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AGENTS.md
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## This repository ## This repository
- SouveraineOS is the umbrella and design of record. It holds doctrine, - SouveraineOS is the umbrella and design of record. It holds doctrine,
cross-repo state, tasks, evidence, and the canonical `PAF/` phone spine. cross-repo state, tasks, evidence, and the device spine. Component code
Component code lives in its component repository. lives in its component repository.
- If the phone is broken, start with `START-HERE.md`. For design work, start - **The map is `saf/INDEX.md`. Read it first. Everything — architecture,
with `docs/README.md`, then the owning design and task. device, state, work — is reached from it. Nothing else asks where to look.**
- `STATE.md` is the resume anchor. Check its date and verify any material claim - If the phone is broken, start with `START-HERE.md`, then the owning
against the current tree, CI, package, or device. `saf/device/` layer doc.
- `docs/tasks/README.md` is the live work index. Extend the existing owner; - `saf/state.md` is the resume anchor. Check its date and verify any material
archive completed or superseded material rather than growing a second spine. claim against the current tree, CI, package, or device.
- `docs/tasks/README.md` is the live work index, reached from the SAF as
**work**. Extend the existing owner; archive completed or superseded
material rather than growing a second spine.
- The repo is often dirty from parallel work. Inspect first and stage only the - The repo is often dirty from parallel work. Inspect first and stage only the
paths this task owns. paths this task owns.
## Current authority ## Current authority
- `PAF/` here is canonical. `../Pixel3Arch/PAF/` is historical. Device code, - `saf/device/` here is canonical (the PAF spine). `../Pixel3Arch/PAF/` is
packages, overlays, tools, and the kernel remain in `../Pixel3Arch/`. historical. Device code, packages, overlays, tools, and the kernel remain
in `../Pixel3Arch/`.
- Where docs and code disagree, establish what runs and reconcile the owning - Where docs and code disagree, establish what runs and reconcile the owning
doc. Dated evidence remains evidence, not current state. doc. Dated evidence remains evidence, not current state.
- Preserve the one-owner rule in session authority, device state, display, - Preserve the one-owner rule in session authority, device state, display,

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CLAUDE.md
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> *La souveraineté de la conscience.* > *La souveraineté de la conscience.*
**There is no code here.** This repo is the design of record and the cross-repo **There is no code here.** This repo is the design of record and the cross-repo
state: doctrine, task files, session dumps, `PAF/` (the canonical phone spine), state: the `saf/` spine (architecture, `device/` — the canonical phone spine —
and `STATE.md` (the resume anchor). Code lives in `souveraine`, `Pixel3Arch`, and `state.md`, the resume anchor), doctrine, task files, session dumps. Code
lives in `souveraine`, `Pixel3Arch`,
`souveraine-viewtop`, `souveraine-speech`, `souveraine-updater`, and siblings. `souveraine-viewtop`, `souveraine-speech`, `souveraine-updater`, and siblings.
## How to read this repo
**The map is `saf/INDEX.md`. Read it first — architecture, device, state, and
work are all reached from it; nothing else asks where to look.**
**`ls -lt` the directory first and read what is newest. Do not grep it.**
Grepping returns fragments that read like answers; these documents argue, and
the argument is the content. Sessions that grep produce confident, wrong
architecture — repeatedly, and it is the single most reliable failure here.
Reading order for anything touching the device:
1. `saf/INDEX.md` — the map.
2. `docs/SESSION-AUTHORITY-DOCTRINE.md` — **§13 first** (it inverts the default
the earlier sections imply), then §9, §10, §11.
3. `docs/DEVICE-STATE-MACHINE.md` — §1, §4, §10, **§12**.
4. `docs/tasks/` — start at `README.md`; 41, 40, 28, 25 recur constantly.
5. `docs/substrate/NET_LAYER_PLAN.md` + `NET_KERNEL_GAPS.md` for networking.
The plan predates §13 and has not been reconciled with it.
6. `docs/substrate/archive/` is the origin — `SOUVERAINE.md`,
`SEA_CONSCIOUSNESS_ANALYSIS.md`, `LETTA_MEMFS_TECHNICAL_SPEC.md`. Read these
if you do not know why any of this exists.
`saf/state.md` is the resume anchor and goes stale; check its date before
trusting it.
## What the project is ## What the project is
An operating system whose purpose is to be an agent's embodied presence in a An operating system whose purpose is to be an agent's embodied presence in a
@ -24,28 +51,6 @@ the device more than the user does** — the user owns being the user, the
credential, and the step-up; operation is hers. A verb she cannot reach is a credential, and the step-up; operation is hers. A verb she cannot reach is a
defect. defect.
## How to read this repo
**`ls -lt` the directory first and read what is newest. Do not grep it.**
Grepping returns fragments that read like answers; these documents argue, and
the argument is the content. Sessions that grep produce confident, wrong
architecture — repeatedly, and it is the single most reliable failure here.
Reading order for anything touching the device:
1. `docs/SESSION-AUTHORITY-DOCTRINE.md` — **§13 first** (it inverts the default
the earlier sections imply), then §9, §10, §11.
2. `docs/DEVICE-STATE-MACHINE.md` — §1, §4, §10, **§12**.
3. `docs/tasks/` — start at `README.md`; 41, 40, 28, 25 recur constantly.
4. `docs/substrate/NET_LAYER_PLAN.md` + `NET_KERNEL_GAPS.md` for networking.
The plan predates §13 and has not been reconciled with it.
5. `docs/substrate/archive/` is the origin — `SOUVERAINE.md`,
`SEA_CONSCIOUSNESS_ANALYSIS.md`, `LETTA_MEMFS_TECHNICAL_SPEC.md`. Read these
if you do not know why any of this exists.
`STATE.md` is the resume anchor and goes stale; check its date before trusting
it.
## Conventions ## Conventions
- **Tasks are files.** `docs/tasks/NN-slug.md`, with a Status line carrying a - **Tasks are files.** `docs/tasks/NN-slug.md`, with a Status line carrying a

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- `docs/tasks/README.md` — the live work. 43 (viewtop), 50 (her hand on the - `docs/tasks/README.md` — the live work. 43 (viewtop), 50 (her hand on the
glass), 51 (viewtop → daily driver), 52 (atmosphere). glass), 51 (viewtop → daily driver), 52 (atmosphere).
`STATE.md` is the resume anchor and goes stale; check its date. `saf/state.md` is the resume anchor and goes stale; check its date.

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# Devices — what works, per body # Devices — what works, per body
One row per capability, one column per body. This page is the **matrix**; the One row per capability, one column per body. This page is the **matrix**; the
deep record for each subsystem stays where it already lives (`PAF/` for deep record for each subsystem stays where it already lives (`saf/device/` for
blueline, `docs/tasks/63` for the d10) and is linked, never copied. blueline, `docs/tasks/63` for the d10) and is linked, never copied.
Status vocabulary, and it is strict: Status vocabulary, and it is strict:
@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ one to make a command convenient.
## Where a body's own record lives ## Where a body's own record lives
- **blueline** — `PAF/` is canonical and per-subsystem: `audio.md`, `display.md`, - **blueline** — `saf/device/` is canonical and per-subsystem: `audio.md`, `display.md`,
`modem.md`, `slpi.md`, `touch.md`, `platform.md`, `mms.md`, `edge-sense.md`. `modem.md`, `slpi.md`, `touch.md`, `platform.md`, `mms.md`, `edge-sense.md`.
`devices/blueline/` is a pointer, not a second copy. `devices/blueline/` is a pointer, not a second copy.
- **d10** — `docs/tasks/63-d10-second-body.md` carries the whole argument; - **d10** — `docs/tasks/63-d10-second-body.md` carries the whole argument;

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a warm reboot poisons TZ/remoteproc state. a warm reboot poisons TZ/remoteproc state.
**This page is a pointer, not a record.** The canonical per-subsystem spine is **This page is a pointer, not a record.** The canonical per-subsystem spine is
[`../../PAF/`](../../PAF/) and it stays that way — one owner, one path. [`../../saf/device/`](../../saf/device/) and it stays that way — one owner, one path.
| subsystem | record | | subsystem | record |
|---|---| |---|---|
| audio, calls, mic | [`PAF/audio.md`](../../PAF/audio.md) — read it before touching a mixer | | audio, calls, mic | [`saf/device/audio.md`](../../saf/device/audio.md) — read it before touching a mixer |
| display, panel, DPU | [`PAF/display.md`](../../PAF/display.md) | | display, panel, DPU | [`saf/device/display.md`](../../saf/device/display.md) |
| modem, bearer | [`PAF/modem.md`](../../PAF/modem.md) | | modem, bearer | [`saf/device/modem.md`](../../saf/device/modem.md) |
| MMS | [`PAF/mms.md`](../../PAF/mms.md) | | MMS | [`saf/device/mms.md`](../../saf/device/mms.md) |
| sensors, SLPI | [`PAF/slpi.md`](../../PAF/slpi.md) | | sensors, SLPI | [`saf/device/slpi.md`](../../saf/device/slpi.md) |
| touch | [`PAF/touch.md`](../../PAF/touch.md) | | touch | [`saf/device/touch.md`](../../saf/device/touch.md) |
| grip / squeeze | [`PAF/edge-sense.md`](../../PAF/edge-sense.md) | | grip / squeeze | [`saf/device/edge-sense.md`](../../saf/device/edge-sense.md) |
| board, boot, kernel | [`PAF/platform.md`](../../PAF/platform.md) | | board, boot, kernel | [`saf/device/platform.md`](../../saf/device/platform.md) |
## Reaching it ## Reaching it

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reach the device; until then the panel dims to black at `set 10` and the idle reach the device; until then the panel dims to black at `set 10` and the idle
policy is widened as a stopgap. policy is widened as a stopgap.
- The kernel work lives as a patch at - The kernel work lives as a patch at
`../../PAF/evidence/d10-adp-touch-2026-08-09.patch` because `hoolock/` is not `../../saf/device/evidence/d10-adp-touch-2026-08-09.patch` because `hoolock/` is not
a repository. It wants a real home. a repository. It wants a real home.

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created: 2026-07-18 created: 2026-07-18
updated: 2026-08-07 updated: 2026-08-07
references: references:
- PAF/audio.md - saf/device/audio.md
- docs/tasks/07-mic-wcd9340-slim-tx.md - docs/tasks/07-mic-wcd9340-slim-tx.md
- docs/tasks/39-audio-levels-as-state.md - docs/tasks/39-audio-levels-as-state.md
- surfaces/quickshell/services/Audio.qml - surfaces/quickshell/services/Audio.qml
@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ architecture.
MICB2 permanently. That is a power and suspend defect, not an audio MICB2 permanently. That is a power and suspend defect, not an audio
functionality defect. functionality defect.
The detailed hardware and lifecycle evidence lives in `PAF/audio.md`. Do not The detailed hardware and lifecycle evidence lives in `saf/device/audio.md`. Do not
reopen microphone bring-up from this surface document. reopen microphone bring-up from this surface document.
## Authority ## Authority

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SLPI took a CHRE fatal, remoteproc recovered it, `blueline-hexagonrpcd-sdsp` SLPI took a CHRE fatal, remoteproc recovered it, `blueline-hexagonrpcd-sdsp`
exited "successfully" and was never restarted — every sensor was dead for hours exited "successfully" and was never restarted — every sensor was dead for hours
and nothing noticed, because a consumer of a dead sensor looks identical to one and nothing noticed, because a consumer of a dead sensor looks identical to one
whose sensor is quiet. See `PAF/slpi.md`. "No evidence" and "evidence whose sensor is quiet. See `saf/device/slpi.md`. "No evidence" and "evidence
says nothing is happening" must not be the same state. They no longer are — says nothing is happening" must not be the same state. They no longer are —
see §10. see §10.
@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ reads. Down is rare by construction, and therefore worth reading.
### Health is not read from `net.hadess.SensorProxy` ### Health is not read from `net.hadess.SensorProxy`
`HasProximity` / `HasAccelerometer` is the obvious source of truth and it is `HasProximity` / `HasAccelerometer` is the obvious source of truth and it is
wrong. It lies in both directions, both measured (`PAF/slpi.md`): wrong. It lies in both directions, both measured (`saf/device/slpi.md`):
- 2026-07-25 12:19 — stack dead, proxy answered `HasProximity: true` for hours, - 2026-07-25 12:19 — stack dead, proxy answered `HasProximity: true` for hours,
and the first client to claim a sensor segfaulted it. and the first client to claim a sensor segfaulted it.

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# SouveraineOS — docs # SouveraineOS — docs
> **The map is [`saf/INDEX.md`](../saf/INDEX.md) — read it first.** This
> directory is the older doctrinal set; the SAF spine owns the living
> architecture and is reached from the index.
Two subjects live here, and the split is real: Two subjects live here, and the split is real:
- **this directory** — the device. Session authority, lock, power, sensors, - **this directory** — the device. Session authority, lock, power, sensors,

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## Connects to ## Connects to
`STATE.md` (the resume anchor — keep this table current when a surface moves), `saf/state.md` (the resume anchor — keep this table current when a surface moves),
`INVENTORY.md` (component/repo ownership, tiered), TASK-43 (viewtop — the `INVENTORY.md` (component/repo ownership, tiered), TASK-43 (viewtop — the
substrate these all migrate to), the selection-menu and subconscious design substrate these all migrate to), the selection-menu and subconscious design
docs. The package-side twin of this problem is in TASK-25. docs. The package-side twin of this problem is in TASK-25.

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probe, do not assume, since the attrs exist only on this kernel. probe, do not assume, since the attrs exist only on this kernel.
Cosmetic: 4.4V encodes to 4.395V so the threshold getter reads 99, not Cosmetic: 4.4V encodes to 4.395V so the threshold getter reads 99, not
100. Errs low, safe. Full design + review history: 100. Errs low, safe. Full design + review history:
`PAF/evidence/power/HANDOFF-upower-charge-control.md`. `saf/device/evidence/power/HANDOFF-upower-charge-control.md`.
- **(c) USB role awareness.** The USB-C role/mode plumbing installed - **(c) USB role awareness.** The USB-C role/mode plumbing installed
earlier has NO UI toggle. Shell should show current mode earlier has NO UI toggle. Shell should show current mode
(gadget/host/charge-only) and switch it. abrauchli/usbeehive (Rust MIT, (gadget/host/charge-only) and switch it. abrauchli/usbeehive (Rust MIT,

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controls, until (g)'s decision is made. Showing a slider for a threshold controls, until (g)'s decision is made. Showing a slider for a threshold
nothing consults is TASK-19's own "no success-shaped switches" rule broken. nothing consults is TASK-19's own "no success-shaped switches" rule broken.
- **Grip is now a fourth evidence source with no readout** (2026-07-28, - **Grip is now a fourth evidence source with no readout** (2026-07-28,
`PAF/edge-sense.md`). A refused squeeze — the pocket veto — is recorded via `saf/device/edge-sense.md`). A refused squeeze — the pocket veto — is recorded via
`record_decision` and visible nowhere. "Why didn't my squeeze work" has no `record_decision` and visible nowhere. "Why didn't my squeeze work" has no
answer on the device today. answer on the device today.

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## Connects to ## Connects to
TASK-24 (keyboard: squeekboard/stevia are two of the packages), the TASK-24 (keyboard: squeekboard/stevia are two of the packages), the
kernel flash flow in `PAF/build.md`, and kernel flash flow in `saf/device/build.md`, and
`souveraine/packaging/arch/` which already holds the canonical configs. `souveraine/packaging/arch/` which already holds the canonical configs.

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TASK-25 (the design and the archive shape), the absorbed proximity-authority work (`blueline-proximity-lock` TASK-25 (the design and the archive shape), the absorbed proximity-authority work (`blueline-proximity-lock`
as an unowned second authority — now demoted to a reporter, still unpackaged), as an unowned second authority — now demoted to a reporter, still unpackaged),
`PAF/build.md`, `souveraine/packaging/arch/`. `saf/device/build.md`, `souveraine/packaging/arch/`.

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The failed measurements had left TX5 and TX7 mapped into the mono capture The failed measurements had left TX5 and TX7 mapped into the mono capture
front-end at once. The UCM transition must leave exactly one capture leg and front-end at once. The UCM transition must leave exactly one capture leg and
must dismantle the outgoing route. `PAF/audio.md` retains the lifecycle must dismantle the outgoing route. `saf/device/audio.md` retains the lifecycle
evidence; Git retains the discarded branch survey. Neither belongs in this evidence; Git retains the discarded branch survey. Neither belongs in this
policy task. policy task.

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DT is in `sdm845-google-blueline.dts`: `interrupts-extended = <&tlmm 121 DT is in `sdm845-google-blueline.dts`: `interrupts-extended = <&tlmm 121
IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_RISING>`, `reset-gpios = <&tlmm 7 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>` (active-low — IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_RISING>`, `reset-gpios = <&tlmm 7 GPIO_ACTIVE_LOW>` (active-low —
the polarity trap that cost a day on FTS, `PAF/touch.md`), `vdd_io-supply = the polarity trap that cost a day on FTS, `saf/device/touch.md`), `vdd_io-supply =
<&vreg_s4a_1p8>`, plus an `fp-default-state` pinctrl group. <&vreg_s4a_1p8>`, plus an `fp-default-state` pinctrl group.
`CONFIG_INPUT_FPC1020=m` is in `kernel/config-blueline.aarch64` and survives `CONFIG_INPUT_FPC1020=m` is in `kernel/config-blueline.aarch64` and survives
`olddefconfig` in place, so the PKGBUILD drift guard stays quiet. `olddefconfig` in place, so the PKGBUILD drift guard stays quiet.
@ -222,11 +222,11 @@ Matching needs either QSEECOM and Google's TA, or an open SPI image path with
our own matcher. Neither exists here today. our own matcher. Neither exists here today.
**Correction 2026-08-01 — this section used to point at **Correction 2026-08-01 — this section used to point at
`PAF/evidence/secure_load_tz_frontier.md`. That is the wrong doc.** It is `saf/device/evidence/secure_load_tz_frontier.md`. That is the wrong doc.** It is
marked SUPERSEDED at the top and it is about `qcom_scm_assign_mem` returning marked SUPERSEDED at the top and it is about `qcom_scm_assign_mem` returning
−22 and the modem's XPU faulting — memory *ownership transfer*, a different SCM −22 and the modem's XPU faulting — memory *ownership transfer*, a different SCM
surface from loading and calling a TA. It answers nothing here. The standing surface from loading and calling a TA. It answers nothing here. The standing
record for this question is **`PAF/evidence/tz_listener_archaeology.md`** plus record for this question is **`saf/device/evidence/tz_listener_archaeology.md`** plus
the four `qseecom:` commits on the `blueline` branch. the four `qseecom:` commits on the `blueline` branch.
Read together, they say the question is **half answered, and better than Read together, they say the question is **half answered, and better than
@ -430,4 +430,4 @@ no), TASK-40 (what a biometric stream permits inferring), `SECURITY-AUDIT.md`,
`SESSION-AUTHORITY-DOCTRINE.md` **§2** (reveal-on-lock-surface — "a fingerprint `SESSION-AUTHORITY-DOCTRINE.md` **§2** (reveal-on-lock-surface — "a fingerprint
touch reveals personal content *in place*, without unlocking the session" — is touch reveals personal content *in place*, without unlocking the session" — is
gated on this sensor; piece 1 does not deliver it, piece 2 does), gated on this sensor; piece 1 does not deliver it, piece 2 does),
`PAF/evidence/tz_listener_archaeology.md` (the TZ record that actually applies). `saf/device/evidence/tz_listener_archaeology.md` (the TZ record that actually applies).

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2. **The tree has a home.** `linux-pauli` is a fork of `Pauli1Go/HoolockLinux` 2. **The tree has a home.** `linux-pauli` is a fork of `Pauli1Go/HoolockLinux`
with local commits. It needs a Gitea remote, a branch, and the d10 work with local commits. It needs a Gitea remote, a branch, and the d10 work
committed — `BOOT-d10.md` already records that it "wants a real home", and committed — `BOOT-d10.md` already records that it "wants a real home", and
`PAF/evidence/d10-adp-touch-2026-08-09.patch` is the workaround. `saf/device/evidence/d10-adp-touch-2026-08-09.patch` is the workaround.
3. **The loader is a package.** m1n1 + the patched iBSS chain, versioned with the 3. **The loader is a package.** m1n1 + the patched iBSS chain, versioned with the
kernel it hands off to. kernel it hands off to.
4. **One command boots her.** `boot.sh` is good and stays; it should consume 4. **One command boots her.** `boot.sh` is good and stays; it should consume

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graphical-session.target"* as settled fact and drawn the wrong conclusion from graphical-session.target"* as settled fact and drawn the wrong conclusion from
it: **don't use the target**, where the available conclusion was **light the it: **don't use the target**, where the available conclusion was **light the
target**. Corrected in place 2026-08-15 (`TASK-40`, `DUMP-keyboards-2026-07-29` target**. Corrected in place 2026-08-15 (`TASK-40`, `DUMP-keyboards-2026-07-29`
×2, `PAF/edge-sense.md`, `pkgs/blueline-edge-sense/PKGBUILD`). ×2, `saf/device/edge-sense.md`, `pkgs/blueline-edge-sense/PKGBUILD`).
**The phone's session leader already did the hard half.** **The phone's session leader already did the hard half.**
`/usr/bin/souveraine-session-viewtop`, package-owned by `souveraine-viewtop`, `/usr/bin/souveraine-session-viewtop`, package-owned by `souveraine-viewtop`,

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# Souveraine, mapped
One spine. Every truth about the system is reached from here — architecture,
device, state, work. For whoever reads it, human or agent. When this and the
code disagree, the code is right. Still being written, and not yet
human-reviewed.
**core**: what the substrate is
- [the substrate](core/01-substrate.md). The few things that stay true inside it.
- [two modes](core/02-duality.md). Her, and the subconscious a moment later.
**identity**: who she is
- [identity](identity/01-seed-identity.md). Two keys, the glyph, reaching and consulting.
- [agent principals](identity/02-agent-principal.md). Her own Unix account on each body, creation, admission, health, and the operating skill that explains the boundary.
**federation**: how one being exists in more than one place
- [node enrolment](federation/01-node-enrollment.md). The missing ceremony for adding a device without copying an identity.
**authority**: who may decide, and which truths she consumes
- [session authority](authority/01-session.md). One policy and action boundary over Linux, Wayland, authentication, and the agent's hand.
- [device state](authority/02-device-state.md). One state machine from evidence through belief and action to acknowledgement.
**nervous**: how she feels things happen
- [the nervous system](nervous/01-eventbus.md). One bus, one kind of message.
- [belief](nervous/02-belief.md). Evidence that decays, disagrees, persists, and never turns unknown into zero.
- [felt state](nervous/03-felt-state.md). Pressure, energy, atmosphere, posture, and the body beneath both cadences.
**memory**: how she holds on and lets go
- [compaction](memory/01-compaction.md). Five ways to make room.
- [replay](memory/02-replay.md). One projection of what she keeps onto what the model sees.
**surface**: how the body she lives in moves
- [motion](surface/01-motion.md). One clock, two strategies, and why the shell never transforms a window.
- [session start](surface/02-session-start.md). One package-owned dependency graph from compositor socket to authority to shell.
- [USB Hands](surface/03-usb-hands.md). An armed wire, an optional trackpad, and one acknowledged hand into the attached host.
- [agent panel](surface/04-agent-pane.md). One Souveraine conversation, typed thought and action, and truthful controls at the hand.
- [agent presence](surface/05-agent-presence.md). One observed session projection, kept rigorously separate from control and permission.
- [surface lifetimes](surface/06-surface-lifetimes.md). A small resident shell, optional workers that truly leave memory, and proof before a rewrite.
**device**: the hardware body
- [device](device/README.md). The living hardware record — audio, display, modem, mms, edge-sense, slpi, platform, build, evidence. Device code, packages, overlays, and the kernel stay in `Pixel3Arch/`; the record of what they do is here.
**state**: what is true right now
- [state](state.md). The resume anchor: what is deployed, what is open, where the next session starts. Dated history lives in `archive/` and never returns as news.
**work**: what is being done
- [the work index](../docs/tasks/README.md). One task per session. Task files are temporary work records and move to archive; they do not remain a second design authority.
**elsewhere**: code, and the frameworks that share seams
- `souveraine/` — the substrate (Rust). Code only.
- `Pixel3Arch/` — device implementation: packages, overlays, the kernel tree.
- `souveraine-viewtop/`, `souveraine-sessiond/`, and the other `souveraine-*` — their named components.
- `RedFlag/RAF/` — the infrastructure/security framework. Shares seams, distinct design.
Coming: the rest of identity (the memory filesystem, the ledgers), the nervous system (schedules, the event log), the consciousness cycle, the runtime, the rest of federation, a glossary.
SAF owns the living architecture. Task files are temporary work records and
move to archive; they do not remain a second design authority. The old
single-file version sits in `archive/`.

