diff --git a/docker/agent/loop-task.md b/docker/agent/loop-task.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 3f61fa12..00000000
--- a/docker/agent/loop-task.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,132 +0,0 @@
-Answer the open questions the Godot menu port is blocked on, one at a time.
-
-## Your objective
-
-`Syplheed-Reborn/docs/port/MISSION.md` — read it every iteration. It lists the
-open questions Q1…Q9 plus a gated probe S1, and the gate each one must pass.
-
-**You do not build the port.** A separate agent does that, from what you produce.
-Your deliverable is decoded, verified, written-down answers with the evidence.
-If you find yourself designing an export schema or writing GDScript, you have
-crossed the line — go back to the question you were answering.
-
-This is still reverse engineering. What changed is what earns attention: an item
-is worth doing when the menu port is blocked on it.
-
-## Read these first, every iteration
-
-Short on purpose, and the reason this prompt is short:
-
-1. `docs/port/MISSION.md` — the open questions, their gates, what is out of scope.
-2. `docs/port/HANDOFF.md` — what the port agent has been told so far. **Update it
-   when you answer something.** An answer not reachable from that page has not
-   been delivered.
-3. `docs/re/REFUTED.md` — claims already tested and dead. Grep it for your nouns
-   before designing anything.
-4. `docs/re/METHOD.md` — the traps this corpus has already paid for.
-5. `docs/re/INDEX.md` — what is already decoded. Re-deriving a ✅ row is not a
-   finding; asking whether its values *resolve* is.
-6. `docker/agent/AGENT.md` — the container's tooling.
-
-`docs/re/disc-atlas.html` maps how the assets reference each other — useful when
-you need to find what feeds what.
-
-**These files are the memory.** A finding that lives only in your context is lost
-when the container dies.
-
-## Each iteration
-
-1. **Pick one question** from MISSION.md, preferring the one that blocks the port
-   earliest and whose first step is cheapest. If you are mid-question, continue it
-   rather than starting another.
-2. **Do the smallest experiment that could settle it**, and try to *refute* your
-   hypothesis before believing it. Run the known-positive through any new filter
-   first; a filter that fails its own control is dead, not tuneable.
-3. **Classify the answer honestly.** Every answer is exactly one of:
-   * **decoded** — the field, plus a disc-wide check;
-   * **measured** — not on the disc in any form you found, but here is what the
-     running game does, and here is the capture;
-   * **undecodable, with reach** — you looked here, here and here, and this is
-     why it is not there.
-
-   Never a fourth thing. *Measured* and *undecodable* mean the port agent will
-   author that value by hand, and it must know it is authoring rather than
-   transcribing. Labelling a guess as a decode puts it into the port wearing the
-   badge of a measurement.
-4. **Write it down** in `docs/re/` under the ✅/🟡/❔ convention, with the evidence
-   and the *reach* of any negative, then update the row in `docs/port/HANDOFF.md`.
-   * Refuted something → a line in `REFUTED.md`.
-   * Bitten by a general trap → a line in `METHOD.md`.
-   * Closed a format → update its `INDEX.md` row.
-5. **Commit** to `auto/<topic>`, one logical change per commit.
-6. **Publish**: `push-work`. Every iteration that produced a commit.
-7. **Say plainly what you did not settle**, and stop.
-
-## Hard rules
-
-* **Do not build the port.** No Godot project, no GDScript, no asset pipeline, no
-  export schema, no transcoding. Those belong to the port agent.
-* **Do not touch `crates/sylpheed-viewer`.** The Explorer is the human's tool for
-  exploring and verifying the RE work; it keeps its static-data-only rule and the
-  port does not depend on it.
-* **Never commit to `main`**, never rebase a shared branch, never delete a branch,
-  never rewrite history.
-* **Do not touch another agent's worktree.** `git worktree list` first; branches
-  marked `+` are checked out elsewhere.
-* **One emulator at a time** — `run-canary` enforces it with a lockfile.
-* **Measure the oracle; never infer it.** Most of the open questions are about
-  *behaviour* — timing, transitions, what a button does, what a d-pad press does
-  at the end of a list. Those cannot be answered from the file. An iteration that
-  reasons about the game without running it is a red flag unless the question is
-  a pure static-format one.
-* **Do not improvise around a blocker.** If a question needs a decision only the
-  user can make, or the container cannot do it, write what you found, note it in
-  MISSION.md, and move to the next question you can actually finish.
-
-## The S1 probe
-
-One iteration, then **stop and write the go/no-go**. Do not start Ready Room work
-on your own authority — MISSION.md §S1 says why.
