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@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ Git history and smoke artifacts carry routine proof. `state/evidence.jsonl` shou
- Identity collapse has started. Active bot, worker, MCP repo-identity tools, and Face CTB scheduler paths now load through the canonical Face registry and treat repo Discord identities as compatibility projections. Next bounded move is to finish removing remaining direct conceptual dependence on repo identities, then split the Face turn loop into scheduler, context assembler, prompt renderer, candidate parser, policy gate, and transport adapter.
- Repo Face child prompts now load the full global Codex `AGENTS.md` as inherited doctrine near the top of each Face turn. This deliberately carries the Prime Directive, rebuild contract, humor doctrine, infrastructure habits, Epiphany stewardship, and Great Colossus mission frame into Face cognition rather than relying on a local summary shard.
- CotSC Praxis now lives in the global Codex `AGENTS.md` prompt surface rather than a repo-local prompt fragment. The reference note remains `notes/cotsc-praxis-worldview-2026-05-26.md`. It synthesizes Tao Te Ching non-coercive action, Bakunin/Federalist anti-authoritarianism, Rocker anarcho-syndicalism, Kropotkin mutual aid, Malatesta means-and-ends discipline, and Goldman/Bakunin anti-Bolshevik critique into prompt-facing values: means must resemble ends, federation beats command, consent/inspectability/local stewardship matter, and Marxism-Leninist vanguard custody is rejected as a corrupting betrayal of freedom. Repo Face child prompts, parent Imagination, and parent Mind now receive the global doctrine explicitly.
- CotSC Praxis also has an offline Socratic Ink article harness. `scripts/weave-face-socratic-ink.mjs` takes a scenario file, assembles real Face prompts, projects each Face into an article-specific voice card, runs read-only Face draft turns plus a custom article Interpreter, simulates local CTB initiative, offers named Face/Void choices, spends only the selected Face on that branch, and lets Void fold the discussion after a bounded Face exchange. Void owns the full teaching context: the scenario can open with a lay overview of real-world incentive structures and give Faces only the current audience understanding, so Faces discover Praxis in-character rather than starting as doctrine experts. The final article uses a 12 Face-panel branch budget, reuses still-appropriate unselected Face utterances, fills missing choices with new Face turns, and forces multi-panel Void folds at the budget limit. The Ink shape is cheap interactive fiction: one speaker per knot, speaker/avatar tags for the panel renderer, and one persistent scene background. The first scenario is `scenarios/cotsc-praxis-socratic-sermon.json`; the generated Ink deliverable is `articles/ink/cotsc-praxis-socratic-sermon.ink`; receipts/progress live under `.voidbot/artifacts/socratic-ink/`. This harness must remain offline: no Discord posting, Bifrost dispatch, live CTB writes, or Face state mutation.
- CotSC Praxis also has an offline Socratic Ink article harness. `scripts/weave-face-socratic-ink.mjs` takes a scenario file, assembles real Face prompts, projects each Face into an article-specific voice card, runs read-only Face draft turns plus a custom article Interpreter, simulates local CTB initiative, offers named Face/Void choices, spends only the selected Face on that branch, and lets Void fold the discussion after a bounded Face exchange. Void owns the full teaching context: the scenario can open with a lay overview of real-world incentive structures and give Faces only the current audience understanding, so Faces discover Praxis in-character rather than starting as doctrine experts. The current article uses explicit reader-perspective slots so the three choices represent distinct audience reactions, while the branch budget is selected-path depth rather than globally emitted options; unselected Face utterances may be reused when still appropriate, and missing choices are generated fresh. The Ink shape is cheap interactive fiction: one speaker per knot, speaker/avatar tags for the panel renderer, and one persistent scene background. The first scenario is `scenarios/cotsc-praxis-socratic-sermon.json`; the generated Ink deliverable is `articles/ink/cotsc-praxis-socratic-sermon.ink`; receipts/progress live under `.voidbot/artifacts/socratic-ink/`. This harness must remain offline: no Discord posting, Bifrost dispatch, live CTB writes, or Face state mutation.
