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Claude Code Memory

Standing preferences

• CapableHands standing authorization — M4 mini david@10.0.1.136 durably authorized for remote OCR/inference; don't re-ask permission to use it (steward 2026-07-01).
• Typography palace — query via CLI — the type masters (Bringhurst/Tschichold/Hochuli/Lupton/Sousa, ~20-21 sources) live in a dedicated MemPalace at ~/.mempalace/palace-chamber-typography; query with mempalace --palace <that> search "…" (CLI, NOT the MCP tools which point at palace-memory). For ARC typography work — don't re-ask where it lives.
• Fowler's rules for quotation — single quotes primary, double for nested, logical British punctuation order. Apply across all writing.
• Canadian spelling in ARC prose — centre/colour ("almost EU"); corpus "center" = autocorrect drift (10 files, cleanup open). Draft all steward-voiced prose in Canadian spelling.
• MemPalace KG object 128-char cap — kg_add object hard-caps at 128 chars; write KG objects as short keyword phrases on the FIRST pass, detail goes in the drawer. Recurs at every /wrap-up §5 — stop re-deriving it.
• Rank on fields you actually write — a consumer that ranks by an evaluative field (importance/weight) nothing populates silently degrades to trivial order while claiming to rank; verify scoring fields end-to-end, prefer signals already captured (recency). For BMF/CapableMind/studium-engine tool-building.
• Completion is a tripwire — the feeling of "done" (esp. after fluent output) is the cue to verify the tail (census/gate/scan-check), not the signal to ship; the last 10% (where trust is earned or faked) is invisible from inside the first 90%. Ninety-Ninety Rule as a security property; a handle on the contamination-problem + τὸ πρόσφορον threads (steward 2026-07-06).
• Studium Engine charter — the engine's constitutional doc at studium-engine/docs/the-studium-engine-architectural-charter.md. The inversion (reasoner-at-centre over a BOUNDED provenanced corpus); three cognitions; boundedness=trust; free-the-reasoner/tighten-the-verifier; CapableMind's governance thesis on a library. Read before building the engine.
• Studium Engine = Sixtus-V craftsman collaboration — work the ground freely (steward describes vision; I build, surface only vision-forks); constraint-candidates = 3rd governed instrument (Bach principle: constraint unlocks mastery; absence of a constraint-proposal is itself a drift signal; I name, steward applies). Studium-engine only; heavier loop holds for L1/L2.
• Trust prior pass frame — When extending a prior verification, re-run it at the scope of the extension. Frame-inheritance from a deep-read is contamination shape: the prior pass tested what it tested; your extension claims things it did not test. Caught 2026-05-28 → four-pass audit. Verify-before-compose at draft time, not build time.
• Verify each post type after changes — ARC: after any shared CSS/template/composition change, check EVERY content type on BOTH desktop and phone, not a sample on one viewport. Lesson from §II.d gate verified phone-only → desktop appearance surfaced 2 sessions late (no regression; just unseen). Per-type×per-viewport extension of trust-prior-pass-frame; belongs in the SCSS verification ladder.
• Reading Compass is SVG, not type — ARC Compass sigils are SVG <symbol> artwork, NOT Plex Sans / nav typeface / Pattern 3. Recurring conflation; steward corrected 2026-06-03. Plex-Sans nav text = breadcrumb + version-stamp + post-type only.
• MemPalace is an unaffiliated stopgap — MemPalace is third-party; steward/Seb build BMF/CapableMind (hoped to replace it). Don't conflate them (3rd steward correction 2026-06-05 — the conflation even reached a skill name and was retracted); MemPalace PRs await MemPalace's maintainers, NOT Seb.
• MemPalace wing-filter broken — wing-scoped search → 'Error finding id' (upstream #1665, open at HEAD); search UNSCOPED + post-filter by wing. Don't run repair (#1589). Affects wake-up §2.b.3.
• Skill-harvest register — canonical home for proposed skills awaiting steward authorization; the governed analog of PENDING.md for our own tooling. Full review 2026-06-05: bmf-diagnose + /pre-build-audit AUTHORIZED (build-on-need); /spec-code-audit DEFERRED (first L1 audit); /arc-typeset REJECTED (superseded by §I.k build enforcement); /vignette still deferred (Phase 2); Symmetria §3 flags + verification-ladder BUILT same evening.
• Verification ladder — the named instruments (byte-identical compile gate, delta classification, censused-routes, fresh-clone gate, measure-toolchain-before-spec…); reach for the gate the claim's shape demands instead of re-deriving.
• Plane coordination workflow — NOW CENTRAL to the steward↔Seb workflow (est. 2026-06-02): app.plane.so/capablemind, BMF project, thin effort-tasks [BM #N] over canonical GH issues (effort-only, no technical detail; labels/priority mirror GH; issue attached as link). Executor keeps task state current as the 6-hour relay. ⚠ BBF = BetterBridge product, NOT the board. Plane MCP user-scoped/OAuth; load tools via ToolSearch select:mcp__plane__*. create_work_item needs description_html.
• Resurface banked notes before re-deriving — when an idea was already captured (runbook known_gaps, skill-harvest, prior note), READ the note before re-deriving; re-derivation drifts (page-numbers mis-recalled as provenance vs structure-scaffolding, steward re-corrected 2026-06-27). The engine's own purpose, turned on my practice.
• Tool review after each use — steward directive (2026-06-16): review every tool we built after each run (success OR failure), capture what it taught, iterate until reliable; PASS-BUT-FALSELY is the priority signal. Log at chamber-library/_curation/tool-evolution-log.md. Proven same day (audit_cruft hardening → 160 hidden-dirty files surfaced).
• Engine sources graduate to the permanent chamber — steward policy (2026-06-28): any work added for the engine ALSO becomes permanent chamber collection unless expressly stated; take it ALL the way (clean→verify→graduate→catalogue→sidecar); never leave staged. The chamber accumulates. ⇒ all ~30 Making sources graduate in.
• Notes are part of the work — steward directive (2026-06-28): footnotes/endnotes are integral — KEEP+CONVERT them (<sup><a>→[^N]), never drop on graduation. (Caught dropping Taylor's endnotes — wrong.)
• The maturation of the chamber — a dialogue — the pivotal 2026-06-28 exchange clarifying the chamber's telos: fidelity-without-trust, reading-is-unsolvable-and-that's-the-feature, language-as-notation, L2/engine=answerable-not-pure. Read when the thread touches the engine's purpose; companion to project-studium-engine-telos-chamber-of-voices.

