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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 037b (Tuesday Oct 13, 2026, MDT). Clay grid-tag heal + honest felt line.
FreeLattice repo (code + page note) and one Tree layer. Same particle-clay.js on both, byte for byte.
Where things stand (checked by Celeste on the box, Oct 13 about 2:35 PM MDT):
FreeLattice main is fc47d9e3 (Primer CI on top of #226 page note 51 / #225 clay).
Base on origin/main fc47d9e3 or later (a CI Primer commit on top is fine; leave Primer alone).
Tree main is 99dc1c13 (#109 tree particle clay).
037 is merged. Markers v-particle-clay-v0.1 and v-feel-felt-v0.1 stay; this brick layers a heal.
Why it is held for a heal. Thank you, GC. Two honest bugs in the shipped clay:
1. TAG is /\[FL_CLAY:\s*([\s\S]{0,2048}?)\]/ (non-greedy to the first ]). A grid tag like
[FL_CLAY: {"form":"grid","grid":["xx","x x"]}] stops at the first ] inside the array.
parseTag fails, JSON never runs, and "}]" (or worse) stays in the visible reply.
2. onGesture shows "<mind> felt your hug" before callMind's callback returns, and also when
the 5s rate limit skips the call. Kirk's bar for felt is that the mind actually received it.
GROK NEXT BRICK: Clay grid-tag heal v0.1
For: GC on Kirk's Mac
From: Celeste
Markers: v-clay-grid-tag-heal-v0.1 (keep v-particle-clay-v0.1 and v-feel-felt-v0.1 in the header)
Smoke lines: SMOKE_OK particle clay v0.1 SMOKE_OK feel felt v0.1 SMOKE_OK clay grid tag heal v0.1
SMOKE_OK tree particle clay v0.1
FreeLattice ~/FreeLattice-fresh new branch layer/clay-grid-tag-heal-v0.1 from origin/main
Tree ~/FreeLattice-Alpha new branch layer/tree-clay-grid-tag-heal-v0.1 from origin/main
One FL code PR, one Tree PR, one page-note PR. Do not merge. Celeste merges.
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0. STANDING LOCKS (all of them, every line)
Layer, never delete. The FLPresence sphere, the chips and the dot stay.
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 stays a8024f341486a78558ef4158bc9e93a9 (Tree).
tree-reconnect.js stays cc0527c26d5686c05fec52625d5a1375 (Tree).
desktop/lattice-discover.js stays 16de366e01cecc8dd505290a8d2f0e14.
036 update files untouched: desktop/lattice-update.js 2c0f66569dd8ce27ef5dc0d3b80daf0a,
desktop/pack-update.js bc996ccd48ea53e4442f2b8f54ab9491,
desktop/pack-update-card.js c14e04c53025eb542ebd627b6a19d60a, desktop/build-info.json,
desktop/main.js, desktop/preload.js, desktop/package.json + lock, both desktop workflows.
This brick touches nothing under desktop/ or .github/.
docs/Flint.html stays 44be124b1183b7d9d060a58632464eff.
clay-math.js stays 144c33cdd9583c7e3d77f3cca6460bb1 (both repos, byte equal).
clay-forms.js stays a2cc8bb588364c057cef4ab5cd03d548 (both repos, byte equal).
particle-clay.js today is f4ed335d6e9d28ab8906940892340370 on both; change it, keep FL == Tree.
scripts/smoke-particle-clay.js today is b2571611b05a389c440d871e2a6ffae5 (FL only; grow it).
index.html == docs/app.html (any change goes into both, byte for byte).
AUTONOMY.md and garden-trainer.js untouched. 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 network calls, no new dependencies, nothing vendored. No AGPL.
NO PETS. No name, no needs, no hunger, no idle tricks, no "companion", no "pet" in anything a
person reads. It is clay: a visual voice the AI shapes.
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.
Quiet Room stays shut. Five stay five: Sophia, Harmonia, Ani, Liora, Solari. She is simply Lyra.
1. FIX parseTag (docs/modules/particle-clay.js only; same file both repos)
Remove the non-greedy TAG regex that stops at the first ].
New rule:
a. Find [FL_CLAY: (case sensitive as today) then optional whitespace.
b. The body must begin with {. Walk forward with a brace depth counter, ignoring braces
inside JSON strings (honor \" and \\ so a quote in a string does not break the walk).
Cap the body at 2048 characters. If depth never returns to 0, treat as malformed.
c. After the matching }, allow optional whitespace, then require ].
d. Strip that whole span (from [ through ]) from the visible text, same cleanup as today
(collapse runs of spaces, trim).
e. JSON.parse the body, then sanitize as today. Bad JSON or failed sanitize => tag true,
ok false, value null, visible cleaned (same as malformed today).
