Docs and comments: README leads with the kernel and says the Dungeon is parked at the tag; AGENTS, status lines, kernel comments

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

AGENTS.md

@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@
 Ghostlight is a Rust world kernel and the play daemon built on it. Models
 propose; the kernel admits or refuses. The same kernel is meant to run the
 simulation behind Aetheria's public story, a persistent cast and storylets, as
-well as Ghostlight Dungeon, the single-player DM-led client. `README.md` says
+well as Ghostlight Dungeon, the single-player DM-led client (parked at
+tag `parked/ghostlight-eve-surface`). `README.md` says
 what exists today and what does not.
 
 ## Where State Lives
@@ -55,28 +56,20 @@ what exists today and what does not.
 - Kernel: `crates/ghostlight/src/`. Its vocabulary and current mechanism:
   `docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-ontology.md`. The consumer contract:
   `docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-consumer-api.md`.
-- Dungeon daemon: `crates/ghostlight-dungeon/src/` (`runtime.rs` for routes and
-  commands, `play.rs` for the play table, `eve.rs` for the surface).
-  Interface authority: `docs/architecture/ghostlight-eve-native-interface.md`.
+- Parked Dungeon (daemon, play table, Eve surface, browser host, Idunn recipe):
+  tag `parked/ghostlight-eve-surface`; not on main.
 - Persona membrane: `crates/ghostlight-persona-projection/src/lib.rs`.
-- Browser host: `web/`. Claude SDK sidecar: `sidecar/claude-sdk/`.
-- Architecture rationale: `docs/architecture/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp.md`.
+- Claude SDK sidecar: `sidecar/claude-sdk/`.
+- Architecture rationale (the parked Dungeon's): `docs/architecture/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp.md`.
   `notes/ghostlight-implementation-plan.md` is the historical plan of the 2026-09
   rebuild, not the current plan.
 
 ## Build, Verify, Deploy
 
-Ghostlight Dungeon ships to Linux on Yggdrasil. Idunn freezes an exact commit,
-runs the locked native Linux tests, builds the daemon and web projection in
-pinned containers, and seals the release. The steps are
-`deployment/idunn/recipe.toml`; the owning runbook is
-`gamecult-ops/runbooks/ghostlight-dungeon-yggdrasil.md`.
-
-You are probably reading this on a Windows workstation. That is where the shell
-is, not where the artifact runs. A Windows compile is not evidence about the
-Linux release; build for the target, or let the deploy path's builder do it, and
-say which one you used. Heavy builds and test runs go to Yggdrasil, not the
-workstation. Deploy only through Idunn (`idunn up ghostlight`).
+Nothing deploys from this repo: the Idunn target `ghostlight` is retired and no
+recipe exists on main. Kernel and verse tests run on Linux on Yggdrasil (the
+`ygg-verify` stopgap), not on the workstation; a Windows compile is not evidence
+about Linux, so say which host you used. Do not run `idunn up ghostlight`.
 
 For infrastructure, SSH, Idunn, Odin, or Heimdall work, consult
 `F:\Projects\gamecult-ops` before acting.

README.md

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 **Ghostlight is a world kernel: typed world state that a language model can
 propose changes to and can never write.** The valuable part is
-`crates/ghostlight`. The dungeon game in this repo is one client of it.
+`crates/ghostlight`. The Dungeon game, one client of it, is parked (below).
 
 **The thesis.** World state is typed documents. Every change to it, and every
 narrative dependency on it, is an operation in a closed, predefined algebra.
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ committed. A model-as-game-master holds the world in a context window and
 drifts; here the world is a digest-chained journal that survives restarts and
 cannot be talked into contradicting itself.
 
-**Use it as a structured state backend.** Do not judge it by the dungeon's
+**Use it as a structured state backend.** Do not judge it by the parked Dungeon's
 prose. The kernel is a library; prose comes from whichever model you plug into
 its ports.
 
@@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ its ports.
   algebra, and what the reducer checks.
 - `docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-consumer-api.md`: the contract for a
   program that reads a world and proposes changes to the characters it controls
-  (`POST /cultnet/world-patch`, served by the Dungeon daemon).
+  (`POST /cultnet/world-patch`; no process on main serves that door, a host serves
+  `ghostlight::admit_document`).
 
 Start with those two documents, then `cargo doc -p ghostlight --open`.
 
@@ -70,18 +71,12 @@ advances it a number of ticks under a token cap, reporting per tick what each
 faction did and what it cost. Nothing loads AetheriaLore prose, models
 storylets, or produces episodes yet. Targets: `notes/ghostlight-verse-target.md`.
 
