Epiphany/notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md

Fresh workspace handoff

Runtime-owned Imagination candidate publication packaged - 2026-08-11

The Imagination option-generation audit found a production ownership hole: runtime result admission authenticated the request, candidate, launch binding, worker launch, model projection, and foreign-cargo exclusion, but persisted only the generic worker result. Resident fulfillment required a separate typed candidate envelope that tests wrote by hand. No production owner existed.

Exact pushed ff9dacf1 makes the existing runtime result-admission CAS own the candidate companion alongside the worker result and terminal process claim. Exact replay requires the companion to remain byte-equal. A pre-existing orphan candidate refuses the worker result without writing it. The resident settlement test no longer seeds candidate state manually. Focused atomic, orphan, and receipt-free settlement tests pass; the full core library passes 670 tests with one intentional cross-process helper ignored.

Exact ff9dacf1 packages 24 Linux binaries as release sha256-6d237cda95de91d999de7403d843507fac89f1f2c091b114957a33118063a03b with witness sha256-3b37136d34e4d4b886544102ec43a258510e246d762640a686b02b29fb13fafc. The release build took 5m11s with zero warnings and exact packaged inspection passed. One rejected launch accidentally retained stale ec54666c source after a bad expanded fetch SHA; it was stopped immediately and its logs/output remain quarantined in the same receipt directory. The corrected source volume was authenticated to the full ff9dacf1 SHA before the accepted build. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-ff9dacf1.

On copied c006 volumes, the exact release published and epiphany-swarm once exited zero under the cognitive brake at resident revision 34 with no active turn. Runtime, Mind, and Heartbeat stores were byte-identical; only resident provider-readiness metadata advanced to the new release identity. The stopped one-shot then projected warming, correctly refusing to impersonate a live provider. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/imagination-ff9dacf1.

Source and package ownership are accepted. A genuine model-produced copied turn remains required: admit one fresh Persona-feedback consideration through the existing typed ingress, run exact ff9dacf1, and prove result plus candidate appear atomically while model/frontier/Hands/release/deployment authority stays unchanged. Do not use a fixture candidate writer. Actual c006 remains exact c9a2a979, alive and braked. Yggdrasil never builds.

Exact local-Verse reader isolation accepted - 2026-08-11

Exact pushed ec54666c packages 24 Linux binaries as release sha256-4d7347980f2fad658ebc6206b0435f29e1151cfbb75ec2806a8df2d5eb7f63bd with witness sha256-d5e6671cd70e1aeb3df21d1e69fb015b831e2c63c272d7ef3e3bf5f61aac15d1. The persistent Starfire cache completed the release build in 5m23s with no warnings; exact packaged inspection found all 24 binaries. Packaging receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-ec54666c.

The copied-state gate used two named volumes built from actual c006 local-Verse state. Both received one valid Hands daemon-status fixture; the hostile copy also received a registered Mind-contract envelope whose payload deliberately cannot decode as that type. Exact packaged swarm-status, single-target poke, restart-policy writing, and direct reconciliation all succeeded. Status, poke, and policy projections were identical; reconciliation differed only in its wall-clock field. Every original envelope remained byte-identical after all three mutations, including the hostile row and payload. Receipts and the verification script are under .epiphany-run/narrow-verse-readers-ec54666c.

The nervous-system aggregate-reader audit is closed. Actual c006 remains exact c9a2a979, alive and braked at resident revision 34: ec54666c changes only operator query/supervisor paths, so replacing resident Heartbeat/Self bodies would be churn without an invariant. Next map the incomplete Imagination option-generation boundary from typed request through authenticated candidate, with adoption and Hands authority remaining absent. Yggdrasil never builds.

Exact daemon-policy input cut - 2026-08-11

The refreshed Perfect Machine roadmap no longer names exact 16407f7e, resident revision 26, or multi-grant turnover as current work. Exact c9a2a979, revision 34, and the accepted two-grant actual replay are current.

The next nervous-system audit cut removes aggregate local-Verse context from the single-daemon restart-policy writer. One exact typed daemon-status envelope now owns the daemon and cluster identity copied into policy state. Persona, Hands, receipts, telemetry, and unrelated daemon rows are not loaded. Aggregate context remains with reconciliation and runbook paths that genuinely enumerate topology, policies, statuses, and brake state. The exact loader test and the negative source-boundary test pass. Continue classifying aggregate consumers; do not package until a meaningful bounded batch earns a live body.

Direct single-daemon reconciliation now uses the same narrow anatomy: one exact daemon status, its exact policy, and the canonical brake. The brake helper no longer accepts an aggregate context; focused tests prove protected daemon.lifecycle_poke scope still refuses while the cognitive scheduler brake does not claim service physiology. Scheduler tick and cluster runbook retain aggregate reads because they genuinely enumerate several state families. The remaining supervisor aggregate consumers are therefore classified.

epiphany-verse-query poke-daemon is narrowed as well. It loads one exact daemon status, the canonical brake, topology-family display metadata, and its exact written intent by identity. The two aggregate context reads and their now-dead context wrappers are deleted. Bulk poke, triage, and operator reports retain aggregate reads because they enumerate daemon state. All 19 verse-query tests pass with zero warnings.

The complete batch verification is green: 669 library tests passed with one intentional ignore, 29 daemon-supervisor tests passed, and all 19 verse-query tests passed. Cargo emitted no warnings. Detached receipts are under .epiphany-run/narrow-verse-readers-161c6ec8.

Actual receipt-bound turnover accepted - 2026-08-11

Exact pushed c9a2a979 is now the active actual c006 body. Under a bounded cognitive-brake release, the old reviewModelingResult receipt created grant 44. Mind rejected the unanchored patch and coordinator failure review wrote exact supersession role-failure-review-3e97a1f0-0511-4ab1-b84c-8132f2062042 inside successful receipt coordinator-run-linux-eyes-tools-c005-1786407375735. That receipt caused distinct grant 48. The second coordinator rederived awaitFrontierProposal, refused stale reviewModelingResult with consequence:none, and completed as receipt coordinator-run-linux-eyes-tools-c005-1786407379115.

Both grants own terminal completed state and terminal acknowledgements. Resident state is revision 34 with no active lease and the second receipt as its last exact receipt. The four pre-existing Hands/Persona/deployment-family runtime envelopes are byte-identical to the before snapshot. The cognitive brake is engaged, both exact providers remain alive, and authenticated readiness is active with no reasons. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/c006-continuation-c9a2a979.

Actual receipt-bound turnover is accepted. awaitFrontierProposal is a typed waiting state, not authority to fabricate backlog. Keep c006 braked while inspecting the remaining organ matrix and choose the next bounded audit from authoritative live state. Yggdrasil never builds.

Copied receipt-bound turnover accepted - 2026-08-11

Exact pushed c9a2a979 packages 24 Linux binaries as release sha256-78b09d7c32867c71d593951f328a191b7261600a1d9e81d7fdcd35ce7414f218 with witness sha256-ddf32da018f5a53eb87f3ed5b87ccfa57616203970d6fdab9641ee1ac8f71f24 and zero warnings. Construction took 8m17s against the persistent Starfire cache. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-c9a2a979.

A second stopped snapshot of actual c006 copied all three named volumes with byte-identical manifests and restarted both exact actual owners after exit-zero stops. Under copied brake, exact c9a2a979 created one pressure from the old reviewModelingResult receipt and no grant. Brake release issued grant 23. Mind rejected the unanchored patch; coordinator failure review wrote exact supersession role-failure-review-5a612149-fc7f-4ea8-996a-a008547bfa2c inside successful receipt coordinator-run-linux-eyes-tools-c005-1786406310816. That newer receipt created distinct pressure/grant 27. The second coordinator rederived awaitFrontierProposal, refused stale required action reviewModelingResult with consequence:none, and completed as receipt coordinator-run-linux-eyes-tools-c005-1786406314165.

Both grants are terminal completed; resident state is revision 34 with no active lease and the second receipt as its last exact receipt. All four Hands/Persona/deployment-family runtime envelopes are byte-identical to the untouched actual baseline. The copied cognitive brake is engaged, exact readiness is active with no reasons, and both copied providers stopped with exit zero. The contaminated first experiment is also braked, preserved, and stopped. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/continuation-c9a2a979 and .epiphany-run/continuation-4d6d269f.

Copied receipt-bound turnover is accepted. Publish exact c9a2a979 into actual c006 under its brake, replace the two provider bodies without changing stores, authenticate readiness, run the same bounded two-grant path, and re-engage the brake before continuing the next organ audit. Yggdrasil never builds.

Copied continuation exposed missing failure-review context - 2026-08-11

Exact 4d6d269f packaged 24 Linux binaries as sha256-ff371697ce78a1daa3322c0cac988582d548747ae7fddbfb1d9f5626a37d3344 with witness sha256-44c9d61787520a2f38fad1362230d283954a6019fd392600fe112115ca22c0fa and no warnings. A clean stopped snapshot of actual c006 was copied into three named volumes with byte-identical manifests; the exact actual owners restarted unchanged with exit-zero stop receipts. Under the copied brake, exact typed inspection found one pending coordinator-internal-continuation pressure from receipt coordinator-run-linux-eyes-tools-c005-1786396551246, required action reviewModelingResult, zero continuation grants, revision 26, and no active turn.

After copied brake release, Heartbeat granted the pressure exactly once, but Mind rejected the Modeling patch because nodes[2] had neither anchors nor a source-hash anchor. The continuation launch omitted the coordinator's existing --supersede-failed-results authority, so the rejection escaped as process failure and Heartbeat issued twelve attempts before intervention. The copied brake is engaged; attempt receipts and snapshots are under .epiphany-run/continuation-4d6d269f. Actual c006 remained braked on exact 16407f7e.

The source repair adds typed failed-result supersession only to receipt-bound internal continuations. Mind still rejects the malformed aggregate; coordinator failure review owns supersession and derives fresh work. The exact resident argv test and all 18 coordinator tests pass. Commit and package this repair, then replay from a fresh pre-fault clone. Require one rejection/supersession, a newer causal receipt and grant, no process-failure retry loop, and zero Hands/Persona/deployment consequence.

Internal cognition continuation implemented; live proof pending - 2026-08-11

The post-endurance audit found actual c006 coherently asleep but unable to turn over its next frontier. Exact packaged status says reviewModelingResult for proposal Modeling job 5ff2704b-64eb-42f1-9ca4-ca7144e33ae4; runtime has no actionable Hands or Eyes frontier, Imagination eligibility is empty, planning is terminal, and resident pressure is empty. Releasing the brake would do nothing.

The source cut makes the last exact resident-bound coordinator receipt own one possible internal-cognition continuation. Only safe Research, Modeling, Verification, Imagination-planning, and Mind-planning actions can become an idempotent pressure. Its coordinator launch is objective-free, execute-mode, auto-review, exactly one step, and fenced by --required-action. Live routing drift records a no-consequence refusal before the action match; it does not fail and requeue the stale pressure. Hands, Persona, deployment, external consequence, waits without terminal results, and failure review cannot create a continuation. Thirty resident tests and all 18 coordinator tests pass.

Next: commit and package this exact source with the persistent Starfire cache, then run copied c006 under its brake. Require one pressure from the stranded receipt, exact Modeling review/admission, a genuinely newer causal receipt and grant, no Hands/Persona authority, bounded resource behavior, and clean re-engagement. Actual c006 remains exact 16407f7e, braked and unchanged.

Actual c006 braked endurance accepted - 2026-08-10

Exact 16407f7e remained alive in separate Heartbeat and resident Self containers for a detached 900-pulse target window. The monitor began at iteration 572 and completed at 1496. Thirty samples observed iterations 573-1496, a 923-pulse delta. Every sample was braked-after-ack-reconciliation with the canonical brake, no grant, resident revision 26, no active turn, and no authority deviation. /state remained exactly 18,161,109 bytes and /workspace exactly 114,209,526 bytes. Heartbeat RSS stayed within 28.63-28.88 MiB; resident Self stayed within 54.11-55.50 MiB. Both owners remained live. An exact packaged final status authenticated the release and witness, reported the cognitive runtime epiphany-starfire-linux-eyes-tools, observed the brake engaged, and projected readiness active with no reasons. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/c006-endurance-16407f7e.

The stale July audit roadmap was replaced with the current organ authority matrix. Commit 5fbb8690 also narrows managed-task lifecycle, service-runbook, and repo-work service-audit brake decisions to the canonical typed brake loader; cluster and prompt paths retain full Verse context only where their outputs actually aggregate it. Twenty-six daemon-supervisor tests pass.

Next: map and run bounded autonomous frontier turnover across Self, Eyes, Modeling, Imagination, and Mind on copied exact state before opening an explicit actual-c006 brake window. Require several causal grants, no Hands or Persona consequence, preserved typed chains, and a final re-engaged-brake readiness proof. Yggdrasil never builds.

Actual c006 woke and completed retained Modeling once — 2026-08-10

Exact 0ef0c0b8 was published into actual c006 under its cognitive brake. Exact Self authenticated it at revision 23 with no active lease. Heartbeat and Self then started as distinct long-lived container owners. An explicit typed brake release created no grant; it allowed the already-retained, unconsumed proposal-Modeling grant to launch exactly once. Coordinator thread linux-eyes-tools-c005 opened runtime job 5ff2704b-64eb-42f1-9ca4-ca7144e33ae4; the detached Modeling worker published valid typed fulfillment. Self advanced 23 -> 25 -> 26 through launched, awaiting-fulfillment, completed, then sleeping. Heartbeat returned to bounded void routines without a replacement grant. No Hands, Persona, deployment, or other external consequence occurred. Exact before/after manifests, brake transitions, provider logs, and status projections are under .epiphany-run/c006-wake-0ef0c0b8.

The live run exposed one readiness ownership fault. Both providers were alive, but status reported warming because its early snapshot time raced continuously refreshed rows and because one container cannot observe the other's PID incarnation. The accepted source cut makes the shared-store role singleton own cross-container liveness and keeps the exact fresh provider row as release/witness/source/executable identity. PID sight is diagnostic. Evaluation time is sampled only after loading each exact row, so slow witness authentication cannot race a provider refresh. Rows more than one second beyond that observation still refuse. Fifteen focused tests and all 666 non-ignored core library tests pass.

Exact 16407f7e packages this cut as 24-binary release sha256-66cf1c2f4d88e7885a36870277cf4b143204de9c9b0dad0ed8f809983b3c55af with witness sha256-5f41248bb11c01f19125f16bf39f3dfcc2a802de211f3eae7e2caf292d59e4b3. On copied c006 stores, two distinct PID namespaces projected active; stopping only Heartbeat immediately projected warming with exact role-singleton failure while its row remained fresh; restart restored active; both owners then accepted SIGTERM and exited zero. Actual c006 now runs the same exact body under its engaged cognitive brake and projects active with no reasons. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/readiness-16407f7e and .epiphany-run/c006-readiness-16407f7e. Run the 900-pulse braked plateau next. Yggdrasil never builds.

Direct proposal Modeling and archived fulfillment accepted — 2026-08-10

The exact 53678374 Linux body now carries a direct proposal Modeling proof in .epiphany-run/worker-retention-53678374/runtime-proposal3.cc. Production APIs own the immutable user proposal and selected request, generation-one Body carrier, exact Modeling launch binding and document hash, terminal worker result, accepted Evolution patch, and Mind receipt repo-model-admission-review-proposal-direct-3. The admitted patch contributes exactly one proposal-citing active frontier routed to Eyes; it grants no Hands authority.

With zero coordinator receipts, exact runtime fulfillment closed the original resident grant recovered-fulfilled. Packaged epiphany-swarm once then exited zero braked and retired the consumed pressure/grant/ack lifecycle beside its readiness row. Explicit runtime archival replaced eight worker envelopes with one proposal-Modeling tombstone. Fulfillment before and after archival resolves to request repo-frontier-proposal-modeling-a9807416c62a69eb7f8f4524fa75fe3fc1cb119b43813f62d3299300074c7e56, job proposal-direct-3, and result result-proposal-direct-3; launch, job, and claim are absent afterward. A later Heartbeat issuance selected only the new admitted-model-direction pressure created by Mind admission. No proposal retry or active resident turn exists.

Rejected fixture shapes remain preserved: missing model schema, revision-one model without an exact self-hash, and a recovery timestamp earlier than its coordinator start. Each failed closed. Actual c006 stayed untouched and remains braked/stopped. Direct proposal fulfillment is accepted. Deployed supervisor/projector stdout-stderr ownership was already accepted under gamecult-ops 059821f: both projector policies inherit /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr, while systemd-journald is the sole deployed retention owner. Exact packaged interruption falsified the Starfire F: bind as a mutable authority substrate: a lockless reader observed an empty published snapshot while an exact packaged writer was being killed. A Docker named volume instead survived sixty randomized writer kills and five million concurrent lockless reads with only parseable, monotonically nondecreasing snapshots. Exact a4756857 then repeated the stronger test: forty real writer incarnations died with SIGKILL 137 while a lockless verifier completed ten million reads spanning 102-201 envelopes without empty, partial, decode, or rollback. CultCache removes only its own UUID-shaped abandoned staging files on the next exclusive write. A copied c006 restart is clean and actual c006 remains untouched. Exact payload inspection corrected an initial false alarm: the retained grant is unconsumed, nonterminal, and exactly matches Heartbeat's running schedule/action. The brake is coherently holding pending authority; there is no orphan repair to perform. The release source guard now pre-cleans cached submodules, updates only changed pins without --force, then re-cleans and verifies the exact tree. Its twenty focused tests pass. Exact pushed 0ef0c0b8 packages 24 Linux binaries as sha256-032af7baa251caf32c1843eeace8990001557fe916988d8d1e2f0a27093a2b36 with witness sha256-c0b8dbac33f821e9adc15218ea22a9133e0b9ea78f1981916b403fcad79f3d3b and zero warnings. The source-changing Cargo pass fell from 11m04s to 7m19s, compiling six first-party crates and no vendored or external crate. An exact warm replay finished in 5.8s wall / 0.77s Cargo with identical release and witness. Publish this body to actual c006 under the brake, authenticate it, then wake Heartbeat and resident Self and prove the retained grant is consumed at most once through its typed lifecycle. Yggdrasil never builds.

Exact packaged outer-worker retention accepted — 2026-08-10

Exact pushed source 53678374adbab1552605817f41d9978ba587c52e packages from the stable Docker source clone /source/repo-live as the 24-binary release sha256-5d50fa7dab6bbfae78982d6dd8e8a21f2c3642bb6678686660c59fb42aa97d05 with witness sha256-1814d2b7ee0bd93ab93a2878beb6ab7916fa7e1a476b8bde6dc7e06cd79bda73. The one-time stable-path cache migration took 15m50s; inspection found exact source and zero warnings. Package receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-53678374.

Copied Linux state under .epiphany-run/worker-retention-53678374 is bound to an authenticated generation-one Body at exact source 53678374. Exact packaged epiphany-swarm once, under the copied cognitive brake and retention window one, exited zero twice. The failed pass archived only failed-old-clean2, replacing its exact seven-envelope launch/job/claim/binding/event family with a typed tombstone; failed-new-clean2 remained terminal and live. The fulfilled pass archived only fulfilled-a5; fulfilled-z5 remained a Completed job with a terminal-result claim. Runtime fulfillment still resolves the archived and live admitted-model-direction requests to their exact job/result IDs. The tombstone preserves evidence but cannot become a launchable attempt.

Several fixture mistakes failed closed and are useful receipts: a foreign Persona document source, a missing Body route, a Modeling carrier without Body basis, a direction projection with the wrong model hash, and a worker job mixed into the coordinator's jobless Continuity session. None weakened production gates. Actual c006 was never mounted writable and remains braked/stopped.

Next construct one direct Linux-native packaged proposal Modeling lifecycle. Require exact proposal/request/payload, Body-bearing launch and hash, successful Modeling result, admitted Evolution patch with one safe routeable frontier, zero-receipt recovered-fulfilled settlement, resident and worker retention, archived fulfillment replay, and no retry. Then return to deployed log ownership and randomized bind-store interruption proof. Yggdrasil never builds.

Worker terminal-failure ownership exposed live and repaired in source — 2026-08-10

Exact packaged 75b84180 copied-state runs now prove both claimed and active SIGKILL orphans become terminal-death only after Linux exact-process observation. Replaying the claimed recovery returned success without changing the runtime-store SHA-256. A persisted active resident lease then settled through production settle_resident_self_exited_coordinator: the lease cleared, the exact grant became process-failed, one cancellation ack appeared, and the pressure returned to pending once. Heartbeat issued attempt two for that same pressure. A distinct packaged job/process became active while the prior claim remained terminal-death, proving no dual live attempt. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/worker-continuity-75b84180/typed-claimed-sigkill/ and typed-active-sigkill-3/.