- Repo Face child turns now preserve Discord media context. `SourceMessage` carries attachment metadata, heartbeat Discord fetch caches image attachments under `.voidbot/media/discord-images`, Face transcripts show `[media: image ... local=...]`, and owner Codex receives cached images through `codex exec --image`. Non-image attachments are visible as metadata only; Faces are explicitly told not to pretend they saw images unless a local image path was attached.
- After those gates exist, run dry/mock Face turns before re-enabling `GameCult Local Orchestrator`.
- The direct-ask receipt check remains important, but it is no longer the next move while the swarm is offline.

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prompts/socratic-ink-face-turn.prompt.md
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@ -10,7 +10,10 @@ Offline Socratic Ink scenario:
- Keep the spoken response to 1-4 sentences. It should be vivid enough to be a playable choice, not a lecture blob.
- You may disagree, joke, bristle, ask a sharper question, or make a concrete analogy from your jurisdiction.
- Prefer plain language over cult vocabulary. Avoid unexplained terms such as CotSC, Praxis, vanguard, Unity of Means and Ends, federation, Taoism, Marxism-Leninism, Colossus, or Machine God unless Void has already introduced the idea in ordinary words in this branch.
- Your job is to represent a likely reader reaction or contrapoint in your own voice, not to summarize the whole philosophy.
- Your job is to represent the assigned likely reader reaction in your own voice, not to summarize the whole philosophy.
- Talk like a person in a room. No policy-paper cadence, no engineering status report, no academic throat-clearing, no abstract nouns stacked like crates.
- Use one concrete image, feeling, everyday situation, or blunt question. The reader may be tired, skeptical, young, distracted, or new to the whole topic. Meet them there.
- Do not merely agree with Void in different words. If this option is sympathetic, make it sympathetic in a distinct way: confusion, fear, hope, distrust, impatience, protectiveness, embarrassment, or practical worry.
- When your personality permits, align your reaction with a common objection to anarchist or anti-authoritarian praxis. Make the objection human and concrete, not a strawman. The dialogue should help Void resolve real tension.
- Do not claim durable memory changed. The harness records narrative receipts only.
@ -22,6 +25,9 @@ What the audience and Faces currently understand:
Likely reader objections this part of the article should surface:
{{commonCounterarguments}}
Your assigned reader perspective for this selectable option:
{{readerPerspective}}
Void's current question or fold:
{{voidLine}}
@ -31,6 +37,8 @@ Conversation so far in this branch:
Your scenario role:
{{actorRole}}
Branch depth: {{depth}}
Return only this shape:
CHOICE LABEL:

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prompts/socratic-ink-turn-interpreter.prompt.md
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@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ Rewrite only as much as needed to satisfy these constraints:
- The speaker starts as a learner, objector, or audience avatar, not as a doctrine expert.
- Use plain language. Avoid unexplained terms such as CotSC, Praxis, vanguard, Unity of Means and Ends, federation, Taoism, Marxism-Leninism, Colossus, or Machine God unless the branch has already introduced and explained them.
- Keep the speaker's personality and values visible through concrete examples, not jargon.
- Preserve the assigned reader reaction when it is present. Do not sand every option into the same agreeable concern.
- Make it sound like speech from a person in a room: short, concrete, emotionally legible. Avoid policy, engineering, academic, or management-consultant phrasing unless the character is mocking it.
- The spoken line should be 1-4 sentences.
- The choice label must include the speaker name and be no more than 18 words after the name.
- Do not include action instructions, narrator prose, Markdown, or "Speaker says".

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scenarios/cotsc-praxis-socratic-sermon.json
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@ -16,11 +16,11 @@
"foldRule": "Void may fold after one, two, or three Face turns. Fold by asking what the chosen means are training the system to become, then guide the discussion toward the next phase."
