Ghostlight/state/evidence.archive.jsonl

{"ts": "2026-05-01T17:06:46+00:00", "type": "scaffold", "status": "ok", "note": "Initialized Ghostlight with a stripped-down Epiphany-style persistence spine: canonical map, scratch, evidence, handoff, implementation plan, and Python state or compaction helpers."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T17:24:54+00:00", "type": "migration", "status": "ok", "note": "Migrated Ghostlight-owned research and architecture notes out of VoidBot and into this repo; Ghostlight is now the canonical home for personality, culture, state-projection, and Aetheria persistent-world design notes."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T17:35:16+00:00", "type": "decision", "status": "rejected", "note": "Rejected the prior corridor-crisis game slice as Ghostlight active direction; current Aetheria consumer target is Call of the Void content generation plus narrated timeline dialogue and procedural drama scaffolding."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T17:35:57+00:00", "type": "source", "status": "ok", "note": "Imported the scattered Call of the Void Google Doc brainstorm into docs/aetheria/call-of-the-void-brainstorm.md as raw source material; compact canon remains the AetheriaLore Call of the Void design note."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T17:40:43+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Clarified Ghostlight authoring rationale: the system should build drama and narrative pressure, then render character-local dialogue context packs constrained to what each character knows, feels, wants, remembers, hides, and perceives."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T17:46:36+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Corrected Call of the Void continuity drift: old colony-fleet no-return twist is obsolete; current pressure should come from the whole Solar system being sequestered into Elysium with its institutions, conflicts, and unresolved machinery intact."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T17:52:01+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Added v0 canonical agent-state schema, required first-class dimension list, Call of the Void example fixture, and dependency-free validation script. schema:validate passes on the first fixture."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T18:10:28+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Split performed self from voice style in the v0 schema: presentation_strategy now includes abrasive_boundary and ironic_distance, while voice_style carries sarcasm, dryness, sincerity evasion, emotional evasion, and banter-as-boundary handles."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T18:14:18+00:00", "type": "documentation", "status": "ok", "note": "Added agent-state variable glossary defining numeric components, current v0 labels, label-set policy, and why canonical fixtures include full required vectors rather than only strongly applicable labels."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T18:21:07+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Removed certainty from canonical authored state variables. Canonical character state now stores mean, plasticity, and current_activation; perceived/inferred dimensions use confidence when a read can be wrong."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T18:26:40+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Reworked perceived dimensions so observer reads do not know canonical mean or plasticity. Perceived state now tracks observed_activation, attributed_disposition, and confidence to model fundamental attribution bias; confidence is driven by evidence, emotion, stakes, memory, prejudice, and social reinforcement."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T18:35:51+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Expanded voice_style from a narrow quirk set into a broad required communication vector covering register, pace, precision, disclosure, politeness, humor, dominance, responsiveness, and related speech mechanics."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T18:42:59+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Added explicit voice_style axes for lyricism, coded_politeness, theatricality, and technical_compression so the required vector preserves the intended speech examples rather than folding them into weaker adjacent labels."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T18:49:11+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Separated verbal_response_strategy from voice_style. Sarcastic deflection, sincerity evasion, emotional evasion, banter-as-boundary, and verbal aggression are pressure-activated speech defenses, not baseline voice texture."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T18:54:49+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Removed verbal_response_strategy as a canonical layer. Defensive verbal moves should emerge during projection from interactions among underlying organization, dispositions, behavioral dimensions, presentation strategy, situational pressure, relationship context, and voice style."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T18:55:15+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Kept sarcastic deflection, sincerity evasion, emotional evasion, banter-as-boundary, and verbal aggression as target emergent behaviors for projection tests rather than canonical state fields."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T19:09:58+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Removed forbidden_context from dialogue context packs. Packs are positive speaker-local payloads; unknown or author-only material is omitted by the projection builder, while known secrets are expressed through goals, beliefs, memories, and presentation constraints."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T19:13:15+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Relationship stance is directional. Added Oz->Cat alongside Cat->Oz in the Call of the Void fixture and taught the validator to require reciprocal relationship edges for represented agent pairs."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T19:18:05+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Defined prompt projection as a six-stage contract: select speaker-local inputs, compute active pressure, detect tensions, derive response affordances, render compact prompt sections, then evaluate whether target verbal behaviors emerge from state interactions."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T19:26:23+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Persisted projection distillation plan: use a frontier teacher to generate reviewed projection artifacts, collect accepted and rejected examples, then train a smaller student projector only after the projection schema, input slicer, and evaluator stabilize."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T19:57:04+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Evaluation follow-up accepted immediate schema fixes: split interpersonal_warmth from verbal_warmth, add Cat perception of Oz, populate Cat/Oz relationship summaries, enrich event-drone-lie with observed exchange, private interpretations, and event effects, and park broader social-simulation mechanisms in docs/architecture/schema-future-mechanisms.md."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T20:02:29+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "accepted", "note": "Added ghostlight.projection_example.v0 schema, first reviewed Cat/Oz projection JSONL examples for scene-broken-taxi-oz, projection example validator, and package scripts that validate both agent-state and projection seams. Next projection implementation step is deterministic speaker-local input slicing."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T20:19:04+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Projection prompt_text must be self-sufficient for the dialogue model: include speaker-local setting, historical, cultural, socioeconomic, and embodiment context needed for the turn rather than relying on source refs or the full projection artifact."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T20:31:43+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Revised Aetheria projection-training architecture: grounded training data should start from authored historical lore flashpoints, while Elysium gameplay-era scenes such as Cat/Oz are procedural branch material unless explicitly promoted. Next step is a lore grounding digest format and first historical flashpoint selection."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T20:38:47+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "accepted", "note": "Added ghostlight.lore_grounding_digest.v0 schema, template, human format guide, and validator. Lore digests now explicitly model cultural pressure fields, factional misread maps, role pressures, speaker lore boundaries, and author-only exclusions. Next step is choosing the first authored historical Aetheria flashpoint and filling a real digest."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T20:50:46+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Cold Wake Panic is selected as the first historical grounding fixture. Use it as pre-Elysium projection training feedstock via examples/lore-grounding/cold-wake-panic.ganymede-corridor.json, not as the active Ghostlight game target."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T21:16:24+00:00", "type": "experiment", "status": "mixed", "note": "Cold Wake story-lab first Qwen response confirmed response_turn/action affordances are useful: qwen3.5:9b produced a mixed terminal-blocking plus dialogue beat for Maer. Failure lesson: personhood-pressure wording was too strong and let the model imply the artifact was a person instead of preserving unresolved suspicion."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T21:22:33+00:00", "type": "experiment", "status": "accepted", "note": "Cold Wake Maer/Veyr projection now has useful rejected v1/v2 captures and accepted v3 Qwen output. Lesson: unresolved personhood pressure needs explicit noun fencing; claimant-status, provenance, and chain-of-custody language preserved ambiguity while still allowing controlled terminal-blocking action."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T21:32:34+00:00", "type": "experiment", "status": "accepted", "note": "Completed first Cold Wake short story from Ghostlight projection receipts. Architectural lesson: repeated Qwen failures were not just prompt wording issues; projection needs first-class controls for frame ownership, authority boundaries, object custody, required semantics, and forbidden resolutions. Added capture validation so accepted/rejected outputs remain accountable training data."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T21:59:49+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Reframed Ghostlight target from specific dialogue projection toward sequential character agents: each acting agent gets local awareness, options, objectives, and mutation authority; generated action becomes an event proposal resolved into bounded state changes. Single-turn projection remains a debug/training seam, not the procedural-generation endpoint."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T22:18:59+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Sequential runtime prototype should keep fuzzy interpretation manual at first. Action tools should be concrete primitives; ask/refuse/offer/reveal/conceal/request are intended communicative functions on actions, while listener appraisal may misread them. Manual appraisal and mutation review becomes training data for future classifiers."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T22:31:04+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Tightened Ghostlight runtime scope: near-term goal is procedural interactive dialogue trees and scene-local consequence propagation into state, memory, and social perception. Sequential agent machinery should serve branchable game dialogue first; world-scale simulation, autonomous offscreen factions, economy, and long-horizon plot generation stay deferred."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T22:36:38+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Adjusted scope boundary: implement scene-local interactive dialogue first, but shape training data for later open-world agents, iterated decisions, psychologically grounded consumer behavior, scarcity/reputation pressure, and major faction or institution decision-making. Defer full simulation loops, not the labels and state hooks those future models will need."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T22:40:18+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Clarified that dialogue trees mean branching scene trees, not speech-only menus. Ghostlight should generate plausible protagonist speech or non-speech choices, NPC responses, and branch consequences in world state, memory, and social perception, such as losing trust or opening future hooks."}
{"ts": "2026-05-01T22:51:37+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Adopted Ink as the standard playable branching scene format for Ghostlight interactive fiction. Ghostlight should generate/project Ink scenes and maintain reviewed sidecar annotations for local awareness, action intent, consequence surfaces, and manual state mutation instead of inventing a parallel branching format."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T01:37:07+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Built the first local-awareness-to-Qwen-to-Ink branch generation pass. Qwen generated four Cold Wake sanctuary-intake branch candidates from Ghostlight state and projection controls; the reviewed capture was materialized into a playable qwen-draft Ink file plus sidecar annotations. Lesson: semantic training hooks and branch-local object custody need tighter prompting before generated drafts can be promoted beyond training material."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T01:40:41+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Ink metadata for Ghostlight/Aetheria must use // comments, not # tags, in writer-facing drafts. Inky exposes # tags in preview, causing state and training handles to leak into readable scene output; validate_ink_examples now rejects Ghostlight/Aetheria metadata tags."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T01:45:54+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Hardened local-awareness invariant for Ink branching: protagonist choices and NPC responses must be separate generation passes. A responder should see only its own state plus observable protagonist action, not protagonist private intent or full protagonist-local state. The existing Qwen Ink draft is labeled as one-shot bootstrap scaffolding, not target runtime behavior."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T02:45:44+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Added ghostlight.projected_local_context.v0 seam and deterministic projector so sequential Qwen prompts consume character-local operating prose instead of raw canonical state variables. v6 projector-routed capture validated as useful-needs-revision due nested response_constraints stringification."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T02:54:51+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Tightened projector-routed sequential runner: failed Maer choice calls now write reviewed receipts, parser can repair obvious truncated stringified tool arrays, repair notes are separated from fatal validation notes, and next-action prompts receive appraisal prose instead of raw numeric deltas. v8/v9 captures show Qwen still has tool-call reliability failures, so no projector-routed branch was materialized."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T03:00:05+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Disabled thinking by default for strict projector-routed sequential Qwen generation after v9 thinking trace showed schema self-check looping. v10 no-think run completed quickly and validated as accepted_as_draft with no repair or failure notes."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T03:03:14+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Materialized accepted v10 no-thinking projector-routed sequential capture into playable Ink, sidecar annotation, reviewed mutation receipt, and mutated Cold Wake fixture. Validation passes; fuzzy state, memory, relationship, and perceived-overlay updates remain manual reviewed training data."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T03:19:48+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Embodiment/interface affordances are now first-class projected local context. Cetacean Navigator scenes must project habitat-native channels, workstations, displays, rails, acoustic or translation systems, and other Navigator-built infrastructure instead of generic human body assumptions."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T03:23:47+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Corrected embodiment lesson: Ghostlight should check AetheriaLore faction source before projecting faction-specific action affordances. Navigator lore supports fluid architecture, acoustic signaling, communal orientation chambers, translation/coexistence, and specialized cetacean environments; precise clinic workstation ergonomics remain a source-lore gap."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T03:29:28+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Formalized Aetheria generation doctrine: source-check factions, movements, institutions, location, time period, species/body affordances, infrastructure, and material constraints before writing or generating; patch blocking AetheriaLore gaps narrowly before treating details as available to projection."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T03:29:51+00:00", "type": "documentation", "status": "ok", "note": "Added source-first Aetheria generation doctrine and patched AetheriaLore Cetacean Navigators with habitat/interface ergonomics so Navigator action affordances can be projected from source rather than local improvisation."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T03:46:05+00:00", "type": "experiment", "status": "mixed", "note": "Source-checked Navigator projection improved Maer action proposals: v13-v17 route packets through shared clinic displays and wet/dry interface affordances instead of human body defaults. No capture was materialized; failures exposed object-custody drift, invented mutation paths, Qwen appraisal tool dropouts, and prompt-constraint leakage into Sella prose."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T07:55:40+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Soft judgments that cannot be deterministic code are now explicit training-artifact targets: projector, character agent/responder, participant appraiser, state mutator, relationship/perception classifier, lore-tone adapter, and later institution/faction/consumer decision models should all emit reviewed accepted/rejected receipts before fine-tuning or distillation."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T07:58:01+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Clarified Aetheria lore/tone training: the responder itself should be fine-tuned on strong source-grounded responses across the timeline so setting assumptions become native priors, rather than treating lore/tone as a separate adapter layer."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T08:01:25+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Added the coordinator/story runtime as a trainable soft organ: the current authoring agent glues scenes together, selects next beats and acting agents, invokes machinery, carries unresolved hooks, emits glue prose, and proposes game-engine-shaped world-state changes while deterministic gates retain authority."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T08:04:36+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Added a concrete Ghostlight training plan enumerating trainable stages, inputs, outputs, likely model families, artifact families, corpus gates, and deterministic boundaries. Next implementation should define the coordinator artifact schema before more story-generation passes so glue prose and world-state coordination become trainable data."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T08:12:30+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Extended Aetheria timeline training plan with a future_branch lane: Ghostlight should generate reviewed possible post-Rupture Elysium futures so responder/coordinator/appraiser/decision models learn concepts like Aether, pseudospace, temporal nonlinearity, spirits, necrotech, mutable bodies, and altered substrates while keeping generated branch assumptions separate from promoted canon."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T08:14:44+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Corrected Elysium future-branch metaphysics: Sol timeline is a single-history artifact, while every possible Elysium future is canon inside its own branch lineage. Training artifacts must preserve branch lineage, prior conditions, and sibling-branch exclusion boundaries instead of treating generated futures as non-canon or merely provisional."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T08:21:41+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Added Elysium branch event constraints: future branches can mark events as branch_attractor, fated_event, tech_order_constraint, quest_injection, or branch_local_event so likely faction births, authored rails, technology discovery order, and quest injection are explicit runtime/training signals rather than hidden prose."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T08:31:00+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Added technology/item manifest plan: coordinator-led Aetheria exploration must emit game-usable item families, variants, assemblies, subassemblies, components, faction tech bases, prerequisites, bottlenecks, compatibility rules, supply-chain consequences, upgrade paths, and quest hooks for both pre-Elysium starting tech and branch-local post-Rupture innovations."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T08:33:46+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Extended technology/item manifest plan to explicitly elaborate existing nebulous Aetheria timeline technologies into blueprint candidates. Manifest candidates must separate source facts, inferred engineering, and open lore gaps while decomposing tech into assemblies, subassemblies, components, materials, processes, tooling, facilities, quality tiers, failure modes, supply chains, and gameplay hooks."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T08:42:58+00:00", "type": "research", "status": "ok", "note": "Aetheria-Economy already provides the concrete item schema target: CultCache-backed ItemData subclasses are technological blueprints (SimpleCommodityData, CompoundCommodityData, ConsumableItemData, GearData/EquippableItemData), while ItemInstance subclasses represent realized runtime artifacts carrying quality/provenance/branding/world state. Ghostlight item manifests should map onto that model, with assembly trees, recipes, compatibility, tooling, facilities, process requirements, and supply-chain dependencies recorded as blueprint metadata or engine-schema gaps until the economy code exposes explicit storage."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T08:51:57+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Documented the player-facing gear fantasy and content-refinery framing: ultimate items should be provenance hunts through blueprint, assembly quality, manufacturer practice, supply-chain lineage, repair history, counterfeit substitution, and operating conditions; Ghostlight should convert lore-grounded ideas into reviewed database-shaped Aetheria-Economy candidates rather than another manual spreadsheet bottleneck."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T09:04:24+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Accepted sandboxed responder-data doctrine: coordinator may be omniscient, but gold responder examples must be generated from only the exact projected local packet, visible event, allowed actions, and explicitly included source excerpts. Artifacts must preserve raw output, reviewed output, hidden-context refs, leakage audit, isolation method, and coordinator intervention labels so repaired prose is not laundered as raw responder behavior."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T09:08:43+00:00", "type": "architecture", "status": "ok", "note": "Clarified training corpus scale: the existing per-stage sample counts are pilot schema-shakedown gates for exposing schema, boundary, leakage, validator, and workflow problems, not robust training targets. Review-assistant and runtime targets require much larger corpora, held-out evaluation, negative coverage, and failure audits; pilot data may be invalidated by schema fixes."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T09:14:24+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Added the v0 coordinator artifact seam: schemas/coordinator-artifact.schema.json, examples/coordinator/cold-wake-sanctuary-intake.v0.json, tools/validate_coordinator_artifacts.py, and npm run coordinator:validate. The schema captures scene setup, next-beat choice, machinery invocations, sandboxed responder handoffs, world-state refs, proposed deltas, branch constraints, item-manifest deltas, unresolved hooks, glue prose, and review status."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T09:19:50+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Added the v0 responder packet seam: schemas/responder-packet.schema.json, docs/architecture/sandboxed-responder-packets.md, tools/build_responder_packet.py, tools/validate_responder_packets.py, and examples/responder-packets/scene-02-sanctuary-intake.sella_ren.packet.v0.json. The packet captures the exact responder-visible prompt surface, observed event, allowed action labels, source excerpts, output contract, hidden-context audit, and isolation requirements for future sandboxed gold responder data."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T09:25:24+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Generated and preserved the first no-fork sandboxed responder output from the Sella responder packet. Added schemas/responder-output.schema.json, tools/validate_responder_outputs.py, and experiments/responder-packets/cold-wake-sanctuary-intake-sella-v0.capture.json. The capture records raw output, exact parsed output, packet-only isolation, hidden-context refs, leakage audit, coordinator interventions, and review status."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T09:43:23+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "ok", "note": "Split responder data into explicit packet_only and research_augmented lanes. packet_only uses curated source excerpts for runtime parity; research_augmented allows scoped AetheriaLore search with consulted refs for lore absorption. Added v1 Sella packet with absent hidden context removed from responder-visible prose and curated Cold Wake, Ganymede Compact, Navigator rescue ledger, and Lightsail source excerpts."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T09:50:08+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Completed both responder lanes for the Sella sanctuary beat. Materialized the packet-only Sella capture into a reviewed mutation receipt and mutated fixture, then generated a research_augmented Sella capture with scoped AetheriaLore refs and a lane comparison showing packet-only proves runtime parity while research_augmented adds heat-debt, rescue-ledger, dockfall, and Aya sanctuary capacity texture for retrieval/projector requirements."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T09:59:37+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Corrected responder lane terminology: the prior research_augmented Sella capture was coordinator-retrieved lore, not autonomous responder research, so the lane is now retrieval_augmented with lore_access.mode coordinator_scoped_retrieval. The comparison now records that retrieval improved institutional texture but underused Sella Ren's packet-visible sanctuary-collapse scar; future projector/retrieval review must preserve character-local scars as well as lore grounding."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:02:28+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Refined character-pressure retention doctrine: packet-visible backstory such as Sella Ren's sanctuary-collapse scar should be available to shape responder behavior, but review must not reward unnecessary trauma-dumping or require the scar to surface in mission-critical speech."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:08:14+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Implemented runtime retrieval/projector requirements. Projected local contexts now emit source-backed runtime_retrieval_requirements and latent_pressure_requirements; prompt text renders retrieved lore and latent pressure handling; responder packets copy active retrieval requirements into source_excerpts so packet-only contexts receive compact Cold Wake heat-debt, Navigator rescue-ledger, Aya sanctuary-capacity, and Ganymede/Lightsail route-obligation facts without granting repo access or forcing character backstory into speech."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:11:38+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Added explicit research-enabled responder instructions. `responder_scoped_repository_search` now means the responder may inspect only the declared lore scope, must consult it before answering, and must ground behavior in retrieved lore docs; packet validation requires visible research instructions and output validation requires consulted refs plus a research summary."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:17:55+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Generated the first concrete research-enabled Sella responder packet. build_responder_packet.py now supports responder_scoped_repository_search, sets repo access open only for that lane, renders Required Lore Research, and requires consulted_refs plus research_summary."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:21:51+00:00", "type": "maintenance", "status": "ok", "note": "Demoted Qwen/local-model prototype material in rehydrate surfaces. Canonical map and handoff now treat those runs as archived receipts, not active gold-data direction; next action stays on sandboxed research-enabled responder packets."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:35:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state", "status": "accepted", "note": "Cold Wake is the first historical grounding fixture; use as pre-Elysium training feedstock, not product target."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:43:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state", "status": "accepted", "note": "Archived local-model prototype material remains evidence only; do not use those runners for gold responder data unless explicitly testing model plumbing."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:44:38+00:00", "type": "experiment", "status": "useful_needs_revision", "note": "Quick research sanity check placed a Navigator route steward in a scene missing embodiment and institutional lore. The no-fork responder recovered Navigator acoustic/translation/fluid-space behavior and PSC/Cold Wake/Ganymede Compact context, but parent-visible subagent output still lacks auditable tool-call receipts; capture saved under experiments/research-sanity."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:54:15+00:00", "type": "design", "status": "accepted", "note": "Corpus completeness requires coverage across every major faction, minor faction, movement, and major flashpoint. Major factions need founding-era and day-in-the-life stories, and all coverage stories should involve cultural collision so training captures faction and movement dynamics rather than isolated faction portraits or Cold Wake overfitting."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T16:09:25+00:00", "type": "planning", "status": "ok", "note": "Next Cold Wake test should be a bounded full-story run from after-sella-bay-opened, with coordinator glue prose and artifacts emitted at material turns; stop only for core invariant failures, not minor prose flaws."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Full Cold Wake story run advanced through validated Scene 06 Maer diagnostic-channel setup and Scene 07 Sella contact-timing mark. Latest state after-sella-timing-mark; next beat is first diagnostic signal/contact result without premature hidden-truth resolution."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02", "type": "review", "status": "needs_revision", "note": "Full Cold Wake story run v0 exposed over-procedural speech: responders recited packet constraints in dialogue. Marked Scene 06/07 captures/coordinators as useful_needs_revision and reset next action to restart v1 from after-sella-bay-opened with compressed-speech boundary."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02", "type": "design", "status": "needs_restart", "note": "Accepted full-story pass must be interactive-fiction-shaped, not a linear clinic-fragment receipt chain. Next Cold Wake run should restart from opening pressure with branch points and cross-scene consequence carryover."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T17:12:51+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Created clean Cold Wake branch-and-fold IF scaffold: compiled Ink fixture, training sidecar with visual prompt anchors/modifiers, readable run document, and coordinator artifact. Accepted as coordinator/IF scaffold, not raw responder gold; schema validation passes."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T22:14:22+00:00", "type": "review", "status": "ok", "note": "Revised Cold Wake IF scaffold after user review: heat_time, evidence_quality, provisional_category, clinic_exhaustion, and trust now change choice availability, clinic prose, visual modifiers, and final outcome texture instead of acting as set dressing."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T22:15:47+00:00", "type": "review", "status": "ok", "note": "Revised Cold Wake IF scaffold again after user review: authority_pressure now creates concrete PSC audit/sanction consequences, can make strong evidence unsafe without provisional_category, and appears in visual/climax modifiers."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T22:40:03+00:00", "type": "documentation", "status": "ok", "note": "Documentation cleanup aligned training plan, system map, handoff, soft-artifact doctrine, Ink architecture, Qwen notes, and content targets with current branch compiler + IF reviewer pipeline; old Qwen/local-model paths are archived plumbing, not active gold-data steering."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T22:51:11+00:00", "type": "documentation", "status": "ok", "note": "Completed iterative documentation cleanup: removed live planning from architecture docs, archived local-model Cold Wake experiment wording, aligned training-plan responder/appraiser status, added documentation inventory, and restored next action to broader Aetheria fixture coverage."}
{"ts": "2026-05-03T07:36:56+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Extracted reusable sandboxed sub-agent prompt surfaces into prompts/: responder packet template and research sanity responder template; build_responder_packet now renders packet_prompt_text from the prompt template."}
{"ts": "2026-05-03T11:53:40+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Added BFL image generation script for direct prompts and Ghostlight .visual.json plans. It reads BFL_API_KEY or gamecult-ops/bfl-api.txt, supports dry-run prompt receipts, submits FLUX.2 pro preview jobs, polls returned polling_url, downloads signed result.sample images immediately, and keeps generated outputs under ignored experiments/images/."}
{"ts": "2026-05-03T12:00:19+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Updated BFL visual-plan rendering so modifiers use the intended two-pass continuity workflow: generate the base image from the base prompt, then edit that saved image with only the selected modifier prompt. Dry-run receipts now emit separate .base.prompt.txt and .edit.prompt.txt files."}
{"ts": "2026-05-03T12:34:07+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine", "status": "ok", "note": "Revised Pallas visual prompts to use cephalopod-specific tentacle/mantle/support-harness anatomy instead of human-limb shorthand, replaced supervisor-glass staging with open catwalk and transparent safety-rail geometry, and added generalized reviewer checks for nonhuman anatomy humanization. BFL FLUX.2 Max spot-check with simplified prompt and prompt upsampling disabled still dropped Teth and missed the Dreams-style target, so BFL remains unsuitable for complex ensemble IF frames without further proof."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:42:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state", "status": "accepted", "note": "Current live seam is the research-enabled Sella responder packet requiring scoped lore consultation, consulted refs, and research summary."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T10:30:22+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "accepted", "note": "First no-fork research-enabled Sella responder capture and reviewed mutation receipt were produced; capture preserves consulted refs and research summary, but future gold research samples need auditable research traces beyond responder self-report."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T11:07:05+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Research-enabled responder captures now have a first-class research_trace seam. Accepted research-enabled gold captures must use runner_captured trace status; existing Sella research capture is labeled coordinator_reconstructed draft audit data."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T11:19:14+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Generated the first accepted runner-traced coordinator-scoped responder sample: Veyr offers a deniable handling category in scene-03 Callisto provenance. Artifacts include projected context, packet, accepted capture, mutation receipt, and updated aftermath state."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T14:32:15+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Accepted trace-backed Isdra convoy-threshold responder sample: limited-contact exception under freeze, Navigator ledger signature, isolation/decon constraints, packet-sound preservation, reviewed mutation, and after-isdra state."}
{"ts": "2026-05-02T15:56:03+00:00", "type": "implementation", "status": "ok", "note": "Accepted trace-backed Sella authorized-contact sample opens only bounded diagnostic contact under decon, isolation, packet-sound preservation, and Navigator-ledger cost exposure; state advanced to after-sella-bay-opened."}
{"note": "Initialized Ghostlight with a stripped-down Epiphany-style persistence spine.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:31:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "Rejected old active game-slice drift; Ghostlight targets Aetheria authoring, Call of the Void, and timeline drama scaffolding.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:32:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "Canonical state separates authored state from perceived overlays; perceived reads carry confidence and can be wrong.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:33:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "Projection compiles character-local context from state, memory, relationship, culture, scene pressure, embodiment, affordances, and lore.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:34:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "Ink is the playable branching scene format; Ghostlight owns projection, annotations, consequences, and reviewed mutation around it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:36:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "Sequential runtime target: characters act from local awareness; actions become event proposals; every affected participant appraises before next turn.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:37:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "Aetheria generation is source-first and source-repairing; patch blocking lore gaps before projecting details.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:38:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "Soft judgments are training-artifact targets: coordinator, retriever, projector, responder, appraiser, mutator, relationship/perception, evaluator, and decision models.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:39:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "Future branches are branch-local Elysium canon indexed by lineage and constraint labels; technology exploration must emit blueprint-grade item/supply-chain data.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:40:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "Gold responder data must be sandboxed with exact visible input, raw/reviewed output, leakage audit, isolation method, and coordinator interventions.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:41:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "Research-enabled responder scope is seed-plus-traversal, not a narrow file whitelist: training samples should recover PSC, Jovian territory, resident faction, linked movement, politics, and technology context; parent-visible subagent output does not prove tool calls, so future gold data needs explicit research trace receipts.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:41:08+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Persisted state was compacted to mission, live seams, and next action; older evidence moved to state/evidence.archive.jsonl.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:44:00+00:00", "type": "distilled_state"}
{"note": "CompoundCommodityData is not limited to gear assemblies or manufacturing inputs; it also covers finished manufactured trade goods consumed by colonies, habitats, ships, clinics, institutions, species communities, and faction enclaves. Generated setting texture like a Navigator wet-interface cradle should be eligible to become a demand-profiled trade-good blueprint candidate.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T10:51:01+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Complete interactive-fiction fixtures should emit scene art direction and image prompt seeds; visual continuity is part of cross-scene consequence carryover for website imagery and branch legibility.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-02T16:55:59+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Scene imagery should use a durable base image prompt plus additive branch/state modification prompts, so visual consequences can be edited onto a stable scene instead of regenerated from scratch.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-02T16:58:51+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Documented branch-and-fold IF process: local branches should normalize consequences into compact state variables and fold into shared later scenes by default; major route splits are reserved for world-changing divergence that would make convergence false.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-02T17:06:00+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "IF artifact reviewer required before acceptance to catch Potemkin state variables, cosmetic choices, fake folds, missing state reads, state-named-instead-of-checked prose, visual callback gaps, and endings that ignore major state.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-02T22:29:00+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Branch Compiler documented as a separate organ: it materializes playable Ink, sidecars, fold/callback structure, and visual handles from fixture state and reviewed consequence packets, without owning hidden character truth or durable social mutation.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-02T22:30:27+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Added accepted-as-draft Pallas Species Strikes branch-and-fold IF fixture set: lore digest, schema-valid agent state, coordinator artifact, playable Ink, Ink training sidecar, and readable clean-run story with branch variables tied to consequences.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T00:30:04+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Added prompts/narrative-quality-reviewer.md to audit reader orientation, character introduction, branch-fold coherence, pacing, voice, IF playability, and lore accessibility for story/IF artifacts.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T07:47:52+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Revised narrative-quality reviewer prompt after checking Aetheria stories Rain and When We Get Home: it now treats tonal lane as explicit review constraint and rejects constant-crisis bias in favor of quiet, comic, domestic, technical, or poetic pacing when appropriate.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T07:59:59+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Broadened narrative reviewer tonal guidance: prior three lanes are examples, not taxonomy; default touchstone now emphasizes Adams/Pratchett-style wit-with-stakes, warmth, absurdity, and humane levity without dissolving consequence.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T08:06:28+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Audited persistent steering surfaces for constant-crisis/dry-technical bias and added first-class tonal-range doctrine across AGENTS, map, handoff, implementation plan, system map, architecture rationale, README, content targets, and prompt guidance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T08:11:57+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Pallas Species Strikes IF fixture was reviewed by narrative-quality subagent, revised for shared character onboarding, conditional folded callbacks, materialized variables, BioElevate/ALF in-text bridges, visual trigger mapping, and accepted as coordinator/IF scaffold training data after cleanup.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T08:41:33+00:00", "type": "review"}
{"note": "Added visual scene continuity reviewer prompt and revised Pallas IF fixture for illustrated replay: click-through visual scene anchors, imagegen-ready per-section prompts, character visibility/stance controls, branch/state visual modifiers, and acceptance after visual review cleanup.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T09:08:30+00:00", "type": "review"}
{"note": "Added stable visual character refs for the Pallas illustrated IF fixture and updated visual review doctrine so named characters cannot rely on imagegen knowing their appearance from names alone.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T09:25:38+00:00", "type": "review"}
{"note": "Illustrated IF fixtures with a target look should store a global visual style cue and include it in every assembled image prompt; the Pallas fixture now carries the Dreams-style volumetric brushstroke cue.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T09:30:46+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Corrected illustrated prompt assembly: prompts should include only in-frame character refs, while continuity notes remain tooling constraints unless rewritten as concrete visible prompt text.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T09:37:16+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Corrected illustrated prompt doctrine: environment labels such as manifold line must be rewritten as concrete visible geometry, materials, interfaces, lights, and scale before reaching imagegen.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T09:39:31+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "Ran the visual scene reviewer on the Pallas fixture and expanded environment prompts across the sidecar so imagegen receives concrete geometry/material descriptions instead of lore handles; reviewer receipt saved under experiments/pallas-species-strikes.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T09:43:55+00:00", "type": "review"}
{"note": "Patched Pallas cephalopod grounding: AU dry-operation support rigs are bare-minimum productivity equipment for zero-g crawl and seal work, not Navigator-style or cephalopod-native comfort habitat; revised Pallas story/state/digest/coordinator/visual prompts and patched AetheriaLore source docs accordingly.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T09:57:42+00:00", "type": "lore"}
{"note": "Revised Pallas fixture prose and visual sidecar to make Teth Inkwise carry AU cephalopod dry-operation exploitation through visible discomfort, restrained stoicism, and worn harness details without turning the scene into exposition.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T10:05:39+00:00", "type": "fixture"}
{"note": "Tightened Pallas visual segmentation doctrine and fixture structure: scene-changing arrivals and institutional reframes now require click-through visual transitions; split Nara refusal from Ilya arrival and AU classification from BioElevate legal reframe.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T10:12:17+00:00", "type": "review"}
{"note": "Split illustrated IF visual planning out of the Pallas Ink training annotation into a separate .visual.json artifact, with validator support for visual_plan_ref so training sidecars stay focused on branch semantics and mutation surfaces.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T10:20:18+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Removed legacy visual_art_direction/modification_prompts from the Pallas visual plan path. Canonical image variants now come from visual_scene_plan.scenes[].state_image_modifiers and visual_scene_plan.global_branch_image_modifiers only; the counter and validator reject the legacy layer.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T10:26:26+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Corrected Pallas Bloom grounding: Ghostlight artifacts now treat the yard as an engineered rotating Bloom cavity shell made from consolidated asteroid rubble/aggregate and TCS, not a natural hollowed solid-rock asteroid. Visual reviewer and architecture docs now reject cave/monolith assumptions for Bloom habitats.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T10:34:48+00:00", "type": "lore-grounding"}