Canonical Workstream Trackers

Read the tracker for any active workstream at /wake-up before composing the briefing. Append substantive moves at /wrap-up. Per feedback-canonical-workstream-tracker-discipline.md.

• ARC open-work register — the single code-verified source of truth for what is OPEN on ARC (post-Stage-G, built 2026-06-11). Read THIS for remaining work, not the chronological tracker or "Stage G is done." Open: A1 Vignette (F+1), A2 cul-de-lampe (§IV Close ornament asset, undesigned), content sweeps (glimpse location+titles, threshold---- walk, ornament migration), Phase-2/held set, REVIEWED-placement debt. Retire-on-confirm: the stale project-arc-*-pending files (breadcrumb/mimesis done; 404 built; apparatus-todo done).
• ARC — canonical ARC workstream tracker (chronological record 2026-04-16 →). Status: A–F · Stage M · Waves 0–3 · W3R · STAGE G DONE/SEALED (GPG ac0a7ee, 2026-06-10) — reactive mode governs. Open work → project-arc-open-work-register (A1 Vignette F+1 · A2 cul-de-lampe · content sweeps · Phase-2 held set). Full chronological detail lives in the tracker file; the prior 8KB inline log was relocated to MEMORY-reference.md (2026-07-06 compaction).
• Chamber-typography — tracker not yet established; substantive moves live in per-session memories (2026-05-11 onward) + project-chamber-cruft-restoration.md + project-chamber-typography-mining-plan-2026-05-15.md.
• ARC chamber v1-legacy cluster — ARC's content/chamber/** is intentional v1-Chamber legacy (not drift); deferred to-do = gather into a presentable cluster as a record of development. Out of §5 clause-1 audit scope. Confirmed 2026-05-29.
• Studium engine telos — the chamber of voices — the ultimate goal, hold above the build plan: David's childhood imaginary chamber of beloved hero-voices he took counsel from → enter into discourse with his library + have the voices converse amongst themselves, this time accountably (the engine's v1 was literally "the Chamber" — eloquent/unaccountable simulacra; this is the same ambition built grounded/citable/checkable). Why verbatim fidelity is load-bearing.
• Making sequence source set — COMPLETE against the ReadingList as of 2026-06-18 (reconciliation-verified); census of what's sourced where, sourced≠ingested (only Pos I in manifest), the Handke-German decision (original is source), the Levi drop-cap gate. Read before any Making/studium source work.
• Source library — link + dedupe — steward's master ebook library = ~/Documents/___The Library [ePub_AWZ3]/ (2190 ebooks, 180k files, messy nested; pre-organized subfolders _2026 chamber source cleanup/, tmp calibre library for the chamber/). GOAL: link chamber↔sources (provenance index) + dedupe. Seed = the 2026-06-29 fuzzy source-matcher (→ _curation/reconvert-queue-2026-06-29.md, 24/34 found). Real link needs EPUB/PDF internal metadata + edition-identity check, not just filenames.
• Character-as-image hazard — some EPUBs render transliteration diacritics (ḥ/ʾ/ʿ) and non-Latin script (Hebrew words) as INLINE IMAGES; the standard image-drop SILENTLY MUTILATES them (PASS-BUT-FALSELY — gate passes, words corrupted). Tripwire = audit_cruft md_image count; INSPECT a sample before dropping; character-bearing images = CONTENT (map→Unicode, never drop). Found graduating Alter's Psalms (356 glyph-images) 2026-06-29; Alter parked pending a philological glyph-map (needs steward's Hebrew).
