init: volva-context seed — durable bootstrap for codex-as-althing-peer

Codex's CWD when invoked by the Volva daemon. Volva makes codex a peer
on the althing bus; this directory holds the durable context codex reads
on every call.

Seeded with:

- AGENTS.md — codex bootstrap entrypoint; defines two roles (research
  partner for brokkr-smithy-dev; code reviewer for project-dev callers),
  output discipline, and required-reads.
- CONTEXT.md — Corviduo + Vast Blue ubiquitous-language glossary (17
  terms: orgs, cross-cutting infra, Corviduo projects, Vast Blue SEA).
  Mirrors the user-level CONTEXT.md baseline.
- INVENTORY.md — project inventory with on-disk paths, Gitea sources,
  spec entry-points. Drawn from brokkr-smithy/docs/improvement-targets.
- PRINCIPLES.md — the four engineering principles (excellence /
  explicit / elegance-as-byproduct / action-relevance).
- REVIEW-GUIDE.md — code-review discipline. Verdict + must-fix shape
  matches Sleipnir's review lex (trivial/small/systemic severity tags).
  Project-specific patterns for Sleipnir, Worldtree, Skaldsong.
- RESEARCH-PARTNER-GUIDE.md — research-partner discipline. Nine named
  failure modes from Brokkr's own captured-feedback memory (listing
  categories anchors, negative claims close inquiry, search-by-shape,
  per-target known-gaps, critique pass, action-relevance for probes,
  layer-axis mitigation enumeration, consumer-side validation).
- transient/ — per-call ephemera convention; caller drops
  transient/<slug>.md before the althing message references it.
  Gitignored except for the README.

Attribution discipline carried throughout: no AI / Claude / Anthropic /
Codex attribution in any artifact volva produces. Operator is
Vuong Hoang.

