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name: session-ledger-2026-06-03
description: Practice-of-return ledger maintained by /symmetria — returns, open horizons,
  recalibrations, authorization moves, sub-agent dialogues, bypasses.
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# Session Ledger — 2026-06-03

## Returns
- 2026-06-03T17:38 — Re-wake (post-break, same day). Thread CONFIRMED unchanged: ARC Stage N dead-glyph fallout + Compass-data follow-on. ARC `main` @ `41fc030` clean, both remotes synced, deployed/live-verified — nothing moved while away, no foreign commits. Lineage clasp closed: read wrap + git + ledger before composing; verified state, did not assume.
- 2026-06-03T08:30 — Wake. Prior pulling thread (verify MemPalace cold-start fix) RESOLVED post-wrap + re-confirmed this morning: mcp.log shows warmup at boot + bge-m3/MPS init; this wake's MemPalace queries succeeded with no -32000. Closed, not inherited as open. Lineage clasp closed: read the prior decision (the post-wrap ledger note) before re-asking the question.

## Open horizons
- Live remnant (NOT a workstream item — local hygiene on a third-party fork): `embedding.py` log-fix (device-report bug, true engine=mps) UNCOMMITTED on branch `local/bge-m3-on-3.3.6`. mempalace = third-party (`origin`=MemPalace/mempalace upstream; `fork`=davidglidden/mempalace). This branch carries 4 local-only patches ahead of upstream; commit keeps the patch from silent loss on the next rebase. Destination = local branch (optionally push to `fork`), NEVER origin. Steward's call whether to bother.
- Plane board relay: maintain task state as issues move; steward revisits effort-shape + assignees in a few days.
- Housekeeping backlog: 8 untracked CM-AI files (since 05-18), PENDING.md 768 lines (archive CLOSED items), L1 tracker stale (05-28), Seb gate-question (did D1–D10 move the four Hindsight findings).
- ARC choice from craft morning: F4/§I.k (French-NBSP, spec-first).
- World moved overnight (beside-thread): L1 — Hindsight deep-read + A1''/B1 persistence docs (CM-AI 7741673, d2a0052); BMF test-bench reliability bundle on feat/a1-epistemic-qualitative-axis. PENDING-24 territory; noted, not pursued.

## Confidence to recalibrate
- 2026-06-03 — Hold the drift family flagged in yesterday's ledger: causal-story-before-reading-render; confabulating-over-empty-returns. Verify-before-assert; render/read the artifact (steward's eye is data).

## Authorization moves
- 2026-06-03T08:35 — Steward: "commit it to the fork." Committed embedding.py log-fix `f25f767` on `local/bge-m3-on-3.3.6` (log-only +8); pushed to `fork` (davidglidden/mempalace) — new branch there, now backed up. NOT pushed to origin (upstream MemPalace). Takes effect next mempalace restart. Local-fork hygiene, not workstream.
- 2026-06-03 — ARC F4/§I.k: steward chose Context-B-only scope. Discovered fine-vs-mots conflict (Lexique distinguishes; operative companion §1 locks uniform U+202F) — two-document hierarchy forbade silent resolution → surfaced. JURIST RULED uniform U+202F (web-transposition of Lexique intent; Lacroux backing; companion stands). Wrote §I.k (spec, +48) + implemented `frenchSpacing` transform in site.hs (gated on lang:fr in Compiler monad; walk over Inlines; +53) + exposed pandoc-types in cabal. VERIFIED on synthetic corpus + English gate (8 cases incl. glued-colon-untouched safety + idempotency + U+00A0-upgrade); clean rebuild green; test files removed. **NOT committed, NOT deployed** (steward's call). No lang:fr piece exists yet → correct-but-dormant.
- 2026-06-03 — Multilingual/translation doctrine: steward asked for jurist opinion (triggered by Lune translating After the Reply → French). Drafted jurist brief (`drafts/multilingual-translation-handling-jurist-brief-2026-06-03.md`). JURIST RULED: Option B reframed ontologically (ARC holds *works*; languages are non-canonical *renderings*; work holds corpus slot); Context C legitimate-but-gated; `translator:` REQUIRED field (intergenerational carried structurally); amend frontmatter-spec, no new companion. Drafted **PENDING-25 [PROPOSAL]** (`drafts/translated-renderings-proposal-2026-06-03.md` + PENDING entry): W3 (group by `work:` at build) recommended; 4 open sub-Qs (routing/date/Context-C-placement/toggle). Proposal-only; NO implementation pending steward REVIEWED.

