No Configured Soul Is Still a Product
A machine with no identity paths stays bare. That is not a missing install. It is the cleanroom: one reachable local leg, no vault, no project door, no key, no login. The loop still assembles a request, still executes a ready call, still appends a record. Pippa is an attachment proven by a later gate. She is not the boot condition.
The three-mode dial is bare | mini | full. Absent paths resolve to bare rather than inventing a soul. A broken or incomplete configured closure is refused — vault_partial — and no session opens. Local instruction sets over budget are refused — instructions_over_budget — never trimmed. Partial attachment would be a silent second product.
Listening Is Not Consulting
The cleanroom gate asks whether known family surfaces are listening, then asserts they were never consulted. A sibling process may be up on the same machine. That is not a failure. A request that crossed to it is. Doctor reports listening yes and consulted never as two columns, because collapsing them would teach the next operator to shut the family down before a clean boot — which is the shy-client reflex this gate exists to refuse.