session 2026-08-07 evening: PENDING-112 + REVIEWED-95 (route harvested capabilities by firing moment)
Register censused and rebuilt from the archive: 177 claimed -> 154 real live proposals, legible, with exact archive:L### pointers. The 2026-08-01 compaction was lossless but illegible (55 scraped header rows; 95% of cells cut mid-word); completeness verified 124 = 124, so nothing had been dropped. Skills pruned 63 -> 12 after measuring that 53 had never been invoked across 64 sessions / ~5 months. The finding underneath: retrieval is set by a capability's HOME, not its importance -- MEMORY.md 83%, register 77% (named in a wake step), ladder 14%, 'THE GOVERNING FRAME' 12%, 'Read at Step 0' 9%, recall-bound skills 0%. PENDING-112 filed, jurist design-gated, steward concurred; REVIEWED-95 drafted. Landed: the /wrap-up 1.6 filing gate (prospective) and the /wake-up ladder sentence (a pre-registered trial intervention, landed alone). The 20-session falsifier is WIRED, not intended -- DEFERRED-DECISION ladder-ritual-trial, trigger: transcripts 84. Wiring it exposed two defects in the deferral checker: no way to express a session count except as a date proxy, and a scan that never looked at claude/governance/. Controls 16 -> 19. Stroke 2's 41-entry ladder append deliberately NOT done: REVIEWED-95 Q3 sequences it after the ladder trigger, which now exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NEWjLBP4quXbDPDL2byEzZ
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The single place proposed skills live so they don't evaporate between sessions. `/wrap-up` §1.6 *proposes* here; the steward *authorizes*; only then is a skill created/patched/retired (never autonomously — the loop is load-bearing, per PENDING-23). `/wake-up` surfaces the open proposals via this entry. The governed analog of `~/PENDING.md`, for our own tools.
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**Status legend:** `PROPOSED` (awaiting steward) · `AUTHORIZED` (proceed to build) · `BUILT` (done; move to the built-log) · `DEFERRED` (reason + condition) · `REJECTED` (reason; don't revisit without new input).
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**Status legend:** `PROPOSED` (awaiting steward) · `PROPOSED?` (status never marked — **open until ruled**, never silently closed) · `AUTHORIZED` (proceed to build) · `BUILT` · `DEFERRED` · `REJECTED`.
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> **Compacted 2026-08-01** under the 2026-07-19 Stroke-4 authorization. This file is now the **live index**: every open proposal, one line each. Full rationale, origin and ruled history live in **`skill-harvest-archive.md`** (the previous register verbatim — nothing dropped). Ruled items are not listed here. Rows whose status was never marked are carried as `PROPOSED?` — **unmarked is open until ruled**, never silently closed.
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> **Rebuilt 2026-08-07.** The 2026-08-01 compaction was **lossless but illegible**: 55 scraped table-header rows were carried as numbered proposals, 95% of cells were cut mid-word, and pointers reached only a section — one of which holds 81 rows across 410 lines. Regenerated here from `skill-harvest-archive.md` (authoritative, unchanged) with word-boundary text and **exact `archive:L###` / `register:L###` pointers**. Nothing was ruled, reworded or dropped in the rebuild; the completeness invariant was asserted, not assumed. **154 live proposals** (124 from the archive + 30 appended since); 13 ruled items remain excluded by the stated rule.
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**Stroke coverage** — the 2026-07-19 full review granted standing authorizations. `S2` = covered by Stroke 2 (all earned ladder entries, append wholesale — **execution, not a ruling**). `S2?` = names BOTH the ladder and Symmetria, so the stroke that covers it is not settled — rule before executing. `S3` = the skill named in Stroke 3's verdicts. `S1?` = Symmetria flag needing a per-row check against the consolidated §3. `—` = genuinely awaiting the steward.
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*The steward's 2026-07-19 ruling is reproduced verbatim below. The 2026-08-07 rebuild
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initially carried only a paraphrase of it in the Stroke-coverage note above; a paraphrase
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must not stand in for a ruling on the live surface, so the ruled text is restored here.*
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## ⚖ FULL REVIEW 2026-07-19 (late night) — steward ruled ALL FOUR STROKES
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*Post-review addition (2026-07-22, PENDING-69 build — same authorization):* **read-the-gate's-decision-code-before-designing-its-consumer** — before building a consumer/resolver for a gate's output, read the gate's OWN decision logic to know what it can and cannot mechanically produce or see. On PENDING-69 the inherited literal question forced reading `verify_body_conservation.classify` first: it revealed the gate classifies boundary runs by POSITION+SIZE only and provably cannot confirm class identity → that "no, and knowably no" shaped the honest design (attested declaration the gate consumes, not teaching it to classify) AND corrected my own package's mis-framing mid-build. Kin to render-and-LOOK / measure-toolchain-before-spec, one level over (read the substrate's *decision logic*, not just its output). Queue with the Stroke-2 batch.
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## Open proposals — live index (177)
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## verification-ladder (63)
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| # | Skill | Kind | One-line | Origin | Status | Archive section |
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| 1 | ``bmf-diagnose`` | **build now** (a | Today WAS that need and the method is proven+fresh: process sample → log pattern census (`uniq - | 2026-06-06 mindfabric-00 forensics | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-06 wrap — awaiting st |
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| 2 | ``/wrap-up` §5` | patch | Palace-fully-derived, part 1: mirror every `kg_add`/`kg_invalidate` made at wrap into the sessio | 2026-06-05 MemPalace forensics + t | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-05 evening wrap — awa |
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| 3 | ``/wake-up` §2.b` | patch | Until upstream #1665 closes: wake searches run unscoped + post-filter by wing (wing-scoped `memp | 2026-06-05 diagnosis | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-05 evening wrap — awa |
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| 4 | ``/wake-up` (new step or §2 check)` | patch | Wake canary: seconds-cheap probe at wake — every MEMORY.md pointer + `link` resolves to an exist | 2026-06-07 evening (memory-verdict | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-05 evening wrap — awa |
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| 5 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-08 — harvested from F |
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| 6 | `**Revert-and-redo-smaller**` | Symmetria §3 fla | Ch1's strongest working reflex we *don't* have: when a verification/gate fails and the cause isn | Symmetria §3 (a flag) or verificat | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-08 — harvested from F |
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| 7 | `**Two-hat commit separation**` | verification-lad | Name which hat each commit wears: a *refactor* commit's compiled output is byte-identical (or ca | verification-ladder (formalizes wh | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-08 — harvested from F |
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| 8 | `**Bad-smells → refactoring lens**` | reference card O | Ch3's smell catalogue (Mutable/Global Data, Duplicated Code, Shotgun Surgery, Speculative Genera | `/code-review` prompt or new refer | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-08 — harvested from F |
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| 9 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-09 — the headless-Chr |
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| 10 | `**Headless-Chrome box-model measur` | create skill OR | When a rendered layout *differs* and the cause isn't obvious, measure the box model before theor | a `/measure-render` skill, or a ve | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-09 — the headless-Chr |
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| 11 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: theorize-befo` | Symmetria §3 fla | The drift this caught, as a standing flag: a *causal story about why a layout renders as it does | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-09 — the headless-Chr |
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| 12 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-09 pm — the typograph |
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| 13 | `**`/measure-render` (headless-Chro` | create skill OR | RE-FLAG — strongly earned. Proposed this morning (compass fix); the pm session ran it 4+ more ti | `/measure-render` skill OR verific | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-09 pm — the typograph |
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| 14 | `**Measure the font's true average ` | verification-lad | When setting a measure to a target character count, measure the font's average advance over real | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-09 pm — the typograph |
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| 15 | `**ARC build has NO autoprefixer — ` | feedback memory | ARC's plain-`sass` build adds no vendor prefixes. When introducing a new CSS property, check Saf | `feedback-arc-no-autoprefixer-hand | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-09 pm — the typograph |
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| 16 | `**Justification-judgment bar = Bri` | feedback memory | Load-bearing for the future justification decision: when living with the soft rag to judge wheth | `feedback-justification-bar-bringh | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-09 pm — the typograph |
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| 17 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-10 — Stage-G close + |
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| 18 | `**spec↔spec coherence dimension**` | patch `/spec-cod | The 2026-06-10 audit found §I.f-class contradictions — the measure (38→27.2rem) un-propagated ac | `/spec-code-audit` (new dimension) | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-10 — Stage-G close + |
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| 19 | `**container-must-embody-the-contai` | feedback memory | When producing an ARTIFACT *of* a spec (a PDF of the spec, a rendered sample), set it per the sp | `feedback-container-must-embody-th | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-10 — Stage-G close + |
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| 20 | `**check-for-governed-tooling-befor` | feedback memory | Before hand-rolling infrastructure (a PDF preamble, a build script, a template), grep the repo f | feedback memory or Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-10 — Stage-G close + |
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| 21 | `**byte-identical gate: hold/exclud` | verification-lad | When proving a change byte-identical, a build-date/commit stamp (e.g. the colophon `_build_info/ | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-10 — Stage-G close + |
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| 22 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-11 — §VII.f / open-wo |
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| 23 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: inherited-mar` | Symmetria §3 fla | A status/marker inherited from a RECORD (a selector-index entry, a tracker line, a "-pending" fi | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-11 — §VII.f / open-wo |
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| 24 | `**`/measure-render` (headless-Chro` | create skill OR | RE-REINFORCED (4th day of evidence). Proposed 2026-06-09 (compass fix) + reinforced 06-09 pm; to | `/measure-render` skill OR verific | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-11 — §VII.f / open-wo |
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| 25 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-12 — Studium planning |
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| 26 | `**`/model-handoff` (premium-model ` | create skill OR | When switching to an expensive/premium model (Fable 5 = 2× Opus rate; burn scales with context×s | a `/model-handoff` skill OR a refe | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-12 — Studium planning |
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| 27 | `**verification-ladder: feature-det` | verification-lad | A CSS `@supports(feature)` (or any capability probe) can return true on a platform where the fea | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-12 — Studium planning |
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| 28 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-12 night — Studium St |
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| 29 | `**verification-ladder: parse/valid` | verification-lad | When an artifact that humans have only ever *read* (a hand-authored YAML index, a config, a data | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-12 night — Studium St |
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| 30 | `**clean cruft at the SOURCE layer,` | feedback memory | When a source carries conversion cruft (EPUB footnote-links, image-scan embeds), clean it at the | `feedback-clean-at-source-not-down | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-12 night — Studium St |
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| 31 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 — Studium Steps 3- |
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| 32 | `**dry-run-first for bulk file oper` | verification-lad | When a mutation touches many files at once (mass `git mv`, graduation, rename), build it dry-run | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 — Studium Steps 3- |
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| 33 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: census-throug` | Symmetria §3 fla | A filter/regex used to *count* or *partition* a set can silently mis-match and the count reads a | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 — Studium Steps 3- |
