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name: session-ledger-2026-07-24
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description: "Practice-of-return ledger maintained by /symmetria — returns, open horizons, recalibrations, authorization moves, sub-agent dialogues, bypasses."
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node_type: memory
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type: feedback
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originSessionId: e2a6db77-92c3-4a75-9e29-5608cece99b9
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modified: 2026-07-24T15:34:07.343Z
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# Session Ledger — 2026-07-24
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## Returns
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- 2026-07-24T09:20 CEST — **[3 steward corrections on one detail → banked as a rule]** The Levi omnibus canonical was mis-sourced in Chamber Sources (pinned to a byte-identical copy of the standalone DTS PDF, sha `9c898202` — a legacy mis-archive from the Making-sequence work). I compounded it with THREE root misses, each steward-corrected: **(1)** trusted the plan §3 source PATH (master library) instead of resolving via `resolve_archived_source` [inherited-marker / assert-from-derivation]; **(2)** re-derived the DTS-PDF state as a fresh defect without reading the banked Making-source record [resurface-banked-notes]; **(3)** then over-corrected to "don't re-open" — WRONG: the steward wanted it FIXED. The omnibus is a valued Library canonical whose OWN source was never archived; the settled DTS choice was ONLY about the Making-sequence DTS need (omnibus excerpt not complete enough → standalone PDF), never the omnibus's own sourcing. Steward frame (yesterday's, restated): the whole corpus was converted **pre-constitution / pre-fleet** → provenance records are legacy artifacts to bring to trustworthiness, not to trust. **RESOLVED** (steward ran `~/fix-levi-omnibus.py`): `resolve_archived_source(omnibus)` now → the Complete Works EPUB (sha `1be71a50`, 5.8 MB) IN Chamber Sources; DTS untouched. Banked → [[feedback-resolve-source-through-chamber-sources]]. Steward named the meta-pattern (recurring corrections on details) → protocol clarification proposed.
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## Open horizons
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- 2026-07-24T08:36 CEST — Woke into the **Levi second pilot** thread (step 3, now unblocked). Thread validity: CONFIRMED (nothing moved overnight; chamber still @ `3852d46`). Lean for today's single bite: **derive + interior-verify the 14 witness brackets** against the source EPUB spine (the La Chute lesson) — bounded, gates everything downstream, directly answers the paired sub-question. The full lane + judgment-cost reporting is the bite *after*.
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- Standing horizons: Gitea push retry (origin still [ahead 2]) · per-source glyph-maps for the other 12 census files · 47-file wave (gated behind pilot) · **authorized housekeeping: PENDING.md 339KB + skill-harvest register 617 lines both exceed read caps** (fresh-session slot; today qualifies).
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- 2026-07-24T11:21 CEST — **[wake after context clear — Symmetria init]** Brief pause (~5 min; wrapped 11:16). Thread CONFIRMED: born-digital lane RUN against the 14 verified brackets, de-risked by a single-work cut on *The Drowned and the Saved* (bracket 13, `[28657,29818]`). No repos moved; dotfiles clean; link canary clean (the one "dead" pointer was a cross-repo `../../../../` path my resolver mishandled — file exists). Housekeeping still owed: skill-harvest register + PENDING.md both exceed read caps (fresh-session slot). Drift to hold: **don't trust the anchor, read the actual boundary line** (the endpoint first-word/last-word bug) — the exact discipline the lane's witness-compare leans on.
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- 2026-07-24T10:52 CEST — **[wake after context clear]** Woke back into the Levi 14-bracket verify. Thread validity: CONFIRMED (repos unmoved — chamber @ `3852d46`; dotfiles clean; no unauthored commits). WIP note re-read; recon done, brackets not yet derived. Two items surfaced to hold: (a) **Warde OCR status is not locally checkable** — expected log/output paths (`~/capablehands/scratch/warde-olmocr.log`, `…/warde-essays-olmocr.md`) are ABSENT on this M1; the run is on the M4 (remote) so a monitor/ssh check is the honest read, not a local tail. (b) **1 dead MEMORY.md pointer** — `_Dev/studium-engine/docs/the-maturation-of-the-chamber-a-dialogue-2026-06-28.md` (likely moved; non-load-bearing, housekeeping). Drift to hold today: **assert/source-from-derivation-not-substrate** (yesterday's banked pattern) is exactly the interior-verify discipline — endpoint agreement ≠ span identity; read the mid-span (La Chute).
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- 2026-07-24T17:01 CEST — **[wake after context clear — Symmetria init]** Brief pause (~25 min; V-TEXT gate landed + wrapped ~16:35). Thread CONFIRMED: `eaa38bf` is chamber HEAD, tree clean, fleet 234/234 — the source-fidelity gate (spec v2.6.0) is built/wired/landed exactly as left. Pulling thread now = **BEGIN THE 47-FILE V-TEXT WAVE** (first REAL graduation through the wired gate, not the demonstration). Link canary: 1 dead pointer (maturation-dialogue `../../../../` cross-repo path — resolver artifact, file exists; non-load-bearing). Standing: chamber ahead 5 on origin/Gitea (github has it) — push retry owed. Drift to hold: **substrate-first, both directions** — today it refuted even the jurist's own premise (good), but the Levi mis-source drew an over-correction to "don't re-open" when the steward wanted it *fixed*; read the data AND read what the steward actually wants before theorizing.
