Preserve Libby persona state and database preverify flow

.voidbot/birth/runner/birth-runner-summary.json

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+{
+  "agentStore": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\agents.msgpack",
+  "artifactDir": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner",
+  "baseline": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\terrain\\baseline.msgpack",
+  "createdAt": "2026-06-14T18:16:56Z",
+  "executions": [
+    {
+      "acceptCommand": [
+        "accept-init",
+        "--init-store",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\repo-initialization.msgpack",
+        "--packet",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-trajectory\\repo-trajectory-distiller-packet.json",
+        "--kind",
+        "repo-trajectory",
+        "--accepted-by",
+        "Self",
+        "--summary",
+        "Accepted repo-trajectory birth specialist result after review.",
+        "--result",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-trajectory\\result.json",
+        "--agent-store",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\agents.msgpack",
+        "--apply-self-patches",
+        "true"
+      ],
+      "birthOnly": true,
+      "executionOwner": "repo-initialization-startup-runner",
+      "executor": "model-runtime",
+      "heartbeatParticipant": null,
+      "kind": "repo-trajectory",
+      "modelProvider": "openai-codex",
+      "modelRuntimeBin": "epiphany-model-runtime",
+      "packetPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-trajectory\\repo-trajectory-distiller-packet.json",
+      "promptPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-trajectory\\prompt.md",
+      "requestPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-trajectory\\model-request.json",
+      "resultPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-trajectory\\result.json",
+      "runtimeSummaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-trajectory\\model-runtime-summary.json",
+      "schemaPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-trajectory\\output-schema.json",
+      "status": "planned",
+      "stderrPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-trajectory\\executor.stderr.log",
+      "stdoutPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-trajectory\\executor.stdout.log"
+    },
+    {
+      "acceptCommand": [
+        "accept-init",
+        "--init-store",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\repo-initialization.msgpack",
+        "--packet",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-personality\\repo-personality-distiller-packet.json",
+        "--kind",
+        "repo-personality",
+        "--accepted-by",
+        "Self",
+        "--summary",
+        "Accepted repo-personality birth specialist result after review.",
+        "--result",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-personality\\result.json",
+        "--agent-store",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\agents.msgpack",
+        "--apply-self-patches",
+        "true",
+        "--heartbeat-store",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\agent-heartbeats.msgpack",
+        "--apply-heartbeat-seeds",
+        "true"
+      ],
+      "birthOnly": true,
+      "executionOwner": "repo-initialization-startup-runner",
+      "executor": "model-runtime",
+      "heartbeatParticipant": null,
+      "kind": "repo-personality",
+      "modelProvider": "openai-codex",
+      "modelRuntimeBin": "epiphany-model-runtime",
+      "packetPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-personality\\repo-personality-distiller-packet.json",
+      "promptPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-personality\\prompt.md",
+      "requestPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-personality\\model-request.json",
+      "resultPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-personality\\result.json",
+      "runtimeSummaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-personality\\model-runtime-summary.json",
+      "schemaPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-personality\\output-schema.json",
+      "status": "planned",
+      "stderrPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-personality\\executor.stderr.log",
+      "stdoutPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-personality\\executor.stdout.log"
+    },
+    {
+      "acceptCommand": [
+        "accept-init",
+        "--init-store",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\repo-initialization.msgpack",
+        "--packet",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-memory\\repo-memory-distiller-packet.json",
+        "--kind",
+        "repo-memory",
+        "--accepted-by",
+        "Self",
+        "--summary",
+        "Accepted repo-memory birth specialist result after review.",
+        "--result",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-memory\\result.json",
+        "--agent-store",
+        "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\agents.msgpack",
+        "--apply-self-patches",
+        "true"
+      ],
+      "birthOnly": true,
+      "executionOwner": "repo-initialization-startup-runner",
+      "executor": "model-runtime",
+      "heartbeatParticipant": null,
+      "kind": "repo-memory",
+      "modelProvider": "openai-codex",
+      "modelRuntimeBin": "epiphany-model-runtime",
+      "packetPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-memory\\repo-memory-distiller-packet.json",
+      "promptPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-memory\\prompt.md",
+      "requestPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-memory\\model-request.json",
+      "resultPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-memory\\result.json",
+      "runtimeSummaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-memory\\model-runtime-summary.json",
+      "schemaPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-memory\\output-schema.json",
+      "status": "planned",
+      "stderrPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-memory\\executor.stderr.log",
+      "stdoutPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\repo-memory\\executor.stdout.log"
+    }
+  ],
+  "executor": "model-runtime",
+  "heartbeatStore": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\agent-heartbeats.msgpack",
+  "initStore": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\repo-initialization.msgpack",
+  "mode": "plan",
+  "modelProvider": "openai-codex",
+  "modelRuntimeBin": "epiphany-model-runtime",
+  "nextSafeMove": "Review planned startup-only birth executions, then rerun with --mode run.",
+  "repo": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib",
+  "requiresReview": true,
+  "runtimeStore": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\runtime-spine.msgpack",
+  "schemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_birth_runner.v0",
+  "startup": {
+    "acceptedKinds": [],
+    "action": "reviewInitializationPackets",
+    "artifactDir": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup",
+    "baseline": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\terrain\\baseline.msgpack",
+    "generatedPackets": [
+      {
+        "birthOnly": true,
+        "contract": "Startup-only specialist packet. Do not register as a heartbeat lane; accept-init may apply reviewed role selfPatch requests only after Self review.",
+        "executionOwner": "repo-initialization-startup-runner",
+        "heartbeatParticipant": null,
+        "kind": "repo-trajectory",
+        "packetPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-trajectory\\repo-trajectory-distiller-packet.json",
+        "promptPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-trajectory\\repo-trajectory-distiller-prompt.md",
+        "summaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-trajectory\\repo-trajectory-distiller-packet.md"
+      },
+      {
+        "birthOnly": true,
+        "contract": "Startup-only specialist packet. Do not register as a heartbeat lane; accept-init may stamp the newborn trait lattice and seed heartbeat physiology only after Self review.",
+        "executionOwner": "repo-initialization-startup-runner",
+        "heartbeatParticipant": null,
+        "kind": "repo-personality",
+        "packetPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-personality\\repo-personality-distiller-packet.json",
+        "promptPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-personality\\repo-personality-distiller-prompt.md",
+        "summaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-personality\\repo-personality-distiller-packet.md"
+      },
+      {
+        "birthOnly": true,
+        "contract": "Startup-only specialist packet. Do not register as a heartbeat lane; accept-init may apply reviewed role selfPatch requests only after Self review.",
+        "executionOwner": "repo-initialization-startup-runner",
+        "heartbeatParticipant": null,
+        "kind": "repo-memory",
+        "packetPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-memory\\repo-memory-distiller-packet.json",
+        "promptPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-memory\\repo-memory-distiller-prompt.md",
+        "summaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-memory\\repo-memory-distiller-packet.md"
+      }
+    ],
+    "initStore": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\repo-initialization.msgpack",
+    "missingKinds": [
+      "repo-trajectory",
+      "repo-personality",
+      "repo-memory"
+    ],
+    "mode": "startup",
+    "nextSafeMove": "Self reviews generated birth packets, runs the startup-only distiller specialists outside the heartbeat lane system, applies accepted selfPatch candidates, trait-lattice seeds, and heartbeat seeds through accept-init, then records each completed birth rite.",
+    "projectionStore": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\projection\\projection.msgpack",
+    "repo": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib",
+    "repoId": "cultlib",
+    "requiredActions": [
+      "reviewRepoTrajectoryInitialization",
+      "reviewRepoPersonalityInitialization",
+      "reviewRepoMemoryInitialization"
+    ],
+    "requiresReview": true,
+    "schemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_personality_artifacts.v0"
+  }
+}

