recording-decisions now permits compaction and names four kinds that may never be
dropped. Applying it removed six entries and left fifty, and the ratio is worth
more than the saving.
Every entry dropped became droppable by being published. what this tool is, the
lock format, unlocked is a state, --help as the documentation surface, and the
visibility field all now live in .loom/published/guarantees.md or README.md, and
conversion-destroys lives in cart/v2 and cart.usages.md. Nothing was summarised
away — the content moved into documents somebody else can lock, which is a stronger
place for it than a log only we read. The entry names each one and where it went,
so the compaction is auditable rather than trusted.
What did not compress is the point. Almost everything left is a decline, a
measurement, a supersession, or a belief shown wrong. Declines are not recoverable
from code because the code is what they are absent from; measurements are facts
about other people's systems that no artifact here holds; supersessions are changes
of mind, which is most of what a reader wants. The log is long because the work was
exploratory, not because it was padded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018UTxuSizozEA8yDitPuris
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