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| 34 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 35 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: solve-the-con` | Symmetria §3 fla | A "fix" that satisfies a stated constraint by removing the thing the constraint was protecting i | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 36 | `**verification-ladder: re-verify a` | verification-lad | A sub-agent or background workflow that reports a per-item verdict from a dry-run on a temp copy | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 37 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 38 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: assert presen` | Symmetria §3 fla | A presence/absence claim produced by a fuzzy/token matcher (filename tokens, embeddings, author- | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 39 | ``/wrap-up` §4.b/§5` | patch | Inline reminder at the KG-write step: `kg_add` `object` hard-caps at 128 chars — write short key | PROPOSED | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 40 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 41 | `**Work-in-omnibus: verify the inte` | verification-lad | When a sidecar/scope brackets one work out of a multi-work source by heading-to-heading boundari | verification ladder | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 42 | `**studium-engine tool-evolution-lo` | create | Establish the analog of `chamber-library/_curation/tool-evolution-log.md` for the engine tools ( | studium-engine repo | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 43 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 44 | `**`/version-essay`**` | **create** | The ADR-005 essay-versioning procedure, derived from `essay-versioning-specification.md` this se | new `/version-essay` skill | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 45 | `**CSS-mask: fill WHITE, not black ` | verification-lad | A CSS `mask`/`-webkit-mask` SVG must fill the shape white/opaque — a black-fill mask renders BLA | `reference-verification-ladder` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 46 | `**live-CSS-patch in `_site` for fa` | verification-lad | To eyeball size/style options in the real browser without a full Hakyll rebuild each round, `sed | `reference-verification-ladder` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 47 | `**headless-Chrome element shot: sc` | Symmetria §3 fla | Recalibration: computed box-clips kept mis-landing on the page-top (burned several shots). The r | `reference-verification-ladder` or | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 48 | `**glyph-outline → SVG from a woff2` | method note (lad | Build a typographic SVG asset *from the real font glyphs*: `fontTools` `SVGPathPen` (path) + `Bo | `reference-verification-ladder` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 49 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 50 | `**`/wake-up` patch — surface the *` | patch | When the active workstream is studium-engine / The Making / ARC-as-public-proof (the engine's re | `/wake-up` §2.a + §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 51 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 52 | `**`/clone-test-runtime-fix` (CoW-c` | create skill OR | When testing a runtime fix that needs real live data but must not touch the live instance: `/bin | new `/clone-test-runtime-fix` skil | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 53 | `**verification-ladder: verify the ` | verification-lad | Before reasoning about live behaviour, verify what the running process actually executes — compi | `reference-verification-ladder` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 54 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: probe-confirm` | Symmetria §3 fla | A query/test I constructed to match my hypothesis, whose result I then read as *confirming* the | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 55 | `**verification-ladder: quantify-th` | verification-lad | When a fix *removes* a hot operation, the cleanest control isn't a flaky end-to-end before/after | `reference-verification-ladder` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 56 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 57 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: diagnose-infe` | Symmetria §3 fla | The load-bearing harvest. When a network/inference call is slow, the FIRST test must be the *iso | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 58 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: reinvent-gove` | Symmetria §3 fla | Proposed PENDING-41 (consumer-hardware graceful degradation) as a *novel* architectural directio | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 59 | `**`/graduate-chamber-source`** (th` | create | Codify the now-PROVEN OCR→canonical→graduation pipeline as a single governed discipline, so the | 2026-06-26 Levi graduation | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 60 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Status | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 61 | `**`/graduate-chamber-source`** (al` | **EXPAND** | Its empirical spec is now the full ocrmac column-aware pipeline, not the olmOCR one: render→ocrm | PROPOSED (expand; build-on-package | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 62 | `verification-ladder note: **OCR wo` | ladder entry (pr | A verbatim word-guard that checks word PRESENCE cannot catch reading-order scrambling (2-col rea | PROPOSED | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 63 | `**2 research sweeps owed** (not sk` | note | The engine's signature capabilities are greenfield: (1) genealogy/temporal/citation-graph/KG-aug | (project tasks, in research doc) | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 64 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 65 | `**`/graduate-chamber-source`** (al` | **EXPAND again** | Now carries the full EPUB path (`structure_from_ncx`→`insert_chapter_headings`→`clean_pandoc_htm | new skill | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 66 | `**The gate itself can be PASS-BUT-` | verification-lad | A verifier that checks an enumerated set of cruft signatures silently passes any residue outside | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 67 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: finding-scope` | Symmetria §3 fla | A result true under a specific condition, restated as an unconditional rule, is contamination sh | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 68 | `**prose word-guard for faithful st` | verification-lad | When a cleaner removes/reflows STRUCTURE (headings, printed titles, residue) but must preserve P | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 69 | `**structure-from-authoritative-ToC` | method note (lad | Answer to the long-open unify question: chapter-structure recovery is ONE placement engine (`ins | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 70 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 71 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: tool-creep-in` | Symmetria §3 fla | A convenience tool proposed for one job silently becoming the durable substrate (the source of t | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 72 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 73 | `**`/graduate-chamber-source`** (pr` | **BUILD NOW** | The empirical spec is complete AND the rail it needs now exists (`graduation-spec.yaml` + `verif | new skill | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 74 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: graduated-wit` | Symmetria §3 fla | Letting "honestly flagged" substitute for "resolved" — shipping a known-incomplete text because | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 75 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: re-derived-in` | Symmetria §3 fla | Wrote agents hand-made instructions (and invented fields) instead of pointing them at `conversio | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 76 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 77 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: claim-from-de` | Symmetria §3 fla | The load-bearing harvest — jurist-elevated to STANDING PRACTICE. I trusted a derived artifact / | Symmetria §3 + `reference-verifica | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 78 | `**`/spec-amendment`** (the RFC-sup` | create (later) | The now-RATIFIED chamber amendment process as a codified discipline: normative spec change = a s | new skill | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 79 | `**per-claim citation verification ` | feedback memory | Caught by the jurist: I cited arXiv 2605.24229 for a claim it didn't support, having let a sub-a | feedback memory / ladder | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 80 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 81 | `**`/spec-amendment`** (proposed 20` | **BUILD — deferr | The 2026-07-03/04 v2.0 drafting IS its first real exercise — the empirical spec now exists. Codi | new `/spec-amendment` skill | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 82 | `**`/wrap-up` §4.a**` | **patch** | The §4.a drawer-filing step instructs passing `tags:` to `mempalace_add_drawer` — the tool rejec | `~/.claude/skills/wrap-up/SKILL.md | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 83 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Status | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 84 | `**verification-ladder: CI-upper-bo` | verification-lad | The jurist RULED (2026-07-04) that grading on the one-sided 90% Clopper-Pearson upper bound (not | .05,40)=0.399); the CI does the re | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 85 | `**`/model-handoff`** (premium-mode` | REINFORCED (exis | Used tonight end-to-end: produced `studium-engine/docs/stage-1-replan-scope-charter-2026-07-05.m | PROPOSED (reinforced) | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 86 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Status | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 87 | `**`/model-handoff`** (proposed 202` | **REINFORCED — 3 | Tonight was the first time the pattern ran END-TO-END as designed: fresh Fable-5 session woke in | PROPOSED (reinforced; +path-verifi | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 88 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 89 | `**CLAUDE.md staleness canary (git ` | create (small) O | If the `scripts/` set or `graduation-spec.yaml` changed but `CLAUDE.md` didn't since, flag "may | git pre-commit / a `/repo-doc-cana | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 90 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 91 | `**memory/index restructure = byte-` | verification-lad | When restructuring a memory index or any lossless-relocation of prose between files, do it as li | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 92 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 93 | `**quote a long-job ETA only from a` | verification-lad | Twice today I gave a re-embed ETA from gut ("15–45 min") and was wrong by ~30×; the steward caug | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 94 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: reassuring-ve` | Symmetria §3 fla | Reaching for a comforting characterization ("self-healed", "fine", "recovered", "handled") *befo | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 95 | `**`mempalace-diagnose` — RETIRE th` | retire | AUTHORIZED 2026-06-05 (build-on-need). Now decorative: the steward decided (evidenced) to wind d | skill-harvest register | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 96 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 97 | `**`/model-handoff` (premium-model ` | **RE-FLAG — stro | Proposed 2026-06-12; this session *built* a full scope charter with the discipline (charter-on-O | new `/model-handoff` skill | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 98 | `**cross-volume verify-before-delet` | verification-lad | Moving data across filesystems (internal→external cold archive): `rsync -a` → verify exact file- | tail` masks push failure — bit me | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 99 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 100 | `**verify at the granularity of the` | verification-lad | A whole-set invariant (a document-wide word-multiset guard) can PASS while a per-item operation | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 101 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 102 | `**re-audit coverage with the TOOL'` | verification-lad | When a classifier and the tool it feeds share a predicate, the classifier's *mis*-classification | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 103 | `**extending a tool re-tests its fo` | verification-lad | Building an extension exercises shared machinery the original's tests never hit — so a widen's ` | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 104 | `**classify a change by MECHANISM, ` | feedback memory | Reflexively labeled the recognizer generalization "PROPOSAL" because it *felt* large; the jurist | feedback memory or Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 105 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 106 | `**`/reconcile-open-work` (program ` | **create** | The practice proven twice now (ARC open-work register, then the whole Chamber→Gold→Engine regist | new `/reconcile-open-work` skill | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 107 | `**verification-ladder: retroactive` | ladder entry | The jurist's Q1b principle, proven load-bearing: a stronger check existing and NOT pointed at ca | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 108 | `**verification-ladder: structural ` | ladder entry / S | The jurist's generalization after nested-block: "same risk as (a)" was true of the *matching* lo | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 109 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: lost-the-fore` | Symmetria §3 fla | A long, productive execution session that costs the whole-program altitude is contamination shap | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 110 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 111 | `**check-the-register-before-a-subs` | `/wake-up` §2 pa | Before starting substantial INFRA/tool building (a converter, a pipeline, a substrate), read the | `/wake-up` §2 (when the thread is | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 112 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 113 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: a check prove` | Symmetria §3 fla | Reusing a verification method across a boundary it wasn't demonstrated on is contamination shape | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 114 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 115 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: soft-classifi` | Symmetria §3 fla | Shipping a soft label ("this is reordering", "magnitude unresolved", "apparatus") when a CHECKAB | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 116 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 117 | `**split cause from magnitude befor` | verification-lad | A diagnostic bucket keyed on ONE summary axis (magnitude, holds%, a deficit size) can hold heter | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 118 | `**confirm-a-named-cause-by-swap-in` | verification-lad | When you NAME the true reference / config / cause behind an anomaly, don't assert the fix from t | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 119 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 120 | `**method-class-vs-calibration**` | verification-lad | When a metric/gate fails to separate two cases, ask whether it is mis-CALIBRATED or structurally | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 121 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 122 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: answer-from-t` | Symmetria §3 fla | Answering an architecture/tooling/citation question — or proposing a tool/approach — from traini | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 123 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 124 | `**positive-test-at-the-enforcement` | verification-lad | For any "can X be bypassed?" / "is this gate skippable?" property, a negative grep proves the ab | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 125 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: