feat(personas): rename Howard pack → Morning Crew (§8C / §8A legal hygiene)

[Sethmr]

Summary

Renames the default persona pack from "Howard Stern Show" / id howard to "Morning Crew" / id morning-crew. All four persona display names and kernel files are renamed; the four kernels are also rewritten as archetypal system prompts with no specific real-person identifiers.

Per legal-research/BRIEF-2026-04-24.md §8C / §8A — nicknames and first names matching specific real-world morning-radio crew members create Lanham §43(a) false-association exposure (Geisel v. Poynter dicta on nicknames as protectable "names" under NY §51) and right-of-publicity exposure under CA §3344 / TN ELVIS Act / NY §51. The rename + kernel rewrite cuts the highest-confidence specific-person claims while keeping the parody / Comedy III / Hustler v. Falwell defense posture intact via the preserved "inspired by archetype" framing.

Renames (git mv, history preserved)

Surface	Old	New
Pack	"Howard Stern Show" / howard	"Morning Crew" / morning-crew
Producer	"Baba Booey" (baba-booey.ts)	"The Producer" (the-producer.ts)
Troll	"The Troll" (the-troll.ts)	"The Heckler" (the-heckler.ts)
SoundFX	"Fred" (fred-norris.ts)	"The Sound Guy" (the-sound-guy.ts)
Joker	"Jackie" (jackie-martling.ts)	"The Joke Writer" (the-joke-writer.ts)
Sound assets	extension/sounds/personas/howard-*.wav	morning-crew-*.wav

Kernel rewrites

290 KB of biographical research dossiers replaced with ~1500 lines of archetypal system prompts. Tactical-move taxonomies, sentence shapes, output modes, and register distributions preserved verbatim. No specific real-person nicknames, first names, biographical dates, family members, locations, or signature catchphrases.

Back-compat

• Pack registry aliases legacy "howard" id → "morning-crew" (resolvePack)
• Side-panel mascot-picker normalizes the legacy id on load
• Persisted user storage with "howard" continues to resolve cleanly

Verification

• ✅ npm run typecheck clean
• ✅ npm run test:director — 26/26 fixtures passing

Not touched

• The TWiST pack (Jason Calacanis explicit authorization, §3344 consent)
• Old session notes / CHANGELOG entries describing the prior pack (accurate historical record per the brief's "preserve audit trail" guidance)
• Marketing site (separate repo, separate commit)

Audit trail

Entry written to legal-research/CONTEXT.md (2026-05-02, §8C / §8A mitigation).

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