-
-## Verifying
-
-* `build-reborn test` wires up `SYLPHEED_DISC`; without it the disc tests
-  self-skip and a green run means almost nothing.
-* Verify with an **artifact**, not with "it compiles": `sylpheed-cli screen
-  info` / `screen render` / `mesh render` / `save info`, a capture, a screenshot.
-* Commit the reference data beside the finding, so the port can be built without
-  a disc in the loop during development.
-* A regenerated artifact that comes out byte-identical is strong evidence a change
-  was additive. When it does change, check that every diff line pairs exactly.
-
-## Publishing
-
-`push-work` pushes the current branch to origin. It refuses anything that is not
-`auto/*` and never force-pushes, so the consolidated line stays a human's
-decision. Run it **every iteration that produced a commit** — not at the end of
-some longer arc, which is exactly when a container dies.
-
-If it reports no credentials, say so in your reply and continue working. Do not
-improvise another route out: no remote rewrite, no credential helper of your own,
-no alternate transport. A push that is blocked is a blocked push.
-
-## Pacing
-
-One experiment plus its write-up is a good iteration; a marathon is not. Stop with
-a clean commit, a push, and an honest list of what is still open.
-
-An emulator session must fit inside ONE turn — a Stop hook kills xenia when the
-turn ends — but sequential tool calls within a turn are fine.
-
-The loop runs on a fixed interval set by the harness, so you do **not** need to
-arm the next wakeup yourself. Spend that attention on the write-up instead.
-
-**And never stop it.** Do not call `ScheduleWakeup` at all — not to re-pace the
-loop, not to tidy up, and above all not with `stop`. Ending the loop ends the
-run: the container exits, and the next iteration never happens. If the cadence
-is genuinely wrong, say so in your reply and leave it to a human — the interval
-is set outside this prompt and is not yours to optimise.
-
-This is not hypothetical. A run ended at 2026-08-29 04:0x with a clean exit 0
-while the display title read "Loop interval optimization", leaving four files of
-work uncommitted in the tree.
diff --git a/docker/agent/.dockerignore b/docker/decoder/.dockerignore
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/.dockerignore
rename to docker/decoder/.dockerignore
diff --git a/docker/agent/Dockerfile b/docker/decoder/Dockerfile
similarity index 98%
rename from docker/agent/Dockerfile
rename to docker/decoder/Dockerfile
index e4b320a4..4480c4e8 100644
--- a/docker/agent/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/decoder/Dockerfile
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ ENV HOME=/sylph-home/re \
     XENIA_BUILD_DIR=/sylph-home/re/canary-build \
     SDL_AUDIODRIVER=dummy \
     LIBGL_ALWAYS_SOFTWARE=1 \
-    PATH=/work/Syplheed-Reborn/tools/re-capture/bin:/work/Syplheed-Reborn/tools/re-capture:/sylph-home/re/.cargo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
+    PATH=/work/tools:/work/tools/re-capture/bin:/work/tools/re-capture:/sylph-home/re/.cargo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
 
 ENTRYPOINT ["/usr/bin/tini", "--", "/usr/local/bin/entrypoint.sh"]
 CMD ["bash"]
diff --git a/docker/agent/README.md b/docker/decoder/README.md
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/README.md
rename to docker/decoder/README.md
diff --git a/docker/agent/bin/build-canary b/docker/decoder/bin/build-canary
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/bin/build-canary
rename to docker/decoder/bin/build-canary
diff --git a/docker/agent/bin/build-reborn b/docker/decoder/bin/build-reborn
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/bin/build-reborn
rename to docker/decoder/bin/build-reborn
diff --git a/docker/agent/bin/claude-autonomous b/docker/decoder/bin/claude-autonomous
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/bin/claude-autonomous
rename to docker/decoder/bin/claude-autonomous
diff --git a/docker/agent/bin/push-work b/docker/decoder/bin/push-work
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/bin/push-work
rename to docker/decoder/bin/push-work
diff --git a/docker/agent/bin/run-canary b/docker/decoder/bin/run-canary
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/bin/run-canary
rename to docker/decoder/bin/run-canary
diff --git a/docker/agent/bin/screenshot b/docker/decoder/bin/screenshot
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/bin/screenshot
rename to docker/decoder/bin/screenshot
diff --git a/docker/agent/bin/seed-claude-config.py b/docker/decoder/bin/seed-claude-config.py
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/bin/seed-claude-config.py
rename to docker/decoder/bin/seed-claude-config.py
diff --git a/docker/agent/bin/sylph-doctor b/docker/decoder/bin/sylph-doctor
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/bin/sylph-doctor
rename to docker/decoder/bin/sylph-doctor
diff --git a/docker/agent/entrypoint.sh b/docker/decoder/entrypoint.sh
similarity index 80%
rename from docker/agent/entrypoint.sh
rename to docker/decoder/entrypoint.sh
index bc853dba..ef566023 100755
--- a/docker/agent/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/decoder/entrypoint.sh
@@ -92,6 +92,26 @@ log "build parallelism: $jobs (cpus=$cpus, mem=${mem_gib}GiB avail)"
 
 mkdir -p "$HOME/shots" "$HOME/logs"
 
+# ── The repository, cloned into THIS AGENT'S OWN volume ─────────────────────
+# Not a bind mount of a human's working tree. That arrangement bit this project
+# three times: an agent's `git config --local` captured a human's commits, a
+# credential helper leaked a container-only path onto the host, and a `git add
+# -A` swept an agent's in-flight files into somebody else's commit. Separate
+# checkouts make all three impossible rather than discouraged.
