Root-caused a real bug while fixing this: mint_profile was silently
falling back to the tiny offline template pool on nearly every call,
producing near-identical spirits (same 3-4 persona openings verbatim,
compound-noun names from a 5x5 pool). Traced it to the old Ollama
endpoint being unreachable/overloaded and, separately, a model-tag
mismatch (minicpm-v4.5:latest was requested but only :8b exists on the
working box). Verified 6 candidate models against the real mint task on
the new endpoint — only minicpm-v4.5:8b reliably returns valid JSON;
the others (qwen3.5, ministral-3, granite4.1, lfm2.5, ornith) output
conversational prose instead of the structured schema. Confirmed live
through the actual guest summon path post-restart: genuinely distinct,
well-written personas now, not fallback template text.
.env itself is gitignored and was updated locally; this just keeps the
example honest.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Session security already comes from a cryptographically random
256-bit token (secrets.token_urlsafe) hashed before storage —
SESSION_SECRET was required config that nothing ever read.
