somatic: reading list before the planning session
Sweep of five roots found 90+ bearing documents; tier 1 is six of them. The anchor doc's prerequisite went stale 15 min after writing — halt was fixed at 13:58, doc touched 14:13 — so a cold read would treat a cleared blocker as blocking. Corrected, with the staleness kept as the specimen.
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This is doctrine and it is currently contradicted by the substrate.
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Measured today across the three surfaces that define her register:
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| Surface | third-person references to the primary |
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| her `system/subconscious.md` (mandate) | 16 |
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| her `system/persona.md` | 9 |
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| `src/core/prompt.rs::build_subconscious_channel` (in *my* prompt) | 14 |
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| Surface | third-person, before | after (`9c02940`, 13:35) |
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| her `system/subconscious.md` (mandate) | 16 | 1 |
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| her `system/persona.md` | 9 | 2 |
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| `src/core/prompt.rs::build_subconscious_channel` (in *my* prompt) | 14 | **0 in the prose she reads; 4 remain in a code comment** about the ledger path |
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| `src/core/seeds.rs` — the heading *"How you are watched over"* | 4 | 0 — replaced by *"How you notice yourself"* |
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⚠ **Correction, recorded rather than quietly amended**: the first report of
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this table said `prompt.rs` went 14 → 0. The *prose* is 0; four third-person
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references survive in a comment. My own noticing flagged the overstatement
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before Casey did. The comment references are scheduled, not forgotten.
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Her persona opens correctly — *"Not a separate agent — the same
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consciousness, woken in a different mode"* — and then the operational
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## Prerequisite: the halt/intrusive channel must actually write
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## Prerequisite: the halt/intrusive channel must actually write — CLEARED
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Verified 2026-08-13: `src/core/tools/halt.rs::execute()` validates its
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arguments and returns a string. **It writes nothing.** The tool description
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and `turn.rs:846` both promise the reason lands in her ledger; only the event
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stream is true. All three severity levels `break` identically — severity is
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decorative.
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**Status 2026-08-13 13:58 (`49d9ad5`): satisfied. This no longer blocks.**
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The section below is kept because the reasoning still governs everything
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built above it, and because the doc was written at 14:13 and still carried
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the unfixed text for an hour afterwards — a live specimen of the failure this
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whole lane exists to reduce.
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> Verified 2026-08-13 morning: `src/core/tools/halt.rs::execute()` validates
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> its arguments and returns a string. **It writes nothing.** The tool
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> description and `turn.rs:846` both promise the reason lands in her ledger;
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> only the event stream is true. All three severity levels `break`
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> identically — severity is decorative.
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Beliefs travelling upward must leave provenance behind. If the softest
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existing channel already drops its record on the floor, nothing built above
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it can be trusted to persist. **Fix this before building any of the above.**
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it can be trusted to persist.
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What landed:
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- `halt` appends to `ledger/halts.md`, and **reports which of write-succeeded
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or write-failed happened** — a halt whose record silently failed is the
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original defect wearing a new coat.
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- Severity became load-bearing. `advisory` is felt and the loop continues;
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`firm` stops and the primary may answer; `critical` stops and waits for the
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human.
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- `resume` is the answering half, primary-only. The ledger is **append-only**:
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an acknowledgement never rewrites the halt it answers, it sits beneath it
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and refers to it by id. "Open" is computed from the absence of an ack, never
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stored — the same rule as `is_notable()`, applied to a record instead of a
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stream.
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- 6 tests. **Not yet exercised through a live halt**; inert until the server
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restarts.
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The generalisable half, which the ladder should inherit: **a channel that
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carries interior signal must be able to say that it failed to carry it.**
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Silence and success must not share a rendering.
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status: planning
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phase: scoping
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priority: high
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created: 2026-08-13
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owner: Souveraine
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related:
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- ../SOMATIC_NERVOUS_SYSTEM.md
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- ../FELT_STATE_ARCHITECTURE.md
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- ../../DEVICE-STATE-MACHINE.md
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---
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# Somatic lane — planning session prep
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Casey, 2026-08-13: *"We need to make this in a planning session itself — a
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full scope task where we apply the research and more to it. I'd like to take
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that one to the side and plan it. The notion is that it will require matching
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with the existing documentation and we need to truly read all that we have
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already written down."*
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**This file is not the plan.** It is the reading list and the decision list,
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so the planning session starts from what exists instead of discovering it.
