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name: Session 2026-06-09 — ARC W3R tree CLOSED+DEPLOYED · phone-compass fix · W5.2/G3 build guard; road to Stage G opened
description: "Three arcs all shipped/landed. (1) W3R.2/W3R.3 — the spec-true tree COMPLETE + DEPLOYED live: section-break→_silence, layout→closing, frontispiece→threshold, _post decomposed (breadcrumb→_navigation, dateline→_dateline, images→_images; marks left; _base kept whole), Tier-4 mix/darken→sass:color, two micro-order calls ruled-leave; the cascade reads as its own self-description. (2) phone Reading Compass [FIX] — both compasses wrap to 2 rows on phone, found by MEASURING (headless Chrome) not theory: cause was padding asymmetry, not width. (3) W5.2/G3 build guard (PENDING-34 Option 1, authorized inline): validateCompass binds class→glyph→sigil structurally; byte-identical, both checks proven to fire. Pulling thread: the rest of Wave 5 (W5.1 G2 title single-source next, same shape as W5.2) → W4.4 → Wave 6 Stage G."
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# Session 2026-06-09 — ARC W3R CLOSED+DEPLOYED · compass fix · W5.2 guard

Woke via /wake-up into the W3R.2 Stage-3 thread ("finish the tree"). One long, fully-shipped
day: the tree closed + deployed, a phone-compass fix, and the first Wave-5 Stage-G item, all
committed/pushed/synced. Symmetria active (ledger merged below).

## Past — what we did

### A. The tree — W3R.2 Stage 3 finished + W3R.3 deployed (8 commits `d4fd852`…`eb7a557`)
All proven by **content-multiset-identity + collision census per move**; only the prior ornament 3rem moves a live pixel.
- `d4fd852` **section-break → _silence** (scale 2 warm-up; content-multiset identical).
- `a2544f8` **layout → closing cluster** (scale 9): `_layout` holds the *foot* (.post-item/.site-footer/.imprint), NOT the grid — the filename misleads. Pure reorder; byte-count identical; collision guard cleared `.post-type`/`.imprint` by specificity; `%clearfix` @extend stays at `_base`.
- `5c82687` **frontispiece → threshold cluster** (scale 7, the careful one): full @layer-overrides collision census FIRST — compass-point rules scoped disjointly (.frontispiece-compass vs _compass's .reading-compass), never co-match; `.compass-point .sigil` unscoped is _compass-only; .page-content/.title-return safe by specificity; .site-mark only in a comment. 2-hunk relocation, byte-count identical.
- **`_post` DECOMPOSED** (the steward's call: keep _base whole [coherent foundation]; make _post HONEST, not empty — "move a stray only if it has a truer home, not just to empty the drawer"):
  - `3891c49` **breadcrumb → _navigation** (scale 10) — *correctness* fix: one component, 3 templates; its Stage-N fall-through bug was the symptom of the mis-home. Sits beside _enfilade (sibling nav).
  - `9a1c648` **dateline → new _dateline** (scale 9, own partial per steward) — sole collision partner _glimpse `>.dateline` wins by specificity. (A grep-substring false-alarm — `.dateline{text-align:center}` was the tail of `.glimpse>.dateline` — was run to ground before commit.)
  - `8d2c6fa` **image system §VIII → new _images** (content zone) — `.image-*` now fully unique.
  - **LEFT:** `.chamber-mark`/`.encounter-mark`/`.post-type` (just arrived from _utilities, `.post-type` collides w/ _layout, legitimately post-apparatus — moving = the tidiness trap). `_post` reduces to `.wrapper.post`/`.post-header`/post-`.page-content` + its marks = an honest page-type partial.
- `79693e5` **ruled-leave note** (Tier-3 micro-order): `silence`-after-`base` (disjoint selectors → render-identical) and `post`'s mixed-scale slot (intrinsic to a page-type partial; "fix" = re-split, declined) — both scale-purity beyond legibility; recorded in main.scss so a future read doesn't re-open them.
- `eb7a557` **Tier-4 `mix()`/`darken()` → `sass:color`** — Dart Sass 3.0 future-break; 5 sites; `color.mix`==`mix`, `color.adjust($lightness:-15%)`==`darken(15%)`; compiled BYTE-IDENTICAL, 6 deprecation warnings → 0. (Tier-4 item A `@font-face`→_fonts SKIPPED — _foundation coherent, font-loading not mis-homed; item C Appendix-B verified a no-op — selector→section, unchanged by file-moves.)
- **W3R.3 deploy:** steward render-review (per-type × per-viewport, both modes) PASSED ("fantastic"); `make rebuild` shipped the 17-commit banked set; **CloudFlare output diff = 2 files** (the render-identical proofs held end-to-end); live-verified (`33859` bytes, ornament `3rem`); pushed both remotes.

