dotfiles/claude/memory/session-ledger-2026-05-02.md

name, description, type, originSessionId

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Session Ledger 2026-05-02	Practice-of-return ledger maintained by /symmetria — returns, open horizons, recalibrations, authorization moves, sub-agent dialogues, bypasses.	feedback	8d9ac240-47df-4578-aec1-a9dd32965027

Session Ledger — 2026-05-02

Returns

• 15:23 — Steward asked for mine status check, then noted CPU "creeping upwards." First answer (54.7% CPU = "GPU-offload signature") was a catalogues-stale pattern — repeating yesterday's framing without re-measuring. Re-measured: caught Spotlight mdworker_shared storm in flight (multiple workers 25-53% CPU, mine in STAT: UN blocked on I/O) + RSS growth (1.14 → 1.84 GB in 3 min) + 77% swap utilization. Initially over-attributed creep to Spotlight; re-checked 3 min later — storm had drained, RSS settled to 1.78 GB. Honest re-framing: Spotlight contention is real-but-periodic (will recur as palace grows), memory growth less alarming than first sketched. First proposed fix (sudo mdutil -i off) was wrong shape for a subdirectory; steward ran it, hit "unknown indexing state" error. Corrected to .metadata_never_index sentinel — proper macOS pattern for excluding a hidden subdir from Spotlight. Single durable file, idempotent, reversible. Steward authorized; placed at ~/.mempalace/.metadata_never_index (15:23). Pattern caught: over-attribution-after-undermeasurement — assigning observed creep to the most visible cause without confirming attribution.
• 15:35 — Steward asked about reducing memory pressure for the mine. Surfaced top consumers; flagged mxbai-embed-large was loaded in ollama despite not being in yesterday's cleanup list. Initially mislabeled PID 26298 as "mempalace MCP" — attribution-by-pattern-match (assumed node dist/index.js = mempalace MCP without checking). Investigation corrected: PID 26298 was BMF, running via com.capablemind.bmf launchd agent for 1d 4h 57m. Yesterday's "BMF disabled" referred only to removing the cm-hook from ~/.claude/settings.json — the launchd agent itself was never unloaded and continued auto-starting at login. BMF was the periodic mxbai caller (ollama-embeddings.ts), competing for resources with the chamber-library mine. Proposed [HARDENING] bootout of both agents (com.capablemind.bmf + com.capablemind.bettermemories); steward authorized "until chamber-library mine completes." First bootout attempt (label-only form) silently failed; second (with explicit plist path) succeeded despite "Boot-out failed: 5: Input/output error" message — verify confirmed agents gone + PID 26298 killed. Pages free 60 MB → 170 MB immediately; expecting ~900 MB after ollama auto-unload completes (~4 min). Pattern caught (twice in this session): rushed framing of process identities without verification.

Open horizons

• Pulling thread (inherited): body-block sidenote SCSS refactor decision — one-line font-style: normal patch at _sidenotes.scss:282 vs ~5-10 line architectural inversion (roman-as-base + voice-block-as-explicit-italic). Steward leaned refactor ("simple, logical, elegant"); not authorized before context-clear.
• Live question (inherited verbatim): one-line patch OR full architectural refactor for body-block sidenote rendering?
• Mine completion ETA: late tonight earliest, more probably tomorrow morning-to-midday Barcelona; Plutarch/Aristotle/Cicero ahead in Loeb block; previous projections wrong twice (recurrent projecting-without-counting).
• CapableMind-AI uncommitted work: docs/thinking/README.md (modified) + docs/thinking/David/architecture/mempalace-connector-framework.md (untracked) — steward's call on bundling.
• Type-pass + downstream stack (gated on MemPalace return): breadcrumb spec → multi-language spec → Heteronym/Hommage/Tombeau body work → BMF-MemPalace connector spec.
• BMF restoration when chamber-library mine completes — both launchd agents booted out (not removed). Restore via: launchctl bootstrap gui/$(id -u) ~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.capablemind.bmf.plist + same for com.capablemind.bettermemories.plist. Plists + ~/.capablemind/data/ untouched. Surface this when mine completes (probably tomorrow morning-to-midday Barcelona).

Confidence to recalibrate

• Mine ETA — wrong twice across two days. Hold any new projection skeptically; walk the corpus before extrapolating.

Authorization moves

Sub-agent dialogues

Bypasses