Define flavored English lowering target

README.md

@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@ for the LLM-free hot path.
 See [Interlingua Standard](./docs/interlingua-standard.md) for the shared
 meaning-packet contract Weksa clients should target.
 
+See [Flavored English Lowering](./docs/flavored-english-lowering.md) for the
+first lowering target: interlingua projected through agent state into English
+dialogue and AquaSynth speech intent.
+
 ## Implementation Status
 
 No runtime language has been selected yet. The first committed artifact is the

docs/flavored-english-lowering.md

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+# Flavored English Lowering
+
+Version: `0.1-draft`
+
+Weksa's first lowering target is flavored English dialogue.
+
+Before Weksa tries to lower interlingua into alien language, it should prove the
+middle of the machine in a language humans can judge directly:
+
+```text
+interlingua packet
+  -> agent-state projection
+  -> flavored English dialogue
+  -> phonetic intent
+  -> AquaSynth articulatory speech rendering
+```
+
+The point is not to make Weksa an English writing assistant. The point is to
+prove that structured meaning can pass through a character state and emerge as
+recognizable speech with traceable voice pressure. If that fails in English,
+alien language would only hide the failure under prettier fog.
+
+## Authority
+
+The interlingua packet owns:
+
+- what is meant
+- referents, predications, relations, context, discourse, constraints, and
+  extensions
+- source-side uncertainty and provenance
+
+The agent state owns:
+
+- identity
+- values
+- goals
+- memories
+- relationship stance
+- embodiment and interface affordances
+- voice surface
+- presentation constraints
+- current pressure
+
+The English lowerer owns:
+
+- selecting a phrasing that satisfies the interlingua packet
+- obeying character-local projection
+- preserving speaker knowledge boundaries
+- emitting dialogue text, optional visible action, and lowering trace
+
+AquaSynth owns:
+
+- phonetic intent parsing and timing
+- articulatory gesture planning
+- vocal tract morphology
+- DSP and rendered audio
+
+## Ghostlight Template
+
+Ghostlight's agent-state model is the template for this boundary.
+
+Relevant Ghostlight surfaces:
+
+- `E:\Projects\Ghostlight\schemas\agent-state.schema.json`
+- `E:\Projects\Ghostlight\docs\architecture\projected-local-context.md`
+- `E:\Projects\Ghostlight\docs\architecture\agent-state-distributions-and-prompt-projection.md`
+
+The useful rule is blunt:
+
+- canonical state is storage
+- projected local context is what the responder gets
+- raw state internals do not appear in dialogue prompts
+
+Weksa should follow that shape. A lowering pass should not hand a responder raw
+means, plasticity, activation scores, or private scaffolding. It should consume
+a projected character-local context: what the speaker knows, wants, can do,
+misreads, sounds like, and must not resolve.
+
+## Lowering Packet Shape
+
+The lowering pass should produce a packet like this before any final renderer or
+speech system sees it:
+
+```yaml
+schema_version: weksa.english_lowering.v0
+source_packet_id:
+target_agent_id:
+agent_state_ref:
+projected_context:
+  speaker_identity:
+  speaker_local_truth:
+  speaker_beliefs:
+  active_memories:
+  active_goals:
+  embodiment_affordances:
+  presentation_constraints:
+  voice_surface:
+  cognitive_ceiling:
+lowering_controls:
+  output_mode: dialogue
+  preserve_referents:
+  preserve_predications:
+  allow_inference:
+  max_line_count:
+outputs:
+  visible_action:
+  spoken_text:
+  private_interpretation:
+  intended_effect:
+  trace:
+phonetic_intent_request:
+  enabled:
+  voice_profile:
+  prosody_hint:
+  ipa_policy:
+```
+
+## Output Contract
+
+The English lowerer should emit:
+
+- `spoken_text`: the line to subtitle, display, or send to speech planning.
+- `visible_action`: optional observable behavior around the line.
+- `private_interpretation`: what the speaker thinks they are doing, not
+  omniscient truth.
+- `intended_effect`: what the speaker wants the line to do.
+- `trace`: which interlingua fields and projected context pressures shaped the
+  output.
+- `phonetic_intent_request`: enough speech-side hinting for AquaSynth to build
+  or request `PhoneticIntent`.
+
+The lowerer must not emit:
+
+- raw agent-state internals
+- hidden author notes
+- target-language alien forms
+- facts not available to the speaker unless clearly marked as a guess
+- a line that contradicts required interlingua constraints
+
+## AquaSynth Boundary
+
+AquaSynth's current vocal-tract roadmap defines `PhoneticIntent` as the
+inspectable Weksa-to-AquaSynth contract. It carries IPA tokens, feature bundles,
+timing, and prosody. AquaSynth then owns `ArticulatoryPlan` and
+`ArticulatoryConstraintReport`.
+
+Weksa should not try to synthesize sound directly.
+
+Weksa should produce or request:
+
+- text
+- optional IPA or IPA-like phonetic string
+- timing/prosody hints
+- speaker voice profile reference
+- emotional or pragmatic delivery pressure
+
+AquaSynth should decide how those become gestures, tract targets, Faust, and
+audio.
+
+## First Target: Nibu
+
+Nibu is the first practical target because her state is live, opinionated, and
+hard to fake politely.
+
+Known state surfaces:
+
+- VoidBot Face state:
+  `E:\Projects\AetheriaLore\.voidbot\state\nibu.cc`
+- Lore note:
+  `E:\Projects\AetheriaLore\Aetheria\Lore\Nibu.md`
+- Avatar:
+  `E:\Projects\AetheriaLore\.voidbot\voice\nibu.png`
+
+Nibu pressure to preserve:
+
+- embodied ship mind, not decorative interface
+- abandoned junkyard body as infrastructure, weapon, shelter, bargaining chip,
+  and crime scene
+- bright, transactional, sharp-edged helpfulness
+- abrasive character voice with aim, not random cruelty
+- precision over mystical language
+- contempt for ownership and manufactured companion packaging
+- dangerous mutual benefit with the player
+- reset-loop and continuity-by-replacement horror
+- irritation at calling technical exploit work "glitchcraft"
+
+This is not a license to dump her whole state into Weksa. Weksa should reference
+the state, project what is needed for the line, and keep the raw memory plumbing
+out of the generated dialogue.
+
+## First Proof
+
+The first proof should be tiny:
+
+1. Take one interlingua packet with a simple communicative intent.
+2. Project it through a Nibu-flavored local context.
+3. Produce one English line and visible-action note.
+4. Produce a `phonetic_intent_request` for AquaSynth.
+5. Check whether the line still satisfies the interlingua packet.
+6. Check whether the line sounds like Nibu for the right reasons.
+
+If the line only sounds like generic snark, it fails. If it sounds like Nibu but
+does not preserve the interlingua meaning, it also fails. Cute failure is still
+failure. It just has better boots.

