Point the state surfaces at the play agent gate

The map, handoff, plan and Session Zero doc now name plan step 16, the play
agent, as the playtest gate. L2-L4, D1-D3 and the L1 follow-ups are
recorded as deferred by ruling, not dropped.

A source check corrected the map. Inference routes per lane by model name
to the SDK sidecar or CodexConnector, and no local transport exists. The
sidecar is a private msgpack pipe behind InferencePort, not the CultNet
connector API the map claimed every backend shares.

The handoff's session_zero.begin item is retired: the name is refused, and
only tests reference it. One evidence record covers the pivot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md

@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@ Active phases. It alone derives authority, applies the typed
 ontology reducer, and commits an atomic CultCache revision. World creation,
 autonomous turns, player commands, elaboration, consumer patches, time
 advance, and administrative changes all enter through the same
-`CommandEnvelope` path; Session Zero (plan step 15) runs inside that same
-kernel and has no separate owner.
+`CommandEnvelope` path; the play agent (plan step 16) holds a named author
+capability in that same kernel and has no separate owner.
 
 The replacement owner is sealed. Its runtime boundary remains create/open,
 immutable snapshot, submit, and typed receipts. Mutable aggregate state,
@@ -251,7 +251,10 @@ unplaced; retire it or place its subjects.
 ### Constraints
 
 - The operator's Claude subscription, inherited by the SDK sidecar from the
-  ambient Claude Code login, is the only live provider. Codex remains lapsed:
+  ambient Claude Code login, is the only live provider, and stays as the
+  cloud fallback until a local lane (Bonsai 2 on Raven's machine) has
+  carried the playtest; no local-model transport exists in source yet.
+  Deleting the sidecar is decided after the gate. Codex remains lapsed:
   no Codex subscription and no API budget; the Codex connector is stopped;
   the smoke substrate at `F:\Projects\Ghostlight-smoke` stays.
 - CodexConnector is a deliberately isolated Codex fork so that Epiphany
@@ -263,7 +266,8 @@ unplaced; retire it or place its subjects.
 
 ### In order
 
-1. The playtest gate below (operator order, 2026-09-15).
+1. The playtest gate below (operator order 2026-09-15; redirected to the
+   play agent 2026-09-22).
 2. The outbound half of the consumer contract: the response batch with a
    non-loopback CultMesh lease.
 3. The deployment gate below.
@@ -272,17 +276,28 @@ unplaced; retire it or place its subjects.
 
 ### Playtest gate
 
-Passes when a human, on a local daemon with the SDK sidecar, runs Dungeon's
-Session Zero end to end (`docs/architecture/ghostlight-session-zero.md`):
-chooses a Vault, describes the experience, sets lens weights, sketches,
-chooses a start, activates, and plays by speaking, gesturing, and travelling
-while detail grows toward them. It proves one player; hosted play and
-multi-player membership are not in this gate. Plan step 15 tracks library
-passes L0–L4 and Dungeon passes D1–D3; D3 closes the gate.
+The gate is plan step 16, the play agent
+(`docs/architecture/ghostlight-play-agent.md`, section "Playtest gate"):
+a human on a local daemon, every play lane on a local model, creates and
+seeds a world from a Vault, activates it, plays, and restarts mid-session with
+the world intact. The target owns the pass list; its cut map
+(`ghostlight-play-agent-cut.md`) is next.
 
