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arc-open-work-register-the-single-verified-source-of-truth-post-stage-g	Consolidated, code-verified list of what remains OPEN on ARC after Stage G was sealed (2026-06-10). Reconciles the scattered tracking surfaces — the chronological tracker, the ~10 standalone project-arc-* files, PENDING.md, the spec's Phase-2/held set, and content sweeps — against actual code/live state. Built 2026-06-11 because the records had drifted BOTH ways (real open work hidden; done work mislabeled "pending"). Supersedes the standalone "-pending" files for STATUS; those remain for detail. The chronological narrative stays in project-arc-rework.md; this carries current open-work truth.	node_type type permalink originSessionId modified memory project claude-memory/project-arc-open-work-register b85f1094-0658-47b4-a0ba-7a4323383aa9 2026-08-17T13:22:01.355Z

ARC open-work register

Single source of truth for what is OPEN on ARC. Built 2026-06-11, ARC main @ b220620, live. Each item verified against code/live where marked [verified]; [VERIFY] = status uncertain, check before calling done. The rigorous spec↔code half is /spec-code-audit; this register also carries the content/governance/Phase-2 surfaces that audit does not.

Why this exists. Stage G (sealed 2026-06-10) closed the spec, not ARC's work. Open items were scattered across the tracker, ten standalone project-arc-* files, PENDING.md, the spec's held set, and content sweeps in no spec. On 2026-06-11 several of those surfaces proved drifted in both directions (the AldineXXI selector index listed shipped features as "planned"; "pending" files described done work; real work sat unlisted). This register is the reckoning.

Legend: [OPEN] real remaining work · [DEFERRED] open by design, trigger-gated (Phase-2 / held / first-instance) · [DONE—retire] verified complete, the tracking file should be retired/archived · [VERIFY] needs a check.

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A — Open build work (the two undesigned-SVG-asset items the spec names but never realized)

• A1. Vignette (F+1) — the big remaining build. [OPEN] [verified] — 0 .vignette rules in compiled CSS, nothing rendered. Spec ready: vignette-specification.md (revised 2026-06-07, PENDING-31; build-time SVG+CSS renderer, Phase-α engine, zero-JS, AldineXXI §IX). Brief: drafts/vignette-spec-revision-brief-2026-05-28.md. The largest open build; the steward named it as "the big thing left."
• A2. The cul-de-lampe — the designed Close ornament asset. [DONE 2026-06-17 — designed · first-instanced · rolled out to 7 essays · spec resolved] — the cul-de-lampe is live. Confronted EB Garamond hederae (U+E001/E002, OFL), .ornament.close, one text-em tall (em-anchored, not constant — REVIEWED-42 consistency), var(--fg) opacity 0.7, CSS mask. Asset+rule+spec committed d736df1; rolled out (close on 7 essays; Vespers + Mushi-Ken reworked & versioned) in the follow-on commit. Close-only ruling: Essay/Hommage/Tombeau carry it; Fragment refused; Photo-essay declined; rest held-off (§IV Which types carry the Close + Sub-table 6, both reconciled). Placement = end of text proper, before Sources (apparatus spec). Publication mandate: every completed essay carries it. The content half (B3) is now unblocked + started. Historical context (the long road to this) below: — AldineXXI §IV names the function (Pause = rare within-piece breath, smaller scale; Close = end-of-piece, the punto finale, full scale — "the visual signature of completion; finis coronat opus") but the actual designed SVG cul-de-lampe is undetermined — spec §IV "Open question: the designed Pause/Close ornament itself" [OPEN — 2026-05-03], "the asset itself is yet to be determined." [verified]: compiled CSS still carries the retired classes (.ornament.completion, .ornament.section, .ornament.chapter, …) and has no .ornament.close/.ornament.pause — the asset was never designed, so the migration never ran (interim: the three-dot .ornament from the 06-07 hr doctrine stands in for Pause-at-threshold). Sibling to A1. Design sub-questions (one asset at two scales vs paired-distinct; motif lineage — Aldine cul-de-lampe vs Roman/Pompeian) in project-arc-pause-close-ornament-and-hr-audit-pending. The content half is B3. (Caught by the steward 2026-06-11 — it was buried under the generic "ornament migration"; it deserves its own line as the crown of every finished piece.)

