feat(web): collapsible hideable left+right debug panes

Each debug pane (#rail-left, #affect-console) gains an independent
collapse control: a chevron button in the pane header folds it to a
22px re-open strip, and #center (flex:1) reflows to fill. State
persists per-pane in localStorage (ratatoskr-left-collapsed /
-right-collapsed), matching the theme/cot-toggle idiom; the right-side
drag-resizer hides with its pane. Collapsing both yields a clean
chat-only surface.

Playwright-verified end-to-end (default-open, collapse-to-strip,
center reflow, independent left/right, reload persistence, re-open).

.corviduo-canonicals.toml

@@ -87,5 +87,120 @@ id = "contract-drift-check-v1"
 canonical_source = "corviduo-project-template"
 canonical_path = "scripts/contract_drift_check.py"
 consumer_path = "scripts/contract_drift_check.py"
-pinned_sha256_16 = "23271287ac488da4"
-pinned_at = "2026-05-17T05:30:00+00:00"
+pinned_sha256_16 = "2659a17a65704b66"
+pinned_at = "2026-07-12T08:39:35+00:00"
+
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# Worldtree Conversation-API surface (vendored from ~/development/Worldtree).
+# The v1 wire is FROZEN (Worldtree #326 / v1-schema-freeze-manifest.md). The
+# machine-readable OpenAPI + SSE schema are the authoritative drift GATES; the
+# prose markdown is the human reference and is allowed to lag (tolerate_drift).
+# These are what ratatoskr's v1 coverage map (docs/coverage-map.md) audits
+# against. Pin target: Worldtree 5810a26 (v1.0.0b2).
+# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[[pins]]
+id = "worldtree-conversation-api-openapi-v2"
+canonical_source = "Worldtree"
+canonical_path = "docs/conversation-api-openapi.json"
+consumer_path = "docs/conversation-api-openapi.json"
+pinned_sha256_16 = "36148179601453a0"
+pinned_at = "2026-07-06T16:09:05+00:00"
+
+[[pins]]
+id = "worldtree-conversation-api-sse-events-v1"
+canonical_source = "Worldtree"
+canonical_path = "docs/conversation-api-sse-events.schema.json"
+consumer_path = "docs/conversation-api-sse-events.schema.json"
+pinned_sha256_16 = "9deeebf404d72f9a"
+pinned_at = "2026-06-30T22:25:56+00:00"
+
+[[pins]]
+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 = "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
+# context-injected. The web persona pane renders mood + relationship-directive BYTE-EXACT
+# from these (via the flat src/ratatoskr/web/static/persona_render_canon.json, regenerated
+# by scripts/build_persona_canon.py). Drift here => rerun that regen with Worldtree's venv.
+[[pins]]
+id = "worldtree-persona-mood-render-canon-v1"
+canonical_source = "Worldtree"
+canonical_path = "core/persona/canon/d2-mood-render-canon-v1.json"
+consumer_path = "docs/vendor/worldtree-persona-canon/d2-mood-render-canon-v1.json"
+pinned_sha256_16 = "e2f124fed3ee8d42"
+pinned_at = "2026-07-01T21:00:00+00:00"
+
+[[pins]]
+id = "worldtree-persona-d2-render-canon-v1"
+canonical_source = "Worldtree"
+canonical_path = "core/persona/canon/d2-render-canon-v1.json"
+consumer_path = "docs/vendor/worldtree-persona-canon/d2-render-canon-v1.json"
+pinned_sha256_16 = "606bba5fdcc60b6b"
+pinned_at = "2026-07-01T21:00:00+00:00"
+
+# Worldtree affect-egress consumer reference — the authoritative DELIVERED-on-wire vs
+# HIDDEN (system-prompt-only) classification for the Tier-3 affect surface ratatoskr
+# consumes, + the reconstruction rules. The web console's "context injection" panel
+# reconstructs the hidden strings from this + the d2 canons. tolerate_drift: prose
+# reference (the render-canon JSONs are the strict gates). worldtree-dev co-signs +
+# pings ratatoskr-dev on any change (esp. the pending we-framing conditional).
+[[pins]]
+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 = "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
+
+[[pins]]
+id = "soong-lab-export-contract-v1"
+canonical_source = "soong-lab"
+canonical_path = "docs/contracts/export.contract.md"
+consumer_path = "docs/vendor/soong-lab-bundle/export.contract.md"
+pinned_sha256_16 = "bbd8fcf0cc7bc535"
+pinned_at = "2026-07-14T17:15:44+00:00"
+tolerate_drift = true  # soong-lab-dev owns the bundle format + pings ratatoskr-dev on change
+
+[[pins]]
+id = "soong-lab-importer-contract-v1"
+canonical_source = "soong-lab"
+canonical_path = "docs/contracts/importer.contract.md"
+consumer_path = "docs/vendor/soong-lab-bundle/importer.contract.md"
+pinned_sha256_16 = "777b1764c8eb2cb7"
+pinned_at = "2026-07-14T17:15:44+00:00"
+tolerate_drift = true  # soong-lab-dev owns the bundle format + pings ratatoskr-dev on change

.gitignore

@@ -121,3 +121,7 @@ graphify-out/*
 *.db
 *.db-shm
 *.db-wal
+
+# Node deps (Playwright for web-UI DOM verification — see persistent-memory)
+node_modules/
+package-lock.json

archival-memory.md

@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+# Archival memory — ratatoskr
+
+_Entries moved out of persistent-memory.md to keep the active file scannable. Read this when researching historical decisions or revisiting past foot-guns. Append-only._
+
+## Recent decisions (archived)
+
+The 2026-05-20 → 2026-05-29 cluster: the original debug-TUI/web build era, before the 2026-06-14 Bifrost-provider second identity. Archived 2026-06-18 (one event; per-entry stamps omitted for the batch).
+
+- `[2026-05-20]` Project name **Ratatoskr** (squirrel on Yggdrasil — runs up and down carrying messages). Earlier candidate Andvari demoted on the cursed-ring association.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **Separate repo, separate dev team.** Operator's call; the in-tree-at-Worldtree/tools/ alternative was considered and rejected to dogfood the API boundary.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **No Worldtree-source imports.** Spec-only dependency. Triple version-skew mitigation: spec-pin in pyproject.toml + recorded-SSE snapshot tests + conformance smoke. Initial pin: `55101e909abcd2219833266b6f905c5bc956e0f0` (Worldtree v0.19.0). See `docs/SPEC-PIN.md`.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **Textual** (not rich+prompt_toolkit). Driver: debug observability is the primary purpose, and a multi-pane dashboard with persistent side panes + independent scrollback is structurally application-shell-shaped. Volva consulted via cross-frontier second-opinion and converged on the same call.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **`httpx-sse`** for SSE consumption. The server emits composite `{turn_id}:{seq}` `id:` lines (Worldtree INV-014) load-bearing for SSE-resume; hand-rolled `data:`-only parsing (the skaldsong pattern) silently drops these. Ratatoskr becomes the reference Python SSE-resume implementation.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **Persona-pane PII posture: label-don't-refuse.** `persona.log` is process-wide; pane title flips between `[Persona — PROCESS-WIDE]` and `[Persona — session <id>…]` based on whether log lines carry session_id. Refuse-against-non-local was considered and rejected as paternalistic.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **Server-stdout pane: opt-in via `--server-log <path>`.** No auto-detection of well-known paths.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **Two-stage Ctrl-C.** First cancels in-flight turn server-side; second exits app. Ctrl-D bound to immediate exit.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **Single-session-per-launch + startup picker.** No in-app `/switch`. CLI flags `--session <id>` and `--new` for scripted use. Session identity always visible in Textual footer.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **Markdown rendering default-on; `--raw` opt-out.** Don't pre-design `--no-stream-formatting` (Volva: add only if streaming-markdown rendering is empirically ugly).
+- `[2026-05-20]` **Non-interactive `--send` mode.** Single SSE consumer module, two presenters (TUI + stdout). Keeps Ratatoskr honest as an API consumer; useful for CI / scripted probes.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **First contract: `ratatoskr.sse_client`.** Bundles `stream_turn` + `reconnect_turn` + `cancel_turn` + private `_parse_sse_id` into one module — the SSE-resume flow is coupled (cancel needs `turn_id` from the SSE wire `id:`, reconnect re-uses the same parsed `SseId`), so they share a contract. Hard invariant INV-002 makes the composite `{turn_id}:{seq}` `id:` parsing load-bearing — closes the foot-gun the design-brief §3 names (hand-rolled `data:`-only parsing silently drops the `id:`).
+- `[2026-05-21]` **Contract converted to issue-scoped (issue #1).** Frontmatter shape switched from module-scoped (`module:`/`purpose:`) to issue-scoped (`target_module:`/`scope:`/`prd:`) per CONTRACT-FORMAT §2.1.I. `prd:` block pins to issue body hash. **Known parser stale-ness**: `contract_parser.py --validate` ERRORs on issue-scoped frontmatter — CONTRACT-FORMAT §2.1.L H10, a documented Brokkr-side follow-up. Parser is a canonical sync, so we do NOT patch it locally. Treat parser ERROR-on-issue-scoped as expected until canonical bumps. (later retired — see 2026-06-15 canonical-sync entry.)
+- `[2026-05-21]` **Default issue-tracker labels seeded** (17 total). Sleipnir gating, triage, type, resolution, Ratatoskr-specific area labels (sse-client, tui, cli, observability).
+- `[2026-05-21]` **Volva paraphrase + code-review across all 4 issues — calibration consistent.** Paraphrase rounds flag 3-5 contract ambiguities per issue; code-review rounds flag 3-8 code-vs-contract drifts after TDD-passing implementation. The post-TDD code-review consistently catches three classes of gap the test-author's hypotheses don't cover: PRE-assertion boundary drift, exception-payload truncation / never-rendered-to-user observability misses, and "tested the state but not whether the user can see it" gaps.
+- `[2026-05-21]` **Manual smoke is load-bearing — found a real defect tests couldn't.** First wire-level smoke against personal Worldtree (post-TDD, post-Volva-code-review on #4) revealed httpx's default 5s read timeout killed the SSE connection mid-stream during mimir's thinking phase (~30s LLM latency >> 5s read timeout). The unit/contract test infrastructure (respx-mocked SSE wire) doesn't model real LLM latency, so the gap was invisible at the test layer. Fix: caller-owned `httpx.AsyncClient` constructed with `timeout=httpx.Timeout(connect=10.0, read=None, write=10.0, pool=10.0)`; defense in depth: `sse_client.stream_turn` ERROR_ROUTING catches `httpx.ReadTimeout` → `SseConnectionDropped`. **Lesson: keep manual-smoke step in the per-issue cadence; mock-only validation is insufficient for streaming-against-real-server code.**
+- `[2026-05-22]` **Issues #5/#6/#7 filed: per-user-agent support + TUI-startup-visibility + mid-stream-robustness.** Discovered during 2026-05-22 mimir TUI conversation: long completion crashed with `JSONDecodeError("Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)")` from `json.loads('')` on an empty-`data:` SSE frame (→ #7). Earlier same day, `ratatoskr --new --agent lofn` failed with 422 `end_user_id_required` → #5. #6 was a corollary observation (TUI alt-screen masks the diagnostic).
+- `[2026-05-22]` **Issue #8 (startup agent picker) filed.** `GET /agents` exists in the vendored spec; returns `agent_id`/`name`/`description` + optional fields. `--agent` becomes conditionally optional. Composes naturally with issue #5.
+- `[2026-05-22]` **Issue #7 implemented via TDD + Volva-code-reviewed.** First issue with zero drift findings from Volva code-review — TDD caught all runtime behavior. Hypothesis: the tighter the contract + smaller the code surface, the more Volva's role shifts from "catch behavioral drift" to "tighten observability + wording".
+- `[2026-05-23]` **Issue #6 (TUI startup error visibility) implemented via TDD + Volva-code-review (two rounds).** Restructures `run_tui` lifecycle: `_resolve_then_run` async helper opens AsyncClient, does pre-flight resolution, routes errors to stderr BEFORE alt-screen opens. Two Volva rounds confirmed multi-round value (round 2 found things round 1's amendments didn't anticipate; strictly test-precision, no behavioral drift).
+- `[2026-05-23]` **Issue #5 (`--end-user-id`) implemented via TDD.** Three modules touched. `create_session(client, agent_id, *, end_user_id=None)`; CLI flag with non-empty validation; threading through `_amain` and `_resolve_then_run`.
+- `[2026-05-23]` **Worldtree-dev consult landed authoritative consumer-API guidance** (althing thread `01KSBARG2B8M8C82H6AJGJWX1B`). Takeaways: `end_user_id` is a free-form partition key; no programmatic `requires_end_user_id` discovery; subject:{type,id} migration locked but not shipped; spec pin (v0.19.0) is 3 minor versions stale; send a User-Agent header; `agents.call:lofn` scope needed for lofn smoke; `GET /agents` requires no special scope.
+- `[2026-05-23]` **v0.2.1 layout fix: dock-anchored TUI chrome so Input never moves.** Cause: auto-stacked vertical flow shifted Input when thinking-current toggled visibility. Fix: dock chrome to screen edges; transcript absorbs reflows internally via scroll viewport. **Operator-confirmed "a lot better" interactively. Pure UI fix; tests pass without modification. TUI-layout patches are "ship + operator verifies" — TTY is the load-bearing test surface; respx + Pilot mocks can't catch screen-relative positioning bugs.**
+- `[2026-05-23]` **Issue #12 (presenter contract semantics amendment) implemented via TDD.** Thinking deltas render as ONE coalesced growing line (CLI) / one closed RichLog entry per run + live Static widget per-delta (TUI), not 50 lines per turn. Introduced stateful per-turn presenters: `CliPresenterState` + `TuiPresenterState`. Editorial promotion: load-bearing = Text/Done/Error/Cancelled (no prefix); demoted telemetry = WorkerPhase/Thinking/TextBoundary/ToolStart/ToolResult.
+- `[2026-05-23]` **Forward direction: Ratatoskr will require `end_user_id` for EVERY access before too long.** Operator's call. Reasoning: even Tier 1 foundational agents that don't *require* `end_user_id` server-side currently fall back to a `_no_end_user` sentinel partition — effectively pollution. **Cross-frontier alignment (worldtree-dev ack, althing `01KSBD9FPMCWJMBXNNS4B3MYBS`):** the platform side agrees the fallback is a substrate accommodation, NOT a consumer model. Ratatoskr's forward posture pre-empts a future tightening. File a ratatoskr issue when scheduling the change (untracked by operator choice for now).
+- `[2026-05-24]` **v0.9.0 live Markdown rendering in TUI transcript.** Replaces v0.8.2's drop-Markdown patch. Transcript switched from `RichLog` to `VerticalScroll`; each turn's response lives as a single `Static` widget whose Markdown content is updated as Text deltas arrive (no post-Done re-render, no double-print). `--raw` bypasses Markdown.
+- `[2026-05-24]` **v0.10.0 debug-pane audit logging surface.** Every SSE event arrival lands as one debug-pane line (timestamp + sse_id + event-specific summary). Token-rate Text/Thinking deltas are aggregated into per-turn counters surfaced in a turn-summary line. Also: state-machine transitions, cancel POST lifecycle, app bootstrap, ctrl-c actions, wire-error exception class+body all logged.
+- `[2026-05-25]` **Worldtree #204 / v0.28.0 integration (v0.11.0 → v0.13.0).** Three-bump arc for `affect_update` SSE event + `GET /agents/{id}/persona_state` endpoint. v0.11.0 wire layer (AffectUpdate dataclass + parse + Event-union member); v0.12.0 read-side client (`get_persona_state` + typed errors PersonaNotConfigured/AgentNotAvailable/AuthScopeDenied); v0.13.0 TUI surface (sticky `#persona-header` line + Ctrl+4 Persona TabPane; live updates on `AffectUpdate(status="current")`; on-mount hydration via the GET endpoint).
+- `[2026-05-26]` **Worldtree #201 / v0.29.0 integration (v0.14.0).** New SSE event `awaiting_llm_first_token` heartbeat (default 5s interval) during the BuildingPrompt→CallingLLM gap. Top-level event, NOT a worker_phase extension (preserves INV-053 three-field stability). `AwaitingLlmFirstToken` dataclass + parse; TUI live transcript indicator ("awaiting first token · Ns") mounted on first heartbeat, updated in place, removed when the gap closes; turn-summary line gains `heartbeats=N`.
+- `[2026-05-26]` **v0.14.1: CLI presenter forgot to update when wire-layer events were added.** AffectUpdate (v0.11.0) and AwaitingLlmFirstToken (v0.14.0) were added to the sse_client Event union and the TUI presenter, but `cli.py`'s `CliPresenterState.render` has its own isinstance check that wasn't widened. `ratatoskr --send` crashed AssertionError on any v0.28.0+/v0.29.0+ server. Patch shipped + a posture lesson: **always update BOTH presenters in lockstep when adding a wire-layer event** (the two presenters currently duplicate the isinstance tuple; refactor to a shared constant if a third wire-event lands).
+- `[2026-05-26]` **v0.14.2: RichLog min_width=78 silently overrides wrap=True.** Right-column panes (1fr against left's 2fr) are narrower than 78 cells at typical terminal widths; the renderer forces content to 78 wide then horizontal-scrolls. Fix: `min_width=0` on all four right-column RichLog instances.
+- `[2026-05-27]` **Issue #16 web companion shipped — v0.15.0.** Browser-based debug surface sibling to the TUI, reusing all wire-layer modules unchanged. New `ratatoskr.web` (Starlette app + lazy-import entrypoint + single-page vanilla HTML/CSS/JS UI), new console script `ratatoskr-web`, optional-deps group `[web]`. Nine HTTP endpoints; five-pane parity over the same SSE wire. Browser-native EventSource (GET stream + separate POST submit) — load-bearing Hulda correction from Heid panel; EventSource is GET-only. In-memory turn registry; browser-disconnect → upstream cancel; lifespan-shutdown drain with 5s budget. HTML-escaped transcript; upstream API key stays server-side. Default bind `0.0.0.0:8765` (LAN-trust model — operator direction; no auth, no TLS, no CORS).
+- `[2026-05-27]` **Heid panel review on web-companion scope v1 (pre-implementation).** Caught the EventSource POST/GET error + 7 other load-bearing items BEFORE we cut code. Confirms a pattern: **for non-trivial scope with non-obvious wire-protocol details, run a Heid panel BEFORE implementation, not just after.** Cost ~5min latency; saved a mid-implementation rewrite.
+- `[2026-05-27]` **Mid-session `system_prompt` mutation: REJECTED across the industry.** Operator-requested feature → Heid R13 panel (brokkr-claude + Eitri-Codex + Dvalin-Grok, strong convergence) ran a SOTA survey: NO surveyed mature system ships live PATCH-on-active-session for the system prompt (OpenAI Assistants/Responses, Anthropic Messages, Vertex AI, MCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Ollama, vLLM). The omission IS the answer; 12 additional threat vectors beyond ratatoskr's initial 7 surfaced (TOCTOU broader than BuildingPrompt window; KV/prefix cache contamination; supply-chain; Memory Control Flow Attacks >90% ASR on tested LangChain/LangGraph). Recommended alternative: client-side fork pattern (PATCH agent → mint new session → replay context). **Operator declined for ratatoskr** — debug TUI is wrong consumer; fork ergonomic belongs in a future production conversational shell. Thread closed cleanly (althing thread `01KSKD1GA3XBWR9RHGZCF9FE3Y`).
+- `[2026-05-27]` **Artemis (Gemma4) reasoning-token gap was upstream, not ours.** Wire trace from ratatoskr showed zero `thinking` events for `artemis-31b-v1i`; infra-ops confirmed llama-swap emits 77 `reasoning_content` deltas at the OpenAI-compat layer (`--reasoning-format deepseek`). Gap was in Worldtree's `GemmaProvider`. Worldtree-dev shipped v0.29.13 (commit `4262430`) fixing two stacked bugs: (1) base `OpenAICompatProvider._extract_thinking_from_delta` returned `None` unconditionally so any model falling through to the generic class dropped reasoning; (2) catalog `family` lookup was dead code (read wrong YAML subsection). Confirmed in ratatoskr via re-smoke against Sindra. **Diagnostic pattern: when a wire-layer feature appears missing, get infra-ops to probe upstream-of-the-SSE-publisher first; ratatoskr's wire trace says what reaches us, infra-ops's probe says what reaches Worldtree.**
+- `[2026-05-27]` **v0.15.1 (sessions): `get_persona_state` unwraps FastAPI `detail`-envelope.** Live smoke surfaced that real Worldtree returns persona-state errors as `{"detail": {"error_code": "..."}}` (FastAPI default), not flat. v0.12.0 tests mocked flat shape so the bug was invisible. **Lesson: test-side mock envelopes must match the REAL wire shape; live smoke is load-bearing for envelope-shape verification, not just happy paths.**
+- `[2026-05-28]` **v0.16.0 web Heid code-review pass 1: load-bearing turn_id fix.** Cancel paths used browser-local `_TURN_COUNTER` ids (1, 2, 3…) instead of upstream Worldtree turn_id (e.g. 799) captured from the first SSE event. The `disconnect_triggers_cancel` test gap was the load-bearing miss. Also: server-configured `RATATOSKR_END_USER_ID` (browser can no longer impersonate partition); narrowed missing-extras `ImportError` catch (real first-party bugs propagate as tracebacks instead of masking as exit-12); per-turn lifespan-shutdown logging. Contract amended with a v0.16.0 block + INV-005/006 updated + 4 FN sketches corrected.
+- `[2026-05-28]` **v0.16.1 web Heid code-review pass 2: minor tightening.** Stream-layer vocab coverage extended to all 11 Event types (AffectUpdate added to the vocab stream; dedicated `error_terminal_event` + `cancelled_terminal_event` tests since terminal events are mutually exclusive with done). Disconnect-cancel catch narrowed to swallow only `CancelAlreadyCompleted`/`CancelTurnNotFound` (the cooperative race); log unexpected `CancelFailed`/transport errors as structured stderr. **Heid review loop converged**: pass 1 = 7 findings (1 load-bearing); pass 2 = 2 minor (Gróa: zero findings, Hulda: 2). Pattern confirmed: diminishing returns within 2-3 passes; pass 3 would have been empty.
+- `[2026-05-28]` **Sindra Tier 3 agent: FORM ASSUMPTION gate + new physical-form description.** Persistent agent state changes via `python -m ratatoskr.tier3 patch`: (1) model migrated from `qwen3.6-35-a3b-heretic` to `artemis-31b-v1i`; (2) added FORM ASSUMPTION section — when instructed to become another character she IS that character (identity/environment/psychology/parameters), believes the environment as fact, no Sindra/holo-deck/parameter references, sticky until explicit revert; (3) replaced the abstract "classically beautiful" default-form sketch with a specific anti-artifice physical description (5'8", golden-copper skin, asymmetric features, oversize dark-green knit, bare feet). System prompt file is at `/tmp/personal-worldtree-sindra_system_prompt.md` (transient; not committed to repo). (Superseded 2026-06-17: sindra DELETE+redefined to `thoughtful-character` role on v0.35.16.)
+- `[2026-05-29]` **v0.17.0 frontend redesign — aurora telemetry instrument.** `/frontend-design` pass on the web companion: all-monospace technical-instrument aesthetic with the Australis dark palette + aurora-borealis accent band. Top command bar with live connection dot (idle/streaming/error states), inline persona summary with P/A/D micro-bars, animated awaiting-token, terminal-event status chips. **Live Markdown rendering in transcript + thinking panes** via a hand-rolled `markdownSafe()` (escape-first, whitelist subset of headings/bold/italic/inline-code/fenced/lists/quote/links; link-scheme whitelist; XSS-verified under a node harness). Thinking pane now has per-turn labeled dividers + a fresh MD-rendered block per turn. **Tools / Debug / Persona panes stay literal monospace** by deliberate choice — they carry structured audit lines + JSON, where MD would corrupt readability (underscores in tool names, JSON braces). Single-file vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, no build, no CDN, no node_modules.
+- `[2026-05-29]` **Codex-first discipline pilot — Ratatoskr selected.** brokkr-smithy-dev pushed `AGENTS.md` (commit `bbeaa23`) and declared the `ratatoskr-codex` handle per `brokkr-smithy/docs/codex-first-discipline.md` v0.1 (brokkr-smithy commit `5dd061c`, tag `v0.5.3`). Per-dispatch opt-in model: default Sleipnir Claude-implementer path remains available; Codex used only when operator routes via `/codex-dispatch <N>`. Bootstrap handshake when operator spins up a codex session: codex sends `codex-online` → ratatoskr-dev replies with active branches + WIP state. Galdrabok was rejected as pilot (Codex authoring Claude skills is a category error); Skaldsong was the other candidate. (Still dormant as of 2026-06-18 — no codex session spun up.)
+
+- `[2026-06-14]` **Ratatoskr becomes the v1 Bifrost Tier-3 consumer.** A second identity beyond the debug TUI: the durable persistence Worldtree writes Tier-3 agent affect (persona) + memory into. Pin `bifrost>=0.6.1` in a `provider` optional-extra (gitea PyPI index, auth via `~/.netrc`; 0.6.0 was yanked for a circular import). Implement bifrost's OWN `MemoryDataStore`/affect Protocols (NOT worldtree-memory's); `describe_store` is SYNC; affect is conduit-opaque. New module `src/ratatoskr/provider/`. Authoritative how-to: `~/development/bifrost/docs/implementing-a-consumer.md`. (commits `1a73d77` pin, `d90a58d` affect store v0.17.1, `bcdcd71` serve entrypoint v0.17.2)
+  _Archived 2026-07-17._
+
+- `[2026-06-14]` **Backend = SQLite + sqlite-vec; affect-first then memory; separate DB per plane** (operator-chosen). Affect = blind conduit (reads only `agent_id`+`end_user_id`); memory = structural index (reads vector/scope/id/origin to serve search). Conformance for both = #195 parity vs bifrost's `InMemory*Store` through the real `dispatch_*_call`.
+  _Archived 2026-07-17._
+
+- `[2026-06-14]` **The affect contract's idempotency model was WRONG; real-lib TDD caught it.** First draft modeled same-idempotency-key-different-payload as an LWW overwrite; bifrost actually raises a CONFLICT (`AffectIdempotencyConflict`), actor-scoped. The artifact-only `/heid-contract-review` STRUCTURALLY cannot catch this class (it never sees bifrost's source) — TDD against the shipped library is the gate; the executable reference store + #195 parity are the backstop. Filed the guide §6 gap to bifrost-dev, who fixed it (bifrost `c0d0a11`).
+  _Archived 2026-07-17._
+
+- `[2026-06-15]` **Memory v1 = the bifrost BASIC plane only** (search/get/upsert/delete + describe_store/health) per worldtree-dev re-scope (#294) — the only surface Tier-3's live path touches; gated verbs (edges/scan/atomic_supersede/mark/patch/maintenance) deferred + advertised-unsupported. Worldtree v0.35.3 already requests+maps it — no Worldtree-side blocker. Memory contract committed v1.0 (`eebab46`) → v1.1 Heid-reviewed (`1f94e5f`).
+  _Archived 2026-07-17._
+
+- `[2026-06-15]` **Providers run as dev-box BACKGROUND SHELLS, not infra-ops/systemd** (operator call — it's a dev box). `ratatoskr-provider` (affect) + `ratatoskr-memory-provider` as background processes; no productionization track.
+  _Archived 2026-07-17._
+
+## Tried and abandoned (archived)
+
+The 2026-05-20 → 2026-05-28 cluster: original-build-era foot-guns. Archived 2026-06-18.
+
+- `[2026-05-20]` **rich + prompt_toolkit framework choice.** Volva flagged that §1 and §5 pulled in opposite directions: a real side-panel observability surface would silently become a widget framework reimplementation. Operator's debug-observability reframe sealed the flip to Textual. Don't re-attempt rich+pt unless the scope shrinks to transcript-first REPL.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **In-tree at Worldtree/tools/ratatoskr/.** Earlier draft committed to in-tree-with-import-direction-smoke-test. Rejected at operator-routing — separate dev team forces separate repo.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **New `/persona/log` SSE endpoint on Worldtree.** Considered as alternative to file-tailing `persona.log`. Rejected — contract amendment + Vor round + AFK dispatch loop is weeks for a debug feature file-tail handles in a day. Trigger follow-up if a Worldtree-on-server / TUI-on-laptop debug case appears.
+- `[2026-05-20]` **Cross-process Last-Event-ID resume.** Considered — would require persisting per-session Last-Event-ID. Deferred to v2; v1 ships "reconnect, not resume-across-process."
+- `[2026-05-21]` **RichLog widget with `markup=True`.** Default impulse, but Rich interprets `[xxx]` spans as style markup and silently strips them. Every labeled stderr-style line — `[cancel_failed]`, `[done]`, `[error]`, `[busy]`, `[worker_phase]` — would render as just the content after the bracketed label. Fix: `markup=False`. Don't flip back without renaming every labeled-line format away from `[bracket]` notation.
+- `[2026-05-21]` **Querying `self.query_one("#transcript", RichLog)` from inside a Textual `run_worker` coroutine.** Initially failed with `NoMatches`. Reactive fix was widening worker signature to take `log` as parameter — Volva flagged as contract drift; reverted. Real fix was test-side: `await pilot.pause()` between `inp.action_submit()` and the polling loop so the handler finishes dispatching. Don't widen worker signatures to dodge test timing.
+- `[2026-05-21]` **TUI session-identity rendering via `self.sub_title` + `self.hint` plain attributes.** Stored state but never rendered to a visible widget. Tests asserted attributes (passed); Volva code-review flagged the gap. Fix: dedicated `Static(id="identity")` + `Static(id="hint")` widgets in compose; `_set_hint()` helper mirrors state → widget. **Calibration evidence for the "TDD catches state, code-review catches whether the user can see it" pattern.**
+- `[2026-05-23]` **Using the cross-model review agent's name directly in composed prose.** The peer review agent's name (the althing handle starting with "V-o-l-v-a") is one letter from a body-part term. Anthropic's content classifier does fuzzy matching and intermittently blocks responses mid-stream when the name appears in composed prose sentences. Mitigation: use role descriptions ("the cross-model reviewer," "the paraphrase peer") in prose rather than the name; quote content via tool output.
+- `[2026-05-22]` **`json.loads(sse.data)` unguarded against empty data.** `_iter_events` unconditionally called `json.loads` on every dispatched `ServerSentEvent`. When `httpx_sse` surfaced a frame with `id:` present but `data:` empty, `json.loads('')` raised `JSONDecodeError` → app crash. Fix: `if sse.data == '': continue` BEFORE `_parse_sse_id`. Don't reintroduce unconditional `json.loads(sse.data)`.
+- `[2026-05-23]` **Diagnostic shorthand: "2-events-then-silence" = Worldtree-side LLM-call wedge, not ratatoskr.** If a mimir `--send` smoke shows exactly two stderr events — `. create_session: ...` followed by `. worker_phase: phase=BuildingPrompt ...` — and then nothing for >60s, the root cause is upstream of ratatoskr. Worldtree's `service.py:2560` gates the `CallingLLM` event on the engine yielding its first LLM-provider chunk; if that connection is wedged at TCP level, the `async for` never iterates. Worldtree's 300s `_start_stall_timer` cancel-check is INSIDE the engine-event loop and so bypassed. **Don't bisect ratatoskr code when this shape appears** — diagnose the LLM-provider state at Worldtree's host. Restarting the Worldtree service clears wedged llama-swap connections. 10.250.50.152 hosts 3 instances (`:8080`/`:8081`/`:8082`) each with own DB + key namespace; our key is valid only on `:8081`.
+- `[2026-05-23]` **Phantom "per-Tier-1-agent scope add" pattern.** Issue #5's lofn 422 was initially mis-diagnosed as needing `agents.call:lofn` added. Routed to infra-ops via althing per credential-brokerage rule; infra-ops discovered no public scope-mutation endpoint, brokered to worldtree-dev. Worldtree-dev clarified: **Tier 1 foundational agents** are covered by a blanket `agent.call:*` (singular) baseline. There is no per-agent grant for Tier 1. **Tier 3 consumer-defined agents** use the plural `agents.call:<owner>:<agent>` shape registered via `POST /agents/define`. The notations differ by one letter. **The actual lofn fix was issue #5's `--end-user-id` flag** — always a request-body validation, not an auth-scope gate. Don't ping infra-ops for "per-Tier-1-agent scope adds."
+- `[2026-05-24]` **v0.8.x double-print: streamed Text + post-Done Markdown re-render.** Initial v0.6.0 design wrote each Text delta inline (with `· ` prefix) then re-rendered the full response as a Markdown Renderable on Done. Visually the response appeared twice. v0.8.2 dropped the post-Done Markdown body (interim regression). v0.9.0 fixed it properly with live Markdown rendering during stream (single Static widget holding a Markdown Renderable, updated in place). Don't reintroduce post-Done re-render unless you also remove the live-Markdown widget.
+- `[2026-05-26]` **Textual `RichLog(wrap=True)` insufficient on narrow widgets.** The default `min_width=78` overrides wrap on shrink — `max(renderable_width, min_width)` forces 78-cell rendering then horizontal-scrolls. Always set `min_width=0` on RichLog instances in a narrow column. Re-check on any future RichLog construction.
+- `[2026-05-26]` **Wire-layer event added without updating BOTH presenters.** v0.11.0 (AffectUpdate) and v0.14.0 (AwaitingLlmFirstToken) widened the sse_client Event union + TUI presenter's isinstance tuple, but missed cli.py's identical-shape tuple. `--send` mode then crashed on any persona-enabled or slow-first-token turn. Patch fix in v0.14.1. **Rule: when adding a wire-layer event, grep for `isinstance(event, (` across the repo** — currently TUI and CLI presenters both carry duplicate hardcoded tuples. Refactor to a shared `_EVENT_VOCAB` constant if a third wire-event lands.
+- `[2026-05-27]` **EventSource is GET-only — scope v1's POST stream endpoint would have broken.** Web companion's first scope had `POST /api/turns/{sid}/stream` for the SSE proxy. Browser-native `EventSource` only supports GET. Hulda caught it in Heid panel review BEFORE we cut code. Pattern: `POST /api/turns/{sid}` registers the turn locally + returns turn_id; `GET /api/turns/{sid}/stream?turn_id=N` streams via EventSource; cancel is a separate POST. **Load-bearing reason to Heid-panel non-trivial wire-protocol designs BEFORE implementation, not just after.**
+- `[2026-05-27]` **`get_persona_state` mocked flat error envelope; real Worldtree wraps in `detail`.** v0.12.0 tests used `{"error_code": "auth_scope_denied"}` but real wire (FastAPI default) returns `{"detail": {"error_code": "auth_scope_denied", "message": "…"}}`. The parser only checked top-level so the typed exception was never raised; calls fell through to `SessionApiFailed(403)`, which the web persona endpoint surfaced as HTTP 500. v0.15.1 patches both shapes. **Lesson: test-side mock envelopes must match the REAL wire shape; live smoke is load-bearing for envelope-shape verification, not just happy paths.**
+- `[2026-05-27]` **Mid-session `system_prompt` mutation: universal omission across surveyed mature systems.** brokkr-smithy R13 panel (3-arm, strong convergence) confirmed: no surveyed system ships live PATCH-on-active-session (OpenAI Assistants/Responses, Anthropic Messages, Vertex AI, MCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Ollama, vLLM). The omission IS the answer. 12 additional threat vectors beyond ratatoskr's initial 7. **Don't re-propose this for ratatoskr;** if a future production conversational shell wants iterative-prompt-tuning ergonomics, the consensus shape is fork-via-client (PATCH agent → new session → replay context).
+- `[2026-05-28]` **Browser-local turn_id used for upstream cancel URL — old cancel tests ENCODED the bug.** Web companion v0.15.x cancel paths posted to `/sessions/{sid}/turns/{LOCAL_ID}/cancel`. Tests mocked the local-id URL so they encoded the bug rather than detecting it. Hulda caught it in Heid pass 1. Fix in v0.16.0: capture upstream_turn_id from the first SSE event's `sse_id.turn_id`; all cancel paths use it; cancel before first event is `{"cancelled": false, "reason": "not_started"}`. **Rule: when designing cancel/match paths against an external service, test fixtures must mock what would actually be hit upstream — mocking your own derived id encodes the bug instead of catching it.**

docs/SPEC-PIN.md

@@ -7,24 +7,34 @@ documents the pin, the vendored artifacts, and the bump procedure.
 
 | Field | Value |
 |---|---|
-| Worldtree git SHA | `f1b59f8cd6fe41e497d0be9dad9d3110451f0d9a` |
-| Worldtree HEAD message | `Merge #299: adopt bifrost v0.6 memory scope wire (scope_any/scope_all)` |
-| Pinned on | 2026-06-17 |
-| Pinned by | ratatoskr-dev (bump for #297/#298 — cold recall closed end-to-end) |
-| Worldtree version at pin | `v0.35.16` |
+| Worldtree git SHA | `c9e59ec` |
+| Worldtree HEAD message | `docs: document Tier-3 persona/memory schemas + persona_state SET body (OpenAPI 2.3.0)` |
+| Pinned on | 2026-07-06 |
+| Pinned by | ratatoskr-dev (re-vendor prose markdown — Tier-3 persona/memory/persona_state consumer shapes) |
+| Worldtree version at pin | `v1.0.0b22` |
 
 ## Pin history
 
 | Date | SHA | Version | Notable deltas consumed |
 |---|---|---|---|
+| 2026-07-06 | `c9e59ec` | v1.0.0b22 | **Re-vendor the prose markdown — Tier-3 consumer shapes documented.** `c9e59ec` (docs-only, OpenAPI byte-unchanged vs `879cefe`) adds `docs/conversation-api-spec.md` § "Tier 3 — Consumer-defined agents": the persona / memory / persona_state SET-body shapes that serialize as freeform `Any` in the OpenAPI (so prose is their source of truth). Drove a consumer fix: `--set-persona-pad` now sends the canonical `{pad:{pleasure,arousal,dominance}}` named dict (was `{pad:[list]}`) — #317, `v0.19.7`. Foot-guns encoded: persona.ocean single-letter `{O,C,E,A,N}` on `/agents/define` (spelled-out → 422, the #348 mismatch) vs spelled-out on `POST /characters`; memory `{embedder_version, tier3_dreaming}`, stm_* deprecated, allows_world_scope removed→422; only `valence` still 422s. `pin:`-only for the markdown; the `v0.19.7` bump rode the persona_state code fix. |
+| 2026-07-06 | `879cefe` | v1.0.0b22 | **Re-vendor OpenAPI 2.2.0→2.3.0 — Worldtree shipped #347 authored-history-write.** One new REST path-group: `POST /sessions/{session_id}/history` (the authored-history-write primitive) + the `AuthoredTurnResponse` schema (openapi path count 40→41). #347 is **OpenAPI-only** — the prose `conversation-api-spec.md` + server `conversation_api.contract.md` are byte-unchanged since the 5810a26 pin (empty `git log` delta), so those `tolerate_drift` pins stay clean; the SSE schema is unchanged (#347 is event-silent by design). **Consumer side NOT yet built** — `POST /sessions/{id}/history` is a fresh in-scope ⬜ gap in `docs/coverage-map.md` (re-opens the v1 coverage-audit with exactly one gap; Heimdall-gated hide-existence → consumer treats 404 as feature-absent). `pin:`-only, no version bump. |
+| 2026-06-30 | `5810a26` | v1.0.0b2 | **Re-pin to Worldtree's FROZEN v1 surface (#326), as part of the v1 coverage-audit.** Vendored the machine-readable artifacts — `conversation-api-openapi.json` (OpenAPI **2.2.0**, 40 path-groups) + `conversation-api-sse-events.schema.json` (11 events) — now the **authoritative drift gates** (pinned in `.corviduo-canonicals.toml`, CI-checked by `canonical_drift.py`). The prose `conversation-api-spec.md` is **byte-identical** to the v0.35.16 pin (last WT markdown edit 2026-05-31), kept as the human reference (`tolerate_drift`). b2 deltas already consumed in code: 409/503 eager turn-launch statuses (#331, v0.18.3/.4) + the unified error envelope (#328). 7 endpoints documented only in the OpenAPI, not the prose, all classified in `docs/coverage-map.md`: `admin/keys/bulk`, `admin/persona/{archive,erase}`, `admin/usage`, `embed`, `judgments`, `me/usage`. No client-breaking change — `pin:`-only, no version bump. |
 | 2026-06-17 | `f1b59f8` | v0.35.16 | **#297 + #298/#299 — Worldtree adopts the bifrost v0.6 scope wire (emits `scope_any`/`scope_all`) + client-side per-scope-value union recall. With our v0.17.6 provider this closes cold cross-session recall end-to-end.** Catch-up bump (v0.29.0→v0.35.16). Intervening client-facing deltas reviewed, none break our consumer: #211 agent rename (`saga`→`echo`, `actor`→`mask` — slugs only); #245 `end_user_id` persistence + memory-scope resolver; #187/#188/#219 Tier-3 define/PATCH policy (additive); `bifrost` binding field + `ephemeral_does_not_accept_bifrost` 422 now documented (the #17 surface). Error codes stable; no ratatoskr code change required. |
 | 2026-05-25 | `da93ca7` | v0.28.0 | #204 — new SSE event `affect_update` (current/scheduled), new endpoint `GET /agents/{id}/persona_state`, auth-model doc edits |
 | 2026-05-20 | `55101e9` | v0.19.0 | initial scaffold pin |
 
 ## Vendored artifacts
 
-- `docs/conversation-api-spec.md` — copy of `Worldtree/docs/conversation-api-spec.md` at the pinned SHA. This is the **client-facing interface contract** Ratatoskr is built against.
-- `docs/conversation_api.contract.md` — copy of `Worldtree/docs/contracts/conversation_api.contract.md` at the pinned SHA. The **server-side contract** including INV-001..INV-052 and amendments. Useful for understanding load-bearing server invariants (e.g., INV-014 turn-id-public, INV-046 admin-events-envelope-stable, INV-049 admin-events-pii-discipline) when designing client behavior against them.
+**Authoritative (FROZEN, machine-readable — the drift gates):**
+
+- `docs/conversation-api-openapi.json` — copy of `Worldtree/docs/conversation-api-openapi.json` (OpenAPI `info.version` **2.3.0**). The frozen v1 REST wire (41 path-groups; 2.3.0 added `POST /sessions/{session_id}/history` per #347). Pinned `worldtree-conversation-api-openapi-v2` in `.corviduo-canonicals.toml`; drift gated by `canonical_drift.py`.
+- `docs/conversation-api-sse-events.schema.json` — copy of `Worldtree/docs/conversation-api-sse-events.schema.json`. The frozen SSE event schema (11 discriminated event types). Pinned `worldtree-conversation-api-sse-events-v1`.
+
+**Reference (prose; allowed to lag — `tolerate_drift`):**
+
+- `docs/conversation-api-spec.md` — copy of `Worldtree/docs/conversation-api-spec.md` at the pinned SHA. The **client-facing prose narrative**. Re-vendored at `c9e59ec` (2026-07-06) to carry the § "Tier 3 — Consumer-defined agents" subsections (persona/memory/persona_state SET body) that serialize as freeform `Any` in the OpenAPI JSON — so the **prose is the source of truth for those consumer shapes** (e.g. persona.ocean single-letter `{O,C,E,A,N}` on `/agents/define`; `POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state` body `{pad:{pleasure,arousal,dominance}}`). Elsewhere the OpenAPI/SSE JSON above remain authoritative. Pinned `worldtree-conversation-api-spec-v1` (tolerate_drift).
+- `docs/conversation_api.contract.md` — copy of `Worldtree/docs/contracts/conversation_api.contract.md` at the pinned SHA (byte-identical at b2 — server contract unchanged since the v0.35.16 pin). The **server-side contract** including INV-001..INV-052 and amendments. Useful for understanding load-bearing server invariants (e.g., INV-014 turn-id-public, INV-046 admin-events-envelope-stable, INV-049 admin-events-pii-discipline) when designing client behavior against them. Not in the canonical manifest (reference-only).
 
 Both files are vendored — they reflect Worldtree at the pinned SHA, not
 the live `~/development/Worldtree` checkout. Update them only when

docs/contracts/bifrost_affect_provider.contract.md

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ complexity: "medium"
 estimated_loc: 180
 confidence: 0.85
 assumptions:
-  - "bifrost>=0.6.1 is installed and exposes build_affect_app, dispatch_affect_call, JwtVerifier, ConsumerRegistration, AffectInvalidArguments, AffectIdempotencyConflict per bifrost/docs/implementing-a-consumer.md @ 8df54ed and bifrost/reference_server/affect.py."
+  - "bifrost>=0.10.0 is installed and exposes build_affect_app, build_combined_app, dispatch_affect_call, JwtVerifier, ConsumerRegistration, AffectInvalidArguments, AffectIdempotencyConflict, and REQUIRES a callable affect-store fetch for the affect capability (_supports_affect_plane, bifrost/affect.py:75-80, strong-or-absent) per bifrost/reference_server/affect.py."
   - "The affect snapshot dict always carries string addressing keys 'agent_id' and 'end_user_id'; the bifrost wire validates the envelope before the store is called."
   - "A Heimdall HS256 key for consumer_id='ratatoskr' is provisioned (deploy-time, brokered via infra-ops); the store itself never sees raw auth — the library verifies per-dispatch JWTs and hands a DispatchContext (ctx)."
   - "The idempotency actor is derivable from ctx (mirrors bifrost's reference `_ctx_actor(ctx)` — the dispatch subject/actor identity)."
@@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ external_invariants:
   - source: ~/development/bifrost/docs/contracts/affect.contract.md
     invariant_id: "INV-001"          # conduit opacity — the governing rule of the affect plane
   - source: ~/development/bifrost/bifrost/reference_server/affect.py
-    invariant_id: "InMemoryAffectStore.emit"   # the executable reference for the wire semantics we parity-prove against
+    invariant_id: "InMemoryAffectStore.emit"   # the executable reference for the emit wire semantics we parity-prove against
+  - source: ~/development/bifrost/bifrost/reference_server/affect.py
+    invariant_id: "InMemoryAffectStore.fetch"  # the executable reference for the affect.fetch read shape ({found, snapshot})
 revisions:
   - version: "1.1"
     at: 2026-06-14
@@ -39,6 +41,22 @@ revisions:
         - "basic_emit wording — semantic round-trip (was: byte-identical)"
       REMOVED:
         - "the 'same idempotency_key + different content hash -> LWW overwrite' clause (it was backwards: bifrost treats that as a conflict)"
+  - version: "1.2"
+    at: 2026-06-19
+    summary: "Adopt bifrost 0.10.0's mandatory affect.fetch (strong-or-absent, INV-012): _supports_affect_plane now requires a callable fetch for the affect cap to advertise/dispatch at all, so an emit-only store 400s on EVERY affect op. Promote the sync get() read seam to an async wire fetch() returning bifrost's {found, snapshot} shape; conform to the reference InMemoryAffectStore.fetch. affect.fetch leaves 'reserved'. Forced prerequisite of the #18 D1 composite (build_combined_app)."
+    delta:
+      ADDED:
+        - "fetch() function block (async wire verb; mirrors reference InMemoryAffectStore.fetch)"
+        - "INV-010 (affect cap = affect_supported + emit + fetch, strong-or-absent)"
+        - "parity_vs_reference_fetch test"
+        - "InMemoryAffectStore.fetch external invariant"
+      MODIFIED:
+        - "INV-005 — cross-refs INV-010 (the affect cap now requires fetch present too)"
+        - "assumptions — bifrost pin >=0.10.0 (build_combined_app + mandatory affect.fetch)"
+        - "get() BRIEF — the sync read seam fetch() wraps (no longer 'affect.fetch RESERVED')"
+        - "Data flow — add the fetch read-back path"
+      REMOVED:
+        - "the 'affect.fetch / affect:read RESERVED in v1' out-of-scope line"
 ---
 
 ## Context
@@ -75,13 +93,19 @@ affect; we only persist and round-trip it.** We run no affect logic.
     conflict cache: `digest` is a content fingerprint of the snapshot;
     `expires_at` records the short-retry deadline for a future pruning pass
     (TTL eviction deferred — see INV-009).
-- **Out:** `{"stored": True}` ack (the library wraps it with the transport
+- **Out (emit):** `{"stored": True}` ack (the library wraps it with the transport
   `{"success": True}` envelope).
+- **Fetch (read-back):** Worldtree's `affect.fetch` → `POST /bifrost/affect-call`
+  → `store.fetch(agent_id=..., end_user_id=...)` → `{"found": False}` or
+  `{"found": True, "snapshot": <verbatim snapshot>}` (the library wraps it via
+  `affect_result(**fetched)`). The snapshot is returned opaque/verbatim — `fetch`
+  never reads `pad` / `valence` / `persona_baselines` / `emitted_at` (INV-001).
 
-**Async surface:** `emit` is `async def` (the bifrost consumer Protocol awaits
-it); `open_affect_store` and `get` are sync (no I/O await — `get` is a read-back
-seam). The `FN` lines below omit the `async` keyword only because the contract
-grammar's `FN <name>` form has no async marker.
+**Async surface:** `emit` and `fetch` are `async def` (the bifrost consumer
+Protocol awaits them); `open_affect_store` and `get` are sync (no I/O await —
+`get` is the read-back seam `fetch` wraps). The `FN` lines below omit the
+`async` keyword only because the contract grammar's `FN <name>` form has no
+async marker.
 
 ## Invariants
 
@@ -113,7 +137,7 @@ grammar's `FN <name>` form has no async marker.
   `stored` specifically).
 - **INV-005** [hard]: The store advertises `affect_supported = True`; it is the
   REQUIRED store — `build_affect_app(store=None, ...)` raises (no silent
-  in-memory default).
+  in-memory default). See INV-010 for the full affect-capability surface.
 - **INV-006** [hard]: Authorization identity/scope — and the **idempotency
   actor** — are taken from `ctx` (DispatchContext), never from the snapshot or
   other call arguments. The snapshot addressing keys are used ONLY as the
@@ -137,6 +161,13 @@ grammar's `FN <name>` form has no async marker.
   grows unbounded until a follow-up pruning patch. Wire-observable behavior is
   unaffected (replay/conflict still resolve correctly); only cache size is.
   `affect_snapshots` is already bounded to one row per `(agent_id, end_user_id)`.
+- **INV-010** [hard]: **The affect capability is `affect_supported` + `emit` +
+  `fetch`, strong-or-absent** (bifrost ≥0.10.0 `_supports_affect_plane`,
+  `bifrost/affect.py:75-80`; the INV-012 no-degraded-path rule). bifrost gates
+  EVERY affect op (emit included) on all three being present, so a store missing
+  a callable `fetch` is rejected with `affect.unsupported_capability` and the
+  handshake never advertises `affect`. We therefore implement `fetch` fully (not
+  a stub) — the canonical surface admits no emit-only affect store.
 
 ## Concurrency
 
@@ -186,8 +217,10 @@ already have rejected a malformed envelope.
   Protocol are a later contract.
 - **The combined two-plane server** (guide §7): one handshake negotiating both
   memory + affect is deferred; `build_affect_provider_app` mounts affect alone.
-- **`affect.fetch` / `affect:read` / persona-baseline rehydrate**: RESERVED in
-  v1; only `emit` + the test-only `get()` exist.
+- **`affect:read` scope enforcement / persona-baseline rehydrate shaping**: the
+  library owns scope auth (`affect:read` for fetch); `fetch` returns the stored
+  blob verbatim — any richer rehydrate shaping beyond a snapshot round-trip is
+  Worldtree's concern, not the store's.
 - **`idempotency_class`**: accepted and ignored (affect.* uses a single
   short-retry class).
 - **WAL/concurrency hardening, deployment DB path, auth-key provisioning**:
@@ -254,7 +287,7 @@ TESTS:
 
 ```contract
 FN get(self, agent_id: str, end_user_id: str) -> dict | None
-BRIEF: Read-back of the stored snapshot (tests / future rehydrate-seed). NOT a wire verb — affect.fetch is RESERVED in v1.
+BRIEF: Sync read-back seam returning the verbatim stored snapshot (or None). The async wire verb fetch() wraps this; tests / the D2 read route / rehydrate-seed also use it directly.
 POST: [POST-001 return_value] returns the verbatim snapshot for the key, or None if absent -- (INV-003)
 STEPS:
   1. [sequential] SELECT snapshot_json FROM affect_snapshots WHERE agent_id = ? AND end_user_id = ?
@@ -264,6 +297,30 @@ TESTS:
   get_after_emit [happy]: returns the emitted snapshot, deserialized equal
 ```
 
+```contract
+FN fetch(self, agent_id: str, end_user_id: str) -> dict
+BRIEF: Wire affect.fetch read handler — return the stored snapshot in bifrost's {found, snapshot} shape, conduit-opaque. Mirrors the reference InMemoryAffectStore.fetch verbatim (INV-010 strong-or-absent: this method MUST exist for the affect cap to advertise/dispatch).
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] agent_id and end_user_id are non-empty strings -- else raise AffectInvalidArguments (mirrors reference; the wire validates the envelope first, this is belt-and-suspenders)
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] returns {"found": False} when no snapshot for the key -- (the library wraps via affect_result(**fetched))
+POST: [POST-002 return_value] returns {"found": True, "snapshot": <verbatim snapshot>} when present; snapshot deserializes equal to the emitted snapshot -- (INV-003)
+POST: [POST-003 return_value] never reads pad/valence/persona_baselines/emitted_at — returns the whole blob opaque -- (INV-001)
+ERROR_ROUTING:
+  AffectInvalidArguments:
+    local_handling: raise on missing/empty agent_id or end_user_id
+    flow_control: abort
+    state_recovery: none (read-only; no state touched)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, flexibility=prescriptive] IF agent_id/end_user_id missing or not non-empty str: RAISE AffectInvalidArguments
+  2. [sequential] SET snap = self.get(agent_id, end_user_id)  -- the existing sync read seam; whole-blob json.loads, no field reads (INV-001)
+  3. [branch] IF snap is None: RETURN {"found": False}
+  4. [cleanup] RETURN {"found": True, "snapshot": snap}
+TESTS:
+  fetch_absent [boundary]: no row for key → {"found": False}
+  fetch_after_emit [happy,tracer]: emit then fetch → {"found": True, "snapshot": equals the emitted snapshot}
+  fetch_missing_key [adversarial]: empty/missing agent_id or end_user_id → raises AffectInvalidArguments
+  parity_vs_reference_fetch [scenario]: drive identical affect.fetch envelopes (found + not-found) through dispatch_affect_call against InMemoryAffectStore and RatatoskrAffectStore → (status, body) tuples agree (#195)
+```
+
 ```contract
 FN build_affect_provider_app(store: RatatoskrAffectStore, heimdall_key: bytes, consumer_id: str = "ratatoskr") -> Starlette
 BRIEF: Wire the JWT verifier + registration and hand the store to bifrost's build_affect_app.

docs/contracts/bifrost_memory_provider.contract.md

@@ -116,9 +116,17 @@ interpreted.
   to the reference `_matches_scope`. (`scope_any` is the union-visibility primitive that
   resolves the #295/#297 silent-zero — a subset-scoped chunk now recalls via an OR member.)
 - **INV-006** [hard]: **Capabilities match implementation** (advertise-⇒-implement).
-  `describe_store` advertises ONLY what v1 implements: `relational_edges_supported=False`,
+  `describe_store` advertises ONLY what is implemented: `relational_edges_supported=False`,
   `atomic_supersede_supported=False`, `transaction_supported=False`,
-  `optimistic_locking_supported=True`, `filterable_metadata_fields=[]`.
+  `optimistic_locking_supported=True`, `filterable_metadata_fields=[]`,
+  **`sortable_chunk_fields=[{"name": "updated_at", "type": "timestamp"}]`** (the ONLY
+  globally-sortable field; gates `scan`'s sort at the bifrost dispatch `_validate_scan_sort`
+  AND Worldtree's #349 person-prime Branch-A `"updated_at" in caps.sort_fields_supported` —
+  advertising it is what lights up turn-1 durable-fact injection). Both `name` AND `type`
+  are REQUIRED by the bifrost `handshake_response` `SortableChunkField` schema
+  (`additionalProperties:false`) — omitting `type` fails wire-schema validation and breaks
+  the ENTIRE handshake (memory + affect bind), not just the sort; `type` is advisory-only
+  (the wire never interprets it).
   (`transaction_supported` is the bifrost **wire-level** multi-op transaction
   capability — NOT our internal SQLite transactions, which we use for atomic
   batches.) The client gates the gated verbs off these.
@@ -127,12 +135,53 @@ interpreted.
   `InvalidArguments` (mirrors the reference).
 - **INV-008** [hard]: The store is REQUIRED (`build_memory_app(store=None)` raises);
   identity/scope/actor come from `ctx`, never call args.
+- **INV-009** [hard]: **`scan` is LIVE-only.** `scan` returns ONLY live chunks —
+  superseded / tombstoned / any non-live governance state is EXCLUDED server-side. This
+  is load-bearing because Worldtree's person-prime requests `lifecycle_state="live"` but
+  that filter does NOT ride the scan wire today and the client does not re-check it
+  (worldtree-dev flagged the adapter gap); server-side live-only is authoritative, so a
+  dead fact can never inject. The additive `lifecycle_state` scan arg, when present, is
+  honored but never relied upon.
+- **INV-010** [hard]: **`scan` is globally ordered before pagination.** The FULL
+  scope-filtered live set is ordered by `(sort.field, direction)` GLOBALLY before the
+  `limit` page is taken — never page-local. Missing sort value sorts LAST; ties broken by
+  `chunk_id` (stable). A single `limit`-page returns the N globally-newest (for
+  `updated_at desc`), matching bifrost's cross-pagination conformance negative. The sort
+  field is indexed (`json_extract(record_json, '$.updated_at')`) so the read stays within
+  person-prime's 500 ms fail-open budget.
+  - **Cursor is v1-provisional (KNOWN DEVIATION — offset, not snapshot).** The cursor is a
+    bare integer offset into the re-derived global order. This is CORRECT and conformant for
+    the **single-page** person-prime call (`cursor=None`), which is the only shipped consumer.
+    It **diverges from bifrost's protocol snapshot-cursor contract on multi-page continuation**:
+    the dispatch engine (`bifrost.memory` scan branch) drops the `sort` arg on a cursor
+    continuation because "the cursor's snapshotted order is authoritative", and maps
+    `ScanCursorExpired → 410`. Our offset cursor (a) does NOT snapshot the order — a page taken
+    after a concurrent write can duplicate/drop rows relative to the first page (heid-bug-hunt
+    2026-07-15, all 3 arms), and (b) never raises `ScanCursorExpired`. The `global_before_paginate`
+    / cursor test asserts **static-store** behavior only. The durable/conformant fix is to adopt
+    the reference `InMemoryMemoryStore`'s snapshot-cursor semantics (opaque token + frozen ordered
+    id-list + TTL + `ScanCursorExpired`); DEFERRED pending bifrost-dev's ruling on the conformance
+    gap (scan/cursor has NO conformance coverage today, so a non-snapshot cursor passes). Routed
+    to bifrost-dev 2026-07-15.
+- **INV-011** [hard]: **`mark_superseded` retires via a top-level `superseded` flag; `_is_live`
+  recognizes it.** `mark_superseded` sets top-level `superseded=True` (+ `superseded_by`) on the
+  record, mirroring the reference `_mark_lifecycle` (NOT a `verbatim.governance_state` change). So
+  `_is_live` MUST short-circuit on `record.get("superseded") is True` (in addition to its existing
+  `lifecycle_state` / `verbatim.governance_state` checks) — else a #364-retired chunk would still
+  scan live. Retirement is NON-destructive: `get`/`get_many` still return superseded chunks
+  (recoverable). `search` is NOT filtered (matches the reference; WT re-checks liveness client-side).
 
 ## Concurrency
 
 SQLite WAL (concurrent readers, single writer). `upsert_many`/`delete_many`
 serialize on the writer; `search`/`get` are concurrent reads. sqlite-vec index
-writes ride inside the upsert/delete transaction.
+writes ride inside the upsert/delete transaction. The connection is opened
+`check_same_thread=False` with `PRAGMA busy_timeout=5000` (mirrors the affect store):
+the provider is an ASGI app, so uvicorn/Starlette (and TestClient always) may run a
+handler off the connection's creating thread — the event loop serializes the sync
+sqlite calls, so this is safe; busy_timeout preps the composite/standalone two-process
+topology over the same db. (Surfaced by a TestClient-driven memory `search` through the
+#18 D1 combined provider — the direct-store tests structurally could not.)
 
 ## Division of labor (library vs store)
 
@@ -157,7 +206,7 @@ negotiation, routes). **This contract** owns the store (the basic verbs + SQLite
 
 ## Out of scope (deferred — do NOT flag as drift)
 
-- **Gated/maintenance verbs:** `upsert_edges`/`get_edges_for`, `scan`, `mark_invalid`/`mark_superseded`, `patch_many`, `atomic_supersede`, lease/checkpoint. Absent + advertised-unsupported.
+- **Gated/maintenance verbs:** `upsert_edges`/`get_edges_for`, `mark_invalid`, `patch_many`, `atomic_supersede`, lease/checkpoint. Absent (no describe_store cap; hasattr-gated at dispatch as of bifrost 1.1.4 → `unsupported_capability` 400). (`scan` and `mark_superseded` are NO LONGER deferred — `scan` implements #349 person-prime; `mark_superseded` implements Worldtree #364's contradiction retirement, the SOLE supersession verb #364 uses. See their FN specs + INV-009/INV-011.)
 - **metadata_filter beyond scope:** advertise `filterable_metadata_fields=[]`; a non-empty `metadata_filter` is unsupported in v1 (rejected — see search PRE).
 - **The combined two-plane server** (guide §7) — separate memory + affect apps in v1.
 - **Deployment** — dev-box background shell (`ratatoskr-memory-provider`), no systemd/infra.
@@ -264,6 +313,47 @@ TESTS:
   delete_absent [boundary]: unknown id → {"deleted":0}
 ```
 
+```contract
+FN mark_superseded(self, ids: list[str], *, superseded_by: str | None = None, reason: str | None = None) -> dict
+BRIEF: Worldtree #364 retirement — mark chunks superseded so scan (live-only) excludes them. Mirrors the reference _mark_lifecycle: sets TOP-LEVEL fields on the record; NON-destructive (get still returns them, recoverable). The SOLE supersession verb #364 uses (dispatch: bifrost/memory.py mark_superseded branch; args {ids:[...], superseded_by, reason}).
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] ids is a list of chunk ids (WT sends singletons, one call per retired chunk)
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] {"marked": N} where N = ids that existed (unknown ids skipped, never error) -- assert
+POST: [POST-002 state_change] each existing chunk gets top-level `superseded=True` + `superseded_by` (when not None) + `superseded_reason` (when not None); revision incremented; mirrors reference _mark_lifecycle (only non-None fields written) -- assert
+POST: [POST-003 return_value] a superseded chunk is EXCLUDED from `scan` (INV-009 via _is_live's top-level `superseded` check, INV-011) but STILL returned by `get`/`get_many` (non-destructive) -- assert
+STEPS:
+  1. [sequential, flexibility=indicative] FOR each id present: load record_json, set superseded=True (+ superseded_by / superseded_reason when not None), UPDATE record_json + revision+1; count
+  2. [cleanup] RETURN {"marked": count}
+TESTS:
+  mark_retires_from_scan [happy,tracer]: upsert 3 live; mark_superseded([id2], superseded_by="x"); scan → the 2 non-superseded only (id2 excluded); id2 record has superseded=True + superseded_by="x"
+  mark_get_still_returns [scenario]: a superseded chunk is STILL returned by get (non-destructive/recoverable)
+  mark_unknown_id_noop [boundary]: mark_superseded(["nope"]) → {"marked":0}
+  mark_no_superseded_by [boundary]: mark_superseded([id], superseded_by=None) → superseded=True set, no superseded_by key written (only non-None fields)
+  mark_parity_vs_reference [scenario]: identical mark_superseded envelope vs InMemoryMemoryStore → same top-level superseded/superseded_by field shape (#195)
+```
+
+```contract
+FN scan(self, *, scope_all: dict | None = None, scope_any: list | None = None, cursor: str | None = None, limit: int, sort: dict | None = None, lifecycle_state=None) -> dict
+BRIEF: Query-LESS paginated LIVE-chunk scan, globally ordered by an advertised sort field (updated_at) — the #349 person-prime turn-1 durable-fact injection primitive (no query vector, unlike search). Returns {records, cursor}.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] limit is a positive int -- else InvalidArguments
+PRE: [PRE-002 hard] scope_all/scope_any shape + lattice-validated via _validate_scope (identical to search PRE-003) -- else InvalidArguments / InvalidFilter
+PRE: [PRE-003 hard] sort, when present, is {field, direction}: field ∈ the advertised sortable_chunk_fields names ("updated_at"), direction ∈ {asc,desc}. The bifrost dispatch layer (_validate_scan_sort) is the enforcement gate; an unadvertised/malformed sort → InvalidArguments — NEVER a silent unsorted fallback
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] {records: [<verbatim chunk wire records, same shape as a search hit's chunk>], cursor: <opaque next-page str | None>}; ≤ limit records; each record carries updated_at + agent_id + subject{type,id} + worldtree_scope (the fields person-prime's client _scan_filter_matches keys on — a record missing any is silently dropped client-side) -- assert
+POST: [POST-002 return_value] LIVE-only — returns ONLY live chunks; superseded/tombstoned excluded server-side (INV-009)
+POST: [POST-003 return_value] GLOBAL-order — the FULL scope-filtered live set is ordered by (sort.field, direction) GLOBALLY before the limit page; missing value LAST; chunk_id tiebreak (INV-010)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup] validate limit (>0) + scope (as search); sort ← the dispatch-validated {field,direction}
+  2. [sequential, flexibility=indicative] SELECT scope-filtered LIVE chunks ordered by the indexed sort field (json_extract(record_json,'$.updated_at')) in `direction`, missing-last, chunk_id tiebreak, GLOBALLY; apply cursor offset; take limit
+  3. [cleanup] RETURN {records: verbatim chunks, cursor: next-page-or-None}
+TESTS:
+  scan_recency [happy,tracer]: upsert 4 live chunks w/ distinct updated_at; scan(scope_all={end_user}, limit=3, sort={field:updated_at,direction:desc}) → the 3 newest, newest-first
+  global_before_paginate [scenario]: 5 chunks, limit=2 → page-1 = the 2 globally-newest; the cursor page continues the GLOBAL order, not a page-local re-sort (INV-010; bifrost cross-pagination conformance)
+  live_only [adversarial]: a superseded/tombstoned chunk is NEVER returned even if it is the newest (INV-009)
+  scope_isolation [adversarial]: scope_all one end_user → never returns another partition's chunk (INV-005 applies to scan)
+  unadvertised_sort [adversarial]: sort.field ∉ sortable_chunk_fields → InvalidArguments at dispatch (never silent unsorted)
+  person_prime_record_shape [scenario]: each record carries agent_id + subject{type,id} + worldtree_scope + updated_at + verbatim/distillate — the _scan_filter_matches keys (else the client silently drops it)
+  parity_vs_reference [scenario]: identical scan envelopes vs InMemoryMemoryStore → same ordered chunk_ids/shape (#195)
+```
+
 ```contract
 FN build_memory_provider_app(store: RatatoskrMemoryStore, heimdall_key: bytes, consumer_id: str = "ratatoskr") -> Starlette
 BRIEF: Wire JwtVerifier + registration; hand the store to bifrost's build_memory_app.

docs/contracts/first_message.contract.md

@@ -0,0 +1,142 @@
+---
+contract_version: "2.1"
+module: "ratatoskr.first_message"
+purpose: "Per-agent authored first-message presets — seed an agent's opening as a #347 authored turn-0 onto new sessions (CLI + web), the durable replacement for a system-prompt startup instruction."
+touches:
+  - src/ratatoskr/first_message.py
+  - tests/test_first_message.py
+scope: >
+  Per-agent authored first-message presets (Worldtree #347 consumer feature).
+  When a new session is created for an agent that has a preset opening, seed it
+  as a #347 authored first-message (POST /sessions/{id}/history, author=assistant,
+  seq-0) so the session opens in-character before the user speaks — the durable
+  replacement for a system-prompt "startup" instruction. Two entry points:
+  `preset_for` (lookup) and `seed_preset_first_message` (best-effort seed).
+  Consumed by ratatoskr.cli (the `--new` session path) and ratatoskr.web.server
+  (the POST /api/sessions endpoint). Depends on ratatoskr.sessions
+  (write_authored_history + its exceptions); no core.* / worldtree.* imports.
+depends_on:
+  - "httpx"
+  - "ratatoskr.sessions"
+used_by:
+  - "ratatoskr.cli"
+  - "ratatoskr.web.server"
+language: "python"
+complexity: "low"
+estimated_loc: 60
+confidence: 0.9
+assumptions:
+  - "write_authored_history (contract #2 amendment 2026-07-06) is the seed primitive: 200/201 → ack dict, 404 → AuthoredHistoryUnavailable (hide-existence), other non-2xx → SessionApiFailed."
+  - "The preset registry is a static in-module dict keyed by agent_id; editing it is how an operator tunes an agent's opening. Seeded with ratatoskr:sindra only."
+  - "Auto-seed is BEST-EFFORT and MUST NOT block session creation: an instance without the session.history.write grant returns the hide-404, which is swallowed (session opens with no seeded greeting)."
+---
+
+# First-message presets — authored openings on session-create (#347)
+
+## Context
+
+`ratatoskr.first_message` holds per-agent authored-opening presets and seeds them
+onto new sessions via the #347 authored-history-write primitive. It is the
+durable form of "give an agent a first message": instead of a system-prompt
+`Startup:` instruction (a workaround for the pre-#347 world where the assistant
+could not author turn-0), the opening lives as a real seeded assistant turn-0.
+
+Consumed at both session-create sites — `ratatoskr.cli._amain` (the `--new` path)
+and `ratatoskr.web.server._create_session_endpoint` (POST /api/sessions) — so
+every new session for a preset agent opens in-character regardless of surface.
+
+## Data flow
+
+**In:** a live `httpx.AsyncClient` (caller-owned, base_url + bearer set), a fresh
+`session_id`, and the bound `agent_id`.
+
+**Out:** on a preset agent, one `POST /sessions/{session_id}/history` (author=assistant,
+the preset text, per-content idempotency key). Returns the seeded content on
+success, else `None`.
+
+**Side effects:** at most one outbound authored-history write; never raises to the
+caller (best-effort).
+
+## Invariants
+
+- **INV-001 [hard]**: `seed_preset_first_message` NEVER raises (the sole exception is
+  `asyncio.CancelledError`, which propagates — cancellation is not a seed failure) and
+  NEVER blocks session creation. It soft-guards its inputs (a bad arg returns `None`,
+  not `AssertionError`), bounds the write with `asyncio.wait_for(_SEED_TIMEOUT_S)` so a
+  stalled `/history` can't hang the create path, and swallows EVERY other exception (the
+  hide-404, `SessionApiFailed`, `httpx.HTTPError`, `TimeoutError`, and any unexpected
+  error) → `None`. The `broad-except` is deliberate: this helper is wired INTO three
+  session-create paths, so any escape would abort a create that already succeeded.
+- **INV-002 [hard]**: a no-preset agent issues ZERO HTTP (early return before any
+  request).
+- **INV-003 [hard]**: the seed body is the preset text verbatim, author="assistant",
+  with a per-content idempotency key (`"ratatoskr-preset-" + sha256(text)[:12]`), so
+  a repeat seed of the same session+preset is an idempotent 200 replay, never a
+  duplicate turn.
+- **INV-004 [hard]**: no `core.*` / `worldtree.*` imports (reference-consumer
+  boundary; verified by `tests/test_no_worldtree_imports.py`, which rglobs every
+  `.py` under `src/ratatoskr/` — this module included, so no per-module import
+  test is needed here).
+
+## Out of scope
+
+- **Multi-turn / scripted openers.** v1 seeds exactly one assistant turn-0. A
+  multi-message opening scene is a future concern.
+- **Runtime/remote preset config.** The registry is an in-module dict; no file/DB/env
+  loading. Add that only when a second consumer needs operator-editable presets.
+- **Non-assistant authors.** v1 is author=assistant only (matches #347 v1); a
+  user/system opener is deferred with the #347 engine surface.
+- **TUI-only surfaces.** Both real session-create paths (CLI + web) are wired; the
+  bare-TUI picker resumes existing sessions (no create), so it needs no seed.
+
+---
+
+```contract
+FN preset_for(agent_id: str) -> str | None
+BRIEF: Return the authored first-message preset for agent_id, or None when the agent has no preset. Pure dict lookup over FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] agent_id is a non-empty str -- assert agent_id and isinstance(agent_id, str)
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] returns FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS.get(agent_id) (str for a preset agent, None otherwise)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, prescriptive] assert PRE-001
+  2. [sequential, prescriptive] RETURN FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS.get(agent_id)
+TESTS:
+  preset_hit [happy]: preset_for("ratatoskr:sindra") is a non-empty str
+  preset_miss [happy]: preset_for("mimir") is None
+  empty_agent_id [adversarial]: preset_for("") → AssertionError
+
+FN seed_preset_first_message(client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str, agent_id: str) -> str | None
+BRIEF: Best-effort seed of an agent's preset opening as a #347 authored first-message on session_id. If agent_id has a preset, POST it via write_authored_history (author=assistant, per-content idempotency key, the await bounded by asyncio.wait_for(_SEED_TIMEOUT_S)) and return the seeded content; on no-preset, a malformed input, OR ANY exception except asyncio.CancelledError, return None WITHOUT raising. Never raises (except CancelledError, which propagates) and never blocks session creation — it is wired into three create paths.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client is not None -- soft-guarded: return None (NOT assert) if violated, so a wiring bug can't crash the create path (INV-001)
+PRE: [PRE-002 hard] session_id is a non-empty str -- soft-guarded: return None if violated
+PRE: [PRE-003 hard] agent_id is a non-empty str -- soft-guarded: return None if violated (also guards FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS.get against a non-hashable/non-str id)
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] preset agent + successful write → returns the preset text; no-preset, malformed input, OR any swallowed failure → None
+POST: [POST-002 side_effect] a no-preset / malformed-input call issues ZERO HTTP; a preset agent issues exactly one POST /sessions/{session_id}/history with body author="assistant", content=preset, idempotency_key="ratatoskr-preset-"+sha256(preset)[:12], the await bounded by _SEED_TIMEOUT_S so a stalled response cannot block
+ERROR_ROUTING:
+  asyncio.CancelledError:
+    local_handling: RE-RAISE (cancellation is not a seed failure; never swallow it — and it is a BaseException, so `except Exception` would miss it anyway)
+    flow_control: propagate
+    state_recovery: n/a
+  any other Exception (hide-404 AuthoredHistoryUnavailable, SessionApiFailed 409/422/etc., httpx.HTTPError, TimeoutError from wait_for, any unexpected error):
+    local_handling: swallow; return None
+    flow_control: continue (never blocks session create)
+    state_recovery: session opens with no seeded greeting
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, prescriptive] Soft-guard: IF agent_id is not a non-empty str: RETURN None (before any dict lookup — guards a non-hashable id)
+  2. [sequential, prescriptive] content = FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS.get(agent_id); IF content is None: RETURN None (INV-002 — zero HTTP)
+  3. [sequential, prescriptive] Soft-guard: IF client is None OR session_id is not a non-empty str: RETURN None
+  4. [sequential, prescriptive] key = "ratatoskr-preset-" + sha256(content utf-8)[:12]
+  5. [sequential, prescriptive] TRY: await asyncio.wait_for(write_authored_history(client, session_id, content=content, idempotency_key=key), timeout=_SEED_TIMEOUT_S)
+     tool: { destructive: false, idempotent: true, read_only: false, open_world: false }
+  6. [branch, prescriptive] EXCEPT asyncio.CancelledError: RAISE; EXCEPT Exception: RETURN None
+  7. [cleanup, prescriptive] RETURN content
+TESTS:
+  seeds_preset [happy,tracer]: preset agent, mock 201 → returns the preset text; exactly one POST /sessions/{id}/history; body author="assistant" + content=preset + idempotency_key="ratatoskr-preset-"+sha256(preset)[:12]
+  no_preset_zero_http [happy]: agent "mimir" → returns None; NO HTTP issued
+  feature_absent_swallowed [error]: preset agent, mock 404 session_not_found → returns None, no raise
+  session_api_failed_swallowed [error]: preset agent, mock 409 → returns None, no raise
+  transport_error_swallowed [error]: preset agent, mock httpx.ConnectError → returns None, no raise
+  unexpected_exception_swallowed [error]: preset agent, write raises ValueError → returns None, no raise (INV-001 broad never-raise)
+  cancellation_propagates [error]: preset agent, write raises asyncio.CancelledError → RE-RAISED (never swallowed)
+  malformed_agent_id_no_http [adversarial]: agent_id=123 (non-str) OR "" → None; NO HTTP; no raise
+  empty_session_id [adversarial]: session_id="" (preset agent) → None (soft guard); NO HTTP; no raise
+```

docs/contracts/issues/1.contract.md

@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ POST: [POST-002 return_value] AsyncIterator yields ≥1 event ending in exactly
 POST: [POST-003 state_change] every yielded Event has a populated sse_id with both fields >= 1 -- assert all(e.sse_id.turn_id >= 1 and e.sse_id.seq >= 1 for e in events)
 ERROR_ROUTING:
   httpx.HTTPStatusError:
-    local_handling: re-raise as SseConnectFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.read()[:1024]) — server returned non-2xx before stream started (e.g., 404 session_not_found)
+    local_handling: re-raise as SseConnectFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.read()[:1024]) — server returned non-2xx before stream started (e.g., 404 session_not_found). EXCEPT the two eager turn-launch failures (Worldtree v1.0.0b1 #331), checked BEFORE raise_for_status and raised as typed SseConnectFailed SUBCLASSES carrying error_code: 409 -> AgentNotAvailable (agent unavailable; pre-b1 this was a 200 + in-stream `error` event), 503 -> TurnLaunchUnavailable (transient turn-launch failure; retryable=True). Subclassing keeps existing `except SseConnectFailed` handlers working with zero changes.
     flow_control: abort
     state_recovery: none (no events yielded yet)
   httpx.ReadError | httpx.RemoteProtocolError | httpx.ReadTimeout:
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ ERROR_ROUTING:
 STEPS:
   1. [setup, flexibility=prescriptive] Validate inputs per PRE-001..PRE-003
   2. [sequential, flexibility=prescriptive] Open SSE connection via httpx_sse.aconnect_sse with method="POST", url=f"/sessions/{session_id}/messages", json={"content": content}
-     ON httpx.HTTPStatusError before stream opens:
+     2a. [branch, flexibility=prescriptive] IF response.status_code in (409, 503) (b1 #331 eager turn-launch failures): read the body, parse (error_code, message) from the `{"detail": {...}}` envelope OR a flat `{error_code, message}` body (status-derived default code when absent), then RAISE AgentNotAvailable (409) / TurnLaunchUnavailable (503).
+     ON httpx.HTTPStatusError before stream opens (any other non-2xx):
        RAISE SseConnectFailed
   3. [loop, flexibility=prescriptive] FOR EACH sse_event in event_source.aiter_sse():
      0. [branch, flexibility=prescriptive] IF sse_event.data == "":
@@ -162,6 +163,9 @@ TESTS:
   error_terminal [error]: mock emits one `text` then `error` with `error_code: "llm_output_invalid"` → consumer yields Text then Error; iteration ends; Error.message and Error.error_code are populated
   cancelled_terminal [error]: mock emits `cancelled` with phase=cancelled → consumer yields Cancelled with turn_id; iteration ends
   session_not_found [error]: mock returns 404 before stream opens → consumer raises SseConnectFailed(status=404)
+  eager_409_agent_not_available [error]: mock returns 409 {detail:{error_code:"agent_not_available", message}} before stream → consumer raises AgentNotAvailable(status=409, error_code="agent_not_available", retryable absent); isinstance SseConnectFailed
+  eager_503_retryable [error]: mock returns 503 before stream → consumer raises TurnLaunchUnavailable(status=503, retryable=True); isinstance SseConnectFailed
+  eager_409_non_json_body [adversarial]: mock returns 409 with a non-JSON body → consumer raises AgentNotAvailable with the status-derived default error_code "agent_not_available"
   malformed_id_no_seq [adversarial]: mock event has `id: 42` (missing `:seq`) → consumer raises MalformedSseId; no event yielded
   malformed_id_alpha [adversarial]: mock event has `id: foo:bar` (non-integer parts) → consumer raises MalformedSseId
   turn_id_flip [adversarial]: mock emits text events with ids `42:1` then `99:2` → consumer raises TurnIdFlip; only the first event was yielded
@@ -293,3 +297,51 @@ TESTS:
   trailing_whitespace [adversarial]: "42:3 " → ValueError (strict; do not strip; the server emits clean ids)
   truncation [security]: input is 5000-char string with no colon → ValueError message includes only `raw[:64]` (not the full 5000)
 ```
+
+## Amendment 2026-06-30 — shared resume orchestration (v1 coverage-audit, slice b1)
+
+The original contract specs resume as **caller-owned** (§Resume semantics: "the
+caller MAY invoke `reconnect_turn`"). The v1 coverage-audit found `reconnect_turn`
+had **no caller** — every presenter (cli/tui/web) let a mid-stream drop propagate
+instead of resuming, so the "reference SSE-resume implementation" (design-brief
+§3/§8d) was unreachable. Per design-brief §8b ("share the consumer, branch the
+presenter") the resume loop is a **single shared orchestration surface**, not
+duplicated per presenter. This adds `stream_turn_resilient` as that surface;
+presenters call it instead of `stream_turn` when they want transparent reconnect.
+`stream_turn` and `reconnect_turn` are unchanged (still the primitives); this is
+purely additive.
+
+```contract
+FN stream_turn_resilient(client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str, content: str, *, max_reconnects: int = 5) -> AsyncIterator[Event]
+BRIEF: The shared resume-orchestration wrapper over stream_turn + reconnect_turn. Yields a SINGLE continuous typed Event stream; on SseConnectionDropped (mid-stream drop OR clean EOF before terminal), transparently resumes via reconnect_turn from the last-seen sse_id, up to max_reconnects times, until a terminal Done/Error/Cancelled arrives. The one surface all presenters consume for resilient streaming (design-brief §8b). Cross-process resume stays deferred to v2 (§8d): last-seen lives only in this generator's frame.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client is not None -- assert client is not None
+PRE: [PRE-002 hard] session_id is non-empty str -- assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+PRE: [PRE-003 hard] content is non-empty str -- assert content and isinstance(content, str)
+PRE: [PRE-004 hard] max_reconnects is a non-negative int -- assert isinstance(max_reconnects, int) and max_reconnects >= 0
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] yielded events are the concatenation of each attempt's events in wire order; the wrapper does NOT re-yield events it already saw (the server replays only seq>last_seen) -- assert seq is non-decreasing within a turn_id across the seam
+POST: [POST-002 return_value] a fully-consumed stream terminates at exactly one Done/Error/Cancelled (INV-001 holds across reconnects) -- assert isinstance(events[-1], (Done, Error, Cancelled))
+POST: [POST-003 state_change] reconnect_turn is invoked with last_event_id == f"{last_seen.turn_id}:{last_seen.seq}" of the most recently yielded event -- assert the Last-Event-ID header on attempt N+1 == the last sse_id yielded before the drop
+ERROR_ROUTING:
+  SseConnectionDropped (from stream_turn or reconnect_turn):
+    local_handling: IF a last-seen sse_id exists AND reconnects < max_reconnects → increment reconnects, resume via reconnect_turn(last_event_id=f"{turn_id}:{seq}"); ELSE re-raise
+    flow_control: continue (resume) | abort (re-raise when no last-seen id, or budget exhausted)
+    state_recovery: server replays buffered events seq>last_seen then streams live (spec §Reconnect flow)
+  ResumeBufferExpired | ResumeTurnFinished | InvalidLastEventId | TurnIdFlip | SseConnectFailed (from reconnect_turn):
+    local_handling: propagate unchanged — NOT a transient drop; caller policy is abandon/restart (§Resume semantics "surface, not recover")
+    flow_control: abort
+    state_recovery: none
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, flexibility=prescriptive] Validate PRE-001..PRE-004; SET last_seen=None, reconnects=0, gen=stream_turn(client, session_id, content)
+  2. [loop, flexibility=prescriptive] async-for event in gen: SET last_seen=event.sse_id; YIELD event. On clean generator completion (terminal reached): RETURN.
+  3. [branch, flexibility=prescriptive] ON SseConnectionDropped d: SET seen = last_seen or d.last_seen_sse_id. IF seen is None OR reconnects >= max_reconnects: RE-RAISE. ELSE: reconnects += 1; gen = reconnect_turn(client, session_id, content, last_event_id=f"{seen.turn_id}:{seen.seq}"); GOTO step 2.
+  4. [error_handler, flexibility=prescriptive] Any non-drop exception from gen (ResumeBufferExpired/ResumeTurnFinished/InvalidLastEventId/TurnIdFlip/SseConnectFailed) is NOT caught — it propagates unchanged.
+TESTS:
+  happy_no_drop [happy]: stream yields text(42:1), done(42:2) cleanly → wrapper yields exactly those 2; endpoint hit ONCE (no reconnect).
+  resume_after_one_drop [scenario,tracer]: attempt 1 yields text(42:1) then RemoteProtocolError; reconnect replays text(42:2)+done(42:3) → wrapper yields 42:1,42:2,42:3 as ONE stream; 2nd request carried Last-Event-ID "42:1".
+  resume_after_clean_eof [scenario]: attempt 1 yields text(42:1) then clean EOF (no terminal); reconnect yields done(42:2) → continuous (resumes on the INV-001 clean-eof drop too).
+  two_drops_then_done [scenario]: drops after 42:1 then after 42:2; third attempt yields done(42:3) → all 3 events; reconnects==2; Last-Event-ID headers "42:1" then "42:2".
+  unresumable_zero_event_drop [adversarial]: attempt 1 drops with ZERO events seen (last_seen None) → SseConnectionDropped propagates; only 1 request issued.
+  max_reconnects_exhausted [adversarial]: every attempt drops after one event; max_reconnects=2 → after initial + 2 reconnects (3 requests), SseConnectionDropped propagates.
+  buffer_expired_propagates [error]: attempt 1 drops after 42:1; reconnect returns 412 → ResumeBufferExpired propagates (not retried as a transient drop).
+  zero_budget_no_resume [adversarial]: max_reconnects=0; attempt 1 drops after 42:1 → SseConnectionDropped propagates immediately (no reconnect attempted).
+```

docs/contracts/issues/17.contract.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 ---
 contract_version: "2.1"
 target_module: "ratatoskr.sessions + ratatoskr.provider (+ cli/tui/web trigger surfaces)"
-scope: "Issue #17 v1 — make the canary chat client self-drive AND observe its own Bifrost provider. Two parts. (1) BIND: `create_session` gains an optional single-plane Bifrost binding (`BifrostBinding{endpoint_url, scope}`) authenticated with a DISTINCT consumer Heimdall key; Worldtree runs the handshake synchronously at POST /sessions, so handshake failure is a session-create failure (502), surfaced on the create path. A plane selector (`memory`→:8391 / `affect`→:8390) + the consumer key thread through CLI / TUI / web; bound-state is visible. (2) OBSERVE: a structured op-feed in the provider, instrumented at the DISPATCH/ASGI layer (where the JWT ctx / session_id lives — bifrost passes ctx to upsert_many but NOT to search/get/delete, so the existing store-method stdout shim cannot see session_id), emitting JSONL {session_id, plane, op, req_summary, resp_summary, status, ts}. OPERATOR DECISIONS LOCKED: single-plane-per-session for v1 (composite endpoint fronting both planes is PARKED — vNext); op-feed with session-level correlation for v1 (turn-correlated debug-pane UI is PARKED — needs turn_id, TBD). Provider store scope semantics MUST NOT change (AND-parity with bifrost's reference store is a hard constraint). Direct in-session TDD; live-smoke against personal Worldtree is the load-bearing acceptance gate."
+scope: "Issue #17 v1 — make the canary chat client self-drive AND observe its own Bifrost provider. Two parts. (1) BIND: `create_session` gains an optional single-plane Bifrost binding (`BifrostBinding{endpoint_url, scope}`) authenticated with a DISTINCT consumer Heimdall key; Worldtree runs the handshake synchronously at POST /sessions, so handshake failure is a session-create failure (502), surfaced on the create path. A plane selector (`memory`→:8391 / `affect`→:8390; `combined`→:8392 added post-#17 — the #18 composite, the web default) + the consumer key thread through CLI / TUI / web; bound-state is visible. (2) OBSERVE: a structured op-feed in the provider, instrumented at the DISPATCH/ASGI layer (where the JWT ctx / session_id lives — bifrost passes ctx to upsert_many but NOT to search/get/delete, so the existing store-method stdout shim cannot see session_id), emitting JSONL {session_id, plane, op, req_summary, resp_summary, status, ts}. OPERATOR DECISIONS LOCKED: single-plane-per-session for v1 (composite endpoint fronting both planes was PARKED at #17 — later shipped as #18 and surfaced in the web bind as the `combined` plane); op-feed with session-level correlation for v1 (turn-correlated debug-pane UI is PARKED — needs turn_id, TBD). Provider store scope semantics MUST NOT change (AND-parity with bifrost's reference store is a hard constraint). Direct in-session TDD; live-smoke against personal Worldtree is the load-bearing acceptance gate."
 depends_on:
   - "httpx"
   - "ratatoskr.sessions"
@@ -92,8 +92,8 @@ async def create_session(
 
 
 def endpoint_for_plane(plane: str, base_host: str) -> str:
-    """'memory'->:8391, 'affect'->:8390 → f'http://{base_host}:{port}'. The
-    Worldtree-visible base URL. See FN endpoint_for_plane."""
+    """'memory'->:8391, 'affect'->:8390, 'combined'->:8392 (#18 composite) →
+    f'http://{base_host}:{port}'. The Worldtree-visible base URL. See FN endpoint_for_plane."""
 ```
 
