Seal work-loop receipt failures

notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md

@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ remembers doctrine; the branch remembers the blade.
 - Canonical anatomy now lives in `notes/epiphany-anatomy.md`. Embodied sub-agents are Self, Face, Imagination, Eyes, Proprioception, Hands, and Soul. Body, Mind, Continuity, and Substrate Gate are substrate/state/protocol surfaces, not sub-agent identities. State is split by layer: `work_organ` for resident Epiphany sub-agents, `persona` for portable public/person-shaped state shared by Epiphany Face, VoidBot repo Faces, and Ghostlight characters, and heartbeat/swarm state for scheduling and coordination physiology. Persona state now carries provenance, required public presentation, `date-time` timestamps, typed `candidateActions`, strict anchored thoughts with non-authoritative extensions, custom enum companion labels, and typed affect records for bonds/status reads/doctrine stances.
 - The repo now has a one-command local operator path: `.\tools\epiphany_local_run.ps1`. Default mode is `smoke`; it builds the retained Codex app-server compatibility edge, builds native Epiphany operator binaries, runs the coordinator smoke, and writes launcher artifacts under `.epiphany-run/` plus coordinator artifacts under `.epiphany-dogfood/`. `-Mode status` is now Epiphany-native: it builds only Epiphany operator binaries, reads `state/thread-state.msgpack` when present, derives status through `epiphany-core`, and does not start or require `codex-app-server`. Use `-Mode plan` or `-Mode run -MaxSteps 4` for the raw bridge-equipped coordinator entrypoints; use `-Mode mvp -FaceInput "<operator request>" -MaxSteps 4` for the local product cycle that projects Face's character turn, writes a Face/Aquarium bubble, bootstraps a minimal local checkpoint for fresh threads, runs the coordinator with auto-tools, then runs heartbeat sleep/dream maintenance. Live plan/run/mvp modes use the workspace `state/runtime-spine.msgpack`, because CodexThread launch writes worker requests there; the run bundle remains artifact evidence, not runtime lifecycle authority. Add `-ThreadId <id>` and `-Workspace <path>` to inspect or continue an existing thread. `status`, `plan`, and `smoke` do not spend model calls; `run` and `mvp` build and use `epiphany-openai-runtime`. Coordinator workers now launch detached and are polled through runtime-spine instead of blocking the coordinator. MVP runs are non-ephemeral by default so `-ThreadId <id>` can resume and poll later. `-MaxRuntimeSeconds <n>` is passed into worker runtime; timeout writes a failed worker receipt and exits. Failed modeling now blocks downstream verification until the failed result is reviewed.
 - Current Mom-ready status: the normal MVP pass reaches Face -> coordinator -> detached runtime -> heartbeat sleep, and modeling workers now complete through the ChatGPT subscription transport. The first failure was a stack of violated observability/runtime invariants: worker prompts prepended the whole shared persistent-memory rite, Responses frame liveness was invisible until completion, and the runtime tried to persist hundreds of text deltas before completing the worker job. Role/reorient workers now get a compact Epiphany worker boundary instead of full persistent memory; runtime-spine records sampled raw Responses frame kinds with small previews; contiguous reasoning/text deltas compact before durable storage; and live proofs completed `2fe38dcd-d99e-4c73-9a58-afcc81f851c7`, `241e3851-e3ea-4877-a63b-0d2bbd96a7e2`, and `85149a26-6975-403f-ac93-092b717c5825` instead of timing out. The second failure was stale lifecycle authority: completed runtime jobs remained as unresolved `runtime_links`, replacement launches treated historical active links as current, and one bad validation path opened an orphan job before rejecting the state patch. Latest-link-wins is now the runtime-link invariant, terminal links project completed jobs, stale active history cannot veto replacement, launch validation happens before opening runtime jobs, and completed-but-unreviewable modeling findings stop for review instead of relaunching the same lane. The Eyes/source-gather fork is now landed: Research is a fixed Eyes lane with launch/result/accept/status/coordinator/protocol support, and `regather-needed` modeling findings route to `LaunchResearch` instead of relaunching blind Proprioception. Research statePatch admission is Eyes-shaped only: observations, evidence, scratch, and optional investigationCheckpoint; no graph, planning, objective, or checkpoint authority. Mind admission now leaves typed runtime-spine proof: role/reorient acceptance persists `epiphany.mind.gateway_review` before state admission and `epiphany.mind.state_commit_receipt` after admission with the resulting durable revision. Launch contracts now split the broad receipt catalogue from effect-specific proof profiles for state admission, evidence promotion, repo action, verification, and continuity recovery. Research evidence promotion enforces Substrate Gate read/snapshot grant, Eyes evidence packet, and Mind review before state admission; Verification acceptance enforces Soul verdict and Mind review; Reorient acceptance enforces Continuity recovery receipt and Mind review. `epiphany-mvp-coordinator` now records a typed Substrate Gate grant plus Hands intent/review gate when the coordinator selects `continueImplementation`, including a structured `recordPassCommand` template; `epiphany-hands-action` records patch/command/commit receipts against that gate and refuses mismatched, unapproved, or out-of-scope consequences. `epiphany-mvp-coordinator-smoke` now proves the deterministic path: forced `continueImplementation`, gate emission, and `record-pass` receipts in the smoke runtime-spine store. Live run `local-20260612-133920` proved a receipt-only Verification `needs-evidence` finding can be accepted through `roleAccept` and advance to a Hands gate without granting Soul statePatch authority. Runtime-spine now detects and summarizes a complete post-verification Hands patch/command/commit receipt chain so the coordinator can route Soul after Hands. Verification launches now write that chain into the internal CultMesh Verse as `epiphany.cultmesh.work_loop_telemetry.v0` and render a Soul packet from it; Modeling launches read the latest packet, attach accepted Soul receipt ids, and render the Proprioception packet from the same typed state. The telemetry now carries resolved receipt payload previews, stdout/stderr artifact previews, commit diff preview, source proof notes, and verification assertions. The corrected work loop is Hands -> Soul -> Proprioception -> Hands: Soul verifies concrete consequence receipts and changed source, then Proprioception updates the machine model from verified consequence before another implementation turn.
+- Fresh scar from the receipt proof dogfood: `epiphany-model-runtime run-worker --auto-tools` must seal the outer runtime job when the model still requests tools after the configured round limit; a failed Soul/verification result is a real lane result and must stop for review instead of being treated as no current finding; and `epiphany-hands-action` must resolve commit receipts through `git rev-parse --verify` before storing them, because an almost-correct SHA poisoned Soul's `git show` proof and made the receipt chain untrustworthy.
 - The investment dossier readiness target is now explicit: `E:\Projects\gamecult-site\docs\gamecult_integrated_dossier.tex` expects Epiphany to be part of a Bifrost-first labor loop, not only a local Mom demo. The external proof bar is: Bifrost owns topics/work items/dispatch packets/receipts/credit/reward pressure; Epiphany executes bounded work; maintainers review artifacts; public/operator evidence records scope, consent, roles, model spend, review load, artifacts, accepted/rejected outcome, memory lessons, and case-study permission; and private worker/operator/agent context stays sealed. Diligence also asks for a live fresh-repo Epiphany demo, Bifrost work item/topic/agent transport/receipt/ledger demo, CultMesh status, VoidBot/Discord swarm demo, compute/output metrics, and security model for secrets/write permissions/public-private exports.
 - This Codex operator's own roadmap/todo posture has been retuned for this scale target, with the Epiphany Imagination specialist as an optional sub-agent rail rather than the whole point. `notes/epiphany-investor-readiness-roadmap.md` now says: make the local Mom MVP a repeatable proof bundle; build the Bifrost-first external-work bridge; add compute/review/accepted-artifact accounting; prove fresh-repo operation without supervisor contamination; keep public/operator-safe exports sealed; and treat angel capital as fuel for capacity, not command authority. The Imagination specialist prompt was also updated so investor-scale Objective Drafts must name Bifrost provenance, bounded Epiphany proof, maintainer review, receipts/ledger evidence, compute/output metrics, public/private export safety, consent, and legal/security gates.
 - Local operator runs now write typed CultMesh intent/receipt documents to `.epiphany-run/cultmesh/operator-runs.ccmp` through `epiphany-operator-run`. The wrapper writes intent before acting and a completion receipt after success; this is the local consent/trace rail, not a hidden scheduler queue.