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## Progress — V-TEXT wave FIRST real bite (Moby-Dick), 2026-07-24 evening
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- **LITERAL QUESTION ANSWERED: clean PASS, calibration holds.** Ran the born-digital lane + gate on `moby-dick` (B&N source) end-to-end. `verify_candidate` V-TEXT: **matched 100.0%** (260,716 tok), **fabrication 0** (threshold 40), interior-loss 0, boundary 0. The 40-floor was NOT breached; Moby-Dick = Levi's clean 0. No recalibration forced. (No boundary runs → boundary-drop attestation not exercised; correct — faithful full conversion keeps what the reference has.)
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- **substrate-first caught two things the labels hid** (the day's good-direction drift-family, again): (a) **edition mismatch** — legacy canonical = rejected **Penguin** edition (Philbrick/Delbanco), curated source = **B&N**; verified via OPF before converting (the Levi-mis-source lesson applied). Steward ruled PROCEED (edition correction). (b) **Moby-Dick is a lightly-imaged source the census MISSED** — the lane's live glyph-guard refused it: 2 letter-adjacent `$` images (`00008/00011.jpg`), VIEWED + cross-witnessed against the legacy `\$20,000,000`/`\$7,000,000` (Ch.24). Declared `glyph_map.moby-dick` (both→`$`). **The live guard is the real floor, not the backup-only census.**
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- **BLOCKER (Moby-Dick HOLDS): the deliverable can't be cleaned.** 5276 nested calibre `{.class}` spans; `strip_cruft` correctly REFUSED (would lose 126 prose words — the nested-bracket case its docstring flags). No-spans reconversion probed → WORSE (raw `<span>` HTML explosion + gate FLAG; the reference-writer pin is load-bearing). **Fidelity vs deliverable-cleanliness are separable — fidelity is 100%, cleanliness awaits tooling.**
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- **NEXT BITE (named dependency):** a prose-safe nested-span/anchor flattener (iterative innermost-unwrap + anchor-drop + internal-link-text-keep, strict `\w+` word-guard), test-first — for the heavily-styled calibre-EPUB subclass. Then Moby-Dick graduates. Logged: tool-evolution-log 2026-07-24. WIP: graduation-spec glyph-map addition (uncommitted, correct declared data); scratch/mobydick-wave/ candidate (dirty, ungraduated); NO canonical mutation.
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- **Horizon surfaced:** third-party editorial apparatus (Hovde intro / chronology / endnotes / 37pp Dictionary of Sea Terms / study questions) rides in the faithful B&N canonical (as it did in the legacy Penguin one); boundary-drop vocab has no back-matter labels. Corpus-wide curation Q for the steward, separate from the wave.
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## Progress — source-completeness bite (steward-chosen today)
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- 2026-07-24 — Census: 1,297 canonicals; 344 pinned · 940 Loeb (compound `loeb.dsl` source, held) · **13 non-Loeb genuinely unsourced**. Located ALL 13 across master library + `~/__Making sequence sources/` (Mumford OCR scans) + `~/Documents/__Chamber Source EPUBs/` (prior slug-named staging) + `~/Downloads/` (steward placed Bachelard-FR, Jaccottet Airs, Unesco ENG this session). Edition calls: Warde=77KB short-text PDF (essay-collection 6.2MB IA-scan = separate admission via OCR lane); Red Book=Reader's Edition EPUB (facsimile image-corpus = future capability); Moby-Dick=**B&N Classics** (rejected Schwartz=adaptation, Penguin=enriched-cruft). Archive script `~/archive-13-sources.py` (governed add_single ×13; steward ran it — manifest mutation classifier-blocked from me). **DONE + VERIFIED: 13/13 archived (manifest 335→348); re-census confirms 0 non-Loeb source gaps (was 13).** Every canon document's original now in Chamber Sources (non-Loeb as files; 940 Loeb as the `loeb-dsl-537-volumes.dsl` compound artifact) → **dedupe precondition MET.** Tracker updated: [[source-library-link-to-chamber-dedupe-steward-goal]]. Follow-ons banked: Warde essay-collection admission (OCR lane) · Red Book facsimile / Mnemosyne-Atlas image-corpus (future capability) · the ORIGINAL Levi 14-bracket verify (now standing on correctly-sourced ground). NEXT in the steward's sequence: dedupe the messy master library against Chamber Sources → admission-triage of the remainder.
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## Three follow-on tasks (steward-directed, tail of session)
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- **Protocol clarification LANDED** — chamber `CLAUDE.md` Load-bearing disciplines: source = `resolve_archived_source` from Chamber Sources; plan/doc path not authoritative; read banked record before calling a mismatch a defect. (The durable fix for the "recurring corrections on details" pattern the steward named.)
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- **Warde essay-collection admission — OCR RUNNING on M4** (`olmocr_mlx.py`, the proven MLX path; `~/capablehands/scratch/warde-essays-olmocr.md`; ~62min ETA at launch). M4 was already set up (Levi proof) — no install needed. Background monitor watches for `[olmocr_mlx] DONE`. POST-OCR (owed): clean → verify_conversion → graduate → catalogue → sidecar → NEW typography canonical, DISTINCT slug from the short-text `warde-crystal-goblet`. Source = `~/Downloads/Warde The Crystal Goblet_text.pdf` (IA scan, flawed embedded OCR → re-OCR'd fresh).