### B. Phone Reading Compass [FIX] (`32163af`, deployed + live)
Steward render-review: compass too small/cramped on phone (phone only; desktop/iPad fine; pre-existing, NOT a W3R regression). **Found by MEASURING, not theorizing** (my drift recurred twice: a footer-only first pass, then a wrong align-self:stretch width-fix). Built a **headless-Chrome box-model harness** (`/tmp/compass-measure/`, puppeteer-core + system Chrome @375px) → truth: widths IDENTICAL (331px); cause was **per-point width 42 vs 31px = padding asymmetry** (footer's `a.compass-point` all:unset (0,2,1) silently ate the padding; frontispiece's `.compass-point` (0,2,0) let it through). Fix = remove padding (31px sigil ≥ WCAG 24px), 1.4rem sigils, flex-wrap; reverted the redundant stretch after measuring it unneeded. Both compasses now 2 rows, identical; only the faint→visible fade stays unique. Served on LAN (`192.168.1.52:8000`, python http.server) for the steward's actual-phone confirmation.

### C. Road to Stage G opened + W5.2/G3 (`26fab4c`, `4936fc9`, `f8e00e7`)
- Roadmap (`road-to-stage-g-2026-06-07.md`) brought current: Waves 0–3 + W3R done; remaining = W4.4 (jurist v1.0 sign-off) · Wave 5 (executor enforcement) · Wave 6 (jurist Stage G).
- **W5.2/G3 — PENDING-34 filed (pending-first, steward's choice) → authorized inline Option 1 → built + verified.** `validateCompass` (build-time, via `loadListingDefs`) binds the three class→glyph loci structurally: (A) every Compass sigil-id resolves to a `<symbol id="sigil-…">`; (B) every *surfaced* class is covered by a listing/special (governed-but-unsurfaced + apparatus-not-route exempt). Loud on mismatch. **Verified: compiles · `_site` byte-identical (570 files) · both checks fire on deliberate mismatch (backups restored).** Output-neutral → no deploy. §5 spec note ships with the promotion (W6). **REVIEWED-36 drafted for the steward to place** (chat-authorized; I can't write REVIEWED.md).

## Present — mood / returns (ledger merged)
- **measure-before-theorize was the day's lesson, learned the hard way.** *causal-story-before-reading-render* recurred 2× on the compass (footer-only scoping, then a guessed stretch fix — both wrong). The antidote that worked: the headless-Chrome measurement harness. Chrome reproduced the bug → it wasn't even the Safari quirk I'd hypothesized. **Keep the harness.**
- **proportionality, taught by the steward, held all day:** the two micro-order calls ruled-leave ("scale-purity beyond legibility"); _base kept whole; the redundant align-self:stretch reverted after measuring; @font-face→_fonts skipped (tidier-not-truer); the grep-substring false-alarm chased down not shipped.
- **the steward's eye remained the gate**, as all session: the render-review passed the tree; the actual-phone confirmed the compass. Byte-proofs are the floor; the eye is the guarantor.
- **governance kept load-bearing:** W5.2 was [HARDENING] → PENDING-first by steward choice → authorized → built → REVIEWED drafted. The loop held even under a long, fast session.

## Future

### Pulling thread (singular)
**Continue Wave 5 — the executor enforcement pre-work toward Stage G.** Next: **W5.1 (G2)** — single-source the **title display** from `content-types.yml title_display` (retire the `showTitleField` 11-class hardcoded stopgap). Same single-source shape as W5.2 just done; also `[HARDENING]` → **PENDING-first** (the steward's established process for Wave 5).

