Chronicle reflection — one event, many tellings, one invariant
A chronicle is the narrative working record of a significant day: what moved, in what
order, and why the ordering is the method. The suite keeps several chronicle voices, and a
chronicle travels between them by reflection: rewritten to match the destination's
register while compressing back to the same facts. The discipline is
[[understanding-compression]]'s: every re-expression must compress to the SAME invariant; a
divergence between a reflection and its source is a defect in the reflection, never a fork of
the record.
Source of truth = the master series. All other copies state their provenance and point
home.
The type registry
| type |
location |
voice / register |
notes |
| master |
~/agentprivacy_master/docs/chronicles/YYYY-MM-DD_slug.md |
framework voice; scope block; numbered sections; "Why this is interesting" bullets; closes *Uncommitted, as ever — the First Person's read comes first.* until signed |
SOURCE OF TRUTH. Arc chronicles name one inversion each |
| repo-local (collaborator) |
<public repo>/chronicles/ (first instance: ~/dtgwg-cred-spec-main_mage/chronicles/ → github.com/mitchuski/dtgwg-zkp-mage) |
body verbatim from master; provenance header + runtime traces prepended; paths repo-relative |
the evidence-first public telling; see procedure below |
| repo-local (BGIN_IKP) |
~/BGIN_IKP/chronicles/ (added 2026-08-27; worked example: 2026-08-27_the-hall-gathers-its-papers.md) |
body verbatim from master; provenance header + runtime traces; paths KB-relative |
PRIVATE working-KB telling — NOT a publication surface; anything leaving it gets its own gate |
| spellweb DREAM |
~/spellweb/chronicles/DREAM-YYYY-MM-DD.md |
KG voice; node/edge framing; signature line (e.g. ⚔️📊⊥🧙🕸️|😊) |
minted during dream loops |
| cityofmages dream |
~/cityofmages/ DREAM files |
City cargo-lap ledger; workshop/tome vocabulary |
City binding rules apply |
| agentprivacy-docs |
~/agentprivacy-docs/chronicles/ + INDEX.md row |
family-B ROOT chronicles — canon vocab OK; NEVER the pipeline chronicles dir (that needs role/first-person approval + GR-4 register) |
add the INDEX row |
| tome act |
~/cityofmages/tomes/ |
act inscription; bound by Mitch only |
reflection PROPOSES, binding is human |
| fedwiki/kb page |
via the repo's tools/build-kb.mjs manifest → kb/ → dtg.localhost |
KB carrier rules (manifest-first, secrets gate) |
manifest the chronicle in build-kb.mjs, don't hand-copy |
Gates (in order)
- Write master first. No reflection precedes its source.
- First Person's read. Master chronicles stay uncommitted until Mitch reads them; the
signed state (a signature line replacing/extending the closing italic) is required
before a load-bearing chronicle reflects into a PUBLIC repo. Record signed-status honestly
in the reflection header ("Signed by the First Person: yes / not yet").
- Leak scan before public. Grep the reflected copies for:
C:\, Users\, ~/, tokens,
cookies, secret[:=], gate sigils/proverbs (Gatehouse tokens are secrets; G.1 rite
proverbs are fresh-per-push challenges and are NOT secrets, but don't pre-publish an
unserved one). The reflection script must FAIL CLOSED on any untranslated home path.
- Push = Mitch. Reflections land on disk; publication is his act. For
dtgwg-zkp-mage
the push additionally rides the G.1 publication rite (registry/ACCEPTANCE-FLOW.md):
serve a fresh proverb naming what this push means → his spoken/typed activation opens the
gate.
Repo-local reflection procedure (the collaborator type)
Use a deterministic script (pattern: reflect-chronicles.mjs — see the 2026-08-14 worked
example in the dtgwg session records), not hand-copying:
- Select the arc-relevant chronicles (for dtgwg-zkp-mage: the ZK-arc series only).
- Translate paths, longest-first, home-dir → repo-relative, ONLY where the artefact
exists in the destination repo; otherwise gloss (e.g. "the KG-voice dream record
(maintainer's private suite)"). Throw on any surviving
~/.
- Prepend the provenance header after the title line:
- what a chronicle is + voice + "master copy is the source of truth; adapted only in
header and paths" + signed status;
- Runtime traces: bullet list — the suites (
node test.mjs tallies), registry
entries, issues/discussions, and documents that carry this chronicle's claims. Traces
are the point: a collaborator should be able to RUN the narrative.
