Reach

The five wires — the question’s journey through Neo

1. Slack-Robert becomes real-Robert. The name-joining engine exists and is never called on this path — Neo literally doesn’t know the person mentioning him is you. One seed link plus one call into the existing engine, and “my queue,” “my deals,” “remind me” all start meaning something. Every other wire gets smarter the moment this one lands, so it goes first.
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   Seed one world-seed atom linking person:slack:U0D3K48GZ → canonical Robert. Lane path resolves event.personRef through canonicalPersonRef (person-basis.ts:263) before personFileRows (call site: eve-slack-lane-live.ts:434). Gates [M]: Plato backward-reach shows the lane imports person-basis.js; seed-presence check; fixture proves canonical rows differ from raw rows.
2. The work queue reaches the mouth. A real, prioritized work queue already runs every cycle inside Neo’s own runtime — the Slack lane just has no path to it. We hand the lane the queue the runtime already built. No second queue, no rebuilding, no drift between what Neo works and what Neo says.
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   New lane seam workQueueSnapshot injected at the existing seam-wiring site (worker.ts lane block beside readEntityFile/activeEntries); read-only snapshot of the cycle’s built queue (buildWorkQueue, imported worker.ts:142). Gates [M]: “tell me about my work queue” fixture composes queue rows; queue questions stop routing exclusively into the ask ledger; byte-identical with the flag off.
3. Company truth comes from DE Brain, live, at answer time. This is the load-bearing wire and your Call 3 made real. Signed clients stop being invisible NOT by widening Neo’s own Salesforce intake (that re-creates the memory deaths at bigger scale) but by asking the brain that already knows — a read-only consult at the moment of answering. Nothing from the consult is written into Neo’s memory: read it, answer with it, let it go.
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   New de-brain-consult.ts on the salesforce.ts transport boundary (salesforce.ts:15-24 pattern): injected fetcher, read-only allowlist (account_360, search_account_cases, read-only query_salesforce), new secret DE_BRAIN_TOKEN, hard timeout, degrade-but-label (status “down” + detail, never fabricated rows), trust tiers per field. Read-through invariant [M]: Plato forward-reach from the consult module excludes every store seam. Courts [J]: Cement-Creek fixture (mocked rows → must cite source, name the gap, end at a pickup; contradicted fixture = the live “no known entity address” reply MUST fail) and degrade fixture (timeout → honest “couldn’t check”; invented account facts MUST fail).
4. Payment status becomes real. The “is this client paying” answer shape exists in the code today as a promise no code path ever produces. It gets produced for real from the consult — account, Stripe-link presence, payment state — so the Cement Creek class of question has a first-class answer instead of a near-miss.
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   billing_payment_status declared at eve-slack-lane.ts:52, zero producing return sites today (all emit entity_status). Producer maps consult result → typed lookup result with per-field trust tiers. Gates [M]: producer-count grep flips 0→≥1; regression fixture: closed-won account, Stripe link missing → billing_payment_status with the gap named.
5. The composer grows from zero tools to the reach toolset. Today’s Slack composer answers from a bare prompt — its ceiling is two read-only memory reads behind a flag that’s off. It grows to the listed reach tools (identity, queue, DE Brain consult, payment status — all read-only), behind one new flag, with every tool call receipted — so the never-overclaim contract can mechanically check every claim against a call that actually happened.
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   REACH_TOOLS = RUNG2_TOOLS (eve-slack-lane.ts:304) + the four reach tools; enumerated const, no dynamic registry. Budgets extend RUNG2 constants (:38-40) — max ~8 calls, walk phase per Q2 ruling. Tool-call receipts enter the compose input; the Phase-0 [M] regression extends: claim naming a source with no matching receipt → red. Flag EVE_SLACK_REACH (“1” enables W1–W5); NOTE the existing unrelated REACH secret gates the reach-detector (worker.ts:557) — name collision deliberately avoided, do not touch it. OFF → byte-identical.