rotifer-gene

The Gene manual for Rotifer Protocol — write a Gene's express function and phenotype schema, run the four-layer security audit before publishing, and migrate a Gene's fidelity from Wrapped to Hybrid or Native. Invoke explicitly when building, auditing, or upgrading a Rotifer Gene. Do NOT use for general code review, dependency auditing, or framework migration — every procedure here operates on Rotifer Genes, their phenotype schemas, and the Rotifer CLI, and nothing else.

Working on a Gene

Three manuals, one per thing you might be doing. Read the one you need — they are long because they are references, not tutorials.

What you are doing	Read
Writing a Gene: init, express, phenotype, test, compile, publish, Arena	modules/dev.md
Checking one before it ships: credential and artifact scanning, four layers	modules/audit.md
Upgrading fidelity: Wrapped → Hybrid → Native, and proving it still works	modules/migration.md

Which one

Match what the reader is asking for:

They say	Go to
create, write, initialize, compile, publish, Arena, fitness	modules/dev.md
audit, scan, security, credential, is this safe to publish	modules/audit.md
upgrade, Wrapped to Native, rewrite, fidelity, refactor	modules/migration.md

If it is ambiguous, say so and offer the choice rather than guessing — these are long documents and loading the wrong one costs the reader more than a question does.

What holds across all three

• Fidelity is declared honestly. Native means the logic is in WASM with no external calls; Hybrid means WASM plus calls to an allowlist; Wrapped means a shell around someone else's API. A Wrapped Gene labelled Native is a broken promise, not an optimization.
• F(g) is multiplicative. Any factor at zero eliminates the Gene, so a failure mode cannot be averaged away by strength elsewhere.
• Everything a reader sees is English — descriptions, schema fields, README, error messages.
• A published version is immutable. Bump, do not overwrite.

What this Skill does on your machine

Nothing on its own. It describes commands — rotifer init, test, compile, publish, arena submit — and you run them. The ones that reach the network are publish, arena submit --cloud and login; the rest are local. Read modules/audit.md before your first publish: it is the difference between finding a leaked credential on your disk and finding it in a public registry.