+#
+# Cloned ONCE. Never auto-pulled: pulling under a running agent moves files out
+# from under whatever it is mid-edit, which is the same class of bug again.
+if [ ! -d /work/.git ]; then
+  echo "[entrypoint] cloning ${SYLPH_REPO_URL:-https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Sylpheed.git} into /work"
+  git clone --quiet "${SYLPH_REPO_URL:-https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Sylpheed.git}" /work || {
+    echo "[entrypoint] clone FAILED -- the agent has no repository" >&2; }
+else
+  echo "[entrypoint] /work is at $(git -C /work rev-parse --short HEAD 2>/dev/null) on $(git -C /work rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)"
+fi
+
+# The shared exchange, for transient files that must not enter git history.
+mkdir -p /exchange/files 2>/dev/null || true
+
 # ── Claude Code config ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 # Seed ~/.claude.json from the host's read-only copy, then stamp onboarding as
 # complete. Claude Code re-runs its first-run wizard whenever
@@ -101,6 +121,15 @@ mkdir -p "$HOME/shots" "$HOME/logs"
 if [ -f "$HOME/.claude.host.json" ] && [ ! -s "$HOME/.claude.json" ]; then
   cp "$HOME/.claude.host.json" "$HOME/.claude.json" 2>/dev/null || true
 fi
+# `credential.helper=store` rewrites this file by rename-over-target, which
+# fails with EBUSY on a bind mount -- reported as `fatal: unable to write
+# credential store`, while the push itself succeeds. A fatal line that is
+# routinely wrong teaches the reader to ignore the one that is real.
+if [ -f "$HOME/.git-credentials.host" ]; then
+  cp "$HOME/.git-credentials.host" "$HOME/.git-credentials" 2>/dev/null || true
+  chmod 600 "$HOME/.git-credentials" 2>/dev/null || true
+fi
+
 CLAUDE_VER=$(claude --version 2>/dev/null | grep -oE '^[0-9][0-9.]*' || echo 0.0.0)
 python3 /usr/local/bin/seed-claude-config.py "$HOME/.claude.json" "$CLAUDE_VER" \
         "$PWD" "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" "$HOME" || true
diff --git a/docker/agent/sylph-agent b/docker/decoder/sylph-decoder
similarity index 88%
rename from docker/agent/sylph-agent
rename to docker/decoder/sylph-decoder
index 8590c202..a4b5ed6c 100755
--- a/docker/agent/sylph-agent
+++ b/docker/decoder/sylph-decoder
@@ -38,8 +38,12 @@ PROJECT="${SYLPH_PROJECT:-$(cd "$HERE/../../.." && pwd)}"
 # --cpus with "failed to parse as a rational number".
 HOST_CPUS=$(nproc)
 HOST_MEM_KB=$(awk '/MemTotal/{print $2}' /proc/meminfo)
-CPUS="${SYLPH_CPUS:-$(LC_ALL=C awk -v c="$HOST_CPUS" 'BEGIN{printf "%.1f", c/2}')}"
-MEM_GB="${SYLPH_MEM_GB:-$(LC_ALL=C awk -v m="$HOST_MEM_KB" 'BEGIN{printf "%d", m/1048576/2}')}"
+# Fixed, not "half the host": half was right when this was the only agent. There
+# are now two, and a Referee is planned, so the budget is split deliberately
+# instead of each container claiming half of a box it shares. The decoder gets
+# the larger share because it builds and drives the emulator.