The retry worker then exited zero after a typed model-transport failure, with a generic failed runtime result but an incorrectly surviving active process claim. This is a real Continuity fault: generic completion and process terminality had split writers. Current source makes complete_runtime_job one snapshot-fenced transaction for job, result, completion event, and exact active claim. A generic worker completion becomes terminal-failure; an admitted reorient result remains terminal-result. Proposal Modeling, Imagination, and admitted-model-direction retry predicates accept terminal-failure as exact supersession authority. No cleanup loop was added.

Core passes 661 tests with one intentional ignore. The OpenAI runtime passes 15 library tests, 10 model-runtime tests, and 10 openai-runtime tests. The cut is not yet committed or packaged. Next review/commit/push it, package exact source once on Starfire, then replay the packaged activated transport failure and require atomic terminal-failure plus canonical resident settlement/retry and retention non-resurrection. Valid-result-before-coordinator-receipt remains open. Actual c006 remains braked and stopped. Yggdrasil never builds.

Packaged worker start gate accepted — recovery/retry still open — 2026-08-10

Exact pushed source 75b841808bb5f693acfe4513befd430fbaf65b75 passed core 660/1 ignored, swarm 9/9, coordinator 17/17, and OpenAI runtime 10/10. It packaged in 6m32s without warnings as the 24-binary release sha256-3959bcb3705a59a3a881e248b71e245faa5cf16f6dcc93ce49968957fb2a0301 with witness sha256-6e34eb0aa60e4427ca45f42d02705ff5b87aef4dfb18644c03c7dcb1895bc39d. Independent inspection authenticated exact source, runtime, witness, and all 24 binaries. Package receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-75b84180/. Three earlier containers in that directory are preserved pre-build source-preflight refusals caused by an uninitialized submodule clone and a staging-only URL override; only container epiphany-linux-package-75b84180-4 entered Cargo and completed the release.

The exact packaged epiphany-model-runtime then ran against quarantined copied CultCache fixtures under .epiphany-run/worker-continuity-75b84180/:

• no activation: the claim remained claimed, no model-adapter job appeared, and the ten-second gate replaced it once with terminal-unactivated plus one outer-job failure;
• SIGKILL while claimed: exit 137/no OOM, exact claim durable, outer job still queued, no result or model-adapter job;
• explicit capability activation then immediate SIGKILL: the activation API returned active, exit 137/no OOM, exact active claim durable, outer job queued, and no result or model-adapter job.

This accepts the deployed worker start gate and both orphan shapes. It does not yet accept resident death recovery or retry. Next extend the quarantined fixture with exact typed grant/lease authority and run packaged Self/Runtime Continuity over both orphan stores. Require terminal-death only after exact Linux process observation, canonical process-failed settlement and one requeue, a distinct retry incarnation for the same request, no dual worker, exact replay, and retention non-resurrection. Then prove valid result before coordinator receipt closes once without retry. Actual c006 stays braked. Yggdrasil never builds.

Orphan-worker Continuity source complete — 2026-08-10

The runtime now persists one EpiphanyRuntimeWorkerProcessClaim per immutable worker job. run-worker claims its own PID, creation token, executable, and activation-capability digest before watchdog, provider, model, or tool work. It waits for the coordinator to observe that exact claim and present the matching capability. Failure to activate terminalizes the claim without cognitive work. An authenticated worker result and terminal-result claim replacement share one snapshot-fenced transaction.

Resident Continuity resolves the request's exact worker launch and claim. Only native Missing, Replaced, or exact exit observation may replace a claimed or active process with terminal-death; alive waits, inaccessible/indeterminate fails closed, and a result race refuses. Self then uses its existing process-failed terminal vocabulary to clear the exact lease, terminalize the grant, and requeue pressure once. roleFailureReview, coordinator receipt absence, elapsed time, and legacy claimless launches grant no retry authority.

Proposal Modeling, Imagination consideration, and admitted model direction now share this terminality predicate. Imagination retries receive distinct binding IDs; every lane receives a distinct backend job. A dead process also demotes the stale active runtime-link projection so it cannot veto the new launch. Attempt history and terminal claims remain immutable. Focused user-story tests prove refusal before terminality and successful retry afterward for all three lanes, including canonical resident settlement. Full gates pass: core 660 passed/1 ignored, swarm 9/9, coordinator 17/17, OpenAI runtime 10/10.

This cut is not yet committed, packaged, or accepted on Linux. Next commit and push it, package exactly once with the persistent Starfire cache, authenticate the 24-binary release and witness, and run the copied-state kill matrix at pre-claim, claimed/unactivated, activated/pre-result, and valid-result before coordinator receipt. Prove same typed request with distinct incarnation, no dual live worker, no pre-activation model/tool work, exact settlement, and retention non-resurrection. Actual c006 remains braked. Yggdrasil never builds.

Heartbeat graceful SIGTERM accepted on Linux — 2026-08-10

Exact pushed source bfb92cbb96e8ac085222844d3aa51681d15e18d1 packaged in 6m12s without warnings as 24-binary release sha256-6f1f4eff32fab17cf3ffa2c7be7b911138c18cc09fad7d3271e1ca02559fe54f with witness sha256-fda39e34d6f30a606f19736f96769613262997a35db63560165049a7db2e12da. Independent inspection authenticated exact source, runtime, witness, destination, and all 24 sibling binaries. Package receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-bfb92cbb/.

On copied c006 state, packaged Heartbeat authenticated the published release and mounted cognitive runtime, observed the engaged cognitive brake, and emitted no grant. SIGTERM arrived during its configured 30-second interval. The process stopped in 0.358 seconds with exit zero and no OOM; its final epiphany.heartbeat.serve_receipt.v0 states stopped-cleanly and shutdownRequested:true. Resident, runtime, and cognitive local-Verse SHA-256 values were byte-identical before and after. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/heartbeat-sigterm-bfb92cbb/.

Heartbeat graceful termination is accepted. Actual c006 remains braked and its old resident/Heartbeat containers remain stopped. Next resume copied receipt-free coordinator death: prove the pre-open boundary and then resolve the post-open split between already-authenticated typed fulfillment and an orphaned immutable worker launch. Do not manufacture retry authority or delete launch history. Yggdrasil never builds.

Heartbeat graceful SIGTERM source complete — 2026-08-10

Heartbeat serve now owns SIGINT/SIGTERM with one process-local atomic signal owner. Shutdown is observed before admitting the next pulse, all interval waits are interruptible, and signal or bounded completion converge on the existing typed serve receipt. The receipt now states shutdownRequested; an in-flight atomic pulse is allowed to finish before closure. No persisted shutdown command, retry writer, or Docker-timeout compensator was added.

Six focused Heartbeat binary tests pass, including signal/boundary stopping and immediate interruption of the interval wait. The Heartbeat binary checks without warnings and git diff --check passes. This cut is not yet committed, packaged, or accepted on Linux. Next: commit/push, package exactly once on Starfire, and run packaged serve on copied c006 state under its cognitive brake. Send SIGTERM during an interval and require exit zero, a final typed receipt with shutdownRequested=true, no new grant, and byte-identical resident/runtime authority. Do not release actual c006. Yggdrasil never builds.

Typed-attempt non-resurrection accepted and actual c006 settled — 2026-08-10

Exact pushed source c693aaeadbb17204724c9986f16952e2f93e8fc9 packages without warnings as 24-binary release sha256-fd46323a0164d33dd5f71f557aa9406b4bec699f453a74aee428c99b2c252e71 with witness sha256-8ad95c0a08fe1fe7398f62a94ca10c1da56170b36e552c1700968efc2a7ac16d. The cut validates structural coordinator-receipt binding before classifying status and forbids an immutable typed attempt from returning its pressure to Heartbeat.

On an exact copy of the sealed c006 failure stores, packaged Self settled the attempt-two lease with exit zero at resident revision 22. The exact grant is terminal unfulfilled, its pressure remains consumed, and bounded Heartbeat replay under the cognitive brake issued no third grant. Resident serve projected braked state and handled SIGTERM with exit zero. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/replay-c006-c693aaea/.

Standing corrupted-state intervention authority was then exercised on actual c006. The authenticated c693 release replaced only the release publication, and packaged Self settled the same exact lease with exit zero, no OOM, and no active turn. Bounded Heartbeat pulses 138 and 139 both reported braked-after-ack-reconciliation with no grant. Pre-intervention stores and container evidence remain under .epiphany-run/interventions/c006-unsuperseded-relaunch-20260810T1044Z/; post-settlement logs are under .epiphany-run/interventions/c006-c693aaea-settlement/.

The cognitive brake remains engaged. Old c006 resident and Heartbeat containers remain stopped; do not release the brake. The next source cut is Heartbeat graceful SIGTERM ownership: the old continuous Heartbeat body required Docker's kill timeout and exited 137. Map that nervous-system lifecycle, make termination produce an exact clean receipt, package once, and replay on copied state before resuming receipt-free death/orphan-worker Continuity. Yggdrasil never builds.

c006 live scheduling exposed typed retry resurrection — 2026-08-10

Exact pushed source 8d92c8266b07a98b5c6b2e8d6bdbded5661e8cbb packaged without warnings as 24-binary release sha256-e0f5b6084ea779dd0a7e22536b2cf371c0579b8ab06e52f728ddc8912caf2dab with witness sha256-8a8833b7a501a774173debe6b93658f1885691b3f35a1c7534e907d26d8860ea. The integrated copied-state negative proved that resident Heartbeat observes the mounted cognitive brake namespace even when release identity differs.

On actual c006, Heartbeat consumed the historical terminal acknowledgement without reissuing either old grant. The first admitted-model-direction grant completed exactly once. Proposal Modeling then completed one valid request and advanced to another. That later worker persisted an immutable launch and a terminal result which failed runtime fulfillment validation. Resident Self cancelled and requeued the same typed request; Heartbeat issued attempt two; the coordinator correctly refused it because attempt one's launch remained unsuperseded. The resulting fully bound failed coordinator receipt then crashed resident settlement because the receipt lookup incorrectly used the success-only validator before status classification.

The cognitive brake is engaged on epiphany-starfire-linux-eyes-tools. Both c006 processes are stopped. Heartbeat still lacks graceful SIGTERM and stopped with exit 137 after observing the brake. Exact copied stores, container inspection, and logs are preserved under .epiphany-run/interventions/c006-unsuperseded-relaunch-20260810T1044Z/. Do not release the brake or restart c006 from 8d92c826.

Current source moves both decisions to their owners. Receipt binding is checked independently of terminal success, so a fully bound failed receipt reaches settlement. Once a typed attempt exists, pending work retains the active lease and hostile terminal output closes the exact grant as unfulfilled without returning its pressure to Heartbeat. Generic cancellation may requeue only before a typed attempt exists. The live-shaped regression proves a bound failed receipt plus hostile terminal claimant cannot mint attempt three. The full core suite passes 654 tests with one intentional ignore; nine swarm binary tests and warning-free lib/swarm checks pass. Commit/package this cut once, then replay against a copy of the sealed c006 failure state. Require exact settlement, consumed pressure, no new grant, parseable stores, and clean resident restart under the cognitive brake before touching actual c006.

c006 recovery exposed Heartbeat identity and legacy-session residue — 2026-08-10

Exact 9bf985fc4ab5a7f75de26493ed6e122524c71775 packaged in 6m46s as 24-binary release sha256-eedde4e6257dbf9ad700ad6a8793599504ae4b7bbf86147ced1275fa8596e9d3 with witness sha256-828949cd0a4ad865c5a43e68079f9b8db36d63b992a72d6f191b6c18bd241b73. Inspection passed and no warnings were emitted.

c006 first refused before cognition because the copied runtime retained one legacy active session ID reused across 24 unbound starts and 22 receipts. A proposed latest-timestamp repair was rejected: timestamps cannot bind a receipt to an incarnation. The exact pre-intervention runtime sha256-8aace759c246bd45b86c32cf0f15ce518eab12e2b2aa91f57a8dc764f5d08c84 is preserved under .epiphany-run/interventions/c006-ambiguous-legacy-receipts/. The stopped-volume intervention removed the entire unbound session/start/receipt family under a full-snapshot fence; exact packaged runtime parsing passed and no remaining envelope references the legacy session. External typed receipt quarantine-receipt.json records the cut. No guessed completion was created.

c006 then started sleeping and stopped by SIGTERM with exit 0, but no Heartbeat pulse was allowed: Heartbeat serve still selected the release runtime for its brake. Current source requires --resident-runtime-store, resolves mounted cognition for scheduling brake lookup, and retains release identity solely for provider/binary authentication. Four Heartbeat binary tests pass, including a deliberate deployment/cognitive identity split. Commit and package this final identity cut before pulsing c006.

Cognitive brake identity cut — 2026-08-10

Exact crash-atomic source 0e8cd91af1dae0b48c59a6c0985075279ee58a6b packaged without warnings as 24-binary release sha256-ff906f3850e3ceaf743ce330116d545d57efb3340a69da186d834392fa8f1dcf with witness sha256-ea0997317b82fae9117d96ef2cfc7289d0aa552405275b89160c4e30cb4fef2b. Independent packaged inspection passed. Construction took seven minutes after the CultCache source hash invalidated the release graph. The first bootstrap attempt refused before compilation because its local submodule URLs still named the bundle mount; the corrected canonical-URL attempt is the accepted package. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-0e8cd91a/.

Do not start c006 from that release. Recovery preflight found that prepared coordinator argv already uses the mounted cognitive runtime identity, but resident NativePorts still read the local-Verse brake under release/provider identity. Current source resolves the immutable mounted runtime identity once and uses it for every resident brake observation, so resident and child share one kill-switch namespace. Readiness now projects mounted cognition as runtimeId, authenticated binary provenance as releaseRuntimeId, and reads the same cognitive brake. Release identity remains binary/provider provenance; Persona feedback target remains a crossing contract. Thirteen focused readiness tests and all nine swarm-binary tests pass, including deliberate deployment-runtime versus cognitive-runtime cases. Commit/package this narrow correction before c006.

Recovery state is staged but inert in named volume epiphany-resident-c006-state. Its resident snapshot comes from coordinator-session-live-5a479522: heartbeat, top runtime, Eyes runtime, and Eyes local-Verse hashes prove that copied run descended from c005's surviving state. The snapshot records sleeping revision 6, both original grants terminal, and one typed admitted-model-direction pressure pending. Derived provider readiness will be republished. The zero file was not imported.

Starfire reboot exposed non-atomic CultCache publication — 2026-08-10

Live c005 and the copied e97 Continuity harness independently lost only resident-self.cc during the same host restart. The files were replaced 0.563 seconds apart at 09:15:18Z/09:15:19Z, each became a nonempty file consisting entirely of zero bytes, Windows booted at 09:16:52.500Z, and Docker later reported c005 exited 255. Every sibling c005 .cc store remained nonzero. The exact corrupt c005 bytes, hashes, container state, and host-event correlation are preserved under .epiphany-run/interventions/c005-zero-store-20260810T091926Z/. Do not restart c005 and do not describe this as a clean shutdown.

The source owner was CultCache's single-file publisher: it deleted the committed destination before renaming a staged snapshot. Upstream CultCache e8a9f2d now flushes a unique staging file, atomically replaces the sibling destination, and performs the Unix parent-directory durability barrier; Windows uses write-through replacement. The individual replacement and directory-sync calls work on Linux overlayfs and the writable Starfire F: bind, but the full packaged interruption test rejected the bind. A concurrent lockless reader observed an empty published snapshot while the exact packaged runtime writer was killed; the store later decoded with 90 events. Two abandoned UUID staging files remained. F: therefore cannot own mutable Epiphany state.

The same exact release on Docker named volume epiphany-cultcache-interruption-53678374 survived sixty independently named writer containers killed at randomized 1-150 ms boundaries. Exact packaged status decoded after every kill and the event count never rolled back. A concurrent lockless reader completed 5,000,000 reads, observing 136-164 envelopes with no empty, partial, undecodable, or regressing snapshot. The final store contained 163 events, retained mode 0644 and uid/gid 0, and hashed 39026d9d5d432ab24ca3f2a737ed2498728006e89b794d18a4f9cf371f5fb9b7. Three abandoned UUID staging files remained after killed writers.

CultCache 0ba8745 assigns bounded staging cleanup to the next exclusive writer. It deletes only regular siblings named exactly <destination>.<UUID>.tmp; unknown suffixes, other destinations, directories, and symlinks are not cleanup authority. Forty-one library tests and 664 core library tests pass. A stale supervisor source-shape test was corrected to verify exact call arguments without claiming indentation authority; all 25 supervisor tests pass. The exact package is source a4756857, release sha256-b2e2793ea7205d497e8f1b85b3a23488f844213dd913b08fd9082ede26a76e07, and witness sha256-4bdb22ff7a4363176aaef325222c55c08b75ee464c98a57be5a983bc43dd9917. Forty looping packaged writer containers ended with SIGKILL 137; exact status decoded monotonically after each. A concurrent lockless verifier completed 10,000,000 reads spanning 102-201 envelopes with no empty, partial, undecodable, or regressing state. The final clean write produced 200 typed events, preserved 0644 root:root, hashed 5e3518da84cabac4afa1f22187f8e90a9a02ea820b5a13eab32627c1e375c875, and preserved the hostile unknown, foreign-store, directory, and symlink shapes. Named-volume mutable publication and staging cleanup are accepted. The zero file is evidence, not a migration input.

Copied c006 state, workspace, and Codex home matched 26-file, 4,301-file, and one-file SHA-256 manifests before mutation. The new release published only into the copy; exact swarm once remained braked with no active turn, and bounded serve accepted SIGTERM with exit zero and final braked state. Original c006 state and workspace manifests remained 3bef83075f18f9ebaff30c432fd9429b6b3dd7bdf00ea10a0913ee06a7a04d2f and eb3de02d206b61b741816907e4653d155b9bec1a2dd7089d44eeec393d1e1b70.

Heartbeat and resident state are coherent under the brake. Heartbeat retains a running epiphany-starfire-linux-c006-bounded coordinator turn; the resident store retains its exact proposal grant for request ef710ca4.... Forensic typed payload inspection proves consumed_at_millis = None, terminal fields absent, and exact schedule/action equality. No prepared/active lease or child claim should exist before Self consumes the grant. The generic heartbeat status makes the coordinator look frozen because that is precisely what pending braked authority means. Do not repair or terminalize it. Actual c006 remains untouched.

Cross-container resident ownership accepted — 2026-08-09

Exact c930f505 release sha256-cd684079eec277bbb434f147c4f6c679553780230822f9d30f0810ec0988100a with witness sha256-c7642818f076f7109585a6e7021371815607fb7ecb141cb2b7c008335fbecec4 passed independent 24-binary inspection. In copied state, a resident owner reached sleeping and created resident-self.cc.resident-self.process.lock. A second container was refused with exit 1 and the exact owner-already-exists error; resident state SHA-256 remained 8EA6CD6C30C6D2D64F850585D865B342493CEFD04C34D5870D65DFE506E1190A.

Heartbeat tick then completed without changing the resident hash. Bounded Heartbeat serve acquired heartbeat.cc.heartbeat.process.lock, emitted one pulse, and stopped cleanly while resident Self remained live. Resident SIGTERM exited zero in 483 ms with final braked. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/resident-lock-c930f505/ and container logs are retained.

Warm package acceptance and resident-owner lock — 2026-08-09

Construction-owned Cargo home is accepted. Exact 9f369528 migration release sha256-154af0ef9a729f7f46876f99add6828d7e5503f3ecc949ac791f00f26017beca with witness sha256-9b670a4acca14480840da3f09fd83ff5c97829b19f81bd6037c59c9146548cec took 15m04s once. The identical warm replay took 10.17s wall, Cargo 1.38s, and passed independent 24-binary inspection without warnings or collisions.

Do not describe the resident store as globally single-writer. Heartbeat and authenticated operator admission own separate typed CAS entries. The proven fault is that Unix resident-self singleton locks use container-private temp directories. Current source places role-specific process locks beside the mounted store, preserving Heartbeat's distinct role lock. Windows focused tests pass; package once and prove two-container exclusion on Linux.

Corrected shutdown replay and Cargo-home ownership — 2026-08-09

Exact b8138a6b release sha256-f3e0966333b86181bf13893a45f7636d0c6ff13720fbf535b29cca485c3fd58d with witness sha256-4652c86f4a5560475de597fd162dfc7a5369df711cd00e51a3805e769b68a0ee passed native 24-binary inspection. Frozen coordinator PID 88 retained pending SIGTERM, resumed, terminalized, and the resident exited zero in 1.613 seconds with final braked. Restart reached sleeping; idle SIGTERM then exited zero in 871 ms with final braked. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/shutdown-active8-b8138a6b/.

The exact package took 19m26s. The Docker recipe mounted a Cargo-home volume at /cargo-home without setting CARGO_HOME, so fresh containers still updated and downloaded through throwaway /usr/local/cargo. Release construction now owns build_cache_root/cargo-home and exports it to Cargo. All 19 focused tests pass. The first exact build after this change is a one-time source-path migration; require a second warm replay before claiming the iteration fix.

