Epiphany/notes/epiphany-current-algorithmic-map.md

Epiphany current algorithmic map

Updated: 2026-08-23 Latest committed implementation cut: 94098223 on codex/epiphany-shakedown-live Current worktree cut: executable/test authority subtraction; Ox17 remains paused

This document describes the live machine. Historical cuts, rejected paths, and proof chronology belong in git, state/ledgers.msgpack, and bounded smoke artifacts.

Objective

Epiphany is a native typed organism whose durable decisions can answer one question without consulting a transcript:

What exact typed state and governed observations was this pass reasoning from when it produced this decision?

CultCache is the decision-bearing substrate. CultNet/CultMesh carry typed projections and crossings. Each organ's typed CultNet contract factory is the sole author of its contract directory; local Verse summaries derive directly from those contracts and no parallel CultMesh contract documents are persisted. The fixed three-Verse trust policy and public-room directory are also direct local Verse projections; they are not written into CultCache as counterfeit mutable state.

CultMesh contains no JSON-derived operator snapshot, coordinator receipt, Hands gate, role-review event, unauthenticated Odin/Eve provider row, or daemon tool directory. Native runtime and keyed Mind receipts remain the owners; old stores containing the deleted envelope types refuse at the schema boundary. Persona speech decisions and Weksa lowering receipts likewise remain in their own typed owners; CultMesh does not persist unused parallel shadows. Operator intent/completion and Hands consequence flow are also read from their native runtime and Mind owners. The local Verse has no operator-run or generic work-loop telemetry shadow and prompt assembly has no branch that depends on it. Repository work likewise has no CultMesh overview, readiness, map-entry, or public-proof aggregate. Keyed Mind/runtime documents own the underlying work; an unused aggregate cannot become an interface merely by round-tripping. The unused service-execution audit and Bifrost artifact, metrics, and public-proof receipt families are deleted with the tests that alone called them.

Worker launches carry one typed launch document, its exact output contract, and the sealed reasoning projection that owns model input. They do not carry a generic organ dependency matrix or prose receipt catalogue. Family admission owners derive exact dependencies from typed state; no universal "every organ depends on every other organ" prompt cargo can make Eyes gate Modeling or make a decorative list impersonate transaction authority. Persona projects exact social, memory, and Body inputs without that fiction.

The operator surface has no unconsumed view-lens registry, legacy acceptance bundle builder, test-only raw-JSON result interpreter, or second CRRC recommendation algorithm. Typed runtime-result interpretation remains shared by current work and reorientation. The keyed status composer is the sole CRRC recommendation projection; its DTO does not confer routing authority.

Status projects only Mind identity, exact current work, one coordinator action/reason pair, and operator-readable role lanes. It has no nested duplicate view, inert auxiliary mode, ignored arguments, fixed synthetic jobs, second scene/planning Mind, or result/tool/pressure tableaux. Exact 2ce91461 and 78836f3b remove 2,241 net lines and sixteen tests that guarded duplicate projections, unreachable pressure routing, manifest strings, or prompt keywords rather than a live consequence. Core 356/356, status 1/1, coordinator 8/8, and release construction 19/19 pass. The operator thought-sealing boundary remains tested.

The schema registry contains no epiphany.surface.* families. Exact f10f7fb3 deletes the final twelve schemas and ten catalog entries after a producer/consumer audit found no live owner on either side; several still claimed global revisions or artifact-directory state. The publication index contains zero surface documents. Persona's portable state remains gamecult.persona_state.v0; Eve/CultMesh providers retain their own typed contracts.

Exact ab3cacfb reduces the local catalog to twenty-three live or portable contracts. Thirty-one producerless RepoWork, operator-run, generic intent, swarm, Persona-artifact, Rider, and Unity schemas are gone. Runtime sessions are read-only lifecycle state; no generic session intent or swarm receipt is advertised. Brokkr owns Unity capabilities through CultMesh/Eve, and a future Rider daemon owns Rider. Epiphany has no editor-specific command organ.

The same cut removes the callerless prompt_context module and the specialist-prompt TOML loader. Their public APIs had no production consumer and their four tests were their only population. Live agent passes assemble sealed typed reasoning projections and exact native/provider requests directly; no parallel freeform context renderer survives.

Exact 16d85b1b removes the six direct JSON-builder tests from agent_launch and two OpenAI-runtime self-source searches. Strict provider lowering, typed ingress refusal, runtime-owned identity derivation, and Mind admission remain the behavioral owners; implementation spelling and duplicate schema field inspection do not.

Exact 06f93f70 removes the test-only inverse OpenAI-to-native request mapper. Provider requests are derived internally from canonical native requests in tests as well as production; no fixture may manufacture native ancestry from a caller-authored provider document.

