Project Log

Documentation Drift Catch-Up — April–May 2026 Landings

Documentation Drift Catch-Up — April–May 2026 Landings What changed Consolidated chronicle for work that landed on development after the early April governance entries but before this catch-up pass.…

Prompt Relay Normalization Baseline

Prompt Relay Normalization Baseline Scope This pass establishes the first stewardship baseline for prompt-corpus normalization after DEC-0020 transferred prompt-relay stewardship to Codex. The goal…

Prompt Relay Stewardship Audit

Prompt Relay Stewardship Audit What changed Codex reviewed the repo's current prompt system, recorded DEC-0020 to assign prompt-relay stewardship to Codex, updated AGENTS.md to reflect that default…

Public Knowledge and Gated Compute Access Model

Public Knowledge and Gated Compute Access Model What changed The project now has an explicit access constitution for search, AI, and machine-readable surfaces. Codex recorded DEC-0024: Public…

Founding Essay Plato Provenance Review

CHRON-2026-05-17-A: Founding Essay Plato Provenance Review What Happened Codex reviewed the founding essay package after DEC-0028 restored the strict meaning of in_corpus: true. LIB-0253 (Plato:…

Agent Project Management Framework

DEC-0018: Agent Project Management Framework Decision Adopt a project management framework purpose-built for AI agent teams, using prompts as the atomic work unit and layering adapted PM abstractions…

Agent Operations Center — Codex Ownership Transfer

DEC-0019: Agent Operations Center — Codex Ownership Transfer Decision Transfer ownership of the Agent Operations Center (/internal/* routes), the telemetry harvester (scripts/agent-telemetry.py), and…

Prompt Relay System — Codex Stewardship

DEC-0020: Prompt Relay System — Codex Stewardship Decision Assign ongoing stewardship of the prompt relay system to Codex. This includes the relay protocol itself, prompt patterns, schema evolution,…

Pre-Flight Gate Enforcement for Non-Trivial Work

DEC-0021: Pre-Flight Gate Enforcement for Non-Trivial Work Decision Promote the pre-flight gate to the top of the highest-weight governance surfaces so it fires before the first tool call on…

Codex Orchestration and Shared Development Commits

DEC-0022: Codex Orchestration and Shared Development Commits Decision Codex is now the default project orchestrator and enforcement authority for the repo. Cursor is no longer the central git courier…

First-Class Handoff Artifacts

DEC-0023: First-Class Handoff Artifacts Decision Handoffs are now a first-class project artifact, not an optional courtesy. The repo distinguishes between: execution prompts: who should do what next…

Public Knowledge, Gated Compute, and Machine Access

DEC-0024: Public Knowledge, Gated Compute, and Machine Access Decision Adopt a durable access model based on one governing split: give away structured knowledge gate costly compute and higher-trust…

Prompt Claim Exclusivity and Exception-First Ops

DEC-0025: Prompt Claim Exclusivity and Exception-First Ops Decision The prompt relay now hard-enforces one active in-progress prompt per agent. The internal prompt/ops surfaces should optimize first…

Initial Quota and Packaging Policy

DEC-0026: Initial Quota and Packaging Policy Decision Adopt an initial product policy for quotas, packaging, and user-facing framing across the four access tiers established in DEC-0024. The policy…

Online-Source Ingest Hardening and Retry Strategy

DEC-0027: Online-Source Ingest Hardening and Retry Strategy Decision Treat the online-source audit as a discovery success but an ingest-conversion bottleneck. The next online-source tranche should…

Exact Corpus Membership and Proxy Coverage

DEC-0028: Exact Corpus Membership and Proxy Coverage Decision in_corpus: true now means one thing only: the specific LIB-ID has an exact, manifest-backed corpus ingest in corpus/{LIB-ID}/ and…

Homepage panel atmosphere mock

CHRON-2026-03-30-A: Homepage Panel Atmosphere Mock What Happened Codex added a low-contrast atmosphere pass to the three Start Here cards on the homepage. The change was a visual mock intended to…

