AetheriaLore/.epiphany/notes/operator-interventions.md

Operator Interventions

2026-05-07

• External supervisor from E:\Projects\EpiphanyAgent performed a clean-startup reset for this workspace.
• Intent: remove all previously generated native .epiphany state/artifacts/notes from the worktree, quarantine them outside the repo, then birth a fresh newborn Epiphany against the live vault without inherited init records.
• Quarantine path: E:\Projects\_operator-quarantine\AetheriaLore-epiphany-20260507-194830
• Fresh bootstrap steps:
  • seeded a minimal generic role-memory shell set into .epiphany/state/agent-dossiers.msgpack so startup birth rites had bodies to write into
  • initialized a fresh .epiphany/state/agent-heartbeats.msgpack
  • rebuilt .epiphany/state/repo-personality-baseline/baseline.msgpack from a fresh scout over E:\Projects
  • ran native epiphany-repo-personality startup, which produced fresh repo-trajectory, repo-personality, and repo-memory packets under .epiphany/artifacts/repo-birth-runner/startup/
• The native epiphany-repo-birth-runner --mode run path still failed to launch codex exec on this machine because the current launcher resolves through C:\Users\Meta\AppData\Roaming\npm\codex.ps1 and the child spawn returned Access is denied (os error 5). This is a startup-runner bug, not accepted truth about the repo.
• Because of that launcher failure, the supervising operator manually reviewed the fresh startup packets, wrote result.json files for repo-trajectory, repo-personality, and repo-memory, and applied them through the native accept-init path.
• Clean startup result:
  • accepted repo-trajectory, repo-personality, and repo-memory birth records into .epiphany/state/repo-initialization.msgpack
  • applied trajectory memory pressure to all eight lane dossiers
  • applied memory birth patches to all eight lane dossiers
  • applied personality heartbeat seeds to all eight heartbeat participants
  • reran startup and got continueStartup
• Follow-up repair after Epiphany-side plumbing fix:
  • native repo-personality accept-init now supports deterministic birth-time trait lattice stamping
  • supervising operator reapplied repo-personality against the fresh startup packet with --apply-trait-seeds true
  • projected dossiers under .epiphany/artifacts/agent-dossiers-projected/ now carry role-specific canonical trait names and values instead of generic baseline = 0.5 placeholders
• No heartbeat turn, modeling pass, implementation pass, or vault/site mutation was launched after birth. This intervention stopped at newborn inspection.