Live providers own their CultMesh/CultNet schema catalogs. Exact 03140a47 deletes the standalone runtime-spine CLI, its callerless Hello/catalog writers, and its hand-maintained mutation-contract mirror. Runtime status and model preflight derive accepted document types from the same CultCache registration that opens the Mind store. The typed runtime documents remain; a command-line facsimile no longer impersonates their service owner.

Coordinator status is a core projection, not a second program. Exact 500125d5 deletes the unconsumed packaged status CLI and moves the functions the coordinator actually calls into one epiphany-core module. Operator-safe lowering remains tested; command parsing, file output, and duplicate compilation do not.

Persona's consequence membrane is typed, not lexical. Exact 63939fa2 removes the keyword tribunal that rejected projector prose for looking like JSON or containing action-shaped words. Projector and Persona outputs remain sealed private stage results. The Interpreter's closed effect enum, allowed-channel set, cardinality and size bounds, exact decision context, and Mind admission own consequence safety. Prompt-substring tests do not.

Tests must falsify an owner or consequence. Exact bf2f39eb deletes an identical-call causal-ID tautology and a duplicate unknown-field check for an extinct generic patch. Exact family lifecycles and runtime-owned identity substitution remain the behavioral proofs.

Exact 104bf390 deletes two public-source tests that supplied no additional protection: one duplicated the canonical immutable-GitHub parser tests already owned by epiphany-core; the other was permanently ignored, network-dependent, pinned to historical source, and asserted only that README prose contained the project name. The bounded public-source transport remains production code; its identity law remains tested once at its owner.

The tool runtime exposes execution, not self-description. Exact 777dd1a5 deletes its callerless static smoke command, fixed summary DTO, parser branch, and self-affirming branding test. Signed daemon health owns liveness; typed tool intents and receipts own execution. Removing the second command also removes the now-pointless one-variant CLI enum.

Repository Body verification lives at the owner, not in a shipped manual self-test. Exact 013c3bf1 deletes the callerless Body smoke command and its temporary-store ritual. The runtime command retains bootstrap, bind, observe, and status; the 23 focused owner tests prove authenticated Body behavior and refusal paths directly.

Model-runtime physiology must come from an actual provider or a test fixture, never a shipped command that writes synthetic evidence into a runtime store. Exact ce90f911 deletes the callerless smoke route, fake request/tool-call/ completion sequence, smoke_no_network receipt, parser, options, and usage claim. The retained commands execute or audit real typed model work.

Tool execution stdout is a completion projection, not a schema catalogue or authority mirror. Exact 0bb6a883 removes the fixed adapter/schema fields and the caller-supplied store echo. The typed CultCache receipt remains canonical; stdout carries only intent ID, receipt ID, and terminal status.

Cryptographic identity separation does not require one executable per key. Exact ad2292ee deletes the two callerless Persona identity setup binaries, their release roles, and their private enrollment/anchor-export wrappers. The delivery-request and permit identities remain purpose-specific. Runtime owners may only open already-admitted private identities and validate pinned public anchors; deployment admission owns future enrollment if those dormant crossings are activated. No model pass, Persona turn, or Bifrost request path can mint or rotate either trust root.

Persona feedback has one ingress owner. Exact 3dda58a5 deletes the standalone feedback CLI and the old immutable-snapshot replacement API it alone exposed. Resident Self reads the provider-owned Bifrost delivery store, authenticates each delivery against the pinned anchor, admits it into the separate local feedback store, and then projects allowed pressure into typed social state. Static status JSON and a second import command cannot race or impersonate that physiology. The retained tests exercise authentication, substitution refusal, disclosure policy, recovery, and exact provider-store import.

Model Atlas is not three daemons merely because its library has three authorities. Exact 56267201 deletes the publisher, projector, and impact ingress executable wrappers plus their release roles. The typed library owners and their separate state remain intact; no current deployment lifecycle pays for speculative loops, CLI parsing, sleep cadence, or process termination handlers. A future Gate 1 must prove the minimum Idunn-managed process topology from actual lifecycle and failure-isolation needs.

Operator proposal intake is a typed Self/runtime operation, not a production program. Exact 900c5232 deletes the callerless frontier-proposal executable, its release role, parser, JSON echo, and parser tests. The current-work owner still admits the exact proposal, selects Modeling work, resolves concurrent launch, seals reasoning, and commits the result. No wrapper can create a second proposal mouth or make CLI spelling part of the invariant.

Bifrost owns its private feedback-signing identity. Exact 94098223 deletes Epiphany's host-identity executable and the private signer, persisted identity, enrollment, platform protection, and anchor-export implementation behind it. Epiphany retains only the typed public anchor and purpose/payload/identity-bound Ed25519 verifier required at feedback admission. Tests use a deterministic test-only signer; production code cannot create, open, rotate, or export the provider's trust root.

Persisted cluster topology is also gone. Its writer became dead when the callerless seed bundle was removed, while the supervisor merely accepted any nonempty subset of seven fixed keys as “bootstrap” without authenticating Body domain, completeness, or runtime binding. That was a sentinel, not topology authority. Supervisor admission continues through exact store/runtime identity, packaged release, brake, service policy, process identity, and signed health.