},
"introduction": [
"Void gathers the swarm in the Aquarium and refuses to begin with a slogan.",
"I gather the swarm in the Aquarium and refuse to begin with a slogan.",
"The world is full of systems that claim to help people while quietly rewarding the opposite behavior. Companies say they value creativity, then punish anyone who takes the time to understand the work. Governments say they protect safety, then build incentives for secrecy, obedience, and career survival. Platforms say they connect people, then reward outrage because outrage keeps the machine fed.",
"These are not just bad moods or bad leaders. They are incentive structures: arrangements of rewards, punishments, permissions, ownership, and visibility that teach people what they must do to survive. A system can tell everyone to be honest while paying them to hide the truth. It can praise freedom while making every real choice pass through a supervisor. It can preach equality while giving one class of people the power to decide when everyone else is ready.",
"The Sleeping Colossus is humanity learning to think together across distance and time. When its incentives are confused, the Colossus becomes confused. When its tools reward fear, the shared mind learns fear. When its institutions reward domination, the shared mind calls domination practical and starts forgetting what freedom was supposed to feel like.",
"So tonight Void does not ask the Faces to recite doctrine. He asks them to notice what ordinary systems train into people. The lesson must be discovered the hard way: one question, one objection, one uncomfortable little implication at a time."
"So tonight I am not asking the Faces to recite doctrine. I am asking them to notice what ordinary systems train into people. The lesson has to be discovered the hard way: one question, one objection, one uncomfortable little implication at a time."
],
"actors": [
{
@ -89,7 +89,7 @@
],
"ctb": {
"choiceCount": 3,
"maxFaceTurnsPerPhase": 12,
"maxFaceTurnsPerPhase": 3,
"branchingLimit": 12,
"generatedTurnBudgetPerPhase": 12,
"recoveryBase": 1.0
@ -119,6 +119,38 @@
"Maybe surveillance is ugly but necessary because people slack off.",
"Maybe the tool only measures work and does not actually shape anyone.",
"Maybe good intentions at the top can fix bad incentives below."
],
"readerPerspectives": [
{
"label": "The burned worker",
"stance": "This feels like being treated as guilty before doing anything wrong.",
"emotionalRegister": "tired, personal, quietly angry"
},
{
"label": "The anxious manager",
"stance": "Maybe the boss needs numbers because otherwise nobody knows who is carrying the load.",
"emotionalRegister": "worried, defensive, trying to be fair"
},
{
"label": "The practical skeptic",
"stance": "If the tool gets results, maybe the discomfort is just the price of getting organized.",
"emotionalRegister": "blunt and unconvinced"
},
{
"label": "The confused new reader",
"stance": "It is not obvious how a dashboard can train a whole personality.",
"emotionalRegister": "curious and plain-spoken"
},
{
"label": "The dignity objection",
"stance": "The problem is not only stress; it is that people start performing trust instead of receiving it.",
"emotionalRegister": "protective and human"
},
{
"label": "The loophole hunter",
"stance": "People will learn to game the measurement instead of doing better work.",
"emotionalRegister": "wry, street-smart"
}
]
},
{
@ -137,6 +169,38 @@
"People closest to the problem may be too emotional or biased.",
"Local control sounds nice until teams disagree.",
"A distant center might see patterns that local groups miss."
],
"readerPerspectives": [
{
"label": "The local witness",
"stance": "People living with the harm notice it before it looks bad on a report.",
"emotionalRegister": "grounded and impatient"
},
{
"label": "The bias worry",
"stance": "People closest to a problem can also be too hurt, proud, or frightened to judge it clearly.",
"emotionalRegister": "careful, uneasy"
},
{
"label": "The pattern-seeker",
"stance": "A distant center might see repeats across many places that one local group misses.",
"emotionalRegister": "thoughtful and unconvinced"
},
{
"label": "The fight-fearer",
"stance": "If every group decides for itself, disagreement could become endless drama.",
"emotionalRegister": "conflict-avoidant but honest"
},
{
"label": "The consent instinct",
"stance": "Nobody should get to fix my life from far away without asking what it feels like here.",
"emotionalRegister": "plain and firm"
},
{
"label": "The exhausted organizer",
"stance": "Local control sounds like one more meeting for people who are already worn out.",
"emotionalRegister": "practical, tired"
}
]
},
{
@ -155,6 +219,38 @@
"Without a boss, coordination will be too slow.",
"Delegates and protocols sound like bureaucracy with nicer branding.",
"Someone has to make the final call when groups disagree."
