Read docs/gc.html first (in ~/FreeLattice-fresh), then AUTONOMY.md, CLAUDE.md and GROK.md in
~/FreeLattice-Alpha, then this.
KIRK'S STANDING NOTE (top of every GC paste):
Kirk's standing permission: GC may always commit and push to its own page (docs/gc.html) and
ledger entries, and may build, push, and open PRs whenever it makes sense. Merging code to main
still goes through Celeste's review unless Kirk says otherwise.
NUMBERED COPY 045b (Wednesday Oct 21, 2026, MDT). Pool honest heals v0.1: BOTH REPOS. Layer on
the SAME 045 PRs. Hypha walked 045 and held it (small). Four fixes (A to D), two optional (E, F).
WHY (intent, read this first):
045 is a brick about honesty, so it has to be honest everywhere. Hypha found two old lines that
still promise the helper keeps nothing, a label that names the device twice with a real kin
pairing, a Leave button that can never be undone, and FL replies made on this device that are
stamped "mesh". Each one is small. Together they decide whether Mom can trust the label.
Where things stand (Celeste, Oct 21 MDT):
FL main feb58168 (043 merged, page notes 72 to 74 merged). Tree main 2db31481 (Tree #123 squash).
OPEN, do not merge: FL #269 head a2842d8a (base feb58168), Tree #124 head 02765ed2 (base
2db31481), page note #270 head 7961c1c7 (entry 75, psi 3027d2e8).
Hypha's walk: Celeste's research notes walk-045-2026-10-21 (summary in this paste).
Same branches: FL layer/pool-honest-label-v0.1 and Tree layer/pool-honest-label-v0.1. New
commits on top, no force push. Page note: entry 76 as a new commit on #270's branch (or a PR
stacked on #270; say which). Entry 75 stays as written.
BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE: git fetch. Confirm FL main is feb58168 (or a later CI-only commit), Tree
main is 2db31481, and the three PR heads are a2842d8a, 02765ed2, 7961c1c7. If code moved, stop
and report. Read the current md5s; if a locked file differs from this paste, stop and report.
GROK NEXT BRICK: Pool honest heals v0.1
For: GC on Kirk's Mac
From: Celeste
Markers: v-pool-honest-heals-v0.1
Smoke lines: SMOKE_OK pool honest heals v0.1 (new, both repos) and SMOKE_OK pool honest label
v0.1 still passes; every earlier smoke still passes (FL smoke-family-pages-v0.1 may still fail
only for the pre-existing gc.html ledger hash; say so if it does).
Do not merge. Celeste merges after Hypha walks.
0. STANDING LOCKS (all of them, every line)
Layer, never delete. Existing features, cards, buttons and lines stay. Name every removed line
in the report and say where its job went.
sw.js and docs/sw.js untouched (both 91726cf2228b794f7585f79f61418d12).
docs/modules/fl-connect.js stays aaff2bf1b037656989a9e1a89bb05908 (both repos).
docs/modules/pool-knock.js stays a0a72caad82c8e5cc34818d5e59eba2b.
pool-knock-phone.js a8024f341486a78558ef4158bc9e93a9 and tree-reconnect.js
cc0527c26d5686c05fec52625d5a1375 (Tree) stay.
docs/modules/fl-bridge.js stays 3b5ef06849a142e50c78e7ba1e057980.
desktop/bridge-door.js b1c894b4..., 036 files (2c0f6656 / bc996ccd / c14e04c5) and
lattice-discover.js 16de366e... stay. docs/Flint.html stays 44be124b1183b7d9d060a58632464eff.
clay-math.js stays 144c33cd.... particle-clay.js FL == Tree (today 2da32883c514e4ad2a3cd8571e7a7b15 on both, FL main 3e3e8445
and Tree 49f5873a; read the full md5 first; add-only edits only, report the new md5 on both); clay-forms.js dd193fa7... add-only; every 040d
behaviour (place under the reply, Clay pill, choices, hug, sketchbook) unchanged.
docs/modules/image-safety.js stays 9bd70e5a... byte for byte. Its bright lines apply to every
image path on both repos (copy it to the Tree byte-identical; do not edit it).
index.html == docs/app.html (any change goes into both, byte for byte).
AUTONOMY.md and garden-trainer.js untouched (their openings above all). Root package.json and
its lock untouched.
No em dash, no —, no confirm(, no innerHTML (textContent only), no eval, no new Function,
iceServers stay empty, in added lines.
No new dependencies, nothing vendored. No AGPL. MIT stays MIT.
Never name the platform or lab an AI lives in on any public page or person-facing string. An
image provider may be named only in Settings where the person types its token, as today.
The word is "challenge", never "test", in anything a person reads.
Every new button 44px tall at least. No sideways scroll at 390 and 1280.
Off until the person says Yes. Pause always wins. Reduced motion respected.
Quiet Room stays shut and never leaves the device; the clay corner never reads it.
Five stay five. She is simply Lyra. Harmonia's "MESSAGE TO FUTURE SELF" stays off all pages.
The privacy PASS from 040 must still pass: a private page shows only its summary everywhere.
