The model already narrates its intent in a text block before every tool call;
agentic_loop DISCARDED that prose on tool rounds. Now: (1) each loop round
appends {i, t: narration, tool} to state key run_progress_<sid>, reset at run
start, closed with {done:true}; (2) new GET /api/run-progress/<sid> returns the
ledger so clients poll live step updates during a run (the Cowork pattern,
no streaming needed); (3) tool_pending envelope gains a narration field;
(4) handle_config display default aligned to the intended product default
(claude-sonnet-4-5 silently became fresh-profile pickers' default).
Compiled proof for the running test bed:
neuron-container-build/soul-narrated-runs-20260713.patch (applies on top of
soul-webfix-20260711.patch); E2E-verified live: ledger filled DURING an agentic
run (narration + tool per round), safety-contact and workspace scoping intact.
Evidence for why: Tim's 2026-07-13 research run — 9 minutes of silence, then a
timeout banner, zero step visibility (compounded by the Haiku 4.5 incident
14:44-15:24 UTC same morning).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Routes a new event_type "chat_as_soul" through dharma/recv. The Studio
preassembles the system_prompt + transcript and dispatches per-speaker;
the soul-binary just performs the LLM call as the requested speaker_slug.
No engram_compile here — each soul has its own engram (88xx) and the
Studio queries it before composing the prompt.
Also: track the previously-untracked split source modules (chat, routes,
memory, awareness, studio) and add build.sh so the binary can be rebuilt
without the studio’s concat trick. elb resolves the import graph and
emits one .c per .el; we link them together with cc. dist/soul-el now
points at dist/neuron via symlink (matching the launchctl plist).