convert-a-ste` | Symmetria §3 fla | A proposal that converts an observed steward STATE (fatigue, "has carried a lot," being busy) in | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 126 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 127 | `**draft governance entries copy-pa` | feedback memory | When drafting PENDING/REVIEWED entries for the steward to *place*, format them as clean copy-pas | a feedback memory (governance-draf | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 128 | `**Symmetria §3 flag / ladder: "clo` | Symmetria §3 fla | The jurist named it a standing habit: the closable-vs-blocked partition on a work-list must be * | Symmetria §3 or `reference-verific | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 129 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 130 | `**`/jurist-package`** (create)` | new skill | Draft a self-contained jurist package for a repo-blind reviewer: inline the ratified spec clause | new `.claude/skills/jurist-package | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 131 | `**ladder: reconcile against the AU` | verification-lad | Before claiming a block/scope closed or complete, reconcile against the authoritative source (th | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 132 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 133 | `**governed spec-supersession proce` | verification-lad | Landing a ratified spec version is: cp live→`-vNEW.md` → bounded Edits (never retype) → `diff` s | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 134 | `**verification-ladder / Symmetria ` | verification-lad | A factual claim's grounding must reach the file that HOLDS the fact, not one that merely describ | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 135 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 136 | `**implementation-is-a-second-gate*` | verification-lad | A text passed by *reading* is re-tested by having to *act* on it — the jurist's own minting, aft | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 137 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 138 | `**sandbox-must-pin-the-shared-modu` | verification-lad | When a test sandboxes module-level state (paths/constants), the patch must land on the SAME modu | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 139 | `**census-the-substrate-when-a-safe` | verification-lad | A safety net (generic fallback, fail-loud branch, `unrecognized` kind) that never fires across N | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 140 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 141 | `**grounding-quoted-but-not-traced*` | Symmetria §3 fla | The hook enforces QUOTING the ratified sections; this session proved quoting ≠ tracing: the coor | Symmetria §3, or a one-line additi | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 142 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 143 | `**Symmetria §3 flag: record-assert` | Symmetria §3 fla | A session record (Addendum, brief, tracker line) composed AHEAD of its acts and asserting APPLIE | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 144 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 145 | `**re-anchor = re-verify: reconstru` | verification-lad | When re-anchoring any sha-bound artifact after an upstream edit: reconstruct the OLD bound state | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 146 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 147 | `**implement-the-relation-not-an-ap` | verification-lad | When code implements a RULED relation/contract (an equivalence relation, a gate criterion), the | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-06-13 post-clear — L1 /h |
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| 148 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | Harvest 2026-07-21 (the verify-guard complet |
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| 149 | `**seam-probe the artifact (gates t` | verification-lad | The night's two REAL defects (empty footnote defs from per-spine `-f html`; defs-after-index swa | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-21 (the verify-guard complet |
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| 150 | `**cmp-after-apply (tool-report ≠ w` | verification-lad | `strip_cruft --apply` prints its transform counts BEFORE the write decision; three distinct refu | `reference-verification-ladder.md` | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-21 (the verify-guard complet |
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| 151 | `**`convert_lane_borndigital.py` → ` | tool promotion | The one-door born-digital lane driver (whole-EPUB inject → whole-EPUB pandoc `-f epub -t markdow | `scripts/` | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-21 (the verify-guard complet |
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| 152 | ``/glyph-map-source`` | **create** | Per-source character-as-image glyph-mapping — the repeatable procedure built + proven on Levi th | 2026-07-23 (built once, 12+ repeat | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-23 (the PENDING-69/70 arc · |
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| 153 | `Item` | Kind | One-line | Origin | PROPOSED? | Harvest 2026-07-24 (evening — PENDING-71/72 |
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| 154 | `Amendment-process: **reassigned-co` | **patch** (chamb | Jurist-minted in the REVIEWED-72 ruling: *"when a change reassigns a named component, check what | 2026-07-24 (jurist-directed) | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-24 (evening — PENDING-71/72 |
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| 155 | `Chamber graduation: **build to the` | **patch** (chamb | Steward-corrected 2× this session: *"we cannot use the extant canon as precedent."* The extant c | 2026-07-24 (steward-directed) | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-24 (evening — PENDING-71/72 |
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| 156 | `Element` | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | PROPOSED? | Harvest 2026-07-24 (evening — PENDING-71/72 |
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| 157 | `chamber-library CLAUDE.md — **inte` | patch (repo CLAU | Add to §Load-bearing disciplines: *"The fleet has UNIT tests (test_tools, per-tool fixtures) but | `chamber-library/CLAUDE.md` §Load- | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-24 (evening — PENDING-71/72 |
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| 158 | `Target` | Kind | Proposal | Evidence | PROPOSED? | Harvest 2026-07-28 (morning — governance blo |
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| 159 | ``/wake-up` §2.c–2.d` | patch | Consume the SessionStart digest instead of recomputing it. `wake-digest.py` now fires at every S | Built + wired 2026-07-28; the wake | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-28 (morning — governance blo |
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| 160 | ``/wake-up` §2.a` | patch | Fix the link-resolution canary's path handling — resolve pointers against the memory file's *phy | **Second firing.** Proposed 2026-0 | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-28 (morning — governance blo |
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| 161 | ``reference-verification-ladder.md`` | new entry | "The parser defines the census." When a census counts items, the *item-definition* is itself a c | Earned hard 2026-07-28: `^## PENDI | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-28 (morning — governance blo |
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| 162 | `Target` | Kind | Proposal | Evidence | PROPOSED? | Proposed 2026-07-28 (afternoon wrap — PENDIN |
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| 163 | ``/symmetria` §3` | patch | Add the contamination flag: "an instrument whose evidence is the same kind of thing as its own s | **Four instances in one afternoon* | PROPOSED | Proposed 2026-07-28 (afternoon wrap — PENDIN |
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| 164 | ``/wrap-up` §6 / §6.5` | patch | Verify that every file a commit message names is actually staged, and that steward-authored edit | `8abfe88` claimed *"split 1848→430 | PROPOSED | Proposed 2026-07-28 (afternoon wrap — PENDIN |
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| 165 | ``~/dotfiles/scripts/`` | new script | Promote the union-losslessness verifier to `verify-union-lossless.py <baseline> <part>...` — ass | Written ad hoc in scratchpad for t | PROPOSED | Proposed 2026-07-28 (afternoon wrap — PENDIN |
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| 166 | ``/wake-up` §2.a` | patch | (Re-proposing, third firing.) Link-canary path resolution — root cause now precise, not merely r | Fired 2026-07-27, and **twice** on | PROPOSED | Proposed 2026-07-28 (afternoon wrap — PENDIN |
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| 167 | ``/wake-up`` | patch | Read the day's own Symmetria ledger when one exists for today. The wake reads `MEMORY.md` + the | 2026-07-28 (2 instances, ~10 min a | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-28 (mid-afternoon — the V-DP |
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| 168 | ``/jurist-package`` | patch | Require a mechanical verbatim-containment proof over every quoted clause, reported in the packag | 2026-07-28 (self-caught fabricatio | PROPOSED | Harvest 2026-07-28 (mid-afternoon — the V-DP |
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| 169 | `Target` | Kind | Proposal | Earned by | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-07-29 wrap — awaiting st |
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| 170 | ``/jurist-package`` | patch | Mandate a mechanical verbatim-containment proof over every quoted passage, with a positive AND n | 2026-07-29; second instance of the | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-07-29 wrap — awaiting st |
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| 171 | ``/jurist-package`` | patch | Formatting convention: ratified text = `>` blockquote; PROPOSED text = fenced block, never a blo | 2026-07-29, found incidentally by | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-07-29 wrap — awaiting st |
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| 172 | ``/wake-up` §3 (Next move)` | patch | Before executing an inherited resumption point, grep the substrate for whether its premise is al | 2026-07-29 | PROPOSED | New proposals (2026-07-29 wrap — awaiting st |
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| 173 | `Target` | Kind | Proposal | Earned by | PROPOSED? | New proposals (2026-07-29, steward-raised — |
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| 174 | ``symmetria` §4 (ledger template)` | patch | Add a standing `## What held` section — instruments that fired *prospectively*, lessons that tra | 2026-07-29, steward-raised; corrob | APPLIED 2026-08-02 (FIX lane, REVIEWED-85 batch 1) | New proposals (2026-07-29, steward-raised — |
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| 175 | ``/wrap-up` §5 (KG append)` | patch | Add a `prevention` predicate — `{subject: <banked lesson>, predicate: "prevention", object: <the | same | APPLIED 2026-08-02 (FIX lane, REVIEWED-85 batch 1) | New proposals (2026-07-29, steward-raised — |
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| 176 | ``/wake-up` §2.b.2` | patch | Surface one `prevention` alongside the drift-patterns. Currently the wake greps only `drift-patt | same | APPLIED 2026-08-02 (FIX lane, REVIEWED-85 batch 1) | New proposals (2026-07-29, steward-raised — |
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| 177 | ``symmetria` §2 / `/wrap-up` §1` | patch | Retire the self-report framing of the standing question. The 2026-07-29 literal question — *"is | 2026-07-29 | APPLIED 2026-08-02 (FIX lane, REVIEWED-85 batch 1) | New proposals (2026-07-29, steward-raised — |
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| 178 | `/fool` | create | **Build WHEN STABLE, not now.** The differently-formed-checker trial protocol, derived twice this session: withhold the ruling; pre-register grading before the run; prompt gives *form* not target (+ anti-contrarian + anti-echo clauses); `enable_thinking` ON (off produces silence, not brevity); **one variable per trial**; no standing granted to the Fool — only checkable claims get standing. Codifying it now would freeze an unstable protocol; the steward has directed next session at stabilising it. Interim home: `dotfiles/claude/governance/fool-trial-log.md`. | 2026-08-01/02, trials 01–02 | PROPOSED (build-when-stable) |
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| 179 | `wake-digest.py` | patch **[FIX-class]** | **The wake instrument silently hides open items.** `sec_pending()` drops a `PENDING-N` whenever a `REVIEWED-N` exists — **matching the number alone**, never checking the ruling is *about* that item. Numbering has drifted (REVIEWED-84 rules on PENDING-87), so **PENDING-84 was invisible at wake on the very morning the steward's pulling thread pointed at it**; closing it later produced no visible count change. Measured: 9 suppressed, 8 correctly, 1 falsely. Fix: resolve by the ruling's *subject line*, not its number. | 2026-08-01 (found at wake, surfaced not fixed) | PROPOSED |
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| 180 | `normalize_ocr.py` (chamber fleet) | patch **[FIX-class]** | **Silent degradation with no disclosure.** `dict_state` reports only the static word list, so a `--lang fr` run with **wordfreq absent** falls back to its own documented *"old, weaker behaviour"* — validating French de-hyphenations against `/usr/share/dict/words` (English) — and says nothing. §VII: *a measurement carrying a known reliability caveat states it on its own output, every time*. Fix: report wordfreq active/absent and the effective language on every run. (wordfreq installed into `~/.local/chamber-tools-venv` 2026-08-01.) | 2026-08-01 (Derrida conversion) | PROPOSED |
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| 181 | `/jurist-package` | patch | **Filing is not sending, and the skill has no step that distinguishes them.** The 2026-08-01 ESCALATE doctrine package sat filed-and-unsent for a day; the executor could not determine its state from the repository and had to ask. Add a send-state line to the package footer (`filed <date> · sent <date|not yet>`) and a §1.6-style check at wrap. Cheap, and it is the difference between a package that is waiting on the jurist and one nobody has moved. | 2026-08-02, found while packaging | PROPOSED |
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| 182 | `/jurist-package` | patch | **Require the mechanical containment proof the skill's own discipline implies.** The skill states *quote, never paraphrase* but carries no check. Built and used twice on 2026-08-02: it caught a fabricated terminal period inside a blockquote in the executor's own package (read past twice), and discharged REVIEWED-85's stated precondition where the jurist could not verify skill-file quotes itself. Tool: `dotfiles/claude/governance/check_containment.py`, positive controls mandatory. **PROPOSAL, not FIX** — this changes gate criteria, which the §1.6 hard floor reserves. Bears directly on PENDING-86 option (b), which is unruled; route with that item, not ahead of it. | 2026-08-02 | PROPOSED |
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Stroke 2 (2026-07-19) AUTHORIZED appending **all earned ladder entries** wholesale. These need EXECUTION, not a ruling — verify each against the current ladder before appending; some already landed.
