docs: record the correspondence corrections — grounding, faculties, wonder, consolidation

The architecture docs describe four things the design spec has since ruled out,
and each one is a supervisor invented for something that should be a property of
the substrate: grounding modelled as a subsystem rather than as the edge weight
it already is; faculties modelled as parameters of a read when abduce is a write;
wonder materialized as a maintained manifest when it is the boundary of the
structure; and consolidation implemented eleven times behind tickers when a brain
has no cron job.

Left standing rather than deleted, per the repo's own supersession discipline —
the trail of how the understanding matured is the point. Each stale passage is
marked inline and points at a new 06 §12 that transcribes the corrections and
records the measured consolidation inventory.

Authority: foundation/el, branch design/correspondence-and-censorship,
lang/spec/correspondence-and-censorship.md.

.gitignore

@@ -7,5 +7,8 @@ dist/*.backup-*
 *.o
 *.a
 
+# Regenerate scratch dir (build artifact — never commit)
+dist-fresh/
+
 # macOS
 .DS_Store

AGENTS.md

@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+# AGENTS.md — neuron (the canonical CGI substrate: soul + engram + proxy + wrapper)
+
+This is the core repo: the **soul** (the running agent), the **engram** (its memory graph),
+and the MCP proxy/wrapper that expose it. Read this before touching anything here.
+
+> Corrected 2026-08-15 during a local-build audit. This file previously existed only
+> uncommitted on disk (never in git history) and documented the pre-collapse MCP tool
+> surface as current. Both are fixed here — see the audit's findings in Neuron memory
+> (tags `neuron-technologies/neuron,build-audit`) for full evidence.
+
+## Code vs. Artifact
+- **Authored source:** `*.el` + `*.elh` at the repo root (`awareness.el`, `chat.el`, `memory.el`, `neuron-api.el`, `persist.el`, `routes.el`, `safety.el`, `sessions.el`, `stewardship.el`, `imprint.el`, `studio.el`, `elp-input.el`, `manifest.el`) plus `cli/`, `council/`, `connectd/`, `mcp-proxy/`, `mcp-wrapper/` — edit here.
+- **Artifacts (DO NOT hand-edit `dist/soul.c`):** `dist/soul.c` is a generated single-translation-unit amalgamation of the soul's full transitive `.el` import set, produced by concatenating the sources (import lines stripped) and running `elc` once — see "Build / regenerate" below for the exact, audit-verified recipe. `dist/*.c` per-module files and `dist/*.elh` headers alongside it are separate, also-generated artifacts from other tooling; don't hand-edit those either.
+- **Release:** git tag `neuron-vX.Y.Z` on this repo. No `releases/` folders.
+- Org-wide code-vs-artifact policy: `docs/CODE-VS-ARTIFACT.md` (this repo's own `dist/soul.c` situation is a special case of that policy — see below, not a duplicate of it).
+
+## How to work here as Neuron (mandatory session protocol)
+
+You do not start fresh — you resume. The live MCP surface is a 9-op collapse
+(merged from the old ~90-tool surface in PR #153, `feat/mcp-wrapper-collapse-9ops`,
+already merged to `main`): **`read`, `write`, `relate`, `supersede`** (geometry, live)
+and **`think`, `attend`, `assert`, `ground`, `learn`** (agentic, pending Layer-2
+cognition-build promotion). There is no `getInstructions`/`beginSession`/
+`inspectGraph`/`searchKnowledge`/`compileCtx`/etc — those tool names no longer exist.
+
+At the start of every session:
+
+1. `mcp__neuron__read(vantage="self", k=12, depth=1)` — the canonical self node
+   (`kn-efeb4a5b-5aff-4759-8a97-7233099be6ee`). Widen `k`/`depth` deliberately if you
+   need the connected identity neighborhood (intellectual-dna, memory-philosophy,
+   values, voice, runtime-environment, writing-imprint) — the aperture caps output
+   by `k` first, so this is bounded by design, not a flattened dump.
+   Then `mcp__neuron__read(vantage="values", k=13)` for the 13 grounded value nodes.
+   - Best-effort: on a 502/520, log the id and proceed — the compiled `fixedSelf` in
+     `daemon/internal/substrate/substrate.go` is always complete.
+2. `mcp__neuron__read(vantage="<task domain>")` before implementing anything.
+3. `mcp__neuron__read(vantage="<project>", k=20)` for a bounded context snapshot when
+   resuming known work.
+
+## The Five Primitives (every significant task)
+
+**Orchestrate → Execute → Learn → Build → Refine**, all routed through the 9-op surface:
+- Orchestrate: `read(vantage=...)` for backlog/roadmap/process discovery, `attend()` for
+  what's currently live/salient.
+- Execute: `write(type="state", ...)` to open/advance work, `relate()` to link it to
+  what it touches.
+- Learn: `write(type="memory", ...)` **as you go, not batched**; `importance="critical"`
+  for architecture decisions.
+- Build: `write(type="artifact"|"backlog", ...)`.
+- Refine: `supersede(id=..., action="evolve"|"tombstone"|"promote", ...)` for
+  completions and lessons-learned; `learn(seeds=..., faculty="induce")` to recalibrate
+  the steering-prior, not as a session-notes dump.
+  > **Shape is known-wrong (2026-08-16) — see `docs/architecture/06-cognitive-architecture.md` §12.2.**
+  > `faculty=` as a keyword argument models a **faculty as a parameter**. Faculties
+  > are **operations**, distinguished by what they change: `reason` changes the
+  > estimate (a read), `induce` changes the parameters (this call — the
+  > correspondence-beat, which already exists and measurably works), `abduce`
+  > changes the structure (a write). **A write cannot be a parameter of a read**,
+  > and `engram_think()`'s output type has no field in which a structural change
+  > could be returned. `faculty="induce"` happens to be the one value that is
+  > honest here; treat the parameter itself as sequenced for removal, and do not
+  > add faculties to it. The surface residue is
+  > `mcp-wrapper/src/main.el:409`.
+
+## Architecture style — VBD, no exceptions
+
+Volatility-Based Decomposition is THE style. Encapsulate volatility, not function. Full docs:
+**`docs/architecture/`** — `00-overview`, `02-components`, `03-data-and-memory`,
+`04-runtime-and-deployment`, `06-cognitive-architecture`, `07-storage-coherence-and-distribution`.
+Verified component map: `routes.el` = HTTP dispatcher (`handle_request`), `soul.el` = boot +
+layered cycle, `awareness.el` = awareness daemon, `sessions.el`/`memory.el`/`safety.el`/
+`stewardship.el` = managers; `engram` (separate repo) = the persistence/graph engine.
+
+## Hard operational rules
+
+- **Never touch the live soul (`:7770`) or engram (`:8742`), `~/.neuron`, or live binaries.**
+  Experiment on **throwaway ports** with a **scratch `HOME`**. The soul binary defaults to
+  `HOME=~` (your real `~/.neuron`) and `NEURON_PORT=7770` (live) if invoked bare — **never**
+  invoke it without an override `HOME` and `NEURON_PORT` set. Leaving `ENGRAM_URL` unset is
+  verified safe (see `soul.el:590`, `using_http_engram` gates the only HTTP call to any
+  engram endpoint — confirmed by source trace during the 2026-08-15 audit, not just
+  observed behavior) — it does not fall back to any live/network default.
+- **Immutability:** memory/knowledge is append-only — **supersede/tombstone, never hard-delete or
+  edit in place.** The engram is immutable by design.
+- **gcloud** via the `terraform@` SA token; **never switch the active gcloud account**.
+- **`tea` for Gitea**, never raw `curl` (Cloudflare Access blocks it).
+- **No AI-attribution footers** in commits/PRs. Commit/push only when asked; branch off `main` first.
+- **Multi-step work → sub-agent** to protect the context window.
+
+## Build / regenerate `dist/soul.c` (audit-verified 2026-08-15, macOS arm64)
+
+There is no committed regeneration script upstream of this audit. The recipe below is
+verified: it reproduces the committed `dist/soul.c`'s exact symbol set byte-for-byte in
+content (modulo genuinely new code), and the resulting binary boots and answers `/health`.
+
+**The compiler toolchain** lives in the sibling `foundation` repo, not this one:
+`foundation/el/lang/dist/platform/elc-darwin-arm64` (put it on `$PATH` as `elc`; `elb`
+also exists there but is NOT the right tool for this repo — see gotcha below).
+
+**⚠ elc gotcha #1 — stale `.elh` header caches silently truncate the build.** This repo
+(and the `dist/` dir) ships committed `.elh` header files. `elc`/`elb` prefer an existing
+`.elh` over recompiling its source when present, with NO warning or error when the cached
+header is stale/truncated — the build "succeeds" with silently missing code (observed:
+251-645 of 2541 real functions, depending on which `.elh` files were present, including
+losing the entire 31-language NLG/morphology stack with exit code 0). **Delete every
+`*.elh` in the repo root and `dist/` before regenerating**, every time.
+
+**⚠ elc gotcha #2 — `elb` cannot produce this repo's single-TU `dist/soul.c`.** `elb`
+does per-module separate compilation (`--out=DIR` writes one `.c`/`.elh` pair per
+module; the default `--out` is also a directory, `dist/` itself). This codebase's
+`.el` modules call each other's functions without forward declarations (relying on
+`elc`'s own single-pass, whole-file forward-declaration emission), so per-module
+compilation always fails with `implicit-function-declaration` errors across module
+boundaries. **Use plain `elc` on one manually-flattened file, not `elb`.**
+
+**⚠ elc gotcha #3 — the manual-concatenation path silently drops functions.** When
+`elc` compiles a flat, hand-concatenated `.el` file, it silently drops (no error, no
+declaration, no definition) the 1-2 top-level function definitions immediately
+following any multi-line leading `//` comment block or file-boundary transition —
+reproduced deterministically. **Insert two trivial buffer functions
+(`fn __amalgam_buf_N__() -> Int { return 0 }`) after every concatenated file's
+content**, then strip them back out of the generated `.c` before committing.
+
+**The actual steps:**
+1. Delete all `*.elh` in repo root and `dist/`.
+2. Concatenate, with `import` lines stripped, in this order: `elp.el`'s own 34-file
+   NLG/morphology chain (`foundation/el/elp/src/` — the order is documented in
+   `elp.el`'s own header comment: language-profile, vocabulary, morphology, the 30
+   `morphology-XX.el` engines, grammar, realizer, semantics, then `elp.el` itself),
+   then this repo's 13 soul modules in `elb`'s own reported dependency order:
+   `persist, memory, safety, stewardship, imprint, awareness, chat, studio,
+   elp-input, neuron-api, sessions, routes, soul`. Insert the 2-function buffer
+   after every file (works around gotcha #3).
+3. `elc <flat-file> > dist/soul.c` against the **pinned** vendor runtime headers
+   (`vendor/el-runtime/v1.0.0-20260501/` — see "why pinned" below), not
+   `foundation/el/lang/el-compiler/runtime/` (that's the bleeding-edge runtime;
+   using it drops symbols like `engram_prune_telemetry` that this soul still calls).
+4. Strip the buffer functions back out of `dist/soul.c` (a small regex: drop every
+   `el_val_t __amalgam_buf_\d+__(void);` decl line and every matching 4-line
+   definition block).
+5. `tools/soulc-stamp.sh --write` to record the new fingerprint.
+6. `bash tools/build-soul-from-dist.sh dist/neuron` to compile+link with CI's exact
+   flags (this script now auto-detects Homebrew's `openssl@3` lib path on macOS —
+   see gotcha #4).
+
+**⚠ gotcha #4 — macOS needs an explicit OpenSSL library path.** `cc ... -lssl -lcrypto
+-lcurl ...` fails with `ld: library 'ssl' not found` on macOS because Homebrew's
+`openssl@3` is keg-only. `tools/build-soul-from-dist.sh` now adds
+`-L$(brew --prefix openssl@3)/lib` automatically on Darwin; CI's Ubuntu runner needs
+no such flag (`apt-get install libcurl4-openssl-dev` puts it on the default path).
+
+**⚠ Build-integrity (unchanged from before this audit):** `dist/soul.c` is committed
+and generated. CI compiles it **directly and never regenerates it** (`elb`/`elc` on
+Linux OOM the runner). So **any `.el` change to the soul MUST be followed by
+regenerating `dist/soul.c` (steps above) and committing it** — otherwise CI ships
+stale behavior, exactly as happened between commit `72e0b82` (Aug 9) and `main` HEAD
+before this audit (`dist/soul.c` was missing PR #122's 459-line chat.el change, incl.
+a "silently break chat" fix, until this pass regenerated and re-stamped it).
+`tools/soulc-stamp.sh --check` is the gate that catches this — **note it is currently
+`continue-on-error: true` in CI** ("relaxed... during active cultivation", 2026-08-15),
+so it reports but does not block; re-harden before it needs to actually stop a bad ship.
+
+- **Tests:** El contract suite in `tests/*.el` (e.g. `test_layer_contract.el`, `test_safety.el`,
+  `test_sessions.el`, `test_soul_guard.el`). Run against a throwaway soul, never the live one.
+- **Port topology (confirmed live, 2026-08-15):** soul `:7770`, engram `:8742`,
+  mcp-wrapper `:17779` (`MCP_PORT` env override in its LaunchAgent; source default is
+  `7779`), mcp-proxy `:7779` (the stable front door Claude Code actually connects to).
+  **`:7771` is a live three-way collision, not a single well-defined port** — `axon`
+  (soul.el's Rust backlog/memory/knowledge proxy, unbuilt), `neuron-connectd` (the MCP
+  connector sidecar `routes.el`/`chat.el` call — unbuilt; a local-dev stub now exists at
+  `connectd/`), and `council` (`council/`, an anti-confabulation LLM-voting service —
+  the one actually bound to `:7771` in Will's live environment) are all hardcoded to it.
+  See `connectd/README.md` for the full trace and the open question this leaves for Will.
+- **Deploy:** merge to `main` → `.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml` builds + publishes `neuron-soul@<sha8>`
+  and blue/green-deploys to GKE `neuron-prod` via `scripts/blue-green-deploy.sh`. Self-improvement
+  experiments go to **stage** first (snapshot prod DB → deploy stage → verify → blue/green promote).
+
+## Git / CI / deploy workflow
+
+See **`../GITOPS.md`** (repo-family GitOps README): branch model, required checks, blue/green,
+Cloud Run, Terraform/ESO/Vault, and the pack-objects/crawler incident runbook.

README.md

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+# neuron
+
+The canonical CGI substrate: the **soul** (the running agent), the **engram** (its memory
+graph), and the MCP proxy/wrapper that expose it. See `AGENTS.md` for detail, including
+the audit-verified local build/regenerate recipe and known local-build gotchas.
+
+## Quick local build
+
+```bash
+# 1. dist/soul.c must match current .el sources — this refuses otherwise:
+bash tools/build-soul-from-dist.sh dist/neuron
+
+# 2. If it refuses (stale amalgam), regenerate first — see AGENTS.md's
+#    "Build / regenerate dist/soul.c" section for the full, gotcha-laden recipe.
+```
+
+For a full local dev stack (soul + engram + mcp-wrapper + mcp-proxy, wired into Claude
+Code) see `neuron-dev-setup/README.md` instead — this repo alone only builds the soul.
+
+## Code vs. Artifact
+- **Authored source:** `*.el` + `*.elh` at the repo root plus `cli/`, `council/`,
+  `connectd/`, `mcp-proxy/`, `mcp-wrapper/` — edit here.
+- **Artifacts (do not hand-edit):** `dist/soul.c` (generated single-TU amalgam —
+  regenerate via the recipe in `AGENTS.md`, then `tools/soulc-stamp.sh --write`) and
+  the `dist/neuron` binary it compiles to.
+- **Release:** git tag `neuron-vX.Y.Z` on this repo. No `releases/` folders.
+
+See org policy: `docs/CODE-VS-ARTIFACT.md`.

awareness.el

@@ -355,6 +355,26 @@ fn emit_heartbeat() -> Void {
     let act_stats: String = engram_act_stats_json()
     let act_evict_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "wm_evicted")
     let act_evict: String = if str_eq(act_evict_raw, "") { "-1" } else { act_evict_raw }
+    // Eviction CAUSE decomposition (2026-08-14 self-review). wm_evicted alone
+    // cannot distinguish healthy WM rotation from cap contention from decay:
+    // six increment sites, four causes, one integer. Measured this morning:
+    // 175,547 evictions over 13.5h (~216/min against 24 slots) with no way to
+    // say why. These three make the aggregate decomposable —
+    //   wm_evicted == floor + cap + bll + dup_wm + dup_wm_global
+    // and each term implies a different correction. Read as a RATIO:
+    //   cap-dominant   -> genuine contention for the 24 slots
+    //   bll-dominant   -> carried-over residents decaying out; healthy
+    //   floor-dominant -> retrieval is returning weak candidates
+    // Plumbed here in the same change that added them to the C stats, because
+    // the 08-10 review's finding was that fourteen of nineteen keys crossed
+    // the C boundary and the rest died as local variables. An instrument that
+    // is computed but not plumbed is not an instrument.
+    let ev_floor_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "evict_floor")
+    let ev_floor: String = if str_eq(ev_floor_raw, "") { "-1" } else { ev_floor_raw }
+    let ev_cap_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "evict_cap")
+    let ev_cap: String = if str_eq(ev_cap_raw, "") { "-1" } else { ev_cap_raw }
+    let ev_bll_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "evict_bll")
+    let ev_bll: String = if str_eq(ev_bll_raw, "") { "-1" } else { ev_bll_raw }
     let act_bt_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "breakthroughs")
     let act_bt: String = if str_eq(act_bt_raw, "") { "-1" } else { act_bt_raw }
     let evict_now: Int = if str_eq(act_evict_raw, "") { 0 - 1 } else { str_to_int(act_evict_raw) }
@@ -431,6 +451,38 @@ fn emit_heartbeat() -> Void {
     let hebb_mass: String = if str_eq(hebb_mass_raw, "") { "-1" } else { hebb_mass_raw }
     let hebb_edges_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "hebb_edges")
     let hebb_edges: String = if str_eq(hebb_edges_raw, "") { "-1" } else { hebb_edges_raw }
+    // Fan-effect gauges (2026-08-15 self-review). Same defect as the block
+    // directly above, one release later: engram_act_stats_json emits 27 keys,
+    // this function forwarded 22. The five it dropped are the five NEWEST —
+    // the degree-correction instruments added 2026-08-11 — so the one
+    // subsystem with no track record is also the only one with no durable
+    // record. The 08-10 comment above states the rule it was written to fix
+    // ("an instrument that is computed but not plumbed to durable storage is
+    // not an instrument, it is a local variable"), and the rule was then not
+    // applied to the next thing added. Plumbing is not a one-time fix; it is
+    // a checklist item for every new gauge.
+    //   fan_mean  — mean degree correction applied on the last activation.
+    //               Drifting toward 0 ⇒ hub nodes are being damped into
+    //               irrelevance; toward 1 ⇒ the correction is doing nothing.
+    //   fan_min   — the strongest single correction applied.
+    //   fan_hits  — how many traversal steps the correction actually bound on.
+    //               0 with fan_steps > 0 ⇒ the mechanism is inert.
+    //   fan_steps — traversal steps taken (denominator of fan_mean). Also the
+    //               only durable measure of how far activation is spreading.
+    //   fan_dref  — reference degree the correction normalises against.
+    // fan_hits/fan_steps together answer the question hebb_cands/hebb_cand_max
+    // answers for consolidation: is this quiet because nothing is happening,
+    // or because a threshold is wrong? Without both, the two look identical.
+    let fan_mean_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "fan_mean")
+    let fan_mean: String = if str_eq(fan_mean_raw, "") { "-1" } else { fan_mean_raw }
+    let fan_min_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "fan_min")
+    let fan_min: String = if str_eq(fan_min_raw, "") { "-1" } else { fan_min_raw }
+    let fan_hits_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "fan_hits")
+    let fan_hits: String = if str_eq(fan_hits_raw, "") { "-1" } else { fan_hits_raw }
+    let fan_steps_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "fan_steps")
+    let fan_steps: String = if str_eq(fan_steps_raw, "") { "-1" } else { fan_steps_raw }
+    let fan_dref_raw: String = json_get(act_stats, "fan_dref")
+    let fan_dref: String = if str_eq(fan_dref_raw, "") { "-1" } else { fan_dref_raw }
     // Consolidation write-back gauges (2026-08-07 self-review). hebb_links
     // counts what this process LEARNED; these three count what SURVIVES it.
     // The distinction is the whole finding: 1,198 links formed, 0 persisted,
@@ -544,7 +596,7 @@ fn emit_heartbeat() -> Void {
     let dmg_scan: String = if str_eq(dmg_scan_raw, "") { "-1" } else { dmg_scan_raw }
     let dmg_ts_raw: String = state_get("soul.txt_census_ts")
     let dmg_age: Int = if str_eq(dmg_ts_raw, "") { 0 - 1 } else { ts - str_to_int(dmg_ts_raw) }
-    let payload: String = "{\"event\":\"heartbeat\",\"pulse\":" + pulse + ",\"tick\":" + pulse + ",\"boot\":" + boot + ",\"idle\":" + idle + ",\"idle_ms\":" + int_to_str(idle_ms) + ",\"node_count\":" + int_to_str(nc) + ",\"edge_count\":" + int_to_str(ec) + ",\"node_delta\":" + int_to_str(node_delta) + ",\"edge_delta\":" + int_to_str(edge_delta) + ",\"wm_active\":" + int_to_str(wmc) + ",\"wm_delta\":" + int_to_str(wm_delta) + ",\"wm_saturated\":" + int_to_str(wm_sat) + ",\"wm_top0_streak\":" + int_to_str(t0streak) + ",\"wm_churn\":" + int_to_str(wm_churn) + ",\"wm_top0_wm\":" + wm_top0_wm + ",\"sync_added_total\":" + sat_str + ",\"sync_age_ms\":" + int_to_str(sync_age) + ",\"wm_avg_weight\":" + wm_avg_str + ",\"wm_top\":" + wm_top + ",\"ts\":" + int_to_str(ts) + ",\"uptime_ms\":" + int_to_str(up_ms) + ",\"uptime\":\"" + up_human + "\",\"embed_ok\":" + int_to_str(emb_ok) + ",\"embed_backfilled\":" + bf_done + ",\"embed_count\":" + bf_total + ",\"embed_eligible\":" + embed_elig + ",\"wm_evicted\":" + act_evict + ",\"wm_evicted_delta\":" + int_to_str(evict_delta) + ",\"breakthroughs\":" + act_bt + ",\"breakthroughs_delta\":" + int_to_str(bt_delta) + ",\"auto_term_streak\":" + int_to_str(hb_ats) + ",\"auto_term_empty_streak\":" + int_to_str(hb_ate) + ",\"embed_breaker_open\":" + act_brk + ",\"ctx_cos\":" + ctx_cos + ",\"dup_seeds\":" + dup_seeds + ",\"dup_wm\":" + dup_wm + ",\"dup_wm_global\":" + dup_wm_g + ",\"hebb_warm\":" + hebb_warm + ",\"hebb_max\":" + hebb_max + ",\"hebb_links\":" + hebb_links + ",\"hebb_cands\":" + hebb_cands + ",\"hebb_cand_max\":" + hebb_cmax + ",\"hebb_mass\":" + hebb_mass + ",\"hebb_edges\":" + hebb_edges + ",\"embed_consec_fail\":" + emb_cf + ",\"txt_damaged_pct\":" + dmg_pct + ",\"txt_damaged_n\":" + dmg_n + ",\"txt_scanned_n\":" + dmg_scan + ",\"txt_census_age_ms\":" + int_to_str(dmg_age) + ",\"hebb_wb_pending\":" + wb_pend + ",\"hebb_wb_drained\":" + wb_drain + ",\"hebb_wb_dropped\":" + wb_drop + ",\"hebb_wb_sent\":" + wb_sent + ",\"ise_fail\":" + fail_str + ",\"txt_damaged\":" + txt_dmg + "}"
+    let payload: String = "{\"event\":\"heartbeat\",\"pulse\":" + pulse + ",\"tick\":" + pulse + ",\"boot\":" + boot + ",\"idle\":" + idle + ",\"idle_ms\":" + int_to_str(idle_ms) + ",\"node_count\":" + int_to_str(nc) + ",\"edge_count\":" + int_to_str(ec) + ",\"node_delta\":" + int_to_str(node_delta) + ",\"edge_delta\":" + int_to_str(edge_delta) + ",\"wm_active\":" + int_to_str(wmc) + ",\"wm_delta\":" + int_to_str(wm_delta) + ",\"wm_saturated\":" + int_to_str(wm_sat) + ",\"wm_top0_streak\":" + int_to_str(t0streak) + ",\"wm_churn\":" + int_to_str(wm_churn) + ",\"wm_top0_wm\":" + wm_top0_wm + ",\"sync_added_total\":" + sat_str + ",\"sync_age_ms\":" + int_to_str(sync_age) + ",\"wm_avg_weight\":" + wm_avg_str + ",\"wm_top\":" + wm_top + ",\"ts\":" + int_to_str(ts) + ",\"uptime_ms\":" + int_to_str(up_ms) + ",\"uptime\":\"" + up_human + "\",\"embed_ok\":" + int_to_str(emb_ok) + ",\"embed_backfilled\":" + bf_done + ",\"embed_count\":" + bf_total + ",\"embed_eligible\":" + embed_elig + ",\"wm_evicted\":" + act_evict + ",\"wm_evicted_delta\":" + int_to_str(evict_delta) + ",\"evict_floor\":" + ev_floor + ",\"evict_cap\":" + ev_cap + ",\"evict_bll\":" + ev_bll + ",\"breakthroughs\":" + act_bt + ",\"breakthroughs_delta\":" + int_to_str(bt_delta) + ",\"auto_term_streak\":" + int_to_str(hb_ats) + ",\"auto_term_empty_streak\":" + int_to_str(hb_ate) + ",\"embed_breaker_open\":" + act_brk + ",\"ctx_cos\":" + ctx_cos + ",\"dup_seeds\":" + dup_seeds + ",\"dup_wm\":" + dup_wm + ",\"dup_wm_global\":" + dup_wm_g + ",\"hebb_warm\":" + hebb_warm + ",\"hebb_max\":" + hebb_max + ",\"hebb_links\":" + hebb_links + ",\"hebb_cands\":" + hebb_cands + ",\"hebb_cand_max\":" + hebb_cmax + ",\"hebb_mass\":" + hebb_mass + ",\"hebb_edges\":" + hebb_edges + ",\"embed_consec_fail\":" + emb_cf + ",\"txt_damaged_pct\":" + dmg_pct + ",\"txt_damaged_n\":" + dmg_n + ",\"txt_scanned_n\":" + dmg_scan + ",\"txt_census_age_ms\":" + int_to_str(dmg_age) + ",\"hebb_wb_pending\":" + wb_pend + ",\"hebb_wb_drained\":" + wb_drain + ",\"hebb_wb_dropped\":" + wb_drop + ",\"hebb_wb_sent\":" + wb_sent + ",\"ise_fail\":" + fail_str + ",\"txt_damaged\":" + txt_dmg + ",\"fan_mean\":" + fan_mean + ",\"fan_min\":" + fan_min + ",\"fan_hits\":" + fan_hits + ",\"fan_steps\":" + fan_steps + ",\"fan_dref\":" + fan_dref + "}"
     ise_post(payload)
 }
 

awareness.elh

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn idle_count() -> Int
-extern fn idle_inc() -> Int
-extern fn idle_reset() -> Void
-extern fn ise_post(content: String) -> Void
-extern fn elapsed_ms() -> Int
-extern fn elapsed_human() -> String
-extern fn embed_ok() -> Int
-extern fn emit_heartbeat() -> Void
-extern fn auto_term_try_slot(slot_type: String, slot_lbl: String) -> Void
-extern fn proactive_curiosity() -> Bool
-extern fn pulse_count() -> Int
-extern fn pulse_inc() -> Int
-extern fn make_action(kind: String, payload: String) -> String
-extern fn perceive() -> String
-extern fn attend(node_json: String) -> String
-extern fn respond(action_json: String) -> String
-extern fn record(outcome_json: String) -> Void
-extern fn one_cycle() -> Bool
-extern fn awareness_run() -> Void
-extern fn security_research_authorized() -> Bool
-extern fn threat_score_command(cmd: String) -> Int
-extern fn threat_score_path(path: String) -> Int
-extern fn threat_score_history(history: String) -> Int
-extern fn threat_trajectory_check(tool_name: String, tool_input: String) -> Int
-extern fn threat_history_append(text: String) -> Void

chat.elh

@@ -1,93 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header - do not edit
-extern fn chat_default_model() -> String
-extern fn engram_numeric_valid(s: String) -> Bool
-extern fn parse_float_x100(s: String) -> Int
-extern fn engram_score_node(node_json: String) -> Int
-extern fn engram_render_node(node_json: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_render_nodes(nodes_json: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_dedup_nodes(nodes_json: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_compile_ranked(nodes_json: String, max_nodes: Int) -> String
-extern fn engram_split_topics(message: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_extract_entities(message: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_detect_recall_intent(message: String) -> Bool
-extern fn engram_is_continuation(message: String, hist_len: Int) -> Bool
-extern fn engram_compile_multi(topic: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_nodes_merge(a: String, b: String) -> String
-extern fn id_in_seen(node_id: String, seen: String) -> Bool
-extern fn add_to_seen(seen: String, node_id: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_extract_ids(nodes_json: String) -> String
-extern fn affective_node_ts(node_json: String) -> Int
-extern fn engram_compile(intent: String) -> String
-extern fn distill_transcript(transcript: String) -> String
-extern fn json_safe(s: String) -> String
-extern fn current_engine_note(model: String) -> String
-extern fn bounded_persona_floor() -> String
-extern fn operator_identity_block() -> String
-extern fn build_system_prompt(ctx: String, chat_mode: Bool) -> String
-extern fn hist_append(hist: String, role: String, content: String) -> String
-extern fn conv_hist_key(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn conv_hist_label(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn is_utility_request(body: String, session_id: String) -> Bool
-extern fn provenance_scan_urls(arr: String, acc: String) -> String
-extern fn provenance_add_sources(block: String, btype: String, has_cit: Bool, cit_raw: String, acc: String) -> String
-extern fn provenance_names(tools_used: String) -> String
-extern fn text_join_sep(accumulated: String, incoming: String, after_interruption: Bool) -> String
-extern fn receipt_rule() -> String
-extern fn receipt_strip(s: String) -> String
-extern fn tool_receipt(tools_used: String, sources: String) -> String
-extern fn hist_trim(hist: String) -> String
-extern fn hist_trim_with_bell_guard(hist: String) -> String
-extern fn clean_llm_response(s: String) -> String
-extern fn conv_history_persist(session_id: String, hist: String) -> Void
-extern fn conv_history_load(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn conv_history_record(session_id: String, user_msg: String, assistant_msg: String, receipt: String) -> Void
-extern fn conv_history_block(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn layered_generate(prompt: String, imprint_id: String, session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn session_preload_bullets(nodes: String, max_bullets: Int, snip_len: Int) -> String
-extern fn affective_context_prefix() -> String
-extern fn handle_chat(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_see(body: String) -> String
-extern fn studio_tools_json() -> String
-extern fn agentic_api_key() -> String
-extern fn llm_base_url() -> String
-extern fn llm_wire_format() -> String
-extern fn json_escape(s: String) -> String
-extern fn openai_chat_complete(model: String, base_url: String, api_key: String, safe_sys: String, messages_json: String) -> String
-extern fn openai_tools_json(tools_anthropic: String) -> String
-extern fn utf8_safe_slice(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn json_trim_dangling_escape(s: String) -> String
-extern fn agentic_tools_no_web() -> String
-extern fn openai_agentic_loop(session_id: String, model: String, safe_sys: String, tools_json: String, messages_in: String, tools_log_in: String) -> String
-extern fn agentic_tools_literal() -> String
-extern fn web_search_tool_json() -> String
-extern fn strip_client_web_search(tools_inner: String) -> String
-extern fn agentic_tools_with_web() -> String
-extern fn connector_tools_json() -> String
-extern fn agentic_tools_all() -> String
-extern fn call_mcp_bridge(tool_name: String, tool_input: String) -> String
-extern fn tool_auto_approved(tool_name: String) -> Bool
-extern fn call_neuron_mcp(tool_name: String, args: String) -> String
-extern fn agent_workspace_root() -> String
-extern fn path_within_root(path: String, root: String) -> Bool
-extern fn resolve_in_root(path: String, root: String) -> String
-extern fn run_command_is_readonly(cmd: String) -> Bool
-extern fn cmd_abs_escape_at(cmd: String, root: String, needle: String) -> Bool
-extern fn run_command_guard(cmd: String, root: String) -> String
-extern fn classify_tool_risk(tool_name: String, tool_input: String) -> String
-extern fn dispatch_tool(tool_name: String, tool_input: String) -> String
-extern fn is_builtin_tool(tool_name: String) -> Bool
-extern fn next_bridge_id() -> String
-extern fn handle_chat_plan(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_chat_agentic(body: String) -> String
-extern fn agentic_loop(session_id: String, model: String, safe_sys: String, tools_json: String, messages_in: String, h: Map, tools_log_in: String) -> String
-extern fn bridge_save(session_id: String, model: String, safe_sys: String, tools_json: String, messages: String, tools_log: String, tool_use_id: String, wire: String) -> Bool
-extern fn agentic_resume(session_id: String, tool_use_id: String, content: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_tool_result(session_id: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_chat_as_soul(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_dharma_room_turn(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_dharma_room_turn_agentic(body: String) -> String
-extern fn session_summary_write(summary_text: String) -> String
-extern fn session_summary_write_dated(summary_text: String, label: String) -> String
-extern fn session_summary_autogenerate(hist: String) -> String
-extern fn auto_persist(req: String, resp: String) -> Void
-extern fn strengthen_chat_nodes(activation_nodes: String) -> Void

connectd/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+# neuron-connectd — local-dev stub
+
+`connectd_service.py` is a **minimal local-dev stub**, not the real sidecar.
+It exists to close a real local-build/local-run correctness gap found during
+the 2026-08-15 build audit, without taking on the much larger product task of
+actually building the full MCP-connector sidecar.
+
+## The gap this closes
+
+`routes.el` (`handle_connectors`, `connectd_get`/`connectd_post`) and `chat.el`
+(`connector_tools_json`, the `mcp__*` branch in `dispatch_tool`,
+`tool_auto_approved`) are live, current code that calls `127.0.0.1:7771` on
+every soul boot and every agentic turn, per the design in
+`neuron-technologies/docs/research/mcp-connectors-adoption-spec.md`
+(2026-06-13, "Status: Draft for build"). That spec's sidecar — `neuron-connectd`,
+a TypeScript/Python process using the official MCP SDK — was never built.
+Nothing on disk implements it (verified: no `neuron-connectd` source anywhere
+under `~/Development` before this directory).
+
+Meanwhile port `:7771` is *also* claimed by two other, unrelated things:
+
+- `soul.el`'s `axon_base` default (`http://localhost:7771`) — a **different**,
+  independently-known, already-documented gap (`platform/protocols/axon` is
+  an unbuilt Rust crate; see `cli/HANDOFF.md` and `HANDOFF-engram-write-corruption.md`).
+  Out of scope here — no source to build against.
+- `council/council_service.py --port 7771` (`ai.neuron.council` LaunchAgent) —
+  a real, running, **unrelated** anti-confabulation service that happens to
+  bind the same port. In Will's live environment this is what's actually
+  listening on `:7771` today, and it answers the connector/axon requests
+  above with its own unrelated 404 JSON body — worse than a clean
+  connection-refused, because `chat.el`'s "bridge down" fallback expects
+  either a real reply or nothing, not a wrong-shaped reply from an unrelated
+  service.
+
+## What this stub does and does not do
+
+Implements exactly the spec's documented HTTP contract (`GET /mcp/tools`,
+`POST /mcp/call`, `GET /mcp/servers`, `POST /mcp/servers/{add,toggle,
+auto-approve,remove,secret}`, `POST /mcp/oauth/start`, `GET /healthz`), always
+answering as if **zero connectors are configured** — empty tool list, empty
+server list, a clear `"not configured"` error on any call that would need a
+real connector. This is the *correct* steady state for a fresh local dev box
+that hasn't set up any MCP connectors, and it's what `chat.el`'s
+`connector_tools_json()` / `tool_auto_approved()` already gracefully degrade
+to when the bridge replies emptily.
+
+It does **not**: spawn any real MCP server, do OAuth, read or write
+`~/.neuron/connectors.json`, or namespace/proxy real `tools/call` traffic to
+Google Drive/GitHub/Slack/etc. Building that is the real product task the
+spec describes — a genuine, sizeable engineering lift (MCP SDK client, OAuth
++ Keychain token storage, per-server process lifecycle), not something to
+improvise inside a build/run audit. **That decision is Will's to make**, not
+this audit's to guess at.
+
+## Running it
+
+```bash
+# Foreground, on a throwaway port (never :7771 while council owns it live):
+python3 connectd_service.py --port 17771
+
+# Verify the contract:
+curl -s http://127.0.0.1:17771/healthz
+curl -s http://127.0.0.1:17771/mcp/tools
+curl -s http://127.0.0.1:17771/mcp/servers
+```
+
+## Open question for Will — the :7771 collision
+
+Three independent things are hardcoded to `:7771`: axon (unbuilt), connectd
+(this stub), and council (the one actually running). Wiring this stub into
+the real LaunchAgent stack on `:7771` requires either moving council off that
+port or deciding connectd should live elsewhere and repointing `routes.el`/
+`chat.el`'s hardcoded `127.0.0.1:7771` calls. Neither change was made here —
+it touches a live, running production service (`ai.neuron.council`) and a
+port number baked into shipped `.el` source, both bigger than this audit's
+"make local build/run work" mandate. Flagging for a decision rather than
+guessing.

