Epiphany/schemas/README.md

Schemas

This folder is the canonical paperwork shrine for Epiphany's shared state contracts.

If a trait name, dossier field, birth-time projection rule, or heartbeat surface matters enough to steer the machine, it should have a receipt here instead of living only in one Rust struct, one stale memory store, or one developer's damp recollection.

Canonical Surfaces

• ghostlight.agent-state.schema.json: wire-shape JSON Schema for Ghostlight-shaped agent state, now canonically owned by Epiphany.
• canonical-agent-state-schema.md: human-facing explanation of how Epiphany uses the Ghostlight agent-state shape.
• agent-state-variable-glossary.md: full Ghostlight-family glossary plus current Epiphany role-lattice receipts.
• dossier-profiles.md: explicit split between lean Epiphany work-organ dossiers and embodied Ghostlight/Face personalities.
• repo-personality-birth-projection.md: deterministic birth-time path from repo terrain to newborn trait lattice and heartbeat seeds.
• heartbeat-state-schema.md: typed initiative and routine-state contract for the swarm heartbeat organ.
• cultnet/README.md: published CultNet-facing state, surface, intent, and receipt schemas that Aquarium and other runtimes can discover through Epiphany's schema-catalog response.

Source Of Truth

The living implementation is in code:

• agent_memory.rs
• heartbeat_state.rs
• epiphany-repo-personality.rs

The rule is simple:

• code owns executable truth
• this folder owns human-readable contract receipts
• vendored copies are downstream, not the throne

Update Discipline

When changing any of the following, update this folder in the same pass:

• canonical agent-state family names
• standing role trait names
• heartbeat store shape or pacing semantics
• repo-personality birth-time projection math or routing
• schema version identifiers

If a change lands in code without a matching receipt here, assume the machine has started whispering to itself in the walls again.