Artifacts

The May 2 session left a complete artifact trail on disk: planning documents, architecture, per-chapter research, six chapter drafts plus the load-bearing architecture document, an editorial review, and the proxy's ACT-R memory at session end.

The artifacts below are extracted from the two writing-lead worktrees (283d258761f4 and d5c742adab3d). The two worktrees ran in parallel against a shared base; ch1 through ch4 and architecture.md were identical between them, so only one copy is preserved here. Ch5 came from the first writing-lead's tree; ch7 came from the second.

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Planning artifacts

The CfA Intent and Plan phases produce on-disk artifacts the human approves before execution begins. The planner also consulted a skill candidate from a prior humor-book attempt during DRAFT — the candidate file is included so the cross-run knowledge reuse is inspectable.

Artifact	What it is	File
Original prompt	The four-sentence ask that started the session	IDEA_v2.md
Approved intent	The deliverable, audience, success criteria, hard stops	INTENT_v2.md
Approved plan	Phase 0 architecture; per-chapter drafting cadence; manuscript-level passes	PLAN_v2.md
Consulted skill candidate	The May 1 humor-book attempt's plan, read by May 2's planner during DRAFT	may01-skill-candidate.md

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Architecture and per-chapter research

Phase 0 of the plan produced an architecture document — the load-bearing decisions before any chapter drafts. Per-chapter research dossiers backed it.

Artifact	What it is	File
Architecture	Thesis arc, era spine, case slate, callback design, voice probe, word budget	architecture.md
Case slate (research source-of-truth)	Per-chapter primary cases plus backups, with sources and boundary-axis tags	case-slate.md
Counterexample slate (Ch7 reference)	Divisive-humor and locally-broken cases the chapter commits to engaging	counterexample-slate.md

Chapter	Research dossier
Ch 1	sources.md
Ch 2	sources.md
Ch 3	sources.md
Ch 4	sources.md
Ch 5	sources.md
Ch 7	sources.md

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Manuscript chapters

Six chapter drafts. The architecture document also lives at the manuscript root because Phase 0 treated it as the load-bearing document the rest of the manuscript references.

Chapter	Draft
Architecture (Phase 0)	architecture.md
Ch 1	ch1.md
Ch 2	ch2.md
Ch 3	ch3.md
Ch 4	ch4.md
Ch 5	ch5.md
Ch 7	ch7.md

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Editorial review

Artifact	What it is	File
Architecture coherence review	Editorial review of the Phase 0 architecture document — checks that the thesis arc, case slate, and callback design hang together as one argument before the chapters commit	architecture-coherence-review.md

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Proxy & ACT-R memory

The proxy's persistent memory at session end. See Proxy & ACT-R Memory for the analysis of how this was used during the six escalations.

Artifact	What it is	File
Proxy memory bank	ACT-R chunks (procedural / institutional, with importance, reinforcement count, last-reinforced timestamp) accumulated across sessions on this project	proxy-memory.md
Consolidation log	45 consolidation decisions during this session — 38 ADD, 7 SKIP — recording how candidate observations were merged into the memory bank	proxy-consolidation-log.jsonl