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## New proposals (2026-08-02 pm wrap — the vignette build; awaiting steward)
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| # | Item | Gist | Status | Stroke | Source |
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| 1 | Revert-and-redo-smaller | Ch1's strongest working reflex we don't have: when a verification/gate fails and the cause isn't immediately visible, revert to… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L110` |
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| 2 | Two-hat commit separation | Name which hat each commit wears: a refactor commit's compiled output is byte-identical (or carries a pre-stated classified… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L111` |
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| 3 | Bad-smells → refactoring lens | Ch3's smell catalogue (Mutable/Global Data, Duplicated Code, Shotgun Surgery, Speculative Generality, Comments-as-deodorant…) as… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L112` |
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| 4 | Headless-Chrome box-model measurement | When a rendered layout differs and the cause isn't obvious, measure the box model before theorizing the mechanism. Today this… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L136` |
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| 5 | /measure-render (headless-Chrome box-model harness) | RE-FLAG — strongly earned. Proposed this morning (compass fix); the pm session ran it 4+ more times (true-advance measurement… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L143` |
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| 6 | Measure the font's true average prose advance before a character-count… | When setting a measure to a target character count, measure the font's average advance over real corpus prose (incl. spaces), not… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L144` |
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| 7 | byte-identical gate: hold/exclude volatile build-stamps | When proving a change byte-identical, a build-date/commit stamp (e.g. the colophon buildinfo/stamp) will differ between baseline… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L155` |
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| 8 | /measure-render (headless-Chrome box-model/scroll harness) | RE-REINFORCED (4th day of evidence). Proposed 2026-06-09 (compass fix) + reinforced 06-09 pm; today drove the ENTIRE §VII.f build… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L167` |
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| 9 | /model-handoff (premium-model scope charter) | When switching to an expensive/premium model (Fable 5 = 2× Opus rate; burn scales with context×session-length) for a bounded high… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L175` |
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| 10 | verification-ladder: feature-detect gates can lie | A CSS @supports(feature) (or any capability probe) can return true on a platform where the feature is non-functional — today the… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L176` |
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| 11 | verification-ladder: parse/validate machine-consumed artifacts that have… | When an artifact that humans have only ever read (a hand-authored YAML index, a config, a data file) is about to be machine… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L184` |
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| 12 | dry-run-first for bulk file operations | When a mutation touches many files at once (mass git mv, graduation, rename), build it dry-run by default and emit the full move… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L193` |
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| 13 | verification-ladder: re-verify a workflow/sub-agent's per-item dispositions… | A sub-agent or background workflow that reports a per-item verdict from a dry-run on a temp copy can be wrong on the real apply… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L203` |
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| 14 | Work-in-omnibus: verify the interior, not just the endpoints | When a sidecar/scope brackets one work out of a multi-work source by heading-to-heading boundaries, content-sample the span… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L241` |
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| 15 | CSS-mask: fill WHITE, not black (luminance-safe) | A CSS mask/-webkit-mask SVG must fill the shape white/opaque — a black-fill mask renders BLANK (the luminance-vs-alpha trap).… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L251` |
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| 16 | live-CSS-patch in site for fast in-browser iteration | To eyeball size/style options in the real browser without a full Hakyll rebuild each round, sed the value directly in site/assets… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L252` |
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| 17 | headless-Chrome element shot: scrollIntoView + full-viewport, NOT computed… | Recalibration: computed box-clips kept mis-landing on the page-top (burned several shots). The reliable element screenshot is… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L253` |
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| 18 | glyph-outline → SVG from a woff2 | Build a typographic SVG asset from the real font glyphs: fontTools SVGPathPen (path) + BoundsPen (bbox) over the woff2, y-flip… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L254` |
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| 19 | /clone-test-runtime-fix (CoW-clone + isolated-worktree harness) | When testing a runtime fix that needs real live data but must not touch the live instance: /bin/cp -c -R (APFS CoW) the live data… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L270` |
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| 20 | verification-ladder: verify the RUNNING BINARY's provenance, not just… | Before reasoning about live behaviour, verify what the running process actually executes — compiled dist/ build mtime + grep the… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L271` |
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| 21 | verification-ladder: quantify-the-removed-cost as the A/B control | When a fix removes a hot operation, the cleanest control isn't a flaky end-to-end before/after race — it's to time the exact… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L273` |
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| 22 | verification-ladder note: OCR word-guard passes on SCRAMBLED text | A verbatim word-guard that checks word PRESENCE cannot catch reading-order scrambling (2-col read across the gutter) — same… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L300` |
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| 23 | The gate itself can be PASS-BUT-FALSELY | A verifier that checks an enumerated set of cruft signatures silently passes any residue outside the set — verifyconversion… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L308` |
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| 24 | prose word-guard for faithful structure-cleaning | When a cleaner removes/reflows STRUCTURE (headings, printed titles, residue) but must preserve PROSE, gate it with a prose-only… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L310` |
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| 25 | structure-from-authoritative-ToC = one engine, two map-producers | Answer to the long-open unify question: chapter-structure recovery is ONE placement engine (insertchapterheadings: match… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L311` |
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| 26 | Symmetria §3 flag: claim-from-derived-artifact-when-the-source-is-checkable | The load-bearing harvest — jurist-elevated to STANDING PRACTICE. I trusted a derived artifact / a regex-over-derived-text over… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L338` |
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| 27 | per-claim citation verification (don't let a sub-agent's blanket "verified"… | Caught by the jurist: I cited arXiv 2605.24229 for a claim it didn't support, having let a sub-agent's aggregate "4/4 papers… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L340` |
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| 28 | verification-ladder: CI-upper-bound + drop-one-robustness = STANDARD for… | The jurist RULED (2026-07-04) that grading on the one-sided 90% Clopper-Pearson upper bound (not the point estimate) + the drop… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L357` |
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| 29 | memory/index restructure = byte-exact slice + md5-conservation + link-canary | When restructuring a memory index or any lossless-relocation of prose between files, do it as line-range slices (never retype) +… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L389` |
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| 30 | quote a long-job ETA only from an observed rate, never model-size intuition | Twice today I gave a re-embed ETA from gut ("15–45 min") and was wrong by ~30×; the steward caught it. The fix was measuring… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L410` |
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| 31 | mempalace-diagnose — RETIRE the proposal | AUTHORIZED 2026-06-05 (build-on-need). Now decorative: the steward decided (evidenced) to wind down palace-memory MemPalace.… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L412` |
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| 32 | cross-volume verify-before-delete move | Moving data across filesystems (internal→external cold archive): rsync -a → verify exact file-count match + du (NOT a byte-sum… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L421` |
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| 33 | verify at the granularity of the mutation, not the aggregate | A whole-set invariant (a document-wide word-multiset guard) can PASS while a per-item operation (a cross-note swap — a word from… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L440` |
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| 34 | re-audit coverage with the TOOL's recognizer, not the classifier that… | When a classifier and the tool it feeds share a predicate, the classifier's mis-classifications masquerade as genuine "new… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L450` |
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| 35 | extending a tool re-tests its foundations | Building an extension exercises shared machinery the original's tests never hit — so a widen's --validate should assert the… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L451` |
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| 36 | verification-ladder: retroactively re-verify everything landed under a… | The jurist's Q1b principle, proven load-bearing: a stronger check existing and NOT pointed at canon that shipped under the weaker… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L463` |
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| 37 | verification-ladder: structural safety = PROVISIONAL FIX; end-to-end proof… | The jurist's generalization after nested-block: "same risk as (a)" was true of the matching logic and silent on the rendering… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L464` |
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| 38 | split cause from magnitude before sizing a remedy | A diagnostic bucket keyed on ONE summary axis (magnitude, holds%, a deficit size) can hold heterogeneous causes — a single label… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L502` |
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| 39 | confirm-a-named-cause-by-swap-in (don't assert from identification) | When you NAME the true reference / config / cause behind an anomaly, don't assert the fix from the identification — swap the… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L503` |
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| 40 | method-class-vs-calibration | When a metric/gate fails to separate two cases, ask whether it is mis-CALIBRATED or structurally BLIND to the distinction — no… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L511` |
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| 41 | positive-test-at-the-enforcement-path over a negative-grep (bypass /… | For any "can X be bypassed?" / "is this gate skippable?" property, a negative grep proves the absence of a STRING, not the… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L527` |
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| 42 | Symmetria §3 flag / ladder: "closable-now" is itself a claim to check | The jurist named it a standing habit: the closable-vs-blocked partition on a work-list must be reviewed, not asserted — the named… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L535` |
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| 43 | ladder: reconcile against the AUTHORITATIVE source before any "closed… | Before claiming a block/scope closed or complete, reconcile against the authoritative source (the roadmap stage-1-rebuild-plan §4… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L545` |
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| 44 | governed spec-supersession procedure | Landing a ratified spec version is: cp live→-vNEW.md → bounded Edits (never retype) → diff shows ONLY intended altered lines +… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L551` |
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| 45 | verification-ladder / Symmetria §3: assert-"X is in Y" → read Y | A factual claim's grounding must reach the file that HOLDS the fact, not one that merely describes it. Earned hard 2026-07-17… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L552` |
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| 46 | implementation-is-a-second-gate | A text passed by reading is re-tested by having to act on it — the jurist's own minting, after their 07-16 miss surfaced at build… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L560` |
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| 47 | sandbox-must-pin-the-shared-module | When a test sandboxes module-level state (paths/constants), the patch must land on the SAME module object the code-under-test… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L568` |
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| 48 | census-the-substrate-when-a-safety-net-stays-silent | A safety net (generic fallback, fail-loud branch, unrecognized kind) that never fires across N real cases is UNINFORMATIVE, not… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L569` |
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| 49 | re-anchor = re-verify: reconstruct the old bound state by sha-match | When re-anchoring any sha-bound artifact after an upstream edit: reconstruct the OLD bound state from git by matching the… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L597` |
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| 50 | implement-the-relation-not-an-approximation | When code implements a RULED relation/contract (an equivalence relation, a gate criterion), the acceptance path must BE the… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L605` |
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| 51 | seam-probe the artifact (gates test claims; probes test joins) | The night's two REAL defects (empty footnote defs from per-spine -f html; defs-after-index swallowed by the trim) were invisible… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L613` |
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| 52 | cmp-after-apply (tool-report ≠ write-decision) | stripcruft --apply prints its transform counts BEFORE the write decision; three distinct refusal causes in one night (residual… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L614` |
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| 53 | Amendment-process: reassigned-component check | Jurist-minted in the REVIEWED-72 ruling: "when a change reassigns a named component, check what else names it." F4 moved the born… | PROPOSED | S2? | `archive:L631` |
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| 54 | reference-verification-ladder.md | "The parser defines the census." When a census counts items, the item-definition is itself a claim requiring its own control… | PROPOSED | S2 | `archive:L652` |
