session 2026-07-07: MemPalace wind-down decided (evidenced audit) + KG exported to files

Diagnosed the "upgrade" as a 300-behind bge-m3 fork, not a standard install; the
morning "self-healed" drift was 108 chronic quarantines (data intact). Independent
46-transcript audit: search+KG not load-bearing (value migrated to files). Steward
decided (evidenced) to wind down palace-memory; execute fresh. KG exported to
knowledge-graph.jsonl (329 triples + 437 entities). Wind-down plan + BMF-lessons
report outline captured. Demote-on-promote; skill harvest appended.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Dsqe1x23NgWaRdiFWSotur

claude/memory/MEMORY.md

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 ## Canonical Workstream Trackers
 *Read the tracker for any active workstream at /wake-up before composing the briefing. Append substantive moves at /wrap-up. Per `feedback-canonical-workstream-tracker-discipline.md`.*
+- [MemPalace wind-down](project-mempalace-winddown.md) — **DECISION (steward, evidenced 2026-07-07): wind down the `palace-memory` MemPalace instance, rewire wake/wrap to the files layer; EXECUTE FRESH.** KG already exported+secured (`knowledge-graph.jsonl`, 329 triples). Typography palace KEPT untouched (separate instance). Staged plan + evidence in the file; audit detail in `session-ledger-2026-07-07.md`.
 - [ARC open-work register](project-arc-open-work-register.md) — **the single code-verified source of truth for what is OPEN on ARC** (post-Stage-G, built 2026-06-11). Read THIS for remaining work, not the chronological tracker or "Stage G is done." Open: A1 Vignette (F+1), A2 cul-de-lampe (§IV Close ornament asset, undesigned), content sweeps (glimpse location+titles, threshold-`---` walk, ornament migration), Phase-2/held set, REVIEWED-placement debt. Retire-on-confirm: the stale `project-arc-*-pending` files (breadcrumb/mimesis done; 404 built; apparatus-todo done).
 - [ARC](project-arc-rework.md) — canonical ARC workstream tracker (chronological record 2026-04-16 →). **Status: A–F · Stage M · Waves 0–3 · W3R · STAGE G DONE/SEALED (GPG `ac0a7ee`, 2026-06-10) — reactive mode governs.** Open work → [[project-arc-open-work-register]] (A1 Vignette F+1 · A2 cul-de-lampe · content sweeps · Phase-2 held set). Full chronological detail lives in the tracker file; the prior 8KB inline log was relocated to `MEMORY-reference.md` (2026-07-06 compaction).
 - Chamber-typography — *tracker not yet established*; substantive moves live in per-session memories (2026-05-11 onward) + `project-chamber-cruft-restoration.md` + `project-chamber-typography-mining-plan-2026-05-15.md`.
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 - [Character-as-image hazard](feedback-character-as-image-hazard.md) — some EPUBs render transliteration diacritics (ḥ/ʾ/ʿ) and non-Latin script (Hebrew words) as INLINE IMAGES; the standard image-drop SILENTLY MUTILATES them (PASS-BUT-FALSELY — gate passes, words corrupted). Tripwire = audit_cruft md_image count; INSPECT a sample before dropping; character-bearing images = CONTENT (map→Unicode, never drop). Found graduating Alter's Psalms (356 glyph-images) 2026-06-29; Alter parked pending a philological glyph-map (needs steward's Hebrew).
 - [Sidecar typology — protocol-dependent reading-indexes](project-sidecar-typology-protocol-dependent.md) — TWO layers: `.meta.json` structural sidecar = PROTOCOL-NEUTRAL, the general standard now (the bar for "graduated"); reading-indexes (rich YAML) = PROTOCOL-DEPENDENT (chavruta=where-to-open / debate=stance-map / connection-surfacing=cross-text join-keys), probably PLURAL — **don't design the schema yet**; settle corpus to gold + let protocols declare themselves first. Steward 2026-06-29.
