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Repo: redacted (a novel-writing project). This is a READ-ONLY research task: do not edit, write, or create any files in the repo, do not run git commands, and never read anything under notes/sealed/.
Task: perform the "extraction" half of consistency-backfill for four scenes: draft/book-01/scenes/41-calm-hands.md unpublished, 42-a-factors-woman.md unpublished, 43-two-lines-one-field.md unpublished, 44-where-they-stopped-writing.md unpublished.
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished Then read the four scene files.
For EACH of the four scenes produce, exhaustively but tersely:
- ESTABLISHED FACTS the scene states that canon does not yet record: names, roles, ages, places, distances, prices, dates/days, System text (Skill/Level boxes verbatim), procedures, who-knows-what. Give exact quote + scene number/filename for each.
- IMPLICATIONS beyond what's stated (character history, geography, economy, institutions, magic mechanics, timeline) that canon should hold as Working claims. Cite the scene.
- CONTRADICTIONS with existing canon: quote both the scene and the canon file/section that conflicts.
- OPEN QUESTIONS from notes/canon/deferred-questions.md unpublished that the scene touches, and whether it resolves one (flag if so — open questions should not be resolved casually).
Do NOT include anything about the cause of the "silent soil" mystery (that's a sealed answer — don't discuss or speculate on its cause).
Organize your final output by canon target file, e.g. "## characters/peri.md", "## world/timeline.md", "## world/geography.md", "## characters/minor.md" — group all findings that would land in that file together, each bullet citing which scene it came from. This is so a later pass can apply canon updates file by file.
Return the full organized markdown text as your final report (this is the primary deliverable — write it out in full, don't just summarize that you did it). Also give a one-line count: number of established facts, implications, and contradictions found.
⚙ background task finished — Agent "Extract canon backfill from 4 scenes" finished
The extraction is complete. Full report below.
characters/peri.md
Established (new)
[Skill unlocked: Farm Magic - Level 1.] — Peri's box, verbatim, at the trough after turning Mattie's heap, 27 Cornmonth (41-calm-hands.md unpublished). Note the box uses a spaced hyphen, not the em dash of the canon exemplar in system.md ("Skill unlocked: Swordsmanship — Level 1.").
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redacted sentence: unpublished prose- Turned the whole heap by hand with Tess, an hour's work, outside-to-middle, every forkful (41).
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- Initialled the sheet P.M. and turned it round for redacted to read (42).
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Implications (Working)
- Farm magic's first level arrives on the page (41) — earned by live cast plus labour, not granted.
- Her cross-class farm magic keeps the same skill-out discipline as sword/fate work; the daily-not-weekly drill ruling is now stated in a second skill.
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- New register: an argument aimed at a third party not present (the factor).
- Voice check (flag for voice files, not canon): rule 6d (tally of own utterances) doesn't fire; "It - it answered" (41) is the no-em-dash rule displacing the dash false-start.
characters/mattie-ordish.md
Established (new)
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Confirms byre, stable, cobbled yard, mounting block, trough.
- Has a dog (41).
- At the worm count, all faces turn to her unbidden as "who had written the letter"; she says nothing (42). Grants redacted a mill copy "when it was fair-copied" (42).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted; unmoved fifty years (43) — new.
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- Ruling on the three causes: "Write all three." (43)
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- Coils the chain into its bag, thumb on the ring (43).
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characters/minor.md
Tess Ordish (15)
- Milking done by seven; sits on the mounting block through the lesson (41).
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- Kept the count page, said figures back, read the whole page back correctly from the top, names first (42). Recorded as a counter with her age against her name (42).
Burl
- Dug at the worm count (42); held the gatepost end of the west line, and of both lines on the 15th rerun (43).
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- Docking dated: factor's man cut 1s 3d/quarter on every Fenholt farm's barley "a fortnight back" ≈ 13 Cornmonth, "on the word rings" (42).
- His arithmetic: 1s3d × 40 acres ≈ £9 = a hired man Harvestmonth–spring; so the man goes at Harvestmonth (42).
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- Refuses the board posting on procedural, not personal, grounds: Charter's crown grant covers only the Deep/warrens/their output; guildmaster (at his sister's) controls what goes up (44).
- "The board's public … That's what it's for." (44)
- Explains the wardens' slate mechanism and history in full (44) — see dungeons.md below.
- Names redacted redacted as yesterday's warden, then adds warmly, "in a different voice": "She'll be in before six. She generally is." (44) — flag: his first line with any warmth; current voice rules give him none.
The alehouse keeper — was at the Ordish dinner the night before; Edwin invited the parish deliberately through him (42).