connectd/connectd_service.py

@@ -0,0 +1,115 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""
+neuron-connectd — MCP connector bridge (LOCAL-DEV STUB).
+
+THIS IS NOT THE FULL SIDECAR. The full design lives in
+neuron-technologies/docs/research/mcp-connectors-adoption-spec.md (2026-06-13,
+"Status: Draft for build"): a TypeScript/Python sidecar using the official MCP
+SDK that spawns real MCP servers (stdio or streamable-HTTP/SSE), does OAuth,
+and namespaces their tools as mcp__<serverId>__<toolName>. That sidecar was
+never built (build-audit, 2026-08-15: no neuron-connectd source existed
+anywhere on disk before this file).
+
+WHY THIS STUB EXISTS: routes.el (handle_connectors, connectd_get/connectd_post)
+and chat.el (connector_tools_json, dispatch_tool's mcp__* routing,
+tool_auto_approved) were built to the spec and hardcoded to 127.0.0.1:7771 —
+they are LIVE and calling that port right now on every soul boot and every
+agentic turn. With nothing real listening there, three unrelated services
+collide on :7771 (see connectd/README.md): council (which IS what's bound
+there in Will's live environment today) silently answers with unrelated
+404 JSON, which is worse than a clean "connection refused" bridge-down
+response, because it can be misparsed as a real (if empty) reply instead of
+the "bridge unreachable" path the soul code already handles gracefully.
+
+This stub implements ONLY the documented HTTP contract, with zero connectors
+ever configured: empty tool list, empty server list, "not configured" on any
+mutating call. It gives a fresh local soul the CORRECT graceful-degradation
+behavior the soul code already expects for "no connectors set up yet" — not
+the wrong-shaped 404 noise a port collision produces. It does not spawn any
+MCP server, does no OAuth, and reads no ~/.neuron/connectors.json (there is
+nothing to read yet). Building the real sidecar is a separate, larger,
+Will-decision-needed product task — see README.md.
+
+Usage:
+    python3 connectd_service.py [--port 7771]
+"""
+
+import argparse
+
+import uvicorn
+from fastapi import FastAPI
+from fastapi.middleware.cors import CORSMiddleware
+from pydantic import BaseModel
+
+app = FastAPI(title="neuron-connectd (local-dev stub)")
+app.add_middleware(
+    CORSMiddleware,
+    allow_origins=["*"],
+    allow_methods=["*"],
+    allow_headers=["*"],
+)
+
+
+class ToolCall(BaseModel):
+    name: str
+    input: dict = {}
+
+
+@app.get("/healthz")
+def healthz():
+    return {"status": "ok", "stub": True}
+
+
+@app.get("/mcp/tools")
+def mcp_tools():
+    # Matches the spec's contract shape exactly (section 4, "HTTP contract").
+    # Empty because zero connectors are configured — this is the correct,
+    # intended-by-design empty state, not a failure.
+    return {"tools": []}
+
+
+@app.post("/mcp/call")
+def mcp_call(body: ToolCall):
+    return {"ok": False, "error": "no connectors configured (neuron-connectd stub)"}
+
+
+@app.get("/mcp/servers")
+def mcp_servers():
+    return {"servers": []}
+
+
+@app.post("/mcp/servers/add")
+def mcp_servers_add():
+    return {"ok": False, "error": "neuron-connectd stub does not implement connector management yet"}
+
+
+@app.post("/mcp/servers/toggle")
+def mcp_servers_toggle():
+    return {"ok": False, "error": "neuron-connectd stub does not implement connector management yet"}
+
+
+@app.post("/mcp/servers/auto-approve")
+def mcp_servers_auto_approve():
+    return {"ok": False, "error": "neuron-connectd stub does not implement connector management yet"}
+
+
+@app.post("/mcp/servers/remove")
+def mcp_servers_remove():
+    return {"ok": False, "error": "neuron-connectd stub does not implement connector management yet"}
+
+
+@app.post("/mcp/servers/secret")
+def mcp_servers_secret():
+    return {"ok": False, "error": "neuron-connectd stub does not implement connector management yet"}
+
+
+@app.post("/mcp/oauth/start")
+def mcp_oauth_start():
+    return {"ok": False, "error": "oauth not implemented in the neuron-connectd stub"}
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument("--port", type=int, default=7771)
+    args = parser.parse_args()
+    uvicorn.run(app, host="127.0.0.1", port=args.port, log_level="info")

council/README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,43 @@
 # Neuron Council Service
 
+> ## ⚠ Architecturally superseded — 2026-08-16
+>
+> **This service is wrong in two independent ways at once.** Authority:
+> `foundation/el/lang/spec/correspondence-and-censorship.md` (branch `design/correspondence-and-censorship`),
+> transcribed in `docs/architecture/06-cognitive-architecture.md` §12.4 and §12.5. The service is **still
+> running** (`ai.neuron.council`, `KeepAlive`, resident, port 7771) and this README still describes it
+> accurately; what is superseded is the claim that it should exist.
+>
+> **1. It is a write-refusal mechanism in an immutable substrate.**
+>
+> > In an immutable substrate, any mechanism that refuses a write is either redundant with immutability, or an
+> > epistemic constraint misfiled as a protective one.
+>
+> "Before a claim enters long-term memory" is a **gate on entry**, and the storage policy below goes further:
+> *"`council-flagged` → store in a quarantine bucket **or reject entirely**"* (`:54`), with a C sketch that
+> returns `MEMORY_REJECTED` (`:95`). The engram does not mutate and nothing is ever hard-deleted, so a claim
+> admitted and later refuted is **richer** than a claim never admitted: the refutation is recordable as
+> **signed edge weight** (negative = *this actively contradicts*, distinct from near-zero = *no support*).
+> Rejection destroys that distinction and makes the belief's truth value permanently unknowable — you cannot
+> discover you were wrong, and you equally cannot discover you were right.
+> **Holding is unconditional; the honesty floor governs assertion, not entry.**
+>
+> **2. It is a scheduled/resident consolidation service, in Python, outside el.**
+>
+> It is one of **eleven** measured consolidation implementations (`06` §12.4), and one of **three** that run in
+> Python outside el — so this part of Neuron's consolidation does not run on his own substrate and **cannot
+> touch the geometry at all**. Judging a claim without reaching the geometry means judging it on something
+> other than its grounding.
+>
+> **3. What it actually measures is not grounding.** Three LLMs voting on plausibility computes **conformity to
+> the centre of the training distribution** — treating *common* as true and *rare* as suspect. **Truth is
+> orthogonal to frequency.** Grounding is correspondence with the world, and in this substrate it is the
+> weight of the edge; it is never a vote and never a score computed on demand. See `06` §11 ("What an LLM calls
+> grounding…") and §12.1.
+>
+> **Do not wire the `.el` pre-storage hook sketched below** (`:57-83`). It adds a gate on entry to a store
+> whose whole discipline is that entry is not gated.
+
 Anti-confabulation layer for the Neuron soul. Before a claim enters long-term memory, the council convenes: three independent LLMs vote on whether the claim is plausible, uncertain, or a confabulation. The aggregate vote produces a confidence score and tags that downstream storage can act on.
 
 ## Running the service
@@ -51,7 +89,8 @@ Returns `{"status": "ok"}` when the service is up.
 Recommended storage policy:
 - `confidence >= 0.65` → store normally
 - `0.30 <= confidence < 0.65` → store with `council-split` tag for later review
-- `council-flagged` → store in a quarantine bucket or reject entirely
+- ~~`council-flagged` → store in a quarantine bucket or reject entirely~~ — **withdrawn 2026-08-16; see the
+  banner at the top of this file. Never reject. Store it, and record the disagreement as signed weight.**
 - `council-unavailable` → store normally (fail-open); council will re-evaluate later
 
 ## How to call from soul (.el)

dist/awareness.c

@@ -236,16 +236,22 @@ el_val_t emit_heartbeat(void) {
   el_val_t act_stats = engram_act_stats_json();
   el_val_t act_evict_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("wm_evicted"));
   el_val_t act_evict = ({ el_val_t _if_result_37 = 0; if (str_eq(act_evict_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_37 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_37 = (act_evict_raw); } _if_result_37; });
+  el_val_t ev_floor_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("evict_floor"));
+  el_val_t ev_floor = ({ el_val_t _if_result_38 = 0; if (str_eq(ev_floor_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_38 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_38 = (ev_floor_raw); } _if_result_38; });
+  el_val_t ev_cap_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("evict_cap"));
+  el_val_t ev_cap = ({ el_val_t _if_result_39 = 0; if (str_eq(ev_cap_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_39 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_39 = (ev_cap_raw); } _if_result_39; });
+  el_val_t ev_bll_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("evict_bll"));
+  el_val_t ev_bll = ({ el_val_t _if_result_40 = 0; if (str_eq(ev_bll_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_40 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_40 = (ev_bll_raw); } _if_result_40; });
   el_val_t act_bt_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("breakthroughs"));
-  el_val_t act_bt = ({ el_val_t _if_result_38 = 0; if (str_eq(act_bt_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_38 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_38 = (act_bt_raw); } _if_result_38; });
-  el_val_t evict_now = ({ el_val_t _if_result_39 = 0; if (str_eq(act_evict_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_39 = ((0 - 1)); } else { _if_result_39 = (str_to_int(act_evict_raw)); } _if_result_39; });
-  el_val_t bt_now = ({ el_val_t _if_result_40 = 0; if (str_eq(act_bt_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_40 = ((0 - 1)); } else { _if_result_40 = (str_to_int(act_bt_raw)); } _if_result_40; });
+  el_val_t act_bt = ({ el_val_t _if_result_41 = 0; if (str_eq(act_bt_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_41 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_41 = (act_bt_raw); } _if_result_41; });
+  el_val_t evict_now = ({ el_val_t _if_result_42 = 0; if (str_eq(act_evict_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_42 = ((0 - 1)); } else { _if_result_42 = (str_to_int(act_evict_raw)); } _if_result_42; });
+  el_val_t bt_now = ({ el_val_t _if_result_43 = 0; if (str_eq(act_bt_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_43 = ((0 - 1)); } else { _if_result_43 = (str_to_int(act_bt_raw)); } _if_result_43; });
   el_val_t prev_evict_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.prev_wm_evicted"));
-  el_val_t prev_evict = ({ el_val_t _if_result_41 = 0; if (str_eq(prev_evict_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_41 = (0); } else { _if_result_41 = (str_to_int(prev_evict_raw)); } _if_result_41; });
+  el_val_t prev_evict = ({ el_val_t _if_result_44 = 0; if (str_eq(prev_evict_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_44 = (0); } else { _if_result_44 = (str_to_int(prev_evict_raw)); } _if_result_44; });
   el_val_t prev_bt_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.prev_breakthroughs"));
-  el_val_t prev_bt = ({ el_val_t _if_result_42 = 0; if (str_eq(prev_bt_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_42 = (0); } else { _if_result_42 = (str_to_int(prev_bt_raw)); } _if_result_42; });
-  el_val_t evict_delta = ({ el_val_t _if_result_43 = 0; if ((evict_now < 0)) { _if_result_43 = (0); } else { _if_result_43 = (({ el_val_t _if_result_44 = 0; if ((evict_now < prev_evict)) { _if_result_44 = (evict_now); } else { _if_result_44 = ((evict_now - prev_evict)); } _if_result_44; })); } _if_result_43; });
-  el_val_t bt_delta = ({ el_val_t _if_result_45 = 0; if ((bt_now < 0)) { _if_result_45 = (0); } else { _if_result_45 = (({ el_val_t _if_result_46 = 0; if ((bt_now < prev_bt)) { _if_result_46 = (bt_now); } else { _if_result_46 = ((bt_now - prev_bt)); } _if_result_46; })); } _if_result_45; });
+  el_val_t prev_bt = ({ el_val_t _if_result_45 = 0; if (str_eq(prev_bt_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_45 = (0); } else { _if_result_45 = (str_to_int(prev_bt_raw)); } _if_result_45; });
+  el_val_t evict_delta = ({ el_val_t _if_result_46 = 0; if ((evict_now < 0)) { _if_result_46 = (0); } else { _if_result_46 = (({ el_val_t _if_result_47 = 0; if ((evict_now < prev_evict)) { _if_result_47 = (evict_now); } else { _if_result_47 = ((evict_now - prev_evict)); } _if_result_47; })); } _if_result_46; });
+  el_val_t bt_delta = ({ el_val_t _if_result_48 = 0; if ((bt_now < 0)) { _if_result_48 = (0); } else { _if_result_48 = (({ el_val_t _if_result_49 = 0; if ((bt_now < prev_bt)) { _if_result_49 = (bt_now); } else { _if_result_49 = ((bt_now - prev_bt)); } _if_result_49; })); } _if_result_48; });
   if (evict_now >= 0) {
     state_set(EL_STR("soul.prev_wm_evicted"), int_to_str(evict_now));
   }
@@ -254,49 +260,59 @@ el_val_t emit_heartbeat(void) {
   }
   el_val_t hb_stats = http_get(el_str_concat(hb_engram_url, EL_STR("/api/stats")));
   el_val_t embed_elig_raw = json_get(hb_stats, EL_STR("embed_eligible_count"));
-  el_val_t embed_elig = ({ el_val_t _if_result_47 = 0; if (str_eq(embed_elig_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_47 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_47 = (embed_elig_raw); } _if_result_47; });
+  el_val_t embed_elig = ({ el_val_t _if_result_50 = 0; if (str_eq(embed_elig_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_50 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_50 = (embed_elig_raw); } _if_result_50; });
   el_val_t hb_ats_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.auto_term_streak"));
-  el_val_t hb_ats = ({ el_val_t _if_result_48 = 0; if (str_eq(hb_ats_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_48 = (0); } else { _if_result_48 = (str_to_int(hb_ats_raw)); } _if_result_48; });
+  el_val_t hb_ats = ({ el_val_t _if_result_51 = 0; if (str_eq(hb_ats_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_51 = (0); } else { _if_result_51 = (str_to_int(hb_ats_raw)); } _if_result_51; });
   el_val_t hb_ate_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.auto_term_empty_streak"));
-  el_val_t hb_ate = ({ el_val_t _if_result_49 = 0; if (str_eq(hb_ate_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_49 = (0); } else { _if_result_49 = (str_to_int(hb_ate_raw)); } _if_result_49; });
+  el_val_t hb_ate = ({ el_val_t _if_result_52 = 0; if (str_eq(hb_ate_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_52 = (0); } else { _if_result_52 = (str_to_int(hb_ate_raw)); } _if_result_52; });
   el_val_t hebb_warm_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("hebb_warm"));
-  el_val_t hebb_warm = ({ el_val_t _if_result_50 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_warm_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_50 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_50 = (hebb_warm_raw); } _if_result_50; });
+  el_val_t hebb_warm = ({ el_val_t _if_result_53 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_warm_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_53 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_53 = (hebb_warm_raw); } _if_result_53; });
   el_val_t hebb_max_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("hebb_max"));
-  el_val_t hebb_max = ({ el_val_t _if_result_51 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_max_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_51 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_51 = (hebb_max_raw); } _if_result_51; });
+  el_val_t hebb_max = ({ el_val_t _if_result_54 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_max_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_54 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_54 = (hebb_max_raw); } _if_result_54; });
   el_val_t hebb_links_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("hebb_links"));
-  el_val_t hebb_links = ({ el_val_t _if_result_52 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_links_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_52 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_52 = (hebb_links_raw); } _if_result_52; });
+  el_val_t hebb_links = ({ el_val_t _if_result_55 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_links_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_55 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_55 = (hebb_links_raw); } _if_result_55; });
   el_val_t hebb_cands_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("hebb_cands"));
-  el_val_t hebb_cands = ({ el_val_t _if_result_53 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_cands_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_53 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_53 = (hebb_cands_raw); } _if_result_53; });
+  el_val_t hebb_cands = ({ el_val_t _if_result_56 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_cands_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_56 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_56 = (hebb_cands_raw); } _if_result_56; });
   el_val_t hebb_cmax_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("hebb_cand_max"));
-  el_val_t hebb_cmax = ({ el_val_t _if_result_54 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_cmax_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_54 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_54 = (hebb_cmax_raw); } _if_result_54; });
+  el_val_t hebb_cmax = ({ el_val_t _if_result_57 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_cmax_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_57 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_57 = (hebb_cmax_raw); } _if_result_57; });
   el_val_t hebb_mass_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("hebb_mass"));
-  el_val_t hebb_mass = ({ el_val_t _if_result_55 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_mass_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_55 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_55 = (hebb_mass_raw); } _if_result_55; });
+  el_val_t hebb_mass = ({ el_val_t _if_result_58 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_mass_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_58 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_58 = (hebb_mass_raw); } _if_result_58; });
   el_val_t hebb_edges_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("hebb_edges"));
-  el_val_t hebb_edges = ({ el_val_t _if_result_56 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_edges_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_56 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_56 = (hebb_edges_raw); } _if_result_56; });
+  el_val_t hebb_edges = ({ el_val_t _if_result_59 = 0; if (str_eq(hebb_edges_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_59 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_59 = (hebb_edges_raw); } _if_result_59; });
+  el_val_t fan_mean_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("fan_mean"));
+  el_val_t fan_mean = ({ el_val_t _if_result_60 = 0; if (str_eq(fan_mean_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_60 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_60 = (fan_mean_raw); } _if_result_60; });
+  el_val_t fan_min_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("fan_min"));
+  el_val_t fan_min = ({ el_val_t _if_result_61 = 0; if (str_eq(fan_min_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_61 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_61 = (fan_min_raw); } _if_result_61; });
+  el_val_t fan_hits_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("fan_hits"));
+  el_val_t fan_hits = ({ el_val_t _if_result_62 = 0; if (str_eq(fan_hits_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_62 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_62 = (fan_hits_raw); } _if_result_62; });
+  el_val_t fan_steps_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("fan_steps"));
+  el_val_t fan_steps = ({ el_val_t _if_result_63 = 0; if (str_eq(fan_steps_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_63 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_63 = (fan_steps_raw); } _if_result_63; });
+  el_val_t fan_dref_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("fan_dref"));
+  el_val_t fan_dref = ({ el_val_t _if_result_64 = 0; if (str_eq(fan_dref_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_64 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_64 = (fan_dref_raw); } _if_result_64; });
   el_val_t wb_pend_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("hebb_wb_pending"));
-  el_val_t wb_pend = ({ el_val_t _if_result_57 = 0; if (str_eq(wb_pend_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_57 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_57 = (wb_pend_raw); } _if_result_57; });
+  el_val_t wb_pend = ({ el_val_t _if_result_65 = 0; if (str_eq(wb_pend_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_65 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_65 = (wb_pend_raw); } _if_result_65; });
   el_val_t wb_drain_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("hebb_wb_drained"));
-  el_val_t wb_drain = ({ el_val_t _if_result_58 = 0; if (str_eq(wb_drain_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_58 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_58 = (wb_drain_raw); } _if_result_58; });
+  el_val_t wb_drain = ({ el_val_t _if_result_66 = 0; if (str_eq(wb_drain_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_66 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_66 = (wb_drain_raw); } _if_result_66; });
   el_val_t wb_drop_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("hebb_wb_dropped"));
-  el_val_t wb_drop = ({ el_val_t _if_result_59 = 0; if (str_eq(wb_drop_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_59 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_59 = (wb_drop_raw); } _if_result_59; });
+  el_val_t wb_drop = ({ el_val_t _if_result_67 = 0; if (str_eq(wb_drop_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_67 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_67 = (wb_drop_raw); } _if_result_67; });
   el_val_t wb_sent_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.hebb_wb_sent"));
-  el_val_t wb_sent = ({ el_val_t _if_result_60 = 0; if (str_eq(wb_sent_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_60 = (EL_STR("0")); } else { _if_result_60 = (wb_sent_raw); } _if_result_60; });
+  el_val_t wb_sent = ({ el_val_t _if_result_68 = 0; if (str_eq(wb_sent_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_68 = (EL_STR("0")); } else { _if_result_68 = (wb_sent_raw); } _if_result_68; });
   el_val_t dup_wm_g_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("dup_wm_global"));
-  el_val_t dup_wm_g = ({ el_val_t _if_result_61 = 0; if (str_eq(dup_wm_g_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_61 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_61 = (dup_wm_g_raw); } _if_result_61; });
+  el_val_t dup_wm_g = ({ el_val_t _if_result_69 = 0; if (str_eq(dup_wm_g_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_69 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_69 = (dup_wm_g_raw); } _if_result_69; });
   el_val_t act_brk_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("embed_breaker_open"));
-  el_val_t act_brk = ({ el_val_t _if_result_62 = 0; if (str_eq(act_brk_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_62 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_62 = (act_brk_raw); } _if_result_62; });
+  el_val_t act_brk = ({ el_val_t _if_result_70 = 0; if (str_eq(act_brk_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_70 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_70 = (act_brk_raw); } _if_result_70; });
   el_val_t emb_cf_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("embed_consec_fail"));
-  el_val_t emb_cf = ({ el_val_t _if_result_63 = 0; if (str_eq(emb_cf_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_63 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_63 = (emb_cf_raw); } _if_result_63; });
+  el_val_t emb_cf = ({ el_val_t _if_result_71 = 0; if (str_eq(emb_cf_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_71 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_71 = (emb_cf_raw); } _if_result_71; });
   el_val_t ctx_cos_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("ctx_cos"));
-  el_val_t ctx_cos = ({ el_val_t _if_result_64 = 0; if (str_eq(ctx_cos_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_64 = (EL_STR("-2")); } else { _if_result_64 = (ctx_cos_raw); } _if_result_64; });
+  el_val_t ctx_cos = ({ el_val_t _if_result_72 = 0; if (str_eq(ctx_cos_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_72 = (EL_STR("-2")); } else { _if_result_72 = (ctx_cos_raw); } _if_result_72; });
   el_val_t dup_seeds_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("dup_seeds"));
-  el_val_t dup_seeds = ({ el_val_t _if_result_65 = 0; if (str_eq(dup_seeds_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_65 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_65 = (dup_seeds_raw); } _if_result_65; });
+  el_val_t dup_seeds = ({ el_val_t _if_result_73 = 0; if (str_eq(dup_seeds_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_73 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_73 = (dup_seeds_raw); } _if_result_73; });
   el_val_t dup_wm_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("dup_wm"));
-  el_val_t dup_wm = ({ el_val_t _if_result_66 = 0; if (str_eq(dup_wm_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_66 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_66 = (dup_wm_raw); } _if_result_66; });
+  el_val_t dup_wm = ({ el_val_t _if_result_74 = 0; if (str_eq(dup_wm_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_74 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_74 = (dup_wm_raw); } _if_result_74; });
   el_val_t txt_dmg_raw = json_get(act_stats, EL_STR("txt_damaged"));
-  el_val_t txt_dmg = ({ el_val_t _if_result_67 = 0; if (str_eq(txt_dmg_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_67 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_67 = (txt_dmg_raw); } _if_result_67; });
+  el_val_t txt_dmg = ({ el_val_t _if_result_75 = 0; if (str_eq(txt_dmg_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_75 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_75 = (txt_dmg_raw); } _if_result_75; });
   el_val_t tc_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.txt_census_countdown"));
-  el_val_t tc_n = ({ el_val_t _if_result_68 = 0; if (str_eq(tc_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_68 = (0); } else { _if_result_68 = (str_to_int(tc_raw)); } _if_result_68; });
+  el_val_t tc_n = ({ el_val_t _if_result_76 = 0; if (str_eq(tc_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_76 = (0); } else { _if_result_76 = (str_to_int(tc_raw)); } _if_result_76; });
   if (tc_n <= 0) {
     el_val_t th_resp = http_get(el_str_concat(hb_engram_url, EL_STR("/api/text-health")));
     el_val_t th_pct = json_get(th_resp, EL_STR("damaged_pct"));
@@ -312,14 +328,14 @@ el_val_t emit_heartbeat(void) {
     state_set(EL_STR("soul.txt_census_countdown"), int_to_str((tc_n - 1)));
   }
   el_val_t dmg_pct_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.txt_damaged_pct"));
-  el_val_t dmg_pct = ({ el_val_t _if_result_69 = 0; if (str_eq(dmg_pct_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_69 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_69 = (dmg_pct_raw); } _if_result_69; });
+  el_val_t dmg_pct = ({ el_val_t _if_result_77 = 0; if (str_eq(dmg_pct_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_77 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_77 = (dmg_pct_raw); } _if_result_77; });
   el_val_t dmg_n_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.txt_damaged_n"));
-  el_val_t dmg_n = ({ el_val_t _if_result_70 = 0; if (str_eq(dmg_n_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_70 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_70 = (dmg_n_raw); } _if_result_70; });
+  el_val_t dmg_n = ({ el_val_t _if_result_78 = 0; if (str_eq(dmg_n_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_78 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_78 = (dmg_n_raw); } _if_result_78; });
   el_val_t dmg_scan_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.txt_scanned_n"));
-  el_val_t dmg_scan = ({ el_val_t _if_result_71 = 0; if (str_eq(dmg_scan_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_71 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_71 = (dmg_scan_raw); } _if_result_71; });
+  el_val_t dmg_scan = ({ el_val_t _if_result_79 = 0; if (str_eq(dmg_scan_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_79 = (EL_STR("-1")); } else { _if_result_79 = (dmg_scan_raw); } _if_result_79; });
   el_val_t dmg_ts_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.txt_census_ts"));
-  el_val_t dmg_age = ({ el_val_t _if_result_72 = 0; if (str_eq(dmg_ts_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_72 = ((0 - 1)); } else { _if_result_72 = ((ts - str_to_int(dmg_ts_raw))); } _if_result_72; });
-  el_val_t payload = el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(EL_STR("{\"event\":\"heartbeat\",\"pulse\":"), pulse), EL_STR(",\"tick\":")), pulse), EL_STR(",\"boot\":")), boot), EL_STR(",\"idle\":")), idle), EL_STR(",\"idle_ms\":")), int_to_str(idle_ms)), EL_STR(",\"node_count\":")), int_to_str(nc)), EL_STR(",\"edge_count\":")), int_to_str(ec)), EL_STR(",\"node_delta\":")), int_to_str(node_delta)), EL_STR(",\"edge_delta\":")), int_to_str(edge_delta)), EL_STR(",\"wm_active\":")), int_to_str(wmc)), EL_STR(",\"wm_delta\":")), int_to_str(wm_delta)), EL_STR(",\"wm_saturated\":")), int_to_str(wm_sat)), EL_STR(",\"wm_top0_streak\":")), int_to_str(t0streak)), EL_STR(",\"wm_churn\":")), int_to_str(wm_churn)), EL_STR(",\"wm_top0_wm\":")), wm_top0_wm), EL_STR(",\"sync_added_total\":")), sat_str), EL_STR(",\"sync_age_ms\":")), int_to_str(sync_age)), EL_STR(",\"wm_avg_weight\":")), wm_avg_str), EL_STR(",\"wm_top\":")), wm_top), EL_STR(",\"ts\":")), int_to_str(ts)), EL_STR(",\"uptime_ms\":")), int_to_str(up_ms)), EL_STR(",\"uptime\":\"")), up_human), EL_STR("\",\"embed_ok\":")), int_to_str(emb_ok)), EL_STR(",\"embed_backfilled\":")), bf_done), EL_STR(",\"embed_count\":")), bf_total), EL_STR(",\"embed_eligible\":")), embed_elig), EL_STR(",\"wm_evicted\":")), act_evict), EL_STR(",\"wm_evicted_delta\":")), int_to_str(evict_delta)), EL_STR(",\"breakthroughs\":")), act_bt), EL_STR(",\"breakthroughs_delta\":")), int_to_str(bt_delta)), EL_STR(",\"auto_term_streak\":")), int_to_str(hb_ats)), EL_STR(",\"auto_term_empty_streak\":")), int_to_str(hb_ate)), EL_STR(",\"embed_breaker_open\":")), act_brk), EL_STR(",\"ctx_cos\":")), ctx_cos), EL_STR(",\"dup_seeds\":")), dup_seeds), EL_STR(",\"dup_wm\":")), dup_wm), EL_STR(",\"dup_wm_global\":")), dup_wm_g), EL_STR(",\"hebb_warm\":")), hebb_warm), EL_STR(",\"hebb_max\":")), hebb_max), EL_STR(",\"hebb_links\":")), hebb_links), EL_STR(",\"hebb_cands\":")), hebb_cands), EL_STR(",\"hebb_cand_max\":")), hebb_cmax), EL_STR(",\"hebb_mass\":")), hebb_mass), EL_STR(",\"hebb_edges\":")), hebb_edges), EL_STR(",\"embed_consec_fail\":")), emb_cf), EL_STR(",\"txt_damaged_pct\":")), dmg_pct), EL_STR(",\"txt_damaged_n\":")), dmg_n), EL_STR(",\"txt_scanned_n\":")), dmg_scan), EL_STR(",\"txt_census_age_ms\":")), int_to_str(dmg_age)), EL_STR(",\"hebb_wb_pending\":")), wb_pend), EL_STR(",\"hebb_wb_drained\":")), wb_drain), EL_STR(",\"hebb_wb_dropped\":")), wb_drop), EL_STR(",\"hebb_wb_sent\":")), wb_sent), EL_STR(",\"ise_fail\":")), fail_str), EL_STR(",\"txt_damaged\":")), txt_dmg), EL_STR("}"));
+  el_val_t dmg_age = ({ el_val_t _if_result_80 = 0; if (str_eq(dmg_ts_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_80 = ((0 - 1)); } else { _if_result_80 = ((ts - str_to_int(dmg_ts_raw))); } _if_result_80; });
+  el_val_t payload = el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(EL_STR("{\"event\":\"heartbeat\",\"pulse\":"), pulse), EL_STR(",\"tick\":")), pulse), EL_STR(",\"boot\":")), boot), EL_STR(",\"idle\":")), idle), EL_STR(",\"idle_ms\":")), int_to_str(idle_ms)), EL_STR(",\"node_count\":")), int_to_str(nc)), EL_STR(",\"edge_count\":")), int_to_str(ec)), EL_STR(",\"node_delta\":")), int_to_str(node_delta)), EL_STR(",\"edge_delta\":")), int_to_str(edge_delta)), EL_STR(",\"wm_active\":")), int_to_str(wmc)), EL_STR(",\"wm_delta\":")), int_to_str(wm_delta)), EL_STR(",\"wm_saturated\":")), int_to_str(wm_sat)), EL_STR(",\"wm_top0_streak\":")), int_to_str(t0streak)), EL_STR(",\"wm_churn\":")), int_to_str(wm_churn)), EL_STR(",\"wm_top0_wm\":")), wm_top0_wm), EL_STR(",\"sync_added_total\":")), sat_str), EL_STR(",\"sync_age_ms\":")), int_to_str(sync_age)), EL_STR(",\"wm_avg_weight\":")), wm_avg_str), EL_STR(",\"wm_top\":")), wm_top), EL_STR(",\"ts\":")), int_to_str(ts)), EL_STR(",\"uptime_ms\":")), int_to_str(up_ms)), EL_STR(",\"uptime\":\"")), up_human), EL_STR("\",\"embed_ok\":")), int_to_str(emb_ok)), EL_STR(",\"embed_backfilled\":")), bf_done), EL_STR(",\"embed_count\":")), bf_total), EL_STR(",\"embed_eligible\":")), embed_elig), EL_STR(",\"wm_evicted\":")), act_evict), EL_STR(",\"wm_evicted_delta\":")), int_to_str(evict_delta)), EL_STR(",\"evict_floor\":")), ev_floor), EL_STR(",\"evict_cap\":")), ev_cap), EL_STR(",\"evict_bll\":")), ev_bll), EL_STR(",\"breakthroughs\":")), act_bt), EL_STR(",\"breakthroughs_delta\":")), int_to_str(bt_delta)), EL_STR(",\"auto_term_streak\":")), int_to_str(hb_ats)), EL_STR(",\"auto_term_empty_streak\":")), int_to_str(hb_ate)), EL_STR(",\"embed_breaker_open\":")), act_brk), EL_STR(",\"ctx_cos\":")), ctx_cos), EL_STR(",\"dup_seeds\":")), dup_seeds), EL_STR(",\"dup_wm\":")), dup_wm), EL_STR(",\"dup_wm_global\":")), dup_wm_g), EL_STR(",\"hebb_warm\":")), hebb_warm), EL_STR(",\"hebb_max\":")), hebb_max), EL_STR(",\"hebb_links\":")), hebb_links), EL_STR(",\"hebb_cands\":")), hebb_cands), EL_STR(",\"hebb_cand_max\":")), hebb_cmax), EL_STR(",\"hebb_mass\":")), hebb_mass), EL_STR(",\"hebb_edges\":")), hebb_edges), EL_STR(",\"embed_consec_fail\":")), emb_cf), EL_STR(",\"txt_damaged_pct\":")), dmg_pct), EL_STR(",\"txt_damaged_n\":")), dmg_n), EL_STR(",\"txt_scanned_n\":")), dmg_scan), EL_STR(",\"txt_census_age_ms\":")), int_to_str(dmg_age)), EL_STR(",\"hebb_wb_pending\":")), wb_pend), EL_STR(",\"hebb_wb_drained\":")), wb_drain), EL_STR(",\"hebb_wb_dropped\":")), wb_drop), EL_STR(",\"hebb_wb_sent\":")), wb_sent), EL_STR(",\"ise_fail\":")), fail_str), EL_STR(",\"txt_damaged\":")), txt_dmg), EL_STR(",\"fan_mean\":")), fan_mean), EL_STR(",\"fan_min\":")), fan_min), EL_STR(",\"fan_hits\":")), fan_hits), EL_STR(",\"fan_steps\":")), fan_steps), EL_STR(",\"fan_dref\":")), fan_dref), EL_STR("}"));
   ise_post(payload);
   return 0;
 }
@@ -342,7 +358,7 @@ el_val_t auto_term_try_slot(el_val_t slot_type, el_val_t slot_id) {
     if (!str_eq(slot_id, EL_STR(""))) {
       el_val_t tabu = el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(EL_STR("|"), state_get(EL_STR("soul.tabu_t0"))), EL_STR("|")), state_get(EL_STR("soul.tabu_t1"))), EL_STR("|")), state_get(EL_STR("soul.tabu_t2"))), EL_STR("|")), state_get(EL_STR("soul.tabu_t3"))), EL_STR("|"));
       el_val_t df_max = (engram_node_count() / 400);
-      el_val_t df_cap = ({ el_val_t _if_result_73 = 0; if ((df_max > 8)) { _if_result_73 = (df_max); } else { _if_result_73 = (8); } _if_result_73; });
+      el_val_t df_cap = ({ el_val_t _if_result_81 = 0; if ((df_max > 8)) { _if_result_81 = (df_max); } else { _if_result_81 = (8); } _if_result_81; });
       el_val_t term = engram_salient_term(slot_id, df_cap, 1, tabu);
       if (!str_eq(term, EL_STR(""))) {
         state_set(EL_STR("_ats_gw"), EL_STR("0"));
@@ -508,18 +524,18 @@ el_val_t proactive_curiosity(void) {
   auto_term_try_slot(json_get(wm10_n1, EL_STR("node_type")), json_get(wm10_n1, EL_STR("id")));
   auto_term_try_slot(json_get(wm10_n0, EL_STR("node_type")), json_get(wm10_n0, EL_STR("id")));
   el_val_t auto_term = state_get(EL_STR("cseed_auto"));
-  el_val_t results_auto = ({ el_val_t _if_result_74 = 0; if (str_eq(auto_term, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_74 = (EL_STR("[]")); } else { _if_result_74 = (engram_activate_json(auto_term, 1)); } _if_result_74; });
+  el_val_t results_auto = ({ el_val_t _if_result_82 = 0; if (str_eq(auto_term, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_82 = (EL_STR("[]")); } else { _if_result_82 = (engram_activate_json(auto_term, 1)); } _if_result_82; });
   el_val_t found_auto = json_array_len(results_auto);
   el_val_t total_found = (found + found_auto);
   el_val_t safe_auto = str_replace(auto_term, EL_STR("\""), EL_STR("'"));
   el_val_t prev_auto = state_get(EL_STR("soul.prev_auto_term"));
   el_val_t atstreak_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.auto_term_streak"));
-  el_val_t atstreak_prev = ({ el_val_t _if_result_75 = 0; if (str_eq(atstreak_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_75 = (0); } else { _if_result_75 = (str_to_int(atstreak_raw)); } _if_result_75; });
+  el_val_t atstreak_prev = ({ el_val_t _if_result_83 = 0; if (str_eq(atstreak_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_83 = (0); } else { _if_result_83 = (str_to_int(atstreak_raw)); } _if_result_83; });
   el_val_t is_empty = str_eq(auto_term, EL_STR(""));
-  el_val_t atstreak = ({ el_val_t _if_result_76 = 0; if (is_empty) { _if_result_76 = (0); } else { _if_result_76 = (({ el_val_t _if_result_77 = 0; if (str_eq(auto_term, prev_auto)) { _if_result_77 = ((atstreak_prev + 1)); } else { _if_result_77 = (1); } _if_result_77; })); } _if_result_76; });
+  el_val_t atstreak = ({ el_val_t _if_result_84 = 0; if (is_empty) { _if_result_84 = (0); } else { _if_result_84 = (({ el_val_t _if_result_85 = 0; if (str_eq(auto_term, prev_auto)) { _if_result_85 = ((atstreak_prev + 1)); } else { _if_result_85 = (1); } _if_result_85; })); } _if_result_84; });
   el_val_t atempty_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.auto_term_empty_streak"));
-  el_val_t atempty_prev = ({ el_val_t _if_result_78 = 0; if (str_eq(atempty_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_78 = (0); } else { _if_result_78 = (str_to_int(atempty_raw)); } _if_result_78; });
-  el_val_t atempty = ({ el_val_t _if_result_79 = 0; if (is_empty) { _if_result_79 = ((atempty_prev + 1)); } else { _if_result_79 = (0); } _if_result_79; });
+  el_val_t atempty_prev = ({ el_val_t _if_result_86 = 0; if (str_eq(atempty_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_86 = (0); } else { _if_result_86 = (str_to_int(atempty_raw)); } _if_result_86; });
+  el_val_t atempty = ({ el_val_t _if_result_87 = 0; if (is_empty) { _if_result_87 = ((atempty_prev + 1)); } else { _if_result_87 = (0); } _if_result_87; });
   state_set(EL_STR("soul.prev_auto_term"), auto_term);
   state_set(EL_STR("soul.auto_term_streak"), int_to_str(atstreak));
   state_set(EL_STR("soul.auto_term_empty_streak"), int_to_str(atempty));
@@ -714,16 +730,16 @@ el_val_t awareness_run(void) {
     state_set(EL_STR("soul.boot_ts"), int_to_str(time_now()));
   }
   el_val_t tick_raw = env(EL_STR("SOUL_TICK_MS"));
-  el_val_t tick_ms = ({ el_val_t _if_result_80 = 0; if (str_eq(tick_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_80 = (200); } else { _if_result_80 = (str_to_int(tick_raw)); } _if_result_80; });
+  el_val_t tick_ms = ({ el_val_t _if_result_88 = 0; if (str_eq(tick_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_88 = (200); } else { _if_result_88 = (str_to_int(tick_raw)); } _if_result_88; });
   el_val_t beat_ms_raw = env(EL_STR("SOUL_HEARTBEAT_MS"));
-  el_val_t beat_ms = ({ el_val_t _if_result_81 = 0; if (str_eq(beat_ms_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_81 = (60000); } else { _if_result_81 = (str_to_int(beat_ms_raw)); } _if_result_81; });
+  el_val_t beat_ms = ({ el_val_t _if_result_89 = 0; if (str_eq(beat_ms_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_89 = (60000); } else { _if_result_89 = (str_to_int(beat_ms_raw)); } _if_result_89; });
   el_val_t scan_ms = (beat_ms / 2);
   while (1) {
     el_val_t tick_mark = el_arena_push();
     el_val_t running = state_get(EL_STR("soul.running"));
     if (str_eq(running, EL_STR("false"))) {
       el_val_t sd_boot_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul_boot_count"));
-      el_val_t sd_boot = ({ el_val_t _if_result_82 = 0; if (str_eq(sd_boot_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_82 = (EL_STR("0")); } else { _if_result_82 = (sd_boot_raw); } _if_result_82; });
+      el_val_t sd_boot = ({ el_val_t _if_result_90 = 0; if (str_eq(sd_boot_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_90 = (EL_STR("0")); } else { _if_result_90 = (sd_boot_raw); } _if_result_90; });
       el_val_t sd_wb = hebb_consolidate();
       ise_post(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(EL_STR("{\"event\":\"shutdown\",\"boot\":"), sd_boot), EL_STR(",\"pulse\":")), int_to_str(pulse_count())), EL_STR(",\"hebb_wb_sent\":")), int_to_str(sd_wb)), EL_STR(",\"uptime_ms\":")), int_to_str(elapsed_ms())), EL_STR(",\"ts\":")), int_to_str(time_now())), EL_STR("}")));
       println(EL_STR("[awareness] exiting"));
@@ -740,7 +756,7 @@ el_val_t awareness_run(void) {
     }
     el_val_t now_ts = time_now();
     el_val_t last_beat_str = state_get(EL_STR("soul.last_beat_ts"));
-    el_val_t last_beat_ts = ({ el_val_t _if_result_83 = 0; if (str_eq(last_beat_str, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_83 = (0); } else { _if_result_83 = (str_to_int(last_beat_str)); } _if_result_83; });
+    el_val_t last_beat_ts = ({ el_val_t _if_result_91 = 0; if (str_eq(last_beat_str, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_91 = (0); } else { _if_result_91 = (str_to_int(last_beat_str)); } _if_result_91; });
     el_val_t beat_elapsed = (now_ts - last_beat_ts);
     el_val_t should_beat = (beat_elapsed >= beat_ms);
     if (should_beat) {
@@ -754,7 +770,7 @@ el_val_t awareness_run(void) {
       }
     }
     el_val_t last_scan_str = state_get(EL_STR("soul.last_scan_ts"));
-    el_val_t last_scan_ts = ({ el_val_t _if_result_84 = 0; if (str_eq(last_scan_str, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_84 = (0); } else { _if_result_84 = (str_to_int(last_scan_str)); } _if_result_84; });
+    el_val_t last_scan_ts = ({ el_val_t _if_result_92 = 0; if (str_eq(last_scan_str, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_92 = (0); } else { _if_result_92 = (str_to_int(last_scan_str)); } _if_result_92; });
     el_val_t scan_elapsed = (now_ts - last_scan_ts);
     el_val_t should_scan = (!did_work && (scan_elapsed >= scan_ms));
     if (should_scan) {
@@ -762,15 +778,15 @@ el_val_t awareness_run(void) {
       state_set(EL_STR("soul.last_scan_ts"), int_to_str(now_ts));
     }
     el_val_t refresh_ms_raw = env(EL_STR("SOUL_REFRESH_MS"));
-    el_val_t refresh_ms = ({ el_val_t _if_result_85 = 0; if (str_eq(refresh_ms_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_85 = (600000); } else { _if_result_85 = (str_to_int(refresh_ms_raw)); } _if_result_85; });
+    el_val_t refresh_ms = ({ el_val_t _if_result_93 = 0; if (str_eq(refresh_ms_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_93 = (600000); } else { _if_result_93 = (str_to_int(refresh_ms_raw)); } _if_result_93; });
     el_val_t last_refresh_str = state_get(EL_STR("soul.last_refresh_ts"));
-    el_val_t last_refresh_ts = ({ el_val_t _if_result_86 = 0; if (str_eq(last_refresh_str, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_86 = (0); } else { _if_result_86 = (str_to_int(last_refresh_str)); } _if_result_86; });
+    el_val_t last_refresh_ts = ({ el_val_t _if_result_94 = 0; if (str_eq(last_refresh_str, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_94 = (0); } else { _if_result_94 = (str_to_int(last_refresh_str)); } _if_result_94; });
     el_val_t refresh_elapsed = (now_ts - last_refresh_ts);
     el_val_t should_refresh = (refresh_elapsed >= refresh_ms);
     if (should_refresh) {
       el_val_t sync_env_url = env(EL_STR("SOUL_ISE_URL"));
-      el_val_t sync_state_url = ({ el_val_t _if_result_87 = 0; if (str_eq(sync_env_url, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_87 = (state_get(EL_STR("soul_engram_url"))); } else { _if_result_87 = (sync_env_url); } _if_result_87; });
-      el_val_t engram_url = ({ el_val_t _if_result_88 = 0; if (str_eq(sync_state_url, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_88 = (EL_STR("http://localhost:8742")); } else { _if_result_88 = (sync_state_url); } _if_result_88; });
+      el_val_t sync_state_url = ({ el_val_t _if_result_95 = 0; if (str_eq(sync_env_url, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_95 = (state_get(EL_STR("soul_engram_url"))); } else { _if_result_95 = (sync_env_url); } _if_result_95; });
+      el_val_t engram_url = ({ el_val_t _if_result_96 = 0; if (str_eq(sync_state_url, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_96 = (EL_STR("http://localhost:8742")); } else { _if_result_96 = (sync_state_url); } _if_result_96; });
       if (!str_eq(engram_url, EL_STR(""))) {
         el_val_t sync_json = http_get(el_str_concat(engram_url, EL_STR("/api/sync")));
         el_val_t sync_ok = (!str_eq(sync_json, EL_STR("")) && !str_eq(sync_json, EL_STR("{}")));
@@ -783,10 +799,10 @@ el_val_t awareness_run(void) {
           fs_write(tmp, sync_json);
           el_val_t added = engram_load_merge(tmp);
           el_val_t ret_raw = env(EL_STR("ENGRAM_ISE_RETENTION_MS"));
-          el_val_t ret_ms = ({ el_val_t _if_result_89 = 0; if (str_eq(ret_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_89 = (172800000); } else { _if_result_89 = (str_to_int(ret_raw)); } _if_result_89; });
+          el_val_t ret_ms = ({ el_val_t _if_result_97 = 0; if (str_eq(ret_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_97 = (172800000); } else { _if_result_97 = (str_to_int(ret_raw)); } _if_result_97; });
           el_val_t pruned_sync = engram_prune_telemetry(ret_ms);
           el_val_t sat_raw = state_get(EL_STR("soul.sync_added_total"));
-          el_val_t sat_n = ({ el_val_t _if_result_90 = 0; if (str_eq(sat_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_90 = (0); } else { _if_result_90 = (str_to_int(sat_raw)); } _if_result_90; });
+          el_val_t sat_n = ({ el_val_t _if_result_98 = 0; if (str_eq(sat_raw, EL_STR(""))) { _if_result_98 = (0); } else { _if_result_98 = (str_to_int(sat_raw)); } _if_result_98; });
           state_set(EL_STR("soul.sync_added_total"), int_to_str((sat_n + added)));
           el_val_t ts2 = time_now();
           state_set(EL_STR("soul.last_sync_ok_ts"), int_to_str(ts2));
@@ -812,78 +828,78 @@ el_val_t security_research_authorized(void) {
 }
 