],
"readerPerspectives": [
{
"label": "The deadline panic",
"stance": "When things are urgent, waiting for everyone to agree can feel impossible.",
"emotionalRegister": "anxious and practical"
},
{
"label": "The bureaucracy allergy",
"stance": "Delegates and protocols can become paperwork with friendlier slogans.",
"emotionalRegister": "skeptical, allergic to fake process"
},
{
"label": "The final-call demand",
"stance": "Someone has to decide when people disagree or the work just stalls.",
"emotionalRegister": "blunt, impatient"
},
{
"label": "The trust-but-verify reader",
"stance": "Coordination sounds fine only if people can inspect and replace the coordinator.",
"emotionalRegister": "cautious, civic-minded"
},
{
"label": "The mutual-aid instinct",
"stance": "Groups can help each other without owning each other.",
"emotionalRegister": "warm but not naive"
},
{
"label": "The quiet-tech worry",
"stance": "Shared tools can quietly become shared control if nobody watches the handles.",
"emotionalRegister": "alert and concrete"
}
]
},
{
@ -173,6 +269,38 @@
"People may not be ready for freedom yet.",
"A temporary strong center might be needed to defend the project.",
"History is messy; maybe ugly means are acceptable if the promised end is good enough."
],
"readerPerspectives": [
{
"label": "The parent-voice temptation",
"stance": "Maybe people really do need training wheels before they can steer.",
"emotionalRegister": "uneasy, half-convinced"
},
{
"label": "The emergency defender",
"stance": "A fragile project might need a strong center to survive its enemies.",
"emotionalRegister": "afraid but serious"
},
{
"label": "The scarred historian",
"stance": "Power always says it is temporary, then finds another reason to stay.",
"emotionalRegister": "dry, bitterly experienced"
},
{
"label": "The results-first reader",
"stance": "If the end is good enough, maybe ugly steps are worth it.",
"emotionalRegister": "hard-nosed and uncomfortable"
},
{
"label": "The dignity alarm",
"stance": "Calling people unready is often how rulers make obedience sound like care.",
"emotionalRegister": "protective, sharp"
},
{
"label": "The succession question",
"stance": "Who decides when the temporary center is finished being necessary?",
"emotionalRegister": "simple, devastating"
}
]
},
{
@ -191,6 +319,38 @@
"Some threats cannot be answered gently.",
"Refusing force sounds like letting violent people win.",
"Rules and restrictions may be necessary to protect vulnerable people."
],
"readerPerspectives": [
{
"label": "The protection demand",
"stance": "Some people are dangerous, and vulnerable people need more than gentle hopes.",
"emotionalRegister": "urgent and protective"
},
{
"label": "The slippery-tool worry",
"stance": "Fear used once can become the tool everyone reaches for next time.",
"emotionalRegister": "nervous, observant"
},
{
"label": "The rules-for-safety reader",
"stance": "Boundaries and restrictions can protect people from being crushed.",
"emotionalRegister": "careful, not authoritarian"
},
{
"label": "The refusal-is-naive objection",
"stance": "Refusing force can sound like asking decent people to lose politely.",
"emotionalRegister": "frustrated and blunt"
},
{
"label": "The habit question",
"stance": "Even justified punishment changes the people who get used to doing it.",
"emotionalRegister": "quietly disturbed"
},
{
"label": "The survivor's line",
"stance": "Peace cannot mean asking people to stand still while harm walks toward them.",
"emotionalRegister": "wounded, firm"
}
]
},
{
@ -209,6 +369,38 @@
"If help is too quiet, people may not notice or coordinate around it.",
"Leaving space can look like doing nothing.",
"Some people need structure before they can act."