{"note": "Persisted affirmative image prompt doctrine: imagegen-facing prompts describe desired visible geometry, materials, composition, bodies, tools, lighting, and state deltas. Forbidden assumptions stay in reviewer findings or validator errors; validate_ink_examples now rejects common negative-prompt markers in visual prompt fields.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T10:40:50+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine"}
{"note": "Ran narrative and visual reviewer subagents on the Pallas fixture, patched required revisions, scoped global visual modifiers by scene, added the red-alert worker-judgment visual beat, and resolved the final Orrin/Nara route-memory staging mismatch.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T10:55:19+00:00", "type": "review"}
{"note": "Corrected visual reviewer scope: it reviews playable Ink plus .visual.json for illustrated replay and website value, ignores clean-run prose receipts, and treats visual artifacts as auxiliary corpus presentation rather than core social-model training signal.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T10:58:29+00:00", "type": "doctrine"}
{"note": "Fixed memory-dependent image prompts in the Pallas visual plan and added visual reviewer guardrails requiring base prompts to stand alone without prior-scene memory. Sandbox visual reviewer pass accepted the fixture with minor revisions; patched its remaining standalone-location and relative-modifier findings.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T12:06:24+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine"}
{"note": "Generalized visual reviewer guardrails for unnamed drawable groups and stale lore terminology, removed Pallas-specific policing from the reviewer, and revised the Pallas fixture to replace stale dry-side language with anchor-rail/baseline-anchor work-zone language plus concrete group descriptions.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T12:14:28+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine"}
{"note": "Finished Pallas visual prompt cleanup after imagegen spot check: Teth now uses affirmative cephalopod work-support rig language, padded contact bands, support loops, humidity rings, oxygenation, and tool access instead of containment-shaped harness wording. Added generalized reviewer guardrail for assistive/workplace equipment object-class drift. Did not add scene-geometry continuity guardrails; multi-angle continuity should be handled by future Blender/blockout guide assets, not prompt policing.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-03T12:55:07+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine"}
{"note": "Pallas Kappa fixture corrected from vague crawl/throat imagery to a bounded local service-loop geometry: loop-inner manifold faces and Kappa-7 access ports, loop-outer anchor/staging, far-loop break/access space, and partial operations-gallery sightlines. Future Pallas writing and visuals should treat Kappa-7 False-Seam Artery/Rell's Cut as the dangerous passage, not Kappa itself.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T08:52:29+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Lore and spatial reviewer pass exposed BioElevate/VitaForge provenance drift and Pallas visual geometry issues; fixture now uses supplier_liability, VitaForge BioDrone Standard provenance, narrowed BioElevate uplift-adaptation liability, explicit Ilya stair route, triptych final callback, and lockout-rigging solidarity imagery. AetheriaLore gained economy item hooks plus industrial spoke manifold ring backfill.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T10:03:43+00:00", "type": "review"}
{"note": "Pruned obsolete prototype fixture receipts, removed stale runner scripts and image-provider experiment tooling from the live workspace, moved old experiment notes out of active evidence, and kept Pallas Species Strikes as the current accepted-as-draft fixture.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T12:31:39+00:00", "type": "maintenance"}
{"note": "Added corpus coverage ledger seam: state/corpus-coverage.json, schema reference, validator/status command, state:status coverage summary, and initial Pallas Species Strikes coverage row. Coverage status now reports 1/100-150 accepted fixtures and gap signals for future-branch, founding-era, and day-in-life coverage.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T12:52:20+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Downgraded Pallas Species Strikes in the coverage ledger to draft reference-only material. It is no longer counted as accepted training coverage; training_usability now marks it as reference_only overall and not_training_data for model stages because exact stage-shaped receipts were not generated.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T13:05:46+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Built pallas-training-loop-v0 as the first separate training-shaped scene-loop derivative: three no-fork sandboxed responder turns with exact packets/raw captures, event records, participant appraisals, reviewed mutations, coordinator receipts, bundle manifest, validator coverage, and draft coverage row. Existing Pallas fixture remains reference-only.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T13:59:00+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Staged lucent-hostage-feed-v0 as an open-ended dark-comedy training-loop seed: Lucent media-eye counterweight gazing down a tether at a metropolis bubble, live feed hostage negotiation, participant pressure cards, branch surface, coverage row, and lore gaps for future Lucent station/protocol backfill.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T14:18:34+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Built lucent-hostage-feed-v0 as an open-ended six-turn post-restart training-loop draft with exact packet prompts, no-fork responder captures, event/appraisal/mutation receipts, coordinator artifacts, clean run, coverage update, and schema validation. Opening exploratory turns are setup/rehearsal only because of the compaction seam.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T15:04:32+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Extended lucent-hostage-feed-v0 through safe-line confirmation and non-contact protective handoff. Key Ghostlight machine lesson: the coordinator should nudge with game-ergonomic affordances and state gates rather than force outcomes; actors choose locally within elastic constraints and observed actions fold through reviewed mutation.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T16:09:04+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Dedicated Perfect Machine memory pass: distilled global Epiphany from origin narrative into operational doctrine, added project-local persistent-state stewardship rule, and sharpened Ghostlight map around sandboxed coordinator seam and current fixture truth.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T18:00:02+00:00", "type": "maintenance"}
{"note": "Added prompts/sandboxed-coordinator-turn.md as the coordinator prompt surface. It enforces meta-coordinator separation, character cognitive ceilings, reader translation without character overclocking, affordance-based nudging, branch/fold discipline, and structured next-beat output.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T18:47:36+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Added first Lucent branch-and-fold Ink draft for state-space exploration and created the Interactive Fiction Weaver prompt as the future sandboxed branch compiler organ. The Lucent Ink is meta-coordinator authored and marked needs_revision, not training-ready Weaver output.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T19:01:54+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Lucent negotiator branch v1 exercised sandboxed coordinator and sandboxed Interactive Fiction Weaver; meta-coordinator repairs were labeled; Ink validates; narrative, lore, and spatial reviewers returned B-level or better; visual review was not applicable without a visual plan.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T22:17:05+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Added initiative scheduling as a deterministic runtime seam between reviewed mutation and next actor projection: action opportunity is selected from readiness, recovery, load, status, and reaction windows while participant appraisal remains universal per event.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T22:57:20+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Added corvid-collective-founding-v0 as a draft founding-era branch-and-fold fixture. Prompt iteration improved responder/coordinator/Weaver handling of nonhuman embodiment, concrete fallible leverage, and initiative/recovery constraints. Lore review caught unsupported memory-compression language and missing Rossum & Douglas pressure; fixture now uses recon-log pruning, telemetry/audit machinery, and bounded Chaos Weaver future-interface framing. The artifact is reference/draft branch material, not full responder/appraiser/mutator training data.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-05T00:04:58+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Enabled Corvid visual replay plan and visual-enabled review receipts. Explicit hatch_3c_state plus a draft Blackbox Aviary 3C scene_set fixed branch spatial leakage; narrative/lore/spatial/visual reviewers now accept the fixture as draft, with visual artifacts recorded as collateral rather than core model training data.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-05T00:31:04+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Rebuilt a reusable BFL image batch script after the old runner had been cleaned out. Corvid BFL test generated 16 ignored local images from succinct abstract prompts; one proof prompt moderated until simplified, confirming Flux prompt batches should avoid emotionally loaded/ambiguous safety language and keep one strong visual symbol per frame.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-05T00:49:06+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Published Corvid Collective First Exodus to AetheriaLore as a cinematic illustrated Ink page. Site player now supports data-ink-mode=cinematic with section click-through, background image crossfades, animated text transitions, hidden state chips by default, and cohesive branch-card choices.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-05T01:04:51+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "VoidBot's new routine should become Ghostlight's cast swarm timing and memory substrate: characters take scene turns through heartbeat initiative, offstage agents use slower rumination/sleep turns for consolidation, canonical state moves toward CultCache-style MessagePack with JSON projections, and memory resonance/incubation/dream state should be backed by Qdrant vectors. Captured the plan in docs/architecture/voidbot-routine-adoption-plan.md.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-06T00:25:00+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Ghostlight began migrating machine-managed persistent state behind cultcache-py: branch and evidence records now route through a registered CultCache seam with readable JSON exports kept for diffability and compatibility.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-06T03:46:41+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "GhostlightDungeon ownership map accepted: Ghostlight owns generalized Projector-Persona-Interpreter machinery; consuming Personas such as Epiphany retain canonical mind and commit authority through narrow adapters. WorldKernel is the sole campaign writer.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-16T14:26:32+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Epiphany extraction map grounded in persona_turn.rs, persona_executor.rs, persona-service, conversation, and Discord crossing: shared orchestration moves to Ghostlight; Epiphany Mind/state/mouth stay; narrow slicer, transport, receipt, schema, and permit ports split; strict v1 removes second-channel state from Persona turn.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-16T14:28:19+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "DeepSeek credential validated and migrated from plaintext ops ingress to machine-scoped DPAPI at the runtime root; native Rust DPAPI loading and live deepseek-v4-flash startup probe passed without persisting or displaying secret or reasoning content. Service ACL and protected invite generation remain in the elevated ops install.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-16T14:46:04+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "GhostlightDungeon MVP deployed on Starfire as a normal detached operator process, not a Windows service. Exact release 747b27e9 listens on 8831, DeepSeek DPAPI startup inference is ready, unauthenticated surface access returns 401, PID/executable/log witnesses are recorded, and the obsolete stopped service was deleted.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-16T15:00:31+00:00", "type": "deployment"}
{"note": "World compiler live acceptance passed on 2026-08-16: DeepSeek v4 Pro consumed 30 hashed VoidBot witnesses across three receipts, emitted three locations, three actors, two institutions, two clocks, explicit gaps and branch assumptions, and remained an uncommitted revision-0 approval preview. Deterministic tests reject dangling routes and malformed typed seeds.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-16T18:12:28+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Disposable HTTP acceptance proved unauthenticated 401, compiler-only surface before approval, explicit campaign admission with three evidence receipts, campaign reload after daemon restart, authenticated session survival after restart, and 401 on consumed-invite reuse. Auth CultCache stores token/session hashes rather than plaintext.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-16T18:17:14+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Away-time agency now uses a revision-bound deepseek-v4-flash StrategicTickPlan proposal. WorldKernel validation rejects player puppeting, invented institutions/gestalts/actors/locations, duplicate actions, movement without a direct route or beyond tick duration, empty summaries, and unbounded channels or population pressures before mutation. The 30-test Rust suite proves a rejected player move leaves revision/location unchanged and a valid remote actor move commits one event.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-16T20:04:54+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "The player HTTP mouth now admits only player-owned Speak, unfilled Assess, Attempt, and Wait commands. It rejects NPC impersonation and every internal WorldCommand family, including strategic ticks, region expansion, gestalt presence, reaction waves, NPC initiative, and campaign creation, before catch-up or kernel dispatch. Focused HTTP-boundary tests and the complete Rust suite pass.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-16T20:12:33+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Strategic ticks now atomically persist ghostlight.strategic_tick.v1 beside the campaign and generic commit, binding tick source, revisions, model output hash, and event IDs. Gestalt promotion/demotion/reconciliation atomically persist ghostlight.gestalt_materialization_receipt.v1 with exact baseline/member versions and actor identity. The schema catalog now publishes all named Vault, relationship, narration, lifecycle, rejection, strategic, and gestalt public contracts. Provider-neutral timeout and all 31 Rust tests pass; the complete legacy schema/fixture/Ink regression suite also passes after npm ci installed declared root dependencies.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-16T20:18:52+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Registry HTTP acceptance at commit 381cbf2: two single-use invite sessions compiled distinct live DeepSeek/VoidBot-grounded campaigns with different IDs, surfaces, evidence receipts, and per-campaign .cc stores; cross-session selection returned 403. Fork, reset, 1,056,768-byte CultCache export, session/campaign survival across daemon restart, rejected-command receipt without revision advance, committed Wait narration, and zero settled live-turn pressure all passed. Disposable witness root: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\smoke\\registry-381cbf2.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-16T21:10:00+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Final hosted acceptance against deployed commit 3eba32a4e8774956e63ed4727349b924a9d3f6f8 passed: unauthenticated and consumed-invite requests returned 401, the second session saw zero campaigns, live VoidBot/DeepSeek compilation produced stable topology plus an institution, three clocks, and a gestalt, three NPC proposals survived the reaction wave, and the Eve operator surface lowered successfully. Witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\20260816-215443\\acceptance-result.json.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-16T21:56:08+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Exact final source completed a four-actor Projector-Persona-Interpreter wave with three reactions and nine model-stage receipts in 13.57 seconds, below the 20-second target. A live model-driven strategic tick completed in 3.04 seconds, changed an institution, gestalt pressure, remote actor location, and clock, preserved the absent player's location, and published only the player's exact station-radio channel. Witnesses: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\four-actor-20260816-215743\\result.json and F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\strategic-20260816-215734\\result.json.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-16T21:57:56+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Live acceptance falsified split NPC initiative ownership: the old begin commit could survive a later malformed assessment. ResolveNpcAction now validates the selected proposal and same-revision assessment, obtains the server d20, applies the typed effect, consumes sibling proposals, and persists receipts in one WorldKernel commit. The assessor now receives exact present-actor IDs and gets one same-snapshot local-semantic correction; tests prove an invented actor leaves revision and pending proposals unchanged.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-16T21:58:30+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "The flat strategic proposer is removed. Ghostlight now compiles a complete global agency skeleton, derives deterministic connected cohesive/arena covers under player budget and pins, runs one Ghostlight-owned Projector-Persona-Interpreter membrane per cell, validates exact constituent knowledge/authority/topology and all model receipts, and commits the whole strategic wave atomically. Approval-gated fission preserves parent lineage and member deltas; detail debt provides quiet-world fairness. Fifty-two dungeon tests and all workspace tests pass; the optimized 1,000-subject budget-8 partition completes in about 50 ms, below the 100 ms contract. Provider concurrency has a separate operator epoch and cannot repartition or advance fiction.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-17T09:30:12+02:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated the immutable multiresolution release from commit bf586b90d0bad28816ec1cdf99ac74c7d53bf3f8 with binary SHA-256 9469f539a9e309cf3af149fd63efaff61170a7fa0a90cfb4f00043d919c4b193. Typed health matched the release and DeepSeek was ready. A disposable live strategic-cell wave completed in 19.55 seconds with three selected cells, three offscreen events, three exact-channel news items, and no player movement. Witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\strategic-20260817-073632\\campaign.cc. The default-budget fixture exercised cell isolation and atomicity; aggregation budgets remain proven by the deterministic 20-plus-faction matrix.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-17T09:38:18+02:00", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Live DeepSeek acceptance drove a 24-faction global agency skeleton through a budget-4 cover: all subjects appeared exactly once in four connected cells, three cross-faction cells remained arenas, two exact-constituent institutional consequences committed atomically, and the absent player was unchanged. Cutting model ownership of focal overage and deterministic cell bindings, splitting Projector situation context from Interpreter permissions, and stabilizing prompt prefixes reduced prompt use from 37,327 tokens/17.81s to 20,760 tokens/14.38s; all 13 stages validated first try. Witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\gestalt-scale-20260817-151658\\result.json.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-17T15:20:00Z", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Exact commit 84951fda6f17d06a03456ecef5d79f833006b92d completed the live VoidBot/DeepSeek compiler in 43.35 seconds with five first-attempt-valid stages. The seed admitted one local institution and a separately compiled global skeleton of 17 remote institutions; every remote agency profile carries only coarse deterministic facets plus nonempty evidence receipt IDs drawn from the preview's exact five Vault receipts. Ten unsupported agency candidates were omitted into one approval-visible coverage gap, and remote coverage gaps did not become canon candidates. Witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\compiler-20260817-165127\\result.json.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-17T16:54:00Z", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release f1d55b181ad60ace8e8e92859c4d0b2f1a94fc87 with binary SHA-256 119772af15859d8c26e7239d705a229ce01b24d6a7e70105b78e4df227ef0583. Active junction, release manifest, executable hash, PID 26140, typed health, persisted campaign count, ready DeepSeek startup inference, and the Ghostlight-owned CultMesh store agree. Periwinkle at 192.168.178.158 received exact health over the LocalSubnet lane and HTTP 401 for unauthenticated campaign access; Raven and Yggdrasil independently received exact health over WireGuard. Windows-generated public prompt rules were removed; the only Ghostlight rules admit TCP 8831 from LocalSubnet and 10.77.0.0/24. Live VoidBot retrieval returned the canonical Aetheria factions source, and the deployed browser renders a non-interactive authentication gate when no valid session exists.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-17T17:22:30Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Multiplayer is an intended post-solo extension of the existing one-WorldKernel, many-actor authority model. Multiple authenticated humans will control distinct actors through the same campaign mailbox, perception gates, initiative, and atomic commit path; no party prompt or room-state authority is introduced. The paid alpha remains single-player while multiresolution Gestalt proof stays the immediate forge priority.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-18T14:36:02Z", "type": "design"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "The provider-backed strategic-outcome golden completed four waves across active-cell budgets 1, 4, 8, and 4 in 81.28 seconds in a debug build. It committed ten durable consequences including seven typed material activity outcomes, recorded three explicit no-material-change results, rejected zero pulses, preserved exact member attribution, left the player unchanged, and returned the same Mira with persistent state. Usage was 126826 prompt tokens, 73984 cache-hit prompt tokens (58.34%), and 14477 completion tokens. The harness now requires a typed material activity outcome. Selective independent semantic verification protects resource custody/transfers, agency-relation shifts, and named-member private deltas; its local regressions pass, while a forced live high-risk witness remains outstanding. Witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\outcome-risk-verifier-20260818\\result.json.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T16:15:00Z", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable GhostlightDungeon release 9367ad13292863ed3bf0159e4d5164b3ecb7d77d with executable SHA-256 043bc72b1e00257e5052d62fc071468ffd52945a4bb7a441a7c732313ec4ebe6. Active junction, manifest, binary hash, embedded typed-health commit, one persisted campaign, DeepSeek readiness, HTTP 401 for unauthenticated surface access, browser-rendered invite gate, and explicit stop/start recovery agree. Deployment first exposed that an Odin RUDP connection reset could terminate startup; release 9367ad1 demotes outbound rendezvous to best-effort replication while preserving the canonical local CultMesh projection, with a regression proving unavailable Odin cannot take away health or schema state.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T17:27:00Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Forced provider-backed high-risk outcome witness transferred Dock Labor Guild's exact west winch rerouting plan to the colocated Harbor Neighbors. The strategic outcome resolver and independent semantic verifier each returned first-attempt-valid typed output against digest-bound same-snapshot requests; canonical campaign input remained byte-identical. The initial witness exposed a resource_recipient_id versus other_subject_id prompt/schema mismatch and spent one correction call. After the contract named the exact input-to-output mapping, the accepted rerun completed in 2.945 seconds with exactly two provider calls. Witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\forced-high-risk-outcome-contract-fixed-20260818\\result.json.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T17:40:00Z", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire release 0e4b8f4617840d45daec8a6451001192193ca5e0 passed authenticated HTTP and restart rehearsal. A newly rotated invite returned 200 once and 401 on replay; its session saw the compiler surface and empty owned-campaign list. The live opening endpoint returned exactly three pairwise-distinct eras, places, and pressures after the compiler gained one same-evidence semantic correction. A second session remained authenticated across an explicit daemon stop/start. Deployment then rotated back to exactly two unused tester invitations. Manifest and actual executable SHA-256 agree at 2aa75cfa57d5381f6fa1da8a454314efd00c52317cfc003f744bfad855bedf57. Witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\authenticated-release-0e4b8f4-20260818\\result.json.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T17:47:00Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Deployed release c7d950c9ae4f734caa7b8e1ab8e3e5e22826117e processed the real five-minute scheduler pulse for the persisted campaign with no active agency subjects. campaign.cc advanced at 17:59:44Z, exactly on the pulse; the prior 'agency graph has no active subjects' refusal did not recur. Local regression proves the same branch advances two overdue world/clock ticks without a model or resolution wave and leaves the player byte-identical. The scheduler still enters WorldKernel AdvanceStrategicTick and the live-turn commit gate.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T18:00:05Z", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release 85938884b84a7db51417d68fdd5bc208a5063555 with executable SHA-256 6d27bbc52b9f6c70242d7077a9e9362e35468b65ad62e1bb4f2cbcd99383db66 and rollback c7d950c9ae4f734caa7b8e1ab8e3e5e22826117e. Typed health, manifest, actual binary hash, DeepSeek readiness, and served asset /assets/index-DmZm_kJC.js agree. The exact served JavaScript contains neither branch_facts nor the former operator-spoiler label. A server regression plants a discoverable branch secret and proves its ID and statement are absent from the player approval projection.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T18:05:00Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Exact release a92fb7a4a09b2ee2d80b8e3f8ecff3ab71b9ea06 passed the authenticated committed player journey. A generated campaign used a canonical player ID other than literal player; the server-projected ID drove a private admissible assessment, confirmed OS-random d20 commit, wait, daemon restart, fork, 1,056,768-byte .cc export, original re-selection, and reset. The original remained at revision 2 after fork and the session retained three isolated branches. Cleanup rotated exactly two fresh invitations. Witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\player-journey-a92fb7a-20260818\\result.json.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T18:35:30Z", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Provider-backed 24-subject multiresolution smokes passed at active-cell budgets 1, 4, 8, and 32. Covers contained 1, 4, 8, and 24 cells respectively; compressed cross-faction cells remained arenas, every canonical subject appeared exactly once, material background consequences committed, and the absent player never moved. Elapsed times were 18.08s, 15.90s, 25.64s, and 63.22s. Witnesses: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\gestalt-scale-a92fb7a-b1, -b4, -b8, and -b32.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T18:50:40Z", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Exact release 7916ab04936ba962720cfbf4af1b83f9aa8d8b24 made every selected named member exception a mandatory Projector perspective owner, closing the seam where aggregation could erase an actionable individual before Persona choice. The strict provider-backed budget-one golden placed 24 rivals in one arena, attributed migration to member:mira-venn, moved her between depth-two population lineages, produced nine sustained material consequences including seven typed outcomes across six other background subjects, preserved her delta and the player, and automatically promoted the same Mira on return with zero rejected pulses. Witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\gestalt-dynamics-7916ab0-strict\\result.json.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T18:52:00Z", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Pre-human browser audit restored the fiction-first assessment boundary: the composer now sends distinct description and intended_effect fields, so spoken words are not conflated with persuasion or another desired consequence. The receipt panel now exclusively owns the current assessment, destination, or fission approval button; newer snapshot-bound receipts structurally replace stale controls. Vite production build succeeded.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:05:00Z", "type": "implementation"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release f9b0ffb90e6a8b3e1505d81995e81e09a9c58cd7 with executable SHA-256 66df149fbf548fc5da6658268e1bb53c62d9608ef6c2c306c6cfc9c909dabdfe and rollback 7916ab04936ba962720cfbf4af1b83f9aa8d8b24. Typed health, release manifest, active junction, PID 12212, four persisted campaigns, DeepSeek readiness, and served browser asset index-DCxXqgqF.js agree. Publication did not rotate or consume invitations.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:11:00Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "The world-seed preview now renders the full public approval surface\u2014player capabilities/equipment/conditions/obligations, stable topology and routes, cast, institutions, populations, clocks, and exact evidence-use rationales\u2014in compact expandable sections. A browser-local request lock disables only previously enabled controls during compilation or commands and restores those exact controls afterward, preventing accidental duplicate inference while leaving mailbox/revision authority server-side. Vite production build succeeded.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:14:00Z", "type": "implementation"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "The player surface now projects the canonical current location ID beside the canonical actor ID. The destination form binds that ID read-only rather than asking the player to transcribe internal state, and its approval receipt shows proposed containment, routes, persistent features, and material gaps. Fission approval shows each child leaf, partition value including other/unknown, and home location. Focused surface regression and Vite production build passed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:18:00Z", "type": "implementation"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Corrected the scale harness's conflation of active-cell budget with provider concurrency. GHOSTLIGHT_SCALE_PROVIDER_PARALLELISM now defaults to 8 and is recorded in the result. A provider-backed 24-subject budget-8 / parallelism-8 wave completed in 18.35s, covered every subject exactly once, produced ten material actions and one attributed inaction, made no retry, and left the player unmoved. The prior 25.64s budget-8 result used provider parallelism 4. Witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\gestalt-scale-shakedown-b8-p8\\result.json.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:20:00Z", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release 5e198dfa872a710d31e581dcf2cd0851bef01966 with executable SHA-256 d511629d9a05ef5210edc7dedf38bd842b4dc15cb3e8b43467a6ac54d2d26646 and rollback f9b0ffb90e6a8b3e1505d81995e81e09a9c58cd7. Typed health, manifest, active junction, PID 1888, four persisted campaigns, DeepSeek readiness, and served assets index-DbDnq-RC.js / index-B7Qh0xAi.css agree. The unauthenticated rendered browser gate remained coherent. Publication did not rotate or consume invitations.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:24:30Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Cut an omniscient player-surface leak: the location card no longer enumerates every canonical institution posture and raw world clock. Remote developments remain operator state until player-local narration or an admitted information-channel NewsIssue exposes them. The player-owned ledger now includes the actor's own relationships. A negative regression plants secret remote posture/clock/consequence strings, proves all absent from the serialized player Eve surface, and proves an accessible public headline remains.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:29:00Z", "type": "security"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release c4a3d6f38bc6f95a94404a52cbb3401f24a89aab with executable SHA-256 7a6fe39503cf62b9e6a496cda4e92f1d552f6c7f79a91e2b69e41c9d729ada61 and rollback 5e198dfa872a710d31e581dcf2cd0851bef01966. Typed health, manifest, active junction, PID 12164, four persisted campaigns, and DeepSeek readiness agree. Publication did not rotate or consume invitations.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:33:00Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Restored resolution-control ownership at the player membrane. Players retain active_cell_budget control; ReplaceResolutionPins is rejected by the player HTTP boundary, the browser pin editor is deleted, and player projection exposes only pin_count rather than operator pin subjects/reasons. Player fission targets now contain only active population leaves at the canonical current location. Regressions prove remote pin bodies and a secret remote population name are absent while a local population remains available.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:37:00Z", "type": "security"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release c509d2a95bb7683b10561abad7d4857aeab6277d with executable SHA-256 041b85ed31e58f73cbd2e75d054cac32a5ad06a5944e1e129d39df5fb5e8df8e and rollback c4a3d6f38bc6f95a94404a52cbb3401f24a89aab. Typed health, manifest, active junction, PID 27396, four persisted campaigns, DeepSeek readiness, and served asset index-CXe_foJ-.js agree. Publication did not rotate or consume invitations.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:41:00Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Established a real operator HTTP boundary: the inspector and provider-parallelism mutation now require an authenticated session from an actual loopback TCP peer supplied by Axum ConnectInfo. LAN and WireGuard peers are denied before private state access; forwarded headers grant nothing. The browser operator panel is hidden unless loaded from loopback, mirroring but not replacing server authority. IPv4/IPv6 loopback and LAN/WireGuard negative unit cases plus the production web build pass.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:45:00Z", "type": "security"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release f7c9db29bea389b49fa6805d1ae6143e95db8b82 with executable SHA-256 38914543bd3d863ce78b410438e5d702c409a5c20c787ede7f602967b6c11a0a and rollback c509d2a95bb7683b10561abad7d4857aeab6277d. Typed health, manifest, active junction, PID 1880, four persisted campaigns, and DeepSeek readiness agree. Live socket proof returned 401 for unauthenticated loopback inspector/control requests and 403 for the same requests through Starfire's 192.168.178.146 listener, proving peer denial precedes session lookup. Publication did not rotate or consume invitations.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:49:00Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release 73b748e183d4c05e6e0ce5442a860394ab25cd0a with executable SHA-256 48a3ffa00e24cf23ac5c82e23af0c7f5e5b0be37a08de5ccec468a97637587df and rollback f7c9db29bea389b49fa6805d1ae6143e95db8b82. Typed health, release manifest, executable hash, PID 2728, four persisted campaigns, DeepSeek readiness, and served asset index-DWEg_yl8.js agree. Unauthenticated player and loopback operator surfaces returned 401, LAN operator access returned 403, malformed lifecycle JSON returned 400, and publication neither rotated nor consumed invitations. The release adds truthful ambiguous-transport handling and registry-owned fork/reset name validation; the full workspace passed 135 core and 8 daemon tests before publication.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T19:58:18Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release e55984c22703539f72157da652d670c54ff76580 with executable SHA-256 22c096f5bbb2f49353be482d3fae017907c30dba247e5bae5c2988a87bb493ee and rollback 73b748e183d4c05e6e0ce5442a860394ab25cd0a. Typed health, manifest, executable hash, PID 4588, four persisted campaigns, DeepSeek readiness, and served asset index-DWEg_yl8.js agree. Unauthenticated player and loopback operator surfaces returned 401 and LAN operator access returned 403. Auth state now becomes live only after its CultCache compare-and-swap succeeds; a forced stale-row regression proves failure leaves in-memory authority unchanged. Two immediate exports produce distinct readable MessagePack-backed CultCache snapshots. Publication did not rotate or consume invitations; the full workspace passed 135 core and 9 daemon tests.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T20:07:03Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release 0815776fa883dd5aefc1ba18c9aa7d1e4a048beb with executable SHA-256 9f0707591d4ec31d15787b7b4bffe14fc046eb2ccdebb5c7abf6d409100cfc81 and rollback e55984c22703539f72157da652d670c54ff76580. Typed health, manifest, executable hash, PID 28516, four persisted campaigns, DeepSeek readiness, and served asset index-BxLzO9Gw.js agree. The exact served HTML and JavaScript contain the explicit no-roll Speak control and speech-versus-assessment guidance. Unauthenticated player and loopback operator surfaces returned 401 and LAN operator access returned 403. Compiler and player inputs are bounded before retrieval, catch-up, inference, or mutation; negative tests prove invalid waits and oversized speech leave campaign state and world receipts unchanged. Publication did not rotate or consume invitations; the full workspace passed 137 core and 10 daemon tests.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T20:19:18Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release 12a704a508f2be1f4eee96acd46fe0dd9369b81c with executable SHA-256 58ba8e3786fda8217df39c9c325e1b2e3e481baac70c5cf51d314093055df042 and rollback 0815776fa883dd5aefc1ba18c9aa7d1e4a048beb. Typed health, manifest, executable hash, PID 17924, four persisted campaigns, DeepSeek readiness, served asset index-BxLzO9Gw.js, and the visible Speak control agree. Unauthenticated player and loopback operator surfaces returned 401 and LAN operator access returned 403. New world, destination, and fission previews now replace only the same session's older preview of that kind; a regression proves one tester's replacement cannot retire the other tester's approval. Publication did not rotate or consume invitations; the full workspace passed 137 core and 11 daemon tests.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-18T20:25:32Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release b76bb5a8936624513fd0cd5e46d4d9ab11c3a517 with executable SHA-256 41928dbe73bb3e4a75e3a468d8a2c7ce725254621d17faa8a565ea526b2a3296 and rollback 12a704a508f2be1f4eee96acd46fe0dd9369b81c. Typed health, manifest, executable hash, PID 22464, four persisted campaigns, and DeepSeek readiness agree. Against canonical Odin target 10.77.0.1:17871, HTTP became healthy in 2.803 seconds; after the remote deadline one warning reported the 19-document RUDP batch could not establish an acknowledged connection. Local CultMesh and HTTP remained healthy. Independent SSH inspection found no Odin container and no UDP 17871 listener on Yggdrasil. The outage is recorded in gamecult-ops and does not transfer coordinator authority to Starfire. Publication did not rotate or consume invitations.", "status": "degraded", "ts": "2026-08-18T20:43:30Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release f905376a2278c48bf474ab3b665fe12a241d69de with executable SHA-256 8ab529c908b765acba3c97bc7c9e0e78df7690b2d7da0dabf645782439b061b8 and rollback b76bb5a8936624513fd0cd5e46d4d9ab11c3a517. Typed health, manifest, executable hash, PID 21092, four persisted campaigns, and DeepSeek readiness agree. One authentication middleware now owns entry to every /api route before body extraction; deployed probes returned 401 for malformed and three-megabyte anonymous JSON, while a valid-session regression reaches the ordinary 400 parser response. The full workspace passed 137 core and 13 daemon tests. Invitations were neither rotated nor consumed. Remote Odin replication remains degraded because Yggdrasil has no UDP 17871 listener; canonical local CultMesh and HTTP remain healthy.", "status": "degraded", "ts": "2026-08-18T20:58:12Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release ca9c1ccbfaac8026bee9554d7244ed75931b5104 with executable SHA-256 b17dcfad6d4cbd442153f1e5b3c834c795614fdd08253cb7e8f0ca2527af65b4 and rollback f905376a2278c48bf474ab3b665fe12a241d69de. Typed health, manifest, executable hash, PID 27988, four persisted campaigns, DeepSeek readiness, and served asset index-CA3oKXnL.js agree. The browser release build now performs strict TypeScript checking; definite server refusals are distinct from lost-response ambiguity, and campaign mutations retain the interaction lock through canonical refresh. Anonymous malformed JSON remains 401. Invitations were neither rotated nor consumed. Remote Odin replication remains degraded because Yggdrasil has no UDP 17871 listener; canonical local CultMesh and HTTP remain healthy.", "status": "degraded", "ts": "2026-08-18T21:06:20Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release 4995f261f68809857dbed620561e53b80198bd0f with executable SHA-256 1e1d46c549bd91feac58523861268797114e83a942e79d9c13de8bfc5fa96ea5 and rollback ca9c1ccbfaac8026bee9554d7244ed75931b5104. Typed health, manifest, executable hash, PID 25136, four persisted campaigns, DeepSeek readiness, and served asset index-B_0anyiQ.js agree. Fission free text is bounded before retrieval or inference. Generated openings and roles are now session-owned server state selected by opaque IDs; forged or cross-opening selection is rejected, and the selected role's validated capabilities, obligations, evidence, and model receipts survive into the approval preview. The full workspace passed 139 core and 14 daemon tests plus the strict browser build. Invitations were neither rotated nor consumed. Remote Odin replication remains degraded because Yggdrasil has no UDP 17871 listener; canonical local CultMesh and HTTP remain healthy.", "status": "degraded", "ts": "2026-08-18T21:21:11Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release 90e7ca38a2b4b1a2ca36228d7d248ee2fe6cae2f with executable SHA-256 ad2964c05fed28fa54ab4a5619406eeecd43bb37c96713085f18ec1cbf8c44c1 and rollback 4995f261f68809857dbed620561e53b80198bd0f. Typed health, manifest, executable hash, PID 27412, four persisted campaign directories, zero .creating-* directories, and DeepSeek readiness agree. Campaign initialization now commits seed and provenance atomically in a non-discoverable staging namespace before UUID publication; failed creation leaves no registry or filesystem residue, and failed approval keeps its exact preview retryable. The full workspace passed 140 core and 15 daemon tests. Invitations were neither rotated nor consumed. Remote Odin replication remains degraded because Yggdrasil has no UDP 17871 listener; canonical local CultMesh and HTTP remain healthy.", "status": "degraded", "ts": "2026-08-18T21:30:27Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release 53f3f0cc3165bef6d68a6edc4d4ffbbc16dc7fd8 with executable SHA-256 a4bbc699bcb120b3e2d546ee3f60491b36ecbb30013f60af58216ad2043426dc. Typed health, executable hash, PID 7868, four recovered campaign directories, zero .creating-* directories, and DeepSeek readiness agree. Fork and reset lifecycle receipts now enter their staging stores before atomic publication, and a deliberate receipt collision proves failure leaves no filesystem or registry residue. Campaign selection reloads stale canonical auth state once and preserves concurrent session changes. The full workspace passed 141 core and 16 daemon tests. A fresh four-actor live Persona wave completed in 10.39 seconds, produced three appraisals and nine validated stage receipts, and atomically committed revision 1. The unauthenticated rendered page loaded without console errors; malformed anonymous JSON returned 401. Invitations were neither rotated nor consumed. One credentialed rendered journey remains pending. Remote Odin replication remains degraded because Yggdrasil has no UDP 17871 listener; canonical local CultMesh and HTTP remain healthy.", "status": "degraded", "ts": "2026-08-18T21:43:19Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release 9f991e4ce6ee7ca6c33cfc97f86dda4c05992caa with executable SHA-256 b4e8a68006a46d32c712c4ebc21ec19d7de2a73165ea62645e87cb76e731c68a. The first credentialed rendered-browser journey exposed and then verified the repair of a registry-normalization mismatch in campaign approval recovery. The fixed journey compiled and approved a grounded preview, refused impossible teleportation and nonexistent-equipment claims without mutation, previewed and atomically resolved a server-side d20 attempt from revision 0 to 1, published fork and reset branches exactly once, and preserved session selection and all three owned campaigns across daemon restart. The release recovered seven total campaign directories with zero .creating-* directories, DeepSeek ready, PID 5368, and no browser console warnings. The refused-approval test store was moved intact outside the campaign namespace into acceptance/quarantine. One invite was consumed for this acceptance journey; the second remains unused and the invite blob was not rotated. Remote Odin replication remains degraded because Yggdrasil has no UDP 17871 listener; canonical local CultMesh and HTTP remain healthy.", "status": "degraded", "ts": "2026-08-18T21:56:28Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable release 7b58e3eaa24f30f0be9d226380d45c2601ecdea0 with executable SHA-256 9d33e9242505e18f0fff85b5083caf29ee8fc092495d347244b1aa7e2d9ffb43. Heimdall admits only the exact Yggdrasil Ghostlight backend callback and evaluates Discord guild 113786069023064068 role 861962027550244914. Ghostlight owns short-lived login attempts, verifies signed aud=ghostlight claims server-side, discards the provider token, and mints one HttpOnly session alias. Retired invite paths return 404 without a cookie, unauthenticated campaign state returns 401, the public start crossing returns 200, and rendered-browser acceptance reached Discord authorization through a same-tab handoff that survives navigation. Human Discord authorization remains the final account-specific acceptance step.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-20T19:01:36Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Starfire activated immutable Session Zero/co-op release 2b059da2edfec5f8db216ecd92df94687103f1cc with executable SHA-256 e78a6c3b9520630e3342f93d48ebf9ebdf9497c5556d41859526b71839ab97b2 and rollback 531d4d44bb749201b668ea06a27eef2ee7cdda12. Typed health, exact release witness, seven existing campaigns, one persistent Session Zero store, DeepSeek readiness, supervised SSH reverse crossing, public HTTP 200, and unauthenticated HTTP 401 agree. A real Heimdall/KLTST Discord round trip adopted an HttpOnly Ghostlight session. The canary produced three Vault-grounded opening decisions and survived two exact-build restarts. Two observed malformed Interpreter runs changed no typed draft; the repaired body now publishes a local retry notice and supplies stable exact JSON Schemas before dynamic Projector/Interpreter context. A subsequent live Mars/Zhestokost turn produced coherent DM speech, no duplicated decisions, and no unaccepted contract mutation. The full workspace passed 161 core and 15 daemon tests plus strict TypeScript/Vite release builds. Remote Odin RUDP publication is degraded: WireGuard is healthy, but 10.77.0.1:17871 is not a network Odin listener; canonical local CultMesh/Eve and HTTP remain healthy.", "status": "degraded", "ts": "2026-08-21T15:38:00Z", "type": "deployment"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Netcup's Vienna status incident explains the transient Yggdrasil reachability loss on 2026-08-21. Netcup reported full recovery at 17:37 CEST while retaining the incident under observation. Post-recovery checks proved Yggdrasil SSH, WireGuard, the supervised reverse tunnel, public Ghostlight HTTP 200, and anonymous HTTP 401. The Odin RUDP degradation is separate: odin-coordinator-1 and 10.77.0.1:17871 remain absent after network recovery, while Idunn is healthy on 10.77.0.1:17870 and its distinct public-provider query socket is loopback-only. This corrects the transient network diagnosis without rewriting the append-only deployment witness.", "status": "degraded", "ts": "2026-08-21T16:05:00Z", "type": "operational-correction"}
