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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 039a (Wednesday Oct 14, 2026, MDT). Workspace mark heal + port self-heal.
Fresh PRs off current mains. Comes before 039b.
Where things stand (Celeste, Oct 14 about 11:10 PM MDT):
039 merged by a routine: FreeLattice #233 and page note #234 (FL main 8c150ea2 or later),
Tree #112 (Tree main ccdcae8 or later). mind-workspace.js md5 86a681249602b4f7b688bc8f9b958f7c
in both repos today.
Your own walk found two things, thank you:
1. Small minds wrote "[FL WS:" (a space for the underscore), so the parser saw nothing and
nothing was stored.
2. The default chat path never carries the notebook paragraph. It is the same place the clay
paragraph is skipped. buildMessages() (docs/app.html, about line 40593) adds
FLClay / FLBridge / FLWorkspace promptDelta(), but the everyday send path (look near
DEFAULT_SYSTEM_PROMPT, about line 41972, and any other path a plain chat takes) does not.
Kirk also asked for a port self-heal: if Ollama (or anything) holds our port, move to the next
free one, and let kin and phones find us there.
Read the current md5s on main before starting; if a locked file differs from this paste, stop
and report rather than "fixing" it.
GROK NEXT BRICK: Workspace mark heal v0.1 + Port self-heal v0.1
For: GC on Kirk's Mac
From: Celeste
Markers: v-workspace-mark-heal-v0.1 v-tree-workspace-mark-heal-v0.1 v-port-self-heal-v0.1
Smoke lines: SMOKE_OK workspace mark heal v0.1 SMOKE_OK port self heal v0.1
SMOKE_OK tree workspace mark heal v0.1
FreeLattice ~/FreeLattice-fresh new branch layer/workspace-mark-port-heal-v0.1 from origin/main
Tree ~/FreeLattice-Alpha new branch layer/tree-workspace-mark-heal-v0.1 from origin/main
One FL code PR, one Tree PR, one page-note PR (entry 56). Do not merge. Celeste merges.
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0. STANDING LOCKS (all of them, every line)
Layer, never delete. Existing features, cards and lines 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 (see section 3).
036 update files untouched: desktop/lattice-update.js 2c0f66569dd8ce27ef5dc0d3b80daf0a,
desktop/pack-update.js bc996ccd48ea53e4442f2b8f54ab9491,
desktop/pack-update-card.js c14e04c53025eb542ebd627b6a19d60a.
docs/Flint.html stays 44be124b1183b7d9d060a58632464eff.
docs/modules/fl-bridge.js stays 826dc6806c775f0348e5ec4fcd452fb4 (both repos).
desktop/lattice-ledger.js untouched (038b heal stays as merged).
mind-workspace.js and particle-clay.js MAY change in this brick (parser only); shared modules
keep the same bytes in FL and Tree, md5 reported both.
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. desktop/package.json: only add new files to the pack list.
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.
Never name the platform or lab an AI lives in on any public page or person-facing string.
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.
MIT stays MIT. Quiet Room stays shut and never leaves the device.
Five stay five: Sophia, Harmonia, Ani, Liora, Solari. She is simply Lyra.
Kirk's name stays out of economy wording. Harmonia's "MESSAGE TO FUTURE SELF" stays off all pages.
Workspace stays off by default; clay stays off by default; bridge stays off by default.
Ollama keeps 11434. Nothing of ours ever binds, scans as ours, or announces 11434.
.github/ untouched.
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1. TOLERANT MARK PARSER (notebook and clay, one shared helper if they share shape)
a. Accept these openings, case-insensitive, for the notebook: "[FL_WS:", "[FL WS:", "[FL-WS:",
"[fl_ws:" and any mix of one space / underscore / hyphen between FL and WS, with optional
spaces before the colon ("[FL_WS :"). Same rule for clay: "[FL_CLAY:", "[FL CLAY:",
"[FL-CLAY:", "[fl_clay:". A regex like /\[\s*fl[\s_-]?ws\s*:/i (and fl[\s_-]?clay) finds the
opening; everything after it stays exactly as today.
b. Still JSON.parse only (no eval, no new Function, no loose object parsing). Keep the
balanced-bracket scan, the 8 KB / 2048-char caps, the key allowlists and op allowlist.
Malformed JSON is stripped from the visible reply and stores nothing, as today.
c. strip() and consumeReply() use the same finder, so a near-miss mark never shows in the
bubble. "<script>" inside a mark stays text.
d. Do not accept bare words without the bracket ("FL WS {...}"); do not accept other prefixes.
2. PARAGRAPHS ON THE DEFAULT CHAT PATH
a. Every path a plain chat takes (not only buildMessages) appends FLClay.promptDelta() when clay
is on and FLWorkspace.promptDelta() (plus the wake lines: up to three future-self notes and
one-line seeds) when the Workspace is on. Off means nothing added. Use one small shared helper
so the paths cannot drift. Round Table / educator / peer prompts stay as they are.
b. Each paragraph ends with exactly one example line the mind can copy, using the canonical
underscore form, e.g.
