nx_symbiote.nx

nx_symbiote.nx -- foreign-process virtual cell. Biological analogue: a symbiote is a non-self organism living cooperatively with the host -- mitochondria are the classic example (originally free-living bacteria, now permanent residents). Nishi symbiote wraps a non-Nishi process (Steam-hosted NMS, Chrome, OBS, VS Code, a CUDA training run) and projects it into the same resource- arbitration substrate as Nishi-native cells. THIS IS THE PARTNERSHIP INTERFACE. Per user 2026-05-19 NMS-via-Steam scenario: "where can we build from the silicon up to get the best experience on the nishi ecosystem and then as it moves off our ecosystem into steam partnering with steam to improve things like vram usage, disk space usage." The user runs NMS via Steam; we can't make Steam speak Nishi grammar, but we can OBSERVE the Steam- hosted process and NEGOTIATE through a treaty (see nx_treaty). CRITICAL HONESTY (per [[feedback-honest-perf-verdict-no-aspirational- claims]]): symbiote resource numbers are AS-OBSERVED, not AS-PROMISED. A native nx_cell honors its budget contractually -- the substrate enforces it. A symbiote may consume MORE than declared at any moment because it has no contractual obligation. Symbiote's job is to MEASURE the reality, not GUARANTEE the limit. Composes: nx_budget -- virtual_budget records the symbiote's DECLARED resource ceiling (caller-supplied; honest baseline for treaty negotiation) nx_attention_class -- foreground game symbiote (NMS) gets foreground priority just like native cells nx_evict_journal -- throttle/pause/terminate events logged nx_treaty -- bilateral resource agreement between organism and symbiote nx_organism -- the container that arbitrates across all symbiotes + native pathways V1 ships an in-memory descriptor with caller-supplied observation updates. Real OS probes (Linux /proc/<pid>/status + /proc/<pid>/ io, Windows Job Object + GetProcessMemoryInfo + nvidia-smi pmon) are queued -- the integration layer between nx_symbiote and the