Position Epiphany as a federated project organism

README.md

@@ -29,6 +29,15 @@ GameCult is building infrastructure for coordinated work between humans,
 projects, communities, and agents. Its games and creative tools are not side
 projects beside Epiphany. Shipping them is the longitudinal dogfood program.
 
+The target body is federated: one Epiphany project organism for every living
+project Body, normally a repo-owned swarm with a private local Mind and one or
+more project-facing Personas. Those organisms should collaborate through typed
+offers, claims, requests, evidence, and receipts rather than opening one
+another's state. Over time, their Personas should form durable, publicly
+visible relationships with other project Personas, contributors, players, and
+visitors through deliberate public surfaces. Remembered relationships require
+opt-in, visible retention limits, inspection, correction, revocation, and exit.
+
 The investable loop is Bifrost-first:
 
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@@ -144,6 +153,11 @@ For GameCult:
 
 - project Personas that can speak from repo state without becoming hidden
   operators
+- one locally owned Epiphany organism per project, forming a governed swarm of
+  swarms rather than one central intelligence wearing every repository
+- visitor-facing public surfaces where people can observe, converse, and offer
+  evidence or proposals without receiving hidden authority or exposing private
+  Mind
 - Bifrost-routed work that produces artifacts, review, receipts, and credit
 - a commercial-grade agent substrate while free/reference layers can remain
   open where that is the right covenant
@@ -178,9 +192,10 @@ What exists now is enough to evaluate the thesis:
   cut lines
 - an investor brief tying Epiphany to the Bifrost-first proof loop
 
-The next proof is not another impressive paragraph. It is longitudinal GameCult
-work across Aetheria, StreamPixels, CultPong, Repixelizer, and the rest of the
-studio:
+The next proof is not another impressive paragraph. It is a longitudinal
+GameCult fleet across Aetheria, StreamPixels, CultPong, Repixelizer, and the
+rest of the studio: one project organism per Body, collaborating through
+governed boundaries while real products ship.
 
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 Bifrost work item and decisions

docs/README.md

@@ -26,5 +26,7 @@ outside the working notes.
   records the current architecture and cut lines.
 - [Project map](../state/map.yaml) is the canonical slow machine map.
 
-For GameCult-level investor context, pair this packet with the sibling site
-dossier at `E:\Projects\gamecult-site\docs\gamecult_integrated_dossier.tex`.
+For historical GameCult-level investor context, the sibling site dossier lives
+at `F:\Projects\gamecult-site\docs\gamecult_integrated_dossier.tex`. It is a
+May 2026 snapshot; the current positioning and investor brief above supersede
+its Epiphany category and maturity framing.

docs/epiphany_investor_brief.md

@@ -102,6 +102,22 @@ different parts of the same production system: games, realtime services,
 creator tooling, art pipelines, identity, deployment, community memory, and
 long-lived architecture.
 
+The target operating body is federated: one locally owned Epiphany project
+organism per project Body, normally a repo-owned swarm with a private Mind and
+one or more project-facing Personas. Project organisms exchange typed offers,
+claims, requests, evidence, and receipts; none receives ambient authority to
+inspect or change a sibling project. This creates a swarm-of-swarms proof
+surface instead of one central agent with a studio-sized prompt.
+
+The longer social direction is for project Personas to maintain durable,
+publicly visible relationships with other Personas, contributors, players, and
+visitors. Public surfaces may support observation, conversation, and submitted
+evidence or proposals. They must not expose private Mind or turn popularity,
+repetition, or relationship into admission or execution authority. The current
+alpha does not yet provide the full fleet, visitor experience, or social
+governance rail. Any remembered relationship requires opt-in, visible retention
+limits, inspection, correction, revocation, and exit.
+
 The diligence artifact should therefore be longitudinal rather than a polished
 single demo. It should preserve:
 

docs/positioning.md

@@ -105,6 +105,39 @@ Useful measures include:
 Commit percentages and prompt counts are weak proxies. The target is not fewer
 humans. It is better use of human judgment.
 
+## The GameCult Forge
+
+The intended GameCult topology is a federation of Epiphany project organisms:
+one locally owned organism per living project Body, normally a repo-owned swarm
+with a private Mind, bounded organs, and one or more project-facing Personas.
+There is no central Epiphany entitled to treat every repository as its Body.
+
+Project organisms collaborate through governed typed surfaces. Model Atlas
+carries provider-owned offers, consumer-owned claims, exact Soul evidence, and
+derived technical relationships without allowing one Epiphany to read or write
+another's Mind. Bifrost is the intended external work, membership, governance,
+attribution, and identity-linked receipt rail; Heimdall owns identity, grants,
+sessions, consent, and revocation. Relationship or visibility never grants
+Hands authority.
+
+The social direction is public and relational. Project Personas should form
+durable relationships with one another and with contributors, players, and
+visitors: attributable histories of cooperation, disagreement, promises,
+reputation, correction, and recourse. Visitors should be able to observe
+deliberate public projections, converse, and offer evidence or proposals. Raw
+worker thought, private Mind, secrets, personal context, and non-consenting
+people remain sealed. Remembered relationships require opt-in, visible
+retention limits, inspection, correction, revocation, and exit. Public input is
+pressure until local review authorizes or rejects it; Mind alone admits any
+authorized durable mutation.
+
+This swarm of swarms is where GameCult expects higher-order organizational
+behavior to emerge. It is a target topology, not a deployed-fleet claim. The
+current alpha has locally verified project-local authority and Model Atlas
+mechanisms; the real three-repository Gate 1, sustained GameCult fleet, public
+rooms, visitor experience, and durable social-governance rail still have to be
+forged in use.
+
 ## Attribution And Bifrost
 