Active resident shutdown proof — 2026-08-09

Exact authenticated 00ee3821 idle SIGTERM exited zero. In the active proof, the packaged coordinator was frozen as PID 103, PID 1 received SIGTERM, the child retained pending termination, and resumption terminalized the child before the resident exited zero in 2.023 seconds. The packaged operator projection nevertheless reported failed; source now maps shutdown cancellation to Braked, with a focused invariant test. Package and replay that exact correction once.

An attempted live admission also proved that a second process can write typed pressure which the resident's in-memory state later overwrites. Preserve the active6 receipts. This is a resident-store single-writer/command-ingress seam, not permission to add a retrying sidecar writer.

Release-construction bootstrap extracted — 2026-08-09

Commit 76afdaf0ce863f19e9396ef4d21ed8ff3fb39690 moves package construction, filesystem verification, and witness inspection into epiphany-release-construction. epiphany-core retains only live CultMesh publication, load, and authentication. The bootstrap graph contains no epiphany-core; all 19 construction tests pass and the core test harness compiles. Exact Linux bootstrap fell from 7m57s to 30.24s cold and 4.40s warm.

The narrow tool then produced warning-free 24-binary release sha256-30caab9ef1ea89f9a885d87832b1e312a35288ec3f895bd5b0e83f7f7a6a1aec with witness sha256-89c2ad604254faec3e1e01f753b5dff38a402f43d009074ba4b47b1ec46fdecf. Cold Cargo took 12m16s. The identical warm replay took 10.16s total with Cargo at 0.82s and reproduced both identifiers. Independent narrow-tool inspection accepted both copies. The packaged full publisher then accepted the same witness and changed c005's local Verse hash from b160c610...3909 to 83ed430f...ae81 without activating the body. This proves construction and publication remain interoperable while owning distinct consequences.

Next assign graceful signal ownership. Shutdown must prevent new work, preserve an unclaimed prepared launch for restart, signal an exact active child, record shutdown terminalization without failure pressure, and exit zero only after no child remains. Prove both idle and active paths against copied typed stores before replacing c005.

Exact 24-binary release published — 2026-08-09

Exact pushed source f00c8279c966c43c6ac899d9b16280f373b45941 completed a warning-free 24-binary Linux package in 18m44s of Cargo work. The authenticated release is sha256-a7c4c2e305257664e9fe2eb64fdd5ba9e7bcb3491c5697e95082c4a3713b579e; its witness is sha256-e9984086452ae0d4887f7ab63d111469d1f801fd7712c2441611bf5793b889b8. Independent native inspection accepted source, inventory, hashes, and private state exclusion. The identical warm replay completed in 10.64s total with Cargo at 0.92s, reproduced both identifiers exactly, and passed a second independent native inspection. Receipts live under .epiphany-run/linux-package-f00c8279-{3,warm}/.

Native publication inserted the release and head into c005's main local Verse without replacing the running 9b8df0b4 body. local-verse.cc changed from SHA-256 d88bb300f8db589f3f82fcba6781b9eb1e9828f22a55684fdaaba0e8a68dcf0d to b160c610988753278afbad7f5bad436193144a92e9fd506982099ad58d213909. Availability does not own activation.

The remaining iteration tax is now precise. Rebuilding the exact release publisher first took 7m57s because epiphany-release imports packaged-release construction from monolithic epiphany-core; the package command then builds that core again inside the 24-binary graph. Extract construction and witness inspection into a narrow crate/tool, leaving live Verse publication as its own authority. Prove the cold bootstrap reduction without changing release or witness authority, then resume graceful SIGTERM ownership.

Resident continuity, topology repair, and build-free status — 2026-08-09

Authenticated release sha256-d1392730... is now the running c005 body. The old body and the first replacement container are retained as rollback receipts. Both Docker stops sent SIGTERM and ended in exit 137 after timeout, proving that epiphany-swarm serve has no graceful signal owner even while idle.

The first replacement preserved resident Self revision 6, sleeping state, no active turn, and no prepared recovery, but native status exposed a live topology fault: resident Self used /state/runtime.cc, whose next action was launchResearch, while the accepted coordinated cognition chain lives in /state/eyes-tools/runtime.cc. The resident was rebound without copying or merging state. Release authentication remains /state/local-verse.cc; runtime, coordination Verse, and Mind now use the established /state/eyes-tools/ stores. The current container ID begins f0303137; rollback container epiphany-linux-resident-self-c005-wrong-runtime-0934 preserves the bad binding.

Post-rebind operator projection derives awaitFrontierProposal, terminal frontier planning, accepted Research, and modelingResultAcceptedAfterResearch. Route 817bf422... appears only as the route named by relinquishment receipt repo-frontier-relinquishment-7b846272...; it is not actionable or recreated. The obsolete root runtime hash remained c10caa321322632111a4e8f69550be4c799d78c92a78780a3066bbf6ad0a7c7c.

The diagnostic itself exposed hidden build authority: standalone epiphany-mvp-status invoked Cargo whenever optional Heartbeat/Persona/Void helpers were absent. That fallback is deleted. Optional panels now report unavailable, --coordinator-only performs the exact routing read, and status is the 24th explicit packaged binary. Heavy OpenAI and MCP runtime dependencies are feature-admitted so coordinator/status iteration does not compile them. Focused proof passes 19/19 release tests and 3/3 status tests; warm runs complete in about 1-4 seconds. Exact 24-binary packaging remains next, followed by graceful shutdown ownership, restart proof, retention, logs, and endurance.

Deterministic warm release published — 2026-08-09

Exact pushed source 9b8df0b487eaae12e35dbe53a82faae1a1e39954 packaged without output-collision warnings in 12m46s after the sole-owner cut. Native inspection accepted all 23 binaries in release sha256-d13927303c957db6799135a61ce6a2899235c397b525968be0bffc3b5ad2a831 with witness sha256-d07277cb5f142a4cc90e9364da0bd058eeba8c524eaf8c00bd9d55f088c78de0. The identical warm replay completed in 10.73s total, with Cargo at 0.97s, and reproduced both identifiers exactly. Native inspection independently accepted the warm copy.

The native release publisher added this exact release to c005's local Verse while the resident process remained live. Before publication, local-verse.cc was 43,849 bytes with SHA-256 60872eb9222485c00ccb0c423776f85bacaf2521ed9b80d1bcceccfb319b8eaf. After publication it is 51,311 bytes with SHA-256 d88bb300f8db589f3f82fcba6781b9eb1e9828f22a55684fdaaba0e8a68dcf0d. The running c005 body is still pinned to the older authenticated release. Next: commit this evidence, then perform a supervised stop/body replacement/restart against the existing stores and prove continuity resumes at awaitFrontierProposal without recreating relinquished route 817bf422.

Sole packaged executable owner — 2026-08-09

Exact fe6bf006 cold packaging proved the single-process graph and produced native-inspected 23-binary release sha256-7e579b3d78e7de4a8bf161125908ac41d2b9582aba24b5f5be6922d6a4940db0 with witness sha256-45215f5d27d8edb5be877aad769ccd7ac971952d343dc516dea744ee4f82533a. The cold conversion took 36m55s. Its identical warm rerun took 11.05s total, with Cargo completing in 1.26s, but produced a different valid release and witness. Cargo reported output filename collisions between the selected epiphany-release-bundle and epiphany-core packages. Four binaries differed: epiphany-hands-action, epiphany-persona-mouth-identity, epiphany-repository-body, and epiphany-workspace-coverage-projector.

The live authority correction makes epiphany-release-bundle the only package selected for witnessed binaries. It now declares epiphany-state alongside the other 22 release targets, still using the core-owned source and library. The core package remains a developer binary surface but is no longer a packaged executable writer. All 19 focused tests pass. Commit and push this cut, rebuild the exact packager, then require a warning-free exact package and byte-identical warm replay before publication.

Deterministic single release graph — 2026-08-09

Exact pushed source e9465c11208d648440999903770cbde245c1da3b produced authenticated release sha256-5f90294fb037ff777ca99f345e0f4b1e082b176c35bd6e16a60b46d5a687c0cb with witness sha256-403a4dd4705772d8d588f3abedb336436b9f1b4ebc037b86efbc5995f5d6a291. Native inspection accepted the exact source and all 23 required binaries. The packaged epiphany-state hash is 8e5e0edd3af59a9f8710d4b6b3a7fbe8243f1002acd6e1d4c415e8053d0cd7c2.

The cold package took 24m22s: 17m03s for the root graph and 6m38s for the separate state-steward graph. The identical cached rerun was worse at 28m30s: 21m04s for the root graph, 34.62s for the coordinator graph, and 6m42s for the state-steward graph. It also produced a different authenticated release, sha256-4700e984410e0c8e735d1fcecec282235ed5d096d20b6dbbdb206a83636228fa, with witness sha256-f71519f7a27a9588715daf9f11d33031b2680659aa405c29807a39efcfcce373. Twenty-one binaries were byte-identical; only epiphany-model-runtime and epiphany-persona-service, both from epiphany-openai-runtime, changed. The old packager was oscillating one target cache through three feature graphs, and incremental release codegen made the authenticated output nondeterministic.

The source cut now uses one Cargo command for both first-party packages, the coordinator feature, and all 23 explicit binaries, with CARGO_INCREMENTAL=0. The separate coordinator and state-steward build authorities are deleted. All 19 focused packaged-release tests pass. The cold Windows harness took 3m38s; the final source rerun compiled in 47.87s and executed in 0.83s. Commit and push this cut, then require an exact Linux package and an identical warm rerun with both materially improved time and exact release/witness equality before publication.

Unified Cargo authority and shipped state steward — 2026-08-09

The first exact 6808f3f5 package attempt failed before release construction: the one-time cargo generate-lockfile had advanced allocative from 0.3.4 to 0.3.6 (and its derive/ctor companions), which is semver-accepted but incompatible with vendored Starlark's hashbrown Allocative implementation. No release or witness was emitted. The root lock is corrected to the previously proven trio allocative 0.3.4, allocative_derive 0.3.3, and ctor 0.1.26. A release-target cargo check --release --locked -p epiphany-openai-auth-spine traversed Starlark, Codex protocol/login, and the auth spine successfully in 3m16s. Commit and push this lock repair, then advance the clean Linux package source and retry once; do not reuse the failed package as evidence.

The root manifest is now the single first-party Cargo workspace and root Cargo.lock is the sole dependency-resolution authority. Seven child lockfiles and three now-ignored child patch declarations were deleted. Vendored Codex and CultCache retain their own explicitly excluded workspaces. A source guard in the release packager rejects a missing first-party member or a regrown child lockfile.

The exact stale-CRRC policy regression paid a one-time 5m02s first-party workspace migration, then reran identically in 4.47s. epiphany-state remains owned by epiphany-core, built on the same target in 23.20s, and appended typed evidence without another graph; a full status read including container startup took 1.12s. The rejected attempt to place it in the root release package was stopped because that would drag the root monolith into a narrow ledger tool.

The native release packager now witnesses state-steward as the 23rd required binary and builds it explicitly from package epiphany-core on the existing release target. All 18 focused packager tests pass. The one-time core test harness cost 5m33s; an identical warm run took 4.43s, and the final source increment rebuilt/tested in 20.10s. Receipts live under .epiphany-run/unified-build/. Next package the clean committed source and prove a warm identical 23-binary release before resuming resident endurance.

Stale CRRC authority cut and copied c005 replay — 2026-08-09

Self no longer lets a failed reorientation result older than typed frontier relinquishment repo-frontier-relinquishment-7b846272... route the next organ. The status owner compares the latest bound reorientation job update with the relinquishment timestamp. Coordinator status demotes only stale manual-regather pressure to routing Continue; raw CRRC remains published as regatherManually. The focused causal regression passed 1/1.

A collision-safe copy of c005 state/eyes-tools was replayed for thread linux-eyes-tools-c005. It derived awaitFrontierProposal, canAutoRun=false, and target Imagination while source signals still reported raw CRRC regatherManually. The live c005 store was not mounted. Receipts are under the directory named by .epiphany-run/stale-crrc-replay-current.txt; the valid proof is replay-c005-eyes-output.log. Earlier root-store/fresh-thread replays are rejected-path receipts, not c005 evidence.

The independent epiphany-self-policy lock graph paid 6m34s for this one cold test. A misconfigured Docker invocation then omitted CARGO_TARGET_DIR, compiled into /workspace/target for 17m48s, and was proactively stopped with logs preserved under .epiphany-run/stale-crrc-build/. With the target, Cargo home, and Rust proxy path explicitly separated, the coordinator rebuilt in 37.55s. Encode that contract in one native launcher and collapse the policy test plus state steward into the root dependency authority. Do not add another cache.

Resident Mind terminal adoption and warm package proof — 2026-08-09

Exact pushed source bd96305e60428b8ea2af822f1e1a233405c09c43 is packaged and published as sha256-01dbed4b015dabccc6f17df49118bba90195993da002f109bafd73f23b1d3a8f with witness sha256-c3ab5a602de9c58e3ffb23cc5d316e5e36d94a013a697a113af01b4b2cf00808. The first package completed its release graph in 25m12s and its isolated coordinator phase in 33.53s. It followed a host incident where C:\Users\Meta\.cargo-target-codex occupied roughly 276 GiB, filled C:, and caused rustc and Docker backend SIGBUS failures. cargo clean --target-dir reclaimed the target, restored roughly 252 GiB free, and Docker was recovered by terminating only docker-desktop WSL before restart. Preserve the preflight and SIGBUS receipts under .epiphany-run/linux-package-bd96305e/.

The identical package was then rerun against persistent volumes epiphany-linux-package-source, epiphany-linux-package-cache, and epiphany-linux-cargo-home. It completed in 9.65 seconds wall; Cargo reported 0.81s for the ordinary release graph and 0.65s for the isolated coordinator, and reproduced the exact release and witness. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-bd96305e-warm/. This proves the fast shakedown path is stable cache retention plus free-disk/cache preflight. Do not clean or partition the shared package graph for routine iterations, and never build this graph on Yggdrasil.

The typed evidence append exposed a separate build boundary: epiphany-state is not among the 22 shipped binaries, and building it standalone against the same exact source/cache took 7m11s. Do not solve this with another graph cache. Ship the state steward through the owned release graph or move its narrow typed ledger-write port into an already-shipped native owner.

The published repair completed the resident frontier-planning chain. Typed failure review frontier-planning-failure-review-4824d856-876f-432c-8fdd-664728938105 superseded failed Mind job 8e5952fb-0db6-460c-b061-c75d32410cc2 and authorized one retry. Mind job 2d2a3e8b-77f0-4f57-9125-ec3305a95843 returned a valid typed adopt judgment without tools or external consequence. Self committed terminal decision repo-frontier-plan-decision-e7d7f3c79595e09f2d2cd9e7c4614909e803b1f9b509f0fc1482d3aaab2ad6d3 against the original candidate. The next typed action is continueImplementation; execute only that admitted Hands frontier. Do not recreate Eyes, Modeling, Imagination, either failed Mind attempt, or the successful retry.

Hands gate hands-intent-linux-eyes-tools-c005-0-2ad7b2ce-... exposed the candidate's exact rollback: discard the planning draft if later evidence shows the coordinated resident circuit already exists. Current canonical state and c005 receipts satisfy that condition, while the runtime artifacts needed to reconcile it are outside the adopted safe paths (notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md and state/map.yaml). Hands therefore produced no mutation and recorded typed refusal hands-refusal-4cd85889-17d0-4d26-8a95-07d04a5cdabf. Mind atomically retired route repo-frontier-route-817bf422... through relinquishment repo-frontier-relinquishment-7b846272..., advancing RepoModel revision 2 to 3. The next coordinator snapshot falls back to historical CRRC regatherManually from the old failed reorientation worker. Treat that as a routing-precedence wound, not fresh Eyes evidence and not authority to recreate the retired route.

Packaged Body speed proof and resident Mind identity correction — 2026-08-09

Exact pushed source 217dd4b96746536e01dc8991b5e6f31c2c588af0 is packaged as sha256-3dab68c572519501c3401a8b737603e312349a4052f69f7f751478fa2631aaf3 with witness sha256-2278ec15ed44a21e4bc4d20b4f64d67fb530c4bc2bc44cd1cd9d775b16838f74. The exact packaged observer reread the unchanged resident c005 Body as generation 1/tree 4d1f8a23558d53622ed21be0bb51db456b532f48 in 94,521ms. This is strong observer-boundary evidence against the old 160,183ms Modeling jobCommit, but not a coordinator-to-coordinator replay because Self's typed route had already advanced. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-217dd/; do not rebuild this release.

The resident chain completed startFrontierPlanning, then native Imagination job f62738f1-a819-431a-a454-c0b2cff5a4d8 produced candidate repo-frontier-plan-candidate-28f597414331a67b71449bcf28317c42ddbd78566dbe92aa41b9f54302762be8. Self committed Mind request repo-frontier-plan-mind-90e8c1995805d94d05c9e065a117c54eb8993cd93c985b9daa2915746c32977f. Mind attempt 411e73bb-4906-4785-be92-2a72a9290691 failed identity validation, was explicitly superseded, and authorized one retry. Retry 8e5952fb-0db6-460c-b061-c75d32410cc2 failed with Mind result request disappeared. Direct read-only binary inspection proved the exact canonical request, planning request, and candidate keys remain in runtime.cc; the model had substituted an unknown echo. Both failures are immutable evidence.

The authority fault was in source: RoleWorkerResultIngress allowed model JSON to author the outer Mind request echo plus five identities inside the typed decision. epiphany-openai-runtime/src/lib.rs now derives request, planning, Imagination-result, candidate, and candidate-digest identities exclusively from the authenticated RepoFrontierPlanMindContextProjection. The model owns only decision, rationale, and its proposed timestamp. A regression supplies five counterfeit model identities and proves the runtime emits the canonical launch identities; all 15 runtime library tests pass. Package once, explicitly review and supersede failed retry 8e5952fb, and launch only the newly authorized attempt. Do not recreate Imagination or either failed Mind attempt.

Linux Eyes-to-Modeling acceptance and Body observation speed cut — 2026-08-09

The fresh tool-enabled resident circuit under /state/eyes-tools completed its causal organ chain. Eyes job eaf25324-3d4c-49c1-a93d-65f16b080806 used three governed native read-only source tools, emitted typed result result-worker-eaf25324-3d4c-49c1-a93d-65f16b080806, and was accepted as ev-research-856fb6d1-17eb-4d71-bafc-774277e9b64e. Self then derived launchModeling because accepted Research was newer than Modeling. Modeling job 3333e537-7451-4cfd-92bf-b69030b2ab4f used three governed read-only tool rounds, emitted result-worker-3333e537-7451-4cfd-92bf-b69030b2ab4f, and was accepted as ev-modeling-11da531d-3403-41a1-93c3-7224d364364a. Typed status now reports both modelingResultAccepted and modelingResultAcceptedAfterResearch true, so the single-use route was consumed. The next action is startFrontierPlanning for Imagination. No external consequence occurred.

The Modeling circuit peaked at 109,887,488 bytes over 2,025 cgroup samples. Its launch receipt measured jobCommit=160183ms; process inspection showed the time inside the first of two full git add --all Repository Body scans. The observer formerly created a brand-new private index and object quarantine for each equality scan. The current source cut gives one observation session sole ownership of one private index/object quarantine, initializes it from HEAD once, and runs both full scans against it. Scan two still performs git add --all, write-tree, staged-entry enumeration, and raw-byte manifest hashing, so the stable-equality invariant remains intact while Git may reuse its verified stat cache. All 25 focused repository_body_observer tests pass, including explicit proof that both scans share one private index and that session teardown removes it. The live-worktree mechanism benchmark measured cold scans at 2,176ms and 1,656ms versus a shared session at 1,414ms and 123ms: 3,832ms fell to 1,537ms, a 2,295ms / 60% pair reduction. The ignored receipt is body-index-benchmark.stdout.log. This is mechanism evidence, not yet packaged coordinator evidence; package once and remeasure exact jobCommit before claiming the 160-second live wound closed.

Two attempted detached launches were refused before state mutation. The first used a nonexistent container path. The next two reached the artifact cleanup guard from /, so the guard correctly rejected /workspace/.epiphany-smoke as outside its process-relative safety roots. The successful launch explicitly used Docker working directory /workspace. Preserve these as operator intervention receipts; they prove the guard rather than runtime corruption.

Linux resident coordination phase boundary — 2026-08-09

Exact pushed source c0055772750a7dd7335f65baa88307cf9e28c1e1 is packaged for Linux as sha256-b4faf5721a8662b30464dacb9bcc0945b34051521af110ab3d56eef59036ba7e with witness sha256-7ddc54e0817efdcc56b6ceb5dc62124502da0d178f1946db7a8e0283a23ecaa0. The cold root package took 12m33s plus 18.67s for the isolated coordinator and exceeded 4.4 GiB; the exact warm package took 9.08s wall and reproduced the same release and witness. Preserve Docker volumes epiphany-linux-cargo-home, epiphany-linux-target, epiphany-linux-package-source, and epiphany-linux-package-cache. Yggdrasil must not build this graph.

