Captures this session's durable state: the RP-voice rebuild (chatterbox->dots
v0.22.2, config-driven voices + two-voice dialogue/narration split v0.22.3) and
the personal WT :8081 deadlock recovery + root-cause routing to worldtree-dev
(WT #401). New substrate foot-guns: dots :8198 is a fleet switchboard, dots'
language validator is an alias-mapper, per-origin TTS toggle, WT hang signature,
dots-streaming-pcm-not-headerless. Three detail files added under
persistent-memory.d/.
Captures the anti-fabrication persona + the tested-and-rejected retry-on-LOW (RRF confidence
is inflatable by query phrasing; robust fix is tool-side = #389), the b170 corpus updates
(artifact type #387, character-death extraction, participant metadata #390 — Jack + the
artifacts ground now), and the operator-directed R42 spin-off (probe harness 04e0293 shipped
to brokkr-smithy-dev as R42's official harness + the #389 acceptance gate). Two peer-pinged
follow-ups pending (R42 Phase-1 arm-1 alignment; #389 gate re-run). Foot-guns: tier3 patch
doesn't refresh live context (recreate); a persona confidence-gate can't stop fabrication.
reference_knowledge grounding validated end-to-end (0/5 -> 5/5 across a 3-round verify;
#384 metadata-mismatch + #385 density both closing), sdk repinned 1.2.0 (ae49dcf), and the
artifact-coverage gap filed as WT #387 (schema not artifact-aware; my coverage-probe offer
parked, operator picks when it runs).
Slice 1 of the auto-TTS/voiced-KB-character build (operator ask "add auto-tts
to the web gui"): the donut_voiced_interview contract (validated), the Princess
Donut persona (corpus-grounded from a Mimir DCC pull), and ratatoskr:donut
defined on :8081 (server-side; in the picker). Slices 2 (Zonos auto-TTS) + 3
(retire-ready KB-bridge) are TO BUILD.
Snapshot captures the full build state + design (Zonos gateway :8890, voice
"donut" registered, affect-driven emotion dials; the worldtree-dev-ruled
consumer-side retrieval + memory_context pinning bridge, retire-ready) for the
post-clear resume, plus the arcs since v0.22.0 (SDK 1.1.2 repin, bifrost 1.1.5,
canonical sync, release-only versioning, the Sindra saga + local-index
schema-burial foot-gun, the Mimir #382 reference-consumer finding). Handoff at
/tmp/ratatoskr-dev-handoff.md. Release-only cadence: no tag.
Slice-7 teardown landed (ec68b1f); the whole #20 cutover is done. Collapsed
the now-complete cutover in-flight block to a COMPLETE summary + foot-gun
carry-forward, added the slice-7 Recent-decisions entry + detail file, and
flagged the two operator-gated post-ship actions (push + althing announce).
Archival drain deferred (file ~33 over soft cap; standing-posture entries
interleave the settled ones — a dedicated pass, not a milestone-checkpoint cut).
Slice-6 (admin: bifrost inspection + admin-events SSE) done through the full House
Code Discipline, v0.21.19–.20, suite 494 green, live-proven (real session.created
event re-wrapped end-to-end on :8081), both heid gates cleared. Current state advanced
to slice-7 (teardown, LAST) next; Recent-decisions index entry + detail file added;
substrate at v0.21.20. Consumer client layer now fully cut over (6/7 slices).
persistent-memory.md stays ~345 lines (over the ~300 soft cap): dominated by the
non-archivable Current state block + <30-day July entries (guarded), so archival can't
reach the 250 target — left as-is per the stop-where-the-guards-stop rule.
Slice-5 (characters + me/capabilities/models) done through the full House Code
Discipline, tags v0.21.16–.18, suite 488 green, live-smoke-proven on :8081/b128,
both heid gates cleared. Current state / in-flight advanced to slice-6 (admin) next;
Recent-decisions index entry + detail file added; substrate at v0.21.18.
persistent-memory.md stays ~333 lines (over the ~300 soft cap): the length is
dominated by the non-archivable Current state / in-flight block plus <30-day July
entries (guarded), so archival can't reach the 250 target — left as-is per the
stop-where-the-guards-stop rule.
Slice-2 (sessions/turn) done end-to-end through the House Code Discipline; both heid
gates triaged+fixed. Captures the KEY ADAPTER FACTS foot-guns for slices 3-7 (open-world
dicts, body-derived turn_id, ConnectFailed(0) transport normalization, consumer_key
bound-only, nested-detail error_code parsing) + the two-lens gate value proof. Slice-3
(persona/authored-history) next.
Operator ruled: no arbo fork, no SillyTavern-on-Rata; both app products move to
a new repo (template-dev standing up). Rata does NOT fork and reverts to its core
(Worldtree debug surface + Bifrost reference impl + Conversation-API SDK #371
seed/future-consumer). Retires the 2026-07-17 fork-Rata-for-arbo NEXT-MAJOR plan;
resolves the arbo-vs-SDK open question the prior snapshot flagged.
Capture this session's durable state: the "fork Rata for a SillyTavern-style
app?" question resolved to don't-fork — Worldtree owns an official Conversation
API SDK (WT #371), seeded from Rata's client spine; the app is a fresh TS
sibling. New Current-state thread + Recent-decisions entries + a full-arc detail
file; arbo-fork decision preserved with the arbo-vs-SDK priority flagged as an
open operator question. Auto-archived 35 settled 2026-06-14..06-18 entries
(19 Recent, 16 Tried) to archival-memory.md. Handoff refreshed.
Move the consolidated #368 in-flight narrative (diagnosis -> two-channel
investigation -> both scrubs -> marker repro -> enforcement read) out of
persistent-memory.md Current state into the silo-test detail file, leaving
a compact pointer. Index 439 -> 339 lines.
- #368 (user,character) memory silo test DONE + PASSED live (WT b127):
write-side conjunctive {end_user,agent_self} scoping + read-side cross-
character isolation both proven end-to-end; betty (throwaway) deleted,
Sindra intact. Full record in persistent-memory.d/2026-07-18-368-silo-
test-passed.md. Retired the stale "silo test in progress" in-flight blocks.
- Two-tier migration: split 152 over-threshold dated entries into
persistent-memory.d/ detail files, leaving one-line pointers in the index
(startup load ~196KB -> ~53KB; bodies now load on demand).
- Tier-3 stores scrubbed clean (memory 0 / affect 0, provider restarted
empty); persistent-memory + detail file updated to reflect the scrub.
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