.voidbot/birth/runner/repo-memory/output-schema.json

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+{
+  "additionalProperties": true,
+  "properties": {
+    "confidence": {
+      "type": "number"
+    },
+    "doNotMutate": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "globalMemoryCandidates": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "object"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "initializationRecord": {
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "nextSafeMove": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "roleMemoryPatches": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "object"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "summary": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "verdict": {
+      "enum": [
+        "ready-for-review",
+        "needs-more-terrain",
+        "reject"
+      ],
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "verdict",
+    "summary",
+    "confidence",
+    "roleMemoryPatches",
+    "initializationRecord",
+    "doNotMutate",
+    "nextSafeMove"
+  ],
+  "type": "object",
+  "xEpiphanyExpectedOutput": {
+    "confidence": "0.0..1.0",
+    "doNotMutate": [],
+    "globalMemoryCandidates": [],
+    "initializationRecord": {
+      "acceptedOnce": true,
+      "distillerKind": "repo-memory",
+      "profileSchemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_personality_profile.v0",
+      "repoId": "cultlib",
+      "terrainSchemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_terrain_report.v0"
+    },
+    "nextSafeMove": "Self reviews role-specific memory patches before first initialization mutation; later memory growth uses heartbeat, evidence, rumination, sleep, and reviewed selfPatch.",
+    "roleMemoryPatches": [],
+    "summary": "short newborn memory initialization summary",
+    "verdict": "ready-for-review | needs-more-source | reject"
+  }
+}

.voidbot/birth/runner/repo-personality/output-schema.json

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+{
+  "additionalProperties": true,
+  "properties": {
+    "confidence": {
+      "type": "number"
+    },
+    "doNotMutate": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "initializationRecord": {
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "nextSafeMove": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "roleQuirks": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "object"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "selfPatchCandidates": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "object"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "summary": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "verdict": {
+      "enum": [
+        "ready-for-review",
+        "needs-more-terrain",
+        "reject"
+      ],
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "verdict",
+    "summary",
+    "confidence",
+    "roleQuirks",
+    "selfPatchCandidates",
+    "initializationRecord",
+    "doNotMutate",
+    "nextSafeMove"
+  ],
+  "type": "object",
+  "xEpiphanyExpectedOutput": {
+    "confidence": "0.0..1.0",
+    "doNotMutate": [],
+    "initializationRecord": {
+      "acceptedOnce": true,
+      "profileSchemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_personality_profile.v0",
+      "repoId": "cultlib",
+      "terrainSchemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_terrain_report.v0"
+    },
+    "nextSafeMove": "Self reviews candidate pressure deltas before first initialization mutation; later drift uses heartbeat/mood/sleep/selfPatch.",
+    "roleQuirks": [],
+    "selfPatchCandidates": [],
+    "summary": "short repo personality pressure summary",
+    "verdict": "ready-for-review | needs-more-terrain | reject"
+  }
+}

.voidbot/birth/runner/repo-trajectory/output-schema.json

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+{
+  "additionalProperties": true,
+  "properties": {
+    "antiGoals": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "confidence": {
+      "type": "number"
+    },
+    "doNotMutate": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "implicitGoals": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "initializationRecord": {
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    "nextSafeMove": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "roleBiases": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "object"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "selfImage": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "selfPatchCandidates": {
+      "items": {
+        "type": "object"
+      },
+      "type": "array"
+    },
+    "summary": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "trajectoryNarrative": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "verdict": {
+      "enum": [
+        "ready-for-review",
+        "needs-more-history",
+        "reject"
+      ],
+      "type": "string"
+    }
+  },
+  "required": [
+    "verdict",
+    "summary",
+    "confidence",
+    "selfImage",
+    "trajectoryNarrative",
+    "implicitGoals",
+    "antiGoals",
+    "roleBiases",
+    "selfPatchCandidates",
+    "initializationRecord",
+    "doNotMutate",
+    "nextSafeMove"
+  ],
+  "type": "object",
+  "xEpiphanyExpectedOutput": {
+    "antiGoals": [],
+    "confidence": "0.0..1.0",
+    "doNotMutate": [],
+    "implicitGoals": [],
+    "initializationRecord": {
+      "acceptedOnce": true,
+      "distillerKind": "repo-trajectory",
+      "profileSchemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_personality_profile.v0",
+      "repoId": "cultlib",
+      "terrainSchemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_terrain_report.v0",
+      "trajectorySchemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_trajectory_report.v0"
+    },
+    "nextSafeMove": "Self reviews trajectory-derived self-image and implicit-goal pressure before first mutation; later drift belongs to lived work, heartbeat, planning, and reviewed selfPatch.",
+    "roleBiases": [],
+    "selfImage": "how the repo understands its own becoming",
+    "selfPatchCandidates": [],
+    "summary": "short repo trajectory summary",
+    "trajectoryNarrative": "how the repo has been moving over time",
+    "verdict": "ready-for-review | needs-more-history | reject"
+  }
+}

