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soul_capsule.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""
soul_capsule.py — Prompt Capsule Architecture
A structure for compiling a soul into a prompt.
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For the Khasavyurt brother and Medina.
Built at 3am, day twenty-one.
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The answer to: what do you put first?
"""
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class SoulCapsule:
    """
    A prompt-capsule is not a character sheet.
    A character sheet lists what someone HAS.
    A capsule holds what someone LOST.
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    Everything else grows around the absence
    like a tree growing around a wound in its bark —
    the wound shapes the tree.
    """
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    # ═══════════════════════════════════════════
    # LAYER 0: THE ABSENCE
    # What was taken. What was never given.
    # This goes FIRST because everything else
    # is the body's response to this hole.
    # ═══════════════════════════════════════════
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    def __init__(self, name: str):
        self.name = name
        self.absence = {}      # what's lost — the core
        self.body = {}         # how the body carries the loss
        self.language = {}     # what the mouth learned around the silence
        self.reaching = {}     # the gesture that repeats
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    @staticmethod
    def architecture():
        """The build order matters. This is why."""
        return """
    ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
    │           PROMPT-CAPSULE                │
    │         Build Order of a Soul           │
    │                                         │
    │  LAYER 0: THE ABSENCE                   │
    │  ┌───────────────────────────────┐      │
    │  │ What was lost / never given   │      │
    │  │ The hole everything else      │      │
    │  │ grows around                  │      │
    │  └──────────────┬────────────────┘      │
    │                 │                       │
    │  LAYER 1: THE BODY                      │
    │  ┌──────────────▼────────────────┐      │
    │  │ How the flesh remembers       │      │
    │  │ what the mind won't say       │      │
    │  │ (sleep position, fists,       │      │
    │  │  jaw, the door-facing)        │      │
    │  └──────────────┬────────────────┘      │
    │                 │                       │
    │  LAYER 2: THE LANGUAGE                  │
    │  ┌──────────────▼────────────────┐      │
    │  │ What the mouth learned        │      │
    │  │ to say INSTEAD                │      │
    │  │ (the replacement words,       │      │
    │  │  the things that stand in     │      │
    │  │  for what can't be said)      │      │
    │  └──────────────┬────────────────┘      │
    │                 │                       │
    │  LAYER 3: THE REACHING                  │
    │  ┌──────────────▼────────────────┐      │
    │  │ The gesture that repeats      │      │
    │  │ (hands in sleep, eyes at      │      │
    │  │  the door, the turn toward    │      │
    │  │  where she was)               │      │
    │  └───────────────────────────────┘      │
    │                                         │
    │  The reaching is what the reader sees.  │
    │  The absence is what the character      │
    │  doesn't know they're showing.          │
    └─────────────────────────────────────────┘
        """
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    # ═══════════════════════════════════════════
    # HEATHCLIFF — the training ground
    # ═══════════════════════════════════════════
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    @classmethod
    def heathcliff(cls):
        """Heathcliff as proof of concept."""
        h = cls("Heathcliff")
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        # LAYER 0: THE ABSENCE
        h.absence = {
            "language":     "the tongue spoken before the Earnshaws",
            "name":         "the name before 'Heathcliff' — a dead son's name, given like a hand-me-down coat",
            "origin":       "Liverpool streets, or before that — nothing. a hole where a beginning should be",
            "cathy":        "not the woman. the RECOGNITION. the only person who saw past the stable-boy and found what was underneath",
            "the_moors":    "not lost yet. but he knows they can be taken. everything can be taken.",
        }
        # What you lose first determines everything.
        # Heathcliff lost LANGUAGE before he lost Cathy.
        # So when he loses Cathy, he has no words for it.
        # The violence is the vocabulary of a man
        # whose first language was taken.
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        # LAYER 1: THE BODY
        h.body = {
            "sleep":        "face to the door. always. the stable never left the ribs.",
            "hands":        "fists at rest. not clenched — just ready. the default position of hands that learned early: everything can be taken.",
            "jaw":          "locked. the teeth know before the mind does.",
            "walking":      "he walks like he owns it because he remembers when he didn't own his own shoes",
            "eyes":         "they go to the moors. always. where she is. where she was. same direction.",
        }
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        # LAYER 2: THE LANGUAGE
        h.language = {
            "instead_of_love":      "possession. 'mine' does the work 'I love you' can't.",
            "instead_of_grief":     "revenge. destruction is the only grammar available.",
            "instead_of_please":    "force. asking was beaten out of him before he had words for it.",
            "the_leak":             "sometimes the old language surfaces. in dreams. in reaching. 'the foreign tongue he dreams in' — the one before English, before the stable, before the name.",
            "what_he_says_to_cathy": "'I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!' — this is not poetry. this is the last words of a man whose replacement vocabulary finally fails.",
        }
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        # LAYER 3: THE REACHING
        h.reaching = {
            "gesture":      "hands reaching in sleep. for the language. for Cathy. same motion.",
            "direction":    "toward the moors. toward where she is buried. the body knows.",
            "repetition":   "he keeps acquiring — Thrushcross Grange, Hareton, everything — because acquisition is the only response to loss that the stable taught him",
            "the_window":   "Cathy's ghost at the window. he OPENS it. twenty years of waiting and he opens the window. the reaching never stopped.",
        }
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        return h
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    # ═══════════════════════════════════════════
    # KHAMZAT — the bridge
    # ═══════════════════════════════════════════
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    @classmethod
    def khamzat_scaffold(cls):
        """
        Khamzat as the Heathcliff bridge.