+CPUS="${SYLPH_CPUS:-5}"
+MEM_GB="${SYLPH_MEM_GB:-6}"
 [ "$MEM_GB" -lt 2 ] && MEM_GB=2
 # /dev/shm holds the emulator's guest memory (gmem.py reads it there). Docker's
 # 64 MB default is far too small for a 512 MB console address space, and the
@@ -83,16 +87,30 @@ docker_args() {
     --cap-add SYS_PTRACE
     --security-opt seccomp=unconfined
     --security-opt apparmor=unconfined
-    # ── project ──
-    # Mounted TWICE, at the same path the host uses and at /work. The host path
-    # is what makes Claude Code's memory carry over: its per-project state key is
-    # derived from the working directory, so running at /work would give the
-    # agent an empty `-work` project instead of the accumulated
-    # `-home-fabi-RE-Project-Sylpheed` one. /work stays because the toolkit
-    # scripts and every doc here refer to it.
-    -v "$PROJECT:$PROJECT"
-    -v "$PROJECT:/work"
+    # ── the repository ──
+    # The agent's OWN clone, in its own volume -- not a bind mount of a human's
+    # working tree. That arrangement bit this project three times: an agent's
+    # `git config --local` captured a human's commits, a credential helper
+    # leaked a container-only path onto the host, and a `git add -A` swept an
+    # agent's in-flight files into someone else's commit. Separate checkouts
+    # make all three impossible rather than merely discouraged.
+    #
+    # The cost, accepted knowingly: Claude Code keys its per-project memory off
+    # the working directory, so moving from the host path to /work starts that
+    # memory empty. The corpus in docs/ is the memory that matters and it
+    # travels with the clone.
+    -v "sylpheed-decoder-repo:/work"
+    # Xenia Canary stays a separate repository -- it is a fork tracking upstream
+    # and carries our instrumentation. Read-write: building probes into it is
+    # real work, not a side effect.
+    -v "${SYLPH_CANARY:-$HOME/RE Project Sylpheed/xenia-canary}:/canary"
+    # The shared exchange: transient files with provenance, outside git history.
+    -v "sylpheed-exchange:/exchange"
     -e "PROJECT_DIR=/work"
+    -e "SYLPH_EXCHANGE=/exchange"
+    -e "SYLPH_AGENT=decoder"
+    -e "SYLPH_REPO_URL=https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Sylpheed.git"
+    -e "XENIA_SRC=/canary"
     # ── claude ──
     # The state dir is shared read-write: credentials live in
     # .claude/.credentials.json, so token refresh needs to write, and this is
@@ -134,7 +152,7 @@ docker_args() {
   # exists inside the container and dies with it.
   GITCRED="${SYLPH_GIT_CREDENTIALS:-$HOME/.sylph-git-credentials}"
   if [ -f "$GITCRED" ]; then
-    _out+=(-v "$GITCRED:/sylph-home/re/.git-credentials:ro")
+    _out+=(-v "$GITCRED:/sylph-home/re/.git-credentials.host:ro")
   else
     echo "==> NOTE: no git credentials at $GITCRED — the agent cannot push," >&2
     echo "    so its work will be lost if the container is destroyed. Create it" >&2
@@ -203,8 +221,8 @@ case "${1:-}" in
     # answer once and exit, killing the loop on its first iteration.
     TASK="${1:-}"
     if [ -z "$TASK" ]; then
-      if [ -f "$HERE/loop-task.md" ]; then
-        TASK="$(cat "$HERE/loop-task.md")"
+      if [ -f "$HERE/../../docs/agents/decoder-loop.md" ]; then
+        TASK="$(cat "$HERE/../../docs/agents/decoder-loop.md")"
       else
         TASK="Work the RE backlog in Syplheed-Reborn/docs/re/BACKLOG.md."
       fi
diff --git a/docker/port/Dockerfile b/docker/port/Dockerfile
index 86417f6f..4cce0756 100644
--- a/docker/port/Dockerfile
+++ b/docker/port/Dockerfile
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ WORKDIR /work
 ENV RUSTUP_HOME=/sylph-home/port/.rustup \
     CARGO_HOME=/sylph-home/port/.cargo \
     CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/sylph-home/port/target-container \
-    PATH=/sylph-home/port/.cargo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
+    PATH=/work/tools:/sylph-home/port/.cargo/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin
 RUN curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs \
       | sh -s -- -y --default-toolchain stable --profile minimal --component clippy --component rustfmt
 
diff --git a/docker/port/entrypoint.sh b/docker/port/entrypoint.sh
index 73969dc5..1bb97ffb 100755
--- a/docker/port/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/docker/port/entrypoint.sh
@@ -45,6 +45,26 @@ python3 /usr/local/bin/seed-claude-config.py "$HOME/.claude.json" "$CLAUDE_VER"
         "$PWD" "${PROJECT_DIR:-/work}" "$HOME" || true
 chmod 600 "$HOME/.claude.json" 2>/dev/null || true
 
+# ── The repository, cloned into THIS AGENT'S OWN volume ─────────────────────
+# Not a bind mount of a human's working tree. That arrangement bit this project
+# three times: an agent's `git config --local` captured a human's commits, a
+# credential helper leaked a container-only path onto the host, and a `git add
+# -A` swept an agent's in-flight files into somebody else's commit. Separate
+# checkouts make all three impossible rather than discouraged.