B — Open content sweeps (largely steward-owned, manual)

• B1. Glimpse location + title cleanup. [OPEN — steward manual] [verified] — steward does this by hand (2026-06-11). 193 live glimpses; 4 lack location: frontmatter; titles need a cleanup pass. NB the glimpse rendering bugs (phone full-bleed, no-vessel) were fixed + deployed in Stage M — this is content/metadata, not code. Absorbs the residual of project-arc-apparatus-refactor-todo Tier 3 (EXIF/location for existing glimpses — now ~done).
• B2. Threshold---- promotion walk. [OPEN — steward content track] — apply the 2026-06-07 differentiated-hr doctrine across existing pieces: a bare --- at a foreword→main-text threshold becomes .ornament (dots); --- within the body stays silence. Doctrine + CSS settled (§IV amended, zero CSS change); the per-piece content walk remains.
• B3. Ornament content migration (Option A) — the content half of A2. [OPEN — UNGATED 2026-06-17 when A2 landed; scope VERIFIED 2026-06-11] — ⚠ label corrected 2026-08-17: this read gated on A2 for two months after A2 completed. A2's own entry had recorded "the content half (B3) is now unblocked + started" on 06-17 — so the fact was known and written, just never written here, which is where a reader checking B3's status looks. Kept as a marker of that failure mode rather than silently amended. — steward ruled Option A (2026-05-03): once the cul-de-lampe asset exists (A2), migrate content off the retired-ornament classes onto the canonical Close/Pause, then retire the old SCSS. Verified scope (sizable): ~95 content files carry hand-authored <div class="ornament …"></div> — completion ×51 (= the Close / end-of-piece, the cul-de-lampe's job), section ×50, thought ×14, chamber ×12, musical ×7, hermetic ×5, mathematical ×2, … Several variants (thought, mathematical) aren't even in the current CSS → they already collapse to bare .ornament. All retired per §IV; all await the designed asset. Not negligible, and not runnable until A2. Files: project-arc-ornament-spec-vs-content-mismatch-pending, project-arc-pause-close-ornament-and-hr-audit-pending.
• B4. Major content audit / archive of non-current files. [OPEN — was deferred] — per ARC CLAUDE.md Known state: deferred until "the current version of the site is established; do not rearrange the content tree until that session." Stage G sealed arguably satisfies that condition now — candidate to schedule.
• B5. Rethink the versioning links. [OPEN — design reconsideration; steward-raised 2026-06-17, NOT for now] — the steward feels something "doesn't sit right" about the version-stamp links and couldn't yet name it. Current behaviour (verified in built HTML): the piece-end stamp reads "Begun [place] [origin-date→/v/] · Revised [place] [revised-date, plain]" — the origin date is the only link, leading to the prior version; the /v/ page announces "You are reading a prior version… Read current →." Executor's candidate diagnoses (offered, not settled): (1) the cul-de-lampe (a completion seal, finis coronat opus) and the version link pull opposite ways — the close says done, the link a few lines below pulls backward into the superseded version; adding the close may have sharpened a latent tension. (2) "Begun [date]" frames the link as inception/seed, but the destination is a complete prior essay, not a beginning — label/destination mismatch. (3) for pieces revised by subtraction (Mushi-Ken's appendix, Vespers' loudness), the linked prior is the version the author improved away from — disclosing that a revision happened is integrity, but making the discarded version the foot-of-page reading-destination may overreach: provenance offered as invitation. Hunch: it's #1+#3 — ADR-005 designed versioning as a record, but rendered as a link it behaves like a parallel reading-path, and that sits oddly under a completion mark. Revisit when the steward can name it. (Grounds: ADR-005, essay-versioning-specification.md §3–4; the version-stamp builder in site.hs.)

