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 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.

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.