-## The dungeon harness
+## Ghostlight Dungeon (parked)
 
-`crates/ghostlight-dungeon` is a single-player, DM-led game on one world: free
-text in, a Persona's prose out, an Interpreter lowering that prose to proposals
-the kernel decides. Status: it is deployed on Yggdrasil under Idunn, but it is a
-product under repair, not a demo to judge the kernel by. Its play-session
-defects are open (`notes/ghostlight-verse-map.md`, probed 2026-10-09), its
-storyteller is a small local model by default, and a live run with a hosted model
-waits on an operator key. An agent that runs it as a game master and finds the
-narration incoherent has most likely measured an empty affordance catalog or the model,
-not the kernel. Sign-in is
-Heimdall's, so it does not serve an anonymous visitor.
+The single-player, DM-led client and its daemon, Eve play surface and browser
+host are parked at tag `parked/ghostlight-eve-surface`. Nothing is deployed and
+nothing on main serves HTTP. The Dungeon returns when Thing 2 gives it a UI
+(follow-up `dungeon-ui-on-thing2`); the rebuild starts from the tag.
 
 ## Repo map
 
@@ -89,14 +84,10 @@ Heimdall's, so it does not serve an anonymous visitor.
 |---|---|
 | `crates/ghostlight/` | The sealed kernel library. |
 | `crates/ghostlight-persona-projection/` | Membrane between structured state and a prose-only Persona. |
-| `crates/ghostlight-dungeon/` | The `ghostlight-dungeon` daemon: HTTP and Eve routes, play table, CultMesh publication, Idunn health. |
 | `crates/ghostlight-verse/` | The `ghostlight-verse` operator command line (`genesis`, `run`). |
-| `web/` | Thin Eve browser host and Heimdall access adapter; owns no product state. |
 | `sidecar/claude-sdk/` | Node process serving `claude`-prefixed models to the kernel; a stopgap for a direct Messages API port. |
-| `deployment/idunn/recipe.toml` | The steps Idunn runs to test, build and seal a release. |
-| `vendor/eve/` | Git submodule supplying the Eve browser lowering. |
 | `AGENTS.md` | Invariants and where things are. |
-| `docs/architecture/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp.md` | The authority architecture. |
+| `docs/architecture/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp.md` | The parked Dungeon's authority architecture (design record). |
 | `notes/` | The verse campaign's target and map, the handoff pointer, local smoke notes. |
 
 `docs/public-architecture/`, `docs/articles/` and `docs/product/` are design
@@ -106,32 +97,25 @@ running machine. Pages ending in `-cut.md` or `-postmortem.md` are dated history
 
 ## Build and test
 
-The release target is Linux on Yggdrasil; a Windows build says nothing about it.
-The recipe's steps are the verification:
+Nothing deploys from this repo. Linux verification runs on Yggdrasil, not on a
+workstation:
 
 ```sh
-git submodule update --init vendor/eve
+cargo build --locked --workspace
 cargo test --locked -p ghostlight-persona-projection
 cargo test --locked -p ghostlight
-cargo test --locked -p ghostlight-dungeon --bin ghostlight-dungeon
-cargo build --locked --release -p ghostlight-dungeon --bin ghostlight-dungeon
-npm --prefix web ci && npm --prefix web test && npm --prefix web run build
+cargo test --locked -p ghostlight-verse
 ```
 
 The kernel alone needs only `cargo test -p ghostlight`. The sidecar has
-`npm run sdk:build` and `npm run sdk:test`. Four Dungeon tests are `#[ignore]`d
-because they drive the vendored browser lowering through
-`tools/eve_client_bridge.mjs` and need Node beside cargo; the release acceptance
-test `controllers::tests::real_local_model_cognition_modes_commit_speech` is
-ignored by default and needs a real model.
+`npm run sdk:build` and `npm run sdk:test`. The acceptance test
+`controllers::tests::real_local_model_cognition_modes_commit_speech` is ignored
+by default and needs a real model.
 
-Run the Dungeon locally with `npm run dungeon:run` or
-`cargo run -p ghostlight-dungeon -- --state-root PATH`; configuration is by
-`GHOSTLIGHT_*` environment variables (the recipe's `required_environment` lists
-the deployment ones). Inference is routed by model name: `local/` goes to an
-OpenAI-compatible loopback endpoint, `claude` to the SDK sidecar, and the verse
-runner's `hosted/` to an https endpoint. Ghostlight never reads, stores or
-forwards a model credential beyond a key file named at run time.
+Inference is routed by model name: `local/` goes to an OpenAI-compatible
+loopback endpoint, `claude` to the SDK sidecar, and the verse runner's `hosted/`
+to an https endpoint. Ghostlight never reads, stores or forwards a model
+credential beyond a key file named at run time.
 
