Vortex Dev Log #10 — inVision Goes Live, Legitimacy Referendum, and Stability Engine

TL;DR

inVision is now a live system-state dashboard instead of a placeholder. The simulator now exposes a real Legitimacy mechanic driven by active human-node objections, a distinct referendum flow when legitimacy collapses, and a server-owned Stability engine with explainable components, crisis caps, confidence, and governor alerts on threshold changes.

What shipped

1) inVision is now live and server-owned

• The inVision page is no longer a blurred placeholder.
• GET /api/invision now returns live system-state data computed on the server.
• The page now renders:

1. top-level system-state banner
2. Legitimacy
3. Stability
4. Decentralization
5. governance signals
6. treasury/economy indicators
7. risk signals
8. general chamber proposal pressure
9. largest factions

2) Legitimacy is now a real system mechanic

• Legitimacy is now derived from live active human-node objections.
• Any currently active human node can open My Governance and declare:

1. VORTEX IS ILLEGITIMATE

• Each active human node carries equal legitimacy weight.
• Governors do not receive extra weight.
• Chamber membership, delegation, and treasury do not directly change the legitimacy percentage.
• My Governance now shows the legitimacy section and objection controls directly.

3) Legitimacy breach now creates a distinct referendum

• When legitimacy falls below the trigger threshold, the system auto-creates a referendum.
• This is not a proposal-pool flow and not a normal chamber vote.
• The referendum is its own vote surface with its own route and vote action.
• Only currently active human nodes can participate.
• CM/MM scoring is not used in the referendum path.
• The referendum flow is treated as a constitutional emergency mechanism rather than ordinary chamber governance.

4) Passed legitimacy referendum now resets the simulation

• If the referendum passes, the simulator wipes simulation state and restarts from a clean governance baseline.
• Indexed human-node proof data is preserved:

1. proof_ledger
2. chain_indexer_state
3. This makes legitimacy a real constitutional control, not a cosmetic UI signal.

5) Stability is now a real explainable engine

• Stability is no longer a placeholder percentage.
• The engine is server-owned and computed from canonical governance/execution signals.
• It uses a rolling Last 30d + live backlog snapshot.
• The current engine includes:

1. decision closure
2. backlog health
3. delay health
4. formation continuity
5. governor continuity
6. constitutional calm
7. concentration health

• The published inVision payload now includes:

1. score
2. band
3. confidence
4. component breakdown
5. applied caps/floors
6. window label

6) Crisis caps and confidence are built into stability

• Stability can now be hard-capped during crisis conditions such as:

1. active legitimacy referendum
2. no active governors with live governance load
3. severely stale chamber-vote backlog
4. legitimacy dropping below 40%

• A confidence layer prevents low-data conditions from pretending to be precise.

7) System threshold alerts now reach governors

• Both Legitimacy and Stability now emit feed alerts when they cross decile thresholds.
• Alerts trigger in both directions:

1. upward
2. downward

• Crossings at 10% through 90% are persisted as system feed items.
• These alerts surface in Urgent and route users into inVision.
• Alert delivery is now aligned with the actual governor baseline, including genesis/bootstrap governors.

8) Reliability and cleanup during closeout

• Tightened local migration reconciliation so current local schemas can be brought back into sync reliably.
• Removed leftover debug and hardcoded placeholder behavior in active simulator surfaces.
• Restored Courts to a blocked WIP state so unfinished placeholder metrics are not shown as live production data.
• Performed additional bug-fix passes on alert routing, recipient resolution, and urgent-feed visibility.

Validation

• Server:

1. yarn prettier:check passed
2. yarn typecheck passed
3. targeted regressions passed:

    - tests/api/invision.test.ts

    - tests/api/my-governance.test.ts

    - tests/api/stability.test.ts

    - tests/api/system-metric-alerts.test.ts

• Web:

1. yarn prettier:check passed
2. yarn typecheck passed
3. yarn build passed

Why this matters

• inVision is now a real political/economic systems page instead of a stub.
• Legitimacy is now enforceable at the human-node layer, not just described in docs.
• The system now has a constitutional emergency path when consent collapses.
• Stability is now explainable, server-owned, and visible as a first-class system metric.
• Governors now get feed/urgent warnings when the system materially changes state.