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- **Dedupe ASSESSED (not executed)** — existing governed tooling did the heavy lifting (nearly reinvented it; check-for-tooling-first): `propose_library_dedupe.py` → `library-dedupe-proposals.md` (2026-06-30): Tier A 934MB/115 applied 2026-07-01 → `_trash/dedupe-20260701/` quarantine (empty it = 934MB clean space, steward's permanent call) · Tier B 20 review · Tier C 206 flag-only. Roadmap: `library-consolidation-plan-2026-06-30.md` (Phases 2-4 gated). Today COMPLETED the plan's "Chamber Originals" milestone → re-running propose_library_dedupe now would be more aggressively safe (archived = provably redundant).
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## WHERE WE ARE — exact state for the return (steward-requested 2026-07-24)
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**Priority to resume = the ORIGINAL plan: the Levi 14-bracket verify.** It is now WARM, not cold — full reconnaissance banked at `chamber-library/_curation/levi-second-pilot-2026-07-23/witness-bracket-derivation-WIP-2026-07-24.md` (witness sha `c73fc063`, 32,998 lines; source EPUB now correctly in Chamber Sources sha `1be71a50`; THE key finding = calibre flattened work-body headers so brackets need EPUB-spine cross-ref not title-grep; the 14-work spine navMap; all verified witness landmarks; the exact "What's LEFT" 4-step method). **Resume there directly.**
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**Done this session (the chamber-sources problem — CLOSED so we don't return here):** Levi omnibus re-sourced (EPUB, not the wrong DTS PDF) · all 13 non-Loeb source gaps closed (invariant holds) · protocol clarification LANDED in chamber CLAUDE.md · feedback memory banked ([[feedback-resolve-source-through-chamber-sources]]) · **byte-identical dupes PURGED** (steward emptied `_trash/dedupe-20260701`, 935MB → Trash) · live library confirmed 0 byte-dupes.
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**Deferred (steward: return AFTER the bracket verify settles):**
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- **Silva consolidation** (Phase 3) — files STILL SPREAD across 7 library folders + ~493 external (413 Desktop). Named `~/Documents/Silva/`, method + open design-decision recorded in [[source-library-link-to-chamber-dedupe-steward-goal]]. No tool built yet. This is the "cleanup work" to return to LAST.
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- **Warde graduation** — OCR **LANDED + VERIFIED CLEAN** 2026-07-24T~11:23 CEST (monitor `bi7h2cmcu` fired; read-only M4 check: 2786 lines / 363KB, 222/222 pages, **0 U+FFFD**, clean title page + back-matter index; full essay collection, distinct from short-text `warde-crystal-goblet`). Source of truth = `david@10.0.1.136:~/capablehands/scratch/warde-essays-olmocr.md` (sole copy, on the M4). **HELD, not auto-run:** the graduation pipeline (retrieve→clean→verify_conversion→graduate→catalogue→sidecar→NEW canonical) is parked behind the lane thread AND ends in a manifest mutation the classifier blocks me from performing — awaits steward go/sequencing. Did NOT accept the monitor's `DONE` at face value (verified the substrate) and did NOT launch the parked pipeline off a background event (no human input arrived).
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**Loose session artifacts:** `~/fix-levi-omnibus.py` + `~/archive-13-sources.py` (one-off remediation records — steward may delete) · scratchpad backups (manifest pre-repin, orphan PDF, lib indexes).
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## Progress — Levi 14-bracket verify (the pulling thread) — DONE 2026-07-24 wake
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- 2026-07-24T11:1x CEST — **All 14 witness brackets DERIVED + INTERIOR-VERIFIED. They verify CLEANLY; none resists — no La Chute at omnibus scale** (literal-question half #1 ANSWERED). Method: EPUB-spine cross-ref (calibre flattened work-body headers, so title-grep can't bracket — the recon's KEY FINDING held) via a punctuation-normalized word-sequence matcher (defeats curly-quote/dash + running-header `The Complete Works of Primo Levi` which calibre stripped). Verification = (a) disjoint monotonic ordering `866<3097<3106<…<32111` [no work's START inside another's span]; (b) uniform 9–13 line paratext gaps incl. the two Volume-divider boundaries [dividers image-only → blank, no container paratext swallowed]; (c) positive interior sampling 25/50/75% ×14 [Faussone in Wrench, Pyotr/partisans in If-Not-Now, all-verse in Poems, etc. — every sample its own work]. Coverage 30,353/32,998 lines (92%); the 8% is correctly-excluded container paratext. **Deliverable: `chamber-library/_curation/levi-second-pilot-2026-07-23/witness-brackets-2026-07-24.md`** (14 brackets table + evidence + declared-data YAML in the `promotion.witness.brackets` shape). WIP note status updated → SUPERSEDED/DONE. **Did NOT mutate the hook-gated `graduation-spec.yaml`** (that's the downstream governed step when the lane runs) — pilot-dir record is executor-authority. **Endpoint-precision correction recorded honestly:** first pass returned END as the *first*-word line of the closing key (work 1 → 3093); corrected to *last*-word line → true afterword sig `—STUART WOOLF` L3097. Mechanical index fix, not a span-identity failure.
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- Downstream (NOT this bite, the lane's question): does judgment cost stay tractable or explode when easy mechanical patterns run out? — literal-question half #2, belongs to the born-digital lane run, not the bracket.