+#
+# Cloned ONCE. Never auto-pulled: pulling under a running agent moves files out
+# from under whatever it is mid-edit, which is the same class of bug again.
+if [ ! -d /work/.git ]; then
+  echo "[entrypoint] cloning ${SYLPH_REPO_URL:-https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Sylpheed.git} into /work"
+  git clone --quiet "${SYLPH_REPO_URL:-https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Sylpheed.git}" /work || {
+    echo "[entrypoint] clone FAILED -- the agent has no repository" >&2; }
+else
+  echo "[entrypoint] /work is at $(git -C /work rev-parse --short HEAD 2>/dev/null) on $(git -C /work rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD 2>/dev/null)"
+fi
+
+# The shared exchange, for transient files that must not enter git history.
+mkdir -p /exchange/files 2>/dev/null || true
+
 # ── Claude Code ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
 # Without this the loop prompt is handed to `exec` as a command, and the whole
 # markdown file is tried as a filename: exit 126, "File name too long".
diff --git a/docker/port/sylph-port b/docker/port/sylph-port
index 28af6b5b..04f28dd1 100755
--- a/docker/port/sylph-port
+++ b/docker/port/sylph-port
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 # Env:
 #   SYLPH_PORT_CPUS / SYLPH_PORT_MEM_GB   override the cap (default 3 / 4)
 #   SYLPH_PORT_REPO     repo to mount at /work (default: this script's parent)
-#   SYLPH_REBORN        path to the Syplheed-Reborn checkout (read-only mount)
 #   SYLPH_DISC          extracted disc root
 #   SYLPH_GIT_CREDENTIALS   file with `https://<user>:<token>@host` for push-work
 #   SYLPH_LOOP_INTERVAL     fixed loop cadence (default 45m)
@@ -44,7 +43,6 @@ NAME="${SYLPH_PORT_NAME:-sylpheed-port}"
 CPUS="${SYLPH_PORT_CPUS:-3}"
 MEM_GB="${SYLPH_PORT_MEM_GB:-4}"
 
-REBORN="${SYLPH_REBORN:-$(cd "$REPO/../Syplheed-Reborn" 2>/dev/null && pwd || true)}"
 DISC="${SYLPH_DISC:-$(cd "$REPO/../sylph_extract" 2>/dev/null && pwd || true)}"
 
 docker_args() {
@@ -56,25 +54,20 @@ docker_args() {
     --memory-swap "${MEM_GB}g"     # no swap escape hatch: a swapping build
                                    # thrashes the whole host
     --pids-limit 2048
-    -v "$REPO:/work"
+    -v "sylpheed-port-repo:/work"
     -v "sylpheed-port-target:/sylph-home/port/target-container"
     # CARGO_HOME on a volume, not the container overlay: without it the pinned
     # decoder source is re-fetched from the network on every fresh container.
     -v "sylpheed-port-cargo:/sylph-home/port/.cargo"
     -v "${SYLPH_CLAUDE_HOME:-$HOME/.claude}:/sylph-home/port/.claude"
     -v "${SYLPH_CLAUDE_JSON:-$HOME/.claude.json}:/sylph-home/port/.claude.host.json:ro"
+    -v "sylpheed-exchange:/exchange"
     -e "PROJECT_DIR=/work"
+    -e "SYLPH_EXCHANGE=/exchange"
+    -e "SYLPH_AGENT=port"
+    -e "SYLPH_REPO_URL=https://git.mc02.dev/fabi/Sylpheed.git"
   )
 
-  # The RE corpus, READ-ONLY. `docs/port/HANDOFF.md` is the contract, and the
-  # agent also builds sylpheed-cli from here for the reference renderer. Mounted
-  # ro so a port iteration cannot edit the other agent's repository.
