aaron
3ec9a48151
Bug: the previous order checked the "nothing changed → return None" rule first, so the spec's "corpus unchanged 3+ days → Late REM (shake things loose)" branch could never fire. Stasis was permanent — quiet would just keep returning None forever as long as no new chunks or journals appeared, regardless of how stale the corpus got. Fix: check staleness first. Quiet remains the default within the 1-2-day window the spec implicitly grants for the dreamer to "go quiet rather than manufacturing novelty." At day 3+, Late REM fires automatically — the spec's mechanism for breaking out of the silence when the corpus isn't delivering new material. Observed symptom that triggered this: dreamer fired 2026-05-21 08:00 and 2026-05-22 08:00, both went quiet. Real cause was no new content (which is correct quiet behavior for days 1-2), but the bug would have made it stay quiet indefinitely had we not fixed it before day 3.