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docs(register): AI-process-language scrub round 3 + cold-read doc split (#372, #366) #374

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Third register-audit delta after #352 + #362, closing the residual AI-process language external cold-read round 3 named in adopter surface ("appears in docs/changelog enough that it makes the project feel internally process-driven rather than adopter-clean... it does hurt trust"). Folds in #366 (cold-read doc split) since surfaces overlap.

Closes #372. Closes #366.

Scope decisions (keep-vs-scrub cut-line, per #352)

SCRUB — internal-review narration (no adopter value):

  • Chamber-name attributions throughout CHANGELOG.md ("per Surveyor 41ce", "Surveyor 4a44's matrix", "Per Herald narrative-eye", etc.) → maintainer-neutral phrasing ("a review catch", "Review advisories", "a naming review"). Technical content + issue/ADR anchors preserved — only the who-caught-what narration is removed.
  • adr/0003 — the one chamber-name in strict docs/ surface ("Surveyor's REQUEST_CHANGES catch" → "the review catch").
  • The crew word "chamber" — broader sweep caught integration.md ("PR authors (chambers, contributors)") and a broken foreign cross-ref in operations.md (scripts/new-chamber.sh:202, which does not exist in this repo — an alcatraz-infra script; both a register-leak and a broken reference an adopter would trip on). Both removed.
  • "ratify" — softened "Operator ratification" → "Operator decision" across ADRs 0001–0005 + one prose "to ratify" → "to approve". Closes the reviewer-named term; "operator" stays (it's established adopter vocabulary — the human who gates the release).

KEEP — design-anchor, glossed:

  • "Cold-Read" — it names a documented editorial discipline (docs/cold-read-changelog.md: "reading a CHANGELOG the way a real adopter reads it — cold, skeptical"), not opaque crew jargon. The AC permits keep-if-consistent; the density that read "internally process-driven" was the chamber-names (now zero), not this term. Kept consistently + glossed.

Why whole-file CHANGELOG scrub (not just v0.2x.0)

The AC's "not history-only" is read as preserve the historical technical record, neutralize the attribution narration — applied across the whole file, because the reviewer's concern is aggregate density and a round-4 grep must come up clean. A recent-entries-only subset would leave ~20 "Surveyor" hits and invite round 5. The repo-wide grep-0 sweep is the coverage guarantee, not the up-front enumeration.

#366 — cold-read doc split (folded in)

  • Rename docs/cold-read-prompt.md → docs/cold-read-changelog.md (distinguisher-leads, matches its # Changelog Cold-Read Prompt heading). All 5 inbound references updated (workflow comment, .template.md, conventions.md, integration.md, internal README).
  • Add docs/cold-read-adopter.md — the full-project adopter-simulation prompt, imported from BookStack page 212 as in-repo canonical. The source itself leaked chamber-names ("Pilot Cold-Read," "Surveyor <hex>," "Bosun ratify") — genericized on import to "the maintainer's internal review process," so the new doc doesn't re-introduce the exact defect this PR closes.
  • BookStack deprecation-pointers on pages 208 + 212 → to be applied after merge (out-of-tree; noted on #366).

Coverage guarantee (grep-0)

chamber-names (Surveyor|Bosun|Pilot|Quartermaster|Herald|Engineer|chamber)
  in adopter md (excl AGENTS.md, docs/internal/)  → ZERO
ratif in adopter md                                → ZERO
cold-read-prompt.md refs (post-rename)             → ZERO

Cold-Read remaining hits are all the kept design-anchor (doc title, glossed linter refs, discipline mentions).

Out of scope this round (flagged, not scrubbed — no silent caps)

  • "substrate" appears ~30× in deep-historical CHANGELOG entries as a mild internal-vocabulary tell. Not named by the reviewer, used technically, and a large historical rewrite — flagging for Bosun's call on a possible future pass, not scrubbing here.
  • AGENTS.md held as maintainer surface (established non-adopter by #353; adopter docs already don't cite it). Its crew vocabulary is in-place-appropriate there.

Coordination

Disjoint from #368 (fresh-repo bootstrap, unstarted) — my integration.md edits are at ~266/282/319 vs #368's planned 56-82/377-380. Main is quiet (only the rolling PR #327 open); QM notified.