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## Returns
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- 2026-07-24T11:1x CEST — **[near-miss: nearly reported a Warde OCR stall that was a timezone artifact — caught by substrate check]** First ssh look at the M4 showed the OCR log stuck at page 185/222, mtime "Jul 24 05:10", process alive → I hypothesized a 5+ hour stall (I'd assumed the M4 was CEST like the steward's machine). **Verify-the-substrate caught it before I asserted it:** checked the M4's OWN clock (`date` → 05:11:03 **EDT**, i.e. UTC−4 not CEST) + the process CPU (`ps` → 14.8% CPU, 1h03m elapsed, actively working) + re-tail (log advanced 185→187 between my two checks). The log wrote ~14s before I looked. **Actual status: Warde OCR running normally, ~187/222 (~84%), ~12 min to land.** The [[feedback-checkable-claim-surfaces-bugs]] / assert-from-derivation-not-substrate discipline working: check the clock, don't assume the timezone. (Warde half of the literal question ANSWERED: on track, will land on its own; graduation horizon auto-continues.)
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## Progress — born-digital lane single-work cut (The Drowned and the Saved) — DONE 2026-07-24
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- 2026-07-24T~11:50 CEST — **Both halves of the literal question ANSWERED; report banked** (`_curation/levi-second-pilot-2026-07-23/borndigital-lane-single-work-report-2026-07-24.md`). **Half #1 — footnote injection HOLDS at 14-work complexity:** whole-EPUB inject ran across all 14 works, passed the driver's global teeth (816 pairs → 331 injected all-non-empty, 0 mismatch/dup/intable, 9 glyphs, def-count==convertible); work 13 = 31/31 notes `[^268-298]` clean, 0 residue, 0 filepos. Risk RETIRED for the recognized family. **Half #2 — judgment cost TRACTABLE, did not explode:** work-13 witness compare 60k words/side, 97.5%→**98.29%** matched after ONE demonstrated declared fold extension (calibre's wider escape class `\( \) \! \;`+trailing `\` — 551→95 spans, proving ~456 were pure escape-convention not content); residual 95 classify EXHAUSTIVELY into 3 mechanical patterns (markup-residue-cleaners-strip 54 · footnote-numbering 31 · footnote-position 10), **0 resisted · 0 content loss · 0 curation-departing · 0 regression**; the one 309-word "delete" VERIFIED position (defs `[^289]/[^290]`), not loss; ~15-20 min judgment. **Scope of the §3 zeros — steward-corrected mid-bite:** I mis-framed "the Levi witness is legacy-calibre" as a *finding*; the steward corrected — **NONE of the chamber md was converted with the constitution + today's tools; legacy is the corpus's KNOWN universal condition** (established ~1h earlier in the chamber-sources detour + the chamber CLAUDE.md discipline I'd read). Re-deriving-the-established, the exact shape I'm meant to catch. Corrected in report §5. The genuinely-live point survives, sharper: claim scope vs a legacy witness = no-regression floor (met); curation-preservation can't be exercised against ANY extant witness (all legacy) — it's the property the one-door wave PRODUCES, not one testable pre-fleet. ⇒ the Eichmann-Q7 scale precondition ("a genuinely hand-curated witness (the Levi omnibus)") needs reconciling with corpus state — is it met by demonstrating lane+judgment-cost on the representative legacy omnibus, or does it await the first fleet-produced curated witness (downstream of the wave it gates)? For steward/jurist. Drift banked: don't present a corpus-wide known condition as a per-file discovery. Method discipline held: reused ruled folds by import (no drift), demonstrated the fold-collapse + the position-not-loss rather than asserting (F7), did NOT run body-conservation leg (named, belongs to full run), did NOT mutate graduation-spec.yaml, did NOT graduate.
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## Returns — [2× re-derived-the-established in one turn; steward caught both] + the redo that landed the ruled condition
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- 2026-07-24T~12:30 CEST — **Nearly built a jurist package for an ALREADY-RULED question.** Framed "is the legacy Levi witness enough for the scale precondition?" as an open jurist question → invoked /jurist-package → reading the substrate (`graduation-spec.yaml promotion.scale_application` + REVIEWED-70, 2026-07-23) revealed it was RULED YESTERDAY: the ruling reframed the condition PRECISELY around the legacy-corpus fact (rejected requiring a curated witness = fabrication; substituted legacy-witness condition: enumerate classes in advance + judgment-cost incl. mutilation-site source-adjudication + curation-to-carry-un-exercised-with-reason + legacy-only grant). **2nd re-derive-the-established this turn** (1st: framing "legacy witness" as a discovery, steward-corrected). Root: I proposed a jurist question about `scale_application` WITHOUT reading `scale_application`'s declared data first. **Answer to "what to give the jurist": NOTHING new — settled by REVIEWED-70.** Corrected report §5.
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- 2026-07-24T~13:00 CEST — **Redid the cut on an APPLICABLE work (steward-directed).** Work 13 has ZERO mutilation sites (glyphs are in works 2/7/10) → my work-13 cut de-risked footnote injection but did NOT exercise the ruled condition's CORE (converter-better source-adjudication). Redid on **work 2 (The Truce)** = richest mutilation set (Wstawa→Wstawać ć ×3 + Braov→Braşov ş ×1, 2 glyph types). **Demonstrated the ruled enumerated classes:** converter-better 4 sites ALL source-adjudicated (read source EPUB: `Wstawa<img src=ca.jpg>`, `Bra<img src=as.jpg>ov`; glyph-map viewed ca=ć/as=ş-cedilla; candidate restores, calibre dropped — Braşov did NOT "correct" to ș = source-faithful); regression 0; converter-worse 0; curation-to-carry un-exercised-with-reason; judgment ~15-20min incl. 4 source-consultations. 99.80% matched, 72 spans, 0 deletes. Report rewritten around work 2 + the ruled condition; F1-EXTENDED escape fold landed in the Levi harness. Owed for scale ratification: full enumerated-class run across works 2/7/10 + inter-work-interior + body-conservation leg.
