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name: session-ledger-2026-05-30
description: Practice-of-return ledger maintained by /symmetria — returns, open horizons,
  recalibrations, authorization moves, sub-agent dialogues, bypasses.
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# Session Ledger — 2026-05-30

## Returns
- 2026-05-30T11:50 — SCSS audit Pass 1 (7/22 partials read: variables, mixins-pending, base, typography, layout, post, navigation, utilities). Framing-level finding surfaced: the partials are organised by *page-area/feature* (base/layout/post/navigation/utilities — a v1 mental model), but the north-star's dream cascade is organised by *scale/generative-layer*. So the reorder is a **re-partition by scale**, not an import-list shuffle. Several partials each span 3+ layers (base=reset+architecture+reading-body; post=silence-universal+reading-body+image+nav; utilities=per-type+nav junk-drawer). Surfaced to steward before completing the read — composition (cascade order) is the steward's call, and the scope (chamber-legacy / archive-v1 / dead voice+flag tokens) needs a decision. Verified findings: blockquote declared twice (_base + _typography); silence taxonomy (layer-2 universal) stranded in _post; _layout & _navigation both misnamed; nav register fragmented across 4+ partials.

## Open horizons
- 2026-05-30T11:31 — Woke into the confirmed pulling thread: run the two Alexandrian audits (Hakyll-simplicity + SCSS-cascade) as the gate to the Stage-F-closing plan. Feasibility gate beneath Hakyll: confirm 4.16.6.0 `Rules` monad supports data-driven generation (step 0, against unpacked source) before designing on it. Steward picks which audit leads.
- Held drift to watch today (from prior ledger + KG): verify-don't-assert; mechanical bash sweeps finicky in zsh (verify counts two ways); anchoring-on-prior-expectation-dismisses-correct-data.

## Confidence to recalibrate
- 2026-05-30T12:20 — Full 22-partial read complete. Verified-not-asserted held: grep confirmed (a) voice colors + 5/6 $enable flags + framework metadata are dead in the live cascade (only referenced in unimported archive-v1/_marginalia.scss); (b) ~half of _mixins.scss has ZERO @includes (fragment-layout, full-bleed, ornament-base, chamber-voice, hover-lift, aspect-ratio, center-block, focus-outline, button-reset, dark-mode, oldstyle-figures) — consumers hand-code the duplicates. Exception noted: visually-hidden=0 too but it's the READY TOOL for the compass-a11y fix, not dead. Tension to hold next: synthesis-before-steward-sees-it — the new partition is the steward's compositional call (his dream); present as proposal-with-open-questions, do NOT commit the gap-map doc until the partition shape is confirmed.

## Authorization moves
- 2026-05-30T12:35 — SCSS-cascade audit deliverable written: `docs/AldineXXI-Codex/_audits/scss-cascade-audit-2026-05-30.md`. Gap-map shape (verified/inferred per finding); recommends full re-partition (steward depth call); changes no SCSS; execution staged §6 (5 passes, RETIRE-first; re-enters loop as own work). Steward resolved 3 cascade-boundary calls (apparatus=register-not-layer; dateline→layer-9; @font-face→_fonts, :root stays in main) + Chamber-v1 = block 2 (quarantine + reserve apparatus-seal slot). NOT committed (steward hasn't asked; ARC local-only @ 7bc2a8a, 8 ahead). Pulling thread now: SCSS audit done → Hakyll audit is the other half of the Stage-F-closing gate (still needs its step-0 Rules-monad feasibility spike).

## Sub-agent dialogues
(none this session — all work done in main loop)

## Reconcile executed (Hakyll §4D step 1)
- 2026-05-30T13:35 — Steward authorized + ruled reverie=(a) surfaced. EXECUTED the surfacing reconcile: §2 matrix "Compass surfacing" → `surfaced` for dream/heteronym/hommage/reverie (tombeau left governed-but-unsurfaced, no instance). `make content-types` regenerated YAML; `make content-types-check` green; git diff scoped to exactly the 4 surfacing fields (+ timestamp/sha) in YAML and the 4 matrix cells in spec — no collateral. Build was already canonical (live create blocks) → no render change, no rebuild needed. Spec + YAML both staged for a single Stage-E commit (NOT committed — steward hasn't asked; ARC local-only). Downstream-stale flagged (not auto-edited): the cross-spec note ~L888/L738 "9–10 surfaced" counts are now 13 — Stage-E reconciliation, interpretive, left for steward. Other half of §4D (titleClasses vs title_display) still open — needs templates/post.html read.