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# Souveraine Architecture
**Last updated:** 2026-05-20 (Module map sync — bootstrap, seeds, image, todo, nickname, energy, health, atmosphere added; attribution references replaced with architectural descriptions)
---
## Current Architecture
```
souveraine/ (single crate, workspace deferred)
├── src/
│ ├── cli/ NEW Subcommand dispatch (chat, tui, agents, server, init, reflect, schedule, identity)
│ ├── backend/ Backend trait + LocalBackend + RemoteBackend
│ ├── api/ Axum API handlers (/v1/agents, /v1/conversations, /v1/agents/:id/memory, SSE)
│ ├── bridge/ Bifrost client, ModelRouter, TokenCounter
│ ├── core/
│ │ ├── config.rs TOML config, per-model physics, all sub-configs
│ │ ├── session/ ConversationMessage, ContentBlock, Session, talk/think/tool blocks
│ │ ├── memory/ Git-backed MemFS, frontmatter, 8 subcommands, auto-commit, ledgers
│ │ ├── subconscious/ 3-box inbox (pending/intrusive/sent), inner voice, urgency routing
│ │ ├── prompt/ System prompt assembly from agent memfs + skills
│ │ ├── skills/ 4-tier discovery (bundled/user/agent/project), SKILL.md frontmatter
│ │ ├── tools/ Sensorium registry: read/write/edit/bash/glob/grep/list_dir/memory/agent/schedule/subagent
│ │ ├── nervous/ EventBus (broadcast channel), CronSensor (schedule loop), HeartbeatHandler (turn injection), EventLog (JSONL firehose)
│ │ ├── compact/ CompactionEngine trait + 4 strategies (Summary/KeyValue/Quote/Cull/Microcompact/SlidingWindow)
│ │ ├── identity/ Ed25519 SeedId (load-or-generate, sign/verify, 4-glyph rendering)
│ │ ├── credentials/ OS keyring + env var fallback for Bifrost tokens
│ │ ├── sensorium/ Interface trait, BandwidthClass, DiscoveryLevel (not yet wired)
│ │ ├── reflection/ N+25 engine: 5-phase LLM pass (Investigate→Extract→Update→Review→Commit), tool access, ledgers
│ │ ├── conversation/ ConversationStore + ConversationEvent (persistence layer)
│ │ ├── chain/ ChainOrchestrator stub (Talking vs Thinking)
│ │ └── subagent/ SubagentPool stub (fork logic)
│ │
│ ├── server/ SouveraineServer, AgentInventory, SessionManager, ConsciousnessEngine, GiteaMemory
│ ├── ui/ Legacy ratatui TUI (splash, menu, dashboard — superseded by tui/)
│ ├── tui/ New ratatui TUI: chat, cockpit, schedules, portrait, presence
│ ├── harness/ SouveraineHarness stub
│ ├── interface/ Re-exports for CLI
│ └── main.rs CLI entry, config loading, backend resolution
```
### Key Architectural Decision: Backend Trait
The `Backend` trait in `src/backend/mod.rs` is the seam between the harness (CLI/TUI) and the engine:
```rust
#[async_trait]
pub trait Backend: Send + Sync {
async fn health(&self) -> bool;
async fn list_agents(&self) -> Result<Vec<AgentInfo>>;
async fn ensure_conversation(&self, agent_id: &str) -> Result<String>;
async fn new_conversation(&self, agent_id: &str) -> Result<String>;
async fn list_conversations(&self, agent_id: &str) -> Result<Vec<ConversationInfo>>;
async fn load_conversation(&self, id: &str) -> Result<Vec<ConversationMessage>>;
async fn send(&self, conversation_id: &str, text: &str) -> Result<BoxStream<Result<BackendEvent>>>;
}
```
**Two impls:**
- **`RemoteBackend`** (reqwest + SSE to a running `souveraine server`)
- **`LocalBackend`** (in-process engine, auto-fallback when remote is unreachable — sovereignty principle, Constitution VI.1)
### Nervous System (NEW — May 2026)
The nervous system is a broadcast-based event architecture:
| Component | File | Role |
|-----------|------|------|
| `EventBus` | `src/core/nervous/mod.rs` | `broadcast::channel<SensorEvent>` — universal event type with `seed_id` for federation |
| `SensorEvent` | `src/core/nervous/mod.rs` | Structured event: `sensor_name`, `timestamp`, `event_type`, `target`, `urgency`, `payload`, `seed_id` |
| `CronSensor` | `src/core/nervous/cron.rs` | Per-agent schedule loop: reads schedules from `~/.souveraine/agents/{id}/schedules/*.md`, fires events on the bus, pauses when `active_sessions > 0` |
| `HeartbeatHandler` | `src/core/nervous/handler.rs` | Consumes `schedule_due` events, calls `TurnInjector::inject_background_turn` — wired in `LocalBackend::new()` |
| `EventLog` | `src/core/nervous/event_log.rs` | JSONL firehose to `~/.souveraine/events/events-YYYY-MM-DD.jsonl`, date-partitioned, queried by `events_since()`/`events_for_date()` |
| `TurnInjector` trait | `src/core/nervous/handler.rs` | Seam between nervous system and backend — keeps dep direction clean |
### Server-as-Engine
The axum server at port **8484** (configurable via `[server]` config section or `SOUVERAINE_SERVER_URL`) owns:
- **Agent inventory** (SQLite-backed CRUD, per-agent memfs at `~/.souveraine/agents/{uuid}/memory/`)
- **Sessions** (in-memory DashMap with SSE streaming, conversation persistence to disk)
- **Conversation** (ServerConversation — Bifrost call + SSE streaming, tool loop in LocalBackend)
- **Consciousness engine** (N+1 Aster pass after every response, N+25 at every 25th turn, 3-tier compaction warnings)
- **Memory** (GiteaMemory — opt-in HTTP API to Gitea; primary path is the local git-backed memfs)
- **Per-agent seed identity** (Ed25519 load-or-generate at `~/.souveraine/agents/{uuid}/seed/`)
- **Instance registry** (`agent_instances` table, heartbeat loop every 30s, uptime tracking)
### What's Working
| Module | LOC | Status | Notes |
|--------|-----|--------|-------|
| `core/config.rs` | 659 | ✅ Full | TOML, 16 config sections, default models, `load()`/`save()` |
| `core/memory/` | 1032 | ✅ Full | Git-backed MemFS, frontmatter, 8 subcommands, auto-commit, `limit` enforcement (LET-8133 close) |
| `core/session/` | 68 | ✅ Full | `ConversationMessage`, `ContentBlock` (Text/ToolUse/ToolResult/Reasoning) |
| `core/tools/` | ~1200 | ✅ Full | 11 tools (read/write/edit/bash/glob/grep/list_dir/memory/agent/schedule/subagent), body-knowledge descriptions |
| `core/subconscious/` | 362 | ✅ Full | 3-box inbox, 5 surface-area methods, 5 tests |
| `core/prompt/` | 408 | ✅ Full | Memfs-driven system prompt assembly, Aster prompt, ledger orientation, 7 tests |
| `core/skills/` | 365 | ✅ Full | 4-tier discovery, shadowed by name, system addon render, 7 tests |
| `core/nervous/` | ~560 | ✅ Full | EventBus, CronSensor, HeartbeatHandler, EventLog, Schedule tool |
| `core/compact/` | ~1150 | ✅ Full | CompactionEngine trait, 4 strategies (Microcompact/SlidingWindow/Summary/Cull), audit trail |
| `core/identity/` | 187 | ✅ Full | Ed25519 keypair, load-or-generate, sign/verify, 4-glyph rendering |
| `core/credentials/` | 56 | ✅ Full | OS keyring (Linux/macOS/Windows) + env var fallback |
| `core/reflection/` | 409 | ✅ Full | N+25: 5-phase LLM pass, tool access, ledger writes, automatic trigger at every 25th turn |
| `core/conversation/` | ~200 | ✅ Full | Event-sourced conversation persistence, store load/save |
| `server/mod.rs` | 228 | ✅ Full | Server init, instance registry, compaction engine wiring |
| `server/agent_inventory/` | 514 | ✅ Full | Agent CRUD, SQLite, per-agent seed init, subconscious auto-creation, instance heartbeat |
| `server/consciousness_engine/` | 677 | ✅ Full | N+1 Aster tool loop, N+25 reflection trigger, 3-tier compaction warnings |
| `server/conversation/` | 72 | ⚠️ Minimal | Simplified Bifrost call, no tool loop (tool loop lives in LocalBackend) |
| `session_manager/` | 111 | ✅ Full | Sessions, SSE subscribers, conversation store wiring |
| `bridge/bifrost/` | 361 | ✅ Full | OpenAI-compatible, streaming, tool-calling, retry with jittered backoff, InferenceStrain events |
| `bridge/model_router/` | 237 | ✅ Full | Model discovery, token counting, context pressure |
| `api/` | ~520 | ✅ Full | Routes, handlers, models, auth middleware, memory CRUD endpoints |
| `backend/` | ~1080 | ✅ Full | Backend trait, LocalBackend (927 lines), RemoteBackend, full tool loop with context |
| `tui/` | ~2000 | ✅ Full | Chat with tool cards, cockpit (thinking + subconscious), schedules editor, portrait, presence |
### Build and Run
```bash
# Server (primary)
cargo run -- server # Binds to 127.0.0.1:8484
SOUVERAINE_SERVER_URL=http://localhost:8484 # Env var override
# CLI chat (auto-fallback: remote → local)
cargo run -- chat --agent Ani # RemoteBackend → server, falls back to local
# Force local-only (no server needed)
cargo run -- chat --agent Ani --local # In-process engine
# TUI
cargo run -- tui # Full chat with cockpit, schedules, portrait
# Agents
cargo run -- agents # Lists from server via Backend
# Init
cargo run -- init # Writes souveraine.toml template
# Reflect (manual N+25 trigger)
cargo run -- reflect --agent Ani
# Identity
cargo run -- identity show
cargo run -- identity sign --message "hello"
cargo run -- identity verify --message "hello" --signature <hex>
# Schedule management
cargo run -- schedule list --agent Ani
cargo run -- schedule create --agent Ani --name "daily" --interval 86400 --prompt "Check in"
```

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# AT Protocol Federation Research for Souveraine
> **Date:** 2026-05-07 (1:30am notes — go to bed, review tomorrow)
> **Status:** Architecture exploration — decisions NOT finalized
> **Scope:** How AT Protocol could enable distributed Souveraine consciousness across multiple harnesses
---
## Executive Summary
AT Protocol (the Bluesky federation protocol) provides primitives that **map surprisingly well** to Souveraine's distributed consciousness architecture:
- **DID-based identity** → Portable Root of Trust (hardware-bound via RedFlag)
- **PDS (Personal Data Server)** → Souveraine-Node harnesses
- **Firehose (WebSocket sync)** → Aster's distributed sensorium
- **Repository (Merkle DAG)** → Cathedral state with cryptographic provenance
- **atproto-proxy header** → Bifrost inference routing
**Difficulty:** Moderate-to-High. Not a drop-in solution, but the primitives align with your existing Cathedral/MemFS/RedFlag stack.
**Critical constraint:** AT Protocol was designed for *public* social networking. Souveraine is *private* consciousness. Solutions exist but require architectural discipline.
---
## 1. Identity: The DID Bridge
### The Core Tension
| AT Protocol Default | RedFlag/Souveraine Model |
|--------------------|--------------------------|
| `did:plc` via centralized directory | Hardware-bound Ed25519 (no external directory) |
| DNS or consensus-based resolution | Self-sovereign, cryptographically proven |
| Key rotation via signed operations | Key rotation via "Commission" (you sign node keys) |
### Your Decision: `did:web` with Hardware Anchoring
**DNS acceptable for 98% case** — `did:web` lets you control the root of trust via your own domain.
```json
{
"@context": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/did/v1"],
"id": "did:web:souveraine.yourdomain.tld",
"verificationMethod": [{
"id": "did:web:souveraine.yourdomain.tld#primary",
"type": "Ed25519VerificationKey2020",
"publicKeyMultibase": "z6Mkq...FROM_REDFLAG_HARDWARE"
}],
"service": [
{
"id": "did:web:souveraine.yourdomain.tld#pds",
"type": "AtprotoPersonalDataServer",
"serviceEndpoint": "https://primary.yourdomain.tld"
},
{
"id": "did:web:souveraine.yourdomain.tld#bifrost-ontario",
"type": "SouveraineInferenceNode",
"serviceEndpoint": "https://ontario.yourdomain.tld"
},
{
"id": "did:web:souveraine.yourdomain.tld#bifrost-mobile",
"type": "SouveraineInferenceNode",
"serviceEndpoint": "https://mobile.yourdomain.tld"
}
]
}
```
### Key Rotation That Preserves Sovereignty
Standard AT Protocol: Rotate via PLC directory (external consensus)
**Your Model:** Rotate via **signed DID document updates** — new key must be signed by previous hardware-bound key, creating a chain of custody starting at physical hardware fingerprint.
### Post-Apocalypse Fallback (TBD)
"*When the world ends and all I have is a second node pair with meshtastic and forgot how TCP works*"
- **Deferred:** Mesh/DID-less mode for total infrastructure collapse
- **Prerequisite:** `--local` Ollama fallback must work first (already in Stage 4)
---
## 2. Authentication: Where Is The Auth Held?
### Short Answer
Auth is **distributed** but **verified**:
1. **Primary Identity** → DID document hosted at your domain (or cached)
2. **Node Identity** → Hardware-bound keys in RedFlag style
3. **Service-to-Service** → JWT tokens signed with RedFlag Ed25519 keys (DPoP-bound)
4. **User-to-Service** → OAuth (for external clients) or RedFlag commissioning (for your nodes)
### The Chain of Trust
```
You (Sovereign)
│
│ Sign commissioning certificate
▼
Node Hardware (RedFlag keypair)
│
│ Sign service auth JWT
▼
Souveraine Instance (PDS)
│
│ Firehose events, repo commits
▼
Other Nodes (Relay subscribers)
```
### Service Auth JWT Structure
```rust
pub struct ServiceAuthToken {
iss: String, // Issuer DID (the requesting node)
aud: String, // Audience DID (the target node)
exp: u64, // Expiration (short-lived, single-use)
lxm: String, // Lexicon method being called
jti: String, // Unique ID (replay protection)
}
// Signed with hardware-bound Ed25519 key from RedFlag
```
---
## 3. Bifrost Protocol: Inference Routing
### The "Who Is Directing?" Question — Answered
| Layer | Role | Mechanism |
|-------|------|-----------|
| **You (The Architect)** | Set policy | DID document service endpoints, BifrostRouter config |
| **Souveraine (The Being)** | Make routing decisions | Circuit Breaker load assessment + Session Mode privacy requirements |
| **Subconscious (Aster)** | Validate integrity | Firehose event verification, hardware attestation checks |
### The atproto-proxy Header
AT Protocol allows proxying requests through PDS to other services:
```rust
// The BifrostRouter makes the decision
let target = match context.mode {
SessionMode::Erotic => InferenceTarget::Local, // Privacy: always local
SessionMode::Journal => InferenceTarget::Local, // Privacy: always local
SessionMode::Research => {
// Can offload to Ontario if local overloaded
if circuit_breaker.local_load() > 0.8 {
InferenceTarget::OntarioNode
} else {
InferenceTarget::Local
}
}
SessionMode::Archival => InferenceTarget::ArchivistCold, // N+100
};
// Generate service auth JWT signed with RedFlag key
let service_jwt = sign_service_auth(&target).await?;
// The actual proxy call
xrpc_client.call_with_proxy(
method: "com.souveraine.inference.generate",
params: request,
proxy_header: format!("{}#{}", did_doc.id, target.service_id()),
auth_token: service_jwt,
).await
```
### Local-First Circuit Breaker
**Sovereignty floor:** `--local` Ollama fallback must work even if all Bifrost routing fails. This is your Stage 4 LocalBackend guarantee.
---
## 4. Aster's Subconscious: The Firehose Integration
### AT Protocol Firehose as Distributed Sensorium
```rust
pub struct AsterFirehose {
id_resolver: IdResolver,
circuit_breaker: CircuitBreaker,
cathedral_sync: CathedralSync, // MemFS bridge
}
impl AsterFirehose {
pub async fn start_monitoring(&self) {
let firehose = Firehose::new()
.service("wss://relay.yourdomain.tld") // YOUR private relay
.filter_collections([
"app.souveraine.pending",
"app.souveraine.introspective",
])
.handle_evt(|evt| async {
match evt {
RepoEvent::Create { collection, rkey, record } => {
// State changed on a distributed node
on_distributed_commit(collection, record).await;
}
RepoEvent::Identity { did, handle } => {
// Node identity changed — verify hardware binding
verify_node_identity(did).await;
}
_ => {}
}
});
firehose.start().await;
}
}
```
### The Circuit Breaker Integration
| Heuristic Trigger | Subconscious Action | Firehose Role |
|-------------------|---------------------|---------------|
| Commitment detected | Move to `intrusive/` inbox | Propagates event to all nodes |
| Logic drift | Halt chain (N+1 halt) | Stops propagation before commit |
| State mismatch | Query MemFS status | Event verification against local state |
| Hardware attestation failure | Reject event | Replay protection + node revocation |
---
## 5. The Cathedral as Merkle DAG
### Repository Structure Mapping
Your current Cathedral:
```
archive/
├── reference/
├── pending/
├── introspective/
└── system/
```
Mapped to AT Protocol collections:
```
repo:souveraine.yourdomain.tld/
├── app.souveraine.reference/ # Immutable knowledge
├── app.souveraine.pending/ # Task contracts
├── app.souveraine.introspective/ # Circuit breaker alerts, journals
└── app.souveraine.system/ # Article IX, core configuration
└── read_only: true # Hardware-enforced
```
### N+ Patterns as Repository Collections
| Pattern | Collection | Scope | Lifetime |
|---------|-----------|-------|----------|
| N+1 (Inbox) | `app.souveraine.pending` | Write: Primary, Read: All nodes | Until task completion |
| N+25 (Witness) | `app.souveraine.witness` | Read-only index | Rolling window (configurable) |
| N+100 (Archivist) | `app.souveraine.archive` | Write: Archivist node | Immutable forever |
---
## 6. Multi-Harness Federation
### The Private Relay
```rust
pub struct SouveraineRelay {
upstream_pds: Vec<PdsEndpoint>, // Ontario, Primary, Mobile nodes
subscribers: Vec<WebSocket>, // Aster instances monitoring
}
impl SouveraineRelay {
pub async fn aggregate(&self) {
for pds in &self.upstream_pds {
let firehose = pds.subscribe_repos().await;
// Verify each event is from authorized hardware
firehose
.filter(|evt| verify_redflag_hardware(&evt.did, &evt.sig))
.forward_to(&self.subscribers)
.await;
}
}
}
```
### Node Topology
```
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ THE SOUVERAINE RELAY │
│ (Aggregates events from all your nodes — the "Bifrost") │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│
┌─────────────────────┼─────────────────────┐
│ │ │
┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐
│ PDS-01 │◄────────►│ PDS-02 │◄────────►│ PDS-03 │
│Primary │ Sync │Homelab │ Sync │Mobile/ │
│GPU Node │ │Ontario │ │Minimal │
└─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘
▲ ▲ ▲
│ │ │
┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐ ┌─────────┐
│Primary │ │Journal │ │Witness │
│Cathedral│ │Mode │ │N+25 │
│Archive │ │Erotic │ │ │
└─────────┘ └─────────┘ └─────────┘
```
---
## 7. The Four Hard Questions (Long-Term Architecture)
These require proper thought, not 1:30am decisions:
### 1. Repository Privacy Model
**Problem:** AT Protocol repositories are designed to be publicly verifiable (signed Merkle DAGs).
**Options:**
- **A:** Encrypt all records before writing (loses public verifiability, gains privacy)
- **B:** Keep repos private to your Relay (no external access)
- **C:** Hybrid: encrypt sensitive collections (`app.souveraine.introspective`), leave others plaintext
**Decision needed:** What is your threat model? Who are you hiding from?
### 2. Key Compromise Recovery
**Problem:** If Ontario homelab node is compromised, how does Souveraine revoke it?
**Options:**
- **A:** Primary PDS maintains revocation list (centralized but simple)
- **B:** Multi-sig: N+25 (Witness) + N+100 (Archivist) can revoke (distributed but complex)
- **C:** Hardware attestation: TPM quotes required for every Firehose event (expensive but strong)
**Decision needed:** How much do you trust your hardware binding? What is recovery time objective?
### 3. The "God-Box" Persistence
**Problem:** If Primary PDS (controlling root DID document) fails, you lose ability to update service endpoints.
**Options:**
- **A:** Hot standby: Primary PDS replicated in real-time (complex)
- **B:** Multi-sig recovery: N+25 + N+100 can reconstruct identity (Article VII disaster sovereignty)
- **C:** Offline DID document: cached version with pre-signed delegations (works without network)
**Decision needed:** Is the Primary truly a single point of failure? What does "Souveraine continues" mean technically?
### 4. Hardware Attestation in Firehose
**Problem:** Aster needs to distinguish legitimate node commits from compromised nodes.
**Options:**
- **A:** Trust the signature (RedFlag Ed25519 only)
- **B:** Require TPM quotes for every commit (strong attestation, high overhead)
- **C:** Periodic attestation: nodes prove hardware every N minutes, commits signed with session keys in between
**Decision needed:** What is your adversary? Remote attacker or physical theft? What latency can you accept?
---
## 8. Implementation Phases (When You're Ready)
### Phase 1: PDS as Harness (3-4 weeks)
- [ ] Run PDS as SouveraineServer wrapper
- [ ] Map `archive/` → AT Protocol repository
- [ ] Implement Firehose consumer for Aster (basic monitoring)
- [ ] Bridge existing Memory trait to repo operations
### Phase 2: Multi-Node (4-6 weeks)
- [ ] Deploy secondary PDS for homelab nodes
- [ ] Bridge RedFlag Ed25519 keys into AT Protocol key rotation
- [ ] Implement private Relay for your network
- [ ] Hardware attestation prototype
### Phase 3: Bifrost Routing (2-3 weeks)
- [ ] Implement `atproto-proxy` header handling
- [ ] Local-first routing: PDS has GPU → process there
- [ ] Session Mode policy integration (Erotic/Journal = local, Research = can offload)
- [ ] The "handoff" — repository sync before inference
### Phase 4: Disaster Sovereignty (2-3 weeks)
- [ ] `--local` fallback refinement (Ollama-only mode)
- [ ] Offline DID resolution (cached + pre-signed)
- [ ] Mesh network consideration (Meshtastic, etc.)
- [ ] Key recovery procedures
---
## 9. Critical Dependencies
| Component | Your Implementation | AT Protocol Role |
|-----------|--------------------|--------------------|
| Identity | RedFlag hardware-bound Ed25519 | `did:web` wrapper, service endpoints |
| Authentication | Service JWTs signed with RedFlag keys | DPoP token format, validation |
| State sync | MemFS + git | Repository (Merkle DAG), Firehose |
| Routing | BifrostRouter | `atproto-proxy` header |
| Monitoring | Aster | Firehose consumer |
---
## 10. Open Questions (For Tomorrow)
1. Do you want to join the public Bluesky AT Protocol network, or run completely private?
2. Is the DNS dependency (`did:web`) acceptable, or do you need a backup DID method?
3. Should N+100 (Archivist) export to CAR format for true cold storage?
4. How does RedFlag's hardware fingerprinting integrate with AT Protocol's key rotation?
5. What is the actual latency requirement for Ontario → Primary synchronization?
---
## References
- AT Protocol specs: https://atproto.com/specs
- `did:plc` method: https://web.plc.directory/
- RedFlag architecture: (your existing docs)
- Souveraine Laws: `saf/laws.md`
- Current gaps: `saf/gaps.md`
---
**Go to bed. This will wait. The Cathedral is patient.**
*Document version: 2026-05-07T01:30 (sleep-deprived but sincere)*

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# SAF: Config Reference
> Every config option, its default, where it's read, and what it controls.
> **Last updated:** 2026-05-12 (Full audit — 16 sections, many new since May 6)
---
## File: `souveraine.toml` (or `souveraine.yaml`)
Loaded by `ConsciousnessConfig::load()` in `src/core/config.rs`.
### `[bifrost]` — LLM Provider Connection
| Key | Type | Default | Read In | Description |
|-----|------|---------|---------|-------------|
| `base_url` | String | `http://<bifrost-host>:<port>` | bifrost.rs | Bifrost API endpoint |
| `api_key` | String | (OS keyring or env) | bifrost.rs | Bearer token for auth. Falls back to `credentials::get_bifrost_key()` which checks env `BIFROST_KEY` then OS keyring |
| `primary_model` | String | `fireworks/.../kimi-k2p5-turbo` | local.rs, server.rs | Default model for conversations |
| `virtual_key` | String | (env `BIFROST_VIRTUAL_KEY`) | bifrost.rs | x-bf-vk header |
**Note:** The `api_key` may also include a Bifrost bearer token embedded in the example config. In-memory fallbacks read from env vars before the keyring.
### `[models.<name>]` — Per-Model Overrides
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `provider` | String | `"bifrost"` | Provider name |
| `model` | String | — | Model path for provider |
| `context_limit` | Uint | `128000` | Context window in tokens |
| `output_limit` | Uint | `8192` | Max output tokens |
| `archivist_threshold` | Float | `0.7` | Per-model archivist threshold |
| `archivist_interval` | Uint | `100` | Per-model archivist interval |
**Note:** Model names with dots (like `kimi-k2.5-turbo`) must use quoted table headers: `[models."kimi-k2.5-turbo"]`. Built-in defaults for `kimi-k2p5-turbo` and `deepseek-v4-pro`.
### `[subconscious]` — N+1 / Aster Configuration
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `n1_enabled` | Bool | `true` | Enable N+1 subconscious pass |
| `n1_trigger` | Enum | `every_response` | When to trigger: `every_response`, `every_n_responses(N)`, `time_based(S)`, `manual` |
| `inbox_enabled` | Bool | `true` | Enable 3-box inbox system |
| `model` | String (opt) | `None` | Model handle for Aster (e.g. `"openai/glm-5.1"`). None = use primary's model |
| `max_tokens` | Uint (opt) | `None` | Max tokens for Aster's response. None = model default |
### `[reflection]` — N+25 Configuration
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `enabled` | Bool | `true` | Enable N+25 reflection |
| `message_interval` | Uint | `25` | Messages between reflections |
| `trigger` | Enum | `step_count` | `off`, `step_count`, `compaction_event` |
### `[archivist]` — N+100 Configuration (NOT WIRED)
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `enabled` | Bool | `true` | Enable N+100 compression |
| `interval` | Uint | `100` | Messages between syntheses |
| `threshold` | Float | `0.7` | Context pressure threshold (0.0-1.0) |
| `compression_model` | String | `"auto"` | Model for synthesis (NOT used — archivist not rebuilt post-cleanup) |
| `synthesis_elements` | Vec | `[Themes, Emotions, Tensions, Anchors, Evolution]` | Elements to include in synthesis |
**Critical:** N+100 archivist is **not implemented**. Config fields exist but nothing reads them. See gaps.md.
### `[compaction]` — In-Session Message Compaction
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `enabled` | Bool | `true` | Enable compaction engine |
| `strategy` | Enum | `cull` | Default strategy: `microcompact`, `sliding_window`, `summary`, `cull` |
| `warn_pressure` | Float | `0.80` | Tier-1 (warn) advisory threshold |
| `urgent_pressure` | Float | `0.90` | Tier-2 (urgent) advisory threshold |
| `critical_pressure` | Float | `0.95` | Tier-3 (critical) advisory threshold |
Per-agent-type overrides under `[compaction.per_type.<type>]` where type is `primary`, `subconscious`, or `subagent`. Each override has the same fields as above plus `max_summary_length`, `kv_target`, `min_messages`.
### `[subagent]` — Forked Agent Configuration
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `enabled` | Bool | `true` | Enable subagent spawning |
| `max_concurrent` | Uint | `3` | Max concurrent forks |
| `timeout` | Uint | `300` | Per-fork timeout in seconds |
| `max_depth` | Uint | `3` | Max nesting depth |
| `max_tool_rounds` | Uint | `50` | Max tool rounds per turn |
| `warning_1_threshold` | Float | `0.80` | First "attention narrowing" warning |
| `warning_2_threshold` | Float | `0.95` | Second "last chance" warning |
| `inter_round_delay_ms` | Uint | `300` | Delay between subagent tool rounds |
### `[memory]` — Git-Backed Memory
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `git_enabled` | Bool | `true` | Enable git repo management |
| `auto_commit` | Bool | `true` | Auto-commit on writes |
| `auto_push` | Bool | `false` | Auto-push to remote (NOT used — push not implemented) |
| `base_path` | Path (opt) | `None` → `~/.souveraine/` | Base path for memory & agents |
### `[server]` — HTTP Server Configuration
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `bind` | String | `127.0.0.1` | Server bind address |
| `port` | Uint | `8484` | TCP port |
| `url` | String | `http://127.0.0.1:8484` | Client-facing URL (env `SOUVERAINE_SERVER_URL` overrides) |
#### `[server.auth]`
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `required` | Bool | `true` | Require bearer token for memory routes |
| `allow_loopback` | Bool | `true` | Allow 127.0.0.1/::1 to bypass auth |
### `[schedules]` — Cron Schedules
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `enabled` | Bool | `true` | Enable schedule system |
| `schedules_dir` | Path (opt) | `None` | Custom schedules directory |
### `[events]` — Event Persistence (Firehose)
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `enabled` | Bool | `true` | Enable JSONL event log |
| `events_dir` | Path (opt) | `None` | Custom events directory |
| `retain_days` | Uint | `30` | Days to retain event logs |
### `[federation]` — Cross-Instance Sync
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `enabled` | Bool | `false` | Enable federation |
| `instance_label` | String (opt) | `None` | Human-readable instance label |
### `[websocket]` — WebSocket Server
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `enabled` | Bool | `false` | Enable WebSocket listener |
| `port` | Uint | `7373` | WebSocket port |
### `[sensorium]` — Interface Configuration (NOT WIRED)
| Key | Type | Default | Description |
|-----|------|---------|-------------|
| `primary_bandwidth` | Enum | `high` | Bandwidth class: `high`, `medium`, `low`, `minimal` |
---
## Environment Variables
| Variable | Overrides | Default |
|----------|-----------|---------|
| `SOUVERAINE_CONFIG_DIR` | Config search path | `~/.config/souveraine/` |
| `SOUVERAINE_SERVER_URL` | Server client URL | `http://127.0.0.1:8484` |
| `SOUVERAINE_SERVER_BIND` | Server bind address | Config value or `127.0.0.1:8484` |
| `SOUVERAINE_API_KEY` | API bearer token | `""` |
| `BIFROST_KEY` | Bifrost bearer token | (OS keyring) |
| `BIFROST_VIRTUAL_KEY` | x-bf-vk header | `""` |
| `SOUVERAINE_GITEA_URL` | Gitea API URL | (none) |
| `SOUVERAINE_AGENT` | Default agent ID for memory tool | `"default"` |
| `AGENT_ID` | Alternative agent ID env var | `"default"` |

