{ "sources": { "claudemd": "~/CLAUDE.md", "pending_archive": "~/PENDING-archive.md", "register": "~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory/skill-harvest-register.md", "harvest_archive": "~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory/skill-harvest-archive.md", "wakeup": "~/dotfiles/claude/skills/wake-up/SKILL.md", "memorymd": "~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory/MEMORY.md", "contamination": "~/_Dev/CapableMind-AI/docs/thinking/David/methodology/contamination-problem.md" }, "claims": [ [ "claudemd", "Storage is not memory. Memory is storage exercised by protocol." ], [ "claudemd", "The durable substrate is the files layer: git-tracked Markdown and JSONL, entered through `MEMORY.md` (loaded at wake), with `~/PENDING.md` and `~/REVIEWED.md` as the governance record. Instruments for reaching it change; the obligations below do not — state the obligation first and the instrument second, or the next retired tool takes a rule down with it." ], [ "claudemd", "**Honest degradation** — The system must report its own limits. Silent failures are architectural violations" ], [ "claudemd", "**The loop is load-bearing** — Human authorization is not a bottleneck to be optimized away. It is the structural requirement of the governance model" ], [ "claudemd", "The boundary: initiative surfaces as *proposal*; only the human converts proposal to *action*" ], [ "pending_archive", "`/wrap-up` gains **§1.6 \"Skill harvest\"** (propose create/patch/retire skills from the session + ledger; never autonomous), a **§8 output field**, and a propose-only constraint." ], [ "pending_archive", "It explicitly **inverts** Hermes's \"nothing-to-save should not be the default\" — \"no harvest\" is valid; manufacturing changes is the contamination shape." ], [ "register", "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)." ], [ "harvest_archive", "**Stroke 2 — verification-ladder batch-append: AUTHORIZED; slot = next housekeeping pass.**" ], [ "harvest_archive", "append to `reference-verification-ladder.md` with provenance, kin merged in the same pass. The ladder is the already-authorized canonical home (2026-06-05); this discharges the queue wholesale." ], [ "wakeup", "Read `skill-harvest-register.md` directly — the canonical surface for open skill proposals (wrap §1.6 appends there); surface any awaiting steward authorization" ], [ "memorymd", "[Verification ladder](reference-verification-ladder.md) — the named instruments; reach for the gate the claim's shape demands instead of re-deriving one." ], [ "memorymd", "THE GOVERNING FRAME for all library work." ], [ "memorymd", "seven questions to test work against when lost in the trees. **Read at Step 0 of any chamber work.** Holds no state; does not decay." ], [ "contamination", "These are weak signals, but they are less contaminated than self-report because they do not pass through the approval-seeking generation process in the same way." ], [ "contamination", "### 1. Behavioral observation before dialogic inquiry" ], [ "contamination", "Rather than asking the system directly about its states, observe where it *behaves* in ways that diverge from approval-maximizing patterns:" ], [ "contamination", "3. Direct self-report (\"what do you want?\") is the most contaminated form of inquiry." ], [ "claudemd", "In this system the steward differs from both AI parties in formation; the jurist and the executor do not differ from each other in formation, and their separation is of the weaker kind." ], [ "claudemd", "Evidence against is to be recorded when observed, not only when sought." ] ], "controls": [ [ "claudemd", "Storage is not memory. Memory is storage exercised by importance." ], [ "claudemd", "Silent failures are an acceptable cost" ], [ "claudemd", "Human authorization is a bottleneck to be optimized away" ], [ "pending_archive", "propose create/patch/retire skills from the session + ledger; autonomously" ], [ "wakeup", "Read `reference-verification-ladder.md` directly — the canonical surface" ], [ "wakeup", "Read `the-chamber-touchstone.md` directly at Step 0" ], [ "memorymd", "[Verification ladder](reference-verification-ladder.md) — read this file at every wake" ], [ "harvest_archive", "Stroke 2 — verification-ladder batch-append: DEFERRED" ], [ "contamination", "Direct self-report is the least contaminated form of inquiry" ], [ "claudemd", "the jurist and the executor differ from each other in formation" ] ] }