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David F GliddenandClaude Opus 4.7 119285cf43 claude: back up custom skills, memory, and settings with symlink pattern

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>

2026-04-17 13:51:04 +02:00

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name	description	type	originSessionId
Session 2026-04-13 — AldineXXI v2.0 specification, audit, and implementation	Full AldineXXI framework audit and repair. Spec written, palette decided, vignette specified, Phases 1-5 implemented. L2 parked until end of May. Seb has end-of-May deadline for L1 scaling.	project	n/a

What we did

Wake-up and context clearing

External Auditor review happened days ago (not during this session) — updated memory with the five challenges, three landing (Absorption Trap, Aesthetic of Rigor, Proceed with Annotations). Review deliberately NOT taxonomized.
Read DN-DRAFT-ungovernable-threshold.md — the inquiry that emerged from the External Auditor review. Central unresolved architectural question of L2: can governance maintain genuine openness to challenge?
L2 is PARKED as of this session. David needs thinking time. Seb wants L1 ready to scale (anyone can use it) by end of May 2026. Focus: L1 + agent circles until then.

BetterMemories.io check

No new commits from Seb since April 9
No comments on any of the 8 issues we filed (#124-126, #133-136)
Posted strategic comment on #125 about scoping SurrealDB to its strengths, not abandoning it
Confirmed training pipeline is fully intact (teacher/student architecture, graduation state machine, LoRA pipeline, 7-state per-slot graduation)

AldineXXI audit and implementation (the bulk of the session)

Gap map audit (docs/AldineXXI-Codex/gap-map-2026-04-13.md)

Full diagnostic of ARC repo against framework theory
4 critical, 11 significant, 14 consistent, 10 untheorized findings

AldineXXI specification v2.0 (docs/AldineXXI-Codex/AldineXXI-specification.md)

13-section canonical framework document consolidating audit brief, palette, vignette, and all decisions
Philosophical lineage added: Manutius, Warde, Tschichold, Bringhurst, Tufte, Alexander
Replaces Codex v1.0 (July 2025), which was archived

Vignette specification (docs/AldineXXI-Codex/vignette-specification.md)

Complete spec for the four-layer threshold system replacing Contemplative Sigils
Jurist reviewed and approved with 4 changes (all integrated)
Implementation plan: three components (renderer, generation script, Hakyll integration)
Local Ollama model (Qwen 3 8B → 32B on M5 Pro) for semantic analysis
Sidecar JSON architecture — ARC remains pure static site
Phase 1 hold-question from jurist: "does it dwell?" — bring prototype to jurist before Phase 2

Palette — decided and tested:

	Light	Dark
Ground	`#F5F0E8`	`#1C1510`
Text	`#2C2420`	`#C0B6A9`
Accent	`#8B3A2A`	`#CC6050`

Dark text softened from #EDE5D8 to #C0B6A9 (David: "too much contrast for my eyes"). Dark accent lightened from #A84838 to #CC6050 to pass WCAG AA. Palette test page at palette-test.html.

Phase 1 — Visual foundation (implemented):

D-04: Background → warm parchment (was pure white #ffffff)
D-06: All headings → Garamond weight 400 (was Plex Sans bold)
D-03: Spacing scale corrected + $space-xxl added
D-05: Accent → Pompeian red
D-01: Font sizes corrected (21/20/22 per viewport)
D-02: Scale compensation corrected (0.94/0.88)
D-07, D-09, D-15: Footer, voice labels, figcaptions → correct typeface layers

Phase 2 — Apparatus (implemented):

A-01: Dateline system (Plex Mono, "City, Month Year", template + Hakyll field)
A-05: Silence taxonomy (CSS classes for rest/separation/pause/threshold)
A-06: Image types (argumentative/evidential/threshold with distinct treatments)

Phase 4 — Governance decisions:

U-03 polyphonic marginalia: archived, awaiting framework theory. May eventually be removed. Decision deferred until Chamber is fully operational.
U-04 archive dead links: removed all 7, noted types for future re-emergence
U-05 drop caps: disabled. May be re-theorized later.
U-06 sidenotes: archived but David wants to theorize them eventually — finds the form appealing

Phase 5 — Cleanup (implemented):

Triptych/sigil CSS removed from _post.scss (371 lines)
hasGlyphField disabled in site.hs
Dead SCSS archived: _fonts, _layout-fix, _mobile-nav-fix, _miscellaneous, _marginalia
main.scss.consolidated-backup, sidenotes.css, style.scss archived
Codex v1.0 archived
Arbitrary pixel values replaced with grid tokens
Duplicate content file archived
Contemplative Sigils page rewritten as Vignette page

Content pages updated:

about.md: Contemplative Sigils → Vignette, technical notes refreshed
aldine-xxi.md: three sigil references → vignette
vignette.md: complete rewrite (was contemplative-sigils.md)
archive.html: dead links removed, only existing routes listed

Bringhurst and Warde analysis:

Read Warde's Crystal Goblet (in chamber-library) — three direct connections to AldineXXI
Read key passages of Bringhurst's Elements (in chamber-library) — spacing-as-music connection, Garamond lineage, ornament discipline
Both sources already in chamber-library. Philosophical lineage added to spec.

Commit

84b05c3 — AldineXXI v2.0: specification, audit, palette, vignette, cleanup (33 files, +1625 -700)

What we decided — and why

L2 parked, L1 focus until end of May — David needs thinking time for L2. L1 substrate must be reliable first. Seb has a scaling deadline.
Local Ollama model for vignette generation (not CapableMind) — long-term sustainability. Decouples ARC from L1 operational readiness. Steward review compensates for the absence of governed analysis. Training data accumulates naturally from corrections.
Sacred palette derives from live CSS, not stored values — prime directive: build it once correctly. The renderer reads --bg at runtime. No maintenance coupling.
Seven content types removed from archive — dead links are preferable to routes without governance. Meditations most likely to return.
Drop caps disabled now, not at vignette go-live — untheorized in the spec, better to remove than leave unexamined. May be re-theorized later alongside the vignette.
SurrealDB comment posted — framed as scoping to strengths, not abandoning. The conversation with Seb hasn't happened yet.

What's unresolved

Can't push ARC changes — Gitea on Acerplex is down. Seb needs to restart the service. Commit is local only.
Can't build ARC locally — no Stack/GHC. Need Acerplex for the Hakyll build. Two things waiting on Seb.
Vignette Phase 3 (renderer prototype) — needs a fresh mind and the ability to compile/view the site. Parked.
Seb conversation on L1 systemic fixes + Effect-TS — the consolidated roadmap exists but the conversation hasn't happened. No response on any of the 8 filed issues.
DN-RET-02 practitioner questions — 5 questions about score memorization, still unanswered
External Auditor next steps — dialogue trial design (override-recording mechanism) is the next concrete deliverable
Stale items still open from wake-up: vault inbox (16 files), MemPalace KG (low priority, potentially instructive for L1)

Next actions

Get Seb to restart Gitea — then push ARC commit 84b05c3 + the earlier b1f28d3, build, deploy. See the site in its new state.
Discuss L1 systemic fixes with Seb — bring the consolidated document. Effect-TS is the biggest conversation.
Vignette Phase 3 — renderer prototype. Fresh session, fresh mind. Jurist hold-question: "does it dwell?"
Archive typography-guide.md — superseded by the spec. Style-guide.md stays (editorial, different concern) but needs review.

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