diff --git a/docs/verse-service-contract.md b/docs/verse-service-contract.md
index 53e643e..4784721 100644
--- a/docs/verse-service-contract.md
+++ b/docs/verse-service-contract.md
@@ -59,6 +59,29 @@ The first pass should export these as a `.cc` witness from the current
 single-process manager. A later pass can decide whether the typed store becomes
 the primary queue owner.
 
+The next live cut is not speculative anymore. The Python CultLib lane already
+exists in `E:\Projects\CultLib\packages\cultcache-py`, including `cultcache_py`
+for `.cc` persistence and `cultnet_py` for CultNet/RUDP transport. Repixelizer
+needs to wire that runtime into the hosted GUI process so the live owner can:
+
+- write a daemon-owned `.cc` witness from `GuiJobManager`
+- publish daemon health to Idunn over CultNet/RUDP
+- advertise command-boundary and transport-profile state from the runtime
+- keep `/api/health`, `/api/config`, nginx, and systemd as compatibility
+  witnesses instead of the keepalive truth
+
+## Current Compatibility Boundary
+
+Today Yggdrasil still verifies Repixelizer through:
+
+- `repixelizer-gui.service`
+- `GET /api/health`
+- `GET /api/config`
+- nginx host-routed `/app/` and `/api/health`
+
+Those checks prove deployment and public routing. They do not satisfy the daemon
+truth contract Idunn expects.
+
 ## Eve Surface Target
 
 Repixelizer should publish an Eve GUI/TUI DSL product surface with these panels
@@ -118,16 +141,22 @@ The hosted GUI serves the live projection at `/eve/surface`. It reads
 2. Publish a read-only `gamecult.eve.provider_advertisement.v1` fixture/export
    that names those shapes and the reserved `.cc` witness path.
 3. Add a read-only export from the current `gui.py` queue/job manager into a
-   `.cc` witness.
-4. Publish the witness through CultMesh.
-5. Add an Eve DSL provider over the witness and existing health/config routes.
+   daemon-owned `.cc` witness using `cultcache-py`.
+4. Publish Repixelizer daemon health to Idunn over CultNet/RUDP from the live
+   GUI process using `cultnet_py`, with a dedicated Repixelizer health contract.
+5. Publish runtime-owned command-boundary and transport-profile state beside
+   the witness so deploy/restart authority is typed instead of implicit ops lore.
+6. Update the Yggdrasil deploy lane to ship the required CultLib Python package
+   snapshot with the app artifact and install it before the Repixelizer package.
+7. Publish the witness through CultMesh.
+8. Add an Eve DSL provider over the witness and existing health/config routes.
    First read-only HTTP projection is live at `/eve/surface`.
-6. Translate the existing browser GUI style and tool behavior into Eve style
+9. Translate the existing browser GUI style and tool behavior into Eve style
    tokens, canvas primitives, and command descriptors.
-7. Lower the current website from the Eve surface instead of treating it as the
+10. Lower the current website from the Eve surface instead of treating it as the
    product UI owner.
-8. Register the surface with Odin.
-9. Only after the witness is stable, decide whether queue ownership should move
+11. Register the surface with Odin.
+12. Only after the witness is stable, decide whether queue ownership should move
    from in-process memory into the typed store.
 
 The invariant: Heimdall owns shared auth; Repixelizer owns jobs and artifacts.
diff --git a/state/map.yaml b/state/map.yaml
index 071dafc..51702a0 100644
--- a/state/map.yaml
+++ b/state/map.yaml
@@ -122,8 +122,16 @@ current_status:
     plus stronger blend is the current motion-geometry basin. It did not fully
     retune signal knobs around that basin.
   next_action: >
-    Ship the hosted experiment with the current usable solver config so
-    Repixelizer stops blocking Heimdall and StreamPixels. Later tuning should
-    start from `docs/solver-tuning-lessons-2026-04-29.md`: sweep signal knobs
-    around `radius=0.215, blend=0.24` first, then movement/coherence knobs, then
+    Repixelizer is now the next Idunn transport cut on Yggdrasil. Keep the
+    current solver config stable, but move daemon truth out of
+    `repixelizer-gui.service` plus `/api/health` / `/api/config` compatibility
+    checks by wiring the existing Python CultLib lane
+    (`E:\Projects\CultLib\packages\cultcache-py`) into the live GUI runtime.
+    The next implementation pass should add a daemon-owned `.cc` witness export
+    from `GuiJobManager`, publish Repixelizer daemon health to Idunn over
+    CultNet/RUDP, publish runtime-owned command-boundary and transport-profile
+    state, and teach the Yggdrasil deploy lane to ship the CultLib Python
+    snapshot alongside the app artifact. Later tuning should start from
+    `docs/solver-tuning-lessons-2026-04-29.md`: sweep signal knobs around
+    `radius=0.215, blend=0.24` first, then movement/coherence knobs, then
     combinations, and only then run final full-corpus validation.