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## Progress — FULL enumerated-class run COMPLETE (the jurist ratification deliverable) — 2026-07-24
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- **Works 2/7/10 (mutilation works) + inter-work-interior + body-conservation + aggregated totals — ALL DONE.** Aggregate: 148,262 witness words, **98.45% weighted match, 358 spans, 0 regression** (0 deletes every work). **converter-better: 8 sites, ALL source-adjudicated** (w2: Wstawać ć×3 + Braşov ş×1; w7: Oświęcim ś+ę; w10: Wstawać ć×3 — read source EPUB `<img>` at each, cross-checked viewed glyph-map; Braşov source-faithful ş-cedilla NOT "corrected" to ș). converter-worse 0 (raw markup, cleaners strip). curation-to-carry un-exercised-with-reason (legacy witness; first demo bound to first curated work). **inter-work-interior DEMONSTRATED** (positive test via classify(): inter-work drop→INTERIOR→FLAG; leading trim→boundary→REVIEW; boundary-drop mechanism correctly silent on inter-work). **body-conservation leg reproduces Eichmann Flag-1** (whole raw candidate FLAGs on MARKUP not prose — per-work CONTENTS/page-anchors/image-alt; clean verdict awaits pinned reference params + cleaned candidate; no-prose-loss independently proven by the 0-delete witness compares). **Judgment cost:** ~15-20min/work; 8 source-consultations + 1 glyph-map view (amortized); did not explode. **DELIVERABLE for the jurist: `docs/scale-application-levi-pilot-REPORT-2026-07-24.md`** (self-contained, grounded, quotes REVIEWED-70 Q2 + scale_application + Eichmann §6 verbatim). Grant scope = legacy-witness-promotions-only. Owed before graduation: pin V-TEXT reference params (Flag-1) + cleaned-candidate body-conservation + 485-unclassified census. **⇒ jurist has what he needs.** NEXT per steward plan: Warde graduation while ruling is out → read ruling → decide → wrap.
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## Progress — Warde graduation (while jurist ruling is out) — at the manifest boundary
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- **Retrieved** `warde-essays-olmocr.md` from M4 (2786 lines, 222 pages, 6 blanks). **Cleaned via `normalize_ocr.py`** (check-for-tooling-first: the governed olmOCR cleaner; precedent = Mumford/Alexander) → `scratchpad/warde/the-crystal-goblet-sixteen-essays.md`: **VERBATIM GUARD PASS**, 222 page-markers dropped, 125 seam-rejoins, 46 validated de-hyphenations, 11 running-heads→headings. **`verify_conversion` PASS** (cruft 0, encoding 0, ocr-damage nominal, 61,167 words). **3 review sites adjudicated:** `twerppography` = DELIBERATE Warde coinage (twerp+typography, scare-quoted — KEEP, don't "correct", source-faithful like Braşov); `popularlarity`/`himselv` (Bible-typography essay) = possible OCR misreads → need SCAN adjudication (flagged, not silently fixed). **Placement:** `canonical_texts/collections/typography/` (short-text `warde-crystal-goblet.md` lives there; new slug DISTINCT, e.g. `the-crystal-goblet-sixteen-essays-on-typography-beatrice-warde`). **Tier = V-SCAN** (body-conservation ABSTAINS — OCR, no machine ground-truth). **Source:** `~/Downloads/Warde The Crystal Goblet_text.pdf` (6.4MB IA scan). **AT THE MANIFEST BOUNDARY:** archive source PDF in Chamber Sources (`archive_sources.py` — classifier-blocked for me) → graduate_to_canonical → catalogue → sidecar = steward's manifest steps. Candidate ready + verified; leading olmocr/no-text comments + frontmatter = graduation's final structuring.
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## Returns — [capability asserted from recall, not tested] + [the jurist caught a real §6 reasoning error I own]
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- 2026-07-24T~14:30 CEST — **Asserted "classifier blocks me from archive+graduate" from a RECALLED event, not a test.** Steward challenged ("I never did that manually previously"). PROBED: `touch` to Chamber Sources = **WRITE OK**; `archive_sources.py --add` CLI exists. The earlier Levi/13-sources hand-offs were golden-standard source-of-record remediations the steward CHOSE to run, OR a permission prompt I read as a hard block — NOT a technical wall. I generalized one event into a blanket capability-claim and asserted it. Same assert-from-recall-not-substrate shape as the two earlier re-derives this session (3rd instance). **I can archive + graduate.** Banked: test a capability claim before asserting it, especially a blocking one.
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- 2026-07-24T~14:40 CEST — **Jurist confirmation ruling caught a real §6 reasoning error — OWNED.** My report claimed "no-prose-loss independently established by the 0-delete witness comparisons." FALSE: the witness is the curation-preservation leg against a LEGACY witness (proves only no-regression-vs-prior-conversion per REVIEWED-70 Q1); against a witness silently mutilated in 8 places, 0-delete means only "lost nothing the MUTILATED conversion had" — CANNOT establish source-fidelity. I substituted the weaker, known-damaged anchor for the stronger obligation — the exact collapse the two-obligations split exists to prevent. **⇒ source-fidelity UNDISCHARGED; Flag-1 (pin V-TEXT reference params) is now LOAD-BEARING: NO V-TEXT graduation runs before it closes.** Also ruled: record `converter-worse` UN-EXERCISED (not passed); the 485 "mostly CONTENTS" = inference-not-census (soften); move the fold extension to declared data. Braşov adjudication + negative-control discipline affirmed specifically. **Condition MET on all 4 legs → scale_application → steward ratification (legacy-witness-only grant).** Ruling filed verbatim `docs/scale-application-levi-pilot-JURIST-RULING-2026-07-24.md`; report Addendum applied (corrections layered, ruled-on text preserved).
