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name: project-fool-tarbuckle
description: Canonical workstream tracker for The Fool (Tarbuckle) — established 2026-09-03 when the MEMORY.md load-integrity trim found the index was this workstream's sole custodian and its only linked target was a sealed seed.
metadata:
  node_type: memory
  type: project
  modified: 2026-09-03
---

# The Fool — Tarbuckle: canonical workstream tracker

**Why this file exists.** Every other active workstream in `MEMORY.md`'s tracker list points at a
tracker. The Fool pointed at `FOOL-BONES-2026-08-25.md`, which is a **sealed seed** — derived once,
never to be regenerated — and therefore not a place session state may be appended. The consequence
was that Tarbuckle's live substrate state lived **only** in the `MEMORY.md` index line, in a file
that was over its load budget and being silently truncated at wake. Established at the 2026-09-03
trim to end that.

**Sealed, never regenerate:** [bones](../governance/fool/seed/FOOL-BONES-2026-08-25.md) ·
[soul](../governance/fool/seed/FOOL-SOUL-2026-08-25.md). Doctrine:
[BUDDY-PATTERN v2](../governance/fool/BUDDY-PATTERN-jurist-draft-v2-2026-08-22.md).
Spec: [TARBUCKLE-SPEC-13.1](../governance/fool/TARBUCKLE-SPEC-13.1-2026-08-25.md).

## Chronological log

### 2026-09-03 — tracker established; state relocated from the MEMORY.md index

⚠ **Provenance: the block below is the verbatim MEMORY.md index line**, moved here rather than
rewritten. It carries the 2026-08-31 substrate correction — the line had previously asserted
"NOTHING WIRED", false on all three clauses — and the re-measured counts. Nothing is restated here
that the line does not say; the index now holds a one-line pointer to this file.

- [The Fool — **Tarbuckle**](../governance/fool/seed/FOOL-BONES-2026-08-25.md) — **THE ACTIVE WORKSTREAM.** Bones derived **once** 2026-08-25 (peak SUCCESSION 96 · dump ABSENCE 8); **name + soul sealed, never regenerate** ([soul](../governance/fool/seed/FOOL-SOUL-2026-08-25.md)). Doctrine = `BUDDY-PATTERN-jurist-draft-v2-2026-08-22.md`; **§8 has no blanks** (20 min · frequency UNKNOWN · empty-window consumes · body correlates with nothing). ⚠ **CORRECTED 2026-08-31 — the line here read "NOTHING WIRED — no `statusLine`, no script, §13.1 spec unwritten" and was FALSE ON ALL THREE CLAUSES.** Substrate, verified today: `.claude/settings.json` runs `dotfiles/scripts/tarbuckle-body.py` as `statusLine` (refreshInterval 60) · **5** scripts (`body`·`invoke`·`mumble`·`seam`·`wrap`) · `TARBUCKLE-SPEC-13.1-2026-08-25.md` exists · **7** state files under `~/.claude/state/`. **It is wired and running.** ⚠ Found by a concurrent sibling session, which held the correction rather than racing this one's memory write; its counts (7 scripts, 6 state files) were themselves off in both directions — **re-measured here, not relayed.** What is unbuilt is a separate question and this line no longer answers it. Trial 09 VOID (REVIEWED-124), void now recorded in all three docs. ⚠ Subject matter lives in **CapableMind-AI**, instruments in **dotfiles**, and nothing in CapableMind points back.