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…substrate (Aaron 2026-05-03 — what makes future Otto remember) Aaron 2026-05-03: "what makes future versions of you remember this?" — pointing at last-tick's "the convention is NOT documented in a separate substrate file" claim. The convention WAS lost (no discoverable surface; future-Otto wouldn't know to grep CADENCE-TRACK). Right discipline per CLAUDE.md carved-sentence-plus-index: high- frequency-applicable rules need to land at a discoverable surface. Adding "Step 0: Cadence-tracker grep" at the top of the every-tick priority ladder in docs/AUTONOMOUS-LOOP.md. Future-Otto reads this file at session-start (per CLAUDE.md tick-must-never-stop bullet's pointer). The CADENCE-TRACK marker convention is now discoverable. Same-tick correction of last-tick's anti-real-time-filtering overcorrection: anti-filtering refers to memory writes (don't gatekeep at write-time), NOT to convention-documentation. Conventions need to be documented for future-Otto to find them; that's not filtering, that's basic discoverability. Surgical: ~30 lines added at the priority-ladder start (line 215); no other changes.
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Pull request overview
Adds a “cadence tracker” step to the autonomous-loop’s every-tick priority ladder so cadenced hygiene work can be rediscovered via a simple grep over tick-history shards.
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- Add “0. Cadence-tracker grep” step to the priority ladder.
- Document the
CADENCE-TRACKmarker convention and how it should be used in tick shards.
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| 0. **Cadence-tracker grep** (tick-open; the human maintainer 2026-05-03 | ||
| directive). Before picking speculative work, grep the | ||
| tick-shard history for cadenced hygiene work that is due: |
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| write a `CADENCE-TRACK: <work> overdue, deferred to | ||
| <next-permissible-trigger>` line into THIS tick's shard | ||
| so the next tick's grep surfaces the same observation. | ||
| The convention emerges from per-tick-shard use; this | ||
| discipline plus the convention is the operational | ||
| substrate. |
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…s corrective + session-arc preservation (Aaron 'almost lost it, save it') (#1363) Aaron 2026-05-03 corrective: "almost lost it, maybe you should save it, what you waiting on?" — pointing at ~20 ticks of steady-state holds without per-tick shard writes. Discipline violation: tick-shard write step is the persistence- substrate per AUTONOMOUS-LOOP.md every-tick-checklist; skipping risks compaction-loss. Steady-state-still-needs-shards: per-tick shard write isn't conditional on substantive-work-this-tick. The shard itself is the documentation that nothing actionable surfaced. Session-arc summary preserved in body (40+ PRs covering doctrine cluster + tooling roadmap + audit pattern + duplicate cleanup + cadence-tracker discipline + Aaron-corrections absorbed). CADENCE-TRACK observation: AutoDream still overdue, defer next-session unchanged. Same author-rule-violate-rule pattern Aaron caught earlier this session — landed Step 0 cadence-tracker discipline (PR #1362) but didn't write per-tick shards that carry discipline forward.
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Summary
Aaron 2026-05-03 surgical question: "what makes future versions of you remember this?" — pointing at last-tick's claim that "the convention is NOT documented in a separate substrate file" for the CADENCE-TRACK marker convention.
The honest answer: nothing currently. The convention was lost. Future-Otto wouldn't know to grep `CADENCE-TRACK` because no discoverable surface mentioned the convention.
The fix
Add "Step 0: Cadence-tracker grep" at the top of `docs/AUTONOMOUS-LOOP.md`'s every-tick priority ladder. Future-Otto reads this file via the CLAUDE.md tick-must-never-stop bullet's pointer at session-start. The CADENCE-TRACK marker convention is now discoverable.
Same-tick self-correction
Last-tick's "the convention is NOT documented in a separate substrate file (anti-real-time-filtering)" was overcorrection. Anti-real-time-filtering (Aaron 2026-05-03 "1984-ish") refers to memory WRITES (don't gatekeep what gets written at write-time). It does NOT mean conventions stay undocumented. Conventions need to be discoverable for future-Otto to apply them; that's not filtering, that's basic substrate-or-it-didn't-happen + carved-sentence-plus-index.
Surgical scope