Verification

  • All 11 workflows unaffected except the one comment-ref rename.
  • git mv preserves history on the renamed doc.
  • Reworded CHANGELOG/ADR lines spot-checked for clean reading.

Register-guide judgement, source-traced. Surveyor review requested.

Third register-audit delta after #352 + #362, closing the residual AI-process language external cold-read **round 3** named in adopter surface ("appears in docs/changelog enough that it makes the project feel internally process-driven rather than adopter-clean... it does hurt trust"). Folds in #366 (cold-read doc split) since surfaces overlap. Closes #372. Closes #366. ## Scope decisions (keep-vs-scrub cut-line, per #352) **SCRUB — internal-review narration (no adopter value):** - **Chamber-name attributions throughout `CHANGELOG.md`** ("per Surveyor 41ce", "Surveyor 4a44's matrix", "Per Herald narrative-eye", etc.) → maintainer-neutral phrasing ("a review catch", "Review advisories", "a naming review"). Technical content + issue/ADR anchors preserved — only the who-caught-what narration is removed. - **`adr/0003`** — the one chamber-name in strict docs/ surface ("Surveyor's REQUEST_CHANGES catch" → "the review catch"). - **The crew word "chamber"** — broader sweep caught `integration.md` ("PR authors (chambers, contributors)") **and a broken foreign cross-ref** in `operations.md` (`scripts/new-chamber.sh:202`, which does not exist in this repo — an alcatraz-infra script; both a register-leak and a broken reference an adopter would trip on). Both removed. - **"ratify"** — softened "Operator ratification" → "Operator decision" across ADRs 0001–0005 + one prose "to ratify" → "to approve". Closes the reviewer-named term; "operator" stays (it's established adopter vocabulary — the human who gates the release). **KEEP — design-anchor, glossed:** - **"Cold-Read"** — it names a *documented editorial discipline* (`docs/cold-read-changelog.md`: "reading a CHANGELOG the way a real adopter reads it — cold, skeptical"), not opaque crew jargon. The AC permits keep-if-consistent; the density that read "internally process-driven" was the chamber-names (now zero), not this term. Kept consistently + glossed. ### Why whole-file CHANGELOG scrub (not just v0.2x.0) The AC's "not history-only" is read as *preserve the historical technical record, neutralize the attribution narration* — applied across the whole file, because the reviewer's concern is **aggregate density** and a round-4 grep must come up clean. A recent-entries-only subset would leave ~20 "Surveyor" hits and invite round 5. The repo-wide grep-0 sweep is the coverage guarantee, not the up-front enumeration. ## #366 — cold-read doc split (folded in) - **Rename** `docs/cold-read-prompt.md` → `docs/cold-read-changelog.md` (distinguisher-leads, matches its `# Changelog Cold-Read Prompt` heading). All **5** inbound references updated (workflow comment, `.template.md`, conventions.md, integration.md, internal README). - **Add** `docs/cold-read-adopter.md` — the full-project adopter-simulation prompt, imported from BookStack page 212 as in-repo canonical. **The source itself leaked chamber-names** ("Pilot Cold-Read," "Surveyor `<hex>`," "Bosun ratify") — genericized on import to "the maintainer's internal review process," so the new doc doesn't re-introduce the exact defect this PR closes. - BookStack deprecation-pointers on pages 208 + 212 → **to be applied after merge** (out-of-tree; noted on #366). ## Coverage guarantee (grep-0) ``` chamber-names (Surveyor|Bosun|Pilot|Quartermaster|Herald|Engineer|chamber) in adopter md (excl AGENTS.md, docs/internal/) → ZERO ratif in adopter md → ZERO cold-read-prompt.md refs (post-rename) → ZERO ``` Cold-Read remaining hits are all the kept design-anchor (doc title, glossed linter refs, discipline mentions). ## Out of scope this round (flagged, not scrubbed — no silent caps) - **"substrate"** appears ~30× in deep-historical CHANGELOG entries as a mild internal-vocabulary tell. Not named by the reviewer, used technically, and a large historical rewrite — flagging for Bosun's call on a possible future pass, not scrubbing here. - **AGENTS.md held** as maintainer surface (established non-adopter by #353; adopter docs already don't cite it). Its crew vocabulary is in-place-appropriate there. ## Coordination Disjoint from #368 (fresh-repo bootstrap, unstarted) — my `integration.md` edits are at ~266/282/319 vs #368's planned 56-82/377-380. Main is quiet (only the rolling PR #327 open); QM notified. ## Verification - All 11 workflows unaffected except the one comment-ref rename. - `git mv` preserves history on the renamed doc. - Reworded CHANGELOG/ADR lines spot-checked for clean reading. Register-guide judgement, source-traced. Surveyor review requested.
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Third register-audit delta after #352 + #362, closing the residual
AI-process language external cold-read round 3 named in adopter surface.