 Runtime documents are MessagePack-backed CultCache. JSON appears only at schema
 publication, browser, model-provider and diagnostic boundaries.

crates/ghostlight/src/controllers.rs

@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ const HANDLE_SEPARATOR: &str = "__";
 const PERSONA_WORD_BUDGET: usize = 180;
 const CONTROLLER_WORK_ROW: &str = "controller_work.v18";
 /// The `controller-work` state slot's schema. `pub` so a deploy recipe (or a
-/// test pinning one, e.g. `ghostlight-dungeon`'s recipe-drift test) can check
+/// test pinning one) can check
 /// itself against this constant instead of hand-copying the version number.
 pub const CONTROLLER_WORK_SCHEMA: &str = "ghostlight.controller_work.v18";
 

crates/ghostlight/src/patch.rs

@@ -7916,7 +7916,8 @@ mod tests {
     };
 
     /// Owner: `WorldPatch::sets_persona_of_existing_subject`. Consumer:
-    /// `ghostlight-dungeon`'s play agent (PA.f61), which refuses a
+    /// `ghostlight-dungeon`'s play agent (PA.f61, parked at
+    /// `parked/ghostlight-eve-surface`), which refuses a
     /// `set_persona_material` run whose patch answers true here, since
     /// `WorldPatch`'s own fields are `pub(crate)` and Dungeon may not parse
     /// its JSON to decide the question itself.

crates/ghostlight/src/table.rs

@@ -1606,7 +1606,8 @@ mod tests {
     // PA.f75: `communicate` was removed from `PLAY_TOOLS`; Dungeon drops it
     // from its own list too. This is now the complete 24-tool list.
     // PA.f88: this is the library's own test fixture, kept in sync by hand.
-    // Dungeon's `PLAY_TOOLS` in `ghostlight-dungeon/src/play.rs` is the
+    // Dungeon's `PLAY_TOOLS` in `ghostlight-dungeon/src/play.rs` (parked at
+    // `parked/ghostlight-eve-surface`) is the
     // single policy owner of what the play agent may actually call; this
     // copy pins nothing there and is not read by production code.
     const PLAY_TOOLS: &[&str] = &[

docs/architecture/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Ghostlight authority architecture
 
+> Status: the Dungeon daemon described here is parked at tag `parked/ghostlight-eve-surface` (2026-10-22); it is not on main.
+
 ## Status
 
 This document is the adopted rebuild target for the Ghostlight runtime. It is

docs/architecture/ghostlight-play-agent.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Ghostlight Dungeon play agent (plan step 16)
 
+> Status: the Dungeon daemon described here is parked at tag `parked/ghostlight-eve-surface` (2026-10-22); it is not on main.
+
 ## Status
 
 Target, adopted 2026-09-22. Not implemented. The means will be in

docs/architecture/ghostlight-session-zero.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Ghostlight Dungeon Session Zero
 
+> Status: the Dungeon daemon described here is parked at tag `parked/ghostlight-eve-surface` (2026-10-22); it is not on main.
+
 Status: adopted direction, 2026-09-15. Not implemented. Its role as the
 playtest gate is superseded (operator, 2026-09-22) by the play agent,
 `ghostlight-play-agent.md` (plan step 16). D1–D3 and the library passes

docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-consumer-api.md

@@ -63,6 +63,11 @@ attributed proposal — is not part of this pass; see "Not in this pass" below.
 
 ## Transport
 
+Status: the HTTP door below lived in the Dungeon daemon's `api_router` and is
+parked with it at tag `parked/ghostlight-eve-surface`; no process on main serves
+it. `ghostlight::admit_document` and `encode_receipt` are the contract a host
+serves.
+
 `POST /cultnet/world-patch`, declared beside `/cultnet/snapshot` in
 `api_router` (`runtime.rs`). The handler gates loopback and content type
 (`application/msgpack`) exactly as the snapshot route does, then hands the

notes/ghostlight-verse-map.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Ghostlight Verse: Map
 
+> Status: Dungeon, eve.rs and the bridge-test references below are parked at tag `parked/ghostlight-eve-surface`; line refs are to that tag.
+
 Campaign `ghostlight-verse`, target `ghostlight-verse:target:r3`
 (`notes/ghostlight-verse-target.md`). This page holds body facts, the model
 page and rationale only. Cut specs, questions, rulings and follow-ups live in