David F GliddenandClaude Opus 4.7
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The ~/.claude/ directory was previously local-only — a machine wipe
would have lost the accumulated memory, custom skills, and settings.
This commit moves the durable parts into dotfiles with the same
symlink-to-home pattern used for CLAUDE.md, PENDING.md, REVIEWED.md,
and L2-BOOTSTRAP.md.
Preserved (symlinked from ~/.claude/* into here):
skills/audit/ — thinking-folder drift scanner
skills/symmetria/ — practice-of-return discipline
skills/vault-update-people/ — Obsidian People-file maintainer
skills/wake-up/ — session restoration
skills/wrap-up/ — session state capture
memory/ — 55+ memory files (MEMORY.md, sessions,
ledgers, project state, feedback, etc.)
settings/settings.json — user preferences (hooks, flags, no secrets)
Deliberately NOT backed up:
settings.local.json — contains operational secrets (HF_TOKEN,
SSH password in expect scripts); by naming
convention, *.local.* is not synced.
Needs separate review and probable rotation.
sessions/, history.jsonl, caches, telemetry — ephemeral
plugins/, marketplace skills and agents — reinstallable
The working copies at ~/.claude/skills/* and
~/.claude/projects/-Users-davidglidden/memory are symlinks into this
directory, so every write flows here automatically. install.sh
recreates the symlinks on a fresh machine.
FOLLOW-ON (flagged, not in this commit):
settings.local.json contains a HuggingFace token and an SSH password
as plaintext strings inside allowed Bash command patterns. These
should be rotated and moved to secure storage (keychain / pass /
env file outside the settings file).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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name, description, type, originSessionId
| name | description | type | originSessionId |
|---|---|---|---|
| Session 2026-04-09 — External Auditor review, dialogue trial, memory palace study | Received External Auditor's assessment (Absorption Trap, Aesthetic of Rigor), filed dialogue trial briefs (deferred), completed memory palace source study (DN-RET-02, six findings for L1). Practitioner questions pending. | project | 5d8fa47d-6cf1-4a66-9ef6-a2a95f27f7dd |
Session 2026-04-09
What we did
External Auditor anonymization — replaced remaining name references in governance docs (three-consequences.md, ICP-19, governed-self-diagnostic-intelligence.md). Context Note line 99 preserved as historical record per steward. Committed 0407339, pushed to CapableMind-ai/capableMind_docs. Updated both GitHub remote URLs from skemantix to CapableMind-ai.
External Auditor's review received — key challenges:
- CD-03 "living honestly" may be permission structure for status quo
- "Absorption Trap" — pre-naming failure modes creates epistemic immune system
- "Aesthetic of Rigor" — difficulty is not calibration (unnamed failure mode)
- Source selection biased toward sincere practitioner, missing tired/defensive/dumb-reasons observer
- Proposes "Veto Power" outside the vocabulary
Dialogue trial preparation — filed executor brief + override-recording instructions in l2-constitution/. Readiness assessment: invariants settled but not computationally operative; enforcement vocabulary defined but inert; override-recording proposed but not implemented. All deferred — steward prioritizing L1 work with Seb.
Memory palace study (DN-RET-02) — complete source study across Yates, Carruthers x2. Six findings:
- Memory is composition not storage — reframes recall quality
- Revisitation is compositional — confirms PENDING-17 retroactive re-evaluation
- Affect is locational mechanism (intentio) — reframes Q-2: not new computation but signal already computed and discarded
- Primary failure is disorder not forgetting — sharpens I-CF toward distinctness criterion
- Multi-palace — tradition silent, dead end
- Random access claimed but contested
Five practitioner questions for steward pending (score memorization under performance conditions).
What we decided — and why
- Context Note preserved — frames the turtles inquiry. Anonymization covers governance role, not historical record.
- Dialogue trial deferred — L1 stabilization is priority. Instructions filed for when ready.
- DN-RET-02 is inquiry not redesign — "trying to solve the problems, not create new ones."
- Reviewer package superseded — External Auditor worked from it, assessment received.
What's unresolved
- CapableMind-AI: committed and pushed (1e0f0dd). One untracked PDF (Craft_of_Thought_Meditation.pdf)
- BetterMemories.io: committed and pushed (d82060e). Clean.
- Chamber-library: 5 unpushed commits + 2 untracked PDFs (Bourdieu, Kruger/Dunning)
- ARC: unpushed b1f28d3, blocked on Gitea
- External Auditor's assessment: steward needs to decide what enters record, whether HOLD triggered
- Override-recording: authorized, deferred
- Practitioner questions: 5 questions pending
- L1: awaiting Seb's instructions
- Seb's docs: ~30 Luke references in team/advisory capacity
Thistleweld
- Flagged OCR whitespace waste. Led to Craft of Thought cleaning (11% token reduction).
Next actions
- Commit CapableMind-AI changes
- Respond to External Auditor's assessment
- Practitioner questions (score memorization)
- L1 work (awaiting Seb)
- Override-recording mechanism (when L1 stable)