Epiphany/notes/native-coordinator-liberation-map.md

Native Coordinator Liberation Map

Objective

Make epiphany-mvp-coordinator an Epiphany-native control loop. It must read and mutate typed Epiphany state, launch and inspect runtime work, and accept or refuse findings without sending thread/epiphany/* JSON-RPC requests through Codex.

Codex remains the OpenAI authentication/model-transport bridge and may retain legacy app-server wrappers for named Codex clients. It is not the coordinator's nervous system.

Current Mechanism

The coordinator is compiled from epiphany-core/src/bin/epiphany-mvp-coordinator.rs, but starts a Codex app-server process and uses status_cli::AppServerClient for the authoritative loop:

• state bootstrap and revision writes use thread/epiphany/update
• freshness and coordinator projections use thread/epiphany/freshness and thread/epiphany/view
• specialist lifecycle uses thread/epiphany/roleLaunch, thread/epiphany/roleResult, and thread/epiphany/roleAccept
• recovery lifecycle uses thread/epiphany/reorientLaunch and thread/epiphany/reorientResult

The typed machinery already exists below that shell:

• epiphany-core/src/thread_state_store.rs owns CultCache-backed typed thread state persistence.
• epiphany-core/src/runtime_spine.rs owns typed job, launch, result, event, and receipt persistence.
• epiphany-core/src/agent_launch.rs builds typed role and reorientation launch documents.
• epiphany-core/src/surfaces/role_result.rs interprets typed findings and constructs acceptance bundles.
• epiphany-core/src/mind_gateway.rs, hands_gateway.rs, and the receipt proof machinery own admission, action, and verification contracts.
• epiphany-codex-bridge/src/mutation_service.rs currently composes much of this policy behind an EpiphanyMutationHost, but its host contract still assumes a Codex-hosted compatibility snapshot and persistence hook.
• vendor/codex/codex-rs/app-server/src/codex_message_processor/ epiphany_mutation_routes.rs is already mostly a transport shell over that bridge service. It should become a compatibility caller of the native owner, not the place where the owner remains hosted.

Authority Map

Owner

One Epiphany-native coordinator service owns the control decision and delegates typed persistence to the thread-state store and runtime-spine.

Inputs

• typed operator/coordinator intent
• CultCache-backed EpiphanyThreadState
• runtime-spine job, result, and receipt documents
• typed watcher, retrieval, token-pressure, and dynamic prompt context
• model events returned by the model-transport adapter

Outputs

• revision-gated typed state updates
• typed runtime launch and interrupt receipts
• typed role/reorientation findings
• Mind review and state-commit receipts
• read-only typed coordinator, freshness, role, and recovery projections

Derived State

JSON-RPC responses, app-server notifications, Aquarium panels, CLI JSON, TUI rows, CultMesh mirrors, and operator summaries are projections. They do not own lifecycle, scheduling, acceptance, prompt doctrine, or durable truth.

Forbidden Writers

• codex_message_processor.rs and its route modules
• Codex thread/session prompt machinery
• JSON-RPC request/response types
• GUI/Aquarium clients
• CultMesh mirrors and status snapshots
• watcher or reorientation verdicts
• raw model or MCP JSON

Each may submit or translate a typed intent. None may preserve an independent decision after the native owner responds.

Shared Paths

Manual CLI actions, programmatic coordinator turns, heartbeat scheduling, Aquarium actions, and legacy Codex JSON-RPC calls must use the same native operations for:

1. state read/update
2. freshness and coordinator derivation
3. role/reorientation launch
4. result readback
5. accept/refuse
6. interrupt

Deletion Line

Delete status_cli::AppServerClient from the coordinator control path. Delete its direct thread/epiphany/* request construction. After the native loop is proved, reduce Codex mutation routes to protocol parsing, native service calls, response mapping, and compatibility notifications. Then remove bridge policy that exists only to compensate for Codex-hosted state.

