Neuron
2018036bce
Five sites in chat.el read state_get("soul_identity") and splice the result into
the system prompt, beside the voice, security and capability rules:
chat.el:737, 1745, 2620, 3425, 3480
Nothing has written that key since b163fa6. The producer was added 2026-05-02 in
601e0fe and deleted by the awareness refactor days later. Every chat turn since has
built its system prompt with an EMPTY identity section, and nothing reported it.
Found by the #132 state-key gate, which treats a read with no producer as a build
error rather than a silence. That is the entire argument for that gate.
RESTORED VERBATIM, NOT IMPROVED. soul_identity is an env-configurable persona LINE.
It is not soul_identity_context — the graph-derived
[INTELLECTUAL-DNA]/[VALUES]/[MEMORY-PHILOSOPHY] block written at soul.el:184.
Repointing the five reads at that block would have substituted different content and
called it a repair. Whether the chat prompt should ALSO carry the graph-derived block
is a real question and a separate one; it is not smuggled in here.
Verified by the gate that found it: dead reads 6 -> 1, and it now reports the
chat.el baseline entry as STALE — 'entries that no longer match anything; delete
them'. The remaining one is studio.el's soul_principal, untouched by this change.
Rung: BUILT, gate-verified, boots. NOT end-to-end chat-verified — proving the
prompt now carries the line needs a live provider call, which I have not run.
Refs #137, #132
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>