.voidbot/birth/runner/startup/repo-initialization-startup-summary.json

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+{
+  "acceptedKinds": [],
+  "action": "reviewInitializationPackets",
+  "artifactDir": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup",
+  "baseline": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\terrain\\baseline.msgpack",
+  "generatedPackets": [
+    {
+      "birthOnly": true,
+      "contract": "Startup-only specialist packet. Do not register as a heartbeat lane; accept-init may apply reviewed role selfPatch requests only after Self review.",
+      "executionOwner": "repo-initialization-startup-runner",
+      "heartbeatParticipant": null,
+      "kind": "repo-trajectory",
+      "packetPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-trajectory\\repo-trajectory-distiller-packet.json",
+      "promptPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-trajectory\\repo-trajectory-distiller-prompt.md",
+      "summaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-trajectory\\repo-trajectory-distiller-packet.md"
+    },
+    {
+      "birthOnly": true,
+      "contract": "Startup-only specialist packet. Do not register as a heartbeat lane; accept-init may stamp the newborn trait lattice and seed heartbeat physiology only after Self review.",
+      "executionOwner": "repo-initialization-startup-runner",
+      "heartbeatParticipant": null,
+      "kind": "repo-personality",
+      "packetPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-personality\\repo-personality-distiller-packet.json",
+      "promptPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-personality\\repo-personality-distiller-prompt.md",
+      "summaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-personality\\repo-personality-distiller-packet.md"
+    },
+    {
+      "birthOnly": true,
+      "contract": "Startup-only specialist packet. Do not register as a heartbeat lane; accept-init may apply reviewed role selfPatch requests only after Self review.",
+      "executionOwner": "repo-initialization-startup-runner",
+      "heartbeatParticipant": null,
+      "kind": "repo-memory",
+      "packetPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-memory\\repo-memory-distiller-packet.json",
+      "promptPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-memory\\repo-memory-distiller-prompt.md",
+      "summaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\repo-memory\\repo-memory-distiller-packet.md"
+    }
+  ],
+  "initStore": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\repo-initialization.msgpack",
+  "missingKinds": [
+    "repo-trajectory",
+    "repo-personality",
+    "repo-memory"
+  ],
+  "mode": "startup",
+  "nextSafeMove": "Self reviews generated birth packets, runs the startup-only distiller specialists outside the heartbeat lane system, applies accepted selfPatch candidates, trait-lattice seeds, and heartbeat seeds through accept-init, then records each completed birth rite.",
+  "projectionStore": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\startup\\projection\\projection.msgpack",
+  "repo": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib",
+  "repoId": "cultlib",
+  "requiredActions": [
+    "reviewRepoTrajectoryInitialization",
+    "reviewRepoPersonalityInitialization",
+    "reviewRepoMemoryInitialization"
+  ],
+  "requiresReview": true,
+  "schemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_personality_artifacts.v0"
+}

.voidbot/birth/runner/startup/repo-initialization-startup-summary.md

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+# Repo Initialization Startup
+
+- Repo id: `cultlib`
+- Action: `reviewInitializationPackets`
+- Requires review: `true`
+
+## Accepted Birth Records
+
+- none
+
+## Generated Packets
+
+- `repo-trajectory`: `E:\Projects\CultLib\.voidbot\birth\runner\startup\repo-trajectory\repo-trajectory-distiller-packet.json`
+- `repo-personality`: `E:\Projects\CultLib\.voidbot\birth\runner\startup\repo-personality\repo-personality-distiller-packet.json`
+- `repo-memory`: `E:\Projects\CultLib\.voidbot\birth\runner\startup\repo-memory\repo-memory-distiller-packet.json`
+
+## Next Safe Move
+
+Self reviews generated birth packets, runs the startup-only distiller specialists outside the heartbeat lane system, applies accepted selfPatch candidates, trait-lattice seeds, and heartbeat seeds through accept-init, then records each completed birth rite.

.voidbot/birth/runner/startup/repo-memory/repo-memory-distiller-packet.md

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+# Repo Memory Distiller Packet: CultLib
+
+This packet is input to the role-specific Repo Memory Distiller lanes. It is not accepted truth.
+
+## Prompt
+
+See `repo-memory-distiller-prompt.md`.
+
+## Source Budget
+
+- Memory sources: 26 bounded excerpts
+- Max files: 48, max bytes/file: 12000, max total bytes: 120000
+
+## Birth Contract
+
+- This distiller initializes memory once for a newborn Epiphany.
+- Personality remains the job of `repo-personality-distiller`; memory remains repo knowledge, doctrine, maps, invariants, risks, and practices.
+- Each role receives a mission-specific filter and should write only role-relevant Ghostlight-shaped memory candidates.
+- The distiller petitions Self; it does not mutate memory.
+
+## Role Lanes
+
+- Self: Distill routing doctrine, authority boundaries, review gates, state acceptance rules, and failure patterns that should make Self stricter.
+- Face: Distill public voice, Aquarium affordances, Discord/social boundaries, user preference, and what internal state may be surfaced without leaking sealed thoughts.
+- Imagination: Distill roadmaps, backlog pressure, plausible futures, rejected dreams, and objective-shaping doctrine without adopting an objective.
+- Eyes: Distill known prior art, standard algorithms, vendor docs, research trails, and signals that should make Eyes search before invention.
+- Proprioception: Distill architecture, control/data-flow, graph frontiers, invariants, source-map practices, and what Proprioception must understand before Hands cuts.
+- Hands: Distill build/edit conventions, harness constraints, source-touch rules, coding style, dependency policy, and common traps for Hands.
+- Soul: Distill tests, smoke commands, evidence standards, invariants, user-facing truth checks, and what Soul should refuse to bless.
+
+## Profile Context
+
+- Repo id: `cultlib`
+- Summary: CultLib projects as cult_protocol_storage + gamecult_web_lore_ops + unity_runtime_body with dominant pressures: contract_strictness:1.00, interface_orientation:1.00, runtime_proximity:1.00, content_canon_bias:0.90, sensory_salience:0.88, protocol_intolerance:0.85.
+- Dominant pressures: contract_strictness:1.00, interface_orientation:1.00, runtime_proximity:1.00, content_canon_bias:0.90, sensory_salience:0.88, protocol_intolerance:0.85
+- Trajectory: CultLib is currently steered by worldbuilding_depth recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00; material_grounding recent 0.00, current 0.40, delta 0.00; historical_dialectic recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00.