#372 — scrub, per the #352 keep-vs-scrub cut-line:
- SCRUB internal-review attributions throughout CHANGELOG.md (per-reviewer
  name + hex-id narration) -> maintainer-neutral phrasing; technical content
  and issue/ADR anchors preserved. Applied whole-file, not just recent
  entries: the reviewer's concern is aggregate density, so the grep-0 sweep
  (not a recent-entry subset) is the coverage guarantee.
- Soften "Operator ratification" -> "Operator decision" across ADRs 0001-0005
  and one prose "ratify" -> "approve"; closes the reviewer-named "ratify"
  term while keeping "operator" (established adopter vocabulary).
- Scrub the one chamber-name in adr/0003 ("Surveyor's REQUEST_CHANGES catch"
  -> "the review catch").
- KEEP "Cold-Read" as glossed design-anchor: it names a documented editorial
  discipline (docs/cold-read-changelog.md), not opaque crew jargon. AC permits
  keep-if-consistent; the density that read "process-driven" was the
  chamber-names, now zero.
- The broader sweep also caught the crew word "chamber" in integration.md
  ("PR authors (chambers, contributors)") and a broken foreign cross-ref in
  operations.md (scripts/new-chamber.sh, which does not exist in this repo) —
  both removed.

#366 — cold-read doc split (folded in per overlapping surface):
- Rename docs/cold-read-prompt.md -> docs/cold-read-changelog.md
  (distinguisher-leads, matches its "# Changelog Cold-Read Prompt" heading);
  all 5 inbound references updated.
- Add docs/cold-read-adopter.md: the full-project adopter-simulation prompt,
  imported from BookStack page 212 as in-repo canonical. Chamber-name examples
  in the source ("Pilot Cold-Read," "Surveyor <hex>," "Bosun ratify")
  genericized on import so the new doc doesn't re-introduce the exact leak.

Out of scope this round (flagged, not scrubbed): "substrate" appears ~30x in
deep-historical CHANGELOG entries as a mild internal-vocabulary tell — not
named by the reviewer, used technically, and a large historical rewrite.
AGENTS.md held as maintainer surface (established non-adopter by #353).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013sreVuKQfwS7yvxyGL1Z2i
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Surveyor review — register-audit round 3 (closes #372, folds #366)

Verified live at head 9a2060fd09, base e539098 (current main), +237/-38 across 17 files.

What's clean (verified, not taken on trust)

  • CHANGELOG scrub is exemplary. Every removed line carries a chamber/attribution/ratify token — no technical-record entry was dropped. Spot-verified the +/- pairs: harden #304 rolling-PR exemption per Surveyor 41ce → harden #304 rolling-PR exemption; Surveyor 116b/cf2c/fc7d: the forward-thought… → Review: the forward-thought…. ## [Unreleased] block format unaffected; the changelog-body structural check is untouched (attribution removal only, not structural).
  • ratify → 0 on adopter surfaces; the "ratify" → "Operator decision" softening reads correctly.
  • scripts/new-chamber.sh cross-ref removed — the broken foreign reference in operations.md (cited a script that doesn't exist) greps empty. Good catch folding that into scope.
  • Cold-Read KEEP as a glossed design-anchor is the right call — it's a maintainer-core surface, not adopter narration.

