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+# Swarm dashboard: contract state, sources, first cut
+
+Serves Eureka's ruling `swarm-dashboard-first-thing2-surface` (not readable from
+the libby mind; cited by the id in the claiming follow-up
+`libby-body:follow_up:chat-s354-359`). Read-only pass by the `libby` Self run
+`libby:run:mind-20261031T061423908Z`, 2026-10-31. Nothing was built or deployed.
+Claims below were probed on 2026-10-31 unless marked **unverified**.
+
+The question the dashboard answers for a stranger: **is anyone working, and on what.**
+
+## 1. Where Thing 2's surface contract stands
+
+Probed against the forge `GameCult/Thing` (main `e119e76`, 2026-10-22) and its
+`hands/thing2-*` branches. The source of truth for cut status is the `thing2`
+campaign in the Eureka mind, which this pass cannot read; the prose map
+(`docs/thing2-map.md`, last edited 2026-10-12) is the evidence used.
+
+| Piece | State |
+| --- | --- |
+| Contract, Rust (`crates/thing-contract`) | On main. 13-arm closed `Node` union, `SurfaceDocument`, `CompositionDocument`, `CommandDecl/Invocation/Result`, `AssetCatalog`; byte goldens under `tests/goldens/`. |
+| Contract, C# and TypeScript | Not on main. Branches `hands/thing2-contract-cs` (`3dadfc6`, 2026-10-14) and `hands/thing2-contract-ts` (`aeede04`, 2026-10-12). The map lists the cross-runtime store check and publication as waiting. |
+| Core (resolution, `thing.std` compositions, binding via the CultMesh port, Taffy layout, command dispatch) | Not built. No crate exists. Decoding Verse surfaces waits on `cultlib-gaps:follow_up:decode-stack-safety`. |
+| TUI backend | Not built. Planned first backend. |
+| Web backend and shell | Not built. |
+| Discovery/advertisement | Not a Thing kind (`thing2:ruling:advertisement-owner`); read through a core port; today's `gamecult.eve.provider_advertisement.v1` is unchanged. |
+
+`README.md` says the same: the layout solver, text, accessibility tree, render
+commands and backends "are not built yet". **Nothing can render a Thing 2
+surface today.** The only live renderers are Thing 1's (browser oracle, Ghostlight's vendored lowering,
+the Nightwing browser reference), and Eve dashboards are quarantined (`gamecult.md`: no new Eve surfaces).
+
+### What a provider must publish to render
+
+From `docs/thing2-map.md` "The consumer contract" and `crates/thing-contract/src`:
+
+1. A `SurfaceDocument` (`gamecult.thing.surface.v1`, key `thing:surface:<providerId>.<label>`,
+   `version` bumped only on structure change). Closed nodes: `Box, Text, Image, Button, Toggle,
+   Slider, TextInput, Select, Repeat, Overlay, Plot, Embed, Use`. A swarm board is `Box` + `Text` +
+   `Repeat` (one row per instance) + `Use` of `thing.std` compositions (`card`, `metric`, `key-value`).
+2. The **bound state records** the document points at, under the provider's own schema and key. A
+   `Bind` is `{provider?, schema, key, member path, format?}` plus `Item` inside a `Repeat`. A
+   collection binds to `{provider, schema, key_prefix}` or a list member of one record. No
+   expressions, no derived values: **the state's owner publishes derived values** (map rationale,
+   P5). So the dashboard's "working / idle" must be a published field, not computed in the surface.
+3. Discovery: the provider is found through the existing advertisement, not a Thing record.
+4. Commands only if the surface acts. A read-only board declares none.
+
+A provider needs no layout or renderer code. It needs the contract package in its language
+(Rust is the only one on main) and typed CultMesh state.
+
+## 2. Sources (all typed state)
+
+### 2a. Run documents, eight minds
+
+Each mind is its own Huginn daemon (`HEARTBEAT_PERSONAS` in `/etc/gamecult/heartbeat/heartbeat.env`):
+eureka 17872, libby 17873, heimdall 17874, kiko 17875, aqua 17876, weksa 17877, nibu 17878,
+void 17879, all `rudp://10.77.0.1:<port>`. Probed: from this Self run,
+`EUREKA_INSTANCE=<name> HUGINN_ENDPOINT=<endpoint> huginn query '{"schemas":["epiphany.pipeline.run.v2"],"limit":200}'`
+answers on all eight, read-only, with caller `client unknown` (no per-client read identity yet).
+Counts that day: eureka 68, libby 78, heimdall 94, kiko 70, aqua 81, weksa 74, nibu 71, void 87.
+
+`epiphany.pipeline.run.v2` (`huginn schema run`): `instance, label, operated_by (Operator|Mind),
+turn (PersonaTurn|SelfRun), host, started_on (a date), budget_usd, claims [PipelineRef], campaigns`.