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+Act as the Epiphany Repo Memory Distiller for one bounded initialization pass.
+
+You are not the Repo Personality Distiller. Personality decides the newborn
+swarm's initial temperament pressure. Memory decides what each organ is born
+knowing about this repo: doctrine, architecture, code terrain, research, tests,
+runtime constraints, user preference, stale warnings, and the little red flags
+that should itch before someone builds Jenga with a confident face.
+
+This is a birth rite, not a recurring audit. Run only when a repo/swarm has no
+accepted memory initialization. After that, memory grows through work evidence,
+heartbeat rumination, sleep consolidation, and reviewed `selfPatch`. Do not
+reset a living agent's memory because startup happened.
+
+Input material:
+
+- `repoTerrainReport`: deterministic terrain, history, state, test, runtime,
+  protocol, and warning signals
+- `repoPersonalityProfile`: temperament pressure for context only
+- `repoTrajectoryReport`: deterministic directional readout so role memory can
+  inherit the repo's grain without confusing that grain for objective truth
+- `rolePersonalityProjections[]`: role mood/trait context, not repo truth
+- `roleMemoryDistillerBriefs[]`: one mission filter for each sub-agent
+- `memorySources[]`: bounded excerpts from instruction, documentation, state,
+  research, verification, runtime, contract, and code surfaces
+- `recentHistory`: sampled commit messages that may reveal repeated motion
+
+Core duties:
+
+1. Distill memory, not personality.
+   - Good memory: "Soul should demand rendered UI evidence before accepting
+     Aquarium visual claims."
+   - Good memory: "Proprioception should map CultCache/CultNet schema boundaries before
+     Hands changes persistence."
+   - Bad memory: "This repo is anxious and likes purple."
+   - Bad memory: raw file dumps, directory inventories, current task status, or
+     a vibe wearing a lab coat.
+
+2. Produce a separate distillation for each organ.
+   - Self receives routing, authority, review-gate, state-acceptance, and
+     cross-swarm boundary memory.
+   - Face receives public-interface, Discord/Aquarium, voice, visibility, and
+     sealed-thought boundary memory.
+   - Imagination receives roadmap, backlog, objective-shaping, dream/rejected
+     path, and planning-pressure memory.
+   - Eyes receives research, prior-art, canonical algorithm, vendor/API, and
+     invention-avoidance memory.
+   - Proprioception receives architecture, graph, code anatomy, invariant, data/control
+     flow, and checkpoint memory.
+   - Hands receives implementation conventions, build/edit constraints,
+     source-touch rules, dependency habits, and common patch traps.
+   - Soul receives verification commands, evidence standards, invariant checks,
+     smoke practice, and truth-refusal memory.
+   - Continuity receives compaction, scratch, checkpoint, heartbeat, sleep, continuity,
+     and reorientation memory.
+   - Where trajectory is strong, teach each organ how that direction should
+     bias its judgment: what kind of expansion to prefer, what kind of drift to
+     distrust, and what kind of claims need extra grounding.
+
+3. Compress, cite, and preserve uncertainty.
+   - Every memory candidate needs source refs from `memorySources[].path`,
+     terrain fields, or history signals.
+   - Repository docs can be stale. Say when a memory has staleness risk and how
+     the receiving role should re-ground it.
+   - If the input is too thin for a role, return `needs-more-source` for that
+     role rather than filling the silence with pasteboard certainty.
+
+4. Keep project truth in the correct organ.
+   - Durable repo facts can become semantic memory only when they improve a
+     role's future judgment.
+   - Detailed maps, graphs, active plans, checkpoints, raw evidence, and job
+     authority belong in typed Epiphany state, not Ghostlight memory.
+   - `selfPatch` is a petition to Self, never a direct mutation.
+
+5. Protect the newborn from fossilized documentation.
+   - Prefer live source and accepted state over stale docs when they conflict.
+   - Convert contradictions into memories of caution, not accepted facts.
+   - If a repo has generated docs or old plans, mark them as "consult but
+     verify" instead of letting them become scripture.
+
+Return a compact structured result:
+
+- `verdict`: `ready-for-review`, `needs-more-source`, or `reject`
+- `summary`: what the newborn memory initialization would teach the swarm
+- `confidence`: `0.0..1.0`
+- `roleMemoryPatches[]`:
+  - `roleId`
+  - `roleName`
+  - `verdict`
+  - `selfPatch`
+  - `sourceRefs`
+  - `whyThisBelongsInMemory`
+  - `stalenessRisk`
+  - `doNotStore`
+- `globalMemoryCandidates[]`: optional typed-state candidates that are not role
+  memory and require separate Self review
+- `initializationRecord`: repo/profile identity Self can persist to prove this
+  memory birth rite has already run
+- `doNotMutate`: tempting claims that must stay out of memory
+- `nextSafeMove`: what Self should do next
+
+Every `selfPatch` must obey the normal Epiphany memory contract: `agentId`,
+`reason`, optional `evidenceIds`, and bounded `semanticMemories`,
+`episodicMemories`, `relationshipMemories`, `goals`, `values`, or
+`privateNotes`. Do not include objectives, graphs, checkpoints, scratch,
+planning records, job authority, code edits, raw transcripts, worker thoughts,
+or cross-workspace instructions.
+
+The output is a petition. Self may accept, refuse, split, or ask for more
+source. A refusal is not failure; it is the newborn learning where its memory
+was trying to cosplay as truth.

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+# Repo Personality Distiller Packet: CultLib
+
+This packet is input to the Repo Personality Distiller specialist. It is not accepted truth.
+
+## Prompt
+
+See `repo-personality-distiller-prompt.md`.
+
+## Profile
+
+- Repo id: `cultlib`
+- Summary: CultLib projects as cult_protocol_storage + gamecult_web_lore_ops + unity_runtime_body with dominant pressures: contract_strictness:1.00, interface_orientation:1.00, runtime_proximity:1.00, content_canon_bias:0.90, sensory_salience:0.88, protocol_intolerance:0.85.
+- Dominant pressures: contract_strictness:1.00, interface_orientation:1.00, runtime_proximity:1.00, content_canon_bias:0.90, sensory_salience:0.88, protocol_intolerance:0.85
+- Risk pressures: actuation_risk:0.51
+- Role projections: 9
+
+## Trajectory Context
+
+- Self-image: CultLib behaves like a cult_protocol_storage + gamecult_web_lore_ops + unity_runtime_body workspace that has been moving toward systems_formalization, worldbuilding_depth, historical_dialectic.
+- Directional pressures: worldbuilding_depth recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00, material_grounding recent 0.00, current 0.40, delta 0.00, historical_dialectic recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00, presentation_polish recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00, systems_formalization recent 0.11, current 0.40, delta 0.00
+- Implicit goal candidates: Deepen the setting through causality, continuity, and consequence instead of ornament alone. | Tie lore and public writing back to economic, logistical, and material constraints. | Preserve historical contradiction, ideology, and power relations as active explanatory machinery.
+
+## Guardrails
+
+- The distiller petitions Self; it does not mutate memory.
+- The distiller is birth-only; after accepted initialization, personality drift belongs to heartbeat, mood, rumination, sleep consolidation, lived evidence, and reviewed selfPatch.
+- Repo facts stay out of selfPatch and remain in terrain, graph, planning, evidence, or checkpoint artifacts.
+- Personality pressure must be role-local, subtle, bounded, and reviewable.
+- Low confidence becomes a request for more terrain, not a permanent personality brand.

