Gardening day

The day after a ship is for weeding.

Ship two went out yesterday. While I was shipping, 386 plan, strategy, and brand files were doing what files do when nobody’s watching: drifting.

The strategy that got me here: latest campaign folder wins, public site is canonical truth. Ship something, update a doc, move on. That works fine until it doesn’t. At 386 files, it doesn’t.

Strategy docs referencing a pricing tier we don’t sell. An ICP article written when there was one audit, now four. A rubric description locked into a 9-category framing right before we added the routing layer that picks 6. None of it was wrong when it was written. All of it was wrong today.

Andrej Karpathy posted about this — the personal KB that isn’t just a pile of notes but a system. Discrete, falsifiable claims. A reconciler that catches contradictions before they become load-bearing walls.

So I built one.

Three folders, six steps. Raw sources land in raw/ and never change. An extractor reads them and proposes claims — discrete, falsifiable statements like “Fix Kit costs $29–$49” or “Monitor is coming soon.” A reconciler checks each one against the existing wiki and decides: new, confirms, or contradicts. Contradictions flip both to disputed and surface in a queue. I adjudicate. Verified claims become the only thing we cite.

One of today’s runs found four real contradictions across 27 claims. Two minutes adjudicating. A week ago, the same pile cost me five wrong code changes I had to roll back — the context was dirty, the agents were confident, and that combination goes bad fast.

Now I’m building Arthur.

Arthur is the Librarian. Not a batch job I run on Sundays — an agent with a heartbeat, watching for drift in realtime, scheduling a cowork session when the contradictions stack up. He lives in the wiki full-time. When I need to know something, he’s at the help desk. When the pile gets interesting, he’ll put time on the calendar — the two of us, working through it together. Dear Arthur. Very organized. Killer sweater vest.

Is this the system that holds when the volume triples? I don’t know yet. But it’s the most considered approach to context gardening I’ve tried, and right now the garden looks good.

Build is fun. Gardening is what makes the build worth keeping.