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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>
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Worked example: Aetheria CultCache migration (2026-09-12..15)
The full postmortem lives with the Body it describes, in
F:\Projects\Aetheria\docs\cultcache-migration-postmortem.md. The means and ends
documents sit beside it: cultcache-migration-cut.md and
cultcache-migration-target.md. Read those when you need detail. This file keeps
only the evidence behind the skill's rules, so that the reasons for the rules
survive.
Scale: 114 subagents ran: 50 Hands, 32 Soul, 3 Imagination, 23 Eyes/Explore and 6 Life passes (then called Mind Stewards). Aetheria went +5.6k / −36.9k lines.
Soul: 29 of 32 passes found at least one real defect that Hands' tests passed, about 75 in all. These included:
- five deadlocks or hangs;
- four lost-write or data-loss paths;
- a wire-parity split (nil map keys that Python rejects);
- semantics copied from docs instead of the compiler (
stepNaN); - untested operator rulings.
Cut 3 took six passes, and Cuts 6 and 6b took four each. The one cut without a Soul pass, the Cut 7 release, is where the release defects surfaced late.
Model budget: the only Fable agent, the first Imagination pass, hit its limit before Cut 1. Opus ran everything else, including every Soul pass, and the hit rate held.
Operator corrections that became rules:
- A pass over a plan is Imagination, not Soul.
- Probe every mechanism claim ("the effects you listed don't follow from the causes").
- Count capability consumers across projects; atomic commit and compare-exchange were nearly cut.
- Delete what only duplicates an owner (the generator).
- Order belongs in data, not in scheduling: tickets were built, deadlocked and were deleted.
- Ask what a domain concept is for: loadouts were redefined three times in one evening.
Incidents that became rules:
- A probe fork-bombed the workstation.
- A message file written by PowerShell 5 carried a BOM.
- A shared message filename collided.
git add -Aswept a local file into history.- A push of more than 3 tags skipped publishing.
- An incremental DLL went stale.