refactor(realism): single source of truth for persona→login

decnet/realism/naming._home and decnet/canary/cultivator._persona_login
both normalised "John Smith"→"johnsmith" with identical logic. Lift
to decnet.realism.personas.login_for(persona) and have both consumers
import it. Drift between the two would have left canary placement and
realism path naming using different login derivations.

decnet/canary/cultivator.py

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ from typing import Any, Optional
 from decnet.canary.base import CanaryArtifact, CanaryContext
 from decnet.canary.factory import get_generator
 from decnet.logging import get_logger
+from decnet.realism.personas import login_for
 from decnet.realism.taxonomy import ContentClass, Plan
 
 log = get_logger("canary.cultivator")
@@ -64,14 +65,6 @@ _DEFAULT_PATH: dict[ContentClass, str] = {
 }
 
 
-def _persona_login(persona: str) -> str:
-    """Mirror :func:`decnet.realism.naming._home`'s username conventions."""
-    candidate = persona.lower().replace(" ", "")
-    if candidate.isalnum() and candidate.isascii() and candidate:
-        return candidate
-    return "user"
-
-
 def _path_for(plan: Plan) -> str:
     """Produce the canary placement path for *plan*.
 
@@ -84,7 +77,7 @@ def _path_for(plan: Plan) -> str:
     template = _DEFAULT_PATH.get(plan.content_class)
     if template is None:
         return plan.target_path
-    return template.format(persona=_persona_login(plan.persona))
+    return template.format(persona=login_for(plan.persona))
 
 
 def _new_callback_token() -> str:

decnet/realism/naming.py

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@ import secrets
 import string
 from typing import Callable, Optional
 
+from decnet.realism.personas import login_for
 from decnet.realism.taxonomy import ContentClass
 
 
@@ -32,17 +33,8 @@ from decnet.realism.taxonomy import ContentClass
 # paths (out of scope until per-OS personas land).  For now everything
 # is POSIX.
 def _home(persona: str) -> str:
-    """Return the canonical home directory for *persona*.
-
-    The persona's ``name`` is used as the linux username when it's a
-    plausible login (lowercase, no spaces); otherwise we fall back to
-    a generic ``user`` so the path doesn't reveal a persona display
-    name on the decky filesystem.
-    """
-    candidate = persona.lower().replace(" ", "")
-    if candidate.isalnum() and candidate.isascii() and candidate:
-        return f"/home/{candidate}"
-    return "/home/user"
+    """Return the canonical home directory for *persona*."""
+    return f"/home/{login_for(persona)}"
 
 
 def _random_token(rng: secrets.SystemRandom, length: int = 6) -> str:

decnet/realism/personas.py

@@ -117,6 +117,21 @@ def parse_personas(
     return out
 
 
+def login_for(persona: str) -> str:
+    """Return the linux login derived from a persona's display name.
+
+    Lowercase, strip spaces; if the result isn't a plausible POSIX
+    login (alnum ASCII), fall back to ``user`` so the path doesn't
+    leak the persona's display name onto the decky filesystem.
+    Shared by realism path naming (``decnet/realism/naming.py``) and
+    canary cultivation (``decnet/canary/cultivator.py``).
+    """
+    candidate = persona.lower().replace(" ", "")
+    if candidate.isalnum() and candidate.isascii() and candidate:
+        return candidate
+    return "user"
+
+
 def in_active_hours(persona: EmailPersona, now_hour: int) -> bool:
     """Return True if *now_hour* (0–23) falls in the persona's window.