The isolated resident body is under .epiphany-run/linux-resident-c005/. Packaged Repository Body bootstrap initially refused a foreign swarm ID, then succeeded with authoritative Mind swarm gamecult.epiphany.main. The successful pass ran from 23:10:34Z to 23:15:50Z and visibly performed two full-tree git add --all authentication passes. Its receipt is body-bootstrap-success.log; the identity refusal is body-swarm-identity-refusal.log.

Heartbeat pulse 1 issued the original grant. Self first failed because the artifact root was mounted outside the coordinator's canonical .epiphany-smoke cleanup root. The typed cancellation returned pressure to pending; heartbeat pulse 2 acknowledged the exact terminal ID and issued attempt 2. With the same host artifacts mounted beneath /workspace/.epiphany-smoke, Self completed revision 6 and returned to sleep. This proves authenticated Linux heartbeat -> Self -> plan coordinator coordination. The plan coordinator intentionally invoked no model or tools.

The next execute pass exposed process ownership. A one-shot coordinator container opened reorient job 8870f824-fdf9-4240-996a-6a663cead22c, detached its model worker, and exited; Docker then killed the worker because PID 1 was gone. Exact-job recovery inside the resident container correctly refused the still-open inner job and sealed both outer and inner jobs failed. Do not replay that job. Receipts are in execute-bootstrap-refusals.log, coordinator-execute-reorient/, and linux-reorient-recovery-summary.txt.

CRRC next routed Eyes. Resident Eyes job ab813c57-081a-4c62-80e5-d3471ae451bf reached a real OpenAI Codex request with three native read-only source tools advertised and no external consequence. Because the bounded objective promised no tools and coordinator ran with --no-auto-tools, the model-selected tool path had no tool loop; assistant text was empty and the epiphany.worker.role_result.v3 parser failed closed. The failure was superseded by typed receipt role-failure-review-859fa955-4fee-4dd5-a0a4-d75b769890be. No tool invocation receipt was admitted. The resident cgroup peak across Self, coordinator, and model worker was 62,590,976 bytes (59.7 MiB), captured in linux-eyes-memory-summary.txt across 54 100ms samples.

Auth residue audit found no copied auth.json and zero matches for access or refresh tokens. The private runtime store contains the mounted auth file's ChatGPT account identifier as model-transport identity metadata; no artifact or workspace file contains it. Do not describe the store as credential-free without this classification.

GameCult ops commit 812b427 repairs the uninstalled Yggdrasil resident service contract: it provisions a root-owned empty MCP policy, supplies the required MCP and Persona-classification arguments, moves coordinator artifacts beneath the workspace's ignored .epiphany-dogfood root, and replaces the removed epiphany-tool-codex-mcp-spine name with packaged epiphany-tool-mcp-runtime. The normalized Linux wiring test and shell syntax checks pass. Nothing was deployed or started.

Next: preserve this zero-tool circuit as sealed evidence. Create a fresh typed objective/adoption boundary for a Linux Eyes circuit that explicitly permits native read-only source tools, run it inside the persistent resident body, prove tool receipts plus a valid typed role result, review/accept it, and inspect the next routed organ. Do not rewrite the existing authoritative objective; the coordinator correctly refuses that. Do not reinstall or start the Yggdrasil service body merely because its static contract is now coherent.

Retention and release-bootstrap pass — 2026-08-08

Exact corrected release 100d8854 packaged 22 binaries as sha256-da8be22948c6eb958edb2e7f7e03c5cc77d17463659fa14127402392194460d3 with witness sha256-6a95957f7e7b2b47b42d2154ed8232d68ffe68d3b6bdf67bee6397fa6aab2027. Its packaged runtime-spine closed all four sessions in a fresh byte-identical v28 copy, replayed closure idempotently, and refused post-close work. A bounded live retention drain then reduced heartbeat artifacts from 12,511 directories and 706.5 MB to 312 directories and 17.6 MB. The latest cognition pulse survived; 191 deletion receipts are in the heartbeat store and the drain log SHA-256 is 8280dd7567f839b0b038d69deb45bfb219c42092a231a2d331e0e3620a293003.

Restarting the resident under 100d8854 exposed another Continuity fault: serve iteration restarted at pulse-000001 instead of recovering the highest surviving sequence. The process was stopped after three pulses; its stdout SHA-256 is 4a104e39d81e0766261fff815a7d4350de31a9d5b956634a9cb39a9e5ad40b22. Current source resumes from the highest exact pulse directory, refuses alien directories and exhausted sequence space, skips protected current cognition when forming retirement batches, and emits named operator receipt fields. Four retention and three heartbeat-binary tests pass. The resident heartbeat remains stopped pending an authenticated package of this correction; do not restart the old binary.

That correction is now exact-package live-proven. Commit 42bc665a packaged release sha256-f68fb664ee67af4c665c9a1c6162422a8944cc3b5771e4b6b1c90c23c63c48e8 with witness sha256-d9c00bc57408ba8d1c9f74a09364c513819122f127fdb5888c93c8dbc68b694e. Its resident heartbeat resumed at pulse 012558, crossed the 320-directory hysteresis edge at pulse 012561, emitted a named 64-directory retention receipt for 3,615,104 bytes, continued to pulse 012562, and left 258 directories. The three quarantined reset-era pulses were retired in that receipt. PID 19928 owns the live process; logs are .epiphany-run/resident/heartbeat-v8-42bc665a.stdout.log and .stderr.log. Warm exact packaging after the root target-set transition measured 1m12s stable phase plus 6.56s coordinator, confirming the prior 7m19s pass was a one-time target-set relink rather than the new steady state.

Endurance baseline .epiphany-run/resident/endurance-baseline-42bc665a.json was captured at 2026-08-08T22:08:50Z: heartbeat PID 19928 used 11.8 MB working set / 3.0 MB private memory, heartbeat store was 1,507,503 bytes, resident-Self store 7,844 bytes, artifacts were 269 directories / 15,195,150 bytes, heartbeat stdout was 8,804 bytes, and stderr was empty. Compare future observations to this exact artifact. Do not call direct file truncation log rotation: the current child holds stdout/stderr handles and the launcher exits after spawn. Idunn's managed service reconciler is the likely owner, but its current policy only opens files at launch and has no typed size/segment authority. Map that ownership before adding a restart timer or log helper.

The first exact 339d5a6f build completed its Rust 1.95 graph in 17m07s but failed because the isolated coordinator artifact was absent. Rebuilding that single target restored the cache. A detached clean-worktree retry then exposed the actual iteration defect: release source-cache identity was checkout-path owned, so identical source under another worktree invalidated Cargo's absolute path fingerprints and repaid 11m12s of workspace compilation and linking. Current source keys exact-source cache ownership to Git's common repository while preserving the original main-worktree identity; a linked-worktree test proves the two views share one cache.

The resulting sha256-cb91f60e... package and published witness are sealed but rejected as Continuity evidence. They were assembled by the pre-correction debug publisher and contain the old 21-role body without epiphany-runtime-spine. Inspection then found the deeper bootstrap omission: 339d5a6f added the role mapping but did not expose the actuator in the root release-bundle manifest. Current source adds that binary and makes the release test prove root-manifest presence. The current publisher, runtime-spine, and heartbeat binaries compile from source; all 17 release tests and all four retention tests pass. Package only after committing this corrected body.

Heartbeat pulse artifacts now have a Continuity-owned typed retention route. Above a 256+64 hysteresis boundary it plans exactly 64 oldest pulse directories with recursive SHA-256 manifests, writes the plan through exact CAS, deletes only byte-identical planned members, and writes a typed completion receipt. Pending plans recover after crashes. Unknown directories, symlinks, changed members, root escapes, and the latest cognition artifact fail closed. The same primitive serves the explicit command and resident heartbeat loop. No live artifact has yet been deleted; stdout/stderr rotation remains a separate supervisor-owned front.

Continuity closure pass — 2026-08-08

Sealed v28 remains immutable at F:\Projects\.epiphany-runtime\shakedown\live-20260807-v28\runtime.cc, 2,378,654 bytes, SHA-256 df9d707f1a87dcf557ad638c7baf8136d9db6f72b35d57abe96759088331f864. A byte-identical disposable copy under .epiphany-run/continuity-v28-replay-20260808/ reproduced dead Imagination job b34d21de-6788-4935-8910-75275c257444. Authenticated release 55660d78 terminalized that outer job as failed with result result-worker-b34d21de-6788-4935-8910-75275c257444; the copied runtime then reported nine jobs, nine results, and zero open jobs. A second worker start was refused because the job was already terminal. Adapter-status refresh changed the store hash during that refusal, so job/result identity—not whole-store byte equality—is the restart invariant.

The replay then exposed a separate architectural hole: all four v28 sessions were still active because the runtime spine defined Completed but supplied no completion owner. The current source adds Continuity-owned session closure, list-sessions, and close-session. Closure refuses open jobs and archived sessions, emits deterministic session.completed, is idempotent for an already completed session, and prevents later job creation. The focused core test passes. The disposable v28 copy now has zero active sessions and four closure events; its final SHA-256 is 06179384829bda33dfb5df78dc0923a545598ddf73e33c674abe96934f2713c5. Package and publish the source cut next, replay with the exact package, then begin bounded retention. The Discord credential and stable Windows firewall rule remain separate open fronts.

The first 230f71f4 package attempt was deliberately terminated after 211 seconds. It had correctly opened a new Rust 1.95 graph namespace, but inspection showed epiphany-runtime-spine was absent from the release's required binary set. The resulting package could not expose the session-closure actuator and therefore could not prove its own Continuity claim. Rejected build progress is preserved in .epiphany-run/package-230f71f4.stderr.log. The current source adds runtime-spine as a required authenticated release role; all 17 packaged release tests pass. Commit and package that correction instead of resuming the invalid 230f71f4 build.

Epiphany remains a supervised engineering alpha. Starfire is the cognition and release forge; Yggdrasil is the small live crossing host and is not a build machine at its current memory budget.

Authoritative state

• Branch: codex/epiphany-shakedown-live
• Latest pushed Epiphany commit: 339d5a6f7ba6cc11a39226f1eb6608da0339e25e
• Authenticated release: sha256-2f4a17126d12935088189c32caadef202a1e9b698ec2cfc8fd4aec08c0763696
• Witness: sha256-c0788bda36aa28b8025979378968a2c48cbbcc607a1a538351756831c2b287f4
• Live Bifrost/CultLib runtime: cb3239aaac963995ad012e648f9a455463a54ea2 / f67f5122ed1bd11da016e7b820ed60145ccd0299
• Live workspace: F:\Projects\.epiphany-runtime\shakedown\live-20260808-v53-hands-precedence
• Thread: shakedown-v49-hands-relinquishment-r1
• Thread-state revision: 59
• Sealed evidence: v49 through v52. Do not mutate it.

Live causal boundary

Epiphany 55660d78, Bifrost cb3239aa, CultLib f67f5122, and CultNet 2d0988ba implement and deploy the Starfire-to-Yggdrasil Persona nerve. An already-durable signed epiphany.persona_discord_delivery_request.v0 now travels over a Starfire-initiated CultNet/RUDP session; Bifrost admits it to its endpoint store, retains permit/journal/Discord authority, and returns its signed terminal bifrost.persona_discord_delivery_receipt.v0 on the same session. Epiphany verifies and durably stores that receipt before terminalizing the Persona turn. A real Rust-to-Node socket smoke passes, as do all nine focused Bifrost delivery tests. The shared transport fault was an old Rust ACK spending an ordered data sequence; CultNet commit 2d0988ba ports the upstream sequence-neutral ACK correction. Runtime identity is now deployment-bound to epiphany-starfire, not hardcoded as epiphany-yggdrasil.

Yggdrasil now runs both native feedback and Persona mouth services from the exact immutable Bifrost/CultLib runtime. Starfire runs the packaged permit service from the exact authenticated Epiphany release. Public trust anchors crossed hosts; signing seeds, Discord actuation, and private execution state did not. The first live Persona request reached model terminal and durable request state, then its expired recovery produced signed terminal unknown without a second post. It is sealed and may not be retried.

Live probing then found two cross-language/authority seams. Bifrost had encoded the permit request as a camelCase map while Rust requires a positional struct, and decoded Rust's positional permit as an object. Commit 514c2a6 aligns both wire bodies; a unique permit-only Node-to-Rust-to-Node request now completes. The second fresh Persona turn reached model terminal and consumed a permit, but Bifrost called its Discord bridge without the required CultMesh command ID. The bridge refused the unreceipted actuation and Bifrost correctly signed terminal unknown with no message ID. Commit cb3239aa binds the bridge command receipt to the signed Persona request ID and is live.

Yggdrasil has no /srv/bifrost/env/persona-delivery.env and no BIFROST_DISCORD_BOT_TOKEN or compatible token in managed secret roots. No third Persona request may be created until an operator-owned bot token is installed root-only and the mouth restarted. The two existing requests are sealed non-deliveries and may never be retried. Windows still retains per-release firewall rules; the admitted prior authenticated permit binary PID 19024 carries diagnostic traffic, while gamecult-ops e52c7dc contains the durable path-independent UAC repair.

The operator expects proactive operator-enginseer intervention in corrupted Epiphany runtime state; corruption is not a permission boundary. Repairs must be labeled, receipted, preserve immutable worker evidence, and use exact compare-and-swap revision authority. Record the authoritative before state, the exact intervention, and verified after state. This standing repair authority restores Epiphany's own invariants; it does not bypass typed gates for new Discord, deployment, or other external consequences.

Commit 7093a8b9 supplies that narrow primitive for the legacy accepted Modeling result which predated the typed future-frontier invariant. Revision 49 was sealed before correction at sealed-evidence/v53-pre-modeling-acceptance-correction/runtime-revision-49.cc, 76,172,850 bytes, SHA-256 5ec47d8da386976dbb8ca1b18f214507de3c14eb4f02d31bdc3aa60d99e612f3.

Correction supervisor-acceptance-correction-e2ddbf239ea45081138ad9f10089f6895887fe14130b431aab0fef1d1978004c removed only obsolete acceptance accept-modeling-result-worker-4e6b6022-73ab-49f1-81c8-03dddfceb29f, retained its immutable result and admitted RepoModel, and recorded prior receipt hash 2f1af810e77997e2bf235e779609da62ec1a5148107d81a342288005e80df510. The old result was then reviewed under current policy and superseded as role-failure-review-a35d6548-ec90-48c6-80d5-84ac6e32c619.

Fresh Modeling job ca61f378-4998-4911-a565-06d77388bb4a was accepted as accept-modeling-result-worker-ca61f378-4998-4911-a565-06d77388bb4a with evidence ev-modeling-4a0caaa3-9172-44eb-a9e9-9ea68c6406fc. It minted exactly one active typed Imagination frontier, frontier-native-frontier-minimal-route-chain-design-20260808.

Self routed that frontier over the stale display-level regatherManually recommendation:

1. planning request repo-frontier-planning-7adf9c5863cd3ca640086f9aafd1abd910aa8d28e40dcc6e08835a20af60a9aa at revision 53;
2. completed Imagination job 2a5701fe-7fbe-4f29-b3a5-51d6e790acbd and typed candidate repo-frontier-plan-candidate-02c089eb385c27560252d1915b998efc7c800324971a7b915b6e9ff3d33e4646 at revision 54;
3. dedicated Mind request repo-frontier-plan-mind-7c8f086d050fe458a298ea4d9f5202e446530e5e14fa10129f52b4ae72238bc3 at revision 55, without adoption or Hands authority.

Mind adopted the candidate, Self materialized the exact route and scoped Hands authority, and Hands committed 29797ab8 with typed patch, command, and commit receipts. The next live typed action is launchVerification.

The first Soul launch failed before worker creation because append_verification_hands_receipt_context treated every admission with a result_id as Modeling. The route admission actually binds Mind plan result result-worker-c0815013-7c61-4872-8549-4b666ceb015a and explicit decision repo-frontier-plan-decision-22de32456ea73d63f613e69e8fdca876f5068f06febdc04d9f847da18af65a6e. The fresh Modeling acceptance remains present exactly once; the runtime did not need correction. Pre-repair snapshots are .epiphany-run/v53-live-thread-acceptances-pre-repair.json (SHA-256 7f22d49b5b06fa84e5fdfce6066403fab88de6526cc82e4726e9d1343f400b46) and .epiphany-run/v53-live-route-admission-pre-repair.json (SHA-256 df9002fd97d0ecfaf0750c41f397b0f560062132564b8b677d51ca70344518ac).

The active source repair types all new plan admissions as FrontierPlanDecision, makes Soul validate the immutable decision receipt, and uses the already-persisted frontier_plan_decision_id as the compatibility discriminator for v53. It does not rewrite evidence or weaken Soul.

Authenticated release sha256-53dc65ecf1971fc39a535c3a597723e02ebe73a28936581441b4fe007c98c601 from d2538d46 proved the typed branch live, then failed closed because its first exact-binding predicate incorrectly equated the decision's pre-adoption frontier hash with the route's post-adoption hash. The follow-up source repair binds the decision to the pre-admission model, the admission purpose to the planning request and candidate, and the route to the admitted model. A focused positive/negative test proves the real transition passes and a substituted admitted route hash fails.

Exact d3bfbda0 packaged in 29.84s for the stable phase and 5.43s for the isolated Self/coordinator phase, then authenticated and published. Live Verification job f23fe2b6-ad39-41e7-a2c9-4c26d9f5f26c launched without overrides, completed in roughly 700 seconds, and was accepted as accept-verification-result-worker-f23fe2b6-ad39-41e7-a2c9-4c26d9f5f26c at thread revision 57. Soul verified exact Hands commit 29797ab8 and bounded the claim to the documentation-only route-chain specification. A read-only coordinator planning pass now derives launchModeling because Soul accepted the Hands consequence.

Post-Soul Modeling job 972f4e31-9009-4b7d-863d-b2aa0295abf7 launched at revision 58. Its live launch timings were state load 79ms, dynamic context 66ms, role augmentation 1.053s, job commit 51.482s, total 52.680s. The worker produced exactly one verdict-incorporation patch; Mind accepted it as accept-modeling-result-worker-972f4e31-9009-4b7d-863d-b2aa0295abf7 at revision 59. The frontier is resolved and the Soul-to-Modeling route is consumed. Self now falls back to the legacy CRRC regatherManually projection; do not use that historical pressure to reopen this completed frontier.

Build-time finding

Commit 0f0b006d made the three named owner manifests drive separate locked Cargo builds. Focused tests passed, but the real benchmark falsified the design:

• the new aggregate owner-lock identity forced a cold graph namespace;
• the core owner group took 8m02s;
• the OpenAI runtime group then resolved its own dependency graph and began compiling epiphany-core a second time;
• the run was terminated at 16m53s before the tool-runtime group could repeat the wound;
• logs are .epiphany-run/package-0f0b006d-owner-groups-attempt2.*;
• pushed commit a1a43892 reverts the implementation.

Do not resurrect separate owner lock universes. The local replacement retains the one root Cargo graph and moves routing policy into epiphany-self-policy. Stable coordinator contract types remain in epiphany-core/src/surfaces/coordinator_contract.rs; core no longer compiles or re-exports policy functions. Core explicitly retains all 74 non-coordinator binaries. The root coordinator target alone enables optional feature coordinator-runtime, which pulls the policy crate; ordinary release binaries do not see it. Packaging builds ordinary bins under the root lock, then builds only the feature-gated coordinator in the same target cache. Cache identity is target/toolchain-stable across lock edits; Cargo owns staleness while the frozen lock and release witness remain authority.

Exact d910158f is committed, pushed, authenticated, and published to .epiphany-run/cultmesh/local-verse.ccmp. Release sha256-2d6672958cd59cae43bbbc17c8218eaf3d50f3acab3b7d6550cb6dfad5f72020 has witness sha256-23d3f44ef0f632dfc52a607585469b7242ac77a489e1406d7b3e2f578979462d. The cold stable graph took 17m38s; the isolated policy/coordinator phase took 30.31s. A controlled warm invalidation of the policy source rebuilt exactly epiphany-self-policy and the root coordinator in 6.02s (6.133s wall). All 20 stable packaged executables retained identical hashes, lengths, and write-times; the coordinator write-time advanced. The source-cache timestamp used to trigger Cargo staleness was restored after the measurement. The earlier 1.21s no-op probe reported Removed 0 files and is rejected, not evidence.

Current performance evidence

• Exact c35272c9 warm packaging of 21 binaries: 2m34s.
• Release-publisher bootstrap after a core edit: 4m11s.
• Exact d910158f cold stable graph: 17m38s.
• Exact d910158f isolated coordinator phase: 30.31s.
• Warm Self-policy invalidation: 6.02s; zero of 20 stable packaged executables relinked.
• Fresh Modeling context: state load 121ms, dynamic context 107ms.
• Fresh Modeling job commit: 51.637s; coordinator total 51.865s.
• The launch wound is the whole-store transaction, not context assembly.