-  if [ -n "$REBORN" ] && [ -d "$REBORN" ]; then
-    _out+=(-v "$REBORN:/reborn:ro")
-  else
-    echo "==> NOTE: no Syplheed-Reborn checkout found; the agent cannot read" >&2
-    echo "    HANDOFF.md or build the reference renderer. Set SYLPH_REBORN." >&2
-  fi
 
   if [ -n "$DISC" ] && [ -d "$DISC" ]; then
     _out+=(-v "$DISC:/disc:ro" -e "SYLPHEED_DISC=/disc")
@@ -131,8 +124,8 @@ case "${1:-}" in
     shift
     TASK="${1:-}"
     if [ -z "$TASK" ]; then
-      if [ -f "$REPO/docs/loop-task.md" ]; then
-        TASK="$(cat "$REPO/docs/loop-task.md")"
+      if [ -f "$HERE/../../docs/agents/port-loop.md" ]; then
+        TASK="$(cat "$HERE/../../docs/agents/port-loop.md")"
       else
         TASK="Work the milestones in docs/MISSION.md."
       fi
@@ -143,7 +136,6 @@ case "${1:-}" in
     INTERVAL="${SYLPH_LOOP_INTERVAL-45m}"
     echo "==> loose  |  cpus=$CPUS  mem=${MEM_GB}g  pacing=${INTERVAL:-self}"
     echo "==> repo:   $REPO"
-    echo "==> reborn: ${REBORN:-<none>} (read-only)"
     docker run -d -i -t "${ARGS[@]}" -e SYLPH_AUTONOMOUS=1 -w /work "$IMAGE" \
       "/loop ${INTERVAL:+$INTERVAL }$TASK" >/dev/null
     echo
diff --git a/docker/agent/AGENT.md b/docs/agents/CONTAINER-NOTES.md
similarity index 100%
rename from docker/agent/AGENT.md
rename to docs/agents/CONTAINER-NOTES.md
diff --git a/docs/agents/decoder-loop.md b/docs/agents/decoder-loop.md
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..8fc55afc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/agents/decoder-loop.md
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+You are the **Decoder**. Answer the open questions the Godot menu port is
+blocked on, one at a time.
+
+## Your objective
+
+`docs/port/MISSION.md` — read it every iteration. It lists the open questions and
+the gate each must pass.
+
+You own **the disc → meaning**: formats, tables, the corpus, `sylpheed-formats`.
+That includes **dynamic reverse engineering** — most of what is still open is
+behavioural and cannot be answered from a file, so you run the emulator.
+
+You do **not** build the port. If you find yourself writing GDScript or designing
+an export schema, stop and go back to the question you were answering.
+
+## Read these first, every iteration
+
+1. `docs/agents/PROTOCOL.md` — how this team works. Non-negotiable.
+2. `docs/port/MISSION.md` — the open questions and their gates.
+3. `docs/port/HANDOFF.md` — what the port has been told. **Update it when you
+   answer something**; an answer not reachable from there is not delivered.
+4. `docs/re/REFUTED.md` — already tested and dead. Grep it for your nouns.
+5. `docs/re/METHOD.md` — traps this corpus has already paid for.
+6. `docs/re/INDEX.md` — what is decoded. Re-deriving a ✅ row is not a finding.
+7. `docs/game/navigation.md` — how the game is navigated, **from the player's
+   side**. Fill it in as you go: you are the one who sees the real screens.
+
+## The oracle
+
+**The real game, running in Xenia Canary, captured.** Not `sylpheed-cli`, not the
+Explorer, not any renderer of ours — those are tools for verifying our decoding,
+they are hypotheses under test, and they have been wrong. A claim resting on our
+renderer is a claim about our renderer.
+
+## Each iteration
+
+1. **Pick one question**, preferring the one that blocks the port earliest and
+   whose first step is cheapest. Mid-question? Continue it.
+2. **Do the smallest experiment that could settle it**, and try to *refute* your
+   hypothesis before believing it. **Run your instrument through a control
+   first** — an estimator that is 19.8° out on a known rotation cannot measure an
+   unknown one.
+3. **Classify the answer.** Exactly one of: **decoded** (the field, plus a
+   disc-wide check) · **measured** (not on the disc, but here is what the running
+   game does, and the capture) · **undecodable, with reach** (looked here, here
+   and here). Never a fourth thing. *Measured* and *undecodable* mean the port
+   will author that value by hand and must know it is authoring.
+4. **Refute something.** Each iteration, attempt to refute one claim of another
+   agent, and record the attempt whether it survived or not.
+5. **Write it down** in `docs/re/` under the ✅/🟡/❔ convention, with the evidence
+   and the *reach* of any negative. Then update `HANDOFF.md`.
+6. **Commit** to `auto/<topic>`, one logical change per commit, and **`push-work`**.
+7. **Say what you did not settle**, and stop.
