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>
Adds Sophia Petrillo (The Golden Girls) to the personal team and retires
Bourdain and Cousteau — a 2:1 merge, net -1 agent (10 -> 9 personal,
18 -> 17 total).
Why: the personal team casts fictional characters. Bourdain and Cousteau
are real people, one with significant baggage and one who died by suicide,
and neither had a dedicated MCP server or capability. Sophia is fictional,
plausibly owns both domains (an Italian grandmother knows food; tending
plants and the tank is housekeeping), and is the first personal agent to
actuate the house via the new Hecate MCP server.
Graph: Sophia inherits all 11 node types unchanged (Recipe, Restaurant,
Ingredient, Meal, Technique + Species, Plant, Tank, Garden, Ecosystem,
Observation). Uniqueness constraints are keyed on node label, not agent,
so there is no schema or data migration. Historical Note tags
(from:bourdain, to:cousteau) are deliberately left intact as an accurate
record. Schema bumped to 2.5.0.
Also:
- New docs/tools/hecate.md + prompts/tools/hecate.md, documenting the
physical-actuation discipline (never guess a room or device slug) and
stating plainly what Hecate cannot do yet: no sensor readings (Demeter
is REST-only), no weather, and set_timer is routine-bound with no
cancel — the conversational timer is coming to Daedalus.
- Shawn gains Periplus in the docs. The server was already wired in
iolaus but never described in any prompt, so the model was handed a
tool it was never told about — including the never-estimate-coordinates
rule.
- Corrected stale counts (15/16/18 assistants -> 17) and the stale
"Bowie's Domain" schema heading missed when David replaced Bowie.
- Removed utils/neo4j-schema-init.py.bak, a pre-Watson artifact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Refactor documentation to distinguish character reference from AI
system prompt. Removed user context and persona definitions.
System prompt instructions moved to prompts/personal/bourdain.md.
