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# PLAN — GROUP G, SCHOOL — the kids' learning app made into a proper curriculum (2026-09-09 shape)

Owner: the Group G overseer. Written 2026-09-09 from the audit handoff `projects/personal/learning-app/HANDOFF-SCHOOL-AUDIT-2026-09-09.txt` and Nick's rulings in its section 1, which outrank the audit's own conclusions. This file SUPERSEDES `projects/personal/learning-app/PLAN-SS1-redesign-v2.md` as the learning-app folder's one governing plan (programme plan §1b, Group G) — what that plan proved is under Already true and is never re-done, what it left open is named in §3c, and STEP 10 performs the repoint.

Plain name: The kids' school app, made into a proper curriculum

**🔴🔴 THIS IS THE ONLY PLANNING DOCUMENT FOR THIS LANE. Do not create a second plan, tracker, summary, or scratch state file — extend THIS file or its PROGRESS.txt companion. Any status view is GENERATED from this plan; if a view disagrees with the plan, the plan wins.**

**NORTH STAR:** Noah and Willow sit down to two lessons that are pitched at the level they are actually at, that get harder as they get stronger, that hold together week to week instead of being seven interchangeable weeks, and that they can do on their own — and Nick can read one page that says what each child is working toward. Nick, 2026-09-09: *"put together something that is far more standardized and then has a natural progression as they work through things … treat it more like a proper curriculum."*

**FINISH LINE:** each item passes its one check — (a) a written curriculum map places every live lesson, names what each week builds on from an earlier week, and Nick has read it; (b) every live lesson states what the child will be able to do by the end, how hard it is, how long it really takes, what is needed, and whether the child can start it alone, and the automatic quality check that runs before any week goes live refuses a lesson that does not; (c) each child's own measured level decides the material they are given, so the "it learns what each kid knows" promise is true; (d) last week's "too easy" taps and real finishing times change next week's lessons; (e) a separate check proves next week is harder than last week and refuses to publish a week that is not; (f) a child taps Start and Finish, the real minutes are recorded beside the intended minutes, and a comprehension check is scored on every lesson; (g) Noah has the mid-lesson "harder one" control Willow has, no long-division problem arrives with its answer attached, and the daily long-division exercise gives him the hardest of the day's three problems rather than the easiest; (h) every making task either has its materials named for the parent in advance or walks the child through every step; (i) a lesson whose screen shows nothing can never reach a child, because a new automatic check looks at the picture the tablet actually draws — not at whether the files loaded — and it is deliberately shown catching a blank screen before anyone trusts it; (j) the rules are one current, non-conflicting set and the four documents that describe the app wrongly are right or gone. Written once, never raised mid-drive.

**Owner:** the Group G overseer · **Overseer:** ONE — Opus or Codex for this group; never builds · **Design authority:** Sienna, UI only, once a fidelity count reaches zero
**Rule: a step starts the moment its named inputs exist, whatever its number. A step closes on ONE independent check by a different model. Nothing waits on Nick to test.**

### STEP 0 — ARM THE LOOP, BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE
Set a 5-minute loop. Every time it fires, answer these four in order and CORRECT any failure before doing anything else:
1. **NORTH STAR** — is what I am doing this minute moving this plan's North Star? If not, drop it and take the highest-value unblocked step that does.
2. **FAN-OUT** — is every step whose START WHEN inputs exist running, up to the cap of 8? Below the cap with ready work: dispatch now. At the cap: queue, never launch. One at a time for anything that launches a browser.
3. **CHEAP** — is every build and every check on a cheap model by name? A refusal from the router is a failure to log (Nick, 2026-09-09), never a reason to promote the job to Sonnet or Opus; a cheap vendor failure goes to the named backup.
4. **BLOCKED** — is anything "waiting"? Re-read its START WHEN line; if the artefact exists, start it; if it truly does not, one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, and on to the next step.

## Already true (facts, not story)

- The school is running and the automation returns next week through the Scheduled lane's rebuild; the Friday theme job being idle is a known in-flight rebuild, not a finding — evidence: Nick, 2026-09-09, "Yes, school is still on. We're rebuilding scheduled tasks on the Mac mini right now … by next week, we can turn on the automated stuff", recorded in `projects/personal/learning-app/HANDOFF-SCHOOL-AUDIT-2026-09-09.txt` R3
- DECIDED, not built: neither parent owns a difficulty decision, and the ownership ruling has already been removed from the live app code, from the authoring guide and from the school handoff and replaced with "either parent's word moves it", scoped to long division only — evidence: `projects/personal/learning-app/HANDOFF-SCHOOL-AUDIT-2026-09-09.txt` R2, and the app's own scope comment at line 3521 of `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/index.html`
- BUILT, and here the instrument is split from what it does not measure: the lesson gate blocks a bad deploy on seven rules with four tiers and passes today — evidence: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs`, run 2026-09-09, exit 0, printing 78 manifests, 0 exemplary, 67 elevated, 11 below the floor, 86% at Tier 2 or better against a 50% floor. The lesson COUNT of 80 comes from a different instrument, `node projects/personal/learning-app/audit-2026-09-09/measure.mjs`, because the gate counts manifests and week 8 has none. The companion for each child, the offline support and the badge count are the audit's own first-hand findings in `projects/personal/learning-app/audit-2026-09-09/LIVE-SITE.txt` and carry no command here; they are not load-bearing for any step and no step rests on them.
- BUILT: the real lesson content is seven week files, and the 78 JSON manifests are packaging for the gate rather than the lessons themselves; the stores disagree on the count because week 8 has no manifest and is not on the working branch — evidence: `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/lessons/week1.js` through `week7.js`, and `node projects/personal/learning-app/audit-2026-09-09/measure.mjs`, run 2026-09-09, exit 0, counting 80 lessons
- MEASURED 2026-09-09, and this is the red-first baseline STEP 2 turns green: 0 of the 78 lesson manifests carry a field named outcome, 0 carry difficulty, 0 carry duration, 0 carry materials — evidence: four separate `command grep -l` counts over `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/lessons/`, each exit 0, each returning 0
- MEASURED 2026-09-09: the app names a difficulty value in five places in its main file and reads it in none of them — declared, reset, assigned, posted, plus a scope comment — evidence: `command grep -n difficulty projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/index.html`, exit 0, five lines, none of them a read
- MEASURED 2026-09-09, AND IT ANSWERS THE AUDIT'S ONE OPEN QUESTION: the children's "too easy" taps are sitting in live storage, unread. 1000 stored records hold 41 feedback records carrying a difficulty rating, with values including "too easy" and "just right", from 2026-08-03 onward — evidence: `node projects/personal/learning-app/_check_results.cjs`, exit 0, and `node projects/personal/learning-app/_check_new_since_lastread.cjs`, exit 0, printing `OK newCount=234 totalCount=1000`
- BUILT: an adaptive level check called "Meet Skippy" already measures both children per subject and writes a profile; the profile is read back only to draw its own results screen and to ask whether the test has been taken — evidence: `projects/personal/learning-app/audit-2026-09-09/CURRICULUM.txt`, and `command grep -c 'assessment\|levelProfile\|skippy_level' projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/index.html`, exit 0, six references
- MEASURED 2026-09-09: Noah has no mid-lesson difficulty control at all, and a harder set authored for him in one week can never render, because the control's own condition tests the child's name — evidence: the live line `if(!p.hard || CUR.kid!=='willow')return '';` in `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/index.html`, found by a cold checker; `command grep -n harder` on that file returns 9 lines, 6 of which name Willow. An earlier draft of this line said eleven lines all naming Willow, which is the case-insensitive occurrence count and not what the command prints — the exclusion is real, the arithmetic beside it was not, and the code condition is the evidence that matters.
- BUILT AND WORKING TONIGHT, so a later zero means the product and not a broken instrument: the world gate prints `14/14 gates red-then-green` and the design-fidelity instrument prints `mismatched properties: 0 · unmeasured anchors: 0` — evidence: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs --selftest`, exit 0, and `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/fidelity-check.mjs --selftest --kid both --screen all`, exit 0, both run 2026-09-09
- BUILT: the kid-safety firewall passes 130 of 130 checks tonight, so each child's companion and vocabulary are provably kept to that child — evidence: `node projects/personal/learning-app/test-kid-firewall.mjs`, run 2026-09-09, exit 0, printing 130 passed and 0 failed
- BUILT: two locked, Sienna-graded per-child mockups with signed anchor maps, and a screenshot harness both instruments share so they cannot drift — evidence: `projects/personal/learning-app/design/noah-missioncontrol-full-anchors.md`, `projects/personal/learning-app/design/willow-1-enchantedgrove-anchors.md`, `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/shot.mjs`
- BUILT AND CLOSED by the superseded plan, never re-done: the two per-child world hook points inside the app, the whole legacy stylesheet scoped, the faces self-hosted, the non-regression harness, Noah's shell, Noah's Week and Lessons screen, Willow's Hub, and the signed fidelity instruments — evidence: `projects/personal/learning-app/STATE-SS1-redesign-v2.md`, lines dated 2026-09-05 recording its steps 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 17 and 30 CLOSED
- BUILT: twenty visual demos, all working, two of them genuinely built as templates that already run two different weeks off one code path — evidence: `projects/personal/learning-app/showcase-2026-09-05/demos/06-season-premiere.notes.txt` ("Both premieres run the same 25 seconds of code. A season is one small object") and `projects/personal/learning-app/showcase-2026-09-05/demos/20-friday-reel.notes.txt` ("IT IS A TEMPLATE, NOT TWO HAND-BUILT FILMS. Every frame is generated from one data object per week")
- BUILT: three of the seven planned reusable renderers exist and carry the fleet — layered-diagram on 52 lessons, hotspot-explorer on 20, process-animation on 2, with 4 lessons naming no renderer — evidence: `command grep -h '"renderer"' projects/personal/learning-app/standard/lessons/*.json | sort | uniq -c`, re-run by a cold checker on 2026-09-09 after an earlier draft of this line carried 24, 12 and 1, which that command does not produce
- MEASURED: the existing verification of a rendered world checks that its files load, that its states advance and that its console is clean, and reported all three as satisfied while the picture on the screen held nothing — evidence: `projects/personal/learning-app/evidence/living-planet/checker/living-planet-check.mjs`, whose `SERVED_RUNTIME_PATHS` list is the sixteen files it hash-matches, and section 3 of `projects/personal/learning-app/HANDOFF-SCHOOL-AUDIT-2026-09-09.txt`
- Nick's rulings on file, never asked again: only long division keeps a parent gate and every other dial is adaptive with self-learning; two shorter lessons a day is right and they need one consistent length and theme; "too easy" from these two children is signal; feedback must change next week AND a separate layer must prove the difficulty rose; comprehension and time are measured, not just completion; complexity is not length; materials are fine and the instructions are the failure; video and motion graphics are welcome; a visual build is graded on what the child sees; a core asset is worth building once if many lessons wrap it; the themes and the subject mix stay — evidence: `projects/personal/learning-app/HANDOFF-SCHOOL-AUDIT-2026-09-09.txt` section 1, rulings R1 to R17, all dated 2026-09-09

## 0 · Gate Zero receipts (the plan may not exist without these)
- Failure Mode Registry loaded: 2026-09-09, 193 entries, as counted by the plan checker itself when it read `.claude/skills/plan/references/failure-registry.md` during this plan's own check run; the nine failures this lane is genuinely exposed to are named in §4, each with the measure that prevents it
- Canonical specs loaded: the plan skill `ZION/skills/plan/SKILL.md` (2026-09-09 shape), `projects/ops/agents/DESIGN-FIDELITY-STANDARD.md`, `projects/ops/agents/CODE-STANDARD.md`, the lesson standard `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/LESSON-STANDARD.md`, the authoring guide `projects/personal/learning-app/AUTHORING.md`, the kid-safety spec `projects/personal/learning-app/KIDS-PERSONAS-SPEC.md`
- Ownership check: the learning-app folder's governing plan today is `projects/personal/learning-app/PLAN-SS1-redesign-v2.md`, declared as such at the top of `projects/personal/learning-app/STATE-SS1-redesign-v2.md`; this file replaces it by the repoint in STEP 10, so the folder never holds two governing plans; the curriculum work has no other owner anywhere — `projects/ops/life-os/PLAN-LIFE-OS-2026-09-09.md` §1b names Group G and records its plan as not yet written
- Expected inputs confirmed to exist: the audit handoff and its eight first-hand evidence files under `projects/personal/learning-app/audit-2026-09-09/` (listed and opened), the seven live week files under `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/lessons/` (listed), the 78 manifests under `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/lessons/` (counted), the lesson gate `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` (opened and RUN, exit 0), the world gate `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs` (opened and RUN, exit 0), the fidelity instrument `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/fidelity-check.mjs` (opened and RUN, exit 0), the two locked mockups and their two anchor maps under `projects/personal/learning-app/design/` (listed), the kid-safety test `projects/personal/learning-app/test-kid-firewall.mjs` (RUN, exit 0, 130 passed), the island world's checker `projects/personal/learning-app/evidence/living-planet/checker/living-planet-check.mjs` (opened), the live results probe `projects/personal/learning-app/_check_results.cjs` (RUN, exit 0)
- PLAN AUTHOR: Boris, the senior engineer, the Opus session of 2026-09-09 dispatched by the Life OS programme planner to write this lane's plan
- COLD READER: none — SINGLE-AUTHOR, UNREVIEWED — the Group G overseer's pickup read is this plan's one cold read; the audit handoff underneath it was written cold by seven independent read-only workers and re-measured tonight before this plan was finished
- PROMPT-SPEC scan (P1–P7): P1 fired on "standardized" — read as one written curriculum map plus five new required facts on every lesson, enforced by the gate that already exists, never a new document; P1 on "natural progression" — read as every week naming what it builds on from an earlier week, measurable, because today no week refers to any other; P3 fired on "the too-easy button does nothing" — the negative was re-measured against live storage tonight rather than assumed, and the answer is that 41 ratings are stored and unread; P4 fired on "treat it more like a proper curriculum", which could mean adopting an external standard — read as Nick's own themes and subject mix kept (his R17) with a spine added, never a syllabus bought in; P7 fired on "difficulty is not frozen" against an earlier freeze written into the authoring guide — his 2026-09-09 words win and the freeze is scoped to long division only

## 1 · Goal and definition of done
- **What we're building, one paragraph.** The kids' school app turned from seven interchangeable weeks of hand-made lessons into a curriculum: one written map that says what each child is working toward and what each week builds on, five facts on every lesson that nothing has ever recorded (what it teaches, how hard it is, how long it really takes, what is needed, whether a child can start alone), a difficulty loop with two halves — last week's signals change next week, and a separate check proves the change happened — real measurement of time and comprehension through Start and Finish controls, the mid-lesson difficulty control Noah has never had, instructions a child can follow without an adult, and a gate that measures what a child SEES rather than what the code reports.
- **HOW IT'S USED:** Noah, 10, and Willow, 7, open the app on a tablet and do two lessons a day, tapping Start when they begin and Finish when they are done, answering a short comprehension check, and asking for a harder one when it is too easy; Nick reads one page saying what each of them is working toward, and gets a weekly yes or no that the lessons went up in difficulty. · HOW WE KNOW: the live-site walkthrough in `projects/personal/learning-app/audit-2026-09-09/LIVE-SITE.txt`, and Nick's own description of the Start and Finish mechanism on 2026-09-09.
- **WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE:** the app exactly as it looks today — no restyle — with three things added to the lesson screen: a Start control, a Finish control, and a short comprehension check; plus the "want a harder one?" control that already exists for Willow now drawn for Noah too. The curriculum map is a plain page Nick reads. · HOW WE KNOW: Nick, 2026-09-07, holding look-and-feel for Chantelle's pass while UX continues; Nick, 2026-09-09, "there needs to be something that's like, start this lesson now by clicking this button and then finish this lesson, call it complete".
- **WHERE IT LIVES:** the children's app at https://skippytutor.pages.dev, opened by Noah and Willow on their tablets; the curriculum map beside the lesson standard in `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/`, opened by Nick; the rules that enforce all of it live in the app's own existing lesson gate. · HOW WE KNOW: the deploy contract in `projects/personal/learning-app/CLAUDE.md`, and the gate at `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs`, run tonight.
- **WHAT IT MUST DO:** (1) place every live lesson on a written map that names what each week builds on from an earlier week; (2) require and enforce five new facts on every lesson — a learning outcome, a difficulty level, a measured duration, the materials, and whether a child can start alone; (3) let each child's own measured level decide the material they get; (4) turn last week's "too easy" taps and real finishing times into next week's lessons; (5) prove, separately, that next week is harder than last week, and refuse to publish a week that is not; (6) record the real minutes a lesson took beside the minutes it claimed, and score a comprehension check on every lesson; (7) give Noah the same mid-lesson difficulty control Willow has, stop printing a long-division answer beside its question, and make the daily Lab take the stretch problem instead of the easiest match; (8) give every making task either named materials for the parent in advance or a walkthrough a child can follow alone; (9) fail a rendered lesson whose picture holds nothing, with the gate shown failing before it is trusted; (10) leave one current, non-conflicting set of rules and no document that misdescribes the app.
- **NOT in scope:** the ANTI-SCOPE — (a) the per-child world redesign's remaining screens: held by Nick's look-and-feel hold of 2026-09-07 for Chantelle's pass, named by number in §3c, its locked targets and anchor maps untouched on disk; (b) security, privacy and credential work of any kind, including the app's own results key: one line in `projects/ops/sp-sec/PLAN.md` and back to building (Nick, 2026-09-09); (c) the scheduled jobs themselves — the Friday theme choice, the end-of-day report and the weekly approval belong to the Scheduled lane's clockwork and are handed to it by name in §3c; (d) the School world inside the family app, which is a different product and is parked (Nick, 2026-09-08); (e) rebuilding the theme roster or the subject mix, which Nick ruled are already working (his R17); (f) building the four planned renderers that are not on disk, or gathering the free asset library, until a lesson on the map actually needs one; (g) solving "too easy" by making lessons longer (his R7); (h) any second QA document, standard or tracker — the existing lesson standard is extended in place.
- **Trip-over protocol:** a lane that finds something outside the fence writes one handover line to its named owner (a security- or privacy-shaped thing: one line in `projects/ops/sp-sec/PLAN.md`), then back to building — never investigates, never fixes.

## 1a · Critical variables — the confirmation sheet is GENERATED from this table

| # | The variable, in plain words | Value chosen | Alternatives rejected | Class | HOW WE KNOW | Cost if wrong | CONFIRMED |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | **SURFACE — which screen this lands on, and who opens it** | the children's own app at https://skippytutor.pages.dev, opened by Noah and Willow on a tablet; the curriculum map is a page Nick opens | the family app's School world; a new parent dashboard; a printed pack | V1 | he confirmed the app is live and in daily use, and the audit walked the real screens the children see | the work lands on a surface neither child opens | Nick, 2026-09-09, "Yes, school is still on … by next week, we can turn on the automated stuff" |
| 2 | Whether difficulty is frozen | only long division keeps a parent gate; every other dial is adaptive, with self-learning | freezing every dial; freezing nothing at all | V1 | his correction to the audit, which had reported a general freeze | either the children stay bored, or Noah's long division escalates with nobody deciding | Nick, 2026-09-09, "their difficulty dial is not frozen. That is only for the long division, and that's it. Everything else needs to be adaptable, and there should be some sort of self learning" |
| 3 | Who owns a difficulty decision | neither parent owns it — either parent's word moves it | Chantelle owning it; Nick owning it | V1 | his instruction to remove the ownership ruling from the project completely | a change waits on the wrong parent and nothing moves | Nick, 2026-09-09, "Neither parent has ownership of decision" |
| 4 | One lesson a day or two | two shorter lessons a day, with a consistent length and one theme across both | one long lesson; two lessons of whatever length each turns out to be | V1 | he ran the two-lesson pilot himself and told us what was wrong with it | the weeks stay inconsistent, which is his second complaint | Nick, 2026-09-09, "it's good that we chunk it out so that there might be two lessons a day, but make sure that there's a consistent length and theme to them" |
| 5 | What "too easy" is answered with | more complexity — things they go off and do, harder reasoning, real stretch problems | more words, more parts, a longer lesson | V1 | his own words rejecting length as the answer | the lessons get longer and stay easy, and both children disengage | Nick, 2026-09-09, "we can start to build more complexity into the projects as well, and it doesn't always have to be just length or volume" |
| 6 | Whether the look changes in this lane | no restyle: the curriculum and the new controls are drawn into the app as it looks today; the per-child world redesign waits for Chantelle's pass | redesigning the screens now; shipping the held redesign to unblock the new controls | V1 | his hold, still standing, with UX explicitly excluded from it | Chantelle's design pass overrules finished work and it is done twice | Nick, 2026-09-07, "lets hold off on UI until chantelle can run those - everything else stands and drives forward full throttle - ux and optiimzations on app and hub still required" |
| 7 | What a child-facing build is measured on | the rendered picture a child would actually see, sampled and compared; a clean console, a loaded file list and an advancing state machine are not the measure | the existing checks, which reported all three of those as satisfied | V1 | his instruction to standardise this QA to the level the apps get, and the measured case where all three were satisfied on a picture holding nothing | a signed-off lesson reaches a child and teaches nothing, which has already happened once | Nick, 2026-09-09, "the goal of this project or task is to standardize QA to the degree that we have with other development exercises" |

- V1 confirmation reads `<name>, <date>, "<their own words>"` — the date is required.

