Odin

Odin is the GameCult all-seer: the central CultMesh node every Verse can use to discover the other Verses, inspect schema catalogs, and find translation paths between local realities.

It is not the renderer. It is not Eve. It is not a Starfire utility script wearing a bigger coat. Odin owns discovery, schema awareness, translation planning, and accepted operator surfaces. Eve clients and Gjallar lower Odin's published CultUI surface into whatever body they have.

Odin is also the compliance witness for the GameCult service architecture: durable service state in CultCache .cc, local Verse visibility through CultMesh, meaningful presentation as Eve GUI/TUI DSL, and renderers as lowerers only.

Rust Spine

The target Odin body is Rust-first: ingest through narrow ports, normalize into typed Odin records, persist through CultCache .cc, expose through CultMesh / CultNet document registries over the shared RUDP transport, and lower interface state through Eve/CultUI.

The first Rust core lives in crates/odin-core and already separates typed documents, ingest ports, normalization, and repository persistence so unit tests can use mocked inputs and pipeline smokes can prove typed handoff without booting the whole daemon. Gjallar is not part of that Rust record spine: it is the Yggdrasil-resident C# composition daemon in F:\Projects\Gjallar. It consumes Odin's accepted provider snapshot and publishes one tiled gjallar.overview Eve surface for GUI, TUI, and agent lowerers.

Typed access discovery

Odin persists only document schemas it has registered. That is a deliberate typed-store boundary, not a license to accept anonymous blobs and hope later code understands them. The live Yggdrasil body at ba76a7239a7bb40aa1774df7d93b9388dc27b222, using CultLib 75c180782aeba7cfd22d6412877397708a4ed28f, registers Heimdall's provider, command-boundary, Eve-plugin, and transport-profile documents plus Ghostlight's public catalog envelope. Provider daemons own those documents; Odin owns typed catalog acceptance, ordered durable persistence, and exact retrieval. Sensitive auth commands and claims travel directly between the consuming app and Heimdall, never through Odin.

Ghostlight publishes a ghostlight.schema_catalog.v1 envelope containing only the state contracts named by its public provider surface. Odin registers that envelope so it can persist and return the provider-owned catalog; it does not register every private Ghostlight receipt, transition, or simulation schema.

Typed access discovery

Odin persists only document schemas it has registered. That is a deliberate typed-store boundary, not a license to accept anonymous blobs and hope later code understands them. The live Yggdrasil body at b4f9a2e95f0b41cebdeddc49223781d1d3c7b42a registers Heimdall's provider, command-boundary, Eve-plugin, and transport-profile documents. Heimdall owns their contents; Odin owns catalog acceptance and exact retrieval. Sensitive auth commands and claims travel directly between the consuming app and Heimdall, never through Odin.

Gjallar

Gjallar is the herald composition daemon that runs beside Odin and Idunn on Yggdrasil. Odin sees the Verses and accepts provider surfaces. Gjallar consumes that accepted snapshot and publishes one multi-scale tiled Eve surface. Eve clients—including EveCanvas—own graphical and TUI lowering.

Local package surfaces:

• Organ contract: docs/gjallar.md
• Branding Persona state: personas/gjallar.persona_state.cc
• Runtime source: F:\Projects\Gjallar
• Avatar asset: assets/personas/gjallar-avatar.png
• Pixel avatar: assets/personas/gjallar-avatar-pixel-256.png

Idunn

Idunn is Odin's keepalive organ: the daemon package that should keep the known swarm alive after Odin has accepted where each daemon lives and what authority path may touch it. Individual daemons publish health and command boundaries; Idunn brings them up after reboots or crashes, watches health, and escalates operator-needed failures through Bifrost's CultMesh bridge. VoidBot owner-DM delivery is a demoted compatibility actuator, not the owner; the command belongs in Bifrost's Verse. Odin sees the daemons; Idunn keeps the apples from rotting. Agents do not deploy daemons directly. They configure Idunn's target catalog, release targets, migration commands, and command boundaries so Idunn can run the shared rollout primitive and leave typed witnesses behind.

Deployment consequence has one final owner: immediately before every migration, deploy, or restart process spawn, Idunn re-opens the root-owned deployment-brake CultCache and the dedicated operator public anchor. A released record must bind the canonical runtime (yggdrasil for yggdrasil-local), exact source revision (or restart:<daemon>), exact request id, operator, signature, and short expiry. Missing, corrupt, engaged, expired, foreign, wrong-scope, substituted, or badly-signed state fails closed. Planning and lifecycle-command publication do not bypass or cache this decision. The store and its sibling .lock live in /var/lib/gamecult/idunn-authority, a root-owned root:idunn 0750 directory; both files are root:idunn 0640, and the daemon's systemd sandbox exposes the directory read-only. Idunn holds the lock shared from its final snapshot read through process spawn, so an engage cannot be defeated by previously captured released bytes. A release is not one-shot: its exact request/revision grant covers each migration and deploy spawn in that rollout until its short expiry; every spawn independently reopens and validates the same grant.

