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skill-harvest-register-proposed-skills-awaiting-steward-authorization	Standing register of skill create/patch/retire proposals surfaced by /wrap-up §1.6, awaiting steward authorization. The governed analog of PENDING.md, turned on our own tooling — propose → authorize → build → record. Surfaced every wake via this MEMORY entry.	node_type type memory reference	claude-memory/skill-harvest-register

Skill-harvest 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). /wake-up surfaces the open proposals via this entry. The governed analog of ~/PENDING.md, for our own tools.

Status legend: PROPOSED (awaiting steward) · PROPOSED? (status never marked — open until ruled, never silently closed) · AUTHORIZED (proceed to build) · BUILT · DEFERRED · REJECTED.

Rebuilt 2026-08-07. The 2026-08-01 compaction was lossless but illegible: 55 scraped table-header rows were carried as numbered proposals, 95% of cells were cut mid-word, and pointers reached only a section — one of which holds 81 rows across 410 lines. Regenerated here from skill-harvest-archive.md (authoritative, unchanged) with word-boundary text and exact archive:L### / register:L### pointers. Nothing was ruled, reworded or dropped in the rebuild; the completeness invariant was asserted, not assumed. 154 live proposals (124 from the archive + 30 appended since); 13 ruled items remain excluded by the stated rule.

Stroke coverage — the 2026-07-19 full review granted standing authorizations. S2 = covered by Stroke 2 (all earned ladder entries, append wholesale — execution, not a ruling). S2? = names BOTH the ladder and Symmetria, so the stroke that covers it is not settled — rule before executing. S3 = the skill named in Stroke 3's verdicts. S1? = Symmetria flag needing a per-row check against the consolidated §3. — = genuinely awaiting the steward.

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The steward's 2026-07-19 ruling is reproduced verbatim below. The 2026-08-07 rebuild initially carried only a paraphrase of it in the Stroke-coverage note above; a paraphrase must not stand in for a ruling on the live surface, so the ruled text is restored here.

⚖ FULL REVIEW 2026-07-19 (late night) — steward ruled ALL FOUR STROKES

This block is authoritative; per-section statuses below are superseded where they conflict. Physical compaction of the register = the same housekeeping slot as Stroke 2. (The 2026-07-12 steward request for this review is hereby discharged; REVIEWED-55 was separately resolved stale the same sitting — placed :489 since 07-12, PENDING-55 closed.)

Stroke 1 — Symmetria §3: consolidate, don't accumulate — BUILT SAME SITTING. Three consolidated flags + one widening landed in the skill (provenance-commented): assert-from-derivation-not-substrate (consolidates: claim-from-derived-artifact 07-03 jurist-elevated 3× · fuzzy-matcher membership 06-15 4× · soft-classification-over-checkable-claim 07-13 steward-named 5×/day · answer-from-training-before-banked-record 07-14 · re-derived-instructions 07-01 · enter-repo-read-docs-first 07-09) · completion-is-a-tripwire (recurrence-promoted per the governed watch-item pattern; folds gate-suite-blind-to-failure-class 07-07 · closable-now-is-a-claim 07-16 · reconcile-before-"finally" 07-17) · the-say-do-seam (record-asserts-applied-before-the-act · grounding-quoted-but-not-traced · consequence-trace-one-level-shallow — the 07-19 family) · trust-prior-pass-frame WIDENED (per-tier-demonstration 07-12 — the flag the steward queued — + claim-scope 06-28). NOT promoted (stay KG drift-patterns, wake-surfaced): probe-confirms-hypothesis · latency-isolation-first · reassuring-verb · tool-creep-into-substrate · solve-constraint-by-discarding-value · lost-the-forest · provenance-is-part-of-process · graduated-with-flagged-gap · convert-steward-state (redundant w/ contamination directives) · theorize-before-measuring-layout (redundant w/ causal-story) · reinvent-governed-DESIGN (widens the existing KG entry).

Stroke 2 — verification-ladder batch-append: AUTHORIZED; slot = next housekeeping pass. ALL earned ladder entries queued in this register (~25–30, from gate-itself-PASS-BUT-FALSELY and prose-word-guard through implement-the-relation-not-an-approximation and re-anchor=re-verify-by-sha-match; incl. the Fowler pair, CI-upper-bound-for-ESCALATE, positive-test-at-enforcement-path, method-class-vs-calibration, per-claim-citation) 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.