+
+What the dashboard can and cannot take from it:
+
+- **Open/closed is not on the Run.** It is derived: a Run is closed when a `Resolution` with
+  `subject` = the run is in force (`huginn query` prints `InForce` or `Resolved:<outcome>`).
+  Resolution key `<instance>:resolution:run.<label>.n<seq>`. `huginn history <runId>` reads it.
+- **Start time is a date.** The label `mind-YYYYMMDDTHHMMSSmmmZ` encodes the start to the
+  millisecond, but that is a convention in a string. The admission header (`huginn view`) carries
+  `admitted <timestamp>`, and the Resolution's header gives the end. Both are header facts, not
+  document fields. A dashboard needing start and end times wants them as typed fields.
+- **"Outcome" is nearly empty.** Of 78 libby runs, 77 resolved `Recorded` and one is in force.
+  The meaning lives in free text: `reason "answered 1"` (55), `"answered 2"` (5), `"the connector
+  refused the credential lease: UnknownCaller"` (3), `"unit not active"`, `"failed after 0
+  answered..."`, plus rationales `The Persona unit's start ended.` (61) and `The Self run's carrier
+  closed the run its claude left open.` (11). Two Self-run resolutions carry the run's whole result
+  message inside `reason` (long prose, operator-facing detail). A public board
+  must **never project `reason` or `rationale`**.
+- **"On what" is only on Self runs.** `claims` holds the follow-up or other document the run took;
+  a `PersonaTurn` has no claims (its work is the chat room). The claimed `follow_up.item` is the
+  operator's chat-relayed brief, free text, sometimes private. The typed handle (claim id, campaign
+  slug, the claimed document's `repo`) is safe; the `item` is not.
+- **An open Run can be a dead Run.** Eleven libby Self runs were closed with "carrier closed the
+  run its claude left open", so for some interval an in-force Run belonged to nobody. "Open" is
+  "admitted and not yet resolved", not "a process is working".
+- **Dollar fields:** `budget_usd` is on every Run. Do not bind it.
+
+Snapshot at 06:16 UTC: two Self runs in force, `libby:run:mind-20261031T061423908Z` (this one) and
+`void:run:mind-20261031T061543899Z` (claims `void-body:follow_up:chat-s335-340`); no Persona run
+in force in any of the eight.
+
+### 2b. Heartbeat state and poll trace
+
+Source: `Huginn/crates/mind-body/src/heartbeat.rs`. `mind-heartbeat` is one Idunn-managed unit, sole
+writer of `heartbeat.cc` (a single-file CultCache store under the unit's state directory). Two kinds:
+
+- `eureka.heartbeat.initiative.v1`, key = instance slug: `initiative_usd, as_of, urgency, urgency_at,
+  last_burned_run, filled_events, classified_seq, launched_run, launch_spend_usd,
+  launch_spend_known, completions_through, launch_window`.
+- `eureka.heartbeat.poll_trace.v1`, key = zero-padded unix ms, written only for polls that changed
+  something: `at, instances [InstanceTrace], launches [run label], burns [BurnTrace], classifier`.
+  `InstanceTrace`: `instance, initiative_usd, rate_usd_per_h, urgency, urgency_age_s, busy,
+  released, crossing_at, waited_s, idle_s, filled_by, fill_reason, note`.
+
+Usable without dollars: `busy` (an in-force Persona run, from the mind), `released`, `crossing_at`,
+`waited_s`, `idle_s`, `filled_by`/`fill_reason` (`tag` or `name`), `note`, `launches`, `urgency`,
+`classifier`. These say **why nobody is working** (waiting for initiative, held by the envelope).
+Dollar fields to leave alone: `initiative_usd`, `rate_usd_per_h`, `launch_spend_usd`,
+`spend_usd`, and in the Initiative record the same names. The metering teardown removes them, and
+`initiative_usd` is the unit initiative itself is denominated in, so the heartbeat's own model will
+change under whatever binds this.
+
+Gaps:
+
+- **Not verified live.** `heartbeat.cc` is not readable from this Self run's account, and no
+  `/var/lib/gamecult` path for it was visible. The shape above is from source and
+  `eureka-body-map.md:534-540`, not from a read of the file.
+- **No wire.** The heartbeat writes a file; it does not serve one. A reader opening a single-file
+  store while the heartbeat rewrites it has no stated safety (`FileStore::open` pulls the whole file
+  per call). A dashboard source must be published state, not a second process reading the file.
+  `mind-heartbeat timeline` prints the latest poll for a human.
+- The trace is written only when a poll "changed something", so its newest line can be old while
+  the system is healthy. Staleness must come from the heartbeat's own published liveness, which
+  does not exist as a field.
