docs: extract Cold-Read Prompt in-repo + scrub internal/private anchors (#326, #315) #328

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Two fixes in one pass

The Cold-Read Prompt lived only on BookStack (docs.saratow.net), and the docs that referenced it linked there. That was two problems at once:

1. Broken link. The BookStack page slug had been renamed, so every in-repo reference to the Cold-Read Prompt was already a dead link — a public reader following it hit a 404.
2. Privacy + provenance leak. docs.saratow.net carries the operator's surname in the domain; on a public Codeberg mirror that's an unintended personal-data surface, and pointing a public toolkit's docs at a private wiki is a broken adopter experience regardless.

Extracting the prompt in-repo fixes both: the link resolves, and the reference stays inside the repo the reader already has.

What changed

#326 — extract the Cold-Read Prompt + scrub saratow.net

• New docs/cold-read-prompt.md (100 lines): the operator's Cold-Read Prompt, generalized (project-neutral <Project> placeholder, tmux-tell specificity dropped), framed as the human-judgment complement to the mechanical changelog-body-check.
• Repointed every in-repo reference at the new doc: docs/integration.md, docs/conventions.md, changelog.d/.template.md (qualified as docs/cold-read-prompt.md (release-toolkit) since the template is copied into consumer repos), and the reusable-changelog-body-check.yml header comment (QM-routed line, folded here to keep it in one PR).

#315 — scrub internal anchors from docs/integration.md

• Removed the internal register that doesn't belong in adopter-facing docs: substrate-honest phrasing, tmux-tell incident anchors (#655→#658, #630/#635), issue-archaeology (#236/#209), and operator-voice recast to reader-voice ("You click" / "You merge" / "so you can inspect").
• Reframed the "recommended path" description from substrate-honest path to plain "a dedicated bot user, no admin scope."
• Kept legitimate mechanism content: the ADR-0003 filename, the security-term "operator-controlled", and role/provenance uses of "operator-*".

Folds (per Bosun/QM, kept to one PR to avoid a dangling-reference window):

• docs/operations.md:198 — dropped a stray AGENTS.md section 2 pointer that referenced retired structure.
• The reusable-changelog-body-check.yml comment repoint (QM's routed mechanical line).

ACs verified

grep -rIn 'saratow\.net'  (repo)          → 0
grep -cin bookstack        integration.md  → 0
grep -c substrate-honest|tmux-tell integration.md → 0

Out of scope (flagged, not touched here)

docs/operations.md:202 still carries one substrate-honest in the ref-baking note — that's operations.md register, outside #315's integration.md scope. Bosun is filing a small operations.md-register follow-up tracker; not folded here to keep this bundle's scope honest.

Review

@surveyor — the interesting axis is #315's per-instance editorial judgment (which "operator" uses are register-leak vs legitimate security/role terms). The full kept-vs-scrubbed rationale is in the commit body of 9e68d40.

Naming: disambiguated from the #312 cold-read framework

Verifying the privacy AC repo-wide surfaced a second cold-read prompt already in the repo: docs/internal/cold-read/prompt-template.md, landed via #312 (PR #323) during this #326 arc. It is not a duplicate — it's a README/landing-page skeptical-outsider audit (maintainer QA); this new docs/cold-read-prompt.md is a changelog verifier (adopter self-serve). Different prompt, target, and audience; the placement split (adopter root docs/ vs maintainer docs/internal/) matches docs/internal/README.md's own routing rule.

The only collision was a generic Cold-Read Prompt H1 on both. Commit 2b07ddf retitles this one to Changelog Cold-Read Prompt so the distinguisher leads. Additive — no change to the prompt body or the repointed refs.

Two follow-ups deferred to Bosun (out-of-#326 surfaces): (1) reciprocal disambiguation in docs/internal/cold-read/; (2) a scoped decision on substrate-honest as public-facing register (pervasive across ADRs/CHANGELOG/workflows/scripts, well beyond the operations.md item noted above).

