claude: back up custom skills, memory, and settings with symlink pattern

The ~/.claude/ directory was previously local-only — a machine wipe
would have lost the accumulated memory, custom skills, and settings.
This commit moves the durable parts into dotfiles with the same
symlink-to-home pattern used for CLAUDE.md, PENDING.md, REVIEWED.md,
and L2-BOOTSTRAP.md.

Preserved (symlinked from ~/.claude/* into here):
  skills/audit/              — thinking-folder drift scanner
  skills/symmetria/          — practice-of-return discipline
  skills/vault-update-people/ — Obsidian People-file maintainer
  skills/wake-up/            — session restoration
  skills/wrap-up/            — session state capture
  memory/                    — 55+ memory files (MEMORY.md, sessions,
                               ledgers, project state, feedback, etc.)
  settings/settings.json     — user preferences (hooks, flags, no secrets)

Deliberately NOT backed up:
  settings.local.json   — contains operational secrets (HF_TOKEN,
                           SSH password in expect scripts); by naming
                           convention, *.local.* is not synced.
                           Needs separate review and probable rotation.
  sessions/, history.jsonl, caches, telemetry — ephemeral
  plugins/, marketplace skills and agents — reinstallable

The working copies at ~/.claude/skills/* and
~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory are symlinks into this
directory, so every write flows here automatically. install.sh
recreates the symlinks on a fresh machine.

FOLLOW-ON (flagged, not in this commit):
  settings.local.json contains a HuggingFace token and an SSH password
  as plaintext strings inside allowed Bash command patterns. These
  should be rotated and moved to secure storage (keychain / pass /
  env file outside the settings file).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

claude/memory/session-2026-04-09-agent-circles.md

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+---
+name: Session 2026-04-09 evening — Agent circles, /audit skill, thinking folder reorganization
+description: Filed agent circle designs (violin treatise, ARC, ungovernable threshold). Built and tested /audit skill. Major thinking folder reorganization — resolved all CURATION-MAP ambiguous items, moved observer-problem into l2-constitution, cleared vault inbox from 65 to 16 files.
+type: project
+originSessionId: 5d8fa47d-6cf1-4a66-9ef6-a2a95f27f7dd
+---
+## Session 2026-04-09 (evening)
+
+### What we did
+
+**Agent circle documents filed** — three documents from brainstorming session with jurist:
+- `agent-circles/agent-circle-violin-treatise.md` — research circle with 4 persistent + 5 invocable agents
+- `agent-circles/agent-circle-ARC.md` — editorial circle with 3 persistent + 5 invocable agents
+- `l2-constitution/DN-DRAFT-ungovernable-threshold.md` — exploratory sketch on the design paradox of institutionalizing the ungovernable
+
+**Surveyed Seb's thinking folder** for agent circle / multi-agent architecture content. Key findings: Amendment 41 (circles/clasp/keystone), Amendment 55 (knowledge routing), Amendment 56 (directed action patterns). Seb's architecture has functional roles but no structural outsider (trickster) or perspectival agents (ideal readers). Cross-circle shared agents (Typographer) are a new structural category not in Seb's model.
+
+**Built `/audit` skill** — Claude Code skill at `~/.claude/skills/audit/SKILL.md`. Scans thinking folder and vault inbox for organizational drift. Report-only; never acts without approval. Tested both scopes.
+
+**Thinking folder reorganization** (commit `e353110`, `4a9f2dd`):
+- Moved 5 loose root files to correct subfolders
+- Moved `observer-problem/` (22 files) into `l2-constitution/` — steward recognized this as constitutional material
+- Deleted stale `entities.json` (mempalace init artifact) and duplicate reviewer package
+- Resolved all 10 CURATION-MAP §4 ambiguous items (3 superseded, 2 live, 5 moved)
+- Updated CURATION-MAP statistics (57 → 95 files)
+- 11 uncharted files flagged for future section placement
+
+**Vault inbox triage** — `/audit inbox` found 65 files. 3 CRITICAL (API token, security questions, ID numbers), 5 contacts for People, 8 untriageable placeholders. Steward manually triaged to 16 remaining files.
+
+**Housekeeping:**
+- Moved 3 PDFs from repos to `~/Desktop/pdf-housekeeping/`
+- Added `*.pdf` to chamber-library `.gitignore`
+- Confirmed `mempalace.yaml` is actively used by miner (stays in place)
+
+### What we decided — and why
+
+1. **Observer-problem is L2 constitution material** — CD-01/02/03 are constitutional declarations, OP-02 feeds ICP-19, fault lines are governance questions. Merged as subfolder to preserve provenance.
+
+2. **`/audit` skill is stateless for v1** — no `.audit-state.json` tracking deferred items. Adds complexity before we know the shape. Add in v2 if re-running surfaces too many known issues.
+
+3. **Four distinct collections management roles confirmed empirically** — Auditor (detect drift), Cataloguer (route documents), Archivist (manage lifecycle), Index Maintainer (keep finding aids current). The skill does the Auditor's job well but delegates the other three to the steward. Documented in `agent-circles/audit-skill-findings.md`.
+
+4. **Agent circle organizing unit question for Seb meeting** — David's circles organized by project, Seb's by function. The Typographer serves both circles. Which is primary — circle or role? Productive tension for the design conversation.
+
+### What's unresolved
+
+- **README.md drift** — `thinking/README.md` is missing 6 of David's 12 subfolders and has stale counts for 5 of 6 listed. Not updated this session.
+- **11 uncharted l2-constitution files** need section placement in CURATION-MAP (noted in §6)
+- **Vault inbox** — 16 files remain (2 contacts, 5 reference/admin, 5 texts, 3 Way of Code parts, 1 dashboard)
+- **Chamber-library** — 6 unpushed commits. Push blocked on Gitea LFS (same as ARC)
+- **ARC** — `b1f28d3` unpushed, blocked on Gitea
+
+### Next actions
+
+1. **Meeting with Seb** — agent circles concept. Bring: two circle designs, audit skill findings, cross-circle shared agent question, maintenance circle concept, Seb's Amendment 41/55/56 as supply-side context
+2. Respond to External Auditor's assessment (what enters record, whether HOLD triggered)
+3. Practitioner questions (score memorization under performance conditions) — 5 pending
+4. Push chamber-library + ARC when Gitea is resolved
+5. Update `thinking/README.md` to reflect current folder structure
+
+### No Thistleweld observations this session