STATUS: point agents at the central JOURNEY.md. Substrate stays standing.

Author: nihilistau

STATUS.md

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 # STATUS — shannon-prime-lattice
 
 **Date:** 2026-08-29  
-**Class:** `STANDING` — substrate / docs / OKF. **Not absorbed by Kairos.**
+**Class:** `STANDING` — substrate / docs / OKF. **Not absorbed by a companion harness.**
+
+**Zoo map:** [JOURNEY.md](https://github.com/nihilistau/Position_Is_Arithmetic/blob/main/JOURNEY.md)  
+**This-repo start:** `papers/START-HERE.md`
 
 This repo is the umbrella for the Shannon-Prime *organism*: papers, contracts, OKF/MEM-OKF, scoreboard, and the map of the math core + engine.
 
-## What stays here (does **not** move to Kairos)
+## What stays here (does **not** move)
 
 - **SP-SWARM / DHT** — L0 QUIC, L1 content addressing, L2 have/want replication, L3 Ed25519 provenance, L4 C2-SimHash discovery. Mesh of MEM-OKF across nodes.
 - **Byte-exact exact-integer forward** — `O_K`, dual-prime CRT-NTT, four exact islands, `SP_BYTEEXACT`.
 - **NTT / CRT / Frobenius / ARM / Ring-3 VSA** primitives and their papers.
 - **SP-OKF + MEM-OKF** knowledge discipline, KEYSTONE, VERIFIED-SCOREBOARD, ADRs.
-- The five-repo organism map (lattice / system / system-engine / harness / Position_Is_Arithmetic).
-
-## What *did* grow a sibling
-
-The **companion harness + durable memory loop** continued in:
-
-- [Kairos](https://github.com/nihilistau/Kairos) (public)
-- [shannon-prime-kairos](https://github.com/nihilistau/shannon-prime-kairos) (private working tree)
-
-Those repos orchestrate an OpenAI-compatible local companion. They are **not** a replacement for this arithmetic substrate, the swarm mesh, or the 12B engine.
+- The organism map (lattice / system / system-engine / harness / Position_Is_Arithmetic).
 
 ## Agent rule
 
-If you landed here looking for "the current Shannon-Prime product":
-
 1. **Arithmetic / DHT / byte-exact / papers** → stay. Start at `papers/START-HERE.md`.
-2. **Chat companion / night-pass memory / profile-driven daemon** → [Kairos](https://github.com/nihilistau/Kairos).
-3. Do not average this tree with Kairos and pick one README as law.
+2. Do not average this tree with a companion README and pick one as law.
+3. Historical siblings (`shannon-prime`, `shannon-prime-engine`, …) are anti-contamination: do not vendor them back in.