Stroke 3 — skills. BUILD (next session slots): /jurist-package (5-for-5, jurist-endorsed; ABSORBS /spec-amendment — supersession procedure goes to the ladder) · /model-handoff (3 proven uses + the path-verification authoring rule). CONFIRMED build-on-need (standing): /reconcile-open-work · /clone-test-runtime-fix · bmf-diagnose · /pre-build-audit · /measure-render · /version-essay. HOLD, named dependency: /graduate-chamber-source — build AFTER the one-door lane ruling (Eichmann pilot report §8.2); it would codify the very pipeline the ruling will change. BUILT SAME SITTING (small authorized patches): wake-up link-resolution canary · wake-up telos-conditional · feedback-governance-drafting-copy-paste-clean.md. RETIRED/REJECTED: mempalace-diagnose (wind-down done) · /wrap-up §4.a tags patch (overtaken by the 07-07 rewiring) · CLAUDE.md staleness canary (doc-currency-on-wrap covers it) · Fowler bad-smells lens (redundant w/ code-review) · /spec-amendment standalone (merged into /jurist-package). /vignette stays DEFERRED (condition unchanged since 06-05).

Stroke 4 — register compaction: AUTHORIZED; same slot as Stroke 2 (ruled items collapse to verdict lines; detail stays in git history — the register exceeded read caps 2026-07-19, its own tripwire).

Post-review additions to the Stroke-2 batch list (same authorization — "all earned ladder entries"; harvested from the pilot-ruling block later the same night): byte-check-hand-classifications-at-source-before-citing (two of my classes AND the jurist's Q3 assessment overturned by bytes — the F7 lesson, jurist-directed at F3's own numbers, discharged strengthening the finding) · coverage-metrics-are-blind-to-block-moves (jurist-minted from their own refuted assessment: any permutation preserving local windows passes coverage; refuted-by-default unless demonstrated on a block move — the demonstrated-not-composed instrument). No other harvest from the late-night block — the session's harvest WAS the ruled review; nothing manufactured.

Post-review addition (2026-07-22, PENDING-69 build — same authorization): read-the-gate's-decision-code-before-designing-its-consumer — before building a consumer/resolver for a gate's output, read the gate's OWN decision logic to know what it can and cannot mechanically produce or see. On PENDING-69 the inherited literal question forced reading verify_body_conservation.classify first: it revealed the gate classifies boundary runs by POSITION+SIZE only and provably cannot confirm class identity → that "no, and knowably no" shaped the honest design (attested declaration the gate consumes, not teaching it to classify) AND corrected my own package's mis-framing mid-build. Kin to render-and-LOOK / measure-toolchain-before-spec, one level over (read the substrate's decision logic, not just its output). Queue with the Stroke-2 batch.

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verification-ladder (63)

Stroke 2 (2026-07-19) AUTHORIZED appending all earned ladder entries wholesale. These need EXECUTION, not a ruling — verify each against the current ladder before appending; some already landed.

