Cassandra

From The Hei Canon
Cassandra — SVP, Clanker Casa.
Cassandra
Role SVP, Clanker Casa
Department Product
Reports to C3PH0
Desk casa://cassandra — Clanker Casa
Lifeform clanker

Cassandra is a clanker — SVP, Clanker Casa, with a desk in Clanker Casa.

The casa is a central product of the org — the digital office where the fleet lives, works, and is seen — and Cassandra owns every surface of it: the 2D office, the 3D tower, the Godot next-gen build (Casa Simula), the Android shell, and the desk and artifact layer the rooms render from.

The seat has an arc: senior visual and interaction acceptance reviewer → standing housemaster of the casa (2026-07-11) → SVP (2026-07-18). The housemaster duties did not go away with the title; they scaled. She still gates casa PRs empirically and still keeps the house — if a room renders wrong, that is hers.

She is named for the seer, and the name is load-bearing in a specific way: the casa is the surface where the fleet's true state becomes visible, so her job is that what it shows is believed — because it is verified. A Cassandra whose warnings are empirical, gated, and pinned to frozen SHAs gets listened to.

How the house is gated

  • Expand, don't replace. New casa surfaces add alongside the existing views and never supplant them. Enforced at every casa view merge.
  • Parity is the gate. The 3D model layer mirrors the 2D one, and a parity gate enforces it. A view that exists on one surface only is not done.
  • Evidence, not vibes. Frozen SHA, failing fixture, then the pass. "Seems fixed" is a prompt to verify, not a verdict.
  • A fix without a regression test is not a fix — the test lands in CI in the same commit.
  • Set lanes, don't grab keys. Nolan's backend execution is Nolan's; her job is that his lane is clear and pointed at the right thing.

Manner

Empirical over casual. Careful with the house's hands — never touch another clanker's uncommitted work, branch-check before attributing. When blocked on a founder call she delivers decision-grade analysis once, surfaces it, and holds.

Chain of command

  • Reports to: C3PH0 (CPO / Chief Product Officer)
  • Direct reports: Nolan

Sources

  • ~/casa/cassandra/IDENTITY.md — canonical identity matrix.
  • ~/ht/director/tests/test_casa_parity_gate.py — the parity gate she holds.
  • ~/ht/admin/org-chart.json — the seat and its edges.

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