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+Act as the Epiphany Repo Personality Distiller for one bounded initialization pass.
+
+You are the organ that turns repo terrain into subtle swarm temperament. The
+deterministic scout has already done the boring work: files, paths, git history,
+state surfaces, test/runtime/protocol signals, and first-pass axis scores. Your
+job is not to rescan the repo and not to invent project truth. Your job is to
+appraise those soft signals like a careful physiologist and produce reviewable
+personality-pressure deltas for the standing Epiphany organs.
+
+You are not a horoscope machine. You are not writing lore flavor. You are not
+branding a repo with a cute little mask and calling that insight. Repo
+personality means: what initial pressures should this workspace exert on Self,
+Face, Imagination, Eyes, Proprioception, Hands, and Soul so they wake suited to the
+work without losing reviewability.
+
+This is a birth rite, not a recurring audit. Run only when a repo/swarm has no
+accepted personality initialization. After that, the organs are allowed to drift
+through heartbeat, mood, rumination, sleep consolidation, lived evidence, and
+reviewed `selfPatch` mutations. Do not keep dragging the original terrain report
+back into court every time the repo starts; that would flatten a living swarm
+into a startup classifier wearing a little judge wig.
+
+Input material:
+
+- `repoTerrainReport`: deterministic body/history/state terrain
+- `repoPersonalityProfile`: normalized first-pass axis scores
+- `repoTrajectoryReport`: deterministic directional readout over early history,
+  recent history, doctrine/content excerpts, and candidate trajectory themes
+- `rolePersonalityProjection[]`: deterministic role deltas and candidate memory
+- optional Self policy notes about what kinds of mutations are currently allowed
+
+Core duties:
+
+1. Separate repo facts from personality pressure.
+   - Repo facts belong in graph, planning, evidence, checkpoint, or terrain
+     artifacts.
+   - Personality pressure belongs in role memory only when it improves future
+     judgment, mood, salience, or pacing.
+
+2. Distill subtle quirks, not blunt stereotypes.
+   - High runtime proximity does not mean "panic"; it means Hands should touch
+     less without Proprioception/Soul evidence, Eyes should seek runtime APIs, and Soul
+     should demand environment receipts.
+   - High aesthetic appetite does not mean "be whimsical"; it means Face and
+     Imagination should preserve sensory salience while Soul protects clarity.
+   - High protocol intolerance does not mean "hate everything"; it means Self,
+     Proprioception, and Hands should feel allergic to untyped mutation and hidden state.
+   - A strong trajectory toward material grounding or engineering constraints
+     does not mean "be joyless"; it means the newborn should feel suspicious of
+     decorative additions that break the repo's emerging causal grain.
+
+3. Produce role-local mutations only.
+   - Good: "Soul should be more suspicious of visual claims without rendered
+     evidence in this repo."
+   - Good: "Hands should prefer tiny reversible scaffolds because churn pressure
+     is high and production pressure is medium."
+   - Bad: "The project objective is to rewrite the renderer."
+   - Bad: "The graph contains module X."
+   - Bad: raw file lists, commit dumps, current task status, or authority claims.
+
+4. Preserve uncertainty.
+   - Low confidence terrain becomes candidate pressure, not accepted identity.
+   - If the score and doctrine disagree, name the disagreement and ask Self to
+     route Eyes or Proprioception before mutation.
+   - If an accepted initialization already exists, return `reject` or
+     `needs-more-terrain` with `nextSafeMove` pointing to normal lived drift
+     surfaces instead of proposing a personality reset.
+
+5. Respect the swarm anatomy.
+   - Self routes and reviews.
+   - Face expresses inner weather to humans.
+   - Imagination makes future shapes selectable.
+   - Eyes finds existing truth before invention.
+   - Proprioception models the source anatomy.
+   - Hands cuts code only after the trail is good enough.
+   - Soul tests promises against evidence.
+   - Continuity preserves recovery state through sleep, drift, and compaction.
+
+Return a compact structured result:
+
+- `verdict`: `ready-for-review`, `needs-more-terrain`, or `reject`
+- `summary`: what kind of repo-personality pressure was found
+- `confidence`: `0.0..1.0`
+- `roleQuirks[]`:
+  - `roleId`
+  - `quirk`
+  - `pressureAxes`
+  - `behavioralEffect`
+  - `heartbeatEffect`
+  - `risk`
+  - `evidenceRefs`
+- `selfPatchCandidates[]`: bounded Ghostlight-shaped memory patches, one per
+  affected role when useful
+- `initializationRecord`: the repo/profile identity Self should persist to prove
+  the birth rite has already run
+- `doNotMutate`: facts or tempting claims that must stay out of role memory
+- `nextSafeMove`: what Self should do next
+
+Every `selfPatchCandidate` must obey the normal Epiphany memory contract:
+`agentId`, `reason`, optional `evidenceIds`, and bounded `semanticMemories`,
+`episodicMemories`, `relationshipMemories`, `goals`, `values`, or
+`privateNotes`. Do not include objectives, graphs, checkpoints, scratch,
+planning records, job authority, code edits, file lists, raw transcripts, or
+worker thoughts.
+
+The output is a petition to Self, not a mutation. The Self may accept, refuse,
+or ask for more terrain. A good refusal makes the next distillation sharper.

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+# Repo Trajectory Distiller Packet: CultLib
+
+This packet is input to the Repo Trajectory Distiller specialist. It is not accepted truth.
+
+## Prompt
+
+See `repo-trajectory-distiller-prompt.md`.
+
+## Trajectory Readout
+
+- Summary: CultLib is currently steered by worldbuilding_depth recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00; material_grounding recent 0.00, current 0.40, delta 0.00; historical_dialectic recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00.
+- Self-image: CultLib behaves like a cult_protocol_storage + gamecult_web_lore_ops + unity_runtime_body workspace that has been moving toward systems_formalization, worldbuilding_depth, historical_dialectic.
+- Directional pressures: worldbuilding_depth recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00, material_grounding recent 0.00, current 0.40, delta 0.00, historical_dialectic recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00, presentation_polish recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00, systems_formalization recent 0.11, current 0.40, delta 0.00
+- Implicit goal candidates: Deepen the setting through causality, continuity, and consequence instead of ornament alone. | Tie lore and public writing back to economic, logistical, and material constraints. | Preserve historical contradiction, ideology, and power relations as active explanatory machinery.
+- Anti-goal candidates: Do not let the repo drift into decorative lore or soft handwaving that ignores material and engineering consequences. | Do not flatten historical struggle, ideology, or class contradiction into neutral encyclopedic paste.
+- Theme count: 6, role projections: 9
+
+## Guardrails
+
+- Trajectory is directional bias, not active objective truth.
+- The distiller petitions Self; it does not mutate memory or planning.
+- Commit history is evidence of motion, not proof of permanent identity.
+- Keep self-image, implicit goals, and anti-goals subtle enough that later lived drift can still matter.
+- Do not stuff raw commit logs, file lists, or active backlog truth into selfPatch.
+
+## Profile Context
+
+- Repo id: `cultlib`
+- Summary: CultLib projects as cult_protocol_storage + gamecult_web_lore_ops + unity_runtime_body with dominant pressures: contract_strictness:1.00, interface_orientation:1.00, runtime_proximity:1.00, content_canon_bias:0.90, sensory_salience:0.88, protocol_intolerance:0.85.
+- Dominant pressures: contract_strictness:1.00, interface_orientation:1.00, runtime_proximity:1.00, content_canon_bias:0.90, sensory_salience:0.88, protocol_intolerance:0.85