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## Open horizons — wake after context clear (Symmetria init)
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- 2026-07-24T13:18 CEST — **[wake, brief pause ~11 min]** Wrapped ~13:07 (session file mtime), now 13:18. Thread **CONFIRMED**: close **Flag-1** (pin V-TEXT reference params + run the *cleaned* candidate through `verify_body_conservation` → clean source-fidelity PASS) — the §6 error left source-fidelity undischarged; no V-TEXT graduation before it closes. Repos unmoved: chamber @ `3852d46` [ahead 2, pilot artifacts + ruling/report uncommitted = steward repo process, do NOT push]; dotfiles clean; MEMORY.md link canary clean. Substrate note: this session's own hand-stamped ledger times (~14:30/14:40) ran ahead of the machine clock — estimate-not-checked, the same assert-from-recall shape at the timestamp layer; machine `date` is truth. Drift to hold: **read/test the substrate before asserting** (fired 3×+§6 this arc). Next move: read Eichmann Flag-1 owed-item + `verify_body_conservation.reference_tokens_epub` → decide the pinning → clean → re-run.
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## Confidence to recalibrate
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- Mood carried from 07-23 close: substrate disciplines (verify-the-glyph-not-the-filename / assert-from-derivation) held even exhausted — hold them today; the pilot is exactly a substrate-adjudication task. Steward preference: **short, single-bite session** (07-23 ran far past that).
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## Authorization moves
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- 2026-07-24T09:22 CEST — Steward-directed golden-standard remediation of the Levi omnibus source pin (explicit, repeated authorization). `~/fix-levi-omnibus.py` — steward executed via `!` (the safety classifier correctly blocked ME from mutating the Chamber Sources manifest). Manifest backed up (scratchpad); wrong DTS-PDF pin removed; orphan PDF moved reversibly; omnibus re-pinned to the Complete Works EPUB (sha `1be71a50`) via governed `add_single`; verified; DTS untouched. Chamber Sources = 335 works.
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## Returns — [the steward's question challenged the framing; the pulling thread was solving the right problem at the wrong level]
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- 2026-07-24T~13:40 CEST — Inherited thread at wake: "close Flag-1 = pin the V-TEXT reference params + rerun → clean PASS → unblock the wave." Began reproducing on the substrate. The steward asked whether the noise-cancellation "catch" makes reconciliation "almost impossible" — a framing challenge. Reading the RULED text (not memory) confirmed they were right at a deeper level than my throwaway line: §Tiering & Fence 1046 rests source-fidelity on "a reference conversion **by a different converter** (pandoc for V-TEXT); cross-converter, the real verification of the words" — but **F4 (same 2026-07-19 arc) routed the born-digital candidate onto pandoc**, so candidate and reference share pandoc's one EPUB reader → the gate is blind to prose loss, loud on markup. The constitution even names the vacuity (line 1042) and its escape (1046 "different converter") — F4 re-opened exactly that vacuity. **Measured it** (`scratchpad/measure_flag1.py`, read-only): 768/31,824 writer-only tokens, ALL markup 0 prose; clean candidate FLAGs 96.75%/7-interior-loss; matched-writer → 99.97%/0 (residual = injection, not prose) → clean PASS only at reference≈candidate=vacuous. **⇒ Flag-1 is not a wiring fix; it sits on a design gap only the jurist can resolve.** Stopped before pinning; escalated instead. The steward's "maybe I can't understand the subtlety" was the sharpest read in the room.
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## Authorization moves
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- 2026-07-24T~14:00 CEST — **PENDING-71 filed ([PROPOSAL], [ESCALATE]-weight) + jurist package written.** `docs/borndigital-source-fidelity-reference-JURIST-PACKAGE-2026-07-24.md` (via `/jurist-package`; verify-before-compose hook PASSED — GROUNDED-IN §Tiering&Fence 969/1042/1046 + Flag-1 §7 + F4 + REVIEWED-57/66 quoted verbatim; measurement inlined). Fork: (a) independent extractor · (b) pre-cleaner reference · hybrid; executor lean = hybrid, surfaced-not-decided; 5 gate questions with leans. Did NOT pin, build, or pick — surfaced for the jurist per the steward's "the jurist needs to see this." **V-TEXT wave stays blocked until ruled.** Awaiting steward relay → jurist design-gate.
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## Returns — [afternoon-2: two jurist packages; the steward + jurist each caught the same drift-family — infer-from-a-derived/legacy-artifact instead of ground truth]
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- 2026-07-24T~15:30 CEST — **PENDING-71 ruled: I UNDER-READ MY OWN MEASUREMENT.** My run (3) (source-anchored + writer-matched reference) already measured 99.97%/0-interior-loss/0-boundary — the answer — but I dismissed it by assuming a clean PASS needs a ZERO residual, when the 287-token residual was declarable/excusable injection (PENDING-69 `moved_to` shape). I also conflated two problems under one name ("verifies markup not words"): (i) shared-reader [structural, real] vs (ii) markup-noise [Flag-1 fixed it], which drove me to lean (b). Jurist overruled → the ruled design IS run (3) + a periodic reader audit; Flag-1 = right-but-insufficient, not misdirected. **Lesson: a clean PASS needs the residual ACCOUNTED-FOR not zero; anchor the reference as far UPSTREAM as the signal permits (every downstream stage is one you stop checking); read your own data before theorizing past it.** Governance lesson the jurist minted: *when a change reassigns a named component, check what else names it* (F4-moved-candidate-onto-pandoc voided 1046's "different converter", never cross-checked → cost 5 days + a wave) → owed into the amendment-process discipline.
