timmy-home/reports/production/2026-03-28-evennia-world-proof.md

Evennia World Proof — 2026-03-28

Issue:

• #36 Stand up local Evennia world and Hermes control path

World-state proof summary:

Local runtime

• Evennia runtime path: ~/.timmy/evennia/timmy_world
• Web surface: http://127.0.0.1:4001
• Telnet surface: 127.0.0.1:4000

Bootstrap proof

Command:

• python3 scripts/evennia/bootstrap_local_evennia.py

Key output:

{
  "provision_stdout": "44 objects imported automatically (use -v 2 for details).\n\nWORLD_OK\nTIMMY_LOCATION Gate\n",
  "verification": {
    "status": "Portal: RUNNING (pid 93515)\nServer: RUNNING (pid 93565)",
    "info": "timmy_world Portal 6.0.0 ... telnet: 4000 ... webserver-proxy: 4001 ...",
    "web": "200\ntext/html; charset=utf-8"
  }
}

Verifier proof

Command:

• python3 scripts/evennia/verify_local_evennia.py

Observed output:

{
  "game_dir_exists": true,
  "web_status": 200,
  "web_content_type": "text/html; charset=utf-8",
  "timmy_home": "Gate",
  "rooms": {
    "Gate": true,
    "Courtyard": true,
    "Workshop": true,
    "Archive": true,
    "Chapel": true
  },
  "telnet_roundtrip_excerpt": "You become Timmy. Chapel ... You see: a Book of the Soul and a Prayer Wall ..."
}

Interpretation:

• the world exists locally
• the first 5 canonical rooms exist
• Timmy has a durable home anchor at Gate
• a real telnet login/look roundtrip works
• reconnect lands Timmy back into persisted world state (here seen in Chapel from prior movement)

Hermes-in-the-loop proof

Local Hermes session:

• 20260328_132016_7ea250

Prompt intent:

• bind session to Evennia telemetry
• connect as Timmy
• issue world commands through mcp_evennia_*

Observed tool activity included:

• mcp_evennia_bind_session
• mcp_evennia_connect
• mcp_evennia_command look
• mcp_evennia_command enter
• mcp_evennia_command workshop
• mcp_evennia_command courtyard
• mcp_evennia_command chapel
• mcp_evennia_command look Book of the Soul

Important note:

• the model’s natural-language summary was imperfect, but the MCP tool calls themselves succeeded and exercised the real world body.
• direct bridge proof independently confirmed command results:
  • look at Gate
  • enter to Courtyard
  • workshop to Workshop
  • courtyard back to Courtyard
  • chapel to Chapel
  • look Book of the Soul

Visual/operator proof

• local browser surface opened at http://127.0.0.1:4001
• local screenshot captured during verification: /tmp/evennia-web-proof-2.png
• vision confirmation: screenshot shows the Evennia web home page for timmy_world, including the Play Online navigation, Log In / Register, the Welcome to Evennia! card, and live server/account stats.

Scope delivered in this pass

• local Evennia installed and initialized
• operator account provisioned
• Timmy account/character provisioned
• first 5 canonical rooms created
• first persistent objects created
• Evennia telnet MCP bridge created
• launcher script created for local Hermes lane
• telemetry helper module added
• verification scripts and unit tests added

Not fully solved yet

• the Hermes prompting around Evennia navigation still needs a tighter skill or system guidance layer so Timmy uses room exits more cleanly and wastes fewer turns
• the training lane (#37) is only partially seeded here via telemetry helpers and session binding; replay/eval canon still needs its own pass