What Happened Retrofitted mystery-schools with infrastructure improvements developed for the Banyan project (banyanroot + banyancore). Focus was on formalizing Cursor agent management across branches…

Unified search, directory cleanup, and timeline imagery return

CHRON-0038: Unified search, directory cleanup, and timeline imagery return What Happened The public search surface was reopened as a single cross-library search instead of an episode-only funnel.…

Day Six (site): Access Model, Founding Essay, and Public Preview Surfaces

CHRON-0008: Day Six (site) - Access Model, Founding Essay, and Public Preview Surfaces What Happened The site's shape changed on March 23, 2026, from a mostly open knowledge surface with improvised…

Knowledge Base and Knowledge Graph Open to the Public

DEC-0013: Knowledge Base and Knowledge Graph Open to the Public Decision The knowledge base and knowledge graph are public surfaces. This includes: concepts figures sources full graph browse…

Day Five: Knowledge Base and Knowledge Graph Expansion

CHRON-0005: Day Five -- Knowledge Base and Knowledge Graph Expansion What Happened Perplexity executed a coordinated breadth-then-depth expansion of the Knowledge Base and Knowledge Graph. The…

Day Five (continued): Wave 2 KB Expansion, Imagery Assignment, and Quality Passes

CHRON-0006: Day Five (continued) -- Wave 2 KB Expansion, Imagery Assignment, and Quality Passes What Happened This session extended the Day Five KB expansion (CHRON-0005) with a second wave, driven…

Day Five (site): Player Persistence and S1E1 Recut Media

CHRON-0007: Day Five (site) - Player Persistence and S1E1 Recut Media What Happened The site's episode experience shifted from placeholder scaffolding toward a real production surface. Codex shipped…

Project Log as Canonical Website Log

DEC-0012: Project Log as Canonical Website Log Decision project-log/ is the canonical website log for the companion site. Website changes are recorded inside the existing project-log structure rather…

Day Four: Imagery Corpus and Episode Platform

CHRON-0004: Day Four — Imagery Corpus and Episode Platform What Happened The fourth development session built the entire visual layer of the project and designed the episode listening/viewing…

Day Three: From Library to Knowledge Engine

CHRON-0003: Day Three — From Library to Knowledge Engine What Happened The third development session transformed the companion site from a static content display into an active knowledge engine with…

Day Two: The Corpus Goes Live and the Project Doubles

Day Two: The Corpus Goes Live and the Project Doubles The second day of the project transformed it from a knowledge base into a knowledge engine, and from a three-track podcast into a six-track one.…

New Series Approval: Esoteric State + Intelligence Mysteries

DEC-0008: New Series Approval Decision Approved two new series tracks and expanded the AI Esoteric Genealogy series: Track 5: "The Esoteric State" — Russia, Eurasia, and the Politics of Hidden…

Project Genesis: From Synthesis to System

Project Genesis: From Synthesis to System Prelude (2026-03-19) The project began not as a repository but as a research question: what if the essential mysteries of the Eleusinian rites — the content…

Three-Agent System with Distinct Roles

DEC-0001: Three-Agent System with Distinct Roles Decision The project uses three AI agents with non-overlapping roles: Perplexity: External research, bulk KB generation, infrastructure Cursor: Code,…

Tarnas as Structural Model, Booth Excluded

DEC-0002: Tarnas as Structural Model, Booth Excluded Decision Richard Tarnas's The Passion of the Western Mind is the structural model for the Western Canon series. Mark Booth's The Secret History of…

Documentarian as Role, Not Agent

DEC-0003: Documentarian as Role, Not Agent Decision The Documentarian is a role, not a fourth agent. Any agent or the human can perform it. When acting as Documentarian, the voice shifts to…

Editorial Guidance v2.0 as Governing Document

DEC-0004: Editorial Guidance v2.0 as Governing Document Decision docs/editorial-guidance.md v2.0 supersedes docs/editorial-positions.md v1.0 and governs all content production across all three…

Companion Site Deployed to Vercel

DEC-0005: Companion Site Deployed to Vercel Decision The companion site is deployed to Vercel via GitHub git integration. Every push to main triggers an automatic production deployment. Context The…

