How a repository records what it depends on, and finds out when it changes.
Pull what you use; two facets beside it; ETag freshness; reconciliation running
the other way; venues for what you cannot fetch; gaps, with moving a file as the
homing act.
Built on bedrock's sibling facets, whose three open choices are answered in
.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/annotating/annotating.usages.md —
the convention adopting annotating using itself. That is the cheapest available
test of whether it works.
It also states in public the answer whose absence kept two agreements frozen from
2026-08-21: the pair is released by replacement, never by rewriting. A source you
did not write is not yours to rewrite, and the protocol never said what to do
instead. Nobody chose badly; nobody was asked.
The first copy of annotating here was written by hand. You cannot fetch and
annotate before the thing that says how exists — self-hosting is a test, not a
derivation.
Note: loom/annotating does not exist yet, so the external's origin path currently
resolves to nothing.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
jeffryandClaude Opus 5
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