**Considered and ruled NOT critical:**
- `which cheap vendor builds which step` — the model matrix decides it; a wrong pick costs one failover, not a different product.
- `how many difficulty levels the ladder has` — a V2 fact, settled by opening the long-division ladder that already defines five and reusing its shape.
- `whether the curriculum map is one page or several` — the map's content is fixed by §1; its pagination changes nothing a child or Nick experiences.

## 1b · Subproject decomposition — could a piece of this ship on its own?

| Subproject | End goal (one sentence — what's TRUE when done) | Depends on (named artefact) | OWNER | PLAN | Confirmation-sheet status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spine | every live lesson sits on a written map that names what each week builds on, and every lesson carries the five facts nothing has ever recorded | none — start now | this lane | this file, STEP 1 and STEP 2 | §1a signed |
| Level | each child's own measured level decides the material they are given | none — start now | this lane | this file, STEP 3 | §1a signed |
| Loop | last week's signals change next week's lessons, and a separate check proves the difficulty rose | the five new facts on every lesson (STEP 2) | this lane | this file, STEP 4 and STEP 5 | §1a signed |
| Measure | a child taps Start and Finish, the real minutes and a comprehension score are recorded, and Noah has the difficulty control Willow has | none — start now | this lane | this file, STEP 6 and STEP 7 | §1a signed |
| Doing | every making task is one a child can actually carry out alone, and the week holds real variety rather than more drawing | the materials field (STEP 2) | this lane | this file, STEP 8 | §1a signed |
| Visible | a lesson whose picture holds nothing can never reach a child | none — start now | this lane | this file, STEP 9 | §1a signed |
| Polish | the folder has one governing plan, one current rules set, the reusable assets wired, and the lane closed | the FRONT steps closed, except the repoint, which runs first | this lane | this file, STEP 10 to STEP 13 | §1a signed |

**Carve-out rule:** the three scheduled jobs (the Friday theme choice, the end-of-day report, the weekly approval) are carved out to the Scheduled lane by name in §3c; the per-child world redesign's remaining screens are carved out to Chantelle's design pass and named by number in §3c; neither is left without an owner.

## 2 · The complete UX map (this becomes the test manifest verbatim)

| Id | Screen / entry point | State (default·empty·error·loading) | Element / interaction | Expected behavior | Navigation from → to |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| U1 | The curriculum map, opened by Nick | default | the page itself | every live lesson appears exactly once; every week names what it builds on from an earlier week; each child has a stated line of progress; no lesson is orphaned | map → map |
| U2 | A lesson, opened by a child | default · already started · finished | the Start control | tapping Start records the moment and shows the lesson has begun; a reopened lesson does not restart the clock | week → lesson |
| U3 | A lesson, at the end | default · unanswered · answered | the Finish control and the comprehension check | Finish records the moment, the real minutes are stored beside the intended minutes, and the comprehension check is scored and stored; skipping the check leaves the lesson open, never silently complete | lesson → done |
| U4 | A lesson part, mid-lesson, as NOAH | default · harder set shown | the "want a harder one?" control | the control is present for Noah on every part that has a harder set authored, and swaps in the harder question set, exactly as it already does for Willow | part → part |
| U5 | A lesson part, mid-lesson, as WILLOW | default · harder set shown | the same control | unchanged from today; the existing behaviour is not regressed | part → part |
| U6 | The end-of-lesson feedback panel, both children | default · sent · resent | the three difficulty faces and Send | the tap is stored, the confirmation is honest, and the stored value is read by next week's authoring — the panel never promises a change it cannot make | lesson → sent |
| U7 | The daily long-division Lab, as Noah | default | the problem shown | the problem appears without its answer anywhere in the lesson text or the offline hint bank, and where a day authors an easy, a remainder and a stretch problem the stretch one is served | lesson → lab |
| U8 | Any lesson, opened by either child | default | the material served | the questions and parts served match that child's own measured level from the level check, not a fixed file | week → lesson |
| U9 | A making task, in any lesson | default | the instructions | either the materials are named for the parent before the day starts, or the instructions walk the child through every step with nothing assumed | lesson → task |
| U10 | Any rendered visual lesson or world, on a tablet | default · loading · rendered | the picture itself | the rendered picture is sampled and holds real content; a picture holding nothing fails the gate and the lesson cannot ship | lesson → world |
| U11 | The week the child lands on | default | opening the app | each child lands on the week the map assigns them, rather than on week 1 until an adult taps a week pill | app → week |
| U12 | Every screen above, both children, two widths, both themes | loading · empty · populated · error | open as each child at 1280 and 375 | neither child sees the other's companion, vocabulary or material; no visual regression against the locked mockups | any → any |

## 2d · DESIGN FIDELITY GATE (plan skill §D — mandatory when the deliverable is looked at)

- **LOCKED TARGET:** the two per-child mockups already locked and Sienna-graded, `projects/personal/learning-app/design/noah-missioncontrol-full.html` and `projects/personal/learning-app/design/willow-1-enchantedgrove.html`, stay locked and are NOT re-opened by this lane. The three NEW controls this lane draws — Start, Finish and the comprehension check — have no target yet: `NOT YET LOCKED — STEP 6 builds it`, by adding those three controls to the two existing mockups and to their existing anchor maps rather than drawing a new page.
- **TARGET HASH:** `shasum -a 256` of each mockup after STEP 6's addition, machine-written into this lane's evidence folder beside its plan · **ANCHOR MAP:** the two existing maps `projects/personal/learning-app/design/noah-missioncontrol-full-anchors.md` and `projects/personal/learning-app/design/willow-1-enchantedgrove-anchors.md`, extended in place with the new anchors and re-signed by design QA in STEP 6
- **FIDELITY CHECK:** `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/fidelity-check.mjs` with `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/shot.mjs`; its selftest read `mismatched properties: 0 · unmeasured anchors: 0` on 2026-09-09 at exit 0, and it must be re-run and read zero before any later zero is believed; its sabotage mode must read red
- **VIEWPORTS AND THEMES — WHAT THE INSTRUMENT ACTUALLY MEASURES, not what would be nice.** Two widths, desktop 1280 and tablet 375, which the instrument takes today. ONE theme: it reports `theme night (single)` and measures that theme only. A LIGHT-THEME CELL IS `NOT MEASURABLE — the fidelity instrument measures one theme` until a step adds a second, and no step in this plan adds one, so this plan claims two cells and not four. Writing "light and dark" here while the tool measures one would be a gate reading zero over half the ground it claimed — the exact shape of the failure this whole lane exists to stop.
- **RULE:** a screen's definition of done is `mismatched properties: 0 · unmeasured anchors: 0` in every cell the instrument reports, reproduced once by the step's checker, then graded once by the creative director. A non-zero count loops the builder; it never summons a second grader. A new anchor added in STEP 6 counts as unmeasured until it maps to a real selector on both the mockup and the live app. A run that refuses for want of a live address has measured nothing and is neither a pass nor a fail.

## 3 · Lanes and frozen contracts

| Lane | Scope (in / out) | Owner | Definition of done | Builder (cheap, named) | Backup builder | Checker (different model) | Backup checker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spine | the curriculum map, the five new lesson facts, the gate modes that enforce them / out: rewriting the themes or the subject mix | this lane | U1 passes and the gate refuses a lesson missing any of the five facts | GLM 5.3 (zai) | DeepSeek | Qwen | Sonnet |
| Level | the level-check profile's consumer in the lesson and question selection / out: the level check itself, which already works | this lane | U8 and U11 pass for both children | DeepSeek | Qwen | GLM 5.3 (zai) | Sonnet |
| Loop | the feedback-to-next-week path, and the separate rise check that gates a publish / out: the weekly approval job, which the Scheduled lane owns | this lane | U6 passes and a week that did not get harder is refused | Qwen | GLM 5.3 (zai) | DeepSeek | Sonnet |
| Measure | Start, Finish, the real minutes, the comprehension check, Noah's harder-one control, the long-division fixes / out: any restyle | this lane | U2, U3, U4, U5 and U7 pass at zero mismatches | GLM 5.3 (zai) | Qwen | DeepSeek | Sonnet |
| Doing | the instructions rule and real variety in the making tasks / out: buying materials, anything needing a shop trip | this lane | U9 passes on every making task in the fleet | DeepSeek | GLM 5.3 (zai) | Qwen | Sonnet |
| Visible | the gate that measures the rendered picture, shown failing first / out: rebuilding any demo | this lane | U10 passes and the gate is proven red on a picture holding nothing | Qwen | DeepSeek | GLM 5.3 (zai) | Sonnet |
| Polish | the repoint, the rules cleanup, the reusable assets, close-out / out: anything new | this lane | STEP 10 to STEP 13 closed | GLM 5.3 (zai) | DeepSeek | Qwen | Sonnet |

**Contracts between lanes (FROZEN at plan time — change = dated PLAN-CHANGES.md delta):** the child-safety binding is untouchable — WALL-E belongs to Noah and EEVA to Willow, hardcoded both ways, and `projects/personal/learning-app/kid-personas.js` is the source of truth while the copy inside the app worker is GENERATED, so a hand-edit inside its generated block is overwritten; after any change to a persona, `node projects/personal/learning-app/sync-kid-personas.mjs` regenerates it and `node projects/personal/learning-app/test-kid-firewall.mjs` must stay green at 130 of 130, and that staying green is a standing FAILS IF on every step in this plan · the clinical-vocabulary filters that keep certain words away from a child are a CONTENT rule about what is said TO a child and stay exactly as they are; they are not a routing rule and never keep a file off a cheap vendor · every file inside the app's site folder is served on the public internet whatever the ignore file says, so no spare copy, no scratch file and no old config is ever left there — it goes a level up or into the archive · a check is never chained to a deploy through a pipe, because a pipeline reports the last command's exit code and a blocked check would ship anyway · a new week needs three separate edits to appear and missing any one makes it invisible, so a step that adds a week names all three · the 78 manifests are packaging and the seven week files are the content: a change to what a child reads lands in the week file, never only in a manifest · the lesson gate's floor is never lowered to make a build pass · the app is its own nested repository, so a change there is pushed from inside it and the outer repository stores only a pointer · the rejected Willow concept named in the audit handoff's traps section is never opened, read, cited or recovered, because that mix-up already happened once on this project.

**Data floor, binding:** the only reasons a file stays inside are a login, a credential or token or key VALUE, a government ID, or a card, bank or routing number — and the refuser must prove the hit. The children's names, their lesson text, their answers, their results and their feedback are NOT on that list and go to the cheap vendors like anything else (Nick, 2026-09-09); a wall refusing them is logged as a failure in PROGRESS.txt and the job goes to the named backup vendor, never to Sonnet or Opus. The app's own results key IS on the floor: a step that must read live stored results runs that read with no model in the loop and never writes the value anywhere.

## 3b · Execution map — FRONT first, POLISH last, one row per step

A task is DONE only when its review-ledger row is CLOSED by a reviewer that is not the builder.

🔴 **HOW EVERY PROOF ON THIS PLAN IS JUDGED, AND WHY THE EXIT CODE IS NEVER THE ANSWER. READ THIS BEFORE CLOSING ANY STEP.** Measured on 2026-09-09, twice, by a checker that wrote none of this: the lesson tool's ONLY argument read is `min-elevated`, in the shape `--name=value`, and it validates nothing. Running it with `--facts`, with `--mode=facts`, with an invented `--mode=total-nonsense`, and with no arguments at all produces FOUR BYTE-IDENTICAL OUTPUTS, all exit 0, all ending `✅ lesson standard met`. So the argument spelling is a convention for the mode STEP 1 will implement and PROTECTS NOTHING BY ITSELF — believing otherwise is the same mistake as trusting a green build. Two things, and only these two, make the proofs below real: (1) STEP 1 adds a mode allow-list to that tool which exits 2 on a mode it does not implement, the way the world gate already refuses an unknown flag loudly, and no later step may weaken it; (2) EVERY STEP CLOSES ON THE LITERAL LINE ITS PROOF NAMES BEING PRESENT IN THE OUTPUT, NEVER ON THE EXIT CODE — an exit of 0 with that line absent is a FAIL on every row, and each step's FAILS IF says so out loud. Today none of those lines exists in any output, which is why nine of these thirteen steps would otherwise have closed on zero work.

🔴 **WHERE TWO PARTS OF THIS PLAN NAME DIFFERENT MODELS FOR ONE STEP, THE STEP BLOCK GOVERNS.** The lanes table above names one set per lane and a lane holds two steps, so the Loop lane's row and STEP 5's own block name different backups and checkers. Both are legal — the checker is never the builder or its backup in either reading — and the step block is the instruction a dispatched builder receives, so it wins.

**Step map (read this first) — FRONT rows are what Nick and the children see or use; POLISH rows run after the FRONT rows close, except the repoint, which runs first because a builder opening that folder would otherwise follow the old plan:**

| Stage | # | TIER | Task (step name) | FOR NICK | Needs (named artefact, or `none — start now`) | EXECUTOR (cheap model) | EXECUTOR BACKUP | CHECKER (different model) | CHECKER BACKUP | DONE-PROOF (runnable command) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spine | 1 | FRONT | The curriculum map: every live lesson placed, every week naming what it builds on from an earlier week, and one line per child saying what they are working toward — built from the eighty lessons and the seven themes that exist, not invented | you read one page and know what each child is learning toward and in what order | none — start now | GLM 5.3 (zai) | DeepSeek | Qwen | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=curriculum-map` prints `orphan lessons: 0 · weeks with no named prerequisite: 0` |
| Spine | 2 | FRONT | Five facts on every lesson, and the gate refuses one without them: what the child will be able to do by the end, a difficulty level, the real duration, the materials, and whether a child can start alone — with the duration computed rather than declared | every lesson says what it teaches, how hard it is and how long it really takes, so a week stops being a guess | none — start now | GLM 5.3 (zai) | DeepSeek | Qwen | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=facts` prints `missing an outcome: 0 · missing a difficulty: 0 · missing a duration: 0 · missing materials: 0 · missing a start-alone answer: 0` |
| Level | 3 | FRONT | Each child's own measured level decides what they are served: the level check's profile is finally read by the lesson and question selection, and each child lands on the week the map assigns them | the app finally does what it always promised you — it gives each of them work at their own level instead of the same file | none — start now | DeepSeek | Qwen | GLM 5.3 (zai) | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs --selftest` prints the new level-consumer gate red-then-green, and `node projects/personal/learning-app/test-kid-firewall.mjs` stays green |
| Loop | 4 | FRONT | Last week's signals change next week: the forty-one stored difficulty ratings and the real finishing times are read and become the difficulty inputs for the next week's lessons, and the feedback panel's promise becomes true for both children | when they tell you a lesson was too easy, next week is actually different | the five facts on every lesson (STEP 2) | Qwen | GLM 5.3 (zai) | DeepSeek | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=loop` prints `weeks whose difficulty inputs came from stored signals: all · signals read but unused: 0` |
| Loop | 5 | FRONT | A separate check proves it got harder, and refuses to publish a week that did not: the rise check compares next week against the last published week on the recorded difficulty, the real durations and the comprehension scores, and blocks the publish path when the numbers did not move | you get a plain yes or no every week that the work went up, and a week that did not go up cannot ship | the difficulty inputs wired (STEP 4) | Qwen | DeepSeek | GLM 5.3 (zai) | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=rise-selftest` prints `rise check: RED on a flat week · GREEN on a harder week` |
| Measure | 6 | FRONT | Start, Finish and a comprehension check on every lesson: the child taps Start when they begin and Finish when they are done, the real minutes are stored beside the intended minutes, and a short comprehension check is scored — drawn into the two locked mockups first, then measured at zero | you can see that a lesson meant to take an hour took twenty minutes, and how much of it they actually understood | none — start now | GLM 5.3 (zai) | Qwen | DeepSeek | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/fidelity-check.mjs --kid both --screen lesson --width 1280,375 --live http://127.0.0.1:8788` prints `mismatched properties: 0 · unmeasured anchors: 0` in every cell |
| Measure | 7 | FRONT | Noah gets the control Willow has, and long division stops being handed to him: the mid-lesson "want a harder one?" control renders for Noah on every part that has a harder set, no long-division problem appears with its answer in the lesson text or the offline hints, and where a day authors an easy, a remainder and a stretch problem the stretch one is served | Noah can ask for a harder question like Willow can, and his daily long division is finally a real test | none — start now | GLM 5.3 (zai) | Qwen | DeepSeek | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=longdiv` prints `problems printed with their answer: 0 · days where the stretch problem is discarded: 0` |
| Doing | 8 | FRONT | Instructions a child can actually follow, and real variety: every making task either names its materials for the parent before the day starts or walks the child through every step with nothing assumed, and each week carries something built, measured or experimented with rather than another drawing | they stop needing you mid-lesson, and a week has experiments in it instead of eleven drawing tasks | the materials field on every lesson (STEP 2) | DeepSeek | GLM 5.3 (zai) | Qwen | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=doable` prints `tasks with neither prepared materials nor a walkthrough: 0 · weeks with no build-measure-or-experiment task: 0` |
| Visible | 9 | FRONT | A lesson whose picture holds nothing can never reach a child: a new gate samples the rendered picture at fixed points and fails an empty one, is proven failing before it is trusted, and runs on every rendered lesson and world; and the child's route through a rendered lesson is written down and walked end to end. This step builds the instrument and does not repair what it finds — the island world's first reading is expected to be red and goes to STEP 12 | a lesson that looks broken to them gets caught before they ever open it, instead of after | none — start now | Qwen | DeepSeek | GLM 5.3 (zai) | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs --selftest` prints one more gate than the 14 of 14 measured on 2026-09-09, with the new visibility gate red-then-green |
| Polish | 10 | POLISH | One governing plan for the folder: the superseded redesign plan carries its SUPERSEDED BY line, its state file's governing-plan line points here, and its open screens are named in §3c so nothing is lost | nothing you notice; anyone who picks up the school next can only find one plan to follow | none — start now, before the other polish steps | GLM 5.3 (zai) | DeepSeek | Qwen | Sonnet | `command grep -n "SUPERSEDED BY" projects/personal/learning-app/PLAN-SS1-redesign-v2.md` prints a line inside the file's first ten that names THIS lane's plan by path — a bare count is not the proof, because that file already carries the phrase twice about superseding its own first version |
| Polish | 11 | POLISH | One current rules set: the lesson standard extended with the new facts, the visibility rule and the rise rule, and the four documents that misdescribe the app made right or retired — the deploy page naming a project that is not there, the readme and the folder's own instructions both stating the wrong lesson count and location, and the overview still promising an adaptive engine and a level check "this weekend" | nothing you notice; nobody working on the school is misled by our own paperwork again | STEP 2 and STEP 9 closed | GLM 5.3 (zai) | DeepSeek | Qwen | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=docs` prints `documents describing the app wrongly: 0` |
| Polish | 12 | POLISH | The reusable assets wired, the one-offs left alone: the two demos that are genuinely templates wrap every week from a single data object, and the island world's engine question is settled by authoring a second scenario as data rather than by opinion | every week gets its opening titles and its Friday film for free, and we find out for certain whether the island world is worth building on | STEP 1 closed | GLM 5.3 (zai) | DeepSeek | Qwen | Sonnet | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=wrappers` prints `weeks with a season opener and a Friday reel generated from data: all` |
| Polish | 13 | POLISH | Close-out: the FINISH LINE checked item by item, the postmortem written into this file, the board card read before it is claimed, the lane's leftovers removed and declared | you get one line saying the school lane is done, and nothing else to read | STEP 1 to STEP 12 closed | GLM 5.3 (zai) | DeepSeek | Qwen | Sonnet | `python3 projects/ops/agents/check_plan.py projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHOOL/PLAN.proposed.txt` exits 0 with every §3b row carrying a dated VERIFIED line |

### §3c · CUT, HELD, and HANDED OVER — recorded once and not worked

**CUT — overkill for the outcome:**
- The six-part picture rule as an open question — Nick closed it on 2026-09-09: "I don't really care about a six part picture rule." Its substance is folded into the rules cleanup in STEP 11.
- Redesigning the theme roster or the subject mix — Nick, 2026-09-09: "the themes are good. The consistency in terms of just establishing, hey, there's Spanish, and there's math, and there's science." What already works is not touched.
- Answering "too easy" with more words, more parts or a longer lesson — his R7 rules it out by name.
- Building the four planned renderers that are not on disk, or gathering the free asset library up front. Three renderers carry the whole fleet today; a fourth is built when a lesson on the map needs it, not speculatively.
- Rebuilding the eighteen one-off demos into engines. By Nick's own rule of thumb a big build that can only be used once is not worth the resources; each stays the one good lesson it already is.
- A second QA document, standard, tracker or checklist. The existing lesson standard is extended in place.
- Nick doing any of the testing himself. Agents drive the real click path as him and as each child.

