feat(bifrons): make the star↔contribution portal autopoietic (a live beat organ)#956
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…e beat organ) "If it's not autopoietic, it's not done." The Epic-6 loop mechanism (organvm-engine heartbeat, reads its own past, surfaces its state, and asks nothing. - scripts/bifrons-organ.py — the beat face. Metabolizes its own state estate (globs ~/.organvm/bifrons + the portal store — the AVTOPOIESIS past-tense signature), runs one bounded effector cycle (`organvm portal metabolize`, which absorbs new stars, maps resonance, prepares inbound draft PRs — NEVER submits), and re-renders organs/observation/bifrons/PORTAL.md. Fail-open, idempotent, deterministic render. --check (omega det) / --doctor (omega live). - institutio/governance/sensors.yaml — the `bifrons-portal` heartbeat sensor (source: [heartbeat], cadence LIMEN_BEAT_BIFRONS=24, ships LIVE): the one entry that makes it a discovered, scheduled door. - institutio/governance/parameters.yaml — LIMEN_BIFRONS (default 1: read-only absorb + internal prepare, so it runs unbidden), LIMEN_BEAT_BIFRONS, LIMEN_BIFRONS_TIMEOUT, LIMEN_BIFRONS_BUDGET. - organ-ladder.json — BIFRONS rank 16, pillar observation. - organs/observation/bifrons/ — KERNEL/CHARTER/MACRO-FACE/MICRO-FACE + PORTAL.md. The single human atom (opening the upstream PR) rides the existing system-wide outbound-send valve — BIFRONS owns ZERO levers, so its future-tense score is clean. Verified: `avtopoiesis.py` counts `bifrons-portal` a LIVE door (score 0.835: past 1.0, present 0.5 [the normal heartbeat-sensor value, == GITVS], future 1.0); check-sensors / check-params / check-gates exit 0; the bifrons omega det/live checks are registered and `--check` exits 0; ruff clean. The one system-wide nota (`mat`) is pre-existing and unrelated. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| f"engine_cli={'yes' if cli else 'no'} " | ||
| f"stars={portal['counts']['external_repo']}") | ||
| # Fail-open: a not-yet-populated portal on a fresh host is not a defect. | ||
| return 0 |
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When organvm is not on PATH, this still returns success after printing engine_cli=no. Because sensors.yaml registers python3 scripts/bifrons-organ.py --doctor as the live omega check, omega will mark BIFRONS healthy even though run_beat() immediately skips and never metabolizes stars in that environment. The heartbeat path can remain fail-open, but the doctor should fail or explicitly skip when required live dependencies are absent.
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| default: "1" | ||
| source: [heartbeat] |
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On hosts relying on repository defaults, this heartbeat-only sensor is still behind heartbeat-loop.sh's scheduled-registry guard if [ "${LIMEN_BEAT_DERIVE:-0}" = "1" ], so default: "1" here does not actually make BIFRONS run unless ~/.limen.env explicitly sets LIMEN_BEAT_DERIVE=1. That leaves the new portal dormant despite being declared live; either the heartbeat default needs to be flipped or this sensor needs a live path outside the dark derive gate.
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| subprocess.run( # noqa: S603 | ||
| ["organvm", "portal", "metabolize", "--budget", str(BUDGET), "--db", str(PORTAL_DB)], | ||
| check=False, capture_output=True, timeout=int(os.environ.get("LIMEN_BIFRONS_TIMEOUT", "180")), |
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The registry step already applies the same LIMEN_BIFRONS_TIMEOUT/180s timeout to the whole bifrons-organ.py process, so when organvm portal metabolize is slow this inner timeout fires at the same deadline as the outer process-group kill. In that scenario the Python process is killed before it can catch TimeoutExpired, render from existing state, or write logs/bifrons-portal.json, which defeats the documented fail-open behavior; use a smaller inner timeout or separate effector/render budgets.
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"If it's not autopoietic, then it's not done." The Epic-6 loop mechanism (organvm-engine #167, merged) is a proof I run by hand; this makes BIFRONS alive — it runs itself on the heartbeat, reads its own past, surfaces its state, and asks nothing of the operator.
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scripts/bifrons-organ.py— the beat face. Metabolizes its own state estate (globs~/.organvm/bifrons+ the portal store — the AVTOPOIESIS past-tense signature), runs one bounded effector cycle (organvm portal metabolize: absorb new stars → map resonance → prepare inbound draft PRs, never submits), re-rendersorgans/observation/bifrons/PORTAL.md. Fail-open, idempotent, deterministic.--check(omega det) /--doctor(omega live).sensors.yaml— thebifrons-portalheartbeat sensor (source: [heartbeat], cadenceLIMEN_BEAT_BIFRONS=24, ships LIVE): the single entry that makes it a discovered, scheduled door.parameters.yaml—LIMEN_BIFRONS(default1— read-only absorb + internal prepare, so it runs unbidden),LIMEN_BEAT_BIFRONS,LIMEN_BIFRONS_TIMEOUT,LIMEN_BIFRONS_BUDGET.organ-ladder.json— BIFRONS rank 16, pillarobservation.organs/observation/bifrons/— KERNEL / CHARTER / MACRO-FACE / MICRO-FACE + PORTAL.md.Aliveness (the arbiter, not prose)
avtopoiesis.pycountsbifrons-portala LIVE door — score 0.835 (past 1.0 via the estate-crawl signature; present 0.5 = the normal heartbeat-sensor value, identical to GITVS; future 1.0 via zero owned levers — the one external write rides the existing outbound-send valve).check-sensors/check-params/check-gatesexit 0; the bifrons omega det+live checks are registered and--checkexits 0; ruff clean. The one system-wide nota (mat) is pre-existing and unrelated.Merge note
This touches the live heartbeat (a new beat sensor) — per the sensor-merge canary gate it opens green and waits for operator release past canary. Not self-merged.
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