spec: converse.md — RECOMMENDED tuning defaults, identity-gated response mode, pure updated_session channel

[JarbasAl]

Refines OVOS-CONVERSE-1 for internal purity and self-consistency (per-file split of the consistency audit).

Changes

• Normativity discipline: tuning values are RECOMMENDED defaults, never MUST — §2.1 converse-handler list cap (default 10, with latency rationale), §3.2 TTL (RECOMMENDED default 600 s, applied when the deployer configures nothing; "no TTL" remains an explicit conformant choice), §4.2 per-owner poll timeout (RECOMMENDED default 0.5 s; the bounded wait stays MUST — it is a correctness invariant, the value is not).
• Response-mode identity invariant enforced at delivery (§4.1/§5.2/§9): the holder must appear in the post-prune session.converse_handlers; a pruned or unrecognised holder is discarded via Match.updated_session, never delivered to.
• No in-place session mutation: the former "sole permitted exception" letting the plugin mutate the inbound session on a null return for "done" removal is gone — PIPELINE-1 §4.2's Match.updated_session-only channel discipline now holds without exception; removal defers to the next claiming match or the §3.2 TTL.
• Topic rule: poll ping/pong are dotted non-dispatch topics (<skill_id>.converse.ping / .pong); the only colon topics are genuine PIPELINE-1 §7 dispatches (<skill_id>:converse, <skill_id>:response).
• Dispatch payload = standard PIPELINE-1 §7.1 shape: skill_id/intent_name live in the topic, not repeated in data; slot map named slots per PIPELINE-1 §4.1.
• Parallel polling upgraded MAY → SHOULD (the poll sits on the serial critical path); §7 global-stop interaction corrected (uniform §3.1 activation re-stamps the stop plugin); cross-protocol note that the poll boolean's field name (result) is protocol-local; OVOS-SESSION-1 cited by canonical title.

Principle

Colon <x>:<y> is reserved for the orchestrator dispatch shape (MSG-1 §2.1.1); everything else is dotted. MUST/MUST NOT mark correctness/interop invariants only; numbers are RECOMMENDED defaults. One channel for session writes (Match.updated_session) with zero exceptions.

Version stays 2: VERSIONING.md defines the field as the V0-compatibility class, which these edits do not change.

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