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>
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.
Watson replaces Seneca as of 2026-04-28, shifting to a warmer, less goal-oriented approach.
Retained Reflection, Value, Habit, LifeEvent, and Intention node types under Watson.
Added new node types: EmotionalMemory, RelationshipTheme, DialogueNote, and DynamicPattern.
Updated the unified schema table to reflect ownership changes for these nodes.