Keyed runtime and packaging cut

The current uncommitted pass after b070e121 introduces one runtime-spine backend owner selected by explicit extension: .cc/.msgpack retain the sealed legacy snapshot implementation and .redb selects CultCache's keyed redb implementation. All 29 runtime-spine CAS construction sites and the coordinator state transaction now resolve through that owner; unrelated stores retain their existing authorities. Focused backend parity proves successful and stale CAS on both formats. All eight coordinator transaction tests pass.

The one-time migration refuses an existing destination, verifies unique typed identities, writes source envelopes plus a typed in-store migration receipt in one empty-destination CAS, reads back exact envelope equivalence, and rehashes the source bytes to prove the legacy evidence was not changed. A disposable migration of live v53 copied 9,376 envelopes from source SHA-256 78eb340a028c88d42770345518d810841029411510a2abab233d9a89761dd5e4; the sorted envelope-set SHA-256 is bbe288e348ab3a6c8af6d64d205fe818a59218988a493f9751ed65588f2b338e. Artifacts and the receipt are under .epiphany-run/storage-benchmark-20260808-2/; authoritative v53 was not mutated.

Release-mode live-sized measurements are mixed but promising: legacy full read 563.70ms versus keyed 718.18ms; legacy event mutation 896.91ms versus keyed 363.61ms. Debug redb timings were misleadingly slow and are rejected for production judgment. Do not migrate live from this proxy alone. Measure the exact coordinator launch replacement set against the keyed v53 copy next.

That next probe changed the diagnosis. The durable epiphany-runtime-store-benchmark selects typed historical transaction envelopes by exact job identity and emits identity/digest/timing receipts on disposable stores. The surviving launch-request batch for job 972f4e31 was legacy 785-1,012ms versus keyed 23-32ms; its completion batch was legacy 784-1,567ms versus keyed 21-34ms. Those receipts prove keyed CAS is faster, but also falsify the claim that snapshot CAS owned the measured 51.482s launch bucket. Do not migrate live on that old causal story.

commit_coordinator_job_launch performs Modeling-only observe_runtime_repository_body_basis before opening the state transaction. That observer constructs two isolated Git trees and raw SHA-256 manifests over 3,994 files, then requires exact equality. Direct authenticated release timing was 92.30s and created Body generation 2. The fresh-index Git phase was only 1.62s; raw file reads and metadata were the wound. Bounded parallel manifest construction keeps the same per-file before/after metadata checks, raw hashes, sorted root, isolated trees, and second full equality pass. All 24 observer tests pass. Direct release observation fell to 49.52s and created generation 3. This is material but not final; package it and measure a real launch before claiming the original 51s path is cured.

Packaging selection was tested by replacing Cargo --bins with the explicit authenticated sibling set while leaving the feature-gated coordinator in its existing second phase. The focused 17 packaging tests passed. A deliberately detached release benchmark that missed the shared target directory took 4m41s, proving that target-cache location must remain tool-owned rather than operator memory; the authenticated packager already owns a stable graph cache explicitly.

The real exact 9d671aee package falsified that selector hypothesis. The first phase still took 7m26s because root --bins already named the 20 stable release bundle targets; it never linked core's 74 diagnostic binaries. Explicitly listing the same 20 targets did not reduce fan-out. The change is reverted in source. Core compilation remains the build-time owner. Exact 9d671aee is nevertheless authenticated and published as release sha256-6de91b234bdfda1149e48b9fef6710bdd8c4e3274981e4aa88fc46ec109a2e56 with witness sha256-f2c0e464b1523b1a14fb500afa747f0dd95166ebd068752bf639a43827c6b9ba.

Open readiness work

• cut the measured 51.482s whole-store Modeling job-commit seam;
• prove native Persona cognition and external speech consequence;
• prove Continuity crash, restart, session closure, and bounded retention;
• measure long-duration resource plateau;
• profile and remove the Modeling whole-store commit path;
• prove Linux cognition on Starfire, then size Yggdrasil from measured demand.

The current Yggdrasil body was inspected read-only at 2026-08-08T22:12:11Z. It reports 2 vCPUs, 1.9 GiB RAM, 2 GiB swap with 516 MiB already used, 1.3 GiB memory available, and 14 GiB free on the root filesystem. bifrost.service, bifrost-persona-feedback.service, and bifrost-persona-mouth.service are active. Epiphany, its heartbeat/swarm, and Idunn are absent, matching the current authority map. Yggdrasil may receive a prebuilt bounded Linux smoke using isolated disposable state; it is not a Rust build host, and the apparent available memory is not residency evidence while the host already carries swap pressure. Build on Starfire and measure the actual Linux process footprint before proposing a permanent Yggdrasil body.

Linux physiology is now proven without installing the Epiphany service body. Starfire built only epiphany-runtime-spine from exact commit b5140288 in the deployment actuator's digest-pinned Rust image sha256:4c2fd73ef19c5ef9d54bee03b06b2839a392604fbfcd578ed948b71b37c1d7fb. The cold build took 4m25s and peaked near 1.77 GiB inside Docker, confirming that Yggdrasil must not compile this crate. The dedicated Starfire Cargo volumes then produced an unchanged warm rebuild in 1.18s. The 6,181,968-byte Linux binary is sha256-14143382fdfb5eb40919facd4bc681613d1a2563e18af08b522d0e5a097880f3.

The exact binary ran on Yggdrasil only from /tmp against a new disposable CultCache store. It initialized the typed runtime catalog at 3,968 KiB peak RSS, refused session closure while a job was open, admitted one terminal Continuity result, closed the session, repeated closure idempotently, refused a post-close job, and reported one completed session/job/result with three events at 4,352 KiB peak RSS. The store was 5,465 bytes with SHA-256 f9cccce0b64bb4b282a1fda208d346177cf1a5f91f0e02bbf4f6520c985115cc. The script removed the binary, store, root, and itself; a follow-up assertion proved all four paths absent and the three Bifrost services remained active. The retained successful receipt is .epiphany-run/linux-spine-b514/yggdrasil-success.receipt, SHA-256 5dbf03cbb2e4633464055de888f8417fbd7ad5cfdb4f04ebef34ab53790f5c00. The first invocation failed before CultCache initialization because the host lacks the optional file utility; that decorative probe was cut. Its receipt is retained beside the success receipt at SHA-256 b5a55ec37c258ead9ecc745e77c16bb4fa83373b8462e15ff04fd4d8ff659ebe. This proves Linux typed physiology and Continuity portability, not Linux model cognition or resident readiness.

Basic Linux model cognition is now proven on Starfire. Exact pushed Mind a0d56f94 produced a 27,767,120-byte epiphany-model-runtime in the same digest-pinned Rust image. Its SHA-256 and native preflight witness are c72f33ed3b429c201eadd9a82b70a71ebce0a6d49901e13bfbefb533e3a972f1 and openai-runtime-preflight-c72f33ed3b429c20. The first real request completed through epiphany_direct_responses_http in 2.60 seconds, emitted two typed events, returned exactly Linux cognition is awake., and recorded no tool intent. A fresh measured request completed in 2.26 seconds, returned exactly Measured Linux cognition is awake., and reached 20,480 KiB peak RSS across 141 /proc samples at 10 ms cadence. Its typed store is 19,574 bytes, SHA-256 582b85cbf3c25c4bd23c6583bf43dcca1e2cda8a6956b9294fb441204d8869c2. Native preflight reread that store and proved the model request, stream event, model receipt, and OpenAI receipt document types with no private state exposed. The auth file was mounted read-only from Starfire and was not copied into the smoke artifact root.

The model build exposed a separate iteration defect. The root workspace and epiphany-core manifests resolve version-skewed lock graphs, so the warm core target did not prevent a second cold dependency compilation. Model-runtime took 10m57s cold and exceeded 4 GiB during parallel compilation. Once that root graph was populated, the exact warm build took 6.04s. The immediate operational cure is to preserve both explicit Starfire caches; the architectural cure is one workspace/lock owner and organ crates small enough that a model-transport change does not relink the whole organism. Do not hide this split with another cache alias.

Receipts live under .epiphany-run/linux-model-a0d56f94/. Important hashes:

• measured summary: sha256-fa4b4fc15238fdcf50b2f88430017a0a54430ce6eb905410129aa8f4ff966168;
• measured assistant text: sha256-dfa5ba74b9b51b324847383f8c64e38963439847c32ecce621f1262333503d13;
• process metrics: sha256-702e68b03355a8a8cfeb32bcbebe7154ab7ad3c50ee0c5c0698f30eb70090a71;
• the rejected object-shaped request failed before opening transport or creating a store and is retained as sha256-0c48d6546e3aad1c13f581ece988fcbdeefd4123023433bfabd11b94590f7f59.

This proves individual Linux model transport and cognition. It does not prove resident Self/heartbeat coordination, aggregate resident footprint, restart, or Yggdrasil residency.

Do not recreate prior Eyes, Hands, Soul, or Modeling work. Do not feed the old manual-regather loop. Use coordinator projections and receipts; raw worker thought remains sealed.

Persona consequence boundary

Persona is live across both hosts but has not yet completed a public consequence. Starfire owns temporary Epiphany cognition and the five-second permit; Yggdrasil owns Bifrost, the Discord binding, the actuator, the private execution journal, and the signed terminal receipt.

Current physical state:

• Yggdrasil runs bifrost-persona-feedback.service and bifrost-persona-mouth.service from exact Bifrost cb3239aa / CultLib f67f5122; the mouth is bound to WireGuard 10.77.0.1:17876.
• Starfire feedback ingress uses immutable CultNet snapshot export/import; it never copies live Bifrost .cc state.
• Starfire permit PID 19024 runs the prior authenticated Epiphany release at the Windows-admitted path and binds 10.77.0.2:17877; exact 55660d78 remains published but blocked by Windows' per-release program rule.
• Request, receipt, and permit-request identities are purpose-specific. Only public anchors crossed hosts; private keys remain with their owners.
• The first live request reached model terminal, persisted on both sides, and later reconciled to signed terminal failure after its permit intent expired. It did not automatically repost and must never be reused.
• The second live request obtained a valid permit, then terminalized signed unknown when the bridge rejected its missing CultMesh command ID. It has no Discord message evidence and must never be reused. The source fix is live.
• Unique permit-only probing completes across Node/Rust; the reusable probe no longer collides with its own replay key.
• Yggdrasil lacks the token-bearing Discord credential required for actuation.
• Windows currently blocks inbound traffic to the new exact permit executable with automatic per-program rules. The path-independent scoped repair is F:\Projects\gamecult-ops\scripts\allow-starfire-epiphany-persona-permit.ps1.

Install an operator-owned bot token as root-only /srv/bifrost/env/persona-delivery.env, restart the mouth, and verify only the credential's presence. Then queue one fresh uniquely identified Persona mention and prove model terminal, signed request, permit, Discord message ID/URL, bridge crossing receipt, signed Bifrost receipt, Starfire admission, and heartbeat terminalization. Transport acknowledgement is never speech success. Do not SFTP live stores, share private keys, run Bifrost actuation on Starfire, weaken the permit, or retry either sealed request.

Continuity retention audit — 2026-08-09

The source-grounded retention authority map is now in notes/epiphany-current-algorithmic-map.md. Heartbeat pulse directories already have typed plan/receipt retention and in-store heartbeat history is capped at 128. Resident Self pressure/grant/claim/ack lifecycle rows and runtime-spine coordinator receipts remain unbounded. The old ResidentSelfRuntimeReceipt shape is produced only by test-only reconciliation and is not a live target.

Resident lifecycle retirement may touch only a fully closed lifecycle after Heartbeat has consumed its terminal acknowledgement. It must atomically delete exact witnessed envelopes, publish typed digest/count evidence with no scheduling authority, and refuse pending pressure, unconsumed grants, prepared/active launches, unconsumed acknowledgements, and brake/shutdown cancellations whose pressure was requeued. Negative proof must show retained history cannot create pending work or resurrect a coordinator turn.

Coordinator receipt, Heartbeat artifact, and deployment log ownership are now settled. Exact packaged 16c4b19f retired pulse directories 1-2 from a five-pulse copied-store fixture, retained 3-5 byte-identically, emitted the typed retention receipt, and replayed within-bound without another receipt. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/heartbeat-retention-16c4b19f.

The live infrastructure repo is F:\Projects\gamecult-ops. Commit 059821f makes systemd-journald the sole Yggdrasil owner for supervisor and projector stdout/stderr: both projector policies bind /dev/stdout and /dev/stderr, the unit explicitly selects journal streams, and no parallel long-lived files remain under the Epiphany state root. The optional fatal log is not configured by the Yggdrasil unit. The full organizational operator wiring suite passes. Do not reintroduce external truncation beneath inherited descriptors.

Next: run the measured idle/active endurance plateau, then continue the remaining organ coordination audit. Broad session/model/event/tool compaction still waits for typed archived-session ownership.

The first endurance harness under .epiphany-run/idle-endurance-16c4b19f is preserved as contaminated harness evidence: launching Self as a shell background job inherited the shell's non-default SIGINT disposition, so ctrlc::try_set_handler correctly refused to steal it. This was not a source regression. The corrected direct-PID run in .epiphany-run/idle-endurance2-16c4b19f completed 900 one-second Heartbeat pulses and then direct-PID SIGTERM closure: Heartbeat and Self both exited zero, Self's final projection was braked with shutdown requested, and active c005 remained untouched. Across 984 seconds and 143 comparable Heartbeat samples, RSS stayed 27.79--28.54 MiB; first/last-quarter averages differed by 0.06 MiB. Across 991 seconds and 144 Self samples, RSS stayed 26.90--27.73 MiB; first/last-quarter averages differed by 0.057 MiB. The aggregate copied state oscillated between 7,330,870 and 7,344,497 bytes and returned to 7,332,629; artifact payload stayed at 13,175 bytes in one pulse directory. This is useful bounded active-marker/braked-Self physiology, not an idle cognition claim: the copied Heartbeat store retained a stale coordinator participant marked running.

A genuine idle control in .epiphany-run/idle-control-16c4b19f is complete. Exact packaged epiphany-verse-query engaged the canonical typed epiphany/swarm-brake under runtime epiphany-starfire-linux in both root and Eyes local-Verse stores. Heartbeat completed 900 one-second refused pulses and exited zero; the monitor then sent direct-PID SIGTERM to Self, which also exited zero with shutdown requested. Across 139 comparable Heartbeat samples RSS was 27.77--28.52 MiB and first/last-quarter averages changed by 0.0068 MiB. Across 141 Self samples RSS was 26.97--27.73 MiB and the quarter delta was 0.0423 MiB. Aggregate copied state stayed exactly 7,332,259 bytes and artifact payload stayed zero. This is the accepted no-cognition baseline. Active c005 remained untouched.

The bounded active-cognition endurance pass has an authority map; do not replace it with a synthetic busy fixture. Resident Self owns consumption of one real Heartbeat grant, exact coordinator-child identity, fulfillment, terminal receipt, cooldown, and shutdown. Heartbeat owns typed scheduling. The selected candidate is the copied unresolved admitted-model-direction-consideration request already seen minting a grant in the first physiology run; its production route launches proposal-only Imagination cognition through the exact packaged coordinator/model runtime. Docker stats, process counts, and operator-safe projections are evidence only. The monitor may stop the isolated containers after terminal proof and a measured cooldown interval; it may not write runtime authority, inject a fake child, create retry pressure, accept a worker result, or weaken any consequence gate. After the idle control closes, copy its body, inspect the pending grant through packaged projections, release the canonical brake in both local-Verse namespaces, and use a long enough turn timeout plus cooldown to observe launch, active memory peak, typed completion, and return to plateau. Acceptance requires exact coordinator/resident fulfillment receipts, the typed Imagination result path, no external consequence, bounded stores and artifacts, and clean direct-PID shutdown. If the request or grant is absent, resolved, or mismatched, stop and choose a new request through its production typed owner; do not manufacture endurance theater.

Source inspection before active endurance found a continuity fault in the resident closure path. A zero-exit bounded coordinator can publish its exact coordinator receipt before a detached typed worker result appears; the old cycle acknowledged the grant immediately and could permanently consume its pressure if the worker later failed. Resident Self now keeps the active lease and projects awaiting-fulfillment until the runtime-owned worker result and exact typed companion prove terminal cognition. Proposal Modeling requires its exact echoed request; admitted model-direction and Imagination consideration also validate and compare their persisted typed result/candidate. Brake, shutdown, and timeout cancel and requeue the exact pressure once through the existing CAS. The raw completion primitive is private to this settling seam. Imagination candidates must not predate their request. Twenty-two resident tests, eight swarm binary tests, and eight Imagination consideration tests pass, including exited-zero pending-to-fulfilled closure and exact-once shutdown requeue. This cut is not packaged yet. Commit and publish it, package the exact source with the persistent Starfire cache, authenticate all 24 binaries and witness, then use only that release for active cognition endurance.

Commit 30a63d63 packaged after a failed-closed construction-cache repair. The clone initially lacked declared submodules; after exact initialization the constructor found the known stale source-fb4097c8f489c830678f32a39e818cf462bff5c1fe853bc12d106184c9bfd571 worktree whose Git common-dir named a deleted clone. Only that verified 57 MiB source directory was removed; Cargo home and target caches survived. The same container then completed in 8m26s. Exact release is sha256-a1e8a0985573f7bacf5316c62080ed4bfb8b00c7214331e0baf775d24a7a50a4; witness is sha256-473482113ac16e6656e2cb02582ee5696818b3255a7184960e8839aa291bf3b9. Independent packaged inspection accepted exact source and all 24 Linux ELF binaries with zero warnings.

The first real active-cognition attempt is preserved under .epiphany-run/active-cognition-30a63d63. Packaged publication into the copied Verse and both canonical brake releases succeeded. Heartbeat moved from braked to active-coordinator-turn, but Self failed before preparation with resident typed request escaped its runtime or thread authority; no worker or external consequence launched. A quarantined read-only typed-state diagnostic proved the request was valid, unresolved, and owned by runtime epiphany-starfire-linux-eyes-tools on thread linux-eyes-tools-c005, while the policy's release_runtime_id was epiphany-starfire-linux. The code had collapsed binary-publication identity and cognitive-store identity. Both brakes were re-engaged. Self exited 1; the manually stopped Heartbeat required kill after its 15-second stop window and exited 137, so this run is failed evidence, not endurance acceptance.

The source cut now loads the mounted runtime store's immutable EpiphanyRuntimeIdentity; that one owner supplies typed request validation, plain-work thread identity, and the coordinator's --runtime-id. Release runtime identity remains binary-authentication authority only. Persona feedback target identity remains crossing-owned rather than being mass-renamed. The diagnostic error now names safe request/kind/runtime identities, a negative test proves a request from a foreign runtime still fails closed, and differing-ID tests require both typed and plain prepared argv to name the cognitive runtime. Twenty-four resident and eight swarm binary tests pass. Commit, package, authenticate, then rerun from a fresh copy of the accepted idle baseline; do not reuse the failed active body.

Resident lifecycle retention is now implemented in source. Resident Self's serve/once owner invokes a configurable --retained-closed-lifecycles bound (default 256). Only Heartbeat-consumed terminal lifecycles whose pressure still binds the consumed grant and which have no prepared/active lease are eligible. The exact pressure/grant/ack/claim envelopes are deleted in the same snapshot-fenced CultCache write that replaces the single retention head. The head carries only cumulative counts and a chained digest; scheduling readers do not consume it. Requeued brake/shutdown/failure pressure remains live.

CultCache commit fecc17c on codex/resident-retention-compaction adds the missing single-file atomic replace-and-delete primitive and its stale-snapshot refusal proof. Twenty resident Self tests and six swarm binary tests pass, including negative proof that retention cannot create pending pressure/grants/acks or resurrect state. Package and copied-state proof remain before this slice is accepted.

Exact ed15f83a packaged in 7m26s after one failed-closed cache repair. The first attempt found a stale cached source worktree whose git-common-dir pointed at a deleted prior clone. Only that exact source-fb4097c8f489c830678f32a39e818cf462bff5c1fe853bc12d106184c9bfd571 directory was removed; Cargo home and target caches were preserved. The replacement package produced 24 binaries, release sha256-4a4be03688eab1d1f7c13ac0057f0664c4658cab88471a0eac451a1d4607b85d, and witness sha256-f163170174f022c124cc2f94d195639d02f65b79bac229af3efb8333176673c4. Independent packaged inspection accepted exact source, inventory, witness, and private-state exclusion without warnings.

Receipts are in .epiphany-run/resident-retention-ed15f83a/. Under an engaged copied-state brake, the exact packaged Self compacted a portable fixture with two closed lifecycles and one requeued control. The head is revision 1, retired_lifecycle_count=2, retired_envelope_count=6, and chained digest sha256:69a2c5971430846590fe20ba32a1a9299726a51c997b9e9c07ec044ebbff34a6. The requeued control plus one independently ingested pending typed pressure survived; grants and acknowledgements are empty. A second exact packaged pass left the head unchanged. Active c005 remained running and untouched.