Guildmaster redacted** — still "at his sister's" at the time of the Day 15 board visit (44). See Contradiction 3 below.
characters/edwin.md
**Established (new)
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redacted sentence: unpublished prose Puts his own hand on the heap during her cast (41).
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- Keeps a book, entries dated with hour and place; his entry for 41 quoted verbatim, including T.O. as Tess's initials.
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- Stood back, hands in pockets, letting Peri run the count (42); untouched the chain/tag/cord/pole entirely on the 15th rerun (43).
- Self-correction: had meant to make the "wider question/redacted/Sennet" argument himself (the one that "emptied that kitchen"), but Peri spoke first; afterward: "That was well done … I'd have talked about the redacted." (42)
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- Reads the Charter board "for what was not on it," recognizes procedural refusal from "four hundred parish councils" and doesn't argue it (44).
- Told Ferrin, at the gate, morning of the 15th, that his blessing is the sheet's day zero — promise from scene 42 unpublished kept in scene 44 unpublished.
Implications (Working, flagged for reconciliation, not hardened)
- "some thousands of faces" (41) sits loosely against existing ~200-taught / compost-automation timeline figures — record as Working, don't build a hard count on it.
- "three hundred years" (41) is idiomatic rounding against the ~331-year figure; fine as speech.
characters/ferrin.md
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- Prompted by Peri's question in 42 ("Does he get told? redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
characters/redacted.md
- Named to Edwin/Peri for the first time by redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- "She'll be in before six. She generally is." (44) — new habit on record; her 28 Cornmonth visit now doubly recorded (her own account elsewhere plus this slate).
characters/sorrel.md
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world/farm-teaching.md
Established (new)
- Full teaching sequence for the compost cantrip on the page: dry casts (wrist check) → quiz on purpose/mechanism → live cast → hand-turn immediately after (41).
- Mechanism as taught/recited: "It doesn't make anything. redacted sentence: unpublished prose redacted sentence: unpublished prose
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- Cantrip/turning effects are confounded without a control heap — acknowledged on-page (41).
- Fenholt's parish never had the compost cantrip, only the blessing, from "the teacher that came" (Tess, 41).
Implications (Working)
- Dry-then-live progression with wrist-watching is the parish course's actual pedagogy generally.
- Limit-sentences are taught as unexplained recitations, passed on without the teacher knowing the reason — succession-theme relevant.
world/magic.md / world/magic-explained.md
Established (new)
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- Visible signature of a live cast: veteran = "brushing off flies"; first-timer = visibly effortful (41).
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Contradiction / tension
redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished has Edwin explicitly disclaim any known reason. Not a hard contradiction (narration vs. in-world knowledge) but canon should record that no character on the page knows the mechanism, and that sentence should never be voiced by a character.
world/system.md
Established (new)
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- Punctuation flag: scene's box uses a spaced hyphen; canon's exemplar (ch. 018) uses an em dash. Needs a house decision — one of the two is wrong.
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- Level 1 glossed from receiving end: "One is where everything starts" / preemptive wrist-correction (41).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Everybody does." — consistent with existing canon.
Implication (Working)
- Peri's own tally ("three boxes … not one came where the thing happened") gives a checkable box count as of Day 13 — worth reconciling against the canonical box inventory.
world/silent-soil.md
Established (new) — geometry/measurement facts only (no cause speculation)
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- West line defined: SW gatepost (Mattie's chain-point since Seedmonth) to the SE boundary stone; crosses the arcs from the side; laid with cord + sighting poles, then chained (43).
redacted sentence: unpublished prose Canon should record the two lines as differently reliable instruments.
- Circle-fitting method and result, in detail: nine dated/chained stakes on the outer arc's leading edge; three-point circle fits done three times independently. Stump-line-adjacent stakes → centre ~100 yards back down the stump line, south and a little west. West-line-adjacent stakes → centre 40 yards east of the first. (43)
- Error budget stated: chain disagreement ≈ 2 links across 200 yards; 40 yards ≈ "the best part of two chains," ruled out as chaining error (43).
- Three unranked possible causes stated verbatim (geometry/shape only — no cause speculation): (1) not a circle at all; (2) a circle whose true centre lies outside the field entirely; (3) Edwin's own hand/stake placement on the west line (43).
- 15th rerun with Edwin touching nothing: Mattie on stump end, Burl on gatepost end of both, Peri finding the west edge herself. Stump line: 9ch73. West line: 6ch18. (43)
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- Stump line rate reconfirmed: 23 links / 5 days = ~1 yard/day (43).