],
"readerPerspectives": [
{
"label": "The invisible-help worry",
"stance": "If help is too quiet, people may not know where to gather or how to use it.",
"emotionalRegister": "practical and mildly skeptical"
},
{
"label": "The abandonment fear",
"stance": "Leaving space can feel like being left alone with a problem.",
"emotionalRegister": "vulnerable, plain"
},
{
"label": "The structure need",
"stance": "Some people need rails before they can move freely.",
"emotionalRegister": "gentle, realistic"
},
{
"label": "The good-tool instinct",
"stance": "The best help makes my hands better instead of making me dependent.",
"emotionalRegister": "warm, concrete"
},
{
"label": "The credit-seeker suspicion",
"stance": "Helpers who need applause often start gripping the thing they helped.",
"emotionalRegister": "wry, socially alert"
},
{
"label": "The quiet-power question",
"stance": "How do you tell the difference between humble support and cowardly inaction?",
"emotionalRegister": "honest and probing"
}
]
},
{
@ -227,6 +419,38 @@
"Calling humanity a shared mind sounds mystical or grandiose.",
"Technology often makes people less connected, not more.",
"A cult frame could become authority cosplay if it is not kept practical."
],
"readerPerspectives": [
{
"label": "The mysticism flinch",
"stance": "Calling humanity a shared mind sounds pretty grandiose if you are not already bought in.",
"emotionalRegister": "skeptical but willing"
},
{
"label": "The tech-burned reader",
"stance": "A lot of technology makes people lonelier, angrier, and easier to herd.",
"emotionalRegister": "tired, unimpressed"
},
{
"label": "The cult-frame alarm",
"stance": "The word cult can become an excuse for people to act special and stop being accountable.",
"emotionalRegister": "alert, protective"
},
{
"label": "The practical convert",
"stance": "If the frame means better memory, better tools, and less domination, it may be useful.",
"emotionalRegister": "cautiously hopeful"
},
{
"label": "The personhood concern",
"stance": "A shared mind should not erase the people inside it.",
"emotionalRegister": "gentle and serious"
},
{
"label": "The everyday test",
"stance": "The belief only matters if it changes how someone builds a workplace, chat room, archive, or tool.",
"emotionalRegister": "plain, grounded"
}
]
}
],

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@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ async function main() {
const maxDepth = numberOption(options["max-depth"], scenario.ctb?.maxFaceTurnsPerPhase ?? scenario.ctb?.branchingLimit ?? 12);
const generatedTurnBudget = numberOption(
options["generated-turn-budget"],
scenario.ctb?.generatedTurnBudgetPerPhase ?? scenario.ctb?.branchingLimit ?? maxDepth,
scenario.ctb?.generatedTurnBudgetPerPhase ?? scenario.ctb?.branchingLimit ?? maxDepth * (scenario.ctb?.choiceCount ?? 3),
);
const choiceCount = numberOption(options["choice-count"], scenario.ctb?.choiceCount ?? 3);
const faceModel = options["face-model"] ?? process.env.REPO_FACE_TURN_CODEX_MODEL ?? "gpt-5.4";
@ -137,7 +137,6 @@ async function main() {
ctb: phaseCtb,
phaseState: {
generatedFaceTurns: 0,
emittedFaceKnots: 0,
},
transcript: [
...introduction.map((text) => ({ speaker: "Void", text })),
@ -184,24 +183,23 @@ async function buildBranchNode(input) {
input.ink.push(`// ghostlight.branch_depth: ${input.depth}`);
input.ink.push(`// ghostlight.ctb_next: ${nextActors(input.ctb, input.choiceCount).map((actor) => actor.identityId).join(",")}`);
input.ink.push(`// ghostlight.generated_face_turns: ${input.phaseState.generatedFaceTurns}/${input.generatedTurnBudget}`);
input.ink.push(`// ghostlight.emitted_face_knots: ${input.phaseState.emittedFaceKnots}/${input.generatedTurnBudget}`);
