diff --git a/.loom/externals/.locks b/.loom/externals/.locks
index 3adf4cf..9ecd3f5 100644
--- a/.loom/externals/.locks
+++ b/.loom/externals/.locks
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster/gitea.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/gitea.md	"530c5bef62bbd325956ed170bb2decf37975e4b9"
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/annotating/annotating.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/annotating/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/annotating.md	"9b1f7e6ca92f2339b2d433686c27845362944bdb"
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/loom-directory.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/loom-directory.md	"ee0f49cb900c0812678061971194325d9cba366a"
-git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/publication.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/publication.md	"385e26ef4108029c12a4267600399da1eece52af"
+git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/publication.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/publication.md	"c0d9231aa8eed3041c60b72da5735585457fbc90"
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/recording-decisions.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/recording-decisions.md	"d190eeae7929b9a99ecf09211d94e7e5b32635bd"
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/sibling-facets.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/sibling-facets.md	"a46446a34ccb8bfc533d3cce19f4c88548c4fa04"
-git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/starting.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/starting.md	"7d997a30248a88c90b23f2f9453d7cfceb03848e"
+git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/starting.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/starting.md	"b9eefba0f4668a496ccfc6a1377277f0721456d2"
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/cart/cart.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/cart/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/cart.md	"15331f1a9cc81bf61a44830cfbb7c274f4c2b119"
 git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/externals/externals.md	https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/externals/raw/branch/main/.loom/published/externals.md	"a7586eb52caf275d9bcedbbd8042c43e5aaad0b9"
diff --git a/.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/publication.md b/.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/publication.md
index 385e26e..c0d9231 100644
--- a/.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/publication.md
+++ b/.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/publication.md
@@ -37,6 +37,21 @@ copy without inheriting the visibility it was published under.*
 
 **The test is a fetch you did not perform.**
 
+## Doing it
+
+1. **Decide it is a contract and not a detail.** *This is the whole decision and
+   the rest is mechanics.*
+2. **Move the file into `.loom/published/`.** *One commit, so the diff carries it.*
+3. **Say who the readers are** — *if it is not obvious from where it landed.*
+4. **Fetch it.** *From somewhere that is not your machine and not your account.*
+5. **Record the decision**, if you keep a log.
+
+**Step 4 is the one that gets skipped and the only one that can fail.** *Steps 1
+to 3 are things you do; step 4 is a fact about the world that you find out.*
+
+*Then say what it depends on. A published document that quietly requires a private
+one has moved the problem rather than solved it.*
+
 ## What is published is a document
 
 **Prose, in whatever form its readers need.** *If a repository organises its
diff --git a/.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/starting.md b/.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/starting.md
index 7d997a3..b9eefba 100644
--- a/.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/starting.md
+++ b/.loom/externals/git.hypertheory-labs.dev/loom/bedrock/starting.md
@@ -60,13 +60,16 @@ what they came for.*
 
 ## Look at one instead of reading this
 
-**There is a worked example — six documents, one gap, no decomposition — and it
-is private.**
+**[`jeffry/homelab-cluster`](https://git.hypertheory-labs.dev/jeffry/homelab-cluster)** —
+*six documents, one gap, no decomposition.* **It describes what a home cluster
+offers to somebody deciding whether to put something on it**, and a reader who
+has never heard of any of this still gets what they came for.
 
-*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.**
+**It was private, and being unable to link to it is what made the split obvious.**
+*The operational tree is a version inventory and a target list; the pages telling
+somebody what to decide are neither.* **So the manifests moved to a private
+sibling and the documents stayed** — *and the documents got better for being
+written to a stranger, which was not the reason for doing 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.