session 2026-06-17: cul-de-lampe shipped (ARC) + Levi base settled — session memory, open-work A2→DONE/B5, skill-harvest /version-essay

claude/memory/project-arc-open-work-register.md

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 ## A — Open build work (the two undesigned-SVG-asset items the spec names but never realized)
 
 - **A1. Vignette (F+1) — the big remaining build.** `[OPEN]` **[verified]** — 0 `.vignette` rules in compiled CSS, nothing rendered. Spec ready: `vignette-specification.md` (revised 2026-06-07, PENDING-31; build-time SVG+CSS renderer, Phase-α engine, zero-JS, AldineXXI §IX). Brief: `drafts/vignette-spec-revision-brief-2026-05-28.md`. The largest open build; the steward named it as "the big thing left."
-- **A2. The cul-de-lampe — the designed Pause/Close ornament asset.** `[OPEN — undesigned]` **[verified]** — AldineXXI §IV names the *function* (Pause = rare within-piece breath, smaller scale; **Close = end-of-piece, the *punto finale*, full scale — "the visual signature of completion; *finis coronat opus*"**) but the **actual designed SVG cul-de-lampe is undetermined** — spec §IV *"Open question: the designed Pause/Close ornament itself"* **[OPEN — 2026-05-03]**, *"the asset itself is yet to be determined."* **[verified]**: compiled CSS still carries the *retired* classes (`.ornament.completion`, `.ornament.section`, `.ornament.chapter`, …) and has **no `.ornament.close`/`.ornament.pause`** — the asset was never designed, so the migration never ran (interim: the three-dot `.ornament` from the 06-07 hr doctrine stands in for Pause-at-threshold). Sibling to A1. Design sub-questions (one asset at two scales vs paired-distinct; motif lineage — Aldine cul-de-lampe vs Roman/Pompeian) in `project-arc-pause-close-ornament-and-hr-audit-pending`. The content half is **B3**. *(Caught by the steward 2026-06-11 — it was buried under the generic "ornament migration"; it deserves its own line as the crown of every finished piece.)*
+- **A2. The cul-de-lampe — the designed Close ornament asset.** `[DONE 2026-06-17 — designed · first-instanced · rolled out to 7 essays · spec resolved]` — **the cul-de-lampe is live.** Confronted EB Garamond hederae (U+E001/E002, OFL), `.ornament.close`, **one text-em tall** (em-anchored, not constant — REVIEWED-42 consistency), `var(--fg)` opacity 0.7, CSS mask. Asset+rule+spec committed `d736df1`; rolled out (close on 7 essays; Vespers + Mushi-Ken reworked & **versioned**) in the follow-on commit. Close-only ruling: Essay/Hommage/Tombeau carry it; Fragment refused; Photo-essay declined; rest held-off (§IV *Which types carry the Close* + Sub-table 6, both reconciled). Placement = end of text proper, before Sources (apparatus spec). Publication mandate: every completed essay carries it. **The content half (B3) is now unblocked + started.** *Historical context (the long road to this) below:* — AldineXXI §IV names the *function* (Pause = rare within-piece breath, smaller scale; **Close = end-of-piece, the *punto finale*, full scale — "the visual signature of completion; *finis coronat opus*"**) but the **actual designed SVG cul-de-lampe is undetermined** — spec §IV *"Open question: the designed Pause/Close ornament itself"* **[OPEN — 2026-05-03]**, *"the asset itself is yet to be determined."* **[verified]**: compiled CSS still carries the *retired* classes (`.ornament.completion`, `.ornament.section`, `.ornament.chapter`, …) and has **no `.ornament.close`/`.ornament.pause`** — the asset was never designed, so the migration never ran (interim: the three-dot `.ornament` from the 06-07 hr doctrine stands in for Pause-at-threshold). Sibling to A1. Design sub-questions (one asset at two scales vs paired-distinct; motif lineage — Aldine cul-de-lampe vs Roman/Pompeian) in `project-arc-pause-close-ornament-and-hr-audit-pending`. The content half is **B3**. *(Caught by the steward 2026-06-11 — it was buried under the generic "ornament migration"; it deserves its own line as the crown of every finished piece.)*
 
 ## B — Open content sweeps (largely steward-owned, manual)
 
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 - **B2. Threshold-`---` promotion walk.** `[OPEN — steward content track]` — apply the 2026-06-07 differentiated-hr doctrine across existing pieces: a bare `---` at a foreword→main-text *threshold* becomes `.ornament` (dots); `---` *within the body* stays silence. Doctrine + CSS settled (§IV amended, zero CSS change); the per-piece content walk remains.
 - **B3. Ornament content migration (Option A) — the content half of A2.** `[OPEN — gated on A2; scope VERIFIED 2026-06-11]` — steward ruled Option A (2026-05-03): once the cul-de-lampe asset exists (**A2**), migrate content off the retired-ornament classes onto the canonical Close/Pause, then retire the old SCSS. **Verified scope (sizable):** ~**95 content files** carry hand-authored `<div class="ornament …"></div>` — `completion` ×51 (= the Close / end-of-piece, the cul-de-lampe's job), `section` ×50, `thought` ×14, `chamber` ×12, `musical` ×7, `hermetic` ×5, `mathematical` ×2, … Several variants (`thought`, `mathematical`) aren't even in the current CSS → they already collapse to bare `.ornament`. All retired per §IV; all await the designed asset. Not negligible, and not runnable until A2. Files: `project-arc-ornament-spec-vs-content-mismatch-pending`, `project-arc-pause-close-ornament-and-hr-audit-pending`.
 - **B4. Major content audit / archive of non-current files.** `[OPEN — was deferred]` — per ARC `CLAUDE.md` Known state: deferred until "the current version of the site is established; do not rearrange the content tree until that session." Stage G sealed arguably satisfies that condition now — candidate to schedule.
+- **B5. Rethink the versioning links.** `[OPEN — design reconsideration; steward-raised 2026-06-17, NOT for now]` — the steward feels something "doesn't sit right" about the version-stamp links and couldn't yet name it. Current behaviour (verified in built HTML): the piece-end stamp reads *"Begun [place] **[origin-date→/v/]** · Revised [place] [revised-date, plain]"* — the **origin date is the only link**, leading to the prior version; the `/v/` page announces "You are reading a prior version… Read current →." Executor's candidate diagnoses (offered, not settled): **(1)** the cul-de-lampe (a *completion* seal, *finis coronat opus*) and the version link pull opposite ways — the close says *done*, the link a few lines below pulls *backward* into the superseded version; adding the close may have sharpened a latent tension. **(2)** "Begun [date]" frames the link as inception/seed, but the destination is a *complete prior essay*, not a beginning — label/destination mismatch. **(3)** for pieces revised by *subtraction* (Mushi-Ken's appendix, Vespers' loudness), the linked prior is the version the author *improved away from* — disclosing *that* a revision happened is integrity, but making the discarded version the foot-of-page reading-*destination* may overreach: provenance offered as invitation. Hunch: it's #1+#3 — ADR-005 designed versioning as a *record*, but rendered as a link it behaves like a parallel reading-path, and that sits oddly under a completion mark. Revisit when the steward can name it. (Grounds: ADR-005, essay-versioning-specification.md §3–4; the version-stamp builder in `site.hs`.)
 
 ## C — Deferred by design (Phase-2 / held — trigger-gated, NOT drift)