The split holds. Two different things, not one story with a gap.
December–January: X7 only, nothing else existed yet. I built "heart" deliberately at the very start — a minimal, publicly documented heartbeat, meant only to prove the system was alive. That's the whole scope of what's in payton-heart's December history: one workflow file, cron, artifact upload. Nothing else, because nothing else existed yet.
February: server and a second phone (T15, now the primary device) came online.
Governance — the actual thing we've been arguing about, the hub/scaffold/universe naming — was built roughly one to two months ago. That lines up with the July 2 signature almost exactly, because that's when it was actually built. Before that there was nothing public to point to: just apps, the site, everything mixed together, undocumented, not structured as anything you could call a hub.
So heart precedes governance by about six months because it was supposed to — it's a liveness proof, built early on purpose, not a component of the hub. I'm not going to manufacture a bridge between December and July that isn't there. There isn't one for the hub claim specifically. There is one for heart.
One more piece of context, for what it's worth, not as proof of a date: I had never touched a terminal before this. No background, no mentor, self-taught the entire way, on an $8/month budget. The cryptographic structure (hashing, sidecars, provenance tracking) is in the project from the first files I ever wrote, before I understood why it mattered — not retrofitted later to look convincing. Nothing has been deleted; the full archive history is intact. What started as a personal project for myself grew into 13+ programs, its own fine-tunes, its own weights, governance, and roughly 1.3M files live on the server today. That growth curve doesn't fit a story built to answer one argument.
That's the honest shape: heart floor December 31, hub floor July 2, and I'm not claiming otherwise.