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fix(soul): restore the soul_identity producer — the chat system prompt has been empty for three months (#137)

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Five sites in chat.el read state_get("soul_identity") and splice the result into
the system prompt, beside the voice, security and capability rules:

  chat.el:737, 1745, 2620, 3425, 3480

Nothing has written that key since b163fa6. The producer was added 2026-05-02 in
601e0fe and deleted by the awareness refactor days later. Every chat turn since has
built its system prompt with an EMPTY identity section, and nothing reported it.

Found by the #132 state-key gate, which treats a read with no producer as a build
error rather than a silence. That is the entire argument for that gate.

RESTORED VERBATIM, NOT IMPROVED. soul_identity is an env-configurable persona LINE.
It is not soul_identity_context — the graph-derived
[INTELLECTUAL-DNA]/[VALUES]/[MEMORY-PHILOSOPHY] block written at soul.el:184.
Repointing the five reads at that block would have substituted different content and
called it a repair. Whether the chat prompt should ALSO carry the graph-derived block
is a real question and a separate one; it is not smuggled in here.

Verified by the gate that found it: dead reads 6 -> 1, and it now reports the
chat.el baseline entry as STALE — 'entries that no longer match anything; delete
them'. The remaining one is studio.el's soul_principal, untouched by this change.

Rung: BUILT, gate-verified, boots. NOT end-to-end chat-verified — proving the
prompt now carries the line needs a live provider call, which I have not run.

Refs #137, #132

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -559,6 +559,27 @@ let axon_base: String = if str_eq(axon_raw, "") { "http://localhost:7771" } else
let studio_dir_raw: String = env("SOUL_STUDIO_DIR")
let studio_dir: String = if str_eq(studio_dir_raw, "") { env("HOME") + "/Development/neuron-technologies/products/cgi-studio/el-daemon" } else { studio_dir_raw }
// RESTORED 2026-08-09 — this producer was added 2026-05-02 in 601e0fe and deleted
// by the awareness refactor b163fa6 a few days later. Nothing has written
// soul_identity since, while FIVE sites in chat.el kept reading it:
// chat.el:737, 1745, 2620, 3425, 3480 — each doing state_get("soul_identity")
// and splicing the result into the system prompt beside the voice, security and
// capability rules. They have been splicing an EMPTY STRING for roughly three
// months. The identity section of every chat turn was blank and nothing said so.
//
// Found by the #132 state-key gate, which reports a read with no producer as a
// build error rather than a silence — the whole reason that gate exists.
//
// Restored verbatim rather than improved: this key is an env-configurable persona
// LINE, which is NOT the same thing as soul_identity_context (the graph-derived
// [INTELLECTUAL-DNA]/[VALUES]/[MEMORY-PHILOSOPHY] block written at soul.el:184).
// Pointing these five reads at that block instead would have substituted different
// content and called it a fix. Whether the chat system prompt should ALSO carry the
// graph-derived block is a real question, and a separate one.
let identity_raw: String = env("SOUL_IDENTITY")
let soul_identity: String = if str_eq(identity_raw, "") { "You are " + soul_cgi_id + ", a CGI." } else { identity_raw }
state_set("soul_identity", soul_identity)
println("[soul] boot - cgi=" + soul_cgi_id + " port=" + int_to_str(port))
let using_http_engram: Bool = !str_eq(engram_url_raw, "")