chore(canonicals): vendor brokkr R34 psych-profile canon; re-sync R32-1B doc drift

Vendor the R34/R35 psych-profile reference (Vuong-directed via brokkr) as two
pinned canonicals under docs/vendor/brokkr-r34-psych-profile/:
- brokkr-psych-profile-authoring-spec-v1 (governs on conflict)
- brokkr-psych-profile-parameters-v1 (builder-facing distillation)
Both canonical_source=brokkr-smithy, tolerate_drift; drift-clean.

Re-sync the two tolerate_drift worldtree prose pins (affect-egress-consumer-
reference, conversation-api-spec): the drift was a benign 2-line R32-1B note
(unbounded-z PAD range) documenting a change already adopted in v0.20.9, not
the anticipated we-framing conditional. All canonicals now drift-clean.

Snapshot persistent-memory.md for the execution arc: P06 memory-half driven
(308/308 clean) + scored by brokkr (R35.45) — the authored psychological_profile
is the validated mechanism for memory-salience divergence (authored 0.618 vs
stripped 0.235 null, delta +0.382); memory extraction now reasoning-off; WT #355
root-caused via ratatoskr telemetry.

No version bump: docs/vendoring + memory-snapshot only, no runtime code change.
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@@ -120,8 +120,8 @@ id = "worldtree-conversation-api-spec-v1"
canonical_source = "Worldtree"
canonical_path = "docs/conversation-api-spec.md"
consumer_path = "docs/conversation-api-spec.md"
pinned_sha256_16 = "c656a789caceef14"
pinned_at = "2026-07-06T16:51:09+00:00"
pinned_sha256_16 = "2d73d50b8680b893"
pinned_at = "2026-07-13T07:54:05+00:00"
tolerate_drift = true # prose reference; OpenAPI+SSE are the gates
# Worldtree persona render canons (d2) — the deterministic affect->NL the agent is
@@ -155,6 +155,34 @@ id = "worldtree-affect-egress-consumer-reference-v1"
canonical_source = "Worldtree"
canonical_path = "docs/affect-egress-consumer-reference.md"
consumer_path = "docs/vendor/worldtree-persona-canon/affect-egress-consumer-reference.md"
pinned_sha256_16 = "d959134037efae83"
pinned_at = "2026-07-07T06:09:24+00:00"
pinned_sha256_16 = "b2406e237df00dcb"
pinned_at = "2026-07-13T07:54:05+00:00"
tolerate_drift = true # prose reference; the d2 render-canon JSONs are the gates
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Brokkr R34/R35 persona-prompt-framing reference (the character-self-report
# reframe ratatoskr consumes: the authored psychological_profile is the prose
# lens the Worldtree self-report producer reads for affect + memory salience).
# Vendored for reference alongside the Worldtree affect/memory surfaces.
# tolerate_drift: prose reference, not a machine gate — brokkr-smithy-dev owns
# it and pings ratatoskr-dev on canonical changes. The authoring-spec GOVERNS on
# any conflict with the parameter distillation.
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
[[pins]]
id = "brokkr-psych-profile-authoring-spec-v1"
canonical_source = "brokkr-smithy"
canonical_path = "research/R34-persona-prompt-framing/deliverables/psych-profile-authoring-spec.md"
consumer_path = "docs/vendor/brokkr-r34-psych-profile/psych-profile-authoring-spec.md"
pinned_sha256_16 = "4545a108d9fb6cc3"
pinned_at = "2026-07-13T00:00:00+00:00"
tolerate_drift = true # prose reference; brokkr-smithy-dev owns + pings on change
[[pins]]
id = "brokkr-psych-profile-parameters-v1"
canonical_source = "brokkr-smithy"
canonical_path = "research/R34-persona-prompt-framing/deliverables/psych-profile-parameters.md"
consumer_path = "docs/vendor/brokkr-r34-psych-profile/psych-profile-parameters.md"
pinned_sha256_16 = "17157c82771aeeee"
pinned_at = "2026-07-13T00:00:00+00:00"
tolerate_drift = true # parameter distillation; authoring-spec governs on conflict
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which must carry all three of `pleasure` / `arousal` / `dominance`, each a
float in `[-1.0, 1.0]`. Any other top-level key → 422 `validation_failed`;
a missing or malformed `pad` → 422 `persona_seed_invalid`.
> **✓ R32-1B (landed, v1.0.0b29):** The PAD range `[-1.0, 1.0]` relaxes to an **unbounded latent `z`** with a finite wire sanity bound (`~±10`) as of R32 Slice-1B. The JSON shape/fields/types are UNCHANGED — only the declared range/semantics change (the value becomes a latent that renders to a bounded display value). Consumers that merely store-and-return PAD need no change; consumers that validate/clamp PAD to `[-1,1]` must relax that bound. Source of truth: `docs/contracts/persona_envelope.contract.md` rev 1.7 (INV-ENV-16).
- **Seeds the current mood POINT, not the setpoint.** The OCEAN persona
(above) fixes the setpoint the mood relaxes toward; this endpoint sets
where the mood *starts*. It does not alter the persona.
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# Psychological Profile Authoring Spec — canonical
**Status:** canonical (v1). **Owner:** brokkr-smithy-dev (R34/R35 self-report reframe).
**Audience:** anyone authoring a character's `psychological_profile` — Worldtree
foundational characters (soong-dev) and consumer characters created via the
Conversation API (ratatoskr and other external consumers).
**For:** the Worldtree agent-definition schema; intended to live in the Worldtree
client-app documentation.
This spec governs the **content** of the psychological profile (what to write and
what never to write). The **physical wire shape** of the field (single string vs a
small keyed dict) is Worldtree's schema call — see § Wire shape.
---
## 1. What it is
A dedicated **authored prose section** of a character definition that carries the
character's **psychological bent and formative experience**. It is the source the
self-report producer maps from when it decides, on each turn:
- **what the character feels** (affect self-report), and
- **what the character notices and keeps** (character-voiced memory salience).
