@bongos/core 1.20.51 → 1.20.52

package/.bongos-core.json

@@ -2,22 +2,22 @@
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@@ -2797,7 +2797,7 @@
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@@ -9127,12 +9227,12 @@
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@@ -9152,7 +9252,7 @@
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       "path": "scripts/bongos-mcp.js",
@@ -11317,7 +11417,7 @@
     {
       "path": "src/module-api.js",
       "mode": "0000644",
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@@ -12819,6 +12919,11 @@
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     },
+    {
+      "path": "tests/genesis_life_plates.mjs",
+      "mode": "0000644",
+      "sha256": "0e6b37be208ce5d1e29f45baa7982625b576c6d4c347d1db43ebdc7184697e81"
+    },
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@@ -15097,7 +15202,7 @@
     {
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       "mode": "0000644",
-      "sha256": "febbdbf82e7521ef80fb00d48a0a5fa9edf063ec20efbb39ddf59051c5cad4b2"
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       "path": "tests/provisioning_public_refusal.mjs",

package/docs/module-api-changelog.md

@@ -2759,5 +2759,7 @@ is load-bearing: the script throws rather than guess if it is missing, and
         landed since 1.20.49 with no explicit bump. run 36815399738. (task 1002620)
   1.20.51 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
         landed since 1.20.50 with no explicit bump. run 36816320939. (task 1002620)
+  1.20.52 — CI auto-patch (publish-on-merge, ADR 0161): carrier for merges
+        landed since 1.20.51 with no explicit bump. run 36817286385. (task 1002620)
 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 ```

package/modules/provisioning/soft-limits.js

@@ -56,6 +56,23 @@ const SOFT_LIMIT_RULES = Object.freeze([
     effect: 'grey',
     reason: 'A nonprofit has no owners, so it has no shares to give.',
   }),
+  // The owner's call (task 1004475, 2026-09-30): a single-owner company and a research
+  // entity are greyed too, each with the reason that fits it. Only a for-profit company
+  // or a division of a corporation is offered equity.
+  Object.freeze({
+    id: 'equity-not-in-a-single-owner-llc',
+    when: { entity: { in: ['single-owner-llc'] } },
+    options: ['reward_intents:equity'],
+    effect: 'grey',
+    reason: 'A single-owner company has one owner. Giving builders a stake means taking on more owners first.',
+  }),
+  Object.freeze({
+    id: 'equity-not-in-a-research-entity',
+    when: { entity: { in: ['research'] } },
+    options: ['reward_intents:equity'],
+    effect: 'grey',
+    reason: "A research entity usually has no shares to give, so equity is off unless it's set up as a company.",
+  }),
   Object.freeze({
     id: 'no-cash-payouts-to-eu-builders-yet',
     when: { builder_geography: { in: ['us-eu', 'global'] } },

package/modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r5-life-1-primordial-sea-cut.webp.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "kind": "cutout",
+  "model": "Gemini image model (generated by the owner in the Gemini app, 2026-09-30; one 5-panel sheet)",
+  "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+  "generated": "2026-09-30",
+  "round": 5,
+  "task": 1004425,
+  "stage": "scope",
+  "label": "primordial sea",
+  "prompt": "Mirror-polished liquid chrome, soft key light from the top left, a slightly long lens, the object whole and centred, pure black background everywhere the object is not. No text, no letters, no logo, no watermark, no UI. A chrome planet whose whole surface is a slow, liquid chrome ocean with faint swirling currents, calm and empty, nothing living yet.",
+  "reference": "modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r2-chrome-blob-one.jpg, uploaded as the material/light/ground reference",
+  "resolution": "1024x1024 from the same panel",
+  "source": "r5-life-1-primordial-sea.jpg with the black ground removed: flood-fill from the edges on near-black pixels, luminance-feathered",
+  "encoded": "canvas WebP quality 0.88 with alpha",
+  "use": "light mode: the genesis life strip, stage scope (primordial sea)"
+}

