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2026-09-02

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Read and follow redacted: private exactly. Your batch: chapters 19–26 (scenes 41–57). Batch id for the glossary file: A.

I'll read the brief first.

🔧 Read redacted: private

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I'll start with the required reading.

8 tool calls

🔧 Bash: cat notes/author.md && echo "=====EXEMPLARS=====" && cat notes/author-note-exemplars.md (Read persona and exemplars)

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🔧 Bash: cat redacted: private (Read full author + exemplars)

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🔧 Read notes/author.md

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🔧 Read notes/author-note-exemplars.md

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Now the rules, glossary, existing notes, and chapter map.

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🔧 Bash: sed -n '1,200p' notes/farming.md > /tmp/x1.txt; wc -l notes/farming.md; ls draft/book-01/… (check farming.md and notes dir)

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🔧 Read notes/farming.md

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🔧 Bash: cat draft/book-01/author-notes/README.md && echo "=====JSON=====" && python3 -c " import… (README and chapters.json)

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🔧 Bash: python3 -c " import json;d=json.load(open('publishing/chapters.json')) for k,v in d.items… (Chapters 19-26 mapping)

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🔧 Bash: ls draft/book-01/scenes/ | sed -n '41,60p'; python3 -c " import json;d=json.load(open('pu… (list scenes beyond 41)

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🔧 Bash: cd draft/book-01/scenes && ls | sed -n '39,56p' (scene filenames 39-55)

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🔧 Bash: cd draft/book-01/scenes && ls | grep -E '^(39|40|41|42|43|44|45|46|47|48|49|50|51|52|53|5… (list target scenes)

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🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/41-calm-hands.md unpublished

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

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🔧 Bash: cd draft/book-01/author-notes && for f in 36-write-both.md 38-twelve-stakes.md 39-read-it… (read recent notes)

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Now the scenes for my batch.

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🔧 Bash: cd draft/book-01/scenes && for f in 42-a-factors-woman.md unpublished 43-two-lines-one-… (scenes 42-44)

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🔧 Bash: redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished 46-a-list-of-houses.md unpublished… (scenes 45-47)

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🔧 Bash: cd draft/book-01/scenes && for f in 48-the-eleventh-of-cornmonth.md unpublished 49-the-… (scenes 48-50)

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🔧 Bash: redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished 52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md unpublished… (scenes 51-55)

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🔧 Bash: cd draft/book-01/author-notes && cat 04-four-minutes.md; echo "-----11"; cat 11-reports.m… (read notes 04,11,30,31)

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Now writing the notes.

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 41-calm-hands.md unpublished <<'EOF'… (write ch19 note)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 42-a-factors-woman.md unpublished <<'… (write ch20 note)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 44-where-they-stopped-writing.md unpublished… (write ch21 note)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 46-a-list-of-houses.md unpublished <<… (write ch22 note)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 48-the-eleventh-of-cornmonth.md unpublished… (write ch23 note)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished <<'EOF' **Not fed** - th… (write ch24 note)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && python3 - <<'EOF' import re,io redacted sentence: unpublished prose… (trim ch24)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md unpublished… (write ch25 note)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && python3 - <<'EOF' p='52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md… (trim ch25)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && python3 - <<'EOF' p='52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md… (write ch26 note)

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🔧 Bash: uv run tools/lint/prose_lint.py --scope note draft/book-01/author-notes/41-calm-hands.md… (run prose lint)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && python3 - <<'EOF' import re def ed(p,pairs):… (fix lint and rerun)

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && python3 - <<'EOF' def ed(p,pairs): s=open… (apply fixes and rerun lint)

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🔧 Bash: uv run tools/lint/prose_lint.py --scope note draft/book-01/author-notes/41-calm-hands.md… (rerun lint from repo root)

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🔧 Bash: python3 - <<'EOF' p='draft/book-01/author-notes/52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md unpublished' s… (trim to budget)

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🔧 Write redacted: private

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🔧 Bash: grep -n '—' draft/book-01/author-notes/4*.md draft/book-01/author-notes/5*.md | grep -v '… (check em dashes and word counts)

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Done.

Files written (all in redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes/), one per chapter on the chapter's first scene. Note: publishing/chapters.json` puts chapters 19-26 at scenes 41-55, not 41-57 as the brief said; I followed the JSON.

Ch File Lead term Words
19 41-calm-hands.md unpublished Weed seed in a heap (+ Against a wall) 267
20 42-a-factors-woman.md unpublished Who counted (+ Two links) 259
21 44-where-they-stopped-writing.md unpublished Why a hill breathes (digression, "I'll stop.") (+ A slate on a nail) 296
22 46-a-list-of-houses.md unpublished The fortnight that decides the year (+ Staddle stones) 249
23 `48-the-eleventh-of-cornmonth.md unpublished Growth stages (+ Somebody else's book) 278
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished` Not fed (ergot) (+ Seed corn) 286
25 52-eleven-hazel-twigs.md unpublished Folding (+ Dung on the sward, Short in the bite) 300
26 54-before-the-charter.md unpublished Trial plots (+ A candle at the mouth) 278

Owed terms discharged: "fold / folding ground" (ch. 25) and "thin in the bite", which the prose renders as "short in the bite" (ch. 25, short note as previously ruled). "Keeping eels" was already done; "spit" already done. Still owed after this batch: pan, hay that heats, the drove as a fen lane.

Autobiographical claims made: none. No new persona claim appears in any of the eight notes, so nothing needs logging in notes/author.md. (Two places in the deleted-draft ledger, hill breathing and staddle stones, get their first published placement here; both are stated impersonally.)

Glossary additions file: redacted: private — 17 new entries in the glossary's own format, plus eight terms deliberately deferred, folded or dropped with reasons, plus what remains owed. The glossary itself was not edited.

Lint: uv run tools/lint/prose_lint.py --scope note over the eight files: 0 errors, 2 warnings at first pass after fixes, now 0 errors and one corpus-level `indefinite-pronoun-budget warning at 27.1 per 10,000 words against a limit of 11 per 10,000 — I disagree with that one; "nobody/somebody/anybody" is core persona register and appears six times across 2,215 words, which reads as ordinary English rather than a tic. Everything else (negative-parallelism split, "nought", "the whole", causal-which budget, intensifier budget, arithmetic-metaphor, note length) was fixed by rewriting. No em dashes anywhere.

I did not run git, per the brief.