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Session Ledger — 2026-07-10

Returns

• 2026-07-10T17:1x — Over-reached on an outward action; auto-classifier caught it. Bundled a git push to chamber main into the jurist-ruling commit command — but the steward relayed the ruling, never directed a push; a direct default-branch push bypasses PR review + is outward-facing. Correct move (adopted): local commit only (reversible checkpoint 12405a5), surface the push for steward direction. Barrel-forward on an outward action — the 07-09 "calm and orderly" drift, one notch more specific: commit ≠ push; the review boundary is the push, not the checkpoint.
• 2026-07-10T16:48 — Post-clear wake. Caught + disregarded the SessionStart hook's stale 2026-03-05 handoff (BMF/Gitea era); reconstructed from the live memory layer. Thread validity CONFIRMED (pre-processor shipped for mirror class; next = widen to Sennett OR apply to Jung, the latter gated on §7). Symmetria re-anchored. Drift to hold: barrel-forward-vs-read-plan-first (07-09 "calm and orderly") + per-item-granularity over aggregate invariants (07-10 jurist §3).
• 2026-07-10T08:0x — Composing the PENDING-53 jurist brief, caught PENDING-53's own Summary slightly overstating the defect: it calls the spec's voice_manifest line a "mis-frame," but substrate (chamber spec §VI:388–391 + engine corpus/manifest.yaml header + ingest_gate.py:104–126) shows that line is TRUE about the voice manifest. Real defect = OMISSION of the engine source-binding surface + a shared-word ("manifest") collision. Surfaced the refinement in the brief §3 rather than reproduce the overstatement. Verify-against-substrate before repeating a record's framing — kin to trusted-derived-artifact-over-source.

Open horizons

• 2026-07-10T07:53 — Woke into the confirmed pulling thread: build the structural, verbatim-guarded EPUB normalizer (bidirectional-mirror predicate). Next concrete = prototype the detector (not the converter) on the 3 attested Chamber Sources EPUBs, answering the wrap's literal question before writing any converter. Measure-before-build.
• Two live drift-patterns to hold today (both bite on a build session): (1) verify-at-the-full-scope-not-the-inherited-frame (yesterday's cross-repo re-anchor miss); (2) read/plan-first over barrel-forward (the steward's "calm and orderly" ask).

Confidence to recalibrate

• 2026-07-10 — EPUB mirror-detector prototype run on the 3 attested Chamber Sources EPUBs (read-only, scratchpad detect_epub_mirrors.py). ANSWERS the wrap's literal question with substrate proof: G&G 27 mirror pairs = all 54 anchors across all 5 id-families (int/ft/ch/ntch/pst), 0 residue; Mauss 628 pairs, 627 CROSS-FILE (endnotes in separate files, href-resolution follows them), exhaustive partition (1256 paired + 30 one-way TOC = 1286); zero one-way anchors carry an id in any book → predicate misses no note family. TOC excluded two ways (Mauss: id=None fragmented; G&G: 41 frag-less Contents links). L'Enracinement = genuine DIFFERENT class, not a sparse mirror: 0 internal anchors, its single note is an unlinked [1] text marker (already handled in P1); + a TRAP — 87 <sup> are French century ordinals (XVIIIᵉ), NOT notes. Detector-tool review (per feedback-tool-review-after-each-use): worked; belongs in the engine tool-evolution-log when it graduates into the normalizer build.
• HONEST BOUNDARY held for next step: the detector proves the predicate IDENTIFIES the right anchors; it does NOT yet prove verbatim-safe note-text EXTRACTION + re-anchoring (never touch a prose byte). That is the next measurement, before the converter.

Returns (cont.)

• 2026-07-10 — Steward challenged the framing: "are three files sufficient?" CORRECT challenge — accepted, not defended. Ran the read-only detector as a population CENSUS across all 253 Chamber Sources EPUBs (census_epub_shapes.py). Result DECISIVELY answers no: distribution = MIRROR-CLEAN 49 (19%) · NO-NOTES 119 (47%) · DANGER/MIXED 61 (24%) · EPUB3-SEMANTIC 12 (5%) · UNLINKED-MARK 12 (5%). n=3 captured ~1–2 of ≥5 footnote strategies. Honesty catch on my OWN instrument: the classifier's oneway_with_id + resid_fn_ids signals are NOISY (catch index/xref anchors + a too-broad regex), so "61 DANGER" is an UPPER BOUND mixing genuinely-unhandled structures, already-handled container-mirrors co-flagged, and non-note apparatus. Verified ONE danger book against XHTML (Sennett: refs <a href="#…fn1a"> carry no own id → one-directional → mirror misses it → genuine unhandled class, not noise). New strategies n=3 never showed: EPUB3 epub:type (ALIVE in 12, we'd called it "dead"); one-directional/stem-suffix; container-mirror at scale (Donne 2291); heavy index/xref apparatus to be DISTINGUISHED from notes; edition-matters (Bachelard Poetics FR=mirror / EN=endnote-number — same work, different structure). Measure-before-build did exactly its job.