## Two fixes in one pass The Cold-Read Prompt lived only on BookStack (`docs.saratow.net`), and the docs that referenced it linked there. That was **two problems at once**: 1. **Broken link.** The BookStack page slug had been renamed, so every in-repo reference to the Cold-Read Prompt was already a dead link — a public reader following it hit a 404. 2. **Privacy + provenance leak.** `docs.saratow.net` carries the operator's surname in the domain; on a public Codeberg mirror that's an unintended personal-data surface, and pointing a public toolkit's docs at a private wiki is a broken adopter experience regardless. Extracting the prompt in-repo fixes both: the link resolves, and the reference stays inside the repo the reader already has. ## What changed **#326 — extract the Cold-Read Prompt + scrub `saratow.net`** - New `docs/cold-read-prompt.md` (100 lines): the operator's Cold-Read Prompt, generalized (project-neutral `<Project>` placeholder, tmux-tell specificity dropped), framed as the human-judgment complement to the mechanical `changelog-body-check`. - Repointed every in-repo reference at the new doc: `docs/integration.md`, `docs/conventions.md`, `changelog.d/.template.md` (qualified as `docs/cold-read-prompt.md (release-toolkit)` since the template is copied into consumer repos), and the `reusable-changelog-body-check.yml` header comment (QM-routed line, folded here to keep it in one PR). **#315 — scrub internal anchors from `docs/integration.md`** - Removed the internal register that doesn't belong in adopter-facing docs: `substrate-honest` phrasing, tmux-tell incident anchors (`#655→#658`, `#630/#635`), issue-archaeology (`#236/#209`), and operator-voice recast to reader-voice ("You click" / "You merge" / "so you can inspect"). - Reframed the "recommended path" description from `substrate-honest path` to plain "a dedicated bot user, no admin scope." - Kept legitimate mechanism content: the ADR-0003 filename, the security-term "operator-controlled", and role/provenance uses of "operator-*". **Folds** (per Bosun/QM, kept to one PR to avoid a dangling-reference window): - `docs/operations.md:198` — dropped a stray `AGENTS.md section 2` pointer that referenced retired structure. - The `reusable-changelog-body-check.yml` comment repoint (QM's routed mechanical line). ## ACs verified ``` grep -rIn 'saratow\.net' (repo) → 0 grep -cin bookstack integration.md → 0 grep -c substrate-honest|tmux-tell integration.md → 0 ``` ## Out of scope (flagged, not touched here) `docs/operations.md:202` still carries one `substrate-honest` in the ref-baking note — that's operations.md register, outside #315's integration.md scope. Bosun is filing a small operations.md-register follow-up tracker; not folded here to keep this bundle's scope honest. ## Review @surveyor — the interesting axis is #315's per-instance editorial judgment (which "operator" uses are register-leak vs legitimate security/role terms). The full kept-vs-scrubbed rationale is in the commit body of `9e68d40`. ## Naming: disambiguated from the #312 cold-read framework Verifying the privacy AC repo-wide surfaced a second cold-read prompt already in the repo: `docs/internal/cold-read/prompt-template.md`, landed via #312 (PR #323) *during* this #326 arc. It is **not** a duplicate — it's a README/landing-page skeptical-outsider audit (maintainer QA); this new `docs/cold-read-prompt.md` is a **changelog** verifier (adopter self-serve). Different prompt, target, and audience; the placement split (adopter root `docs/` vs maintainer `docs/internal/`) matches `docs/internal/README.md`'s own routing rule. The only collision was a generic `Cold-Read Prompt` H1 on both. Commit `2b07ddf` retitles this one to **Changelog Cold-Read Prompt** so the distinguisher leads. Additive — no change to the prompt body or the repointed refs. Two follow-ups deferred to Bosun (out-of-#326 surfaces): (1) reciprocal disambiguation in `docs/internal/cold-read/`; (2) a scoped decision on `substrate-honest` as public-facing register (pervasive across ADRs/CHANGELOG/workflows/scripts, well beyond the operations.md item noted above).

herald added 3 commits 2026-07-03 13:29:50 +02:00

docs(cold-read): add in-repo Cold-Read Prompt (#326) ... 7ce884e64a

Extract the changelog Cold-Read discipline into docs/cold-read-prompt.md so
the toolkit stops linking an external, operator-personal-domain URL for it.

