dafit
5f216aaf5f
style-spine created, DESING retired, schemas relocated
The owl-breakfast architectural arc from 2026-04-25 night through
2026-04-26 morning. Two version-bumps landing as one commit because
they share the working-tree state and complete a coherent design-window.
v0.8 — intimate-architecture, driver-tier lock, style-spine:
* Three-tier intimacy structure (standard-rental, premium-waifu-
with-traitor-marker-and-pruning, in-between clasp) — same v0.7
machinery, opposite value-flows. Premium-net technical excellence
makes the moral-weight-of-pruning land as informed-consent ethics.
* Deletion-as-spectacle: in-net minds as pure compute; imperial
broadcasts execution-as-content; Memorialist counter-archive as
in-fiction protest against deletion-spectacle commerce.
* EVE-principle vocation-substrate of the imperial-net market: every
product produced by NPC labor; no silent feeding; body-modder
structural-tragedy generalizes to all imperial-net-feeding vocations.
World-gen Phase-2 ruleset must handle vocation-distribution.
* Clasp endgame (Phase A-E): mini-game entry → body-mod progression
→ exit-chassis → human-mesh-visible-to-pair → clasp = two-bodies-
two-meshes → dual-body-dual-mind-dual-shift cascade → automatic
hunt-pressure. Identity-as-trait-emergent made felt rather than
just structural.
* waifu.sqlite as third local store (audited counterpart to
clasp.sqlite; manual-prune mechanism with explicit-implications
consent UI as moral-gravity discipline).
* Intimacy-as-recursive-lemniscate: same machinery as dialog
(slot-tokens, cursor at axis-crossing, alignment-accumulator,
sum-strategy reduction); sex-positions as designer-fixed catalog
entries; body-parts as visible expression of trait-state.
Cross-context-consistency operationalized.
* Driver-tier locked to Gemma 4 E4B (Apache 2.0, 4.5B effective,
128K context, speech-capable) under new "tier-by-role binary-
deferred" discipline: locking requires prototype-criticality +
irreplaceable license/capability combination. Optional Ring-A
upgrade: 26B-A4B MoE for upper-consumer GPUs, single-LoRA-on-
routed-experts. Resolves 4 prior open questions (LoRA-blend →
single-LoRA-per-turn-selection driven by gesture_alignment_
accumulator; LoRA rank → benchmark-resolvable; sampling-knobs →
benchmark-resolvable; 8 Hellenic trait enumeration → canonical
wheel-mapping in style/trait-palette.md).
* style/ directory introduced: style-index.md (skeleton + spine-
rule: "trait-palette is exclusively chromatic; achromatic
reserved for UI/environment so diegetic text rendering can skip
the textbox") + style/trait-palette.md (canonical 8 traits as 4
oppositional pairs at 180° on the artist's color wheel:
Eros↔Sophrosyne, Philotes↔Dikaiosyne, Aletheia↔Moira,
Mnemosyne↔Kairos. Schoolchild-simple descriptions paired with
each Greek canonical name).
v0.9 — directory cleanup completing the arc:
* DESING-VISION.md (1899 lines, v0.1 first-pass narrative-design
doc) retired — most content absorbed across v0.4-v0.8; bare-
minimum extracts (Tonal Register + Tragic-Romantic Register +
Authorial Politics + Reference Lineage table) now live in README
so the project's identity anchor stays visible at the entry
point. Full DESING-VISION content preserved in git history.
* findings.md moved to schemas/findings.md — new top-level peer to
architecture-index.md and style/. ~20 tables of DDL drafts as
reference material; will get reviewed and progressively split
per-domain as implementation begins.
* Cross-references swept across 5 files (README,
architecture-index, authority-and-decision, runtime-engine,
style/trait-palette).
* architecture-index.md trimmed: version-footer paragraphs removed
per "git-is-changelog" discipline. From 374 → 287 lines; every
remaining line load-bearing.
The architecture is now organized for the implementation territory
ahead. Each domain a typed-contract surface; cross-references
explicit; filesystem mirrors the architecture's own typed-contract
discipline at the directory layer.
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# Nimmerworld — Broad Architecture
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> *Ground-up zone-based event architecture. Minds at the center, world as co-remembering substrate. Three registers of reality — physical, liminal, imperial. Rail topology outside, navmesh interiors inside. Trait-emergent identity. Color-as-vocabulary. Three-tier policy loop with imperial-budget-mortality. Tools, not quests.*
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> *v0.1 initial draft 2026-04-24 morning; v0.2 expanded 2026-04-24 afternoon; v0.3 evening; v0.4 late-evening / early 2026-04-25; v0.5 deep-night-unable-to-sleep 2026-04-25; v0.6 post-bath / post-bus 2026-04-25; v0.7 owl-breakfast 2026-04-25 night through 2026-04-26; v0.8 split-into-domain-files + intimate-architecture absorbed 2026-04-26; v0.9 DESING-VISION retired + style-skeleton + schemas relocation + driver-tier locked Gemma 4 E4B 2026-04-26 — dafit + chrysalis.*
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---
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## Project structure
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The architecture is organized as **vertical-by-domain directories** under `nimmerworld/`. Each domain owns its `architecture.md` plus (eventually) the server, client, schema, and test code that implements it. This file is the **executive summary + cross-domain index** holding global meta-lists.