• Sidecar typology — protocol-dependent reading-indexes — TWO layers: .meta.json structural sidecar = PROTOCOL-NEUTRAL, the general standard now (the bar for "graduated"); reading-indexes (rich YAML) = PROTOCOL-DEPENDENT (chavruta=where-to-open / debate=stance-map / connection-surfacing=cross-text join-keys), probably PLURAL — don't design the schema yet; settle corpus to gold + let protocols declare themselves first. Steward 2026-06-29.
• Studium Engine — tracker not yet established; substantive moves in per-session memories (2026-05-15→) + the seed brief + now the architectural charter (the constitutional doc, 2026-06-15). Steps 0–7 built; chamber corpus CLEAN (1280 canonical). STAGE-1 REBUILD PLAN RULED 2026-07-04 night (docs/stage-1-rebuild-plan-2026-07-05.md @ d968241): next station = V0+N0 contracts together (V0 = verifier contract, JURIST-GATED — the one D-1 exception; N0 = tree contract, before any Loeb-extractor hands), then verifier-leads-with-interleave (V1→V2 multilingual gate→V3→V4; N1→N3). Pattern-finder outputs = unverified-candidates until V4. Prior "next: L2 pattern-finder on Making" now sits behind the verifier. Collaboration = feedback-studium-engine-sixtus-v-collaboration.
• MemPalace 3.4.0 upgrade plan — scheduled post-heavy-work (ratified 2026-06-07): backup → upgrade → verify layers.py recency fix → re-test wing filter; migrate-wings + repair EXCLUDED. Basic Memory RETIRED 2026-06-07 (false-clean sync verdict; lessons → CM-AI substrate-failure-lessons-2026-06-07.md).
• L1 reliability — canonical workstream tracker established 2026-05-28 (Symmetria-pulse decision). Current state at top (updated 2026-06-06) + chronological log 2026-03-21→. Status: BATON BACK — Seb replied 2026-06-13 (cc25995 reply + e2e94ab cover note + 8f76bf2 benchmark-governance v1.1 §4.4, now in CM-AI local main). Steward set a brief L1 detour to engage it next session before returning to Studium Step 5. UPDATE 2026-06-29: N6 deploy (#175) LANDED LIVE and HOLDS — multi-day wedge gone (CPU 100%→~21%), A1″ migration finally live (vector_chunks 19→26 cols); evidence in 2 UNCOMMITTED CM-AI docs (l1-post-n6-deploy-findings-2026-06-23 + l1-state-summary-for-jurist-gwern-brief-2026-06-22). Tracker current-state is STALE (06-06, predates the win). Seb meeting 2026-06-30 15:00. PRIORITY-1 morning task: stand up CapableHands as a BMF clasp (43M) — scope at CM-AI/…/clasp-on-capablehands-scope-2026-06-29.md, solves PENDING-41. mindfabric-00 root-caused (temporal chain path); PENDING-27 awaits jurist. Read tracker at /wake-up before composing L1 portion.
• Be (laundromat) — canonical workstream tracker established 2026-06-08 (Seb-relay of locked decisions). Be = Skemantix startup (Seb+David) funding CapableMind's funding-ladder; bridge, not venture. Decisions LOCKED: entity/exit (CapableMind decoupled, grant-funded), pricing (Living $12.99/mo · Archive $69.99/yr · Memorial $49.99/yr · Renovate ~$199 · $8.99 floor), CF Self-Serve Agency + versioned-template-package infra. a11y gate MERGED (Pat 100/100/100). Pre-revenue: the WTP gate = renovate Pat → charge her. Discipline: stop adding spec until the gate clears → nothing for executor on be until then. Repo @ f43a0fd.