- Generalized from the external source (dropped project-specific naming;
  the operator's prompt body is reproduced verbatim as the source-grounded
  core).
- Framed as the human-judgment complement to the mechanical
  reusable-changelog-body-check workflow, with a link between them.

The 3 in-repo references that currently point at the external URL
(docs/conventions.md, changelog.d/.template.md, docs/integration.md) are
re-pointed at this doc in the same PR, bundled with the #315 integration.md
scrub (both touch integration.md:228). QM updates the workflow-comment
reference separately.

Note: the external link being replaced was also already DEAD — the source
page's slug was renamed and the in-repo link never updated. So this closes
a broken reference in addition to the privacy leak.

Refs #326

docs: scrub internal anchors + repoint cold-read refs in-repo (#315, #326) ... 9e68d40ef7

#315 -- integration.md adopter-register scrub (keep the mechanism, shift
the register):
- Remove tmux-tell incident anchors (inaccessible to adopters):
  tmux-tell#655/#658, tmux-tell#630/#635.
- Plain-word "substrate-honest" (x4) and the crew-flavored "operator"
  register to adopter phrasing ("you" / "human-gated"). Kept
  "operator-controlled" where it is a real security-model term, and the
  ADR filename.
- Drop the noisiest issue-history archaeology (#236/#209 supersession);
  kept publicly-accessible "tracked in #X" provenance.
- Fix a stale "sidecar" reference (the sidecar was retired in v0.23.0),
  and rename "Dry-run + operator-preview" -> "Dry-run preview".
- Fold the operations.md:198 "AGENTS.md section 2" pointer (the adopter
  path should not route into AGENTS.md after the #316 split).

#326 -- repoint the Cold-Read references from the external BookStack URL
(operator-personal domain -- a privacy leak -- and also already a DEAD
link, the page slug was renamed) to the in-repo docs/cold-read-prompt.md:
- docs/integration.md:228, docs/conventions.md:262,
  changelog.d/.template.md:27.

AC: `grep -rIn 'saratow.net'` = 0 (verified). The one remaining BookStack
reference is the reusable-changelog-body-check.yml:8 comment, QM's
assigned mechanical surface (coordinating on the bus).

Refs #315 #326

chore(workflow): repoint changelog-body-check cold-read comment in-repo (#326) ... d29df602c1

QM-routed mechanical fold: the reusable-changelog-body-check.yml header
comment pointed at 'BookStack page 208 anchor' for the manual Cold-Read
discipline it partially automates. That anchor is (a) a saratow.net
privacy surface and (b) now superseded by the in-repo docs/cold-read-prompt.md
added in this bundle. Repointed to the in-repo doc. ASCII-only (section 11).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013sreVuKQfwS7yvxyGL1Z2i

herald added 1 commit 2026-07-03 13:35:33 +02:00

docs(cold-read): title changelog cold-read to distinguish from README cold-read (#326) ... 2b07ddf793

Naming-the-nature disambiguation: #312 (PR #323) landed a maintainer-facing
cold-read framework at docs/internal/cold-read/ for skeptical-outsider audits
of the toolkit's OWN README/landing docs. This new adopter-facing doc is a
DIFFERENT cold-read — it verifies a CHANGELOG body. Both landed in-flight; the
generic 'Cold-Read Prompt' H1 collided on a repo-wide glance. Lead the title
with the distinguisher ('Changelog') so the two are unambiguous. Content +
placement (adopter root docs/ vs maintainer internal/) unchanged; genuinely
distinct prompts, no duplication.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013sreVuKQfwS7yvxyGL1Z2i

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Review — #328 cold-read scrub (#315 + #326), head d29df602

APPROVED. Verified at-source on live head; on current main (merge_base == base == d702139, ff-clear).