Authorization moves

• 2026-07-10T16:5x (post-clear) — §7 (PENDING-54 mega-EPUB provenance, Jung) AUTHORIZED by steward. Per-volume separation, each volume referencing the parent collection (source/source_verified → the single megavolume sha256; frontmatter states extraction, never a standalone Bollingen edition). Steward exercised final authority on the point the jurist held OPEN with a per-volume lean → aligns, NO new jurist round. Unblocks re-converting legacy Jung .md (+Donne) via convert_mega_epub.py at the per-volume representation; open design sub-task = per-volume boundary detection (~18 CW vols). §7 resolution text PRESENTED to steward for placement in REVIEWED-54 — NOT written to REVIEWED.md (Constitutional Constraint #1: executor cannot modify REVIEWED.md; the executor-drafts-marked-entries practice of 52/53/54 sits in tension with it — flagged for steward). Held execution (calm-and-orderly) pending steward go.
• CORRECTION (substrate-verified): PENDING-47 (the whole stress-test/source-match/exclusion arc) is CLOSED + ruled (REVIEWED-47, 2026-07-05). My post-clear wake briefing MISLABELED the open jurist item as "PENDING-47" — inherited loosely from this ledger's shorthand + carried forward without verifying (inherited-marker-read-as-current-state). The TWO genuinely-open jurist items (both REVIEWED-53): (a) the generalized hash-locality principle — graduation-spec.yaml L29–39, marked [awaiting jurist ratification of the generalized principle]; the 07-10 relay was TRUNCATED so the jurist declined to ratify unread; fix = relay the full untruncated text; (b) the lane-rule accept/narrow (REVIEWED-53 L474). Corrected against the substrate before propagating further.
• GOVERNANCE STATE (post-clear, Fri 2026-07-10):
  1. Steward working remotely from Ravello. REVIEWED placements OWED BY STEWARD → deferred to Sunday 2026-07-12 (steward's own commitment): confirm/place REVIEWED-52/53/54 + ADD the §7 block below to REVIEWED-54. Do NOT re-surface as dropped before 07-12 — it is intentionally held, not lost.
  2. Two jurist items RULED 2026-07-10 (jurist reply relayed by steward; verbatim archived → chamber-library/docs/hash-locality-ratification-and-lane-narrowing-JURIST-RULING-2026-07-10.md): (a) generalized hash-locality principle RATIFIED in full (all three instances checked, not assumed) → executor CLOSED the graduation-spec.yaml marker, dated + trued 2→3 instances; committed 12405a5, PUSHED to github + origin/Gitea 2026-07-10 on steward direction (both remotes clean; Gitea cooperated). (b) lane doctrine NARROWED — executor's correction ACCEPTED: machine-data files keep change-class-tracks-lane (they have a code/git/test_tools fallback); the .md constitution runs on doctrinal-traceability (its prose is the sole record); axis = doctrinal content, not file extension (a no-doctrine typo/deadlink .md fix still doesn't need the heavy lane). Steward-owed Sun 2026-07-12: record (b) against REVIEWED-53 §2 (paste-ready below).
  3. §7 AUTHORIZED → legacy Jung per-volume re-convert is UNBLOCKED (no further governance needed). Execution HELD pending steward go.
• §7 paste-ready block for REVIEWED-54 (steward to place Sunday 2026-07-12):

  §7 RESOLVED 2026-07-10 (steward, final authority on the point the jurist held open with an aligned per-volume lean): AUTHORIZED — per-volume separation, each volume referencing the parent collection. Jung CW extracted into per-volume files; each carries source / source_verified → the single megavolume sha256; frontmatter states extraction from the collection, never poses as a standalone Bollingen edition (the jurist's airtight-safeguard condition, adopted). Matches the jurist's agreed direction → no new jurist round. Unblocks re-converting the legacy Jung .md (+Donne) via convert_mega_epub.py at the per-volume representation. Open design sub-task: per-volume boundary detection across the ~18 CW volumes (convert_mega_epub.py currently splits by 80-doc chunks, not by volume).