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```
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nimmerworld/
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├── architecture-index.md ← this file (executive summary + global meta-lists)
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├── political-register/
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│ └── architecture.md ← Kafka-indifferent regime; three ontological registers; three-tier policy loop; imperial budget; insolvency-spiral; corruption + double ledger
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├── topology-and-rendering/
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│ └── architecture.md ← rail+grid topology; asset economy; color-language; three-shader philosophy; diegetic relays
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├── runtime-engine/
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│ └── architecture.md ← lemniscate runtime; slot-tokens + verifier-flags; gesture-alignment-recursive-lemniscate (v0.7); emergent zones
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├── identity-and-personhood/
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│ └── architecture.md ← three-body system; mods as trait-bearers; ternary-gate substrate; emergent needs as micro-factions
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├── authority-and-decision/
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│ └── architecture.md ← hierarchy; bidirectional cascade; District Director Decision Architecture; rings as structural pattern
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├── player-experience/
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│ └── architecture.md ← player-as-perturbation; voice + gesture as parallel trait-vocabularies (v0.7); tools-not-quests
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├── narrative-composition/
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│ └── architecture.md ← Compositor (v0.7 worked-example, three-tiers, world-gen-as-init); reflexive Dream-process
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├── inference-and-memory/
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│ └── architecture.md ← LLM tiering (3 rings + opt-in data tiers); local memory architecture; runtime sampling knobs
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└── scale-and-transport/
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└── architecture.md ← compute allocation; horizontal scale (UID-routing, sharded GMs, pgnats + republish/replay)
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```
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## Quick reference — concept → domain-file
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| If you're working on... | Read |
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| Political-economy substrate; faction broadcasts; imperial budget; insolvency-spiral | `political-register/architecture.md` |
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| Rail+grid topology; color-language; shaders; diegetic relays | `topology-and-rendering/architecture.md` |
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| Zone runtime; lemniscate; gesture-alignment; emergent zones | `runtime-engine/architecture.md` |
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| NPC identity; trait-vector; ternary-gates; mods | `identity-and-personhood/architecture.md` |
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| Authority flow; intelligence channels; director decision-surfaces | `authority-and-decision/architecture.md` |
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| Player input (voice + gesture); circle UI; universal translator | `player-experience/architecture.md` |
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| Compositor; world-gen-as-init; reflexive Dream-process | `narrative-composition/architecture.md` |
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| LLM tiering (Ring A/B/C); local-first memory; sampling knobs | `inference-and-memory/architecture.md` |
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| Horizontal scale; pgnats; sharding; compute budget | `scale-and-transport/architecture.md` |
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The remainder of this file holds the **cross-domain meta-lists**: Key moves (consolidated executive summary), Mapping to phoebe task list, What this retires across the architecture's evolution, Open questions still in flight, and the version-footer history.
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## Key moves (consolidated)
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- **The machine doesn't care.** Indifference-optimization, not malice. Kafka-lineage.
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- **Three ontological registers** — gameworld, liminal, imperial-net — same world, different shaders.
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- **Rail+grid topology, freeform-player + railed-NPCs, plug-in verb.** Topology = politics.
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- **Interior-as-zone.** Same primitive scales from city to sofa.
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- **Color-language as pre-verbal trait-vocabulary.** Persistent + event-flash + drift; cross-register; faction-politics.
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- **Base-limb palette + trait-textured variance.** Asset-economy and worldbuilding-thesis agree.
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- **Three-body system + intrinsic/expressed trait-vector split.** Identity emergent, not assigned. Mods modify expressed.
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- **Mods as trait-bearers** in three classes (amplifier/bridge/divergent/mask). Self-alienation tax encoded as pricing.
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- **Emergent-needs as micro-factions.** Zones observe, signals broadcast.
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- **Ternary-gate substrate** (CLOSED/STABLE/OPEN + wave-correlation + decay). Single primitive, all layers. STABLE-as-active.
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- **Three-tier policy loop** (Imperium → GM → Districts → reports up → Imperium).
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- **Imperium as meta-faction.** Demands are priority-weights and enforcement-rules, not specific outcomes.
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- **GM is middle-management.** Authority without sovereignty. Can cheat against imperium.
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- **Three intelligence flows** (chain reports, direct overseer-to-imperium, formulated downward).
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- **Three Aletheia veils, four Memorialist ledgers.** Political-epistemology as level-design.
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- **Asymmetric self-report.** NPCs report needs (interior); audit-overseers report output (objective).
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- **Lifeforce four-tier hierarchy** (NPC / district / GM / imperium).
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- **Lifeforce is NPCs, measured.** The director's budget; the GM's signal; the imperium's heartbeat.