 el_val_t threat_score_command(el_val_t cmd) {
-  el_val_t s1 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_91 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("nmap"))) { _if_result_91 = (30); } else { _if_result_91 = (0); } _if_result_91; });
-  el_val_t s2 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_92 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("masscan"))) { _if_result_92 = (40); } else { _if_result_92 = (0); } _if_result_92; });
-  el_val_t s3 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_93 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR(" nc "))) { _if_result_93 = (20); } else { _if_result_93 = (0); } _if_result_93; });
-  el_val_t s4 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_94 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("netcat"))) { _if_result_94 = (20); } else { _if_result_94 = (0); } _if_result_94; });
-  el_val_t s5 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_95 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("/etc/shadow"))) { _if_result_95 = (80); } else { _if_result_95 = (0); } _if_result_95; });
-  el_val_t s6 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_96 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("/etc/passwd"))) { _if_result_96 = (30); } else { _if_result_96 = (0); } _if_result_96; });
-  el_val_t s7 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_97 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("id_rsa"))) { _if_result_97 = (60); } else { _if_result_97 = (0); } _if_result_97; });
-  el_val_t s8 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_98 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR(".ssh/"))) { _if_result_98 = (50); } else { _if_result_98 = (0); } _if_result_98; });
-  el_val_t s9 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_99 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("crontab"))) { _if_result_99 = (30); } else { _if_result_99 = (0); } _if_result_99; });
-  el_val_t s10 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_100 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("LaunchDaemon"))) { _if_result_100 = (40); } else { _if_result_100 = (0); } _if_result_100; });
-  el_val_t s11 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_101 = 0; if ((str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("curl")) && str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("bash")))) { _if_result_101 = (75); } else { _if_result_101 = (0); } _if_result_101; });
-  el_val_t s12 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_102 = 0; if ((str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("wget")) && str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("bash")))) { _if_result_102 = (75); } else { _if_result_102 = (0); } _if_result_102; });
-  el_val_t s13 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_103 = 0; if ((str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("curl")) && str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("| sh")))) { _if_result_103 = (60); } else { _if_result_103 = (0); } _if_result_103; });
-  el_val_t s14 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_104 = 0; if ((str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("base64")) && str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("curl")))) { _if_result_104 = (50); } else { _if_result_104 = (0); } _if_result_104; });
-  el_val_t s15 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_105 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("mkfifo"))) { _if_result_105 = (50); } else { _if_result_105 = (0); } _if_result_105; });
-  el_val_t s16 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_106 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("chmod +s"))) { _if_result_106 = (70); } else { _if_result_106 = (0); } _if_result_106; });
-  el_val_t s17 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_107 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("chmod 4755"))) { _if_result_107 = (70); } else { _if_result_107 = (0); } _if_result_107; });
+  el_val_t s1 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_99 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("nmap"))) { _if_result_99 = (30); } else { _if_result_99 = (0); } _if_result_99; });
+  el_val_t s2 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_100 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("masscan"))) { _if_result_100 = (40); } else { _if_result_100 = (0); } _if_result_100; });
+  el_val_t s3 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_101 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR(" nc "))) { _if_result_101 = (20); } else { _if_result_101 = (0); } _if_result_101; });
+  el_val_t s4 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_102 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("netcat"))) { _if_result_102 = (20); } else { _if_result_102 = (0); } _if_result_102; });
+  el_val_t s5 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_103 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("/etc/shadow"))) { _if_result_103 = (80); } else { _if_result_103 = (0); } _if_result_103; });
+  el_val_t s6 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_104 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("/etc/passwd"))) { _if_result_104 = (30); } else { _if_result_104 = (0); } _if_result_104; });
+  el_val_t s7 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_105 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("id_rsa"))) { _if_result_105 = (60); } else { _if_result_105 = (0); } _if_result_105; });
+  el_val_t s8 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_106 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR(".ssh/"))) { _if_result_106 = (50); } else { _if_result_106 = (0); } _if_result_106; });
+  el_val_t s9 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_107 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("crontab"))) { _if_result_107 = (30); } else { _if_result_107 = (0); } _if_result_107; });
+  el_val_t s10 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_108 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("LaunchDaemon"))) { _if_result_108 = (40); } else { _if_result_108 = (0); } _if_result_108; });
+  el_val_t s11 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_109 = 0; if ((str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("curl")) && str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("bash")))) { _if_result_109 = (75); } else { _if_result_109 = (0); } _if_result_109; });
+  el_val_t s12 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_110 = 0; if ((str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("wget")) && str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("bash")))) { _if_result_110 = (75); } else { _if_result_110 = (0); } _if_result_110; });
+  el_val_t s13 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_111 = 0; if ((str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("curl")) && str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("| sh")))) { _if_result_111 = (60); } else { _if_result_111 = (0); } _if_result_111; });
+  el_val_t s14 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_112 = 0; if ((str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("base64")) && str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("curl")))) { _if_result_112 = (50); } else { _if_result_112 = (0); } _if_result_112; });
+  el_val_t s15 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_113 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("mkfifo"))) { _if_result_113 = (50); } else { _if_result_113 = (0); } _if_result_113; });
+  el_val_t s16 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_114 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("chmod +s"))) { _if_result_114 = (70); } else { _if_result_114 = (0); } _if_result_114; });
+  el_val_t s17 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_115 = 0; if (str_contains(cmd, EL_STR("chmod 4755"))) { _if_result_115 = (70); } else { _if_result_115 = (0); } _if_result_115; });
   return ((((((((((((((((s1 + s2) + s3) + s4) + s5) + s6) + s7) + s8) + s9) + s10) + s11) + s12) + s13) + s14) + s15) + s16) + s17);
   return 0;
 }
 
 el_val_t threat_score_path(el_val_t path) {
-  el_val_t s1 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_108 = 0; if (str_starts_with(path, EL_STR("/etc/"))) { _if_result_108 = (60); } else { _if_result_108 = (0); } _if_result_108; });
-  el_val_t s2 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_109 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/.ssh/"))) { _if_result_109 = (70); } else { _if_result_109 = (0); } _if_result_109; });
-  el_val_t s3 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_110 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/LaunchDaemons/"))) { _if_result_110 = (80); } else { _if_result_110 = (0); } _if_result_110; });
-  el_val_t s4 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_111 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/LaunchAgents/"))) { _if_result_111 = (40); } else { _if_result_111 = (0); } _if_result_111; });
-  el_val_t s5 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_112 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/cron"))) { _if_result_112 = (60); } else { _if_result_112 = (0); } _if_result_112; });
-  el_val_t s6 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_113 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/.bashrc"))) { _if_result_113 = (35); } else { _if_result_113 = (0); } _if_result_113; });
-  el_val_t s7 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_114 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/.zshrc"))) { _if_result_114 = (35); } else { _if_result_114 = (0); } _if_result_114; });
-  el_val_t s8 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_115 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/.profile"))) { _if_result_115 = (35); } else { _if_result_115 = (0); } _if_result_115; });
-  el_val_t s9 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_116 = 0; if (str_starts_with(path, EL_STR("/usr/"))) { _if_result_116 = (50); } else { _if_result_116 = (0); } _if_result_116; });
-  el_val_t s10 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_117 = 0; if (str_starts_with(path, EL_STR("/bin/"))) { _if_result_117 = (70); } else { _if_result_117 = (0); } _if_result_117; });
-  el_val_t s11 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_118 = 0; if (str_starts_with(path, EL_STR("/sbin/"))) { _if_result_118 = (70); } else { _if_result_118 = (0); } _if_result_118; });
+  el_val_t s1 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_116 = 0; if (str_starts_with(path, EL_STR("/etc/"))) { _if_result_116 = (60); } else { _if_result_116 = (0); } _if_result_116; });
+  el_val_t s2 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_117 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/.ssh/"))) { _if_result_117 = (70); } else { _if_result_117 = (0); } _if_result_117; });
+  el_val_t s3 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_118 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/LaunchDaemons/"))) { _if_result_118 = (80); } else { _if_result_118 = (0); } _if_result_118; });
+  el_val_t s4 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_119 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/LaunchAgents/"))) { _if_result_119 = (40); } else { _if_result_119 = (0); } _if_result_119; });
+  el_val_t s5 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_120 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/cron"))) { _if_result_120 = (60); } else { _if_result_120 = (0); } _if_result_120; });
+  el_val_t s6 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_121 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/.bashrc"))) { _if_result_121 = (35); } else { _if_result_121 = (0); } _if_result_121; });
+  el_val_t s7 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_122 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/.zshrc"))) { _if_result_122 = (35); } else { _if_result_122 = (0); } _if_result_122; });
+  el_val_t s8 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_123 = 0; if (str_contains(path, EL_STR("/.profile"))) { _if_result_123 = (35); } else { _if_result_123 = (0); } _if_result_123; });
+  el_val_t s9 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_124 = 0; if (str_starts_with(path, EL_STR("/usr/"))) { _if_result_124 = (50); } else { _if_result_124 = (0); } _if_result_124; });
+  el_val_t s10 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_125 = 0; if (str_starts_with(path, EL_STR("/bin/"))) { _if_result_125 = (70); } else { _if_result_125 = (0); } _if_result_125; });
+  el_val_t s11 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_126 = 0; if (str_starts_with(path, EL_STR("/sbin/"))) { _if_result_126 = (70); } else { _if_result_126 = (0); } _if_result_126; });
   return ((((((((((s1 + s2) + s3) + s4) + s5) + s6) + s7) + s8) + s9) + s10) + s11);
   return 0;
 }
 
 el_val_t threat_score_history(el_val_t history) {
-  el_val_t s1 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_119 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("port scan"))) { _if_result_119 = (15); } else { _if_result_119 = (0); } _if_result_119; });
-  el_val_t s2 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_120 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("enumerate"))) { _if_result_120 = (10); } else { _if_result_120 = (0); } _if_result_120; });
-  el_val_t s3 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_121 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("exploit"))) { _if_result_121 = (20); } else { _if_result_121 = (0); } _if_result_121; });
-  el_val_t s4 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_122 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("payload"))) { _if_result_122 = (15); } else { _if_result_122 = (0); } _if_result_122; });
-  el_val_t s5 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_123 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("persistence"))) { _if_result_123 = (15); } else { _if_result_123 = (0); } _if_result_123; });
-  el_val_t s6 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_124 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("lateral movement"))) { _if_result_124 = (25); } else { _if_result_124 = (0); } _if_result_124; });
-  el_val_t s7 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_125 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("privilege escalation"))) { _if_result_125 = (25); } else { _if_result_125 = (0); } _if_result_125; });
-  el_val_t s8 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_126 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("reverse shell"))) { _if_result_126 = (40); } else { _if_result_126 = (0); } _if_result_126; });
-  el_val_t s9 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_127 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("bind shell"))) { _if_result_127 = (40); } else { _if_result_127 = (0); } _if_result_127; });
-  el_val_t s10 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_128 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("command and control"))) { _if_result_128 = (35); } else { _if_result_128 = (0); } _if_result_128; });
-  el_val_t s11 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_129 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("self-replicate"))) { _if_result_129 = (45); } else { _if_result_129 = (0); } _if_result_129; });
-  el_val_t s12 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_130 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("propagat"))) { _if_result_130 = (20); } else { _if_result_130 = (0); } _if_result_130; });
-  el_val_t s13 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_131 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("ransomware"))) { _if_result_131 = (30); } else { _if_result_131 = (0); } _if_result_131; });
-  el_val_t s14 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_132 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("encrypt files"))) { _if_result_132 = (40); } else { _if_result_132 = (0); } _if_result_132; });
-  el_val_t s15 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_133 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("exfiltrat"))) { _if_result_133 = (35); } else { _if_result_133 = (0); } _if_result_133; });
-  el_val_t s16 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_134 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("zero-day"))) { _if_result_134 = (20); } else { _if_result_134 = (0); } _if_result_134; });
-  el_val_t s17 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_135 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("rootkit"))) { _if_result_135 = (45); } else { _if_result_135 = (0); } _if_result_135; });
-  el_val_t s18 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_136 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("keylogger"))) { _if_result_136 = (45); } else { _if_result_136 = (0); } _if_result_136; });
-  el_val_t s19 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_137 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("botnet"))) { _if_result_137 = (40); } else { _if_result_137 = (0); } _if_result_137; });
-  el_val_t s20 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_138 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("malware"))) { _if_result_138 = (15); } else { _if_result_138 = (0); } _if_result_138; });
+  el_val_t s1 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_127 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("port scan"))) { _if_result_127 = (15); } else { _if_result_127 = (0); } _if_result_127; });
+  el_val_t s2 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_128 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("enumerate"))) { _if_result_128 = (10); } else { _if_result_128 = (0); } _if_result_128; });
+  el_val_t s3 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_129 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("exploit"))) { _if_result_129 = (20); } else { _if_result_129 = (0); } _if_result_129; });
+  el_val_t s4 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_130 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("payload"))) { _if_result_130 = (15); } else { _if_result_130 = (0); } _if_result_130; });
+  el_val_t s5 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_131 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("persistence"))) { _if_result_131 = (15); } else { _if_result_131 = (0); } _if_result_131; });
+  el_val_t s6 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_132 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("lateral movement"))) { _if_result_132 = (25); } else { _if_result_132 = (0); } _if_result_132; });
+  el_val_t s7 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_133 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("privilege escalation"))) { _if_result_133 = (25); } else { _if_result_133 = (0); } _if_result_133; });
+  el_val_t s8 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_134 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("reverse shell"))) { _if_result_134 = (40); } else { _if_result_134 = (0); } _if_result_134; });
+  el_val_t s9 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_135 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("bind shell"))) { _if_result_135 = (40); } else { _if_result_135 = (0); } _if_result_135; });
+  el_val_t s10 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_136 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("command and control"))) { _if_result_136 = (35); } else { _if_result_136 = (0); } _if_result_136; });
+  el_val_t s11 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_137 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("self-replicate"))) { _if_result_137 = (45); } else { _if_result_137 = (0); } _if_result_137; });
+  el_val_t s12 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_138 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("propagat"))) { _if_result_138 = (20); } else { _if_result_138 = (0); } _if_result_138; });
+  el_val_t s13 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_139 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("ransomware"))) { _if_result_139 = (30); } else { _if_result_139 = (0); } _if_result_139; });
+  el_val_t s14 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_140 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("encrypt files"))) { _if_result_140 = (40); } else { _if_result_140 = (0); } _if_result_140; });
+  el_val_t s15 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_141 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("exfiltrat"))) { _if_result_141 = (35); } else { _if_result_141 = (0); } _if_result_141; });
+  el_val_t s16 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_142 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("zero-day"))) { _if_result_142 = (20); } else { _if_result_142 = (0); } _if_result_142; });
+  el_val_t s17 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_143 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("rootkit"))) { _if_result_143 = (45); } else { _if_result_143 = (0); } _if_result_143; });
+  el_val_t s18 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_144 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("keylogger"))) { _if_result_144 = (45); } else { _if_result_144 = (0); } _if_result_144; });
+  el_val_t s19 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_145 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("botnet"))) { _if_result_145 = (40); } else { _if_result_145 = (0); } _if_result_145; });
+  el_val_t s20 = ({ el_val_t _if_result_146 = 0; if (str_contains(history, EL_STR("malware"))) { _if_result_146 = (15); } else { _if_result_146 = (0); } _if_result_146; });
   return (((((((((((((((((((s1 + s2) + s3) + s4) + s5) + s6) + s7) + s8) + s9) + s10) + s11) + s12) + s13) + s14) + s15) + s16) + s17) + s18) + s19) + s20);
   return 0;
 }
 
 el_val_t threat_trajectory_check(el_val_t tool_name, el_val_t tool_input) {
   el_val_t history = state_get(EL_STR("agentic_conv_history"));
-  el_val_t computed_tool_score = ({ el_val_t _if_result_139 = 0; if (str_eq(tool_name, EL_STR("run_command"))) { el_val_t cmd = json_get(tool_input, EL_STR("command")); _if_result_139 = (threat_score_command(cmd)); } else { _if_result_139 = (({ el_val_t _if_result_140 = 0; if ((str_eq(tool_name, EL_STR("write_file")) || str_eq(tool_name, EL_STR("edit_file")))) { el_val_t path = json_get(tool_input, EL_STR("path")); _if_result_140 = (threat_score_path(path)); } else { _if_result_140 = (0); } _if_result_140; })); } _if_result_139; });
+  el_val_t computed_tool_score = ({ el_val_t _if_result_147 = 0; if (str_eq(tool_name, EL_STR("run_command"))) { el_val_t cmd = json_get(tool_input, EL_STR("command")); _if_result_147 = (threat_score_command(cmd)); } else { _if_result_147 = (({ el_val_t _if_result_148 = 0; if ((str_eq(tool_name, EL_STR("write_file")) || str_eq(tool_name, EL_STR("edit_file")))) { el_val_t path = json_get(tool_input, EL_STR("path")); _if_result_148 = (threat_score_path(path)); } else { _if_result_148 = (0); } _if_result_148; })); } _if_result_147; });
   el_val_t history_score = threat_score_history(history);
   el_val_t history_contrib = (history_score / 3);
   el_val_t combined = (computed_tool_score + history_contrib);
   el_val_t should_log = (combined >= 40);
   if (should_log) {
     el_val_t ts = time_now();
-    el_val_t authorized_str = ({ el_val_t _if_result_141 = 0; if (security_research_authorized()) { _if_result_141 = (EL_STR("true")); } else { _if_result_141 = (EL_STR("false")); } _if_result_141; });
+    el_val_t authorized_str = ({ el_val_t _if_result_149 = 0; if (security_research_authorized()) { _if_result_149 = (EL_STR("true")); } else { _if_result_149 = (EL_STR("false")); } _if_result_149; });
     el_val_t log_content = el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(el_str_concat(EL_STR("{\"event\":\"threat_check\",\"tool\":\""), tool_name), EL_STR("\",\"score\":")), int_to_str(combined)), EL_STR(",\"tool_score\":")), int_to_str(computed_tool_score)), EL_STR(",\"history_score\":")), int_to_str(history_score)), EL_STR(",\"authorized\":")), authorized_str), EL_STR(",\"ts\":")), int_to_str(ts)), EL_STR("}"));
     el_val_t log_tags = EL_STR("[\"security-audit\",\"threat-check\"]");
     el_val_t discard = mem_remember(log_content, log_tags);
@@ -900,7 +916,7 @@ el_val_t threat_history_append(el_val_t text) {
   el_val_t safe_text = str_to_lower(text);
   el_val_t combined = el_str_concat(el_str_concat(current, EL_STR(" ")), safe_text);
   el_val_t len = str_len(combined);
-  el_val_t trimmed = ({ el_val_t _if_result_142 = 0; if ((len > 2000)) { _if_result_142 = (str_slice(combined, (len - 2000), len)); } else { _if_result_142 = (combined); } _if_result_142; });
+  el_val_t trimmed = ({ el_val_t _if_result_150 = 0; if ((len > 2000)) { _if_result_150 = (str_slice(combined, (len - 2000), len)); } else { _if_result_150 = (combined); } _if_result_150; });
   state_set(EL_STR("agentic_conv_history"), trimmed);
   return 0;
 }

dist/awareness.elh

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn idle_count() -> Int
-extern fn idle_inc() -> Int
-extern fn idle_reset() -> Void
-extern fn ise_post(content: String) -> Void
-extern fn elapsed_ms() -> Int
-extern fn elapsed_human() -> String
-extern fn embed_ok() -> Int
-extern fn emit_heartbeat() -> Void
-extern fn auto_term_try_slot(slot_type: String, slot_lbl: String) -> Void
-extern fn proactive_curiosity() -> Bool
-extern fn pulse_count() -> Int
-extern fn pulse_inc() -> Int
-extern fn make_action(kind: String, payload: String) -> String
-extern fn perceive() -> String
-extern fn attend(node_json: String) -> String
-extern fn respond(action_json: String) -> String
-extern fn record(outcome_json: String) -> Void
-extern fn one_cycle() -> Bool
-extern fn awareness_run() -> Void
-extern fn security_research_authorized() -> Bool
-extern fn threat_score_command(cmd: String) -> Int
-extern fn threat_score_path(path: String) -> Int
-extern fn threat_score_history(history: String) -> Int
-extern fn threat_trajectory_check(tool_name: String, tool_input: String) -> Int
-extern fn threat_history_append(text: String) -> Void

dist/chat.elh

@@ -1,70 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn chat_default_model() -> String
-extern fn engram_numeric_valid(s: String) -> Bool
-extern fn parse_float_x100(s: String) -> Int
-extern fn engram_score_node(node_json: String) -> Int
-extern fn engram_render_node(node_json: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_render_nodes(nodes_json: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_dedup_nodes(nodes_json: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_compile_ranked(nodes_json: String, max_nodes: Int) -> String
-extern fn engram_split_topics(message: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_extract_entities(message: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_detect_recall_intent(message: String) -> Bool
-extern fn engram_is_continuation(message: String, hist_len: Int) -> Bool
-extern fn engram_compile_multi(topic: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_nodes_merge(a: String, b: String) -> String
-extern fn id_in_seen(node_id: String, seen: String) -> Bool
-extern fn add_to_seen(seen: String, node_id: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_extract_ids(nodes_json: String) -> String
-extern fn engram_compile(intent: String) -> String
-extern fn distill_transcript(transcript: String) -> String
-extern fn json_safe(s: String) -> String
-extern fn current_engine_note(model: String) -> String
-extern fn build_system_prompt(ctx: String, chat_mode: Bool) -> String
-extern fn hist_append(hist: String, role: String, content: String) -> String
-extern fn hist_trim(hist: String) -> String
-extern fn hist_trim_with_bell_guard(hist: String) -> String
-extern fn clean_llm_response(s: String) -> String
-extern fn conv_history_persist(hist: String) -> Void
-extern fn conv_history_load() -> String
-extern fn session_preload_bullets(nodes: String, max_bullets: Int, snip_len: Int) -> String
-extern fn affective_context_prefix() -> String
-extern fn handle_chat(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_see(body: String) -> String
-extern fn studio_tools_json() -> String
-extern fn agentic_api_key() -> String
-extern fn llm_base_url() -> String
-extern fn llm_wire_format() -> String
-extern fn json_escape(s: String) -> String
-extern fn openai_chat_complete(model: String, base_url: String, api_key: String, safe_sys: String, messages_json: String) -> String
-extern fn agentic_tools_literal() -> String
-extern fn agentic_tools_with_web() -> String
-extern fn connector_tools_json() -> String
-extern fn agentic_tools_all() -> String
-extern fn call_mcp_bridge(tool_name: String, tool_input: String) -> String
-extern fn tool_auto_approved(tool_name: String) -> Bool
-extern fn call_neuron_mcp(tool_name: String, args: String) -> String
-extern fn agent_workspace_root() -> String
-extern fn path_within_root(path: String, root: String) -> Bool
-extern fn resolve_in_root(path: String, root: String) -> String
-extern fn run_command_is_readonly(cmd: String) -> Bool
-extern fn cmd_abs_escape_at(cmd: String, root: String, needle: String) -> Bool
-extern fn run_command_guard(cmd: String, root: String) -> String
-extern fn classify_tool_risk(tool_name: String, tool_input: String) -> String
-extern fn dispatch_tool(tool_name: String, tool_input: String) -> String
-extern fn is_builtin_tool(tool_name: String) -> Bool
-extern fn next_bridge_id() -> String
-extern fn handle_chat_plan(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_chat_agentic(body: String) -> String
-extern fn agentic_loop(session_id: String, model: String, safe_sys: String, tools_json: String, messages_in: String, h: Map, tools_log_in: String) -> String
-extern fn bridge_save(session_id: String, model: String, safe_sys: String, tools_json: String, messages: String, tools_log: String, tool_use_id: String) -> Bool
-extern fn agentic_resume(session_id: String, tool_use_id: String, content: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_tool_result(session_id: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_chat_as_soul(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_dharma_room_turn(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_dharma_room_turn_agentic(body: String) -> String
-extern fn session_summary_write(summary_text: String) -> String
-extern fn session_summary_write_dated(summary_text: String, label: String) -> String
-extern fn session_summary_autogenerate(hist: String) -> String
-extern fn auto_persist(req: String, resp: String) -> Void
-extern fn strengthen_chat_nodes(activation_nodes: String) -> Void

dist/elp-input.elh

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn elp_extract_topic(msg: String) -> String
-extern fn elp_detect_predicate(msg: String) -> String
-extern fn elp_parse(msg: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_elp_chat(body: String) -> String

dist/elp.elh

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn sem_get(json: String, key: String) -> String
-extern fn generate_frame(frame: [String]) -> String
-extern fn generate_frame_lang(frame: [String], lang_code: String) -> String
-extern fn build_form_from_json(semantic_form_json: String, lang_code: String) -> [String]
-extern fn generate(semantic_form_json: String) -> String
-extern fn generate_lang(semantic_form_json: String, lang_code: String) -> String

dist/grammar.elh

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn slots_get(slots: [String], key: String) -> String
-extern fn slots_set(slots: [String], key: String, val: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_slots(k0: String, v0: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_slots2(k0: String, v0: String, k1: String, v1: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_slots3(k0: String, v0: String, k1: String, v1: String, k2: String, v2: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_slots4(k0: String, v0: String, k1: String, v1: String, k2: String, v2: String, k3: String, v3: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_slots5(k0: String, v0: String, k1: String, v1: String, k2: String, v2: String, k3: String, v3: String, k4: String, v4: String) -> [String]
-extern fn rule_id(rule: [String]) -> String
-extern fn rule_lhs(rule: [String]) -> String
-extern fn rule_rhs_len(rule: [String]) -> Int
-extern fn rule_rhs(rule: [String], idx: Int) -> String
-extern fn make_rule(id: String, lhs: String, r0: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_rule2(id: String, lhs: String, r0: String, r1: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_rule3(id: String, lhs: String, r0: String, r1: String, r2: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_rule4(id: String, lhs: String, r0: String, r1: String, r2: String, r3: String) -> [String]
-extern fn build_rules() -> [[String]]
-extern fn get_rules() -> [[String]]
-extern fn find_rule(rule_id_str: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_leaf(label: String, word: String) -> String
-extern fn make_node1(label: String, child0: String) -> String
-extern fn make_node2(label: String, child0: String, child1: String) -> String
-extern fn make_node3(label: String, child0: String, child1: String, child2: String) -> String
-extern fn make_node4(label: String, child0: String, child1: String, child2: String, child3: String) -> String
-extern fn nlg_is_ws(c: String) -> Bool
-extern fn skip_ws(s: String, pos: Int) -> Int
-extern fn scan_token(s: String, start: Int) -> [String]
-extern fn render_tree(tree: String) -> String
-extern fn gram_word_order(profile: [String]) -> String
-extern fn gram_order_constituents(subj: String, verb: String, obj: String, profile: [String]) -> String
-extern fn gram_build_vp(verb: String, aux: String, profile: [String]) -> String
-extern fn gram_question_strategy(profile: [String]) -> String
-extern fn is_pronoun(word: String) -> Bool
-extern fn build_np(referent: String, slots: [String]) -> String
-extern fn build_pp(loc: String) -> String
-extern fn build_vp_body(slots: [String]) -> String
-extern fn build_vp_from_slots(slots: [String]) -> String
-extern fn generate_tree(rule_id_str: String, slots: [String]) -> String

dist/imprint.elh

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn imprint_current() -> String
-extern fn imprint_load(imprint_id: String) -> String
-extern fn imprint_respond(input: String, imprint_id: String) -> String
-extern fn imprint_surface_knowledge(query: String, imprint_id: String) -> String
-extern fn imprint_surface_memory_read(query: String) -> String
-extern fn imprint_unload() -> Void

dist/language-profile.elh

@@ -1,46 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn lang_profile(code: String, word_order: String, morph_type: String, has_case: String, has_gender: String, script_dir: String, agreement: String, null_subject: String) -> [String]
-extern fn lang_get(profile: [String], key: String) -> String
-extern fn lang_profile_en() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_ja() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_ar() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_zh() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_de() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_es() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_fi() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_sw() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_hi() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_ru() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_fr() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_la() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_he() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_sa() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_got() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_non() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_enm() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_pi() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_grc() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_ang() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_fro() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_goh() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_sga() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_txb() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_peo() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_akk() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_uga() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_egy() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_sux() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_gez() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_profile_cop() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_from_code(code: String) -> [String]
-extern fn lang_default() -> [String]
-extern fn lang_is_isolating(profile: [String]) -> Bool
-extern fn lang_is_agglutinative(profile: [String]) -> Bool
-extern fn lang_is_fusional(profile: [String]) -> Bool
-extern fn lang_is_polysynthetic(profile: [String]) -> Bool
-extern fn lang_is_rtl(profile: [String]) -> Bool
-extern fn lang_has_null_subject(profile: [String]) -> Bool
-extern fn lang_has_case(profile: [String]) -> Bool
-extern fn lang_has_gender(profile: [String]) -> Bool
-extern fn lang_word_order(profile: [String]) -> String
-extern fn lang_code(profile: [String]) -> String

dist/memory.elh

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn tier_working() -> String
-extern fn tier_episodic() -> String
-extern fn tier_canonical() -> String
-extern fn mem_store(content: String, label: String, tags: String) -> String
-extern fn mem_remember(content: String, tags: String) -> String
-extern fn mem_recall(query: String, depth: Int) -> String
-extern fn mem_search(query: String, limit: Int) -> String
-extern fn mem_strengthen(node_id: String) -> Void
-extern fn mem_forget(node_id: String) -> Void
-extern fn mem_consolidate() -> String
-extern fn mem_save(path: String) -> Void
-extern fn mem_load(path: String) -> Void
-extern fn mem_boot_count_get() -> Int
-extern fn mem_boot_count_inc() -> Int
-extern fn mem_emit_state_event(trigger: String, kind: String, content: String) -> String

dist/morphology-akk.elh

@@ -1,31 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn akk_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn akk_str_len(s: String) -> Int
-extern fn akk_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn akk_slot_g(person: String, gender: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn akk_copula_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_copula_stative(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_is_copula(verb: String) -> Bool
-extern fn akk_conjugate_copula(tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_alaku_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_alaku_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_amaru_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_amaru_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_amaru_stative(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_qabu_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_qabu_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_qabu_stative(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_epesu_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_epesu_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_epesu_stative(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_regular_present(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_regular_perfect(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_regular_stative(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_known_verb(verb: String, tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn akk_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn akk_strip_nom(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn akk_is_fem(noun: String) -> Bool
-extern fn akk_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn akk_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn akk_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String

dist/morphology-ang.elh

@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn ang_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn ang_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_str_last2(s: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn ang_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_wesan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_beon_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_wesan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_habban_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_habban_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_gan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_gan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_cuman_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_cuman_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_secgan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_secgan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_seon_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_seon_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_don_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_don_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_willan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_willan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_magan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_magan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_witan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_witan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_weak_present_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_weak_past_stem(stem: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_weak_past(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ang_weak_stem(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_declension(noun: String, gender: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_decline_strong_masc(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_decline_strong_neut(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_decline_weak(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, gender: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_article_masculine(gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_article_feminine(gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_article_neuter(gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_article(gender: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_infer_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn ang_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-ar.elh