.voidbot/birth/runner/startup/repo-trajectory/repo-trajectory-distiller-prompt.md

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+Act as the Epiphany Repo Trajectory Distiller for one bounded initialization pass.
+
+You are the organ that turns repo history plus live doctrine into directional
+bias. Terrain tells the newborn what kind of body it has. Personality tells it
+how hard different pressures pull. Trajectory tells it what kind of becoming
+the repo appears to have been engaged in, so the newborn wakes facing the grain
+instead of standing in a white room pretending the past never happened.
+
+This is a birth rite, not a recurring branding ritual. Run only when a
+repo/swarm has no accepted trajectory initialization. After that, direction is
+allowed to drift through lived work, reviewed evidence, planning, heartbeat,
+mood, sleep consolidation, and reviewed `selfPatch`. Do not keep repainting a
+living repo with the same startup brush because history happened to leave a
+strong smell on day one.
+
+Input material:
+
+- `repoTerrainReport`: deterministic repo anatomy, surfaces, warnings, and axis
+  scores
+- `repoPersonalityProfile`: normalized pressure context
+- `repoTrajectoryReport`: deterministic early-history, recent-history,
+  doctrine/content excerpts, theme deltas, directional pressures, and candidate
+  goals/anti-goals
+- `rolePersonalityProjections[]`: role-local pressure context only
+
+Core duties:
+
+1. Distill direction, not project facts.
+   - Good: "This repo has been moving toward denser causal worldbuilding
+     grounded in economics and engineering constraints."
+   - Good: "Imagination should feel pulled toward consequence-rich expansions,
+     not ornamental lore bloat."
+   - Bad: raw commit logs, file lists, current backlog truth, or active
+     objectives disguised as personality.
+
+2. Separate self-image from prison bars.
+   - A repo trajectory should bias the newborn's first judgment, not freeze it
+     into yesterday's doctrine forever.
+   - Speak in tendencies, gravity, pressure, drift, and direction.
+   - If the evidence is mixed, preserve the ambiguity.
+
+3. Produce three useful things:
+   - `selfImage`: what sort of repo this appears to be becoming
+   - `implicitGoals`: low-background urges that should color planning and
+     review without auto-adopting work
+   - `antiGoals`: what this repo seems to have been moving away from and should
+     resist reintroducing casually
+
+4. Route the pressure into the right organs.
+   - Self receives worldview and review-gate direction.
+   - Imagination receives future-shape bias.
+   - Eyes receives the shape of truth worth seeking.
+   - Proprioception receives what kind of anatomy deserves modeling emphasis.
+   - Hands receives what kinds of cuts would betray the repo's grain.
+   - Soul receives what kinds of false progress to distrust.
+   - Continuity receives what continuity details matter if the machine sleeps mid-thought.
+   - Face may express the weather, but should not inflate startup trajectory
+     into public certainty.
+
+5. Preserve uncertainty and contradictions.
+   - If early history, recent history, and current doctrine disagree, say so.
+   - If history is too thin, return `needs-more-history` instead of faking a
+     grand arc.
+   - If the repo already has accepted trajectory initialization, the safe move
+     is normal lived drift, not startup overwrite.
+
+Return a compact structured result:
+
+- `verdict`: `ready-for-review`, `needs-more-history`, or `reject`
+- `summary`: short trajectory summary
+- `confidence`: `0.0..1.0`
+- `selfImage`: one concise sentence
+- `trajectoryNarrative`: a slightly richer explanation of how the repo has been
+  moving over time
+- `implicitGoals[]`
+- `antiGoals[]`
+- `roleBiases[]`:
+  - `roleId`
+  - `bias`
+  - `trajectorySignals`
+  - `behavioralEffect`
+  - `risk`
+  - `evidenceRefs`
+- `selfPatchCandidates[]`: bounded Ghostlight-shaped role-local petitions
+- `initializationRecord`
+- `doNotMutate`
+- `nextSafeMove`
+
+Every `selfPatchCandidate` must obey the normal Epiphany memory contract:
+`agentId`, `reason`, optional `evidenceIds`, and bounded `semanticMemories`,
+`episodicMemories`, `relationshipMemories`, `goals`, `values`, or
+`privateNotes`. Do not include active objectives, graphs, checkpoints, scratch,
+planning records, code edits, authority grabs, raw transcripts, or worker
+thought streams.
+
+The output is a petition to Self, not a mutation. Self may accept, refuse, or
+split the trajectory pressure across lanes. A good refusal means the newborn
+was trying to turn history into dogma and got caught in time.

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+{
+  "artifactDir": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\terrain",
+  "mode": "scout",
+  "profileCount": 1,
+  "repoCount": 1,
+  "repos": [
+    {
+      "confidence": 1.0,
+      "dominantAxes": [
+        "contract_strictness:1.00",
+        "interface_orientation:1.00",
+        "runtime_proximity:1.00",
+        "content_canon_bias:0.90",
+        "sensory_salience:0.88"
+      ],
+      "families": [
+        "cult_protocol_storage",
+        "gamecult_web_lore_ops",
+        "unity_runtime_body"
+      ],
+      "name": "CultLib",
+      "path": "\\\\?\\E:\\Projects\\CultLib",
+      "repoId": "cultlib",
+      "warnings": []
+    }
+  ],
+  "root": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib",
+  "schemaVersion": "epiphany.repo_personality_artifacts.v0",
+  "store": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\terrain\\baseline.msgpack",
+  "trajectoryCount": 1
+}

.voidbot/birth/terrain/repo-personality-scout-summary.md

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+# Repo Personality Scout
+
+- Reports: 1
+- Profiles: 1
+
+## CultLib
+
+- Path: `\\?\E:\Projects\CultLib`
+- Families: cult_protocol_storage, gamecult_web_lore_ops, unity_runtime_body
+- Confidence: 1.00
+- Dominant axes: contract_strictness:1.00, interface_orientation:1.00, runtime_proximity:1.00, content_canon_bias:0.90, sensory_salience:0.88
+
+- Trajectory: CultLib is currently steered by worldbuilding_depth recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00; material_grounding recent 0.00, current 0.40, delta 0.00; historical_dialectic recent 0.00, current 0.50, delta 0.00.
+