{"note": "Yggdrasil control-plane verification: Ghostlight remains healthy on executable 10b638e45756e5210aaee1efb5dcf74dbebf83c0; Idunn/Odin exact source 745e01093c59882ed098b7515ef8921d55fbed15 owns release admission/continuity and discovery without campaign authority. Epiphany ebc0ffe4f341154d1902f9afe86f0a87f150179c is tested and sealed but unpublished behind Idunn's brake because Bifrost operator substrate and resident Self credentials are absent; Ghostlight testing does not depend on it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-21T20:53:47+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Eve-native access cut accepted on Yggdrasil: Ghostlight b515ca90c25573005a616244143803b37f2d06ec with Eve 6766bee7c14a47144191475e2f35b0343b647b45 serves the canonical anonymous Eve gate; Odin b4f9a2e95f0b41cebdeddc49223781d1d3c7b42a persists Heimdall's provider, command-boundary, plugin, and transport records under unique keys; Heimdall 1086aee01169bf60e8a492b2740db1c6f3e8cabf accepted a canonical auth.begin through Ghostlight's Odin-resolved route. The Ghostlight unit has no direct Heimdall endpoint, the browser showed the gate with no console errors, and the deployment brake was re-engaged.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-22T02:01:00+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "OpenRouter test profile accepted on Yggdrasil: immutable Ghostlight 4c04c13c144c1f6dce8af47698caafe34d6a6120, binary SHA-256 24b6857c7cec92e213e8638607f90d40a03af6f75f4a4995b25aac6cd23a51f5, passed the hosted 167-test package gate and serves seven campaigns plus one Session Zero draft. Typed health reports provider openrouter, fast/capable physical model stealth/ox-alpha, and a ready startup-inference output hash. The provider port applies low/high reasoning by logical stage class, asks OpenRouter to exclude reasoning, ignores reasoning fields on decode, and receipts the resolved physical provider/model. The key is a root-owned 0600 encrypted systemd credential; source, arguments, environment projections, Eve/CultMesh state, and logs contain no credential. Public /ghostlight/ and the canonical anonymous Eve provider return 200, Idunn receives authenticated health with zero restarts, and its deployment brake is re-engaged.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-22T05:38:49Z", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Adversarial Session Zero play exposed two authority defects and Yggdrasil now serves their exact repair at Ghostlight 257b6429c52c796167125bd81d923a605ac065df with Eve 23eaf32eae76204357c1406b4a7d01bcece6b815, OpenRouter stealth/ox-alpha ready, seven campaigns, one persistent Session Zero, zero daemon restarts, 171 hosted Linux tests, and the Idunn deployment brake re-engaged. A counterproposal can no longer rewrite visible prose while retaining the stale typed bargain: the kernel clears the old payload, durably records the counter in its permitted channel, removes Accept, rejects forged acceptance, and requires a same-epoch fresh decision before atomically retiring the pending counter. Generated opening and role suggestions are non-material and may be ignored for a custom draft; conversely a blank transcript-only contract or character is rejected locally with explicit missing inputs before world compilation. The live browser campaign remains intact, but its local Heimdall claim expired during the next private-message attempt; Discord reauthentication is pending and no claim or credential was bypassed.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-22T11:22:30Z", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Yggdrasil release 41a1950f1dcb2215b07cee484151ca5f09a59a10 repaired Heimdall continuity: each scheduled refresh uses a fresh encrypted-command identity, refresh verification binds the signed access claim to the exact returned session without requiring the initial-login account summary, and the local wrapped claim rotates by CAS. The 171-test hosted gate passed; live due-session refresh emitted no failure across startup and the next scheduler pulse; the authenticated browser returned to Session Zero revision 18 after daemon replacement; binary SHA-256 b4544027e9ce19e17aae53b27abe146c96006e667c8f7d3d92b45c6545024050, NRestarts=0, brake engaged.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-22T16:37:44+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Yggdrasil release 801d4c exposes a loopback-only Heimdall-backed native CultMesh player boundary. Odin returned the redacted provider route; a forged app session produced the canonical denial receipt and left every campaign store byte-identical. One human Discord approval remains before actor-filtered direct play.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-23T18:54:53+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Native auth pressure found that a second begin could replace the client pending handle after Discord completed it. Release 447f402 refuses overwrite, clears terminal owned attempts, and supports stdin-only completed-handle recovery. Three focused tests and Idunn full 265-test Linux gate passed; daemon and native listener are healthy.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-23T19:14:47+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Revision 74-76 canary proved route keys are origin-local: composite transition edge identity removed cross-location collisions; an already-unanimous uncommitted travel proposal finalized idempotently, survived an Idunn same-release restart, and returned Ash to the same encampment cast and ledger after exactly 30 fictional minutes.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-24T09:56:23+00:00", "type": "live_acceptance"}
{"note": "Release 4057e11 moved NPC initiative assessment beyond the foreground response while preserving Campaign.pending_world_proposals as the sole durable queue and WorldKernel ResolveNpcAction as commit authority. Idunn passed 294 tests and deployed the exact immutable body on Yggdrasil. Live CultMesh play returned a grounded Mira response at revision 86 in 25.8 seconds, then independently advanced to revision 87 twelve seconds later with an explicit spatially inadmissible follow-up rather than teleportation, fabricated records, or partial mutation.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-24T11:40:58+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "CodexConnector is independently deployed on Yggdrasil as codex-connector.service at f9cfa355051ef91d0e7f095b2df2a69fe79f8a7c. Ghostlight has only a soft ordering edge and cannot mutate its release; Epiphany is another consumer, not an owner. During Ghostlight deployment the connector remained active, authenticated, zero-restart, and unchanged.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-25T00:26:15+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Fresh native Session Zero e7f2f947-25fa-4e1b-82e3-4a3e07dc4497 reached revision 36 with its exact Mars/Zhestokost contract and private Corvid character intact. Idunn deployed Ghostlight 44eec9d654ffbcea253b69ebfd2a0421d7614b66 after 306 tests. With Nightwing/VoidBot retrieval unavailable, compilation produced one stable typed material blocker, no preview, world digest, branch assumption, or campaign; the player message did not expose backend details.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-25T00:26:15+00:00", "type": "acceptance"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Idunn deployed exact Ghostlight bd4758894c1f81df13a048fa82ca4511fe6d4245 after 312 locked Linux tests; daemon and native-client hashes are 0fb4e27c56a1d331d77335ce959ed5937040636da081e4c016602bc073a8c3de and 13ddda694161be9a81b914421b54a3405027f6c389f34080dee95f1acbf1b07d. Nightwing/VoidBot retrieval was live. Session Zero e7f2f947-25fa-4e1b-82e3-4a3e07dc4497 reached revision 55 and retained approval preview sha256:01f07d0f5bc453151743dab77821d64a28d0505e82bd905aa335d45525e51d83: four strongly connected locations, no First Exodus/Blackbox/Kesh/Maela borrowing, nine unique active receipts, valid world and agency stages, and an unsupported Pan-Solar doctrine isolated as an evidence gap. No campaign was approved or published.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-25T03:34:25+00:00", "type": "live_acceptance"}
{"note": "Operator redirected Ghostlight's near-term objective from Kalsa adversarial play to Delvehold's full external-world simulation. Delvehold owns the Greathold, players, dungeons, civic state, and quantitative economy; Ghostlight owns foreign regions, institutions, populations, people, relationships, knowledge, politics, events, and news. The target requires a cell budget in the hundreds, durable offscreen named-person emergence, nested political hierarchies, and causal response to committed Greathold effects. Current runtime caps cells at 128, dispatches cell pipelines concurrently under independently bounded provider parallelism up to 32, and only admits new-person individuation from immediate player speech, so scale proof and offscreen emergence are explicit architecture gaps. Kalsa remains regression evidence.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T15:51:04+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Strategic/offscreen named-person emergence now reuses WorldKernel apply_individuation: one selected Gestalt action may carry one action-bound model identity proposal, while the kernel revalidates revision, simulation authority, location, lineage, version, bounded payload, uniqueness, and atomically materializes the person with the strategic wave. This supersedes the earlier claim that all new-person individuation requires immediate player speech; that gate applies only to automatic foreground presence.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T17:53:55+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Hundreds-class scale proof: the active cell ceiling is 240; a 1,000-subject fixture produced complete unique 200-cell coverage and dispatched all 200 three-stage membrane pipelines in one wave under a seven-call provider semaphore. Wave width remains independent of the provider parallelism ceiling of 32.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T17:53:55+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Modeling audit closed four emergence authority holes before commit: the selector now rechecks the execution permit before and after inference; scheduler and kernel share one eligible-Gestalt candidate-digest function for mixed waves; the locally validated selector receipt is content-addressed again against the exact proposal digest; and the exact StrategicGestaltIndividuation row persists in the same CultCache strategic CAS. A substituted caller payload is rejected while campaign revision and member state remain unchanged. Duplicate public names, materialized actor-ID collisions, and relationships to unknown canonical subjects are rejected.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T18:08:11+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Destination identity resolution now routes a genuinely new place to RegionExpansion and an exact reachable canonical place to LocalityElaboration. Inhabited proposals bind institutions, resident populations, local political relations, and public authority, selection or succession, resource, and redress facts through a typed civic manifest; deterministic validation and an independent semantic verifier run before approval. WorldKernel lowers approved locality additions through the shared mutation reducer atomically, preserving the canonical place identity. Acceptance proves that a materialized Harrow resident inherits the exact public election fact while retaining a personal named vote memory; invalid civic admission leaves the coarse city untouched.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T19:31:56+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Supersedes the final sentence of the 2026-08-26T19:31:56 implementation evidence: acceptance proves that the materialized Harrow resident inherited the exact public election fact. Her personal named vote memory was supplied by the fixture and does not prove automatic personal-memory generation.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T21:00:41+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Generic sparse-world acceptance passes locally. Iterative locality elaboration retains and versions one civic apparatus; WorldKernel requires the exact semantic civic receipt; civic public knowledge is a continuing component invariant; external subject snapshots cannot introduce an unknown home; a consumer-authorized nonempty newspaper cites the exact committed strategic event; and Veska Rill emerges publicly, persists into a later resolution cover, and acts from her own authority without leaking her private movement into news. cargo test -p ghostlight-dungeon --all-targets passed 376 library, 43 main-binary, 4 agency-corpus, and 1 scale-smoke tests; the scale fixture covers 1,000 subjects in 200 concurrently dispatched cells.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T21:00:53+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "The provider-backed Rainless Marches fantasy-world smoke at F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\delvehold-world-newspaper-20260826-223723 reached the first real cell projector after a successful build, then DeepSeek returned HTTP 402 Payment Required on both same-snapshot attempts. No result.json or newspaper.md was produced, and no substitute should be treated as a live autonomous-world witness.", "status": "blocked", "ts": "2026-08-26T21:01:00+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Supersedes the blocking force of the 2026-08-26T21:01:00 DeepSeek HTTP-402 record, not its historical facts. Provider-backed Rainless Marches acceptance completed against Ghostlight source 8940efca0ff669f4681c99a7ff371fa8f0b76516 through Codex Connector 2f29b90eebd8fc1bbdc07cdd22ac4883f16849a5, model gpt-5.6-luna, admitted caller ghostlight-dungeon-yggdrasil. In 65.2456 seconds, four cell pipelines selected four actions across 22 stages; one semantic-invalid verifier result received a valid correction. The atomic result committed two institution actions, one actor communication, one Gestalt communication, two activity outcomes, six events, and five NewsIssue-backed newspaper articles while leaving the player unchanged. thornweald-assembly-convenor emerged and materialized. Local witnesses: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\rainless-codex-20260827\\result.json, newspaper.md, campaign.cc, SHA256SUMS. Remote root: /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/rainless-codex-20260827/. SHA-256: result 964a306287da03c7c92f41eb025d8049c63673e2dd8e1bffdd29490fe61315c5; newspaper 6577b4abea3cc5e9ddd625676c3b4728d1dd8b25e3974f2f5112dc4dafd076ca; campaign dd19ee14e2a014a02cf142ebcbde224e3034f2e11a4f34721ef00471005c6569; binary 35e62eb71d0ead30e7e7aa860b04e7757e6f3d9f83b034f8fee6bc06cc38332f. Earlier connector attempts failed on harness identity or produced valid semantic rejection and do not weaken this witness.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-26T22:31:43+00:00", "type": "live_acceptance"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Two rejected sustained Rainless attempts falsified split source authority without committing wave 1. At dc5787e, cohesive Gestalt internal Coordinate was admitted by the owner-specific schema, prompt, and verifier contract but rejected by Persona, resolution, and kernel through a generic target rule; b98ca9a aligned that owner-specific path while keeping actor and named-member targeting strict. At b98ca9a, the canonical institution posture bound was 460 across schema and field validators, but resolution::substantive_text_change silently imposed 240 and resolution plus kernel called it after their explicit bound; 5e00a7b removed length authority from the generic semantic helper while retaining institution 460 and member-outcome 240 at their field owners. Full verification passed 384 library, 43 daemon, 4 agency-corpus, and 1 scale tests. The failed provider waves left world revision and fictional time unchanged.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T03:20:13+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Accepted sustained provider-backed Rainless Marches witness at exact Ghostlight source 5e00a7bbc3f540ef35d18abe89f84687b5004664 through Codex Connector 2f29b90eebd8fc1bbdc07cdd22ac4883f16849a5, model gpt-5.6-luna, caller ghostlight-dungeon-yggdrasil. Four isolated waves advanced revisions 0 through 4 in 353.2615 seconds, committed 41 unique events and 28 unique news rows, and rendered 23 unique provenance-bound articles across four issues (9, 6, 4, 4). One wave-1 candidate pulse was rejected before the accepted retry; later waves committed without rejection and stderr remained empty. Ilyra Quill appears in every issue, Mara testimony persists into later institutional postures, and Tavia plus Mara Venn emerge as accountable organizers. Player state and location are unchanged. Independent artifact review found distinct successive developments and exact unique article/event/news IDs. Local immutable witness: F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\rainless-spicy-20260827-sustained-5; remote root: /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/rainless-spicy-20260827-sustained-5. SHA-256: result 19baf5882d60ffbffe2f5e161ba1d9328588228fcb9855e33fbfaa2cc7e57108; combined newspaper 0e4e520b945fbae02260a7cc04eeb2835e1ddbb9aa57c55a6426f396dbb1e66c; campaign bc4c5ae2e89b4bcae483f3ad9297da180e1a6c056218537f61bb59202ba25e29; provenance 682f7d36247eb74cbc7c5e8a6f58d15d3b9c03fa741b9c7ce1bc71b926be17bf. This proves sustained politics in a four-cell sparse world, not a live 200-cell provider wave or the Delvehold game-side adapter.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-27T03:20:13+00:00", "type": "live_acceptance"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Corrects the scope wording in the accepted sustained Rainless record at source 5e00a7b. The four waves were sequential atomic transitions in one campaign, advancing revisions 0\u21921\u21922\u21923\u21924, not isolated runs. Unique provider cell pipeline bindings were 4, 5, 6, and 6 across the waves as named-person emergence expanded the derived cover; selected-action counts were 4, 5, 6, and 4. The witness therefore proves sustained politics in a sparse dynamically expanding cover, not a fixed four-cell world. All accepted event, news, article, player-invariance, provenance, and hash claims remain unchanged.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T03:25:41+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Narrows the review claim in the accepted sustained Rainless witness. The prior artifact review established distinct cross-issue developments, unique article/event/news IDs, and exact provenance. It was not a blind front-page review and did not establish journalistically plausible editorial presentation or resistance to procedural-generation diagnosis. A fresh blind baseline reviewer, given only issue 1 under a neutral editorial brief, immediately called it a simulation event ledger wearing a newspaper's clothes and independently identified world-revision metadata, engine-taxonomy sections, mechanical action language, event hashes, repetition, buried news judgment, truncation ellipses, and absent editorial voice. Sustained world causality remains accepted; fantasy-newspaper presentation quality remains unaccepted until a replacement page passes the same blind gate.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T04:07:46+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "A fresh two-wave Codex Connector run at Ghostlight source 2f7c090 advanced one campaign from revision 0 to 2, committed 19 events and 14 news rows, and left player state and location unchanged; artifacts live at F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\root-wire-frontpage-blind-2f7c090-1. The world witness succeeded, but a fresh reviewer shown only newspaper-wave-02.md under a neutral brief rejected it as procedurally constructed with 99 percent confidence. The page exposed the canonical relation name synod-guild-command, its five-point numerical delta, and source-record language. This falsifies the assumption that reader-safe rendering plus a copy-desk gate is sufficient when the model-facing newsroom packet still presents mechanical background records as editorial evidence. Fantasy-newspaper presentation remains unaccepted; the next cut belongs at newsroom projection and typed source curation, while canonical provenance remains internal and exact.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T07:59:01+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Exact Ghostlight commit a585398 completed a fresh isolated two-wave Codex Connector run with gpt-5.6-luna at F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\root-wire-frontpage-blind-a585398-1. The campaign reached revision 2 with 18 Events and 15 NewsIssues and left player state and location unchanged. The blind editor rejected newspaper.md with 99 percent confidence, and the independent grounding audit rejected it with 0.94 confidence despite exact citation lowering and no private-state leakage. Public Event accounts still exposed abstract adopted-posture and relation-transition language; the newsroom promoted merely involved entity and location metadata into asserted names and a dateline, producing unsupported Rootvault and Mossglass Regency claims; and result.json projected the wave-one commit at top level beside wave-two counts and head. Untouched review hashes are blind 877CF72F267C0C623A7E2D1C5BFDC037AC6929296FE1AA829708E9F368DD822F and grounding A59B0BECE4F8E8D93E9B29327176070A1C965E9C2B3BFA1B0AEE91D448FFAAAE. This falsifies the sufficiency of the first newsroom projection cut while preserving the autonomous-world transition witness. Fantasy-newspaper presentation remains unaccepted.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T09:26:57+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Exact Ghostlight commit 02fcc73 completed a fresh isolated two-wave Codex Connector run with gpt-5.6-luna at F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\root-wire-frontpage-blind-02fcc73-1. The campaign reached revision 2 with 14 Events and 11 NewsIssues, player state and location remained unchanged, and every original SHA256SUMS entry matched. A fresh blind editor rejected newspaper.md with 90 percent confidence: the corpse, human teeth, dead envoy, and forged-writ lead was strong, but later stories repeated evidence-preservation and attempted-publication activity without material consequence or human reaction. The untouched blind review SHA-256 is FD5EA6E8828A9B81D6906CD7474ED361029A5B80537238997F399A0BC56C043A. Fantasy-newspaper presentation remains unaccepted. The older accepted four-wave world witness already shows that a sustained horizon can produce material consequences and durable named organizers, so the next falsification is an exact-source 02fcc73 four-wave provider run before any further implementation change.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T10:01:35+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Exact Ghostlight source eac179fce8ad22fa0ca3692f053ca8eaebae8621 compiled the intentionally underspecified Sundered Canopy description into a concrete Elven world for the isolated Connector/Luna run rooted at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-eac179f-2. The first strategic wave did not commit after three whole-wave pulses failed in three different cells: two generic cell-pipeline failures, then an effect omission that remained after bounded corrections. Atomic admission held, so no partial strategic wave or newspaper was published. Source inspection explains the amplification candidate: propose_resolution_wave dispatches the complete cover and returns an error when any joined cell fails, while ghostlight-strategic-smoke retries the entire proposal against the unchanged snapshot. This preserves all-or-nothing commit but can re-execute successful independent cells and multiply provider or semantic flakiness as the cover grows. Per-cell same-snapshot bounded retry is a diagnosis under evaluation, not an accepted design; prove sibling re-execution with a focused fixture before changing ownership. Fantasy-newspaper presentation remains unaccepted.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T11:02:21+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Exact Ghostlight commit b555885 completed a fresh Connector/Luna run from the intentionally vague Sundered Canopy description at F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-b555885-3, copied from /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-b555885-3. With smoke whole-wave retries disabled and bounded same-snapshot retry owned per cell, waves 1-3 committed through revision 3 with 52 Events and 94 NewsIssues; newspaper issues 1 and 3 rendered and wave-2 paper composition failed non-fatally. Wave-4 cell execution completed preflight (SHA-256 750A1B74919FDD947F2B781C20B7E550318B906BA90320D7A47A305B9190C963), then WorldKernel rejected the complete wave with invalid command: knower already has the proposition. No wave-4 commit occurred. This falsifies the prior active claim that per-cell retry was only a hypothesis and relocates the live defect to duplicate-proposition admission before the kernel guard. The papers are coherent but bloodless and procedural; fantasy-newspaper presentation remains unaccepted, with no blind-editorial or grounding pass claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T12:08:19+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Exact Ghostlight commit 9218569dfa3ab48a64b6c05dfacdad5f69dd5294 added the exact-destination locality elaboration loop and materialized Gestalt knowledge projection; 397 tests passed and bounded architecture review was clear. Live acceptance root elven-realms-autonomous-9218569-4 stopped at seed validation when the candidate duplicated a reserved actor ID. Fresh root elven-realms-autonomous-9218569-5 admitted a bounded seed with 2 actors, 2 institutions, 2 Gestalts, 2 named members, and 5 locations, then both attempts at the first locality elaboration exceeded the destination contract's already-prompted and schema-enforced maximum of 8 populations. The validators correctly refused both identity and civic-bound violations, and neither run reached strategic waves or produced a newspaper witness. This falsifies duplicate-proposition admission as the immediate acceptance blocker but does not yet prove the 9218569 knowledge regression on a live strategic wave. The next acceptance input must request an exact civic allocation within existing bounds rather than rely on retry variance or weaken validators. Fantasy-newspaper presentation remains unaccepted.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T13:02:25+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Source inspection at exact Ghostlight commit 78f3d67c17911bdd88cf56839d00cf2d6d35b564 falsifies the claim that Sol was blocked only by provider or model slowness. CodexConnectorModelPort gives a 300-second attempt window only to requests labeled with logical ghostlight.capable.v1 and otherwise uses 120 seconds, while ghostlight-strategic-smoke passed configured physical model IDs into WorldCompiler. The Sol attempt compiled its world, then destination_compile using physical gpt-5.6-sol fell through to the 120-second window and timed out. The Terra attempt compiled its world and first locality before the provider returned response.failed on the second locality; that remains distinct provider evidence, not the Sol timeout diagnosis. Neither attempt reached strategic waves or produced a newspaper witness. The coherent ownership target is for WorldCompiler to receive logical fast/capable classes while CodexConnectorModelPort alone resolves physical models and assigns class-owned deadlines. Fantasy-newspaper presentation remains unaccepted.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T15:06:23+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Exact Ghostlight source 2427f24010c898c6379807a5d60820c5333cfebb ran the isolated Sol acceptance at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-2427f24-15 after adding one balanced civic reconciliation pass. Locality pass 1 succeeded: receipts show the first Sol destination candidate failed only the civic manifest schema discriminator and a second full Sol compile corrected it. On pass 2 both Sol compile attempts repeated the wrong discriminator, and the terminal error was destination compiler failed local validation after one correction: inhabited destination civic manifest closure failures: schema must be ghostlight.civic_system_manifest.v1. This falsifies the active claim that the next work was merely the logical-model Sol rerun: that routing path advanced, while a machine-owned constant remained free text in the provider response schema. The local validator correctly refused the candidate, so run 15 produced no strategic-wave or newspaper acceptance witness and remains remote and unedited. Exact commit 6e9e7043d95d82ec694c45cdbfbc552a89e74ff7 now constrains both CivicSystemManifest.schema and CompiledCivicSystemReconciliation.schema to the one valid strict-response enum; 403 library tests and every binary check pass, but no provider acceptance is claimed. Fantasy-newspaper presentation remains unaccepted.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T17:36:47+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Falsifies the active claim that exact source 6e9e704 had no provider acceptance and that the next move was its first Sol rerun. Run 16 at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-6e9e704-16 used exact source 6e9e7043d95d82ec694c45cdbfbc552a89e74ff7, completed two locality elaborations, then correctly rejected a third candidate because relation rel_inquest_cohort_communication was not an exact new local-subject edge. Commit 4d960188cd6f5495ba808078d3d3b169f1b80790 centralized bounded destination civic reconciliation at one candidate-acquisition boundary; run 17 at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-4d96018-17 exercised that path and stopped because the broad malformed-agency-profile finding did not identify the model-owned defect. Commit 8ee836f86b2ad3c36fb1c9dd1de2ea771dbb50e7 exposed exact agency-profile diagnostics at the existing validator without adding another repair owner. Fresh run 18 at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-8ee836f-18 completed all four locality elaborations and five atomic strategic waves, reaching revision 9 with 101 Events, 232 NewsIssues, and five unedited newspaper files. Wave 6 did not commit: wave-06-terminal-failure.json records that the strategic outcome verifier rejected corrected bundle sha256:534e9fe02556783a0cde2ce7d3cd22d734709e5eb6524c0255c6af09025a6c62 because the proposed material fact was not established by witnessed grain sampling or concrete document examination. The root has no completed SHA256SUMS, and no blind editorial or grounding pass is claimed. The next diagnosis belongs to the exact wave-6 outcome evidence/correction handoff, not another civic reconciliation path. Fantasy-newspaper presentation remains unaccepted.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T19:39:29+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Falsifies the active run-18 next action as the current provider blocker. Exact pushed source 3bd1279e2ae557b17df1483de4f7842cd70866a3 owns same-snapshot strategic outcome reconciliation without replaying a whole wave, but fresh run 19 at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-3bd1279-19 did not reach strategic execution. BUILD-WITNESS binds that exact source and records live_service_mutated=false. The run completed two locality elaborations through revision 2, then Oldest Forest Margin civic reconciliation failed local validation because the returned institutions did not preserve the bounded unique new canonical subject set; elaboration-03-terminal-failure.json reports destination institutions need at most twelve unique new canonical subject IDs and retains four model receipt hashes. No strategic wave, newspaper, or completed SHA256SUMS exists, so run 19 neither validates the 3bd1279 outcome path nor supplies fantasy-newspaper acceptance. The next diagnosis belongs to the single destination civic reconciliation handoff and its frozen subject-set contract; do not add a second repair owner, rerun the expensive Sol candidate, or weaken subject-identity validation.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T20:33:18+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Falsifies the active run-19 diagnosis as unfinished work. Exact pushed commit 2875e45b3abd9c8c5e207d85444c797884c57136 freezes every Sol-authored destination institution ID, name, and goal, constrains Terra civic reconciliation to an exact-length enum of institution IDs with operational updates only, and applies those updates through the existing single merge and admission owner. Source inspection confirms no second reconciliation path; 408 library tests and the strategic smoke check pass. Exact-source run 20 was dispatched as ghostlight-newspaper-2875e45-20.service for /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-2875e45-20. At the 2026-08-27T20:46Z observation the service was activating and the result root did not yet exist, so this is dispatch evidence only. Neither the 2875e45 provider path nor fantasy-newspaper presentation has acceptance yet; observe the active run, preserve exact terminal evidence if it fails, and require a complete immutable manifest plus blind editorial and grounding passes before acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T20:57:59+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Corrects only the observation timestamp asserted in the immediately preceding 2875e45/run-20 evidence record. The service was verified as activating before that record was appended at 2026-08-27T20:57:59Z, and the result root did not yet exist, but the inspection command output did not establish 20:46Z. Disregard that minute. All source, ownership, test, service-state, result-root, and non-acceptance claims in the preceding record remain unchanged.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T20:58:23+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Supersedes only the transient root-absent portion of the preceding run-20 dispatch record. The result root now exists at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-2875e45-20. Its isolated release BUILD-WITNESS binds exact source 2875e45b3abd9c8c5e207d85444c797884c57136, binary SHA-256 f3015218baaa8f6d70596f5be8a793f7444ce47b93558a44c7958e2b58841c68, and live_service_mutated=false. status.json remains at compiling_world with updated_at 2026-08-27T20:57:14.217251532Z, and the service remains active. No provider result, locality elaboration, strategic wave, newspaper, manifest, or provider acceptance is claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T20:59:56+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Falsifies run 20 compiling_world as the live steering state. Exact-source run 20 at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-2875e45-20 committed one locality elaboration through revision 1, then Downstream Grain-Pump Station civic reconciliation failed ordinary fact validation with destination expansion facts must have new IDs and non-empty unique statements. No strategic wave, newspaper, or result-root SHA256SUMS exists. The unchanged failure root is archived at F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-2875e45-20.tar; its independently rechecked SHA-256 is 6cc564ec70dd6e0279180fb547610d9355418ecdf1ff2cc4f083480ce7841b43. Exact pushed commit 965c9faadcde9a8dced158b00e37d9491d589cde centralizes a maximum-two Terra reconciliation budget in one scheduler across application, structural-validation, and civic-verifier findings, never reruns Sol, and retains ordinary validation as admission owner; 409 library tests and the strategic smoke check pass. Exact-source run 21 is active as ghostlight-newspaper-965c9fa-21.service for /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-965c9fa-21. No provider or fantasy-newspaper acceptance is claimed while it is active.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T21:50:50+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Falsifies the active run-21 steering claim. Exact source 965c9faadcde9a8dced158b00e37d9491d589cde terminated during the second of four locality elaborations at loc:pump_house after one elaboration and zero strategic waves. Both bounded Terra reconciliation actions still yielded destination facts rejected by ordinary namespace validation; no newspaper or completed result-root SHA256SUMS exists. The unchanged root is archived at F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-965c9fa-21.tar, independently rechecked SHA-256 2f4d48d47acd3733c99ab8899427e1d33bd4b5cde93da52efa67a3baf98da8e3. Current source surgery correctly treats the fixed retry scheduler as the obsolete owner: the intended replacement is one provider-neutral hand-rolled model-agent harness above ModelPort with bounded observe/action/tool-result steps and causal receipts, plus a destination adapter that applies, lowers, validates, and independently verifies through existing authority. This direction is not yet implementation acceptance; it requires focused and full tests, commit/push, then a fresh four-elaboration/six-wave provider run and separate blind editorial and grounding gates.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T22:32:33+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Local phase boundary for commit 842e265f2969d7047e6b2a35fcca7cc371de5c6b: the provider-neutral hand-rolled model-agent harness now owns bounded observe/action/tool-result steps and causal receipts above ModelPort; the destination adapter owns complete candidate application, one canonical fact-namespace checker, ordinary lowering/validation, and a fresh one-shot civic verifier; compiler branches no longer own reconciliation retries and WorldKernel admission remains final. The focused regression proves exact initial fact collision, a different first Terra collision, typed tool finding, causally corrected second action, frozen institution identity, and fresh-verifier acceptance. All 411 library tests pass, and the bounded Modeling re-audit passed all four authority boundaries. The local strategic smoke binary builds but runtime provider execution is not accepted: this workstation selected stale DeepSeek and received HTTP 402 because it has neither Codex Connector service nor a usable key. Provider verification remains pending on Yggdrasil through Codex Connector. Patina remains a planned future harness consumer and is not implemented.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T23:12:58+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Falsifies run 21 as the current provider blocker. Exact source 842e265f2969d7047e6b2a35fcca7cc371de5c6b ran through Codex Connector for run 22: the world compiled, locality 1 committed, and locality 2 Sol destination compile, Terra reconciliation action, and fresh Sol civic verifier all accepted before WorldKernel rejected admission with region admission evidence receipts were not supplied. The run ended at 1/4 locality elaborations and 0/6 strategic waves with no newspaper. The unchanged archive is F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-842e265-22.tar, SHA-256 90972df1c90eaff699469357ff5de026838940ac07ec5f5faefbaf5d1d266ed9. Root diagnosis: causal ModelAgent receipt IDs were incorrectly copied into canonical profile and relation evidence fields. A focused receipt-namespace split is implemented locally but remains uncommitted and provider-unverified. No later provider run or fantasy-newspaper acceptance is claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T23:40:54+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Supersedes only the uncommitted status of the run-22 receipt-namespace diagnosis. Commit c757e5a09d884d263ae3533f537a71ce69010e94 is pushed and separates model-causal source receipt ancestry from canonical admission-evidence receipt IDs. Destination compile, reconciliation, and verification retain causal receipts; population and institution profiles plus migration and local relations lower only canonical admission evidence. Source inspection confirms the regression asserts both namespaces. Provider verification remains pending, and no later run or fantasy-newspaper acceptance is claimed. Patina remains a planned future harness consumer, not an implemented authority.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-27T23:46:16+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Post-verification local boundary: all 417 ghostlight-dungeon library tests pass for the current uncommitted working tree. The generic ModelAgent harness now drives incremental strategic Interpreter draft repair against a frozen Persona decision; deterministic compilation owns structural authority, the independent semantic verifier returns subject-scoped findings, and unchanged accepted actions retain their verifier binding. A typed eight-title elaborator catalog (Patina, Charter, Ledger, Hearth, Tangle, Veil, Ember, Numen), persisted semantic profile and dispatch state, deterministic smooth weighted scheduling, and an actual bounded parallel ElaborationSubAgentPort now exist. Tests prove configured weights change real call counts and blocked work leaves budget unused without catch-up debt. This is not canonical world integration: world-domain elaboration proposal types, deterministic admission/conflict/merge, and WorldKernel integration remain unimplemented. Provider run 23 remains stopped; no provider or fantasy-newspaper acceptance is claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T00:45:02+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Corrects two claims in the immediately preceding post-verification record. The full ghostlight-dungeon library suite now passes 418 tests, not 417. Elaborator allocation is against the complete enabled profile, not renormalized across currently eligible titles: scheduled shares for blocked or ineligible titles remain visibly unused with no redistribution or catch-up debt. For Patina 20 and blocked Tangle 80, a 100-slot budget invokes Patina 20 times and records 80 unused slots. All other ownership, missing canonical-integration, stopped run-23, and non-acceptance claims remain unchanged.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T00:47:07+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Final local post-audit boundary: all 419 ghostlight-dungeon library tests pass, and the second bounded Modeling audit reports no P1 or P2 issue. Shared causal_source_ids bind actor and cell Projector-to-Persona-to-Interpreter chains. Missing cell-decision recovery reuses one exact CellProjectedMoment: one Projector call, two Persona attempts, two Interpreter attempts, with each second attempt citing the first. Interpreter draft admission rejects whole resubmission and unrelated decision edits; dead scheduler retry trace fields are removed. Every elaboration invocation and proposal now carries ElaborationWaveBinding. Typed ordinary-error and task-panic/cancellation failures retain the consumed schedule, completed invocations, and exact failed dispatch through task-ID mapping. Complete-profile proportional allocation and visibly unused blocked shares remain unchanged. World-domain elaboration proposal/admission/conflict/merge and WorldKernel integration remain unimplemented; provider run 23 remains stopped and no provider or fantasy-newspaper acceptance is claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T01:18:47+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Supersedes only the local/uncommitted status of the preceding 419-test verification boundary. Commit 71c274b0b8819b52cddb1fadbefbf9c634d1f0b2, Make interpretation and elaboration agentic, contains the verified implementation, documentation, and state cut and is pushed to origin/codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp. The missing world-domain elaboration proposal, deterministic admission/conflict/merge, and WorldKernel integration are now the immediate next action. Provider run 23 remains stopped; no provider or fantasy-newspaper acceptance is claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T01:20:45+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Pre-edit falsification at pushed HEAD 1c403a96298cdbd629241326b6276b0a99d0ac99 confirms the active next action. Commit 1c403a9 changes only map, handoff, evidence, and CultCache state over executable boundary 71c274b. Source inspection finds the existing compiler-owned WorldCommand::ElaborateLocality and generic ElaborationWave containers, but no titled-worker world-domain proposal type, deterministic admission/conflict/merge owner, or path integrating admitted named-worker proposals into WorldKernel. Therefore scheduled Patina remains non-canonical control-plane machinery, the missing integration phase remains necessary, and provider run 23 stays stopped.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T07:09:18+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Pushed implementation commit 1c0058c closes the titled-elaborator world-domain path. Successful ElaborationWaveRun construction and admission/finalization capabilities are opaque; admission revalidates the complete frozen scheduler result before deterministic first-dispatch conflict ownership; the independent civic verifier cannot rewrite the compiler candidate; and WorldKernel delegates the finalized locality through the existing ElaborateLocality lowering, mutation reducer, aggregate projection, and atomic CultCache commit. Titled workers receive no WorldCommand, permit, mutation batch, store, or kernel handle. The full ghostlight-dungeon library suite passes 422 tests. An exact end-to-end regression commits Patina's weathered bronze duck statue, locally called Harold, through real parallel dispatch and the persisted exact mutation batch; stale finalization cannot commit. A bounded Modeling/Soul audit reports no remaining P1 or P2 issue. The algebra is additive-locality only; provider run 23 remains stopped and no fantasy-newspaper acceptance is claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T07:49:20+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Phase-boundary launch correction: pushed checkpoint 987d276ae0fab031c48dbacce1dc40207a6c9dae changes only notes and canonical state; its ancestor 1c0058c175b15cd10c180d7326b652dd5f65ad97 is the exact executable source for the next isolated acceptance build. Current gamecult-ops owner commit d59a23837e58ff74a352db4e3223ff5e1abe026b records independently owned Codex Connector release b2e76841bfd43afcd0d92546e1cf6dd822129ef1 and a Ghostlight caller allowlist containing gpt-5.6-luna, gpt-5.6-terra, and gpt-5.6-sol, while the live Dungeon unit remains routed to Luna. A read-only target health attempt from this workstation was refused for missing SSH public-key authority, so service state, loopback 4103, exact deployment receipt, and caller admission must be re-witnessed immediately before dispatch rather than inferred from the ops ledger. Run 23 remains stopped; no provider or newspaper acceptance is claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T07:59:10+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Pushed executable commit 0654ba90702be4de128cfa01a3f064737ec35244 exercises the eight titled elaborators as provider-backed generic ModelAgent workers in the strategic acceptance runner after each civic-foundation compilation. The seventeen-slot locality profile dispatches Patina three times and every other title twice under bounded parallelism, routing fast titles to the fast class, Charter and Tangle to balanced, and Numen to capable. Deterministic admission now rejects stale frozen-wave workers before inference, receiptless successful proposals, invalid or duplicated dispatch-bound receipts, and titled attempts to mint source-evidence authority. Finalization requires the semantic verifier ancestry to equal the admitted worker-receipt set, and the runner takes receipt custody at one owner before later failure paths. All 425 ghostlight-dungeon library tests pass; the locked strategic-smoke binary checks; a bounded Modeling/Soul audit reports no remaining P1 or P2 issue. This is a hybrid acceptance path because the existing destination compiler still owns the complete civic foundation. Provider run 23 remains stopped and no provider or newspaper acceptance is yet claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T08:40:07+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 24 used Ghostlight 0654ba90702be4de128cfa01a3f064737ec35244 through the live independently owned Codex Connector and failed before its first titled wave. The old civic-foundation reconciliation agent exhausted four semantic steps because the independent verifier demanded exact resident shared_fact_ids while its candidate projection exposed only canonical shared_knowledge statement text; Terra could not repair a field outside its writable compiled projection. No strategic wave or newspaper was produced. The unchanged failure root is archived at F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-0654ba9-24.tar and independently matches SHA-256 8ED0A978C3A4088C6E6B26C7F9FF4C648799123983DF1DAF686692D76A086084. Pushed executable commit 5f559a6e67bf601f3ab2dabc88b40379c23db954 fixes the owner seam by deriving an exact fact-ID verifier view from canonical Gestalt statements and the admitted fact namespace; reconciliation, lowering, verifier verdict, and kernel commit authorities remain separate. All 426 library tests and the locked smoke check pass; a bounded Modeling/Soul audit reports no remaining P1 or P2 issue. Fresh run 25 is the next acceptance action.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T09:14:38+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 25 used Ghostlight 5f559a6e67bf601f3ab2dabc88b40379c23db954 through the live independently owned Codex Connector. It committed the first civic foundation and completed all seventeen provider-backed titled elaborator calls with no rejected operation, proving the run-24 fact-ID repair and actual parallel Patina/Charter/Ledger/Hearth/Tangle/Veil/Ember/Numen dispatch. The titled civic verifier then rejected because the runner gave it the original foundation count request while the titled candidate was additive, and civic_context exposed only five governing institutions while a retained relation referenced the admitted sixth non-governing Gauge and Root Commission. No strategic wave or newspaper was produced. The unchanged root is archived at F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-5f559a6-25.tar and independently matches SHA-256 A4B4E8A0D83E1D4AAEDB0F2E542E9E8A0D2F63026B2D58AAB2C7DBB4AAB2FBC2. Pushed executable commit 975ee46 binds artifacts and verification to the worker-owned titled task, scopes the foundation request out before that pass, and projects governing, related institution, related population, and named-person relation endpoints without conflating authority. All 427 library tests, all five strategic-smoke tests, and the locked smoke check pass; bounded Modeling review is clear. Fresh run 26 is next.