What it is
Operator shell: boot screen, load menu (live sim vs mesh assistant), and settings without leaving the page. C.A.R.S. — Collaborative Affective Realtime Sim is a core component of the P31 Labs sovereign cognitive infrastructure stack — built to run offline, deployed to the edge, and designed without dark patterns.
Static hub cockpit framing the home-repo C.A.R.S. stack (soup vertical on bonding Pages deploy). Message kinds for multiplayer are locked via cars-contract/p31.carsWire.json + npm run verify:cars-wire in the bonding-soup repo; labTelemetry is an extra client-to-mock type for Sovereign Lab only (not sent by soup.ts).
Core features
Operator shell: boot screen, load menu (live sim vs mesh assistant), and settings without leaving the page
Field chat staging — glass transcript, role chips, timestamps; pairs with Mesh Start for real k4-personal /chat
Load menu: same-origin Sovereign Lab (/lab) and browser slicer (/slicer); lab mirrors from bonding-soup via npm run sync:sovereign-p31ca
Live edge ribbon: /p31-mesh-constants.json + probes k4-personal /api/health and same-origin hub /api/health (refresh; no secrets)
Neuro-inclusive defaults: prefers-reduced-motion seeds first-visit prefs; skip link to console; Escape closes overlays; modal focus returns to opener
Local prefs: reduced motion, compact transcript density, ethics strip visibility (persisted)
Wire: mock WebSocket accepts labTelemetry (Sovereign Lab) into room eventLog — cars-contract/p31.carsWire.json + verify:cars-wire
Deep links to the live soup vertical, BONDING (3D graph), and the canonical C.A.R.S. wire catalog