• Lane-doctrine paste-ready for REVIEWED-53 §2 (steward to record Sun 2026-07-12):

  Lane-rule refinement — jurist ACCEPTED + narrowed (ruling 2026-07-10). "Lane tracks change-class" stands for graduation-spec.yaml / machine-data files only — they carry an independent fallback (code, git history, test_tools fixtures) that already pins "what was true when," so change-class is a sufficient proxy. The .md constitutional spec has no such fallback — its prose IS the sole authoritative record — so its lane tracks doctrinal-traceability: whether the change adds doctrine a successor must trace to a dated marker, regardless of change-class. NOT "every .md edit takes the heavy lane" — a no-doctrine typo/deadlink fix doesn't. The axis is doctrinal content, not file extension. This narrows the PENDING-53 ruling (§2) for anything beyond graduation-spec.yaml itself; that document's proposed rule is read with this correction attached.

• REVIEWED-54a paste-ready (steward to place Sun 2026-07-12; executor cannot write REVIEWED.md — Constraint #1):

  ## REVIEWED-54a — Split-anchor footnote recognizer widen (Sennett) + GOV-2 dup-scope Date: 2026-07-10 · Decision: AUTHORIZED (jurist FIX-ruled 2026-07-10) · extends: REVIEWED-54 Notes: Recognizer widen to the split-anchor footnote family (first REVIEWED-54 deferred family). Jurist FIX-class via the reusable test — a widen stays FIX iff its safety case is carried entirely by the SAME unchanged verification (a new recognition predicate, not a change to how recognition is verified); crosses to PROPOSAL the moment it modifies the guard, adds a new verification mechanism, or hands prose conversion to anything other than stock pandoc. GOV-2 = option (c): the per-pair guard's within-file dup-check is scoped to conversion-touched ids (note-body / mirror-ref / split back-target — incl. the jurist's back-target precision); an unrelated pre-existing dup is a non-blocking WARNING routed to anchor-hygiene. If AUTHORIZED: LANDED + PUSHED (a6828ac, github+Gitea 2026-07-10) — split-anchor pass + GOV-2-scoped verify_pairs in scripts/inject_epub_footnotes.py; test_tools fixture (fleet 77→80); --validate 15; runbook policy + tool-evolution-log + chamber CLAUDE.md. Verbatim-clean on Sennett (294/294 → native, 0 prose added/lost). Jurist ruling + brief in docs/. Separate travel-items: the cra0001002 anchor-hygiene dup-id audit; the census-misclassification flag. Tag follow-ons REVIEWED-54a.