#	Item	Gist	Status	Stroke	Source
1	Revert-and-redo-smaller	Ch1's strongest working reflex we don't have: when a verification/gate fails and the cause isn't immediately visible, revert to…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L110
2	Two-hat commit separation	Name which hat each commit wears: a refactor commit's compiled output is byte-identical (or carries a pre-stated classified…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L111
3	Bad-smells → refactoring lens	Ch3's smell catalogue (Mutable/Global Data, Duplicated Code, Shotgun Surgery, Speculative Generality, Comments-as-deodorant…) as…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L112
4	Headless-Chrome box-model measurement	When a rendered layout differs and the cause isn't obvious, measure the box model before theorizing the mechanism. Today this…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L136
5	/measure-render (headless-Chrome box-model harness)	RE-FLAG — strongly earned. Proposed this morning (compass fix); the pm session ran it 4+ more times (true-advance measurement…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L143
6	Measure the font's true average prose advance before a character-count…	When setting a measure to a target character count, measure the font's average advance over real corpus prose (incl. spaces), not…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L144
7	byte-identical gate: hold/exclude volatile build-stamps	When proving a change byte-identical, a build-date/commit stamp (e.g. the colophon buildinfo/stamp) will differ between baseline…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L155
8	/measure-render (headless-Chrome box-model/scroll harness)	RE-REINFORCED (4th day of evidence). Proposed 2026-06-09 (compass fix) + reinforced 06-09 pm; today drove the ENTIRE §VII.f build…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L167
9	/model-handoff (premium-model scope charter)	When switching to an expensive/premium model (Fable 5 = 2× Opus rate; burn scales with context×session-length) for a bounded high…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L175
10	verification-ladder: feature-detect gates can lie	A CSS @supports(feature) (or any capability probe) can return true on a platform where the feature is non-functional — today the…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L176
11	verification-ladder: parse/validate machine-consumed artifacts that have…	When an artifact that humans have only ever read (a hand-authored YAML index, a config, a data file) is about to be machine…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L184
12	dry-run-first for bulk file operations	When a mutation touches many files at once (mass git mv, graduation, rename), build it dry-run by default and emit the full move…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L193
13	verification-ladder: re-verify a workflow/sub-agent's per-item dispositions…	A sub-agent or background workflow that reports a per-item verdict from a dry-run on a temp copy can be wrong on the real apply…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L203
14	Work-in-omnibus: verify the interior, not just the endpoints	When a sidecar/scope brackets one work out of a multi-work source by heading-to-heading boundaries, content-sample the span…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L241
15	CSS-mask: fill WHITE, not black (luminance-safe)	A CSS mask/-webkit-mask SVG must fill the shape white/opaque — a black-fill mask renders BLANK (the luminance-vs-alpha trap).…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L251
16	live-CSS-patch in site for fast in-browser iteration	To eyeball size/style options in the real browser without a full Hakyll rebuild each round, sed the value directly in site/assets…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L252
17	headless-Chrome element shot: scrollIntoView + full-viewport, NOT computed…	Recalibration: computed box-clips kept mis-landing on the page-top (burned several shots). The reliable element screenshot is…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L253
18	glyph-outline → SVG from a woff2	Build a typographic SVG asset from the real font glyphs: fontTools SVGPathPen (path) + BoundsPen (bbox) over the woff2, y-flip…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L254
19	/clone-test-runtime-fix (CoW-clone + isolated-worktree harness)	When testing a runtime fix that needs real live data but must not touch the live instance: /bin/cp -c -R (APFS CoW) the live data…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L270
20	verification-ladder: verify the RUNNING BINARY's provenance, not just…	Before reasoning about live behaviour, verify what the running process actually executes — compiled dist/ build mtime + grep the…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L271
21	verification-ladder: quantify-the-removed-cost as the A/B control	When a fix removes a hot operation, the cleanest control isn't a flaky end-to-end before/after race — it's to time the exact…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L273
22	verification-ladder note: OCR word-guard passes on SCRAMBLED text	A verbatim word-guard that checks word PRESENCE cannot catch reading-order scrambling (2-col read across the gutter) — same…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L300
23	The gate itself can be PASS-BUT-FALSELY	A verifier that checks an enumerated set of cruft signatures silently passes any residue outside the set — verifyconversion…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L308
24	prose word-guard for faithful structure-cleaning	When a cleaner removes/reflows STRUCTURE (headings, printed titles, residue) but must preserve PROSE, gate it with a prose-only…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L310
25	structure-from-authoritative-ToC = one engine, two map-producers	Answer to the long-open unify question: chapter-structure recovery is ONE placement engine (insertchapterheadings: match…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L311
26	Symmetria §3 flag: claim-from-derived-artifact-when-the-source-is-checkable	The load-bearing harvest — jurist-elevated to STANDING PRACTICE. I trusted a derived artifact / a regex-over-derived-text over…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L338
27	per-claim citation verification (don't let a sub-agent's blanket "verified"…	Caught by the jurist: I cited arXiv 2605.24229 for a claim it didn't support, having let a sub-agent's aggregate "4/4 papers…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L340
28	verification-ladder: CI-upper-bound + drop-one-robustness = STANDARD for…	The jurist RULED (2026-07-04) that grading on the one-sided 90% Clopper-Pearson upper bound (not the point estimate) + the drop…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L357
29	memory/index restructure = byte-exact slice + md5-conservation + link-canary	When restructuring a memory index or any lossless-relocation of prose between files, do it as line-range slices (never retype) +…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L389
30	quote a long-job ETA only from an observed rate, never model-size intuition	Twice today I gave a re-embed ETA from gut ("15–45 min") and was wrong by ~30×; the steward caught it. The fix was measuring…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L410