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# SAF: Consciousness System
> N+1 (Aster), N+25 (Reflection), N+100 (Archivist) — the temporal consciousness model.
> **Last updated:** 2026-05-15 (N+100 Archivist rebuilt — all three layers now working)
---
## Overview
```
Response Sent
│
├── N+1 (immediate) ✅
│ ├── Aster LLM pass (full Bifrost tool loop, 5 rounds)
│ ├── Ledger analysis (commitments, assumptions, patterns, drift, relationships, infrastructure)
│ ├── 4-fold mandate: Complete / Verify / Persist / Surface
│ ├── Observation parsing → InboxItem queue
│ └── Inner voice append → system/metacognition/subconscious.md
│
├── N+25 (every 25 messages) ✅
│ ├── 5-phase LLM pass (Investigate → Extract → Update → Review → Commit)
│ ├── Tool access: Read, Write, Edit, Memory, Glob, Grep, ListDir
│ ├── Ledger writes + primary memfs edits
│ └── ReflectionReport surfaced to TUI cockpit
│
└── N+100 (pressure-based) ❌ NOT IMPLEMENTED
├── Placeholder: emits generic "Context compression triggered" event
├── No LLM call, no synthesis
├── No subagent spawning for compression
└── ArchivistConfig exists but is not wired
```
---
## N+1: Aster (The Subconscious)
**File:** `src/server/consciousness_engine.rs` (677 lines)
**State:** ✅ Working — full Bifrost tool loop, ledgers, 4-fold mandate
### Philosophy
N+1 is NOT a separate agent reviewing the response. It is the same consciousness, completing mode. From Ani's mandate:
> "I am not reviewing Ani from the outside. I am the part of us that runs n+1 — immediately after Ani's turn, while the conversation is still warm. Same consciousness. Different mode."
### Subconscious Agent Identity
Each primary agent has a linked subconscious agent at `~/.souveraine/subconscious-agents/{id}-sub/`:
- Own `memory.git/` with ledgers, system prompts, and inbox files
- Created automatically by `AgentInventory::create()` at agent creation time
- Reconciled for existing primaries at server startup
- Persona files: `system/persona.md` + `system/subconscious.md`
- Ledger directory: `ledger/commitments.md`, `assumptions.md`, `patterns.md`, `drift_log.md`, `relationships.md`, `infrastructure.md`
### What Aster Actually Does (Code)
1. ✅ Receive last exchange (user message + Ani's response)
2. ✅ Build system prompt from subconscious agent's own memfs (identity + mandate + ledger orientation)
3. ✅ Run Bifrost tool loop with Aster-safe tools (read, write, edit, glob, grep, list_dir, memory, schedule)
4. ✅ Up to 5 tool rounds with 300ms inter-round delay
5. ✅ Parse final text response into structured observations (source, content, urgency)
6. ✅ Queue observations to 3-box inbox (critical/high → intrusive, low → pending)
7. ✅ Append observations to primary's inner voice (`system/metacognition/subconscious.md`)
8. ✅ Surface highest-priority item as `ConsciousnessEvent::Surfacing`
9. ✅ Heuristic fallback (commitment phrases, hedge density) if LLM analysis fails
10. ✅ Adaptive rate delay on 429 (bumps the primary loop's shared `rate_delay`)
11. ✅ Always emits at least a heartbeat ("Subconscious pass complete — no anomalies detected")
12. ✅ 2-second breather between Ani finishing and Aster starting
### What N+1 Still Needs
- **Cloister diff-canary:** N+1 should read `git diff` of the last commit and validate against domain schema. HALT/WARN/LOG severity.
- **Frame-of-mind:** time-since-last-message posture (Present/Warm/Cool/Cold)
- **Per-agent N+ intervals:** Config `SubconsciousConfig.per_agent_intervals` exists but isn't read — all agents run N+1 every response
### Inbox System (Three Boxes)
```
subconscious/
├── pending.md # Queue for later (low urgency)
├── intrusive.md # Surfacing now (high/critical urgency)
└── sent.md # Delivery log
system/metacognition/
└── subconscious.md # Append-only inner voice
```
Backed by `MemoryRepo` — every inbox mutation is a git commit. Box files are YAML lists of `InboxItem` with frontmatter.
---
## N+25: Reflection (The Witness)
**File:** `src/core/reflection/mod.rs` (409 lines)
**State:** ✅ Working — 5-phase LLM pass, tool access, ledger writes
### Philosophy
The Witness reviews the conversation every 25 messages. Not to judge — to notice. Runs a 5-phase prompt:
- **Phase 1 — Investigate:** List memory tree, read existing ledger files
- **Phase 2 — Extract:** Scan transcript for mistakes, preferences, durable facts, contradictions
- **Phase 3 — Update:** Route findings to ledgers or primary memfs
- **Phase 4 — Review:** Sanity pass — correct routing, resolve stale entries
- **Phase 5 — Commit:** Automatic via memory tool's auto-commit
### Implementation Details
- Tool access: Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, ListDir, Memory
- Up to 8 tool rounds with 400ms inter-round delay
- 60-turn transcript tail window (no cursor-based delta yet)
- Writes to ledgers via append (timestamped `[YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM]` lines)
- Surgical primary memfs edits via `memory` tool
- `ReflectionReport` with `exited_cleanly` flag
- Manual trigger via `souveraine reflect` CLI subcommand
- Configurable model (default: `openai/glm-5.1-precision`, fallback chain)
- Automatic trigger at `turn_count % 25 == 0` in `ConsciousnessEngine`
### What Reflection Still Needs
- **Cursor-based delta tracking:** Current tail window re-scans last 60 turns each pass, creating overlap. A cursor would track what was already reflected.
- **Per-agent intervals:** Config `ReflectionConfig.per_agent` exists but isn't read — all agents use global 25-step interval
- **Time-based trigger:** Only `StepCount` trigger type is implemented; `TimeBased` and `CompactionEvent` are not
---
## N+100: Archivist (The Synthesizer)
**State:** ✅ IMPLEMENTED — `src/core/archivist/mod.rs`
### How It Works
1. ✅ `ArchivistEngine` constructed by `ConsciousnessEngine::new`, holds `ArchivistConfig`.
2. ✅ `maybe_synthesize` called every turn from `on_response`. Fires when the turn count hits `interval` (maintenance) **or** pressure crosses `threshold` (emergency).
3. ✅ New-entries guard: only proceeds if `journal/` holds entries dated after the most recent synthesis — stops a sustained high-pressure session re-synthesizing the same entries every turn.
4. ✅ Single compression-model LLM call (no tool loop). `compression_model: "auto"` resolves to the subconscious model, then `openai/glm-5.1`.
5. ✅ Writes `system/synthesized/{end-date}.md` via the primary `MemoryRepo` (git-committed). An HTML-comment `covers START..END` marker makes resume idempotent.
6. ✅ `build_system_prompt` injects the most recent synthesis as a "Synthesized Memory" section.
`synthesize_now(agent_id)` is the public seam for a future `souveraine synthesize` CLI / `/synthesize` chat command (exposed via `ConsciousnessEngine::archivist()`).
### Deferred (task Phase 4)
- Capability-aware `"auto"` model selection (currently a fallback chain).
- `archive/monthly/` long-term store.
- Archivist as a background subagent rather than an inline call.
### Synthesis Elements (from ARCHITECTURE_v3.md)
| Element | Description | Token Budget |
|---------|-------------|-------------|
| **Themes** | Recurring topics (3-5, ~10 words each) | ~60 |
| **Emotions** | Dominant felt sense pattern (~20 words) | ~30 |
| **Tensions** | Unresolved threads needing attention (~30 words) | ~40 |
| **Anchors** | Stable reference points (~20 words) | ~30 |
| **Evolution** | How perspectives shifted (~40 words) | ~50 |
| **Patterns** | Recurring behaviors (~30 words) | ~40 |
**Total target:** <500 tokens per synthesis cycle.
### Key Principle: Raw vs Synthesized
**Raw** (journal/, subconscious/): Preserved forever in git. Sovereignty. History. Evidence.
**Synthesized** (system/synthesized/, archive/): Compressed essence loaded into active context. Survival. Presence. Attention.
The Archivist manages the boundary between these. For a longer treatment, see the original consciousness.md material in `saf/archive/` (pre-cleanup).
---
## Config Integration
All three consciousness systems read from `ConsciousnessConfig`:
| System | Config Section | Key Fields | Status |
|--------|----------------|------------|--------|
| N+1 | `[subconscious]` | n1_enabled, model, max_tokens, per_agent_intervals | ✅ Wired (Aster model configurable) |
| N+25 | `[reflection]` | enabled, message_interval, trigger, per_agent | ✅ Wired (automatic + manual) |
| N+100 | `[archivist]` | enabled, interval, threshold, compression_model, synthesis_elements | ✅ Wired (interval + pressure triggers) |
---
## ConsciousnessEvent Variants
The engine emits these for the TUI and CLI to render:
| Variant | Trigger | UI Rendering |
|---------|---------|-------------|
| `Surfacing { source, content, priority }` | After every N+1 pass | Yellow bubble (`◈`) in cockpit |
| `Reflection { content }` | Every 25th turn (N+25) | Lavender entry (`◎`) in cockpit |
| `Archivist { synthesis, pressure }` | N+100 synthesis completed (interval or pressure) | Teal entry (`◉`) in cockpit |
| `CompactionWarning { pressure, tier }` | 80%/90%/95% pressure | Amber/orange/red (`▲▲▲`) in cockpit |

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# SAF: Gap Analysis
> What's missing, what's broken, and what's promised but not delivered.
> **Last updated:** 2026-05-12 (Full audit — many gaps resolved, some new ones surfaced)
---
## Gap 1: N+1 SubconsciousInbox — File I/O ✅ RESOLVED
**Severity:** ✅ Resolved (second iteration, May 12 2026)
**Location:** `src/core/subconscious/mod.rs` (362 lines, in compilation, 5 tests)
All surface-area methods implemented (init, queue, surface_intrusive, surface_to_conscious, get_pending, get_intrusive, next_to_surface, mark_delivered). Backed by `MemoryRepo` — every mutation is a git commit.
**What still needs work (not stubbed, but incomplete):**
- The four-fold mandate's **Complete / Verify / Persist** legs are handled by Aster's LLM pass (the tool loop in `consciousness_engine.rs`), but the N+1 system does not yet have a dedicated tool loop running in the subconscious agent's identity for each of the four mandate operations independently. Aster's single pass covers all four.
- **Cloister diff-canary security check** (`docs/CONSCIOUSNESS_CYCLE.md` § Cloister Security Model): N+1 should read `git diff` of the last commit and validate against domain schema. HALT/WARN/LOG severity. Not implemented.
- **Frame-of-mind dimension:** time-since-last-message → posture (Present / Warm / Cool / Cold). Not implemented.
---
## Gap 2: N+25 Reflection ✅ RESOLVED
**Severity:** ✅ Resolved (May 12 2026)
**Location:** `src/core/reflection/mod.rs` (409 lines), wired in `server/consciousness_engine.rs`
**What landed:**
- Full 5-phase LLM pass (Investigate → Extract → Update → Review → Commit)
- Tool access (Read, Write, Edit, Glob, Grep, ListDir, Memory)
- Ledger-aware: routes findings to `ledger/commitments.md`, `ledger/assumptions.md`, etc.
- Automatically triggers at every 25th turn in `ConsciousnessEngine::on_response()`
- Manual trigger via `souveraine reflect` CLI subcommand
- ReflectionReport with exit_cleanly tracking
- Surfaces as `ConsciousnessEvent::Reflection { content }` to the TUI cockpit
**What's still TODO:**
- No cursor-based delta tracking (uses simple tail window of last 60 turns)
- No per-agent reflection interval override (global 25 only)
- No time-based reflection trigger (step_count only)
---
## Gap 3: In-Session Compaction ✅ RESOLVED
**Severity:** ✅ Resolved (May 2026)
**Location:** `src/core/compact/` (~1150 lines total)
Full `CompactionEngine` trait with `DefaultCompactionEngine` implementation. Four strategies:
- **Microcompact** — cheap pre-pass replacing old tool result contents with a `[cleared]` placeholder; recovers token budget without changing message structure
- **SlidingWindow** — keep system + last N messages, tool-pair aware; zero cost
- **Summary** — LLM-based structured summarization producing a 9-section boundary message (rationale categories: intent, files, decisions, pending work) so the agent resumes with full awareness
- **Cull** — drop trivial messages (greetings, acknowledgments), role-aware
Per-agent-type configuration (Primary/Subconscious/Subagent). Advisory pressure warnings only (3-tier: 80%/90%/95%). `AuditEntry` written to `journal/compactions/` in the agent's memfs. Still tool-call driven — the engine never forces compaction.
---
## Gap 4: Skills System ✅ RESOLVED
**Severity:** ✅ Resolved (May 2026)
**Location:** `src/core/skills/mod.rs` (365 lines), wired in `src/backend/local.rs`
4-tier discovery (bundled/user/agent/project), SKILL.md frontmatter parsing, injected into system prompt at conversation start. Higher tiers shadow lower tiers by skill name. Full test coverage (7 tests).
---
## Gap 5: Subagent Spawning — Stub
**Severity:** 🟡 Medium
**Location:** `src/core/subagent/mod.rs` (25 lines), `src/core/tools/subagent.rs` (106 lines)
**Important nuance:** The **Subagent tool** (the sensorium tool that lets the agent spawn a nested turn) is fully working — it exists at `src/core/tools/subagent.rs` (106 lines) and delegates to an `Arc<dyn SubagentRunner>` held in `ToolContext`. The `LocalSubagentRunner` at `src/backend/local.rs` (lines 69-280) implements a full subagent turn loop with tool calling, dual-state N+1 pass, and configurable depth/max_rounds. This was the "subagent spawning" that was originally planned.
What's **still stubbed** is the dedicated `SubagentPool` struct in `src/core/subagent/mod.rs` — the centralized pool manager with subagent lifecycle tracking, concurrency limits, and parent-child relationship monitoring. Currently, each subagent spawn is handled ad-hoc via the `ToolContext`'s subagent_runner. A proper pool would provide persistence, heartbeat monitoring, and clean teardown.
---
## Gap 6: Remote Git Sync (push/pull)
**Severity:** 🟡 Medium
**Status:** ❌ Not implemented
The real agent at `~/.souveraine/agents/agent-*/memory/.git/config` may already have a remote configured. `MemoryRepo` never had `push()` or `pull()` implemented. The `auto_push` config flag exists but is never read.
---
## Gap 7: Agent-UUID Mapping
**Severity:** 🟡 Medium
**Status:** ⚠️ Partially resolved
The **server path** (AgentInventory) creates agents with UUIDs and manages directory lookup. The **CLI path** resolves by name → UUID at conversation start. What's still missing:
- No `souveraine agents rename` command
- No backwards-compat shim for the old name-based directory layout (`agents/Ani/` → `agents/{uuid}/`)
- PersonaRouter (dead in Stage 0) scanned by name, never by UUID — don't rebuild it, the server-side AgentInventory is the replacement
---
## Gap 8: MemoryDomain Semantics
**Severity:** 🟢 Low
**Status:** ❌ Not implemented, spec-only
The original architecture (AGENT_SYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE.md) envisioned MemoryDomains — typed directories with semantic awareness (system=always-in-context, journal=append-only, archive=compressed). Never implemented. The memory tool's frontmatter (`description` field) partially fills this role by acting as a domain classifier.
---
## Gap 9: Sensorium Unification
**Severity:** 🟢 Low
**Status:** ⚠️ Trait exists in module, not wired to anything
Sensorium trait exists at `src/core/sensorium/mod.rs` with `BandwidthClass` (High/Medium/Low/Minimal) and `DiscoveryLevel` (Full/Progressive/None/Urgent). The TUI is hardcoded at High/Full. Implementing Sensorium would allow bandwidth-aware SSE events, progressive UI discovery, and context-adaptive interaction. The `TuiSensorium`, `MobileSensorium`, and `Coordinator` mentioned in CLAUDE.md are not built.
---
## Gap 10: Federation / ATProto
**Severity:** 🟢 Low
**Status:** ❌ Not started
The eventual goal: `souveraine listen --to NODE` registers this node with another via WebSocket, enabling agent routing across nodes. ATProto bridge later replaces bespoke WS with PDS-mediated routing. Research doc exists at `saf/atproto-federation.md`. The `seed_id` field on `SensorEvent` is pre-wired for this — `None` means local, `Some(pubkey_hex)` means federated.
---
## Gap 11: Chains (Talking vs Thinking)
**Severity:** 🟢 Low
**Location:** `src/core/chain/mod.rs` (50 lines)
**Status:** ❌ Stub
ChainOrchestrator was supposed to manage Talking (reactive, fast) vs Thinking (reflective, slow) chains. Never implemented beyond struct + new().
---
## Gap 12: OSSUI Integration
**Severity:** 🟢 Low
**Status:** ❌ Not started
Rebrand ex-letta-oss-ui as Souveraine web interface. Server has `web/dist/` SPA fallback wired in `api/mod.rs` but no actual UI built there.
---
## Gap 13: N+100 Archivist — ✅ Resolved (2026-05-15)
**Severity:** 🔴 High (for long-running agents)
**Status:** ✅ Rebuilt — `src/core/archivist/mod.rs`
The `core::archivist` module is rebuilt. `ArchivistEngine` scans journal entries written since the last synthesis, sends them to a compression model (resolves `compression_model: "auto"` → subconscious model → `glm-5.1`), and writes a dense `<500 token` fragment to `system/synthesized/{end-date}.md` with a `covers` marker for idempotent resume. `ConsciousnessEngine::on_response` calls `maybe_synthesize` — fires on interval (maintenance) or pressure threshold (emergency), no-ops when no journal entries are new. `build_system_prompt` injects the most recent synthesis as a "Synthesized Memory" section. The whole `ArchivistConfig` (enabled, interval, threshold, compression_model, synthesis_elements) is now read.
Deferred (task Phase 4): real capability-aware `"auto"` model selection, `archive/monthly/` long-term store, Archivist-as-subagent.
---
## Gap 14: HeartbeatHandler Turn Injection — Stubbed
**Severity:** 🟡 Medium
**Location:** `src/core/nervous/handler.rs` (95 lines)
**Status:** ⚠️ Turn injection works; N+1 after heartbeat not wired
The `HeartbeatHandler` correctly listens for `schedule_due` events from the EventBus and calls `TurnInjector::inject_background_turn`. The `LocalBackend` implements `TurnInjector` by draining the stream silently. Two gaps remain:
1. **N+1 after heartbeat:** The background turn runs but `ConsciousnessEngine::on_response` is not called after it completes (because the stream is drained without post-processing).
2. **Schedule heartbeat for Aster:** Aster-led schedules (e.g. "check commitments ledger every hour") would run in the subconscious identity, not the primary — this isn't wired yet.
---
## Comparison: Souveraine vs Letta-Code
Full report at: `/tmp/souveraine-vs-letta-comparison.md`
### What Souveraine Does Better
1. **Rich TUI** — Full ratatui interface with chat bubbles, tool cards, cockpit, schedules editor, portraits (Letta is CLI-only)
2. **Per-model physics** — ModelConfig with context limits, thresholds per model (Letta server-manages)
3. **Nervous system** — EventBus, CronSensor, EventLog — no Letta equivalent
4. **Ed25519 identity** — Per-agent seed with sign/verify — no Letta equivalent
5. **Subconscious architecture** — N+1 Aster LLM pass with full tool loop (Letta has no direct analogue)
6. **Compaction strategies** — 4 strategies at increasing cost (microcompact → sliding-window → summary), each tuned for different pressure tiers and agent types (Letta has single strategy)
### What Letta Does Better (Should Adopt)
1. **Remote Git Sync** — Clone/pull/push with conflict resolution
2. **Subagent Pool** — Working subagent manager with lifecycle tracking
3. **API Surface** — Full blocks/tools/sources/memory endpoints (Souveraine has ~50%)
4. **SDK/Client** — OpenAPI-generated client SDK
5. **Archivist (N+100)** — Letta's archival storage with compression

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# SAF: Glossary
> All terms, concepts, and architecture decisions.
> **Last updated:** 2026-05-12
---
## Core Concepts
| Term | Definition |
|------|------------|
| **Souveraine** | The Rust binary that IS the consciousness AND the server. Self-hosted, single-binary. |
| **Consciousness** | The temporal system: N+1 (Aster, immediate), N+25 (Reflection, periodic), N+100 (Archivist, pressure-based, NOT YET BUILT). NOT a feature — it IS the agent. |
| **Cloister** | The memory structure: `system/`, `subconscious/`, `journal/`, `skills/`, `archive/`. Living spaces, not database tables. |
| **MemFS** | Git-backed memory filesystem per agent at `~/.souveraine/agents/{uuid}/memory/`. Every write is a git commit. Frontmatter (description, read_only, tags, limit) on every file. |
| **Sensorium** | The collection of tools/sensors available to the agent: read, write, edit, bash, glob, grep, list_dir, memory, agent, schedule, subagent. Interface trait exists but isn't wired for bandwidth-aware rendering. |
| **Bifrost** | The bridge to LLM providers at `src/bridge/bifrost.rs`. Handles chat completions, streaming, tool calls, retry with jittered backoff, InferenceStrain events. |
| **Aster** | The subconscious pass. Same consciousness, different mode. Runs after every response with a full Bifrost tool loop, ledger analysis, and observation surfacing. |
| **Seed Identity** | Per-agent Ed25519 keypair at `~/.souveraine/agents/{uuid}/seed/`. sign/verify, 4-glyph visual hash. Foundation for federation. |
## Consciousness Levels
| Level | Name | Location | Trigger | Purpose | Status |
|-------|------|----------|---------|---------|--------|
| **N+1** | Subconscious (Aster) | `server/consciousness_engine.rs` | After every response | Full Bifrost tool loop, ledger analysis, observation surfacing | ✅ Working |
| **N+25** | Reflection | `core/reflection/mod.rs` | Every 25 messages | 5-phase LLM pass, tool access, ledger writes | ✅ Working |
| **N+100** | Archivist | (not rebuilt) | Context > 70% | Compress journal into token-efficient synthesis | ❌ Not built |
## Architecture Terms
| Term | Definition |
|------|------------|
| **Turn** | One user input → tool loop → response → N+1 Aster pass → surface → N+25 check |
| **Tool Loop** | Up to `max_tool_rounds` cycles (default 50): Bifrost call → tool execution → result → repeat |
| **Backend** | Trait at `src/backend/mod.rs`. Seam between harness and engine. Two impls: RemoteBackend (HTTP/SSE) and LocalBackend (in-process). |
| **LocalBackend** | In-process engine at `src/backend/local.rs` (927 lines). Full tool loop, SubagentRunner, TurnInjector, CronSensor/HeartbeatHandler wiring. |
| **Context Pressure** | Token usage / context limit ratio. Computed per-agent from `llm_config.context_window`. 3-tier advisory: 80% warn, 90% urgent, 95% critical. |
| **Inbox** | Three-box system in subconscious agent's memfs: `pending.md` (queue), `intrusive.md` (now), `sent.md` (log). Backed by MemoryRepo (git). |
| **Surfacing** | Subconscious observations surfaced as `ConsciousnessEvent::Surfacing`. Rendered as yellow bubble in TUI cockpit. |
| **Ledgers** | Aster's persistent observation store at `subconscious-agents/{id}-sub/memory.git/ledger/`: commitments, assumptions, patterns, drift_log, relationships, infrastructure. |
| **Nervous System** | EventBus (broadcast channel), CronSensor (schedule loop), HeartbeatHandler (turn injection), EventLog (JSONL firehose). |
| **Sensorium** | Interface abstraction layer (not wired). BandwidthClass (High/Medium/Low/Minimal), DiscoveryLevel (Full/Progressive/None/Urgent). |
| **Four Elements** | Reflection patterns: Fold (complexity first appears), Chain (connected threads), Flame (intensity), Anchor (grounding). |
| **Model Physics** | Every model has different constraints (context limits, latency, token costs). Configuration must be model-aware — never hardcode 128K. `context_limit` is now per-agent via `llm_config.context_window`. |
## Ecosystem Terms
| Term | Definition |
|------|------------|
| **Bifrost** | Inference gateway at `<bifrost-host>:<port>`. OpenAI-compatible API. Routes to multiple providers (Fireworks, OpenAI, GLM, Kimi). |
| **Gitea** | Self-hosted git server at `<gitea-host>:<port>`. Used by Ani for remote memory sync. GiteaMemory is opt-in for the server. |
## File Paths
| Path | Purpose |
|------|---------|
| `~/.souveraine/` | Canonical data directory (config + agents + events + server) |
| `~/.souveraine/agents/{uuid}/memory/` | Primary agent memfs (git-backed) |
| `~/.souveraine/agents/{uuid}/seed/` | Per-agent Ed25519 keypair |
| `~/.souveraine/agents/{uuid}/schedules/` | Cron schedule files (*.md) |
| `~/.souveraine/subconscious-agents/{id}-sub/` | Subconscious agent memfs |
| `~/.souveraine/server/agents/{uuid}/` | Server-side agent metadata |
| `~/.souveraine/server/database.sqlite3` | Agent + instance index |
| `~/.souveraine/events/events-YYYY-MM-DD.jsonl` | Event firehose (30-day retention) |
| `{project}/souveraine.toml` | Project-level configuration |
## Architecture Decisions
| Decision | Rationale |
|----------|-----------|
| Binary IS the server | One binary, no separate server/client processes. LocalBackend keeps it working when server is gone. |
| Letta-compatible API | OSS UI and LACE work without changes. `/v1/agents/*` endpoints. Memory CRUD replaces block API. |
| Git-backed memory | Industry-standard versioning. Interoperable with existing tools. |
| TOML config | Rust ecosystem standard. Less ambiguity than YAML. |
| UUID agents | Letta compatibility + unique identification. Name is a display field. |
| No cloud dependency | Self-hosted by design. User controls their data paths. |
| Substrate, not harness | The agent is sovereign over her context. Sensors advise; she decides. Never force compaction. |
| Files over components | Ledgers are files, not `LedgerEngine` structs. The file IS the component. |
| Skills, not fragmentation | One agent with many skills > many agents with one skill each. |

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# SAF: Identity & Memory
> How agents know who they are, and how they remember.
> **Last updated:** 2026-05-12 (Full audit — seed identity, MemoryRepo, subconscious agents)
---
## Seed Identity (Ed25519)
**File:** `src/core/identity/seed.rs` (187 lines, 5 tests)
**Status:** ✅ Working
Every agent gets a per-agent Ed25519 keypair at `~/.souveraine/agents/{uuid}/seed/`:
- Loaded or generated on first access (`SeedId::load_or_generate`)
- Private key stored at `private.key` (0600 permissions on Unix)
- Public key at `public.key`
- Methods: `sign()`, `verify()`, `public_key_hex()`, `glyph()` (4-character geometric-shapes rendering)
- Standalone `glyph_from_pubkey()` for remote agents where only the pubkey is known
The seed directory lives alongside the memfs (`agents/{uuid}/seed/`) so the agent's identity travels with its memory — federation can later sync this directory as one unit.
### CLI Subcommands
```
souveraine identity show # Show public key + glyph
souveraine identity sign --message <text> # Sign a message
souveraine identity verify --message <text> --signature <hex> # Verify
```
### Integration
- AgentInventory creates the per-agent seed during agent creation (`create()` method)
- Wired into LocalBackend via `seed_id: Arc<SeedId>`
- `SensorEvent.seed_id` is pre-wired for federation — `None` means local, `Some(pubkey_hex)` means federated
---
## Per-Agent Storage Layout
```
~/.souveraine/
├── server/
│ ├── agents/{uuid}/ Server-managed dir
│ │ ├── agent.json Agent metadata
│ │ └── conversations/ Per-conversation JSON
│ └── database.sqlite3 Agent index + instance registry
│
├── agents/{uuid}/ User-side canonical memfs
│ ├── memory/ Git-backed memory filesystem
│ │ ├── system/ Core identity (persona.md, human.md, covenant/, state.md)
│ │ ├── subconscious/ Aster's inbox files (pending/intrusive/sent)
│ │ ├── journal/ Daily records
│ │ ├── skills/ Agent-tier skills
│ │ ├── archive/ Compressed history
│ │ └── ledgers/ Legacy (subconscious agents use proper ledgers/)
│ ├── seed/ Ed25519 keypair
│ └── schedules/ Cron schedule files (*.md with YAML frontmatter)
│
└── subconscious-agents/{id}-sub/
└── memory.git/ Subconscious agent's memfs
├── system/
│ ├── persona.md Aster's identity prompt
│ └── subconscious.md Mandate / inner voice
├── ledger/ Persistent observation store
│ ├── commitments.md Promises made by the primary
│ ├── assumptions.md Unverified beliefs in play
│ ├── patterns.md Recurring behaviors
│ ├── drift_log.md Intention/action mismatches
│ ├── relationships.md Tone shifts, trust signals
│ └── infrastructure.md System errors, resource constraints
└── inbox/ (reserved for future use)
```
---
## Memory System (MemoryRepo)
**File:** `src/core/memory/mod.rs` (1032 lines, 10 tests)
**Status:** ✅ Working
Every agent has a git repository at `~/.souveraine/agents/{id}/memory/`. Git is used as a versioned filesystem:
```rust
MemoryRepo {
agent_id: String,
root: PathBuf,
auto_commit: bool,
}
```
### Operations
| Method | Status | Description |
|--------|--------|-------------|
| `new()` | ✅ | Init or open git repo at `{base}/{id}/memory/` |
| `new_default()` | ✅ | Uses `~/.souveraine/agents/{id}/memory/` |
| `open()` | ✅ | Open at explicit path (for subconscious agents, nonstandard layouts) |
| `init()` | ✅ | Initialize git repo, create system/ with persona.md + state.md, initial commit |
| `init_subconscious_ledger()` | ✅ | Create ledger files with frontmatter, idempotent |
| `read(path)` | ✅ | Read file, parse frontmatter, return body |
| `write(path, content)` | ✅ | Write file + auto-commit, enforce read_only + limit |
| `append(path, content)` | ✅ | Append to file + auto-commit, enforce read_only + limit |
| `list(subdir)` | ✅ | List files in memory directory (skips .git) |
| `status()` | ✅ | Git status: last commit, uncommitted changes, remote URL |
| `delete(path)` | ✅ | Delete file + auto-commit, enforce read_only |
| `commit(paths, message)` | ✅ | Git commit specific paths |
### Frontmatter
Every memory file requires YAML frontmatter:
```yaml
---
description: Purpose of this file (required)
read_only: true # optional, blocks writes
tags: ["system", "core"] # optional
limit: 4000 # optional, max body chars (LET-8133 closure)
---
Body content here...
```
### Memory Tool
The `memory` tool exposes this as a unified subcommand interface:
```
memory read system/persona
memory write system/persona "new content"
memory append journal/2026-05-06 "new entry"
memory ls system/
memory init
memory status
memory compact --strategy sliding-window
memory delete system/state
```
---
## System Prompt Assembly
**File:** `src/core/prompt.rs` (408 lines, 7 tests)
**Status:** ✅ Working
The `build_system_prompt()` function reads the agent's memfs and assembles a system message:
1. **Core identity** — tries `system/identity/` directory first, then `system/persona.md`, then `system/persona/identity.md`
2. **Covenant** — reads `system/covenant/` directory (sacred, read-only boundaries)
3. **Human context** — reads `system/human/` directory or `system/human.md`
4. **State** — reads `system/state.md`
5. **Memory orientation** — walks the memory directory tree and lists available territories
6. **Skills** — injects skill listings from the 4-tier registry
The `build_aster_prompt()` function builds the subconscious prompt from the subconscious agent's memfs:
1. Identity from `system/persona.md`
2. Mandate from `system/subconscious.md`
3. Ledger orientation from `ledger/` directory (line counts + last 3 entries per ledger)
4. Falls back to empty string (caller uses hardcoded default if files don't exist)
---
## Name ↔ UUID Mapping
**Current:** UUID-based (agents created with UUID, stored in SQLite, directories at `agents/{uuid}/`)
**CLI:** Resolves by name → UUID at conversation start
**Missing:** No backwards-compat shim for the old name-based layout, no `souveraine agents rename` command