## Hakyll audit (the second Stage-F gate audit)
- 2026-05-30T13:10 — **FEASIBILITY GATE CONFIRMED** (the wake's literal question, carried from 2026-05-29 wrap). Verified from unpacked Hakyll 4.16.6.0 source (/tmp, removed after): `create`/`match :: ... -> Rules () -> Rules ()`, Rules IS a monad, `preprocess :: IO a -> Rules a`. forM_-over-parsed-table typechecks + is idiomatic; codebase already parses YAML in-situ (Data.Yaml, epigraphs.yaml). North-star's centerpiece holds. Deliverable: `docs/AldineXXI-Codex/_audits/hakyll-simplicity-audit-2026-05-30.md`. NEW findings beyond the predicted glyph/route/display drift: (a) [V] DEAD disabled glyph/triptych system still wired into postCtx (hasGlyph*/glyph*Field + eligibleClasses lists; superseded by vignette §IX); (b) [I] suspected table-vs-build DRIFT — titleClasses(3) vs table title_display(10), and surfacing marks dream/heteronym/hommage governed-but-unsurfaced while live create blocks exist (table stale vs reality). Load-bearing caution recorded: a data-driven build is only as honest as its table → RECONCILE-table-to-truth is prerequisite step 1 (ties to my own feedback-memory rank-on-fields-you-actually-write). Both audits now done → Stage-F-closing gate MET. Neither audit committed (ARC local-only @ 7bc2a8a, 8 ahead).

## Stage-E drift reconcile + my own correction
- 2026-05-30T14:00 — Steward caught that I kept invoking "Stage E discipline." Verified: Stage E IS closed + MERGED (git: c480b09 "Stage E peer-spec propagation" → 2a2c195 "Stage E hardening" → 558f9f3 "post-Stage-E live state"; + steward "we did merge"). Substantive E deliverables confirmed complete (canon dropped, Zibaldone superseded, §V/§VI reconciled, capsule resolved). **My drift:** hedged "can't confirm E closed" by anchoring on the stale 2026-05-19 audit-delta snapshot (taken mid-flight, before E finished) + only grepping docs not git on first pass — an "anchoring-on-stale-snapshot" shape, sibling of trust-prior-pass-frame. **The real drift was record-keeping:** ADR-006's stage tracker was frozen at authoring-time (only Stage A ✓). RECONCILED: added a dated stage-status block to ADR-006 Part 5 (A–E DONE+merged, F in-final, G pending) — single canonical status place, takes precedence over inline markers (no re-drift); fixed stale Stage-F "generator remaining" clause (generator landed a9dc188). Corrected my "Stage E discipline" mislabel → "matrix-as-canonical/YAML-as-shadow invariant (permanent)" in Hakyll audit §4F. Consequence: the surfacing reconcile is cleanly a late-F correctness fix to AUTHORED spec; live gate is Stage G (jurist), which now carries the §VI surfaced-count reconciliation.

## Mode-mechanism modernization (decided 2026-05-30 — the thing the steward had been wanting to resolve)
- Steward asked if the dark/light mechanism could be improved (he'd settled on "good enough"). Tracing it surfaced 3 seams (auto doesn't follow system on most pages — default.html inline sets auto→data-theme=''→light; FOUC risk; two divergent JS paths) + vestigial _dark.scss. His own font-size-percentage analogy became the governing PRINCIPLE: *honor the reader's environment, never ask them to re-declare what their system already knows* (type-size + motion already obey; colour was the lone imposition via the toggle). DECIDED: **drop the toggle, adopt the system** via `color-scheme: light dark` + `light-dark()` (pure CSS, zero JS, no FOUC) — even simpler than my light-dark()+toggle proposal. **+ P3 wide-gamut + prefers-contrast IN SCOPE** (steward "definitely want p3 ... and contrast"). The web preference matrix (contrast / P3 / inverted-colors / reduced-motion; ambient-light = unsupported gap) composes with light-dark(). Founds the vignette (most mode-coupled object; frontispiece divergence would bite it). Design note: `drafts/mode-mechanism-modernization-2026-05-30.md` (4e4f700). **Do-once consequence: the piecemeal dark→var MIGRATE is SHELVED** (light-dark deletes _dark + scattered blocks wholesale) — caught before investing in throwaway work. §I.h blockquote + token rename stand. Plan updated §5b. This is the kind of "the better way is also less code, and resolved before the dependent build" win the directive prizes.

## Bypasses