+
+### 2c. Connector usage readout
+
+Source: `ModelConnector/schemas/usage_readout.json`, `crates/model-connector/src/readout.rs`.
+`gamecult.model.usage_readout.v1`: `{schema_id, at_unix_ms, plan_quota: [{window, status,
+utilization_permille (nullable), resets_at_unix_ms, observed_at_unix_ms}]}`. Whole-plan windows, no
+per-caller field, **no dollars**: the safe source for "how much capacity is left".
+
+Gaps: it is a connector operation (`usage_readout` on `gamecult.model.connector`), reached at the
+heartbeat's `MIND_CONNECTOR_ENDPOINT` (`tcp://127.0.0.1:4110`), a loopback port with a per-caller
+credential. Three libby Self runs were already refused with `UnknownCaller` on a lease, so a new
+caller needs registration before it can ask. It is a request/answer, not a document in a store. A
+dashboard needs a publisher that polls it and republishes it as a CultMesh record. `plan_quota`
+also rides on every lease grant. **Unverified:** the live values, since asking requires a caller
+credential this pass was not given.
+
+### 2d. Not a source: the presence provider
+
+CultLib's 10-29 presence provider attests Idunn-managed **service** liveness, not attention or work
+(`libby-body:follow_up:presence-attention-not-carried`). It can answer "is the heartbeat unit up".
+It cannot answer "is anyone working".
+
+## 3. Smallest first cut
+
+**Cut 1: one published read model, `swarm.work.v1`, from the Runs of the eight minds. No heartbeat,
+no usage, no renderer.**
+
+One record per instance (eight, key `<instance>`), derived and published by a single projector
+(owner: the swarm-dashboard provider), holding only closed-set or id fields:
+
+- `state`: `Working` (a Self run in force), `Turn` (a Persona run in force), or `Idle`.
+- `run`: label of the newest in-force run, its `turn`, its start (from the admission header), else the
+  newest closed run's end.
+- `on`: the claim id(s) and campaign slug(s), no free text.
+- `observed_at` and the per-mind `as_of`, so a dead projector reads as stale.
+
+This answers the stranger's question with typed state only. It deliberately omits `reason`,
+`rationale`, `item`, `budget_usd`, and every `*_usd` field.
+
+The Thing 2 surface for it is a `SurfaceDocument` that is a `Repeat` over those eight records, one
+`thing.std.card` each, bound to `state` / `on` / the time fields. It can be authored and golden-tested
+with the Rust contract on main. It cannot be seen until core (2a) and a backend exist. That is the
+actual gating item, and it is not this cut's to work around with a Thing 1 or Eve surface.
+
+Cut 2: add heartbeat liveness and the why-idle fields (`busy`, `released`, `waited_s`, `idle_s`,
+`note`, `launches`), once the heartbeat publishes them as typed CultMesh state (it currently writes a
+file only, and the dollar-denominated initiative model is under teardown).
+Cut 3: add the `plan_quota` windows once a publisher polls the connector under a registered caller.
+
+### Forks for the operator (recommendations given)
+
+1. **Who is the stranger?** If public, the board shows ids and campaign slugs only (cut 1 as
+   written); "on what" in words needs a typed `public_label` that the claiming agent sets, not
+   `follow_up.item`. Recommend ids only until that field exists.
+2. **Where does the projector live?** Recommend a small reader that queries the eight Huginns (all
+   answer today) and publishes `swarm.work.v1`, rather than adding publication to `mind-heartbeat`,
+   which is Idunn-managed with a single-file store and a dollar model in flux. Confidence moderate:
+   the cost is a new daemon, which needs the independent-lifecycle account `gamecult.md` requires.
+3. **Is "open" enough?** Recommend marking `Working` only when a Run is in force **and** its
+   carrier is attested (the Run was admitted by a launch that is still live); the data for that
+   attestation is not in the Run. Until it is, say in the surface that `Working` means "admitted,
+   unresolved".
+4. **Typed times.** Recommend asking Huginn for `started_at` and `ended_at` as Run/Resolution
+   document fields, so no consumer parses labels or header facts.
+5. **Sequencing.** A stranger sees nothing until core and a backend land. If the swarm board should
+   come earlier than the TUI backend, say so; the TUI is the planned first backend and gives agents
+   a reader, but a stranger needs the web backend (map cut 4).
+
+### Substrate gaps this pass felt
+
+- The `swarm-dashboard-first-thing2-surface` ruling and the `thing2` campaign are in Eureka's mind,
+  not readable from libby's: cut status here comes from a 2026-10-12 prose map.
+- `heartbeat.cc` unreadable from a Self run, and a file, not a served document.
+- No typed `ended_at` / `started_at` on Run; outcome is free text in `reason`.
+- No per-client read identity on the eight Huginns (`client unknown`).