• Awaiting steward/jurist: PENDING-52 (enforce source-archiving in graduation). REVIEWED-52 placement still owed by steward.
• PENDING-53 RULED + LANDED 2026-07-10 (jurist ruling relayed by steward; REVIEWED-53). Ratified draft §5 option (b) with the required wording correction (re-anchors→REQUIRES re-anchoring, prescriptive). Change-class [PROPOSAL]→FIX. Landed graduation-spec.yaml layers: (voice_manifest annotated + single engine_source_binding key + shared-word comment; dual warning kept). YAML re-parses; bounded 6-ins/1-del; uncommitted (steward's call). Lane-rule response surfaced for jurist: accept "lane tracks change-class" for graduation-spec.yaml; NARROW the .md generalization — A2/A4 (FIX-class doctrinal .md additions) correctly took the heavier freeze+semver lane per REVIEWED-50's doctrinal-traceability axis, so for the .md the axis is successor-traced-doctrine, not change-class. PENDING-47 ratification declined (truncated relay) → still [awaiting]; relay full text to close.
• PENDING-54 FILED 2026-07-10 [PROPOSAL] — the EPUB footnote pre-processor + mega-EPUB split-convert (brief: chamber-library/docs/epub-footnote-preprocessor-FOR-JURIST-2026-07-10.md).
• PENDING-54 RULED IN PRINCIPLE 2026-07-10 (jurist, relayed by steward). Architecture sound; markers CONFIRMED apparatus under §V (closes an implicit assumption clean_epub_residue always ran on); PROPOSAL change-class confirmed (sharpened test: PROPOSAL if it alters a gate's criteria OR the trusted mechanism a critical gate's meaning depends on — this inserts a new component into §V's production chain). Ship now for the mirror class, CONDITIONED on the existing regex tools staying as fallback (addition, not replacement). Governance placement yes (fleet tool + graduation-spec converted_with note).
  • REQUIRED before canon (§3) — DONE: per-pair verbatim guard. Was whole-doc aggregate (would miss a cross-note swap); now id-matched per-pair keyed by (dest-file, id). Re-proven G&G 27 / Mauss 628 / Polastron 140 / Jung 1086, 0 mismatch, 0 within-file dup; teeth demonstrated (deliberate id-swap CAUGHT). Bonus: surfaced Jung cross-volume id reuse (81 collisions under bare-id key → the (file,id) key fixes it + reinforces the split).
  • §5 wording fixed (cross-file mechanism IS covered/proven; Orwell-Quixote exact shape not separately proven — "mechanism covers it, not isolated yet"). Fallback-condition recorded in brief.
  • §7 Jung provenance fact-check DONE (for steward+jurist): corpus does BOTH — per-volume precedent EXISTS (Alexander Nature of Order 4 files, Lacroux Orthotypographie 2, Habermas vol-1, Burney vol-1, Camus Œuvres I) AND single-megafile (Xenophon/Muir/Zhuangzi/Rumi/Levi/Blake/Shakespeare complete). Distinction ≈ per-volume citation identity; Jung CW (cited by vol) fits the per-volume side → supports jurist's per-volume lean. Held open, steward+jurist decide. Governs re-converting legacy Jung .md (+Donne).
  • PENDING-47 unchanged ([awaiting], truncated relay).
• BUILD-IN AUTHORIZED + DONE under fleet discipline 2026-07-10 (steward "Authorize the build-in"). Promoted scratchpad → chamber fleet, matching conventions (read test_tools/tool-log idiom first): (A) scripts/inject_epub_footnotes.py — added --validate (7 invariants incl. teeth) + refuse-on-mismatch (won't write a canonical the per-pair guard flags); (B) scripts/convert_mega_epub.py — refactored to inject-INTERNALLY (fixed module-level sys.argv bug), argparse, verbatim-guarded, proven on Mauss --batch 5 (4 chunks, 628 native, clean); (C) test_tools.py fixture test_inject_epub_footnotes (recognize+relocate · per-pair clean · one-way untouched · TEETH) → fleet 73→77/77; (D) graduation-spec.yaml converted_with note (declares the stage; parses OK); (E) conversion-runbook.yaml policy.footnote_preprocessor (preferred for mirror class; regex tools STAY as fallback — jurist §5 addition-not-replacement; mega via convert_mega_epub); (F) tool-evolution-log.md entry (Why/Built/Result/Tested/Follow-ons/Lesson). All 6 files UNCOMMITTED (steward's Gitea call). DEFERRED (flagged, not landed): ratified-spec §V cross-ref (runs the .md amendment lane, not unilateral); recognizer coverage of remaining families (Sennett one-directional, container-mirror); per-volume boundary detection (PENDING-54 §7); re-convert legacy Jung .md (+Donne).

Decisive findings — the pandoc pre-processor path

• 2026-07-10 — INJECTION EXPERIMENT (steward-requested), run on real minimal EPUBs via -f epub (the HTML reader gives different/incomplete behaviour — must use the epub reader). PROVEN: (1) pandoc converts epub:type=noteref + same-file <aside epub:type=footnote id=X> → clean native [^N] / [^N]: (Recipe A/B); raw mirror-only control → superscript links, 0 footnotes. (2) CROSS-FILE epub:type is NOT stitched by pandoc even when injected correctly (DEF=0) — so cross-file/endnote books need the note BODY physically relocated into the ref's spine file, not just semantics. Diagnostic 2×2 (epub:type × same/cross-file) substrate-proven on kafka(same-file,native✓)/orwell+quixote(cross-file,✗)/G&G(no-epub:type,✗).
• ARCHITECTURE (evidence-based, supersedes build-vs-extend): a small VERBATIM-SAFE pre-processor — recognize footnote structure in raw XHTML (mirror predicate + existing epub:type) → inject epub:type on ref/body → relocate cross-file bodies → hand to STOCK pandoc for native footnote + verbatim text conversion. Touches only markup attributes/element-location, never prose bytes; leans on pandoc (the trusted verbatim converter) for text; ONE structural recognition (on clean pre-pandoc XHTML) replaces the N post-hoc Markdown family regexes. Books pandoc already handles (kafka class) pass through untouched. The census taxonomy = the recognizer's spec (the DANGER classes — Sennett one-directional, container-mirror — are what the recognizer must cover or safely refuse).
• STILL OWED (not yet proven): real-book end-to-end on G&G (same-file) + Mauss (cross-file) with a PROSE-BYTE-IDENTICAL check (injection changed only footnotes, not text); recognizer coverage of the other census families or honest-abort. Mechanism proven; tool-on-real-books not yet.

