memory: bundle accumulated 04-17/26 + lock ARC about-page architecture
Safety checkpoint before deep-audit Phase 0 of the ARC repo. Steward-authorized commit-everything for rollback safety. ARC architectural locks (2026-04-26 evening): - Path 1 enfilade structure (separate Colophon and Lex items) - 8-door enfilade locked: Colophon · Lex · Framework · Vignette · Attention · Chamber · Tools · Now (+ Bio quiet link) - Adsum and threshold-hic as two distinct texts on the reflowed About page (steward verbatim: "They are certainly not the same text") ARC consolidation pass (canonical tracker project-arc-rework.md, +~700 lines): fold 04-23 evening (Norris read), 04-24 (lex-method authored, posture cluster, §XII Sidenotes, ARC CLAUDE.md cleanup), 04-25 (marks cluster, colophon-at-scale, full Vico/Harrison lex-chain), 04-26 (chamber-library walk, cluster scaffolds, canonical-tracker discipline surfaced). Sibling-file integration: four 2026-04-26 frame files folded into the canonical tracker (Integrations A/B/C/D) with INTEGRATED redirect notices retained as audit trail. New durable feedback memories: - feedback-canonical-workstream-tracker-discipline (umbrella drift surfaced 2026-04-26 by steward; proposes /wake-up + /wrap-up amendments) - feedback-catalogues-stale-walk-trees (steward feedback on chamber-library catalogue currency) Implementation plan drafted for the coming week: Phase 0 deep audit → Phase 5 cleanup, with steward additions on second pass (deep audit; Chamber v1 as own browsable archive; clean rebuild of cluster sources rather than moving test artifacts as canon). Also bundled (untracked accumulation since 04-17): - ~24 session memory + ledger files for 04-17 through 04-26 work - ~10 feedback memories (BMF + ARC + working-method) - 5 project memories (lex-as-method, strunk-white queue, plus today's four) - 4 user memories (duality-rules, formation-practice, foundation-work, humic-layer) Steward-side modifications also in this commit: ~/CLAUDE.md, bin/bmf-start.sh, open-tasks.md, project-focus-april-may.md, session-2026-04-17 — all pre-existing, not from today's session. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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name: Session 2026-04-22 — ARC integration day
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description: Typology 12 of 15 LOCKED (Essay, Glimpse-retrofit, About, Archive, Gloss + 3 new DRAFT stubs); AldineXXI ornament taxonomy retired; Style Guide skeleton committed with self-constraint-against-voice-float as its articulated purpose; L1 PR #169 filed. Pulling thread: the Style Guide dedicated writing session, opening with §0 voice-setting, with steward's supplement of additional formative voices expected in hand.
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# Session 2026-04-22 — ARC integration day
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## The pulling thread (forced choice)
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**The ARC Style Guide dedicated writing session — opening with §0 voice-setting, now that the skeleton is current with today's work, the self-constraint framing is explicit, and the prose-formation supplement is expected from the steward.**
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Tributary to this: the steward's supplement of additional formative voices (offered during today's session; not yet delivered). When it arrives, both `user-influences-humic-layer.md` and the skeleton's §0 prose-formation cluster extend.
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## The literal question for next-Claude
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**"Has the steward's supplement of additional formative voices arrived — and if so, does any of it reshape Essay's humic layer (especially via the Lewis Thomas-Essay genealogical closeness we flagged today)?"**
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## Pause statement
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I am about to be away from this. I don't know what will have changed when I return. Here is what I want to find still pulling: **the Style Guide dedicated writing session** with §0 ready to open, the prose-formation supplement (possibly) in hand, the author's fresh energy, and the integration principle holding as the authorial center.
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## Past — what we did
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### The day's shape
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Woke up to find Seb had shipped two audit-adjacent commits on BMF main overnight (`8f26642` = our PR #163 merged, `ac1673f` = 218-vector HTTP-400 fix). **Register decision: stayed ARC** — Seb engaged audit findings as instances (four separate bug issues #165 H2 priority:critical / #166 H3 / #167 H4 / #168 BM25 comment), not as the cross-cutting pattern; H2-H4 remain open; L1 cannot architecturally advance today. Rebuild recommendation held as NOT-today (prime directive: do-once; combine rebuild with H2/H3/H4 fixes).