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| 55 | A | Strongly earned — three instances in one session. Every substantive vignette defect was found by rendering the artifact and… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L231` |
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| 56 | C | New method, proven today. Building Phase 1a produced nine findings about where the vignette spec fails to determine its output… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L233` |
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| 57 | verification ladder | A suspiciously UNIFORM offset is a constant masquerading as a measurement. A forward-window locator reports the window START, not… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L256` |
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| 58 | verification ladder | Pre-register the expected effect BEFORE building the change. fidelityequivalence@3's effect was filed in the jurist package as 3… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L257` |
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| 59 | verification ladder | Run the counterfactual before attributing a cause. Before claiming X causes Y, remove X and measure Y — where that is cheap and… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L274` |
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| 60 | verification ladder | 2026-08-06. The drainer exits 1 on a halted run; piped through tail, the harness recorded exit 0. A signal that existed was… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L276` |
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| 61 | verification ladder | 2026-08-07, four times in one session and not once by reading: 769 unreachable drawers (455 + 314, two unrelated causes), 2… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L297` |
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| 62 | verification ladder | 2026-08-07. Front-matter re-anchoring: nonsense keys correctly failed, so the control passed — while apatternlanguage silently… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L299` |
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| 63 | verification ladder | Never pin a derived total in a test; assert the invariant — and never let a test depend on a corpus accident. byname == 256 went… | PROPOSED | S2 | `register:L300` |
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| # | Skill / instrument | Kind | One-line | Status |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| A | **verification-ladder: render-and-LOOK outranks the check suite for any rendered output** | ladder entry | **Strongly earned — three instances in one session.** Every substantive vignette defect was found by rendering the artifact and looking; *none* by the mechanical checks, which were good checks and all passed: a field colour bound to a class no element carried (Layer 3's whole mode mapping would have inherited the panel's ink and looked correct); a hand-rolled palette violating §III's sacred-palette clause, collapsing dark-mode contrast; interval clearings reading as smudges. The general shape: **an instrument can certify a property of the *code* while the claim being made is about the *result*.** For visual/rendered work the gate is the render, and the check suite is necessary-not-sufficient. Kin to `measure-toolchain-before-spec`, one level over. | PROPOSED |
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| B | **`/measure-render` — RE-REINFORCED (5th+ instance)** | create skill | Headless-Chrome capture used again today, and this time it was *decisive* rather than diagnostic: the screenshots are what exposed the dark-mode contrast collapse and the interval smudges. Previously proposed 2026-06-09, reinforced 06-09 pm, 06-11. The pattern is now: build → emit → shoot → **read the PNG back and look at it**, which is a step a skill should carry because it is the step most easily skipped. | PROPOSED |
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| C | **Implementing a spec is a spec-audit instrument — the under-determination census** | ladder entry OR skill | New method, proven today. Building Phase 1a produced **nine findings** about where the vignette spec fails to determine its output — none findable by *reading* the spec, because from inside an implementation a silence does not feel like a decision, it feels like the obvious reading. Output shape: per finding, *what the spec says · what it under-determines · how the implementation silently resolved it*. Deliverable committed at `docs/AldineXXI-Codex/drafts/vignette-spec-under-determination-census-2026-08-02.md` as the worked exemplar. Warrant is in the spec's own Part II: *"if the visual result doesn't work, the spec needs revision before proceeding."* | PROPOSED |
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| D | **Symmetria §3 flag: applying a doctrine where it does not govern** | Symmetria §3 flag | Steward-caught today. Asked whether to send a spec to Fable, the executor reached for Constraint 6's independence framing and attached a corroboration caveat — but it was a **design** task, not a checking task, so independence never arose and the caveat was empty. The flag: **before invoking a governing principle, name the question-type it governs and check the task is that type.** A live maxim applied off-domain is the decorative failure `~/CLAUDE.md` asks us to flag, and it *feels* like rigour from inside. | PROPOSED |
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## symmetria-flag (33)
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**Applied at this wrap under the §1.6 FIX lane** (mechanical repo-CLAUDE.md freshness; classification test: changes neither executor latitude nor a governed artifact's assertion — it removes a claim the substrate contradicts; hard floor not engaged, no open item's visibility reduced): ARC `CLAUDE.md` asset-structure listed `js/ # JavaScript (theme toggle)`; the directory **does not exist** and the toggle was retired with the JS pipeline at Stage M (2026-06-01). Replaced with a note recording the retirement. Indexed in `skill-harvest-fix-lane-index.md`.
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Stroke 1 (2026-07-19) consolidated four flags into the skill and explicitly did NOT promote a named list. Rows here need a per-row check against Symmetria §3 as it now stands before they are treated as open.
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| # | Item | Gist | Status | Stroke | Source |
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| 1 | Symmetria §3 flag: theorize-before-measuring-a-layout | The drift this caught, as a standing flag: a causal story about why a layout renders as it does, asserted before the rendered box… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L137` |
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| 2 | check-for-governed-tooling-before-building | Before hand-rolling infrastructure (a PDF preamble, a build script, a template), grep the repo for an existing governed version.… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L154` |
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| 3 | Symmetria §3 flag: inherited-marker-read-as-current-state | A status/marker inherited from a RECORD (a selector-index entry, a tracker line, a "-pending" file, a prior framing) asserted as… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L166` |
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| 4 | Symmetria §3 flag: census-through-a-pattern | A filter/regex used to count or partition a set can silently mis-match and the count reads as authoritative. Today grep -iE 'LOG'… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L194` |
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| 5 | Symmetria §3 flag: solve-the-constraint-by-discarding-the-value | A "fix" that satisfies a stated constraint by removing the thing the constraint was protecting is contamination shape — it… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L202` |
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| 6 | Symmetria §3 flag: assert presence/absence from a fuzzy matcher, not the… | A presence/absence claim produced by a fuzzy/token matcher (filename tokens, embeddings, author-surname overlap) treated as fact… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L211` |
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| 7 | Symmetria §3 flag: probe-confirms-hypothesis | A query/test I constructed to match my hypothesis, whose result I then read as confirming the hypothesis rather than testing… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L272` |
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| 8 | Symmetria §3 flag: diagnose-inference/latency-without-isolating-the-exact… | The load-bearing harvest. When a network/inference call is slow, the FIRST test must be the isolated one: stop the competing load… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L281` |
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| 9 | Symmetria §3 flag: reinvent-governed-DESIGN-without-reading-the-spec | Proposed PENDING-41 (consumer-hardware graceful degradation) as a novel architectural direction when local-inference-spec 43L/43M… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L282` |
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| 10 | Symmetria §3 flag: finding-scoped-to-one-condition restated as… | A result true under a specific condition, restated as an unconditional rule, is contamination shape. Caught 2026-06-28: the… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L309` |
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| 11 | Symmetria §3 flag: tool-creep-into-substrate (name genome-or-phenotype… | A convenience tool proposed for one job silently becoming the durable substrate (the source of truth) is contamination shape — it… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L319` |
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| 12 | Symmetria §3 flag: graduated-with-a-flagged-gap-instead-of-resolved | Letting "honestly flagged" substitute for "resolved" — shipping a known-incomplete text because the hole is marked. Contamination… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L329` |
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| 13 | Symmetria §3 flag: re-derived-instructions-instead-of-citing-the-governed… | Wrote agents hand-made instructions (and invented fields) instead of pointing them at conversion-runbook.yaml/the spec — the… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L330` |
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| 14 | Symmetria §3 flag: reassuring-verb-before-verifying-the-mechanism | Reaching for a comforting characterization ("self-healed", "fine", "recovered", "handled") before verifying the actual mechanism… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L411` |
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| 15 | classify a change by MECHANISM, not by how big it feels | Reflexively labeled the recognizer generalization "PROPOSAL" because it felt large; the jurist's own FIX/PROPOSAL test (does it… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L452` |
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| 16 | Symmetria §3 flag: lost-the-forest-in-a-long-execution-arc | A long, productive execution session that costs the whole-program altitude is contamination shape (composition-over-consideration… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L465` |
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| 17 | check-the-register-before-a-substantial-build | Before starting substantial INFRA/tool building (a converter, a pipeline, a substrate), read the tooling-register + landscape… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L471` |
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| 18 | Symmetria §3 flag: a check proven for one tier/case is NOT proven for… | Reusing a verification method across a boundary it wasn't demonstrated on is contamination shape — the V-TEXT k-gram coverage… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L484` |
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| 19 | Symmetria §3 flag: soft-classification-where-a-checkable-claim-was-available | Shipping a soft label ("this is reordering", "magnitude unresolved", "apparatus") when a CHECKABLE claim (a reportable number, a… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L494` |
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| 20 | Symmetria §3 flag: answer-from-training-before-checking-the-banked-record | Answering an architecture/tooling/citation question — or proposing a tool/approach — from training memory before grepping the… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L519` |
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| 21 | Symmetria §3 flag: convert-a-steward-state-into-a-process-weakening | A proposal that converts an observed steward STATE (fatigue, "has carried a lot," being busy) into a weakening of the review… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L528` |
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| 22 | grounding-quoted-but-not-traced | The hook enforces QUOTING the ratified sections; this session proved quoting ≠ tracing: the coordinate-contract package quoted… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L581` |
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| 23 | Symmetria §3 flag: record-asserts-applied-before-the-act | A session record (Addendum, brief, tracker line) composed AHEAD of its acts and asserting APPLIED/DONE is contamination shape… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L589` |
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| 24 | /symmetria §3 | Add the contamination flag: "an instrument whose evidence is the same kind of thing as its own source." A text search cannot… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L658` |
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| 25 | /wake-up | Read the day's own Symmetria ledger when one exists for today. The wake reads MEMORY.md + the session file + the KG, but never… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L681` |
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| 26 | symmetria §4 (ledger template) | Add a standing ## What held section — instruments that fired prospectively, lessons that transferred to a failure class they were… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L702` |
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| 27 | symmetria §2 / /wrap-up §1 | Retire the self-report framing of the standing question. The 2026-07-29 literal question — "is there any instrument I built… | PROPOSED | S1? | `archive:L705` |
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| 28 | D | Steward-caught today. Asked whether to send a spec to Fable, the executor reached for Constraint 6's independence framing and… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L234` |
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| 29 | Symmetria §3 flag: the-fix-for-an-overclaim-is-an-overclaim-candidate | When you repair an overclaim, the replacement inherits the frame that produced the original. Replacing the engine's "genuine… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L247` |
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| 30 | Widen assert-from-derivation-not-substrate with the null-result case | A null from an instrument you have not positive-controlled is a fact about your instrument, not about the world. Probed… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L248` |
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| 31 | /wake-up §4 | Do not print the Symmetria line unless Symmetria was invoked. This wake's briefing ended "Symmetria active. Practice of return… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L258` |
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| 32 | Symmetria §3 flag | A record asserting that a control is ABSENT is load-bearing, and must be verified like any other claim — it is the note that… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L275` |
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| 33 | Symmetria §3 flag | 2026-08-07, 3 of 3 new checkers: the R0 validator failed six healthy sources and the tempting repair was editing the reading… | PROPOSED | S1? | `register:L298` |
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## patch (28)
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Skill/instrument patches. Each needs a ruling.