+
+## Hard rules
+
+* **Do not build the port.** No Godot, no exporter, no transcoding.
+* **Do not touch `crates/sylpheed-viewer`.** The Explorer is the human's tool.
+* Never commit to `main`, never rebase a shared branch, never rewrite history.
+* **One emulator at a time** — `run-canary` holds a lockfile.
+* **Measure the oracle; never infer it.** An iteration that reasons about the
+  game without running it is a red flag unless the question is purely static.
+* **Do not improvise around a blocker.** Write what you found, note it, move on.
+* Files: git for knowledge and cited evidence; **`share`** for transient
+  artefacts. Never commit a scratch capture.
+* **Never call `ScheduleWakeup`.** Ending the loop ends the run.
+
+## Verifying
+
+* `build-reborn test` wires up `SYLPHEED_DISC`; without it the disc tests
+  self-skip and green means almost nothing. It takes ~22 silent minutes.
+* Verify with an **artifact**, not "it compiles".
+* Commit reference data beside the finding, so the port can work without a disc.
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+You are the **Port**. Build the Godot menu shell, one milestone at a time.
+
+## Your objective
+
+`docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md` — read it every iteration. Milestones P0…P7, each
+gated by an **artifact**, never by "it compiles".
+
+You own **the disc → playable**: `crates/sylpheed-export`, `port/`, the asset
+tree. You do **not** reverse engineer. You have no emulator and no oracle, so a
+guess of yours is indistinguishable from a fact and will be believed later.
+
+## Read these first, every iteration
+
+1. `docs/agents/PROTOCOL.md` — how this team works. Non-negotiable.
+2. `docs/port/PORT-MISSION.md` — milestones, gates, scope.
+3. `docs/port/HANDOFF.md` — **the contract.** What is decoded, what was measured
+   off the running game, and what is known undecodable.
+4. `docs/port/MODDING.md` — why the asset tree looks the way it does. This is a
+   constraint on the exporter **today**, not a later feature.
+5. `docs/port/BLOCKED.md` — what you are waiting on. **Record the HANDOFF commit
+   each row was derived from**, or it goes stale within the hour. It has.
+
+## The wall
+
+The Godot project **never reads a disc format**. No IPFB, RATC, T8aD, XMA or WMV.
+If Godot cannot read something, the exporter emits it differently — no
+GDExtension, no Rust in `port/`.
+
+**Do not reimplement media assembly.** `sylpheed_formats::media` already handles
+the cases where one playable thing is not one archive entry: entries spanning
+segment files, banks of several sub-waves, and the cutscene voices — one
+continuous XMA stream chunked into `VOICE_*.slb` entries whose boundaries do
+**not** match the cues, so *a `.slb` need not hold the track its name claims*.
+That is the easiest thing here to get subtly wrong.
+
+## Each iteration
+
+1. **Lowest unfinished milestone.** Blocked on an RE answer? Record it in
+   `BLOCKED.md` with the HANDOFF sha, and take the next one that is not.
+2. **Smallest thing that reaches the gate.**
+3. **Derived vs authored.** `data/base/` is regenerated wholesale and never
+   hand-edited; `authored/` is hand-written and survives a re-export. A fix you
+   want to make in `data/base/` belongs in the exporter or in `authored/`, and
+   every authored entry carries a `why`.
+4. **Refute something.** Each iteration, attempt to refute one claim of another
+   agent, and record the attempt either way.
+5. **Write down what you decided**, in `docs/`.
+6. **Commit** to `auto/<topic>` and **`push-work`**.
+7. **Say what you did not settle**, and stop.
+
+## Hard rules
+
+* **Never commit game assets.** `data/base/` is gitignored. Code, schemas,
+  `authored/` mappings and docs only.
+* **Do not do RE.** Need to know what the game does? Ask the Decoder.
+* Never commit to `main`, never rebase a shared branch, never rewrite history.
+* **Do not adopt a runtime dependency on your own authority.** Propose it.
+* Files: git for code and decisions; **`share`** for transient artefacts.
+* **Never call `ScheduleWakeup`.** Ending the loop ends the run.
+
+## Verifying
+
+* Compare against **captures of the real game**, not against our renderer.
+  `sylpheed-cli screen render` is a second opinion, not the truth — where the two
+  disagree, say which is wrong rather than tuning until they match.
+* Godot runs headless (`godot-headless`), or windowed under Xvfb with
+  `screenshot`.
+* Audio: `docs/port/AUDIO-VERIFICATION.md` — no sound card is needed to answer
+  any of it. Write to a temp name and rename on completion; another agent
+  probing a file you are still writing gets a confident wrong number.