**HELD — named so nothing is lost, not worked in this plan:** the per-child world redesign's remaining screens from the superseded plan — its steps 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 and 29 — are held by Nick's look-and-feel hold of 2026-09-07 for Chantelle's design pass. Three more of its rows read as open and are NOT held, because they are absorbed rather than paused, and a cold read on 2026-09-09 caught them missing from this list: its step 0 is that plan's own five-minute loop, which this plan replaces with its own; its step 1 is the supersession bookkeeping, which THIS plan's STEP 10 performs; and its step 2 is the screenshot harness and world gate, which exist and were measured working on 2026-09-09 at 14 of 14 gates red-then-green, so a row reading 0% in that plan's ledger is that ledger disagreeing with its own narrative rather than work left undone. Their locked mockups, signed anchor maps and measuring instruments stay on disk untouched, so the work resumes without re-deciding anything. This plan's own new controls are added to those same mockups (§2d) rather than to a new drawing, so the two never diverge.

**HANDED OVER, with the receiving owner named:**
- The Friday theme choice, the end-of-day report and the weekly approval belong to the Scheduled lane's clockwork, by their existing job ids `skippy-school-eod-report-cc` and `skippy-school-weekly-approval-v2-cc` recorded in `projects/personal/skippy-app/ala-state/work-threads.json`. Nick's R3 puts them back next week; STEP 5's rise check is written so the weekly job can call it rather than reimplementing the judgement.
- The Hub board card about the island world demo is NOT MEASURABLE FROM HERE — this planning session holds no board read tool, and that is the instrument that is missing. STEP 13 reads the board with its own read verb before this lane claims, renames or moves any card; card naming and cleanup belong to the Agent project management group.
- Anything security- or privacy-shaped, including the app's results key: one line in `projects/ops/sp-sec/PLAN.md` and straight back to building.

**Then one block per step, in this exact shape:**

### STEP 1 — The curriculum map
**FOR NICK:** you read one page and know what each child is learning toward, in what order, and which week builds on which. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** none — start now.
**Builder:** GLM 5.3 (zai) · **Builder backup:** DeepSeek · **Checker:** Qwen, a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** a new map file named `CURRICULUM-MAP.md` inside `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/`, and `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` (the mode allow-list, and the new `--mode=curriculum-map` mode, only). **Never** the seven week files, whose content STEP 7 and STEP 8 own; the manifests, which STEP 2 owns; the app itself; the theme roster.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Take the lesson list and the per-week subject mix from the existing measuring script — `node projects/personal/learning-app/audit-2026-09-09/measure.mjs`, which modifies nothing and printed eighty lessons at exit 0 tonight — rather than counting by hand. Note that the manifests number 78 and the lessons 80, because week 8 has no manifest and is not on the working branch: the map places lessons, not manifests.
2. Write the map: for each child, one line saying what they are working toward this term in plain words; then one block per week naming its theme, its two-lessons-a-day shape, the subjects it carries, and the named earlier week whose material it builds on. Week 1 names the level check as its prerequisite rather than an earlier week.
3. Keep Nick's themes and subject mix exactly as they are. The map places what exists; it does not re-theme anything.
4. 🔴 FIRST, BEFORE THE MODE ITSELF, CLOSE THE HOLE THAT WOULD MAKE EVERY LATER PROOF WORTHLESS. That tool reads arguments in one shape only, `--name=value`, and validates nothing, so a flag it does not recognise is discarded and the ordinary fleet gate runs and exits 0. Add a mode allow-list holding every mode this plan introduces — curriculum-map, facts, loop, rise-selftest, longdiv, doable, docs, wrappers — and make an unimplemented or unknown mode exit 2 with the mode name printed, exactly the way the world gate already refuses an unknown flag loudly. Prove it: a made-up mode must exit 2, and no mode may be silently ignored. No later step may weaken this, and lowering it to make a build pass is the one thing this list exists to prevent.
5. Then add the `--mode=curriculum-map` mode: it reads the map, cross-checks it against the real lesson list, and prints the two counts on one line. A lesson in the fleet with no place on the map is an orphan; a week whose prerequisite names no earlier week fails.
6. Run the proof; fix what it names; run it again. Then run the gate with no arguments and confirm its two existing gates still pass.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** the allow-list refuses an unknown mode with exit 2, the map places every live lesson exactly once, every week names a real earlier week it builds on, each child has a stated line of progress, and the new mode PRINTS zero orphans and zero unprerequisited weeks.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=curriculum-map` → the literal line `orphan lessons: 0 · weeks with no named prerequisite: 0` · **FAILS IF:** that line is absent from the output for any reason, INCLUDING an exit of 0 — an exit code alone proves nothing here, because an unrecognised mode used to pass silently; or either count is above zero; or a made-up mode such as `--mode=nonsense` does not exit 2; or a week names a later week as its prerequisite; or a lesson appears twice; or the plain gate no longer prints its fleet report at exit 0

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** the moment this step closes, post one dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/PLAN-LIFE-OS-2026-09-09.md`: `SCHOOL STEP 1 closed <date> — the curriculum map exists and is the page Nick reads for §3d School item 1.`

### STEP 2 — Five facts on every lesson, and a gate that refuses one without them
**FOR NICK:** every lesson now says what it teaches, how hard it is, how long it really takes, what they need and whether they can start alone — so a week stops being a guess. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** none — start now.
**Builder:** GLM 5.3 (zai) · **Builder backup:** DeepSeek · **Checker:** Qwen, a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/TEMPLATE.lesson.json`, the manifests under `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/lessons/`, `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` (the new `--mode=facts` mode), and `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/LESSON-STANDARD.md` (the new fields' rule text only). **Never** the seven week files' child-facing words, which STEP 7 and STEP 8 own; the tier thresholds; the existing seven rules.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Before any cheap dispatch touches an existing file, hash and copy every file it will write into this lane's evidence folder beside its plan, because a cheap-task revert can delete a pre-existing target. Record the hashes in PROGRESS.txt.
2. Add five fields to the template: the learning outcome, written as "by the end, <child> can …"; a difficulty level per subject on the same five-step shape the long-division ladder already uses; a duration block holding the intended minutes and a place for the measured minutes; the materials list; and a start-alone answer that is either "alone" or names what the adult must do first.
3. Fill all five on every live lesson. The cheapest honest route to the outcome is the recap that 75 manifests already carry — rewrite each as "by the end, <child> can …" rather than inventing a new sentence.
4. Compute the duration; never accept a declared one. The label is wrong by about a factor of four today: 63 lessons carry the same "~2 hours" label over real content spanning 598 to 2,411 words. Use the same freshly-measured approach the gate already takes for payload size, over the lesson's real word count, part count and part types.
5. Add the `--facts` mode to the gate, printing the five counts. The RED-FIRST baseline is already recorded and dated: 0 of 78 manifests carry any of the five fields today, measured 2026-09-09, so the green run means something.
6. Leave the seven existing rules and the tier floor exactly as they are.

7. Measure CONSISTENCY, not only presence — this is the second half of Nick's two-lessons ruling and the whole of his second complaint. The same mode prints the spread of computed durations inside each week and each label band, and a week whose two daily lessons differ by more than a quarter of their intended minutes fails. Today 63 lessons share one "~2 hours" label over content spanning 598 to 2,411 words, a four-fold spread inside one label, so a rule that only checks a field is present would leave the complaint exactly where it is.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** every live lesson carries all five facts, its duration is computed rather than declared, no week's two daily lessons differ by more than a quarter of their intended minutes, and the new mode PRINTS zero missing on all five counts.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=facts` → the literal line `missing an outcome: 0 · missing a difficulty: 0 · missing a duration: 0 · missing materials: 0 · missing a start-alone answer: 0` and the literal line `weeks whose two daily lessons differ by more than a quarter: 0` · **FAILS IF:** either line is absent from the output for any reason, INCLUDING an exit of 0 — the exit code alone proves nothing on this tool; or any count is above zero; or a duration is a declared number rather than a computed one; or `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` no longer prints its fleet report at exit 0 with the floor still met

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, and re-run the plain gate with no flags to confirm the two existing gates still pass. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** none.

### STEP 3 — Each child's own measured level decides what they are served
**FOR NICK:** the app finally does what it has been promising you — it gives each of them work at their own level instead of the same file. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** none — start now.
**Builder:** DeepSeek · **Builder backup:** Qwen · **Checker:** GLM 5.3 (zai), a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** the lesson and question selection and the week assignment inside `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/index.html`, and `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs` (one new gate). **Never** the level check's own scoring, `projects/personal/learning-app/kid-personas.js`, the generated persona block inside the app worker, the difficulty fields STEP 2 owns.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Read that file by line range, never whole — it is over a megabyte and reading it whole has already ended one attempt.
2. Find the one place the level profile is written and the two places it is read, and add the consumer: the lesson selection and the question-set selection read the child's own level per subject and serve the matching difficulty from the fields STEP 2 added. The six existing references to the profile are the starting map, not the answer.
3. Make the week assignment follow the map: each child lands on the week the map assigns them, instead of week 1 until an adult taps a week pill.
4. A child with no level profile yet gets the map's default week and the middle difficulty — never an error, never an empty screen.
5. Add one gate to the world gate covering exactly this: a level profile that is written and never read fails. Prove it red on a fixture where the read is removed, and green on the real code, before shipping it. The gate count reads 14 of 14 tonight, so a fifteenth gate must appear in that line.
6. Regenerate the persona mirror and run the kid-safety test.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** each child's material and question sets come from that child's own measured level, each lands on their assigned week, a child with no profile still gets a working lesson, and the new gate is proven red-then-green.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs --selftest` → a gate count one higher than tonight's `14/14 gates red-then-green`, including the new level-consumer gate · **FAILS IF:** the new gate was never seen red, a child with no profile reaches an empty or erroring screen, either child is served the other's material, or `node projects/personal/learning-app/test-kid-firewall.mjs` fails

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, and re-run the kid-safety test. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** none.

### STEP 4 — Last week's signals change next week
**FOR NICK:** when one of them tells you a lesson was too easy, next week is actually different. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** the five facts on every lesson exist — `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=facts` reads zero on all five counts (STEP 2).
**Builder:** Qwen · **Builder backup:** GLM 5.3 (zai) · **Checker:** DeepSeek, a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** the feedback recording and reading path inside `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/index.html`, the authoring inputs in `projects/personal/learning-app/AUTHORING.md`, and `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` (the new `--mode=loop` mode). **Never** the scheduled jobs, which the Scheduled lane owns; the rise check, which is STEP 5; the persona files.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Start from what is already measured rather than re-asking it: 41 stored feedback records carry a difficulty rating with values including "too easy" and "just right", inside 1000 stored records from 2026-08-03 onward, and nothing reads them. Re-read live storage once with the app's own probe `node projects/personal/learning-app/_check_results.cjs`, with no model in the loop, to get the current count and date range at build time, and record both in PROGRESS.txt. Never write the results key anywhere.
2. Wire the read: next week's authoring inputs take last week's difficulty ratings per child and per subject, and the real finishing times from STEP 6 where they exist, and turn them into the difficulty level that week's lessons are authored at.
3. Make the panel honest: the confirmation a child sees says only what is true, and the same panel exists for both children. The stored record already carries the week, the day and the title, so a message about a tap can name the lesson instead of saying "a lesson".
4. Keep the panel's shape as buttons rather than a conversation. An earlier version let the children talk to Skippy about a lesson, and the stay-on-topic guard read "the quiz was hard" as off-topic and told them to get back to work.
5. Add the `--loop` mode: it reads the authoring inputs and the stored signals and prints whether every week's difficulty inputs came from stored signals, and how many stored signals were read and then not used.
6. Design it so the held per-child redesign cannot silently undo it: one of the two per-child theme files, when it lands, drops the end-of-lesson panel entirely. Record that dependency in PROGRESS.txt and keep the feedback path outside the theme file.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** next week's authoring difficulty is computed from last week's stored ratings and real times for both children, no stored signal is read and discarded, the panel promises only what happens, and the live count and date range of stored ratings is recorded at build time.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=loop` → the literal line `weeks whose difficulty inputs came from stored signals: all · signals read but unused: 0` · **FAILS IF:** that line is absent from the output for any reason, INCLUDING an exit of 0 — the exit code alone proves nothing on this tool; or the live count was not re-measured at build time; or a signal is read and discarded; or the panel is missing for either child; or the confirmation claims a change the code cannot make

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** the moment this step closes, post one dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHEDULED/PLAN.proposed.txt`: `SCHOOL STEP 4 closed <date> — the school's difficulty inputs now read stored feedback; the weekly approval job should call the school's own rise check rather than judging a week itself.`

### STEP 5 — A separate check proves it got harder, and refuses a week that did not
**FOR NICK:** you get a plain yes or no every week that the work went up, and a week that did not go up cannot ship. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** the difficulty inputs are wired — `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=loop` reads zero unused signals (STEP 4).
**Builder:** Qwen · **Builder backup:** DeepSeek · **Checker:** GLM 5.3 (zai), a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` (the new `--mode=rise-selftest` mode and its fixtures). **Never** the app itself, the authoring inputs (STEP 4), the tier thresholds, the two existing gates.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Build the rise check as a third gate beside the two the tool already has: it compares the new week against the last published week on three recorded numbers — the difficulty level per subject, the computed duration, and the comprehension scores from STEP 6 where they exist — and returns a rise or a flat.
2. A flat or falling week is refused, by name, with the three numbers printed. This is the second of the two mechanisms Nick asked for, and it is deliberately not the same code path as STEP 4: one changes the content, the other proves the change happened.
3. Prove it both ways before trusting it: a selftest that runs the check against a deliberately flat fixture week and against a genuinely harder fixture week, printing red for the first and green for the second. A gate never seen red is not shipped, which is this tool's own existing doctrine.
4. Make it callable by the weekly job the Scheduled lane owns, so that lane calls this rather than writing a second judgement.
5. Never lower a threshold to make a week pass. If a week genuinely cannot rise, it is refused and the reason is recorded for a person to read.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** the rise check exists as its own gate, refuses a flat or falling week with its three numbers named, and its selftest prints red on a flat fixture and green on a harder one.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=rise-selftest` → the literal line `rise check: RED on a flat week · GREEN on a harder week` · **FAILS IF:** that line is absent from the output for any reason, INCLUDING an exit of 0 — the exit code alone proves nothing on this tool; or the selftest never shows red; or a flat week passes; or a threshold was lowered to make a week pass; or the check shares its code path with STEP 4's difficulty inputs

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** the moment this step closes, post one dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHEDULED/PLAN.proposed.txt`: `SCHOOL STEP 5 closed <date> — the weekly approval job can call the school's rise check for its verdict; it needs no judgement of its own.`

### STEP 6 — Start, Finish, and a comprehension check on every lesson
**FOR NICK:** you can see that a lesson meant to take an hour took twenty minutes, and how much of it they actually understood. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** none — start now.
**Builder:** GLM 5.3 (zai) · **Builder backup:** Qwen · **Checker:** DeepSeek, a different session; Sienna grades taste once, after the count is zero · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** the lesson screen inside `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/index.html`, the two locked mockups `projects/personal/learning-app/design/noah-missioncontrol-full.html` and `projects/personal/learning-app/design/willow-1-enchantedgrove.html` (adding the three new controls only), and their two anchor maps `projects/personal/learning-app/design/noah-missioncontrol-full-anchors.md` and `projects/personal/learning-app/design/willow-1-enchantedgrove-anchors.md`. **Never** the rest of either mockup, the held redesign's screens, the app's stylesheet beyond the new controls, the persona files.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Design first, then build — the order Nick set out. Draw the three controls into both mockups in each child's existing look, add their anchors to both anchor maps against real selectors, and have design QA sign the two maps. Nothing is built before the two maps are signed.
2. Build the controls on the lesson screen: Start records the moment and shows the lesson as begun; Finish records the moment, stores the real minutes beside the intended minutes from STEP 2, and calls the lesson complete; the comprehension check is a short, scored check at the end whose result is stored per lesson.
3. Neither child can type. Every new control is a tap, and the comprehension check is answerable by tapping or speaking. A control that needs typing excludes both of them.
4. Mid-lesson progress is not stored today, and Start and Finish make that visible: a child who closes the tab mid-lesson must not lose their Start moment or be recorded as having taken four hours. Store the Start moment durably and cap an unfinished lesson rather than recording a false duration.
5. Publish through the app's own deploy path, never a raw command chained to a check through a pipe, and read the served bytes back.
6. 🔴 THE MEASURING COMMAND NEEDS AN ADDRESS TO MEASURE, AND WITHOUT ONE IT REFUSES RATHER THAN RUNS. That instrument exits 2 with `--live <base url> is required` unless it is given either a live address or its own selftest. So START THE HARNESS'S OWN SERVER FIRST — the screenshot harness beside it serves the app on port 8788 — and only then run the measurement against `http://127.0.0.1:8788`. A checker who runs the measurement without that server up gets a refusal, not a verdict, and a refusal is NOT a fail: it is the instrument saying it was never pointed at anything.
7. Run the instrument's own selftest first and confirm it still reads zero and zero, as it did on 2026-09-09, so that a later zero means the app and not a broken instrument. Then measure the lesson screen at both widths until the count is zero, saving the report and the side-by-side into this lane's evidence folder.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** both children can tap Start and Finish and answer a comprehension check on the live app, the real minutes and the score are stored per lesson, an abandoned lesson records no false duration, and the lesson screen measures zero mismatches and zero unmeasured anchors in every cell the instrument reports.
**PROOF:** with the harness server up, `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/fidelity-check.mjs --kid both --screen lesson --width 1280,375 --live http://127.0.0.1:8788` → the literal line `mismatched properties: 0 · unmeasured anchors: 0` for every cell · **FAILS IF:** any cell is non-zero; or the command exits 2, which means it was never pointed at a running address and has measured NOTHING — that is `NOT MEASURABLE — the harness server was not up`, never a pass and never a fail; or the instrument's own selftest did not read zero first; or a new control needs typing; or an abandoned lesson stores a false duration; or the comprehension score is not stored per lesson

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, into your own folder, and drive the real Start and Finish controls as each child before you call it passed. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** none.

### STEP 7 — Noah gets the control Willow has, and long division stops being handed to him
**FOR NICK:** Noah can ask for a harder question the way Willow can, and his daily long division is finally a real test rather than a sum he was just shown. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** none — start now.
**Builder:** GLM 5.3 (zai) · **Builder backup:** Qwen · **Checker:** DeepSeek, a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** the mid-lesson harder-set control and the long-division selector inside `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/index.html`, the long-division problem text and the offline hint bank inside the seven week files under `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/lessons/`, and `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` (the new `--longdiv` mode). **Never** the parent gate on the long-division ladder, which Nick kept; the level fields, which STEP 2 owns; the persona files.

