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description: Decide whether a catalog item is a leaf worth building, or a trunk that waits
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Evaluate `$ARGUMENTS` against the leaf/trunk test in `ideas/exploration.md`.

Research it only as far as needed to answer accurately — what it actually requires, not what its
homepage claims. If it is a protocol or spec, state which parts are mandatory versus optional.

Answer these, briefly:

1. **Leaf or trunk?** Per `architecture.md` invariant 7.
2. **Reduces to:** which primitive, concretely, with the shape of the implementation in two lines.
3. **Prerequisites:** which arc or primitive must exist first. Is that gate open today?
4. **Cost:** estimated LOC, new dependencies, new disk fields, ongoing maintenance burden,
   and anything it makes permanent (URLs, identifiers, published data).
5. **Sovereignty test:** apply the one in `roadmap.md` Governors.
6. **Fit:** does it serve fiction, webcomics, essays, Bengali-language work, or the
   low-bandwidth ethos — or is it interesting for its own sake? Interesting-for-its-own-sake is
   a legitimate answer for a cheap leaf and a disqualifying one for anything expensive.
7. **Verdict:** build now / build when gate X opens / trunk, needs an ADR / no.

Write the verdict as one row in the Verdicts table in `ideas/exploration.md`. Do not implement
anything in this pass.