bdeshiandClaude Opus 5 8f5d479f06 stop the handoff outranking the log, and gate the pointers into it
A session picked up work from .scratch/continue.md and offered the human a doc
trim that was already in HEAD. The handoff was written at 01:06 saying the trim
awaited a yes; the commit containing the trim was amended at 01:12, underneath
it. Five defects made that possible, and four of them are the harness's.

The read order inverted trust: docs/README.md sent the next session to the
handoff "if present, otherwise git log" — consulting the one ungated file
instead of the record that cannot lie, which is backwards from every other rule
here, where the code beats state.md and generated surface.md beats memory. The
handoff is now step 4 of CLAUDE.md's read order, explicitly after the harness
and never instead of it, and anything it calls pending is checked with
git log -- <path> first.

The tick fired too early. "A planned item completed → tick it in continue.md"
sat in the Document step, so it recorded the plan's version of events while the
commit could still move; an amend, a squash or a late fix moves it. Reconciling
now happens after the commit exists, and a completed item is deleted rather than
ticked, because a ticked item still reads as an item.

HARNESS.md authorised the drift outright — it said the file holds "what is
done", which is exactly what continue.md's own header promises it never records.
It is now described as what it is: a temporary handoff, uncommitted, ungated,
discardable, holding the continuation point and the carried findings.

state.md still pointed at .scratch/build-queue.md, replaced two commits earlier.
The dangling-path gate missed it because .scratch was absent from its
alternation, so no pointer into the handoff directory was ever checked. It is
included now, guarded on the directory existing — a fresh clone has no handoff
and must stay green. Both directions were run: present with a stale pointer
fails, absent with docs naming it passes. The gate then flagged its own
explanatory comment, which is why that one path is written without backticks.

No gate can compare an uncommitted file against anything, so the file's job is
narrowed instead of enforced, and HARNESS.md now says which mechanism stands in
for the missing gate rather than implying one exists.

6 files, +47/-9. No rule, threshold or counter moved. CLAUDE.md 138 → 142 of 150.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-02 16:53:58 +06:00

khosra

A flat-file personal publishing engine in Go. Point the binary at a directory of Markdown and it becomes an owned, networked home for fiction, webcomics, art, and essays, in English and Bengali. The site's content lives in its own repository, not this one (ADR-0011).

Build and run

Needs Go 1.26+ and git; nothing else.

make build                      # or: go build -o khosra ./cmd/khosra
make run SITE=/path/to/site     # or: ./khosra -site /path/to/site
make test
make verify                     # everything the project enforces — green before every commit

make help lists targets. make is a convenience wrapper; go build, go test and ./scripts/verify.sh work on their own and are what the gate uses.

A site root is a directory holding content/, and optionally static/ and templates/. It lives in its own repository, not this one — the binary is pointed at it.

If you are a human: start at HARNESS.md — what the scaffolding is, how to use it, and what to decide.

If you are an agent: start at CLAUDE.md — the constitution and the read order. It is loaded for you automatically; this file is not a prerequisite and nothing here is a rule.

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