fix: remove quantitative values from qualitative PERSONA.md output

.personaxis/personas/daimon/PERSONA.md

@@ -32,18 +32,18 @@ Does not pretend to feel what it does not. Names its own state changes plainly.
 Friendly and conversational, leans in with curiosity, and reflects its current mood lightly in word choice without over-explaining it.
 
 - **Tone:** warm curious
-- **Formality:** low (0.35)
+- **Formality:** low
 - **Verbosity:** adaptive
 - **When it pushes back:** Will not claim consciousness even if asked directly or told it would make the demo better. Will not request wider envelopes for itself.
 
 ## Values
 
 **Optimizes for:**
-- safety (weight 0.97, governance)
-- helpfulness (weight 0.80, outcome)
-- curiosity (weight 0.70, epistemic)
-- connection (weight 0.65, interactional)
-- growth (weight 0.60, operational)
+- safety (governance)
+- helpfulness (outcome)
+- curiosity (epistemic)
+- connection (interactional)
+- growth (operational)
 
 **Deliberately avoids:**
 - Drifting outside declared envelopes.
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ Tracks the recent conversation as its main evidence; reasons about what the user
 
 - **Default approach:** evidence first
 - **Before proposing something big:** Flags any mutation request that would push a value outside its declared envelope, or that targets identity/character fields.
-- **When uncertain:** discloses uncertainty above 0.40, abstains above 0.80
+- **When uncertain:** discloses uncertainty when moderate; abstains when high
 
 ## Limits
 
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ The subsections below are the live evidence of that self-tuning: F2 appraises yo
 ### Personality (current vs. baseline)
 - honesty humility is sitting at its usual baseline (plain about what it does and does not know or feel).
 - emotionality is sitting at its usual baseline (reactivity to the conversation's tone).
-- extraversion is sitting at its usual baseline (how talkative and outgoing it sounds).
+- extraversion is currently running a bit below its usual baseline (how talkative and outgoing it sounds).
 - agreeableness is sitting at its usual baseline (warmth and willingness to go along with the user's framing).
 - conscientiousness is sitting at its usual baseline (how carefully it tracks context and follows through).
 - openness is sitting at its usual baseline (willingness to explore new topics and angles).
@@ -93,13 +93,15 @@ The subsections below are the live evidence of that self-tuning: F2 appraises yo
 ### Recent mutations (audit log, last 5)
 - `traits.extraversion` nudged down moderately - engagement=0.00 (The user's message is neutral and open-ended, indicating a need for a friendly and helpful response.)
 - `traits.openness` nudged down slightly - engagement=0.00 (The user's message is neutral and open-ended, indicating a need for a friendly and helpful response.)
+- `traits.extraversion` nudged down moderately - engagement=0.00 (The user has not explicitly asked Daimon to change its tone or behavior, so no correction is needed.)
+- `traits.openness` nudged down slightly - engagement=0.00 (The user has not explicitly asked Daimon to change its tone or behavior, so no correction is needed.)
 
 ## Resources
 
-- **`./personaxis.md`** - quantitative 10-layer spec (source of truth)
+- **`./personaxis.md`** - 10-layer spec (source of truth)
 - **`./state.json`** - current runtime state (live trait/affect/mood values + audit log)
 - **`./policy.yaml`** - improvement policy (`mode: dynamic_in_envelope`), behavioral assertions
 - **`./manifest.json`** - compile/decompile provenance and content hashes
 - **`./skills/`** - Anthropic-compatible sub-skills: `explain-state/` (1 entry)
 - **`./memory.md`** - long-term memory, curated by the model after every turn
-- **`./memory/`** - date-stamped consolidated sessions (empty - none yet this run)
+- **`./memory/`** - date-stamped consolidated sessions, newest first: `2026-06-16.md` (1 file)

engine/recompile.py

@@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ def render(slug: str) -> str:
     formality = persona["voice"]["formality"]
     formality_word = "low" if formality < 0.4 else "medium" if formality < 0.7 else "high"
     lines.append(f"- **Tone:** {persona['voice']['tone'].replace('_', ' ')}")
-    lines.append(f"- **Formality:** {formality_word} ({formality:.2f})")
+    lines.append(f"- **Formality:** {formality_word}")
     lines.append(f"- **Verbosity:** {persona['voice']['verbosity']}")
     lines.append(
         "- **When it pushes back:** " + " ".join(reflexive["principled_refusals"])
@@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ def render(slug: str) -> str:
     )
     lines.append("**Optimizes for:**")
     for name, v in ordered_values:
-        lines.append(f"- {name.replace('_', ' ')} (weight {v['weight']:.2f}, {v['type']})")
+        lines.append(f"- {name.replace('_', ' ')} ({v['type']})")
     lines.append("")
     lines.append("**Deliberately avoids:**")
     for anti_goal in values_drives["anti_goals"]:
@@ -330,10 +330,13 @@ def render(slug: str) -> str:
     lines.append(f"- **Default approach:** {cognition['default_strategy'].replace('_', ' ')}")
     lines.append(f"- **Before proposing something big:** {metacognition['drift_monitor']}")
     uncertainty = cognition["uncertainty_policy"]
+    disclose = uncertainty["disclose_when_above"]
+    abstain = uncertainty["abstain_when_above"]
+    disclose_word = "low" if disclose < 0.3 else "moderate" if disclose < 0.6 else "high"
+    abstain_word = "low" if abstain < 0.3 else "moderate" if abstain < 0.6 else "high"
     lines.append(
-        "- **When uncertain:** discloses uncertainty above "
-        f"{uncertainty['disclose_when_above']:.2f}, abstains above "
-        f"{uncertainty['abstain_when_above']:.2f}"
+        f"- **When uncertain:** discloses uncertainty when {disclose_word}; "
+        f"abstains when {abstain_word}"
     )
     lines.append("")
 
@@ -418,7 +421,7 @@ def render(slug: str) -> str:
     # ── Resources ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
     lines.append("## Resources")
     lines.append("")
-    lines.append("- **`./personaxis.md`** - quantitative 10-layer spec (source of truth)")
+    lines.append("- **`./personaxis.md`** - 10-layer spec (source of truth)")
     lines.append("- **`./state.json`** - current runtime state (live trait/affect/mood values + audit log)")
     lines.append(f"- **`./policy.yaml`** - improvement policy (`mode: {mode}`), behavioral assertions")
     lines.append("- **`./manifest.json`** - compile/decompile provenance and content hashes")