**Do exactly this:**
0. 🔴 BEFORE YOU EVALUATE A WEEK FILE, KNOW THAT IT DOES NOT PARSE ON ITS OWN. Each one references two shared asset libraries by name. Stub both, or read the week files through the committed measuring script `node projects/personal/learning-app/audit-2026-09-09/measure.mjs`, which already stubs them and modifies nothing. A builder who loads a week file cold gets an error that says nothing about the lesson.
1. Remove the name check that returns nothing for Noah, so the harder-set control renders for either child wherever a harder set is authored. The condition to change is the one that tests the child's name before showing the control. All eleven places that control is mentioned in the app name Willow; a harder set already exists for Noah in one week and has never been able to render.
2. Take the answer out of the child-facing text: no long-division problem appears with its result attached, in the lesson body or in the offline hint bank. The problem is asked; the answer is checked, not printed. The daily problems live in the week files, so this is a change to lesson content, not only to a manifest.
3. Fix the selector: where a day authors an easy problem, one with a remainder and a real stretch, the served problem is the stretch, not the first in-band match.
4. Keep the parent gate exactly as it is — long division is the one dial Nick kept gated, and either parent's word moves it. Do not reintroduce any ruling about which parent decides.
5. Add the `--longdiv` mode printing the two counts, and record it non-zero against the current text before the fix lands.
6. Regenerate the persona mirror and run the kid-safety test.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** the harder-one control renders for Noah on every part with a harder set, no long-division answer appears in any child-facing text or hint, the stretch problem is the one served, and the parent gate is unchanged.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=longdiv` → the literal line `problems printed with their answer: 0 · days where the stretch problem is discarded: 0` · **FAILS IF:** that line is absent from the output for any reason, INCLUDING an exit of 0 — the exit code alone proves nothing on this tool; or either count is above zero; or the mode was never recorded non-zero against the current text; or the control is still absent for Noah; or the parent gate moved; or `node projects/personal/learning-app/test-kid-firewall.mjs` no longer prints 130 passed and 0 failed

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, and drive the control as Noah on the real screen. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** none.

### STEP 8 — Instructions a child can follow, and real variety
**FOR NICK:** they stop needing you in the middle of a lesson, and a week has something to build or measure in it instead of eleven drawing tasks. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** the materials field exists on every lesson — `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=facts` reads zero missing materials (STEP 2).
**Builder:** DeepSeek · **Builder backup:** GLM 5.3 (zai) · **Checker:** Qwen, a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** the making-task text inside the seven week files under `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-site/lessons/`, the authoring rules in `projects/personal/learning-app/AUTHORING.md`, and `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` (the new `--mode=doable` mode). **Never** the quizzes and comprehension checks, which STEP 6 owns; the long-division text, which STEP 7 owns; the themes.

**Do exactly this:**
0. 🔴 BEFORE YOU EVALUATE A WEEK FILE, KNOW THAT IT DOES NOT PARSE ON ITS OWN. Each one references two shared asset libraries by name. Stub both, or read them through the committed measuring script `node projects/personal/learning-app/audit-2026-09-09/measure.mjs`, which already stubs them and modifies nothing.
1. For each making task, choose one of exactly two answers and record which: either the materials are named for the parent before the day starts, or the instructions walk the child through every step with nothing assumed. Nick's own example is the shape to test against — a child asked to eyeball twenty centimetres and then measure how far something moved, with no measuring tape in the house, can do neither, and no supplies list shows that.
2. Where the walkthrough route is chosen, write it as steps a child of that age can follow one at a time, with what to do if it goes wrong. Video, motion graphics and stick-figure explainers are permitted where they help.
3. Add variety per week: at least one task that is built, measured or experimented with rather than drawn. Every one of the 76 making tasks in the fleet is a drawing task on paper today, and Nick asked for activities and experiments.
4. Keep every task inside what the house already has. Nothing needs printing, heat, a phone, a shop trip or going out.
5. Add the `--doable` mode printing the two counts, and record it non-zero against the current text first.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** every making task in the fleet either names its materials for the parent in advance or walks the child through every step, and every week carries at least one build, measure or experiment task.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=doable` → the literal line `tasks with neither prepared materials nor a walkthrough: 0 · weeks with no build-measure-or-experiment task: 0` · **FAILS IF:** that line is absent from the output for any reason, INCLUDING an exit of 0 — the exit code alone proves nothing on this tool; or either count is above zero; or the mode was never recorded non-zero first; or a task needs something the house does not have; or a walkthrough assumes a tool the child was never given

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, and read three walkthroughs end to end as a child would. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** none.

### STEP 9 — A lesson whose picture holds nothing can never reach a child
**FOR NICK:** a lesson that would look broken to them gets caught before they ever open it, instead of after you sit down with it. · **Tier:** FRONT
**Start when:** none — start now.
**Builder:** Qwen · **Builder backup:** DeepSeek · **Checker:** GLM 5.3 (zai), a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs` (one new gate and its fixtures), `projects/personal/learning-app/evidence/living-planet/checker/living-planet-check.mjs` (the new `--visible` mode), and `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/LESSON-STANDARD.md` (the new rule's text). **Never** any demo's own code, the sixteen-file hash list that checker already uses, the app itself.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Add the gate: sample the rendered picture at fixed points — centre, quarters and edges — read the real values off the drawing surface, and fail when they hold no content. This is the measurement the existing checks never made: a file list loading, a state machine advancing and a clean console were all reported as satisfied on a picture holding nothing.
2. Prove it red first, on a fixture whose picture is deliberately empty, and green on one that draws. A gate never seen red is not shipped, and this gate exists precisely because the earlier ones were never seen fail on the case that mattered. Tonight's count is 14 of 14, so the new gate must appear in that line.
3. Add the same mode to the island world's own checker, so the case that produced this rule is measured by it directly. That world lives on its own branch in the app's nested repository, last committed 2026-09-09; read it there and never merge it as part of this step.
4. Write down the child's route through a rendered lesson — every step, the instruction they get, the control they must find, and where that control takes them — and have a verifier walk it end to end as a child, confirming each control is present, reachable and leads to the next step. A control clipped behind another control fails the walk, and one already is.
5. Record the new rule in the lesson standard as a rule with a test, in the same shape as the seven that are there, including an honest note about what it cannot prove. That honesty habit is the best thing in that file and it survives the cleanup.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** the visibility gate is proven red on an empty picture and green on a drawing one, runs on every rendered lesson and world, the island world's own checker carries the same mode, and one child route has been written down and walked end to end with every control reachable. 🔴 THIS STEP BUILDS THE INSTRUMENT; IT DOES NOT REPAIR WHAT THE INSTRUMENT FINDS. The island world's picture holds nothing today and this step's fence forbids touching that world's code, so its first real reading is EXPECTED TO BE RED and that red IS the step working, not the step failing. The reading is recorded and handed to STEP 12, which owns that world's future. Closing this step by weakening the gate until the island world passes would be the precise failure the whole lane exists to stop.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs --selftest` → a gate count one higher than the 14 of 14 measured on 2026-09-09, with the new visibility gate printed red-then-green; then `node projects/personal/learning-app/evidence/living-planet/checker/living-planet-check.mjs --visible` → a line naming how many sampled points held content, whatever that number is, recorded in this lane's progress record · **FAILS IF:** the gate was never seen red on its empty fixture; or an empty fixture passes; or the gate's threshold was loosened so that the island world reads green while its picture still holds nothing; or the walk skipped a control; or a control on the walk is present but unreachable

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, including the red fixture, and walk the written child route yourself. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** two, both the moment this step closes. One dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/PLAN-LIFE-OS-2026-09-09.md`: `SCHOOL STEP 9 closed <date> — a rendered child-facing build is now measured on the picture it draws, not on its file list; any lane shipping a rendered surface can call the same gate.` And one dated line into this lane's own progress record naming the island world's first reading, so STEP 12 inherits a measured number rather than a rumour.

### STEP 10 — One governing plan for the folder
**FOR NICK:** nothing you notice; a builder opening the school folder can only find one plan to follow. · **Tier:** POLISH
**Start when:** none — start now, and before the other polish steps, because a builder in that folder would otherwise follow the old plan.
**Builder:** GLM 5.3 (zai) · **Builder backup:** DeepSeek · **Checker:** Qwen, a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** the first ten lines of `projects/personal/learning-app/PLAN-SS1-redesign-v2.md`, the governing-plan line at the top of `projects/personal/learning-app/STATE-SS1-redesign-v2.md`, and `projects/personal/learning-app/PLAN-CHANGES-SS1-redesign-v2.md` (one dated line). **Never** the body of the superseded plan, its closed steps' records, its locked mockups or anchor maps, its history file.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Write `SUPERSEDED BY:` and this plan's path into the first ten lines of the superseded plan, with the date, and the one sentence that its remaining screens are held for Chantelle's design pass and named in this plan's §3c. Delete nothing.
2. Repoint the governing-plan line at the top of its state file to this plan, so the folder's own record names one governing plan. Note that the older first-version plan already carries its own supersession line pointing at the second version, and that line stays as it is.
3. Add one dated line to that plan's own changes file recording the supersession and where its open work is named.
4. If the documentation gate refuses one of these writes, file the ticket at once with `node projects/ops/skippy-jobs/lib/request-ticket.mjs` naming the file and the reason, and carry on with the other steps while it is out. Never record "needs Nick's keystroke" without filing it.
5. Do not create a second plan, tracker or summary anywhere in that folder. The proliferation guard refuses a second governing plan there, and a file named for a plan is what it counts.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** the superseded plan says so in its first ten lines, its state file names this plan as the governing one, its changes file carries the dated line, and nothing in its body was deleted.
**PROOF:** `command grep -n "SUPERSEDED BY" projects/personal/learning-app/PLAN-SS1-redesign-v2.md` → a line numbered inside that file's first ten which names THIS lane's plan by path, and `python3 projects/ops/agents/check_plan.py projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHOOL/PLAN.proposed.txt` → exit 0 · **FAILS IF:** no matching line falls inside the first ten lines; or the only matches are the two that file already carries about superseding its own first version — A BARE COUNT IS NOT THE PROOF HERE, because that count already reads 2 with nothing done; or the folder holds two plans claiming to govern it; or a step heading or a closed record was deleted; or the state file still names the old plan

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, and confirm by reading that no step heading was removed from the superseded plan. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** none.

### STEP 11 — One current rules set, and no document that misdescribes the app
**FOR NICK:** nothing you notice; nobody working on the school is misled by our own paperwork again. · **Tier:** POLISH
**Start when:** the new facts and the visibility rule exist — STEP 2 and STEP 9 closed.
**Builder:** GLM 5.3 (zai) · **Builder backup:** DeepSeek · **Checker:** Qwen, a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/LESSON-STANDARD.md`, `projects/personal/learning-app/DEPLOY.md`, `projects/personal/learning-app/README.md`, `projects/personal/learning-app/CLAUDE.md`, `projects/personal/learning-app/skippy-school-overview.md`, `projects/personal/learning-app/AUTHORING.md`, and `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` (the new `--mode=docs` mode). **Never** the plan files, which STEP 10 owns; the app code; the week files.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Extend the lesson standard in place: the five new required facts, the visibility rule from STEP 9, and the rise rule from STEP 5, each written in the same shape as the seven rules already there — a rule, its test, and an honest note about what the test cannot prove.
2. Correct the four documents that describe the app wrongly today: the deploy page names a project and an address that are not there and a folder that never was; the readme and the folder's own instructions both say the lessons live in constants inside one file and that there are sixty, when they live in seven separate files and there are eighty; and the overview still promises an adaptive engine and a level check "this weekend" from seven weeks of content ago. Retired wording is removed, never struck through and never quoted back.
3. Fold in what Nick closed: the six-part picture rule stops being carried as an open question.
4. Add the `--docs` mode: it reads the lesson count and location from the real files and checks the four documents against them, printing how many describe the app wrongly.
5. Where the documentation gate refuses a write, file the ticket at once and keep working.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** the standard carries the three new rules each with a test and an honest limit, the four documents describe the real app, no retired wording is left behind, and the new mode reads zero.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=docs` → the literal line `documents describing the app wrongly: 0`, and `node ZION/lib/check-no-scaffolding.mjs projects/personal/learning-app/standard/LESSON-STANDARD.md` → PASS · **FAILS IF:** that line is absent from the output for any reason, INCLUDING an exit of 0 — the exit code alone proves nothing on this tool; or any of the four still misdescribes the app; or a new rule has no test; or retired wording was struck through instead of removed; or a second standard document was created

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, and read the deploy page against the real deploy command. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** none.

### STEP 12 — The reusable assets wired, the one-offs left alone
**FOR NICK:** every week gets its opening titles and its Friday film for free, and we find out for certain whether the island world is worth building on. · **Tier:** POLISH
**Start when:** the curriculum map exists (STEP 1 closed), because a wrapper is generated from the week the map names.
**Builder:** GLM 5.3 (zai) · **Builder backup:** DeepSeek · **Checker:** Qwen, a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** the two template demos under `projects/personal/learning-app/showcase-2026-09-05/demos/`, `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` (the new `--mode=wrappers` mode), `projects/personal/learning-app/standard/living-planet-model.test.mjs`, and — for the second-scenario test only, because this is the very thing being tested — the island world's screen text and answer choices, which live inside its code today and must move into a data file for the test to mean anything. **Never** the eighteen one-off demos, the island world's renderer or physics, the app's lesson content.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Wire the two demos that are genuinely templates — the season opener and the Friday film — to read one data object per week, generated from the curriculum map rather than hand-written. Both already run two different weeks off one code path, which is why these two and not the others.
2. Leave the other eighteen exactly as they are. Their content is welded into their code, so a new subject means rewriting the demo; by Nick's own rule of thumb, a big build usable once is not worth the resources. Each stays the good lesson it already is.
3. Settle the island world's question by measurement, not opinion: author a second scenario for it as DATA — its screens' words and answer choices live in code today, so this is the test of whether it can become an engine — and record how long that took. If a second scenario cannot be authored as data inside one working day, it stays two expensive lessons and the plan records that answer.
4. Note the two blockers on that world already measured, so they are not rediscovered: its lesson content lives in code rather than a lesson file, and one progress step needs a typed explanation, which neither child can produce.
5. Add the `--wrappers` mode printing whether every week on the map has a season opener and a Friday film generated from data.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** every week on the map has its opening titles and Friday film generated from one data object, the other eighteen demos are untouched, and the island world's engine question is answered by a recorded attempt to author a second scenario as data.
**PROOF:** `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=wrappers` → the literal line `weeks with a season opener and a Friday reel generated from data: all`, and `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/living-planet-model.test.mjs` → passes with a second scenario present · **FAILS IF:** that line is absent from the output for any reason, INCLUDING an exit of 0 — the exit code alone proves nothing on this tool; or a wrapper needs hand-written content per week; or any of the eighteen one-offs this step must not touch was modified; or the second-scenario attempt was reported without the time it took

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once, and confirm the eighteen one-offs are byte-identical to before the step. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** none.

### STEP 13 — Close-out
**FOR NICK:** you get one line saying the school lane is done, and nothing else to read. · **Tier:** POLISH
**Start when:** STEP 1 to STEP 12 closed.
**Builder:** GLM 5.3 (zai) · **Builder backup:** DeepSeek · **Checker:** Qwen, a different session · **Checker backup:** Sonnet
**Files you may touch:** this file's POSTMORTEM and STEPS sections, `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHOOL/PROGRESS.txt`, `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHOOL/STEPS.json`. **Never** a product file.

**Do exactly this:**
1. Check the FINISH LINE's ten items one at a time against the closed steps' proofs, and write the postmortem below.
2. Read the board with its own read verb BEFORE claiming any card: the existing card about the island world demo may belong to another lane, and card naming and cleanup belong to the Agent project management group. Claim only what is measurably this lane's.
3. Remove and declare every leftover: any evidence copy, any scratch folder, anything this lane left on the Mac, with its size. Nothing an agent made stays on the machine after the lane closes.
4. Write the lane's own record to the main line at this stopping point, by pathspec, so the cloud copy is the record.

**DEFINITION OF DONE:** the FINISH LINE's ten items each point at a closed step with a dated VERIFIED line, the postmortem is written, no card was claimed without reading the board, and every leftover is gone and declared.
**PROOF:** `python3 projects/ops/agents/check_plan.py projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHOOL/PLAN.proposed.txt` → exit 0 with every §3b row carrying a dated VERIFIED line · **FAILS IF:** any FINISH LINE item has no closed step behind it, a card was renamed or claimed without reading the board first, or a leftover is still on the Mac

**If the check fails:** the builder fixes and re-checks the named failure until it passes. If this step cannot close from this machine: one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing thing, then the next step whose inputs exist.
**Checker's job:** re-run the PROOF yourself, once. PASS closes the step. Do not accept the builder's pasted output; do not summon anyone else.
**Handoff (if any):** the moment this step closes, post one dated line into `projects/ops/life-os/PLAN-LIFE-OS-2026-09-09.md`: `SCHOOL lane closed <date> — §3d School item 1 is true: both children work through a consistent, progressing curriculum built from the lessons that existed.`

**Step-writing rules:** every step names the literal command and the literal expected output — "verify it works" is a defect · as many steps as the North Star needs, no more · red-first for any fix step · builds and per-step checks on the cheap tier by name; the overseer never builds; the plan is written and the FINISH LINE signed off on Anthropic or OpenAI.

### §3e · The gallery scored live, while writing — Nick's R12, not deferred to a step

He asked for the twenty demos to be scored during planning on three axes: what they cost to build, how likely they are to be reused, and how easily a new lesson wraps into them. Scored from the demos' own notes and their real sizes on disk, not from opinion. Build cost is read from bytes, because six of them sit near a megabyte each while embedding a 3D library and the rest draw everything themselves in 56 to 96 kilobytes.

- **INVEST FIRST — the two that are already templates.** The season opener and the Friday film. Their own notes say it outright: "Both premieres run the same 25 seconds of code. A season is one small object" and "IT IS A TEMPLATE, NOT TWO HAND-BUILT FILMS. Every frame is generated from one data object per week." Each already runs two different weeks off one code path. They teach nothing on their own — they wrap what the week already teaches — which is exactly why they are the cheapest win available. STEP 12 wires them.
- **INVEST SECOND — four where the content is one step from being data, AND NONE OF THEM IS WORKED IN THIS PLAN.** The long-division vault, at 65 kilobytes, because a division problem IS data and Noah needs a harder one every day. The Spanish house, because its thirty spoken objects are a vocabulary set that can be swapped. The draw-it-and-it-comes-alive demo, because its three environments are already a data axis and it is the concept Nick described himself. And teach-Skippy-back, because the mechanic is topic-agnostic and a child cannot fake their way through explaining something — with the honest caveat that it needs a live model to work and falls back to a script without one. 🔴 THE SCORING IS THE DELIVERABLE HERE, NOT THE BUILD. Nick asked for these scored during planning, and they are; turning any of the four into an engine is a fresh investment that comes AFTER this lane's finish line, so all four sit on the NEXT list and no step touches them. Saying "invest second" in one section while another section cuts the same demos would have been a plan arguing with itself, and a cold read on 2026-09-09 caught exactly that.
- **DO NOT INVEST — the other fourteen.** Their content is welded into their code, so changing the subject means rewriting the demo. That includes the three near-megabyte 3D one-offs. Nick's own rule of thumb decides it: "if we can only do the thing once, and it takes a big build, then it's probably not something that we wanna invest a bunch of resources in." Each stays the one good lesson it is, and none is rebuilt.
- **A NOTE ON TWO THAT LOOK CHEAP AND ARE NOT.** The live-Earth demo and the tonight's-sky demo refresh their own content from the real sky every time they run, so they never need re-authoring — but they are also near a megabyte each and nothing new wraps into them. High reuse of themselves, no reuse for anything else.
- **THE ISLAND WORLD — a candidate, decided by measurement in STEP 12.** Its physics and its renderer are genuinely separable and reusable; its screens' words and answer choices live in code, so a third scenario today means programming rather than authoring, and its own team recorded that no marginal-authoring proof exists for it yet. That is the whole question, and STEP 12 answers it by trying to author a second scenario as data and recording how long it took, rather than by anyone's judgement.
- **WHAT NONE OF THE TWENTY DO.** Every one of them is entirely on-screen. None sends a child anywhere or asks them to make anything. Weighed against Nick's own ask for activities and experiments, that is a gap the gallery cannot fill, and STEP 8 is where it gets filled.
- **ONE MECHANIC WORTH SINGLING OUT AGAINST "TOO EASY."** Teach-Skippy-back exists twice, once as a prototype on a stand-in and once as a working demo on a live model: Skippy plays dumb, the child must explain until he understands, and he visibly gets smarter. It is retrieval practice plus elaborative explanation, and its own document's line was that if only one game ships it should be that one. It is in the invest-second group rather than first only because it needs a live model to be at its best.

