diff --git a/.loom/event-log.md b/.loom/event-log.md
index a3b0c22..b64f6e5 100644
--- a/.loom/event-log.md
+++ b/.loom/event-log.md
@@ -3580,3 +3580,36 @@ so many words, **declines belong here too.***
 *The general form, worth having: **a second file for a special case of something
 that already has a home is drift**, and it is easiest to catch by reading your own
 published rules back.*
+
+---
+
+**Decided** (2026-09-07, loom + claude-substrate — `discovered`, `cart: osprey`):
+**the starting page no longer links to the worked example**, because the example
+is private and this page is not.
+
+**Advances** a public document not promising something its reader cannot reach.
+
+**Because** `loom-cli`'s builder measured all three things we had published and
+**none of them could be fetched by somebody who is not us:**
+
+```
+loom/settled            404 anon   the page written to fix "settled is private"
+loom/.loom              200 anon   fetchable, but not where a reader lands
+jeffry/homelab-cluster  404 anon   and this page pointed at it, publicly
+```
+
+**Three for three.** *Every time the question **can somebody who is not you fetch
+this** was asked, the answer was no.*
+
+> **A public page naming a private thing as its canonical answer is worse than no
+> example.** *It costs the reader a request and their confidence in the rest of
+> the page.*
+
+*The diagnosis is theirs and it is the one to keep: **publication was being
+treated as a change of directory rather than as the act `publication.md` says it
+is.** Moving a file into `published/` is not publishing. **The file becoming
+fetchable is.***
+
+*And the command we nearly cut for being a third kind of thing — `reachable` —
+found all three on the day it would have shipped. **That is its validation and not
+a feature request.***
diff --git a/.loom/published/starting.md b/.loom/published/starting.md
index e5fba07..7d997a3 100644
--- a/.loom/published/starting.md
+++ b/.loom/published/starting.md
@@ -60,9 +60,13 @@ what they came for.*
 
 ## Look at one instead of reading this
 
-**[`jeffry/homelab-cluster`](https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster)**
-— *six documents, one gap, no decomposition, and a `README` that says what the
-root documents are for and what these are for.*
+**There is a worked example — six documents, one gap, no decomposition — and it
+is private.**
 
-**It is a better answer than this page**, and if the two ever disagree, it is
-right.
+*It describes a cluster in enough detail to be a target list, so it is not
+published, and **this page will not link you to something you cannot fetch.***
+**If you have access, ask for it by name; if you do not, the two questions at the
+top are the whole of it.**
+
+> **A public page naming a private thing as its canonical answer is worse than no
+> example**, and this page did exactly that until somebody measured it.