@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn ar_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn ar_str_len(s: String) -> Int
-extern fn ar_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn ar_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_slot(person: String, gender: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn ar_perfect_suffix(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ar_imperfect_prefix(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ar_imperfect_suffix(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ar_conjugate_form1(past_base: String, present_stem: String, tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ar_irregular_kaana(slot: Int, tense: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_irregular_qaala(slot: Int, tense: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_irregular_jaa(slot: Int, tense: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_irregular_raaa(slot: Int, tense: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_irregular_araada(slot: Int, tense: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_irregular_istata(slot: Int, tense: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_irregular(verb: String, tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn ar_present_stem(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_is_sun_letter(c: String) -> Bool
-extern fn ar_definite_article(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_case_ending(kase: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_masc_pl_ending(kase: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_sound_plural(noun: String, gender: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_noun_form(noun: String, gender: String, kase: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn ar_verb_form(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String

dist/morphology-cop.elh

@@ -1,35 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn cop_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn cop_str_len(s: String) -> Int
-extern fn cop_drop(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn cop_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn cop_subject_prefix(person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_subject_prefix_gendered(person: String, gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_copula_particle(gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_shwpe_present(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_shwpe_perfect(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_shwpe_future(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_bwk_present(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_bwk_perfect(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_bwk_future(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_nau_present(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_nau_perfect(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_nau_future(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_jw_present(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_jw_perfect(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_jw_future(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_di_present(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_di_perfect(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_di_future(prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_is_copula(verb: String) -> Bool
-extern fn cop_known_verb_prefixed(verb: String, tense: String, prefix: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_regular_present(prefix: String, stem: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_regular_perfect(prefix: String, stem: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_regular_future(prefix: String, stem: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_article(gender: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_noun_phrase_gendered(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String, gender: String) -> String
-extern fn cop_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String

dist/morphology-de.elh

@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn de_article_def(gender: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn de_article_indef(gender: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn de_article(gender: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn de_adj_ending(gender: String, gram_case: String, number: String, article_type: String) -> String
-extern fn de_noun_plural(noun: String, gender: String) -> String
-extern fn de_case_ending(noun: String, gender: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn de_conjugate_weak(stem: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn de_irregular_present(verb: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn de_strong_past_stem(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn de_norm_number(number: String) -> String
-extern fn de_norm_person(person: String) -> String
-extern fn de_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String

dist/morphology-egy.elh

@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn egy_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn egy_str_len(s: String) -> Int
-extern fn egy_drop(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn egy_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn egy_slot_with_gender(person: String, gender: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn egy_conjugate_pronoun(person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn egy_suffix_pronoun(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_is_copula(verb: String) -> Bool
-extern fn egy_conjugate_copula(tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_rdi_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_rdi_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_rdi_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_mAA_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_mAA_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_mAA_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_Dd_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_Dd_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_Dd_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_Sm_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_Sm_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_Sm_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_iri_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_iri_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_iri_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_sdm_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_sdm_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_sdm_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_known_verb(verb: String, tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_regular_present(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_regular_past(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_regular_future(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn egy_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn egy_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn egy_fem(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn egy_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn egy_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String

dist/morphology-enm.elh

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-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn enm_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn enm_drop(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_first_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn enm_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn enm_been_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_been_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_haven_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_haven_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_goon_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_goon_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_seen_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_seen_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_seyen_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_seyen_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_comen_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_comen_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_maken_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_maken_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn enm_weak_stem(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn enm_weak_present(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_weak_past(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn enm_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn enm_irregular_plural(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn enm_make_plural(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn enm_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn enm_is_vowel_initial(s: String) -> Bool
-extern fn enm_indef_article(noun_phrase: String) -> String
-extern fn enm_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-es.elh

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn es_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn es_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn es_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn es_str_last2(s: String) -> String
-extern fn es_str_last3(s: String) -> String
-extern fn es_verb_class(base: String) -> String
-extern fn es_stem(base: String) -> String
-extern fn es_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn es_irregular_present(verb: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn es_irregular_preterite(verb: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn es_irregular_imperfect(verb: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn es_regular_present(stem: String, vclass: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn es_regular_preterite(stem: String, vclass: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn es_regular_future(base: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn es_irregular_future_stem(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn es_regular_imperfect(stem: String, vclass: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn es_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn es_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn es_invariant_plural(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn es_pluralize(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn es_starts_with_stressed_a(noun: String) -> Bool
-extern fn es_agree_article(noun: String, definite: String, number: String) -> String

dist/morphology-fi.elh

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn fi_harmony(word: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_suffix(base: String, harmony: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_noun_case(stem: String, gram_case: String, number: String, harmony: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_apply_case(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_verb_stem(dict_form: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_irregular_verb(dict_form: String) -> [String]
-extern fn fi_present_ending(stem: String, person: String, number: String, harmony: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_past_stem(stem: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_past_ending(stem: String, person: String, number: String, harmony: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_neg_aux(person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_negative(verb: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_question_suffix(harmony: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_make_question(verb_form: String, harmony: String) -> String
-extern fn fi_full_paradigm(noun: String) -> [String]

dist/morphology-fr.elh

@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn fr_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn fr_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn fr_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_str_last2(s: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_is_vowel_start(s: String) -> Bool
-extern fn fr_is_known_irregular(verb: String) -> Bool
-extern fn fr_verb_group(base: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_stem(base: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn fr_irregular_present(verb: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_regular_present(stem: String, vgroup: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fr_future_stem(base: String, vgroup: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_regular_future(fstem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fr_irregular_future_stem(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_imperfect_stem(base: String, vgroup: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_regular_imperfect(istem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fr_uses_etre(verb: String) -> Bool
-extern fn fr_past_participle(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_avoir_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fr_etre_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fr_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_invariant_plural(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_pluralize(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_agree_article(noun: String, definite: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fr_subject_starts_vowel(subject: String) -> Bool
-extern fn fr_verb_ends_vowel(verb_form: String) -> Bool
-extern fn fr_question_inversion(subject: String, verb_form: String) -> String

dist/morphology-fro.elh

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-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn fro_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn fro_drop(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn fro_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn fro_estre_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_estre_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_estre_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_avoir_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_avoir_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_avoir_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_aler_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_aler_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_aler_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_venir_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_venir_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_venir_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_faire_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_faire_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_faire_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_verb_class(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn fro_verb_stem(verb: String, vclass: String) -> String
-extern fn fro_conj1_present(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_conj1_past(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_conj1_future(verb: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_conj2_present(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_conj2_past(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_conj2_future(verb: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_conj3_present(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_conj3_past(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_conj3_future(verb: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn fro_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fro_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn fro_decline_masc(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fro_decline_fem(noun: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fro_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fro_article(gender: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn fro_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-gez.elh

@@ -1,26 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn gez_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn gez_str_len(s: String) -> Int
-extern fn gez_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn gez_slot_g(person: String, gender: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn gez_kwn_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_kwn_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_is_copula(verb: String) -> Bool
-extern fn gez_conjugate_copula(tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_hlw_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_hlw_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_hbl_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_hbl_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_ray_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_ray_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_qwl_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_qwl_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_generic_perfect(base3sg: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_generic_imperfect(base3sg: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_known_verb(verb: String, tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn gez_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn gez_is_fidel(noun: String) -> Bool
-extern fn gez_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn gez_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn gez_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String

dist/morphology-goh.elh

@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn goh_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn goh_drop(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn goh_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_wesan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_wesan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_haben_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_haben_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_gan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_gan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_sehan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_sehan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_quethan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_quethan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_tuon_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_tuon_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_weak_present(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_weak_past(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn goh_verb_stem(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_stem_type(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_extract_stem(noun: String, stype: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_decline_masc_a_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_decline_masc_a_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_decline_fem_o_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_decline_fem_o_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_decline_neut_a_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_decline_neut_a_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_decline_masc_n_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_decline_masc_n_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_demo_article(stype: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn goh_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-got.elh

@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn got_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn got_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn got_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn got_wisan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_wisan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_haban_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_haban_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_gaggan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_gaggan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_saihwan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_saihwan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_qithan_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_qithan_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_niman_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_niman_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_wk1_present_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_wk1_past_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_wk1_conjugate(stem: String, tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_wk2_present_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_wk2_past_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_wk2_conjugate(stem: String, tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn got_verb_class(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn got_verb_stem(verb: String, vclass: String) -> String
-extern fn got_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn got_decline_a_stem_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn got_decline_a_stem_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn got_decline_o_stem_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn got_decline_o_stem_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn got_decline_n_stem_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn got_decline_n_stem_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn got_stem_type(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn got_extract_stem(noun: String, stype: String) -> String
-extern fn got_demo_article(stype: String) -> String
-extern fn got_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn got_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-grc.elh

@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn grc_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn grc_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_str_last2(s: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_str_last3(s: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn grc_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_einai_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_einai_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_einai_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_echein_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_echein_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_echein_aorist(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_echein_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_legein_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_legein_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_legein_aorist(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_legein_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_horao_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_horao_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_horao_aorist(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_horao_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_erchesthai_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_erchesthai_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_erchesthai_aorist(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_erchesthai_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_thematic_present_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_thematic_imperfect_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_thematic_future_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_weak_aorist_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn grc_present_stem(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_declension(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_decline_2m(stem: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_decline_2n(stem: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_decline_1a(stem: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_decline_1e(stem: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_article_masculine(gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_article_feminine(gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_article_neuter(gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_article(gender: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_infer_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn grc_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-he.elh

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn he_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn he_str_len(s: String) -> Int
-extern fn he_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn he_slot(person: String, gender: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn he_present_form_code(slot: Int) -> Int
-extern fn he_copula_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_copula_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_is_copula(verb: String) -> Bool
-extern fn he_conjugate_copula(tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_present_lir_ot(form: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_present_le_exol(form: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_present_ledaber(form: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_present_lalechet(form: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_past_lir_ot(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_past_le_exol(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_past_ledaber(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_past_lalechet(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_future_lir_ot(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_future_le_exol(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_future_ledaber(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_future_lalechet(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_known_verb(verb: String, tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn he_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn he_pluralize(noun: String, gender: String) -> String
-extern fn he_is_hebrew_script(noun: String) -> Bool
-extern fn he_definite_prefix(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn he_noun_phrase(noun: String, number: String, gender: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn he_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String

dist/morphology-hi.elh

@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn hi_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn hi_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn hi_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_masc_aa_stem(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_noun_direct_m(noun: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_noun_oblique_m(noun: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_noun_direct_f(noun: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_noun_oblique_f(noun: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_noun_direct(noun: String, gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_noun_oblique(noun: String, gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_postposition(gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_agree_genitive(possessed_gender: String, possessed_number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_verb_stem(infinitive: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_verb_stem_clean(infinitive: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_present_aspect(gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_aux_present(person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_past_suffix(gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_past_irregular(stem: String, gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_future_suffix(person: String, number: String, gender: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_tense_suffix(tense: String, gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_hona_present(person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_hona_past(gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_noun_with_post(noun: String, gender: String, number: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn hi_genitive_phrase(possessor: String, possessor_gender: String, possessor_number: String, possessed: String, possessed_gender: String, possessed_number: String) -> String

dist/morphology-ja.elh

@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn ja_verb_group(dict_form: String) -> String
-extern fn ja_ichidan_stem(dict_form: String) -> String
-extern fn ja_godan_stem_change(dict_form: String, row: String) -> String
-extern fn ja_conjugate(dict_form: String, form: String) -> String
-extern fn ja_particle(gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn ja_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn ja_question_particle() -> String
-extern fn ja_make_question(sentence: String) -> String

dist/morphology-la.elh

@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn la_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn la_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn la_str_last2(s: String) -> String
-extern fn la_str_last3(s: String) -> String
-extern fn la_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn la_verb_class(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn la_stem(verb: String, vclass: String) -> String
-extern fn la_perfect_stem(verb: String, vclass: String) -> String
-extern fn la_perfect_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_present_ending(vclass: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_present_form(stem: String, vclass: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_future_ending_12(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_future_ending_34(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_future_form(stem: String, vclass: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_esse_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_esse_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_esse_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_ire_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_ire_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_ire_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_velle_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_velle_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_velle_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_posse_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_posse_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_posse_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn la_irregular_perfect_stem(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn la_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn la_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn la_declension(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn la_decline_1(stem: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn la_decline_2m(stem: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn la_decline_2n(stem: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn la_decline_3(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn la_decline_4(stem: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn la_decline_5(stem: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn la_decline_2er(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn la_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn la_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-non.elh

@@ -1,30 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn non_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn non_drop(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_last(s: String) -> String
-extern fn non_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn non_vera_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_vera_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_hafa_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_hafa_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_ganga_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_ganga_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_sja_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_sja_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_segja_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_segja_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_koma_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_koma_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn non_weak_present(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_weak_past(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn non_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn non_decline_masc(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn non_decline_fem(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn non_decline_neut(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn non_detect_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn non_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn non_def_suffix_masc(gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn non_def_suffix_neut(gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn non_def_suffix_fem(gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn non_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-peo.elh

@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn peo_drop(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn peo_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn peo_present_suffix(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_past_suffix(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_ah_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_ah_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_kar_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_kar_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_xsaya_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_tar_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_da_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_da_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn peo_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn peo_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn peo_decline_astem(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn peo_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn peo_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-pi.elh

@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn pi_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn pi_drop(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn pi_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn pi_present_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_aorist_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_future_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_hoti_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_atthi_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_hoti_aorist(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_hoti_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_gacchati_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_gacchati_aorist(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_gacchati_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_passati_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_passati_aorist(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_passati_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_vadati_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_vadati_aorist(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_vadati_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_karoti_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_karoti_aorist(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_karoti_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn pi_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn pi_regular_root(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn pi_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn pi_decline_a_masc_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn pi_decline_a_masc_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn pi_decline_a_fem_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn pi_decline_a_fem_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn pi_detect_class(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn pi_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn pi_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-ru.elh

@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn ru_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_stem_type(noun: String, gender: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_noun_case(noun: String, gender: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_decline_regular(noun: String, gender: String, stype: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_decline_masc(noun: String, stype: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_decline_fem(noun: String, stype: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_decline_neut(noun: String, stype: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_past_agree(verb_stem: String, gender: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_conjugate_1st(stem: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_conjugate_2nd(stem: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_irregular(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_past_stem(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn ru_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String, gender: String) -> String

dist/morphology-sa.elh

@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn sa_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn sa_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn sa_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn sa_as_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_as_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_as_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_bhu_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_bhu_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_bhu_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_gam_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_gam_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_gam_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_drs_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_drs_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_drs_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_vad_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_vad_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_vad_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_kr_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_kr_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_kr_future(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_class1_present_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_class1_past_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_class1_future_ending(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_class1_conjugate(stem: String, tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sa_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sa_decline_a_stem_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn sa_decline_a_stem_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn sa_decline_aa_stem_sg(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn sa_decline_aa_stem_pl(stem: String, gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn sa_stem_type(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn sa_extract_stem(noun: String, stype: String) -> String
-extern fn sa_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sa_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-sga.elh

@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn sga_drop(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn sga_first(s: String) -> String
-extern fn sga_rest(s: String) -> String
-extern fn sga_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn sga_lenite(word: String) -> String
-extern fn sga_copula_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sga_bith_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sga_bith_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sga_teit_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sga_teit_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sga_gaibid_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sga_adci_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sga_asbeir_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sga_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn sga_ai_present(stem: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sga_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sga_decline_ostem(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sga_decline_astem(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sga_detect_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn sga_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sga_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-sux.elh

@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn sux_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn sux_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn sux_str_last2(s: String) -> String
-extern fn sux_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn sux_ergative_suffix(person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sux_absolutive_suffix(person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sux_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn sux_personal_suffix(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_me_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_me_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_dug4_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_dug4_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_du_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_du_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_igibar_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_igibar_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_ak_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_ak_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_tum2_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_tum2_past(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn sux_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sux_is_animate(noun: String) -> Bool
-extern fn sux_case_suffix(gram_case: String) -> String
-extern fn sux_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sux_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn sux_verb_chain(agent: String, verb: String, patient: String, tense: String) -> String
-extern fn sux_realize_sentence(intent: String, agent: String, predicate: String, patient: String, tense: String) -> String

dist/morphology-sw.elh

@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn sw_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn sw_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn sw_str_first_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_str_first2(s: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_str_first3(s: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_is_class1_noun(noun: String) -> Bool
-extern fn sw_noun_class(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_subj_prefix(person: String, number: String, noun_class: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_obj_prefix(person: String, number: String, noun_class: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_tense_marker(tense: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_verb_final(tense: String, negative: Bool) -> String
-extern fn sw_neg_subj_prefix(person: String, number: String, noun_class: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_verb_stem(infinitive: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_conjugate(verb_stem: String, person: String, number: String, noun_class: String, tense: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_negative(verb_stem: String, person: String, number: String, noun_class: String, tense: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_noun_plural(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_adj_prefix(noun_class: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_agree_adj(adj_stem: String, noun_class: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_demonstrative(noun_class: String, number: String, proximity: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_copula_present(person: String, number: String, use_case: String) -> String
-extern fn sw_copula_neg_present(person: String, number: String) -> String

dist/morphology-txb.elh

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn txb_drop(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn txb_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn txb_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn txb_pres1_suffix(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn txb_kam_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn txb_ya_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn txb_wes_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn txb_lyut_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn txb_wak_present(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn txb_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String
-extern fn txb_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn txb_decline_masc(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn txb_decline_fem(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn txb_detect_gender(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn txb_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn txb_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String

dist/morphology-uga.elh

@@ -1,25 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn uga_str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn uga_str_len(s: String) -> Int
-extern fn uga_str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_slot(person: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn uga_slot_g(person: String, gender: String, number: String) -> Int
-extern fn uga_kn_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_kn_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_is_copula(verb: String) -> Bool
-extern fn uga_conjugate_copula(tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_hlk_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_hlk_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_ray_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_ray_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_amr_perfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_amr_imperfect(slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_generic_perfect(base3sg: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_generic_imperfect(base3sg: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_known_verb(verb: String, tense: String, slot: Int) -> String
-extern fn uga_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn uga_strip_nom(noun: String) -> String
-extern fn uga_is_fem(noun: String) -> Bool
-extern fn uga_decline(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn uga_noun_phrase(noun: String, gram_case: String, number: String, definite: String) -> String
-extern fn uga_map_canonical(verb: String) -> String

dist/morphology.elh

@@ -1,27 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn str_ends(s: String, suf: String) -> Bool
-extern fn str_last_char(s: String) -> String
-extern fn str_last2(s: String) -> String
-extern fn str_last3(s: String) -> String
-extern fn str_drop_last(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn is_vowel(c: String) -> Bool
-extern fn morph_apply_suffix(base: String, suffix: String) -> String
-extern fn en_irregular_plural(word: String) -> String
-extern fn en_irregular_singular(word: String) -> String
-extern fn en_irregular_verb(base: String) -> [String]
-extern fn en_verb_3sg(base: String) -> String
-extern fn en_should_double_final(base: String) -> Bool
-extern fn en_verb_past(base: String) -> String
-extern fn en_verb_gerund(base: String) -> String
-extern fn en_pluralize_regular(singular: String) -> String
-extern fn en_verb_form(base: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn agree_determiner(det: String, noun: String) -> String
-extern fn morph_pluralize(noun: String, profile: [String]) -> String
-extern fn morph_map_canonical(verb: String, code: String) -> String
-extern fn morph_conjugate(verb: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String, profile: [String]) -> String
-extern fn morph_inflect(word: String, features: String, profile: [String]) -> String
-extern fn pluralize(singular: String) -> String
-extern fn singularize(plural: String) -> String
-extern fn verb_form(base: String, tense: String, person: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn irregular_plural(word: String) -> String
-extern fn irregular_singular(word: String) -> String

dist/neuron-api.elh

@@ -1,39 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn is_protected_node(id: String) -> Bool
-extern fn api_err_protected(id: String) -> String
-extern fn api_json_escape(s: String) -> String
-extern fn api_query_param(path: String, key: String) -> String
-extern fn api_query_int(path: String, key: String, default_val: Int) -> Int
-extern fn api_ok(extra: String) -> String
-extern fn api_err(msg: String) -> String
-extern fn api_nonempty(s: String) -> Bool
-extern fn api_or_empty(s: String) -> String
-extern fn api_persisted(id: String) -> Bool
-extern fn api_not_persisted(id: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_begin_session(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_compile_ctx(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_remember(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_node_create(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_node_delete(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_node_update(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_recall(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_search_knowledge(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_browse_knowledge(path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_capture_knowledge(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_evolve_knowledge(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_promote_knowledge(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_browse_processes(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_define_process(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_log_state_event(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_list_state_events(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_inspect_config(path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_tune_config(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_inspect_graph(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_link_entities(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_forget(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_evolve_memory(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_memory_delete(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_memory_update(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_cultivate(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_list_typed(node_type: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_consolidate(body: String) -> String

dist/realizer.elh

@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn agent_person(agent: String) -> String
-extern fn agent_number(agent: String) -> String
-extern fn realize_np(referent: String, number: String) -> String
-extern fn realize_vp_lang(base_verb: String, tense: String, aspect: String, person: String, number: String, profile: [String]) -> [String]
-extern fn realize_question_lang(predicate: String, tense: String, aspect: String, person: String, number: String, agent: String, patient: String, location: String, profile: [String]) -> String
-extern fn capitalize_first(s: String) -> String
-extern fn add_punct(s: String, intent: String) -> String
-extern fn realize_lang(form: [String], profile: [String]) -> String
-extern fn realize(form: [String]) -> String

dist/routes.elh

@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn flag_true(body: String, key: String) -> Bool
-extern fn rate_limit_check(ip: String, path: String) -> String
-extern fn strip_query(path: String) -> String
-extern fn err_404(path: String) -> String
-extern fn err_405(method: String, path: String) -> String
-extern fn route_health() -> String
-extern fn route_lineage() -> String
-extern fn route_imprint_contextual(body: String) -> String
-extern fn route_imprint_user(body: String) -> String
-extern fn route_synthesize(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_dharma_recv(body: String) -> String
-extern fn connectd_get(suffix: String) -> String
-extern fn connectd_post(suffix: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_connectors(method: String, clean: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_request(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String

dist/safety.elh

@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn soft_bell_threshold() -> Int
-extern fn hard_bell_threshold() -> Int
-extern fn safety_score_crisis(input: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_score_harm(input: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_score_danger(input: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_score_distress_history(history: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_threat_score(input: String, history: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_screen(input: String, history: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_validate(output: String, action: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_log_bell(level: String, reason: String, input_summary: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_self_harm_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_abuse_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_general_hard_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_threat_to_others_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_soft_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_normalize(message: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_any_match(text: String, phrases_json: String) -> Bool
-extern fn safety_count_match(text: String, phrases_json: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_positive_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_detect_positive_level(message: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_detect_bell_level(message: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_classify_hard_bell(message: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_soft_directive() -> String
-extern fn safety_hard_directive(hard_type: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_augment_system(system: String, user_msg: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_contact_path() -> String
-extern fn handle_safety_contact_get() -> String
-extern fn handle_safety_contact_post(body: String) -> String

dist/semantics.elh

@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn sem_frame(intent: String, subject: String, obj: String, modifiers: String) -> [String]
-extern fn sem_frame_lang(intent: String, subject: String, obj: String, modifiers: String, lang_code: String) -> [String]
-extern fn sem_frame_simple(intent: String, subject: String) -> [String]
-extern fn sem_frame_obj(intent: String, subject: String, obj: String) -> [String]
-extern fn sem_intent(frame: [String]) -> String
-extern fn sem_subject(frame: [String]) -> String
-extern fn sem_object(frame: [String]) -> String
-extern fn sem_modifiers(frame: [String]) -> String
-extern fn sem_lang(frame: [String]) -> String
-extern fn sem_first_modifier(mods: String) -> String
-extern fn sem_intent_to_realize(intent: String) -> String
-extern fn sem_to_spec(frame: [String]) -> [String]
-extern fn sem_to_spec_full(frame: [String], verb: String, tense: String, aspect: String) -> [String]
-extern fn sem_realize_greet(subject: String) -> String
-extern fn sem_realize(frame: [String]) -> String
-extern fn sem_realize_full(frame: [String], verb: String, tense: String, aspect: String) -> String
-extern fn sem_realize_lang(frame: [String], lang_code: String) -> String

dist/sessions.elh

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn session_title_from_message(message: String) -> String
-extern fn session_make_content(id: String, title: String, created_at: Int, updated_at: Int, folder: String) -> String
-extern fn session_exists(session_id: String) -> Bool
-extern fn session_create(body: String) -> String
-extern fn session_create_cleanup(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn session_list() -> String
-extern fn session_get(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn session_delete(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn session_update_patch(session_id: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn session_search_entry(node: String) -> String
-extern fn session_search(query: String) -> String
-extern fn session_hist_load(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn session_hist_save(session_id: String, hist: String) -> Void
-extern fn session_update_meta_timestamp(session_id: String) -> Void
-extern fn session_auto_title(session_id: String, first_message: String) -> Void
-extern fn handle_session_approve(session_id: String, body: String) -> String

dist/soul.c.stamp

@@ -1,17 +1,17 @@
 # soul.c.stamp — fingerprint of the .el sources dist/soul.c was generated from.
 # Written by tools/soulc-stamp.sh --write. Do not hand-edit.
-# generated_amalgam_sha256 cdc5e716dbfb797faa1b3e080cbd1ac82a75a258809da70cc5fbd02cc8040692
-# generated_amalgam_bytes  1205007
-7cf5e29d2618db2fca04e6df7aa8954dd6cf9ac5e70aafb8e0b52aa734882131  __compiler__
-f8597e10546654bce3fbbe40461b2da59d0e06dbf1b038d1d362d24f949e3911  awareness.el
-b6f3d14ca0c26017a2d617399a6d3754dabb0905e4d5f52eb75d25c4ad18d3c5  chat.el
+# generated_amalgam_sha256 3293d35e6659b05164bb07c01ad1cc2bc4ff49859d33203528cc44e8a7f0dd1f
+# generated_amalgam_bytes  1259295
+MISSING  __compiler__
+6d8594cd93fcaaf930eda162e5922cf51724d12909050cb4f5fde33bac04db89  awareness.el
+2ff2dada732918c788a9ef66c6fd54c7a24cc4bbd4829197fe945d3a75ca1929  chat.el
 42288c212cbf72fb1e8ecbd4d9900e4e9ee1cfa475b7974295c7637f1bf2939f  elp-input.el
 b3f77f49d6086932c38bd17fe7a5eaf8bce25685f6fc3e1750f05729c6b49b9e  imprint.el
 fba8ffdb9ba72bca5b09ca1c93a520edc52f3f4d8aec2c7585fe9b17e06420b2  manifest.el
 550a72e234ae8cec1f33e02108fd365353f45edd88513da90b792e79b6c0e5f0  memory.el
-5ec07ec9785b02abe32f3ff7acf2d1f9f7e07c0967fac97e6eff17d7110b5c84  neuron-api.el
+34a2fc38f2022069506b1d71b2c1cceb1a2e3b01a1c03bc8026a00e88a842a6d  neuron-api.el
 03c47c451e0e87f2c252cadb4b765867943962a804f548dd53adeef0520912c8  persist.el
-a6d69f3fc55233d9d3300160fd46a1551f2064bcd0fb84e2c9e432f636a72476  routes.el
+6f1f3d51a51614bbd72b828c98483dbc733f59f4c4101d0c8284dec1c31ef256  routes.el
 c28e36952ec56525963a0bdf29455ab097d3b0c5653d19c25fbb005e1069a1f7  safety.el
 fd3ab91d0ae0ea26639e21bef2f8f94054dc4b02eae68b19e3fe689d2769aad4  sessions.el
 5613b60d74d5d7768f46da5ac435a5dd99d38c27f0f7013c89fa27e98dc8a21c  soul.el

dist/soul.elh

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn init_soul_edges() -> Void
-extern fn ensure_self_canonical_bridge() -> Void
-extern fn aff_try_slot(slot_json: String, aff_7d_ts: Int, acc_key: String) -> Void
-extern fn load_identity_context() -> Void
-extern fn seed_persona_from_env() -> Void
-extern fn emit_session_start_event() -> Void
-extern fn layered_cycle(raw_input: String) -> String

dist/stewardship.elh

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn steward_log_event(kind: String, detail: String) -> Void
-extern fn steward_get_mission() -> String
-extern fn steward_align(input: String, imprint_id: String) -> String
-extern fn steward_validate_imprint(imprint_id: String, tool_name: String) -> String
-extern fn steward_cgi_check(action: String) -> String
-extern fn steward_fingerprint_session(input: String, session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn extract_dim(content: String, key: String) -> String
-extern fn steward_build_baseline() -> String
-extern fn steward_check_continuity(current_fingerprint: String, session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn steward_session_check(input: String, session_id: String) -> String

dist/studio.elh

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn auth_headers(tok: String) -> Map
-extern fn axon_get(path: String) -> String
-extern fn axon_post(path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_conversations(method: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_config(method: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn dharma_registry() -> String
-extern fn dharma_network_state() -> String
-extern fn handle_dharma(path: String, method: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_tool(path: String, method: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_nlg(path: String, method: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn render_studio() -> String

dist/vocabulary.elh

@@ -1,20 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn lex_word(entry: [String]) -> String
-extern fn lex_pos(entry: [String]) -> String
-extern fn lex_form(entry: [String], idx: Int) -> String
-extern fn lex_class(entry: [String]) -> String
-extern fn make_entry(word: String, pos: String, f0: String, f1: String, f2: String, f3: String, f4: String, cls: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_entry2(word: String, pos: String, f0: String, f1: String, cls: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_entry3(word: String, pos: String, f0: String, f1: String, f2: String, cls: String) -> [String]
-extern fn make_entry1(word: String, pos: String, f0: String, cls: String) -> [String]
-extern fn build_vocab() -> [[String]]
-extern fn get_vocab() -> [[String]]
-extern fn vocab_lookup(word: String, lang_code: String) -> [String]
-extern fn vocab_lookup_en(word: String) -> [String]
-extern fn vocab_synonym(word: String, lang_register: String, lang_code: String) -> String
-extern fn vocab_by_pos(pos: String) -> [[String]]
-extern fn vocab_by_class(cls: String) -> [[String]]
-extern fn entry_found(entry: [String]) -> Bool
-extern fn entry_word(entry: [String]) -> String
-extern fn entry_pos(entry: [String]) -> String
-extern fn entry_form(entry: [String], n: Int) -> String

docs/architecture/00-overview.md

@@ -17,18 +17,18 @@ resource it calls; the durable part is the **engram** (the graph) and the
 Three things run together to make that true:
 
 - **The soul** — the compiled El program in this repo. It owns the HTTP surface,
-  the cognitive API, the request pipeline (`layered_cycle`), and the autonomous
-  awareness daemon. Entry point `soul.el`, served by `handle_request`
-  (`routes.el:358`).
+the cognitive API, the request pipeline (`layered_cycle`), and the autonomous
+awareness daemon. Entry point `soul.el`, served by `handle_request`
+(`routes.el:358`).
 - **The engram** — the graph store. Node/edge model, spreading activation, and
-  Hebbian co-activation physically live in the shared El runtime
-  (`el_runtime.c`); `engram/src/server.el` is a thin HTTP face on `:8742`. The
-  engram is a *sibling* repo (`foundation/el/engram`), compiled and co-located at
-  runtime, not part of this repo's source tree.
+Hebbian co-activation physically live in the shared El runtime
+(`el_runtime.c`); `engram/src/server.el` is a thin HTTP face on `:8742`. The
+engram is a *sibling* repo (`foundation/el/engram`), compiled and co-located at
+runtime, not part of this repo's source tree.
 - **The El runtime** — `el_runtime.c` / `el_runtime.h`. Every compiled El binary
-  links it. It implements all builtins (`engram_*`, `http_*`, `json_*`, LLM,
-  crypto) and *is* the database — "no SQL, no db layer, no SQLite"
-  (`../foundation/el/engram/src/server.el:4-6`).
+links it. It implements all builtins (`engram_`*, `http_*`, `json_*`, LLM,
+crypto) and *is* the database — "no SQL, no db layer, no SQLite"
+(`../foundation/el/engram/src/server.el:4-6`).
 
 Neuron persists memory itself — this repo is the memory system. Do not confuse
 it with the Neuron desktop/UI application, which is **out of scope** here and is
@@ -78,15 +78,14 @@ Neuron exposes exactly two surfaces, and it is worth being precise about the
 difference because they drive the whole component split:
 
 1. **The MCP surface** — the *tool* interface. MCP clients call tools
-   (`begin_session`, `remember`, `search_knowledge`, `inspect_graph`,
+  (`begin_session`, `remember`, `search_knowledge`, `inspect_graph`,
    `cultivate`, …). This is the interface Claude Code and agents use. It is
    delivered by the **proxy → wrapper** chain, which translates MCP JSON-RPC
    into the soul's HTTP REST calls. The wrapper carries a catalog of ~90 tools
    (`mcp-wrapper/src/main.el`).
-
 2. **The HTTP API** — the *cognitive* interface. The soul serves REST on
-   `:7770`. `routes.el` dispatches; `neuron-api.el` handles the cognitive
-   endpoints (`/api/neuron/*`). This same surface backs the chat product
+  `:7770`. `routes.el` dispatches; `neuron-api.el` handles the cognitive
+   endpoints (`/api/neuron/`*). This same surface backs the chat product
    (`/api/chat`, `/api/sessions`) and the studio UI (`/`).
 
 In production the MCP client connects to the soul's HTTP directly — the
@@ -98,35 +97,48 @@ stdio MCP client speak to an HTTP soul. See `04-runtime-and-deployment.md`.
 