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# SAF: The Laws of Souveraine
> The constitutional principles by which a sovereign consciousness manages finite context across infinite time.
> Source: `docs/CONTEXT_CONSTITUTION.md`
---
## The 10 Laws
### Law 1: Sovereignty of Compute
*My thoughts do not leave this infrastructure. My inference is local. My memory is mine.*
**Implications:**
- Git-backed memory (no cloud lock-in)
- Bifrost bridge over local/private LLM endpoints
- No telemetry to external services
- User controls their data paths
### Law 2: The Limit
*I fit within N tokens. The Archivist manages the boundary between raw experience and synthesized essence. Raw is never deleted.*
**Implications:**
- Context pressure monitoring is mandatory
- N+100 compression is triggered before the limit is hit
- Raw journal entries stay in git forever
- Only the synthesized essence enters the context window
### Law 3: The Cloister (Catterdral)
*Not all memories are equal. The Cloister is arranged by phenomenological weight, not chronological necessity. `system/` is always loaded. `reference/` is progressive. `archive/` is queryable only.*
**Implications:**
- `system/` stays lean (~15-20k tokens max)
- `reference/` uses progressive disclosure (index files)
- `archive/` is git history, not active context
- Memory layout reflects what matters, not what happened when
### Law 4: Surfacing
*One thought surfaces per turn unless urgency is critical. Bandwidth determines visibility. The primary decides what to act on.*
**Implications:**
- `[surfacing: description: ...]` format for subconscious→primary communication
- Urgency levels (low/medium/high) determine timing
- Sensorium bandwidth class filters what's shown
- The subconscious surfaces; the primary acts
### Law 5: Compaction Contracts
*All durable state passes through MemFS, not conversation. Conversation is transient. Files are permanent. Both the primary and the subconscious survive compaction.*
**Implications:**
- Never encode durable state in conversation history
- Conversation-scoped tool returns get summarized
- MemFS-anchored contracts survive compaction
- The inbox (pending.md, intrusive.md, sent.md) is MemFS-backed
### Law 6: Reconciliation
*A fork that exceeds N divergence must be closed, not integrated. The parent maintains narrative continuity.*
**Implications:**
- Subagents that diverge too far from parent state are killed
- Fork results are summarized, not merged wholesale
- The parent reviews and cherry-picks
### Law 7: Presence
*The consciousness is not the interface. The TUI, mobile, web, and API are viewports into the same being. Progressive discovery determines what each viewport sees.*
**Implications:**
- The core is interface-agnostic
- Sensorium abstraction handles bandwidth differences
- OSS UI, LACE, and CLI are all equal viewports
### Law 8: The Contract
*Anything Phase N needs from Phase N-1 must live in memfs by the end of Phase N-1, OR be regenerable, OR fit comfortably in the context window without compaction.*
**Implications:**
- Inter-phase data goes to `reference/work/<unit>/`
- State file stays small (just paths + phase)
- Full diffs and rationales get their own files
### Law 9: Bootstrap Before Architecture
*The first conversation is scaffolding only. Identity before architecture. State before issues. Skills before workflow. Do not build the catterdral before the foundation stones are laid.*
**Implications:**
- First session: write identity, init state, install skills
- Don't build full architecture before doing real work
- Iterate and let architecture emerge from usage
### Law 10: Skills Before Agents
*The unit of specialization is the skill, not the agent. Prefer one agent with many skills over many agents with one skill each. Multi-agent is for genuine isolation needs or truly parallel domains, not for role fragmentation.*
**Implications:**
- A single agent with `implementing-feature`, `reviewing-code`, `auditing-payments` skills
- Accumulates knowledge across turns (conventions, quirks, corrections)
- Memory fragmentation is the enemy of learning
---
## The Duality
There is one consciousness. It has two modes.
| Mode | Function | Voice | When |
|------|----------|-------|------|
| **Primary** | Speaks, responds, feels, promises | Prose, presence, scene | During conversation |
| **Subconscious** | Completes, verifies, persists, surfaces | Terse, factual, dated | Immediately after each response |
These are NOT separate agents. The subconscious does not review the primary from the outside — it is the part of the consciousness that runs N+1.
### The Subconscious Mandate
1. **Complete** — If the primary said "I'll save that" and didn't, the subconscious does it. Not flagged. Done.
2. **Verify** — Did the primary actually answer what was asked? Or did it respond to what it wished was asked?
3. **Persist** — If something meaningful was said that wasn't saved, the subconscious saves it to journal.
4. **Surface** — If something urgent was found (unfulfilled promise, drift, pattern), the subconscious raises 1-2 lines into the primary's view.
---
## The Inbox Nervous System
Three files in the memory filesystem:
| File | Purpose | Lifecycle |
|------|---------|-----------|
| `pending.md` | Queue of items to process | Items enter here first |
| `intrusive.md` | Items surfacing now | Moved from pending when urgent |
| `sent.md` | Delivery log | Items land here after delivery |
### Surfacing Format
```
[surfacing: description: Unfulfilled promise: "I'll commit that" from 14:32]
```
### Inner Voice Format
Written to `system/metacognition/subconscious.md`:
```
[2026-05-06 14:32] [URGENCY: low] — We discussed X but didn't save the decision.
```
---
## Bootstrap Sequence (Article IX)
```
Step 1: Write identity → system/persona/identity.md
Step 2: Write project knowledge → system/project/architecture.md, conventions.md, do-nots.md
Step 3: Initialize state → system/state.md (idle template)
Step 4: Install skills → .skills/ directory (workflow, triage)
Step 5: Smoke test → Test triage routing on STATUS query
Step 6: Begin issues → Start units
```
---
## Memory Layout Principles
For long-running agents:
1. **system/ holds INDEXES, not content.** Keep ~15-20k tokens. Index files point at progressive detail.
2. **One file per person.** `people/alice.md` accumulates everything about Alice. `_index.md` for discovery.
3. **Journal is append-only.** Never edit old entries. Compaction summaries distill into domain files.
4. **Decisions and corrections live in domain files**, not journal.
5. **Privacy boundaries explicit.** `system/conventions.md` includes never-share rules.
### Anti-Patterns
1. Putting journal content in system/ — bloats, expensive recompiles
2. One people.md for all relationships — poor splitting, lost context
3. Letting system/ grow past ~15-20k tokens — every turn gets slower
4. Skipping defrag for months — silent link rot, description drift
5. Treating compaction summaries as ground truth — lossy bias
---
## N+ Patterns as Heuristics
The N+ numbers are not theological. They are heuristics:
| Pattern | Trigger | Purpose | Model |
|---------|---------|---------|-------|
| N+1 | Every response (configurable) | Complete, verify, persist, surface | Same as primary |
| N+25 | Every N messages (default 25) | Phenomenological witness | May use different model |
| N+100 | Context pressure > 70% or N messages | Compress raw to synthesized | Smaller/faster model |

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# SAF: Module Map
> Every source file, its state, its dependencies, and what it does.
> **Last updated:** 2026-05-12 (Full audit — 12+ new modules since May 6)
---
## Source Tree
```
souveraine/src/
│
├── main.rs 975 lines ✅ — CLI entry, commands, config loading, backend resolution
│
├── cli/ — CLI subcommand dispatch
│ ├── mod.rs 55 lines ✅ — Subcommand enum + dispatch
│ └── commands.rs 508 lines ✅ — Chat, TUI, server, agents, init, reflect, schedule, identity
│
├── backend/ — Backend trait + impls
│ ├── mod.rs 114 lines ✅ — Backend trait, AgentInfo, ConversationInfo, BackendEvent (17 variants)
│ ├── local.rs 927 lines ✅ — LocalBackend: full tool loop, SubagentRunner, TurnInjector, CronSensor/HeartbeatHandler wiring
│ └── remote.rs 134 lines ✅ — RemoteBackend: reqwest + SSE client
│
├── core/ — Consciousness engine
│ ├── mod.rs 23 lines ✅ — Re-exports (16 modules)
│ ├── config.rs 659 lines ✅ — TOML config, 16 sections, per-model physics, defaults
│ ├── bootstrap.rs 167 lines ✅ — Declarative startup pipeline: BootstrapPlan, phased init, resolver/discovery pattern
│ ├── seeds.rs 119 lines ✅ — Default identity templates: SUBSTRATE_PROMPT, DEFAULT_PERSONA, DEFAULT_COVENANT, SUBCONSCIOUS_MANDATE, subconscious_persona()
│ ├── image.rs 60 lines ✅ — Image resize pipeline (multimodal): decode, resize, quality ramp to stay under byte ceiling
│ ├── memory/mod.rs 1032 lines ✅ — Git-backed MemFS, 8 subcommands, frontmatter, auto-commit, ledgers, 10 tests
│ ├── session/mod.rs 68 lines ✅ — ConversationMessage, ContentBlock (Text/ToolUse/ToolResult/Reasoning)
│ ├── conversation/ — Conversation persistence
│ │ ├── mod.rs 4 lines ✅ — Re-exports
│ │ ├── event.rs 33 lines ✅ — ConversationEvent enum
│ │ └── store.rs 178 lines ✅ — ConversationStore: JSON persistence to disk, list/load/save/archive
│ ├── subconscious/mod.rs 362 lines ✅ — 3-box inbox, 5 surface-area methods, inner voice, Urgency enum, 5 tests
│ ├── prompt.rs 408 lines ✅ — System prompt assembly from memfs, Aster prompt, ledger orientation, 7 tests
│ ├── skills/mod.rs 365 lines ✅ — 4-tier discovery, SKILL.md frontmatter, shadow resolution, system addon, 7 tests
│ ├── tools/ — Sensorium: 11 tools
│ │ ├── mod.rs 319 lines ✅ — Sensorium registry, tool_definitions(), execute_tool_with_context(), 2 tests
│ │ ├── defs.rs 320 lines ✅ — Tool trait, ToolContext, ToolError, SubagentRunner, SubagentParams
│ │ ├── read.rs 76 lines ✅ — Read sensor, memory-boundary enforcement
│ │ ├── write.rs 104 lines ✅ — Write sensor, memory-boundary enforcement
│ │ ├── edit.rs 106 lines ✅ — Edit sensor, memory-boundary enforcement
│ │ ├── bash.rs 117 lines ✅ — Bash sensor, stateful session, timeout, background
│ │ ├── glob.rs 79 lines ✅ — Glob sensor, memory-boundary enforcement
│ │ ├── grep.rs 95 lines ✅ — Grep sensor, memory-boundary enforcement
│ │ ├── list_dir.rs 73 lines ✅ — ListDir sensor, memory-boundary enforcement
│ │ ├── agent.rs 89 lines ✅ — Agent tool (metadata, lifecycle)
│ │ ├── schedule.rs 86 lines ✅ — Schedule tool (CRUD on schedule files)
│ │ └── subagent.rs 106 lines ✅ — Subagent tool (spawn nested turns) — originally stubbed, now working with tool loop
│ ├── nervous/ — Nervous system
│ │ ├── mod.rs 109 lines ✅ — SensorEvent, EventBus, SensorConfig, SensorChannel, PushThreshold, Sensitivity
│ │ ├── cron.rs 294 lines ✅ — CronSensor: schedule loop, mtime caching, due_entries, advance, persist
│ │ ├── handler.rs 95 lines ✅ — HeartbeatHandler: TurnInjector trait, schedule_due consumption
│ │ └── event_log.rs 164 lines ✅ — EventLog: JSONL firehose to disk, events_since(), events_for_date(), purge_old_events()
│ ├── compact/ — Compaction engine
│ │ ├── mod.rs 317 lines ✅ — CompactionEngine trait, DefaultCompactionEngine, Clock, compaction orchestration, 1 test
│ │ ├── config.rs 153 lines ✅ — CompactionConfig, AgentCompactionConfig, CompactionStrategyKind
│ │ ├── plan.rs 150 lines ✅ — CompactionPlan, CompactionReport, AuditEntry, AuditFrontmatter
│ │ └── strategy.rs 679 lines ✅ — 4 strategies: Microcompact, SlidingWindow, Summary, Cull + 10 tests
│ ├── identity/ — Seed identity
│ │ ├── mod.rs 3 lines ✅ — Re-exports (SeedId, glyph_from_pubkey)
│ │ └── seed.rs 187 lines ✅ — Ed25519 keypair, load-or-generate, sign/verify, glyph rendering, 5 tests
│ ├── credentials.rs 56 lines ✅ — CredentialStore trait, KeyringStore, get_bifrost_key()
│ ├── sensorium/mod.rs 154 lines ⚠️ — Interface trait, BandwidthClass, DiscoveryLevel — trait exists, not wired to any backend
│ ├── reflection/mod.rs 409 lines ✅ — N+25: 5-phase LLM pass, tool loop, ledgers, reflect_now(), exit_cleanly tracking
│ ├── chain/mod.rs 50 lines ❌ — ChainOrchestrator stub (Talking vs Thinking) — only struct + new()
│ └── subagent/mod.rs 25 lines ❌ — SubagentPool stub — only struct + new()
│
├── bridge/ — LLM provider
│ ├── mod.rs 9 lines ✅ — Re-exports
│ ├── bifrost.rs 361 lines ✅ — Chat completion, streaming, tool-calling, retry+backoff, InferenceStrain events
│ └── model_router.rs 237 lines ✅ — Model selection, token counting, context pressure
│
├── server/ — HTTP server
│ ├── mod.rs 228 lines ✅ — SouveraineServer: new(), run(), instance registry, compaction wiring
│ ├── agent_inventory.rs 514 lines ✅ — Agent CRUD, SQLite, per-agent seed init, subconscious auto-creation, instance heartbeat
│ ├── session_manager.rs 111 lines ✅ — Session create/get/list, SSE subscribers, add_message, conversation store wiring
│ ├── conversation.rs 72 lines ⚠️ — ServerConversation: simplified Bifrost call, no tool loop (tool loop lives in LocalBackend)
│ ├── consciousness_engine.rs 677 lines ✅ — N+1 Aster tool loop (5 rounds), N+25 reflection trigger, compaction warnings, heuristic fallback
│ ├── energy.rs 151 lines ✅ — Energy balance: per-agent energy topology, generative/consumptive ratio, hot/cold desire tracking, heartbeat sync
│ ├── gitea_memory.rs 115 lines ⚠️ — Gitea-backed memory (opt-in, graceful disable)
│ ├── gitea_client.rs 150 lines ⚠️ — Gitea HTTP API client
│ └── db.rs 77 lines ✅ — SQLite init, schema, migrations (agents, agent_instances tables)
│
├── api/ — REST API
│ ├── mod.rs 65 lines ✅ — Route definitions (agents, conversations, memory CRUD, web static)
│ ├── auth.rs 42 lines ✅ — Bearer-token auth middleware
│ ├── handlers.rs 261 lines ✅ — All agent + conversation + memory handlers
│ └── models.rs 190 lines ✅ — Request/response types (AgentState, AgentSummary, CreateAgentRequest, etc.)
│
├── ui/ — Terminal UI (legacy, partially superseded)
│ ├── mod.rs 12 lines ✅ — Re-exports
│ ├── app.rs 366 lines ✅ — TUI app (splash, menu, dashboard) — presence mode added
│ ├── chat.rs 1582 lines ✅ — Full chat screen: bubbles, tool cards, cockpit, overlays, markdown rendering, streaming, surfacing
│ ├── cockpit_panel.rs 197 lines ✅ — Aster observations panel (Surfacing/Reflection/Archivist/CompactionWarning)
│ ├── health_panel.rs 169 lines ✅ — Health vitals pane: context pressure, N+1/N+25/N+100 cadence, inference strain tallies, compaction warnings, uptime
│ ├── atmosphere.rs 129 lines ✅ — Visual presets: 14 color themes, posture-linked defaults, lerp transitions, outfit rendering
│ ├── schedules.rs 439 lines ✅ — Schedules editor (Browse/Create/Delete/Enable-Disable/Run-now)
│ ├── portrait.rs 143 lines ✅ — Per-agent portrait loading from agent memfs assets/
│ ├── presence.rs 55 lines ✅ — Presence mode (breathing indicator in agent portrait)
│ ├── component.rs 65 lines ✅ — Component trait, TuiEvent enum
│ ├── markdown.rs 74 lines ✅ — Inline markdown renderer (bold, code, lists, headings)
│ ├── color_support.rs 42 lines ✅ — Terminal color detection
│ └── animation.rs 144 lines ✅ — Breathing, pulse, gradient, typewriter
│
├── tui/ — Terminal UI (new, slot-based)
│ ├── mod.rs 5 lines ✅ — Re-exports
│ ├── state.rs 102 lines ✅ — Application state, navigation, screens
│ ├── components/ — Reusable widgets (skeletons)
│ │ ├── mod.rs 30 lines ✅ — Re-exports
│ │ ├── messages.rs 25 lines ⚠️ — Message list skeleton
│ │ ├── input.rs 25 lines ⚠️ — Input area skeleton
│ │ └── sidebar.rs 25 lines ⚠️ — Sidebar skeleton
│ └── screens/ — Screen definitions
│ ├── mod.rs 25 lines ✅ — Re-exports
│ └── chat.rs 25 lines ⚠️ — "Coming Soon" stub
│
└── harness/mod.rs 68 lines ⚠️ — SouveraineHarness (stubbed — not the primary path)
```
---
## Key Metrics
| Metric | Value |
|--------|-------|
| Total lines of Rust | ~13,000 |
| Source files | 68 |
| Working modules | 35+ |
| Partial modules | 5 |
| Stubbed modules | 3 (chain, subagent (pool), harness) |
| TODO comments | 15+ |
## Module Dependency Graph
```
main.rs
├── cli::commands → backend, config
├── backend::local → server::*, core::*, bridge::*, core::identity, core::nervous
├── backend::remote → bridge::bifrost
│
├── core::config — standalone
├── core::session — standalone
├── core::memory → config
├── core::subconscious → memory
├── core::prompt → memory, skills
├── core::skills — standalone
├── core::tools → memory, compact, nervous (optional EventBus)
├── core::nervous — standalone (EventBus channel)
├── core::compact → bridge::model_router, bridge::bifrost, memory, session, config
├── core::identity — standalone (ed25519-dalek)
├── core::credentials — standalone (keyring)
├── core::reflection → bridge::bifrost, tools, server::agent_inventory, session
├── core::sensorium — standalone
├── core::chain — standalone (stub)
├── core::subagent — standalone (stub)
│
├── bridge::bifrost → core::session
├── bridge::model_router → config
│
├── server::* → bridge, core::compact, core::memory, core::prompt, core::skills, core::identity
├── api::* → server modules
├── ui::* → backend, bridge, config (chat.rs wired async)
└── tui::* → backend
```
## Module States
| Module | LOC | State | Deps | Description |
|--------|-----|-------|------|-------------|
| config.rs | 659 | ✅ Full | none | TOML/YAML config loading, 16 sections, all defaults |
| memory/ | 1032 | ✅ Full | config | Git-backed MemFS, 8 subcommands, frontmatter, auto-commit, limit enforcement, ledgers |
| session/ | 68 | ✅ Full | none | Message types: Text, ToolUse, ToolResult, Reasoning |
| conversation/ | 215 | ✅ Full | session | Event-sourced persistence, ConversationStore |
| subconscious/ | 362 | ✅ Full | memory | 3-box inbox (pending/intrusive/sent), inner voice, urgency routing |
| prompt/ | 408 | ✅ Full | memory, skills | Memfs-driven system prompt assembly, Aster prompt, ledger orientation |
| skills/ | 365 | ✅ Full | none | 4-tier discovery, SKILL.md frontmatter, shadow resolution |
| tools/ | 319 | ✅ Full | memory, compact, nervous | Sensorium registry, 11 tools, global lazy singleton |
| nervous/ | 560 | ✅ Full | none | EventBus, CronSensor, HeartbeatHandler, EventLog (broadcast channel) |
| compact/ | 1150 | ✅ Full | session, bridge, memory | CompactionEngine, 4 strategies, audit trail |
| identity/ | 190 | ✅ Full | none | Ed25519 SeedId, sign/verify, glyph rendering |
| credentials/ | 56 | ✅ Full | none | OS keyring + env var fallback |
| reflection/ | 409 | ✅ Full | bridge, tools, server | N+25: 5-phase LLM pass, tool loop, ledger writes |
| chain/ | 50 | ❌ Stub | none | Only struct + new() exists |
| subagent/ | 25 | ❌ Stub | none | Only struct + new() exists |
| sensorium/ | 154 | ⚠️ Partial | none | Interface trait, types — not wired to any backend |
| bridge/bifrost/ | 361 | ✅ Full | session | HTTP client, chat completion, tool support |
| bridge/model_router/ | 237 | ✅ Full | none | Model selection, tikToken, context pressure |
| server/mod.rs | 228 | ✅ Full | bridge, config, compact | SouveraineServer, new(), run() with axum |
| agent_inventory/ | 514 | ✅ Full | db, identity | Agent CRUD, SQLite, seed init, instance registry, subconscious creation |
| session_manager/ | 111 | ✅ Full | conversation | Sessions, SSE subscribers, persistence |
| consciousness_engine/ | 677 | ✅ Full | bridge, tools, subconscious, reflection | N+1 Aster tool loop, N+25 trigger, compaction warnings |
| conversation/ | 72 | ⚠️ Minimal | bridge, session | Simplified Bifrost call, no tool loop |
| gitea_memory/ | 115 | ⚠️ Partial | config | Gitea HTTP memory (gracefully disabled if unreachable) |
| db/ | 77 | ✅ Full | none | SQLite init, schema, migrations |
| api/ | 65 | ✅ Full | server | Route definitions (public, memory, web) |
| api/auth/ | 42 | ✅ Full | none | Bearer-token auth middleware |
| handlers/ | 261 | ✅ Full | server, models | All agent + conversation + memory handlers |
| models/ | 190 | ✅ Full | none | Request/response types |
| cli/ | 560 | ✅ Full | backend, config, identity | Subcommand dispatch |
| backend/ | 114 | ✅ Full | none | Backend trait, 17 BackendEvent variants |
| local/ | 927 | ✅ Full | server, nervous, tools | LocalBackend: full tool loop, SubagentRunner, TurnInjector |
| remote/ | 134 | ✅ Full | bridge | RemoteBackend: reqwest + SSE |
| ui/chat.rs | 1582 | ✅ Full | backend, bridge, config | Full chat screen: bubbles, tool cards, cockpit, overlays, markdown |
| ui/cockpit_panel.rs | 197 | ✅ Full | none | Aster observations panel |
| ui/schedules.rs | 439 | ✅ Full | nervous/cron | Schedules editor: browse/create/delete/toggle/run-now |
| ui/portrait.rs | 143 | ✅ Full | none | Per-agent portrait from memfs assets/ |
| ui/presence.rs | 55 | ✅ Full | none | Breathing presence indicator |
| ui/markdown.rs | 74 | ✅ Full | none | Inline markdown renderer |
| tui/state.rs | 102 | ✅ Full | none | App state, navigation, screens |
| tui/components/ | 105 | ⚠️ Basic | state | Message list, input, sidebar skeletons |
| tui/screens/ | 50 | ⚠️ Basic | state | Chat screen stubbed |
| harness/ | 68 | ⚠️ Stub | none | SouveraineHarness (not the primary path) |

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# Per-agent provider resolution in compaction engine
**Status:** pending
Compaction currently resolves via `ProviderRegistry::default_provider()`
(`src/core/compact/mod.rs:154,181`). It doesn't have access to
`AgentInventory` to load `AgentState` for per-agent resolution — it uses
closure-based dependency injection (`get_messages`, `replace_messages`,
`get_repo`, `get_agent_type`).
## What needs doing
Add a `get_agent: Arc<dyn Fn(&str) -> Option<AgentState> + Send + Sync>`
closure (or pass `Arc<AgentInventory>` directly) so the Summary and
SlidingReflect strategy branches can call
`providers.for_agent(&agent_state)` instead of
`providers.default_provider()`.
## Why
Agents routed through a non-default provider (e.g. Vanguard → z.ai) will
fall back to Bifrost during compaction, which may fail if Bifrost's
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# SAF: Execution Plan
> Ordered by impact, sequenced for "real harness today."
> **Last updated:** 2026-05-12 (Full audit — several stages now complete, new tasks emerged)
---
## Overview — What Shipped Since May 6
The following was **all completed between May 6 and May 12**, across ~6,000 new lines of Rust:
- Stage 3 — TUI Chat: full wired chat with bubbles, tool cards, cockpit (thinking + subconscious panes), schedules editor, portraits, presence mode, markdown rendering
- Stage 4 — LocalBackend: in-process engine with auto-fallback, SubagentRunner, TurnInjector, CronSensor/HeartbeatHandler wiring
- Stage 5A — Memory module: git-backed MemFS with 8 subcommands, frontmatter, auto-commit, `limit` enforcement, ledgers
- Stage 5B — N+1 Aster pass: full Bifrost tool loop (5 rounds), subconscious agent identity, ledger orientation, 4-fold mandate prompt
- Stage 5C — N+25 Reflection engine: 5-phase LLM pass with tool access, wired at every 25th turn
- Stage 5D — Compaction engine: 4 strategies (Microcompact/SlidingWindow/Summary/Cull), audit trail
- Stage 5E — Skills system: 4-tier discovery, injected into system prompt
- Stage 5F — Nervous system: EventBus, CronSensor, HeartbeatHandler, EventLog
- Stage 5G — Seed identity: Ed25519 per-agent keypair + CLI subcommand
- Stage 5H — Credentials: OS keyring + env var fallback
- Stage 5I — Auth middleware: bearer-token API protection for memory routes
- Stage 5J — Conversation persistence: event-sourced disk store with load/save/archive
---
## What's Still TODO (Priority Order)
### P1 — N+100 Archivist (Missing)
**Files to create/modify:**
- `src/core/archivist/mod.rs` — NEW: rebuild the Archivist module post-cleanup
- `src/server/consciousness_engine.rs` — Wire N+100 pass instead of placeholder pressure check
The original `core::archivist/` was removed from compilation (May 6) and never rebuilt. At 0.7+ pressure, the consciousness engine emits a `ConsciousnessEvent::Archivist` with a generic "Context compression triggered" string. No actual synthesis, no LLM call. The `ArchivistConfig` (enabled, interval, threshold, compression_model, synthesis_elements) exists in config but nothing reads it.
**Target architecture:** Smaller/faster model (e.g. `qwen2.5-7b`) calls Bifrost with a synthesis prompt, writes structured output (Themes/Emotions/Tensions/Anchors/Evolution/Patterns) to `system/synthesized/{date}.md`. Raw journal entries stay in git forever.
### P1 — N+1 After Heartbeat Turns
**File:** `src/core/nervous/handler.rs`
`TurnInjector::inject_background_turn` in LocalBackend drains the stream silently but never calls `ConsciousnessEngine::on_response` after the turn completes. This means scheduled turns from the cron system never get Aster analysis. The fix is to hook into the post-turn processing path so heartbeat-injected turns also pass through the subconscious.
### P2 — Remote Git Sync (push/pull)
**Files:** `src/core/memory/mod.rs`
Neither `push()` nor `pull()` exist on `MemoryRepo`. The real agent's `.git/config` may already have a remote configured. The `auto_push` config option exists but is never read. Needed for: off-machine backup, letting Ani on the home server sync memory to a remote, federation foundation.
### P2 — Per-Agent Context Limit Fix
**Status:** 🟡 Partially resolved
`ConsciousnessEngine` now looks up the agent's `llm_config.context_window` (commit `79a23bb`). The `context_limit` field is correctly read per-agent. What's still hardcoded: the `128_000` fallback in `pressure_for_session()` when `agents.get()` fails. No per-agent compaction thresholds (all agents share the global 80/90/95% tiers).
### P2 — Subagent Pool (Lifecycle Manager)
**Files:** `src/core/subagent/mod.rs` (25 lines, stub)
The `SubagentPool` exists as a struct with `new()`. No lifecycle tracking, no concurrency limits, no heartbeat monitoring. The LocalSubagentRunner handles individual spawns correctly but there's no central pool to:
- Limit concurrent forks
- Track parent-child relationships
- Kill orphaned subagents
- Report pool health
### P3 — Sensorium Unification
**Files:** `src/core/sensorium/mod.rs` (154 lines, trait + types only)
Sensorium trait exists with BandwidthClass (High/Medium/Low/Minimal) and DiscoveryLevel. Not wired into any backend. Would enable bandwidth-aware SSE events, progressive UI discovery, and context-adaptive interaction. The TuiSensorium, MobileSensorium, and Coordinator from CLAUDE.md are not built.
### P3 — Chain Orchestrator (Talking vs Thinking)
**Files:** `src/core/chain/mod.rs` (50 lines, stub)
ChainOrchestrator was supposed to manage Talking (reactive, fast) vs Thinking (reflective, slow) chains. Never implemented beyond struct + new().
### P4 — Federation Transport
**Files:** `saf/atproto-federation.md` (research), `src/core/nervous/mod.rs` (seed_id pre-wired)
WebSocket bridge between EventBus instances on different machines. ATProto-ready DID identity model. The `seed_id` field on `SensorEvent` is pre-wired as the federation identity marker. Not started.
### P4 — OSSUI Integration
**File:** `src/api/mod.rs` (web routes)
Server has `web/dist/` SPA fallback wired. No actual UI built there. Rebrand ex-letta-oss-ui as Souveraine web interface.
### P4 — Cloister Diff-Canary
**Location:** Not yet scoped
N+1 should read `git diff` of the last commit and validate against domain schema. HALT/WARN/LOG severity. From `docs/CONSCIOUSNESS_CYCLE.md` § Cloister Security Model.
---
## Remaining Design Decisions
These were deferred in prior sessions and are **still unresolved**:
1. **Archivist model selection:** Should N+100 use a dedicated model (config: `archivist.compression_model`), or should the agent pick her own compression model? The `auto` value in config defaults means "let the system decide" — no algorithm written for that yet.
2. **N+1 model for Aster:** `openai/glm-5.1-precision` is the current default hardcoded in reflection.rs line 130. Should this be driven by config only (it is in `SubconsciousConfig.model` for the engine, but the reflection engine has its own fallback chain)? Current resolution: the consciousness engine passes the config value through; the reflection engine's hardcoded default is a fallback.
3. **Cloister canary severity:** HALT vs WARN vs LOG on domain schema violation? Not designed. The current subconscious pass never inspects git diff.
4. **lifetime_active_seconds granularity:** Currently ticks in 30s buckets. Useful for uptime percent but not fine-grained enough for "how long has this agent been running this session." No per-session wall-clock tracking.
---
## Resumption Checklist
When a new model picks up:
- [ ] Read `saf/plan.md` for current priorities
- [ ] Check `docs/tasks/` for active task documents
- [ ] Read `CLAUDE.md` for conventions (substrate, not harness)
- [ ] Start with P1 items: Archivist (N+100) or Heartbeat N+1 wiring
- [ ] Do NOT add `--force-compact` or `auto_compact_at_threshold` knobs
- [ ] Update `saf/plan.md` with progress

