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2026-09-02

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Read and follow redacted: private exactly. Your batch: chapters 51–58 (scenes 106–118). Batch id for the glossary file: E.

I'll start by reading the brief.

30 tool calls

🔧 Read redacted: private

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

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🔧 Bash: cat notes/canon/world/farming-glossary.md && echo "=====CHJSON=====" && python3 -c " impo…

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🔧 Bash: python3 -c " import json d=json.load(open('publishing/chapters.json')) for c in range(49,…

🔧 Bash: sed -n '1,200p' notes/author-note-exemplars.md

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🔧 Bash: sed -n '/^## Who they are/,/^=====EXEMPLARS/p' redacted: private | head -200

🔧 Bash: ls draft/book-01/scenes/ | sed -n '100,125p'; echo ---; cat draft/book-01/author-notes/40…

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🔧 Bash: cd draft/book-01/scenes && ls | sed -n '100,120p'

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes && ls | wc -l && ls | tail -25

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes && ls | sort -t- -k1,1n | sed -n '100,118p'

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes && for f in 102-* 103-* 104-* 105-* 106-* 107-*; do ec…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/scenes && for f in 108-* 109-* 110-* 111-* 112-* 113-*; do ec…

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Now I'll write the eight note files.

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && cat > 104-ground-that-doesnt-answer.md unpublished…

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🔧 Bash: uv run tools/lint/prose_lint.py --scope note draft/book-01/author-notes/104-ground-that-d…

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🔧 Bash: uv run tools/lint/prose_lint.py --scope note draft/book-01/author-notes/3*.md 2>&1 | tail…

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🔧 Bash: python3 - <<'EOF' p='draft/book-01/author-notes/106-presumed-sound.md unpublished' s=op…

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Now the glossary-additions file.

🔧 Bash: cat > redacted: private <<'EOF' # Glossary additions - batch E (chapters 51-58, scenes…

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🔧 Bash: cd redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes && for f in 104-* 106-* 108-* 110-* 112-* 114-*…

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Done. Eight note files written (one per chapter, on the chapter's first scene).

Note on batch bounds: the brief said "chapters 51–58 (scenes 106–118)", but publishing/chapters.json has ch.51 = scenes 104,105 and ch.58 = scene 118 unpublished. I followed chapters.json, so my batch is scenes 104–118 and includes a note for ch.51 at 104-ground-that-doesnt-answer.md unpublished. If batch D was told to cover scene 104 unpublished, that one file may collide.

Files (path is redacted/draft/book-01/author-notes/), lead term and word count:

File Chapter Lead term Words
104-ground-that-doesnt-answer.md unpublished 51 Reading blind (randomisation/blinding; Fisher 1935) 240
106-presumed-sound.md unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
108-under-a-stone.md unpublished 53 Judging a warning (forecast verification; Finley 1884) 224
110-the-seventieth-entry.md unpublished 54 Sending in the card (Marsham's Indications of Spring, 1736–1958) 203
112-seen-and-not-read.md unpublished 55 Texturing by hand 236
114-the-redacted-off.md 56 A broken leg in stock (weight decides) 243
116-a-foot-under.md unpublished redacted sentence: unpublished prose
118-nine-words.md unpublished 58 The fold (golden hoof) — discharges the term owed since ch.40 244

Second items: Flint; Advisory sheets; Printers' errors; A day book; Hiring notices; The auger; Stock refusing a patch; Hurdles.

New autobiographical claims to log in notes/author.md:

Glossary additions file: redacted: private` (14 new entries plus the deferred list: thin in the bite, pan, hay that heats still owed; the I-skipping fact left to ch.50, whose scene it belongs to; chalk downland left to the existing Clay on chalk note).

Lint: `0 errors, 3 warnings on first run. Fixed both content warnings in 106 ("the whole", "honest"). The remaining warning is the corpus-wide indefinite-pronoun rate, which the accepted notes 31–40 exceed by more (43.4 vs my 33.4 per 10,000 words); I disagree with it and left those uses. Final state: 0 errors, that one warning. No em dashes anywhere.