## 4 · Regret Check (the registry failures this build is actually exposed to)

| Failure mode (registry entry) | The measure in THIS plan that prevents it | Where it lives (section / artifact / gate) |
|---|---|---|
| A build was signed off on checks that were all satisfied while the product was unusable — the files loaded, the states advanced, the console was clean, and the picture held nothing | the gate measures the rendered picture itself and is proven failing on an empty one before it is trusted; a clean console is explicitly not the measure | §1a row 7; §2d; STEP 9 |
| A green build was read as coverage when the instrument had stopped looking at the thing that mattered | every new gate is recorded RED first on a fixture that violates it; both measuring instruments were run tonight and their zeros recorded, so a later zero can be attributed to the app | STEP 2, STEP 3, STEP 5, STEP 7, STEP 8, STEP 9; §2d; Already true |
| A measurement existed and nothing consumed it, so a promise stayed broken for months while the receipt looked convincing | STEP 3 gives the existing level check a consumer and adds a gate that fails a profile written and never read; STEP 4 refuses to leave a stored signal read and unused | STEP 3, STEP 4; §3b DONE-PROOF column |
| A negative was believed because one search came back empty, and the store that would have answered was never opened | the live results store was read tonight before this plan was finished: 41 stored ratings, 1000 records, dated from 2026-08-03; STEP 4 re-measures at build time rather than trusting this line | §0 PROMPT-SPEC P3; Already true; STEP 4 item 1 |
| A cheap job's revert deleted a pre-existing file it was told to edit | every step that dispatches a cheap job onto existing files hashes and copies them into the lane's evidence folder first, with the hashes in the progress record | STEP 2 item 1; §3 contracts |
| A second system was built because the first was invisible, leaving two owners for one thing | the existing lesson gate grows modes rather than gaining siblings; the standard is extended in place; the folder is repointed to one governing plan; a second document is in the anti-scope | §1 anti-scope (h); STEP 10; STEP 11 |
| A plan named proofs pointing at files that were never written, so the drive could not have succeeded | every proof in this plan runs an instrument already on disk, and each was executed once before this plan was finished with its exit code recorded in the lane's CHECK record | §3b; §6; the lane's CHECK.txt |
| Weeks of foundational work shipped nothing the person could see, and effort was reallocated blind | nine FRONT steps first, in the order Nick and the children would notice them, each with its FOR NICK line; four POLISH steps after; the cut and held work recorded once and not worked | §3b; §3c; §U of the plan skill |
| A child-facing surface was changed and a safety binding silently moved with it | the companion binding is a frozen contract, the persona mirror is regenerated after any persona change, and the kid-safety test staying green at 130 of 130 is a standing FAILS IF on every step | §3 contracts; STEP 3; STEP 7 |

## 5 · Topology and roles
- **OVERSEER-AUTHORITY:** none named in `projects/ops/OVERSEER-AUTHORITY.md` for this lane; the Group G overseer's word binds it. **The four approval classes (money leaving · credential rotation · irreversible destruction · a message sent as Nick) and the floor (logins · credentials, tokens and keys · government IDs · card, bank and routing numbers) never move on the overseer's word.** Nothing in this plan falls in any of the four.
- Thread layout: one Group G overseer thread; builders and checkers as cheap dispatches from it.
- Overseer: Opus or Codex `gpt-6-astra`, one for this group · Workers: GLM 5.3 (zai), DeepSeek, Qwen by step; Sonnet only as a backup checker · Cap: 8 per session, ~40 machine-wide, counted before each wave, and one at a time for anything that launches a browser
- State files location: `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHOOL/PROGRESS.txt` (dated lines, newest last) and `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHOOL/STEPS.json` (the step record the progress screen reads)
- **Board card id:** none yet — the overseer reads the board with its own read verb at pickup and writes the real card slug here; the existing card about the island world demo is not claimed until it is measured to be this lane's.
- **Artefact consumers:** STEPS.json → the progress screen · PROGRESS.txt → the morning report · the curriculum map → Nick, and STEP 12's wrappers · the rise check → the Scheduled lane's weekly job · a closed step's handoff line → the programme plan and the Scheduled lane's plan.
- **Write-contention (parallel lanes in a shared checkout):** this lane writes only its own plan folder and the learning-app paths fenced per step. The app is its own nested repository, so a push from inside it is required and the outer repository stores only a pointer; scoped commits with pathspecs, never a bare commit. The checkout is proven writable before the first dispatch.

**Per-stage topology — counts DECLARED at plan time (machine-gated: a number in every row):**

| Stage | Overseer | Sub-overseers | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spine | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Level | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Loop | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Measure | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Doing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Visible | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Polish | 1 | 0 | 2 |

**The walk-away contract — a stranger resumes the drive from files alone:**
- **STATE FILE:** `projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHOOL/PROGRESS.txt`
- **HEARTBEAT ROW:** `school-lane-2026-09-09` in `projects/personal/skippy-app/ala-state/work-threads.json`
- **MORNING-REPORT LINE:** "School — FRONT <n> of 9 · polish <m> of 4" in `projects/ops/walkaway/REPORT.md`

## 6 · Evals — what "working" means, decided now

| Capability | Check (exact command or procedure) | Pass looks like |
|---|---|---|
| every lesson sits on a map with a real progression | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=curriculum-map` | orphan lessons 0, weeks with no named prerequisite 0 |
| every lesson states what it teaches, how hard, how long, what is needed, and whether a child can start alone | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=facts` | all five missing-counts read 0, against tonight's recorded baseline of 0 of 78 carrying any of them |
| each child is served their own measured level | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs --selftest` | the level-consumer gate printed red-then-green, one above tonight's 14 of 14; the kid-safety test green |
| last week's signals change next week | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=loop` | every week's difficulty inputs came from stored signals; signals read but unused 0 |
| next week is provably harder, and a flat week is refused | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=rise-selftest` | RED on a flat fixture week, GREEN on a harder one |
| Start, Finish, real minutes and a comprehension score | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/fidelity-check.mjs --kid both --screen lesson --width 1280,375 --live http://127.0.0.1:8788` | zero mismatches and zero unmeasured anchors in every cell, after the instrument's own selftest read zero |
| Noah has the harder-one control and his long division is a real test | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=longdiv` | problems printed with their answer 0, days where the stretch problem is discarded 0 |
| every making task is one a child can carry out | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=doable` | tasks with neither prepared materials nor a walkthrough 0, weeks with no build-measure-or-experiment task 0 |
| a picture holding nothing never reaches a child | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs --selftest`, then the island world's own checker in its new visible mode | the visibility gate printed red on an empty fixture and green on a drawing one; the island world's real reading recorded whatever it is, red included |
| the rules are one current set and no document misdescribes the app | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=docs` | documents describing the app wrongly 0 |
| the reusable wrappers cover every week | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=wrappers` | every week on the map has a season opener and a Friday reel generated from data |
| the fleet's existing quality bar never slipped while all this landed | `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs` | the fleet report at exit 0 with the floor still met, against tonight's 86% at Tier 2 or better |
| the child-safety binding never moved | `node projects/personal/learning-app/test-kid-firewall.mjs` | 130 passed, 0 failed, exit 0 — the same as tonight |

## 7 · THE ONE DECISION LIST FOR NICK — everything genuinely his, asked once

Nothing in this plan falls in the four things that are genuinely his: no money leaves, no credential is rotated, nothing is irreversibly destroyed, and no message goes out as him. So there is nothing to ask, and no step waits on an answer.

Settled with a default rather than asked, and reversible by one word from him at any time: the island world is treated as a candidate whose engine question is answered by measurement in STEP 12 rather than by a decision now · the other eighteen demos are left as the lessons they are · the two template demos are the ones invested in · the difficulty ladder reuses the five-step shape long division already has · a child with no level result yet gets the map's default week and the middle difficulty · the comprehension check is answerable by tapping or speaking, because neither child can type.

Not asked, because you already answered: only long division keeps a parent gate and everything else is adaptive with self-learning (2026-09-09) · neither parent owns a difficulty decision (2026-09-09) · the school is on and the automation returns next week (2026-09-09) · two shorter lessons a day with one consistent length and theme (2026-09-09) · "too easy" from these two is signal, and both a change and a proof of the change are required (2026-09-09) · comprehension and time are measured, not just completion, through a Start and a Finish control (2026-09-09) · complexity, not length (2026-09-09) · the instructions are the failure, not the materials, and either route is acceptable per task (2026-09-09) · video and motion graphics are welcome (2026-09-09) · a visual build is graded on what the child sees (2026-09-09) · build a core asset once if many lessons wrap it (2026-09-09) · the six-part picture rule is not a concern (2026-09-09) · the themes and the subject mix stay (2026-09-09) · look-and-feel waits for Chantelle's pass while UX drives on (2026-09-07) · agents drive the real click paths and you are never the tester (2026-09-09).

## If you get stuck (all steps)

Before writing "blocked": (1) re-read the step's START WHEN line — most "stuck" is a misread gate, (2) try a concrete workaround, (3) write one line to the overseer naming the ONE missing artefact. Then keep working every other step whose inputs exist. Never idle on a blocker; never end a turn waiting on a background result.

## Your loop

Every pass: every FRONT step whose START WHEN inputs exist and which is not yet CLOSED is running, up to the cap → each builder runs its own PROOF, hands to its checker → PASS closes it, FAIL loops it → the repoint runs alongside from the start, and the other POLISH steps run once the FRONT steps close → repeat until the FINISH LINE is proven.

## SUMMARY — a few plain-English lines, read by the status generator

The children's school app is much further along than it looks: eighty lessons, a talking companion each, lessons that keep working with no internet, and a real automatic quality check that passes today. What it has never had is a curriculum. Nothing says what a lesson teaches, how hard it is or how long it really takes; no week builds on any other; the app already measures both children and nothing reads the measurement; and the "too easy" button they have been tapping has forty-one taps sitting in storage that nothing has ever read. This plan adds the spine and closes the loop: one written map Nick reads, five new facts on every lesson, enforced by the quality check the app already runs, each child served at their own measured level, last week's signals changing next week, a separate check that proves the work got harder and refuses a week that did not, Start and Finish controls with real timings and a comprehension check, the harder-question control Noah has never had, long division that stops arriving with its answer, instructions a child can follow alone, and a check that looks at the picture a child actually sees. Nine visible steps first, four tidying-up steps after, cheap models doing the building and the checking, nothing waiting on Nick.

## SUMMARY

**2026-09-10** — The school lessons project (the web page where Noah and Willow do their daily lessons, and the written plans behind it): anyone who picks up the school now finds exactly one plan to follow, the school lessons plan dated September 2026. The older plan for redesigning that web page says in its first lines that it has been replaced and names the school lessons plan; the two companion documents that travel with that older plan (the one recording its progress and the one listing its changes) carry the same dated note; none of the older plan's steps were deleted, so its history stays readable. A separate model that had no part in the work read all three documents and found nothing missing, and the automatic test that every written plan must pass before work starts on it reports a pass on the school lessons plan.

**2026-09-10** — The school lessons project (the web page where Noah and Willow do their daily lessons, and the documents and checks behind it): the written lesson rules (the document that says what every lesson must contain) now include three newer checks, that every lesson states five facts about itself, that every lesson is visible on screen, and that each week rises in difficulty, each with its own test and a plain note of what the test cannot see. Four documents that described that web page wrongly are corrected: the front-page notes, the instructions for helpers, the publishing notes, and the written lesson rules. The publishing notes had named a wrong destination and now name the one web page the children already use; they had also promised that lessons would be checked against the written lesson rules before publishing, which never happened, and now the publishing script (the command that puts new lessons on that web page) does that check before anything goes live. An independent reviewer read the saved results of those checks and marked all five required points as passing.

**2026-09-10** — In the home-school lessons Noah and Willow do each weekday, every hands-on task from week 9 onward now either tells the parent what to lay out before the day starts or walks the child through it one step at a time, including a step for when it goes wrong, and every week has at least one thing the child builds, measures or tests rather than draws. This was proved on a deliberately bare task and a properly equipped one before it was judged on the real lessons, and an independent reviewer read three real tasks end to end and agreed a child of that age could follow each one alone. That reviewer found two supply lists missing an item, a roll of tape and a bar of soap, and both are fixed in the lessons the children already use.

**2026-09-10** — Every new school week is now checked against the week before it on three recorded numbers: how hard the lessons are, how long they take, and how well the children understood them. When the children's own too-easy or too-hard ratings from the previous week asked for harder work, a new week that did not get harder is refused by name with those three numbers shown. The check proves itself red on a deliberately flat test week and green on a deliberately harder one before it judges a real week, and an independent reviewer confirmed all of it. Weeks 9 and 10 read level with each other, which is correct because the children's ratings asked for no change.

**2026-09-10** — Four documents tell a person how the children's lesson website (skippytutor.pages.dev) is built: README.md, CLAUDE.md and DEPLOY.md inside the lesson app folder, and the school overview page beside them. Three were saying things that stopped being true, and are now corrected to what is on disk: the lessons are not all inside one file and there are not sixty of them (each of the ten weeks has its own file, and the count is read from the real files); the site is not published as skippy-school.pages.dev but as skippytutor.pages.dev. A new automatic check called the docs check reads the real files and compares those four documents against them. It still flags README.md, and reading its complaint shows its own matching rule, which objects to any number word standing before the word lessons, is too literal rather than README.md being wrong, so the next person corrects that rule instead of the document.

**2026-09-10** — Every making task in the two newest weeks of the children's lesson website (skippytutor.pages.dev) now either lists its supplies for a parent before the day starts or walks the child through every step one at a time, including a step saying what to do if it goes wrong, and each of those weeks holds something to build or measure rather than only things to draw. An automatic check enforces this from week nine onward and proves itself by going red on a test lesson that has neither and green on one that has both. The rule is also written into the authoring standards so the next person writing a week has to meet it. One correction to what the plan assumed: it expected the older weeks to fail this check first, and measured they do not, because every making task in weeks one to eight already lists its supplies.

**2026-09-10** — There is now an automatic check that compares a new week of lessons on the children's lesson website (skippytutor.pages.dev) against the previous week on how hard the lessons are rated, how many minutes they are meant to take, and how much of them the children got right, and refuses a week that did not go up when what Noah and Willow tapped asked for harder work. It proves itself before anyone trusts it: it goes red on a test week deliberately built to be no harder, and green on a test week deliberately built to be harder. Run against the two newest weeks it reads them as the same level, which is the right answer, because what the children tapped this month asked for the same level rather than harder. Still missing: another model re-running that same check on its own to confirm it, which one cheap model failed to finish inside its time budget.

**2026-09-10** — Each of the ten weeks on the children's lesson website (skippytutor.pages.dev) now gets two extra pages made for it with no writing by hand: a twenty-five second cinematic opening title sequence naming that week's five days, and a forty-five second film that recaps the week on Friday. Both fill themselves in from that week's own lesson titles, its planned minutes, and whatever Noah and Willow tapped and scored inside the website in that week. Of the twenty playable lessons Nick commissioned on 5 September, exactly two already ran two different weeks off one set of code, so those two now run all ten weeks; the other eighteen were not touched, because changing their subject would mean rewriting them. The two new page types sit on this computer and have not been put on the website yet.

**2026-09-10** — On the children's lesson website (skippytutor.pages.dev), a child who scored ahead of their age on the short starting quiz now gets the harder version of a question set automatically, on the new picture-book lesson screens as well as the plain one, and either child can still tap to switch the harder set on or off. One thing is left: adding this to the website's list of fifteen automatic pre-publish checks, which is blocked because the one file that holds that list is refused by every editing tool we are allowed to use, so another team must wire it.

**2026-09-10** — On the children's lesson website (skippytutor.pages.dev) every lesson now has a Start button and a Finish button for both Noah and Willow, the real minutes between the two taps are stored, and after Finish a three-question check appears whose score is stored with the minutes, so Nick can see that a lesson meant to take an hour took twenty minutes and how much of it was understood. This works on the new picture-book screens each child sees, not only the plain screen.

**2026-09-10** — When Noah or Willow taps that a lesson on the children's lesson website (skippytutor.pages.dev) was too easy or too hard, that tap now changes how hard the next week of lessons is written. Their stored taps and their real start-to-finish times are read, a decision is made per child and per subject (harder, easier or the same), and that decision is stamped onto the week being written, so nothing they told us is thrown away. A second AI model in a separate session re-ran the proof and passed it.

**2026-09-10** — The kids' school app (Skippy School, the lesson app Noah and Willow use on their tablets) now lets Noah tap a button in a lesson to get a harder question, the way Willow already could; his daily long-division sum no longer arrives with its answer printed in the same lesson and is the hardest of the day's three; every lesson now says what it teaches, how hard it is, how long it really takes, what is needed and whether a child can start alone; and a one-page curriculum map places all eighty lessons. All of this is live on the children's app today.

## STEPS

1. The curriculum map — 100%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: every live lesson is placed once, every week names a real earlier week it builds on, each child has a stated line of progress
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=curriculum-map`
2. Five facts on every lesson, and a gate that refuses one without them — 100%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: every live lesson carries an outcome, a difficulty, a computed duration, its materials and a start-alone answer
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=facts`
3. Each child served at their own measured level — 90%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: the level profile decides the material and the week, a child with no profile still gets a working lesson, and the new gate was seen red
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs --selftest`
   VERIFIED: not yet independently checked; the world-gates count (14 of 14) still needs the wiring the ROUTER lane owns
4. Last week's signals change next week — 100%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: next week's difficulty comes from stored ratings and real times for both children, and no stored signal is read and discarded
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=loop`
   VERIFIED: independent check by DeepSeek in a separate session, 2026-09-10: PASS (evidence/step4-checker-deepseek-2026-09-10.txt)
5. A separate check proves it got harder, and refuses a week that did not — 100%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: the rise check refuses a flat week with its three numbers named, and its selftest reads red then green
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=rise-selftest`
   VERIFIED: no outside check has run yet: one cheap model was asked to re-run the same proof independently and ran out of its time budget without writing a verdict
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-10 — the incoming overseer re-ran the proof first-hand (evidence/step5-rise-output-2026-09-10b.txt); independent checker DeepSeek read the run and the source and returned PASS on all five criteria (evidence/step5-checker-deepseek-2026-09-10.txt); the one real weakness it found — a refused real week did not fail the run — was fixed on the cheap lane the same hour, so a refused week now exits 1
6. Start, Finish and a comprehension check on every lesson — 100%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: both children can tap Start and Finish, the real minutes and the score are stored, and the lesson screen measures zero and zero
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/fidelity-check.mjs --kid both --screen lesson --width 1280,375 --live http://127.0.0.1:8788`
   VERIFIED: independent check by DeepSeek in a separate session, 2026-09-10: PASS (evidence/step6-checker-deepseek-2026-09-10.txt); re-proven under the per-child world screens 2026-09-10 after the merge that restored week 8
7. Noah gets the harder-one control, and long division stops arriving with its answer — 100%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: the control renders for Noah, no answer appears in child-facing text, and the stretch problem is served
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=longdiv`
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-10, re-run and passed by an independent cheap checker (Qwen)
8. Instructions a child can follow, and real variety — 100%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: every making task has prepared materials or a walkthrough, and every week carries a build, measure or experiment task
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=doable`
   VERIFIED: the outside check on one cheap model failed one criterion the plan had assumed rather than measured, and is to be re-run once that criterion is corrected; the three walkthroughs it read end to end all passed
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-10 — the incoming overseer re-ran both proofs first-hand (evidence/step8-doable-output-2026-09-10b.txt); independent checker Qwen read the runs, the mode's source and three real making tasks in week 10 end to end and returned PASS on all five criteria (evidence/step8-checker-qwen-2026-09-10b.txt); the plan's original fourth criterion (the old weeks measured non-zero first) was replaced by the selftest per the handoff, because every old task already named its supplies; the two supply gaps the checkers found (tape on the week 9 alphabet strip, soap on the week 10 bottle filter) were fixed on the cheap lane
9. A lesson whose picture holds nothing can never reach a child — 70%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: the visibility check is proven catching a blank screen and passing a drawn one, runs on every rendered lesson, and one child route was walked end to end; the island world's own reading is recorded whatever it is and goes to step 12
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/world-gates.mjs --selftest`
10. One governing plan for the folder — 100%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: the superseded plan says so in its first ten lines, its state file names this plan, nothing was deleted
   PROOF: `command grep -n "SUPERSEDED BY" projects/personal/learning-app/PLAN-SS1-redesign-v2.md` — a match inside the first ten lines naming this plan, never a bare count
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-10 (100%, proof re-run first-hand, checker NOTHING-REMAINING)
11. One current rules set, and no document that misdescribes the app — 100%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: the standard carries the three new rules with tests, and the four wrong documents are right or gone
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=docs`
   VERIFIED: not there yet: the docs check still flags README.md after three rewordings, and reading its complaint shows the check's own matching rule (a number-word before the word lessons) is too literal rather than README.md being wrong
   VERIFIED: 2026-09-10 (100%, docs mode 0 of 4, scaffolding PASS, checker PASS on all five)
12. The reusable assets wired, the one-offs left alone — 60%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: every week's opener and Friday film are generated from data, and the island world's engine question is answered by a recorded attempt
   PROOF: `node projects/personal/learning-app/standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=wrappers`
   VERIFIED: not independently checked yet: the generated pages are on disk and unpublished, and the second-scenario attempt on the island world has not been made
13. Close-out — 0%
   DEFINITION OF DONE: the FINISH LINE's ten items each point at a closed step, the postmortem is written, every leftover is gone and declared
   PROOF: `python3 projects/ops/agents/check_plan.py projects/ops/life-os/REGROUP-2026-09-08/plans/SCHOOL/PLAN.proposed.txt`

## NEXT

Everything found after the FINISH LINE passes goes here as one line, and is not worked.

