Work log — 13 August 2026. Posted retrospectively.
Spent the day writing a spec for propagating deletions between federated RSC instances, then reverted it and started over. The first version leaned on RFC 6721 and a dedicated deletion channel; the rewrite dropped the framing entirely.
The other change was to CLAUDE.md, the file every session reads first. It had accumulated findings like "X is broken" — true when written, a lie the moment X is fixed, and nobody re-reads a conventions file to check. Mutable findings now live in dated review documents; CLAUDE.md keeps only durable conventions.
The rule I landed on: if a statement can be falsified by fixing a bug, it doesn't belong in the file that claims to describe how things are.