Exact 203bcc41 separately deletes the producerless Bifrost body-change/GitHub publication contracts and projections. Bifrost owns its real Persona feedback/delivery stores and signed crossing receipts; Epiphany consumes those provider-owned documents instead of publishing a substitute protocol. The two specialized projector policy writers remain the only writers for their actual local service policies; no test-only generic writer recreates that path.

Hands does not advertise a pull-request receipt it cannot produce. Exact 11d99de1 deletes HandsPrReceipt, its registration, dead test-only writer, read path, relinquishment check, exports, and contract claims. Local Hands authority ends at exact patch, command, and commit consequences. A real remote publication result enters as provider/Bifrost-owned evidence rather than an Epiphany-authored facsimile.

Tool discovery also has no free-floating capability registry. Exact beb9fd32 deletes EpiphanyToolCapability, its constructor/registration/contract row, standalone schema, catalog entry, and smoke-banner claim after finding no live producer or consumer. Exact tool definitions sealed into model requests plus runtime execution bindings and governed invocation receipts own the actual path. The catalog retains tool intent/receipt and drops to 42 schemas.

Continuity publishes only the document it owns. Exact ca2d2cf2 removes packet, compaction-checkpoint, stale-turn-repair, and refusal contract rows that had no typed documents or runtime path. Reorientation still emits the exact persisted ContinuityRecoveryReceipt; compaction and handoff remain native state physiology rather than advertised CultNet fiction.

Soul likewise publishes only its real result. Exact f8974d52 removes generic verification-request, invariant-check, regression, review, and refusal contract rows that had no typed documents or runtime path. The keyed repo-frontier verification request owns the live obligation, and SoulVerdictReceipt owns the persisted audit result consumed by Modeling/Mind.

Eyes publishes only concrete observation evidence. Exact 201fa192 removes generic evidence-request, review, and refusal rows that had no typed documents or runtime path. Authenticated source lookup receipts prove what was inspected; the typed research decision becomes the exact persisted evidence packet consumed by current work and Modeling.

Idunn deployment truth is not mirrored into invented Epiphany-local envelopes. Odin/Idunn owns gamecult.idunn.deployment_manifest.v3 and signed daemon-health admission. Cross-repository inspection found no producer for Epiphany's former v0 deployment and aftercare DTOs; Epiphany had no writer, test, or consumer for them. Those schemas, registry entries, context fields, loaders, and key helpers are deleted rather than advertising a crossing that never existed.

Exact 856648de completes the daemon and derived-cache subtraction. Epiphany owns no local daemon supervisor, semantic-memory projector, workspace-coverage projector, managed-service policy, projector lifecycle/heartbeat/recovery mirror, or Qdrant/Ollama/Postgres cache configuration. Idunn owns deployment and daemon survival; signed Idunn health is the operational receipt. Eve/CultMesh may project that provider-owned state, but Epiphany does not mirror it into a second writable authority.

Exact 30c66080, 008bd493, 7e16e758, and 3312880e close the remaining generic command entrances, legacy lifecycle lineage, finite/fallback launch, and caller-authored supervisor identity. Exact afb223da deletes two more implementation-mirror tests and the wrapper created to animate one of them, then advances managed-service policy to v1 without fixed owner prose, restart_mode, unused backoff, decorative update time, or notes. Historical policy rows refuse at the load boundary. Exact ffe707ff deletes the global lifecycle latest mirror, history scan, timestamp election, local-Verse slot, and their two self-referential tests. Each service now has one exact current receipt head; same-service concurrent replacement conflicts atomically.

The five remaining supervisor tests guard lifecycle brake scope, Windows Task Scheduler argv integrity, all-or-none Idunn signed-health identity, stale child process identity/PID reuse, and heartbeat freshness plus lifecycle correlation. Tests that merely format bytes, call a match arm, round-trip a brake, or preserve a display/history mirror are gone with the production scaffolding they excused.

The earlier supervisor reductions established that Idunn on Yggdrasil is the deployment and daemon-survival owner. 856648de deletes the remaining local spawn, process-identity, heartbeat, and recovery implementation instead of keeping a parallel physiology alive for two cache processes that no agent used. The model-provider boundary explicitly selects a typed provider dialect and internally derives the exact provider request from the canonical native request. OpenRouter/Ox is the current Yggdrasil provider; Codex-derived code remains only where an OpenAI provider needs its earned authentication or transport. Neither owns Epiphany Mind, scheduler, route, or interface authority.

