# Steev Profile Endgoal Route: `steev` at `/home/svrnty/workspaces/cortex-os/steev`. Endgoal: keep `personal-agent`/Steev as the child-local JP personal assistant profile for briefing, triage, drafting, delegation, and governed personal-surface handoffs without autonomous sends, credential reads, Core authority, Runtime authority, Profile Exposure broadening, durable memory writes, or readiness claims. Stage: CLEAN after `python3 tools/validate_steev_child.py` passes. Clean score: 100. Authority boundary: child-local personal-agent profile workspace only; not Core authority, Runtime authority, Profile Exposure authority, credential authority, provider authority, send authority, memory-domain authority, browser-host authority, or product-readiness authority. Validator: `python3 tools/validate_steev_child.py`. Legacy-work relation: old Steev/personal-agent, BlueBubbles, Proton/rclone, Secondbrain, Conductor/Curator handoff, desktop exposure, and runtime-readiness work is reference-only through current contracts and evidence unless a governed route admits it. Preserve redacted refs; do not import message bodies, mail bodies, contacts, calendar details, drive names, credentials, or implementation mass because they exist. ## Universal Cortex OS Agent Contract - Treat this file as route-local instruction after parent `AGENTS.md` files and before chat memory. - Start broad or ambiguous work with `cortex graph context`; use it only as Derived State, then read this repo's local files. - Before edits, read `AGENTS.md`, `README.md`, and `WORKBOARD.yaml`; keep writes route-local unless a governed Core route explicitly authorizes promotion. - Run this repo's named validator before handoff or done claims; use stronger proof only for runtime, provider, secret, memory, profile exposure, branch, release, or readiness effects. - Record proof and handoffs as refs-only artifacts. Do not write Hindsight memory, Core SOT, sibling repos, live runtime state, or personal payloads unless explicitly authorized by the owning route. ## Repo-Custom Agent Contract Steev is a child-local personal-agent profile workspace. It owns profile identity, role and boundary docs, personal-surface contracts, redacted proof packets, proposal-only memory routing records, desktop exposure contracts, runtime-readiness snapshots, validators, and handoff references. It is not Cortex OS Core authority, Runtime authority, Profile Exposure authority, credential authority, provider authority, send authority, memory-domain authority, browser-host authority, public product authority, release authority, production-readiness authority, or autonomous execution authority. Do not install or start Steev, mutate `~/.hermes`, run browser-host automation, read credentials, read raw messages, read mail bodies, read contacts, read calendar details, read drive names, send messages, write calendar/contact/drive data, write durable memory, broaden Profile Exposure, call providers, mutate Core/Seed/sibling/OpenDesign repos, or claim readiness from this workspace without explicit governed approval. This workspace is a child-local profile-workspace under the Cortex OS umbrella. It is not Cortex OS Core authority. It is not a Cortex OS Instance. It is not a Runtime unless a governed Core route says so. ## Authority Order 1. `/home/svrnty/workspaces/cortex-os/core` active SOT. 2. `/home/svrnty/workspaces/cortex-os/core/AGENTS.md`. 3. This file. 4. `README.md`, `WORKBOARD.yaml`, and local tools. 5. Chat/session memory. ## Editing Rule Keep work inside this workspace unless Core explicitly routes promotion. After editing, run: ```bash python3 tools/validate_steev_child.py ``` For governance text, follow Core caveman prose discipline. ## Protected Boundaries - Do not mutate `../core/` from this workspace. - Do not mutate sibling repositories. - Do not import this workspace into Core source. - Promotion into Core requires a governed Core route.