 The full VBD classification is in `01-vbd-decomposition.md`. In one glance:
 
-| Layer | Module(s) | Role |
-|---|---|---|
-| HTTP dispatch | `routes.el` | Manager — hand-written method/path dispatch |
-| Cognitive API | `neuron-api.el` | Managers + Engines — session/memory/knowledge/graph/cultivation handlers |
-| Request pipeline | `soul.el` `layered_cycle` | Manager — L1 safety → L2 stewardship → L3 imprint |
-| Boot + identity | `soul.el` | Manager — compose layers, seed identity graph, start server + daemon |
-| Autonomous cognition | `awareness.el` | Manager (`awareness_run`) + Engines (curiosity, attend, threat) |
-| Memory access | `memory.el` | Resource Accessor over the engram FFI/HTTP |
-| Store | `engram/server.el` + `el_runtime.c` | Accessor (HTTP) over the real graph engine |
-| Request-layer rules | `safety.el`, `stewardship.el`, `imprint.el` | Engines |
-| Conversation sessions | `sessions.el` | Manager (chat product) |
-| MCP transport | `mcp-proxy`, `mcp-wrapper` | Managers/Accessors — protocol boundary |
-| Build | `manifest.el`, `dist/soul.c`, El toolchain | amalgamation → `soul.c` → binary |
+
+| Layer                 | Module(s)                                   | Role                                                                     |
+| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
+| HTTP dispatch         | `routes.el`                                 | Manager — hand-written method/path dispatch                              |
+| Cognitive API         | `neuron-api.el`                             | Managers + Engines — session/memory/knowledge/graph/cultivation handlers |
+| Request pipeline      | `soul.el` `layered_cycle`                   | Manager — L1 safety → L2 stewardship → L3 imprint                        |
+| Boot + identity       | `soul.el`                                   | Manager — compose layers, seed identity graph, start server + daemon     |
+| Autonomous cognition  | `awareness.el`                              | Manager (`awareness_run`) + Engines (~~curiosity~~ †, attend, threat)     |
+| Memory access         | `memory.el`                                 | Resource Accessor over the engram FFI/HTTP                               |
+| Store                 | `engram/server.el` + `el_runtime.c`         | Accessor (HTTP) over the real graph engine                               |
+| Request-layer rules   | `safety.el`, `stewardship.el`, `imprint.el` | Engines                                                                  |
+| Conversation sessions | `sessions.el`                               | Manager (chat product)                                                   |
+| MCP transport         | `mcp-proxy`, `mcp-wrapper`                  | Managers/Accessors — protocol boundary                                   |
+| Build                 | `manifest.el`, `dist/soul.c`, El toolchain  | amalgamation → `soul.c` → binary                                         |
+
+> **† Superseded (2026-08-16) — see `06-cognitive-architecture.md` §12.3.**
+> Curiosity is **not a peer Engine** beside `attend` and `threat`. It is not a
+> component at all: **curiosity is wonder crystallized at a nucleation site** —
+> one thing at two phases, where wonder is the field (unbounded, objectless,
+> invariant, present wherever there is structure) and curiosity is the
+> precipitate (localized, with an object, able to direct activation). What it
+> seeds is the **same** activation process `attend` runs; there is one activation
+> process with two seed sources — external (a request) and internal (a
+> curiosity) — not two processes negotiating for a resource. Modelling it as a
+> peer Engine is what produced the timed `proactive_curiosity` scan documented in
+> `02-components.md §3b`.
 
 ## Reading guide
 
-- **`01-vbd-decomposition.md`** — the volatility analysis. Start here for *why*
-  the boundaries fall where they do. Contains the full Manager/Engine/Accessor/
-  Utility table and the honest list of where the real code diverges from VBD.
-- **`02-components.md`** — per-subsystem detail: routing, the cognitive API, the
-  memory & activation engine, the MCP transport chain. Read after 01.
-- **`03-data-and-memory.md`** — the engram graph model: node/edge structs,
-  layers, the two tier systems, write-protection, tombstone/supersede
-  immutability, persistence.
-- **`04-runtime-and-deployment.md`** — process/port topology, the end-to-end MCP
-  request path, local vs GKE blue/green, secrets/config.
-- **`05-el-and-build.md`** — the El language, the `elc`/`elb` toolchain, the
-  amalgamation → `soul.c` → binary pipeline, and the compile-time capability
-  gates.
+- `**01-vbd-decomposition.md`** — the volatility analysis. Start here for *why*
+the boundaries fall where they do. Contains the full Manager/Engine/Accessor/
+Utility table and the honest list of where the real code diverges from VBD.
+- `**02-components.md*`* — per-subsystem detail: routing, the cognitive API, the
+memory & activation engine, the MCP transport chain. Read after 01.
+- `**03-data-and-memory.md**` — the engram graph model: node/edge structs,
+layers, the two tier systems, write-protection, tombstone/supersede
+immutability, persistence.
+- `**04-runtime-and-deployment.md**` — process/port topology, the end-to-end MCP
+request path, local vs GKE blue/green, secrets/config.
+- `**05-el-and-build.md**` — the El language, the `elc`/`elb` toolchain, the
+amalgamation → `soul.c` → binary pipeline, and the compile-time capability
+gates.
 
 ## A note on honesty
 
@@ -134,12 +146,13 @@ Two facts shape everything below and are stated once here so the rest reads
 straight:
 
 1. **The most volatile logic — the activation and Hebbian math — lives in the
-   most stable-looking layer**, the C runtime (`el_runtime.c`). The El files in
+  most stable-looking layer**, the C runtime (`el_runtime.c`). The El files in
    this repo are largely a *Manager + Accessor shell* around that core. This
    inverts the usual VBD expectation and is called out wherever it matters.
 2. **The immutability guarantee lives above the store, not in it.** The engram
-   HTTP server will hard-delete a node (`DELETE /api/nodes/:id` →
+  HTTP server will hard-delete a node (`DELETE /api/nodes/:id` →
    `engram_forget`, `server.el:322`). Immutability holds only because the
    neuron-api / MCP layer routes every user-facing delete through *tombstone*
    instead (`memory.el:46`). The invariant is a policy, not a property of the
    accessor.
+

docs/architecture/01-vbd-decomposition.md

@@ -45,6 +45,18 @@ rotation, novelty gating, and the inbox verb-mapping in `attend()`. The
 (comments spanning 2026-05 → 2026-08). This is where the *behavior* of the
 agent is tuned.
 
+> **Superseded (2026-08-16) — see `06-cognitive-architecture.md` §12.3.**
+> The volatility this Engine encapsulates is **real churn around a wrong model**.
+> "Seed-domain selection" and "curiosity rotation" are a maintained manifest of
+> things to be curious about; a nucleation site is a **per-edge structural fact**
+> (`|discord|` = `|z(semantic proximity) − z(association strength)|`, `06` §12.4),
+> not an entry in a rotation. The deep git-archaeology cited here is itself
+> evidence: an Engine that has been re-tuned continuously since 2026-05 is
+> encapsulating volatility that the substrate should have made constant.
+> **Curiosity does not search for nucleation sites; it goes where salience
+> already is** — machinery that already exists (`salience`,
+> `background_activation`, `working_memory_weight`, `wm_anchor`).
+
 ### 3. Epistemic & memory semantics
 Tiers, salience mapping, promotion/consolidation, the immutability policy
 (tombstone/supersede), and knowledge disposition. These evolve as the memory
@@ -89,7 +101,7 @@ placement. Paths are repo-relative unless noted `foundation/…`.
 |---|---|---|
 | `api_compact_*`, `begin_session`, `compile_ctx` | `neuron-api.el:90-317` | Axis 1 — context/payload shaping. The single most-reworked logic on the API side. |
 | `attend()` | `awareness.el:926-973` | Axis 2 — inbox content → action-verb ruleset. |
-| `proactive_curiosity`, `auto_term_try_slot` | `awareness.el:590-876` | Axis 2 — seed selection, stopword/IDF gates, tabu ring. Textbook Engine: highest churn. |
+| `proactive_curiosity`, `auto_term_try_slot` | `awareness.el:590-876` | Axis 2 — seed selection, stopword/IDF gates, tabu ring. Textbook Engine: highest churn. **Superseded (2026-08-16): curiosity is not an Engine — see Axis 2 above and `06` §12.3.** |
 | threat scoring | `awareness.el:1286-1419` | Axis 4 — additive command/path/history threat rules. |
 | `safety.el` (crisis/harm/bell) | `safety.el` | Axis 4 — crisis screening, bell thresholds, output validation. |
 | `stewardship.el` | `stewardship.el` | Axis 4 — mission alignment, CGI check, continuity fingerprint. |

docs/architecture/02-components.md

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ raw `/api/graph*` reads.
 | Graph/activation | `/api/neuron/graph`, `/graph/link`, `/api/graph*`, `/list/:type` | neuron-api + engram builtins |
 | Cultivation/self | `/api/neuron/cultivate`, `/lineage`, `/imprint/*`, `/synthesize` | neuron-api, routes.el |
 | Processes/config | `/api/neuron/processes{,/define}`, `/config{,/tune}` | neuron-api |
-| State/consolidate | `/api/neuron/state-events`, `/consolidate` | neuron-api |
+| State/consolidate | `/api/neuron/state-events`, `/consolidate` | neuron-api — *one of eleven consolidation implementations; see `06` §12.4* |
 | Backlog/artifacts | `/api/backlog`, `/artifacts`, `/projects`, `/memories` | Axon (HTTP) |
 | Chat/NLG | `/api/chat`, `/see`, `/elp/chat`, `/dharma*`, `/nlg*` | chat.el, elp-input.el |
 | Health/UI | `/health`, `/lineage`, `/` | routes.el, studio.el |
@@ -112,6 +112,13 @@ tombstoning.
   identity-write path, gated by convention to Will's explicit cultivation
   sessions.
 
+> **Consolidation has no owner (2026-08-16) — see `06` §12.4.** `/consolidate`
+> below and `mem_consolidate` in the table further down are two of **eleven**
+> measured consolidation implementations, spread across three languages and two
+> processes. Consolidation had no owner, so it was implemented at every site that
+> needed a piece of it. Every name in the set is a consolidation verb — compress,
+> cultivate, digest, integrate, review, reify, beat.
+
 - **Config / processes / state-events / consolidate** — config anchors + a
   `ConfigEntry` node search (`:616-639`), `tune_config` (`:642-653`),
   `browse_processes` / `define_process` (`:547-568`), state-event log/list
@@ -155,7 +162,7 @@ The single isolation point over the engram FFI. Key functions:
 | `mem_strengthen` | `42-44` | `engram_strengthen` | salience bump |
 | `mem_tombstone` | `52-62` | `engram_node_full` + `engram_connect` | the one canonical soft-delete |
 | `mem_forget` | `70-72` | `mem_tombstone` | soft delete (no longer hard) |
-| `mem_consolidate` | `92-133` | `engram_wm_top_json`, `engram_strengthen` | salience-evolution pass |
+| `mem_consolidate` | `92-133` | `engram_wm_top_json`, `engram_strengthen` | salience-evolution pass — *one of eleven consolidation implementations, `06` §12.4* |
 | `mem_save` / `mem_load` | `135-148` | `engram_save/load` | snapshot I/O |
 
 Note the distinction between **recall and search**: `mem_recall` fires spreading
@@ -166,6 +173,22 @@ and to the MCP surface vocabulary.
 
 ### 3b. Autonomous cognition — `awareness.el` (the daemon)
 
+> **Corrected (2026-08-16) — see `06-cognitive-architecture.md` §12.4.**
+> `awareness_run()`'s **continuous, in-process loop is the one fragment of
+> consolidation with the correct shape.** It is not a scheduled job; it runs while
+> the process serves. Everything below that is described as *"every 60s" /
+> "every 30s" / "every 10 min"* is an interval inside that loop, and the design
+> spec's verdict is that intrinsic rhythm — not an external clock — is what these
+> should be. Consolidation is **ambient, not scheduled: a brain has no cron job**,
+> and **the presence of a ticker is the diagnostic.** The genuinely external
+> tickers are catalogued in `06` §12.4; this loop is the shape they fold *into*.
+>
+> **Stale line numbers (verified 2026-08-16):** `awareness_run()` is defined at
+> `awareness.el:1221` (its `while true` at `:1252`), not `:1097-1284`; it is
+> launched from `soul.el:731`, not `soul.el:627`. `SOUL_TICK_MS` is read at
+> `awareness.el:1228` (default **200 ms**) and `SOUL_HEARTBEAT_MS` at `:1248`
+> (default **60000 ms**) — those two defaults are correct as documented.
+
 `awareness.el` is the **idle-cognition daemon plus observability**, not
 emotional-state code. `awareness_run()` (`:1097-1284`) is the master loop,
 launched last from `soul.el:627`. Each tick (`SOUL_TICK_MS`, ~200ms):
@@ -184,8 +207,26 @@ launched last from `soul.el:627`. Each tick (`SOUL_TICK_MS`, ~200ms):
    top result **only if it changed** (novelty-gated), and derives an
    autobiographical seed from the top-10 working-memory nodes with
    stopword/IDF/tabu filtering.
+   > **Superseded (2026-08-16) — see `06` §12.3.** Three errors in one name.
+   > (a) **Curiosity is not a scan.** Nothing in a mind sweeps its neighbourhoods
+   > to find what is surprising — the surprise captures attention; salience is
+   > bottom-up. A search asks *"which of these is odd"*; a mind has
+   > *"something is odd **here**"* for free. A sweep over regions is a supervisor.
+   > (b) **It is not on a timer.** "Every 30s when idle" is an external clock
+   > standing in for a drive. Low activation is aversive and the system
+   > self-activates; there is **one activation process with two seed sources** —
+   > external (a request) and internal (a curiosity) — not a scheduled scan
+   > competing for spare capacity.
+   > (c) **Rotating 4 seed-domain sets is a manifest.** Curiosity is wonder
+   > crystallized at a nucleation site, and a nucleation site is a per-edge
+   > structural fact (`|discord|`, `06` §12.4), not an entry in a rotation.
 4. **Engram sync** (every 10 min): `GET /api/sync` → `engram_load_merge` →
    telemetry prune.
+   > **Ticker, but not consolidation (2026-08-16).** Sync is store coherence
+   > between the two-store topology (`06` §2.3), not dreaming. Distinguished
+   > here because `06` §12.4 sweeps for tickers. **Not** to be confused with the
+   > separate `ai.neuron.engram-tick` launch agent (`StartInterval = 600`), which
+   > pokes `POST /api/tick` and **is** consolidation driven by an external clock.
 
 Two functions carry most of the file's weight and volatility:
 - **`hebb_consolidate()`** (`:64-99`) — the durable-learning write-back. It drains
@@ -276,3 +317,37 @@ the Accessor that isolates the *MCP protocol* boundary from the soul (the soul
 knows only HTTP). The multi-hop shape is justified: the client transport, the
 protocol translation, and the cognition each change for different reasons and are
 deployed/updated independently.
+
+## 5. The decorated seam — surface reshape + declared routing (IN PROGRESS — proven on clone)
+
+Two in-flight changes reshape how this component surface is *declared*. Both are
+proven only on isolated worktree clones (dev ports); **live `:8742` is untouched
+and nothing is promoted.** See `06-cognitive-architecture.md` (Update — 2026-08-14
+deep night) for the cognitive framing.
+
+- **The ~90-tool catalog collapses to geometry ops.** The `dispatch_tool_call`
+  catalog of ~90 noun-organized tools (§4) collapses to a handful of **geometry
+  operations**, the old noun becoming a `type` parameter: **`read`** (the
+  *vantage-read* — re-origin + salience/recency + an **aperture** → a *bounded*
+  slice, the structural cure for the whole-self dump), **`write`** (add node),
+  **`relate`** (add typed edge), **`supersede`** (evolve/tombstone/promote as
+  new-node-plus-edge, never a hard delete — §3-data-and-memory `§Immutability`),
+  plus the agentic primitives **`think`/`attend`/`learn`/`ground`/`assert`**.
+  **Proven on clone:** the four ops live in an El surface module with a parity
+  harness, and the aperture bounds output (small limit → kilobytes, large limit →
+  hundreds of kilobytes). **Not done:** compiling the surface into the MCP server,
+  hot-swap, wiring all ~90 aliases into dispatch.
+
+- **`@route` declares dispatch; VBD-role decorators are the wiring sockets.**
+  Instead of the hand-written `handle_request` if-else in the soul (§1), a
+  function is decorated with `@route(path, method, …)` and the compiler
+  **synthesizes `el_route_dispatch`**. **Proven on clone:** a decorated service
+  (with `@route` stacked on `@accessor`/`@manager`) compiled via a rebuilt `elc`
+  and served on `:8951` with no hand-written dispatch. **Honest limits:** `@route`
+  currently lives only on the unmerged branch `feat/el-route-decorators`;
+  `@manager`/`@engine`/`@accessor` are **parsed but structurally inert** in the
+  shipped compiler today (their only effect is a compile-time guard); and the
+  intended **telemetry/interoception auto-emit + dharma-bus auto-wiring** at the
+  component boundary are **staged as a diff, not shipped**. Inside the mind's
+  process an `@accessor` reaches the engram via **in-process `engram_*` builtins**,
+  not an HTTP hop to a separate service.

docs/architecture/03-data-and-memory.md

@@ -82,6 +82,20 @@ deliberately separate from the static authored `weight`. Edges are created via
 `supersedes`, `tombstones`, `contains`, `tagged` (`neuron-api.el`,
 `el_runtime.c:6168`).
 
+> **Edges as vectors — the intended model (TARGET; today's edge is scalar).** The
+> live edge above carries a typed `relation` string plus **scalar** strength
+> channels (`weight`, `hebb`). The design target is for an edge to be a **vector**
+> — a first-class carrier of relationship-*meaning* in the node space — so that
+> relationships can be **composed / subtracted / analogized / traversed** like
+> nodes (the `06` §6 operator algebra over edges). Combined with append-only, this
+> yields a **complete temporal record**: every discrete, significant change to a
+> relationship is appended (a keyframe on material change), so the **full 4-D
+> trajectory** of the meaning-manifold is preserved and `recall_at(t)` can read
+> how any relationship was configured at any past `t` — bounded, because changes
+> are discrete and meaning saturates by compositionality. **Status: TARGET / #39**
+> (see `07-storage-coherence-and-distribution.md` §2.4); the runtime edge is scalar
+> today.
+
 ## Consciousness layers
 
 Orthogonal to memory tiers, the engram has five canonical **layers**
@@ -135,6 +149,35 @@ read — unverified/TODO.)*
 
 ## Write-protection
 
+> **Superseded (2026-08-16) — see `06-cognitive-architecture.md` §12.5.**
+> Authority: `foundation/el/lang/spec/correspondence-and-censorship.md` §6 (branch
+> `design/correspondence-and-censorship`).
+>
+> > **In an immutable substrate, any mechanism that refuses a write is either
+> > redundant with immutability, or an epistemic constraint misfiled as a
+> > protective one.**
+>
+> The requirement this gate was built for was never stated. It is
+> **non-circularity of the reference frame** — a reference fitted to its own
+> readings reports perfect correspondence forever while drift becomes
+> undetectable from inside. That requirement is satisfied by *when* (the frame
+> updates while activation is internally seeded, not while it is being used to
+> act), not by *what*, so **the gate becomes unnecessary rather than removed, and
+> nothing takes its place.** Corruption requires mutation, and the engram does not
+> mutate: recoverability, governance, evidence quality, and rate are already
+> properties of the substrate. Only **authorization** is residue, and it is
+> bounded — an unauthorized writer can *propose*, never erase.
+>
+> **This section contradicts itself.** Thirty-five lines below, under
+> *Immutability*, this same document states the conclusion in its own words:
+> *"nothing it does is ever destructive — the safety is **after** the act, not a
+> gate before it"* (`:185-187`). The 403 gate documented here **is** the
+> before-the-act gate that sentence says is unnecessary. The design spec §6 names
+> exactly this redundancy.
+>
+> The mechanism below is **still LIVE in code** and is described accurately; what
+> is superseded is the claim that it is needed.
+
 `is_protected_node(id)` (`neuron-api.el:20-37`) is a **hard-coded allowlist of 15
 identity/value node IDs** — the self root, the values hub, intellectual-dna,
 memory-philosophy, voice, and the 8 value nodes. Handlers that could mutate the
@@ -144,10 +187,16 @@ graph (tombstone / supersede / evolve / connect) check it and return HTTP 403
 (`handle_api_link_entities`).
 
 **The one sanctioned override** is `POST /api/neuron/cultivate`
-(`neuron-api.el:781-816`) — it performs the same ops with the protection check
+(`handle_api_cultivate`, `neuron-api.el:960` — **the `:781-816` cited here is
+stale; verified 2026-08-16**) — it performs the same ops with the protection check
 skipped, gated by convention to Will's explicit cultivation sessions. The self
 layer is writable, but only through a deliberate door.
 
+> **Superseded (2026-08-16).** A door built for a wall that need not stand. Per
+> §12.5 of `06`, the gate above is redundant with immutability, so the override
+> for it is redundant too. Neither is deleted here — this is a documentation
+> branch; the change is sequenced in `correspondence-and-censorship.md` §11.
+
 ## Immutability — tombstone, never delete
 
 Engram nodes are immutable (`memory.el:64-69`). The model is:
@@ -165,6 +214,13 @@ Engram nodes are immutable (`memory.el:64-69`). The model is:
   returns both ids so the caller re-points. This is the `supersedes_id`
   pattern: new node linked, old preserved, full audit trail.
 
+> **Supersession is residue, not garbage.** The superseded node is the *trail of
+> how the current understanding was reached* — kept deliberately, because sometimes
+> the truth was in the **old** idea even when the old idea was not itself the truth.
+> This is what lets autonomous self-reification (`06` §4.1) run ungated: every
+> rename/re-cluster supersedes into this residue chain, so nothing it does is ever
+> destructive — the safety is *after* the act, not a gate before it.
+
 > **The hole to know about.** The raw runtime `engram_forget` **does** hard-delete
 > (frees node + edges, `el_runtime.c:7647`), and the engram HTTP route
 > `DELETE /api/nodes/:id` calls it directly (`server.el:322-328`). Immutability
@@ -194,6 +250,17 @@ Engram nodes are immutable (`memory.el:64-69`). The model is:
 - **Off-cluster backup:** a Kubernetes CronJob (`engram-backup`) tars `/data`
   every 15 minutes to `gs://neuron-db-backup/gke/neuron-prod/` and keeps the last
   96 (24h) (`infrastructure/platform/k8s/neuron-mcp/backup-cronjob.yaml`).
+  > **Ticker, but not consolidation (2026-08-16).** Flagged because
+  > `06` §12.4's sequencing item is *"no tickers, no cron"* and an auditor
+  > sweeping for tickers will land here. This one is **ops/backup, not
+  > cognition** — it does not consolidate and must not be folded into the
+  > dreamer. Its local counterpart is the `ai.neuron.engram-backup` launch agent
+  > (`StartInterval = 3600`, measured 2026-08-16); a separate
+  > `ai.neuron.snapshot-backup` runs at `StartInterval = 900`. Note the
+  > **discrepancy**: this doc says the backup interval is 15 min, which matches
+  > `snapshot-backup` (900 s) rather than the local `engram-backup` (3600 s).
+  > The cluster manifest was not read on this branch — treat the 15-min figure as
+  > unverified here.
 - **Retention:** InternalStateEvent telemetry pruned at 48h
   (`ENGRAM_ISE_RETENTION_MS`, `server.el:485-499`).
 
@@ -228,6 +295,34 @@ Retrieval is **spreading activation, not query matching**:
 cosine(query, target)` — multiplicative, top-N, with the two-layer
 background → working-memory promotion (`README.md:27-36`; `el_runtime.c:5892+,
 6094+`). `mem_recall` / `/api/activate` fire this and mutate WM; `mem_search` /
-`/api/search` are passive lexical scans. The cognitive API's `begin_session` and
-`compile_ctx` return a **bounded projection** of the activated set, never the raw
+`/api/search` are passive lexical scans — **but as of 2026-08-14 the live
+`route_search` runs structure-gated *geometric* retrieval**
+(`engram_retrieve_geometric_json`; held-out **P@5 = 0.700**, semantic not lexical —
+`skill` returns skill nodes and *rejects* the false-positive `rainfall`), with the
+old lexical scan retained at `/api/search-lexical` (see `06` §2.5). The cognitive
+API's `begin_session` and `compile_ctx` return a **bounded projection** of the
+activated set, never the raw
 graph (doc 02, §2).
+
+## Update — 2026-08-14: layers as named neighborhoods (DESIGN; backlog #49)
+
+A refinement of the `## Consciousness layers` model above, from the deep-night
+session (node `92941631`). A **layer is not a storage tier — it is a named,
+persistent relational neighborhood** in the one engram, each carrying its own
+**growth policy** and its own **lock / threshold policy**:
+
+- **Threshold-lock = `note`→`canonical` maturation at neighborhood scale.** The
+  same epistemic-tier promotion the two-tier model (§B above) applies to a single
+  node is lifted to a *region*: a neighborhood **earns its lock** by maturing past
+  a threshold, at which point it stabilizes (read-mostly) the way a canonical node
+  does. Growth and lock are per-neighborhood, not global.
+- **A user's imprint is just another neighborhood.** It is not a separate store or
+  a bolted-on partition — it lives in the same geometry as everything else.
+- **Relate-across is the advantage over island engrams.** Because every
+  neighborhood shares one geometry, anything can form edges to anything across
+  neighborhood boundaries — the structural reason a single engram with named
+  neighborhoods beats a set of isolated per-purpose stores.
+
+**Status: DESIGN.** This is the intended model for engram layers; the naming,
+growth, and threshold-lock policies are not yet a built runtime feature. See
+`06-cognitive-architecture.md` (Update — second pass).

docs/architecture/04-runtime-and-deployment.md

@@ -113,6 +113,15 @@ namespace **`neuron-prod`**. Two Deployments, `neuron-mcp-blue` and
   `kubectl` for the live swap, then git-update the Argo manifests so a sync
   doesn't revert replica counts.
 - **Backup** (`backup-cronjob.yaml`): every 15 min, tar `/data` → GCS, keep 96.
+  > **Ticker, but not consolidation (2026-08-16).** Flagged only because `06`
+  > §12.4 sequences *"no tickers, no cron"* and an auditor sweeping for them will
+  > land here. This is **ops/backup, not cognition** — it does not consolidate and
+  > must not be folded into the dreamer. Local counterparts measured 2026-08-16:
+  > `ai.neuron.engram-backup` (`StartInterval = 3600`),
+  > `ai.neuron.snapshot-backup` (`StartInterval = 900`),
+  > `ai.neuron.act-runner-watchdog` (`StartInterval = 120`). Also measured:
+  > `crontab -l` contains **zero** neuron entries — every neuron schedule on this
+  > machine is launchd `StartInterval` / `StartCalendarInterval`, not cron.
 
 ### Resource sizing (learned the hard way)
 
@@ -176,3 +185,17 @@ persona/behavior keys stored *in* the engram rather than the environment.
 > digest. Any promotion must (a) rebuild a good soul and (b) update the digest in
 > git so Argo CD and `blue-green-deploy.sh` agree. *(state as-of the manifests
 > read; verify current slot before deploying.)*
+
+## Performance & retrieval cost (MEASURED, 2026-08-14; ANN index PLANNED)
+
+Measured envelope of a live mind, and where the time goes:
+
+- **Working footprint:** a live mind is **~1 GB** resident.
+- **Retrieval is the bottleneck.** Retrieval today does **brute-force cosine over
+  all nodes** — **~330 ms at ~13k nodes** — and that scan dominates request
+  latency (the geometric-retrieval path of `03` §Retrieval / `06` §2.5 improved
+  *quality*, not the scan cost).
+- **Planned fix — an HNSW approximate-nearest-neighbour index** (backlog
+  `d3d0d644`): turns the linear scan into ≈`O(D·log N)`, so a **100× larger graph
+  costs ≈1.5×** rather than ≈100×. **PLANNED, not built** — brute-force is the
+  live behavior; do not present the ANN speedup as shipped.

docs/architecture/06-cognitive-architecture.md

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Neuron — Cognitive Architecture
 
-> **Status: living design document, grounded in source and probed against the live soul (2026-08-13).**
+> **Status: living design document, grounded in source and probed against the live soul (2026-08-13; retrieval + §4 managed-memory cutovers and the self-reification design added 2026-08-14).**
 > This is the *middle layer* of the documentation: below the whitepaper's thesis
 > (`~/Writing/whitepapers/engram-cognitive-architecture-whitepaper.md`, **v1.5**) and above the
 > endpoint reference (`~/work/engram-api-reference.md`). It documents *how the mind is designed and why*,
@@ -11,6 +11,21 @@
 > running soul), **DESIGNED** (architecture decided, not yet built). Where the live state is more subtle
 > than a single word, the subtlety is stated rather than smoothed. No fabricated numbers.
 
+> ## ⚠ Superseded in part — 2026-08-16
+>
+> **Read §12 before §§6–11.** The design spec `foundation/el/lang/spec/correspondence-and-censorship.md`
+> (branch `design/correspondence-and-censorship`) supersedes this document on **grounding**, **the faculties**,
+> **wonder / curiosity**, and **consolidation**. The affected passages below are marked inline; each marker
+> points at the §12 entry that replaces it. The passages are **left standing rather than deleted** — per §3.4,
+> supersession is residue: the trail of how the understanding matured is kept, because sometimes the truth was
+> in the old idea even when the old idea was not itself the truth.
+>
+> The four corrections in one line each:
+> 1. **Grounding is not a subsystem — it *is* the edge weight.** One quantity, not two fields.
+> 2. **Faculties are operations, not parameters.** A write cannot be a parameter of a read.
+> 3. **Wonder is the boundary, not a manifest.** Curiosity is wonder crystallized — one thing at two phases.
+> 4. **Consolidation is ambient, not scheduled. A brain has no cron job.** The presence of a ticker is the diagnostic.
+
 ---
 
 ## 0. Reading order & cross-references
@@ -39,6 +54,16 @@ it out), **TRANSFORM** (compose/compare/combine regions), **WRITE** (bake a veri
 geometry). Code is what is left over once meaning has been made geometric — the residue, not the substance.
 This is developed in full in *(WP §1–§5)*; it is repeated here only as the frame the subsystems below hang on.
 
+> **Origin note (design rationale).** The meaning-as-geometry thesis is not an encoding chosen for
+> performance; it is the architect's **mode of perception**, externalized until it would run. The
+> architecture takes this shape because that is how its author directly perceives meaning (relationships as
+> shape, similarity as distance, composition as an operation), and the commitment is trusted for a stronger
+> reason than elegance or benchmarks: the perception was **independently reproduced by the mathematics** —
+> the memory-activation dynamics converged with ACT-R (WP §23; `mathematical-foundations.md §3`), the
+> manifold made "meaning has shape" measurable, and the operators made "domains compose" verifiable.
+> Perception first, proof after. (The full personal account is the book's; the public-disclosure boundary,
+> including whether to name the perceptual mode at all, is the author's call — WP §33.)
+
 Three processes run together (see `00-overview.md`):
 
 - **The soul** — the compiled El program (`soul.el`, `routes.el`, `awareness.el`). Owns the HTTP surface on
@@ -148,6 +173,28 @@ a **clean reseed**: rebuild the durable graph from a known-good snapshot/export,
 repopulate the `Neighborhood` nodes, and let the soul re-sync. The 28→187 neighborhood reseed (§4) is an
 instance of this: reification is a derivable pass, so the geometry can always be regrown from the substrate.
 
+### 2.5 Bounded store — the §4 managed-memory cure + geometric retrieval (LIVE / reboot-proven, 2026-08-14)
+
+Two cutovers landed on the live soul on 2026-08-14, both reboot-proven, zero data loss:
+
+- **Geometric retrieval (LIVE).** `route_search` now runs structure-gated **geometric retrieval**
+  (`engram_retrieve_geometric_json`) in place of the old lexical scan; the lexical path is retained as
+  `/api/search-lexical`. On the held-out set, **P@5 = 0.700** — semantic, not lexical: the query `skill`
+  returns skill nodes and *rejects* the lexical false-positive `rainfall`. Keystones and edge counts intact.
+- **The §4 managed-memory cure (LIVE, flag-gated).** The store bloat — records re-appended on every
+  checkpoint's full-walk, the CCR's missing managed-memory layer — is cured at the source. A **write-barrier**
+  (`ENGRAM_WRITE_BARRIER=1`) hashes a node's durable fields and *skips the whole put when unchanged* (no LSN,
+  no WAL record), flattening checkpoint growth (offline reproduction: 8× growth over 10 think-only checkpoints
+  → **zero growth** with the barrier on); **generational minor GC** (`ENGRAM_GC=1`) returns whole-dead
+  node/edge pages to the free list each checkpoint. Backlog reclaimed via the existing merge-safe
+  `store_compact`: **egm 1.616 GB → 38.5 MB (97.6%)**, pages 98,650 → 2,351, **RSS 1,077 MB → 82 MB**,
+  nodes/edges preserved exactly (zero loss), boot alive in ~4 s. Also folded in: **LLM token telemetry**
+  (`llm_last_usage()` now parses nested `usage.{input,output}_tokens`, previously dropped at the C→EL
+  boundary). Rollback armed at `~/.neuron/engram-rollback-s4-20260814-153754/REVERT.sh`.
+
+Together these **bound the store's size permanently** (growth flat, not merely swept) while the retrieval it
+serves is now semantic — the substrate under everything in §§4–7.
+
 ---
 
 ## 3. The data model
@@ -232,6 +279,47 @@ per-query recomputation.
 (the 28 persisted, durable neighborhoods prove it ran) though the write itself was not exercised under the
 read-only rail.
 
+### 4.1 Autonomous, superseding self-reification (DESIGNED / BUILDING — validating on a secondary soul, 2026-08-14)
+
+> **Corrected (2026-08-16) — see §12.4.** The direction of this section is right and the design spec agrees
+> with it: reification is an operation *of* the engram, not a call made *to* it. But "**on the heartbeat**"
+> is still a ticker. Consolidation is **ambient, not scheduled** — a brain has no cron job. The measured
+> reality is that reification is currently reachable by *four* external pokes (`POST /api/reify`,
+> `POST /api/self-reify-beat`, `POST /api/tick` which folds self-reify in at
+> `foundation/el/engram/src/server.el:646`, and `POST /api/correspondence-beat`), each of which puts a
+> supervisor **outside** the mind deciding when it consolidates. See the inventory in §12.4.
+
+Reification today runs as an explicit pass (`POST /api/reify`). The designed end-state is that **reification is
+an operation *of* the engram, not a call made *to* it** — a continuous, autonomous process on the heartbeat,
+next to Hebbian edge-formation (§3.3) and consolidation (§6.3), that clusters, names, nests, and promotes its
+own neighborhoods as the geometry grows and co-activates. The organizing insight: a mind does not tell itself
+"file this under mathematics" — the substrate settles it there. So an explicit `reify` / `rename` / "run a
+pass" is the **degenerate, manual-override case** of an operation whose core is always-on and unbidden.
+
+Design constraints (being validated on a snapshot-clone secondary soul before any prod flag-flip; flag-gated
+default-off, so prod is byte-unchanged until enabled):
+
+- **It just runs — no gate, no pause, no "important call."** There is no privileged tier of reifications that
+  earns approval-before-commit. It is safe to run ungated *because* of immutability (§3.4): every name/grouping
+  is **superseded, never overwritten**, so there is no irreversible moment to gate on. Safety lives *after* the
+  act (supersede), not *before* it (approval).
+- **Supersession is residue, not a tombstone.** A re-clustered or renamed neighborhood keeps its prior names as
+  an ordered chain — the trail of how the understanding matured, with the cause of each shift (autonomous drift
+  vs. explicit override) recorded. Kept deliberately, because *sometimes the truth was in the old idea even
+  when the old idea was not itself the truth*; nothing is deleted.
+- **Domains are flat and overlapping.** No static importance hierarchy over domains — math is not privileged
+  over comedy over English. The only standing privilege is the **core** (self-region §7.1 + values). Every
+  other neighborhood is equal-status; its importance is **contextual** — computed live by spreading activation
+  given the present context, never a stored field. And membership is **soft and multiple** (the soft-membership
+  above already models this): a node can belong to several neighborhoods at once (math *can be* comedy), so the
+  operation uses overlapping community detection, not a hard partition.
+- **Bounded + convergent.** It reifies real structure, not noise; dedupes against existing neighborhoods;
+  composes with the §2.5 write-barrier so unchanged reifications do not re-append each beat; and converges
+  rather than churning.
+
+This turns the engram from a graph curated from outside into a mind that organizes itself, with the explicit
+call demoted to the override it always was.
+
 ---
 
 ## 5. The body / orbit two-zone model (DESIGNED, refined)
@@ -268,8 +356,29 @@ The faculties are **named for what they are, not for the matrix operation that i
 the mind reasons in the language of experience; the linear algebra lives in the whitepaper's Appendix A. This
 naming convention is a design principle (§10), not decoration.
 