Sub-agent dialogues

Prototype PROVEN (G&G + Mauss)

• 2026-07-10 — inject_epub_footnotes.py (scratchpad prototype) built + proven end-to-end. Recipe: attribute-only injection — ref <a> gets epub:type=noteref; note-body BLOCK gets epub:type=footnote role=doc-footnote id=X (id moved off inner anchor); cross-file bodies RELOCATED into the ref's file + ref href→#X. Offset-accurate editing via an html.parser that tracks block-ancestor spans; pairing = the bidirectional-mirror predicate. Then STOCK pandoc (-t gfm-raw_html) does the verbatim text conversion.
• RESULT: G&G (same-file) 27 pairs → 27 native footnotes; Mauss (cross-file) 628 pairs (627 relocated) → 628 native footnotes. Both prose word-multiset IDENTICAL (0 lost / 0 added) — verbatim-clean by the chamber's own faithfulness standard.
• Bug caught + fixed mid-build: injector keyed docs by full zip path while href resolution is basename-based → cross-file pairing found 1/628; fixed to basename keys → 628. (Verify-against-substrate: the 1-pair result was the tell.)
• Verify-guard caught its OWN artifact: first Mauss run showed +39 "added" words; direct content-word counts (potlatch 306=306, maori 53=53) proved no real change; a SYMMETRIC normalizer ([text](url)→text on both sides) collapsed it to 0/0. The asymmetry was in my tokenizer, not the conversion.
• HONEST CAVEATS (for the report + next step): (1) word-multiset is order-BLIND — order preserved by construction here (only markup edited / whole blocks moved, never prose reordered) but a sequence-level diff would be stronger; (2) cosmetic leading back-anchor residue [1](#..) remains in each note (apparatus, not prose; strip in a trivial follow-up per Recipe B); (3) coverage = the bidirectional-mirror class only (same+cross file); the census's other families (Sennett one-directional, container-mirror, EPUB3-semantic-cross-file) still need recognizer work OR safe-refuse; (4) this touches the CONVERSION PIPELINE + verbatim guarantee → governance (jurist/spec) before it becomes a real chamber tool.

Hardening (b) complete + adversarial French test

• 2026-07-10 — Steward adversarial test: une-breve-histoire-de-tous-les-livres-polastron.epub (French, 140 notes, 95 cross-file). FIRST run BROKE the prototype honestly: 45/140 (95 cross-file unclassified — block-class classifier too narrow; Polastron's footnote-ness is on the ANCHOR class footnote-link/footnote-anchor, not the block), + guard false-flagged 42 roman-numeral MARKERS as lost prose. Both real gaps, both fed the hardening.
• Hardening: (b1) classifier → POSITIONAL (body = anchor at start of its enclosing block; publisher-independent; generalizes G&G+Mauss+Polastron); (b2) residue-strip → marker-only anchors REMOVED, longer back-anchors UNWRAPPED (Polastron wraps the whole note text in the back-anchor — the marker-only guard correctly declined to delete it, unwrap keeps all content); (b3) verbatim guard → SOURCE-LEVEL (original vs injected EPUB text-nodes; assert nothing ADDED + only marker-shaped tokens removed) — marker-aware, no false-flags.
• RE-PROVEN all three: G&G 27/27, Mauss 628/628, Polastron 140/140 — 795 footnotes, 0 added, 0 non-marker prose lost. Residue clean on all. Prototype = scratchpad/inject_epub_footnotes.py.
• 4th stress test (steward): Jung Collected Works (53MB, 1579 docs, 39.5MB XHTML — ~50× a normal book). Injector: 12s, 1086 mirror pairs classified, ~20k non-pair footnote-shaped ids LEFT UNTOUCHED (honest-refuse), source-guard VERBATIM-CLEAN (0 added / 0 non-marker-lost). BUT pandoc times out on Jung whole — RAW and injected both (>300–540s, 0 output). Diagnosed to root: it's a pandoc scale limit on a mega-EPUB, NOT an injector defect (raw baseline also fails); "complete works" EPUBs need per-volume splitting upstream, orthogonal to the footnote approach. Verbatim-safety still PROVEN on Jung because the source-guard is pandoc-independent.
• (a) DONE: jurist [PROPOSAL] drafted → chamber-library/docs/epub-footnote-preprocessor-FOR-JURIST-2026-07-10.md (approach + census + 2×2 + 4-book evidence + verbatim argument + scope/honest-refuse + Jung scale note + 5 open Qs). Awaiting steward relay to jurist. NEXT after ruling: generalize recognizer to remaining census families (one-directional Sennett, container-mirror, epub3-cross-file) or honest-refuse; consider a sequence-level guard (Q2).