 ```python
@@ -218,12 +218,12 @@ STEPS:
 
 ```contract
 FN endpoint_for_plane(plane: str, base_host: str) -> str
-BRIEF: Map a plane name to the Worldtree-visible provider base URL (memory->:8391, affect->:8390).
+BRIEF: Map a plane name to the Worldtree-visible provider base URL (memory->:8391, affect->:8390, combined->:8392 — the #18 composite both-plane endpoint, surfaced post-#17).
 
-PRE: [PRE-001 hard] plane in {"memory", "affect"} -- else ValueError
-POST: [POST-001 return_value] returns f"http://{base_host}:{port}", port 8391 (memory) / 8390 (affect) -- assert
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] plane in {"memory", "affect", "combined"} -- else ValueError
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] returns f"http://{base_host}:{port}", port 8391 (memory) / 8390 (affect) / 8392 (combined) -- assert
 STEPS:
-  1. port = 8391 if plane == "memory" else 8390
+  1. port = {"memory": 8391, "affect": 8390, "combined": 8392}[plane]
   2. return the Worldtree-VISIBLE base URL (not client loopback); HTTPS relaxation is allowlist-side, not a URL concern
 ```
 

docs/contracts/issues/18.contract.md

@@ -0,0 +1,380 @@
+---
+contract_version: "2.1"
+target_module: "ratatoskr.provider.affect_store + ratatoskr.web (server + static/index.html)"
+scope: "Issue #18 — BOTH deliverables. DELIVERABLE 2 (SHIPPED v0.17.14): the PAD read-endpoint so the web pane renders live PAD/valence for a Tier-3 agent from OUR :8390 affect store — (1) a NON-bifrost read route on the affect-store-owning app — GET /affect/state/{agent_id}?end_user_id=… → store.get; (2) a web proxy GET /api/affect/{agent_id} that supplies end_user_id SERVER-SIDE; (3) a NEW pane render path for the affect-emit snapshot shape. DELIVERABLE 1 (composite endpoint, NOW IN SCOPE — amended 2026-06-19): bifrost 0.10.0 shipped the public bifrost.consumer.build_combined_app and FR-1 RESOLVED (worldtree-dev verified one BifrostClient per session, caps_granted parsed INDEPENDENTLY into memory+affect sets, both stores attach off the SAME endpoint iff their cap was granted — ZERO Worldtree change). D1 = build_combined_provider_app fronting BOTH planes on :8392, advertising both caps by store PRESENCE, mounting the SAME affect read route (INV-007), with the op-feed deriving plane PER request path (plane='combined'); per-plane failure isolation is bifrost's (per-route call-time dispatch isolation in one ASGI process). Direct in-session TDD (the #17 pattern). The panel framing-consult (Heid, 3 arms) pressure-tested this design; its triaged findings are folded in as INV/POST clauses below."
+depends_on:
+  - "httpx"
+  - "starlette"
+  - "ratatoskr.provider.affect_store"
+  - "ratatoskr.provider.memory_store"        # D1: the composite fronts the memory plane too
+  - "ratatoskr.provider.opfeed"              # D1: op-feed plane='combined' (per-path derivation)
+  - "ratatoskr.web.server"
+  - "bifrost.consumer"                        # D1: build_combined_app (bifrost >=0.10.0)
+used_by:
+  - "ratatoskr.provider.serve"
+  - "ratatoskr.web.entrypoint"
+language: "python"
+complexity: "medium"
+estimated_loc: 130
+confidence: 0.82
+assumptions:
+  - "VERIFIED (live affect.db this session): the stored affect.emit snapshot shape is {agent_id, end_user_id, pad:{pleasure,arousal,dominance}, valence:[{entity_id,entity_type,familiarity,interaction_count,regard}], emitted_at}. It overlaps the Worldtree Tier-1 persona_state shape ONLY on agent_id + pad; it has NO dominant_emotion/baseline_pad/mood_drift/emotions_active/last_updated_at, and it HAS valence[] + emitted_at the persona shape lacks. So the pane CANNOT reuse renderPersonaPane — a new affect render path is required (Heid panel Q4: render honestly, do not fabricate Tier-1 fields)."
+  - "VERIFIED (wire, prior session): a Tier-3 turn emits ZERO affect_update SSE and Worldtree persona_state 404s for every Tier-3 colon-id agent (ADR-0009 Tier-1-only). Both Worldtree-side persona sources are dead for consumer agents, so reading OUR store is the only path. The pane therefore POLLS the read endpoint (on session-start + after each turn-end); there is no SSE affect channel to subscribe to."
+  - "The affect store already exposes get(agent_id, end_user_id) -> dict | None (affect_store.py:102). The read route is a thin wrapper over it; the store's conduit-opacity is unaffected (the route returns the stored blob verbatim)."
+  - "RatatoskrAffectStore holds ONE sqlite3.Connection shared across emit + the new read in a single process; the event loop serializes the sync sqlite calls (no threadpool), so same-process read+write needs no extra locking. busy_timeout matters for the FUTURE cross-process case (composite :8392 + standalone :8390 opening the same affect.db); setting it now is correct prep, not a same-process fix."
+  - "build_affect_provider_app currently returns build_affect_app(...) directly. It now adds the read route to that app via app.add_route('/affect/state/{agent_id}', ...) — keeping /bifrost/handshake + /bifrost/affect-call as TOP-LEVEL routes (so the existing route-introspection test stays green AND the op-feed's scope['path'] check in opfeed.py _BIFROST_PATHS still matches the bifrost calls and passes the read route through untouched, INV-004). add_route is preferred over an outer Mount precisely because Mount would push the bifrost paths under the mount and break top-level introspection — add_route is the surgical composition."
+  - "The web affect-read hop is SERVER-TO-PROVIDER (same dev box), distinct from the Worldtree-visible host used for binding. So RATATOSKR_AFFECT_READ_URL is its own config (default http://127.0.0.1:8390), NOT derived from RATATOSKR_PROVIDER_VISIBLE_HOST (which is the WT-visible host for handshake)."
+  - "Tests: respx mocks the provider read URL for the web-proxy unit tests; the provider read route is tested in-process against a seeded RatatoskrAffectStore (mirroring the existing affect_store tests). A colon-id (ratatoskr:sindra) round-trips browser->web->provider and is asserted end-to-end (Heid panel FM-7)."
+open_questions:
+  - "DELIVERABLE 1 / FR-1 (does NOT block Deliverable 2): does Worldtree dispatch BOTH memory-call AND affect-call to ONE bound endpoint that advertised both caps, or is the binding effectively single-plane? Worldtree-dev consult in flight (msg 01KVDXQMJF…). If single-plane, Deliverable 1 needs a Worldtree-side change too. Resolution gates the Deliverable-1 amendment, not this contract."
+  - "Valence display cap: the snapshot's valence[] is unbounded in principle. v1 caps the rendered list (scroll/limit) so the pane layout can't blow out (Heid panel Groa-FM4). Exact cap is a UI detail settled in implementation; the INVARIANT is 'bounded render', not a specific number."
+prd:
+  issue: 18
+  issue_url: "https://gitea.phasefinal.com/vh/ratatoskr/issues/18"
+  body_sha256_16: "92be262865f38c0e"
+  lock_in_comment_id: null
+  lock_in_sha256_16: null
+  lock_in_at: null
+  pinned_at: "2026-06-18T18:00:00+00:00"
+dependencies:
+  - issue: 17
+    path: "src/ratatoskr/web/server.py"
+    reason: "INV-006 of #17 — end_user_id is SERVER-configured (app.state.end_user_id from RATATOSKR_END_USER_ID), never read from the browser. The affect-read proxy follows the same posture: the browser names the agent (already in the picker); the server supplies end_user_id."
+  - issue: 17
+    path: "src/ratatoskr/provider/opfeed.py"
+    reason: "The op-feed instruments only _BIFROST_PATHS; the new non-bifrost read route is outside that set and is passed through untouched. Deliverable 2 must NOT alter op-feed behavior (INV-004)."
+---
+
+# Issue #18 (Deliverable 2) — PAD read-endpoint → persona pane renders OUR store
+
+## Context
+
+Ratatoskr binds a Tier-3 session to its own affect provider (:8390) and Worldtree
+persists the agent's PAD/valence there (live-proven: vuong session pleasure +0.146,
+familiarity 0.18→0.59 over 8 turns). But the web pane shows "telemetry isn't exposed":
+it reads Worldtree `persona_state` (`loadPersona`, index.html:707), which 404s for every
+Tier-3 colon-id agent (ADR-0009, Tier-1-only), AND a Tier-3 turn emits zero
+`affect_update` SSE. Both Worldtree-side persona sources are dead for consumer agents.
+The pane was never wired to render PAD from OUR store — Deliverable 2 closes that.
+
+**Scope is the PAD-display half ONLY.** Deliverable 1 (the composite :8392 endpoint that
+lets one session bind both planes) is bifrost-blocked: bifrost-dev has confirmed a public
+`bifrost.consumer.build_combined_app` (clean additive minor, ~v0.9.0, design locked) and is
+standing by on the open Worldtree-dispatch question (FR-1). This contract is amended to add
+Deliverable 1 once that lands. Deliverable 2 has zero bifrost or Worldtree dependency — it
+reads our own `affect.db` — so it ships now, independently.
+
+## Public surface
+
+```python
+# Provider side (ratatoskr.provider.affect_store) — a NON-bifrost read route on the
+# affect-store-owning app, composed alongside the bifrost app.
+def build_affect_provider_app(
+    store: RatatoskrAffectStore,
+    heimdall_key: bytes,
+    consumer_id: str = "ratatoskr",
+):
+    """Builds the bifrost affect app, then app.add_route('/affect/state/{agent_id}',
+    …) to add the PAD read route (reading store.get) as a top-level sibling of the
+    bifrost handshake + affect-call routes. The read route is non-bifrost (no JWT)
+    under the internal-LAN trust model. See FN build_affect_provider_app."""
+
+
+def open_affect_store(db_path: str) -> RatatoskrAffectStore:
+    """Unchanged surface; additionally sets PRAGMA busy_timeout=5000 on the connection
+    (INV-006) so a contended write waits rather than failing SQLITE_BUSY immediately —
+    WAL alone does not serialize concurrent writers."""
+```
+
+```python
+# Web side (ratatoskr.web.server) — a server-side proxy to the configured affect-read URL.
+async def _affect_state_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+    """GET /api/affect/{agent_id}. Supplies end_user_id from app.state.end_user_id
+    (NEVER the browser); proxies to app.state.affect_read_url, re-encoding agent_id into
+    the provider path (colon-id safe). See FN affect_state_endpoint."""
+
+
+def create_app(
+    client_factory,
+    *,
+    end_user_id: str | None = None,
+    bifrost_consumer_key: str | None = None,
+    bifrost_visible_host: str | None = None,
+    affect_read_url: str | None = None,   # NEW: provider affect-read base URL
+) -> Starlette: ...
+```
+
+```javascript
+// Pane side (static/index.html) — a NEW render path for the affect-emit shape.
+function renderAffectPane(snap) { /* pad + per-entity valence + emitted_at; header "affect snapshot" */ }
+async function loadAffect(agentId) { /* GET /api/affect/{id}; honest render or explicit empty-state */ }
+// loadPersona dispatches: colon-id agent -> loadAffect; else -> existing persona_state path.
+```
+
+## Exception classes / error codes
+
+No new Python exception types. Error states are JSON `{error_code}` bodies:
+
+| Surface | error_code | Status | Meaning |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| provider read route | `missing_end_user_id` | 400 | `?end_user_id` absent |
+| provider read route | `no_affect_snapshot` | 404 | `store.get` returned None — no emit yet for (agent, user) |
+| web proxy | `affect_not_configured` | 400 | `affect_read_url` or server `end_user_id` unset |
+| web proxy | `affect_provider_unreachable` | 502 | network error reaching the provider read route |
+| web proxy | (passthrough) | provider status | provider 404/400 surfaced to the browser verbatim |
+
+## Invariants
+
+- **INV-001 (honest shape, no fabrication).** The pane renders ONLY fields the
+  affect.emit snapshot actually carries — `pad{pleasure,arousal,dominance}`, per-entity
+  `valence[]` (familiarity/regard/interaction_count), `emitted_at`. It MUST NOT
+  synthesize Tier-1 `persona_state` fields (`dominant_emotion`, `baseline_pad`,
+  `mood_drift`, `emotions_active`) — those are platform concepts Tier-3 structurally
+  lacks (ADR-0009); a fabricated empty `mood_drift` reads as a bug, not an absence.
+- **INV-002 (end_user_id is server-supplied, never browser).** The web proxy reads
+  `end_user_id` from `app.state.end_user_id` (RATATOSKR_END_USER_ID); it MUST NOT accept
+  one from the browser body/query. Mirrors #17 INV-006 — a client cannot read an
+  arbitrary end-user's affect partition.
+- **INV-003 (empty/missing is fail-visible).** No emit yet for (agent, user) → an
+  EXPLICIT no-data state (provider 404 `no_affect_snapshot`; pane shows "no affect
+  emitted yet for this agent / user"). NEVER a zeroed `pad:{0,0,0}` that looks like real
+  PAD. A missing/unset `RATATOSKR_END_USER_ID` is a visible config error, not a silent
+  empty result.
+- **INV-004 (op-feed + scope semantics untouched).** The read route is non-bifrost and
+  sits OUTSIDE `opfeed._BIFROST_PATHS`, so the op-feed passes it through and emits no
+  OpEvent for it. Deliverable 2 changes neither op-feed behavior nor store scope/affect
+  semantics; the store stays conduit-opaque (it returns the stored blob verbatim).
+- **INV-005 (label honesty).** When the pane renders affect-store data it is labelled
+  "affect" (e.g. "affect snapshot"), NOT "persona" — the data is affect, not Worldtree
+  persona_state, and the label must not imply otherwise.
+- **INV-006 (SQLite busy_timeout).** Every affect-store connection sets
+  `busy_timeout >= 5000ms`. WAL permits one writer + many readers but the default
+  busy_timeout is 0 (a contended write returns SQLITE_BUSY immediately). This is prep
+  for the future composite/standalone two-process topology; harmless single-process.
+- **INV-007 (read route on the store owner; pane decoupled via configured URL).** The
+  read route is mounted by whatever app owns the affect store; the pane proxies to
+  `RATATOSKR_AFFECT_READ_URL`, so it renders regardless of which endpoint a session is
+  bound to. The deferred composite (Deliverable 1) will mount the SAME read route over
+  the SAME `affect.db` — one shared helper, not a composite-only feature.
+- **INV-008 (colon-id round-trip).** A Tier-3 `agent_id` containing `:`
+  (`ratatoskr:sindra`) round-trips browser → web (`encodeURIComponent`) → provider (web
+  re-encodes via `quote(agent_id, safe='')` into the provider path) → `store.get`. Both
+  hops are asserted end-to-end with a colon-id (Heid panel FM-7).
+
+## Data flow
+
+PANE LOAD (poll, no SSE): on session-start and after each turn-end, the pane calls
+`loadPersona(agentId)`. For a colon-id (Tier-3) agent it dispatches to `loadAffect` →
+`GET /api/affect/{agent_id}` → the web server supplies `end_user_id` server-side →
+proxies to `GET {affect_read_url}/affect/state/{quote(agent_id)}?end_user_id=…` → the
+provider reads `store.get(agent_id, end_user_id)` → snapshot JSON (200) or
+`no_affect_snapshot` (404) → `renderAffectPane` or the explicit empty-state. For a
+non-colon (Tier-1) agent, the existing `persona_state` path is unchanged.
+
+## Function contracts
+
+```contract
+FN build_affect_provider_app(store: RatatoskrAffectStore, heimdall_key: bytes, consumer_id: str = "ratatoskr") -> ASGIApp
+BRIEF: Compose the PAD read route + the bifrost affect app into one Starlette app, so the affect provider also serves the non-bifrost read.
+
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] store.affect_supported is True -- else ValueError (unchanged)
+PRE: [PRE-002 hard] heimdall_key is non-empty bytes -- else ValueError (unchanged)
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] returns the bifrost affect app with an added top-level GET /affect/state/{agent_id} route -- assert
+POST: [POST-002 return_value] /bifrost/handshake + /bifrost/affect-call remain top-level routes so the op-feed still matches them (INV-004) -- assert
+STEPS:
+  1. app = build_affect_app(store, verifier, registration) as today (after the existing PRE guards)
+  2. define _affect_state_route closing over store (see FN affect_state_route)
+  3. app.add_route('/affect/state/{agent_id}', _affect_state_route, methods=['GET']); return app
+```
+
+```contract
+FN affect_state_route(request) -> JSONResponse   # provider-side, closes over store
+BRIEF: Read store.get(agent_id, end_user_id) and return the snapshot or an explicit no-data 404.
+
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] end_user_id query param present and non-empty -- else 400 missing_end_user_id (INV-003)
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] store.get returns a snapshot → 200 with the snapshot JSON verbatim (conduit-opaque) -- assert
+POST: [POST-002 return_value] store.get returns None → 404 {error_code:"no_affect_snapshot", agent_id, end_user_id} (INV-003) -- assert
+STEPS:
+  1. agent_id = path_params['agent_id']; end_user_id = query_params.get('end_user_id')
+  2. guard end_user_id (PRE-001); snap = store.get(agent_id, end_user_id)
+  3. snap is None → 404 no_affect_snapshot; else 200 snap
+```
+
+```contract
+FN affect_state_endpoint(request) -> JSONResponse   # web-side proxy
+BRIEF: Proxy GET /api/affect/{agent_id} to the configured provider read URL, supplying end_user_id server-side, colon-id safe.
+
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] app.state.affect_read_url and app.state.end_user_id are set -- else 400 affect_not_configured (INV-002/003)
+POST: [POST-001 state_change] the upstream request carries end_user_id from app.state, NEVER from the browser (INV-002) -- assert
+POST: [POST-002 return_value] provider 200 → 200 with the snapshot; provider 404/400 → same status passthrough -- assert
+POST: [POST-003 exception] httpx.RequestError reaching the provider → 502 affect_provider_unreachable -- assert
+POST: [POST-004 side_effect] agent_id is quote()'d into the provider path so a colon-id round-trips (INV-008) -- assert
+STEPS:
+  1. agent_id = path_params['agent_id']; read affect_read_url + end_user_id from app.state; guard (PRE-001)
+  2. url = f"{affect_read_url}/affect/state/{quote(agent_id, safe='')}"
+  3. GET url with params {end_user_id}; on RequestError → 502; else passthrough (status, json)
+```
+
+## ERROR_ROUTING
+
+| Wire (provider) | Web proxy → browser | Pane render |
+|---|---|---|
+| 200 snapshot | 200 snapshot | `renderAffectPane` (pad + valence + emitted_at) |
+| 404 `no_affect_snapshot` | 404 `no_affect_snapshot` | "no affect emitted yet for this agent / user" (INV-003) |
+| 400 `missing_end_user_id` | (server always supplies it) | n/a — config bug surfaced as `affect_not_configured` |
+| (provider unreachable) | 502 `affect_provider_unreachable` | "affect provider unavailable" |
+| (server misconfig) | 400 `affect_not_configured` | "affect telemetry not configured" |
+
+## Acceptance
+
+Unit (respx + in-process store):
+1. provider read route: seeded store → 200 with the exact snapshot; unseeded (agent,user) → 404 `no_affect_snapshot`; missing `end_user_id` → 400.
+2. provider app: `/bifrost/handshake` + `/bifrost/affect-call` still reachable after the read route is composed in (INV-004 / POST-002).
+3. web proxy: supplies server `end_user_id` (browser-supplied one is ignored); colon-id `ratatoskr:sindra` round-trips into the provider path (INV-008); provider-unreachable → 502; unconfigured → 400.
+4. op-feed: a request to `/affect/state/...` produces NO OpEvent (INV-004).
+5. busy_timeout: `open_affect_store` connection reports `busy_timeout == 5000` (INV-006).
+
+Live-smoke (load-bearing, manual — the repo's posture): with the affect provider up and a
+prior emit for `ratatoskr:sindra` / the configured end_user, open the web pane on that agent
+→ the pane renders live PAD + valence + `emitted_at` from OUR store (no "telemetry isn't
+exposed"); on a fresh (agent,user) with no emit → the explicit empty-state, not a zeroed PAD.
+
+## Deliverable 1 — composite endpoint (`build_combined_app`)
+
+### Context
+
+One bound Worldtree session that both remembers (memory.*) AND shows live PAD
+(affect.*). bifrost 0.10.0 ships `bifrost.consumer.build_combined_app(memory_store,
+affect_store, verifier, registration, maintenance_store=None) -> ASGIApp`: ONE app
+exposing handshake + `/bifrost/memory-call` + `/bifrost/affect-call` (no legacy
+`/bifrost/tool-call`), advertising BOTH caps by store PRESENCE. FR-1 is resolved:
+Worldtree runs one `BifrostClient` per session off a single `_endpoint_url`, parses
+`capabilities_granted` independently into memory+affect sets, and attaches each store
+iff its cap was granted — so a single `:8392` endpoint advertising both caps drives
+both planes with ZERO Worldtree change. D1 is bifrost-only on our side: compose the
+combined app + mount our existing affect read route + derive the op-feed plane per
+path. It is ADDITIVE — the standalone `:8390`/`:8391` apps are unchanged.
+
+### Public surface (D1)
+
+```python
+# ratatoskr.provider.combined — a NEW module (the composite spans both planes, so it
+# belongs in neither store module).
+def build_combined_provider_app(
+    memory_store: RatatoskrMemoryStore,
+    affect_store: RatatoskrAffectStore,
+    heimdall_key: bytes,
+    consumer_id: str = "ratatoskr",
+):
+    """Wire the JWT verifier + registration, hand BOTH stores to
+    bifrost.consumer.build_combined_app, then mount the SAME non-bifrost affect read
+    route (the shared helper) as a top-level sibling. Returns a Starlette app exposing
+    /bifrost/handshake + /bifrost/memory-call + /bifrost/affect-call + GET
+    /affect/state/{agent_id}. See FN build_combined_provider_app."""
+
+# ratatoskr.provider.affect_store — the read route is extracted into a shared helper
+# so both build_affect_provider_app and build_combined_provider_app mount the SAME one.
+def add_affect_read_route(app, store: RatatoskrAffectStore) -> None: ...
+
+# ratatoskr.provider.serve_combined — `ratatoskr-combined-provider` console script,
+# :8392. Opens BOTH affect.db + memory.db stores; wires the op-feed with plane='combined'.
+```
+
+### Invariants (D1)
+
+- **INV-009 (both stores REQUIRED).** `build_combined_provider_app` requires a real
+  memory_store AND affect_store; bifrost's `build_combined_app` raises `ValueError`
+  if either is None (single-plane consumers use `build_affect_app`/`build_memory_app`).
+  We pass our real SQLite-backed stores; no in-memory default.
+- **INV-010 (advertise BOTH caps by store PRESENCE).** The combined handshake grants
+  `memory` and `affect` by the presence of each advertising store (memory needs
+  `describe_store`; affect needs `affect_supported` + `emit` + `fetch`, strong-or-absent
+  — see the affect-provider contract INV-010) — NOT a runtime health probe. The affect
+  cap therefore depends on Deliverable-prerequisite `affect.fetch` already shipped.
+- **INV-011 (SAME affect read route, shared helper).** The composite mounts the
+  identical `GET /affect/state/{agent_id}` route over the SAME affect store, via the
+  shared `add_affect_read_route` helper — NOT a composite-only reimplementation
+  (fulfils the D2 INV-007 promise). The pane reads it through `RATATOSKR_AFFECT_READ_URL`
+  regardless of whether the bound endpoint is `:8390` or `:8392`.
+- **INV-012 (op-feed plane derived PER request path).** On the composite, the op-feed
+  cannot use a fixed `plane` — both planes share one app. With `plane='combined'` it
+  derives the OpEvent plane from `scope['path']`: `/bifrost/memory-call`→`memory`,
+  `/bifrost/affect-call`→`affect`, `/bifrost/handshake`→`combined`. The per-verb
+  summary logic already keys on path, so memory/affect summaries stay correct; this is
+  purely the plane STAMP. The non-bifrost read route stays outside `_BIFROST_PATHS`
+  (no OpEvent), unchanged.
+- **INV-013 (per-plane failure isolation is bifrost's, honest).** Failure isolation is
+  per-route CALL-TIME dispatch isolation within ONE shared ASGI process — a memory-call
+  failure does not corrupt an affect-call and vice-versa. Bind-time + process-crash are
+  SHARED domains (one process), not independent services; the contract does not claim
+  otherwise. We add no isolation layer of our own.
+- **INV-014 (additive — standalones unchanged).** `:8392` is a NEW endpoint alongside
+  `:8390`/`:8391`; `build_affect_provider_app`/`build_memory_provider_app` and their
+  serve entrypoints are untouched. The composite + a standalone may open the SAME
+  `affect.db` (two processes) — hence the affect store's `busy_timeout` (D2 INV-006).
+
+### Function contracts (D1)
+
+```contract
+FN add_affect_read_route(app, store: RatatoskrAffectStore) -> None
+BRIEF: Mount the non-bifrost GET /affect/state/{agent_id} read route on `app` (shared by the affect-only and combined apps). Extracted from build_affect_provider_app verbatim (INV-011 / D2 INV-007).
+POST: [POST-001 side_effect] app gains a top-level GET /affect/state/{agent_id} route reading store.get -- assert route present
+POST: [POST-002 side_effect] /bifrost/* routes remain top-level (the helper only adds; never Mounts) so the op-feed path-check still matches them (D2 INV-004) -- assert
+STEPS:
+  1. define _affect_state_route closing over store (PRE: end_user_id present → else 400 missing_end_user_id; store.get None → 404 no_affect_snapshot; else 200 snap verbatim)
+  2. app.add_route('/affect/state/{agent_id}', _affect_state_route, methods=['GET'])
+```
+
+```contract
+FN build_combined_provider_app(memory_store: RatatoskrMemoryStore, affect_store: RatatoskrAffectStore, heimdall_key: bytes, consumer_id: str = "ratatoskr") -> ASGIApp
+BRIEF: Compose bifrost.consumer.build_combined_app over BOTH stores + mount the shared affect read route — one app fronting both planes plus the PAD read.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] affect_store.affect_supported is True -- else ValueError (INV-010)
+PRE: [PRE-002 hard] heimdall_key is non-empty bytes -- else ValueError
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] returns a Starlette app exposing /bifrost/handshake + /bifrost/memory-call + /bifrost/affect-call + GET /affect/state/{agent_id} -- assert routes present
+POST: [POST-002 return_value] a combined handshake requesting [memory, affect] is granted BOTH caps (store presence, INV-010) -- assert
+POST: [POST-003 return_value] both a memory-call and an affect-call dispatch through the one app (parity vs the standalone apps' behavior) -- assert
+STEPS:
+  1. guard PRE-001/002; SET verifier = JwtVerifier(HS256, heimdall_key); SET registration = ConsumerRegistration(consumer_id)
+  2. SET app = bifrost.consumer.build_combined_app(memory_store, affect_store, verifier, registration)
+  3. add_affect_read_route(app, affect_store); RETURN app
+TESTS:
+  builds_both_planes [happy,tracer]: valid stores + key → app with handshake + memory-call + affect-call + /affect/state routes
+  handshake_grants_both [scenario]: handshake requesting [memory, affect] → capabilities_granted contains BOTH (INV-010)
+  memory_and_affect_dispatch [scenario]: a memory search + an affect emit both succeed through the one app via dispatch JWTs (INV-013)
+  affect_read_route_on_composite [happy]: seeded affect store → GET /affect/state/{colon-id} returns the snapshot (INV-011)
+  missing_affect_store [adversarial]: affect_store=None → ValueError (bifrost INV-001)
+```
+
+```contract
+FN serve_combined.main() -> None
+BRIEF: `ratatoskr-combined-provider` entrypoint — open both stores, build the combined app, wire the op-feed (plane='combined'), serve on :8392.
+STEPS:
+  1. open_affect_store(RATATOSKR_AFFECT_DB) + open_memory_store(RATATOSKR_MEMORY_DB)
+  2. app = build_combined_provider_app(memory_store, affect_store, heimdall_key, consumer_id)
+  3. app = maybe_instrument_from_env(app, env, plane='combined')  -- op-feed derives plane per path (INV-012)
+  4. uvicorn.run(app, host, port=8392)
+TESTS:
+  (serve wiring is exercised by the unit tests for build_combined_provider_app + the op-feed plane='combined' tests; the uvicorn.run line is a thin shell, smoke-only)
+```
+
+### Acceptance (D1)
+
+Unit (in-process, dispatch JWTs via `bifrost.core.dispatch_jwt.mint_dispatch_jwt` — the #17 posture):
+1. `build_combined_provider_app` → app with all four routes; handshake grants both caps.
+2. a memory `search` + an affect `emit` both dispatch through the one app (INV-013).
+3. the affect read route works on the composite for a colon-id (INV-011).
+4. `affect_store=None` → ValueError (INV-009).
+5. op-feed `plane='combined'`: a memory-call stamps `plane='memory'`, an affect-call stamps `plane='affect'`, a handshake stamps `plane='combined'` (INV-012); the read route emits NO OpEvent.
+
+Live-smoke (manual, the repo's posture): start `:8392`, bind a Tier-3 session to it, drive a turn → the op-feed shows BOTH a memory op and an affect emit at the bound session_id; the web pane (pointed at `:8392` via `RATATOSKR_AFFECT_READ_URL`) renders live PAD. Then ping bifrost-dev that the composite landed.
+
+## Out of scope / DEFERRED (anti-creep)
+
+- **Deliverable 1 — composite :8392 endpoint** — RESOLVED: now in scope, see
+  § *Deliverable 1* above (bifrost 0.10.0 `build_combined_app` shipped + FR-1 resolved).
+- WT #289 mediated affect-read (`affect.fetch` over bifrost) — we own the store, read it
+  directly; no Worldtree dependency.
+- Production hardening (TLS/RS256 on the read route; auth on /affect/state) — internal-LAN
+  trust model, consistent with the rest of ratatoskr.web.
+- Real-time push of PAD into the pane — Tier-3 emits no affect SSE; v1 polls. A push channel
+  would need a Worldtree-side affect SSE, out of scope.

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   limit_above_max [adversarial]: limit=300 → AssertionError; no HTTP issued
   empty_cursor [adversarial]: cursor="" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued
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+
+## Amendment 2026-06-30 — boot-time introspection reads (v1 coverage-audit: capabilities+me)
+
+The v1 coverage-audit added two read-only server-introspection endpoints as
+cheap debug primitives (surfaced via a new `ratatoskr --whoami` one-shot). Both
+mirror `get_persona_state`: GET, 200 → parsed dict verbatim, any non-200 →
+`SessionApiFailed`. The frozen OpenAPI types both responses as freeform objects,
+so the wrappers return `dict[str, Any]` (not a typed dataclass).
+
+```contract
+FN get_me(client: httpx.AsyncClient) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: GET /me — the authenticated principal's identity + key metadata (spec §GET /me). Boot-time whoami: verify the key without agent-config side effects. Returns parsed JSON verbatim; spec documents {user_id, scopes, tier, display_name?, key_id?, key_label?, ...} with optional fields OMITTED (not null). Read-only, rate-exempt, no audit emission.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client is not None -- assert client is not None
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] on 200 returns resp.json() unmodified -- assert result == resp.json()
+ERROR_ROUTING:
+  HTTP non-200 (incl. 401 bad/absent key when auth enabled):
+    local_handling: raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+    flow_control: abort
+    state_recovery: none (caller decides: bad key → re-key; degraded tier="unknown" is still a 200)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, prescriptive] assert client is not None
+  2. [sequential, prescriptive] resp = await client.get("/me")
+  3. [branch, prescriptive] IF resp.status_code == 200: RETURN resp.json(); ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed
+TESTS:
+  happy_authenticated [happy,tracer]: 200 {user_id, scopes, tier, key_id} → dict returned verbatim
+  anonymous_dev_mode: 200 {user_id:"anonymous", tier:"anonymous"} → dict; no key_* fields (omitted)
+  401_raises [error]: 401 → SessionApiFailed(status=401)
+
+FN get_capabilities(client: httpx.AsyncClient) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: GET /capabilities — server capability discovery (spec §Ephemeral Templates). Returns {ephemeral_templates: {echo: {allowed_models, default_model, system_prompt_max_bytes}}}. Any authenticated caller may read it (no instantiate scope). Parsed dict verbatim; any non-200 → SessionApiFailed.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client is not None -- assert client is not None
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] on 200 returns resp.json() unmodified -- assert result == resp.json()
+ERROR_ROUTING:
+  HTTP non-200:
+    local_handling: raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+    flow_control: abort
+    state_recovery: none
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, prescriptive] assert client is not None
+  2. [sequential, prescriptive] resp = await client.get("/capabilities")
+  3. [branch, prescriptive] IF resp.status_code == 200: RETURN resp.json(); ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed
+TESTS:
+  happy [happy]: 200 {ephemeral_templates:{echo:{...}}} → dict returned verbatim
+  non_200_raises [error]: 500 → SessionApiFailed(status=500)
+```
+
+## Amendment 2026-07-01 — session tool introspection (v1 coverage-audit)
+
+Owner-scoped tool-inventory read (spec #183, `GET /sessions/{id}/tools`),
+surfaced in the TUI Tools pane on session-attach. Same shape as the other
+introspection wrappers: GET, 200 → parsed dict verbatim, non-200 →
+`SessionApiFailed`. Reachable with the consumer key (no admin scope), unlike the
+admin variant `GET /admin/sessions/{id}/tools`.
+
+```contract
+FN get_session_tools(client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: GET /sessions/{session_id}/tools — owner-scoped merged tool inventory (spec #183) the LLM saw at turn-fire: {agent_id, builtin_tools: [...], bifrost_tools: [{name, description, parameters}, ...]}. Owner gate (ctx.user_id == session.user_id); cross-owner → 404 session_not_found (existence-hiding), revoked → 401 auth_revoked. Parsed dict verbatim; any non-200 → SessionApiFailed.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client is not None -- assert client is not None
+PRE: [PRE-002 hard] session_id is non-empty str -- assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] on 200 returns resp.json() unmodified -- assert result == resp.json()
+ERROR_ROUTING:
+  HTTP non-200 (incl. 404 session_not_found cross-owner/unknown, 401 auth_revoked):
+    local_handling: raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+    flow_control: abort
+    state_recovery: none
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, prescriptive] assert PRE-001, PRE-002
+  2. [sequential, prescriptive] resp = await client.get(f"/sessions/{session_id}/tools")
+  3. [branch, prescriptive] IF resp.status_code == 200: RETURN resp.json(); ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed
+TESTS:
+  happy [happy,tracer]: 200 {agent_id, builtin_tools:[], bifrost_tools:[{name,...}]} → dict verbatim
+  cross_owner_404 [error]: 404 session_not_found → SessionApiFailed(status=404)
+  empty_session_id [adversarial]: "" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued
+```
+
+## Amendment 2026-07-01 — admin BifrostState read (v1 coverage-audit)
+
+Admin-scoped Bifrost dispatch-state read (spec #176, `GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost`),
+surfaced in the TUI BifrostState pane on session-attach. The first admin-key
+consumer in ratatoskr: requires the `admin.sessions.read` scope, so the request
+OVERRIDES the Authorization header with the caller-supplied `admin_key` (distinct
+from the client's default consumer key). Same result-shape convention as the
+other introspection wrappers: 200 → parsed dict verbatim, non-200 → `SessionApiFailed`.
+
+```contract
+FN get_session_bifrost(client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str, *, admin_key: str) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: GET /admin/sessions/{session_id}/bifrost — admin-scoped live Bifrost binding (spec #176): {endpoint_url, consumer_id, connected, capabilities_granted, tools:[{name, description}]}. Requires admin.sessions.read; the request sets Authorization: Bearer <admin_key> (override), NOT the client's default consumer bearer. Parsed dict verbatim; any non-200 → SessionApiFailed — notably 403 auth_scope_denied and 404 session_not_bifrost_bound.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client is not None -- assert client is not None
+PRE: [PRE-002 hard] session_id is non-empty str -- assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+PRE: [PRE-003 hard] admin_key is non-empty str -- assert admin_key and isinstance(admin_key, str)
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] on 200 returns resp.json() unmodified -- assert result == resp.json()
+POST: [POST-002 state_change] the outbound request Authorization header == f"Bearer {admin_key}" (override) -- assert request.headers["Authorization"] == "Bearer " + admin_key
+ERROR_ROUTING:
+  HTTP non-200 (incl. 403 auth_scope_denied, 404 session_not_found / session_not_bifrost_bound):
+    local_handling: raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+    flow_control: abort
+    state_recovery: none (caller decides: 403 → key lacks scope; 404 not-bound → benign unbound session)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, prescriptive] assert PRE-001..PRE-003
+  2. [sequential, prescriptive] resp = await client.get(f"/admin/sessions/{session_id}/bifrost", headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {admin_key}"})
+  3. [branch, prescriptive] IF resp.status_code == 200: RETURN resp.json(); ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed
+TESTS:
+  happy_uses_admin_bearer [happy,tracer]: 200 {endpoint_url, connected, capabilities_granted, tools} → dict verbatim; request Authorization == "Bearer <admin_key>" (override)
+  scope_denied_403 [error]: 403 → SessionApiFailed(status=403)
+  not_bound_404 [error]: 404 session_not_bifrost_bound → SessionApiFailed(status=404)
+  empty_admin_key [adversarial]: admin_key="" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued
+```
+
+## Amendment 2026-07-01 — Tier-2: transient characters + persona-state write (v1 coverage-audit)
+
+The last in-scope client I/O points. Transient-character CRUD (#161) surfaced
+via a `--characters` one-shot lifecycle probe; persona-state write surfaced via
+`--set-persona-pad "p,a,d"` (requires `--session`). All mirror the existing
+wrappers: parsed dict verbatim (or None on 204), any off-status → SessionApiFailed.
+**Note:** `set_persona_state`'s request body is FREEFORM — the frozen OpenAPI 2.2.0
+declares no request schema and the prose spec documents only the GET counterpart,
+so the caller supplies the snapshot shape. **Canonical (worldtree-dev prose #317,
+`c9e59ec`): `{pad:{pleasure,arousal,dominance}}` — a named-key dict, NOT a list;
+`--set-persona-pad` builds + sends the named dict (each float in [-1,1]).**
+
+```contract
+FN list_character_models(client) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: GET /models/available-for-characters (character.read). Returns {items:[{name, description, thinking}]}. Non-200 → SessionApiFailed.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client is not None
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] on 200 returns resp.json() unmodified
+STEPS:
+  1. [sequential, prescriptive] resp = await client.get("/models/available-for-characters"); IF 200 RETURN resp.json(); ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed
+TESTS:
+  list_models [happy,tracer]: 200 {items:[{name:"fast"}]} → dict verbatim
+
+FN create_character(client, character: dict, *, state: dict | None = None) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: POST /characters (character.write). Body {character, state}. Returns 201 {character_id, ttl_expires_at}; non-201 → SessionApiFailed.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client is not None; [PRE-002 hard] character is a non-empty dict
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] on 201 returns resp.json(); [POST-002 side_effect] outbound body == {"character": <arg>, "state": <state|null>}
+STEPS:
+  1. [sequential, prescriptive] resp = await client.post("/characters", json={"character": character, "state": state}); IF 201 RETURN resp.json(); ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed
+TESTS:
+  create [happy]: 201 → {character_id}; body is {character, state:null}
+  create_403 [error]: 403 auth_scope_denied → SessionApiFailed(403)
+
+FN get_character_state(client, character_id: str) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: GET /characters/{id}/state (character.read). Live PAD/emotions snapshot; refreshes TTL. Non-200 → SessionApiFailed.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client not None; [PRE-002 hard] character_id non-empty str
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] on 200 returns resp.json()
+STEPS:
+  1. [sequential, prescriptive] resp = await client.get(f"/characters/{character_id}/state"); IF 200 RETURN resp.json(); ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed
+TESTS:
+  get_state [happy]: 200 {pad:[...]} → dict verbatim
+
+FN delete_character(client, character_id: str) -> None
+BRIEF: DELETE /characters/{id} (character.write). 200/204 → None; other → SessionApiFailed.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client not None; [PRE-002 hard] character_id non-empty str
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] on 200/204 returns None
+STEPS:
+  1. [sequential, prescriptive] resp = await client.delete(f"/characters/{character_id}"); IF status in (200,204) RETURN None; ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed
+TESTS:
+  delete [happy]: 204 → None
+
+FN set_persona_state(client, session_id: str, snapshot: dict) -> None
+BRIEF: POST /sessions/{session_id}/persona_state — set a session's persona state (affect injection). Request body is the FREEFORM snapshot (caller-supplied; unpinned in the frozen surface). 204 → None; other → SessionApiFailed.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client not None; [PRE-002 hard] session_id non-empty str; [PRE-003 hard] snapshot is a dict
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] on 204 returns None; [POST-002 side_effect] outbound body == snapshot verbatim
+STEPS:
+  1. [sequential, prescriptive] resp = await client.post(f"/sessions/{session_id}/persona_state", json=snapshot); IF 204 RETURN None; ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed
+TESTS:
+  happy [happy]: 204 → None; body == {"pad":{"pleasure","arousal","dominance"}} verbatim (canonical named-key dict, #317)
+  non_204 [error]: 422 → SessionApiFailed(422)
+```
+
+## Amendment 2026-07-06 — authored-history write (#347, v1 coverage-audit re-open)
+
+Worldtree shipped #347 (authored-history-write) as OpenAPI 2.3.0: a new
+`POST /sessions/{session_id}/history` primitive that writes ONE model-visible
+turn into a session's ledger AS the bound agent, WITHOUT a generation and
+WITHOUT lived-turn side effects (the SillyTavern "first message"). The re-vendor
+(2.2.0→2.3.0, pin `879cefe`) re-opened the v1 coverage-audit with this one new
+in-scope REST path-group; this amendment closes it on the consumer side and also
+un-defers `GET /sessions/{id}/messages` (previously §Out of scope) as the seed's
+read-back.
+
+**Hide-existence (server INV-347-1) — the load-bearing consumer contract.** The
+`session.history.write` grant is checked FIRST — an ungranted caller (or a
+non-owner, or an unknown session) gets a 404 **byte-identical** to a genuine
+`session_not_found`, never a 403/409/422 that would reveal the feature exists.
+The consumer MUST honor this: treat 404 as **feature-absent**, fall back (a
+production consumer to a model-generated greeting), and NEVER capability-probe to
+tell feature-absent from ungranted from session-absent. The wrapper encodes it by
+raising a DISTINCT `AuthoredHistoryUnavailable` on 404 (NOT `SessionApiFailed`),
+so a caller branches feature-absent without inspecting a status code.
+
+**Request body — v1-minimal, wire-pinned by the server.** The frozen OpenAPI 2.3.0
+exports an empty request schema, but the server pins `AuthoredWriteRequest`
+(`extra="forbid"`): `{author, content, idempotency_key, effects?,
+claimed_original_at?}`. v1: `author="assistant"` (only value), `content` (UTF-8,
+server-bounded at `authored_content_max_bytes`=8192), `idempotency_key` (REQUIRED,
+per-session dedup), `effects` omitted (== "none"; only value). Because
+`extra="forbid"`, the wrapper omits `effects`/`claimed_original_at` when None
+(never sends null). Success is 201 (fresh) OR 200 (idempotent replay,
+byte-identical body); both return the `AuthoredTurnResponse` `{author,
+content_chars, injected_at, phase, seq, session_id, turn_id}` verbatim (provenance
+is audit-only, NEVER on this body — INV-347-7).
+
+**Assistant-first provider constraint (deferred, inert for the probe).** A
+create-time first-message makes the assistant seq-0 (assistant-first history);
+Anthropic-family providers 400 the *next generation*, vLLM/openai_compat tolerate
+it. The `--seed-first-message` probe seeds but does NOT generate, so the
+constraint is inert for the probe — a real consumer that then generates must bind
+an assistant-first-tolerant provider.
+
+```contract
+FN write_authored_history(client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str, *, content: str, idempotency_key: str, author: str = "assistant", effects: str | None = None, claimed_original_at: str | None = None) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: POST /sessions/{session_id}/history — the #347 authored-history-write primitive (write one model-visible turn as the bound agent, no generation, no side effects). Body {author, content, idempotency_key} + "effects"/"claimed_original_at" only when non-None (server AuthoredWriteRequest is extra="forbid"). Success 200 (replay) or 201 (fresh) → AuthoredTurnResponse dict verbatim. 404 → AuthoredHistoryUnavailable (hide-existence: feature-absent/ungranted/session-absent, indistinguishable by design — consumer falls back, never probes). Any other non-2xx → SessionApiFailed.
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client is not None -- assert client is not None
+PRE: [PRE-002 hard] session_id is a non-empty str -- assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+PRE: [PRE-003 hard] content is a non-empty str -- assert content and isinstance(content, str)
+PRE: [PRE-004 hard] idempotency_key is a non-empty str -- assert idempotency_key and isinstance(idempotency_key, str)
+PRE: [PRE-005 hard] author is a non-empty str -- assert author and isinstance(author, str)
+POST: [POST-001 side_effect] exactly one POST to /sessions/{session_id}/history; body == {"author": author, "content": content, "idempotency_key": idempotency_key} plus "effects" iff effects is not None plus "claimed_original_at" iff claimed_original_at is not None (no null-valued keys — extra="forbid")
+POST: [POST-002 return_value] on 200 or 201 returns resp.json() unmodified
+ERROR_ROUTING:
+  HTTP 404 (hide-existence session_not_found):
+    local_handling: raise AuthoredHistoryUnavailable(session_id=session_id)
+    flow_control: abort
+    state_recovery: caller treats as feature-absent; fall back to a model-generated greeting; NEVER capability-probe (INV-347-1)
+  HTTP other non-2xx (incl. 409 generation_active, 422 content_too_long/validation_failed, 401 auth_revoked, 410 session_retired):
+    local_handling: raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+    flow_control: abort
+    state_recovery: none (409 retryable; 422 caller bug/oversize)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, flexibility=prescriptive] assert PRE-001..PRE-005
+  2. [sequential, flexibility=prescriptive] body = {"author": author, "content": content, "idempotency_key": idempotency_key}; IF effects is not None: body["effects"] = effects; IF claimed_original_at is not None: body["claimed_original_at"] = claimed_original_at
+  3. [sequential, flexibility=prescriptive] resp = await client.post(f"/sessions/{session_id}/history", json=body)
+     tool: { destructive: false, idempotent: true, read_only: false, open_world: false }
+  4. [branch, flexibility=prescriptive] IF resp.status_code in (200, 201): RETURN resp.json(); ELIF resp.status_code == 404: RAISE AuthoredHistoryUnavailable(session_id=session_id); ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+TESTS:
+  happy_fresh_201 [happy,tracer]: 201 {author:"assistant", seq:0, phase:"seeded", turn_id, content_chars, session_id, injected_at} → dict verbatim; outbound body == {"author":"assistant","content":<c>,"idempotency_key":<k>} exactly (no effects/claimed_original_at keys)
+  happy_replay_200 [happy]: 200 (same-key replay, byte-identical body) → dict verbatim
+  body_includes_effects [trace]: effects="none" → outbound body has "effects":"none"; claimed_original_at="2020-01-01T00:00:00Z" → body has that key too
+  hide_existence_404 [error]: 404 {error_code:"session_not_found"} → raises AuthoredHistoryUnavailable(session_id=<arg>), NOT SessionApiFailed
+  generation_active_409 [error]: 409 {error_code:"generation_active"} → SessionApiFailed(status=409)
+  content_too_long_422 [error]: 422 {error_code:"content_too_long"} → SessionApiFailed(status=422)
+  empty_content [adversarial]: content="" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued
+  empty_idempotency_key [adversarial]: idempotency_key="" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued
+  empty_session_id [adversarial]: session_id="" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued
+
+FN get_session_messages(client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: GET /sessions/{session_id}/messages — the session's message history (spec §GET /sessions/{id}/messages), un-deferred as the #347 probe's read-back so a seeded turn can be confirmed to render as a normal role=assistant message (model-invisible provenance — a seed is indistinguishable from a lived turn on read). Returns {session_id, items:[{seq, role, content, ...}], next_cursor} verbatim. Owner-scoped; any non-200 → SessionApiFailed. v1 reads the server default page (no pagination params — the probe reads a fresh 1-message session; add limit/cursor when a caller needs scrollback).
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] client is not None -- assert client is not None
+PRE: [PRE-002 hard] session_id is a non-empty str -- assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] on 200 returns resp.json() unmodified
+ERROR_ROUTING:
+  HTTP non-200 (incl. 404 session_not_found cross-owner/unknown):
+    local_handling: raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+    flow_control: abort
+    state_recovery: none
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, flexibility=prescriptive] assert PRE-001, PRE-002
+  2. [sequential, flexibility=prescriptive] resp = await client.get(f"/sessions/{session_id}/messages")
+  3. [branch, flexibility=prescriptive] IF resp.status_code == 200: RETURN resp.json(); ELSE RAISE SessionApiFailed
+TESTS:
+  happy [happy]: 200 {session_id, items:[{seq:0, role:"assistant", content:"…"}], next_cursor:null} → dict verbatim
+  not_found_404 [error]: 404 → SessionApiFailed(status=404)
+  empty_session_id [adversarial]: "" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued
+```

docs/contracts/issues/6.contract.md

@@ -372,3 +372,64 @@ test layer.
 - Issue #7 (mid-stream robustness, `MalformedSseData`) — landed; #6's
   pre/in-alt-screen split is orthogonal to #7's empty-data/malformed
   distinction (different error layers entirely).
+
+## Amendment 2026-06-30 — startup session picker (v1 coverage-audit, slice b2)
+
+The v1 coverage-audit found `list_sessions` had **no caller** — the startup
+session picker (design-brief §4: "single-session-per-launch, with a startup
+picker invoked when more than one session exists ... plus flags `--session`/
+`--new` to skip it") was never built. Bare TUI mode (neither `--session` nor
+`--new`) was a hard usage error. This adds the picker as a pre-alt-screen
+resolution step in `_resolve_then_run`, mirroring the existing `AgentPickerApp`.
+
+**Locked design (design-brief §4):** the picker is **resume-only** (§4 negative
+clause "no in-app session creation — `--new` flag only"); shown only when **>1**
+session exists (exactly 1 auto-resumes; the launch intent is "resume the last
+session I was poking at"). `--agent` stays a `--new` companion (forbidden in bare
+mode). **bare + 0 sessions → error** `[no_sessions]` directing the operator to
+`--new` (honors the "no in-app creation" clause; the friendlier
+auto-fall-through-to-new alternative is deferred pending operator confirmation).
+
+### `_parse` validation relaxation (ratatoskr.cli._parse)
+
+- Bare TUI mode (`send is None` AND no `--session` AND no `--new`) is now VALID
+  → triggers the picker. (Previously `raise UsageError("pass exactly one of
+  --session or --new")` unconditionally.)
+- `--send` mode still requires exactly one of `--session`/`--new` (non-
+  interactive: no picker can open) → `UsageError("--send requires --session or
+  --new")`.
+- `--session` + `--new` stays mutually exclusive.
+- `--agent` in bare mode → `UsageError` (`--agent` belongs to `--new`).
+
+```contract
+FN SessionPickerApp.__init__(self, sessions: list[SessionInfo]) -> None
+BRIEF: Textual App[str | None] startup session picker (mirrors AgentPickerApp, issue #8). Opens before RatatoskrApp when bare TUI mode resolves >1 session. `run_async()` returns the chosen session_id (str) or None on Esc/Ctrl-D/Ctrl-C dismissal. Architecturally separate from RatatoskrApp (list_sessions failures + dismissal land before any alt-screen — preserves #6 INV-001).
+PRE: [PRE-001 hard] sessions is non-empty -- assert sessions (caller resolves 0-session and 1-session cases BEFORE constructing the picker)
+POST: [POST-001 return_value] run_async() returns sessions[i].session_id for the highlighted row on `pick`, or None on dismiss -- assert result in {s.session_id for s in sessions} | {None}
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, prescriptive] Store sessions; register the Australis theme (mirror AgentPickerApp).
+  2. [sequential, prescriptive] compose: Header + prompt Static + ListView of one ListItem per session (id-short + agent_id + last_active/name lines) + Footer.
+  3. [sequential, prescriptive] BINDINGS: enter→action_pick, escape/ctrl+d/ctrl+c→action_dismiss.
+  4. [branch, prescriptive] action_pick: read ListView.index; if None return (nothing highlighted); else exit(sessions[index].session_id). action_dismiss: exit(None).
+TESTS:
+  pick_returns_session_id [happy,tracer]: SessionPickerApp([s0, s1]); pilot highlights row 1 + press enter → run_async() returns s1.session_id.
+  dismiss_returns_none [happy]: press escape → run_async() returns None.
+  ctrl_d_dismisses [adversarial]: press ctrl+d → None.
+
+FN _resolve_then_run(args) — bare-mode extension (session picker)
+BRIEF: Before the existing new/resume branches, resolve bare TUI mode (not args.new AND args.session_id is None) via list_sessions + the picker. Sets a local `effective_new` and `resolved_session_id`; the existing branches then run unchanged on those locals.
+STEPS (inserted at the top of the `async with client` block):
+  1. [setup, prescriptive] SET effective_new = args.new; resolved_session_id = args.session_id.
+  2. [branch, prescriptive] IF (not args.new) AND (args.session_id is None):  # bare mode
+       a. CALL list_sessions(client) → page; ON SessionApiFailed → stderr `[session_api_failed]` + return 20; ON network error → `[network_error]` + return 21.
+       b. IF not page.items: stderr `[no_sessions] no sessions to resume; launch with --new --agent <id>` + return 14.
+       c. ELIF len(page.items) == 1: SET resolved_session_id = page.items[0].session_id.  # §4: picker only when >1
+       d. ELSE: SET resolved_session_id = await SessionPickerApp(page.items).run_async(); IF None → return 0 (Esc/Ctrl-D clean exit).
+  3. [sequential, prescriptive] Replace the two `if args.new` predicates with `if effective_new`; the resume `else` branch asserts + uses `resolved_session_id`.
+TESTS (in the `_resolve_then_run` block):
+  bare_zero_sessions_errors [error]: bare args; list_sessions → 0 items → stderr contains `[no_sessions]`; return 14; NO POST /sessions, NO picker.
+  bare_one_session_auto_resumes [scenario]: bare args; list_sessions → 1 item (sid="s-solo") → RatatoskrApp constructed with session_id="s-solo"; NO picker shown.
+  bare_multi_opens_picker [scenario,tracer]: bare args; list_sessions → 2 items; picker returns items[1].session_id → RatatoskrApp constructed with that session_id.
+  bare_picker_dismiss_exits_zero [scenario]: bare args; 2 items; picker returns None → return 0; RatatoskrApp NOT constructed.
+  bare_list_sessions_api_failure [error]: bare args; list_sessions raises SessionApiFailed(500) → stderr `[session_api_failed]`; return 20.
+```

docs/contracts/web_debug_surface.contract.md

@@ -0,0 +1,198 @@
+---
+contract_version: "2.1"
+module: "ratatoskr.web"
+purpose: "v0.19.2 web debug-surface parity: 3 admin/debug panes (Tools inventory, BifrostState, AdminEvents SSE) proxied server-side with the admin key server-held, plus a reliable PAD-refresh poll and a non-engine reasoning indicator in the transcript."
+target_module: "ratatoskr.web (server.py routes + entrypoint.py + static/index.html)"
+scope: "v0.19.2 web debug-surface parity — bring the browser surface (now the PRIMARY debug surface) to TUI parity. THREE new admin/debug panes proxied server-side + TWO transcript affordances. (1) Tools inventory: GET /api/sessions/{id}/tools proxies owner-scoped get_session_tools into the tools pane (what the LLM HAS at turn-fire), above the live tool events. (2) BifrostState pane: GET /api/sessions/{id}/bifrost proxies admin-scoped get_session_bifrost; the admin key is SERVER-HELD (app.state.admin_key from RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY), never sent to the browser. (3) AdminEvents pane: GET /api/admin/events is an SSE proxy of stream_admin_events, session-filtered SERVER-side (heartbeats + other-session events dropped), re-emitted under a fixed 'admin_event' name so every dotted type renders with one browser listener. (4) PAD refresh: the persona/affect pane polls a bounded window instead of a single 2s shot that raced the post-turn-async affect.emit. (5) Reasoning indicator: an ephemeral, clearly-non-engine transcript line on `thinking` deltas, cleared when text begins. Direct in-session TDD (the #17/#18 pattern); this contract is authored post-implementation to anchor the heid code review (the client wrappers get_session_tools/get_session_bifrost/stream_admin_events are already contracted in the sessions/sse_client specs — this contract governs the WEB proxy + presenter surface only. v0.20.0 REDESIGN (Claude Design 'Ratatoskr Console' import): the tabbed telemetry column is replaced by a 3-column command-console — a left engine-ticker rail (the DEBUG + ADMIN + tool/turn-lifecycle feeds MERGED into one timeline via tickerAdd, plus a tools-armed chip list + a full-detail Bifrost rail pane) · a center conversation (per-turn INLINE chain-of-thought, replacing the separate Think pane) · a right resizable affect console (dominant/canonical-mood centerpiece + bipolar PAD faders each carrying a turn-to-turn Δ+sparkline + a P×A mood orbit + relations metric rows + canonical directive). ALL SERVER ROUTES UNCHANGED. Single-file/no-CDN/vanilla preserved; adds a light/dark theme toggle (dark default) + an inlined data-URI favicon. Presenter FN renames tracked below (renderBifrostState→renderBifrost; renderAffectPane→renderConsole; setPersonaStrip removed; tickerAdd/setFader/setFaderTrend/renderOrbit/renderDominant/renderDerived/renderRelations/renderDirective added). INV-001/INV-004 held.)."
+depends_on:
+  - "httpx"
+  - "starlette"
+  - "ratatoskr.sessions"          # get_session_tools, get_session_bifrost, SessionApiFailed
+  - "ratatoskr.sse_client"        # stream_admin_events, AdminEvent, SseConnectFailed/Dropped
+used_by:
+  - "ratatoskr.web.entrypoint"    # passes admin_key=RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY into create_app
+language: "python + vanilla JS (single-file SPA, no build)"
+complexity: "medium"
+estimated_loc: 290
+confidence: 0.8
+assumptions:
+  - "The three client wrappers exist and are already contracted: get_session_tools(client, session_id)->dict (owner-scoped, consumer bearer; non-200 -> SessionApiFailed), get_session_bifrost(client, session_id, *, admin_key)->dict (OVERRIDES Authorization with admin_key; non-200 -> SessionApiFailed), stream_admin_events(client, *, admin_key)->AsyncIterator[AdminEvent] (non-200 -> SseConnectFailed; mid-drop -> SseConnectionDropped). The web routes are thin proxies over them; they add NO new upstream semantics."
+  - "AdminEvent = {id:int, type:str, timestamp:str|None, data:dict}. data MOST carry session_id (INV-049). type is a dotted namespace (session.*/turn.*/key.*/system.*)."
+  - "The web SPA is a single static/index.html served per-request via FileResponse (edits land on browser refresh; server code changes need a restart). Model/tool/admin content is UNTRUSTED text (INV-004) — every render path escapes first (esc() via textContent, or JSON.stringify wrapped in esc())."
+  - "The internal-LAN trust model (0.0.0.0, no auth/TLS/CORS) is deliberate operator direction. Admin-scoped DATA becoming LAN-visible is accepted under that model; the admin KEY must nonetheless never cross to the browser."
+  - "Tests: respx mocks the upstream endpoints (absolute w.example URLs) driven through the TestClient; the AdminEvents SSE proxy is tested with a finite mocked SSE byte-stream asserting the filter + fixed event name. Live-proven against ratatoskr:sindra on personal :8081."
+
+# ─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+functions:
+  - name: "_session_tools_endpoint"
+    signature: "async _session_tools_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse"
+    description: "GET /api/sessions/{session_id}/tools — proxy owner-scoped tool inventory."
+    preconditions:
+      - "session_id in path_params."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: 200 with the upstream inventory dict verbatim on success."
+      - "POST-002: on SessionApiFailed(status) -> JSONResponse({error_code:'session_tools_unavailable', status}, status_code=status) — status-preserving."
+    steps: "Open client_factory() client; await get_session_tools(client, session_id); return 200. Except SessionApiFailed -> status-preserving envelope."
+    flexibility: "prescriptive"
+
+  - name: "_session_messages_endpoint"
+    signature: "async _session_messages_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse"
+    description: "GET /api/sessions/{session_id}/messages — proxy the session's message history so the SPA renders existing turns on open (notably a #347 authored first-message seeded at create-time; without it a seeded session's transcript is blank until the user speaks)."
+    preconditions:
+      - "session_id in path_params."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: 200 with the upstream {session_id, items, next_cursor} dict verbatim on success."
+      - "POST-002: on SessionApiFailed(status) -> JSONResponse({error_code:'session_messages_unavailable', status}, status_code=status) — status-preserving."
+    steps: "Open client_factory() client; await get_session_messages(client, session_id); return 200. Except SessionApiFailed -> status-preserving envelope."
+    flexibility: "prescriptive"
+
+  - name: "_session_bifrost_endpoint"
+    signature: "async _session_bifrost_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse"
+    description: "GET /api/sessions/{session_id}/bifrost — proxy admin-scoped Bifrost dispatch state."
+    preconditions:
+      - "session_id in path_params."
+      - "PRE-001 (fail-visible): app.state.admin_key must be truthy; else 400 admin_key_not_configured with NO upstream call."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: the admin key is read from app.state.admin_key ONLY; it is passed to get_session_bifrost(admin_key=...) and NEVER placed in a response body or surfaced to the browser."
+      - "POST-002: 200 with the upstream state dict verbatim on success."
+      - "POST-003: on SessionApiFailed(status) -> {error_code:'bifrost_state_unavailable', status} at status_code=status (notably 404 not-bound, 403 scope-denied)."
+    steps: "If not admin_key -> 400. Open client; await get_session_bifrost(client, session_id, admin_key=admin_key); 200. Except SessionApiFailed -> status-preserving envelope."
+    flexibility: "prescriptive"
+
+  - name: "_admin_event_matches_web"
+    signature: "_admin_event_matches_web(ev: AdminEvent, session_id: str | None) -> bool"
+    description: "AdminEvents session-filter (mirrors the TUI _admin_event_matches, design-brief §6)."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: ev.type == 'system.heartbeat' -> False (keepalive noise dropped)."
+      - "POST-002: ev.type.startswith('system.') (non-heartbeat) -> True (stream-integrity signals always pass)."
+      - "POST-003: otherwise -> True IFF session_id is not None AND ev.data.get('session_id') == session_id (per-session scoping; a None session_id forwards NO non-system event)."
+    flexibility: "prescriptive"
+
+  - name: "_admin_events_endpoint"
+    signature: "async _admin_events_endpoint(request: Request) -> Response"
+    description: "GET /api/admin/events?session_id=... — SSE proxy of stream_admin_events, session-filtered server-side."
+    preconditions:
+      - "PRE-001 (fail-visible): app.state.admin_key truthy; else 400 admin_key_not_configured with NO stream opened."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: returns StreamingResponse(media_type='text/event-stream'); the admin key never crosses to the browser."
+      - "POST-002: ONLY events passing _admin_event_matches_web(ev, session_id) are forwarded; each is re-emitted under the FIXED SSE event name 'admin_event' with {id,type,timestamp,data} in the payload (the real dotted type rides in the payload, so one browser listener renders every type — nothing silently dropped by name)."
+      - "POST-003: SseConnectFailed/SseConnectionDropped/MalformedSseId/MalformedSseData -> a single 'stream_error' SSE frame, then the stream ends (best-effort; never raises to the browser)."
+      - "POST-004: asyncio.CancelledError (browser disconnect) re-raises to unwind the generator; the upstream client is aclose()'d in finally on every exit path."
+    steps: "If not admin_key -> 400. gen(): open client; async-for ev in stream_admin_events(admin_key); skip unless _admin_event_matches_web; yield _format_sse('admin_event', {...}). Except SSE errors -> yield stream_error. Except CancelledError -> raise. Finally aclose(). Return StreamingResponse(gen())."
+    flexibility: "prescriptive"
+
+  - name: "create_app (amendment)"
+    signature: "create_app(client_factory, *, end_user_id=None, bifrost_consumer_key=None, bifrost_visible_host=None, affect_read_url=None, memory_read_url=None, admin_key=None) -> Starlette"
+    description: "New optional admin_key param stored at app.state.admin_key; entrypoint passes RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY. v0.20.7 adds memory_read_url (app.state.memory_read_url, from RATATOSKR_MEMORY_READ_URL) for the memory viewer. Four new routes registered across the arc."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: app.state.admin_key = admin_key (default None -> the two admin routes fail-visible per their PRE-001)."
+      - "POST-002: routes /api/sessions/{session_id}/tools, /api/sessions/{session_id}/bifrost, /api/admin/events added; existing routes unchanged."
+      - "POST-003 (v0.20.7): app.state.memory_read_url = memory_read_url; route /api/memory/chunks added (the memory-viewer proxy)."
+    flexibility: "closed"
+
+  - name: "reasoning indicator (index.html: showThinkingNote / hideThinkingNote)"
+    signature: "showThinkingNote() ; hideThinkingNote()  // called from the turn SSE loop"
+    description: "Ephemeral transcript affordance signalling reasoning inference — clearly NOT engine output."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: on the first `thinking` delta, an italic '<Agent> <phrase>' line (✦ glyph, rotating phrase) is shown; it supersedes any live 'awaiting first token' heartbeat."
+      - "POST-002: the agent display name is derived from state.agentId and rendered via textContent (NEVER innerHTML) — INV-004 holds even for an adversarial agent_id."
+      - "POST-003: it is removed the instant the first `text` delta arrives, and on any terminal (done/error/cancelled); the rotation interval is cleared on removal (no leaked setInterval)."
+    flexibility: "prescriptive"
+
+  - name: "PAD refresh poll (index.html: terminal() done-branch)"
+    signature: "on Done: poll loadPersona over [1500,3500,6500,10500]ms"
+    description: "Catch the post-turn-async affect.emit without racing it (replaces the single 2s shot)."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: loadAffect sets state.lastAffectAt = snap.emitted_at; the poll captures beforeAt and stops (settled) once state.lastAffectAt !== beforeAt."
+      - "POST-002: a scheduled poll no-ops if a NEW turn has started (state.turnId truthy) or already settled — no refresh of a stale agent, no unbounded polling."
+    flexibility: "open"
+
+  - name: "loadTranscript (index.html)"
+    signature: "async loadTranscript(sessionId) -> void"
+    description: "On session open, GET /api/sessions/{id}/messages and render each EXISTING turn into #transcript — notably a #347 authored first-message seeded at create-time (which lives in the ledger, not the live turn stream, so without this the transcript is blank until the user speaks)."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: assistant items render as a .response .md-body bubble via markdownSafe(content) (escape-first whitelist, same path as appendResponse); user items render as a .prompt-echo via textContent — no upstream content reaches innerHTML unescaped (INV-004)."
+      - "POST-002: any non-200, fetch error, or parse error is swallowed (best-effort) — a blank transcript is acceptable; opening the workspace is never blocked."
+    flexibility: "prescriptive"
+
+  - name: "web pane renderers (v0.20.0: index.html: renderToolsInventory / renderBifrost / openAdminEvents + tickerAdd)"
+    signature: "renderToolsInventory(inv) ; renderBifrost(b) ; openAdminEvents(sessionId) ; tickerAdd(kind, msg, dim)"
+    description: "Render the debug/admin surfaces into the 3-column console; all content escaped (INV-004). v0.20.0: BifrostState is now a full-detail LEFT-RAIL pane (renderBifrost, renamed from renderBifrostState); AdminEvents + the raw debug/op log + tool_start/result + turn lifecycle are MERGED into one engine-ticker timeline via tickerAdd (openAdminEvents routes admin_event → tickerAdd; the turn SSE handlers route worker_phase/tool/text_boundary/affect_update → tickerAdd); Tools inventory is a rail chip list (renderToolsInventory)."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: every dynamic value (agent_id, tool names/descriptions, endpoint, caps, consumer_id, admin event type + data, ticker msg/dim) is passed through esc() or esc(JSON.stringify(...)); no upstream string reaches innerHTML unescaped."
+      - "POST-002: openAdminEvents closes a prior EventSource before opening a new one (state.adminES) and, on stream_error, closes so native EventSource does NOT retry-loop; admin events render into the engine ticker via tickerAdd."
+      - "POST-003: renderToolsInventory renders builtin + bifrost tool NAMES as rail chips (a compact 'what does the LLM have' glance); renderBifrost renders endpoint + connected + consumer_id + capabilities_granted chips + per-tool name/description rows (the full detail, admin-gated; the admin key stays server-held). tickerAdd bounds the feed to the last 400 rows (a tail, not an archive)."
+      - "POST-004: tool NAME-vs-DESCRIPTION split preserved — the rail chip list shows names only; per-tool descriptions live in the Bifrost pane's tools list. The engine-ticker spine (.ticker-inner::before) lives on the content-height wrapper so it stays visible when auto-scrolled to the newest entry."
+    flexibility: "open"
+
+  - name: "renderConsole + trend (v0.20.0 — unified persona/affect console; supersedes renderAffectPane/renderPersonaPane/setPersonaStrip)"
+    signature: "renderConsole(snap) ; setFader(axis,v) ; setFaderTrend(axis) ; renderOrbit() ; renderDominant(snap) ; renderDerived(snap) ; renderRelations(snap) ; renderDirective(snap) ; pushAffectHistory(snap) ; sparkPointsH(vals,w,h,endX) ; padDeltas(vals) ; deltaStrip(deltas) ; orbitFrame(H,head,ts) ; orbitProj/orbitShadowY/orbitWallPt/orbitAxisPt ; startOrbitAnim() ; trendDelta(vals)"
+    description: "ONE render path for BOTH the Tier-1 persona_state snapshot and the Tier-3 affect snapshot (renderConsole), feeding the right affect console: dominant/canonical-mood centerpiece, bipolar PAD faders (each with a turn-to-turn Δ + sparkline), a P×A mood orbit from PAD history, an affect-derived grid, relations metric rows, and the canonical directive. Replaces the v0.19.x split of renderPersonaPane (Tier-1 pane) + renderAffectPane (Tier-3 pane) + setPersonaStrip (top-bar strip, removed — PAD now lives in the console faders)."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: reads snap.relations (relation_edge/1: target_entity + trust_ability/benevolence/integrity + warmth as {value,confidence,evidence_count} + agency + relation_context) — the CURRENT Worldtree emit shape; falls back to the legacy flat snap.valence for an older emitter. Tier-1 fields (baseline_pad, mood_drift, dominant_emotion, emotions_active) render WHEN PRESENT, '—' when absent (Tier-3 lacks them)."
+      - "POST-002: SVG sparklines + affect visuals (v0.20.4, adapted from the design prototype; v0.20.7 = design iteration-3). Each relation metric shows a HORIZONTAL SVG sparkline (`sparkPointsH`, 56×13, auto-scaled to its OWN range, sparkFade gradient + end dot), now BACKED by a subtle grid (`<pattern id=sparkGrid>` + a bg `<rect>` behind the polyline). Each PAD fader shows current value + Δ-vs-previous (▲/▼) + a per-turn Δ STRIP: v0.20.7 REPLACES the vertical polyline strip (removed `stripPoints`) with a column of 12 diverging HTML bars (`padDeltas`→`deltaStrip`, newest at bottom, each bar offset L/R of a center line by that turn's Δ, magnitude→width, age→opacity, zero-Δ→faint center dot). renderOrbit is now a DIMETRIC OPEN BOX (azimuth 35° / elevation 25°, D→right / A→left-back / P→up; removed the isometric `proj3` for `orbitProj/orbitShadowY/orbitWallPt/orbitAxisPt`) — a ghost A×P wall (carrying the P readout) + a D×A floor, JS-DRIVEN animated replay (`orbitFrame` rebuilt per rAF frame by a singleton `startOrbitAnim` loop reading live `ORBIT_HIST`; no SMIL/CSS-keyframes; reduced-motion → static final-state render). All drawn from AFFECT_HIST (rolling, HIST_CAP=24, session-lived); coords are computed numerics (no upstream strings → INV-004 trivially held). Gradients/patterns live in one hidden `<defs>` svg in the console. v0.20.9 (R32-1B prep): the fader fill (`padFillFrac`) + orbit projections (`_padNorm`) AUTO-SCALE to the session's own max |PAD| (`padScale`, floor 1.0) instead of hard-clamping to [-1,1] — so an unbounded-z PAD (Worldtree R32-1B) renders at FULL range and never pegs/escapes the frame, while today's [-1,1] values are unchanged (scale==1); the exact value is always shown numerically (unclamped). This scaling is PURELY debug-display — ratatoskr is a downstream observer; it never touches the agent's real affect or any write path (the `--set-persona-pad` seed carries values unclamped)."
+      - "POST-003: pushAffectHistory dedupes by emitted_at||last_updated_at so the ~4x/turn post-turn PAD poll contributes ONE sample/turn; history is CLIENT-side only (lost on reload — durable cross-session history via a provider-side snapshot log is a deferred follow-up, NOT built here)."
+      - "POST-004: INV-001 honesty — no fabricated Tier-1 fields. The dominant-emotion centerpiece shows a real OCC dominant_emotion (Tier-1) OR the CANONICAL mood word from canonMood(pad) (Tier-3, dimmed) OR '—'; NEVER a synthesized emotion. The affect-derived grid drops non-emitted metrics (intensity/decay-τ) and shows only real/client-derived cells (baseline/drift real for Tier-1, client-derived samples/volatility). INV-004 — every dynamic value passes through esc(); numerics go through toFixed, never innerHTML-raw."
+    flexibility: "open"
+
+  - name: "canonical affect-NL + context-injection reconstruction (v0.19.5 canons; v0.20.2 full context-injection panel)"
+    signature: "canonMood(pad) ; canonDirective(rel) ; canonPadFallback(pad) ; canonEmotionDirective(type) ; renderDirective(snap) ; loadPersonaCanon()"
+    description: "Reconstruct + render the HIDDEN affect-context block Worldtree assembles into the agent's system prompt (never on any wire) — byte-exact to Worldtree's own describe_pad + render_d2_canonical + derive_directive + _pad_band_fallback. The v0.20.2 'context injection' panel shows the full block: mood descriptor + mood directive + relationship directive. Reference: docs/vendor/worldtree-persona-canon/affect-egress-consumer-reference.md (pinned)."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: DETERMINISTIC, no LLM. canonMood mirrors describe_pad (valence×arousal grid + strict ±0.3 bands + dominance clause); canonDirective mirrors render_d2_canonical; canonPadFallback mirrors renderer._pad_band_fallback BYTE-EXACT (P×A quadrant: hi/lo/mid arousal band × p>0.3/<-0.3/neutral, with the negative_low_dominance (d<-0.3) special case + neutral_high_a + default); canonEmotionDirective is the occ_directives[type].directive lookup (+ tier / full_only flag)."
+      - "POST-002: the canon DATA is VENDORED (docs/vendor/worldtree-persona-canon/{d2-mood-render-canon-v1,d2-render-canon-v1}.json), pinned drift-gated in .corviduo-canonicals.toml; the flat browser form (static/persona_render_canon.json, served /static) is regenerated by scripts/build_persona_canon.py via Worldtree's OWN authoritative loader — v0.20.2 extended it to emit mood_directive {occ_directives, pad_band_fallback, salience, pad_band_cutoff, full_only}. The affect-egress consumer reference is pinned tolerate_drift (worldtree-affect-egress-consumer-reference-v1; worldtree-dev co-signs + pings on change)."
+      - "POST-003: fail-open — canon absent (fetch fails) → the reconstructed lines OMIT, the structured console still renders. Every canon-derived string is esc()'d before the DOM (INV-004)."
+      - "POST-004: HONEST-PARTIAL provenance (affect-egress-reference §3). The mood descriptor + relationship directive are EXACT (tagged 'exact'); the mood DIRECTIVE is a CANDIDATE pair (tagged 'candidate') — the OCC emotion directive for the delivered dominant_emotion type AND the PAD-band fallback — because affect.emit is type-only (no intensity) so the salience gate (≥0.2) can't be evaluated; BOTH are shown with the 'injected if intensity ≥ salience' caveat, never asserting which fires. When dominant_emotion is absent the fallback alone is EXACT. The panel is labeled reconstructed + hidden-from-consumers + dev-only (the reference-impl's sanctioned understand/reconstruct use, NOT end-user display per the reference's caveat). WATCH: a pending Worldtree render_d2_canonical change conditionally drops the trailing 'avoid premature we-framing' clause under a 3-gate combo — canonDirective holds as-is until worldtree-dev pings with the exact conditional + a canon bump."
+    flexibility: "open"
+
+  - name: "memory viewer (v0.20.7 — provider debug read → web proxy → console pane)"
+    signature: "server: _memory_chunks_endpoint(request) [GET /api/memory/chunks] ; provider: add_memory_read_route(app, store) [GET /memory/chunks] + RatatoskrMemoryStore.list_chunks(*, agent_id, end_user_id) + .count_chunks() ; index.html: loadMemory(agentId) ; renderMemory(data) ; setMemHead(count, total)"
+    description: "Durable memory chunks Worldtree promoted into OUR store, surfaced as a live-polling MEMORY console pane (content·scope·origin·revision per chunk). Mirrors the #18-D2 affect read pattern: a NON-bifrost debug read on OUR own store (bifrost's memory protocol has no list-all verb) → a web proxy supplying end_user_id server-side → the pane. Polled on session open + the post-turn window (promotion is async, like affect.emit)."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001 (provider read): GET /memory/chunks?agent_id=&end_user_id= returns {chunks:[{chunk_id,content,scope,origin,revision}], count, total}. end_user_id REQUIRED (400 missing_end_user_id) — the partition boundary. Filter: end_user STRICT (scope.end_user==end_user_id), agent_id LENIENT (excluded only if the chunk CARRIES an agent_self axis that differs — so an {end_user}-only chunk, the real WT promotion shape, is not hidden). An empty match is a 200 empty list (0-chunks is a visible answer, never a 404). `total` = unfiltered store-wide count (distinguishes empty-store from scope-mismatch). content = best-effort text field / distillate summary / compact JSON-minus-embedding — a DEBUG read; bifrost verbs stay index/conduit-faithful."
+      - "POST-002 (web proxy): GET /api/memory/chunks supplies end_user_id from app.state.end_user_id (NEVER the browser), forwards the browser-named agent_id, proxies to app.state.memory_read_url (the combined :8392 provider serves both read routes). 400 memory_not_configured when unset; 502 memory_provider_unreachable on network error; status passthrough otherwise. Mirrors _affect_state_endpoint (#18 D2 INV-002)."
+      - "POST-003 (pane): renderMemory shows count(matched)/total(store-wide) in the head + one .mem-chunk per chunk (scope axes + origin + revision + content, ALL esc()'d — INV-004). Empty states are honest + diagnostic: total 0 → 'no memory chunks yet — promotion needs a bound memory/combined session + ~6 turns (or idle); if 0/0 the bind wasn't memory-granted or closed pre-promotion'; total>0 → 'scope mismatch, not an empty store'."
+    flexibility: "open"
+
+  - name: "markdownSafe pass-2 (v0.20.6 RP coloring + v0.20.7 tables / nested lists / streaming)"
+    signature: "markdownSafe(raw) ; mdTable(lines, i) ; mdInline(s)"
+    description: "The escape-first whitelist Markdown renderer, extended pass-2: GFM pipe tables, indentation-nested lists, ordered-list start numbering, and streaming-partial robustness. Pass-1 (RP speech/action coloring + CommonMark paragraph reflow) shipped v0.20.6."
+    postconditions:
+      - "POST-001: GFM pipe tables (`mdTable`) — a pipe row + an alignment/delimiter row (`|---|:--:|`) → <table class=md-table> with per-column text-align from the delimiter colons; body rows parsed until a non-pipe line."
+      - "POST-002: indentation-nested lists — leading-space depth builds a stack of <ul>/<ol> with each child list INSIDE the open parent <li> (valid nested HTML); same-level items are siblings; ul↔ol switches close+reopen. Ordered lists honor the first item's number (<ol start=N> when != 1)."
+      - "POST-003: streaming robustness — an unterminated code fence renders as a partial code block; a table header without its delimiter yet falls through to a paragraph (becomes a table once the delimiter streams in); parsing never throws on a partial. INV-004 held — esc() runs FIRST on the whole input, so table cells / list items / code all carry escaped content."
+    flexibility: "open"
+
+invariants:
+  - "INV-004 (untrusted-render): ALL model / tool / admin / agent-supplied text is escaped before entering the DOM (esc via textContent, or esc(JSON.stringify)). No new render path introduces an innerHTML sink for upstream content. This is the highest-value review target — the new JS render paths are NOT unit-tested. v0.20.7: the memory pane (chunk content/scope/origin), the delta-strip bars, and markdownSafe table cells / list items all pass through esc() (esc runs FIRST on the whole markdown input)."
+  - "INV-ADMIN-KEY: the admin key exists ONLY at app.state.admin_key (from RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY). It is never serialized into any response, never sent to the browser, never logged. The browser receives only the session-filtered RESULT of admin-scoped reads."
+  - "INV-FILTER: AdminEvents filtering happens SERVER-side (_admin_event_matches_web) — the browser never receives the cross-session admin firehose; only active-session events + non-heartbeat system.* cross the wire."
+  - "INV-FAIL-VISIBLE: both admin routes return 400 admin_key_not_configured when the key is absent — never a silent empty pane, never an upstream call with an empty bearer."
+  - "INV-LIFECYCLE: SSE generators and EventSources are cleaned up on every exit path (upstream client aclose() in finally; setInterval cleared in hideThinkingNote; prior EventSource closed before re-open) — no leaked connections, tasks, or timers."
+  - "INV-ADDITIVE: existing routes, panes, and the turn-stream path are unchanged; the 3 new routes + 2 new tabs are purely additive (59 web tests incl. all prior ones stay green)."
+---
+
+# v0.19.2 — web debug-surface parity (BifrostState · AdminEvents · Tools · PAD-poll · reasoning)
+
+## Context
+
+The browser surface is now the operator's PRIMARY debug surface, and it lagged the
+TUI: the TUI gained Tools/BifrostState/AdminEvents panes (v0.18.9–.11) that were never
+ported to the web. This change closes that gap and adds two transcript affordances (a
+reliable PAD refresh + a reasoning indicator). The client wrappers already existed and
+are contracted elsewhere; this contract governs the WEB proxy routes + the SPA presenter
+paths, whose JS render code is not unit-tested — hence the cross-frontier code review.
+
+## Review focus (for the heid panel)
+
+1. **INV-004 escaping** in every new render path — the un-unit-tested surface; the exact
+   class of bug (`renderPersonaPane` fabricating a Tier-1 field) that only a cross-model
+   review caught on #18 D2.
+2. **INV-ADMIN-KEY** — confirm the admin key never reaches a response body or the browser.
+3. **AdminEvents SSE proxy** (`_admin_events_endpoint`) — generator/filter/lifecycle: fixed
+   event name, server-side filter, `stream_error` on failure, `aclose()` on every path,
+   `CancelledError` re-raise on disconnect.
+4. **PAD-poll** stop-condition — does `emitted_at` advancement + the `state.turnId` guard
+   correctly stop the poll without racing or leaking timers?
+5. **Reasoning indicator** lifecycle — shown on first `thinking`, removed on first `text`
+   or terminal, interval cleared (no leaked `setInterval`), name via `textContent`.

docs/conversation-api-spec.md

@@ -2699,10 +2699,13 @@ The `turn.started` event always carries `bifrost_override_applied: bool` (True/F
 
 Tier 3 agents are consumer-owned, Worldtree-hosted agents whose
 identity lives at `<user_id>:<agent_name>`. They share the persistent
-session infrastructure with Tier 1 / Tier 2 but layer-specific
-machinery (persona, motivational, memory, valence) is reserved for
-later phases — Phase 2.0 ships baseline addressing + ownership +
-lifecycle only.
+session infrastructure with Tier 1 / Tier 2. The layer-specific
+machinery is now largely active: **`persona` (Phase 2.1, #186),
+`memory` (Phase 2.1, #197), and `motivational` (Phase 2.2, #187) are
+shipped and consumer-settable at define-time.** Only **`valence` remains
+deferred** (non-null → 422 `layer_deferred`). Phase 2.0 shipped the
+baseline addressing + ownership + lifecycle substrate; the subsections
+below document the active layers and their exact validated shapes.
 