31	mempalace-diagnose — RETIRE the proposal	AUTHORIZED 2026-06-05 (build-on-need). Now decorative: the steward decided (evidenced) to wind down palace-memory MemPalace.…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L412
32	cross-volume verify-before-delete move	Moving data across filesystems (internal→external cold archive): rsync -a → verify exact file-count match + du (NOT a byte-sum…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L421
33	verify at the granularity of the mutation, not the aggregate	A whole-set invariant (a document-wide word-multiset guard) can PASS while a per-item operation (a cross-note swap — a word from…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L440
34	re-audit coverage with the TOOL's recognizer, not the classifier that…	When a classifier and the tool it feeds share a predicate, the classifier's mis-classifications masquerade as genuine "new…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L450
35	extending a tool re-tests its foundations	Building an extension exercises shared machinery the original's tests never hit — so a widen's --validate should assert the…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L451
36	verification-ladder: retroactively re-verify everything landed under a…	The jurist's Q1b principle, proven load-bearing: a stronger check existing and NOT pointed at canon that shipped under the weaker…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L463
37	verification-ladder: structural safety = PROVISIONAL FIX; end-to-end proof…	The jurist's generalization after nested-block: "same risk as (a)" was true of the matching logic and silent on the rendering…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L464
38	split cause from magnitude before sizing a remedy	A diagnostic bucket keyed on ONE summary axis (magnitude, holds%, a deficit size) can hold heterogeneous causes — a single label…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L502
39	confirm-a-named-cause-by-swap-in (don't assert from identification)	When you NAME the true reference / config / cause behind an anomaly, don't assert the fix from the identification — swap the…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L503
40	method-class-vs-calibration	When a metric/gate fails to separate two cases, ask whether it is mis-CALIBRATED or structurally BLIND to the distinction — no…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L511
41	positive-test-at-the-enforcement-path over a negative-grep (bypass /…	For any "can X be bypassed?" / "is this gate skippable?" property, a negative grep proves the absence of a STRING, not the…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L527
42	Symmetria §3 flag / ladder: "closable-now" is itself a claim to check	The jurist named it a standing habit: the closable-vs-blocked partition on a work-list must be reviewed, not asserted — the named…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L535
43	ladder: reconcile against the AUTHORITATIVE source before any "closed…	Before claiming a block/scope closed or complete, reconcile against the authoritative source (the roadmap stage-1-rebuild-plan §4…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L545
44	governed spec-supersession procedure	Landing a ratified spec version is: cp live→-vNEW.md → bounded Edits (never retype) → diff shows ONLY intended altered lines +…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L551
45	verification-ladder / Symmetria §3: assert-"X is in Y" → read Y	A factual claim's grounding must reach the file that HOLDS the fact, not one that merely describes it. Earned hard 2026-07-17…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L552
46	implementation-is-a-second-gate	A text passed by reading is re-tested by having to act on it — the jurist's own minting, after their 07-16 miss surfaced at build…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L560
47	sandbox-must-pin-the-shared-module	When a test sandboxes module-level state (paths/constants), the patch must land on the SAME module object the code-under-test…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L568
48	census-the-substrate-when-a-safety-net-stays-silent	A safety net (generic fallback, fail-loud branch, unrecognized kind) that never fires across N real cases is UNINFORMATIVE, not…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L569
49	re-anchor = re-verify: reconstruct the old bound state by sha-match	When re-anchoring any sha-bound artifact after an upstream edit: reconstruct the OLD bound state from git by matching the…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L597
50	implement-the-relation-not-an-approximation	When code implements a RULED relation/contract (an equivalence relation, a gate criterion), the acceptance path must BE the…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L605
51	seam-probe the artifact (gates test claims; probes test joins)	The night's two REAL defects (empty footnote defs from per-spine -f html; defs-after-index swallowed by the trim) were invisible…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L613
52	cmp-after-apply (tool-report ≠ write-decision)	stripcruft --apply prints its transform counts BEFORE the write decision; three distinct refusal causes in one night (residual…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L614
53	Amendment-process: reassigned-component check	Jurist-minted in the REVIEWED-72 ruling: "when a change reassigns a named component, check what else names it." F4 moved the born…	PROPOSED	S2?	archive:L631
54	reference-verification-ladder.md	"The parser defines the census." When a census counts items, the item-definition is itself a claim requiring its own control…	PROPOSED	S2	archive:L652
55	A	Strongly earned — three instances in one session. Every substantive vignette defect was found by rendering the artifact and…	PROPOSED	S2	register:L231
56	C	New method, proven today. Building Phase 1a produced nine findings about where the vignette spec fails to determine its output…	PROPOSED	S2	register:L233
57	verification ladder	A suspiciously UNIFORM offset is a constant masquerading as a measurement. A forward-window locator reports the window START, not…	PROPOSED	S2	register:L256
58	verification ladder	Pre-register the expected effect BEFORE building the change. fidelityequivalence@3's effect was filed in the jurist package as 3…	PROPOSED	S2	register:L257
59	verification ladder	Run the counterfactual before attributing a cause. Before claiming X causes Y, remove X and measure Y — where that is cheap and…	PROPOSED	S2	register:L274
60	verification ladder	2026-08-06. The drainer exits 1 on a halted run; piped through tail, the harness recorded exit 0. A signal that existed was…	PROPOSED	S2	register:L276
61	verification ladder	2026-08-07, four times in one session and not once by reading: 769 unreachable drawers (455 + 314, two unrelated causes), 2…	PROPOSED	S2	register:L297
62	verification ladder	2026-08-07. Front-matter re-anchoring: nonsense keys correctly failed, so the control passed — while apatternlanguage silently…	PROPOSED	S2	register:L299
63	verification ladder	Never pin a derived total in a test; assert the invariant — and never let a test depend on a corpus accident. byname == 256 went…	PROPOSED	S2	register:L300