Migration Order

This is one vertical ownership migration, landed in buildable cuts. No cut may introduce a second authoritative store or a native/JSON-RPC mode flag.

1. Move route-independent mutation/launch/accept orchestration out of epiphany-codex-bridge into an Epiphany-native service whose host ports are typed state persistence, runtime-spine, clock, and context inputs. Preserve the existing bridge service as a thin delegating compatibility wrapper.
2. Add native read operations for state, freshness, coordinator/role views, and typed result readback over the same stores used by mutation operations.
3. Rewire epiphany-mvp-coordinator to the native service and remove AppServerClient plus every thread/epiphany/* request from the binary.
4. Prove bootstrap, manual/programmatic launch, pending/completed result, acceptance, refusal, interruption, and recovery against native stores.
5. Make Codex JSON-RPC routes delegate to the same service. Remove duplicated route/bridge policy and mapper-only tests that no longer protect a boundary.

Native Organ Boundary

The native service is a façade, not a new host brain. The first extraction proved the authority direction but allowed epiphany-core/src/coordinator_service.rs to grow to 1,122 lines, almost the same size as the 1,143-line bridge mutation service it is starving. That shape is rejected. Do not continue pouring bridge functions into one core file.

The native body must be split before further authority moves:

• coordinator state owner: CultCache thread-state load, revision gate, validation, write, and changed-field report
• coordinator result reader: runtime-link selection, runtime-spine lifecycle, typed finding interpretation, and result notes
• coordinator acceptance organ: completed-finding admission, launch-contract proof checks, role/reorientation acceptance construction, receipt persistence, proof enforcement, and Mind commit
• coordinator launch organ: typed dynamic context, launch document construction, runtime-spine opening/interruption, and state linkage
• coordinator projection organ: freshness, role board, CRRC, and coordinator views derived from typed inputs without persistence
• coordinator façade: narrow composition over those organs; no policy bodies, protocol DTOs, JSON, or Codex host hooks

Each organ owns one invariant and must be testable against injected paths and typed inputs without starting Codex. A source guard should fail if the façade regrows policy bodies or if any native organ imports app-server protocol types.

Launch-context ownership is now native. coordinator_launch_context owns local Verse context, memory-graph cuts, Hands consequence evidence, Soul/Modeling work-loop telemetry, and bounded prompt rendering. The compatibility bridge's launch_context module is only a re-export membrane. Coordinator rewiring must use these same functions; a context-free launch is not an acceptable shortcut.

The coordinator façade now exposes typed launch_job and accept_role actuators. launch_job composes native planning with the atomic launch commit; accept_role loads the typed completed finding, builds and proof-checks the Mind-gated acceptance, and atomically publishes state plus witnesses. Callers must delegate to these methods rather than replaying their choreography. The bridge supplies host state, thread identity, reference turn, timestamp, and nonce to EpiphanyCoordinatorService::accept_role, then maps the typed result to the compatibility response. It no longer builds evidence packets, Soul verdicts, proof sets, Mind receipts, or state commits. Reorientation acceptance is the same shape: accept_reorient owns typed result admission, Continuity recovery proof, Mind witness, and atomic state publication. The bridge delegates both acceptance families and contains zero direct witness commits.

Acceptance Transaction Wound

The compatibility bridge currently persists prerequisite receipts, writes thread state, then writes the Mind state-commit receipt in a separate runtime-spine store. If the final write fails, accepted durable state survives without its promised commit witness. Moving that sequence into core unchanged is forbidden.

Before final acceptance persistence moves, define one typed transaction law: either co-locate state admission and its commit witness in one CultCache transaction boundary, or persist a prepared acceptance transaction whose recovery protocol can deterministically finish or refuse admission after interruption. Best-effort rollback across two files is not atomicity. A negative smoke must inject failure after prerequisite receipts and after state write and prove no unwitnessed accepted state becomes authoritative.

