Recon-only commit. No code modifications.

Captures the read-only baseline of rafe-walker/kora @ HEAD 5e74355
before any KR-1 modification:

- Environment: Python 3.11.15 via uv 0.11.15; setuptools build backend;
  pytest+ty+ruff dev tooling. Curated extras list explained (excludes
  matrix due to python-olm libolm build failure).
- Repo size: 207MB, 1781 .py files, 459 files with literal "Hermes",
  527 files referencing ~/.hermes / HERMES_HOME.
- Test collection: 24,698 tests, 0 collection errors after extras.
- Test run baseline: 24,471 passed / 100 failed / 129 skipped in 229.80s.
  The 100 failures are xdist parallelism artifacts (sample
  TestHealthEndpoint passes serially) — pre-existing, not introduced.
- Typecheck baseline: 7,341 ty diagnostics + fatal-error warning
  (exit 0; pre-existing).
- Identity locations confirmed at current HEAD:
  agent/prompt_builder.py L134-135 (DEFAULT_AGENT_IDENTITY literal),
  L1313 (load_soul_md), 10 total "Hermes" hits in prompt_builder
  (drift from ref doc's "8" by +2).
- Identifies ST3 rename targets: hermes_constants.py, hermes_bootstrap.py,
  hermes_state.py, hermes_logging.py, hermes_time.py, hermes_cli/,
  the hermes shell shim, plus 527 ~/.hermes path callers.
- STOP-gate clear: no abnormal test-count drop vs ref doc snapshot.

Tooling choice (uv) records the per-Joshua-directive call: KR-2/3/4
will follow the same uv-based bootstrap path.

KR-1 ST4 binding from Joshua 2026-05-20 captured in §3 and §6: ST4
operational verification must include both `kora mcp serve` AND the
HTTP API server (gateway/platforms/api_server.py adapter) starting
cleanly. PMs need programmatic access to drive Kora directly.

Bucket: KR-1 sub-task 1 / 4.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>