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
├── channel_directory.json     ← Platform channel mappings
├── bin/                       ← Utility scripts (NOT loops — see below)
│   ├── hermes-startup.sh      ← Hermes boot sequence
│   ├── agent-dispatch.sh      ← Manual agent dispatch
│   ├── ops-panel.sh           ← Ops dashboard panel
│   ├── ops-gitea.sh           ← Gitea ops helpers
│   └── timmy-status.sh        ← Status check
├── memories/                  ← Persistent memory YAML
├── skins/                     ← UI skins (timmy skin)
├── playbooks/                 ← Agent playbooks (YAML)
├── cron/                      ← Cron job definitions
└── training/                  ← Transitional training recipes, not canonical lived data

Boundary

timmy-config owns identity, conscience, memories, skins, playbooks, channel maps, 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.

Orchestration: Huey

All orchestration (triage, PR review, dispatch) runs via Huey with SQLite. orchestration.py (6 lines) + tasks.py (~70 lines) replace the entire sovereign-orchestration repo (3,846 lines).

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

Deploy

# 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.