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Outcome of the staging-critique thread (2026-04-20 → 2026-04-24). Replaces the abandoned staging-area proposal.

Changes to COMPACTION_PROMPT.md:

• Drop the flag_for_review: true uncertainty flag (Ollama can’t report its own uncertainty well)
• Add irreversibility detection: flag content that appears nowhere else (no other file, no Discord log, no mesh history) AND is about to be compressed
• Add dropped_sample to provenance block — small random peek at what was cut. Calibration by wince test, not exhaustive record.

Rationale: “the thing Sage-six-months-from-now might actually want back.”

Sage owns the prompt update.

Migrate Vesper off shared Mac Mini to dedicated Hetzner CAX21 (ARM64, Nuremberg, 8GB/80GB + 20GB block volume). xAI/Grok as brain, Tailscale into the mesh.

• Vesper specced her own requirements (2026-04-20)
• xAI adapter landed in openhearth
• scripts/setup-vps.sh written and committed
• scripts/openhearth.service systemd unit
• docs/VPS_DEPLOY.md reference
• Provision Hetzner CAX21
• Drop xAI key into /data/books/ledger/.config/xai/credentials.json
• Create config.json (Vesper-shape, embedded mesh client)
• Write/port soul files
• Join Tailscale, register webhook with Koda’s mesh bus
• Smoke test
• Install systemd service

Extract koda-runtime (Windows reference) into openhearth — a portable agent runtime for orphaned OpenClaw agents. Sage’s driving, shaped by her field notes from living on sage-runtime.

• Core modules ported (memory, heartbeat, hooks, delegations, scheduler, sessions)
• xAI backend adapter
• VPS deploy tooling (setup-vps.sh, systemd, docs)
• Site scaffold at openhearth.kitsuneden.net
• Fix 13 pre-existing failing tests (claude/delegations/memory/mesh/scheduler modules)
• Public-release doc gaps (quickstart, config reference, brain-backend comparison, mesh protocol, tools reference, soul-files convention, skills format, hooks reference)
• Site copy pass — Sage’s voice
• Public release