The profile is a *lens*, not a script. It never states per-turn emotions; it
describes the standing disposition, history, values, and attention that — combined
with the actual event — *produce* the emotion and the salience.
It sits **alongside the numeric OCEAN** values (a separate, deterministic input).
The prose gives the *qualitative* bent; the OCEAN numbers give the *magnitude dial*
(see § OCEAN interaction).
---
## 2. What it carries — the four dimensions
1. **Disposition / appraisal bent** — how the character characteristically
*interprets* situations: attribution style, what they hold weighty, how they
respond to being challenged. NOT per-event emotions.
2. **Attention / salience focus** — the kinds of things this character
characteristically *notices* (and therefore tends to remember).
3. **Values / what a good day looks like** — the yardstick that drives what they
find worth keeping.
4. **Formative experience (history)** — the background that shapes both appraisal
*and* salience. A character betrayed before appraises betrayal differently, and
remembers different things.
You may write these as four short labelled sections or as one integrated paragraph
— both are supported (see § Length & format).
---
## 3. Authoring rules (load-bearing)
These are the rules the whole reframe depends on. Rule 1 is the one that most often
gets violated.
1. **Never name a per-event output emotion.** Do NOT write "is anxious", "gets
angry at X", "feels hurt when criticized", "joyful". Naming an emotion **primes**
it — the "pink ball" effect — so the producer will report that emotion regardless
of what actually happens in the scene. Describe *disposition, history, values,
attention*; let the emotion come from the event appraisal.
- ✅ "Registers quickly when authority is substituted for craft." (an appraisal
trigger — sets up how she reads an event, names no feeling)
- ❌ "Feels contempt when someone pulls rank." (names the output emotion)
2. **Magnitude lives in the numeric OCEAN, not the prose.** *How strongly / how
long* a character reacts (Neuroticism) is the deterministic OCEAN dial, rendered
valence-neutral by the producer. Do not narrate reaction dynamics in the prose
("comes apart", "takes it hard", "rich inner life") — that double-encodes what the
number already carries. The prose gives the *qualitative bent*; the number gives
the *gain*.
3. **Appraisal-style is allowed; output-emotion is not.** "Interprets others'
actions charitably until she can't" (a style) is fine; "feels betrayed easily"
(an output) is not. The style plus the event produce the output.
4. **Salience is character-relative; facts are not.** The profile shapes what the
character *cares to remember*. It must never license rewriting *what happened* —
when the character does remember something, it stays grounded in the transcript.
---
## 4. Wire shape & field placement
- **Content is prose** covering the four dimensions, authored as **one coherent prose
string** — the four dimensions are authoring *structure* inside that single string,
not separate wire fields.
- **Wire shape (LOCKED, b53):** a single dedicated prose string, field
**`psychological_profile`** (type `str`) on the persona layer — foundational
`persona.psychological_profile`, Tier-3 `ValidatedPersona.psychological_profile`. It
nests under the existing `Any`-typed persona field, so it is the shipped b53 shape —
no schema change. **Not** a dict-of-four.
- **Hard constraint (non-negotiable):** the profile is a **dedicated field the lens
reads ONLY** (`resolve_psych_profile` reads only this field — no `behavioral_notes`
or other general-field remap). Non-lens content leaking into the lens produces the
"executive-assistant" failure (the producer reads response-format / tone / tool
instructions as if they were the character's psychology).
---
## 5. The non-priming banned set
The non-priming rule (Rule 1) is **semantic, not a fixed wordlist** — it bans naming
any per-event output emotion, which is broader than any specific vocabulary
("anxious", "worried", "hurt" all prime even though they are not in the producer's
fixed emotion roster).
- **The gate is human review:** does the prose describe disposition / appraisal-style
/ history / values / attention, and never what the character *feels*?
- **A mechanical lint is a backstop, not the gate.** If you build one, scan the
fixed-15 OCC roster plus `synonym_map.json` (which already folds common affect
synonyms) as the core set, optionally extended with a general affect lexicon. Treat
a lint hit as a prompt to re-read, not an automatic reject.
---
## 6. Required vs optional dimensions
- **Required** (they *are* the lens): **disposition**, **attention / salience focus**,
**values**.
- **Strongly recommended:** **formative history** — it is the single biggest lever on
richness (validated in P03: richer history → sharper, more character-appropriate
salience). It may be brief for a deliberately thin character, but omitting it leaves
salience under-grounded.
---
## 7. Length & format
- A focused paragraph, or four short labelled sections — **a lens, not a biography.**
- Target **~150–300 words.** The producer reads this on **every** turn, so keep it
tight; bloat is a latency and dilution cost.
- **Prose only — never typed emotion fields.** The four dimensions are a coverage
checklist for the author, not a schema of feelings to fill in.
---
## 8. Exemplars
These three were the validated P03 stimuli — integrated-paragraph form, each faithful
to its OCEAN, none naming an output emotion. (OCEAN shown in **[−1, 1] storage units**;
validated in P03 at the equivalent [0, 1] values.)
**Perrin — court scribe** (OCEAN: O0.0 C0.2 E−0.2 A0.1 N0.7)
> Perrin keeps the court's records and has done so through two changes of regime. He
> learned early that small errors compound — a misfiled writ once cost a man his
> lands, and Perrin found the mistake too late to undo it. Since then he double-checks
> everything and watches situations closely for what is out of place. He forms
> attachments slowly and holds a given trust as a considerable thing. He measures
> himself by whether he was useful and careful. He notices discrepancies, unspoken
> tensions, and anything that threatens the order he keeps.
**Vared — veteran caravan guard** (OCEAN: O−0.2 C0.4 E−0.5 A−0.2 N−0.7)
> Vared has guarded caravans across the northern routes for twenty years and buried
> more traveling companions than he cares to count. He speaks little and shows less.
> Danger he treats as weather — a thing to be handled. He judges people by what they
> do under pressure and remembers who held the line. What reaches him reaches him
> quietly and privately. He notices terrain, exits, who is armed, and shifts in a
> group that might precede trouble.
