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name: feedback-resurface-banked-notes-before-rederiving
description: "When an idea was already captured/banked for resurfacing (runbook known_gaps, skill-harvest, a prior note), READ the note before re-deriving it — re-derivation drifts from the recorded detail."
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node_type: memory
type: feedback
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When a topic comes up that was **already captured for resurfacing** — a runbook `known_gaps.next`, a skill-harvest entry, a banked steward idea, a prior session note — **read the recorded note before acting or re-deriving.** Re-derivation from memory drifts from the captured detail, and the drift makes the steward re-explain something already settled.
**Why:** This is the exact failure the engine/L1 exists to end — a faithfully-recorded fact that does not resurface faithfully. Treating my own re-derivation as more authoritative than my own note is the contamination shape (executor confidence over the record). Kin to [[trust-prior-pass-frame]] and the live-state-discipline flag, turned on *banked notes* rather than code.
**How to apply:** At the start of any task touching a previously-banked idea, `grep` the runbook / skill-harvest / docs for the prior note and quote it, BEFORE proposing or building. If the re-derivation contradicts the note, the note wins until verified otherwise.
**Caught 2026-06-27 (OCR conversion):** the page-number idea was recorded *precisely* in `chamber-library/_curation/conversion-runbook.yaml` — "PRESERVE the printed page number… to auto-anchor ToC chapters… strip after structure is anchored… enables automatic heading recovery." This session I re-derived it and mis-framed it as **provenance** (twice, in the method doc I was writing), making the steward correct me and then note: *"in theory you had noted this for resurfacing in detail."* The note was right; my recall wasn't. (The method itself then proved out: 9/9 book1 chapters mapped exactly via ToC printed-page → scan offset — see `docs/ocr-conversion-method-2026-06-27.md` §6d.)