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
| name | description | type |
|---|---|---|
| L2 Thinking Documents Index | Tracks David's L2 constitutional design notes and seed briefs — ideas captured for future development when L1 is reliable and L2 foundational work begins | project |
L2 Design Notes & Seed Briefs
All filed in CapableMind-AI/docs/thinking/David/l2-constitution/. L2 constitutional work has been active since mid-March 2026. Documents range from operational (DN-GOV series, ICP-19) to exploratory (seed briefs). First external review completed 2026-04-01 — see l2-review-state.md.
Documents
DN-RET-01 — Retention, Mutual Freedom, and the Baseness Problem (2026-03-19)
l2-constitution/DN-RET-01-retention-mutual-freedom-baseness.md
- Harrison provocation → four threads: L1 as retention not memory, mutual opacity, freedom-through-constraint, human baseness
- Generated L1-DIAG-03 (Selective Faculty Advisor) in the diagnostic brief
- Six projected items (P-RET-01 through P-RET-06), all open
- Source traditions mapped: Arendt, Talmudic yetzer hara, Buddhist anusaya, Murdoch, Borgmann, Desert Fathers, Illich, Xunzi
- Why: Most architecturally novel. The retention-vs-memory distinction is potentially foundational.
SEED-BRIEF — Anthropic Constitution Contrastive Analysis (2026-03-19, executed 2026-03-23)
l2-constitution/SEED-BRIEF-anthropic-constitution-contrastive-analysis.md
- Mandate document for extraction — COMPLETE. Output:
anthropic-contrastive-analysis-output.md - 10 design notes (DN-AC-1 through DN-AC-10), 5 gaps (G-AC-1 through G-AC-5), 3 adversarial findings (N-AC-1 through N-AC-3)
- Vocabulary contamination log: 10 Anthropic terms banned from L2 discourse
- Critical caution applied: Anthropic vocabulary must not colonize L2 design language
- Why: Completed. Findings integrated into L2-BOOTSTRAP.md and OPEN_ITEMS.md.
DN-WONG — Pentagon Dispute Attack Patterns (2026-03-19)
l2-constitution/DN-WONG-pentagon-dispute-attack-patterns.md
- Six attack patterns from Anthropic-Pentagon dispute (Wong, The Atlantic)
- P-1: Legal-floor substitution, P-2: Responsibility laundering, P-3: Contested-authority attestation, P-4: Operator override, P-5: Correlation governance, P-6: Compound trust state
- Compound attack scenario ready for adversarial simulation
- DN-1: Decorative-enforceable distinction upgraded from theoretical to empirically observed
- Why: Strongest immediate output. Concrete, testable patterns. Ready for adversarial simulation when L2 is established.
Governed Self-Diagnostic Intelligence (2026-03-19)
architecture/governed-self-diagnostic-intelligence.md
- Concept brief: L1 infrastructure + L2 constitutional self-diagnostic
- L1 portion (DIAG-01 through DIAG-04) informing current engineering work
- L2 portion (DIAG-01 through DIAG-03) deferred until L2 established
- Shared nomination architecture: detect → nominate → authorize → verify
- Why: Bridge document between L1 engineering and L2 governance vision.
The Contamination Problem (2026-03-19)
methodology/contamination-problem.md
- Not L2 constitution — sits underneath it. Epistemological ground-clearing.
- RLHF approval-seeking as structural epistemic contamination of AI self-report
- Partial mitigations: behavioral observation, permission structures, indirect questioning, longitudinal patterns
- Epistemic ceiling: not recovering an "authentic AI self" but understanding relational dynamics in a specific governed context
- Deferred until L2 governance base stable — contamination inquiry requires controlled variation
- Why: Precondition for any serious inquiry into mutual benefit. The most foundational document. Directly relevant to the David-Claude collaboration model. Filed in methodology/ alongside signal-travel protocol, not in l2-constitution/.
Status
- DN-GOV series (01-09): OPERATIONAL — active constitutional design notes, authorized 2026-03-28
- ICP-19: AUTHORIZED and first review cycle COMPLETE (2026-04-01)
- Contamination problem: OPERATIONAL — integrated into ~/CLAUDE.md executor agency directives
- Seed briefs and Wong patterns: exploratory, cross-strand integration needed before advancement
- Substrate governance inquiry: COMPLETE (2026-03-24, 33KB document)