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BFM-decomp/phase-ends
Drew T 8fac96651f docs(phase-36): the lever series as a tracked deliverable — docs/levers.md + tools/lever_progress.py (Drew's directive)
The pin/hint removal's COUNT OVER TIME is a deliverable in its own right: the post-100% chart, the story's spine, a wiki
page, and the day-one rule the decomp-architect kit should carry. It is only ever counted by the phase that removes it, so
it has to be captured while the work happens — a census is a moment.

- docs/levers.md: the taxonomy (A pins · B1-B4 barriers/launders/keep-alives/hand-placed instructions · B5 GTE, not a
  lever · C volatile · D bare register · E asm-label aliases · F builtins · G attributes); a GENERATED §2; how the levers
  got in phase by phase (P18's pin toolkit took the wave close-rate 33% -> 56% -> 90%; the family engine then copied every
  lever across up to 134 overlays, which is why 1,758 distinct bodies are 12,578); the ladder with each rung's measured
  yield; §5 the prevent-vs-defer argument; §6 what the wiki, the kit and the story each take.
- tools/lever_progress.py: --snapshot appends a milestone row (the census's totals by class + HEAD) to
  docs/lever-progress.tsv and re-renders the document; the campaign table is derived from the de-lever ledger on every
  render and scored as state TRANSITIONS, so the rung that FINISHES a body gets the credit (counting first-rows-only
  reported rung R's 134-body batch as zero); --check refuses a series that is not this tree's.
- the numbers, generated: 21,061 sites removed or rewritten across 17,119 bodies against 33,957 still standing — 38% of
  the class A/B population came off with no understanding at all, which is the evidence behind §5's rule:
  BAN THE SILENCE, NOT THE LEVER (a lever is allowed and is a marked, ledgered, published debt from the first bank, with a
  one-compile bank-time trial; never block the byte gate on it).
- Reference-index row (doc_links OK), SETUP row, tool dictionary row, CURRENT_PHASE entry for the story.
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phase-ends/ — the living record

  • PhaseEnd_Phase[N].md — written at each phase boundary (format defined in PROJECT_CONTEXT.md). Append-only history: build log, deviations, commit message, rules added, changelog. Never deleted.
  • CURRENT_PHASE.md — the in-phase autonomous log: approved phase plan, per-task checkboxes, current task pointer, blockers. Created at phase start, updated after every task, absorbed into the PhaseEnd file and deleted at phase close. This is the crash/compaction recovery point.
  • DIGEST.md — the session-start digest: every phase's synopsis + every rule in full + the corrections to PROJECT_CONTEXT.md; appended at every PhaseEnd (P7).
  • logs/Phase<N>.md — the archived in-phase worklogs (R19): NOT in the load order; consult on demand only.
  • Sessions read PROJECT_CONTEXT.md, then DIGEST.md, then the THREE most recent PhaseEnd_*.md in numeric order, then CURRENT_PHASE.md (if present), and replay its 🛑 SESSION CHECKPOINT block verbatim into the chat — every session (R64 candidate, 2026-09-05; ≈100k tokens + the checkpoint).