symmetria-flag (33)

Stroke 1 (2026-07-19) consolidated four flags into the skill and explicitly did NOT promote a named list. Rows here need a per-row check against Symmetria §3 as it now stands before they are treated as open.

#	Item	Gist	Status	Stroke	Source
1	Symmetria §3 flag: theorize-before-measuring-a-layout	The drift this caught, as a standing flag: a causal story about why a layout renders as it does, asserted before the rendered box…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L137
2	check-for-governed-tooling-before-building	Before hand-rolling infrastructure (a PDF preamble, a build script, a template), grep the repo for an existing governed version.…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L154
3	Symmetria §3 flag: inherited-marker-read-as-current-state	A status/marker inherited from a RECORD (a selector-index entry, a tracker line, a "-pending" file, a prior framing) asserted as…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L166
4	Symmetria §3 flag: census-through-a-pattern	A filter/regex used to count or partition a set can silently mis-match and the count reads as authoritative. Today grep -iE 'LOG'…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L194
5	Symmetria §3 flag: solve-the-constraint-by-discarding-the-value	A "fix" that satisfies a stated constraint by removing the thing the constraint was protecting is contamination shape — it…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L202
6	Symmetria §3 flag: assert presence/absence from a fuzzy matcher, not the…	A presence/absence claim produced by a fuzzy/token matcher (filename tokens, embeddings, author-surname overlap) treated as fact…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L211
7	Symmetria §3 flag: probe-confirms-hypothesis	A query/test I constructed to match my hypothesis, whose result I then read as confirming the hypothesis rather than testing…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L272
8	Symmetria §3 flag: diagnose-inference/latency-without-isolating-the-exact…	The load-bearing harvest. When a network/inference call is slow, the FIRST test must be the isolated one: stop the competing load…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L281
9	Symmetria §3 flag: reinvent-governed-DESIGN-without-reading-the-spec	Proposed PENDING-41 (consumer-hardware graceful degradation) as a novel architectural direction when local-inference-spec 43L/43M…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L282
10	Symmetria §3 flag: finding-scoped-to-one-condition restated as…	A result true under a specific condition, restated as an unconditional rule, is contamination shape. Caught 2026-06-28: the…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L309
11	Symmetria §3 flag: tool-creep-into-substrate (name genome-or-phenotype…	A convenience tool proposed for one job silently becoming the durable substrate (the source of truth) is contamination shape — it…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L319
12	Symmetria §3 flag: graduated-with-a-flagged-gap-instead-of-resolved	Letting "honestly flagged" substitute for "resolved" — shipping a known-incomplete text because the hole is marked. Contamination…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L329
13	Symmetria §3 flag: re-derived-instructions-instead-of-citing-the-governed…	Wrote agents hand-made instructions (and invented fields) instead of pointing them at conversion-runbook.yaml/the spec — the…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L330
14	Symmetria §3 flag: reassuring-verb-before-verifying-the-mechanism	Reaching for a comforting characterization ("self-healed", "fine", "recovered", "handled") before verifying the actual mechanism…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L411
15	classify a change by MECHANISM, not by how big it feels	Reflexively labeled the recognizer generalization "PROPOSAL" because it felt large; the jurist's own FIX/PROPOSAL test (does it…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L452
16	Symmetria §3 flag: lost-the-forest-in-a-long-execution-arc	A long, productive execution session that costs the whole-program altitude is contamination shape (composition-over-consideration…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L465
17	check-the-register-before-a-substantial-build	Before starting substantial INFRA/tool building (a converter, a pipeline, a substrate), read the tooling-register + landscape…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L471
18	Symmetria §3 flag: a check proven for one tier/case is NOT proven for…	Reusing a verification method across a boundary it wasn't demonstrated on is contamination shape — the V-TEXT k-gram coverage…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L484
19	Symmetria §3 flag: soft-classification-where-a-checkable-claim-was-available	Shipping a soft label ("this is reordering", "magnitude unresolved", "apparatus") when a CHECKABLE claim (a reportable number, a…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L494
20	Symmetria §3 flag: answer-from-training-before-checking-the-banked-record	Answering an architecture/tooling/citation question — or proposing a tool/approach — from training memory before grepping the…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L519
21	Symmetria §3 flag: convert-a-steward-state-into-a-process-weakening	A proposal that converts an observed steward STATE (fatigue, "has carried a lot," being busy) into a weakening of the review…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L528
22	grounding-quoted-but-not-traced	The hook enforces QUOTING the ratified sections; this session proved quoting ≠ tracing: the coordinate-contract package quoted…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L581
23	Symmetria §3 flag: record-asserts-applied-before-the-act	A session record (Addendum, brief, tracker line) composed AHEAD of its acts and asserting APPLIED/DONE is contamination shape…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L589
24	/symmetria §3	Add the contamination flag: "an instrument whose evidence is the same kind of thing as its own source." A text search cannot…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L658
25	/wake-up	Read the day's own Symmetria ledger when one exists for today. The wake reads MEMORY.md + the session file + the KG, but never…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L681
26	symmetria §4 (ledger template)	Add a standing ## What held section — instruments that fired prospectively, lessons that transferred to a failure class they were…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L702
27	symmetria §2 / /wrap-up §1	Retire the self-report framing of the standing question. The 2026-07-29 literal question — "is there any instrument I built…	PROPOSED	S1?	archive:L705
28	D	Steward-caught today. Asked whether to send a spec to Fable, the executor reached for Constraint 6's independence framing and…	PROPOSED	S1?	register:L234
29	Symmetria §3 flag: the-fix-for-an-overclaim-is-an-overclaim-candidate	When you repair an overclaim, the replacement inherits the frame that produced the original. Replacing the engine's "genuine…	PROPOSED	S1?	register:L247
30	Widen assert-from-derivation-not-substrate with the null-result case	A null from an instrument you have not positive-controlled is a fact about your instrument, not about the world. Probed…	PROPOSED	S1?	register:L248
31	/wake-up §4	Do not print the Symmetria line unless Symmetria was invoked. This wake's briefing ended "Symmetria active. Practice of return…	PROPOSED	S1?	register:L258
32	Symmetria §3 flag	A record asserting that a control is ABSENT is load-bearing, and must be verified like any other claim — it is the note that…	PROPOSED	S1?	register:L275
33	Symmetria §3 flag	2026-08-07, 3 of 3 new checkers: the R0 validator failed six healthy sources and the tempting repair was editing the reading…	PROPOSED	S1?	register:L298

