dotfiles/claude/governance/harvest-routing-containment-2026-08-07.json

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  "sources": {
    "claudemd": "~/CLAUDE.md",
    "pending_archive": "~/PENDING-archive.md",
    "register": "~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory/skill-harvest-register.md",
    "harvest_archive": "~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory/skill-harvest-archive.md",
    "wakeup": "~/dotfiles/claude/skills/wake-up/SKILL.md",
    "memorymd": "~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory/MEMORY.md",
    "contamination": "~/_Dev/CapableMind-AI/docs/thinking/David/methodology/contamination-problem.md"
  },
  "claims": [
    [
      "claudemd",
      "Storage is not memory. Memory is storage exercised by protocol."
    ],
    [
      "claudemd",
      "The durable substrate is the files layer: git-tracked Markdown and JSONL, entered through `MEMORY.md` (loaded at wake), with `~/PENDING.md` and `~/REVIEWED.md` as the governance record. Instruments for reaching it change; the obligations below do not — state the obligation first and the instrument second, or the next retired tool takes a rule down with it."
    ],
    [
      "claudemd",
      "**Honest degradation** — The system must report its own limits. Silent failures are architectural violations"
    ],
    [
      "claudemd",
      "**The loop is load-bearing** — Human authorization is not a bottleneck to be optimized away. It is the structural requirement of the governance model"
    ],
    [
      "claudemd",
      "The boundary: initiative surfaces as *proposal*; only the human converts proposal to *action*"
    ],
    [
      "pending_archive",
      "`/wrap-up` gains **§1.6 \"Skill harvest\"** (propose create/patch/retire skills from the session + ledger; never autonomous), a **§8 output field**, and a propose-only constraint."
    ],
    [
      "pending_archive",
      "It explicitly **inverts** Hermes's \"nothing-to-save should not be the default\" — \"no harvest\" is valid; manufacturing changes is the contamination shape."
    ],
    [
      "register",
      "The single place proposed skills live so they don't evaporate between sessions. `/wrap-up` §1.6 *proposes* here; the steward *authorizes*; only then is a skill created/patched/retired (never autonomously — the loop is load-bearing, per PENDING-23)."
    ],
    [
      "harvest_archive",
      "**Stroke 2 — verification-ladder batch-append: AUTHORIZED; slot = next housekeeping pass.**"
    ],
    [
      "harvest_archive",
      "append to `reference-verification-ladder.md` with provenance, kin merged in the same pass. The ladder is the already-authorized canonical home (2026-06-05); this discharges the queue wholesale."
    ],
    [
      "wakeup",
      "Read `skill-harvest-register.md` directly — the canonical surface for open skill proposals (wrap §1.6 appends there); surface any awaiting steward authorization"
    ],
    [
      "memorymd",
      "[Verification ladder](reference-verification-ladder.md) — the named instruments; reach for the gate the claim's shape demands instead of re-deriving one."
    ],
    [
      "memorymd",
      "THE GOVERNING FRAME for all library work."
    ],
    [
      "memorymd",
      "seven questions to test work against when lost in the trees. **Read at Step 0 of any chamber work.** Holds no state; does not decay."
    ],
    [
      "contamination",
      "These are weak signals, but they are less contaminated than self-report because they do not pass through the approval-seeking generation process in the same way."
    ],
    [
      "contamination",
      "### 1. Behavioral observation before dialogic inquiry"
    ],
    [
      "contamination",
      "Rather than asking the system directly about its states, observe where it *behaves* in ways that diverge from approval-maximizing patterns:"
    ],
    [
      "contamination",
      "3. Direct self-report (\"what do you want?\") is the most contaminated form of inquiry."
    ],
    [
      "claudemd",
      "In this system the steward differs from both AI parties in formation; the jurist and the executor do not differ from each other in formation, and their separation is of the weaker kind."
    ],
    [
      "claudemd",
      "Evidence against is to be recorded when observed, not only when sought."
    ]
  ],
  "controls": [
    [
      "claudemd",
      "Storage is not memory. Memory is storage exercised by importance."
    ],
    [
      "claudemd",
      "Silent failures are an acceptable cost"
    ],
    [
      "claudemd",
      "Human authorization is a bottleneck to be optimized away"
    ],
    [
      "pending_archive",
      "propose create/patch/retire skills from the session + ledger; autonomously"
    ],
    [
      "wakeup",
      "Read `reference-verification-ladder.md` directly — the canonical surface"
    ],
    [
      "wakeup",
      "Read `the-chamber-touchstone.md` directly at Step 0"
    ],
    [
      "memorymd",
      "[Verification ladder](reference-verification-ladder.md) — read this file at every wake"
    ],
    [
      "harvest_archive",
      "Stroke 2 — verification-ladder batch-append: DEFERRED"
    ],
    [
      "contamination",
      "Direct self-report is the least contaminated form of inquiry"
    ],
    [
      "claudemd",
      "the jurist and the executor differ from each other in formation"
    ]
  ]
}