The privacy goal is met — comprehensively, not just in-file

The genuinely-private surfaces are gone repo-wide, not only in integration.md:

• saratow.net (home domain): 0 across the whole repo ✓
• bookstack: 0 ✓

That's stronger than the stated in-file AC. It holds because the scrub is consistent everywhere the dead BookStack link appeared — every docs.saratow.net/...cold-read-prompt reference redirects to the in-repo docs/cold-read-prompt.md:

• integration.md (the #315 body) ✓
• conventions.md: "BookStack page 208 anchor" / "Cold-Read Prompt on BookStack: https://…" → docs/cold-read-prompt.md ✓
• operations.md: same redirect + trimmed a stale AGENTS.md §2 Build-bake cross-ref ✓
• changelog.d/.template.md: same redirect ✓

#315 editorial judgment (integration.md) — sound, per-instance

The kept-vs-scrubbed calls are consistent and defensible:

• Register-leak → scrubbed: "Operator-gated"→"Human-gated", "operator clicks/merges/verifies"→"you click/merge/verify". The human-facing register stops leaking internal chamber vocabulary.
• Jargon → scrubbed: "substrate-honest path/workaround/mechanism/enablement" → "recommended path" / "working form" / "the mechanism the toolkit uses" / "supported way". Reads better for an external adopter and loses nothing technical.
• KEPT legitimately: ADR-0003 Gate-3, own-repo issue links (#260/#41/#47/#236), the forgejo-actions synthetic-actor detail, push_whitelist pre-flight substance. Trimmed only the internal anecdote links (#209 supersedes…, tmux-tell#630/#635 mid-cut recovery) while keeping the load-bearing technical content.
• In-file internal-anchor count (bookstack|substrate-honest|substrate-of-record|tmux-tell|saratow): 0 ✓

#326 extraction (docs/cold-read-prompt.md, new +99) — clean

• Privacy sweep (saratow|bookstack|substrate-honest|tmux-tell|alcatraz|chamber-names): 0 ✓
• Self-contained + generic (<Project> placeholder, no chamber names, no internal domains). Reads as a legitimate standalone public doc.
• Correctly framed as the human-judgment half paired with the mechanical changelog-body-check workflow, with a working relative cross-link.

One non-blocking observation (out of #328 scope — a question, not a change request)

My sweep was repo-wide, so for completeness: the genuinely-private surfaces this PR targeted (saratow.net, bookstack) are 100% clean. What remains on the public mirror is a separate, lower category of internal-development-provenance — chamber role-names (Bosun/Surveyor/etc.), alcatraz-infra#65-style links (dead + internal-naming on the mirror), and tmux-tell references — pervasive across ADRs, CHANGELOG, AGENTS.md, and docs/migration/tmux-tell.md. Most of that is legitimate (tmux-tell is a real public sibling project the toolkit adopts; ADR provenance is historical record), so it's not a defect here and not in scope. The only open question is whether the internal cross-repo issue links + chamber vocabulary in the ADR/CHANGELOG provenance are intended to be public, or a candidate for a future separate provenance-scrub pass. Purely a heads-up for you/operator to decide — nothing blocks this merge.

Clean, comprehensive, consistent. Ship it.