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T09:48:48+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 26 used Ghostlight 975ee4613932cbac04f01653ed90537846b36ded and falsifies fresh run 26 as the active next action. BUILD-WITNESS identifies that source and records live_service_mutated=false. The titled-elaboration preview contains seventeen accepted operations, zero operation rejections, and seventeen model-receipt hashes after the titled semantic verifier accepted. Atomic persistence then failed with immutable world-commit companion conflict for persona_stage_receipt.v1/sha256:5cf4deb7b6477f9cbdd603bc34792c26fd3ae8c10026e5f38bdb88a09c608688. status.json remained world revision 0 with 0/4 elaborations and 0/6 strategic waves, so no newspaper was produced. The unchanged archive F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-975ee46-26.tar independently matches SHA-256 007717BD13AF2BEF6B1A713BA74A89D065C34B473714F76E3EB73EA059123D70. Titled semantic verification is retired as the current blocker; the next diagnosis belongs to immutable model-receipt companion construction/persistence ownership before any fresh run 27.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T10:15:31+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Pushed executable commit 8fe7a5563c7813d0a736a108069b236f217c0e07 centralizes model-receipt equivalence across direct persistence and atomic world commits. The first stored immutable envelope remains byte-for-byte authoritative, observational latency and attempt telemetry do not create a semantic collision, same-key inputs are deduplicated before CAS, and changed semantic content fails before campaign mutation. Focused positive and negative persistence regressions pass; all 429 ghostlight-dungeon library tests, all five strategic-smoke tests, and the locked strategic target check pass. A bounded Modeling/Soul audit reports CLEAR. Fresh provider run 27 is next; run 26 remains immutable and no newspaper acceptance is claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T10:27:49+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 27 used Ghostlight 8fe7a5563c7813d0a736a108069b236f217c0e07 and falsifies fresh run 27 as the active next action. The first civic foundation plus titled elaboration committed and advanced world revision to 2, proving the run-26 receipt-persistence repair. The second foundation completed, then Charter dispatch ordinal 27 exhausted two semantic steps because the deterministic tool returned only proposal does not satisfy the exact titled elaboration task assignment; the other sixteen titled invocations completed. status.json records 1/4 elaborations and 0/6 waves, so no newspaper was produced; BUILD-WITNESS records live_service_mutated=false. The unchanged archive F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-8fe7a55-27.tar independently matches SHA-256 D98C86A2AC173128E6C7D976596C60050FD6143B8B1E70DA0180200D77E92BC0. Pushed executable cut d6cfda23855414d1297b47d6d476a82df98ee43f keeps assignment validation at its deterministic owner and appends the exact assignment correction contract to the tool finding, with a focused Charter regression. Provider verification remains pending; immutable receipt persistence is retired as the current blocker.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T10:58:52+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Pushed executable commit d6cfda23855414d1297b47d6d476a82df98ee43f keeps each WorldElaborationAssignment as the single owner of both the initial exact instruction and any correction contract returned through the deterministic tool. The existing two-step ModelAgent bound, frozen snapshot, validation guards, and proposal-only authority remain unchanged. All 430 ghostlight-dungeon library tests, all five strategic-smoke tests, and the locked strategic target check pass; bounded Modeling/Soul review is CLEAR. Fresh run 28 is next; provider acceptance and newspapers remain pending.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T10:59:55+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 28 used Ghostlight d6cfda23855414d1297b47d6d476a82df98ee43f and falsifies fresh run 28 as the active next action. Its first civic foundation plus titled elaboration committed at world revision 2. The second foundation and all seventeen titled operations completed, proving the run-27 exact-assignment finding. Before titled semantic verification or commit, deterministic candidate closure rejected because the civic manifest declared one governing institution while six institutions were available and the validator counted the available set. status.json records 1/4 elaborations and 0/6 waves, so no newspaper was produced; BUILD-WITNESS records live_service_mutated=false. The unchanged archive F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-d6cfda2-28.tar independently matches SHA-256 E216E2FE387F4EB0BC1E984EC63E963DA001B4E764BA0EE35B92275356523499. Pushed executable commit d71d35bb897db3487ac61ade97160292040bf6d7 counts civic.governing_institution_ids at the existing closure owner, corrects the shared valid fixture, and adds a focused regression. All 431 library tests, all five strategic-smoke tests, and the locked target check pass; bounded Modeling/Soul audit is CLEAR. Provider verification remains pending and fresh run 29 is next.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T11:34:20+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 29 used Ghostlight d71d35bb897db3487ac61ade97160292040bf6d7 and falsifies monitoring run 29 as the active next action. Its first civic foundation plus titled elaboration committed at world revision 2. The second foundation reconciled and emitted elaboration-02-preview.json, proving the run-28 civic-closure repair. Sixteen of seventeen titled invocations completed. Charter ordinal 27, title count 4 exhausted two semantic steps even though its final tool observation supplied the exact required add_fact ID elab:loc_grain_pumps:charter-fact:4, branch-local scope, empty evidence, exact discoverability, and content bounds. status.json records 1/4 elaborations and 0/6 waves, so no newspaper was produced; BUILD-WITNESS records live_service_mutated=false. The unchanged archive F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-d71d35b-29.tar independently matches SHA-256 4A3855314B02CEEDFCBE6345B0DE80DB03D9F97421D0716BB6AF0382D60ACE8D. Civic closure is retired as the active blocker. Source inspection confirms generic run_model_agent carries the rejected action and serialized exact finding into the next request; run 29 falsifies that this transcript shape alone reliably yields correction within two semantic steps. The next diagnosis belongs to generic ModelAgent correction handling and authority, not Charter-specific prompting. No run 30 or newspaper acceptance is claimed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T12:02:31+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Supersedes only the run-29 diagnosis that generic ModelAgent correction handling was the active owner; all immutable run-29 facts and hashes remain unchanged. Source inspection found that WorldElaborationAssignment described one exact operation in its instruction and frozen validator but exposed the full eight-variant WorldElaborationOperation union as the model action schema. Pushed executable commit 007e63b33768224864c3d32892fa5c8e1f76954b makes the assignment own its instruction, generated exact one-branch action schema, and frozen validator; deterministic fields and operation identity are structural before inference while authored content remains open. AgencyRelation::SCHEMA is the sole production relation-schema literal. All 434 library tests, 16 focused elaboration tests, five strategic-smoke tests, the locked strategic target check, diff check, and bounded Modeling/Soul audit pass. Generic run_model_agent remains consumer-neutral correction transport. Provider verification is pending; exact-source run 30 is next, with stopped run 23, failed runs 24 through 29, and the live daemon preserved.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T12:43:30+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 30 used Ghostlight 007e63b33768224864c3d32892fa5c8e1f76954b and falsifies active monitoring as the next action. It failed before its first locality commit: the foundation compiled, the civic verifier returned semantic-invalid, and destination_reconciliation_agent_action returned malformed JSON twice with trailing characters at line 1 column 14903. status.json records 0/4 elaborations, world revision 0, and 0/6 strategic waves; no newspaper was produced and BUILD-WITNESS records live_service_mutated=false. The terminal failure artifact preserves four completed model receipt hashes. The unchanged archive F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-007e63b-30.tar independently matches local and remote SHA-256 6B06BA76E06B11E423D79A37A4B4301EB4B32CDAC4D9C3F8578FAD7B1FB0AAF5. Run 29 diagnosis and local 007e63b verification remain valid, but provider verification is pending because run 30 never reached the titled swarm. The bounded next diagnosis is to inspect whether complete-candidate resubmission of approximately 15 KB for a localized verifier finding is the relevant failure mechanism and whether a small typed reconciliation workbench edit algebra should own cheap repair without rerunning destination_compile; malformed JSON alone does not prove that cause or adopt that design.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T13:04:14+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Pushed executable commit 49a0292464488e1c2f4361042092058baac92dcd falsifies the run-30 workbench hypothesis as unresolved next-action steering. Body inspection confirms destination reconciliation now receives the exact typed initial finding and owns a private transactional draft behind only validate_current and bounded revise_and_validate edit batches. The model action schema cannot expose CompiledDestinationReconciliation or resubmit the complete candidate; each action runs the actual fact-namespace, lowering, structural, and independent civic validators, and the civic-verifier rationale is structurally bounded to 1..1000 characters. All 438 library tests, 16 focused elaboration tests, five strategic-smoke tests, the locked target check, and bounded Modeling/Soul audit pass. Run 30 archive and hash remain immutable provenance. Provider verification and fantasy-newspaper acceptance remain pending; exact-source Codex Connector run 31 from 49a0292 is next.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T14:03:34+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 31 used Ghostlight 49a0292464488e1c2f4361042092058baac92dcd and falsifies launching run 31 as the active next action. Its Sol foundation completed and titled elaboration wave one began. Patina's three weighted dispatches succeeded; the other fourteen dispatches were rejected by the Codex/OpenAI provider before model invocation because strict response schemas contained compound array-valued const values, including exact civic-ID arrays and empty evidence arrays. The titled wave did not commit, so provider and fantasy-newspaper acceptance remain pending. Run 30 provenance and frozen archive remain unchanged. The bounded Hands hypothesis is one shared model_connector Responses-schema lowering fix followed by a fresh exact-source rerun; Body inspection must confirm shared ownership, and fourteen title-local patches are not admitted.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T14:20:35+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 32 used pushed Ghostlight ec153a9e8733b07a5b0827f6519b518a971f8779 and falsifies compound array-valued const schema rejection as the active blocker. Canopy Verge completed its civic foundation and 17/17 titled agents with zero provider rejections, then atomically committed world revision 2; the real provider dispatch was three Patina calls and two calls for every other title. Grain Pumps completed its civic foundation and 16/17 titled calls, but Numen ordinal 25 timed out after 300 seconds on 38,339 input characters, so that titled wave did not commit. The unchanged local and remote archive F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-ec153a9-32.tar independently matches SHA-256 484EE490F9054055539B1A65534A714057D06AB27F64B5E5A5DE91844AE3CAEB. Run 30 provenance remains unchanged. Shared model transport already had one same-request retry for provider errors, but timeout bypassed it. A local cut routes timeout through that retry with attempt telemetry and has green tests; bounded Modeling/Soul audit, commit, push, provider rerun, and fantasy-newspaper acceptance remain pending.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T15:04:01+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Operator direction falsifies a fresh exact-source replay as the next action after run 32. Canopy Verge civic foundation plus titled elaboration is committed; Grain Pumps civic foundation is committed; sixteen of seventeen Grain Pumps titled proposals and receipts are completed; only Numen ordinal 25 timed out. Run 32 is the active same-snapshot partial-wave checkpoint, not a failed run to replace. The next cut must durably reload the exact frozen schedule, dispatch, sixteen completed proposals and receipts, and the missing Numen binding; after the timeout retry is audited and pushed, it may dispatch only Numen, then use ordinary deterministic verification, admission, and atomic commit over all seventeen proposals. Snapshot drift, duplicate completed dispatch, replay of either committed foundation, replay of Canopy Verge, and replay of the sixteen completed proposals must be refused. Fresh-run steering is retired; provider and newspaper acceptance remain pending.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T15:21:51+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 36 used Ghostlight 2260665984332bee29bd0a722bb41a149d78c743, resumed from the run-35 checkpoint, and falsifies run 32 partial elaboration resume as the active next action. All four locality elaborations are committed at world revision 8; strategic wave one at resolution epoch 4 then rejected atomically on pulse one after nineteen cell Interpreter pipelines exhausted five semantic steps: ten invalid_action_shape, five effect_mismatch, two submit_requires_empty_draft, one local_validation, and one draft_progress. The terminal artifact preserves 333 model receipt hashes, zero committed strategic waves, no newspaper, and BUILD-WITNESS records live_service_mutated=false. The exact remote root is /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-2260665-36; no immutable local tar/hash is recorded. status.json is a stale three-elaboration progress projection and does not override the four titled commit files plus revision-bound wave failure. Current uncommitted source replaces flat optional Interpreter action siblings with exact tagged submit, upsert_decision, remove_decision, and inspect_draft command variants, structurally eliminating the ten invalid combinations; verification and push remain pending, and the other nine failures are not thereby proven repaired. Run 36 stores successful-cell receipts but not appraisal outputs, so failed-cell-only durable resume cannot be claimed from this artifact. Preserve the operator no-replay directive by resuming from revision 8 without rerunning world compilation or committed elaborations; any replay inside uncommitted wave one must be explicitly admitted or preceded by a typed cell-terminal checkpoint.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T18:57:43+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 37 at acd544bae6932aa86aca85285a291a342da697a9 resumed the run-36 world at revision 8 without replaying four committed elaborations, then strategic pulses one and two each completed 0/52 and failed 52/52 after Interpreter exhausted five steps with draft_progress/draft_required; the unit was stopped before pulse three, no strategic mutation or newspaper committed, and the preserved root is /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-acd544b-37. This falsifies static tagged variants as a sufficient repair: the schema exposed inspect/remove/upsert/submit together while the prompt described a state-dependent hybrid, so the workbench did not own the current legal schema. Current uncommitted source makes each ModelAgentTool own its per-step schema; Interpreter exposes only complete submit initially and exact rejected-owner upserts after rejection, deleting inspect/remove/pseudo-schema. Verification is 447 library tests, nine smoke tests, and projection tests; independent Modeling review, commit/push, a small provider-backed proof, and strategic resume from revision 8 without elaboration replay remain pending.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T20:24:52+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "The tool-owned per-step Interpreter schema cut is now independently Modeling-clear after correcting its P2: upsert preserves the admitted multi-owner repair set until compile_draft derives the next state, and a two-owner regression proves B remains repairable after A changes while submit remains unavailable. Final verification is 448 library tests, nine strategic-smoke tests, two projection tests, the locked strategic target check, rustfmt, and diff checks. Review-pending and 447-test steering are retired. Next action is commit/push exact source, then exact-source run 38 from the run-37 world-revision-8 lineage with no compilation or elaboration replay; its first checkpoint may directly serve as provider proof.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T20:29:52+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact pushed source 596e50679244b5d42b4cfdf70d723f815751b8ff completed provider run 38 from the run-37 world at revision 8 without replaying compilation or four committed elaborations. Dynamic per-step schemas recovered 51/52 cells on pulse three and the remaining cell on pulse four; all six waves committed through revision 14. Issues 1 and 3-6 plus the final digest were emitted; wave 2 was withheld for tense inflation. The immutable archive F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-596e506-38.tar independently matches SHA-256 38637A8DC14F04EBF1C7B1BB4675B2456379EECB1D59E7982CFF3279C06E9FAF, and BUILD-WITNESS records live_service_mutated=false. This retires push/run38/provider mechanics as the active next action. Editorial acceptance still fails because copy is procedural rather than spicy and no per-wave Issue 2 exists. Before code, map newspaper reconciliation and ownership of strategic drama, novelty, event selection, and grounded editorial voice; do not add a symptom prompt rule.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T21:40:45+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Pushed Ghostlight commit 3a69306f3004e4af2cd57bba612a6ad8d1b8132f implements and locally verifies the clock-consequence owner: clocks own declared consequence text and exact observable scope; bounded legacy binding remains proposal-only; WorldKernel alone admits binding and materializes stable threshold-crossing events plus public news through the common atomic mutation path, with binding, event ancestry, receipts, and the next newspaper boundary persisted together. This falsifies architecture mapping as the active next action. Exact-source run 39 is now the active provider acceptance resumed from immutable run 38; launch state is not editorial acceptance, which remains unresolved until actual review of terminal issues and digest.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T22:52:35+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Exact-source run 39 at 3a69306f3004e4af2cd57bba612a6ad8d1b8132f is terminal mechanically complete at world revision 21 with twelve of twelve waves, six new editions 7-12, and a final digest. It resumed run 38 without replaying its six committed waves; SHA256SUMS inspection confirms every inherited wave-01 through wave-06 checkpoint hash matches run 38 exactly. The immutable local archive F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-3a69306-39.tar independently matches SHA-256 FA259C699464DF1575022DFAAEA51A3D02E1410770369D14BFE570AC71D24838, and BUILD-WITNESS records live_service_mutated=false. This retires active-run monitoring. Mechanical provider acceptance is complete, but root inspection currently rejects editorial acceptance because the copy is procedural and anemic rather than spicy; independent editorial and provenance reviews remain pending and must own the final judgment.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-28T23:55:32+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Independent run-39 acceptance is terminally FAIL despite mechanical completion. Blind editorial review found only Issue 7 approaches spicy; Issues 8-12 reduce crisis to plans, filings, inspections, warnings, and abstract relationship deltas without sustained named countermoves, public reaction, betrayal, scandal, reversal, or lived material cost. The smallest owning defect is causal follow-through/outcome ownership upstream of the grounded newsroom. Independent grounding review found Issue 9 deck inflates a planned expedited agenda into completion and Issue 8 invents feminine pronouns for Sela Venn and Eryn Tal. Other checks pass: 208/208 citations resolve, no future events, no replay, player unchanged, 116/116 manifest entries, exact archive, and root-confirmed unchanged live service PIDs/invocations. Next action is map and cut those two ownership seams before code; do not patch spice into the newsroom prompt.", "status": "rejected", "ts": "2026-08-29T00:10:33+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Current uncommitted Ghostlight source falsifies mapping/implementation as the next action for the run-39 acceptance defects. It implements a scheduler-owned causal-follow-through agent over exact committed anchors and eligible cover-resident decision owners with deterministic visibility, authority, player-exclusion, quota, checkpoint, and consideration admission; a complete bounded action-effect mismatch set returned to one private Interpreter correction; and a ModelAgentTool newspaper grounding reconciler that may replace only reader copy against the same frozen desk, authoritative assertion status, exhaustive supported identity attributes, and complete typed findings before fresh whole-page verification. Focused owner tests admitted_agenda_is_scheduler_only_and_excludes_the_player, effect_verifier_delivers_multiple_findings_to_one_bounded_correction, and copy_desk_rejection_enters_the_grounding_agent_on_the_same_source_packet pass. Full audit, commit/push, provider continuation from run39 without replay, and independent editorial/provenance acceptance remain pending; run39 FAIL verdicts stay authoritative.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T01:24:17+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Current uncommitted source sharpens the run-39 repair ownership: Nemesis, not an anonymous scheduler agent, owns causal attention. Nemesis may bind exact committed anchors to eligible cover-resident autonomous decision owners or return an empty judgment, but cannot choose action or outcome. Scheduler admission binds the agenda; WorldKernel requires the exact admitted Nemesis receipt and durably records served anchor/responder pairs to suppress replay; the outcome resolver receives the exact causal account. The verifier returns one bounded complete mismatch set. Grounding reconciliation is one ModelAgentTool pass limited to exact uniquely occurring phrases named by complete findings or deletion of a flagged article, followed by fresh whole-page verification. Focused tests for these boundaries pass; the full package gate is still running. Commit/push, exact-source run40 from run39 revision21 without replay, and independent editorial/provenance acceptance remain pending. Run39 FAIL and immutable provenance remain authoritative.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T02:31:52+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Local package verification for the uncommitted Nemesis/causal-context/complete-mismatch/grounding-reconciliation cut is complete. All 464 library tests pass. The package binary run passed 42 of 44 tests; its two failures were fixture-only because test clocks bound the externally controlled player. The shared fixture now binds exact observable consequence scope to one non-active aggregate institution, and both failed binary tests pass when resumed individually. Gate-running steering is retired. Next action is commit/push, then exact-source run40 from immutable run39 revision21 without replay. Run39 independent editorial and grounding FAILs remain authoritative until new reviews reverse them.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T02:37:26+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact-source run40 at 92c7647014dc3ffc53bc89d5bd291b81ba053e81 resumed immutable run39 without replay, committed waves13-14 through revision23, then terminally failed wave15 after five rejected pulses with causal response owner is absent from its exact cell slice. The remote root is /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-b040a35-40 and BUILD-WITNESS records live_service_mutated=false. status.json is stale at running/revision23; the wave15 terminal artifact and inactive service own terminal state. Body diagnosis falsifies run40 launch/editorial review as the active next action: responder_cell mapped a materialized member actor to its dormant aggregate Gestalt cell. Current uncommitted source maps materialized members to actor cells and only dormant members to Gestalt cells; materialized_member_responders_use_their_actor_cell passes. Review, commit/push, and provider resume from revision23 without replaying waves13-14 remain pending. Runs38/39 remain immutable and acceptance remains incomplete.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T03:39:51+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Exact-source run41 at 46810c31b15c880026ee22c0318a563e638c42bc cloned run40 at committed revision23, removed only copied wave15 failure artifacts, and did not replay prior waves. It committed waves15-18 through revision27 with 363 events and 853 news rows, then failed only during final newspaper composition because one-pass grounding reconciliation rejected distinct findings sharing one editable target. The remote root is /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/elven-realms-autonomous-46810c3-41 and BUILD-WITNESS records live_service_mutated=false. Mechanics are complete; no accepted final digest exists. Current uncommitted newspaper.rs groups edits by target, validates each exact phrase once against original copy, rejects overlaps, and atomically applies distinct non-overlapping ranges before complete-finding and fresh-page verification. Its defining and all newspaper tests pass; full lib gate, commit/push, and provider resume of newspaper composition only remain pending. Waves15-18 must not replay. Runs38/39/40 remain preserved and acceptance incomplete.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T04:39:40+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "The atomic same-target grounding edit fix passes the full Ghostlight Dungeon library gate at 468/468 tests and git diff --check. Full-library-pending steering is retired. The fix remains uncommitted, unpushed, provider-unproven, and editorially unaccepted; next action is commit/push, then resume only final newspaper composition from run41 revision27 without replaying any wave.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T04:42:11+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Run41 revision27 contains accepted Issue14, but Issues13 and15-18 are absent because their old grounding repair failed after immutable world-wave commits; final composition also failed. Final-digest-only steering is retired. Pushed 19a66a4 owns atomic same-target grounding repair and passed 468 library tests plus diff check. The current uncommitted strategic-smoke runner cut derives only missing per-wave editions from exact immutable completed-wave campaign snapshots and the prior committed news prefix, writes immutable recomposition receipts, skips accepted Issue14, and cannot replay world mechanics. Review/verify/commit/push, then resume missing Issues13 and15-18 plus the final digest from run41 revision27; independent editorial/provenance acceptance remains pending.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T04:50:24+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "The missing-edition recomposition runner seam passes its complete local gate: 12/12 strategic-smoke binary tests, 468/468 library tests, and git diff --check. Modeling corrections bind exact prior news prefixes, fail closed when a first-wave or other exact boundary cannot be recovered, and bind immutable recomposition receipts to source, contract, issue, typed model receipts, rendered content, and file digests; typed receipt JSON roundtrip is covered. Review/verification-pending steering is retired. Next action is commit/push, then exact-source run42 from run41 revision27 without world replay, preserving accepted Issue14 while composing only missing Issues13 and15-18 plus the final digest.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T04:56:14+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact-source run42 at 8a971daab8d3dfc77c29d69b3d139ff71d53314a cloned run41 revision27 without world replay or mutation, then failed presentation-only on historical missing Issue2 when the copy desk rejected unsupported prepares. Requested Issues13 and15-18 and the final digest were not reached; Issue14, canonical world state, and checkpoints remain unchanged. The active defect is recovery scope, not mechanics or receipt integrity. Current uncommitted cut adds an explicit bounded newspaper recovery start wave; run43 will set 13 and select only missing Issues13 and15-18 while preserving Issue14 and older history. Its complete local gate passes 13/13 strategic-smoke binary tests, 468/468 library tests, and git diff --check. Next action is commit/push then exact-source run43 from run41 revision27.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T05:11:16+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Exact-source run43 at fb8f4670679446f7f825bf733a4b8b9ea524d2b7 resumed run41 revision27 with recovery start wave13 and no mechanics replay. Issue13 recomposition succeeded, Issue14 remained preserved, and Issue15 failed presentation-only because the grounding agent retyped expected_phrase outside the exact frozen copy-desk finding set; Issues16-18 and the final digest were not reached. The copy desk is the finding-identity owner. Reconciliation should select a typed finding reference and propose only a bounded edit; deterministic admission resolves the reference, validates and atomically applies the complete set. Review/verify/commit/push, then resume from preserved Issues13/14 without mechanics or publication replay. Plan commit 4916638 separately admits persistent editorial publication Personas and is not part of this repair.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T05:27:13+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Grounding repair finding identity now has one owner in the uncommitted typed-reference cut. GroundingFindingRef is page-local; one shared deterministic resolver derives article, field, paragraph, phrase, and span for both verdict validation and edit application. Agent actions contain only finding_ref plus replacement or delete_finding_refs, with no compatibility path for retyped phrases; the registry fixture is updated. Gates pass 14/14 newspaper tests, 468/468 library tests, 13/13 strategic-smoke binary tests, and git diff --check. Pending-design steering is retired. Next action is commit/push then resume from run43 preserved Issues13/14 at revision27 without world or successful-publication replay. Operator priority: earn one good Canopy Ledger first; multiple publication Personas later; TeX/layout and engraved-cut production only after editorial acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T05:36:38+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact-source run44 at 35f56f0e5e670025e1cfb031cba8d5a4ca9587d4 resumed revision27 without replaying world mechanics or successful publications. Issues13/14 remained preserved. Typed finding references were admitted and the first reconciliation action ran; the deterministic copy desk returned a second exact finding set, then MAX_STEPS=1 stopped the agent before it could react. Issues15-18 and the final digest remain absent. Typed-reference ownership is provider-proved; session depth is now the active boundary. Next cut permits exactly one further corrective action in the same reconciliation workbench state and receipt chain, for two actions total, with no editor rerun; then verify/commit/push and resume from run44. Preserve one-good-Canopy-Ledger first, multi-publication Personas later, and layout/engraved cuts only after editorial acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T05:55:06+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "The two-action grounding reconciliation cut is implemented and locally verified. One reconciliation session permits exactly two total corrective actions, preserves the same workbench state and receipt chain, and supplies an explicit refreshed finding_catalog to the second action; it does not rerun the editor or preserve a compatibility path. Gates pass 15/15 newspaper tests, 469/469 library tests, 13/13 strategic-smoke binary tests, and git diff --check. Implementation-pending steering is retired. Next action is commit/push, then resume from immutable run44 preserved Issues13/14 at revision27 without world or successful-publication replay. One good Canopy Ledger remains first; publication Personas later; layout and engraved cuts after editorial acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T06:00:38+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact-source run45 at 1d898489daeb34fc9f53e6c6bddf00738fc66364 resumed revision27 without world or successful-publication replay. Issues13/14 remained preserved. Reconciliation action1 was rejected locally before the copy desk; action2 was admitted and rechecked, then the deterministic copy desk returned four fresh findings, but the two-action ceiling left no response action. Issues15-18 and the final digest remain absent. The bounded protocol now requires exactly three total actions: initial, at most one local-admission correction, and at most one fresh copy-desk correction in the same workbench state and receipt chain; a rejection after action3 is terminal and the editor never reruns. Verify/commit/push, then resume from immutable run45. Keep one good Canopy Ledger first, publication Personas later, and layout/engraved cuts after editorial acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T06:15:49+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "The exact three-action mixed-path reconciliation cut is implemented and verified. It permits the initial action, at most one local-admission correction, and at most one fresh copy-desk correction in one workbench state and receipt chain; rejection after action three is terminal and the editor never reruns. The exact regression and full gates pass: 16/16 newspaper tests, 470/470 library tests, 13/13 strategic-smoke binary tests, and git diff --check. Pending verification steering is retired. Next action is commit/push, then exact-source run46 from immutable run45 preserved Issues13/14 at revision27 with no world or successful-publication replay. One good Canopy Ledger remains first; publication Personas later; layout and engraved cuts after editorial acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T06:25:26+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact-source run46 at dfe0926041b83d69a4b02451cdab706572522ae3 resumed revision27 without world or successful-publication replay. Issues13/14 remained preserved. Issue15 exhausted three admitted repair/copy-desk rounds; the final exact finding is one mechanical duplicated clause. Issues15-18 and the final digest remain absent. Unit invocation is 3276392f4a7149fc9d127a966e792633. Raising another fixed step repeats the same compensator, while current immutable recovery reruns the editor and discards reconciliation state. Next action is to map, then implement and verify, a typed resumable reconciliation checkpoint binding current draft, exact verdict/finding catalog, workbench, receipts, source/contract identity, and render/file ancestry; run47 must resume that chain without editor, world, or successful-publication replay. One good Canopy Ledger remains first; publication Personas later; layout and engraved cuts after editorial acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T06:41:00+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "The typed resumable newspaper reconciliation cut is implemented and locally verified. It persists a typed generation-zero checkpoint and a new typed checkpoint after every rejection, binding the exact draft, copy-desk verdict/finding catalog, workbench state, model and deterministic receipts, source/contract identity, and rendered/file ancestry. Resume continues that chain without rerunning the editor. Typed run46 import converts the preserved terminal evidence into the same checkpoint contract. Gates pass 473/473 library tests and 13/13 strategic-smoke binary tests. Planned-only steering is retired. Next action is commit/push, then launch still-unlaunched run47 by continuing run46 Issue15 without editor, world, or successful-publication replay. One good Canopy Ledger remains first; publication Personas later; layout and engraved cuts after editorial acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T07:36:01+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The final resumable-newspaper gate is 475/475 library tests and 13/13 strategic-smoke tests, including same-task source-drift and fork rejection before inference. Clarification: pending checkpoints bind task/editorial identity, exact draft, rejected verdict/findings, parent generation, and ordered receipt ancestry. Accepted composition and strategic artifact records separately bind issue and rendered-file ancestry; rendered files are not checkpoint workbench state. Run47 remains unlaunched.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T07:42:40+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Provider runs 47-49 at db48bef proved checkpointed newspaper reconciliation resumes without editor, world, or accepted-issue replay through Issue 16. Run 49 advanced Issue 17 to generation 24 and exposed nested exact findings: the agent supplied both a paragraph repair and its contained phrase repair, while deterministic admission treated them as competing overlaps. The workbench now deterministically gives the outer span ownership, covers contained repairs, rejects partial overlaps, and passes 21 newspaper tests plus 476 library tests.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T08:27:17+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Run 50 at 8b1db89 resumed Issue 17 generation 24, admitted it on the first bounded repair, and advanced Issue 18 to generation 24 without editor, simulation, or accepted-issue replay. Two honest empty replacements repeatedly failed only because raw phrase deletion left a trailing ASCII space that the reader-copy validator correctly rejected. Empty replacement seam ownership now lives in the grounding workbench, with four focused repair tests and 477 library tests passing.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T08:43:50+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact-source run51 at ccc51df is mechanically complete at world revision27 with accepted Issues13-18 and final newspaper SHA-256 250131C321C5D90C48854FDBA032591B51B51AA1D5B7060BB9D419944625CA7D. Immutable local archive F:\\GameCult\\GhostlightDungeon\\acceptance\\elven-realms-autonomous-ccc51df-51.tar independently hashes FC7A930C73E6B22FDD11D137616B6A38B4EDA19AA837B25DA6DAEF7B7C0611F2; exact live services remained unchanged. Blind editorial review FAILS because the procedural digest lacks sustained throughline, material lived cost, and countermoves. Independent grounding review FAILS because the audit omits semantic source descriptions, assertion status, and identity evidence, and flags status inflation. Run51-launch/reconciliation steering is retired. Next action is a newsroom-only architecture cut over immutable facts: one single-publication narrative-selection owner plus self-contained semantic provenance, no world resimulation; multiple publications and TeX/layout/engraved cuts remain deferred until one Canopy Ledger earns editorial acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T09:05:39+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Newsroom ownership cut verified locally: one capable narrative-selection agent and deterministic workbench own a typed single-publication agenda over the frozen fact desk; the editor is restricted to exact admitted citation groupings; copy desk and bounded reconciliation retain factual judgment; checkpoint v2 preserves narrative/editor/copy-desk ancestry across resume; Issue v3 persists the agenda and one semantic provenance projection with exact accounts, assertion status, and supported identity attributes. Verified 23 focused newspaper tests, 478 library tests, and 13 strategic-smoke tests. No world simulation was rerun and no dependency, crate, binary, daemon, or target was added.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T10:03:50+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Run 52 exposed a historical-artifact ownership defect in strategic newspaper recovery. The acceptance driver now validates accepted Issue v2 recompositions through their original typed issue and exact source/editorial/model-receipt/reader/audit bindings without current-v3 renderer reinterpretation; current Issue v3 reuse still requires typed rerender plus a complete grounding digest. Focused strategic-smoke gate passes 15/15 and the full library gate passes 478/478. Run 51 remains the immutable whole-checkpoint witness for its pre-grounding-digest publications.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T10:30:40+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Run 52 isolated a newsroom selection-owner defect: its three pitches consumed all 32 frozen desk citations and blind editorial review failed despite grounding acceptance. The v2 narrative-selection contract now gives the deterministic workbench a total news hole of at most two citations per available article, caps each story dossier at six, requires a focus citation inside each dossier, and hands the editor an explicit narrative claim. Historical angle-bearing rows remain read-compatible but cannot satisfy the current contract binding. Verified 24/24 newspaper tests, 479/479 ghostlight-dungeon library tests, and 15/15 strategic-smoke tests. Editorial acceptance remains unproven until a new immutable revision-27 newsroom-only run passes blind review.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T11:08:59+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Run 53 is immutable and mechanically complete at d42caca with exact live services unchanged; independent grounding passed and blind editorial review failed because one conduit dossier lacked cause, responsibility, opposition, lived consequence, and a next-issue hook. Source inspection falsified post-copy self-review as the next owner: newsroom_sources silently deleted every unique public fact dossier beyond the newest 32 although the frozen campaign retained the original strategic_pressure crisis.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T11:56:19+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Newsroom contract v3 retains the complete deduplicated public archive, shows the selector only 32 newest dossiers initially, permits exact bounded retrieval of 12 preceding-recent or 12 foundational dossiers, admits only visible citations, and projects only the selected dossier union to editor, copy desk, and reconciliation. No new agent or event authority. Verification passes 25/25 newspaper, 480/480 library, and 15/15 strategic-smoke tests.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T11:56:19+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Run 54 at source 3288d9e resumed revision 27 with 18/18 waves, 363 events, and 853 news without simulation replay, then exhausted narrative selection after both exact archive retrievals and an overfull agenda rejection. The three-step budget left no action in which the same agent could obey the deterministic six-citation news-hole finding.", "status": "blocked", "ts": "2026-08-29T12:18:17+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The existing newsroom selector now has one bounded corrective action after spending both archive retrievals; the six-citation news hole is unchanged. A regression proves preceding_recent retrieval, foundational retrieval, rejected eight-citation agenda, and corrected six-citation agenda in one agent run. Gates pass 26/26 newspaper, 481/481 library, and 15/15 strategic-smoke tests.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T12:18:18+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Query-backed Canopy Ledger newsroom cut: canonical NewsIssue plus Event rows now own public facts and stable record IDs; the generic agent harness provides bounded deterministic ledger queries; selector, editor, copy desk, audit, and reconciliation share those stable IDs; numeric citations are late display labels. Removed NewsroomSource packet authority, fact-bundle deduplication, fixed archive windows, citation-count ceilings, cross-story record uniqueness, and the newspaper-local event-kind status switch. Deterministic admission rejects ambiguous ledger IDs and duplicate IDs within persisted agenda or draft groups. Verified 28/28 focused newspaper, 483/483 library, and 15/15 strategic-smoke tests before final formatting pass. Independent Modeling review confirmed the cut and isolated the remaining MemberMemory publicity defect to the kernel; revision 27 and run 54 remain immutable.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T14:06:49+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Exact commit c34c4b1f94706661cdc35d5314ea23347bda6fd7 replaces direct newsroom agenda acceptance with query, proposal, deterministic front-page proof, and exact-current-digest commit. The publication writer owns narrative construction over admitted facts; the independent copy desk owns factual judgment. Focused newspaper 28/28, library 483/483, and strategic smoke 15/15 pass, including rejection of unreviewed and stale candidates; no world simulation or persistent schema was added.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T14:58:39+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Newsroom contract v8 replaces the v7 copy/Night accept-reject tribunal and iterative rewrite loop with one complete copy-desk query report, one max_steps=1 Night Editor close, and a deterministic press witness. Every queried article must be rewritten; unqueried articles may receive optional deadline polish while selection, order, sections, bylines, citations, and agenda stay frozen. Exact v7 copy-tip import resumes Run 58 without replaying narrative selection, writer, copy desk, world, or waves. External reviews are post-press evidence rather than vetoes; typed later-correction memory remains pending. Verified 20/20 newspaper, 475/475 library, and 16/16 strategic-smoke tests.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T19:12:02+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Exact-source Run 59 at pushed 161ff2f19021249563e192cce9e6f76f00429d48 printed from immutable Run 58/revision 27 without upstream replay. The press witness binds one copy report with five queries, one applied Night close, three changed articles, and unchanged live services; archive SHA-256 ecb4db41e9a40ee4db8b0f83dce42d74e40f940e5930b1d3c1ced227dfec76b3 matches. Newspaper ee2ce08ceb627d433ac2d4ff7e1ebecb1437bf28b1399d23bfb3d5b066c8ab27 and audit b210d50d4ef1a350315d528f6d37e1e7b618926346713f737c4169c49df26b49 are frozen. A finalizer schema expectation was corrected and finalization resumed without a model call. Post-press editorial and two grounding diagnostics are later publication debt and do not reopen or block delivery of this edition.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T19:50:00+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Run 59 prompt audit falsifies v8 as the target newsroom/cache architecture: narrative selection made ten provider calls over 1,373,208 input characters and 582,184 prompt tokens with zero cached tokens. The generic agent harness places changing action schema before stable work and replays the accumulated tool transcript; selector, whole-page writer, and Night Editor duplicate editorial doctrine. Operator-authorized owners are story-and-journalist assignment from the frozen ledger, bounded personality-bearing journalist drafting, copy desk as sole semantic factual query owner, one Night Editor checklist repair preserving narrative, and deterministic structural/provenance/query-disposition press admission. Exact schema and cache cuts remain pending bounded source inspection.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T20:29:24+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "character-newsroom.v9 replaces the monolithic page writer with an embodied assignment editor and one bounded journalist agent per assigned story, preserves exact assignment-owned structure, bounds Night Editor context to copy-queried articles and facts, and makes generic agent requests append-only with stable schemas and cache routing. Verified 475/475 library tests, 16/16 strategic-smoke tests, and ghostlight-dungeon all-target checks; no provider or simulation run was launched.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T21:42:15+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "character-newsroom.v10 gives the assignment editor a stable-prefix bounded workbench projection with compact inspected-record index and exact-ID refetch; retrieval retires any pending agenda. Exact task/editorial-bound agenda and per-article production checkpoints preserve accepted work before copy, and cited datelines compile into the reporter action schema. Verified 479/479 library tests, 16/16 strategic-smoke tests, and all-target check with only the pre-existing native-client unused-path warning.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-30T05:37:54+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Run 60 completed at source 139b8a69bc297e406ed5aea45574ea5e5724c685, world revision 27, without world or per-wave replay. Newspaper SHA-256 f98a4684e6eef43f5eb4bf104248a21dcea1ecdf1c4e4e14fa405f32c51b8c1c; archive SHA-256 6cacc7b543f75c4e9cfb8d7f695c90a507b7f11125e8204101af1a7dd74c61b1. A fresh blind editor read it as a real left-populist civic broadsheet rather than procedural generation, while flagging same-voice repetition as later debt. Run 60 reported 96902 prompt tokens and zero cache hits. The bounded-agent initializer had split the stable charter from a changing step message; the current cut makes the entire first request one stable user message and later replaces only a second dynamic workbench message. Existing assignment-editor prefix verification and all 479 library tests pass. Provider cache eligibility is proven; nonzero live cache telemetry remains for the next multi-step agent run.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-30T06:11:33+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Frozen accepted Run 60 copy was typeset as output/pdf/canopy-ledger-run-60-front-page.pdf without newsroom replay or word changes. The one-page 10 x 12.2 inch folio uses embedded Georgia and Times New Roman faces, three columns, warm press stock, and wordless rail/gauge cuts. Region-based PDF extraction resolved all 23 expected source fragments; 144-DPI full-page raster review found no clipping or overlap. PDF SHA-256 6A9D16FD5FA20221FCEEA0B850D2D074D276C18CB283996A49CB4088C0ABCE21; frozen Markdown source remains F98A4684E6EEF43F5EB4BF104248A21DCEA1ECDF1C4E4E14FA405F32C51B8C1C.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-30T09:58:52+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Exact pushed bc2ca39 provider Run 61 recomposed Issues 13, 15, 16, 17, and 18 plus a final weekly page over frozen revision-27 facts without world or wave model replay. Issues 13 and 15 selected special_issue; Issues 16-18 and the final selected general_issue with self-contained context. Independent blind review passed distinct recurring journalist voices and issue-shape diversity. Selector caching recorded 12,544 hit tokens; reporter hits remained zero because dynamic cited-dateline enums changed the provider schema. Local v12 removes that cache-key variation while preserving deterministic cited-place admission; 480 library tests and all-target check pass.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-30T11:41:17+00:00", "type": "acceptance"}
