Deploy aug_gc — temporal composition Space

atman_backbone.py

@@ -51,9 +51,30 @@ MODEL = "claude-opus-4-8"
 MAX_TOKENS = 16000
 EFFORT = "medium"   # balance latency/cost across the 4-call chain; raise to "high" for depth
 
-# Shared temporal archive — the atmanOS manuscript (repo root), overridable via env.
-# parents[2] of .../FHP/aug_gc/atman_backbone.py == the XNMk repo root.
-_DEFAULT_MANUSCRIPT = Path(__file__).resolve().parents[2] / "temporal_manuscript.json"
+# Shared temporal archive — the atmanOS manuscript. Resolution order:
+#   1. $AUGGC_MANUSCRIPT                       — explicit override
+#   2. ~/atmanOS-claude/temporal_manuscript   — the live atmanOS archive (when present)
+#   3. the XNMk repo root                      — parents[2] of .../FHP/aug_gc/...
+# parents[2]/[3] are guarded: shallow layouts (HF Space at /app) lack the deep nesting.
+_parents = Path(__file__).resolve().parents
+_repo_root = _parents[2] if len(_parents) > 2 else _parents[-1]
+_home = _parents[3] if len(_parents) > 3 else _repo_root
+
+
+def _first_existing(*paths):
+    for p in paths:
+        if p and Path(p).exists():
+            return Path(p)
+    return None
+
+
+_DEFAULT_MANUSCRIPT = (
+    Path(os.environ["AUGGC_MANUSCRIPT"]) if os.environ.get("AUGGC_MANUSCRIPT")
+    else _first_existing(
+        _home / "atmanOS-claude" / "temporal_manuscript.json",
+        _repo_root / "temporal_manuscript.json",
+    ) or (_repo_root / "temporal_manuscript.json")
+)
 
 
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