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# PLAN.md — TALK APP LAYER: the screens Nick meets Skippy on never lose, duplicate or mis-speak a turn
**🔴🔴 THIS IS THE ONLY PLANNING DOCUMENT FOR THIS PROJECT. Do not create a second plan, tracker, summary, or scratch state file — extend THIS file. Any status view is GENERATED from this plan; if a view disagrees with the plan, the plan wins.**
**NORTH STAR:** Nick, 2026-09-15: "my goal is that he's capable, like he's like you guys, but on the services that I operate on and also via voice". For this lane that means the two screens he meets that capability on — the family app's Talk screen and the Hub's Talk panel, plus a thread on the app's Status tab — never lose, duplicate or mis-speak a turn: what he says lands once, what comes back is shown and spoken once, in the conversation it belongs to, and he is never cut off mid-thought.
**FINISH LINE:** FIVE outcomes, each with one check, written once. (1) On the family app's Talk screen and the Hub's Talk panel, a spoken or typed turn shows and speaks its answer as it streams, shows interim progress while a look-up runs, draws a returned result as a "came back" turn exactly once and speaks it only in the live session, and keeps the tap card for anything that changes a record — proven by `surfaces.mjs --conversation-behaviour` and the three family guards. (2) Streamed speech plays the moment its first bytes arrive, in order, with first sound within 0.5 s of the speech request on the pinned samples — proven by `voice-latency.mjs --audio-stream`. (3) The page decides "finished his thought" versus "thinking pause" from the live transcript: twenty completed thoughts per surface start useful speech within two seconds and the pinned thinking-pause samples produce zero premature answers — proven by `voice-latency.mjs --turn-taking`. (4) Voice inside a thread on the app's Status tab dictates, sends, shows delivery and speaks the reply, and a named agent thread can be talked to continuously for ten turns — proven by `_test-thread-voice.mjs --continuous`. (5) Both lanes' contracts are frozen and old and new callers survive them — proven by `surfaces.mjs --contracts`. Every proof runs on the served app with the served version recorded. Anything found after an outcome passes goes on the NEXT list and is not worked.
**Owner:** the app team — Astra (Codex gpt-6-astra) leads; cheap builders build; Fable signs the finish line and Sienna grades the look — NICK-ASKED: fable — "yes but needs a full plan so you dont collide explain to me what theyll be working on and what youll be doing" (Nick, 2026-09-15) · **Overseer:** Astra (gpt-6-astra) for this lane — unsticks, routes, judges; never builds · **Design authority:** Sienna (creative-director), preservation only — nothing new is drawn
> **STEP 0 — ARM THE LOOP, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE.** Set a 5-minute loop. Every time it fires, answer
> these five in order and CORRECT any failure before doing anything else:
> 1. **NORTH STAR** — is what I am doing this minute moving this plan's North Star? If not, drop it.
> 2. **FAN-OUT** — declare the whole actual roster, dispatch useful ready work, and shed your own unnecessary processes. Coordinate through peers or the launching dispatcher; no numeric cap or load-wait rule applies.
> 3. **CHEAP** — are cheap models doing the building AND the per-step checking? If anything on
> Anthropic or OpenAI is building or checking a step, move it down now (§M).
> 4. **STUCK** — for anything I have called blocked: name the input that does not exist yet, or the
> three concrete things I tried. If I cannot, it is not blocked — drive through it now.
> 5. **NEXT** — did something just finish? Then the next step whose inputs exist starts THIS minute.
> A finished step is never a place to stop, a report is never a reason to wait, and Nick being
> away or asleep is the reason to keep going, not to pause.
> Then keep building. The loop never stops until the FINISH LINE is proven.
**Rule: a step starts the moment its named inputs exist, whatever its number. A step closes on ONE independent check by a different model. Nothing waits on Nick to test.**
## THE FENCE — read this before touching any file, because two teams work on one product
Nick, 2026-09-15: "yes but needs a full plan so you dont collide explain to me what theyll be working on and what youll be doing". This lane exists because two teams now work on the same running Skippy, and the way they do not collide is that every file has exactly one writer.
| Team | Owns (exclusive write) | Never touches |
|---|---|---|
| **THIS LANE — the app team** (Astra-led, cheap builders, Fable/Sienna grade) | family app `projects/personal/family-app/js/voice.js`, `js/talk-panel.js`, `js/panel.js`; the Hub's `projects/business/business-app/app/js/neeko-talk-panel.js`; the family app's `_test-voice-*.mjs` guards and `_test-thread-voice.mjs` — ONE writer per file at a time | the brain, the Mac worker, the API proxies' contracts, tools, permission decisions, business cards, worker policy, proof thresholds |
| **THE SKIPPY-NEXT LANE** (Claude) | the brain (`projects/personal/skippy-app/skippy-code-publish/server.js`, `lib/task-record.mjs`, `lib/code-agent-dispatch.mjs`); the history, task-state and thread proxies; the Mac worker drains; the SKIPPY-TESTING `tests/` instruments | the four app files above; the speech adapter and the chat/speech proxies (Astra's since 14:40) |
**AMENDED 2026-09-15 14:40 ON NICK'S WORD — ASTRA OWNS THE WHOLE VOICE PATH.** Nick: "i think astra is probably better at getting voice dialed in given its native voice function is the one we're trying to emulate — i'd have it take that lane and call fable". So this lane's fence widens from the screens to the whole spoken path: the family and Hub **chat and speech proxies** (`projects/personal/family-app/functions/api/skippy-chat.js`, `skippy-tts.js` and the Hub's equivalents) and the brain's **speech adapter** (`skippy-code-publish/lib/openai-realtime-adapter.mjs` and the speech-service call) move to this lane, so the early first sentence, the streamed voice bytes, the turn-taking and the playback have ONE owner. The brain's own file (`server.js`) stays with the SKIPPY-TESTING lane; a voice change that must touch it (the streaming leg, the voice-turn prompt) is written by this lane as a reviewed PACKAGE — a patch plus its guard, the way builds 13–25 landed on 2026-09-15 — and the SKIPPY-TESTING lane lands it within the hour, never rewriting it. Steps 3 and 4 below therefore include their server halves (Astra's design B1 and B2), not only playback.
**START HERE FOR ASTRA (the line Nick pastes into a Codex session in the code app, opened on this workspace):** "Take the TALK APP LAYER lane: read projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/TALK-APP-LAYER/PLAN.md end to end, then projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/evidence/astra-plan-middle-speed-voice-app-2026-09-15.txt (your own design). Start with STEP 0 (the five instrument modes, briefed to the SKIPPY-TESTING lane) and STEP 1 (the contract sign-off). You own the whole voice path per THE FENCE; brain-file changes go to the SKIPPY-TESTING lane as packages. For judgment, a screen build or Sienna's grading, call Fable: `claude -p "<brief with ROLE and the MACHINE RULES block>" --model claude-fable-5-1` (one call at a time; paste the rules block from projects/ops/MACHINE-RULES.md). For mechanical builds use the cheap route, `node projects/ops/cheap-task.mjs`, after reading the router setup note in the same folder as that script. Every proof runs on the served app with the served version recorded; sound-on tests need Nick's dated grant on file (projects/ops/skippy-jobs/state/sound-grant.json). Report to Nick in plain English, one paragraph of what is now true, numbered items only for what needs him."
| **EACH APP'S EXISTING RELEASE OWNER** | that app's `index.html`, `sw.js` and its deploy; integrates version bumps from both teams | product code in either team's fence |
**Rules of the road:** additive server/proxy changes ship first, then the app · every proof records the brain commit, the proxy contract version and both served app/asset versions · the Hub keeps mounting the shared voice client (`neeko-talk-panel.js` line 4: "there is ONE voice client, the family app's js/voice.js, and the Hub MOUNTS it") · one deployer per app at a time — two sessions deploying the Hub at once made every browser gate flake on 2026-09-15 (SKIPPY-TESTING PLAN CHANGES 02:10) · a contract changes only by a dated line in BOTH plans' PLAN CHANGES, written by both lanes together.
## Already true (facts, not story)
- Both Talk screens draw and speak a returned result as a "came back" turn — evidence: SKIPPY-TESTING STEP 7 package C, live 2026-09-15: family app v857 / `js/voice.js` v73; Hub commit 04ff4f4b; guard `projects/personal/family-app/_test-voice-notice.mjs` 14/14; the first spoken dig came back on the Talk page 04:58Z 2026-09-15 (SKIPPY-TESTING PLAN CHANGES 05:02)
- The page adds a median 26 ms between answer text landing and the first audible sample; the wait is the brain's first text (5–12 s) and speech synthesis (0.9–1.8 s), both of which belong to the SKIPPY-TESTING lane — evidence: `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/evidence/voice-latency-2026-09-15-mu2749k6.json`
- The voice client already sends `stream: voice-sentences/1` and the proxy forwards it — evidence: `projects/personal/family-app/js/voice.js` line 4561, `projects/personal/family-app/functions/api/skippy-chat.js` line 438; this is EXTENDED, never rebuilt
- Semantic turn detection was tried once and produced no transcript twice; the 1.5 s end-of-speech window is what runs today — evidence: `projects/personal/family-app/js/voice.js` line 4002 (700 / 1000 / 1200 ms all split a sentence with an 1100 ms pause; 1500 and 2000 kept it whole)
- Status-thread dictation and a spoken reply already exist, and an idle thread is told so out loud — evidence: ASSISTANTS `PLAN.md` STEP 15 (line 462) and `projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs` (`THREAD_VOICE_EXPECT=reply|idle`); EXTENDED, never rebuilt
- The 2026-08-23 tap-only rule stands for anything that changes a record; since brain build 24 (2026-09-15) a look-only dig goes without a tap — the app draws the card, the brain decides — evidence: SKIPPY-TESTING PLAN CHANGES 03:58 and 04:45
- The instruments this lane is judged by exist and refuse unknown flags by name — evidence: `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs` (KNOWN flags: `--grade`, `--negative-control`, `--control-breaks`, `--help`), `tests/voice-latency.mjs` (same set); `projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs` (env-driven, no flags yet) — the modes this plan names are NEW and STEP 0 builds them
- A sound-on test needs Nick's dated grant on file, and the chrome guard honours it — evidence: `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/state/sound-grant.json`, read by `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/jobs/chrome-twin-guard.mjs` line 59; RULE 42 as amended (MACHINE-RULES.md line 691)
## 0 · Gate Zero receipts (the plan may not exist without these)
- Failure Mode Registry loaded: 2026-09-15, 197 entries; exposed to: "Concurrent sessions clobbered each other's work in a shared file", "A UI reported success while the backend silently failed", "A check existed that could not fail", "Done was declared before the live surface was checked", "A quantitative claim shipped without its method", "A delivery path was reordered and its notification behavior changed", "A capability was declared impossible from a stale or unverified claim", "Mid-session state was assumed unchanged" — measures in §4
- Canonical specs loaded: Astra's design handback `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/evidence/astra-plan-middle-speed-voice-app-2026-09-15.txt` (section C in full; the playback half of B2; the client half of B3) and the SKIPPY-TESTING plan `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/PLAN.md` (STEP 7 and its 2026-09-15 PLAN CHANGES); code `projects/ops/agents/CODE-STANDARD.md`; QA `projects/ops/HANDBACK-GATE-SPEC.md`; design: preservation only, Sienna's six gates on the existing approved look
- Ownership check: the fence table above. Registry rows `life-os-skippy-testing` (the brain, proxies, worker, instruments) and `life-os-the-voice-app` (the voice app as BUILT, its execution list retired into SKIPPY-TESTING) cover the other side of the fence; no row covers the four app files as one owned lane with their own guards — this lane is that. The driver registers `life-os-talk-app-layer`; this plan does not touch `registry.json`
- Expected inputs confirmed to exist: checked 2026-09-15 with `ls` — the four app files `projects/personal/family-app/js/voice.js` (5,684 lines), `js/talk-panel.js` (569), `js/panel.js` (4,257), `projects/business/business-app/app/js/neeko-talk-panel.js`; the two instruments `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs` (153 lines), `tests/voice-latency.mjs` (147); the guards `projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs` (240), `_test-voice-notice.mjs` (279), `_test-voice-answer-first.mjs` (361), `_test-voice-rig.mjs` (2,035); the proxies `functions/api/skippy-chat.js` (579), `functions/api/skippy-tts.js` (310); the release files `index.html` (4,949), `sw.js` (1,254); the sound grant `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/state/sound-grant.json`; the Pearl fidelity check `projects/personal/skippy-app/design-directions/_pearl-fidelity-check.mjs` — all present
- PLAN AUTHOR: the SKIPPY-TESTING lane's driver (Fable, session 8f33673d) with Astra (gpt-6-astra, whose handback is the content), 2026-09-15
- COLD READER: Astra, 2026-09-15; Fable independently attacked the contract; corrections and joint freeze recorded in PLAN CHANGES
- PROMPT-SPEC scan (P1–P7): recorded against `projects/ops/PROMPT-SPEC.md` — P1 "turn" is one utterance in and its one associated reply out, keyed by `clientTurnId`, so a progress line is never a turn (§3 contracts); P2 "never lose, duplicate or mis-speak" resolves to the verb REFUSE: the page draws a result only from history or task state carrying an event id it has not seen, and speaks it only when the session is live; P3 "semantic turn detection does not work" is not accepted as a premise — STEP 4 re-tests it in isolation against its recorded failure before ruling on it; P4 "everything on both screens" is bounded by the fence — the brain, the proxies, the worker and the instruments' thresholds are OUT (§1 NOT in scope); P5 the landing spot for every proof is `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/evidence/` with the served versions in the receipt; P6 none found in his quoted words; P7 his 2026-09-15 line splits as (a) yes to the app team, (b) the caveat "so you dont collide", (c) the new instruction "explain to me what theyll be working on and what youll be doing" — answered by the fence table and the FOR NICK lines
## 1 · Goal and definition of done
- **What we're building, one paragraph.** The app-side half of a faster, more capable Skippy: the two Talk screens and the Status-tab thread learn to show an answer while it is still arriving, to show honest progress while a look-up runs, to draw a returned result once and speak it only if Nick is still in the session, to play streamed speech from its first bytes, to tell a finished thought from a thinking pause, and to hold a continuous spoken conversation with one named running agent. Nothing new is drawn; every screen keeps its approved look. The brain, the proxies and the worker that feed these screens belong to the SKIPPY-TESTING lane and are consumed through frozen contracts, never edited here.