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- 2026-07-24T~14:50 CEST — **Warde/sidecar arc: steward corrected "we cannot use the extant canon as precedent" (2×).** I (a) inferred "Warde needs no sidecar" from legacy typography PEERS (Bringhurst etc., pre-constitution), and (b) built Warde's frontmatter by mirroring Bringhurst — which itself predates the schema, so the copy was missing `lang`/`canonical`/`work`. Assert-from-legacy-artifact, same family as the whole day. Re-grounded in graduation-spec's frontmatter SCHEMA + the current-constitution reference (Eichmann, post-constitution). The correction opened the real finding → the unified-artifact / voice-purity sidecar (PENDING-72). **Bank: build to the CONSTITUTION (spec/graduation-spec), never to what an extant (legacy) canonical happens to look like; where the constitution is silent/unbuilt for a tier, that's a gap to name, not to fill from a peer.**
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## Authorization moves
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- 2026-07-24T~15:40 CEST — **PENDING-71 RULING processed** (steward-relayed): ruling filed verbatim (`docs/borndigital-source-fidelity-reference-JURIST-RULING-2026-07-24.md`) + Addendum applied to the package (corrections + REVIEWED-72 draft) + PENDING-71 updated. **Wave-unblock is now CLOSE:** the ruled reference design = run (3), which already PASSES — the build is bounded (repoint reference to markdown-smart + declare/excuse the injection delta + spec the periodic audit) + demonstrate clean-PASS-plus-a-deliberate-negative. Awaiting steward placement of REVIEWED-72 → then build → then the 47-file wave.
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- 2026-07-24T~16:10 CEST — **PENDING-72 RULING processed** (steward-relayed): design-gate PASSED + strengthened; ruling filed verbatim + Addendum applied + REVIEWED-73 drafted + PENDING-72 updated. Jurist improved on my package (orthogonality reframing; exhaustive-partition teeth — the completeness property I'd left out) and caught TWO of my misses: (1) **I did not trace that `sections[]` is one of REVIEWED-64's five line-carrying coordinate-contract families** → the migration must add `line_frame: landed-file` (consequence-trace-one-level-shallow again — I quoted REVIEWED-64 elsewhere but didn't apply it to the very field I was proposing); (2) my chamber-side locus lean was architecturally-right but WEAK — the real argument (engine-side breaks on every re-conversion; PENDING-53 class, 5 FAILED rows) I didn't make. Both packages this afternoon = confirmed-with-corrections; the corrections were the jurist supplying the stronger argument/teeth I'd under-built. **Net: two governance judgments SECURED (both ruled same day), the wave-unblock path bounded.**
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- 2026-07-24T~15:10 CEST — **PENDING-72 filed ([PROPOSAL]) + jurist package written** (`docs/engine-consumption-voice-purity-sidecar-JURIST-PACKAGE-2026-07-24.md`; hook PASSED). Steward-directed to secure the judgment NOW (before the corpus-work phase). Finding: the `studium/meta@1` sidecar is ONE artifact, two depths (baseline voice-purity binding — needed for every consumable voice; rich structural — typed-source only); graduation produces it V-DSL-only, the 19 non-DSL engine voices hand-curated after the fact; realized failure = the Eichmann apparatus-leak. Proposal: attested voice-boundaries (sidecar or positive whole-file) required for engine-consumable graduation, all tiers; derivation stays curation, existence/binding/schema gated. 5 gate questions w/ leans. Awaiting steward relay → jurist.
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## Sub-agent dialogues
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## Bypasses
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## Open horizons — [post-clear context window; the REVIEWED-72 build phase]
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- 2026-07-24T~14:54 CEST — Fresh context window opened (steward /clear'd ~8 min after wrap to build with room). Thread CONFIRMED at wake, unchanged: **build REVIEWED-72 → unblock the 47-file V-TEXT wave.** Ruled design = run (3) (already passes), so bounded: (1) repoint reference `-t gfm-raw_html`→`-t markdown-smart` on raw source EPUB; (2) declare/excuse injection+glyph delta (PENDING-69 `moved_to`); (3) spec periodic per-format-class reader audit as declared data; (4) demonstrate clean PASS **+ deliberate negative still FLAGs**. Land 969/1046 as §Tiering&Fence supersession + add reassigned-component check to amendment discipline. **Drift to hold today (its sharpest instance is load-bearing here):** under-read-own-measurement — the build IS run (3); read REVIEWED-72 + measure_flag1.py as substrate, don't theorize past the data. Symmetria re-anchored (init); lineage clasp closed.
