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The proxy wasn't a placeholder — it was the contract every downstream system agreed to

When the real Cj avatar came back from the Meshy API, nothing in Godot changed. Not the skeleton driver, not the shape-key bindings, not the audio reactivity. That wasn't luck — proxy_rig.py had committed a named contract on day two, and Meshy's output had to satisfy it.