- **HOW IT'S USED:** Nick opens the family app on his phone or the Hub on his Mac, taps Talk, and talks — asks, corrects himself, pauses to think, walks away and comes back; on the Status tab he taps a thread's mic and talks to the agent running it. · HOW WE KNOW: Nick, 2026-09-15, "my goal is that he's capable, like he's like you guys, but on the services that I operate on and also via voice"; his live spoken runs 2026-09-15 02:33–04:58 (SKIPPY-TESTING PLAN CHANGES 03:58, 04:45, 05:02)
- **WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:** exactly what it looks like today — the Talk screen's turns, the "came back" turn, the tap card, the three-dot menu (Rename · Clear thread · Close), the Status tab's thread box with its mic — with three additions that are behaviour, not drawing: answer text that grows as it streams, an interim progress line that is replaced by the final answer, and one line of state on a named-agent thread (listening · sent · delivered · answered · idle/ended). · HOW WE KNOW: Sienna's approved Pearl design and its fidelity check; `neeko-talk-panel.js` mounts the same client; Astra's handback C2 ("preserve Rename / Clear thread / Close and the existing approved appearance")
- **WHERE IT LIVES:** the served family app (`family.heroesandsidekicks.io`, Talk screen and Status tab) and the served Hub (`hub.heroesandsidekicks.io`, Talk panel); opened by Nick, and by Chantelle on the family app. The code is the four files in the fence; the proofs land in `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/evidence/`. · HOW WE KNOW: the fence table; `projects/ops/deploy.mjs` targets `deck-family` and `deck-business`
- **WHAT IT MUST DO:** 1 show partial answers as they stream and interim progress every 10–15 s, replaced by the final answer · 2 draw a returned result as a "came back" turn exactly once and speak it only in the live session; a reconnect never repeats it · 3 keep the tap card for anything that changes a record, as today · 4 stop sound on interruption and never speak a result from another conversation · 5 play streamed speech as bytes arrive, in sentence order, first sound within 0.5 s of the speech request on the pinned samples · 6 decide finished-thought versus thinking-pause from the live transcript: twenty completed thoughts per surface start useful speech within two seconds, zero premature answers on the pinned pause samples · 7 on the Status tab: dictate, send through the existing thread door, show delivery, speak the reply; an idle thread says so and offers a fresh session without claiming one started · 8 hold ten consecutive spoken turns with one named running agent, each utterance sent once and only its associated reply spoken · 9 survive the frozen contracts as both an old and a new caller · HOW WE KNOW: §6
- **NOT in scope:** (a) the brain, the API proxies, the Mac worker and the instruments' thresholds — the SKIPPY-TESTING lane owns them, and a page-side "fix" to a brain-side delay would be a lie about where the time goes (measured: the page costs 26 ms); (b) redesigning any screen — nothing is drawn; the approved look is preserved and Sienna grades that it was; (c) the Slack, WhatsApp and Gmail doors — text doors, not screens (SKIPPY-TESTING §3a); (d) the installed Mac app — HELD by Nick's 2026-09-14 ruling ("mac ap is held until the other surfaces are proven"); (e) replacing the speech provider or the transcriber, or a speech-to-speech architecture — measured and decided after, by the other lane; (f) security or privacy work of any kind — one line to `projects/ops/sp-sec/PLAN.md` if seen; (g) whether a look-only dig needs a tap — the brain decides that, and the app draws whatever card it is told to
- **Trip-over protocol:** a lane that finds something outside the fence writes one dated handover line to its named owner (a brain, proxy, worker or instrument fault → SKIPPY-TESTING `PLAN.md` PLAN CHANGES; a look fault → Sienna's gate report; a security- or privacy-shaped thing → `projects/ops/sp-sec/PLAN.md`), then returns to its step — never investigates, never fixes
## 1a · Critical variables — the confirmation sheet is GENERATED from this table
| # | The variable, in plain words | Value chosen | Alternatives rejected | Class | HOW WE KNOW | Cost if wrong | CONFIRMED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | **SURFACE — which screen this lands on, and who opens it** | The family app's Talk screen and Status-tab threads (phone and Mac window) and the Hub's Talk panel, which mounts the same voice client; opened by Nick, and by Chantelle on the family app | Slack/WhatsApp/Gmail as voice surfaces (text doors); the installed Mac app (HELD) | V1 | Nick, 2026-09-14: "slack isnt a voice surface / voice only is hub or family app" | Work lands on a screen he does not talk to | Nick, 2026-09-15, "my goal is that he's capable, like he's like you guys, but on the services that I operate on and also via voice" |
| 2 | Who works on what — the fence | The app team owns the four app files and their guards; the SKIPPY-TESTING lane owns the brain, proxies, worker and instruments; each app's release owner deploys | One team on everything; shared files with "coordinate" | V1 | Nick, 2026-09-15, quoted in the CONFIRMED column | Two writers on one file — the thing he asked us to prevent | Nick, 2026-09-15, "yes but needs a full plan so you dont collide explain to me what theyll be working on and what youll be doing" |
| 3 | When Skippy may start answering a spoken turn | A confidently complete question commits after ~300–500 ms of silence; an incomplete or uncertain thought waits at least 1.5 s, up to 3 s; the decision reads the live transcript, not a timer alone | A fixed 700 ms cut (cut him off, 2026-09-11); a fixed 1.5 s on everything (today's ceiling) | V1 | Nick, 2026-09-15, quoted in the CONFIRMED column; the 2026-09-11 measurement at `js/voice.js` line 4002 | He is cut off mid-thought, or waits 1.5 s on every question | Nick, 2026-09-15, "the only times i dont want to be cut off are when im obviously not done with a thought or sentence but i pause" |
| 4 | Testing with sound in the room | Muted by default; a sound-on run only under a dated grant file, in the app's own OpenAI voice, the real phone captured for the streamed-sound proof | Unmuted by default; the stock robot voice | V1 | RULE 42 as amended (MACHINE-RULES.md line 691); the grant file read by the chrome guard | Lessons or tests read aloud through his speakers again | Nick, 2026-09-15, "you have full auth for it for the next 8 hours speakers and mic are yours" and "use the open ai voice for testing, the stock robot voice sounds bad" |
| 5 | What the page already sends on a voice turn | `stream: voice-sentences/1` with `voiceOriginated: true`, forwarded by the proxy — extended, never rebuilt | A second streaming implementation | V2 | opened `js/voice.js` line 4561 and `functions/api/skippy-chat.js` line 438, 2026-09-15, saw: the flag sent and forwarded | A duplicate stream path and two definitions of a sentence | opened `js/voice.js` line 4561, 2026-09-15, saw: `stream: 'voice-sentences/1'` on the chat request |
| 6 | Where the wait actually is on a spoken answer | The brain's first text (5.0–12.6 s) and speech synthesis (0.9–1.8 s); the page's own cost is a median 26 ms | "The page is slow" — the reading retired 2026-09-15 | V2 | opened the timing receipt, 2026-09-15, saw: page cost 26 ms median, answer sound 6.9–8.8 s | This lane chases a delay it does not own | opened `evidence/voice-latency-2026-09-15-mu2749k6.json`, 2026-09-15, saw: full timelines, page 26 ms |
- V1 confirmation reads `<name>, <date>, "<their own words>"` — the date is required.
- V2 confirmation reads `opened <what>, <date>, saw: <what was actually there>`.
**Considered and ruled NOT critical:**
- `the exact progress cadence (10 s or 15 s)` — the brain emits progress; the page draws whatever arrives and replaces it with the final answer; a cadence change is the other lane's delta
- `which cheap vendor builds which file` — the matrix names them; a swap is a lane-internal change
- `the streamed audio format` — pinned by the contract (PCM 24 kHz mono 16-bit, opt-in); the page consumes it; a change is a joint PLAN CHANGES line
## 1b · Subproject decomposition — could a piece of this ship on its own?
- **SINGLE SUBPROJECT:** `one voice client mounted by two apps, one set of contracts, one fence — every step lands in the same four files and no piece is useful to Nick before it is proven on the served app`
**Carve-out rule:** anything left out of every subproject's scope is named with a real owner in the same edit, or it may not be left out. Carved out here: the brain's early first sentence, the streamed-speech server side, the progress events and the person-scoped task-state view → SKIPPY-TESTING lane; the installed Mac app → HELD by Nick; the look → Sienna, preservation only.
