Retarget Ghostlight toward Call of the Void authoring

notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md

@@ -28,18 +28,35 @@ Ghostlight now has the persistence spine plus the first architecture payload:
   - personality structure
   - signal classification
   - state distributions and prompt projection
-  - Aetheria persistent-world slice design
+  - Aetheria content generation targets
+  - population scaling for socially dense authored slices
 
 There is still no runtime yet. The live machine is design, state discipline,
 and a cleaner repo boundary.
 
+## Current Direction
+
+Use Ghostlight first for:
+
+- content generation inside the Call of the Void slice described in
+  `AetheriaLore`
+- dialogue scaffolding and procedural drama for narrated Aetheria timeline
+  stories
+
+An older corridor-crisis game slice is not the current build target. It can
+remain fertile story ground, but it should not steer Ghostlight's implementation
+state unless explicitly revived.
+
 ## Current Next Action
 
 Pick the first implementation seam to cut:
 
 - state schema
+- perceived-state overlay
 - classifier/event data model
-- prompt projection renderer
+- prompt projection renderer for authoring outputs
+
+The clean first move is still the canonical agent-state schema.
 
 ## Warnings
 
@@ -49,3 +66,5 @@ Pick the first implementation seam to cut:
   cut it back.
 - Keep the prompt-projection doctrine intact: prompt text is projection, not
   truth storage.
+- Do not accidentally re-promote the older corridor-crisis idea into a game MVP
+  because an old doc had a strong chin and good lighting.

notes/ghostlight-implementation-plan.md

@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@
    - Define first-class dimensions, including volatility, attachment-seeking,
      and distance-seeking.
    - Define canonical state versus perceived state.
+   - Keep authoring outputs explainable from the state, not just generated from
+     stylish prompt fog.
 
 2. Freeze the first event and classifier schema.
    - Define event labels.
@@ -15,22 +17,28 @@
    - Define mask or presentation labels.
    - Define confidence, uncertainty, and evidence accumulation rules.
 
-3. Build the prompt projection layer.
-   - Render prompts from structured state, relevant memories, scene pressure,
-     cultural defaults, and perceived state.
+3. Build the prompt projection layer for authoring.
+   - Render scene and dialogue scaffolds from structured state, relevant
+     memories, scene pressure, cultural defaults, and perceived state.
    - Keep the prompt renderer a projection surface instead of a second brain.
+   - Make generated moves inspectable: why this character deflects, confesses,
+     threatens, softens, bargains, or lies.
 
-4. Build the simulation update loop.
+4. Build the first drama-scaffolding loop.
    - memory updates
    - relationship updates
    - goal pressure
    - situational activation
    - cultural and institutional pressure
+   - conflict beats derived from incompatible goals and values
 
-5. Build the first Aetheria slice.
-   - use the bounded corridor scenario already outlined elsewhere
-   - prove that a small cast, cohort states, and ambient pressure can make a
-     place feel inhabited
+5. Build the first Aetheria authoring consumer.
+   - use the Call of the Void slice described in `AetheriaLore` as the first
+     concrete content-generation context
+   - support dialogue scaffolding and procedural drama for narrated stories
+     across the Aetheria timeline
+   - do not treat an older corridor-crisis game slice as the implementation
+     target unless explicitly revived later
 
 ## Discipline
 
@@ -39,3 +47,5 @@
   the trouble.
 - Do not let prompt-writing outrun the structured state model.
 - Do not let elegant theory notes multiply faster than implementation seams.
+- Do not accidentally rebuild a game slice when the requested consumer is an
+  authoring and story-generation organ.