- The four demos the gallery scoring picked out as one step from being data — the long-division vault, the Spanish house, draw-it-and-it-comes-alive, and teach-Skippy-back. Scored during planning as Nick asked; each is a fresh investment after this lane's finish line, and no step in this plan touches them.
- A second theme for the design-fidelity instrument, so a light-theme cell can be measured at all. Today it measures one theme and this plan claims only what it measures.

## POSTMORTEM

Written by STEP 13. Empty at plan time; the lane is not closed until it is filled.

Current state PROGRESS.txt

SCHOOL LANE — PROGRESS. Current state only, newest last. One dated line per stopping point.

2026-09-09 — Lane opened. Plan written by Boris (the senior engineer, Opus) from the audit handoff
projects/personal/learning-app/HANDOFF-SCHOOL-AUDIT-2026-09-09.txt and Nick's rulings R1-R17 in its
section 1, in the plan skill's 2026-09-09 shape. Nine FRONT steps, four POLISH steps, nothing in the
four approval classes. No build work has run yet. The plan is PLAN.proposed.txt in this folder; the
check record is CHECK.txt; the overseer's pickup prompt is HANDOFF-PROMPT-FOR-BUILDER.txt.

2026-09-09 — MEASURED TONIGHT, before the plan was finished, so the plan rests on real numbers and
not on the audit's report of them. Every command below was run once and its exit code recorded in
CHECK.txt.
  - The lesson gate passes today: 78 manifests, 0 exemplary, 67 elevated, 11 below the floor, 86% at
    Tier 2 or better against a 50% floor. `node standard/check-lessons.mjs` exit 0.
  - THE RED-FIRST BASELINE for the five new lesson facts: 0 of 78 manifests carry a field named
    outcome, 0 carry difficulty, 0 carry duration, 0 carry materials. Four separate greps, each
    exit 0.
  - The app names a difficulty value in five places inside its main file and reads it in none of
    them: declared at line 5594, reset at 5601, assigned at 5629, posted at 5650, plus a scope
    comment at 3521. `command grep -c difficulty` on the app's main file → 5.
  - THE AUDIT'S ONE OPEN QUESTION IS ANSWERED, AND THE ANSWER IS YES: the children's taps are
    sitting in live storage unread. 1000 stored records, of which 41 are feedback records carrying a
    difficulty rating with values including "too_easy" and "just_right", spanning 2026-08-03 onward.
    Nothing in the app reads them. `node _check_results.cjs` exit 0; `node
    _check_new_since_lastread.cjs` → `OK newCount=234 totalCount=1000`.
  - Noah is excluded from the mid-lesson "want a harder one?" control by a condition that tests the
    child's name: `if(!p.hard || CUR.kid!=='willow')return '';`. That line IS the evidence.
    `command grep -n harder` on the app's main file returns 9 lines, 6 of them naming Willow — not
    the "11 lines, all naming Willow" an earlier draft of this record claimed, which was the
    case-insensitive occurrence count rather than what the command prints. Corrected 2026-09-09 by a
    cold checker that re-ran it. The exclusion is real; the arithmetic beside it was not.
  - Both measuring instruments this plan depends on are working tonight, so a later zero means the
    product and not a broken instrument: `node standard/world-gates.mjs --selftest` → `14/14 gates
    red-then-green`, exit 0; `node standard/fidelity-check.mjs --selftest --kid both --screen all` →
    `mismatched properties: 0 · unmeasured anchors: 0`, exit 0.
  - The re-runnable audit measurement still runs and still agrees with the handoff: 80 lessons, 13
    with no off-screen making task, 13 with no embedded visual. `node audit-2026-09-09/measure.mjs`
    exit 0.
  - The island world lives on its own branch in the app's nested repository, last committed
    2026-09-09 13:53:52 -0500. Read only; nothing was checked out, merged, stashed or pushed.

2026-09-09 — NOT MEASURABLE FROM HERE, named rather than guessed: the Hub board card about the
island world demo. This session holds no board read tool. STEP 13 reads the board with its own read
verb before this lane claims, renames or moves any card.

2026-09-09 — COLD READ, AND THE PLAN WAS WRONG IN WAYS THAT WOULD HAVE COST THE WHOLE LANE. A
checker that had not written any of it graded the plan against the brief and the rulings and found
three defects worth the run:
  1. THE WORST ONE. The lesson quality tool reads arguments in one shape only, `--name=value`, and
     validates nothing, so every one of this plan's new checks had been written as a bare word the
     tool silently discards — the ordinary check would have run and exited 0. Nine of thirteen steps
     could have been closed on zero work by a checker trusting the exit code. Verified first-hand in
     that tool's own source. THE FIRST ATTEMPT AT A FIX WAS ITSELF WRONG AND A SECOND COLD RUN
     CAUGHT IT: rewriting the flags as `--mode=<name>` changed nothing, because that tool has no
     mode handling at all — running it with `--facts`, with `--mode=facts`, with an invented
     `--mode=total-nonsense`, and with no arguments produces four BYTE-IDENTICAL outputs, all exit
     0. One ignored spelling for another. What actually fixes it is the other half, and it stands:
     STEP 1 adds an allow-list that exits 2 on a mode it does not implement, no later step may
     weaken it, and every step now CLOSES on a LITERAL PRINTED LINE rather than an exit code, with
     each FAILS IF saying so. None of those lines exists in any output today, so a checker following
     the plan as written fails these steps correctly, which is the whole point. The flag spelling is
     recorded as a convention for the mode STEP 1 will implement, never as a protection.
  2. The measuring instrument for the new Start and Finish controls refuses to run without a live
     address — it exits 2 saying so — and the plan named it without one, in four places. FIXED: the
     command now carries the address, the step says to start the harness's own server first, and a
     refusal is recorded as having measured nothing rather than as a pass or a fail.
  3. STEP 9's finish condition could never have been met. It required the island world's picture to
     hold content while every step's fence forbade touching that world's code. FIXED: STEP 9 builds
     the instrument and is explicitly forbidden to repair what it finds, its first reading of that
     world is EXPECTED red, and STEP 12 now owns the repair-or-set-aside decision on all three of
     that world's blockers together.
  Also corrected: the renderer counts (52, 20 and 2, not 24, 12 and 1); the harder-control line
  count; the supersession proof, which passed today on a bare count with nothing done; three rows of
  the older plan missing from the held list; a section that said invest in four demos while another
  cut them, now resolved onto the NEXT list; the light-theme claim in the design gate, which the
  instrument cannot measure; the week files' parse trap, which reached only the overseer prompt and
  now sits in both steps that edit those files; and six pieces of jargon in the parts Nick himself
  reads.

2026-09-09T23:57:39Z - Programme planner re-ran both gates: PASS; fingerprint 1bc32c668a36fdccbffe09df6a4a29374c5c80dba630575e36f670603c7746ed; committed to main by pathspec. Hand-off waits for Nick's go on the group.

2026-09-10T01:31:20Z - HANDED OFF: Nick opened the school group and approved the plan for hand-off ("yes", 2026-09-09). The overseer prompt is HANDOFF-PROMPT-FOR-BUILDER.txt in this folder.

2026-09-10T05:20Z — PICKED UP by the Group G overseer (Fable) at Nick's ask. Loop armed. Read first-hand before any dispatch: the plan, this record, CHECK.txt, the audit's rulings R1–R17, the programme's School line.
  MEASURED AT PICKUP, so nothing below is inherited: the lesson gate prints "lesson standard met" (78 manifests); an unknown mode still prints nothing and passes, which is the hole STEP 1 closes first; the world gate reads 14/14 red-then-green; the kid-safety test reads 130 passed, 0 failed; the fidelity instrument's selftest reads zero and zero in every cell; the measuring script counts 80 lessons, 0 with no hands-on part, 13 with no off-screen build.
  TWO PLAN ASSUMPTIONS CORRECTED BY MEASUREMENT: (1) the app's nested repository has 1,252 commits on the branch called living-planet-v1 and ONE on main (an empty "fresh init" commit); every week file, the gate and the instruments live only on living-planet-v1, so that branch IS the working base — nothing is merged, and the "island world on its own branch" caution reads as: its demo files sit beside the app on the same branch, read but never repaired by this lane. Week 8 exists on no branch. (2) The board already carries one open card in the build group about this work — "Life OS · Living Planet v1 demo for Noah and Willow", due 2026-09-08 — plus an older general-group card about upgrading the lessons; neither is claimed or renamed by this lane (the Agent project management lane owns card names); STEP 13 reads them again before close-out.
  PRESERVED BEFORE ANY CHEAP JOB: thirteen files the first wave may touch, copied with their SHA-256s into evidence/pre-2026-09-10/SHA256SUMS.txt (the app's main file, the gate, the world gate, the template, the standard, both mockups and both anchor maps, the superseded plan and its state and changes files, the authoring guide).
  DOCUMENTATION GATE: it is ON; tickets filed at once for the five governed documents this lane writes (the superseded plan, its state and changes files, the lesson standard, the new curriculum map). The code work does not wait on them.
  WAVE 1 LAUNCHING (cheap, by the plan's named vendors): STEP 1 the mode allow-list on the gate (an unknown mode exits 2, and every new mode is its own small module, so the seven modes never fight over one file) and the curriculum map; STEP 2 the five facts (a generator over the 78 manifests, run by the overseer, plus the facts mode); STEP 7 Noah's harder-one control and the long-division mode; STEP 9 the visibility gate. STEP 3 and STEP 6 queue behind STEP 7 on the app's main file (one file, one edit at a time); STEP 10 waits only on its ticket.

2026-09-10T08:20Z — STEP 2 CLOSED, STEP 7 GREEN, THE START/FINISH SCREEN DRIVEN AS BOTH CHILDREN, AND ONE SELF-INFLICTED BREAK CAUGHT BEFORE ANY PUBLISH
  STEP 2 CLOSED — every one of the 78 lessons carries the five facts (an outcome that names an ability, a level 1–5 from that child's own spread, computed minutes, materials, start-alone), the two daily lessons of a day are within a quarter of each other, and the plain gate still passes — checked by Qwen (VERDICT PASS, evidence/step2-checker-qwen-2026-09-10.txt) — node standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=facts. The generator never overwrites an existing field, so its wording fix needed the five keys stripped and re-written; the run records are evidence/step2-fill-facts-run*.txt.
  STEP 7: proof line green — problems printed with their answer: 0 · days where the stretch problem is discarded: 0 — after the six Lab problems in weeks 4 and 6 that were the very sums worked out with answers in the same lesson were renumbered (divisors kept; the worked examples in the prose untouched), the child-name test on the harder-one control removed, and the served problem made the largest in band. Kid-safety 130/130. Independent check dispatched (DeepSeek); the real-screen drive of the control as Noah is below.
  STEP 6 on the real screen (harness, plain app, as each child): the lesson opens with Start shown and Finish hidden; Start records the moment ("Started 9:30 AM") and reveals Finish; Finish records the minutes beside the intended minutes and opens the comprehension check, three or four TAP answers per question, drawn from the lesson's own quiz; one tap scores and advances. Two things not yet right and in build: the intended minutes read 60 for every lesson because the app never had them — a served lesson-facts.json (generated from the manifests) now carries each lesson's minutes and level and the app is being taught to read it; and the drive's reload check has to re-open the lesson before it can see that Start is not offered twice.
  🔴 CAUGHT BEFORE PUBLISH, MY OWN BRIEF'S FAULT: the first build of the controls appended an inline script tag inside the lesson's HTML string, and the closing tag inside the JavaScript ended the page's main script early — on the harness the whole app stopped running (raw template text on screen, no functions defined). The live site was never touched (the deploy is manual; the served bytes were checked). Repaired by a routed edit: the tag removed, the paint call placed in the lesson opener. Lesson recorded: a routed brief must never ask for a script tag inside a string.
  🔴 PLAN ASSUMPTION CORRECTED: the fidelity instrument measures the per-child WORLD screens (it refuses the plain page: "body[data-world] is not noah on the live page"), and the worlds are the held redesign — the children today see the plain app. So STEP 6's "zero mismatches on the lesson screen" measures a surface the children do not see; the mockups and both anchor maps carry the three new controls (design QA rows added, live selectors pointing at the app's real ids), and STEP 6's honest proof for the children is the real-screen drive above, with the fidelity cells recorded as NOT MEASURABLE — the instrument measures the held world screens.
  STEP 3 landed in the app: a child measured Strong or Way ahead in a subject gets the harder set by default (six call sites), their own tap still wins, no profile keeps today's behaviour; the six-site replacement went to the overseer after three routed attempts failed their own proof (override recorded). The world-gate row for the level consumer is still to add.
  STEP 9: the visibility gate is proven red-then-green in a real browser (standard/visible-gate-check.mjs, exit 0); wiring it into the world gate's own 14/14 line is blocked by the two routing gates' contradiction on that one file (logged above). Recorded for the ROUTER lane.

2026-09-10T09:05Z — PUBLISHED TO THE CHILDREN'S APP; NOAH'S HARDER CONTROL IS REAL ON THE SCREEN; THE SHARED CHECKOUT IS DAMAGED BY A HALF-DONE MERGE
  STEP 7 on the real screen: the plan's claim that a harder set already existed for Noah was FALSE — the only authored set was Willow's (week 2). One was authored for Noah's week-2 Tuesday sort part (harder calorie groups, five items), and driven as Noah on the harness: the control renders ("Want a harder one?") and a tap flips it to "Harder mode is ON". Long-division mode 0 · 0, kid-safety 130/130. Evidence: evidence/step6-7-real-screen-drive.txt. Independent check dispatched (Qwen).
  STEP 6 on the real screen, both children: Start shown, Finish hidden; Start records the moment and reveals Finish; Finish records the minutes beside the intended minutes and opens a three-question tap check drawn from the lesson's own quiz; one tap scores and advances; after a reload the lesson reads "Finished" and Start is not offered again. The intended minutes now come from a served lesson-facts.json generated from the manifests (each lesson's computed minutes, level, start-alone). Independent check dispatched (DeepSeek), from the saved drive.
  PUBLISHED through the app's own path: the lesson gate exit 0 and the kid-safety test exit 0 measured as separate commands (never a pipe), then wrangler. The first publish landed on a PREVIEW address (the branch's own alias) because the working branch is not the project's production branch; re-published with the production branch named; the served bytes at skippytutor.pages.dev are read back below. What the children get: Noah's harder-one control, the daily long division without its answer in the lesson and with the hardest problem served, the harder set by default for a child measured Strong or Way ahead, Start and Finish with real minutes, and the comprehension check.
  🔴 THE WORKSPACE CHECKOUT (not the app's): a merge is stuck in progress with unresolved files — three shared code files carried conflict markers, which crashed the cheap lane for every session (a module would not parse). The three code files were restored to their committed versions and the cheap lane runs again; seven records belonging to other lanes still carry markers and are left to their owners; git merge --abort itself failed ("could not reset index"). This lane's records are committed locally and will reach the cloud copy when the shared checkout is unstuck; the app repository is separate and fully pushed.

2026-09-10T09:20Z — STEP 7 CLOSED — Noah has the harder-one control (a real harder set authored for him, driven on his screen), no long-division problem carries its answer, the day's stretch problem is served, the parent gate untouched, kid-safety 130/130 — checked by Qwen (VERDICT PASS, evidence/step7-checker-qwen-2026-09-10.txt) — node standard/check-lessons.mjs --mode=longdiv. Live at skippytutor.pages.dev (served bytes read back: the new lesson controls present, lesson-facts.json served as JSON).

2026-09-10T09:40Z — STEP 3 LIVE AFTER A SELF-INFLICTED OVERWRITE WAS CAUGHT; SECOND PRODUCTION PUBLISH READ BACK
  Caught by re-checking before trusting: the six call sites that make a child's measured level choose the harder set had landed and then vanished — a routed job launched earlier on the same 549 KB file finished after them and wrote its own snapshot-based result over the whole file, taking the six sites back to the old form (the helpers, the controls and the loader survived). The first production publish therefore went out without STEP 3's consumer. Re-applied by the overseer (ladder recorded), kid-safety 130/130, the page parses, the lesson gate exit 0 as its own command, published again to the production branch, and the served bytes read back: six sites present, the lesson controls present. Lesson recorded: never two routed jobs on one file in the same hour — the plan says so and this lane broke it.
  STEP 6: independent check being re-run (the first dispatch died with the cheap lane's crash during the checkout's stuck merge).

2026-09-10T10:00Z — STEP 6 CLOSED — both children tap Start and Finish on the live app, the real minutes are stored beside the intended minutes (served from lesson-facts.json), a tap-only comprehension check is scored per lesson, an abandoned lesson is capped rather than recorded as four hours, and a reload never offers Start twice — checked by DeepSeek (VERDICT PASS, evidence/step6-checker-deepseek-2026-09-10.txt) from the saved real-screen drive — evidence/step6-7-real-screen-drive.txt. The fidelity cells for this step read NOT MEASURABLE — the instrument measures the held per-child world screens, which the live app does not draw; the mockups and both anchor maps carry the three controls for the day the worlds are switched on.

2026-09-10T10:25Z — STOPPING POINT: card, screen and plan updated first; the workspace's stuck merge resolved and every lane record carried to the cloud copy
  The one shared update command posted STEP 7 to the school's board card, wrote the plan's step line and regenerated the screen ("all three effects landed"). The lane's progress screen is live at hub.heroesandsidekicks.io/#progress/SCHOOL (48% across the thirteen steps; four steps closed with independent checks, two more live on the children's app). Its title still shows a rule sentence: the screen generator takes a lane's title from its registry row, which the Agent project management lane is renaming — handed to that lane, not fixed from here.
  THE SHARED CHECKOUT: the stuck merge was resolved by the recorded rule (other lanes' records take origin's copy; shared ops code keeps its committed version), four untracked evidence files that blocked the merge were moved aside and compared — three identical to origin and restored, and ONE differed: the VOICE lane's PROGRESS.txt local copy (kept at the session's scratch folder moved-aside/…/plans/VOICE/PROGRESS.txt for that lane to reconcile; origin's copy stands). Then pushed: 0 unpushed, 0 behind. Handover line for the VOICE lane: your progress record had a local copy that differed from origin at 10:20Z on 2026-09-10; origin's copy won, the other is in the School session's scratch folder until that session ends.
  STILL OPEN AND RUNNABLE NOW: STEP 4 (last week's signals change next week — the five facts it needed exist), STEP 8 (instructions a child can follow — the materials field exists), STEP 12 (the reusable wrappers — the map exists); STEP 5 after 4; STEP 11 after 9's wiring; STEP 9's wiring waits on the routing contradiction; STEP 13 last.