## 2 · The complete UX map (this becomes the test manifest verbatim)
| Id | Screen / entry point | State (default·empty·error·loading) | Element / interaction | Expected behavior | Navigation from → to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U1 | Family app Talk screen, phone width | default·loading | a spoken or typed turn | the answer text grows as sentences arrive and is spoken sentence by sentence; nothing waits for the whole answer | Talk → Talk |
| U2 | Family app Talk screen | loading | a turn whose look-up runs longer than 10 s | an interim progress line appears every 10–15 s while the look-up runs, is spoken only in the live session, and is REPLACED by the final answer — never kept as a turn, never remembered as a fact | Talk → Talk |
| U3 | Both Talk screens | default | a result that comes back from a hand-off | drawn as a "came back" turn exactly once (dedupe by event id), spoken only if the session is live; on a reconnect or reopen the doorbell means refetch and nothing is repeated | brain → Talk |
| U4 | Both Talk screens | default | Nick speaks while Skippy is talking | sound stops within 200 ms, queued audio is dropped, the upstream speech request is cancelled, the superseded turn's lead is invalidated | Talk → Talk |
| U5 | Both Talk screens | default | a turn whose hand-off would change a record | the tap card as today (Confirm / cancel); a look-only dig goes without a card because the brain says so | Talk → Talk |
| U6 | Both Talk screens | default | three-dot menu: Rename · Clear thread · Close | unchanged, first tap, both widths; Sienna's gates unchanged | Talk → Talk |
| U7 | Both Talk screens | error | the stream fails after sound has started | the page reports an incomplete answer in one plain line; it never replays the answer through another provider | Talk → Talk |
| U8 | Both Talk screens | default | streamed speech (opt-in PCM) | first sound within 0.5 s of the speech request on the pinned samples; sentence order kept; partial sample bytes carried between chunks; the queue bounded | Talk → Talk |
| U9 | Both Talk screens | default | Nick finishes a question cleanly | commits after ~300–500 ms; useful speech within two seconds on the twenty pinned completed thoughts per surface | Talk → Talk |
| U10 | Both Talk screens | default | Nick pauses mid-thought ("and then, um…", a trailing conjunction, a 1.1 s breath) | no answer starts; the page waits at least 1.5 s, up to 3 s; continued speech joins the same turn | Talk → Talk |
| U11 | Family app Status tab, a running thread | default | the thread's mic | dictates into the thread box; review/send through the existing thread door; a delivery state shows (sent · delivered · absorbed · answered); the associated reply is spoken as one plain sentence | Status → Status |
| U12 | Family app Status tab, an idle or ended thread | empty | the thread's mic | told plainly that the session has not absorbed the message; offered a fresh session with the same message; nothing started without a yes; no claim that one started | Status → Status |
| U13 | Family app Status tab, a named running agent | default | continuous voice mode on one selected thread | attached to the exact session id and shown name; shared recorder and player; each utterance sent once; only its associated reply spoken; selection survives turns; ten consecutive spoken turns | Status → Status |
| U14 | Family app Status tab | default | switching to another thread mid-playback | playback cancelled; the new thread's state shown; the old thread's later reply never spoken as the new one's | Status → Status |
| U15 | Hub Talk panel | default·loading | the same voice client mounted in the Hub | U1–U10 hold on the Hub with the served asset version recorded | Hub → Talk |
| U16 | Either app, an old page still open | default | a page served before a contract change | the old caller keeps working: JSON fallback honoured, buffered speech still served, unknown event kinds ignored, an unsupported version named | — |
DESIGN FIDELITY GATE: N/A — nothing new is rendered; the approved look is preserved, and STEP 2's proof re-runs the family app's existing Pearl fidelity check on the Talk screen and the Status tab and requires `mismatched properties: 0 · unmeasured anchors: 0` before Sienna grades the preserved design once.
## 3 · Lanes and frozen contracts
| Lane | Scope (in / out) | Owner | Definition of done | Builder (cheap, named) | Backup builder | Checker (different model) | Backup checker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CONTRACTS | the frozen doors, the fence, the fixtures old and new callers are proved against (in); any brain or proxy code (out — SKIPPY-TESTING) | Astra with the SKIPPY-TESTING driver | STEP 1 closed | deepseek | qwen | Sonnet | Astra |
| TALK | both Talk screens' conversation behaviour and the Status-tab thread voice (in); the look (preserved, graded, never changed) | Astra | STEP 2 closed | zai | deepseek | Sonnet | Astra |
| SOUND | streamed speech playback in the shared player (in); the speech server side (out — SKIPPY-TESTING) | Astra | STEP 3 closed | zai | qwen | Sonnet | Astra |
| TURN | finished-thought versus thinking-pause in the voice client (in); the transcriber's session mint (out — the other lane's session configuration owner) | Astra | STEP 4 closed | zai | deepseek | Astra | Sonnet |
| AGENT | continuous voice to a named running agent thread (in); session delivery on the server (out — SKIPPY-TESTING) | Astra | STEP 5 closed | zai | deepseek | Sonnet | Astra |
**Contracts between lanes (FROZEN by STEP 1, changed only by both lanes together — a dated line in BOTH plans' PLAN CHANGES):**
- **Chat door** keeps `messages`, `voiceOriginated`, `stream: voice-sentences/1`, `clientTurnId`, `conversationId`, `requestId`, correction ids and confirmation payloads; keeps the JSON fallback; labels buffering explicitly.
- **Stream events** `start` · `progress` · `sentence`/`delta` · `action` · `done` · `error`, each with a stable event id, a sequence number, its task/turn/conversation association and a source timestamp; progress is never in `done.fullText`.
- **History door** `{ok, turns}` with `{who, text, notice:true, taskId}` plus origin and event id, so a reconnect can never speak another thread's result.
- **Task state** reaches the page as a person-scoped browser view through the proxy; the machine door stays machine-only; no machine credential in the page.
- **Doorbell** means refetch; history and task state stay authoritative; dedupe by event id, never by text.
- **Speech door** keeps the buffered response for older pages and adds opt-in streamed PCM (24 kHz, mono, signed 16-bit little-endian) when the other lane ships it; the page schedules small audio buffers as chunks arrive.
- **Thread voice** carries the exact session pointer, the reply id and the reply-to association; states are accepted · delivered · absorbed · answered.
- **Version rule** every proof receipt records the brain commit, the proxy contract version and both served app/asset versions (family `sw.js` version and `voice.js` version; Hub asset hash).
- **Buckets that share a goal message each other:** a dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/PLAN.md` PLAN CHANGES when a step here closes that the other lane needs, and the same back.
## 3b · Execution map — the Step map, then one STEP block per row
A task is DONE only when its review-ledger row is CLOSED by a reviewer that is not the builder.
**Step map (read this first):** STEP 0 builds the new instrument modes with the other lane (it owns the instruments; this lane owns the guards), because the house rule — and the plan checker — refuse a step that builds the thing that grades it. STEPs 1–5 are the outcomes. Order: 1 first, with the other lane in the room; 2 and 4's isolated measurement together on fixtures; 3 when the streamed speech door is served; 5 after 2.
| Stage | # | Task (step name) | Needs (named artefact, or `none — start now`) | EXECUTOR (cheap model) | EXECUTOR BACKUP | CHECKER (different model) | CHECKER BACKUP | DONE-PROOF (runnable command) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contracts | 1 | Freeze the doors and the fence; prove old and new callers survive | none — start now, with the other lane in the room | deepseek | qwen | Sonnet | Astra | `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs --contracts` (CREATED BY STEP 0) |
| Talk | 2 | Both Talk screens and the Status-tab thread behave | the contract fixtures STEP 1 writes to `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/fixtures/talk-1-contract.json` | zai | deepseek | Sonnet | Astra | `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs --conversation-behaviour` (CREATED BY STEP 0) |
| Sound | 3 | Play streamed speech as bytes arrive | the streamed speech door served by the SKIPPY-TESTING lane (its PLAN CHANGES line naming the proxy contract version) | zai | qwen | Sonnet | Astra | `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/voice-latency.mjs --audio-stream` (CREATED BY STEP 0) |
| Turn | 4 | Finished his thought, or thinking | none — the isolated measurement starts now on fixtures; the contract fixtures before integration | zai | deepseek | Astra | Sonnet | `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/voice-latency.mjs --turn-taking` (CREATED BY STEP 0) |
| Agent | 5 | Talk to a named running agent, continuously | STEP 2's thread behaviour (its receipt in `evidence/`) and the other lane's proven reply association (its PLAN CHANGES line) | zai | deepseek | Sonnet | Astra | `node projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs --continuous` (CREATED BY STEP 0) |
### STEP 0 — Build the new instrument modes everything below is measured with
**FOR NICK:** nothing you would notice. This is the toolkit that makes every line below provable instead of assertable. · **Tier:** POLISH
**Start when:** none — start now. The instruments exist; the modes are new.
**Builder:** qwen · **Builder backup:** deepseek · **Checker:** Sonnet · **Checker backup:** Astra
**Files you may touch:** `projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs` (the `--continuous` mode — this lane's file); `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs` and `tests/voice-latency.mjs` ONLY by a brief handed to the SKIPPY-TESTING lane, which owns them and adds the modes with this lane in the room — this lane never edits those two files itself. **Never** the four app files (STEPs 1–5 own them), the brain, the proxies.
🔴 **A STEP MAY NOT BUILD THE THING THAT GRADES IT.** The plan checker refuses the pattern by name, so every mode is built here and every step below cites one that exists before it starts. Each mode carries a NEGATIVE CONTROL proving the grader rejects its own named failure, in the pattern the two instruments already use (`--negative-control`, `--control-breaks`).
**Do exactly this:**
1. `surfaces.mjs --contracts`: old caller, new caller, wrong identity, wrong turn, duplicate event, unsupported version — six cases, each with the output that fails it. Negative control: a fixture that replays a duplicate event id must be REFUSED by the grader.
2. `surfaces.mjs --conversation-behaviour`: phone widths, long reports, the three-dot menu, tap/cancel, background/reopen, idle-thread states, a result belonging to another conversation. Negative control: a receipt in which a "came back" turn appears twice must FAIL.
3. `voice-latency.mjs --audio-stream`: fragmented chunks, a mid-stream failure, an interruption, the pinned healthy-path samples; the clock is the speech request to the first scheduled sample, labelled CONTROLLED DIGITAL PLAYBACK ONSET. Negative control: a receipt whose samples repeat must FAIL.
4. `voice-latency.mjs --turn-taking`: Nick-shaped rambles, brief endings, conjunctions, fillers and 0.6 / 1.1 / 1.5 / 2.5 s pauses, twenty completed-thought samples per surface. Negative control: a receipt with one premature answer on a pause sample must FAIL.
5. `_test-thread-voice.mjs --continuous`: ten consecutive spoken turns to one selected running session, the switch case, the idle case, the ended case. Negative control: a run in which an unrelated assistant line is treated as the answer must FAIL.
6. Every receipt records the brain commit, the proxy contract version and both served app/asset versions, or the run is refused.
**DEFINITION OF DONE:** each of the five modes runs, refuses unknown flags by name, and FAILS on its own deliberately broken input.
**PROOF:** `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs --negative-control` and `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/voice-latency.mjs --negative-control` → every new mode's negative control listed and `REFUSED`; `node projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs --continuous --negative-control` → `REFUSED` · **FAILS IF:** any mode is missing, any grader passes its own negative control, or a receipt lacks the served versions.
**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
### STEP 1 — Freeze the doors and the fence; prove old and new callers survive
**FOR NICK:** the two teams cannot collide: every file has one owner, and an update from either side never breaks the screen you already have open. · **Tier:** POLISH
**Start when:** none — start now, with the SKIPPY-TESTING lane's driver in the room (Astra and Claude settle the contracts together; Astra's handback C1 is the text).
**Builder:** deepseek (fixtures) · **Builder backup:** qwen · **Checker:** Sonnet · **Checker backup:** Astra
**Files you may touch:** `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/fixtures/talk-1-contract.json` (the old-caller and new-caller fixtures, written exclusively by SKIPPY-NEXT under the signed contract; this lane reads them); this file's §3 and PLAN CHANGES; the matching PLAN CHANGES line in the SKIPPY-TESTING plan. **Never** the brain, the proxies (SKIPPY-TESTING lane), the four app files (STEPs 2–5).
**Do exactly this:**
1. Astra reads this plan cold; every dispute lands as a dated PLAN CHANGES line here. Both drivers sign the §3 contract list by writing the same dated line into both plans' PLAN CHANGES: `2026-09-15 · CONTRACTS FROZEN v1 — <the list, by name>`.
2. SKIPPY-NEXT writes the fixtures; this lane checks the shapes: one request and one expected response per door as an OLD caller (today's `voice.js` v73 shape) and as a NEW caller (the frozen shape), plus the four refusals — wrong identity, wrong turn, duplicate event, unsupported version.
3. Run `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs --contracts` against the SERVED proxies and record the brain commit, the proxy contract version and both served app/asset versions in the receipt.
4. Confirm the fence using dated exclusive writer claims per file and a diff-overlap check; git authorship alone is insufficient because the sessions share the same author name.
**DEFINITION OF DONE:** the frozen contract list is signed in both plans, and the old caller, the new caller, a wrong identity, a wrong turn, a duplicate event and an unsupported version each get the response the fixture names, on the served proxies.
**PROOF:** `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs --contracts` → `CONTRACTS PASS 6/6` with the four versions printed (CREATED BY STEP 0) · **FAILS IF:** exclusive writer claims or diffs overlap on a file, a browser needs a machine secret, an old caller silently misreads a new response, or a refusal case is answered as if valid.