Launch Transaction Law

Launch planning now belongs to coordinator_launch: it validates the expected thread revision, inspects the prior runtime binding, prepares the heartbeat launch documents, and derives the new thread-state linkage without writing. The Codex bridge is a compatibility actuator for that plan; it no longer owns those policy decisions.

commit_coordinator_job_launch is the single launch publication owner. It prepares runtime identity, session, job, opened event, worker request, optional Research Substrate Gate grant, and linked thread state against one loaded CultCache snapshot, then publishes the heterogeneous set in one atomic batch. The compatibility bridge cannot write any member separately. Injected batch refusal proves the prior snapshot survives with no job, worker request, grant, or new state linkage. Rollback and reconciliation are not owners.

Invariants

• There is one durable thread-state owner and one runtime lifecycle owner.
• Revision validation is identical for CLI, coordinator, heartbeat, Aquarium, and compatibility JSON-RPC callers.
• A view or watcher verdict cannot launch or accept work.
• Raw JSON is parsed once at a hostile edge and does not cross native service ports.
• Model transport cannot inject organ doctrine, scheduler decisions, or state mutation policy.
• Compatibility wrappers cannot override or repair the native result after the fact.

Verification Layer

The proof must observe the stores and receipts where the invariant lives:

• unit tests for each native operation with injected state store, runtime store, clock, and context inputs
• adjacent-operation smokes for launch -> result -> review -> state commit
• a native coordinator smoke with no app-server binary available
• a compatibility smoke proving JSON-RPC delegates to the same native result
• negative tests proving Codex routes cannot write around revision/admission gates and the coordinator binary contains no thread/epiphany/* methods

The migration is not complete because the coordinator eventually converges on the same state after an app-server round trip. The old path must be structurally unable to decide the result.

Coordinator sight has crossed the boundary. collect_coordinator_status, role result readback, and reorientation result readback now use the native status projection over the shared thread/runtime CultCache store. The coordinator no longer calls Codex for view, roleResult, or reorientResult.

Role mutation has now crossed too. epiphany-mvp-coordinator builds role launch requests from native state plus the full native Verse/memory/work-loop context, publishes them through EpiphanyCoordinatorService::launch_job, and dispatches auto-review through accept_role. The role launch and role acceptance routes are gone.

epiphany-mvp-coordinator is now fully native. Reorientation launch consumes the typed native status decision, preserves native prompt context, and uses the same atomic launch actuator. Bootstrap and supersession use typed state updates. The binary starts no app-server, contains no production thread/epiphany/* strings, and emits telemetry with appServerCalls=0. Its smoke harness no longer builds or requires codex-app-server and passes cold, local bootstrap, pressure, Hands gate, and real commit-receipt scenarios.

Role-board authorityScopes now publish typed capability identifiers such as epiphany.coordinator.role.launch, epiphany.coordinator.role.accept, and epiphany.coordinator.reorient.result.read. Source proof rejects slash-shaped authority, and rendered native status contains no thread/epiphany/* scopes.

The remaining source vocabulary is classified. Active worker launch contracts now describe typed coordinator capabilities and Mind-admitted statePatch cargo. epiphany-mvp-status defaults to native state; its route calls exist only behind explicit --codex compatibility. epiphany-phase6-*-smoke binaries are compatibility contract probes, coordinator source occurrences are negative tests, and the distillation occurrence is a historical-input test fixture. Interruption now has a native owner. interrupt_coordinator_job validates the binding and revision, records the operator reason through the canonical state owner, and reports cancelRequested=false rather than inventing backend cancellation. epiphany-mvp-status --interrupt-binding uses this path by default; --codex selects the compatibility route explicitly. The bridge now delegates interruption to EpiphanyCoordinatorService::interrupt_job; a source guard rejects local binding mutation, and stale unified state is refused before commit. General update/promotion routes still persist through the host hook and are the next surviving state-authority seam.