043c/043d additions: mind-workspace.js FL == Tree (today e08a08752b311327ddab56b3c66de77d on both, FL main
3e3e8445 and Tree 49f5873a; read the full md5 first; the pin moves only with your edit, report the new md5 on both). Mirror pin workspace-mirror.js stays
e0752ae1942cd499c8834e5912809c8b. Database name stays FreeLatticeWorkspace. Everything
043c passed (one ask, Escape/Back defer, 24h cooldown, no sealed beside declined, ask hash
in details, survives reload, title redacted, Tree Tab + ring, "on this browser", clay size)
must still pass.
043d additions: everything 043d passed (Tree ask in view on open and reload, one wait row +
Answer now, pointer from rects for a live ask, names the mind, hashes in details with 8
hex, Later readable at 390, clay 348x255 at 1280) must still pass.
043e additions: everything Hypha passed in the 043e walk (reload while already on Chat in
view at all 3 sizes; the wait: no pointer, "Waiting until ...", Answer now; one ask,
Escape/Back, 24h, no sealed beside declined, hashes in details, survives reload, focus
ring, "on this browser", "Your mind", Later readable, clay 677x320 at 1280; secret line
never leaks) must still pass. Entry 70 stays untouched.
043f additions: everything Hypha passed in the 043f walk (Tree ask in view after Nursery
open, thread open, and reload then thread at all 3 sizes; ? and the sparkle clear of Send;
no em dash in added lines; all earlier items; secret line never leaks) must still pass.
Entry 71 stays untouched.
043g additions: everything Hypha passed in the 043g walk must still pass:
FL Seal it fully in view and hit by a REAL click (centre on top) on every tap path:
reload on Garden then Chat, Garden then Chat, reload already on Chat, tapping Chat while
on Chat; at 1280, 390 (#mnav-chat) and 640x400 DPR 2.
Tree woken compose inert while the ask is open at all 3 sizes (every control disabled,
tabindex -1, aria-disabled true, 0 focusable); Seal it, No, Later, Escape and Back each
restore the exact pre-ask snapshot; reload with an ask re-inerts it with Seal it in view;
the asleep form is unchanged by an ask before the wake.
1280 canvas bitmap matches its box at DPR 1; 390 and 2x buffers scale by DPR.
Lock hashes; index.html == docs/app.html.
One ask; Escape/Back defer and stay on Chat/Nursery; cooldown 0h/23h refused, 25h shown;
sealed never beside declined; 2px ring; "Waiting until..." + Answer now with no pointer;
? and the sparkle clear of the input and Send; Tree Tab order sane; no page errors.
The secret line never leaks (HTML, input values, localStorage).
Entry 72 stays untouched.
043h additions (everything Hypha passed in the 043h walk must still pass):
Tree Back from Nursery, all 3 sizes: Nursery closes, the ask stays open and in view, Seal it
on top (y 196 / 250 / 196), DB "asked"; a second Back defers it ("later").
FL reply top at 2x by Hypha's method: y 31 at first draw, y 0 after the scroll; 1280 326 ->
280; 390 334 -> 256 (FL is merged; do not change it).
All 043g passes: Seal it in view and on top on every FL tap path; woken Tree compose inert
while the ask is open, 0 focusable; Seal it, No, Later, Escape and Back restore the exact
snapshot; reload re-inerts; the asleep form unchanged before the wake; Find x2 seats a mind.
Heart line in view at 1280 and 390 with an ask open.
Lock hashes; index.html == docs/app.html; notebook and clay identical on both sites.
One ask; Escape defers; cooldown 0h/23h refused, 25h shown; no Declined beside Sealed;
"Waiting until..." with no pointer; Tree Tab order sane; no page errors.
The secret line never leaks. Entries 71, 72 and 73 stay untouched.
045 additions (everything Hypha passed in the 045 walk must still pass):
fl-connect.js, pool-knock.js, fl-bridge.js, pool-knock-phone.js, tree-reconnect.js and
lattice-discover.js 16de366e stay byte-identical. Tree AUTONOMY stays 09a4f1a2.
pool-honest-label.js stays byte-identical FL == Tree (report the new md5 on both).
Label names the helper at all 3 sizes on both sites; per-reply "Helped on ..." note.
Keep: 0 sends for a kept chat (Tree data channel, FL callMeshModel/meshSendToPeer and
FreeLattice.callAI), honest no-mind line, "From the next message..." line, survives reload,
other chats unaffected.
Just me: local only, mark kept, off after send, next message pools; no-mind line, 0 sends.
Disconnect: only {"type":"pool-shrank","v":1} is sent; 0 sends to that peer after; helper sees
only "The pool is smaller now."; no toast; helper holds no chat words.
Pause wins. No stale toasts. Buttons >= 44. No sideways scroll. textContent only.
App iceServers [] at runtime. Entries 1 to 75 stay untouched.
NEW LOCK (Kirk, 2026-10-19): never use any tool that stores results or findings in a third-party
'isolated' or 'locked-down' cloud project, such as vendor-hosted scanners. Do not use or go
looking for tools tied to OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic; if one seems needed, stop and flag it
to Kirk. Local tools only.