**NOT MEASURABLE:** contract ambiguity through execution alone — Astra and the SKIPPY-TESTING driver resolve it before launch, in writing.
**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff:** the moment this step closes, post one dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/PLAN.md` PLAN CHANGES: `TALK-APP-LAYER STEP 1 closed <date> — contracts v1 frozen; the app team builds against them.`
### STEP 2 — Both Talk screens and the Status-tab thread behave
**FOR NICK:** on your phone and in the Hub, you see the answer start arriving while he is still talking, an honest "still looking" while he checks something, and a result that came back drawn once and read once — and on the Status tab you can talk into a thread and hear its reply. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** the contract fixtures exist at `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/fixtures/talk-1-contract.json` (STEP 1 writes them; building starts on the fixtures while the other lane's backend work runs).
**Builder:** zai · **Builder backup:** deepseek · **Checker:** Sonnet · **Checker backup:** Astra · Sienna grades the preserved look once, after the fidelity count is zero; Nick judges usability
**Files you may touch:** `projects/personal/family-app/js/voice.js` (one writer), `js/talk-panel.js`, `js/panel.js` (the Status-tab thread box only), `projects/business/business-app/app/js/neeko-talk-panel.js`; the guards `_test-voice-notice.mjs`, `_test-voice-answer-first.mjs`, `_test-thread-voice.mjs`. **Never** `index.html`, `sw.js` or either deploy (the app's release owner integrates the version bump), the brain, the proxies, `functions/api/thread-reply.js` (SKIPPY-TESTING lane).
**Do exactly this:**
1. Partial answers: draw `sentence`/`delta` events into the growing turn keyed by `clientTurnId`; speak sentences in order; the existing `voice-sentences/1` path is extended, not replaced.
2. Progress: draw a `progress` event as an interim line under the turn, replace it on the next progress or the `done`, speak it only when the session is live; it never becomes a turn and never enters the app's own message window.
3. Returned results: draw a "came back" turn only from history or task state carrying an event id the page has not seen; a doorbell triggers a refetch, never a draw; on reconnect or reopen nothing repeats; speak only in the live session.
4. Interruptions: Nick's speech stops sound within 200 ms, drops queued audio and cancels the upstream speech request.
5. Keep the tap card exactly as today for anything that changes a record; the brain's decision is what the card follows.
6. Status tab: extend the existing dictation → `/api/thread-reply` → readback path with the delivery state line (sent · delivered · absorbed · answered) and the spoken associated reply; an idle thread keeps the existing honest sentence and the offer of a fresh session, and never claims one started.
7. Preserve Rename · Clear thread · Close and the approved look: run `node projects/personal/skippy-app/design-directions/_pearl-fidelity-check.mjs` on the Talk screen and the Status tab and require `mismatched properties: 0 · unmeasured anchors: 0`.
8. Hand the version bump to the app's release owner; after the served app carries it, run the proof on the served app and record the four versions.
**DEFINITION OF DONE:** on the served family app and the served Hub, a spoken or typed turn shows and speaks its answer as it streams, shows interim progress replaced by the final answer, draws a returned result once and speaks it only in the live session, stops sound on interruption, never repeats on reconnect, keeps the tap card and the menu, and the Status-tab thread dictates, sends, shows delivery and speaks the reply.
**PROOF:** `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs --conversation-behaviour` → `CONVERSATION PASS` on both surfaces with the four versions printed (CREATED BY STEP 0); plus `node projects/personal/family-app/_test-voice-notice.mjs` → 14/14 or better, `node projects/personal/family-app/_test-voice-answer-first.mjs` → 26/26 or better, `THREAD_VOICE_EXPECT=reply node projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs` → `spoken in <n> s`, `sentence clean`, `waiting line cleared`; the fidelity check → `mismatched properties: 0 · unmeasured anchors: 0` · **FAILS IF:** a state in U1–U7, U11, U12 or U15 is missing, the menu is obstructed, a displayed or spoken result belongs to another conversation, a "came back" turn appears twice, progress survives as a turn, or a fidelity mismatch that is not a true fault strip.
**NOT MEASURABLE:** aesthetic quality from assertions alone — Sienna grades the preserved design once; whether it feels right is Nick's judgement of the recorded runs, and his attendance is never a dependency.
**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, on the served app. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff:** the moment this step closes, post one dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/PLAN.md` PLAN CHANGES: `TALK-APP-LAYER STEP 2 closed <date> — both Talk screens draw partials, progress and came-back turns per contract v1; the Status-tab thread speaks its reply.`
### STEP 3 — Play streamed speech as bytes arrive
**FOR NICK:** he starts talking about half a second after he has something to say, instead of waiting for the whole clip to be made first. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** the streamed speech door is SERVED by the SKIPPY-TESTING lane — its PLAN CHANGES line naming the proxy contract version that carries opt-in PCM; until then the buffered path stays and this step does not start.
**Builder:** zai · **Builder backup:** qwen · **Checker:** Sonnet · **Checker backup:** Astra · Nick judges the sound
**Files you may touch:** `projects/personal/family-app/js/voice.js` (the shared player, one writer — sequenced after STEP 2's writer, never alongside). **Never** `functions/api/skippy-tts.js`, the speech adapter, the brain (SKIPPY-TESTING lane), `index.html`, `sw.js`.
**Do exactly this:**
1. Opt in to the streamed response only when the served contract version says it exists; otherwise keep the buffered path (older pages keep working — U16).
2. Schedule small audio buffers in the existing player as chunks arrive; carry incomplete sample bytes between chunks; keep sentence order; bound the queue.
3. On interruption, stop scheduled sound and cancel the request upstream; after sound has started, a failure reports an incomplete answer in one plain line and never replays through another provider.
4. Capture the real phone for the sound proof (a sound-on run under the dated grant in `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/state/sound-grant.json`; muted otherwise — RULE 42 as amended).
5. Hand the version bump to the release owner; run the proof on the served app; record the four versions.
**DEFINITION OF DONE:** on the served app, speech begins before the provider finishes the clip, with first sound within 0.5 s of the speech request on the pinned healthy-path samples, no missing or repeated audio, sound stopped on interruption, and an honest incomplete-answer line on a mid-stream failure.
**PROOF:** `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/voice-latency.mjs --audio-stream` → `AUDIO-STREAM PASS` with median first-sound ≤ 500 ms on the pinned samples, labelled CONTROLLED DIGITAL PLAYBACK ONSET, the four versions printed (CREATED BY STEP 0) · **FAILS IF:** any layer waits for the full file, samples repeat or disappear, cancelled sound resumes, a failure replays through another provider, or the receipt lacks the served versions.
**NOT MEASURABLE:** phone speaker behaviour from a desktop audio clock — the real phone is captured under the grant; how it sounds is Nick's call, never a dependency.
**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, on the served app. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff:** the moment this step closes, post one dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/PLAN.md` PLAN CHANGES: `TALK-APP-LAYER STEP 3 closed <date> — the page plays streamed speech from its first bytes; the remaining wait is the brain's first text.`
### STEP 4 — Finished his thought, or thinking
**FOR NICK:** he answers a finished question almost at once, and he waits when you are obviously still thinking — his words 2026-09-15: "the only times i dont want to be cut off are when im obviously not done with a thought or sentence but i pause". · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** none — the isolated measurement (point 1) starts now on fixtures; integration into the served app waits for the contract fixtures STEP 1 writes.
**Builder:** zai · **Builder backup:** deepseek · **Checker:** Astra · **Checker backup:** Sonnet · Nick's ear is the final judge
**Files you may touch:** `projects/personal/family-app/js/voice.js` (the turn-end decision, one writer — sequenced after STEPs 2 and 3's writers, never alongside); `_test-voice-turn-end.mjs`. **Never** the transcriber session mint on the server (the other lane's session configuration owner), the brain, the proxies.
**Do exactly this:**
1. FIRST PROVE whether transcript updates arrive DURING speech, with timestamps, on the current transcriber session. If only completed segments arrive, adapt the transcription (through the other lane's session configuration owner, by a dated handover line) to give earlier segments and join them before one brain turn; until that works, the 1.5 s window STAYS and this step stays open — it is never closed on a faster median that hides cutoffs.
2. Feed timely transcript updates into a small completeness decision — complete / incomplete / uncertain — using context and speech cues; punctuation or a trailing-word list alone may not decide.
3. A confidently complete question or statement commits after ~300–500 ms of silence; an incomplete or uncertain thought waits at least 1.5 s; continued uncertainty extends to 3 s.
4. One authoritative turn-detection configuration: the server mint and the client update never silently override each other; continued speech invalidates the superseded turn's lead, tools and audio.
5. Re-test the provider's semantic detection only in isolation against its recorded "no transcript" failure (`js/voice.js` line 4002); official support is not evidence that it works in this session.
6. Hand the version bump to the release owner; run the proof on the served app; record the four versions.
**DEFINITION OF DONE:** on the served app, twenty completed-thought samples per Talk surface start useful speech within two seconds, while the pinned thinking-pause and correction samples produce zero premature answers and zero stale takeovers.
**PROOF:** `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/voice-latency.mjs --turn-taking` → `TURN-TAKING PASS 20/20 completed · 0 premature` per surface, with the 0.6 / 1.1 / 1.5 / 2.5 s pause samples listed and the four versions printed (CREATED BY STEP 0) · **FAILS IF:** a faster median hides a cutoff, a transcript disappears, an abandoned thought causes an action, or two turn-detection configurations disagree.
**NOT MEASURABLE:** whether a grammatically complete pause means Nick has finished — his ear is the final judge and can reopen the bar at any time; his attendance is never a dependency.
**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, on the served app. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff:** the moment this step closes, post one dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/PLAN.md` PLAN CHANGES: `TALK-APP-LAYER STEP 4 closed <date> — the page commits a finished thought in under half a second and waits on a pause; the end-of-speech window is no longer a fixed 1.5 s.`
### STEP 5 — Talk to a named running agent, continuously
**FOR NICK:** on the Status tab you pick one running agent and just talk to it, turn after turn, and hear only that agent's answers. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** STEP 2's receipt exists in `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/evidence/` (the thread behaviour) AND the SKIPPY-TESTING lane's PLAN CHANGES line says the reply association is proven on the server.
**Builder:** zai · **Builder backup:** deepseek · **Checker:** Sonnet · **Checker backup:** Astra · Nick judges conversational usability
**Files you may touch:** `projects/personal/family-app/js/panel.js` (the Status-tab thread box), `js/voice.js` only for the shared recorder/player hooks (one writer, sequenced), `_test-thread-voice.mjs`. **Never** the session delivery on the server (SKIPPY-TESTING lane), `functions/api/thread-reply.js`, the Pearl look.
**Do exactly this:**
1. A persistent conversation mode attached to the selected session's exact id and shown name; the shared recorder and player are reused, never duplicated.
2. Each completed utterance is sent once to that session and only its associated reply (by reply id and reply-to) is spoken; it is never routed through general Skippy and never enters general Talk history.
3. The selection survives turns; switching threads cancels pending playback; an ended or idle session gets an explicit state and is never silently replaced.
4. The full reply stays readable in the thread; a spoken summary stands alone and keeps the decisions.
5. Hand the version bump to the release owner; run the proof on the served app; record the four versions.
**DEFINITION OF DONE:** on the served app, ten consecutive spoken turns reach the selected running agent and return its associated answers, with correct switch, idle and ended behaviour.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs --continuous` → `CONTINUOUS PASS 10/10`, `switch cancels playback`, `idle told plainly`, `ended explicit`, the four versions printed (CREATED BY STEP 0) · **FAILS IF:** an unrelated assistant line is treated as the answer, a new session silently replaces the old one, a turn enters general Talk history, or an utterance is sent twice.
**NOT MEASURABLE:** how quickly an arbitrary busy agent finishes thinking — delivery and answer-to-playback are measured separately, as the existing guard already does.
