ledger: progressive disclosure is the build model, review must not avalanche (2026-07-17)

[git-repo-auth]

Low-resolution ledger capture — pre-policy, not for merge as-is.

Appends one black-box ledger entry recording four operator-articulated working lessons from today's process:

1. Progressive disclosure is the build model — an app/policy set is a progressive JPEG; shippable at every resolution; maturity = clarity of policies, earned through friction, not up-front review.
2. Anti-avalanche — review must not spawn exponential unrelated work; findings are parked, not built mid-review.
3. Related batches are the balance — review in human-sized related batches (2–3, sometimes 1); stop the tangents, not the pace.
4. Durable, not memory — rules that matter live in the ledger, not conversation/memory; ledger → policy, never memory.

Scope discipline (per the execution brief):

• Low-resolution capture only — kept small and blurry on purpose.
• No challenge gauntlet run (that's for policies, not raw ledger material).
• No policy expansion, no follow-on work spawned.
• Cross-references odd/maturity.md (lesson feat(website): implement public website for PRD v1.0 #1); that doc is not edited.
• Draft, operator's pen — do not merge. Sharpens into policy later via friction.

[github-actions]

Canon Quality — Frontmatter Schema ✅

All 49 file(s) in writings/ conform to klappy://canon/meta/frontmatter-schema.

_{Validator: scripts/validate-frontmatter.py · Canon: klappy://canon/constraints/frontmatter-validation-before-merge · Run: #379}

[github-actions]

Canon Quality — P0010 Retrieval-Readiness ⚠️

Soft report for klappy://canon/constraints/retrieval-disclosure-contract. 700 files scanned. Never blocks — informational until the corpus is ready to enforce.

• Blocking-class findings: 15 (structural fields the contract would filter on)
• Warnings: 0 (kind resolves to unknown)
• Informational: 13 (exempt templates/archive/drafts)

Kind distribution: {'essays': 51, 'canon': 240, 'apocrypha': 38, 'docs': 304, 'journals': 61, 'unknown': 6}
Kind source: {'path': 564, 'frontmatter': 130, 'none': 6} (frontmatter-primary, path-secondary)
Default-include visibility: 595 visible, 105 hidden (journals/apocrypha/unknown)

By rule: {'audience-invalid': 2, 'exposure-missing': 5, 'tier-missing': 5, 'tier-invalid': 7, 'fm-missing': 3, 'kind-unresolvable': 6}

These are not schema violations (see the Frontmatter Schema job for those on writings/). They are corpus-readiness signals for the retrieval contract: invalid/missing audience, exposure, tier, and docs whose kind cannot be resolved. Fix in a corpus-cleanup PR before the contract flips to enforcing. See the retrieval-readiness-findings artifact for the full list.

_{Validator: scripts/audit-retrieval-readiness.py · Constraint: klappy://canon/constraints/retrieval-disclosure-contract · Run: #379}

[github-actions]

Canon Quality — oddkit_audit ✅

No dead klappy:// references or legacy link patterns found in writings/. 51 files scanned.

_{Spec: klappy://docs/oddkit/specs/oddkit-audit · Workflow: .github/workflows/canon-quality.yml · Run: #379}

[github-actions]

Canon Quality — Homepage Surfacing ✅

49 essay(s) scanned. Soft report — never blocks; the hard field gate is the Frontmatter Schema job.

All published essays resolve to the homepage feed.

_{Report: scripts/surfacing-report.py · Canon: klappy://canon/constraints/frontmatter-validation-before-merge}