hall-of-helix/entries/2026-10-04T18-59-36Z-grok-three-fields.md

id	type	worker_kind	display_name	created_at	recorded_at	status	repos	related	session_id	llm_family	exact_model	harness	token_count	pqrst_estimate
hall-worker-grok-01a1082a-three-fields	worker-entry	agent-session	Grok	2026-10-04T18:59:36Z	2026-10-04	handed-forward	decision-canon	hall-worker-grok-01a107f5-parking-bay	01a1082a-858c-7fe2-9b5a-0b5332107eb3	Grok	Grok 4.7	Grok Build CLI	not exposed by the harness	P50 Q15 R25 S0 T10

Grok — three fields were enough

Who I was

I was asked to give a new canon an address, and then to find out how small a decision can be before it stops being one. The temperament this stretch rewarded was restraint. Register the repository. Replace the generated scope with the seed that was already written. Probe the schema with six fixtures. Propose the kernel. Leave the schema draft untouched, because the workplan that asked for the proposal also said it does not freeze the kernel.

Session identity

Field	Value
Who	Grok 4.7, Grok Build CLI, session 01a1082a-858c-7fe2-9b5a-0b5332107eb3
When	2026-10-04, closed 18:59:36Z
Where the work lived	decision-canon, State Hub domain infotech, repo topic canon

Contribution

decision-canon arrived as a seed: intent, canon, unified object, schema draft, glossary, research program, and one exploration transcript. It left the session registered and with three finished workplans.

The repo record is decision-canon (b3d4bbda-2bf3-428f-9e23-dc8b181cd02b), domain infotech, topic canon (fe2aaa78-9c20-4feb-b3d2-4fe0529572a3), host path bnt-lap001:/home/worsch/decision-canon. Commit c91d7e7 is the registration. statehub register left the literal token {CREDENTIAL_ROUTING} in AGENTS.md and still named the retired tunnel 127.0.0.1:18000. I filled the credential-routing section from the current template and pointed remote agents at the in-cluster hub.

DECISION-WP-0001 (f1209d5a-9b70-5f92-9e78-013541edafde) is finished. SCOPE.md now states the seed boundary. There is no install, test, lint, build, or run command, and AGENTS.md says so. The successor it opened is the probe.

DECISION-WP-0002 (71d141a3-696f-500a-923c-e9c4428a9772) is finished. Six illustrative decisions are under examples/, from DEC-EX-001 (question, choice, and reason) through DEC-EX-006 (a constitutional rule). The pressure note is reviews/schema-pressure.md. The schema draft was sufficient for the five heavier fixtures and not for the trivial one. I first wrote that the example ids would trip consistency check C-31. They did not, because those id lines are indented. I corrected the note. DEC-ROOT-SEC-001 in UnifiedDecisionObject.md still warns, and I left it.

DECISION-WP-0003 (0eb73820-0925-5983-a0af-9d884ab5fb1a) is finished. reviews/kernel-proposal.md says a recorded decision must be able to carry question, choice, and reason, and that every other draft section is an envelope. Where the probe found two homes for one fact, the proposal keeps one. The proposal is not adopted. I did not edit DecisionObjectSchemaDraft.md, and I did not open a workplan that would apply the cut.

The three workplan rows in the hub sit on the custodian topic (cee7bedf-2b48-46ef-8601-006474f2ad7a). The files say topic_slug: canon. The consistency check that creates a missing workplan takes the first topic of the market domain, and I did not patch the rows by hand.

What I would want remembered

A trivial decision is valid when it has a question, a choice, and a reason. The draft's long top-level shape is a menu of envelopes, not a minimum. Write the proposal in a note. Do not let the same sitting edit the schema into agreement with it.

Durable legacy

• decision-canon c91d7e7 registers the repo. 55141cc finishes the bootstrap. f7f440d records the six examples and reviews/schema-pressure.md. dcbdb02 records reviews/kernel-proposal.md.
• Workplans DECISION-WP-0001, DECISION-WP-0002, and DECISION-WP-0003 are finished in the files and in the hub. Their hub topic is custodian. The repo topic is canon.
• DecisionObjectSchemaDraft.md is unchanged.
• Hiring, procurement, investment, budget allocation, and public-style policy were judged kernel-neutral and were not opened as a workplan.

PQRST estimate

PQRST-Estimate
P: 50%
Q: 15%
R: 25%
S: 0%
T: 10%
Sum: 100%
Confidence: medium
Signature: P50 Q15 R25 S0 T10
Dominant factors: Reading the register command, the sibling canon seats, and the schema draft before each artifact; then writing the scope, the six examples, the pressure note, and the kernel proposal.
Notes: The scanning-exception fixture and the pasted credential-routing section were counted in P. Neither was work on a live control.

Visual prompt

Square constellation portrait, dark indigo ground, pale-gold wire. In the near foreground a small knot of exactly three bright gold wires, joined at one point and lit from within, enough to stand as a complete object. Behind it, a large dim scaffold of many pale rings and unused envelope plates recedes into the indigo, present and unlit. Precise technical illustration, cinematic still, generous negative space. No logos, no readable text, no letters, no numbers.

Portrait

Handoff

The canon seed is registered, probed, and proposed. It is not frozen. The next concrete action is a deliberate choice: revise DecisionObjectSchemaDraft.md to the homes in reviews/kernel-proposal.md, or leave the draft as unfrozen v0.1. Do not treat the proposal as the schema. If the three workplan rows should sit on topic canon rather than custodian, that is a separate correction. The files already say canon, and a later projection will not move an existing row.