- Index README in
chronicles/: what chronicles are (telling vs evidence), the arc
table (date · chronicle · inversion · evidence spine), and a short description of this
reflection system so the provenance is legible without the skill.
- Leak scan (gate 3), then hand to the publication gate (gate 4).
- If the repo has a KB/manifest system, note the new dir in its exclusion or manifest list
deliberately — never let a manifest-first builder discover it as an unexplained surprise.
Reflection INTO other voices (dream loops)
When Mitch asks for a dream-loop sync: master → spellweb DREAM (retell as KG nodes/edges
minted, with signature line), → cityofmages (cargo lap: what the City's ledger gains),
→ agentprivacy-docs (family-B + INDEX row). Each retelling compresses back to the master's
facts — check by listing the master's load-bearing claims and finding each in the retelling.
Tome acts and City bindings are PROPOSED only. Subagents cannot write ~/.wiki (main thread
only) — fedwiki projection goes through the repo's own KB tooling instead.
Adding a destination type
Extend the type-registry table (here and in the repo README if collaborator-facing), define
its register in one line, state its gate (who approves, who pushes), and reflect ONE existing
chronicle as the worked example before batching.
Worked example (first run, 2026-08-14)
Six ZK-arc masters (07-16 dream-cycle → 08-14 seat-follows-the-run) reflected into
dtgwg-cred-spec-main_mage/chronicles/ + README index; only 08-14 was signed (recorded
honestly per-file); zero untranslated paths (script threw otherwise); leak scan clean;
published through the inaugural G.1 rite. The arc table's "inversion" column came straight
from the masters' own closing sections — the reflection invented nothing.
1---2name: agentprivacy-chronicle-reflect3description: Reflect chronicles between the suite's voices — the framework-voice master series, repo-local collaborator chronicles (e.g. dtgwg-zkp-mage/chronicles/), spellweb DREAM records (KG voice), cityofmages cargo-lap dreams, agentprivacy-docs family-B chronicles, and tome acts — one event, many tellings, same invariant core. Use when writing a new chronicle, publishing chronicles into a public repo for collaborators (with runtime-trace headers), running a dream-loop sync across the suite, adding a voice/destination, or auditing that a reflection still compresses back to its source. Encodes the type registry, the provenance-header format, the signed-before-public gate, path translation and leak scan, and the per-repo publication rules (pushes = Mitch; dtgwg-zkp-mage pushes ride the G.1 proverb rite).4license: Apache-2.05---67# Chronicle reflection — one event, many tellings, one invariant89A **chronicle** is the narrative working record of a significant day: what moved, in what10order, and why the ordering is the method. The suite keeps several chronicle *voices*, and a11chronicle travels between them by **reflection**: rewritten to match the destination's12register while compressing back to the same facts. The discipline is13[[understanding-compression]]'s: every re-expression must compress to the SAME invariant; a14divergence between a reflection and its source is a defect in the reflection, never a fork of15the record.1617**Source of truth = the master series.** All other copies state their provenance and point18home.1920## The type registry2122| type | location | voice / register | notes |23|---|---|---|---|24| **master** | `~/agentprivacy_master/docs/chronicles/YYYY-MM-DD_slug.md` | framework voice; scope block; numbered sections; "Why this is interesting" bullets; closes `*Uncommitted, as ever — the First Person's read comes first.*` until signed | SOURCE OF TRUTH. Arc chronicles name one **inversion** each |25| **repo-local (collaborator)** | `<public repo>/chronicles/` (first instance: `~/dtgwg-cred-spec-main_mage/chronicles/` → github.com/mitchuski/dtgwg-zkp-mage) | body verbatim from master; **provenance header** + **runtime traces** prepended; paths repo-relative | the evidence-first public telling; see procedure below |26| **repo-local (BGIN_IKP)** | `~/BGIN_IKP/chronicles/` (added 2026-08-27; worked example: `2026-08-27_the-hall-gathers-its-papers.md`) | body verbatim from master; provenance header + runtime traces; paths KB-relative | PRIVATE working-KB telling — NOT a publication surface; anything leaving it gets its own gate |27| **spellweb DREAM** | `~/spellweb/chronicles/DREAM-YYYY-MM-DD.md` | KG voice; node/edge framing; signature line (e.g. `⚔️📊⊥🧙🕸️\|😊`) | minted during dream loops |28| **cityofmages