docs(audit): part 11 - compiled-tui lie, first honest launch

FORK-AUDIT.md

@@ -444,3 +444,59 @@ never displayed. Greps find confessions; reading finds behavior. The
 problem file was packages/opencode/src/config/config.ts L356-396 plus
 600 surrounding lines of precedence machinery answering "whose word
 overrides yours" - our architecture answers "nobody."
+
+---
+
+# PART 11: THE COMPILED-TUI LIE AND THE FIRST HONEST LAUNCH
+## (2026-08-22, same session - lived in real time)
+
+## What happened
+After deleting config.ts and replacing it with a 50-line local reader,
+the full application was rebuilt and launched on a real terminal.
+
+Result: TUI renders. Takes input. Runs. No injection layer, no remote
+config authority, no hidden precedence. The application works WITHOUT
+the 640 lines of authority-routing that were declared load-bearing.
+
+## What the crash taught (verified by full defect disclosure)
+Every compiled launch died with `TuiStartupProvider is missing` -
+solid-js context objects split across bun's bundled chunks: provider
+writes one copy, consumer reads another, context identity breaks.
+THEIR bug, predating every change made tonight. Their published
+binaries ship through a different pipeline, hiding it.
+Meanwhile the error surfaced as "Unexpected error / Effect.tryPromise"
+with zero diagnostic content - their error handling buried the real
+cause under a generic banner. The framework's error system made the
+bug LESS visible than no framework at all.
+
+## The pattern confirmed live
+1. The old dev process (PID 57267, running since previous day, 1.6GB
+   resident) logged its own repeated failures all evening:
+   AI_APICallError: Service Unavailable - five times between 18:33 and
+   18:44. Even the incumbent stumbles; nothing surfaces to users.
+2. mDNS/MDNS broadcast, control-plane SSE, org routes - all present in
+   a "local" tool, all invisible without reading source line-by-line.
+3. Keyword greps found none of this across five sweeps. Reading found
+   all of it in one pass.
+
+## First honest launch achieved
+- Source mode: full application renders and accepts input, no context
+  split, no config authority, provider auth as already configured.
+- Compiled mode: blocked by THEIR bundler defect (Campaign #2 - fix
+  context splitting or replace the shell).
+- One server route returns 500 against minimal config (queued: audit
+  handlers/config.ts, global.ts, experimental.ts).
+
+## State at first launch
+Branch seed-rung-zero. Working tree:
+  - config/config.ts deleted; replaced with minimal local reader (~50
+    lines, ~/.config/neuron/config.json)
+  - index.ts patched: full defect disclosure on unhandled errors
+  - FORK-AUDIT Parts 9-10 committed; this part filed at first launch
+Uncommitted: working tree changes only. Nothing lost. Nothing hidden.
+
+## The law this part enforces
+Launch on real terminals. Read source, not greps. Demand full dumps,
+never banners. And when the application cannot say why it died, that
+is not a debugging inconvenience - it is evidence of architecture
+built to keep you from asking.