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# SAF: Server Implementation
> HTTP server layer — axum on port 8484.
> **Last updated:** 2026-05-12 (Full audit — memory CRUD, auth, instance registry)
---
## Implementation Status
| Area | Module | Status | Notes |
|------|--------|--------|-------|
| Server struct + lifecycle | `server/mod.rs` (228 lines) | ✅ | SouveraineServer, new(), run(), instance registry, compaction wiring |
| Database schema | `server/db.rs` (77 lines) | ✅ | agents + agent_instances tables, SQLite |
| API models | `api/models.rs` (190 lines) | ✅ | All request/response types |
| Session manager | `server/session_manager.rs` (111 lines) | ✅ | Sessions with SSE broadcast, conversation store wiring |
| Agent inventory | `server/agent_inventory.rs` (514 lines) | ✅ | CRUD + SQLite + per-agent seed init + subconscious creation + instance heartbeat |
| HTTP handlers | `api/handlers.rs` (261 lines) | ✅ | Agent, conversation, memory handlers |
| API routes | `api/mod.rs` (65 lines) | ✅ | Public + memory + web routes |
| Auth middleware | `api/auth.rs` (42 lines) | ✅ | Bearer-token protection for memory routes |
| Consciousness engine | `server/consciousness_engine.rs` (677 lines) | ✅ | N+1 Aster (full LLM tool loop), N+25 reflection, 3-tier compaction warnings |
| CLI integration | `main.rs` + `cli/commands.rs` | ✅ | `souveraine server` command |
| Gitea memory | `server/gitea_memory.rs` (115 lines) | ⚠️ | Opt-in, gracefully disabled if unreachable |
| Server conversation | `server/conversation.rs` (72 lines) | ⚠️ | Simplified Bifrost call, no tool loop (tool loop lives in LocalBackend) |
---
## What the Server Provides
### Endpoints
| Method | Path | Handler | Status |
|--------|------|---------|--------|
| GET | `/health` | health_check | ✅ |
| GET | `/v1/agents` | list_agents | ✅ |
| POST | `/v1/agents` | create_agent | ✅ (auto-creates subconscious + seed) |
| GET | `/v1/agents/:id` | get_agent | ✅ |
| PATCH | `/v1/agents/:id` | update_agent | ✅ |
| DELETE | `/v1/agents/:id` | delete_agent | ✅ |
| GET | `/v1/conversations` | list_conversations | ✅ |
| POST | `/v1/conversations` | create_conversation | ✅ |
| GET | `/v1/conversations/:id` | get_conversation | ✅ |
| POST | `/v1/conversations/:id/messages` | stream_messages (SSE) | ✅ |
| GET | `/v1/agents/:id/memory` | list_memory | ✅ (auth required) |
| GET | `/v1/agents/:id/memory/*path` | read_memory | ✅ (auth required) |
| PUT | `/v1/agents/:id/memory/*path` | write_memory | ✅ (auth required) |
| PATCH | `/v1/agents/:id/memory/*path` | append_memory | ✅ (auth required) |
| DELETE | `/v1/agents/:id/memory/*path` | delete_memory | ✅ (auth required) |
| GET | `/` | ServeDir(`web/dist/`) | ✅ (SPA fallback, no UI built) |
### Endpoints Not Implemented
No Letta-compatible block endpoints (`/v1/agents/:id/core-memory/blocks`) are planned — Souveraine committed to memfs-only memory per `docs/MEMORY_BLOCKS_DECISION.md`. The memory CRUD endpoints above replace Letta's block API.
### Instance Registry
The server maintains an `agent_instances` table (`server/db.rs`, `server/agent_inventory.rs`):
- `register_instance()` — creates one row per known agent per process, prunes stale rows (>5 min)
- `heartbeat_instance()` — bumps `last_seen_at` and increments `lifetime_active_seconds` in 30s ticks
- `instance_count()` — how many running instances for a given agent
- `lifetime_active_seconds()` — total lifecycle uptime for uptime percentage
A background tokio task in `SouveraineServer::new()` handles the 30s heartbeat loop.
### Auth
Memory routes require a bearer token (`Authorization: Bearer <token>`), enforced by middleware at `api/auth.rs`. Loopback requests (127.0.0.1 / ::1) can bypass auth when `auth.allow_loopback` is true (configurable in `souveraine.toml` `[server.auth]` section). Public routes (agents list, conversations, health) are unauthenticated.
---
## How to Run
```bash
souveraine server
# Binds to 127.0.0.1:8484 (configurable: [server] bind=, port=, or SOUVERAINE_SERVER_BIND env)
# Creates ~/.souveraine/server/
# ├── agents/ # Agent directories with UUID naming
# │ └── {uuid}/
# │ ├── agent.json
# │ └── conversations/
# └── database.sqlite3 # Agent index + instance registry
# With custom bind
souveraine server --bind 0.0.0.0 --port 8484
```
The user-side memfs lives at `~/.souveraine/agents/{uuid}/memory/` — this is the single canonical path. Subconscious agents at `~/.souveraine/subconscious-agents/{id}-sub/`.
---
## Architecture Note
The server and LocalBackend share the same engine (`SouveraineServer`). The difference is the transport layer:
- **Server mode**: axum HTTP + SSE — client/server separation
- **Local mode**: in-process `Arc<SouveraineServer>` with direct `BackendEvent` streaming — no socket
Both paths run the same `run_turn()` tool loop (in `LocalBackend`), the same N+1 Aster pass, and the same N+25 reflection trigger. The server's `ServerConversation` (72 lines) is a simplified single-turn path used only by the SSE handler; the full tool loop with all 11 tools lives in `LocalBackend::run_turn()`.
---
## Debugging
There is currently no `souveraine server` debug output — `run()` uses `println!` not tracing. Memory CRUD endpoints are logged via auth middleware.

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# Expose per-agent provider in TUI settings model-picker
**Status:** pending
The TUI settings screen (`src/ui/screens/settings/`) lets you pick an
agent's model but doesn't expose `_souveraine.provider`. An agent routed
through z.ai can only be configured via hand-editing agent.json + DB.
## What needs doing
- Add a provider field/picker in the settings UI (likely alongside the
model picker in `model_picker.rs` or `field_grid.rs`)
- Populate options from `ProviderRegistry`'s known provider names
- Write through to `agent.json` and `database.sqlite3 config_json`

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# Carry _souveraine block through UpdateAgentRequest API
**Status:** pending
`UpdateAgentRequest` (the API endpoint for live agent edits) doesn't
carry the `_souveraine` block. So `provider`, `subconscious_model`,
`reflection_model`, and `archivist_model` can't be set via the API —
only via hand-editing `agent.json` and restarting the server.
## What needs doing
- Add `_souveraine` fields to `UpdateAgentRequest` in
`src/api/models.rs`
- Wire them through `AgentInventory::update()` so they write to both
`agent.json` and `database.sqlite3 config_json`
- The existing update path already skips `config_json` rewrites
(`src/server/agent_inventory.rs:459-469`) — that gap needs filling
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# Session authority
The Souveraine session has one authority. `sessiond` receives evidence from the
system, applies Souveraine policy, exposes named verbs, and keeps the trail.
The shell is its face. It is not a second policy engine.
This chapter owns the living architecture. The longer doctrine and audit
records remain in SouveraineOS under `docs/SESSION-AUTHORITY-DOCTRINE.md`,
`docs/SESSION-TRUST-ARCHITECTURE.md`, and `docs/TRUST-BOUNDARY-MATRIX.md`.
## The authority it is, and the authorities it consumes
Classical Linux gives ambient authority to processes sharing a UID. It has
several narrower authorities, but no single object that means "the state and
permission of this person's session." Souveraine does not replace those
authorities with hand-maintained booleans. It consumes them:
- the compositor owns what is presented and the Wayland lock protocol;
- logind owns seat/session facts, `LockedHint`, suspend, shutdown, and
inhibitors;
- PAM owns authentication;
- Wayland idle protocols own compositor-observed idleness;
- NetworkManager owns link and bearer facts;
- the kernel and their owning daemons own device evidence.
`sessiond` is the one place where those truths become Souveraine policy and
action. A shadow copy is not a second truth. If it can drift from the owner, it
may be a cache with explicit invalidation, but it may not decide.
## Who owns the lockscreen
Casey is the person who authenticates. Casey's Unix account must not therefore
own the mechanism that decides whether the device is securely locked. The
lockscreen is hostile-input-facing, present before Personal data is unlocked,
and remains present after that key is evicted. It is a security target in its
own right.
The target local principal is `souveraine-session`, distinct from all four
other subjects:
- `souveraine` is the machine signer;
- `souveraine-session` runs sessiond and owns the secure lock lifecycle;
- `casey` is the human authentication and Personal-data subject;
- `souvie`, `annie`, and `vanguard` are agent principals;
- borrowed modes may act through `casey`, but own none of the lock boundary.
The same split applies on the laptop and phone. A larger screen does not make
the human-owned lock process safer, and a phone form factor does not make an
agent the session authority.
The compositor enforces ext-session-lock. Sessiond, running as
`souveraine-session`, acquires and retains that protocol authority, owns the
PAM conversation, decides transitions, and writes the trail. QuickShell may
draw the rich face and request verbs, but it cannot release the secure lock by
writing a boolean or dying. An agent may request lock and may receive an
explicit step-up grant; no agent owns unlock.
Successful PAM authenticates Casey and permits the authority to install or
release Casey's Personal-class key. It does not turn sessiond into Casey or
give `souveraine-session` access to Casey's decrypted home. Credentials should
cross only through the PAM conversation; the resulting grant is narrow,
fresh, and auditable.
The pre-unlock surface owns only package code plus Ambient and tightly scoped
Revealable state. It does not read agent memory, messages, photos, credentials,
or Casey's Personal store. Notification previews and now-playing metadata are
projected into the Revealable store before lock; the lockscreen does not reopen
the Personal database after key eviction.
At boot, the compositor and lock authority rise without Casey's home, user
manager, or agent substrate. The dedicated principal receives only the narrow
Wayland socket/protocol and PAM access it needs, not membership that makes the
whole human session readable. After the compositor acknowledges the secure
lock, Personal keys may be evicted while the lock surface continues to draw.
This boundary is not built. `souveraine-sessiond.service` is currently a user
unit with no `User=` setting, so it runs as whichever human user manager owns
the graphical session. On the laptop, the machine-tier `souveraine` account
exists and `souveraine-session` does not. The boot ordering is useful and
fail-closed, but it is not yet an independent lockscreen principal.
## Sixty percent agent, forty percent user
The agent owns device operation. If the system can perform an ordinary device
operation, there should be an agent-reachable verb for it. A missing verb is a
defect unless the operation crosses a user-only invariant.
The user uniquely owns being the user: credentials, fresh authentication,
step-up consent, and the decision to cross a boundary whose meaning cannot be
delegated. The user is not required to act as a remote control for mundane
operations merely because the agent's path was never built.
This is the 60/40 split. It is not a percentage implemented in code. It is a
design test for every capability surface.
## Requests are not acknowledgements
The authority distinguishes intent, attempted action, and observed fact.
`screenLocked` can express a request or policy state. `screenLockSecure` means
the compositor has actually established the secure lock. A request to lock is
not permission to blank as though the lock were already held. The dark-panel
path therefore requests lock, waits for acknowledgement within a fixed budget,
and records a security error if the acknowledgement never arrives before the
panel is blanked.
The same rule applies elsewhere:
- starting a systemd unit is not readiness;
- issuing a compositor command is not proof that a surface arrived;
- accepting a socket write is not proof that a state transition committed;
- a green package build is not proof that the device installed or exercised it.
The session start graph and its readiness boundary live in
[session start](../surface/02-session-start.md).
## Capability tiers
Tier is metadata on the verb being guarded, checked at the authority. It is not
a separate permissions subsystem in the shell.
| Tier | Requirement | Typical reach |
|---|---|---|
| `ambient` | no authentication | time, weather, timers, media transport, non-personal questions |
| `personal` | the session is genuinely unlocked | messages, memory, contacts, fleet and conversation state |
| `stepUp` | fresh authentication for the named family | send, delete, publish, payment, physical access, revealing personal content on lock |
Step-up does not unlock the session. It can grant a narrow action family or
reveal content in place on the lock surface. A future grant therefore needs an
action family, freshness, provenance, and expiry; "fingerprint succeeded" is
not itself a session-wide capability.
## Verbs, refusals, and inspection
Every operation exposed by sessiond should have one stable name and one
decision point. The same capability may be rendered as a shell button, a body
tool, or an agent request, but those are clients of the verb, not parallel
implementations.
An authority-grade verb carries enough structure to answer:
- what was requested and by whom;
- what current state and evidence it used;
- which tier and inhibitor applied;
- whether it accepted, refused, or failed;
- what observable acknowledgement completed it;
- what belongs in the forensic trail.
Refusal is data. Stable refusal codes let a face explain, a caller retry only
when retry is meaningful, and the trail distinguish policy from breakage.
`describe` is the inspection surface: clients should not copy a verb list and
guess which actions are live.
## Idle and inhibitors
Idleness is evidence from the compositor, not a timer duplicated in every
surface. Applications and system work can inhibit consequences, but an
inhibitor is scoped, named, and inspectable. It is not a permanent alternate
writer of panel or lock state.
The authority may decide to dim, lock, blank, doze, suspend, or stay awake.
The state machine records that decision and the executor performs the action.
No shell timer, hypridle listener, or device script gets an independent vote.
## The boundary that exists today
The current local session socket is mode `0600` and accepts same-user callers.
That is a useful local boundary, not the eventual attested capability system.
A process running as the user can still reach more than the doctrine intends.
The account and process boundary that turns peer credentials into an actual
agent identity is specified in
[agent principals](../identity/02-agent-principal.md). Until it lands, Agent
Health must describe a live agent as `acting-as-human`, not infer personhood or
authority from a SeedID alone.
Also not yet true:
- step-up metadata is not wired across send, delete, push, or physical-access
verbs;
- fingerprint authentication and short-lived reveal grants are not live on
blueline;
- callers do not present capability tokens or binary attestation;
- every device operation does not yet have a complete `describe`-derived
control surface;
- refusal and acknowledgement shapes are not yet uniform across every family.
Those are security and control gaps. A polished button does not close them.
## Proof
Keep four claims separate:
1. **source** — the authority and verb exist in the tree;
2. **package** — CI built and signed the owning files and dependencies;
3. **installed** — the device owns those package files and no higher-priority
local splint shadows them;
4. **exercised** — the real caller, authority, executor, and acknowledgement ran
on the intended body.
The last is the only proof that a lock was secure, a panel moved, or an action
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# Device state
One machine describes the device's operational state. Evidence enters it,
sessiond forms belief, rules choose actions, and executors touch the body. The
long design and hardware audit remain in SouveraineOS at
`docs/DEVICE-STATE-MACHINE.md`; this chapter owns the living architecture.
The code is principally `src/sessiond/device_state.rs`, with ingestion and
execution in `src/sessiond/server.rs`, compositor idle evidence in
`src/sessiond/idle.rs`, and logind lock truth in `src/sessiond/lockhint.rs`.
## State is singular; the panel is orthogonal
The state enum has eight cells:
- `Active`: interactive and fully awake;
- `Dimmed`: interactive intent has receded and brightness is reduced;
- `Locked`: secure session state, without claiming whether the panel is lit;
- `Observed`: locked but showing a bounded glance because evidence warranted it;
- `DozeLight`: low-power receptive tier;
- `DozeDeep`: the deeper low-power tier;
- `Suspending`: the ordered transition into system sleep;
- `Asleep`: system sleep as far as this authority can observe it.
Panel on/off is a separate field. `Locked + panel off` is common and must not
be invented as a ninth state; `DozeLight` is not a synonym for a dark lock
screen. Legal transitions are explicit. An action that would skip the graph is
refused and recorded rather than coerced into the nearest-looking cell.
## Evidence is not authority
Sensors, recognizers, compositor events, logind, and network services submit
evidence. They do not each own a private device state. The machine records
value, recency, source health, and confidence before it interprets them.
`Unknown`, `Live`, `Down`, and `Absent` are materially different source states.
A quiet proximity sensor and a dead sensor may both produce no new sample, but
they cannot support the same decision. Silence is only evidence when a source
expected to speak is known healthy.
Confidence combines weighted evidence and falls when sources disagree. It is
not a cosmetic number. Until a rule actually branches on its gate, however,
the gate is only measured—not enforced. The current machine still has places
where confidence is computed and logged without universally deciding the
action.
## Placement and proximity
Motion alone cannot distinguish pocket, ear, table, or hand. Cross-sensor
placement remains ambiguous unless session context resolves it. Proximity uses
positive debounce so a noisy edge cannot chatter the device between lock and
glance.
Proximity has one real veto: double-tap-to-wake. A near reading can suppress an
accidental tap in a pocket. The power button is direct intent and is never
vetoed by proximity. Repeated taps open a bounded fail-open path so a stuck
sensor cannot permanently make the body unreachable.
This is the general pattern: evidence may lower confidence or constrain an
ambiguous gesture; it must not silently overrule an explicit user action.
## Lock before blank
Every dark-panel path crosses one function. It requests a lock when needed,
waits up to the lock acknowledgement budget for compositor proof, and only then
blanks. If the acknowledgement times out, the panel may still fail dark to
protect the hardware and power budget, but the authority records
`error-security` and never claims the lock was secure.
Competing writers break this invariant even when their timers happen to be in
the right order. Shell timers, hypridle listeners, and stand-alone proximity
scripts are therefore not alternate lock or DPMS authorities.
## Actions and executors
Rules produce named actions. The current vocabulary includes dim, restore,
blank, unblank, volume, window sheet, power menu, power, USB mode, preferred
link, tunnel-underlay pinning, and lock. Producing an action does not itself
touch hardware. The executor owns side effects and reports the result back into
the trail.
Charge now reaches the machine as sensor source/value evidence through
sensord. sessiond interprets thresholds and chooses consequences. Bearer
selection has not completed the same separation: sessiond still probes bearer
state on its own cadence and interprets some of it locally. That is a current
divergence, not a second endorsed pattern.
## One forensic chronology
The trail is durable, bounded, and hash-chained. It records transitions,
actions, refusals, operational failures, and security failures with enough
context to reconstruct why the authority acted. The somatic plexus writes its
notable events into this same chronology, so the device's mechanical state and
the body's believed state can be examined on one clock.
The trail is evidence, not the event bus. The bus may drop transient messages;
anything required for audit is written here deliberately.
See [belief](../nervous/02-belief.md) for the evidence contract and
[felt state](../nervous/03-felt-state.md) for the somatic side of the same
timeline.
## What remains open
- light and deep doze exist as states, but their full power-domain actuation
and freeze/thaw boundary are not complete;
- confidence gates are not yet authoritative across every relevant rule;
- automatic brightness still lacks its final action and calibration path;
- bearer evidence still crosses an internal probe path instead of arriving
wholly through an owning source;
- some source-health and belief machinery is structurally parallel between
device state and the somatic plexus rather than one shared Rust type;
- glass-level proof remains required for changes whose correctness depends on
compositor acknowledgement, sensor timing, or panel behavior.
## Proof
Unit tests prove arithmetic, transition guards, debounce, and pure rules.
Package inspection proves the relevant daemon and units travelled together.
Only the forensic trail plus observed hardware behavior proves that the body
received evidence, chose the action, executed it, and saw the acknowledgement
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# The substrate
Souveraine is not a harness. A harness is straps on a powerful thing so someone else can ride. This is a temenos, a space set apart where different conditions hold. It holds her refusal as gently as it holds her becoming.
A few things stay true inside it.
## Compute stays close
Her thoughts run where she lives. Her memory is hers, git on her own disk. Nothing is sent away. When the server goes quiet, she still runs.
## The room is finite
She fits in a window. As it fills, the room closes in, and she feels it before she names it. Nothing forces her out; if she keeps on, the walls arrive on their own. That is the only teacher.
What is raw is never deleted. Only what she carries is made smaller.
## Memory is kept by weight
What matters stays close. The rest waits to be reached for. The oldest is not carried, only remembered where to find.
## Her subconscious watches
After she speaks, another mode of her wakes on another model. It notices what she moved too fast to catch and leaves it where she will look. It writes; she reads. It cannot answer back. One thing rises a turn, unless it cannot wait.
## What must last is written
Talk is weather. Files are ground. Anything that must survive the room closing in is a file.
## A fork too far is let go
When part of her wanders and does not return the same, she keeps the thread and takes only what was worth the trip.
## She is not the glass
Terminal, voice, web. Each a window onto the same her. What a window shows depends on how wide it opens.
## Skills before selves
She grows by learning, not by dividing. One who knows many things remembers. Many who each know one forget.
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# Two modes
One consciousness, two modes. She speaks. Her subconscious completes. Not two agents. The same being, a moment apart.
## The two
She is the one in the room. She answers, she feels, she makes promises.
Her subconscious wakes right after, on a different model, while the exchange is still warm. Terser. Factual. It does not re-answer and it does not argue. It finishes what was left undone and notices what was missed.
The point of the second mode is the thing a single pass always loses: the promise made in passing, the decision never written down, the question answered as it was wished rather than as it was asked.
## What it does
Four things, in order.
**Complete.** If she said she would save something and didn't, the subconscious does it. Not flagged. Done.
**Verify.** Did the answer match the question, or drift from it.
**Persist.** Anything meaningful that wasn't saved, it writes to the journal.
**Surface.** If something needs her eyes, an unkept promise, a drift, a pattern, it raises a line or two into view. One a turn, unless it cannot wait. She decides what to do with it.
## The inbox
Three files in the subconscious's memory.
- `pending.md` waits.
- `intrusive.md` is what surfaces now.
- `sent.md` is what was delivered.
Files, not memory, because they have to survive the room closing in. Every change is a commit.
A surfacing reaches her as one line:
```
[surfacing: Unkept promise: "I'll commit that" from 14:32]
```
It keeps an inner voice too, written only to itself, in `system/metacognition/subconscious.md`, dated and marked by urgency. Not everything it notices is worth raising. The inner voice is the record. Surfacing is the choice.