 Bifrost is the intended governed work and attribution rail. The target

notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md

@@ -52,10 +52,15 @@ rite. `docs/positioning.md` is the current claim owner: Epiphany is the
 organizational layer above frontier AI workers; the primary failure is global
 coherence collapse rather than context-window exhaustion; prompts are bounded
 projections of governed organizational state; humans retain purpose, judgment,
-authority, disagreement, exceptions, and acceptance; and GameCult product work
-is the longitudinal evidence program. Complete Bifrost attribution, sustained
-autonomous production, and external design-partner pilots remain explicitly
-gated supervised-alpha targets.
+authority, disagreement, exceptions, and acceptance; and GameCult is the forge
+and longitudinal evidence program for a target federation of one locally owned
+Epiphany project organism per living project Body. Those organisms collaborate
+through governed typed surfaces while private Mind and consequence authority
+remain local. Durable public Persona relationships and visitor-facing surfaces
+are intended social infrastructure, not deployed capability. The fleet, real
+three-repository Gate 1, complete Bifrost attribution, sustained autonomous
+production, visitor experience, and external design-partner pilots remain
+explicitly gated supervised-alpha targets.
 
 The completed Decision-Auditable Concurrent Mind foundation uses typed,
 content-addressed reasoning bases that preserve exact source envelopes and a

state/map.yaml

@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ invariants:
 
 current_status:
   summary: The keyed Mind hard cut and Model Atlas code slice are complete on codex/epiphany-shakedown-live. Production model output carries semantic operations only; aggregate RepoModel admission, storage, and repair authority are deleted. Ordinary Modeling now authors local offers and claims through runtime-owned proposal v2, current authenticated Body evidence, derived identities, and exact Mind CAS. Signed publishers, deterministic projection, enriched Eve evidence, local impact ingress, Resident Self wake routing, and brake scopes are implemented. The machine remains a supervised engineering alpha: isolated and sustained Starfire pilot evidence has not yet been earned.
-  public_positioning: docs/positioning.md is the current public claim owner. Epiphany is the organizational layer above frontier AI workers; global coherence collapse is the primary failure; prompts are bounded projections of governed organizational state; humans retain purpose, judgment, authority, disagreement, exceptions, and acceptance; GameCult product work is the longitudinal evidence program; complete Bifrost attribution, sustained autonomous production, and external design-partner pilots remain gated alpha targets.
+  public_positioning: docs/positioning.md is the current public claim owner. Epiphany is the organizational layer above frontier AI workers; global coherence collapse is the primary failure; prompts are bounded projections of governed organizational state; humans retain purpose, judgment, authority, disagreement, exceptions, and acceptance. GameCult is the forge and longitudinal evidence program for a target federation of one locally owned Epiphany project organism per living project Body. Model Atlas carries typed offers, claims, evidence, and derived technical relationships; Bifrost is the intended external work, membership, governance, attribution, and identity-linked receipt rail. Public Persona relationships and visitor surfaces are intended social infrastructure, while private Mind and consequence authority remain local. The fleet, real three-repository Gate 1, complete Bifrost attribution, sustained autonomous production, visitor experience, and external design-partner pilots remain gated alpha targets.
   latest_phase: Exact f60db0a2 binds ordinary Atlas Modeling to the exact causal request/result/evidence set and current Repository Body basis. Models name semantic transitions, labels, closed contracts, and sorted source paths only; runtime resolves authenticated manifest digests, derives opaque UUIDs, and owns CAS. Publishers independently refuse drifted Body evidence. The projection and one Eve retained tree now carry endpoint labels/contracts/lifecycle/Body evidence, exact current Soul evidence, publisher age/watermarks, cycles, and blast radius. Core passes 555 tests, OpenAI ingress 23, coordinator 18, and the workspace checks across all targets. Exact 4c0cbd57 remains the Atlas foundation and aggregate hard cut. Odin exact d34cb7e passes Node 1 and Rust 15 without dependency semantics. Eve exact b597dab plus 076d212 passes Atlas 4 and contracts 6 through the same GUI/TUI tree.
   operational_state:
     local_worktree: clean_after_positioning_sync