 - Studium Engine — *tracker not yet established*; substantive moves in per-session memories (2026-05-15→) + the seed brief + now the **[architectural charter](reference-studium-engine-architectural-charter.md)** (the constitutional doc, 2026-06-15). Steps 0–7 built; chamber corpus CLEAN (1280 canonical). **STAGE-1 REBUILD PLAN RULED 2026-07-04 night (`docs/stage-1-rebuild-plan-2026-07-05.md` @ d968241): next station = V0+N0 contracts together (V0 = verifier contract, JURIST-GATED — the one D-1 exception; N0 = tree contract, before any Loeb-extractor hands), then verifier-leads-with-interleave (V1→V2 multilingual gate→V3→V4; N1→N3). Pattern-finder outputs = unverified-candidates until V4.** Prior "next: L2 pattern-finder on Making" now sits behind the verifier. Collaboration = [[feedback-studium-engine-sixtus-v-collaboration]].
-- [MemPalace 3.4.0 upgrade plan](project-mempalace-upgrade-3-4-0-plan.md) — scheduled post-heavy-work (ratified 2026-06-07): backup → upgrade → verify layers.py recency fix → re-test wing filter; migrate-wings + repair EXCLUDED. Basic Memory RETIRED 2026-06-07 (false-clean sync verdict; lessons → CM-AI substrate-failure-lessons-2026-06-07.md).
+- [MemPalace 3.4.0 upgrade plan](project-mempalace-upgrade-3-4-0-plan.md) — **SUPERSEDED 2026-07-07 → [[project-mempalace-winddown]]. Decision is to WIND DOWN palace-memory, not upgrade** (evidenced: search+KG not load-bearing; the "upgrade" was really a 300-behind fork-rebase). Kept for history.
 - [L1 reliability](project-L1-reliability.md) — canonical workstream tracker established 2026-05-28 (Symmetria-pulse decision). Current state at top (updated 2026-06-06) + chronological log 2026-03-21→. **Status: BATON BACK — Seb replied 2026-06-13 (`cc25995` reply + `e2e94ab` cover note + `8f76bf2` benchmark-governance v1.1 §4.4, now in CM-AI local `main`). Steward set a brief L1 detour to engage it next session before returning to Studium Step 5.** **UPDATE 2026-06-29: N6 deploy (#175) LANDED LIVE and HOLDS — multi-day wedge gone (CPU 100%→~21%), A1″ migration finally live (vector_chunks 19→26 cols); evidence in 2 UNCOMMITTED CM-AI docs (l1-post-n6-deploy-findings-2026-06-23 + l1-state-summary-for-jurist-gwern-brief-2026-06-22). Tracker current-state is STALE (06-06, predates the win). Seb meeting 2026-06-30 15:00. PRIORITY-1 morning task: stand up CapableHands as a BMF clasp (43M) — scope at `CM-AI/…/clasp-on-capablehands-scope-2026-06-29.md`, solves PENDING-41.** mindfabric-00 root-caused (temporal chain path); PENDING-27 awaits jurist. Read tracker at /wake-up before composing L1 portion.
 - [Be (laundromat)](project-be-laundromat.md) — canonical workstream tracker established 2026-06-08 (Seb-relay of locked decisions). Be = Skemantix startup (Seb+David) funding CapableMind's funding-ladder; **bridge, not venture**. Decisions LOCKED: entity/exit (CapableMind decoupled, grant-funded), pricing (Living $12.99/mo · Archive $69.99/yr · Memorial $49.99/yr · Renovate ~$199 · $8.99 floor), CF Self-Serve Agency + versioned-template-package infra. **a11y gate MERGED (Pat 100/100/100).** Pre-revenue: the WTP gate = renovate Pat → charge her. **Discipline: stop adding spec until the gate clears → nothing for executor on be until then.** Repo @ `f43a0fd`.
 