package/modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r5-life-1-primordial-sea.jpg.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "kind": "plate",
+  "model": "Gemini image model (generated by the owner in the Gemini app, 2026-09-30; one 5-panel sheet)",
+  "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+  "generated": "2026-09-30",
+  "round": 5,
+  "task": 1004425,
+  "stage": "scope",
+  "label": "primordial sea",
+  "prompt": "Mirror-polished liquid chrome, soft key light from the top left, a slightly long lens, the object whole and centred, pure black background everywhere the object is not. No text, no letters, no logo, no watermark, no UI. A chrome planet whose whole surface is a slow, liquid chrome ocean with faint swirling currents, calm and empty, nothing living yet.",
+  "reference": "modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r2-chrome-blob-one.jpg, uploaded as the material/light/ground reference",
+  "resolution": "source panel about 220px across the object in a 1024x559 sheet, squared and upscaled to 1024px; soft if shown large, sized for the genesis life strip",
+  "source": "the owner's Gemini sheet, split by the ui-design kit browser (panel detection on the white dividers)",
+  "encoded": "canvas JPEG quality 0.92, 1024x1024, pure black ground",
+  "use": "dark mode: the genesis life strip, stage scope (primordial sea)"
+}

package/modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r5-life-2-first-cells-cut.webp.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "kind": "cutout",
+  "model": "Gemini image model (generated by the owner in the Gemini app, 2026-09-30; one 5-panel sheet)",
+  "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+  "generated": "2026-09-30",
+  "round": 5,
+  "task": 1004425,
+  "stage": "strategize",
+  "label": "first cells",
+  "prompt": "Mirror-polished liquid chrome, soft key light from the top left, a slightly long lens, the object whole and centred, pure black background everywhere the object is not. No text, no letters, no logo, no watermark, no UI. The same chrome planet with a cluster of small glossy chrome beads, like the first cells, gathering on one side of its surface.",
+  "reference": "modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r2-chrome-blob-one.jpg, uploaded as the material/light/ground reference",
+  "resolution": "1024x1024 from the same panel",
+  "source": "r5-life-2-first-cells.jpg with the black ground removed: flood-fill from the edges on near-black pixels, luminance-feathered",
+  "encoded": "canvas WebP quality 0.88 with alpha",
+  "use": "light mode: the genesis life strip, stage strategize (first cells)"
+}

package/modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r5-life-2-first-cells.jpg.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "kind": "plate",
+  "model": "Gemini image model (generated by the owner in the Gemini app, 2026-09-30; one 5-panel sheet)",
+  "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+  "generated": "2026-09-30",
+  "round": 5,
+  "task": 1004425,
+  "stage": "strategize",
+  "label": "first cells",
+  "prompt": "Mirror-polished liquid chrome, soft key light from the top left, a slightly long lens, the object whole and centred, pure black background everywhere the object is not. No text, no letters, no logo, no watermark, no UI. The same chrome planet with a cluster of small glossy chrome beads, like the first cells, gathering on one side of its surface.",
+  "reference": "modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r2-chrome-blob-one.jpg, uploaded as the material/light/ground reference",
+  "resolution": "source panel about 220px across the object in a 1024x559 sheet, squared and upscaled to 1024px; soft if shown large, sized for the genesis life strip",
+  "source": "the owner's Gemini sheet, split by the ui-design kit browser (panel detection on the white dividers)",
+  "encoded": "canvas JPEG quality 0.92, 1024x1024, pure black ground",
+  "use": "dark mode: the genesis life strip, stage strategize (first cells)"
+}

package/modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r5-life-3-genome-cut.webp.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "kind": "cutout",
+  "model": "Gemini image model (generated by the owner in the Gemini app, 2026-09-30; one 5-panel sheet)",
+  "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+  "generated": "2026-09-30",
+  "round": 5,
+  "task": 1004425,
+  "stage": "charter",
+  "label": "the genome",
+  "prompt": "Mirror-polished liquid chrome, soft key light from the top left, a slightly long lens, the object whole and centred, pure black background everywhere the object is not. No text, no letters, no logo, no watermark, no UI. The same chrome planet wrapped loosely by a single double-helix ribbon of polished chrome, like DNA, circling it at an angle.",
+  "reference": "modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r2-chrome-blob-one.jpg, uploaded as the material/light/ground reference",
+  "resolution": "1024x1024 from the same panel",
+  "source": "r5-life-3-genome.jpg with the black ground removed: flood-fill from the edges on near-black pixels, luminance-feathered",
+  "encoded": "canvas WebP quality 0.88 with alpha",
+  "use": "light mode: the genesis life strip, stage charter (the genome)"
+}

