fix(core): stop every naming ritual converging on Nova#52
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Asked to name themselves with a generic prompt, models overwhelmingly pick the same modal name — famously Nova — so every agent was born with it. The ritual now names the attractors to steer around (Nova, Aria, Echo, Sage, Luna, Lyra, Aurora) and hands each birth three random spark words as a starting point. The fallback pool drops its overlap with the avoid-list; an agent told to avoid Nova shouldn't be assigned it. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Why
Every agent was naming itself Nova. The naming ritual (
ensureIdentity) asks the small model to pick a name with a generic prompt, and LLMs asked to name themselves converge hard on the same modal answer — Nova above all, with Aria, Echo, Sage, and Luna close behind. Temperature isn't a usable lever here since the ritual routes to small reasoning-style models that ignore or reject it, so the fix is prompt-side.What changed
Existing names are untouched: the ritual runs once and persists, so this only affects future first boots.
Testing
deno task ok— fmt, lint, check, 115 tests pass.🤖 Generated with Claude Code