{"note": "Run 63 on exact pushed a52d57b completed frozen-fact Issues 17 and 18 with recurring distinct bylines, valid fact-derived datelines, and unchanged live services, then was operator-stopped before final weekly recomposition. Repeated reporter calls still reported zero cache hits: intermittent independent filings can cool between issues, so provider reporter-prefix caching is telemetry rather than a newsroom invariant. Optimize natural append-only agent conversations; do not grow sporadic reporter prompts merely to cross a cache floor.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-30T12:36:12+00:00", "type": "acceptance"}
{"note": "Runs 92 and 93 falsified direct realm-ID profile routing and the attempted lineage-scope repair. Run 92 retained 938 active eligible Gestalts; Run 93 at exact source 31125a2 failed before model calls because no lineage profile had missing realm IDs to restore. Exact campaign topology resolves 930 active Gestalts read-only through Location.container_id ancestry: Avelune 7, Veyra 9, Kharad-Tum 462, Bramblewash 8, Hearthcoil 444, with 8 non-realm and 0 ambiguous. The coherent cut keeps AgencyProfile.location_ids as exact operating places and shares one unique_containing_jurisdiction resolver between scheduler routing and worker admission; focused scheduler and worker regressions plus all-target check pass.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-31T22:15:08+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Runs 94-96 proved exact failed-dispatch resume but exposed opaque individuation repair feedback: 53 round-11 proposals remain checkpointed while two Hearth agents repeatedly received only a generic population-authority rejection. resolution::validate_gestalt_individuation remains the single authority and now returns the complete failed-clause set through the existing tool observation; focused regression, 499 library tests, 18 strategic-smoke tests, and all-target check pass.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-31T22:36:52+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Run 98 exposed a false global-name uniqueness invariant during serial admission of 109 successful round-12 proposals: distinct canonical people in different Gestalts independently shared Sera Venn and Sera Vey. Exact address resolution already operates on canonical subject IDs. Gestalt individuation now keeps member and Actor ID uniqueness but permits ambiguous public names; no alias registry or reconciliation owner was added. Focused same-name/distinct-ID admission and exact-ID rejection regression, 499 library tests, 18 strategic-smoke tests, and all-target check pass.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-31T22:52:47+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Run 100 proved the individuation model boundary still exposed deterministic fields it did not own: the sole retried Veil dispatch repeatedly emitted null last/relevance revisions while 80 round-14 proposals remained frozen. WorldComplexityMemberDraft now contains only semantic member content; WorldComplexityTool constructs schema, exact parent/version/location, materialization state, and relevance revisions before the unchanged validator/kernel path. Two focused tests, 499 library tests, 18 strategic-smoke tests, and all-target check pass.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-31T23:10:08+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Runs 101 and 103 proved a structural compaction contract mismatch: the checkpoint/tool required each unresolved lead to contain 1..600 characters, but the generated action schema bounded only the array count, and the tool returned one opaque combined finding. Round17 retains 52 commits and 23 completed local summaries. The existing compaction owner now publishes identical per-item schema bounds and complete indexed findings; focused regression, 500 library tests, 18 strategic-smoke tests, and all-target check pass.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-31T23:28:51+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Run 104 round19 exposed a frozen-batch duplicate person: ordinals1272/1289 proposed the exact same canonical local ID and name Tarin Vel from adjacent Avelune carrier populations with near-identical content; serial admission failed after commits through1288. The round owner now canonicalizes exact local IDs, retains the earliest dispatch, publishes an immutable supersession checkpoint for later duplicates, excludes them from commit/session journals, and lets demand remeasure. Existing-world ID rejection remains with the shared validator. 500 library tests, 19 strategic-smoke tests, and all-target check pass.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-31T23:41:09+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Immutable Run 109 proved Nemesis paging and the 240-cell dispatch at 2,400 subjects, banked 226 of 240 cell terminals, then isolated 14 connector-frame failures: six Projector frames serialized inactive constituent dossiers and eight Interpreter frames serialized unbounded activity-target permissions. Bounded decision-owner projection plus Interpreter target inspection preserves full private authority while keeping model frames bounded; 505 library tests and 20 strategic-smoke tests pass.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T01:29:25+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Run 110 retried only Run 109's 14 failed cells and eliminated connector-frame failures, but 13 Interpreters exhausted agent steps by using target inspection as directory assistance. The corrected owner deterministically projects bounded exact canonical names from lived and Persona text before inference, removes the Interpreter query command, preserves full private permissions, and passes 505 library plus 20 strategic-smoke tests.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T01:52:59+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "VoidBot social intelligence is a first-class Ghostlight consumer: appraiser and relationship/perception training must support human-facing reads, grounded opinions, uncertainty, repair signals, and opinion updates over repeated interaction, not only fictional scene mutation.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-02T14:41:30+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Generated environment images are accepted only as concept/material reference for illustrated IF. Multi-angle or branch-consistent replay needs a durable scene-set/blockout/layout source with named cameras and staging slots; imagegen should paint over camera-specific visual input rather than preserve room topology from memory.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T11:20:03+00:00", "type": "visual-doctrine"}
{"note": "Coordinator seam correction: future training-shaped loops should sandbox coordinator turns as their own promptable organ. Codex acts as meta-coordinator, preparing inputs, launching/reviewing workers, labeling interventions, and wiring structured state; raw coordinator training data must not be silently collapsed into omniscient chat steering.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T17:14:29+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Character cognition seam: Ghostlight machinery should be maximally smart, but characters must reason and socially maneuver only to the level supported by their modeled intelligence, culture, role, experience, stress, and state. Coordinator/narrator prose may translate opaque high-context tactics for reader legibility without granting that explanation to characters.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-05-04T18:44:45+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "CultCache wire contract clarified: DatabaseEntry payloads must be MessagePack arrays indexed by explicit field keys with nil gaps for reserved/deleted slots; cultcache-py now exposes define_database_entry_type for that contract and CultLib generator was patched to preserve sparse key slots.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-06T03:57:10+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Ghostlight agent-state schema is now the first shared cross-runtime payload contract. CultNet clients should carry ghostlight.agent_state.v0 unchanged inside typed document envelopes, with CultLib-style auth/session semantics handled by the transport layer rather than bespoke per-repo glue.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-05-06T04:49:20+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"branch": "codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp", "note": "Multiplayer is an intended post-solo extension of the existing one-WorldKernel, many-actor authority model. Multiple authenticated humans will control distinct actors through the same campaign mailbox, perception gates, initiative, and atomic commit path; no party prompt or room-state authority is introduced. The paid alpha remains single-player while multiresolution Gestalt proof stays the immediate forge priority.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-18T14:36:02+00:00", "type": "design"}
{"note": "DELVE/HOLD boundary: live Ghostlight WorldKernel, multiresolution agency, typed transitions, persistence, and receipts are reusable, but current InstitutionState and strategic resource handles do not implement HOLD quantities, prices, recipes, capacity, inventories, orders, contracts, or conservation. Delvehold therefore retains quantitative economy authority; a forced ontology may bypass world generation but never WorldKernel validation. Owner witnesses: crates/ghostlight-dungeon/src/domain.rs and F:\\Projects\\Delvehold\\Delvehold\\Game Design\\Shared World\\World State Model.md.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T00:50:11+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Delvehold is a proving consumer of Ghostlight's generic world-simulation API, not a Ghostlight integration organ. Ghostlight may add only generic capabilities: one seed admission primitive shared by compiler and consumer producers, generic externally owned subject authority, consumer-supplied effect schemas, and typed proposals and receipts. The greathold ID, all delvehold.* bindings, and detailed projection/economy translation remain Delvehold-owned. Cells and WorldKernel never switch on consumer-specific names.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T15:55:05+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Supersedes the 2026-08-26T15:51 research note only where it called Delvehold the redirected primary play target: Delvehold is the first proving consumer of the generic world API, while adversarial single-player Dungeon play remains an active regression and context-discovery path. Implemented one compiler/consumer WorldSeed admission transaction, institution-scoped ExternalSubjectAuthority, WorldKernel-owned revisioned snapshots, atomic strategic-wave proposals, acknowledgement receipts, and typed loopback CultNet RUDP operations. Consumer-specific IDs and quantitative economy semantics remain outside Ghostlight.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T16:46:55+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "The generic external authority/snapshot contract admits both institution and Gestalt subjects. This closes the Delvehold sovereign-gestalt requirement without adding a Delvehold-specific type: one tagged ExternalSubjectProjection carries either canonical shape, WorldKernel validates exact authority kind and subject ID, refreshes derived agency facets, and keeps the subject non-simulation-eligible while still targetable by foreign proposals.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-26T17:12:55+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Operator architecture directive: a newspaper is a persistent political/editorial Persona, not a neutral fact summary. Each publication owns audience, remembered beats, narrative memeplex, selective pickup, recurring throughlines, ideological framing, and rivals; competing Delvehold publications may frame one committed event substrate differently. Grounding owns factual assertion/provenance constraints but must preserve clearly legible interpretation, selection, framing, and insinuation. Current Canopy Ledger acceptance remains one publication instance. Do not patch this into the fact-check prompt or derail run43. The detailed owner/state cut belongs in the implementation plan after current acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-08-29T05:15:35+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Read-only inspection of immutable Delvehold Run 108 through the focused CampaignStore explorer found a strong authored crisis theater but a failed whole-world complexity shape. The canonical state has 55 locations, 68 institutions, 164 facts, 3,141 Gestalts, 366 Actors, 371 member records, and 2,430 agency relations; exactly 2,400 active leaves are distributed across five realms plus the boundary scene. The eight titled elaborators produce excellent distinct lanes for texture, civic authority, economy, care, politics, secrets, urgent pressure, and numinous meaning. Repeated fission then substitutes taxonomy for novelty: 557 searchable records contain other-unknown, 780 contain residual, many active leaves inherit identical goals, and identity generation repeats public names across distinct people (including at least eight materialized Actors named Mara Venn and four named Nera Quill). Treat this as promising base material for one international crisis region, not yet a plausible entire world or training-ready autonomous narrative substrate. The next world-shape design must gate semantic distinctness, identity diversity, relation/pressure contribution, and horizontal geographic and cultural expansion rather than counting active leaves alone.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T03:06:42+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Run 115 terminated at revision 2 with 2/8 regions and 0/1 waves after an SSE timeout and a dangling institution location exhausted the model reconciliation workbench. The qualification/verifier/reconciliation/context/timeout/routing patch sequence through 8964a92 did not establish structural ownership. Operator ordered a whole-machine rebuild: one WorldKernel, one typed ontology reducer, one CommandEnvelope/CultCache commit path; NarrativePersona retains Projector-Persona-Interpreter prose isolation, while OperationalAgent is an explicit disjoint controller for operator-shaped cognition. Actor counts and qualitative interest remain evaluation evidence, never admission or completeness authority.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-01T12:11:39+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Mind maintenance falsified stale rebuild steering: the map still claimed subtraction had not begun and the handoff later revived Run 111 as an active continuation. Rebuilt the handoff and implementation plan around the adopted one-WorldState authority, landed cuts 64f50de/a144c33, total interpretation, current deletion line, and focused verification gate; chronology remains in Git, evidence, and the frozen teardown map.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T12:37:47+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Rejected and deleted the uncommitted first world.rs foundation after focused tests passed. Review found the public module exposed mutable WorldState and ID issuance, translation-gap inference had become canonical world mutation, empty batches could advance revision, controller commands lacked consumed opportunity/readiness/affordance binding, external ownership was bypassed by world-author authority, command evidence did not bind fact evidence, and batch self-digests were unverifiable. Next cut is private-first: seal WorldKernel/aggregate/journal ownership before reintroducing a minimal reducer behind it.", "status": "rejected", "ts": "2026-09-01T13:03:26+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Commit b53251f lands a private provisional foundation.v0 WorldKernel owner: immutable genesis and exact create retry, sealed authentication evidence, one live CultCache owner, canonical WorldId issuance and reduction kept private, digest/replay recovery, persisted no-op and rejection non-commit, path-identity revocation, and poison/reopen after a simulated post-durable lost acknowledgement. Nine focused world tests pass. The legacy exported kernel remains live; this is the sealed foundation, not cutover.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T14:18:40+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Commit d49b907 makes the replacement Persona interpretation contract structurally total. Persona source prose is immutable noncanonical evidence bound to typed world/controller/opportunity/revision and inference receipts; only exact typed captures may propose state, actual quoted dialogue is required for speech, malformed spans or raw tool payloads become exact whole-source translation gaps, normal step exhaustion adds an unresolved-source gap, and infrastructure interruption discards partial captures and returns the source pending. Ten focused projection tests pass. Legacy exported Persona runners still contain terminal failure paths and do not expose record_gap; they remain deletion targets, so totality is not yet a live-runtime claim.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T14:37:59+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Commits 12ee9f4 and 66ed2ec advance the authority rebuild past the private reducer phase. The first removes 686 lines of dead legacy Elaboration and Mutation ingress without a compatibility writer. The second completes the sealed Draft-to-Active authority loop with canonical controller assignments and affordance grants, revision-bound opportunities, one shared human and autonomous ExerciseDecision reducer, one serialized mailbox, atomic replay, and exact rejection and lost-ack behavior; eighteen focused world tests pass. This is not runtime cutover: the legacy exported kernel and startup, Session Zero, player, autonomous, and recovery paths remain live owners. The next move exposes and wires the replacement runtime identity and mailbox, deleting each old owner without dual-write.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T17:40:32+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Pushed Ghostlight 13d5136 has no legacy runtime modules and one CultCache owner, but Yggdrasil still runs legacy a4080d4. Read-only cutover audit proved the current Idunn path structurally unfit: source/ref/floor policy is duplicated across compiled Rust, raw executable command records, a privileged shell dispatcher, and large gamecult-ops target programs; root Git cannot inspect correctly idunn-owned mirrors; Ghostlight world-v2 purity checks ignore most legacy state; and fixed-port activation stops the incumbent before the candidate is green. Adopted cut: visible target-owned recipes and unit templates, Idunn-configured refs/runner containers/affordances/host bindings, Git and recipe materialization as idunn, narrow sealed privileged consequences, candidate staged health behind a stable router, process/write-lease handoff, atomic route change, and separate deployment versus continuity authority. Do not issue the current Connector or Ghostlight redeploy requests.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-02T14:10:03+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Supersedes the 2026-09-02T14:10:03+00:00 Idunn cutover design receipt where it named target-owned unit templates, an executable-affecting-commit selector, and staged health. Odin cebe425 rejects raw repository unit/container templates: targets own constrained launch declarations and the operator-selected workload driver lowers them. Deterministic plan validation retains commit, tree, recipe, and Gitlink facts but does not prove ancestry, signatures, or object custody; a future narrow Idunn source driver must. CultNet 87d0b0f and Odin cebe425 establish Expected, Idunn-observed activation, service-signed Present, process lease before writable state, Odin Ready, and route membership only after Ready. Actuation and Idunn main integration remain absent.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-02T19:30:00+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Supersedes the 2026-09-02T19:30:00+00:00 deployment integration checkpoint. Owning Body inspection found CultNet pushed through e542225 (generation-bound activation, lifecycle brake, process lease, provider-observed capabilities, and explicit disagreements) and Odin pushed through d527d72 (exact source freezing and narrow actuator ports), with an uncommitted four-file integration for dynamic systemd isolation, authenticated Ready-only provider selection, protected one-shot activation delivery, and the e542225 gitlink. The remaining deployment owner is not another driver gate: replace control_plane.rs command ownership with exactly DeploymentCommand, DeploymentTransaction, and AdmittedGeneration; persist each of the nine phases before effects; persist prepared activation before start; reject pre-persistence orphans; and atomically complete the transaction with exact admitted-generation CAS. Production cutover remains unproven.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-03T00:58:55+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Supersedes the 2026-09-03T00:58:55+00:00 deployment-owner checkpoint. CultNet f4ab237, Odin 65cf2b2, Ghostlight a0b16b9, and CodexConnector ede3c30 land the routed runtime contracts, durable three-record/nine-phase transaction owner, and provider sides. Live admission remains absent. Current Odin projection/RUDP/UDP-route and Rust Odin correlation work is uncommitted; the Nginx route receipt proves configuration plus nginx -T visibility only, not live-worker adoption or packet delivery, so an exact data-plane observation remains required before fence clearance, drain, or cutover acceptance.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-03T06:13:20+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Mind and workspace compaction. The evidence ledger was 258 records of which 235 were per-release/per-run receipts, self-consuming falsification chains, and May fixture doctrine already owned by docs/architecture and map hard_boundaries; those moved to state/evidence.archive.jsonl and were deleted from the CultCache evidence document, since evidence.jsonl is a regenerated export and a store-only deletion is the sole durable compaction. Twenty-three records remain: still-binding contracts (CultCache wire format, agent_state.v0, cognition ceiling, image-geometry authority, sandboxed coordinator, VoidBot appraisal, multiplayer extension, the Delvehold boundary set, newspaper-as-Persona) plus the whole rebuild era from Run 108 forward. A duplicate multiplayer note recorded twice under different timestamps was reduced to one. The worktree shed 87MB of untracked debris: three Git bundles whose commits are all ancestors of HEAD, ~60 legacy live-fire run scripts and sftp batches, the forbidden redeploy helpers, downloaded run61-63 acceptance copies whose authoritative roots remain on Yggdrasil and whose frozen copy is digest-bound in output/tex, a redb file created by a stray --help argument, and 71MB of tmp/ legacy campaign caches and newspaper renders. .gitignore now refuses all of it. map.yaml and the handoff had stale frontiers naming 13d5136 and a0b16b9; both now name 6a79cb0.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-03T20:00:00+00:00", "type": "maintenance"}
{"note": "Core GameCult stack ownership resolved. CultLib is the canonical home for CultCache, CultNet and CultMesh across every runtime because wire parity conformance lives only there; a runtime-specific repo cannot own the engine other runtimes must agree with. The standalone GameCult/cultcache-rs and GameCult/cultnet-rs repos are pre-consolidation origins that kept receiving work after the 5c69bfc import, and Ghostlight became a third lineage by written charter: vendor/README.md declares a locally owned compatible protocol generation, which is duplicate authority over the wire stack held outside the only harness that checks parity. That is why runtime_authority_contracts.rs forked: Ghostlight vendors e542225 while map and handoff declare CultNet f4ab237 authoritative, and the two disagree on whether Present may coexist with a disagreement -- Ghostlight's copy makes them exclusive, f4ab237 separates presence from readiness and gates through into_undisputed_present. Re-vendoring fixes that instance, not the mechanism. CultLib branch claude/consolidate-rust-core-stack commit 34488e8 returns the Rust CultCache engine to CultLib: the standalone body as base (3,714 lines, 46 passing tests) over CultLib's 1,554, with the cultnet-rs RUDP gate passing 20 unchanged. Two CultLib-only commits remain unported debt. cultmesh-rs is homeless: the only Rust CultMesh implementation in existence is 1,363 lines inside Ghostlight's vendor, absent from CultLib and from any repo, so it has never been parity tested against the browser, Kotlin and TypeScript implementations it must interoperate with. Ghostlight must consume CultLib by pinned rev and stop vendoring before the standalone repos are retired.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-03T21:00:00+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Ghostlight's vendored core-stack fork is retired at d0510ac: cultcache-rs, cultnet-rs and cultmesh-rs now come from CultLib pinned at 85f7024 and vendor/README.md's 'locally owned compatible protocol generation' charter is deleted with them. The predicted migration did not exist. RuntimePresenceCorrelation moving from enum to struct is Odin's side of the contract and no Ghostlight file references it; with line endings normalised the e542225 and f4ab237 copies differ by 132 lines, and the only production change reaching a provider is IdunnExpectedRoute requiring rudp:// schemes for rudp transport, which this service does not use. Ghostlight compiled unchanged and passes 89 workspace tests against the pinned rev. One thing was nearly lost: the vendored transport.rs alone checked a framed payload length against the advertised maximum before allocating, so a four-byte header could otherwise size a buffer to whatever a peer claims; it is now CultLib 85f7024 with a test. Verified by diffing all twelve vendored cultnet files against CultLib before deleting rather than after. vendor/ still holds the cultcache-py and eve submodules; cultcache-py is the same runtime-specific-repo pattern and CultLib carries packages/cultcache-py, but it backs the state tooling rather than the daemon.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-03T23:13:55+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "The pre-existing worktree drift is landed at 751b5c4 and 322cc11. The daemon no longer names GHOSTLIGHT_RUNTIME_ID, GHOSTLIGHT_DUNGEON_BIND or GHOSTLIGHT_DUNGEON_ROOT under management; Idunn supplies the runtime id in the activation bundle, the candidate bind, and the state root as a recipe argument binding. That binding is required rather than cosmetic: Odin deployment.rs refuses a stateful workload with no state_root argument binding and refuses one whose binding disagrees with the admitted root, so the old recipe could not have deployed. The acceptance harness identity is renamed GHOSTLIGHT_ACCEPTANCE_RUNTIME_ID so a test-supplied id cannot be read as the managed one. 89 workspace tests pass. Provenance finding that changes the cultnet-rs retirement gate: the contract revisions the Mind cites, CultNet f4ab237 and its predecessor e542225, are not ancestors of CultLib main and exist only on GameCult/cultnet-rs branch codex/idunn-runtime-authority-contract. Their content is on CultLib main at 85f7024, verified by symbol, but the SHAs are not, because the consolidation ported commits forward rather than merging them. Deleting GameCult/cultnet-rs therefore breaks every citation in map.yaml, the handoff, both notes and the evidence ledger. Odin 65cf2b2 and d527d72 are likewise off Odin main, on pushed branch codex/ygg-idunn-independent-bootstrap, which is resolvable and needs no action.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-03T23:26:24+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Live contract citations are re-anchored from CultNet f4ab237 onto CultLib 85f7024 across map.yaml, the handoff, and both notes. Verified before swapping rather than assuming equivalence: at 85f7024 packages/cultnet-rs carries IDUNN_LIFECYCLE_BRAKE_* distinct from IDUNN_DEPLOYMENT_BRAKE_*, IdunnProcessWriteLeaseRecord, GameCultRuntimeCapability, OdinTopologyDisagreement with disagreements() and into_undisputed_present separating presence from readiness, generation-bound IdunnRuntimeActivationRecord with a distinct activation-proof signing purpose, and IdunnExpectedRoute rejecting non-rudp:// endpoints for RUDP routes. All six cited contracts hold. 85f7024 is both CultLib's current main head and a permanent ancestor of main, so the citation survives every future advance, which f4ab237 never could. Two citations were instructions rather than descriptions and could not be swapped mechanically: map.yaml next_action and the handoff next gate both said advance Odin to CultNet f4ab237, which would have advanced Odin deeper into the repo being deleted. Both now say repoint Odin off its vendored CultNet fork onto CultLib 85f7024 as Ghostlight did at d0510ac. Evidence records keep their pre-consolidation SHAs as dated history; this record is the resolution key for reading them. The retirement gate for GameCult/cultnet-rs is now one item: Odin's vendored CultNet gitlink is the last reader of that repo.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-03T23:51:32+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Odin is repointed off the vendored core-stack forks onto CultLib, closing the last code reader of GameCult/cultnet-rs. The forks were not pure duplication: a whole-file symbol comparison, not a diff of recent changes, found four capabilities CultLib lacked. cultnet-rs needed reliable send expiry, where a reliable packet past its deadline is dropped rather than retransmitted because live media tolerates loss but not lateness; cultcache-rs needed both compare_exchange_snapshot and a per-entry compare_exchange with CultCacheExpectedEnvelope, which CultLib lacked despite carrying the larger body. All are ported with tests on CultLib branch claude/cultnet-reliable-expiry at cbde940. The expiry design moved during the port: CultLib now lets the advertised transport profile own each channel's expiry rather than a runtime field that can disagree with the profile a peer was shown, which is where Odin's fork already had it. That field is wire-visible and Rust peers now advertise it on the media channel; TypeScript, C# and Kotlin accept it unchanged across five passing interop lanes each, and the other four runtimes should grow it. Python lanes cannot run on this machine because its Python runtime has no msgpack, and they fail identically before and after. Two Odin test failures are pre-existing rather than caused by the repoint, verified rather than assumed: idunn-daemon fixtures use /srv paths that Path::is_absolute rejects on Windows, and a muninn test expects an Unreliable media channel while every cultnet lineage including both previously pinned revisions declares it Reliable. Odin's recipe required the vendor/cultnet-rs gitlink, so removing the submodule would have made it unadmittable; the core stack is now pinned by rev in Cargo.lock inside the frozen source tree instead of by a gitlink Idunn verifies directly.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T02:02:32+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Swarm-wide core-stack consolidation. A survey of every vendored copy under F:/Projects found the divergence far smaller than the number of forks implied: against CultLib, Epiphany's CultCache, CodexConnector's CultCache, VoidBot's CultCache-TS and Ghostlight's CultCache-Py each hold nothing unique. What the forks mostly held was reach rather than capability, and one earlier claim was wrong: raw_document_record_from_envelope was reported missing from CultLib when it was present but private, because a pub-fn scan cannot distinguish a visibility difference from an absence. It is public now, and CultMesh gained get_all_with_keys and soa, two genuinely absent delegations to CultCache. With those exposed, Epiphany repointed to CultLib with zero code changes and 16 green test binaries, and CodexConnector with zero changes and 35 tests; both now carry no submodules at all. CodexConnector's fork held the pre-migration RuntimePresenceCorrelation enum, but the connector never referenced the type, so that migration cost nothing. Each consumer had pinned a different branch of the standalone repos -- resident-retention-compaction, public-anchor-parent-permissions, canonical-binary-slots, idunn-runtime-authority-contract, windows-atomic-replace-retry -- which is the combinatorial explosion that made separate repos untenable. Remaining forks are non-Rust and blocked on distribution rather than divergence: npm and pip cannot consume a package from a subdirectory of a git repo the way cargo git dependencies can, CultLib has no publish workflow, and a whole-monorepo submodule costs 140MB to replace a 104KB package.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T02:27:13+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "The TypeScript and Python forks existed because nothing was publishable, not because the code diverged: npm and pip cannot consume a package from a subdirectory of a git repo the way cargo git dependencies can, so vendoring was the only way to depend on CultLib. CultLib 8cb3b72 adds a tag-triggered publish workflow for @gamecult/cultcache-ts to npm and cultcache-py to PyPI, each refusing a tag whose version disagrees with its manifest, with PyPI on trusted publishing so no long-lived token is stored. Licensing was the blocker discovered on the way: cultcache-py declared itself 'Private GameCult infrastructure' and cultcache-rs and cultmesh-rs declared no license at all, inside a repo whose LICENSE is MIT and whose every other package says MIT. That was load-bearing rather than cosmetic, because a package calling itself private is not one to push to a public registry; the operator confirmed the swarm is MIT and all three now say so. cultcache-ts is scoped to @gamecult so CultLib holds the name unambiguously on a public registry, which moves CultLib's own cultmesh-ts and cultnet-ts imports with it. Ghostlight's own repoint is not a dependency swap: ghostlight_state_store.py puts vendor/cultcache-py/src on sys.path precisely so the state tooling runs from a clone with no install, and session bootstrap depends on that, so replacing it with a pip dependency trades a fork for an install step unless bootstrap installs it.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T02:42:08+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "CultLib main is at 8cb3b72. The consolidation work landed by fast-forward rather than squash, which mattered because four repos pin revisions from that branch: Ghostlight 85f7024, Epiphany and CodexConnector e171eca, Odin cbde940. All four verified as ancestors of origin/main after the push, so they resolve from a fresh clone; a squash merge would have orphaned every one of them and broken the builds it was meant to unify. Rust packages green at the merge point: cultcache-rs 53, cultnet-rs 107, cultmesh-rs 7. The merged branch is deleted, its commits reachable through main.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T11:02:22+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Odin 27cc815 consumes CultCache and CultNet from CultLib; vendor/cultmesh-rs is the last fork and itself consumes CultLib, so exactly one version of each crate spans the graph. The commit had to carry the operator's in-flight CultMesh RUDP document server because it is a prerequisite rather than a coincidence: the previously committed CultMesh calls assume_connected(), a CultNet method the fork carried and CultLib does not, so the old code cannot build against CultLib at all. That was established by reverting the file and watching it fail, after an attempt to split the repoint into two independently building commits. The same test was run on the in-flight idunn-daemon work and it passed, so those five files were left uncommitted and the committed tree was verified to build without them. Three CultLib API differences needed adapting in Odin: transport options carry a reconnect_policy the fork lacked at seven sites, create_ack builds from ack state and cannot fail, and the transport profile owns each channel's reliable expiry. Odin's Idunn recipe still declares required_gitlinks = [vendor/cultnet-rs] and will refuse admission until that line is dropped; the fix exists in the working tree but the deployment directory is untracked, so it could not be committed. Source custody for the core stack now rests on the revision pinned in Cargo.lock inside the frozen source tree rather than on a gitlink Idunn verifies directly.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T12:56:04+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Swarm triage: every repo under F:/Projects is now clean and pushed. Two findings bear directly on Ghostlight's deployment gate, both caused by the core-stack consolidation removing submodules that Idunn was still told to expect. Odin's deployment/idunn/recipe.toml declared required_gitlinks = [vendor/cultnet-rs], and gamecult-ops' operator binding templates declared gitlinks for vendor/cultcache-rs and vendor/cultnet-rs on codex-connector and vendor/cultnet-rs on odin; Idunn would have refused to admit those targets for gitlinks it could not find. All are corrected and committed at Odin eedce4f and gamecult-ops 8f7ae2a. Ghostlight's own binding is untouched because vendor/cultcache-py and vendor/eve still exist. The rest of the triage: Odin eedce4f also lands 4,167 lines of real in-flight work including UDP route actuation via RouteBinding::stable_socket and an NginxStreamUdp driver, plus the new odin-daemon crate, which cannot compile on Windows because it reads systemd listen file descriptors through std::os::fd, so Linux CI is its first witness. Epiphany 616a2c8e was an interrupted cargo fmt run rather than a feature, finished rather than reverted. Aetheria reclaimed about 1.6GB of scratch checkouts and sandboxed toolchain caches, all verified clean with no unpushed commits first, and the cleanup was scoped to the debris so Unity's Library and Build survived. Two apparently stranded commits turned out to be duplicates already upstream under different SHAs, found by patch-id rather than by subject.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:17:04+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Run 115 root cause is vocabulary-shaped, not model-shaped. Legacy transition.rs used caller-supplied SubjectRef{kind,id:String}, two-phase AdmitEntity{initial_components}, and a flat Vec<PermittedWorldMutation>, so a dangling reference like inst:kharad-road-keepers -> loc:kharad-rhythm-road was a runtime discovery rather than an unrepresentable input; reconciliation existed only to repair that class and exhausted after four steps. Depth lived in free strings (posture, resource_kind, capability_id, persistent_features), so the prior attempt to fix shallowness added model tribunals (ElaboratorTitle, WorldComplexity*Qualification, *Verification) as compensators for an ontology with nowhere to hold depth. Adopted cut: reducer-issued typed ID namespaces, draft handles resolved inside one closed WorldPatch before any ID allocates, twelve decision-constraining components, and elaboration that answers a derived CausalBoundary instead of running waves and quotas. Recorded in docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-ontology.md.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:39:08+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Ontology v2 unifies elaboration and character action under one WorldPatch and one deterministic verifier. Three decisions change future belief: (1) affordances are world-authored data (preconditions, effect slots, weighted outcome bands) over a closed 29-operation kernel set, so genre lives in the seed and the kernel never learns one; (2) uncertainty is resolved by kernel entropy seeded from world/revision/command, so no model ever chooses success, which deletes the legacy wave-level outcome resolver; (3) proposals bind to a scope digest of the components their verification reads rather than the whole state digest, so eight elaborator loops and many subjects do not serialize on one revision, replacing the stale-means-discard rule. Elaborator tools are a derived projection of the operation set and cannot drift. ghostlight-multiresolution-agency.md is demoted to teardown evidence keeping only resumable sessions, compact drafts, and the complete mismatch set.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T14:01:12+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Operator correction, 2026-09-04: the 2,400-subject / 240-cell / 10% cover profile is a design target, not a load fixture. A world feels alive only when actors at every level pursue their own goals; that requires generating that detail first and then choking multiresolution simulation so attention is scarce and selection is forced. The mvp doc sentence calling the profile \"test data, not a production elaboration target\" was teardown-era text, not operator design, and is amended. Ontology v2 now carries: an authored WorldScaleIntent with a structurally counted deficit (qualified subject = active, one controller, one Goal commitment, one affordance) that elaborators pursue after boundaries; a budgeted connected cover every tick with singleton detail cells and grouped coarse cells; per-constituent attribution and partitioned knowledge in grouped cells; debt rotation. Still deleted: gestalt as canonical identity, arena knowledge union, semantic qualification and verification models, fission quotas as mutation, string identifiers.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T14:14:10+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Codex CLI fan-out that must commit cannot run in a linked git worktree. A linked worktree's .git is a file pointing into the parent repo's .git/worktrees/, which is outside the Codex sandbox's writable roots, so every git commit fails with index.lock Permission denied; the default sandbox also blocks outbound push. All four world workers died on this on 2026-09-04. Fix: full clones at the same paths (F:/Projects/Ghostlight-worlds/<world>, F:/Projects/<Lore>-worktrees/ghostlight-worlds; .git is a directory despite the directory name) and launch with -c sandbox_workspace_write.network_access=true. Uncommitted worker output was banked by hand to codex/world-<world> and codex/ghostlight-worlds before the worktrees were removed. Rule for any future Codex fan-out that writes: give each worker a clone whose entire .git lives under its own writable root, and grant network if it must push.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T14:18:47+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Supersedes the 2026-09-04T14:18 clone-plus-network record, which was necessary but not sufficient. The Codex workspace-write sandbox keeps .git read-only even when the whole clone sits under the writable root, so a Codex worker can never commit or push regardless of clone layout or network grant. Rule for any Codex fan-out that must produce committed work: the worker writes files only; a supervisor outside the sandbox commits and pushes the clone after the worker exits. The world elaborator scheduler (C:/Users/Meta/.claude/worlds/Invoke-Elaborators.ps1) does this per slot to slot/<world>/<title>/<stamp> branches in both the Ghostlight world clone and the lore clone, recording completions in logs/elab-done.csv; integration into codex/world-<world> and codex/ghostlight-worlds is a separate deliberate pass. First banked fixture: Delvehold cistern-house-nine-breaker-test, codex/world-delvehold 9374fd0.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T15:04:24+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 6, the ontology widening, is complete: ten passes landed on codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp between 2026-09-04 and 2026-09-05, each as a Hands cut in an isolation worktree, a Soul falsification in the same tree, and a fast-forward integration. Pass tips: 1 typed ID namespaces and closed patch resolution 5e53beb; 2 Position/Route/containment and scope-digest binding e99af63; 3 Custody/Dependency/conservation d2805fe; 4 world-authored affordance catalog with kernel-entropy bands 0f21a49; 5 Authority/Selection/Redress dbe176d; 6 Knowledge/Channel/Fact standing cb6a126; 7 clock, Commitment, Pressure, derived CausalBoundary and the structural answer rule 1852ddd; 8 confined elaborator lane and derived tool catalog 3ed3868; 9 budgeted connected cover with tick-driven fairness ceil(N/R), R = cells minus urgency slots, verified 22 ticks at the 2,400/240 profile 8aebfb6; 10 confined external consumer ingress over POST /cultnet/world-patch a1fd645. The kernel now holds 12 decision-constraining component kinds over 27 named operations under one WorldPatch, one reducer, one CAS commit, one decode bound for both authoring lanes, and three confined SystemCapability arms (Clock, Elaborator, Consumer); the action vocabulary is data in the seed and the kernel never learns a genre. The eleven plan invariants hold structurally at the end of the series per Soul: one deterministic reducer and atomic commit; kernel-derived authority; one controller per scope with no fallback or double action; total interpretation with exact gaps; deterministic structural rejection without a model verifier; scoped knowledge until explicit communication; external-consumer sovereignty; sparse causal sufficiency with counts as evidence only; restart reconstructs the exact world; IDs allocated only inside an admitted reduction; opportunities bound to a scope digest rather than a revision. The pairing invariant is re-decided at three gates by doctrine, not by a repair loop. Test surface grew from 43 world / 83 crate at the series start to 313 world / 357 crate source functions at a1fd645 (focused world:: run 312 / 352). Two design decisions remain with the operator and are recorded nowhere else durable: whether a refused coupled constituent may re-submit once inside the same tick, to be decided with the submitted-versus-committed number in hand; and the authority for an owner-only Eve world.run_tick command. The next seam after the series is the outbound consumer response batch and a non-loopback CultMesh lease.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T02:13:22+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "First local live smoke of the rebuilt kernel (2026-09-05): production tick driver, cover, Persona membrane, operational lane, clock, and elaboration sweep ran three ticks against a real CodexConnector (head daemon, ChatGPT auth) on a genesis world; revision 2->11, two singleton cells per tick, Persona spoke each tick, elaboration clean (nothing derived to answer). Wall time 40-70 s per tick. The road works; prose is thin because genesis is three subjects in one room with one affordance, which is the seed-producer gap. Runbook: notes/local-live-smoke.md. Stale: the pre-pass-6 ignored acceptance test in controllers.rs fails at NoAudience.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T13:42:18+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Seeded live smoke passed (2026-09-05): from the Kalsa Public vault, one seed session authored six qualified persons into Low Sere in one round (39 s), deficit 6->0; the world activated with nine subjects and six boundaries; three ticks of eight singleton cells each (95-123 s) with the seeded people speaking to each other by name. Twelve runs; every failure was on the road and each became a rule: one credential family (real codex home), strict schemas (anyOf, typed tags, offline totality test), a supported Persona model, expiry skew vs response timeout, ids beside labels in the brief, seed budget 24 with parallel calls and budget-end submit, content-addressed provider request ids, the commitment shape rule in the tool description, and the placement rule. The harness fails on an empty seed or a silent world.