Resident lifecycle retention is accepted. Next map coordinator receipt and semantic/runtime history references before choosing the next compaction owner.

The next owner map is now source-grounded. c005's copied runtime store has 22 coordinator receipts, 20 jobs/results, 7 sessions, 482 events, and roughly 2.9 MiB of duplicated native/OpenAI model requests. Do not compact this as one family. Resident Self is the only live authority reader of coordinator run receipts: after child exit zero it requires exact thread plus launch digest and then validates the full launch contract. CultMesh Hands/review mirrors carry the receipt ID but do not resolve it back into runtime authority.

The bounded next slice is coordinator receipts only: runtime owns one digest accumulator, preserves a configurable newest window plus explicit cross-store IDs, and always preserves the newest receipt across the child-exit/ack seam. The accumulator must not enumerate as a receipt or satisfy resident completion. Session/job/event/model/tool retention remains forbidden until typed archived session ownership closes tool follow-up, review, recovery, and accepted-frontier references.

The source implementation is accepted. Runtime owns a typed cumulative count/digest head and exact receipt deletion behind one full-snapshot fence. Resident Self invokes it after each cycle, before resident lifecycle retirement, with a default-256 window and explicit preservation of every pending terminal acknowledgement plus last_coordinator_receipt_id. Even a configured zero window retains the newest receipt. The head has a distinct CultCache type and cannot enumerate as EpiphanyCoordinatorRunReceipt. Retention refuses to run while active-turn or prepared-launch authority exists, so a child cannot write its terminal receipt during the pre-exit observation window and have a small retention window retire it before completion scanning. CultCache 9cae2779 supplies the same atomic replace/delete primitive to the production non-owning redb handle; its concurrent-insert refusal test passes. Twenty resident tests, seven swarm tests, and two coordinator-retention tests pass. Exact 16c4b19f produced warning-free 24-binary release sha256-6cd1907a87d37cd4517e3f1d3541ecee6595480c21401f977f51f63e929a8ef8 with witness sha256-c9f4f8ba962bd97674c5e178a67a881b592af5833048029cd11805604bd6c17e. The first package attempt failed closed on the known stale cached git worktree; only exact corrupted cache directory source-fb4097c8f489c830678f32a39e818cf462bff5c1fe853bc12d106184c9bfd571 was removed, preserving Cargo home and target. The replacement completed in 9m16s and independently inspected as exact source, 24 binaries, no warnings.

Receipts .epiphany-run/coordinator-retention-16c4b19f prove packaged behavior under copied engaged-brake state. With a window of one, 21 old receipts retired; the newest receipt and a deliberately old receipt named by both resident state and a pending acknowledgement survived. The revision-1 head digest is sha256:63587221d745315af81c705824d16313d2f748b6ff9840a2b4152127a6758fbd. All 720 unrelated runtime envelopes retained digest sha256:c21a12653ce1bf0e64342c6fcbf98d006aeb8fa707de69527886db20e4c20e1c. Resident authority counts were unchanged, active/prepared authority remained absent, and exact replay did not advance the head or create work. Active c005 remained running and untouched. Coordinator receipt retention is accepted. Next settle supervisor log ownership and packaged Heartbeat retention, then run the measured idle/active endurance plateau.

Active cognition continuity fault and repaired ownership (2026-08-09)

Exact e09104a7 produced warning-free 24-binary release sha256-40d4971a3b7ecf4debf558621b80c6384c6c1a155971e42aecf44bf05d13e418 with witness sha256-5f68e73e0b9ad2dff7e7cfa912455bd7e27f1a653c2a2eecd8bf5a012f146c68. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/active-cognition2-e09104a7. On a fresh copy of the accepted idle body, exact Heartbeat launched the valid Eyes cognitive runtime/thread. Self remained awaiting-fulfillment after coordinator exit, accepted the exact typed Imagination result, wrote one terminal acknowledgement, and Heartbeat consumed it. This live causal fulfillment seam is accepted.

The 900-pulse run then exposed two coupled continuity faults. Completion cleared the active lease without persisting the configured 180-second cooldown, leaving nextEligibleAtMillis=0. Separately, grant issuance checked only unconsumed grants. Once preparation marked the first grant consumed, later pressure could receive another grant under the same still-running Heartbeat schedule/action. The first acknowledgement then closed that Heartbeat turn while Self retained the companion grant. Three cognitive turns ran instead of the intended single turn plus cooldown. Final Heartbeat and Self exits were both zero, but this body is rejected as bounded-turn/endurance proof. The detached sampler also died mid-run and was restarted append-only; the visible sampling gap is preserved.

Pushed commit 90648073 moves both decisions to their proper owners. Terminal completion persists next_eligible_at_millis in the same CAS as lease closure and acknowledgement publication. Heartbeat grant issuance refuses prepared or active Self authority and advances the singleton resident-state revision in the same pressure-to-grant CAS, so disjoint pressures cannot share a Heartbeat turn. Twenty-four resident tests and eight swarm binary tests pass. Package exact 90648073, authenticate it, then replay from another fresh accepted-idle copy. Require exactly one grant per Heartbeat turn, later pressure pending through the persisted cooldown (including restart), typed fulfillment once, bounded return to plateau, and clean zero exits. Active c005 remains untouched.

Pre-package source inspection caught one surviving obsolete path: production cycle() called prepare_resident_self_launch without reading the persisted deadline, and preparation itself did not enforce it. The in-flight de2e8ad5 package was stopped as invalid source; its build logs are preserved under .epiphany-run/linux-package-de2e8ad5/. Pushed ee05d9bb moves the read into the shared preparation primitive. A fresh post-completion call with a committed later grant now refuses at deadline minus one and prepares exactly at the deadline. Package latest source containing both 90648073 and ee05d9bb; never resume or publish the stopped de2e8ad5 build.

Exact d303dd1f then packaged as warning-free 24-binary release sha256-8e55c6f76dd2cf6ad93393ea99ed98a871370e68f9fe59ae234f5e494481c67d with witness sha256-1834a1f7717d6d12510f3747c5d2a758572e7267d0b766be5c1b0fa0130300e3. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/active-cognition3-d303dd1f. Exact typed fulfillment persisted nextEligibleAtMillis=1786305955374. Self stopped zero 123 seconds before that deadline, restarted against the same resident store, and remained sleeping with the exact deadline through expiry. Cooldown ownership and restart refusal are accepted.

The same run exposed the remaining cardinality fault. Once completion removed prepared/active Self authority, repeated pulses of the still-running Heartbeat schedule/action could issue again because the grant fence remembered only unconsumed grants, not that this turn had already spent its grant. Work launched again under epiphany-active-cognition3-d303dd1f.serve-000131 / heartbeat.coordinator.work. The copied run was stopped and rejected; immutable logs and run-invalidated.txt preserve the intervention.

The source cut now makes the persisted grant set the lifetime fence: if any grant already names the requesting schedule/action, issuance returns none regardless of consumption, resident idleness, cooldown expiry, cancellation, or later pressure. Cancellation retry moves to a different Heartbeat turn; the old test that explicitly blessed same-turn retry was corrected. Twenty-four resident, eight swarm, and eleven heartbeat-state tests pass. Commit and push this cut, package the exact commit, and replay from a fresh idle copy. Do not reuse the invalid d303 body as bounded-turn evidence.

Exact c77824ef packaged as warning-free 24-binary release sha256-e0b7c5cf54c4fb62929d91326c4604e8ad486c59411d6b2509de9182e7a83482 with witness sha256-f923a10c4a96b4301a952c3f874a913535f3165fee531034bbce077811a5629b. The fresh copied body under .epiphany-run/active-cognition4-c77824ef matched all 7,668 accepted-idle files. One exact grant completed and persisted nextEligibleAtMillis=1786307607233; Self restarted zero and slept through the deadline. Heartbeat never issued another grant after the original pulse-48 grant, so schedule/action issuance cardinality is accepted.

After expiry, Self nevertheless launched again. The typed diagnostic proved the active lease named the exact already-completed pulse-48 grant, not another Heartbeat grant. This run is rejected and was stopped with receipts. The first repair treated ResidentSelfTerminalAck as grant death instead of the mutable consumed_at_millis marker. Exact replay disproved that ownership cut.

Exact 61d06140 packaged as warning-free 24-binary release sha256-07d63fb815aa2298b95f240d856e912ca41ed4dc70ebe17ed559fc29766b4a71 with witness sha256-06cd8373ca37c29e0123298484a67b6346b4b8ec0b8c93cd959237b3d8b7787a. The fresh 7,668-file copied body under .epiphany-run/active-cognition5-61d06140 completed one typed turn, persisted nextEligibleAtMillis=1786308887955, restarted Self with exit zero, and slept through the deadline. Heartbeat issued no second grant. After expiry Self again prepared the original grant.

Typed inspection found no success acknowledgement for that grant and no resident lifecycle-retention head. Singleton ResidentSelfState still retained the completed closure and cooldown; stopping the rejected run later wrote the expected shutdown-cancellation acknowledgement. The acknowledgement-only fence was therefore built on separately retained evidence, not on the grant whose launchability it tried to decide.

Each ResidentSelfHeartbeatGrant now owns its own terminality. Completion and cancellation write its terminal timestamp and status in the same CAS that clears the exact active lease; cancellation also requeues the pressure in that CAS. Pending selection and Heartbeat issuance consult the grant-owned terminal fact. ResidentSelfTerminalAck is Heartbeat-facing notification and provenance, not launch authority. The focused regression deletes the acknowledgement and clears the grant's consumed marker, then proves the terminal grant remains dead while later pressure may receive a new grant from a different Heartbeat turn. Twenty-four resident, eight swarm, and eleven heartbeat-state tests pass. Package and replay the exact committed source from a fresh accepted-idle copy; do not accept c778 or 61d as bounded endurance evidence.

Exact a987d2f7 packaged as warning-free 24-binary release sha256-fa7476e703c807c1ec7fdf5a099e0ac36a34ff8c01e2b404a4aade1a2cf3b6d0 with witness sha256-515c9caa49fb90585834520f4e8f6fdc1704145e1a0cd7b695be09ad93d14e14. The active6 body under .epiphany-run/active-cognition6-a987d2f7 copied 7,667 state/workspace/crossing/artifact files plus the machine identity from the accepted idle control with zero hash differences, then published only that exact release.

The first typed turn completed at resident revision 9. Self stopped exit zero and restarted before nextEligibleAtMillis=1786311170229, then slept through the deadline. At 1786311162775 an isolated snapshot-fenced diagnostic deleted the exact terminal acknowledgement and cleared only consumed_at_millis; the v1 grant retained terminal planned at 1786310990229. After expiry that grant remained dead. A later proposal used a distinct grant from active6 pulse 77. That grant terminalized independently, and completion of another later grant still did not change or resurrect the corrupted original. Receipts corruption-receipt.txt, post-expiry-inspection.txt, post-second-completion-inspection.txt, and final-inspection.txt bind the exact identities.

Heartbeat completed 900 pulses and exited zero; the detached monitor stopped Self with exit zero. Heartbeat, Self, and monitor stderr are empty. No tracked workspace path changed. Pulse artifacts ended at three retained directories. The final 40 samples are byte-flat: total state 13,012,660; runtime 9,225,193; resident 22,984; Heartbeat 13,200; artifacts 298,663. Self rested at 31.92 MiB and Heartbeat at 27.81 MiB before stop. Exact-grant terminality and bounded active endurance are accepted. Active c005 was untouched.

Commit cc566a3c cuts the typed-fulfillment authentication split. Runtime spine now owns one typed request verifier for proposal Modeling, Imagination consideration, and admitted model-direction consideration. It replays the exact immutable result-admission path and then checks the persisted typed companion; proposal Modeling additionally uses one shared immutable proposal/selection/ launch/patch validator from both delayed fulfillment and Mind admission. Resident Self only maps exact grant provenance to that typed request and consumes Pending/Fulfilled/error. Echo-only rows, substituted launch bindings, item errors, missing companions, and duplicate terminal claimants cannot complete a grant.

Focused proof is green: 24 resident tests, 8 epiphany-swarm tests, 11 Heartbeat-state tests, and the new hostile proposal verifier test. The resident cycle proof now exits the coordinator zero, remains awaiting-fulfillment, admits an exact launch-bound model-direction result through runtime spine, and closes once. The broader runtime-spine sweep exposed two stale fixture opinions; commit 70683d6b aligns them with live ownership. An existing Modeling launch already claims scheduling authority and cannot produce a duplicate resident grant. Proposed/Blocked frontier output stops at Mind admission, while the route layer still refuses the resulting unadmitted state. All 50 runtime-spine tests now pass alongside the focused suites. Package exact 70683d6b, then prove the same pending-to-authenticated-fulfilled transition on copied state. Active c005 remains untouched.

Exact c1b461b2 then packaged as warning-free 24-binary release sha256-4bb7013c9d423cc8fd58be7300babe2dc1658cbcf952a7c1d9c5e0717dcd983a with witness sha256-3d2a6c9f2453c3085bb3825271069ac3451863f274bb606954cc3efd0c09edba. The first packaging preflight correctly refused absent submodules. A retry exposed one stale persistent source-cache worktree whose clone volume no longer existed; that exact cache directory was inspected, removed, and the single real build completed in 8m49s. The accepted release contains 24 ELF x86-64 binaries, has no build warnings, and inspects against the exact source and witness.

The copied-state run under .epiphany-run/fulfillment-live-c1b461b2 launched the pending autonomous proposal Modeling grant. Its coordinator exited zero and resident Self remained on the same lease as awaiting-fulfillment, proving the new asynchronous state transition. The exact genuine worker result result-worker-a0be7d08-3c2b-4736-99ae-fffb72628911 was not accepted. Delayed fulfillment re-entered the autonomous proposal validator, which required the current external Body-status file and required every Imagination-origin proposal to route back to Imagination. The live result coherently produced one active, proposal-citing Eyes frontier for receipt-body research. Self therefore terminalized the grant as unfulfilled. This run is preserved falsification evidence, not a successful fulfillment proof. Self later stopped on SIGTERM in 1.686s with exit zero and final braked; active c005 was untouched.

Commit c9738fdb repairs the authority split. Immutable autonomous origin, direction, launch, payload, result, and frontier provenance now own delayed fulfillment. Current external Body authentication remains a separate Mind admission requirement. An autonomous result may route to Eyes for evidence or back to Imagination, but direct Hands and pre-adopted plans remain forbidden. The regression deletes the fixture's current Body-status file and still proves typed fulfillment; the autonomous bridge accepts an Eyes continuation and continues to reject direct Hands. All 50 runtime-spine and 24 resident tests pass. Package exact c9738fdb and replay the pending-to-fulfilled transition from a fresh copied state; do not rehabilitate the rejected c1b run.

Exact 6dd9b132 packaged in 8m47s as warning-free 24-binary release sha256-e9380f98b000e216705218c96f2925976558fff63113d5d003aed443ba80aadd with witness sha256-271f062be9b77d9a49d7aa26884c64db65c42919d30d8fecf650c7cb7890c86c. The Linux-native source volume was required because a Windows bind mount made Linux Git report line-ending changes across the tracked tree; both preflight refusals are preserved and no build began under either. The accepted package contains 24 x86-64 ELF binaries and no warning/error log matches.

The fresh copied body under .epiphany-run/fulfillment-live-6dd9b132 contains 7,678 files and matched the Active6 machine ID plus six authority/store hashes exactly before publishing only the new release. The exact pending autonomous proposal grant launched once. Coordinator exit left Self on the same lease as awaiting-fulfillment while the detached Modeling worker continued. Runtime then admitted result-worker-cae0cad1-188e-46fa-832c-7cb0676422dd with typed checkpoint-update-needed and one active proposal-citing Eyes frontier. Self completed at revision 21 with exactly one result, one planned terminal acknowledgement, terminal planned on the exact grant, and persisted nextEligibleAtMillis=1786318158509. Continued serve cycles did not duplicate result or acknowledgement. The copied workspace has zero tracked changes. SIGTERM completed in 577ms with exit zero and final braked. Runtime-owned asynchronous typed fulfillment is accepted; active c005 was untouched.

The next pass is broad semantic/runtime retention. Map session/job/event, model-request/result/stream-event, and tool-intent/receipt ownership and cross-store liveness before editing. No age-only deletion and no broad compaction are authorized until one typed archived-session owner can prove a fully closed, unreferenced generation cannot resurrect or erase work.

The retention audit found the missing ownership edge: runtime sessions own jobs/events, but native/OpenAI model rows had only request/conversation IDs and tools were linked only optionally. Semantic Mind/consequence documents in the same store are not session exhaust. The current cut adds typed EpiphanyRuntimeModelExecutionBinding plus one runtime-spine CAS that publishes session, job, opened event, binding, native request, and provider request atomically before transport. Collision and mismatched provider pairs leave no partial rows. Core hostile membership, CultNet Hello/catalog, and all 15 OpenAI runtime library tests pass. No archive deletion is authorized yet. Next, give model-derived and direct tool intents explicit execution ownership atomically; then map retained semantic references before building the archived-session tombstone.

Tool execution ownership is now cut too. Runtime spine owns EpiphanyRuntimeToolExecutionBinding; intent plus owner edge publish atomically, model-derived intents must inherit the exact model execution, and direct intents require explicit session/job ownership. The tool runtime refuses unbound intents before execution. Terminal receipts are immutable and CAS fenced against the exact binding and intent, so a hostile/duplicate receipt cannot supply closure. Core hostile tests, all 15 OpenAI tests, and all 10 tool runtime tests pass warning-free. The next pass is source-grounded retained reference classification across semantic, frontier, Hands/Soul, Persona, memory, resident, and coordinator readers before any archived-session deletion is implemented.

Retained-reference inspection found the archive unit itself was false: worker model sessions were role-long and remained open for later workers. They now derive from the exact outer worker job ID, so one session owns that worker's initial and tool-followup model jobs only. Success closes it after typed outer result admission. Loop-stall and round-limit paths terminalize the exact unexecuted tool intents, fail the outer job, and close the same inner session. Six OpenAI CLI and 15 library tests pass, including terminal receipt/session assertions. The next cut is the narrow archived model-session tombstone; it must retain exact IDs and delete only inner execution envelopes, never outer worker or semantic authority.

Narrow model-generation archive — source-proven 2026-08-10

Runtime spine now owns EpiphanyArchivedRuntimeSession. Archive admission is deliberately narrow: the session is Completed; every member job is an openai-model-adapter job with exactly one model-execution binding and terminal job result; native and OpenAI requests, streams, and receipts agree and are terminal; and every bound tool intent has one authenticated terminal receipt. Outer worker launches/results, coordinator receipts, semantic/Mind/consequence documents, unknown rows, and unrelated runtime envelopes are not members.

One full-snapshot-fenced replacement writes a tombstone containing the exact session/job/result/request/intent IDs, terminal counts, retired-family counts, and chained envelope digest while deleting only that inner execution family. Those retained IDs are the permanent reuse barrier. A stale snapshot refuses; an unreceipted tool refuses; exact replay is idempotent; and unrelated envelopes remain byte-identical. Resident Self calls the bounded owner only while neither active nor prepared launch authority exists. The configurable default window is 256 and at least the newest completed model generation always survives.

The exact archive test and two-generation retention-window test pass, as do all eight epiphany-swarm tests and cargo check. The schema and CultNet catalog parse. This cut is not yet committed, packaged, or exercised on copied live state. Next commit/push it, package only that exact commit with Starfire's persistent Linux cache, then prove tombstone non-resurrection and byte identity on copied state. Active c005 remains untouchable. Yggdrasil never builds.

Commit c137e16b contains that cut and is pushed. Exact packaging completed in 7m17s with 24 binaries, release sha256-44cdf05f7f2e4830702d211006914e9ac27875f1340abd74b72756e262beddce, and witness sha256-c7ecb23021a49d63f2893053c5653146688c0884f3eac0c6808bb29b6489abdf, but the candidate is rejected: production compilation emitted one unused tool_invocation_receipt_key import warning from the tool-runtime binary. Logs are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-c137e16b.

The import was used only by binary tests and now lives inside cfg(test). Production cargo check and all four tool-runtime binary tests pass without warnings. Commit/push this follow-up and package that new exact source; do not accept or publish the warning-bearing c137 package as shakedown evidence.

Packaged model-generation retention accepted — 2026-08-10

Follow-up cce2b8ac is pushed. Its warm Starfire package took 20.70s, emitted zero warnings, contained 24 binaries, and authenticated as release sha256-1f29f33c495e8ba79ce8e23c1ac923c4ffcd5d86c97632a17d44566669de481e with witness sha256-25e48f9c79c51cd9853e826e2f9dfdb3b2570006fd37138fd36ac1555bc075e7. Package and inspect receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-cce2b8ac.

