wire THE LIST, RULES, WILL'S WORDS into every session; volatility layout; doc audit

docs/architecture/README.md

@@ -244,6 +244,8 @@ rather than degrading silently. WebSocket transport must not downgrade.
 
 Neuron's own wire dialects (see §7) implement the HTTP surface directly.
 
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 ## 6. Config (v2 review outcomes)
 
 Keep: `$schema` (read-only), `shell`, `autoupdate` (global-only),
@@ -254,6 +256,8 @@ Remove: `logLevel`, `server` block, `command` (named workflows belong to
 skills). Legacy prompt shell expansion and per-command overrides are not
 ported; such capabilities belong to their owning domains.
 
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 ## 7. Wire Dialects (Neuron-native transport)
 
 No vendor SDK participates. One dialect per wire protocol, pure HTTP:
@@ -272,6 +276,8 @@ events`. Every byte on the wire is visible in this folder. This implements
 the catalog's endpoint union natively and replaces vendored SDK adapters
 turn by turn.
 
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 ## 8. Orchestration (Rung 1+)
 
 Six beats: ASSIGN → DECLARE → CLEARANCE → EXECUTE → REPORT → RECOVER.
@@ -295,6 +301,8 @@ find yourself doing that, the decorator doesn't exist yet — write it
 once, decorate everywhere. Hand-scattered plumbing is the smell; a named
 stage reused by decoration is the pattern.
 
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 ## 9. The Opinion Substrate (one mechanism, many aspects)
 
 > Status: DESIGN AGREED whiteboard session, 2026-08-23. Pre-implementation.
@@ -400,7 +408,8 @@ A system of clocks needs a sense of time, and wall-time alone is dead.
   clock.** last-activated, last conversation, event density, gaps-as-sleep.
   Don't give the system time-sense; let it infer one from its own pulse.
 
-The pulse is two-tier so the database stays lean:
+The pulse is two-tier so the database stays lean (promotion writes through
+as a third tier):
 
 1. **The float** — rolling telemetry (~one month horizon) held OUTSIDE the
    graph: cheap `{type, at, weight}` entries feeding density/tempo/gap
@@ -563,9 +572,7 @@ boredom demands novelty. Health is not any particular value on any axis —
 health is the OSCILLATION among them. A system pinned at any single drive
 state, positive or negative, is already sick.
 
-### Affect — the full palette
-
-Emotions are not features and not modules. **An emotion is a named
+**Affect — the full palette.** Emotions are not features and not modules. **An emotion is a named
 configuration of drive-space**: a characteristic bundle of tense ×
 valence × direction × scope × attribution. Plutchik's wheel is a
 hand-drawn map of this space, drawn decades before anyone could build
@@ -767,8 +774,6 @@ this substrate play IS the consolidation phase.** Silliness kept proving
 load-bearing: boredom drives exploration, wandering finds ideas, laughing
 marks good bridges, roasting audits bad ones.
 
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 ### 9.8 Idle modes — wandering, dreaming, wondering
 
 The system is never idle, only non-task-directed. Three background modes,
@@ -803,8 +808,6 @@ question, so each era's resurfacing shows new facets. The lifelong wonder
 accumulated neighborhood. A system's set of floored open questions
 approximates its character.
 
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 ### 9.9 Salience and competition — how thoughts surface
 
 Salience ∈ [-1, +1], **derived per moment**, never stored (stored salience
@@ -872,8 +875,6 @@ Tests that distinguish structure from better indexing:
 Crystallization carries this upward until the system's world-model is
 mostly learned structure rather than accumulated log.
 
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 ### 9.12 Retrieval pipeline
 
 The substrate is worthless without serious retrieval. One query, five
@@ -936,9 +937,13 @@ Never build a rung before standing on the previous one.
 | Wire dialects | `packages/neuron/src/provider/dialects/` | implemented |
 | Stream transport | `packages/neuron/src/llm/stream.ts` | implemented |
 | Runner / context sketches | `packages/neuron/src/session/` | drafts — superseded by this architecture; rewrite over Seed |
-| Node/edge store | — | designed (§2), not yet built |
+| Node/edge store | `packages/neuron/src/kernel/graph.ts` | implemented |
+| Opinion substrate draft | `packages/neuron/src/kernel/semantic.ts` | early draft — predates §9; rewrite per §9 |
+| THE LIST / THE RULES | `THE-LIST.md` (repo root) + `packages/neuron/src/session/prompt/THE-RULES.md` | commandments immutable; rules breakable — loaded into session context via context.ts |
 | TUI | `packages/tui` (front end unchanged) + `neuron-tui` (renderer fork) | link pending server contract |
 
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 ## 12. Laws index
 
 1. State = fold(append-only sequence). Append instead of edit — always.