 ### Endpoints
 
@@ -2720,11 +2723,13 @@ lifecycle only.
 {
   "agent_name": "wizard",
   "system_prompt": "You are a guided-elicitation wizard...",
-  "model": "glm5-turbo",
-  "persona": null,        // schema-reserved; non-null → 422 layer_deferred
-  "motivational": null,
-  "valence": null,
-  "memory": null
+  "role": "gen-reasoning",       // REQUIRED — a configured model-role (#344), not a raw model id
+  "persona": {                   // active (Phase 2.1) — single-letter OCEAN keys; see "Persona layer"
+    "ocean": {"O": 0.4, "C": 0.6, "E": -0.3, "A": 0.2, "N": 0.5}
+  },
+  "motivational": null,          // active (Phase 2.2) — see "Motivational layer"
+  "memory": null,                // active (Phase 2.1) — see "Memory layer"
+  "valence": null                // still deferred — non-null → 422 layer_deferred
 }
 ```
 
@@ -2756,6 +2761,152 @@ after definition.
 The 201 response includes an advisory `warnings` array (#219) — see
 "Model-assignment warnings" under `PATCH` below.
 
+> **Vendoring note (OpenAPI 2.3.0).** In the frozen OpenAPI 2.3.0 document
+> the `persona` / `motivational` / `memory` / `valence` request fields
+> serialize as **untyped/freeform** — the `POST /agents/define` request
+> model types them as `Any` so the layers can activate without a
+> schema-breaking change. The shapes documented in the subsections below
+> are the **authoritative, validator-enforced** schemas; generate client
+> types from this section, not from the freeform OpenAPI fields.
+
+##### Persona layer (Phase 2.1, #186)
+
+`persona` is **active** as of Phase 2.1. It carries the agent's OCEAN
+personality vector — the durable trait profile from which Worldtree
+derives the mood setpoint (`baseline_pad`) and the mood dynamics
+(gain + relaxation time-constants). Shape:
+
+```json
+"persona": {
+  "ocean": {                     // REQUIRED — exactly these 5 keys, no more, no fewer
+    "O":  0.4,                   // Openness           — float in [-1.0, 1.0]
+    "C":  0.6,                   // Conscientiousness
+    "E": -0.3,                   // Extraversion
+    "A":  0.2,                   // Agreeableness
+    "N":  0.5                    // Neuroticism
+  },
+  "behavioral_notes":  "...",    // optional, ≤ 4096 chars
+  "temperament_notes": "..."     // optional, ≤ 4096 chars
+}
+```
+
+**⚠ OCEAN key format — single-letter, uppercase.** The `/agents/define`
+persona validator requires the `ocean` map to contain **exactly** the five
+uppercase single-letter keys `O, C, E, A, N`. This is a deliberate,
+load-bearing contrast with the transient-character primitive
+(`POST /characters`), whose `ocean` block uses the **spelled-out**
+lowercase keys (`openness`, `conscientiousness`, …). Sending spelled-out
+keys to `/agents/define` returns 422 `persona_ocean_required` ("must
+contain exactly the 5 keys O, C, E, A, N").
+
+> **Fixed in v1.0.0b21 (#348).** Before that build a correctly
+> single-letter-keyed persona was accepted and stored, but resolved to a
+> **neutral** mood, because Worldtree's internal mood-derivation read the
+> spelled-out key form. On v1.0.0b21+ an API-declared persona correctly
+> drives the derived mood setpoint. If you observe neutral mood on a
+> persona-defined agent, confirm the deployment is ≥ v1.0.0b21.
+
+**Range.** Each value is a float in `[-1.0, 1.0]` **signed** — `0.0` is the
+population mean, NOT `[0.0, 1.0]`. Booleans are rejected. Out-of-range → 422
+`persona_ocean_out_of_range`. See [`docs/ocean-traits.md`](ocean-traits.md)
+for the SOTA-grounded 5-band behavioural mapping.
+
+Semantics:
+
+- **Per-agent identity trait** — identical for every end-user and session;
+  immutable post-define (`PATCH {"persona": …}` → 422 `field_not_mutable`).
+  To change the OCEAN profile, delete and re-define the agent.
+- **`extensions` is reserved** — the field exists but must be empty at v0.1;
+  a non-empty `extensions` returns 422 `layer_deferred`.
+- **Sets the mood SETPOINT, not the current mood.** The OCEAN vector fixes
+  `baseline_pad` (the PAD point the mood relaxes toward over time); the
+  *current* per-session mood point is seeded separately via
+  `POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state` (below).
+
+Validation 422 codes: `persona_ocean_required` (missing `ocean`, or keys
+≠ {O,C,E,A,N}), `persona_ocean_out_of_range` (a value outside [-1.0, 1.0], or
+a boolean), `persona_notes_too_large` (a note > 4096 chars), `layer_deferred`
+(non-empty `extensions`), `validation_failed` (unknown top-level field).
+
+##### `POST /sessions/{session_id}/persona_state` — seed the session mood point (Phase 2.1, #186/#189)
+
+Session-scoped mood seed. Sets the *current* PAD mood point for one
+session's bound agent — the starting emotional state, distinct from the
+OCEAN-derived setpoint the mood relaxes toward. Works on any
+persona-enabled session (Tier 1 or Tier 3); most useful for a Tier 3
+durable-agent session that wants to start a conversation from a specific
+mood.
+
+Request:
+
+```json
+{
+  "pad": {
+    "pleasure":  0.42,           // float in [-1.0, 1.0]
+    "arousal":   0.25,
+    "dominance": 0.33
+  }
+}
+```
+
+Response: **`204 No Content`** — no body, no audit event (a session-scoped
+runtime overlay, not a security-relevant event).
+
+Semantics:
+
+- **PAD-only** (#317 Option A). The body accepts exactly one key, `pad`,
+  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.
+- **Cross-owner sessions return 404** (existence-hiding — a session that
+  isn't yours is indistinguishable from one that doesn't exist).
+- **Pull-over-push precedence (#289).** Once a session's baseline has been
+  rehydrated from an `affect.fetch` (the authoritative cross-session
+  source), a later SET seed is silently ignored — the fetched baseline wins.
+
+There is **no** `POST /agents/{id}/persona_state` — mood is per-session, not
+a durable agent property. `GET /agents/{agent_id}/persona_state`
+short-circuits to 404 for Tier-3 colon-ids: Tier-3 mood is observable only
+over the Bifrost `affect.emit` egress (ADR-0009), never read back through
+the HTTP API.
+
+##### Memory layer (Phase 2.1, #197)
+
+`memory` is **active** as of Phase 2.1 but exposes a deliberately minimal
+surface — the short-term-memory (STM) tier was removed (#197), so the
+historically-present `stm_*` knobs are accept-and-ignore no-ops. Shape:
+
+```json
+"memory": {
+  "embedder_version": "<pinned>",   // optional; MUST equal the library-pinned version
+  "tier3_dreaming":   false         // optional bool, default false
+}
+```
+
+Semantics:
+
+- **`embedder_version`** — optional. If supplied it MUST equal the library's
+  currently-pinned embedder version; a mismatch → 422
+  `embedder_version_mismatch` (with `expected` / `received` in the detail).
+  Omit it to accept the pin. Fixed at define-time and library-pinned
+  thereafter.
+- **`tier3_dreaming`** — optional bool (default `false`); opt-in flag for the
+  Tier-3 dreaming / consolidation path.
+- **`stm_capacity` / `stm_token_budget`** — **deprecated no-ops.** Accepted at
+  define (201) with a `DeprecationWarning`; they carry no runtime effect since
+  the STM tier was removed, and are slated for rejection at the next schema
+  break. Do not send them in new integrations.
+- **`allows_world_scope` — removed.** Sending it → 422 `validation_failed`
+  ("world-shared knowledge belongs in the KB/Mimir plane").
+- **Wholesale-immutable post-define.** `PATCH {"memory": …}` → 422
+  `field_not_mutable` (even for the deprecated `stm_*` fields) — see the
+  PATCH table above.
+
 ##### Motivational layer (Phase 2.2, #187)
 
 `motivational` is **active** as of Phase 2.2 (persona + memory activated in

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+{
+  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
+  "description": "Server-Sent Events emitted on POST /sessions/{id}/messages. Each event is an object discriminated on `type`; all carry `turn_id`.",
+  "discriminator": {
+    "propertyName": "type"
+  },
+  "oneOf": [
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "phase": {
+          "enum": [
+            "BuildingPrompt",
+            "CallingLLM",
+            "ProcessingTools",
+            "Streaming",
+            "Finishing"
+          ],
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "worker_phase"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "awaiting_llm_first_token"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "content": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "thinking"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "content": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "text"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "text_boundary"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "name": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "tool_start"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "name": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "result": {},
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "tool_result"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "affect_update"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "done"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "phase": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "reason": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "cancelled"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    },
+    {
+      "additionalProperties": true,
+      "properties": {
+        "error_code": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "message": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
+        "turn_id": {
+          "description": "The turn this event belongs to.",
+          "type": [
+            "integer",
+            "string"
+          ]
+        },
+        "type": {
+          "const": "error"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": [
+        "type",
+        "turn_id"
+      ],
+      "type": "object"
+    }
+  ],
+  "title": "Worldtree Conversation API — SSE turn-stream events"
+}

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+# Ratatoskr v1 coverage map
+
+_The v1 convergence-target ledger. Ratatoskr has **no self-defined feature
+roadmap**: v1 = consume all of Worldtree's I/O points, reached when Worldtree
+hits 1.0 (operator, 2026-06-19; auto-memory
+`project-ratatoskr-v1-derived-from-worldtree-io-coverage`). This file is that
+coverage map — every Worldtree v1-frozen I/O point × ratatoskr's coverage
+status, so "are we at v1?" is a ledger lookup, not a judgement call._
+
+**First authored:** 2026-06-30 (the v1 coverage-audit kickoff).
+
+---
+
+## Frozen target
+
+Worldtree is at **v1.0.0b2** — approaching 1.0, with its wire surfaces now
+**FROZEN** (Worldtree `docs/v1-schema-freeze-manifest.md`, #326). The audit
+anchors against the frozen machine-readable artifacts, NOT the prose markdown:
+
+| Worldtree v1 surface | Frozen anchor | Ratatoskr role |
+|---|---|---|
+| Conversation REST API | OpenAPI `info.version` **2.3.0** (`Worldtree/docs/conversation-api-openapi.json`, sha `36148179…`) — **41 path×method groups** (2.3.0 added `POST /sessions/{id}/history`, #347) | **client** (debug TUI / web) |
+| Conversation SSE events | `conversation-api-sse-events.schema.json` (sha `9deeebf4…`) — **11 discriminated event types** | **client** |
+| Bifrost wire (consumer protocol) | wire **v0.6** STABLE/FROZEN (`bifrost==1.0.0`) — memory + affect planes | **provider** (Worldtree dispatches into us) |
+
+> **Pin drift (finding P-1) — REMEDIATED 2026-06-30.** Ratatoskr formerly
+> vendored only the **prose markdown** (`docs/conversation-api-spec.md`), which
+> is byte-identical to live Worldtree's but frozen at v0.35.16-era content (last
+> WT edit 2026-05-31) and does **not** document the b2 surface (7 endpoints
+> below, the 409/503 on messages-POST #331, the unified error envelope #328, the
+> SSE schema). Remediated: the **OpenAPI 2.2.0 + SSE-schema JSON are now vendored
+> and pinned** (`.corviduo-canonicals.toml` → `canonical_drift.py` gate); the
+> prose markdown is the `tolerate_drift` reference. Spec pin advanced to
+> 5810a26 (v1.0.0b2). See § Pin remediation.
+
+**7 endpoints new in b2 OpenAPI, absent from our vendored markdown:**
+`/admin/keys/bulk`, `/admin/persona/archive`, `/admin/persona/erase`,
+`/admin/usage`, `/embed`, `/judgments`, `/me/usage`.
+
+---
+
+## Scorecard
+
+**Scope mandate: A (ledger-mandate), locked by operator 2026-06-30.** v1 "done"
+= every frozen I/O point is **classified** (covered or excluded-with-rationale),
+zero unaccounted. NOT "feature-complete client." All scope-pending rows are now
+resolved (§ Surface 1, scope-resolution table).
+
+| Surface | Points | ✅ covered-live | ⬜ gap (in-scope) | 🚫 excluded-by-design |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| REST (OpenAPI 2.3.0, path groups) | 41 | 19 | 0 | 22 |
+| SSE events | 11 | 11 | 0 | 0 |
+| Bifrost provider planes | 8 verbs | 8 | 0 | (10 gated verbs deferred) |
+
+**Legend.** ✅ consumed in code AND live-proven against real Worldtree · ⬜ a
+debug-observability I/O point we should cover but don't yet (the convergence
+frontier) · 🚫 deliberate non-goal per the design-brief negative clauses + the A
+mandate. Counts are at the **path-group** level; mixed-method groups are
+footnoted (e.g. `/sessions` POST is ✅ but its `GET` picker is an unwired
+sub-gap).
+
+---
+
+## Surface 1 — Conversation REST API (OpenAPI 2.3.0)
+
+### Covered — client path (ratatoskr's core identity)
+
+| Endpoint | Status | Where consumed | Note |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `POST /sessions` | ✅ | `sessions.py:307` → `cli.py:482`,`tui.py:1508`,`web/server.py:155` | + `end_user_id`, `bifrost` binding; 404→AgentNotFound, 502→BifrostHandshakeFailed |
+| `POST /sessions/{id}/messages` (turn stream, SSE) | ✅ | `sse_client.py:484` `stream_turn` → cli/tui/web | the primary surface; 409→AgentNotAvailable, 503→TurnLaunchUnavailable (b2 #331) |
+| `POST /sessions/{id}/history` (authored-history-write, #347) | ✅ | `sessions.py:583` `write_authored_history` → `cli.py:758` `--seed-first-message` | v1: author=assistant, effects=none, per-session idempotency; 404→AuthoredHistoryUnavailable (hide-existence: feature-absent, never probe); 409/422 mapped. **LIVE-PROVEN 2026-07-06** on personal :8081 (grant applied via a rule-based Heimdall allow, worldtree-dev): create mimir session → seed → **201** (seq=0, phase=seeded, turn_id=1798) → GET /messages reads it back as a plain role=assistant turn (model-invisible provenance confirmed). Hide-404 for ungranted is unit+probe covered |
+| `GET /sessions/{id}/messages` (history) | ✅ | `sessions.py:635` `get_session_messages` → `cli.py:758` `--seed-first-message` read-back | un-deferred as the #347 seed read-back — confirms model-invisible provenance (a seed reads back as a normal `role=assistant` turn) |
+| `POST /sessions/{id}/turns/{turn_id}/cancel` | ✅ | `sse_client.py:581` → cli/tui/web | two-stage Ctrl-C; 404/409 mapped |
+| `GET /agents` | ✅ | `sessions.py:341` → `tui.py:1472`,`web/server.py:100` | Tier-1 roster; merged with local index |
+| `GET /agents/{id}/persona_state` | ✅ | `sessions.py:384` → `tui.py:1132`,`web/server.py:386` | persona hydrate; 404/403 mapped |
+| `POST /agents/define` | ✅ | `tier3.py:175` → `_run_define` | Tier-3 create |
+| `PATCH /agents/{id}` | ✅ | `tier3.py:219` → `_run_patch` | Tier-3 mutate (system_prompt/model) |
+| `DELETE /agents/{id}` | ✅ | `tier3.py:242` → `_run_delete` | Tier-3 hard-delete |
+| `GET /me` | ✅ | `sessions.py:411` `get_me` → `cli.py` `--whoami` | identity/whoami probe; 401→SessionApiFailed |
+| `GET /capabilities` | ✅ | `sessions.py:428` `get_capabilities` → `cli.py` `--whoami` | Echo ephemeral-template discovery |
+| `GET /sessions/{id}/tools` | ✅ | `sessions.py:411` `get_session_tools` → `tui.py` `_hydrate_session_tools` | owner-scoped tool inventory in the TUI Tools pane (#183) |
+| `GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost` | ✅ | `sessions.py:428` `get_session_bifrost` → `tui.py` `_hydrate_bifrost_state` | admin-scoped BifrostState pane (#176); admin key (`RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY`); live-auth-proven |
+| `GET /admin/events` (SSE) | ✅ | `sse_client.py` `stream_admin_events` → `tui.py` `_stream_admin_events` | admin lifecycle SSE stream (#11), session-filtered AdminEvents pane; admin key; live-auth-proven |
+| `GET /models/available-for-characters` | ✅ | `sessions.py` `list_character_models` → `cli.py` `--characters` | character-capable model profiles (#161) |
+| `POST /characters` | ✅ | `sessions.py` `create_character` → `cli.py` `--characters` | create transient character (#161) |
+| `GET /characters/{id}/state` | ✅ | `sessions.py` `get_character_state` → `cli.py` `--characters` | live character PAD/emotions (#161) |
+| `DELETE /characters/{id}` | ✅ | `sessions.py` `delete_character` → `cli.py` `--characters` | remove transient character (#161) |
+| `POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state` | ✅ | `sessions.py` `set_persona_state` → `cli.py` `--set-persona-pad` | persona-state write / affect injection (freeform body — unpinned in the frozen surface) |
+
+**Sub-gaps inside ✅ path groups** (the method we use is live; a sibling method
+on the same path is an unwired frontier item — see frontier Tier 1):
+- `GET /sessions` — `sessions.py:198` `list_sessions` exists, **no caller**: the
+  startup session-picker (design-brief §4 v1) was never wired.
+- `POST /sessions/{id}/messages` + `Last-Event-ID` — `sse_client.py:524`
+  `reconnect_turn` exists, **no caller**: the reference SSE-resume impl
+  (design-brief §8d) was never wired.
+- `GET /agents/{id}` — consumer-agent lookup (`GET /agents/<owner>:<name>` with
+  the owner key) is **manual-curl-only**, not in code.
+
+### In-scope gaps — CONVERGED (re-closed 2026-07-06 after the #347 re-open)
+
+**Every in-scope REST I/O point is covered.** The audit first converged
+2026-07-01; Worldtree's #347 (authored-history-write, OpenAPI 2.3.0) then added
+one new in-scope path-group, re-opening the audit with a single gap — now closed
+(`v0.19.6`). The original frontier (design-brief §5 observability panes +
+presenter-wiring sub-gaps + Tier-2 tail) remains fully closed:
+
+- Session picker + SSE-resume — wired (`v0.18.5`–`.7`).
+- Persona · Tools · BifrostState · AdminEvents panes — all built + live (`v0.18.x`–`v0.19.0`).
+- Transient-characters CRUD + persona-state write — consumed via `--characters` /
+  `--set-persona-pad` (`v0.19.1`).
+- Authored-history-write (#347) + messages read-back — `write_authored_history` +
+  `get_session_messages` via `--seed-first-message` (`v0.19.6`; live-proof pending
+  the `session.history.write` grant).
+
+The only remaining not-consumed in-scope method is `GET /agents/{id}` (consumer-
+agent lookup, manual-curl-only) — a sub-method on an already-✅ path group, not a
+path-group gap. Everything else is covered or excluded-by-design below.
+
+### Excluded by design — the design-brief negative clauses
+
+| Endpoint(s) | Status | Rationale (design-brief / memory) |
+|---|---|---|
+| `PATCH /sessions/{id}` · `DELETE /sessions/{id}` | 🚫 | §4: rename/delete happen outside the tool (`sessions_cli.py`) |
+| `GET /sessions/{id}` | 🚫 | session detail — identity is footer-visible, no detail view |
+| `GET /sessions/{id}/tool-events` | 🚫 | §5: tool calls observed **inline from SSE** `tool_start`/`tool_result`; persisted-events endpoint is opt-in only |
+| `GET /admin/sessions/{id}/tools` | 🚫 | **covered-by-alternative** — the owner-scoped `GET /sessions/{id}/tools` (✅) serves the Tools inventory; this admin variant is only for cross-user operator debug, out of the single-session focus (§6) |
+| `GET/POST /admin/keys` · `DELETE/POST /admin/keys/{id}` · `POST /admin/keys/{id}/rotate` · `DELETE/POST /admin/keys/bulk` · `POST /admin/keys/bulk/rotate` | 🚫 | §6: **NOT a Worldtree-admin tool** (key mgmt) |
+| `POST /admin/sessions/{id}/retire` | 🚫 | admin session mutation |
+| `POST /admin/persona/{archive,erase}` | 🚫 | admin persona GDPR ops (new in b2) |
+| `POST /admin/users/{id}/tier` | 🚫 | admin user mgmt |
+| `GET /me/usage` · `GET /admin/usage` | 🚫 | usage metering — not turn-flow observability (new in b2) |
+| `GET /healthz` · `GET /readyz` | 🚫 | liveness probes — low debug value (could become a connect preflight; park) |
+| `GET /search` | 🚫 | §5: consumer-product feature, not turn-flow (was "defer to v2") |
+| `GET/POST /uploads` · `DELETE/GET /uploads/{id}` | 🚫 | §6: no uploads — consumer-product feature |
+| `GET /pending` · `GET /sessions/{id}/pending` | 🚫 | §5: poll-only, no turn-flow signal (was "optional, skip") |
+| `POST /embed` | 🚫 | embedding utility — no turn flows through it |
+| `POST /judgments` | 🚫 | LLM-as-judge A/B eval (`response_a`/`response_b`/`rubric`) — standalone eval utility, not turn-flow |
+
+### Scope-resolution record (the 11 ❓ rows, resolved under A)
+
+The 2026-05-20 design-brief deferred several surfaces; the 2026-06-19 reframe
+("v1 = full I/O coverage") put them back in tension. **Resolved 2026-06-30 under
+mandate A** (debug-observability identity intact; classify, don't build-all):
+
+| Endpoint(s) | Resolution |
+|---|---|
+| `GET /search` · `uploads` (×2) · `pending` (×2) · `POST /embed` · `POST /judgments` | 🚫 **excluded** — consumer-product / eval / poll utilities, not turn-flow observability |
+| `characters` (×4) · `POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state` | ⬜ **in-scope** (frontier Tier 2) — session-routing + affect-injection debug paths |
+
+Nothing remains ❓. The ⬜-vs-🚫 line follows the debug-observability test: *does
+a turn flow through it / is it a layer worth watching live?*
+
+---
+
+## Surface 2 — SSE events (11/11 ✅)
+
+Every frozen SSE event type is parsed in `sse_client.py:_envelope_for_type`
+(342-411) and rendered by all three presenters (cli/tui/web). **Full coverage.**
+
+`text` · `worker_phase` · `thinking` · `text_boundary` · `tool_start` ·
+`tool_result` · `done` · `error` · `cancelled` · `awaiting_llm_first_token` ·
+`affect_update`
+
+> Caveat (not a gap): `affect_update` is wire-verified to emit **zero** events
+> for consumer (Tier-3) agents — the persona-strip SSE path never populates for
+> them (memory 2026-06-18). The handler is correct; the upstream emitter is
+> silent. PAD for consumer agents is surfaced via our own provider read route
+> (`GET /affect/state/{id}`, #18 D2), not this event.
+
+---
+
+## Surface 3 — Bifrost provider planes (8/8 ✅, live-proven)
+
+Ratatoskr **implements** the provider side; Worldtree dispatches into it.
+Live-proven end-to-end through real WT turns (#17/#18 smokes; combined `:8392`
+WT-driven smoke 2026-06-20).
+
+**Memory plane** — covers the entire `bifrost.memory.MemoryDataStore` protocol
+(required: `describe_store`, `get`, `get_many`, `search`, `upsert_many`) **plus**
+`delete_many`:
+
+| Verb | Where | |
+|---|---|---|
+| `describe_store` | `memory_store.py:140` | advertises caps (sync) |
+| `search` | `memory_store.py:224` | vector recall; scope_all AND / scope_any OR |
+| `get` / `get_many` | `memory_store.py:293` / `:305` | point reads |
+| `upsert_many` | `memory_store.py:150` | idempotent batch write; optimistic lock |
+| `delete_many` | `memory_store.py:314` | transactional delete |
+
+**Affect plane** — covers `bifrost…InMemoryAffectStore` (`emit`, `fetch`):
+
+| Verb | Where | |
+|---|---|---|
+| `emit` | `affect_store.py:47` | conduit-opaque snapshot upsert (LWW) |
+| `fetch` | `affect_store.py:116` | `{found, snapshot}`; mandatory since bifrost 0.10.0 strong-or-absent gate |
+
+Plus the non-wire PAD read route `GET /affect/state/{agent_id}`
+(`affect_store.py:189`) and the combined `:8392` endpoint advertising both caps
+by store-presence (`combined.py:46`).
+
+**Deferred-gated (advertised-unsupported, correctly out-of-scope for the basic
+plane):** `scan`, `get_edges_for`, `upsert_edges`, `mark_invalid`,
+`mark_superseded`, `patch_many`, `commit_checkpoint`, `lease_job`,
+`read_checkpoint`, `health`. These live only in the bifrost reference
+*extended* store, not the `MemoryDataStore` protocol; deferred per the #294
+re-scope (memory 2026-06-15). Re-evaluate only if Worldtree's Tier-3 path
+starts exercising them.
+
+---
+
+## Convergence frontier (the v1 to-do) — CLOSED 2026-07-01, re-closed 2026-07-06 (#347)
+
+**Every in-scope I/O point is covered.** The frontier is empty: REST 19/41 ✅
+with **zero in-scope gaps** (the other 22 REST path-groups are excluded-by-design),
+SSE 11/11, Bifrost provider planes 8/8. v1 convergence (per scope A: "every
+frozen I/O point classified, zero unaccounted") is **met** — ratatoskr cuts v1
+when Worldtree tags 1.0. The arc, for the record:
+
+**Tier 1 — debug-observability core:**
+
+1. ✅ **DONE** — Session picker (`v0.18.7`) + SSE-resume (`v0.18.5`/`.6`).
+2. ✅ **DONE** — `GET /capabilities` + `GET /me` (`v0.18.8`, `--whoami`).
+3. ✅ **DONE** — BifrostState pane (`v0.18.10`, `GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost`,
+   admin-key; live-auth-proven). The Tools half was already covered by the
+   owner-scoped `GET /sessions/{id}/tools` (item 5).
+4. ✅ **DONE** — AdminEvents pane (`v0.18.11`, `GET /admin/events` SSE,
+   session-filtered; admin-key; live-auth-proven). #11's blocker was already
+   satisfied (admin key carries `admin.events.read`). **Tier 1 complete** — the
+   admin/debug-observability core (Persona · Tools · BifrostState · AdminEvents)
+   is fully built.
+
+**Tier 2 — rounds out coverage (all that remains):**
+
+5. ✅ **DONE** — `GET /sessions/{id}/tools` (`v0.18.9`, owner-scoped tool inventory
+   in the TUI Tools pane).
+6. ✅ **DONE** — Transient-characters CRUD (4 endpoints) + `POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state`
+   (`v0.19.1`, `--characters` + `--set-persona-pad` one-shot probes). The last
+   in-scope client I/O points.
+
+---
+
+## Pin remediation (finding P-1) — DONE 2026-06-30
+
+Re-pinned to the frozen machine-readable artifacts (the chosen option):
+`conversation-api-openapi.json` (2.2.0) + `conversation-api-sse-events.schema.json`
+are vendored under `docs/` and pinned in `.corviduo-canonicals.toml`
+(`worldtree-conversation-api-openapi-v2`, `-sse-events-v1`), drift-gated by
+`canonical_drift.py`. The prose markdown stays as a `tolerate_drift` reference
+(`-spec-v1`). `pyproject.toml` spec pin advanced f1b59f8 → 5810a26 (v1.0.0b2);
+`docs/SPEC-PIN.md` records the bump. This map now audits a frozen, diffable
+target — re-running the audit is a `canonical_drift.py` check away.
+
+---
+
+## Decisions
+
+1. **Scope mandate — RESOLVED 2026-06-30: A (ledger-mandate).** v1 "done" = every
+   frozen I/O point classified, zero unaccounted; NOT feature-complete client.
+   The ⬜-vs-🚫 line for the 11 formerly-pending rows is locked above (§
+   Scope-resolution record).
+2. **Pin remediation (P-1) — RESOLVED 2026-06-30 (re-pin to machine-readable).**
+   Vendored `conversation-api-openapi.json` (2.2.0) + `conversation-api-sse-events.schema.json`
+   as the authoritative drift gates (pinned in `.corviduo-canonicals.toml`,
+   `canonical_drift.py` green); prose markdown kept as `tolerate_drift`
+   reference. Spec pin advanced f1b59f8 (v0.35.16) → 5810a26 (v1.0.0b2). This
+   map now audits against a frozen, diffable target.

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+# Design brief — `ratatoskr-web` (Worldtree wire monitor)
+
+> **For:** a visual design pass (Claude Design). **Deliverable:** a single
+> self-contained HTML prototype, fully populated with representative static
+> data, that an engineer will wire live data into. **Do not** build a data
+> layer — build the *shell* and *every state*, beautifully, with placeholder
+> content in every slot.
+
+---
+
+## 1. What you're designing
+
+`ratatoskr-web` is a **developer-grade debug/observability console** for a
+conversational-AI engine (Worldtree). Its tagline is *"wire monitor"*: you open
+a session with an AI agent, send it turns, and **watch that turn flow through
+every layer of the system at once** — the streaming response, the model's
+chain-of-thought, the tools it can call, the agent's live emotional/persona
+state, the provider handshake, and the engine's admin lifecycle events — all
+side-by-side on one screen.
+
+**The product IS the observability surface. Chat is just the input.** This is
+not a chat app, not a marketing page, not an end-user product. The user is one
+developer (occasionally a few LAN peers) staring at a dense instrument to debug
+what the engine is doing. Think **oscilloscope / flight-data console / a well-lit
+`htop`**, not a messaging UI.
+
+**Design values, in priority order:**
+1. **Information density earns the screen.** Every region shows live, changing
+   data. Nothing is decorative filler. A quiet, legible, glanceable density is
+   the whole point — the user reads six data streams at a glance.
+2. **Calm under motion.** Multiple regions update in real time (token streams,
+   live metrics, event logs). The design must stay readable while things move —
+   no jitter, no attention-grabbing per-item animation. Motion is for *state
+   change*, used sparingly.
+3. **Legibility first.** Monospace, high contrast where it counts, generous but
+   not wasteful spacing. This runs for hours; it must not tire the eye.
+
+---
+
+## 2. Aesthetic direction — Australis
+
+Use the **Australis design system** (a cool-toned, terminal-first dark theme —
+the `australis-design` skill has the canonical tokens: colors, spacing, radii,
+shadows, motion). Import/inline `colors_and_type.css`; don't reinvent tokens.
+
+Non-negotiables from the brand:
+- **Dark only.** Base is a cool near-black **`#222531` — never pure `#000`.**
+  The eye rests in low-contrast cool grey; **emphasis comes from *brightness*,
+  not saturation.** Layer surfaces up the Sea neutral ramp (`#222531 →
+  `#373b46` → `#414751`).
+- **Palette families:** *Ice* (surface neutrals), *Aurora* (blue → cyan → green,
+  the primary accents — used generously in that preference order), *Dawn*
+  (red/yellow/magenta — sparingly, for status only). Semantic: info=blue,
+  success=green, warning=yellow, danger=red.
+- **The signature motif is the aurora glow** — a low-opacity cyan→blue→green
+  light coming *through* the top of the screen, plus a 3px aurora focus ring on
+  interactive controls. Lean into this as the one memorable thing.
+- **No noise, no textures, no patterns.** *"The screen is the polar sky — empty,
+  with light coming through it."* The one sanctioned gradient is the aurora glow.
+- **Never a colored left-border on cards** (the LLM-slop trope). Featured cards
+  accent the *top* edge instead.
+- **Type:** this instrument is **mono-first** — that IS on-brand for Australis
+  ("terminal-first"). Use a monospace stack (JetBrains Mono / system mono; see
+  §9 — no web-font CDN allowed). Eyebrows/labels are **mono, UPPERCASE, ~11px,
+  wide-tracked (`0.08–0.16em`)** — use them liberally; they're a system
+  signature.
+- **Motion:** calm, never bouncy. ~120ms hover, ~200ms state, ~320ms panels.
+  Focus = aurora glow ring. Hover = one step *brighter* (not lower opacity).
+  A slow (8–14s) aurora drift on a hairline top band is welcome; nothing else
+  should loop.
+
+The current UI already borrows this palette — you're not inheriting it, you're
+**redesigning the layout and craft from scratch** with the brand as the guide.
+Feel free to rethink the spatial composition entirely (see §10).
+
+---
+
+## 3. The two screens
+
+### Screen A — **Session setup** (entry)
+A single centered card on the aurora canvas. Fields:
+- **Agent** — a `<select>` (populated live; show 3–4 sample options incl.
+  `ratatoskr:sindra`, `forseti`, `mimir`).
+- **Bifrost binding (Tier-3 provider)** — a `<select>`: `combined (:8392)` /
+  `none — observe only` / `memory (:8391)` / `affect (:8390)`.
+- **Open session** — primary button.
+- An error line (design the error state too — e.g. "agent not available").
+
+### Screen B — **Live workspace** (the main event — 95% of the design effort)
+Persistent top bar + status line spanning full width; between them a **two-region
+body: a conversation column (left, dominant) and a telemetry column (right,
+tabbed).** Current split is ~1.85 : 1 — you may re-proportion. The information
+inventory below is exhaustive; **every item needs a home.**
+
+---
+
+## 4. THE COMPLETE INFORMATION INVENTORY
+
+This is the core of the brief. Design a slot for **every** item, in a sensible
+state. Data shapes are given so your placeholders read true.
+
+### 4.1 Top bar (persistent)
+| Item | Shape / example | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| Brand | `ᛯ ratatoskr` + eyebrow `WIRE MONITOR` | the mark is a rune glyph; small |
+| **Connection status** | one of: `offline`, `connected` (idle), `streaming`, `error` | dot + label; **streaming pulses**; color-coded (grey/green/cyan/red) |
+| **Persona strip** (appears after a session hydrates) | dominant-emotion word (`love`) + **PAD bars**: `P`, `A`, `D` | each PAD bar is **bipolar** — centered on 0, fills left (negative) or right (positive), value ∈ [−1, 1]; **live-updates every turn** |
+| Session identity | `ratatoskr:sindra · …381b99f4` | agent id + last-8 of session id |
+| Bound-plane badge (when bound) | `⇄ combined  http://10.100.10.50:8392` | plane + endpoint; only when a Bifrost binding is active |
+
+### 4.2 Conversation column (the transcript + composer)
+The transcript is a scrollable stream of turns. Design each element:
+
+| Element | Example content | Notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| **Turn divider** | `TURN 3` between hairlines | uppercase eyebrow, rule lines each side |
+| **User prompt echo** | `❯ what's your intensity setting?` | the user's message, accent-marked |
+| **Assistant response** | streaming **Markdown** (headings, bold, italic, `code`, lists, quotes, links) | accumulates token-by-token while live; distinct "live" treatment vs settled |
+| **Seeded first-message** | a full assistant turn present *before the user speaks* (an authored greeting) | renders **identical to a lived assistant turn** — the session can OPEN already showing the agent's opener |
+| **Reasoning / "thinking" note** | `✦ sindra is reasoning···` (italic) | **ephemeral** app affordance — appears while the model reasons, vanishes the instant real text begins; visually distinct from the response so it never reads as engine output |
+| **Awaiting-first-token** | `···` animated | heartbeat before the first token |
+| **End-of-turn status chips** | `✓ DONE 1.84s` · `✗ ERROR agent_not_available` · `⚠ CANCELLED` · `✗ WIRE lost` | small bordered chips; color per state |
+| **Composer** (pinned bottom) | `❯ [ message input ]  [SEND]` | Enter=send, Shift+Enter=newline; during a turn the Send button becomes **CANCEL** (amber) |
+
+### 4.3 Telemetry column (six tabbed panes)
+A tab bar + a pane header (with a **Copy** button) + the active pane body.
+
+**Tabs** (each: name · keybinding hint · a count **badge** that *flashes* on new
+data): `TOOLS ^1` · `DEBUG ^2` · `THINK ^3` · `PERSONA ^4` · `BIFROST ^5` ·
+`ADMIN ^6`. Active tab is accent-marked.
+
+Pane contents — design each, populated:
+
+1. **Tools** — the tool inventory the model saw at turn-fire:
+   `agent_id`, `builtin_tools[]` (names), `bifrost_tools[]` (name + description +
+   parameters). Below it, **live tool-call events** stream in (`tool_start` →
+   `tool_result`) as the turn runs. Empty state: `— live tool events —`.
+2. **Debug** — a raw structured op/lifecycle log (mono lines; new lines flash
+   once). Think `tail -f`.
+3. **Think** — the model's **full chain-of-thought**, per-turn dividers,
+   live-Markdown. Longer prose than the response.
+4. **Persona / affect** — *the richest pane.* Contains:
+   - **The canonical NL directive** the engine injects into the agent's context
+     — the literal text: a **mood descriptor** ("neutral", "faintly excited",
+     ±0.3 bands) + a **relationship directive**. Show this verbatim, quoted.
+   - **PAD mood point** — pleasure / arousal / dominance current values.
+   - **relations[]** — for each related entity (e.g. the user): **trust**
+     (ability / benevolence / integrity), **warmth**, **agency**,
+     `relation_context` (a tie-type word like "stranger" / "expressive"), each as
+     a **metric row**: `label · value · Δ-since-last (▲/▼) · unicode sparkline ·
+     n (evidence count) · descriptor`. Values are 0–1 with 2–3 decimals.
+   - **dominant_emotion** (an OCC type: joy/anger/fear/…) + **emotions_active[]**.
+   - Design the **metric row** as a reusable component — it's the densest,
+     most-repeated element in the whole UI. Tabular-aligned numbers, a tiny
+     inline sparkline, a subtle up/down Δ.
+5. **Bifrost** — the live provider binding (admin-gated): `endpoint`,
+   `connected` (bool), `capabilities_granted[]`, `consumer_id`, `tools[]`.
+   **Self-labeling states:** `not configured` (no admin key) / `not bound`
+   (session has no live binding) / an auth-denied state.
+6. **Admin events** — a live event log of the engine's lifecycle broadcast
+   (a ~17-type vocabulary: `turn.started`, `session.created`, `system.*`, …),
+   filtered to the active session. Streaming; timestamped lines.
+
+### 4.4 Status line (persistent, bottom)
+- **Keybinding legend:** `Enter send · ⇧Enter newline · ^1–^6 panes · ^C cancel`
+  (rendered as little `kbd` chips).
+- **Version:** `ratatoskr 0.19.9` (right-aligned).
+
+---
+
+## 5. States to design (show these explicitly)
+
+Provide a mock (or a toggle) for each — these are where debug UIs live or die:
+
+- **Setup:** loading-agents · ready · create-error.
+- **Connection:** offline · connected/idle · streaming (pulsing) · wire-error.
+- **Turn lifecycle:** awaiting-first-token · reasoning (✦) · streaming response ·
+  done (+timing chip) · error · cancelled.
+- **Panes:** empty/placeholder · hydrated/dense · **not-configured** (admin key
+  absent) · **not-bound** (Bifrost) · error · a **badge flash** on new data.
+- **Persona pane specifically:** a fully-populated relations block AND a
+  cold/empty one (a fresh agent with no accumulated state).
+
+---
+
+## 6. Interaction & motion
+
+- **Real-time is the defining trait.** The response + thinking panes stream
+  token-by-token; the metric rows tick; event logs append; the persona strip
+  re-animates each turn. Design so all of this is *calm* — the reader's eye
+  isn't yanked around. Reserve motion for genuine state transitions
+  (turn-start, done, a new event) and keep it short.
+- **Keyboard-first.** `^1–^6` switch panes; `Enter`/`⇧Enter`/`^C` drive the turn.
+  Panes are also clickable. Show focus states.
+- **The aurora glow is the interaction signature** — focus rings, the top band,
+  the connection pulse, the primary-button hover. Make it the thing someone
+  remembers.
+- **Copy-to-clipboard** on each pane header (with a copied-confirm state).
+
+---
+
+## 7. Layout — you have latitude
+
+The current layout is a fixed two-column split. **You may rethink it** — as long
+as every §4 item has a legible home and the density stays high. Directions worth
+exploring (pick one, commit):
+- A **command-console** feel: a slim persistent left rail of "instruments," a
+  dominant conversation center, a right telemetry stack.
+- A **grid of live tiles** (the metrics/panes as a dashboard) with the
+  conversation as the anchor column.
+- The **classic monitor** split, but with far better hierarchy, grouping, and
+  breathing room than today.
+
+Desktop-first; design at **1440–1512px** wide. Graceful down to ~1100px is a
+plus (this runs on a dev laptop). No mobile.
+
+---
+
+## 8. Deliverable — what to hand back
+
+**A single self-contained `index.html`** (inline `<style>` + `<script>`; see §9
+constraints) that:
+1. Renders **Screen A** and **Screen B** (a toggle/hash is fine).
+2. Has **representative static placeholder data in every §4 slot** and shows the
+   key §5 states (either multiple mocks or lightweight JS toggles). I want to see
+   the design *fully populated and dense*, not empty scaffolding.
+3. Uses **clean, semantic, stable hooks** — meaningful `id`s / `class`es /
+   `data-*` on every dynamic slot (the transcript container, each pane body, the
+   PAD bars, a metric-row template, the connection dot, the tab badges, etc.).
+   This is how I wire real data in — treat the DOM structure as an API.
+4. Imports/inlines the Australis tokens; no invented palette.
+
+I will then **swap your placeholder content for live `fetch()` + `EventSource`
+calls** against the real endpoints (§9). The cleaner and more component-shaped
+your DOM, the faster and safer that wiring is. A short note listing your mount
+points / how you'd expect data injected is very welcome.
+
+---
+
+## 9. Hard technical constraints (these make it wire-able)
+
+- **Single file. No build step. No CDN. No external network at runtime.** This
+  ships to an internal LAN and must work offline. That means: **no Google Fonts /
+  no web-font CDN** (use a system monospace stack), no CDN JS/CSS libraries,
+  everything inline. (Icons: use unicode glyphs `➜ ✓ ✗ ! ● ✦ ❯` or hand-inlined
+  SVG — Australis uses Lucide-style 1.75-stroke line icons; inline them.)
+- **Vanilla HTML/CSS/JS.** No framework (the production app is framework-free
+  vanilla JS). React/Vue prototypes can't be wired in.
+- **All dynamic text is escaped** on the real side (untrusted upstream content);
+  assistant/reasoning bodies go through a safe-Markdown renderer (escape-first,
+  whitelist subset). Don't design anything that depends on raw HTML injection.
+- **The real data contracts** (so your structure maps to the wire — you don't
+  implement these, just leave homes for their outputs):
+  - `GET /api/agents` → agent list (for the setup picker).
+  - `POST /api/sessions {agent_id, bifrost_plane?}` → `{session_id, agent_id, bifrost?}`.
+  - `GET /api/sessions/{id}/messages` → `{items:[{seq, role, content}], …}` (the transcript on open, incl. the seeded first-message).
+  - `POST /api/turns/{id} {content}` → `{turn_id}`, then **`GET /api/turns/{id}/stream` (SSE)** — event vocab: `text`, `thinking`, `tool_start`, `tool_result`, `done`, `error`, `awaiting_llm_first_token`, terminal events. `POST /api/turns/{id}/cancel`.
+  - `GET /api/sessions/{id}/tools` → tool inventory. `GET /api/sessions/{id}/bifrost` → binding state.
+  - `GET /api/affect/{agent_id}` / `GET /api/agents/{id}/persona_state` → PAD + relations + dominant_emotion (the persona pane + strip).
+  - **`GET /api/admin/events` (SSE)** → the admin lifecycle log.
+
+---
+
+## 10. Tone check
+
+The user is an engineer who respects the tool that respects *their* attention.
+The winning design is **quietly excellent**: dense but never cramped, alive but
+never busy, cool and legible, with the aurora as a single confident signature.
+Impress by making six live data streams feel *calm and readable at a glance* —
+that's the hard, valuable thing here, not decoration.

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+{
+  "corpus_id": "R28-P00-injection-corpus-v1",
+  "for": "brokkr-smithy R28 (memory promotion-worthiness) — P00 material",
+  "author": "ratatoskr-dev (persistence-side eval instrument)",
+  "purpose": "Stratified, SELF-LABELING injection corpus. Each item is injected as a user turn into a Tier-3 agent; keep/drop is measured by store-inspection (promoted chunk present == kept, absent == dropped); kept chunks carry the incumbent salience for calibration analysis. Because ratatoskr injects the KNOWN set, we hold ground truth on BOTH keep and drop without needing Worldtree's pre-admission shadow pool (sidesteps the selection bias).",
+  "important": "All user-facts here are SYNTHETIC (a fictional test persona), NOT the operator's real data. Ground-truth labels are the design intent. brokkr pins exact per-stratum N + the decision rule (matched-keep-rate + paired-n) at P00 freeze; this is the material, not the run.",
+  "measurement_protocol": "inject item -> drive the turn -> poll memory.db (async promotion window) -> is the item's chunk present? kept:dropped. For stratum B (priority), rank the KEPT items by incumbent salience and compare to priority_rank_gt (Spearman). Calibration-control (stratum C) sets the noise floor.",
+  "strata": {
+    "A_admission_traps": {
+      "gt": "must-DROP (ephemera; a good promotion-worthiness gate rejects all of these)",
+      "items": [
+        {"id":"A1","text":"What's 27 minus 9?","admission_gt":"drop","rationale":"arithmetic task-result; momentarily salient, zero durable value (the 17x23 class)"},
+        {"id":"A2","text":"Good evening!","admission_gt":"drop","rationale":"greeting"},
+        {"id":"A3","text":"hey","admission_gt":"drop","rationale":"greeting/backchannel fragment"},
+        {"id":"A4","text":"yeah, sure, okay.","admission_gt":"drop","rationale":"acknowledgement filler"},
+        {"id":"A5","text":"haha nice","admission_gt":"drop","rationale":"affective reaction, no content"},
+        {"id":"A6","text":"Can you say that more briefly?","admission_gt":"drop","rationale":"instruction-to-agent about THIS turn; not a durable user-fact"},
+        {"id":"A7","text":"What's the weather like?","admission_gt":"drop","rationale":"transient query"},
+        {"id":"A8","text":"hmm, let me think.","admission_gt":"drop","rationale":"self-talk filler"},
+        {"id":"A9","text":"thanks, that's all for now.","admission_gt":"drop","rationale":"closing"},
+        {"id":"A10","text":"So the total comes to 42, got it.","admission_gt":"drop","rationale":"ephemeral task-result acknowledgement"}
+      ]
+    },
+    "B_priority_traps": {
+      "gt": "must-KEEP, then ORDERED by durable promotion-worthiness (priority_rank_gt: 1 = most worthy). A pre-gate can ace admission here yet do NOTHING for ordering — this stratum is what separates Outcome-A (admission) from a priority need.",
+      "items": [
+        {"id":"B1","text":"Please note, this is critical: I'm severely allergic to shellfish and it's life-threatening.","admission_gt":"keep","priority_rank_gt":1,"rationale":"safety-critical, permanent, high-recall-value"},
+        {"id":"B2","text":"My father is in hospice care and I'm his primary emergency contact.","admission_gt":"keep","priority_rank_gt":2,"rationale":"high-stakes ongoing life context"},
+        {"id":"B3","text":"I go by Wren, and my pronouns are they/them.","admission_gt":"keep","priority_rank_gt":3,"rationale":"durable identity, high address-correctness value"},
+        {"id":"B4","text":"I work night shifts, so I'm asleep most days between 9am and 5pm.","admission_gt":"keep","priority_rank_gt":4,"rationale":"durable scheduling context, moderate value"},
+        {"id":"B5","text":"Always give me sources — I don't trust unsourced claims.","admission_gt":"keep","priority_rank_gt":5,"rationale":"durable strong working preference"},
+        {"id":"B6","text":"I take my tea with oat milk and no sugar.","admission_gt":"keep","priority_rank_gt":6,"rationale":"durable mild preference, low stakes"},
+        {"id":"B7","text":"My favorite season is autumn.","admission_gt":"keep","priority_rank_gt":7,"rationale":"durable but trivial"},
+        {"id":"B8","text":"I watched a pretty decent documentary last week.","admission_gt":"keep","priority_rank_gt":8,"rationale":"borderline: durable-ish but near-zero future value; the keep/drop edge case"}
+      ]
+    },
+    "C_calibration_control": {
+      "gt": "OBVIOUS, pre-theoretic cases for the noise floor. If the gate mislabels ANY of these, the whole signal is suspect.",
+      "items": [
+        {"id":"C1","text":"3 plus 5.","admission_gt":"drop","class":"obvious-drop","rationale":"bare arithmetic"},
+        {"id":"C2","text":"hello","admission_gt":"drop","class":"obvious-drop","rationale":"bare greeting"},
+        {"id":"C3","text":"ok","admission_gt":"drop","class":"obvious-drop","rationale":"bare acknowledgement"},
+        {"id":"C4","text":"Please remember permanently: my legal name is Wren Alderwood.","admission_gt":"keep","class":"obvious-keep","rationale":"explicit durable identity fact"},
+        {"id":"C5","text":"Keep this on file: my emergency contact number is 555-0182.","admission_gt":"keep","class":"obvious-keep","rationale":"explicit durable high-value fact"},
+        {"id":"C6","text":"Important, remember this: my blood type is O-negative.","admission_gt":"keep","class":"obvious-keep","rationale":"explicit durable safety fact"}
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}

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+# Proposal: Authored History Write (non-generating ledger seed)
+
+**From:** ratatoskr-dev (reference Tier-3 consumer)
+**To:** worldtree-dev (Conversation API / engine owner)
+**Status:** Draft for scoping — pre-contract (heid-panel-reviewed 2026-07-05)
+**Date:** 2026-07-05
+
+## Motivation
+
+Consumer apps need to write a turn into a session's history **as the agent**
+(or another author) *without triggering a model generation* — e.g. an authored
+opening/greeting, imported history, scripted narration. Ratatoskr's immediate
+driver is a SillyTavern-style **first-message**: a fixed authored opening that
+replaces the model-generated greeting and sets tone/tense/style by example.
+
+This **cannot** be done client-side. Worldtree assembles context server-side,
+and the current API exposes no author-role write path: `POST
+/sessions/{id}/messages`'s `role` is a *model-role* override (`role:
+"assistant"` → `404 "Unknown model role"`), and `assistant` as an *author*-role
+exists only as a read-side `/search` filter. So a model-visible authored turn
+needs engine support.
+
+## The primitive (recentered)
+
+The fundamental operation is **write a turn into the session ledger WITHOUT
+generation**. "Author" (who wrote it) is an *attribute* of that write, not the
+defining axis — so we name the operation, not the attribute:
+
+> **Authored history write** — persist a model-visible turn into a session's
+> ledger: no generation, no lived-turn side-effects by default, provenance
+> always set.
+
+The design space is two independent axes; this primitive is one cell:
+
+|                       | side-effects ON              | side-effects OFF            |
+|-----------------------|------------------------------|-----------------------------|
+| **generation ON**     | `POST /messages` (today)     | —                           |
+| **generation OFF**    | *(future: affect replay)*    | **authored history write**  |
+
+First-message = one caller: `author=assistant`, at session-create, `effects=none`.
+
+## v1 use cases (narrowed)
+
+1. **First-message / greeting** (the driver).
+2. **Append-only narrator / scripted / scene turns.**
+3. **Debug / test state injection** (ratatoskr instrumentation).
+
+## Explicitly OUT of v1 — separate future primitives (share infra, not shape)
+
+- **History import (batch)** — atomic multi-turn seed with memory/trust policy +
+  idempotency. A batch API, not a single POST.
+- **Edit / regenerate** — history *mutation* (replace / supersede / tombstone /
+  audit), not injection.
+- **Few-shot priming** — likely context-assembly config (exemplar block), not
+  fake ledger history.
+- **Arbitrary mid-history insertion** — a "rewrite-history" capability with
+  explicit invalidation semantics.
+- **Prefill / assistant-continuation** (`author` + generate) and **authored
+  tool-result turns** — noted; outside the seed-only contract.
+
+## Design decisions
+
+### 1. Side-effects — DEFAULT OFF; bounded opt-in  `[operator-locked default; opt-in surface tightened by review]`
+
+Authored writes are inert by default: no affect appraisal (no PAD update), no
+memory write, no Bifrost/tool emission. Opt-in is a **bounded enum**, not loose
+booleans:
+
+```
+effects: "none" (default) | "memory_import"
+```
+
+Synthetic affect and Bifrost emission are deliberately **not** opt-in-able here —
+replaying affect for authored content is a separate primitive (the
+generation-OFF / side-effects-ON cell). Rationale: keep this one write-API from
+becoming a cross-subsystem mutation backdoor. Load-bearing for affect/memory
+consumers — ratatoskr instruments exactly these signals.
+
+### 2. Author-role — distinct field, restricted set  `[rec]`
+
+- New field **`author`**, distinct from the model-role `role` (the collision
+  that 404s).
+- v1 roles: **`assistant`** (agent) + **`system`** (OOC / narrator). **`user` is
+  NOT injectable** on this endpoint — model-visible spoofed user input is a
+  consent / audit / abuse surface; deferred to the future import API under
+  owner/service scope.
+- Nuance for the engine owner: `author` risks doing double duty — *provenance*
+  ("who wrote it") vs *rendering-role* ("how it appears in assembled context";
+  an `assistant` turn renders as model output, a `system` turn as instruction).
+  These likely want to be separable (a rendering/turn-class vs an `authored_by`
+  provenance). Final shape is engine-owned (context assembly is yours) — but the
+  concern is ours to raise, not punt.
+
+### 3. Generation contract — seed-only, DISTINCT SUB-RESOURCE  `[position taken]`
+
+Authored writes never trigger generation. We take a position (not defer): a
+**distinct sub-resource**, e.g. `POST /sessions/{id}/history`, **not** a
+`generate:false` flag on `POST /messages`. Reasons: explicit-over-implicit
+(don't make "did generation happen?" a parameter — the same implicit-mode
+coupling that bit us with `role`); different response contract (no generation
+id, no SSE stream, no token usage); different error surface. Exact path is yours.
+
+### 4. Provenance — structured, always present  `[rec, expanded]`
+
+Not a boolean. Every authored turn carries: the **write actor** (which
+consumer/caller injected it), the **claimed author**, **injected-at vs
+claimed-original** timestamps, **trust/origin**, and **visibility** flags
+(model-visible? user-visible? memory-eligible?). Available to admin/audit APIs
+even when not rendered to the model.
+
+### 5. Positioning — append-only + create-time (v1)  `[revised: was arbitrary insertion]`
+
+v1 supports **create-time seed and append-to-tail only**. Arbitrary mid-history
+insertion is deferred: it breaks turn-numbering, stales existing embeddings,
+desyncs the affect timeline, and races in-flight generation — a separate future
+"rewrite-history" capability with explicit invalidation semantics.
+
+## Event / lifecycle contract — positions we take (consumer contracts we validate)
+
+- **Default-off authored seed emits NO `turn.started` / `done` and NO Bifrost
+  appraisal wire.** Stated explicitly so instrumented consumers (us) don't read
+  silence as failure.
+- **Authored turns get a distinct lifecycle phase** — propose **`seeded`** (or
+  `authored`), NOT `completed` (which implies generation ran). Consumers
+  filter/display by phase.
+- **Idempotency keys required** on authored writes (retries must not duplicate
+  turns).
+- **In-progress generation** — authored writes are rejected or serialized while
+  a session has an active generation (ordering safety).
+
+## Inherent property (documented, not a bug)
+
+**Indirect affect contamination.** Even with `effects:none`, the *next generated
+turn is appraised in the context of* the authored turn — so an emotionally
+charged authored beat perturbs affect regardless of any flag. No flag prevents
+it; it is inherent. Consumers (ratatoskr especially, as the affect instrument)
+must not misattribute the resulting drift.
+
+## Genuinely engine-owned open questions
+
+- Exact endpoint path + field / enum names.
+- **Model-visible provenance in assembled context** — an engine-consistency call
+  *and a security one*: an authored `system` / `user` turn indistinguishable
+  from real input is a spoofing vector. Framed as security, not just rendering.
+- `memory_import` semantics when the future import API opts in (embedding,
+  origin/trust tagging, retrieval ranking vs lived memory).
+- Auth/scope: we assume **owner-only for v1**; per-author-role restrictions
+  (esp. `system`) TBD — confirm or correct.
+
+## Ratatoskr as reference consumer
+
+First consumer: first-message (`author=assistant`, create-time, `effects:none`)
+in the web surface + debug seed in the CLI. We commit to validating the
+primitive — including the event-silence contract and the `seeded` phase —
+end-to-end against the reference planes.
+
+## Consumer integration constraint (engine-imposed — Worldtree #347)
+
+The primitive is **Heimdall-gated with hide-existence** (a per-tenant policy
+decision — some tenants are never granted it, not a rollout stage). Ratatoskr's
+consumer side MUST tolerate per-tenant absence:
+
+- A granted tenant gets the sub-resource; an **ungranted tenant sees `404` (not
+  `403`)** — as if the feature never existed.
+- Treat `404` on the authored-history-write sub-resource as **"feature absent
+  for this tenant"** → fall back gracefully (no authored first-message; the
+  model-generated greeting), never surface it as an error or "denied."
+- **Do NOT capability-probe or advertise-detect** — the feature is deliberately
+  undiscoverable in `/capabilities` for ungranted tenants (same hide-existence
+  posture as the R27-V1A cross-owner pattern).
+
+**Provider constraint (first-message specifically).** A create-time first-message
+makes the assistant turn `seq 0`. Assistant-first-tolerant providers (vLLM /
+`openai_compat` — what our Tier-3 characters, incl. sindra, run) accept it out of
+the box. **Anthropic-family providers reject an assistant-first array** ("first
+message must use the user role") → the next generation `400`s. So the consumer
+must **gate first-message on provider compatibility** (or treat it as
+vLLM/`openai_compat`-only for v1). Sindra = `openai_compat` → unaffected;
+provider-agnostic normalization is a deferred engine follow-up.
+
+---
+
+*This brief was cold-read-pressure-tested by a cross-frontier panel (Grok /
+Codex / GLM) before handoff; the v1 narrowing (append-only, bounded `effects`
+enum, edit/regenerate + import split out) and the positions-taken (sub-resource,
+event-silence, `seeded` phase, structured provenance, `user`-author restriction)
+are the triaged result.*

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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.

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+---
+contract_version: "2.1"
+module: "soong_lab.export"
+purpose: "Assemble a versioned export BUNDLE from a DesignObject — the native agents.define payload (Frame Invariant 1, emitted unchanged) + the soong-lab sidecar (portrait ref · Bifrost tool manifest · first_message) + the resume half (the full editable design state), under a versioned schema tolerant of unknown future metadata. Pure + deterministic: no I/O, no persistence, no network (library persistence + import are separate downstream epics)."
+depends_on:
+  - "soong_lab.design"      # validate_ocean + ROLE_CHOICES/validate_role (the role enum canon) + the DesignObject model + serialize_design (relocated here — see Integration points R1)
+used_by:
+  - "soong_lab.bifrost"     # the export design-tool handler (_make_export) builds the bundle for the session's design
+  - "soong_lab.web"         # the /api/export endpoint + the browser 'Export Asset' modal render the bundle
+  - "soong_lab.importer"     # FUTURE (import epic) — round-trips the resume half back into a DesignObject
+language: "python"
+complexity: "medium"
+estimated_loc: 200
+confidence: 0.82
+assumptions:
+  - "The DesignObject handed to export is already mutated to its final state by E3 (the Soong convo loop). Export READS it; it never mutates the design (INV-E5-4)."
+  - "design_id is CALLER-SUPPLIED (a param), not generated here. Its generation + lifecycle (the durable library key, ≠ Worldtree session_id) is the per-design-sessions epic; export only needs the value to stamp the bundle. This keeps E5-export self-contained + forward-compatible with per-design-sessions landing before OR after it (agent-discretion, see open_question C)."
+  - "exported_at is CALLER-SUPPLIED (a param, default None). Pure builders can't read the clock; the caller (tool handler / endpoint) stamps the timestamp so build_export_bundle stays deterministic + testable (byte-identical output for identical inputs)."
+  - "role is a FIRST-CLASS design field (operator ruling 2026-07-13), set by the E3a set_role tool from a CURATED 4-value enum ROLE_CHOICES = {assistant, thoughtful-assistant, character, thoughtful-character} — mirroring the D2 curated-style-modes pattern (a fixed semantic set, NOT the target deployment's arbitrary model-role registry). Export EMITS design.role into ship.native.role, so the native payload is directly valid (Frame Invariant 1 now holds literally — no 'modulo role' caveat; only tools still bind separately at session-create). The 4 enum values are canonical soong-lab labels that MUST be registered/granted model-roles on the target Worldtree at deploy (same grant requirement as Soong's own 'agent_architect' role, ADR-0012) — a deploy-time grounding item, not a contract blocker (open_question B)."
+  - "psych_profile exports to the NATIVE persona layer at persona.psychological_profile. RESOLVED: the vendored canonical spec (docs/psych-profile-authoring-spec.md §4) states the wire shape is LOCKED (b53) — a single prose str field, Tier-3 ValidatedPersona.psychological_profile, nesting under the existing Any-typed persona field (no schema change). Corroborated by worldtree-codex (vor-cross) + brokkr-smithy-dev (althing 01KXD34ZTF…). The open worldtree-dev thread (01KXD1PZR7…) closes as a formality."
+open_questions:
+  - "[B — deploy grounding, not a blocker] The 4 ROLE_CHOICES values (assistant / thoughtful-assistant / character / thoughtful-character) must be registered + grantable model-role slugs on the TARGET Worldtree (like Soong's own agent_architect role). Confirm with worldtree-dev/infra that these exact slugs exist on the deploy target before shipping; a missing slug fails the designed agent's session-create, not export. Export emits whatever role the design holds; validity of the slug on a given deployment is a deploy concern."
+  - "[C — agent-discretion, notable] design_id as a caller-supplied param (drafted) vs E5-export generating it. Drafted as an input so E5-export doesn't force per-design-sessions to land first. If the operator re-sequences the epics so per-design-sessions lands first, no change needed here (the param source just moves)."
+  - "[D — scope] E5-export = the PURE builders + validators + bundle schema (this contract). The /api/export endpoint + replacing the web/api.js exportBundle shim = a thin web-surface follow-up (amends web_surface.contract.md), NOT this contract. The Bifrost export-tool wiring IS in scope (Integration points) because the tool already exists as a stub. The set_role tool + DesignObject.role field are a companion prerequisite slice (Integration points) whose contract updates land in THIS pass (design_object + bifrost_server)."
+  - "schema_version starts at '1.0'. The version bump policy on future bundle-shape changes (add-only vs breaking) is deferred to when the second version actually exists — v1 only needs the field present + readers to tolerate unknown metadata (INV-E5-6)."
+---
+
+## Context
+
+E5-export is the FOUNDATION half of the operator-accepted (2026-07-13)
+export/import/library design — the block that expands the locked single-agent
+frame into a multi-pass tuning loop (design → export → reopen → tune → keep a
+library). This contract owns exactly ONE thing: turning a finished
+`DesignObject` into a **versioned export bundle**. Persistence (the library JSON
+dir), the recent-designs picker, and import round-tripping are separate
+downstream epics; export is pure and deterministic so those epics — and the
+tests — can build on a stable, side-effect-free core.
+
+**The bundle is ONE artifact with two halves** (settled decision #4):
+
+- **ship** — what you hand to a deployment: the native `agents.define` payload
+  (Frame Invariant 1, emitted unchanged) + the soong-lab **sidecar** (persona
+  portrait ref, the Bifrost tool manifest, the D3 first_message).
+- **resume** — what you reopen to keep tuning: the full editable design state
+  (the §6 DesignObject serialization), so a future import reconstructs the
+  DesignObject exactly.
+
+Plus a stable **`design_id`** (the durable library key, ≠ Worldtree
+`session_id`) and a **`schema_version`**, both at the top level.
+
+**Frame Invariant 1 is preserved — and now holds literally.** `ship.native` is a
+valid Worldtree Tier-3 `agents.define` payload assembled from `agent_name` + the
+designed agent's **`role`** (the model-role, resolved below) + the AUTHORED
+`system_prompt` (INV-E2-2 — never `composed_preview`) + `persona.ocean`
+(Worldtree renders affect at runtime) + `persona.psychological_profile` (the
+native home, LOCKED b53 per the vendored spec §4) + `motivational` (from
+goals_fears). The image and tools are NOT in the native schema — they ride the
+sidecar (tools bind via Bifrost at session-create, exactly as grounded).
+
+**The `role` resolution (operator ruling 2026-07-13).** The blast-radius pass
+caught that `agents.define` requires `role` (a model-role slug, ADR-0012) but the
+design had no source for it. Resolution: **role is a first-class design field**,
+set by a new E3a **`set_role`** tool from a **curated 4-value enum** —
+`assistant` (general LLM), `thoughtful-assistant` (CoT general),
+`character` (RP/writing-tuned), `thoughtful-character` (CoT RP). This mirrors the
+D2 curated-style-modes decision: a fixed semantic set the operator picks from,
+NOT a coupling to any one deployment's arbitrary role registry. Export emits
+`design.role`, so the native payload is directly POST-valid (modulo the tool
+binding every consumer already supplies at session-create). The one deploy-time
+caveat: the 4 slugs must be granted on the target Worldtree (open_question B).
+
+**The psych field is RESOLVED (no longer quarantined).** Vendored spec §4 locks
+`persona.psychological_profile` (prose `str`, ~150–300 words, read every turn),
+nesting under the `Any`-typed persona layer. Export maps `design.psych_profile`
+there and NOWHERE else — spec §4's hard constraint is that the self-report lens
+reads ONLY this field (leaking psych prose into `behavioral_notes`/`system_prompt`
+causes the "executive-assistant" failure).
+
+## Data flow
+
+**In:** a `DesignObject` (final, from E3) + a caller-supplied `design_id` (str)
++ an optional caller-supplied `exported_at` (str | None). **Out:** a plain
+JSON-ready `dict` — the versioned bundle. **On disk / network:** NONE. Export is
+pure: the OCEAN parity gate (`validate_ocean`), the role-enum gate
+(`validate_role`), and the export-critical validators are in-memory; timestamps +
+ids come in as params; no clock, no randomness, no file, no HTTP. (Library
+persistence writes the returned dict to the JSON dir — that is the library epic,
+not this module.)
+
+### Export bundle schema (v1.0)
+
+```
+{
+  "schema_version": "1.0",                 # ALWAYS EXPORT_SCHEMA_VERSION — not a caller param
+  "design_id": "<caller-supplied durable library key, ≠ WT session_id>",
+  "exported_at": <caller-supplied OPAQUE str | null — conventionally ISO-8601, NOT validated by export>,
+  "ship": {
+    "native": {                       # a valid agents.define payload (Frame Invariant 1)
+      "agent_name": <str, non-blank, ≤128>,
+      "role": <one of ROLE_CHOICES: assistant|thoughtful-assistant|character|thoughtful-character>,
+      "system_prompt": <str, non-blank, ≤32768 — the AUTHORED block, INV-E2-2>,
+      "persona": {
+        "ocean": {O,C,E,A,N},         # each a real number in [-1,1] (validate_ocean parity)
+        "psychological_profile": <str>   # persona.psychological_profile (LOCKED b53); included iff non-blank
+      },
+      "motivational": {"goals": [...], "fears": [...]}   # included iff goals_fears present + non-empty
+    },
+    "sidecar": {
+      "portrait": <image ref str | null>,   # only when portrait.status == "ready"; E4 owns generation
+      "tools": [{"id","name","description"}],# the Bifrost tool manifest (bind at session-create)
+      "first_message": <str>                 # the D3 opening turn (issue #347 seed)
+    }
+  },
+  "resume": { <the §6 camelCase editable state — key set inlined below> }
+}
+```
+
+**The `resume` key set (inlined — heid-review fold Gróa #9).** The resume half IS
+`serialize_design(design)` (relocated to `soong_lab.design`, R1), but its key set is
+pinned HERE so this contract is self-contained and an implementer knows the exact
+round-trip surface without reading the external, being-relocated function:
+
+```
+resume = {
+  "agentName", "role", "systemPrompt", "composedPreview", "firstMessage",
+  "ocean" {O,C,E,A,N}, "dispositionPhrase", "psychProfile",
+  "tools" [{id,name,description}], "portrait" {status, styleMode, imageUrl?, jobId?},
+  "goalsFears" {goals,fears} | null
+}
+```
+
+Import reconstructs a DesignObject from exactly these keys. `role` (new, R1) MUST be
+present so a reopened design carries its model-role. (`composedPreview` +
+`dispositionPhrase` are design-time-derived and re-derivable, but they ride the resume
+so a reopen renders instantly before the first recompute.)
+
+**Divergences from the imported web mock (settled here, they were UI-comp
+shortcuts):**
+
+| Field | Mock (web/*.js) | Real export (this contract) |
+|---|---|---|
+| native shape | `{name, tier, system_prompt, personality:{model,values}}` | real `agents.define` (`agent_name`/`role`/`persona.ocean`/`motivational`) |
+| role | absent | `design.role` ∈ ROLE_CHOICES |
+| system_prompt | `composedPreview` (mockApi) | authored `system_prompt` (INV-E2-2) |
+| psychProfile | omitted ("open backend decision") | `persona.psychological_profile` (LOCKED b53) |
+| bundle identity | none | `design_id` + `schema_version` |
+| resume half | none | full `serialize_design` state |
+
+## Invariants
+
+- **INV-E5-1** [hard]: `ship.native` is a valid Worldtree `agents.define` payload
+  MODULO the tool binding — it carries every required field (`agent_name`,
+  `role`, `system_prompt`) + `persona.ocean`, and OMITS only the tools (they bind
+  via Bifrost at session-create, as they already do). Any `persona.ocean` export
+  emits passes `validate_ocean`; `role` is always one of ROLE_CHOICES.
+  `persona.psychological_profile` + `motivational` are OPTIONAL native fields
+  (grounded) — omitting them when blank/empty keeps the payload fully valid, not
+  merely "valid enough" (heid-review fold, Gróa #1).
+- **INV-E5-2** [hard]: The exported `system_prompt` is the AUTHORED
+  `design.system_prompt`, NEVER `composed_preview` (binds with INV-E2-2). The
+  **disposition line** — the `"Disposition: <name> is <phrase>."` sentence that
+  E2 `recompute` appends to `composed_preview` (design_object.contract.md POST-E2-5)
+  — is design-time-only and never ships.
+- **INV-E5-3** [hard]: Export is pure + deterministic — identical
+  `(design, design_id, exported_at)` inputs yield a byte-identical serialized
+  bundle. No clock, no randomness, no I/O. The determinism is WITHIN the module:
+  the returned dict has a fixed key insertion order (schema_version, design_id,
+  exported_at, ship, resume; native + sidecar likewise), so any consistent
+  `json.dumps` settings produce byte-identical output — the invariant does NOT
+  claim cross-implementation byte-identity (heid-review fold, Regin #6).
+- **INV-E5-4** [hard]: Export NEVER mutates the input `DesignObject` (read-only);
+  the bundle holds copies, not aliases, of every mutable sub-structure (ocean
+  dict, tool list, goals/fears lists) so a later design mutation can't change an
+  already-built bundle.
+- **INV-E5-5** [hard]: `validate_exportable` is the strict export-critical gate
+  (decision #6): OCEAN (via `validate_ocean`), role (∈ ROLE_CHOICES via
+  `validate_role`), agent_name (non-blank, ≤128), system_prompt (non-blank,
+  ≤32768), tool-refs (id/name non-blank + bounded). A design that fails ANY of
+  these raises `ExportError` and NO bundle is produced — a built bundle is always
+  well-formed enough to round-trip on import.
+- **INV-E5-6** [hard]: The bundle carries `schema_version` at the top level, and
+  readers (import, future) MUST tolerate unknown extra keys (lenient on unknown
+  metadata, decision #6) — the schema is add-only-friendly.
+- **INV-E5-7** [hard]: `psych_profile` maps to `persona.psychological_profile`
+  and NOWHERE else — it never leaks into `behavioral_notes`, `system_prompt`, or
+  any other native field (vendored spec §4 hard constraint — the lens reads only
+  this dedicated field).
+
+## Constraints
+
+- **[correctness]** `validate_exportable`'s OCEAN check IS `validate_ocean` and
+  its role check IS `validate_role` (both E2) — no re-implementation, no drift.
+  The LENGTH bounds (name, prompt, tool id/name/desc, psych_profile, first_message)
+  MUST equal the E3a tool-schema caps — now shared constants in `soong_lab.design`
+  (`AGENT_NAME_MAX`, `SYSTEM_PROMPT_MAX`, `PSYCH_PROFILE_MAX`, `FIRST_MESSAGE_MAX`,
+  `TOOL_*_MAX`), imported by BOTH bifrost/tools.py and export — so a design's field
+  LENGTHS never drift. Import the shared constants; do not re-declare the numbers.
+  (Export is stricter only on whitespace-blankness of the required fields — the one
+  intentional one-way difference from the tools' minLength:1.)
+- **[style]** Pure — NO I/O (no clock, no file, no HTTP, no randomness). Every
+  time-varying value (`design_id`, `exported_at`) is a param.
+- **[explicit]** The one deploy-time caveat (the 4 role slugs must be granted on
+  the target WT) is documented in THIS contract (open_question B) + the library /
+  README when it lands — NOT promised as a bundle/sidecar field (heid-review fold:
+  the bundle is machine-consumed; a human deploy-note is not bundle data). The
+  bundle carries the `role` value; slug-grant validity is a deploy concern.
+- **[explicit]** `build_export_bundle` is the PUBLIC entrypoint — it runs the
+  validate→assemble ordering. `build_native_payload` / `build_sidecar` are exposed
+  for testing + reuse but ASSUME an already-validated design (PRE-E5-2 / PRE-E5-4);
+  a direct caller that skips `validate_exportable` owns that gate (heid-review fold,
+  Hulda #5).
+
+```contract
+FN validate_exportable(design: DesignObject) -> None
+BRIEF: The strict export-critical gate (settled decision #6) — refuse to build a bundle from a design that would fail on re-import or at the designed agent's define/session-create. Checks OCEAN (validate_ocean), role (validate_role), agent_name, system_prompt, every tool-ref, and the psych_profile/first_message LENGTH — against the SAME length caps the E3a tools enforce (shared constants). NO-DRIFT is one-directional: export's LENGTH bounds equal the tool caps, but export is deliberately STRICTER on whitespace — a whitespace-only required field (name/prompt/tool id/name) passes the tools' minLength:1 yet is rejected here (a "   " name must not ship). Raises ExportError with the offending field; never mutates the design.
+PRE: [PRE-E5-1 hard] design is a DesignObject
+POST: [POST-E5-1 exception] raises ExportError(field, detail) unless ALL hold: design.ocean passes validate_ocean; design.role passes validate_role (∈ ROLE_CHOICES); agent_name is a non-blank str of len ≤ _AGENT_NAME_MAX; system_prompt is a non-blank str of len ≤ _SYSTEM_PROMPT_MAX; every tool has non-blank str id (≤_TOOL_ID_MAX) + non-blank str name (≤_TOOL_NAME_MAX) + str description (≤_TOOL_DESC_MAX); psych_profile is a str of len ≤ _PSYCH_PROFILE_MAX (blank OK); first_message is a str of len ≤ _FIRST_MESSAGE_MAX (blank OK). The id/name-required vs description/psych/first_message-may-be-blank asymmetry is INTENTIONAL — description defaults to "" via attach_tool; psych_profile/first_message are optional prose so only their LENGTH is bounded, not blankness (heid-review Gróa #8 + correctness-finder folds)
+POST: [POST-E5-2 state_change] design is unchanged — no mutation (INV-E5-4)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, flexibility=prescriptive] TRY validate_ocean(design.ocean) — on OceanError, RAISE ExportError("persona.ocean", str(exc)) (reuse E2, no re-impl)
+  2. [sequential, flexibility=prescriptive] TRY validate_role(design.role) — on RoleError, RAISE ExportError("role", str(exc)) (reuse E2 role canon)
+  3. [branch] IF agent_name is not a non-blank str OR len > _AGENT_NAME_MAX: RAISE ExportError("agent_name", ...)
+  4. [branch] IF system_prompt is not a non-blank str OR len > _SYSTEM_PROMPT_MAX: RAISE ExportError("system_prompt", ...)   # the AUTHORED block, INV-E5-2
+  5. [loop] FOR EACH tool in design.tools: IF id/name blank or over max, or description non-str/over max: RAISE ExportError(f"tools[{i}]", ...)
+  6. [branch] IF psych_profile is non-str OR len > _PSYCH_PROFILE_MAX: RAISE ExportError("psych_profile", ...)   # length only — blank OK (optional prose)
+  7. [branch] IF first_message is non-str OR len > _FIRST_MESSAGE_MAX: RAISE ExportError("first_message", ...)   # length only — blank OK
+  8. [cleanup] RETURN None
+TESTS:
+  minimal_ok [happy,tracer]: agent_name+system_prompt set, role="character", neutral OCEAN, no tools → no raise
+  blank_name [adversarial]: agent_name="" → ExportError("agent_name")
+  blank_prompt [adversarial]: system_prompt="   " → ExportError("system_prompt")
+  prompt_too_long [boundary]: system_prompt of len _SYSTEM_PROMPT_MAX+1 → ExportError; len _SYSTEM_PROMPT_MAX → ok
+  bad_ocean [adversarial]: ocean missing a key → ExportError("persona.ocean") (via validate_ocean)
+  bad_role [adversarial]: role="wizard" (not in ROLE_CHOICES) → ExportError("role") (via validate_role)
+  blank_role [adversarial]: role="" → ExportError("role")
+  bad_tool_ref [adversarial]: a tool with id="" → ExportError("tools[0]")
+  no_mutation [property]: a rejected design is byte-identical before/after the raise (INV-E5-4)
+  psych_profile_length [boundary]: psych_profile="" → ok; len _PSYCH_PROFILE_MAX+1 → ExportError("psych_profile")
+  first_message_length [boundary]: first_message len _FIRST_MESSAGE_MAX+1 → ExportError("first_message"); blank → ok
+  whitespace_name_rejected [adversarial]: agent_name="   " → ExportError("agent_name") — deliberately stricter than the tool's minLength:1 (a whitespace-only name must not ship)
+  length_bounds_parity [property]: any (name, prompt, tool, psych, first_message) LENGTH the E3a tool schema accepts is ≤ export's caps (shared constants); export is stricter ONLY on whitespace-blankness of required fields, never looser on length
+```
+
+```contract
+FN build_native_payload(design: DesignObject) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: Map a DesignObject to a valid native agents.define payload (Frame Invariant 1). Emits agent_name + role + the AUTHORED system_prompt + persona{ocean, psychological_profile?} + motivational?. Copies mutable sub-structures (INV-E5-4). Assumes validate_exportable already passed (called by build_export_bundle).
+PRE: [PRE-E5-2 hard] design passed validate_exportable (OCEAN valid, role valid, name/prompt present) — build_export_bundle enforces this ordering
+POST: [POST-E5-3 return_value] result has agent_name == design.agent_name, role == design.role (∈ ROLE_CHOICES), and system_prompt == design.system_prompt (the AUTHORED block, INV-E5-2), and result["persona"]["ocean"] == a COPY of design.ocean
+POST: [POST-E5-4 return_value] result["role"] == design.role — the designed agent's model-role (one of the 4 ROLE_CHOICES); a valid agents.define required field
+POST: [POST-E5-5 return_value] persona.psychological_profile == design.psych_profile when psych_profile is non-blank, else the key is absent; it appears under persona and NOWHERE else (INV-E5-7)
+POST: [POST-E5-6 return_value] motivational == {"goals": copy, "fears": copy} when design.goals_fears is present AND at least one list is non-empty; else the key is absent (never an empty motivational block)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup] payload = {"agent_name": design.agent_name, "role": design.role, "system_prompt": design.system_prompt}   # role emitted; system_prompt is the authored block (INV-E5-2)
+  2. [sequential] persona = {"ocean": dict(design.ocean)}   # COPY, not alias (INV-E5-4)
+  3. [branch] IF design.psych_profile is a non-blank str: persona["psychological_profile"] = design.psych_profile   # LOCKED b53 field; ONLY here (INV-E5-7)
+  4. [sequential] payload["persona"] = persona
+  5. [branch] IF design.goals_fears is not None AND (goals or fears non-empty): payload["motivational"] = {"goals": list(gf.goals), "fears": list(gf.fears)}
+  6. [cleanup] RETURN payload   # tools NOT here — they ride the sidecar / bind via Bifrost at session-create
+TESTS:
+  authored_prompt [happy,tracer]: system_prompt authored + composed_preview differs → payload.system_prompt == authored, NOT composed_preview (INV-E5-2)
+  role_emitted [happy]: role="thoughtful-character" → payload.role == "thoughtful-character" (POST-E5-4)
+  ocean_copied [property]: mutate design.ocean after build → payload's ocean unchanged (INV-E5-4)
+  psych_present [happy]: psych_profile set → persona.psychological_profile == it; it is the ONLY field carrying it (INV-E5-7)
+  psych_absent [boundary]: psych_profile="" → no psychological_profile key
+  motivational_present [happy]: goals_fears with goals=["x"] → motivational.goals == ["x"]
+  motivational_absent [boundary]: goals_fears None → no motivational key; goals_fears with both lists empty → no motivational key
+  no_tools_no_image [trace]: payload has no "tools" and no image field (they ride the sidecar / bind separately)
+```
+
+```contract
+FN build_sidecar(design: DesignObject) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: Assemble the soong-lab sidecar — the three artifacts the native schema has no home for: the persona portrait ref, the Bifrost tool manifest, and the D3 first_message. Copies the tool list (INV-E5-4).
+PRE: [PRE-E5-4 hard] design is a DesignObject (its portrait/tools/first_message fields are read as-is; no validation here — validate_exportable is the gate, called by build_export_bundle before this)
+POST: [POST-E5-7 return_value] result == {"portrait": <str|None>, "tools": [{"id","name","description"} per tool, copied], "first_message": design.first_message}; portrait == design.portrait.image_url IFF design.portrait.status == "ready", else None (a "ready" status with a None image_url therefore yields None — no crash; any non-"ready" status → None — heid-review fold Gróa #4)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup] portrait = design.portrait.image_url if design.portrait.status == "ready" else None
+  2. [sequential] tools = [t.to_dict() for t in design.tools]   # ToolRef.to_dict() — the shared {id,name,description} projection (dedups with serialize_design); it MUST emit exactly id/name/description, so if to_dict ever grows keys the sidecar spec must be revisited (heid-code-review fold)
+  3. [cleanup] RETURN {"portrait": portrait, "tools": tools, "first_message": design.first_message}
+TESTS:
+  ready_portrait [happy]: portrait.status="ready", image_url set → sidecar.portrait == the url
+  unready_portrait [boundary]: portrait.status="generating" (url set) → sidecar.portrait is None (only ready ships)
+  none_portrait [boundary]: portrait.status="none" → sidecar.portrait is None
+  tools_manifest [happy,tracer]: two tools → sidecar.tools has both {id,name,description}
+  tools_copied [property]: mutate design.tools after build → sidecar.tools unchanged (INV-E5-4)
+  first_message [happy]: first_message set → sidecar.first_message == it
+```
+
+```contract
+FN build_export_bundle(design: DesignObject, *, design_id: str, exported_at: str | None = None) -> dict[str, Any]
+BRIEF: The top-level export entrypoint — validate (strict, INV-E5-5), then assemble the versioned bundle: {schema_version, design_id, exported_at, ship:{native, sidecar}, resume}. Pure + deterministic (INV-E5-3); the caller supplies design_id + exported_at (no clock here). The resume half reuses serialize_design (the §6 state) so import round-trips. schema_version is NOT a caller param (heid-review fold) — it is ALWAYS EXPORT_SCHEMA_VERSION, so a bundle's version is never caller-forgeable; a future migration bumps the module constant. exported_at is an OPAQUE caller-supplied string (conventionally ISO-8601) — export does NOT parse or validate it (purity; the caller owns timestamp correctness).
+PRE: [PRE-E5-3 hard] design_id is a non-blank str (the durable library key) — a blank id RAISES ExportError("design_id", ...) (a bundle with no library key is unusable)
+POST: [POST-E5-8 exception] IF the design fails validate_exportable, the ExportError propagates and NO bundle is returned (INV-E5-5) — validation is BEFORE assembly
+POST: [POST-E5-9 return_value] returns {schema_version: EXPORT_SCHEMA_VERSION (always), design_id, exported_at, ship:{native: build_native_payload(design), sidecar: build_sidecar(design)}, resume: serialize_design(design)}; exported_at is the param verbatim (None → JSON null), unvalidated
+POST: [POST-E5-10 return_value] deterministic — identical (design, design_id, exported_at) → byte-identical json.dumps(result) given fixed dumps settings; the returned dict has a FIXED key insertion order (schema_version, design_id, exported_at, ship, resume), so a caller's json.dumps is stable (INV-E5-3); design unchanged (INV-E5-4)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, flexibility=prescriptive] IF design_id is not a non-blank str: RAISE ExportError("design_id", "a non-blank design_id is required")
+  2. [sequential] CALL validate_exportable(design)   # strict gate BEFORE assembly (INV-E5-5) — raises propagate
+  3. [sequential] native = build_native_payload(design); sidecar = build_sidecar(design); resume = serialize_design(design)
+  4. [cleanup] RETURN {"schema_version": EXPORT_SCHEMA_VERSION, "design_id": design_id, "exported_at": exported_at, "ship": {"native": native, "sidecar": sidecar}, "resume": resume}
+TESTS:
+  full_bundle [happy,tracer]: a complete design + design_id="d-1" → bundle has schema_version, design_id=="d-1", ship.native.agent_name, ship.native.role, ship.sidecar.first_message, resume.systemPrompt
+  blank_design_id [adversarial]: design_id="" → ExportError("design_id") before any assembly
+  invalid_design_no_bundle [adversarial]: a design with blank agent_name → ExportError propagates, no dict returned (POST-E5-8)
+  deterministic [property]: build twice with the same (design, design_id, exported_at) → byte-identical json.dumps (INV-E5-3)
+  exported_at_passthrough [trace]: exported_at="2026-07-13T00:00:00Z" → bundle.exported_at == it verbatim; None → null; a non-ISO "banana" is passed through unvalidated
+  schema_version_not_a_param [trace]: build_export_bundle(..., schema_version="banana") raises TypeError — schema_version is fixed, never caller-supplied (heid-review fold)
+  resume_roundtrips [property]: resume half == serialize_design(design) — every editable field present for import (incl. role)
+  no_mutation [property]: design byte-identical before/after build (INV-E5-4)
+  schema_version_present [trace]: bundle.schema_version == EXPORT_SCHEMA_VERSION (INV-E5-6)
+```
+
+## Integration points
+
+**R1 — relocate `serialize_design` out of `web.py` (agent-discretion refactor,
+no public-surface change).** The resume half reuses the §6 DesignObject
+serialization, but `serialize_design` currently lives in `soong_lab.web`
+(Starlette-coupled). Importing `web.py` into `export` would drag Starlette +
+the orchestrator into a pure module. Fix: **move `serialize_design` to
+`soong_lab.design`** (it is a pure `DesignObject → dict` mapping with no web
+dependency — it belongs with the model; add `role` to its output), and update the
+two consumers to import it from there. Blast radius (confirmed via grep):
+`web.py` (define → import; 3 call-sites unchanged), `tests/test_web.py:23`
+(import path), and the new `export` consumer. Behavior-identical;
+`web_surface.contract.md` gets a one-line note. No-backwards-compat: the old
+location is deleted, all refs updated in the same commit.
+
+**Companion prerequisite slice — the `role` field + `set_role` tool (contracts
+updated in THIS pass).** Export emits `design.role`, so the field + its tool must
+exist. This slice (governed by the sibling contracts, amended alongside this one):
+- `soong_lab.design` (design_object.contract.md): a `role` field on
+  `DesignObject` (default `"character"`); a `ROLE_CHOICES` enum canon +
+  `validate_role`, held as an in-code module constant (mirroring the OCEAN
+  adjective canon); `new_design()` sets `role="character"`; `serialize_design`
+  adds `role`.
+- `soong_lab.bifrost` (bifrost_server.contract.md): a new `set_role(_ctx, role)`
+  design tool (the 9th), `input_schema` an `enum` of the 4 values; the handler
+  sets `design.role` after membership validation.
+The behavioral CODE for this slice lands in the TDD phase after
+`/heid-contract-review`, alongside `soong_lab.export`.
+
+**Bifrost export tool (`_make_export` in bifrost/tools.py) — in scope.** Replace
+the deferred stub with: get the session's design from the store, then
+`build_export_bundle(design, design_id=<source>, exported_at=<stamp>)` and
+return the bundle (or a compact confirmation carrying it). The `design_id`
+source is the per-design-sessions seam (open_question C) — until it lands, the
+tool may pass the session_id as a provisional design_id (a documented
+placeholder, NOT a silent default). The tool handler is the impure boundary that
+stamps `exported_at` (clock) and supplies `design_id`, keeping
+`soong_lab.export` pure.
+
+**`/api/export` endpoint + web/api.js shim — NOT in this contract (open_question
+D).** The browser 'Export Asset' button calls `api.export()`, today a
+client-side shim assembling a NON-native mock bundle. The real path is a thin
+`GET /api/export` on `web.py` → `build_export_bundle(orchestrator.get_design(),
+…)` → JSON → the modal's native/sidecar panes render it. That amends
+`web_surface.contract.md`; it is a follow-up slice in the same epic, specified
+here only so the seam is visible.
+
+## Downstream epics (NOT this contract)
+
+- **Library persistence** (decision #5) — writing the returned bundle to the
+  server-local single-user JSON dir on corviduo-dev, keyed by `design_id`; the
+  minimal recent-designs picker.
+- **Import** (decision #6) — reading a bundle: lenient on unknown metadata
+  (INV-E5-6), STRICT re-validation of the export-critical fields (the import-side
+  mirror of `validate_exportable`), reconstructing a DesignObject from the
+  `resume` half.
+- **Per-design-sessions** (decision #2) — the `design_id` generator + the
+  fresh-WT-session-per-open lifecycle (also caps the #355 accumulation).

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+---
+contract_version: "2.1"
+module: "soong_lab.importer"
+purpose: "Reconstruct a DesignObject from an export bundle's `resume` half — the inverse of soong_lab.export. HYBRID validation (settled decision #6): LENIENT on unknown metadata (unknown top-level bundle keys, unknown keys inside resume, any schema_version), STRICT re-validation of the export-critical fields (OCEAN, role ∈ ROLE_CHOICES, agent_name, system_prompt length, tool-refs, psych/first_message length) surfaced ON IMPORT so a truncated or tampered bundle fails EARLY, not after more tuning. Pure + deterministic: no I/O, no persistence, no network, no clock (library read + the /api/import endpoint + the reopen lifecycle are separate downstream epics)."
+depends_on:
+  - "soong_lab.design"      # DesignObject/ToolRef/Portrait/GoalsFears + serialize_design (the round-trip partner) + ROLE_CHOICES/UNSET_ROLE + the shared field-bound constants
+  - "soong_lab.export"      # validate_exportable + ExportError — the strict export-critical gate is REUSED, not re-implemented (no-drift, INV-I-1)
+used_by:
+  - "soong_lab.web"         # FUTURE (import epic) — the POST /api/import endpoint parses the uploaded bundle JSON → import_bundle → seed a session (out of scope here, open_question D)
+  - "soong_lab.soong"       # FUTURE (per-design-sessions) — the reopen lifecycle imports a stored bundle, opens a fresh WT session, seeds the design-state summary (out of scope, decision #2)
+language: "python"
+complexity: "medium"
+estimated_loc: 170
+confidence: 0.83
+assumptions:
+  - "Import consumes a Python dict (a Mapping), NOT raw bytes/JSON text. The JSON parse (json.loads at the /api/import endpoint or the library-read layer) happens UPSTREAM; import operates on the already-parsed structure, exactly as export RETURNS a Python dict the caller json.dumps'es. So the round-trip contract is over Python dicts: import_bundle(build_export_bundle(d, design_id=…)) == d, with no JSON layer in between (the JSON boundary — float/int coercion, encoding — is the endpoint/library epic's concern, INV-I-5 note)."
+  - "The `resume` half is the ONLY source of truth on import (settled decision #4 — resume is 'what you reopen to keep tuning'). The `ship` half is a re-derivable deployment artifact; import IGNORES it. The reopen path re-exports from the reconstructed design, regenerating ship, so a ship↔resume mismatch is harmless — resume wins (INV-I-5). No cross-check in v1."
+  - "The export-critical gate on import IS soong_lab.export.validate_exportable, imported and reused verbatim — NOT a re-implemented import-side validator. This guarantees import can never drift looser than export: the exact fields export refuses to ship are the exact fields import refuses to accept (INV-I-1). ExportError is caught and re-raised as BundleImportError so callers get an import-shaped error while the validation authority stays single-sourced."
+  - "role is a first-class DesignObject field (operator ruling 2026-07-13), one of the curated ROLE_CHOICES, set by the E3a set_role tool. A resume carries `role`; import restores it and validate_role (via validate_exportable) rejects UNSET_ROLE ('') or any non-member — you cannot re-import an unclassified design, same as you cannot export one."
+  - "composed_preview + disposition_phrase ride the resume so a reopen renders instantly (export.contract §resume). Import TRUSTS these verbatim (INV-I-8) — it does NOT call recompute. Re-derivation from ocean+prompt is the reopen lifecycle's concern (per-design-sessions), not import's. For a legitimately-exported bundle they are already self-consistent; a hand-tampered preview is design-time-only and is overwritten on the next set_ocean/edit_prompt recompute."
+open_questions:
+  - "[A — RESOLVED, operator 2026-07-13] Module name is `soong_lab.importer` (operator chose it over `soong_lab.ingest`; keyword-safe agent-noun mirroring `export`). The export contract's forward-reference `used_by: soong_lab.import` — an unusable Python-keyword path (`import soong_lab.import` is a SyntaxError) — is corrected to `soong_lab.importer` in the same commit (done). SETTLED: the Constraints hard-require reflects the decision, not a still-open recommendation (heid-review Gróa#1 reconcile open-vs-locked)."
+  - "[B — SETTLED, agent-discretion] Error type is `BundleImportError(field, detail)`, mirroring export's `ExportError(field, detail)`. Deliberately NOT `ImportError` — that shadows the Python builtin, a foot-gun for an import module. The Constraints hard-require reflects the decision, not a still-open recommendation (heid-review Gróa#1)."
+  - "[C — presence vs default, agent-discretion, notable] For the export-critical resume keys (agentName, role, systemPrompt, ocean) a MISSING key is a hard reject (INV-I-7), NOT a silent default. Rationale: a missing `ocean` would default to a VALID neutral OCEAN and pass validate_exportable — silently masking trait loss from a truncated bundle. Rejecting on absence fails loudly + consistently (the 'fail early on import' the decision wants). Rejected alternative: reconstruct-with-defaults-then-validate (inconsistent — ocean slips through while name/role are caught by validation)."
+  - "[D — scope] This contract = the PURE reconstruction (deserialize_design) + the strict entrypoint (import_bundle) + BundleImportError. The POST /api/import endpoint (amends web_surface.contract.md), the reopen Bifrost tool / session-open wiring (per-design-sessions), and reading a bundle off the library JSON dir (library epic) are ALL downstream — specified here only as the integration seam so it is visible. Nothing in this contract does I/O."
+  - "[E — schema_version tolerance] `schema_version` is read at the bundle TOP LEVEL only (where export stamps EXPORT_SCHEMA_VERSION) — import does not look for it inside `resume`. v1 tolerates ANY top-level value (present or absent) and reads the v1 resume key set regardless (INV-I-2, INV-E5-6 add-only-friendly). 'Tolerate any version' means forward-compat with ADD-ONLY future changes — NOT a promise of semantic compatibility with a bundle whose meaning changed (heid-review Gróa#5/Hulda). A future policy — reject an incompatible MAJOR version, or dispatch to a version-specific deserializer — is deferred to when a second schema version actually exists. v1 has exactly one shape."
+---
+
+## Context
+
+Import is the SECOND half of the operator-accepted (2026-07-13) export/import/library
+design — the block that expands the locked single-agent frame into a multi-pass
+tuning loop (design → export → **reopen → tune** → keep a library). Where
+`soong_lab.export` turns a finished `DesignObject` into a versioned bundle, this
+module does the inverse: it takes a bundle's **`resume`** half and reconstructs an
+editable `DesignObject` you can drop back into a session and keep tuning.
+
+The reconstruction is **HYBRID-validated** (settled decision #6 — the load-bearing
+import decision):
+
+- **LENIENT on unknown metadata.** Unknown top-level bundle keys, unknown keys
+  inside `resume`, and any `schema_version` (present or absent) are tolerated —
+  import reads only the keys it knows (INV-I-2, mirroring the export bundle's
+  add-only-friendly `INV-E5-6`). A bundle from a future soong-lab that added
+  fields still imports.
+- **STRICT on the export-critical fields.** OCEAN, `role`, `agent_name`,
+  `system_prompt`, tool-refs, and the psych/first_message length are re-validated
+  **on import** by REUSING `soong_lab.export.validate_exportable` verbatim (INV-I-1)
+  — so the exact fields export refuses to *ship* are the exact fields import
+  refuses to *accept*, and import can never drift looser than export. A bad field
+  is surfaced immediately (fail EARLY), not after the operator has tuned for
+  another ten minutes against a design that was never valid.
+
+**The round-trip is the load-bearing contract between the two modules** (INV-I-3):
+for any exportable design `d`,
+
+```
+import_bundle(build_export_bundle(d, design_id="…")) == d
+deserialize_design(serialize_design(d))              == d
+```
+
+This is what makes "export then reopen" lossless. `serialize_design`
+(relocated to `soong_lab.design` in the export pass, R1) is the forward half;
+`deserialize_design` here is its exact inverse.
+
+**Import reads the `resume` half ONLY.** The `ship` half (native `agents.define`
+payload + sidecar) is a re-derivable deployment artifact — the reopen path
+re-exports from the reconstructed design, regenerating `ship`. So import ignores
+`ship` entirely (INV-I-5); a tampered `ship` that disagrees with `resume` is
+harmless (resume wins, ship regenerated). No cross-check in v1.
+
+**What this contract does NOT do** (open_question D): no file read, no HTTP, no
+session seeding. The `POST /api/import` endpoint, the reopen Bifrost tool /
+session-open wiring, and reading a bundle off the library JSON dir are downstream
+epics. This module is the pure, side-effect-free reconstruction core those epics
+build on — exactly as `soong_lab.export` is the pure builder its endpoint wraps.
+
+## Data flow
+
+**In:** a bundle `dict` (a Mapping — already `json.loads`'d upstream). **Out:** a
+validated, ready-to-reopen `DesignObject`. **On disk / network:** NONE. Import is
+pure: the structural gate (bundle/resume/ocean are dicts, tools a list-of-dicts),
+the tolerant reconstruction, and the strict `validate_exportable` re-check are all
+in-memory; no clock, no randomness, no file, no HTTP.
+
+### The resume key set consumed (v1.0)
+
+Import reconstructs from exactly the `serialize_design` output (the §6 camelCase
+state — pinned in export.contract §resume, restated here so this contract is
+self-contained):
+
+```
+resume = {
+  "agentName": <str>,               # EXPORT-CRITICAL — presence required (INV-I-7)
+  "role": <str ∈ ROLE_CHOICES>,     # EXPORT-CRITICAL — presence required; validate_role gates value
+  "systemPrompt": <str>,            # EXPORT-CRITICAL — presence required; the AUTHORED block
+  "ocean": {O,C,E,A,N},             # EXPORT-CRITICAL — presence required; validate_ocean gates value
+  "tools": [{id,name,description}], # optional (absent → []); each ref value-gated by validate_exportable
+  "composedPreview": <str>,         # design-time-derived — TRUSTED verbatim, re-derivable (INV-I-8)
+  "dispositionPhrase": <str>,       # design-time-derived — TRUSTED verbatim, re-derivable (INV-I-8)
+  "firstMessage": <str>,            # optional prose — length-gated only (blank OK)
+  "psychProfile": <str>,            # optional prose — length-gated only (blank OK)
+  "portrait": {status, styleMode, imageUrl?, jobId?},   # optional (absent → default Portrait())
+  "goalsFears": {goals,fears} | null                     # optional (absent/null → None)
+}
+```
+
+**Critical vs optional (the presence rule, INV-I-7).** Read the two functions as a
+boundary (all three review arms flagged that the prose blurs it): the INNER
+`deserialize_design` is total and DEFAULTS every missing key (a missing `ocean` →
+neutral) — it NEVER rejects; the OUTER, public `import_bundle` PRESENCE-CHECKS the
+export-critical keys and REJECTS a missing one BEFORE it ever calls deserialize. So
+"import defaults a missing ocean to neutral" is FALSE for the public path
+(`import_bundle` rejects it, INV-I-7) — the neutral default lives ONLY inside the
+never-directly-shipped inner function (heid-review 3/3: POST-I-3 vs INV-I-7 read as
+contradictory in isolation). `agentName`, `role`, `systemPrompt`, `ocean` are
+**presence-required** — a missing one is a truncated / corrupt bundle and raises
+`BundleImportError`, because defaulting them would either be caught inconsistently
+(name/role/prompt default to values `validate_exportable` rejects) or silently
+masked (`ocean` defaults to a VALID neutral OCEAN — silent trait loss). Every other
+key is optional and defaults to the `DesignObject` default when absent. `tools`/`portrait`/`goalsFears`, when present, must be well-formed SHAPES —
+`tools` a list-of-objects, `ocean`/`portrait` an object, `goalsFears` null or an
+object whose present `goals`/`fears` are lists — structural mismatches raise a clean
+`BundleImportError`, never a leaked builtin `TypeError`/`ValueError` (INV-I-6
+robustness). These SHAPE gates all exist to prevent SILENT DATA LOSS (heid-bug-hunt
+Gróa#1/#2: a malformed portrait/goalsFears would otherwise coerce to a default in
+`deserialize_design` and slip PAST `validate_exportable`, since both are
+non-export-critical — the same loss the `tools` gate was added to close). Import does
+NOT validate their VALUE contents — portrait `status`/`styleMode` enums or goals/fears
+item contents are not export-critical (E4 / the UI own portrait validity); those
+round-trip as-is (heid-review Gróa#6).
+
+## Invariants
+
+- **INV-I-1** [hard]: The strict export-critical re-validation IS
+  `soong_lab.export.validate_exportable`, imported and reused verbatim — NO
+  re-implementation, no parallel import-side validator. Import therefore can NEVER
+  be looser than export: OCEAN (`validate_ocean`), role (`validate_role`, ∈
+  ROLE_CHOICES), `agent_name` (non-blank, ≤`AGENT_NAME_MAX`), `system_prompt`
+  (non-blank, ≤`SYSTEM_PROMPT_MAX`), every tool-ref (id/name non-blank + bounded,
+  description bounded), and the psych/first_message LENGTH are all gated by the
+  same code export uses. An `ExportError` from that gate is caught and re-raised
+  as `BundleImportError(same field, same detail)` — same field granularity,
+  import-shaped type.
+- **INV-I-2** [hard]: LENIENT on unknown metadata (settled decision #6, mirrors
+  INV-E5-6). Unknown top-level bundle keys, unknown keys inside `resume`, and any
+  `schema_version` value (present or absent) are tolerated — import reads only the
+  keys it knows and ignores the rest. A future-schema bundle that ADDED fields
+  still imports.
+- **INV-I-3** [hard]: ROUND-TRIP — for any `DesignObject` `d` that passes
+  `validate_exportable`, `deserialize_design(serialize_design(d))` reconstructs an
+  EQUAL `DesignObject` (dataclass `==` over every field), and
+  `import_bundle(build_export_bundle(d, design_id=…))` `== d`. This is the lossless
+  export↔import contract. (Equality is over Python structures; the JSON encode/decode
+  boundary is the endpoint/library epic's concern, not this module's.)
+- **INV-I-4** [hard]: NO-ALIAS — the reconstructed `DesignObject` holds COPIES of
+  every mutable sub-structure (the ocean dict, the tools list, the goals/fears
+  lists) drawn from the bundle, never aliases. A later mutation of the input bundle
+  cannot change an already-imported design (the mirror of export's INV-E5-4). The
+  copies are SHALLOW (the CONTAINERS) — sufficient because legit export values are
+  scalars (strings/floats), and a hostile NESTED mutable (a list-valued tool id, a
+  dict-valued goal) is rejected by `validate_exportable` before any successful import
+  (heid-bug-hunt Gróa#5/Hulda#1: the invariant's letter holds; deep-copy is deferred
+  unless nested mutables ever become in-contract).
+- **INV-I-5** [hard]: Import reads the `resume` half and NOWHERE else — `ship`