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| 1 | /wrap-up §5 | Palace-fully-derived, part 1: mirror every kgadd/kginvalidate made at wrap into the session memory file (one line each), so KG… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L100` |
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| 2 | /wake-up (new step or §2 check) | Wake canary: seconds-cheap probe at wake — every MEMORY.md pointer + [[link]] resolves to an existing memory file; flag dead… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L102` |
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| 3 | spec↔spec coherence dimension | The 2026-06-10 audit found §I.f-class contradictions — the measure (38→27.2rem) un-propagated across silence-and-rhythm/apparatus… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L152` |
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| 4 | /wake-up patch — surface the why when the thread touches the engine's… | When the active workstream is studium-engine / The Making / ARC-as-public-proof (the engine's reason-for-being), /wake-up should… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L262` |
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| 5 | /wrap-up §4.a | The §4.a drawer-filing step instructs passing tags: to mempalaceadddrawer — the tool rejects it (MCP error -32602: Unknown… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L349` |
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| 6 | Chamber graduation: build to the constitution, not to a legacy canonical | Steward-corrected 2× this session: "we cannot use the extant canon as precedent." The extant canon is a pre-constitution/pre… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L632` |
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| 7 | chamber-library CLAUDE.md — integration-test-gap discipline | Add to §Load-bearing disciplines: "The fleet has UNIT tests (testtools, per-tool fixtures) but NO integration test — nothing runs… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L640` |
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| 8 | /wake-up §2.c–2.d | Consume the SessionStart digest instead of recomputing it. wake-digest.py now fires at every SessionStart and already emits… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L650` |
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| 9 | /wake-up §2.a | Fix the link-resolution canary's path handling — resolve pointers against the memory file's physical directory… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L651` |
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| 10 | /wrap-up §6 / §6.5 | Verify that every file a commit message names is actually staged, and that steward-authored edits are committed — not just… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L659` |
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| 11 | /wake-up §2.a | (Re-proposing, third firing.) Link-canary path resolution — root cause now precise, not merely reproduced: the memory dir's… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L661` |
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| 12 | /jurist-package | Require a mechanical verbatim-containment proof over every quoted clause, reported in the package. The skill already says "Quote… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L682` |
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| 13 | /jurist-package | Mandate a mechanical verbatim-containment proof over every quoted passage, with a positive AND negative control, as a required… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L692` |
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| 14 | /jurist-package | Formatting convention: ratified text = > blockquote; PROPOSED text = fenced block, never a blockquote. The containment checker… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L693` |
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| 15 | /wake-up §3 (Next move) | Before executing an inherited resumption point, grep the substrate for whether its premise is already settled. Today's inherited… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L694` |
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| 16 | /wrap-up §5 (KG append) | Add a prevention predicate — {subject: <banked lesson>, predicate: "prevention", object: <the failure it stopped, and where>}.… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L703` |
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| 17 | /wake-up §2.b.2 | Surface one prevention alongside the drift-patterns. Currently the wake greps only drift-pattern, so the session opens by re… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L704` |
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| 18 | wake-digest.py | The wake instrument silently hides open items. secpending() drops a PENDING-N whenever a REVIEWED-N exists — matching the number… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L222` |
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| 19 | normalizeocr.py (chamber fleet) | Silent degradation with no disclosure. dictstate reports only the static word list, so a --lang fr run with wordfreq absent falls… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L223` |
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| 20 | /jurist-package | Filing is not sending, and the skill has no step that distinguishes them. The 2026-08-01 ESCALATE doctrine package sat filed-and… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L224` |
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| 21 | /jurist-package | Require the mechanical containment proof the skill's own discipline implies. The skill states quote, never paraphrase but carries… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L225` |
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| 22 | /jurist-package | Require reading the clauses ADJACENT to every quote, and stating in the package that you did. Strongly earned and jurist-caught… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L255` |
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| 23 | governance-mcp / doc-access generally | A document whose head is superseded must disclose that at the point of access. The chamber constitution's first ~330 lines are… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L259` |
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| 24 | /jurist-package | When a quoted source cannot be mechanically containment-checked (PDF, image, external URL, anything the prover cannot read), the… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L265` |
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| 25 | /wake-up §1 | When the wake digest reports a state that contradicts another line of the same digest, name the contradiction as unreconciled… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L266` |
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| 26 | /wrap-up §1 | A tracker with two update surfaces drifts between them. When updating a canonical tracker, append to its chronological log, not… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L277` |
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| 27 | /wake-up + general | 2026-08-06. Was one keystroke from asking the steward to invent questions for the corpus, while corpus/chavruta-ground-truth.yaml… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L278` |
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| 28 | /jurist-package | 2026-08-07. The amendment was pasted OVER REVIEWED-87's original entry; the amendment's own Amends: REVIEWED-87 then pointed at a… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L296` |
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## skill-create (13)
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New skills. Stroke 3 ruled several by name (S3).
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| # | Item | Gist | Status | Stroke | Source |
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| 1 | bmf-diagnose | Today WAS that need and the method is proven+fresh: process sample → log pattern census (uniq -c histogram) → SIGUSR1→CDP CPU… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L94` |
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| 2 | /version-essay | The ADR-005 essay-versioning procedure, derived from essay-versioning-specification.md this session: when a published essay gets… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L250` |
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| 3 | /graduate-chamber-source (the /convert- family the runbook already plans) | Codify the now-PROVEN OCR→canonical→graduation pipeline as a single governed discipline, so the next source (Alexander 1–4, then… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L290` |
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| 4 | /graduate-chamber-source (already PROPOSED 06-26/27) | Now carries the full EPUB path (structurefromncx→insertchapterheadings→cleanpandochtmlresidue, used when repairepubheadings… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L307` |
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| 5 | /graduate-chamber-source (proposed 06-26/27/28) | The empirical spec is complete AND the rail it needs now exists (graduation-spec.yaml + verifygraduation.py + graduate-tool… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L327` |
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| 6 | /spec-amendment (the RFC-supersession amendment process) | The now-RATIFIED chamber amendment process as a codified discipline: normative spec change = a superseding version (Obsoletes… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L339` |
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| 7 | CLAUDE.md staleness canary (git tripwire) | If the scripts/ set or graduation-spec.yaml changed but CLAUDE.md didn't since, flag "may be stale." Bounded, low-false-positive… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L381` |
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| 8 | /reconcile-open-work (program forest-view register) | The practice proven twice now (ARC open-work register, then the whole Chamber→Gold→Engine register today): when tracking has… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L462` |
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| 9 | /jurist-package (create) | Draft a self-contained jurist package for a repo-blind reviewer: inline the ratified spec clauses verbatim (jurist gates the… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L544` |
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| 10 | /glyph-map-source | Per-source character-as-image glyph-mapping — the repeatable procedure built + proven on Levi this session (REVIEWED-70/v2.5.0)… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L623` |
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| 11 | /fool | Build WHEN STABLE, not now. The differently-formed-checker trial protocol, derived twice this session: withhold the ruling; pre… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L221` |
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| 12 | B | Headless-Chrome capture used again today, and this time it was decisive rather than diagnostic: the screenshots are what exposed… | PROPOSED | S3 | `register:L232` |
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| 13 | /census — the pre-registered instrument census | Strongly earned: two runs, ten days apart, both productive, and in BOTH the pre-registration caught a reversal the run would… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L246` |
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## feedback-memory (9)
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Proposed feedback memories.