- Recurring stopping point restated: "it's past my redacted... redacted sentence: unpublished prose
Contradiction
- Thirty vs. redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished consistently uses forty yards as both the finding and the ruled-out-chaining-error figure. The "thirty yards" parenthetical in canon is a stale figure and should be corrected to forty.
Open-question contact — flag, not resolved
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- Does not resolve "the four sites' redacted of beginning."
- Correctly stays agnostic on mechanism/cause throughout, consistent with the standing rule that canon never resolves this.
world/institutions.md
Established (new)
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- Arithmetic: delve date 10 Haymonth, "forty-nine days later" only a postponement notice with no new date (44).
- redacted's authority boundary and the board's public-read status stated explicitly (44).
Implication (Working)
- The board functions as a negative record instrument (absence = finding) as well as positive; the undated hiring notice is a second, softer version of the same institutional-stall signal.
world/dungeons.md
Established (new) — the wardens' slate
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- Status: kept as a warden custom, unowned/unread by the clerk, of unknown origin; "It says In. It always says In." (44)
Implications (Working)
- Two-slate paper trail for the mouth-air test: one at the chain, one (mirror) at the house — the house copy essentially unread by anyone but wardens.
- Roughly fortnightly-or-better warden visits implied by three entries across three weeks, three different hands = at least 3 wardens rotating through before 28 Cornmonth.
- Collision-hazard flag: "the seventh" appears bare (no month given in dialogue) — must always be paired with "Cornmonth" to avoid ambiguity against other dated entries elsewhere in canon.
world/timeline.md
All four scenes land on already-established days; every checkable figure agrees. New entries to add:
- Day 13 (27 Cornmonth), 07:00 — compost cantrip taught at Ordish yard heap; box arrives at the trough (41). (Timeline currently only records the worm count for Day 13.)
- Day 13, 16:00 — first protocol worm count (42) ✓ consistent with canon.
- Day 13, that night — sheet ruled, day-zero = 12 Seedmonth (42) ✓.
- Day 13, backdated reference: factor's docking "a fortnight back" ≈ 13 Cornmonth (42).
- Day 14 (28 Cornmonth) — west line laid, 6ch20 (43); Charter-house slate mirror entry 10am "In" (44, mirroring redacted's own 28 Cornmonth chain-side reading).
- Day 15 (29 Cornmonth), morning — Edwin gives Ferrin day-zero in writing (44); both lines rerun: stump 9ch73 / west 6ch18 (43) ✓.
- Day 15, afternoon — Charter house visit; redacted's refusal; board read; wardens' slate found (44).
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Contradictions
2. Minor/non-fix note: "Three in three weeks" (7→28 Cornmonth = exactly 3 weeks) is correct phrasing even though the last interval (14→28) is only a fortnight — flagging only so a later drafter doesn't "correct" it unnecessarily.
3. redacted's whereabouts / Deep's new date, real divergence. Existing timeline records redacted ruling that morning (Day 15) that Holm Deep is reset to 2 Fallowmonth. Scene 44 unpublished has the guildmaster still "at his sister's" during the same-day board visit, and the Deep notice on the board still reads "put off... a new date would follow" — i.e., no new date posted yet. This needs deliberate reconciliation (timeline entry superseded for the third draft, or the board scene understood as stale by hours) — flagging, not ruling.
world/geography.md
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- Ordish farm yard: north-walled, cobbled, with byre, stable, mounting block, trough (41).
- South redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
- Holm Deep ≈ five miles from the Charter house, per redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose
world/development.md (parish economy)
Established (new)
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- Wage benchmark: 1s3d/quarter × 40 acres ≈ £9 = cost of a hired man Harvestmonth–spring (42).
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Implication (Working)
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Cross-cutting / uncertain
redacted sentence: unpublished prose If Tess counts as one of the "four," the "hands in the ground" phrasing is loose; if not, a fourth counter is unnamed. Needs a ruling before the sheet is cited again.
- Box punctuation (spaced hyphen vs. em dash) is a house-wide decision affecting every future System box — flagged above under system.md.
- Knowledge state as of Day 15: Ferrin knows he's day zero; parish knows inside-count is zero; redacted will get a mill copy; Charter has refused the board posting; Wystow has not yet received the sheet; the factor hasn't read anything yet.
- No scene speculates on the cause of the field phenomenon; the two surviving possibilities (not-a-circle / off-field true centre) are purely geometric, and the third (measurement error) was struck for a stated methodological reason. This posture is correct per the standing "canon stays agnostic" rule.
- No deferred question is resolved improperly — the only trigger fired (the Farm Magic skill name/box) was already pre-ruled for exactly this scene.
COUNTS: 71 established facts, 14 implications, 3 contradictions found.