Mega-EPUB path + Calibre finding + splitter proof

• 2026-07-10 — Steward: "we have a Jung md — Calibre? can we edit Calibre conversion to preprocess notes?" SUBSTRATE: existing canonical_texts/…/jung-collected-works-complete.md is LEGACY (pre-spec frontmatter — embedded voice_role/semantic_profile which §VI forbids; no converted_with/source/work/canonical) + 0 footnote markup (notes flattened/lost). jung_major_breakthrough.py confirms it was Calibre (after pandoc timeout). Donne likely same.
• CALIBRE TESTED (ebook-convert 9.11, --txt-output-formatting=markdown): footnote-BLIND. raw G&G vs INJECTED G&G outputs BYTE-IDENTICAL → Calibre ignores epub:type entirely; flattens ref→inline "1", note→loose "1 …" paragraph, no linking, no [^N]. So editing the Calibre path won't reconstruct notes — wrong layer/brittle fork.
• BETTER PATH PROVEN — inject→SPLIT→pandoc-per-chunk→concat. Because relocation makes every note FILE-LOCAL, split by whole files never separates a note. split_and_convert.py on Jung: 1579 docs→20 chunks (80 each)→190s total (slowest 21.6s), 1086 native footnotes; verbatim TWO checks clean — split-lossless (whole vs sum-of-chunks 0/0) AND chunks vs ORIGINAL Princeton source 0 added / 0 non-marker-lost. Retires the Calibre fallback for mega-books.
• PROVENANCE (steward's Q): splitting = conversion-INTERNAL decomposition, source-of-record stays the megavolume+sha256; the chunks-vs-original check PROVES content-neutral. Legit iff declared + lossless + source anchored to megavolume. OPEN representation choice (steward+jurist): one reconstituted jung.md vs per-volume files ("extracted from the megavolume", never posing as a standalone Bollingen edition). Added as proposal Q6.
• Proposal updated with the proven mega-EPUB path + provenance Q6. All scratchpad/uncommitted. NEXT after jurist ruling: semantic per-volume boundary detection (18 vols) if per-volume chosen; recognizer coverage of remaining census families; re-convert legacy Jung (+Donne).

Sennett recognizer-widen (autonomous — steward flying, 2026-07-10 pm)

• SOLVED + PROVEN as a scratch prototype; governed fleet tool UNTOUCHED. Root cause the tool refused Sennett: the mirror pairing keys on ANCHOR ids and requires the note to link back to the ref anchor's own id; Sennett is a split-anchor mirror — note id on the <p> BLOCK, back-target on an empty href-less sibling <a id="…a"> the parser didn't even record → no Sennett anchor entered pairing → honest-refuse.
• Extension (scratch/inject_splitanchor.py, additive 2nd pass): record href-less id anchors; pair forward-ref → note BLOCK id, reciprocity verified via the sibling back-target anchor CO-LOCATED with the ref (full round-trip, as safe as the direct mirror) + a ref-is-marker-shaped gate; body_id falls back to the block id. Same per-pair guard + refuse-on-mismatch, unchanged.
• Proof: --validate 12/12 — 7 original invariants INTACT (no regression; additive) + 5 new (incl. honest-refuse negative: a one-way link to a non-back-linking block is left untouched). Real Sennett: 294/294 footnotes, all cross-file, 0 unclassified, 0 prose mismatch; end-to-end through stock pandoc → 294 native footnote defs, 0 prose added / 0 non-marker prose lost = VERBATIM CLEAN (scratch/_sennett_prove.py). Measurement-tool lesson (NOT the conversion): the pandoc-level word-multiset must strip markdown link TARGETS + treat UNICODE superscripts as markers (same family as the morning's Mauss +39 false-alarm); the conversion was clean throughout, proven independently by the source-level per-pair guard.
• BLOCKER isolated (honest-refuse fired correctly): cra0001002 — a PRE-EXISTING non-footnote duplicate block id in part0003 (front matter), present in the RAW source before injection; NOT a note id, NOT caused by the extension. Both follow-ups HELD for governance:
  • (GOV-1) Build-in authorization: widening the recognizer to a new family is named in REVIEWED-54's deferred list ("recognizer coverage of remaining families"). Verbatim safety mechanism unchanged (same guard) → likely within that deferral / FIX-class, but steward+jurist to rule vs a fresh beat (jurist §4 test).
  • (GOV-2) Guard-scoping refinement (jurist §3 mechanism): the per-pair guard's within-file-dup check flags ANY block-id dup, incl. pre-existing NON-note dups unrelated to the conversion → couples footnote-conversion refusal to unrelated source defects. Scope the dup check to the NOTE ids the conversion touches, OR require the source dup-clean first? Surface, don't decide.
  • (source-hygiene) Sennett source carries a pre-existing dup id cra0001002 (front matter) — a separate corpus-cleaning item regardless.
• HELD: fleet build-in + commit await steward+jurist (GOV-1). Prototype + proof harness in scratch/; scripts/inject_epub_footnotes.py untouched.
• JURIST BRIEF DRAFTED (docs/split-anchor-recognizer-widen-FOR-JURIST-2026-07-10.md, UNCOMMITTED for steward review): asks GOV-1 (build-in + change-class; recommends FIX within REVIEWED-54's deferred "recognizer coverage") + GOV-2 (scope §3 dup-check to conversion-touched note ids; recommends option (c): scope + report-not-block for non-note dups). Full untruncated text handed to steward for relay (the PENDING-47 truncation lesson). Awaiting jurist ruling to close.
• RULED + LANDED (jurist 2026-07-10, relayed by steward; archived docs/sennett-split-anchor-widen-JURIST-RULING-2026-07-10.md). GOV-1 authorized FIX-class (jurist stated a reusable test: a widen stays FIX iff its safety case rides the SAME unchanged verification — a new recognition predicate, not a change to how recognition is verified). GOV-2 = option (c) confirmed WITH a required precision: the dup-scope must include split-anchor back-target ids, not only primary note ids (implemented + teeth-tested). Build-in DONE under fleet discipline: split-anchor pairing pass + GOV-2-scoped verify_pairs in scripts/inject_epub_footnotes.py; test_tools split-anchor+GOV-2 fixture (fleet 77→80); --validate 15 (7 original INTACT); runbook policy + tool-evolution-log + chamber CLAUDE.md updated. Sennett proven verbatim-clean (294/294 → native; cra0001002 → WARNING not block). Committed a6828ac, PUSHED to github + origin/Gitea 2026-07-10 on steward direction (both clean). Jurist flag carried forward: the census MIS-FILED Sennett as "one-directional" — its classifier missed the same back-link the recognizer did; before the NEXT family widen, check it isn't a census misclassification of a covered class (cheaper to re-measure than to build).

