Epiphany/notes/mind-cultnet-contracts.md

Mind CultNet Contracts

Objective: make Mind the persistent state guardian. The state is the Mind; every sub-agent output is a thought or proposal until Mind admits it into durable state.

Body is the neighboring gate. Substrate Gate decides whether an organ may touch the repo; Mind decides whether the resulting thought, evidence, or proposal mutates persistent state. Do not collapse these into one throne. That is how the machine starts lying with excellent posture.

Imagination is the neighboring Projector for Persona. It may compose a lived scene from state, Body substrate facts, social pressure, and organ dependencies, but it does not interpret side effects or admit state.

Authority Map

• Owner: Mind owns the decision to mutate persistent Epiphany state.
• Inputs: typed worker results, Persona Interpreter intents, current state context, runtime/job provenance, Verse ingress receipts, operator-approved intents, and relevant verification evidence.
• Outputs: Mind gateway reviews, state commit receipts, state rejection receipts, and Verse adoption receipts.
• Derived state: role findings, reorient findings, Persona side-effect intents, public dreams, local-area findings, statePatch, selfPatch, evidence, scratch, checkpoints, objectives, and graph edits are proposal-only until Mind accepts them.
• Forbidden writers: role acceptance, reorient acceptance, Persona Interpreter, public Verse ingress, local-area Verse ingress, raw worker result ingestion, runtime job completion, and compatibility JSON-RPC routes must not directly decide durable state mutation.
• Shared path: every durable state effect goes through a Mind state-effect proposal and receives a Mind review plus commit or rejection receipt.
• Deletion line: old contract language that said "coordinator accepts memory mutations" is demoted. Coordinator may schedule, route, and carry intent, but Mind owns persistent-state admission.

Verse Boundary

CultMesh simplifies the boundary by making Verse placement part of the contract:

• epiphany-internal: private thoughts, state-effect proposals, Mind reviews, commit receipts, rejection receipts, runtime facts, heartbeat state, role dossiers, and other private organ state.
• gamecult-local: trusted GameCult operator-safe sharing, non-secret status, reviewable findings, and receipts. It does not carry raw worker thought, private memory, or direct state mutation authority.
• epiphany-global: public thought weather: dreams, questions, hypotheses, Persona posts, and adoption receipts. Nothing from this Verse mutates local memory, planning, doctrine, governance, or project truth without a reviewed local adoption receipt.

Contract Families

• epiphany.mind.thought: sub-agent output submitted as thought, not durable state authority.
• epiphany.mind.state_effect_proposal: proposed durable mutation. Mind accepts, refuses, or holds it.
• epiphany.mind.gateway_review: durable receipt explaining the Mind route.
• epiphany.mind.state_commit_receipt: proof that Mind admitted an effect into persistent state.
• epiphany.mind.state_rejection_receipt: proof that Mind refused or held an effect without mutating state.
• epiphany.mind.verse_adoption_receipt: local adoption receipt for public or foreign Verse material.

The current native surfaces are in epiphany-core::mind_gateway and the Verse-scoped policy documents are in epiphany-core::cultmesh_integration.