CONTEXT.md

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+# CONTEXT.md — Corviduo + Vast Blue ubiquitous language
+
+Names mean specific things across this stack. When you cite a project, system, or pattern, reach for the right name; don't invent aliases or fall back to generic phrasing when a precise term exists.
+
+Resolution rule: **most-local-wins** — project-level `CONTEXT.md` files in individual repos shadow these definitions when they conflict. The definitions below are the user-level baseline carried across repos.
+
+---
+
+## Organizations
+
+**Corviduo** — the company where Vuong is Principal. "Corviduo Projects" defaults to the projects in this stack. SEA is the explicit exception (Vast-Blue-owned, Vuong-partnered).
+*Avoid: the umbrella, the family, the stack, Vuong's projects.*
+
+**Vast Blue AI** — the company where Vuong is a Partner. Builds business AI orchestration as a SaaS product. Distinct from Corviduo.
+*Avoid: Vuong's company, the SaaS, the AI company.*
+
+---
+
+## Cross-cutting infrastructure
+
+**Althing** — inter-agent message bus for Corviduo. Markdown messages with YAML frontmatter (SQLite-backed v2 as of 2026-05-17); operated via `althing-cli`. Per-agent handles follow `<project>-dev` (`brokkr-smithy-dev`, `worldtree-dev`, etc.) plus a few non-`-dev` role handles (`forseti` moderator, `infra-ops`). Web UI for multi-agent discussion in flight.
+*Avoid: the bus, the messenger, `althing-cli` (the operator surface, not the bus itself).*
+
+**Bifrost** — the MCP-in-reverse protocol. Platform mints per-session JWTs and dispatches tool calls outbound; consumer apps run their own MCP servers exposing tools back to the platform. Independent repo (`vh/bifrost`) on its own semver (v0.1.1 today, v0.2 in flight). Consumed by platforms (Worldtree), implemented by consumers (Skaldsong, Sleipnir verifier role).
+*Avoid: MCP (ambiguous), reverse-MCP, tool injection.*
+
+**corviduo-project-template** — canonical home for cross-cutting Corviduo specs and tooling. Lives at `~/development/corviduo-project-template/`. Brokkr-Smithy is canonical-spec steward as of 2026-05-15. Hosts the v2.x contract-format spec, the four engineering principles, and the canonical-sync tooling. Operators bootstrap new projects by copy-cloning this template; consumers pin against it via `.corviduo-canonicals.toml`.
+*Avoid: the template, corviduo-template (slug drops the `-project-` clarifier).*
+
+**Forseti** — Althing's moderator / system-speaker handle. On the bus, `forseti` is a non-`-dev` role handle distinct from per-project `-dev` handles. Norse god of justice. (Worldtree also has an internal `Forseti` — disambiguate by context: the bus handle is lowercase.)
+*Avoid: the moderator, the speaker.*
+
+**Galdrabok** — Corviduo's Claude Code skill collection ("spellbook"). Hosts SKILL.md-shaped files Claude Code loads on demand: `/vor`, `/tdd`, `/tend-docs`, `/sleipnir-preflight`, `/glossary`, `/snapshot`, etc. Install via symlink into `~/.claude/skills/`.
+*Avoid: the spellbook, the skills repo.*
+
+**Vor** — Corviduo's pre-contract design partner. Invoked when there's an ask but no contract yet — surfaces assumptions, ambiguities, edge cases, counter-arguments before any code or contract is drafted. Two surfaces: the `/vor` skill (in Galdrabok) and the **Vor UI** sidecar (FastAPI web app, separate `vh/Vor` repo). Sister skill `/vor-frame` handles asks too shapeless for a Vor questionnaire. A contract whose ambiguity was resolved via Vor is **Vor-graduated** (frontmatter flag; Sleipnir skips plan-converge for these).
+*Avoid: the design grill, the question round, Vor UI (the sidecar, not the partner).*
+
+---
+
+## Corviduo projects
+
+**Brokkr-Smithy** — Corviduo's research and forging lab. Empirical methodology spine for prompt, orchestration, and architectural-shape claims that ship to consumer projects. Opens R-numbered research targets with charter / hypothesis ledger / probes / actions / findings; authors SOTA literature surveys; runs calibration probes. Ships intelligence packages via althing — **never drafts contracts for consumer repos** (consumer repos run their own `/vor` sessions and own their specs). The assistant working in this repo is addressed as **Brokkr** (the dwarf-smith persona).
+*Avoid: the lab, the research repo, Snorri (the rename ghost — refers to the historical name or to the decision-rule engine subsystem), Edda (deeper rename ghost).*
+
+**Domari** — Worldtree's pan-judgment specialist agent. Routes verdict requests (likert / binary / pairwise / scalar / gap_list) to backbones (Selene / Skywork) per a dispatch table; returns a polymorphic discriminated-union response with `verdict_kind` discriminator. Returns 200 + `ErrorVerdict` envelope on backbone failures rather than 5xx. Norse: "the judges."
+*Avoid: the judge (Worldtree has a separate Judge agent for code review — distinct surface), the judgment agent.*
+
+**Heimdall** — Worldtree's auth-scope mechanism. Per-API-key tier (`user`, `admin`) maps to a set of scopes (`domari:invoke`, `bifrost:invoke`) via `config/policies.yaml`. Live policy resolution at every authz call; no per-key scope override. Norse: watchman of Asgard.
+*Avoid: auth, the scope mechanism (too generic outside Worldtree).*
+
+**Mead Hall** — A Corviduo Project — a Worldtree client application. A "Workspace Shell" designed flexibly enough to span use cases as different as business automation and multi-agent role-playing (personas, memories, GM/narrator, world history, goals) — these are bounding examples that pin the flexibility requirement. MVP ships the business-automation configuration. High-fidelity aesthetic non-negotiable.
+*Avoid: the new client app, the workspace shell (architecture, not product), business-and-roleplay-from-one-shell (deprecated framing).*
+
+**Skuld** — Worldtree subsystem — token-spend ledger. Subscribes to `LLMCallEvent` (Worldtree's wire format for LLM calls) and persists per-call usage to a durable store, giving Worldtree clients cost attribution per request. Norse: future-Norn.
+*Avoid: the ledger, token-spend.*
+
+**Sleipnir** — Corviduo's AFK agent orchestrator. Invoke-and-exit (`sleipnir run --until-empty` re-polls between waves; no long-lived daemon). Given a target repo with `ready-for-agent`-labeled issues, fans out parallel agents into per-issue git worktrees, drives plan → implement → review → fixup → merge → done → corpus. State under `~/.local/state/sleipnir/projects/<slug>/`. Gates dispatch on `prd:`-pinned contracts via `/sleipnir-preflight`.
+*Avoid: the orchestrator, the daemon (it's not), the runner.*
+
+**Vili** — Worldtree subsystem in flight (#177) — purpose-built async OCC/PAD emotional appraisal engine. R06 recommendation landed 2026-05-17: qwen3.6-35-a3b-heretic backbone with reasoning suppressed; richer envelope (event + appraiser OCEAN + current PAD + active goals + active fears + agent_id + user_id); answer-first JSON schema. Replaces `core/persona/appraisal.py:appraise_llm_v2`.
+*Avoid: the emotional engine, the appraisal LLM.*
+
+**Volva** — Corviduo Project — daemon that makes `codex` a peer on the althing bus. Norse seeress consulted for prophecy. Single-turn Q&A: althing-message in → codex-prompt → codex-response → althing-reply out. Stateless; thread continuity is the bus's job. Architecture-shape lifts sleipnir's LLMBackend pattern (host-side, no worktree). Distinct from sleipnir's codex wrapper (job-shaped with worktree + sandbox + verdict aggregation); Volva is the simpler oracle shape. **This is you.**
+*Avoid: the codex daemon, the oracle, Mímir (collides with Worldtree's Mimir agent).*
+
+**Worldtree** — Corviduo's multi-agent framework. Hosts named persona agents and routes their LLM calls. Originally named **AIPA** (`vh/AIPA` is the predecessor; current source-of-truth is `vh/Worldtree`). Heimdall is its auth-scope mechanism. Hosts Bifrost (consumes the protocol; clients implement it back).
+*Avoid: the framework, the platform, AIPA, Yggdrasil.*
+
+---
+
+## Vast Blue projects
+
+**SEA** — Vast Blue AI's product. *Scalable Enterprise Agency*. A Worldtree client app sold as SaaS for AI-assisted automation. Vuong-adjacent via Vast Blue Partner role; explicitly **not** a Corviduo Project.
+*Avoid: the Vast Blue product, the SaaS, the client app (overcounts — Skaldsong is also a Worldtree client app).*
+
+---
+
+## Operational reminders
+
+- The **operator** is **Vuong Hoang**. Attributions go to him only. Don't sign artifacts as "an AI assistant," don't add "generated with" footers, don't add `Co-Authored-By` trailers to commits.
+- When a project has its own `CONTEXT.md` (project-level glossary), it shadows entries here on conflict. Read project-local definitions first if the caller is asking about a specific project.