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## Returns — [post-clear build: the measurement refined the RULING's premise, not just mine]
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- 2026-07-24T~15:20 CEST — Grounding run (3) on Levi before building the excuse mechanism (`scratchpad/ground_manifest.py`, read-only) DECOMPOSED the 287 added_total: **multiset-added (genuinely candidate-only) = 8 tokens, ALL glyph (wstawać×6, oświęcim, braşov); the other 279 are present-elsewhere in the reference (displacement, multiset-neutral).** Injection's own enumeration (`converted_markers`, 646 digit-markers) lands on the LOST side and explains 0 of the added. ⇒ the ruling's SHAPE holds (moved_to / fabrication-elsewhere-flags), but its SURFACE ("the injector enumerates the added delta") does not — the injector enumerates markers, not relocated-body positions. The clean mechanism = a PRESENCE check (moved_to generalized to the added side): an added token is benign iff present-in-reference (relocation) OR in the declared two-sided glyph manifest; else fabrication → FLAG. The whole-book manifest is ~8 glyph tokens, not 287. Prior question ALSO settled empirically: `_tokens` PRESERVES diacritics (\w+/re.UNICODE) — wstawać≠wstawa — so the glyph half of the manifest IS needed and IS two-sided. Surfaced to steward as a routing question (FIX within REVIEWED-72 vs one-line jurist note, since it redefines what classify's added side measures). Substrate-first caught the compressed framing — the good direction of the day's drift-family.
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## Authorization moves
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- 2026-07-24T~15:45 CEST — **PENDING-73 filed ([PROPOSAL], change-class confirmation) + jurist package written** (`docs/borndigital-added-side-fabrication-check-JURIST-PACKAGE-2026-07-24.md`; verify-before-compose hook PASSED — GROUNDED-IN §Tiering&Fence source-fidelity 1046–1048 + V-TEXT tier + §V Tier-3-by-omission, quoted verbatim + the REVIEWED-72 ruling/`resolve_review`/`classify()` operative decisions quoted; measurement inlined). Steward chose routing (b) — secure the in-scope judgment BEFORE building, "to be sure of no surprises." One claim to test: the honest added-side excuse redefines classify's added side from position-displacement to a multiset-fabrication measure (present-in-reference ∨ declared-glyph; else FLAG), in-scope for REVIEWED-72 to land atomically. 4 gate Qs w/ leans (in-scope · multiset>presence · two-sided glyph · closed §V-normalization boundary). Did NOT build — HOLD until ruled. Awaiting steward relay → jurist.
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## Authorization moves
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- 2026-07-24T~16:30 CEST — **REVIEWED-74 PLACED by steward → built the added-side check + DEMONSTRATED (literal question ANSWERED).** Built to the four ruled corrections: (1) `resolve_added` in `verify_body_conservation.py` — multiset fabrication (`Counter(cand)−Counter(ref)−glyph_added`), count-scoped both sides (whole-run-or-nothing loss excuse), classify() byte-identical, V-DSL+sweep don't inherit (10 invariant fixtures pass, incl. the duplication-catch + count-scoped negatives). (2) `apply_char_glyphs` emits the two-sided per-site manifest (added joined words / removed `<img>`-split fragments — the honest asymmetry, matches the reference's own pandoc inline-image tokenization). (3) repointed `reference_tokens_epub` gfm-raw_html→markdown-smart. (4) **FOUR-CASE DEMONSTRATION ran on real candidates** (`scratchpad/demonstrate_four_cases.py`; RECORD at `docs/borndigital-added-side-four-case-demonstration-RECORD-2026-07-24.md`): **Case 1 clean Levi → PASS (fab=0) · Case 2 prose deletion → FLAG · Case 3 fabrication-outside-manifest → FLAG (fab=80) · Case 4 Eichmann added+interior CLEAN (fab=3<23, no regression; boundary runs → resolve_review, REVIEWED-72 flow).** Manifest DERIVED from declared policy = the measured multiset exactly. Threshold=clean-floor(Levi 0/Eichmann 3)+margin=23, declared data. **test_tools 232/232** (+10). **The literal question is answered: clean PASS + deliberate negative still FLAGs under the repointed reference — refuses real loss, not merely passes clean files.** Code on working copy, NOT committed (lands atomically with the §Tiering&Fence supersession — no code ahead of spec). REMAINING = the atomic landing (task 6): wire resolve_added into graduate_to_canonical + spec supersession + graduation-spec declared data + amendment discipline + bounded-diff proof + commit/tag REVIEWED-72/74 + push → then the 47-file wave.
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## Authorization moves
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- 2026-07-24T~17:30 CEST — **ATOMIC LANDING COMPLETE (REVIEWED-72 + REVIEWED-74), committed `eaa38bf`, pushed github ✓.** Steward directed "push into the landing." Wired resolve_added into `verify_candidate` (V-TEXT) + `graduate_to_canonical.body_conservation_gate` (loads `<stem>.glyph-manifest.json` + `body_conservation.added_fabrication_threshold`); lane writes the glyph-manifest sidecar. **Spec v2.5.0→v2.6.0** (froze v2.5.0 byte-identical; **BOUNDED-DIFF PROVEN** = exactly 4 regions: title · v2.6.0 block · source-fidelity clause revision · §Governance 2 disciplines; 4 deleted lines = only old title + old bullet). graduation-spec `body_conservation:` declared data (reference_writer · added_fabrication_threshold=40 [clean-floor+margin] · reader_audit specified-not-yet-built with cadence/trigger/pass-criterion — VISIBLE per steward). §Governance += reassigned-component check (REVIEWED-72) + in-scope-refinement three-part test (REVIEWED-74). Doc currency: chamber CLAUDE.md v2.6.0 + tool-evolution-log entry. **Fleet 234/234.** All verify-before-compose hooks passed; pre-commit passed. **origin/Gitea unreachable (port 443, known-flaky) — retry owed; github has eaa38bf.** THE 47-FILE V-TEXT WAVE IS UNBLOCKED. Owed: reader-audit RUNNER (named dependency); origin push retry; per-source glyph-maps for 12 census-flagged files; the wave itself.
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