The earlier decision stands rather than reverses. .loom/published/ was recorded as
deferred, not declined — it earns publication when somebody depends on the tool's
behaviour rather than reading its help — and a docs site whose build calls add,
check and apply is that consumer. The condition fired.
The delta is real and is not the command list: --help says what the tool does, and
a reader cannot learn from it which behaviours survive the next version. The
sharpest case is loom's — the tool is now a second holder of externals' rule that
the lock is the publisher's ETag and never one you compute, and nothing anywhere
said the tool holds it, in a repository where a specimen was written that computed
a hash instead.
Includes what a contract must include and the ask did not mention: what is not
promised. The command surface, the orientation file's format across versions, the
precision of the visibility signal, and that anything is checked when nobody is
looking. That is the half a reimplementation needs most, and it keeps the page from
quietly committing us to the CLI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018UTxuSizozEA8yDitPuris
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