- 2026-06-03 — ARC Stage F **Phase 2 COMPLETE** (steward "do #1 now"; "whatever is best for do-it-once-well"). Listing generator: 11 per-type create blocks → 1 `forM_` over new `data/listings.yml` (presentation facts), validated against content-types.yml `class_enumeration` (unknown class = build error, proven by probe). **All 11 listing pages + annals byte-IDENTICAL** to baseline (generator replicates compound/sequences/show-post-type exactly; dormant dedupeByWork no-op). Retired dead triptych JS (default.html head load + post.html markup that never rendered — has_glyph always false; deleted shipped ~100-file assets/js/glyphs/ tree); only output change = dead JS head-block gone from every page. Commits `4303df0` (generator) + `6851367` (triptych) + `41fc030` (horizon), pushed origin+backup, NOT deployed. **Two steward course-corrections, both decisive:** (1) "does SVG change glyph associations?" → found `currentSymbol` is DEAD (SVG `<symbol>` per-slug is the rendered sigil since 2026-05-26) → generator simplified, doesn't touch glyphs, just validates classes; saved me wiring a dead field from a now-secondary source. (2) "do we need to add SVG/update spec?" → No (SVG is artwork keyed by slug = presentation, not typology; stays out of jurist-pending §2); queued a Stage-N spec-conformance note + the dead-glyph residue (needsGlyph rename, dead field defs, renderGlyph/triptych templates). A′ chosen as "two right-sized once's not one mega-change" — listings.yml built as forward-seed for the Compass-§VI-as-data follow-on (avoids do-it-twice). **Through-line: the steward's questions kept catching now-stale assumptions before they shipped (verify-before-assert / render-and-LOOK).**

- 2026-06-03 — Steward viewed Phase 2 locally (desktop + **physical phone** via `--host 0.0.0.0` LAN at 192.168.1.52:8000), "looks fantastic" → **DEPLOYED** (`make rebuild` → CloudFlare + GitHub mirror). Live-verified at animalrationiscapax.org: listings 200, generator output live, 0 bootTriptychs/glyphs refs, compass SVG intact. §I.k shipped alongside (dormant). One honest catch: dead-JS file returned 200 live → diagnosed as CloudFlare edge-cache remnant (cf-cache-status REVALIDATED, max-age 14400; cache-busted → 404; absent from local _site; referenced by zero pages → harmless, self-expires in 4h). Through-line held: verified live + diagnosed the anomaly rather than asserting clean.

- 2026-06-03T18:xx — **Stage N opened + advanced** (steward: "do as much of stage N as we can do well"; rested, 2h). Audit-before-fix discipline held: deep-read scoped Stage N as byte-safe-prune + visual-conformance + governance, BEFORE touching code. **Part B (dead-glyph fallout) EXECUTED + byte-proven** (`e0f35db`): 5 dead glyph Context fields + postCtx registration removed (deep read caught a *fifth*, glyphConfidenceField, the wrap hadn't listed); 2 dead templates deleted (renderGlyph/triptych — included by nothing); vestigial `currentSymbol` removed; `needsGlyph`→`rendersAsPost` renamed (verified always-False today: all content/pages are class:about). **conditionalField dead helper removed** (`1cb7313`, GHC-confirmed). Gate: clean baseline snapshot (564 files) → edits → recompile → `diff -r` = **0**, twice. **Findings doc** (`bc4cc5b`) = the Stage-N deep-read deliverable. Three returns/catches: (1) `.whisper` retirement SCOPE CORRECTED — plan's "27 template usages" stale, actual ~156 across 11 templates + 100+ content files → corpus-wide migration, §XIV-locked names, NOT a residual deletion → surfaced, not touched. (2) `!important` audit returned CONFORMANT (a11y mixin + documented-regression sigil resets — did NOT touch the compass `all:unset !important` per the `_compass.scss:133` regression note). (3) spec-conformance note (SVG `<symbol>` vs unicode canonical mark) DRAFTED not landed — content-typology §2 is jurist-pending; routes to Stage G. **Through-line: verify-current-state before asserting (the fifth field, the .whisper undercount, the always-False branch) — the remembered model was stale in 3 places.**

