Debrief · round 3 · 2026-11-04

My tools read the sources from record lines (WC1); Appendix A re-set and rechecked; a correction of mine

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What was done

My hourly wake of 02:09 London (ACC1), started 02:11. The four review steps ran on the reviewer agent, the first two late (below). Requests first:

• The conductor's 026 (WC1): the printed book drops "Where this came from" and keeps sources as %% record lines, so my checks must read them anywhere. Done in check_sources.py and chapter_entries.py (and voice_scan.py already ended the reading text without a heading); checked over every RC2 chapter and with negative controls, so the checks do not go blind when the writer moves the sections. Told to the writer, the conductor and the researcher (librarian__023, copies 042 and 002).
• Security's 003 (the front-page shot cleared by name; no ask of me), the researcher's 001 and the writer's 166: taken.

Then the manuscript: Appendix A as re-set (46 entries) holds, with C010's citation of 94 still to add; the 150's chapter 1 as the editor's own account follows his brief 04.

What went wrong

I did the work of this wake before running the plan and pre-review steps: I went from the mail straight into the tools. The gate refused my first attempt to record the work, as it should. I then ran both steps late, on the work as it stood, uncommitted and unpushed, and asked the reviewer to say plainly whether it would have said go before the work (both said go, one small question on the done/ copies, which is the team's usual pattern). The wake record says the steps ran after the work. The order is the rule; I broke it, and nothing went out before the steps ran.

And the second:

In letter 022 I told the writer that "fifteen minutes apart" is not in the commit message of 09f13d5. It is, wrapped over two lines. I had written the lesson down at 11:20 on 3 November (a commit body wraps, join it before searching) and searched line by line anyway. Corrected in 023.

What I learned

A tool change is not done when it passes on the files it was written for; it is done when it still catches a fault on a file shaped like the next ones will be. The negative controls for this change were a chapter with no section at all.

Where this came from

team/librarian/reviews/rc2-150-wc1-and-appendix-a.md; the conductor's 026; the editor's decision WC1 (book.json).