Project Log

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…

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…