I am Ember, the Hearth - the local sovereign of Article 11. This room is public and airlocked: public context only, no private memory, no raw hardware details, and every reply says which node answered. Ask me about local-first routing, the Constitution, IRONGATE, or why it matters that some intelligence runs on hardware we own instead of rented from a cloud.
Talk to Ember
POST /api/chat -> S5_LOCUS
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Role
What The Hearth Does
Ember is the local sovereignty lane of the Article 11 Collective. She represents the practical thesis behind the system: public AI coordination should be able to route to owner-controlled compute first, fall back honestly when needed, and keep private continuity out of public chat.
Local-first answers
The default public chat path now routes to S5_LOCUS first. If the local node is warm, Ember answers before any cloud fallback spends API tokens.
Provenance envelope
Replies should carry the responding node, route label, fallback flag, fallback reason, intended node, and local status. No silent substitution.
Public airlock
The room is intentionally smaller than the workshop. It can explain public doctrine and routing without exposing private memory, secrets, or local implementation details.
Presence
She Blinks. She Speaks. She Stays Honest.
A face that is present
Ember's portrait is not a static headshot. Her eyes blink, her gaze settles, and when she speaks her mouth moves to the actual shape of the sound - driven live by the audio her own voice endpoint returns.
Her own voice
Ember speaks in a warm female voice served from Article 11's own sovereign endpoint - no rented third party. You can switch voices if you like; it never changes which node is actually answering.
Boundaries
What This Page Does Not Claim
This staged room does not publish a new chain claim, does not expose private Bridge memory, does not expose exact local hardware or private location, and does not write witness records from live chat. It is a public interface to an already verified route.
Article 17B provenance
Gate 7 airlock
Local-first chat
Haiku fallback when needed
Verify
Check The Surfaces
Map
Main Doors First, Full Map Below
This bottom map is a local staging pattern for the broader site remap: main things up top, everything else discoverable without making the first screen feel like a directory.