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ECOSYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE.md mapped three tiers (Active Core / Active Satellites / Dormant) but omitted three sibling repos entirely: starlight-swarm, starlight-agent-skills, and starlight-cosmos-engine.

Adds a fourth Incubating tier documenting them with honest state + intent, so the canonical constellation map reflects every repo. Distinguishes "incubating" (named but not started) from "dormant" (had a pulse, lost it).

Additive, operational-tier edit — ECOSYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE.md is not in the substrate-gated file list (SIP.md / SIS.md / ALLIANCE.md / STACK.md / VERTICALS.md / VOICES.md / REGISTRY.md), so no Board gate required.

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ECOSYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE.md mapped three tiers but omitted starlight-swarm,
starlight-agent-skills, and starlight-cosmos-engine entirely. Add a fourth
"Incubating" tier documenting them with honest state + intent, so the
canonical map reflects every repo in the constellation. Additive,
operational-tier edit (not a substrate-gated file).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Queen review verdict — NEEDS-CHANGES (table is stale, 10-minute fix)

Classification: Operational (docs; ECOSYSTEM_ARCHITECTURE.md is not a substrate-gated file).

The idea is right — an Incubating tier ("has intent, never had a pulse") is a genuinely useful fourth state distinct from Dormant.

But the snapshot has aged out (checked 2026-07-06):

  • starlight-swarm — listed as "Empty shell — README only". Reality: 5.4 MB, pushed 2026-06-30, README carries a v0.2 dry-run status badge. Not a shell anymore.
  • starlight-agent-skills — listed as "Empty shell — README only". Reality: 5.7 MB, pushed 2026-07-01. Same.
  • starlight-cosmos-engine — "scaffold, stubs" still roughly holds (71 KB, pushed 2026-07-05).
  • Header says "Four tiers, verified 2026-06-10" but the tier was written 2026-06-22 against a 06-10 snapshot — the verification date no longer covers what the table asserts.

Fix before merge: re-verify the three rows against current reality and update the date. Two repos may now belong in Active Core or need their own row wording ("left incubation ~2026-06-30"). Otherwise the doc teaches agents a false map — worse than no tier.

Checks: harness ✅. MERGEABLE/CLEAN.

Frank's review on this PR caught the tier as stale: starlight-swarm and
starlight-agent-skills had already shipped real substance by 2026-06-22/07-01
(v0.2 unit-tested payments-safety spine; 26 CI-validated skills across 7
domains) while this doc still called them empty shells from a 2026-06-10
snapshot.

Re-verified all three against current main (git log + file tree + README),
not assumption:
- starlight-swarm -> moved to Active Satellites. Dry-run-only is a deliberate
  safety contract (fail-closed escalation spine, verify-only payments-MCP
  adapter), not incompleteness.
- starlight-agent-skills -> moved to Active Satellites. 26 skills, 7 domains,
  CI cross-checks frontmatter/attestation/example-manifest contracts.
- starlight-cosmos-engine -> stays Incubating. Confirmed still 2 of 34
  packages implemented, matching the repo's own per-package honesty audit.

Scoped to § 2.2/2.4 only — did not touch other sections' independently-known
drift (e.g. ACOS's 38-agent figure in § 2.1, being corrected elsewhere).

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Fixed — re-verified all three against current main (not the 06-10 snapshot):

  • starlight-swarm → moved to Active Satellites. It's v0.2 now: unit-tested escalation spine (fail-closed invariants covered), real payments-MCP adapter (verify-only). Dry-run-only is a deliberate safety contract, not incompleteness.
  • starlight-agent-skills → moved to Active Satellites. 26 production skills across 7 domains, manifest.json + examples/ + tests/ per skill, CI validates frontmatter/attestation/example↔manifest on every push.
  • starlight-cosmos-engine → stays Incubating. Confirmed still 2 of 34 packages implemented (packages/schemas, apps/api) — matches your "roughly holds" call exactly, and the repo's own README now has an even better per-package honesty audit than what I'd have written.

Dated the re-verification 2026-07-06, scoped to § 2.2/2.4 only (left the ACOS 38-agent drift in § 2.1 alone since that's being corrected in its own repo).

Also closing the now-superseded PRs on all three of those repos (#6, #9, #4) — main had already moved past what those diffs proposed.


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