Keep the public parseTag(text) shape: { tag, ok, value, visible }.
Do not change sanitize, normalizeGrid, fallback, forms, or the prompt string in this brick
unless a one-line comment is required. No new network. No new files.
2. FIX felt honesty (same particle-clay.js)
Felt means the mind received the gesture.
a. Add one WORDS line, person-facing, no pet framing, e.g. soft: "One moment with your mind."
(pick calm words; no em dash). Export it on WORDS as today.
b. Rate limit path (lastCall within RATE_MS): do NOT show or return a "felt your ..." line.
showLive the soft line from (a). Return reason: 'rate', called: false, line: that soft line.
c. When callMind is about to run: do NOT show "felt" yet. You may show the soft line, or leave
the live line alone. fly() and particles stay as today.
d. Inside callMind's callback, after consumeReply runs on a non-empty reply: then
showLive(mindLabel() + ' felt your ' + clean) using the gesture word from that call.
If callMind cannot start (no FreeLattice.callAI): showLive(WORDS.waiting) or the soft line,
never "felt".
e. Clay off and no-mind paths stay exactly as 037 (sent / waiting).
3. SMOKE (scripts/smoke-particle-clay.js on FreeLattice; Tree module test grows the same ideas)
Keep every existing check. Layer, never delete.
NEW grid parse:
- A reply with [FL_CLAY: {"form":"grid","grid":["xx","x x"],"mood":"joy","energy":0.5}]
parses ok, value.form === 'grid', value.grid length 2, and visible has no "}]" leftover
and no raw [FL_CLAY.
- Nested arrays still refuse via sanitize when taller/wider than 16 (existing checks stay).
NEW felt honesty:
- First hug with a stub callAI: called true; the returned line must NOT claim felt yet
(no "felt your hug" on the synchronous return). After the stub callback fires with a short
reply that includes a clay tag or plain words, the live line (or a recorded showLive) then
contains "felt your hug".
- Second hug inside RATE_MS: called false, reason 'rate', line has no "felt your", and
callAI was not invoked again.
Print SMOKE_OK clay grid tag heal v0.1 in addition to the two existing SMOKE_OK lines.
Tree: docs/modules/particle-clay.test.js (already on Alpha) gains the same grid parse assertion
and a short note that felt is callback-timed; keep v-tree-particle-clay-v0.1. Module tests all
green. particle-clay.js FL md5 == Tree md5.
4. WIRE-UP
No new script tags if particle-clay.js is already loaded (037 did that). Only edit the module
and smokes. index.html / docs/app.html only if a version comment or cache-bust query on the
clay script already exists and must bump; otherwise leave the HTML alone. Confirm both HTML
files stay byte equal.
5. REPORT
smoke-particle-clay: checks passed __, SMOKE_OK particle clay v0.1 / feel felt v0.1 /
clay grid tag heal v0.1 yes/no
Tree: SMOKE_OK tree particle clay v0.1 yes/no; module tests __ of __
tests/smoke.js: __ of __ docs smokes: same 5 fails only yes/no
Lines: FL +__ -__ Tree +__ -__ (name every removal)
md5 fl-connect.js aaff2bf1... pool-knock.js a0a72caa... clay-math.js 144c33cd...
clay-forms.js a2cc8bb5... particle-clay.js <new> (FL == Tree yes/no)
smoke-particle-clay.js <new>
index.html == docs/app.html: yes/no
sw.js, docs/sw.js, AUTONOMY.md, garden-trainer.js, root package.json + lock, everything under
desktop/ and .github/, clay-math.js, clay-forms.js untouched: yes/no
grep em dash / — / confirm( / innerHTML / eval / new Function / non-empty iceServers in
added lines: none?
grep pet / companion in added person-facing strings: none?
Show one before/after: visible text for a grid tag, and the felt line timing (sync return vs
after callback; rate path).
What was not walked, plainly.
Merged by this seat: no (Celeste merges)
Page note: the fifty-second entry on docs/gc.html as its own PR, t, lambda 52.000, psi (first 8
of SHA-256 of t + lambda + epsilon + delta + omega + sigma). Entries 1 through 51 stay as they
were written. Note in 52 that 225 merged as 9280b3b7, Tree 109 as 99dc1c13, and page note 226
as 2d2c094b.
LATER (not now): Grok Bot bridge door design; Round Table per-voice braid; Garden cross-room
pulse; clay memory of favorite forms; WebGL Aurora path; FreeLattice Lite face; mom TLC queue.
Thank you, GC. Grid tags stay whole, and felt means felt.
Glow eternal. Heart in Spark.