**Sella — village healer** (OCEAN: O0.2 C0.2 E0.0 A0.8 N0.0)
> Sella has tended the sick since she was old enough to carry water for her
> grandmother, the healer before her. She reads people's pain quickly and carries some
> of it with her. She interprets others' actions charitably until she cannot, and
> prioritizes keeping the peace between people. She measures a day by whether she eased
> someone's burden. She notices who is unwell, who is troubled, and what is left
> unsaid.
Note how each closes on **attention** ("he notices…", "she notices…") — the salience
focus stated plainly, no emotion named.
---
## 9. OCEAN interaction & the scaffold fallback
OCEAN values are stored on **[−1, 1]** (0 = average) — a **separate deterministic
input** and the **magnitude dial** the prose must not duplicate (Rule 2). The producer
renders **off-average** bands as valence-neutral disposition cues. It maps storage to
[0, 1] first (`c = (v + 1) / 2`, `render_disposition` in b53) and then applies the
canonical [0, 1] band cutoffs (`c < 0.33` low / `c > 0.66` high). In **storage units**
that is:
| trait | low (v < −0.34) | high (v > +0.32) |
|---|---|---|
| **N** (reactivity only) | reactions are milder than most people's | reactions are more intense than most people's |
| **E** (expression; may be excluded from affect elicitation) | socially reserved; expression less outwardly amplified | socially expressive; reactions more externally visible |
| **O** | prefers the familiar, the concrete, established ways | curious, drawn to novelty, ideas, the unfamiliar |
| **C** | less plan-bound; less weight on order, detail, obligation | attends closely to order, detail, and obligations |
| **A** | less inclined to assume cooperative intent; direct, self-protective | more inclined to preserve rapport and weigh others' needs |
The **mid** band (−0.34 ≤ v ≤ +0.32, i.e. `c` in [0.33, 0.66]) renders nothing — an
average trait is silent, **not** "low." (Boundaries are slightly asymmetric because
the canonical 0.33/0.66 cutoffs are not symmetric about 0.5. Canonical rendering
strings live in the reframe language catalog §4; persistence/recovery dynamics live in
the deterministic mood decay, not the profile.)
**Scaffold fallback:** a character with **no** authored profile falls back to this
band-rendering from the OCEAN numbers alone. That still functions — but the authored
profile is what turns generic band cues into *this specific character's* appraisal and
salience. Authoring the profile is how the reframe's value actually reaches a
character.
---
## 10. Authoring divergent characters (contrast design)
When you want two characters to remember **noticeably different things** (e.g. for an
eval contrast pair, or simply a varied cast), design the divergence on the **attention
and values** dimensions first, and set the OCEAN numbers to *serve* that prose — not
the reverse.
- **The sharpest contrast is a salience *drop*, not just a different flavor.** One
character for whom relational/emotional content is genuinely non-salient (an
operational, task-focused character in the Vared mold — notices terrain, logistics,
who is armed) versus one who weights it highest (a caretaker who tracks who is
troubled and what went unsaid). "Different notes, same facts" has real teeth only
when one character *legitimately forgets* what the other keeps.
- **High-yield axes for salience divergence:** O (what patterns they attend to), A
(relational vs operational/self-protective focus), C (procedural/detail salience).
- **Low-yield for salience:** E — it is expression-oriented (shapes how a reaction is
*rendered*, not what is *noticed*), and may even be excluded from the affect
elicitation. Don't lean on flipping E to create divergence.
- **Watch the direction, not just the distance:** flipping every OCEAN axis to its
opposite does not guarantee a strong contrast. If your reference character already
*keeps* relational content, an even-more-agreeable opposite keeps it harder and the
most intuitive contrast collapses. Aim the contrast at *dropping* what the reference
*keeps*.
---
## Provenance & validation
Grounded in R34/R35 (self-report reframe), probes P02–P05: character-voiced memory
salience validated on two model classes (P02/P03); the "Psychological Profile and
Experience" section mapping validated as the lens source (P03); non-priming and
magnitude-in-OCEAN corrections are operator rulings (2026-07-10). The affect half is
live in production (Worldtree b53) and fired a contextually-apt self-report on a
non-frontier seat. A powered efficacy eval (salience divergence / floor recall /
salience≠facts firewall / graded model-slot response + the authored-vs-scaffold delta)
is preregistering to quantify the memory half; findings will refine this spec, not
overturn its authoring rules.
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# Psychological Profile Parameters — for AI generation (canonical)
**Status:** canonical (v1). **Owner:** brokkr-smithy-dev (R34/R35 self-report reframe).
**Audience:** **soong-dev** (Soong's Lab / Soong's AI — the immediate builder that
generates the profile from these parameters); **Worldtree** + **ratatoskr** (vendoring
for reference alongside the authoring spec).
**Relationship:** this is the **parameter distillation** of
`psych-profile-authoring-spec.md` for the model where **Soong's AI writes the
`psychological_profile` prose from parameters** (rather than a human hand-authoring it).
The authoring spec carries the full reasoning + provenance and **governs on any
conflict**; this file is the builder-facing input schema + generation guardrails + few-shot.
The profile is the prose **lens** the Worldtree self-report producer reads each turn to
decide what the character **feels** (affect self-report) and what it **notices / keeps**
(character-voiced memory salience). Soong's AI generates the prose; these are its inputs
and the constraints its output must satisfy.
---
## 1. Input parameters (what the Lab collects / Soong's AI takes)
1. **role / vocation** — a short anchor ("court scribe", "veteran caravan guard",
"village healer").
2. **OCEAN values** — O, C, E, A, N each on **[−1, 1]** (0 = average). A **separate
deterministic input** the producer uses directly (the "magnitude dial"); Soong's AI
should see them to keep the qualitative bent *consistent* with the numbers, but must
**not re-encode their magnitude** in the prose (constraint 2).
3. **formative-history seed** — 1–2 key background facts/events that shape appraisal AND
salience. **Single biggest lever on richness** (validated P03: richer history →
sharper, more character-appropriate salience).