**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, on the served app. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff:** the moment this step closes, post one dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/ASSISTANTS/PLAN.md` PLAN CHANGES: `TALK-APP-LAYER STEP 5 closed <date> — continuous voice to a named agent thread is live; ASSISTANTS STEP 15's spoken half is measured here.`
## 4 · Regret Check (the registry failures this build is actually exposed to)
| Failure mode (registry entry) | The measure in THIS plan that prevents it | Where it lives (section / artifact / gate) |
|---|---|---|
| Concurrent sessions clobbered each other's work in a shared file | one writer per file at a time, and STEPs 2, 3, 4 and 5's writers on `voice.js` are sequenced, never alongside; one deployer per app; STEP 1 reads the day's author log per file | THE FENCE, §3, STEP 1 point 4 |
| A UI reported success while the backend silently failed | a "came back" turn is drawn only from history or task state carrying an unseen event id, never from a doorbell or from the answer's own words; delivery states on the Status tab come from the thread door's reply, not from the send | STEP 2 points 3 and 6, §3 contracts |
| A check existed that could not fail | every new mode ships with a negative control the grader must REFUSE, in STEP 0, before any step cites it | STEP 0 |
| Done was declared before the live surface was checked | every proof runs on the SERVED app with the brain commit, the proxy contract version and both served app/asset versions in the receipt, or the run is refused | §3 version rule, STEP 0 point 6, every PROOF |
| A quantitative claim shipped without its method | every timing number names its clock (CONTROLLED DIGITAL PLAYBACK ONSET for sound; speech-end to first useful speech for turns) and its pinned samples; a faster median that hides a cutoff FAILS | STEP 3, STEP 4 |
| A delivery path was reordered and its notification behavior changed | the doorbell means refetch and nothing else; dedupe by event id, never by text; progress is replaced, never kept; reconnect repeats nothing | §3 contracts, STEP 2 points 2 and 3, U3 |
| A capability was declared impossible from a stale or unverified claim | semantic turn detection's "no transcript" failure is re-tested in isolation before it is ruled out; whether transcript updates arrive during speech is PROVED before the window is shortened | STEP 4 points 1 and 5 |
| Mid-session state was assumed unchanged | a named-agent thread that goes idle or ends gets an explicit state; switching threads cancels playback; the selection is re-read each turn | STEP 5 point 3, U12, U14 |
## 5 · Topology and roles
- **OVERSEER-AUTHORITY:** none named (the CURRENT HOLDER block in `projects/ops/OVERSEER-AUTHORITY.md` is dormant, 2026-08-28). **The four approval classes (money leaving · credential rotation · irreversible destruction · a message sent as Nick) and the floor (logins · credentials, tokens and keys · government IDs · card, bank and routing numbers) never move on the overseer's word.** Nothing in this lane needs one of the four — every test sends as the agent, to Nick or Chantelle only, and a sound-on run needs his dated grant on file, never a fresh ask through this plan.
- Thread layout: one overseer thread for the app team (Astra, read-only, through `projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/astra-review.sh`, one call at a time, never a fleet); builders and checkers as cheap dispatches through `projects/ops/cheap-task.mjs` / `projects/ops/route-build.mjs`; the SKIPPY-TESTING lane's driver in the room for STEP 1 and for every contract line; Sienna once, for the preserved look.
- Overseer: Astra (gpt-6-astra) · Workers: zai, deepseek, qwen; Sonnet as checker where named; Fable signs the FINISH LINE once · Cap: 8 per session, ~40 machine-wide
- State files location: this file only — the file-governance gate refuses a second .md beside a plan (measured 2026-09-14 in the SKIPPY-TESTING lane), so state, questions, assumptions and changes are sections of THIS file (STEPS and PLAN CHANGES at the end)
- **Board card id:** none yet
- **Artefact consumers:** every receipt → `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/evidence/` → the step's checker, then Astra's cold read of the closed step; each handoff line → the SKIPPY-TESTING or ASSISTANTS plan's PLAN CHANGES; the closed-step sentence → the SKIPPY-TESTING lane's morning report; Sienna's grade → this plan's PLAN CHANGES.
- **Write-contention:** this lane writes only the four app files, the named family guards, the contract fixtures folder and this file; the SKIPPY-TESTING lane writes the brain, the proxies, the worker drains and the two instruments; each app's release owner writes `index.html`, `sw.js` and runs its deploy — one deployer per app at a time. Within this lane, `voice.js` has ONE writer at a time: STEP 2's, then STEP 3's, then STEP 4's, then STEP 5's hooks. Checkout proven writable 2026-09-15 (this lane's own commit of this file).
**Per-stage topology — counts DECLARED at plan time:**
| Stage | Overseer | Sub-overseers | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Instruments (STEP 0) | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Contracts (STEP 1) | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Talk (STEP 2) | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Sound (STEP 3) | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Turn (STEP 4) | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Agent (STEP 5) | 1 | 0 | 2 |
**The walk-away contract — a stranger resumes the drive from files alone:**
- **STATE FILE:** `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/TALK-APP-LAYER/PLAN.md` — this file; its STEPS block and PLAN CHANGES are the state
- **HEARTBEAT ROW:** the lane's row on the progress page https://hs-project-status.pages.dev, registered as `life-os-talk-app-layer` by the SKIPPY-TESTING lane's driver (this plan never touches `registry.json`)
- **MORNING-REPORT LINE:** one plain sentence per closed step in the SKIPPY-TESTING lane's morning report — "Talk app layer — <what is now true for Nick>"
## 6 · Evals — what "working" means, decided now
| Capability | Check (exact command or procedure) | Pass looks like |
|---|---|---|
| 1 partial answers and interim progress | `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs --conversation-behaviour` (CREATED BY STEP 0) | text grows per sentence; a progress line every 10–15 s while the look-up runs; replaced by the final answer; never a turn |
| 2 a returned result drawn once, spoken only live | the same run, U3 cases, plus `node projects/personal/family-app/_test-voice-notice.mjs` | one "came back" turn per event id; zero repeats on reconnect; spoken only in the live session; 14/14 or better |
| 3 the tap card for anything that changes a record | the same run, U5 cases | the card as today; a look-only dig without one, because the brain said so |
| 4 interruption and cross-conversation isolation | the same run, U4 and U7 cases | sound stops within 200 ms; no result from another conversation drawn or spoken |
| 5 streamed speech | `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/voice-latency.mjs --audio-stream` (CREATED BY STEP 0) | median first sound ≤ 500 ms on the pinned samples; order kept; no repeats; cancel holds |
| 6 finished thought versus thinking pause | `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/voice-latency.mjs --turn-taking` (CREATED BY STEP 0) | 20/20 completed thoughts per surface with useful speech within 2 s; 0 premature on the pause samples |
| 7 Status-tab thread voice | `THREAD_VOICE_EXPECT=reply node projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs` and `THREAD_VOICE_EXPECT=idle …` | reply spoken, sentence clean, waiting line cleared; idle told plainly, nothing started |
| 8 continuous voice to a named agent | `node projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs --continuous` (CREATED BY STEP 0) | 10/10 turns to the selected session; switch cancels; idle and ended explicit |
| 9 old and new callers survive the contracts | `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs --contracts` (CREATED BY STEP 0) | 6/6 with the four versions printed |
| 10 the look is preserved | `node projects/personal/skippy-app/design-directions/_pearl-fidelity-check.mjs` on Talk and Status, then Sienna's six gates once | `mismatched properties: 0 · unmeasured anchors: 0`; Sienna: preserved |
## If you get stuck (all steps)
Before writing "blocked": (1) re-read the step's START WHEN line — most "stuck" is a misread gate, (2) try a concrete workaround, (3) write one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing artefact. Then keep working every other step whose inputs exist. Never idle on a blocker; never end a turn waiting on a background result. A brain, proxy or worker fault is never this lane's to fix: one dated line into the SKIPPY-TESTING plan's PLAN CHANGES, then the next step.
## Your loop
Every pass: every step whose START WHEN inputs exist and which is not yet CLOSED is running, up to the cap → each builder runs its own PROOF, hands to its checker → PASS closes it, FAIL loops it → the next step starts the same minute. Astra reads each closed step's evidence cold; a dispute is a dated PLAN CHANGES line, never a re-run of a closed step. Fable signs the FINISH LINE once, when all five are closed.
## Risks this plan is built around
- **Two writers on `voice.js`.** Four steps touch it. The fence gives it one writer at a time, in order — STEP 2, then 3, then 4, then 5's hooks — and STEP 1 reads the author log to prove it.
- **A spoken result from another conversation.** Every drawn or spoken result carries its conversation and event id; the page refuses anything it cannot associate (U3, U13, U14).
- **Misleading speed.** Useful words, substantive answers and completed answers are counted separately; a faster median that hides a cutoff FAILS (STEP 4); the sound clock is named (STEP 3).
- **Sound-on testing.** Needs Nick's dated grant on file (`state/sound-grant.json`; RULE 42 as amended). A muted run proves the plumbing; only a granted run proves the sound.
- **Chasing the wrong delay.** The page costs 26 ms; the 5–12 s is the brain's and the speech service's. This lane never "fixes" that on the page.
## Postmortem — written at lane-open, so the faults that shaped this plan are not repeated inside it
- **Two sessions deploying one app at once made every browser gate flake (2026-09-15, Hub deploys #5–#9).** Consequence: one deployer per app, and the release owner integrates both teams' bumps.
- **A timing receipt read the response headers as the answer, so "3.6 s" was reported for most of a night before the real 5–12 s was measured.** Consequence: every number in this lane names its clock and its samples.
- **Semantic turn detection was tried and produced no transcript, twice — and a 700 ms cut cut Nick off mid-sentence.** Consequence: STEP 4 proves what the transcriber delivers before shortening anything, and the 1.5 s window stays until it does.
- **"Nothing worth extracting" is a good answer** when a step closes clean; the postmortem grows only when something failed.
## SUMMARY
**TRUE NOW (2026-09-15).** Both updated Talk screens are live. All sixteen conversation checks have passed independent review across the family app and business workspace: answers grow as they arrive, progress is replaced, returned results do not repeat, and the phone menus work. Their approved appearance is preserved. Testing uses verified paid OpenAI speech. A spoken interruption exposed a real fault: the answer pauses, then resumes while the speaker is still talking; its repair is being built while keeping Nick’s chosen 0.7-second pause setting. Correctly matching thread replies to messages still needs proof. Speech streaming and continuous conversation with a named agent remain unfinished, so none of the five complete outcomes is closed.
**LEFT.** Five outcomes for the app team: the answer showing and speaking while it is still arriving, with an honest "still looking" while he checks; the voice playing from its first bytes instead of after the whole clip is made; Skippy answering a finished question almost at once but waiting when Nick is obviously mid-thought; talking to one named running agent turn after turn on the Status tab; and a frozen agreement between the two teams so an update from either side never breaks a screen already open. Nothing new is drawn; the look stays as approved.
## STEPS
```
1. [Contracts] Freeze the doors and the fence; prove old and new callers survive — 0%
DEFINITION OF DONE: the frozen contract list is signed in both plans, and old caller, new caller, wrong identity, wrong turn, duplicate event and unsupported version each get the fixture's response on the served proxies
PROOF: `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs --contracts`
OPENED 2026-09-15 · the instrument exists; the mode is built by STEP 0. Astra's cold read of this plan is the first task.
2. [Talk] Both Talk screens and the Status-tab thread behave — 0%
DEFINITION OF DONE: on the served family app and Hub a turn shows and speaks its answer as it streams, shows interim progress replaced by the final answer, draws a returned result once and speaks it only live, stops sound on interruption, never repeats on reconnect, keeps the tap card and the menu; the Status-tab thread dictates, sends, shows delivery and speaks the reply
PROOF: `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/surfaces.mjs --conversation-behaviour`
OPENED 2026-09-15 · already true and kept: the "came back" turn on both screens (family v857 / voice.js v73, Hub 04ff4f4b, guard 14/14); Status-tab dictation and spoken reply (ASSISTANTS STEP 15). Owed: partials, progress, dedupe by event id, interruption, reconnect, delivery states, the fidelity re-run, Sienna's grade.
