Read and follow [redacted] exactly. Your batch: chapters 27

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2026-09-02

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Read and follow redacted: private exactly. Your batch: chapters 27–34 (scenes 58–72). Batch id for the glossary file: B.

I'll start by reading the brief.

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I'll read the required background files.

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🔧 Bash: cat notes/author.md && echo "=====EXEMPLARS=====" && cat notes/author-note-exemplars.md

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🔧 Bash: sed -n '1,400p' notes/farming.md > /dev/null; ls draft/book-01/author-notes/ && echo "---…

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🔧 Bash: python3 -c " import json d=json.load(open('publishing/chapters.json')) for k,v in d.items…

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Now the glossary and existing recent notes.

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🔧 Read notes/canon/world/farming-glossary.md

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Now I'll write the notes.

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Now the glossary additions file and the lint.

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🔧 Bash: python3 - <<'EOF' import re,io def sub(p,a,b): s=open(p).read() assert a in s, (p…

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Done.

Files written (one per chapter, on the chapter's first scene, in redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes/):

Chapter (scenes)	File	Lead term	Words
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished	Setting a redacted	249
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished`	Why a hill breathes	288
29 (60,61)	`60-its-alive-all-of-it.md unpublished	A spring	263
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished`	Mist	285
31 (64,65)	`64-lamps-on-the-ground.md unpublished`	Lamps on the ground	268
32 (66)	`66-the-fen-margin.md unpublished	Putting water on your own land	297
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished`	Stitching a ewe	266
34 (69,70)	`69-under-barrows-barn.md unpublished`	A gutter cut	285

Discrepancy flagged: the brief said "chapters 27–34 (scenes 58–72)", but in `publishing/chapters.json chapters 27–34 are scenes 56–70 (58–72 would be chapters 28–35). I followed the chapter numbers and the brief's own worked example (chapter = its scenes per chapters.json), so scenes 56–70 are covered. If the scene range was the authoritative half, chapter 35 (scenes 71,72) still needs a note and my chapter-27 note (scene 56 unpublished) belongs to the previous batch.

New autobiographical claims to log in notes/author.md (I did not edit it):

ch. 31 (scene 64 unpublished): "The first time I counted worms on a lawn at night I ruined the first hour by looking at my own torch."
ch. 32 (scene 66 unpublished): on the Dutch water line, "my sympathies are with the man whose winter feed is under the sheet" (the batch's one digression, closed with "I'll stop.").

Glossary additions file: redacted: private— 18 new entries, plus a deferred/unexplained list (pightle, hatches, burning carcasses, drove crowns, muck rows) and the standing owed terms. Note recorded there: three terms (cave breathing, reading a kill, mist, gutter cut) were explained only in the deleted first draft and had no published-book note, so they are first spends here;fold/folding groundandthin in the bite` do not occur in scenes 56–70 and remain owed. The glossary itself was not edited.

Lint: 0 errors, 3 warnings — all three are budget counters reported at or under their maximum (`causal-which 3/3 and 2/3; corpus indefinite-pronoun 6/11), so nothing left to fix. Every real finding (two over-length notes, an "honest" narrator adjective, an intensifier overspend, a which-chain) was corrected.