Kalsa/workshop/deepening/ledger.md

Deepening Ledger

This ledger records completed or abandoned passes. It is an audit surface, not a canon changelog.

2026-08-22 — Operating surface initialization

• Scope: critique/repair contract, benchmark, queue, pass template, project-memory boundary, and read-only lore diagnostics.
• Canonical lore changed: none.
• Seed changed: none; integrity remains governed by seed/manifest.md.
• Durable judgment: canon, workshop process, site projection, and project memory require separate owners.
• Verification: seed integrity, publication-boundary checks, structural diagnostics, and positive/negative lore-tool tests passed. The canonical wikilink check correctly reported unresolved planned Polities/ targets; those links remain open content work rather than being suppressed here.
• Next pressure: KALSA-001, the seed claim inventory and canonical owner map.

Future entries should link their pass file and name the canonical owners changed, verification evidence, unresolved pressure, and whether any memory judgment was promoted or retired.

2026-08-22 — Institutional deepening cycle

• Scope: sixteen critique/repair passes, KALSA-007 through KALSA-022, across ten adopted institutional clusters, five historical repair waves, and one direct-entry dungeon proof.
• Canonical lore changed: the Ark-derived foundations gained bounded polity, office, household, cult, court, custody, language, salvage, labor, appeal, succession, exit, and historical consequence owners. Low Sere and the Ashen Intake now provide a playable threshold, route, clock, claim collision, and outcome surface.
• First Soul verdict: rejected. Institutional lifecycle, historical stress, and immediate play were too thin or stopped at abstract procedure.
• Repair: KALSA-017 through KALSA-021 supplied institutional reproduction, material support, factional history, named event owners, and the Low Sere/Ashen Intake direct-entry path.
• Second Soul verdict: rejected on provenance, not depth. The Alliance candidate leaked into factual neighbors, while Broken Windtrap and Grey Scald each had multiple historical owners.
• Final cut: passes/KALSA-022-final-ownership-repair quarantined adopted-candidate as non-factual design pressure and gave both histories one factual owner. Consumers now retain only present evidence, procedure, and consequences.
• Final Soul verdict: parity is defensible for the adopted institutional set. All three ownership blockers and the exact truth repairs passed; the visible exclusions remain future pressure rather than hidden failures.
• Verification: 495 wikilinks and exact anchors across 58 canonical notes; nine immutable seed witnesses; canonical publication boundary; positive and negative lore-tool tests; production Quartz build of all 58 notes; direct visual inspection of the home and Ashen Intake pages.
• Scale evidence: 83,174 canonical words, 636 headings, and a 1,769-word median non-index note. These are pressure signals only; the Soul benchmark supplies the qualitative verdict.
• Excluded honestly: Intuition remains unresolved-stub; Null/Control and Spokers remain preservation-stub; the Alliance remains adopted-candidate. They are not smuggled into the adopted institutional parity set.
• Durable judgment promoted: authority follows consequence; named adopted histories require one factual owner; candidates cannot leak into canon; abstract machinery requires at least one concrete play proof.
• Open pressure: present chronology, public versus Ghostlight-sensitive material, Alliance/Intuition adoption, and regional named variants driven by actual play.

2026-08-22 — Embedded transcript correction and spoiler boundary

• Scope: passes/KALSA-026-knowledge-and-spoiler-architecture, covering the full embedded share transcript, reader epistemics, open-source spoiler friction, divine uncertainty, and Quartz publication authority.
• Correction: the initial direction pass followed the rendered conversation branch and falsely described that partial read as mining the discussion. The corrective pass decoded the embedded linear_conversation: 535 conversation nodes containing 94 operator turns.
• Recovered direction: familiar high fantasy must work at the surface; technical causes and taxonomy remain reconstructible beneath myth and debris; gods have bounded knowledge and perform certainty; source openness is non-negotiable; ordinary delivery uses informed opt-in spoiler friction; character Personas receive situated knowledge while the adjudicator receives typed affordances.
• Authority cut: the complete Kalsa/ tree remains the open author vault. Only Kalsa/Public/ feeds Quartz. Author truth, situated reader prose, character projection, and adjudication are separate owners rather than one retrieval pool.
• Canonical lore changed: the divine-mechanism owner now makes divine testimony explicitly bounded and contestable. Reader notes add no new hidden causes or answer keys.
• Provenance repair: language-history and Promethean-culture details proposed by the earlier assistant are identified as adopted editorial synthesis or candidate elaboration rather than quoted operator law.
• Verification: nine seed witnesses; 524 complete-vault links; 28 public links constrained to eight reader notes; production Quartz build; exact eight-route search, sitemap, RSS, and HTML comparison; stale-output and escaped-link negative tests; rendered home, magic, Low Sere, and search inspection. Searching Prometheus returned no result.
• Soul verdict: pass. The reader source and generated surfaces contain no author taxonomy, Ring/Posthuman origin, campaign answer key, old whole-vault routes, or links beyond the reader projection. Familiar high fantasy, divine uncertainty, opt-in openness, consumer boundaries, and provenance labels remain coherent.
• Durable judgment promoted: open source requires informed spoiler friction rather than false secrecy; author truth, reader lore, character knowledge, and adjudicator affordances require separate owners; divine testimony remains evidence; persistent play requires explicit canon adoption.
• Open pressure: KALSA-027 Ghostlight compiler schemas and campaign-package ownership, KALSA-028 magic-forward surface play, present chronology, and the final custom-domain binding.