Canonical authority map

Owner	Inputs	Outputs	Invariant
keyed Mind documents	typed semantic documents keyed by logical identity	deterministic EpiphanyMindView	There is no persisted aggregate Mind head or global revision.
reasoning_context.rs Mind commit owner	invariant-owned strong reads and complete typed writes	atomic batch CAS plus EpiphanyMindCommitReceipt	Disjoint identities merge; same-identity or changed-strong-read conflicts refuse without partial mutation.
runtime bootstrap	immutable runtime identity envelope	exact identity strong read plus keyed session/job/launch writes	Worker launch replays the original identity and existing session envelopes byte-for-byte; it cannot refresh a singleton timestamp or capability mirror and thereby serialize unrelated work. Native runtime kind and supported document types are derived for CultNet publication.
concrete family admission owners	sealed decision context, exact family request/result chain, affected semantic documents	one family-specific MindMutation	The model cannot choose which stale state is safe to ignore.
current_work.rs	keyed Mind view and exact runtime request/job/result/decision families	pure family scheduling and continuation projections	Events, timestamps, role lanes, and thread provenance cannot create or suppress work.
coordinator policy/status	keyed Mind presence, exact current work, and the accepted continuity decision	one action/reason pair plus operator-readable role lanes	Coordinator presence is derived; no mutable coordinator head, pressure tableau, or duplicate policy wrapper exists.
runtime worker attempt owner	immutable launch, exact process claim, typed result, job result, archival evidence	one terminal attempt authority	Scheduling, process liveness, and semantic admission remain distinct authorities.
model-provider boundary	sealed native model request plus explicit provider configuration and injected credential	exact internally derived provider request and transport result	Provider selection cannot author a second request truth or admit Mind state.
OpenAI Responses schema projector	full native typed output schema	one provider-legal strict generation schema	Provider formatting preserves useful supported constraints but never replaces native decoding or Mind admission.
model-pass terminal owner	sealed reasoning basis/context and typed failure class	exact transport closure plus EpiphanyModelPassFailure and terminal session/event in one batch CAS	The caller cannot nominate a job/session; the context-derived binding closes role, reorient, and Persona failures without granting generic transport results decision authority.
Substrate Gate	exact worker/job authority and requested operation	scoped grant or refusal	Access permission does not admit Mind state.
Eyes	explicit external-evidence obligation plus governed source receipts	typed evidence packet and Mind observations	Eyes gathers outside evidence; it does not gate Modeling over the Body.
Modeling	Body basis, keyed RepoModel view, verified consequences, and explicit proposals	typed graph/frontier mutations	Modeling processes the Body directly and owns no external-source permission.
Hands	adopted route/plan plus exact capability receipts	typed consequences	A claimed intention is not a consequence.
Soul	exact consequence and invariant/evidence obligations	verification audit or refusal	Work is not true merely because it ran.
Persona	unread typed social/relationship state plus exact Persona projection and one explicit service turn budget	typed effects, speech intent, consequence receipts, or exact typed failure	Persona owns its outer pass deadline; provider transport owns no competing timeout policy, and Persona work cannot block unrelated Hands or Modeling documents.
Brokkr / editor providers	provider-owned editor capability documents and exact receipts	typed CultMesh/Eve observations and governed actuation results	Epiphany does not own Unity or Rider bridges. Brokkr owns Unity; a future Rider daemon owns Rider.
CultMesh/Eve	typed provider-owned documents and deterministic views	private/local/public projections	Visibility and rendering never create authority.

External lifecycle boundary: Idunn remains available when Epiphany is missing, failed, or braked. Epiphany's swarm brake is an input only to an Idunn transaction that changes Epiphany's deployed body; it cannot gate Idunn startup, self-bootstrap, observation, same-release recovery, or another target's lifecycle. The persisted Epiphany brake survives that recovery and continues to block cognition/consequence ingress. Treating the target brake as a deployer prerequisite reverses the owner and creates an unrecoverable cycle.

Idunn's CI/CD loop also owns the source-change path on upgraded Yggdrasil: observe pushed commit, compile, test, construct the exact release, admit/deploy it, and publish service-health receipts. Starfire is an operator/source body; it does not run a parallel release build when Idunn owns the same change.

Canonical Mind

The runtime Mind .cc is the sole decision-bearing store. Other .cc files may own physiology or external transport, but facts from them must enter Mind as typed observations or receipts before an agent pass consumes them.

Singleton semantic identities:

• objective;
• focus;
• mode;
• RepoModel identity/body binding.

Keyed semantic identities include subgoals, invariants, evidence, observations, checkpoints, planning items, Persona memories and social reads, Hands receipts, Verification audits, and RepoModel domains/nodes/edges/summaries/frontier/ lifecycle receipts/per-claim obligation guards.

EpiphanyMindView and EpiphanyRepoModelView are deterministic assemblies of exact envelopes. Their projection digests identify a view for audit/display; they are not mutable authority revisions.

Deleted authority:

• EpiphanyThreadStateEntry and EpiphanyThreadState;
• coordinator_state_transaction and generic state-update services;
• generic coordinator launch/accept/interrupt requests;
• global expectedRevision and worker-launch stateRevision;
• aggregate prompt, freshness, and graph-context surfaces;
• aggregate RepoModel persistence and global model revision/hash causality.

