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Repo: redacted. Read first: notes/canon/system.md "The calendar" section — the revised month-name ruling (2026-08-24). The mapping, winter-first: January→Wolfmonth, February→Mudmonth, March→Plowmonth, April→Seedmonth, May→Milkmonth, June→Weedmonth, July→Haymonth, August→Cornmonth, September→Harvestmonth, October→Fallowmonth, November→Saltmonth, December→Frostmonth.

redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished also grep the whole repo (chapters/, notes/, plans/, unpublished summaries/) yourself for any I missed — EXCLUDING samples/ (historical, leave untouched) and .claude/.

Rules:

Beware false positives: "march"/"may" as ordinary words, "March"/"May" at sentence starts that aren't months, "a maypole", etc. Only replace genuine month references. Read the surrounding line before each replacement.
Date phrasing in prose: prefer natural forms — "April the twelfth" → "the twelfth of Seedmonth"; "late in April" → "late in Seedmonth"; "last July" → "last Haymonth"; bare "June" as a month → "Weedmonth". PRESERVE the famine speech's idiom in ch. 002 if it uses "a wet June"-style phrasing: render as "a wet Weedmonth" keeping rhythm — read it aloud in your head; if a replacement wrecks a line's rhythm, rework the line minimally to keep sense and cadence.
Chapter 010's date notations (e.g. pantry-door entries) and timeline.md's "(Aug 15)"-style annotations: use a consistent short form — write dates as "15 Cornmonth" (no abbreviation of month compounds).
notes/canon/system.md: leave the ruling text itself intact (it names Earth months deliberately in the mapping); same for any line quoting the superseded ruling historically.
Check the sweep leaves arithmetic intact (the timeline derivation Day 1 = 15 Cornmonth, Day 10 = 24 Cornmonth, Seal cooldown Day 30 ≈ 14 Harvestmonth — update those derived date labels accordingly).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished logging the sweep.
Commit: "Sweep Earth month names to agricultural compound names" with trailer "Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 noreply@anthropic.com".
Return: files changed with replacement counts, any judgment calls (rhythm reworks, false positives skipped).

6 tool calls

🔧 Bash: grep -n -i "calendar" -A 40 redacted/notes/canon/system.md | sed -n '1,80p' (Read calendar section of system.md)

✅ 70 lines, 4330 chars

✅ 1 lines, 126 chars

🔧 Read redacted: private

✅ 167 lines, 30779 chars

Now I'll write a Python script to do the sweep with careful date-form handling and a skip list.

8 tool calls

🔧 Write redacted: private

✅ 1 lines, 211 chars

🔧 Bash: python3 redacted: private (Run month-name sweep script)

✅ 24 lines, 806 chars — chapters/001-the-wrong-man.md 1 / redacted sentence: unpublished prose / chapters/003-the-improbability-engine.md 2

🔧 Bash: git diff -U1 > redacted: private wc -l redacted: private (Save full diff for review)

✅ 1 lines, 124 chars

🔧 Read redacted: private

✅ 620 lines, 63302 chars

The bulk sweep is good but I found several mangled lines and misses. Fixing each.

26 tool calls

🔧 Edit chapters/009-fenholt.md

✅ 1 lines, 164 chars

🔧 Edit notes/decision-principles.md

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🔧 Edit notes/canon/characters/mattie-ordish.md

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🔧 Edit notes/canon/world/silent-soil.md

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🔧 Edit summaries/book-01-arc-01.md

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🔧 Edit redacted sentence: unpublished prose

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🔧 Edit plans/book-01/arc-01-findings/010.md unpublished

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🔧 Edit redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished

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🔧 Edit plans/book-01/arc-02.md unpublished

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🔧 Edit plans/book-01/arc-02.md unpublished

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🔧 Bash: grep -n "Earth month" redacted/plans/book-01/arc-02.md unpublished (Locate Earth month line in arc-02.md)

✅ 1 lines, 47 chars

🔧 Edit plans/book-01/arc-02.md unpublished

✅ 1 lines, 164 chars

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redacted sentence: unpublished prose Now append the log line and commit.

🔧 Bash: tail -5 redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished (See end of arc-revision.md)

✅ 5 lines, 314 chars

🔧 Bash: redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose (Append sweep log and commit)

✅ 2 lines, 124 chars

Done and committed (e456918, 22 files, clean working tree).

Replacement counts by file (post-fix effective counts; scripted sweep plus manual corrections):

chapters/001-the-wrong-man.md — 1; 002-the-ten-o-clock.md — 4 (incl. "Junes" → "Weedmonths"); 003-the-improbability-engine.md — 2; 005-the-sample.md — 4; 009-fenholt.md — 13; 010-the-quiet-field.md — 18; 011-measured-ground.md — 8
notes/canon/world/timeline.md — 32 (all "(Aug 15)"-style day labels now "15 Cornmonth"; derivation intact: Day 1 = 15 Cornmonth, Day 10 = 24 Cornmonth, component roundings 25 Seedmonth / 21 Weedmonth, Seal cooldown Day 30 ≈ 14 Harvestmonth); silent-soil.md — 12; green-revolution.md — 2; magic.md — 1; (geography.md and continent.md had no occurrences — grep found none)
notes/canon/characters/ferrin.md — 3; mattie-ordish.md — 4; minor.md — 3; sorrel.md — 1
summaries/book-01-arc-01.md — 7; plans/book-01/arc-01.md unpublished — 1; arc-02.md — 19 plus two stale-claim fixes ("Earth month names are canon" → "the compound month names are canon"; "annotated in Earth months" → "annotated in calendar months"); arc-01-findings/003.md — 1, 009.md — 6, 010.md — 8, arc-revision.md — 7 + sweep log line appended

Judgment calls:

Rhythm: "a wet June"/"a bad June" → "a wet Weedmonth"/"a bad Weedmonth" (idiom and cadence preserved); "It is made of Junes" → "It is made of Weedmonths". Ch. 009 Ferrin's answer capitalized as "The twelfth of Seedmonth." Ch. 011 sheet entry uses short form "12 Seedmonth — F. walked it..."; stake date "25 Cornmonth".
"April the twelfth" everywhere → "the twelfth of Seedmonth" (ferrin.md keeps the bolding); findings files' line-wrapped "April the / 12th" reworked to "the 12th of / Seedmonth".
Deliberately left intact: system.md ruling text (line 280); findings 005.md:150–151 and 009.md:118–119 and arc-revision.md:148–151 (historical discussion of the superseded Earth-name state); decision-principles.md's "(Seedmonth, not April; ...)" example (the script initially clobbered it; restored); samples/ untouched.
False positives skipped: all modal "may" (lowercase), "march on the village" (dungeons.md), "May" only replaced where clearly a month (all four "in May" instances).
Arithmetic checked: Seedmonth→Weedmonth 8 weeks / Weedmonth→Day 10 9 weeks in ch. 010, chain figures 4 ch / 6 ch 60 unpublished / 9 ch 50 unpublished unchanged; timeline cross-check (letter "of the 14th" arriving Day 5 = 19 Cornmonth) still coheres since day-of-month numbers were preserved.