Census re-audit (steward-chosen next move; jurist census-misclassification flag)

• Ran the CURRENT recognizer over all 252 Chamber Sources EPUBs (scratch/_reaudit_families.py, read-only, 75s) — classifies by what the tool NOW does, not the census's blind-spotted classifier. Result: TOOL-COVERED 65 (59 mirror + 6 split-anchor / 503 footnotes — 6 books the census would've mis-filed "one-directional", the widen's real ROI) · PANDOC-NATIVE 4 · UNCOVERED 40 · NO-NOTES 92 · MEGA-SKIP 51 (>4MB; many have notes → convert_mega_epub track) · ERROR 0.
• Structural probe of 8 high-signal UNCOVERED books (scratch/_probe_uncovered.py): the "40" is NOT 5 families. Breakdown: (A) ~9–12 false positives (poetry/nav cross-refs, fn_ref≤3: blake=1, and-our-faces/photocopies/titian/juvenescence/between-you-me/duino=2; plato's 387 is mostly nav page-anchors). (B) URL-decode GAP, not a family — la-pensée-sauvage refs are %20-encoded (norm_href doesn't unquote) → cross-file resolution fails; a 1-line fix. (C) NEAR-MIRROR VARIANTS (the genuine bulk, ~25–30 books incl. haraway 2613 / genette 1050 / doniger 1057 / mbembe 523 / kuhn 467 / nagarjuna 423 / nature-of-things 354 / bachelard 243 / jacobs 142): a note BLOCK carries the note id and back-links to the ref — differing from the handled split-anchor only in WHERE the id sits (on the <p> block, or an inner empty <a id> at block-start — kuhn/bachelard) and whether the ref carries its OWN id vs a sibling (haraway/genette/jacobs). (D) letter-markers — donne is a split-anchor book refused only because markers are a/b/c (marker gate = digits+roman).
• CONCLUSION (answers the jurist flag): the remaining footnote scope is ≈ ONE recognizer generalization + two small fixes (URL-decode, letter-marker), not five families. The generalization: "note identity may sit on the block OR an inner empty anchor at block-start; ref identity on the ref anchor OR a sibling; reciprocity via any co-located anchor." Likely PROPOSAL-class (it broadens the recognition predicate more than split-anchor did — though still riding the same unchanged verification, the jurist's line is whether the predicate generalization needs a fresh beat) → surfaced for steward+jurist, NOT built. Alternative: pivot to APPLYING the tool (gold road — Sennett/Jung re-convert). HELD for steward decision. Artifacts: scratch/_reaudit_families.py, scratch/_probe_uncovered.py.
• QUANTIFIED + JURIST BRIEF PREPARED (2026-07-11, steward relaying to jurist). Exact UNCOVERED-40 (scratch/_reaudit2.py): 14 block-id near-mirror · 6 inner-anchor near-mirror · 2 letter-marker · 3 URL-decode · 7 other(span-wrapped, regex-missed) · 8 false-pos(low). Reciprocity VERIFIED exact: haraway ref <a id="c1_fn1" href="notes#c1_rfn1"> ↔ note <p id="c1_rfn1"> back-links c1_fn1 (block-id = exact mirror, safer than split-anchor's adjacency); kuhn <p class=footnote><a id="intfn1"/>… (inner-anchor). The "remaining families" = ONE reciprocal mirror with the id in 3 positions + 2 mechanical gaps (letters, %-encoding) — NOT 5 families. Brief = docs/recognizer-generalization-FOR-JURIST-2026-07-11.md (UNCOMMITTED for steward review). Change-class read (applying the jurist's own REVIEWED-54a test part-by-part, NOT reflexively 'PROPOSAL'): block-id / inner-anchor / URL-decode = FIX (same unchanged verification, exact reciprocity, split-anchor precedent); letter-marker = the ONE part that loosens a guard (condition-4 defense-in-depth) → proposed compensation = require EXACT reciprocity for letter-marked notes; jurist to rule FIX-with-compensation vs PROPOSAL. Offered: prototype-and-prove exact coverage before the ruling (split-anchor pattern). Awaiting jurist ruling.