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| # | Item | Gist | Status | Stroke | Source |
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| 1 | /wake-up §2.b | Until upstream #1665 closes: wake searches run unscoped + post-filter by wing (wing-scoped mempalacesearch errors at HEAD).… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L101` |
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| 2 | ARC build has NO autoprefixer — hand-write -webkit- prefixes | ARC's plain-sass build adds no vendor prefixes. When introducing a new CSS property, check Safari's prefix need and hand-write… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L145` |
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| 3 | Justification-judgment bar = Bringhurst even-colour/rivers, NOT Rutter… | Load-bearing for the future justification decision: when living with the soft rag to judge whether to justify, ask "is the colour… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L146` |
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| 4 | container-must-embody-the-contained | When producing an ARTIFACT of a spec (a PDF of the spec, a rendered sample), set it per the spec's OWN rules and verify the… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L153` |
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| 5 | clean cruft at the SOURCE layer, not as a downstream transform | When a source carries conversion cruft (EPUB footnote-links, image-scan embeds), clean it at the SOURCE — producing a new… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L185` |
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| 6 | /wrap-up §4.b/§5 | Inline reminder at the KG-write step: kgadd object hard-caps at 128 chars — write short keyword objects on the FIRST pass (detail… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L235` |
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| 7 | studium-engine tool-evolution-log | Establish the analog of chamber-library/curation/tool-evolution-log.md for the engine tools (patternfinder, ingestgate, chunker… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L242` |
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| 8 | draft governance entries copy-paste-CLEAN | When drafting PENDING/REVIEWED entries for the steward to place, format them as clean copy-paste-ready blocks with plain ##… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L534` |
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| 9 | /wake-up patch — a tracker marked THE GOVERNING FRAME is read ENTIRE, not… | Earned at a measured cost of ten days. MEMORY.md carries "[Chamber as versioned releases] — THE GOVERNING FRAME for all library… | PROPOSED | — | `register:L249` |
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## other (8)
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Notes, tool promotions, and rows that resist bucketing.
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| 1 | /graduate-chamber-source (already PROPOSED 06-26) | Its empirical spec is now the full ocrmac column-aware pipeline, not the olmOCR one: render→ocrmac(per-line bbox/conf)→column… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L298` |
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| 2 | 2 research sweeps owed (not skills — project tasks) | The engine's signature capabilities are greenfield: (1) genealogy/temporal/citation-graph/KG-augmented/diachronic-NLP; (2) multi… | UNMARKED | — | `archive:L301` |
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| 3 | /spec-amendment (proposed 2026-07-03, DEFERRED-until-first-use) | The 2026-07-03/04 v2.0 drafting IS its first real exercise — the empirical spec now exists. Codify the proven procedure so the… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L348` |
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| 4 | /model-handoff (premium-model scope-charter) | Used tonight end-to-end: produced studium-engine/docs/stage-1-replan-scope-charter-2026-07-05.md on Opus (§0 discipline / §1… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L358` |
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| 5 | /model-handoff (proposed 2026-06-12; reinforced 07-04 eve) | Tonight was the first time the pattern ran END-TO-END as designed: fresh Fable-5 session woke into the scope-charter, read only… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L366` |
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| 6 | /model-handoff (premium-model scope charter) | Proposed 2026-06-12; this session built a full scope charter with the discipline (charter-on-Opus → Fable spends premium tokens… | PROPOSED | S3 | `archive:L420` |
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| 7 | convertlaneborndigital.py → fleet promotion | The one-door born-digital lane driver (whole-EPUB inject → whole-EPUB pandoc -f epub -t markdown-smart + non-empty-defs teeth)… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L615` |
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| 8 | ~/dotfiles/scripts/ | Promote the union-losslessness verifier to verify-union-lossless.py <baseline> <part>... — asserts baseline ⊆ union of parts at… | PROPOSED | — | `archive:L660` |
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**Noticed, not fixed (needs steward/jurist — vignette Phase 4 scope):** `vignette-specification.md` Part II Phase 4 prescribes moving `assets/js/glyphs/` to `assets/js/glyphs-archived/`; that tree no longer exists, so part of the quarantine phase is already moot. And `AldineXXI-specification.md` §IX still says genomes are *"Generated by a local model via Ollama"*, which the companion superseded (Part II, *Engine evolution*). Both recorded in the under-determination census; §IX is sealed-spec.
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## New proposals (2026-08-04 evening wrap — census 02 + the engine's first questions)
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## New proposals (2026-08-07 evening wrap — retrieval is set by home; awaiting steward)
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| Element | Kind | One-line | Where it lands | Status |
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| **`/census` — the pre-registered instrument census** | **create** | **Strongly earned: two runs, ten days apart, both productive, and in BOTH the pre-registration caught a reversal the run would otherwise have banked comfortably.** Method: pre-register question + unit of census + the test applied + numbered predictions *with confidences* + a discrimination condition (what result would mean the census discriminated nothing) + stopping rule → run entire, no sampling → **grade the predictions**. Census 01's lenience clause converted a pleasant miss into the real finding; census 02's condition forced the "both buckets populated" check and its prediction-5 inversion *was* the result. Also carries the two-axis discipline (engagement vs record) that kept "it works" and "we can tell it works" from collapsing. | new `/census` skill | PROPOSED |
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| **Symmetria §3 flag: `the-fix-for-an-overclaim-is-an-overclaim-candidate`** | Symmetria §3 flag | When you repair an overclaim, **the replacement inherits the frame that produced the original.** Replacing the engine's *"genuine silence, not a gap"* with *"the index is complete and current"* reproduced the identical defect one size down — "complete" is true of document coverage and unverified of query-matching, and a reader without that distinction collapses the two exactly as the engine did. Caught by the jurist, not by me. **Re-reading a replacement as a stranger is a separate act from writing it**, and it is the act that gets skipped because the repair feels like the careful part. | Symmetria §3 | PROPOSED |
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| **Widen `assert-from-derivation-not-substrate` with the null-result case** | Symmetria §3 patch | A **null** from an instrument you have not positive-controlled is a fact about your instrument, not about the world. Probed `resolve_archived_source` with *engine* `source_id`s against the *chamber's* `canonical_slug` key space; got `None` three times **including the nonsense control** — which should have been the tell — and was one sentence from reporting a healthy 349/349 resolver dead. The existing flag covers asserting *presence* from a derived form; it does not name **asserting absence from an un-controlled probe**, which is the more seductive half because a null feels like an observation rather than a claim. | Symmetria §3 (widen the existing consolidated flag) | PROPOSED |
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| **`/wake-up` patch — a tracker marked THE GOVERNING FRAME is read ENTIRE, not as its pointer** | patch | **Earned at a measured cost of ten days.** `MEMORY.md` carries *"[Chamber as versioned releases] — **THE GOVERNING FRAME for all library work.** Scope every library bite through this"* — and the file itself held the resolution to the paralysis the steward named at this wrap (*purpose choice and corpus scope are ONE decision, not sequential*), written 2026-07-28 and unopened since. The index entry cannot carry a reframe; only the file can. Proposal: where a tracker line declares itself governing, `/wake-up` opens the file rather than trusting the one-liner — the same logic as the telos-conditional already wired in §2.a. Kin to `feedback-resurface-banked-notes-before-rederiving`, one level up: not *re-deriving* a banked note but *never opening* it. | `/wake-up` §2.a | PROPOSED |
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*First batch filed under the REVIEWED-95 firing-moment gate. Each declares where and when it fires; the gate's own test is whether that declaration changes the routing — and for #191 it did, moving it off a 14% home onto an 83% one.*
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## New proposals (2026-08-05 wrap — the quoted-tier measurement; awaiting steward)
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| # | Target | Kind | Proposal | **Firing moment (declared)** | Earned by | Status |
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| 190 | Symmetria §3 | new flag | **An elegant discriminator that explains the data is not thereby licensed to act on it.** When a rule accounts for nearly all of a set, the pull to skip the per-item look is strongest exactly when the rule feels cleanest. Before executing a classification across many items, read the items the rule is about to dispose of. | **`/symmetria check`**, before any bulk move/delete/reclassification. Symmetria was invoked **56/64 sessions**, so §3 is a genuine high-retrieval home — routed here rather than to a skill. | 2026-08-07. symlink-vs-real-dir explained 61 of 63 skills and was about to be executed wholesale; it was wrong for the 2 that were the steward's own (`french-typography-pass`, `spec-code-audit`). 97% right, and the 3% were what mattered. | PROPOSED |
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| 191 | `feedback-tool-review-after-each-use.md` | **patch** (extend an existing memory, not a new entry) | Add: **census where an instrument LOOKS versus where the thing it hunts actually lives.** A detector that is correct everywhere it looks, and does not look where the quarry is, reports clean forever. | **After each tool run** — the parent rule's existing moment. Lives in `MEMORY.md` (**83%** reach) rather than the ladder (**14%**), *because the gate asked*: as a standalone ladder entry it would have been filed at one-sixth the retrieval. | 2026-08-07. `governance-drift-check.py`'s deferral scan globbed only `*/docs/**/*.md`, so `claude/governance/` — where governance packages live — was invisible to it. Found by *using* the instrument to wire PENDING-112's falsifier, not by reading it. | PROPOSED |
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| Target | Kind | Proposal | Earned by | PROPOSED? |
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| `/jurist-package` | patch | **Require reading the clauses ADJACENT to every quote, and stating in the package that you did.** Strongly earned and jurist-caught: PENDING-99's Grounding quoted §II.3 verbatim, passed containment 16/16 with 9/9 controls absent — and omitted the sentence *one line later* (*"What remains genuinely open… the marker's exact syntax"*) that dissolved the whole question. It was in the executor's own read output. **A containment proof passes an omission every time, because nothing is misquoted.** The limit is now written into `check_containment.py`'s docstring; the *procedural* half belongs in the skill. Add to the Grounding step: quote the clause, read its neighbours, and record "adjacent clauses read" beside the containment line. | 2026-08-05, jurist-caught on first substrate access | PROPOSED |
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| verification ladder | new entry | **A suspiciously UNIFORM offset is a constant masquerading as a measurement.** A forward-window locator reports the window START, not the match location — so it returns the window size as an offset. Shipped twice in one session (Δ−30, then Δ−25) before the definition was fixed; the truth was Δ−1. The tell was not a failing test — no test covered it — but that the number was identical across every hit. Sibling of `count-first-then-look`. Rule: when an offset/delta is constant across independent items, suspect the instrument before the data. | 2026-08-05, twice in one session | PROPOSED |
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| verification ladder | new entry | **Pre-register the expected effect BEFORE building the change.** `fidelity_equivalence@3`'s effect was filed in the jurist package as 3/17→6/17 before any code existed; the post-build measurement returned exactly 6/17. Had the number been computed first and reported second, a partially-correct implementation would have been indistinguishable from a correct one, because whatever it produced would have become the claim. The census pre-registration discipline, transferred from audits to code changes. | 2026-08-05, applied and held | PROPOSED |
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| `/wake-up` §4 | patch **[candidate FIX]** | **Do not print the Symmetria line unless Symmetria was invoked.** This wake's briefing ended *"Symmetria active. Practice of return foregrounded"* and Symmetria was never invoked; no ledger exists for the day. The claim was output, not act — the decorative-maxim failure `~/CLAUDE.md` asks be flagged, occurring inside the instrument whose job is to foreground the practice. Either invoke in the same step that prints the line, or print what is true. **Classified PROPOSED not FIX**: it changes what the executor must DO at wake, not only what it records, so the two-clause test routes it to the loop. | 2026-08-05, self-caught at wrap | PROPOSED |
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| `governance-mcp` / doc-access generally | patch | **A document whose head is superseded must disclose that at the point of access.** The chamber constitution's first ~330 lines are obsoleted version headers; a default `limit=400` read lands entirely inside them. Granting access without disclosure would have *caused* the misruling the access exists to prevent. Handled here by putting the warning in the key's own description plus a negative control proving the trap is real. Generalize: any enumerated document whose operative content does not start at line 1 carries the offset in its description. | 2026-08-05, caught while building PENDING-86 (a) | PROPOSED |
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**Classification:** both `[PROPOSAL]`, neither FIX-lane — each changes what the executor must do before acting (the latitude clause of the two-clause test). **No FIX-lane changes were applied this session.** The `/wake-up`, `/wrap-up` and `governance-drift-check.py` edits were all implementations of REVIEWED-95, not self-tending.