C — Deferred by design (Phase-2 / held — trigger-gated, NOT drift)

• C1. Print/PDF posture + arc-typography.sty v0.3. [DEFERRED — Phase-2] — build the Print/PDF LaTeX templates; update tools/latex/arc-typography.sty (v0.2, found stale vs current doctrine 2026-06-10) to current spec (posture-aware ragged/justified, Medium headings, 27.2rem measure, British quote-norm, xelatex glyph routing). Governs all future ARC PDFs. File: project-arc-pdf-print-postures-session-plan.
• C2. OpenType feature catalogue (§I.i.j). [DEFERRED — Phase-2] — feature→CSS mapping; the Stage-G audit (06-09) enumerated the set; the session opens against it. (zero absent from every EB Garamond face — recorded.)
• C3. Held companions — Appendix D. [DEFERRED — Phase-2] — Navigation Philosophy, Print Stylesheet, Footnotes — named, not drafted; reactive, no date.
• C4. §VII.d Footnotes / Endnotes. [DEFERRED — first-instance] — research/parked pending the first essay that needs the register.
• C5. Held typographic options. [DEFERRED — held] — justification (→ print spec), hanging-punctuation (→ browser Baseline), word-spacing (held at 0.20em default), reader font-size control (held; the banish-JS gate's one named exception).
• C6. Tombeau route. [DEFERRED — first-instance] — governed-but-unsurfaced; route + Compass slot emerge with the first Tombeau piece (non-convergence).
• C7. Capsule apparatus. [DEFERRED — first-instance] — deferred, not rejected; reopens when pedagogical-treatise content begins (§XII.e locks with first instance). File: project-arc-capsule-apparatus-deferred-2026-05-05.
• C8. Per-piece epigraph chancery features; metric-matched font fallbacks. [DEFERRED] — first-instance (epigraph chancery swsh+init+fina) / empirical SCSS-audit candidate (font-metric overrides).

D — Governance debt

• D1. Place outstanding REVIEWED entries. [OPEN — steward writes REVIEWED] — PENDING-32 and PENDING-33 await REVIEWED placement; REVIEWED-36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 43 are drafted-for-placement (executed work, entries not yet placed). Constitutional: David/Claude.app write REVIEWED, not Claude Code.

E — Stale "pending" files — verified DONE; retire or archive

• E1. project-arc-breadcrumb-spec-pending → [DONE—retire] [verified] — breadcrumb componentized + governed permanent sibling (2026-06-03); .breadcrumb lives in _navigation.scss.
• E2. project-arc-mimesis-acquisition-debt → [DONE—archive] — RESOLVED 2026-05-20 (stated in-file). Chamber-library import, not ARC-site work.
• E3. project-arc-404-page-design-pending → [DONE—retire] [verified 2026-06-11] — the file predates the §VII.h spec and is stale. Apparatus §VII.h (ADDED 2026-05-20) governs the 404; content/404.md + built _site/404.html conform exactly: <title>Animal Rationis Capax</title>, body "No text at this address.", real 404 via CloudFlare. Built and conformant, not "design pending." (Any future Close-ornament on it rides A2.)
• E4. project-arc-apparatus-refactor-todo-2026-05-06 → [DONE—retire] — Tier 1/2 shipped (e2fb14c/249475b); Tier 3 glimpse location ~done (189/193) → residual in B1.
• E5. project-arc-spec-master-typographer-audit-pending → [DONE—retire — superseded] [verified 2026-06-11] — the masters-compliance pass was performed: _audits/deep-typographic-audit-2026-06-09.md exists (6-agent, masters folded), atop the 06-07 full bidirectional + 06-10 spec↔spec coherence audits. Retire unless a specific uncovered master-compliance dimension is named.
• E6. project-arc-web-typography-spec-coverage → [DONE—retire] [verified 2026-06-11] — Tier 1 all DONE (Lists/Code/Headings); Tier 2/3 DONE (Selection, Tables, Numerals, Smart-punct via §I.k). Only residual = the <abbr>/<mark> "styled-but-never-specced" corner; no ARC content meaningfully uses them — negligible, deferrable.