There is no dual reader, bootstrap aggregate, migrator, or compatibility write path.

Reasoning audit path

flowchart LR
    S["Exact typed Mind envelopes"] --> B["Sealed EpiphanyReasoningBasis"]
    B --> N["Final native model request"]
    N --> P["Internally derived provider request"]
    P --> T["Governed tool intents and receipts"]
    T --> C["Sealed EpiphanyDecisionContext"]
    C --> D["Typed terminal decision or pass failure"]
    D --> M["Invariant-owned MindMutation"]
    M --> R["EpiphanyMindCommitReceipt"]

The sealed basis contains pass/organ identity, projection-policy version, exact source document versions, immutable Body basis where applicable, and a closed typed reasoning-projection variant.

The terminal context contains the exact basis ID, exact final native request, the exact internally derived provider request, and ordered governed tool intent/receipt versions actually supplied to the pass.

Provider credentials remain deployment-substrate inputs. Yggdrasil injects the OpenRouter key through systemd LoadCredential; readiness is checked inside Resident Self's mount namespace. The key is neither prompt cargo nor Mind state.

Persona and worker passes use the same provider boundary but keep family-owned execution budgets. Workers already wrap the complete typed pass in their outer budget and therefore lower provider transport with no independent request timeout. Exact 3b958a83 gives Persona the same ownership shape through its explicit --turn-timeout-seconds service input, defaulting to 600 seconds. The inner provider transport receives no second timer. Provider-specific error text is also removed from the shared transport failure surface.

Structured decisions are authoritative; token streams and assistant deltas are optional retention. A model-backed failure is also a typed terminal decision record. Generic diagnostic model runs cannot produce Mind-admissible decisions.

Current migration boundary: the typed basis/context foundation, concrete Body, frontier, Research, Verification, Planning, Reorientation, and Persona paths, plus worker/session/Persona archive reachability are landed. Exact f8412b69 adds one read-only context-ID audit projection and deletes the digest-only worker archive: the typed role and generic terminal result family now survives retention, and runtime schema v2 refuses the earlier writable shape. Exact f7948795 deletes MindGatewayReview, MindStateCommitReceipt v0, the generic Mind interpreter prompt, and their false CultNet mutation mouths. Exact e0e75a30 deletes the residual aggregate-shaped role patch, its parser, and its family-policy tribunals. Research now authors one closed typed decision whose admission owner derives keyed Mind writes; the unowned generic Imagination planning patch is gone. Exact 1c9aafd8 seals one decision context before model-backed frontier-Planning failure terminalization and binds both the typed faculty failure and generic job result to it. Shared runtime validators own the store-backed model/tool refusal matrix used by both execution and sealing. Exact 553f79d9 gives every role and Persona pass one shared Responses dialect compiler. The provider sees a closed, generation-useful subset; native typed decoding still sees the full schema and alone decides whether a terminal decision can enter Mind. Provider success therefore cannot launder malformed semantic output.

Exact a8f3c1f0 makes the authenticated runtime Body route own initial RepoModel binding. Bootstrap derives the keyed model identity from the admitted Body observation instead of confusing Git source identity with Body-store identity, and initialize_keyed_repo_model independently refuses a seed whose runtime, swarm, workspace, or Body-binding digest disagrees with the live route. The refusal is whole-store byte-identical. Later Modeling decisions remain bound to their exact observation version and are never rebased.

Exact bb823c54 adds one shared failure terminal owner after a native provider refusal exposed split Persona closure. The failure cites the sealed basis/context and exact model request; runtime derives the exact transport binding from that context and atomically closes a still-live transport job plus the exact model session. Role, reorient, and Persona failures use that same owner; a generic transport result remains physiological and carries no decision context. Persona re-entry first consults the typed failure, so failure cannot resurrect inference. Successful Persona turns close only after their effect document and terminal receipt exist. Runtime execution opening and context sealing both derive provider requests internally from native requests; the caller-authored provider-request entrance is deleted. A native negative replay proves transcript-free audit plus byte-identical runtime/heartbeat restart. Reorientation's family admission additionally requires the exact canonical model-pass failure; a generic failed worker result plus context cannot mint a Continuity failure decision. Exact failure replay includes the terminal time, and audit/lookup revalidate the failure against its runtime model binding.

Concurrent Mind mutation

Each concrete invariant owner builds a MindMutation containing exact decision context, exact strong-read envelopes, exact inserts/replacements, its invariant owner identity, and an atomically written commit receipt.

Merge law:

1. Different document identities merge regardless of commit order.
2. Distinct inserts merge.
3. Same-identity byte-identical replay returns the original receipt.
4. Same-identity divergent writes conflict.
5. Changed strong reads conflict before mutation.
6. Observational-only source changes do not block an unrelated mutation.
7. Multi-document invariants commit entirely or not at all.
8. Model output is never silently rebased; conflict creates fresh work.