Local package surfaces:

• Organ contract: docs/idunn.md
• User README: src/Idunn/README.md
• Rust daemon crate: crates/idunn-daemon
• Rust lifecycle logic: crates/odin-core/src/idunn.rs
• Runtime store: scratch/idunn/idunn.keepalive.cc
• Hosted VoidBot release: upstream main -> Yggdrasil-local Idunn -> the root-owned /srv/odin/deploy-manifests/voidbot actuator. Local checkouts are development and diagnostics only; do not create a local deployment.
• Hosted Odin release: branch codex/ygg-idunn-independent-bootstrap plus the exact CultLib commit in deploy/cultlib.commit -> one immutable /srv/odin/releases/<commit> body -> /srv/odin/current. Odin signs its own liveness to Idunn, while Idunn starts independently and owns later restart or deployment actuation.
• Operator escalation: Bifrost-owned CultMesh crossing; current compatibility delivery calls scripts\notify-idunn-operator-alarm.ps1, which asks Bifrost to publish a typed gamecult.operator_dm_request.v1 CultMesh command document only after Idunn raises an alarm

Authority Map

• Owner: Odin owns the network-wide Verse registry, schema catalog index, translation map, and accepted provider catalog/proxy surfaces.
• Inputs: CultMesh/CultNet peer announcements, schema catalog responses, daemon health/provider publications over cultnet.transport.rudp.v0, local Docker/ADB debug facts, and provider-owned Eve/CultUI surfaces.
• Outputs: CultCache-backed Odin state, CultMesh documents, and CultNet schema/catalog messages. Browser, GUI, TUI, and framebuffer renderers lower those documents outside Odin instead of asking Odin to host web surfaces.
• Derived state: Gjallar's aggregate surface is derived from Odin/provider state; Eve clients derive pixels from that aggregate.
• Forbidden writers: renderers do not probe the network or decide Verse truth; individual projects do not maintain private incompatible discovery ledgers once Odin can see them.
• Shared paths: human dashboards, worker schedulers, Verse bootstrap code, and compact TUI views consume the same registry and schema catalog.
• Deletion line: old per-host coordinator scripts should be deleted or reduced to deployment wrappers that start Odin.

Run Locally On Starfire

.\scripts\start-odin.ps1 -IdunnRudpHealth $env:IDUNN_RUDP_HEALTH

-IdunnRudpHealth, ODIN_IDUNN_RUDP_HEALTH, or IDUNN_RUDP_HEALTH must name the Idunn RUDP health endpoint. Odin does not assume a localhost health target.

Odin's native document catalog is addressed by CultMesh URI. Concrete RUDP bootstrap is configured behind CultMesh URI resolution by the operator or by Odin/Idunn deployment state:

cultmesh://odin/rendezvous/provider-catalog

That URI accepts typed document publication and schema/catalog requests through the shared CultMesh runtime. Consumers that need Odin's accepted surface can still request the current CultNet snapshot after CultMesh resolves the transport.

Legacy browser/deck lowerers must consume Odin's CultMesh state through their own lowering process. Odin no longer hosts browser-deck surfaces or publishes deck URLs as discovery seed material.

State and logs live under ignored scratch/odin/.

Current First Body

The first executable is deliberately narrow:

• publishes provider catalog odin.providers;
• persists the latest surface through local CultMesh/CultCache when CultLib packages are available at E:\Projects\CultLib\packages;
• writes scratch/odin/latest-surface.json only when --write-debug-surface-json or ODIN_WRITE_DEBUG_SURFACE_JSON=1 is explicitly supplied;
• observes Starfire Docker and Periwinkle ADB as local debug/edge facts;
• derives remote Verse presence from provider-owned CultMesh/CultNet advertisements and interface records, not TCP/SSH/systemd probes.
• publishes explicit verse and service nodes for compact Eve/CultUI lowerers.
• ingests provider-owned Eve/CultUI dashboards, including mimir.live.stats and voidbot.swarm, and embeds them as Odin interface nodes;
• accepts live gamecult.eve.provider_advertisement.v1 announcements through Odin's CultMesh/RUDP rendezvous path so daemons can announce schemas, surfaces, commands, nested Verses, and style capabilities without Odin scraping private dashboards;
• accepts explicit local debug imports only when --interfaceBindingStore / ODIN_INTERFACE_BINDING_STORES entries are written as cultmesh-store:file://... URIs; raw filesystem paths are not discovery configuration;
• preserves provider semantic addresses such as asgard.starfire.bifrost/eve/tui and asgard.starfire.bifrost/eve/gui, with CultNet routes carried as transport metadata rather than identity;
• persists operator tiling intent as odin.interface_layout.v1 in the Odin CultMesh store; ignored scratch/odin/interface-layout.json is migration input only.

Provider advertisements and CultNet/RUDP transport profiles are the discovery path. External host probes, product health checks, port probes, and renderer bridges are debug or lowering surfaces outside Odin only.