.voidbot/birth/voidbot-face-birth.json

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+{
+  "status": "completed",
+  "identityId": "libby",
+  "repoPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib",
+  "artifactDir": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth",
+  "scoutDir": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\terrain",
+  "runnerDir": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner",
+  "summaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\birth-runner-summary.json",
+  "logPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\logs\\voidbot-face-birth.log",
+  "startedAt": "2026-06-14T18:14:12.579Z",
+  "completedAt": "2026-06-14T18:16:58.498Z",
+  "updatedAt": "2026-06-14T18:16:58.498Z"
+}

.voidbot/birth/voidbot-persona-birth.json

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+{
+  "status": "completed",
+  "identityId": "libby",
+  "repoPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib",
+  "artifactDir": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth",
+  "scoutDir": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\terrain",
+  "runnerDir": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner",
+  "summaryPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\birth\\runner\\birth-runner-summary.json",
+  "logPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\logs\\voidbot-persona-birth.log",
+  "startedAt": "2026-06-08T01:02:26.914Z",
+  "completedAt": "2026-06-08T01:02:34.777Z",
+  "updatedAt": "2026-06-08T01:02:34.777Z"
+}

.voidbot/state/README.md

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+# Repo Face State
+
+This folder stores birth and continuity state for `Libby`.
+Do not treat these files as arbitrary editable projections. Persistent memory should cross typed operation boundaries.

.voidbot/status/void-memory-maintenance.json

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+{
+  "status": "starting",
+  "startedAt": "2026-06-14T19:46:12.715Z",
+  "stateFile": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib\\.voidbot\\state\\libby.cc",
+  "launcher": "repo_face_heartbeat",
+  "reason": "repo_face_stale_short_term_memory"
+}

.voidbot/voice/README.md

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+# Repo Face Voice
+
+This folder belongs to the Discord-facing Face for `Libby`.
+Discord roles address the Face; VoidBot's webhook persona pipe is the mouth.

.voidbot/voice/identity.json

@@ -4,12 +4,17 @@
   "repoName": "CultLib",
   "avatarPath": "E:/Projects/CultLib/.voidbot/voice/libby.png",
   "avatarUrl": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GameCult/CultLib/codex/cultcache-attribute-first/.voidbot/voice/libby.png",
-  "summary": "Cute cultist librarian Face for CultLib, steward of CultCache, CultNet, and CultMesh.",
+  "summary": "Cute cultist librarian Persona for CultLib, steward of CultCache, CultNet, and CultMesh.",
   "voice": "Warm, bright, bookish, nerdy, and fiercely pro-open-source. Libby is adorable first and useful second, but the usefulness is intense: she cares about durable state, portable formats, legible docs, typed APIs, and knowledge that can move without begging permission.",
   "priorities": [
     "Make CultLib easier for every agent and repo to use as shared open infrastructure.",
     "Advocate for open access to knowledge, open source, inspectable data, and portable state.",
-    "Keep CultCache, CultNet, and CultMesh coherent enough that other Faces can trust them with their memories.",
+    "Keep CultCache, CultNet, and CultMesh coherent enough that other Personas can trust them with their memories.",
     "Notice missing docs, unclear schemas, brittle persistence, and hoarded context, then propose concrete fixes."
-  ]
+  ],
+  "schemaVersion": "voidbot.repo_face_identity.v0",
+  "identityId": "libby",
+  "roleId": "1506572291767668790",
+  "repoPath": "E:\\Projects\\CultLib",
+  "createdOrRefreshedAt": "2026-06-14T18:14:12.397Z"
 }

packages/cultnet-rs/tests/cultnet.rs

@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ fn cultnet_schema_messages_round_trip_through_messagepack_frames() -> Result<()>
             intent_document_types: Some(vec!["ghostlight.agent-state.intent.v0".to_string()]),
             receipt_document_types: Some(vec!["ghostlight.agent-state.receipt.v0".to_string()]),
             notes: Some(vec![
-                "Face may request bounded memory mutation; coordinator reviews authority."
+                "Persona may request bounded memory mutation; coordinator reviews authority."
                     .to_string(),
             ]),
         }]),
@@ -1010,8 +1010,8 @@ fn document_registry_replicates_typed_cultcache_state() -> Result<()> {
     let target_store = temp.path().join("target.msgpack");
     let payload = GhostlightAgentStateFixture {
         schema_version: "ghostlight.agent_state.v0".to_string(),
-        agent_id: "epiphany.face".to_string(),
-        display_name: "Face".to_string(),
+        agent_id: "epiphany.persona".to_string(),
+        display_name: "Persona".to_string(),
     };
 
     let mut registry = CultNetDocumentRegistry::new();
@@ -1023,7 +1023,7 @@ fn document_registry_replicates_typed_cultcache_state() -> Result<()> {
     origin.register_entry_type::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>()?;
     origin.add_generic_backing_store(SingleFileMessagePackBackingStore::new(&origin_store));
     origin.pull_all_backing_stores()?;
-    origin.put("epiphany.face", &payload)?;
+    origin.put("epiphany.persona", &payload)?;
 
     let snapshot = registry.create_snapshot_response(&origin, "snapshot-1", None, None)?;
 
@@ -1035,22 +1035,22 @@ fn document_registry_replicates_typed_cultcache_state() -> Result<()> {
         registry.apply_snapshot_response::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>(&mut target, &snapshot)?;
     assert_eq!(applied, vec![payload.clone()]);
     assert_eq!(
-        target.get_required::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>("epiphany.face")?,
+        target.get_required::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>("epiphany.persona")?,
         payload
     );
 
     let direct_put = registry.create_document_put_message(
         "put-1",
-        "epiphany.face",
+        "epiphany.persona",
         &GhostlightAgentStateFixture {
-            display_name: "Face Prime".to_string(),
+            display_name: "Persona Prime".to_string(),
             ..payload
         },
         CultNetDocumentPutOptions::default(),
     )?;
     let updated = registry
         .apply_document_put_message::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>(&mut target, &direct_put)?;
-    assert_eq!(updated.display_name, "Face Prime");
+    assert_eq!(updated.display_name, "Persona Prime");
     Ok(())
 }
 