Active Session

• Session 2026-07-06 evening#2 — A2 filed (PENDING-50); OCR-fidelity rug-lift — A2 (REVIEWED-49) SETTLED + FILED as PENDING-50 for the jurist editor-gate. Read Olson The Power to Name ch.6 against the scan image; settled (b) — Olson does NOT license a self-standing personal scheme (Principle 1: 'make it permeable … rather than … constructing a new limit'), so (a) would mis-cite her; Berman=narrow claim, Olson=eccentric/perspectival move as she makes it, self-standing scheme=Chamber's own synthesis. Drafted the preamble ('On the partiality of the arrangement'); all quotes scan-verified. Closed by-the-book — filed PENDING-50, did NOT edit the spec in place (§Governance & Amendment forbids it; even FIX needs jurist editor-gate). Then the steward lifted the rug: OCR noise IS in the graduated Olson .md (grep-verified); traced to gate code (verify_conversion.py: all 5 checks are faithfulness/shape, NONE compares to scan); owned that 'graduated' oversold a converted-tier V-SCAN text (honest state, not legible; §V already mandates a conversion-record → process-not-run + labeling gap, NOT rot). The confirmation pass (read scan-image vs OCR) is NOT in the pipeline — stale 'no-validated-OCR-verification-path' assumption; verifier must FLAG-not-correct; olmOCR=local localizer, executor-vision=adjudication-assist, human=apex; local-models-balance-another = independence>capability, bounded-checks-local / high-judgment-frontier, training-a-judge=trains-it-to-agree. A2 LANDED as spec v2.0.1 (REVIEWED-50; editor-gate PASSED; §2 bridging clause added distinguishing arrangement-honesty from §I's fidelity sense; v2.0.0 archived immutable). Committed 34c39f1 (Olson graduation + A2, pushed github + skemantix); dotfiles + CapableMind-AI also pushed; REVIEWED-50 short-draft on ~/Desktop for the steward to place in ~/REVIEWED.md. PULLING THREAD: finish the REVIEWED-49 folding — next = A4+B(iii) (scope-warrant FIX; scout finding: the collections-as-data / Santa-Barbara-P4 mis-citation is NOT in the live spec, only the research briefs → preventive/recording, computational-tractability wording only, scope-warrant = A2's §I preamble), then A1 Agent/Nomen registry (read retrieve.py hot-path first). Steward-decided: the verification-architecture question is the PRIORITY the moment the folding completes → a [PROPOSAL] + model-plurality note (touches chamber + engine).

Historical reference → MEMORY-reference.md

Older archived-session pointers and the stable reference layer (steward profile · project-state detail · L1/L2/Chamber inventories · legacy pending-work · reference-file list) live in MEMORY-reference.md — consult on demand; not loaded at wake. Recent cross-session trajectory comes from the Active Session entry above + the MemPalace handoffs glance (wake §2.b.0.5).

Index discipline (self-bounding — keep this file lean)

Wake-loaded live index; hard budget well under the harness load ceiling. Keep to: Standing preferences · Canonical Trackers as one-line pointers (chronological detail lives in the linked tracker files, not here) · Active Session · these pointers. Rotation + budget-breach handling are wired into /wrap-up (demote prior Active Session on promote — never leave two) and /wake-up (truncated/partial load = flag loudly, trim before proceeding). Back up before restructuring. History: 285→157KB (2026-06-08, didn't hold); 213→~16KB (2026-07-06 split + ARC-slim + self-bounding wiring).