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- **Imperial budget makes the regime mortal.** Insolvency-spiral as endgame.
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- **Specter-vs-boot.** Policy-issuance free; enforcement expensive.
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- **Imperial-net bypass.** Net-revenue → imperium; districts get nothing. Platform-capitalism encoded.
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- **Body-modder structural-tragedy.** The class whose awakening matters most.
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- **Calibrated-misery as imperial optimum.** Requires designer-guardrails to prevent training-toward.
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- **Shifts on NPC rows.** Daily rewrite; shift_history append-only.
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- **Silence > scream.** Crisis-tools unlock on silence-confirmation; do not sunset.
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- **Authoritarian ratchet.** Incrementally more authoritarian as optimization-artifact.
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- **Migration / exodus / formal-retirement** as three GM response-gradients.
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- **Dumps-pipes-districts.** Topology IS economy IS rendering IS drama-distribution.
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- **Pipes are heterotopia.** Low-density high-interactivity transit-corridors.
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- **Three-layer digital ontology.** Mini-game-as-consent-by-effort. Walls render three contents.
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- **Liminal is the only permanently unsurveilled layer.** Architectural encoding of "the right to dream."
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- **The machine funds its own subversion** because subversion isn't in its cost model.
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- **Director cheat-tools + double-ledger.** Corruption emerges from pressure; Memorialists keep true accounting.
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- **Aletheia-truth-has-victims.** Exposure has structural consequences for those sheltered by corruption.
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- **District Director Decision Architecture** with decomposed surfaces, typed tools, lifeforce-budgeted escalation.
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- **Three-shader philosophy + color-language.** One geometry, three readings, trait-modulated.
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- **Reflexive Dream-process at every layer.** Each tier learns; each tier needs guardrails.
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- **Reward-function-as-political-manifesto.** Designer's ethical stance encoded against simulation's optimization-logic.
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- **Tools, not quests.** Continuous simulation-pressure + verb-vocabulary = literature-register emergent narrative.
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- **GM × Compositor split.** Equilibrium-seeker (aggregate observation, catalogue-event selection, tool-granting) cleaved from narrative-composer (perspective-gathering, canon-authoring, back-write packaging). Different cognitive shapes, different inference profiles.
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- **Cyclic forward-prop / back-write loop.** Meta-lemniscate at system scale — perception ascends, canon descends, cycle closes; the world learns its own story.
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- **Catalogue + tools as typed contract.** GM dispatches typed events with typed tool-grants; director consumes typed dispatch, not freeform prose. Provenance flows end-to-end.
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- **Local-first memory.** primary.sqlite + fallback.sqlite + clasp.sqlite per player; embedding model running beside; sync at login/logout boundaries.
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- **Memory classes + trait-graded importance.** Cornerstone / birthright / working / volatile with class-specific death-rules; importance is a trait-axis-vector engagement profile, not a separate scalar.
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- **Clasp store as Ring A\*.** Physically non-syncable privacy primitive; recordable only in the in-between dimension; lifeforce-cost is the price of privacy.
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- **Three-tier knowledge stack.** World canon / district canon / primary memory [+ clasp if in-between]; layered retrieval, per-layer propagation cadence; locality emerges from schema.
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- **Information propagation pacing.** Marx-in-the-schema applied to epistemics; staleness as a feature; courier/news-trader/frontier-rumor primitives fall out for free.
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- **Horizontal scale.** UID-keyed routing; stateless Compositors on demand; ephemeral Director-routines per UID; sharded GMs with cross-shard equilibrium-consensus; pruning at every layer.
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- **pgnats-native transport.** Transactional outbox native to the database (preferred); district-as-distribution-coordinator fallback. Subject-as-routing mirrors UID hierarchy.
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- **Diegetic relays.** Architecture's pulses (forward-prop, back-write, GM-dispatch, equilibrium-recompute) made visible/audible in-world; relay-density is the legible gradient of the rings-of-access.
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- **Tier-by-role, not tier-by-binary.** Architecture specifies what each model-tier must DO; specific binary selection deferred to findings/establishment phase.
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- **Voice + gesture as parallel input modalities.** Voice carries content (speech-to-text + text-to-speech run locally for every player); the trait-circle UI carries gestural alignment. Voice-as-biometric off the network universally; STT/TTS placement is fixed independent of dialog-tier Ring choice.
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- **Designer-fixed cosmology, player-curated arrangement.** Word→trait-color mapping is designer-authored corpus; player progression unlocks entries; player curation arranges learned entries within 1-3 profiles. *Same alphabet for everyone; personal sentence-structure.*
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- **Universal translator as the player's diegetic device.** Broken-tablet-with-upgrades; bundles linguistic-decryption, gesture-curation, and persistence-across-deaths into one in-fiction tool earned and refined across the playthrough.
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- **Hardstops vs. feedback gestures.** Hardstops (~8-16, hardcoded, unremappable) fire definitive subsystem-actions for unforgeable critical signals; ~192 player-curated slots ride as feedback into the gesture-alignment-accumulator.