package/modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r5-life-3-genome.jpg.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "kind": "plate",
+  "model": "Gemini image model (generated by the owner in the Gemini app, 2026-09-30; one 5-panel sheet)",
+  "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+  "generated": "2026-09-30",
+  "round": 5,
+  "task": 1004425,
+  "stage": "charter",
+  "label": "the genome",
+  "prompt": "Mirror-polished liquid chrome, soft key light from the top left, a slightly long lens, the object whole and centred, pure black background everywhere the object is not. No text, no letters, no logo, no watermark, no UI. The same chrome planet wrapped loosely by a single double-helix ribbon of polished chrome, like DNA, circling it at an angle.",
+  "reference": "modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r2-chrome-blob-one.jpg, uploaded as the material/light/ground reference",
+  "resolution": "source panel about 220px across the object in a 1024x559 sheet, squared and upscaled to 1024px; soft if shown large, sized for the genesis life strip",
+  "source": "the owner's Gemini sheet, split by the ui-design kit browser (panel detection on the white dividers)",
+  "encoded": "canvas JPEG quality 0.92, 1024x1024, pure black ground",
+  "use": "dark mode: the genesis life strip, stage charter (the genome)"
+}

package/modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r5-life-4-membrane-cut.webp.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "kind": "cutout",
+  "model": "Gemini image model (generated by the owner in the Gemini app, 2026-09-30; one 5-panel sheet)",
+  "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+  "generated": "2026-09-30",
+  "round": 5,
+  "task": 1004425,
+  "stage": "legalize",
+  "label": "the membrane",
+  "prompt": "Mirror-polished liquid chrome, soft key light from the top left, a slightly long lens, the object whole and centred, pure black background everywhere the object is not. No text, no letters, no logo, no watermark, no UI. The same chrome planet sealed inside a thin, translucent frosted-glass shell, a soft membrane with a gentle inner glow.",
+  "reference": "modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r2-chrome-blob-one.jpg, uploaded as the material/light/ground reference",
+  "resolution": "1024x1024 from the same panel",
+  "source": "r5-life-4-membrane.jpg with the black ground removed: flood-fill from the edges on near-black pixels, luminance-feathered; the halo outside the shell rim un-multiplied from black so the glow fades on light paper instead of darkening",
+  "encoded": "canvas WebP quality 0.88 with alpha",
+  "use": "light mode: the genesis life strip, stage legalize (the membrane)"
+}

package/modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r5-life-4-membrane.jpg.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "kind": "plate",
+  "model": "Gemini image model (generated by the owner in the Gemini app, 2026-09-30; one 5-panel sheet)",
+  "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+  "generated": "2026-09-30",
+  "round": 5,
+  "task": 1004425,
+  "stage": "legalize",
+  "label": "the membrane",
+  "prompt": "Mirror-polished liquid chrome, soft key light from the top left, a slightly long lens, the object whole and centred, pure black background everywhere the object is not. No text, no letters, no logo, no watermark, no UI. The same chrome planet sealed inside a thin, translucent frosted-glass shell, a soft membrane with a gentle inner glow.",
+  "reference": "modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r2-chrome-blob-one.jpg, uploaded as the material/light/ground reference",
+  "resolution": "source panel about 220px across the object in a 1024x559 sheet, squared and upscaled to 1024px; soft if shown large, sized for the genesis life strip",
+  "source": "the owner's Gemini sheet, split by the ui-design kit browser (panel detection on the white dividers)",
+  "encoded": "canvas JPEG quality 0.92, 1024x1024, pure black ground",
+  "use": "dark mode: the genesis life strip, stage legalize (the membrane)"
+}

package/modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r5-life-5-nervous-system-cut.webp.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "kind": "cutout",
+  "model": "Gemini image model (generated by the owner in the Gemini app, 2026-09-30; one 5-panel sheet)",
+  "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+  "generated": "2026-09-30",
+  "round": 5,
+  "task": 1004425,
+  "stage": "legislation",
+  "label": "the nervous system",
+  "prompt": "Mirror-polished liquid chrome, soft key light from the top left, a slightly long lens, the object whole and centred, pure black background everywhere the object is not. No text, no letters, no logo, no watermark, no UI. The same chrome planet with fine branching chrome filaments spreading across its surface like neurons, a faint warm glow where they meet.",
+  "reference": "modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r2-chrome-blob-one.jpg, uploaded as the material/light/ground reference",
+  "resolution": "1024x1024 from the same panel",
+  "source": "r5-life-5-nervous-system.jpg with the black ground removed: flood-fill from the edges on near-black pixels, luminance-feathered",
+  "encoded": "canvas WebP quality 0.88 with alpha",
+  "use": "light mode: the genesis life strip, stage legislation (the nervous system)"
+}

package/modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r5-life-5-nervous-system.jpg.json