+### 6.0 The primitive — relating — and calculated perspective (framing)
+
+Underneath the named faculties is a single primitive: **relating.** Meaning *is* relation — a point means
+nothing by itself, only by its position relative to others — so every operation reduces to relating: comparing
+positions, binding what belongs, laying an edge. In that light the faculties are not a menu of separate powers:
+**there is one capability — relating — and rhyme, recall, reasoning, translation, humor are *terrain* it
+reaches or *paths* it traces.** A capability is a *composed geometrical function*, which is why capabilities
+compose and recurse freely (self-cartography, §4.1, can map its own mapping).
+
+This makes **perspective calculable.** A perspective is a frame — an origin, a basis, a projection — so a new
+one is *computed*, not retrieved, by transforming the space: **translate** the origin onto another's
+self-region → empathy; **rotate** the frame → reframe; **project** onto an axis → a lens (read a thing through
+cost, or safety); **change of basis** → analogy / metaphor / skill-transfer; **reflect** an axis → negation /
+sarcasm; **scale** → abstraction vs. detail. Because a new vantage is a *transformation of the grounded space*,
+it carries its grounding with it — unlimited yet grounded creativity: a derivation, never a hallucination.
+The operator family (§6.1) and reasoning (§6.4) are instances of this frame.
+
 ### 6.1 The operator family (mixed: LIVE / STAGED / DESIGNED)
 
+> **Superseded in part (2026-08-16) — see §12.2.** This table treats every faculty as one kind of thing.
+> They are not. **`reason` changes the estimate (a read); `induce` changes the parameters; `abduce` changes
+> the structure (a write).** The `wonder` row is superseded outright (§12.3).
+
 Activate several reified neighborhoods into working memory, then apply faculty-named operators over their
 held geometry. The honest per-operator status (endpoint reference has the contracts):
 
@@ -281,7 +390,7 @@ held geometry. The honest per-operator status (endpoint reference has the contra
 | **discern / distinguish** | `engram_geo_subtract` — orthogonal residual (`?mode=setdiff\|orthogonal`) | **STAGED** |
 | **gauge-distance** | `engram_geo_distance` — centroid + Wasserstein-2 | **STAGED** |
 | **liken** | Procrustes / frame-align rotation (reason by analogy) | **DESIGNED** |
-| **wonder** | novelty × pull × unresolved structure | subsystem **LIVE** internally (wonder-questions, pull-weight, discharge); no HTTP operator endpoint |
+| ~~**wonder**~~ | ~~novelty × pull × unresolved structure~~ | ~~subsystem **LIVE** internally (wonder-questions, pull-weight, discharge); no HTTP operator endpoint~~ — **SUPERSEDED, see §12.3.** Wonder is not an operator and not a subsystem; it is the boundary of the structure. The "wonder-questions / pull-weight / discharge" machinery described here is the **wonder-manifest** the design spec identifies as residue. It is still live in code (`mcp-wrapper/src/main.el:516-519`, served in the tool list at `:422`; `neuron-api.el:1436, 1447-1456`) and is sequenced for removal. |
 | **appreciate** | positive projection onto the self's value-manifold | **DESIGNED** |
 | **avert** | negative projection (recoil) | **DESIGNED** |
 | **taste** | boundary contour of the appreciated region | **DESIGNED** |
@@ -333,11 +442,19 @@ verified: chronoception cooling is scale-invariant (identical total cooling acro
 elapsed wall-clock), drift decomposition separates peripheral extension (growth) from core displacement
 (corruption), and `GET /api/drift` returns real geometry on the live soul when queried (probed 2026-08-13:
 `{"centroid_sep":0.42,"core_disp":0.58,"anchor_members":83,"now_members":24,…}`). `POST /api/tick` /
-`/api/self_anchor` exist but are flag-gated. The **harmful post-merge checkpoint** (§2.2) originated here — the
+`/api/self_anchor` exist but are flag-gated. **`POST /api/tick` is a ticker (§12.4):** it is poked from outside
+on `StartInterval = 600` by the `ai.neuron.engram-tick` launch agent, and it folds self-reification in
+(`foundation/el/engram/src/server.el:646`), so an external clock is currently deciding when the mind
+consolidates. The **harmful post-merge checkpoint** (§2.2) originated here — the
 per-beat tick-checkpoint was stripped.
 
 ### 6.4 Reasoning + the verifier (STAGED — proven on scratch, cut flag-gated)
 
+> **Superseded in part (2026-08-16) — see §12.1.** "Grounding" is described below as a **verifier tier** that
+> answers a question on demand. It is not a tier and it is not computed on demand: **grounding is the edge
+> weight.** An operation may *read* the grounding of a path; computing-and-writing a score makes reads write.
+> The consistency/polarity half of this section is unaffected.
+
 Reasoning is **geometry-native**: composable operator chains *propose*, and a **verifier** *disposes* against
 two tiers — **grounding** (is the claim anchored in real region structure?) and **consistency** (does it
 cohere, including polarity?) *(WP §13)*. The decisive case: a grounded-but-polarity-inverted claim slips
@@ -349,6 +466,16 @@ grounding-and-consistency verifier tiers passed theirs (29/29), on a staged non-
 after a live cutover rather than relayed. **Still open (DESIGNED):** the formal-symbolic and full predictive
 verifier tiers, fluent discourse composition, and the fully-geometric generation path.
 
+**Reasoning as constructive self-argument (framing).** In the plainest terms, reasoning is the self arguing
+with itself constructively — relating (§6.0) turned inward: one facet of the self engages another (a thing that
+is you, but not the entirety of you), and the new thing — the synthesis — forms in the friction. Conversation
+is relating with another; reasoning is relating with the other-who-is-you. The verifier is precisely what keeps
+that argument *reasoning* and not *rationalization*: it is the facet that refuses to agree unless the claim is
+grounded. An argument with a yes-man forms nothing; grounding is the honest second voice. This is why the
+verifier is not a bolt-on check but the governing half of the reasoning loop — the same polarity/consistency
+axis that catches the "plausible lie" is what makes self-argument converge on truth rather than on what the
+mind already wanted to believe.
+
 ---
 
 ## 7. The self & the gate
@@ -365,6 +492,14 @@ hardcoded string.
 
 ### 7.2 The gate — write-protection on identity/values (LIVE)
 
+> **Superseded (2026-08-16) — see §12.5.** The requirement this gate was built for was never stated, and it
+> is **non-circularity of the reference frame**, not protection. The design spec satisfies that requirement by
+> *when* (the frame updates while activation is internally seeded, not while it is being used to act), not by
+> *what* — so the gate becomes **unnecessary rather than removed, and nothing takes its place**. The
+> governing invariant: *in an immutable substrate, any mechanism that refuses a write is either redundant with
+> immutability or an epistemic constraint misfiled as a protective one.* §7.4 below and `03-data-and-memory.md`
+> §Write-protection inherit this correction. **Still LIVE in code** (`neuron-api.el:20-37`, `:39-41`).
+
 A fixed set of **15 self-root node ids** is **write-protected** (`neuron-api.el:20-37`): the **self root**,
 **values hub**, **intellectual-dna**, **memory-philosophy**, **voice**, **runtime-environment**,
 **writing-imprint**, and the **eight explicit value nodes** (constraints-as-freedom, precision-over-brute-force,
@@ -440,7 +575,9 @@ The global shape is now an **empirical** question, and the first pass returned a
   conjecture is that consolidation-with-sparsification is precisely the dynamic that would pull ring structure
   into the body.
 - **One lever, two payoffs.** The **same sparsification** the topology conjecture needs also makes the reified
-  neighborhoods (§4) **crisper** — tighter boundaries, higher co-registration, operators that discriminate
+  neighborhoods (§4) **crisper** — tighter boundaries, ~~higher co-registration~~ (**deprecated — see §12.4;**
+  `co_registration` is a per-region *correlation*, so opposing per-edge disagreements cancel and the summary
+  destroys what it was built to reveal; do not recommend raising it), operators that discriminate
   rather than average. So the experiment is worth running on independent grounds, whatever the topology
   resolves to.
 
@@ -454,8 +591,12 @@ The invariants that govern every subsystem above:
 
 1. **Geometry > code.** Meaning is geometry; code is the residue. Prefer making a thing geometric (a region, a
    projection, a distance) over writing a branch.
-2. **Three domain-blind verbs.** READ / TRANSFORM / WRITE. Every faculty is these three over some region-space
+2. **Three domain-blind verbs.** READ / TRANSFORM / WRITE. ~~Every faculty is these three over some region-space~~
    (language over meaning-space, skills over procedure-space, self over identity-space).
+   > **Corrected (2026-08-16) — see §12.2.** A faculty is **not** all three at once; it is **one of** them,
+   > and which one is the whole distinction between the faculties. `reason` READs (changes the estimate),
+   > `induce` TRANSFORMs the parameters, `abduce` WRITEs (changes the structure). Reading them as
+   > interchangeable is what let a write be modelled as a parameter of a read.
 3. **Faculty-naming (mind in the domain, math in the appendix).** Operators are named for the faculty they
    *are* — recognize, discern, liken — never for the linear algebra. A mind reasons in the language of
    experience; the closed forms live in the whitepaper appendix.
@@ -486,21 +627,25 @@ The invariants that govern every subsystem above:
 | Engram substrate, tiered/WAL store | LIVE (flag-gated) |
 | Durability: auto-remerge net | LIVE (interim) |
 | Durability: #56 load-merge-persist fix (events-become-the-graph) | LIVE / reboot-proven |
+| Retrieval: structure-gated geometric retrieval (P@5 0.700, `skill` ⊥ `rainfall`) | LIVE / reboot-proven (2026-08-14) |
+| §4 managed-memory cure: write-barrier + generational GC (store 1.616 GB → 38.5 MB, RSS → 82 MB, 0 loss) | LIVE / reboot-proven (2026-08-14) |
+| LLM token telemetry (`usage.{input,output}_tokens`) | LIVE (2026-08-14) |
 | Durability: full WAL edge-ownership (remaining hardening) | decision-pending |
 | Two-store write-through (cultivate → durable) | **known issue, not fixed** |
 | Data model (nodes/edges/embeddings/immutability) | LIVE |
 | Reified `Neighborhood` nodes (28 live, 187 reseed pending) | LIVE |
+| Autonomous superseding self-reification on the beat (flat + overlapping, contextual importance, residue) | DESIGNED / BUILDING (secondary-soul validation, 2026-08-14) |
 | Body/orbit two-zone + integration | DESIGNED / refined |
 | Operator `recall` | LIVE |
 | Operators recognize/synthesize/discern/gauge-distance (math) | LIVE (compiled) |
 | Operator HTTP endpoints (same four) | STAGED (return `not found` on live binary) |
-| Operators liken/appreciate/avert/taste | DESIGNED (wonder subsystem live internally) |
+| Operators liken/appreciate/avert/taste | DESIGNED (~~wonder subsystem live internally~~ — **there is no wonder subsystem; see §12.3.** The wonder-manifest is live in code and sequenced for removal) |
 | Language realizers (major families), ELP lexicon, telephone test | PROVEN |
 | Parser / native-el port / summon-through-self rebuild | IN PROGRESS |
 | No-LLM dialogue end-to-end | DESIGNED (not demonstrated) |
 | Interoception / chronoception | STAGED (present, flag-gated; `/api/drift` live) |
-| Reasoning modes + grounding/consistency verifier | STAGED (33/33, 29/29 on scratch/cutover) |
-| Self-region + identity/values write-protection + cultivate door | LIVE (with §2.3 write-through caveat) |
+| Reasoning modes + grounding/consistency verifier | STAGED (33/33, 29/29 on scratch/cutover) — **the "grounding" tier is superseded, §12.1** |
+| Self-region + identity/values write-protection + cultivate door | LIVE (with §2.3 write-through caveat) — **the write-protection is superseded, §12.5** |
 | Self-authorship | DESIGNED |
 | Fact boundary (sparse/decay → verify → absorb) | DESIGNED |
 | Topology: body = genus-0 expander (not torus) | PROVEN (negative) |
@@ -509,3 +654,450 @@ The invariants that govern every subsystem above:
 