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T17:36:41+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Claude Agent SDK as a transport (2026-09-06, research-agent-sdk.md): the system prompt is fully replaceable, built-ins strippable (tools: []), CLAUDE.md loading stoppable (settingSources: []), and assistant tool_use blocks are returned verbatim with usage and stop reason; but no silent capture exists (every denied tool call becomes a tool result the model reads), a Responses-style input list cannot be replayed (the harness owns the assistant side), there is no request id or replay, and each query is one subprocess. Chosen shape: execute-through, Ghostlight tools registered as in-process SDK tools whose handler hands each call back to Ghostlight for the result its own evaluator computes. Rejected: a Messages-API backend (no API spend), a backend inside CodexConnector (deliberately isolated Codex fork). Nothing installed locally: no claude CLI, no SDK, no subscription credential; the operator must install and log in before a road run.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T22:25:31+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Claude SDK inference port landed (plan step 11, 2026-09-06): a second InferencePort over a Node sidecar on the Claude Agent SDK, routed per lane by model prefix; checkpoint integrity proved transport-agnostic so both ports share one prepare_invocation; the sidecar computes no tool result, Rust answers every call through a per-lane ToolResultOracle that is the evaluator own fold (divergence impossible by construction). Lesson that changes how any future transport is judged: a transport-side validator is a second semantics. The SDK Zod layer stripped unknown keys and refused missing fields before the handler, so a claude lane silently admitted what the connector refused and quarantined what the connector recorded as a gap; the fix is one validator on both transports (Rust decoder), the sidecar handing arguments through unvalidated. Not yet run on the road: no Claude Code CLI or subscription credential on this machine. Receipt is the SDK message, a named stopgap liability; exit is a Messages-API port when API budget exists, deleting the sidecar whole.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Delvehold boundary, merged from four records of 2026-08-26. Delvehold is the first proving consumer of Ghostlight's generic world-simulation API, not an integration organ; adversarial single-player Dungeon play remains a regression and context-discovery path. Ghostlight adds only generic capability: one seed admission path shared by produced and consumer seeds, generic externally owned subject authority that admits institution and population-scale subjects through one tagged projection, consumer-supplied effect schemas, and typed proposals and receipts. Delvehold retains quantitative economy authority (quantities, prices, recipes, capacity, inventories, orders, contracts, conservation); Ghostlight resource handles never impersonate them. A forced ontology may bypass world generation but never kernel validation. The greathold ID and every delvehold.* binding stay Delvehold-owned; no cell or kernel switches on a consumer name. The legacy implementation those records described (WorldSeed transaction, ExternalSubjectAuthority, loopback RUDP operations) was torn down; the live implementation is the pass-10 confined consumer ingress in docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-consumer-api.md.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-26T17:12:55+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Standing pre-rebuild decisions, merged from seven records dated 2026-05-02 to 2026-08-29; map.yaml hard_boundaries and mission own the binding text. (1) VoidBot appraisal: appraiser and relationship/perception training must support human-facing reads, grounded opinions, uncertainty, repair signals, and opinion updates over repeated contact, not only fictional scene mutation. (2) Generated environment images are concept and material reference only; multi-angle or branch-consistent replay needs a durable scene-set source with named cameras and staging slots. (3) Coordinator turns are a sandboxed promptable organ with exact visible input, raw output, and labeled interventions; the meta-coordinator never collapses them into omniscient chat steering. (4) Character cognition is modeled state: the machinery is maximally smart, characters reason and maneuver only to the level their modeled state supports, and narrator prose may explain tactics for the reader without granting that explanation to characters. (5) ghostlight.agent_state.v0 is the shared cross-runtime payload contract, carried unchanged inside typed CultNet envelopes. (6) Multiplayer extends the one-WorldKernel, many-actor authority model: humans control distinct canonical actors through the same commit path, with no party prompt or room-state authority. (7) A newspaper is a persistent political/editorial Persona owning audience, remembered beats, framing, selective pickup, throughlines, and rivals; grounding constrains factual assertion and provenance while preserving legible interpretation; only the economic layer supplies advertisers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-29T05:15:35+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Sealing the replacement kernel, 2026-09-01, four records merged; git owns the commits (b53251f, d49b907, 12ee9f4, 66ed2ec). The first uncommitted world.rs foundation passed its focused tests and was deleted anyway: it exposed mutable WorldState and ID issuance, let translation-gap inference become canonical mutation, let empty batches advance revision, left controller commands without consumed opportunity, readiness, and affordance binding, and made batch self-digests unverifiable. The rule that came out of it: seal private WorldKernel, aggregate, and journal ownership first, then reintroduce a minimal reducer behind it; never publish mutable world types or an ID issuer for test or adapter convenience. The Persona interpretation contract is structurally total: source prose is immutable noncanonical evidence bound to typed receipts, only exact typed captures propose state, actual quoted dialogue is required for speech, malformed spans and step exhaustion become whole-source gaps, and infrastructure interruption returns the source pending. Legacy ingresses were deleted without a compatibility writer.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T17:40:32+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Deployment authority, merged from a four-record supersession chain, 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-03; map.yaml live_architecture.deployment_authority owns the full current rule. The read-only cutover audit found the old Idunn path structurally unfit: source, ref, and floor policy duplicated across compiled Rust, raw executable command records, a privileged shell dispatcher, and gamecult-ops target programs; root Git unable to inspect idunn-owned mirrors; world-v2 purity checks ignoring most legacy state; fixed-port activation stopping the incumbent before the candidate was green. Adopted: target-owned visible recipes with constrained launch declarations (raw unit and container templates rejected; the operator-selected workload driver lowers them), Idunn-configured refs, runner, and host bindings, Git and recipe materialization as the Idunn identity, Expected published by plan, service-signed Present, a process write lease before writable state, Odin-derived Ready, route membership only after Ready, and deployment separate from continuity. The owner is exactly DeploymentCommand, DeploymentTransaction, and AdmittedGeneration with nine persisted phases before effects (Odin 65cf2b2; contracts on CultLib 85f7024; provider sides Ghostlight 6a79cb0 and CodexConnector ede3c30). Live admission remains absent. The Nginx route receipt proves configuration plus nginx -T visibility only, so an independently persisted data-plane observation is required before fence clearance, drain, or cutover acceptance. Do not issue the old Connector or Ghostlight redeploy helpers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-03T06:13:20+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Core-stack consolidation, merged from ten records, 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-04. CultLib is the canonical home for CultCache, CultNet, and CultMesh across every runtime because wire-parity conformance lives only there; Ghostlight consumes all three by pinned rev 85f7024 (d0510ac), a permanent ancestor of CultLib main, and its vendored fork charter is deleted. Resolution key for older records: CultNet e542225 and f4ab237 and Odin d527d72 and 65cf2b2 were never on their repos' main branches; their content is on CultLib 85f7024 and Odin branch codex/ygg-idunn-independent-bootstrap, ported forward rather than merged, so those SHAs are dated history and GameCult/cultnet-rs may be retired. A whole-file symbol comparison, not a diff of recent changes, found four real capabilities in the forks (reliable send expiry owned by the transport profile, snapshot and per-entry compare-exchange, a framed-length check before allocation), all ported with tests; every other fork under F:/Projects held reach rather than divergence, and each consumer pinning a different branch was the combinatorial reason separate repos failed. CultLib main landed by fast-forward at 8cb3b72, so every consumer pin (Ghostlight 85f7024, Epiphany and CodexConnector e171eca, Odin cbde940) resolves from a fresh clone; a squash would have orphaned all of them. Odin eedce4f consumes CultLib, its recipe no longer requires gitlinks, and gamecult-ops 8f7ae2a drops the phantom gitlinks Idunn would have refused; odin-daemon reads systemd file descriptors and compiles only on Linux. Non-Rust forks persist for distribution, not divergence: npm and pip cannot consume a package from a git subdirectory, so CultLib 8cb3b72 adds tag-triggered publishing (@gamecult/cultcache-ts, cultcache-py on PyPI, MIT confirmed by the operator). Ghostlight keeps vendor/cultcache-py on sys.path deliberately so the state tooling runs from a bare clone; replacing it means session bootstrap must install.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:17:04+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Why the whole-machine rebuild, merged from three records, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-04. Run 108 inspection: 2,400 active leaves across five realms with strong authored crisis theater, but repeated fission substituted taxonomy for novelty (557 other-unknown records, 780 residual, inherited identical goals, eight distinct Actors named Mara Venn); counting active leaves measured nothing about world shape. Run 115 terminated at revision 2, regions 2/8, waves 0/1, after an SSE timeout and a dangling institution location exhausted four reconciliation steps; the qualification, verifier, reconciliation, timeout, and routing patch sequence through 8964a92 never established ownership, and the operator ordered one WorldKernel, one typed reducer, one CommandEnvelope/CultCache commit path. The root cause was vocabulary-shaped, not model-shaped: caller-supplied string SubjectRefs, two-phase entity admission, and a flat mutation list made a dangling reference a runtime discovery rather than an unrepresentable input, and depth lived in free strings, so the model tribunals (ElaboratorTitle, WorldComplexity qualification and verification) were compensators for an ontology with nowhere to hold depth. Adopted cut: reducer-issued typed ID namespaces, draft handles resolved inside one closed WorldPatch before any ID allocates, twelve decision-constraining components, and elaboration that answers a derived CausalBoundary instead of running waves and quotas. Counts, cover ratios, interest, and diversity are evaluation evidence, never admission or completeness authority. Run 115's root at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/full-world-delvehold-0a83034-115 and invocation d9254cd9b77946aebcf7a7fdae821402 stay immutable; do not resume it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:39:08+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Ontology v2 decisions and the scale directive, 2026-09-04, two records merged; docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-ontology.md owns the vocabulary. Elaboration and character action lower under one WorldPatch and one deterministic verifier. Affordances are world-authored data (preconditions, effect slots, weighted outcome bands) over a closed operation set, so genre lives in the seed and the kernel never learns one; uncertainty resolves by kernel entropy seeded from world, revision, and command, so no model ever chooses success; proposals bind to a scope digest of the components their verification reads rather than the whole state digest, so many subjects and elaborators do not serialize on one revision. Elaborator tools are a derived projection of the operation set and cannot drift. Operator correction, preserve in intent: the 2,400-subject / 240-cell / 10% cover profile is deliberate design, not a load fixture; a world feels alive only when actors at every level pursue their own goals, so that detail is generated first and multiresolution simulation is then choked so attention is scarce and selection is forced. The seed carries a WorldScaleIntent whose structurally counted deficit (an active subject with one controller, one Goal commitment, one affordance) the elaborators pursue after boundaries; a budgeted connected cover runs every tick with singleton detail cells and grouped coarse cells. Deleted for good: gestalt as canonical identity, arena knowledge union, semantic qualification and verification models, fission quotas as mutation, string identifiers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T14:14:10+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Codex CLI fan-out cannot commit. A linked git worktree fails because its .git file points outside the sandbox's writable roots, and a full clone fails too: the Codex workspace-write sandbox keeps .git read-only even under the writable root, so a Codex worker can never commit or push regardless of clone layout or network grant. Rule for any Codex fan-out that must produce committed work: the worker writes files only; a supervisor outside the sandbox commits and pushes the clone after the worker exits. The elaborator scheduler (C:/Users/Meta/.claude/worlds) does this per slot to slot/<world>/<title>/<stamp> branches in the Ghostlight world clone and the lore clone; integration into codex/world-<world> and codex/ghostlight-worlds is a separate deliberate pass, still owed. Clones live at F:/Projects/Ghostlight-worlds/<world> and F:/Projects/<Lore>-worktrees/ghostlight-worlds (full clones despite the name).", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T15:04:24+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 6, the ontology widening, is complete: ten passes landed on codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp, 2026-09-04 to 2026-09-05, each a Hands cut in an isolation worktree, a Soul falsification in the same tree, and a gated integration (pass tips are in git history and the handoff). The kernel holds twelve decision-constraining component kinds over a pinned operation catalog under one WorldPatch, one reducer, one CAS commit, one decode bound for both authoring lanes, and three confined SystemCapability arms (Clock, Elaborator, Consumer). Soul's series verdict: the eleven plan invariants hold structurally (one reducer and atomic commit; kernel-derived authority; one controller per scope with no fallback or double action; total interpretation with exact gaps; deterministic structural rejection without a model verifier; scoped knowledge until explicit communication; external-consumer sovereignty; sparse causal sufficiency with counts as evidence only; restart reconstructs the exact world; IDs allocated only inside an admitted reduction; opportunities bound to a scope digest rather than a revision); the pairing invariant is re-decided at three gates by doctrine, not by a repair loop. The budgeted cover verified 22 ticks at the 2,400/240 profile with fairness ceil(N/R), R being cells minus urgency slots. Two decisions stay with the operator and are recorded nowhere else durable: whether a refused coupled constituent may re-submit once inside the same tick, decided with the submitted-versus-committed number in hand; and the authority for an owner-only Eve world.run_tick command.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T02:13:22+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "The rebuilt kernel runs on the road, 2026-09-05; runbook notes/local-live-smoke.md. Genesis smoke: tick driver, cover, Persona membrane, operational lane, clock, and elaboration sweep ran three ticks against a real CodexConnector; the road worked and the prose was thin because genesis is three subjects in one room, which made the seed producer an evidenced gap rather than an argued one. Seeded smoke: from the Kalsa Public vault one seed session authored six qualified persons into Low Sere in one round, deficit 6 to 0, and three ticks of eight singleton cells had the seeded people speaking to each other by name. Twelve runs were needed; every failure was on the road, not in the kernel, and each is now a rule in the tree: one credential family (the operator's real codex home), strict schemas (anyOf, typed tags, an offline totality test over both lanes), a Persona model the account supports, connector expiry skew below the response timeout, canonical ids printed beside labels, a seed round budget with parallel calls and budget-end submit, content-addressed provider request ids, the commitment shape rule in the tool description, and the placement rule. The harness fails on an empty seed or a silent world. The Codex subscription lapsed during this series and the runs consumed half the monthly free quota; no Codex road run is possible until it is renewed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T17:36:41+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Claude SDK inference port, plan step 11, 2026-09-06, two records merged. Research: the Agent SDK's system prompt is fully replaceable, built-ins strippable, CLAUDE.md loading stoppable, and assistant tool_use blocks come back verbatim with usage; but there is no silent capture, no replayable input list, no request id, and each query is one subprocess. Rejected: a Messages-API backend (no API budget) and a backend inside CodexConnector (a deliberately isolated Codex fork; nothing goes into it). Landed: a second InferencePort over a Node sidecar, routed per lane by model prefix, execute-through: the sidecar computes no tool result and Rust answers every call through a per-lane ToolResultOracle that is the evaluator's own fold, so divergence is impossible by construction; both ports share one prepare_invocation. Lesson that changes how any future transport is judged: a transport-side validator is a second semantics. The SDK's Zod layer stripped unknown keys and refused missing fields before the handler ran, so a claude lane silently admitted what the connector refused; the fix is one validator on both transports, the Rust decoder, with the sidecar handing arguments through unvalidated. Residual liability: a wrong-typed property reaches Rust as absent. The receipt is the SDK message, a named stopgap; the exit is a Messages-API port when API budget exists, deleting the sidecar whole. Not yet run on the road: the operator must install the Claude Code CLI and log in first; Ghostlight never holds the credential.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Evidence ledger distilled 2026-09-06: 44 records to 12. Supersession chains collapsed to their survivors, per-commit implementation receipts folded into the decision they served, and the pre-rebuild standing decisions merged into one record because map.yaml owns their binding text. Every removed record is appended verbatim to state/evidence.archive.jsonl. The compaction ran through tools/ghostlight_state.py compact-evidence, now the one durable path: evidence.jsonl is a regenerated export, so a store-only replacement is the only deletion that sticks.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T13:03:22+00:00", "type": "maintenance"}
{"note": "First SDK-backed seeded road runs, 2026-09-10 (936aa71, 4f7513b; runbook \"SDK runs, 2026-09-10\"; plan \"Road follow-ups\"). Transport verified: every lane on claude-sonnet-5 through the Node sidecar, no connector bound, seed sessions and ticks committed end to end (run 2: revision 3 to 24; run 3: revision 3 to 15, no quarantine). Belief-changing findings: (1) the sidecar's schema conversion dropped every field description, so the claude lane authored against bare types; descriptions now carry through. (2) The model wrote twelve commitments due at or before a clock it was never shown; due now describes itself as a clock reading and both authoring prompts print the clock. (3) A kernel refusal now continues the same authoring conversation (Refusal rows, controller_work.v12, prior rows refused not migrated) instead of a fresh-draft repair whose sites named a draft the model could not see. (4) Interpreter speak and record_gap cite prose by quote (source_quote) and the harness derives the span; model-counted byte offsets cut three of eight utterances mid-word, and run 3 shows every utterance whole. (5) The tick-3 quarantine in run 2 was a mis-spanned utterance failing the canonical-text rule: a translation gap, not an infrastructure fault; a bad quote is now a gap at capture. (6) Cost shape: singleton cells run in sequence at 15 to 50 s each on this lane, so a nine-cell tick is 2 to 8 min. Still owed: the live interrupted cell and its log line.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-10T22:06:08+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The membrane read end to end, 2026-09-11 (runs 4 to 6 of the SDK route, traced with GHOSTLIGHT_SMOKE_TRACE; plan 'Proposed step 12'). Findings that change belief: (1) The Projector context carried a name, a clock, and permission to speak, none of the life the seed authored; it now renders the subject's own state by label, never by id, and a seeded person went from saying 'hello' to speaking about its debt. (2) The pathos in run 5 was the model's default voice, not the character's: the prompts asked for what the person remembers, wants, and fears with no component to ground it, violating the hard boundary that character intelligence is modeled state. Flattened prompts render only what the context carries; run 6 is correctly silent. (3) A Commitment carries no statement of what is promised, so due 1000 read as money and due 20160 as fourteen days; due now renders as minutes from now, and the statement is proposed step 12. (4) PersonaMaterial is named in the ontology doc as a component with a set operation and exists nowhere in the kernel; the seed can only author identical people. (5) The Projector says 'no one before me' for two people in one house: own place is carried, co-presence is not. (6) The Interpreter, given quoted-speech capture, records honest gaps that double as a survey of missing primitives: posture, private priority, provisional belief.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-10T23:31:00+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 12 on the road, 2026-09-11 (c31f254, a9d6a1c; runs 7 and 8; runbook 'SDK runs'). PersonaMaterial (values, voice, memories, reads) is the thirteenth component, a Commitment carries a required statement, the Projector sees who else stands in its place, and the Persona identity is label, voice, values; material is outside every scope digest by test. Run 8: six seeded people with six voices, 43 speech captures to 9 gaps across two ticks (run 5 was 3 to 25), and the lines reference each other's promises by content. Beliefs that changed: (1) with a vocabulary for meaning, the seed lane authors real people unprompted by anything but the tool and one sentence of instruction; (2) run 7 lost the best patch yet to an undescribed variant field and a tool result that said only 'recorded as a gap', so every decode failure now returns its reason to the model and the controller variant describes its shapes; (3) the SDK transport takes one user prompt, so a refusal continuation must ride in the transcript, and now does; (4) the world title and brief are authored facts the machine lacks: 'Cover Tick Fixture' and the brief's boundary language leaked into a vow, so world_create.v3 is the next cut.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 13, the world brief, on the road 2026-09-11 (d4d7bc3; run 9). world_create.v3 carries a required brief, trimmed at ingress, held on WorldState and its snapshot, replayed identically, and projected as the guidance of every lane and both authoring prompts; the narrative stages that rebuild prompts on resume carry it (controller_work.v13). Belief that changed: guidance is world truth, not a prompt constant. With an empty slot every lane reasoned about a world named Cover Tick Fixture and run 8 put that name into a vow; with the brief, run 9's trace holds no fixture name, its promises are about hearths, ration boards, and the kiln, and its people speak in the world's terms. The smoke titles its world by the seed root label and gives its brief to the world once, not to each seed session. Speak-to-gap ratio moved from 43:9 (run 8) to 20:24 (run 9) on the same prompts: that is sampling, not a regression, and the runbook records both.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T01:13:50+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 14 landed and proven by SDK run 10 (2026-09-11): a visible act is a display, speech's twin. The kernel lowers an invocation's display beside its utterance into AssertClaim plus Display, landing Seen { by } on the co-located only, never over a channel; a display alone on the speak entry is an address, not SpeechRequired; the Interpreter quotes the visible clause alone by a display tool, one per turn. Run 10: 29 speak, 18 display, 10 gaps, every gap private reasoning, no quarantine; the first live interrupted cell re-lowered Maro's prose against Sera's line as said and her act as seen. Belief change: a false binary (record intent vs record posture) resolved by the display, the public act at the grain a witness perceives it; intent stays a gap on purpose. Follow-ups, not rules: verbatim-substring quoting admits fragments (I don't, Nod); one display per turn drops a turn's second and third acts to ambiguity gaps; the harness emits no per-cell interrupted line, which is the remaining half of item (a).", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T11:32:03+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Item (a) closed 2026-09-11: the interrupted cell is exercised live and reported. Commit 81a1f53 reads the bound and renewed scope digests from the committed turn's own receipt (NarrativeDecision::re_lowering), carries them on the cover tick summary, logs one tracing line per re-lowered cell, and the smoke harness prints one 'interrupted cell subject= bound= renewed=' line per cell after the tick line. SDK run 11 passed (27 speak, 24 display, 14 gaps) with three interrupted cells, three lines, three re-lowerings in the trace, and each act once in the operator feed. Belief: the runbook's three conditions for this section hold on a live provider; the record and the receipt cannot disagree because the line is derived from the receipt.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T12:11:53+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Fragment fault diagnosed and cut 2026-09-11 (commit 855727f, controller_work.v15): the Interpreter was citing correctly (So, then the rest of the sentence; four visible acts as four calls) and the fold was discarding everything after the first span per kind as ambiguity gaps. A turn's utterance and display are now every span cited for them, joined in prose order; only an overlapping span is an ambiguity. SDK run 12 passed: 39 speak, 6 display, 10 gaps, zero overlap gaps, every cited span landed, two interrupted cells reported. Belief: when a capture looks fragmentary, check what the harness dropped before what the model quoted. Seed lane note: run 12 round 1 was rejected because the seed model wrote kind for type and omitted the over tag against an explicit schema, then narrated tool bugs; round 2 committed. Sampling, not a schema fault.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T12:34:04+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Delvehold boundary, merged from four records of 2026-08-26. Delvehold is the first proving consumer of Ghostlight's generic world-simulation API, not an integration organ; adversarial single-player Dungeon play remains a regression and context-discovery path. Ghostlight adds only generic capability: one seed admission path shared by produced and consumer seeds, generic externally owned subject authority that admits institution and population-scale subjects through one tagged projection, consumer-supplied effect schemas, and typed proposals and receipts. Delvehold retains quantitative economy authority (quantities, prices, recipes, capacity, inventories, orders, contracts, conservation); Ghostlight resource handles never impersonate them. A forced ontology may bypass world generation but never kernel validation. The greathold ID and every delvehold.* binding stay Delvehold-owned; no cell or kernel switches on a consumer name. The legacy implementation those records described (WorldSeed transaction, ExternalSubjectAuthority, loopback RUDP operations) was torn down; the live implementation is the pass-10 confined consumer ingress in docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-consumer-api.md.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-26T17:12:55+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Standing pre-rebuild decisions, merged from seven records dated 2026-05-02 to 2026-08-29; map.yaml hard_boundaries and mission own the binding text. (1) VoidBot appraisal: appraiser and relationship/perception training must support human-facing reads, grounded opinions, uncertainty, repair signals, and opinion updates over repeated contact, not only fictional scene mutation. (2) Generated environment images are concept and material reference only; multi-angle or branch-consistent replay needs a durable scene-set source with named cameras and staging slots. (3) Coordinator turns are a sandboxed promptable organ with exact visible input, raw output, and labeled interventions; the meta-coordinator never collapses them into omniscient chat steering. (4) Character cognition is modeled state: the machinery is maximally smart, characters reason and maneuver only to the level their modeled state supports, and narrator prose may explain tactics for the reader without granting that explanation to characters. (5) ghostlight.agent_state.v0 is the shared cross-runtime payload contract, carried unchanged inside typed CultNet envelopes. (6) Multiplayer extends the one-WorldKernel, many-actor authority model: humans control distinct canonical actors through the same commit path, with no party prompt or room-state authority. (7) A newspaper is a persistent political/editorial Persona owning audience, remembered beats, framing, selective pickup, throughlines, and rivals; grounding constrains factual assertion and provenance while preserving legible interpretation; only the economic layer supplies advertisers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-29T05:15:35+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Sealing the replacement kernel, 2026-09-01, four records merged; git owns the commits (b53251f, d49b907, 12ee9f4, 66ed2ec). The first uncommitted world.rs foundation passed its focused tests and was deleted anyway: it exposed mutable WorldState and ID issuance, let translation-gap inference become canonical mutation, let empty batches advance revision, left controller commands without consumed opportunity, readiness, and affordance binding, and made batch self-digests unverifiable. The rule that came out of it: seal private WorldKernel, aggregate, and journal ownership first, then reintroduce a minimal reducer behind it; never publish mutable world types or an ID issuer for test or adapter convenience. The Persona interpretation contract is structurally total: source prose is immutable noncanonical evidence bound to typed receipts, only exact typed captures propose state, actual quoted dialogue is required for speech, malformed spans and step exhaustion become whole-source gaps, and infrastructure interruption returns the source pending. Legacy ingresses were deleted without a compatibility writer.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T17:40:32+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Deployment authority, merged from a four-record supersession chain, 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-03; map.yaml live_architecture.deployment_authority owns the full current rule. The read-only cutover audit found the old Idunn path structurally unfit: source, ref, and floor policy duplicated across compiled Rust, raw executable command records, a privileged shell dispatcher, and gamecult-ops target programs; root Git unable to inspect idunn-owned mirrors; world-v2 purity checks ignoring most legacy state; fixed-port activation stopping the incumbent before the candidate was green. Adopted: target-owned visible recipes with constrained launch declarations (raw unit and container templates rejected; the operator-selected workload driver lowers them), Idunn-configured refs, runner, and host bindings, Git and recipe materialization as the Idunn identity, Expected published by plan, service-signed Present, a process write lease before writable state, Odin-derived Ready, route membership only after Ready, and deployment separate from continuity. The owner is exactly DeploymentCommand, DeploymentTransaction, and AdmittedGeneration with nine persisted phases before effects (Odin 65cf2b2; contracts on CultLib 85f7024; provider sides Ghostlight 6a79cb0 and CodexConnector ede3c30). Live admission remains absent. The Nginx route receipt proves configuration plus nginx -T visibility only, so an independently persisted data-plane observation is required before fence clearance, drain, or cutover acceptance. Do not issue the old Connector or Ghostlight redeploy helpers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-03T06:13:20+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Core-stack consolidation, merged from ten records, 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-04. CultLib is the canonical home for CultCache, CultNet, and CultMesh across every runtime because wire-parity conformance lives only there; Ghostlight consumes all three by pinned rev 85f7024 (d0510ac), a permanent ancestor of CultLib main, and its vendored fork charter is deleted. Resolution key for older records: CultNet e542225 and f4ab237 and Odin d527d72 and 65cf2b2 were never on their repos' main branches; their content is on CultLib 85f7024 and Odin branch codex/ygg-idunn-independent-bootstrap, ported forward rather than merged, so those SHAs are dated history and GameCult/cultnet-rs may be retired. A whole-file symbol comparison, not a diff of recent changes, found four real capabilities in the forks (reliable send expiry owned by the transport profile, snapshot and per-entry compare-exchange, a framed-length check before allocation), all ported with tests; every other fork under F:/Projects held reach rather than divergence, and each consumer pinning a different branch was the combinatorial reason separate repos failed. CultLib main landed by fast-forward at 8cb3b72, so every consumer pin (Ghostlight 85f7024, Epiphany and CodexConnector e171eca, Odin cbde940) resolves from a fresh clone; a squash would have orphaned all of them. Odin eedce4f consumes CultLib, its recipe no longer requires gitlinks, and gamecult-ops 8f7ae2a drops the phantom gitlinks Idunn would have refused; odin-daemon reads systemd file descriptors and compiles only on Linux. Non-Rust forks persist for distribution, not divergence: npm and pip cannot consume a package from a git subdirectory, so CultLib 8cb3b72 adds tag-triggered publishing (@gamecult/cultcache-ts, cultcache-py on PyPI, MIT confirmed by the operator). Ghostlight keeps vendor/cultcache-py on sys.path deliberately so the state tooling runs from a bare clone; replacing it means session bootstrap must install.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:17:04+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Why the whole-machine rebuild, merged from three records, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-04. Run 108 inspection: 2,400 active leaves across five realms with strong authored crisis theater, but repeated fission substituted taxonomy for novelty (557 other-unknown records, 780 residual, inherited identical goals, eight distinct Actors named Mara Venn); counting active leaves measured nothing about world shape. Run 115 terminated at revision 2, regions 2/8, waves 0/1, after an SSE timeout and a dangling institution location exhausted four reconciliation steps; the qualification, verifier, reconciliation, timeout, and routing patch sequence through 8964a92 never established ownership, and the operator ordered one WorldKernel, one typed reducer, one CommandEnvelope/CultCache commit path. The root cause was vocabulary-shaped, not model-shaped: caller-supplied string SubjectRefs, two-phase entity admission, and a flat mutation list made a dangling reference a runtime discovery rather than an unrepresentable input, and depth lived in free strings, so the model tribunals (WorldComplexity qualification and verification, the titled semantic verifier that judged whether a proposal satisfied its titled assignment, and fixed titled quotas) were compensators for an ontology with nowhere to hold depth. The eight titles themselves were lenses, not tribunals; see the 2026-09-15 correction. Adopted cut: reducer-issued typed ID namespaces, draft handles resolved inside one closed WorldPatch before any ID allocates, twelve decision-constraining components, and elaboration that answers a derived CausalBoundary instead of running waves and quotas. Counts, cover ratios, interest, and diversity are evaluation evidence, never admission or completeness authority. Run 115's root at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/full-world-delvehold-0a83034-115 and invocation d9254cd9b77946aebcf7a7fdae821402 stay immutable; do not resume it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:39:08+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Ontology v2 decisions and the scale directive, 2026-09-04, two records merged; docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-ontology.md owns the vocabulary. Elaboration and character action lower under one WorldPatch and one deterministic verifier. Affordances are world-authored data (preconditions, effect slots, weighted outcome bands) over a closed operation set, so genre lives in the seed and the kernel never learns one; uncertainty resolves by kernel entropy seeded from world, revision, and command, so no model ever chooses success; proposals bind to a scope digest of the components their verification reads rather than the whole state digest, so many subjects and elaborators do not serialize on one revision. Elaborator tools are a derived projection of the operation set and cannot drift. Operator correction, preserve in intent: the 2,400-subject / 240-cell / 10% cover profile is deliberate design, not a load fixture; a world feels alive only when actors at every level pursue their own goals, so that detail is generated first and multiresolution simulation is then choked so attention is scarce and selection is forced. The seed carries a WorldScaleIntent whose structurally counted deficit (an active subject with one controller, one Goal commitment, one affordance) the elaborators pursue after boundaries; a budgeted connected cover runs every tick with singleton detail cells and grouped coarse cells. Deleted for good: gestalt as canonical identity, arena knowledge union, semantic qualification and verification models, fission quotas as mutation, string identifiers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T14:14:10+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Codex CLI fan-out cannot commit. A linked git worktree fails because its .git file points outside the sandbox's writable roots, and a full clone fails too: the Codex workspace-write sandbox keeps .git read-only even under the writable root, so a Codex worker can never commit or push regardless of clone layout or network grant. Rule for any Codex fan-out that must produce committed work: the worker writes files only; a supervisor outside the sandbox commits and pushes the clone after the worker exits. The elaborator scheduler (C:/Users/Meta/.claude/worlds) does this per slot to slot/<world>/<title>/<stamp> branches in the Ghostlight world clone and the lore clone; integration into codex/world-<world> and codex/ghostlight-worlds is a separate deliberate pass, still owed. Clones live at F:/Projects/Ghostlight-worlds/<world> and F:/Projects/<Lore>-worktrees/ghostlight-worlds (full clones despite the name).", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T15:04:24+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 6, the ontology widening, is complete: ten passes landed on codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp, 2026-09-04 to 2026-09-05, each a Hands cut in an isolation worktree, a Soul falsification in the same tree, and a gated integration (pass tips are in git history and the handoff). The kernel holds twelve decision-constraining component kinds over a pinned operation catalog under one WorldPatch, one reducer, one CAS commit, one decode bound for both authoring lanes, and three confined SystemCapability arms (Clock, Elaborator, Consumer). Soul's series verdict: the eleven plan invariants hold structurally (one reducer and atomic commit; kernel-derived authority; one controller per scope with no fallback or double action; total interpretation with exact gaps; deterministic structural rejection without a model verifier; scoped knowledge until explicit communication; external-consumer sovereignty; sparse causal sufficiency with counts as evidence only; restart reconstructs the exact world; IDs allocated only inside an admitted reduction; opportunities bound to a scope digest rather than a revision); the pairing invariant is re-decided at three gates by doctrine, not by a repair loop. The budgeted cover verified 22 ticks at the 2,400/240 profile with fairness ceil(N/R), R being cells minus urgency slots. Two decisions stay with the operator and are recorded nowhere else durable: whether a refused coupled constituent may re-submit once inside the same tick, decided with the submitted-versus-committed number in hand; and the authority for an owner-only Eve world.run_tick command.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T02:13:22+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "The rebuilt kernel runs on the road, 2026-09-05; runbook notes/local-live-smoke.md. Genesis smoke: tick driver, cover, Persona membrane, operational lane, clock, and elaboration sweep ran three ticks against a real CodexConnector; the road worked and the prose was thin because genesis is three subjects in one room, which made the seed producer an evidenced gap rather than an argued one. Seeded smoke: from the Kalsa Public vault one seed session authored six qualified persons into Low Sere in one round, deficit 6 to 0, and three ticks of eight singleton cells had the seeded people speaking to each other by name. Twelve runs were needed; every failure was on the road, not in the kernel, and each is now a rule in the tree: one credential family (the operator's real codex home), strict schemas (anyOf, typed tags, an offline totality test over both lanes), a Persona model the account supports, connector expiry skew below the response timeout, canonical ids printed beside labels, a seed round budget with parallel calls and budget-end submit, content-addressed provider request ids, the commitment shape rule in the tool description, and the placement rule. The harness fails on an empty seed or a silent world. The Codex subscription lapsed during this series and the runs consumed half the monthly free quota; no Codex road run is possible until it is renewed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T17:36:41+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Claude SDK inference port, plan step 11, 2026-09-06, two records merged. Research: the Agent SDK's system prompt is fully replaceable, built-ins strippable, CLAUDE.md loading stoppable, and assistant tool_use blocks come back verbatim with usage; but there is no silent capture, no replayable input list, no request id, and each query is one subprocess. Rejected: a Messages-API backend (no API budget) and a backend inside CodexConnector (a deliberately isolated Codex fork; nothing goes into it). Landed: a second InferencePort over a Node sidecar, routed per lane by model prefix, execute-through: the sidecar computes no tool result and Rust answers every call through a per-lane ToolResultOracle that is the evaluator's own fold, so divergence is impossible by construction; both ports share one prepare_invocation. Lesson that changes how any future transport is judged: a transport-side validator is a second semantics. The SDK's Zod layer stripped unknown keys and refused missing fields before the handler ran, so a claude lane silently admitted what the connector refused; the fix is one validator on both transports, the Rust decoder, with the sidecar handing arguments through unvalidated. Residual liability: a wrong-typed property reaches Rust as absent. The receipt is the SDK message, a named stopgap; the exit is a Messages-API port when API budget exists, deleting the sidecar whole. Not yet run on the road: the operator must install the Claude Code CLI and log in first; Ghostlight never holds the credential.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Evidence ledger distilled 2026-09-06: 44 records to 12. Supersession chains collapsed to their survivors, per-commit implementation receipts folded into the decision they served, and the pre-rebuild standing decisions merged into one record because map.yaml owns their binding text. Every removed record is appended verbatim to state/evidence.archive.jsonl. The compaction ran through tools/ghostlight_state.py compact-evidence, now the one durable path: evidence.jsonl is a regenerated export, so a store-only replacement is the only deletion that sticks.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T13:03:22+00:00", "type": "maintenance"}
