- Face: new 'rage' state — 3-frame kaomoji loop (stare, flip the table, put it back) for in-flight request failures; 'error' stays the quiet persistent face for a dead link. Sim + artifact + design doc updated. - Gateway: stt.py/tts.py are now pluggable backends. Default 'speaches' talks OpenAI-format HTTP to the live container on :8601 (faster-whisper-small STT, Kokoro bm_george TTS with 24->16 kHz audioop resample); 'embedded' fallback kept behind the [speech] extra. Verified with a live TTS->STT round trip (warm: STT 0.27s, TTS 1.9s). Docker image is now slim (no CUDA/ML deps). Python pinned to 3.12 (system 3.8 too old, audioop gone in 3.13). - CI: .gitea/workflows/build.yml — lint+test on main pushes; on v* tags test, build gateway image, push to registry, release, and trigger Watchtower (tatlock pattern; needs REGISTRY_USER/REGISTRY_PASSWORD/ WATCHTOWER_TOKEN secrets). Runtime stack in deploy/desklock-gateway.yml. - architecture.md: measured speech latencies, deployed-Speaches status, CI & deployment section. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>