Copied live proof is under .epiphany-run/model-session-retention-cce2b8ac. Two exact packaged direct-OpenAI calls created unique model sessions, jobs, bindings, native/provider terminal streams and receipts; both returned awake, passed, and were closed by the packaged runtime spine. With no active or prepared resident lease and the copied brake engaged, packaged Self ran once with --retained-completed-model-sessions 1. The older session became one epiphany.runtime.archived_session.v0 tombstone covering 29 exact envelopes with chained digest sha256:fc3658898d383333edff411f64999af7890cdeaf8fdce737589bc5667f65db33. The newer session/request survived; pending tool count stayed zero; recreation of the old session exited 1 with was retired by archive; and exact Self replay left runtime SHA-256 15e25ba3c21bed45fe48cb30034959de87b3f0cb973d7c80e4a7808dc91affb5 unchanged.

A proof-local read-only CultCache comparator found all 1,427 envelopes from the copied pre-run store still present. Only the model/OpenAI adapter status rows changed, as owned consequences of the two genuine calls; zero pre-existing authority envelopes changed. Active c005 was never mounted or disturbed.

The proof also exposed the next contract wound. epiphany-model-runtime model-turn claims JSON request ingestion and the published schema describes an object, but serde_json::from_str::<EpiphanyModelRequest> inherits the DatabaseEntry positional-array representation. Two object-shaped requests failed before store mutation; only the native CultCache array shape passed. Repair this xenos JSON boundary with an explicit schema-shaped ingress type and typed conversion. Do not change CultCache persistence to accommodate JSON.

Model-turn JSON boundary implemented — 2026-08-10

epiphany-model-runtime model-turn now parses the two published object-shaped contracts through explicit boundary DTOs and dispatches by exact schema_id. The boundary accepts only the fields and input variants published by epiphany.model_request.v0 and epiphany.openai_model_request.v0, then converts them into the existing typed requests. Positional CultCache arrays, unknown fields, malformed variants, and unpublished ToolCall cargo refuse before the runtime path. DatabaseEntry serialization remains solely the persistence authority.

All nine model-runtime binary tests pass, including published native/provider object acceptance and the negative boundary cases. Production cargo check also passes warning-free. The source is not accepted until its exact pushed commit is packaged from Starfire's warm cache and a copied-live run proves one published object completes while the old positional array cannot mutate state. Active c005 remains outside this rite; Yggdrasil never builds.

Model-turn JSON boundary accepted live — 2026-08-10

Exact pushed source eea15e82 produced a warning-free 24-binary release sha256-6a45bef43ef9f4ecbdc2ba69b8dfee9edf9bb085ce0d482c1ad1649b35464186 with witness sha256-088393f4eb9784819250f6a6b44d73bc92c9d889c4eaa2a0a13868c6c71f7cda. Construction and inspection receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-eea15e82.

The persistent package source was refreshed from an immutable Git bundle after the Windows bind-mounted object store lost a temporary pack. Packaging then found a 48,104,292-byte cached source worktree whose .git pointed at a vanished source repo. That exact cache entry was removed under .epiphany-run/interventions/package-cache-stale-worktree-20260810T0145Z; Cargo home and graph artifacts remained. The reconstructed package completed in 8m43s. Both preflight refusals and the contaminated old-source launch are preserved beside the accepted logs.

Copied-live receipts are under .epiphany-run/model-json-ingress-eea15e82. The exact packaged binary accepted one published native JSON object and completed it through epiphany_direct_responses_http in 5.9 seconds: pass verdict, two events, zero tools, and the exact typed request persisted. Its copied session was then closed. The old positional CultCache array exited 1 with model-turn request must be an object with string schema_id, created no request, and left runtime SHA-256 944494eeb6416e3123a2cb65e00e9e130c130f7c1ec8988f810bb48d55dc83da unchanged. JSON ingress is accepted; CultCache remains persistence-only.

Next map semantic and conversation-wide history retention before editing. Name the producer, live-authority preservation set, closure predicate, retirement evidence, and negative non-resurrection proof for each family. Active c005 stays untouched and Yggdrasil never builds.

Next retention owners mapped — 2026-08-10

Semantic projection lifecycle and Persona conversation lifecycle are distinct cuts. For semantic projection, the canonical source store owns logical history: preserve the authenticated current obligation, singleton scope claim, current claim authority, running attempt, and exact readiness chain; retire only older source generations and their terminal/consumed lifecycle documents under a full snapshot fence. A typed per-scope head is evidence only. Physical Qdrant epoch garbage is a second semantic-executor action bound to exact retired epoch identity; backend failure may leak space but cannot change readiness.

Persona conversation retirement is cross-store and comes later. Heartbeat owns terminal scheduling, runtime owns stage/effect/execution evidence, and Bifrost owns signed delivery audit. A durable archived-turn identity barrier is required before runtime details can retire, otherwise the model executor can recreate a previously consequential turn. Failed/unknown delivery evidence must continue to prevent automatic retry.

Implement semantic logical lifecycle retention first. Refuse while the current claim/attempt is running, preserve every current-chain reference explicitly, replace only exact older terminal generations plus one typed head under a full snapshot fence, and prove the head cannot open readiness or claim authority.

Semantic logical lifecycle retention implemented — 2026-08-10

The canonical semantic source store now owns bounded logical lifecycle history. After each projector pulse, the production daemon retains the newest 256 source generations by default. The cut preserves the exact current obligation, the singleton scope claim and authenticated claim authority, and every envelope in the current readiness family. It refuses retirement while current authority is running or when a same-scope future/non-stale obligation appears. Only older closed obligations and their terminal attempts, valid receipts, consumed executor grants, and recovery authorizations can retire.

One typed per-scope retention head carries cumulative type/status counts and a chained digest. The head is evidence only. Head replacement and exact lifecycle deletion share the source store's full-snapshot fence; unknown rows are outside the deletion set. Retention faults degrade the projector heartbeat but cannot redefine semantic completion or suppress health publication.

Four focused tests pass: current ready-chain preservation, running-current refusal, hostile future-generation refusal even inside the recency window, and stale-snapshot refusal with unrelated-row byte identity and stable replay. The production semantic-projector binary checks warning-free. An ignored readiness lookup that discarded its result was removed; exact claim, attempt, authority, and receipt contracts remain the real owners.

Next commit and push this source, package and inspect that exact commit from the persistent Starfire cache, then prove it against copied state only. Preserve active c005. Physical Qdrant epoch garbage collection and Persona conversation retirement remain later, separate ownership cuts. Yggdrasil never builds.

Copied-live semantic consumer fault and repair — 2026-08-10

Exact source 6740fc2a packaged warning-free in 6m52s with 24 binaries as release sha256-38b9153d3cad5c2460522278c1e7ce863e5b9a35499611b1f6926cc2f6937d1c and witness sha256-092d9b0f4174131705aabdf77620b196ff69ddec1affcf4d58e9a2b7a1d54593. Construction and inspection receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-6740fc2a. The first shell-wrapped launch failed before Cargo and is preserved in failed-state.json; the direct authenticated packager command succeeded.

On copied active-cognition6-a987d2f7 Eyes-tools state, the exact packaged projector retired one real semantic lifecycle family with zero retention faults. The subsequent exact packaged semantic health reader then refused the retained runtime store because runtime_spine_cache did not register the typed retention head. The corresponding agent_memory_cache omission had the same defect. This was a consumer catalog integration failure, not corrupt retained state.

The repair registers MemorySemanticProjectionRetentionHead in both canonical source-store catalogs as a known evidence type. It gains no query, claim, or readiness authority. Focused Mind and Modeling projection-input tests now place a retention head beside the canonical source family and still derive the exact current projection input. Both pass. Commit/push, repackage, and repeat the proof from a pristine copy; 6740fc2a is evidence of the caught fault, not an accepted release.

Semantic live proof and physical cut correction — 2026-08-10

Exact 7e320b5d packaged warning-free with 24 binaries as release sha256-0f0ff0883f1d84e07fb0485a1d5a4357036b49fad350a041c35a254a09c15441 and witness sha256-96fbe50a32d915eaa23c4260b3c2734b71dc8341fc3248eff56151ae8fefcebc. On a pristine copy of active-cognition6-a987d2f7 Eyes-tools state, window-one retention retired three superseded unattempted Modeling obligations into a revision-1 head with digest sha256:1cbb209d0cac9decf0715fd91faf07d1c0261805a04c0e6c0af9f3c3d7b5bb54. The comparator found zero missing or changed unrelated envelopes. Mind remained byte-identical across all 20 envelopes and retained exact ready status, receipt, hashes, generation, and 43-document count. The ordinary packaged semantic consumer read both retained stores. Replay reported zero retention mutations; the head remained revision 1. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/semantic-retention-7e320b5d.

The following physical audit found a cut error before final acceptance. A digest/count head cannot tell a later Qdrant collector the exact collection, obligation, claim, and epoch whose points are safe to delete. Deleting a failed or succeeded attempt first would therefore strand physical garbage, especially across crash or collection-config change. The source cut now preserves any old obligation that has an attempt, receipt, executor grant, or recovery authorization. Only genuinely unattempted superseded obligations compact.

Attempted lifecycle retirement remains open until retention atomically emits a durable physical-retirement obligation carrying the exact namespace and the semantic executor writes a terminal deletion receipt. Backend failure may then delay space recovery without losing retry identity or changing readiness. Four focused tests pass after the fail-closed cut. Package that exact source and repeat the same copied-state proof before accepting this phase.

Semantic unattempted retention accepted live — 2026-08-10

Exact pushed source b1e8c89a produced a warning-free 24-binary release sha256-3ce86fa7ce0ce15d78756d1f57b56e972d9bc37be3115b302ec567ce5e9b202e with witness sha256-fb1dd5599340a2e94600994d68661ed53820ba7fc605ac5b753f5e9632b46baf. Construction and inspection receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-b1e8c89a.

The pristine copied-state proof under .epiphany-run/semantic-retention-b1e8c89a retired exactly the same three superseded unattempted Modeling obligations into revision-1 digest sha256:1cbb209d0cac9decf0715fd91faf07d1c0261805a04c0e6c0af9f3c3d7b5bb54. No unrelated envelope changed or disappeared. All 20 Mind envelopes retained byte-identical digest sha256:910d2a8fd06030045f0e72864a80f5cb6571d66aa49a99002e2f2d0286cb388d. Packaged health preserved the exact ready Mind obligation, receipt, hashes, generation 1, and 43-document count. Normal readers accepted the retention head. Replay made zero retention mutations and left the head at revision 1.

The accepted boundary is deliberately narrow: unattempted superseded semantic obligations are bounded; every attempted generation remains durable. The next cut is a physical-retirement obligation and executor receipt carrying exact backend namespace. Active c005 was untouched. Yggdrasil did not build.

Physical namespace ownership foundation — 2026-08-10

The physical audit found that collection identity alone was insufficient: a historical Qdrant endpoint is also part of the address. Projector acquisition now persists the exact configured endpoint and partition collection on each new semantic attempt before backend I/O. Execution refuses and terminally fails a claim when its current config differs, without touching either backend. Legacy attempt rows remain readable with both fields empty; no migration fabricates a physical address that was never recorded.

Ten focused semantic authority tests pass, including exact namespace persistence and substituted-endpoint refusal before backend I/O. The next move is the typed physical-retirement obligation/receipt CAS and policy-bound executor. This source foundation is not yet packaged or accepted live.

Typed semantic physical retirement implemented — 2026-08-10

Source now contains the complete typed circuit: full-snapshot authorization of inactive old attempts, immutable exact-namespace obligations, current-policy endpoint/collection gating before backend I/O, full five-field Qdrant scope deletion, empty-scope verification, terminal receipts, retry preservation on backend failure, and logical compaction only after every attempted epoch is physically receipted. Pending obligation replay keeps its original timestamp and identity. General Mind and runtime readers register both new evidence schemas.

The end-to-end fake-backend test proves foreign endpoints cause zero reads or deletes, backend failure leaves the obligation without a receipt and blocks logical compaction, retry deletes only the exact scope, and the receipt then permits bounded lifecycle retirement. The complete library sweep passes 644 tests with one intentional ignored helper after three stale .ccmp test fixtures were corrected to the current explicit runtime-store extension contract.

This phase is source-complete but not yet packaged or accepted live. Next: commit/push, produce one exact cached package, then use copied canonical state and an isolated Qdrant body to prove physical points disappear, unrelated namespaces remain byte/ID-identical, failure retries, ordinary semantic health survives, and replay is inert. Active c005 remains untouchable; Yggdrasil never builds.

Semantic physical retirement accepted live — 2026-08-10

Exact pushed source 6bc3ec3f2493c75b6fa7f61ad3b675b10b67ab0f packaged warning-free in 8m11s with 24 binaries as release sha256-fb1bf9258a7d977fd92d6f8ee17bb540fa870477cdf1d3cea9707ec8d582d4aa and witness sha256-b42dba7296739dc48ecf0d8014a16f9d232cd723ed0292830d50879f546c0e6d. The exact packaged inspector authenticated source, destination, witness, and all 24 sibling binaries. Package receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-6bc3ec3f.

The isolated copied-live proof under .epiphany-run/semantic-physical-6bc3ec3f seeded one old failed Modeling epoch and four Qdrant points: two in its exact five-field namespace, one with a foreign claim epoch, and one with a foreign obligation. Exact packaged execution deleted only the two target points. Both hostile neighbors survived. The old obligation, attempt, grant, physical obligation, and terminal receipt then compacted into a revision-1 head with four retired generations, eight retired envelopes, and digest sha256:eb447221ee3344eb75e50cc47097c42aa6479a7afe9f3be9a87dba352f51a01b. All physical proof rows were absent afterward; replay reported zero retention mutations and preserved both hostile Qdrant points.

A second pristine copy proved failure continuity. With Qdrant stopped, exact packaged execution reported one physical retention fault, preserved all three old lifecycle rows plus one durable physical obligation, wrote no terminal receipt, and refused logical compaction of that attempted epoch. After the same Qdrant body restarted, the next exact pulse deleted only the target namespace, wrote the receipt, and compacted the family into revision-2 digest sha256:113c5057dc66f6393a4548d89ad3d177e4d43cce2a4cd12bc340430f013df2c7. The two hostile points again survived.

Mind remained byte-identical at sha256:d9d9e61af5fe3f71272754e8fa07dde2a94083fc4bc2c1cbf086d4691bf9a19e and exact packaged health remained ready with its original obligation, receipt, hashes, generation 1, 43 documents, and 1024 dimensions. Modeling retained its exact canonical obligation/hash/generation and remained failed only because the copied proof deliberately withheld Ollama. The temporary Qdrant container was removed after its persisted proof data was sealed. Active c005 was untouched; Yggdrasil did not build.

Persona conversation retention source complete — 2026-08-10

Heartbeat now owns a typed Persona conversation cleanup plan and cumulative replay frontier. The production Persona service uses that plan to retire only fully closed delivered, silence, or dropped families. Runtime, Epiphany delivery-request, and Bifrost delivery-receipt stores delete only exact planned envelopes under full-snapshot fences and leave singleton typed cleanup receipts; retry refuses unexplained absence. Heartbeat removes the terminal requests only after all detail cleanup succeeds, then advances the monotonic chained-digest frontier. Reservation rejects nonterminal work at or behind that frontier.

Failed/unknown delivery, retained mentions, blocked conversation quarantine, missing model or execution evidence, started/quarantined effects, pending feedback, consent/disclosure state, Persona state, semantic memory, and relationship memory do not qualify. Three focused tests pass, the full core library passes 646/0 with one ignored helper, all 15 OpenAI runtime library tests pass, and the production Persona service checks cleanly.

Next: commit/push this source, package and inspect the exact commit on Starfire, then prove against copied state and signed synthetic crossing fixtures that one completed speech lifecycle retires, pending/failed/unknown/quarantined neighbors survive, crash retry is exact, replay is inert, and the head cannot reserve or repost the old turn. Preserve active c005. Yggdrasil never builds.

Persona conversation retention accepted live — 2026-08-10

Exact pushed source 44230a05390065f3826506619c7eaa099a0ebd88 packaged warning-free with 24 binaries as release sha256-aed15bfb419c6c76ad09e1020e0c3e3d0f6dee52f5d615e18bbc61095aa76ea9 and witness sha256-77d3b45e2cd48f5785f02539ba92238013f2385537a776d45514ac13e704706e. The copied signed fixture retired one completed speech turn and eight runtime detail envelopes. A newer dropped turn, failed retained turn, signed unknown quarantine, pending delivery, blocked pressure, and pending model evidence all survived. The five store hashes and typed inspection were identical on replay; the completed crossing request and receipt were not recreated or reposted.

The crash boundary was forced by mounting the receipt store read-only. Runtime and request cleanup completed, receipt replacement failed with EBUSY, and Heartbeat retained both the exact cleanup plan and old terminal turn with no retention head. Normal retry authenticated the existing local cleanup receipts, deleted only the exact signed receipt, cleared the plan, removed the old turn, and produced a revision-1 head. Pending and hostile neighbors remained intact. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/persona-retention-44230a05; active c005 was untouched and Yggdrasil did not build.

Next: establish stable Starfire firewall ownership, then continue the broad remaining organ-coordination matrix. Preserve active c005.

Stable Starfire firewall ownership accepted — 2026-08-10

Gamecult-ops exact 6ee08a4 already owns the firewall seam through scripts/allow-starfire-epiphany-persona-permit.ps1; Epiphany's open status was stale. Authoritative Starfire state contains the same exact enabled local rule in both Windows PersistentStore and ActiveStore: inbound Public UDP 17877, local 10.77.0.2, remote 10.77.0.1, interface wg-gamecult-starfire. There are zero application-filter rules for changing epiphany-persona-discord-permit.exe release paths. The WireGuard tunnel is automatic and running with 10.77.0.2/24 on that interface.

A non-elevated attempt to reconcile the rule was refused with access denied before any mutation; exact before/after snapshots were identical. This was not used as idempotence proof. Persistence is instead grounded by the exact PersistentStore row, the identical active projection, the committed owning script/runbook, and the already accepted cross-host permit proof. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/firewall-bffbaa45. Active c005 was untouched.

Next: map bounded runtime model event/session/tool history and its non-resurrection boundary before editing. Yggdrasil never builds.

Coordinator runtime-session retention gap mapped — 2026-08-10

Existing archive_completed_model_session already owns the exact closed model-adapter family, including native/provider streams and tool evidence. It correctly refuses outer-worker and coordinator authority. The actual remaining growth fault is upstream: epiphany-mvp-coordinator creates a coordinator-{thread_id} runtime session and start event, then writes a terminal coordinator receipt without ever closing the session. The store keeps false Active sessions indefinitely; generic receipt retention may later remove their only terminal evidence.

The next cut is an atomic runtime-spine finalizer for receipt + completed session + deterministic completion event. Completed coordinator-session archival then owns that exact family, including its receipt. Generic receipt retention must preserve every receipt still named by a live/completed session and own only orphans; two deleters may not race for the same authority. Legacy repair is permitted only from one exact matching terminal receipt, no jobs, and the authenticated coordinator event shape. Do not weaken model-session refusals or infer terminality from age.

Next: implement the owner cut with hostile CAS/replay/legacy tests, then package and prove copied-state plateau. Preserve active c005. Yggdrasil never builds.

Atomic coordinator terminalization implemented — 2026-08-10

finalize_coordinator_run now commits the immutable coordinator receipt, Completed runtime session, and deterministic session.completed event as one full-snapshot-fenced transaction. Exact replay is idempotent. A concurrent unknown row, any session job, partial terminal receipt/event, or non-Active session refuses the complete write. epiphany-mvp-coordinator uses this owner and records post-terminal runtime status.

The first attempted implementation exposed a real CultCache gap: scoped CAS could not fence unknown identities, while the compaction primitive required a deletion. No dummy deletion was added. CultCache exact e1fc4c0 introduces replace_and_append_if_snapshot_unchanged for snapshot, keyed, and owned-keyed stores, with a hostile concurrent-row test. All 38 CultCache tests and the full Epiphany core library (647 passed, one ignored) are green; the coordinator release target checks with coordinator-runtime enabled.

Next: repair only exact legacy false-Active coordinator sessions, archive the whole completed coordinator family under one owner, and make generic receipt retention preserve receipts still bound to runtime sessions. This source is not yet packaged. Active c005 remains untouched; Yggdrasil never builds.

Coordinator session lifecycle owner implemented — 2026-08-10

Runtime spine now owns the rest of the native coordinator lifecycle. Before retention, it repairs only a jobless coordinator-{thread_id} session that has one exact bound terminal receipt and only authenticated coordinator.started events. Ambiguous receipts, jobs, malformed events, or changed snapshots refuse without mutation. Completed coordinator archival then replaces the exact session, receipt, start/completion events, and their digest with one typed archive tombstone under the same full-snapshot fence used by model-session archival. Exact replay is inert and the archive prevents recreation.

The deletion boundary is single-owner. Completed-session archival runs before generic receipt retention; it receives resident cross-store liveness and will not archive a family whose receipt remains named by Self. Generic receipt retention independently preserves every receipt bound to any surviving runtime session and therefore owns only orphan history. A hostile concurrent event invalidates the archive snapshot, and unrelated runtime envelopes remain byte-identical.