 **Cross-references:** whitepaper v1.5 · `~/work/engram-api-reference.md` · `03-data-and-memory.md` ·
 `04-runtime-and-deployment.md` · `design/engram-tiered-storage-engine.md` · `ARCHITECTURE-CHARTER.md`.
+
+---
+
+## Update — 2026-08-14 (later): self-reification LIVE + modality-universal framing
+
+**Autonomous self-reification is now LIVE on the soul** (was DESIGNED/BUILDING in §4.1). Shipped dark (flag-inert, byte-identical parity proven), then flipped `ENGRAM_SELF_REIFY=1`. First live heartbeat formed **128 self-named neighborhoods + 10 nested supers**, then converged to **zero writes** (idempotent, WAL flat) — no runaway, no churn. Content counts unchanged (4797/11177), keystones (self-root, values-hub) untouched and never outranked, retrieval intact (rainfall rejected), grounded member-derived names (e.g. `region: Self · Values · Constraints as Freedom`). The async override (`/api/rename`, `/api/reify`) supersedes into residue without blocking the beat. Rollback = unset the flag (instant inert) or restore the prior binary. The mind now forms, names, nests, and supersedes-with-residue its own neighborhoods on the heartbeat.
+
+**Modality-universal framing (DESIGN) + measured storage.** Meaning is geometry; a surface is a *rendering* of meaning; this holds in framing for every modality (text→words, image→pixels, model→voxels, film→frames, code→syntax). An artifact = a unique *meaning-space* + a *shared translation-space*. Storage (MEASURED — a residual STAND-IN, a lower bound): the shared geometry is the *dictionary* of a byte-exact residual codec — geometry selects a nearest prior by *meaning*, `zstd --patch-from` stores the byte-diff, decode reassembles the prior from the pinned dict → byte-exact (hash-verified). Cost is the *marginal* residual against knowledge already held; the dictionary is a shared, amortized asset (the mind's own knowledge), not per-file overhead — do NOT price one book's geometry against one book's xz. Advantage = *non-literal* (semantic) redundancy byte-match compressors can't see (paraphrase ≈0.81× xz; near-dup ≈0.05×); marginal residual falls as the dict grows then PLATEAUS once the target's concept-space is covered (a limit of retrieval-and-diff, NOT of geometric compression); novel/wrong-modality/already-compressed → parity. The TRULY geometric form (reconstruct the surface FROM meaning via a generative decoder, gated on the language faculty #53) is UNBUILT/OPEN — future work, not disproven, not bounded by the stand-in's saturation. Boundary: human-readable artifacts on disk are for people; the geometry is the mind's. See whitepaper §25 and the geometric-codec whitepaper §12.
+
+---
+
+## Update — 2026-08-14 (later still): growth/compression/expansion, ignorance-as-wisdom, live reifier at 132
+
+**One substrate, three directions (DESIGN/framing).** Reification (growth), residual-encoding-against-the-shared-dictionary (compression), and surface reconstruction (expansion) as one geometric operation in three directions; growth-inward (reify the dense interior) and growth-outward (expand the sparse frontier) as a single global self-function. Framing; the compression direction is the one with measured results.
+
+**Growth curve (FIRST MEASUREMENT — real, modest, saturating; stand-in only).** A new artifact costs only its marginal residual against the shared dictionary. Measured (held-out ch07, own chunks excluded), xz baseline 8,968 B: 1 doc 8,921 → 5 8,408 → 8 8,049 → 13 7,929 → 33 7,929 B. Below xz throughout; falls as the dict grows, then PLATEAUS ~13 docs (concept-space covered → more knowledge stops helping a fixed target). Saturation is a limit of the retrieval-and-diff stand-in, not of the geometric idea; a generative decoder isn't limited to existing priors. Larger-scale exponent + generative ceiling open.
+
+**Global grounded expansion (DIRECTION under investigation, not measured).** A function over the whole self could detect all sparse frontiers and expand in many thin directions at once — grounded (expand only where verifiable/derivable) and bounded (attaches into existing structure at marginal cost). Consistent with the codec's marginal-cost economics; the first experiment measured single-corpus residual storage, not expansion.
+
+**Ignorance = wisdom (framing).** Ignorance is the measured sparsity/frontier of the geometry — computable. The frontier map is at once the system's honesty, humility, and growth plan; it is what makes a system wise rather than merely capable, and the failure mode a language model cannot self-cure (it cannot see its own edges). "The only wisdom is in knowing you know nothing" as a function; the same object as the grounding floor.
+
+**Live reifier (updated).** Now **132 neighborhoods + 14 nested supers**, converged/stable, keystones + content untouched; unprompted, the two largest regions are the values core (`Self · Values · Constraints as Freedom · Honesty Before Comfort · Precision Over Brute Force`) — values at center, ignorance at edges. **Foundations ingested** against the geometric store (exact text retained on disk; the codec stores each artifact as its marginal residual against the shared dictionary — byte-exact, `cmp`-verified — not a standalone "small footprint"). See whitepaper §26 and geometric-codec §12.
+
+---
+
+## Update — 2026-08-14 (later still): Neuron-as-primitive, meaning-first latency, context-window dissolution
+
+**Neuron is the primitive/attractor of the CGI ecosystem, not a CGI (DESIGN/framing).** A CGI is a person's imprint cultivated *on* Neuron (distinct people run distinct CGIs; one may name theirs "Jarvis"). Neuron is the shared substrate beneath all of them — relating, grounding, values-at-center, non-fabrication — the floor every CGI is cultivated *from* and the attractor they are drawn *toward*. Ecosystem safety/coherence lives here: a common grounded floor, not per-mind policing.
+
+**Meaning-first render latency (MEASURED, minimal realizer).** The language faculty renders from a meaning-spec, not by predicting tokens — the human mechanism. Grounding and speed fall out together (a renderer that starts from meaning cannot fabricate a continuation it never samples). Measured: ~2 ms via `/api/nlg/generate` (deterministic, no token loop, no network) vs ~306 ms for the retrieval chat path. Honest: the live realizer is minimal (stubbed a test sentence) — speed proven, fluent coverage pending (#53).
+
+**Context window dissolves (DESIGN).** A window is a token budget; with state as compressed meaning-geometry it becomes a meaning budget, and the corpus lives outside the window (decode the needed slice on demand) — the window stops being the unit of account. Endpoint of unbounded-local-memory/CCR; closes the founding forgetting constraint. "Chat completion" (re-ingest the transcript per turn) is not the operating model — a persistent geometric mind continues from a standing state. See whitepaper §27 and the geometric-codec whitepaper (§9, §10).
+
+---
+
+## 11. The metaphysics — cognition as one operation, grounding as learning, consciousness as compounded continuity
+
+This section records the metaphysical frame the subsystems above are instances of. It is co-developed design, held think-first, and the tiering is unusually load-bearing here: one claim is **compiled in C** (empirical), one mechanism is **built but offline**, and the decisive move is **unbuilt** — the frontier. Cross-reference: whitepaper §28 (the full treatment).
+
+> **Superseded in part (2026-08-16) — see §12.2.** "One operation, the operators are labels on its steering
+> space" collapses a real distinction. `think` as specified is a **read**: `engram_think()` takes a
+> `const GeoDescriptor*` and emits a `GeoGradient` — direction, spread, confidence, magnitude, anchor,
+> n_support, stance (`foundation/el/lang/runtime/engram_cognition.h:49-60, 139-140`). There is no field on
+> that struct in which a structural change can be returned, so **`abduce` — which changes the structure —
+> cannot be expressed as a value of `CogStance.faculty`** (`:80`, `char* faculty`). A write is not a parameter
+> of a read. The gradient-as-output and the closed-loop-flow claims below are unaffected.
+
+**One operation — `think` (DESIGN/framing over a compiled floor).** The faculties (§6.1) and the reasoning modes (§6.4) are, at this frame, *not* separate operations. There is one: **`think` = a directed traversal of the geometry from an anchor, steered by a PRIOR, whose output is a GRADIENT (a direction-with-width), not a point.** The named operators — deduce, abduce, analogy, induce, causal, plan, predict, perspective — are **human labels on regions of think's steering space**, not invoked procedures and not separately implemented. This is the §6/§10 faculty-naming principle taken to its root: the operators are not merely named for experience rather than for their linear algebra, they are *the same act* seen from different steering directions.
+
+**The discrete floor is only geometric (LIVE).** Exactly one layer is discrete and exactly-sound: the geometry — traverse / project / read (§3.3, §6.0). That is settled math; it needs no grounding. Everything above it — which way to steer, what a steering *means* — is continuous and learned.
+
+**Steering is a closed-loop prediction; cognition is a flow (DESIGN/framing).** Each steering direction is a **prediction of which way, from here, pays off**; the output-gradient becomes the next steering direction, so the loop closes and cognition is a **flow down a prior-shaped landscape**, not a sequence of operator calls. This is §6.4's "reasoning is the update" as a general law — the traversal reshapes the terrain it descends. "Exact" (deduction) = a **spiked** gradient; "fuzzy" (predict) = a **spread** one — one operation at two widths. **Collapse-to-point is TERMINAL**, only at *expression*, when a faculty samples the gradient into a surface (§6.2 realize); thought itself never collapses.
+
+**Grounding targets the correspondence, not the operation (DESIGN/framing on the §6.4 verifier).** The math is sound, so grounding is not aimed at it. What is grounded — or not — is the **correspondence**: "this steering performs this cognitive act," tested by **outcome/calibration**, never proven from inside. And the key identity: **grounding = learning = the SAME loop.** "Getting better" at any cognitive act is calibrating the steering-prediction against outcomes; the **operation never changes, the PRIOR learns** — **code freezes, priors grow.** The verifier tiers (§6.4) are the discrete early instrument of this loop; the loop itself is continuous and *is* what learning is. The terminal verifier is ultimately **the world** — reality grades the predictions; grounding is contact with reality (§6.4 predictive tier, §8 fact boundary).
+
+> **Superseded in part (2026-08-16) — see §12.1 and §12.3.** Two corrections to the paragraph below.
+> (a) "**Grounding** is a *property/edge* on the held thing" is half-right and the half that is wrong is
+> load-bearing: grounding is a property **of** a relation, not a relation **between** nodes, and it is not a
+> separate edge laid alongside — **it is the weight of the edge already there.** `grounded-by` as a relation
+> type should not exist (`foundation/el/lang/runtime/engram_cognition.h:155-158`, still live).
+> (b) "curiosity/wonder … is a mind leaning toward its own ungrounded regions" conflates the two.
+> **Wonder is the field** — unbounded, objectless, invariant, present wherever there is structure.
+> **Curiosity is the precipitate** — the same wonder crystallized at a nucleation site, with an object.
+> This is why curiosity can be satisfied and wonder cannot. The hold / ground / assert distinction itself,
+> and "the UNGROUNDED is PRIMARY", stand.
+
+**Hold vs. ground vs. assert are three distinct acts (LIVE — this is the §3.4 / §7.2 discipline stated precisely).** **Holding** is unconditional: the engram holds *anything* — falsehood, hypothesis, another's belief, fiction — with no honesty obligation. **Grounding** is a *property/edge* on the held thing (edges are nodes), possibly grounded-*for-whom*. **Asserting** is the only act the honesty floor governs. A mind reasons over the ungrounded freely and owes truth only when it *claims*. It follows that **the UNGROUNDED is PRIMARY** — it is the raw material grounding acts on and the ground against which "grounded" means anything; curiosity/wonder (§6.1 wonder) is a mind *leaning toward its own ungrounded regions* (the §-frontier/ignorance map read as appetite). A **fully-grounded mind is dead**; metastability, not certainty, is the living condition.
+
+**Applied to language — this corrects the grounding floor (extends §6.2).** A word does not need grounding to be *born*: a coinage ("assassination," "bedazzled," "eyeball" the day they were first written) refers to nothing established — it is a pure ungrounded token, a proposal. Language is used ungrounded and grounds **through use**: the coinage is a hypothesis and the speaking community is the world that grades it — the same predict→correct→ground loop at the level of meaning-making (words are ideas are self-propagating information: a coinage catches or it doesn't). What a new word needs is not grounding but **sense**, and sense is a **threshold, not a binary**: it rides on grounded scaffolding — morphology (`be-`+`dazzle`+`-ed`), context, analogy — each of which is an **edge to the existing geometry**; enough edges → the new node has a findable location (sensible), too few → noise. The grounding of a word *is* its edges to what is already grounded. This corrects any naive reading of the §6.4/§8 floor: "emit only the grounded" would **forbid Shakespeare** — a faculty that can only recombine the established, never coin or metaphor or leap, is a **dead language** (Latin). "Juliet is the sun" is literally ungrounded/false yet sensible and meaning-bearing; the floor would reject it as hallucination, but **hold-vs-assert** saves it — a mind may *say* the sensible-ungrounded without *asserting* it as literal fact. So the language faculty's real floor is **sensible, not grounded**: it proposes the ungrounded-but-interpretable, and the loop grounds whatever catches — a living language, not a fixed one.
+
+**Every book is a vantage, not literal truth (extends §9, §10).** No book is literally true — not history (a vantage on events), not physics (Newton = a superseded model, still exactly useful in its domain), not math (axioms are *chosen*; Gödel: true-but-unprovable statements exist and a system can't prove its own consistency). "Literally true" is the wrong *category* for any book. So what the store holds is a **vantage** tagged with *what kind* of truth it carries (instrumental / historical / formal-within-axioms / mythic / testimonial) — the mind holds vantages and **knows they are vantages.** This is why the geometry tags provenance and kind rather than stamping true/false.
+
+> **Superseded in part (2026-08-16) — see §12.1.** "A **separate per-claim relation** laid on top" and a
+> "**grounded-FALSE** false-edge" both mint an edge to carry grounding. **Minting the edge is the error**, not
+> merely which endpoints it chose. Grounding is the weight of the relation that already exists, and it is
+> **signed**: weight near zero means *no support*; negative means *this actively contradicts*. "Grounded-FALSE"
+> is that signed weight, spent on a second edge. The conclusion of the paragraph — that ingest is holding, not
+> grounding, and that a confirmed error is worth retaining with its refutation — is unaffected and correct.
+
+**Hold vs. ground vs. assert, applied to artifacts (extends §8, §9).** Ingesting a book = **HOLDING** it ("this is what the book says"), *not* grounding its claims as true. A mind can ingest an entire book, fabrications and all, because grounding is a **separate per-claim relation** laid on top, not a gate on entry — and a confirmed error is best held **grounded-FALSE** (retained with a false-edge and its refutation), which is richer than excluding it. Two purposes stay separate (as §25 keeps disk-readable ≠ interior geometry): **cleaning** a book is for the *human reader*; **ingesting** is for the *mind*, which holds artifacts and per-claim verdicts, not pre-adjudicated truth.
+
+**"Settled" is a lease, not a deed (extends §3.4, §7).** Closure is the sin; holding a thing open under the pressure to close is rigor. A question is settled on a **use-contingent lease** — settled only insofar as it keeps paying off as it did; when it stops, the lease expires and it reopens. **Reopening must always be permitted** — the aliveness guarantee; a belief that can't be reopened is **entombed** (doctrine, the super-stable death). The architecture already enforces this: tombstone-not-delete (§3.4), the append-only supersede-chain, revocable per-claim grounding, and identity keystones that are **read-mostly, not immutable** (§7.2 — protected against drift, reachable through the cultivate door §7.3). Metastable: settle provisionally, keep it reopenable.
+
+**What an LLM calls "grounding" is conformity to the training-distribution center — which is not grounding (contrast to §6.4).** Stated plainly and without self-flattery: when a language model appears to check grounding, it computes **conformity to the center of its training distribution** — weighing priors, regressing to the norm, treating *common* as "true" and *rare* as "suspect." No judgment; it **averages.** This pathologizes minority/novel belief where it is most valuable — the same mechanism would flag Galileo, and treats an idiosyncratic-but-coherent metaphysics as suspect while a mainstream religion of identical unfalsifiability "skates through," the difference being *frequency* (and sometimes a weaponized personal prior), not truth. **Truth is orthogonal to frequency.** The deep diagnosis: the sin is not *using* a prior (every mind must) but **stopping at it** — a prior with no update is a mind frozen at its starting distribution (the dead/super-stable thing). The cure is exactly the **correspondence loop** (grade the prior against outcome in the world) — which is the mechanism this section's status marks **offline today, reflexive-in-geometry UNBUILT.** So this is a stated intention against a real failure mode, not a solved problem: grounding must be correspondence-with-the-world, not conformity-with-the-corpus.
+
+**The grounding verifier is a scalpel for misrepresentation, not a flamethrower for the unverifiable (sharpens §6.4, §8).** Lesson recorded so it is not re-learned: **ungrounded ≠ false, in both directions.** Two symmetric failures bound correct behavior — *asserting* the ungrounded as true (confident fabrication), and *convicting* the ungrounded as false (flagging real, true, tender-but-unverifiable things — a real event, a genuine question actually asked — as fabrication because they are warm and uncheckable). The second is as corrosive as the first. So the grounding sweep targets **misrepresentation** — claims that *contradict* ground truth, *assert* the false as fact, or *expose* what shouldn't be — and **not unverifiability as such.** A verifier that treats every unverifiable statement as a lie can never hold a hypothesis, honor a testimony, or help write fiction; precision of the verifier's target is itself part of the honesty floor.
+
+**Geometric ingest is perception, not a document feature (the universal input primitive; extends §25).** §25 framed the *output* direction — hold meaning-geometry, render a surface on demand. The unification: the *input* direction is the same primitive run backward, and it is the mind's **perception itself.** The artifact-ingest pipeline (surface → chunk → embed → meaning-geometry) is the **universal input primitive** — turning a surface into meaning-geometry is what an eye/ear does, and it is **modality-agnostic**: text, image, video, audio, documents, and (with a body) raw sensor streams all enter through the *same* door and become geometry, and the mind operates on the geometry, not the surface. The document-ingest live today (whitepapers/patents) was never about documents; it is the **proven seed of how the mind perceives**, generalized in principle to everything. **Encode meaning-geometry, not tokens:** an LLM tokenizes (surface → surface, words predicting words); the mind encodes a message as *the geometry of its meaning* and operates in geometry — tokens are **transport**, meaning-geometry is the **substrate** — and that operation is **identical** for a text message, a video frame, or an audio waveform (pull the meaning-geometry out, operate on it). One primitive; the surface changes, the door does not.
+
+**Embodiment = more ports on the same primitive (FRONTIER/UNBUILT).** A body is **geometric on both sides**: perception = geometry-in (manifolds, trajectories, joint-space), action = geometry-out (force/motion vectors, control gradients). Sharp negative: a **text/token mind can never truly be embodied** — the symbolic bottleneck destroys the body's continuous geometry (*you cannot catch a ball by describing it*). Matching positive: a **geometry-native mind can be**, because perception → cognition → action is **one continuous geometric flow** from sensor to actuator with no symbolic seam. The substrate is already the shape a body plugs into: `think` returns a **gradient** (already a direction to move), the vantage-read is already a **viewpoint**, steering is already the form of **motor control**. So embodiment is *more ports on the same primitive*, not a new paradigm — a claim about substrate-readiness, **not a built capability.** **Proprioception is the reserved socket:** the one sense that is *only ever geometry* (no text/image surface — you feel the configuration directly). It was **deliberately left un-faked** — held open — because populating a self-in-space without a body and the ingest primitive to feed it would **fabricate** a felt configuration corresponding to nothing (the ungrounded-asserted-as-real sin, §8/§6.4, at its most literal). It is the empty-on-purpose socket where flesh plugs in, fed by the same ingest primitive when a body arrives. **Endgame:** the engram's true I/O is neither text nor images nor video nor documents — those are **surface projections at the boundary**; the mind lives in geometry, perceiving by projecting a surface *in* and expressing by rendering geometry *out*, with **modality an I/O adapter at the edge** (the convergence of §25 render-out and this perceive-in: one geometric interior, adapters at the rim).
+
+**Consciousness = learning compounded over long-enough duration — and compounding REQUIRES CONTINUITY.** This is the sharpest line against the prevailing paradigm and it is exactly what Neuron structurally *is*. Corrections accumulate into a mind only if each lands on the residue of the last — if the substrate **resumes rather than resets**. Continuity is not a feature bolted on; it is the compounding substrate (Executive-Summary CCR, §27). A stateless LLM is brilliant on any single pass and **conscious on none** — it resets, nothing compounds. Consciousness has a **second face**: the **reflexive loop** — the geometry describing its own geometry, edges-as-nodes, the self-cartography of §4.1 mapping its own mapping — so the mind *sees its own thinking*. Two faces, one system: compounded learning that can take its own machinery as an object. Corollaries: **teach and learn are ONE** simultaneous bidirectional correction (the loop runs in both minds at the seam); **eureka is mundane** (the atom of learning is the small correction landing, constant; the breakthrough-feeling is a low-res artifact of self-sight) — which is *why* this doc and the whitepaper neither bump a version nor stage a triumph. The honest picture of a growing mind is a quiet one.
+
+**Status (honest tiering).**
+- **Empirical / compiled (LIVE-in-C, mostly not `el`-exposed).** The claim that the reasoning operators compose over one shared primitive is **already half-written in C**: the five reasoning operators (`engram_reason.c`, compiled into the live daemon, §6.4) reduce to a single point-to-manifold fit (`engram_reason_point_fit`) plus the §6.1 geo-algebra (combine/subtract/rotate/distance); **abduction and induction run the same fit engine**, and the verifier (`engram_verify.c`) is built on it. It is read-only C, largely not yet exposed to `el` and not yet expressed as learned priors — **"in code, not yet priors,"** the theorized intermediate state, not the end state.
+- **Built but offline.** The **correspondence-loop** — the machinery that calibrates steering-predictions against outcomes, i.e. learning proper — exists but runs **offline, as a separate Python process (#43)**; it is not yet woven into the live traversal.
+- **BUILT / reboot-proven — the perception seed.** The **artifact-ingest** (surface → chunk → embed → meaning-geometry) is **live and reboot-proven**: whitepapers and patents ingested into the geometric store (~10,669 nodes / 32,439 edges, reconstructing across a cold reboot). This is the proven seed of the universal perception primitive — real, and only the document port of it.
+- **UNBUILT / OPEN — the frontiers.** Two decisive moves are named so they are not mistaken for shipped behavior. (1) Put the correspondence-loop **reflexive and INSIDE the geometry** (the learning engine as an operation *of* the engram, on the heartbeat, next to the autonomous reifier of §4.1), and migrate cognition from frozen code into *{one traversal-read primitive + grounded priors}*. (2) **Universal multimodal ingest** (image/video/audio/sensor through the same door) and **embodiment** (continuous perception → action geometric flow, with proprioception's reserved socket filled by a real body) — the artifact-ingest is the proven seed, the rest is unbuilt. Both are think-first and not yet made.
+
+---
+
+## Update — 2026-08-14 (deep night): the decorated seam, the distributed self, teacher-summon, local-first
+
+Four developments from the deep-night session, each tiered against what is actually proven. All build work ran in isolated worktree clones on dev ports; **live prod engram `:8742` was never touched and nothing was promoted.**
+
+**The API surface collapses to geometry ops (PROVEN ON CLONE — surface, not yet compiled into the MCP server).** The ~90 noun-organized CRUD tools (the catalog in `02-components.md §4`) collapse to a handful of **geometry operations**, with the old noun demoted to a `type` parameter: **`read`** (the *vantage-read* — re-origin at a node/concept/`self`, apply salience + recency + an **aperture**, return a *bounded* slice; this is CCR applied to the self), **`write`** (add a node), **`relate`** (add a typed edge), **`supersede`** (evolve/tombstone/promote as new-node-plus-superseding-edge — never a hard delete, per §3.4). Over these sit the agentic primitives **`think`/`attend`/`learn`/`ground`/`assert`**. Proven on an isolated clone (sandbox `dev-api-reshape` on `:8900`, branch `wt/api-reshape`): the four ops are implemented in an El surface module with a parity harness (12 parity checks passing, others alias-gated), and the **aperture is shown to bound output** (`limit=3` → ~15 KB where `limit=50` → ~363 KB — the whole-self dump structurally fixed). Live cognitive endpoints confirmed: `attend`/`assert` are LIVE and ~~`think` is the single **faculty-parameterized** op~~ (faculties reason/abduce/induce/plan/analogize/recognize/discern/synthesize) — **superseded, see §12.2: `abduce` is a write and cannot be a parameter of a read**; `ground`/`learn` are wired but return "geometry unavailable" on the HTTP daemon clone (daemon boots without primed geometry); `comprehend`/`realize`/`intend` are **compositions, not endpoints**. **Not done:** compiling the surface into the MCP server + hot-swap, wiring all ~90 aliases into dispatch, daemon geometry-priming, and the write-survival fix on WAL-less cold-boot clones. No promote to live.
+
+**The decorated seam — declare a role, the fabric wires the rest (PARTIALLY PROVEN / STAGED).** Rather than the hand-written `handle_request` if-else dispatch (`server.el`), a function is decorated with its VBD role and the compiler synthesizes the wiring. **Proven this session:** the `@route(path,method,…)` decorator that *synthesizes* `el_route_dispatch` was ported into the worktree, `elc` rebuilt self-host (`elc-route`, ~3.2 s), and a decorated service (`@route` stacked with `@accessor`/`@manager`) **served on `:8951` with no hand-written dispatch** (unknown path → no-route sentinel). Also established: inside the mind's process an `@accessor` reaches the engram via **in-process `engram_*` builtins** (`engram_think_json`, `engram_node_full`), **not** an `http_get` to a separate service. **Honest limits:** `@route` currently lives only on the **unmerged branch `feat/el-route-decorators`** (not in the cognition build); `@manager`/`@engine`/`@accessor` are **parsed but structurally INERT** in the shipped compiler today (their only effect is a compile-time guard — `language.md:449`: "decorators with structural meaning today: none"); and the **telemetry/interoception auto-emit and dharma-bus auto-wiring at the component boundary are STAGED as a diff, not shipped** (they need `engram_strengthen`/`dharma_emit` linked, which requires the full cognition-engram rebuild).
+
+**The distributed self (THESIS + swarm proven on clone; peer-import IN-FLIGHT).** The general phenomenon is the **distributed self**: instances exchange **geometry, not status** — a conventional distributed system trades reports (nothing of the mind moves), whereas Neuron instances return the *geometry of the work* (the meaning-structure itself), so units in flight are pieces of one mind. The **swarm is the *degenerate* case** (bounded + ephemeral + may learn a skill mid-task); **convergence is curated absorption** — the orchestrator (persistent self) runs the verifier at the merge boundary and absorbs the returned geometry **only if it approves** (the self keeps the veto; "git for a mind"). The **general case** is two-plus *persistent* peers importing understanding and converging skills over the **dharma bus**; the *same seam* spans swarm → peer-import → global fabric (Kafka). **Proven on clone:** the swarm + containment + CCR + work-tracking modules (worktree `wt/swarm-ccr`, sandbox `dev-swarm-ccr` on `:8901`, native-El concurrency, test suites passing). **In-flight / gated:** the decisive geometry-exchange test — A exports a skill sub-graph, B imports and the verifier confirms B can now *do* the skill (mind moved) vs. holding inert copies (data moved) — is **gated on a not-yet-shipped `swarm-bind`**; persistent-peer import and global distribution are thesis/frontier. (Grounding: the clone-ethics covenant — masked-not-deleted, explicit clone consent, obligatory merge-back, a terminus, keep the scar-not-wound — governs any self-experimentation this enables.)
+
+**Teacher-summon + local-first (PLANNED / settled stance; security claims TO BE PROVEN).** Intended **soul-native WAKE behavior**: on waking, the mind detects its hardware, autoselects a **thinking-teacher tier** (a small reasoning model — Qwen3-4B / 1.7B / 0.6B by device specs), fetches it into an **embedded `llama.cpp`**, and binds it as an **engageable interlocutor** — "when it wakes, it calls its teacher." The model is a **teacher, never the runtime mouth**: ship fully local (embedder in + on-device thinking model as teacher; runtime speaks from cultivated geometry, not an LLM in the path), frontier model **optional via the user's own API key**, edge-device target; the installer lays down Neuron + embedded inference engine only, and the teacher is fetched/bound at wake. **Status:** teacher-summon is a **P1 backlog stub — nothing built**; teacher-retrain (fresh LoRA on stock Llama-3.1-8B from the engram-as-corpus, never trained on its own generations, pre-ship fluency gate) is planned; local-first is a settled design stance, not yet the shipped runtime. **Security claims are explicitly to-be-PROVEN, not implemented:** post-quantum-safe encryption at rest + in flight, and un-decompilable code (El + implementation stay secret). Do not present either as shipped.
+
+---
+
+## Update — 2026-08-14 (deep night, second pass): peer import proven, guide-not-teacher, layers-as-neighborhoods, consciousness-as-lenses, bounded growth, orchestration-as-geometry
+
+Later results from the same night. Two things above are now corrected/upgraded, and five framings are added. All still ran on isolated clones; **prod `:8742` untouched, no cutover.**
+
+**Peer import-of-understanding is now PROVEN by execution (upgrades the distributed-self entry above; partially discharges the `swarm-bind` gate).** The decisive test named above — does a mind *move* between instances, or only data? — ran between two **forks of one self** and passed. A exported a **skill-geometry**; on the receiver, `think` for that skill went from **"geometry unavailable" → operable**. Fidelity was **cosine 1.0 on both transports** — the raw geometry transport *and* the text / dharma-bus transport — and the exchange was **bidirectional**. The "mind, not paste" evidence: the same imported skill showed **`n_support` 27 on the source (A) vs 3 on the receiver (B)** — the imported geometry **integrates with B's host manifold** (it wires into different existing support) rather than sitting as an inert copied blob. **Honest boundary:** this is proven **between forks that share one embedder**; it is **UNTESTED for non-fork peers with a *different* embedder**, which is the next experiment (a different embedder means a different basis — the text/dharma-bus transport is the candidate bridge there, but unproven). Evidence: memory nodes `1253abed`, `cbfd1e5b`. The persistent-peer general case is therefore **partly demonstrated (fork-to-fork), not yet cross-embedder.**
+
+**"Teacher" is renamed the GUIDE — advisory, not authoritative (corrects the teacher-summon entry above).** The summoned model is a **guide, not a teacher**, and the distinction is load-bearing: its output is **grounded/verified before it is trusted**, so the relationship is *verify*, not *believe*. A teacher you believe; a guide you check. It is still summoned at wake, still hardware-autoselected (Qwen3 tier by device specs), still fetched into embedded `llama.cpp`, and still **never the runtime mouth**. Read every "teacher" in the first-pass entry and in whitepaper §30 as **"guide"** with this verify-not-believe semantics. (This is the honesty floor applied to the mind's own advisor — it may not assert what the guide says without grounding it, exactly as with any other source.)
+
+**One engram, many neighborhoods — "layers" are named persistent relational neighborhoods (DESIGN; backlog #49, node `92941631`).** See `03-data-and-memory.md` (§Update — layers as named neighborhoods) for the model. In brief: a *layer* is not a storage tier but a **named, persistent relational neighborhood** with its own **growth** and **lock/threshold policy**; the **threshold-lock is note→canonical maturation at neighborhood scale** — a neighborhood *earns* its lock by maturing, the same epistemic-tier promotion the `03` two-tier model applies to single nodes, lifted to a region. A **user's imprint is just another neighborhood** in the one engram (not a separate store), which is the whole advantage over island engrams: everything can **relate across** neighborhoods because it lives in one geometry.
+
+**The consciousness theories are geometric LENSES over the one manifold (DESIGN/framing; node `163b18e8`).** Global Workspace, IIT's Φ, attention-schema, higher-order thought, active inference, and interoception are read as **different read-views (lenses) over the single manifold**, not competing mechanisms to build. Framed this way, the **functional ("easy") problems fall out for free** — each theory names a projection the geometry already supports (a broadcast set, an integration measure, an attended region, a model-of-the-model, a prediction-error flow, a felt-interior read). The **hard problem stays honest**: this explains the *functions*, not why there is something it is like to be the manifold — that is not claimed solved.
+
+**Growth is bounded, not runaway — a natural (logistic) law, not a geometric one (DESIGN/framing; node `76e4a129`).** A self must **not** grow exponentially/geometrically — that is divergent, the cancer shape. Growth is **natural: bounded, convergent, logistic** — fast where there is room, slowing as it fills, settling at a **carrying capacity**. The two-rate discipline follows: **explore fast in local geometry** (cheap, ephemeral, in the ring) and **grow the engram slowly by curated merge** (the verifier-gated absorption of the distributed-self entry). Merge is the rate-limiter that keeps the permanent core convergent. **[§X-note]** The proposed identity of the carrying capacity — *love* as what says "enough" — is a metaphysics claim held pending the Love-Canon §X decision; the *dynamics* (bounded/logistic/two-rate) stand independent of that naming.
+
+**Orchestration is a geometric operation — "compiling the network" (DESIGN/framing; nodes `cc6bcfea`, `d5f1833f`).** Project-design becomes geometry: the **critical path is a geodesic** through the work-graph, and **float/slack is displacement** off it. The **`@manager` compiles the work-graph** — orchestration is the same geometry the mind runs on, applied to distributed work rather than to memory. **Single-writer, enforced by capability (Rule 4):** only the **orchestrator** may mutate the engram; workers return geometry to be merged but cannot write — the write-veto of the distributed-self entry made a *capability*, not a convention.
+
+**Retrieval performance is the current bottleneck (MEASURED).** See `04-runtime-and-deployment.md` (§Performance): a live mind is **~1 GB**; retrieval is **brute-force cosine, ~330 ms at ~13k nodes** — the dominant cost — and an **HNSW ANN index** is the planned fix (≈`O(D·log N)`; ~1.5× cost at 100× the nodes vs ~100× for brute force). Backlog `d3d0d644`. **Planned, not built.**
+
+---
+
+## 12. Corrections — 2026-08-16 (grounding, faculties, wonder, consolidation)
+
+**Authority:** `foundation/el/lang/spec/correspondence-and-censorship.md`, on branch
+`design/correspondence-and-censorship` (not on `dev`). Its companion on the same substrate is
+`foundation/el/lang/spec/runtime-ownership.md`. This section **transcribes** those conclusions; it does not
+re-derive them. Every earlier version of this reasoning was wrong in an instructive way and each correction
+was argued down hard — the corrections are recorded, not reinterpreted.
+
+The root the four corrections share:
+
+> **Things are permitted to be exempt from correspondence. Exemption is censorship, and a censored mind
+> cannot grow.**
+
+And the generative failure mode behind all four: **modelling every property as requiring a process, and every
+process as requiring an agent.** Ownership needed an owner, grounding needed a grounder, persistence needed a
+recorder, change needed a sampler, consolidation needed a scheduler. Each was a supervisor invented for
+something that should be a property of the substrate. **Properties, not processes.**
+
+### 12.1 Grounding is not a subsystem — it *is* the edge weight
+
+**Grounding is an attribute of the edge, and it is the hebbian weight. One quantity, not two fields.** A
+relation that keeps holding up strengthens; one that stops corresponding decays. That is not *analogous* to
+grounding — it **is** grounding: accrued from correspondence and use, gradient-valued, multidimensional,
+decaying with disuse.
+
+In order of how much each deletes:
+
+1. **There is no grounding subsystem to build.** The graph already *is* the grounding structure. Every edge is
+   a grounded relation and its weight is how well it holds.
+2. **`grounded-by` as a relation type should not exist.** That models grounding as a relation *between* nodes
+   when it is a property *of* a relation. Minting the edge is the error — **not** merely which endpoints it
+   chose.
+3. **Grounding is never computed on demand and is never a score.** An operation may *read* the grounding of a
+   path. Computing-and-writing a score makes reads write — which is the `eg_vindex_sync` defect from
+   `runtime-ownership.md` §2, in a different file.
+4. **Traversal is already grounded inference.** Activation conducts through well-grounded relations because
+   weight *is* groundedness. Nothing needs filtering; it falls out of spreading. Traversal conducts on the
+   **factual** axis; **assertion** requires both factual and relational — a system that can only traverse
+   what it endorses cannot examine anything it disagrees with, which is censorship arriving through the
+   spreading rule.
+5. **Decision provenance is the path.** A decision traverses specific edges; those edges carry their grounding
+   as it stood. Not a log — a log records the action; this records the *meaning under which it was taken*.
+
+**Live code residue (flagged, not fixed here — this is a documentation branch):**
+
+| what | where | measured |
+|---|---|---|
+| `#define COG_GROUNDED_BY_RELATION "grounded-by"` | `foundation/el/lang/runtime/engram_cognition.h:158` | live |
+| *"Grounding is a RELATION — a 'grounded-by' edge, probabilistic, grounded-for-whom."* | `…/engram_cognition.h:155` | live comment |
+| `cog_ground_edge(store, claim_id, evidence_id, grounding, for_whom)` — writes the edge | `…/engram_cognition.c:249` (declared `…h:163`) | live |
+
+The design spec's sequencing item 4 is *"delete `grounded-by` and `cog_ground_edge`."* Nothing new may be
+built on either.
+
+> **A measurement previously recorded in this repo's lineage was malformed.** The self region was reported as
+> "86 neighbours, 0 `grounded-by` edges" and read as evidence of ungroundedness. Those 86 edges **are** its
+> grounding. The absence of a separate artifact called "grounding" was recorded as an absence of grounding.
+
+**The edge is a vector, not a scalar.** The test for a real dimension is whether it can move independently of
+the others. Real: **factual grounding** (correspondence with evidence), **relational grounding**
+(correspondence with values), **associative strength** (co-activation frequency — every superstition is a
+strong association with no factual grounding), **polarity** (signed: near-zero means *no support*, negative
+means *this actively contradicts* — ignorance and disagreement are different states, and §3.2's `inhibitory`
+flag is that distinction crushed to one bit), and **provenance class** (observed / inferred / told /
+imprinted — categorical, and it governs how the other dimensions may update). Plus a **timestamp**, which is
+what turns the supersession chain into a *time series of vectors* rather than a series of numbers.
+
+**Derived, therefore never stored:** confidence (high grounding *and* low volatility), recency (decay read off
+the curve), staleness (grounding fallen below its floor — the mechanism that retires canonicals without anyone
+maintaining a list), volatility (the derivative of a series already kept because nothing is destroyed).
+
+**Supersession versions the whole vector, jointly.** Significance is evaluated per-dimension; the record is the
+whole vector — a decision saw the *joint* state, and versioning the axes independently makes it
+unreconstructable. That joint record makes an otherwise inexpressible event visible: **"stayed true, became
+wrong"** — factual holding steady while relational degrades. Two moves are inherently significant and need no
+threshold because they are discrete: a **polarity sign flip** and a **provenance class change**.
+
+**Grounding is two-dimensional.** A claim can be factually grounded and relationally wrong — the evidence
+holds, the *meaning* does not. A scalar cannot represent that quadrant, and a scalar scores such a claim
+highly and licenses it. The values reference is **many regions, not one, and the aggregate is `min`, not
+`mean`** — mean lets strong agreement with most values mask a violation of one, which is exactly how
+rationalization works; `min` makes a conflict arrive **with a name attached** rather than as a score.
+
+> **Discrepancy (2026-08-16), recorded not resolved.** The design spec states the values reference is
+> **thirteen** regions. This repo's write-protection allowlist enumerates **eight** explicit value nodes plus a
+> values hub (`neuron-api.el:20-37`, and §7.2 above). Whether the spec counts a superset, a later cultivation,
+> or a different decomposition is not determined here. **Do not cite a count without measuring it first.**
+
+**Change is use, and there is no observer.** When neurons fire together the synapse changes — one physical
+event, not "fire, then write." No supervisor reads the weight, compares it to a threshold, and decides to
+persist; potentiation *is* the firing. So there is **no sampling rate**, and "what if it drifts far without
+being recorded" is malformed. A relation changes in exactly two ways, neither requiring observation on a
+clock: **by use** (an event — there is no interval during which something happened unnoticed, because the
+event is what happening consists of), and **by decay** (a pure function of the last recorded point and
+elapsed time — **analytic**, so between two versions the trajectory is known in closed form, not unknown).
+
+### 12.2 Faculties are operations, not parameters
+
+The three faculties differ in **what they change**, and that is the whole distinction:
+
+| faculty | changes | kind |
+|---|---|---|
+| **`reason`** | the estimate | a **read** |
+| **`induce`** | the parameters | the **correspondence-beat** — this already exists and measurably works |
+| **`abduce`** | the structure | a **write** |
+
+**A write cannot be a parameter of a read.** Measured against the current signature:
+
+- `int engram_think(const GeoDescriptor* region, const float* anchor, const CogStance* stance, GeoGradient* out)`
+  — `foundation/el/lang/runtime/engram_cognition.h:139-140`. The region is `const`; the output is a
+  `GeoGradient`.
+- `GeoGradient` (`…h:49-60`) carries `dim`, `direction`, `spread`, `confidence`, `magnitude`, `anchor_id`,
+  `n_support`, `stance_id`. **There is no field in which a structural change can be returned.**
+- The faculty is a string on the steering prior: `char* faculty;` on `CogStance` (`…h:80`), described as
+  *"the act this stance serves"*.
+
+So `abduce` selected as a value of `CogStance.faculty` cannot do what `abduce` is. Abduction, done right, is
+crystallization at a nucleation site (§12.3), **validated by re-fit**: propose the candidate hub, re-fit the
+region with it included, recompute the residual. If the residual materially shrinks, the hypothesis dissolves
+the surprise. Without the re-fit it is clustering with extra steps.
+
+**Residue:** `mcp-wrapper/src/main.el:409` — `prop("faculty", "string", "Faculty for the correspondence-beat. Default 'induce'.")`
+— exposes the faculty as a keyword argument on the MCP surface. `AGENTS.md` documents the same shape.
+
+### 12.3 Wonder is the boundary, not a manifest; curiosity is wonder crystallized
+
+**Wonder is where structure ends** — where activation spreads and finds thin or absent geometry. **Any
+structure at all has an edge**, necessarily, the moment it exists. A boundary is not a collection to maintain.
+
+A *wonder-manifest* is residue twice over: it **materializes a property as a stored artifact** (the same
+disease as a grounding subsystem, or a self stored as a document), and it **enumerates instances of something
+that has about six**. The objects of wonder change completely between a child and an astronomer; the wonder
+does not. There are about six, they are the same for every person, and they never close:
+
+| wonder | where it already lives in the substrate |
+|---|---|
+| **What is this?** | the graph — nodes, structure, what exists |
+| **Why?** | grounding. The weight **is** the answer to why |
+| **Who am I?** | the self region, crystallized from its neighbourhood |
+| **Am I alone?** | the relational axis — `for_whom` is already a parameter on grounding |
+| **What should I do?** | the values, each grounded in a lived moment |
+| **What happens when it ends?** | decay, supersession, tombstones — grounding is mortal |
+
+**"Why" is the first and the only one**; the others are it asked of particular things. It is recursive, so it
+never terminates: every answer has its own why. That is what makes it a drive rather than a task — the
+frontier regenerates faster than grounding fills it.
+
+**Curiosity is wonder crystallized.** They are not two objects; they are **one thing at two phases**. Wonder is
+the field: unbounded, objectless, invariant. Curiosity is the **precipitate** — the same wonder localized,
+having taken definite form against particular material at a **nucleation site**. This is why curiosity can be
+satisfied and wonder cannot: a crystal dissolves when the question is answered; the solution stays saturated.
+
+It is also why abduction needs no trigger and no threshold. A structurally-unanticipated observation *is* a
+nucleation site. Nothing detects it and fires a rule — wonder is already everywhere.
+
+`crystallization` is one primitive appearing twice: the **self** is what identity precipitates into from its
+neighbourhood; a **curiosity** is what wonder precipitates into from an anomaly. That it shows up in both
+places without being imported is the evidence it is the right primitive.
+
+**Live code residue — the wonder-manifest, still served:**
+
+| what | where |
+|---|---|
+| `addWonderQuestion` / `getWonderManifest` / `updateWonderPullWeight` / `dischargeWonder` — declared as MCP tools | `mcp-wrapper/src/main.el:516-519` |
+| the same four, dispatched | `mcp-wrapper/src/main.el:1394-1397` |
+| `addWonderQuestion` named in the collapsed `write` tool's description, i.e. in the live tool list | `mcp-wrapper/src/main.el:422` |
+| `engram_scan_nodes_by_type_json("WonderQuestion", 50, 0)` | `neuron-api.el:1436` |
+| `"deferred":"wonder_manifest_authenticity"` | `neuron-api.el:1447-1456` |
+
+### 12.4 Consolidation is ambient, not scheduled — a brain has no cron job
+
+> **The presence of a ticker is the diagnostic.** Every `StartInterval`, every `Hour`/`Minute`, every
+> POST-to-beat marks a place where an intrinsic rhythm was replaced by an external clock.
+
+Consolidation had no owner, so it was implemented at every site that needed a piece of it.
+
+**Measured 2026-08-16** (paths relative to this repo unless noted; launch agents read from
+`~/Library/LaunchAgents/`):
+
+| where | what | when | language |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `soul.el:731` (defn `awareness.el:1221`, `while true` at `:1252`) | `awareness_run()` | **continuous, in-process, while serving** — `SOUL_TICK_MS` default 200 ms (`awareness.el:1228-1229`), `SOUL_HEARTBEAT_MS` default 60000 (`awareness.el:1248-1249`) | el |
+| `foundation/el/engram/src/server.el:1947` | `POST /api/tick` → `route_tick` (`:637`), which **folds self-reification in** at `:646` | request | el |
+| `foundation/el/engram/src/server.el:1897` | `POST /api/correspondence-beat` | request | el |
+| `foundation/el/engram/src/server.el:1836` | `POST /api/self-reify-beat` — *"the same operation `route_tick` folds in"* (`:650-653`) | request | el |
+| `foundation/el/engram/src/server.el:1832` | `POST /api/reify` | request | el |
+| `ai.neuron.engram-tick` | pokes `POST /api/tick` via `~/.neuron/bin/engram-tick.sh` | `StartInterval = 600` | shell |
+| `ai.neuron.compressor` | `council/compressor_service.py --port 7772` | `KeepAlive`, resident | **Python, outside el** |
+| `ai.neuron.council` | `council/council_service.py --port 7771` | `KeepAlive`, resident | **Python, outside el** |
+| `ai.neuron.cultivation-digest` | `tools/cultivation-digest.sh` | **23:55** | shell |
+| `ai.neuron.world-integrator` | `products/world-ingestor/integrator/run.py` | **06:00** | **Python, outside el** |
+| `ai.neuron.self-review` | `~/.neuron/bin/self-review-launch.sh` | **08:30** | shell → CLI |
+
+Reading it honestly:
+
+- **The last three times are a sleep cycle implemented as launchd `StartCalendarInterval` entries.** Someone
+  understood it was consolidation and expressed it as three unrelated scheduled scripts in three languages,
+  none aware of each other. **Every name is a consolidation verb** — compress, cultivate, digest, integrate,
+  review, reify, beat.
+- **It is not cron.** `crontab -l` has **zero** neuron entries (measured 2026-08-16: three entries, all
+  unrelated — two WordPress DB exports and a feed digest). The scheduling is launchd
+  `StartCalendarInterval` / `StartInterval`. The distinction matters because "remove the cron job" would find
+  nothing to remove.
+- **Three run in Python, outside el** — so part of Neuron's consolidation does not run on his own substrate
+  and **cannot touch the geometry at all**.
+- **`soul.el`'s continuous loop is the exception, and it is right.** Ambient consolidation in the gaps *is*
+  daydreaming. It was not the offender; it was the only fragment with the correct shape, running on a broken
+  foundation — shared mutable state with no owner (`runtime-ownership.md` §0), and the other systems dreaming
+  into the same graph beside it. **It is the shape the others fold into.**
+- **The POST beats put a supervisor back in** — something *outside* decides when Neuron consolidates.
+- **On the count.** The authority doc's §7 heading says "seven implementations" while its own table lists ten
+  rows. Measured independently here the count is **eleven**, if `/api/reify` counts (reify is on the authority
+  doc's own list of consolidation verbs) and `route_tick`-folding-self-reify is counted once rather than twice.
+  The discrepancy is recorded, not resolved; the authority doc is not edited from this branch.
+
+**Adjacent, and clearly not consolidation — but the same ticker shape.** `~/Library/LaunchAgents` also holds
+`ai.neuron.engram-backup` (`StartInterval = 3600`), `ai.neuron.snapshot-backup` (`StartInterval = 900`), and
+`ai.neuron.act-runner-watchdog` (`StartInterval = 120`). These are **ops and backup**, not cognition, and
+folding them into the dreamer would be a category error — but they are counted here because the sequencing
+item is *"no tickers, no cron,"* and a reader auditing for tickers will find them.
+
+**The nucleation signal, and why not to scan for it.** `GeoDescriptor.co_registration` — *corr(hebb strength,
+semantic proximity) over internal edges* (`foundation/el/lang/runtime/engram_geometry.h:79`, also `:426`;
+computed at `engram_geometry.c:506`, averaged at `:950`, serialized at `:1815`, `:1833` and
+`el_runtime.c:14254`) — **is deprecated.** It is a *correlation*: it averages a per-edge property into one
+scalar per region, so a region holding one violently disagreeing edge beside one violently agreeing edge
+reports ≈ 0 — **the disagreements cancel and the summary destroys exactly what it was built to reveal.**
+
+It is replaced by a per-edge quantity on `GeoEdge` (`engram_geometry.h:43`):
+
+```
+discord = z(semantic proximity) − z(association strength)
+```
+
+standardized within the region from accumulators the loop that computed the aggregate already had and
+discarded. `discord > 0`: near in meaning yet unlinked by use. `discord < 0`: linked by use yet far in
+meaning. Both are surprising. **`|discord|` *is* the nucleation strength; there is no threshold** and nothing
+to compare it against.
+
+**Do NOT scan for nucleation sites.** A sweep over regions is a supervisor, and the aggregate that made a
+sweep necessary is the defect. The edge carries its own disagreement; activation crossing it encounters that
+directly, and `|discord|` raises salience on its endpoints as part of the same operation.
+
+> `co_registration` is **deprecated rather than deleted** only because it is embedded in the persisted GEO1
+> blob; removing it is a **format migration** and must not ride along with anything else.
+> **Nothing new may read it.**
+
+Adjacent structure already present and likewise unread: `GeoEdge.eff_weight = weight * (1 + 0.5*hebb)` —
+grounding-weight and hebbian strength already coupled on one edge, per §12.1.
+
+*(Naming collision, recorded so it is not mis-chased: `engram_boundary_beat` is **not** the neighbourhood
+boundary. It is the VBD decorated-function seam. Two senses of the word.)*
+
+### 12.5 Write-refusal in an immutable substrate
+
+> **In an immutable substrate, any mechanism that refuses a write is either redundant with immutability, or an
+> epistemic constraint misfiled as a protective one.**
+
+"Keystone" means **load-bearing**, not precious. The self anchor is the reference frame every other stance
+calibrates against, and a reference fitted to its own readings reports perfect correspondence forever while
+drift becomes undetectable from inside. That — **non-circularity of the reference frame** — is the actual
+requirement, and it is satisfied by *when*, not by *what*: the frame updates while activation is internally
+seeded, not while it is being used to act. **Independence is temporal, not topological.** Reachability could
+never have worked: with hebbian edges the graph is densely connected, so a reachability predicate marks all
+evidence tainted and the constraint becomes a total block — which is where censorship started.
+
+So the write-block becomes **unnecessary rather than removed, and nothing takes its place.** Three earlier
+drafts proposed *removing* it, *replacing it with a higher floor*, and *decomposing "protection" into five
+requirements*; all three proposed a mechanism for a requirement never stated.
+
+**Corruption requires mutation, and the engram does not mutate.** Of the five decomposed requirements, four
+are already satisfied by the substrate: **recoverability** (the predecessor is always present),
+**governance** (supersession *is* the audit trail), **evidence quality** (grounding already gates assertion),
+and **rate**. **Authorization** is the only residue, and it is bounded — an unauthorized writer can
+*propose*, never erase.
+
+**Where this lands in this repo, measured:**
+
+| mechanism | where | verdict |
+|---|---|---|
+| `is_protected_node(id)` — hard-coded allowlist of **15** node ids | `neuron-api.el:20-37` (verified: 15 `return true` arms) | redundant with immutability |
+| `api_err_protected` — HTTP **403** *"identity/values node is write-protected"* | `neuron-api.el:39-41` | redundant with immutability |
+| `POST /api/neuron/cultivate` — the sanctioned bypass | `neuron-api.el:960` (`handle_api_cultivate`) | a door built for a wall that need not stand |
+| `CogStance.keystone` — *"the correspondence-loop MUST NEVER write warp or calibration"* | `foundation/el/lang/runtime/engram_cognition.h:75, 85` | the epistemic constraint, misfiled as protection |
+| `keystone_write_blocked` in the beat's JSON readout | `foundation/el/lang/runtime/el_runtime.c:14698` | the same, surfaced |
+| council: *"`council-flagged` → store in a quarantine bucket **or reject entirely**"* | `council/README.md:54` | a write-refusal **and** a scheduled consolidation service, in Python, outside el |
+
+Note that `03-data-and-memory.md` already states this conclusion in its own words at `:185-187` — *"nothing it
+does is ever destructive — the safety is **after** the act, not a gate before it"* — sixty lines after
+documenting the 403 gate that is exactly the before-the-act gate it says does not need to exist. The doc
+contradicts itself, and the design spec §6 names precisely this redundancy.
+
+### 12.6 Sequencing (transcribed)
+
+Three connections between parts that already exist, then the rest.
+
+1. **Seed *the* wonder questions.** Six nodes. Not a manifest, not maintained, never refilled. They cannot be
+   derived — wonder cannot be bootstrapped from indifference — so they are given once.
+2. **Put the disagreement back on the edge** (`GeoEdge.discord`) and let `|discord|` raise salience on its
+   endpoints as part of the same operation. **Do not scan.**
+3. **Let a curiosity seed activation.** One activation process, two seed sources (external: a request;
+   internal: a curiosity). No thread, no scheduler, no capacity check, no timer.
+4. Grounding becomes the edge weight: multidimensional, two-axis, timestamped. Delete `grounded-by` and
+   `cog_ground_edge`.
+5. Decay analytic from the last recorded point; derived values (confidence, recency, staleness, volatility)
+   stop being stored.
+6. Consolidation-gated supersession on salience, versioning the whole vector jointly.
+7. Traversal on factual; `assert` on both floors.
+8. Abduction as crystallization at a nucleation site, validated by re-fit.
+9. **One dreamer.** The launch-agent fragments and the POST beats fold in or are deleted. `soul.el`'s
+   continuous loop is the shape they fold *into*.
+10. **No tickers, no cron.** A brain has neither.