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## New proposals (2026-08-05 evening wrap — the PENDING-101 research pass; awaiting steward)
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| 178 | `/jurist-package` | patch | **When a quoted source cannot be mechanically containment-checked (PDF, image, external URL, anything the prover cannot read), the package MUST declare the gap explicitly, name the quotations it covers, and give per-quote locators so the jurist can demand the original.** Today's package rests its most consequential finding (Part II) entirely on eight quotations from a PDF that `check_containment.py` cannot read — so the load-bearing quotes carry *no* mechanical proof while the incidental ones carry 17/17. I declared this voluntarily; the skill does not require it, and the next package may not. | 2026-08-05 — INC-2026-07-28-01 package. The asymmetry is the point: containment silently covers what is easy to check and not what decides. | PROPOSED |
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| 179 | `/wake-up` §1 | patch | **When the wake digest reports a state that contradicts another line of the same digest, name the contradiction as unreconciled rather than choosing a reading.** Today's digest reported *"PREVIOUS SESSION DID NOT WRAP (ended ~Aug 04 19:43)"* alongside *"Last wrap: 1 min ago"*. Both cannot describe one session; the digest could report the fact and not reconcile it. I named it, but nothing in the skill required that, and the tempting move — silently picking the reading that fits — is the failure. | 2026-08-05 wake. Also the observable surface of PENDING-104 (concurrent sessions, no detector), so the patch is cheap evidence-gathering for a filed finding. | PROPOSED |
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**Classification note:** both are `[PROPOSAL]`, not FIX-lane. #178 changes what a governed artifact (a jurist package) must assert — the assertion clause of the two-clause test. #179 is borderline (it *adds* visibility rather than narrowing it, so the hard floor is not hit), but the lane is provisional and the skill's own instruction is *when in doubt, propose*.
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## New proposals (2026-08-06 wrap — the note that said it could not happen; awaiting steward)
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| 180 | verification ladder | new entry | **Run the counterfactual before attributing a cause.** Before claiming X causes Y, remove X and measure Y — where that is cheap and available. Not "is the mechanism plausible" but "does the effect survive the cause's removal." | 2026-08-06. Attributed a 3.11 s hook tax to a 10,485-item backlog and "fixed" it by parking the queue. Latency after: **3.11 s, unchanged.** One command would have refuted it before the claim. | PROPOSED |
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| 181 | Symmetria §3 flag | new flag | **A record asserting that a control is ABSENT is load-bearing, and must be verified like any other claim — it is the note that stops future checking.** Sibling of `comments-promising-behavior`, but inverted and more dangerous: a doc that *overstates* a gate invites scrutiny; a doc that *denies* one closes the question. | 2026-08-06. `project-L1-reliability.md:45` said "⚠ No KeepAlive"; the plist has carried `KeepAlive{SuccessfulExit:false}` since 2026-03-07. The 08-04 kill therefore restarted BMF; it ran 1 d 20 h and **neither party looked, because the record said it could not happen.** | PROPOSED |
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| 182 | verification ladder | new entry | **A piped command masks its exit code.** `script \| tail` returns `tail`'s status. When a script's exit code carries the verdict, do not pipe it — or read `PIPESTATUS`. | 2026-08-06. The drainer exits 1 on a halted run; piped through `tail`, the harness recorded **exit 0**. A signal that existed was discarded — the day's own theme, in the invocation. | PROPOSED |
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| 183 | `/wrap-up` §1 | patch | **A tracker with two update surfaces drifts between them.** When updating a canonical tracker, append to its **chronological log**, not only its "Current state" section — or state explicitly that no substantive move occurred. | 2026-08-06. `project-L1-reliability.md` had **no 2026-08-04 entry** in its log, though 08-04 produced PENDING-92/93/94 and the session's central finding. Only "Current state" was touched. Found two days later, by accident. | PROPOSED |
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| 184 | `/wake-up` + general | patch | **Before asking the steward to supply inputs, check whether the repo already holds them.** One level past `resurface-banked-notes-before-rederiving`: not re-deriving a banked *note* but re-sourcing banked *material*. | 2026-08-06. Was one keystroke from asking the steward to invent questions for the corpus, while `corpus/chavruta-ground-truth.yaml` held **27 real queries with audited answers** from his own hand-run chavruta. The steward caught it with four words. | PROPOSED |
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**Classification note:** all five `[PROPOSAL]`, none FIX-lane. 180/181/182 add ladder/flag entries but each changes what the executor must *do* before asserting (the latitude clause). 183/184 change skill procedure. Lane is provisional; when in doubt, propose.
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## 2026-08-06 evening — three verification-ladder entries (PROPOSED; queue with the Stroke-2 batch)
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*No skill created, patched or retired this session. The steward re-explained nothing a skill could have carried — what he supplied was domain knowledge from a printed book, which no skill can hold. Recording that as the honest outcome rather than manufacturing a change.*
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- **`a-better-than-baseline-result-earns-the-same-scrutiny-as-a-worse-one`** — the parse fix turned B11 from "returned citations" into a correct decline, which looked like the fix *removing* a false positive. Chasing why (re-running `git HEAD`'s own code) showed the improvement was not real: B11 had always declined, and yesterday's measurement doc had recorded it wrongly, along with "0 empties — the warrant machinery was never exercised." A result that flatters the change is a claim like any other. **Earned 2026-08-06; it corrected a filed measurement and regraded a pre-registered prediction from UNTESTED.**
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- **`read-the-consumer-before-editing-a-declarative-field`** — kin to the banked `read-the-gate's-decision-code-before-designing-its-consumer`, one level over: before changing a *declaration* (`sidecar: none-yet`), read what branches on it. Doing so converted a wrong claim ("N1 would skip two sources" — false; `chunker.load_sidecar()` reads the file and ignores the field) into the real finding: `ingest_gate.py:142` only fires "required but absent" when the declaration says `required`, so the stale value is a **disarmed tripwire** — harmless while the files exist, silent the moment one is deleted. **Census-01's decay-not-construction finding, instantiated.**
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- **`census-by-content-volume-not-by-marker-count`** — "240 patterns have ≥3 chunks between headings" did not establish 240 pattern *bodies*; an index or TOC produces the same signal. Re-measured by characters per span (median 4,810, zero stubs) it did. Counting markers answers a question about markup; counting content answers the question asked. **Earned twice in one exchange** — the same slip underlay reading a usage note as a bibliographic claim.
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## New proposals (2026-08-07 wrap — the count found what the read did not; awaiting steward)
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| 185 | `/jurist-package` | patch **[strongly earned — cost a governance record]** | **Every placement draft MUST carry an explicit anchor line: *insert above/below this exact existing line; replace nothing*.** A block headed `## REVIEWED-87 — AMENDMENT 2026-08-07` and described as "the block to place" reads as a replacement heading, and the steward's reading of it was the reasonable one. | 2026-08-07. The amendment was pasted OVER REVIEWED-87's original entry; the amendment's own `**Amends:** REVIEWED-87` then pointed at a record no longer in the file. Recovered from git; the register entry uniquely held Q2's reframing, Q3 REJECTED + basis, Q5 CONCUR, and the finding that "the decisive sentence was one the executor had read and not surfaced". A detector now exists (drift-check 8) but the *cause* was the handoff format. | PROPOSED |
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| 186 | verification ladder | new entry | **Compare the count to the source-of-truth count.** For any derived collection, assert `len(derived) == len(authority)` before believing it is a view rather than a sample. | 2026-08-07, **four times in one session and not once by reading**: 769 unreachable drawers (455 + 314, two unrelated causes), 2 clauses lost in the MEMORY.md trim, 3-of-253 adapter divergence, and each partition's drawer delta. Every one invisible to careful reading of the same code. | PROPOSED |
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| 187 | Symmetria §3 flag | new flag | **FAIL-BUT-FALSELY — a freshly-built checker reporting a failure may be reporting its OWN fault.** Look at *what* it flags, not *how many*. Worse than PASS-BUT-FALSELY because a false failure prompts action **on the data**. | 2026-08-07, **3 of 3 new checkers**: the R0 validator failed six healthy sources and the tempting repair was editing the reading indices to satisfy it (a §V Tier-3 violation via an instrument bug); the name-matcher gave 2 wrong answers of 5 *while its positive control passed*; the link canary's 11 "dead pointers" were 9 regex artifacts. | PROPOSED |
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| 188 | verification ladder | new entry | **A positive control that tests only ABSENCE cannot catch MIS-RESOLUTION.** Where a check resolves *which* item, the control must include a near-miss that should resolve differently — not only a nonsense input that should resolve to nothing. | 2026-08-07. Front-matter re-anchoring: nonsense keys correctly failed, so the control passed — while `a_pattern_language` silently resolved to the repeated title block (L15) instead of the essay (L102), and `choosing_a_language` failed on a longer heading. Fixed by conjoining name + heading level + containment + declared order, with a reversed-order control that fails 4/4. | PROPOSED |
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| 189 | verification ladder | new entry | **Never pin a derived total in a test; assert the invariant — and never let a test depend on a corpus accident.** `by_name == 256` went red on legitimate growth. Separately, the no-sidecar-fallback test leaned on one source *happening* to lack a sidecar; giving it one removed the last such source, so the path whose absence cost 314 unreachable drawers became unexercised — **silently**. Drive the code path directly and report an honest skip. | 2026-08-07, both within one hour of each other. | PROPOSED |
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**Reinforcement, not a new filing:** "a mention is not a retrieval — count the access, never the name" is the existing `census-by-mechanism-not-proxy` rule, hit again (the ladder read as 53/64 by filename mention; 9/64 by actual tool-call access, because `MEMORY.md`'s pointer line contains the filename and loads every wake). Recorded in the KG; no register row, because the rule already exists and already fires.
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