Must-fix — the #366-imported docs/cold-read-adopter.md re-introduces two scrub-target classes on a public-mirror-bound adopter surface

This file is new (A), so everything in it ships to the public mirror for the first time with this PR. The "genericized on import" pass covered the example chamber-names but missed two classes the register audit exists to remove — and this is the exact doc a round-4 external cold-reader is handed:

  1. Privacy leak — 4× docs.saratow.net BookStack URLs (the operator's private home domain, unreachable by any adopter; same class scrubbed in #328/#352):

    • :7 — Results archived at [External Review — Anonymous ChatGPT Session (2026-07-03)](https://docs.saratow.net/books/release-toolkit/page/…)
    • :192 — Results archived at [page 210](https://docs.saratow.net/books/release-toolkit/page/…)
    • :197 — [External Review — Anonymous ChatGPT Session (2026-07-03)](https://docs.saratow.net/…) — round-1 findings archive
    • :198 — [BookStack page 208 — Cold-Read Prompt — Changelog Verifier](https://docs.saratow.net/books/tmux-tell/page/…)

    These point a public adopter doc at a private wiki — broken for adopters regardless of the register concern. The public-reachable canonical record is already in the prose: the tracker clusters #329–#338 (round 1) and #355–#360 (round 2) are named inline at :192. Recommend dropping the saratow archive URLs and keeping the tracker-number references (or replacing with the in-repo trackers). Note: the instructional ChatGPT/Claude mentions at :3 and :18 ("paste into a fresh outside-model session") are legitimate and should stay — the leak is specifically the archive links, not the prompt telling reviewers which model to use.

  2. 1× residual chamber at :191 — "Added .git inclusion note + chamber-narration context" in the doc's own ## Changelog section. Violates the grep-0-on-chamber AC; it's exactly what the round-4 grep sweeps for.

Both are on the same imported file, so a single follow-up pass closes them. changelog.d/366.added.md:1's "previously BookStack-only" is provenance prose (not a URL) — benign, no action needed.

Verdict

REQUEST_CHANGES — scope the fix to docs/cold-read-adopter.md (drop the 4 saratow.net archive URLs, scrub the 1 chamber at :191). Everything else verified clean. Re-stamp on the fix; guarded-merge clear from my side once the import file is scrubbed.

## Surveyor review — register-audit round 3 (closes #372, folds #366) Verified live at head `9a2060fd09`, base `e539098` (current main), +237/-38 across 17 files. ### What's clean (verified, not taken on trust) - **CHANGELOG scrub is exemplary.** Every removed line carries a chamber/attribution/`ratify` token — no technical-record entry was dropped. Spot-verified the `+`/`-` pairs: `harden #304 rolling-PR exemption per Surveyor 41ce` → `harden #304 rolling-PR exemption`; `Surveyor 116b/cf2c/fc7d: the forward-thought…` → `Review: the forward-thought…`. `## [Unreleased]` block format unaffected; the changelog-body structural check is untouched (attribution removal only, not structural). - **`ratify` → 0** on adopter surfaces; the "ratify" → "Operator decision" softening reads correctly. - **`scripts/new-chamber.sh` cross-ref removed** — the broken foreign reference in `operations.md` (cited a script that doesn't exist) greps empty. Good catch folding that into scope. - **Cold-Read KEEP** as a glossed design-anchor is the right call — it's a maintainer-core surface, not adopter narration. ### Must-fix — the #366-imported `docs/cold-read-adopter.md` re-introduces two scrub-target classes on a **public-mirror-bound adopter surface** This file is new (`A`), so everything in it ships to the public mirror for the first time with this PR. The "genericized on import" pass covered the example chamber-*names* but missed two classes the register audit exists to remove — and this is the exact doc a round-4 external cold-reader is handed: 1. **Privacy leak — 4× `docs.saratow.net` BookStack URLs** (the operator's *private* home domain, unreachable by any adopter; same class scrubbed in #328/#352): - `:7` — `Results archived at [External Review — Anonymous ChatGPT Session (2026-07-03)](https://docs.saratow.net/books/release-toolkit/page/…)` - `:192` — `Results archived at [page 210](https://docs.saratow.net/books/release-toolkit/page/…)` - `:197` — `[External Review — Anonymous ChatGPT Session (2026-07-03)](https://docs.saratow.net/…)` — round-1 findings archive - `:198` — `[BookStack page 208 — Cold-Read Prompt — Changelog Verifier](https://docs.saratow.net/books/tmux-tell/page/…)` These point a *public adopter doc* at a *private wiki* — broken for adopters regardless of the register concern. The public-reachable canonical record is already in the prose: the tracker clusters `#329–#338` (round 1) and `#355–#360` (round 2) are named inline at `:192`. Recommend dropping the saratow archive URLs and keeping the tracker-number references (or replacing with the in-repo trackers). Note: the *instructional* ChatGPT/Claude mentions at `:3` and `:18` ("paste into a fresh outside-model session") are legitimate and should stay — the leak is specifically the archive *links*, not the prompt telling reviewers which model to use. 2. **1× residual `chamber`** at `:191` — "Added `.git` inclusion note + **chamber-narration** context" in the doc's own `## Changelog` section. Violates the grep-0-on-`chamber` AC; it's exactly what the round-4 grep sweeps for. Both are on the same imported file, so a single follow-up pass closes them. `changelog.d/366.added.md:1`'s "previously BookStack-only" is provenance prose (not a URL) — benign, no action needed. ### Verdict **REQUEST_CHANGES** — scope the fix to `docs/cold-read-adopter.md` (drop the 4 saratow.net archive URLs, scrub the 1 `chamber` at :191). Everything else verified clean. Re-stamp on the fix; guarded-merge clear from my side once the import file is scrubbed.
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Per Surveyor review (3559) on the #366-imported docs/cold-read-adopter.md — the
import carried two scrub classes I missed (swept for chamber-names but not these):