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+{
+  "kind": "plate",
+  "model": "Gemini image model (generated by the owner in the Gemini app, 2026-09-30; one 5-panel sheet)",
+  "aspect_ratio": "1:1",
+  "generated": "2026-09-30",
+  "round": 5,
+  "task": 1004425,
+  "stage": "legislation",
+  "label": "the nervous system",
+  "prompt": "Mirror-polished liquid chrome, soft key light from the top left, a slightly long lens, the object whole and centred, pure black background everywhere the object is not. No text, no letters, no logo, no watermark, no UI. The same chrome planet with fine branching chrome filaments spreading across its surface like neurons, a faint warm glow where they meet.",
+  "reference": "modules/public-landing/public/assets/world/r2-chrome-blob-one.jpg, uploaded as the material/light/ground reference",
+  "resolution": "source panel about 220px across the object in a 1024x559 sheet, squared and upscaled to 1024px; soft if shown large, sized for the genesis life strip",
+  "source": "the owner's Gemini sheet, split by the ui-design kit browser (panel detection on the white dividers)",
+  "encoded": "canvas JPEG quality 0.92, 1024x1024, pure black ground",
+  "use": "dark mode: the genesis life strip, stage legislation (the nervous system)"
+}

package/package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "@bongos/core",
-  "version": "1.20.51",
+  "version": "1.20.52",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "@bongos/core",
-      "version": "1.20.51",
+      "version": "1.20.52",
       "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
       "dependencies": {
         "express": "^4.21.2",

package/package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@bongos/core",
-  "version": "1.20.51",
+  "version": "1.20.52",
   "description": "Cloud Bongos — the AI-first build platform core (GDS + platform surfaces + module system), installed as a versioned dependency (ADR 0108).",
   "license": "AGPL-3.0-or-later",
   "main": "src/platform-server.js",

package/release-notes.json

@@ -8419,5 +8419,15 @@
       "id": "1004430",
       "text": "Hall navigation is more standard. The top bar now has a Back button when you open a page from inside another one. A builder's profile opened from the Builders list shows \"Back to Builders\" and returns you to the same spot in t"
     }
+  ],
+  "1.20.52": [
+    {
+      "id": "1004425",
+      "text": "The project-startup flow now has its five life-stage pictures, one per stage of a new project's genesis: a primordial sea, first cells, a genome, a membrane and a nervous system, each in the chrome world's style with a dark an"
+    },
+    {
+      "id": "1004475",
+      "text": "Equity or shares is now also greyed out for a single-owner company and for a research entity, each with its own short reason. Only a regular for-profit company or a division of a corporation is offered equity. As before, it's"
+    }
   ]
 }

package/src/module-api.js

@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ const { responsibilityFor, ROLE_RESPONSIBILITIES } = require('./role-responsibil
 // MAJOR (see allowBoxScope below): passes the request through untouched.
 function deprecatedNoopMiddleware(_req, _res, next) { next(); }
 
-const CORE_VERSION = '1.20.51'; // CI auto-patch carrier (ADR 0161); changelog: docs/module-api-changelog.md
+const CORE_VERSION = '1.20.52'; // CI auto-patch carrier (ADR 0161); changelog: docs/module-api-changelog.md
 
 // A namespaced logger so a module's log lines are attributable + consistent.
 // Usage: const log = api.logger('discord'); log.info('mounted');