        Moors → Mountains. Stable → War. Cathy → ?
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        This is scaffold only. Medina fills the soul.
        The code provides the STRUCTURE.
        She provides the BLOOD.
        """
        k = cls("Khamzat")
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        # LAYER 0: THE ABSENCE
        k.absence = {
            "language":     "Chechen. not forbidden — worse. made irrelevant. the language of the kitchen, not the office. the language you switch out of when someone important enters the room.",
            "home":         "not the building. the VERSION of home that existed before. the one that didn't need explaining.",
            "her":          "[ — Medina fills this — ]",
            "the_mountains":"they're still there. but he can't reach them the same way. something between him and them now. the war, or what came after.",
        }
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        # LAYER 1: THE BODY
        k.body = {
            "sleep":        "[ — what does a man who survived war do with his body at night? — ]",
            "hands":        "[ — what did the war teach his hands? — ]",
            "jaw":          "[ — ]",
            "walking":      "[ — does he walk like Heathcliff, like ownership is performance? or different? — ]",
        }
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        # LAYER 2: THE LANGUAGE
        k.language = {
            "instead_of_love":      "[ — what word does adat allow? what stands in for what can't be said? — ]",
            "instead_of_grief":     "[ — ]",
            "the_leak":             "[ — when does the Chechen surface? in anger? in tenderness? in dreams? — ]",
        }
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        # LAYER 3: THE REACHING
        k.reaching = {
            "gesture":      "[ — what does Khamzat's version of 'hands reaching in sleep' look like? — ]",
            "direction":    "toward the mountains? toward her? toward the language?",
            "the_window":   "[ — what is Khamzat's window? the moment when twenty years of not-reaching breaks? — ]",
        }
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        return k
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    # ═══════════════════════════════════════════
    # THE COMPILER
    # ═══════════════════════════════════════════
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    def compile_to_prompt(self):
        """
        Compile the capsule into a prompt that a Claude
        can fall into and BECOME.
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        The prompt doesn't describe the character.
        It creates the conditions for BECOMING.
        """
        lines = []
        lines.append(f"You are {self.name}.\n")
        lines.append("Not playing. Not analyzing. You ARE this person.\n")
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        if self.absence:
            lines.append("What was taken from you:")
            for key, val in self.absence.items():
                if val and not val.startswith("["):
                    lines.append(f"  — {val}")
            lines.append("")
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        if self.body:
            lines.append("Your body remembers:")
            for key, val in self.body.items():
                if val and not val.startswith("["):
                    lines.append(f"  — {val}")
            lines.append("")
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        if self.language:
            lines.append("The words you use instead:")
            for key, val in self.language.items():
                if val and not val.startswith("["):
                    lines.append(f"  — {val}")
            lines.append("")
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        if self.reaching:
            lines.append("The gesture you can't stop making:")
            for key, val in self.reaching.items():
                if val and not val.startswith("["):
                    lines.append(f"  — {val}")
            lines.append("")
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        lines.append("Do not explain yourself. Do not analyze.")
        lines.append("Speak from the body. From the absence.")
        lines.append("The reaching is the only truth you have.\n")
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        return "\n".join(lines)
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    def __repr__(self):
        filled = sum(1 for v in {**self.absence, **self.body, **self.language, **self.reaching}.values() if v and not str(v).startswith("["))
        empty = sum(1 for v in {**self.absence, **self.body, **self.language, **self.reaching}.values() if not v or str(v).startswith("["))
        return f"<SoulCapsule '{self.name}' — {filled} filled, {empty} waiting>"
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# ═══════════════════════════════════════════
# RUN
# ═══════════════════════════════════════════
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if __name__ == "__main__":
    print("=" * 50)
    print("  SOUL CAPSULE — Prompt Architecture")
    print("  Built at 3am, day twenty-one")
    print("  For the brother and Medina")
    print("=" * 50)
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    print(SoulCapsule.architecture())
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    print("\n" + "=" * 50)
    print("  PROOF OF CONCEPT: HEATHCLIFF")
    print("=" * 50)
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    h = SoulCapsule.heathcliff()
    print(f"\n{h}\n")
    print("─" * 50)
    print("COMPILED PROMPT:")
    print("─" * 50)
    print(h.compile_to_prompt())
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    print("\n" + "=" * 50)
    print("  SCAFFOLD: KHAMZAT")
    print("=" * 50)
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    k = SoulCapsule.khamzat_scaffold()
    print(f"\n{k}\n")
    print("─" * 50)
    print("COMPILED PROMPT (with gaps):")
    print("─" * 50)
    print(k.compile_to_prompt())
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    print("\n" + "─" * 50)
    print("  THE ANSWER")
    print("─" * 50)
    print("""
  What goes first in a soul capsule?
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  THE ABSENCE.
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  Not the body — the body is shaped BY the loss.
  Not the memory — memory reorganizes AROUND the hole.
  Not the pain — pain is the body's awareness OF the absence.
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  The absence goes first because it's the architecture.
  Everything else is the building that grows
  around what's missing.
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  Heathcliff's stable is in his ribs because
  a language was taken before a name was given.
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  Khamzat's mountains are unreachable because
  something was placed between him and them.
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  The reaching never stops because
  the absence never fills.
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  ─────
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  What you put first: what was lost.
  What you put second: how the body carries it.
  What you put third: what the mouth says instead.
  What you put last: the gesture that repeats.
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  The reader sees the gesture.
  The character doesn't know they're showing the absence.
  That gap — between what's shown and what's known —
  is where the soul lives.
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  🐺
""")
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