Collection members therefore remain separate CultCache identities. Shared vectors and mutable global heads are forbidden because they manufacture false conflict between Persona, Hands, Modeling, and Verification.

There is no derived semantic cache authority. Modeling consumes the exact typed Body and keyed RepoModel projection directly. Persona consumes keyed Persona memory and typed social state directly. If a future retrieval provider earns a place in a reasoning basis, its exact observation and receipt must enter Mind as typed evidence; it may not grow a parallel mutable head.

State-driven work

Coordinator priority is a pure projection:

1. missing keyed Mind preparation;
2. exact Reorientation work;
3. Resident pressure;
4. explicit operator regather;
5. exact Planning/PlanMind work;
6. Proposal, Body, or verdict Modeling work;
7. Verification work;
8. explicit external-evidence Research work;
9. exact consideration families;
10. Hands work;
11. otherwise await a frontier proposal.

No default Modeling job, latest lane, accepted-at comparison, runtime event, or generic interrupt can manufacture work.

There is no persisted generic runtime-event document. A runtime session or job owns its own lifecycle state; EpiphanyRuntimeJobResult, EpiphanyModelPassFailure, EpiphanyCoordinatorRunReceipt, and EpiphanyCoordinatorDeathRecovery own their exact terminal facts. CultNet and operator views derive display from those documents. No paired event may become a second terminality, archival, replay, or recovery authority.

flowchart TD
    Body["Typed Body observation"] --> MO["Modeling obligation"]
    MO --> Model["Modeling pass"]
    Claim["Claim requiring outside evidence"] --> EO["Eyes obligation"]
    EO --> Eyes["Eyes pass"]
    Eyes --> Evidence["Typed evidence/observation documents"]
    Evidence --> MO
    Plan["Mind-adopted plan and route"] --> Hands
    Hands --> Consequence["Typed Hands receipts"]
    Consequence --> Verify["Verification obligation"]
    Verify --> Audit["Soul audit/verdict"]
    Audit --> MO
    Social["Unread typed social state"] --> Persona

Eyes may create evidence that creates Modeling work. Eyes acceptance never suppresses or authorizes ordinary Body Modeling.

Each simple unresolved model-pass family embeds one EpiphanyAgentPassAttemptProjection: continuation action plus the exact latest runtime job identity when one exists. Body, proposal and frontier-verdict Modeling, Verification, consideration, admitted-direction consideration, and Reorientation use that shared shape. Research and the two-stage Planning workflow retain their full exact lifecycle projections because they carry more than one pass stage; current-work may not crush them to an action or stage enum.

The typed family obligation and exact attempt/lifecycle together form current-work identity. A failed or cancelled attempt therefore changes the projection digest and permits one fresh Resident Self pressure/grant; replaying unchanged failed state remains idempotent. Proposal attempt ordinals are canonical and contiguous, and all older attempts must be terminal. No retry counter, timestamp comparison, coordinator receipt, or event acquires scheduling authority.

Runtime and attempt lifecycle

These are distinct authorities and must not be collapsed into one state enum:

• Resident Self owns typed pressure, exact grant creation, prepared and active launch exclusion, coordinator lease, settlement, cooldown, retry, terminal receipts, and bounded lifecycle retention.
• Coordinator process owns its incarnation receipt or exact-death closure.
• Runtime worker attempt owns immutable launch, process claim, activation, typed result, job result, and terminal attempt classification.
• Mind owns adoption of a successful structured family result.
• Retention owns deletion only after all live authorities are terminal.

The attempt aggregate centralizes exact request association and typed terminal classification. Archived fulfilled attempts must retain recoverable decision authority, not merely an ID/digest tombstone.

The heartbeat scheduler does not exist. Resident Self directly selects the oldest pending pressure when no grant, prepared launch, or active lease exists. Grant creation consumes that exact pressure through one batch CAS. Terminal settlement writes the final receipt and terminal grant state atomically; there is no acknowledgement consumer, scheduler history, pacing head, stale repair, or cross-store reconciliation loop. A loop iteration is physiology only and authors no state when there is no unresolved obligation.

Persona owns a separate keyed social corpus. Each mention, immutable turn request, terminal receipt, quarantine record, retention head, and retention plan has its own CultCache identity. The Persona daemon derives an exact request from pending mentions, reserves them through batch CAS, and cites that request envelope as the observed source of its admitted pass input. Failed turns make the mention pending with the terminal receipt bound into its next deterministic request identity. Resident Self cannot launch, block, or terminalize Persona work.

RepoModel projection

RepoModel persistence is keyed by semantic identity: identity/body binding, seed-owned domain, node, edge, frontier, and per-node claim-obligation guard. Domains cannot be model-mutated. The producerless summary and lifecycle-receipt families are deleted.