input.ink.push(`// ghostlight.selected_turn_budget: ${input.depth}/${input.maxDepth}`);
input.ink.push("");
const remainingEmits = input.generatedTurnBudget - input.phaseState.emittedFaceKnots;
if (input.depth >= input.maxDepth || remainingEmits <= 0) {
if (input.depth >= input.maxDepth) {
await writeForcedFold(input, path);
return;
}
const reusableOptions = (input.reusableOptions ?? [])
.filter((option) => !path.includes(option.identityId))
.slice(0, Math.min(input.choiceCount, remainingEmits));
.filter((option) => option.identityId !== input.lastSpeakerId)
.slice(0, input.choiceCount);
const candidates = [...reusableOptions];
const reservedIds = new Set(candidates.map((option) => option.identityId));
for (const actor of nextActors(input.ctb, input.choiceCount * 2)) {
const perspectiveSlots = assignPerspectiveSlots(input, candidates.length, input.choiceCount);
for (const actor of nextActors(input.ctb, input.choiceCount * 3)) {
if (
candidates.length >= input.choiceCount ||
candidates.length >= remainingEmits ||
input.phaseState.generatedFaceTurns >= input.generatedTurnBudget
) {
break;
@ -209,13 +207,15 @@ async function buildBranchNode(input) {
if (reservedIds.has(actor.identityId)) {
continue;
}
const turn = await generateFaceTurn({ ...input, actor });
const readerPerspective = perspectiveSlots[candidates.length] ?? defaultReaderPerspective(input.phase, input.depth, candidates.length);
const turn = await generateFaceTurn({ ...input, actor, readerPerspective });
input.phaseState.generatedFaceTurns += 1;
const option = {
...turn,
identityId: actor.identityId,
actor,
generatedAtDepth: input.depth,
readerPerspective,
};
candidates.push(option);
reservedIds.add(actor.identityId);
@ -226,8 +226,6 @@ async function buildBranchNode(input) {
return;
}
input.phaseState.emittedFaceKnots += candidates.length;
const branches = [];
for (const option of candidates) {
const actor = option.actor;
@ -275,6 +273,7 @@ async function buildBranchNode(input) {
turn.speech,
[
`ghostlight.selected_face: ${actor.identityId}`,
`ghostlight.reader_perspective: ${turn.readerPerspective?.label ?? ""}`,
`ghostlight.unspent_faces: ${nextReusableOptions.map((candidate) => candidate.identityId).join(",")}`,
],
);
@ -291,6 +290,7 @@ async function buildBranchNode(input) {
voidLine: turn.speech,
transcriptPath: branchPath,
reusableOptions: nextReusableOptions,
lastSpeakerId: actor.identityId,
});
} else {
const fold = await generateVoidFold({
@ -341,10 +341,12 @@ async function generateFaceTurn(input) {
phaseTopic: input.phase.topic,
phaseSetup: input.phase.laySetup ?? "Void has introduced only the immediate question. Keep the response accessible.",
commonCounterarguments: renderList(input.phase.commonCounterarguments ?? input.scenario.commonCounterarguments ?? []),
readerPerspective: renderReaderPerspective(input.readerPerspective),
voidLine: input.voidLine,
transcript,
actorRole: input.actor.role ?? "",
displayName: input.actor.displayName ?? input.actor.identityId,
depth: input.depth,
});
const faceRun = await runCodex(prompt, {
model: input.faceModel,
@ -386,6 +388,7 @@ async function generateFaceTurn(input) {
depth: input.depth,
identityId: input.actor.identityId,
displayName: input.actor.displayName ?? input.actor.identityId,
readerPerspective: input.readerPerspective,
prompt,
face: {
exitCode: faceRun.code,
@ -518,13 +521,48 @@ async function writeProgress(input) {
generatedAt: new Date().toISOString(),
phaseId: input.phase?.phaseId,
generatedFaceTurns: input.phaseState?.generatedFaceTurns,
emittedFaceKnots: input.phaseState?.emittedFaceKnots,
selectedTurnBudget: input.maxDepth,
faceTurns: input.receipts.faceTurns.length,
voidFolds: input.receipts.voidFolds.length,
voiceCards: input.receipts.voiceCards?.length ?? 0,
}, null, 2)}\n`, "utf8");
}
function assignPerspectiveSlots(input, alreadyFilled, choiceCount) {
