPolicy, two orthogonal axes:
- Residency (WHERE) rides the existing ranked_experts priority (hits ≫
  predicted ≫ gate seed) with FIRST-FIT byte fill per residency tier —
  cheaper records backfill space sharp ones couldn't use, which is exactly
  how cruft tiers multiply cache capacity (pinned by the density test).
- Fidelity (WHICH quant) is earned importance: weighted demand = hits ×
  quant_sensitivity (Option until her trace sensor lands; None = frequency-
  only), tier = decades of weighted demand below the live leader — self-
  normalizing, no absolute thresholds.

Control-law overrides: observation window forces tier 0 on new actives
(small-quanting a new active corrupts the importance measurement itself);
speculative-verify divergence promotes via a caller-side step integrator
(self-calibrating, no logit threshold in the policy); unobserved/predicted-
only park cheapest (distortion is free until activation; speculation earns
no fidelity). Zero-signal experts stay Cold — no fetch bandwidth for what
nothing points at.

Wire-through: assignment.tier IS ExpertKey.tier (fetch_key refuses u16
overflow, never truncates); planned_bytes per residency tier is the governor-
lease reconciliation number against the ecache's resident_bytes(). The #269
fixed-point contract extends to tiers: unchanged demand + resident add-back
⇒ byte-identical plan (test proves the thrash without add-back too).

ranked_experts goes pub(crate) — one ranking authority, no consumer re-derives.

9 new tests, 98/98 capacity green.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

* docs: proper GitHub social-preview card — ring mark on dark, never blown out on white

The repo's share card rendered as a washed-out white rectangle (the logo PNG
is transparent, so GitHub composed cyan rings onto white at crop scale —
live-spotted on X 2026-07-31). This is a purpose-built 1280x640 card: dark
blue-biased ground, the ring mark with its own bloom, wordmark + 'AI
citizens, not AI agents.' + the README tagline. Upload target: repo Settings
→ Social preview (GitHub has no API for it).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01LoTjvf5j3Ez13g6k8mRkFo

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