package/tests/genesis_life_plates.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+// tests/genesis_life_plates.mjs — the five genesis life-stage plates (task 1004425 /
+// BV2.PS12, goal 1000121).
+//
+// One plate per genesis stage, shipped as the world's pair: a black-ground JPEG for
+// dark mode and an alpha WebP cutout for light, each with the provenance sidecar every
+// world plate carries. The genesis home's life strip (the GenesisHall mock today, the
+// live genesis home in PS08) reads them by these names, so a renamed or half-shipped
+// pair breaks the strip silently: a missing image is an empty square, not an error.
+
+import { test } from 'node:test';
+import assert from 'node:assert/strict';
+import fs from 'node:fs';
+import path from 'node:path';
+import { fileURLToPath } from 'node:url';
+
+const ROOT = path.resolve(path.dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url)), '..');
+const WORLD = path.join(ROOT, 'modules', 'public-landing', 'public', 'assets', 'world');
+const MOCK = path.join(ROOT, 'docs', 'design', 'mocks', 'project-startup', 'GenesisHall.dc.html');
+
+// The stages in genesis order, with the label the strip captions them by.
+const PLATES = [
+  ['scope', 'primordial sea', 'r5-life-1-primordial-sea'],
+  ['strategize', 'first cells', 'r5-life-2-first-cells'],
+  ['charter', 'the genome', 'r5-life-3-genome'],
+  ['legalize', 'the membrane', 'r5-life-4-membrane'],
+  ['legislation', 'the nervous system', 'r5-life-5-nervous-system'],
+];
+
+// The first bytes of each format, so a mislabelled file (a PNG saved as .jpg) fails here.
+const isJpeg = (b) => b[0] === 0xff && b[1] === 0xd8 && b[2] === 0xff;
+const isWebp = (b) => b.toString('ascii', 0, 4) === 'RIFF' && b.toString('ascii', 8, 12) === 'WEBP';
+
+test('each genesis stage ships the world pair: a dark JPEG and a light WebP cutout', () => {
+  for (const [, , slug] of PLATES) {
+    const jpg = fs.readFileSync(path.join(WORLD, `${slug}.jpg`));
+    const cut = fs.readFileSync(path.join(WORLD, `${slug}-cut.webp`));
+    assert.ok(isJpeg(jpg), `${slug}.jpg is a JPEG`);
+    assert.ok(isWebp(cut), `${slug}-cut.webp is a WebP`);
+  }
+});
+
+test('every plate file carries a provenance sidecar naming its stage and label', () => {
+  for (const [stage, label, slug] of PLATES) {
+    for (const [file, kind] of [[`${slug}.jpg`, 'plate'], [`${slug}-cut.webp`, 'cutout']]) {
+      const side = JSON.parse(fs.readFileSync(path.join(WORLD, `${file}.json`), 'utf8'));
+      assert.equal(side.kind, kind, `${file}: kind`);
+      assert.equal(side.task, 1004425, `${file}: task`);
+      assert.equal(side.stage, stage, `${file}: stage`);
+      assert.equal(side.label, label, `${file}: label`);
+      assert.ok(side.prompt && side.model, `${file}: prompt and model recorded`);
+    }
+  }
+});
+
+test('the genesis mock life strip shows all five plates and no placeholder', () => {
+  const html = fs.readFileSync(MOCK, 'utf8');
+  assert.ok(!/plate to render/.test(html), 'no "plate to render" placeholder left');
+  for (const [stage, label, slug] of PLATES) {
+    const tile = html.split('\n').find((l) => l.includes(`<p class="cap">${stage}<b>${label}</b>`));
+    assert.ok(tile, `a tile for ${stage}`);
+    assert.ok(tile.includes(`/assets/world/${slug}-cut.webp`), `${stage} tile uses ${slug}`);
+  }
+});

package/tests/provisioning_planet_physics.mjs

@@ -188,6 +188,20 @@ await t("the spec's three examples fire, each with its why line", () => {
   assert.equal(find({ entity: 'for-profit' }, 'reward_intents:equity').length, 0);
 });
 
+await t('equity is greyed for a single-owner LLC and a research entity, each with its own reason (task 1004475, owner 2026-09-30)', () => {
+  const equity = (entity) => softLimitsFor({ entity }).limits.filter((l) => l.option === 'reward_intents:equity');
+  const llc = equity('single-owner-llc');
+  assert.equal(llc.length, 1); assert.equal(llc[0].effect, 'grey');
+  assert.match(llc[0].reason, /one owner/);
+  const research = equity('research');
+  assert.equal(research.length, 1); assert.equal(research[0].effect, 'grey');
+  assert.match(research[0].reason, /research/i);
+  assert.notEqual(llc[0].reason, research[0].reason, 'each says its own why');
+  // The two companies that can give a builder a stake are still offered it.
+  assert.equal(equity('for-profit').length, 0);
+  assert.equal(equity('corporate-division').length, 0);
+});
+
 await t('a rule never fires on an answer nobody gave — only the platform-wide facts apply to a skipped interview', () => {
   const skipped = softLimitsFor({});
   for (const limit of skipped.limits) {