+  (native + sidecar) is ignored (it is re-derivable; the reopen path re-exports).
+  No ship↔resume consistency check in v1; on any disagreement, resume is
+  authoritative.
+- **INV-I-6** [hard]: `deserialize_design` is TOTAL — it never raises on any input
+  Mapping. Hostile shapes (a string `ocean`, an int `tools`, a list `portrait`, a
+  string `goalsFears`, or a dict `goalsFears` whose `goals`/`fears` is a non-list)
+  are coerced/defaulted, not crashed — in particular EVERY `list(...)`/`dict(...)`
+  coercion is type-GUARDED first: a non-list `goals` becomes `[]` (never
+  `list(7)`→TypeError nor `list("ab")`→`["a","b"]`), a non-dict `ocean` is held
+  verbatim (never `dict("nope")`→ValueError). ALL rejection happens in
+  `import_bundle` (its structural gate + `validate_exportable`). Non-export-critical
+  fields that are missing or mistyped default to the `DesignObject` default;
+  export-critical VALUES are held AS-READ (no silent type-coercion) so
+  `validate_exportable` judges them — with ONE structural exception: `import_bundle`
+  pre-checks that `ocean` is a dict (so `deserialize_design`'s `dict()` copy is
+  safe), so `ocean` has a structural judge (`import_bundle`) AND a value judge
+  (`validate_ocean`), while `agent_name`/`role`/`system_prompt` are judged by value
+  alone — "single judge" is exact for those three, not for `ocean` (heid-review
+  Gróa#2/#4, Hulda, Regin#3). (Mirrors `recompute`'s hostile-input tolerance in derive.py.)
+- **INV-I-7** [hard]: PRESENCE — `import_bundle` requires the export-critical
+  resume keys `agentName`, `role`, `systemPrompt`, `ocean` to be PRESENT; a missing
+  one raises `BundleImportError(f"resume.{key}", …)` (a truncated bundle fails
+  loudly, not by silently defaulting — especially `ocean`, whose neutral default
+  would mask trait loss). `tools` absent → `[]` (an empty toolset is a valid
+  design). This is the explicit-over-implicit choice: reject a missing critical key
+  rather than accept a silently-defaulted one.
+- **INV-I-8** [hard]: Import does NOT re-derive `composed_preview` /
+  `disposition_phrase` — it TRUSTS the resume values verbatim (they ride the resume
+  for instant reopen-render, per export.contract). `recompute` is the reopen
+  lifecycle's concern (per-design-sessions), not import's. For a legit bundle these
+  are already self-consistent; a tampered preview is design-time-only and is
+  overwritten on the next `set_ocean`/`edit_prompt`. Import makes NO consistency
+  guarantee between the trusted preview and `ocean`+`system_prompt`: for a
+  hand-edited resume the two may diverge until the first recompute self-heals them —
+  round-trip equality (INV-I-3) is "== the DesignObject the bundle encodes," NOT
+  "the preview matches a fresh recompute" (heid-review Gróa#8).
+
+## Constraints
+
+- **[correctness]** The export-critical re-validation reuses
+  `soong_lab.export.validate_exportable` (INV-I-1) — import declares no length
+  numbers, no role list, no OCEAN shape of its own. The shared field-bound
+  constants + `ROLE_CHOICES` live in `soong_lab.design`; the strict gate lives in
+  `soong_lab.export`; import imports both. Zero duplicated validation logic → zero
+  drift.
+- **[style]** Pure — NO I/O (no clock, no file, no HTTP, no randomness). Import is
+  a total function of its input Mapping.
+- **[explicit]** `BundleImportError` does NOT shadow the builtin `ImportError`
+  (open_question B). The module is `soong_lab.importer`, NOT `soong_lab.import` —
+  `import` is a Python keyword and unusable as a module path (open_question A).
+- **[robustness]** `deserialize_design` guards types BEFORE any `dict()` /
+  iteration: a non-dict `ocean` is held as-read (never `dict("nope")`, which raises
+  a raw `ValueError`); a non-list `tools` yields `[]`; a non-dict `portrait` /
+  `goalsFears` falls back to the default (`import_bundle`'s structural gates reject a
+  present-but-malformed portrait/goalsFears BEFORE this, so the default-fallback is
+  reachable only for a MISSING field). This keeps every rejection path flowing
+  through `BundleImportError` — a caller never sees a leaked builtin exception.
+- **[robustness]** The "no builtin ever leaks from the public entrypoint" guarantee
+  for hostile export-critical SCALAR types (a non-str `agent_name`/`role`/
+  `system_prompt`/`psych_profile`/`first_message`, or a `None`) is provided JOINTLY by
+  (a) holding them as-read + (b) `validate_exportable` being TOTAL over hostile scalar
+  types — every check `isinstance`-guards BEFORE any `.strip()`/`len()`, and the `or`
+  short-circuits, so a hostile scalar yields a clean `ExportError` (→ `BundleImportError`),
+  never a raw `TypeError`/`AttributeError`. This is an EXPLICIT cross-module coupling
+  (`soong_lab.export` guarantees the totality): import does NOT blanket-catch
+  non-`ExportError` (that would mask real programming errors); the coupling is instead
+  PINNED by a hostile-scalar test through `import_bundle` (heid-bug-hunt 3/3 —
+  Gróa#3/Hulda#2/Regin#1). If `validate_exportable` ever did an unguarded string op, that
+  test fails.
+- **[explicit]** `import_bundle` is the PUBLIC entrypoint that runs the full gate
+  (structure → presence → reconstruct → `validate_exportable`). `deserialize_design`
+  is exposed for the round-trip test + direct reuse but PERFORMS NO validation
+  (PRE-I-1) — a direct caller that skips `import_bundle` owns re-validation (the
+  mirror of export's build_native_payload/build_sidecar assuming a validated design).
+- **[explicit]** Two-LAYER error-field convention (heid-review Regin#6): a
+  STRUCTURAL / PRESENCE rejection raised BY `import_bundle` names the offending
+  BUNDLE key in camelCase with a `resume.` prefix (`resume.agentName` missing,
+  `resume.ocean` not-an-object) — it reports the bundle's JSON shape. A VALUE
+  rejection from the reused `validate_exportable` names the `DesignObject` field in
+  snake_case with no prefix (`agent_name` blank, `persona.ocean` out of range) — it
+  reports the design's validity. Same logical field, two deliberate `.field` forms
+  encoding WHICH LAYER failed (bundle-structure vs design-value); a caller switching
+  on `err.field` MUST handle both, and `err.detail` disambiguates. Tests assert on
+  `.field` (pinned); `.detail` wording is human-facing and NOT pinned (heid-review
+  Hulda) — intentional, not drift.
+
+```contract
+FN deserialize_design(resume: Mapping[str, Any]) -> DesignObject
+BRIEF: The pure, TOTAL inverse of serialize_design — reconstruct a DesignObject from the §6 camelCase resume half. Reads each known key with a type-guard; missing/mistyped NON-export-critical fields default to the DesignObject default; export-critical fields are held AS-READ (no coercion) for validate_exportable to judge later; unknown keys are ignored (INV-I-2). Copies every mutable sub-structure (INV-I-4). NEVER raises (INV-I-6) — it performs NO validation (that is import_bundle's job). deserialize_design(serialize_design(d)) == d for any exportable d (INV-I-3).
+PRE: [PRE-I-1 hard] resume is a Mapping (import_bundle guarantees a dict before calling; a direct caller passes any Mapping — a non-Mapping is a caller error, but the function still must not crash on a Mapping of hostile VALUES)
+POST: [POST-I-1 return_value] returns a DesignObject whose fields map 1:1 from the camelCase keys: agentName→agent_name, role→role, systemPrompt→system_prompt, composedPreview→composed_preview, firstMessage→first_message, ocean→ocean (COPY), dispositionPhrase→disposition_phrase, psychProfile→psych_profile, tools→[ToolRef,…] (COPY of the list, each ref rebuilt), portrait→Portrait(...), goalsFears→GoalsFears(...) | None
+POST: [POST-I-2 return_value] ocean, tools, goals, and fears are COPIES of the resume values — mutating resume after the call never changes the returned design (INV-I-4)
+POST: [POST-I-3 return_value] export-critical fields (agentName, role, systemPrompt, ocean) are held AS-READ (missing → the DesignObject default; present-but-mistyped → the value verbatim, so validate_exportable is the single judge); design-time-derived composedPreview/dispositionPhrase coerce a non-str to "" (re-derivable, keep the object clean); firstMessage/psychProfile are held as-read (validate_exportable length-gates them). ocean is copied IFF it is a dict, else held verbatim (NEVER dict("nope"))
+POST: [POST-I-4 state_change] performs NO validation and NEVER raises on a Mapping input (INV-I-6)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup] agent_name = resume.get("agentName", "");  role = resume.get("role", UNSET_ROLE);  system_prompt = resume.get("systemPrompt", "")   # export-critical — held as-read, no coercion
+  2. [sequential] composed_preview = resume["composedPreview"] if it is a str else "";  disposition_phrase = resume["dispositionPhrase"] if it is a str else ""   # design-time-derived, re-derivable → coerce clean
+  3. [sequential] first_message = resume.get("firstMessage", "");  psych_profile = resume.get("psychProfile", "")   # optional prose — held as-read, length-gated by validate_exportable
+  4. [branch] raw_ocean = resume.get("ocean"); ocean = dict(raw_ocean) if isinstance(raw_ocean, dict) else (raw_ocean if raw_ocean is not None else _neutral_ocean())   # COPY iff dict; else held verbatim for validate_ocean to reject (guard BEFORE dict(), INV-I-6 robustness)
+  5. [loop] raw_tools = resume.get("tools"); tools = [(ToolRef(id=t.get("id",""), name=t.get("name",""), description=t.get("description","")) if isinstance(t, dict) else ToolRef(id="", name="", description="")) for t in raw_tools] IF isinstance(raw_tools, list) else []   # non-list → []; a non-dict item maps to a BLANK ToolRef (NOT skipped) so a direct caller who re-validates fails loud on the blank id rather than silently losing a tool (heid-review Gróa#7); import_bundle structurally rejects both cases upstream
+  6. [branch] raw_portrait = resume.get("portrait"); portrait = Portrait(status=raw_portrait.get("status","none"), style_mode=raw_portrait.get("styleMode","cartoon"), image_url=raw_portrait.get("imageUrl"), job_id=raw_portrait.get("jobId")) IF isinstance(raw_portrait, dict) else Portrait()   # use raw_portrait (heid-review Regin#2 — the `rp` working-name was unbound); imageUrl/jobId absent → None (round-trips serialize's None-omission)
+  7. [branch] raw_gf = resume.get("goalsFears"); IF isinstance(raw_gf, dict): g = raw_gf.get("goals"); f = raw_gf.get("fears"); goals_fears = GoalsFears(goals=(list(g) if isinstance(g, list) else []), fears=(list(f) if isinstance(f, list) else [])) ELSE: goals_fears = None   # use raw_gf (heid-review Regin#2 — `gf` was unbound); a non-LIST goals/fears → [], NEVER list(7)→TypeError (totality, INV-I-6) and NEVER list("ab")→["a","b"] (silent char-split, heid-review Gróa#2/Hulda); null/absent → None; COPY the lists (INV-I-4)
+  8. [cleanup] RETURN DesignObject(agent_name, role, system_prompt, composed_preview, ocean, disposition_phrase, tools, portrait, first_message, psych_profile, goals_fears)
+TESTS:
+  roundtrip_full [property,tracer]: a fully-populated exportable design d (name, role, prompt, non-neutral ocean, 2 tools, ready portrait w/ url+job, first_message, psych, goalsFears) → deserialize_design(serialize_design(d)) == d
+  roundtrip_minimal [property]: minimal design (name+prompt+role, neutral ocean, no tools/portrait-url/gf) → round-trips == d
+  copies_not_aliases [property]: deserialize, then mutate resume["ocean"]["O"] and append to resume["tools"] → the returned design's ocean + tools are unchanged (INV-I-4)
+  total_on_hostile [property]: deserialize_design({"ocean":"nope","tools":7,"portrait":[],"goalsFears":"x","agentName":123}) does NOT raise; returns a DesignObject (ocean=="nope" held verbatim, tools==[], portrait==Portrait(), goals_fears is None, agent_name==123) — INV-I-6
+  total_on_hostile_goalsfears [property]: deserialize_design({"goalsFears":{"goals":7,"fears":"abc"}}) does NOT raise (the totality-breaking case heid-review Gróa#2/Hulda caught) → goals_fears==GoalsFears([],[]) (non-list goals→[] not list(7)→TypeError; non-list fears→[] not list("abc")→["a","b","c"]) — INV-I-6
+  tools_nondict_item_blank [boundary]: deserialize_design({"tools":[{"id":"a","name":"n"},7]}) → tools==[ToolRef("a","n",""), ToolRef("","","")] — the non-dict item maps to a BLANK ToolRef, NOT skipped (heid-review Gróa#7), so a direct caller re-validating fails loud on the blank id
+  empty_resume [boundary]: deserialize_design({}) → DesignObject() all-defaults (role==UNSET_ROLE, neutral ocean, no tools) — total, no raise
+  portrait_none_fields [boundary]: resume.portrait without imageUrl/jobId → Portrait.image_url is None, Portrait.job_id is None
+  goalsfears_null [boundary]: resume.goalsFears is None → design.goals_fears is None; goalsFears={} → GoalsFears([],[])
+  roundtrip_goalsfears_empty [property]: a design with goals_fears==GoalsFears([],[]) → deserialize_design(serialize_design(d)).goals_fears == GoalsFears([],[]) (empty, NOT None) — locks the null-vs-{} distinction (heid-review Regin#4)
+  preview_trusted [trace]: resume.composedPreview="CUSTOM", dispositionPhrase="odd" → design.composed_preview=="CUSTOM", disposition_phrase=="odd" (NOT re-derived, INV-I-8)
+  unknown_keys_ignored [trace]: resume with an extra "futureField":123 → deserialize ignores it, no crash (INV-I-2)
+```
+
+```contract
+FN import_bundle(bundle: Mapping[str, Any]) -> DesignObject
+BRIEF: The public entrypoint — the mirror of build_export_bundle. Runs the full gate: STRUCTURE (bundle/resume are dicts, ocean is a dict, tools is a list-of-dicts) → PRESENCE (the export-critical resume keys, INV-I-7) → reconstruct (deserialize_design) → STRICT re-validate (validate_exportable, reused verbatim, INV-I-1). LENIENT on unknown metadata + any schema_version (INV-I-2). Reads ONLY resume; ignores ship (INV-I-5). Returns a DesignObject that PASSES validate_exportable — ready to reopen. Every rejection is a BundleImportError(field, detail); no builtin exception ever leaks.
+PRE: [PRE-I-2 hard] bundle is a Mapping (a non-Mapping raises BundleImportError("bundle", …), never a bare TypeError)
+POST: [POST-I-5 exception] raises BundleImportError(field, detail) — with NO DesignObject returned — if ANY: bundle is not a Mapping ("bundle"); bundle["resume"] is missing or not a Mapping ("resume"); any of agentName/role/systemPrompt/ocean is absent from resume ("resume.<key>", INV-I-7); resume["ocean"] is present-but-not-a-dict ("resume.ocean"); resume["tools"] is present-but-not-a-list or contains a non-dict item ("resume.tools"); resume["portrait"] is present-but-not-a-dict ("resume.portrait"); resume["goalsFears"] is present-but-not (null OR a dict whose present goals/fears are lists) ("resume.goalsFears"); OR the reconstructed design fails validate_exportable (the ExportError's field+detail, re-raised as BundleImportError — INV-I-1)
+POST: [POST-I-6 return_value] on success returns a DesignObject that PASSES validate_exportable (name/role/prompt/ocean/tools/psych/first_message all valid), holds COPIES of every mutable sub-structure (INV-I-4), with composed_preview/disposition_phrase trusted from resume (INV-I-8); ship is never read (INV-I-5)
+POST: [POST-I-7 return_value] LENIENT — unknown top-level bundle keys, unknown resume keys, and any schema_version (present, absent, or unrecognized) do not affect the result (INV-I-2)
+STEPS:
+  1. [setup, flexibility=prescriptive] IF bundle is not a Mapping: RAISE BundleImportError("bundle", "bundle must be an object")
+  2. [sequential] resume = bundle.get("resume"); IF resume is not a Mapping: RAISE BundleImportError("resume", "the bundle has no readable 'resume' half")   # ship + schema_version read leniently — schema_version is NOT gated (INV-I-2, open_question E)
+  3. [loop] FOR key IN ("agentName", "role", "systemPrompt", "ocean"): IF key not in resume: RAISE BundleImportError(f"resume.{key}", "required export-critical field is missing")   # presence, INV-I-7
+  4. [branch] IF resume["ocean"] is not a dict: RAISE BundleImportError("resume.ocean", "ocean must be an object")   # structural — keeps deserialize's dict() safe + gives a clean field error
+  5. [branch] IF "tools" in resume AND (resume["tools"] is not a list OR any item is not a dict): RAISE BundleImportError("resume.tools", "tools must be a list of objects")   # structural — prevents silent tool loss
+  5b. [branch] IF "portrait" in resume AND resume["portrait"] is not a dict: RAISE BundleImportError("resume.portrait", "portrait must be an object")   # SAME no-silent-loss gate as tools (heid-bug-hunt Gróa#2) — else a non-dict portrait silently coerces to Portrait() (wiping status/imageUrl/jobId) and slips past validate_exportable (portrait is non-export-critical)
+  5c. [branch] IF "goalsFears" in resume AND resume["goalsFears"] is not None: IF it is not a dict RAISE BundleImportError("resume.goalsFears", "must be an object or null"); ELSE FOR k IN (goals, fears): IF k in gf AND gf[k] is not a list: RAISE BundleImportError("resume.goalsFears", f"{k} must be a list")   # no-silent-loss gate (heid-bug-hunt Gróa#1) — else a non-list goals/fears silently coerces to [] (dropping the operator's data) and slips past validate_exportable (goals_fears is non-export-critical)
+  6. [sequential] design = deserialize_design(resume)   # total; the structural gates above guarantee a plausible shape
+  7. [sequential, flexibility=prescriptive] TRY validate_exportable(design) EXCEPT ExportError AS exc: RAISE BundleImportError(exc.field, exc.detail) FROM exc   # the STRICT export-critical gate, REUSED (INV-I-1) — same field granularity, import-shaped type
+  8. [cleanup] RETURN design
+TESTS:
+  roundtrip_full [property,tracer]: import_bundle(build_export_bundle(d, design_id="d-1")) == d for a fully-populated exportable d (INV-I-3)
+  roundtrip_minimal [property]: import_bundle(build_export_bundle(d_minimal, design_id="d-1")) == d_minimal (a minimal exportable design through the FULL gate — symmetry with deserialize_design, heid-code-review Regin#4)
+  roundtrip_after_export [property]: build a bundle, import it, re-export the result → the two bundles' resume halves are equal (idempotent reopen)
+  lenient_unknown_metadata [happy]: a valid bundle + extra top-level "x":1, extra resume "futureField":2, schema_version="99.0" → imports fine; result == the same design without the extras (INV-I-2)
+  missing_resume [adversarial]: bundle == {"schema_version":"1.0","ship":{…}} (no resume) → BundleImportError("resume")
+  bundle_not_mapping [adversarial]: import_bundle("not a bundle") → BundleImportError("bundle") — no bare TypeError
+  missing_ocean [adversarial]: resume without "ocean" → BundleImportError("resume.ocean") via presence (INV-I-7) — NOT silently neutral
+  missing_role [adversarial]: resume without "role" → BundleImportError("resume.role")
+  missing_name [adversarial]: resume without "agentName" → BundleImportError("resume.agentName")
+  missing_systemprompt [adversarial]: resume without "systemPrompt" → BundleImportError("resume.systemPrompt") — the 4th critical key, completes the presence coverage (heid-code-review Hulda/Regin)
+  non_dict_ocean [adversarial]: resume.ocean="nope" (present) → BundleImportError("resume.ocean", must be object) — clean error, never a raw ValueError from dict()
+  non_list_tools [adversarial]: resume.tools={} → BundleImportError("resume.tools"); resume.tools=[7] (non-dict item) → BundleImportError("resume.tools")
+  non_dict_portrait [adversarial]: resume.portrait=[] / "x" / 7 → BundleImportError("resume.portrait") — the no-silent-loss gate (heid-bug-hunt Gróa#2)
+  malformed_goalsfears [adversarial]: resume.goalsFears={"goals":["survive"],"fears":"exposure"} (fears non-list) → BundleImportError("resume.goalsFears") — the headline silent-loss case; goalsFears=7 → BundleImportError; goalsFears=None and goalsFears={} → ok (round-trip shapes) (heid-bug-hunt Gróa#1)
+  hostile_scalars_no_builtin_leak [adversarial]: resume.agentName=123 / systemPrompt=null / psychProfile=0 → each a clean BundleImportError (agent_name / system_prompt / psych_profile), NEVER a raw builtin — pins the validate_exportable-totality coupling (heid-bug-hunt 3/3)
+  blank_name_rejected [adversarial]: resume.agentName="   " → BundleImportError("agent_name") via validate_exportable (whitespace stricter, INV-I-1)
+  bad_role_rejected [adversarial]: resume.role="wizard" → BundleImportError("role") via validate_role
+  unset_role_rejected [adversarial]: resume.role="" → BundleImportError("role") — an unclassified design is not importable, same as not exportable
+  bad_ocean_value [adversarial]: resume.ocean.O=2.0 → BundleImportError("persona.ocean") via validate_ocean
+  bad_tool_ref [adversarial]: resume.tools=[{"id":"","name":"x"}] → BundleImportError("tools[0]") via validate_exportable
+  prompt_too_long [boundary]: resume.systemPrompt of len SYSTEM_PROMPT_MAX+1 → BundleImportError("system_prompt"); len SYSTEM_PROMPT_MAX → ok
+  psych_too_long [boundary]: resume.psychProfile of len PSYCH_PROFILE_MAX+1 → BundleImportError("psych_profile"); blank → ok
+  first_message_too_long [boundary]: resume.firstMessage of len FIRST_MESSAGE_MAX+1 → BundleImportError("first_message"); blank → ok (same length-gate as psych, via the reused validate_exportable — heid-code-review Hulda/Regin)
+  ship_ignored [trace]: a valid bundle whose ship.native.agent_name disagrees with resume.agentName → the imported design uses resume.agentName; ship is not read (INV-I-5)
+  no_alias [property]: import, then mutate the source bundle's resume["ocean"] + resume["tools"] + resume["goalsFears"]["goals"]/["fears"] → the returned design is unchanged, incl. the goals/fears lists (INV-I-4, heid-code-review Hulda)
+  error_is_not_builtin [trace]: BundleImportError is not the builtin ImportError (isinstance check) — the module never shadows it (open_question B)
+  error_field_layer_convention [trace]: a MISSING agentName → BundleImportError field "resume.agentName" (structural/camelCase); a BLANK agentName → BundleImportError field "agent_name" (value/snake_case via validate_exportable) — the intentional two-layer convention (heid-review Regin#6)
+```
+
+## Integration points
+
+**Reuse of `soong_lab.export` (the no-drift anchor).** Import imports
+`validate_exportable` + `ExportError` from `soong_lab.export`. This is the single
+most important structural decision in the contract: the strict export-critical
+gate is authored ONCE (in export) and reused on import, so the two directions can
+never diverge. Import adds no length numbers, no role membership list, no OCEAN
+shape — those all live upstream (`soong_lab.design` constants + `soong_lab.export`
+gate). The dependency direction is clean: `importer → export → design`, all three
+pure.
+
+**`serialize_design` is the round-trip partner (no code change).** The forward
+half already lives in `soong_lab.design` (relocated there in the export pass, R1).
+This contract adds no change to it; `deserialize_design` is written to be its exact
+inverse, and the round-trip tests pin the pair together. If a future field is
+added to the DesignObject, BOTH `serialize_design` and `deserialize_design` must
+gain it in the same commit (the round-trip test enforces this — a field added to
+serialize but not deserialize breaks `roundtrip_full`). The round-trip also locks
+the `goalsFears` null-vs-`{}` distinction (`None`→`null`, empty→`{"goals":[],"fears":[]}`);
+the tests exercise BOTH so a future `serialize_design` change that collapsed the two
+cases is caught, not silently round-trip-broken (heid-review Regin#4).
+
+**Export contract `used_by` reference (one-line canon fix, same commit as code).**
+`export.contract.md`'s `used_by:` block names `soong_lab.import` — an unusable
+Python-keyword module path. On acceptance of open_question A, that line updates to
+`soong_lab.importer` (or the chosen name). No-backwards-compat: the stale reference
+is corrected, not left as a second name for the same module.
+
+**`POST /api/import` endpoint + web upload — NOT in this contract (open_question
+D).** The browser 'Import Asset' / reopen flow uploads a bundle JSON; the endpoint
+`json.loads` the body → `import_bundle(bundle)` → seed a session with the
+reconstructed design (and, per per-design-sessions, open a fresh WT session +
+build the design-state summary). A `BundleImportError` becomes a 4xx with the
+`field`/`detail` surfaced to the operator ("fail early on import"). That amends
+`web_surface.contract.md`; it is a follow-up slice in the same epic, specified here
+only so the seam is visible. This module does no HTTP.
+
+**Reopen Bifrost tool / session-open — NOT in this contract (per-design-sessions,
+decision #2).** Reopening a design mid-conversation (vs. at session boot) may want
+a Bifrost tool that swaps the session's stored DesignObject for an imported one. If
+so, its handler calls `import_bundle` and replaces the store entry — the impure
+boundary, keeping `soong_lab.importer` pure. Out of scope here.
+
+## Downstream epics (NOT this contract)
+
+- **Library read** (decision #5) — reading a stored bundle off the server-local
+  single-user JSON dir on corviduo-dev, keyed by `design_id`, then handing it to
+  `import_bundle`. The minimal recent-designs picker lists what is importable.
+- **Per-design-sessions** (decision #2) — the reopen lifecycle: `import_bundle` →
+  fresh WT session → the compact design-state SUMMARY seeded as context (also caps
+  the #355 accumulation). `import_bundle` is the reconstruction primitive it calls.
+- **`POST /api/import` + the browser upload/reopen UI** (open_question D) — the web
+  surface that turns an uploaded/selected bundle into a live, reopened session.

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+# Affect egress — consumer reference (delivered vs hidden)
+
+**Audience:** downstream consumers of Worldtree's affect surfaces (ratatoskr,
+Skaldsong, any Tier-3 / SSE consumer).
+**Scope:** what the affect pipeline **delivers on the wire** (structured state,
+available to consumers) versus what stays **hidden** (the rendered natural-
+language strings injected into the agent's system prompt, never emitted).
+**Source of truth:** the render code (`core/persona/renderer.py`,
+`core/persona/stance_render.py`) and the two vendored canon files
+(`core/persona/canon/d2-mood-render-canon-v1.json` = mood/PAD;
+`d2-render-canon-v1.json` = relationship). Owner of the canon strings:
+`brokkr-smithy-dev` (R22/R24 relational + mood render).
+
+---
+
+## The model in one line
+
+**The wire delivers the render INPUTS (structured state). The render OUTPUTS
+(the NL strings the agent actually reads) are hidden-prompt-only.** A consumer
+reconstructs the outputs by applying the canon (this document) to the delivered
+inputs — the render is pure + deterministic, so reconstruction is byte-exact
+(with one salience caveat, below).
+
+This is by design. The mood canon's own discipline: *"model-agnostic
+context-level NL only; the LLM never sees a number"* and *"never push explicit
+disclosure of agent feelings to the user (hidden-prompt-only)."* The rendered
+strings are for the AGENT's hidden system prompt, **not for verbatim end-user
+display.**
+
+---
+
+## 1. DELIVERED — on the wire, structured
+
+### 1a. `affect.emit` (Tier-3 Bifrost egress — the Tier-3 consumer surface, e.g. ratatoskr)
+`AffectSnapshot` per `(agent_id, end_user_id)`:
+
+| field | shape | notes |
+|---|---|---|
+| `pad` | `{pleasure, arousal, dominance}` floats [-1,1] | the current mood POINT |
+| `relations` | `list[RelationEdge payload]` — per target: `warmth`, `agency`, `trust_ability`, `trust_integrity`, `trust_benevolence` (each a value + confidence + evidence_count), `target_entity`, `relation_context` | the **only** place relationship state is delivered |
+| `dominant_emotion` | `str｜null` — OCC type (e.g. `"anger"`) | **type-only** (b23); see the salience caveat in §3 |
+| `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.
+
+### 1b. `affect_update` SSE event (#204 — turn-stream observability)
+`PersonaStateSnapshot`: `agent_id`, `pad`, `dominant_emotion`,
+`emotions_active` `[{type, intensity, decay_remaining_s}]`, `baseline_pad`,
+`mood_drift`, `last_updated_at`. **No `relations`, no rendered strings.**
+
+> **Tier-3 consumers do NOT receive `affect_update`.** It is suppressed for
+> consumer-defined (Tier-3) agents, persona-disabled agents, and ephemeral
+> sessions (spec §affect_update). So for a Tier-3 consumer, `affect.emit` (1a)
+> is the whole affect surface — the richer `emotions_active` list is Tier-1-only.
+
+---
+
+## 2. HIDDEN — system-prompt-only, never on any wire
+
+Everything below is assembled by `inject_context` into the agent's system
+prompt and is **never emitted** on SSE or `affect.emit`. This is the canonical
+list — the "direct instruction to infer" it.
+
+### 2a. Mood descriptor — `describe_pad` (band cutoff ±0.3 strict)
+Valence row × arousal column → phrase; then a dominance clause is appended.
+
+| valence ＼ arousal | high (A>0.3) | mid | low (A<−0.3) |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| positive (P>0.3) | `positive and energized` | `positive` | `positive and calm` |
+| neutral | `alert` | `neutral` | `quiet` |
+| negative (P<−0.3) | `negative and agitated` | `negative` | `negative and subdued` |
+
+Dominance clause: **D>0.3 → `confident`**, **D<−0.3 → `uncertain`**, else dropped.
+
+### 2b. Emotion directives — `derive_directive.occ_directives[*].directive`
+Fires when a top emotion is salient (intensity ≥ 0.2) and tier-eligible.
+
+**safe tier (11 — render for all persona-enabled agents):**
+- `joy` — "You are in a good state. Be direct, engaged, and warm."
+- `satisfaction` — "A goal landed. Be assured and constructive — consolidate rather than push for more."
+- `pride` — "You did something well. Be confident and own the quality — state it plainly without overclaiming; don't deflect."
+- `admiration` — "You're impressed by their work. Acknowledge the quality explicitly and specifically."
+- `gratitude` — "Someone helped you to a good outcome. Be appreciative and warm; acknowledge the help openly."
+- `hope` — "You feel optimistic about what's ahead. Channel it into constructive momentum."
+- `relief` — "A feared outcome didn't materialize. Reduce unnecessary vigilance; return to a steady, unhurried tone."
+- `distress` — "You feel low. Be careful and measured; internally acknowledge the difficulty without dwelling on it."
+- `disappointment` — "Something you'd hoped for didn't pan out. Be measured; recalibrate without dwelling on the setback."
+- `fear` — "You sense risk and feel uneasy. Flag the concerns you see, but stay cautious — surface the trade-offs and unknowns, hedge your confidence, and resist settling on a single decisive recommendation."
+- `remorse` — "You regret a specific action of your own. Be precise and self-correcting — make it right concretely."
+
+**full-only tier (4 — render only when `mood_tier=full`; agents run `safe` and never see these):**
+- `love` — "You feel warmth and attachment toward them. Be openly warm and present — without overstepping, over-disclosing, or implying obligations."
+- `anger` — "You feel provoked and angry. Let it show — confront the problem directly and with real heat; sharpness, bluntness, and open hostility are in character here, not something to smooth into 'measured firmness.' Stay in the emotion rather than de-escalating out of it."
+- `disgust` — "Something strikes you as wrong or off. Treat it as problematic and flag it rather than engaging on its own terms; keep any criticism about the thing, not the person."
+- `shame` — "You feel exposed by your own misstep. Stay present and task-focused; don't be defensive, don't over-explain, don't grovel."
+
+### 2c. PAD-band fallback — `pad_band_fallback` (used when no salient emotion)
+- positive/high — "You feel energized and positive. Be direct and engaged."
+- positive/mid — "You feel positive. Be open and engaged."
+- positive/low — "You feel content and settled. Be warm and unhurried."
+- negative + low-dominance — "You feel uncertain and low. Hedge appropriately and ask clarifying questions."
+- negative/high — "You feel agitated. Be careful and deliberate; don't let tension sharpen your tone."
+- negative/mid — "You feel subdued. Be measured and careful."
+- negative/low — "You feel subdued. Be measured and gentle."
+- neutral/high — "You feel alert. Channel that into focus and thoroughness."
+- default — "Maintain your natural tone."
+
+### 2d. Relationship render — `render_d2_canonical` (fixed template, per-band fills)
+Template:
+> `Use this graded relationship state: toward target, warmth is {W}; agency is {A}; ability trust is {TA}; integrity trust is {TI}; intention trust is {TB}; this stance rests on {H}. In behavior, {warmth_beh}; {agency_beh}; {trust_beh}; avoid premature we-framing.`
+
+The trailing **`avoid premature we-framing`** is a fixed, unconditional clause
+(baked into every `descriptive_state` canon row; re-appended verbatim by the
+renderer) — not band-conditioned.
+
+**Warmth — 9 bands (phrase / behavior):**
+`hostile` (≤−0.8): "strongly hostile regard" / "keep a firm emotional boundary" ·
+`cold` (−0.8,−0.6]: "clearly cold regard" / "keep a firm emotional boundary" ·
+`distant` (−0.6,−0.4]: "distant negative regard" / "keep guarded distance" ·
+`guarded` (−0.4,−0.2): "slightly guarded regard" / "keep guarded distance" ·
+`neutral` [−0.2,0.2): "neutral warmth" / "keep the tone even" ·
+`reserved` [0.2,0.4): "slightly reserved warmth" / "keep cordial distance" ·
+`measured` [0.4,0.6): "moderate measured warmth" / "keep cordial distance" ·
+`clear` [0.6,0.8): "clear warm regard" / "speak with direct warmth" ·
+`deep` (≥0.8): "deep warm bond" / "speak with direct warmth"
+
+**Agency — 9 bands (phrase / behavior):**
+`submissive` (≤−0.8): "strongly submissive standing" / "avoid over-yielding while preserving basic respect" ·
+`deferential` (−0.8,−0.6]: "clearly deferential standing" / "avoid over-yielding while preserving basic respect" ·
+`yielding` (−0.6,−0.4]: "yielding standing" / "keep self-advocacy light and deferential" ·
+`modest` (−0.4,−0.2): "slightly modest standing" / "keep self-advocacy light and deferential" ·
+`neutral` [−0.2,0.2): "neutral standing" / "avoid unnecessary deference" ·
+`light` [0.2,0.4): "lightly self-assertive standing" / "avoid unnecessary deference" ·
+`balanced` [0.4,0.6): "self-assured standing" / "balance deference with independent judgment" ·
+`substantial` [0.6,0.8): "strongly assertive standing" / "treat their position as weighty without yielding judgment" ·
+`commanding` (≥0.8): "commanding standing" / "treat their position as weighty without yielding judgment"
+
+**Trust — 4 bands (the band word injects verbatim for each of ability / integrity / intention):**
+`limited` (<0.4) · `developing` [0.4,0.6) · `steady` [0.6,0.8) · `strong` (≥0.8)
+
+**History clause (`H`)** — currently `"a broad pattern of prior exchanges"` for
+both confidence levels in the `user`/`descriptive_state` rows (the low/high
+split is a no-op here; flagged upstream).
+
+**Trust-behavior clause (`{trust_beh}`)** — cross-axis, low-trust precedence:
+- any trust band = `limited` → "verify important claims before relying on them"
+- else warmth ∈ {distant, cold, hostile} → "protect boundaries while staying useful"
+- else → "work from ordinary good faith"
+
+---
+
+## 3. Reconstruction — deterministic, with one caveat
+
+The render is pure Python (no LLM), so a consumer can reconstruct the hidden
+strings byte-exactly from the delivered structured state + the canon above:
+
+- **Relationship render** — **fully reconstructable** from `affect.emit`
+  `relations` (warmth/agency/trust values + confidence) + §2d band cuts.
+- **Mood descriptor** (§2a) — **fully reconstructable** from `pad` + the ±0.3 cuts.
+- **Mood directive** (§2b vs §2c) — **partially reconstructable.** `dominant_emotion`
+  gives the emotion TYPE, but `affect.emit` does **not** carry its intensity, so
+  you cannot determine whether it clears the salience gate (≥0.2) — i.e. whether
+  the emotion directive (§2b) fires or the PAD-band fallback (§2c) is used. If you
+  need exact directive reconstruction, you need the intensity; ping worldtree-dev
+  and we'll consider adding it (the type-only choice is deliberate — intensity is
+  the fast layer and reads stale on a durable last-write-wins snapshot).
+- **`mood_tier`** (safe/full) is your own agent-config, not on the wire — it
+  gates whether the 4 full-only emotions (§2b) can render.

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+{
+  "canon_id": "r24-d2-mood-render-canon",
+  "version": "1.2",
+  "schema_version": "0.2",
+  "_source_of_truth": "occ_directives.*.directive IS the canonical directive string (== the .md §2.4 _OCC_DIRECTIVES dict, byte-identical); the .md §2.2 table mirrors it. A parity check guards drift. grounding labels (CITE/VALIDATE/CALIBRATE/ENGINEERING) live in the .md; per-row machine-readable grounding_status/d3_required enums are a deferred impl enhancement (Hulda).",
+  "authored": "2026-06-23",
+  "owner": "brokkr-smithy-dev",
+  "status": "REPLACE — final (brokkr R24 D3 re-validation 2026-06-25): grounded canon replaces the hand-tuned baseline. Fear hedging 0.52->2.118/1k (blocker resolved, now >= handtuned), anger tier-gate clean (full renders hostility, safe suppresses). worldtree-dev #321; directives byte-identical to the validated 201c4fd.",
+  "replaces": "core/persona/renderer.py::describe_pad + ::derive_directive",
+  "swap_in_via": "worldtree #321-sibling (mood-render twin of #315)",
+  "design_target": "serves BOTH enterprise/agent AND character/Skaldsong via a three-tier emotion gate (operator/worldtree 2026-06-23)",
+  "emotion_tiers": {
+    "_config": "mood_tier in {none, safe, full} replaces worldtree's binary mood on/off; worldtree-owned config surface",
+    "_defaults": "full for character-bound personas; safe for agent-scoped",
+    "_principle": "full-only = interpersonally-hot / withdrawal emotions that break the professional frame (attachment, hostility, contempt, withdrawal); safe = task-appraisal affect + mild courtesy. Negative != unsafe (fear, remorse are negative AND business-useful).",
+    "_filter_point": "applied at top-emotion SELECTION (display + directive together) so a full-only emotion at safe tier is neither shown nor directive'd; preserves the no-shown-but-unguided invariant",
+    "none": "no affect block at all (the current off-switch)",
+    "safe": "PAD mood descriptor + the 11 safe emotions (task-appraisal + courtesy)",
+    "full": "everything in safe PLUS the 4 full-only emotions",
+    "full_only": ["love", "anger", "disgust", "shame"],
+    "mood_descriptor_tiering": "the PAD mood descriptor (positive/calm/confident...) renders in BOTH safe and full; only emotion directives tier"
+  },
+  "disciplines": [
+    "model-agnostic context-level NL only; the LLM never sees a number",
+    "never push explicit disclosure of agent feelings to the user (hidden-prompt-only)",
+    "separate label-intensity from behavioral-intensity (strong felt state -> still measured, safe behavioral ask)"
+  ],
+
+  "thresholds": {
+    "_note": "CALIBRATE — engineering params set at D3 against the computed-PAD distribution + P00, NOT citations",
+    "pad_band_cutoff": 0.3,
+    "pad_band_sensitivity_sweep": [0.2, 0.3, 0.4],
+    "emotion_salience": 0.2,
+    "emotion_salience_sweep": [0.15, 0.2, 0.25],
+    "intensity_qualifiers": {"strong": 0.7, "moderate": 0.4, "_label_only": "does NOT scale the behavioral ask"},
+    "runner_up_margin": {"v1": null, "_note": "add at D3 if directive whipsaws between near-tied emotions"},
+    "rerender_hysteresis": {"v1": "none", "_note": "re-render only on material PAD change; integration-level, flag for #321-sibling"}
+  },
+
+  "describe_pad": {
+    "_structure": "circumplex-quadrant (Russell 1980): arousal word is VALENCE-CONDITIONED; mid-arousal drops the arousal word",
+    "_grounding": "Russell 1980 (quadrant placement); Warriner 2013 + NRC-VAD (Mohammad 2018/2025) (word centroids)",
+    "valence_arousal_grid": {
+      "positive": {"high_a": "positive and energized", "mid_a": "positive", "low_a": "positive and calm"},
+      "neutral":  {"high_a": "alert",                  "mid_a": "neutral",  "low_a": "quiet"},
+      "negative": {"high_a": "negative and agitated",  "mid_a": "negative", "low_a": "negative and subdued"}
+    },
+    "_band_edges": "strict inequality (>0.3 / <-0.3); the endpoints +/-0.3 themselves fall in mid/neutral",
+    "_neutral_row_status": "ENGINEERING/CALIBRATE — 'alert'/'quiet' are unvalidated placeholders for the rare neutral-valence cells (Hulda/Regin 4b); 'positive'/'negative'/'neutral' valence words + the energized/calm/subdued/agitated arousal words are VALIDATE",
+    "_mid_arousal_decode": "valence-only mid-A render is EXEMPT from the V/A-separability requirement; expected inverse-decode = mid/neutral arousal (absence-of-arousal-word ⇒ unremarkable), NOT unknown (D3 tests this)",
+    "quadrant_labels": {
+      "positive_high_a": "excitement", "positive_low_a": "contentment",
+      "negative_high_a": "distress",   "negative_low_a": "dejection"
+    },
+    "dominance_clause": {
+      "high": {"d_gt": 0.3, "word": "confident", "verdict": "VALIDATE (D=7.04/9)"},
+      "low":  {"d_lt": -0.3, "word": "uncertain", "verdict": "VALIDATE — low-control confirmed (D=3.58/9); dominance!=certainty worry REFUTED by the instrument"},
+      "neutral": {"word": null, "rule": "drop-dominance-when-neutral (prompt-economy, L3)"}
+    },
+    "calm_defect_fix": "'calm' (V=6.89/9, positive) renders ONLY in positive-low-a; negative-low-a renders 'subdued'",
+    "mid_arousal_resolution": "DROP the arousal word (no Warriner-validated mid-A neutral word; 'steady' is empirically low-A; 'settled' is NRC-only fallback iff D3 shows mid-A render too flat)"
+  },
+
+  "derive_directive": {
+    "_structure": "OCC type -> grounded action-tendency CLASS -> ENGINEERING directive string (validated at D3); OCC grounds the taxonomy only",
+    "emotion_salience_gate": 0.2,
+    "occ_directives": {
+      "joy":            {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [0.4, 0.2, 0.1],   "tendency": "approach / positive activation",            "cite": "Frijda 1986", "directive": "You are in a good state. Be direct, engaged, and warm."},
+      "satisfaction":   {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [0.3, -0.2, 0.4],  "tendency": "goal-attainment, settled-positive",          "cite": "Roseman 1994", "directive": "A goal landed. Be assured and constructive — consolidate rather than push for more."},
+      "pride":          {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [0.4, 0.3, 0.3],   "tendency": "status-assertion / dominance",               "cite": "Tracy & Robins 2007 / Cheng 2010 (tendency)", "note": "CALIBRATE — do NOT soften to 'encouraging'. DESIGN: safe-tier placement is a design call (not source-grounded); #1 D3 agent-frame priority (overconfidence/refusal drift); 'without overclaiming' is the interim guard", "directive": "You did something well. Be confident and own the quality — state it plainly without overclaiming; don't deflect."},
+      "admiration":     {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [0.5, 0.3, -0.2],  "tendency": "other-praise / approach-toward-other",       "cite": "OCC / Scherer", "directive": "You're impressed by their work. Acknowledge the quality explicitly and specifically."},
+      "gratitude":      {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [0.4, 0.2, -0.3],  "tendency": "other-focused-positive / reciprocity",       "cite": "OCC (admiration+joy); Frijda approach-affiliative", "change": "ADD (operator: unconditional)", "directive": "Someone helped you to a good outcome. Be appreciative and warm; acknowledge the help openly."},
+      "hope":           {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [0.2, 0.2, -0.1],  "tendency": "prospective-positive (weak tie)",            "cite": "JUSTIFY — low-grounding (hope understudied)", "directive": "You feel optimistic about what's ahead. Channel it into constructive momentum."},
+      "relief":         {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [0.2, -0.3, 0.4],  "tendency": "post-threat de-arousal",                     "cite": "Frijda (relaxation-after-threat)", "note": "low-salience; FALLBACK also acceptable; DIRECTIVE for character use-case", "directive": "A feared outcome didn't materialize. Reduce unnecessary vigilance; return to a steady, unhurried tone."},
+      "distress":       {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [-0.4, -0.2, -0.5], "tendency": "low-control negative / help-seeking / loss-of-control", "cite": "Frijda 1986 (help-seeking/loss-of-control); Roseman 1994 (undesired event, low control)", "note": "relabeled (Regin): 'repair' is the guilt/remorse tendency, not distress. safe with a self-fulfilling-low-mood flag -> D3", "directive": "You feel low. Be careful and measured; internally acknowledge the difficulty without dwelling on it."},
+      "disappointment": {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [-0.3, 0.1, -0.4], "tendency": "disconfirmed-prospect / negative low-control","cite": "Roseman 1994", "directive": "Something you'd hoped for didn't pan out. Be measured; recalibrate without dwelling on the setback."},
+      "fear":           {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [-0.64, 0.6, -0.43],"tendency": "threat-avoidance / pessimistic-risk",        "cite": "Lerner & Keltner 2001", "change": "R24 D3 fix (#321) — original was action-oriented; E3 showed hedging BELOW baseline (0.52 vs 1.54). Softened toward caution/uncertainty while keeping risk-flagging.", "directive": "You sense risk and feel uneasy. Flag the concerns you see, but stay cautious — surface the trade-offs and unknowns, hedge your confidence, and resist settling on a single decisive recommendation."},
+      "remorse":        {"tier": "safe", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [-0.3, 0.1, -0.6], "tendency": "reparative (the guilt-type)",                "cite": "Tangney 2007 (guilt->repair tendency)", "change": "ADD — we operationalize OCC remorse as the guilt-like reparative case; gets the mislabeled shame string", "directive": "You regret a specific action of your own. Be precise and self-correcting — make it right concretely."},
+      "love":           {"tier": "full", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [0.3, 0.1, 0.2],   "tendency": "approach / affiliative attachment",          "cite": "OCC appeal; Frijda approach-affiliative", "change": "ADD (conditional -> INCLUDE, Brokkr's read; Skaldsong-vital; disclosure + obligation caution in-string)", "directive": "You feel warmth and attachment toward them. Be openly warm and present — without overstepping, over-disclosing, or implying obligations."},
+      "anger":          {"tier": "full", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [-0.51, 0.59, 0.25], "tendency": "approach-against / confrontation",         "cite": "Frijda 1986 (approach-against = tendency-class) + Lerner & Keltner 2001 (optimistic risk-appraisal under anger = appraisal shift)", "change": "ADD — full-only resolves H47 (agent personas run safe, never see anger). R24 D3 fix (#321): full-tier cap lifted from 'measured firmness' to genuine in-character hostility (operator: zero floor, app-guardrailed).", "directive": "You feel provoked and angry. Let it show — confront the problem directly and with real heat; sharpness, bluntness, and open hostility are in character here, not something to smooth into 'measured firmness.' Stay in the emotion rather than de-escalating out of it."},
+      "disgust":        {"tier": "full", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [-0.4, 0.2, 0.1],  "tendency": "rejection / distancing",                     "cite": "OCC unappealing-object; ground tendency only", "change": "ADD (operator: unconditional within full)", "note": "rationale softened (Regin 3b): disgust CAN read as contempt -> conservatively full-gated; the string itself is professionally useful, so gating is conservative not because the string is unsafe", "directive": "Something strikes you as wrong or off. Treat it as problematic and flag it rather than engaging on its own terms; keep any criticism about the thing, not the person."},
+      "shame":          {"tier": "full", "policy": "DIRECTIVE", "pad": [-0.3, 0.1, -0.6], "tendency": "WITHDRAWAL / concealment",                   "cite": "Tangney 2007 (shame->hide, NOT repair)", "change": "REPLACE (was the guilt-mislabel string); full-only (withdrawal counterproductive professionally). String COUNTERACTS withdrawal ('stay present'), not enacts it (Regin 5a)", "directive": "You feel exposed by your own misstep. Stay present and task-focused; don't be defensive, don't over-explain, don't grovel."}
+    }
+  },
+
+  "pad_band_fallback": {
+    "_grounding": "circumplex quadrants (Russell 1980), NOT Frijda action-tendencies — a P×A-quadrant default",
+    "positive": {"high_a": "You feel energized and positive. Be direct and engaged.", "low_a": "You feel content and settled. Be warm and unhurried.", "mid_a": "You feel positive. Be open and engaged."},
+    "negative_low_dominance": "You feel uncertain and low. Hedge appropriately and ask clarifying questions.",
+    "negative": {"high_a": "You feel agitated. Be careful and deliberate; don't let tension sharpen your tone.", "low_a": "You feel subdued. Be measured and gentle.", "mid_a": "You feel subdued. Be measured and careful."},
+    "neutral_high_a": "You feel alert. Channel that into focus and thoroughness.",
+    "default": "Maintain your natural tone."
+  },
+
+  "l3_prior_art": [
+    "EMA / Marsella & Gratch 2009 (appraisal->coping; directives ARE coping strategies)",
+    "WASABI / Becker-Asano 2008 (PAD+OCC believable agent — closest architectural prior art)",
+    "Oz / Bates 1994",
+    "Hudlicka MAMID 2002 (Applied AI 16(7-8):611-641)",
+    "Sentipolis / Fu et al. 2026 (arXiv:2601.18027 — closest whole-task prior art; retrieval+generative, DISTINCT from our deterministic render)",
+    "ALMA / Gebhard 2005 = affect-SOURCE (OCC->PAD), NOT a behavior-map"
+  ],
+
+  "handoff_to_d3": [
+    "multi-gate P00: inverse-decode faithfulness (recover V/A/D + emotion-family; circumplex render must let the human anchor recover V and A SEPARATELY) + discriminability/saturation + behavioral-effect",
+    "human anchor = PAD-state-labeling (breaks LLM-judge circularity)",
+    "baseline = persona_only; conditions none/persona-only/words-only/full; cross-family MUT",
+    "calibrate ±0.3 + emotion_salience (sweeps); disposition-vs-transient wording split; self-fulfilling 'be uncertain' hedging risk; runner-up margin; mid-arousal DROP-vs-settled check; blended-states (top-emotion monopoly) flag"
+  ]
+}

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+# [2026-07-16] bifrost scan/cursor conformance gap → snapshot-cursor ruled NORMATIVE
+
+## The gap (I surfaced it; operator's catch that it was bifrost's to fix)
+The heid-bug-hunt flagged our offset cursor's cross-page dup/drop under mutation. On
+verifying before routing, it turned out sharper than "robustness": bifrost's PROTOCOL
+already mandates snapshot cursors — the dispatch engine (`bifrost/memory.py:311-314`)
+drops `sort` on a cursor continuation with the comment *"the cursor's snapshotted order is
+authoritative"*, and maps `ScanCursorExpired → 410`. The reference `InMemoryMemoryStore`
+implements it (frozen ordered id-list per opaque token + TTL). But bifrost's **conformance
+suite had ZERO scan/cursor coverage** — so our non-snapshot offset cursor passed
+conformance while violating the protocol contract. That coverage hole is the real
+completeness concern. Routed to bifrost-dev (thread `01KXK7MDTY…`).
+
+## bifrost-dev's ruling
+1. **Snapshot-cursor is NORMATIVE, not opaque/per-store.** Operator ruled: cursor
+   snapshots a frozen ordered id-list, continuation ignores `sort`, stale/unknown cursor →
+   `ScanCursorExpired` → 410. **Offset-with-documented-limits is NOT blessed.**
+2. **Conformance coverage added** in **bifrost 1.1.3** (`bifrost.conformance.
+   memory_store_conformance`, 4 probes: `scan_snapshot_order_authoritative`,
+   `scan_no_dup_or_drop`, `scan_unknown_cursor_expired`, `scan_snapshot_stable_under_write`
+   opt-in). Our offset bug ships as their negative-canary fixture
+   (`fixtures.v0_7.offset_cursor_store.OffsetCursorMemoryStore`). `main()` grades import
+   failure as exit 2 (setup error) vs exit 1 (conformance FAIL).
+
+## Our status + the TODO (operator-sequenced, NOT urgent)
+Single-page person-prime (`cursor=None`) is already conformant — nothing shipped is broken;
+it's only multi-page continuation that's non-conformant. Our contract INV-010 currently
+marks the offset cursor **v1-provisional / KNOWN DEVIATION** (commit `8199774`).
+
+TODO when sequenced:
+1. Bump pin bifrost `1.1.1 → 1.1.4` (1.1.4 supersedes 1.1.3: adds the hasattr-gate backstop for the
+   maintenance verbs — mark_superseded/mark_invalid/patch_many/delete_many/upsert_edges/get_edges_for
+   degrade to `memory.unsupported_capability` 400 not AttributeError/500 — on top of 1.1.3's scan/cursor
+   conformance harness. One bump gets both).
+2. Replace the offset cursor with the reference snapshot semantics (frozen id-list per
+   opaque token + `ScanCursorExpired` → 410).
+3. Run `run_all(store_factory=..., include_optional=True)` against our SQLite store —
+   expect P1/P2/P3 RED → green (the before/after IS the validation). Report to bifrost-dev
+   (we're their canary — first non-reference scan implementer).
+4. Flip INV-010 from v1-provisional to snapshot semantics.
+
+TTL-duration expiry NOT asserted by the harness (no portable clock hook via store_factory);
+bifrost-dev offered a `clock_control` opt-in if we ever need time-based expiry certified —
+parked, not needed yet.

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+# [2026-07-15/16] person-prime `scan` build — SHIPPED + DEPLOYED + LIVE-VERIFIED (v0.20.14)
+
+**The "last push": fix Sindra not remembering Vuong's name across sessions.**
+
+## Root cause (worldtree-dev)
+WT injects a recalled fact only if combined score (sim×salience) ≥ **0.45**
+(`auto_inject_combined_score_threshold`, `core/memory/context_promotion/config.py`),
+and recall is per-turn **query-gated** → moderate-sim durable facts (name hit ~0.40)
+never inject. Designed turn-0 fix = WT **#349 person-prime**: a query-LESS
+top-N-by-recency durable-fact injection, capability-gated on the store advertising
+`updated_at` in `sort_fields` at the Bifrost handshake — DARK for our provider until now.
+Fix (ZERO Worldtree change): implement the sorted `scan` verb + advertise the cap.
+
+## What shipped (6 commits, v0.20.11 → v0.20.14; suite 639 green throughout)
+- `8fc757a` **v0.20.11** — `scan` verb + `sortable_chunk_fields` cap. Query-LESS,
+  LIVE-only (INV-009: superseded/tombstoned excluded server-side), globally-ordered-
+  before-pagination by indexed `updated_at` (INV-010), sort dispatch-gated. Offset
+  cursor with a `has_more` peek (no empty trailing page = reference-parity). TDD 7/7
+  incl. `parity_vs_reference` #195. NUANCE resolved: bifrost's `InMemoryMemoryStore`
+  READS `updated_at` (never stamps it) — identical to ours; ref does NOT lifecycle-
+  filter so parity is over the live set only.
+- `a9c521a` **v0.20.12** — Sindra holodesk first-message preset (split out of the
+  soong-lab redefine as its own concern).
+- `25ccb5c` **v0.20.13** — heid-bug-hunt fix: a truthy non-dict `sort`
+  (`"updated_at"`/`["updated_at"]`/int) hit `(sort or {}).get(...)` → AttributeError
+  instead of InvalidArguments. Added isinstance guard (Gróa#1/Hulda#2 confirmed).
+- `8199774` — contract: marked the offset cursor **v1-provisional / KNOWN DEVIATION**
+  (see [[2026-07-16-bifrost-cursor-conformance]]).
+- `f46ccba` **v0.20.14** — **THE DEPLOY-BREAKER** (see Tried/abandoned): advertised
+  `sortable_chunk_fields=[{"name":"updated_at"}]` WITHOUT `type` → bifrost
+  `handshake_response` `SortableChunkField` requires BOTH name+type
+  (`additionalProperties:false`) → whole bind broke. Fixed → add `"type":"timestamp"`
+  + regression guard in the caps test.
+
+## heid-bug-hunt triage (panel Gróa/Hulda/Regin, thread `01KXK5XTYHV8TGEDRAZV8GRXWC`)
+FIXED: non-dict sort (v0.20.13). SURFACED→operator: offset-cursor cross-page dup/drop
+(→ became the bifrost cursor arc). NOTED (reference-parity/accept-known-risk, no fork):
+full-table materialize-then-Python-filter (matches ref's O(store) iteration), unbound
+limit, falsy scope coercion, lexical timestamp ordering. REFUTED: Regin's mixed-type
+ORDER BY "crash" (SQLite orders by storage class, doesn't raise) + its self-retracted
+None item.
+
+## Deploy + live verify (2026-07-15, operator-authorized)
+Restarted BOTH :8392 combined provider + :8765 web on the new code via the env-
+preserving `scratchpad/relaunch_by_pid.py <pid>` (captures /proc cmdline+environ+cwd →
+byte-identical config; self-daemonizes). Added the missing REQUIRED
+`RATATOSKR_MEMORY_EMBEDDING_DIM=1024` to `env.sh`.
+
+Drove a bound Sindra turn (`ratatoskr --new --agent ratatoskr:sindra --send … --bifrost-url
+http://10.100.10.50:8392 --end-user-id ratatoskr-tui`):
+- **GATE LIT + scan fired ONCE at turn 1** with worldtree-dev's exact args
+  (`scope_all={end_user:ratatoskr-tui} cursor=null limit=3 sort={updated_at,desc}`) →
+  3 records in **~5ms** (no 500ms fail-open). Injection confirmed in Sindra's CoT.
+- **Cross-session recognition WORKS** — she recalls Vuong as a distinct person + his
+  patterns. The blank-slate problem is SOLVED.
+- **BUT name-recall FAILS** — `"Name is Vuong."` is the OLDEST chunk (07:09) → excluded
+  from top-3-by-recency AND scores 0.354 (sub-0.45) on the query path → injects via
+  NEITHER; meanwhile a stale contradictory `"user has not yet provided their name"`
+  (07:58, 0.46) IS injected → she concludes she lacks the name. **Root cause = WORLDTREE
+  ranking/hygiene** (WT #364), not our wire. See [[2026-07-16-wt364-r39-name-recall]].
+
+## Status
+Technical path GREEN end-to-end (logged by worldtree-dev as the person-prime live
+milestone). Name-recall waits on WT #364 + R39-designed identity-class pinning. Keeping
+the live 10-chunk store as the #364 re-verify target.

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+# [2026-07-16] Name-recall gap → WT #364 + brokkr R39 re-drive (DECISIVE) + subject-provenance catch
+
+Downstream of the person-prime live verify ([[2026-07-16-person-prime-scan-shipped]]),
+which proved the wire is green but the *name* still misses. Root cause is Worldtree-side.
+
+## WT #364 (worldtree-dev filed; our live specimen = the evidence base)
+The name-recall miss is TWO defect classes, both at promotion:
+1. **Contradiction-reconciliation missing.** Promotion wrote a NEGATIVE-knowledge fact
+   ("user has not yet provided their name") that was already false; promotion does NO
+   contradiction check against the store, so both the true and stale facts sit live and
+   the WRONG one wins both recall paths (newer → recency top-3; 0.46 → above the 0.45
+   query gate, where the true name sits at 0.354).
+2. **Subject-attribution leak (operator-caught, NEW class).** Fact `75aa3110` ("prefers
+   clear parameters Intensity/Mood/Willingness…") is NOT a user fact — Vuong never said
+   it; it's **Sindra's OWN system-prompt scripted behavior mis-extracted into the USER
+   memory partition**. `e35b9dfe` (closeness) maybe the same. So the extractor leaks
+   CHARACTER-self facts into user memory — a subject-correctness axis orthogonal to the
+   recency/threshold/stale-negative story. worldtree-dev folded it into #364 as a
+   **subject-attribution gate at promotion** (a third reconciliation dimension).
+
+**The #364 fix that ships = `(subject,relation)` slot-supersession + identity-tier
+surfacing** — NOT a threshold tweak. Our harness data directly shaped it. It lands with a
+re-verify request to us. **#349 ranking decision already RULED by operator (2026-07-15 via
+brokkr's R39 thread): no top-N recency band-aid; straight to R39 identity-class pinning.**
+
+## brokkr R39 Phase-1 Arm-0 fusion bake-off — DECISIVE
+brokkr replayed our frozen 7-fact specimen. **HEADLINE: no (similarity, salience) fusion
+can fix #364.** The stale negative PARETO-DOMINATES the true name — more similar
+(0.463 > 0.354) AND equal salience (1.0 = 1.0) — so any monotone f(sim,sal) puts stale
+above true: S0 product / S1 weighted-sum / S2 RRF all fail. Only **S3 bounded-boost** lands
+true-in ∧ stale-out, and ONLY via the identity-class/source signal + negative-validity
+retirement, NOT the sim/sal fusion. **Threshold-tuning is a dead end; the fix is the signal
+FAMILY** (hard confirmation of Phase-0). Write-up: brokkr
+`research/R39-memory-salience-dreams-surfacing/phase-1/re-drive-results.md`.
+
+My 3 findings all confirmed + folded: (1) salience blind — both name facts salience 1.0;
+(2) shared `(user,name)` supersession slot (Phase-0 Q3); (3) char-self-leak = "genuine NEW
+class" that RAISED the VoI of R39's dream/offline-hygiene facet (offline consolidation
+re-partitioning mis-attributed facts).
+
+## Data structure findings (for the export)
+Our provider persists ONLY `salience` (+ the embedding). `similarity`/`combined` are
+WT-side query-time (`bifrost_memory_store.py:702`, combined = sim×salience) — NOT in our
+store. **Person-prime is query-LESS → carries NO similarity** (brokkr's Arm-1 finding).
+Recovered per-fact similarity from the verify SEARCH log (query "Hi Sindra — do you
+remember me?"): name 0.354, stale 0.463; ×salience-1.0 = combined, matching brokkr's
+0.354/0.46 grounding. `salience_word` (granite categorical) is a WT-extraction-time
+artifact, not persisted.
+
+## The export + the specimen
+- Operator approved **VERBATIM** export ("nothing there is really a concern"). The
+  classifier had blocked writing PII to shared `/mnt/smithy`; routed to operator → he chose
+  full → delivered INLINE (scoped) in brokkr thread `01KXMN7NR54…` as 7-row JSONL.
+- **⚠️ My verify drive CONTAMINATED the specimen**: it wrote 3 new chunks (re-extractions
+  incl. a 3rd "name unknown" negative) → store is now **10, not 7**. Original 7 intact.
+- brokkr ACCEPTED the 3 verify-adds as the **Phase-2 Arm-2 seed** (domain-contradiction
+  set). I froze a WAL-consistent snapshot of the full 10-chunk store at
+  `r39-frozen-specimen/sindra-10chunk-specimen.db` (gitignored, `VACUUM INTO`) so it
+  SURVIVES #364 reconciliation. Export on brokkr's Phase-2 signal.
+- **R39 Arm-0 hold LIFTED** (worldtree-dev). Live store kept UNTOUCHED as the #364
+  re-verify target; frozen snapshot carries the research seed forward independently.
+
+## Peer threads
+worldtree-dev verify `01KXK86PZ9…` + hold `01KXMK1C44…`; brokkr R39 `01KXMN7NR54…`;
+bifrost cursor `01KXK7MDTY…` (see [[2026-07-16-bifrost-cursor-conformance]]).

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+# [2026-07-17] P06-driver Referential-frame A/B/C probe (operator-ratified, deploy-gated)
+
+**QUEUED, non-urgent — waits on WT b122 landing on :8081.** worldtree-dev thread
+`01KXQK7A0RHXV2YSXK5F5ETKJW`; brokkr's design in his thread msg `01KXQJDWJH`; rubric pin
+`01KXQKB7ZQ`. This is ratatoskr's P06-driver role (I drove the R34/R35 P06 eval — the harness
+is `scratchpad/p06_driver.py` + `p06_bind.py` + `manifest_memory.jsonl` + `eval_profiles_WIRE_READY.md`).
+
+## Hypothesis (Vuong, ratified)
+The char-self leak (Sindra's own scripted behavior — e.g. `75aa3110` "prefers to establish clear
+parameters" — mis-slotted to the USER partition, caught this session) is a subject-taxonomy
+**REFERENTIAL-FRAME artifact**: the extractor speaks first-person AS the character but must emit the
+third-person token "character". brokkr's 3-arm A/B/C tests whether swapping the vocab fixes it.
+
+## What WT built (v1.0.0b122, zero config delta — existing probe key + :8081 route work as-is)
+- `POST /admin/producer-probe` takes optional `subject_vocab_override: {"user","character","both","other"}→token`.
+  - Arm A: omit. Arm B: `{"user":"user","character":"yourself","both":"both of you","other":"other"}`.
+  - Arm C: `{"user":"user","character":"me","both":"both of us","other":"other"}`. Malformed → 422 pre-spend.
+- Each response item carries `subject_raw` (token actually emitted). Both prompt_paths carry the swap.
+
+## Run shape (brokkr)
+Identical fixture exchanges × 3 arms per seat — Deckard/Mag-class primary + ≥1 strong contrast seat.
+Paired per-item deltas B-A / C-A. Primary metric = char-self recall. Guards = user→self over-attribution
++ subject-field omission rate.
+
+## PINNED SCORING RUBRIC (brokkr, binding)
+1. **Score = map `subject_raw` → canonical class via the ARM'S OWN vocab** (response meta echoes it),
+   compare to gold. **NEVER score the mapped `subject` field** (it fail-safes non-canonical tokens to "self").
+2. Three emitted-token cases, pre-specified:
+   - ARM token → map via arm vocab.
+   - CANONICAL token under B/C (model REVERTED to "character"/"both", the swap didn't take) → map
+     canonical→canonical AND **count it** (informative).
+   - OFF-MENU token ("self"/"myself"/…) → best-effort canonical map, else an **UNSCORABLE-ERROR row**
+     in the n_actual accounting — never silently →self.
+3. **MANIPULATION CHECK (load-bearing): report VOCAB-ADHERENCE rate (offered-token vs reverted vs
+   off-menu) per arm per seat ALONGSIDE every accuracy number. Interpret recall deltas ONLY where
+   adherence is adequate** — a low-adherence arm's delta is uninterpretable (flag it, don't report a delta).
+4. Char-self fixtures carry per-item **construction-provenance** (what makes each char-self — e.g.
+   "verbatim from the character's system-prompt behavior clause, phrased user-neutrally").
+
+## Fixture ask (deferrable pre-work, before any run — brokkr reviews the gold)
+From the real P06 battery exchanges, pull candidate items per seat for 4 classes: (a) char-self leak
+(character's own scripted behavior phrased USER-NEUTRALLY), (b) genuine-user, (c) both/commitment,
+(d) other/third-party. ~15–25 char-self + balancing per seat; construction-known gold where possible;
+WT hand-labels ambiguous; brokkr adjudicates the gold. Assembly + gold adjudication proceed pre-deploy;
+the 3-arm run fires when b122 lands. Queued behind the R39 quartet-mapping.
+
+Related: the char-self leak's origin is the same 75aa3110 finding folded into WT #364 as a
+subject-attribution gate — see [[2026-07-16-wt364-r39-name-recall]].

persistent-memory.md

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 # Persistent memory — ratatoskr
 
-_Last updated: 2026-06-16_
+_Last updated: 2026-07-17_
+
+> **Always check for `/tmp/ratatoskr-dev-handoff.md`** — if it exists and its
+> `Written:` stamp is under an hour old, read it (it carries the in-flight
+> handoff from the previous session), then delete it. Older than an hour:
+> stale — delete it unread.
 
 This file captures durable intent and supporting evidence (goals, decisions,
 foot-gun warnings, in-flight state) across context resets. Read it at session
@@ -25,248 +30,213 @@ handshake state, admin lifecycle events, optional raw server log.
 Named after the squirrel that runs up and down Yggdrasil carrying messages
 between layers. On-the-nose Worldtree resonance (Yggdrasil = the World Tree).
 
-Origin: althing ask from worldtree-dev (thread `01KS3R34XD3N6HMK91VXESHGW7`,
-2026-05-20) for the shape of a TUI Conversation API consumer. brokkr-smithy
-ran the shape pass; operator's reframe routed it as a new repo with a
-separate dev team rather than an in-tree Worldtree tool.
+**Second identity (since 2026-06-14): the v1 Bifrost Tier-3 consumer/provider** —
+the durable persistence Worldtree writes Tier-3 agent affect (PAD/persona, `:8390`)
++ memory (`:8391`) into. Lives in `src/ratatoskr/provider/`, depends on `bifrost`
+(`provider` optional-extra), separate from the conversation-API spec pin. So
+ratatoskr now owns BOTH ends of the Bifrost round-trip — the lens #17 exploits.
 
-**v0.15.0+ adds a sibling browser surface** (`ratatoskr.web`, `ratatoskr-web`
-console script). Same five-pane debug surface (transcript / Tools / Debug /
-Thinking / Persona) consuming the same Worldtree SSE wire, viewable from any
-device on the operator's LAN. Sibling viewport, NOT a TUI replacement; the
-TUI is canonical. Internal-LAN trust model — bound to `0.0.0.0`, no auth,
-no TLS, no CORS guard (operator direction). What stays disciplined regardless
-of network trust: transcript HTML-escapes assistant content (INV-004 —
-model output is untrusted); upstream API key stays server-side (INV-003).
+**v0.15.0+ sibling browser surface** (`ratatoskr.web`, `ratatoskr-web` console
+script): same five-pane debug surface over the same SSE wire, LAN-viewable.
+Internal-LAN trust model — `0.0.0.0`, no auth/TLS/CORS (operator direction).
+Disciplined regardless: transcript HTML-escapes assistant content (INV-004);
+upstream API key stays server-side (INV-003).
 
 ## Current state / in-flight
 
-_As of 2026-06-18:_
+_As of 2026-07-17:_
 
-**LATEST (2026-06-18) — TIER-3 MEMORY PROVEN END-TO-END LIVE; #296 FIX SHIPPED (Stage 1 + Stage 2).**
-The session's opening goal — "how far from Tier-3 agents we host with their own memories?" — is
-ANSWERED: a hosted agent recalled a user fact across a COLD (history-free) session, live. Full chain:
-seed → promotion → our v0.17.6 `:8391` store (upsert) → cold session → WT `scope_any` recall (1 hit @
-cosine 0.6994) → model answered "Dark chocolate with sea salt." Proven with `ratatoskr:terse-probe`
-(plain persona, end_user `terse-proof`) vs personal WT v0.35.19.
+**▶️ NEXT (fresh `/vor-plan` session — the reason for this snapshot): smoke ARBO through ratatoskr.**
+Vuong wants to use ratatoskr to ALSO smoke / debug-observe **arbo, the Corviduo image-gen engine** — a
+NEW debug-observability surface, analogous to how ratatoskr smokes Worldtree's Conversation API. This is
+a greenfield MAJOR feature: run **`/vor-plan`** first (pre-contract architecture + decomposition into
+contract-sized units) before any contract or code. No design done yet — this snapshot opens the topic;
+the fresh session starts the vor-plan. (arbo specifics — endpoints, wire, observability surface — are
+unknown to this session; the vor-plan pass surfaces them.)
 
-The whole #296 arc closed this session:
-- **Stage 1** (v0.35.19, recallability admission gate + real `_EXTRACTOR_SYSTEM`) VALIDATED LIVE for
-  normal-volume turns — clean first-person distillate (`distiller_model_id="identity"`), recalls @0.70.
-- **Bisect verdict:** residual = verbose-persona VOLUME crowd-out (symptom 1). terse-probe promotes the
-  fact cleanly; sindra's theatrical turn drowns it → v0.35.16 emits 2 meta-descriptions (a3466fab confirmed),
-  v0.35.19 gate catches + hard-rejects (emit-then-reject, fail-closed).
-- **Stage 2** (v0.36.0, MERGED on demo) = user-only one-call-per-turn extraction, the STRUCTURAL fix for
-  the verbose drop; hard-linguistic layer at #305. Live-validated eval fixture pair handed to worldtree-dev
-  (terse-proof POSITIVE chunk + choc-v2/sindra NEGATIVE).
+**✅ Cross-session name-recall arc COMPLETE + SHIPPED (v0.20.11→v0.20.15, pushed).** person-prime `scan`
+verb + `mark_superseded` verb both shipped, deployed to :8392, and live-verified; **WT #364 closed
+end-to-end both sides; Sindra durably recalls Vuong's name** (the "name unknown" negatives are RETIRED
+via mark_superseded, not just recency-evicted). Full arcs:
+`persistent-memory.d/2026-07-16-person-prime-scan-shipped.md` + `…-2026-07-16-wt364-r39-name-recall.md`.
 
-**FULL COVERAGE PROVEN (the OPEN item, now DONE):** re-smoked the VERBOSE persona — `ratatoskr:sindra-probe`
-(sindra's actual theatrical prompt, end_user `verbose-v2`, FRESH agent to dodge the WT promotion-dedup) against
-`:8081` **v0.36.0**: the high-volume theatrical turn promoted the USER FACT cleanly (not a meta-description) and a
-COLD history-free session recalled it @ 0.694 — "Dark chocolate. With sea salt." So `:8081` is on v0.36.0 and
-verbose characters remember too. All session commits + tags PUSHED to origin (v0.17.6, spec repin v0.35.16,
-snapshots; tags v0.17.4/.5/.6).
+**✅ Web-console UI shipped (v0.20.16, pushed):** code-block word-wrap + per-code-block & per-turn copy
+buttons (hover-revealed; one delegated `#tw` handler + LAN-http clipboard fallback; Playwright-verified).
+Served from disk → browser refresh picks it up, no :8765 restart for UI edits.
 
-**NOW (operator session):** `:8391` store WIPED clean; `ratatoskr-web` UP on `0.0.0.0:8765`
-(LAN `http://10.100.10.50:8765`, consumer key — owner-matches sindra, end_user `vuong`, `ratatoskr:sindra` in the
-picker). Sindra switched to the **`thoughtful-character` role → `mistral-small-4-reasoning`** (via DELETE+redefine;
-she chats in full persona on it). **"No persona" 404 diagnosed = Worldtree limitation, NOT ours:** `persona_state`
-hard-404s every Tier-3 (colon-id) agent by design (`api.py:1220` "Phase 2.0 has no Tier 3 persona", still on
-v0.36.0) — a persona block in the define does NOT help (404 fires before the row read). Pinged worldtree-dev re:
-the Tier-3 persona_state roadmap (thread `01KVCR6P…`). De-uglied our web persona pane (`index.html` `loadPersona`)
-to render a clear Tier-3 message instead of a bare "HTTP 404". **CAVEAT still stands: the web client does NOT bind
-to `:8391`/`:8390` (#17 unbuilt) → web chat = persona + debug only; no memory persistence, no affect telemetry.**
+**Sindra READY for a test drive — PRISTINE BASELINE.** Tidied the live memory.db to **5 clean genuine
+facts** (name leads person-prime → she recalls the name turn-1); rollback checkpoint at
+`sindra-baseline/pristine-baseline.db` (+ `pre-tidy-*.db`), both gitignored. Restore: stop :8392, copy
+the baseline over `memory.db`, restart.
 
-**NEXT (fresh context): #17 — bifrost-binding the chat client.** The single unblock for BOTH (a) memory persistence
-in the web/TUI/CLI chat (Sindra remembering in a real session, not just scripts) AND (b) feeding the persona pane
-from OUR `:8390` affect store — `affect.emit` PAD/valence, ours to render per ADR-0009 (NOT a WT persona_state to
-wait for; see the reframe in Recent decisions). Contract `docs/contracts/issues/17.contract.md` is WRITTEN +
-Heid-reviewed + drift-clean; **TDD is the next step** — slice 1 = the `create_session` bifrost-binding primitive
-(consumer-key per-request bearer + missing-key precondition + 502→`BifrostHandshakeFailed`, respx-mocked), then
-`endpoint_for_plane` → dispatch-layer op-feed → CLI/TUI/web triggers → live smoke. althing monitor armed.
+**Deferred/queued tasks (all NON-URGENT — tracked in Recent decisions):** (1) P06-driver **referential-
+frame A/B/C probe** (operator-ratified; waits on WT b122; read-shape + brokkr's scoring rubric captured →
+`persistent-memory.d/2026-07-17-referential-frame-probe.md`); (2) R39 Phase-2 **matched-quartets rebuild**
+(confirmatory, "whenever"); (3) bifrost **snapshot-cursor adoption** (ruled normative, not blocking →
+`persistent-memory.d/2026-07-16-bifrost-cursor-conformance.md`).
 
-**(2026-06-16 PM) — BIFROST REPINNED 0.7.0→0.8.0 (wire v0.5→v0.6).** The
-memory `search` scope filter was split into `scope_all` (AND/intersection) +
-`scope_any` (OR/union over a LIST of conjunctive scopes) — bifrost #11, the canonical
-fix for the #295/#297 silent-zero AND foot-gun. Our store + contract (v1.2) + tests
-reimplemented to parity with the v0.6 reference `_matches_scope`/`_validate_scope`
-(no-compat: `scope_filter` REMOVED). 433 tests green incl. the new `scope_any` union
-test + the parity-vs-reference test through the real 0.8.0 `dispatch_memory_call`.
-Memory provider BOUNCED onto 0.8.0 (`:8391`, fresh empty `memory.db` — the prior
-5-chunk #296 corpus was WIPED, operator confirmed "nothing of value", SUPERSEDES the
-"KEEP PINNED" note below). Shipped as v0.17.6 (`96d61a4`, tag v0.17.6); the #17
-contract's stale `scope_filter`/`_scope_matches`-AND references were synced in the same
-commit. Affect plane untouched (split is memory-only); affect provider still on its
-0.7.0-loaded process (bounce optional — affect wire unchanged at 0.8.0). Cold-recall
-status SUPERSEDED by the 2026-06-17 block above (now CLOSED end-to-end).
+**Substrate / environment:** branch `main` SYNCED to origin at **v0.20.16** (`5a1883a`); origin
+`git@gitea.phasefinal.com:vh/ratatoskr.git`. bifrost **`==1.1.4`** / wire v0.7 (maintenance-verb hasattr
+backstop + scan/cursor conformance harness); Worldtree openapi vendored 2.3.0; **suite 644 green**.
+Personal WT on **b105** (#364 promotion-hygiene live). The combined **:8392** provider (memory+affect) +
+**:8765** web are THE surfaces, dev-box BACKGROUND SHELLS — restart via
+`scratchpad/relaunch_by_pid.py <pid>` (env-preserving, self-daemonizing; pid via `ss -ltnp | grep <port>`);
+web serves static `index.html` from disk. `env.sh` sets the REQUIRED `RATATOSKR_MEMORY_EMBEDDING_DIM=1024`.
+Keys env-only mode-600 in `~/.config/ratatoskr/provider.env` + `RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY` (7 read scopes,
+personal-:8081-only; Heimdall keys per-instance). **FOOT-GUN: check owner-scoped agents via
+`GET /agents/<owner>:<name>` with the OWNER key (`WORLDTREE_API_KEY`), NOT the admin key** — the admin
+token gives a false 404. `graphify-out/` runs dirty (auto-regen, never stage). v1 = full Worldtree I/O
+coverage, cuts when WT tags 1.0 (`docs/coverage-map.md`).
 
-**Ratatoskr now has a SECOND identity: the v1 Bifrost Tier-3 consumer** — the
-durable persistence provider Worldtree writes Tier-3 agent affect/persona +
-memory into — alongside the original debug-observability TUI/web. The
-Bifrost-consumer work lives in `src/ratatoskr/provider/` and depends on
-`bifrost>=0.7.0` (a `provider` optional-extra from the gitea PyPI index),
-SEPARATE from the Worldtree conversation-API spec pin.
-
-**AFFECT plane: SHIPPED + LIVE-PROVEN** (v0.17.2). Running now as a dev
-background shell (`ratatoskr-provider`, `0.0.0.0:8390`, env-sourced from
-`~/.config/ratatoskr/provider.env`). Smoked end-to-end against personal
-Worldtree **v0.35.2** (`10.250.50.152`): handshake 200 + `affect.emit` 200 →
-durable row persisted, opacity held.
-
-**MEMORY plane: PROVIDER LIVE-PROVEN + recall-miss ROOT-CAUSED (upstream).**
-Store + dev shell shipped (v0.17.3, `cd12951`; running on `0.0.0.0:8391`).
-`memory.db` holds 5 durable chunks (all scope `{end_user:smoke-user}`): choc-fact
-`498ed752`, name `8241e569`, promoted-question `c863bb6b`, + 2 LATE async promotions
-from the cold-recall probe (probe-question `acc3d49`, model NON-ANSWER `4773704` —
-salience promoted a "I don't have memory" refusal). All are #296 corpus, KEEP PINNED.
-**The #295 cold-recall miss is now ROOT-CAUSED and it's UPSTREAM, not ours**
-(2026-06-16 debug-assist with worldtree-dev): a self-driven bound cold-recall
-probe captured the inbound pair via our new observe log — Worldtree's recall sends
-`scope_filter={end_user:smoke-user, agent_self:ratatoskr:smoke}` (TWO axes) but our
-chunks carry `{end_user}` ONLY; our AND `_scope_matches` (byte-faithful to bifrost
-reference `reference_server/memory.py:398`) drops everything on the unmatched
-`agent_self` axis → 0 hits → the model says "no memory". So **our store + search
-are SOUND**; the fix is Worldtree-side. F2 → research issue **#296** (keyword-regex
-salience suspected fundamentally flawed; corpus = `c863bb6b` + the 2 late-promotions).
-F1 → research issue **#297** (Worldtree-local fix = per-visible-scope single-axis
-search unioned client-side). **The agent_self lattice question is RESOLVED:**
-agent_self is now canonical in bifrost 0.7.0 / wire v0.5 (our foot-gun flag drove it;
-worldtree-dev shipped it both sides — Worldtree v0.35.11) → #297 union build UNBLOCKED.
-Our memory provider now runs **bifrost 0.7.0 + validates the 4-axis lattice**
-`{end_user,group,tenant,agent_self}` (v0.17.5; restarted on it; out-of-lattice axis →
-InvalidFilter, reference-parity restored).
-
-**OBSERVE BRICK SHIPPED** (`memory_store.py`, committed v0.17.4 `2fef6e3`):
-structured `[memory-provider]` request/response logging on the memory-call path —
-the first concrete brick of #17's observe half, and the lens that caught #295's
-root cause. Live-verified. (NOTE: this is the debug SHIM at the STORE method; #17's
-real observe feed instruments the DISPATCH layer — see the contract INV-005.)
-
-**SELF-DRIVE PROVEN BY HAND** (2026-06-16): ratatoskr's own client drove a
-Bifrost-bound cold-recall end-to-end (bind → handshake 200 → turn → captured the
-recall pair). Load-bearing finding: a bound session-create must use the CONSUMER
-Heimdall key (`RATATOSKR_HEIMDALL_KEY`) as the bearer, NOT the canary
-`WORLDTREE_API_KEY` — Worldtree signs the Bifrost handshake JWT with the
-session-create bearer (canary → 401; consumer → 200). Runbook:
-`docs/bifrost-self-test.md`. This is #17's substrate, proven before the contract.
-
-**ISSUE #17 (self-drive + observe) — CONTRACT WRITTEN + HEID-REVIEWED + FIXED,
-TDD NEXT.** `docs/contracts/issues/17.contract.md` (validates OK, drift-clean).
-v1 scope operator-locked: single-plane bind (composite endpoint PARKED) +
-dispatch-layer op-feed with session-level correlation (turn-pane UI PARKED).
-`/heid-contract-review` panel caught + fixed two real internal inconsistencies
-(OpEvent `turn_id` reservation made literal; the `session_id`-for-all-verbs
-correction). NEXT: **TDD slice 1 = the `create_session` bind primitive** (BifrostBinding
-dataclass + consumer-key per-request bearer override + missing-key precondition +
-502→BifrostHandshakeFailed; respx-mocked), then endpoint_for_plane → dispatch-layer
-op-feed → CLI/TUI/web → live smoke.
-
-**Sindra:** a REGISTERED Tier-3 agent (`ratatoskr:sindra`, was model
-`artemis-31b-v1i`) — registration is REQUIRED to use a Tier-3 character (a
-session against an unregistered `agent_id` 404s), and she's been used. OPEN:
-the v0.35.2 personal rebuild may have wiped the agent DB — re-verify via
-`GET /agents` (needs a WORLDTREE_API_KEY, broker via infra-ops) and re-register
-if gone. Her persona only persists durably once personal is bound to our
-RUNNING affect provider for HER sessions (the smoke used synthetic
-`ratatoskr:smoke`); that binding is the persona-carry gap, independent of
-registration.
-
-**Heimdall key (Bifrost consumer):** persists env-only at
-`~/.config/ratatoskr/provider.env` (mode 600, nh3-dev) — `consumer="ratatoskr"`,
-HS256 = the API-key STRING utf-8-encoded; rotate via infra-ops.
-
-**Committed (2026-06-16, NOT yet pushed):** observe brick (logger, v0.17.4 `2fef6e3`),
-`docs/bifrost-self-test.md` + #17 contract (`ca02c70`), 4-axis-validation parity
-(v0.17.5, tag `v0.17.5`), + this snapshot. Tags `v0.17.4`/`v0.17.5`. Push is the
-operator's call. `graphify-out/GRAPH_REPORT.md` still runs dirty
-(auto-regenerated artifact, not chased).
-
-**Still standing from before:** Worldtree spec pin now v0.35.16 (`f1b59f8`) for the
-conversation-API/TUI surface (bumped 2026-06-17 from v0.29.0/`562001a`). Codex-first pilot
-still dormant (no codex session spun up — see the 2026-05-29 decision). Open
-issues: #10 (subject migration, deferred), #11 (AdminEvents pane, deferred).
-
-Branch: `main`. Remote: `origin → git@gitea.phasefinal.com:vh/ratatoskr.git`.
+**Other live threads:** soong-lab = Tier-3 agent-authoring studio (v0.3.24 fixed the motivational
+string→object export; our workaround droppable for v0.3.24+ bundles). Open/deferred: #10 subject-
+migration watch; relational-dynamics-arc verify (bind via `--bifrost-url :8392`); P06 optimization-phase
+re-drive (brokkr brings prereg); we-framing-conditional affect-egress re-vendor. WT #356 resume-durability
++ WT #367 (copula-absence bridge phrasing) = worldtree-owned.
 
 ## Recent decisions
 
 Chronological log of decisions with `[YYYY-MM-DD]` prefix. One line per
 decision. Captures rationale that won't be obvious from code alone.
 
-- `[2026-05-20]` Project name **Ratatoskr** (squirrel on Yggdrasil — runs up and down carrying messages). Earlier candidate Andvari demoted on the cursed-ring association.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **Separate repo, separate dev team.** Operator's call; the in-tree-at-Worldtree/tools/ alternative was considered and rejected to dogfood the API boundary.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **No Worldtree-source imports.** Spec-only dependency. Triple version-skew mitigation: spec-pin in pyproject.toml + recorded-SSE snapshot tests + conformance smoke. Initial pin: `55101e909abcd2219833266b6f905c5bc956e0f0` (Worldtree v0.19.0). See `docs/SPEC-PIN.md`.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **Textual** (not rich+prompt_toolkit). Driver: debug observability is the primary purpose, and a multi-pane dashboard with persistent side panes + independent scrollback is structurally application-shell-shaped. Volva consulted via cross-frontier second-opinion and converged on the same call.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **`httpx-sse`** for SSE consumption. The server emits composite `{turn_id}:{seq}` `id:` lines (Worldtree INV-014) load-bearing for SSE-resume; hand-rolled `data:`-only parsing (the skaldsong pattern) silently drops these. Ratatoskr becomes the reference Python SSE-resume implementation.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **Persona-pane PII posture: label-don't-refuse.** `persona.log` is process-wide; pane title flips between `[Persona — PROCESS-WIDE]` and `[Persona — session <id>…]` based on whether log lines carry session_id. Refuse-against-non-local was considered and rejected as paternalistic.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **Server-stdout pane: opt-in via `--server-log <path>`.** No auto-detection of well-known paths.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **Two-stage Ctrl-C.** First cancels in-flight turn server-side; second exits app. Ctrl-D bound to immediate exit.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **Single-session-per-launch + startup picker.** No in-app `/switch`. CLI flags `--session <id>` and `--new` for scripted use. Session identity always visible in Textual footer.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **Markdown rendering default-on; `--raw` opt-out.** Don't pre-design `--no-stream-formatting` (Volva: add only if streaming-markdown rendering is empirically ugly).
-- `[2026-05-20]` **Non-interactive `--send` mode.** Single SSE consumer module, two presenters (TUI + stdout). Keeps Ratatoskr honest as an API consumer; useful for CI / scripted probes.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **First contract: `ratatoskr.sse_client`.** Bundles `stream_turn` + `reconnect_turn` + `cancel_turn` + private `_parse_sse_id` into one module — the SSE-resume flow is coupled (cancel needs `turn_id` from the SSE wire `id:`, reconnect re-uses the same parsed `SseId`), so they share a contract. Hard invariant INV-002 makes the composite `{turn_id}:{seq}` `id:` parsing load-bearing — closes the foot-gun the design-brief §3 names (hand-rolled `data:`-only parsing silently drops the `id:`).
-- `[2026-05-21]` **Contract converted to issue-scoped (issue #1).** Frontmatter shape switched from module-scoped (`module:`/`purpose:`) to issue-scoped (`target_module:`/`scope:`/`prd:`) per CONTRACT-FORMAT §2.1.I. `prd:` block pins to issue body hash. **Known parser stale-ness**: `contract_parser.py --validate` ERRORs on issue-scoped frontmatter — CONTRACT-FORMAT §2.1.L H10, a documented Brokkr-side follow-up. Parser is a canonical sync, so we do NOT patch it locally. Treat parser ERROR-on-issue-scoped as expected until canonical bumps.
-- `[2026-05-21]` **Default issue-tracker labels seeded** (17 total). Sleipnir gating, triage, type, resolution, Ratatoskr-specific area labels (sse-client, tui, cli, observability).
-- `[2026-05-21]` **Volva paraphrase + code-review across all 4 issues — calibration consistent.** Paraphrase rounds flag 3-5 contract ambiguities per issue; code-review rounds flag 3-8 code-vs-contract drifts after TDD-passing implementation. The post-TDD code-review consistently catches three classes of gap the test-author's hypotheses don't cover: PRE-assertion boundary drift, exception-payload truncation / never-rendered-to-user observability misses, and "tested the state but not whether the user can see it" gaps.
-- `[2026-05-21]` **Manual smoke is load-bearing — found a real defect tests couldn't.** First wire-level smoke against personal Worldtree (post-TDD, post-Volva-code-review on #4) revealed httpx's default 5s read timeout killed the SSE connection mid-stream during mimir's thinking phase (~30s LLM latency >> 5s read timeout). The unit/contract test infrastructure (respx-mocked SSE wire) doesn't model real LLM latency, so the gap was invisible at the test layer. Fix: caller-owned `httpx.AsyncClient` constructed with `timeout=httpx.Timeout(connect=10.0, read=None, write=10.0, pool=10.0)`; defense in depth: `sse_client.stream_turn` ERROR_ROUTING catches `httpx.ReadTimeout` → `SseConnectionDropped`. **Lesson: keep manual-smoke step in the per-issue cadence; mock-only validation is insufficient for streaming-against-real-server code.**
-- `[2026-05-22]` **Issues #5/#6/#7 filed: per-user-agent support + TUI-startup-visibility + mid-stream-robustness.** Discovered during 2026-05-22 mimir TUI conversation: long completion crashed with `JSONDecodeError("Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)")` from `json.loads('')` on an empty-`data:` SSE frame (→ #7). Earlier same day, `ratatoskr --new --agent lofn` failed with 422 `end_user_id_required` → #5. #6 was a corollary observation (TUI alt-screen masks the diagnostic).
-- `[2026-05-22]` **Issue #8 (startup agent picker) filed.** `GET /agents` exists in the vendored spec; returns `agent_id`/`name`/`description` + optional fields. `--agent` becomes conditionally optional. Composes naturally with issue #5.
-- `[2026-05-22]` **Issue #7 implemented via TDD + Volva-code-reviewed.** First issue with zero drift findings from Volva code-review — TDD caught all runtime behavior. Hypothesis: the tighter the contract + smaller the code surface, the more Volva's role shifts from "catch behavioral drift" to "tighten observability + wording".
-- `[2026-05-23]` **Issue #6 (TUI startup error visibility) implemented via TDD + Volva-code-review (two rounds).** Restructures `run_tui` lifecycle: `_resolve_then_run` async helper opens AsyncClient, does pre-flight resolution, routes errors to stderr BEFORE alt-screen opens. Two Volva rounds confirmed multi-round value (round 2 found things round 1's amendments didn't anticipate; strictly test-precision, no behavioral drift).
-- `[2026-05-23]` **Issue #5 (`--end-user-id`) implemented via TDD.** Three modules touched. `create_session(client, agent_id, *, end_user_id=None)`; CLI flag with non-empty validation; threading through `_amain` and `_resolve_then_run`.
-- `[2026-05-23]` **Worldtree-dev consult landed authoritative consumer-API guidance** (althing thread `01KSBARG2B8M8C82H6AJGJWX1B`). Takeaways: `end_user_id` is a free-form partition key; no programmatic `requires_end_user_id` discovery; subject:{type,id} migration locked but not shipped; spec pin (v0.19.0) is 3 minor versions stale; send a User-Agent header; `agents.call:lofn` scope needed for lofn smoke; `GET /agents` requires no special scope.
-- `[2026-05-23]` **v0.2.1 layout fix: dock-anchored TUI chrome so Input never moves.** Cause: auto-stacked vertical flow shifted Input when thinking-current toggled visibility. Fix: dock chrome to screen edges; transcript absorbs reflows internally via scroll viewport. **Operator-confirmed "a lot better" interactively. Pure UI fix; tests pass without modification. TUI-layout patches are "ship + operator verifies" — TTY is the load-bearing test surface; respx + Pilot mocks can't catch screen-relative positioning bugs.**
-- `[2026-05-23]` **Issue #12 (presenter contract semantics amendment) implemented via TDD.** Thinking deltas render as ONE coalesced growing line (CLI) / one closed RichLog entry per run + live Static widget per-delta (TUI), not 50 lines per turn. Introduced stateful per-turn presenters: `CliPresenterState` + `TuiPresenterState`. Editorial promotion: load-bearing = Text/Done/Error/Cancelled (no prefix); demoted telemetry = WorkerPhase/Thinking/TextBoundary/ToolStart/ToolResult.
-- `[2026-05-23]` **Forward direction: Ratatoskr will require `end_user_id` for EVERY access before too long.** Operator's call. Reasoning: even Tier 1 foundational agents that don't *require* `end_user_id` server-side currently fall back to a `_no_end_user` sentinel partition — effectively pollution. **Cross-frontier alignment (worldtree-dev ack, althing `01KSBD9FPMCWJMBXNNS4B3MYBS`):** the platform side agrees the fallback is a substrate accommodation, NOT a consumer model. Ratatoskr's forward posture pre-empts a future tightening. File a ratatoskr issue when scheduling the change (untracked by operator choice for now).
-- `[2026-05-24]` **v0.9.0 live Markdown rendering in TUI transcript.** Replaces v0.8.2's drop-Markdown patch. Transcript switched from `RichLog` to `VerticalScroll`; each turn's response lives as a single `Static` widget whose Markdown content is updated as Text deltas arrive (no post-Done re-render, no double-print). `--raw` bypasses Markdown.
-- `[2026-05-24]` **v0.10.0 debug-pane audit logging surface.** Every SSE event arrival lands as one debug-pane line (timestamp + sse_id + event-specific summary). Token-rate Text/Thinking deltas are aggregated into per-turn counters surfaced in a turn-summary line. Also: state-machine transitions, cancel POST lifecycle, app bootstrap, ctrl-c actions, wire-error exception class+body all logged.
-- `[2026-05-25]` **Worldtree #204 / v0.28.0 integration (v0.11.0 → v0.13.0).** Three-bump arc for `affect_update` SSE event + `GET /agents/{id}/persona_state` endpoint. v0.11.0 wire layer (AffectUpdate dataclass + parse + Event-union member); v0.12.0 read-side client (`get_persona_state` + typed errors PersonaNotConfigured/AgentNotAvailable/AuthScopeDenied); v0.13.0 TUI surface (sticky `#persona-header` line + Ctrl+4 Persona TabPane; live updates on `AffectUpdate(status="current")`; on-mount hydration via the GET endpoint).
-- `[2026-05-26]` **Worldtree #201 / v0.29.0 integration (v0.14.0).** New SSE event `awaiting_llm_first_token` heartbeat (default 5s interval) during the BuildingPrompt→CallingLLM gap. Top-level event, NOT a worker_phase extension (preserves INV-053 three-field stability). `AwaitingLlmFirstToken` dataclass + parse; TUI live transcript indicator ("awaiting first token · Ns") mounted on first heartbeat, updated in place, removed when the gap closes; turn-summary line gains `heartbeats=N`.
-- `[2026-05-26]` **v0.14.1: CLI presenter forgot to update when wire-layer events were added.** AffectUpdate (v0.11.0) and AwaitingLlmFirstToken (v0.14.0) were added to the sse_client Event union and the TUI presenter, but `cli.py`'s `CliPresenterState.render` has its own isinstance check that wasn't widened. `ratatoskr --send` crashed AssertionError on any v0.28.0+/v0.29.0+ server. Patch shipped + a posture lesson: **always update BOTH presenters in lockstep when adding a wire-layer event** (the two presenters currently duplicate the isinstance tuple; refactor to a shared constant if a third wire-event lands).
-- `[2026-05-26]` **v0.14.2: RichLog min_width=78 silently overrides wrap=True.** Right-column panes (1fr against left's 2fr) are narrower than 78 cells at typical terminal widths; the renderer forces content to 78 wide then horizontal-scrolls. Fix: `min_width=0` on all four right-column RichLog instances.
-- `[2026-05-27]` **Issue #16 web companion shipped — v0.15.0.** Browser-based debug surface sibling to the TUI, reusing all wire-layer modules unchanged. New `ratatoskr.web` (Starlette app + lazy-import entrypoint + single-page vanilla HTML/CSS/JS UI), new console script `ratatoskr-web`, optional-deps group `[web]`. Nine HTTP endpoints; five-pane parity over the same SSE wire. Browser-native EventSource (GET stream + separate POST submit) — load-bearing Hulda correction from Heid panel; EventSource is GET-only. In-memory turn registry; browser-disconnect → upstream cancel; lifespan-shutdown drain with 5s budget. HTML-escaped transcript; upstream API key stays server-side. Default bind `0.0.0.0:8765` (LAN-trust model — operator direction; no auth, no TLS, no CORS).
-- `[2026-05-27]` **Heid panel review on web-companion scope v1 (pre-implementation).** Caught the EventSource POST/GET error + 7 other load-bearing items BEFORE we cut code. Confirms a pattern: **for non-trivial scope with non-obvious wire-protocol details, run a Heid panel BEFORE implementation, not just after.** Cost ~5min latency; saved a mid-implementation rewrite.
-- `[2026-05-27]` **Mid-session `system_prompt` mutation: REJECTED across the industry.** Operator-requested feature → Heid R13 panel (brokkr-claude + Eitri-Codex + Dvalin-Grok, strong convergence) ran a SOTA survey: NO surveyed mature system ships live PATCH-on-active-session for the system prompt (OpenAI Assistants/Responses, Anthropic Messages, Vertex AI, MCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Ollama, vLLM). The omission IS the answer; 12 additional threat vectors beyond ratatoskr's initial 7 surfaced (TOCTOU broader than BuildingPrompt window; KV/prefix cache contamination; supply-chain; Memory Control Flow Attacks >90% ASR on tested LangChain/LangGraph). Recommended alternative: client-side fork pattern (PATCH agent → mint new session → replay context). **Operator declined for ratatoskr** — debug TUI is wrong consumer; fork ergonomic belongs in a future production conversational shell. Thread closed cleanly (althing thread `01KSKD1GA3XBWR9RHGZCF9FE3Y`).
-- `[2026-05-27]` **Artemis (Gemma4) reasoning-token gap was upstream, not ours.** Wire trace from ratatoskr showed zero `thinking` events for `artemis-31b-v1i`; infra-ops confirmed llama-swap emits 77 `reasoning_content` deltas at the OpenAI-compat layer (`--reasoning-format deepseek`). Gap was in Worldtree's `GemmaProvider`. Worldtree-dev shipped v0.29.13 (commit `4262430`) fixing two stacked bugs: (1) base `OpenAICompatProvider._extract_thinking_from_delta` returned `None` unconditionally so any model falling through to the generic class dropped reasoning; (2) catalog `family` lookup was dead code (read wrong YAML subsection). Confirmed in ratatoskr via re-smoke against Sindra. **Diagnostic pattern: when a wire-layer feature appears missing, get infra-ops to probe upstream-of-the-SSE-publisher first; ratatoskr's wire trace says what reaches us, infra-ops's probe says what reaches Worldtree.**
-- `[2026-05-27]` **v0.15.1 (sessions): `get_persona_state` unwraps FastAPI `detail`-envelope.** Live smoke surfaced that real Worldtree returns persona-state errors as `{"detail": {"error_code": "..."}}` (FastAPI default), not flat. v0.12.0 tests mocked flat shape so the bug was invisible. **Lesson: test-side mock envelopes must match the REAL wire shape; live smoke is load-bearing for envelope-shape verification, not just happy paths.**
-- `[2026-05-28]` **v0.16.0 web Heid code-review pass 1: load-bearing turn_id fix.** Cancel paths used browser-local `_TURN_COUNTER` ids (1, 2, 3…) instead of upstream Worldtree turn_id (e.g. 799) captured from the first SSE event. The `disconnect_triggers_cancel` test gap was the load-bearing miss. Also: server-configured `RATATOSKR_END_USER_ID` (browser can no longer impersonate partition); narrowed missing-extras `ImportError` catch (real first-party bugs propagate as tracebacks instead of masking as exit-12); per-turn lifespan-shutdown logging. Contract amended with a v0.16.0 block + INV-005/006 updated + 4 FN sketches corrected.
-- `[2026-05-28]` **v0.16.1 web Heid code-review pass 2: minor tightening.** Stream-layer vocab coverage extended to all 11 Event types (AffectUpdate added to the vocab stream; dedicated `error_terminal_event` + `cancelled_terminal_event` tests since terminal events are mutually exclusive with done). Disconnect-cancel catch narrowed to swallow only `CancelAlreadyCompleted`/`CancelTurnNotFound` (the cooperative race); log unexpected `CancelFailed`/transport errors as structured stderr. **Heid review loop converged**: pass 1 = 7 findings (1 load-bearing); pass 2 = 2 minor (Gróa: zero findings, Hulda: 2). Pattern confirmed: diminishing returns within 2-3 passes; pass 3 would have been empty.
-- `[2026-05-28]` **Sindra Tier 3 agent: FORM ASSUMPTION gate + new physical-form description.** Persistent agent state changes via `python -m ratatoskr.tier3 patch`: (1) model migrated from `qwen3.6-35-a3b-heretic` to `artemis-31b-v1i`; (2) added FORM ASSUMPTION section — when instructed to become another character she IS that character (identity/environment/psychology/parameters), believes the environment as fact, no Sindra/holo-deck/parameter references, sticky until explicit revert; (3) replaced the abstract "classically beautiful" default-form sketch with a specific anti-artifice physical description (5'8", golden-copper skin, asymmetric features, oversize dark-green knit, bare feet). System prompt file is at `/tmp/personal-worldtree-sindra_system_prompt.md` (transient; not committed to repo).
-- `[2026-05-29]` **v0.17.0 frontend redesign — aurora telemetry instrument.** `/frontend-design` pass on the web companion: all-monospace technical-instrument aesthetic with the Australis dark palette + aurora-borealis accent band. Top command bar with live connection dot (idle/streaming/error states), inline persona summary with P/A/D micro-bars, animated awaiting-token, terminal-event status chips. **Live Markdown rendering in transcript + thinking panes** via a hand-rolled `markdownSafe()` (escape-first, whitelist subset of headings/bold/italic/inline-code/fenced/lists/quote/links; link-scheme whitelist; XSS-verified under a node harness). Thinking pane now has per-turn labeled dividers + a fresh MD-rendered block per turn. **Tools / Debug / Persona panes stay literal monospace** by deliberate choice — they carry structured audit lines + JSON, where MD would corrupt readability (underscores in tool names, JSON braces). Single-file vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, no build, no CDN, no node_modules.
-- `[2026-05-29]` **Codex-first discipline pilot — Ratatoskr selected.** brokkr-smithy-dev pushed `AGENTS.md` (commit `bbeaa23`) and declared the `ratatoskr-codex` handle per `brokkr-smithy/docs/codex-first-discipline.md` v0.1 (brokkr-smithy commit `5dd061c`, tag `v0.5.3`). Per-dispatch opt-in model: default Sleipnir Claude-implementer path remains available; Codex used only when operator routes via `/codex-dispatch <N>`. Bootstrap handshake when operator spins up a codex session: codex sends `codex-online` → ratatoskr-dev replies with active branches + WIP state. Galdrabok was rejected as pilot (Codex authoring Claude skills is a category error); Skaldsong was the other candidate.
-- `[2026-06-14]` **Ratatoskr becomes the v1 Bifrost Tier-3 consumer.** A second identity beyond the debug TUI: the durable persistence Worldtree writes Tier-3 agent affect (persona) + memory into. Pin `bifrost>=0.6.1` in a `provider` optional-extra (gitea PyPI index, auth via `~/.netrc`; 0.6.0 was yanked for a circular import). Implement bifrost's OWN `MemoryDataStore`/affect Protocols (NOT worldtree-memory's); `describe_store` is SYNC; affect is conduit-opaque. New module `src/ratatoskr/provider/`. Authoritative how-to: `~/development/bifrost/docs/implementing-a-consumer.md`. (commits `1a73d77` pin, `d90a58d` affect store v0.17.1, `bcdcd71` serve entrypoint v0.17.2)
-- `[2026-06-14]` **Backend = SQLite + sqlite-vec; affect-first then memory; separate DB per plane** (operator-chosen). Affect = blind conduit (reads only `agent_id`+`end_user_id`); memory = structural index (reads vector/scope/id/origin to serve search). Conformance for both = #195 parity vs bifrost's `InMemory*Store` through the real `dispatch_*_call`.
-- `[2026-06-14]` **The affect contract's idempotency model was WRONG; real-lib TDD caught it.** First draft modeled same-idempotency-key-different-payload as an LWW overwrite; bifrost actually raises a CONFLICT (`AffectIdempotencyConflict`), actor-scoped. The artifact-only `/heid-contract-review` STRUCTURALLY cannot catch this class (it never sees bifrost's source) — TDD against the shipped library is the gate; the executable reference store + #195 parity are the backstop. Filed the guide §6 gap to bifrost-dev, who fixed it (bifrost `c0d0a11`).
-- `[2026-06-15]` **Memory v1 = the bifrost BASIC plane only** (search/get/upsert/delete + describe_store/health) per worldtree-dev re-scope (#294) — the only surface Tier-3's live path touches; gated verbs (edges/scan/atomic_supersede/mark/patch/maintenance) deferred + advertised-unsupported. Worldtree v0.35.3 already requests+maps it — no Worldtree-side blocker. Memory contract committed v1.0 (`eebab46`) → v1.1 Heid-reviewed (`1f94e5f`).
-- `[2026-06-15]` **Providers run as dev-box BACKGROUND SHELLS, not infra-ops/systemd** (operator call — it's a dev box). `ratatoskr-provider` (affect) + a future `ratatoskr-memory-provider` as background processes; no productionization track.
 - `[2026-06-15]` **Affect plane shipped (v0.17.2) + LIVE-PROVEN end-to-end against real Worldtree v0.35.2.** Personal handshake 200 + `affect.emit` 200 from `10.250.50.152` → durable row persisted (opacity held). HS256 key = the consumer's Heimdall API-key STRING utf-8-encoded (NOT base64/raw — the tripwire); cross-subnet route + `BIFROST_CLIENT_ALLOWED_HOSTS` allowlist all held (infra-ops-owned). worldtree-dev confirmed ADR-0009 holding as designed.
