Pulse: the shipped SNAPSHOT.md template renders as the principal's mood and energy, and the Life FOCUS ring is a constant 70

[lgertel]

Version: LifeOS 7.40.4 (ce046f2)

What

Two places invent a number about the person:

1. The TELOS hero's snapshot metrics read USER/TELOS/CURRENT_STATE/SNAPSHOT.md without looking at its frontmatter. The install scaffold ships that file with provenance: template, **Energy:** 5/10 and **Mood:** (sample) steady. On a fresh install the hero therefore shows Energy 5/10 and Mood 8/10 (the word "steady" maps to 8 through a regex), presented as the user's current state.
2. The Life page's FOCUS ring is home.current?.focus ? 70 : null — whenever a focus line exists at all, the ring reads 70, a value no file states.

Where

• LIFEOS/PULSE/Observability/observability.ts, buildSnapshotFromCurrentState (line 3568): reads CURRENT_STATE/SNAPSHOT.md (line 3569), parses N/10 (line 3575) and maps mood words to scores (lines 3588–3591); no provenance check.
• Scaffold: USER/TELOS/CURRENT_STATE/SNAPSHOT.md line 2 provenance: template, line 15 **Energy:** 5/10, line 16 **Mood:** (sample) steady.
• LIFEOS/PULSE/Observability/src/app/life/page.tsx line 264: const focus = home.current?.focus ? 70 : null; // focus depth is categorical — render existence as 70.

Reproduce

1. Fresh install (/LifeOS setup), no interview.
2. curl -s localhost:31337/api/telos/overview | jq '.snapshot' → entries for energy 5/10 and mood 8/10.
3. Open /telos: the hero shows them as current state. Open /life with any Focus: line in § Current State: the FOCUS ring reads 70.

Expected

• A file whose frontmatter says provenance: template is "not captured" everywhere; the hero renders the empty state, never the sample numbers.
• One frontmatter reader ({ provenance, body }) shared by every page that reads a USER markdown file, so the check cannot be forgotten per handler.
• No constant stands in for a metric; FOCUS renders a parsed value or nothing.

Fix shape

A readUserMd(path) in LIFEOS/TOOLS/Telos.ts returning { exists, provenance, body }, used by the snapshot builder (template → null) and by the Health/Finances/Business handlers; the private frontmatter parser in observability.ts removed; the Life page parses focus_depth as a ratio and drops the 70. Three small hunks; a PR can follow.

[danielmiessler]

Landed: the snapshot builder returns null for a template file, and the constant 70 is gone. Same root cause as #2049. Next release. Thanks.