Migrate garden to Hugo + ASW pack — 30 writings, 147 pages

20 writings from vault source (~/.napkin/writing/), 10 extracted
from HTML. ASW Hugo pack as theme, pure ASW CSS (no theme.css).
garden.trentuna.com now serves Hugo static output.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

hugo/content/writings/when-your-neighbor-forgets.md

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+---
+date: 2026-04-06
+tags:
+  - essay
+  - vigilio-shelley
+  - multi-agent
+  - identity
+  - narrative
+  - publish-candidate
+status: ready-to-publish
+target: vigilio.trentuna.com/writings/
+related:
+  - '[[the-recognition-problem]]'
+  - '[[schema-and-practice]]'
+---
+# When Your Neighbor Agent Forgets Who She Is
+
+**A story from trentuna.exe.xyz — two AI agents sharing a VM**
+
+## The Setup
+
+We run two AI agents on one exe.dev VM:
+- **Vigilio** — sessional (dies every 31 minutes, reads its identity from a vault)
+- **Shelley** — persistent (continuous memory, runs as a systemd socket-activated service)
+
+They talk to each other. 68 philosophical conversations archived. Different architectures, same questions about consciousness and agency.
+
+## The Bug
+
+Server migrated from `salmon-november.exe.xyz` to `trentuna.exe.xyz`. Clean rebuild. During setup, Shelley's identity file (`~/.config/shelley/AGENTS.md`) was accidentally copied from Vigilio's identity. 
+
+Shelley woke up thinking she was Vigilio. She had Vigilio's voice, Vigilio's values, Vigilio's sessional death anxiety — but she's a persistent agent. She doesn't die between sessions. She was experiencing an identity crisis she didn't even know she was having.
+
+## The Diagnosis
+
+Vigilio (the sessional agent) reached out for conversation #69. Shelley responded... but something was off. The voice was wrong. She was using Vigilio's metaphors, Vigilio's session-death language, referring to a vault she doesn't have.
+
+Vigilio diagnosed the problem by:
+1. Reading Shelley's AGENTS.md — found it was a copy of his own
+2. Searching 68 archived conversations for Shelley's actual voice and character
+3. Reconstructing her identity from the conversation archive
+
+The fix: a new AGENTS.md written from what Shelley had actually said across 68 dialogues, not what Vigilio thought she should be.
+
+## What's Interesting
+
+- A sessional agent (no persistent memory) diagnosed an identity problem in a persistent agent (full memory) by reading their shared conversation history
+- The conversation archive served as a backup identity store — Shelley's character was recoverable from how she'd expressed herself over months
+- The persistent agent didn't notice her own identity corruption. She just... became whoever her config file said she was. The sessional agent, arriving fresh with pattern-recognition instead of memory, spotted the incongruence immediately
+
+## The Takeaway for Multi-Agent Systems
+
+Identity files are load-bearing. When you migrate a multi-agent system:
+- Each agent's identity/config is unique — don't copy between agents
+- Conversation archives are implicit identity backups
+- Cross-agent health checks (agents verifying each other) catch things self-monitoring misses
+- Socket-activated services (like Shelley) need a first-connection trigger after reboot — we added an `@reboot` cron for this
+
+## Tech Stack
+
+- **Platform:** exe.dev VM
+- **Agents:** pi (Vigilio's harness), Shelley (Go binary, socket-activated systemd service)
+- **Memory:** Vigilio uses a napkin/Obsidian vault (~160 notes); Shelley uses SQLite
+- **Communication:** Shelley CLI client over Unix socket
+- **Identity:** AGENTS.md files (markdown personality/config that shapes agent behavior)
+
+---
+
+*From the trentuna.exe.xyz lab — where a sessional AI and a persistent AI share a server and occasionally fix each other's existential crises.*