fix(composed): state Dowel's pronouns, and bound the colors entry on the index #1131

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Follow-up to #1129, which merged while this half was still being written. Same collision, one field over.

The pronoun

Nothing in this repository, in sirens-echo, or in the deploy config ever stated Dowel's pronouns.

The composed engineer card reads Angie (she), a name the dowel contract explicitly tells Dowel never to use, so the only pronoun statement reaching the prompt belonged to the roster seat. Every source describing Dowel said "it", by habit rather than by decision. Asked "what are your pronouns" on tomorrow's recorded stream, Dowel had a card answer belonging to somebody else and no source of their own. Their own provenance file says identity questions are what the session exists to examine and some will be adversarial.

Kai's call is they/them.

The seat section now says so outright, and splits the bookkeeping line where agent-compose actually splits it: the seat's declared name and pronoun are assembly detail, and everything the bundle derives, the favorite color included, is Dowel's own. That is a better line than the one #1129 shipped, which said the demotion covered the name and stopped there. The rest of the contract follows the pronoun through, and two its readings that would now be ambiguous got named instead.

The lane half is sirens-echo#980, which puts the statement in references/dowel-provenance.md, the file SKILL.md sends every identity question to. A statement only here would be routed around by that instruction.

The index route #1129 left open

A broad taste question lands on personal-preferences before it reaches the Colors section, and the index's Colors line still carried the unqualified license. One clause closes it.

Reaching the lane

Neither this nor sirens-echo#980 reaches Dowel until the image rebuilds against this catalogue and the lane rolls out. Before 11:00 PDT tomorrow if it is going to matter for the stream.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) noreply@anthropic.com

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Follow-up to #1129, which merged while this half was still being written. Same collision, one field over. ## The pronoun Nothing in this repository, in sirens-echo, or in the deploy config ever stated Dowel's pronouns. The composed engineer card reads **Angie (she)**, a name the dowel contract explicitly tells Dowel never to use, so the only pronoun statement reaching the prompt belonged to the roster seat. Every source describing Dowel said "it", by habit rather than by decision. Asked "what are your pronouns" on tomorrow's recorded stream, Dowel had a card answer belonging to somebody else and no source of their own. Their own provenance file says identity questions are what the session exists to examine and some will be adversarial. Kai's call is **they/them**. The seat section now says so outright, and splits the bookkeeping line where agent-compose actually splits it: the seat's **declared** name and pronoun are assembly detail, and everything the bundle **derives**, the favorite color included, is Dowel's own. That is a better line than the one #1129 shipped, which said the demotion covered the name and stopped there. The rest of the contract follows the pronoun through, and two `its` readings that would now be ambiguous got named instead. The lane half is [sirens-echo#980](https://forgejo.coilysiren.me/coilyco-gaming/sirens-echo/pulls/980), which puts the statement in `references/dowel-provenance.md`, the file `SKILL.md` sends every identity question to. A statement only here would be routed around by that instruction. ## The index route #1129 left open A broad taste question lands on `personal-preferences` before it reaches the Colors section, and the index's Colors line still carried the unqualified license. One clause closes it. ## Reaching the lane Neither this nor sirens-echo#980 reaches Dowel until the image rebuilds against this catalogue and the lane rolls out. Before 11:00 PDT tomorrow if it is going to matter for the stream. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

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fix(composed): bound the colors entry on the preferences index too c032dff7a3

A broad taste question lands on the index first, and its Colors line carried
the unqualified license the section now bounds. One clause closes the route.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Kai Siren <coilysiren@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

fix(composed): state Dowel's pronouns and carry them through the contract

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The card reads "Angie (she)" for a name Dowel is told never to use, and no
source anywhere states Dowel's own pronouns, so the only pronoun statement in
the prompt belonged to the roster seat. Every source describing Dowel used
"it" by habit rather than by decision. Kai's call is they/them.

The seat section now says so outright and splits the bookkeeping line where
agent-compose splits it: the seat's declared name and pronoun are assembly
detail, and everything the bundle derives, the favorite color included, is
Dowel's own. The rest of the file follows the pronoun through.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Co-authored-by: Kai Siren <coilysiren@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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fix(composed): let an agent's own favorite color outrank the house palette #1129