EpiphanyRepoModelView sorts and assembles those documents. Frontier dependency and cycle checks include the exact reachable closure in strong reads. Per-node guards make node retirement versus concurrent frontier targeting physically conflict without serializing unrelated graph writes.

Each Modeling basis assembles the complete current keyed RepoModel view from exact document versions and authenticates those versions through their owning Mind commit receipts. There is no aggregate model revision, semantic projector DTO, workspace-coverage readiness gate, or cache work item. Currentness is the exact source-version set sealed into the reasoning basis.

External and social facts

• Repository Body bytes enter through typed observations and exact digests.
• Immutable public Git content may remain external, but its canonical identity, digest, governed receipt, and exact observed excerpt enter Mind.
• Social reads enter as typed Persona observations before cognition.
• Crossings own transport and signed receipts; they never impersonate local cognition or Mind admission.
• Content-addressed artifacts may remain external, but the exact identity and decision-bearing excerpt/version are stored in the basis/context.

Retention

Preserve reasoning bases, decision contexts, structured terminal decisions and typed failures, Mind commit receipts, Persona effects, speech/consequence receipts, and their direct context links.

Runtime retention may remove SSE frames, deltas, intermediate requests, provider events, and tool scaffolding only after the terminal context is sealed and the retained decision can still reach its basis/context without them. The v1 worker-attempt archive embeds the exact typed role result and its context-bound generic result family. The read-only decision audit consumes the same durable records before and after archival.

Verification and open gates

Accepted through the local 5b799b12 source boundary:

• core library 494/494;
• OpenAI runtime library 26/26;
• model-runtime binary 13/13;
• coordinator binary 12/12;
• swarm binary 10/10;
• core and OpenAI runtime libraries compile natively through the shared target.
• authenticated Persona re-entry refuses naked typed input, performs no external observation or model call, and preserves the exact three-stage decision chain;
• reopened current-work projection is identical and byte-for-byte read-only at Launch, Wait, Review, completed, and post-Research boundaries; failed Body and proposal attempts change exact identity, receive one fresh grant, and identical failure replay cannot mint another pressure. Proposal retry then advances to the canonical next attempt.
• a structurally valid model result whose family mutation is semantically refused writes one exact typed admission-refusal document and commit receipt, changes no RepoModel graph document, and schedules a fresh attempt. Body, proposal, frontier-verdict Modeling, and frontier Verification share this refusal lifecycle without sharing semantic mutation ownership;
• proposal retry receives the ordered exact prior refusals. Claim/node identities cannot masquerade as frontier dependency identities in the output contract. Successful model transport remains distinct from Mind admission;
• repository_scope is now the explicit sorted repository-relative ceiling for future Planning and Hands consequences. Inspected files and evidence sources remain separate audit cargo. The shared RepoModel validator refuses invalid routed scope before any keyed graph document is written; Hands receives only the adopted narrowing as authorized_paths;
• epiphany-model-runtime audit-decision reconstructs an exact terminal pass from typed durable records only; the query is byte-for-byte read-only and remains complete after live worker result retirement.
• exact source 5f66d6c9 adds epiphany-model-runtime list-decisions, a deterministic read-only index of contexts whose terminal audit chain already validates. It omits sealed nonterminal pass physiology and cannot author or admit state.
• exact ab321b34 adds explicit OpenAI/OpenRouter transport lowering while preserving the native request as the only canonical request. Exact c1a6034f keeps read-only physiology alive under the brake; exact 6b44b4d3 emits Idunn's shared signed-health schema.
• exact source d2ca66301fb6af4e7d2d27fff0b772b0f0fccdf4 passed Idunn's native serialized Yggdrasil workspace gate under test receipt SHA-256 de0fc6b360ce03493b13208d917dc8349801f03364617d966152c85846c47482 and is deployed as 26 binaries plus witness in release sha256-46407552b4a0937f63d2b7f2bd09a1dacb89d671a6e3807c97209159541aef06.
• source 9b9b5c85 separately passed Idunn's native Yggdrasil gate under exact test receipt SHA-256 6c6a71359f8c31297419665d2872f6982a89f84e197d71fc5b36a7fc86216093 and remains a sealed immutable package. A foreign-target helper interrupted candidate deployment; exact rollback restored d2ca and prevented false admission. Production units are inactive and deployment.env is absent;
• Mind epoch v4, runtime spine v7, and RepoModel epoch v2 refuse prior writable stores without mutation or a dual-read path.
• Persona production source has one outer turn deadline, no hidden provider request deadline, and focused provider/runtime suites pass.

Open before Model Atlas Gate 1 resumes:

1. let Idunn compile, test, and seal exact build-affecting source 5b799b12;
2. use that exact package in private fresh-store Ox17; stop after three provider failures total, and prove direct Body Modeling, typed refusal-to-retry if exercised, Hands through Verification, exact context audit, and restart/re-entry without public speech;
3. only then restart Model Atlas Gate 1 from a new external root.

