Depended on by the conventions built on this, and depending on none of them.
- the .loom directory — everything lives there, a directory means a kind, a
stream is a file. Fixes .loom/ and deliberately not which kinds exist.
- sibling facets — x.<facet>.md beside x.md, owned by whoever wrote the facet,
never by whoever wrote x.md. Plus the three choices a convention must make.
- recording decisions — what an entry says, why it is never revised, and why it
has no status field.
- publication — the act, the contract, and that what is published is a document.
Also carries the event log and declines from cart `almanac`, which ran 2026-09-04
to 2026-09-07 and produced seventy-eight entries. Read it forwards; entry 69 is
where it changes its own mind and brackets most of what came before.
The git history here starts now. The event log is the history that matters.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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