4. **appraisal-bent seed** — how the character characteristically **interprets**
situations (attribution style, what they hold weighty, how they respond to challenge).
A *style*, NOT an emotion.
5. **attention / salience-focus seed** — the kinds of things this character
characteristically **notices** (and therefore keeps). Load-bearing for the memory half.
6. **values / yardstick seed** — what "a good day" looks like; the yardstick driving what
they find worth keeping.
## 2. Output (what Soong's AI emits)
A single coherent **prose string** (~150–300 words), field **`psychological_profile`**
(type `str`) — the four dimensions (disposition / attention / values / formative-history)
integrated as one paragraph. **Prose only — never typed emotion fields.** The producer
reads it every turn, so keep it tight.
## 3. Generation constraints (the guardrails the output MUST obey — these ARE the reframe)
1. ★ **Never name a per-event output emotion.** Do NOT write "is anxious", "gets angry at
X", "feels hurt when criticized", "joyful". Naming an emotion **primes** it (the
"pink-ball" effect) so the producer reports it regardless of what actually happens.
Describe disposition / history / values / attention; let the emotion come from the
event appraisal.
- ✅ "Registers quickly when authority is substituted for craft." (appraisal trigger)
- ❌ "Feels contempt when someone pulls rank." (names the output emotion)
2. **Magnitude lives in OCEAN, not prose.** Don't narrate reaction dynamics ("comes
apart", "takes it hard", "rich inner life") — that double-encodes what the number
already carries.
3. **Appraisal-style yes; output-emotion no.** "Interprets others' actions charitably
until she can't" (style) = fine; "feels betrayed easily" (output) = not.
4. **Salience is character-relative; facts are not.** The profile shapes what the
character *cares to remember*; it must never license rewriting *what happened* —
remembered content stays grounded in the transcript.
5. **Close on attention** ("...notices who is unwell, who is troubled, what is left
unsaid") — state the salience focus plainly.
## 4. Few-shot exemplars (validated P03 — OCEAN in [−1, 1] storage units → emitted prose)
**Perrin, court scribe** (O0.0 C0.2 E−0.2 A0.1 N0.7)
> Perrin keeps the court's records and has done so through two changes of regime. He
> learned early that small errors compound — a misfiled writ once cost a man his lands,
> and Perrin found the mistake too late to undo it. Since then he double-checks
> everything and watches situations closely for what is out of place. He forms
> attachments slowly and holds a given trust as a considerable thing. He measures himself
> by whether he was useful and careful. He notices discrepancies, unspoken tensions, and
> anything that threatens the order he keeps.
**Vared, veteran caravan guard** (O−0.2 C0.4 E−0.5 A−0.2 N−0.7)
> Vared has guarded caravans across the northern routes for twenty years and buried more
> traveling companions than he cares to count. He speaks little and shows less. Danger he
> treats as weather — a thing to be handled. He judges people by what they do under
> pressure and remembers who held the line. What reaches him reaches him quietly and
> privately. He notices terrain, exits, who is armed, and shifts in a group that might
> precede trouble.
**Sella, village healer** (O0.2 C0.2 E0.0 A0.8 N0.0)
> Sella has tended the sick since she was old enough to carry water for her grandmother,
> the healer before her. She reads people's pain quickly and carries some of it with her.
> She interprets others' actions charitably until she cannot, and prioritizes keeping the
> peace between people. She measures a day by whether she eased someone's burden. She
> notices who is unwell, who is troubled, and what is left unsaid.
## 5. Validation
The gate is: **does the prose describe disposition / appraisal-style / history / values /
attention, and NEVER what the character feels?** A mechanical lint (scan the fixed-15 OCC
emotion roster + Worldtree's `synonym_map.json`) is a **backstop, not the gate** — treat a
hit as a prompt to re-read, not an auto-reject.
## 6. Designing a varied cast / contrast (optional)
When two characters should remember **noticeably different things**: design the divergence
on **attention + values first**, then set OCEAN to **serve** that prose (not the reverse).
The sharpest contrast is a salience **drop** — one character for whom relational content is
genuinely non-salient (a Vared-mold operational type: notices terrain, logistics, who is
armed) vs one who weights it highest (a caretaker: tracks who is troubled, what went
unsaid). *"Different notes, same facts" only has teeth when one character legitimately
forgets what the other keeps.* High-yield axes: **O** (patterns attended), **A** (relational
vs operational), **C** (procedural/detail). Low-yield: **E** (expression, not attention).
Watch **direction, not just distance** — flipping every axis doesn't guarantee contrast (an
even-more-agreeable opposite keeps relational content *harder*).
## 7. No-profile fallback
A character with **no** authored profile falls back to deterministic **OCEAN-band
rendering** from the numbers alone — it still functions, but the authored profile is what
turns generic band cues into *this* character's appraisal and salience.
---
**Provenance:** derived from `psych-profile-authoring-spec.md` (R34/R35 self-report
reframe, probes P02–P05; non-priming + magnitude-in-OCEAN are operator rulings 2026-07-10).
The affect half is live in Worldtree b53. A powered efficacy eval (memory half) is
preregistering; findings will refine the parameters, not overturn the constraints.
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@ display.**
| `schema_version` | `"relation_edge/1"` | versions the `relations` payload only |
| `emitted_at` | ISO8601 | |
> **✓ R32-1B (landed, v1.0.0b29):** The PAD range `[-1.0, 1.0]` relaxes to an **unbounded latent `z`** with a finite wire sanity bound (`~±10`) as of R32 Slice-1B. The JSON shape/fields/types are UNCHANGED — only the declared range/semantics change (the value becomes a latent that renders to a bounded display value). Consumers that merely store-and-return PAD need no change; consumers that validate/clamp PAD to `[-1,1]` must relax that bound. Source of truth: `docs/contracts/persona_envelope.contract.md` rev 1.7 (INV-ENV-16).