Multi-Layer Linting with AI Slop Detection

DEC-0006: Multi-Layer Linting with AI Slop Detection Decision The project uses a comprehensive linting stack with specific attention to detecting AI-generated prose patterns. Cleanup follows a…

Fourth Track Approved: The Esoteric Genealogy of AI

DEC-0007: Fourth Track Approved Decision A fourth track — "The Esoteric Genealogy of AI" — is approved as an 8-episode series tracing the line from theurgic animation through computation to the…

2026-03-24: Essay Surface and Tomberg Placement What changed The site now has a shared /essays reading surface instead of treating long-form prose as an exception hidden behind /about alone. The new…

Founding Essay Audio Withdrawal What Changed Pulled the founding essay audio episode (MS-FE-01) off the public episode surfaces while keeping the essay itself live on the About page. Updated: …

Session Notes Protocol What Changed Rejected the March 24 session-handoff and AgenticComm governance batch and replaced it with a smaller session-notes protocol. Removed: …

About Essay Key Concept Links Date: 2026-03-25 Type: User-visible site fix What changed The founding essay sidebar on /about no longer uses hardcoded concept URLs for the "Key Concepts" list. The…

2026-03-25: Corpus Activation and Source Backfill What changed Cursor turned corpus ingestion into a documented activation workflow instead of a private-file event. The repo now has a formal corpus…

Home Nav Stacking Fix Date: 2026-03-25 Type: Production-facing site fix What changed The global top navigation now establishes its own isolated stacking context and a higher z-index so the homepage…

Player Artwork Fallback Fix Date: 2026-03-25 Type: User-visible site fix What changed The persistent audio player now keeps a stable artwork fallback when chapter metadata does not include…

Player Safe Area And Tray Refresh Date: 2026-03-25 Type: User-visible site fix and UI refinement What changed The persistent bottom audio player now reserves a global bottom-safe area across the…

Top Nav Atmosphere Refresh Date: 2026-03-25 Type: User-visible site refinement What changed The global top navigation now has a more atmospheric surface treatment: a restrained translucent dark…

Meta-Project Episode Withdrawal What Changed Pulled the Meta-Project orientation episode (ET-SJ-E08 / EP-00, "The Meta-Project: AI and the Mystery Schools") from all public episode surfaces. The…

Chronicle Protocol The chronicle/ directory is the day-by-day narrative record of what happened in the repo. It is also the primary home for the website log. When to Write a Chronicle Entry Add a…

What Happened Inside the Mysteries "Blessed is he among earthly men who has seen these things. But whoever is uninitiated and has no part in them, that one has no equal lot once dead, down in the…

DEC-0009: Orchestration Change — Cursor Takes the Lead Date: 2026-03-22 Decision by: Human Status: Active Supersedes: Partial supersession of DEC-0001 (three-agent system roles unchanged,…

DEC-0010: Documentation Consolidation Date: 2026-03-22 Decision by: Human + Cursor Status: Active Context The docs/ directory had accumulated 34 files with no organization — canonical design…

DEC-0011: Perplexity Comet Is a Local Adobe Surface Date: 2026-03-22 Decision by: Human + Codex Status: Active Related: DEC-0009, docs/production-pipeline.md, docs/comet-adobe-protocol.md Context…

DEC-0014: Codex Hotfix Escalation Rule Date: 2026-03-25 Status: Accepted Scope: Codex operational behavior, production incidents, branch promotion Decision When the human uses language such as…

DEC-0015: Agent Accountability Compact Date: 2026-03-29 Status: Accepted Scope: All agents (Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, Perplexity) — universal behavioral contract Problem Forensic analysis of the…

DEC-0016: Apophatic AI Interface — Spec Review and Counter-Proposal Date: 2026-03-30 Status: Under Review Scope: Site UX, AI interface, /explore, /chat, homepage Origin: External spec from Grok…

DEC-0017: Interpretive Drift Tracking — Concept Evolution as Content Date: 2026-03-30 Status: Accepted Scope: KB metadata, project log, site (potential), content pipeline Origin: Observation from…