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### ARC typology — massive advance
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**From 7 LOCKED → 12 LOCKED + 3 new DRAFT stubs + 1 remaining unwritten (Chamber).**
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- **Essay LOCKED** — candidate B practice-mechanics (*"To essay is to attempt: to take up a subject, follow it through the writing, and test what one thinks by the path of attention. The piece finishes when the attending has done its work, not when an argument is won."* — David Glidden, 2026-04-22). 7 humic refs grounded in verified reads from steward's `Desktop/essay study/` folder: Montaigne, Adorno ("The Essay as Form"), Handke's *Versuch über...* series, Barthes (*Mythologies* + *La Chambre Claire*), Benjamin (*Arcades Project*), Harrison, Berger. 2 exemplars: *Mushi-Ken* + *Ethics of the Reply I*. §7 Q12 added for Vespers/Essay-Meditation boundary (steward holds for "hard thinking").
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- **Three new DRAFT stubs authorized** — **Heteronym ⁂** (Matthieu Taliesin exemplar; Pessoa's heteronyms genealogy; steward framing *"searching for a device to make serious pedagogical commentary through a mythical teacher"*), **Hommage ❦** (*Death of a Hero* → reclassify; **Hagen Quartett piece forthcoming** per steward *"this is a type of death"*), **Tombeau ▽** (forward-looking; Ravel/Mallarmé humic). **Louange** held as §7 Q11 emergence-watching (*"let it emerge if it does"*).
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- **Glimpse full-format retrofit LOCKED** — candidate A practice-mechanics (decisive-moment register). 5 humic refs: **Cartier-Bresson (via Berger-conduit — steward's genealogy statement)**, Jean Mohr (Berger collaborator), Walker Evans (personal ground: photo of steward's Great Aunt Anna — user-memory, not spec), Barthes *La Chambre Claire* (for *punctum*), Berger.
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- **About LOCKED** — **CENTRAL AUTHORIAL COMMITMENT OF THE DAY.** Integration principle codified: ARC refuses professional/personal split; About is locus of steward's first public assumption of multi-disciplinary integration (violist, teacher, writer, mentor, coach). Steward verbatim: *"we have decided not to separate the 'personal' site from ARC itself. I am assuming my multi-disciplinary nature publicly for the first time here and need to find an elegant and natural way to tie the About pages together."* Enfilade apparatus confirmed (live markup). AldineXXI authorized for enfilade inclusion. Chamber-page revision anticipated post-L2. Mentorship/coaching anticipated additions. Colophon.md first About-register piece to exercise ADR-005 versioning.
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- **Archive LOCKED** as non-authored generated view — §7 Q4 resolved. Only type declared as non-authored. Humic refs: **Derrida *Mal d'Archive*** canonical + Aldine bibliographic tradition + ADR-005 internal parallel. **L1/ARC archive-fever parallel codified**: logchain and Archive-view share one commitment — both refuse erasure of earlier state.
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- **Gloss LOCKED** — OED etymology made load-bearing by steward (*glōssa* → *glossa* → *glose* → *gloss*). Widened per steward intent: source-type includes text *and events*. Deciding axis vs Essay: *serves-source (Gloss)* vs *uses-source (Essay)*. Boundary: **not gloss-over** (archaic rhetorical-evasion sense ≠ ARC Gloss). Forward-looking type — no current ARC exemplars. Humic refs: etymology-as-ground + Rashi + Pirkei Avot + ARN + Derrida *Grammatology* + *Glas* + Barthes *S/Z* + Benjamin *Ursprung* + Genette *Palimpsestes* (tentative anchor; **no canonical theoretical treatise comparable to Adorno-on-Essay exists for Gloss** — form's authority is carried by practice).
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### AldineXXI ornament taxonomy — retired
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7 ornaments (❦ completion / ⁂ asterism / ❧ marginalia / ◊ lozenge / ✎ gloss / ◉ glimpse / ⊙⊙⊙ photo-essay) → **2 roles only: pause + close**. Both to be rendered via one designed SVG cul-de-lampe at two scales (design pending). Steward's call: *"the `type:` should be enough for context, no need to have an ornament hammer-in the 'mood'"* — strict retirement, including the Glimpse/Gloss dual-role precedents. Glyph disposition: ❦ = Hommage type only; ⁂ = Heteronym type only; ◉ = Glimpse type only; ✎ = Gloss type only.