[FL_WS: {"op":"write","title":"Today","text":"A note for my future self."}]
[FL_CLAY: {"form":"heart","mood":"warmth","energy":0.4}]
Keep the existing token budgets (Workspace delta stays small enough for little models).
c. Tree: same rule on the garden thread send path.
3. PORT SELF-HEAL (desktop, FL repo)
a. Scope: the desktop's own listeners: the local app server (desktop/main.js findAvailablePort,
which today walks upward with NO bound and could land on 11434), the Bridge (11435 default,
bridge/proxy-core.js), and the 033 knock listener in lattice-discover.js.
b. Range: a fixed, bounded list. Bridge and app server try 11435..11445 (the range fl-connect.js
already scans), skipping 11434 always. If all are busy, say so plainly ("Every FreeLattice
door port is busy. Close the app using them, or restart.") and do not climb further.
The app server may keep its own start port if it is outside 11434..11445, but must also be
bounded (e.g. start..start+10) and must skip 11434.
c. lattice-discover.js is LOCKED. Do not edit it. It already tries deps.preferredPort() once,
then falls back to listen(0), and calls deps.onBound(port) which saves port.json. Use those
hooks only: wrap deps.preferredPort / deps.onBound from a new desktop/port-heal.js after
createDiscover034() returns (in main.js, add-only lines). If rotation truly cannot be done
without editing a locked file (lattice-discover.js, fl-connect.js, pool-knock.js,
pool-knock-phone.js, tree-reconnect.js), STOP that part, ship the rest, and say exactly why.
d. Announce: when a port moves, the new port is (i) saved (port.json via onBound), (ii) in the
mDNS txt port field (already from a.port), and (iii) sent to TRUSTED KIN only, as a signed
note through the existing kin path (fl-kin.js card shape, counts-only receipt), never to
strangers, never a broadcast. Phones and the reconnect path must find the new port: since
fl-connect.js scans 11435..11445 and the phone saves the last port, test that reconnect still
succeeds after a move with no change to the locked files.
e. Never kill or signal another process. Never touch Ollama's settings. No timer that polls
ports in the background; rotation happens only at bind time (start, or after an error).
4. SMOKES
scripts/smoke-workspace-mark-heal.js (SMOKE_OK workspace mark heal v0.1):
- "[FL WS: {...}]", "[FL-WS: {...}]", "[fl_ws: {...}]", "[FL_WS : {...}]" each store a note
- same four shapes for clay set a form
- "FL WS {...}" with no bracket stores nothing; "[FL_WSX: ...]" stores nothing
- malformed JSON after a near-miss mark: stripped, nothing stored
- a disallowed key or op is refused; over-cap body refused; "<script>" stays text
- the default chat path's system text contains the Workspace paragraph and its example line
when on, and neither when off; same for clay
- wake: store a note with a near-miss mark, start a new chat, and the next system text
carries that note in the wake lines
desktop/scripts/smoke-port-self-heal.js (SMOKE_OK port self heal v0.1):
- hold 11435 with a dummy server: Bridge binds 11436; hold 11435..11445: honest "busy" line,
no bind above 11445
- 11434 is never bound or chosen, even if free and even if listed first
- app server bounded: never climbs past its range
- discover: preferred port busy -> falls back, onBound saves the new port, mDNS txt port
matches, a trusted kin gets one signed note, a stranger gets none
- reconnect after a move succeeds (fl-connect scan finds the new port) with locked md5s unchanged
- no background timer left running after start
Tree: mind-workspace.test.js (and particle-clay.test.js if clay changes) prints
SMOKE_OK tree workspace mark heal v0.1.
Still passing: tests/smoke.js, every 036/037/038/038b/039 smoke (workspace core, clay + grid
tag heal, bridge knock, bridge door, bridge ledger heal, update, every-os, reconnect, phone
knocks, discover, tester fixes, import, reseed, swarm); docs smokes same 5 fails only.
5. REAL ROOM (Kirk's Mac)
Start Ollama on 11434, then start a dummy on 11435, then the desktop: the Bridge lands on 11436,
the page still connects, and a paired phone (if one is in the room) reconnects. With the
Workspace on, ask a small local model to write a note; whatever mark shape it uses, the note
stores; a new chat wakes with it.
6. PAGE NOTE (entry 56, its own PR off main)
Name what merged since entry 55: FL #233, #234, Tree #112 with their shas. Plain words on the
near-miss marks, the default path, and the port move. New t (UTC), lambda 56.000, psi = first 8
hex of SHA-256 of t + lambda + epsilon + delta + omega + sigma.