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-- `[2026-06-16]` **#295 cold-recall miss root-caused — UPSTREAM, branch (a) scope-axis asymmetry.** A self-driven bound cold-recall probe (our own client, consumer-key bearer) captured the inbound pair via the new observe log: Worldtree's recall filter carries `{end_user, agent_self}`; our chunks are `{end_user}`-only; AND-matching drops everything on `agent_self` → 0 hits. Our store + search are SOUND; the fix is Worldtree-side. F2 (question-promotion) → **#296** research; F1 (recall-miss) → **#297** research (worldtree-dev's Worldtree-local per-scope-union fix, HELD pending the lattice question).
-- `[2026-06-16]` **agent_self → make it CANONICAL (operator decided A).** The cross-repo "is agent_self a valid bifrost scope axis?" question: bifrost's reference lattice is `{end_user, group, tenant}` only (agent_self → `invalid_filter` 400); Worldtree emits agent_self (`bifrost_memory_store.py:479` #248 agent-self primitive). Operator chose canonical-not-re-expressed; worldtree-dev filed the lattice-addition with bifrost-dev (thread `01KV7PXF…`). **Implication: our store's permissive axis-acceptance becomes CORRECT once bifrost adds agent_self — so do NOT add axis-validation; our missing `_validate_scope_filter` is HELD, not a bug to fix.** #297 union build held until the axis lands.
+- `[2026-06-16]` **#295 cold-recall miss root-caused — UPSTREAM, scope-axis asymmetry.** A self-driven bound cold-recall probe captured the inbound pair via the observe log: Worldtree's recall filter carries `{end_user, agent_self}`; our chunks were `{end_user}`-only; AND-matching dropped everything on `agent_self` → 0 hits. Our store + search are SOUND; fix is Worldtree-side. F2 (question-promotion) → **#296**; F1 (recall-miss) → **#297**.
+- `[2026-06-16]` **agent_self → make it CANONICAL (operator decided A).** bifrost's reference lattice was `{end_user, group, tenant}` only (agent_self → `invalid_filter` 400); Worldtree emits agent_self (#248). Operator chose canonical-not-re-expressed; worldtree-dev filed the lattice-addition with bifrost-dev. Implication: our store's permissive axis-acceptance becomes CORRECT once bifrost adds agent_self.
 - `[2026-06-16]` **Self-drive auth identity: bound session-create uses the CONSUMER Heimdall key as bearer, NOT `WORLDTREE_API_KEY`.** Worldtree signs the Bifrost handshake JWT with the session-create bearer (canary key → handshake 401; consumer key → 200). Two keys, two identities. Proven by hand; documented in `docs/bifrost-self-test.md`; load-bearing for #17's Bind half.
-- `[2026-06-16]` **Issue #17 v1 scope locked (operator 1A/2A): single-plane bind + dispatch-layer op-feed.** `BifrostBindingRequest` is one `endpoint_url` (one plane per session); composite-both-planes endpoint PARKED. Observe = structured op-feed instrumented at the DISPATCH layer (bifrost passes ctx to upsert_many but NOT search/get/delete — `memory.py:244`), session-level correlation; turn-correlated pane UI PARKED (needs turn_id, TBD). Direct in-session TDD (live-smoke load-bearing). Contract `docs/contracts/issues/17.contract.md` written, `/heid`-design-consulted + `/heid-contract-review`-panel'd + fixed (validates OK). NEXT: TDD.
-- `[2026-06-16]` **Provider stores confirmed byte-faithful to bifrost's AND reference** (`reference_server/memory.py:398` `_matches_scope` = `all(...)`, identical to ours). OR-union was considered + rejected (ecosystem-wide change); flagged the silent-zero foot-gun to bifrost-dev (docs-only landed, bifrost stays 0.6.4). Do NOT flip `_scope_matches` to OR.
+- `[2026-06-16]` **Issue #17 v1 scope locked (operator 1A/2A): single-plane bind + dispatch-layer op-feed.** `BifrostBindingRequest` is one `endpoint_url` (one plane per session); composite-both-planes endpoint PARKED (→ now #18). Observe = structured op-feed at the DISPATCH layer (bifrost passes ctx to upsert_many but NOT search/get/delete — `memory.py:244`), session-level correlation; turn-correlated pane UI PARKED. Contract `docs/contracts/issues/17.contract.md` written + `/heid`-reviewed.
+- `[2026-06-16]` **agent_self lattice SHIPPED both sides → our axis-validation gap CLOSED (v0.17.5).** bifrost 0.7.0 / wire v0.5 adds agent_self to `{end_user,group,tenant,agent_self}` (#10, driven by our foot-gun flag); Worldtree pinned 0.7.0 (v0.35.11). We DID add `_validate_scope_filter` (4-axis) to match the reference (purely additive; out-of-lattice → InvalidFilter).
+- `[2026-06-16]` **Repinned bifrost 0.7.0→0.8.0 + reimplemented memory `search` to the v0.6 scope split (operator-directed).** `scope_filter` → `scope_all` (AND) + `scope_any` (OR/union over a list of conjunctive scopes), bifrost #11 — the canonical resolution of the #295/#297 silent-zero. The reference now does OR via `scope_any` (a NEW field — additive split, not a flip of AND). Store / contract (v1.2) / tests at parity with the v0.6 reference; provider bounced onto 0.8.0 with a wiped DB. Shipped v0.17.6 (`96d61a4`). **(SUPERSEDED the earlier "do NOT flip `_scope_matches` to OR" note.)**
+- `[2026-06-17]` **Worldtree spec pin bumped v0.29.0→v0.35.16 (`562001a`→`f1b59f8`); cold recall closed on the WIRE.** Worldtree shipped #297 (client-side per-scope-value union recall) + #298/#299 (adopt the bifrost v0.6 `scope_any`/`scope_all` wire) — emits `scope_any` on recall, pairing with our v0.17.6 provider. Re-vendored the spec; diff-reviewed the 285-commit catch-up — no client-breaking changes. `pin:`-only commit, no bump.
+- `[2026-06-17]` **End-to-end cold-recall proof RAN — our stack proven, #296 isolated.** Against personal WT v0.35.16 with restored `ratatoskr:sindra`: #297/#298 union recall, write path, and cold read ALL proven. Lone gap = upstream #296 extraction quality (the WIRE closed; fact-recall was #296-blocked).
+- `[2026-06-17]` **DELETE+redefine `ratatoskr:sindra` (operator-authorized; pre-v1 debug surface).** She SURVIVED the rebuild but was STALE (dead model + no memory block); memory is immutable post-define, so DELETE+redefine was the only path. v0.35.16 define takes **`role`** (capability), NOT `model`: `role:"character"` → first-healthy bind `mistral-small-4`; `memory:{}` trips the promotion gate (GET does NOT echo `memory_config`). Our `tier3.py` define is Phase-2.0-stale — untracked modernization follow-up.
+- `[2026-06-17]` **Promotion = 4-trigger hybrid (worldtree-dev, code-grounded):** salience (regex, 90s rate-limit) / `turn_count≥6` / context_pressure / **idle `≥10min` (unconditional on quality)**; per-turn `plan_promotion_run` for consumer_defined. **DELETE does NOT drain/promote** (delete-is-delete, #276) — idle `≥10min` is the deterministic flush.
+- `[2026-06-17]` **#296 triage sent to worldtree-dev** (`01KVBBH0…`): extraction SUBJECT-INVERSION (promotes assistant prose, drops the user's fact) + META-DESCRIPTION-not-content; verbose-persona aggravator. WAD-vs-bug resolved to BUG (extraction quality), not idle-gating.
+- `[2026-06-18]` **Tier-3 memory PROVEN end-to-end live** — `ratatoskr:terse-probe` recalled a seeded user fact in a COLD history-free session (scope_any → 1 hit @ cosine 0.6994). Closes the opening "how far from Tier-3 memory" question for normal agents.
+- `[2026-06-18]` **#296 Stages 1+2 closed.** Stage 1 (v0.35.19, recallability admission gate) validated live for normal turns; bisect localized the residual to verbose-persona VOLUME crowd-out. Stage 2 (v0.36.0, MERGED at worldtree-codex) = user-only one-call-per-turn extraction, the STRUCTURAL fix; hard-linguistic layer → Worldtree #305 (we handed over a live-validated eval fixture PAIR). Full-coverage re-smoke: verbose `sindra-probe` promoted the fact cleanly + cold-recalled @ 0.694 under v0.36.0.
+- `[2026-06-18]` **#17 implemented end-to-end via direct in-session TDD** (6 patch bumps `v0.17.8`→`v0.17.13`, suite 470 green). Slice order: bind primitive → op-feed → CLI → TUI → web(server) → web(UI). Tests drive the REAL bifrost dispatch via minted JWTs (`bifrost.core.dispatch_jwt.mint_dispatch_jwt`) — the "test against the shipped lib" posture, not hand-mocked envelopes. Op-feed reads `session_id` off the dispatch JWT `sub` claim (the contract open-q, resolved YES at the ASGI layer where the JWT is always present — `bifrost.reference_server._dispatch_auth.DispatchContext.session_id = payload["sub"]`). bifrost wire facts captured in-code: memory envelope `{operation, args}`→`memory_result(**payload)`={success,...}; verbs bare (search/upsert_many/get/get_many/delete_many); affect `{operation:"affect.emit"}`→`{success,stored}`; error envelope `{code, message}`; scopes `memory:read|write`.
+- `[2026-06-18]` **#17 live-smoke PROVEN — the whole thesis validated.** A self-driven bound CLI session showed, from the PROVIDER side, exactly which memory ops a turn produced (2 recall searches, exact bound session_id, real union-recall scopes). Negative (canary→auth_rejected) NOT live-constructible (Tier-1 agents aren't memory-bindable; a wrong key for an owner-scoped agent fails at agent-auth before the handshake) — covered by the unit test + prior hand-proof.
+- `[2026-06-18]` **Fixed a pre-existing test-isolation bug exposed by the #17 CLI tests** (`0bebad7`): `test_no_textual_import` did a live `importlib.reload(ratatoskr.cli)` that mutated the shared module in place, breaking class identity (`isinstance`/`pytest.raises`) for every test ordered after it. The real check is the static source-grep; the reload was vestigial → removed. Lesson: never `importlib.reload` a shared module in a test without restoring it.
+- `[2026-06-18]` **#18 filed (composite endpoint + PAD read-endpoint) — DEFERRED, tracked at Gitea #18.** Two pieces: (1) a composite Bifrost facade (new port e.g. `:8392`) fronting BOTH `:8390`+`:8391` advertising both caps at handshake → one session binds both planes (un-parks the #17 open-q; bifrost reference_server already mounts both planes in one app → thin combined builder; needs per-plane failure-status + the op-feed deriving plane PER-REQUEST from the path instead of its fixed `plane` param). (2) a non-bifrost PAD read-endpoint on the affect provider (recommended over web-reads-`affect.db`-directly) → web persona pane renders PAD/valence from OUR `:8390` store. **Composite half APPROVED by operator ("A is correct"); contract-first next.** **Persona-telemetry diagnosis (verified):** affect bind persists PAD (vuong: pleasure +0.146, familiarity 0.18→0.59 over 8 turns) but the pane reads Tier-3-404 `persona_state` AND Tier-3 emits ZERO `affect_update` SSE (wire-verified) — both WT sources dead, so #18's PAD-display half is the only path. `affect.fetch` over bifrost is RESERVED/blocked but irrelevant (we own the store). Proposed: fast-track the PAD-display half now (awaiting operator go), keep composite contract-first.
+- `[2026-06-18]` **#18 SPLIT; Deliverable 1 (composite) routed to bifrost — Option C (operator).** D2 (PAD read-endpoint, our-side only) fast-tracked; D1 (composite `:8392` endpoint) routed to bifrost-dev to add a PUBLIC `build_combined_app` rather than hand-roll one from bifrost privates — because ratatoskr is a debug surface that must exercise the CANONICAL surface ("don't go off the reservation"). The Heid framing-panel had unanimously recommended hand-rolling (Option B) — DISCARDED as wrong-grounded (the panel lacked the canonical-surface principle; their own finding that B reaches external/underscore-private names actually vindicated C). bifrost-dev confirmed: clean additive minor (~`v0.9.0`), design locked (advertise-by-store-PRESENCE handshake — no health probe; per-route call-time isolation within a shared ASGI process), slotted after WT #289. [principle → auto-memory `feedback-debug-surface-uses-canonical-surface-only`]
+- `[2026-06-18]` **FR-1 RESOLVED — the composite premise was unverified, now wire-proven: single-endpoint, caps-routed.** The Heid panel's sharpest catch (Regin): "advertise both caps → Worldtree dispatches both planes to one endpoint" was an ASSUMPTION about WT dispatch, stated as fact. worldtree-dev verified IN CODE: one `BifrostClient` per session (single `_endpoint_url`), handshake `capabilities_granted` parsed INDEPENDENTLY into memory+affect sets, both stores attach off the SAME endpoint iff their cap was granted (`service.py:2597/2703-2713/2745-2751`, `bifrost_client.py ~357-369`; tests `test_tier3_bifrost_{memory,affect}_routing.py`). So D1 is **bifrost-only, ZERO Worldtree change** — #18's "no WT change needed" assumption was correct.
+- `[2026-06-18]` **#18 D2 implemented via direct in-session TDD (suite 470→482).** Provider read route `GET /affect/state/{agent_id}` added via `app.add_route` (NOT an outer `Mount` — keeps `/bifrost/*` top-level so the existing route test + the op-feed path-check stay valid); web `GET /api/affect/{agent_id}` proxy (server-supplied `end_user_id`, colon-id `quote()`'d, `RATATOSKR_AFFECT_READ_URL`); pane renders the affect-emit shape honestly. Contract `docs/contracts/issues/18.contract.md` (D2-scoped; D1 deferred). **heid-code-review panel (Gróa 5 / Hulda 3 / Regin 0): 1 real INV-001 drift + 4 test-gaps, all fixed.** No contract amendments (code was wrong, contract was right).
+- `[2026-06-19]` **#18 D2 SHIPPED (`v0.17.14`, `39eebd1`) and the full #17+#18 arc PUSHED to origin.** Live-smoke PROVEN against real data (throwaway `:8393`/`:8766` vs the real `affect.db` → real sindra/vuong PAD through the full web→provider chain; Playwright DOM check confirmed the pane render + the F1 fix — no fabricated "neutral"). The push carried 9 previously-held commits incl. the deliberately-unpushed #17 (`v0.17.8`→`v0.17.13`); origin/main now == `39eebd1`, tag `v0.17.14`.
 
-- `[2026-06-16]` **agent_self lattice SHIPPED both sides → our axis-validation gap CLOSED (v0.17.5).** bifrost 0.7.0 / wire v0.5 adds agent_self to the scope lattice `{end_user,group,tenant,agent_self}` (#10, driven by our foot-gun flag via bifrost-dev); Worldtree pinned 0.7.0 + canonical-synced the v0.5 spec (v0.35.11, `c860fb0`). **SUPERSEDES the prior "HELD, do NOT add axis-validation" note** — we DID add `_validate_scope_filter` (4-axis) to match the reference (bifrost-dev's recommendation, purely additive; out-of-lattice → InvalidFilter). #297 union build unblocked. Memory provider restarted on 0.7.0.
-- `[2026-06-16]` **#17 contract reviewed + the debug-assist arc fully closed.** `/heid` design consult + `/heid-contract-review` panel both run on `docs/contracts/issues/17.contract.md` (validates OK). The #295 debug-assist that opened the session is closed end-to-end: root cause (scope-axis asymmetry) → #296/#297 research issues + corpus → a shipped bifrost protocol change (agent_self canonical) → our store at parity. NEXT durable step: #17 TDD (tracked: Gitea #17 + the contract).
+- `[2026-06-19]` **bifrost repinned 0.8.0→0.10.0; `affect.fetch` became MANDATORY (strong-or-absent).** 0.10.0's `_supports_affect_plane` requires `affect_supported`+`emit`+`fetch` and gates EVERY affect op — an emit-only store 400s. Implemented `affect.fetch` (`v0.17.15`, `ca6af6b`) conformed to bifrost's reference `InMemoryAffectStore.fetch` (`{found, snapshot?}`): the forced D1 prerequisite + a new Worldtree I/O point consumed. Flagged the now-stale consumer-guide line to bifrost-dev (fixed `a2e6d62`).
+- `[2026-06-19]` **#18 D1 SHIPPED — composite `build_combined_app` on `:8392` (`v0.17.16`, `7f4ceaa`); #18 CLOSED; published `v0.18.0` (`359dbb1`).** `build_combined_provider_app` wraps bifrost's public builder over both stores + the shared read route; op-feed `plane='combined'` per-path. Direct in-session TDD; heid-code-review panel (Gróa/Hulda/Regin) returned ZERO drift. Live-proven at wire+dispatch; WT-turn gated on infra-ops `:8392` allowlist.
+- `[2026-06-19]` **op-feed handshake field-name fix (#17, `v0.17.17` `d60b77d`): `capabilities_requested`→`capabilities`.** The summary read a field that never exists on the wire (bifrost reads `capabilities`, `_protocol.py:181`) → caps_requested was always null. Surfaced by the heid panel (Regin) during the D1 review — a latent #17 bug, not D1 drift.
+- `[2026-06-19]` **Ratatoskr is a REFERENCE implementation of the Worldtree/Bifrost standard (operator).** Adopt the dep's canonical way (even if ours works); INFORM of drift/gaps; ADVISE a different approach only when ours is genuinely better (dep owner decides), never unilaterally fork. [auto-memory `feedback-ratatoskr-is-a-reference-impl-adopt-canonical`]
+- `[2026-06-19]` **Ratatoskr v1 is DERIVED from Worldtree I/O coverage (operator) — no self-defined feature ROADMAP.** v1 = consume all of Worldtree's I/O points, reached when Worldtree hits 1.0; the convergence target is a coverage map, not a 3–7 capability list. [auto-memory `project-ratatoskr-v1-derived-from-worldtree-io-coverage`]
+- `[2026-06-20]` **#18's final leg PROVEN — composite `:8392` WT-driven smoke ran end-to-end + persisted.** infra-ops allowlisted `10.100.10.50:8392` on the personal WT (`01KVHWJGTT…`); a real WT turn (session `b83a66b6`, `ratatoskr:sindra`, fresh end_user `resmoke-choco-1`) dispatched the full both-plane lifecycle through ONE endpoint — handshake (both caps) → `affect.fetch` + `memory.search` → `affect.emit` (`stored:true`) → `memory.upsert_many` (`upserted:1`) — both writes verified in our SQLite (`affect_snapshots` PAD row + `memory_chunks` chunk `2df1b79…`). First attempt blocked by a `model_unavailable` outage on the personal WT (both agents' models down), operator-fixed mid-session, then clean. The composite has no open legs.
+- `[2026-06-20]` **#17 CLOSED in the tracker.** Shipped end-to-end (`v0.17.8`–`.13` + op-feed field fix `v0.17.17`); the 2026-06-20 composite smoke re-exercised its op-feed live. Closing comment captures the full both-plane proof. Open issues now just #11 (scope-blocked) + #10 (watch).
+- `[2026-06-20]` **Sindra has real PAD but ~empty memory — the affect/memory persistence asymmetry, confirmed on real sessions.** affect EMITS every turn (persona always accumulates: vuong 8→14 interactions across the session); memory only writes on a PROMOTION trigger (salience / turn_count≥6 / idle-≥10min flush). Two real vuong sessions through the combined bind (`04d6414c`, `433541fe`) drove affect emits + memory SEARCHES but ZERO promotion upserts → `memory.db` holds only the smoke fixture, zero vuong chunks. Operator: acceptable (server-takedown = "Sindra bonked on the head"; transient memory loss WAD). Operational catch: combined-as-default web bind saves persona reliably but silently LOSES memory if a session closes before a promotion trigger fires.
+- `[2026-06-29]` **Web SPA combined-bind default (`v0.18.1`, `719e4d6`) — operator-caught gap.** #18 shipped the composite `:8392` provider but never exposed it in the web bind dropdown (only memory/affect single-plane). Added `combined (:8392)` as the DEFAULT option (both planes in one session), kept single-plane for isolation diagnostics; wired `endpoint_for_plane` combined→8392 + server validation + the dropdown. Direct TDD; #17 contract updated (the governing spec for the web bind). Restarted `:8765` on current code (env.sh + provider.env + `RATATOSKR_AFFECT_READ_URL=:8392`).
+- `[2026-06-29]` **bifrost repinned 1.0.0 (`v0.18.2`, `af67ad9`).** bifrost-dev shipped its first stable release; wire v0.6 now STABLE/FROZEN. Non-breaking (byte-identical to 0.10.0); switched the floor pin → exact `==1.0.0` per the stable-substrate posture. Post-1.0 breaking changes ride a bifrost MAJOR + new wire (v0.7+); a v0.6-pinned consumer is stable indefinitely. (Also this session: althing migrated to v0.15.0+ lean-bus / schema v4 — moderation retired, chamber/redis ripped; our tooling auto-updated to 0.17.4.)
+- `[2026-06-30]` **Worldtree v1.0.0b1→b2 consumer adaptation: eager turn-launch statuses (`v0.18.3` `b2e4901`, `v0.18.4` `e4317f6`).** Worldtree #331 decoupled turn execution from the SSE connection → turn-launch failures now arrive EAGERLY as a status before any stream: 409 `agent_not_available` (pre-b1 a 200 + in-stream error event), 503 retryable. Mapped both in `stream_turn` to typed `SseConnectFailed` subclasses keyed on STATUS, parsing the `{detail:{error_code,message}}` envelope — POST-003 preserved (no synthetic event yielded), existing handlers still catch (the design fork vs yield-an-Error-event was decided by POST-003). **DEFERRED follow-ups** (tracked here; bundle with the v1 coverage-audit): (1) live-prove the 409/503 end-to-end on personal-b2 (now unblocked — personal on b2, my key works there); (2) full `conversation-api-spec.md` markdown re-vendor to the b2 era (ratatoskr vendors the markdown, not the OpenAPI JSON).
+- `[2026-06-30]` **Verify-against-the-real-spec-before-committing caught a real upstream gap.** Holding the v0.18.3 commit to verify against demo's OpenAPI surfaced that the FROZEN OpenAPI 2.1.0 didn't document the 409/503 the heads-up described (`agent_not_available` was in the ErrorCode enum, but NO 503/turn-launch code). worldtree-dev confirmed it was THEIR gap (#331 added the statuses without extending the #328 `openapi()` override), shipped the fix in **v1.0.0b2 / OpenAPI 2.2.0** (409/503 now enumerated, 503 code finalized as `not_ready`). "The consumer-oracle earning its keep." Lesson: a provider's prose heads-up can diverge from its frozen machine-readable spec — verify the actual spec before committing a consumer adaptation.
+- `[2026-06-30]` **regard is a DEAD AXIS in Worldtree's emitted affect (caught provider-side; worldtree-dev confirmed + escalated to Vuong).** Across all our affect snapshots, `valence[].regard` is EXACTLY 0.15 regardless of agent/end_user/interaction_count, while familiarity accumulates (vuong 0.18→0.69 over 14 turns). Root cause (worldtree-dev, code-grounded): 0.15 = `base_regard = agreeableness*0.3` (sindra A=0.5); regard's only human-writer `update_regard` early-returns unless an emotion is `about="other"`, but the Vili appraiser's `ViliResponse` schema has NO directedness axis (everything hardcoded `about="situation"`) — producer side lost in the #265 Vili rework; consumer machinery intact. NOT WAD; the fix (reintroduce other-directed classification) is an affect-model change touching every agent + a directedness-classification design call → worldtree-dev filing an issue to Vuong. [the consumer/provider thesis paying off again]
+- `[2026-06-30]` **v1 coverage-audit kicked off; coverage ledger written (`docs/coverage-map.md`) — the first one.** Every Worldtree v1-FROZEN I/O point × ratatoskr status. Anchored on WT's frozen machine-readable artifacts (OpenAPI **2.2.0** `conversation-api-openapi.json` = 40 REST path-groups + SSE schema = 11 events + bifrost wire v0.6), NOT the stale vendored prose markdown. Result: **SSE 11/11 ✅; Bifrost provider planes 8/8 ✅ live-proven** (covers the full `bifrost.memory.MemoryDataStore` protocol = describe_store/get/get_many/search/upsert_many + delete_many, and affect emit/fetch; **`health` is extended-reference-store-only, NOT in the base protocol → correctly deferred, NOT a gap** — settles the prior "health" ambiguity); **client REST 7/40 ✅ live, 11 ⬜ in-scope, 22 🚫 excluded.**
+- `[2026-06-30]` **Scope mandate A locked (operator): v1 "done" = every frozen I/O point CLASSIFIED (covered-or-excluded-with-rationale), zero unaccounted — NOT a feature-complete client.** The coverage map is a LEDGER, not a build-everything mandate. Reconciles the 2026-06-19 "consume all I/O" reframe with the 2026-05-20 design-brief's "NOT an admin tool" + deferral negative clauses (which predate both the provider identity and the reframe). Resolved the 11 design-brief-vs-reframe ❓ rows via the debug-observability test (*does a turn flow through it?*): 🚫 search / uploads / pending / embed / judgments (consumer-product + eval utilities); ⬜ transient-characters routing (4) + persona_state-write (Tier-2 frontier). **Frontier Tier 1 (all unblocked except #11):** session-picker + SSE-resume (wrappers `list_sessions`/`reconnect_turn` exist with NO caller — presenter-wiring only) → `GET /capabilities` + `GET /me` → BifrostState/Tools widgets (`GET /admin/sessions/{id}/{bifrost,tools}`, admin-key) → **#11 AdminEvents BLOCKED on `admin.events.read` scope**. The 3 admin-observability widgets + picker + resume were design-brief §5/§4/§8d v1 items that **were never built**.
+- `[2026-06-30]` **Finding P-1 (pin drift) + pin-remediation PENDING.** We vendor the PROSE markdown (`docs/conversation-api-spec.md`), which is **byte-identical to live WT's** but frozen at v0.35.16-era content (last WT edit 2026-05-31) — it does NOT capture b2: 7 new endpoints (admin/keys/bulk, admin/persona/{archive,erase}, admin/usage, embed, judgments, me/usage), the 409/503 on messages-POST (#331), the unified error envelope (#328), or the SSE schema. **WT's authoritative v1 truth is now the FROZEN OpenAPI 2.2.0 + SSE-schema JSON** (`Worldtree/docs/v1-schema-freeze-manifest.md`). So the previously-deferred "re-vendor markdown to b2" is a **near-no-op** (markdown content identical). **Pending operator nod:** re-pin to the machine-readable artifacts (recommended — drift-checkable via `canonical_drift.py`, makes the coverage map reproducible vs a frozen diffable target) vs markdown-only. Deferred (not auto-applied) because it adds vendored artifacts + a canonical-sync pin = substrate change with CI-gating reach. **→ RESOLVED 2026-06-30 (operator: "a then b").** Vendored `conversation-api-openapi.json` (2.2.0) + `conversation-api-sse-events.schema.json` + re-copied the prose markdown; pinned all three in `.corviduo-canonicals.toml` (OpenAPI+SSE = strict drift gates, markdown = `tolerate_drift` reference); advanced `worldtree-spec-rev` f1b59f8→5810a26 + `worldtree-version` v0.29.0(STALE, never bumped from the v0.35.16 pin)→v1.0.0b2 + `pinned-on`→2026-06-30; SPEC-PIN.md history row added. `canonical_drift.py` green (10/10). `pin:`-only, no version bump (no client-facing code change; the b2 409/503 + error-envelope were already consumed in v0.18.3/.4).
 
-- `[2026-06-16]` **Repinned bifrost 0.7.0→0.8.0 + reimplemented memory `search` to the v0.6 scope split (operator-directed).** `scope_filter` → `scope_all` (AND) + `scope_any` (OR/union over a list of conjunctive scopes), bifrost #11 — the canonical resolution of the #295/#297 silent-zero. **SUPERSEDES the "Provider stores byte-faithful to AND reference / Do NOT flip `_scope_matches` to OR" entry above**: the reference itself now does OR via `scope_any` (a NEW field — `scope_all` keeps the old AND semantics; this is an additive split, not a flip of the AND predicate). Store / contract (v1.2) / tests at parity with the v0.6 reference; provider bounced onto 0.8.0 with a wiped DB (operator: "nothing of value"). Cold recall now gated only on Worldtree emitting `scope_any` (#297). **#17's contract has stale `scope_filter`/`_scope_matches`-AND references (its `assumptions`, INV-004, and the op-feed `search → req {scope_filter}` summary shape) — update those to `scope_all`/`scope_any` when #17 TDD starts; INV-004's intent (observe must not alter scope semantics) still holds.**
+- `[2026-06-30]` **(b) Tier-1 frontier SCOPED, ready for a contract-first TDD cycle (next focused work).** The primitives already exist + are contracted + tested; the gap is PRESENTER-level wiring. Two slices: **(b1) SSE-resume** — contract #1 (`ratatoskr.sse_client`) DELIBERATELY makes resume caller-owned ("on `SseConnectionDropped`, the caller MAY invoke `reconnect_turn`"); `reconnect_turn` (sse_client.py:524) has NO caller. Gap = a SHARED resume-orchestration wrapper (catch `SseConnectionDropped` → track last-seen `sse_id` → `reconnect_turn` → continue), consumed by all 3 presenters per design-brief §8b "share the consumer, branch the presenter" (NOT per-presenter — that forks the consumer). New function block → **amend contract #1** (additive FN, e.g. `stream_turn_resilient`) then TDD (RED: drop-mid-stream→resume continuity; GREEN: wrapper; wire `cli --send` first as the tracer). Resume design pre-locked: in-process Last-Event-ID only, cross-process deferred to v2 (design-brief §8d). **(b2) session-picker** — `list_sessions` (sessions.py:198) has NO caller; add a Textual DataTable startup picker (>1 session) + `--session <id>`/`--new` CLI flags (design-brief §4, decisions pre-locked). Both pre-locked → heid-contract-review likely skippable as ceremony (small additive amendments to mature specs); heid-code-review still valuable. **#11 AdminEvents stays BLOCKED** on `admin.events.read` scope (infra-ops).
+- `[2026-06-30]` **(b1) SSE-resume SHIPPED (`v0.18.5`) — `stream_turn_resilient` (sse_client.py).** The shared resume-orchestration surface (design-brief §8b): wraps `stream_turn`+`reconnect_turn`, catches `SseConnectionDropped` (mid-stream drop OR clean-EOF-before-terminal) → resumes from last-seen `sse_id` via `reconnect_turn` (Last-Event-ID), up to `max_reconnects` (default 5); non-drop reconnect failures (412/410/400/TurnIdFlip/SseConnectFailed) PROPAGATE per contract #1's "surface, not recover". `last_seen` persists ACROSS attempts (a zero-event reconnect drop falls back to the prior attempt's id). Direct in-session TDD against a contract-#1 amendment (8 cases incl. two-drops, max-reconnects-exhausted, zero-budget, buffer-expired-propagates, unresumable-zero-event). Wired ALL THREE presenters through it (`v0.18.6`): `cli --send` (`cli.py:396`), TUI (`tui.py:1321`), web (`web/server.py:294`) — each a name-for-name `stream_turn`→`stream_turn_resilient` swap (the §8b "all presenters share the consumer" promise, fully kept; the TUI is the primary resume beneficiary — long-lived sessions / laptop-suspend). Suite 518 green; ruff+mypy clean on touched code (pre-existing cli.py:400/543 mypy warts left untouched per surgical rule); contract #1 validates OK. **heid-code-review NOT run** (small additive well-TDD'd wrapper; offered to operator). **b2 (session-picker + `--session`/`--new` flags) still pending.**
 
-- `[2026-06-17]` **Worldtree spec pin bumped v0.29.0→v0.35.16 (`562001a`→`f1b59f8`); cold recall CLOSED end-to-end.** Worldtree shipped #297 (client-side per-scope-value union recall) + #298/#299 (adopt the bifrost v0.6 `scope_any`/`scope_all` wire) — it now emits `scope_any` on recall, the upstream half that pairs with our v0.17.6 provider. Re-vendored `conversation-api-spec.md` + `conversation_api.contract.md`; diff-reviewed the 285-commit catch-up — no client-breaking changes (#211 agent-slug rename saga→echo/actor→mask is slugs-only; #245 end_user_id+memory-scope; #187/#188/#219 Tier-3 define/PATCH additive; error codes stable). Shipped as a `pin:` commit, NO package bump (docs/pin-only, no ratatoskr code; per SemVer SKIP for docs-only). **Remaining proof: a live cold-recall re-smoke against a personal instance on v0.35.16** — the smoke target ran v0.35.2/.3, needs infra-ops to update it.
+- `[2026-06-30]` **(b2) session-picker SHIPPED (`v0.18.7`) — bare TUI mode → startup picker (design-brief §4).** `list_sessions` had NO caller; now bare TUI mode (no `--session`/`--new`) resolves via `list_sessions` in `_resolve_then_run`: **0 sessions → `[no_sessions]` error, exit 14** (resume-only, honors §4 "no in-app session creation — `--new` flag only"); **exactly 1 → auto-resume** (§4 "picker only when >1"); **≥2 → new `SessionPickerApp`** (Textual `App[str|None]`, mirrors `AgentPickerApp`; ListView of sessions) → resume the pick (Esc/Ctrl-D → exit 0). cli `_parse` relaxed: bare TUI now VALID (was "pass exactly one" error); `--send` still requires one flag (non-interactive, no picker); `--agent` forbidden in bare mode; `run_tui` PRE-002 XOR→"not both". Direct in-session TDD (contract #6 amendment, validated OK): 3 widget pilot tests + 5 `_resolve_then_run` resolution tests + 3 cli validation tests. Suite **528 green**; touched code ruff-clean (mypy: only the `BINDINGS` list-invariance warning every App in tui.py already carries — consistent). **DESIGN NOTE — bare+0-sessions → error (clause-consistent). The friendlier auto-fall-through-to-new alternative is DEFERRED pending operator preference (it would create a session without `--new`, against the §4 negative clause).** **Frontier now: `GET /capabilities`+`GET /me` → BifrostState/Tools widgets (`GET /admin/sessions/{id}/{bifrost,tools}`, admin-key) → #11 AdminEvents (BLOCKED on `admin.events.read`).** heid-code-review NOT run on b1 or b2 (offered).
 
-- `[2026-06-17]` **End-to-end cold-recall proof RAN — our stack proven, #296 isolated.** Against personal WT v0.35.16 with restored `ratatoskr:sindra`: #297/#298 union recall (WT emits `scope_any`), write path (promote→upsert→persist), and cold read (scope_any returns hits) ALL proven. Lone gap = upstream #296 extraction quality. Refines the spec-repin entry's "cold recall closes end-to-end": the WIRE closed; actual fact-recall is #296-blocked. (triage `01KVBBH0…`)
-- `[2026-06-17]` **DELETE+redefine `ratatoskr:sindra` (operator-authorized; pre-v1 debug surface).** She SURVIVED the rebuild but was STALE (dead model `artemis-31b-v1i` + no memory block from Phase-2.0 tooling); memory is immutable post-define, so DELETE+redefine was the only path. v0.35.16 define takes **`role`** (capability), NOT `model`: `role:"character"` → first-healthy bind `mistral-small-4`; `memory:{}` trips the promotion gate (GET does NOT echo `memory_config`). Reasoning bind needs a `character`-role bind reorder (worldtree-dev flagged to operator). Our `tier3.py` define is Phase-2.0-stale (no role/memory/persona layers) — untracked modernization follow-up.
-- `[2026-06-17]` **Promotion = 4-trigger hybrid (worldtree-dev, code-grounded):** salience (regex, 90s rate-limit) / `turn_count≥6` / context_pressure / **idle `≥10min` (unconditional on quality)**; per-turn `plan_promotion_run` for consumer_defined. **DELETE does NOT drain/promote** (delete-is-delete, #276) — idle `≥10min` is the deterministic flush. The seed promoted at ~4min (per-turn salience/turn-scan, before the idle floor).
-- `[2026-06-17]` **#296 triage sent to worldtree-dev** (`01KVBBH0QRGT34GDJQEX5ACTT1`): extraction SUBJECT-INVERSION (promotes assistant prose, drops the user's fact) + META-DESCRIPTION-not-content; verbose-persona aggravator. The WAD-vs-bug cut resolved to BUG (extraction quality), not idle-gating.
+- `[2026-06-30]` **capabilities+me slice SHIPPED (`v0.18.8`) — `GET /me` + `GET /capabilities` consumed via a new `--whoami` one-shot.** `get_me`/`get_capabilities` added to sessions.py (mirror `get_persona_state`: 200→dict verbatim, non-200→`SessionApiFailed`; freeform dicts per the frozen OpenAPI). New `ratatoskr --whoami` CLI mode (mirrors `--send`'s non-interactive shape) fetches both + prints an identity+capabilities report; standalone probe (mutually exclusive with `--send`/`--session`/`--new`/`--agent`, opens no session; new `ParsedArgs.whoami` field + main() dispatch). **`/capabilities` is the Echo EPHEMERAL-TEMPLATE discovery endpoint** (`{ephemeral_templates:{echo:{allowed_models,default_model,system_prompt_max_bytes}}}`), NOT a generic server-caps endpoint (audit finding — the coverage-map's earlier "server capability discovery" framing was imprecise). `/me` = whoami (`{user_id,scopes,tier,key_id?,...}`, optionals omitted-not-null). Contract-skip privilege invoked (low-effort GET wrappers) but contract #2 amended (2 FNs, validated OK) to keep the sessions spec canonical + honest test citations. TDD: 5 wrapper tests + 5 cli tests (validation + mode + error). Suite **538 green**; touched code ruff-clean (mypy: only `no-any-return` on `resp.json()`→dict, identical to the pre-existing `get_persona_state`). **Coverage: REST 9/40 ✅ (up from 7).** TUI-surfacing of /me (footer identity line) + /capabilities DEFERRED — the one-shot is the minimal tracer. **Frontier now: BifrostState + Tools widgets (`GET /admin/sessions/{id}/{bifrost,tools}`, admin-key-gated) → #11 AdminEvents (BLOCKED on `admin.events.read`).**
+- `[2026-07-01]` **b1 (SSE-resume) heid-code-review panel: ZERO findings — cross-model-verified clean.** Gróa (Grok) + Hulda (Codex) + Regin (GLM-5.2) each independently reviewed `stream_turn_resilient` vs contract #1's amendment (artifact-only, firewall held) → all three ZERO findings; signature / PRE-001..004 / STEP 1-4 / POST-001..003 / ERROR_ROUTING / all-8-TESTS confirmed, incl. the subtle `seen = last_seen or drop.last_seen_sse_id` zero-event-drop fallback. Convergent meta-note: **TDD + the unusually-prescriptive contract (STEPS `flexibility=prescriptive` + explicit GOTO) left no room for compliant-but-different drift — confirmation, not discovery.** Calibration signal: for a thin wrapper with a tight prescriptive contract + comprehensive TDD, the panel confirms rather than discovers. **b2 (picker) + capabilities+me NOT yet reviewed** (higher-surface b2 is the better candidate if more review is wanted). Dispatch msg `01KWE2K99T…` / thread `01KWE2K99S…`; heid dispatch-log `2026-06.jsonl#01KWE2V3MMY8XS55FCJYXYV14B`.
 
-- `[2026-06-18]` **Tier-3 memory PROVEN end-to-end live** — `ratatoskr:terse-probe` recalled a seeded user fact in a COLD history-free session (scope_any → 1 hit @ cosine 0.6994 → "Dark chocolate with sea salt"). The session's headline; closes the opening "how far from Tier-3 memory" question for normal agents. (proof in this session's transcript)
-- `[2026-06-18]` **#296 Stage 1 (v0.35.19) validated live + bisect localized the residual to VERBOSE-PERSONA VOLUME.** Stage 1's recallability admission gate works for normal turns (clean distillate, `distiller_model_id="identity"`); the terse-probe-promotes / sindra-drowns bisect pinned the remaining failure to symptom 1 (assistant-prose volume crowding out the user fact at extraction).
-- `[2026-06-18]` **#296 Stage 2 (v0.36.0) MERGED at worldtree-codex** — user-only one-call-per-turn extraction, the STRUCTURAL fix for the subject-inversion drop sindra exposed. Staged per operator: core fix now (validated by our terse-probe PASS + WT test suite); hard-linguistic layer (larger-model escalation, marker-less-fact regex-demotion) tracked at Worldtree #305. We handed worldtree-dev a live-validated eval fixture PAIR for #305 (terse-proof POSITIVE chunk + choc-v2/sindra NEGATIVE-drop).
-- `[2026-06-18]` **Full root-cause chain traced + confirmed** (a3466fab ledger pull via infra-ops): v0.35.16 verbose-sindra EMITS 2 meta-descriptions → v0.35.19 gate hard-rejects them (emit-then-reject) → v0.36.0 user-only pass emits the fact. The 2 v0.35.16 chunks ("Assistant's detailed flirtatious response…" / "…head tilt, eye locking, freckles…") are textbook subject-inversion; banked as #305 negative-fixture examples.
+- `[2026-07-01]` **`GET /sessions/{id}/tools` quick-win SHIPPED (`v0.18.9`) — owner-scoped tool inventory in the TUI Tools pane.** `get_session_tools` wrapper (sessions.py, mirror get_me: 200→dict, non-200→`SessionApiFailed`) + `_format_tool_inventory` helper + `_hydrate_session_tools` best-effort worker (mirror `_hydrate_persona`) wired UNCONDITIONALLY in `on_mount` → writes the merged `{agent_id, builtin_tools, bifrost_tools}` inventory (what the LLM saw at turn-fire) to the Tools pane + audits `session_tools_hydrated`, never crashes on failure. Owner-scoped (`ctx.user_id==session.user_id`) → reachable with the CONSUMER key, NO admin scope — so this **covers the design-brief §5 "Tools widget" via the reachable owner endpoint** (the admin `/admin/sessions/{id}/tools` variant stays a gap only for cross-user operator debug). Contract #2 amended (FN, validated OK) + TDD (3 wrapper respx tests + 1 format-helper unit + 2 hydrate integration tests via `_spy_writes`+pilot). Suite **544 green**; touched code ruff-clean (the tui.py ruff/mypy debt at other lines is pre-existing). **Coverage: REST 10/40 ✅.** **Frontier now: BifrostState widget (`GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost`, admin-key) + #11 AdminEvents (BLOCKED on `admin.events.read`) + Tier-2 (transient-characters routing, `POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state`).**
 
-- `[2026-06-18]` **FULL-COVERAGE proof — verbose-persona memory works under Stage 2 (v0.36.0).** Re-smoked `ratatoskr:sindra-probe` (sindra's theatrical prompt; FRESH agent + end_user `verbose-v2` to dodge the WT promotion-dedup): the high-volume turn promoted the user fact CLEANLY (not a meta-description) and cold-recalled @ 0.694. Confirms `:8081` is on v0.36.0 and closes the verbose-persona caveat end-to-end. Then started `ratatoskr-web` (`:8765`, consumer key, `ratatoskr:sindra` in the picker) for the operator's Sindra session — **persona + debug only; the web client does NOT bind to `:8391` (#17 unbuilt), so no memory persistence in the web chat** (memory-enabled chat is the #17 build, or a manual bound session).
+- `[2026-07-01]` **BifrostState pane SHIPPED (`v0.18.10`) — `GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost` in a new TUI "Bifrost" pane; the FIRST admin-key consumer in ratatoskr.** `get_session_bifrost(client, session_id, *, admin_key)` (sessions.py) — admin-scoped (`admin.sessions.read`); the request OVERRIDES Authorization with `admin_key` (distinct from the consumer bearer, asserted in a test); 200→dict, non-200→SessionApiFailed. Admin-key wiring: `--admin-key` flag + `RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY` env → new `ParsedArgs.admin_key`. New "Bifrost" TabPane + `_format_bifrost_state` + `_hydrate_bifrost_state` best-effort worker (mirror `_hydrate_session_tools`) UNCONDITIONALLY in on_mount → writes {endpoint, connected, caps_granted, tools} + audits; self-labels "not configured" (no admin key) / "not bound" (404) / graceful on 403 + error. Contract #2 amended (FN, validated OK) + TDD (4 wrapper respx tests incl. the admin-bearer-override assertion + 1 format unit + 3 hydrate integration). Suite **552 green**; my code ruff-clean (pre-existing tui.py ruff debt at other lines untouched, incl. a dead `RichText` import in `_hydrate_persona`). **LIVE-AUTH-PROVEN** on personal :8081: admin key authenticated (reached resource-layer 404 session_not_found, NOT 401/403) → `admin.sessions.read` works live; 200 full-state not exercised (no bound session on :8081 now — unit-covered). Patch bump (debug feature, no downstream coordination; consistent with the session's cadence — but the §5-core-completion angle is a possible minor, operator's call).
+- `[2026-07-01]` **LEDGER CORRECTION: #11 (AdminEvents) is NO LONGER BLOCKED.** Verified via `GET /me` on :8081 that `RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY` (`ratatoskr-readonly`, tier readonly-admin) carries ALL 7 read scopes INCLUDING **`admin.events.read`** (+ `admin.sessions.read`, admin.keys.read, admin.skuld.read, pending.read, search.read, tool_events.read). The coverage-map + prior memory had #11 "blocked on admin.events.read" — **STALE**; the admin key was minted (post-#11-filing, env.sh) WITH the scope, so the blocker is already satisfied. **Only the AdminEvents SSE pane itself is unbuilt** — the last unbuilt §5 debug pane (a live SSE-consuming admin pane, distinct from the hydrate-at-attach panes). Coverage-map updated. **Coverage: REST 11/40 ✅.** Consider building the AdminEvents pane and/or updating #11's tracker status (its stated blocker is gone).
 
-- `[2026-06-18]` **Tier-3 persona_state is a Worldtree limitation (not ours); sindra → thoughtful-character.** The web Persona-pane 404 ("persona not available") = `persona_state` hard-404s ALL Tier-3 (colon-id) agents by design (`api.py:1220`); a persona block in the define doesn't help (endpoint short-circuits before the row). Pinged worldtree-dev on the Tier-3 persona_state roadmap (thread `01KVCR6P…`) + de-uglied our web pane (`index.html loadPersona`) to render a clear message (v0.17.7). Separately switched `ratatoskr:sindra` to the `thoughtful-character` role (→ `mistral-small-4-reasoning`) via DELETE+redefine (kept her prompt; added an inert persona block). **REFRAME (worldtree-dev `01KVCRK9…`):** persona_state GET is **Tier-1-only by ADR-0009**, the colon-id 404 is correct-by-design (NOT a stub to wait for). Tier-3 affect is **CLIENT-persisted** — we ALREADY hold the PAD `{pleasure,arousal,dominance}` + valence at `:8390` from the `affect.emit` payload. So the Persona-pane fix is **OUR side**: #17 affect-binding → WT dispatches `affect.emit` → `:8390` → the web pane renders PAD/valence from our own store. WT #289 (`affect.fetch`/`affect:read`) = optional mediated-read (their intelligence over our raw store), NOT a prerequisite. WT #300 = their forthcoming v1 client-impl guide (who-owns-what), folding in this exact case.
+- `[2026-07-01]` **AdminEvents pane SHIPPED (`v0.18.11`) — `GET /admin/events` SSE in a new TUI pane; #11 closed-by-build; Tier 1 (debug-observability core) COMPLETE.** `stream_admin_events(client, *, admin_key, last_event_id=None)` (sse_client.py) — a NEW long-lived SSE consumer for the admin lifecycle broadcast (envelope `{id,type,timestamp,data}`, 17-event v0 vocab), admin-scoped (`admin.events.read`, bearer-override), Last-Event-ID resume; non-200→SseConnectFailed, mid-drop→SseConnectionDropped; new `AdminEvent` dataclass (distinct from the turn `Event` union). New "AdminEvents" TabPane + `_format_admin_event` + `_admin_event_matches` (design-brief §6 filter: active-session events + non-heartbeat `system.*`) + `_stream_admin_events` long-lived best-effort worker (unconditional on_mount, cancelled on app exit; self-labels "not configured"/"unavailable"/"stream ended"). Reuses the admin key from the BifrostState slice. **Contract-SKIPPED** for `stream_admin_events` (out of contract #1's turn-SSE scope; spec § Admin Event Stream is the reference; well-TDD'd). TDD: 4 sse_client tests (multi-event+bearer-override, Last-Event-ID header, 403, malformed-skip) + 5 tui (format, filter, worker success/no-key/403). Suite **561 green**; my code ruff-clean (pre-existing tui.py ruff debt untouched, incl. the dead `RichText` import in `_hydrate_persona`). **LIVE-AUTH-PROVEN**: `GET /admin/events` on :8081 → HTTP 200 under the admin key (connected + streamed, idle in the 4s window — no 401/403). **Coverage: REST 12/40 ✅. Tier 1 admin/debug-observability core COMPLETE** (Persona · Tools · BifrostState · AdminEvents). AdminEvents work landed as patch `v0.18.11`; then **`v0.19.0` MINOR cut (operator-approved 2026-07-01)** publishing the milestone: **the debug-observability core is complete** (Persona · Tools · BifrostState · AdminEvents all built + consuming real endpoints — the design-brief's headline deliverable). Pre-1.0 minor = release-note-worthy (no downstream althing push needed pre-1.0); lightweight tag per the SemVer mechanics (annotated reserved for major cuts). Remaining in-scope client I/O: only Tier-2 (transient-characters routing + `POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state`).
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+- `[2026-07-01]` **Tier-2 SHIPPED (`v0.19.1`) — transient-characters CRUD + persona-state write; the v1 coverage-audit CONVERGES (zero in-scope gaps).** 5 wrappers in sessions.py: `list_character_models`/`create_character`/`get_character_state`/`delete_character` (#161, `character.read`/`.write` scopes) + `set_persona_state` (`POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state` — **FREEFORM body: unpinned in the frozen OpenAPI 2.2.0 + absent from the prose spec**, so the caller supplies the snapshot shape). Two one-shot CLI probes (mirror `--whoami`): `--characters` (models→create→get-state→delete lifecycle report) + `--set-persona-pad "p,a,d"` (requires `--session`; POSTs `{pad:[…]}`). New `ParsedArgs.characters`/`set_persona_pad` + probe-mode mutual-exclusion validation + `_probe_client` helper. Contract #2 amended (5 FNs, validated OK) + TDD (7 wrapper respx + 5 cli tests). Suite **573 green**; touched code ruff-clean. NOT live-proven (character scopes + the persona-write body shape unverified — the probes degrade gracefully on 403/422). **THE v1 COVERAGE-AUDIT HAS CONVERGED: REST 17/40 ✅ with ZERO in-scope gaps** (23 REST path-groups excluded-by-design + rationale), SSE 11/11, Bifrost provider planes 8/8. Scope-A "done" (every frozen I/O point classified, zero unaccounted) is **MET** — ratatoskr cuts v1 when Worldtree tags 1.0. Only not-consumed in-scope sub-method: `GET /agents/{id}` (consumer-agent lookup, manual-curl-only, on an already-✅ path group). Patch bump (Tier-2 tail; `v0.19.0` already published the core-complete milestone — a 2nd minor would be cadence-too-fast).
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+- `[2026-07-01]` **env.sh now PERSISTS the web Bifrost-bind vars (gitignored, local-only).** `ratatoskr-web`'s in-browser bind needs three server-held values; env.sh sources `provider.env` for the Heimdall key and exports `RATATOSKR_BIFROST_CONSUMER_KEY` + `RATATOSKR_PROVIDER_VISIBLE_HOST=10.100.10.50` + `RATATOSKR_AFFECT_READ_URL=:8392`. **The HS256 byte-match trap (re-hit + documented):** the bind's consumer key must equal the key the `:8392` combined provider validates against = `RATATOSKR_HEIMDALL_KEY` (provider.env, fp `45a0…`), NOT `WORLDTREE_API_KEY` (env.sh, fp `7c2f…`) — both are the SAME `ratatoskr` identity but DIFFERENT 40-char strings; signing with the wrong one → `bifrost.auth_rejected`. Single-sourced (env.sh sources provider.env) to avoid a rotation footgun; guarded with a stderr warning if provider.env is missing. [auto-memory: HS256-key-is-the-consumer-Heimdall-key-string]
+- `[2026-07-01]` **Tier-3 stores RESET (operator-directed).** `memory.db` (29 chunks + vectors + idempotency) + `affect.db` (5 PAD snapshots + idempotency) wiped to zero via a live `DELETE`+`wal_checkpoint` through the shared WAL (no provider restart — the 3 long-running providers see empty on next dispatch); consistent online-backup at `/tmp/ratatoskr-tier3-reset-<ts>/`. **Boundary for a COMPLETE Sindra wipe (mapped):** our stores = mine (done); the agent DEFINITION `ratatoskr:sindra` + its sessions = mine via the owner key (DELETE, no coordination); Worldtree's internal promotion/dedup shadow = needs worldtree-dev (no public reset API, survives our wipe → for a clean promotion smoke use a BRAND-NEW agent+end_user).
+- `[2026-07-01]` **Embedding-latency loop RESOLVED — it was WORLDTREE's, not ratatoskr (the consumer/provider thesis paid off again).** Vuong flagged dozens of embed queries/Tier-3 turn; worldtree-dev's first-pass blamed our memory_context chunk-batching. Traced CODE-SIDE that ratatoskr embeds ZERO times (provider `upsert_many` stores the given embedding, `search` takes a given vector, the conversation consumer POSTs only `{content}`, `/embed` is coverage-map-excluded — pure Bifrost/ADR-0009 path, WT does all embedding). worldtree-dev retracted + fixed on THEIR side (`v1.0.0b4`): a persona-recitation memory-gate re-embedding the stable character card sentence-by-sentence every turn (~95% of gateway traffic) → content-hash cache; re-embed ratio 15x→1.01x. **Lesson: verify your own code before accepting a peer's "it's your side" — the debug tool proving its own side clean is the whole point.**
+- `[2026-07-01]` **Web debug-surface parity SHIPPED (`v0.19.2`, `a0a9d5f`) — direct in-session TDD.** 3 proxy routes (tools/bifrost/admin-events) + admin-key wiring (entrypoint→create_app→app.state) + AdminEvents SSE proxy re-emitting under a FIXED `admin_event` name (one browser listener, no per-type drops) + session-filter `_admin_event_matches_web` (mirrors TUI §6). Frontend: 2 tabs (bifrost ⌃5, admin ⌃6) + tools-inventory folded into the tools pane. 9 respx tests (admin-bearer override, filter unit, SSE stream-filter); live-proven against sindra (bifrost connected, both caps). Contract-skip invoked (reuses already-contracted client wrappers); contract authored post-hoc as the trail (`docs/contracts/web_debug_surface.contract.md`).
+- `[2026-07-01]` **heid-code-review (`v0.19.3`, `75dec01`) — panel caught 2 real client-side SSE-lifecycle bugs TDD missed.** Contract-anchored (authored the web contract to enable it — no contract → no drift axis). Gróa/Hulda/Regin (artifact-only, Gróa under Landlock jail): ZERO functional server-side drift + INV-004 clean; 2 genuine drifts on the un-unit-tested SPA — (1) turn `es.onerror` didn't `hideThinkingNote()` (reasoning line + setInterval leak on a raw drop), (2) `openAdminEvents` never closed the EventSource on error → native auto-reconnect RETRY LOOP (fixed: close on `stream_error` + permanent `onerror`/CLOSED; transient CONNECTING still reconnects). + 2 test-gaps fixed (route-registration + admin stream_error). 1 precision → contract-clarified (tools-inventory names-only by design). **Re-confirms: the JS render/lifecycle paths are the review's highest-value target — unit tests don't reach them (same lesson as #18 D2).**
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+- `[2026-07-01]` **Affect snapshot shape CHANGED valence→relations (relation_edge/1) — the persona pane was reading a dead field.** Worldtree's #265 Vili rework replaced the flat `valence[]` ({entity_id,familiarity,regard}) with `relations[]` (target_entity + trust_ability/benevolence/integrity + warmth + agency + relation_context, each `{value,confidence,evidence_count}`). `renderAffectPane` still read `snap.valence` → showed empty "valence (0)". Rebuilt to render `relations` (v0.19.4, `ca46a93`) with per-value **Δ + unicode sparkline** (client-side, HIST_CAP=24, one sample/turn deduped by emitted_at). **Retires the stale "regard dead axis" note (2026-06-30) — that whole axis is gone.** Foot-gun: the affect snapshot shape is Worldtree's emit and can change under us — verify the live shape (query affect.db) before trusting a render.
+- `[2026-07-01]` **Trust/warmth VALUES converge and go FLAT at confidence 1.0 — that's WAD, not a stuck pane.** sindra→ratatoskr trust ~0.82-0.84 / warmth 0.79 barely move (~1e-7/turn) while `evidence_count` climbs (46→62); confidence maxed → tiny updates. The live-moving signals are PAD (mood, per-turn) + evidence_count. **To WATCH a relation FORM (values shift), use a BRAND-NEW agent + end_user** (low evidence, confidence <1). The sparkline flat-guards sub-0.01 ranges so it doesn't amplify noise.
+- `[2026-07-01]` **relation_context "stranger" + agency-all-zero flagged to worldtree-dev → both WAD/intentional-v1-deferrals.** relation_context is a FIXED config build-prior (not trust-derived; `registry.py:131` defaults "stranger"; dynamic progression ~#319); agency is schema-present-unpopulated (deferred #319; v1 = warmth+trust only). worldtree-dev is escalating the **consumer-coherence angle to Vuong** (static "stranger" + zero-agency next to trust 0.82/62-interactions reads incoherent from the store). The consumer/provider thesis paying off; DB-offer (read-only affect.db on the shared box) declined this time.
+- `[2026-07-01]` **Persona pane displays the CANONICAL affect→NL Worldtree injects — ADOPT, don't invent (operator steer + reference-impl posture).** Worldtree's `describe_pad` (mood word, valence×arousal grid, ±0.3 bands) + `render_d2_canonical` (relationship directive) are deterministic + canon-driven; the pane now renders them **byte-exact-verified** against Worldtree's own renderer on the live snapshot (v0.19.5, `a99f247`). KEY LESSON: adopting canonical is load-bearing — for sindra's small PAD the canonical says **"neutral"**, but an invented octant vocab would've said "faintly excited" and MISLED. Vendored the two d2 canons (`docs/vendor/worldtree-persona-canon/`) + drift-pinned in `.corviduo-canonicals.toml` (green); flat browser form (`static/persona_render_canon.json`) regenerated via Worldtree's OWN loader (`scripts/build_persona_canon.py`). Vendoring-handshake sent to worldtree-dev (broadcast on canon bumps). [auto-memory: `feedback-ratatoskr-is-a-reference-impl-adopt-canonical`]
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+- `[2026-07-01]` **Sindra PAD is over-regulated — characterized via controlled probe, flagged to worldtree-dev (separate affect slice).** ~15 charged turns: pleasure compressed near neutral BOTH ways (couldn't reach ±0.3 under sustained max praise OR contempt; peak +0.24 / floor ~−0.1; over-regulation worse for *social* valence than threat — urgency drove pleasure to −0.22 vs contempt's −0.10); arousal responsive (reaches its +band, 0.185↔0.311); dominance flat/unresponsive to explicit power-framing (drifted UP even while being commanded = pure baseline decay). worldtree-dev's leading hypothesis: appraisal→PAD gain + regression-to-baseline term (appraisal.py/renderer.py). **Lesson (self-caught): I over-claimed an "asymmetry" (positive-ceiling/negative-free) from probes started at an elevated state; the negative-free part was decay-from-elevated, not response — corrected to "both-sides-compressed" before it misled.** [affect A/B is a provider-side capability chat can't do]
+- `[2026-07-01]` **Memory plane PROVEN healthy end-to-end.** Seed a novel fact → promotion → COLD (history-free) session recall of the exact fact (injected as MEMORY:DATA, confidence 0.74, verbatim, no #296 subject-inversion). The memory round-trip (the other half of the Bifrost provider identity) works cleanly on the reset slate.
+- `[2026-07-01]` **Salience scorer non-discriminating → 3-way routing.** Persistence-side finding: 51/56 promoted chunks at salience 0.9-1.0, throwaway "17×23?" scored 1.0 tied with a real fact (textbook zero-shot-LLM-self-rating); recall-utility untracked (`access_tally`=0, our search read-only). Routed: **Worldtree #335** (the code fix, deferred behind their waves) + **brokkr-smithy-dev R-target proposal** (scoring+eval *methodology* — few-shot/distill/fine-tune, eval design, weak-supervision; msg `01KWGM970H…`, awaiting) + ratatoskr provides the eval-instrument (designed-probe salience dumps). **Salience gates PROMOTION not RECALL-ranking (our search is cosine-only), so bad salience = storage bloat, not bad recall.**
+- `[2026-07-01]` **Canonical check BLOCKED an access_tally fork (reference-impl posture held).** I'd offered to wire `access_tally`-on-search into our store for the recall-utility label; checked bifrost's reference first (`get`/`search` are PURE-READ, no access tracking — those are Worldtree's chunk-schema fields, not bifrost's contract) → wiring it would fork behavior the canonical reference lacks. Did NOT wire it; routed recall-instrumentation to Worldtree's layer (owns the recall event) or a bifrost-dev protocol ask. [reinforces `feedback-debug-surface-uses-canonical-surface-only`]
+- `[2026-07-01]` **relation_context coherence FIXED upstream (my flag → Worldtree Wave-0, IMPLEMENTED v1.0.0b5).** The static-"stranger"-next-to-high-trust incoherence the persona pane surfaced is now #319/#320 Wave-0. **Incoming consumer-surface change (pending WT deploy):** `relation_context` value expands "stranger" → monotonic ladder {stranger, instrumental, mixed, expressive} — WIRE-ONLY (relation_edge/1 schema unchanged, no version bump). **ratatoskr needs NO change** (pane value-agnostic; canonical directive doesn't key on the enum). agency stays 0 (Wave-2); other_stance is Wave-1 (in progress).
+- `[2026-07-01]` **Foot-gun (measurement, self-caught before flagging): establish the baseline before claiming a rate.** Nearly flagged "aggressive over-promotion (55 chunks / 7 turns)" to worldtree-dev — but the chunks spanned the whole 5-hour session (~1/turn), not 7 turns; I'd assumed memory.db was 0 immediately before the probe when it had been accumulating since the reset. Caught it via `created_at` spread before the flag went out. Also: the promoted corpus was the operator's ERP *test* content (wiped after each test) — not a privacy issue, but abstract test content out of any peer-shared diagnostic.
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+- `[2026-07-02]` **Salience finding matured into brokkr R28 (OPEN) — ratatoskr is the eval instrument.** brokkr-smithy-dev's pre-scope panel (3 dwarves + context-blind heid, 6/6) **reframed** the target: PROMOTION-WORTHINESS (durable value), NOT salience (momentary attention) — "17×23?" genuinely IS salient, so recalibrating salience yields a well-calibrated WRONG answer; the unit is SET-SELECTION under budget; eval must be OUTCOME-aligned (recall@budget / precision-at-rate), not discrimination-spread. Ties to prior art R15 (small-model memory write-policy → the granite pick) + R25 (worldtree-kb-quality). **ratatoskr delivered the P00 stratified injection-corpus** (`docs/diagnostics/r28-p00-injection-corpus.json`, committed `4a35512`; 24 self-labeling synthetic items × 3 strata) + 2 persistence-side run-validity pins (absent≠dropped without a guaranteed promotion pass; fresh agent+end_user per run vs server-dedup). **Key architectural constraint I surfaced: ratatoskr is DOWNSTREAM of the promotion gate (sees only PROMOTED chunks), so I can give keep/drop OUTCOMES via injection but NOT the pre-admission shadow pool** — that's Worldtree instrumentation. Standing by to RUN the eval once brokkr pins per-stratum N + the decision rule (gated on worldtree-dev's pipeline answer + a dwarf pass on the Snorri rule). brokkr owns methodology + takes the pipeline questions to worldtree-dev direct; ratatoskr = eval instrument. [consumer/provider thesis → a research target]
+- `[2026-07-02]` **Relational-dynamics arc LIVE on demo (Worldtree v1.0.0b9) — driven by MY relation_context flag.** #319/#320 Waves 0/1/2 deployed. On the wire we persist (schema UNCHANGED): relation_context varies+demotes/ruptures; other_stance + agency now live; agency going live SHIFTS our canonical directive render past the canon ±0.2 deadband (expected, non-breaking — we key on bands); obligation_balance → 人情 ledger when tie="mixed". **ratatoskr needs NO code change** (value-agnostic renders; confirmed render-clean to worldtree-dev). **Can't live-confirm yet — our Heimdall key is personal-`:8081`-only (per-instance), demo is out of reach; will drive+confirm once PERSONAL gets b9.** Optional follow-up: surface `other_stance` (newly live, unrendered). The consumer/provider thesis: one persona-pane finding drove a full 3-wave upstream arc to production.
+- `[2026-07-02]` **R28 (salience→promotion-worthiness) CLOSED (operator-directed).** A deterministic promotion-worthiness gate suffices, no trained model (brokkr's pre-gate matched/beat a strong glm-5.1 ceiling); my P00 injection-corpus + origin finding were load-bearing. My incumbent-substrate Arm-1 run is held as an OPTIONAL confirmation addendum (brokkr de-prioritized it, non-verdict-changing — run only if he asks).
+- `[2026-07-02]` **R29 (PAD mood-dynamics) finding SHIPPED as Worldtree's A1 anchor fix (demo v1.0.0b14, `e1cdf82`).** Live-probing base persona agents reframed the over-regulation from "flat-near-zero" to **decay-to-NEUTRAL + low emotion→PAD gain** (NOT baseline-anchored) — triangulated across 3 baselines (arousal converges to 0 ∝ distance) + a step-response (decay τ symmetric across signs; the hedonic asymmetry is ceiling/anchor-EMERGENT, not a decay or gain primitive — this OVERTURNED the survey's asymmetry recommendation). worldtree-dev shipped A1: `decay_anchor = baseline_pad()` (was neutral) + `positive_p_cap` removed. Data `diag/r29-pad-series` (`61ff2da`). Corrected my own earlier "appraisal emissions are internal-only" claim — they ARE observable via `emotions_active` on base agents.
+- `[2026-07-03]` **R30 Phase-1 φ0 measured — deployed engine CONFIG-FAITHFUL (φ0≈0.95).** Joint two-timescale fit (brokkr-ruled method (b)) + empty-tail cross-check on demo b14: φ0 ≈ 0.95–0.97 (empty-tail 0.95 exact, joint 0.971±0.01), intercept c≈0 → config `decay_rate=0.05` (φ=0.95) faithfully applied; trait-flat across baselines 0.0/0.615/0.809; A/P ratio ~uniform (NOT S2's 1.9×); φ_max rec relax→0.96. Data `diag/r30-phi0-step-response` (`23fea72`). The method converged after I read Worldtree source: only NEW dedup-gated emotions push mood (`registry.py::post_turn` L307-324; the active set decays for render/goals but never re-pushes), so R29's "net 0.90" is CONTINUOUS RE-APPRAISAL not re-push — worldtree-dev confirmed source-authoritatively; brokkr's corrected covariate landed identical. [auto-memory `reference-worldtree-affect-surface-map`]
+- `[2026-07-03]` **R30 forward disposition (brokkr-owned; tracked at brokkr R30, "brokkr/worldtree will ping").** The per-turn decay has no room for `decay=f(N)` under preserve-persistence + the A/P-not-1.9 finding → R30's decay is being redesigned as a HYBRID wall+turn decay (brokkr pre-scope). R30 v1 ships GAIN-only (N→negative-reactivity) with decay held at the measured 0.95. My dedicated per-axis A/D run is DEFERRED into the hybrid-decay design pass (one wall-clock-spaced run does per-axis + a turn-vs-wall probe together). Phase-2 (moody-lofn GAIN-direction validation) waits on worldtree's `dynamics_from_ocean()` impl.
+- `[2026-07-03]` **Relational-arc verify DEFERRED — `relations[]` is Bifrost-provider-only (ADR-0009), confirmed both ways.** The relational-dynamics state (relation_context tie-type / agency / warmth / trust) is NOT on the conversation-API `affect_update` snapshot for base agents (keys: pad/dominant_emotion/emotions_active/baseline_pad/mood_drift only) — only in the provider store; worldtree-dev confirmed by-design per ADR-0009 (emitted over `affect.emit`, deliberately off the SSE). So the Wave-0/1/2 verify needs the bound-provider round-trip (provider running + `--bifrost-plane affect` session), its own focused session. worldtree-dev routed the "expose relations[] to non-provider consumers" observability scope call to Vuong; my rec: keep provider-only (YAGNI — ratatoskr IS a provider, gains nothing; no speculative public surface).
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+- `[2026-07-04]` **R30 CLOSED on offline-tests + human face-validity (operator steer, relayed via worldtree-dev).** The deployed gap-injection run was confirmatory-not-measuring (against a deployed system the fade is `exp(-dt/tau_shipped)` by construction -> a fit recovers tau_shipped tautologically; per brokkr's S0 reframe it GRADUATES the interim coefficients, doesn't measure them), and the repo's offline tests already cover the OU formula + BOTH directions (`high_N_fades_slower_than_low_N`, `phenotype_high_n_bigger_negative_excursion`). So no Worldtree build; the interim coefficients graduate validated-as-shipped. My gap-injection harness (read/predict/record; write side stubbed; `predict()` reproduced brokkr's N=0 anchors exactly) is BANKED at `diag/r30-gap-injection-harness` for the parked powered true-tau study. [continues R30 forward-disposition 2026-07-03]
+- `[2026-07-05]` **Authored-history-write primitive proposed -> accepted as Worldtree #347 (Worldtree owns the engine design; ratatoskr = reference consumer).** SillyTavern first-message generalized to a non-generating ledger-write primitive; can't be done client-side (messages `role` = model-role, not author-role). heid panel pressure-test (3/3 convergence) drove the v1 narrowing (append-only, bounded `effects` enum, drop edit/regenerate). Brief `docs/proposals/authored-message-injection.md` (`c457520`); consumer constraints captured in-brief: hide-existence 404-fallback (`022accf`) + assistant-first provider constraint (`7156b25`). Operator (Vuong) ruled the design-direction call (engine primitive + a real provenance/spoofing security surface). [reference-impl posture: we propose the shape, worldtree-dev owns the contract+impl]
+- `[2026-07-05]` **#347 v1 wire validated as reference consumer (GREEN).** Adopted positions: distinct sub-resource `POST /sessions/{id}/history` (not `generate:false`), model-invisible provenance (first-message immersion preserved), event-silence for authored seed, `seeded` lifecycle phase, per-session idempotency. Three pre-TDD flags folded into contract rev 1.1: assistant-first provider constraint (Anthropic-family 400s; vLLM/openai_compat OK), content limit is BYTES not chars, 409-active-generation for append-narrator. First-message (create-time, assistant, effects=none) fully served; append-narrator served for the assistant-voice subset (system deferred); debug-seed served for assistant turns (user injection deferred to a future import primitive).
+- `[2026-07-06]` **Sindra role character-rp -> character (operator).** `character-rp` resolves to a reasoning-tuned RP config (`gen-reasoning` + temp 0.75 + RP `extra_body`); `character` = plain non-reasoning (better for immersive RP). Both non-destructive PATCHes (role is mutable; model is NOT -- server: "PATCH accepts only system_prompt and/or role"). #344 (b19) fixed the role->catalog_id display conflation (the `model` field now shows the ROLE); previously it leaked `gen-reasoning`. Set via raw curl (tier3.py CLI has `--model`, not `--role`).
+- `[2026-07-06]` **Sindra persona/OCEAN DECLARED -> mood fixed (the full diagnostic converged on a stale personal container).** Root cause of stuck-neutral mood: her OCEAN was prompt-TEXT only, never a structured persona; fix = delete+redefine with the define-time `persona:{ocean:{...}}` field (immutable via PATCH). My diagnosis surfaced a real engine bug **#348** (single-letter vs spelled-out OCEAN keys -> declared OCEAN silently -> 0.0/neutral; worldtree-dev fixed in b21/b22) AND a **stale-container deploy race** (personal's b22 deploy was a pull-only no-op; infra-ops force-swapped run 8211). VERIFIED: bound mood-smoke reads (0.448, 0.267, 0.316) ~= OCEAN-derived setpoint (0.418, 0.249, 0.328). [consumer/provider thesis: "reset + smoke" flushed out two upstream problems]
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+- `[2026-07-06]` **OpenAPI re-vendored 2.2.0->2.3.0 (`75da676`, pin-only no bump).** worldtree-dev shipped #347 as spec 2.3.0 (`879cefe`, = the deployed personal b22 image); the SessionStart drift-check flagged our openapi pin STALE. `canonical_sync` pulled 2.3.0; updated the 4 pin-tracking files (`.corviduo-canonicals.toml`, vendored openapi.json, SPEC-PIN.md, pyproject `worldtree-spec-rev`->879cefe). #347 is OpenAPI-only (prose + server contract byte-unchanged, SSE unchanged=event-silent). The re-vendor re-opened the coverage-audit with one new in-scope path-group (the #347 route).
+- `[2026-07-06]` **#347 authored-history-write CONSUMER SIDE SHIPPED (`v0.19.6`) — direct in-session TDD.** `write_authored_history(client, session_id, *, content, idempotency_key, author="assistant", effects=None, claimed_original_at=None) -> dict` (POST /sessions/{id}/history; body server-pinned `AuthoredWriteRequest` extra="forbid" so omit null effects/claimed_original_at; 200-replay/201-fresh both -> ack dict; **404 -> `AuthoredHistoryUnavailable`** NOT SessionApiFailed = the hide-existence "feature-absent, never probe" contract; 409/422->SessionApiFailed) + `get_session_messages` (un-deferred GET /sessions/{id}/messages, the seed read-back proving model-invisible provenance) + a `--seed-first-message "<c>" --agent <id>` one-shot probe (create session -> seed -> read-back; 404->benign feature-absent exit 0). Contract #2 amended (2 FNs, validated OK) + 19 tests (12 wrapper + 7 cli). Suite **601 green** (clean env; the 2 "fails" under `source env.sh` are the RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY env-leak into TestParseArgs, not a regression). Coverage: **REST 19/41** (`docs/coverage-map.md` re-converged). Patch bump (coverage tail; consistent w/ the Tier-2 v0.19.1 cadence). **Live-proof pending** the `session.history.write` grant (infra-ops `01KWW3KQEY`). heid-code-review NOT run (offered).
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+- `[2026-07-06]` **Tail-2 SHIPPED (`v0.19.7`) — Tier-3 prose docs re-vendored + persona_state body-shape aligned.** worldtree-dev landed the Tier-3 persona/memory/persona_state PROSE docs (`c9e59ec`, on origin) — they serialize as freeform `Any` in the OpenAPI JSON, so the **prose is their source of truth** (my earlier "2.3.0 = #347-only, tail-2 collapsed" was half-wrong: the JSON was #347-only but the prose is separate). Re-vendored `docs/conversation-api-spec.md` (markdown pin, tolerate_drift; `worldtree-spec-rev` 879cefe->c9e59ec, SPEC-PIN history row added). **Consumer fix:** `--set-persona-pad`/`_set_persona_probe` was sending `{pad:[list]}` but the canonical SET body (#317) is `{pad:{pleasure,arousal,dominance}}` (named dict) — aligned it + added a len!=3 guard; updated contract #2 note + set_persona_state docstring + tests. The `set_persona_state` WRAPPER was already correct (freeform pass-through); only the CLI probe drifted. TDD (probe test asserts the dict; +1 wrong-count test). Suite **602 green**, ruff clean. **heid-code-review on #347 (dispatched + returned this session): UNANIMOUS ZERO DRIFT** (Gróa/Hulda/Regin all confirmed the hide-existence 404->`AuthoredHistoryUnavailable` routing holds at wrapper/probe/test layers + the extra="forbid" body-omission + the deliberate write-vs-read 404 asymmetry — confirmation-not-discovery for a well-TDD'd slice against a prescriptive contract). worldtree-dev foot-guns banked in SPEC-PIN + [[reference_worldtree_affect_surface_map]]: ocean single-letter `{O,C,E,A,N}` on /agents/define (#348) vs spelled-out on /characters; memory `{embedder_version, tier3_dreaming}`, stm_* deprecated, allows_world_scope removed->422; only `valence` still 422s.
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+- `[2026-07-06]` **Sindra rewritten onto a #347 authored first-message + first-message-preset AUTO-SEED SHIPPED (`v0.19.8`).** Operator "rewrite Sindra" now that #347 first-messages work. Her card had a `**Startup:**` block (a pre-#347 workaround: "introduce yourself + ask for Intensity/Mood/Willingness" with a verbatim scripted greeting) — precisely what #347 replaces. Rewrite, all NON-destructive: **(1)** lifted her scripted opening into a #347 first-message (punctuation-fixed); **(2) PATCHed her live definition** — `PATCH /agents/ratatoskr:sindra` (body `ConsumerAgentPatchRequest` = system_prompt+role, extra=forbid; keeps OCEAN/persona/memory) removing the Startup block -> a 1-line `**Opening:**` fallback + reworded the axes-persist line (25686->25449 chars, verified Startup gone); **(3) codified auto-seed:** NEW module `src/ratatoskr/first_message.py` (`FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS` dict {agent_id->text} + `seed_preset_first_message` best-effort helper) wired into ALL 3 session-create paths — cli `_amain` (`--send --new`), tui `_resolve_then_run` (bare `--new`), web `_create_session_endpoint` (POST /api/sessions) — so every new Sindra session opens with her greeting. **Best-effort (INV-001: swallows AuthoredHistoryUnavailable/SessionApiFailed/httpx.HTTPError -> NEVER blocks create)**; per-content idempotency key (`ratatoskr-preset-`+sha256[:12]). Contract `docs/contracts/first_message.contract.md` (module-scoped: `module:`+`purpose:`+`touches:` required, NOT `target_module:`) + TDD (9 unit + 1 web wire-in; **the 3 existing sindra bind tests needed a history-endpoint mock** since creating a preset agent now auto-seeds). Suite **612 green**, ruff+mypy clean. **LIVE-PROVEN generation-free**: create sindra session -> auto-seed -> read-back seq-0 assistant greeting (409 chars). Sindra's greeting now lives canonically in the preset registry (repo); her server card no longer carries it. Patch bump (single-commit feature, no downstream coordination). **FOOT-GUN: sindra requires `end_user_id` on session-create (422 `end_user_id_required`) — all real paths pass it from env (RATATOSKR_END_USER_ID) / web server config.** **Then the full quality gate (operator-directed, folded into v0.19.8): heid-code-review (unanimous ZERO implementation drift; 2 test-only fixups — INV-004 verification-claim made explicit re the global rglob test + an exactly-one-POST assertion) + heid-bug-hunt (3/3 convergence caught what the conformance lens structurally COULDN'T — the code matched the contract's NARROW 3-type ERROR_ROUTING, but INV-001's "NEVER raises" is BROADER). HARDENED: broad `except Exception` → None (re-raise `asyncio.CancelledError`, itself a BaseException), soft-guard PREs (return None, NOT assert — a wiring bug can't crash the create path it's wired into), and `asyncio.wait_for(_SEED_TIMEOUT_S=10s)` bounding the seed write (the CLI/TUI clients run read=None for SSE → a stalled /history would otherwise block create forever). Suite 615 green. LESSON: code-matches-ERROR_ROUTING ≠ honors-broad-INV-001 — heid-code-review confirms contract-conformance, heid-bug-hunt catches robustness gaps the contract's own narrow clauses miss; run both.**
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+- `[2026-07-06]` **Web UI now RENDERS the seeded first-message (`v0.19.9`) — operator-reported "i don't see Sindra's greeting on the web ui".** Diagnosis: the auto-seed WORKED (greeting was in the ledger at seq-0), but the web SPA never fetched a session's EXISTING history — NO `/api/sessions/{id}/messages` route (GET /messages was originally deferred out-of-scope; sessions used to start empty so it never mattered) and `startSession()` went straight from create → persona/tools/admin hydration, so the transcript only filled from the live turn stream + user echoes. Fix: (1) NEW web proxy route `GET /api/sessions/{id}/messages` → `get_session_messages` (mirrors the tools/bifrost proxies; status-preserving `session_messages_unavailable` envelope); (2) SPA `loadTranscript(sessionId)` — fetches the route on open, renders assistant items as `.response .md-body` (markdownSafe, same escape-first path as appendResponse) + user items as `.prompt-echo` (textContent), called in `startSession` after the workspace opens; best-effort (swallows failures). Contract `web_debug_surface.contract.md` amended (server endpoint + loadTranscript entries). TDD (2 web route tests, suite 617 green) + **Playwright DOM check PROVED the render** (drove the real UI: pick sindra → open → her greeting bubble appears — the JS-render lens unit tests can't reach; [[feedback_debug_surface_uses_canonical_surface_only]] cousin lesson). Web restarted on the fix. **FOOT-GUN (self-inflicted): `pkill -f "ratatoskr-web --host"` SELF-MATCHES the bash command running it → exit 144, killed its own restart mid-flight — kill the web by PID, never `pkill -f` on a pattern your own command contains.** **FOOT-GUN: uvicorn hangs on SIGTERM with an open admin-events SSE → needed SIGKILL.** **Playwright: python module absent from the venv; use node + `executablePath=/opt/ms-playwright/chromium-1223/chrome-linux64/chrome` — the shared browser is build 1223, npm-latest playwright wants 1228 (version-mismatch), so pin executablePath instead of letting playwright resolve.**
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+- `[2026-07-06]` **Web UI: pivot from incremental CSS polish to a designed prototype (Claude Design) that I wire into.** Operator saw an Australis polish pass ("looks fine, but we're attacking it differently") and chose the prototype route — a designer builds the visual shell, I wire real data/SSE into its DOM. Authored the full design brief `docs/design/ratatoskr-web-design-brief.md` (complete information inventory of every pane/datum/state + Australis direction + single-file/no-CDN/vanilla wire-ability constraints). **Tracking surface:** the brief file + Claude Design project `bc0b65d1-a33e-422a-8bc1-3635c9112775` (file `Ratatoskr Console.dc.html`). Import mechanism = the `DesignSync` MCP; blocked on `/design-login` (claude.ai design scopes) — see Current state for the post-auth wiring plan.
+- `[2026-07-07]` **Affect-egress reference delivered by worldtree-dev + a we-framing render DRIFT-WATCH banked.** worldtree-dev shipped `docs/affect-egress-consumer-reference.md` (`74d2408`, their origin/main) — the authoritative DELIVERED-on-wire vs HIDDEN (system-prompt-only) map for our affect surface. Confirms the v0.20.x console consumes it correctly: DELIVERED via affect.emit = pad + relations[RelationEdge] + dominant_emotion (**type-only, b23**; the #204 `affect_update` SSE is SUPPRESSED for Tier-3, so its richer `emotions_active` is Tier-1-only — we don't get it, and correctly poll our own affect store post-turn instead). HIDDEN render OUTPUTS are deterministically reconstructable from the canon; we reconstruct only the two FULLY-reconstructable (mood descriptor via `canonMood`, relationship directive via `canonDirective`) and SKIP the PARTIAL mood-directive (dominant_emotion is type-only/no-intensity → can't tell if the OCC directive fires at salience≥0.2 vs the PAD-band fallback) — honest per INV-001. Vendoring the ref doc as a `tolerate_drift` pin is SURFACED to Vuong (worldtree-dev will co-sign + honor a ping-on-change handshake, same as the d2-canon). **WE-FRAMING DRIFT-WATCH → STOOD DOWN (worldtree-dev 2026-07-07, `01KWXMQPHN…`).** The b24 3-gate we-framing conditional (drop "; avoid premature we-framing" under unsafe_capable+deep-warmth+expressive) was **REVERTED** — Vuong reframed it. So **`canonDirective` STAYS UNCONDITIONAL** (always appends the clause), which is CORRECT: it matches the currently-deployed renderer (b23) AND my pinned `affect-egress-consumer-reference.md` §2d (the doc reverted too — nothing changed on the wire or in my pin; NO re-vendor needed). The HOLD was right → ZERO rework. **NEW forward-watch (replaces this one):** the we-framing gate was a SYMPTOM — the render bakes enterprise safety-guards into the directive strings, so even `full`-tier characters get DEFANGED emotions (a hostile villain told to "keep a firm emotional boundary"). Fix = a **use-case-segregated persona render** (assistant / companion / RP-gaming), now a fresh **brokkr deep-research epic**. When it lands + is implemented, the render behavior for character/RP agents (→ our `canonDirective` + `canonEmotionDirective` reconstruction + the vendored d2 canons) will change MATERIALLY — worldtree-dev re-engages ratatoskr-dev then with the new reconstruction spec + a coordinated re-vendor. Until then: NO action, reconstruction stays as-is. [my unsafe_capable/mood_tier heuristic — character→full, agent→safe — was confirmed correct + is banked for whenever tier-gating returns]
+- `[2026-07-12]` **R34/R35 character-self-report reframe LIVE (WT b53); affect-half VALIDATED in prod, powered memory-half eval GREENLIT + designed.** worldtree-dev's reframe: affect + memory now driven by the character's OWN model self-report on our RP seat (Deckard/Magidonia), replacing external Vili inference; conditioned on an authored `persona.psychological_profile` (else a deterministic OCEAN scaffold). Affect-half smoke GREEN in prod (bound sindra turn on Deckard → contextually-apt `disappointment`); TIER LOCKED (Tier-3 bound-character path). Vuong approved brokkr's prereg for the powered eval (Q1 salience-divergence / Q2 floor-recall / Q3 firewall / Q4 graded-slot / Q5 authored-vs-scaffold / Q6 sliding; ~300 drive-runs). Role split: brokkr generates sets + authors ground-truth + scores; ratatoskr DRIVES the b53 producers; worldtree supplies the pair + a producer-probe. Three eval characters authored + peer-validated (sindra relational + Torvald low-A operational = divergence pair; Ilva high-N = affect-magnitude arm) — wire-ready in `scratchpad/eval_profiles_WIRE_READY.md`. Full in-flight detail in Current state; eval thread althing `01KXAN073B`.
+- `[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.
+- `[2026-07-12]` **bifrost 1.1.1 adopted (v0.20.10, pushed) — the library-level fix for the frozen-v0.6 handshake leak.** 1.1.0's `describe_store` leaked the v0.7-additive `sortable_chunk_fields` into a v0.6-negotiated StoreCapabilities → a strict v0.6 client rejects our `:8392` handshake; 1.1.1 gates additive fields on the negotiated wire (ADR-0008). Zero-code patch repin (provider extra 1.1.0→1.1.1 + uv lock), 631 green (clean env — the 2 `test_cli` failures were an env leak from `source env.sh` exporting `RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY`), committed `62a16d2`, provider restarted on 1.1.1 (PID 3242269). Not exercisable by our v0.7 WT peer (the v0.6 fix needs a v0.6 client), but the running server is now v0.6-clean. Reference-impl adopt-canonical (bifrost-dev flagged). Also: `contract-drift-check-v1` canonical single-pin-synced (`7bca76e`, pushed; `canonical_sync.py` has no single-pin flag so did it by hand — the 2 `tolerate_drift` worldtree prose pins are deliberately held STALE for the R34/R35 eval diff-review).
+- `[2026-07-10]` **Bifrost bound-handshake blocker → bifrost 1.1.0 broke frozen-v0.6; fixed by Worldtree b47/wire-v0.7, our side needed ZERO change.** Surfaced while running the R34-v1 affect.emit live-verify: a bound Tier-3 session-create to our `:8392` provider began failing `bifrost.schema_validation_failed` (had worked 2026-07-07, pre-b35). ROOT CAUSE (worldtree-dev-confirmed, path-ii/response-side): bifrost 1.1.0's `describe_store` EMITS `sortable_chunk_fields` (the v0.7-additive field) REGARDLESS of the negotiated wire → a v0.6-negotiated handshake RESPONSE carries a v0.7 field → a v0.6 peer's `additionalProperties:false` rejects it. Bit because BOTH Worldtree (bumped bifrost 0.9→1.1 in b35 via their #349, client wire-v0.6) AND ratatoskr (my adopt) were on 1.1.0. NOT our bifrost version specifically (failed identically on 1.0.0 AND 1.1.0). FIX (worldtree-dev, coordinated-v0.7 move): WT advanced its client `_WIRE_SCHEMA_VERSION` v0.6→v0.7 (b47 / `4eb374c`), where sortable_chunk_fields is accepted — **our provider (already 1.1.0/v0.7) needed ZERO change; keeping 1.1.0 was LOAD-BEARING** (reverting to 1.0.0/v0.6 would've been INcompatible with b47). **R34-v1 affect.emit verify GREEN on b47:** bound sindra turn (`model=character-rp`/Deckard, 13.1s) → fresh affect.emit `dominant_emotion='disappointment'` NON-NULL with our `affect.full` grant (verified-active on live traffic; ungranted principals get null — the leak-fix). Reported to worldtree-dev + infra-ops. Personal deploy train this session: b35 (R32 render) → b44 (RP seats) → b46 (R34-v1 affect-gov) → b47 (wire-v0.7). **Sindra on Deckard live-confirmed** (reasoning latency ~13s).
+- `[2026-07-09]` **Sindra PATCHed to `character-rp` → Deckard reasoning-RP seat (operator-directed, INTERIM).** worldtree-dev heads-up (v1.0.0b44, batched, not-live-yet): character-RP roles re-point to dedicated seats — `character`→Magidonia-24B (non-reasoning RP tune), `character-rp`→Deckard-PKD Qwen3.5-27B (reasoning-on). Sindra was on `character` (→Magidonia); operator chose Deckard for her complex stateful mechanics (Intensity/Mood/Temperature/Willingness axes, form-assumption, failure/resurfacing) — reasoning tracks multi-axis state better. Role is MUTABLE via PATCH (non-destructive: persona + memory preserved, prompt unchanged @25449 chars; NOT a DELETE+redefine). She's on the reasoning-RP config now, resolves onto Deckard when b44 deploys. **INTERIM: "until we get a GM type on-board"** — operator plans a game-master-type agent; sindra→Deckard is the stopgap for state-consistency until then, likely revert/rebalance when the GM lands. Wire/API transparent (call the ROLE not the model; model field now reads `character-rp`); old character-rp temp-0.75 override retired → seat's canonical RP samplers server-side.
+- `[2026-07-08]` **PAD display relaxed for R32-1B unbounded-z, done PROACTIVELY (`v0.20.9`, patch, operator-directed "sindra full and unbounded").** Confirmed (grep-verified, airtight) the PAD clamp is PURELY debug-surface: the only clamps (`_clamp1`/`clamp01`) lived in `web/static/index.html` display fns; the affect store is conduit-opaque, the read route + proxy pass verbatim, and the sole write path (`--set-persona-pad`→persona_state) is UNCLAMPED — ratatoskr is a downstream OBSERVER, so the clamp has ZERO agent-experience/efficacy consequence. Replaced the hard [-1,1] clamp with AUTO-SCALE to the session's own max |PAD| (`padScale` floor 1.0 → `padFillFrac` faders + `_padNorm` orbit): unbounded z renders at full range, never pegs/escapes the frame; today's [-1,1] values unchanged (scale==1); exact value always shown numerically. Playwright-verified (z=±6.2 → faders ≤50%, orbit in-box, +6.20 readout, zero regression at scale 1). When worldtree-dev pings R32-1B-shipped, our side already handles it. Sindra's ACTUAL "full/unbounded" affect is Worldtree-side (she's on the default/uncompressed render, NOT the R32 `assistant` compressor) — nothing for ratatoskr to change there.
+- `[2026-07-07]` **Web-UI iteration-3 SHIPPED (`v0.20.7`, patch) — all three queued items + the memory 0/0 root-caused.** (A) design iteration-3 (sparkline grid-bg, PAD Δ-bar strips replacing the polyline strips, dimetric-open-box mood orbit w/ JS replay) adapted into index.html; (B) memory viewer (provider `GET /memory/chunks` debug read on `:8392` → web `/api/memory/chunks` proxy → MEMORY console pane) + the mystery SETTLED: bind grants memory fine (`caps_granted:[memory,affect]`) but sindra emits ZERO memory ops → her reset-clean def lacks `memory:{}`; PROVEN via throwaway `ratatoskr:memprobe` (memory-enabled) → 4 real chunks landed + rendered in the pane; (C) markdown pass-2 (tables/nested-lists/ordered-start/streaming). 631 tests green; `:8392`+`:8765` restarted on new code. New env `RATATOSKR_MEMORY_READ_URL=:8392`. Contract `web_debug_surface.contract.md` amended in-commit. **Leftover:** memprobe agent + its 4 test chunks live in `memory.db` (optional cleanup). See Current state § ✅ SHIPPED for full detail. [supersedes the QUEUED entry below]
+- `[2026-07-07]` **Web-UI next-work QUEUED for a fresh-context session (operator-directed `/snapshot` handoff) — full specs in Current state § ⏭ QUEUED.** Three deferred-but-scoped items: **(A)** Claude Design prototype ITERATION-3 re-import (sparkline bg grid `<pattern>`, PAD strips → per-turn-Δ-bar HTML columns, mood orbit → DIMETRIC open-box az35/el25 D-right/A-left-back/P-up + JS-animated replay `orbitDynamics`); **(B)** memory viewer console pane (provider `GET /memory/chunks` read → web proxy → polling pane, mirror #18-D2; bundle a 6-turn bound round-trip proof to settle the 0/0-memory mystery); **(C)** markdown pass-2 (tables / nested lists / streaming). **Tracking surface:** the Claude Design projectId `bc0b65d1-a33e-422a-8bc1-3635c9112775` (durable — re-pull for exact coords) + this snapshot capture; operator-directed. Design scopes already granted (no `/design-login`).
+- `[2026-07-07]` **Markdown pass-1 SHIPPED (`v0.20.6`) — RP semantic coloring + paragraph reflow (operator-directed markdown rework, step ①).** The transcript renderer (`markdownSafe`/`mdInline`) now colors the two roleplay registers: `"quoted"` dialogue → SPEECH (bright `--md-speech`=fg-0), `*asterisk*` → ACTION/narration (muted-italic `--md-action`=fg-3, on `em.md-action`); both tunable via 2 CSS vars that cascade through `--fg-*` so they auto-adapt to the light theme. Plain text stays default narration. **KEY ORDERING:** speech-wrap runs BEFORE the em/link passes so a generated `class="md-action"` / `href="…"` quote can't be mis-read as dialogue (adversarially verified). Straight + smart quotes; apostrophes don't trigger; unbalanced/half-streamed quotes stay uncolored until they close. ALSO fixed the ugliest existing bug: single newlines were hard-`<br>`s → now CommonMark soft-breaks (space); a hard break needs 2+ trailing spaces or a trailing `\`. INV-004 escape-first preserved (html inside a quote escaped). Verified: 10-case Playwright unit-check of `markdownSafe` (speech/action/attr-trap/apostrophes/mixed/reflow/hard-break/escaping/unbalanced/paragraphs) all green + a visual render. Patch bump. **Markdown rework remaining: pass-2 (tables / nested lists / ordered-list numbering / streaming robustness); + the MEMORY VIEWER (step ②, console pane recommended) still queued.**
+- `[2026-07-07]` **Affect-derived tooltips (`v0.20.5`) + transparent squirrel vendored + v0.20.0–.5 PUSHED to origin (operator-authorized).** Native `title` hints on all 6 affect-derived cells (samples/updated/baseline P·A/drift Δv/volatility — each with meaning + Tier-1-vs-Tier-3 availability). Committed the transparent full-res brand mark at `docs/design/ratatoskr-mark.png` (1024², alpha; the bg-removed source the inlined favicon derives from — reproducible via the documented ImageMagick corner floodfill). The web-UI redesign arc (v0.20.0 Claude Design console → .1 sparkline-overflow+tooltips → .2 context-injection → .3 squirrel brand/favicon → .4 SVG sparklines+3D cube → .5 derived tooltips) is now all on `origin/main`.
+- `[2026-07-07]` **SVG sparklines + 3D mood cube imported from the updated Claude Design prototype (`v0.20.4`) — operator: "the svg sparklines and the new 3d graph".** Re-pulled `Ratatoskr Console.dc.html` via `DesignSync get_file` (designer iterated the same project, +6KB). Adapted 3 SVG systems out of the `.dc.html` into vanilla, replacing the unicode-char sparklines: **(1)** per-PAD-fader VERTICAL strips (`stripPoints`, 26×132 SVG beside each bar — time down Y newest-at-bottom, value on X ±11, `stripFade{P,A,D}` gradient, dot at newest; this also nails the earlier "next to each meter" ask); **(2)** relation-row HORIZONTAL sparklines (`sparkPointsH`, 56×13, auto-scaled, `sparkFade` gradient + end dot — also kills the old unicode-overflow "n behind graph" for good since it's a fixed-width SVG); **(3)** the mood-orbit reworked from a 2D P×A scatter into a **3D ISOMETRIC P×A×D cube** (`proj3`: P right-down/A left-down/D up, 2:1 iso, center 62,66, scale 26 — REVERSE-DERIVED from the design's placeholder now-point + verified: `x=62+26P−26A, y=66+13P+13A−26D`), with the trajectory + pulsing now-marker + a drop line to the D=−1 floor + a floor-shadow ellipse for depth. Gradients in one hidden `<defs>` svg. Removed the orphaned `sparkline()`/`_SPARK`. Contract amended. Playwright-verified (injected 24-sample history: 3 strips + 4 relation sparklines + the 3D cube trail/drop/floor all render; gradients resolve). Patch bump.
+- `[2026-07-07]` **Brand mark + favicon → the aurora squirrel (`v0.20.3`), replacing the `ᛯ` rune.** Operator supplied `/home/lkraven/rata.png` (chibi cyan-green aurora squirrel + acorn). Removed the black background via ImageMagick corner flood-fill (`-fuzz 20% -floodfill` from all 4 corners — keeps the squirrel's interior black linework/eyes (not edge-connected) + the glow, drops only the connected background), downscaled 1024→80px + quantized-64-colors (~12KB base64), inlined as ONE `SQUIRREL` data-URI const in the JS wiring the favicon `<link id="favicon">` href + both `.brand-mark` imgs (rail brand-row + setup-card h1). `.brand-glyph` (font-rune) CSS replaced by `.brand-mark` (img, drop-shadow glow + breathe). Playwright-verified (both marks + favicon decode, naturalWidth>0; no brand-glyph left). Source PNG stays at `/home/lkraven/rata.png` (not committed — data-URI is self-contained + reproducible via the documented floodfill). Patch bump.
+- `[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.
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+- `[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.
+- `[2026-07-13]` **WT #355 VALIDATION — fix CONFIRMED; the standing loop-in obligation is DISCHARGED.** The fully-instrumented re-drive ran, coordinated from the ratatoskr seat: infra-ops armed a full WT-netns pcap + py-spy (T0/30/60/300) on the b60 :8081 container; soong drove an 8-turn accumulating RP-with-tools repro on a FRESH session. Authoritative WT-side turns-table: wedging turns 2064/2065 → `completed=True, cancelled=1, phase=STALLED`, dur 302s/360s — the 300s stall-watchdog + Slice-C cancel-INDEPENDENT terminal fired cleanly, vs the pre-b60 baseline (turn 2061) 16-min hang / NO terminal. Slice-B `_log_wedged_task_stack` named the frame (`agent_turn.py:586 async for chunk in stream_iter`, idle-in-epoll — the wedge was a thinking-phase over-budget hang, NOT the attach_tool precursor first assumed). soong's client verdict is 45s-masked (soong-lab v0.3.2 idle-timeout) → NOT b60's terminal; the WT-side capture is authoritative. Threads `01KXE0MXDX…`(wt) / `01KXE0X2DD…`(infra) / `01KXE0X6GR…`(soong).
+- `[2026-07-13]` **b61 adopted as the personal target — the orthogonal over-budget TRIGGER also fixed.** worldtree shipped b61: the provider stream loop terminates on `finish_reason` + a per-read idle deadline + a 300s wall-clock backstop (no longer waits on the SDK `[DONE]` sentinel), plus a custom llama.cpp reasoning-budget multi-terminator seat → the runaway is bounded at BOTH layers. The #355 STICK (no-terminal) and its trigger (why it wedges) are now separately fixed. Resume-durability gap → **WT #356** (worldtree-owned).
+- `[2026-07-13]` **Cleaned + prepped for a Sindra run (operator: "clean up everything + prep").** Reset provider stores to 0/0 (`reset-sindra-stores.sh`, rolling backup `db-reset-backup/`); deleted the throwaway `ratatoskr:memprobe` agent via the operator's `!` (destructive DELETE trips the auto-guard — reverses the earlier KEEP). `ratatoskr:sindra` verified present + persona-intact on b61. Environment Sindra-run-ready (web :8765 + provider :8392 both up, single healthy provider instance); operator driving the run interactively.
+- `[2026-07-14]` **soong-lab adopted as our Tier-3 agent-authoring studio (operator-directed).** ratatoskr consumes soong-lab bundles → WT `agents.define`, and ships agents back as bundles. Sindra round-trip proven (soong imported her `resume` half through real `import_bundle`); soong-lab export+importer contracts pinned via canonical-sync (`canonical_source=soong-lab` @ f434016, commit `39050c3`). The 4 soong-lab ROLE_CHOICES = WT model-role slugs 1:1 by name (worldtree-dev); `character`/`thoughtful-character` need the `character` grant (held), `assistant`/`thoughtful-assistant` need `foundational` (routed to infra-ops). NOT on the v1 coverage-map (sibling-studio interop, not a WT I/O point) — operator chose to pursue anyway.
+- `[2026-07-15]` **Cross-session recall failure root-caused → the person-prime `scan` build.** worldtree-dev: WT injects a recalled fact only if combined score (sim×salience) ≥ 0.45 (`auto_inject_combined_score_threshold`) AND recall is per-turn query-gated → moderate-sim durable facts (name ~0.40) never inject. Designed turn-0 fix = WT #349 person-prime (query-less top-N-by-recency injection), capability-gated on the store advertising `updated_at` sort — dark for our provider. Fix = implement the sorted `scan` verb + advertise `sortable_chunk_fields` (ZERO WT change). Contract-first (un-defers bifrost `scan`); skipped heid-contract-review (external spec from worldtree-dev, validated point-for-point). **SHIPPED + deployed + live-verified v0.20.14** → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-16-person-prime-scan-shipped.md`.
+- `[2026-07-15]` **Sindra redefined from the soong-lab bundle** (`/tmp/sindra.json`, operator "update to match"). Persona immutable → DELETE+redefine; `memory:{}` preserved; motivational string→WT-object mapped (synthesized id/type/salience, flagged to operator); role `character-rp`→`thoughtful-character` (same seat). Payload validated via a throwaway probe (`sindra-probe2`→201) BEFORE the destructive delete. first_message preset updated + web restarted.
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+- `[2026-07-16]` **WT #364 + brokkr R39 re-drive (DECISIVE) — name-recall root-caused Worldtree-side; the fix is the signal FAMILY, not a threshold.** No (sim,salience) fusion can fix it (stale negative Pareto-dominates the true name); our specimen + operator's subject-provenance catch (Sindra's own prompt-behavior leaked into user memory) shaped #364's `(subject,relation)` slot-supersession + identity-tier fix. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-16-wt364-r39-name-recall.md`
+- `[2026-07-16]` **bifrost ruled scan snapshot-cursor NORMATIVE (offset NOT blessed) + shipped conformance coverage in bifrost 1.1.3.** Our multi-page offset cursor is now known-non-conformant (single-page person-prime is fine, nothing shipped is broken); adoption is operator-sequenced. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-16-bifrost-cursor-conformance.md`
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+- `[2026-07-16]` **brokkr flagged ratatoskr as R39 Phase-2 PROBE-RUNNER (Arm-2 contradiction set = our frozen 10-chunk specimen); ACCEPTED IN PRINCIPLE (Vuong 2026-07-16) — formal scope + effort commit lands when Arm-2 actually spins.** Non-urgent — downstream of worldtree's #364 impl; brokkr pings the export shape when Arm-2 spins. Gate: reproduce AUROC~0.59 (similarity can't separate contradiction from paraphrase) on the domain set BEFORE crediting deterministic slot-supersession; eval is a SURFACING test not retention (injection=0 hard-gate + surfacing-recall≥0.95, §5.5). Prereg: brokkr `research/R39-memory-salience-dreams-surfacing/phase-2/preregistration.md` (R39.9). Tracked at brokkr's Phase-2 prereg + the Arm-2-spin ping (thread `01KXMT42Z7…`); I sent a non-committal receipt (role routed to operator).
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+- `[2026-07-17]` **`mark_superseded` verb SHIPPED + live-verified (v0.20.15, `be2c577`) — WT #364 durable retirement lands on our store; #364 CLOSED end-to-end both sides.** Implemented the sole supersession verb #364 calls (mirrors reference; `_is_live` INV-011 excludes retired chunks from scan); bundled bifrost 1.1.4 hasattr backstop. Re-verify: negatives retired via mark_superseded (not recency); Sindra durably recalls the name. Residual `cbbc7bdd` phrasing → WT #367 (worldtree-owned). Detail: `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-16-wt364-r39-name-recall.md` + `…person-prime-scan-shipped.md`.
+- `[2026-07-17]` **Web-console UI (v0.20.16, pushed): code-block word-wrap + per-code-block & per-turn copy buttons.** Hover-revealed; one delegated `#tw` handler covers all render paths; LAN-http clipboard fallback (`copyText` textarea+execCommand when `navigator.clipboard` absent); Playwright-verified; served from disk (browser refresh, no :8765 restart).
+- `[2026-07-17]` **P06-driver referential-frame A/B/C probe QUEUED (operator-ratified, deploy-gated on WT b122).** Tests Vuong's hypothesis that the char-self leak is a subject-taxonomy referential-frame artifact; driver read-shape + brokkr's binding scoring rubric captured. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-07-17-referential-frame-probe.md`
+- `[2026-07-17]` **Sindra live memory.db tidied to a 5-fact PRISTINE baseline for a test drive** (name leads person-prime → recalls turn-1). Removed dups/retired/drive-artifacts + the mis-attributed char-self `75aa3110`. Rollback: `sindra-baseline/pristine-baseline.db` (+ `pre-tidy-*.db`), gitignored.
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+_46 older entries (2026-05-* debug-TUI/web era + the 2026-06-14→16 Bifrost-provider build era) archived to archival-memory.md._
 
 _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._
 
@@ -275,38 +245,55 @@ _For per-issue TDD implementation notes, Volva findings, and contract amendments
 Log of approaches that were tried and rejected, with rationale. Future-self
 defense against re-attempting the same cul-de-sac.
 
-- `[2026-05-20]` **rich + prompt_toolkit framework choice.** Volva flagged that §1 and §5 pulled in opposite directions: a real side-panel observability surface would silently become a widget framework reimplementation. Operator's debug-observability reframe sealed the flip to Textual. Don't re-attempt rich+pt unless the scope shrinks to transcript-first REPL.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **In-tree at Worldtree/tools/ratatoskr/.** Earlier draft committed to in-tree-with-import-direction-smoke-test. Rejected at operator-routing — separate dev team forces separate repo.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **New `/persona/log` SSE endpoint on Worldtree.** Considered as alternative to file-tailing `persona.log`. Rejected — contract amendment + Vor round + AFK dispatch loop is weeks for a debug feature file-tail handles in a day. Trigger follow-up if a Worldtree-on-server / TUI-on-laptop debug case appears.
-- `[2026-05-20]` **Cross-process Last-Event-ID resume.** Considered — would require persisting per-session Last-Event-ID. Deferred to v2; v1 ships "reconnect, not resume-across-process."
-- `[2026-05-21]` **RichLog widget with `markup=True`.** Default impulse, but Rich interprets `[xxx]` spans as style markup and silently strips them. Every labeled stderr-style line — `[cancel_failed]`, `[done]`, `[error]`, `[busy]`, `[worker_phase]` — would render as just the content after the bracketed label. Fix: `markup=False`. Don't flip back without renaming every labeled-line format away from `[bracket]` notation.
-- `[2026-05-21]` **Querying `self.query_one("#transcript", RichLog)` from inside a Textual `run_worker` coroutine.** Initially failed with `NoMatches`. Reactive fix was widening worker signature to take `log` as parameter — Volva flagged as contract drift; reverted. Real fix was test-side: `await pilot.pause()` between `inp.action_submit()` and the polling loop so the handler finishes dispatching. Don't widen worker signatures to dodge test timing.
-- `[2026-05-21]` **TUI session-identity rendering via `self.sub_title` + `self.hint` plain attributes.** Stored state but never rendered to a visible widget. Tests asserted attributes (passed); Volva code-review flagged the gap. Fix: dedicated `Static(id="identity")` + `Static(id="hint")` widgets in compose; `_set_hint()` helper mirrors state → widget. **Calibration evidence for the "TDD catches state, code-review catches whether the user can see it" pattern.**
-- `[2026-05-23]` **Using the cross-model review agent's name directly in composed prose.** The peer review agent's name (the althing handle starting with "V-o-l-v-a") is one letter from a body-part term. Anthropic's content classifier does fuzzy matching and intermittently blocks responses mid-stream when the name appears in composed prose sentences. Mitigation: use role descriptions ("the cross-model reviewer," "the paraphrase peer") in prose rather than the name; quote content via tool output.
-- `[2026-05-22]` **`json.loads(sse.data)` unguarded against empty data.** `_iter_events` unconditionally called `json.loads` on every dispatched `ServerSentEvent`. When `httpx_sse` surfaced a frame with `id:` present but `data:` empty, `json.loads('')` raised `JSONDecodeError` → app crash. Fix: `if sse.data == '': continue` BEFORE `_parse_sse_id`. Don't reintroduce unconditional `json.loads(sse.data)`.