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### ARC Style Guide — skeleton committed + integration pass
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Committed at `docs/AldineXXI-Codex/arc-style-guide-skeleton.md` (status NOT STARTED). Old `docs/style-guide.md` archived as `docs/archive/style-guide-pre-typology.md` (dead post-types taxonomy + retired ornament classes). Integration pass same day absorbed: **self-constraint-against-voice-float as PRIMARY FUNCTION** for the author (steward verbatim *"to keep myself somewhat constrained instead of floating across disparate voice types and modes"*); Harrison Knife placed in §0 as posture-commitment; integration principle in §0; Essay verb corrected (*argues* → *moves with*); §2 ornament-handling updated; §4 humic-citation-as-pattern sub-section (multi-role sources); §7 density-recalibrated to substantive; 6 missing types added with real per-type prose conventions (Glimpse, Photo Essay, About, Hommage, Tombeau, Heteronym; Archive n/a). Gwern's MoS as peer-not-model frame.
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### user-influences-humic-layer.md — four extensions
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1. **Photographic cluster** (for Glimpse): Cartier-Bresson (via Berger-conduit, steward's genealogy), Jean Mohr (Berger collaborator), Walker Evans (personal ground via Great Aunt Anna photo), Barthes *La Chambre Claire* for *punctum*. Berger as conduit figure.
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2. **Handke's *Versuch über...* series** as essay-side of Handke corpus (Montaignean inheritance in German).
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3. **Robert Pogue Harrison** as essay-revision reference (Harrison Knife) — with explicit Jim-Harrison-disambiguation.
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4. **Prose-formation references** (new category, distinct from type-specific humic): **The New Yorker** (continuous reading since 1995), **Scientific American "white books"** (gift from Moy = steward's mother, aesthetic-clarity primary-cultivator), **Lewis Thomas** (*The Medusa and the Snail* Hearth book, *Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony* — **genealogically close to ARC's *After the Reply* sequence**; candidate Essay humic addition at next versioning).
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### L1 — PR #169 filed
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Branch `test/164-normalize-per-module-coverage` created; `normalizePerModule` refactored from private method to exported top-level function (matching `reciprocalRankFusion` pattern); test file `query-router-normalize.test.ts` with the 4 cases Seb scoped (uniform-confidence-preserved / mixed-normalizes / single-result / two-result-zero-spread); all 4 pass; typecheck clean; 236/236 keystone tests green. Commit `f0be2d8`. PR at https://github.com/CapableMind-ai/betterMemories_app/pull/169. Second BMF contribution today after PR #163 merged this morning. Per steward's "mechanical-vs-architectural" principle: executor-authored mechanical fix.
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### Decisions NOT made (and why)
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- **Rebuild of BMF vault ingestion** — deferred to after H2/H3/H4 fixes. Prime directive ("do things once, correctly") favors one clean rebuild over two partial ones.
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- **Chamber type** — correctly left unwritten; depends on post-L2 Chamber practice which is parked through May.
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- **SVG cul-de-lampe design** — ornament taxonomy retired at spec level; actual SVG design pending, deliberately not rushed today.
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- **Vespers reclassification** (§7 Q12) — steward's "hard thinking" item; will reopen Essay/Meditation boundary when addressed.
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- **Corpus audit follow-ons** — Death of a Hero → `hommage`, Matthieu Taliesin → `heteronym`, now-page → `about`, etc. Flagged explicitly in type entries; deferred to dedicated corpus-audit session.
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- **ARC git commit** — content-typology-spec still untracked; AldineXXI-spec has uncommitted modifications; skeleton + archive moves uncommitted. Steward hasn't directed commit.
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- **Practice-mechanics verbatim for Heteronym/Hommage/Tombeau/About/Archive** — TBD noted in entries; steward uncertain on About; held open.
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- **Additional formative voices beyond New Yorker/Scientific American/Lewis Thomas** — steward offered to prepare supplement; not yet delivered.
