Epiphany/notes/continuity-cultnet-contracts.md

# Continuity CultNet Contracts

Objective: make Continuity the named protocol surface for compaction, sleep,
recovery, handoff, and stale-turn repair. These flows need their own receipts
instead of hiding in scratch notes or hopeful transcript memory.

## Authority Map

- Owner: the Continuity protocol owns continuity across rupture.
- Inputs: continuity packets, context pressure, compaction checkpoints,
  heartbeat/sleep pressure, stale active turns, recovery context, handoff
  surfaces, and Mind state context.
- Outputs: compaction checkpoints, sleep distillation receipts, recovery
  receipts, stale-turn repair receipts, and continuity refusal receipts.
- Derived state: handoff summaries, scratch preservation, sleep residue, and
  recovery notes are continuity receipts. They are not durable Mind state until
  Mind admits them.
- Forbidden writers: raw workers, Persona, Hands, Eyes, Soul, Self, compatibility
  routes, and background loops must not silently rewrite continuity state or
  pretend stale work completed cleanly.
- Shared path: compaction prep, sleep distillation, handoff, wake/reorient, and
  stale-turn repair should share Continuity packet/review semantics.
- Deletion line: transcript survival is not continuity. Rehydration is not adoption.
  "It was probably fine" is not a recovery receipt.

## Contract Families

- `epiphany.continuity.packet`: request or packet for continuity handling.
- `epiphany.continuity.compaction_checkpoint`: proof of pre-rupture preservation.
- `epiphany.continuity.sleep_distillation`: proof of sleep/rumination distillation.
- `epiphany.continuity.recovery_receipt`: proof of wake/recovery state.
- `epiphany.continuity.stale_turn_repair`: proof of abandoned-turn repair.
- `epiphany.continuity.refusal_receipt`: proof that Continuity refused to trust
  or preserve a continuity packet.

## Neighboring Gates

Continuity preserves what survives rupture. Mind decides what preserved material
becomes durable state. Soul verifies continuity invariants. Self routes recovery
work. Eyes and Modeling regather reality when continuity is missing.

Continuity is not nostalgia. It is survival with receipts.