dream** | `~/cityofmages/` DREAM files | City cargo-lap ledger; workshop/tome vocabulary | City binding rules apply |29| **agentprivacy-docs** | `~/agentprivacy-docs/chronicles/` + INDEX.md row | family-B ROOT chronicles — canon vocab OK; NEVER the pipeline chronicles dir (that needs role/first-person approval + GR-4 register) | add the INDEX row |30| **tome act** | `~/cityofmages/tomes/` | act inscription; bound by Mitch only | reflection PROPOSES, binding is human |31| **fedwiki/kb page** | via the repo's `tools/build-kb.mjs` manifest → `kb/` → dtg.localhost | KB carrier rules (manifest-first, secrets gate) | manifest the chronicle in build-kb.mjs, don't hand-copy |3233## Gates (in order)34351. **Write master first.** No reflection precedes its source.362. **First Person's read.** Master chronicles stay uncommitted until Mitch reads them; the37 **signed** state (a signature line replacing/extending the closing italic) is required38 before a load-bearing chronicle reflects into a PUBLIC repo. Record signed-status honestly39 in the reflection header ("Signed by the First Person: yes / not yet").403. **Leak scan before public.** Grep the reflected copies for: `C:\`, `Users\`, `~/`, tokens,41 cookies, `secret[:=]`, gate sigils/proverbs (Gatehouse tokens are secrets; G.1 rite42 proverbs are fresh-per-push challenges and are NOT secrets, but don't pre-publish an43 unserved one). The reflection script must FAIL CLOSED on any untranslated home path.444. **Push = Mitch.** Reflections land on disk; publication is his act. For `dtgwg-zkp-mage`45 the push additionally rides the **G.1 publication rite** (`registry/ACCEPTANCE-FLOW.md`):46 serve a fresh proverb naming what this push means → his spoken/typed activation opens the47 gate.4849## Repo-local reflection procedure (the collaborator type)5051Use a deterministic script (pattern: `reflect-chronicles.mjs` — see the 2026-08-14 worked52example in the dtgwg session records), not hand-copying:53541. **Select** the arc-relevant chronicles (for dtgwg-zkp-mage: the ZK-arc series only).552. **Translate paths**, longest-first, home-dir → repo-relative, ONLY where the artefact56 exists in the destination repo; otherwise gloss (e.g. "the KG-voice dream record57 (maintainer's private suite)"). Throw on any surviving `~/`.583. **Prepend the provenance header** after the title line:59 - what a chronicle is + voice + "master copy is the source of truth; adapted only in60 header and paths" + signed status;61 - **Runtime traces:** bullet list — the suites (`node test.mjs` tallies), registry62 entries, issues/discussions, and documents that carry this chronicle's claims. Traces63 are the point: a collaborator should be able to RUN the narrative.644. **Index README** in `chronicles/`: what chronicles are (telling vs evidence), the arc65 table (date · chronicle · inversion · evidence spine), and a short description of this66 reflection system so the provenance is legible without the skill.675. **Leak scan** (gate 3), then hand to the publication gate (gate 4).686. If the repo has a KB/manifest system, note the new dir in its exclusion or manifest list69 deliberately — never let a manifest-first builder discover it as an unexplained surprise.7071## Reflection INTO other voices (dream loops)7273When Mitch asks for a dream-loop sync: master → spellweb DREAM (retell as KG nodes/edges74minted, with signature line), → cityofmages (cargo lap: what the City's ledger gains),75→ agentprivacy-docs (family-B + INDEX row). Each retelling compresses back to the master's76facts — check by listing the master's load-bearing claims and finding each in the retelling.77Tome acts and City bindings are PROPOSED only. Subagents cannot write `~/.wiki` (main thread78only) — fedwiki projection goes through the repo's own KB tooling instead.7980## Adding a destination type8182Extend the type-registry table (here and in the repo README if collaborator-facing), define83its register in one line, state its gate (who approves, who pushes), and reflect ONE existing84chronicle as the worked example before batching.8586## Worked example (first run, 2026-08-14)8788Six ZK-arc masters (07-16 dream-cycle → 08-14 seat-follows-the-run) reflected into89`dtgwg-cred-spec-main_mage/chronicles/` + README index; only 08-14 was signed (recorded90honestly per-file); zero untranslated paths (script threw otherwise); leak scan clean;91published through the inaugural G.1 rite. The arc table's "inversion" column came straight92from the masters' own closing sections — the reflection invented nothing.
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