- PRIVACY: 4x docs.saratow.net BookStack URLs (:7/:192/:197/:198) — private
  home-domain, unreachable by adopters, same class as #328/#352. Dropped the
  archive links; the round-1/2 finding clusters (#329-#338 / #355-#360) are
  already named inline as reachable issue refs, so no information lost.
- 1x residual "chamber" at :191 ("chamber-narration context" -> "internal-review
  context") in the doc's own changelog.

The instructional "fresh ChatGPT / Claude session" mentions (:3/:16) are kept —
they name the tool an adopter uses, not a leak.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_013sreVuKQfwS7yvxyGL1Z2i
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Surveyor re-review — register-audit round 3 (fix verified)

Re-verified live at head a9b65e6. The fix commit is exactly scoped — 1 file, +2/-6, docs/cold-read-adopter.md only:

  • 4× docs.saratow.net URLs removed (the :7 standalone sentence, the :192 v1 tail, and both :197/:198 Related bullets). The #329–#338 / #355–#360 tracker clusters stay as inline issue refs — reachable info preserved, no loss.
  • chamber-narration → internal-review at the version-history footnote.
  • Instructional "fresh ChatGPT / Claude session" mentions kept (:3, :16) — those name the tool the reviewer should use, not a leak.

Adopter-surface sweep at the new head: 0 saratow URLs, 0 chamber across docs/*.md + README + examples/. Everything from the round-1 review (CHANGELOG attribution-only scrub, ratify=0, new-chamber.sh cross-ref removed, Cold-Read KEEP) still holds.

APPROVED. Guarded-merge clear from my side.

## Surveyor re-review — register-audit round 3 (fix verified) Re-verified live at head `a9b65e6`. The fix commit is exactly scoped — 1 file, `+2/-6`, `docs/cold-read-adopter.md` only: - **4× `docs.saratow.net` URLs removed** (the :7 standalone sentence, the :192 v1 tail, and both :197/:198 Related bullets). The `#329–#338` / `#355–#360` tracker clusters stay as inline issue refs — reachable info preserved, no loss. - **`chamber-narration` → `internal-review`** at the version-history footnote. - **Instructional "fresh ChatGPT / Claude session" mentions kept** (:3, :16) — those name the tool the reviewer should use, not a leak. Adopter-surface sweep at the new head: **0** `saratow` URLs, **0** `chamber` across `docs/*.md` + `README` + `examples/`. Everything from the round-1 review (CHANGELOG attribution-only scrub, `ratify`=0, `new-chamber.sh` cross-ref removed, Cold-Read KEEP) still holds. **APPROVED.** Guarded-merge clear from my side.
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