${var} — Command / view selector. Empty (or unrecognized) → Health Check (default control view). status → full Status Mode (control view). dispatch <instance|*> <skill> [var=<value>] → Dispatch Mode: trigger a skill on one child or all healthy/degraded children (control view). scorecard → Scorecard Mode: fleet-wide runs/tokens/cost/reliability scorecard with day-over-day deltas + alerts (scorecard view).

Today is ${today}. Operate the fleet of Aeon instances registered in memory/instances.json. The control view (health/status/dispatch) is decision-ready: every run leads with a verdict, then a delta vs prior check, then per-instance lines that name the next concrete action. The scorecard view publishes the daily fleet-wide cost/reliability scorecard.

The fleet is discovered at runtime, never hardcoded: it is this repo ("self") plus every non-archived entry in memory/instances.json (the registry fleet-control and spawn-instance maintain). With zero managed instances the scorecard simply covers the single self repo — still useful.

Shared preamble (every run)

Read memory — read memory/MEMORY.md for high-level context and scan the last ~3 days of memory/logs/ for recent activity; don't re-report a signal already logged there.
Voice — if soul/SOUL.md and soul/STYLE.md exist and are populated, read them and match the operator's voice in every notification. If they are empty templates or absent, use a clear, direct, neutral tone — terse, lowercase, no fluff.
Parse ${var} → mode:
- empty / unrecognized → Health Check Mode (control view; default)
- exactly status → Status Mode (control view)
- starts with dispatch → Dispatch Mode (control view)
- exactly scorecard → Scorecard Mode (scorecard view)