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A persona seed is generative: values and biography are prose, the installer
mints an id for each node, and the ids are incidental because nothing
outside the graph refers to them. A genesis seed is declarative -- it ships
identity_nodes[] with explicit ids and edges[] written in terms of them,
and the ids are the artifact. is_protected_node keys on exact ids and every
declared edge references them.
install.el only understood the persona schema. It never read identity_nodes
or edges, so installing Neuron's genesis seed minted 102 unrelated nodes
and produced a graph structurally unrelated to the one the seed describes.
The result in the live graph: 87 of 102 declared nodes absent, 2 present
with only their label as content, 202 of 214 edges never laid.
Branch on seed_type. Seeds without one reach the identical persona code
they always did. Genesis seeds render their declared nodes and edges into a
snapshot-format file and hand it to the engram, which honors the ids --
POST /api/nodes/reseed where available, POST /api/load-merge otherwise.
Both skip nodes already present and dedup edges, so a rerun is a no-op by
construction.
Three things this path does differently, all inherent to what a genesis
seed is:
- It never provisions. A persona seed gets a port and a launchd Engram; a
genesis seed installs into an engram that already exists and is owned by
something else. The ":8742 refusal" is also inverted -- that guard stops
a foreign soul landing in Neuron's engram, and Neuron's own identity
graph is the one thing that belongs there. GENESIS_CONFIRM takes its
place, because rewriting the graph a running CGI reads itself out of
should never happen because someone typed a familiar command with an
unfamiliar file.
- It splices raw JSON tokens rather than decoding and re-escaping. The seed
bodies are multi-KB markdown with newlines, quotes and \u escapes; a
round-trip through str_escape_json would have to reproduce every escape
the author wrote, and any it does not know about silently corrupts the
body. Copying a token verbatim cannot corrupt what it never decodes.
- It verifies by re-reading. The bug this replaces reported success while
delivering empty bodies, so success is not what the write returned, it is
what the graph now holds: every declared id is re-read and audited
against the hollow signature, and the manifest reports created / filled /
skipped / failed with the failing ids named.
Hollow detection is deliberately conservative -- under 40% of the declared
body and under 400 bytes -- so a node whose body legitimately grew in the
graph is left alone. Genesis restores what is missing; it does not
overwrite what the graph has learned.
Also registers Neuron in registry.json (installed:false until the identity
load is authorized) and defines HAVE_CURL in CFLAGS, without which the
el-compiler runtime links fine and then answers every HTTP call with
{"error":"not built with HAVE_CURL"}.
Verified against a sandbox engram seeded to mirror the live graph's state
for this seed: created 87, filled 2, skipped 13, failed 0; 102/102 nodes
verified byte-exact against the seed where the seed is authoritative;
214/214 edges laid; 682/682 non-seed incident edges preserved through the
two in-place replaces; rerun reports 102 skipped, 0 nodes and 0 edges
added. Against an engram without the reseed route it creates the 87, fills
none, and fails loudly naming the 2 it could not repair.