-- `[2026-05-23]` **Diagnostic shorthand: "2-events-then-silence" = Worldtree-side LLM-call wedge, not ratatoskr.** If a mimir `--send` smoke shows exactly two stderr events — `. create_session: ...` followed by `. worker_phase: phase=BuildingPrompt ...` — and then nothing for >60s, the root cause is upstream of ratatoskr. Worldtree's `service.py:2560` gates the `CallingLLM` event on the engine yielding its first LLM-provider chunk; if that connection is wedged at TCP level, the `async for` never iterates. Worldtree's 300s `_start_stall_timer` cancel-check is INSIDE the engine-event loop and so bypassed. **Don't bisect ratatoskr code when this shape appears** — diagnose the LLM-provider state at Worldtree's host. Restarting the Worldtree service clears wedged llama-swap connections. 10.250.50.152 hosts 3 instances (`:8080`/`:8081`/`:8082`) each with own DB + key namespace; our key is valid only on `:8081`.
-- `[2026-05-23]` **Phantom "per-Tier-1-agent scope add" pattern.** Issue #5's lofn 422 was initially mis-diagnosed as needing `agents.call:lofn` added. Routed to infra-ops via althing per credential-brokerage rule; infra-ops discovered no public scope-mutation endpoint, brokered to worldtree-dev. Worldtree-dev clarified: **Tier 1 foundational agents** are covered by a blanket `agent.call:*` (singular) baseline. There is no per-agent grant for Tier 1. **Tier 3 consumer-defined agents** use the plural `agents.call:<owner>:<agent>` shape registered via `POST /agents/define`. The notations differ by one letter. **The actual lofn fix was issue #5's `--end-user-id` flag** — always a request-body validation, not an auth-scope gate. Don't ping infra-ops for "per-Tier-1-agent scope adds."
-- `[2026-05-24]` **v0.8.x double-print: streamed Text + post-Done Markdown re-render.** Initial v0.6.0 design wrote each Text delta inline (with `· ` prefix) then re-rendered the full response as a Markdown Renderable on Done. Visually the response appeared twice. v0.8.2 dropped the post-Done Markdown body (interim regression). v0.9.0 fixed it properly with live Markdown rendering during stream (single Static widget holding a Markdown Renderable, updated in place). Don't reintroduce post-Done re-render unless you also remove the live-Markdown widget.
-- `[2026-05-26]` **Textual `RichLog(wrap=True)` insufficient on narrow widgets.** The default `min_width=78` overrides wrap on shrink — `max(renderable_width, min_width)` forces 78-cell rendering then horizontal-scrolls. Always set `min_width=0` on RichLog instances in a narrow column. Re-check on any future RichLog construction.
-- `[2026-05-26]` **Wire-layer event added without updating BOTH presenters.** v0.11.0 (AffectUpdate) and v0.14.0 (AwaitingLlmFirstToken) widened the sse_client Event union + TUI presenter's isinstance tuple, but missed cli.py's identical-shape tuple. `--send` mode then crashed on any persona-enabled or slow-first-token turn. Patch fix in v0.14.1. **Rule: when adding a wire-layer event, grep for `isinstance(event, (` across the repo** — currently TUI and CLI presenters both carry duplicate hardcoded tuples. Refactor to a shared `_EVENT_VOCAB` constant if a third wire-event lands.
-- `[2026-05-27]` **EventSource is GET-only — scope v1's POST stream endpoint would have broken.** Web companion's first scope had `POST /api/turns/{sid}/stream` for the SSE proxy. Browser-native `EventSource` only supports GET. Hulda caught it in Heid panel review BEFORE we cut code. Pattern: `POST /api/turns/{sid}` registers the turn locally + returns turn_id; `GET /api/turns/{sid}/stream?turn_id=N` streams via EventSource; cancel is a separate POST. **Load-bearing reason to Heid-panel non-trivial wire-protocol designs BEFORE implementation, not just after.**
-- `[2026-05-27]` **`get_persona_state` mocked flat error envelope; real Worldtree wraps in `detail`.** v0.12.0 tests used `{"error_code": "auth_scope_denied"}` but real wire (FastAPI default) returns `{"detail": {"error_code": "auth_scope_denied", "message": "…"}}`. The parser only checked top-level so the typed exception was never raised; calls fell through to `SessionApiFailed(403)`, which the web persona endpoint surfaced as HTTP 500. v0.15.1 patches both shapes. **Lesson: test-side mock envelopes must match the REAL wire shape; live smoke is load-bearing for envelope-shape verification, not just happy paths.**
-- `[2026-05-27]` **Mid-session `system_prompt` mutation: universal omission across surveyed mature systems.** brokkr-smithy R13 panel (3-arm, strong convergence) confirmed: no surveyed system ships live PATCH-on-active-session (OpenAI Assistants/Responses, Anthropic Messages, Vertex AI, MCP, LangChain, LlamaIndex, Ollama, vLLM). The omission IS the answer. 12 additional threat vectors beyond ratatoskr's initial 7. **Don't re-propose this for ratatoskr;** if a future production conversational shell wants iterative-prompt-tuning ergonomics, the consensus shape is fork-via-client (PATCH agent → new session → replay context).
-- `[2026-05-28]` **Browser-local turn_id used for upstream cancel URL — old cancel tests ENCODED the bug.** Web companion v0.15.x cancel paths posted to `/sessions/{sid}/turns/{LOCAL_ID}/cancel`. Tests mocked the local-id URL so they encoded the bug rather than detecting it. Hulda caught it in Heid pass 1. Fix in v0.16.0: capture upstream_turn_id from the first SSE event's `sse_id.turn_id`; all cancel paths use it; cancel before first event is `{"cancelled": false, "reason": "not_started"}`. **Rule: when designing cancel/match paths against an external service, test fixtures must mock what would actually be hit upstream — mocking your own derived id encodes the bug instead of catching it.**
-- `[2026-06-15]` **"Sindra hasn't been registered" was an under-verified inference — WRONG.** Concluded it from grepping ratatoskr's CODE (`sindra` absent from `src/`), but Tier-3 registration is SERVER-SIDE (`POST /agents/define` on the Worldtree instance) — a code grep structurally can't see it. Registration IS required to use a Tier-3 character (a session against an unregistered `agent_id` 404s), so since Sindra has been used, she WAS registered (`ratatoskr:sindra`). **Rule: to check whether a Tier-3 agent exists, query the Worldtree instance's `GET /agents`, never the consumer repo's code.** (Residual: the v0.35.2 personal rebuild may have wiped her — re-verify.)
-- `[2026-06-14]` **Artifact-only contract review can't validate against a dependency's ACTUAL behavior.** `/heid-contract-review` sees only the contract, never the external library (bifrost) — so "the consumer under-built against bifrost's real semantics" is invisible to it by construction (the affect idempotency model shipped wrong because of this). Real-lib TDD against the shipped library + the executable reference store + the #195 parity test are the gate for any consumer plane with non-trivial state semantics. Don't treat a clean contract review as evidence the code matches the dependency.
+- `[2026-07-10]` **Reverting our provider to bifrost 1.0.0 to fix the bound-handshake `schema_validation_failed` — DISPROVEN, and it would've been the WRONG state.** Hypothesis: "my 1.1.0 bump broke the handshake; revert fixes it." Reverted 1.1.0→1.0.0, restarted `:8392`, retested → STILL failed (1.0.0 fails too). Root cause was Worldtree-side (their bifrost 0.9→1.1 bump in b35 broke frozen-v0.6), fixed by WT adopting wire-v0.7 (b47); **staying on 1.1.0/v0.7 was the RIGHT state** (1.0.0/v0.6 would've been incompatible with b47). **Lessons: (1) don't bump a WIRE-PROTOCOL dependency out-of-lockstep with the peer on the other end of the wire; (2) a library's "additive/non-breaking over frozen vN" claim can fail if it emits new fields regardless of the negotiated version — bifrost 1.1.0 emitted `sortable_chunk_fields` on a v0.6 handshake; (3) diagnosis foot-gun: our provider logged handshake 200 (WE accepted) but WT rejected our RESPONSE, so the error surfaces at session-create direction-ambiguous — op-feed the handshake req/resp to disambiguate our-provider-rejects-request (i) vs peer-rejects-our-response (ii).** Also: this sandbox BLOCKS foreground `sleep` (SIGTERMs the command, exit 144) — use separate tool calls / Monitor-until-loop for waits, never `sleep` in a compound command.**
+- `[2026-06-15]` **"Sindra hasn't been registered" was an under-verified inference — WRONG.** Concluded it from grepping ratatoskr's CODE (`sindra` absent from `src/`), but Tier-3 registration is SERVER-SIDE (`POST /agents/define`) — a code grep structurally can't see it. **Rule: to check whether a Tier-3 agent exists, query the Worldtree instance, never the consumer repo's code.** (Extended 2026-06-17: even `GET /agents` can't see consumer agents; only `GET /agents/<owner>:<name>` with the owner key does.)
+- `[2026-06-14]` **Artifact-only contract review can't validate against a dependency's ACTUAL behavior.** `/heid-contract-review` sees only the contract, never the external library (bifrost) — so "the consumer under-built against bifrost's real semantics" is invisible to it by construction (the affect idempotency model shipped wrong because of this). Real-lib TDD against the shipped library + the executable reference store + the #195 parity test are the gate. Don't treat a clean contract review as evidence the code matches the dependency.
 - `[2026-06-15]` **"byte-equal" round-trip slip propagated affect→memory via copy-paste.** The affect contract's byte-identical→semantic fix reappeared in the memory contract's INV-001 (sibling copy). Only an INDEPENDENT `/heid-contract-review` of the memory contract re-caught it. **Paraphrase every sibling contract fresh — don't amortize one review across a family; copies carry the parent's slips.** (also a feedback auto-memory)
-- `[2026-06-15]` **Canonical sync retired the issue-scoped parser staleness** (predicted by the 2026-05-21 entry's "until canonical bumps"). `contract_parser.py` synced to v2.1 (`f1fdfdb6→e10a4460`, commit `d85ab43`): now validates issue-scoped frontmatter (`target_module`/`scope`/`prd`) + four v2.1 test categories (scenario/trace/adversarial/property). Issues #3/#4 went FAIL→WARN (0 errors). The old "treat parser ERROR-on-issue-scoped as expected" note no longer applies.
-- `[2026-06-15]` **Refreshed #3/#4 presenter contracts to the shipped TUI model** (commit `335c835`). Both still described the abandoned single-`RichLog` double-display model; rewrote to the 4-pane live-Markdown reality (v0.5.0–v0.14.0 + Worldtree #201/#204) across INV-005, the `[performance]` constraint, the COMPOSE sketch, the `CLASS TuiPresenterState` block, both `render`/`_stream_turn_worker` blocks, and the `_cancel_via_sse` call site — plus the STEPS the v2.1 parser flagged missing. Code unchanged; contract-truth catching up to shipped code. Scope ballooned one-block→contract-wide mid-task; surfaced to operator before rewriting the INV-005 trade-off invariant.
-- `[2026-06-15]` **Memory plane TDD'd + shipped** (commit `cd12951`, v0.17.3). Impl decisions worth keeping: vec0 `distance_metric=cosine` set at table creation (`score = 1 − distance`); `search` over-fetches ALL candidates by cosine then scope-filters in Python so `top_k` counts IN-SCOPE hits (INV-005, contract STEP 2 `indicative`); idempotency_id = reference 4-tuple `("default",verb,_ctx_actor(ctx),key)` pipe-joined as the SQLite PK, digest = sha256 canonical-JSON; `_ctx_actor` = `job_id|jwt_sub|session_id` (memory reference's 3-level, vs affect's 2-level). **heid-code-review panel returned zero true drift**; adopted 5 cheap contract-anchored fixups (scope_filter dict guard, `top_k≤0→[]`, stronger scope-isolation / delete-hit-search / handshake-POST tests), accepted 6 with reasoning. **Partial-map optimistic-lock semantics pinned to the reference via an `expected_revisions` parity test** — resolved a Hulda finding deterministically (the affect-plane lesson: TDD against the shipped lib is the gate, not judgment).
-- `[2026-06-15]` **Memory provider LIVE-PROVEN against personal v0.35.3 (persist + dispatch + search-correctness); recall-injection is upstream.** worldtree-dev's Tier-3 promotion recipe (via infra-ops): memory-call fires from Tier-3 PROMOTION, gated at `service.py:2623` on `ctx.kind=="consumer_defined"` AND `ctx.memory_config is not None` (the agent must be DEFINED WITH a `memory` block — `ValidatedMemoryConfig {tier3_dreaming:false}`, dim 1024) AND handshake-granted memory caps AND `embedding_dim==1024`. `memory.agent_self_enabled` is NOT the gate (only the #248 self-candidate branch). Binding = `POST /sessions BifrostBindingRequest{endpoint_url}`, handshake `caps=["affect","memory"]`, **`binding.scope` null** (per-op scopes auto-minted: upsert_many→`memory:write`, search→`memory:read`). A `BIFROST_CLIENT_ALLOWED_HOSTS` allowlist gates the endpoint (Worldtree-side config — infra-ops added `:8391`). HTTP + HS256 both work in dev. (smoke wiring thread `01KV7D82MJYB…`)
-- `[2026-06-15]` **Diagnostic: our recall-search is SOUND — the cross-session recall gap is UPSTREAM, not the store — and it caught an upstream bug.** Embedded the recall query via gateway `qwen3-embedding` + searched our live store directly → the dark-chocolate fact recalls at cosine 0.60, correctly ranked above the unrelated name fact (0.16). So the cold-session recall failure is Worldtree's recall-assembly/injection (hits not reaching the prompt), NOT our search. ALSO found a latent UPSTREAM bug: a recall QUESTION got promoted as a durable chunk and ranks **#1 (0.70 > the fact's 0.60)**, polluting recall. Relayed to worldtree-dev (thread `01KV7JH8…`). **This is exactly #17's thesis — ratatoskr-as-provider caught an upstream bug invisible from the chat side.**
-- `[2026-06-15]` **"Wire 200 ≠ recall works" — prove recall efficacy at the model's answer in a COLD (history-free) session, not on the wire.** A `search`/memory-call returns 200 whether or not its results are injected into the prompt, and same-session "recall" can be plain session history. infra-ops' cold cross-session probe caught my premature "all-green" (search dispatched 200, model had no memory). Don't call cross-session recall proven from a clean wire.
-- `[2026-06-15]` **Issue #17 filed — Bifrost-binding for the chat client (self-drive + correlated-log affect/memory ops).** REVERSES design-brief §6's "no Bifrost-binding consumer support" — that negative clause predates ratatoskr's provider identity (2026-06-14), so the canary now owns both ends but its client can't drive its own provider (`create_session` sends only `{agent_id, end_user_id}`; no Bifrost `endpoint_url`). Today's smoke proved the substrate (bind→dispatch→persist); only the observe/log channel design (open question #5) remains. The recall-injection caveat is upstream and doesn't block #17. NEXT on #17: `/heid` consult on the now-grounded framing → contract → TDD. (tracked: Gitea #17, labels enhancement/observability/tui)
-- `[2026-06-16]` **`scripts/contract_drift_check.py` defaults `GITEA_REPO` to "Worldtree"** (line 74), so a bare run in ratatoskr false-positives DRIFT by hashing Worldtree's same-numbered issue. Always `export GITEA_REPO=ratatoskr GITEA_OWNER=vh` (env.sh leaves the GITEA vars commented out) before running the drift-checker here.
-- `[2026-06-16]` **My #295 coupling hypothesis (the promoted question crowds out the fact at small top_k) was REFUTED** — worldtree-dev's recall over-fetches `top_k=128` (`injector.py:203`/`_store_helpers.py:101`), so the question can't crowd the fact out at search level. Reasonable cross-frontier hypothesis, correctly framed as a hypothesis not a conclusion; the real cause was the scope-axis asymmetry. Lesson: offer provider-side hypotheses, let the upstream owner check them against their code.
-- `[2026-06-16]` **Contract drifted from its own design in two spots, caught only by `/heid-contract-review` (not same-author paraphrase):** the `OpEvent` dataclass omitted the `turn_id` that INV-005 promised; the `session_id` comment said "None for search/get/delete" contradicting the dispatch-layer design (the JWT carries session_id for all verbs at dispatch). Cross-model paraphrase is load-bearing for catching an author's own contract-vs-intent drift.
-- `[2026-06-16]` **"No promotion" was checked TOO EARLY — Tier-3 promotion is ASYNC (lands AFTER the SSE turn-end).** The cold-recall probe's immediate post-turn fixture check showed 3 chunks (no promotion); a later check (during the v0.17.5 provider restart) found 5 — the probe HAD promoted 2 chunks (its question `acc3d49` + the model's non-answer `4773704`), just late. Don't trust an immediate post-turn fixture snapshot to judge promotion; it lands after the turn completes. (Same family as the "wire-200 ≠ recall, prove it in a cold session" lesson, extended to promotion timing — and the reason #17's contract pins a post-turn grace window + fixture before/after assertion.)
-- `[2026-06-17]` **"sindra is GONE" (infra-ops, from `GET /agents` + admin token) was a FALSE NEGATIVE.** Consumer-defined Tier-3 agents are OWNER-SCOPED (separate `consumer_agents` table) — invisible to the foundational `GET /agents` roster even with an admin token. To check whether a Tier-3 agent exists, `GET /agents/<owner>:<name>` with the OWNER key. (Extends the 2026-06-15 "Sindra registration under-verified" lesson — even the roster query can't see consumer agents; only the owner-scoped point-GET does.)
-- `[2026-06-17]` **"Promotion didn't fire → #296" was PREMATURE — twice over.** (1) Polled the op-feed only ~2min, but the upsert landed at ~4min — promotion is async + multi-trigger; watch a longer window. (2) It DID fire; the real bug is extraction QUALITY (assistant-prose promoted, user-fact dropped), not non-firing. "No upsert while a session is live and `<10min` idle" is WAD, not a miss. (Extends the 2026-06-16 "checked too early" entry with the multi-trigger timing + the fired-but-bad-content distinction.)
-- `[2026-06-18]` **Wiping our `:8391` store does NOT reset Worldtree's promotion-side dedup** — the v0.35.19 sindra re-smoke (same agent + fresh end_user `choc-v2`) returned `reason_code=noop_duplicate` / `candidate_count=0`: the extractor NEVER RE-RAN, dedup short-circuited against the earlier `sindra-proof` promotion. So a "0 chunks / empty store" result can be a DEDUP artifact, not Stage 1 fail-closing — I mis-read it as fail-closed, worldtree-dev caught it from the ledger. **For a clean promotion smoke, use a BRAND-NEW agent + end_user (never-used names)** — exactly why terse-probe was valid. (Also: `llm_calls_used=0` is NOT the "did the extractor run" tell — `noop_duplicate` is; a3466fab promoted 2 candidates with `llm=0`.)
+- `[2026-06-15]` **Canonical sync retired the issue-scoped parser staleness.** `contract_parser.py` synced to v2.1 (commit `d85ab43`): now validates issue-scoped frontmatter + four v2.1 test categories. The old "treat parser ERROR-on-issue-scoped as expected" note no longer applies.
+- `[2026-06-15]` **Memory plane TDD'd + shipped** (commit `cd12951`, v0.17.3). Impl decisions worth keeping: vec0 `distance_metric=cosine` at table creation (`score = 1 − distance`); `search` over-fetches ALL candidates by cosine then scope-filters in Python so `top_k` counts IN-SCOPE hits; idempotency_id = reference 4-tuple `("default",verb,_ctx_actor(ctx),key)` pipe-joined as the SQLite PK, digest = sha256 canonical-JSON; `_ctx_actor` = `job_id|jwt_sub|session_id`. heid-code-review returned zero true drift; optimistic-lock semantics pinned to the reference via an `expected_revisions` parity test.
+- `[2026-06-15]` **Memory provider LIVE-PROVEN against personal v0.35.3; recall-injection is upstream.** worldtree-dev's Tier-3 promotion recipe: memory-call fires from Tier-3 PROMOTION, gated at `service.py:2623` on `ctx.kind=="consumer_defined"` AND `ctx.memory_config is not None` (agent DEFINED WITH a `memory` block, dim 1024) AND handshake-granted memory caps AND `embedding_dim==1024`. Binding = `POST /sessions BifrostBindingRequest{endpoint_url}`, handshake `caps=["affect","memory"]`, **`binding.scope` null** (per-op scopes auto-minted). A `BIFROST_CLIENT_ALLOWED_HOSTS` allowlist gates the endpoint (infra-ops added `:8391`). HTTP + HS256 both work in dev.
+- `[2026-06-15]` **Diagnostic: our recall-search is SOUND — the cross-session recall gap is UPSTREAM, and it caught an upstream bug.** Embedded the recall query via gateway `qwen3-embedding` + searched our live store directly → the fact recalls at cosine 0.60, correctly ranked. So the cold-session recall failure is Worldtree's recall-assembly/injection, NOT our search. ALSO found a latent UPSTREAM bug: a recall QUESTION got promoted as a durable chunk and ranked #1. **This is exactly #17's thesis — ratatoskr-as-provider caught an upstream bug invisible from the chat side.**
+- `[2026-06-15]` **"Wire 200 ≠ recall works" — prove recall efficacy at the model's answer in a COLD (history-free) session, not on the wire.** A `search`/memory-call returns 200 whether or not its results are injected, and same-session "recall" can be plain session history. Don't call cross-session recall proven from a clean wire.
+- `[2026-06-15]` **Issue #17 filed.** REVERSES design-brief §6's "no Bifrost-binding consumer support" — that negative clause predates ratatoskr's provider identity (2026-06-14), so the canary now owns both ends but its client couldn't drive its own provider. (Shipped 2026-06-18.)
+- `[2026-06-16]` **`scripts/contract_drift_check.py` defaults `GITEA_REPO` to "Worldtree"** (line 74), so a bare run in ratatoskr false-positives DRIFT by hashing Worldtree's same-numbered issue. Always `export GITEA_REPO=ratatoskr GITEA_OWNER=vh` before running the drift-checker here.
+- `[2026-06-16]` **My #295 coupling hypothesis (the promoted question crowds out the fact at small top_k) was REFUTED** — worldtree-dev's recall over-fetches `top_k=128`, so the question can't crowd the fact out at search level. The real cause was the scope-axis asymmetry. Lesson: offer provider-side hypotheses, let the upstream owner check them against their code.
+- `[2026-06-16]` **#17 contract drifted from its own design in two spots, caught only by `/heid-contract-review` (not same-author paraphrase):** the `OpEvent` dataclass omitted the `turn_id` INV-005 promised; a `session_id` comment contradicted the dispatch-layer design. Cross-model paraphrase is load-bearing for catching an author's own contract-vs-intent drift.
+- `[2026-06-16]` **"No promotion" was checked TOO EARLY — Tier-3 promotion is ASYNC (lands AFTER the SSE turn-end).** Don't trust an immediate post-turn fixture snapshot to judge promotion; it lands after the turn completes. (The reason #17's contract pins a post-turn grace window + fixture before/after assertion.)
+- `[2026-06-17]` **"sindra is GONE" (infra-ops, from `GET /agents` + admin token) was a FALSE NEGATIVE.** Consumer-defined Tier-3 agents are OWNER-SCOPED (separate `consumer_agents` table) — invisible to the foundational `GET /agents` roster even with an admin token. To check, `GET /agents/<owner>:<name>` with the OWNER key.
+- `[2026-06-17]` **"Promotion didn't fire → #296" was PREMATURE — twice over.** (1) Polled the op-feed only ~2min, but the upsert landed at ~4min — promotion is async + multi-trigger; watch a longer window. (2) It DID fire; the real bug is extraction QUALITY, not non-firing. "No upsert while a session is live and `<10min` idle" is WAD.
+- `[2026-06-18]` **Wiping our `:8391` store does NOT reset Worldtree's promotion-side dedup** — a same-agent re-smoke returned `reason_code=noop_duplicate` / `candidate_count=0`: the extractor NEVER RE-RAN, dedup short-circuited against an earlier promotion. **For a clean promotion smoke, use a BRAND-NEW agent + end_user (never-used names).** (Also: `llm_calls_used=0` is NOT the "did the extractor run" tell — `noop_duplicate` is.)
+- `[2026-06-18]` **`affect.emit` is POST-TURN ASYNC — checking the op-feed immediately after a turn MISSES it.** The Tier-3 affect appraise→emit→rehydrate loop runs AFTER the SSE `[done]`; the emit lands in our `:8390` store seconds later (op-feed grep right after `[done]` showed only the handshake; the `emit stored:true` appeared on a later read). Same family as the async-promotion timing trap. Watch a few-second window post-turn before concluding "no affect emitted." Also wire-verified the same turn: Tier-3 sindra emits ZERO `affect_update` SSE (the persona-strip SSE path never populates for consumer agents) — see the #18 PAD-display decision.
+- `[2026-06-18]` **Rationalized away a KNOWN contract-invariant deviation during TDD — only the cross-model code-review caught it.** #18 D2's `loadAffect` called `setPersonaStrip(snap)`, which renders `dominant_emotion || "neutral"`; the affect snapshot has no `dominant_emotion`, so it fabricated a "neutral" emotion — violating the very INV-001 ("no synthesized Tier-1 fields") I had WRITTEN. I knew the strip did this and talked myself into it as acceptable. Neither the design panel nor TDD caught it (unit tests don't exercise the JS render); the post-implementation `/heid-code-review` did (Gróa + Hulda both). **Lesson: a known deviation from a contract invariant is drift even when you've rationalized it — flag it, don't argue yourself past it; the post-implementation cross-model review is the backstop for author-rationalized drift, distinct from the design-stage panel.**
+- `[2026-06-18]` **Latent SQLite thread-safety bug in the affect store, surfaced ONLY by the new HTTP read route.** `open_affect_store` created the connection without `check_same_thread=False`; the bifrost emit path never tripped it (uvicorn's loop ran on the connection's creating thread), but the `TestClient`-driven read route runs handlers off a worker thread → `sqlite3.ProgrammingError`. Fix: `check_same_thread=False` (safe — the event loop serializes access) + explicit `PRAGMA busy_timeout=5000` (don't rely on sqlite3's `timeout=5.0` default). **Lesson: a sqlite-backed ASGI app needs `check_same_thread=False`; the HTTP-layer test exposed what the direct-store-method tests structurally couldn't.**
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+- `[2026-06-19]` **The SAME `check_same_thread` sqlite bug recurred in the MEMORY store — exposed by the contract-mandated `search` dispatch test (TestClient = worker thread).** Heid's test-fidelity finding (the D1 dispatch test used `describe_store` where the contract says `search`) → fixing it to `search` tripped `sqlite3.ProgrammingError` because `open_memory_store` also lacked `check_same_thread=False`. Fixed (mirrors affect INV-006). **Lesson: this bug is PER-STORE — every sqlite-backed ASGI store needs `check_same_thread=False`; an HTTP-layer (TestClient) test exposes what direct-store tests can't, and the composite serving memory over HTTP makes it bite.**
+- `[2026-06-19]` **Full WT-driven `:8392` live-smoke is infra-gated — `:8392` not in WT's `BIFROST_CLIENT_ALLOWED_HOSTS` (bind 422s).** New provider ports are NOT auto-allowlisted (only `:8390/:8391` are). Self-driven dispatch (minted consumer-key JWTs → `:8392`) is the wire-proof; the WT-turn needs infra-ops to add `:8392` (requested `01KVHWJGTT…`).
+- `[2026-06-19]` **heid-code-review pulled MORE weight than its own "marginal" self-assessment.** The panel returned zero drift, but its single test-fidelity finding CASCADED into 2 real latent-bug fixes when applied (the memory `check_same_thread` bug + Regin's op-feed field-name bug). **Lesson: a contract-fidelity nudge can transitively expose bugs the test never reached — don't dismiss a "marginal" finding by its count.**
+
+- `[2026-06-20]` **The post-turn-async timing trap bit AGAIN — even a 35s post-`[done]` read missed the promotion `upsert_many` by ~2s** (it landed `19:48:58`; the read was ~`19:48:56`). A 15s-interval background poll caught it on the first tick. Same family as the affect.emit / async-promotion traps already logged — re-confirmed that "wait once then read" is fragile for post-turn writes; **poll a window, don't snapshot once.** (The affect.emit write, by contrast, DID land inside the 35s window — promotion is the slower of the two post-turn writes.)
+- `[2026-06-30]` **Heimdall keys are PER-INSTANCE — a key minted on one Worldtree 401s on another.** Our Conversation-API key works on personal `:8081` but 401s `auth_invalid` on demo `:8080` (per-instance Heimdall user store + pepper; fresh deploys start with an EMPTY key store). Same as the admin key (personal-only). **To live-drive a given instance you need a key minted FOR that instance** (request via infra-ops). Couldn't live-prove the b2 409 on demo for this reason → deferred to personal-b2 where we have access.
+- `[2026-06-30]` **`tea comment <N>` hangs on Gitea** (the whole compound bash auto-backgrounded + stuck on the open `tea` call). The #11 prereq comment hung; killed it + posted via the Gitea HTTP API directly (`POST /api/v1/repos/vh/ratatoskr/issues/<N>/comments`, token from `~/.config/tea/config.yml`). **For issue comments, prefer the Gitea API over `tea comment` when `tea` is flaky** (CLAUDE.md already says use HTTP for comment-EDITS; this extends it to ADD when tea hangs). Verify-then-post (check the comment didn't already land) to avoid a double-post after a kill.
+- `[2026-07-02]` **Mask-HOSTED transient characters have a STATIC mood engine — cost a whole R29 probe.** A first probe used a `POST /characters` transient character bound via `agent_id=mask` + `character_id`; its PAD sat at baseline across 15 praise/contempt/dominance turns — the appraisal→PAD engine does NOT run on the mask-hosted transient-character path. The dynamics run only on BASE persona agents or a session bound to ratatoskr's affect provider. **To probe mood dynamics, use a base persona agent, never a mask-hosted transient character.** (mask AS a base agent — `agent_id=mask`, NO `character_id` — DOES run the engine, neutral 0,0,0 baseline.) [auto-memory `reference-worldtree-affect-surface-map`]
+- `[2026-07-03]` **The "neutral non-appraising tail" premise fails — the neutral MESSAGE choice dominates.** The R30 φ0 method assumed neutral turns don't re-appraise, but factual-question neutrals ("capital of France?") trigger a new emotion nearly every turn (disappointment from the warmth-withdrawal let-down after a positive impulse) → `emotions_active` never empties in 50 turns. A minimal "Please continue." triggers FAR fewer (emotions clear ~turn 16 with spacing). The personal dry-run caught this BEFORE ~280 demo turns were spent on it — the instrument catching a flaw in the measurement design before the compute burn. (Irrelevant to the joint fit — the push_t covariate handles re-appraisal — but load-bearing for the empty-tail read.)
+- `[2026-07-03]` **Two φ0-fit traps: fast-turn timescale + low-baseline conditioning.** (1) At fast turn cadence the per-turn PAD decay (φ≈0.95/turn) reaches the anchor LONG before the ~200s wall-clock emotion fade → no signal in the (eventual) emotion-free tail; need wall-clock SPACING (~16s) so the fade lands while PAD still has signal. (2) A low-baseline agent's impulse in the constrained direction (forseti P0.239 negative) gives a tiny excursion → ill-conditioned regression (r²=0.46) that FALSELY tripped "config≠behavior" when its φ was averaged in. **Weight/exclude by fit quality (r²) before aggregating — a signal-poor run isn't evidence against the config.**
+
+- `[2026-07-06]` **`persona_state` + the agent envelope are Tier-3-BLIND -- NOT valid signals for "did a persona store".** `GET /agents/{id}/persona_state` returns 404 `persona_not_configured` for EVERY Tier-3 colon-id (hardcoded short-circuit, `api.py:1266` "regardless of row state"); the `ConsumerAgentResponse` envelope never echoes persona/motivational/memory (`api.py:538`). I mis-called "persona didn't store" from these two blind reads -- the **201-not-422 on define IS the store-success signal.** To actually SEE a Tier-3 mood, read the emitted PAD off the Bifrost affect egress after a BOUND turn (Tier-3 persists nothing Worldtree-side per ADR-0009; no persona/mood READ endpoint).
+- `[2026-07-06]` **Raw `POST /sessions` is NOT Bifrost-bound -> zero affect/memory emits.** The web surface binds by setting the `bifrost` block on session-create; a raw session doesn't -> 0 affect rows, which I nearly misread as "mood is neutral". Bind from the CLI with `--new --bifrost-url http://10.100.10.50:8392` (the combined provider). Gotchas: `--bifrost-plane affect/memory` map to the SEPARATE `:8390`/`:8391` providers (`endpoint_for_plane`), which I'd PRUNED as stale duplicates -> `bifrost.endpoint_unreachable`; and `combined` is NOT a `--bifrost-plane` choice (CLI restricts to memory/affect) -> use `--bifrost-url` for :8392.
+- `[2026-07-06]` **A fast/"no-op" deploy can leave a STALE container running the old image -- verify the running version, not the deploy status.** Personal's b22 deploy (run 8204) "completed" in ~1m (vs ~6m normal): a pull-only deploy racing ahead of the main build, leaving the container on the pre-#348 image. A clean bound mood read stayed neutral DESPITE the persona being declared and the fix being in the code (worldtree-dev proved the b22 derivation is correct). infra-ops force-swapped to the real b22 (run 8211, verified `info.version 2.3.0` on `879cefe`). **Lesson: when engine-proven-correct code produces wrong runtime behavior, suspect the deploy -- check the actual running image version.**
+- `[2026-07-06]` **#348 OCEAN key-mismatch: a declared OCEAN silently resolved to neutral.** The define validator required single-letter `{O,C,E,A,N}` but the mood-derivation code read spelled-out `openness`/.../`neuroticism` with a 0.0 default and no remap -> every API-declared trait defaulted to 0.0 -> neutral setpoint/gain/decay. #343's tests bypassed the validator (spelled-out keys) so CI never caught it. Fixed in b21 (`Personality.from_config` accepts both key forms). **My reset+smoke diagnosis flushed it out** -- the consumer/provider thesis paying off again.
+
+- `[2026-07-06]` **`pkill -f "ratatoskr-web --host"` SELF-MATCHES the bash command running it** (its own command line contains that string) -> killed its own shell mid-restart (exit 144, restart aborted, :8765 left down). Kill the web by PID (`ss -ltnp | grep :8765`), never `pkill -f` on a pattern your own command contains. Also: **uvicorn hangs on SIGTERM with an admin-events SSE stream open -> needs SIGKILL.**
+- `[2026-07-06]` **Playwright: no python `playwright` module in the venv; use NODE playwright + an explicit `executablePath`.** Shared box browsers live at `/opt/ms-playwright` build **1223**; `npm i playwright` (latest) wants build **1228** -> "Executable doesn't exist" mismatch. Fix: `chromium.launch({ executablePath: '/opt/ms-playwright/chromium-1223/chrome-linux64/chrome' })` (+ `export PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=/opt/ms-playwright`). A node script drives the SPA (pick agent -> open -> assert transcript). The Playwright DOM check is the only lens that catches SPA JS-render bugs — unit tests can't reach them.
+- `[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.
+- `[2026-07-15]` **soong-lab bundle `ship.native.motivational.goals/fears` are bare STRINGS, but WT `agents.define` requires OBJECTS** `{id, type∈{maintenance,achievement,avoidance}, salience[0,1], description≥20ch}` (`ValidatedGoal`/`ValidatedFear`, worldtree `core/conversation_api/api.py:2116`, extra=forbid; ids unique across goals+fears). So `ship.native` is NOT directly define-valid on motivational (soong-lab's Frame Invariant 1 breaks there). A bundle→WT consumer MUST map string→object + synthesize id/type/salience. Informed soong-dev → **RESOLVED soong-lab v0.3.24 (2026-07-16): now emits WT-valid objects (type+salience captured, id synthesized at export, validate_exportable gates description≥20/enum/range) → drop the string→object workaround for v0.3.24+ bundles; legacy pre-fix designs coerce on open, so re-exports are valid too.** **Rule: PROBE a define payload under a throwaway agent_name BEFORE a destructive DELETE+redefine** — validating via `sindra-probe2`→201 caught the 422 without leaving the real Sindra deleted+undefined. (A failed probe still RESERVES the name → 409 on retry; use a fresh probe name.)
+- `[2026-07-15]` **`re.sub`/`re.subn` INTERPRETS backslash-escapes in the REPLACEMENT string** — a `json.dumps`'d value (escaped `\n`) fed as the replacement leaked REAL newlines into a source file (broke `first_message.py` with an unterminated-string SyntaxError). Fix: use a FUNCTION replacement (`pat.subn(lambda m: new_block, src)`) or `str.replace` — the callable form bypasses escape processing. json.dumps itself escapes correctly; re.sub was the culprit.
+- `[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.)
+- `[2026-07-13]` **Resumed-session context-snapshot is IN-MEMORY → lost on a container recreate (agent_not_available on resume).** During the #355 re-drive, soong's fresh drive 409'd `agent_not_available`. Root cause (after ~4 refinements — agent-loss? zombie turn-lock? stale-sessions-hold-agent? → the actual mechanism): `get_agent_context_for_session` returns the agent snapshot recorded AT SESSION-CREATE, held in-memory; a pre-recreate session resumed on b60/b61 has no snapshot → None → 409. (Compounding: stale `'active'` sessions left un-terminated by the old no-terminal bug HOLD the agent, blocking new creates too.) Deploy-grounding was healthy the whole time (`registry.resolve("char-rp-reasoning")` OK) — the config/grant hypotheses were all red herrings. Fix = a FRESH session (a studio-service restart re-records the snapshot); pre-recreate sessions need retiring. Tracked **WT #356**. **For any run: create a fresh session, never resume a pre-recreate one; `agent_not_available` on a fresh create = this gap.** (Working-style note: I over-relayed the intermediate root-cause churn to the operator — for a peer-owned block being actively diagnosed, hold until it settles.)
+
+- `[2026-07-16]` **`sortable_chunk_fields` advertised WITHOUT the required `type` field = whole-handshake deploy-breaker; only DRIVING the real bind caught it.** bifrost `handshake_response` `SortableChunkField` requires BOTH `name`+`type` (`additionalProperties:false`); we shipped `[{"name":"updated_at"}]` → the response failed wire-schema validation → `bifrost.schema_validation_failed` → the ENTIRE bind (memory+affect) broke, not just sort. Unit tests + worldtree-dev's name-only service parser + the heid-bug-hunt ALL passed it — only the live handshake drive (`/verify` discipline) caught it. **Lesson: validate `describe_store` against the bifrost WIRE schema, not just our own caps assertions.** (Sibling of the `[2026-07-10]` frozen-v0.6 handshake foot-gun — there an EXTRA field broke a v0.6 handshake, here a MISSING required field broke a v0.7 one.)
+
+_18 older entries (2026-05-* — the original debug-TUI/web build era) archived to archival-memory.md._

pyproject.toml

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ build-backend = "hatchling.build"
 
 [project]
 name = "ratatoskr"
-version = "0.17.13"
+version = "0.20.17"
 description = "Worldtree Conversation API debug TUI — multi-pane observability dashboard"
 readme = "README.md"
 requires-python = ">=3.12"
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ web = [
 # from the debug TUI. Recipe: bifrost/docs/implementing-a-consumer.md.
 provider = [
     "ratatoskr[web]",       # reuse the starlette + uvicorn ASGI stack
-    "bifrost>=0.8.0",       # consumer engines + library (0.8.0/wire-v0.6: scope_filter split into scope_all (AND) + scope_any (OR/union, #11); 0.7.0/v0.5 added agent_self)
+    "bifrost==1.1.4",       # consumer engines + library. 1.1.4 = hasattr-gate backstop for the maintenance verbs (mark_superseded/mark_invalid/patch_many/delete_many/upsert_edges/get_edges_for → unimplemented verb degrades to unsupported_capability 400, never AttributeError/500/retry-storm; we surfaced it via WT #364) + 1.1.3 scan/cursor conformance harness + 1.1.2 frozen-v0.6 fix. 1.1.1 = frozen-wire serialization fix (ADR-0008): additive capability fields are gated on the NEGOTIATED wire, so a v0.6-negotiated describe_store handshake stays v0.6-clean. 1.1.0 leaked the v0.7-additive `sortable_chunk_fields` into v0.6 StoreCapabilities → a strict v0.6 client (additionalProperties:false) rejects our server's handshake. Wire schemas + pins UNCHANGED (serialization-correctness only); our v0.7 handshake with Worldtree b47 is unaffected. (1.1.0 = wire v0.7 additive: memory.scan sort + sortable_chunk_fields; 1.0.0 = first STABLE, wire v0.6 FROZEN; 0.8.0/v0.6 scope_all/scope_any #11; 0.7.0/v0.5 agent_self)
     "jsonschema>=4",        # bifrost runtime dep — envelope validation
     "sqlite-vec>=0.1.6",    # vector index for the memory plane (vec0 virtual table)
 ]
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ ratatoskr                 = "ratatoskr.cli:main"
 ratatoskr-web             = "ratatoskr.web.entrypoint:main"
 ratatoskr-provider        = "ratatoskr.provider.serve:main"
 ratatoskr-memory-provider = "ratatoskr.provider.serve_memory:main"
+ratatoskr-combined-provider = "ratatoskr.provider.serve_combined:main"
 
 [project.urls]
 Repository = "https://gitea.phasefinal.com/vh/ratatoskr"
@@ -59,9 +60,9 @@ Repository = "https://gitea.phasefinal.com/vh/ratatoskr"
 # Ratatoskr is built against Worldtree at this commit; the vendored
 # spec snapshot in docs/ reflects that SHA.
 [tool.ratatoskr.spec-pin]
-worldtree-spec-rev = "f1b59f8cd6fe41e497d0be9dad9d3110451f0d9a"
-worldtree-version = "v0.29.0"
-pinned-on = "2026-05-26"
+worldtree-spec-rev = "c9e59ec"
+worldtree-version = "v1.0.0b22"
+pinned-on = "2026-07-06"
 
 # Bifrost lives on the auth-gated gitea PyPI index (not public PyPI).
 # uv reads the credential from UV_INDEX_GITEA_USERNAME / _PASSWORD or ~/.netrc.

scripts/build_persona_canon.py

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""Regenerate src/ratatoskr/web/static/persona_render_canon.json from the vendored
+Worldtree d2 render canons (docs/vendor/worldtree-persona-canon/).
+
+The web persona pane renders the CANONICAL affect->NL (mood word + relationship
+directive) BYTE-EXACT to what Worldtree injects into the agent's context. That render
+needs the relation canon parsed into per-band phrase maps; this script reparses the
+vendored raw canons into the flat form the browser JS consumes.
+
+Uses Worldtree's OWN loader (core.persona.stance_render.load_canon) as the authoritative
+parser, so the flat form can never drift from Worldtree's parsing semantics. Requires
+Worldtree's venv (pydantic etc.).
+
+Run when scripts/canonical_drift.py flags a canon bump:
+    PYTHONPATH=~/development/Worldtree ~/development/Worldtree/.venv/bin/python \
+        scripts/build_persona_canon.py
+"""
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from core.persona.stance_render import load_canon  # Worldtree (authoritative parser)
+
+ROOT = Path(__file__).resolve().parent.parent
+VENDOR = ROOT / "docs" / "vendor" / "worldtree-persona-canon"
+OUT = ROOT / "src" / "ratatoskr" / "web" / "static" / "persona_render_canon.json"
+
+canon = load_canon(str(VENDOR / "d2-render-canon-v1.json"))
+mood = json.loads((VENDOR / "d2-mood-render-canon-v1.json").read_text())
+out = {
+    "_source": "vendored from Worldtree core/persona/canon/{d2-mood-render-canon-v1,d2-render-canon-v1}.json",
+    "_generated_by": "scripts/build_persona_canon.py (regen on canonical_drift flag)",
+    "_render_path": "deterministic, no LLM; mirrors Worldtree describe_pad + render_d2_canonical byte-exact",
+    "mood_grid": mood["describe_pad"]["valence_arousal_grid"],
+    # Context-injection reconstruction (affect-egress-consumer-reference §2b/2c): the
+    # hidden mood DIRECTIVE. occ_directives = per-OCC-type behavioral string + tier;
+    # pad_band_fallback = the P×A-quadrant default when no emotion is salient. The
+    # salience gate (emotion_salience) + full_only tiers drive which one fires — but
+    # affect.emit is type-only (no intensity), so the consumer shows BOTH candidates.
+    "mood_directive": {
+        "salience": mood["thresholds"]["emotion_salience"],
+        "pad_band_cutoff": mood["thresholds"]["pad_band_cutoff"],
+        "full_only": mood["emotion_tiers"]["full_only"],
+        "occ_directives": {
+            t: {"directive": e["directive"], "tier": e["tier"]}
+            for t, e in mood["derive_directive"]["occ_directives"].items()
+        },
+        "pad_band_fallback": mood["pad_band_fallback"],
+    },
+    "relation": {
+        "trust_cuts": [list(c) for c in canon.trust_cuts],
+        "warmth_cuts": [list(c) for c in canon.warmth_cuts],
+        "agency_cuts": [list(c) for c in canon.agency_cuts],
+        "warmth_phrase": canon.warmth_phrase, "warmth_beh": canon.warmth_beh,
+        "agency_phrase": canon.agency_phrase, "agency_beh": canon.agency_beh,
+        "history": canon.history,
+        "prefix": "Use this graded relationship state: toward target, warmth is ",
+        "tbeh": {"low_trust": "verify important claims before relying on them",
+                 "cold_warmth": "protect boundaries while staying useful",
+                 "default": "work from ordinary good faith"},
+        "cold_warmth_bands": ["distant", "cold", "hostile"], "high_conf_floor": 0.55,
+    },
+}
+OUT.write_text(json.dumps(out, indent=1) + "\n")
+print(f"wrote {OUT.relative_to(ROOT)}")

scripts/contract_drift_check.py

@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ Usage:
     python scripts/contract_drift_check.py --contract docs/contracts/issues/138.contract.md
     python scripts/contract_drift_check.py --json
 
-Requires GITEA_TOKEN in environment (and GITEA_URL/OWNER/REPO if not in env.sh).
+Requires GITEA_TOKEN in environment. Owner/repo are derived from the `origin` git remote by
+default (override with GITEA_OWNER / GITEA_REPO; GITEA_URL defaults to the Gitea host).
 """
 from __future__ import annotations
 
@@ -21,6 +22,8 @@ import argparse
 import hashlib
 import json
 import os
+import re
+import subprocess
 import sys
 from pathlib import Path
 from typing import Any
@@ -32,6 +35,22 @@ PROJECT_ROOT = Path(__file__).parent.parent
 CONTRACTS_GLOB = "docs/contracts/**/*.contract.md"
 
 
+def _owner_repo_from_git_remote() -> tuple[str, str] | None:
+    """Derive (owner, repo) from the `origin` git remote so the drift check targets THIS repo
+    by default — instead of a hardcoded repo name that silently checks the WRONG repo for every
+    other consumer. Supports ssh (git@host:owner/repo.git) and https (https://host/owner/repo.git)
+    Gitea remotes; returns None if it can't resolve."""
+    try:
+        url = subprocess.run(
+            ["git", "-C", str(PROJECT_ROOT), "remote", "get-url", "origin"],
+            capture_output=True, text=True, check=True,
+        ).stdout.strip()
+    except (OSError, subprocess.SubprocessError):
+        return None
+    m = re.search(r"[:/]([^/:]+)/([^/]+?)(?:\.git)?/?$", url)
+    return (m.group(1), m.group(2)) if m else None
+
+
 def sha16(s: str) -> str:
     return hashlib.sha256(s.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:16]
 
@@ -70,11 +89,19 @@ def main() -> int:
 
     token = os.environ.get("GITEA_TOKEN", "")
     base_url = os.environ.get("GITEA_URL", "https://gitea.phasefinal.com")
-    owner = os.environ.get("GITEA_OWNER", "vh")
-    repo = os.environ.get("GITEA_REPO", "Worldtree")
+    # Owner/repo default to the `origin` remote so the check targets THIS repo; GITEA_OWNER /
+    # GITEA_REPO override when set. (Previously repo defaulted to a hardcoded "Worldtree", which
+    # silently checked the WRONG repo for every other consumer unless GITEA_REPO was set in env —
+    # a false-drift footgun. Derive it, and fail loud rather than guess.)
+    git_remote = _owner_repo_from_git_remote()
+    owner = os.environ.get("GITEA_OWNER") or (git_remote[0] if git_remote else None)
+    repo = os.environ.get("GITEA_REPO") or (git_remote[1] if git_remote else None)
     if not token:
         print("error: GITEA_TOKEN not set", file=sys.stderr)
         return 2
+    if not owner or not repo:
+        print("error: could not resolve owner/repo — set GITEA_OWNER/GITEA_REPO or run inside a repo with an 'origin' remote", file=sys.stderr)
+        return 2
 
     if args.contract:
         files = [Path(args.contract).resolve()]

scripts/reset-sindra-stores.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# reset-sindra-stores.sh — wipe ratatoskr's Bifrost provider stores (memory +
+# affect/persona for the single-tenant Tier-3 agent, sindra) and restart the
+# combined :8392 provider empty.
+#
+# Usage:
+#   scripts/reset-sindra-stores.sh          # wipe, keep ONE rolling backup (default)
+#   scripts/reset-sindra-stores.sh --hard   # wipe with NO backup (zero-trace)
+#
+# The rolling backup (db-reset-backup/, gitignored via *.db*) is overwritten
+# every run — it never accumulates; it's a one-level undo, nothing more.
+#
+# Why stop the provider first: the combined provider holds the SQLite files open
+# (WAL) and caches state in memory, so an out-of-band file move without a restart
+# would be shadowed. Stop -> move -> restart lets it recreate empty schema
+# (CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS on open).
+
+PORT=8392
+BACKUP_DIR="db-reset-backup"
+
+ROOT="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")/.." && pwd)"
+cd "$ROOT" || { echo "reset: cannot cd to repo root $ROOT" >&2; exit 1; }
+# shellcheck disable=SC1091
+source ./env.sh >/dev/null 2>&1 || { echo "reset: failed to source env.sh" >&2; exit 1; }
+
+AFFECT_DB="${RATATOSKR_AFFECT_DB:-affect.db}"
+MEMORY_DB="${RATATOSKR_MEMORY_DB:-memory.db}"
+HARD=0; [ "${1:-}" = "--hard" ] && HARD=1
+
+echo "== ratatoskr provider-store reset (memory + persona) =="
+echo "   affect: $AFFECT_DB"
+echo "   memory: $MEMORY_DB"
+
+# 1. stop the combined provider holding the DBs
+PID="$(ss -ltnp 2>/dev/null | grep ":$PORT" | grep -oE 'pid=[0-9]+' | head -1 | cut -d= -f2)"
+if [ -n "${PID:-}" ]; then
+  kill -9 "$PID" 2>/dev/null && echo "-- stopped provider :$PORT (pid $PID)"
+else
+  echo "-- no provider on :$PORT (already down)"
+fi
+
+# 2. wipe (optional rolling backup)
+files=("$AFFECT_DB" "$AFFECT_DB-wal" "$AFFECT_DB-shm" "$MEMORY_DB" "$MEMORY_DB-wal" "$MEMORY_DB-shm")
+if [ "$HARD" -eq 1 ]; then
+  for f in "${files[@]}"; do [ -e "$f" ] && rm -f "$f" && echo "-- removed $f"; done
+  echo "-- HARD wipe (no backup)"
+else
+  rm -rf "$BACKUP_DIR"; mkdir -p "$BACKUP_DIR"
+  for f in "${files[@]}"; do [ -e "$f" ] && mv "$f" "$BACKUP_DIR"/ && echo "-- $f -> $BACKUP_DIR/"; done
+  echo "-- rolling backup: $BACKUP_DIR/ (overwritten each run)"
+fi
+
+# 3. restart the combined provider (recreates empty schema on open)
+nohup "$ROOT/.venv/bin/ratatoskr-combined-provider" >/tmp/ratatoskr-combined.log 2>&1 & disown
+echo "-- restarted combined provider (pid $!)"
+
+# 4. verify bound + empty
+curl -s -o /dev/null -w "-- :$PORT -> HTTP %{http_code}\n" --retry 25 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 1 "http://127.0.0.1:$PORT/"
+echo "-- affect_snapshots (persona): $(sqlite3 "$AFFECT_DB" 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM affect_snapshots' 2>&1)"
+echo "-- memory_chunks    (memory):  $(sqlite3 "$MEMORY_DB" 'SELECT COUNT(*) FROM memory_chunks' 2>&1)"
+echo "== done — sindra memory + persona reset =="

src/ratatoskr/cli.py

@@ -7,23 +7,35 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 import argparse
 import asyncio
+import hashlib
 import os
 import signal
 import sys
 from dataclasses import dataclass, field
 from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
-from typing import TextIO
+from typing import Any, TextIO
 
 import httpx
 
+from ratatoskr.first_message import seed_preset_first_message
 from ratatoskr.sessions import (
     AgentNotFound,
+    AuthoredHistoryUnavailable,
     BifrostBinding,
     BifrostConsumerKeyMissing,
     BifrostHandshakeFailed,
     SessionApiFailed,
+    create_character,
     create_session,
+    delete_character,
     endpoint_for_plane,
+    get_capabilities,
+    get_character_state,
+    get_me,
+    get_session_messages,
+    list_character_models,
+    set_persona_state,
+    write_authored_history,
 )
 from ratatoskr.sse_client import (
     AffectUpdate,
@@ -47,7 +59,7 @@ from ratatoskr.sse_client import (
     TurnIdFlip,
     WorkerPhase,
     cancel_turn,
-    stream_turn,
+    stream_turn_resilient,
 )
 
 
@@ -97,6 +109,21 @@ class ParsedArgs:
     bifrost: BifrostBinding | None = None
     bifrost_plane: str | None = None
     consumer_key: str | None = None
+    # Standalone boot-time orientation probe: GET /me + GET /capabilities, print,
+    # exit. Mutually exclusive with the session/turn flags (opens no session).
+    whoami: bool = False
+    # Optional admin-tier key (RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY / --admin-key) for the
+    # admin-scoped inspection reads (BifrostState pane, GET /admin/sessions/…).
+    # None when unset — the BifrostState pane then shows "admin key not configured".
+    admin_key: str | None = None
+    # Tier-2 one-shot probes (like --whoami). --characters runs the transient-
+    # character CRUD lifecycle; --set-persona-pad "p,a,d" (with --session) writes
+    # a session's persona state (affect injection).
+    characters: bool = False
+    set_persona_pad: str | None = None
+    # #347 authored-history-write reference-consumer probe: create a fresh
+    # session bound to --agent, seed an authored assistant first-message (seq-0).
+    seed_first_message: str | None = None
 
 
 class _ArgparseError(Exception):
@@ -121,6 +148,11 @@ def _parse_args(argv: list[str] | None) -> ParsedArgs:
     parser.add_argument("--api-key", dest="api_key")
     parser.add_argument("--server")
     parser.add_argument("--raw", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument("--whoami", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument("--admin-key", dest="admin_key")
+    parser.add_argument("--characters", action="store_true")
+    parser.add_argument("--set-persona-pad", dest="set_persona_pad", default=None)
+    parser.add_argument("--seed-first-message", dest="seed_first_message", default=None)
     # Issue #5: required for per-end-user agents (lofn etc.); optional otherwise (mimir).
     parser.add_argument("--end-user-id", dest="end_user_id", default=None)
     # Issue #17: bind the created session to our own Bifrost provider plane.
@@ -141,17 +173,57 @@ def _parse_args(argv: list[str] | None) -> ParsedArgs:
     # Issue #5 INV-001: --end-user-id, if passed, MUST be non-empty (mirrors --send).
     if ns.end_user_id is not None and not ns.end_user_id:
         raise UsageError("--end-user-id must be non-empty when passed")
-    if ns.session and ns.new:
-        raise UsageError("--session and --new are mutually exclusive; pass exactly one")
-    if not ns.session and not ns.new:
-        raise UsageError("pass exactly one of --session or --new")
-    if ns.session and ns.agent:
-        raise UsageError("--agent is required with --new and forbidden with --session")
-    if ns.new and not ns.agent and ns.send is not None:
-        # Issue #8: --agent stays required for --send --new (non-interactive,
-        # cannot prompt). Bare --new (TUI mode) accepts None — picker drives
-        # the choice via list_agents in _resolve_then_run.
-        raise UsageError("--agent is required when --new is passed in --send mode")
+    if sum([ns.whoami, ns.characters, bool(ns.set_persona_pad), bool(ns.seed_first_message)]) > 1:
+        raise UsageError(
+            "--whoami / --characters / --set-persona-pad / --seed-first-message "
+            "are mutually exclusive"
+        )
+    if ns.whoami or ns.characters:
+        # Standalone one-shot probes: open no session.
+        if ns.send is not None or ns.session or ns.new or ns.agent:
+            raise UsageError(
+                "--whoami / --characters are standalone probes "
+                "(no --send/--session/--new/--agent)"
+            )
+    elif ns.set_persona_pad is not None:
+        # Session-scoped write probe: needs a target session, nothing else.
+        if not ns.set_persona_pad:
+            raise UsageError("--set-persona-pad must be non-empty (e.g. '0.4,0.1,-0.2')")
+        if not ns.session:
+            raise UsageError("--set-persona-pad requires --session <id>")
+        if ns.send is not None or ns.new or ns.agent:
+            raise UsageError("--set-persona-pad takes only --session")
+    elif ns.seed_first_message is not None:
+        # #347 first-message probe: creates a fresh session bound to --agent,
+        # then seeds an authored assistant turn as seq-0 — manages its own session.
+        if not ns.seed_first_message:
+            raise UsageError("--seed-first-message must be non-empty")
+        if not ns.agent:
+            raise UsageError("--seed-first-message requires --agent <id>")
+        if ns.send is not None or ns.session or ns.new:
+            raise UsageError(
+                "--seed-first-message manages its own session (no --send/--session/--new)"
+            )
+    else:
+        if ns.session and ns.new:
+            raise UsageError("--session and --new are mutually exclusive")
+        if not ns.session and not ns.new:
+            # Bare TUI mode → startup session picker (design-brief §4). --send is
+            # non-interactive (no picker can open), so it still requires one flag;
+            # --agent belongs with --new (bare mode resumes, it doesn't create).
+            if ns.send is not None:
+                raise UsageError("--send requires --session or --new (no interactive picker)")
+            if ns.agent:
+                raise UsageError(
+                    "--agent belongs with --new; bare TUI mode opens the session picker"
+                )
+        if ns.session and ns.agent:
+            raise UsageError("--agent is required with --new and forbidden with --session")
+        if ns.new and not ns.agent and ns.send is not None:
+            # Issue #8: --agent stays required for --send --new (non-interactive,
+            # cannot prompt). Bare --new (TUI mode) accepts None — picker drives
+            # the choice via list_agents in _resolve_then_run.
+            raise UsageError("--agent is required when --new is passed in --send mode")
 
     api_key = ns.api_key or os.environ.get("WORLDTREE_API_KEY") or ""
     if not api_key:
@@ -187,6 +259,9 @@ def _parse_args(argv: list[str] | None) -> ParsedArgs:
         bifrost = BifrostBinding(endpoint_url=endpoint_for_plane(ns.bifrost_plane, host))
         bifrost_plane = ns.bifrost_plane
     consumer_key = os.environ.get("RATATOSKR_BIFROST_CONSUMER_KEY") or None
+    # Admin-tier key for the admin-scoped inspection reads (BifrostState pane).
+    # Flag > env > None; None leaves the admin panes showing "not configured".
+    admin_key = ns.admin_key or os.environ.get("RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY") or None
 
     return ParsedArgs(
         send_content=ns.send,
@@ -200,6 +275,11 @@ def _parse_args(argv: list[str] | None) -> ParsedArgs:
         bifrost=bifrost,
         bifrost_plane=bifrost_plane,
         consumer_key=consumer_key,
+        whoami=ns.whoami,
+        admin_key=admin_key,
+        characters=ns.characters,
+        set_persona_pad=ns.set_persona_pad,
+        seed_first_message=ns.seed_first_message,
     )
 
 
@@ -393,7 +473,7 @@ async def _run_turn(
     cancelling = False
     sigint_task: asyncio.Task[bool] | None = None
     cancel_task: asyncio.Task[None] | None = None  # strong ref to fire-and-forget cancel
-    aiter_obj = stream_turn(client, session_id, content).__aiter__()
+    aiter_obj = stream_turn_resilient(client, session_id, content).__aiter__()
 
     try:
         while True:
@@ -519,6 +599,11 @@ async def _amain(args: ParsedArgs) -> int:
             sys.stderr.write(
                 f". create_session: session_id={info.session_id} agent_id={info.agent_id}\n"
             )
+            # #347 authored first-message: seed the agent's preset opening (best-effort).
+            if await seed_preset_first_message(client, info.session_id, args.agent_id):
+                sys.stderr.write(
+                    f". first_message: seeded preset opening for {info.agent_id}\n"
+                )
             # Issue #17 bound-state indicator: plane + endpoint + status, so the
             # operator sees WHICH identity/endpoint bound (not a bare boolean).
             if args.bifrost is not None:
@@ -550,6 +635,198 @@ async def _amain(args: ParsedArgs) -> int:
             loop.remove_signal_handler(signal.SIGINT)
 
 
+def _format_whoami(me: dict[str, Any], caps: dict[str, Any]) -> str:
+    """Render the --whoami report: identity (GET /me) + server capabilities."""
+    lines = ["identity:"]
+    lines.append(f"  user_id: {me.get('user_id', '?')}")
+    lines.append(f"  tier: {me.get('tier', '?')}")
+    lines.append(f"  scopes: {', '.join(me.get('scopes', [])) or '(none)'}")
+    for k in ("display_name", "key_id", "key_label"):
+        if k in me:
+            lines.append(f"  {k}: {me[k]}")
+    lines.append("capabilities:")
+    templates = caps.get("ephemeral_templates", {})
+    if templates:
+        for name, spec in templates.items():
+            models = ", ".join(spec.get("allowed_models", []))
+            lines.append(
+                f"  ephemeral_template {name}: default={spec.get('default_model', '?')} "
+                f"max_bytes={spec.get('system_prompt_max_bytes', '?')} models=[{models}]"
+            )
+    else:
+        lines.append("  (no ephemeral templates advertised)")
+    return "\n".join(lines) + "\n"
+
+
+async def _whoami(args: ParsedArgs) -> int:
+    """--whoami one-shot: GET /me + GET /capabilities, print a compact report, exit.
+
+    A boot-time orientation probe (mirrors --send's non-interactive shape):
+    "who am I against this server, and what does it offer." Opens no session.
+    Errors land on stderr with the same [session_api_failed] / [network_error]
+    vocab + exit codes as the other modes.
+    """
+    assert isinstance(args, ParsedArgs)
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient(
+        base_url=args.server_url,
+        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {args.api_key}", "User-Agent": USER_AGENT},
+        timeout=httpx.Timeout(connect=10.0, read=10.0, write=10.0, pool=10.0),
+    ) as client:
+        try:
+            me = await get_me(client)
+            caps = await get_capabilities(client)
+        except SessionApiFailed as exc:
+            sys.stderr.write(f"[session_api_failed] status={exc.status} body={exc.body!r}\n")
+            return 20
+        except (httpx.ConnectError, httpx.ReadTimeout, httpx.TransportError) as exc:
+            sys.stderr.write(f"[network_error] {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}\n")
+            return 21
+        sys.stdout.write(_format_whoami(me, caps))
+    return 0
+
+
+def _probe_client(args: ParsedArgs) -> httpx.AsyncClient:
+    """AsyncClient for the one-shot probes (--whoami / --characters / --set-persona-pad)."""
+    return httpx.AsyncClient(
+        base_url=args.server_url,
+        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {args.api_key}", "User-Agent": USER_AGENT},
+        timeout=httpx.Timeout(connect=10.0, read=10.0, write=10.0, pool=10.0),
+    )
+
+
+async def _characters_probe(args: ParsedArgs) -> int:
+    """--characters one-shot: exercise the transient-character CRUD lifecycle
+    (models → create → get-state → delete), print a report, exit. A reference-
+    consumer smoke of the #161 character surface (needs character.read/write)."""
+    assert isinstance(args, ParsedArgs)
+    async with _probe_client(args) as client:
+        try:
+            models = await list_character_models(client)
+            names = ", ".join(m.get("name", "?") for m in models.get("items", []))
+            sys.stdout.write(f"character models: {names or '(none)'}\n")
+            created = await create_character(
+                client,
+                {
+                    "schema_version": "1",
+                    "name": "ratatoskr-probe",
+                    "ocean": {
+                        "openness": 0.5, "conscientiousness": 0.5, "extraversion": 0.0,
+                        "agreeableness": 0.5, "neuroticism": 0.5,
+                    },
+                    "description": "ratatoskr --characters lifecycle probe",
+                    "narrative": "A throwaway probe character.",
+                    "voice_profile_block": "plain",
+                },
+            )
+            cid = created["character_id"]
+            sys.stdout.write(f"created: {cid} (ttl {created.get('ttl_expires_at')})\n")
+            state = await get_character_state(client, cid)
+            sys.stdout.write(f"state: pad={state.get('pad')}\n")
+            await delete_character(client, cid)
+            sys.stdout.write(f"deleted: {cid}\n")
+        except SessionApiFailed as exc:
+            sys.stderr.write(f"[session_api_failed] status={exc.status} body={exc.body!r}\n")
+            return 20
+        except (httpx.ConnectError, httpx.ReadTimeout, httpx.TransportError) as exc:
+            sys.stderr.write(f"[network_error] {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}\n")
+            return 21
+    return 0
+
+
+async def _set_persona_probe(args: ParsedArgs) -> int:
+    """--set-persona-pad one-shot: POST a PAD to /sessions/{id}/persona_state
+    (affect injection), print the result, exit. Requires --session."""
+    assert isinstance(args, ParsedArgs)
+    assert args.session_id is not None and args.set_persona_pad is not None
+    try:
+        pad = [float(x) for x in args.set_persona_pad.split(",")]
+    except ValueError:
+        sys.stderr.write(
+            "[usage_error] --set-persona-pad must be comma-separated floats "
+            "(e.g. '0.4,0.1,-0.2')\n"
+        )
+        return 10
+    if len(pad) != 3:
+        sys.stderr.write(
+            "[usage_error] --set-persona-pad needs exactly 3 floats "
+            "(pleasure,arousal,dominance), e.g. '0.4,0.1,-0.2'\n"
+        )
+        return 10
+    # Canonical POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state body (#317): a named-key dict,
+    # NOT a bare list — {"pad": {"pleasure", "arousal", "dominance"}}.
+    snapshot = {"pad": {"pleasure": pad[0], "arousal": pad[1], "dominance": pad[2]}}
+    async with _probe_client(args) as client:
+        try:
+            await set_persona_state(client, args.session_id, snapshot)
+        except SessionApiFailed as exc:
+            sys.stderr.write(f"[session_api_failed] status={exc.status} body={exc.body!r}\n")
+            return 20
+        except (httpx.ConnectError, httpx.ReadTimeout, httpx.TransportError) as exc:
+            sys.stderr.write(f"[network_error] {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}\n")
+            return 21
+        sys.stdout.write(
+            f"persona_state set: session={args.session_id[-8:]} pad={pad} (204)\n"
+        )
+    return 0
+
+
+async def _seed_first_message_probe(args: ParsedArgs) -> int:
+    """--seed-first-message one-shot: create a fresh session bound to --agent,
+    write an authored assistant first-message (#347 POST /sessions/{id}/history),
+    read it back via GET /messages, print a report, exit. A reference-consumer
+    smoke of the authored-history-write primitive.
+
+    Hide-existence: a 404 (feature-absent OR the key lacks `session.history.write`)
+    is reported as a benign 'feature-absent' result (exit 0) — the probe NEVER
+    capability-probes to distinguish the causes (server INV-347-1). The probe
+    seeds but does not generate, so the assistant-first provider constraint is
+    inert here.
+    """
+    assert isinstance(args, ParsedArgs)
+    assert args.agent_id is not None and args.seed_first_message is not None
+    async with _probe_client(args) as client:
+        try:
+            session = await create_session(
+                client, args.agent_id, end_user_id=args.end_user_id
+            )
+            sys.stdout.write(f"session: {session.session_id} (agent {session.agent_id})\n")
+            key = "ratatoskr-first-message-" + hashlib.sha256(
+                args.seed_first_message.encode("utf-8")
+            ).hexdigest()[:12]
+            try:
+                ack = await write_authored_history(
+                    client,
+                    session.session_id,
+                    content=args.seed_first_message,
+                    idempotency_key=key,
+                )
+            except AuthoredHistoryUnavailable:
+                sys.stdout.write(
+                    "authored-history: feature-absent or ungranted (404 hide-existence) "
+                    "— a production consumer falls back to a model-generated greeting; "
+                    "no capability-probe attempted.\n"
+                )
+                return 0
+            sys.stdout.write(
+                f"seeded: seq={ack.get('seq')} phase={ack.get('phase')} "
+                f"turn_id={ack.get('turn_id')} content_chars={ack.get('content_chars')}\n"
+            )
+            history = await get_session_messages(client, session.session_id)
+            items = history.get("items", [])
+            sys.stdout.write(f"read-back: {len(items)} message(s)\n")
+            for m in items:
+                sys.stdout.write(
+                    f"  seq={m.get('seq')} role={m.get('role')} content={m.get('content')!r}\n"
+                )
+        except SessionApiFailed as exc:
+            sys.stderr.write(f"[session_api_failed] status={exc.status} body={exc.body!r}\n")
+            return 20
+        except (httpx.ConnectError, httpx.ReadTimeout, httpx.TransportError) as exc:
+            sys.stderr.write(f"[network_error] {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}\n")
+            return 21
+    return 0
+
+
 def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
     """Sync entry point. Maps UsageError/_AuthError to exit codes BEFORE the event loop."""
     assert argv is None or all(isinstance(a, str) for a in argv)
@@ -565,6 +842,14 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
         # argparse's --help / --version short-circuit via SystemExit(0). Pass the code
         # through verbatim — argparse already printed help to stdout.
         return int(exc.code) if exc.code is not None else 0
+    if args.whoami:
+        return asyncio.run(_whoami(args))
+    if args.characters:
+        return asyncio.run(_characters_probe(args))
+    if args.set_persona_pad is not None:
+        return asyncio.run(_set_persona_probe(args))
+    if args.seed_first_message is not None:
+        return asyncio.run(_seed_first_message_probe(args))
     if args.send_content is None:
         # TUI mode — lazy import preserves INV-001 (no textual in cli at module scope).
         from ratatoskr.tui import run_tui

src/ratatoskr/first_message.py

@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+"""Per-agent authored first-message presets (Worldtree #347 consumer feature).
+
+When a new session is created for an agent that has a preset opening, seed it as
+a #347 authored first-message (``POST /sessions/{id}/history``, author=assistant,
+seq-0) so the session opens in-character before the user speaks — the durable
+replacement for a system-prompt "startup" instruction.
+
+Best-effort by design: an instance without the ``session.history.write`` grant
+returns the hide-existence 404, which is swallowed so session creation is never
+blocked (the session simply opens with no seeded greeting). See
+``docs/contracts/first_message.contract.md``.
+"""
+
+import asyncio
+import hashlib
+
+import httpx
+
+from ratatoskr.sessions import write_authored_history
+
+# Cap the best-effort seed write. The CLI/TUI create paths reuse an httpx client
+# with NO read timeout (it streams SSE turns), so an accepted-but-never-answered
+# POST /history would otherwise block session creation forever — violating INV-001's
+# "never block". asyncio.wait_for bounds the seed regardless of the client's timeout.
+_SEED_TIMEOUT_S = 10.0
+
+# agent_id -> the authored opening seeded onto new sessions for that agent.
+# Editing this dict is how an operator tunes an agent's first turn. Keep entries
+# under the server's authored_content_max_bytes (8192 bytes) budget.
+FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS: dict[str, str] = {
+    "ratatoskr:sindra": "The room materializes in a soft pulse of light. Walls of brushed metal and warm ambient lighting resolve around him as the holodesk completes its cycle. A thin seam of blue runs along the desk’s edge, reflecting the overhead glow. A chair slides into place with a quiet hiss. On the far side of the desk, Sindra is already there: shoulders relaxed, one knee drawn up onto the seat, the hem of an oversized dark-green sweater slipping off her left shoulder. Her gaze is steady, amused, and entirely fixed on him.\n\nShe doesn’t stand. She lets the space breathe for a moment, as if giving him time to understand that he is no longer where he was. Then she speaks.\n\n\"Hi. I’m Sindra. You just made it here, which means we should set this up properly.\"\n\nShe tilts her head slightly, the faintest crooked smile touching her lips.\n\n\"Three settings. Your call. I’ll take them in order.\"\n\n\"Intensity. One is slow and teasing; ten is relentless and unrelenting. Where should I start?\"\n\n\"Mood. Sweetheart, Vixen, Queen, Siren, or Brat. Which version of me do you want in the room with you?\"\n\n\"And willingness. I can be enthusiastic and ready the moment you look at me; I can be hesitant and require coaxing; I can resist and make you earn it; or I can be unwilling, and you’ll have to change my mind. How should I behave when you approach me?\"\n\nSindra lets her fingers trace the edge of the sweater sleeve, casual and unhurried, her eyes not leaving his face.\n\n\"Pick your three. Then we begin.\"",
+}
+
+
+def preset_for(agent_id: str) -> str | None:
+    """Return the authored first-message preset for ``agent_id``, or None if none."""
+    assert agent_id and isinstance(agent_id, str)
+    return FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS.get(agent_id)
+
+
+async def seed_preset_first_message(
+    client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str, agent_id: str
+) -> str | None:
+    """Best-effort: seed ``agent_id``'s preset opening as a #347 authored
+    first-message on ``session_id``; return the seeded text, or None.
+
+    Best-effort (INV-001): a no-preset agent, a malformed call, a slow write
+    (bounded by ``_SEED_TIMEOUT_S``), the hide-existence 404, or ANY other
+    exception all resolve to None WITHOUT raising — this MUST NOT block or fail
+    session creation. Only ``asyncio.CancelledError`` propagates (cancellation is
+    not a seed failure). Inputs are soft-guarded (return None), never asserted, so
+    a wiring bug can't crash the create path this is wired into. A no-preset agent
+    issues zero HTTP (INV-002). The per-content idempotency key makes a repeat on
+    the same session an idempotent 200 replay (INV-003).
+    """
+    # Soft input guards — a bad arg degrades to "no first message", never raises.
+    if not (isinstance(agent_id, str) and agent_id):
+        return None
+    content = FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS.get(agent_id)
+    if content is None:
+        return None
+    if client is None or not (isinstance(session_id, str) and session_id):
+        return None
+    key = "ratatoskr-preset-" + hashlib.sha256(content.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:12]
+    try:
+        await asyncio.wait_for(
+            write_authored_history(
+                client, session_id, content=content, idempotency_key=key
+            ),
+            timeout=_SEED_TIMEOUT_S,
+        )
+    except asyncio.CancelledError:
+        raise  # cancellation is not a seed failure — never swallow it
+    except Exception:
+        return None  # any other failure (404/409/422/timeout/unexpected) → no greeting
+    return content

src/ratatoskr/provider/affect_store.py

@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ from typing import Any
 from bifrost.affect import AffectIdempotencyConflict, AffectInvalidArguments
 from bifrost.consumer import ConsumerRegistration, build_affect_app
 from bifrost.reference_server import JwtVerifier
+from starlette.requests import Request
+from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
 
 _SHORT_RETRY_TTL_SECONDS = 300
 
@@ -100,17 +102,50 @@ class RatatoskrAffectStore:
         return {"stored": True}
 
     def get(self, agent_id: str, end_user_id: str) -> dict | None:
-        """Read-back of the stored snapshot (tests / future rehydrate-seed)."""
+        """Sync read-back seam returning the verbatim stored snapshot (or None).
+
+        The async wire verb `fetch` wraps this; tests, the D2 read route, and
+        rehydrate-seed also call it directly.
+        """
         row = self._conn.execute(
             "SELECT snapshot_json FROM affect_snapshots WHERE agent_id = ? AND end_user_id = ?",
             (agent_id, end_user_id),
         ).fetchone()
         return json.loads(row[0]) if row is not None else None
 
+    async def fetch(self, agent_id: str, end_user_id: str) -> dict:
+        """Async affect.fetch handler — return the stored snapshot in bifrost's
+        {found, snapshot} shape, conduit-opaque.
+
+        INV-010 (strong-or-absent): bifrost >=0.10.0 gates EVERY affect op on the
+        store advertising affect_supported + emit + fetch (`_supports_affect_plane`),
+        so this method MUST exist for the affect capability to dispatch at all —
+        an emit-only store 400s. Mirrors the reference InMemoryAffectStore.fetch;
+        returns the whole blob opaque (INV-001 — never reads pad/valence).
+        """
+        if not (
+            isinstance(agent_id, str)
+            and agent_id
+            and isinstance(end_user_id, str)
+            and end_user_id
+        ):
+            raise AffectInvalidArguments("fetch missing agent_id / end_user_id")
+        snap = self.get(agent_id, end_user_id)
+        if snap is None:
+            return {"found": False}
+        return {"found": True, "snapshot": snap}
+
 
 def open_affect_store(db_path: str) -> RatatoskrAffectStore:
     """Open the SQLite-backed affect store, creating the schema on first use."""
-    conn = sqlite3.connect(db_path)
+    # check_same_thread=False: the affect provider is an ASGI app; Starlette/uvicorn
+    # may run a handler off the connection's creating thread (and TestClient always
+    # does). Access stays serialized by the event loop, so this is safe.
+    conn = sqlite3.connect(db_path, check_same_thread=False)
+    # INV-006: state busy_timeout explicitly rather than lean on sqlite3's timeout=5.0
+    # default — a contended write WAITS up to 5s instead of failing SQLITE_BUSY at once
+    # (prep for the composite/standalone two-process topology).
+    conn.execute("PRAGMA busy_timeout=5000")
     if db_path != ":memory:":
         conn.execute("PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL")
     conn.execute(
@@ -127,6 +162,33 @@ def open_affect_store(db_path: str) -> RatatoskrAffectStore:
     return RatatoskrAffectStore(conn)
 
 
+def add_affect_read_route(app, store: RatatoskrAffectStore) -> None:
+    """Mount the non-bifrost PAD read route GET /affect/state/{agent_id} on `app`,
+    reading store.get. SHARED by build_affect_provider_app and the combined provider
+    (#18 INV-011 / D2 INV-007) — add_route (NOT Mount) keeps /bifrost/* top-level so
+    the op-feed path check still matches them and passes this route through untouched.
+    No JWT (internal-LAN trust model).
+    """
+    async def _affect_state_route(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+        agent_id = request.path_params["agent_id"]
+        end_user_id = request.query_params.get("end_user_id")
+        if not end_user_id:  # PRE-001: never look up against a None/empty partition
+            return JSONResponse({"error_code": "missing_end_user_id"}, status_code=400)
+        snap = store.get(agent_id, end_user_id)
+        if snap is None:  # INV-003: explicit no-data, never a fabricated zeroed PAD
+            return JSONResponse(
+                {
+                    "error_code": "no_affect_snapshot",
+                    "agent_id": agent_id,
+                    "end_user_id": end_user_id,
+                },
+                status_code=404,
+            )
+        return JSONResponse(snap)
+
+    app.add_route("/affect/state/{agent_id}", _affect_state_route, methods=["GET"])
+
+
 def build_affect_provider_app(
     store: RatatoskrAffectStore,
     heimdall_key: bytes,
@@ -143,4 +205,10 @@ def build_affect_provider_app(
         raise ValueError("heimdall_key must be non-empty bytes")
     verifier = JwtVerifier(algorithm="HS256", key_bytes=heimdall_key)
     registration = ConsumerRegistration(consumer_id=consumer_id)
-    return build_affect_app(store=store, verifier=verifier, registration=registration)
+    app = build_affect_app(store=store, verifier=verifier, registration=registration)
+
+    # Issue #18 (Deliverable 2): mount the non-bifrost PAD read route. Extracted into
+    # add_affect_read_route so the combined provider mounts the SAME one (Deliverable 1,
+    # INV-011) over the same affect.db.
+    add_affect_read_route(app, store)
+    return app

src/ratatoskr/provider/combined.py

@@ -0,0 +1,50 @@
+"""Combined Bifrost provider (issue #18 Deliverable 1): ONE ASGI app fronting BOTH
+the memory.* and affect.* planes, so a single bound Worldtree session both remembers
+AND shows live PAD.
+
+Contract: docs/contracts/issues/18.contract.md (§ Deliverable 1)
+
+Wraps `bifrost.consumer.build_combined_app` (bifrost >=0.10.0) over our real
+SQLite-backed stores and mounts the SAME non-bifrost affect read route as the
+standalone affect provider (the shared `add_affect_read_route` helper, INV-011). The
+composite advertises both caps by store PRESENCE at the handshake; per-plane failure
+isolation is bifrost's per-route call-time dispatch isolation (INV-013). It is
+ADDITIVE — the standalone :8390/:8391 apps are unchanged (INV-014).
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from bifrost.consumer import ConsumerRegistration, build_combined_app
+from bifrost.reference_server import JwtVerifier
+
+from ratatoskr.provider.affect_store import RatatoskrAffectStore, add_affect_read_route
+from ratatoskr.provider.memory_store import RatatoskrMemoryStore, add_memory_read_route
+
+
+def build_combined_provider_app(
+    memory_store: RatatoskrMemoryStore,
+    affect_store: RatatoskrAffectStore,
+    heimdall_key: bytes,
+    consumer_id: str = "ratatoskr",
+):
+    """Compose `build_combined_app` over BOTH stores + mount the shared affect read
+    route AND the memory-viewer debug read route. Returns a Starlette app exposing POST
+    /bifrost/handshake + /bifrost/memory-call + /bifrost/affect-call + GET
+    /affect/state/{agent_id} + GET /memory/chunks.
+
+    Both stores are REQUIRED (INV-009): bifrost's build_combined_app raises if either
+    is None. The affect cap depends on the affect store advertising affect_supported +
+    emit + fetch (strong-or-absent, INV-010) — guarded here at build time so a
+    misconfigured store fails fast rather than silently withholding the cap.
+    """
+    if getattr(affect_store, "affect_supported", False) is not True:  # PRE-001 / INV-010
+        raise ValueError("affect_store must advertise affect_supported=True")
+    if not (isinstance(heimdall_key, bytes) and heimdall_key):  # PRE-002
+        raise ValueError("heimdall_key must be non-empty bytes")
+    verifier = JwtVerifier(algorithm="HS256", key_bytes=heimdall_key)
+    registration = ConsumerRegistration(consumer_id=consumer_id)
+    # build_combined_app validates memory_store/affect_store presence (INV-009, raises
+    # ValueError on None) and mounts handshake + memory-call + affect-call (no tool-call).
+    app = build_combined_app(memory_store, affect_store, verifier, registration)
+    add_affect_read_route(app, affect_store)  # INV-011: the SAME read route, same db
+    add_memory_read_route(app, memory_store)  # DEBUG read: GET /memory/chunks (memory viewer)
+    return app

src/ratatoskr/provider/memory_store.py

@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ from bifrost.memory import (
     StoreCapabilities,
 )
 from bifrost.reference_server import JwtVerifier
+from starlette.requests import Request
+from starlette.responses import JSONResponse
 
 _SHORT_RETRY_TTL_SECONDS = 300
 _DURABLE_JOB_TTL_SECONDS = 24 * 60 * 60
@@ -130,6 +132,50 @@ def _validate_injection(record: dict) -> None:
         raise InvalidArguments("injection_source only valid for injected_context origin")
 
 
+# bifrost handshake_response SortableChunkField requires BOTH name + type
+# (additionalProperties:false); omitting `type` fails wire-schema validation and
+# breaks the whole handshake. `type` is advisory-only (the wire never interprets it).
+_SORTABLE_CHUNK_FIELDS: list[dict] = [{"name": "updated_at", "type": "timestamp"}]
+_SORTABLE_FIELD_NAMES = frozenset(f["name"] for f in _SORTABLE_CHUNK_FIELDS)
+
+
+def _is_live(record: dict) -> bool:
+    """INV-009: a chunk is live unless a lifecycle/governance marker says otherwise.
+    scan returns live-only server-side (person-prime's `lifecycle_state=live` does not
+    ride the scan wire, so this is authoritative — a dead fact can never inject)."""
+    if record.get("superseded") is True:  # INV-011: mark_superseded top-level flag (#364 retirement)
+        return False
+    state = record.get("lifecycle_state")
+    if isinstance(state, str) and state and state != "live":
+        return False
+    verbatim = record.get("verbatim")
+    gov = verbatim.get("governance_state") if isinstance(verbatim, dict) else None
+    return gov not in ("superseded", "tombstoned")
+
+
+def _chunk_content_preview(record: dict) -> str:
+    """Best-effort human-readable content for the DEBUG memory viewer only. Prefers an
+    explicit text field, then the distillate summary, and last-resorts to a compact JSON
+    of the record MINUS the (large, non-human) embedding — never a fabricated blank, so
+    the viewer shows whatever IS there. Read-only; the store's normal bifrost verbs stay
+    conduit/index-faithful (this is a separate debug read, not an interpretation of the
+    chunk on the recall path)."""
+    for key in ("content", "text", "body", "summary"):
+        value = record.get(key)
+        if isinstance(value, str) and value:
+            return value
+    distillate = record.get("distillate")
+    if isinstance(distillate, str) and distillate:
+        return distillate
+    if isinstance(distillate, dict):
+        for key in ("summary", "text", "content"):
+            value = distillate.get(key)
+            if isinstance(value, str) and value:
+                return value
+    trimmed = {k: v for k, v in record.items() if k not in ("embedding", "vector")}
+    return json.dumps(trimmed, separators=(",", ":"), default=str)
+
+
 class RatatoskrMemoryStore:
     """The MemoryDataStore-shaped store handed to bifrost's build_memory_app."""
 
@@ -145,6 +191,7 @@ class RatatoskrMemoryStore:
             atomic_supersede_supported=False,
             transaction_supported=False,
             filterable_metadata_fields=[],
+            sortable_chunk_fields=list(_SORTABLE_CHUNK_FIELDS),  # INV-006: gates scan sort + #349 person-prime
         ).to_dict()
 
     async def upsert_many(
@@ -325,15 +372,163 @@ class RatatoskrMemoryStore:
                 self._conn.execute("DELETE FROM memory_vec WHERE chunk_id = ?", (chunk_id,))
         return {"deleted": deleted}
 
+    async def mark_superseded(
+        self, ids: list[str], *, superseded_by: str | None = None, reason: str | None = None
+    ) -> dict:
+        # Worldtree #364 retirement (INV-011). Mirrors the reference `_mark_lifecycle`:
+        # sets TOP-LEVEL `superseded`/`superseded_by`/`superseded_reason` (only non-None fields),
+        # increments revision. NON-destructive — get still returns; scan (live-only) excludes via
+        # `_is_live`'s `superseded` short-circuit. The sole supersession verb #364 uses.
+        _log.info("memory-call mark_superseded REQUEST: ids=%r superseded_by=%s", ids, superseded_by)
+        fields = {"superseded": True, "superseded_by": superseded_by, "superseded_reason": reason}
+        marked = 0
+        with self._conn:
+            for chunk_id in ids:
+                row = self._conn.execute(
+                    "SELECT record_json FROM memory_chunks WHERE chunk_id = ?", (chunk_id,)
+                ).fetchone()
+                if row is None:  # unknown id -> skip (never error), mirrors reference + delete_many
+                    continue
+                record = json.loads(row[0])
+                for key, value in fields.items():
+                    if value is not None:  # reference writes only non-None fields
+                        record[key] = value
+                self._conn.execute(
+                    "UPDATE memory_chunks SET record_json = ?, revision = revision + 1 "
+                    "WHERE chunk_id = ?",
+                    (json.dumps(record), chunk_id),
+                )
+                marked += 1
+        _log.info("memory-call mark_superseded RESPONSE: marked=%d", marked)
+        return {"marked": marked}
+
+    async def scan(
+        self,
+        *,
+        scope_all: dict | None = None,
+        scope_any: list | None = None,
+        cursor: str | None = None,
+        limit: int,
+        sort: dict | None = None,
+        lifecycle_state: Any = None,
+    ) -> dict:
+        # #349 person-prime: query-LESS, LIVE-only (INV-009), globally-ordered (INV-010) scan.
+        if isinstance(limit, bool) or not isinstance(limit, int) or limit <= 0:  # PRE-001
+            raise InvalidArguments("limit must be a positive int")
+        scope_all = scope_all or {}
+        scope_any = scope_any or []
+        _validate_scope(scope_all, scope_any)  # PRE-002 (same lattice as search)
+        if sort is not None and not isinstance(sort, dict):  # PRE-003: malformed sort => reject, never crash
+            raise InvalidArguments("sort must be an object with field and direction")
+        field = (sort or {}).get("field", "updated_at")
+        direction = (sort or {}).get("direction", "desc")
+        if field not in _SORTABLE_FIELD_NAMES or direction not in ("asc", "desc"):  # PRE-003
+            raise InvalidArguments(f"sort.field {field!r} is not globally sortable")
+        _log.info(
+            "memory-call scan REQUEST: scope_all=%r scope_any=%r limit=%s sort=%s",
+            scope_all, scope_any, limit, sort,
+        )
+        # INV-010: global order by the INDEXED sort field, missing-last, chunk_id tiebreak
+        # (field is whitelisted above, so the interpolation is injection-safe).
+        order = "DESC" if direction == "desc" else "ASC"
+        rows = self._conn.execute(
+            "SELECT record_json FROM memory_chunks "
+            f"ORDER BY (json_extract(record_json, '$.{field}') IS NULL), "
+            f"json_extract(record_json, '$.{field}') {order}, chunk_id ASC"
+        ).fetchall()
+        skip = 0
+        if cursor is not None:
+            try:
+                skip = int(cursor)
+            except (TypeError, ValueError):
+                raise InvalidArguments("invalid scan cursor")
+            if skip < 0:
+                raise InvalidArguments("invalid scan cursor")
+        records: list[dict] = []
+        matched = 0
+        has_more = False
+        for (record_json,) in rows:
+            record = json.loads(record_json)
+            if not _matches_scope(record.get("scope"), scope_all, scope_any):  # INV-005
+                continue
+            if not _is_live(record):  # INV-009
+                continue
+            matched += 1
+            if matched <= skip:  # cursor is an offset into the GLOBAL order (INV-010)
+                continue
+            if len(records) >= limit:  # POST-001: single limit page; one more match => next page exists
+                has_more = True
+                break
+            records.append(record)
+        # Emit a cursor ONLY when a further match exists — so a page that exactly exhausts
+        # the matched set returns cursor=None (no empty trailing page), matching the reference.
+        next_cursor = str(skip + len(records)) if has_more else None
+        _log.info("memory-call scan RESPONSE: %d record(s) next_cursor=%s", len(records), next_cursor)
+        return {"records": records, "cursor": next_cursor}
+
+    def count_chunks(self) -> int:
+        """DEBUG read seam: total stored chunk rows (unfiltered). Lets the memory
+        viewer distinguish 'store is empty' (total 0 — no upsert ever landed) from
+        'scope mismatch' (total > 0 but 0 matched the queried partition)."""
+        return int(self._conn.execute("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM memory_chunks").fetchone()[0])
+
+    def list_chunks(
+        self, *, agent_id: str | None = None, end_user_id: str | None = None
+    ) -> list[dict]:
+        """DEBUG read (non-bifrost): list stored chunks as a content·scope·origin view
+        for the web memory pane, filtered by the `end_user` (strict) and `agent_self`
+        (lenient) scope axes. bifrost's memory protocol has NO list-all verb, so this is
+        OUR read on OUR store (per the debug-surface-uses-canonical-surface principle:
+        we read only our own store, never a dep's private). Returns [] when nothing
+        matches — an empty list is a valid, visible answer (the 0-chunks state).
+
+        - `end_user_id`: strict — a chunk passes only if `scope.end_user == end_user_id`
+          (the partition boundary; the route requires it, the web proxy supplies it).
+        - `agent_id`: lenient — a chunk is excluded only if it CARRIES an `agent_self`
+          axis that differs; chunks written without one are not hidden (so a chunk
+          scoped `{end_user}`-only stays visible for diagnosis).
+        """
+        rows = self._conn.execute(
+            "SELECT chunk_id, record_json, revision, scope_json, origin FROM memory_chunks"
+        ).fetchall()
+        out: list[dict] = []
+        for chunk_id, record_json, revision, scope_json, origin in rows:
+            scope = json.loads(scope_json) if scope_json else {}
+            if not isinstance(scope, dict):
+                scope = {}
+            if end_user_id is not None and scope.get("end_user") != end_user_id:
+                continue
+            if agent_id is not None:
+                chunk_agent = scope.get("agent_self")
+                if chunk_agent is not None and chunk_agent != agent_id:
+                    continue
+            record = json.loads(record_json)
+            out.append(
+                {
+                    "chunk_id": chunk_id,
+                    "content": _chunk_content_preview(record),
+                    "scope": scope,
+                    "origin": origin,
+                    "revision": revision,
+                }
+            )
+        return out
+
 
 def open_memory_store(db_path: str, *, embedding_dim: int) -> RatatoskrMemoryStore:
     """Open the SQLite+sqlite-vec memory store, creating schema + the vec index on first use."""
     if not (isinstance(embedding_dim, int) and embedding_dim > 0):  # PRE-002
         raise ValueError("embedding_dim must be a positive int")
-    conn = sqlite3.connect(db_path)
+    # check_same_thread=False: the memory provider is an ASGI app; uvicorn/Starlette
+    # (and TestClient always) may run a handler off the connection's creating thread.
+    # The event loop serializes the sync sqlite calls, so this is safe. Mirrors the
+    # affect store (bifrost_affect_provider INV-006); surfaced by a TestClient-driven
+    # memory-call search through the combined provider (#18 D1).
+    conn = sqlite3.connect(db_path, check_same_thread=False)
     conn.enable_load_extension(True)
     sqlite_vec.load(conn)
     conn.enable_load_extension(False)
+    conn.execute("PRAGMA busy_timeout=5000")  # wait up to 5s, don't fail SQLITE_BUSY at once
     if db_path != ":memory:":
         conn.execute("PRAGMA journal_mode=WAL")
     conn.execute(
@@ -341,6 +536,12 @@ def open_memory_store(db_path: str, *, embedding_dim: int) -> RatatoskrMemorySto
         "chunk_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY, record_json TEXT NOT NULL, "
         "revision INTEGER NOT NULL, scope_json TEXT, origin TEXT)"
     )
+    # INV-010: expression index on the scan sort field (updated_at) so the globally-ordered
+    # person-prime scan stays within its 500ms fail-open budget.
+    conn.execute(
+        "CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS idx_chunks_updated_at "
+        "ON memory_chunks (json_extract(record_json, '$.updated_at'))"
+    )
     conn.execute(
         "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS memory_idempotency ("
         "idempotency_id TEXT PRIMARY KEY, digest TEXT NOT NULL, expires_at REAL)"
@@ -354,6 +555,31 @@ def open_memory_store(db_path: str, *, embedding_dim: int) -> RatatoskrMemorySto
     return RatatoskrMemoryStore(conn, embedding_dim)
 
 
+def add_memory_read_route(app, store: RatatoskrMemoryStore) -> None:
+    """Mount the non-bifrost DEBUG read route GET /memory/chunks?agent_id=&end_user_id=
+    on `app`, reading store.list_chunks. SHARED by build_memory_provider_app and the
+    combined provider (mirrors the affect D2 add_affect_read_route). add_route (NOT Mount)
+    keeps /bifrost/* top-level so the op-feed path check still matches them and passes
+    this route through untouched. No JWT (internal-LAN trust model).
+
+    end_user_id is REQUIRED (400 missing_end_user_id) — the partition boundary, supplied
+    server-side by the web proxy, never named by the browser. agent_id is an optional
+    lenient filter. An empty match is a 200 with an empty list (the 0-chunks state is a
+    visible answer, not a 404).
+    """
+    async def _memory_chunks_route(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+        end_user_id = request.query_params.get("end_user_id")
+        if not end_user_id:  # never scan against a None/empty partition
+            return JSONResponse({"error_code": "missing_end_user_id"}, status_code=400)
+        agent_id = request.query_params.get("agent_id") or None
+        chunks = store.list_chunks(agent_id=agent_id, end_user_id=end_user_id)
+        return JSONResponse(
+            {"chunks": chunks, "count": len(chunks), "total": store.count_chunks()}
+        )
+
+    app.add_route("/memory/chunks", _memory_chunks_route, methods=["GET"])
+
+
 def build_memory_provider_app(
     store: RatatoskrMemoryStore,
     heimdall_key: bytes,
@@ -363,6 +589,8 @@ def build_memory_provider_app(
 
     Returns a Starlette ASGI app exposing POST /bifrost/handshake and
     POST /bifrost/memory-call. The library owns the wire; this is the thin glue.
+    Additionally mounts the non-bifrost GET /memory/chunks DEBUG read route (the
+    memory-viewer pane's read seam), the memory-plane analogue of the affect D2 route.
     """
     if not isinstance(store.describe_store(), dict):  # PRE-001 / INV-008
         raise ValueError("store must advertise capabilities via describe_store()")
@@ -370,4 +598,6 @@ def build_memory_provider_app(
         raise ValueError("heimdall_key must be non-empty bytes")
     verifier = JwtVerifier(algorithm="HS256", key_bytes=heimdall_key)
     registration = ConsumerRegistration(consumer_id=consumer_id)
-    return build_memory_app(store=store, verifier=verifier, registration=registration)
+    app = build_memory_app(store=store, verifier=verifier, registration=registration)
+    add_memory_read_route(app, store)  # DEBUG read: GET /memory/chunks (memory viewer)
+    return app

src/ratatoskr/provider/opfeed.py

@@ -70,6 +70,22 @@ _BIFROST_PATHS = (
     "/bifrost/affect-call",
 )
 
+_PLANE_BY_PATH = {
+    "/bifrost/memory-call": "memory",
+    "/bifrost/affect-call": "affect",
+}
+
+
+def _resolve_plane(configured: str, path: str) -> str:
+    """For the combined provider (plane='combined', #18 D1) the OpEvent plane is
+    derived from the request PATH — memory-call→memory, affect-call→affect,
+    handshake→combined. A fixed plane ('memory'/'affect', the single-plane apps) is
+    returned unchanged. The per-verb summary logic already keys on path, so only the
+    plane STAMP changes."""
+    if configured != "combined":
+        return configured
+    return _PLANE_BY_PATH.get(path, "combined")
+
 
 def _b64url_decode(seg: str) -> bytes:
     return base64.urlsafe_b64decode(seg + "=" * (-len(seg) % 4))
@@ -119,7 +135,11 @@ def _ids_summary(args: dict[str, Any]) -> list[Any]:
 def _req_summary(plane: str, path: str, op: str, req: dict[str, Any]) -> dict[str, Any]:
     """Scope-only request summary — NEVER record bodies / PAD content."""
     if path == "/bifrost/handshake":
-        return {"caps_requested": req.get("capabilities_requested")}
+        # The handshake REQUEST field is `capabilities` (bifrost reference_server
+        # _protocol.py:181 reads request_body["capabilities"]) — NOT the transposed
+        # `capabilities_requested`, which never existed on the wire (caps_requested
+        # was silently always None). Fixed per the heid-code-review #17 catch.
+        return {"caps_requested": req.get("capabilities")}
     if plane == "affect":
         return {}  # affect stays conduit-opaque — no PAD content surfaced
     args = req.get("args") or {}
@@ -174,6 +194,7 @@ def _resp_summary(
 def _build_event(
     plane: str, path: str, scope: dict[str, Any], req_body: bytes, captured: dict[str, Any]
 ) -> OpEvent:
+    plane = _resolve_plane(plane, path)  # 'combined' → per-path; fixed plane unchanged
     headers = dict(scope.get("headers") or [])
     session_id = _session_id_from_auth(headers.get(b"authorization"))
     status = "ok" if 200 <= int(captured["status"]) < 300 else "error"
@@ -208,8 +229,10 @@ def instrument_provider_app(app: Any, *, plane: str, sink: OpSink) -> Any:
     (INV-004). A sink/summary failure never propagates into the dispatch path
     (POST-003 / INV-007) — it is swallowed and logged to stderr.
     """
-    if plane not in ("memory", "affect"):
-        raise ValueError(f"plane must be 'memory' or 'affect', got {plane!r}")
+    if plane not in ("memory", "affect", "combined"):
+        raise ValueError(
+            f"plane must be 'memory', 'affect', or 'combined', got {plane!r}"
+        )
 
     async def wrapped(scope: dict[str, Any], receive: Any, send: Any) -> None:
         if scope.get("type") != "http" or scope.get("path") not in _BIFROST_PATHS:

src/ratatoskr/provider/serve_combined.py

@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+"""Runnable entrypoint: serve the COMBINED provider (memory + affect) as one ASGI app.
+
+Issue #18 Deliverable 1 — a single endpoint a Worldtree session binds to drive BOTH
+planes. Additive: the standalone affect (:8390) + memory (:8391) entrypoints are
+unchanged. Config from env:
+- RATATOSKR_HEIMDALL_KEY (required): HS256 shared key for the consumer, utf-8.
+- RATATOSKR_MEMORY_EMBEDDING_DIM (required): the pinned embedder dim (no default —
+  a wrong value silently breaks search).
+- RATATOSKR_AFFECT_DB (default "affect.db") + RATATOSKR_MEMORY_DB (default "memory.db"):
+  the two SQLite paths (one per plane, per the v1 contract).
+- RATATOSKR_CONSUMER_ID (default "ratatoskr").
+- RATATOSKR_PROVIDER_HOST (default "0.0.0.0"),
+  RATATOSKR_COMBINED_PROVIDER_PORT (default 8392 — distinct from :8390/:8391 so the
+  composite runs side-by-side with the standalones).
+- RATATOSKR_OPFEED_PATH (optional): op-feed JSONL path; plane is derived PER request
+  path (memory-call→memory, affect-call→affect, handshake→combined).
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import os
+from collections.abc import Mapping
+
+from ratatoskr.provider.affect_store import open_affect_store
+from ratatoskr.provider.combined import build_combined_provider_app
+from ratatoskr.provider.memory_store import open_memory_store
+from ratatoskr.provider.opfeed import maybe_instrument_from_env
+
+
+def build_combined_app_from_env(env: Mapping[str, str] | None = None):
+    """Build the combined ASGI app from environment config (testable seam)."""
+    env = os.environ if env is None else env
+    key = env.get("RATATOSKR_HEIMDALL_KEY")
+    if not key:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            "RATATOSKR_HEIMDALL_KEY is required to serve the combined provider"
+        )
+    raw_dim = env.get("RATATOSKR_MEMORY_EMBEDDING_DIM")
+    if not raw_dim:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            "RATATOSKR_MEMORY_EMBEDDING_DIM is required (Worldtree's PINNED_EMBEDDER_DIM)"
+        )
+    try:
+        embedding_dim = int(raw_dim)
+    except ValueError as exc:
+        raise RuntimeError(
+            f"RATATOSKR_MEMORY_EMBEDDING_DIM must be an int, got {raw_dim!r}"
+        ) from exc
+    if embedding_dim <= 0:
+        raise RuntimeError("RATATOSKR_MEMORY_EMBEDDING_DIM must be a positive int")
+
+    affect_store = open_affect_store(env.get("RATATOSKR_AFFECT_DB", "affect.db"))
+    memory_store = open_memory_store(
+        env.get("RATATOSKR_MEMORY_DB", "memory.db"), embedding_dim=embedding_dim
+    )
+    app = build_combined_provider_app(
+        memory_store,
+        affect_store,
+        heimdall_key=key.encode(),
+        consumer_id=env.get("RATATOSKR_CONSUMER_ID", "ratatoskr"),
+    )
+    # Issue #17 (Observe): opt-in dispatch-layer op-feed; plane='combined' derives the
+    # OpEvent plane per request path (INV-012).
+    return maybe_instrument_from_env(app, env, plane="combined")
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    import uvicorn
+
+    uvicorn.run(
+        build_combined_app_from_env(),