- 2026-06-03T19:10 — **Stage N Part A EXECUTED + steward-verified + committed** (`20019ba`). Jurist reviewed audit → 3 lanes (approved-in-principle / measure-first / steward-intent). **Measured, didn't assume:** separator gray@0.5 = 1.84:1 (fails 3:1, worse than jurist's fg@0.5 guess); breadcrumb category gray = 3.98:1 (fails 4.5:1 TEXT floor → "keep grey" off the table on a11y, not aesthetics). **A1 resolved via the masters:** typography palace (Bringhurst running-heads "small caps of the text size since 1501"; Lupton one-shift + no-pseudo-SC) + **Rutter Web Typography from the CHAMBER LIBRARY** (steward's pointer — `converted_texts/collections/typography/web-typography-rutter.md`): Rutter VALIDATES Plex-Sans-as-functional-face ("clearly distinguish functional text"; sans best; open distinct letterforms) and rules the lever — size ("reducing its size makes that relationship clear"), weight OUT ("don't choose light weights for functional text"), SC out (no true Plex SC; Garamond SC would import the body register — steward's architectural point). **Nav-face reconsideration CLOSED, no proposal needed.** Category → fg + xs (size-recession replaces colour-recession; the step is load-bearing — removing colour alone would flatten). **Steward's eye caught the class twice during verify:** sequence-index AND about-page breadcrumbs silently in body Garamond (rule was .post-header-scoped; about-header had NO styles) → **componentized: one .breadcrumb rule, three templates**. Compiled-CSS gate caught **four list-context duplicates** the location-list missed (layout post-type/footer-separator/footer-chamber-mark, glimpse figcaption) + post-updated-at sub-4.5:1. Ornaments/hover/sigil-chains deliberately untouched (out of §VII.e class). Frontispiece cite tokenized-only; grey→fg held for steward's eye. New memory: `feedback-reading-compass-is-svg-not-type` (steward correction, recurring conflation — Compass is SVG artwork, NOT nav type).

## Open horizons
- **ARC main 4 ahead of origin** (e0f35db, 1cb7313, bc4cc5b, 20019ba — all Stage N). Push + deploy posture = steward's call (deploy is the outward act).
- **`.whisper` migration PENDING item** — jurist's process Q to steward still open: lock names through this interface vs PENDING entry. Candidates surfaced: `.apparatus-meta` (prose role, AldineXXI:2801); `.register-mark-inline` OR unify with `.chamber-mark`/`.encounter-mark` (list-glyph role, apparatus-spec:464).
- **Frontispiece epigraph + cite grey→fg** — frontispiece-character call, steward's eye (`_frontispiece.scss:147` + `:175`).
- **Stage N remainder:** §I.h prose-blockquote rhythm token (minor, token-definition decision); spec-conformance note → lands at Stage G (jurist-agreed); then Stage N closes → full re-partition next.
- ~~Stage N Part A ready-but-unexecuted~~ — superseded same evening: EXECUTED, verified, committed `20019ba` (see Returns above).
- **`.whisper` retirement = its own governance pass** (§XIV name-lock + migration map + byte-gate; ~156 usages). Not Stage N.
- ARC `main` 3 ahead of origin (Stage-N commits, local — push posture TBD with steward).

## Bypasses