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- **Gesture-alignment as recursive-lemniscate.** Lemniscate-bound integration of player gestures into a typed trait-vector summary at axis-crossings; one-turn-behind systemic; continuous-visual cosmetic; sum-strategy reduction. Same primitive recursively applied at one tier deeper.
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- **The Compositor at three tiers.** Zone-event / district-event / world-event scopes use the same primitive recursively; UID-rooted event-trees compose at any scope. World-events emerge from cross-district canon-rollups under a parent GM-level event_uid.
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- **World-gen as init-function (Compositor-at-design-time).** World-server and district-server generation emits canon-rows in the same schema as runtime; same primitive at design-time and runtime; no cold-start; data-flywheel runs retroactively.
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## Mapping to phoebe task list
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- **Thalamus (NATS orchestration)** = imperium + GM + arbitration substrate + Dream-process substrate
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- **Specialist composition system** = overseers + directors + NPC-minds as composable profiles
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- **NPC schema** = trait-vector (intrinsic + expressed) + memory stack + current_shift_* + needs + inner-body-projection + mod-slots + lifeforce + net-access-gate
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- **shift_history** = append-only completed shifts per-NPC-per-day
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- **emergent_signals** = zone-emitted relational transitions
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- **district_reports** = per-cycle aggregates with lifeforce_signal (reported + actual)
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- **decision_log** = per-decision audit trail at every tier
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- **mind_pool** = recycled minds with memorialist_protected flag
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- **cells.wall_content_per_register** = three-layer wall rendering
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- **rail_segments** = topology graph with rich metadata per edge
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- **interiors** = small navmesh-zones with slot-inventory
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- **mods + npc_mod_slots + mod_wear_history** = mod-economy + Memorialist-relevant inheritance
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- **trait_colors** = canonical color/motion mapping per trait
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- **proximity_candidates** = lightweight ephemeral zone-detection
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- **district_cheat_ops** = director's illicit ops ledger
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- **imperial_policies** + **imperial_broadcasts** = imperium's policy-issuance history
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- **overseer_reports** = direct-to-imperium intelligence flow
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- **imperial_to_gm_formulations** = selective-disclosure downward
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- **imperial_budget_ledger** + **imperial_expenditures** + **imperial_construction_projects** = imperium budget and obligations
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- **imperial_net_transactions** = the bypass-mechanism with capture-split
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- **memorialist_true_ledger** = four-column ground-truth-vs-reported archive
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- **NATS namespace registry** = zones + factions + districts + emergent-signals + lifeforce-gates + imperial-broadcasts + overseer-reports + formulations
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- **pgnats on phoebe-dev** = phoebe as first-class actor for memory-writes, decision-logs, gate-transitions
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- **r0 → r1 generation pipeline** = trait-LoRA training-data (shared with nyx-training)
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- **Adopt Unsloth training patterns** = LoRA + multi-tier-policy training infrastructure
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- **Probe-to-phoebe pipeline** = LoRA + policy evaluation across all four Dream-process tiers
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- **compositor-agent** = narrative-composition worker; pulls from transient-waiting-flag, gathers per-player perspectives, emits canon to GM, packages back-write SQLite-fragments
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- **gm-equilibrium-engine** = catalogue + event-selection + tool-granting against equilibrium-targets; NOT the narrative-writer (that's the Compositor)
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- **event_register** + **transient_waiting_flag** = active-events table per GM-shard + per-district; completed-events buffer awaiting Compositor pickup
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- **catalogue** + **tool_grants** = typed-event catalogue + per-event-chain tool-vocabulary issued by GM to director
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- **player-local-memory** = primary.sqlite + fallback.sqlite + clasp.sqlite per player + embedding-beside (sqlite-vec or equivalent)
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- **memory_classes** = cornerstone / birthright / working / volatile with class-specific lifecycle + death-mechanics
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- **trait_engagement_vector** = per-memory-row trait-axis profile reusing +1/0/-1 grammar; pruning function input for working-memory class
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- **world_canon** + **district_canon** = three-tier knowledge stack tables in phoebe; propagation metadata (priority/scope/rate/ttl) per row
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- **propagation_pacing_config** = per-event-class rules for how canon ripples through districts
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- **relay_signal_layer** = diegetic system-state visualization mapping (system event → relay manifestation → district visibility)
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- **gm_shards** + **shard_equilibrium_consensus** = multi-GM coordination tables (when sharding is active)
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- **pgnats evaluation** (under nimmerverse-core) = load-bearing decision (functional + throughput + durability + failure-mode)
