Aliveness overhaul: restore dropped face channels, persistent temperament, per-persona character, spoken failures - #231
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Tracks the audit-identified aliveness defects across firmware, bridge, and documentation with evidence-disciplined statuses: done-source never implies physical qualification. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…01..AL-05) The face animator rebuilt its pose from scratch and dropped the persona layer's faceX/faceY, mouth deltas, lid tilts, eye corners, and pupil scale - so breath translation, yawns, gaze lead, and sound orientation were computed every frame and never rendered. Those channels now pass through, and the animator's private second BreathRhythm is gone: IdleLife owns the one shared breath for face and body. Also: remove the ActuationEngine idle sine sway that reintroduced the metronomic motion HeadGaze replaced; give the idle gaze drift a re-jittered period instead of a fixed 14.3 s sine; seed the blink/ saccade/fidget/breath/head-gaze streams from hardware entropy at boot (deterministic defaults preserved for native tests); persist emotion baseline and habituation to NVS with a 10-minute cadence; make circadian/ambient context a dt-scaled stored target instead of an unbounded per-message impulse; and let sleep pay back sleep pressure so natural waking is reachable. Delete the dead duplicate Blink/Saccade generators. Native suite: 322/322. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Send signed valence to the firmware response_start frame instead of clamping to [0,1]; face and TTS now agree on concern (AFFECT-001's open half). - Make pip and bolt real characters with their own traits, identity rule, and spoken lines; restore the two safety prompt rules Glow had silently dropped; validator now rejects a pack whose identity rule names another persona or drops the hierarchy/memory-privacy floors; scaffold rewrites the identity rule it copies. - Move the Spark-only conversation style out of Python into per-pack personas/<id>/style.md loaded as PersonaPack.conversation_style, with new palettes for glow, pip, and bolt; character_harness no longer loads the default persona at module import. - Speak model failures: a runner error now produces a short in-character recovery line through the normal TTS/downlink path instead of a bare silent error frame, with the real error kept in runner telemetry. A configured-but-broken TTS is reported as tts_error instead of silently passing as a successful text turn. Bridge suites: persona_pack 20/20, character harness+red team 56/56, lan_service 125/125. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
…AL-10..AL-12) - New bridge/affect_state.py: bounded cross-session mood baseline and rapport in a dedicated affect_state.json beside the memory file, injected as one coarse host-derived prompt line. Deliberately outside BridgeMemory: MEMORY_CONTRACT.md gates new memory-schema work behind the AUDIT-03 repairs, and this state carries no user data. Hard bands mirror the firmware temperament bands; rapport relaxes on idle days. - Initiative turns now receive the relationship card and conversation context instead of empty tuples, and a successfully spoken proactive line opens a bounded conversation lease (heartbeat frame carries the state) so the user can answer without re-saying the wake phrase. - Character-beat selection mixes a per-process rotation salt so the same question after a restart draws a different quip; within-session anti-repetition is unchanged and STACKCHAN_BEAT_ROTATION_SALT pins it for deterministic runs. Bridge suite: 601/601. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The doc set was pinned to baseline 39b750e while three of its open P0 defects were fixed on main: demo-mode boot default (45032a4, PR #230), the 10-second host capture lease (8e76b86, PR #226, now 13.5 s decoupled), and dashboard stale readiness (7fd8e0a, PR #222). This branch also fixed the response-start valence clamp (482c3ab), the other half of AFFECT-001. Scorecard, audit, gap analysis, task ledger, project state, bridge handoff, and the Conversation v2 roadmap now carry dated source-fix annotations. No Fail row was promoted, and every note states the fixes are physically unqualified: the genuinely open blockers (F3 vision delivering zero detections, F1 error-path qualification, stranded SPEAKING terminals) now stand out instead of hiding among fixed rows. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Follow-up to the 2026-08-13 full-repo aliveness audit. Tracking ledger:
ALIVENESS_WORKPLAN.md(AL-01..AL-14). Every firmware change stops at done-source: nothing here claims physical qualification, and no image was flashed.Firmware (AL-01..AL-05)
FaceAnimator::samplePoserebuilt its pose from scratch and discarded the persona layer'sfaceX/faceY, mouth deltas, lid tilts, eye corners, and pupil scale — so breath translation, yawns, gaze lead, and sound orientation were computed every frame and never rendered. They now pass through, covered by a composed-path test.BreathRhythmis gone; IdleLife owns the single shared rhythm for face and body.ActuationEngineidle sine sway (which reintroduced exactly the motion HeadGaze replaced) and gave the idle gaze drift a re-jittered period instead of a fixed 14.3 s sine. Dead duplicateBlink.hpp/Saccade.hppremoved.esp_random()at boot; native tests keep deterministic defaults.Bridge (AL-06..AL-12)
personas/<id>/style.md; all four packs now carry one.tts_errorinstead of silently passing.affect_state.json(deliberately outside BridgeMemory — MEMORY_CONTRACT gates schema work behind the AUDIT-03 repairs; this state carries no user data).Docs (AL-13)
Synced the seven status docs with fixes already merged on main (PRs #222/#226/#230) plus this branch's valence fix, using dated "fixed in source, physically unqualified" annotations — the genuinely open blockers (F3 vision, F1 error paths, stranded SPEAKING) now stand out.
Verification
pio test -e native_logic: 322/322 (was 304 baseline; new composed-path, persistence, entropy, natural-wake coverage)pio run -e stackchan_release_full: builds cleanunittest discover -s bridge): 601/601main(environment-level; tracked separately, not introduced here)🤖 Generated with Claude Code