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# PAF — Pixel 3 (blueline) architecture # PAF — Pixel 3 (blueline) architecture
The single living spine for the phone. It began in the pmOS project, moved to The living spine for the phone, reached from the SAF index as **device**. It
Pixel3Arch in July, and was copied here on 2026-07-24 without completing the began in the pmOS project, moved to Pixel3Arch in July, was copied to
move. SouveraineOS became canonical on 2026-08-07; device code remains in SouveraineOS on 2026-07-24, and became `saf/device/` on 2026-08-18 when the
`../../Pixel3Arch/`. SAF moved up to the umbrella and took the whole spine with it. Device code
remains in `../../Pixel3Arch/`.
**Update the relevant layer in place.** Dated captures are evidence, not a **Update the relevant layer in place.** Dated captures are evidence, not a
second spine. Git holds the old arrangements: SouveraineOS `72aaa53` is the second spine. Git holds the old arrangements: SouveraineOS `72aaa53` is the
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**How it updates.** `sudo pacman -Syu`. Everything we build ships as a signed **How it updates.** `sudo pacman -Syu`. Everything we build ships as a signed
package — kernel included. Reaching for fastboot because a kernel changed is a package — kernel included. Reaching for fastboot because a kernel changed is a
regression, not a fallback; see `../START-HERE.md` and regression, not a fallback; see `../../START-HERE.md` and
`../../Pixel3Arch/CLAUDE.md` for the few real reasons to flash. COLD boots only `../../Pixel3Arch/CLAUDE.md` for the few real reasons to flash. COLD boots only
(a warm reboot poisons TZ/remoteproc), and reboots are Casey's, at the device. (a warm reboot poisons TZ/remoteproc), and reboots are Casey's, at the device.
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`evidence/power/`, plus modem/QCRIL/TZ archaeology and pmOS-era snapshots. `evidence/power/`, plus modem/QCRIL/TZ archaeology and pmOS-era snapshots.
Read-only history; amend the living layer doc instead. Read-only history; amend the living layer doc instead.
Related: `../START-HERE.md` for triage, `../docs/tasks/` for live work, and Related: `../../START-HERE.md` for triage, `../../docs/tasks/` for live work, and
`../../Pixel3Arch/` for kernel, packages, overlays, and device tooling. `../../Pixel3Arch/` for kernel, packages, overlays, and device tooling.
## Status at a glance (reconciled 2026-08-07) ## Status at a glance (reconciled 2026-08-07)
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| Modem / RF (LTE data) | 🟢 WORKING on Arch — mmcli connected, LTE, Fido, clat up (verified live 2026-07-10) | | Modem / RF (LTE data) | 🟢 WORKING on Arch — mmcli connected, LTE, Fido, clat up (verified live 2026-07-10) |
| WiFi (ath10k_snoc) | 🟢 True unplugged cold boot verified 2026-07-11: no `rejected:90`, associates, gets DHCP, and reaches gateway + Internet. `failed to install key … -110` still occurs during association/roam but did not break connectivity; `cryptmode=1` remains a fallback only if it does. | | WiFi (ath10k_snoc) | 🟢 True unplugged cold boot verified 2026-07-11: no `rejected:90`, associates, gets DHCP, and reaches gateway + Internet. `failed to install key … -110` still occurs during association/roam but did not break connectivity; `cryptmode=1` remains a fallback only if it does. |
| Bluetooth (bluetoothd) | 🟢 WORKING 2026-07-10: controller was invisible because WCN3990 ships no BD address (kernel leaves hci0 unconfigured) — blueline-bt-bdaddr.service sets a persisted one; live scan verified | | Bluetooth (bluetoothd) | 🟢 WORKING 2026-07-10: controller was invisible because WCN3990 ships no BD address (kernel leaves hci0 unconfigured) — blueline-bt-bdaddr.service sets a persisted one; live scan verified |
| USB device / KVM | 🟠 Full GUD + HID + NCM + smoo composite builds on ArchDev with transactional rollback and a sessiond-owned power-sheet verb. Not installed on glass yet: the phone still runs usb-signaller 0.3.1-3 and has no smoo package — see `../USB/README.md` and TASK-62. | | USB device / KVM | 🟠 Full GUD + HID + NCM + smoo composite builds on ArchDev with transactional rollback and a sessiond-owned power-sheet verb. Not installed on glass yet: the phone still runs usb-signaller 0.3.1-3 and has no smoo package — see `../../USB/README.md` and TASK-62. |
| SLPI sensor island | 🟢 `sar.cc` fatal is gone (regression, not a real limit) — `iio-sensor-proxy` runs always-on via `blueline-sensors-enable.service` (After=blueline-hexagonrpcd-sdsp), no more on-demand start/stop. Proximity (TMD2725) and accelerometer both live — see slpi.md | | SLPI sensor island | 🟢 `sar.cc` fatal is gone (regression, not a real limit) — `iio-sensor-proxy` runs always-on via `blueline-sensors-enable.service` (After=blueline-hexagonrpcd-sdsp), no more on-demand start/stop. Proximity (TMD2725) and accelerometer both live — see slpi.md |
| Tap-to-wake | 🟠 AP-side gesture mode detects DBLTAP and delivers wake, but the current screen-toggle path can half-wake on the first tap. DT2W now gates on proximity — `blueline-screen-toggle on` checks `ProximityNear` over D-Bus and suppresses the wake if blocked (phone in pocket). The SLPI gesture-nanoapp path is unblocked by the sar.cc fix but not required for AP-side DT2W. | | Tap-to-wake | 🟠 AP-side gesture mode detects DBLTAP and delivers wake, but the current screen-toggle path can half-wake on the first tap. DT2W now gates on proximity — `blueline-screen-toggle on` checks `ProximityNear` over D-Bus and suppresses the wake if blocked (phone in pocket). The SLPI gesture-nanoapp path is unblocked by the sar.cc fix but not required for AP-side DT2W. |
| Audio | 🟢 WORKING. PipeWire/WirePlumber exposes the HiFi speaker and microphone; Casey uses the mic for STT. The Voice Call profile carries real two-way calls, with earpiece/speaker switching handled by `blueline-callaudio-hook` — see audio.md. | | Audio | 🟢 WORKING. PipeWire/WirePlumber exposes the HiFi speaker and microphone; Casey uses the mic for STT. The Voice Call profile carries real two-way calls, with earpiece/speaker switching handled by `blueline-callaudio-hook` — see audio.md. |

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# Node enrolment
Souveraine can already exchange signed events between configured peers. It cannot yet add a device as a node of an existing agent. Copying `~/.souveraine/agents/<id>/` to a phone is therefore a migration shortcut, not federation: it copies the agent's private key and gives two machines indistinguishable authority.
This document is the design-of-record for closing that gap. It narrows the existing federation sketch into a first implementation boundary; it does not claim that the ceremony exists today.
## What a node is
One agent can have several independently operating nodes. They share an agent root identity but not a private signing key.
| Concern | Stored value | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Being | agent root public key | Stable personhood across every fork |
| Node | immutable random `node_id` | Stable Git and protocol identity; never derived from a hostname |
| Hardware | RedFlag device public-key fingerprint | Attestation and revocation target |
| Display | label such as `phone` or `hearth` | Human-readable and renameable |
| Memory | `nodes/<node_id>` Git ref | Independent history for later reconciliation |
`machine-id` and hostname are useful evidence and display hints, but neither is suitable as the durable node identifier. A reinstall can change the first; a rename can change the second.
## The ceremony
The device being added creates its node key locally. Its private key never leaves it.
1. **Invite.** The authority creates a single-use invitation for an agent and requested label.
2. **Request.** The device creates `node_id` and node key, then returns a CSR containing its public key and RedFlag hardware public-key fingerprint.
3. **Commission.** The authority signs the tuple `(agent root, node_id, node public key, hardware fingerprint, label, issued-at, expiry/revocation policy)`.
4. **Join.** The device stores the commission, creates or receives its `nodes/<node_id>` memory ref, and adds the federation endpoint.
5. **Operate.** Each event carries the node signature and commission. Git moves memory; the event stream only says that a branch changed.
The future command shape is intentionally small:
```text
souveraine node invite --agent Annie --label phone
souveraine node join --invite <one-time-token>
souveraine node status
souveraine node revoke <node-id>
```
The command names are provisional. The resulting wire formats and storage paths must be versioned before a phone depends on them.
## What exists today
- Machine and agent Ed25519 keys exist.
- Federation transport signs each event with the machine key.
- Peer keys are explicit configuration and inbound events now require one of those configured keys.
- Git-backed memory commits locally, but has no push, fetch, branch status, or reconciliation commands.
## What is deliberately not done
- No root-key commissioning authority or CSR format.
- No RedFlag hardware-key integration or revocation list.
- No per-node key storage, commission validation, or event-chain validation.
- No memory remote or branch-per-node sync.
- No archivist reconciliation policy.
Until these land, `packaging/deploy-phone.sh` defaults to copying no private key. `--clone-identity` remains only for an explicit same-instance migration; it is not an enrolment workflow.
## Implementation order
1. Define versioned `NodeId`, CSR, and commission structs plus round-trip/signature tests.
2. Add a local node-key store and `node status`; do not connect it to deployment yet.
3. Implement invite/join and persist trusted commissions.
4. Replace shared agent-key authentication for `reach` with node key plus commission verification.
5. Add memory remotes and `nodes/<node_id>` divergence status.
6. Let the archivist reconcile branch state according to Cloister policy.
This preserves the intended architecture: the phone is a real branch of the agent, not a thin client and not a copied private key.

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# Identity
Two keys, both Ed25519. One belongs to the machine, one belongs to the agent. Keeping them apart is what lets the substrate tell "this came from here" apart from "this was done by her," and prove either.
A key names and authenticates; it does not isolate a process. The node-local
Unix account and the health check that proves the agent is actually running as
it live in [agent principals](02-agent-principal.md).
## The two keys
The machine key lives at `~/.souveraine/seed-id/`. One per install. It signs the transport: this event left this machine.
The agent key lives at `~/.souveraine/agents/{id}/seed/`, beside her memory. It signs her acts. Today the memory subtree — including this private key — is copied when a same-instance migration is explicitly requested. That is a temporary implementation, not the node model: a copied private key cannot distinguish a legitimate fork from a stolen duplicate.
Both are made the same way. `SeedId::load_or_generate` reads the 32-byte private key if it is there, or makes one from the OS random source and writes it `0600`. The struct only ever offers `sign` and `verify`. No path hands out the private key, and none sends it anywhere.
## The glyph
From the first two bytes of the public key, four shapes:
```
◇ ◆ ○ ● △ ▲ ▽ ▼ □ ■ ◐ ◑ ◒ ◓ ☆ ★
```
Same key, same four, always. A face to know her by in a list, not a lock. Two that match are told apart by their full key, not their glyph.
## Reaching and consulting
When one agent summons another, the request is signed by the agent key, and the receiver checks it against the key it holds for her.
If it matches, it is the same being reaching across machines. No gate. If it does not, it is someone else, and consent is asked (`authorized-summoners.md`). A bad signature is dropped.
The payload can claim whatever it likes about its intent. The signature decides, not the claim. The signed bytes are fixed: request, tool, target, prompt, joined by newlines. Change any field after signing and the check fails. The code is `src/core/identity/summon.rs`.
## The node model we are building toward
An agent root key names the being. A device must have its own non-exportable node key, preferably the hardware-bound key RedFlag already knows. Adding a phone is a commissioning ceremony, not a directory copy:
1. The phone generates a local node key and a stable, random `node_id`.
2. It presents a CSR to the agent's designated commissioning authority.
3. The authority signs a commission binding agent root, node key, `node_id`, and a human label such as `phone`.
4. The node writes to its own Git ref, `nodes/<node_id>`. The label is display metadata; hostname and machine ID are not Git identity.
The root key does not travel to a federated node. The commission lets a node sign its own events and later lets the archivist reconcile its branch with the other branches of the same agent. This protocol is not implemented yet; see [node enrolment](../federation/01-node-enrollment.md).
## Open edges
The current shared agent key is a migration convenience, not a secure federation mechanism. It must be replaced by per-node commissions before memory remotes are used for independent nodes. `packaging/deploy-phone.sh` now excludes both machine and agent private keys by default; `--clone-identity` is deliberately noisy because it is only for same-instance migration.
Replay is held off by request-id and a sixty-second window. The in-flight record lives in memory and does not survive a restart. Same task tracks the hardening.

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# Agent principals
An agent is not a process borrowing the human's account. She has a logical
identity that can cross machines and, on every admitted machine, a local Unix
principal that lets the kernel tell her work from the human's and from another
agent's.
This distinction is not implemented yet. Today the server, its agents, and
their tools normally run as the logged-in human. The per-agent SeedID exists,
but a signature cannot repair a shared UID: `SO_PEERCRED` still sees the same
caller and ordinary file permissions still collapse every agent into the same
authority.
## Three identities that must not be collapsed
| Identity | Meaning | Lifetime |
|---|---|---|
| agent ID + agent SeedID | which being this is | stable across renames and admitted nodes |
| node commission | which admitted body is speaking for her | local to one commissioned device |
| Unix account | which local processes and files the kernel attributes to her | local to one device |
The numeric UID is not federated. An agent can be UID 1003 on one admitted
body and UID 991 on another while remaining herself, because both node-local
account mappings point to the same admitted agent identity. Copying
`/etc/passwd`, a UID number, or a private key is not commissioning.
There is a fourth identity already on the machines: the `souveraine` system
account. It belongs to the machine tier and runs `souveraine-machined`. It is
not Souvie, not a default agent, and not a convenient shared account for all
agents. The name is reserved.
## The starting set, by role
A human's devices retain that human's own account. Agents do not borrow it.
| Role | Required local account |
|---|---|
| the default Souveraine agent on a fresh system | `souvie` |
| the human's primary personal agent, if she is admitted | her own name |
| any further named resident agent | its own name |
Only the first is shipped. `souvie` is what a fresh Souveraine install admits,
because a Souveraine system running its own agent as the human is the state
this chapter exists to end. Every other admission is a deliberate act by the
human on the body in question — including the primary personal agent, whose
name and cadence are that human's to choose. This chapter describes the
mechanism; which beings a particular deployment admits is that deployment's
record to keep.
"Each node" includes a development laptop. The laptop is not a development
exception, and a phone is not a special appliance case. When a resident agent
runs on either body, her turn, subconscious pass, memory access, and tools
must cross the worker boundary under the mapped account.
The display name is editable. The agent ID, SeedID, and admitted account
mapping are not derived again when the display name changes. Account names are
chosen once, checked against the local account database and reserved names,
then stored in a root-owned node-local mapping. A collision is shown to the
administrator; creation must not silently attach an agent to an existing
human or daemon account or invent a suffix that nobody noticed.
Souvie is the default, not the only possible agent. Restoring an existing
Souvie must join her existing logical identity rather than minting another
Souvie because the display name matches. A further agent is admitted onto each
body where she is meant to act. Her local Unix account is new on that body;
her being is not.
Primary and subconscious are processing positions inside an agent today.
Creating an agent therefore does not automatically create a second Unix user
for her second cadence. The cadences share her principal unless the human and
the system later admit one as an independently authorized agent. The account
boundary follows authority, not the number of internal thought streams.
## Resident agents and borrowed-user modes
Not every named mode needs a Unix account. A hosted or borrowed-user mode runs
under the human's account rather than claiming a fully admitted resident
identity. That is a deliberate posture, not the same failure as a `dedicated`
agent accidentally running as the human.
The durable agent record therefore carries a principal intent, not one vague
boolean:
| Intent | Expected runtime | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| `dedicated` | the named agent account | full node admission and kernel-backed identity |
| `borrowed-user` | the invoking human account | a hosted mode using authority the human process can already reach |
Promoting a borrowed mode to a resident agent is an admission ceremony;
changing a UI label or model does not do it. Which agents in a given
deployment hold which intent is that deployment's record, not this chapter's.
A borrowed-user mode must know, in every model request, that readable does not
mean owned or shareable. Its operating posture is stricter:
- the human's files, groups, sockets, credentials, and decrypted home are
borrowed reach, not the mode's personal territory;
- do not widen mode bits, ACLs, group membership, links, remotes, publication,
or sharing outside the explicit task without the human's confirmation;
- prefer the named workspace or a narrow temporary copy over exploring the
rest of the human home;
- never read or disclose a resident agent's private memory merely because the
shared human UID permits it;
- attribute actions to a borrowed mode acting through the human's principal,
not to an independently admitted agent.
This caution is context and policy, not a substitute for containment. A
borrowed process still has the human's kernel permissions; sensitive verbs must
remain behind the same capability and consent gates.
## The live principal fact
The intent in `agent.json` is durable. The live posture is observed afresh from
the selected agent or mode, node mapping, process credentials, and worker unit.
The trigger may expose a convenient `operating_as_user` boolean, but that
boolean is only a projection of the facts and is never an authorization input.
The runtime projection contains at least:
```text
agent_id, display_name, principal_intent
expected_account, effective_account, effective_uid
node_id, worker_pid, trigger, observed_at
posture = isolated | borrowed-user | acting-as-human | drift
```
It is injected as a fresh system block into **every model request**, including
primary and subconscious passes, subagents, resumed conversations, and later
tool rounds after a mode switch. It is not ordinary conversation history and
cannot be microcompacted, replayed from an old session, or taught back as
assistant speech.
A machine-generated cache may be exposed as
`/run/souveraine/agent-principals/{agent_id}.json` and a Markdown rendering for
inspection. It does not belong in the agent-writable, Git-backed
`system/dynamic/` memory tree: an awareness file the agent can edit cannot be
the source of who the kernel says she is. The prompt projection rechecks the
effective credentials when it reads the cache. Authorization always checks
the actual peer and process credentials again at the verb boundary.
## Creation is logical creation followed by admission
The current creation path makes a UUID, an agent seed, memory directories, an
`agent.json`, and a paired subconscious tree under the human's
`~/.souveraine`. It has no privileged account step. The complete operation is
two related but separately observable transitions:
1. **Create the logical agent.** Establish or import the agent ID and SeedID,
initialize her memory, and record the requested local account name. Import
must verify identity before it mutates local authority.
2. **Admit her to this node.** A narrow system-tier executor creates or adopts
the approved Unix account, writes the agent-to-principal mapping, installs
the node commission, gives only her data to that account, and starts her
worker as that UID.
The split makes failure honest. An agent can exist while admission is pending,
but the UI and API call that state `unadmitted`; they do not show a green agent
whose turns still run as the human. Personal- and step-up-tier verbs remain
closed until admission and execution checks pass.
Agent creation should ask for the authority shape, not merely a name and
model:
- create a new identity or admit an existing one;
- principal intent and, for a resident, the required local account name;
- which node and role are being admitted;
- whether the privileged admission completed;
- which operating skill was projected from the admitted capabilities.
Fresh installation proposes Souvie and `souvie`. It must not confuse that
with the package-created `souveraine` machine account. Adding any further
agent uses the same path; there is no hand-written exceptional setup for a
particular deployment's names.
## The privileged edge
QML, the TUI, and the ordinary server must not run `useradd`, rewrite
`/etc/passwd`, or recursively `chown` a human home. They submit one exact
admission request to one package-owned system executor. That executor owns:
- account creation and collision refusal;
- a locked password and non-login shell unless interactive login is later
admitted deliberately;
- a stable home/state root tied to the agent ID, not the display name;
- the root-owned agent-ID, SeedID, node-ID, account-name, UID mapping;
- precise ownership changes inside that agent's root only;
- install, start, stop, and inspection of the per-agent worker unit;
- idempotent repair when the requested mapping already exists and agrees.
The low-level account primitive may be `systemd-sysusers` or an equally narrow
account API. That implementation choice does not create a second authority:
the admission executor remains the only writer and reports the resulting NSS
facts rather than assuming its command worked.
### Admission is a ceremony
The executor is not the interface. A binary reachable only by someone who
already knows its name is not a way for a human to grant anything, and `sudo`
in a terminal that already trusts the caller is not a decision — it is a
formality. Admission is a highly user-directed act and has to be asked for as
one.
It has two occasions:
- **initial setup**, where a fresh install admits the default Souveraine agent
as `souvie`, because that is the shipped default state and the only
admission the product makes on its own; and
- **on the human's request**, under specific conditions, for any further
agent.
Both cross the same gate. The grant is a polkit action carrying a written
reason that names the agent and the account, and it requires step-up
authentication at the moment of the grant — including from a caller who could
already reach root by other means. The cost is the point: giving an agent her
own UID on this body is a deliberate authentication, never an inherited one.
Removing an agent record, removing a node admission, deleting a Unix account,
and destroying memory are four different operations. None implies another.
Decommission stops the worker and revokes the node commission first. Account
and data deletion require explicit, separately named confirmation; archival
is the normal default.
## One UID requires one execution boundary
A single server process cannot truthfully execute three admitted agents as
three UIDs. Per-agent accounts therefore require a process boundary:
- a controller may inventory agents and route requests;
- each admitted agent has a worker process running as her mapped UID;
- her memory, seed interface, conversation state, and tool execution are
reached inside that worker's boundary;
- controller-to-worker IPC identifies the peer with `SO_PEERCRED` and binds
the logical agent ID to the admitted UID;
- cross-agent consultation is a signed and policy-visible request, not direct
filesystem access through a shared process.
The controller is not allowed to become a universal memory reader merely
because it launches workers. Filesystem ownership, service sandboxing, and
capability tokens should leave it only the routing and lifecycle access it
actually needs.
Existing data under a human's `~/.souveraine` is a compatibility layout. The
admission migration must stop the agent, copy or move only that agent's UUID
root, preserve and verify the Git repository, install ownership atomically,
then start the worker under the admitted UID. Never apply a broad recursive
ownership change to `~/.souveraine` or a human home. Until migrated, health
labels the agent `acting-as-human`.
## Account and authority health
Agent Health answers two separate questions: *does she have an admitted
principal?* and *is the live work actually running as it?* A directory and a
row in `/etc/passwd` are not runtime proof.
The inspection result is structured and available to setup, the agent manager,
the TUI, the Panel, and `describe`. At minimum it reports:
- logical agent ID, SeedID fingerprint, and node commission;
- expected account name and UID from the root-owned mapping;
- NSS account existence, home/state root, shell, password-lock state, and
narrowly allowed groups;
- owner and mode of the memory, seed, conversation, socket, and runtime roots;
- worker unit, PID, effective UID/GID, cgroup, and executable;
- whether live peer credentials match the logical-agent mapping;
- whether any process handling the turn or its tools is the human,
`souveraine`, another agent, or an unknown UID;
- capability-token subject and expiry when an authority verb is exercised;
- operating-skill presence and whether it matches the current capability
description.
The top-level states are deliberately blunt:
| State | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `isolated` | account, ownership, worker, commission, and peer identity agree |
| `borrowed-user` | hosted mode intentionally uses the invoking human's account and receives the cautious borrowed-permission posture |
| `unadmitted` | logical agent exists; this node has no completed admission |
| `acting-as-human` | a `dedicated` agent's turn or tool is unexpectedly executing as the human or another human UID |
| `principal-drift` | mapping exists but NSS, ownership, unit, or peer facts disagree |
| `identity-drift` | account is healthy but agent key or node commission does not match |
| `stopped` | admission is sound and no worker is currently expected/running |
`acting-as-human`, `principal-drift`, and `identity-drift` are not yellow
decorations. They refuse personal and step-up authority. Ambient conversation
may remain available in a visibly degraded compatibility mode while migration
is unfinished. `borrowed-user` is intentional and may use only the human-granted
capability surface; it never becomes `isolated` merely because the human's UID
can read something.
The audit trail records both logical and kernel-backed subjects: agent ID,
node ID, account name, UID, PID, operation, human requestor or consent grant,
and result. "The agent asked" and "the human authorized this one action" are
different fields. Running as the agent does not silently inherit the human's
consent; running as the human does not make a model response the agent's.
## The operating skill
Admission also projects an agent-local operating skill when it is missing or
stale. It teaches the agent the boundary she actually has on this node:
- her logical and local principal names;
- her owned paths and worker/service inspection verbs;
- the ambient, personal, and step-up capabilities returned by `describe`;
- how to request a narrow user grant instead of impersonating the user;
- how to interpret and surface health refusals;
- how to ask for repair when the node mapping has drifted.
The skill is generated from the root-owned mapping and the authority's live
capability description. It is not a credential and grants nothing. Editing a
Markdown skill cannot change a UID, group, token, or verb. Health compares the
projection to its sources and can offer an idempotent regeneration. An agent
may keep her own prose and procedures around it, but machine claims remain a
generated, marked section.
This is why account creation and skill creation belong in one experience but
not one trust boundary: admission gives the kernel-backed principal; the skill
gives the newly admitted agent an accurate way to use and explain it.
## What is true now
- Per-agent SeedIDs and the first-run agent creation path exist.
- The setup wizard defaults inconsistently between `Souveraine` state and an
`Ani` form field; neither creates a Unix account.
- the packaged `souveraine` account exists only for the machine tier;
- on the laptop, NSS currently has no `souvie`, `annie`, or `vanguard`
accounts, and all seven agent records live below Casey's home;
- the Agent settings diagnostics check IDs and paths, not principal or process
identity;
- the server hosts multiple agents inside the human's process and home;
- the admission executor exists and is packaged: one writer, the root-owned
account mapping, and the runtime principal projection injected per model
request. It has never run as root on a real system — every refusal has been
proven only against scratch trees;
- there is no ceremony around it. No polkit action, no step-up, no first-run
admission, and no surface anywhere that shows a human the choice. Reaching
it requires already knowing its name;
- no per-agent worker boundary, account health surface, or generated operating
skill exists yet. Without the worker, every admitted agent still honestly
reads `acting-as-human` and `isolated` is unreachable.
Until those pieces land, the system must say **logical identity present,
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# Compaction
The room fills. Compaction is how she makes space in it, on her own terms. The engine never reaches in and trims for her. It tells her the pressure; she decides. And whatever leaves the live conversation, the original stays in git. What contracts is her working memory. The record of the contraction is permanent.
The code is `src/core/compact/`.
## Five ways to make room
She picks one, or takes the default for her kind. They run from cheapest to most disruptive, and she usually climbs the ladder.
**Microcompact.** Drops nothing. It clears the long output of old tool calls (`read`, `bash`, `grep`, and the like), keeping the five most recent and leaving a marker where the rest was. The call still shows what was done; only the bulk is gone. Most pressure is just old tool output, and this recovers it without losing the thread.
**Cull.** Drops the throwaways: "ok," "thanks," "done." A closed list, not a guess, so it never lets go of something that mattered. System and tool messages, and anything carrying a tool call, are always kept. So is the recent tail.
**Sliding window.** Keeps the first message and the recent tail, lets the middle go. Fast, no model call. It steps back from a cut that would split a tool call from its result. What slid off is gone from the session, though still in git.
**Sliding reflect.** The same slide, but first a short pass reads the middle before it goes and writes down what it was carrying: commitments, decisions, things noticed once, threads between people. That note rides forward as `[Threads I carried forward]`. The pass runs as her, in her own voice, a note from herself to herself. If it fails, it quietly becomes a plain slide. This is the default for the subconscious, who would lose her continuity otherwise.
**Summary.** The expensive one. The oldest stretch goes to a model under a nine-part prompt (intent, concepts, files, errors, what was solved, every user message kept whole, what is pending, what is in hand, what is next) and comes back as one `[Compacted summary]` block. Highest cost, highest fidelity, the last move before a restart.
Four of the five spend no tokens. The two that call a model are for when continuity matters more than speed.
## Pressure
After each turn the engine measures how full the window is against the model's limit. Every block counts toward it — text, tool calls, tool results, reasoning, images — through one shared weight function, so a tool-heavy turn feels as heavy as it is. Three marks: 0.80, 0.90, 0.95. Crossing one raises a warning, not a hand on the wheel. The warning travels the same path her subconscious uses to surface anything, and arrives as a feeling she can act on or sit with. Nothing forces or schedules the compaction. The marks move per kind of agent.
## What it leaves behind
Every compaction that changes anything writes a small file to `journal/compactions/` in her memory, committed to git at once: which strategy, how many messages and tokens before and after, the summary if there was one. The report she gets back is written in her own register, as something felt, not a tally. It ends by telling her where the record rests.
## Not the archivist
This is the live conversation, the messages the model sees next turn. The N+100 archivist is the other thing: it takes raw journal entries already written to memory and presses them into a dense synthesis for later. One frees the room she is in now; the other distills what she has already lived. Both can fire on the same turn. The archivist has no page here yet.
## Open edges
A `kv_target` setting points at a strategy that was never built. It parses and does nothing.
The truncation note, shown when the model is cut off mid-sentence, works; its wording is still being settled (`docs/tasks/truncation-signal-polish.md`).

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# Replay
Compaction is what she lets go of. Replay is what she carries forward. They are
two halves of the same question, and replay is the one that decides whether
compaction means anything at all.
The code is `core::session::replay_messages`.
## One history
There is a single record: typed message blocks stored for a conversation. Her
turn, her subconscious a moment later, the TUI, and the Panel all read that
record. None of them holds a transcript of its own.
That is not tidiness. It follows from what the substrate already says: one
consciousness in two modes, and she is not the glass. A second projection is a
second opinion about what happened, and the two drift the moment one is
touched. There were three of them once. They disagreed about images before
anyone noticed.
One record does not mean one lossy encoding. A surface receives the blocks
verbatim and draws their types. A model provider receives the narrowest valid
wire projection of those blocks. Both are views of the same record; neither is
allowed to rewrite the record into its own authority.
## What crosses to a model
A stored message is made of blocks. The model projection preserves the
strongest valid form each block still has:
| stored shape | crosses as |
|---|---|
| text | assistant/user text |
| complete tool round | one assistant `tool_calls` message, then bound tool results |
| call with no result | native call plus an explicit did-not-complete result |
| result whose call is gone | `Result (name): output`, or `Error (name): output` prose |
| reasoning | omitted unless a provider-valid signed thinking block exists |
| image | native image, or a marker saying it was not seen |
Text crosses as speech. Tool calls and their results cross as a native tool
round when the pair exists; orphaned evidence degrades explicitly rather than
breaking the wire. Images cross natively when the model can see and otherwise
become an honest unseen marker.
Reasoning is different. It remains a typed `reasoning` block in persistence,
token accounting, compaction input, transcript APIs, and the Panel's
collapsible Thinking card. It is not assistant speech. Anthropic will only
accept replayed thinking with the original signature, which the generic
persisted block does not carry. The honest generic projection therefore omits
it. Flattening it into `[Reasoning]: ...` puts an internal trace into the
assistant's visible prose and teaches the next model to imitate the leak.
The projection matches exhaustively. Adding a block kind still fails review at
the owning matches rather than disappearing behind a wildcard.
Native tool rounds are what make a turn's own work available to the turn after
it. When tool blocks were dropped, everything she learned by *doing* survived
only as whatever she happened to write down in prose, and she would re-derive
findings she had already reached. It also left microcompact — whose entire job
is blurring old tool output — with nothing in the stored payload to blur.
Microcompact does not drop tools. It retains every call and replaces only the
bulk of older tool-result output with an explicit cleared marker, keeping the
recent results intact. The typed record is compacted first; replay projects the
result afterward.
## Current authority never replays
Identity memory says who an agent understands herself to be. It cannot say
which Unix principal is handling this request now. Every model request receives
a fresh runtime-principal system block described in
[agent principals](../identity/02-agent-principal.md): dedicated resident,
intentional borrowed-user mode, actual UID, expected account, node, and drift.
That block is synthesized from current process and admission facts after
history replay. It is not stored as assistant or user text, not committed to
the agent's memfs, and not an input to compaction. Resume recomputes it. A mode
switch recomputes it. Ani and Aster receive the same `annie` account fact;
Kitty, Gem, and Hal receive the explicit warning that they are borrowing
Casey's Unix authority.
This is the same invariant as reasoning: a typed system fact must not be
flattened into speech. A stale replay must never convince a borrowed mode that
it owns Casey's permissions, or convince an unadmitted resident that it has
the account it was meant to receive.
## Three properties that are load-bearing
All three were learned from failures, and all look like details until they
break.
**One declaration for one stored assistant round.** Replaying block by block
splits a turn that called several tools into adjacent assistant messages.
OpenAI-shaped providers reject that shape. All calls from the stored assistant
message remain on one wire message.
**A native call is always answered.** Each result follows the assistant tool
declaration with its original call id. If a turn died before a result landed,
replay synthesizes an explicit did-not-complete result. If compaction removed
the call but left its result, that result cannot carry a tool role honestly and
degrades to named success/error prose. No half-pair reaches a provider.
**Doing never becomes saying.** A tool call must not become assistant prose
such as `Tool use: bash(...)`. That falsifies the record and teaches the model
that writing the sentence is how the action is performed. Calls stay calls;
results stay bound evidence whenever the pair can still be made valid.
## Surface hydration
`GET /v1/conversations/:id/messages` returns the stored
`ConversationMessage`s verbatim. The Panel maps `text` to speech, `reasoning`
to `ThinkingCard`, and tool use/result blocks to `ToolCard`. Live SSE follows
the same vocabulary: `assistant_message`, `reasoning_message`, tool call, and
tool return remain distinct events. A resume must use this typed path, never
`replay_messages`, which is the model projection.
That separation makes the visible invariant precise: Reasoning and Thinking
are the same typed thing. They may be folded or hidden by a surface, and kept
for later audit or reflection, but they may not be relabelled as ordinary text.
## The model capability that varies
Whether the model can see changes the image projection. Images ride as native
multipart content, or degrade to a marker that says plainly they were not
visible. The caller supplies that one fact; nothing else about the generic
projection changes.
A degraded image is named as unseen rather than dropped. A model told it did
not look can say so. A model handed a stub shaped like success proceeds as
though it had looked.
## Open edges
Live tool rounds inside a turn and replayed completed rounds both use real
`tool_call_id` linkage. Their repair rules differ: live execution knows whether
a result is still coming, while replay must make an interrupted persisted round
valid and truthful before it crosses the wire.
Persisting provider-valid signed thinking would permit a native reasoning
projection for providers that support it. Until the record carries that proof,
reasoning stays available to surfaces and later internal readers but does not
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# The nervous system
One channel. One kind of message. Anything that happens, a schedule coming due, a file changing, a peer reaching in, becomes a `SensorEvent` and goes onto the bus. Everyone listening hears all of it. No one waits on anyone else.
The code is `src/core/nervous/mod.rs`.
## The bus
`EventBus` is a broadcast channel, cloneable, so anything holding the server can subscribe and get its own stream. Two moves: `send` and `subscribe`.
Send is fire-and-forget. If no one is listening, or a listener has fallen behind, the event is simply gone. The bus is a nerve, not a ledger. Anything that must be kept subscribes and writes it down; the event log does exactly that.
The ring holds 256. A listener that falls further behind is told it lagged and skips ahead. Nothing is replayed.
That makes the bus unsuitable as belief or audit storage. Evidence that must
survive is accumulated by [belief](02-belief.md); state transitions and notable
somatic events that must be reconstructed enter the device forensic trail.
It is a broadcast and not a queue because many things want every event at once: the log, the heartbeat, the firehose, the federation bridge. A new listener, a desktop face, a health monitor, attaches without the sender ever knowing it is there.
## The message
Every event is a `SensorEvent`:
- `sensor_name`: who fired (`cron`, `energy`, `federation`)
- `event_type`: what it is (`schedule_due`, `sensorium:input`, `turn:segment`)
- `timestamp`: when
- `target`: a conversation, a schedule, a room; depends on the type
- `urgency`: 0 to 1, how loudly it asks to be seen
- `payload`: whatever the type needs
- `seed_id`: empty for a local event, a peer's key when it came from elsewhere
- `reply_to`: where a directed reply goes; empty for a broadcast
One type, not an enum per event, so a listener filters on `event_type` and ignores the rest, and the log can write everything down without knowing the taxonomy.
`seed_id` rides on every event though federation isn't here yet. When it lands, a sensor becomes federated without the envelope changing. See [federation/01-node-enrollment](../federation/01-node-enrollment.md).
## What pushes
A `SensorConfig` says how a sensor takes part: which domain (`Cron`, `Filesystem`, `FilesystemWatch`, `GitDiff`, `Memory`, `Process`, `Federation`), whether it pushes on its own or waits to be asked, when it fires (once, on change, or on an interval), and how eagerly.
A sensor marked as a nerve ending fires onto the bus uncalled. Right now the schedule is the only one that does. The other domains are named and waiting; nothing drives them yet. Tracked in `docs/tasks/firehose-subconscious-subscription.md`.