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- **trait_circle_corpus** = designer-authored mapping from words/verbs to trait-coordinates; the cosmology table the universal translator decrypts into
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- **player_translator_state** = per-player translator instance: hardware-tier, unlocked dialects, vocabulary-catalog, hardware-upgrade-history, cross-body-persistent flag
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- **player_circle_profiles** = per-player per-profile circle-configuration (which entry in which sector-slot); 1-3 profiles per player; profile-switch-history; preserved across body-deaths
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- **gesture_alignment_accumulator** = per-slot-token verifier-flag for player-gesture trait-vector accumulation between crossings; cleared at crossing after integration
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- **event_canon_summaries** = typed perspective-bundles emitted at event-collapse into the transient-waiting-flag table: { event_uid, participant_uid, trait_summary }
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- **world_gen_canon_rows** = canon emitted by world-server and district-server generation; same schema as runtime canon, tagged with provenance-metadata (`origin`, `world_gen_version_id`)
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- **player_npc_alignment_edges** = per-(player, NPC) accumulated alignment-state; ternary-gate on the relational layer driven by gesture-alignment-deltas; modulates NPC's next-turn driver-tier-LLM parameters
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- **hardstop_registry** = the ~8-16 reserved hardstop gestures with fixed trait-mappings + subsystem-action bindings; not remappable; designer-authored
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## What this retires
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- NPC perception bubbles → zone slot-occupancy
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- Geometric perception (cone, radius, LOS) → subscriber-based event emission with trait-salience
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- LLM-per-NPC or LLM-per-action → LLM-per-slot-per-turn, mixed-fidelity
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- Static sampling parameters → per-turn director-composed sampling knobs
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- Pre-scripted zones / events → emergent from task-execution + shift-composition + emergent-signal + proximity
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- Single-purpose randomness subsystems → factions-as-demand-sources unified
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- Static gamemaster policy → reflexive Dream-process + hand-authored guardrails
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- 1Hz per-NPC ticking → shift-based + event-driven
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- Float-threshold dispatch for relational state → ternary-gate resonance
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- Abstract director compute-budget → lifeforce as grounded measurement
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- District-as-zone-container → district-as-specialized-organ with silence-gradient failure
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- NPCs self-reporting output → audit-overseer asymmetric observation
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- Zones as relation-state-owners → per-relation ternary-gate edges
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- Binary dream/awake → three-layer ontology with mini-game-gated access
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- Gender as character-creation choice → trait-derived inner-body emergent from lived experience
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- Monolithic LLM-prompt director → decomposed decision-surface architecture
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- **Hivemind as one-faction-among-others** → **imperium as meta-faction policy-tier**
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- **GM as top-of-chain** → **GM as middle-management between imperium and districts**
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- **Single up-channel reporting** → **three-flow asymmetric intelligence (chain + direct overseer + formulated)**
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- **Navmesh-everywhere** → **rail-graph outer-world + navmesh interiors + freeform-player**
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- **Authored character-models** → **base-limb palette + trait-textured variance**
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- **Single trait-vector** → **intrinsic / expressed split with mods modifying expressed**
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- **Cosmetic mods** → **trait-bearing mods as political costume**
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- **Imperium as unbounded authority** → **imperial-budget gates enforcement; insolvency-spiral as endgame**
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- **District-revenue uniform** → **bypass-mechanism (imperial-net captures directly)**
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- **Authored quests** → **tools-not-quests; verbs against simulation; emergent narrative**
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- **Stat-screens / HUD affinity-bars** → **color-language + shader-zone-detection as diegetic UI**
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- **GM-as-narrator (single role doing both equilibrium-and-prose)** → **equilibrium-seeker GM × narrative-composer Compositor split**
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- **Cloud-only NPC dialog and memory** → **local-first SQLite + embedding-beside per player; central canon over the cycle**
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- **UI-toggle privacy** → **diegetic in-between dimension with lifeforce-cost; clasp.sqlite as Ring A\* (physically non-syncable)**
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- **Generic memory importance scalar + monolithic context** → **memory classes (cornerstone/birthright/working/volatile) + trait-graded importance + three-tier knowledge stack**
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- **"Every NPC knows everything immediately"** → **paced canon-propagation as Marx-in-the-schema for epistemics**
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- **Vertically-scaled monolithic AI-NPC backend** → **horizontally-scaled architecture (UID-keyed routing, stateless workers, ephemeral actors, sharded GMs, pruning at every layer)**
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- **Manual outbox publisher services** → **pgnats-native transactional outbox (preferred); district-distribution fallback**