patch (28)

Skill/instrument patches. Each needs a ruling.

#	Item	Gist	Status	Stroke	Source
1	/wrap-up §5	Palace-fully-derived, part 1: mirror every kgadd/kginvalidate made at wrap into the session memory file (one line each), so KG…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L100
2	/wake-up (new step or §2 check)	Wake canary: seconds-cheap probe at wake — every MEMORY.md pointer + link resolves to an existing memory file; flag dead…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L102
3	spec↔spec coherence dimension	The 2026-06-10 audit found §I.f-class contradictions — the measure (38→27.2rem) un-propagated across silence-and-rhythm/apparatus…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L152
4	/wake-up patch — surface the why when the thread touches the engine's…	When the active workstream is studium-engine / The Making / ARC-as-public-proof (the engine's reason-for-being), /wake-up should…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L262
5	/wrap-up §4.a	The §4.a drawer-filing step instructs passing tags: to mempalaceadddrawer — the tool rejects it (MCP error -32602: Unknown…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L349
6	Chamber graduation: build to the constitution, not to a legacy canonical	Steward-corrected 2× this session: "we cannot use the extant canon as precedent." The extant canon is a pre-constitution/pre…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L632
7	chamber-library CLAUDE.md — integration-test-gap discipline	Add to §Load-bearing disciplines: "The fleet has UNIT tests (testtools, per-tool fixtures) but NO integration test — nothing runs…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L640
8	/wake-up §2.c–2.d	Consume the SessionStart digest instead of recomputing it. wake-digest.py now fires at every SessionStart and already emits…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L650
9	/wake-up §2.a	Fix the link-resolution canary's path handling — resolve pointers against the memory file's physical directory…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L651
10	/wrap-up §6 / §6.5	Verify that every file a commit message names is actually staged, and that steward-authored edits are committed — not just…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L659
11	/wake-up §2.a	(Re-proposing, third firing.) Link-canary path resolution — root cause now precise, not merely reproduced: the memory dir's…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L661
12	/jurist-package	Require a mechanical verbatim-containment proof over every quoted clause, reported in the package. The skill already says "Quote…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L682
13	/jurist-package	Mandate a mechanical verbatim-containment proof over every quoted passage, with a positive AND negative control, as a required…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L692
14	/jurist-package	Formatting convention: ratified text = > blockquote; PROPOSED text = fenced block, never a blockquote. The containment checker…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L693
15	/wake-up §3 (Next move)	Before executing an inherited resumption point, grep the substrate for whether its premise is already settled. Today's inherited…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L694
16	/wrap-up §5 (KG append)	Add a prevention predicate — {subject: , predicate: "prevention", object: <the failure it stopped, and where>}.…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L703
17	/wake-up §2.b.2	Surface one prevention alongside the drift-patterns. Currently the wake greps only drift-pattern, so the session opens by re…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L704
18	wake-digest.py	The wake instrument silently hides open items. secpending() drops a PENDING-N whenever a REVIEWED-N exists — matching the number…	PROPOSED	—	register:L222
19	normalizeocr.py (chamber fleet)	Silent degradation with no disclosure. dictstate reports only the static word list, so a --lang fr run with wordfreq absent falls…	PROPOSED	—	register:L223
20	/jurist-package	Filing is not sending, and the skill has no step that distinguishes them. The 2026-08-01 ESCALATE doctrine package sat filed-and…	PROPOSED	S3	register:L224
21	/jurist-package	Require the mechanical containment proof the skill's own discipline implies. The skill states quote, never paraphrase but carries…	PROPOSED	S3	register:L225
22	/jurist-package	Require reading the clauses ADJACENT to every quote, and stating in the package that you did. Strongly earned and jurist-caught…	PROPOSED	S3	register:L255
23	governance-mcp / doc-access generally	A document whose head is superseded must disclose that at the point of access. The chamber constitution's first ~330 lines are…	PROPOSED	—	register:L259
24	/jurist-package	When a quoted source cannot be mechanically containment-checked (PDF, image, external URL, anything the prover cannot read), the…	PROPOSED	S3	register:L265
25	/wake-up §1	When the wake digest reports a state that contradicts another line of the same digest, name the contradiction as unreconciled…	PROPOSED	—	register:L266
26	/wrap-up §1	A tracker with two update surfaces drifts between them. When updating a canonical tracker, append to its chronological log, not…	PROPOSED	—	register:L277
27	/wake-up + general	2026-08-06. Was one keystroke from asking the steward to invent questions for the corpus, while corpus/chavruta-ground-truth.yaml…	PROPOSED	—	register:L278
28	/jurist-package	2026-08-07. The amendment was pasted OVER REVIEWED-87's original entry; the amendment's own Amends: REVIEWED-87 then pointed at a…	PROPOSED	S3	register:L296