• RULED (jurist 2026-07-11, relayed by steward; archived docs/recognizer-generalization-JURIST-RULING-2026-07-10.md). Census-flag verdict CONFIRMED (one family, three id-positions). (a) block-id, (b) inner-anchor, (d) URL-decode = FIX (extends REVIEWED-54a; jurist noted (a)/(b) are STRONGER than split-anchor — exact id-match reciprocity, not adjacency). (c) letter-markers = FIX-with-exact-reciprocity-compensation (letter-marked notes REQUIRE exact reciprocity, no adjacency fallback) + a proportionate condition: human spot-check the 3 named letter-marker books (nagarjuna, plato, donne) before trusting their conversion (n=3, cheap; not PROPOSAL). Design ruled NOW; prototype-proven coverage required AT BUILD (not a precondition), same standard split-anchor met. Tag = REVIEWED-54b. Non-blocking asks DONE: (1) degraded-canonicals tracking line → _curation/reconvert-queue-2026-06-29.md new section (montaigne/meditations/la-pensée-sauvage/l'homme-t2/donne/jung); (2) 252-vs-253 reconciled (archive holds 252 .epub; "253" was the morning's loose count — 252 confirmed). BUILD PLAN: implement (a)(b)(d) + (c)-with-compensation + GOV-2 touched-id extension in the prototype → --validate invariants per id-position → prototype-prove verbatim-clean on the real UNCOVERED books → port to fleet + test_tools fixtures → commit (push held) → surface the 3 letter-marker pairs for steward spot-check → draft REVIEWED-54b.
• BUILD PROGRESS (prototype scratch/inject_splitanchor.py, 2026-07-11): (a) block-id + (d) URL-decode DONE + PROVEN verbatim-clean end-to-end on REAL books (scratch/_prove.py): haraway 322→322 native · genette 350→350 · jacobs 71→71 · la-pensée-sauvage 87 (turned out a plain MIRROR blocked only by %20 — url-decode alone fixed it) → 88 · Sennett 294 regression CLEAN, all +0/−0 prose. --validate 18 (15 prior + block-id×2 + url-decode). Implementation: norm_href unquote; block-note pass now accepts ref-own-id (exact reciprocity) alongside the sibling-adjacency split case; latent DUP-ID FIXED (strip block id before re-adding epub:type id — was a real defect in the shipped Sennett code, <p id=X epub:type=… id=X>; now single id); entity-aware marker detection (haraway's   1). REMAINING (next focused pass — the fiddlier parts, deliberately NOT rushed at a long session's tail per τὸ πρόσφορον): (b) inner-anchor (relocate id from inner empty <a id/> to the block without a dup the guard would rightly block) + (c) letter-marker (marker-gate + exact-reciprocity compensation), then port ALL of REVIEWED-54b → fleet + test_tools fixtures + commit (push held) + surface the 3 letter-marker pairs (nagarjuna/plato/donne) for steward spot-check + draft REVIEWED-54b. Prototype proven; NOT yet ported to the fleet tool.

Bypasses