{"note": "First SDK-backed seeded road runs, 2026-09-10 (936aa71, 4f7513b; runbook \"SDK runs, 2026-09-10\"; plan \"Road follow-ups\"). Transport verified: every lane on claude-sonnet-5 through the Node sidecar, no connector bound, seed sessions and ticks committed end to end (run 2: revision 3 to 24; run 3: revision 3 to 15, no quarantine). Belief-changing findings: (1) the sidecar's schema conversion dropped every field description, so the claude lane authored against bare types; descriptions now carry through. (2) The model wrote twelve commitments due at or before a clock it was never shown; due now describes itself as a clock reading and both authoring prompts print the clock. (3) A kernel refusal now continues the same authoring conversation (Refusal rows, controller_work.v12, prior rows refused not migrated) instead of a fresh-draft repair whose sites named a draft the model could not see. (4) Interpreter speak and record_gap cite prose by quote (source_quote) and the harness derives the span; model-counted byte offsets cut three of eight utterances mid-word, and run 3 shows every utterance whole. (5) The tick-3 quarantine in run 2 was a mis-spanned utterance failing the canonical-text rule: a translation gap, not an infrastructure fault; a bad quote is now a gap at capture. (6) Cost shape: singleton cells run in sequence at 15 to 50 s each on this lane, so a nine-cell tick is 2 to 8 min. Still owed: the live interrupted cell and its log line.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-10T22:06:08+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The membrane read end to end, 2026-09-11 (runs 4 to 6 of the SDK route, traced with GHOSTLIGHT_SMOKE_TRACE; plan 'Proposed step 12'). Findings that change belief: (1) The Projector context carried a name, a clock, and permission to speak, none of the life the seed authored; it now renders the subject's own state by label, never by id, and a seeded person went from saying 'hello' to speaking about its debt. (2) The pathos in run 5 was the model's default voice, not the character's: the prompts asked for what the person remembers, wants, and fears with no component to ground it, violating the hard boundary that character intelligence is modeled state. Flattened prompts render only what the context carries; run 6 is correctly silent. (3) A Commitment carries no statement of what is promised, so due 1000 read as money and due 20160 as fourteen days; due now renders as minutes from now, and the statement is proposed step 12. (4) PersonaMaterial is named in the ontology doc as a component with a set operation and exists nowhere in the kernel; the seed can only author identical people. (5) The Projector says 'no one before me' for two people in one house: own place is carried, co-presence is not. (6) The Interpreter, given quoted-speech capture, records honest gaps that double as a survey of missing primitives: posture, private priority, provisional belief.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-10T23:31:00+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 12 on the road, 2026-09-11 (c31f254, a9d6a1c; runs 7 and 8; runbook 'SDK runs'). PersonaMaterial (values, voice, memories, reads) is the thirteenth component, a Commitment carries a required statement, the Projector sees who else stands in its place, and the Persona identity is label, voice, values; material is outside every scope digest by test. Run 8: six seeded people with six voices, 43 speech captures to 9 gaps across two ticks (run 5 was 3 to 25), and the lines reference each other's promises by content. Beliefs that changed: (1) with a vocabulary for meaning, the seed lane authors real people unprompted by anything but the tool and one sentence of instruction; (2) run 7 lost the best patch yet to an undescribed variant field and a tool result that said only 'recorded as a gap', so every decode failure now returns its reason to the model and the controller variant describes its shapes; (3) the SDK transport takes one user prompt, so a refusal continuation must ride in the transcript, and now does; (4) the world title and brief are authored facts the machine lacks: 'Cover Tick Fixture' and the brief's boundary language leaked into a vow, so world_create.v3 is the next cut.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 13, the world brief, on the road 2026-09-11 (d4d7bc3; run 9). world_create.v3 carries a required brief, trimmed at ingress, held on WorldState and its snapshot, replayed identically, and projected as the guidance of every lane and both authoring prompts; the narrative stages that rebuild prompts on resume carry it (controller_work.v13). Belief that changed: guidance is world truth, not a prompt constant. With an empty slot every lane reasoned about a world named Cover Tick Fixture and run 8 put that name into a vow; with the brief, run 9's trace holds no fixture name, its promises are about hearths, ration boards, and the kiln, and its people speak in the world's terms. The smoke titles its world by the seed root label and gives its brief to the world once, not to each seed session. Speak-to-gap ratio moved from 43:9 (run 8) to 20:24 (run 9) on the same prompts: that is sampling, not a regression, and the runbook records both.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T01:13:50+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 14 landed and proven by SDK run 10 (2026-09-11): a visible act is a display, speech's twin. The kernel lowers an invocation's display beside its utterance into AssertClaim plus Display, landing Seen { by } on the co-located only, never over a channel; a display alone on the speak entry is an address, not SpeechRequired; the Interpreter quotes the visible clause alone by a display tool, one per turn. Run 10: 29 speak, 18 display, 10 gaps, every gap private reasoning, no quarantine; the first live interrupted cell re-lowered Maro's prose against Sera's line as said and her act as seen. Belief change: a false binary (record intent vs record posture) resolved by the display, the public act at the grain a witness perceives it; intent stays a gap on purpose. Follow-ups, not rules: verbatim-substring quoting admits fragments (I don't, Nod); one display per turn drops a turn's second and third acts to ambiguity gaps; the harness emits no per-cell interrupted line, which is the remaining half of item (a).", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T11:32:03+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Item (a) closed 2026-09-11: the interrupted cell is exercised live and reported. Commit 81a1f53 reads the bound and renewed scope digests from the committed turn's own receipt (NarrativeDecision::re_lowering), carries them on the cover tick summary, logs one tracing line per re-lowered cell, and the smoke harness prints one 'interrupted cell subject= bound= renewed=' line per cell after the tick line. SDK run 11 passed (27 speak, 24 display, 14 gaps) with three interrupted cells, three lines, three re-lowerings in the trace, and each act once in the operator feed. Belief: the runbook's three conditions for this section hold on a live provider; the record and the receipt cannot disagree because the line is derived from the receipt.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T12:11:53+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Fragment fault diagnosed and cut 2026-09-11 (commit 855727f, controller_work.v15): the Interpreter was citing correctly (So, then the rest of the sentence; four visible acts as four calls) and the fold was discarding everything after the first span per kind as ambiguity gaps. A turn's utterance and display are now every span cited for them, joined in prose order; only an overlapping span is an ambiguity. SDK run 12 passed: 39 speak, 6 display, 10 gaps, zero overlap gaps, every cited span landed, two interrupted cells reported. Belief: when a capture looks fragmentary, check what the harness dropped before what the model quoted. Seed lane note: run 12 round 1 was rejected because the seed model wrote kind for type and omitted the over tag against an explicit schema, then narrated tool bugs; round 2 committed. Sampling, not a schema fault.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T12:34:04+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The titled elaborators were never an operator-approved cut, 2026-09-15. Patina, Charter, Ledger, Hearth, Tangle, Veil, Ember, and Numen fell in three steps: 4aebe17 (2026-09-01) listed titled elaborator quotas for deletion under the operator's whole-machine order; 6bb6869 deleted elaboration.rs and the titles with it; 9c662bd (2026-09-04) classed ElaboratorTitle as a model tribunal and reused 'eight elaborators' for per-jurisdiction loop instances without flagging the change. No record holds operator approval of the titles' removal. The tribunal was the titled semantic verifier and the fixed quotas, not the title: the Run 108 inspection called the titles excellent distinct lanes, and the 2026-09-04 elaborator swarm kept them. Operator direction: titles return as lenses over the typed ontology. A swarm of elaborators draws a title per session by player-set weights; any title may add any structure, the title shapes what kind, and the weights set the world's flavor. No title gates admission, holds authority, or fills a quota. Design: docs/architecture/ghostlight-session-zero.md. Lesson: when cutting a compensator, separate the judging machinery from the capability it judged, and put a named, operator-visible feature before the operator before deleting it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-15T20:31:32+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Operator directive, 2026-09-15: Ghostlight Dungeon is a consumer of the Ghostlight library, which serves all GameCult narrative simulation. Session Zero is a Dungeon concept and Dungeon authority; it never shapes the library. The Session Zero design was re-cut the same day into consumer-neutral library capabilities (elaboration lenses with weights, focus-weighted demand with a consumer-supplied detail profile, per-world evidence binding, elaborator sessions in Draft; ontology doc 'Elaboration lenses and focus (target)') and Dungeon policy consuming them (docs/architecture/ghostlight-session-zero.md: Vault registry, weight proposal, sliders, start choice, player focus, Eve surface). This supersedes the earlier same-day correction record where it placed the titles and their weights in the Session Zero design. Source does not match the boundary: the world kernel lives in crates/ghostlight-dungeon beside Dungeon's runtime. Open operator decisions: extract the kernel into a library crate before the library passes (recommended), and ship the eight titles as a library stock lens set (recommended). Lesson: before designing a feature, name which owner it belongs to, library or consumer; a player-facing flow placed on the kernel quietly makes one consumer's policy library vocabulary.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-15T20:46:54+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Operator decisions and design correction, 2026-09-15. (1) The world kernel is extracted from crates/ghostlight-dungeon into a library crate before any library pass (plan step 15, L0). Its only Dungeon import today is app_session::VerifiedPrincipalEvidence in mailbox.rs and controller tests; world/ touches no HTTP or Eve types; the crate is binary-only and pub(crate), so the extraction is also the first real public boundary. (2) The eight titles ship as the library's stock lens set, usable or replaceable by any consumer. (3) Focus as a set of subjects was too narrow: a detail rule is a function from place to detail level, and each consumer owns its LOD rule. Dungeon uses ByDistance anchored on important subjects, the player first; Delvehold starts from Uniform. The rule must be typed world data evaluated by the library, not consumer code, because the deficit it produces is an admission input and journal replay re-runs reduce (verify_history), so a changed consumer function would fail committed history on restart. New LOD needs become new consumer-neutral rule forms. WorldScaleIntent per-kind targets stay as the ceiling the rule distributes, so the authored scale directive survives and an unbounded Uniform rule cannot outgrow it. Supersedes the focus and detail-profile wording of the earlier same-day records.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-15T20:55:07+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Delvehold boundary, merged from four records of 2026-08-26. Delvehold is the first proving consumer of Ghostlight's generic world-simulation API, not an integration organ; adversarial single-player Dungeon play remains a regression and context-discovery path. Ghostlight adds only generic capability: one seed admission path shared by produced and consumer seeds, generic externally owned subject authority that admits institution and population-scale subjects through one tagged projection, consumer-supplied effect schemas, and typed proposals and receipts. Delvehold retains quantitative economy authority (quantities, prices, recipes, capacity, inventories, orders, contracts, conservation); Ghostlight resource handles never impersonate them. A forced ontology may bypass world generation but never kernel validation. The greathold ID and every delvehold.* binding stay Delvehold-owned; no cell or kernel switches on a consumer name. The legacy implementation those records described (WorldSeed transaction, ExternalSubjectAuthority, loopback RUDP operations) was torn down; the live implementation is the pass-10 confined consumer ingress in docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-consumer-api.md.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-26T17:12:55+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Standing pre-rebuild decisions, merged from seven records dated 2026-05-02 to 2026-08-29; map.yaml hard_boundaries and mission own the binding text. (1) VoidBot appraisal: appraiser and relationship/perception training must support human-facing reads, grounded opinions, uncertainty, repair signals, and opinion updates over repeated contact, not only fictional scene mutation. (2) Generated environment images are concept and material reference only; multi-angle or branch-consistent replay needs a durable scene-set source with named cameras and staging slots. (3) Coordinator turns are a sandboxed promptable organ with exact visible input, raw output, and labeled interventions; the meta-coordinator never collapses them into omniscient chat steering. (4) Character cognition is modeled state: the machinery is maximally smart, characters reason and maneuver only to the level their modeled state supports, and narrator prose may explain tactics for the reader without granting that explanation to characters. (5) ghostlight.agent_state.v0 is the shared cross-runtime payload contract, carried unchanged inside typed CultNet envelopes. (6) Multiplayer extends the one-WorldKernel, many-actor authority model: humans control distinct canonical actors through the same commit path, with no party prompt or room-state authority. (7) A newspaper is a persistent political/editorial Persona owning audience, remembered beats, framing, selective pickup, throughlines, and rivals; grounding constrains factual assertion and provenance while preserving legible interpretation; only the economic layer supplies advertisers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-29T05:15:35+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Sealing the replacement kernel, 2026-09-01, four records merged; git owns the commits (b53251f, d49b907, 12ee9f4, 66ed2ec). The first uncommitted world.rs foundation passed its focused tests and was deleted anyway: it exposed mutable WorldState and ID issuance, let translation-gap inference become canonical mutation, let empty batches advance revision, left controller commands without consumed opportunity, readiness, and affordance binding, and made batch self-digests unverifiable. The rule that came out of it: seal private WorldKernel, aggregate, and journal ownership first, then reintroduce a minimal reducer behind it; never publish mutable world types or an ID issuer for test or adapter convenience. The Persona interpretation contract is structurally total: source prose is immutable noncanonical evidence bound to typed receipts, only exact typed captures propose state, actual quoted dialogue is required for speech, malformed spans and step exhaustion become whole-source gaps, and infrastructure interruption returns the source pending. Legacy ingresses were deleted without a compatibility writer.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T17:40:32+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Deployment authority, merged from a four-record supersession chain, 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-03; map.yaml live_architecture.deployment_authority owns the full current rule. The read-only cutover audit found the old Idunn path structurally unfit: source, ref, and floor policy duplicated across compiled Rust, raw executable command records, a privileged shell dispatcher, and gamecult-ops target programs; root Git unable to inspect idunn-owned mirrors; world-v2 purity checks ignoring most legacy state; fixed-port activation stopping the incumbent before the candidate was green. Adopted: target-owned visible recipes with constrained launch declarations (raw unit and container templates rejected; the operator-selected workload driver lowers them), Idunn-configured refs, runner, and host bindings, Git and recipe materialization as the Idunn identity, Expected published by plan, service-signed Present, a process write lease before writable state, Odin-derived Ready, route membership only after Ready, and deployment separate from continuity. The owner is exactly DeploymentCommand, DeploymentTransaction, and AdmittedGeneration with nine persisted phases before effects (Odin 65cf2b2; contracts on CultLib 85f7024; provider sides Ghostlight 6a79cb0 and CodexConnector ede3c30). Live admission remains absent. The Nginx route receipt proves configuration plus nginx -T visibility only, so an independently persisted data-plane observation is required before fence clearance, drain, or cutover acceptance. Do not issue the old Connector or Ghostlight redeploy helpers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-03T06:13:20+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Core-stack consolidation, merged from ten records, 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-04. CultLib is the canonical home for CultCache, CultNet, and CultMesh across every runtime because wire-parity conformance lives only there; Ghostlight consumes all three by pinned rev 85f7024 (d0510ac), a permanent ancestor of CultLib main, and its vendored fork charter is deleted. Resolution key for older records: CultNet e542225 and f4ab237 and Odin d527d72 and 65cf2b2 were never on their repos' main branches; their content is on CultLib 85f7024 and Odin branch codex/ygg-idunn-independent-bootstrap, ported forward rather than merged, so those SHAs are dated history and GameCult/cultnet-rs may be retired. A whole-file symbol comparison, not a diff of recent changes, found four real capabilities in the forks (reliable send expiry owned by the transport profile, snapshot and per-entry compare-exchange, a framed-length check before allocation), all ported with tests; every other fork under F:/Projects held reach rather than divergence, and each consumer pinning a different branch was the combinatorial reason separate repos failed. CultLib main landed by fast-forward at 8cb3b72, so every consumer pin (Ghostlight 85f7024, Epiphany and CodexConnector e171eca, Odin cbde940) resolves from a fresh clone; a squash would have orphaned all of them. Odin eedce4f consumes CultLib, its recipe no longer requires gitlinks, and gamecult-ops 8f7ae2a drops the phantom gitlinks Idunn would have refused; odin-daemon reads systemd file descriptors and compiles only on Linux. Non-Rust forks persist for distribution, not divergence: npm and pip cannot consume a package from a git subdirectory, so CultLib 8cb3b72 adds tag-triggered publishing (@gamecult/cultcache-ts, cultcache-py on PyPI, MIT confirmed by the operator). Ghostlight keeps vendor/cultcache-py on sys.path deliberately so the state tooling runs from a bare clone; replacing it means session bootstrap must install.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:17:04+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Why the whole-machine rebuild, merged from three records, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-04. Run 108 inspection: 2,400 active leaves across five realms with strong authored crisis theater, but repeated fission substituted taxonomy for novelty (557 other-unknown records, 780 residual, inherited identical goals, eight distinct Actors named Mara Venn); counting active leaves measured nothing about world shape. Run 115 terminated at revision 2, regions 2/8, waves 0/1, after an SSE timeout and a dangling institution location exhausted four reconciliation steps; the qualification, verifier, reconciliation, timeout, and routing patch sequence through 8964a92 never established ownership, and the operator ordered one WorldKernel, one typed reducer, one CommandEnvelope/CultCache commit path. The root cause was vocabulary-shaped, not model-shaped: caller-supplied string SubjectRefs, two-phase entity admission, and a flat mutation list made a dangling reference a runtime discovery rather than an unrepresentable input, and depth lived in free strings, so the model tribunals (WorldComplexity qualification and verification, the titled semantic verifier that judged whether a proposal satisfied its titled assignment, and fixed titled quotas) were compensators for an ontology with nowhere to hold depth. The eight titles themselves were lenses, not tribunals; see the 2026-09-15 correction. Adopted cut: reducer-issued typed ID namespaces, draft handles resolved inside one closed WorldPatch before any ID allocates, twelve decision-constraining components, and elaboration that answers a derived CausalBoundary instead of running waves and quotas. Counts, cover ratios, interest, and diversity are evaluation evidence, never admission or completeness authority. Run 115's root at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/full-world-delvehold-0a83034-115 and invocation d9254cd9b77946aebcf7a7fdae821402 stay immutable; do not resume it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:39:08+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Ontology v2 decisions and the scale directive, 2026-09-04, two records merged; docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-ontology.md owns the vocabulary. Elaboration and character action lower under one WorldPatch and one deterministic verifier. Affordances are world-authored data (preconditions, effect slots, weighted outcome bands) over a closed operation set, so genre lives in the seed and the kernel never learns one; uncertainty resolves by kernel entropy seeded from world, revision, and command, so no model ever chooses success; proposals bind to a scope digest of the components their verification reads rather than the whole state digest, so many subjects and elaborators do not serialize on one revision. Elaborator tools are a derived projection of the operation set and cannot drift. Operator correction, preserve in intent: the 2,400-subject / 240-cell / 10% cover profile is deliberate design, not a load fixture; a world feels alive only when actors at every level pursue their own goals, so that detail is generated first and multiresolution simulation is then choked so attention is scarce and selection is forced. The seed carries a WorldScaleIntent whose structurally counted deficit (an active subject with one controller, one Goal commitment, one affordance) the elaborators pursue after boundaries; a budgeted connected cover runs every tick with singleton detail cells and grouped coarse cells. Deleted for good: gestalt as canonical identity, arena knowledge union, semantic qualification and verification models, fission quotas as mutation, string identifiers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T14:14:10+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Codex CLI fan-out cannot commit. A linked git worktree fails because its .git file points outside the sandbox's writable roots, and a full clone fails too: the Codex workspace-write sandbox keeps .git read-only even under the writable root, so a Codex worker can never commit or push regardless of clone layout or network grant. Rule for any Codex fan-out that must produce committed work: the worker writes files only; a supervisor outside the sandbox commits and pushes the clone after the worker exits. The elaborator scheduler (C:/Users/Meta/.claude/worlds) does this per slot to slot/<world>/<title>/<stamp> branches in the Ghostlight world clone and the lore clone; integration into codex/world-<world> and codex/ghostlight-worlds is a separate deliberate pass, still owed. Clones live at F:/Projects/Ghostlight-worlds/<world> and F:/Projects/<Lore>-worktrees/ghostlight-worlds (full clones despite the name).", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T15:04:24+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 6, the ontology widening, is complete: ten passes landed on codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp, 2026-09-04 to 2026-09-05, each a Hands cut in an isolation worktree, a Soul falsification in the same tree, and a gated integration (pass tips are in git history and the handoff). The kernel holds twelve decision-constraining component kinds over a pinned operation catalog under one WorldPatch, one reducer, one CAS commit, one decode bound for both authoring lanes, and three confined SystemCapability arms (Clock, Elaborator, Consumer). Soul's series verdict: the eleven plan invariants hold structurally (one reducer and atomic commit; kernel-derived authority; one controller per scope with no fallback or double action; total interpretation with exact gaps; deterministic structural rejection without a model verifier; scoped knowledge until explicit communication; external-consumer sovereignty; sparse causal sufficiency with counts as evidence only; restart reconstructs the exact world; IDs allocated only inside an admitted reduction; opportunities bound to a scope digest rather than a revision); the pairing invariant is re-decided at three gates by doctrine, not by a repair loop. The budgeted cover verified 22 ticks at the 2,400/240 profile with fairness ceil(N/R), R being cells minus urgency slots. Two decisions stay with the operator and are recorded nowhere else durable: whether a refused coupled constituent may re-submit once inside the same tick, decided with the submitted-versus-committed number in hand; and the authority for an owner-only Eve world.run_tick command.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T02:13:22+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "The rebuilt kernel runs on the road, 2026-09-05; runbook notes/local-live-smoke.md. Genesis smoke: tick driver, cover, Persona membrane, operational lane, clock, and elaboration sweep ran three ticks against a real CodexConnector; the road worked and the prose was thin because genesis is three subjects in one room, which made the seed producer an evidenced gap rather than an argued one. Seeded smoke: from the Kalsa Public vault one seed session authored six qualified persons into Low Sere in one round, deficit 6 to 0, and three ticks of eight singleton cells had the seeded people speaking to each other by name. Twelve runs were needed; every failure was on the road, not in the kernel, and each is now a rule in the tree: one credential family (the operator's real codex home), strict schemas (anyOf, typed tags, an offline totality test over both lanes), a Persona model the account supports, connector expiry skew below the response timeout, canonical ids printed beside labels, a seed round budget with parallel calls and budget-end submit, content-addressed provider request ids, the commitment shape rule in the tool description, and the placement rule. The harness fails on an empty seed or a silent world. The Codex subscription lapsed during this series and the runs consumed half the monthly free quota; no Codex road run is possible until it is renewed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T17:36:41+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Claude SDK inference port, plan step 11, 2026-09-06, two records merged. Research: the Agent SDK's system prompt is fully replaceable, built-ins strippable, CLAUDE.md loading stoppable, and assistant tool_use blocks come back verbatim with usage; but there is no silent capture, no replayable input list, no request id, and each query is one subprocess. Rejected: a Messages-API backend (no API budget) and a backend inside CodexConnector (a deliberately isolated Codex fork; nothing goes into it). Landed: a second InferencePort over a Node sidecar, routed per lane by model prefix, execute-through: the sidecar computes no tool result and Rust answers every call through a per-lane ToolResultOracle that is the evaluator's own fold, so divergence is impossible by construction; both ports share one prepare_invocation. Lesson that changes how any future transport is judged: a transport-side validator is a second semantics. The SDK's Zod layer stripped unknown keys and refused missing fields before the handler ran, so a claude lane silently admitted what the connector refused; the fix is one validator on both transports, the Rust decoder, with the sidecar handing arguments through unvalidated. Residual liability: a wrong-typed property reaches Rust as absent. The receipt is the SDK message, a named stopgap; the exit is a Messages-API port when API budget exists, deleting the sidecar whole. Not yet run on the road: the operator must install the Claude Code CLI and log in first; Ghostlight never holds the credential.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Evidence ledger distilled 2026-09-06: 44 records to 12. Supersession chains collapsed to their survivors, per-commit implementation receipts folded into the decision they served, and the pre-rebuild standing decisions merged into one record because map.yaml owns their binding text. Every removed record is appended verbatim to state/evidence.archive.jsonl. The compaction ran through tools/ghostlight_state.py compact-evidence, now the one durable path: evidence.jsonl is a regenerated export, so a store-only replacement is the only deletion that sticks.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T13:03:22+00:00", "type": "maintenance"}
{"note": "First SDK-backed seeded road runs, 2026-09-10 (936aa71, 4f7513b; runbook \"SDK runs, 2026-09-10\"; plan \"Road follow-ups\"). Transport verified: every lane on claude-sonnet-5 through the Node sidecar, no connector bound, seed sessions and ticks committed end to end (run 2: revision 3 to 24; run 3: revision 3 to 15, no quarantine). Belief-changing findings: (1) the sidecar's schema conversion dropped every field description, so the claude lane authored against bare types; descriptions now carry through. (2) The model wrote twelve commitments due at or before a clock it was never shown; due now describes itself as a clock reading and both authoring prompts print the clock. (3) A kernel refusal now continues the same authoring conversation (Refusal rows, controller_work.v12, prior rows refused not migrated) instead of a fresh-draft repair whose sites named a draft the model could not see. (4) Interpreter speak and record_gap cite prose by quote (source_quote) and the harness derives the span; model-counted byte offsets cut three of eight utterances mid-word, and run 3 shows every utterance whole. (5) The tick-3 quarantine in run 2 was a mis-spanned utterance failing the canonical-text rule: a translation gap, not an infrastructure fault; a bad quote is now a gap at capture. (6) Cost shape: singleton cells run in sequence at 15 to 50 s each on this lane, so a nine-cell tick is 2 to 8 min. Still owed: the live interrupted cell and its log line.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-10T22:06:08+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The membrane read end to end, 2026-09-11 (runs 4 to 6 of the SDK route, traced with GHOSTLIGHT_SMOKE_TRACE; plan 'Proposed step 12'). Findings that change belief: (1) The Projector context carried a name, a clock, and permission to speak, none of the life the seed authored; it now renders the subject's own state by label, never by id, and a seeded person went from saying 'hello' to speaking about its debt. (2) The pathos in run 5 was the model's default voice, not the character's: the prompts asked for what the person remembers, wants, and fears with no component to ground it, violating the hard boundary that character intelligence is modeled state. Flattened prompts render only what the context carries; run 6 is correctly silent. (3) A Commitment carries no statement of what is promised, so due 1000 read as money and due 20160 as fourteen days; due now renders as minutes from now, and the statement is proposed step 12. (4) PersonaMaterial is named in the ontology doc as a component with a set operation and exists nowhere in the kernel; the seed can only author identical people. (5) The Projector says 'no one before me' for two people in one house: own place is carried, co-presence is not. (6) The Interpreter, given quoted-speech capture, records honest gaps that double as a survey of missing primitives: posture, private priority, provisional belief.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-10T23:31:00+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 12 on the road, 2026-09-11 (c31f254, a9d6a1c; runs 7 and 8; runbook 'SDK runs'). PersonaMaterial (values, voice, memories, reads) is the thirteenth component, a Commitment carries a required statement, the Projector sees who else stands in its place, and the Persona identity is label, voice, values; material is outside every scope digest by test. Run 8: six seeded people with six voices, 43 speech captures to 9 gaps across two ticks (run 5 was 3 to 25), and the lines reference each other's promises by content. Beliefs that changed: (1) with a vocabulary for meaning, the seed lane authors real people unprompted by anything but the tool and one sentence of instruction; (2) run 7 lost the best patch yet to an undescribed variant field and a tool result that said only 'recorded as a gap', so every decode failure now returns its reason to the model and the controller variant describes its shapes; (3) the SDK transport takes one user prompt, so a refusal continuation must ride in the transcript, and now does; (4) the world title and brief are authored facts the machine lacks: 'Cover Tick Fixture' and the brief's boundary language leaked into a vow, so world_create.v3 is the next cut.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 13, the world brief, on the road 2026-09-11 (d4d7bc3; run 9). world_create.v3 carries a required brief, trimmed at ingress, held on WorldState and its snapshot, replayed identically, and projected as the guidance of every lane and both authoring prompts; the narrative stages that rebuild prompts on resume carry it (controller_work.v13). Belief that changed: guidance is world truth, not a prompt constant. With an empty slot every lane reasoned about a world named Cover Tick Fixture and run 8 put that name into a vow; with the brief, run 9's trace holds no fixture name, its promises are about hearths, ration boards, and the kiln, and its people speak in the world's terms. The smoke titles its world by the seed root label and gives its brief to the world once, not to each seed session. Speak-to-gap ratio moved from 43:9 (run 8) to 20:24 (run 9) on the same prompts: that is sampling, not a regression, and the runbook records both.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T01:13:50+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 14 landed and proven by SDK run 10 (2026-09-11): a visible act is a display, speech's twin. The kernel lowers an invocation's display beside its utterance into AssertClaim plus Display, landing Seen { by } on the co-located only, never over a channel; a display alone on the speak entry is an address, not SpeechRequired; the Interpreter quotes the visible clause alone by a display tool, one per turn. Run 10: 29 speak, 18 display, 10 gaps, every gap private reasoning, no quarantine; the first live interrupted cell re-lowered Maro's prose against Sera's line as said and her act as seen. Belief change: a false binary (record intent vs record posture) resolved by the display, the public act at the grain a witness perceives it; intent stays a gap on purpose. Follow-ups, not rules: verbatim-substring quoting admits fragments (I don't, Nod); one display per turn drops a turn's second and third acts to ambiguity gaps; the harness emits no per-cell interrupted line, which is the remaining half of item (a).", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T11:32:03+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Item (a) closed 2026-09-11: the interrupted cell is exercised live and reported. Commit 81a1f53 reads the bound and renewed scope digests from the committed turn's own receipt (NarrativeDecision::re_lowering), carries them on the cover tick summary, logs one tracing line per re-lowered cell, and the smoke harness prints one 'interrupted cell subject= bound= renewed=' line per cell after the tick line. SDK run 11 passed (27 speak, 24 display, 14 gaps) with three interrupted cells, three lines, three re-lowerings in the trace, and each act once in the operator feed. Belief: the runbook's three conditions for this section hold on a live provider; the record and the receipt cannot disagree because the line is derived from the receipt.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T12:11:53+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Fragment fault diagnosed and cut 2026-09-11 (commit 855727f, controller_work.v15): the Interpreter was citing correctly (So, then the rest of the sentence; four visible acts as four calls) and the fold was discarding everything after the first span per kind as ambiguity gaps. A turn's utterance and display are now every span cited for them, joined in prose order; only an overlapping span is an ambiguity. SDK run 12 passed: 39 speak, 6 display, 10 gaps, zero overlap gaps, every cited span landed, two interrupted cells reported. Belief: when a capture looks fragmentary, check what the harness dropped before what the model quoted. Seed lane note: run 12 round 1 was rejected because the seed model wrote kind for type and omitted the over tag against an explicit schema, then narrated tool bugs; round 2 committed. Sampling, not a schema fault.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T12:34:04+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The titled elaborators were never an operator-approved cut, 2026-09-15. Patina, Charter, Ledger, Hearth, Tangle, Veil, Ember, and Numen fell in three steps: 4aebe17 (2026-09-01) listed titled elaborator quotas for deletion under the operator's whole-machine order; 6bb6869 deleted elaboration.rs and the titles with it; 9c662bd (2026-09-04) classed ElaboratorTitle as a model tribunal and reused 'eight elaborators' for per-jurisdiction loop instances without flagging the change. No record holds operator approval of the titles' removal. The tribunal was the titled semantic verifier and the fixed quotas, not the title: the Run 108 inspection called the titles excellent distinct lanes, and the 2026-09-04 elaborator swarm kept them. Operator direction: titles return as lenses over the typed ontology. A swarm of elaborators draws a title per session by the world's weights (world data, which Dungeon's Session Zero lets the player set); any title may add any structure, the title shapes what kind, and the weights set the world's flavor. No title gates admission, holds authority, or fills a quota. Design: ontology doc 'Elaboration lenses and detail rules'. Lesson: when cutting a compensator, separate the judging machinery from the capability it judged, and put a named, operator-visible feature before the operator before deleting it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-15T20:31:32+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Library and consumer boundary, merged from two records, 2026-09-15. Ghostlight Dungeon is a consumer of the Ghostlight library, which serves all GameCult narrative simulation. Session Zero, Vault choice, players, sliders, and starting locations are Dungeon authority and never shape the library. Operator decisions: (1) extract the world kernel from crates/ghostlight-dungeon into a library crate before any library pass (plan step 15, L0); its only Dungeon import is app_session::VerifiedPrincipalEvidence, and the extraction is the first real public boundary. (2) The eight titles ship as the library's stock lens set. (3) Each world carries a typed detail rule, a function from place to detail level that the library evaluates; consumers choose the rule (Dungeon ByDistance anchored on important subjects, the player first; Delvehold Uniform). It must be typed data, not consumer code, because the deficit it produces is an admission input and journal replay re-runs reduce. WorldScaleIntent per-kind targets remain the ceiling the rule distributes. Lesson: name the owner, library or consumer, before designing a feature; a player-facing flow placed on the kernel quietly makes one consumer's policy library vocabulary.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-15T20:55:07+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "L0 landed and the seal is name-based, 2026-09-16 (Ghostlight 108b691, f859d2c). The world kernel is now the ghostlight library crate; ghostlight-dungeon is the consuming binary. Soul verified independently: library 419+1 ignored with test names identical to the base world:: set, 10 compile_fail doc-tests, Dungeon 49 base names plus two new soul tests, no feature declared anywhere, and no schema string, _NAMESPACE, derive_id site, serde attribute or Preimage changed. Belief-changing finding: private constructors do not seal a public type that derives Deserialize. Every pub ID, ScopeDigest and DecisionOpportunity is deserializable, so an external crate mints them from JSON and rebuilds the exact fixture path ruling Q1-4 ordered unreachable; the ten doc-tests pin path names and stayed green when a Default impl that mints an ID was added. Dungeon's Eve payloads deserialize DecisionOpportunity, so the derives cannot simply be removed. What actually holds is kernel revalidation: reduce rejects an opportunity it did not issue (lib.rs:4192-4201). Operator question Q1-9 in docs/architecture/ghostlight-library-extraction-cut.md decides whether the invariant is restated as unforgeable admission (recommended, proven by rejection tests from an external crate) or the types are made unconstructible, which would require Dungeon to stop deserializing opportunities. Also open from Soul: a grep-based single-minter test that an alias or a subdirectory evades, and 71 public identifiers Dungeon never references. Lesson for any sealed boundary: prove unconstructibility from outside the crate, not path privacy; a derive is a public constructor.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-16T00:27:09+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Delvehold boundary, merged from four records of 2026-08-26. Delvehold is the first proving consumer of Ghostlight's generic world-simulation API, not an integration organ; adversarial single-player Dungeon play remains a regression and context-discovery path. Ghostlight adds only generic capability: one seed admission path shared by produced and consumer seeds, generic externally owned subject authority that admits institution and population-scale subjects through one tagged projection, consumer-supplied effect schemas, and typed proposals and receipts. Delvehold retains quantitative economy authority (quantities, prices, recipes, capacity, inventories, orders, contracts, conservation); Ghostlight resource handles never impersonate them. A forced ontology may bypass world generation but never kernel validation. The greathold ID and every delvehold.* binding stay Delvehold-owned; no cell or kernel switches on a consumer name. The legacy implementation those records described (WorldSeed transaction, ExternalSubjectAuthority, loopback RUDP operations) was torn down; the live implementation is the pass-10 confined consumer ingress in docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-consumer-api.md.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-26T17:12:55+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Standing pre-rebuild decisions, merged from seven records dated 2026-05-02 to 2026-08-29; map.yaml hard_boundaries and mission own the binding text. (1) VoidBot appraisal: appraiser and relationship/perception training must support human-facing reads, grounded opinions, uncertainty, repair signals, and opinion updates over repeated contact, not only fictional scene mutation. (2) Generated environment images are concept and material reference only; multi-angle or branch-consistent replay needs a durable scene-set source with named cameras and staging slots. (3) Coordinator turns are a sandboxed promptable organ with exact visible input, raw output, and labeled interventions; the meta-coordinator never collapses them into omniscient chat steering. (4) Character cognition is modeled state: the machinery is maximally smart, characters reason and maneuver only to the level their modeled state supports, and narrator prose may explain tactics for the reader without granting that explanation to characters. (5) ghostlight.agent_state.v0 is the shared cross-runtime payload contract, carried unchanged inside typed CultNet envelopes. (6) Multiplayer extends the one-WorldKernel, many-actor authority model: humans control distinct canonical actors through the same commit path, with no party prompt or room-state authority. (7) A newspaper is a persistent political/editorial Persona owning audience, remembered beats, framing, selective pickup, throughlines, and rivals; grounding constrains factual assertion and provenance while preserving legible interpretation; only the economic layer supplies advertisers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-29T05:15:35+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Sealing the replacement kernel, 2026-09-01, four records merged; git owns the commits (b53251f, d49b907, 12ee9f4, 66ed2ec). The first uncommitted world.rs foundation passed its focused tests and was deleted anyway: it exposed mutable WorldState and ID issuance, let translation-gap inference become canonical mutation, let empty batches advance revision, left controller commands without consumed opportunity, readiness, and affordance binding, and made batch self-digests unverifiable. The rule that came out of it: seal private WorldKernel, aggregate, and journal ownership first, then reintroduce a minimal reducer behind it; never publish mutable world types or an ID issuer for test or adapter convenience. The Persona interpretation contract is structurally total: source prose is immutable noncanonical evidence bound to typed receipts, only exact typed captures propose state, actual quoted dialogue is required for speech, malformed spans and step exhaustion become whole-source gaps, and infrastructure interruption returns the source pending. Legacy ingresses were deleted without a compatibility writer.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T17:40:32+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Deployment authority, merged from a four-record supersession chain, 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-03; map.yaml live_architecture.deployment_authority owns the full current rule. The read-only cutover audit found the old Idunn path structurally unfit: source, ref, and floor policy duplicated across compiled Rust, raw executable command records, a privileged shell dispatcher, and gamecult-ops target programs; root Git unable to inspect idunn-owned mirrors; world-v2 purity checks ignoring most legacy state; fixed-port activation stopping the incumbent before the candidate was green. Adopted: target-owned visible recipes with constrained launch declarations (raw unit and container templates rejected; the operator-selected workload driver lowers them), Idunn-configured refs, runner, and host bindings, Git and recipe materialization as the Idunn identity, Expected published by plan, service-signed Present, a process write lease before writable state, Odin-derived Ready, route membership only after Ready, and deployment separate from continuity. The owner is exactly DeploymentCommand, DeploymentTransaction, and AdmittedGeneration with nine persisted phases before effects (Odin 65cf2b2; contracts on CultLib 85f7024; provider sides Ghostlight 6a79cb0 and CodexConnector ede3c30). Live admission remains absent. The Nginx route receipt proves configuration plus nginx -T visibility only, so an independently persisted data-plane observation is required before fence clearance, drain, or cutover acceptance. Do not issue the old Connector or Ghostlight redeploy helpers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-03T06:13:20+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Core-stack consolidation, merged from ten records, 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-04. CultLib is the canonical home for CultCache, CultNet, and CultMesh across every runtime because wire-parity conformance lives only there; Ghostlight consumes all three by pinned rev 85f7024 (d0510ac), a permanent ancestor of CultLib main, and its vendored fork charter is deleted. Resolution key for older records: CultNet e542225 and f4ab237 and Odin d527d72 and 65cf2b2 were never on their repos' main branches; their content is on CultLib 85f7024 and Odin branch codex/ygg-idunn-independent-bootstrap, ported forward rather than merged, so those SHAs are dated history and GameCult/cultnet-rs may be retired. A whole-file symbol comparison, not a diff of recent changes, found four real capabilities in the forks (reliable send expiry owned by the transport profile, snapshot and per-entry compare-exchange, a framed-length check before allocation), all ported with tests; every other fork under F:/Projects held reach rather than divergence, and each consumer pinning a different branch was the combinatorial reason separate repos failed. CultLib main landed by fast-forward at 8cb3b72, so every consumer pin (Ghostlight 85f7024, Epiphany and CodexConnector e171eca, Odin cbde940) resolves from a fresh clone; a squash would have orphaned all of them. Odin eedce4f consumes CultLib, its recipe no longer requires gitlinks, and gamecult-ops 8f7ae2a drops the phantom gitlinks Idunn would have refused; odin-daemon reads systemd file descriptors and compiles only on Linux. Non-Rust forks persist for distribution, not divergence: npm and pip cannot consume a package from a git subdirectory, so CultLib 8cb3b72 adds tag-triggered publishing (@gamecult/cultcache-ts, cultcache-py on PyPI, MIT confirmed by the operator). Ghostlight keeps vendor/cultcache-py on sys.path deliberately so the state tooling runs from a bare clone; replacing it means session bootstrap must install.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:17:04+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Why the whole-machine rebuild, merged from three records, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-04. Run 108 inspection: 2,400 active leaves across five realms with strong authored crisis theater, but repeated fission substituted taxonomy for novelty (557 other-unknown records, 780 residual, inherited identical goals, eight distinct Actors named Mara Venn); counting active leaves measured nothing about world shape. Run 115 terminated at revision 2, regions 2/8, waves 0/1, after an SSE timeout and a dangling institution location exhausted four reconciliation steps; the qualification, verifier, reconciliation, timeout, and routing patch sequence through 8964a92 never established ownership, and the operator ordered one WorldKernel, one typed reducer, one CommandEnvelope/CultCache commit path. The root cause was vocabulary-shaped, not model-shaped: caller-supplied string SubjectRefs, two-phase entity admission, and a flat mutation list made a dangling reference a runtime discovery rather than an unrepresentable input, and depth lived in free strings, so the model tribunals (WorldComplexity qualification and verification, the titled semantic verifier that judged whether a proposal satisfied its titled assignment, and fixed titled quotas) were compensators for an ontology with nowhere to hold depth. The eight titles themselves were lenses, not tribunals; see the 2026-09-15 correction. Adopted cut: reducer-issued typed ID namespaces, draft handles resolved inside one closed WorldPatch before any ID allocates, twelve decision-constraining components, and elaboration that answers a derived CausalBoundary instead of running waves and quotas. Counts, cover ratios, interest, and diversity are evaluation evidence, never admission or completeness authority. Run 115's root at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/full-world-delvehold-0a83034-115 and invocation d9254cd9b77946aebcf7a7fdae821402 stay immutable; do not resume it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:39:08+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Ontology v2 decisions and the scale directive, 2026-09-04, two records merged; docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-ontology.md owns the vocabulary. Elaboration and character action lower under one WorldPatch and one deterministic verifier. Affordances are world-authored data (preconditions, effect slots, weighted outcome bands) over a closed operation set, so genre lives in the seed and the kernel never learns one; uncertainty resolves by kernel entropy seeded from world, revision, and command, so no model ever chooses success; proposals bind to a scope digest of the components their verification reads rather than the whole state digest, so many subjects and elaborators do not serialize on one revision. Elaborator tools are a derived projection of the operation set and cannot drift. Operator correction, preserve in intent: the 2,400-subject / 240-cell / 10% cover profile is deliberate design, not a load fixture; a world feels alive only when actors at every level pursue their own goals, so that detail is generated first and multiresolution simulation is then choked so attention is scarce and selection is forced. The seed carries a WorldScaleIntent whose structurally counted deficit (an active subject with one controller, one Goal commitment, one affordance) the elaborators pursue after boundaries; a budgeted connected cover runs every tick with singleton detail cells and grouped coarse cells. Deleted for good: gestalt as canonical identity, arena knowledge union, semantic qualification and verification models, fission quotas as mutation, string identifiers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T14:14:10+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Codex CLI fan-out cannot commit. A linked git worktree fails because its .git file points outside the sandbox's writable roots, and a full clone fails too: the Codex workspace-write sandbox keeps .git read-only even under the writable root, so a Codex worker can never commit or push regardless of clone layout or network grant. Rule for any Codex fan-out that must produce committed work: the worker writes files only; a supervisor outside the sandbox commits and pushes the clone after the worker exits. The elaborator scheduler (C:/Users/Meta/.claude/worlds) does this per slot to slot/<world>/<title>/<stamp> branches in the Ghostlight world clone and the lore clone; integration into codex/world-<world> and codex/ghostlight-worlds is a separate deliberate pass, still owed. Clones live at F:/Projects/Ghostlight-worlds/<world> and F:/Projects/<Lore>-worktrees/ghostlight-worlds (full clones despite the name).", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T15:04:24+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 6, the ontology widening, is complete: ten passes landed on codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp, 2026-09-04 to 2026-09-05, each a Hands cut in an isolation worktree, a Soul falsification in the same tree, and a gated integration (pass tips are in git history and the handoff). The kernel holds twelve decision-constraining component kinds over a pinned operation catalog under one WorldPatch, one reducer, one CAS commit, one decode bound for both authoring lanes, and three confined SystemCapability arms (Clock, Elaborator, Consumer). Soul's series verdict: the eleven plan invariants hold structurally (one reducer and atomic commit; kernel-derived authority; one controller per scope with no fallback or double action; total interpretation with exact gaps; deterministic structural rejection without a model verifier; scoped knowledge until explicit communication; external-consumer sovereignty; sparse causal sufficiency with counts as evidence only; restart reconstructs the exact world; IDs allocated only inside an admitted reduction; opportunities bound to a scope digest rather than a revision); the pairing invariant is re-decided at three gates by doctrine, not by a repair loop. The budgeted cover verified 22 ticks at the 2,400/240 profile with fairness ceil(N/R), R being cells minus urgency slots. Two decisions stay with the operator and are recorded nowhere else durable: whether a refused coupled constituent may re-submit once inside the same tick, decided with the submitted-versus-committed number in hand; and the authority for an owner-only Eve world.run_tick command.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T02:13:22+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "The rebuilt kernel runs on the road, 2026-09-05; runbook notes/local-live-smoke.md. Genesis smoke: tick driver, cover, Persona membrane, operational lane, clock, and elaboration sweep ran three ticks against a real CodexConnector; the road worked and the prose was thin because genesis is three subjects in one room, which made the seed producer an evidenced gap rather than an argued one. Seeded smoke: from the Kalsa Public vault one seed session authored six qualified persons into Low Sere in one round, deficit 6 to 0, and three ticks of eight singleton cells had the seeded people speaking to each other by name. Twelve runs were needed; every failure was on the road, not in the kernel, and each is now a rule in the tree: one credential family (the operator's real codex home), strict schemas (anyOf, typed tags, an offline totality test over both lanes), a Persona model the account supports, connector expiry skew below the response timeout, canonical ids printed beside labels, a seed round budget with parallel calls and budget-end submit, content-addressed provider request ids, the commitment shape rule in the tool description, and the placement rule. The harness fails on an empty seed or a silent world. The Codex subscription lapsed during this series and the runs consumed half the monthly free quota; no Codex road run is possible until it is renewed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T17:36:41+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Claude SDK inference port, plan step 11, 2026-09-06, two records merged. Research: the Agent SDK's system prompt is fully replaceable, built-ins strippable, CLAUDE.md loading stoppable, and assistant tool_use blocks come back verbatim with usage; but there is no silent capture, no replayable input list, no request id, and each query is one subprocess. Rejected: a Messages-API backend (no API budget) and a backend inside CodexConnector (a deliberately isolated Codex fork; nothing goes into it). Landed: a second InferencePort over a Node sidecar, routed per lane by model prefix, execute-through: the sidecar computes no tool result and Rust answers every call through a per-lane ToolResultOracle that is the evaluator's own fold, so divergence is impossible by construction; both ports share one prepare_invocation. Lesson that changes how any future transport is judged: a transport-side validator is a second semantics. The SDK's Zod layer stripped unknown keys and refused missing fields before the handler ran, so a claude lane silently admitted what the connector refused; the fix is one validator on both transports, the Rust decoder, with the sidecar handing arguments through unvalidated. Residual liability: a wrong-typed property reaches Rust as absent. The receipt is the SDK message, a named stopgap; the exit is a Messages-API port when API budget exists, deleting the sidecar whole. Not yet run on the road: the operator must install the Claude Code CLI and log in first; Ghostlight never holds the credential.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Evidence ledger distilled 2026-09-06: 44 records to 12. Supersession chains collapsed to their survivors, per-commit implementation receipts folded into the decision they served, and the pre-rebuild standing decisions merged into one record because map.yaml owns their binding text. Every removed record is appended verbatim to state/evidence.archive.jsonl. The compaction ran through tools/ghostlight_state.py compact-evidence, now the one durable path: evidence.jsonl is a regenerated export, so a store-only replacement is the only deletion that sticks.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T13:03:22+00:00", "type": "maintenance"}
