Epiphany/notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md

Fresh Workspace Handoff

Live boundary — 2026-08-08

The active branch is codex/epiphany-shakedown-live; pushed state is ced86e7e. Exact cognition source ecfff489fe7e46f6ddcc9d58f0723411e8d94c13 is packaged as sha256-6e5cd9827ab6a659c8a29f1147daf8ebec52ea3d148a16905a1401c539059d79 with witness sha256-8d53746348eecf2afd2a5def5539dfb544e260104fb33e3e7d0eec83573ce3dc. Starfire remains the cognition and release forge; Yggdrasil remains the small public runtime body.

Fresh runtime F:\Projects\.epiphany-runtime\shakedown\live-20260808-v44-clean-planning proved the native proposal Modeling -> Imagination -> dedicated Mind planning circuit without overrides. Mind adopted candidate repo-frontier-plan-candidate-700b1404f73888840ea5981be736ad3b2406e72ec4ee7eba7f763d9db03e498c and Self derived Hands route repo-frontier-route-86b9702dd4ad3eedae2693e8af7d0b547fe00885949fa2646b3f3b6a47a6225d. The operator-safe gate summary is .epiphany-dogfood/v44-clean-planning-r5/coordinator-summary.json.

The adopted plan cannot be executed truthfully. Its path ceiling omits epiphany-core/src/bin/epiphany-mvp-status.rs, the composition owner that must project current RepoModel admission into Reorientation and CRRC. The existing coordinator and CRRC inputs do not independently observe that admission. No source was changed outside the gate.

This exposes a route-lifecycle defect: an adopted Hands route has no typed refusal, relinquish, or supersession transition when implementation inspection falsifies its plan. epiphany.hands.action_refusal_receipt is named in the contract catalog but has no persisted type, writer, CLI command, or route terminalization semantics. The only implemented terminal path requires a patch, command, commit, verification request, Soul verdict, and verdict incorporation. Do not fabricate that consequence chain or mutate the v44 store by hand.

Active work

The exact root release bundle has now proved release incremental compilation: its fresh-target build took 1226.69 seconds, then a touched-core rebuild took 31.47 seconds versus the 7m04s baseline (about 13.5x faster). Evidence is in .epiphany-run/build-benchmarks/incremental-root-20260808/result.json.

The independent incremental-plus-rust-lld trial completed at 1097.14 seconds cold and 29.34 seconds after touching core. Its evidence is under .epiphany-run/build-benchmarks/lld-incremental-root-20260808. The linker saved only 2.13 seconds (about 6.8 percent) on the iteration path and required a toolchain-specific Windows linker location, so it is not repository policy. Root [profile.release] incremental = true is the adopted portable change. This build-configuration edit is an explicit operator-requested supervisor intervention, not evidence that the sealed v44 Hands route performed it. Exact commit 388c49bca8ece81b8ad1d41ca075a3bea9654d67 packaged 21 binaries as sha256-1c63d13fd18b24492376c87425f9c68859075e7032a73566823396ae4e31cb06 with witness sha256-01b526d6ef87be91995e3c5ab5d053b4e6a840132d2a0612436096f31268d023. Exact inspection and CultMesh catalog publication passed. The release is not active; resident daemons retain their prior pinned release.

After the build benchmark, first give adopted Hands work a typed refusal/relinquish path that preserves Mind's plan authority, records why Hands cannot proceed, and returns frontier ownership to a lawful replanning state. Then replay v44, reject the incomplete plan through that path, adopt a corrected plan including the status-composition owner, and prove CRRC -> accepted Reorientation -> Continuity recovery -> Soul closure.

Fresh runtime F:\Projects\.epiphany-runtime\shakedown\live-20260808-v45-hands-relinquishment was copied from the pre-planning v42 boundary; v44 remains sealed. Typed proposal operator-hands-route-relinquishment-v1 was selected as Modeling request repo-frontier-proposal-modeling-5c0ce91b6d30d16c31087088ac613f893a4b65f430cc6fb7fe20faa1bfccde6a with payload digest 01e6bdc556e7cad6dbfcae93ad5f82fd57794af11b3dafb39ecb3747a19f6dfb. One bounded active-release coordinator step launched the proposal-bound Modeling worker. Its typed result completed reviewable and proposal-bound, but Mind correctly refused acceptance with Evolution cannot bypass a current route or own verdict-driven frontier lifecycle. Copying v42 was therefore not a route-free planning boundary: it retained a current-model route even though its operator action was awaitFrontierProposal. Preserve v45 and artifacts in .epiphany-dogfood/v45-hands-relinquishment-r2/r3 as negative evidence; do not weaken the guard or replay the consumed result. Reconstruct the genuinely clean boundary used before v44, then resubmit the same typed proposal.

Persona consequence, bounded retention, crash/restart closure, endurance and resource plateau, and Linux/Yggdrasil cognition remain open. v22 and earlier shakedown scars remain in git and the typed evidence ledger; they are not active rehydration state.