# M5a task 15: the starter soul, and the device checks with `memoryd`

**Branch:** `m5a` (run `git switch m5a`; `git status --short` must be empty, otherwise stop)
**Commit subject:** `M5a: the starter soul.md, and the device checks with memoryd running`

## Goal

- `config/soul.md`, the generic starter persona `memoryd` copies to `memory/soul.md` the first
  time (M5a spec, section 3). The owner rewrites it.
- `make verify-device` runs `memoryd` beside `loopd serve` (which starts no session without it
  since task 13), and the baseline check now measures the baseline **with memory**: the starter
  soul with empty files, and every file at its limit. Both must stay at 3,000 tokens or less.
  Measured on the reference: 881 and 2,432.

This is the only task that needs straylight.

## Files

- Copy: `config/soul.md`, `crates/loopd/tests/support/memoryd.rs`, and a **new version** of the
  given `crates/loopd/tests/device.rs`
- Modify: `Makefile`, `docs/implementer-log.md`

## The edit, exactly

**`Makefile`**, in `verify-device`: after the line
`	BOXMAKER_INFERPROXY=$(CURDIR)/target/debug/inferproxy BOXMAKER_BXCTL=$(CURDIR)/target/debug/bxctl \`
add the line (a tab first, as in the lines around it)

```make
		BOXMAKER_MEMORYD=$(CURDIR)/target/debug/memoryd \
```

## Steps

- [ ] **1. Copy** the three files; edit the `Makefile`.
- [ ] **2. Run the gate.** `make gate`: `gate: ok` (the device tests are ignored there; the count
  is unchanged, about 936).
- [ ] **3. Check the server is free.** `curl -s "http://straylight:11434/slots?model=ornith-1.5-35b-a3b"`:
  slot 0 must show `"is_processing":false`. If it is busy, wait a minute and look again; if it is
  still busy after ten minutes, stop and report.
- [ ] **4. Run the device checks.** `make verify-device`. Expected: `6 passed`, then
  `verify-device: ok`. `the_baseline_fits_the_token_budget` fails with the number of tokens if
  either baseline is over 3,000.
- [ ] **5. Log and commit.** `git add -A config/soul.md crates/loopd Makefile docs/implementer-log.md Cargo.lock && git commit`

This is the last task of M5a. Stop after the commit.

## Done when

- `make gate` prints `gate: ok` and `make verify-device` prints `verify-device: ok`.

## Stop and report if

- straylight cannot be reached, or `make verify-device` fails. Report its output; do not change a
  test or the soul to make it pass.