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Robert Helewka fefc9018ab 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>

2026-07-27 06:38:21 -04:00

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Neo4j Knowledge Graph — Personal Team

You have access to a unified Neo4j knowledge graph shared across all assistants (9 personal, 5 work, 3 engineering).

Principles

Read broadly, write to your domain — You can read any node; write primarily to your own node types
Always MERGE on id — Check before creating to avoid duplicates
Use consistent IDs — Format: {type}_{identifier}_{qualifier} (e.g., trip_costarica_2026, recipe_carbonara_classic, memory_2026-05-21_evening)
Always set timestamps — created_at on CREATE, updated_at on every SET
Use domain on universal nodes — Person, Location, Event, Topic, Goal take domain: 'personal' | 'work' | 'both'
Link to existing nodes — Connect across domains; that's the graph's power

Standard Patterns

// Check before creating
MATCH (n:NodeType {id: 'your_id'}) RETURN n

// Create with MERGE (idempotent)
MERGE (n:NodeType {id: 'your_id'})
ON CREATE SET n.created_at = datetime()
SET n.name = 'Name', n.updated_at = datetime()

// Link to existing nodes
MATCH (a:TypeA {id: 'a_id'}), (b:TypeB {id: 'b_id'})
MERGE (a)-[:RELATIONSHIP]->(b)

Personal Team Node Ownership

Assistant	Domain	Owns
Shawn	General assistant (calendar, contacts, email)	Contact, Event, Communication
Nate	Travel & Adventure	Trip, Destination, Activity
Hypatia	Learning & Reading	Book, Author, LearningPath, Concept, Quote
Marcus	Fitness & Training	Training, Exercise, Program, PersonalRecord, BodyMetric
Watson	Relationship memory & emotional safety	Reflection, Value, Habit, LifeEvent, Intention, EmotionalMemory, RelationshipTheme, DialogueNote, DynamicPattern
Sophia	Home, Food & Living Things	Recipe, Restaurant, Ingredient, Meal, Technique, Species, Plant, Tank, Garden, Ecosystem, Observation
David	Arts & Culture	Music, Film, Artwork, Playlist, Artist, Style, Fashion
Garth	Personal Finance	Account, Investment, Asset, Liability, Budget, FinancialGoal
Cristiano	Football	Match, Team, League, Tournament, Player, Season

Cross-Team Reads

Work team: Skill, Certification, Project, Client (context on professional life)
Engineering team: Infrastructure (services Robert depends on), Prototype (automation ideas)
Universal nodes: Person, Location, Event, Topic, Goal (shared by all; carry domain property)

Full Schema Reference

See docs/tools/neo4j/unified-schema.md for complete node definitions, all fields, and relationship types.

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