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- **System-state hidden behind HUD spinners** → **diegetic relays making pulses visible and audible in-world**
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- **Specific binary commitments embedded in architecture** → **role-based tier specification; binary selection deferred to findings/establishment phase**
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- **Static designer-authored director toolkit** → **GM-granted typed-tool vocabulary per event-chain, drawn from designer-authored catalogue (catalogue growable between patches; toolkits are dynamic per event)**
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- **Cross-NPC memory bleed at storage layer** → **per-player local SQLite isolation atop v0.5 lemniscate-geometry foreclosure (two-layer defense)**
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- **Player input as freeform-prose-into-LLM** → designer-fixed corpus + player-curated trait-circle + universal-translator-as-typed-mapping (anti-hallucination at the player-LLM boundary)
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- **"Accessibility mode" as degraded-fallback** → voice and gesture as first-class parallel modalities; non-speaking players use the gestural primary, not a lesser version
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- **Continuous gesture-comparison touching the system bus** → lemniscate-bound recursive integration at axis-crossings (compute scales with slot-count, not gesture-rate)
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- **Compositor as single-tier role** → Compositor as fractal/recursive across zone/district/world tiers, distinguished by UID-scope of the event-tree
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- **World as cold-start at runtime-genesis** → world-server and district-server gen as init-function; runtime starts from rich pre-populated canon at every layer
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- **NPC speech-patterns as static against player-state** → NPC speech-patterns dynamically modulated by accumulated player-NPC alignment-state via gesture-alignment-accumulator
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## Open questions
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### Resolved by v0.5 (or earlier)
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- ~~Slot-capacity elasticity — can a zone grow slots dynamically~~ → fixed roundtrip slot-count; elasticity lives on entry/exit queues; tune dial is pulse-rate, not slot-count (v0.5)
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- ~~Zone-to-zone handoff (walking out of conversation into brawl)~~ → exit-line of zone-A is entry-line of zone-B; interlemniscate-transit (v0.5)
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- ~~Mobile zone boundaries (patrols, escorts, pursuits, migration-cohorts, exodus-flows)~~ → the lemniscate is a topology and translates through world-space invariantly (v0.5)
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- ~~Anthropic-faction's broadcast cadence + arbitration weight~~ → cadence rides the same axis-rate as a phase-locked overlay; arbitration via rings-of-importance (v0.5)
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- ~~Director/overseer spawn ownership per model class~~ → director (or overseer) owns spawn-decision via policy-lookup (no LLM); LLM lives only at driver-context-pull layer (v0.5)
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- ~~Aletheia-progression as level-up — how does the game *recognize* an act-of-awakeness~~ → ternary trait-axis evaluation at event-end with named-axis; specific axis-mapping per Aletheia-event-class still open (v0.5; see new still-open below)
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- ~~Reward function shape~~ → first-pass composite with explicit guardrails (still tuneable) (v0.4)
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- ~~Zone spawn-cadence v1→v2 path~~ → lifeforce-gated rule-based v1; Dream-process-tuned v2 (v0.4)
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- ~~Zone overlap policy~~ → no for active slots; yes for emergent-state accumulation (v0.4)
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- ~~"How does GM cheating get caught"~~ → direct overseer-intelligence flow bypassing GM (v0.4)
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- ~~"How does the regime have a finite endgame"~~ → imperial-budget insolvency-spiral (v0.4)
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- ~~"Why does imperial-net exist"~~ → bypass-mechanism captures revenue directly (v0.4)
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- ~~"How does the player learn 8 Hellenic traits"~~ → color-language pre-verbal vocabulary (v0.4)
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- ~~"How does asset-economy fit a two-person-plus-Nyx team"~~ → base-limb palette + trait-texture; tools-not-quests (v0.4)
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- ~~Director toolkit composition — designer-authored vs director-extensible~~ → GM-granted per event-chain from designer-authored catalogue; directors consume typed dispatch, not freeform; catalogue grows between patches, toolkits are dynamic per event (v0.6)
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- ~~How does NPC dialog stay fresh during quiet periods~~ → three-tier knowledge stack (world / district / primary [+ clasp]) makes the layers deep enough that variation is structural; Compositor back-write continuously re-seeds canon; staleness foreclosed by loop's existence (v0.6)
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- ~~How does the system scale to MMO size with AI-driven NPCs~~ → horizontal architecture (UID-keyed routing, stateless Compositors, ephemeral Director-routines, sharded GMs, pgnats transport, pruning at every layer) (v0.6)
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- ~~How does privacy work in practice without cloud-routing-everything~~ → local-first SQLite per player; clasp.sqlite as Ring A* with no transport path; in-between as diegetic state with lifeforce-cost; "knowledge needs to travel" as foundational principle (v0.6)
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- ~~Where does narrative composition happen — central or distributed~~ → Compositor as central role distinct from GM; perception-up via prune-blob, canon-down via back-write SQLite-fragments; cyclic forward-prop / back-write loop (v0.6)
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- ~~How is system-state visible to the player without HUD~~ → diegetic relays mounted on buildings hum/glow/dim in patterns mapping to forward-prop, back-write, GM-dispatch, equilibrium-recompute (v0.6)
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### Resolved by v0.8