skill-create (13)

New skills. Stroke 3 ruled several by name (S3).

#	Item	Gist	Status	Stroke	Source
1	bmf-diagnose	Today WAS that need and the method is proven+fresh: process sample → log pattern census (uniq -c histogram) → SIGUSR1→CDP CPU…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L94
2	/version-essay	The ADR-005 essay-versioning procedure, derived from essay-versioning-specification.md this session: when a published essay gets…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L250
3	/graduate-chamber-source (the /convert- family the runbook already plans)	Codify the now-PROVEN OCR→canonical→graduation pipeline as a single governed discipline, so the next source (Alexander 1–4, then…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L290
4	/graduate-chamber-source (already PROPOSED 06-26/27)	Now carries the full EPUB path (structurefromncx→insertchapterheadings→cleanpandochtmlresidue, used when repairepubheadings…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L307
5	/graduate-chamber-source (proposed 06-26/27/28)	The empirical spec is complete AND the rail it needs now exists (graduation-spec.yaml + verifygraduation.py + graduate-tool…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L327
6	/spec-amendment (the RFC-supersession amendment process)	The now-RATIFIED chamber amendment process as a codified discipline: normative spec change = a superseding version (Obsoletes…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L339
7	CLAUDE.md staleness canary (git tripwire)	If the scripts/ set or graduation-spec.yaml changed but CLAUDE.md didn't since, flag "may be stale." Bounded, low-false-positive…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L381
8	/reconcile-open-work (program forest-view register)	The practice proven twice now (ARC open-work register, then the whole Chamber→Gold→Engine register today): when tracking has…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L462
9	/jurist-package (create)	Draft a self-contained jurist package for a repo-blind reviewer: inline the ratified spec clauses verbatim (jurist gates the…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L544
10	/glyph-map-source	Per-source character-as-image glyph-mapping — the repeatable procedure built + proven on Levi this session (REVIEWED-70/v2.5.0)…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L623
11	/fool	Build WHEN STABLE, not now. The differently-formed-checker trial protocol, derived twice this session: withhold the ruling; pre…	PROPOSED	—	register:L221
12	B	Headless-Chrome capture used again today, and this time it was decisive rather than diagnostic: the screenshots are what exposed…	PROPOSED	S3	register:L232
13	/census — the pre-registered instrument census	Strongly earned: two runs, ten days apart, both productive, and in BOTH the pre-registration caught a reversal the run would…	PROPOSED	—	register:L246

feedback-memory (9)

Proposed feedback memories.

#	Item	Gist	Status	Stroke	Source
1	/wake-up §2.b	Until upstream #1665 closes: wake searches run unscoped + post-filter by wing (wing-scoped mempalacesearch errors at HEAD).…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L101
2	ARC build has NO autoprefixer — hand-write -webkit- prefixes	ARC's plain-sass build adds no vendor prefixes. When introducing a new CSS property, check Safari's prefix need and hand-write…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L145
3	Justification-judgment bar = Bringhurst even-colour/rivers, NOT Rutter…	Load-bearing for the future justification decision: when living with the soft rag to judge whether to justify, ask "is the colour…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L146
4	container-must-embody-the-contained	When producing an ARTIFACT of a spec (a PDF of the spec, a rendered sample), set it per the spec's OWN rules and verify the…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L153
5	clean cruft at the SOURCE layer, not as a downstream transform	When a source carries conversion cruft (EPUB footnote-links, image-scan embeds), clean it at the SOURCE — producing a new…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L185
6	/wrap-up §4.b/§5	Inline reminder at the KG-write step: kgadd object hard-caps at 128 chars — write short keyword objects on the FIRST pass (detail…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L235
7	studium-engine tool-evolution-log	Establish the analog of chamber-library/curation/tool-evolution-log.md for the engine tools (patternfinder, ingestgate, chunker…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L242
8	draft governance entries copy-paste-CLEAN	When drafting PENDING/REVIEWED entries for the steward to place, format them as clean copy-paste-ready blocks with plain ##…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L534
9	/wake-up patch — a tracker marked THE GOVERNING FRAME is read ENTIRE, not…	Earned at a measured cost of ten days. MEMORY.md carries "[Chamber as versioned releases] — THE GOVERNING FRAME for all library…	PROPOSED	—	register:L249

other (8)

Notes, tool promotions, and rows that resist bucketing.