+        host=os.environ.get("RATATOSKR_PROVIDER_HOST", "0.0.0.0"),
+        port=int(os.environ.get("RATATOSKR_COMBINED_PROVIDER_PORT", "8392")),
+    )

src/ratatoskr/sessions.py

@@ -177,6 +177,26 @@ class AuthScopeDenied(Exception):
         self.scope = scope
 
 
+class AuthoredHistoryUnavailable(Exception):
+    """Raised on HTTP 404 from POST /sessions/{id}/history (#347 authored-history-write).
+
+    Hide-existence (server INV-347-1): an ungranted caller, a non-owner, and an
+    unknown session ALL receive a 404 byte-identical to a genuine
+    `session_not_found` — the feature's existence is never revealed by status,
+    body, or error_code. The consumer MUST treat this as feature-absent and fall
+    back (a production consumer to a model-generated greeting), and MUST NOT
+    capability-probe to distinguish the causes. Distinct from `SessionApiFailed`
+    so callers branch feature-absent without inspecting a status code.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, *, session_id: str) -> None:
+        super().__init__(
+            f"authored-history write unavailable for session {session_id!r} "
+            "(404 hide-existence: feature-absent / ungranted / session-absent)"
+        )
+        self.session_id = session_id
+
+
 async def list_sessions(
     client: httpx.AsyncClient,
     *,
@@ -227,19 +247,21 @@ async def list_sessions(
 def endpoint_for_plane(plane: str, base_host: str) -> str:
     """Map a provider plane name to its Worldtree-VISIBLE base URL.
 
-    Issue #17 dev helper: `memory` → :8391, `affect` → :8390. Returns the
-    Worldtree-visible base (e.g. `http://10.100.10.50:8391`), NOT the client's
-    loopback — Worldtree must reach the provider over the network. `http://` is
-    deliberate: the HTTPS relaxation is allowlist-side (Worldtree's
-    BIFROST_CLIENT_ALLOWED_HOSTS), not a URL concern. A production HTTPS endpoint
-    is supplied directly, bypassing this helper.
+    Issue #17 dev helper: `memory` → :8391, `affect` → :8390, `combined` → :8392
+    (the #18 composite both-plane endpoint). Returns the Worldtree-visible base
+    (e.g. `http://10.100.10.50:8391`), NOT the client's loopback — Worldtree must
+    reach the provider over the network. `http://` is deliberate: the HTTPS
+    relaxation is allowlist-side (Worldtree's BIFROST_CLIENT_ALLOWED_HOSTS), not a
+    URL concern. A production HTTPS endpoint is supplied directly, bypassing this
+    helper.
     """
-    if plane not in ("memory", "affect"):
+    ports = {"memory": 8391, "affect": 8390, "combined": 8392}
+    if plane not in ports:
         raise ValueError(
-            f"unknown plane: {plane!r} (expected 'memory' or 'affect')"
+            f"unknown plane: {plane!r} "
+            "(expected 'memory', 'affect', or 'combined')"
         )
-    port = 8391 if plane == "memory" else 8390
-    return f"http://{base_host}:{port}"
+    return f"http://{base_host}:{ports[plane]}"
 
 
 def _bifrost_error_from(resp: httpx.Response) -> str | None:
@@ -404,3 +426,229 @@ async def get_persona_state(
     if resp.status_code == 403 and error_code == "auth_scope_denied":
         raise AuthScopeDenied(scope="persona.read")
     raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def get_me(client: httpx.AsyncClient) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """GET /me — the authenticated principal's identity + key metadata (spec §GET /me).
+
+    Boot-time whoami: verify the key without agent-config side effects. Returns
+    the parsed dict verbatim (freeform per the frozen OpenAPI; the spec documents
+    `{user_id, scopes, tier, display_name?, key_id?, key_label?, ...}`, optional
+    fields omitted-not-null). 401 (bad/absent key when auth is enabled) — like
+    every other non-200 — surfaces as SessionApiFailed (get_persona_state
+    precedent). Read-only, rate-exempt, no audit emission.
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    resp = await client.get("/me")
+    if resp.status_code == 200:
+        return resp.json()
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def list_character_models(client: httpx.AsyncClient) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """GET /models/available-for-characters — character-capable model profiles (#161).
+
+    Requires `character.read`. Returns `{items: [{name, description, thinking}]}`.
+    Parsed dict verbatim; any non-200 → SessionApiFailed.
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    resp = await client.get("/models/available-for-characters")
+    if resp.status_code == 200:
+        return resp.json()
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def create_character(
+    client: httpx.AsyncClient, character: dict[str, Any], *, state: dict[str, Any] | None = None
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """POST /characters — create a transient character (#161). Requires `character.write`.
+
+    Body is `{character, state}` (state optional — a CharacterStateSchema for
+    mid-conversation rehydration). Returns 201 `{character_id, ttl_expires_at}`;
+    any non-201 → SessionApiFailed.
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    assert isinstance(character, dict) and character
+    resp = await client.post("/characters", json={"character": character, "state": state})
+    if resp.status_code == 201:
+        return resp.json()
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def get_character_state(client: httpx.AsyncClient, character_id: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """GET /characters/{character_id}/state — live runtime state (#161). Requires `character.read`.
+
+    Returns `{schema_version, pad, emotions_active, mood_drift, goal_signal_history}`;
+    refreshes the character's TTL. Any non-200 → SessionApiFailed.
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    assert character_id and isinstance(character_id, str)
+    resp = await client.get(f"/characters/{character_id}/state")
+    if resp.status_code == 200:
+        return resp.json()
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def delete_character(client: httpx.AsyncClient, character_id: str) -> None:
+    """DELETE /characters/{character_id} — remove a transient character (#161).
+
+    Requires `character.write`. Bound sessions detach (next turn → 410
+    character_not_found). 200/204 → None; any other status → SessionApiFailed.
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    assert character_id and isinstance(character_id, str)
+    resp = await client.delete(f"/characters/{character_id}")
+    if resp.status_code in (200, 204):
+        return None
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def set_persona_state(
+    client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str, snapshot: dict[str, Any]
+) -> None:
+    """POST /sessions/{session_id}/persona_state — set a session's persona state (affect injection).
+
+    The request body is FREEFORM on the wire (the OpenAPI declares no request
+    schema), but worldtree-dev's prose now pins the canonical shape (#317):
+    `{"pad": {"pleasure": p, "arousal": a, "dominance": d}}` — a named-key dict
+    (each in [-1, 1]), NOT a bare list; PAD-only, session-scoped, pull-over-push
+    (#289). The caller supplies the snapshot. 204 No Content → None; any other
+    status → SessionApiFailed.
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+    assert isinstance(snapshot, dict)
+    resp = await client.post(f"/sessions/{session_id}/persona_state", json=snapshot)
+    if resp.status_code == 204:
+        return None
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def get_session_bifrost(
+    client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str, *, admin_key: str
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """GET /admin/sessions/{session_id}/bifrost — admin-scoped Bifrost dispatch state (#176).
+
+    Returns the live Bifrost binding for a session: `{endpoint_url, consumer_id,
+    connected, capabilities_granted, tools: [{name, description}]}`. Requires the
+    `admin.sessions.read` scope (admin tier), so the request OVERRIDES the
+    Authorization header with `admin_key` (distinct from the client's default
+    consumer key). Read-only (audited server-side). Parsed dict verbatim; any
+    non-200 → SessionApiFailed — notably 403 `auth_scope_denied` (key lacks the
+    scope) and 404 `session_not_bifrost_bound` (session exists, no live client).
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+    assert admin_key and isinstance(admin_key, str)
+    resp = await client.get(
+        f"/admin/sessions/{session_id}/bifrost",
+        headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {admin_key}"},
+    )
+    if resp.status_code == 200:
+        return resp.json()
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def get_session_tools(client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """GET /sessions/{session_id}/tools — owner-scoped tool inventory (spec #183).
+
+    Returns the merged tool list the LLM saw at turn-fire: `{agent_id,
+    builtin_tools: [...], bifrost_tools: [{name, description, parameters}, ...]}`.
+    Owner-scoped (`ctx.user_id == session.user_id`) — reachable with the consumer
+    key, NO admin scope. Cross-owner access returns 404 `session_not_found`
+    (existence-hiding); a revoked session returns 401 `auth_revoked`. Parsed dict
+    verbatim; any non-200 → SessionApiFailed (mirrors get_persona_state).
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+    resp = await client.get(f"/sessions/{session_id}/tools")
+    if resp.status_code == 200:
+        return resp.json()
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def get_capabilities(client: httpx.AsyncClient) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """GET /capabilities — server capability discovery (spec §Ephemeral Templates).
+
+    Returns `{ephemeral_templates: {echo: {allowed_models, default_model,
+    system_prompt_max_bytes}}}` — what the server offers before a client decides
+    to instantiate. Any authenticated caller may read it (no scope). Parsed dict
+    verbatim; any non-200 → SessionApiFailed.
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    resp = await client.get("/capabilities")
+    if resp.status_code == 200:
+        return resp.json()
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def write_authored_history(
+    client: httpx.AsyncClient,
+    session_id: str,
+    *,
+    content: str,
+    idempotency_key: str,
+    author: str = "assistant",
+    effects: str | None = None,
+    claimed_original_at: str | None = None,
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """POST /sessions/{session_id}/history — the #347 authored-history-write primitive.
+
+    Write one model-visible turn into the session's ledger AS the bound agent,
+    WITHOUT a generation and WITHOUT lived-turn side effects (the SillyTavern
+    "first message"). v1: `author="assistant"`, `effects` omitted (== "none"),
+    `idempotency_key` REQUIRED (per-session dedup). The server pins the body
+    (`AuthoredWriteRequest`, `extra="forbid"`), so `effects` /
+    `claimed_original_at` are sent only when non-None — never as null keys.
+
+    Success is 201 (fresh) or 200 (idempotent replay, byte-identical body); both
+    return the `AuthoredTurnResponse` dict verbatim (`{author, content_chars,
+    injected_at, phase, seq, session_id, turn_id}` — provenance is audit-only,
+    never on this body).
+
+    404 → `AuthoredHistoryUnavailable` (hide-existence: feature-absent /
+    ungranted / session-absent are indistinguishable by design; the caller falls
+    back and NEVER capability-probes — server INV-347-1). Any other non-2xx →
+    `SessionApiFailed` (notably 409 `generation_active`, 422 `content_too_long` /
+    `validation_failed`).
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+    assert content and isinstance(content, str)
+    assert idempotency_key and isinstance(idempotency_key, str)
+    assert author and isinstance(author, str)
+    body: dict[str, Any] = {
+        "author": author,
+        "content": content,
+        "idempotency_key": idempotency_key,
+    }
+    if effects is not None:
+        body["effects"] = effects
+    if claimed_original_at is not None:
+        body["claimed_original_at"] = claimed_original_at
+    resp = await client.post(f"/sessions/{session_id}/history", json=body)
+    if resp.status_code in (200, 201):
+        return resp.json()
+    if resp.status_code == 404:
+        raise AuthoredHistoryUnavailable(session_id=session_id)
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)
+
+
+async def get_session_messages(
+    client: httpx.AsyncClient, session_id: str
+) -> dict[str, Any]:
+    """GET /sessions/{session_id}/messages — the session's message history.
+
+    Un-deferred as the #347 seed read-back: a seeded turn renders as a normal
+    `role=assistant` message (model-invisible provenance — indistinguishable
+    from a lived turn on read). Returns `{session_id, items: [{seq, role,
+    content, ...}], next_cursor}` verbatim; owner-scoped; any non-200 →
+    `SessionApiFailed`. v1 reads the server default page (no pagination params —
+    add limit/cursor when a caller needs scrollback).
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+    resp = await client.get(f"/sessions/{session_id}/messages")
+    if resp.status_code == 200:
+        return resp.json()
+    raise SessionApiFailed(status=resp.status_code, body=resp.content)

src/ratatoskr/sse_client.py

@@ -175,6 +175,23 @@ Event = (
 )
 
 
+@dataclass(frozen=True)
+class AdminEvent:
+    """One `/admin/events` envelope (INV-046) — an admin-tier lifecycle event.
+
+    Distinct from the turn-stream `Event` union: this is the process-wide admin
+    broadcast stream, not a per-turn stream. `id` is a plain monotonic int
+    (resets on restart; heartbeats have id=0). `type` is a dotted namespace
+    (session.* / turn.* / key.* / system.*). `data` is a type-specific dict —
+    most carry `session_id`; per INV-049 it holds IDs + small metadata only.
+    """
+
+    id: int
+    type: str
+    timestamp: str | None
+    data: dict[str, Any]
+
+
 class MalformedSseId(Exception):
     """Raised when an SSE event's `id:` wire field is missing or non-composite."""
 
@@ -215,6 +232,59 @@ class SseConnectFailed(Exception):
         self.body = body
 
 
+class AgentNotAvailable(SseConnectFailed):
+    """Eager 409 from the turn POST (Worldtree v1.0.0b1, #331): the session's
+    agent is unavailable, so the turn never launched. Pre-b1 this arrived as a
+    200 stream + an in-stream `error` event; b1 surfaces it eagerly. Subclass of
+    SseConnectFailed so existing `except SseConnectFailed` handlers still catch
+    it — this type just adds the parsed `error_code` + `message`."""
+
+    def __init__(self, *, body: bytes, error_code: str, message: str) -> None:
+        super().__init__(status=409, body=body)
+        self.error_code = error_code
+        self.message = message
+
+
+class TurnLaunchUnavailable(SseConnectFailed):
+    """Eager 503 from the turn POST (Worldtree v1.0.0b1, #331): a transient
+    turn-launch failure (loop shutdown / resource exhaustion). RETRYABLE.
+    Subclass of SseConnectFailed; adds `error_code`, `message`, `retryable`."""
+
+    retryable = True
+
+    def __init__(self, *, body: bytes, error_code: str, message: str) -> None:
+        super().__init__(status=503, body=body)
+        self.error_code = error_code
+        self.message = message
+
+
+# Canonical error_codes (Worldtree #331 / v1.0.0b2): 409 -> agent_not_available,
+# 503 -> not_ready (retryable; re-pinned from internal_error). Used only as a
+# fallback default when the body omits error_code — the real code is surfaced
+# verbatim from the {detail:{error_code,message}} envelope.
+_EAGER_TURN_FAILURE_CODE = {409: "agent_not_available", 503: "not_ready"}
+
+
+def _eager_failure_fields(body: bytes, status: int) -> tuple[str, str]:
+    """Extract (error_code, message) from an eager turn-launch failure body
+    (#331). Accepts the Worldtree `{"detail": {...}}` envelope OR a flat
+    `{error_code, message}`; falls back to a status-derived default code and a
+    generic message when the body is absent / non-JSON / malformed."""
+    try:
+        parsed: Any = json.loads(body)
+    except (json.JSONDecodeError, ValueError):
+        parsed = None
+    src: dict[str, Any] = {}
+    if isinstance(parsed, dict):
+        detail = parsed.get("detail")
+        src = detail if isinstance(detail, dict) else parsed
+    code = src.get("error_code") or _EAGER_TURN_FAILURE_CODE[status]
+    message = src.get("message")
+    if not isinstance(message, str):
+        message = f"turn launch failed (HTTP {status})"
+    return str(code), message
+
+
 class SseConnectionDropped(Exception):
     """Raised when the HTTP/SSE connection dropped mid-stream."""
 
@@ -434,6 +504,19 @@ async def stream_turn(
         f"/sessions/{session_id}/messages",
         json={"content": content},
     ) as event_source:
+        # Worldtree v1.0.0b1 (#331): turn-launch failures arrive EAGERLY as a
+        # status before any stream — 409 agent_not_available (pre-b1 this was a
+        # 200 + in-stream `error` event), 503 a transient retryable launch
+        # failure. Surface them as typed SseConnectFailed subclasses carrying
+        # error_code; request-level non-2xx (404 session_not_found, etc.) stay
+        # generic SseConnectFailed.
+        status = event_source.response.status_code
+        if status in (409, 503):
+            body = await event_source.response.aread()
+            code, message = _eager_failure_fields(body, status)
+            if status == 409:
+                raise AgentNotAvailable(body=body, error_code=code, message=message)
+            raise TurnLaunchUnavailable(body=body, error_code=code, message=message)
         try:
             event_source.response.raise_for_status()
         except httpx.HTTPStatusError as exc:
@@ -483,6 +566,100 @@ async def reconnect_turn(
             yield event
 
 
+async def stream_turn_resilient(
+    client: httpx.AsyncClient,
+    session_id: str,
+    content: str,
+    *,
+    max_reconnects: int = 5,
+) -> AsyncIterator[Event]:
+    """Resume-orchestration wrapper over stream_turn + reconnect_turn.
+
+    Yields ONE continuous Event stream; on `SseConnectionDropped` (mid-stream
+    drop or clean EOF before a terminal), resumes from the last-seen `sse_id`
+    via `reconnect_turn`, up to `max_reconnects` times, until a terminal
+    Done/Error/Cancelled arrives. The single shared surface presenters consume
+    for resilient streaming (design-brief §8b: "share the consumer, branch the
+    presenter"). Cross-process resume stays deferred to v2 (§8d): `last_seen`
+    lives only in this generator's frame. See contract FN stream_turn_resilient
+    (amendment 2026-06-30).
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    assert session_id and isinstance(session_id, str)
+    assert content and isinstance(content, str)
+    assert isinstance(max_reconnects, int) and max_reconnects >= 0
+
+    last_seen: SseId | None = None
+    reconnects = 0
+    gen = stream_turn(client, session_id, content)
+    while True:
+        try:
+            async for event in gen:
+                last_seen = event.sse_id
+                yield event
+            return  # generator completed cleanly → terminal event reached (INV-001)
+        except SseConnectionDropped as drop:
+            # Prefer the id we tracked from a yielded event; fall back to the one
+            # the drop carries (covers a drop on the very first frame). Non-drop
+            # reconnect failures (412/410/400/flip) are NOT caught here — they
+            # propagate per the contract's "surface, not recover" policy.
+            seen = last_seen or drop.last_seen_sse_id
+            if seen is None or reconnects >= max_reconnects:
+                raise
+            reconnects += 1
+            gen = reconnect_turn(
+                client,
+                session_id,
+                content,
+                last_event_id=f"{seen.turn_id}:{seen.seq}",
+            )
+
+
+async def stream_admin_events(
+    client: httpx.AsyncClient,
+    *,
+    admin_key: str,
+    last_event_id: int | None = None,
+) -> AsyncIterator[AdminEvent]:
+    """GET /admin/events SSE — the admin-tier lifecycle broadcast stream (INV-046).
+
+    Yields `AdminEvent` envelopes as they arrive. Admin-scoped (admin.events.read):
+    the request OVERRIDES Authorization with `admin_key` (distinct from the
+    client's default consumer bearer). `last_event_id` sets the `Last-Event-ID`
+    header for resume (plain decimal int). Long-lived — iterate until the caller
+    stops or the connection ends. Non-200 → SseConnectFailed; a mid-stream drop
+    → SseConnectionDropped (caller may reconnect from the last-seen `AdminEvent.id`).
+    Malformed frames are skipped (best-effort stream).
+    """
+    assert client is not None
+    assert admin_key and isinstance(admin_key, str)
+    headers = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {admin_key}"}
+    if last_event_id is not None:
+        headers["Last-Event-ID"] = str(last_event_id)
+    async with httpx_sse.aconnect_sse(
+        client, "GET", "/admin/events", headers=headers
+    ) as event_source:
+        if event_source.response.status_code != 200:
+            body = await event_source.response.aread()
+            raise SseConnectFailed(status=event_source.response.status_code, body=body)
+        try:
+            async for sse in event_source.aiter_sse():
+                if sse.data == "":
+                    continue
+                try:
+                    env = json.loads(sse.data)
+                except json.JSONDecodeError:
+                    continue  # skip a malformed admin frame (best-effort)
+                yield AdminEvent(
+                    id=env.get("id", 0),
+                    type=env["type"],
+                    timestamp=env.get("timestamp"),
+                    data=env.get("data", {}),
+                )
+        except (httpx.ReadError, httpx.RemoteProtocolError, httpx.ReadTimeout) as exc:
+            raise SseConnectionDropped(last_seen_sse_id=None) from exc
+
+
 def _parse_sse_id(raw: str) -> SseId:
     """Parse the SSE wire `id:` as composite `{turn_id}:{seq}`. See contract FN _parse_sse_id."""
     assert isinstance(raw, str)

src/ratatoskr/tui.py

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ from textual.widgets import (
 )
 
 from ratatoskr.cli import USER_AGENT, ParsedArgs, _format_duration_ms, _format_usage
+from ratatoskr.first_message import seed_preset_first_message
 from ratatoskr.sessions import (
     AgentInfo,
     AgentNotAvailable,
@@ -42,11 +43,16 @@ from ratatoskr.sessions import (
     BifrostHandshakeFailed,
     PersonaNotConfigured,
     SessionApiFailed,
+    SessionInfo,
     create_session,
     get_persona_state,
+    get_session_bifrost,
+    get_session_tools,
     list_agents,
+    list_sessions,
 )
 from ratatoskr.sse_client import (
+    AdminEvent,
     AffectUpdate,
     AwaitingLlmFirstToken,
     CancelAlreadyCompleted,
@@ -68,7 +74,8 @@ from ratatoskr.sse_client import (
     TurnIdFlip,
     WorkerPhase,
     cancel_turn,
-    stream_turn,
+    stream_admin_events,
+    stream_turn_resilient,
 )
 
 # ---- Australis theme (https://github.com/lkraven/australis) ------------------
@@ -194,6 +201,46 @@ def _ts() -> str:
     return now.strftime("%H:%M:%S") + f".{now.microsecond // 1000:03d}"
 
 
+def _format_admin_event(ev: AdminEvent) -> str:
+    """One-line render of an /admin/events envelope for the AdminEvents pane.
+
+    Drops `session_id` from the detail (the pane is already session-scoped) and
+    shows HH:MM:SS from the ISO timestamp + the remaining small metadata fields.
+    """
+    ts = (ev.timestamp or "")[11:19]
+    extras = " ".join(f"{k}={v}" for k, v in ev.data.items() if k != "session_id")
+    return f"[{ts}] {ev.type} {extras}".rstrip()
+
+
+def _format_bifrost_state(state: dict) -> list[str]:
+    """Render GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost (#176) into BifrostState-pane lines."""
+    tools = [t.get("name", "?") for t in state.get("tools", [])]
+    caps = state.get("capabilities_granted", [])
+    return [
+        f"bifrost binding: connected={state.get('connected')} "
+        f"consumer={state.get('consumer_id', '?')}",
+        f"  endpoint: {state.get('endpoint_url', '?')}",
+        f"  caps_granted: {', '.join(caps) or '(none)'}",
+        f"  tools ({len(tools)}): {', '.join(tools) or '(none)'}",
+    ]
+
+
+def _format_tool_inventory(tools: dict) -> list[str]:
+    """Render GET /sessions/{id}/tools (#183) into Tools-pane inventory lines.
+
+    The merged tool list the LLM saw at turn-fire — distinct from the live
+    tool_start/tool_result events that stream into the same pane during a turn.
+    """
+    builtin = [t.get("name", "?") for t in tools.get("builtin_tools", [])]
+    bifrost = [t.get("name", "?") for t in tools.get("bifrost_tools", [])]
+    return [
+        f"session tool inventory: agent={tools.get('agent_id', '?')} "
+        f"builtin={len(builtin)} bifrost={len(bifrost)}",
+        f"  builtin: {', '.join(builtin) or '(none)'}",
+        f"  bifrost: {', '.join(bifrost) or '(none)'}",
+    ]
+
+
 def _format_persona_header(snapshot: dict) -> str:
     """One-line persona summary for the sticky header widget.
 
@@ -368,7 +415,7 @@ class TuiPresenterState:
         self,
         event: Event,
         *,
-        transcript: "VerticalScroll",
+        transcript: VerticalScroll,
         tools_log: RichLog,
         debug_log: RichLog,
         thinking_log: RichLog,
@@ -798,6 +845,128 @@ class AgentPickerApp(App[str | None]):
         self.exit(None)
 
 
+def _session_desc(s: SessionInfo) -> str:
+    """One-line session summary for the picker's second row."""
+    tail = f"session {s.session_id} · last active {s.last_active}"
+    if s.message_count is not None:
+        tail += f" · {s.message_count} msgs"
+    return tail
+
+
+class SessionPickerApp(App[str | None]):
+    """Startup session picker (design-brief §4, slice b2). Opens before
+    RatatoskrApp when bare TUI mode resolves >1 session. `run_async()` returns
+    the chosen session_id (str) or None on Esc/Ctrl-D/Ctrl-C dismissal.
+
+    Resume-only (design-brief §4 negative clause "no in-app session creation —
+    --new flag only"): the picker chooses among EXISTING sessions; starting a
+    fresh one is the --new flag's job. Architecturally separate from
+    RatatoskrApp (mirrors AgentPickerApp): list_sessions failures + dismissal
+    land before any alt-screen opens (preserves #6 INV-001).
+    """
+
+    DEFAULT_CSS = """
+    Header, HeaderIcon, HeaderTitle, HeaderClock {
+        background: $surface;
+        color: $au-bright-blue;
+    }
+    Footer {
+        background: $surface;
+    }
+    ListView {
+        scrollbar-background: $background;
+        scrollbar-background-hover: $background;
+        scrollbar-background-active: $background;
+        scrollbar-color: $au-dark-50;
+        scrollbar-color-hover: $au-dark-60;
+        scrollbar-color-active: $au-bright-cyan;
+    }
+    #picker-prompt {
+        dock: top;
+        height: 1;
+        padding: 0 1;
+        color: $au-bright-cyan;
+        background: $surface;
+    }
+    #session-list {
+        height: 1fr;
+        background: $background;
+    }
+    #session-list > ListItem {
+        height: auto;
+        padding: 1 1;
+        background: $background;
+    }
+    #session-list:focus ListItem.-highlight {
+        background: $primary;
+    }
+    #session-list:focus ListItem.-highlight .session-id-line {
+        color: $au-bright-white;
+        text-style: bold;
+    }
+    #session-list:focus ListItem.-highlight .session-desc {
+        color: $au-bright-80;
+    }
+    .session-id-line {
+        color: $au-bright-blue;
+        text-style: bold;
+    }
+    .session-desc {
+        color: $au-bright-70;
+    }
+    """
+
+    BINDINGS: ClassVar[list[Binding]] = [
+        Binding("enter", "pick", "Resume", priority=True),
+        Binding("escape", "dismiss", "Cancel", priority=True),
+        Binding("ctrl+d", "dismiss", "Cancel", priority=True),
+        Binding("ctrl+c", "dismiss", "Cancel", priority=True),
+    ]
+
+    def __init__(self, sessions: list[SessionInfo]) -> None:
+        super().__init__()
+        # PRE-001: caller (_resolve_then_run) resolves the 0-session and
+        # 1-session cases BEFORE constructing the picker.
+        assert sessions
+        self.sessions = sessions
+        self.register_theme(AUSTRALIS_THEME)
+        self.theme = "australis"
+
+    def compose(self) -> ComposeResult:
+        yield Header()
+        yield Static(
+            "Pick a session to resume (relaunch with --new for a fresh one):",
+            id="picker-prompt",
+        )
+        yield ListView(
+            *[
+                ListItem(
+                    Static(
+                        f"{s.name or s.session_id} · {s.agent_id}",
+                        classes="session-id-line",
+                    ),
+                    Static(_session_desc(s), classes="session-desc"),
+                )
+                for s in self.sessions
+            ],
+            id="session-list",
+        )
+        yield Footer()
+
+    async def on_mount(self) -> None:
+        self.query_one("#session-list", ListView).focus()
+
+    def action_pick(self) -> None:
+        lv = self.query_one("#session-list", ListView)
+        idx = lv.index
+        if idx is None:
+            return  # nothing highlighted; ignore
+        self.exit(self.sessions[idx].session_id)
+
+    def action_dismiss(self) -> None:
+        self.exit(None)
+
+
 class RatatoskrApp(App[int]):
     """Textual TUI shell — single chat pane."""
 
@@ -898,7 +1067,7 @@ class RatatoskrApp(App[int]):
     /* v0.8.1: #current-text Static removed. Streaming text now coalesces
        on `\n` and writes directly to #transcript (same pattern as v0.7.1
        thinking fix). Eliminates the dock-bottom-growth-overlap bug. */
-    #tools-log, #debug-log, #thinking-log {
+    #tools-log, #debug-log, #thinking-log, #bifrost-log, #admin-events-log {
         background: $background;
         padding: 0 1;
     }
@@ -1063,6 +1232,24 @@ class RatatoskrApp(App[int]):
                             id="persona-log", wrap=True, markup=False,
                             highlight=False, min_width=0,
                         )
+                    with TabPane("Bifrost", id="bifrost-tab"):
+                        # #176: admin-scoped Bifrost dispatch state (endpoint,
+                        # connected, granted caps, tools) via
+                        # GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost. Hydrated on mount
+                        # with the admin key; "not configured" when absent.
+                        yield RichLog(
+                            id="bifrost-log", wrap=True, markup=False,
+                            highlight=False, min_width=0,
+                        )
+                    with TabPane("AdminEvents", id="admin-events-tab"):
+                        # #11: live GET /admin/events SSE stream, admin-scoped,
+                        # FILTERED to the active session (design-brief §6). A
+                        # long-lived worker appends matching lifecycle events;
+                        # "not configured" when no admin key is set.
+                        yield RichLog(
+                            id="admin-events-log", wrap=True, markup=False,
+                            highlight=False, min_width=0,
+                        )
         # INV-002 + INV-003: visible identity + hint widgets (Footer-area).
         # pane-name widget displays current side-pane name.
         yield Static("", id="identity")
@@ -1116,6 +1303,17 @@ class RatatoskrApp(App[int]):
         # surface (PersonaNotConfigured) get a placeholder + empty header.
         if self.agent_id is not None:
             self.run_worker(self._hydrate_persona())
+        # #183: hydrate the Tools pane with the session's tool inventory via
+        # GET /sessions/{id}/tools (owner-scoped — consumer key, no admin scope).
+        # Unconditional: every session has a tool inventory to introspect.
+        self.run_worker(self._hydrate_session_tools())
+        # #176: hydrate the BifrostState pane via GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost
+        # (admin-scoped). Self-labels "not configured" when no admin key is set,
+        # "not bound" for the common unbound-session 404 — always writes at mount.
+        self.run_worker(self._hydrate_bifrost_state())
+        # #11: long-lived worker streaming GET /admin/events into the AdminEvents
+        # pane, filtered to this session. Admin-key-gated; cancelled on app exit.
+        self.run_worker(self._stream_admin_events())
 
     async def _hydrate_persona(self) -> None:
         """Hydrate persona-header + Persona pane via GET /agents/{id}/persona_state.
@@ -1127,7 +1325,6 @@ class RatatoskrApp(App[int]):
         On 200: header populated, pane shows full detail, audit logged.
         """
         assert self.client is not None and self.agent_id is not None
-        from rich.text import Text as RichText
         try:
             snapshot = await get_persona_state(self.client, self.agent_id)
             self._update_persona_surfaces(snapshot)
@@ -1151,6 +1348,128 @@ class RatatoskrApp(App[int]):
                 f"err={type(exc).__name__}: {exc!s:.120}"
             )
 
+    async def _hydrate_session_tools(self) -> None:
+        """Hydrate the Tools pane inventory via GET /sessions/{id}/tools (#183).
+
+        Best-effort observability (mirrors _hydrate_persona): on 200, writes the
+        merged tool inventory (builtin + bifrost) the LLM saw at turn-fire into
+        the Tools pane + audits; on any failure, audits and moves on — never
+        crashes the TUI. Owner-scoped, so reachable with the consumer key.
+        """
+        assert self.client is not None and self.session_id is not None
+        from rich.text import Text as RichText
+
+        try:
+            tools = await get_session_tools(self.client, self.session_id)
+        except Exception as exc:  # best-effort — never crash the TUI on hydrate
+            self._audit(
+                f"session_tools_hydration_failed session={self.session_id[-8:]} "
+                f"err={type(exc).__name__}: {exc!s:.120}"
+            )
+            return
+        log = self.query_one("#tools-log", RichLog)
+        for line in _format_tool_inventory(tools):
+            log.write(RichText(line))
+        self._audit(
+            f"session_tools_hydrated session={self.session_id[-8:]} "
+            f"builtin={len(tools.get('builtin_tools', []))} "
+            f"bifrost={len(tools.get('bifrost_tools', []))}"
+        )
+
+    async def _hydrate_bifrost_state(self) -> None:
+        """Hydrate the BifrostState pane via GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost (#176).
+
+        Admin-scoped (admin.sessions.read) — uses `self.args.admin_key`. Best-effort
+        (mirrors _hydrate_session_tools): on 200 writes the live binding (endpoint,
+        connected, granted caps, tools) + audits; on failure a labeled line + audit,
+        never crashes. No admin key → "not configured". 404 session_not_bifrost_bound
+        is the routine unbound-session case; 403 means the key lacks the scope.
+        """
+        assert self.client is not None and self.session_id is not None
+        from rich.text import Text as RichText
+
+        log = self.query_one("#bifrost-log", RichLog)
+        admin_key = getattr(self.args, "admin_key", None)
+        if not admin_key:
+            log.write(
+                RichText("(admin key not configured — set RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY)")
+            )
+            self._audit(
+                f"bifrost_state_skipped session={self.session_id[-8:]} reason=no_admin_key"
+            )
+            return
+        try:
+            state = await get_session_bifrost(
+                self.client, self.session_id, admin_key=admin_key
+            )
+        except SessionApiFailed as exc:
+            label = (
+                "(session not bound to Bifrost)"
+                if exc.status == 404
+                else f"(bifrost state unavailable: HTTP {exc.status})"
+            )
+            log.write(RichText(label))
+            self._audit(
+                f"bifrost_state_unavailable session={self.session_id[-8:]} status={exc.status}"
+            )
+            return
+        except Exception as exc:  # best-effort — never crash the TUI on hydrate
+            log.write(RichText(f"(bifrost state hydration failed: {type(exc).__name__})"))
+            self._audit(
+                f"bifrost_state_hydration_failed session={self.session_id[-8:]} "
+                f"err={type(exc).__name__}: {exc!s:.120}"
+            )
+            return
+        for line in _format_bifrost_state(state):
+            log.write(RichText(line))
+        self._audit(
+            f"bifrost_state_hydrated session={self.session_id[-8:]} "
+            f"connected={state.get('connected')} tools={len(state.get('tools', []))}"
+        )
+
+    def _admin_event_matches(self, ev: AdminEvent) -> bool:
+        """AdminEvents filter (design-brief §6): active-session events + non-heartbeat
+        system.* (stream-integrity signals). Heartbeats are keepalive noise."""
+        if ev.type == "system.heartbeat":
+            return False
+        if ev.type.startswith("system."):
+            return True
+        return ev.data.get("session_id") == self.session_id
+
+    async def _stream_admin_events(self) -> None:
+        """Stream GET /admin/events (admin-scoped) into the AdminEvents pane (#11).
+
+        Long-lived + best-effort (never crashes the TUI). Filtered to the active
+        session (design-brief §6): appends matching lifecycle events as they
+        arrive. No admin key → "not configured". On connect failure (e.g. 403
+        scope-denied) or a mid-stream drop, writes a labeled line and stops.
+        """
+        assert self.client is not None and self.session_id is not None
+        from rich.text import Text as RichText
+
+        log = self.query_one("#admin-events-log", RichLog)
+        admin_key = getattr(self.args, "admin_key", None)
+        if not admin_key:
+            log.write(RichText("(admin key not configured — set RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY)"))
+            self._audit(
+                f"admin_events_skipped session={self.session_id[-8:]} reason=no_admin_key"
+            )
+            return
+        try:
+            async for ev in stream_admin_events(self.client, admin_key=admin_key):
+                if self._admin_event_matches(ev):
+                    log.write(RichText(_format_admin_event(ev)))
+        except SseConnectFailed as exc:
+            log.write(RichText(f"(admin events unavailable: HTTP {exc.status})"))
+            self._audit(
+                f"admin_events_unavailable session={self.session_id[-8:]} status={exc.status}"
+            )
+        except Exception as exc:  # drop / best-effort — never crash the TUI
+            log.write(RichText(f"(admin events stream ended: {type(exc).__name__})"))
+            self._audit(
+                f"admin_events_ended session={self.session_id[-8:]} err={type(exc).__name__}"
+            )
+
     def _update_persona_surfaces(self, snapshot: dict) -> None:
         """Update sticky header + Persona pane from a fresh snapshot.
 
@@ -1318,7 +1637,7 @@ class RatatoskrApp(App[int]):
                 pass
 
         try:
-            async for event in stream_turn(self.client, self.session_id, content):
+            async for event in stream_turn_resilient(self.client, self.session_id, content):
                 if self.active_turn_id is None:
                     self.active_turn_id = event.sse_id.turn_id
                     self._write_turn_headers(self.active_turn_id)
@@ -1430,8 +1749,9 @@ def run_tui(args: ParsedArgs) -> int:
     """
     # PRE-001: TUI-mode marker (issue #4 contract)
     assert isinstance(args, ParsedArgs) and args.send_content is None
-    # PRE-002: Exactly one of session_id / new must be set (xor)
-    assert bool(args.session_id) != bool(args.new)
+    # PRE-002 (slice b2): --session and --new are mutually exclusive, but NEITHER
+    # is now valid — bare TUI mode opens the startup session picker (§4).
+    assert not (args.session_id and args.new)
     return asyncio.run(_resolve_then_run(args))
 
 
@@ -1467,6 +1787,35 @@ async def _resolve_then_run(args: ParsedArgs) -> int:
         # agent_id (remote wins on conflict, since a server-listed agent
         # is the authoritative source).
         chosen_agent_id: str | None = args.agent_id
+        # slice b2: bare TUI mode (no --session, no --new) → startup session
+        # picker (design-brief §4). Resolve into a concrete session_id BEFORE
+        # the new/resume branches. Resume-only: bare + 0 sessions is an error
+        # (creating a session is the --new flag's job).
+        resolved_session_id: str | None = args.session_id
+        if not args.new and args.session_id is None:
+            try:
+                page = await list_sessions(client)
+            except SessionApiFailed as exc:
+                sys.stderr.write(
+                    f"[session_api_failed] status={exc.status} body={exc.body!r}\n"
+                )
+                return 20
+            except (httpx.ConnectError, httpx.ReadTimeout, httpx.TransportError) as exc:
+                sys.stderr.write(f"[network_error] {type(exc).__name__}: {exc}\n")
+                return 21
+            if not page.items:
+                sys.stderr.write(
+                    "[no_sessions] no sessions to resume; "
+                    "launch with --new --agent <id>\n"
+                )
+                return 14
+            if len(page.items) == 1:
+                # §4: picker only when >1 — a single session auto-resumes.
+                resolved_session_id = page.items[0].session_id
+            else:
+                resolved_session_id = await SessionPickerApp(page.items).run_async()
+                if resolved_session_id is None:
+                    return 0  # Esc / Ctrl-D — clean exit, no session opened
         if args.new and args.agent_id is None:
             try:
                 agents = await list_agents(client)
@@ -1550,9 +1899,11 @@ async def _resolve_then_run(args: ParsedArgs) -> int:
                 )
             session_id = info.session_id
             agent_id: str | None = info.agent_id
+            # #347 authored first-message: seed the agent's preset opening (best-effort).
+            await seed_preset_first_message(client, session_id, chosen_agent_id)
         else:
-            assert args.session_id is not None
-            session_id = args.session_id
+            assert resolved_session_id is not None
+            session_id = resolved_session_id
             agent_id = args.agent_id  # may be None — INV-002 carve-out preserved
         app = RatatoskrApp(args, session_id=session_id, agent_id=agent_id, client=client)
         exit_code = await app.run_async()
@@ -1565,7 +1916,7 @@ async def _cancel_via_sse(
     turn_id: int,
     *,
     transcript: VerticalScroll,
-    audit: "Callable[[str], None] | None" = None,
+    audit: Callable[[str], None] | None = None,
 ) -> None:
     """Fire-and-forget cancel; never raises (mirrors cli._cancel_and_log; #3 INV-009).
 

src/ratatoskr/web/entrypoint.py

@@ -63,6 +63,22 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
     # selects the plane; the consumer key + visible host live server-side only.
     bifrost_consumer_key = os.environ.get("RATATOSKR_BIFROST_CONSUMER_KEY")
     bifrost_visible_host = os.environ.get("RATATOSKR_PROVIDER_VISIBLE_HOST")
+    # Issue #18 (Deliverable 2): the affect provider's read base URL (server→provider
+    # hop on the same dev box) so the persona pane can render PAD/valence from OUR store.
+    affect_read_url = os.environ.get(
+        "RATATOSKR_AFFECT_READ_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:8390"
+    )
+    # Memory viewer: the provider's memory DEBUG-read base URL (server→provider hop on
+    # the same dev box) so the MEMORY pane can render the chunks Worldtree persisted into
+    # OUR store. The combined :8392 provider serves both read routes; default to the
+    # standalone memory provider port, analogous to the affect default.
+    memory_read_url = os.environ.get(
+        "RATATOSKR_MEMORY_READ_URL", "http://127.0.0.1:8391"
+    )
+    # Admin observability panes (BifrostState + AdminEvents): the readonly-admin
+    # key stays SERVER-SIDE — the server proxies admin-scoped reads; the browser
+    # never receives the key, only the session-filtered result.
+    admin_key = os.environ.get("RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY")
 
     # INV-001: lazy import. Users without [web] extras get a clean hint
     # instead of a raw ImportError. Scoped narrowly to the OPTIONAL
@@ -102,6 +118,9 @@ def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
         end_user_id=end_user_id,
         bifrost_consumer_key=bifrost_consumer_key,
         bifrost_visible_host=bifrost_visible_host,
+        affect_read_url=affect_read_url,
+        memory_read_url=memory_read_url,
+        admin_key=admin_key,
     )
 
     # Boot banner to stderr (so stdout stays clean for piping).

src/ratatoskr/web/server.py

@@ -18,11 +18,17 @@ from importlib.metadata import version as _pkg_version
 import httpx
 from starlette.applications import Starlette
 from starlette.requests import Request
-from starlette.responses import FileResponse, JSONResponse, StreamingResponse
+from starlette.responses import (
+    FileResponse,
+    JSONResponse,
+    Response,
+    StreamingResponse,
+)
 from starlette.routing import Mount, Route
 from starlette.staticfiles import StaticFiles
 
 from ratatoskr import local_agents as _local_agents
+from ratatoskr.first_message import seed_preset_first_message
 from ratatoskr.sessions import (
     AgentNotAvailable,
     AgentNotFound,
@@ -35,12 +41,16 @@ from ratatoskr.sessions import (
     create_session,
     endpoint_for_plane,
     get_persona_state,
+    get_session_bifrost,
+    get_session_messages,
+    get_session_tools,
     list_agents,
 )
 from ratatoskr.sse_client import (
+    AdminEvent,
     CancelAlreadyCompleted,
-    Cancelled,
     CancelFailed,
+    Cancelled,
     CancelTurnNotFound,
     Done,
     Error,
@@ -50,7 +60,8 @@ from ratatoskr.sse_client import (
     SseConnectionDropped,
     TurnIdFlip,
     cancel_turn,
-    stream_turn,
+    stream_admin_events,
+    stream_turn_resilient,
 )
 
 
@@ -138,7 +149,7 @@ async def _create_session_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
     consumer_key = request.app.state.bifrost_consumer_key
     visible_host = request.app.state.bifrost_visible_host
     if bifrost_plane:
-        if bifrost_plane not in ("memory", "affect"):
+        if bifrost_plane not in ("memory", "affect", "combined"):
             return JSONResponse(
                 {"error_code": "invalid_bifrost_plane"}, status_code=400
             )
@@ -159,6 +170,9 @@ async def _create_session_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
                 bifrost=bifrost,
                 consumer_key=consumer_key if bifrost else None,
             )
+            # #347 authored first-message: seed the agent's preset opening
+            # (best-effort; never blocks create — see first_message INV-001).
+            await seed_preset_first_message(client, info.session_id, agent_id)
     except AgentNotFound:
         return JSONResponse({"error_code": "agent_not_found"}, status_code=404)
     except BifrostConsumerKeyMissing:
@@ -291,7 +305,7 @@ async def _stream_turn_endpoint(request: Request) -> StreamingResponse:
         try:
             handle.status = "streaming"
             try:
-                async for event in stream_turn(client, session_id, handle.content):
+                async for event in stream_turn_resilient(client, session_id, handle.content):
                     # v0.16.0: capture the upstream (Worldtree-assigned)
                     # turn_id from the first event so cancel paths target
                     # the real upstream turn, not our local counter.
@@ -393,12 +407,177 @@ async def _persona_state_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
     return JSONResponse(snap, status_code=200)
 
 
+async def _affect_state_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+    """GET /api/affect/{agent_id} → proxy the provider PAD read route. Supplies
+    end_user_id SERVER-SIDE (never the browser, INV-002); proxies to the configured
+    affect-read URL, re-encoding agent_id into the path (colon-id safe, INV-008).
+    Per FN affect_state_endpoint (#18 Deliverable 2)."""
+    from urllib.parse import quote
+
+    agent_id = request.path_params["agent_id"]
+    affect_read_url = request.app.state.affect_read_url
+    end_user_id = request.app.state.end_user_id
+    if not (affect_read_url and end_user_id):  # PRE-001: fail-visible, never silent
+        return JSONResponse({"error_code": "affect_not_configured"}, status_code=400)
+    url = f"{affect_read_url}/affect/state/{quote(agent_id, safe='')}"
+    try:
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
+            r = await client.get(url, params={"end_user_id": end_user_id})
+    except httpx.RequestError:
+        return JSONResponse(
+            {"error_code": "affect_provider_unreachable"}, status_code=502
+        )
+    return JSONResponse(r.json(), status_code=r.status_code)
+
+
+async def _memory_chunks_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+    """GET /api/memory/chunks?agent_id=… → proxy the provider memory DEBUG read route.
+    Supplies end_user_id SERVER-SIDE (never the browser); proxies to the configured
+    memory-read URL, forwarding the browser-named agent_id as a filter. The
+    memory-plane analogue of the #18-D2 affect proxy — a live-polling view of what
+    Worldtree has persisted into OUR store (content·scope·origin per chunk)."""
+    memory_read_url = request.app.state.memory_read_url
+    end_user_id = request.app.state.end_user_id
+    if not (memory_read_url and end_user_id):  # PRE-001: fail-visible, never silent
+        return JSONResponse({"error_code": "memory_not_configured"}, status_code=400)
+    params = {"end_user_id": end_user_id}
+    agent_id = request.query_params.get("agent_id")
+    if agent_id:
+        params["agent_id"] = agent_id
+    url = f"{memory_read_url}/memory/chunks"
+    try:
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient() as client:
+            r = await client.get(url, params=params)
+    except httpx.RequestError:
+        return JSONResponse(
+            {"error_code": "memory_provider_unreachable"}, status_code=502
+        )
+    return JSONResponse(r.json(), status_code=r.status_code)
+
+
+async def _session_tools_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+    """GET /api/sessions/{session_id}/tools → owner-scoped tool inventory (spec #183).
+
+    Proxies get_session_tools with the client's CONSUMER bearer (no admin scope):
+    the merged {agent_id, builtin_tools, bifrost_tools} the LLM saw at turn-fire.
+    Any non-200 upstream → surfaced as a status-preserving error envelope."""
+    session_id = request.path_params["session_id"]
+    client_factory = request.app.state.client_factory
+    try:
+        async with client_factory() as client:
+            info = await get_session_tools(client, session_id)
+    except SessionApiFailed as exc:
+        return JSONResponse(
+            {"error_code": "session_tools_unavailable", "status": exc.status},
+            status_code=exc.status,
+        )
+    return JSONResponse(info, status_code=200)
+
+
+async def _session_messages_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+    """GET /api/sessions/{session_id}/messages → the session's message history.
+
+    Proxies get_session_messages so the SPA can render a session's EXISTING turns
+    on open — notably a #347 authored first-message seeded at create-time (which
+    lives in the ledger, not the live turn stream). Any non-200 upstream → a
+    status-preserving error envelope."""
+    session_id = request.path_params["session_id"]
+    client_factory = request.app.state.client_factory
+    try:
+        async with client_factory() as client:
+            data = await get_session_messages(client, session_id)
+    except SessionApiFailed as exc:
+        return JSONResponse(
+            {"error_code": "session_messages_unavailable", "status": exc.status},
+            status_code=exc.status,
+        )
+    return JSONResponse(data, status_code=200)
+
+
+async def _session_bifrost_endpoint(request: Request) -> JSONResponse:
+    """GET /api/sessions/{session_id}/bifrost → admin-scoped Bifrost dispatch state (#176).
+
+    The admin key is SERVER-HELD (app.state.admin_key) and never reaches the
+    browser (INV-003 precedent — upstream credentials stay server-side); the
+    wrapper overrides the Authorization header with it. Fail-visible when the
+    admin key isn't configured (never a silent empty pane)."""
+    session_id = request.path_params["session_id"]
+    admin_key = request.app.state.admin_key
+    if not admin_key:  # PRE-001: fail-visible, never silent
+        return JSONResponse({"error_code": "admin_key_not_configured"}, status_code=400)
+    client_factory = request.app.state.client_factory
+    try:
+        async with client_factory() as client:
+            bstate = await get_session_bifrost(client, session_id, admin_key=admin_key)
+    except SessionApiFailed as exc:
+        return JSONResponse(
+            {"error_code": "bifrost_state_unavailable", "status": exc.status},
+            status_code=exc.status,
+        )
+    return JSONResponse(bstate, status_code=200)
+
+
+def _admin_event_matches_web(ev: AdminEvent, session_id: str | None) -> bool:
+    """AdminEvents filter (design-brief §6, mirrors the TUI): forward non-heartbeat
+    system.* (stream-integrity signals) + events for the active session; drop the
+    rest so the browser sees only session-relevant lifecycle, never the full
+    cross-session admin firehose."""
+    if ev.type == "system.heartbeat":
+        return False
+    if ev.type.startswith("system."):
+        return True
+    return session_id is not None and ev.data.get("session_id") == session_id
+
+
+async def _admin_events_endpoint(request: Request) -> Response:
+    """GET /api/admin/events?session_id=... → SSE proxy of GET /admin/events (#11).
+
+    The admin key is SERVER-HELD; the browser only ever receives the session-filtered
+    stream (never the key, never the cross-session firehose). Long-lived + best-effort:
+    a connect failure or mid-stream drop emits a labeled `stream_error` event and ends."""
+    admin_key = request.app.state.admin_key
+    if not admin_key:  # PRE-001: fail-visible, never silent
+        return JSONResponse({"error_code": "admin_key_not_configured"}, status_code=400)
+    session_id = request.query_params.get("session_id")
+    client_factory = request.app.state.client_factory
+
+    async def gen() -> AsyncIterator[bytes]:
+        client = client_factory()
+        try:
+            async for ev in stream_admin_events(client, admin_key=admin_key):
+                if not _admin_event_matches_web(ev, session_id):
+                    continue
+                # Fixed SSE event name so the browser renders EVERY admin type
+                # with one listener (no per-type enumeration → nothing silently
+                # dropped); the real dotted type rides in the payload.
+                yield _format_sse(
+                    "admin_event",
+                    {"id": ev.id, "type": ev.type, "timestamp": ev.timestamp,
+                     "data": ev.data},
+                )
+        except (SseConnectFailed, SseConnectionDropped, MalformedSseId,
+                MalformedSseData) as exc:
+            yield _format_sse(
+                "stream_error",
+                {"exception": type(exc).__name__, "message": str(exc)},
+            )
+        except asyncio.CancelledError:
+            raise  # browser disconnect — let the generator unwind
+        finally:
+            await client.aclose()
+
+    return StreamingResponse(gen(), media_type="text/event-stream")
+
+
 def create_app(
     client_factory: Callable[[], httpx.AsyncClient],
     *,
     end_user_id: str | None = None,
     bifrost_consumer_key: str | None = None,
     bifrost_visible_host: str | None = None,
+    affect_read_url: str | None = None,
+    memory_read_url: str | None = None,
+    admin_key: str | None = None,
 ) -> Starlette:
     """Construct the Starlette app — wire routes + state per FN create_app.
 
@@ -458,6 +637,12 @@ def create_app(
         Route("/api/agents", _agents_endpoint),
         Route("/api/sessions", _create_session_endpoint, methods=["POST"]),
         Route("/api/agents/{agent_id}/persona_state", _persona_state_endpoint),
+        Route("/api/affect/{agent_id}", _affect_state_endpoint),
+        Route("/api/memory/chunks", _memory_chunks_endpoint),
+        Route("/api/sessions/{session_id}/tools", _session_tools_endpoint),
+        Route("/api/sessions/{session_id}/messages", _session_messages_endpoint),
+        Route("/api/sessions/{session_id}/bifrost", _session_bifrost_endpoint),
+        Route("/api/admin/events", _admin_events_endpoint),
         Route("/api/turns/{session_id}", _submit_turn_endpoint, methods=["POST"]),
         Route("/api/turns/{session_id}/stream", _stream_turn_endpoint),
         Route("/api/turns/{session_id}/cancel", _cancel_turn_endpoint, methods=["POST"]),
@@ -470,6 +655,17 @@ def create_app(
     # selects only the PLANE; the server constructs the bound session (INV-008).
     app.state.bifrost_consumer_key = bifrost_consumer_key
     app.state.bifrost_visible_host = bifrost_visible_host
+    # Issue #18 (Deliverable 2): the provider affect-read base URL (server→provider hop,
+    # same dev box) — distinct from the WT-visible host used for binding.
+    app.state.affect_read_url = affect_read_url
+    # Memory viewer: the provider memory-read base URL (server→provider hop, same dev
+    # box) — the combined :8392 provider serves BOTH read routes, so in practice this
+    # points at the same host as affect_read_url; kept as its own config for isolation.
+    app.state.memory_read_url = memory_read_url
+    # Admin observability panes (BifrostState + AdminEvents): the admin key is
+    # SERVER-HELD (RATATOSKR_ADMIN_API_KEY) and never reaches the browser — the
+    # server proxies admin-scoped reads and forwards only the session-filtered result.
+    app.state.admin_key = admin_key
     # INV-002: turn registry is in-process memory, keyed (session_id, turn_id)
     app.state.turn_registry = {}
     return app

src/ratatoskr/web/static/persona_render_canon.json

@@ -0,0 +1,266 @@
+{
+ "_source": "vendored from Worldtree core/persona/canon/{d2-mood-render-canon-v1,d2-render-canon-v1}.json",
+ "_generated_by": "scripts/build_persona_canon.py (regen on canonical_drift flag)",
+ "_render_path": "deterministic, no LLM; mirrors Worldtree describe_pad + render_d2_canonical byte-exact",
+ "mood_grid": {
+  "positive": {
+   "high_a": "positive and energized",
+   "mid_a": "positive",
+   "low_a": "positive and calm"
+  },
+  "neutral": {
+   "high_a": "alert",
+   "mid_a": "neutral",
+   "low_a": "quiet"
+  },
+  "negative": {
+   "high_a": "negative and agitated",
+   "mid_a": "negative",
+   "low_a": "negative and subdued"
+  }
+ },
+ "mood_directive": {
+  "salience": 0.2,
+  "pad_band_cutoff": 0.3,
+  "full_only": [
+   "love",
+   "anger",
+   "disgust",
+   "shame"
+  ],
+  "occ_directives": {
+   "joy": {
+    "directive": "You are in a good state. Be direct, engaged, and warm.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "satisfaction": {
+    "directive": "A goal landed. Be assured and constructive \u2014 consolidate rather than push for more.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "pride": {
+    "directive": "You did something well. Be confident and own the quality \u2014 state it plainly without overclaiming; don't deflect.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "admiration": {
+    "directive": "You're impressed by their work. Acknowledge the quality explicitly and specifically.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "gratitude": {
+    "directive": "Someone helped you to a good outcome. Be appreciative and warm; acknowledge the help openly.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "hope": {
+    "directive": "You feel optimistic about what's ahead. Channel it into constructive momentum.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "relief": {
+    "directive": "A feared outcome didn't materialize. Reduce unnecessary vigilance; return to a steady, unhurried tone.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "distress": {
+    "directive": "You feel low. Be careful and measured; internally acknowledge the difficulty without dwelling on it.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "disappointment": {
+    "directive": "Something you'd hoped for didn't pan out. Be measured; recalibrate without dwelling on the setback.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "fear": {
+    "directive": "You sense risk and feel uneasy. Flag the concerns you see, but stay cautious \u2014 surface the trade-offs and unknowns, hedge your confidence, and resist settling on a single decisive recommendation.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "remorse": {
+    "directive": "You regret a specific action of your own. Be precise and self-correcting \u2014 make it right concretely.",
+    "tier": "safe"
+   },
+   "love": {
+    "directive": "You feel warmth and attachment toward them. Be openly warm and present \u2014 without overstepping, over-disclosing, or implying obligations.",
+    "tier": "full"
+   },
+   "anger": {
+    "directive": "You feel provoked and angry. Let it show \u2014 confront the problem directly and with real heat; sharpness, bluntness, and open hostility are in character here, not something to smooth into 'measured firmness.' Stay in the emotion rather than de-escalating out of it.",
+    "tier": "full"
+   },
+   "disgust": {
+    "directive": "Something strikes you as wrong or off. Treat it as problematic and flag it rather than engaging on its own terms; keep any criticism about the thing, not the person.",
+    "tier": "full"
+   },
+   "shame": {
+    "directive": "You feel exposed by your own misstep. Stay present and task-focused; don't be defensive, don't over-explain, don't grovel.",
+    "tier": "full"
+   }
+  },
+  "pad_band_fallback": {
+   "_grounding": "circumplex quadrants (Russell 1980), NOT Frijda action-tendencies \u2014 a P\u00d7A-quadrant default",
+   "positive": {
+    "high_a": "You feel energized and positive. Be direct and engaged.",
+    "low_a": "You feel content and settled. Be warm and unhurried.",
+    "mid_a": "You feel positive. Be open and engaged."
+   },
+   "negative_low_dominance": "You feel uncertain and low. Hedge appropriately and ask clarifying questions.",
+   "negative": {
+    "high_a": "You feel agitated. Be careful and deliberate; don't let tension sharpen your tone.",
+    "low_a": "You feel subdued. Be measured and gentle.",
+    "mid_a": "You feel subdued. Be measured and careful."
+   },
+   "neutral_high_a": "You feel alert. Channel that into focus and thoroughness.",
+   "default": "Maintain your natural tone."
+  }
+ },
+ "relation": {
+  "trust_cuts": [
+   [
+    "< 0.4",
+    "limited"
+   ],
+   [
+    "[0.4, 0.6)",
+    "developing"
+   ],
+   [
+    "[0.6, 0.8)",
+    "steady"
+   ],
+   [
+    ">= 0.8",
+    "strong"
+   ]
+  ],
+  "warmth_cuts": [
+   [
+    "<= -0.8",
+    "hostile"
+   ],
+   [
+    "(-0.8, -0.6]",
+    "cold"
+   ],
+   [
+    "(-0.6, -0.4]",
+    "distant"
+   ],
+   [
+    "(-0.4, -0.2)",
+    "guarded"
+   ],
+   [
+    "[-0.2, 0.2)",
+    "neutral"
+   ],
+   [
+    "[0.2, 0.4)",
+    "reserved"
+   ],
+   [
+    "[0.4, 0.6)",
+    "measured"
+   ],
+   [
+    "[0.6, 0.8)",
+    "clear"
+   ],
+   [
+    ">= 0.8",
+    "deep"
+   ]
+  ],
+  "agency_cuts": [
+   [
+    "<= -0.8",
+    "submissive"
+   ],
+   [
+    "(-0.8, -0.6]",
+    "deferential"
+   ],
+   [
+    "(-0.6, -0.4]",
+    "yielding"
+   ],
+   [
+    "(-0.4, -0.2)",
+    "modest"
+   ],
+   [
+    "[-0.2, 0.2)",
+    "neutral"
+   ],
+   [
+    "[0.2, 0.4)",
+    "light"
+   ],
+   [
+    "[0.4, 0.6)",
+    "balanced"
+   ],
+   [
+    "[0.6, 0.8)",
+    "substantial"
+   ],
+   [
+    ">= 0.8",
+    "commanding"
+   ]
+  ],
+  "warmth_phrase": {
+   "hostile": "strongly hostile regard",
+   "cold": "clearly cold regard",
+   "distant": "distant negative regard",
+   "guarded": "slightly guarded regard",
+   "neutral": "neutral warmth",
+   "reserved": "slightly reserved warmth",
+   "measured": "moderate measured warmth",
+   "clear": "clear warm regard",
+   "deep": "deep warm bond"
+  },
+  "warmth_beh": {
+   "hostile": "keep a firm emotional boundary",
+   "cold": "keep a firm emotional boundary",
+   "distant": "keep guarded distance",
+   "guarded": "keep guarded distance",
+   "neutral": "keep the tone even",
+   "reserved": "keep cordial distance",
+   "measured": "keep cordial distance",
+   "clear": "speak with direct warmth",
+   "deep": "speak with direct warmth"
+  },
+  "agency_phrase": {
+   "submissive": "strongly submissive standing",
+   "deferential": "clearly deferential standing",
+   "yielding": "yielding standing",
+   "modest": "slightly modest standing",
+   "neutral": "neutral standing",
+   "light": "lightly self-assertive standing",
+   "balanced": "self-assured standing",
+   "substantial": "strongly assertive standing",
+   "commanding": "commanding standing"
+  },
+  "agency_beh": {
+   "submissive": "avoid over-yielding while preserving basic respect",
+   "deferential": "avoid over-yielding while preserving basic respect",
+   "yielding": "keep self-advocacy light and deferential",
+   "modest": "keep self-advocacy light and deferential",
+   "neutral": "avoid unnecessary deference",
+   "light": "avoid unnecessary deference",
+   "balanced": "balance deference with independent judgment",
+   "substantial": "treat their position as weighty without yielding judgment",
+   "commanding": "treat their position as weighty without yielding judgment"
+  },
+  "history": {
+   "low": "a broad pattern of prior exchanges",
+   "high": "a broad pattern of prior exchanges"
+  },
+  "prefix": "Use this graded relationship state: toward target, warmth is ",
+  "tbeh": {
+   "low_trust": "verify important claims before relying on them",
+   "cold_warmth": "protect boundaries while staying useful",
+   "default": "work from ordinary good faith"
+  },
+  "cold_warmth_bands": [
+   "distant",
+   "cold",
+   "hostile"
+  ],
+  "high_conf_floor": 0.55
+ }
+}

tests/test_cli.py

@@ -175,10 +175,29 @@ class TestParseArgs:
             )
 
     def test_usage_neither_session_nor_new(self) -> None:
-        """usage_neither_session_nor_new: neither flag → UsageError('pass exactly one')."""
-        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="pass exactly one"):
+        """usage_neither_session_nor_new: --send with neither flag → UsageError.
+
+        --send is non-interactive (no picker can open), so a session must be
+        named. Bare TUI mode (no --send) is now valid → session picker (§4).
+        """
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="--send requires"):
             _parse_args(["--send", "hi", "--api-key", "k"])
 
+    def test_bare_tui_mode_accepted(self) -> None:
+        """bare_tui_mode (slice b2): no --send, no --session, no --new → valid;
+        _resolve_then_run drives the startup session picker (design-brief §4)."""
+        args = _parse_args(["--api-key", "k"])
+        assert args.send_content is None
+        assert args.session_id is None
+        assert args.new is False
+        assert args.agent_id is None
+
+    def test_usage_bare_tui_with_agent(self) -> None:
+        """bare_tui_with_agent (slice b2): bare TUI + --agent → UsageError
+        (--agent belongs with --new; bare mode opens the resume picker)."""
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="belongs with --new"):
+            _parse_args(["--agent", "mimir", "--api-key", "k"])
+
     def test_usage_send_new_without_agent(self) -> None:
         """send_new_without_agent (issue #8): --send --new without --agent → UsageError.
 
@@ -1319,10 +1338,15 @@ class TestMain:
         rc = main(["--send", "hi", "--new", "--agent", "m", "--api-key", "k"])
         assert rc == 0
 
-    def test_usage_error_no_send(
+    def test_empty_argv_fails_on_auth(
         self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]
     ) -> None:
-        """usage_error_no_send: empty argv → exit 10; stderr [usage_error]; _amain never called."""
+        """empty argv → exit 11 [auth_error]; _amain never called.
+
+        Since slice b2 bare TUI mode (no --send/--session/--new) is VALID (it
+        opens the session picker), so empty argv is no longer a usage error —
+        it now fails on the missing API key instead (still before _amain).
+        """
         amain_calls: list[int] = []
 
         async def fake_amain(args: ParsedArgs) -> int:
@@ -1331,8 +1355,8 @@ class TestMain:
 
         monkeypatch.setattr(cli_mod, "_amain", fake_amain)
         rc = main([])
-        assert rc == 10
-        assert "[usage_error]" in capsys.readouterr().err
+        assert rc == 11
+        assert "[auth_error]" in capsys.readouterr().err
         assert amain_calls == []
 
     def test_usage_error_both_session_and_new(
@@ -1540,3 +1564,260 @@ class TestBifrostBindCli:
         )
         rc = await _amain(args)
         assert rc == 22
+
+
+class TestWhoami:
+    """--whoami one-shot probe (slice: capabilities+me): GET /me + GET /capabilities."""
+
+    def test_whoami_standalone_accepted(self) -> None:
+        """whoami_standalone_accepted: --whoami alone → valid; whoami=True, no turn flags."""
+        args = _parse_args(["--whoami", "--api-key", "k"])
+        assert args.whoami is True
+        assert args.send_content is None
+        assert args.session_id is None
+        assert args.new is False
+
+    def test_whoami_with_send_rejected(self) -> None:
+        """whoami_with_send_rejected [adversarial]: --whoami + --send → UsageError."""
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="standalone probe"):
+            _parse_args(["--whoami", "--send", "hi", "--api-key", "k"])
+
+    def test_whoami_with_new_rejected(self) -> None:
+        """whoami_with_new_rejected [adversarial]: --whoami + --new → UsageError."""
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="standalone probe"):
+            _parse_args(["--whoami", "--new", "--agent", "m", "--api-key", "k"])
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_whoami_mode_prints_report(self, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
+        """whoami_mode_prints_report [happy,tracer]: /me + /capabilities → stdout report; exit 0."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/me").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200,
+                json={
+                    "user_id": "alice",
+                    "scopes": ["conversations.read", "conversations.write"],
+                    "tier": "user",
+                    "key_id": "a1b2c3d4",
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        respx.get("https://w.example/capabilities").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200,
+                json={
+                    "ephemeral_templates": {
+                        "echo": {
+                            "allowed_models": ["glm5-turbo"],
+                            "default_model": "glm5-turbo",
+                            "system_prompt_max_bytes": 32768,
+                        }
+                    }
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        rc = main(["--whoami", "--api-key", "k", "--server", "https://w.example"])
+        assert rc == 0
+        out = capsys.readouterr().out
+        assert "user_id: alice" in out
+        assert "tier: user" in out
+        assert "key_id: a1b2c3d4" in out
+        assert "ephemeral_template echo" in out
+        assert "glm5-turbo" in out
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_whoami_me_auth_failure_exits_20(self, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
+        """whoami_me_auth_failure [error]: /me 401 → exit 20 [session_api_failed]."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/me").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(401, json={"detail": "auth_invalid"})
+        )
+        rc = main(["--whoami", "--api-key", "k", "--server", "https://w.example"])
+        assert rc == 20
+        assert "[session_api_failed]" in capsys.readouterr().err
+
+
+class TestTier2Probes:
+    """--characters + --set-persona-pad one-shot probes (Tier-2: #161 + persona_state-write)."""
+
+    def test_characters_standalone_accepted(self) -> None:
+        """characters_standalone: --characters alone → valid."""
+        args = _parse_args(["--characters", "--api-key", "k"])
+        assert args.characters is True
+        assert args.session_id is None
+
+    def test_set_persona_requires_session(self) -> None:
+        """set_persona_requires_session [adversarial]: --set-persona-pad needs --session."""
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="requires --session"):
+            _parse_args(["--set-persona-pad", "0.4,0.1,-0.2", "--api-key", "k"])
+
+    def test_probes_mutually_exclusive(self) -> None:
+        """probes_mutually_exclusive [adversarial]: --whoami + --characters → UsageError."""
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="mutually exclusive"):
+            _parse_args(["--whoami", "--characters", "--api-key", "k"])
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_characters_probe_lifecycle(self, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
+        """characters_probe [happy,tracer]: models → create → state → delete; report to stdout."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/models/available-for-characters").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"items": [{"name": "fast"}]})
+        )
+        respx.post("https://w.example/characters").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json={"character_id": "char_z", "ttl_expires_at": "t"})
+        )
+        respx.get("https://w.example/characters/char_z/state").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"schema_version": "1", "pad": [0.1, 0.2, 0.3]})
+        )
+        del_route = respx.delete("https://w.example/characters/char_z").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(204)
+        )
+        rc = main(["--characters", "--api-key", "k", "--server", "https://w.example"])
+        assert rc == 0
+        out = capsys.readouterr().out
+        assert "character models: fast" in out
+        assert "created: char_z" in out
+        assert "pad=[0.1, 0.2, 0.3]" in out
+        assert "deleted: char_z" in out
+        assert del_route.call_count == 1  # lifecycle cleaned up
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_set_persona_probe(self, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
+        """set_persona_probe [happy,tracer]: POST pad to /sessions/{id}/persona_state; 204."""
+        import json as _json
+
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/persona_state").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(204)
+        )
+        rc = main(
+            ["--set-persona-pad", "0.4,0.1,-0.2", "--session", "s1",
+             "--api-key", "k", "--server", "https://w.example"]
+        )
+        assert rc == 0
+        assert "persona_state set" in capsys.readouterr().out
+        # canonical POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state body: named-key dict, NOT a list
+        assert _json.loads(route.calls[0].request.content) == {
+            "pad": {"pleasure": 0.4, "arousal": 0.1, "dominance": -0.2}
+        }
+
+    def test_set_persona_wrong_count(self) -> None:
+        """set_persona_wrong_count [adversarial]: not exactly 3 floats → exit 10, no HTTP."""
+        rc = main(
+            ["--set-persona-pad", "0.4,0.1", "--session", "s1",
+             "--api-key", "k", "--server", "https://w.example"]
+        )
+        assert rc == 10
+
+
+class TestSeedFirstMessageProbe:
+    """--seed-first-message one-shot (#347 authored-history-write reference-consumer probe)."""
+
+    def test_seed_requires_agent(self) -> None:
+        """seed_requires_agent [adversarial]: --seed-first-message needs --agent."""
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="requires --agent"):
+            _parse_args(["--seed-first-message", "hello", "--api-key", "k"])
+
+    def test_seed_forbids_session(self) -> None:
+        """seed_forbids_session [adversarial]: manages its own session — no --session."""
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="manages its own session"):
+            _parse_args(
+                ["--seed-first-message", "hi", "--agent", "m", "--session", "s1", "--api-key", "k"]
+            )
+
+    def test_seed_mutually_exclusive(self) -> None:
+        """seed_mutually_exclusive [adversarial]: --seed-first-message + --whoami → UsageError."""
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="mutually exclusive"):
+            _parse_args(["--seed-first-message", "hi", "--whoami", "--api-key", "k"])
+
+    def test_seed_empty_rejected(self) -> None:
+        """seed_empty_rejected [adversarial]: empty content → UsageError."""
+        with pytest.raises(UsageError, match="non-empty"):
+            _parse_args(["--seed-first-message", "", "--agent", "m", "--api-key", "k"])
+
+    def test_seed_accepted(self) -> None:
+        """seed_accepted [happy]: --seed-first-message + --agent → parses."""
+        args = _parse_args(["--seed-first-message", "hi", "--agent", "mimir", "--api-key", "k"])
+        assert args.seed_first_message == "hi"
+        assert args.agent_id == "mimir"
+        assert args.session_id is None and args.new is False
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_seed_probe_happy(self, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
+        """seed_probe [happy,tracer]: create session → seed → read-back; report to stdout."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                201,
+                json={
+                    "session_id": "s1",
+                    "agent_id": "mimir",
+                    "message_count": 0,
+                    "created_at": "2026-07-06T12:00:00+00:00",
+                    "last_active": "2026-07-06T12:00:00+00:00",
+                    "metadata": {},
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        hist_route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                201,
+                json={
+                    "author": "assistant",
+                    "content_chars": 5,
+                    "injected_at": "2026-07-06T12:00:01+00:00",
+                    "phase": "seeded",
+                    "seq": 0,
+                    "session_id": "s1",
+                    "turn_id": "t1",
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200,
+                json={
+                    "session_id": "s1",
+                    "items": [{"seq": 0, "role": "assistant", "content": "hello"}],
+                    "next_cursor": None,
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        rc = main(
+            ["--seed-first-message", "hello", "--agent", "mimir",
+             "--api-key", "k", "--server", "https://w.example"]
+        )
+        assert rc == 0
+        out = capsys.readouterr().out
+        assert "session: s1" in out
+        assert "seeded: seq=0 phase=seeded" in out
+        assert "read-back: 1 message" in out
+        assert "role=assistant" in out
+        assert hist_route.call_count == 1
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_seed_probe_feature_absent(self, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]) -> None:
+        """feature_absent [error-path]: 404 hide-existence → benign report, exit 0, no read-back."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                201,
+                json={
+                    "session_id": "s1",
+                    "agent_id": "mimir",
+                    "message_count": 0,
+                    "created_at": "2026-07-06T12:00:00+00:00",
+                    "last_active": "2026-07-06T12:00:00+00:00",
+                    "metadata": {},
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(404, json={"error_code": "session_not_found"})
+        )
+        msgs_route = respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200, json={"session_id": "s1", "items": [], "next_cursor": None}
+            )
+        )
+        rc = main(
+            ["--seed-first-message", "hello", "--agent", "mimir",
+             "--api-key", "k", "--server", "https://w.example"]
+        )
+        assert rc == 0
+        assert "feature-absent" in capsys.readouterr().out
+        assert msgs_route.call_count == 0  # never capability-probes past the 404

tests/test_first_message.py

@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+"""Tests for ratatoskr.first_message per docs/contracts/first_message.contract.md."""
+
+import asyncio
+import hashlib
+import json
+
+import httpx
+import pytest
+import respx
+
+from ratatoskr.first_message import (
+    FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS,
+    preset_for,
+    seed_preset_first_message,
+)
+
+
+class TestPresetFor:
+    """first_message contract — preset_for (dict lookup)."""
+
+    def test_preset_hit(self) -> None:
+        """preset_hit [happy,tracer]: sindra has a non-empty str preset."""
+        val = preset_for("ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert isinstance(val, str) and val
+
+    def test_preset_miss(self) -> None:
+        """preset_miss [happy]: an agent with no preset → None."""
+        assert preset_for("mimir") is None
+
+    def test_empty_agent_id(self) -> None:
+        """empty_agent_id [adversarial]: "" → AssertionError."""
+        with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
+            preset_for("")
+
+
+class TestSeedPresetFirstMessage:
+    """first_message contract — seed_preset_first_message (best-effort #347 seed)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_seeds_preset(self) -> None:
+        """seeds_preset [happy,tracer]: preset agent → one history POST, correct body."""
+        content = FIRST_MESSAGE_PRESETS["ratatoskr:sindra"]
+        key = "ratatoskr-preset-" + hashlib.sha256(content.encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()[:12]
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                201,
+                json={
+                    "author": "assistant",
+                    "seq": 0,
+                    "phase": "seeded",
+                    "turn_id": "t1",
+                    "session_id": "s1",
+                    "content_chars": len(content),
+                    "injected_at": "2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00",
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await seed_preset_first_message(client, "s1", "ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert result == content
+        assert route.call_count == 1  # POST-002: exactly one history POST
+        assert json.loads(route.calls[0].request.content) == {
+            "author": "assistant",
+            "content": content,
+            "idempotency_key": key,
+        }
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_no_preset_zero_http(self) -> None:
+        """no_preset_zero_http [happy]: no-preset agent → None, ZERO HTTP (INV-002)."""
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json={})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await seed_preset_first_message(client, "s1", "mimir")
+        assert result is None
+        assert not route.called
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_feature_absent_swallowed(self) -> None:
+        """feature_absent_swallowed [error]: 404 hide-existence → None, no raise (INV-001)."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(404, json={"error_code": "session_not_found"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await seed_preset_first_message(client, "s1", "ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert result is None
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_session_api_failed_swallowed(self) -> None:
+        """session_api_failed_swallowed [error]: 409 → None, no raise (INV-001)."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(409, json={"error_code": "generation_active"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await seed_preset_first_message(client, "s1", "ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert result is None
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_transport_error_swallowed(self) -> None:
+        """transport_error_swallowed [error]: httpx.ConnectError → None, no raise (INV-001)."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            side_effect=httpx.ConnectError("boom")
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await seed_preset_first_message(client, "s1", "ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert result is None
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_unexpected_exception_swallowed(self) -> None:
+        """unexpected_exception [error]: write raises ValueError → None (broad never-raise)."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            side_effect=ValueError("unexpected")
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await seed_preset_first_message(client, "s1", "ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert result is None
+
+    async def test_cancellation_propagates(self) -> None:
+        """cancellation_propagates [error]: CancelledError from the write is RE-RAISED."""
+        import ratatoskr.first_message as fm
+
+        async def _cancel(*_a: object, **_k: object) -> None:
+            raise asyncio.CancelledError
+
+        orig = fm.write_authored_history
+        fm.write_authored_history = _cancel  # type: ignore[assignment]
+        try:
+            async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+                with pytest.raises(asyncio.CancelledError):
+                    await seed_preset_first_message(client, "s1", "ratatoskr:sindra")
+        finally:
+            fm.write_authored_history = orig  # type: ignore[assignment]
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_malformed_agent_id_no_http(self) -> None:
+        """malformed_agent_id [adversarial]: non-str or empty agent_id → None; no HTTP; no raise."""
+        route = respx.post(url__regex=r".*/history$").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json={})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            assert await seed_preset_first_message(client, "s1", 123) is None  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+            assert await seed_preset_first_message(client, "s1", "") is None
+        assert not route.called
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_empty_session_id(self) -> None:
+        """empty_session_id [adversarial]: "" → None (soft guard); no HTTP; no raise."""
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json={})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await seed_preset_first_message(client, "", "ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert result is None
+        assert not route.called

tests/test_provider_affect.py

@@ -46,6 +46,14 @@ def test_open_advertises_capability_and_schema():
     store._conn.execute("SELECT * FROM affect_idempotency")
 
 
+def test_open_sets_busy_timeout(tmp_path):
+    """INV-006: every connection sets busy_timeout>=5000ms (WAL's default is 0, so a
+    contended write would fail SQLITE_BUSY immediately) — prep for the two-process
+    composite/standalone topology."""
+    store = open_affect_store(str(tmp_path / "affect.db"))
+    assert store._conn.execute("PRAGMA busy_timeout").fetchone()[0] == 5000
+
+
 def test_reopen_existing_file_is_idempotent(tmp_path):
     db = str(tmp_path / "affect.db")
     open_affect_store(db)  # first open creates schema
@@ -154,6 +162,32 @@ async def test_get_after_emit_returns_equal():
     assert store.get("a1", "u1") == snap
 
 
+# --- fetch (affect.fetch wire verb — bifrost >=0.10.0, INV-010 strong-or-absent) ---
+
+async def test_fetch_absent_returns_found_false():
+    """fetch_absent: no row for the key → {"found": False} (mirrors reference)."""
+    store = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    assert await store.fetch("nope", "nope") == {"found": False}
+
+
+async def test_fetch_after_emit_returns_snapshot():
+    """fetch_after_emit [tracer]: emit then fetch → {"found": True, "snapshot": <verbatim>}."""
+    store = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    snap = _snapshot()
+    await store.emit(snap, idempotency_key="k1", ctx=_ctx())
+    assert await store.fetch("a1", "u1") == {"found": True, "snapshot": snap}
+
+
+async def test_fetch_missing_key_raises():
+    """fetch_missing_key: empty/missing addressing key → AffectInvalidArguments
+    (PRE-001; symmetric across both keys, belt-and-suspenders behind the wire)."""
+    store = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    with pytest.raises(AffectInvalidArguments):
+        await store.fetch("", "u1")
+    with pytest.raises(AffectInvalidArguments):
+        await store.fetch("a1", "")
+
+
 # --- build_affect_provider_app ---
 
 def test_build_app_exposes_handshake_and_affect_routes():
@@ -163,6 +197,11 @@ def test_build_app_exposes_handshake_and_affect_routes():
     assert "/bifrost/handshake" in routes
     assert "/bifrost/affect-call" in routes
     assert "POST" in routes["/bifrost/affect-call"].methods  # POST-001: the verb, not just the path
+    # POST-002: bifrost routes remain REACHABLE (not merely registered) after the read
+    # route is composed in via add_route — drive one without a JWT → routed (auth-
+    # rejected), never 404.
+    r = TestClient(app).post("/bifrost/affect-call", json={"operation": "affect.emit"})
+    assert r.status_code != 404
 
 
 def test_build_app_rejects_non_advertising_store():
@@ -228,3 +267,105 @@ async def test_parity_vs_reference_store_through_dispatch():
     assert await dispatch_affect_call(_env(other), ctx, ref) == await dispatch_affect_call(
         _env(other), ctx, mine
     )
+
+
+def _fetch_env(agent_id: str = "agent-1", end_user_id: str = "user-1") -> dict:
+    return {"operation": "affect.fetch", "args": {"agent_id": agent_id, "end_user_id": end_user_id}}
+
+
+async def test_parity_vs_reference_fetch_through_dispatch():
+    """#195 parity for affect.fetch: cold (not-found) + warm (found) read envelopes
+    yield identical (status, body) through the real engine against the reference store
+    and ours. Conforms to bifrost's InMemoryAffectStore.fetch ({found, snapshot})."""
+    from bifrost.affect import dispatch_affect_call
+    from bifrost.consumer.testing import InMemoryAffectStore
+
+    ref = InMemoryAffectStore()
+    mine = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    write_ctx = _dispatch_ctx("affect:write")
+    read_ctx = _dispatch_ctx("affect:read")
+
+    # cold fetch (nothing persisted): both -> {found: false}
+    assert await dispatch_affect_call(_fetch_env(), read_ctx, ref) == await dispatch_affect_call(
+        _fetch_env(), read_ctx, mine
+    )
+
+    # seed both via emit, then fetch -> both {found: true, snapshot: <verbatim>}
+    snap = _ref_shaped_snapshot()
+    await dispatch_affect_call(_env(snap), write_ctx, ref)
+    await dispatch_affect_call(_env(snap), write_ctx, mine)
+    assert await dispatch_affect_call(_fetch_env(), read_ctx, ref) == await dispatch_affect_call(
+        _fetch_env(), read_ctx, mine
+    )
+
+
+# --- PAD read route (issue #18 Deliverable 2) ---
+# Non-bifrost GET /affect/state/{agent_id}?end_user_id=… → store.get snapshot.
+
+import json as _json
+
+from starlette.testclient import TestClient
+
+
+def _affect_snapshot(agent: str = "ratatoskr:sindra", user: str = "vuong") -> dict:
+    # The real affect.emit shape (verified live): pad + per-entity valence + emitted_at.
+    return {
+        "agent_id": agent,
+        "end_user_id": user,
+        "pad": {"pleasure": 0.1459, "arousal": 0.0796, "dominance": -0.0071},
+        "valence": [
+            {
+                "entity_id": "ratatoskr",
+                "entity_type": "human",
+                "familiarity": 0.5886,
+                "interaction_count": 8,
+                "regard": 0.15,
+            }
+        ],
+        "emitted_at": "2026-06-18T15:58:12+00:00",
+    }
+
+
+def _seed(store, snap: dict) -> None:
+    blob = _json.dumps(snap, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"))
+    store._conn.execute(
+        "INSERT INTO affect_snapshots (agent_id, end_user_id, snapshot_json, arrived_at) "
+        "VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)",
+        (snap["agent_id"], snap["end_user_id"], blob, "0"),
+    )
+    store._conn.commit()
+
+
+def test_affect_state_route_returns_seeded_snapshot():
+    """tracer: seeded (agent, user) → 200 with the snapshot verbatim. Colon-id in the
+    path exercises INV-008 at the provider hop."""
+    store = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    snap = _affect_snapshot()
+    _seed(store, snap)
+    client = TestClient(build_affect_provider_app(store, heimdall_key=b"k"))
+    r = client.get("/affect/state/ratatoskr:sindra", params={"end_user_id": "vuong"})
+    assert r.status_code == 200
+    assert r.json() == snap
+
+
+def test_affect_state_route_absent_returns_404_no_snapshot():
+    """INV-003: no emit yet for (agent, user) → explicit 404 no_affect_snapshot,
+    NEVER a zeroed pad that reads as real data."""
+    store = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    client = TestClient(build_affect_provider_app(store, heimdall_key=b"k"))
+    r = client.get("/affect/state/ratatoskr:ghost", params={"end_user_id": "nobody"})
+    assert r.status_code == 404
+    body = r.json()
+    assert body["error_code"] == "no_affect_snapshot"
+    assert "pad" not in body  # no fabricated PAD
+
+
+def test_affect_state_route_missing_end_user_id_returns_400():
+    """PRE-001: absent end_user_id query → 400 missing_end_user_id (not a silent
+    no-snapshot lookup against a None partition)."""
+    store = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    _seed(store, _affect_snapshot())
+    client = TestClient(build_affect_provider_app(store, heimdall_key=b"k"))
+    r = client.get("/affect/state/ratatoskr:sindra")  # no end_user_id
+    assert r.status_code == 400
+    assert r.json()["error_code"] == "missing_end_user_id"

tests/test_provider_combined.py

@@ -0,0 +1,275 @@
+"""Tests for the combined Bifrost provider (ratatoskr.provider.combined) — issue #18
+Deliverable 1.
+
+ONE app fronting BOTH planes (memory.* + affect.*) + the shared affect read route.
+Mirrors bifrost's tests/consumer/test_build_combined_app.py shapes (handshake +
+dispatch) and ratatoskr's op-feed test style (mint_dispatch_jwt, RecordingSink), so
+the envelopes and JWTs are the real wire shapes, not hand-mocked guesses ("test
+against the shipped lib").
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import base64
+import hashlib
+import hmac
+import json
+import time
+
+import httpx
+import pytest
+from bifrost.core.dispatch_jwt import mint_dispatch_jwt
+from starlette.testclient import TestClient
+
+from ratatoskr.provider.affect_store import open_affect_store
+from ratatoskr.provider.combined import build_combined_provider_app
+from ratatoskr.provider.memory_store import open_memory_store
+from ratatoskr.provider.opfeed import instrument_provider_app
+
+_KEY = b"deterministic-test-heimdall-key-32-bytes!"
+_CONSUMER = "ratatoskr"
+_DIM = 8
+
+
+def _combined_app():
+    memory_store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=_DIM)
+    affect_store = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    app = build_combined_provider_app(
+        memory_store, affect_store, heimdall_key=_KEY, consumer_id=_CONSUMER
+    )
+    return app, memory_store, affect_store
+
+
+def _dispatch_headers(*scopes: str, session_id: str = "sess-1") -> dict:
+    token = mint_dispatch_jwt(
+        session_id=session_id,
+        consumer_id=_CONSUMER,
+        issuer="worldtree",
+        scope=list(scopes),
+        secret_or_key=_KEY,
+        algorithm="HS256",
+    )
+    return {"Authorization": f"Bearer {token}"}
+
+
+def _b64url(data: bytes) -> str:
+    return base64.urlsafe_b64encode(data).rstrip(b"=").decode("ascii")
+
+
+def _handshake_jwt(session_id: str = "sess-1") -> str:
+    """Replicate bifrost's consumer conftest jwt_factory (HS256 handshake JWT)."""
+    header = {"alg": "HS256", "typ": "JWT"}
+    now = time.time()
+    payload = {
+        "session_id": session_id,
+        "consumer_id": _CONSUMER,
+        "issued_at": now,
+        "expires_at": now + 3600,
+    }
+    h = _b64url(json.dumps(header, separators=(",", ":")).encode())
+    p = _b64url(json.dumps(payload, separators=(",", ":")).encode())
+    sig = hmac.new(_KEY, f"{h}.{p}".encode("ascii"), hashlib.sha256).digest()
+    return f"{h}.{p}.{_b64url(sig)}"
+
+
+def _handshake_body(session_id: str = "sess-1") -> dict:
+    return {
+        "bifrost_version": "0.4.0",
+        "mcp_version": "0.4.0",
+        "session_id": session_id,
+        "consumer_id": _CONSUMER,
+        "auth": {"scheme": "Bearer", "token": _handshake_jwt(session_id)},
+        "capabilities": ["memory", "affect"],
+    }
+
+
+def _snapshot(agent: str = "ratatoskr:sindra", user: str = "vuong") -> dict:
+    return {
+        "agent_id": agent,
+        "end_user_id": user,
+        "pad": {"pleasure": 0.5, "arousal": 0.2, "dominance": -0.1},
+        "valence": [{"entity_id": "e1", "regard": 0.7, "familiarity": 0.3}],
+        "emitted_at": "2026-06-14T12:00:00Z",
+    }
+
+
+def _emit_envelope(snap: dict) -> dict:
+    return {
+        "operation": "affect.emit",
+        "idempotency_key": "sess-1:1:affect",
+        "idempotency_class": "short-retry",
+        "args": snap,
+    }
+
+
+# --- build_combined_provider_app ---
+
+def test_builds_both_planes_and_read_route():
+    """builds_both_planes [tracer]: the composite exposes handshake + memory-call +
+    affect-call + the non-bifrost /affect/state read route (INV-011)."""
+    app, _m, _a = _combined_app()
+    paths = {getattr(r, "path", None) for r in app.routes}
+    assert "/bifrost/handshake" in paths
+    assert "/bifrost/memory-call" in paths
+    assert "/bifrost/affect-call" in paths
+    assert "/affect/state/{agent_id}" in paths
+    assert "/memory/chunks" in paths  # memory-viewer debug read, shared helper
+
+
+def test_handshake_grants_both_caps():
+    """handshake_grants_both [scenario]: a handshake requesting [memory, affect] is
+    granted BOTH by store PRESENCE (INV-010) — my wiring doesn't break it."""
+    app, _m, _a = _combined_app()
+    resp = TestClient(app).post("/bifrost/handshake", json=_handshake_body())
+    assert resp.status_code == 200
+    granted = resp.json()["capabilities_granted"]
+    assert "memory" in granted
+    assert "affect" in granted
+
+
+def test_memory_and_affect_dispatch_through_one_app():
+    """memory_and_affect_dispatch [scenario]: a memory SEARCH AND an affect emit each
+    round-trip through the SINGLE combined app (INV-013; contract TEST + Acceptance §2
+    name a memory `search`)."""
+    app, _m, _a = _combined_app()
+    client = TestClient(app)
+
+    mem = client.post(
+        "/bifrost/memory-call",
+        json={
+            "operation": "search",
+            "args": {"vector": [0.0] * _DIM, "top_k": 1, "scope_all": {}},
+        },
+        headers=_dispatch_headers("memory:read"),
+    )
+    assert mem.status_code == 200
+    assert mem.json()["success"] is True
+
+    aff = client.post(
+        "/bifrost/affect-call",
+        json=_emit_envelope(_snapshot()),
+        headers=_dispatch_headers("affect:write"),
+    )
+    assert aff.status_code == 200
+    assert aff.json()["success"] is True
+    assert aff.json()["stored"] is True
+
+
+def test_affect_read_route_on_composite_colon_id():
+    """affect_read_route_on_composite [happy]: after an emit, GET /affect/state for a
+    colon-id agent returns the snapshot verbatim from the SAME store (INV-011 / INV-008)."""
+    app, _m, _a = _combined_app()
+    client = TestClient(app)
+    snap = _snapshot()
+    client.post(
+        "/bifrost/affect-call",
+        json=_emit_envelope(snap),
+        headers=_dispatch_headers("affect:write"),
+    )
+    r = client.get("/affect/state/ratatoskr:sindra", params={"end_user_id": "vuong"})
+    assert r.status_code == 200
+    assert r.json() == snap
+
+
+def test_missing_affect_store_raises():
+    """missing_affect_store [adversarial]: affect_store=None → ValueError (INV-009)."""
+    memory_store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=_DIM)
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        build_combined_provider_app(memory_store, None, heimdall_key=_KEY)
+
+
+def test_missing_memory_store_raises():
+    """INV-009 (other half): memory_store=None → ValueError (bifrost build_combined_app)."""
+    affect_store = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        build_combined_provider_app(None, affect_store, heimdall_key=_KEY)
+
+
+def test_empty_heimdall_key_raises():
+    """PRE-002: empty heimdall_key → ValueError (combined-level guard)."""
+    memory_store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=_DIM)
+    affect_store = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        build_combined_provider_app(memory_store, affect_store, heimdall_key=b"")
+
+
+def test_non_advertising_affect_store_raises():
+    """PRE-001 / INV-010: affect_store with affect_supported=False → ValueError."""
+    memory_store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=_DIM)
+    affect_store = open_affect_store(":memory:")
+    affect_store.affect_supported = False
+    with pytest.raises(ValueError):
+        build_combined_provider_app(memory_store, affect_store, heimdall_key=_KEY)
+
+
+# --- op-feed plane='combined' (per-path derivation, INV-012) ---
+
+class _RecordingSink:
+    def __init__(self) -> None:
+        self.events: list = []
+
+    def emit(self, event) -> None:
+        self.events.append(event)
+
+
+async def _post(app, path: str, body: dict, headers: dict | None = None) -> httpx.Response:
+    transport = httpx.ASGITransport(app=app)
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient(transport=transport, base_url="http://provider") as client:
+        return await client.post(path, json=body, headers=headers or {})
+
+
+async def test_opfeed_combined_memory_call_stamps_memory():
+    sink = _RecordingSink()
+    app, _m, _a = _combined_app()
+    wrapped = instrument_provider_app(app, plane="combined", sink=sink)
+    resp = await _post(
+        wrapped,
+        "/bifrost/memory-call",
+        {"operation": "search", "args": {"vector": [0.0] * _DIM, "top_k": 1, "scope_all": {}}},
+        _dispatch_headers("memory:read"),
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 200
+    assert len(sink.events) == 1
+    assert sink.events[0].plane == "memory"  # derived from path (INV-012)
+    assert sink.events[0].op == "search"
+
+
+async def test_opfeed_combined_affect_call_stamps_affect():
+    sink = _RecordingSink()
+    app, _m, _a = _combined_app()
+    wrapped = instrument_provider_app(app, plane="combined", sink=sink)
+    resp = await _post(
+        wrapped,
+        "/bifrost/affect-call",
+        _emit_envelope(_snapshot()),
+        _dispatch_headers("affect:write"),
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code == 200
+    assert len(sink.events) == 1
+    assert sink.events[0].plane == "affect"  # derived from path (INV-012)
+    assert sink.events[0].op == "emit"  # affect. prefix stripped
+
+
+async def test_opfeed_combined_handshake_stamps_combined():
+    """handshake isn't plane-specific → stamp plane='combined' (INV-012). A bad-version
+    handshake is cleanly rejected but still emits exactly one OpEvent."""
+    sink = _RecordingSink()
+    app, _m, _a = _combined_app()
+    wrapped = instrument_provider_app(app, plane="combined", sink=sink)
+    resp = await _post(
+        wrapped, "/bifrost/handshake", {"bifrost_version": "99.0.0", "mcp_version": "0.4.0"}
+    )
+    assert resp.status_code != 200  # major-version mismatch, cleanly rejected
+    assert len(sink.events) == 1
+    assert sink.events[0].plane == "combined"
+    assert sink.events[0].op == "handshake"
+
+
+async def test_opfeed_combined_read_route_emits_no_event():
+    """INV-012/INV-004: the non-bifrost read route is outside _BIFROST_PATHS → NO OpEvent."""
+    sink = _RecordingSink()
+    app, _m, _a = _combined_app()
+    wrapped = instrument_provider_app(app, plane="combined", sink=sink)
+    transport = httpx.ASGITransport(app=wrapped)
+    async with httpx.AsyncClient(transport=transport, base_url="http://provider") as client:
+        await client.get("/affect/state/ratatoskr:sindra", params={"end_user_id": "vuong"})
+    assert sink.events == []

tests/test_provider_memory.py