Focused coordinator tests pass 58/58. The full core library passes 649 tests with one intentional ignore, both release/core swarm binary suites pass 8/8, and the coordinator release target checks with coordinator-runtime. Commit 0ce5a800 contains the source cut and is pushed. It is not yet packaged or exercised on copied live state. Active c005 was untouched.

Next: commit and push this exact source, package it once with the persistent Starfire cache, then prove copied-live repair, archival, non-resurrection, and bounded idle/active session counts. Yggdrasil never builds.

Copied-live coordinator lifecycle falsification and corrected owner — 2026-08-10

Exact pushed 5a479522 packaged successfully as sha256-7aadee7aeb651c480a7ac82248f03329e5ebded9a64d5332169b9d5f310a6619 with witness sha256-89802be96d223c60b176cd69d144e691899f12110bc7747b0e79c5e67cc389bc, 24 binaries, no warnings, and authenticated inspection. The first changed-core package took 8m21s; an identical warm replay took 12.13s wall with Cargo at 0.92s and reproduced the exact release and witness.

Copied c005 state then falsified the source-complete claim. Its historical coordinator-linux-eyes-tools-c005 has multiple terminal receipts, so exact repair correctly refused ambiguity without mutation. A cleaner exact copy from the accepted b8138a6b shutdown proof repaired one legacy Active session to Completed under the packaged binary. While creating a newer terminal session for archival proof, a deliberate coordinator input failure left a new Active session: coordinator startup still wrote session and start event separately, and ordinary ? exits bypassed the success-only finalizer.

The corrected source moves coordinator opening into runtime spine. Session and deterministic coordinator.started event now commit together under one full snapshot fence. Existing session, event, receipt, or thread authority refuses reuse rather than appending another start event. Once opening succeeds, every ordinary error is converted into a failed coordinator receipt and passed through the same atomic terminalizer before the error returns. Hard process death remains a distinct Continuity recovery boundary; retention does not invent a receipt from age.

Verification is green: 59 focused coordinator tests; 17 coordinator-binary tests including deliberate conflicting intake and exact failed terminalization; both swarm binary suites at 8/8; and the full core library at 650 passed with one intentional ignore. The corrected source is not yet committed or packaged. Receipts for the falsification and first package are under .epiphany-run/coordinator-session-live-5a479522* and .epiphany-run/linux-package-5a479522*. Active c005 was untouched.

Next: commit/push the corrected owner, package it exactly, then repeat the copied-live error closure, repair, archival, replay, and plateau proof.

Corrected coordinator lifecycle accepted live — 2026-08-10

Corrected source 497df4586cd59411e51c75c245bbb2c32ac30d91 is pushed and packaged as sha256-3563c90961cd9404d7c0d2c12cfa5e87859960d583c3789e7bcf80a6eab2435a with witness sha256-d02d2fe59160ae83036befd345a52e5ce8704abf372c804644ee1e252e13d341. Inspection authenticated all 24 binaries with no warnings. The changed-core package took 7m11s. An identical warm replay took 13.82s wall, Cargo 0.83s, and reproduced the release and witness exactly. Persistent caching is healthy; the remaining cold-edge cost is core-to-24-binary optimized link fan-out.

The copied-live proof started from an exact runtime-store copy of accepted b8138a6b evidence. The packaged coordinator deliberately failed after opening and returned exit 1 only after emitting failed receipt coordinator-run-retention-proof-error-newer-failed-1786346833003, its completion event, and a Completed session. Runtime status then showed two sessions with exactly one Active: the new failure was closed and only the old legacy session remained live.

With the copied swarm braked, packaged Self repaired the older one-receipt legacy session and archived that exact family while retaining the newer failed session. Post-retention runtime status was one session, zero Active, zero jobs, zero open jobs, zero actionable Eyes/Hands frontiers, and the newer start plus completion events. An immediate replay left runtime SHA-256 669f3de53ef38d06248503151bca6d7dac216f794c9e62c92af4fa994c385461 byte-identical. A subsequent 30-second serve advanced from 7 to 33 operator projections while preserving that exact runtime digest; memory stayed around 27.6–28.4 MiB, two processes, and SIGTERM ended at exit zero with final braked projection. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/coordinator-session-live-497df458 and both exact package dirs. Active c005 was untouched.

Normal coordinator lifecycle ownership is accepted. The next distinct fault is a hard process death after atomic opening but before any receipt. Continuity must ground that repair in exact process/lease authority; age, retention, and absence of a receipt cannot infer death.

Receipt-free coordinator death recovery source cut — 2026-08-10

The Continuity owner is now implemented but not yet packaged. Resident Self requires its exact persisted active lease, immutable child claim, active unterminated grant, and an independent native observation proving the exact process incarnation exited, disappeared, or was replaced. Exact-alive, inaccessible, and indeterminate observations refuse recovery. Runtime Continuity then atomically replaces only the matching Active jobless coordinator session as Completed while appending one typed death-recovery receipt and one deterministic recovery event. A normal coordinator receipt and a death-recovery receipt cannot coexist. Replays are exact and snapshot races leave the Active family unchanged.

The cut exposed and removed a deeper identity conflation. The cognitive thread is request-owned context and must survive retries; it is not a run identity. Ordinary coordinators retain coordinator-{thread} sessions, while resident coordinator sessions are now derived from the exact launch digest. A cancelled grant therefore terminalizes and requeues through the existing resident CAS, then the new grant produces a distinct session incarnation on the same cognitive thread. Archived session tombstones and terminal families still refuse exact incarnation reuse.

The receipt-free classifier distinguishes three crash boundaries. If the exact process died before atomic runtime opening, the entire incarnation family must be absent and resident cancellation may requeue without synthetic runtime state. If a typed result is already authenticated, runtime death recovery can terminalize the process and the original grant closes as recovered-fulfilled. If a typed worker launch exists without terminal fulfillment, the active lease remains awaiting-fulfillment; duplicate launch is forbidden until orphan-worker terminality and explicit supersession have a real owner. This last Continuity seam remains open. Retry artifact directories are keyed by grant incarnation, not cognitive thread, preserving prior attempt evidence byte-for-byte.

Focused death-recovery, resident requeue/new-incarnation, and legacy retention tests pass. Final serial verification under .epiphany-run/continuity-death-recovery-source passed 653 library tests with one intentional ignore, all 17 coordinator-binary tests, and all 8 swarm tests; stderr is empty and the detached suite recorded exit zero. The first parallel full-library run had exposed one real eager-fallback archive bug plus two Git fixture flakes; the archive bug is fixed, the serial suite removes the fixture contention, and the complete corrected source pass is green. Commit, exact packaging, and copied-live hard-death proof remain. Active c005 remains untouched.

Packaged worker terminal-failure ownership accepted — 2026-08-10

Source 7637b1cf0ecb12a7eacffc77a835b30046c2975b is pushed and packaged as sha256-fa3a1e1528191012c051f1b431d5a5ae392c140ee6219700c041c517b347facc with witness sha256-f5c3a576cc1f740f271ee69fec1b27dc296c62b1be1cfc9fb075909337c59914. Authenticated inspection found 24 binaries and zero warnings. Cargo took 7m19s and the container took 7m31s. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/linux-package-7637b1cf.

Fresh copied Linux state exercised the exact packaged model runtime. After activation, missing model transport produced the expected typed failed worker result and process exit zero. The same runtime transaction left the job Failed and its exact claim terminal-failure, bound to result-worker-packaged-terminal-failure-job. Resident canonical settlement then cleared the active lease, terminalized the grant process-failed, emitted one cancellation acknowledgement, and returned the pressure to pending once. Heartbeat issued attempt two. Its distinct job and process creation token also terminated under its own generic result authority while the first claim stayed terminal. There was no dual live authority. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/worker-terminal-failure-7637b1cf.

Next: prove a valid typed result published before the coordinator receipt closes the original grant exactly once without retry. Then run retention against these terminal attempts and settled grant and require non-resurrection. Actual c006 stays braked and stopped; Yggdrasil never builds.

Resident-owned fulfilled-before-receipt source cut — 2026-08-10

The receipt-free settlement decision no longer lives as private policy in the epiphany-swarm binary. Resident Self now owns the whole transition; the binary supplies only exact child observation, brake/shutdown/timeout state, time, and configured cooldown. The old binary cancellation classifiers and settlement function are deleted.

The admitted-model-direction fulfillment test now crosses the real ownership boundary: it persists the grant and active lease, atomically opens the resident coordinator incarnation, admits an authenticated typed terminal result, then observes the coordinator missing before any run receipt. Resident Self records the exact coordinator death recovery and closes the original grant as recovered-fulfilled. The pressure remains consumed by that grant, replay is refused with byte-identical resident state, and Heartbeat cannot issue a retry.

Full core verification passes 661 tests with one intentional ignore; all seven swarm tests pass without warnings. Commit, exact package, and copied Linux proof remain. Actual c006 is still braked and stopped.

Fulfilled-before-receipt Linux fixture accepted — 2026-08-10

Source 2e66433f519327623614d26e46ac8ff5d75bbd0a is pushed. Exact package sha256-1863385b98acfb2017eb9df8401941073fef59f08ce0555c396fbd612f35ff73 with witness sha256-02f1d04fb10f804206302dbe20ea0298af7690a4887fc6eddd12cfc7d2d68822 authenticated 24 binaries with zero warnings. Cargo took 7m03s and the successful container took 7m14s. The first package invocation failed before Cargo because the source volume was read-only; that receipt is preserved beside the success under .epiphany-run/linux-package-2e66433f.

A fresh quarantined Linux fixture linked against exact source 2e66433f built an authenticated admitted-model-direction request, launch, and terminal result; atomically opened the exact resident coordinator incarnation; and confirmed typed fulfillment with zero coordinator receipts. Resident settlement returned completed, wrote one recovered-fulfilled grant/ack, left the pressure consumed by the original grant, and cleared the lease. Replay exited 1 with a byte-identical resident store. After Heartbeat consumed the ack, retention retired exactly one lifecycle and still produced no retry grant. Accepted receipts are under .epiphany-run/fulfilled-before-receipt-2e66433f-r4; r1-r3 are preserved fixture failures that exposed missing cache-pull, consumed-grant, and immutable-child-claim setup.

The Linux transition was executed by a fixture linked against exact pushed source, while the corresponding release was separately authenticated. Do not claim packaged CLI execution yet. Next drive the same state through the exact packaged epiphany-swarm, then cover proposal Modeling and Imagination and runtime retention of terminal worker attempts. Actual c006 stays braked.

Packaged fulfilled-before-receipt accepted; retention fence corrected — 2026-08-10

The exact 2e66433f packaged epiphany-swarm directly consumed the copied pre-fulfilled admitted-model-direction state and exited zero with completed. The resident store has no active turn; the exact grant and acknowledgement are recovered-fulfilled; and the pressure remains consumed by that original grant. The runtime held zero coordinator receipts. The proof used exact packaged repository-Body bind and observation first, and deliberately separated cognitive runtime worker-continuity-fixture from release runtime epiphany-starfire-linux. Receipts are under .epiphany-run/fulfilled-before-receipt-2e66433f-packaged.

The follow-up retention negative found a production fence defect: resident lifecycle retention derived its CAS snapshot from the owner-only cache, while provider readiness is a legitimate foreign envelope in the same backing file. After the first readiness publication, later retention therefore refused every full-snapshot CAS. Retention now reads the complete backing snapshot as its fence while selecting and deleting only the exact closed lifecycle families. A hostile co-resident readiness test proves byte identity. Full core tests pass 662 with one intentional ignore; all seven swarm tests pass. Rebuilding the exact-source fixture against this cut retired the packaged proof lifecycle and Heartbeat still issued no retry.

Next: commit and package the retention-fence cut, replay it through the exact package with the readiness row already present, then cover proposal Modeling, Imagination, and terminal-worker-attempt runtime retention. Actual c006 remains braked and stopped; Yggdrasil never builds.

Co-resident resident retention accepted packaged — 2026-08-10

Source 52ee6b535eadb7b492190591593b682c3746867e is pushed and packaged as sha256-24a8faee17bc28fa7eca877748cfa14472832881352f251b2d4b4f33db823771 with witness sha256-c1d0f4f1d9a5d0a253eefacf50d1901d2b8de062bcef5e692bda2a6f39d5af48. Independent inspection authenticated 24 binaries and zero warnings. Cargo took 7m06s. The first package attempt failed before Cargo because the source volume was mounted read-only; its receipt is preserved with the successful attempt under .epiphany-run/linux-package-52ee6b53.

Fresh copied state under .epiphany-run/resident-retention-52ee6b53 used the exact packaged Body binder/observer, release publisher, and epiphany-swarm. The first resident cycle settled the zero-receipt admitted-model-direction result as recovered-fulfilled, exited zero, and published provider readiness into the resident store. Heartbeat then consumed the exact terminal ack. A second exact packaged once with closed-lifecycle retention zero exited zero sleeping, removed the pressure/grant/ack family despite the co-resident readiness row, retained no active turn, and could not mint a retry. A replay found no lifecycle to retire and still returned no grant.

Next: use the same resident-owned settlement path for an authenticated Imagination candidate chain, including exact request, launch binding, worker launch/result, death recovery, retention, and no-retry proof. Proposal Modeling and runtime retention of terminal worker attempts follow. Actual c006 remains braked and stopped; Yggdrasil never builds.

Imagination fulfilled-before-receipt source gate — 2026-08-10

The existing Imagination fulfillment test now crosses the complete resident ownership boundary. It opens a real typed request and lease, proves a candidate without its exact launch binding remains pending, admits the authenticated worker launch/binding/result companion, and requires zero coordinator receipts. Exact missing-child recovery then closes the original grant recovered-fulfilled, preserves its pressure as consumed, refuses replay with byte-identical resident state, and yields no retry. After Heartbeat consumes the ack, lifecycle retention removes the exact family and still yields no retry. Full core tests pass 662 with one intentional ignore; all seven swarm tests pass.

This is a source verification pass only; 52ee6b53 already contains the generic runtime and resident behavior, but a fresh exact packaged Imagination state run is still required for direct binary provenance. Proposal Modeling and terminal worker-attempt retention follow.

Imagination fulfilled-before-receipt accepted packaged — 2026-08-10

Fresh state under .epiphany-run/imagination-fulfillment-52ee6b53 contains an authenticated Imagination request, admitted model basis, deterministic candidate, exact launch binding and launch-document hash, and terminal role result with zero coordinator receipts. After exact packaged Body bind/observation and release publication, exact 52ee6b53 epiphany-swarm once exited zero completed, closed the original grant recovered-fulfilled, preserved its pressure consumed by that grant, and cleared active authority.

Heartbeat consumed the terminal ack. A second exact packaged cycle with closed-lifecycle retention zero exited zero sleeping, removed the complete pressure/grant/ack family, and retained no active turn. Replay reported no lifecycle to retire and no retry grant. The fixture's first result admission failed closed because the producer-owned candidate companion was absent; the corrected attempt persisted that typed evidence before result admission. No production gate was weakened.

Next: proposal Modeling is the remaining fulfilled-before-receipt variant. Its immutable proposal/request/context/patch/launch/result chain is stronger and must be mapped before constructing live state. Runtime terminal-attempt retention follows. Actual c006 remains braked and stopped.

Proposal Modeling fulfilled-before-receipt source gate — 2026-08-10

The real runtime proposal-admission fixture now crosses the resident boundary. It preserves the full immutable chain: user proposal and payload, selected request, runtime/thread/Body-bound Modeling context, exact launch binding and launch-document hash, successful Modeling result, Evolution patch, and one safe proposal-citing routeable frontier. No parallel fulfillment schema exists.

With zero coordinator receipts, resident Self verifies that runtime-owned chain, records exact coordinator death recovery, closes the original grant once, and refuses replay with byte-identical resident state. Heartbeat consumes the ack; retention removes the lifecycle; and no later grant can appear. Full core tests pass 663 with one intentional ignore and all seven swarm tests pass.

Direct packaged proposal evidence remains open. Unlike the two consideration lanes, its immutable worker launch includes authenticated repository Body basis, so a faithful fixture must construct it inside the Linux path namespace after packaged Body binding. Do not add a test-only production writer merely to make that receipt convenient. Next map terminal-worker-attempt retention and then choose the smallest Linux-native construction path.

Terminal worker-attempt retention ownership mapped — 2026-08-10

There is no production retention owner for outer role-worker attempts. Existing completed-session archival deliberately accepts only model-adapter families and refuses outer worker launches/results. A narrow deletion of process claims is invalid: runtime_typed_request_attempt_exists interprets a launch with no claim as live, so deleting a terminal claim resurrects retry exclusion. A narrow deletion of a terminal result can turn fulfilled request state back into pending. A digest/count retention head cannot safely replace either authority.

Owner: runtime spine owns one typed archive transaction per immutable worker attempt. Inputs are the exact typed request, launch, lane-specific launch binding, native process claim, terminal worker result and companion, job/event family, downstream references, and explicit resident cross-store liveness. Output is one per-attempt archive tombstone plus atomic deletion of only that exact attempt family. The tombstone is terminal evidence for retry and fulfillment readers; it is not a generic completion head and cannot satisfy a different request or job.

The archive must refuse while resident prepared/active authority or an unconsumed terminal acknowledgement names the attempt's request/grant; while a claim is nonterminal; while a downstream review/admission still needs exact result bytes; or when the lane-specific family is incomplete. Proposal Modeling, Imagination consideration, and admitted-model-direction consideration share the archive primitive but supply distinct family validators. Unknown runtime rows remain byte-identical under a full-snapshot fence.

Deletion line: launch, terminal claim, result, lane binding and companion, and terminal job/event rows may disappear only in the same CAS that creates the exact tombstone. Request/proposal/model/admission state remains producer-owned unless a later independently mapped lifecycle archive owns it. Readers must consult tombstones before treating missing claims/results as live or pending.

Next implement the archive and hostile/non-resurrection tests before packaging. Direct packaged proposal Modeling construction remains a later Linux-native evidence task. Actual c006 stays braked.

Failed outer-worker attempt retention cut in source — 2026-08-10

Runtime spine now owns EpiphanyArchivedRuntimeWorkerAttempt for failed or cancelled typed attempts. Resident Self projects every typed request still named by a durable grant; serve/once compacts resident lifecycles first, then passes that surviving set into runtime retention. The runtime refuses a live request byte-identically and otherwise replaces the exact launch, terminal claim, lane binding, terminal job/result/events with one snapshot-fenced tombstone. A focused proposal-Modeling test proves refusal, retirement, idempotence, and that deletion cannot recreate retry suppression. Successful attempt retirement remains open because its tombstone must preserve the same authenticated fulfillment answer currently owned by the result/binding chain.

Successful proposal worker archive preserves fulfillment — 2026-08-10

The worker-attempt tombstone can now carry a validated terminal result ID and answer runtime_typed_request_fulfillment after live worker launch, claim, result, binding, job, generic result, and events are retired. Proposal Modeling retirement additionally requires a RepoModelAdmissionReceipt for that exact worker result, so runtime retention cannot delete a patch still awaiting Mind. The admitted model receipt remains byte-live. Focused proof covers resident liveness refusal, exact live fulfillment before retirement, identical archived fulfillment afterward, and a concurrent unrelated write that defeats the full snapshot CAS without losing either side. Imagination and admitted-direction successful companion preservation plus production enumeration remain open.

All three successful worker lanes preserve semantic companions — 2026-08-10

The existing resident model-direction and feedback-Imagination fulfillment tests now continue through Heartbeat ack consumption, resident lifecycle retirement, and exact worker-attempt archival. Both prove archived fulfillment still resolves while the exact producer-owned AdmittedModelDirectionConsiderationResult or ImaginationConsiderationCandidate remains byte-equal. The fixture initially placed the worker job in the coordinator's jobless Continuity session and was correctly rejected as competing authority; the accepted proof uses a distinct outer-worker session identity. Failed production enumeration also now proves two terminal attempts retain the newest and archive the older without resurrection. The archive tombstone is published in the runtime CultNet schema catalog. Source packaging and copied-state live proof are next.

Mechanical package rejected; failed archive provenance cut — 2026-08-10

Exact 452c250e mechanically packaged in 7m14s as release sha256-e585f91054e3333d6fe7d52912e0338fdd4793f413eaebd9a278eb3836a97d63 with witness sha256-1f3087d589499c73a98fdfb5909850c8c0ae416d7e97d0a20998dfb644f774f0, 24 binaries, and zero warnings. It is not accepted for runtime proof: inspection found that failed-attempt archival trusted the typed request echo without authenticating the persisted request, lane binding, launch hash, role, runtime, thread, and projected context. Source now validates that immutable chain for all three lanes before any archive. A hostile proposal binding hash refuses byte-identically. The stronger check also exposed a model-direction fixture that projected a default model; the fixture now uses the admitted model and result admission itself requires the projected model hash. Repackage the new commit; do not publish or use the 452c release as accepted evidence.