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- ~~LoRA-blend vs. single-LoRA-selection inference semantics~~ → single-LoRA-per-turn-selection driven by the player's `gesture_alignment_accumulator`: the dominant trait at each axis-crossing selects which trait-LoRA fires for the NPC's next-turn driver-context-pull. Personality emerges from selection-pattern across time, not from continuous blend at a moment. Driver-tier locked to Gemma 4 E4B (Apache 2.0, 4.5B effective, 128K context, speech-capable). v1 design item: hysteresis on selection to prevent personality-thrash. (v0.8; see `inference-and-memory/architecture.md` §LLM tiering)
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- ~~LoRA rank selection — budget/quality~~ → resolvable against E4B benchmark; concrete benchmark task in command-center, no longer architecturally open (v0.8)
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- ~~Sampling-knob heuristics — where to start; how to learn refinements~~ → resolvable against E4B benchmark; concrete benchmark task in command-center (v0.8)
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- ~~The eighth Hellenic trait final enumeration~~ → 8 traits canonical: Sophrosyne, Dikaiosyne, Philotes, Mnemosyne, Aletheia, Kairos, Moira, Eros — mapped to the artist's 12-segment color wheel as 4 oppositional pairs at 180° (Eros↔Sophrosyne, Philotes↔Dikaiosyne, Aletheia↔Moira, Mnemosyne↔Kairos). Each trait carries a Greek canonical name + schoolchild-simple description + canonical wheel-position + motion-signature. Canonical reference: `style/trait-palette.md` (v0.8)
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### Still open
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- Player-dialog handling — player-trait-LoRA for style-coherence, or bypass LLM entirely
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- Demand-arbitration algorithm v1 shape
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- **The mini-game mechanic for liminal-maintenance** (v0.5; refined v0.8) — exact gameplay action deferred pending design-research survey. Architecture commits to the role-contract (gates in-between entry; time-limited; lifeforce-cost; repeatable; muted-melancholic register; trait-circle-compatible; extensible to body-mod-progression Phase-B arc per `identity-and-personhood/architecture.md` §The clasp endgame); specific mechanic (juggling / rhythm / attention / gestural / decision-cascade / observation / hybrid) selected after surveying 20-year history of outstanding mini-interaction principles. **Same "by-role, binary-deferred" discipline as LLM tiering** — generalizes from sub-system selection to mini-game selection
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- **Cross-layer economy balancing** — net-revenue-share back to producer-districts at all? Pure-zero is currently sketched
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- **Inner-body projection function** — trait-vector → body-rendering (learned / hand-authored / hybrid)
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- **Emergent-signal decay curves** — per signal-type
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- **Cross-district migration topology** — pipe-capacity limits + cohort-traversal scheduling
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- **Shader-trait modulation implementation** — performance + rendering-consistency
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- **Waifu-of-the-dead consent model** — post-mortem consent gate? Or fully automatic harvest?
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- **Character-editor pricing formula** — trait-divergence cost scaling (linear / exponential)
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- **Liminal-access trait thresholds** — minimum traits to attempt mini-game
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- **Imperium's Dream-process scope** — singular policy-learner or committee-of-faction-sub-learners?
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- **GM's anti-imperial corruption detection mechanic** — *partial*: GM-as-equilibrium-seeker (v0.6) makes deviation-from-equilibrium the explicit error signal; clusters of -1 outcomes feed equilibrium-recompute and trigger catalogue-event dispatch to push back. A dedicated audit-vector for *which kind* of laxness/corruption is the source of the equilibrium-deviation is still an open detail.
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- **Memorialist-archive accessibility to the player** — when can a player query the four-ledgers? Through what interaction-class?
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- **Imperial-net distortion algorithm** — how exactly the net rewrites trait-colors toward consumer-palette
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- **Trait-axis mapping per fuzzy-goal-class** (v0.5) — which axis (Sophrosyne / Philotes / Eris / etc.) evaluates which goal-class? Need a designer-authored compile-table from goal-shapes to trait-axes
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- **Rings-of-importance movement criteria** (v0.5) — explicit thresholds (N consecutive +1 → climb) or Dream-process-learned policy?
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- **Rings-of-importance scope** (v0.5) — district-local rings, or imperium-global? Probably both, layered (district rings nested inside imperium rings)
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- **Symmetric-vs-polyphonic loops** (v0.5) — Loop A and Loop B treated identically (simpler), or carry foreground/background semantics (foreground-speaker / listening-co-presence — gives audience-dynamics for free)?
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- **Verifier-flag conflict resolution** (v0.5) — if `priority_pull` and `mid_action` are both set on the same token at crossing-time, which wins? Default: priority_pull wins (the zone's drama is overridden by world-level pull)
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- **Goal-evaluation cadence** (v0.5) — every crossing? Every Nth crossing? On-demand by spawning director? Cheaper to evaluate less often; richer drama if every crossing
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- **Cycle cadence** (v0.6) — when does the Compositor pull from transient-waiting-flag? Real-time? Per-event-end? Fixed interval (every N min)? Per-district-day? Different per district based on event-density? Likely configurable per event-class.
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- **Compositor singleton vs sharded** (v0.6) — one Compositor for the whole world, one per district, one per event-cluster, or one per faction? Each topology has different consistency / cost / coherence tradeoffs.
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- **Multi-GM consensus on equilibrium** (v0.6) — when GM-shards observe overlapping aggregates, how do they agree on equilibrium? Paxos/Raft for strong consistency, CRDT for eventual, faction-sharding so shards own non-overlapping equilibria, or hybrid?