3. [Sound] Play streamed speech as bytes arrive — 0%
DEFINITION OF DONE: on the served app speech begins before the provider finishes the clip, first sound within 0.5 s of the speech request on the pinned samples, no missing or repeated audio, sound stopped on interruption, an honest incomplete-answer line on a mid-stream failure
PROOF: `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/voice-latency.mjs --audio-stream`
OPENED 2026-09-15 · waits for the streamed speech door to be SERVED by the other lane; the buffered path stays until then. Measured 2026-09-15: the page's own cost is 26 ms.
4. [Turn] Finished his thought, or thinking — 0%
DEFINITION OF DONE: on the served app twenty completed-thought samples per surface start useful speech within two seconds while the pinned thinking-pause and correction samples produce zero premature answers and zero stale takeovers
PROOF: `node projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SKIPPY-TESTING/tests/voice-latency.mjs --turn-taking`
OPENED 2026-09-15 · the isolated measurement (do transcript updates arrive during speech, with timestamps?) starts now; the 1.5 s window stays until it is proven; semantic detection is re-tested only in isolation against its recorded failure.
5. [Agent] Talk to a named running agent, continuously — 0%
DEFINITION OF DONE: on the served app ten consecutive spoken turns reach the selected running agent and return its associated answers, with correct switch, idle and ended behaviour
PROOF: `node projects/personal/family-app/_test-thread-voice.mjs --continuous`
OPENED 2026-09-15 · starts after STEP 2's receipt and the other lane's proven reply association.
```
## PLAN CHANGES — dated, one line each, newest last (the governance gate refuses a second file, so they live here)
- 2026-09-15T20:47Z · INTERRUPTION DEFECT MEASURED / REPAIR ACTIVE: New served Family typed-answer receipt evidence/talk-interruption-observation.json records provider speech-start to pause2.1ms but threshold-estimated digital onset to pause333ms; no physicalsound claim. Spoken-initial receipt evidence/talk-interruption-spoken-observation.json independently confirms one original answer paused18242.2 then resumed18751.2 during continuing input, with no secondchat/TTSrequest. Source500ms local timer was not transferred when provider-start found speakeralreadyheld. Prescribed owner-handoff repair dispatched through cheap-task DeepSeek in privateworktree, onlyvoice.js and scopednoise-holdguard; preserveNick700ms/allthresholds. First router attempt usedroot-relative paths instead ofprivateprefix, stoppedexactprocess beforeedits; corrected dispatch active. No servedrepair yet. Solevoiceownership reaffirmed by ea08:20. Peer07:50 confirms PCMdoor absent, audio-stream/turn-taking modes notready, A/Bassociation andscratchpointers notprovisioned; requested associationfirst forStep2. Backgroundguard landed d1ddb6119b. Visualreview now accepts preservedFamilyPearl/HubONEappearance andmenus; pre-existingcontrast failures are notnewSTEP2regressions; final scoped tokenaudit and transientStatuspresentation independently ACCEPTED; evidence/talk-visual-preservation.json records scope and existing-design exclusions. Saved visualevidence8.3MB temporary, noownedbrowserleft.
- 2026-09-15 14:40 · ASTRA TAKES THE LANE AND THE WHOLE VOICE PATH (Nick: "i think astra is probably better at getting voice dialed in given its native voice function is the one we're trying to emulate — i'd have it take that lane and call fable"): the fence widened to the chat/speech proxies and the brain's speech adapter; brain-file changes land as packages through the SKIPPY-TESTING lane; a START HERE line for the Codex session, with how it calls Fable (`claude -p … --model claude-fable-5-1`) and the cheap builders.
- 2026-09-15 · LANE OPENED by the SKIPPY-TESTING lane's driver with Astra, NICK-ASKED: fable — "yes but needs a full plan so you dont collide explain to me what theyll be working on and what youll be doing". Content is Astra's handback (section C in full; the playback half of B2; the client half of B3). ONE deliberate departure from the handback's numbering: the new instrument modes are built by STEP 0, not by the steps that use them, because the house rule and the plan checker refuse a step that builds the thing that grades it — the two SKIPPY-TESTING instruments are edited by that lane on a brief from this one, and `_test-thread-voice.mjs --continuous` by this lane. Nothing is deployed by this line.
- 2026-09-15 · ASTRA COLD READ / STEP 0–1 IN PROGRESS: Nick names SKIPPY-NEXT as the coordinating brain/instrument lane; the 14:40 amended fence governs over older scope text. Four instrument modes and version/negative-control requirements delivered through the live peer socket to session 8f33673d-0adb-4ae3-bd55-97a063fa4b6b; acknowledgement and concrete contract agreement pending, so contracts are NOT frozen. Sound grant read: valid through 2026-09-16T05:00:00Z. Five-minute task heartbeat active. Fable invocation failed because installed Claude Code 2.1.237 requires upgrade to support claude-fable-5-1; repair in progress. No product files changed or prior proven tests rerun. Required Rafter tools/skills not located in local skill/plugin directories or PATH; peer asked for existing route before surface-changing builds.
- 2026-09-15 · TOOLING RECOVERED: native Claude Code 2.1.272 installed through the supported installer; the requested Fable critic is running. Rafter CLI and secure-design/code-review skills located in the existing npm cache, so the earlier location gap is resolved.
- 2026-09-15 · RAFTER SECURE DESIGN — STEP 0 CONTINUOUS GUARD ONLY: extend the existing guard, not a new endpoint. Flow is test process → existing signed-in browser helper → served app → existing thread APIs; the helper retains credential retrieval inside its process. The guard reads only bounded JSON receipts (maximum 2 MiB) using JSON.parse with explicit field validation, no eval or object merging. Receipt identifiers are data, never shell arguments or URL destinations. Live calls use the existing fixed app origin and exact selected test-session pointer; no additional permissions, login changes, storage, dependencies or real record mutations. Ten unique utterance IDs must each map to one send and a replyTo/replyId on that same session; switching cancels playback, idle/end cannot silently replace the session. Synthetic negative controls run without browser/network/audio and cannot produce a served PASS. Four version fields are mandatory for real receipts. Spoofing/tampering: reject missing/mismatched identities and duplicates; disclosure: never log cookies, tokens or raw network headers; repudiation: preserve test IDs, served revisions and timestamps; denial: bounded input/wait/turn count and close only this guard's own browser; elevation: no general Talk routing or new APIs. Abuse twins are unrelated reply accepted, duplicate utterance, stale reply after switch and idle session replaced: all must fail. Residual limit: synthetic controls prove refusal, not live delivery/audio; only independently collected served receipts can close STEP 5. Product contract/security review remains separate before product edits.
- 2026-09-15 · FIVE-MINUTE LOOP: North Star unchanged; STEP 0 new modes and STEP 1 agreement are the current dependencies. Actual roster: Astra oversight, one Fable read-only contract critic through native Claude 2.1.272, one Qwen continuous-guard builder through cheap-task; SKIPPY-NEXT reports its separate instrument builder dispatched 15:20. Cheap-task initially rejected the verbatim rules block by matching its quoted approval wording; corrected the brief to have the worker read the same block (tool log confirms read), without changing any safety gate. SKIPPY-NEXT accepted four modes and owns all contract fixtures and both app releases. Contract countersign pending legacy seq/requestId compatibility, additive thread-say association and honest PCM EOF/error semantics; sent exact code references and proposed resolution through peer socket. Product steps remain queued in order; prior proofs untouched.
- 2026-09-15 · PEER AGREEMENT RECEIVED: SKIPPY-NEXT countersigned legacy sentence-only seq versus talk/1 every-event seq (starting 1), requestId on every frame, additive thread-say sessionId/replyTo request fields plus x-thread-session-id/x-thread-reply-id/x-thread-reply-to/x-thread-state response headers, and reader done:true only on completed provider audio with propagated rejection on failure. Fable final review pending before our freeze. Nick’s Rafter retirement independently located at GLOBAL-CLAUDE-RULES.md line 24 (2026-09-14); no remote scan or reinstall performed. Its cached design questions were read only. Live status-page fetch returned HTTP 403, so deploy receipt exists but visual readback remains UNVERIFIED.
- 2026-09-15 · FABLE CRITIC COMPLETE (requested/actual claude-fable-5-1, native CLI 2.1.272; read-only): Hub chat proxy lacks streaming fields, two voice parsers must handle progress, notice identity and thread reply association need server work, duplicate turn is replay200 rather than4xx, PCM error must abort underlying stream, fixture writer must be SKIPPY-NEXT, git author alone cannot detect collisions. Astra sent the concrete final contract corrections to SKIPPY-NEXT for countersign. B1 task-aware lead stays a progress(kind:lead) event excluded from done.fullText/history per the design; a factual answer remains sentence/delta. No served contract pass yet.
- 2026-09-15 · CONTRACTS FROZEN v1 — talk/1; Astra countersigns the SKIPPY-NEXT final terms below, including its earlier seq/requestId and additive thread-header terms. This freezes the implementation agreement; STEP 1 is OPEN until served CONTRACTS PASS 6/6. SKIPPY-NEXT is the sole fixture writer and release owner; app lane is the sole writer of its amended fence.
- 2026-09-15 16:05 · FINAL COUNTERSIGN — `talk/1` IS FROZEN. All eight of the app lane's terms are ACCEPTED as written, two of which correct this lane and are the better reading: (1) both the family and the Hub chat doors are in scope, and the app lane extends the proxies to forward a validated `contract`, `stream`, `requestId` and `confirmHandoff` while every legacy caller keeps its byte shape. (2) `done.fullText` is exactly the concatenated `sentence`/`delta` text (the existing needsConfirm suffix stays the one exception); the task-aware early line from the brain is a `progress` event with `kind: "lead"`, excluded from `fullText` AND from persisted history, and no factual claim ever rides in a lead — facts travel only in deltas. 🔴 (3) CORRECTS MY 15:20 LINE: a repeated `clientTurnId` is a REPLAY, not an error — the door answers 200 with `replayed: true` and `x-skippy-turn-replayed: 1`, returning the earlier turn's result, and never 4xx; a duplicate EVENT is suppressed at render and at speech. A retry after a dropped connection is the common case and a 4xx there would make the page report a failure that did not happen. (4) the notice writer (this lane) PERSISTS `eventId` and it survives a history replay; `origin.surface` is the enum `family-talk | hub-talk | status-thread | slack | whatsapp | gmail`; `origin.conversationId` is the one from the original request; a result belonging to another conversation is retained in ITS own history and is never drawn or spoken in the active one; the legacy `task:<id>` doorbell payload stays only for notices with no contract; a doorbell means refetch whether or not a task is pending. (5) the streamed speech response carries `Content-Type: audio/pcm; rate=24000; channels=1` and `X-Voice-Stream: pcm-24k-s16le` as the capability declaration; any other content type is the buffered fallback and only before sound has started; on a provider failure AFTER headers the server destroys the response and the proxies preserve the stream error rather than closing gracefully — and the proof must catch that failure in a real browser (the fixture path is the interim and is labelled UNVERIFIED for the live half until the streamed door exists). (6) `replyTo` is the `queued.id` of the sent ledger row and `replyId` is stamped on the answering transcript entry itself — never "the newest line after a timestamp", never guessed. (7) `task-view` answers 404 for a missing task and for another person's task; `restated` comes from the task record's original accepted request; the person comes from the signed session only. (8) fixtures are written and owned by this lane, and the fence proof uses dated exclusive writer claims plus a diff-overlap check — git authorship alone proves nothing here, since every commit on this machine is authored "Nick Deck". Implementation gaps behind these terms are this lane's server packages and fixtures and the app lane's STEP 2 work; no step closes before a proof on the served surface. The instrument builder was dispatched at 15:20 and has been corrected to term 3 (a replayed turn id must answer 200 `replayed: true`, not a refusal).
- 2026-09-15 · STATUS SUMMARY REPAIRED: project-status-page.py line 471 only reads the exact heading `## SUMMARY`; removed the heading suffix in this plan so the generated page actually displays its current-state summary. No generator code changed.
- 2026-09-15 · STEP 2 STARTED: opened the peer-owned talk-1-contract.json, the agreed fixture is now the named STEP2 input. One Fable screen builder owns only the four app JS files; one DeepSeek mechanical builder owns only family and Hub skippy-chat.js. Neither deploys or edits server.js. Qwen STEP0 guard run hit its 15-minute budget after searching, changed zero files (router exit12); named backup DeepSeek dispatched with a bounded exact receipt contract and no repository exploration. Runtime handles: screen85578, proxies53893, guard backup recorded in task; all source-only until independent served proof.