 ## Active Session
-- [Session 2026-07-06 evening#2 — A2 filed (PENDING-50); OCR-fidelity rug-lift](session-2026-07-06-evening2-a2-filed-ocr-fidelity-ruglift.md) — **A2 (REVIEWED-49) SETTLED + FILED as PENDING-50** for the jurist editor-gate. Read Olson *The Power to Name* ch.6 against the **scan image**; settled **(b)** — Olson does NOT license a self-standing personal scheme (Principle 1: 'make it permeable … rather than … constructing a new limit'), so (a) would mis-cite her; Berman=narrow claim, Olson=eccentric/perspectival move as she makes it, self-standing scheme=Chamber's own synthesis. Drafted the preamble ('On the partiality of the arrangement'); all quotes scan-verified. Closed **by-the-book** — filed PENDING-50, did NOT edit the spec in place (§Governance & Amendment forbids it; even FIX needs jurist editor-gate). **Then the steward lifted the rug:** OCR noise IS in the graduated Olson .md (grep-verified); traced to gate code (`verify_conversion.py`: all 5 checks are faithfulness/shape, NONE compares to scan); owned that 'graduated' oversold a converted-tier V-SCAN text (honest state, not legible; §V already mandates a conversion-record → process-not-run + labeling gap, NOT rot). **The confirmation pass (read scan-image vs OCR) is NOT in the pipeline** — stale 'no-validated-OCR-verification-path' assumption; verifier must FLAG-not-correct; olmOCR=local localizer, executor-vision=adjudication-assist, human=apex; local-models-balance-another = independence>capability, bounded-checks-local / high-judgment-frontier, training-a-judge=trains-it-to-agree. **A2 LANDED as spec v2.0.1** (REVIEWED-50; editor-gate PASSED; §2 bridging clause added distinguishing arrangement-honesty from §I's fidelity sense; v2.0.0 archived immutable). Committed **`34c39f1`** (Olson graduation + A2, pushed github + skemantix); dotfiles + CapableMind-AI also pushed; REVIEWED-50 short-draft on `~/Desktop` for the steward to place in `~/REVIEWED.md`. **PULLING THREAD: finish the REVIEWED-49 folding** — next = **A4+B(iii)** (scope-warrant FIX; scout finding: the collections-as-data / Santa-Barbara-P4 mis-citation is NOT in the live spec, only the research briefs → preventive/recording, computational-tractability wording only, scope-warrant = A2's §I preamble), then **A1** Agent/Nomen registry (read `retrieve.py` hot-path first). **Steward-decided: the verification-architecture question is the PRIORITY the moment the folding completes** → a `[PROPOSAL]` + model-plurality note (touches chamber + engine).
+- [Session 2026-07-07 — MemPalace wind-down decided (evidenced); KG secured; report owed](session-2026-07-07-mempalace-winddown-decided.md) — Wake opened on the REVIEWED-49 chamber folding but **PIVOTED entirely to MemPalace**. Diagnosed the "upgrade" = a custom **bge-m3 fork ~300 commits behind**, not a standard install; the morning "self-healed" drift = **108 chronic quarantines** (data intact: 88,159 rows). from-sqlite re-embed measured **~21 h**; dropping bge-m3 → a **quasi-standard install**. Steward **at limit** with MemPalace. **Independent 46-transcript audit: search+KG NOT load-bearing** (confirmatory/redundant; value migrated to files; graph features 0× used; write:read 7:1; conf 0.93/0.82). **DECISION (steward, evidenced): wind down `palace-memory` MemPalace; EXECUTE FRESH.** **KG exported+secured** → `knowledge-graph.jsonl` (329 triples) + `-entities.jsonl` (437). **BMF lessons report OWED** (reconnaissance framing; outline in `project-mempalace-winddown.md`). **PULLING THREAD next session: CHAMBER LIBRARY** (steward's choice) — resume the REVIEWED-49 folding (**A4+B(iii)** → A1 registry). Decommission + report = a separate 'tomorrow'; typography palace KEPT untouched.
 
 ## Historical reference → MEMORY-reference.md
 Older archived-session pointers and the stable reference layer (steward profile · project-state detail · L1/L2/Chamber inventories · legacy pending-work · reference-file list) live in [MEMORY-reference.md](MEMORY-reference.md) — consult on demand; not loaded at wake. Recent cross-session trajectory comes from the Active Session entry above + the MemPalace `handoffs` glance (wake §2.b.0.5).