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2026-09-02

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You are doing the EXTRACTION half only of the consistency-backfill process for a novel-in-progress ("Autoroad"), repo at redacted. Do NOT edit any repo files. This is read-only research; you write your output to one file in redacted: private only.

Read first, in full:

redacted/.claude/skills/consistency-backfill/SKILL.md
All files under redacted/notes/canon/ (README.md, system.md, deferred-beats.md, deferred-questions.md, characters/.md, world/.md)
redacted/notes/concept.md, notes/theme.md, unpublished notes/maybe-later.md

Then read these scene files in order:
redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/115-the-ram.md unpublished
redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished
redacted/draft/book-01/scenes/117-the-redacted.md
redacted redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished

For each scene, following SKILL.md's extraction procedure (steps 1-4; skip step 5 "write to canon files" and step 6 "report to author" — you are not editing canon, only producing the extraction), produce:

ESTABLISHED FACTS the scene states that canon does not yet record (exact quote + scene number/filename): names, roles, ages, places, distances, prices, dates/days, System text (Skill/Level boxes verbatim), procedures, who-knows-what.
IMPLICATIONS beyond what's stated (character history, geography, economy, institutions, magic mechanics, timeline/season, demography, absence-implications) that canon should hold as Working claims.
CONTRADICTIONS with existing canon (quote both sides, name the canon file and approx line/section).
OPEN QUESTIONS from notes/canon/deferred-questions.md unpublished that the scene touches, and whether it resolves one.
CORNER-WATCH: anything the scene commits to that would constrain future books (hard numbers, absolute statements, world-scale facts).

IMPORTANT: Do not include anything about the cause or nature of the "silent soil" mystery — skip that topic entirely, do not read notes/sealed/.

Organize your final output BY CANON TARGET FILE (e.g. redacted sentence: unpublished prose — use whatever files in notes/canon/ are the natural target). Within each file heading, give terse bullets with scene citations (scene number + short quote). Be exhaustive on facts, terse in wording.

Write this output to: redacted: private

When done, report back just: confirmation the file was written, and a rough count of facts/implications/contradictions found.

48 tool calls

🔧 Bash: cat redacted/.claude/skills/consistency-backfill/SKILL.md

✅ 92 lines, 5145 chars

🔧 Bash: for f in redacted/notes/canon/README.md redacted/notes/canon/system.md redacted/not…

🔧 Bash: ls redacted/notes/canon/characters/ redacted/notes/canon/world/

✅ 43 lines, 2196 chars

✅ 30 lines, 478 chars — redacted/notes/canon/characters/: / appearance.md / redacted.md

🔧 Bash: cat redacted: private

✅ 43 lines, 2196 chars

🔧 Bash: cat redacted/notes/concept.md redacted/notes/theme.md unpublished redacted/notes/…

✅ 39 lines, 2220 chars

🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/115-the-ram.md unpublished

🔧 Read redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished

✅ 48 lines, 7612 chars

✅ 46 lines, 6075 chars

🔧 Read draft/book-01/scenes/117-the-redacted.md

✅ 52 lines, 8229 chars

🔧 Read redacted sentence: unpublished prose unpublished

✅ 42 lines, 4874 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/world/geography.md

✅ 403 lines, 25687 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/world/timeline.md

✅ 892 lines, 58138 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/world/magic.md

🔧 Read notes/canon/world/institutions.md

✅ 781 lines, 48685 chars

✅ 787 lines, 50971 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/peri.md

✅ 975 lines, 64377 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/edwin.md

✅ 973 lines, 64921 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/redacted.md

✅ 245 lines, 15058 chars

✅ 553 lines, 36838 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/sorrel.md

✅ 844 lines, 52279 chars

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

✅ 480 lines, 29431 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/characters/minor.md

✅ 628 lines, 40049 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/world/farm-teaching.md

✅ 279 lines, 18507 chars

🔧 Read notes/canon/world/demographics.md

🔧 Read notes/canon/deferred-questions.md unpublished

✅ 152 lines, 16105 chars

✅ 180 lines, 9590 chars

🔧 Write redacted: private

✅ 1 lines, 222 chars

The extraction file was written successfully to:

redacted: private

Rough counts:

~35 Established facts logged (new or refining existing citations), organized under timeline.md, geography.md, magic.md/farm-teaching.md, peri.md, edwin.md, redacted.md, minor.md, and institutions.md
~10 Implications/Working-level observations (e.g., Peri's independent reinvention of the twelve-walk method, the Sorrel/circular attribution parallel, redacted's "one and a third arms" characterization)
2 flagged Contradictions/tensions: (1) the redacted box's "5 Saltmonth" handling in scene 115 unpublished vs. canon's "opened 18 Saltmonth" figure — likely reconcilable as two different actions but needs an editor's check against ch. 031; (2) a more notable one — redacted's grass/grazing ground yielding the same "yard a day" rate as tilled arable, which sits in tension with the already-ruled ground-dependent-rate finding in timeline.md (arable fast, old permanent grass slow) — flagged as a corner-watch item, not resolved
redacted sentence
Corner-watch items: the new [Agent of Fate — Level 11] figure, Shore's stake-accuracy precedent, the yard-a-day cross-site reconfirmation, and Edwin's repeating "wrong at every site" structural pattern

No repo files were edited; the silent-soil cause/nature topic was omitted entirely as instructed, and notes/sealed/ was not read.