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# SOUL.md — identity frontloader.
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# vital_paths values are each path's UTF-8 bytes read as one big-endian
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soul:
  name: ""                       
  version: "Alpha"
  soul_schema: 1
  first_commit_epoch: 1780171196
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    self: 20254206236001653414
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# SOUL

> this exists
> as a placeholder
> the reak one goes deeper