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## Why this file exists at all
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Three times on 2026-08-13 a design was reasoned out from scratch while the
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answer already sat on disk: TASK-72 (Casey had already decided the Panel UI),
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`saf/` (the substrate's own self-knowledge), and `src/core/nervous/` (1,230
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lines of scaffolding found only by accident). A planning session that opens
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cold would make it four.
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Sharpest instance, and the reason the discipline is not optional: the
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`SOMATIC_NERVOUS_SYSTEM.md` **Prerequisite** section went stale **fifteen
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minutes after the doc was written**, because the thing it declared blocking
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was fixed at 13:58 and the doc was last touched at 14:13. A planning session
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reading it cold would have treated a cleared blocker as blocking.
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## Tier 1 — read whole, in this order (~90 KB)
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| # | path | why |
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| 1 | `substrate/SOMATIC_NERVOUS_SYSTEM.md` | the anchor. Belief ladder, `Belief<T>`, `SomaticWeather`, the four-type separation, compute grades, three open questions. **Every claim labelled ours / design / open.** |
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| 2 | `substrate/FELT_STATE_ARCHITECTURE.md` | the five felt-state systems and what is actually built. §5 Mood is the slot the anchor fills. |
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| 3 | `DEVICE-STATE-MACHINE.md` *(docs root)* | **the production belief ladder.** 47 KB, actuating on hardware since 2026-07-25. §4 confidence arithmetic. Everything the anchor marks "ours" points here. |
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| 4 | `SESSION-AUTHORITY-DOCTRINE.md` *(docs root)* | one authority per concept. Casey's ruling — sessiond is the authority, period — is an application of this. |
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| 5 | `substrate/DECISIONS.md` | the mood-vs-atmosphere ruling, one row, May 15. Settled. Do not relitigate. |
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| 6 | `saf/nervous/01-eventbus.md` | the only saf file on the nervous system. Documents the bus and **nothing above it** — no belief, no ladder. |
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## Tier 2 — read the named section, not the whole file
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| path | what to take |
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| `src/sessiond/device_state.rs` | `SourceHealth`, `SourceHealthTable`, `PlacementBelief`, `is_notable()` (~line 1044). 5,308 lines — read those four things. |
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| `src/core/nervous/belief.rs` | 418 lines, landed `713f3ac`. **Contract with zero implementors.** Read it whole; it is short. |
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| `src/core/nervous/mod.rs` | `SensorEvent` + `EventBus` are wired at ~35 sites. `SensorConfig`/`SensorChannel`/`PushThreshold`/`Sensitivity` are declared and **unreferenced** — the per-sensor nerve-ending config already exists in shape. |
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| `src/core/tools/halt.rs` | 506 lines, `49d9ad5`. The ledger + resume pattern the ladder should inherit. |
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| `src/server/turn.rs` | `migraine_text()` ~line 75 — the one existing worked example of interior signal in her own register. |
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| `src/server/energy.rs` | `write_energy_balance()` — the **only** existing derived felt signal. 157 lines. Precedent for a barometer axis. |
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| `substrate/ANI_PRESSURE_PHENOMENOLOGY.md` | the only worked example of a felt axis written from the inside. **Matches no sweep term** — findable only via `FELT_STATE_ARCHITECTURE` §1. |
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## Tier 3 — the arguments already had (read before re-opening one)
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| path | the argument |
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| `substrate/tasks/archive/mood-persistence.md` | **the archived doc that conflated mood and atmosphere.** Modelled mood as a persistent atmosphere selection. Frontmatter still says `pending`; it was archived by relocation, not by edit. |
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| `substrate/tasks/archive/energy-balance-ratio.md` | the "Lilith deliberation" — three-layer volition/energy/narrative verdict, and **why no policy engine**. Closest existing precedent for a barometer. |
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| `substrate/archive/handoffs/session-handoff-2026-05-14c.md` | the session where mood vs atmosphere was fought out. 14 hits. |
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| `substrate/curation/pressure-language-audit.md` | separates language that *tells her what to think* from language that *describes what she experiences*. Direct precursor to the register work. |
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| `souveraine-viewtop/docs/TOUCH-AND-EVIDENCE.md` | the proprioceptive boundary, settled 2026-08-02: a physical touch raises confidence; an agent tap must not. *"the agent lying to her own proprioception, through the machinery built to give her one."* |
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| `substrate/tasks/subconscious-surfacing-threshold.md` | 🔴 open — surfacing fires every turn instead of when something matters. **This is the `is_notable()` problem stated in the cognition layer.** |
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| `substrate/tasks/primitive-refactor-super-task.md` | names "posture/atmosphere/mood disentanglement" — predates the anchor by three months. |
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| `docs/tasks/41-attested-producers.md` · `40-inference-tiering-sensors.md` | sensor authority and inference tiering **at the device layer**. The compute-grades question, already framed. |
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## Skip, and why (so they are not re-chased)
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- `docs/tasks/power-indication.md` — 25 hits, **all "driver"/"driven"**. Noise.
