loom asked whether .loom/declines.md was a thing or had drifted. It had drifted:
written during the conversion of cart almanac because the cart agreement says a
round emits the artifact and the declines, and made a separate file without
checking against .loom/published/recording-decisions.md, published in this
repository an hour later, which says declines belong in the event log.
A decline is a decision — what you considered and did not do, with the belief
that could later be shown wrong. Splitting them loses the ordering between what
we did and what we did not, and makes a reader know to look in two places.
The seven declines from almanac are now entries, followed by an entry recording
the fix and its general form: 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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
jeffryandClaude Opus 5
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