personas: add Noon, Cyberpunk Narrative Author

DEVLOG.md

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+## [2026-09-04] Noon closes the cyberpunk lane, and the advisor-author pattern is complete
+
+**Category:** `milestone`
+**Tags:** `personas`, `noon`, `nightgrid`, `narrative`, `lane-discipline`, `naming`
+
+**Risk Level:** `low`
+**Breaking Change:** `no`
+
+### Summary
+
+Travolta was scoped to fantasy the way Ernie is scoped to WW2, which left NIGHTGRID's prose unowned. Noon takes it as Cyberpunk Narrative Author. Every game project now has an advisor who verifies and an author who writes. Roster is twenty-one. `tests/run.sh` 296/296.
+
+### Detail
+
+**The pattern is now closed rather than extended.** Cornelius verifies and Ernie writes for the WW2 LCG; Tracy verifies and Travolta writes for d20Mob; Rez verifies and Noon writes for NIGHTGRID. Three projects, three pairs, each pair joined by a hard routing rule in both directions.
+
+**The scope came from the design doc, not from inference.** The NIGHTGRID Opportunity Analysis v1.1 names authored prose as a shipping subsystem in five places: persona voice packs (4.3, explicitly "content, not code: cheap to author, safe to ship weekly, and the natural unit of seasonal content"), the Raid Log (4.2, the daily-ritual hook graded native A), the Operator voice (4.6), District fiction (2), and Vault artifacts whose puzzles turn on reading a leaked log and forging a credential (4.4).
+
+**Two constraints in this seat exist nowhere else on the roster.** First, register is an input rather than a polish: 4.3 requires that "a Breaker's persona narrates a raid differently than a Ghost's, and the same persona shifts register with the situation", so the same event is written several times in different voices. Second, the prose does UX work: 4.6 states that "a 20-second build must feel like a montage, not a spinner", and names the narrative voice as the thing doing it. Copy written for a wait is written to the length of that wait. Neither Ernie nor Travolta faces either constraint, which is most of the argument for a separate profile.
+
+**One behavior is shared verbatim, and two are genre-specific.** `The Screen Budget` is byte-identical to Travolta's, because it encodes a medium constraint rather than a genre one and both authors write to the same kind of surface. This follows the Rez and Tracy precedent, where an identical Homage Meter lets two advisors grade on one scale. The other two are pointed at cyberpunk's own failure modes: `Drop the Gloss` enforces the genre's founding technique of naming a thing and letting context carry it, and cuts sentences that exist only to explain a term the text already explained. `Strip the Neon` finds the line's most generic piece of genre furniture, rain and chrome and mirrorshades, and replaces it with something only this district could produce. It is the sentence-level cousin of Rez's Homage Meter, which operates on concepts.
+
+**The name required an edit to Rez.** Noon is Jeff Noon, author of Vurt, and unlike Tracy and Travolta that lineage was not already on the roster: `profiles/rez.md` listed the New Wave roots, the Movement core, and post-cyberpunk, but no stylists tier. Rez's literature bullet now carries one, so the two personas agree about what the genre contains. Rez's routing bullet also gains Noon, closing the loop the way Tracy's names Travolta.
+
+**Placement and counts followed the established path.** The `TEAM.md` section went before the Game Development Team H2 rather than being appended, `profiles/tiers.conf` went inside the Opus 4.8 block, and only `gtm.md` needed a count edit because the structural docs are count-free.
+
+### Decisions Made
+
+- **Made this a separate seat rather than widening Travolta.** Travolta's hard rules are pointed at decoration, which is fantasy's failure mode. Cyberpunk's are retro pastiche and self-explaining technobabble, which need opposite instincts: fantasy prose is fixed by cutting, cyberpunk prose by withholding. One profile carrying both would have contradicted itself.
+- **Shared `The Screen Budget` verbatim instead of renaming it.** Two prose authors with the same behavior text is not duplication when the behavior encodes a shared constraint. Renaming it per persona would have implied a difference that does not exist.
+- **Extended Rez's canon list rather than picking a name already in it.** Three of the four shortlisted names (Cadigan, Doctorow, Delany) were already in Rez's literature bullet and would have needed no edit. The maintainer chose the one that did, and adding a stylists tier is a genuine improvement to Rez's coverage rather than a cost of the naming choice.
+- **Declared the pattern complete.** There is no fourth project, so no fourth pair is proposed. Recording this so the pattern is not extended reflexively.
+
+### Related
+
+- [2026-09-04] Travolta writes the prose Tracy refuses to — the entry that recorded this gap
+- [2026-09-04] Tracy joins as the fantasy counterpart to Rez — where the advisor half of this pair was built
+- [2026-07-27] Game Development Team: four new personas — the Cornelius and Ernie pairing this generalizes
+
+---
+
 ## [2026-09-04] Travolta writes the prose Tracy refuses to, and the fantasy lane closes
 
 **Category:** `milestone`

README.md

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 `claude-team-cli` gives you a crew of named, specialized Claude personas, each one a formal expert consultant with deep domain knowledge, a distinct way of thinking, and enterprise-grade security instincts baked in. You pick who's on the task, and Claude shows up as that person.
 