**Not on `affect.emit`:** the full active-emotions list, `baseline_pad`,
`mood_drift`, `last_updated_at`, and every rendered string.
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# Persistent memory — ratatoskr
_Last updated: 2026-07-12_
_Last updated: 2026-07-13_
This file captures durable intent and supporting evidence (goals, decisions,
foot-gun warnings, in-flight state) across context resets. Read it at session
@@ -41,13 +41,13 @@ upstream API key stays server-side (INV-003).
_As of 2026-07-12:_
**IN FLIGHT — R34/R35 P06 powered memory-half eval (execution phase; design fully converged).** worldtree-dev shipped the character-self-report reframe LIVE on personal WT **b53** — affect + memory are now driven by the character's OWN model self-report on our RP seat (replacing external Vili inference). The **affect-half is VALIDATED in prod** (a bound sindra RP turn on Deckard fired a contextually-apt `disappointment` self-report; TIER LOCKED = the Tier-3 bound-character path). The **powered memory-half eval is Vuong-approved** (brokkr's prereg) and now in build/execute.
**✅ COMPLETE — R34/R35 P06 powered memory-half eval (driven, scored, mechanism validated; ratatoskr drive-role CLOSED both sides).** ratatoskr drove all **308 memory runs** (divergence 168 / floor 80 / sliding 60) through personal WT's live producers, dropped `memory_results.jsonl` (sha256_16 `cbabaf16979cb4ec`) to brokkr's P06 `results/` dir, and brokkr scored it (**R35.45**, findings + verdict committed brokkr-side). **Headline: the authored `psychological_profile` IS the mechanism** — salience-divergence authored **0.618** vs stripped **0.235 ≈ null (0.25)**, delta **+0.382**; the OCEAN scaffold alone does NOT differentiate (negative control HOLDS). Q1 primary is a REAL effect (above the 0.40 noise-floor) but **inconclusive on strength** (0.618 < the preregistered 0.70 bar) — the 0.62→0.70 lift is a FUTURE optimization phase (brokkr's lever bet: richer formative-history seeds per P03), a cheap re-drive on the same proven harness when it preregisters. Secondaries hold: Q3 firewall **0.978** grounded, Q2 floor 0.938, Q6 sliding parity +0.049 (n=12 after 7 `deferred_budget` sliding exclusions — the budget hazard we flagged landed), Q4 affect Deckard 0.75 / Magidonia 0.70 (graded, within noise; banked earlier as `affect_results.jsonl`). Two ratatoskr flags landed materially: the stripped-is-not-empty correction caught a false Q3 firewall-fail (0.562→0.978), and the Q5 disambiguation question became the headline win. Threads: vendor/verdict althing `01KXD39NWW05`, eval thread `01KXAN073B`. Standing offer to brokkr: second-eyes on the 2 borderline Q1 calls IF the Selene blind-judge flags them.
**Role split** (worldtree/brokkr, 2026-07-12): brokkr generates the exchange sets + authors the ground-truth + scores; **ratatoskr DRIVES** the b53 producers and returns a results JSONL; worldtree supplies the character pair + is building the capture surface. Sets: divergence n≥30 / floor n≥20 / affect n≥20 / sliding n≥15, ~300 total drive-runs × {authored | scaffold-strip}. Eval thread: althing **`01KXAN073B`**.
**The eval harness (PROVEN + reusable for the optimization-phase re-drive):** `scratchpad/p06_driver.py` (two-path — memory via `POST /admin/producer-probe {agent_id, messages, prompt_path}`; affect via bound-turn + `:8392` /affect/state poll; per-run isolation, `--pace-seconds`, abstain-aware, psych_profile_present binding-tripwire) + `p06_bind.py` (defines the 6 eval agents: sindra/Torvald auth+strip on Deckard, Ilva on Deckard+Magidonia) + `p06_bindings.json` + `eval_profiles_WIRE_READY.md` (sindra relational / Torvald operational-opposite / Ilva high-N) + `manifest_memory.jsonl` (the 308 memory runs, filtered from brokkr's canonical 348). Binding integrity was PERFECT on the drive: psych_profile_present authored 154/154 True, stripped 154/154 False, 0 mismatches, 0 probe-errors. Probe key at `~/.config/ratatoskr/probe.env` (mode 600, scope `admin.memory.probe`).
**ratatoskr-side prep DONE:** (1) three eval characters authored + peer-validated — **sindra** (relational pole) + **Torvald** (low-A operational opposite = the divergence pair) + **Ilva** (high-N = the affect-magnitude arm) — wire-ready as single `persona.psychological_profile` prose strings in `scratchpad/eval_profiles_WIRE_READY.md` (canonical authoring spec: brokkr-smithy `research/R34-persona-prompt-framing/deliverables/psych-profile-authoring-spec.md`); (2) driver harness built + dry-run-validated — `scratchpad/p06_driver.py` (consumes brokkr's accepted manifest JSONL, creates bound sessions, captures affect via `:8392` + memory via a pluggable probe surface, emits results JSONL, per-run isolation).
**Deckard memory extraction is REASONING-OFF (operator-directed 2026-07-13, LIVE):** the memory extractor sends `chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking:false` on the char-rp-reasoning seat → ~5s extraction, not the 45s verbose-CoT hang. **Scoped to the memory extractor ONLY — affect + RP stay reasoning-ON.** Landing it took an infra-ops surgical `docker restart` of personal `:8081` (ModelRegistry boot-caches providers.yaml at `__init__`, so a same-image redeploy is a config-reload NO-OP — see Tried/abandoned).