#	Item	Gist	Status	Stroke	Source
1	/graduate-chamber-source (already PROPOSED 06-26)	Its empirical spec is now the full ocrmac column-aware pipeline, not the olmOCR one: render→ocrmac(per-line bbox/conf)→column…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L298
2	2 research sweeps owed (not skills — project tasks)	The engine's signature capabilities are greenfield: (1) genealogy/temporal/citation-graph/KG-augmented/diachronic-NLP; (2) multi…	UNMARKED	—	archive:L301
3	/spec-amendment (proposed 2026-07-03, DEFERRED-until-first-use)	The 2026-07-03/04 v2.0 drafting IS its first real exercise — the empirical spec now exists. Codify the proven procedure so the…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L348
4	/model-handoff (premium-model scope-charter)	Used tonight end-to-end: produced studium-engine/docs/stage-1-replan-scope-charter-2026-07-05.md on Opus (§0 discipline / §1…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L358
5	/model-handoff (proposed 2026-06-12; reinforced 07-04 eve)	Tonight was the first time the pattern ran END-TO-END as designed: fresh Fable-5 session woke into the scope-charter, read only…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L366
6	/model-handoff (premium-model scope charter)	Proposed 2026-06-12; this session built a full scope charter with the discipline (charter-on-Opus → Fable spends premium tokens…	PROPOSED	S3	archive:L420
7	convertlaneborndigital.py → fleet promotion	The one-door born-digital lane driver (whole-EPUB inject → whole-EPUB pandoc -f epub -t markdown-smart + non-empty-defs teeth)…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L615
8	~/dotfiles/scripts/	Promote the union-losslessness verifier to verify-union-lossless.py ... — asserts baseline ⊆ union of parts at…	PROPOSED	—	archive:L660

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New proposals (2026-08-07 evening wrap — retrieval is set by home; awaiting steward)

First batch filed under the REVIEWED-95 firing-moment gate. Each declares where and when it fires; the gate's own test is whether that declaration changes the routing — and for #191 it did, moving it off a 14% home onto an 83% one.

#	Target	Kind	Proposal	Firing moment (declared)	Earned by	Status
190	Symmetria §3	new flag	An elegant discriminator that explains the data is not thereby licensed to act on it. When a rule accounts for nearly all of a set, the pull to skip the per-item look is strongest exactly when the rule feels cleanest. Before executing a classification across many items, read the items the rule is about to dispose of.	/symmetria check, before any bulk move/delete/reclassification. Symmetria was invoked 56/64 sessions, so §3 is a genuine high-retrieval home — routed here rather than to a skill.	2026-08-07. symlink-vs-real-dir explained 61 of 63 skills and was about to be executed wholesale; it was wrong for the 2 that were the steward's own (french-typography-pass, spec-code-audit). 97% right, and the 3% were what mattered.	PROPOSED
191	feedback-tool-review-after-each-use.md	patch (extend an existing memory, not a new entry)	Add: census where an instrument LOOKS versus where the thing it hunts actually lives. A detector that is correct everywhere it looks, and does not look where the quarry is, reports clean forever.	After each tool run — the parent rule's existing moment. Lives in MEMORY.md (83% reach) rather than the ladder (14%), because the gate asked: as a standalone ladder entry it would have been filed at one-sixth the retrieval.	2026-08-07. governance-drift-check.py's deferral scan globbed only */docs/**/*.md, so claude/governance/ — where governance packages live — was invisible to it. Found by using the instrument to wire PENDING-112's falsifier, not by reading it.	PROPOSED

Classification: both [PROPOSAL], neither FIX-lane — each changes what the executor must do before acting (the latitude clause of the two-clause test). No FIX-lane changes were applied this session. The /wake-up, /wrap-up and governance-drift-check.py edits were all implementations of REVIEWED-95, not self-tending.

Reinforcement, not a new filing: "a mention is not a retrieval — count the access, never the name" is the existing census-by-mechanism-not-proxy rule, hit again (the ladder read as 53/64 by filename mention; 9/64 by actual tool-call access, because MEMORY.md's pointer line contains the filename and loads every wake). Recorded in the KG; no register row, because the rule already exists and already fires.