the ring reads out over ipc as turn decisions (V-564)

Same shape as TickTrace and RecentEvents: a bounded daemon ring, so the store
adapter refuses rather than pretending a table exists. No voice wiring means an
empty list and not an error, because a box with no voice path has had no turns
to arbitrate.

internal/ipc/api.go

@@ -836,6 +836,30 @@ type TickTrace struct {
 	Rules  []RuleTrace `json:"rules"`
 }
 
+// --- Turn decision trace DTOs (V-564) ---
+
+// TurnClaim — one claimant's say on one turn: who, at which stage, what it
+// would have made the turn, the score it reported if it has one, and what
+// happened to the claim. Same shape as RuleTrace above and for the same reason:
+// a winner alone does not explain an arbitration, the losers do.
+type TurnClaim struct {
+	Stage    string  `json:"stage"`
+	Claimant string  `json:"claimant"`
+	Intent   string  `json:"intent,omitempty"`
+	Score    float64 `json:"score,omitempty"`
+	HasScore bool    `json:"has_score,omitempty"`
+	Outcome  string  `json:"outcome"`
+	Reason   string  `json:"reason,omitempty"`
+}
+
+// TurnDecision — one turn's arbitration, newest first when read as a list.
+type TurnDecision struct {
+	Ts        time.Time   `json:"ts"`
+	Utterance string      `json:"utterance"`
+	Winner    string      `json:"winner"`
+	Claims    []TurnClaim `json:"claims"`
+}
+
 // MorningRoutineItem — one checklist entry's current state.
 type MorningRoutineItem struct {
 	Key   string `json:"key"`

internal/ipc/client.go

@@ -672,6 +672,14 @@ func (c *Client) TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (TickTrace, error) {
 	return t, nil
 }
 
+func (c *Client) TurnDecisions(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]TurnDecision, error) {
+	var d []TurnDecision
+	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodTurnDecisions, nReq{N: n}, &d); err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	return d, nil
+}
+
 func (c *Client) RecentEvents(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]IntakeEvent, error) {
 	var e []IntakeEvent
 	if err := c.call(ctx, MethodRecentEvents, nReq{N: n}, &e); err != nil {

internal/ipc/coreapi.go

@@ -169,6 +169,13 @@ type SystemAPI interface {
 	// persisted — it's a daemon-level cache).
 	TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (TickTrace, error)
 
+	// TurnDecisions returns the newest turn arbitration records, newest first
+	// (V-564). Same shape as TickTrace and RecentEvents: a bounded in-memory
+	// ring on the daemon, so the store adapter returns an error rather than
+	// pretending a table exists. Empty is a normal answer — it means no turn
+	// has run since the daemon started.
+	TurnDecisions(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]TurnDecision, error)
+
 	// RecentEcosystemTraces reads the ecosystem call log, which lives in its
 	// own table so machine-rate traces never crowd out human-rate facts.
 	RecentEcosystemTraces(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]EcosystemTrace, error)

internal/ipc/server.go

@@ -583,6 +583,13 @@ var methodTable = map[Method]handlerFunc{
 	MethodTickTrace: withoutParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI) (TickTrace, error) {
 		return api.TickTrace(ctx)
 	}),
+	MethodTurnDecisions: withParams(func(ctx context.Context, api CoreAPI, p nReq) ([]TurnDecision, error) {
+		d, err := api.TurnDecisions(ctx, p.N)
+		if d == nil {
+			d = []TurnDecision{}
+		}
+		return d, err
+	}),
 	// MorningStatus intentionally has no nil→[]T{} normalization here — the
 	// pre-table arm marshaled api.MorningStatus's result as-is (a nil slice
 	// serializes as JSON null), and this preserves that exact wire shape.

internal/ipc/storeapi.go

@@ -265,6 +265,12 @@ func (a *storeAPI) TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (TickTrace, error) {
 	return TickTrace{}, errors.New("store: tick trace not available via direct store API")
 }
 
+// TurnDecisions — same story as TickTrace: the arbitration record is a daemon
+// ring, not a table, so there is nothing here to read it from (V-564).
+func (a *storeAPI) TurnDecisions(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]TurnDecision, error) {
+	return nil, errors.New("store: turn decisions not available via direct store API")
+}
+
 // SeedEvent — same shape as MorningStatus: writing the fact is a store call,
 // but extraction and detect-and-propose live in mavend, and a seed that wrote
 // the fact without running them would be the one thing this seam must not be,

internal/ipc/unimplemented.go

@@ -144,6 +144,9 @@ func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) RevertFact(ctx context.Context, key string) (int64,
 func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) TickTrace(ctx context.Context) (TickTrace, error) {
 	return TickTrace{}, ErrNotImplemented
 }
+func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) TurnDecisions(ctx context.Context, n int) ([]TurnDecision, error) {
+	return nil, ErrNotImplemented
+}
 func (UnimplementedCoreAPI) MorningStatus(ctx context.Context) ([]MorningRoutineStatus, error) {
 	return nil, ErrNotImplemented
 }

internal/ipc/wire.go

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ const (
 	MethodAcceptProposedRoutine  Method = "accept_proposed_routine"
 	MethodRevertFact             Method = "revert_fact"
 	MethodTickTrace              Method = "tick_trace"
+	MethodTurnDecisions          Method = "turn_decisions"
 	MethodMorningStatus          Method = "morning_status"
 	MethodMCPServers             Method = "mcp_servers"
 	MethodDayPlan                Method = "day_plan"