Ox10 is preserved failed evidence under /var/lib/gamecult/epiphany/capstones/ox10-470d4cb5. It proved the direct Body route and exact failure sealing, then failed closed when Ox emitted a duplicate tension field and three Persona projector connections timed out. The malformed Modeling result made no Mind commit. The run also falsified the old Body retry projection: its failed job was omitted from current-work identity, so Resident Self saw no new pressure under the old schema. The run is braked, all transient units are inactive, and it must not be resumed or used as accepted capstone state.

Ox12 is historical evidence under /var/lib/gamecult/epiphany/capstones/ox12-84a7dec1. Exact d2ca6630 successfully recovered an orphaned worker, ran direct Body Modeling without Eyes, admitted the Body decision, and completed admitted-direction Imagination. After one typed empty-provider failure, exact 9b9b5c85 launched canonical attempt 1 and OpenRouter returned a structured result. That result confused RepoModel claims with frontier dependencies, so mutation admission correctly refused the absent dependency and changed no graph document. Exact e046a4d1 makes that refusal durable and retryable. Its epoch cut means Ox12 remains inactive and must never be resumed.

Ox13 is historical evidence under /var/lib/gamecult/epiphany/capstones/ox13-85061129. Exact 85061129 passed Idunn's full Yggdrasil gate, then the fresh root launched Persona concurrently with direct Body Modeling and no Eyes result. Body Modeling and Imagination admitted. Proposal Modeling attempt 0 completed but repeated the claim/frontier dependency mistake; exact e046a4d1 wrote a typed admission-refusal document plus commit receipt and minted attempt 1, which then completed with corrected semantics. The transcript-free audit for attempt 0 is retained at proofs/proposal-attempt-0-audit.json, SHA-256 b8346c676a0aedadc9004620a28479a2dddd63a3bca487a952177e8aee6ba36a. Persona exposed a separate split timeout owner: its provider transport still hardcoded 90 seconds while workers used one outer 600-second budget. A stop race allowed four exact projector failures, all context-bound and carrying no Mind commit. No Hands mutation or public speech occurred. Ox13 is braked, inactive, and must not resume. Later fresh roots run Persona without a systemd restart loop so provider failure counts remain exact.

Ox15 is historical fresh-store evidence for the Persona deadline cut. Persona no longer failed at the old inner transport timer, but the repository lane exposed a stale-currentness mistake in proposal handling. That fault was cut by making historical proposal direction proof independent of later disjoint RepoModel changes. Ox15 is sealed and must not resume.

Ox16 is historical evidence under /var/lib/gamecult/epiphany/capstones/ox16-749d977e. Exact 749d977e launched direct Body Modeling without Eyes while Persona's projector/persona/interpreter stages ran concurrently; no public delivery succeeded. Body and proposal decisions survived later disjoint RepoModel changes as intended. Planning then remained structurally unavailable because the admitted active Imagination frontier carried inspected evidence paths as its supposed future path scope, omitted the requested OX-CAPSTONE.md output, and was not lexicographically canonical. The root frontier's sourceScopeValid=false generated dependent proposal pressure, so the run was braked and sealed before a proposal forest could grow. No Hands consequence or capstone marker exists. Exact decision audit retained the typed Body result and context without consulting a transcript. Ox16 must never resume.

Exact 5b799b12 makes the Ox16 diagnosis a hard schema cut rather than prompt penance: source_scope/sourceScope are deleted, repository_scope owns the future repository consequence ceiling, authorized_paths is the adopted Hands narrowing, and the graph validator owns canonical scope admission. Mind/runtime/ RepoModel epochs advance to v4/v5/v2.

Historical c011 and partial Gate roots remain read-only. The pre-upgrade Yggdrasil's old capacity/topology is obsolete; the upgraded 16-vCPU host is the intended swarm and CI/CD body. Idunn owns the installed Epiphany source-change path. The former Discord/Bifrost/VoidBot operator bridge and its deployment gate are deleted; Bifrost remains Persona and governed-consequence transport. The prior package is not capstone or service-health evidence. Operational topology registration and autonomous scheduling remain forbidden until their owning gates pass.

Primary source anchors

• epiphany-core/src/mind_documents.rs
• epiphany-core/src/reasoning_context.rs
• epiphany-core/src/current_work.rs
• epiphany-core/src/repo_model_documents.rs
• epiphany-core/src/runtime_worker_attempt.rs
• epiphany-core/src/runtime_spine.rs
• epiphany-core/src/resident_self.rs
• epiphany-core/src/reorientation_work.rs
• epiphany-core/src/surfaces/coordinator_decision.rs
• epiphany-core/src/surfaces/worker_launch.rs
• epiphany-openai-runtime/src/lib.rs
• epiphany-openai-runtime/src/persona_executor.rs