Epiphany/state/agents

Epiphany Role Memory

Epiphany's lane dossiers are Ghostlight-shaped persistent memory documents stored in state/agents.msgpack through CultCache. They are not project truth. The active objective, graphs, checkpoint, scratch, planning records, evidence, and job bindings still live in authoritative EpiphanyThreadState.

Specialists may request bounded self-memory updates through selfPatch. The coordinator reviews those requests and accepts only role-matched mutations that improve a lane's future judgment, memory, values, goals, or personality pressure. Project facts, code edits, graph changes, objective changes, raw transcripts, and authority requests belong on their explicit Epiphany control surfaces instead.

All standing lanes use the same Ghostlight-shaped protocol, including the coordinator/Self and Face. Face is the public interactive surface for Epiphany agents: it translates useful agent thought-weather into #aquarium chat or drafts and is not a moderator. The heartbeat scheduler in tools/epiphany_agent_heartbeat.py borrows Ghostlight initiative timing: each lane carries speed, readiness, reaction bias, interrupt threshold, load, status, and constraints. The harness sets a target heartbeat rate, pending coordinator work may pull its owning lane through a reaction window, and otherwise the earliest ready lane wins the slot.

If a heartbeat wakes a lane and there is no coordinator-approved work for it, the lane must ruminate on its own role and distill memory rather than invent project work. Bounded rumination can write a normal selfPatch; the coordinator review rules still apply.

Face's Discord boundary is still a small TOML configuration seam: it may interact only through #aquarium. If the channel id is not configured, Face must write candidate chat artifacts through tools/epiphany_face_discord.py draft instead of posting.

Use:

cargo run --manifest-path .\epiphany-core\Cargo.toml --bin epiphany-agent-memory-store -- validate --store .\state\agents.msgpack
cargo run --manifest-path .\epiphany-core\Cargo.toml --bin epiphany-agent-memory-store -- smoke --store .\state\agents.msgpack
cargo run --manifest-path .\epiphany-core\Cargo.toml --bin epiphany-agent-memory-store -- status --store .\state\agents.msgpack
& 'C:\Users\Meta\.cache\codex-runtimes\codex-primary-runtime\dependencies\python\python.exe' '.\tools\epiphany_agent_heartbeat.py' tick --coordinator-action continueImplementation --urgency 0.95 --apply-rumination
cargo run --manifest-path .\epiphany-core\Cargo.toml --bin epiphany-heartbeat-store -- smoke --agent-store .\state\agents.msgpack
cargo run --manifest-path .\epiphany-core\Cargo.toml --bin epiphany-face-discord -- draft --content 'Face notices the organs are arguing about evidence again.'
cargo run --manifest-path .\epiphany-core\Cargo.toml --bin epiphany-face-discord -- smoke