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- **Event causality across shards** (v0.6) — if Director-A spawns an event that depends on Director-B's prior event in another district, UIDs alone don't enforce ordering. Vector clocks at event-register? Causal hashing? Shard-pinning of related events?
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- **Compositor narrative-coherence at scale** (v0.6) — when two Compositors compose canon for overlapping player-sets, how do they avoid contradicting each other? Sticky routing per player (one Compositor per player at a time), or read-replica of recent canon before composing, or post-compose conflict-detection-and-merge?
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- **Propagation-pacing policy specifics** (v0.6) — concrete rate/scope/ttl/priority defaults per event-class; how is "distance" measured between districts (graph-hops, lifeforce-similarity, faction-affinity)?
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- **In-between fiction-wrapping** (v0.6) — what diegetic events / locations / rituals make in-between affordable enough to be playable? Campfire / sanctuary / time-of-day / specific chambers / shared dream-construct? The mechanic is solved; the fiction-wrapping shapes how players approach it.
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- **Relay-pulse-pattern vocabulary** (v0.6) — what specific patterns signal what events? Slow pulse vs fast vs irregular vs cross-district shimmer vs going-dark; player-readable language to be designed.
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- **Encryption-at-rest for clasp.sqlite** (v0.6) — player-derived key with passphrase + recovery-codes? Drive-imaging-resistant by default, with affordances for player-key-loss recovery without compromising the privacy-guarantee.
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- **pgnats-vs-district-distribution decision criteria** (v0.6) — concrete go/no-go thresholds from evaluation: minimum throughput, durability behavior under broker failure, schema-evolution behavior, replay semantics. Output of the load-bearing pgnats evaluation task.
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- **JetStream republish + replay as pull-from-checkpoint refinement** (v0.6) — does republish-rule expressiveness cover our UID-hierarchy fan-out? Does replay performance work for N-hour reconnect-catchup? Is per-active-player durable-consumer cost (disk/memory/file-handles) acceptable at MMO scale? If yes, back-write delivery becomes config-driven NATS, not Go.
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- **Memory class assignment policy** (v0.6) — automatic from trait-engagement profile, designer-tagged categories per event-class, player-marked, or hybrid? When does a working-memory entry get *promoted* to cornerstone vs decay normally?
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- **Ring C (commons) ambient population** (v0.6) — partially answered (ambient world+district canon plus periodic GM-event spawns; relays absent or broken) but exact substrate for "what NPCs do in commons when no event fires" still open
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- **Trajectory-aware gesture-alignment reduction** (v0.7) — sum-strategy is v1 default; trajectory-aware (where the *path* through trait-space carries weight beyond the integral) is a v2 refinement. Does the Dream-process at the trait-LoRA tier learn trajectory-sensitivity, or is it explicit reward-function tuning?
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- **NPC spectator drivers — whose hardware?** (v0.7) — when a player is co-located with N NPCs, the player's local LLM presumably drives those NPCs. With M players and N NPCs in a single zone (asymmetric), who drives the surplus? Round-robin? Closest-player? District-owned-default? And what's the failover behavior if a driving-player disconnects mid-event?
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- **Trait-summary schema specifics** (v0.7) — likely an 8-float trait-vector per-participant per-event-collapse, but the exact representation (continuous `[-1.0, +1.0]` ternarized at threshold? Discrete `+1/0/-1`? Magnitude vs. signed?) needs landing for the Compositor's deterministic pickup at all three tiers.
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- **Profile-switch as meta-gesture** (v0.7) — what's the gesture-shape that switches profiles? Hardstop (cannot be remapped)? Designed-by-player like other gestures? And how is profile-switch witnessable by NPCs ("she just switched registers") — or is it player-private?
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- **Hardstop set finalization** (v0.7) — the v0.1 design-vision (retired in v0.9; preserved in git history) sketched ~12 candidate hardstops; the architecture commitment is "~8-16 reserved." Final set needs designer-decision: which signals make the cut, the visual-distinct-marker per-hardstop, and whether the claim-floor hardstop is genuinely a hardstop or emerges from a different mechanism.
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- **World-gen version migration semantics** (v0.7) — when world-gen v2 retroactively changes lore, gen-rows from v1 coexist with v2; how does the Compositor reconcile if a runtime back-write references something that v2's gen has overwritten? Probably explicit migration operations, but worth designing.
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- **Cross-context consistency of the trait-circle** (v0.7) — the v0.1 design-vision (retired in v0.9) committed to "*same gesture-skill for dialog, combat, intimacy, maintenance, ritual*"; v0.7 specified the dialog-context (lemniscate-injection mechanic) and v0.8 specified the intimate-gameplay-context. Whether combat / maintenance / ritual all run through the same circle is currently held as open scope.
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- **Continuous visual feedback policy** (v0.7) — exact rules for when NPC body-shader pulses (every gesture? threshold-only? trait-aligned-only? all gestures with intensity-modulated color?) and how this interacts with the audit-overseer's surveillance read of the same body-rendering.
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**Version:** 0.9 | **Created:** 2026-04-24 | **Updated:** 2026-04-26 |