-Dungeon is a consumer of the Ghostlight library. Session Zero is Dungeon
-authority; the library capabilities it needs are consumer-neutral and live in
-the ontology doc's "Elaboration lenses and detail rules (target)". The world kernel is
+Operator rulings, 2026-09-22. One Dungeon-owned operational agent dispatches
+and interprets Persona turns, prompts the player, and negotiates results. It
+replaces the Interpreter and the cover/cell/catalog/owner-click orchestration
+on Dungeon's play path; the library keeps them for offline simulation. The
+Projector -> Persona passes are unchanged and a Persona never sees structured
+state. Rejected: Personas reading their own state, which is the
+structured-state dump the projector/interpreter sandwich exists to prevent.
+The agent holds its own named kernel authority, like the clock capability; an
+actor's act commits only by exercising that actor's affordance.
+
+Deferred by ruling, not dropped (the target's "Deferred, by ruling"): L2-L4,
+Session Zero D1-D3 (plan step 15, `docs/architecture/ghostlight-session-zero.md`),
+and L1 follow-ups f16 (configurable lens sets; operator: yes), f1, f13, f14.
+
+Dungeon is a consumer of the Ghostlight library. The world kernel is
 the `ghostlight` library crate and Dungeon consumes it across a public
 boundary sealed by admission: the kernel rejects any ID, digest or
 opportunity it did not issue. L0 is closed (`108b691..ab95d78`); its
@@ -294,7 +309,7 @@ data the owner replaces with `SetLensWeights`, each elaborator session records
 the lens it drew and that lens's instruction text, and elaboration sessions run
 concurrently under Dungeon's elaboration pool
 (`GHOSTLIGHT_ELABORATION_MAX_CONCURRENT`, default 2), apart from the simulation
-pool. L2, per-world evidence binding, is next.
+pool.
 
 Also owed on the way, found 2026-09-15 by reading source:
 
@@ -302,12 +317,10 @@ Also owed on the way, found 2026-09-15 by reading source:
 - The Eve story card renders bare speech text only (`eve.rs`): no speaker,
   no displays, no place or co-presence.
 - Active elaboration runs with `NullEvidenceSource` (`controllers.rs`), so no
-  Vault reaches it.
+  Vault reaches it. This is L2's subject and is deferred with L2; the play
+  path stops elaborating while Active.
 - Ticks run cells in sequence at 15–50 s each; a reply takes minutes.
 
-`runtime.rs` still registers `session_zero.begin`; check whether it is a
-refused name or a surviving authority while in that file.
-
 The eight titles ship as the library's stock lens set. Their 2026-09 removal
 had no operator decision; the correction record in `state/evidence.jsonl`
 carries the history.

notes/ghostlight-implementation-plan.md

@@ -862,7 +862,7 @@ first person as a stage direction); a silent turn invoking the `speak` entry
 versus a fourth narrative tool for a wordless turn (recommend `speak` with
 no utterance; one carrier, one command per turn).
 
-### 15. Session Zero — L0 and L1 landed; L2 next
+### 15. Session Zero — L0 and L1 landed; L2–L4 and D1–D3 deferred by ruling
 
 Adopted 2026-09-15. Two owners, one ordering. Library capabilities,
 consumer-neutral, are specified in `docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-ontology.md`
@@ -870,6 +870,12 @@ under "Elaboration lenses and detail rules (target)". Ghostlight Dungeon's
 Session Zero consumes them and is specified in
 `docs/architecture/ghostlight-session-zero.md`. This entry only tracks state.
 
+Deferred by ruling, 2026-09-22 (operator, decision 3): Session Zero is no
+longer the playtest gate; step 16, the play agent, is. L2–L4 and D1–D3 are
+deferred, not dropped, until a consumer that still runs the offline
+machinery needs them; the list, with L1.f16, f1, f13 and f14, is
+`docs/architecture/ghostlight-play-agent.md`, "Deferred, by ruling".
+
 Operator decisions, 2026-09-15: the world kernel is extracted from
 `crates/ghostlight-dungeon` into a library crate before any library pass, and
 the eight titles ship as the library's stock lens set.
@@ -886,7 +892,18 @@ and genesis-subject cuts; (L4) individuation where a place's level asks for
 persons. Dungeon
 passes: (D1) Vault registry and world creation with lens weights and a detail
 rule; (D2) the Session Zero Eve surface; (D3) travel affordance and
-per-affordance player controls, which closes the playtest gate.
+per-affordance player controls, which closed the playtest gate until the
+2026-09-22 ruling.
+
+### 16. The play agent — target adopted; cut map next
+
+Adopted 2026-09-22. Target `docs/architecture/ghostlight-play-agent.md`
+(commit `cb0b604`); its means will be in `ghostlight-play-agent-cut.md`.
+This step is the playtest gate (the target's "Playtest gate"). One
+Dungeon-owned operational agent replaces the Interpreter and the
+cover/cell/catalog/owner-click orchestration on Dungeon's play path; the
+Projector → Persona passes are unchanged; the library keeps the offline
+machinery. This entry only tracks state.
 
 ## Subtraction budget