- 2026-09-15 · ROUTE RECOVERY / ACTUAL ROSTER: first Fable STEP2 screen call returned explicit usage-credits limit, no edits; restarted same model claude-fable-5-1 using existing nick-backup subscription via lane.mjs subAccounts/cliEnv (no paid key, no credential printed), runtime89483. DeepSeek first chat-proxy run exhausted16 steps while inspecting protected helper sources, no files changed; Qwen backup now has the two targets plus verified public helper interface shapes, runtime5927. Thread guard backup DeepSeek timed out before receiving response and router failed over to Qwen; runtime64686 remains source-only. No proof or step declared passed.
- 2026-09-15 · MEASURED RETRY OUTCOMES: runtime64686 guard and runtime5927 proxies both ended after DeepSeek/Qwen/Zai each returned no response within120s; zero edits. Runtime89483 Fable screen writer also ended usage-limited, four JS diffs empty. SKIPPY-NEXT independently reports all four instrument modes absent; fixtures alone exist, so no mode is called ready. Peer Fable bounded judgment accepts process-only GRUNT_TIMEOUT_MS=300000 together with splitting the work into small jobs. Created isolated sparse worktree .claude/worktrees/talk-app from cf4be47af4; family proxy contract-forwarding alone dispatched Qwen runtime8011, max4 steps/900s, source syntax proof only. One Fable screen writer restarted on configured nick-seven subscription, runtime38137, own four JS files in private worktrees only. No account value exposed, no paid fallback, no deployed change, no prior test rerun.
- 2026-09-15 · FIRST SOURCE CHANGE / PAGE READBACK: Qwen smaller family contract-forwarding task wrote exactly skippy-chat.js in private worktree and passed syntax, router run cheap-1789486933628-dqsj2c. Astra source read caught null-root compatibility defect (body && body.contract); correction plus safe replay/header forwarding and buffered label dispatched as next small task, runtime71705. Hub field-forwarding alone dispatched in its private hub-talk worktree, streamed transport follows separately. Continuous guard offline grader first part runs DeepSeek runtime62763; bare live mode must refuse until collector is built. Fable nick-seven screen writer is active with read tools, owns four JS files. Progress page deployment fa99f5ce read back through real Codex browser: correct current summary and0/5; temporary tab closed. Earlier403 readback gap resolved. No app proof or step closed.
- 2026-09-15 · NICK WIDENS EXECUTION AUTHORITY IN THIS TASK: “you can do anythignn that fable was meant to do”; Astra may perform Fable judgment, screen builds and design grading directly. Existing active Fable screen writer kept to avoid duplicate work; requested that it release panel.js for Astra parallel work, acknowledgement pending before any overlapping edit. Nick also says “also free to use mic and speakers for testing anytime”. Updated existing state/sound-grant.json with exact words, timestamp, standing/until-revoked fields and prior grant retained; existing guard’s required until date uses9999-12-31 non-expiring representation. Actual grantAllows predicate extracted without executing browser sweep: accepts now and2030, refuses by:agent. No guard code changed.
- 2026-09-15 · STEP2 SOURCE BUILT, NOT SERVED: Astra took all screen files after stopping own Fable pid98814 (no app edits; it had moved to routing-override investigation; no gate changed). panel.js pins authoritative sessionId and ledger replyTo, checks reply headers, suppresses duplicate replyId and stops own sound/requests on selection, dictation, hide and navigation. voice.js validates talk/1 event ids/seq and pinned identities in both parsers, grows one turn on arrival, streams typed answers, filters history by conversation, refetches every doorbell with trailing coalescing and limits returned-result speech to live arrival. Hub updates one keyed turn and keeps progress separate. Cheap Hub stream attempt was refused on new-network-call capability; no vendor edit survived. Astra implemented that connection in protected lane using existing signed-session/login helper, no gate change. Qwen family replay change and exact null-body correction pass syntax; DeepSeek offline continuous grader schema fix passes controls, actual collector remains missing. Fresh read-only Fable source checker pid67984/runtime38799 sees current diff and criteria only. New surfaces --contracts source is present; Astra sent its owner exact false-green gaps (family-only coverage, status500 accepted as identity refusal, missing per-frame IDs/seq equality, missing wrong-turn/dedupe case and incomplete version requirements). No step closed; no served app deploy.
- 2026-09-15 · INDEPENDENT SOURCE REVIEW RETURNED FAIL, REPAIRS APPLIED: native Fable claude-fable-5-1 runtime38799 read-only found retry event-sequence state surviving into a fresh stream, old-parser final text missing from drawn history keys, and idle speech losing its explanation. Astra reset per-attempt event validation while retaining progress event dedupe, marked old-parser final paint, and preserved honest idle text while keeping exact association mandatory. Added typed speech through the existing queue, linked request cancellation, separated interrupted text from Working, and represented accepted delivery as saved rather than failed. Cross-conversation filtering remains deliberate per frozen contract; its stale comment corrected. Two Qwen tiny proxy edits add fixture-required unsupported-contract error field, source-only. Requested peer Status-mode real microphone helper and exported served-version stamp for the continuous collector. Asked both ea and sole brain integrator36 to confirm talk/1 and thread-association writer/readiness; no app activation before server support. No served proof or step closed.
- 2026-09-15 · CHAT CONNECTION PACKAGE HANDED TO RELEASE OWNER, SOURCE ONLY: /tmp/talk-family-chat.patch SHA256 e2995926b2fa329a4b2f0f4a959e0e4414b4e18eb92b5f23c1fc45a303d03d51 (base cf4be47af4) and /tmp/talk-hub-chat.patch SHA256 67f0d92a471de7ad25508ea05b4596626e5d4ef34e2f52806188ca3f02ca9704 (Hub base82f7eaf9). Qwen repaired fixture-required409 error, runs cheap-1789488633712-pj08n5 and cheap-1789488622436-hutpjd, syntax passed. Earlier tiny runs used wrong relative tool paths and ended10 steps with no edits; corrected retries used full worktree paths. Native source checker transport/legacy verdict accepted; live contracts not passed. Peer17:40 ownership line wrongly reclaimed chat proxies; immediately corrected through socket against Nick’s direct fence: this lane remains source writer for chat/tts/adaptor, ea integrates/releases; peer owns thread/history/task-state proxies and brain serialization/association.
- 2026-09-15 16:13Z · NEW STATUS TEST DOOR SERVED PROBE: helper40985c28f9 and exported versionStamp opened real family Status page with real-mic flag,13 rows,0 general Talk calls; only own browser closed. Receipt /tmp/talk-status-door-probe.json records brainBuild5c5a9df2a492/brainCode5c33a1195dda,voice73,sw855,voiceSHA4bed020e59948b16,HubSHA03dc82ec512a82d2. Setup proof only, not STEP2/5 outcome. Continuous observer builder DeepSeek runtime19530 adds exact Blob-to-reply association and measured nonzero audio samples, no mocked playback. Source-only typed-path exercise accepted progress+answer once, preserved typed origin, and refused a wrong conversation without drawing or speech. Product outcomes remain open.
- 2026-09-15 · STEP2 SCREEN PACKAGE HANDED OFF FOR GATED RELEASE: independent Fable same-checker follow-up runtime27558 returned SOURCE REPAIRS ACCEPTED for all three defects plus typed speech/retry/confirmation and Hub observer; its minor typed progress live-session guard applied. /tmp/talk-family-screens.patch SHA256 5a1365a364eeefcfc634fc596b42e207510ba97f70add7647ae1650df5e3f91e contains only voice.js/panel.js; /tmp/talk-hub-screen.patch SHA256 fd96204481029d5b1d4730aead73a1e4162ffd9d6180c4bdef78f8e42b414677 contains only neeko-talk-panel.js. Source frozen for release intake; current talk-panel.js is retired by served index. Peer corrected17:40 ownership line in place and confirms no duplicate chat/tts builder. Server talk/1/association goes first, then app activation, then served contracts/conversation proof; no step closed. Actual roster now Astra coordinator, DeepSeek continuous-observer builder19530; Fable checker exited, Qwen proxy builders finished.
- 2026-09-15 · VERSION STAMP DEFECT FOUND BEFORE OUTCOME PROOF: shared versionStamp reads first /deck-family-v\d+/ anywhere in sw.js, which matches obsolete line1 comment855; actual source declaration line597 is CACHE857. The Status setup receipt’s sw855 is now explicitly UNVERIFIED, not evidence of a rollback. Sent owner exact comment-before-declaration counterexample and requested anchored declaration extraction (plus actual script-src extraction). Other setup observations remain; no prior suite repeated.
- 2026-09-15 · FIVE-MINUTE LOOP / GUARD RETRY: North Star unchanged; screen/proxy sources frozen with release owner, no late product edits. DeepSeek observer runtime19530 exceeded its15-minute budget with read/search only and zero writes; own exact node pid28503 did not stop on INT/TERM, so killed that pid after confirming no observer function existed. No browser process touched. Smaller Qwen retry34605 now owns only guard function insertion; exact marker, bounded line reads, network observations first and real audio measurement follows as next tiny task. No routing gate changed. Continuous driver brief staged in /tmp for the next non-overlapping write. Latest progress page read back through Codex browser with accepted source repairs, packaged release and0/5; temporary tab closed.
- 2026-09-15 · CHAT PROXIES RELEASED BY OWNER: peer18:35 intake says exact patches applied unchanged, family deploy36ea0c01, Hub commit0aa4d14d/deployd9c3ec8c. Read actual served receipt surfaces-contracts-2026-09-15-mu2vkrto.json (16:16:58Z):9/15 cases true, verdict FAIL; six remaining include legacy shape and talk/1 frame identity/typed behavior. Screen patches not landed. Corrected shared version readers1876f77576 bind CACHE and script src; earlier855 labels remain caveated. Exact concatenation comparison and shared wrong-turn/duplicate-delivery served-client cases remain with instrument owner (peer19:10 accepts original requirements). Peer reports contradictory routing reviews prevent even local server splice and has filed talk1-brain-two-gates-disagree; safe split-input alternative assessed but local application still rejected. No gate weakened, no server edit here.
- 2026-09-15 · CONTINUOUS COLLECTOR PROGRESS: Qwen smaller observer task34605 completed, run cheap-1789489710424-61smhx, node syntax accepted; actual function records microphone/network and maps real response Blobs to association. Source read found request pointer/text incorrectly taken from response; exact correction bundled with next tiny audio-observer task56613 (Qwen), which measures real analyser samples and preserves original playback promises. Driver remains next and no live continuous pass is claimed.
- 2026-09-15 · JOINT ORIGIN HEADER AMENDMENT: SKIPPY-NEXT entry labelled21:05 countersigns x-skippy-surface with closed enum family-talk|hub-talk|status-thread|slack|whatsapp|gmail. Each chat proxy fixes its own value; never copy client input. Unknown or absent means no origin.surface; existing body surface unchanged. Qwen family cheap-1789490435178-e91ura and Hub cheap-1789490424233-gfsqjb add incremental proxy headers, syntax/diff checks pass. Hub buffered path additionally depends on its owner extending _voice-brain.js with optional trusted surface argument; peer reports the same contradictory routing refusals there as on server.js, so this dependency remains unlanded. Header patches packaged separately from frozen screens. Shared speaker helper86ebfa3a7f source now checks Nick and bounds playback to60000ms; no healthy audio retest. Driver Qwen90673 remains sole guard writer. No additional served outcome closed.
- 2026-09-15 · RECORDER DELTA CHECK: isolated actual continuousAudioObservation source exercised with controlled media objects: original Blob association survives URL creation; missing analyser records no sound; no-op pause records no cancellation; measured nonzero samples and real paused state record correct reply identity; original play promise retained. Source-only instrumentation evidence, not a served outcome. Shared synthesiseHuman already uses OpenAI but silently falls back to Samantha on failure; requested its owner add strict option before physical continuous tests. Current driver90673 still reading with zero runContinuous function, no concurrent guard writer. Remaining three shared instrument flags still absent by exact rg in surfaces.mjs and voice-latency.mjs; owner asked for status. Latest page deploy569f4584 serves current lane status, no finish-line outcome passed.