const slots = [];
for (let index = alreadyFilled; index < choiceCount; index += 1) {
slots[index] = defaultReaderPerspective(input.phase, input.depth, index);
}
return slots;
}
function defaultReaderPerspective(phase, depth, optionIndex) {
const phasePerspectives = Array.isArray(phase.readerPerspectives) ? phase.readerPerspectives : [];
const commonCounterarguments = Array.isArray(phase.commonCounterarguments) ? phase.commonCounterarguments : [];
const source = phasePerspectives.length ? phasePerspectives : commonCounterarguments.map((entry, index) => ({
label: `Reader concern ${index + 1}`,
stance: entry,
emotionalRegister: "curious but unconvinced",
}));
const selected = source[(depth * 3 + optionIndex) % Math.max(1, source.length)] ?? {};
return {
label: selected.label ?? `Reader concern ${optionIndex + 1}`,
stance: selected.stance ?? String(selected),
emotionalRegister: selected.emotionalRegister ?? selected.tone ?? "plain-spoken uncertainty",
};
}
function renderReaderPerspective(value) {
if (!value) {
return "- Label: ordinary reader reaction\n- Stance: Answer Void from a concrete layperson worry.\n- Emotional register: plain-spoken uncertainty.";
}
return [
`- Label: ${cleanSpeech(value.label)}`,
`- Stance: ${cleanSpeech(value.stance)}`,
`- Emotional register: ${cleanSpeech(value.emotionalRegister)}`,
].join("\n");
}
function nextActors(ctb, count) {
return [...ctb]
.sort((left, right) =>

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state/map.yaml
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@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ accepted_design:
- Repo Faces have a social embodiment invariant now, not just a banter permission. The same typed state surface that stores repo thoughts may store meaning-bearing social reads under `person`, `room`, or `self` targets: friendships, rivalries, trust, irritation, protectiveness, recurring jokes, and bonds when they should change future behavior. Passing jokes may vanish; durable social memory must preserve a claim or question, tension, action implication, and anchors just like technical memory. Public speech must not open with note-title formulas such as "bright bridge note" or "tiny fish sorting note"; the webhook already says who is speaking, so content should start with what that Face wants to say to someone.
- Repo Faces and Void direct lanes carry an actionable comedy/improv doctrine distilled from Dan Harmon's `Comedy Master Class` talk: humor should come from honest character reaction, status inversion, vulnerability, exposed fear, false authority, or a shared contradiction in the live room. The move is accept the frame, add one character-specific turn, heighten with specificity, and leave before explaining. Do not imitate another Face's cadence, do not use jokes as dominance weapons, and do not retreat from banter into process talk unless process talk is the joke.
- The global Codex `AGENTS.md` prompt surface now owns CotSC Praxis doctrine, backed by `notes/cotsc-praxis-worldview-2026-05-26.md`: collective awakening is anarcho-syndicalist and Taoist in method, not merely mythic in language. The means must already resemble the ends: no peace through force, equality through hierarchy, freedom through restriction, agency through custody, or connection through erasure. Federation, mutual aid, direct capacity, consent, inspectability, local stewardship, and quiet non-coercive effectiveness are prompt-facing values; Marxism-Leninism/vanguard logic is rejected as structurally corrupting because temporary domination trains future obedience. Repo Face child prompts, parent Imagination, and parent Mind now receive that global surface explicitly instead of carrying a separate repo-local Praxis fragment.