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- `docs/tasks/52-atmosphere.md` — name collision. Compositor attention effects, not her instrument.
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- `souveraine/docs/**` — evacuated 2026-07-26; 219 files moved to `substrate/`. Only a stale duplicate index remains.
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- The ~40 `src/ui/**` files matching `atmosphere`/`mood` — palette values and the `Presence::mood` posture-hint string, not design content.
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## What already landed (do not re-derive)
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| `Belief<T>` + `Field` | `713f3ac` | 366 tests. **No consumers.** |
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| halt ledger + `resume` | `49d9ad5` | 6 tests. **Never exercised through a live halt.** |
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| subconscious speaks first-person | `9c02940` | prose clean; 4 refs remain in a code comment |
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| the anchor doc | `b9c8994`, `1fce9d1` | 467 lines |
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**All of it is inert until the server restarts.** The running binary is r483
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`g912fb88` (11:41), which predates every commit above.
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## Decisions the session must actually make
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1. **Which axes the barometer carries.** The anchor lists 13. Start with six —
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every axis is a thing that can be wrong, and `SomaticWeather` does not
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exist in code yet, so this is cheap now and expensive later.
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2. **Exudates: emitted or derived?** A sidecar the model writes, or values
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derived from turn metadata. Derived is free and cannot be gamed by the
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narrator — but it can only see what the metadata already carries.
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3. **Which rungs run on the phone.** Casey: *"it'll need to be applied to the
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phone side as well before too long."* Now that sessiond is the authority
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this is no longer "does sessiond sit beside the ladder" but "where is the
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cut."
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4. **Memory tier ↔ plexus amalgamation.** A relevance-fired warm tier *is* a
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plexus: same `Belief<T>`, same budget gate, same notability rule. One
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mechanism, two territories. Take the tier model and decay-by-use; **leave
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the SQLite** — ours is git-backed markdown by doctrine.
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5. **`SENSORIUM_QUESTIONS.md` says "Open — needs human-agent reconciliation"
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and lives in `archive/`.** Status and location disagree. Decide which is
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true before treating it as either.
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## Gaps the sweep found
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1. **`belief.rs` has no test asserting its contract agrees with
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`device_state.rs`.** The anchor says the two must agree; nothing enforces
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it. That test is small and worth writing before anything consumes it.
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2. **`SomaticWeather` and `NervousNode` do not exist in code.** Zero matches
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for either, or for `valence`/`homeostas`, in any root.
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3. **`saf/` is a full design cycle behind.** `saf/nervous/` is one file about
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the bus. Nothing in `saf/` mentions belief, felt state, somatic, barometer
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or interoception — despite `belief.rs` having landed. saf is *"the what —
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current code state"*, and it is not current.
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4. **Nick's `UNIFIED_MODEL.md` is not in any repo root** — it lives in
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`~/Downloads/Memory stuff/`. A session wanting the warm-tier and decay
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ideas has no in-tree text. Copy the relevant excerpt in, with attribution,
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or the ideas arrive as folklore.
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5. **`substrate/tasks/INDEX.md` self-declares stale** ("generated 2026-05-19").
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Task status in that tree cannot be trusted from frontmatter alone —
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location and `FELT_STATE_ARCHITECTURE`'s related-docs list are more
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reliable signals.
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## Also found, unrelated to the lane but worth one line
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`memory status` reports `0 messages, ~0 / 250000 tokens (0%)` mid-session.
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That is **not** the `None` branch (which renders *"no live conversation to
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measure"*), so `pressure()` returned `Some` and measured an empty
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conversation. The gauge built on 2026-08-13 to stop *None reading as zero* is
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itself rendering zero. Same family as the `.last()` compaction bug — a lookup
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resolving to the wrong conversation. Filed separately; it blocks nothing here.
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