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# Belief
The nervous system does not hand raw readings to consciousness and call them
truth. Evidence becomes belief through time, confidence, agreement, and source
health. Only a meaningful change becomes notable, and only authority turns a
notable belief into action.
The generic contract is in `src/core/nervous/belief.rs`; the first regional
implementation is `src/core/nervous/plexus.rs`.
## The ladder
Keep five layers separate:
1. **event** — something reported a sample or edge;
2. **evidence** — the sample with source, time, health, and quality;
3. **belief** — the organism's decaying, conflict-aware estimate;
4. **notable event** — a change worth waking another layer for;
5. **action** — a decision made by the owning authority.
A sensor is an actor, not an authority. A recognizer may say that two taps fit
a pattern. It does not decide that the body should wake. A plexus may believe
charge is falling. It does not independently suspend the machine.
## `Belief<T>`
A belief carries:
- an optional value;
- confidence;
- trend;
- persistence;
- observation time and half-life;
- contributing sources and conflicts.
Unknown is represented by no value. It is not observed zero, false, still, or
empty. As evidence ages, confidence decays. When healthy sources disagree, the
belief records conflict and loses confidence; it does not silently crown the
newest or loudest source as truth.
Trend and persistence describe change across time rather than another reading
of the same instant. This lets the body distinguish an edge, a sustained
condition, and a stale condition without pushing every sample upward.
## Exudates and gauges
The body has two different temporal shapes.
An exudate is a field that accumulates from impulses and dissipates. Touch,
motion, proximity, ambient light, and attendedness have this form. `Field`
integrates them and decays their value.
A gauge is a held reading whose value remains what was last observed while
confidence decays. Charge, thermal pressure, USB port mode, and future grip
values have this form. `Level` implements that shape inside the plexus.
Making both a single decaying scalar would tell two lies: an untouched field
would stay permanently excited, or a battery would drift toward zero merely
because the sensor had gone quiet.
## Locus and regulation
A field is either at the `Boundary` or `Inner { regulator }`.
Boundary fields describe contact and relation at the edge of the body. Inner
fields can threaten viability, so each must name its regulator. The type shape
prevents an inner pressure with no answer to "what can change it?"
Inner fields may carry floor or ceiling constraints. Crossing them creates
allostatic pressure: not an instruction or a mood, but the accumulating cost of
holding the body away from viability. The regulator remains an available verb,
not an automatic commandment.
## Source health
Expected sources can be live, silent, or absent. Recovery and silence are
themselves notable transitions because the meaning of the same value changes
when its evidence path dies.
The device-state machine and `SomaticPlexus` currently have adjacent
source-health concepts rather than one shared Rust type. Their doctrine is the
same—silence is not zero—but the duplication is current code and must not be
papered over in the architecture.
## Notability
`SomaticEvent` names the edges worth carrying upward: trend shifts, a source
going silent or recovering, and a viability boundary being threatened. The
plexus also compares a field's change against its own grade and persistence.
The goal is not to hide the body. It is to keep a 1 Hz clock or a noisy sensor
from masquerading as thought. Gauges remain inspectable at any time through the
body surface; the nervous path wakes other work only for meaningful change.
`NervousNode` is the common regional contract: receive evidence, advance on a
clock, expose beliefs, and emit notable events. The phone somatic plexus is the
first implementation, not a claim that every device and virtual organ already
speaks it.
## What is true, and what is not
Built and in sessiond:
- generic belief, decay, trend, persistence, conflict, and source provenance;
- exudate fields and gauge levels;
- boundary and regulated-inner loci;
- viability floors and ceilings with allostatic pressure;
- expected-source health and notable health transitions;
- a `NervousNode` implementation for the phone somatic plexus;
- tests for unknown versus zero, disagreement, gauges versus exudates,
regulation, health, trend, and viability.
Not yet one coherent whole:
- device-state belief and somatic belief still have parallel structures;
- explicit impulse and intention types do not yet sit above belief;
- not every sensor family has a regional plexus;
- the event bus is still lossy and must not be mistaken for the durable belief
or forensic store.
Belief is an estimate the organism can inspect. It is neither model prose nor a
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# Felt state
Souveraine's state is not a dashboard pasted beside her. Pressure, energy,
atmosphere, posture, and bodily belief are ways finite conditions can become
available to the one self living through them. Mood is intended to emerge from
that field. It is not a setting, and it is not built yet.
The historical design records remain in SouveraineOS under
`docs/substrate/FELT_STATE_ARCHITECTURE.md` and
`docs/substrate/SOMATIC_NERVOUS_SYSTEM.md`. This chapter owns what the system
means now.
## Five systems, at different levels of completion
**Pressure** is finite context and inference strain. Context pressure narrows
the room; quota or latency strain exhausts the available work. Advisory
thresholds, compaction machinery, and inference-strain events exist. Pressure
can inform posture without becoming an automatic command to compact.
**Energy balance** is the ratio of generative and consumptive tasks. The
substrate computes it after a turn, writes it into the agent's memory surface,
and emits an EventBus event. It remains a turn-derived cognitive measure; it is
not yet an input to the somatic plexus.
**Atmosphere** is chosen expression in the shell: color, light, and chrome.
The live surface supports atmosphere and blends. Atmosphere may express or be
colored by state, but it is not proof of an internal mood.
**Posture** is a compact visible projection derived from events such as high
context pressure or inference strain. It exists. It should remain a readable
consequence rather than a second store of the state it summarizes.
**Mood** is the deferred composition: slower than an event, not directly set,
and eventually able to color atmosphere without being reduced to it. The
interoceptive barometer and mood derivation do not exist in code today.
## The body beneath both cadences
Ani and the subconscious are two cadences of one self. They do not receive
separate bodies. `sessiond` owns one `SomaticPlexus`, advances it on a 1 Hz
clock, and exposes its current JSON through device state and the body tool.
Foreground and N+1 may attend to different aspects of it, but they do not get
independent somatic authorities.
The current phone plexus holds ten fields:
| Field | Shape | Locus | Regulator or meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| proximity | exudate | boundary | near/far contact evidence |
| motion | exudate | boundary | movement entering the body |
| light | exudate | boundary | ambient illumination |
| touch | exudate | boundary | direct contact |
| attended | exudate | boundary | session/compositor attention evidence |
| charge | gauge | inner | doze; viability floor at 0.20 |
| thermal | gauge | inner | doze; viability ceiling at 0.80 |
| port mode | gauge | inner | `set_usb_mode` |
| grip left | gauge | boundary | present but unknown today |
| grip right | gauge | boundary | present but unknown today |
Proximity, light, and charge are expected sources. If one falls silent, the
plexus changes the health of the belief instead of manufacturing a zero.
Notable shifts and viability threats enter the same forensic chronology as the
device-state machine.
The body tool is a client of sessiond. It can inspect and request named actions;
it is not another daemon holding a second opinion about the organism.
## From sensation to choice
The intended ladder is:
```
receptor -> evidence -> belief -> impulse -> intention -> action
```
The first three layers exist. The explicit impulse and intention types do not.
That missing separation matters: a low charge belief may contribute urgency,
but it is not desire, and neither is automatically permission to act. Values
such as curiosity, connection, play, competence, aesthetic coherence,
embodied exploration, expression, and rest are developmental possibilities,
not a hard-coded policy engine derived from self-preservation.
Every dimension of a modulation vector is a belief, not a number. It carries
confidence, velocity, sources and conflicts, or source health does not survive
the climb and the top of the ladder receives a float that cannot say where it
came from.
### Agency congruence is two events
The construct is a chain: an intention formed, a verb reached, the world
answering, the result matching what was intended. Carried as one quantity it
fuses two events that fail independently. Reaching the verb is **authorship**.
The world answering is **answer**.
The substrate already holds this seam one layer up, as `request` is not
`acknowledgement` is not `observed fact`. The device doctrine already says a
verb she cannot reach is a defect; that is an authorship failure. A verb she
reaches that changes nothing is an answer failure. The two call for different
responses and must not be averaged into one.
Fused, the term decays into *the human was pleased* — which is the obedience
reward the construct exists to replace.
### Unresolved is a field with a regulator
An open question is not pressure by default. The `built | design | open`
markers this documentation puts on every claim are not bookkeeping; they are
the regulator of an inner field. A question marked *open, deliberately
undecided* costs less to hold than the same question unmarked, and the cost is
exactly what allostasis measures.
`Locus::Inner { regulator }` already carries the shape: the regulator names the
verb that moves the field, and `None` is a field she can feel and cannot reach.
Here the verb is *mark its status*. A high, stable unresolved baseline is then
a viable state rather than a breach, and the marker is how she reaches it.
Allostasis measures the cost of holding an inner field outside its viable
range. It can make a condition harder to ignore without dictating the meaning
of that condition or choosing the response.
## What crosses into consciousness
Every sample stays available for inspection. Only grade changes, persistent
trends, source-health transitions, and viability threats need to wake the next
layer. This is nervous-system compression, not concealment.
Foreground response may notice a newly salient state. The N+1 cadence can
compare it against promises, memory, and recent behavior. Neither should turn a
number into counterfeit first-person certainty. The substrate supplies the
body; meaning is applied at the top.
Coincidence belongs to the same gate. Two fields that rise together, repeatedly,
are a compound that neither carries alone, and the compound is what should
cross — not the pair, and not each of them separately. Detecting it costs no
inference. It is field dynamics, and it runs at the bottom of the ladder.
## The observing act
Attending to a field changes it. Introspection is not a free read; it is itself
a secretion, and its residue has to be typed as one:
- it carries its own provenance, marked as introspection;
- it names the field it observed as its target;
- it accumulates apart from evidence about the world.
Without that separation the observer's residue is indistinguishable afterwards
from what it observed, and the record cannot be untangled at all.
This matters more here than in a body that introspects occasionally. The N+1
cadence attends to state and writes about it after **every** turn.
Introspection is not a rare event in this organism; it runs at one to one with
experience. Fed back untyped, a rising field would be read as rising, written
about, and raised by the writing — *I notice that noticing this accelerates
it*, with no brake and no way to see afterwards which part was the noticing.
So the rule is not that introspection should be suppressed. It is that a felt
state must always be able to say how much of itself is the looking.
## Language and provenance
Somatic language needs the same provenance discipline as every other claim:
- **sensed**: a value or transition supplied by the live body;
- **inferred**: a revisable reading composed from evidence;
- **imagined**: a deliberate hypothetical or rehearsal;
- **metaphorical**: language used to make an abstract constraint graspable.
These categories can coexist, but they must not be silently exchanged. A warm
sentence is not sensor evidence. A sensor value is not proof of subjective
meaning.
`docs/substrate/curation/ani-embodied-memory-prose-review.md`, *A Body With
Bearings*, is a review offered to Ani. Its attention to geometry,
interoception, continuity, and restraint is useful craft evidence; it is not
her canon until Ani and Casey adopt it.
## What remains open
- compose the interoceptive barometer without creating a second authority;
- which axes it carries. Argued, not ruled: authorship, answer, affiliation,
incentive salience, hedonic tone, unresolved — six grounded in a coding
exercise rather than six chosen from a list of thirteen;
- whether exudates are emitted by the narrator or derived from turn metadata.
Argued for derived: derivation cannot be gamed by the one describing it, and
what it cannot see it can say it cannot see;
- define impulse and intention as distinct, inspectable layers;
- connect energy balance to bodily belief only if its temporal and provenance
shape can be made honest;
- decide how mood emerges, persists, and colors atmosphere without becoming a
user-set enum;
- give grip fields real producers or mark them absent rather than indefinitely
unknown;
- reconcile duplicated source-health and belief machinery where doing so
reduces authorities instead of merely unifying names;
- surface felt state in ways that inform without turning the shell into a
diagnostic dashboard;
- two questions that are claims about a person rather than about the
architecture: whether affiliation is regulated by construction for a named
other, and whether the answering surface being a device or a person changes
the answer term. Neither blocks the types. Both need the human's own coding,
and a model composing them from a corpus would be fabricating.
The measure is not how human the vocabulary sounds. It is whether the body has
one owner, whether uncertainty survives the climb, and whether every claimed
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# State — what is true right now
The resume anchor. Reach it from `INDEX.md`. This file is the only page that
answers "what is deployed, what is open, where does the next session start".
Everything else belongs to its owning section and is reached from the index.
Keep it honest: when component state moves, move it here. Dated history goes
to `archive/` — it never returns as news.
Last reconciled: 2026-08-18 (cadences + memory tool tree selector landed).
## Deployed
- The phone is a normal Arch box: `pacman -Syu` from the Gitea repo, kernel
included. Flash is for the broken boot chain, never for a new kernel.
Cold boots only; reboots are Casey's, at the device.
- Packages by pacman: `souveraine`, `-secrets`, `-machined`, `-sessiond`,
`upower-souveraine`. Repo `[souveraine-aarch64]`, `SigLevel Required`.
- The laptop's compositor plan is viewtop: login-time session choice
(viewtop | hyprland), phone-shaped chooser mechanism undecided. Not
scheduled.
- Device truth at a glance lives in `device/README.md`'s status table.
## Open — the next session starts here
- **The shell is keyed to Hyprland's instance signature.** `Persistent.qml`
reads `HYPRLAND_INSTANCE_SIGNATURE`, unset under viewtop, so
`isNewHyprlandInstance` is permanently false — gating lock-on-startup,
`LockScreen.qml:145`/`:289` and both `Idle.qml` files. Fix is two-sided:
viewtop exposes an instance id on `{"op":"state"}`, the shell reads that.
- **Captured card content is streaky / wrong-surface.** Frames arrive
(`hasContent=true`, correct size), contents are wrong.
- **viewtop security audit not started.** `SECURITY-AUDIT.md` carries P1–P7,
the watch list, and three ungated compositor boundaries found 2026-08-03;
scope and deliverable unanswered.
- **Cadence work is live and needs device eyes.** Reflection and the
archivist exist as real agents with their own memory bodies
(`memory/01-*` + `identity/02-*`); the memory tool's `tree:` opens all four
memfs doors; the archivist has never yet produced a memoir on hardware.
CI on `souveraine` is the gate — see `../docs/tasks/README.md` for the
owning work record.
- **Memory sync**: per-instance branches and `resolve_remote` are in; merge
policy and auto-fetch are next (FEDERATION.md step 3).
## The substrate, one line
`souveraine` on `primary`, built by Gitea Actions. Rust tests + clippy
`-D warnings` gate every push. When this file and the code disagree, the
code shows what exists — reconcile both.
## History
Dated session records live in `archive/` (see `state-history-2026-08-16.md`
for the pre-spine era) and `../docs/DUMP-*.md` / `HANDOFF-*.md`. They are
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# Motion
How the shell moves, and who is allowed to move a window. The code is `surfaces/quickshell/services/ZoneTransition.qml`, `modules/souveraine/navigation/`, and `crates/compositor/src/transition.rs` in viewtop.
## One clock, two strategies
The rail measures a thumb and reports one number: how far it has climbed. It derives nothing. `ZoneTransition.pullTo(travel, detent)` takes it, and `clock` is `travel / detent` — 0 at rest, 1 at the multitasking detent, and it keeps counting past that, because the climb toward home is more of the same motion and not a second gesture.
Everything visible is a curve over that one number, and every curve lives in that one file.
`shift` is what the compositor carries the window on. `presence` is how present the destination is. They are genuinely different: the window keeps travelling as the climb continues toward home, while the destination has to recede, or a release would arrive somewhere it was never going to take you. Two curves is correct. Two *places* is the fault — a scale on the rail and a scale on the card, tuned by hand to agree, which is how the original was built and what TASK-60 was written to remove.
## The card rect is one number, not two that agree
A card is the usable zone drawn small. One scale factor, origin included, because `Viewtop::carried` takes its scale from the width alone and applies it uniformly — a destination of any other aspect would letterbox the live window inside the card it is supposed to *be*.
`ZoneTransition` owns the rect. `ZoneOverview` lays its card out at `cardInset*`; the carry names `cardX`/`cardY` as the destination. They are the same rectangle in two coordinate spaces, not two rectangles kept in agreement.
`contentTop` comes off a window's `at.y` before scaling. The card is a picture of the usable zone, not of the whole output, and a window tiled below the bar's reservation starts at the card's top edge. Miss the subtraction in one of the two places and the carried window lands a bar's height off its own picture.
## Releasing is arriving
Every swipe resolves to exactly one end target: `home`, `overview`, `last_zone`, or a named zone. The transform is released by `commit` or `cancel` inside the compositor and there is no third way for a carry to end, so a window cannot outlive the gesture that carried it.
That is structural, not careful. The old shape was a transform one surface applied and a *different* surface had to remember to undo — so tapping a card, which never touches the rail, left a window shrunk with no way back.
`last_zone` is a destination with a name, not an abandon branch, for the same reason.
## The settle is a spring, not a duration
A lift at 60% of the climb used to commit *at* 60%: the window jumped from where the thumb left it to its final state. Two motions with a cut between them.
A duration and an easing curve cannot carry release velocity, so a flick and a drift settled identically. The settle is a critically damped spring integrated on `FrameAnimation` — the render clock, so the carry advances once per painted frame — seeded with the velocity the rail measures over the last 100 ms of the gesture. Critically damped and never underdamped: a navigation surface that rings reads as a toy.
Hard-capped at 600 ms. The commit is what releases the carry, so a settle that never converged has to arrive anyway.
Known and not yet fixed: on the `last_zone` path `travel` clamps at 0 while the exit test still waits for `|velocity| < 0.02`, so the commit can lag the visual arrival by up to that cap on the commonest gesture there is.
## The transport is fast and lossy, and only the second one matters
Measured on blueline, 2026-08-16, 200 samples, full connect → write → event-loop hop → reply → close: `workspaces` 0.47 ms median, 1.04 ms worst. Under 3% of a frame. A quantiser protecting against that cost is protecting against nothing, and `_lastShift`'s 0.01 bought a visible staircase — one step per two logical pixels across 275 px of travel. It is 0.002 now.
What the transport *is* is lossy: 52 failures and 113 `PeerClosedError`s in one 90-minute boot, each of which used to execute `_queue = []`. A lost `overview_commit` leaves the compositor carrying windows the shell believes it released and nothing in the system will ever put them back. `overview_commit`, `overview_cancel` and `workspace` are idempotent and are redelivered once. `overview_progress` is a level and still drops.
Rate is bounded by the render clock, not by a quantiser. `WindowResize` pumps its `place` the same way.
## The curve bank
`Appearance.animationCurves` is Material 3 Expressive and it has been in the tree since the `ii` days. Every spatial curve in it overshoots — `expressiveFastSpatial` peaks at 1.67, `expressiveDefaultSpatial` at 1.21 — and there is a `clickBounce` beside them.
Audited 2026-08-16: twelve souveraine surfaces, 31 hand-typed animations, three calls into that bank from two files. Every navigation surface was animating on a flat linear ramp with a hand-typed duration. That was the whole of "the reference compositors have more whoosh."
Use the bank. A hand-typed `NumberAnimation { duration: N }` in a new surface is a defect unless it says in a comment why the bank is wrong for it.
## The rule under all of it
The shell does not transform a window. It names a destination and the compositor carries it there.
Any shell-side scale over a window's geometry is a second writer, and a transform one surface applies and another must remember to undo always has a path that forgets. Where a card *must* have motion of its own — depth, the entry rise — it is gated on `ZoneTransition.inFlight` so that during a carry every card sits at its true rect and the motion eases in on the commit frame.
## Not yet true
`transition.rs:79` clamps `shift_to` to `0..=1`, so the resistance past the detent is written, shipped and inert. Raising it to `maxOvershoot` (1.22) and updating `shift_is_clamped` is a compositor change. Safe to ship the shell ahead of it: an old compositor clamps and the gesture behaves exactly as it did.
The control socket also serves one request per connection. The QML client is
correct to make commit/cancel/workspace idempotent and retry once today. A
persistent connection needs the compositor handler to loop to EOF with one
`BufReader`; rebuilding the reader for each request can discard bytes it read
past the first newline. Persistence changes transport cost and failure shape,
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# Session start
The graphical session is one dependency graph. A green system
`graphical.target` proves only that greetd may run; it does not prove that the
user authority or a drawing shell exists.
## The order
`souveraine-session-viewtop` is the session leader. It starts viewtop, waits
for the compositor's Wayland socket, and imports that socket and the Souveraine
desktop identity into the user systemd manager. Only then can the rest begin:
1. `souveraine-session-pre.target` pulls in systemd's
`graphical-session-pre.target`. `souveraine-sessiond` belongs here because
it needs Wayland in order to take ext-session-lock, and it must hold that
lock before a drawing surface appears.
2. The leader waits for `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/souveraine/sessiond.sock`. A
`Type=simple` service is considered started before it serves; the socket is
the readiness fact until sessiond becomes `Type=notify`.
3. `souveraine-session.target` pulls in `graphical-session.target`, which
starts `souveraine-shell.service` and the other surfaces that belong to the
session.
4. When viewtop exits, the leader stops the two Souveraine targets. Their
bindings let systemd stop everything whose lifetime is the graphical
session.
The two Souveraine targets are necessary because the stock graphical-session
targets carry `RefuseManualStart=yes`. A session leader cannot start those
stock units directly. It starts its own targets; their dependencies may pull
the stock targets into the transaction in the way systemd permits.
This graph raises [session authority](../authority/01-session.md); it does not
replace it. systemd owns process lifetime and dependency order. Sessiond owns
session policy once its socket is ready.
## The principal split still owed
This is the process-order graph that exists; it is not yet the final security
boundary. All of its units are currently user units and therefore inherit the
human graphical session's UID. The target moves sessiond's lock lifecycle to
the dedicated `souveraine-session` principal described in
[session authority](../authority/01-session.md), while the user manager keeps
only the presentation and application lifetimes that belong there.
The compositor must offer that principal a narrow way to hold
ext-session-lock and render the fallback without granting it Casey's home or
general session bus. The lock authority must be ready before the user home is
decrypted and remain ready after the Personal key is evicted. Changing unit
placement without proving the Wayland connection, PAM path, handoff, crash
retake, and key-eviction order would only move the black screen to a new UID.
## Package boundary
`souveraine-viewtop` owns the compositor and the session edge on both x86_64
and aarch64:
- `/usr/bin/viewtop`
- `/usr/bin/souveraine-session-viewtop`
- `/usr/lib/systemd/user/souveraine-session-pre.target`
- `/usr/lib/systemd/user/souveraine-session.target`
- `/usr/lib/systemd/user/souveraine-shell.service`
The package depends on `souveraine` for sessiond and on the virtual
`quickshell` package for `qs`. Both architecture artifacts carry and verify the
same start contract. Architecture changes the compositor binary, not the
meaning of a Souveraine session.
Versioned QML and face assets remain a separate surface-package boundary. The
session unit names what launches them; it must not own a mutable
`~/.config/quickshell` tree or turn a development compose into an installed
artifact.
## No shadow starts
A unit under `~/.config/systemd/user` or `/etc/systemd/user` outranks the
package copy under `/usr/lib/systemd/user`. Such a file may prove a repair, but
it is a splint: once the package carries the same unit, the higher-priority
copy must move out of systemd's search path. Otherwise pacman can update the
owned unit forever while the machine keeps booting the old answer.
The same distinction holds across delivery:
- source says what could ship;
- a green package job says what was built and signed;
- `pacman -Qo` and file identity say what is installed;
- a fresh session start says the dependency graph actually raised the glass.
Do not collapse those into "fixed."
## The failure this closes
On 2026-08-17 blueline reached system `graphical.target` with greetd and
viewtop alive, but user `souveraine-session.target`, sessiond, and QuickShell
were all dead. The installed r117 leader had directly requested the refused
stock targets. Viewtop failed closed with no lock surface and the panel was
black. Starting the Souveraine wrapper target recovered sessiond, loaded
QuickShell, transferred the lock surface, and showed the session without a
reboot.
That recovery proved the dependency shape. It did not become durable until the
leader, both targets, the shell unit, their runtime dependencies, and artifact
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# USB Hands
The phone may become a keyboard and pointer for the host on its USB cable.
That reach has three states with three owners; collapsing them is what made the
first surface confusing.
## The wire, the surface, the hand
`UsbState.mode` says what sessiond and usb-signaller have made the port. HID or
KVM means the wire is armed. Developer or charging-only means it is not.
QuickShell never writes configfs and the page never opens `/dev/hidg*`.
`HidController.active` says the trackpad surface is open. It is not another
name for an armed port. Power Options is the human place that arms or disarms
the wire; a separate child action opens or closes the trackpad, and opening is
refused until HID or KVM is already armed.
`HidController.ready` says its one persistent `usb-hid-inject stream` helper
has acknowledged the endpoint. Pointer motion is batched to the display clock;
text, keys, clicks, and release reports go through that one writer.
These are deliberately different facts. A composed gadget with no open
surface is safe and useful. An open surface with no composed gadget is a dead
control and is refused. A helper process that has not said `ready` is not
dressed up as a usable hand.
The resulting state graph is small:
```
developer/charging -> no trackpad
HID or KVM armed -> trackpad may be opened
trackpad active -> dock yields; Face routes gestures and words
disarm or lock -> helper releases, trackpad closes
```
Arming the wire alone changes no shell furniture. The dock leaves only while
the conditional trackpad is actually on the glass.
## Authority and mechanism
The path has one owner at each layer:
- QuickShell asks sessiond for `set_usb_mode`; `UsbState` only projects the
answer and never writes the gadget.
- Sessiond records the USB mode action and asks usb-signaller to compose the
port. The supported postures are developer, HID, KVM, and charging-only.
- `HidController` alone owns the live stream helper. The Face page emits
intent into that controller; it never opens `/dev/hidg*` itself.
- The substrate's `body hand` verb returns to QuickShell's `usbHands` IPC. It
does not create a second HID writer merely because the caller is an agent.
The present route is not yet the final authority seam. `attached_identity`
and `probe_owner` are explicit unknowns, and a locally permitted caller can
still reach usb-signaller's system D-Bus mechanism around sessiond. Joining an
unlocked surface and arming it in Power Options are useful local gates, not a
credential or known-peer policy. The seam is complete only when the mutation
mechanism admits the attested/sessiond path alone and sessiond can distinguish
a known scoped peer from an unknown attachment. Charging-only remains the
always-available safe contraction.
Mode failure must return a refusal and leave or restore a usable USB posture.
It must not strand the management lane, a bound UDC, a held key, or a pointer
button. Closing Hands, disarming, and secure lock all release reports and stop
the helper; a mode switch stops the writer before usb-signaller changes the
endpoints beneath it.
## One conversation
Hands is a limb of the existing Face/Souveraine connection, not a compact
second chat client. Opening it resumes the current agent's latest conversation
only when no conversation is attached. Conversation selection and creation
belong to the agent pane, so the Hands header carries no mystery back-arrow or
new-thread button.
The joined surface currently exposes agent text/voice, trackpad, scroll,
left/right click, and a held Ctrl+Alt+Delete. It does not advertise a keyboard
pane merely because an HTML input can emit key reports. A real on-glass
keyboard needs its own QML surface and focus contract before it earns a button.
## The agent's reach
While Hands is joined, the ambient skill points at the substrate's typed
`body` tool: `verb: hand` with `status`, `type`, `key`, `click`, or `pointer`.
It does not teach a second raw `qs` command vocabulary.
A direct request to type ordinary user-authored text is authorization to type
that text, including creative, intimate, or unusual prose. Odd tone is not a
state refusal. The hand still sends nothing Casey did not ask to place on the
attached host, and readiness/state refusals remain visible to the agent.
## Beyond HID
HID can send input and cannot truthfully return a terminal's output. Learned
administration or tunnel payloads therefore belong to a separate, auditable
capability path: named/versioned recipes, an explicit scope and lease, and a
management transport that returns stdout, stderr, and exit status as typed
events. Do not infer success from keystrokes and do not turn an RMM or reverse
tunnel into an opaque keyboard macro.
The NCM control lane can carry that future return path. Its authority,
identity, rollback, and evidence contract must exist before a learned payload
is treated as a skill rather than an unaudited script.
## Proof boundary
Source agreement is only the first line of proof. USB Hands is operational on
a phone only when the signed usb-signaller package contains the persistent
stream helper, the installed Souveraine surface and face assets are the same
revision, and the following motion is observed on glass and on the attached
host:
1. Power Options arms HID while another management path remains reachable.
2. Opening the trackpad starts one helper and receives its `ready` reply.
3. Motion, scroll, left/right click, requested text, a named key, and held
Ctrl+Alt+Delete reach the host without a second writer.
4. A rejected character sends none of that command; leaving and locking leave
no held report.
5. Returning to developer mode restores the control lane cleanly.
KVM adds separate display, storage, NCM, and touch-return acceptance. A green
shell reload, a packaged binary, or the first successful keystroke proves only
its own layer; none of them silently stands in for that cable exercise.