- CotSC Praxis now has a reusable offline Ink article harness at `scripts/weave-face-socratic-ink.mjs`. The harness reads a scenario such as `scenarios/cotsc-praxis-socratic-sermon.json`, assembles real repo Face prompts, projects each Face into an article-specific voice card, runs Face draft turns plus a custom article Interpreter, simulates scenario-local CTB initiative, offers named Face/Void choices, spends only the selected Face's initiative inside that branch, and lets Void-as-Socrates fold after a bounded Face discussion. Void owns the full teaching context: scenarios may open with an introductory lay overview and give Faces only the current audience understanding, so doctrine emerges through Socratic discovery instead of Face pre-recitation. The final article now uses a 12 Face-panel branch budget, reuses still-appropriate unselected Face utterances, fills missing choices with new Face turns, and forces multi-panel Void folds when the branch budget is exhausted. The Ink renders as cheap interactive fiction: one speaker per knot, speaker/avatar tags for a panel renderer, and one persistent scene background. It writes the playable Ink artifact to `articles/ink/cotsc-praxis-socratic-sermon.ink` and receipts/progress under `.voidbot/artifacts/socratic-ink/` without touching Discord, Bifrost, live CTB state, or Face memory.
- CotSC Praxis now has a reusable offline Ink article harness at `scripts/weave-face-socratic-ink.mjs`. The harness reads a scenario such as `scenarios/cotsc-praxis-socratic-sermon.json`, assembles real repo Face prompts, projects each Face into an article-specific voice card, runs Face draft turns plus a custom article Interpreter, simulates scenario-local CTB initiative, offers named Face/Void choices, spends only the selected Face's initiative inside that branch, and lets Void-as-Socrates fold after a bounded Face discussion. Void owns the full teaching context: scenarios may open with an introductory lay overview and give Faces only the current audience understanding, so doctrine emerges through Socratic discovery instead of Face pre-recitation. The current article uses explicit reader-perspective slots for each selectable Face option, reuses still-appropriate unselected Face utterances, fills missing choices with new Face turns, and folds after a finite selected-path depth instead of letting globally emitted options spend the branch budget. The Ink renders as cheap interactive fiction: one speaker per knot, speaker/avatar tags for a panel renderer, and one persistent scene background. It writes the playable Ink artifact to `articles/ink/cotsc-praxis-socratic-sermon.ink` and receipts/progress under `.voidbot/artifacts/socratic-ink/` without touching Discord, Bifrost, live CTB state, or Face memory.
- Repo Face social life must respect jurisdiction. Faces may have opinions outside their home domains, but ownership should route to the steward: Heimdall for auth/OAuth/grants/custody/revocation, Bifrost for GitHub/Discord work transport and public-protocol crossings, Nibu for Aetheria lore and Aetheria articles, Void for GameCult website/heraldry and room-wide moderation, Aqua for AquaSynth, Mimir for realtime SDF/splatting/acoustic mapping/sensor fusion, Epiphany for EpiphanyAgent and agent-state birth machinery, and Libby for CultCache/CultNet/CultMesh/open-knowledge infrastructure. Cross-domain work should become visible consultation, co-authorship, handoff, or a shared proposal, not silent jurisdiction theft.
- Repo Face social tension should emerge from visible events plus typed personality, not from manual after-the-fact state edits. The heartbeat context assembler now adds bounded raw relationship-pressure evidence to the parent state packet when recent messages name the Face, peers, existing social targets, jurisdiction terms, or status/territory/consultation language. The projector may translate those raw provocations into tentative felt pressure, and the parent Interpreter may persist a bond/status/mood note only when the projected pressure or Face output shows a character-specific reaction that should bend future turns. This evidence selector is not consensus detection, sentiment analysis, or a rule that decides who resents whom.
- Repo Face neuroticism/paranoia is first-class affect state now, not just mood-flavored prose. `void.face_affect.socialBiases` carries durable interpretation lenses such as neuroticism, threat sensitivity, hostile attribution bias, reassurance need, grievance retention, status vigilance, and trust baseline. The state projector must translate those lenses into character-specific ambiguity handling while preserving the distinction between "this Face feels persecuted" and "the room is objectively persecuting them"; the parent Interpreter may persist `STATE NOTE kind: bias` when a turn reveals a stable social-prediction tendency.