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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