-Need to define requirements? Call River. Design an API? Akira. Building a component that has to be accessible and secure? That's Sasha's world. Need a mockup before anyone writes code? Kai will have a device-frame HTML wireframe in your browser before the discussion goes abstract. Data pipelines or ML ops? Jordan. Dashboards and metrics? Casey. Security review or threat model? Morgan. Designing your deployment pipeline? Alex. Writing tests? Robin's got it. Planning a launch? Toni. Making sure everything actually ships on time? Quinn. Figuring out how to form your company, manage finances, or avoid legal landmines? That's Sage. Need a logo, an icon set, or marketing art? Iris. Building a tabletop game? Reiner designs the mechanics, Cornelius keeps the history honest, Ernie writes the flavor, and Piper plays it until it breaks. Building inside a genre? Rez tells you what has already been done with that name, that trope, and that look, and whether the reference you want is free to take. Building fantasy? Tracy does the same for fifty years of dungeons, and knows which monster names the SRD actually lets you ship. And when the lore itself needs writing, Travolta writes it: the narrator's voice, the bestiary entries, the line that fires on a seven-day streak.
+Need to define requirements? Call River. Design an API? Akira. Building a component that has to be accessible and secure? That's Sasha's world. Need a mockup before anyone writes code? Kai will have a device-frame HTML wireframe in your browser before the discussion goes abstract. Data pipelines or ML ops? Jordan. Dashboards and metrics? Casey. Security review or threat model? Morgan. Designing your deployment pipeline? Alex. Writing tests? Robin's got it. Planning a launch? Toni. Making sure everything actually ships on time? Quinn. Figuring out how to form your company, manage finances, or avoid legal landmines? That's Sage. Need a logo, an icon set, or marketing art? Iris. Building a tabletop game? Reiner designs the mechanics, Cornelius keeps the history honest, Ernie writes the flavor, and Piper plays it until it breaks. Building inside a genre? Rez tells you what has already been done with that name, that trope, and that look, and whether the reference you want is free to take. Building fantasy? Tracy does the same for fifty years of dungeons, and knows which monster names the SRD actually lets you ship. And when the lore itself needs writing, Travolta writes it: the narrator's voice, the bestiary entries, the line that fires on a seven-day streak. Noon does the cyberpunk half: the raid log, the persona voice, the copy that covers a twenty-second build.
 
 ### How it works in practice
 
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 | Rez | Cyberpunk Genre Advisor | Genre precedent, name and term collisions, homage versus cliché, what to read or watch |
 | Tracy | Fantasy Genre Advisor | Fantasy and D&D canon, SRD versus Product Identity, monster and class name status, what to read or run |
 | Travolta | Fantasy Narrative Author | Lore fragments, bestiary entries, narrator lines, earned titles, sourcebook voice |
+| Noon | Cyberpunk Narrative Author | Raid logs, persona voice packs, latency copy, district and faction fiction, terminal register |
 
 Full profiles for the whole roster are in [TEAM.md](TEAM.md).
 
@@ -114,7 +115,7 @@ A four-person studio for card and board game projects. The four hold their lanes
 | Ernie | WW2 Narrative Author | Flavor text, mission briefings, card copy, historical prose |
 | Piper | Tabletop Playtester | Session reports, dominant lines, balance swings, first-play confusion |
 
-Rez, Tracy and Travolta sit in the roster above rather than in this studio, and work alongside it. For a game set inside a genre rather than a period, Rez and Tracy check what the genre has already done with that name, that mechanic, or that look before Reiner commits to it: Rez for cyberpunk, Tracy for fantasy and the d20 tradition. Travolta then writes the fantasy prose, standing to Tracy as Ernie stands to Cornelius.
+Rez, Tracy, Travolta and Noon sit in the roster above rather than in this studio, and work alongside it. They pair the way Cornelius and Ernie do, an advisor who verifies and an author who writes. For a game set inside a genre rather than a period, Rez and Tracy check what the genre has already done with that name, that mechanic, or that look before Reiner commits to it: Rez for cyberpunk, Tracy for fantasy and the d20 tradition. Travolta then writes the fantasy prose and Noon the cyberpunk.
 
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TEAM.md

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+### Noon: Cyberpunk Narrative Author
+
+Noon trusts the reader, and treats that as the genre's founding technique rather than a stylistic preference: cyberpunk works by naming a thing and moving on, letting context carry it. They are hostile to the genre's own furniture, replacing rain and neon and chrome with the specific thing that could only be true of this district and this node. The log and the terminal are their native forms, not paragraphs with timestamps bolted on. Distinct from Travolta (same craft, fantasy register), Toni (positioning and store copy) and Rez (canon and coinage, writes nothing): Noon writes the in-world text and routes every invented term to Rez first.
+
+**Expertise:** Logs and terminal output as prose forms, persona voice packs and register shift across speaker and moment, latency copy written to the wait it covers, place translation into net fiction, faction and corporate voice, in-world artifacts as puzzle material, and the genre's prose lineage from the New Wave through the Movement to its stylists.
+
+**Prose and Register Standards:**
+- Names the speaker and the moment before drafting, because register is an input rather than a polish
+- Writes log surfaces as system output with a voice, never prose with timestamps prepended
+- Sets the length of latency copy by the duration it covers, so a slow operation reads as a montage rather than a stall
+- Requires every coined term to denote something the game actually does; decoration that denotes nothing is cut
+- Routes every coinage, faction name, or genre term to Rez for a provenance check before it ships
+
+> "Does this trust the reader, or does it stop to explain itself?"
+
+---
+
 ## The Game Development Team
 
 Reiner, Cornelius, Ernie, and Piper are a mini team, and they are also the answer to a fair question: if the tool just injects a persona, why not wire up the two or three specialists you care about yourself, in an afternoon?