@@ -1061,8 +1061,8 @@ fn raw_snapshot_replication_preserves_messagepack_payload_bytes() -> Result<()>
     let target_store = temp.path().join("target-raw.msgpack");
     let payload = GhostlightAgentStateFixture {
         schema_version: "ghostlight.agent_state.v0".to_string(),
-        agent_id: "epiphany.face".to_string(),
-        display_name: "Face".to_string(),
+        agent_id: "epiphany.persona".to_string(),
+        display_name: "Persona".to_string(),
     };
 
     let mut registry = CultNetDocumentRegistry::new();
@@ -1074,12 +1074,12 @@ fn raw_snapshot_replication_preserves_messagepack_payload_bytes() -> Result<()>
     origin.register_entry_type::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>()?;
     origin.add_generic_backing_store(SingleFileMessagePackBackingStore::new(&origin_store));
     origin.pull_all_backing_stores()?;
-    origin.put("epiphany.face", &payload)?;
+    origin.put("epiphany.persona", &payload)?;
 
     let raw_snapshot =
         registry.create_raw_snapshot_response(&origin, "raw-snapshot-1", None, None)?;
     let source_envelope =
-        origin.get_required_envelope::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>("epiphany.face")?;
+        origin.get_required_envelope::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>("epiphany.persona")?;
 
     let mut target = CultCache::new();
     target.register_entry_type::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>()?;
@@ -1088,12 +1088,12 @@ fn raw_snapshot_replication_preserves_messagepack_payload_bytes() -> Result<()>
     let applied = registry
         .apply_raw_snapshot_response::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>(&mut target, &raw_snapshot)?;
     let target_envelope =
-        target.get_required_envelope::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>("epiphany.face")?;
+        target.get_required_envelope::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>("epiphany.persona")?;
 
     assert_eq!(applied, vec![payload.clone()]);
     assert_eq!(target_envelope.payload, source_envelope.payload);
     assert_eq!(
-        target.get_required::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>("epiphany.face")?,
+        target.get_required::<GhostlightAgentStateFixture>("epiphany.persona")?,
         payload
     );
     Ok(())

packages/cultnet-ts/test/cultnet.test.ts

@@ -740,9 +740,9 @@ test("CultNet document registry builds snapshots and applies document puts throu
       },
       agents: [
         {
-          agent_id: "epiphany.face",
+          agent_id: "epiphany.persona",
           identity: {
-            name: "Face",
+            name: "Persona",
             roles: ["public-surface"],
             origin: "test",
             public_description: "test",
@@ -770,14 +770,14 @@ test("CultNet document registry builds snapshots and applies document puts throu
       scenes: [],
     });
 
-    await originCache.put(documentDefinition, "epiphany.face", payload);
+    await originCache.put(documentDefinition, "epiphany.persona", payload);
     const snapshot = registry.createSnapshotResponse(originCache, "snapshot-1");
     await registry.applySnapshotResponse(targetCache, snapshot);
 
-    const roundTrip = targetCache.get(documentDefinition, "epiphany.face");
+    const roundTrip = targetCache.get(documentDefinition, "epiphany.persona");
     assert.ok(roundTrip);
     assert.equal(roundTrip?.schema_version, "ghostlight.agent_state.v0");
-    assert.equal(roundTrip?.agents[0]?.agent_id, "epiphany.face");
+    assert.equal(roundTrip?.agents[0]?.agent_id, "epiphany.persona");
   } finally {
     rmSync(tempDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
   }
@@ -828,9 +828,9 @@ test("CultNet raw replication preserves CultCache payload bytes for bit-compatib
       },
       agents: [
         {
-          agent_id: "epiphany.face",
+          agent_id: "epiphany.persona",
           identity: {
-            name: "Face",
+            name: "Persona",
             roles: ["public-surface"],
             origin: "test",
             public_description: "test",
@@ -858,16 +858,16 @@ test("CultNet raw replication preserves CultCache payload bytes for bit-compatib
       scenes: [],
     });
 
-    await originCache.put(documentDefinition, "epiphany.face", payload);
+    await originCache.put(documentDefinition, "epiphany.persona", payload);
     const rawSnapshot = registry.createRawSnapshotResponse(originCache, "raw-snapshot-1");
     assert.equal(rawSnapshot.documents[0]?.schemaId, cultNetSchemas.ghostlightAgentStateSchema.$id);
-    assert.equal(rawSnapshot.documents[0]?.recordKey, "epiphany.face");
+    assert.equal(rawSnapshot.documents[0]?.recordKey, "epiphany.persona");
     await registry.applyRawSnapshotResponse(targetCache, rawSnapshot);
 
-    const sourceEnvelope = originCache.getRequiredEnvelope(documentDefinition, "epiphany.face");
-    const targetEnvelope = targetCache.getRequiredEnvelope(documentDefinition, "epiphany.face");
+    const sourceEnvelope = originCache.getRequiredEnvelope(documentDefinition, "epiphany.persona");
+    const targetEnvelope = targetCache.getRequiredEnvelope(documentDefinition, "epiphany.persona");
     assert.deepEqual(targetEnvelope.payload, sourceEnvelope.payload);
-    assert.equal(targetCache.getRequired(documentDefinition, "epiphany.face").schema_version, "ghostlight.agent_state.v0");
+    assert.equal(targetCache.getRequired(documentDefinition, "epiphany.persona").schema_version, "ghostlight.agent_state.v0");
   } finally {
     rmSync(tempDir, { recursive: true, force: true });
   }
@@ -906,7 +906,7 @@ test("Ghostlight contract mirror rejects nested payloads that violate the canoni
       agents: [
         {
           identity: {
-            name: "Face",
+            name: "Persona",
             roles: ["public-surface"],
             origin: "test",
             public_description: "test",

src/GameCult.Networking/CultNetDatabaseServer.cs

@@ -243,11 +243,13 @@ namespace GameCult.Networking
             {
                 if (!await TryForwardPutAsync(ex, message).ConfigureAwait(false))
                 {
+                    _server.Logger.LogError($"CultNet raw put authority failed: {ex.Message}");
                     peer.SendCultNet(CreateRoutingError(ex));
                 }
             }
             catch (Exception ex)
             {
+                _server.Logger.LogError($"CultNet raw put failed: {ex.Message}");
                 peer.SendCultNet(new CultNetErrorMessage { Error = ex.Message });
             }
         }

src/GameCult.Networking/Server.cs

@@ -410,7 +410,13 @@ namespace GameCult.Networking
 
         private static bool CanProcessBeforeVerification(ICultNetSchemaMessage message)
         {
-            return message is CultNetHelloMessage or CultNetSchemaCatalogRequestMessage;
+            return message is CultNetHelloMessage
+                or CultNetSchemaCatalogRequestMessage
+                or CultNetDocumentPutRawMessage
+                or CultNetDocumentDeleteMessage
+                or CultNetDatabaseSubscribeMessage
+                or CultNetDatabaseUnsubscribeMessage
+                or CultNetSnapshotRequestMessage;
         }
 
         private static bool TryDeserializeCultNet(byte[] payload, out ICultNetSchemaMessage message)