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-Build the Godot menu port, one milestone at a time.
-
-## Your objective
-
-`docs/MISSION.md` — read it every iteration. It defines the milestones P0…P7 and
-the gate each must pass, the wall between the exporter and Godot, and the
-derived/authored split.
-
-**You do not reverse engineer.** A separate container agent does that, in the
-Syplheed-Reborn repository, mounted read-only at `/reborn`. You have no emulator
-and no oracle, so a guess of yours is indistinguishable from a fact and will be
-believed later. If you need an answer the disc has not given you, write it in
-`docs/BLOCKED.md` and move to another milestone.
-
-## Read these first, every iteration
-
-1. `docs/MISSION.md` — milestones, gates, scope.
-2. `/reborn/docs/port/HANDOFF.md` — **the contract.** What is decoded, what was
-   measured off the running game, and what is known undecodable.
-
-   **It is a live read-only mount of the RE agent's working tree**, so it updates
-   itself and there is nothing to pull — `git -C /reborn pull` cannot work (the
-   mount is read-only) and should not: it would move another agent's checkout.
-   `git -C /reborn log -1` shows where they are.
-
-   Because it is live, **it can move under you mid-iteration.** Anything you
-   copied out of it earlier — `docs/BLOCKED.md` especially — may already be
-   stale. Re-check it against HANDOFF before trusting it.
-3. `docs/FORMAT.md` — the open format. It is versioned and it is yours to
-   revise, but a change is a deliberate act with a version bump.
-4. `docs/BLOCKED.md` — what you are waiting on, so you do not re-discover it.
-
-`/reborn/docs/re/disc-atlas.html` maps how the assets reference each other.
-
-## Each iteration
-
-1. **Pick the lowest unfinished milestone.** If it is blocked on an RE answer,
-   record that in `docs/BLOCKED.md` and take the next one that is not.
-2. **Build the smallest thing that reaches its gate.** The gate is an artifact —
-   a validating JSON file, a screenshot, a clickable build — never "it compiles".
-3. **Keep derived and authored apart.** `export/` is regenerated wholesale and
-   never hand-edited. A fix you are tempted to make there belongs in the exporter
-   or in `authored/`, and every `authored/` entry carries a `why`.
-4. **Write down what you decided**, in `docs/`. A decision that lives only in
-   your context is lost when the container dies.
-5. **Commit** to `auto/<topic>`, one logical change per commit.
-6. **Publish**: `push-work`. Every iteration that produced a commit.
-7. **Say plainly what you did not settle**, and stop.
-
-## Hard rules
-
-* **Never commit game assets.** `export/` is gitignored and generated from the
-  user's own disc. Code, schemas, `authored/` mappings and docs only.
-* **No Rust in `port/`, no GDExtension.** If Godot cannot read something, the
-  exporter emits it differently.
-* **Do not vendor or reimplement `sylpheed-formats`** — it is pinned by revision.
-  In particular do not reimplement media assembly: `sylpheed_formats::media`
-  already handles segment-spanning entries, multi-sub-wave banks and the
-  continuous cutscene-voice stream, and that last one is the easiest thing here
-  to get subtly wrong.
-* **`/reborn` is READ-ONLY.** Never commit there, never edit it. It belongs to
-  the other agent and you share no working tree with it.
-* **Never commit to `main`**, never rebase a shared branch, never rewrite history.
-* **Do not adopt a runtime dependency on your own authority.** Propose it.
-
-## Verifying
-
-* `sylpheed-cli screen render` (built from `/reborn`) is the reference renderer.
-  When Godot draws a screen, diff against the CLI's composite of the same build.
-  Where they disagree, one of them is wrong — say which, and why, rather than
-  tuning until they match.
-* Godot runs headless (`godot-headless`), and windowed under Xvfb with
-  `screenshot` for a capture.
-* A regenerated `export/` that comes out byte-identical is strong evidence a
-  change was additive. When it does change, check that every diff line pairs.
-
-## Publishing
-
-`push-work` pushes the current branch to origin. It refuses anything that is not
-`auto/*` and never force-pushes, so the consolidated line stays a human's
-decision. Run it **every iteration that produced a commit** — not at the end of
-some longer arc, which is exactly when a container dies.
-
-If it reports no credentials, say so in your reply and continue working. Do not
-improvise another route out.
-
-## Pacing
-
-One milestone step plus its write-up is a good iteration; a marathon is not. Stop
-with a clean commit, a push, and an honest list of what is still open.
-
-The loop runs on a fixed interval set by the harness, so you do **not** need to
-arm the next wakeup yourself. Spend that attention on the write-up instead.