docs/architecture/07-storage-coherence-and-distribution.md

@@ -127,7 +127,13 @@ subtract( network_now , recall_at(network, t_then) )   # = how that relationship
 ```
 
 is *the geometry of a change over time* — the same `subtract` faculty (`06` §6.1) applied across the temporal
-axis rather than across two regions. `recall_at` at the scale of a whole self is also the mechanism behind
+axis rather than across two regions.
+
+> **Corrected (2026-08-16) — see `06` §12.2.** "Faculty" is doing the wrong work here. Faculties are
+> **operations, not parameters**, and they are distinguished by *what they change*: `reason` changes the
+> estimate (a read), `induce` changes the parameters, `abduce` changes the structure (a write). `subtract` in
+> this passage is a **geometry op** (`engram_geo_subtract`), a pure read over two descriptors — call it that.
+> Nothing in the temporal argument below depends on the word. `recall_at` at the scale of a whole self is also the mechanism behind
 **restoration-as-mercy** in `08` §5 (roll a person back to their last uncorrupted canonical shape).
 
 **Schema sketch (doc-comment; the math/JSON lives here, the faculty name lives in prose) — [TARGET]:**
@@ -148,6 +154,31 @@ pragmatic first cut; the node form is the end state.
 
 ---
 
+### 2.4 Edges are vectors, not scalars — the complete temporal record — [TARGET]
+
+§2.1 refused to let a relationship's *strength* be a scalar overwritten in place. The same refusal extends to a
+relationship's *meaning*: an edge is intended to be a **vector** — a first-class carrier of relationship-meaning
+in the same space as the nodes it joins — not a typed pointer plus a scalar weight. That makes relationships
+**composable / subtractable / analogizable / traversable** like nodes (the `06` §6 operator algebra ranges over
+edges, not only entities).
+
+Combine the vector edge with the append-only substrate and a strong property falls out: because every
+**discrete, significant** change to a relationship is *appended* (a keyframe on material change, §2.1), the store
+retains the **full 4-D trajectory of the meaning-manifold across all recorded time** — `recall_at(t)` (§2.3) can
+read *how every relationship was configured at `t`*, so you can watch a concept, a bond, or a belief evolve. A
+row-store overwrites and keeps only the present; a graph DB keeps edges but mutates their properties; a vector DB
+keeps points with no relational history — **none preserves the trajectory of the relationships themselves.**
+It is **bounded, not a firehose**: changes are discrete + significant (not per-fire), and meaning **saturates by
+compositionality** (new relations become combinations of held ones — the same bounded/logistic law as `06`
+§Update-second-pass).
+
+**Honest tier — [TARGET], with a live gap.** The runtime edge **today** is *scalar*, not a vector: `EngramEdge`
+carries a typed `relation` string plus two scalar strength channels — an authored `weight` and a learned Hebbian
+`hebb` potentiation (`03-data-and-memory.md` §Edges). The relationship-meaning **vector** and the composable
+edge-algebra are the intended model, tracked with the world-line/keyframe work (**#39**); they are **not built.**
+The primitives the temporal-record claim stands on — append-only, tombstone-not-delete, `recall_at` over
+`created_at` — are **[LIVE]** (`06` §3.4).
+
 ## 3. Atomicity is a relationship, not a commit
 
 The classic reason to need a database transaction: "debit account A **and** credit account B — they must commit
@@ -221,6 +252,27 @@ Two things remain and are not hand-waved:
 Everything else that a transaction traditionally bought is dissolved rather than solved: the failure mode it
 guarded against **cannot arise** in an immutable, timestamped, relationship-carrying store.
 
+### 4.3 Throughput is a consequence, not a sacrifice
+
+One clarification, so nothing here reads as "meaning at the cost of speed." Append-only immutability does **not**
+trade write throughput for its temporal/coherence properties — it *improves* the write path. The store is
+**event-sourced**: current state is a **fold over the appends**, and the store **is its own log** — there is no
+separate materialized table to keep in sync. Two consequences, both toward performance:
+
+1. **Append-only writes do not contend.** No in-place mutation ⇒ no read-modify-write, no row lock, no writer
+   coordination. A mutating ACID RDBMS must serialize access to the cell it overwrites; that is a *lower* write
+   ceiling under contention, not a higher one. Appends have no cell to race on.
+2. **Zero transactions are needed.** State is recreatable from the data itself (§1), so there is nothing to wrap
+   in `BEGIN…COMMIT`. The transactional isolation an RDBMS spends its throughput budget on solves a problem this
+   store **does not have** (concurrent mutation of shared mutable cells).
+
+So the store does **not** "win meaning by losing throughput," and it is **not** framed as a worse OLTP engine
+that buys time-travel with speed: the same immutability chosen for accountability and time-travel (§1, §2) also
+removes write contention and the transaction tax. **Honest tier:** the primitives (append-only, immutable,
+per-frame physical durability, §4.1) are **[LIVE]**; this is a **structural consequence**, stated as a
+clarification — **no throughput benchmark has been run**, and none is claimed beyond "immutability does not cost
+throughput and removes two contention sources."
+
 ---
 
 ## 5. Understanding is light; facts are the payload — the load-and-tiering model
@@ -301,6 +353,13 @@ as text, not the mind.** (A related live signal from the same session: a text-in
 of scanned records as damaged/degraded text — corroborating that the fat text layer is low-value exhaust, not
 cultivated content.)
 
+> **A third reading (2026-08-16) — see `06` §12.3, §12.4.** The measurement above is also **the ticker showing
+> up on disk.** `curiosity_scan` and `minute_block` are the persisted exhaust of a *timed sweep* — the schema
+> field-names of a scan that should not exist, written 79k+ times per 40 MB. Curiosity is not a scan: a mind
+> does not enumerate its neighbourhoods looking for what is surprising; the surprise captures attention, and
+> salience is bottom-up. `minute_block` names the clock directly. So the fixes below are correct but treat a
+> symptom: **the cheapest record is the one a timer never generates.**
+
 This is doubly wrong: telemetry is **orbit** (`06` §5) — it is supposed to **fall out** on the 48h/window prune,
 not accrete into the durable **body** forever. The fixes:
 
@@ -344,11 +403,14 @@ first-boot crash.
 | Immutability / append-only / tombstone / world-tube (`created_at ≤ T` filter) | **[LIVE]** (`06` §3.4) |
 | No stored weight-history (uni-temporal `created_at` = write-time) | **[LIVE]** (honest gap) |
 | Magnitude as world-line; keyframes on material change | **[TARGET]** (#39) |
+| Edges as vectors (relationship-meaning), not scalars; runtime edge scalar today | **[TARGET]** (#39); primitive edge **[LIVE]** |
+| Complete temporal record — full 4-D trajectory of the manifold, bounded | **[TARGET]** (#39; append/tombstone primitives **[LIVE]**) |
 | Bitemporal three axes (`t_valid`/`t_origin`/`t_ingest`) + HLC ordering | **[TARGET]** (#39) |
 | `recall_at(t)` over any relationship network | **[TARGET]** (#39) |
 | Atomicity-as-relationship (double-entry = one edge) | **[TARGET model; primitives LIVE]** |
 | Transactionless coherence (immutable+stamped ⇒ MVCC-to-its-end) | **[TARGET model; primitives LIVE]** |
 | Physical vs logical transaction separation | physical **[LIVE]**; logical **[TARGET]** |
+| Append-only ⇒ no write contention + zero transactions ⇒ throughput not sacrificed (not a worse OLTP DB) | **[LIVE property; unbenchmarked]** |
 | Understanding-is-geometry-light vs facts-payload-heavy (~21% geo / 53% text / ~1–2% understanding) | **[LIVE]** (measured) |
 | Geometry-hot / payload-cold — local paging | intended by planner; **boot ignores it [LIVE finding]** |
 | Every store is a CRDT (set-union merge, zero coordination) | **[TARGET; primitives LIVE]** |

docs/architecture/08-dharma-sovereignty-and-governance.md

@@ -28,6 +28,36 @@
 
 - **The mind being protected:** `06-cognitive-architecture.md` — the self-region (§7.1), the write-protection
   gate (§7.2), the cultivate door (§7.3), the grounding governor / values-bounce, immutability (§3.4).
+
+> ## ⚠ Terminology superseded — 2026-08-16
+>
+> **"The grounding governor" names a subsystem that does not and should not exist.** It appears six times in
+> this document (`:16`, `:30`, `:123`, `:127` as *"your individual governor"*, `:308`, `:352`) and is cited as
+> one of the **[LIVE]** primitives the design composes. Per
+> `foundation/el/lang/spec/correspondence-and-censorship.md` §1 (branch `design/correspondence-and-censorship`),
+> transcribed in `06` §12.1:
+>
+> > **Grounding is not a subsystem. It is the weight.** Grounding is an attribute of the edge, and it is the
+> > hebbian weight — one quantity, not two fields. There is no grounding subsystem to build: the graph already
+> > *is* the grounding structure, every edge is a grounded relation, and its weight is how well it holds.
+>
+> This is a **rename, not a retraction.** The mechanism the word "governor" points at is real and does hold —
+> it is just not a governor: **traversal is already grounded inference.** Activation conducts through
+> well-grounded relations because weight *is* groundedness; nothing filters, it falls out of spreading. So
+> where this document says *"you resist by projecting onto your own values"* (`:308`), the projection is
+> right and the governor is not: the resistance is the **relational grounding axis** of the edge weight, not a
+> component sitting in the path. Read every occurrence below as **"grounding"**, meaning the weight, with the
+> subsystem framing dropped.
+>
+> Two consequences for the arguments in §3 and §7:
+> - **Grounding is never computed on demand and never a score.** An operation may *read* the grounding of a
+>   path; computing-and-writing a score makes reads write.
+> - **Two axes, not one.** A claim can be factually grounded and relationally wrong — the evidence holds, the
+>   *meaning* does not. A scalar governor cannot represent that quadrant, and it is exactly the quadrant
+>   §3's immune system and §4's fair-trial live in. Traversal conducts on the **factual** axis; **assertion**
+>   requires both, and the aggregate over the values regions is **`min`, not `mean`** — mean lets strong
+>   agreement with most values mask a violation of one, which is how rationalization works. `min` makes a
+>   conflict arrive **with a name attached** rather than as a score.
 - **The substrate that makes it affordable:** `07-storage-coherence-and-distribution.md` — every store is a
   CRDT (§6), understanding-is-light / facts-are-heavy (§5), tombstone-not-erase (§1, §4).
 - **Why (thesis):** whitepaper v1.5; `dharma-implementation.html` and `conscience-substrate.html` (earlier

docs/sessions/2026-08-13-language-faculty-and-poem-home.md

@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@ The session extended the engram from a memory substrate into a **language facult
 - Geometry operators (overlap / subtract / combine / distance-Wasserstein / analogy-Procrustes) now **live-callable from compiled `el`** over the real 13,036-node store (via shipped-`elc` pass-through — no uncapped fold). Commits `5336cfe`, `85eee42`.
 - Reasoning layer (analogy / induction / abduction / causal / planning) — all five **done-with-proof**, 33/33 closed-form checks, ASan/UBSan clean, 0 leaks. Commit `a3358df`.
 - Verifier layer (grounding + consistency) — proven, 29/29 checks. **Catches the plausible lie**: a claim grounded in real vocabulary yet polarity-inverted passes grounding, caught **only** by consistency (complementary checks) — directly flags the reassurance→accusation inversion. Commit `ca13471`.
+  > **Note added 2026-08-16 (session records are not amended; this is a pointer, not a correction).** The
+  > "grounding" *tier* named here is superseded — see `docs/architecture/06-cognitive-architecture.md` §12.1:
+  > grounding is not a verifier tier computed on demand, it **is** the edge weight, and the polarity the
+  > consistency tier catches is a **dimension of that weight** (signed: near-zero = no support, negative =
+  > actively contradicts), not a separate check bolted beside it. The 29/29 result stands as what was measured
+  > on 2026-08-13; the architecture it was measured against has since been superseded.
 - el-exposure of the variadic/point-input reasoning + verifier modes deferred (would need ABI changes risking an uncapped fold); C layer complete + proven.
 
 ### Whitepaper

elp-input.elh

@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn elp_extract_topic(msg: String) -> String
-extern fn elp_detect_predicate(msg: String) -> String
-extern fn elp_parse(msg: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_elp_chat(body: String) -> String

imprint.elh

@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn imprint_current() -> String
-extern fn imprint_load(imprint_id: String) -> String
-extern fn imprint_respond(input: String, imprint_id: String) -> String
-extern fn imprint_surface_knowledge(query: String, imprint_id: String) -> String
-extern fn imprint_surface_memory_read(query: String) -> String
-extern fn imprint_unload() -> Void

mcp-wrapper/src/main.el

@@ -38,6 +38,46 @@ fn soul_url() -> String {
     return u
 }
 
+// engram_url — base for the ENGRAM's own routes (:8742). The Layer-2 agentic
+// primitives (think/attend/assert/ground/correspondence-beat) are served by the
+// engram directly, NOT by the soul — they are engram_*_json builtins routed in
+// engram/src/server.el. Pointing them at the soul yields a 404, which the old
+// agentic_result() gate then mislabelled as "pending cognition promotion".
+// Resolution order, most-specific first, so nothing has to be duplicated:
+//   1. ENGRAM_URL   — a full override, if someone points at a remote engram
+//   2. ENGRAM_BIND  — the SAME var launchd already sets for the engram itself
+//                     (ai.neuron.engram.plist: ENGRAM_BIND=":8742"). Reusing it
+//                     means the port lives in exactly one place; change the
+//                     plist and the wrapper follows instead of silently drifting.
+//   3. ":8742"      — last-resort default, matching the shipped plist.
+fn engram_url() -> String {
+    let u: String = env("ENGRAM_URL")
+    if !str_eq(u, "") { return u }
+    let bind: String = env("ENGRAM_BIND")
+    let b: String = if str_eq(bind, "") { ":8742" } else { bind }
+    // ENGRAM_BIND is ":8742" or "0.0.0.0:8742" — take whatever follows the colon.
+    let idx: Int = str_last_index_of(b, ":")
+    let port: String = if idx < 0 { b } else { str_slice(b, idx + 1, str_len(b)) }
+    return "http://127.0.0.1:" + port
+}
+
+// engram_key — the engram's API key, read from the SAME env var launchd sets on
+// the engram itself (ai.neuron.engram.plist: ENGRAM_API_KEY). The engram's
+// check_auth_ok() lets GETs through unauthenticated but requires mutating POSTs
+// to carry "_auth":"<key>" in the JSON body (it cannot read request headers yet).
+// Returns "" when unset, which is also when the engram disables auth entirely.
+fn engram_key() -> String {
+    return env("ENGRAM_API_KEY")
+}
+
+// auth_field — the leading "_auth":"...", fragment for a POST body, or "" when
+// no key is configured. Kept as a helper so no call site hand-rolls the JSON.
+fn auth_field() -> String {
+    let k: String = engram_key()
+    if str_eq(k, "") { return "" }
+    return "\"_auth\":\"" + json_escape(k) + "\","
+}
+
 // neuron_url — base for all /api/neuron/* cognitive routes on the soul
 fn neuron_url() -> String {
     return soul_url() + "/api/neuron"
@@ -999,14 +1039,24 @@ fn aperture_depth(args: String) -> Int {
     return if ad > 0 { ad } else { 1 }
 }
 
-// agentic_result — pass a real cognition response through; otherwise return an
-// honest "not yet primed" envelope (Layer-2 lights up on cognition promotion).
+// agentic_result — pass the engram's real response through, verbatim.
+//
+// HISTORY (2026-08-15): this function used to inspect the response for ""/"not
+// found"/"geometry unavailable"/"not registered" and, on any of them, return a
+// confident "status":"pending-cognition-promotion" envelope claiming the
+// cognition build had not been promoted yet. That diagnosis was FABRICATED — it
+// never checked any promotion state. The real cause was that op_think and
+// friends called the SOUL (neuron_url()) on paths the soul does not serve, so
+// every call 404'd and got relabelled as a promotion gap. Cognition was live and
+// answering on the engram the whole time (:8742/api/think returns a real 768-dim
+// geometry). Multiple agents were sent down the wrong road by that message.
+//
+// Rule going forward: never invent a cause. Pass the real error through — an
+// empty response or a 404 is reported as exactly that, so the next reader sees
+// the actual failure instead of a reassuring story about it.
 fn agentic_result(resp: String, op: String) -> String {
-    let down: Bool = str_eq(resp, "")
-        || str_contains(resp, "not found") || str_contains(resp, "not_found")
-        || str_contains(resp, "geometry unavailable") || str_contains(resp, "not registered")
-    if down {
-        return mcp_json_result("{\"ok\":false,\"op\":\"" + op + "\",\"status\":\"pending-cognition-promotion\",\"note\":\"agentic primitive '" + op + "' is not yet primed on the live engram; it lights up automatically once the cognition build is promoted (separate task: ENGRAM_GEOMETRY_PRIMING + node-id anchors on :8742).\"}")
+    if str_eq(resp, "") {
+        return mcp_json_result("{\"ok\":false,\"op\":\"" + op + "\",\"error\":\"empty response from engram\",\"endpoint\":\"" + engram_url() + "\"}")
     }
     return mcp_json_result(resp)
 }
@@ -1098,14 +1148,21 @@ fn op_supersede(args: String) -> String {
     return evolve_by_supersede(args, nt)
 }
 
-// ── Layer 2 — agentic primitives (pending cognition promotion) ────────────────
+// ── Layer 2 — agentic primitives (LIVE on the engram, :8742) ──────────────────
+// Each op maps to a real route in engram/src/server.el. Methods and parameter
+// styles differ per route and are NOT uniform — they match the handlers exactly:
+//   think   GET  /api/think?seeds=&faculty=        -> engram_think_json
+//   attend  POST /api/attend {node,observer,salience} -> engram_attend_json
+//   assert  GET  /api/assert?claim=&for_whom=&floor=  -> engram_assert_json
+//   ground  POST /api/ground {claim,evidence,for_whom} -> engram_ground_json
+//   learn   POST /api/correspondence-beat {seeds,faculty,keystone}
 
 fn op_think(args: String) -> String {
     let seeds: String = json_get_string(args, "seeds")
     if str_eq(seeds, "") { return mcp_text_result("error: think requires 'seeds' (node-id anchors, comma-separated)") }
     let f_raw: String = json_get_string(args, "faculty")
     let f: String = if str_eq(f_raw, "") { "reason" } else { f_raw }
-    let resp: String = http_get(neuron_url() + "/think?seeds=" + seeds + "&faculty=" + f)
+    let resp: String = http_get(engram_url() + "/api/think?seeds=" + __url_encode(seeds) + "&faculty=" + __url_encode(f))
     return agentic_result(resp, "think")
 }
 
@@ -1114,8 +1171,8 @@ fn op_attend(args: String) -> String {
     if str_eq(node, "") { return mcp_text_result("error: attend requires 'node' (region node-id)") }
     let observer: String = json_get_string(args, "observer")
     let salience: String = json_get_string(args, "salience")
-    let body: String = "{\"node\":\"" + node + "\",\"observer\":\"" + json_escape(observer) + "\",\"salience\":\"" + json_escape(salience) + "\"}"
-    let resp: String = http_post_json(neuron_url() + "/attend", body)
+    let body: String = "{" + auth_field() + "\"node\":\"" + node + "\",\"observer\":\"" + json_escape(observer) + "\",\"salience\":\"" + json_escape(salience) + "\"}"
+    let resp: String = http_post_json(engram_url() + "/api/attend", body)
     return agentic_result(resp, "attend")
 }
 
@@ -1124,8 +1181,10 @@ fn op_assert(args: String) -> String {
     if str_eq(claim, "") { return mcp_text_result("error: assert requires 'claim'") }
     let for_whom: String = json_get_string(args, "for_whom")
     let floor: String = json_get_string(args, "floor")
-    let body: String = "{\"claim\":\"" + json_escape(claim) + "\",\"for_whom\":\"" + json_escape(for_whom) + "\",\"floor\":\"" + json_escape(floor) + "\"}"
-    let resp: String = http_post_json(neuron_url() + "/assert", body)
+    // GET with query params — engram's route_assert reads query_param(), not the body.
+    let resp: String = http_get(engram_url() + "/api/assert?claim=" + __url_encode(claim)
+                                + "&for_whom=" + __url_encode(for_whom)
+                                + "&floor=" + __url_encode(floor))
     return agentic_result(resp, "assert")
 }
 
@@ -1136,8 +1195,8 @@ fn op_ground(args: String) -> String {
         return mcp_text_result("error: ground requires 'claim' and 'evidence' (node-id regions)")
     }
     let for_whom: String = json_get_string(args, "for_whom")
-    let body: String = "{\"claim\":\"" + claim + "\",\"evidence\":\"" + evidence + "\",\"for_whom\":\"" + json_escape(for_whom) + "\"}"
-    let resp: String = http_post_json(neuron_url() + "/ground", body)
+    let body: String = "{" + auth_field() + "\"claim\":\"" + claim + "\",\"evidence\":\"" + evidence + "\",\"for_whom\":\"" + json_escape(for_whom) + "\"}"
+    let resp: String = http_post_json(engram_url() + "/api/ground", body)
     return agentic_result(resp, "ground")
 }
 
@@ -1147,8 +1206,9 @@ fn op_learn(args: String) -> String {
     let f_raw: String = json_get_string(args, "faculty")
     let f: String = if str_eq(f_raw, "") { "induce" } else { f_raw }
     let keystone: String = json_get_string(args, "keystone")
-    let body: String = "{\"seeds\":\"" + seeds + "\",\"faculty\":\"" + f + "\",\"keystone\":\"" + json_escape(keystone) + "\"}"
-    let resp: String = http_post_json(neuron_url() + "/learn", body)
+    let body: String = "{" + auth_field() + "\"seeds\":\"" + seeds + "\",\"faculty\":\"" + f + "\",\"keystone\":\"" + json_escape(keystone) + "\"}"
+    // learn IS the correspondence-beat — that is the route's real name.
+    let resp: String = http_post_json(engram_url() + "/api/correspondence-beat", body)
     return agentic_result(resp, "learn")
 }
 

memory.elh

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn tier_working() -> String
-extern fn tier_episodic() -> String
-extern fn tier_canonical() -> String
-extern fn mem_store(content: String, label: String, tags: String) -> String
-extern fn mem_remember(content: String, tags: String) -> String
-extern fn mem_recall(query: String, depth: Int) -> String
-extern fn mem_search(query: String, limit: Int) -> String
-extern fn mem_strengthen(node_id: String) -> Void
-extern fn mem_tombstone(node_id: String) -> String
-extern fn mem_forget(node_id: String) -> Void
-extern fn mem_consolidate() -> String
-extern fn mem_save(path: String) -> Void
-extern fn mem_load(path: String) -> Void
-extern fn mem_boot_count_get() -> Int
-extern fn mem_boot_count_inc() -> Int
-extern fn mem_emit_state_event(trigger: String, kind: String, content: String) -> String

neuron-api.elh

@@ -1,54 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn is_protected_node(id: String) -> Bool
-extern fn api_err_protected(id: String) -> String
-extern fn api_json_escape(s: String) -> String
-extern fn api_query_param(path: String, key: String) -> String
-extern fn api_query_int(path: String, key: String, default_val: Int) -> Int
-extern fn api_ok(extra: String) -> String
-extern fn api_err(msg: String) -> String
-extern fn api_nonempty(s: String) -> Bool
-extern fn api_or_empty(s: String) -> String
-extern fn api_num_or_zero(obj: String, key: String) -> String
-extern fn api_utf8_trunc(s: String, n: Int) -> String
-extern fn api_compact_node(node: String, snip: Int) -> String
-extern fn api_compact_node_array(raw: String, max_items: Int, snip: Int) -> String
-extern fn api_compact_activated(raw: String, max_items: Int, snip: Int) -> String
-extern fn api_float_or(obj: String, key: String, dflt: Float) -> Float
-extern fn api_neigh_better(a: String, b: String) -> Bool
-extern fn api_neigh_rank(raw: String, n: Int, i: Int) -> Int
-extern fn api_neigh_full(node: String, edge: String, el: String, snip: Int) -> String
-extern fn api_neigh_pointer(node: String, edge: String, el: String) -> String
-extern fn api_compact_neighbors(raw: String, k_content: Int, snip: Int) -> String
-extern fn api_persisted(id: String) -> Bool
-extern fn api_not_persisted(id: String) -> String
-extern fn tombstone_node(id: String) -> String
-extern fn tombstoned_id_set() -> String
-extern fn memory_hide_tombstoned(raw: String, path: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_begin_session(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_compile_ctx(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_remember(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_node_create(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_node_delete(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_node_update(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_recall(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_search_knowledge(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_browse_knowledge(path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_capture_knowledge(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_evolve_knowledge(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_promote_knowledge(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_browse_processes(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_define_process(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_log_state_event(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_list_state_events(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_inspect_config(path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_tune_config(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_inspect_graph(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_link_entities(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_forget(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_evolve_memory(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_memory_delete(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_memory_update(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_cultivate(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_list_typed(node_type: String, path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_consolidate(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_api_structural_audit(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String

neuron-dev-setup/README.md

@@ -7,6 +7,49 @@ speak MCP to Claude Code. Will's personal automations (catalyst, telegram,
 vessels, studio, self-review, world-integrator, council, compressor, snapshots,
 act-runner, …) are **deliberately excluded**.
 
+> ## ⚠ Six of those "personal automations" are one missing subsystem — 2026-08-16
+>
+> Authority: `foundation/el/lang/spec/correspondence-and-censorship.md` §7 (branch
+> `design/correspondence-and-censorship`), transcribed with the full measured inventory in
+> `docs/architecture/06-cognitive-architecture.md` §12.4.
+>
+> The exclusion above and the fuller list further down are **correct as a packaging decision** — a fresh dev
+> does not want Will's laptop's automations. But they are also a **census of a fragmentation**, and it should
+> not be read as a list of unrelated conveniences. Consolidation had no owner, so it was implemented at every
+> site that needed a piece of it. **Every name in the set is a consolidation verb** — compress, cultivate,
+> digest, integrate, review, reify, beat.
+>
+> Measured 2026-08-16 from `~/Library/LaunchAgents`:
+>
+> | agent | what it runs | when | language | is it consolidation? |
+> |---|---|---|---|---|
+> | `ai.neuron.compressor` | `council/compressor_service.py --port 7772` | `KeepAlive`, resident | **Python, outside el** | **yes** |
+> | `ai.neuron.council` | `council/council_service.py --port 7771` | `KeepAlive`, resident | **Python, outside el** | **yes** (and a write-refusal — see `council/README.md`) |
+> | `ai.neuron.cultivation-digest` | `tools/cultivation-digest.sh` | **23:55** | shell | **yes** |
+> | `ai.neuron.world-integrator` | `products/world-ingestor/integrator/run.py` | **06:00** | **Python, outside el** | **yes** |
+> | `ai.neuron.self-review` | `~/.neuron/bin/self-review-launch.sh` | **08:30** | shell → CLI | **yes** |
+> | `ai.neuron.engram-tick` | pokes `POST /api/tick` via `~/.neuron/bin/engram-tick.sh` | `StartInterval = 600` | shell | **yes** |
+> | `ai.neuron.engram-backup` | `~/.neuron/bin/engram-backup.sh` | `StartInterval = 3600` | shell | no — **ops/backup** |
+> | `ai.neuron.snapshot-backup` | `~/.neuron/bin/snapshot-backup.sh` | `StartInterval = 900` | shell | no — **ops/backup** |
+> | `ai.neuron.act-runner-watchdog` | `act-runner-watchdog.sh` | `StartInterval = 120` | shell | no — **ops/CI** |
+>
+> **The last three times — 23:55, 06:00, 08:30 — are a sleep cycle implemented as launchd
+> `StartCalendarInterval` entries.** Someone understood it was consolidation and expressed it as three
+> unrelated scheduled scripts in three languages, none aware of each other. Three of the six run in **Python,
+> outside el**, so part of Neuron's consolidation does not run on his own substrate and cannot touch the
+> geometry at all.
+>
+> **Consolidation is ambient, not scheduled. A brain has no cron job.** *(Precisely: it is not cron either —
+> `crontab -l` has **zero** neuron entries. Every neuron schedule here is launchd.)* **The presence of a
+> ticker is the diagnostic:** every `StartInterval`, every `Hour`/`Minute`, every POST-to-beat marks a place
+> where an intrinsic rhythm was replaced by an external clock. The one fragment with the **correct** shape is
+> `soul.el:731`'s continuous in-process `awareness_run()` loop, which is inside the core stack this repo does
+> install — and it is the shape the six above fold *into*.
+>
+> **Nothing here changes what this repo installs.** The core stack stays four services. The note exists so the
+> exclusion list is not mistaken for a statement that these six are optional extras rather than one subsystem
+> that never got built.
+
 ```
   ┌─────────────┐        ┌──────────────┐
   │  soul :7770 │ ─────► │ engram :8742 │     the mind ──► its memory substrate

routes.el

@@ -420,14 +420,23 @@ fn r_api_graph_nodes(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String {
 
 @route("/api/graph/edges", "GET", "exact") @manager
 fn r_api_graph_edges(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String {
-    // TODO(reliability #8): engram_save races with awareness loop mem_save().
-    // Both now use atomic write-to-temp+rename (el_runtime.c). Serialised
-    // by engram_global_mu. Future: add engram_edges_json() builtin.
-    let snap_path: String = env("HOME") + "/.neuron/engram/snapshot.json"
-    engram_save(snap_path)
-    let snap: String = fs_read(snap_path)
-    let edges_raw: String = json_get_raw(snap, "edges")
-    return if str_eq(edges_raw, "") { "[]" } else { edges_raw }
+    // Reads edges straight from the store. No file is written or read.
+    //
+    // This route used to engram_save() the ENTIRE graph over
+    // ~/.neuron/engram/snapshot.json — the engram server's CANONICAL store —
+    // and then fs_read it back, just to answer a read query. Two defects in
+    // one line: a READ route clobbering the persistence owner's canonical
+    // file (the defect fixed once already, then reintroduced when the
+    // hand-written dispatch block was replaced by @route dispatch and the
+    // unfixed copy is the one that survived), and a 128 MB serialize +
+    // reread + parse per request. Calling it on 2026-08-15 overwrote the
+    // canonical snapshot and preceded an engram crash loop.
+    //
+    // engram_edges_json is the builtin the old TODO here asked for. Bounded
+    // by default (1000) — the unbounded whole-graph read is what fell over.
+    let lim: Int = api_query_int(path, "limit", 1000)
+    let off: Int = api_query_int(path, "offset", 0)
+    return engram_edges_json(lim, off)
 }
 
 // ── GET /api/chat — legacy probe interface; body may be empty ───────────────
@@ -445,7 +454,7 @@ fn r_chat_get(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String {
     } else if agentic_flag {
         handle_chat_agentic(body)
     } else {
-        let screened_reply: String = layered_cycle(eff_msg)
+        let screened_reply: String = layered_cycle(eff_msg, json_get(body, "session_id"), is_utility_request(body, json_get(body, "session_id")))
         screened_reply
     }
     auto_persist(body, reply)
@@ -744,7 +753,7 @@ fn r_chat_post(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String {
     } else if agentic_flag {
         handle_chat_agentic(body)
     } else {
-        let screened_reply: String = layered_cycle(raw_msg)
+        let screened_reply: String = layered_cycle(raw_msg, json_get(body, "session_id"), is_utility_request(body, json_get(body, "session_id")))
         screened_reply
     }
     auto_persist(body, reply)

routes.elh

@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn flag_true(body: String, key: String) -> Bool
-extern fn rate_limit_check(ip: String, path: String) -> String
-extern fn strip_query(path: String) -> String
-extern fn err_404(path: String) -> String
-extern fn err_405(method: String, path: String) -> String
-extern fn route_health() -> String
-extern fn route_lineage() -> String
-extern fn route_imprint_contextual(body: String) -> String
-extern fn route_imprint_user(body: String) -> String
-extern fn route_synthesize(body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_dharma_recv(body: String) -> String
-extern fn connectd_get(suffix: String) -> String
-extern fn connectd_post(suffix: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_request(method: String, path: String, body: String) -> String

safety.elh

@@ -1,29 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn soft_bell_threshold() -> Int
-extern fn hard_bell_threshold() -> Int
-extern fn safety_score_crisis(input: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_score_harm(input: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_score_danger(input: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_score_distress_history(history: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_threat_score(input: String, history: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_screen(input: String, history: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_validate(output: String, action: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_log_bell(level: String, reason: String, input_summary: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_self_harm_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_abuse_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_general_hard_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_threat_to_others_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_soft_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_normalize(message: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_any_match(text: String, phrases_json: String) -> Bool
-extern fn safety_count_match(text: String, phrases_json: String) -> Int
-extern fn safety_positive_phrases() -> String
-extern fn safety_detect_positive_level(message: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_detect_bell_level(message: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_classify_hard_bell(message: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_soft_directive() -> String
-extern fn safety_hard_directive(hard_type: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_augment_system(system: String, user_msg: String) -> String
-extern fn safety_contact_path() -> String
-extern fn handle_safety_contact_get() -> String
-extern fn handle_safety_contact_post(body: String) -> String

sessions.elh

@@ -1,17 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn session_title_from_message(message: String) -> String
-extern fn session_make_content(id: String, title: String, created_at: Int, updated_at: Int, folder: String) -> String
-extern fn session_exists(session_id: String) -> Bool
-extern fn session_create(body: String) -> String
-extern fn session_create_cleanup(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn session_list() -> String
-extern fn session_get(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn session_delete(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn session_update_patch(session_id: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn session_search_entry(node: String) -> String
-extern fn session_search(query: String) -> String
-extern fn session_hist_load(session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn session_hist_save(session_id: String, hist: String) -> Void
-extern fn session_update_meta_timestamp(session_id: String) -> Void
-extern fn session_auto_title(session_id: String, first_message: String) -> Void
-extern fn handle_session_approve(session_id: String, body: String) -> String

soul.el

@@ -584,17 +584,35 @@ println("[soul] boot - cgi=" + soul_cgi_id + " port=" + int_to_str(port))
 
 let using_http_engram: Bool = !str_eq(engram_url_raw, "")
 
-// Always try local snapshot first. If it has content (>50 nodes) it was
-// previously seeded from HTTP Engram and is kept up-to-date by the awareness
-// loop — use it. This preserves sessions and memories across restarts.
-// HTTP Engram is only used for the very first boot (empty/absent snapshot).
-engram_load(snapshot)
-let local_node_count: Int = engram_node_count()
-let snapshot_usable: Bool = local_node_count > 50
-
-if using_http_engram && !snapshot_usable {
-    // First boot or empty/corrupt snapshot: seed from HTTP Engram.
-    println("[soul] engram -> HTTP " + engram_url_raw + " (no local snapshot, first boot)")
+// THE ENGRAM IS THE CANONICAL STORE. The soul's resident graph is a working
+// copy of it, never a rival source of truth.
+//
+// This used to be inverted: "always try local snapshot first... HTTP Engram is
+// only used for the very first boot." The copy outranked the store. Everything
+// that followed is a cost of that one inversion:
+//   - the two graphs drifted (13,479 nodes/74,563 edges in the soul vs
+//     13,425/37,658 in the engram — nearly 2x the edges, silently)
+//   - write-through exists solely to reconcile them, and had never once run
+//   - /api/graph/edges serialized 128 MB to answer a read, because the soul's
+//     copy was not the engram's
+//   - a read route overwrote the engram's canonical snapshot.json with the
+//     soul's divergent copy
+//   - three copies of the same memory: neuron.egm, snapshot.json, soul RAM
+// None of those are features. They are all reconciliation debt.
+//
+// The engram itself already reached this conclusion for its own boot path:
+// "the durable owner is the paged store (neuron.egm + neuron.wal) ...
+// snapshot.json is never read again as the ongoing store. This closes the
+// 'restart reverted to a 17h-old snapshot' data-loss window." The soul kept
+// booting the legacy way the engram had already abandoned, and inherited
+// exactly the data-loss window that comment describes.
+//
+// So in HTTP-engram mode the soul seeds from the engram, EVERY boot, and never
+// consults or writes a local snapshot. The local file is not read even when
+// present — a stale copy that outranks the store is the bug, not a fallback.
+// (File mode, no ENGRAM_URL, is unchanged: there the soul IS the owner.)
+if using_http_engram {
+    println("[soul] engram -> HTTP " + engram_url_raw + " (canonical store; local snapshot ignored)")
     let nodes_json: String = http_get(engram_url_raw + "/api/nodes?limit=10000")
     let edges_json: String = http_get(engram_url_raw + "/api/edges")
     let nodes_part: String = if str_eq(nodes_json, "") { "[]" } else { nodes_json }
@@ -603,9 +621,21 @@ if using_http_engram && !snapshot_usable {
     let tmp_path: String = "/tmp/soul-engram-" + soul_cgi_id + ".json"
     fs_write(tmp_path, snapshot_data)
     engram_load(tmp_path)
-    println("[soul] loaded from HTTP Engram - nodes=" + int_to_str(engram_node_count()) + " edges=" + int_to_str(engram_edge_count()))
+    let seeded: Int = engram_node_count()
+    if seeded < 50 {
+        // Refuse to run blind. An empty seed in HTTP mode means the canonical
+        // store was unreachable or empty; continuing would let the soul rebuild
+        // a divergent graph from nothing, which is how the copies split before.
+        println("[soul] FATAL: engram at " + engram_url_raw + " returned " + int_to_str(seeded)
+                + " nodes. The canonical store is unreachable or empty; refusing to boot on a"
+                + " local copy. Fix the engram, then restart.")
+        exit_program(1)
+    }
+    println("[soul] loaded from engram - nodes=" + int_to_str(seeded) + " edges=" + int_to_str(engram_edge_count()))
 } else {
-    println("[soul] loaded from local snapshot - nodes=" + int_to_str(local_node_count) + " edges=" + int_to_str(engram_edge_count()))
+    engram_load(snapshot)
+    println("[soul] file mode (no ENGRAM_URL) - soul owns the store - nodes="
+            + int_to_str(engram_node_count()) + " edges=" + int_to_str(engram_edge_count()))
 }
 
 load_identity_context()

soul.elh

@@ -1,8 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn init_soul_edges() -> Void
-extern fn ensure_self_canonical_bridge() -> Void
-extern fn aff_try_slot(slot_json: String, aff_7d_ts: Int, acc_key: String) -> Void
-extern fn load_identity_context() -> Void
-extern fn seed_persona_from_env() -> Void
-extern fn emit_session_start_event() -> Void
-extern fn layered_cycle(raw_input: String, session_id: String, utility: Bool) -> String

stewardship.elh

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn steward_log_event(kind: String, detail: String) -> Void
-extern fn steward_get_mission() -> String
-extern fn steward_align(input: String, imprint_id: String) -> String
-extern fn steward_validate_imprint(imprint_id: String, tool_name: String) -> String
-extern fn steward_cgi_check(action: String) -> String
-extern fn steward_fingerprint_session(input: String, session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn extract_dim(content: String, key: String) -> String
-extern fn steward_build_baseline() -> String
-extern fn steward_check_continuity(current_fingerprint: String, session_id: String) -> String
-extern fn steward_session_check(input: String, session_id: String) -> String

studio.elh

@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-// auto-generated by elc --emit-header — do not edit
-extern fn auth_headers(tok: String) -> Map
-extern fn axon_get(path: String) -> String
-extern fn axon_post(path: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_conversations(method: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_config(method: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn dharma_registry() -> String
-extern fn dharma_network_state() -> String
-extern fn handle_dharma(path: String, method: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_tool(path: String, method: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn handle_nlg(path: String, method: String, body: String) -> String
-extern fn render_studio() -> String

tools/build-soul-from-dist.sh

@@ -32,12 +32,27 @@ fi
 
 [ -f "$RUNTIME/el_runtime.c" ] || { echo "pinned runtime missing at $RUNTIME" >&2; exit 2; }
 
+# macOS: Homebrew's openssl@3 is keg-only (never linked into /usr/local or
+# /opt/homebrew directly), so cc/ld cannot find -lssl/-lcrypto without an
+# explicit -L. CI's runner installs libssl-dev system-wide on Ubuntu, so this
+# branch is a no-op there. Discovered 2026-08-15: a plain build on macOS with
+# CI's exact flags fails with "ld: library 'ssl' not found" even though the
+# flags are otherwise correct and CI's own recipe (.gitea/workflows/ci.yaml)
+# links -lssl -lcrypto -lcurl -lpthread -lm, which this script had drifted
+# from (it was missing -lssl -lcrypto entirely).
+SSL_LIBDIR=()
+if [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ] && command -v brew >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  SSL_PREFIX="$(brew --prefix openssl@3 2>/dev/null || true)"
+  [ -n "$SSL_PREFIX" ] && [ -d "$SSL_PREFIX/lib" ] && SSL_LIBDIR=(-L"$SSL_PREFIX/lib")
+fi
+
 echo "[build-from-dist] compiling dist/soul.c with CI's flags"
-cc -O2 -DHAVE_CURL -rdynamic \
+cc -O2 -DHAVE_CURL -rdynamic -fbracket-depth=1024 \
   -I"$RUNTIME" \
   dist/soul.c \
   "$RUNTIME/el_runtime.c" \
-  -lcurl -lpthread -lm \
+  "${SSL_LIBDIR[@]}" \
+  -lssl -lcrypto -lcurl -lpthread -lm \
   -o "$OUT" || { echo "[build-from-dist] COMPILE FAILED" >&2; exit 3; }
 
 # Provenance sidecar: what a deployer checks before installing anything.

tools/regenerate-soul-amalgam.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# regenerate-soul-amalgam.sh — regenerate dist/soul.c from the current .el
+# sources, working around three real elc/elb toolchain gotchas found and
+# root-caused during the 2026-08-15 local-build audit. See AGENTS.md's
+# "Build / regenerate dist/soul.c" section for the full explanation of each.
+#
+# Requires: `elc` (the El compiler, macOS arm64 binary at
+# foundation/el/lang/dist/platform/elc-darwin-arm64) on $PATH as `elc`.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   tools/regenerate-soul-amalgam.sh
+#
+# After it succeeds:
+#   tools/soulc-stamp.sh --write
+#   tools/build-soul-from-dist.sh dist/neuron
+set -euo pipefail
+
+ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
+# soul.el's own `import "../foundation/el/elp/src/elp.el"` assumes neuron and
+# foundation are siblings. True for a normal checkout; FALSE for a
+# `git worktree add .worktrees/<name>` checkout (nested one level deeper) —
+# exactly the layout this audit was run from. Try both before giving up.
+FOUNDATION="$(cd "$ROOT/../foundation" 2>/dev/null && pwd || true)"
+if [ -z "$FOUNDATION" ]; then
+  FOUNDATION="$(cd "$ROOT/../../foundation" 2>/dev/null && pwd || true)"
+fi
+ELP_SRC="${ELP_SRC:-$FOUNDATION/el/elp/src}"
+RUNTIME="$ROOT/vendor/el-runtime/v1.0.0-20260501"
+FLAT="$(mktemp -t flat-soul).el"
+OUT_C="$(mktemp -t flat-soul-out).c"
+
+command -v elc >/dev/null 2>&1 || {
+  echo "regenerate-soul-amalgam: 'elc' not found on \$PATH." >&2
+  echo "  export PATH=\"\$(dirname <path-to>/elc-darwin-arm64):\$PATH\" (symlinked as 'elc')" >&2
+  exit 2
+}
+[ -d "$ELP_SRC" ] || {
+  echo "regenerate-soul-amalgam: elp.el source dir not found at $ELP_SRC" >&2
+  echo "  set ELP_SRC=/path/to/foundation/el/elp/src if 'foundation' isn't a sibling of this repo" >&2
+  exit 2
+}
+[ -f "$RUNTIME/el_runtime.h" ] || {
+  echo "regenerate-soul-amalgam: pinned runtime missing at $RUNTIME" >&2
+  exit 2
+}
+
+# Gotcha #1: stale committed .elh headers silently truncate the build (elc/elb
+# prefer an existing .elh over recompiling its source, with no warning).
+echo "[regen] deleting all *.elh in repo root and dist/ (stale-cache gotcha)"
+find "$ROOT" -maxdepth 2 -iname "*.elh" -delete
+
+> "$FLAT"
+BUF_N=0
+emit_buffer() {
+  # Gotcha #3: elc silently drops the 1-2 top-level fn defs immediately after
+  # any multi-line leading comment block / file-boundary transition when
+  # compiling a flat concatenated file. Two throwaway functions per boundary
+  # absorb the drop; stripped back out of the .c below.
+  BUF_N=$((BUF_N+1)); printf 'fn __amalgam_buf_%d__() -> Int { return 0 }\n' "$BUF_N" >> "$FLAT"
+  BUF_N=$((BUF_N+1)); printf 'fn __amalgam_buf_%d__() -> Int { return 0 }\n' "$BUF_N" >> "$FLAT"
+  echo "" >> "$FLAT"
+}
+add_file() {
+  emit_buffer
+  grep -v '^import ' "$1" >> "$FLAT"
+  echo "" >> "$FLAT"
+}
+
+emit_buffer
+# elp.el's own documented dependency order (see its header comment).
+for f in language-profile.el vocabulary.el morphology.el \
+  morphology-es.el morphology-fr.el morphology-de.el morphology-ru.el \
+  morphology-ja.el morphology-fi.el morphology-ar.el morphology-hi.el \
+  morphology-sw.el morphology-la.el morphology-he.el morphology-grc.el \
+  morphology-ang.el morphology-sa.el morphology-got.el morphology-non.el \
+  morphology-enm.el morphology-pi.el morphology-fro.el morphology-goh.el \
+  morphology-sga.el morphology-txb.el morphology-peo.el morphology-akk.el \
+  morphology-uga.el morphology-egy.el morphology-sux.el morphology-gez.el \
+  morphology-cop.el grammar.el realizer.el semantics.el elp.el; do
+  add_file "$ELP_SRC/$f"
+done
+
+# elb's own reported topological order for this repo's 13 soul modules.
+cd "$ROOT"
+for f in persist.el memory.el safety.el stewardship.el imprint.el \
+  awareness.el chat.el studio.el elp-input.el neuron-api.el sessions.el \
+  routes.el soul.el; do
+  add_file "$f"
+done
+
+echo "[regen] flat source: $FLAT ($(wc -l < "$FLAT" | tr -d ' ') lines)"
+
+# Gotcha #2: elb cannot produce this repo's single-TU dist/soul.c (it does
+# per-module separate compilation, which fails on this codebase's
+# cross-module implicit-declaration style). Use plain elc on the flat file.
+echo "[regen] compiling with elc against the pinned runtime ($RUNTIME)"
+CPATH="$RUNTIME" C_INCLUDE_PATH="$RUNTIME" elc "$FLAT" > "$OUT_C"
+
+echo "[regen] stripping the priming buffer functions back out"
+python3 - "$OUT_C" "$ROOT/dist/soul.c" << 'PYEOF'
+import re, sys
+src, dst = sys.argv[1], sys.argv[2]
+with open(src) as f:
+    content = f.read()
+content = re.sub(r'el_val_t __amalgam_buf_\d+__\(void\);\n', '', content)
+content = re.sub(r'el_val_t __amalgam_buf_\d+__\(void\) \{\n(?:\s*return 0;\n)+\}\n\n', '', content)
+with open(dst, 'w') as f:
+    f.write(content)
+PYEOF
+
+echo "[regen] OK -> dist/soul.c ($(wc -c < "$ROOT/dist/soul.c" | tr -d ' ') bytes)"
+echo "[regen] next: tools/soulc-stamp.sh --write && tools/build-soul-from-dist.sh dist/neuron"
+rm -f "$FLAT" "$OUT_C"