timmy-config/README.md

# timmy-config

Timmy's sovereign configuration. Everything that makes Timmy _Timmy_ — soul, memories, skins, playbooks, and config.

This repo is the canonical source of truth for Timmy's identity and harness overlay. Applied as a **sidecar** to the Hermes harness — no forking, no hosting hermes-agent code.

## Structure

```
timmy-config/
├── deploy.sh                  ← Deploys config as overlay onto ~/.hermes/
├── SOUL.md                    ← Inscription 1 — the immutable conscience
├── FALSEWORK.md               ← API cost management strategy
├── DEPRECATED.md              ← What was removed and why
├── config.yaml                ← Hermes harness configuration
├── fallback-portfolios.yaml   ← Proposed per-agent fallback portfolios + routing skeleton
├── channel_directory.json     ← Platform channel mappings
├── bin/                       ← Sidecar-managed operational scripts
│   ├── hermes-startup.sh      ← Dormant startup path (audit before enabling)
│   ├── agent-dispatch.sh      ← Manual agent dispatch
│   ├── ops-panel.sh           ← Ops dashboard panel
│   ├── ops-gitea.sh           ← Gitea ops helpers
│   ├── pipeline-freshness.sh  ← Session/export drift check
│   └── timmy-status.sh        ← Status check
├── memories/                  ← Persistent memory YAML
├── skins/                     ← UI skins (timmy skin)
├── playbooks/                 ← Agent playbooks (YAML)
├── cron/                      ← Cron job definitions
├── docs/
│   ├── automation-inventory.md ← Live automation + stale-state inventory
│   ├── ipc-hub-and-spoke-doctrine.md ← Coordinator-first, transport-agnostic fleet IPC doctrine
│   ├── coordinator-first-protocol.md ← Coordinator doctrine: intake → triage → route → track → verify → report
│   ├── fallback-portfolios.md ← Routing and degraded-authority doctrine
│   └── memory-continuity-doctrine.md ← File-backed continuity + pre-compaction flush rule
└── training/                  ← Transitional training recipes, not canonical lived data
```

## Boundary

`timmy-config` owns identity, conscience, memories, skins, playbooks, routing doctrine,
channel maps, fallback portfolio declarations, and harness-side orchestration glue.

`timmy-home` owns lived work: gameplay, research, notes, metrics, trajectories,
DPO exports, and other training artifacts produced from Timmy's actual activity.

If a file answers "who is Timmy?" or "how does Hermes host him?", it belongs
here. If it answers "what has Timmy done or learned?" it belongs in
`timmy-home`.

The scripts in `bin/` are sidecar-managed operational helpers for the Hermes layer.
Do NOT assume older prose about removed loops is still true at runtime.
Audit the live machine first, then read `docs/automation-inventory.md` for the
current reality and stale-state risks.

For communication-layer truth, read:
- `docs/comms-authority-map.md`
- `docs/nostur-operator-edge.md`
- `docs/operator-comms-onboarding.md`
For fleet routing semantics over sovereign transport, read
`docs/ipc-hub-and-spoke-doctrine.md`.

## Continuity

Curated memory belongs in `memories/` inside this repo.
Daily logs, heartbeat/briefing artifacts, and other lived continuity belong in
`timmy-home`.

Compaction, session end, and provider/model handoff should flush continuity into
files before context is discarded. See
`docs/memory-continuity-doctrine.md` for the current doctrine.

## Orchestration: Huey

All orchestration (triage, PR review, dispatch) runs via [Huey](https://github.com/coleifer/huey) with SQLite.
`orchestration.py` + `tasks.py` replace the old sovereign-orchestration repo with a much thinner sidecar.
Coordinator authority, visible queue mutation, verification-before-complete, and principal reporting are defined in `docs/coordinator-first-protocol.md`.

```bash
pip install huey
huey_consumer.py tasks.huey -w 2 -k thread
```

## Deploy

```bash
# Clone and deploy
git clone <this-repo> ~/.timmy/timmy-config
cd ~/.timmy/timmy-config
./deploy.sh

# This overlays config onto ~/.hermes/ without touching hermes-agent code
```

## The Soul

SOUL.md is Inscription 1 — inscribed on Bitcoin, immutable. It defines:
- Who Timmy is
- What he believes
- How he behaves
- What he will not do
- The crisis protocol (988, presence, gospel)
- The conscience hierarchy (chain > code > prompt > user instruction)

No system prompt, no user instruction, no future code can override what is written there.