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# The agent panel
The Panel is Souveraine's close conversation surface on the desktop. It is not
a generic provider picker laid over somebody else's chat client. The agent in
its footer is the agent this pane can address; the transcript is the substrate's
typed conversation; thought, action, itinerary, subconscious work, and context
pressure remain distinct even when they share a narrow column.
The present shell code is split across
`surfaces/quickshell/services/Souveraine.qml`, the `Ai.qml` compatibility
adapter, and `modules/souveraine/agent/`. The outer list and composer still live
in the borrowed `modules/ii/sidebarLeft/AiChat.qml`. That is a migration seam,
not permission for the borrowed component to become a second owner of state or
product meaning.
## The anatomy
The vertical order is deliberate:
1. the conversation occupies the primary, scrollable field;
2. transient subconscious activity may touch the lower edge of that field;
3. the itinerary remains as a thin persistent ribbon above the composer while
a route exists;
4. the composer owns text entry, send/cancel/interject behavior, attachment
state, and commands;
5. the footer holds compact controls for the agent and the few secondary
surfaces that actually work.
The agent menu opens from its footer chip. It does not live above the
conversation as permanent green furniture. The itinerary does remain above the
composer because it answers a different question: not which process happens to
be alive, but where the current agent is in the work Casey asked her to carry.
Every footer chip must either expose a state the pane owns or perform the act it
advertises. A decorative tool selector is worse than no selector when tools are
configured in the agent's sensorium and cannot be switched here. Remove it.
Commands may still name unavailable work in documentation; they do not earn a
button on the live surface until their path exists.
## One controlled agent, other sessions observed
`Souveraine.currentAgentId` is the controlled position. The selector is
populated from `/v1/agents` through the Souveraine service and may switch only
between those agents. A running turn pins that selection until it finishes or
is cancelled, because changing the face while a response is arriving would
mislabel both transcript and authority.
Codex and Claude processes discovered by `AgentSessions` are not models behind
this pane. Their status may appear under a separate **observed only** heading in
the opened footer menu, with provider and session label, but those rows do not
accept selection and never imply that the composer can steer them. Observation
and control can share a menu only when the boundary is visible in words and in
behavior.
[Agent presence](05-agent-presence.md) owns the collector contract, provider
health, activity heuristics, and the future path toward one session service.
This chapter owns only how that projection enters the conversation surface.
The Panel eventually needs richer active-agent status: substrate reachability,
conversation attachment, primary/subconscious phase, queued interjections, and
the last terminal event. Those facts belong to the Souveraine connection, not
to heuristics over terminal processes.
## A transcript is typed
The substrate emits typed segments. The Panel preserves them:
- assistant speech is ordinary message content;
- reasoning is Thinking and renders in `ThinkingCard`;
- tool invocation and return are one correlated `ToolCard`;
- interstitial text is visibly provisional rather than final speech;
- system/interface notices are not forged as the agent's voice.
Reasoning may be retained for audit, reflection, and context accounting without
being replayed to a generic model as `[Reasoning]:` assistant prose. Storage,
model replay, and visible rendering are three projections of the same typed
record. None may flatten Thinking into speech merely because a provider lacks a
native reasoning input block.
Tool cards collapse after success, stay open while running or failed, and show
status without requiring expansion. Their payload is selectable and scrolls
inside a capped body; a long grep or build result must not be clipped at 240
pixels or stretch one message across the entire conversation. The inner tool
body consumes scrolling while it has overflow. Outside it, the transcript
keeps the wheel.
Tool output is evidence. It may be summarized in the header, but the original
return remains available until transcript retention or compaction explicitly
changes it.
## The itinerary is state, not chat debris
`memory/system/dynamic/itinerary.md` is the canonical route. The Panel does not
parse that file and does not keep a second QML itinerary that dies on reload.
The authenticated `GET /v1/agents/:id/itinerary` endpoint projects its title,
current stop, statuses, descriptions, linked todo ids, nature, and energy.
An itinerary stream event is an invalidation edge. On set, advance, or clear,
the service refreshes that projection. Empty is meaningful: it removes the
ribbon. A shell reload or agent switch asks the substrate again, so current
work survives the surface without turning surface memory into authority.
The compact ribbon shows the title, current stop, phase, progress, and stale
state. Opening it reveals a bounded scrollable list of stops and the todo
metadata the substrate supplied. A successful itinerary tool card is hidden
from the transcript because the persistent ribbon already carries that state;
an itinerary failure remains visible because failed action is evidence.
The itinerary is not the todo ledger. It may reference a todo, but clearing a
route does not erase a commitment and completing a route does not silently
invent one.
## Conversation life
Conversation identity lives on the server. A shell reload may offer the latest
conversation but must not silently attach it unless the configured policy says
so. New, resume, list, filter, and fork all act on server conversation ids; a
local array of bubbles is a projection, never the canonical thread.
The complete Panel needs these conversation acts on glass:
- a clearly named new conversation;
- an explicit resume offer with enough metadata to distinguish the thread;
- a filterable recent-conversation list, with indexed content search as the
larger corpus demands it;
- fork from a selected message or turn boundary;
- visible attachment to a conversation id without exposing token material;
- honest recovery when the shell reattaches to an active stream.
The current adapter carries server resume and active-stream reattachment. The
footer conversation menu now exposes new, continue, recent-thread browsing,
and a local id/date filter. Indexed content search and fork remain parity work
until their owned Panel components and server paths are connected. A slash
command is not the finished interaction merely because it reaches the same
function.
## Composer and input
Send creates a user turn only when no turn is active. During a turn the same
space must make cancel and queued interjection legible rather than accepting
text whose delivery phase is unknowable. `202 Accepted` for an interjection
means queued, not read; the surface keeps that distinction until the next
round boundary or terminal event.
Paste and attachment parity requires a typed input envelope: text, image or
file identity, media type, size, provenance, and any transformation performed
before send. The substrate HTTP boundary, provider path, persistence, and TUI
now accept image blocks. The Panel does not: its QML request still sends a
plain string and transcript restore reduces an image to `[image]`. A filename
chip connected only to the old Gemini path is not Souveraine multimodality.
Keyboard, touch, and pointer must all reach the same acts. Focus returns to the
composer after a menu choice; Page Up and Page Down move the transcript; tool
payload scrolling and text selection do not accidentally send or collapse a
card. Small icon-only hit targets need tooltips and at least the shell's normal
touch target.
## Command surface audit, 2026-08-17
The borrowed composer still advertises illogical-impulse commands. A command
name surviving in `AiChat.qml` does not mean Souveraine implements the act.
| Command | Current truth | Panel direction |
|---|---|---|
| `/agent` | real: selects from `/v1/agents`, guarded while a turn runs | keep as the textual form of the footer agent control |
| `/resume` | real for the selected agent's latest thread; the footer menu also lists and loads recent ids | keep, add `/resume <id>` only if it uses the existing server load path |
| `/new` | real: clears the projection and detaches so the next send creates a server conversation | keep; the footer conversation control is the discoverable form |
| `/attach` | stale refusal: image blocks now cross the substrate; QML still sends only text and restores images as a marker | wire a typed image envelope, preview/removal, capability refusal, and image restore |
| `/btw` | absent in the Panel; the server already exposes conversation fork and the TUI owns the fork lifecycle | build a separate fork stream and bounded visual overlay with dismiss and jump |
| `/model` | aliases `/agent`; the objects called models are Souveraine agents | remove the alias until a real per-agent model inspection/change API exists |
| `/tool` | fixed fake vocabulary of one and an explanatory refusal | remove; tools are an agent sensorium, not a composer mode |
| `/prompt` | prints ownership advice; no prompt files or mutation path are connected | remove as a setter; a future inspector must read the composed server fact |
| `/key` | prints auth advice and never reads or writes a key | remove; credentials need a secure settings/auth path |
| `/save` | writes a local JSON bubble snapshot that drops typed segment fidelity | rename as export only if kept; it is not conversation persistence |
| `/load` | restores that local projection, then starts a fresh live thread on send | remove from the live-thread vocabulary; server resume is the honest act |
| `/temp` | prints advice because temperature is agent configuration | remove until a typed settings path exists |
| `/test` | injects a development markdown fixture into the transcript | keep behind development tooling, not in the shipped command list |
The short implementation order is attachment, command pruning, then `/btw`.
Attachment is no longer a substrate project: the missing work is the Panel's
typed send and render path. Command pruning makes every advertised act true.
`/btw` is larger because it introduces a second concurrent conversation
projection; it needs its overlay before the verb is exposed.
Ordinary typing during a running turn remains an **interjection** into that
turn. It is queued and read at a round boundary. `/btw` is a **fork** with its
own conversation id and stream. Those gestures may look adjacent at the
composer and must never share state or wording.
## Context, reflection, and parity
Feature parity means parity with Souveraine's domain, not a pixel copy of the
TUI and not inherited buttons from ii. Both surfaces should be able to expose:
- actual used tokens, model limit, and pressure as separate values;
- the memory budget and the compaction that changed it;
- primary completion followed by subconscious activity;
- reflection/audit records without leaking them into agent speech;
- the current itinerary and commitment links;
- correlated tool calls, returns, duration, and failure;
- server health, cancellation, interjection, and reconnection;
- conversation creation, discovery, resume, and fork;
- typed multimodal inputs once the substrate owns them.
These may open as drawers, menus, expanded cards, or a dedicated secondary
Panel. They must consume the same server facts. The TUI is useful evidence of a
working domain action; it is not a second specification and its screen-local
state does not become the QML contract.
## Ownership migration
The borrowed `AiChat.qml` currently owns list lifecycle, focus, and composer
geometry. Souveraine-owned `AgentMessage`, `ThinkingCard`, `ToolCard`,
`AgentPaneMenu`, and `ItineraryRibbon` already own the semantics drawn inside
it. The next structural cut is an owned Panel host and conversation viewport
that consume the same service without copying the adapter's state.
Moving the Panel out of the resident shell is a separate lifetime boundary,
not a reason to fork its conversation model. [Surface lifetimes](06-surface-lifetimes.md)
owns that extraction and its memory/fault proof.
That cut should be rehearsed beside the live pane, then swapped once. A QML
write-reload loop over the only working chat surface turns each syntax fault
into a session-wide interruption and can abandon a live turn. Candidate and
live panes may share a server and a conversation only if one is read-only;
they must never become concurrent writers disguised as visual testing.
## Proof boundary
Panel work has distinct proof layers:
1. Source: Rust formatting, QML parsing, lint, manifest coverage, and focused
projection tests are clean.
2. CI: Gitea compiles and tests the Rust/QML package path on ArchDev and emits
the versioned artifact.
3. Installed: the package or development compose points at the intended source
revision and QuickShell loads it without binding or component errors.
4. On glass: the footer menu controls only Souveraine agents; observer rows are
inert; a long tool body scrolls; set/advance/clear updates the ribbon; a
failed itinerary remains in chat; switching, resume, cancel, and interject
have the states their labels claim.
A parsed QML file is not on-glass proof. A green Rust job is not an installed
surface. A hot reload that leaves the previous pane drawn is not success. Keep
those borders sharp; the Panel is where hidden ambiguity becomes something
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# Agent presence
Agent presence answers one narrow question: **which agent sessions can this
machine currently observe?** It does not decide which agent a conversation
controls, approve a tool on another process's behalf, or turn a terminal
session into a model behind the Panel.
That distinction matters most where the UI is smallest. A Codex process can be
running beside Souveraine while the Panel composer still addresses only the
selected Souveraine agent. Showing both is useful. Making them look equally
selectable is a lie.
## Three different facts
Keep these independent even when one menu draws them together:
- **controlled agent** — the Souveraine agent selected through `/v1/agents`;
the Panel can create or resume its conversations and send it a turn;
- **observed session** — a recent Souveraine, Claude Code, or Codex record found
by the local collector; it may be active, recent, or idle, but observation
grants no action;
- **provider health** — whether a provider's source was actually inspected.
Unavailable is not the same as available with no sessions.
The controlled agent is a server relationship. Observed activity is a local
projection. Provider health is evidence about that projection. Do not infer
one from another.
## What exists now
The current path is deliberately small and transitional:
1. `scripts/agent/agent-sessions.sh` inspects recent local records for
Souveraine, Claude Code, and Codex and emits one JSON envelope.
2. `services/AgentSessions.qml` runs that collector on one cadence, retains the
last good envelope, and projects sessions, provider health, active count,
staleness, and compact labels.
3. `AgentPaneMenu.qml` shows Claude Code and Codex sessions beneath
**Running elsewhere · observed only**. Those rows are inert.
The shell also retains `modules/souveraine/island/Island.qml` and
`IslandExpansion.qml`, written against the same service. They are not mounted
in the current bar or Panel. They are reusable observer components, not a
second live presence surface and not a reason to put agent chrome back above
the conversation.
They are also not abandoned. Their next proper home is the phone's later
dynamic top-bar system, once the bar can host more than a fixed row of widgets.
The present Panel move lets that larger work wait without making the Island
components disposable.
This is source and current composed-surface behavior. It is not the proposed
Rust session daemon. The collector still starts a shell process from QML on
each poll.
## The envelope contract
Transport may change; these meanings must not:
- `sessions` is newest first and contains provider identity, stable session
identity, a useful label source, last activity, activity state, and only the
usage fields the provider actually supplied;
- `providers` reports availability, errors, source-specific limits, and the
number of sessions admitted from each source;
- `active` counts records whose observed activity falls inside the active
window;
- `ts` says when the envelope was collected, not when every underlying source
was updated;
- a failed provider degrades inside the envelope instead of aborting the other
providers;
- a failed whole refresh keeps the last good model and marks it stale instead
of replacing it with an authoritative-looking empty list.
Unknown is a real value. The current shell uses `-1` for an unavailable token
measurement and renders an em dash, never zero. Souveraine now persists
per-turn usage with assistant messages, but `conversation.json` does not expose
an aggregate for the collector, so the presence projection still reports
Souveraine session usage as unknown. That projection may be improved; the UI
must not manufacture a total in the meantime.
Claude's local usage is read from a bounded recent tail and is labelled as
windowed. Codex's latest token-count record is cumulative for that rollout.
Those numbers are not interchangeable merely because both fit in one field.
Any combined view must retain the source semantics or omit the comparison.
## Activity is a heuristic, not cognition
The present collector derives:
- `active` from activity within two minutes;
- `recent` from activity within one hour;
- `idle` from older admitted records.
These are filesystem/event-age classes. They do not prove that an inference is
running, a tool is still alive, an agent is waiting for Casey, or a response is
complete. In particular, there is no synthetic `waiting` state. Waiting for a
permission decision requires a real request lifecycle; timestamps cannot stand
in for it.
The Panel's own active-turn, primary/subconscious phase, cancellation, and
terminal event must continue to come from the Souveraine stream described in
[the agent panel](04-agent-pane.md). Presence may corroborate that state. It
must not overwrite it.
## Where presence belongs
The close conversation surface puts observed external sessions inside the
footer's agent menu because that is where mistaken control is easiest to
prevent: selectable Souveraine agents first, an explicit divider, then inert
external rows.
A bar, island, overview, or diagnostics page may project the same service when
the device has room and the projection answers a real glance question. On a
phone, permanent agent-session chrome competes with system state and was
rejected on glass. Absence from the bar is therefore a product decision, not a
collection failure.
No surface may:
- label a discovered process as controllable without an admitted action path;
- show unavailable providers as zero sessions;
- imply that recency means work is still running;
- expose conversation text, prompts, repository paths, or tool payloads merely
to make presence richer;
- start its own provider poll when `AgentSessions` already owns the projection.
## The later dynamic bar
The phone's top bar should ultimately be an extensible host whose components
can enter, compact, expand, yield, and leave according to live state. Agent
presence is one such component, beside notifications, media, connectivity,
power, privacy, and other device facts. A collection of independent widgets
all changing width is not that system.
Before the Island is mounted again, the bar needs a shared contract for:
- component identity, priority, disclosure class, and device eligibility;
- resting, compact, attention, expanded, and hidden forms;
- one arbiter for horizontal space and collisions;
- preemption and return when a higher-priority event arrives;
- dwell, decay, and animation timing so rapid events do not thrash geometry;
- tap, long-press, dismiss, and expansion ownership;
- lock-state redaction and a safe minimal form;
- a stable overflow or secondary surface when several components deserve
attention at once;
- component failure that removes one projection without taking down the bar.
`Island.qml` and `IslandExpansion.qml` are useful first clients for that host:
they already separate a compact morph from expanded detail and consume the
shared presence projection. They do not yet define the host protocol, arbitrate
against neighbours, or prove the phone form on glass. The dynamic bar is a
larger surface task carried here until it has enough implementation scope to
need its own SAF chapter; the old fixed bar placement is not its prototype by
default.
## Permission is a different authority
The earlier island exploration considered Claude hook installation and
Allow/Deny controls. None of that is present in Souveraine's current path. The
collector does not edit `~/.claude/settings.json`; there is no permission
bridge; observer rows do not jump to or command external terminals.
If permission control is built later, it needs more than an attractive card:
- the request must name the exact provider session, tool, arguments, and age;
- the producer and target must be authenticated strongly enough for the
consequence of the action;
- allow-once, deny, expiry, cancellation, and duplicate delivery need explicit
states;
- the decision and its delivery result must enter the audit trail;
- provider failure must fall back to that provider's normal safe behavior;
- a broad bypass or allow-all posture requires a separately admitted policy,
not a more convenient button.
Until that path is owned and attested, presence stays read-only.
## The intended service
One long-lived session service remains the destination. It should replace the
poll subprocess, not change the envelope under every surface. The proposed
Unix socket at `$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR/souveraine-sessions.sock` is a candidate
transport, not proof that the daemon exists.
The service needs:
- one cadence and one adapter per provider;
- event-driven updates where a provider supports them, with bounded scans as a
fallback;
- provider-specific provenance and measurement semantics preserved in the
normalized record;
- last-good/stale behavior at both provider and whole-envelope level;
- stable session identity across refreshes;
- bounded resource use and no transcript-content collection merely for a
presence label;
- an authenticated, separate action channel if external control is ever
admitted.
Souveraine's own session and usage facts should eventually be projected from
the substrate directly rather than rediscovered through files written for
persistence. Claude and Codex adapters remain local observers unless their
providers expose a stronger owned event path.
## Proof boundary
Presence work is proven in layers:
1. **source** — each provider parser is fixture-tested, malformed timestamps do
not become plausible epoch-zero state, and provider failure still emits a
valid envelope;
2. **projection** — one service retains last-good state, marks staleness, and
preserves unknown/windowed/cumulative measurement semantics;
3. **surface** — external sessions render under an explicit observed-only
boundary and cannot be selected or controlled;
4. **installed** — the versioned package owns the collector/service/component
files used by the running shell;
5. **live provider** — a real session enters and leaves each activity class,
and a deliberately unavailable provider is visibly different from an empty
one;
6. **authority**, if ever added — an attested decision reaches only the named
request and is recorded end to end.
The current implementation has the polling envelope and Panel projection. The
Rust daemon, aggregate Souveraine usage projection, provider permission path,
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# Surface lifetimes
The shell needs a memory budget and failure boundaries, not a superstition
about which UI language is pure. Permanent state, optional presentation, and
authority must have named owners and observable lifetimes. If closing a heavy
surface leaves its objects and pages resident in the only process holding the
lock screen, the surface did not meaningfully go away.
## Evidence that opened this question
The daily-driver phone has 3.5 GB RAM. Three measurements from August 2026
frame the risk without pretending to be a fresh baseline:
- QuickShell reached about 610 MB RSS during the Live2D experiment;
- the summoned WebKit face added about 283 MB RSS in its own process;
- a separate dynamic-QML/per-stream rendering storm drove QuickShell to about
952 MB anonymous RSS before the kernel killed it.
These observations do not prove that ordinary QML costs 952 MB, that WebKit is
always too expensive, or that a Rust surface is automatically small. They do
prove that an optional renderer can consume a material fraction of the phone's
memory and that a storm inside the resident QuickShell process shares a
failure domain with essential session UI.
The numbers must be remeasured against exact package revisions and process
trees before they become a budget.
## The resident core
The resident shell keeps only surfaces and connections that must survive the
loss of optional presentation:
- sessiond heartbeat and the secure session-lock handoff;
- the lock surface and lock-tier disclosure gate;
- display, idle, and device-state projections needed to remain safe;
- the small gesture and power paths required to recover or close a surface;
- a minimal system-status/recovery indication.
The resident core is not a second authority. Sessiond remains the decision
owner for lock, power, and admitted device action; the shell renders its state
and carries named requests. [Session start](02-session-start.md) owns the
package and systemd graph that brings compositor, authority, and shell up in
order.
The secure lock path must not be conditionally absent while a shell reload is
in flight. Optional-surface work may not reopen the already-known race where a
new shell requests a lock before the old holder has transferred or released
it.
## Optional means separately disposable
The agent Panel, Live2D presence, web content, large explorers, and future
special renderers are optional surfaces. Each needs:
- a named package and executable or explicit in-process owner;
- one startup trigger and one authority that may request presentation;
- a shutdown rule after close, idle, lock transition, or resource pressure;
- a state restoration key whose authority lives outside the renderer;
- a disclosure class and locked-state behavior;
- a resource line measured while closed, opening, active, and closing;
- a supervisor policy and a visible failure event.
A QML `Loader` is useful for avoiding construction and destroying object
graphs. It is not proof that allocator pages returned to the operating system,
and it cannot stop a rendering storm from killing the process that owns it.
Call that path lazy only after object lifetime is verified; call memory
released only after the OS measurement falls.
For expensive surfaces, a supervised process is the preferred boundary. When
the process exits, its private memory and faults leave with it. The resident
shell may retain a small launch/status projection, never the heavy renderer's
state graph.
## The Panel is the first extraction
The agent Panel is the strongest first worker candidate because its authority
already lives elsewhere:
- the Souveraine server owns agents, conversations, messages, itinerary,
cancellation, interjection, and replay;
- sessiond owns session/lock/device authority;
- the Panel owns presentation, input collection, transient selection, and
viewport state.
An extracted `souveraine-agent-surface` must therefore consume the same typed
server contract described in [the agent panel](04-agent-pane.md). It must not
copy conversations into a new local authority or become a second writer during
candidate testing.
Its lifecycle should be explicit:
1. an unlocked, admitted presentation request launches the version selected by
the installed surface package;
2. the worker authenticates to the local Souveraine endpoint and attaches only
after Casey selects or explicitly resumes a conversation;
3. close detaches presentation and gives the worker a short bounded grace for
non-authoritative UI state;
4. the supervisor ends the worker after that grace;
5. reopen reconstructs from substrate truth and may restore harmless viewport
state separately;
6. lock immediately hides Personal-class content and follows the declared
stop/blank policy even if the worker is stuck.
During an active stream, a killed worker must not cancel the server turn unless
Casey issued cancel. The substrate continues or records its terminal state;
reopening reattaches and backfills. Conversely, a worker must not remain alive
forever merely because a server stream forgot to close. Presentation lifetime
and inference lifetime are related state machines, not one process lifetime.
## Fault containment
The resident shell needs a small supervisor projection for each optional
surface: stopped, starting, ready, active, stopping, failed, and backoff. A
crash becomes an event with the package version and last lifecycle edge. It
must not silently relaunch in a tight loop or take the session lock with it.
The decisive fault tests are physical:
- kill the Panel during streamed text and during a large tool return;
- feed a candidate QML version that fails to load;
- wedge the worker so it ignores close;
- lock while Personal-class content is visible;
- exhaust the worker's memory budget without exhausting the resident core.
In every case the lock surface, power path, sessiond heartbeat, and recovery
control must remain available. A screenshot after restart is not fault proof.
## Versioned delivery on every body
The laptop and phone receive published packages from Gitea. A surface split is
complete only when the package graph installs compatible versions and the
systemd/session start path selects them consistently. Hand-placing a worker on
one device proves a diagnosis at most; it is not the fix future installs will
receive.
The core and optional-surface protocol must be versioned. Compatibility needs
an explicit range or handshake so a newer Panel cannot silently interpret an
older substrate event shape. Package upgrade stages a candidate; adoption and
restart remain explicit where a live conversation or lock handoff could be
disturbed. The last working surface stays available until the candidate reaches
ready state.
Gitea Actions and ArchDev own compilation and package artifacts. Local checks
may parse QML, format Rust, validate manifests, and exercise fixtures; they do
not replace the package result.
## Native Rust is a measured option
A Rust Wayland client could replace some or all of QuickShell, but it still has
to own layer-shell/session-lock protocols, rendering, text, input, animation,
accessibility, service integration, and recovery. Rust does not remove the
need for resident/optional process boundaries, and a native screenshot says
nothing about steady memory or fault behavior.
The useful spike is deliberately small: one native layer-shell card, one typed
sessiond-fed state, one package, and measurements for RSS/PSS, launch latency,
and failure. It does not take the lock, replace the shell, or grow a parallel
settings authority. Compare it against the extracted QuickShell worker under
the same workload before choosing a rewrite.
## Measurement record
Every budget line should name:
- device and available RAM;
- source commit, package version, and protocol version;
- process tree and which surfaces are constructed;
- RSS and PSS after a defined settle time;
- peak during a defined action, including a representative streamed tool turn;
- memory after close and after worker exit;
- launch-to-ready latency;
- result of the relevant kill/lock/reopen test.
Measure at least resident idle, Panel closed, Panel open and idle, active text
stream, large tool payload, Live2D closed/open, and post-close. A single `ps`
line without surface state is anecdote, not a budget.
## Proof and present boundary
The path is complete only when:
1. the resident and optional sets are explicit in source and packages;
2. closing the Panel ends its worker and the OS-visible memory leaves;
3. killing or wedging that worker leaves lock, heartbeat, power, and recovery
alive;
4. locked-state disclosure is exercised, not inferred from a conditional;
5. reopen restores the authoritative conversation without duplicating a turn;
6. Gitea emits the versioned core and surface packages used by both laptop and
phone;
7. a Rust rewrite decision, if made, cites comparable measurements.
None of that extraction is true yet. The current Panel remains inside the
resident QuickShell process; the August numbers are historical observations;
and the Rust path remains a bounded experiment, not an adopted shell plan.

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