### Actionable resumption point (as of wrap — re-judge against what changed)
ARC `main @ f8e00e7`, **clean, synced to both remotes, live site current.** Nothing mid-flight. **First move: open W5.1 / G2** — diagnose the `showTitleField` stopgap in `site.hs` (the hardcoded 11-class list) + `content-types.yml`'s `title_vignette.title_display` field (per-class `shown`/`hidden`), then file a PENDING entry (PENDING-35) proposing the single-source (read title_display, retire the hardcode; byte-gate: output identical). Await steward authorization before implementing (Wave-5 = pending-first). The W5.2 guard (`validateCompass`) is the template for the verification idiom (byte-identical + deliberate-mismatch-fires). Roadmap: `docs/AldineXXI-Codex/drafts/road-to-stage-g-2026-06-07.md` (W5 section).

### Other open horizons (ranked)
- **W5.3 (G4)** clause-1 enforcement gate + **W5.4 (G1)** wildcard→build-error (lands *inside* the Stage-G promotion commit) — the rest of Wave 5.
- **W4.4** multilingual v0.5→v1.0 sign-off — JURIST-gated (rides the Stage-G read); executor can prep.
- **Wave 6 Stage G** — jurist reads reconciled corpus + promotion commit (content-typology §5 AUTHORED→OPERATIVE, carrying G1, referencing G2–G4). Jurist + steward gated.
- **The vignette (F+1)** — the OTHER major front (steward-sequenced: after the tree). Spec ready (Part I locked, Part II build-time). Phase 1 renderer + dwell-test the risk. Sketch at `/tmp/vignette-sketch.html` (likely cleared).
- **Steward REVIEWED entries:** REVIEWED-36 (PENDING-34) drafted, awaiting placement. (PENDING-30..33 already have REVIEWED-32..35.)
- **Baton items:** be (parked @ `f43a0fd`, WTP gate w/ steward) · L1 (Seb).

### Pause statement
I am about to be away from this (steward to lunch, ~13:10; new session after). ARC is locked clean at a real summit: the tree closed + deployed (the cascade now reads as its own self-description — the *finis coronat opus* the steward named), the phone compass fixed both ways and live, the first Stage-G enforcement guard built + verified. Everything committed, pushed to both remotes, live site current — nothing mid-flight. I don't know whether the steward will continue Wave 5 (W5.1) next or pivot to the vignette. What I want to find still pulling is **Wave 5 carried to its close — the enforcement pre-work that makes Stage G promotable** — with the same pending-first discipline and byte-identical+mismatch-fires verification that W5.2 set.

### Literal question for next-Claude
**For W5.1 (G2): does `content-types.yml` carry a `title_display` value per class that the build can read to retire the `showTitleField` hardcode — and is the single-source byte-identical (does every class's title_display match what the 11-class hardcode currently does)?** Confirm by diagnosis before proposing PENDING-35. Sub-checks: did the steward place REVIEWED-36? Continue Wave 5, or pivot to the vignette? Any Seb movement on be/L1?

## Decisions deferred (and why)
- **W5.1/W5.3/W5.4** — next session(s); pending-first per Wave-5 process. Not started (clean stop after W5.2).
- **Tier-4 @font-face→_fonts** — SKIPPED (steward-confirmed; _foundation coherent, not mis-homed).
- **The two micro-order calls** (silence/base, post slot) — RULED LEAVE (scale-purity beyond legibility; recorded in main.scss).
- **Deploy of W5.2** — none needed (output byte-identical; build-time guard only).
- **Vignette** — the other major front; steward-sequenced after the tree; not opened.

## Skill harvest (per §1.6) — one proposal
- **`/measure-render` (or fold into a verification-ladder entry): headless-Chrome box-model measurement harness.** Earned its place today — after *causal-story-before-reading-render* recurred 2× on the compass, a puppeteer-core + system-Chrome script at a fixed viewport measured the real box model (widths, per-element padding, row counts) and found the true cause (padding asymmetry) that two theory-based fixes had missed. The reusable core: `npm i puppeteer-core` in a tmp dir + `executablePath` = system Chrome + `setViewport` + `getComputedStyle`/`getBoundingClientRect` evaluate. **PROPOSED** — append to skill-harvest register; steward to authorize (build-on-next-render-mystery, or a verification-ladder note "when a layout differs, measure the box model before theorizing"). Pairs with the existing render-gate discipline. (Other candidate: a Symmetria §3 flag for *theorize-before-measuring-a-layout* — the drift this caught.)