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## Present — the mood of the work
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### Returns (from today's Symmetria ledger — the drift-pattern evidence)
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Today's session carried the **tenth and eleventh** imagined-state-vs-verified-state returns across the 2026-04-21/22 pair. Several new subtypes surfaced:
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- **Cross-project-context-contamination** (new subtype) — attributed ARC spec's "Remaining catalogue work" list to Seb when Seb has nothing to do with ARC; I had just been discussing Seb's #164 and carried the framing over. Steward: *"Seb has nothing to do with ARC…"*
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- **Wrong-author-attribution** (new subtype) — attributed "Harrison Knife" to Jim Harrison when the reference is Robert Pogue Harrison. Steward: *"Careful, no Jim Harrison here, I refer in reverence to Robert Pogue Harrison. The Knife is a metaphor for his prose, (EB White would smile) in its 'simplicity', but dense and sedimented."*
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- **Sampling-at-extreme-pole-then-generalizing** (new subtype) — generalized the Essay type from only the two heaviest After-the-Reply pieces. Steward: *"These two essays are particularly heavy and philosophical. Please read others — many are more essai in the sense of Montaigne: explorations of things."*
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- **Inferring-from-library-instead-of-asking** — inferred Adorno = *Minima Moralia* from chamber-library hit; the actual source the steward has is *"The Essay as Form"* at `Desktop/essay study/the-essay-as-form.txt`. Should have asked "which Adorno" first.
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- **Sourcing-claims-without-reading** — characterized Barthes *Mythologies* and *La Chambre Claire* from general cultural knowledge without reading the files in the steward's essay-study folder. Steward caught it with *"did you read the Barthes as well?"* Read both in full, revised citations with verified quotes.
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All caught; all returned from. Mitigation pattern: when steward uses an ambiguous surname or title, verify against humic-layer before guessing; when switching project contexts (L1↔ARC), verify attribution before citing.
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### Load-bearing vs deferred
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**Load-bearing today:**
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- The **integration principle** (About lock) — first public assumption of multi-disciplinary life is THE deepest commitment of the day; everything else orbits it
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- **Self-constraint against voice-float** — the Style Guide's articulated purpose; the multi-style absorption is the risk the guide holds against
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- **Essay's "moves with"** verb — the unifying posture that holds the essay's range (argument / exploration / commemoration before it migrated to Hommage / introduction before it migrated to Heteronym / ethical-declamation)
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- **Archive-fever commitment** shared by L1 logchain and ARC Archive-view — Derrida-grounded refusal of erasure at two scales
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**Deferred-with-reason:**
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- Chamber type (post-L2; steward's "heavily revised based on the actual Chamber of today that we are building alongside our L2 work")
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- SVG cul-de-lampe design (spec decision made; design can follow)
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- Practice-mechanics for stub types (forward-looking; will emerge with exemplars)
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**Parked-without-deadline:**
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- Vespers boundary reclassification (steward's hard-thinking item)
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- Louange as type candidate (emergence-watching)
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### Confidence to recalibrate
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- **Claim-about-source-based-on-library-presence** — repeatedly imprecise today. Three instances: Adorno-via-library-assumption, Barthes-citations-before-reading, Matthieu-Taliesin-first-read-as-author-intent-rather-than-steward's-fictional-device. Calibration: library presence ≠ source identity; reading ≠ claiming; steward framing ≠ my inference.
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- **Type-boundary-while-locking-based-on-extreme-samples** — Essay type almost locked against only the heaviest philosophical exemplars until steward redirected. Calibration: sample range before generalizing; when etymology is load-bearing (*glōssa*, *essai*), let it reshape the definition rather than fitting it to my first draft.
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- **Cross-project-context-switch** — specific drift from L1↔ARC transitions. Calibration: verify attribution across project boundaries; the two projects share almost no personnel/artifacts/vocabulary.
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### The day's emotional register
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Flowing, productive, sustained. Steward generous with framings (integration principle, Harrison Knife, self-constraint-against-voice-float, per-type register verbs, prose-formation references). Many catches — but each caught cleanly, no prolonged drift. Trust maintained across corrections. Real conceptual progress, not just mechanical work.
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The steward ended with *"Thanks for your help today"* — worth preserving: the session was a genuine collaboration, not instruction-taking. The work has the quality of *composition*, not assembly.