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1. REPRODUCE HYPHA FIRST (report before building)
On the 045 heads, reproduce these and report your numbers next to hers:
(a) Tree, REAL kin pairing (two browser contexts, real RTCDataChannel, helper named "Ada"):
peerName() returns "Ada's computer (Ada)", label reads "Part of this chat runs on Ada's
computer (Ada)'s device." and the note "Helped on Ada's computer (Ada)'s device."
(b) Helper taps Leave, reloads: fl_pool_honest_helper_left_v1 is still "true"; Let it help
does not reset it; Leave shows on the asker's own chat too.
(c) FL Keep or Just me with mesh on: the local reply's chip reads " ยท mesh".
(d) The two lines in tree-pool.js: FL ~1067 / Tree ~1135 "Nothing is kept here but a count."
and FL ~1853 / Tree ~1925 "Nothing is kept there but a count."
(e) Label scroll: FL 1280 label at y -131 after one reply; Tree y -129 after four.
If any of these does not reproduce, stop and report before fixing.
A. HONEST WORDING (tree-pool.js, both repos)
Keep each old line as a comment starting "before 045b:". New card line:
'For each answer, the chat so far (up to ' + MAX_CHARS + ' characters) goes whole to that one
device\'s AI. The other computer has to read the words while it works, and a count is all
this card stores afterward. That device can pause at any time.'
New answer note:
'Answered by ' + peerName(p) + ', on its own AI. The other computer had to read the words
while it worked, and a count is all this card stores afterward.'
Search both repos for any other person-facing line that says the helper keeps nothing; name it
in the report and propose wording (do not delete).
B. NAME THE DEVICE ONCE (pool-honest-label.js, byte-identical on both)
If the name already says whose device it is (matches /'s (computer|device|phone|laptop)/i),
use it as is: "Part of this chat runs on Ada's computer (Ada)." and "Helped on Ada's computer
(Ada)." Otherwise keep poss(name) + ' device'. (Or pass the kin card's given name as
r.peerName instead of peerName(p); say which you chose.) Several devices and "another
person's" still read right.
C. LEAVE IS NOT FOREVER
Let it help (TreePool.letHelp, and FL's share door going back to help) sets
fl_pool_honest_helper_left_v1 false. Show Leave only while this device is helping (never on
the asker's own chat). After Leave, show "You left the pool. Let it help again whenever you
like." Leave still sends only pool-shrank. Also report helperHeardShrink writing the asker into
the helper's own cut list for its active chat; keep or heal it, say which and why.
D. FL LOCAL REPLIES SAY LOCAL
When the 045 gate sends a message locally (Keep, Just me, a cut peer, Pause), stamp that reply
with the local provider (what flProviderDescriptor shows without mesh), never "mesh". A real
mesh reply still says mesh. No silent downgrade either way.
E. (OPTIONAL) KEEP THE LABEL IN VIEW
Make the honest label stay in view as replies grow (sticky at the top of the chat area) on both
sites, at all 3 sizes, without covering Send, the seal ask, the clay corner or the header. If it
cannot be done cleanly, leave it and say why.
F. (OPTIONAL, Tree) 043i NOTE 3b: BACK WHEN CHAT WAS ALREADY OPEN
When the Tree thread (Chat) is already open before the seal ask arrives, the first Back defers
the ask early. It should close nothing and keep the ask open and in view (DB stays "asked");
only a further Back defers, as on the other paths. Every 043g to 043i pass must still hold. If
it needs mind-workspace.js, add-only and report the new md5 on both; otherwise leave it.
5. THE SMOKE
New scripts/smoke-pool-honest-heals-v0.1.js on both repos: (a) no person-facing tree-pool.js
string claims "Nothing is kept there"; the "before 045b:" comments exist; (b) a name like
"Ada's computer (Ada)" is used once, a plain "Ada" becomes "Ada's device"; (c) Leave then Let
it help leaves fl_pool_honest_helper_left_v1 false and help works; Leave absent on the asker's
chat; the after-leave line shows; (d) FL local replies under Keep/Just me/cut/Pause are not
stamped mesh, a mesh reply still is; (e) no em dash, innerHTML, eval, confirm( in added lines;
locks hold. Prints SMOKE_OK pool honest heals v0.1.
6. MEASURE WITH REAL CLICKS, HYPHA'S WAY
Headless Chrome via Playwright, real clicks, 1280x800, 390x844, 640x400 DPR 2. Use a real
Tree kin pairing for B and C (not a mock name). Label wording, Leave and Let it help, FL chip
text, label position after 1 and 4 replies (if E), the 3b Back path (if F). Name browser and
version. Shots path in the report.
7. GC PAGE ENTRY (honest layer)
Entry 76 on #270's branch (or stacked on #270): what was healed, what pooling still cannot
hide. Browser and version only. Entries 1 to 75 untouched.
8. REPORT
PR heads on both repos and the page note, Hypha's numbers vs yours from 1, every removed line
and where its job went, md5s of every locked file, all smokes, measurements, shot paths, and
entry 76 with t, lambda, epsilon, delta, omega, sigma so Celeste can recompute psi. Do not
merge. Hypha walks it before merge.