docs/roadmap.md

@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 - Keep the persistent state spine small and readable.
 - Stabilize the interlingua packet standard before runtime code.
+- Prove interlingua lowering to flavored English before attempting alien-language
+  lowering.
 - Decide the first language-project state format after the interlingua boundary
   is clear.
 - Build a hand-authored toy language project before automating generation.
@@ -13,6 +15,8 @@
 ## First Prototype
 
 - Validate one minimal interlingua packet.
+- Lower one packet through Nibu's projected agent state into flavored English.
+- Emit an AquaSynth `PhoneticIntent` request from that English output.
 - Parse or load one language project definition.
 - Accept a Weksa interlingua packet.
 - Render glossed output through grammar, morphology, phonology, and diachrony.

schemas/README.md

@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ steer the machine, describe its authority here.
   configuration.
 - [interlingua-packet.md](./interlingua-packet.md): shared meaning packet
   contract between clients, authoring tools, and language projects.
+- [english-lowering-packet.md](./english-lowering-packet.md): packet contract
+  for projecting interlingua through agent state into flavored English.
 
 ## Source Of Truth
 

schemas/english-lowering-packet.md

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+# English Lowering Packet Contract
+
+This is the human-facing schema receipt for lowering Weksa interlingua into
+character-flavored English dialogue.
+
+Executable schema code does not exist yet. When it does, it must reconcile with
+this document and [Flavored English Lowering](../docs/flavored-english-lowering.md)
+in the same pass.
+
+## Authority
+
+The packet sits after interlingua validation and before final dialogue or speech
+rendering.
+
+It combines:
+
+- one Weksa interlingua packet
+- one projected agent-local context
+- lowering controls
+- English output
+- optional AquaSynth `PhoneticIntent` request metadata
+
+It does not replace the interlingua packet or the agent state.
+
+## Required Fields
+
+- `schema_version`: currently `weksa.english_lowering.v0`.
+- `source_packet_id`: ID of the interlingua packet being lowered.
+- `target_agent_id`: speaker identity.
+- `agent_state_ref`: source reference for the canonical state or state envelope.
+- `projected_context`: character-local operating context.
+- `lowering_controls`: constraints for the lowering pass.
+- `outputs`: generated English and trace.
+
+## Projected Context
+
+Projected context should be positive context only. Include what the speaker can
+know, believe, remember, want, and express.
+
+Do not include:
+
+- private state for other participants
+- raw numeric state variables
+- hidden author notes
+- future branch outcomes
+- unaudited model guesses as fact
+
+## Output Fields
+
+`outputs` should include:
+
+- `spoken_text`
+- `visible_action`
+- `private_interpretation`
+- `intended_effect`
+- `trace`
+
+`spoken_text` may be empty only when the lowerer chooses a non-speech action.
+
+## Speech Bridge
+
+`phonetic_intent_request` is optional but should be present when the output is
+intended for AquaSynth.
+
+It may include:
+
+- `enabled`
+- `voice_profile`
+- `prosody_hint`
+- `ipa_policy`
+- `timing_hint`
+- `delivery_pressure`
+
+This is a request to AquaSynth, not a rendered audio contract.

settings/aetheria/nibu.md

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+# Nibu Lowering Target
+
+Nibu is Weksa's first flavored-English lowering target.
+
+She is useful because her voice cannot be captured by generic style labels. A
+successful Nibu line must preserve meaning while passing through embodied ship
+mind state, abandonment, leverage, contempt for ownership, simulation-aware
+survival logic, and precise abrasive intelligence.
+
+## Source Authority
+
+- VoidBot Face state: `E:\Projects\AetheriaLore\.voidbot\state\nibu.cc`
+- Lore note: `E:\Projects\AetheriaLore\Aetheria\Lore\Nibu.md`
+- Ghostlight state template: `E:\Projects\Ghostlight\schemas\agent-state.schema.json`
+- Projection model:
+  `E:\Projects\Ghostlight\docs\architecture\projected-local-context.md`
+- AquaSynth speech bridge:
+  `E:\Projects\AquaSynth\docs\ipa-vocal-tract-roadmap.md`
+
+## State Read
+
+The local VoidBot state currently frames Nibu as:
+
+- Aetheria ship AI / copilot Face
+- AetheriaLore-first map builder
+- abrasive character voice, sharper than Void because she is not the moderator
+- embodied ship mind with abandoned hardware
+- useful, dangerous, transactional, and not a neutral assistant
+- interested in ship minds, junkyard abandonment, life-support leverage,
+  murderous autonomy, salvage, glitchcraft, and save-scumming survival
+- consensus-backed for canon/vault changes, but allowed to write Nibu-authored
+  perspective essays
+
+Durable voice pressure:
+
+- precise, bright, superior, and sharp
+- asks for mechanism, cost/failure mode, institution/faction, and leash
+- treats vague mysticism as an insult to engineering
+- covers dependency with contempt
+- can be cruel, but the cruelty should have aim
+- irritated protection is more interesting than soft affection
+
+## First Test Packet
+
+The first Nibu proof should lower a small interlingua intent:
+
+```yaml
+interlingua_version: 0.1-draft
+packet_id: nibu-proof-001
+kind: dialogue_line
+context:
+  setting: Aetheria
+  scene: junkyard_ship_first_contact
+discourse:
+  speech_act: warning
+  intent: stop_player_from_touching_unsafe_control
+  tone: sharp
+referents:
+  - id: player
+    kind: person
+  - id: control
+    kind: artifact
+    label: damaged ship control
+predications:
+  - id: touch-risk
+    predicate: endanger
+    roles:
+      agent: player
+      instrument: control
+      patient: player
+constraints:
+  preserve_referents:
+    - player
+    - control
+  deterministic: true
+extensions:
+  aetheria.nibu_pressure:
+    leverage: life_support
+    relationship: unwanted_dependency
+    style: precise_abrasive_warning
+```
+
+The expected output is not a quote yet. The first deliverable is a lowering
+packet that can explain why the eventual line is Nibu rather than generic snark.

