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# Worked example: Aetheria CultCache migration (2026-09-12..15)
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The full postmortem lives with the Body it describes, in
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`F:\Projects\Aetheria\docs\cultcache-migration-postmortem.md`. The means and ends
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documents sit beside it: `cultcache-migration-cut.md` and
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`cultcache-migration-target.md`. Read those when you need detail. This file keeps
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only the evidence behind the skill's rules, so that the reasons for the rules
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survive.
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**Scale:** 114 subagents ran: 50 Hands, 32 Soul, 3 Imagination, 23
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Rename the Mind Steward faculty to Life
Operator ruling, 2026-09-25: Epiphany and Aquarium call this organ Life
(role id `reorientation`), and it is "a much better fit as the actual
load-bearing organ". The eureka-site landing page already says Life.
SKILL.md (frontmatter description, faculty table, dispatch lines, step 6,
model allocation), README.md and briefs.md now say Life. The role itself is
unchanged. SKILL.md defers to global doctrine for the agent type, which the
operator owns and which still says mind-steward. Dated records keep the old
name: changelog entries as written, a note on the 2026-09-15 Epiphany
comparison, and "then called Mind Stewards" in the CultCache postmortem.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-09-25 14:59:59 +02:00
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Eyes/Explore and 6 Life passes (then called Mind Stewards). Aetheria went
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+5.6k / −36.9k lines.
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**Soul:** 29 of 32 passes found at least one real defect that Hands' tests
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passed, about 75 in all. These included:
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- five deadlocks or hangs;
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- four lost-write or data-loss paths;
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- a wire-parity split (nil map keys that Python rejects);
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- semantics copied from docs instead of the compiler (`step` NaN);
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- untested operator rulings.
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Cut 3 took six passes, and Cuts 6 and 6b took four each. The one cut without a
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Soul pass, the Cut 7 release, is where the release defects surfaced late.
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**Model budget:** the only Fable agent, the first Imagination pass, hit its limit
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before Cut 1. Opus ran everything else, including every Soul pass, and the hit
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rate held.
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**Operator corrections that became rules:**
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- A pass over a plan is Imagination, not Soul.
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- Probe every mechanism claim ("the effects you listed don't follow from the
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causes").
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- Count capability consumers across projects; atomic commit and compare-exchange
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were nearly cut.
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- Delete what only duplicates an owner (the generator).
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- Order belongs in data, not in scheduling: tickets were built, deadlocked and
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were deleted.
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- Ask what a domain concept is for: loadouts were redefined three times in one
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evening.
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**Incidents that became rules:**
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- A probe fork-bombed the workstation.
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- A message file written by PowerShell 5 carried a BOM.
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- A shared message filename collided.
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- `git add -A` swept a local file into history.
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- A push of more than 3 tags skipped publishing.
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- An incremental DLL went stale.
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