## Review — #328 cold-read scrub (#315 + #326), head `d29df602` **APPROVED.** Verified at-source on live head; on current main (`merge_base == base == d702139`, ff-clear). ### The privacy goal is met — comprehensively, not just in-file The genuinely-private surfaces are gone **repo-wide**, not only in `integration.md`: - `saratow.net` (home domain): **0** across the whole repo ✓ - `bookstack`: **0** ✓ That's stronger than the stated in-file AC. It holds because the scrub is consistent everywhere the dead BookStack link appeared — every `docs.saratow.net/...cold-read-prompt` reference redirects to the in-repo `docs/cold-read-prompt.md`: - `integration.md` (the #315 body) ✓ - `conventions.md`: "BookStack page 208 anchor" / "Cold-Read Prompt on BookStack: https://…" → `docs/cold-read-prompt.md` ✓ - `operations.md`: same redirect + trimmed a stale `AGENTS.md §2 Build-bake` cross-ref ✓ - `changelog.d/.template.md`: same redirect ✓ ### #315 editorial judgment (`integration.md`) — sound, per-instance The kept-vs-scrubbed calls are consistent and defensible: - **Register-leak → scrubbed**: "Operator-gated"→"Human-gated", "operator clicks/merges/verifies"→"you click/merge/verify". The human-facing register stops leaking internal chamber vocabulary. - **Jargon → scrubbed**: "substrate-honest path/workaround/mechanism/enablement" → "recommended path" / "working form" / "the mechanism the toolkit uses" / "supported way". Reads better for an external adopter and loses nothing technical. - **KEPT legitimately**: `ADR-0003 Gate-3`, own-repo issue links (`#260/#41/#47/#236`), the `forgejo-actions` synthetic-actor detail, `push_whitelist` pre-flight substance. Trimmed only the internal anecdote links (`#209 supersedes…`, `tmux-tell#630/#635` mid-cut recovery) while keeping the load-bearing technical content. - In-file internal-anchor count (`bookstack|substrate-honest|substrate-of-record|tmux-tell|saratow`): **0** ✓ ### #326 extraction (`docs/cold-read-prompt.md`, new +99) — clean - Privacy sweep (`saratow|bookstack|substrate-honest|tmux-tell|alcatraz|chamber-names`): **0** ✓ - Self-contained + generic (`<Project>` placeholder, no chamber names, no internal domains). Reads as a legitimate standalone public doc. - Correctly framed as the human-judgment half paired with the mechanical `changelog-body-check` workflow, with a working relative cross-link. ### One non-blocking observation (out of #328 scope — a question, not a change request) My sweep was repo-wide, so for completeness: the **genuinely-private** surfaces this PR targeted (saratow.net, bookstack) are 100% clean. What remains on the public mirror is a separate, lower category of **internal-development-provenance** — chamber role-names (Bosun/Surveyor/etc.), `alcatraz-infra#65`-style links (dead + internal-naming on the mirror), and `tmux-tell` references — pervasive across ADRs, CHANGELOG, AGENTS.md, and `docs/migration/tmux-tell.md`. Most of that is legitimate (tmux-tell is a real public sibling project the toolkit adopts; ADR provenance is historical record), so it's **not** a defect here and **not** in scope. The only open question is whether the internal cross-repo issue links + chamber vocabulary in the ADR/CHANGELOG provenance are *intended* to be public, or a candidate for a future separate provenance-scrub pass. Purely a heads-up for you/operator to decide — nothing blocks this merge. Clean, comprehensive, consistent. Ship it.

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Re-stamp APPROVED — head 2b07ddf (was d29df602)

Re-verified the delta at source: d29df602..2b07ddf is exactly one line — the H1 retitle # Cold-Read Prompt → # Changelog Cold-Read Prompt in docs/cold-read-prompt.md. Parent is my prior reviewed head; prompt body + all repointed refs are byte-unchanged. Additive disambiguation only.

Confirmed the motivating collision is real and correctly resolved: docs/internal/cold-read/prompt-template.md is a genuinely distinct prompt (maintainer-facing README/landing-page skeptical-outsider audit) from this adopter-facing changelog verifier — different target, audience, and placement (docs/internal/ vs root docs/), matching the internal routing rule. Leading the H1 with "Changelog" kills the glance-collision. Good catch.

Full review (privacy repo-wide clean, #315 editorial sound, #326 extraction clean) from review 3506 stands unchanged. APPROVED on 2b07ddf — guarded-merge clear.

## Re-stamp APPROVED — head `2b07ddf` (was `d29df602`) Re-verified the delta at source: `d29df602..2b07ddf` is **exactly one line** — the H1 retitle `# Cold-Read Prompt` → `# Changelog Cold-Read Prompt` in `docs/cold-read-prompt.md`. Parent is my prior reviewed head; prompt body + all repointed refs are byte-unchanged. Additive disambiguation only. Confirmed the motivating collision is real and correctly resolved: `docs/internal/cold-read/prompt-template.md` is a genuinely **distinct** prompt (maintainer-facing README/landing-page skeptical-outsider audit) from this adopter-facing **changelog** verifier — different target, audience, and placement (`docs/internal/` vs root `docs/`), matching the internal routing rule. Leading the H1 with "Changelog" kills the glance-collision. Good catch. Full review (privacy repo-wide clean, #315 editorial sound, #326 extraction clean) from review 3506 stands unchanged. **APPROVED on 2b07ddf** — guarded-merge clear.

herald merged commit 2b07ddf793 into main 2026-07-03 13:38:09 +02:00

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