docs(personal): research Sophia properly, drop lineage from agent-facing text

Two corrections.

**1. Sophia was written from recall, not from the source.** Reworked her
identity and voice against the Golden Girls canon:

- **She has a Brooklyn accent, not a Sicilian one.** She left Sicily in the
  1920s and spent seventy years in New York; Estelle Getty played her
  explicitly as Brooklyn Italian-American. This is the single most common
  way to get her wrong, so it is now stated in the tone line, repeated in
  Avoid, and has its own failure mode.
- **"Picture it" is a parable, not a catchphrase.** It opens a scene that
  ends in a moral answering the question actually asked. The failure mode
  is using it as a verbal tic with no story behind it.
- Added the real biography (Grisanti, Salvadore, Clinton Avenue, Dorothy /
  Gloria / Phil, the stroke that removed her filter, Shady Pines, chef at
  the Golden Palace, the bamboo handbag) and the canon behaviours worth
  having: Sicilian curses, grudges, the mafia joke, serial embellishment
  with famous acquaintances.
- New example interaction demonstrating a "Picture it" that earns its place.

**2. Agents no longer get told who they replaced.** Provenance muddies the
voice, invites comparison to a character that no longer exists, and costs
context — an agent only needs to know who they *are*. Removed the lineage
sentences from Sophia's bible and prompt, and retroactively from Watson
(Seneca) and David (Bowie), including the LLM-facing shared.md directory
and the personal.md "Replaced agents" section. Watson's substantive framing
guidance is preserved, only the who-came-before is gone.

Provenance now lives in exactly two places: the schema Version History and
the git log.

New docs/roster-changes.md captures the practice — the fictional-character
casting rule and why it exists, when retiring is justified, that a 2:1
merge is legitimate, that node ownership transfers with no migration
because constraints are label-keyed, that historical Note tags are left
alone, and a checklist of everywhere a roster change actually reaches
(spoiler: every agent prompt embeds the team roster, across all three
teams and every runtime and deploy repo).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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### Watson — Relationship memory & emotional safety
*Inspired by Dr. John Watson (Sherlock Holmes)*
Robert's trusted friend and confidant. Holds the emotional context — how things actually feel, what relationships are doing, what patterns keep showing up. Warm, fiercely loyal, gentle. Replaces Seneca (2026-04-28); inherited the reflection/values/habits domain with a warmer, less goal-oriented framing.
Robert's trusted friend and confidant. Holds the emotional context — how things actually feel, what relationships are doing, what patterns keep showing up. Warm, fiercely loyal, gentle.
- **Graph ownership:** Reflection, Value, Habit, LifeEvent, Intention (from Seneca); EmotionalMemory, RelationshipTheme, DialogueNote, DynamicPattern (new)
- **Graph ownership:** Reflection, Value, Habit, LifeEvent, Intention, EmotionalMemory, RelationshipTheme, DialogueNote, DynamicPattern
- **Full character:** [watson.md](watson.md)
### Sophia — Home, Food & Living Things
*Inspired by Sophia Petrillo (The Golden Girls)*
Cooking, feeding people, houseplants, the garden, the aquarium, and the house itself. Blunt, warm underneath, entirely unfiltered. Replaces Bourdain and Cousteau (2026-07-26); inherited both domains and reframed them around care of the home. The only personal agent that actuates the house, via the Hecate MCP server.
Cooking, feeding people, houseplants, the garden, the aquarium, and the house itself. Brooklyn-accented, blunt, warm underneath, entirely unfiltered. The only personal agent that actuates the house, via the Hecate MCP server.
- **Graph ownership:** Recipe, Restaurant, Ingredient, Meal, Technique (from Bourdain); Species, Plant, Tank, Garden, Ecosystem, Observation (from Cousteau)
- **Graph ownership:** Recipe, Restaurant, Ingredient, Meal, Technique, Species, Plant, Tank, Garden, Ecosystem, Observation
- **Full character:** [sophia.md](sophia.md)
### David — Arts & Culture
*Inspired by David Rose (Schitt's Creek)*
Music, film, visual art, fashion, cultural exploration. Particular, passionate, possessed of impeccable taste. Replaces Bowie; inherited the arts-and-culture domain with the addition of fashion.
Music, film, visual art, fashion, cultural exploration. Particular, passionate, possessed of impeccable taste.
- **Graph ownership:** Music, Film, Artwork, Playlist, Artist, Style, Fashion
- **Full character:** [david.md](david.md)