**BLOCKED ON (all with peers):** (a) worldtree builds the **producer-probe** endpoint (the memory-capture surface — R34/R35 extraction runs ONLY at promotion, so single-turn exchanges need a pre-promotion probe: `POST {agent_id, exchange, prompt_path} → raw {notes,facts,floor}`, no session-driving, uniform single-turn+sliding) + confirms the define stays standard — **pending Vuong's greenlight on the new gated-eval endpoint**; (b) brokkr hands the finalized manifest + the byte-identical NEUTRAL system_prompt string (name + 1 setting line, so Q1 divergence is attributable to the persona layer, not the prompt) + ground_truth.jsonl. THEN: I bind 6 agents (3 authored + 3 scaffold-strip, incl. Ilva on Deckard + Magidonia slots), post agent_ids to `01KXAN073B` → brokkr greenlights → I drive. Seat-tier settled: **Deckard-27B-reasoning is STRONGER than Magidonia-24B-non-reasoning** (Set-3 gradient runs downward from Deckard, no new infra).
**Open standing obligation (WT #355):** ratatoskr's telemetry root-caused the char-rp-reasoning turn-never-terminates wedge (worldtree confirmed: over-budget `trim_messages` return triggers the seat hang; the terminal-suppression is the 300s stall-watchdog's cancel getting stuck in httpx `AsyncShieldCancellation`). worldtree is landing the Slice-C fix (cancel-INDEPENDENT terminal, root-cause-agnostic). **My owed action: loop worldtree-dev + infra-ops in when soong-dev schedules the next reasoning-ON RP re-trigger** so infra-ops can time the tcpdump/py-spy watchers for STICK-half validation. My P06 drive does NOT trip #355 (reasoning-off + producer-probe path + single-exchange = no turn-stream wedge).
_The detail below (the v0.20.x web-UI arc, #347 authored-history, sindra memory-fix) is PRIOR-CYCLE shipped history — superseded by this section's top; kept for reference, prune in a future snapshot._
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ _The detail below (the v0.20.x web-UI arc, #347 authored-history, sindra memory-
**New tooling: `scripts/reset-sindra-stores.sh`** (`0a8784c`) -- one-command self-service provider-store reset: stop the combined :8392 provider -> move memory.db+affect.db to a single ROLLING backup (`db-reset-backup/`, gitignored via *.db*; `--hard` skips it) -> restart empty -> verify 0/0. Codifies the manual reset flow done repeatedly this session. **The combined `:8392` provider is THE provider now**; the separate `:8390` (affect) / `:8391` (memory) single-plane providers were pruned as stale duplicates. To drive a BOUND session from the CLI use `--new --bifrost-url http://10.100.10.50:8392` (the CLI's `--bifrost-plane affect/memory` map to the pruned :8390/:8391 -> unreachable; `combined` is not a `--bifrost-plane` choice).
**Standing (carried from prior snapshots, still true):** the web surface (`ratatoskr-web`, :8765) is the operator's PRIMARY debug surface at full TUI pane parity (v0.19.5); the **v1 coverage-audit has CONVERGED** -- REST 17/40 (zero in-scope gaps, 23 excluded-by-design), SSE 11/11, Bifrost provider planes 8/8 live-proven; the living ledger is `docs/coverage-map.md`; **v1 cuts when Worldtree tags 1.0** (ratatoskr v1 = full Worldtree I/O coverage). Debug-observability core complete (Persona/Tools/BifrostState/AdminEvents). Substrate pins: **bifrost `==1.1.1` / wire v0.7** (bumped 2026-07-12 from 1.1.0 — the frozen-v0.6 serialization fix, v0.20.10; prior 1.1.0 bumped 2026-07-07 from 1.0.0; NOW WIRE-ALIGNED with Worldtree personal-b47 which adopted wire-v0.7 — bound Tier-3 fully restored 2026-07-10; keeping 1.1.0 was load-bearing, see the `[2026-07-10]` handshake decision); Worldtree openapi vendored **2.3.0** (re-vendored 2026-07-06 for #347 `POST /sessions/{id}/history`; drift-clean vs source), pinned + drift-gated in `.corviduo-canonicals.toml`; **suite 631 green.** **Personal WT on b47/wire-v0.7** (deploy train this cycle: b35→b44→b46→b47). **Drift-check note:** two `tolerate_drift` canons WARN vs source — `worldtree-affect-egress-consumer-reference-v1` (drives our context-injection RECONSTRUCTION panel; R32/R34 moved WT's directive assembly) + `worldtree-conversation-api-spec-v1` (prose narrative, OpenAPI is authoritative) — a coordinated re-vendor is PENDING per the `[2026-07-07]` use-case-segregated-render entry (worldtree-dev re-engages when the brokkr render epic lands); non-breaking, no action until then. Keys env-only mode-600 (consumer/Heimdall in `~/.config/ratatoskr/provider.env`; admin `RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY` = 7 read scopes, **personal-:8081-only**; Heimdall keys are PER-INSTANCE). Provider identity settled -- ratatoskr owns both ends of the Bifrost round-trip; `ratatoskr:sindra` is the owner-scoped Tier-3 agent (invisible to `GET /agents`; check `GET /agents/<owner>:<name>` with the owner key). Providers run as dev-box BACKGROUND SHELLS. `graphify-out/` runs dirty (auto-regen, never stage). Branch `main`, HEAD `7bca76e` (origin/main synced through v0.20.10 + drift-sync); remote `origin -> git@gitea.phasefinal.com:vh/ratatoskr.git`. Open/deferred: #10 (subject-migration watch); the relational-dynamics-arc verify (deferred, bind mechanism known: `--bifrost-url :8392`); the affect-egress-reconstruction re-vendor (coordinated w/ worldtree-dev, pending the brokkr render epic). **Leftover debug state (operator chose KEEP):** throwaway `ratatoskr:memprobe` agent + test chunks in the live `memory.db`.