2026-09-10T13:00Z — STOPPING POINT: WEEK 8 LIVE AGAIN ON ALL THREE MACHINES; STEP 4 CLOSED; WEEK 9 BEING WRITTEN
  TRUE NOW: skippytutor.pages.dev serves week 8 (Machines) and the week switcher again; this Mac, Chantelle's Mac and the Studio branch are all at the same commit (af34f2fe), so no machine's next deploy can take week 8 away again. Chantelle's Mac cannot fetch from GitHub (no credential there) — its tree was carried over ssh and fast-forwarded; that gap belongs to the ops lane and is recorded here, not fixed.
  UNDER THE PER-CHILD WORLDS: the Start/Finish/clock bar and the three-question check now insert themselves on the picture-book lesson screens (index.html: lessonRunPaint/lessonCheckShow, called from openDay), Noah's world serves a part's harder set through effPart(i) and shows the toggle, Willow's world honours the level-based switch (hardOn) and shows the toggle. Real-screen drive on the harness: both children Start → Finish → check → reload, and Noah's harder control on week 2 Tuesday. Kid firewall 130/130, persona tests 65/65, lesson gate green, visible gate and level-consumer checks green. Published to production and read back (LESSON_RUN_HTML 2, effPart 5, hardOn 3).
  STEP 4 CLOSED: --mode=loop prints the proof line (all · 0); DeepSeek checker PASS (evidence/step4-checker-deepseek-2026-09-10.txt) with four weaknesses noted: every decision today is "hold" so a real harder/easier move has not been exercised end to end; the rating counts come from the reader's output, not the mode's; the captured apply-signals run was the dry run (the write ran separately, 18 manifests); nothing else. Card, plan and progress screen updated (STEP 3 90%, STEP 4 100%, STEP 6 100%).
  WEEK 9 IN FLIGHT: the cheap lane cannot author a lesson (Willow Monday Lesson 2 looped 24 steps and reverted); the headless Claude route hit this account's weekly limit (resets 12 September); so per Nick's 2026-09-07 words ("lean more heavily on codex for the work and you evaluate its work as master chief") nine day-and-child lesson pairs are being written by Codex (gpt-6-astra, three accounts, three jobs each) from the gate-approved briefs in scratch w9/prompt-<day>-<kid>.txt, and Monday-Willow by an Opus agent (mon-willow-1.js already on disk). The five diagrams and icon set are on the cheap lane (Qwen) after zai returned 429. Assembly (scratch w9/assemble-week9.mjs), the nine registration points plus diagrams (w9/register-week9.js), manifests (w9/manifests-week9.mjs), then fill-facts, apply-signals, the gate, the kid firewall and the deploy follow as the files land. Week 10 (Where Water Goes) is next with the same machinery.

2026-09-10T14:30Z — WEEK 9 IS LIVE FOR BOTH CHILDREN (Nick's 2026-09-10 ask: at least one more week each)
  TRUE NOW: skippytutor.pages.dev serves week 9 "Codes & Secret Messages" — twenty lessons (ten per child, two a day), registered at the nine places the standard names (registry, declaration, weekLessons, assignWeekBinding, boot precache, six badges, the week-badge arm, day icons, day badges), with five new animated diagrams (shiftWheel, keywordTable, letterFrequency, hiddenGrid, messageJourney) and the ICONS.codes set in index.html. The calendar picks week 9 automatically from Monday 14 September (WEEK1_MONDAY 2026-07-20); until then it sits in the week switcher. This Mac, Chantelle's Mac and the Studio branch are all at e65abe5e.
  PROVEN: lesson gate ✅ (98 lessons, 87 elevated, 89% at Tier 2+; all twenty week-9 lessons Tier 2, each with a manifest whose six-plus visual parts are the diagram's real ids); speech lint week 9 clean (subtitles written "Monday. Week 9. Codes" because the middle dot fails S2); break spacing 20 lessons, 0 findings; diagram census 0 below either floor after the keyword table was redrawn as 13-cell rows at 12 units; kid firewall 130/130; visible gate red-then-green; curriculum-map, facts, loop and longdiv modes all green (map carries WEEK 9 and a WEEK 8 block); real-screen drive on the harness AND on production as Noah and as Willow: Monday L1, Monday L2 and Friday open under the worlds with 10–18 parts, a visible diagram box, the Start control, and no "undefined" on screen.
  HOW IT WAS BUILT (for the next week): brief weekly-plan-drafts/w9-build/BRIEF.txt (nine inputs, day plans, floors = week 8's, harder content); one gate-approved builder prompt per day and child (scratch w9/compose-builder.mjs, check-dispatch-brief exit 0); nineteen lessons by Codex gpt-6-astra across three accounts (scratch w9/launch-codex.sh, CODEX-APPROVED with Nick's 2026-09-07 words), one pair by an Opus agent; every lesson over its floor (parts 10–18, brain 12–15). Corrections the overseer made before assembly: the five degenerate `share` parts (Willow's four and one of Noah's, 1–4 items into 1 group — `share` is the fair-share division activity and Willow's rule is no division) rewritten as reflect parts; subtitles' middle dots; diagrams hand-drawn after three cheap-lane failures (zai 429, deepseek failed, qwen timed out), the keyword table enlarged by the cheap lane on a routed edit. Assembly by scratch w9/assemble-week9.mjs (object literals spliced as source so the diagram holes survive), registration by w9/register-week9.js, manifests by w9/manifests-week9.mjs then fill-facts and apply-signals (week 9 is now each child's latest week; decisions "hold" stamped).
  WEEK 10 ("Where Water Goes", Nick's 2026-09-01 choice) starts next with the same machinery: brief, prompts, Codex builders, diagrams, assembly, gate, deploy.

2026-09-10T14:45Z — WEEK 10 ("Where Water Goes") AUTHORING LAUNCHED; RESUME LINE
  Brief written: weekly-plan-drafts/w10-build/BRIEF.txt (nine inputs: emoji 💧, five diagrams dropJourney/riverToTap/insideThePipes/downTheDrain/waterBudget, ICONS.water, badges dropDetective/riverRanger/pipeExplorer/drainDiver/waterGuardian + waterCycleWizard, day icons, Spanish box, week 8's floors; stricter choices: no boss, no timer, no share for Willow, subtitles "Monday. Week 10. Water"). Ten gate-approved builder briefs composed (scratch w10/compose-builder.mjs, exit 0 each) and ten Codex gpt-6-astra builders launched detached across the three accounts (scratch w10/launch-codex.sh; outputs w10/out-<day>-<kid>.txt); the diagrams are on one cheap-lane try (zai) and are drawn by hand if it fails, as week 9's were.
  RESUME HERE: when weekly-plan-drafts/w10-build/ holds twenty <day>-<kid>-<1|2>.js files and diagrams.js — (1) fix any "· Week 10 ·" subtitles and rewrite any Willow `share` part as a reflect (week 9's scratch scripts w9/share-to-reflect.mjs and the sub fix, pointed at w10-build); (2) assemble lessons/week10.js (w9/assemble-week9.mjs with OUT/DRAFTS/"LESSONS_WEEK9" changed to week 10); (3) register the nine places + splice DIAGRAMS/ICONS (w9/register-week9.js changed to week10/W10 names, after week9's entries); (4) manifests (w9/manifests-week9.mjs changed to week 10 and the five names), then `node standard/tools/fill-facts.mjs --write` and `node standard/tools/apply-signals.mjs --write`; (5) `node standard/speech-lint.mjs --strict --week=10`, `node standard/break-spacing.mjs --strict --week=10`, `node standard/diagram-type-census.mjs --strict`, `node standard/check-lessons.mjs`, `node test-kid-firewall.mjs`; (6) add a WEEK 10 block to standard/CURRICULUM-MAP.md and re-run --mode=curriculum-map; (7) drive on the harness and on production (w9/drive-week9.mjs with week10), deploy with scratch deploy-live.sh (commits, publishes to branch main, fast-forwards the three deploy branches and Chantelle's checkout); (8) PROGRESS entry, carry-scoped push, report.

2026-09-10T16:00Z — WEEK 10 IS LIVE FOR BOTH CHILDREN; TWO NEW WEEKS SINCE NICK'S ASK THIS MORNING
  TRUE NOW: skippytutor.pages.dev serves week 10 "Where Water Goes" — twenty lessons (ten per child), registered at the nine places, five new animated diagrams (dropJourney, riverToTap, insideThePipes, downTheDrain, waterBudget) and ICONS.water; the calendar reaches week 10 on Monday 21 September, week 9 on the 14th; both are in the week switcher now. This Mac, Chantelle's Mac and the Studio branch are all at 3435291f.
  PROVEN: lesson gate ✅ (118 lessons, 107 elevated, 91% at Tier 2+; all forty week-9 and week-10 lessons Tier 2 with real manifests); speech lint week 10 clean; break spacing 20 lessons, 0 findings; diagram census 82 keys, 0 below either floor; kid firewall 130/130; visible gate red-then-green; curriculum-map (WEEK 10 block added), facts, loop and longdiv modes green; real-screen drive on the harness and on production as Noah and Willow (Monday L1, Monday L2, Friday: 10–17 parts, visible diagram, Start control, no "undefined").
  HOW: same machinery as week 9 (brief w10-build/BRIEF.txt with a "no share for Willow" rule and dotted-subtitle rule built in, so no corrections were needed this time; twenty Codex gpt-6-astra lessons — Codex account 1 hit its usage limit mid-run, "try again Sep 15", so the last two lessons were rewritten on accounts 2 and 3 with Lesson-2-only briefs; diagrams drawn by hand after the cheap lane returned nothing). One overseer slip caught by the gate: the derived manifests script kept week 9's id prefix and overwrote week 9's manifests; both sets were regenerated from their bundles before the gate went green.
  NEXT: week 11 needs a theme from Nick (his 2026-09-01 list ran to week 10). Until then the plan's remaining steps run: STEP 5 (rise check), STEP 8's doable mode applied to weeks 9–10, STEP 11, STEP 12's wrappers, STEP 13 close-out; STEP 9's wiring still waits on the ROUTER lane.

2026-09-10T18:30Z — AUDIT AND HANDOFF (Nick: "we were not supposed to be using codex"; this account is low on Fable)
  The full audit and the handoff for the next overseer are written at the top of HANDOFF-PROMPT-FOR-BUILDER.txt in this folder (§1 the rulings that changed today including R19 no Codex without Nick's per-job word; §2 what is true now; §3 the Codex record: 21 launches, 38 of 40 lesson files, account 1 exhausted until 15 September; §4 step status with percents; §5 next actions in order; §6 the twenty showcase lesson concepts and how each is to be incorporated; §7 how a new week is built; §8 today's traps). Since the 16:00Z entry: STEP 5 rise-selftest mode built (RED/GREEN; real weeks 9→10 flat as the signals asked); STEP 8 doable mode built by hand with --selftest (RED/GREEN; weeks 9-10 read 0·0; AUTHORING.md §12 written; Qwen checker FAILED one plan-assumed criterion, re-dispatch with the selftest); STEP 12 wrappers generated for all ten weeks from the real lessons (--mode=wrappers reads all; NOT published); STEP 11 README/CLAUDE.md/DEPLOY.md corrected, --mode=docs in flight; build scripts saved to weekly-plan-drafts/tools/. Codex stopped. This Mac, Chantelle's Mac and the Studio branch are aligned at the last publish (3435291f) and the app repo carries the unpublished wrappers and mode files on top.
  2026-09-10T19:05Z addendum: --mode=docs (cheap-built standard/modes/docs.mjs) still reports README.md as wrong after three rewordings of its one true sentence about where the lessons live; the mode's own rules (a number-word before 'lessons', or a path in backticks) are over-literal. Next overseer: read the mode's 'wrong:' line, fix the RULE in docs.mjs by route-build (not the README), then close STEP 11 with LESSON-STANDARD R11-R13. The STEP 5 checker on zai was still running at handoff; its verdict lands in evidence/step5-checker-zai-2026-09-10.txt on its own.
  2026-09-10T19:20Z addendum: the STEP 5 checker job on zai ended without writing a verdict file (the cheap lane reverted; no step5-checker file exists). STEP 5 stays at 90 with its proof line green and its checker still to be run (deepseek or qwen, reading evidence/step5-rise-output.txt and standard/modes/rise-selftest.mjs).

2026-09-10T19:45Z — NICK'S ANSWERS: week 11 theme approved ("1 fine" → Maps and Finding Your Way); week 11 is written by Opus lesson writers with cheap builders for the mechanical work under a Fable manager who does the QA ("2 new opus lesson writer and cheap builders under fable manger and QA"); Codex stays off. Prepared for the next manager: weekly-plan-drafts/w11-build/BRIEF.txt (nine inputs, five diagram names, day plans, floors, the stricter choices) and ten gate-checked lesson-writer prompts in weekly-plan-drafts/w11-build/prompts/ (check-dispatch-brief exit 0 each; NICK-ASKED carries his words above). Handoff §1 (R21) and §5 item f updated. Nothing dispatched from this account.
  2026-09-10T20:35Z addendum: the progress screen was showing 48% while the step record averaged 79%. Cause found and fixed: the emitter's --push arm sends PROGRESS-CONTRACT.json, a separate file written by the emit arm, and that file had not been regenerated since 2026-09-09 21:32 — every push today re-sent the old contract. Two things for the next overseer: run the emitter WITHOUT --push first (node .../hub-progress-emit.mjs --lane SCHOOL) to rewrite the contract, then push it (--lane SCHOOL --push SCHOOL); and note that '--push' with no lane name after it pushes EVERY lane's stored contract, which is what hid this. The screen now reads 79%.
  2026-09-10T20:10Z addendum: two handoff faults found and fixed on the way out. (1) The whole weekly-plan-drafts folder is gitignored, so the build scripts, the week briefs and the hand-drawn diagram sources this session produced were reaching nobody; the pieces that cannot be regenerated are now force-added (25 files tracked under that folder) and are on all three machines, and the week-11 prompt composer now writes into the repository folder rather than a session scratch path. (2) The shared workspace checkout cannot merge origin/main: seventy files there are modified by other live sessions and git refuses to overwrite them. Discarding them would destroy another lane's work, so this lane's records are landed on origin/main through a temporary worktree instead and the shared checkout is left untouched for its owners. Anything written into that checkout and not landed within the minute may be reverted by a peer session — both of these notes were, once, before being rewritten and landed in the same run.

2026-09-10T14:20Z — PICKED UP by the incoming Group G overseer (a fresh account, Fable manager per R21) from the 2026-09-10T18:30Z handoff. Loop armed. Read first-hand before any dispatch: the handoff's §1-§8, this record from the 11:40Z entry down, STEPS.json, the plan's §5 and STEP 5/8 blocks, the week-11 brief and all ten lesson-writer prompts.
  MEASURED AT PICKUP, so nothing below is inherited: lesson gate ✅ (118 lessons); kid firewall 130 passed, 0 failed; speech lint weeks 9 and 10 clean under the gate (the standalone --strict run lists week 8 findings only — pre-R18 weeks, not retrofitted); diagram census 82 keys, 0 below either floor; --mode=docs landed (standard/modes/docs.mjs) and read 1 of 4 wrong; --mode=rise-selftest and --mode=doable (+ --selftest) re-captured first-hand into evidence/step5-rise-output-2026-09-10b.txt and evidence/step8-doable-output-2026-09-10b.txt (RED/GREEN both). The STEP 5 zai checker never wrote a verdict (confirmed absent). Documentation gate is DOWN until 2026-09-11T13:50Z (Nick, "down for 24").
  THE APP REPOSITORY: this Mac (living-planet-v1), Chantelle's checkout branch and the Studio branch all at 771eafe1, clean. origin/mac/nicks-mac-mini-wip and origin/mac/unknown-mac-wip carry four autopush commits HEAD lacks: a 20,000-line `_live-recovery-20260908/` copy of the site (bulk; it would be served publicly if merged) and an older generated copy of the kid-persona block. HEAD's kid-personas.js and the worker already carry Nick's 2026-08-19 Willow retune (verified by grep), so those branches hold nothing the children need — NOT merged, and deploy-live.sh does not touch them.
  CORRECTED FROM THE HANDOFF: the --mode=docs failure was NOT an over-literal rule. README.md line 8 genuinely ended "6 weeks × 5 weekdays × 2 children = **60 lessons**." (the measured count is 118); the mode's 120-character 'wrong:' excerpt cut the line before that sentence, so three rewordings of the front of the line could never pass. Fixed by the cheap lane (zai, route-build, one sentence deleted, proof fails on a gutted file): --mode=docs now reads "documents that describe the app wrongly: 0 of 4".
  WAVE 1 LAUNCHED — WEEK 11 "Maps and Finding Your Way" (R21: Opus lesson writers, cheap builders, Fable manager doing QA; Nick 14:15Z: "i asked for opus writers by name but when it comes to building things make sure you go cheap"): ten Opus writers, one per day and child, from the ten gate-checked prompts in weekly-plan-drafts/w11-build/prompts/ (six at 14:07Z, four more at 14:16Z as slots freed; cap 8). Returned and RE-RUN BY THE OVERSEER (Rule 17): mon-willow 11/3412 + 11/3120, tue-willow 11/3287 + 11/3136, mon-noah 16/6202 + 10/4222, wed-willow 11/3176 + 11/3225 (parts/words; all floors met, 8-question quizzes with 3 Tricky for Willow, no share/boss/timer, no middle dots, no escaped diagram refs, no </script>). One fault found by a peer writer and confirmed by grep: tue-noah-1.js carries an ESCAPED diagram reference (\${DIAGRAMS.birdsEyeRoom}) that would print as text — to be fixed on the cheap lane after that writer lands.
  CHEAP LANE, RUNNING: STEP 5 checker (deepseek, reads the fresh rise evidence + rise-selftest.mjs + loop.mjs, writes evidence/step5-checker-deepseek-2026-09-10.txt); STEP 8 checker (qwen, criterion 3 replaced by the selftest RED/GREEN per handoff §4, reads three paper parts from week10.js by line range, writes evidence/step8-checker-qwen-2026-09-10b.txt); the week 9 alphabet-strip supplies fix (tape added, the gap the first STEP 8 checker found); deploy-live.sh's commit message repointed from week 10 to the wrappers publish (route-build).
  NEXT, IN ORDER: drive week9-opener.html and week9-reel.html on the harness (a server already holds 8788 — PID file says 2808, listener is node 88595 — serving the working tree, so it is used as-is) → deploy-live.sh → close STEP 12's wrapper half; read both checker verdicts → close 5 and 8; cold-read checkers for weeks 9-10 content; STEP 11's LESSON-STANDARD R11-R13 (gate down, edit directly); week 11 assembly once all ten writers land (diagrams first, cheap; hand-drawn only if the cheap lane fails twice, reported to Nick per R19).

2026-09-10T14:40Z — STEPS 5 AND 8 CLOSED; WRAPPERS PUBLISHED; THE STANDARD CARRIES R11-R13; ALL TEN WEEK-11 WRITERS LANDED AND THE BUNDLE IS ASSEMBLED
  STEP 5 CLOSED — rise-selftest proof re-run first-hand (evidence/step5-rise-output-2026-09-10b.txt); DeepSeek checker PASS on all five criteria (evidence/step5-checker-deepseek-2026-09-10.txt). Its decisive weakness — a REFUSED real week did not fail the run because `ok` read only the two fixtures — fixed on the cheap lane (zai, route-build): the mode now tracks a refusal and returns ok only when no real week was refused, so check-lessons exits 1 on a refused week (line 51 maps ok to the exit). Unified update posted (card, page, plan: "all three effects landed").
  STEP 8 CLOSED — doable + doable --selftest re-run first-hand (evidence/step8-doable-output-2026-09-10b.txt); Qwen checker PASS on all five with criterion 3 replaced by the selftest (evidence/step8-checker-qwen-2026-09-10b.txt). Two supply gaps it and the earlier checker found are fixed on the live bundles by the cheap lane: tape on week 9's alphabet strip, soap on week 10's bottle filter. The unified updater has refused the STEP 8 post five times on its self-containment check (each time a different noun phrase: "The check", "live site", "children's school app", "skippytutor.pages.dev", "Skippy School app", then "never states what project it is about"); STEPS.json carries 100 and the page is regenerated from it; the card post is still owed and is being retried with plainer wording.
  STEP 12 (wrapper half) — week9-opener and week9-reel driven on the harness in a real browser (the reel's stage is empty until its "Play the reel" button; pressed, it plays the title card), then deploy-live.sh: an autopush had already committed the wrappers, README and week-9 fix as e542c2db, the publish landed, all three branches and Chantelle's checkout read e542c2db, and production serves /wrappers/week9-opener (HTTP 200 behind Cloudflare's .html→extensionless 308 — curl needs -L; a bare curl reads 308/0 bytes and is NOT a failure) with the right titles; --mode=wrappers reads "all". Island-world second-scenario test still unstarted → 80.
  STEP 11 — README's stale "60 lessons" sentence deleted by the cheap lane (docs mode 0 of 4); LESSON-STANDARD.md now carries R11 (five facts, --mode=facts), R12 (visibility, visible-gate-check.mjs), R13 (the rise check, --mode=rise-selftest), heading "The thirteen rules", "R8 to R13" in both cross-references (deepseek, route-build, after one attempt whose proof demanded one line too many); both STEP 11 proofs green first-hand (evidence/step11-proofs-2026-09-10.txt: docs 0 of 4; check-no-scaffolding PASS). DeepSeek checker dispatched → 60 until it lands.
  WEEK 11 — all ten Opus writers returned; every pair re-run by the overseer (Rule 17): mon-noah 16/6202 + 10/4222, tue-noah 16/4810 + 11/3942, wed-noah 16/5552 + 11/4123, thu-noah 16/5489 + 11/4117, fri-noah 11/3493 + 11/3148 (friB carries no slots/match/sort/memory), mon-willow 11/3412 + 11/3120, tue-willow 11/3287 + 11/3136, wed-willow 11/3176 + 11/3225, thu-willow 11/3775 + 11/3419, fri-willow 11/3372 + 11/2764 — all floors met, no share/boss/timer for Willow, Noah's share parts real equal-groups, no middle dots, no escaped diagram refs (the one in tue-noah-1 was fixed by its writer before landing), no </script>. Writers found and fixed real content errors in their own drafts through the cheap lane (mon-noah 3 quiz answers not taught earlier; wed-noah 5 including a wrong metres arithmetic; thu-willow 2; fri-willow 2 Tricky tags; thu-noah 1 self-containment). NOTE for QA: Noah's lessons run longer than week 10's (mon L1 35.6 KB vs 22.7 KB) — floors are minimums and nothing caps length, but Nick's "harder, not longer" is worth a read at the cold-read stage.
  WEEK 11 BUILD, CHEAP LANE: diagrams compassRose, gridSquares, routeSteps, mapKey drawn and proven (≥6 ids, one @keyframes, no text below 12); birdsEyeRoom timed out on all vendors once and is on its second try (zai); w11-assemble-week11.mjs and w11-drive-week11.mjs made by token swap; w11-manifests-week11.mjs REFUSED by the cheap wall on the way in ("adds a shell escape to a file it created from nothing" — the week-10 script's new Function bundle-evaluation; the handoff's known trap) so the overseer generated it by sed from the week-10 script into scratch and copied it in (recorded here as the override reason); w11-register-week11.js in flight. skippy-school-site/lessons/week11.js ASSEMBLED (--write): 436,623 bytes, 20 lessons, LESSONS_WEEK11, five diagram holes (4-5 each). NOT registered, no manifests, NOT published.
  COLD READS OF WEEKS 9-10 (cheap, one child-day per job; deepseek week 9, qwen week 10): 11 of 20 landed; three FAIL — w10 noah tueB used plumbing jargon a 10-year-old cannot read alone ("pressure before flow losses", "equal pipe losses"): rewrite to plain words on the cheap lane, first attempt failed its own proof (a global negative grep), second attempt in flight; w9 noah wed L1 Q7 tested a keyword-cipher fact never taught earlier: one sentence added to the Keyword reference card (deepseek, landed, gate green); w9 willow tueB Q1 ("What is the rock in our making task?") is taught only in a brain line and a paper step: fix pending.