G — Infrastructure / functionality / features (for a dedicated future ARC session)

Session framing (steward, 2026-06-24): when an ARC infrastructure/functionality/features session opens, prioritize in-spec-but-not-built items first. The Vignette (A1) is the flagship — in spec (§IX + vignette-specification.md, Phase-1-ready) yet zero built, no trigger gating it. Open the session with a /spec-code-audit pass to census any other in-spec-but-non-existent items so the priority list is concrete, not a hunch. The link-rot system (G1) is the first new-build candidate; the Gwern.net deep audit (G3) is a companion track the steward wants to lead himself.

• G1. Link-rot prevention / link archival (Gwern borrowing). [PROPOSAL — noted 2026-06-24, not started] — steward-raised on publishing Two Notes (its fūrin Wikipedia link reopened the thread). Adopt a proportionate version of Gwern's link-preservation discipline for ARC's external citations. Three rungs: (0) detect — make linkcheck (e.g. lychee) over the corpus → dead/redirected-link report, optionally scheduled; (1) archive-on-publish — submit each external link to the Internet Archive Save-Page-Now (+ archive.today), record url → {snapshot, date} in a sidecar data/link-archive.yml; (2) self-host + fallback render — local SingleFile snapshots + a template/apparatus offering the archived copy (auto-swap on 404). Governed, not in-stride (steward-flagged): Rung 2 touches site.hs (the carefully-rewritten Stage-G routing/contexts — §1 protected surface) and the sealed AldineXXI spec (how an archived-link fallback renders is a typographic/apparatus decision → jurist territory), plus new build infra; Rungs 0–1 are lower-risk (script + data file) but still warrant the loop given reach. Path: [PROPOSAL] in PENDING.md → jurist on the rendering/apparatus question → phased build (0→1 first; 2 a considered decision — ARC's small scale may make a full self-hosted mirror disproportionate). Ethos: link-permanence = the prime directive applied to citations (build what you will not need to rebuild; a corpus inheritable by Lune & Kai without dead links).

• G2. Zero-JS reading-progress bar (Gwern-occasioned). [CANDIDATE — borderline-loud, undecided; needs steward judgment first] — Gwern's bottom running-head/progress bar is pure JS (declined under banish-JS, REVIEWED-32). A zero-JS animation-timeline: scroll(root) progress bar was flagged 06-22 as an iPhone test candidate (different/simpler than the §VII.f view() reveal, which won't drive on iOS for a fixed consumer). Caveat: an always-on progress indicator is visible chrome — it may not survive ARC's quiet-over-loud filter; decide whether it's wanted at all before building. If yes, a ~10-line CSS test → load on a real iPhone. (Was ledger-only 06-22/06-23; promoted here so it perdures.)

• G3. Deep audit of Gwern.net (steward wants to lead). [OPEN — steward-initiated] — a deliberate harvest pass over gwern.net through the recorded filter: adopt the invisible durability craft (build-time, provenance, permanence); decline the visible density (popups, JS progress, similar-links clutter, link-dense ToC). Probe candidates worth a proportionate ARC version: integrity hashes on archived snapshots, build-time link-checking (folds into G1), quiet backlinks, content-addressing / perdurance patterns — and explicitly catalogue what to decline. Output: register entries surfaced for steward decision, not a fait accompli. Shared nerve with Gwern = the intent to perdure (he loudly, ARC quietly), not his density.

F — The chronological tracker

project-arc-rework.md is the narrative record, true through 2026-06-07 evening (last entry: the pre-3R Fowler note). It is owed compact appends for 06-08 → 06-11: W3R re-partition close + deploy; Wave 5 + measure→72ch + soft rag; Stage G CLOSED + reconciled + SEALED + GPG-signed (06-10); §VII.f running head + W1.15 compass presence-reveal shipped (06-11). The tracker's "CANONICAL STAGE STATUS" line (≈L3852, "as of 2026-06-05") is stale. This register now carries current open-work truth; the tracker carries the story. Tracker annotated to point here (2026-06-11).

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Maintenance: update this register as items close; move [DONE—retire] files to an archive; promote [VERIFY] to a verdict once checked. Canonical current-state for ARC open work lives HERE — not in the scattered files, and not inferred from "Stage G is done."