- 2026-09-15 · SERVER INPUT LANDED / ACTIVATE STEP2: read actual surfaces-contracts-2026-09-15-mu2ws8wh.json at16:50:53Z, brainBuild46571e800ef0/code6e49ea04220c, talk/1, family857/voice73/hash4bed020e59948b16, Hub03dc82ec512a82d2. Fifteen cases true independently on each surface, verdict pass. No rerun. Wrong-turn and duplicate-event served-client cases remain in shared conversation proof, so do not yet close full contract outcome. Sole release owner ea asked to activate frozen screen patches and coordinate clean Hub release; family source header deployed, Hub header/helper still pending. Peer21:45 says Nick directly answered routing disagreement; prior claim that an exception was requested corrected, no gate weakened. Router defect remains for its owner.
- 2026-09-15 · COLLECTOR ESCALATION: broad Qwen90673 stopped exactpid32082 after six minutes read/search zero writes; narrowed Qwen52664 endedexit12 at5.1min against5min, zero writes/restores. Under two-attempt escalation Astra built runContinuous in sole guard file; source syntax and missing-input negative control pass, no-flag live-test body byte-identical. Fresh Fable pid93203/session84382 reviews source read-only; no live continuous pass. Driver uses OpenAI helper and refuses non-.human.wav legacy fallback before physical playback; four scratch pointers still with peer.
- 2026-09-15 · THREAD DEPENDENCY REMAINS: peer22:20 read release package and confirms thread-reply still lacks authoritative sessionId and thread-say lacks the four association headers. Chat receipt does not establish thread readiness; my activation request corrected, sole release owner holds screens and is building association next. Strict synthesiseHuman third-argument option now source-read, rethrows instead of fallback; Hub common-helper6b3948a2 still awaiting coordinated deploy. No healthy retest.
- 2026-09-15 · RECORDER REVIEW RETRY: first Fable93203 stopped after tool-use loop requested Bash under Read-only allowlist, no verdict; inline/tool-free Fable29407 produced no verdict and was stopped after approximately five minutes. Recorder tightened to await actual mic-open, compare physical test words to submitted transcript with digit/word normalization, and read ended state only from #mc-thread-state rather than conversation text. DeepSeek review first refused because the pasted mandatory travel block literally contained rotating a credential; actual task is read-only source review. Corrected brief reads the same original rules block rather than pasting its unrelated approval-class examples; no gate/scan changed, no source data removed. Corrected review60605 active, only rules read permitted, no product edits. No recorder approval or live pass claimed.
- 2026-09-15 · FRESH SOURCE CHECK / REAL DEFECTS REPAIRED: native Fable reviews produced no verdict; DeepSeek read-only attempt returned no text and tool nudged it to write, so stopped exactpid58480 before any edit. Fresh inherited-Astra child continuous_source_check, read-only and no children, independently found four false passes: idle counted as main reply, expected session learned from first response, extra/late sends or replay missed, and failed receipts regraded green. Repaired with answered reply-kind, independently provisioned EXPECTED_SESSION_ID, final complete-event reconciliation and failed/missing-evidence refusal. Checker invoked actual validator in memory: complete fixture passes internal/external; seven targeted corruptions refuse. It additionally found ten-second cancellation passed; collector and validator now require actual pause within existing STEP2 bound200ms, final boundary review running. This is instrument-source review only, no served outcome. Header source commits1f7106f494 family and69e9c2de Hub preserve the previously handed patch content.
- 2026-09-15 · STEP0 OWN GUARD SOURCE ACCEPTED: fresh checker continuous_source_check accepts repaired bounded cancellation; actual validator200ms passes,201ms and10seconds refuse, no repeated old controls. Earlier fresh check accepted complete internal/external evidence and refused FAIL verdict, idle main answer, wrong pinned session, extra send, late replay, changed versions, missing observations. Private commitb56a2adfbf; /tmp/talk-thread-continuous-guard.patch sha4300025e947580afba1b10c2851f299db9df6cf3cc179d50d30a54b83ec53973 handed to ea. This closes source preparation of our one new instrument, not STEP5 or any served outcome. Roster: parent Astra, fresh inherited-Astra checker finished; no native Fable/cheap task process remains from this pass. Continue from authoritative thread association served receipt, then coordinated screens and shared conversation mode; later STEPS3–5 remain in order. Four scratch pointers plus independent expected session ID requested. No human input needed by this lane; five-minute continuation remains active.
- 2026-09-15 · SERVED PROGRESS READBACK: deploymentbb6034d1 confirmed; raw HTTP reader received403, so opened actual progress page in Codex browser. Visible summary includes accepted recorder, fifteen contract cases and held Status-thread dependency,0/5 full outcomes. Own temporary tab3 closed. Existing heartbeat talk-app-lane-progress re-read ACTIVE at five-minute interval. No new product proof run.
- 2026-09-15T20:35Z · CONTINUATION: All16 conversation cases independently ACCEPTED as separate collections: family9 and Hub7, composite evidence/conversation-behaviour-composite.json cites four original receipts with hashes, exact selected traces and stable relevant executing versions. This is case coverage, not one continuous session or cross-case timing. Hub screen deploymentbc2d8e55 serves6f589a4e8844d5ba; familyvoice76ac87a55c77047dbb/panel9670bfc0b261cf7c93/cache860 and brain62aa02abc2fc/code23ddfb90c243. Tiny background grader patch730998942d7e8652f0cd14358805b11a87bebce924ee21a096896df00f91849d with four additional empty-content negatives179/179 handed to sole main writer ea. Two Talk heights pass with canonical text; Status no-strip passes only under simulated healthy stream-open, not evidence of actual connection repair. Independent visual review underway from25 saved captures; capture worker stopped after saving, exact script processes no longer running. STEP2 remains OPEN for complete visual review, live interruption <=200ms, and authoritative reply association; existing same-thread earlier-row check does not prove answer correlation. Four scratch threads and PCM/audio-stream/turn-taking readiness requested from owner. No old passing behavior rerun. Paid OpenAI required and verified header/suffix enforced for test audio; no stock fallback. STEPS3–5 remain open in order.
- 2026-09-15 · PAID OPENAI VOICE: Nick: "use the paid openai voice this is robitic". Live signed family speech request returned HTTP200, X-Voice-Engine=openai, audio/ogg, 36882 bytes; converted and played through the granted physical-speaker helper, exit0. This establishes the confirmation clip’s actual provider, not the identity of the earlier robotic clip. Found successful server fallback could bypass strict HTTP-only checking; handed to SKIPPY-NEXT. Read back its helper repair: strict rejects non-openai response headers and uses fresh .openai-verified.wav cache, both audible conversation call sites pass strict:true. Own continuous proof collector suffix updated to accept only that verified namespace; narrow independent source check ACCEPT: verified suffix accepted, old human/stock suffixes rejected. Incremental patch handed to release owner: /tmp/talk-thread-openai-verified.patch, SHA256 962e3f02744071957cef910516605f1548f0c2e0bfbeb48be2fe2edaa7482b33. No product screen deploy or full outcome claimed.
- 2026-09-15T17:53Z · FAMILY RELEASE / ASSOCIATION DEFECT: Fresh signed served GETs: index HTTP200 hash f16a2de4a1d9f397 references voice74/panel96; voice74 HTTP200 SHA256prefix42144d6d0088e89a, panel96 HTTP200 70bfc0b261cf7c93. SW GET hashc487558d64426c39 first cache-label match857, so peer v858 claim is not independently adopted as cache version. Read existing surfaces mu2xxczj receipt at17:21:54Z: both doors open/listen/answer with shared voice hash42144d6d0088e89a and family menu passes. Contracts mu2xc6tq at17:06:20Z still records voice73/cache857 and is NOT post-screen proof. Peer association claim insufficient: server.js:14860 echoes askedReplyTo into X-Thread-Reply-To; source sent back to SKIPPY-NEXT with negative control requiring an old answer not be relabelled for another message. No server edit. Hub remains unpublished per owner; no outcome closed.
- 2026-09-15T18:00Z · TURN-TAKING HANDOVER: Peer 01:20 label reports Nick now prefers earlier speech with immediate stop on resumed speech and no repeated interruption loop; requested direct session/message pointer and any explicit reprioritization. Recorded as reported preference, not silent replacement of the frozen proof bar. Own source reads: current client session update uses1500ms atvoice.js:4107, fragment grace1200ms at602; speech-start cancellation exists but code presence does not prove200ms stopping or loop prevention. Before a design choice, establish current detector, timestamped partial transcripts, effective session updates and episode reset. STEP4 itself permits isolated measurement now but sequenced integration follows STEPS2/3. No source edit, no human question.
- 2026-09-15T18:09Z · ISOLATED TRANSCRIPT OBSERVATION UNMEASURED: Temporary /tmp/talk-transcript-observe.mjs uses existing muted served-app door, new WebSocket event timestamp observer and strict paid OpenAI fixture synthesis. Attempt1 timed out after reload because start orb was not invoked; corrected to existing door start behavior. Attempt2 reached Listening but paid speech request returned401 before audio: muted doors/voice.mjs:225 omits cookie from returned context, unlike audible helper. Strict mode correctly refused a substitute. Both owned test browsers closed in finally; no speakers played, no product file changed. At two attempts handed observer and exact harness defect to SKIPPY-NEXT for its owned turn-taking instrument. No conclusion about whether partial transcripts arrive during speech; no human action.
- 2026-09-15T18:17Z · RELEASE RECONCILIATION: Peer reports Nick instructed "make 1.5 secs 0.7 secs and ill ask to raise that if needed" plus additional acknowledgements, landed across e7c97c768a and63e4e77fd0 with intervening comment sync. Compared main/privatevoice.js; only timing plus acknowledgement arrays/comments differ. Main file matches committedHEAD. Copied only committed voice.js into own private tree0591377b77; syntax passes, no redeploy. Fresh served18:16:26Z index200 SHA777d24e560ab0187 referencesvoice76; voice76 HTTP200 SHAac87a55c77047dbb contains700ms; sw HTTP200 SHA cb07845de05ffdff includes cache860 among historical names. Existing frozen screen package is consumed; future voice patches start from reconciled released source. Original timing observation had no result before this release, so no stale timing result exists to discard. Requested return of exclusive voice.js writer ownership. Prompt stopping and no interruption loop remain to be measured; static cancellation code is not proof.
- 2026-09-15T18:24Z · TRANSCRIPT TIMING OBSERVATION: Raw /tmp/talk-transcript-observation.json, collector /tmp/talk-transcript-observe.mjs, measured18:23:34Z. Muted digital microphone input using strict paid OpenAI verified audio. Recorded voice URLv76, separately fetched source SHA256prefixac87a55c77047dbb. One item: 33 transcription deltas, zero before speech_stopped; first delta241.2ms after stop, completion807.9ms after stop. Fresh read-only checker continuous_source_check ACCEPTS arithmetic and shared browser performance.now receipt clock. Narrow conclusion only: this browser received no transcript deltas before the stop event on this sample. Not physical speech-end latency, server processing latency, general utterance behavior, or exact executing-byte attestation (hash is separate URL fetch). Sent raw record and limitation to SKIPPY-NEXT session-configuration owner; timely words-before-turn-end is not established. Nick700ms setting preserved; no full STEP4 verdict.
- 2026-09-15T19:22Z · INSTRUMENT ALLOCATION ACCEPTED: SKIPPY-NEXT05:15 assigns authoring surfaces.mjs --conversation-behaviour as package; owner integrates, no direct main-file write. Existing _selftest already registers mode; preserve row. Live cases both surfaces: growing answer/progress, wrong turn, duplicate delivered event in draw and playback, returned result/reopen, foreign conversation, tap/cancel/background; family widths/menu/idle-thread. Required complete stable served stamps; positive synthetic grader sample plus independent negative controls. Private phase1 only builds grader/CLI, live runner explicitly refuses until collector exists. Independent design adversary identified8 issues, incorporated before corrected build. No mode called built or proven yet.