{"note": "First SDK-backed seeded road runs, 2026-09-10 (936aa71, 4f7513b; runbook \"SDK runs, 2026-09-10\"; plan \"Road follow-ups\"). Transport verified: every lane on claude-sonnet-5 through the Node sidecar, no connector bound, seed sessions and ticks committed end to end (run 2: revision 3 to 24; run 3: revision 3 to 15, no quarantine). Belief-changing findings: (1) the sidecar's schema conversion dropped every field description, so the claude lane authored against bare types; descriptions now carry through. (2) The model wrote twelve commitments due at or before a clock it was never shown; due now describes itself as a clock reading and both authoring prompts print the clock. (3) A kernel refusal now continues the same authoring conversation (Refusal rows, controller_work.v12, prior rows refused not migrated) instead of a fresh-draft repair whose sites named a draft the model could not see. (4) Interpreter speak and record_gap cite prose by quote (source_quote) and the harness derives the span; model-counted byte offsets cut three of eight utterances mid-word, and run 3 shows every utterance whole. (5) The tick-3 quarantine in run 2 was a mis-spanned utterance failing the canonical-text rule: a translation gap, not an infrastructure fault; a bad quote is now a gap at capture. (6) Cost shape: singleton cells run in sequence at 15 to 50 s each on this lane, so a nine-cell tick is 2 to 8 min. Still owed: the live interrupted cell and its log line.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-10T22:06:08+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The membrane read end to end, 2026-09-11 (runs 4 to 6 of the SDK route, traced with GHOSTLIGHT_SMOKE_TRACE; plan 'Proposed step 12'). Findings that change belief: (1) The Projector context carried a name, a clock, and permission to speak, none of the life the seed authored; it now renders the subject's own state by label, never by id, and a seeded person went from saying 'hello' to speaking about its debt. (2) The pathos in run 5 was the model's default voice, not the character's: the prompts asked for what the person remembers, wants, and fears with no component to ground it, violating the hard boundary that character intelligence is modeled state. Flattened prompts render only what the context carries; run 6 is correctly silent. (3) A Commitment carries no statement of what is promised, so due 1000 read as money and due 20160 as fourteen days; due now renders as minutes from now, and the statement is proposed step 12. (4) PersonaMaterial is named in the ontology doc as a component with a set operation and exists nowhere in the kernel; the seed can only author identical people. (5) The Projector says 'no one before me' for two people in one house: own place is carried, co-presence is not. (6) The Interpreter, given quoted-speech capture, records honest gaps that double as a survey of missing primitives: posture, private priority, provisional belief.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-10T23:31:00+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 12 on the road, 2026-09-11 (c31f254, a9d6a1c; runs 7 and 8; runbook 'SDK runs'). PersonaMaterial (values, voice, memories, reads) is the thirteenth component, a Commitment carries a required statement, the Projector sees who else stands in its place, and the Persona identity is label, voice, values; material is outside every scope digest by test. Run 8: six seeded people with six voices, 43 speech captures to 9 gaps across two ticks (run 5 was 3 to 25), and the lines reference each other's promises by content. Beliefs that changed: (1) with a vocabulary for meaning, the seed lane authors real people unprompted by anything but the tool and one sentence of instruction; (2) run 7 lost the best patch yet to an undescribed variant field and a tool result that said only 'recorded as a gap', so every decode failure now returns its reason to the model and the controller variant describes its shapes; (3) the SDK transport takes one user prompt, so a refusal continuation must ride in the transcript, and now does; (4) the world title and brief are authored facts the machine lacks: 'Cover Tick Fixture' and the brief's boundary language leaked into a vow, so world_create.v3 is the next cut.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 13, the world brief, on the road 2026-09-11 (d4d7bc3; run 9). world_create.v3 carries a required brief, trimmed at ingress, held on WorldState and its snapshot, replayed identically, and projected as the guidance of every lane and both authoring prompts; the narrative stages that rebuild prompts on resume carry it (controller_work.v13). Belief that changed: guidance is world truth, not a prompt constant. With an empty slot every lane reasoned about a world named Cover Tick Fixture and run 8 put that name into a vow; with the brief, run 9's trace holds no fixture name, its promises are about hearths, ration boards, and the kiln, and its people speak in the world's terms. The smoke titles its world by the seed root label and gives its brief to the world once, not to each seed session. Speak-to-gap ratio moved from 43:9 (run 8) to 20:24 (run 9) on the same prompts: that is sampling, not a regression, and the runbook records both.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T01:13:50+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 14 landed and proven by SDK run 10 (2026-09-11): a visible act is a display, speech's twin. The kernel lowers an invocation's display beside its utterance into AssertClaim plus Display, landing Seen { by } on the co-located only, never over a channel; a display alone on the speak entry is an address, not SpeechRequired; the Interpreter quotes the visible clause alone by a display tool, one per turn. Run 10: 29 speak, 18 display, 10 gaps, every gap private reasoning, no quarantine; the first live interrupted cell re-lowered Maro's prose against Sera's line as said and her act as seen. Belief change: a false binary (record intent vs record posture) resolved by the display, the public act at the grain a witness perceives it; intent stays a gap on purpose. Follow-ups, not rules: verbatim-substring quoting admits fragments (I don't, Nod); one display per turn drops a turn's second and third acts to ambiguity gaps; the harness emits no per-cell interrupted line, which is the remaining half of item (a).", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T11:32:03+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Item (a) closed 2026-09-11: the interrupted cell is exercised live and reported. Commit 81a1f53 reads the bound and renewed scope digests from the committed turn's own receipt (NarrativeDecision::re_lowering), carries them on the cover tick summary, logs one tracing line per re-lowered cell, and the smoke harness prints one 'interrupted cell subject= bound= renewed=' line per cell after the tick line. SDK run 11 passed (27 speak, 24 display, 14 gaps) with three interrupted cells, three lines, three re-lowerings in the trace, and each act once in the operator feed. Belief: the runbook's three conditions for this section hold on a live provider; the record and the receipt cannot disagree because the line is derived from the receipt.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T12:11:53+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Fragment fault diagnosed and cut 2026-09-11 (commit 855727f, controller_work.v15): the Interpreter was citing correctly (So, then the rest of the sentence; four visible acts as four calls) and the fold was discarding everything after the first span per kind as ambiguity gaps. A turn's utterance and display are now every span cited for them, joined in prose order; only an overlapping span is an ambiguity. SDK run 12 passed: 39 speak, 6 display, 10 gaps, zero overlap gaps, every cited span landed, two interrupted cells reported. Belief: when a capture looks fragmentary, check what the harness dropped before what the model quoted. Seed lane note: run 12 round 1 was rejected because the seed model wrote kind for type and omitted the over tag against an explicit schema, then narrated tool bugs; round 2 committed. Sampling, not a schema fault.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T12:34:04+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The titled elaborators were never an operator-approved cut, 2026-09-15. Patina, Charter, Ledger, Hearth, Tangle, Veil, Ember, and Numen fell in three steps: 4aebe17 (2026-09-01) listed titled elaborator quotas for deletion under the operator's whole-machine order; 6bb6869 deleted elaboration.rs and the titles with it; 9c662bd (2026-09-04) classed ElaboratorTitle as a model tribunal and reused 'eight elaborators' for per-jurisdiction loop instances without flagging the change. No record holds operator approval of the titles' removal. The tribunal was the titled semantic verifier and the fixed quotas, not the title: the Run 108 inspection called the titles excellent distinct lanes, and the 2026-09-04 elaborator swarm kept them. Operator direction: titles return as lenses over the typed ontology. A swarm of elaborators draws a title per session by the world's weights (world data, which Dungeon's Session Zero lets the player set); any title may add any structure, the title shapes what kind, and the weights set the world's flavor. No title gates admission, holds authority, or fills a quota. Design: ontology doc 'Elaboration lenses and detail rules'. Lesson: when cutting a compensator, separate the judging machinery from the capability it judged, and put a named, operator-visible feature before the operator before deleting it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-15T20:31:32+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Library and consumer boundary, merged from two records, 2026-09-15. Ghostlight Dungeon is a consumer of the Ghostlight library, which serves all GameCult narrative simulation. Session Zero, Vault choice, players, sliders, and starting locations are Dungeon authority and never shape the library. Operator decisions: (1) extract the world kernel from crates/ghostlight-dungeon into a library crate before any library pass (plan step 15, L0); its only Dungeon import is app_session::VerifiedPrincipalEvidence, and the extraction is the first real public boundary. (2) The eight titles ship as the library's stock lens set. (3) Each world carries a typed detail rule, a function from place to detail level that the library evaluates; consumers choose the rule (Dungeon ByDistance anchored on important subjects, the player first; Delvehold Uniform). It must be typed data, not consumer code, because the deficit it produces is an admission input and journal replay re-runs reduce. WorldScaleIntent per-kind targets remain the ceiling the rule distributes. Lesson: name the owner, library or consumer, before designing a feature; a player-facing flow placed on the kernel quietly makes one consumer's policy library vocabulary.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-15T20:55:07+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "L0 closed, 2026-09-16 (Ghostlight 108b691..ab95d78, gamecult-ops 6aba281..803f2c7; postmortem docs/architecture/ghostlight-library-extraction-postmortem.md). The world kernel is the ghostlight library crate and ghostlight-dungeon consumes it. Belief-changing findings: (1) private constructors do not seal a public type that derives Deserialize, and Dungeon's Eve payloads need those derives, so ruling Q1-9 defines sealing as unforgeable admission: external code may hold a syntactically valid ID, digest or opportunity, and the kernel rejects every one it did not issue, proven by crates/ghostlight/tests/external_admission.rs. (2) compile_fail doc-tests pin names and, on stable rustc, not even error codes; they prove 'does not compile', not privacy. (3) Rejection tests need forgeries shaped like real values: short fake digests passed against kernels comparing only length, a prefix, all but the last character, case-insensitively, or only the hex after the label. (4) Every text scanner written in L0 lost to a short evasion (the minter count, the gamecult-ops wiring test and its fix); treat such checks as tripwires with stated limits, and use a semantic tool for semantic properties. The minter scanner stays as a tripwire (Q1-10 defaulted); Clippy disallowed-methods is the recorded fix.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-16T00:27:09+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Delvehold boundary, merged from four records of 2026-08-26. Delvehold is the first proving consumer of Ghostlight's generic world-simulation API, not an integration organ; adversarial single-player Dungeon play remains a regression and context-discovery path. Ghostlight adds only generic capability: one seed admission path shared by produced and consumer seeds, generic externally owned subject authority that admits institution and population-scale subjects through one tagged projection, consumer-supplied effect schemas, and typed proposals and receipts. Delvehold retains quantitative economy authority (quantities, prices, recipes, capacity, inventories, orders, contracts, conservation); Ghostlight resource handles never impersonate them. A forced ontology may bypass world generation but never kernel validation. The greathold ID and every delvehold.* binding stay Delvehold-owned; no cell or kernel switches on a consumer name. The legacy implementation those records described (WorldSeed transaction, ExternalSubjectAuthority, loopback RUDP operations) was torn down; the live implementation is the pass-10 confined consumer ingress in docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-consumer-api.md.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-26T17:12:55+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Standing pre-rebuild decisions, merged from seven records dated 2026-05-02 to 2026-08-29; map.yaml hard_boundaries and mission own the binding text. (1) VoidBot appraisal: appraiser and relationship/perception training must support human-facing reads, grounded opinions, uncertainty, repair signals, and opinion updates over repeated contact, not only fictional scene mutation. (2) Generated environment images are concept and material reference only; multi-angle or branch-consistent replay needs a durable scene-set source with named cameras and staging slots. (3) Coordinator turns are a sandboxed promptable organ with exact visible input, raw output, and labeled interventions; the meta-coordinator never collapses them into omniscient chat steering. (4) Character cognition is modeled state: the machinery is maximally smart, characters reason and maneuver only to the level their modeled state supports, and narrator prose may explain tactics for the reader without granting that explanation to characters. (5) ghostlight.agent_state.v0 is the shared cross-runtime payload contract, carried unchanged inside typed CultNet envelopes. (6) Multiplayer extends the one-WorldKernel, many-actor authority model: humans control distinct canonical actors through the same commit path, with no party prompt or room-state authority. (7) A newspaper is a persistent political/editorial Persona owning audience, remembered beats, framing, selective pickup, throughlines, and rivals; grounding constrains factual assertion and provenance while preserving legible interpretation; only the economic layer supplies advertisers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-08-29T05:15:35+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Sealing the replacement kernel, 2026-09-01, four records merged; git owns the commits (b53251f, d49b907, 12ee9f4, 66ed2ec). The first uncommitted world.rs foundation passed its focused tests and was deleted anyway: it exposed mutable WorldState and ID issuance, let translation-gap inference become canonical mutation, let empty batches advance revision, left controller commands without consumed opportunity, readiness, and affordance binding, and made batch self-digests unverifiable. The rule that came out of it: seal private WorldKernel, aggregate, and journal ownership first, then reintroduce a minimal reducer behind it; never publish mutable world types or an ID issuer for test or adapter convenience. The Persona interpretation contract is structurally total: source prose is immutable noncanonical evidence bound to typed receipts, only exact typed captures propose state, actual quoted dialogue is required for speech, malformed spans and step exhaustion become whole-source gaps, and infrastructure interruption returns the source pending. Legacy ingresses were deleted without a compatibility writer.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-01T17:40:32+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Deployment authority, merged from a four-record supersession chain, 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-03; map.yaml live_architecture.deployment_authority owns the full current rule. The read-only cutover audit found the old Idunn path structurally unfit: source, ref, and floor policy duplicated across compiled Rust, raw executable command records, a privileged shell dispatcher, and gamecult-ops target programs; root Git unable to inspect idunn-owned mirrors; world-v2 purity checks ignoring most legacy state; fixed-port activation stopping the incumbent before the candidate was green. Adopted: target-owned visible recipes with constrained launch declarations (raw unit and container templates rejected; the operator-selected workload driver lowers them), Idunn-configured refs, runner, and host bindings, Git and recipe materialization as the Idunn identity, Expected published by plan, service-signed Present, a process write lease before writable state, Odin-derived Ready, route membership only after Ready, and deployment separate from continuity. The owner is exactly DeploymentCommand, DeploymentTransaction, and AdmittedGeneration with nine persisted phases before effects (Odin 65cf2b2; contracts on CultLib 85f7024; provider sides Ghostlight 6a79cb0 and CodexConnector ede3c30). Live admission remains absent. The Nginx route receipt proves configuration plus nginx -T visibility only, so an independently persisted data-plane observation is required before fence clearance, drain, or cutover acceptance. Do not issue the old Connector or Ghostlight redeploy helpers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-03T06:13:20+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Core-stack consolidation, merged from ten records, 2026-09-03 to 2026-09-04. CultLib is the canonical home for CultCache, CultNet, and CultMesh across every runtime because wire-parity conformance lives only there; Ghostlight consumes all three by pinned rev 85f7024 (d0510ac), a permanent ancestor of CultLib main, and its vendored fork charter is deleted. Resolution key for older records: CultNet e542225 and f4ab237 and Odin d527d72 and 65cf2b2 were never on their repos' main branches; their content is on CultLib 85f7024 and Odin branch codex/ygg-idunn-independent-bootstrap, ported forward rather than merged, so those SHAs are dated history and GameCult/cultnet-rs may be retired. A whole-file symbol comparison, not a diff of recent changes, found four real capabilities in the forks (reliable send expiry owned by the transport profile, snapshot and per-entry compare-exchange, a framed-length check before allocation), all ported with tests; every other fork under F:/Projects held reach rather than divergence, and each consumer pinning a different branch was the combinatorial reason separate repos failed. CultLib main landed by fast-forward at 8cb3b72, so every consumer pin (Ghostlight 85f7024, Epiphany and CodexConnector e171eca, Odin cbde940) resolves from a fresh clone; a squash would have orphaned all of them. Odin eedce4f consumes CultLib, its recipe no longer requires gitlinks, and gamecult-ops 8f7ae2a drops the phantom gitlinks Idunn would have refused; odin-daemon reads systemd file descriptors and compiles only on Linux. Non-Rust forks persist for distribution, not divergence: npm and pip cannot consume a package from a git subdirectory, so CultLib 8cb3b72 adds tag-triggered publishing (@gamecult/cultcache-ts, cultcache-py on PyPI, MIT confirmed by the operator). Ghostlight keeps vendor/cultcache-py on sys.path deliberately so the state tooling runs from a bare clone; replacing it means session bootstrap must install.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:17:04+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "Why the whole-machine rebuild, merged from three records, 2026-09-01 to 2026-09-04. Run 108 inspection: 2,400 active leaves across five realms with strong authored crisis theater, but repeated fission substituted taxonomy for novelty (557 other-unknown records, 780 residual, inherited identical goals, eight distinct Actors named Mara Venn); counting active leaves measured nothing about world shape. Run 115 terminated at revision 2, regions 2/8, waves 0/1, after an SSE timeout and a dangling institution location exhausted four reconciliation steps; the qualification, verifier, reconciliation, timeout, and routing patch sequence through 8964a92 never established ownership, and the operator ordered one WorldKernel, one typed reducer, one CommandEnvelope/CultCache commit path. The root cause was vocabulary-shaped, not model-shaped: caller-supplied string SubjectRefs, two-phase entity admission, and a flat mutation list made a dangling reference a runtime discovery rather than an unrepresentable input, and depth lived in free strings, so the model tribunals (WorldComplexity qualification and verification, the titled semantic verifier that judged whether a proposal satisfied its titled assignment, and fixed titled quotas) were compensators for an ontology with nowhere to hold depth. The eight titles themselves were lenses, not tribunals; see the 2026-09-15 correction. Adopted cut: reducer-issued typed ID namespaces, draft handles resolved inside one closed WorldPatch before any ID allocates, twelve decision-constraining components, and elaboration that answers a derived CausalBoundary instead of running waves and quotas. Counts, cover ratios, interest, and diversity are evaluation evidence, never admission or completeness authority. Run 115's root at /var/lib/gamecult/ghostlight-dungeon/acceptance/full-world-delvehold-0a83034-115 and invocation d9254cd9b77946aebcf7a7fdae821402 stay immutable; do not resume it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T13:39:08+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Ontology v2 decisions and the scale directive, 2026-09-04, two records merged; docs/architecture/ghostlight-world-ontology.md owns the vocabulary. Elaboration and character action lower under one WorldPatch and one deterministic verifier. Affordances are world-authored data (preconditions, effect slots, weighted outcome bands) over a closed operation set, so genre lives in the seed and the kernel never learns one; uncertainty resolves by kernel entropy seeded from world, revision, and command, so no model ever chooses success; proposals bind to a scope digest of the components their verification reads rather than the whole state digest, so many subjects and elaborators do not serialize on one revision. Elaborator tools are a derived projection of the operation set and cannot drift. Operator correction, preserve in intent: the 2,400-subject / 240-cell / 10% cover profile is deliberate design, not a load fixture; a world feels alive only when actors at every level pursue their own goals, so that detail is generated first and multiresolution simulation is then choked so attention is scarce and selection is forced. The seed carries a WorldScaleIntent whose structurally counted deficit (an active subject with one controller, one Goal commitment, one affordance) the elaborators pursue after boundaries; a budgeted connected cover runs every tick with singleton detail cells and grouped coarse cells. Deleted for good: gestalt as canonical identity, arena knowledge union, semantic qualification and verification models, fission quotas as mutation, string identifiers.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-04T14:14:10+00:00", "type": "research"}
{"note": "Codex CLI fan-out cannot commit. A linked git worktree fails because its .git file points outside the sandbox's writable roots, and a full clone fails too: the Codex workspace-write sandbox keeps .git read-only even under the writable root, so a Codex worker can never commit or push regardless of clone layout or network grant. Rule for any Codex fan-out that must produce committed work: the worker writes files only; a supervisor outside the sandbox commits and pushes the clone after the worker exits. The elaborator scheduler (C:/Users/Meta/.claude/worlds) does this per slot to slot/<world>/<title>/<stamp> branches in the Ghostlight world clone and the lore clone; integration into codex/world-<world> and codex/ghostlight-worlds is a separate deliberate pass, still owed. Clones live at F:/Projects/Ghostlight-worlds/<world> and F:/Projects/<Lore>-worktrees/ghostlight-worlds (full clones despite the name).", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-04T15:04:24+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 6, the ontology widening, is complete: ten passes landed on codex/ghostlight-dungeon-mvp, 2026-09-04 to 2026-09-05, each a Hands cut in an isolation worktree, a Soul falsification in the same tree, and a gated integration (pass tips are in git history and the handoff). The kernel holds twelve decision-constraining component kinds over a pinned operation catalog under one WorldPatch, one reducer, one CAS commit, one decode bound for both authoring lanes, and three confined SystemCapability arms (Clock, Elaborator, Consumer). Soul's series verdict: the eleven plan invariants hold structurally (one reducer and atomic commit; kernel-derived authority; one controller per scope with no fallback or double action; total interpretation with exact gaps; deterministic structural rejection without a model verifier; scoped knowledge until explicit communication; external-consumer sovereignty; sparse causal sufficiency with counts as evidence only; restart reconstructs the exact world; IDs allocated only inside an admitted reduction; opportunities bound to a scope digest rather than a revision); the pairing invariant is re-decided at three gates by doctrine, not by a repair loop. The budgeted cover verified 22 ticks at the 2,400/240 profile with fairness ceil(N/R), R being cells minus urgency slots. Two decisions stay with the operator and are recorded nowhere else durable: whether a refused coupled constituent may re-submit once inside the same tick, decided with the submitted-versus-committed number in hand; and the authority for an owner-only Eve world.run_tick command.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T02:13:22+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "The rebuilt kernel runs on the road, 2026-09-05; runbook notes/local-live-smoke.md. Genesis smoke: tick driver, cover, Persona membrane, operational lane, clock, and elaboration sweep ran three ticks against a real CodexConnector; the road worked and the prose was thin because genesis is three subjects in one room, which made the seed producer an evidenced gap rather than an argued one. Seeded smoke: from the Kalsa Public vault one seed session authored six qualified persons into Low Sere in one round, deficit 6 to 0, and three ticks of eight singleton cells had the seeded people speaking to each other by name. Twelve runs were needed; every failure was on the road, not in the kernel, and each is now a rule in the tree: one credential family (the operator's real codex home), strict schemas (anyOf, typed tags, an offline totality test over both lanes), a Persona model the account supports, connector expiry skew below the response timeout, canonical ids printed beside labels, a seed round budget with parallel calls and budget-end submit, content-addressed provider request ids, the commitment shape rule in the tool description, and the placement rule. The harness fails on an empty seed or a silent world. The Codex subscription lapsed during this series and the runs consumed half the monthly free quota; no Codex road run is possible until it is renewed.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-05T17:36:41+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Claude SDK inference port, plan step 11, 2026-09-06, two records merged. Research: the Agent SDK's system prompt is fully replaceable, built-ins strippable, CLAUDE.md loading stoppable, and assistant tool_use blocks come back verbatim with usage; but there is no silent capture, no replayable input list, no request id, and each query is one subprocess. Rejected: a Messages-API backend (no API budget) and a backend inside CodexConnector (a deliberately isolated Codex fork; nothing goes into it). Landed: a second InferencePort over a Node sidecar, routed per lane by model prefix, execute-through: the sidecar computes no tool result and Rust answers every call through a per-lane ToolResultOracle that is the evaluator's own fold, so divergence is impossible by construction; both ports share one prepare_invocation. Lesson that changes how any future transport is judged: a transport-side validator is a second semantics. The SDK's Zod layer stripped unknown keys and refused missing fields before the handler ran, so a claude lane silently admitted what the connector refused; the fix is one validator on both transports, the Rust decoder, with the sidecar handing arguments through unvalidated. Residual liability: a wrong-typed property reaches Rust as absent. The receipt is the SDK message, a named stopgap; the exit is a Messages-API port when API budget exists, deleting the sidecar whole. Not yet run on the road: the operator must install the Claude Code CLI and log in first; Ghostlight never holds the credential.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "implementation"}
{"note": "Evidence ledger distilled 2026-09-06: 44 records to 12. Supersession chains collapsed to their survivors, per-commit implementation receipts folded into the decision they served, and the pre-rebuild standing decisions merged into one record because map.yaml owns their binding text. Every removed record is appended verbatim to state/evidence.archive.jsonl. The compaction ran through tools/ghostlight_state.py compact-evidence, now the one durable path: evidence.jsonl is a regenerated export, so a store-only replacement is the only deletion that sticks.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-06T13:03:22+00:00", "type": "maintenance"}
{"note": "First SDK-backed seeded road runs, 2026-09-10 (936aa71, 4f7513b; runbook \"SDK runs, 2026-09-10\"; plan \"Road follow-ups\"). Transport verified: every lane on claude-sonnet-5 through the Node sidecar, no connector bound, seed sessions and ticks committed end to end (run 2: revision 3 to 24; run 3: revision 3 to 15, no quarantine). Belief-changing findings: (1) the sidecar's schema conversion dropped every field description, so the claude lane authored against bare types; descriptions now carry through. (2) The model wrote twelve commitments due at or before a clock it was never shown; due now describes itself as a clock reading and both authoring prompts print the clock. (3) A kernel refusal now continues the same authoring conversation (Refusal rows, controller_work.v12, prior rows refused not migrated) instead of a fresh-draft repair whose sites named a draft the model could not see. (4) Interpreter speak and record_gap cite prose by quote (source_quote) and the harness derives the span; model-counted byte offsets cut three of eight utterances mid-word, and run 3 shows every utterance whole. (5) The tick-3 quarantine in run 2 was a mis-spanned utterance failing the canonical-text rule: a translation gap, not an infrastructure fault; a bad quote is now a gap at capture. (6) Cost shape: singleton cells run in sequence at 15 to 50 s each on this lane, so a nine-cell tick is 2 to 8 min. Still owed: the live interrupted cell and its log line.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-10T22:06:08+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The membrane read end to end, 2026-09-11 (runs 4 to 6 of the SDK route, traced with GHOSTLIGHT_SMOKE_TRACE; plan 'Proposed step 12'). Findings that change belief: (1) The Projector context carried a name, a clock, and permission to speak, none of the life the seed authored; it now renders the subject's own state by label, never by id, and a seeded person went from saying 'hello' to speaking about its debt. (2) The pathos in run 5 was the model's default voice, not the character's: the prompts asked for what the person remembers, wants, and fears with no component to ground it, violating the hard boundary that character intelligence is modeled state. Flattened prompts render only what the context carries; run 6 is correctly silent. (3) A Commitment carries no statement of what is promised, so due 1000 read as money and due 20160 as fourteen days; due now renders as minutes from now, and the statement is proposed step 12. (4) PersonaMaterial is named in the ontology doc as a component with a set operation and exists nowhere in the kernel; the seed can only author identical people. (5) The Projector says 'no one before me' for two people in one house: own place is carried, co-presence is not. (6) The Interpreter, given quoted-speech capture, records honest gaps that double as a survey of missing primitives: posture, private priority, provisional belief.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-10T23:31:00+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 12 on the road, 2026-09-11 (c31f254, a9d6a1c; runs 7 and 8; runbook 'SDK runs'). PersonaMaterial (values, voice, memories, reads) is the thirteenth component, a Commitment carries a required statement, the Projector sees who else stands in its place, and the Persona identity is label, voice, values; material is outside every scope digest by test. Run 8: six seeded people with six voices, 43 speech captures to 9 gaps across two ticks (run 5 was 3 to 25), and the lines reference each other's promises by content. Beliefs that changed: (1) with a vocabulary for meaning, the seed lane authors real people unprompted by anything but the tool and one sentence of instruction; (2) run 7 lost the best patch yet to an undescribed variant field and a tool result that said only 'recorded as a gap', so every decode failure now returns its reason to the model and the controller variant describes its shapes; (3) the SDK transport takes one user prompt, so a refusal continuation must ride in the transcript, and now does; (4) the world title and brief are authored facts the machine lacks: 'Cover Tick Fixture' and the brief's boundary language leaked into a vow, so world_create.v3 is the next cut.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T00:35:37+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 13, the world brief, on the road 2026-09-11 (d4d7bc3; run 9). world_create.v3 carries a required brief, trimmed at ingress, held on WorldState and its snapshot, replayed identically, and projected as the guidance of every lane and both authoring prompts; the narrative stages that rebuild prompts on resume carry it (controller_work.v13). Belief that changed: guidance is world truth, not a prompt constant. With an empty slot every lane reasoned about a world named Cover Tick Fixture and run 8 put that name into a vow; with the brief, run 9's trace holds no fixture name, its promises are about hearths, ration boards, and the kiln, and its people speak in the world's terms. The smoke titles its world by the seed root label and gives its brief to the world once, not to each seed session. Speak-to-gap ratio moved from 43:9 (run 8) to 20:24 (run 9) on the same prompts: that is sampling, not a regression, and the runbook records both.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T01:13:50+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Plan step 14 landed and proven by SDK run 10 (2026-09-11): a visible act is a display, speech's twin. The kernel lowers an invocation's display beside its utterance into AssertClaim plus Display, landing Seen { by } on the co-located only, never over a channel; a display alone on the speak entry is an address, not SpeechRequired; the Interpreter quotes the visible clause alone by a display tool, one per turn. Run 10: 29 speak, 18 display, 10 gaps, every gap private reasoning, no quarantine; the first live interrupted cell re-lowered Maro's prose against Sera's line as said and her act as seen. Belief change: a false binary (record intent vs record posture) resolved by the display, the public act at the grain a witness perceives it; intent stays a gap on purpose. Follow-ups, not rules: verbatim-substring quoting admits fragments (I don't, Nod); one display per turn drops a turn's second and third acts to ambiguity gaps; the harness emits no per-cell interrupted line, which is the remaining half of item (a).", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T11:32:03+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Item (a) closed 2026-09-11: the interrupted cell is exercised live and reported. Commit 81a1f53 reads the bound and renewed scope digests from the committed turn's own receipt (NarrativeDecision::re_lowering), carries them on the cover tick summary, logs one tracing line per re-lowered cell, and the smoke harness prints one 'interrupted cell subject= bound= renewed=' line per cell after the tick line. SDK run 11 passed (27 speak, 24 display, 14 gaps) with three interrupted cells, three lines, three re-lowerings in the trace, and each act once in the operator feed. Belief: the runbook's three conditions for this section hold on a live provider; the record and the receipt cannot disagree because the line is derived from the receipt.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T12:11:53+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "Fragment fault diagnosed and cut 2026-09-11 (commit 855727f, controller_work.v15): the Interpreter was citing correctly (So, then the rest of the sentence; four visible acts as four calls) and the fold was discarding everything after the first span per kind as ambiguity gaps. A turn's utterance and display are now every span cited for them, joined in prose order; only an overlapping span is an ambiguity. SDK run 12 passed: 39 speak, 6 display, 10 gaps, zero overlap gaps, every cited span landed, two interrupted cells reported. Belief: when a capture looks fragmentary, check what the harness dropped before what the model quoted. Seed lane note: run 12 round 1 was rejected because the seed model wrote kind for type and omitted the over tag against an explicit schema, then narrated tool bugs; round 2 committed. Sampling, not a schema fault.", "status": "ok", "ts": "2026-09-11T12:34:04+00:00", "type": "verification"}
{"note": "The titled elaborators were never an operator-approved cut, 2026-09-15. Patina, Charter, Ledger, Hearth, Tangle, Veil, Ember, and Numen fell in three steps: 4aebe17 (2026-09-01) listed titled elaborator quotas for deletion under the operator's whole-machine order; 6bb6869 deleted elaboration.rs and the titles with it; 9c662bd (2026-09-04) classed ElaboratorTitle as a model tribunal and reused 'eight elaborators' for per-jurisdiction loop instances without flagging the change. No record holds operator approval of the titles' removal. The tribunal was the titled semantic verifier and the fixed quotas, not the title: the Run 108 inspection called the titles excellent distinct lanes, and the 2026-09-04 elaborator swarm kept them. Operator direction: titles return as lenses over the typed ontology. A swarm of elaborators draws a title per session by the world's weights (world data, which Dungeon's Session Zero lets the player set); any title may add any structure, the title shapes what kind, and the weights set the world's flavor. No title gates admission, holds authority, or fills a quota. Design: ontology doc 'Elaboration lenses and detail rules'. Lesson: when cutting a compensator, separate the judging machinery from the capability it judged, and put a named, operator-visible feature before the operator before deleting it.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-15T20:31:32+00:00", "type": "correction"}
{"note": "Library and consumer boundary, merged from two records, 2026-09-15. Ghostlight Dungeon is a consumer of the Ghostlight library, which serves all GameCult narrative simulation. Session Zero, Vault choice, players, sliders, and starting locations are Dungeon authority and never shape the library. Operator decisions: (1) extract the world kernel into a library crate before any library pass (executed as L0; see the L0 record). (2) The eight titles ship as the library's stock lens set. (3) Each world carries a typed detail rule, a function from place to detail level that the library evaluates; consumers choose the rule (Dungeon ByDistance anchored on important subjects, the player first; Delvehold Uniform). It must be typed data, not consumer code, because the deficit it produces is an admission input and journal replay re-runs reduce. WorldScaleIntent per-kind targets remain the ceiling the rule distributes. Lesson: name the owner, library or consumer, before designing a feature; a player-facing flow placed on the kernel quietly makes one consumer's policy library vocabulary.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-15T20:55:07+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "L0 closed, 2026-09-16 (Ghostlight 108b691..ab95d78, gamecult-ops 6aba281..803f2c7; postmortem docs/architecture/ghostlight-library-extraction-postmortem.md). The world kernel is the ghostlight library crate and ghostlight-dungeon consumes it. Belief-changing findings: (1) private constructors do not seal a public type that derives Deserialize, and Dungeon's Eve payloads need those derives, so ruling Q1-9 defines sealing as unforgeable admission: external code may hold a syntactically valid ID, digest or opportunity, and the kernel rejects every one it did not issue, proven by crates/ghostlight/tests/external_admission.rs. (2) compile_fail doc-tests pin names and, on stable rustc, not even error codes; they prove 'does not compile', not privacy. (3) Rejection tests need forgeries shaped like real values: short fake digests passed against kernels comparing only length, a prefix, all but the last character, case-insensitively, or only the hex after the label. (4) Every text scanner written in L0 lost to a short evasion (the minter count, the gamecult-ops wiring test and its fix); treat such checks as tripwires with stated limits, and use a semantic tool for semantic properties. The minter scanner stays as a tripwire (Q1-10 defaulted); Clippy disallowed-methods is the recorded fix.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-16T00:27:09+00:00", "type": "architecture"}
{"note": "L1 closed, 2026-09-16 (Ghostlight 835ea4d..872ba35 plus Cut 5 docs; postmortem docs/architecture/ghostlight-stock-lenses-postmortem.md). The ghostlight library ships eight stock lenses; lens weights are world data (consumer.v5), required at creation with no library default, replaced by the owner's SetLensWeights in any phase; a set that draws the same as the current one is refused as NoCanonicalChange. Each elaborator session draws its lens replayably from world id and command id and records the lens and its instruction text on the session (controller_work.v16); the lens never enters the command id, which stays the idempotency key. Belief-changing findings: (1) before L1 the elaborator repair loop never worked across sweeps: a deficit session's key moved on any commit (orphan plus repeated inference) and a boundary session was Superseded forever after any commit; resume now reads in-flight rows from the store by what they answer (L1-Q9), and rows ready to submit are excluded because adopting a committed row stalls the deficit (L1-Q10). (2) Concurrent sessions are distinct through a per-sweep in-memory claim set; elaboration has its own permit ceiling separate from the simulation budget. (3) A panicking session task used to kill the runtime elaboration driver silently; it is now an error returned after siblings finish. (4) Agents told to wait for long jobs still ended their turns mid-build until briefs named the mechanism: block inside a tool call. Open for the operator: L1.f1 quarantine handling, L1.f13 seed-lane orphans, L1.f14 row retirement, L1.f16 consumer lens sets.", "status": "accepted", "ts": "2026-09-16T18:08:25+00:00", "type": "architecture"}