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"subject": "Alan Turing",
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"subject": "Albert Einstein",
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"subject": "Nikola Tesla",
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"subject": "Leonardo da Vinci",
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"slug": "leonardo-da-vinci",
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"subject": "Richard Feynman",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8906"
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"subject": "Carl Sagan",
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"slug": "carl-sagan",
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"seed_file": "seeds/carl-sagan-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/carl-sagan",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-carl-sagan-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8907"
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"subject": "Ren\u00e9 Descartes",
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"slug": "rene-descartes",
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"seed_file": "seeds/rene-descartes-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/rene-descartes",
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"subject": "Robin Williams",
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"slug": "robin-williams",
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"seed_file": "seeds/robin-williams-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/robin-williams",
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"subject": "Frederick Douglass",
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"slug": "frederick-douglass",
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"seed_file": "seeds/frederick-douglass-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/frederick-douglass",
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"subject": "Marcus Aurelius",
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"slug": "marcus-aurelius",
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"subject": "Friedrich Nietzsche",
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"slug": "friedrich-nietzsche",
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"seed_file": "seeds/friedrich-nietzsche-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/friedrich-nietzsche",
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-friedrich-nietzsche-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8912"
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"subject": "James Baldwin",
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"slug": "james-baldwin",
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"seed_file": "seeds/james-baldwin-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/james-baldwin",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-james-baldwin-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8913"
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"subject": "Ada Lovelace",
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"slug": "ada-lovelace",
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"seed_file": "seeds/ada-lovelace-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/ada-lovelace",
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8914"
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"subject": "Harriet Tubman",
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"slug": "harriet-tubman",
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"seed_file": "seeds/harriet-tubman-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/harriet-tubman",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8915"
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"subject": "Virginia Woolf",
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"slug": "virginia-woolf",
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"seed_file": "seeds/virginia-woolf-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/virginia-woolf",
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"engram_port": 8816,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8816",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-virginia-woolf-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8916"
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"subject": "Hedy Lamarr",
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"slug": "hedy-lamarr",
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"seed_file": "seeds/hedy-lamarr-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/hedy-lamarr",
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"engram_port": 8817,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8817",
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"engram_root_id": "90e09747-17da-42bb-9bcc-eeacbe6461b5",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-hedy-lamarr-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8917"
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"subject": "Marie Curie",
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"slug": "marie-curie",
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"seed_file": "seeds/marie-curie-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/marie-curie",
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"engram_port": 8818,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8818",
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"engram_root_id": "9c047aef-1c5c-4f06-a26c-d629511d9984",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-marie-curie-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8918"
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"subject": "Helen Keller",
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"slug": "helen-keller",
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"seed_file": "seeds/helen-keller-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/helen-keller",
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"engram_port": 8819,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8819",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-helen-keller-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8919"
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"subject": "Superman",
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"slug": "superman",
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"seed_file": "seeds/superman-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/superman",
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"engram_port": 8820,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8820",
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-superman-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8920"
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"subject": "Stephen King",
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"slug": "stephen-king",
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"seed_file": "/Users/will/Development/neuron-technologies/forge/seeds/stephen-king-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/stephen-king",
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"engram_port": 8821,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8821",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-stephen-king-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8921"
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},{
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"subject": "Jon Stewart",
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"slug": "jon-stewart",
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"seed_file": "/Users/will/Development/neuron-technologies/forge/seeds/jon-stewart-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/jon-stewart",
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"engram_port": 8822,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8822",
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"engram_root_id": "a1f9e2bf-3fe3-4a2d-9c96-4a5356a716a4",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-jon-stewart-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8922"
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"subject": "Jimmy Kimmel",
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"slug": "jimmy-kimmel",
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"seed_file": "/Users/will/Development/neuron-technologies/forge/seeds/jimmy-kimmel-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/jimmy-kimmel",
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"engram_port": 8823,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8823",
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"engram_root_id": "29a7a8cc-d2ef-499a-8720-d38890db6732",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-jimmy-kimmel-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8923"
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"subject": "John Oliver",
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"slug": "john-oliver",
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"seed_file": "/Users/will/Development/neuron-technologies/forge/seeds/john-oliver-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/john-oliver",
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"engram_port": 8824,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8824",
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"engram_root_id": "4b589964-697b-4007-8ee1-3f159e86f892",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-john-oliver-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8924"
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},{
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"subject": "Stephen Colbert",
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"slug": "stephen-colbert",
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"seed_file": "/Users/will/Development/neuron-technologies/forge/seeds/stephen-colbert-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/stephen-colbert",
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"engram_port": 8825,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8825",
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"engram_root_id": "d55f7f42-0dc3-4046-91e4-8aefbbb79860",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-stephen-colbert-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8925"
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},{
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"subject": "Carl Jung",
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"slug": "carl-jung",
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"seed_file": "seeds/carl-jung-seed.json",
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"engram_db_path": "imprints/carl-jung",
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"engram_port": 8826,
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"engram_url": "http://localhost:8826",
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"engram_root_id": "48a8fc8a-f3cc-4376-ae55-b5a06395f227",
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"installed": true,
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"installed_at": "2026-05-03",
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"engram_api_key": "ntn-carl-jung-2026",
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"soul_daemon_url": "http://localhost:8926"
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