**Chat log** from Bead: Stephenguerin.live Router Bead · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/82bd6fa4-4d5a-435b-9deb-ca930a82aa89/2026-06-13/chats/2026-06-13-router-bead-birth.md) · session 2026-06-13 · discussion: Talk: Stephenguerin.live Router Bead *Verbatim chat log: immutable provenance. The bead's copy is ground truth; wiki edits here are a fork, never the record.*
Bead `82bd6fa4-4d5a-435b-9deb-ca930a82aa89` · 2026-06-13 · animator CE · parciante Stephen. Birth-parent: `7049c694`. This bead was hatched mid-session from the home-host bead's chat; full upstream context lives in that bead's chat log: [2026-06-13-home-port-forward-hosting.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/7049c694-e45b-4116-a887-49e64885ac8e/2026-06-13/chats/2026-06-13-home-port-forward-hosting.md).
**Stephen (verbatim), 2026-06-13:** > should we make a purpose built bead first that will bind to the handler? **Assistant:** recommended bead-first (the bead is config/source-of-truth; the runtime is a thin generic harness binding to it; keeps "one animator, many beads"). Offered to scaffold. **Stephen (verbatim):** > yes and note you are its birth-parent-bead **Assistant:** scaffolded this bead (GUID `82bd6fa4`), parent = `7049c694`, recorded lineage both ways. Seeded `agent.md`, `agent.json` (handler + cognition blocks; declares providers never keys), deterministic rung-0 `handler.mjs` (`handle(req,ctx)->res|{passthrough}`: OPTIONS/GET-negotiate/PUT-dock-202/PROPFIND-passthrough; no LLM), `names.json` (mount-table seed), `keywords.json`, `README`, `about.md`, brief note `00-router-bead-brief.md`. **Stephen (verbatim):** > note that the node server.js can redirect to a uri of the bead and wait for the response **Assistant:** captured in `00-router-bead-brief.md` §"server.js: resolve to a bead URI and WAIT": `server.js` resolves an incoming request to a bead URI and **blocks on the answer** — fast path = synchronous `handle()`; thinking path = deposit + await an answer written out-of-band by an inward-connected cognition client (WebSocket; node=server, client=brain); fallback = `202 + Location`. This unifies the sync and async lanes into one awaited HTTP response; the public host holds no cloud key (BYOK stays on the connecting client). **Stephen (verbatim):** > build server.js. also make sure your bead documents how dynamicdns is setup for a domain or subdomain. you can also look at .ai or other how cpanel api works as a particular instance. one gap is to automate domain registry as well **Assistant:** **Built + tested `server.js`** ([artifacts/server.js](../artifacts/server.js), dependency-free) + reference [example-cognition-client.mjs](../artifacts/example-cognition-client.mjs) + `package.json` (`type:module`). Generic bead runtime: loads a bead dir, binds `127.0.0.1:PORT`, serves the agent-face via `handle()`, static passthrough, dock `PUT`→202, `GET /_status`, and the **resolve-and-wait** bridge over a hand-rolled RFC-6455 WebSocket server (no deps). Verified on `:3501`: all agent-face/static/404 paths; `/ask` → **202** with no client and **200 + the client's answer** with a connected cognition client (`clients:1`); dock PUT → 202 + deposit tick. Cleaned the test deposit; stopped the test server. **server.js holds no model/key** — cognition is the connecting client (BYOK on its side). Dyndns + registry-gap documented in the **parent** bead → [03-dynamic-dns.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/7049c694-e45b-4116-a887-49e64885ac8e/2026-06-13/notes/03-dynamic-dns.md). Not yet bound to live `:3500` (UAC-gated service swap = go-live). **Stephen (verbatim):** > go live and swap **Stephen (verbatim):** > send some test requests to Stephenguerin.live . eg propfind, option, put, mkcol. and summarize results **Assistant:** ran OPTIONS/GET/PROPFIND/MKCOL/PUT(dock + non-dock)/DELETE against the live URL → [01-live-request-tests.md](../notes/01-live-request-tests.md). All as designed; dock PUT persisted end-to-end (cleaned up). **Finding:** OPTIONS advertises `PROPFIND`/`Dav:1` but PROPFIND → 404 (no 207 folder-listing in server.js); recommended implementing the folder face. **Stephen (verbatim):** > let's add that a bead could duck-type to .mjs and be imported **Assistant:** added the **module-face** (fourth duck-typing face) to the canonical [bead-duck-typing-file-folder-agent.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/d9dfa5e4-3c92-4216-bd53-13b520c59a5e/2026-06-11/notes/bead-duck-typing-file-folder-agent.md) (faces table row + Module-face subsection + collapse rule + this bead as the live instance); cross-linked from [import-semantics-and-beads-as-es6-modules.md](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/fe7fbaf5-4c47-43b6-be1b-2f6ca15e8bfa/2026-06-13/notes/import-semantics-and-beads-as-es6-modules.md); wrote worked-example note [02-module-face.md](../notes/02-module-face.md). The live proof: `server.js` does `import(<bead>/handler.mjs)` — the bead evaluated as an ES module yields the agent.
**(earlier in turn) Stephen:** > go live and swap **Assistant:** **GO-LIVE done.** Staged `server.js` + client + `package.json` into `C:\caddy\origins\stephenguerin.live\`; via UAC-elevated `swap-to-server.ps1` re-pointed the `stephenguerin-live-origin` NSSM service to `node server.js <this-bead> 3500`. **Verified `https://stephenguerin.live/` serves this router-bead** over Caddy TLS: `/_status`→200, `OPTIONS /`→200 agent card, `GET / (Accept json)`→agent.json, browser→landing; service RUNNING + auto-start. Host holds no key (rung-0; cognition = inward WS client).
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