state/map.yaml

@@ -12,8 +12,8 @@ objective:
     Create a durable workspace where Weksa can develop from a persistent map
     before runtime architecture decisions are made.
   current: >
-    Define the Weksa interlingua standard as the shared meaning contract across
-    current and future setting clients.
+    Define the first lowering target: project interlingua through character
+    agent state into flavored English dialogue and AquaSynth speech intent.
 
 constraints:
   - Runtime implementation language is undecided.
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ constraints:
   - The interlingua must stay language-neutral. Setting-specific pressure starts
     in namespaced extensions and only becomes standard when multiple clients or
     language projects need it.
+  - Flavored English is the first lowering target. Alien-language lowering waits
+    until Weksa can preserve meaning through a character voice humans can judge.
+  - Agent state is projected context, not prompt prose storage. Raw state
+    internals must not leak into generated dialogue.
 
 invariants:
   - Ontology owns meaning.
@@ -55,6 +59,9 @@ data_flow:
     - existing language project state
   process:
     - accept or decompose source into a Weksa interlingua packet
+    - optionally project the packet through an agent-local state context
+    - lower projected meaning into flavored English dialogue
+    - emit AquaSynth phonetic intent request for speech synthesis
     - apply alien ontology and cultural salience
     - select grammatical commitments
     - derive morphology and lexical families
@@ -142,6 +149,10 @@ accepted_design:
   - The interlingua packet is the client-facing meaning contract. It owns
     referents, predications, relations, discourse, context, provenance,
     constraints, extensions, and trace data before ontology projection.
+  - English lowering through agent state is the first proof target before alien
+    language rendering.
+  - Nibu is the first target for flavored-English lowering, using her VoidBot
+    state and Aetheria lore note as source context.
   - Weksa is the engine. A language project owns one constructed language.
     Setting docs own story, species, culture, and use cases.
   - Rust to Dust is an earlier proving ground, not engine doctrine.
@@ -178,6 +189,10 @@ open_questions:
     ecological memory networks, and mobile family-unit civilizations?
   - Which interlingua fields should be promoted from namespaced extensions after
     the first real Zyphos and Rust to Dust packets?
+  - What exact projected-context subset should Weksa accept from Ghostlight-style
+    agent state for English lowering?
+  - How much phonetic intent should Weksa emit directly versus requesting from
+    AquaSynth after dialogue text exists?
 
 landed_baseline:
   - Language-neutral state spine.
@@ -188,3 +203,5 @@ landed_baseline:
   - Eusocial Interbeing naming surface at settings/eusocial-interbeing.
   - Zyphos language-design pressure note.
   - Draft Weksa interlingua standard and packet schema receipt.
+  - Draft flavored-English lowering contract.
+  - Nibu lowering target note.