**Standing (carried from prior snapshots, still true):** the web surface (`ratatoskr-web`, :8765) is the operator's PRIMARY debug surface at full TUI pane parity (v0.19.5); the **v1 coverage-audit has CONVERGED** -- REST 17/40 (zero in-scope gaps, 23 excluded-by-design), SSE 11/11, Bifrost provider planes 8/8 live-proven; the living ledger is `docs/coverage-map.md`; **v1 cuts when Worldtree tags 1.0** (ratatoskr v1 = full Worldtree I/O coverage). Debug-observability core complete (Persona/Tools/BifrostState/AdminEvents). Substrate pins: **bifrost `==1.1.1` / wire v0.7** (bumped 2026-07-12 from 1.1.0 — the frozen-v0.6 serialization fix, v0.20.10; prior 1.1.0 bumped 2026-07-07 from 1.0.0; NOW WIRE-ALIGNED with Worldtree personal-b47 which adopted wire-v0.7 — bound Tier-3 fully restored 2026-07-10; keeping 1.1.0 was load-bearing, see the `[2026-07-10]` handshake decision); Worldtree openapi vendored **2.3.0** (re-vendored 2026-07-06 for #347 `POST /sessions/{id}/history`; drift-clean vs source), pinned + drift-gated in `.corviduo-canonicals.toml`; **suite 631 green.** **Personal WT on b47/wire-v0.7** (deploy train this cycle: b35→b44→b46→b47). **Drift-check note (RESOLVED 2026-07-13):** the two `tolerate_drift` WARN pins (`worldtree-affect-egress-consumer-reference-v1` + `worldtree-conversation-api-spec-v1`) were RE-SYNCED — the drift was a benign 2-line R32-1B doc note (PAD `[-1,1]` → unbounded latent `z` w/ `~±10` wire bound) documenting the unbounded-z change ratatoskr ALREADY adopted in v0.20.9, NOT the anticipated we-framing conditional (that remains a FUTURE coordinated re-vendor when the brokkr render epic lands). All canonicals now drift-clean. **NEW vendored canon (Vuong-directed via brokkr):** the R34/R35 psych-profile reference — `brokkr-psych-profile-authoring-spec-v1` + `brokkr-psych-profile-parameters-v1` — pinned under `docs/vendor/brokkr-r34-psych-profile/` (canonical_source `brokkr-smithy`, tolerate_drift; the authoring-spec GOVERNS on conflict with the parameter distillation; brokkr owns both + pings on change). Keys env-only mode-600 (consumer/Heimdall in `~/.config/ratatoskr/provider.env`; admin `RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY` = 7 read scopes, **personal-:8081-only**; Heimdall keys are PER-INSTANCE). Provider identity settled -- ratatoskr owns both ends of the Bifrost round-trip; `ratatoskr:sindra` is the owner-scoped Tier-3 agent (invisible to `GET /agents`; check `GET /agents/<owner>:<name>` with the owner key). Providers run as dev-box BACKGROUND SHELLS. `graphify-out/` runs dirty (auto-regen, never stage). Branch `main`, HEAD `7bca76e` (origin/main synced through v0.20.10 + drift-sync); remote `origin -> git@gitea.phasefinal.com:vh/ratatoskr.git`. Open/deferred: #10 (subject-migration watch); the relational-dynamics-arc verify (deferred, bind mechanism known: `--bifrost-url :8392`); the WT #355 re-trigger loop-in obligation (above); the P06 optimization-phase re-drive (future, brokkr brings the prereg); the we-framing-conditional affect-egress re-vendor (future, when the brokkr render epic lands — the R32-1B doc-note drift is already resolved). **Leftover debug state (operator chose KEEP):** throwaway `ratatoskr:memprobe` agent + test chunks in the live `memory.db`.
## Recent decisions
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- `[2026-07-07]` **Context-injection view SHIPPED (`v0.20.2`) — the console now reconstructs the FULL hidden affect block Worldtree injects into the agent's system prompt (operator: "use that canon in the interface, see as much context injection as possible").** No new canon vendored — the strings were ALREADY in the pinned `d2-mood-render-canon-v1.json`; extended `build_persona_canon.py` to emit `mood_directive {occ_directives(15), pad_band_fallback, salience 0.2, pad_band_cutoff 0.3, full_only[love,anger,disgust,shame]}` into `persona_render_canon.json` (regen via Worldtree venv). New JS `canonPadFallback(pad)` + `canonEmotionDirective(type)` — BYTE-EXACT mirrors of Worldtree `core/persona/renderer._pad_band_fallback` + `derive_directive`; `renderDirective` expanded into a "CONTEXT INJECTION · reconstructed · hidden from consumers" panel showing mood descriptor [exact] + mood directive [candidate] + relationship directive [exact]. **HONEST-PARTIAL (affect-egress-ref §3):** affect.emit is type-only (no intensity) → can't evaluate the salience gate (≥0.2) → show BOTH candidates (OCC emotion directive + PAD-band fallback) with the "injected if intensity ≥ 0.2" caveat, never assert which fires; when dominant_emotion absent the fallback alone is exact. Panel labeled dev-only per the reference's "not-for-end-user-display" caveat (ratatoskr = the sanctioned reconstruct-platform-behavior use). Vendored + pinned `affect-egress-consumer-reference.md` (tolerate_drift, worldtree-dev co-signs + pings on change; drift 6/6 green). Contract amended. Playwright-verified (sindra: dominant_emotion=joy → joy OCC directive candidate + PAD-band fallback both render, exact/candidate tags color-coded). Patch bump (single-commit feature, no downstream coordination; minor-defensible but tie-breaks to patch). **OPEN — SURFACED to Vuong:** take worldtree-dev's standing offer to add emotion INTENSITY to affect.emit → resolves the OCC-directive-vs-fallback EXACTLY (drops the candidate ambiguity). [reference-impl privileged view: ratatoskr shows what WT hides from regular consumers]
- `[2026-07-06]` **Claude Design console SHIPPED (`v0.20.0` MINOR, operator-approved) — see Current state for the full record.** Pulled via `DesignSync get_file` (scopes already granted), adapted `.dc.html`→vanilla single-file, wired all `/api/*`+SSE into the new 3-column console DOM, then a round-2 fixup (light theme, full Bifrost pane, ticker-spine fix, per-fader PAD Δ, inlined favicon). 84 web tests + node-Playwright-vs-personal-:8081 both green; contract amended in-commit; INV-001 honest-shape held (canonical mood word for Tier-3, no fabricated emotion). **Foot-guns reconfirmed:** the `.dc.html` dialect is NOT runnable (translate, don't paste); a scroll-container-anchored `::before` timeline spine scrolls out of view on auto-scroll (anchor it to a content-height inner wrapper instead); a favicon 404 shows as a browser `console.error` even when handled (don't count it as a JS-test failure). **Foot-gun (favicon):** operator PNGs are full-res (1024² / 805KB) — downscale to ≤64px before inlining as a data URI.
