`[2026-07-12]` **Capture-path resolved → a worldtree producer-probe (ratatoskr-caught blocker).** The R34/R35 memory extraction runs ONLY at promotion (idle-10min / session-close / turn≥6), never per-turn — so single-turn eval exchanges have no store to read, and reading the promoted store would confound producer-efficacy with promotion-policy. Fix (worldtree, pending Vuong's greenlight on a new gated-eval endpoint): a dedicated producer-probe returning raw {notes,facts,floor} pre-promotion, decoupled from session state. Affect self-report stays on the proven bound-turn → `:8392` /affect/state path. Also caught + confirmed this arc: (i) the Q1 system_prompt confound → neutral-for-all prompts so divergence is attributable to the persona layer, not the base prompt; (ii) the OCEAN-scale question → storage `[-1,1]` (soong-dev-confirmed), and the b53 producer maps `(v+1)/2 → [0,1]` before the disposition bands, so `[-1,1]` renders correctly = a NON-issue (no mis-render). Standard define (persona + memory:{}), no per-agent promotion config.