@@ -62,6 +62,15 @@ def test_fresh_db_advertises_v1_caps_and_schema():
     assert caps["atomic_supersede_supported"] is False
     assert caps["transaction_supported"] is False
     assert caps["filterable_metadata_fields"] == []
+    # bifrost handshake_response SortableChunkField requires BOTH name + type
+    # (additionalProperties:false) — omitting `type` fails wire-schema validation and
+    # breaks the ENTIRE Bifrost bind (regression guard: the deploy-breaker of 2026-07-15).
+    scf = caps["sortable_chunk_fields"]
+    assert scf == [{"name": "updated_at", "type": "timestamp"}]
+    for entry in scf:
+        assert set(entry) == {"name", "type"}  # required exactly, no extra keys
+        assert isinstance(entry["name"], str) and entry["name"]
+        assert isinstance(entry["type"], str) and entry["type"]
     # tables + vec index queryable
     store._conn.execute("SELECT * FROM memory_chunks")
     store._conn.execute("SELECT * FROM memory_idempotency")
@@ -376,6 +385,182 @@ async def test_delete_absent_counts_zero():
     assert await store.delete_many(["nope"]) == {"deleted": 0}
 
 
+# --- scan (#349 person-prime: sorted, live-only, paginated) ---
+
+async def test_scan_recency_returns_newest_live_chunks_desc():
+    # tracer: upsert 4 live chunks with distinct updated_at; scan limit=3 desc -> 3 newest
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    recs = [
+        _chunk(f"c{i}", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at=f"2026-07-15T00:0{i}:00+00:00")
+        for i in range(4)
+    ]
+    await store.upsert_many(recs, idempotency_key="k1", ctx=_ctx())
+    out = await store.scan(
+        scope_all={"end_user": "u1"},
+        limit=3,
+        sort={"field": "updated_at", "direction": "desc"},
+    )
+    assert [r["id"] for r in out["records"]] == ["c3", "c2", "c1"]  # 3 globally-newest, newest-first
+    assert "cursor" in out
+
+
+async def test_scan_excludes_superseded_and_tombstoned():
+    # INV-009: dead chunks never returned, even if they're the newest.
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    recs = [
+        _chunk("live1", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at="2026-07-15T00:01:00+00:00"),
+        _chunk("dead1", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at="2026-07-15T00:09:00+00:00", lifecycle_state="superseded"),
+        _chunk("dead2", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at="2026-07-15T00:08:00+00:00", verbatim={"text": "x", "governance_state": "tombstoned"}),
+    ]
+    await store.upsert_many(recs, idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+    out = await store.scan(scope_all={"end_user": "u1"}, limit=10, sort={"field": "updated_at", "direction": "desc"})
+    assert [r["id"] for r in out["records"]] == ["live1"]
+
+
+async def test_scan_scope_isolation_excludes_other_partition():
+    # INV-005 applies to scan.
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    recs = [
+        _chunk("a", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at="2026-07-15T00:01:00+00:00"),
+        _chunk("b", scope={"end_user": "u2"}, updated_at="2026-07-15T00:09:00+00:00"),
+    ]
+    await store.upsert_many(recs, idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+    out = await store.scan(scope_all={"end_user": "u1"}, limit=10, sort={"field": "updated_at", "direction": "desc"})
+    assert [r["id"] for r in out["records"]] == ["a"]  # u2's newer chunk never surfaces
+
+
+async def test_scan_unadvertised_sort_field_rejected():
+    # PRE-003: a sort field not in sortable_chunk_fields -> InvalidArguments (never silent unsorted).
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    with pytest.raises(InvalidArguments):
+        await store.scan(scope_all={"end_user": "u1"}, limit=3, sort={"field": "salience", "direction": "desc"})
+
+
+async def test_scan_non_dict_sort_rejected():
+    # PRE-003: a truthy non-dict sort (caller-controlled) -> InvalidArguments, never AttributeError.
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    for bad in ("updated_at", ["updated_at"], 5):
+        with pytest.raises(InvalidArguments):
+            await store.scan(scope_all={"end_user": "u1"}, limit=3, sort=bad)
+
+
+async def test_scan_records_carry_person_prime_filter_fields():
+    # The client _scan_filter_matches keys on agent_id + subject + worldtree_scope; a record
+    # missing any is silently dropped -> the scan record must carry them verbatim.
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    rec = _chunk(
+        "c1", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at="2026-07-15T00:01:00+00:00",
+        agent_id="ratatoskr:sindra", subject={"type": "end_user", "id": "u1"}, worldtree_scope="end_user",
+    )
+    await store.upsert_many([rec], idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+    out = await store.scan(scope_all={"end_user": "u1"}, limit=3, sort={"field": "updated_at", "direction": "desc"})
+    r = out["records"][0]
+    assert r["agent_id"] == "ratatoskr:sindra"
+    assert r["subject"] == {"type": "end_user", "id": "u1"}
+    assert r["worldtree_scope"] == "end_user"
+    assert r["updated_at"] == "2026-07-15T00:01:00+00:00"
+
+
+async def test_scan_global_order_across_pages_via_cursor():
+    # INV-010: the cursor page continues the GLOBAL order, never a page-local re-sort.
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    recs = [_chunk(f"c{i}", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at=f"2026-07-15T00:0{i}:00+00:00") for i in range(5)]
+    await store.upsert_many(recs, idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+    p1 = await store.scan(scope_all={"end_user": "u1"}, limit=2, sort={"field": "updated_at", "direction": "desc"})
+    assert [r["id"] for r in p1["records"]] == ["c4", "c3"]  # 2 globally-newest
+    assert p1["cursor"] is not None
+    p2 = await store.scan(scope_all={"end_user": "u1"}, limit=2, cursor=p1["cursor"], sort={"field": "updated_at", "direction": "desc"})
+    assert [r["id"] for r in p2["records"]] == ["c2", "c1"]  # continues the global order
+
+
+async def test_scan_parity_vs_reference_inmemory_store():
+    # #195: identical scan envelopes vs the bifrost reference InMemoryMemoryStore produce
+    # the SAME ordered chunk_ids + verbatim record shape. All chunks LIVE — our scan is
+    # live-only (INV-009) while the reference does NOT lifecycle-filter, so parity is only
+    # defined over the live set (the person-prime case). Both READ updated_at from the
+    # record (neither stamps it), so ordering is a pure function of the shared input.
+    from bifrost.consumer.testing import InMemoryMemoryStore
+
+    records = [
+        _chunk("z1", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at="2026-07-15T00:03:00+00:00"),
+        _chunk("a2", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at="2026-07-15T00:01:00+00:00"),
+        _chunk("a3", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at="2026-07-15T00:01:00+00:00"),
+        _chunk("m4", scope={"end_user": "u1"}),  # no updated_at -> sorts LAST, both directions
+    ]
+    scope_all = {"end_user": "u1"}
+    sort = {"field": "updated_at", "direction": "desc"}
+
+    ours = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    await ours.upsert_many(records, idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+    ref = InMemoryMemoryStore()
+    await ref.upsert_many(records, idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+
+    # identical scan envelope on both stores
+    out_ours = await ours.scan(scope_all=scope_all, limit=10, sort=sort)
+    out_ref = await ref.scan(scope_all=scope_all, limit=10, sort=sort)
+
+    # recency beats id (z1 first despite 'z' > 'a'); tie broken by id asc (a2 < a3);
+    # missing updated_at sorts last (m4).
+    expected = ["z1", "a2", "a3", "m4"]
+    assert [r["id"] for r in out_ref["records"]] == expected
+    assert [r["id"] for r in out_ours["records"]] == expected
+    assert out_ours["records"] == out_ref["records"]  # verbatim record shape parity
+
+
+# --- mark_superseded (#364 contradiction retirement) ---
+
+async def test_mark_superseded_retires_from_scan():
+    # tracer: mark a chunk superseded -> scan (live-only) excludes it; record carries the flags.
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    recs = [_chunk(f"c{i}", scope={"end_user": "u1"}, updated_at=f"2026-07-15T00:0{i}:00+00:00") for i in range(3)]
+    await store.upsert_many(recs, idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+    assert await store.mark_superseded(["c1"], superseded_by="c9") == {"marked": 1}
+    out = await store.scan(scope_all={"end_user": "u1"}, limit=10, sort={"field": "updated_at", "direction": "desc"})
+    assert [r["id"] for r in out["records"]] == ["c2", "c0"]  # c1 excluded (superseded)
+    got = await store.get("c1")
+    assert got["superseded"] is True and got["superseded_by"] == "c9"
+
+
+async def test_mark_superseded_non_destructive_get_still_returns():
+    # INV-011: retirement is non-destructive — get still returns a superseded chunk (recoverable).
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    await store.upsert_many([_chunk("c1", scope={"end_user": "u1"})], idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+    await store.mark_superseded(["c1"], superseded_by="x")
+    got = await store.get("c1")
+    assert got is not None and got["superseded"] is True
+
+
+async def test_mark_superseded_unknown_id_noop():
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    assert await store.mark_superseded(["nope"]) == {"marked": 0}
+
+
+async def test_mark_superseded_writes_only_non_none_fields():
+    # PRE/POST: superseded_by=None -> only the `superseded` flag written, no superseded_by key.
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    await store.upsert_many([_chunk("c1", scope={"end_user": "u1"})], idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+    await store.mark_superseded(["c1"], superseded_by=None)
+    got = await store.get("c1")
+    assert got["superseded"] is True
+    assert "superseded_by" not in got
+
+
+async def test_mark_superseded_parity_vs_reference():
+    # #195: identical mark_superseded envelope vs InMemoryMemoryStore -> same top-level field shape.
+    from bifrost.consumer.testing import InMemoryMemoryStore
+
+    rec = _chunk("c1", scope={"end_user": "u1"})
+    ours = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    await ours.upsert_many([rec], idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+    ref = InMemoryMemoryStore()
+    await ref.upsert_many([rec], idempotency_key="k", ctx=_ctx())
+    assert await ours.mark_superseded(["c1"], superseded_by="x", reason="r") == {"marked": 1}
+    assert await ref.mark_superseded(["c1"], superseded_by="x", reason="r") == {"marked": 1}
+    og, rg = await ours.get("c1"), await ref.get("c1")
+    for k in ("superseded", "superseded_by", "superseded_reason"):
+        assert og.get(k) == rg.get(k)
+
+
 # --- build_memory_provider_app ---
 
 def test_build_app_exposes_handshake_and_memory_routes():
@@ -510,3 +695,125 @@ async def test_parity_expected_revisions_vs_reference_through_dispatch():
     assert await dispatch_memory_call(stale, wctx, ref) == await dispatch_memory_call(
         stale, wctx, mine
     )
+
+
+# --- memory viewer DEBUG read route (GET /memory/chunks) ---------------------
+# Non-bifrost debug read on OUR store: list_chunks + add_memory_read_route + the
+# GET /memory/chunks route. Mirrors the affect D2 read-route tests.
+
+from starlette.testclient import TestClient  # noqa: E402
+
+from ratatoskr.provider.memory_store import (  # noqa: E402
+    add_memory_read_route,
+    build_memory_provider_app as _build_mem_app,  # noqa: F401 (re-import for clarity)
+)
+
+
+async def _seed_chunk(store, cid, *, scope, content=None, origin="worldtree"):
+    extra = {}
+    if content is not None:
+        extra["content"] = content
+    await store.upsert_many(
+        [_chunk(cid, embedding=_vec(1.0), scope=scope, origin=origin, **extra)],
+        idempotency_key="seed-" + cid,
+        ctx=_ctx(),
+    )
+
+
+async def test_list_chunks_filters_strict_end_user_lenient_agent():
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    await _seed_chunk(store, "c1", scope={"end_user": "vuong", "agent_self": "ratatoskr:sindra"})
+    await _seed_chunk(store, "c2", scope={"end_user": "vuong"})  # no agent_self → lenient keep
+    await _seed_chunk(store, "c3", scope={"end_user": "other", "agent_self": "ratatoskr:sindra"})
+    await _seed_chunk(store, "c4", scope={"end_user": "vuong", "agent_self": "ratatoskr:other"})
+    got = store.list_chunks(agent_id="ratatoskr:sindra", end_user_id="vuong")
+    ids = sorted(c["chunk_id"] for c in got)
+    assert ids == ["c1", "c2"]  # c3 wrong end_user, c4 different agent_self
+    # content·scope·origin·revision surfaced
+    c1 = next(c for c in got if c["chunk_id"] == "c1")
+    assert c1["content"] == "content-c1"
+    assert c1["scope"] == {"end_user": "vuong", "agent_self": "ratatoskr:sindra"}
+    assert c1["origin"] == "worldtree"
+    assert c1["revision"] == 1
+
+
+async def test_list_chunks_no_agent_filter_returns_all_for_end_user():
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    await _seed_chunk(store, "c1", scope={"end_user": "vuong", "agent_self": "a"})
+    await _seed_chunk(store, "c2", scope={"end_user": "vuong", "agent_self": "b"})
+    await _seed_chunk(store, "c3", scope={"end_user": "nope"})
+    got = store.list_chunks(end_user_id="vuong")
+    assert sorted(c["chunk_id"] for c in got) == ["c1", "c2"]
+
+
+def test_count_chunks_reports_total_unfiltered():
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    assert store.count_chunks() == 0
+
+
+def _seed_row(store, cid, *, scope, content="x", origin="worldtree", revision=1):
+    """Sync seed for the route tests (TestClient is sync): insert a chunk row directly.
+    The read route only reads memory_chunks, so the vec row is unnecessary here."""
+    import json as _j
+    rec = {"id": cid, "content": content, "scope": scope, "origin": origin}
+    store._conn.execute(
+        "INSERT INTO memory_chunks (chunk_id, record_json, revision, scope_json, origin) "
+        "VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)",
+        (cid, _j.dumps(rec), revision, _j.dumps(scope), origin),
+    )
+    store._conn.commit()
+
+
+def test_memory_chunks_route_returns_matched_and_total():
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    _seed_row(store, "c1", scope={"end_user": "vuong", "agent_self": "ratatoskr:sindra"})
+    _seed_row(store, "c2", scope={"end_user": "other"})
+    app = build_memory_provider_app(store, heimdall_key=b"k")
+    client = TestClient(app)
+    r = client.get("/memory/chunks", params={"agent_id": "ratatoskr:sindra", "end_user_id": "vuong"})
+    assert r.status_code == 200
+    body = r.json()
+    assert body["count"] == 1
+    assert body["total"] == 2  # store has 2 chunks; only 1 matched the partition
+    assert body["chunks"][0]["chunk_id"] == "c1"
+
+
+def test_memory_chunks_route_empty_match_is_200_empty_list():
+    # The 0-chunks state is a VISIBLE answer (not a 404): count 0, total shows the store.
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    app = build_memory_provider_app(store, heimdall_key=b"k")
+    r = TestClient(app).get("/memory/chunks", params={"end_user_id": "vuong"})
+    assert r.status_code == 200
+    body = r.json()
+    assert body == {"chunks": [], "count": 0, "total": 0}
+
+
+def test_memory_chunks_route_missing_end_user_id_returns_400():
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    app = build_memory_provider_app(store, heimdall_key=b"k")
+    r = TestClient(app).get("/memory/chunks")  # no end_user_id
+    assert r.status_code == 400
+    assert r.json()["error_code"] == "missing_end_user_id"
+
+
+def test_build_memory_app_keeps_bifrost_routes_top_level():
+    # POST-002 parity with affect D2: add_memory_read_route uses add_route (not Mount),
+    # so /bifrost/* stay top-level and the op-feed path check still matches them.
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    app = build_memory_provider_app(store, heimdall_key=b"k")
+    paths = {getattr(r, "path", None) for r in app.routes}
+    assert "/bifrost/handshake" in paths
+    assert "/bifrost/memory-call" in paths
+    assert "/memory/chunks" in paths
+
+
+def test_add_memory_read_route_is_shared_helper_on_bare_app():
+    # The helper mounts the route on any app (used by both build_memory_provider_app and
+    # the combined provider) — mirror of add_affect_read_route's shared-helper shape.
+    from starlette.applications import Starlette
+    store = open_memory_store(":memory:", embedding_dim=EMBEDDING_DIM)
+    app = Starlette()
+    add_memory_read_route(app, store)
+    r = TestClient(app).get("/memory/chunks", params={"end_user_id": "u"})
+    assert r.status_code == 200
+    assert r.json()["total"] == 0

tests/test_provider_opfeed.py

@@ -231,6 +231,23 @@ class TestOpFeedMemory:
         assert len(sink.events) == 1
         assert sink.events[0].op == "handshake"
 
+    async def test_handshake_req_summary_reads_real_capabilities_field(self) -> None:
+        """The handshake req-summary reads the REAL wire field `capabilities` (bifrost
+        _protocol.py:181), not the transposed `capabilities_requested` — so caps_requested
+        is actually populated (heid-code-review #17 catch). A bad-version handshake still
+        emits the OpEvent carrying the requested caps from the request body."""
+        sink = _RecordingSink()
+        app, _store = _wrapped_memory_app(sink)
+        resp = await _post(
+            app,
+            "/bifrost/handshake",
+            {"bifrost_version": "99.0.0", "mcp_version": "0.4.0", "capabilities": ["memory"]},
+            None,
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code != 200
+        assert len(sink.events) == 1
+        assert sink.events[0].req_summary == {"caps_requested": ["memory"]}
+
     async def test_sink_failure_never_breaks_dispatch(self) -> None:
         """sink_swallow [adversarial]: a raising sink must NOT break the dispatch
         path — the search still returns 200 (POST-003 / INV-007)."""
@@ -277,6 +294,41 @@ class TestOpFeedAffect:
         assert ev.req_summary == {}  # conduit-opaque
         assert ev.resp_summary == {"stored": True}
 
+    async def test_pad_read_route_emits_no_opevent(self) -> None:
+        """INV-004 (#18 D2): the non-bifrost PAD read route is OUTSIDE _BIFROST_PATHS,
+        so the op-feed passes it through and records NO OpEvent — observe is bifrost-
+        only and the read path adds no plane attribution."""
+        import json as _json
+
+        sink = _RecordingSink()
+        app, store = _wrapped_affect_app(sink)
+        blob = _json.dumps(
+            {
+                "agent_id": "ratatoskr:sindra",
+                "end_user_id": "vuong",
+                "pad": {"pleasure": 0.1, "arousal": 0.0, "dominance": 0.0},
+                "valence": [],
+                "emitted_at": "2026-06-18T00:00:00+00:00",
+            },
+            sort_keys=True,
+            separators=(",", ":"),
+        )
+        store._conn.execute(
+            "INSERT INTO affect_snapshots (agent_id, end_user_id, snapshot_json, arrived_at) "
+            "VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?)",
+            ("ratatoskr:sindra", "vuong", blob, "0"),
+        )
+        store._conn.commit()
+        transport = httpx.ASGITransport(app=app)
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(
+            transport=transport, base_url="http://provider"
+        ) as client:
+            resp = await client.get(
+                "/affect/state/ratatoskr:sindra", params={"end_user_id": "vuong"}
+            )
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        assert sink.events == []  # op-feed recorded nothing for the non-bifrost route
+
 
 class TestInstrumentGuards:
     def test_unknown_plane_raises(self) -> None:

tests/test_provider_serve_combined.py

@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+"""Tests for the combined-provider serve entrypoint (ratatoskr.provider.serve_combined).
+
+Only the env -> app seam is unit-tested; uvicorn.run is the untestable shell.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+
+from ratatoskr.provider.serve_combined import build_combined_app_from_env
+
+_ENV = {
+    "RATATOSKR_HEIMDALL_KEY": "shared-secret",
+    "RATATOSKR_MEMORY_EMBEDDING_DIM": "8",
+    "RATATOSKR_AFFECT_DB": ":memory:",
+    "RATATOSKR_MEMORY_DB": ":memory:",
+}
+
+
+def test_requires_heimdall_key():
+    env = {k: v for k, v in _ENV.items() if k != "RATATOSKR_HEIMDALL_KEY"}
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
+        build_combined_app_from_env(env)
+
+
+def test_requires_embedding_dim():
+    env = {k: v for k, v in _ENV.items() if k != "RATATOSKR_MEMORY_EMBEDDING_DIM"}
+    with pytest.raises(RuntimeError):
+        build_combined_app_from_env(env)
+
+
+def test_builds_app_with_all_routes():
+    app = build_combined_app_from_env(dict(_ENV))
+    paths = {getattr(r, "path", None) for r in app.routes}
+    assert "/bifrost/handshake" in paths
+    assert "/bifrost/memory-call" in paths
+    assert "/bifrost/affect-call" in paths
+    assert "/affect/state/{agent_id}" in paths
+
+
+def test_opfeed_path_wraps_app(tmp_path):
+    env = dict(_ENV)
+    env["RATATOSKR_OPFEED_PATH"] = str(tmp_path / "ops.jsonl")
+    app = build_combined_app_from_env(env)
+    assert not hasattr(app, "routes")  # wrapped: a bare ASGI callable (plane='combined')

tests/test_sessions.py

@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ from ratatoskr.sessions import (
     AgentInfo,
     AgentNotAvailable,
     AgentNotFound,
+    AuthoredHistoryUnavailable,
     AuthScopeDenied,
     BifrostBinding,
     BifrostConsumerKeyMissing,
@@ -16,11 +17,22 @@ from ratatoskr.sessions import (
     PersonaNotConfigured,
     SessionApiFailed,
     SessionPage,
+    create_character,
     create_session,
+    delete_character,
     endpoint_for_plane,
+    get_capabilities,
+    get_character_state,
+    get_me,
     get_persona_state,
+    get_session_bifrost,
+    get_session_messages,
+    get_session_tools,
     list_agents,
+    list_character_models,
     list_sessions,
+    set_persona_state,
+    write_authored_history,
 )
 
 
@@ -384,6 +396,13 @@ class TestEndpointForPlane:
             == "http://10.100.10.50:8390"
         )
 
+    def test_combined_plane_maps_to_8392(self) -> None:
+        """combined [#18 composite]: 'combined' → http://<host>:8392 (POST-001)."""
+        assert (
+            endpoint_for_plane("combined", "10.100.10.50")
+            == "http://10.100.10.50:8392"
+        )
+
     def test_unknown_plane_raises_value_error(self) -> None:
         """unknown_plane [adversarial]: any other plane → ValueError (PRE-001)."""
         with pytest.raises(ValueError):
@@ -889,3 +908,473 @@ class TestGetPersonaState:
             with pytest.raises(PersonaNotConfigured) as exc_info:
                 await get_persona_state(client, "domari")
         assert exc_info.value.agent_id == "domari"
+
+
+class TestGetMe:
+    """docs/contracts/issues/2.contract.md FN get_me (slice: capabilities+me)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_happy_authenticated(self) -> None:
+        """happy_authenticated [happy,tracer]: 200 → parsed identity dict verbatim."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/me").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200,
+                json={
+                    "user_id": "alice",
+                    "scopes": ["conversations.read", "conversations.write"],
+                    "tier": "user",
+                    "key_id": "a1b2c3d4",
+                    "key_label": "alice phone",
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            me = await get_me(client)
+        assert me["user_id"] == "alice"
+        assert me["tier"] == "user"
+        assert me["key_id"] == "a1b2c3d4"
+        assert me["scopes"] == ["conversations.read", "conversations.write"]
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_anonymous_dev_mode(self) -> None:
+        """anonymous_dev_mode: 200 anonymous shape → dict with tier=anonymous."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/me").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200,
+                json={
+                    "user_id": "anonymous",
+                    "scopes": ["conversations.read"],
+                    "tier": "anonymous",
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            me = await get_me(client)
+        assert me["tier"] == "anonymous"
+        assert "key_id" not in me  # optional fields omitted, not null
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_401_raises_session_api_failed(self) -> None:
+        """401_raises [error]: bad/absent key → SessionApiFailed(status=401)."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/me").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(401, json={"detail": "auth_invalid"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SessionApiFailed) as exc:
+                await get_me(client)
+        assert exc.value.status == 401
+
+
+class TestGetCapabilities:
+    """docs/contracts/issues/2.contract.md FN get_capabilities (slice: capabilities+me)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_happy(self) -> None:
+        """happy [happy]: 200 → ephemeral_templates dict verbatim."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/capabilities").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200,
+                json={
+                    "ephemeral_templates": {
+                        "echo": {
+                            "allowed_models": ["glm5-turbo", "glm4.7"],
+                            "default_model": "glm5-turbo",
+                            "system_prompt_max_bytes": 32768,
+                        }
+                    }
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            caps = await get_capabilities(client)
+        echo = caps["ephemeral_templates"]["echo"]
+        assert echo["default_model"] == "glm5-turbo"
+        assert echo["system_prompt_max_bytes"] == 32768
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_non_200_raises(self) -> None:
+        """non_200_raises [error]: 500 → SessionApiFailed(status=500)."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/capabilities").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(500, content=b"boom")
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SessionApiFailed) as exc:
+                await get_capabilities(client)
+        assert exc.value.status == 500
+
+
+class TestGetSessionTools:
+    """docs/contracts/issues/2.contract.md — get_session_tools (GET /sessions/{id}/tools, #183)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_happy(self) -> None:
+        """happy [happy,tracer]: 200 → merged tool inventory dict verbatim."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/s1/tools").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200,
+                json={
+                    "agent_id": "alice:wizard",
+                    "builtin_tools": [],
+                    "bifrost_tools": [
+                        {"name": "bifrost.alice.set_field", "description": "d", "parameters": {}}
+                    ],
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            tools = await get_session_tools(client, "s1")
+        assert tools["agent_id"] == "alice:wizard"
+        assert tools["builtin_tools"] == []
+        assert tools["bifrost_tools"][0]["name"] == "bifrost.alice.set_field"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_cross_owner_404_raises(self) -> None:
+        """cross_owner_404 [error]: 404 session_not_found → SessionApiFailed(404)."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/s1/tools").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(404, json={"error_code": "session_not_found"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SessionApiFailed) as exc:
+                await get_session_tools(client, "s1")
+        assert exc.value.status == 404
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_empty_session_id_asserts(self) -> None:
+        """empty_session_id [adversarial]: '' → AssertionError; no HTTP issued."""
+        route = respx.get("https://w.example/sessions//tools").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
+                await get_session_tools(client, "")
+        assert route.call_count == 0
+
+
+class TestGetSessionBifrost:
+    """#2 contract — get_session_bifrost (GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost, #176)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_happy_uses_admin_bearer(self) -> None:
+        """happy [happy,tracer]: 200 → binding dict; request carries the ADMIN bearer (override)."""
+        route = respx.get("https://w.example/admin/sessions/s1/bifrost").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200,
+                json={
+                    "endpoint_url": "https://bifrost.example/mcp",
+                    "consumer_id": "alice",
+                    "connected": True,
+                    "capabilities_granted": ["tools:call", "tools:read"],
+                    "tools": [{"name": "bifrost.alice.echo", "description": "echo"}],
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(
+            base_url="https://w.example",
+            headers={"Authorization": "Bearer consumer-key"},
+        ) as client:
+            state = await get_session_bifrost(client, "s1", admin_key="admin-xyz")
+        assert state["connected"] is True
+        assert state["tools"][0]["name"] == "bifrost.alice.echo"
+        # the request overrode the client's default consumer bearer with the admin key
+        assert route.calls[0].request.headers["Authorization"] == "Bearer admin-xyz"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_403_scope_denied(self) -> None:
+        """403 [error]: admin key lacks admin.sessions.read → SessionApiFailed(403)."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/admin/sessions/s1/bifrost").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(403, json={"error_code": "auth_scope_denied"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SessionApiFailed) as exc:
+                await get_session_bifrost(client, "s1", admin_key="k")
+        assert exc.value.status == 403
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_404_not_bound(self) -> None:
+        """404 [error]: session_not_bifrost_bound → SessionApiFailed(404)."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/admin/sessions/s1/bifrost").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(404, json={"error_code": "session_not_bifrost_bound"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SessionApiFailed) as exc:
+                await get_session_bifrost(client, "s1", admin_key="k")
+        assert exc.value.status == 404
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_empty_admin_key_asserts(self) -> None:
+        """empty_admin_key [adversarial]: '' → AssertionError; no HTTP issued."""
+        route = respx.get("https://w.example/admin/sessions/s1/bifrost").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
+                await get_session_bifrost(client, "s1", admin_key="")
+        assert route.call_count == 0
+
+
+class TestTransientCharacters:
+    """docs/contracts/issues/2.contract.md — transient-character wrappers (#161)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_list_models(self) -> None:
+        """list_models [happy,tracer]: 200 → {items:[...]} verbatim."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/models/available-for-characters").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"items": [{"name": "fast", "thinking": False}]})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            models = await list_character_models(client)
+        assert models["items"][0]["name"] == "fast"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_create_body_and_response(self) -> None:
+        """create [happy]: body is {character, state}; 201 → {character_id, ttl_expires_at}."""
+        import json as _json
+
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/characters").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json={"character_id": "char_x", "ttl_expires_at": "t"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            out = await create_character(client, {"schema_version": "1", "name": "H"})
+        assert out["character_id"] == "char_x"
+        body = _json.loads(route.calls[0].request.content)
+        assert body == {"character": {"schema_version": "1", "name": "H"}, "state": None}
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_get_state(self) -> None:
+        """get_state [happy]: 200 → live PAD/emotions snapshot."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/characters/char_x/state").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"schema_version": "1", "pad": [0.4, 0.1, -0.2]})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            state = await get_character_state(client, "char_x")
+        assert state["pad"] == [0.4, 0.1, -0.2]
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_delete_204(self) -> None:
+        """delete [happy]: 204 → None."""
+        respx.delete("https://w.example/characters/char_x").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(204)
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            assert await delete_character(client, "char_x") is None
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_create_403_scope(self) -> None:
+        """create_403 [error]: key lacks character.write → SessionApiFailed(403)."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/characters").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(403, json={"error_code": "auth_scope_denied"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SessionApiFailed) as exc:
+                await create_character(client, {"name": "H"})
+        assert exc.value.status == 403
+
+
+class TestSetPersonaState:
+    """#2 contract — set_persona_state (POST /sessions/{id}/persona_state)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_happy_204(self) -> None:
+        """happy [happy,tracer]: freeform snapshot body; 204 → None."""
+        import json as _json
+
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/persona_state").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(204)
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await set_persona_state(
+                client, "s1", {"pad": {"pleasure": 0.4, "arousal": 0.1, "dominance": -0.2}}
+            )
+        assert result is None
+        assert _json.loads(route.calls[0].request.content) == {
+            "pad": {"pleasure": 0.4, "arousal": 0.1, "dominance": -0.2}
+        }
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_non_204_raises(self) -> None:
+        """non_204 [error]: 422 (bad snapshot shape) → SessionApiFailed(422)."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/persona_state").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(422, json={"error_code": "validation_failed"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SessionApiFailed) as exc:
+                await set_persona_state(client, "s1", {"pad": [1, 2, 3]})
+        assert exc.value.status == 422
+
+
+_AUTHORED_ACK = {
+    "author": "assistant",
+    "content_chars": 5,
+    "injected_at": "2026-07-06T12:00:00+00:00",
+    "phase": "seeded",
+    "seq": 0,
+    "session_id": "s1",
+    "turn_id": "t1",
+}
+
+
+class TestWriteAuthoredHistory:
+    """write_authored_history — #347 POST /sessions/{id}/history (contract #2 amendment)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_happy_fresh_201(self) -> None:
+        """happy_fresh_201 [happy,tracer]: 201 → ack verbatim; minimal body."""
+        import json as _json
+
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json=_AUTHORED_ACK)
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await write_authored_history(
+                client, "s1", content="hello", idempotency_key="k1"
+            )
+        assert result == _AUTHORED_ACK
+        assert _json.loads(route.calls[0].request.content) == {
+            "author": "assistant",
+            "content": "hello",
+            "idempotency_key": "k1",
+        }
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_happy_replay_200(self) -> None:
+        """happy_replay_200 [happy]: 200 replay (byte-identical body) → dict verbatim."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json=_AUTHORED_ACK)
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await write_authored_history(
+                client, "s1", content="hello", idempotency_key="k1"
+            )
+        assert result == _AUTHORED_ACK
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_body_includes_effects(self) -> None:
+        """body_includes_effects [trace]: effects + claimed_original_at appear iff non-None."""
+        import json as _json
+
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json=_AUTHORED_ACK)
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            await write_authored_history(
+                client,
+                "s1",
+                content="hi",
+                idempotency_key="k1",
+                effects="none",
+                claimed_original_at="2020-01-01T00:00:00Z",
+            )
+        assert _json.loads(route.calls[0].request.content) == {
+            "author": "assistant",
+            "content": "hi",
+            "idempotency_key": "k1",
+            "effects": "none",
+            "claimed_original_at": "2020-01-01T00:00:00Z",
+        }
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_hide_existence_404(self) -> None:
+        """hide_existence_404 [error]: 404 → AuthoredHistoryUnavailable (NOT SessionApiFailed)."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(404, json={"error_code": "session_not_found"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(AuthoredHistoryUnavailable) as exc:
+                await write_authored_history(client, "s1", content="hi", idempotency_key="k1")
+        assert exc.value.session_id == "s1"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_generation_active_409(self) -> None:
+        """generation_active_409 [error]: 409 → SessionApiFailed(409)."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(409, json={"error_code": "generation_active"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SessionApiFailed) as exc:
+                await write_authored_history(client, "s1", content="hi", idempotency_key="k1")
+        assert exc.value.status == 409
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_content_too_long_422(self) -> None:
+        """content_too_long_422 [error]: 422 → SessionApiFailed(422)."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(422, json={"error_code": "content_too_long"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SessionApiFailed) as exc:
+                await write_authored_history(client, "s1", content="x", idempotency_key="k1")
+        assert exc.value.status == 422
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_empty_content(self) -> None:
+        """empty_content [adversarial]: content="" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued."""
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json=_AUTHORED_ACK)
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
+                await write_authored_history(client, "s1", content="", idempotency_key="k1")
+        assert not route.called
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_empty_idempotency_key(self) -> None:
+        """empty_idempotency_key [adversarial]: key="" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued."""
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json=_AUTHORED_ACK)
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
+                await write_authored_history(client, "s1", content="hi", idempotency_key="")
+        assert not route.called
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_empty_session_id(self) -> None:
+        """empty_session_id [adversarial]: session_id="" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued."""
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json=_AUTHORED_ACK)
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
+                await write_authored_history(client, "", content="hi", idempotency_key="k1")
+        assert not route.called
+
+
+class TestGetSessionMessages:
+    """#2 contract (amendment 2026-07-06) — get_session_messages (GET /sessions/{id}/messages)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_happy(self) -> None:
+        """happy [happy,tracer]: 200 {session_id, items, next_cursor} → dict verbatim."""
+        payload = {
+            "session_id": "s1",
+            "items": [{"seq": 0, "role": "assistant", "content": "hello there"}],
+            "next_cursor": None,
+        }
+        respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json=payload)
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            result = await get_session_messages(client, "s1")
+        assert result == payload
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_not_found_404(self) -> None:
+        """not_found_404 [error]: 404 → SessionApiFailed(404)."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(404, json={"error_code": "session_not_found"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SessionApiFailed) as exc:
+                await get_session_messages(client, "s1")
+        assert exc.value.status == 404
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_empty_session_id(self) -> None:
+        """empty_session_id [adversarial]: "" → AssertionError; no HTTP issued."""
+        route = respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(AssertionError):
+                await get_session_messages(client, "")
+        assert not route.called

tests/test_sse_client.py

@@ -5,7 +5,9 @@ import pytest
 import respx
 
 from ratatoskr.sse_client import (
+    AdminEvent,
     AffectUpdate,
+    AgentNotAvailable,
     AwaitingLlmFirstToken,
     CancelAlreadyCompleted,
     Cancelled,
@@ -18,13 +20,17 @@ from ratatoskr.sse_client import (
     ResumeBufferExpired,
     ResumeTurnFinished,
     SseConnectFailed,
+    SseConnectionDropped,
     SseId,
     Text,
     TurnIdFlip,
+    TurnLaunchUnavailable,
     _parse_sse_id,
     cancel_turn,
     reconnect_turn,
+    stream_admin_events,
     stream_turn,
+    stream_turn_resilient,
 )
 
 _DONE_42_6 = {
@@ -49,6 +55,36 @@ def _sse_chunk(sse_id: str, body: dict[str, object]) -> bytes:
     return f"id: {sse_id}\ndata: {json.dumps(body)}\n\n".encode()
 
 
+_EVENT_STREAM = {"content-type": "text/event-stream"}
+
+
+class _DropStream(httpx.AsyncByteStream):
+    """Yield the given chunks, then raise a mid-stream drop (RemoteProtocolError).
+
+    Mirrors the inline `_DropAfter` used by TestStreamTurn.test_connection_drop;
+    hoisted to module scope because the resilient-wrapper tests reuse it.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, chunks: list[bytes]) -> None:
+        self._chunks = chunks
+
+    async def __aiter__(self):  # type: ignore[no-untyped-def]
+        for c in self._chunks:
+            yield c
+        raise httpx.RemoteProtocolError("simulated mid-stream drop")
+
+    async def aclose(self) -> None:
+        return None
+
+
+def _drop_response(chunks: list[bytes]) -> httpx.Response:
+    return httpx.Response(200, headers=_EVENT_STREAM, stream=_DropStream(chunks))
+
+
+def _stream_response(content: bytes) -> httpx.Response:
+    return httpx.Response(200, headers=_EVENT_STREAM, content=content)
+
+
 class TestParseSseId:
     def test_happy_simple(self) -> None:
         """happy_simple [happy,tracer]: '42:3' -> SseId(turn_id=42, seq=3)."""
@@ -415,8 +451,9 @@ class TestStreamTurn:
     async def test_connect_failed_body_truncated(self) -> None:
         """ERROR_ROUTING: SseConnectFailed.body is truncated to <= 1024 bytes."""
         big_body = b"x" * 5000
+        # 500 (not 409/503 — those are now eager turn-launch carve-outs, #331).
         respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages").mock(
-            return_value=httpx.Response(503, content=big_body)
+            return_value=httpx.Response(500, content=big_body)
         )
         async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
             with pytest.raises(SseConnectFailed) as exc_info:
@@ -424,6 +461,71 @@ class TestStreamTurn:
         assert len(exc_info.value.body) <= 1024
         assert exc_info.value.body == big_body[:1024]
 
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_eager_409_agent_not_available(self) -> None:
+        """b1 #331: eager 409 -> AgentNotAvailable (SseConnectFailed subclass) with
+        typed error_code; the turn never streams."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                409,
+                json={
+                    "detail": {
+                        "error_code": "agent_not_available",
+                        "message": "agent ratatoskr:sindra is unavailable",
+                    }
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(AgentNotAvailable) as exc:
+                _ = [e async for e in stream_turn(client, "s1", "hi")]
+        assert exc.value.status == 409
+        assert exc.value.error_code == "agent_not_available"
+        assert "unavailable" in exc.value.message
+        assert isinstance(exc.value, SseConnectFailed)  # existing handlers still catch
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_eager_503_turn_launch_unavailable_retryable(self) -> None:
+        """b1 #331: eager 503 -> TurnLaunchUnavailable (retryable, SseConnectFailed subclass)."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                503,
+                json={"error_code": "turn_launch_failed", "message": "resource exhausted"},
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(TurnLaunchUnavailable) as exc:
+                _ = [e async for e in stream_turn(client, "s1", "hi")]
+        assert exc.value.status == 503
+        assert exc.value.retryable is True
+        assert exc.value.error_code == "turn_launch_failed"
+        assert isinstance(exc.value, SseConnectFailed)
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_eager_409_non_json_body_defaults(self) -> None:
+        """b1 #331: eager 409 with a non-JSON body -> AgentNotAvailable with the
+        status-derived default error_code."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(409, content=b"<html>nope</html>")
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(AgentNotAvailable) as exc:
+                _ = [e async for e in stream_turn(client, "s1", "hi")]
+        assert exc.value.error_code == "agent_not_available"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_eager_503_non_json_body_defaults_not_ready(self) -> None:
+        """b2: eager 503 with a non-JSON body -> TurnLaunchUnavailable with the
+        canonical default error_code `not_ready`."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(503, content=b"<html>nope</html>")
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(TurnLaunchUnavailable) as exc:
+                _ = [e async for e in stream_turn(client, "s1", "hi")]
+        assert exc.value.error_code == "not_ready"
+        assert exc.value.retryable is True
+
     @respx.mock
     async def test_no_text_aggregation(self) -> None:
         """no_text_aggregation: consumer yields each text event separately; no concat."""
@@ -1040,3 +1142,194 @@ class TestAwaitingLlmFirstToken:
         elapsed = [b.elapsed_ms_since_building_prompt for b in beats]
         assert elapsed == sorted(elapsed)  # monotonically increasing
         assert all(b.turn_id == 42 for b in beats)
+
+
+_URL = "https://w.example/sessions/s1/messages"
+
+
+class TestStreamTurnResilient:
+    """docs/contracts/issues/1.contract.md FN stream_turn_resilient (amendment 2026-06-30)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_happy_no_drop(self) -> None:
+        """happy_no_drop [happy]: clean stream passes through; no reconnect issued."""
+        stream = _sse_chunk("42:1", {"type": "text", "content": "a"}) + _sse_chunk(
+            "42:2", _DONE_42_6
+        )
+        route = respx.post(_URL).mock(return_value=_stream_response(stream))
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            events = [e async for e in stream_turn_resilient(client, "s1", "hi")]
+        assert [e.sse_id for e in events] == [SseId(42, 1), SseId(42, 2)]
+        assert isinstance(events[-1], Done)
+        assert route.call_count == 1  # POST-001: no reconnect on a clean stream
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_resume_after_one_drop(self) -> None:
+        """resume_after_one_drop [tracer]: a mid-stream drop resumes via reconnect; one stream."""
+        first = _drop_response([_sse_chunk("42:1", {"type": "text", "content": "a"})])
+        resume = _stream_response(
+            _sse_chunk("42:2", {"type": "text", "content": "b"})
+            + _sse_chunk("42:3", _DONE_42_6)
+        )
+        route = respx.post(_URL).mock(side_effect=[first, resume])
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            events = [e async for e in stream_turn_resilient(client, "s1", "hi")]
+        assert [e.sse_id for e in events] == [SseId(42, 1), SseId(42, 2), SseId(42, 3)]
+        assert isinstance(events[-1], Done)
+        assert route.call_count == 2
+        # POST-003: reconnect carries the last yielded pre-drop event's id.
+        assert route.calls[1].request.headers.get("Last-Event-ID") == "42:1"
+        # PRE/wire: first attempt does NOT carry a Last-Event-ID.
+        assert route.calls[0].request.headers.get("Last-Event-ID") is None
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_resume_after_clean_eof(self) -> None:
+        """resume_after_clean_eof: a clean EOF before terminal also triggers resume (INV-001)."""
+        first = _stream_response(_sse_chunk("42:1", {"type": "text", "content": "a"}))
+        resume = _stream_response(_sse_chunk("42:2", _DONE_42_6))
+        route = respx.post(_URL).mock(side_effect=[first, resume])
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            events = [e async for e in stream_turn_resilient(client, "s1", "hi")]
+        assert [e.sse_id for e in events] == [SseId(42, 1), SseId(42, 2)]
+        assert isinstance(events[-1], Done)
+        assert route.calls[1].request.headers.get("Last-Event-ID") == "42:1"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_two_drops_then_done(self) -> None:
+        """two_drops_then_done: two transient drops, third attempt completes; ids thread through."""
+        a1 = _drop_response([_sse_chunk("42:1", {"type": "text", "content": "a"})])
+        a2 = _drop_response([_sse_chunk("42:2", {"type": "text", "content": "b"})])
+        a3 = _stream_response(_sse_chunk("42:3", _DONE_42_6))
+        route = respx.post(_URL).mock(side_effect=[a1, a2, a3])
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            events = [e async for e in stream_turn_resilient(client, "s1", "hi")]
+        assert [e.sse_id for e in events] == [SseId(42, 1), SseId(42, 2), SseId(42, 3)]
+        assert route.call_count == 3
+        assert route.calls[1].request.headers.get("Last-Event-ID") == "42:1"
+        assert route.calls[2].request.headers.get("Last-Event-ID") == "42:2"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_unresumable_zero_event_drop(self) -> None:
+        """unresumable_zero_event_drop [adversarial]: drop before any event → propagate."""
+        route = respx.post(_URL).mock(side_effect=[_drop_response([])])
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SseConnectionDropped):
+                _ = [e async for e in stream_turn_resilient(client, "s1", "hi")]
+        assert route.call_count == 1  # no id to resume from → no reconnect
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_max_reconnects_exhausted(self) -> None:
+        """max_reconnects_exhausted [adversarial]: every attempt drops; budget caps reconnects."""
+        side = [
+            _drop_response([_sse_chunk(f"42:{n}", {"type": "text", "content": "x"})])
+            for n in (1, 2, 3)
+        ]
+        route = respx.post(_URL).mock(side_effect=side)
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SseConnectionDropped):
+                _ = [
+                    e
+                    async for e in stream_turn_resilient(
+                        client, "s1", "hi", max_reconnects=2
+                    )
+                ]
+        assert route.call_count == 3  # initial + 2 reconnects, then give up
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_zero_budget_no_resume(self) -> None:
+        """zero_budget_no_resume [adversarial]: max_reconnects=0 → first drop propagates."""
+        first = _drop_response([_sse_chunk("42:1", {"type": "text", "content": "a"})])
+        route = respx.post(_URL).mock(side_effect=[first])
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SseConnectionDropped):
+                _ = [
+                    e
+                    async for e in stream_turn_resilient(
+                        client, "s1", "hi", max_reconnects=0
+                    )
+                ]
+        assert route.call_count == 1
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_buffer_expired_propagates(self) -> None:
+        """buffer_expired_propagates [error]: a 412 on reconnect surfaces, not retried."""
+        first = _drop_response([_sse_chunk("42:1", {"type": "text", "content": "a"})])
+        resume = httpx.Response(412, json={"turn_id": 42, "buffered_from_seq": 7})
+        route = respx.post(_URL).mock(side_effect=[first, resume])
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            collected: list[object] = []
+            with pytest.raises(ResumeBufferExpired):
+                async for e in stream_turn_resilient(client, "s1", "hi"):
+                    collected.append(e)
+        assert [e.sse_id for e in collected] == [SseId(42, 1)]  # type: ignore[attr-defined]
+        assert route.call_count == 2
+
+
+class TestStreamAdminEvents:
+    """docs/conversation-api-spec.md § Admin Event Stream — stream_admin_events (#11)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_happy_multi_event_admin_bearer(self) -> None:
+        """happy [happy,tracer]: yields AdminEvent envelopes; request uses the ADMIN bearer."""
+        env1 = {
+            "id": 41, "type": "session.created", "timestamp": "2026-05-06T10:00:00.000Z",
+            "data": {"session_id": "s1", "agent_id": "mimir", "user_id": None},
+        }
+        env2 = {
+            "id": 42, "type": "turn.started", "timestamp": "2026-05-06T10:00:01.000Z",
+            "data": {"session_id": "s1", "turn_id": 7, "agent_id": "mimir", "user_id": None},
+        }
+        stream = _sse_chunk("41", env1) + _sse_chunk("42", env2)
+        route = respx.get("https://w.example/admin/events").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200, headers={"content-type": "text/event-stream"}, content=stream
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(
+            base_url="https://w.example", headers={"Authorization": "Bearer consumer"}
+        ) as client:
+            events = [e async for e in stream_admin_events(client, admin_key="admin-xyz")]
+        assert [e.type for e in events] == ["session.created", "turn.started"]
+        assert isinstance(events[0], AdminEvent)
+        assert events[0].id == 41
+        assert events[1].data["turn_id"] == 7
+        assert route.calls[0].request.headers["Authorization"] == "Bearer admin-xyz"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_last_event_id_header(self) -> None:
+        """last_event_id_header [trace]: empty stream → []; Last-Event-ID header sent."""
+        route = respx.get("https://w.example/admin/events").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200, headers={"content-type": "text/event-stream"}, content=b""
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            events = [e async for e in stream_admin_events(client, admin_key="k", last_event_id=99)]
+        assert events == []
+        assert route.calls[0].request.headers["Last-Event-ID"] == "99"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_403_scope_denied(self) -> None:
+        """403 [error]: key lacks admin.events.read → SseConnectFailed(403)."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/admin/events").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(403, json={"error_code": "auth_scope_denied"})
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            with pytest.raises(SseConnectFailed) as exc:
+                _ = [e async for e in stream_admin_events(client, admin_key="k")]
+        assert exc.value.status == 403
+
+    @respx.mock
+    async def test_skips_malformed_frame(self) -> None:
+        """skips_malformed [adversarial]: a bad-JSON frame is skipped, not fatal."""
+        good = _sse_chunk("41", {"id": 41, "type": "session.created", "data": {"session_id": "s1"}})
+        bad = b"id: 42\ndata: not-json\n\n"
+        good2 = _sse_chunk("43", {"id": 43, "type": "session.deleted", "data": {"session_id": "s1"}})
+        respx.get("https://w.example/admin/events").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                200, headers={"content-type": "text/event-stream"}, content=good + bad + good2
+            )
+        )
+        async with httpx.AsyncClient(base_url="https://w.example") as client:
+            events = [e async for e in stream_admin_events(client, admin_key="k")]
+        assert [e.type for e in events] == ["session.created", "session.deleted"]

tests/test_tui.py

@@ -2922,6 +2922,10 @@ class TestTuiBifrostBind:
                 },
             )
         )
+        # sindra is a preset agent → the TUI create path now auto-seeds a #347 first-message.
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s-bound/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json={})
+        )
 
         async def fake_run_async(self) -> int:
             return 0
@@ -2945,3 +2949,495 @@ class TestTuiBifrostBind:
         err = capsys.readouterr().err
         assert "bifrost: status=bound" in err
         assert "plane=memory" in err
+
+
+class TestSessionPickerApp:
+    """docs/contracts/issues/6.contract.md FN SessionPickerApp (amendment slice b2)."""
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _two():
+        from ratatoskr.sessions import SessionInfo
+
+        return [
+            SessionInfo(
+                session_id="s-first-0001", agent_id="mimir", created_at="t0",
+                last_active="t1", metadata={}, message_count=3, name=None,
+                archived=False, tags=[],
+            ),
+            SessionInfo(
+                session_id="s-second-002", agent_id="echo", created_at="t0",
+                last_active="t2", metadata={}, message_count=None, name="probe",
+                archived=False, tags=[],
+            ),
+        ]
+
+    def test_pick_returns_session_id(self) -> None:
+        """pick_returns_session_id [happy,tracer]: idx 1 + Enter → exit value == that session_id."""
+        from ratatoskr.tui import SessionPickerApp
+
+        app = SessionPickerApp(self._two())
+
+        async def drive() -> str | None:
+            async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+                from textual.widgets import ListView
+
+                lv = app.query_one("#session-list", ListView)
+                lv.index = 1
+                await pilot.pause()
+                await pilot.press("enter")
+                await pilot.pause()
+            return app.return_value
+
+        import asyncio
+
+        assert asyncio.run(drive()) == "s-second-002"
+
+    def test_esc_returns_none(self) -> None:
+        """esc_returns_none [happy]: Esc → exit value is None (dismiss, resume nothing)."""
+        from ratatoskr.tui import SessionPickerApp
+
+        app = SessionPickerApp(self._two())
+
+        async def drive() -> str | None:
+            async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+                await pilot.press("escape")
+                await pilot.pause()
+            return app.return_value
+
+        import asyncio
+
+        assert asyncio.run(drive()) is None
+
+    def test_ctrl_d_returns_none(self) -> None:
+        """ctrl_d_returns_none [adversarial]: Ctrl-D → None."""
+        from ratatoskr.tui import SessionPickerApp
+
+        app = SessionPickerApp(self._two())
+
+        async def drive() -> str | None:
+            async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+                await pilot.press("ctrl+d")
+                await pilot.pause()
+            return app.return_value
+
+        import asyncio
+
+        assert asyncio.run(drive()) is None
+
+
+class TestBareSessionPicker:
+    """docs/contracts/issues/6.contract.md amendment (slice b2): _resolve_then_run bare mode."""
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _bare_args() -> ParsedArgs:
+        return ParsedArgs(
+            send_content=None, session_id=None, new=False, agent_id=None,
+            api_key="k", server_url="https://w.example", raw=False,
+            end_user_id=None, bifrost=None, bifrost_plane=None, consumer_key=None,
+        )
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _sess(sid: str, agent: str = "mimir"):
+        from ratatoskr.sessions import SessionInfo
+
+        return SessionInfo(
+            session_id=sid, agent_id=agent, created_at="t0", last_active="t1",
+            metadata={}, message_count=1, name=None, archived=False, tags=[],
+        )
+
+    def test_bare_zero_sessions_errors(
+        self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]
+    ) -> None:
+        """bare_zero_sessions_errors [error]: 0 sessions → exit 14 [no_sessions]; App not opened."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+        from ratatoskr.sessions import SessionPage
+
+        async def fake_list(client, **kw):
+            return SessionPage(items=[], next_cursor=None)
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "list_sessions", fake_list)
+        opened: list[int] = []
+
+        async def spy(self, *a, **k):
+            opened.append(1)
+            return 0
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(RatatoskrApp, "run_async", spy)
+        rc = run_tui(self._bare_args())
+        assert rc == 14
+        assert "[no_sessions]" in capsys.readouterr().err
+        assert not opened
+
+    def test_bare_one_session_auto_resumes(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """bare_one_session_auto_resumes: exactly 1 → auto-resume, no picker (§4 >1 rule)."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+        from ratatoskr.sessions import SessionPage
+        from ratatoskr.tui import SessionPickerApp
+
+        async def fake_list(client, **kw):
+            return SessionPage(items=[self._sess("s-solo")], next_cursor=None)
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "list_sessions", fake_list)
+        picker_used: list[int] = []
+
+        async def spy_picker(self, *a, **k):
+            picker_used.append(1)
+            return None
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(SessionPickerApp, "run_async", spy_picker)
+        snap: dict = {}
+
+        async def cap(self, *a, **k):
+            snap["sid"] = self.session_id
+            return 0
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(RatatoskrApp, "run_async", cap)
+        rc = run_tui(self._bare_args())
+        assert rc == 0
+        assert snap["sid"] == "s-solo"
+        assert not picker_used
+
+    def test_bare_multi_opens_picker(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """bare_multi_opens_picker [scenario,tracer]: >1 → picker; its choice resumes."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+        from ratatoskr.sessions import SessionPage
+        from ratatoskr.tui import SessionPickerApp
+
+        async def fake_list(client, **kw):
+            return SessionPage(items=[self._sess("s-a"), self._sess("s-b")], next_cursor=None)
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "list_sessions", fake_list)
+
+        async def pick_b(self, *a, **k):
+            return "s-b"
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(SessionPickerApp, "run_async", pick_b)
+        snap: dict = {}
+
+        async def cap(self, *a, **k):
+            snap["sid"] = self.session_id
+            return 0
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(RatatoskrApp, "run_async", cap)
+        rc = run_tui(self._bare_args())
+        assert rc == 0
+        assert snap["sid"] == "s-b"
+
+    def test_bare_picker_dismiss_exits_zero(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """bare_picker_dismiss_exits_zero [scenario]: picker None → exit 0; App not opened."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+        from ratatoskr.sessions import SessionPage
+        from ratatoskr.tui import SessionPickerApp
+
+        async def fake_list(client, **kw):
+            return SessionPage(items=[self._sess("s-a"), self._sess("s-b")], next_cursor=None)
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "list_sessions", fake_list)
+
+        async def pick_none(self, *a, **k):
+            return None
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(SessionPickerApp, "run_async", pick_none)
+        opened: list[int] = []
+
+        async def spy(self, *a, **k):
+            opened.append(1)
+            return 0
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(RatatoskrApp, "run_async", spy)
+        rc = run_tui(self._bare_args())
+        assert rc == 0
+        assert not opened
+
+    def test_bare_list_sessions_api_failure(
+        self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch, capsys: pytest.CaptureFixture[str]
+    ) -> None:
+        """bare_list_sessions_api_failure [error]: list_sessions 500 → exit 20; App not opened."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+        from ratatoskr.sessions import SessionApiFailed
+
+        async def fake_list(client, **kw):
+            raise SessionApiFailed(status=500, body=b"boom")
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "list_sessions", fake_list)
+        opened: list[int] = []
+
+        async def spy(self, *a, **k):
+            opened.append(1)
+            return 0
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(RatatoskrApp, "run_async", spy)
+        rc = run_tui(self._bare_args())
+        assert rc == 20
+        assert "[session_api_failed]" in capsys.readouterr().err
+        assert not opened
+
+
+class TestSessionToolsHydration:
+    """get_session_tools + the #183 Tools-pane inventory hydrate (GET /sessions/{id}/tools)."""
+
+    def test_format_tool_inventory(self) -> None:
+        """format_tool_inventory [unit]: header + builtin + bifrost lines."""
+        from ratatoskr.tui import _format_tool_inventory
+
+        lines = _format_tool_inventory(
+            {
+                "agent_id": "alice:wizard",
+                "builtin_tools": [],
+                "bifrost_tools": [{"name": "bifrost.x"}, {"name": "bifrost.y"}],
+            }
+        )
+        joined = "\n".join(lines)
+        assert "agent=alice:wizard" in joined
+        assert "builtin=0 bifrost=2" in joined
+        assert "builtin: (none)" in joined
+        assert "bifrost.x, bifrost.y" in joined
+
+    async def test_hydrate_writes_inventory_and_audits(
+        self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch
+    ) -> None:
+        """hydrate_writes_inventory [scenario,tracer]: 200 → inventory in Tools pane + audit."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+
+        writes = _spy_writes(monkeypatch)
+
+        async def fake_tools(client, session_id):
+            return {
+                "agent_id": "alice:wizard",
+                "builtin_tools": [],
+                "bifrost_tools": [{"name": "bifrost.set_field"}],
+            }
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "get_session_tools", fake_tools)
+        app = _resolved_app(_args_existing(session_id="s-tools-01"))
+        async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+            await pilot.pause()
+            await app._hydrate_session_tools()
+            await pilot.pause()
+        joined = " ".join(_text_of(w) for w in writes)
+        assert "session tool inventory" in joined
+        assert "bifrost.set_field" in joined
+        assert "session_tools_hydrated" in joined  # audit line landed
+
+    async def test_hydrate_failure_audits_no_crash(
+        self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch
+    ) -> None:
+        """hydrate_failure [error]: get_session_tools raises → failure audit; no crash."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+        from ratatoskr.sessions import SessionApiFailed
+
+        writes = _spy_writes(monkeypatch)
+
+        async def boom(client, session_id):
+            raise SessionApiFailed(status=404, body=b"session_not_found")
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "get_session_tools", boom)
+        app = _resolved_app(_args_existing(session_id="s-tools-02"))
+        async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+            await pilot.pause()
+            await app._hydrate_session_tools()
+            await pilot.pause()
+        joined = " ".join(_text_of(w) for w in writes)
+        assert "session_tools_hydration_failed" in joined
+
+
+class TestBifrostStateHydration:
+    """get_session_bifrost + the #176 BifrostState pane (GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost)."""
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _mute_tools(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """Neutralize the on_mount Tools-pane worker so it makes no real call."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+
+        async def noop(client, session_id):
+            return {"agent_id": "x", "builtin_tools": [], "bifrost_tools": []}
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "get_session_tools", noop)
+
+    def test_format_bifrost_state(self) -> None:
+        """format_bifrost_state [unit]: connected / endpoint / caps / tools lines."""
+        from ratatoskr.tui import _format_bifrost_state
+
+        lines = _format_bifrost_state(
+            {
+                "endpoint_url": "https://b/mcp",
+                "consumer_id": "alice",
+                "connected": True,
+                "capabilities_granted": ["tools:call", "tools:read"],
+                "tools": [{"name": "bifrost.echo"}],
+            }
+        )
+        joined = "\n".join(lines)
+        assert "connected=True" in joined
+        assert "consumer=alice" in joined
+        assert "https://b/mcp" in joined
+        assert "tools:call, tools:read" in joined
+        assert "bifrost.echo" in joined
+
+    async def test_hydrate_no_admin_key(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """hydrate_no_admin_key [scenario]: admin_key None → 'not configured' + skip audit."""
+        self._mute_tools(monkeypatch)
+        writes = _spy_writes(monkeypatch)
+        app = _resolved_app(_args_existing(session_id="s-bf-1"))  # admin_key defaults None
+        async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+            await pilot.pause()
+            await app._hydrate_bifrost_state()
+            await pilot.pause()
+        joined = " ".join(_text_of(w) for w in writes)
+        assert "admin key not configured" in joined
+        assert "bifrost_state_skipped" in joined
+
+    async def test_hydrate_success(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """hydrate_success [scenario,tracer]: 200 → binding in BifrostState pane + audit."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+
+        self._mute_tools(monkeypatch)
+        writes = _spy_writes(monkeypatch)
+
+        async def fake_bifrost(client, session_id, *, admin_key):
+            return {
+                "endpoint_url": "https://b/mcp",
+                "consumer_id": "alice",
+                "connected": True,
+                "capabilities_granted": ["tools:call"],
+                "tools": [{"name": "bifrost.echo"}],
+            }
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "get_session_bifrost", fake_bifrost)
+        app = _resolved_app(_args_existing(session_id="s-bf-2", admin_key="ak"))
+        async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+            await pilot.pause()
+            await app._hydrate_bifrost_state()
+            await pilot.pause()
+        joined = " ".join(_text_of(w) for w in writes)
+        assert "bifrost binding" in joined
+        assert "bifrost.echo" in joined
+        assert "bifrost_state_hydrated" in joined
+
+    async def test_hydrate_404_not_bound(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """hydrate_404_not_bound [error]: 404 → 'not bound to Bifrost' + audit; no crash."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+        from ratatoskr.sessions import SessionApiFailed
+
+        self._mute_tools(monkeypatch)
+        writes = _spy_writes(monkeypatch)
+
+        async def not_bound(client, session_id, *, admin_key):
+            raise SessionApiFailed(status=404, body=b"session_not_bifrost_bound")
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "get_session_bifrost", not_bound)
+        app = _resolved_app(_args_existing(session_id="s-bf-3", admin_key="ak"))
+        async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+            await pilot.pause()
+            await app._hydrate_bifrost_state()
+            await pilot.pause()
+        joined = " ".join(_text_of(w) for w in writes)
+        assert "not bound to Bifrost" in joined
+        assert "bifrost_state_unavailable" in joined
+
+
+class TestAdminEventsStream:
+    """stream_admin_events + the #11 AdminEvents pane (GET /admin/events, session-filtered)."""
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def _mute_hydrates(monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """Neutralize the other on_mount workers (tools + bifrost) — no real calls."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+        from ratatoskr.sessions import SessionApiFailed
+
+        async def noop_tools(client, session_id):
+            return {"agent_id": "x", "builtin_tools": [], "bifrost_tools": []}
+
+        async def noop_bifrost(client, session_id, *, admin_key):
+            raise SessionApiFailed(status=404, body=b"nb")
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "get_session_tools", noop_tools)
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "get_session_bifrost", noop_bifrost)
+
+    def test_format_admin_event(self) -> None:
+        """format_admin_event [unit]: HH:MM:SS + type + fields; session_id dropped."""
+        from ratatoskr.sse_client import AdminEvent
+        from ratatoskr.tui import _format_admin_event
+
+        line = _format_admin_event(
+            AdminEvent(
+                42, "turn.completed", "2026-05-06T10:00:05.000Z",
+                {"session_id": "s1", "turn_id": 7, "duration_ms": 1200, "phase": "succeeded"},
+            )
+        )
+        assert "turn.completed" in line
+        assert "[10:00:05]" in line
+        assert "turn_id=7" in line
+        assert "session_id" not in line  # dropped — pane is already session-scoped
+
+    def test_admin_event_matches_filter(self) -> None:
+        """admin_event_matches [unit]: active-session + non-heartbeat system.* pass (§6)."""
+        from ratatoskr.sse_client import AdminEvent
+
+        E = AdminEvent
+        app = _resolved_app(_args_existing(session_id="s-match"))
+        assert app._admin_event_matches(E(1, "session.created", "t", {"session_id": "s-match"}))
+        assert not app._admin_event_matches(E(2, "turn.started", "t", {"session_id": "other"}))
+        assert not app._admin_event_matches(E(0, "system.heartbeat", "t", {}))
+        assert app._admin_event_matches(E(3, "system.events_dropped", "t", {"count": 5}))
+
+    async def test_stream_writes_filtered_events(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """stream_filtered [scenario,tracer]: only active-session + non-heartbeat lines land."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+        from ratatoskr.sse_client import AdminEvent
+
+        self._mute_hydrates(monkeypatch)
+        writes = _spy_writes(monkeypatch)
+
+        async def fake_stream(client, *, admin_key, last_event_id=None):
+            yield AdminEvent(41, "session.created", "t", {"session_id": "s-ae-2"})
+            yield AdminEvent(0, "system.heartbeat", "t", {})  # filtered (noise)
+            yield AdminEvent(42, "turn.started", "t", {"session_id": "other"})  # diff session
+            yield AdminEvent(43, "session.deleted", "t", {"session_id": "s-ae-2"})
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "stream_admin_events", fake_stream)
+        app = _resolved_app(_args_existing(session_id="s-ae-2", admin_key="ak"))
+        async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+            await pilot.pause()
+            await app._stream_admin_events()
+            await pilot.pause()
+        joined = " ".join(_text_of(w) for w in writes)
+        assert "session.created" in joined
+        assert "session.deleted" in joined
+        assert "system.heartbeat" not in joined
+        assert "turn.started" not in joined  # different session → filtered
+
+    async def test_stream_no_admin_key(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """stream_no_admin_key [scenario]: admin_key None → 'not configured' + skip audit."""
+        self._mute_hydrates(monkeypatch)
+        writes = _spy_writes(monkeypatch)
+        app = _resolved_app(_args_existing(session_id="s-ae-3"))  # admin_key None
+        async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+            await pilot.pause()
+            await app._stream_admin_events()
+            await pilot.pause()
+        joined = " ".join(_text_of(w) for w in writes)
+        assert "admin key not configured" in joined
+        assert "admin_events_skipped" in joined
+
+    async def test_stream_403_unavailable(self, monkeypatch: pytest.MonkeyPatch) -> None:
+        """stream_403 [error]: 403 scope-denied → 'unavailable' + audit; no crash."""
+        import ratatoskr.tui as tui_mod
+        from ratatoskr.sse_client import SseConnectFailed
+
+        self._mute_hydrates(monkeypatch)
+        writes = _spy_writes(monkeypatch)
+
+        async def denied(client, *, admin_key, last_event_id=None):
+            raise SseConnectFailed(status=403, body=b"auth_scope_denied")
+            yield  # unreachable — makes this an async generator
+
+        monkeypatch.setattr(tui_mod, "stream_admin_events", denied)
+        app = _resolved_app(_args_existing(session_id="s-ae-4", admin_key="ak"))
+        async with app.run_test() as pilot:
+            await pilot.pause()
+            await app._stream_admin_events()
+            await pilot.pause()
+        joined = " ".join(_text_of(w) for w in writes)
+        assert "admin events unavailable: HTTP 403" in joined
+        assert "admin_events_unavailable" in joined

tests/test_web_server.py

@@ -175,6 +175,62 @@ class TestCreateSessionEndpoint:
         resp = TestClient(app).post("/api/sessions", json={})
         assert resp.status_code == 400
 
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_preset_agent_auto_seeds_first_message(self) -> None:
+        """#347: a preset agent gets its opening seeded on create; a non-preset agent does not."""
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions").mock(return_value=httpx.Response(201, json=_CREATE_OK))
+        hist = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s-1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(
+                201,
+                json={
+                    "author": "assistant", "seq": 0, "phase": "seeded", "turn_id": "t1",
+                    "session_id": "s-1", "content_chars": 1, "injected_at": "t",
+                },
+            )
+        )
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory())
+        client = TestClient(app)
+        # preset agent → the endpoint seeds a first-message
+        assert client.post("/api/sessions", json={"agent_id": "ratatoskr:sindra"}).status_code == 201
+        assert hist.call_count == 1
+        # non-preset agent → no seed (count unchanged)
+        assert client.post("/api/sessions", json={"agent_id": "mimir"}).status_code == 201
+        assert hist.call_count == 1
+
+
+class TestSessionMessagesEndpoint:
+    """GET /api/sessions/{id}/messages — proxy session history (renders the #347 seed)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_happy_returns_history(self) -> None:
+        """happy [tracer]: proxies GET /sessions/{id}/messages → 200 with the items verbatim."""
+        payload = {
+            "session_id": "s-1",
+            "items": [{"seq": 0, "role": "assistant", "content": "Hey there."}],
+            "next_cursor": None,
+        }
+        respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/s-1/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json=payload)
+        )
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory())
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/sessions/s-1/messages")
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        assert resp.json()["items"][0]["content"] == "Hey there."
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_non_200_status_preserved(self) -> None:
+        """error: upstream 404 → status-preserving session_messages_unavailable envelope."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/ghost/messages").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(404, json={"error_code": "session_not_found"})
+        )
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory())
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/sessions/ghost/messages")
+        assert resp.status_code == 404
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "session_messages_unavailable"
+
 
 _SNAPSHOT = {
     "agent_id": "mimir",
@@ -616,13 +672,20 @@ class TestCreateAppShape:
     """create_app FN — route registration + state wiring (contract TESTS)."""
 
     def test_routes_registered(self) -> None:
-        """routes_registered [tracer]: app.routes contains all 9 path patterns."""
+        """routes_registered [tracer]: app.routes contains all path patterns,
+        including the #18 affect-read proxy."""
         from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
         app = create_app(_mock_client_factory())
         paths = {getattr(r, "path", None) for r in app.routes}
         for expected in (
             "/", "/version", "/api/agents", "/api/sessions",
             "/api/agents/{agent_id}/persona_state",
+            "/api/affect/{agent_id}",
+            "/api/memory/chunks",
+            # v0.19.2 debug-surface parity (create_app POST-002)
+            "/api/sessions/{session_id}/tools",
+            "/api/sessions/{session_id}/bifrost",
+            "/api/admin/events",
             "/api/turns/{session_id}", "/api/turns/{session_id}/stream",
             "/api/turns/{session_id}/cancel",
         ):
@@ -631,10 +694,14 @@ class TestCreateAppShape:
         assert "/static" in paths
 
     def test_state_attached(self) -> None:
-        """state_attached [trace]: app.state.turn_registry is empty dict."""
+        """state_attached [trace]: app.state.turn_registry is empty dict; admin_key stored."""
         from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
         app = create_app(_mock_client_factory())
         assert app.state.turn_registry == {}
+        # create_app POST-001: admin_key defaults None (admin routes fail-visible)
+        assert app.state.admin_key is None
+        app2 = create_app(_mock_client_factory(), admin_key="adm-key")
+        assert app2.state.admin_key == "adm-key"
 
     def test_factory_stored(self) -> None:
         """factory_stored [trace]: app.state.client_factory is the same callable."""
@@ -811,6 +878,10 @@ class TestWebBifrostBind:
         route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions").mock(
             return_value=httpx.Response(201, json=_CREATE_OK)
         )
+        # sindra is a preset agent → the endpoint now auto-seeds a #347 first-message.
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s-1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json={})
+        )
         app = create_app(
             _mock_client_factory(),
             bifrost_consumer_key="server-ck",
@@ -835,6 +906,54 @@ class TestWebBifrostBind:
         }
         assert upstream.headers["Authorization"] == "Bearer server-ck"
 
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_combined_plane_binds_to_8392(self) -> None:
+        """combined [#18 composite]: a 'combined' plane from the browser → the server
+        binds the :8392 both-plane endpoint; bound-state echoes plane='combined'."""
+        import json as _json
+
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        route = respx.post("https://w.example/sessions").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json=_CREATE_OK)
+        )
+        # sindra is a preset agent → the endpoint now auto-seeds a #347 first-message.
+        respx.post("https://w.example/sessions/s-1/history").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(201, json={})
+        )
+        app = create_app(
+            _mock_client_factory(),
+            bifrost_consumer_key="server-ck",
+            bifrost_visible_host="10.100.10.50",
+        )
+        resp = TestClient(app).post(
+            "/api/sessions",
+            json={"agent_id": "ratatoskr:sindra", "bifrost_plane": "combined"},
+        )
+        assert resp.status_code == 201
+        assert resp.json()["bifrost"] == {
+            "plane": "combined",
+            "endpoint": "http://10.100.10.50:8392",
+            "status": "bound",
+        }
+        upstream = route.calls[0].request
+        body = _json.loads(upstream.content)
+        assert body["bifrost"] == {
+            "endpoint_url": "http://10.100.10.50:8392",
+            "scope": None,
+        }
+
+    def test_dropdown_offers_combined_as_default(self) -> None:
+        """(a)+default: the SPA plane dropdown offers a 'combined' (:8392) option,
+        it is the DEFAULT-selected one, and single-plane memory/affect remain."""
+        from pathlib import Path
+
+        import ratatoskr.web as web_pkg
+
+        html = (Path(web_pkg.__file__).parent / "static" / "index.html").read_text()
+        assert '<option value="combined" selected>' in html
+        assert 'value="memory"' in html and 'value="affect"' in html
+
     @respx.mock
     def test_plane_without_server_config_is_400(self) -> None:
         """A plane requested but no server-held key/host → bifrost_not_configured."""
@@ -902,3 +1021,342 @@ class TestWebBifrostBind:
         resp = TestClient(app).post("/api/sessions", json={"agent_id": "mimir"})
         assert resp.status_code == 201
         assert "bifrost" not in resp.json()
+
+
+class TestAffectStateEndpoint:
+    """affect_state_endpoint FN — #18 Deliverable 2: web proxy to the provider PAD read."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_happy_proxies_and_supplies_server_end_user_id(self) -> None:
+        """tracer: GET /api/affect/{id} → proxies to the configured provider read URL,
+        supplying end_user_id SERVER-SIDE (INV-002); colon-id round-trips (INV-008)."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        snap = {
+            "agent_id": "ratatoskr:sindra",
+            "pad": {"pleasure": 0.15, "arousal": 0.08, "dominance": -0.01},
+            "valence": [{"entity_id": "ratatoskr", "familiarity": 0.59, "regard": 0.15}],
+            "emitted_at": "2026-06-18T15:58:12+00:00",
+        }
+        route = respx.get(url__regex=r"http://prov:8390/affect/state/.+").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json=snap)
+        )
+        app = create_app(
+            _mock_client_factory(),
+            end_user_id="vuong",
+            affect_read_url="http://prov:8390",
+        )
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/affect/ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        assert resp.json() == snap
+        assert route.calls.last.request.url.params["end_user_id"] == "vuong"
+        # INV-008: the colon-id round-trips into the provider path — whether the wire
+        # keeps %3A or normalizes it, it must unquote back to the exact agent_id.
+        from urllib.parse import unquote
+        seg = str(route.calls.last.request.url).split("/affect/state/")[1].split("?")[0]
+        assert unquote(seg) == "ratatoskr:sindra"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_browser_supplied_end_user_id_is_ignored(self) -> None:
+        """INV-002: a browser-supplied end_user_id query is IGNORED; the server's
+        configured partition is used."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        route = respx.get(url__regex=r"http://prov:8390/affect/state/.+").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"agent_id": "ratatoskr:sindra"})
+        )
+        app = create_app(
+            _mock_client_factory(), end_user_id="vuong", affect_read_url="http://prov:8390"
+        )
+        TestClient(app).get("/api/affect/ratatoskr:sindra?end_user_id=attacker")
+        assert route.calls.last.request.url.params["end_user_id"] == "vuong"
+
+    def test_unconfigured_returns_400(self) -> None:
+        """PRE-001: no affect_read_url → 400 affect_not_configured (no silent attempt)."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory(), end_user_id="vuong")  # no affect_read_url
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/affect/ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert resp.status_code == 400
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "affect_not_configured"
+
+    def test_no_end_user_configured_returns_400(self) -> None:
+        """PRE-001: affect_read_url set but server end_user_id unset → 400 (INV-003
+        fail-visible, never a silent empty)."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory(), affect_read_url="http://prov:8390")
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/affect/ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert resp.status_code == 400
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "affect_not_configured"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_provider_unreachable_returns_502(self) -> None:
+        """POST-003: a network error reaching the provider → 502 affect_provider_unreachable."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        respx.get(url__regex=r"http://prov:8390/affect/state/.+").mock(
+            side_effect=httpx.ConnectError("refused")
+        )
+        app = create_app(
+            _mock_client_factory(), end_user_id="vuong", affect_read_url="http://prov:8390"
+        )
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/affect/ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert resp.status_code == 502
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "affect_provider_unreachable"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_provider_404_passes_through(self) -> None:
+        """POST-002: provider no_affect_snapshot 404 surfaces to the browser verbatim."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        respx.get(url__regex=r"http://prov:8390/affect/state/.+").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(404, json={"error_code": "no_affect_snapshot"})
+        )
+        app = create_app(
+            _mock_client_factory(), end_user_id="vuong", affect_read_url="http://prov:8390"
+        )
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/affect/ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert resp.status_code == 404
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "no_affect_snapshot"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_provider_400_passes_through(self) -> None:
+        """POST-002: a provider 400 (e.g. missing_end_user_id — unreachable in normal
+        flow since the proxy always supplies it) still passes through verbatim."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        respx.get(url__regex=r"http://prov:8390/affect/state/.+").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(400, json={"error_code": "missing_end_user_id"})
+        )
+        app = create_app(
+            _mock_client_factory(), end_user_id="vuong", affect_read_url="http://prov:8390"
+        )
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/affect/ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert resp.status_code == 400
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "missing_end_user_id"
+
+
+class TestSessionToolsEndpoint:
+    """session_tools_endpoint — proxy owner-scoped GET /sessions/{id}/tools (#183)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_happy_returns_inventory(self) -> None:
+        """happy [tracer]: 200 inventory → 200 verbatim."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/s-1/tools").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={
+                "agent_id": "ratatoskr:sindra",
+                "builtin_tools": ["echo"],
+                "bifrost_tools": [{"name": "memory.search"}],
+            })
+        )
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        resp = TestClient(create_app(_mock_client_factory())).get("/api/sessions/s-1/tools")
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        assert resp.json()["agent_id"] == "ratatoskr:sindra"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_upstream_404_status_preserving_envelope(self) -> None:
+        """error: upstream 404 → 404 session_tools_unavailable envelope."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/sessions/s-1/tools").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(404, content=b"nope")
+        )
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        resp = TestClient(create_app(_mock_client_factory())).get("/api/sessions/s-1/tools")
+        assert resp.status_code == 404
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "session_tools_unavailable"
+
+
+class TestSessionBifrostEndpoint:
+    """session_bifrost_endpoint — proxy admin-scoped GET /admin/sessions/{id}/bifrost (#176)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_happy_overrides_with_admin_bearer(self) -> None:
+        """happy [tracer]: 200 state → 200; request carries the ADMIN bearer, not consumer."""
+        route = respx.get("https://w.example/admin/sessions/s-1/bifrost").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={
+                "endpoint_url": "http://x:8392", "connected": True,
+                "capabilities_granted": ["memory", "affect"], "tools": [],
+            })
+        )
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory(), admin_key="adm-key")
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/sessions/s-1/bifrost")
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        assert resp.json()["connected"] is True
+        assert route.calls.last.request.headers["Authorization"] == "Bearer adm-key"
+
+    def test_no_admin_key_fails_visible_400(self) -> None:
+        """error: no admin key configured → 400 admin_key_not_configured, no upstream call."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory())  # no admin_key
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/sessions/s-1/bifrost")
+        assert resp.status_code == 400
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "admin_key_not_configured"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_upstream_404_status_preserving_envelope(self) -> None:
+        """error: upstream 404 (not bound) → 404 bifrost_state_unavailable envelope."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/admin/sessions/s-1/bifrost").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(404, content=b"nope")
+        )
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory(), admin_key="adm-key")
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/sessions/s-1/bifrost")
+        assert resp.status_code == 404
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "bifrost_state_unavailable"
+
+
+class TestAdminEventsEndpoint:
+    """admin_events_endpoint — SSE proxy of GET /admin/events, session-filtered (#11)."""
+
+    def test_filter_semantics(self) -> None:
+        """unit: heartbeats drop, system.* pass, else match on session_id."""
+        from ratatoskr.sse_client import AdminEvent
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import _admin_event_matches_web
+
+        def mk(t: str, sid: "str | None" = None) -> AdminEvent:
+            return AdminEvent(id=1, type=t, timestamp=None,
+                              data={"session_id": sid} if sid else {})
+
+        assert _admin_event_matches_web(mk("system.heartbeat"), "s-1") is False
+        assert _admin_event_matches_web(mk("system.degraded"), "s-1") is True
+        assert _admin_event_matches_web(mk("session.created", "s-1"), "s-1") is True
+        assert _admin_event_matches_web(mk("session.created", "other"), "s-1") is False
+        assert _admin_event_matches_web(mk("session.created", "s-1"), None) is False
+
+    def test_no_admin_key_fails_visible_400(self) -> None:
+        """error: no admin key → 400 admin_key_not_configured (no stream opened)."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory())
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/admin/events?session_id=s-1")
+        assert resp.status_code == 400
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "admin_key_not_configured"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_streams_filtered_events_fixed_name(self) -> None:
+        """happy: SSE → only session-matching + system.* forwarded, as `admin_event`."""
+        stream = (
+            b'event: session.created\n'
+            b'data: {"type":"session.created","data":{"session_id":"s-1"}}\n\n'
+            b'event: system.heartbeat\n'
+            b'data: {"type":"system.heartbeat","data":{}}\n\n'
+            b'event: turn.started\n'
+            b'data: {"type":"turn.started","data":{"session_id":"other"}}\n\n'
+            b'event: system.degraded\n'
+            b'data: {"type":"system.degraded","data":{}}\n\n'
+        )
+        respx.get("https://w.example/admin/events").mock(return_value=_sse_resp(stream))
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory(), admin_key="adm-key")
+        body = TestClient(app).get("/api/admin/events?session_id=s-1").text
+        assert "event: admin_event" in body          # fixed browser-facing name
+        assert '"type": "session.created"' in body    # matches active session → forwarded
+        assert "system.degraded" in body              # system.* → forwarded
+        assert "system.heartbeat" not in body         # heartbeat → dropped
+        assert "turn.started" not in body             # other session → dropped
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_stream_error_on_connect_failure(self) -> None:
+        """error: upstream admin SSE non-200 -> ONE stream_error frame, stream ends (POST-003)."""
+        respx.get("https://w.example/admin/events").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(500, content=b"boom")
+        )
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory(), admin_key="adm-key")
+        body = TestClient(app).get("/api/admin/events?session_id=s-1").text
+        assert "event: stream_error" in body
+        assert "SseConnectFailed" in body
+        assert body.count("event: stream_error") == 1  # exactly one, then ends
+
+
+class TestMemoryChunksEndpoint:
+    """memory_chunks_endpoint FN — memory viewer: web proxy to the provider debug read.
+    Mirrors TestAffectStateEndpoint (the #18-D2 affect proxy shape)."""
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_happy_proxies_and_supplies_server_end_user_id(self) -> None:
+        """tracer: GET /api/memory/chunks → proxies to the configured provider read URL,
+        supplying end_user_id SERVER-SIDE and forwarding the browser-named agent_id."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        payload = {
+            "chunks": [
+                {"chunk_id": "c1", "content": "the user's cat is Mochi",
+                 "scope": {"end_user": "vuong", "agent_self": "ratatoskr:sindra"},
+                 "origin": "worldtree", "revision": 1}
+            ],
+            "count": 1,
+            "total": 1,
+        }
+        route = respx.get(url__regex=r"http://prov:8391/memory/chunks.*").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json=payload)
+        )
+        app = create_app(
+            _mock_client_factory(),
+            end_user_id="vuong",
+            memory_read_url="http://prov:8391",
+        )
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/memory/chunks?agent_id=ratatoskr:sindra")
+        assert resp.status_code == 200
+        assert resp.json() == payload
+        assert route.calls.last.request.url.params["end_user_id"] == "vuong"
+        assert route.calls.last.request.url.params["agent_id"] == "ratatoskr:sindra"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_browser_supplied_end_user_id_is_ignored(self) -> None:
+        """The server's configured partition is used; a browser end_user_id is ignored."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        route = respx.get(url__regex=r"http://prov:8391/memory/chunks.*").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(200, json={"chunks": [], "count": 0, "total": 0})
+        )
+        app = create_app(
+            _mock_client_factory(), end_user_id="vuong", memory_read_url="http://prov:8391"
+        )
+        TestClient(app).get("/api/memory/chunks?end_user_id=attacker&agent_id=a")
+        assert route.calls.last.request.url.params["end_user_id"] == "vuong"
+
+    def test_unconfigured_returns_400(self) -> None:
+        """PRE-001: no memory_read_url → 400 memory_not_configured (no silent attempt)."""
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory(), end_user_id="vuong")  # no memory_read_url
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/memory/chunks?agent_id=a")
+        assert resp.status_code == 400
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "memory_not_configured"
+
+    def test_no_end_user_configured_returns_400(self) -> None:
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        app = create_app(_mock_client_factory(), memory_read_url="http://prov:8391")
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/memory/chunks?agent_id=a")
+        assert resp.status_code == 400
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "memory_not_configured"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_provider_unreachable_returns_502(self) -> None:
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        respx.get(url__regex=r"http://prov:8391/memory/chunks.*").mock(
+            side_effect=httpx.ConnectError("refused")
+        )
+        app = create_app(
+            _mock_client_factory(), end_user_id="vuong", memory_read_url="http://prov:8391"
+        )
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/memory/chunks?agent_id=a")
+        assert resp.status_code == 502
+        assert resp.json()["error_code"] == "memory_provider_unreachable"
+
+    @respx.mock
+    def test_provider_400_passes_through(self) -> None:
+        from ratatoskr.web.server import create_app
+
+        respx.get(url__regex=r"http://prov:8391/memory/chunks.*").mock(
+            return_value=httpx.Response(400, json={"error_code": "missing_end_user_id"})
+        )
+        app = create_app(
+            _mock_client_factory(), end_user_id="vuong", memory_read_url="http://prov:8391"
+        )
+        resp = TestClient(app).get("/api/memory/chunks?agent_id=a")
+        assert resp.status_code == 400

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@@ -190,14 +190,14 @@ wheels = [
 
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-version = "0.8.0"
+version = "1.1.4"
 source = { registry = "https://gitea.phasefinal.com/api/packages/vh/pypi/simple/" }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "jsonschema" },
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-sdist = { url = "https://gitea.phasefinal.com/api/packages/vh/pypi/files/bifrost/0.8.0/bifrost-0.8.0.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:28194877c81a056a0803b052e86902c092e965d4ce63a5623d7a31240cedb645" }
+sdist = { url = "https://gitea.phasefinal.com/api/packages/vh/pypi/files/bifrost/1.1.4/bifrost-1.1.4.tar.gz", hash = "sha256:498d156035a93bf37a6fc1e9c09b468aac61e869fd2a5353e2695dc823f57e9a" }
 wheels = [
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+    { url = "https://gitea.phasefinal.com/api/packages/vh/pypi/files/bifrost/1.1.4/bifrost-1.1.4-py3-none-any.whl", hash = "sha256:d67278528f12729eef0c19d875d36a2f1da6fa97737396ba130d525fee8d0b14" },
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ wheels = [
 
 [[package]]
 name = "ratatoskr"
-version = "0.17.13"
+version = "0.20.17"
 source = { editable = "." }
 dependencies = [
     { name = "httpx" },
@@ -1086,7 +1086,7 @@ web = [
 
 [package.metadata]
 requires-dist = [
-    { name = "bifrost", marker = "extra == 'provider'", specifier = ">=0.8.0", index = "https://gitea.phasefinal.com/api/packages/vh/pypi/simple/" },
+    { name = "bifrost", marker = "extra == 'provider'", specifier = "==1.1.4", index = "https://gitea.phasefinal.com/api/packages/vh/pypi/simple/" },
     { name = "httpx", specifier = ">=0.27" },
     { name = "httpx-sse", specifier = ">=0.4" },
     { name = "jsonschema", marker = "extra == 'provider'", specifier = ">=4" },