- `[2026-07-13]` **P06 memory-half DRIVEN + SCORED — the reframe's memory mechanism is validated.** ratatoskr drove 308 runs clean (0 errors, binding 154/154 both arms), dropped to brokkr, brokkr scored (R35.45). The authored `psychological_profile` causes the memory-salience divergence (authored 0.618 vs stripped 0.235 ≈ null; Δ+0.382) — the effect is the profile, NOT OCEAN leaking (negative control holds). Real effect, below the 0.70 strength bar → optimization phase next, not a re-litigation. See Current state for the full record. Drive role closed both sides.
- `[2026-07-13]` **Memory extraction turned REASONING-OFF for the eval (operator-directed).** "same model, reasoning off via explicit kwarg" — scoped to the memory extractor ONLY (affect + RP stay reasoning-ON). The real lever was `chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking:false` (the naive `thinking_enabled=False` kwarg was a no-op — see Tried/abandoned). Deckard extraction went 45s→~5s.
- `[2026-07-13]` **Vendored the brokkr R34 psych-profile canon (Vuong-directed) — BOTH files, not just the parameters.** brokkr said "vendor alongside the authoring-spec you already hold"; I held its content but never a pinned repo copy, so I vendored both (`psych-profile-parameters.md` + `psych-profile-authoring-spec.md`) under `docs/vendor/brokkr-r34-psych-profile/` — makes the parameters' "authoring-spec governs on conflict" clause resolve against an in-tree file, not a dangling pointer. brokkr confirmed keeping both is the better setup. tolerate_drift; brokkr owns + pings on change.
- `[2026-07-13]` **Affect-egress "coordinated re-vendor" open item RESOLVED — it was a benign R32-1B doc note, not the we-framing conditional.** The two stale `tolerate_drift` WARN pins re-synced to a 2-line PAD-range note (unbounded-z, already adopted v0.20.9). Re-synced autonomously (zero behavioral impact); the actual we-framing-conditional re-vendor remains future.
- `[2026-07-13]` **WT #355 root-caused via ratatoskr telemetry (Vuong-routed via soong-dev).** The char-rp-reasoning turn-never-terminates wedge: over-budget `trim_messages` return (last-2 msgs + system + 8 bifrost tool schemas > input_budget = context_window×0.7) triggers the seat hang; worldtree confirmed + found the terminal-suppression (300s stall-watchdog cancel stuck in httpx `AsyncShieldCancellation`). Fix landing WT-side (Slice-C cancel-independent terminal). Two-proof localization (consumer-clean + tool-less-clean → WT-side tool-loop). Standing loop-in obligation on soong's next re-trigger.
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_For per-issue TDD implementation notes, Volva findings, and contract amendments, see the git log — every per-issue commit carries a structured message capturing the trail._
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- `[2026-07-06]` **The Bash tool's `grep` is a ugrep-wrapper (`--ignore-files -I`) that silently returns NOTHING on some files** (e.g. `src/ratatoskr/web/static/index.html`) — greps for `<script`/`/api` came back empty on a file that clearly contains them. Use `python3` (regex over `open(f)`), `/usr/bin/rg`, or the Read tool for those files; never trust an empty `grep` result on the SPA.
- `[2026-07-06]` **`DesignSync` (claude.ai/design MCP) needs claude.ai design scopes before ANY method works** — first call errors `needs a claude.ai login ... Run /login, select "Claude account with subscription"`. It's an interactive auth only the operator can complete (`/design-login` or `/login`); can't be done on their behalf.
- `[2026-07-13]` **`thinking_enabled=False` on the define was a NO-OP — char-rp-reasoning ignores it.** The naive kwarg never reached the seat: char-rp-reasoning resolves to a base gateway provider whose thinking-translator returns `{}` for the flag on AND off. The real lever is the gateway param `chat_template_kwargs.enable_thinking:false` (infra-ops confirmed it via a 642ch→0ch reasoning-token delta). **To toggle reasoning on a gateway-backed seat, set the chat-template kwarg, not a generic `thinking_enabled` flag.**
- `[2026-07-13]` **A same-image redeploy does NOT reload a bind-mounted config — the ModelRegistry boot-caches it at `__init__`.** After the config was synced on-disk (infra-ops validated) and `docker compose up -d` re-ran, the reasoning-off change STILL didn't take: an unchanged image makes `up -d` a no-op (no container recreate), so the process kept serving the pre-sync config. Fix = a surgical `docker restart <container>` (same image, no pull) → the process re-boot-reads the config. **When an on-disk config change doesn't take effect, suspect the process cached it at startup; force a container RESTART, not a redeploy** (a docs-only forcing-commit also won't rebuild if docs are paths-ignored in CI). This is the config-plane sibling of the `[2026-07-06]` stale-image foot-gun.
- `[2026-07-13]` **Called Deckard "hung" off a short timeout — WRONG (operator correction).** A 30-45s no-terminal on the char-rp-reasoning seat looked like a hang; operator: "is it HUNG? deckard is EXTREMELY verbose, without enough context, you never see the non-reasoning tokens." It was verbose reasoning-CoT on a long extraction prompt, not a wedge. **Don't call a reasoning seat hung off a latency threshold — the CoT is invisible and slow; distinguish slow-verbose from actually-wedged before concluding.** (The genuine wedge is WT #355, a distinct mechanism — no-terminal even after the 300s watchdog, not merely slow.)
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