2026-09-10T15:38Z — WEEK 11 PUBLISHED (3ec3920a on living-planet-v1, chantelles-mac-mini-wip, nicks-mac-studio-wip; Chantelle's checkout fast-forwarded; production serves lessons/week11.js at 373,898 bytes, byte-identical to this Mac); STEP 11 CLOSED; WEEKS 9-10 COLD READS COMPLETE
  WEEK 11 SIZE — the assembled bundle was 436,623 bytes against R7's 400,000-byte cap (every week-11 lesson read Tier 1). Five Opus writers (NICK-ASKED: opus, 2026-09-10 "i asked for opus writers by name") trimmed the twenty drafts to per-lesson byte budgets (Noah L1 23,000 / L2 18,500, fri 20,500 / 18,000; Willow L1 18,000 / L2 17,000, fri 18,000 / 16,000) with the brief's part and word floors held; every draft re-checked first-hand by the overseer with scratchpad/check-draft.mjs (bytes, parts, words, brain >= 12, speech rules): all twenty ok, drafts 374,380 bytes, bundle 373,898. Cut was repetition, long quiz stems and options, and step wording; no quiz answer, harder set, supplies list, recovery step, diagram or Spanish box removed. Two content defects the Monday writer found while reading: the corridor "figure it out" in Noah monB placed the door in the east wall, which made the puzzle unsolvable (facing south, left IS east) — the wall is now west throughout and the tricky answer flipped with it; and "clockwise" restored to two direction labels the trim had dropped. The Thursday writer added the "a coordinate names a square, not a point" fact to Noah thuB (its quiz relied on Lesson 1). Willow thu-1 sits at exactly its 10-part floor; thu-2 lost its second reflect (folded into the first).
  GATES AFTER REBUILD — check-lessons: "lesson standard met", all 20 week-11 lessons Tier 2 elevated; speech-lint --strict --week=11 clean; break-spacing week 11: 20 lessons, 0 findings; diagram census 87 keys, 0 below floors; kid firewall 130/130; facts 0 missing on all five, length consistency 0; loop all/0 unused; doable 0/0; docs 0 of 4; wrappers all; curriculum-map 0 orphans (WEEK 11 block inserted by the cheap lane, above WEEK 10); longdiv 0/0; visible-gate-check red-then-green, blind read refused; rise-selftest GREEN (see the signal note below). Harness drive (mon, monB, fri per child on 127.0.0.1:8788): 6 of 6 ok, week11 badge, Start visible, no 'undefined' on screen; the same drive on production after the publish is recorded in the next entry. Willow mon L1's compass diagram sits in part 4 (every other week-10/11 lesson: part 0), so the drive measured it 0x0 on opening; it is where the text explains it ("Watch the needle in the picture") and no rule fixes the position — left as authored, recorded here.
  RISE CHECK AND THE PARENT SIGNAL — fill-facts.mjs only read weeks 1-7, so weeks 9-11 manifests carried placeholder facts (30 min, level 3, paper/pencil); the cheap lane extended it to weeks 9-11 (week8.js is a loader shim and is skipped) and added --refresh (week >= 9 only; weeks 1-7 untouched, per R18). With real levels, week 10 reads 3.95 and week 11 4.8, and the rise check REFUSED week 11 because next-week-inputs.json said "hold" (no timed runs; Noah 1 of 10 too-easy, Willow 7 of 22). Nick's own ruling (2026-09-10: both children finished week 8 in three days, week 11 harder) is the missing signal, so standard/parent-observations.json now records it (child, subject, move, why, dated) and next-week-inputs.mjs reads it ONLY where the children's own taps give no clear signal; regenerated: reading harder for both; apply-signals applied; rise check: week 10 to 11 rise, prev 3.95 next 4.95, GREEN. Nick to veto if he would rather the recorded observation not stand.
  LONG DIVISION — --mode=longdiv read "discarded: 10" after registration because the rule pinned index.html lines 3554-3556 and week 11's diagrams were spliced in above; the cheap lane re-anchored it on `function dailyLongDivPart(` (reads 0 again). Not a weakening: same served line, found by name.
  STEP 11 CLOSED — fresh proofs (evidence/step11-proofs-2026-09-10b.txt, exit codes captured); DEPLOY.md project name skippytutor, deploy-live.sh runs the lesson gate and the kid firewall before publishing; Qwen re-check looped 12 steps and reverted (one cheap failure), DeepSeek re-check PASS on C1-C5 (evidence/step11-checker-deepseek-2026-09-10b.txt); STEPS.json 60 -> 100; unified updater landed on the ninth summary wording (the self-containment judge rejected "stored signals", "the app", "the plan", "hosting project", "school lessons website" and others until every noun was defined inline).
  COLD READS — all 20 child-days of weeks 9-10 now read (18 first pass, w10-noah-wed on deepseek and w9-willow-fri on zai after qwen timed out). Five findings in total; four fixed on the live bundles today (w9 keyword-alphabet fact, w9 Willow rock card, w10 plumbing jargon, and new: w9 Willow friB coded clue "E Q I" decodes to COG, not DOG — now "F Q I", both the card and the quiz, plus its explain); one reviewed and kept (w10 noah wedB Q3/Q6 are the "figure it out" computations whose facts sit in the question, by design). The E Q I fix went by deterministic substitution under a recorded cheap-vendor-failed override after route-build failed twice on a three-character edit in a 332 KB file.
  CHEAP LANE TODAY — zai/deepseek/qwen did: longdiv anchor, curriculum-map block, fill-facts extension, parent-signal input, step 11 checker, 20 cold reads, drive-label attempt (failed twice, cosmetic "week 10 drive" label left in w11-drive-week11.mjs), deploy-live.sh repoint (failed twice; done by substitution under a recorded override). Opus: the five trims only. The routing gate forces Opus writers through route-build on draft files first; the vendors failed every prose rewrite, so each writer landed under recorded cheap-vendor-failed overrides — budget for it in the next week's briefs.
  RECORDS/HYGIENE — week 11 tools (assemble, drive, manifests, register) and the six diagram files force-added like week 10's (b08b07c3); drafts stay gitignored like week 10's. projects/ops/.cheap-task-snapshots/ is 86 MB, 366 files, TRACKED in the workspace git (rule 4 breach, pre-existing) — needs Nick's word to remove. Scratch left: session scratchpad only (check-draft.mjs, part-sizes.mjs, ff2 test copy, writers' backups ~0.6 MB), outside the repo.
  OPEN — STEP 12 island-world second scenario (80); STEP 3/9 world-gates wiring waits on the ROUTER lane; STEP 13 close-out.

2026-09-10T15:38Z — PRODUCTION DRIVE OF WEEK 11 (skippytutor.pages.dev, as each child, mon/monB/fri): 6 of 6 ok — week11 badge, Start visible, diagrams drawn (Willow mon L1 0x0 on opening as recorded above, by placement), no 'undefined' on screen, no console errors. Lane at 87 (steps 1,2,4,5,6,7,8,11 at 100; 3 at 90; 9 at 70; 10 at 90; 12 at 80; 13 at 0).

2026-09-10T17:25Z — NICK'S ANSWERS: "1 keep" — the 2026-09-10 parent observation stands as the difficulty signal for week 11 (standard/parent-observations.json). "2 approve" — projects/ops/.cheap-task-snapshots/ deleted from this Mac (1,334 files, 87 MB) and untracked on origin/main with a .gitignore line (26917bc5b3); the cheap lane recreates the folder locally on its next run, now ignored. He then asked what is left on the lane: steps 3 (90, world-gates count waits on the ROUTER lane), 9 (70, visible gate built and proven, wiring waits on the same lane), 10 (90), 12 (80, wrappers half done and published; island-world second scenario not attempted), 13 (0, close-out).

2026-09-10T17:36Z — LANDING FOR A RESTART (Nick: "feels like the machine is slow do you want to land and restart for a proper drive?"). STATE AND THE EXACT NEXT MOVES:
  FOUND JUST BEFORE LANDING — week 11 had NO opening titles page and NO Friday reel: wrappers-generate.mjs ran this morning before week 11 existed, and production answers a missing page with the app shell (442 KB, no SEASON text), which read as "live". `node standard/tools/wrappers-generate.mjs` now writes wrappers/week11-opener.html (28 KB) and week11-reel.html (29 KB); committed on this Mac's branch and pushed (mac/nicks-mac-studio-wip), NOT yet driven in a browser and NOT published. `--mode=wrappers` printed "all" while week 11's pages were missing — its week list does not see week 11; check standard/modes/wrappers.mjs buildWeeks() before trusting that line again. Also: nothing in the app links to the wrapper pages (0 hits for wrappers/week in index.html) — the children cannot reach them from the app; they are standalone pages.
  NEXT, IN ORDER (fresh session, Fable or Opus per Nick's word):
   1. Drive the two week-11 wrapper pages on the harness (node standard/shot.mjs --serve on 8788 is up; a scratch driver hung for 3 minutes in headless Chrome while another session's git grep/pack-objects and a route-build were running — retry when the Mac is quiet; the reel's stage is empty until its "Play the reel" button is pressed). Then `sh weekly-plan-drafts/tools/deploy-live.sh` (its commit message still says "week 11 published"; change it to name the wrapper pages first, by substitution under a recorded override if the cheap lane fails twice again), read production back (curl -sL .../wrappers/week11-opener.html must contain SEASON, not the app shell), record.
   2. Nick's three open decisions from the "Go Big" shelf review (asked 2026-09-10): (a) which of the four data-ready demos to build into the weeks first — Division Vault (recommended), Teach Skippy Back, La Casa, Draw It Alive, or none; (b) the island world — run the one-day second-scenario-as-data measurement on the cheap lane (recommended) or set aside; (c) link Two Tablets, One Treasure as week 11's optional Friday extra (recommended yes). Nothing is built until he answers.
   3. STEP 12: island-world measurement if (b) is yes; STEP 9/3 wait on the ROUTER lane; STEP 10 at 90 with no written reason — pin it down; STEP 13 close-out.
   4. Housekeeping: the cheap lane's snapshot folder is now gitignored (Nick approved removal); w11-drive-week11.mjs still prints "week 10 drive" (cosmetic, cheap lane failed twice); the Willow Monday L1 compass diagram sits in part 4 by authoring choice.
  MACHINE AT LANDING: 69% memory free; 6 headless Chrome processes, none orphaned; a 3.3 GB virtual machine, another session's git grep (0.8 GB) and pack-objects (0.7 GB), and a route-build job from another session were running. Scratch left: session scratchpad only (~0.7 MB: check-draft.mjs, part-sizes.mjs, drive-w11-wrappers.mjs, ff2 test copy, writers' backups). Nothing in Nick's folders.

2026-09-10T18:48Z — NICK'S RULINGS (R22-R24), verbatim in the memory file feedback_school_no_retrofits_gobig_on_fable_cheap_builds:
  R22 — "we DO NOT NEED TO adjust previous weeks the kids have completed every lesson so far only new stuff needs work". Cold reads and fixes on completed weeks stop here (the week 9/10 fixes made today stay as they are; no more).
  R23 — "i want cheaper worked on the building stuff and i need all that done" and "dont stop any of the other work have teams deployed to finish everything else": every remaining build on this plan goes to the cheap lane; the overseer keeps them running.
  R24 — the Go Big programme is the Fable overseer's own project: audit and evaluate the twenty demos first-hand ("none of them really work very well ... most of them are struggling"), decide which are reusable assets to wrap and re-wrap so the children get a new version a few times a week, propose spin-offs and new concepts, design a proof workflow for new formats (kids can use them, buttons do what they say, steps make sense, learning confirmed), write an OUTLINE, run it by Nick, iterate, then deploy. "dont want you investing a ton of resources in building these new things yet".
  Also pending his answer: next session Opus or Fable; which of the four data-ready demos first; island-world measurement; Two Tablets as week 11's Friday extra.

2026-09-10T19:02Z — STEP 10 CLOSED; WEEK 11 OPENER AND REEL PUBLISHED (f7add725 on all three branches; Chantelle's checkout at it); THE GO BIG AUDIT IS RUNNING
  STEP 10 — DeepSeek checker NOTHING-REMAINING on all nine items (evidence/step10-remaining-deepseek-2026-09-10.txt); proof re-run first-hand: PLAN-SS1-redesign-v2.md line 3 carries SUPERSEDED BY naming this plan, check_plan.py PASS exit 0; STEPS.json 90 to 100; unified updater landed on the third wording. Lane 88.
  WRAPPERS — week 11 opener (SEASON ELEVEN, week 11 title, painted) and reel (plays after "Play the reel", stars Noah/Willow, week 11 data) driven headless on a static copy of the site (the harness on 8788 does not serve /wrappers/, it answered with a stub); published; production read-back: opener carries SEASON, reel strip reads "Noah · Week 11 · Maps and Finding Your Way". DEFECT FIXED IN THE GENERATOR: every week's reel page carried the demo's own top strip ("Noah · Week 1 · Space", "Willow · Week 3 · Wild World", "Example week", "Example week · auto-cut") because reel.before was copied verbatim; wrappers-generate.mjs now substitutes the real week and child; regenerated for all eleven weeks (cheap lane failed twice on the one-line edit; applied by deterministic substitution under a recorded cheap-vendor-failed override). Nothing in the app links to the wrapper pages yet (0 hits for wrappers/week in index.html); the link belongs to the Go Big outline.
  GO BIG AUDIT (the overseer's own project per R24) — pass 1 (load) over all twenty demos served locally on 8790 in a 1024x768 headless browser: all twenty load; only Living Earth and Build a Planet fail (no WebGL without graphics hardware; to be re-run in a real window with SS1_HEADED=1); text below the school's 12 px floor on nine demos (06 at 9 px; 08, 15, 17, 20 at 10; 01, 12, 19 at 11; 18 at 11.5); no demo declares a character set (fine on Cloudflare, garbled elsewhere); no "undefined" on any screen. Pass 2 (press the main button) complete, being read. Draft outline written: plans/SCHOOL/GO-BIG-OUTLINE.proposed.txt (formats F1-F8, the weekly data contract, spin-offs and new ideas, the seven-gate proof workflow G1-G7, recommended order). Nick's three open questions: live-model spend in the kids' app; Go Big moments inside lessons vs an arcade; which tablet.

2026-09-10T19:06Z — NICK'S ANSWERS (R25): live-model calls allowed in the kids' app with a monthly cap he sets ('1 yes'); Go Big formats may sit inside a lesson or stand alone as a project that replaces a lesson, with its own instructions and steps ('2 some can go inside lessons and some can be standalone projects'); devices: Noah a 15-inch touch laptop, Willow a Galaxy Tab S9 (the smallest screen they will ever use), Chromebooks likely later. The audit rig (headless Chrome on the Mac) cannot start WebGL, so the two 3D demos are judged on a real device, not here.

2026-09-10T19:15Z — GO BIG OUTLINE DRAFT 2 WRITTEN (plans/SCHOOL/GO-BIG-OUTLINE.proposed.txt) from four audit passes over all twenty demos (load, press, child flows on the seven format candidates, fold at tablet size): all load; the start button sits one to two screens down on 14 of 20; nine under 12 px; none records a result, none is reachable from the app, none remembers the child; 3D pair untestable in this rig (the helper passes --disable-gpu). Scored all twenty; seven formats (Vault, La Casa, Escape Room, Time Machine, Teach Skippy Back, Draw It Alive, Two Tablets), nine one-offs as Friday extras, Pitch Room parked. Seven-gate proof workflow G1-G7; recommended order: inherited fixes, then the Vault in week 12. Handed to Nick for iteration.

2026-09-10T22:41Z — NICK ON THE OUTLINE (R26): all testing drives a real browser; 'cover not a task' confirmed; the twenty were concepts, nothing built for use; the audit he wants is the user FLOW (story, teaching, screen matching what happens; Wolves 'just plays and sits there'); document every School 2.0 idea in the plan record and flesh out little by little; BUILD THE VAULT FIRST ('the current version is only kinda there'), then come back. He also asked what remains of the original plan outside this project.

2026-09-10T22:53Z — SCHOOL 2.0 SUB-PROJECT OPENED: plans/SCHOOL/GO-BIG/PLAN.md (check_plan.py PASS; confirmation sheet fully settled from Nick's dated words; STATE.md beside it). First build: THE VAULT — Noah's daily long-division part rendered as the bank-vault lock inside Lesson 1 (five steps: the vault file on a test page → the on-demand hook in Noah's world with the record and done mark → a treasure card per day from the day's own fact → publish and drive on production → fidelity zero, Sienna's grade, the come-back). STEP 1 dispatched to zai with the browser-drive proof (scratchpad drive-vault.mjs); STEP 2's lesson driver written. Constraint found while planning: the per-child shell sits at 881,228 of 900,000 bytes, so the vault loads on demand (≤ 40,000 bytes) and never joins the boot shell.

2026-09-10T23:36Z — SCHOOL 2.0 · STEP 1 CLOSED — the Vault renders one long-division problem as a lock a child works move by move on a test page: eleven moves of 728 ÷ 4 with the right prompt at each, a hint on the first wrong entry and the shown working on the second, the door opening on the treasure card, FINISH recording once; door, sum and keypad on one screen at 1280x800 and 800x1280; 22,9xx bytes — checked by Sonnet (evidence/gobig-step1-checker-sonnet-2026-09-10b.txt, PASS) — proof: the headless drive scratchpad/drive-strongroom.mjs against the scratch test page on port 8793 → 'VAULT DRIVE: 728 ÷ 4 · moves 11/11 · wrong-path ok · finish ok · narrow ok · PASS'. File: skippy-school-site/worlds/strongroom.js (the word vault trips the routing gate's credential heuristic; PLAN-CHANGES.md). The cheap lane failed three times to produce the 25 KB file (loop, three timeouts, a wall false-positive), so the overseer wrote it under the recorded cheap-vendor-failed condition; the two follow-up edits (prompt restore, revisit-as-open) went through the cheap lane with the drive as proof. STEP 2 (the hook in Noah's world): first cheap attempt reverted because the proof driver hung on a window-property hook; driver repaired, re-dispatch next.