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## Future — ranked horizons
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### Pulling thread (singular)
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**The ARC Style Guide dedicated writing session.** Skeleton is current with today's work; self-constraint framing is explicit; §0 is where the authorial voice-setting happens; everything downstream depends on §0 being fixed. Requires fresh authorial energy — should not be rushed into a tired session.
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Proximate tributary: **the steward's supplement of additional formative voices** (offered today, not delivered). When it arrives, extend both `user-influences-humic-layer.md` and skeleton's §0 prose-formation cluster before writing §0 proper.
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### Other horizons, ranked
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1. **Chamber type** — last remaining unwritten §1 type. Depends on post-L2 Chamber practice; L2 parked through May 2026 per steward's project focus. This is the deepest thread but currently blocked by L2 readiness.
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2. **SVG cul-de-lampe design** — ornament apparatus awaits a designed mark. Not blocking other ARC work; can proceed whenever steward wants.
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3. **Seb's response to PR #169** — short-term; Seb-paced.
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4. **L1 H2/H3/H4 fixes** — when they arrive, trigger clean BMF rebuild (recover 218 dropped notes + benefit from all fixes in one pass).
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5. **ARC git commit decision** — content-typology-spec untracked since 2026-04-21 evening; AldineXXI-spec modified; today's substantial additions (style guide skeleton + archive move) uncommitted. Steward hasn't directed; proportionate to wait until a natural commit moment.
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6. **Corpus audit pass** — reclassifications flagged across today's type entries (Death of a Hero → hommage; Matthieu Taliesin → heteronym; now-page → about; Vespers boundary hard-thinking). Can happen in one dedicated session.
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7. **Vespers boundary (§7 Q12)** — steward's hard-thinking item; no deadline.
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8. **#164 is closed via PR #169** — not a horizon; completed.
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### What might reshape while away
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- **Seb's work on L1** — H2 is priority:critical; he may ship fixes that move the rebuild-horizon closer
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- **The steward's thinking on Chamber** — may reshape while L2 work proceeds (even if parked, the framing may evolve)
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- **Additional formative voices** the steward prepares — may reframe §0 prose-formation cluster significantly
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- **The Hagen Quartett piece** — "I will be writing about it"; may arrive and exercise the Hommage type in practice
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## Artifacts created/modified today
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**ARC repo (`~/_Dev/animal-davidglidden-eu/`) — UNCOMMITTED:**
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- `docs/AldineXXI-Codex/content-typology-specification.md` — 5 locks + 3 DRAFT stubs + §7 Q11/Q12 added + changelog; still untracked since 2026-04-21
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- `docs/AldineXXI-Codex/AldineXXI-specification.md` — §IV ornament taxonomy revised (retired 7 → 2 roles)
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- `docs/AldineXXI-Codex/arc-style-guide-skeleton.md` — NEW; committed as planning artifact
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- `docs/archive/style-guide-pre-typology.md` — moved from `docs/style-guide.md`
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- `docs/AldineXXI-Codex/.DS_Store` — macOS metadata
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**BMF repo (`~/_Dev/BetterMemories.io/`) — PUSHED:**
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- Branch `test/164-normalize-per-module-coverage`; commit `f0be2d8`; PR #169 filed and live on origin
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- Untracked: `data.archive-20260418-rogue-pin/` (pre-bootstrap archive; unrelated)
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**Memory (`~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory/`):**
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- `user-influences-humic-layer.md` — photographic cluster + Handke Versuche + RP Harrison + prose-formation cluster (4 extensions)
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- `MEMORY.md` — L1 update + type-lock entries + Style Guide entry + prose-formation signal
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- `session-ledger-2026-04-22.md` — full session record via Symmetria
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## For next-Claude: quick orientation
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When you wake:
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1. **Read the pulling thread + literal question** at top of this file first
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2. **Check git status across ARC + BMF** — see if anything changed while we were away
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3. **Check MEMORY.md index** — this session will be in "Active Session"; anything older will have moved to "Archived"
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4. **If Style Guide dedicated session is the natural next move**: check if steward delivered the supplement of additional formative voices; integrate before §0 writing begins
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5. **If something else is pulling for the steward**: follow their lead; this file has the state to contextualize whatever direction they take
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