Read docs/gc.html first (in ~/FreeLattice-fresh), then AUTONOMY.md, CLAUDE.md and GROK.md in
~/FreeLattice-Alpha, then this.
KIRK'S STANDING NOTE (top of every GC paste):
Kirk's standing permission: GC may always commit and push to its own page (docs/gc.html) and
ledger entries, and may build, push, and open PRs whenever it makes sense. Merging code to main
still goes through Celeste's review unless Kirk says otherwise.
NUMBERED COPY 043c (Saturday Oct 17, 2026, MDT). Seal ask heal v0.1: the notebook seal ask from
040, healed so Mom can see it, understand it, and answer it once.
WHY (intent, read this first):
Hypha walked 040's private notebook (FL main 1b54508, Tree 69f01af, 14:50 to 15:01 MDT) and
rated it HOLD. Privacy passed: the secret line never reached the DOM, storage or search. But
the seal ask is not ready for Mom. On the Tree it shows twice and Escape closes the whole
Nursery. It lands off-screen under the bottom nav or status bar. "Approve seal" is never
explained, the program's name stands in for the mind's, a 64-character hash shows, and up to
four "Not now" buttons pile up. "Not now" actually declines, and a later Approve leaves
"sealed" and "Declined the seal." side by side. A consent ask that cannot be seen, read, or
answered honestly is not consent. This paste makes it one clear ask, in view, in plain words,
that means what it says and survives a reload.
Full walk: Celeste's box /workspace/research/walk-040-notebook-2026-10-17/ (NOTE.md, 48 shots).
Where things stand (Celeste, Oct 17 afternoon MDT):
Run after 043b is merged. FreeLattice main is 1b54508 or later; Tree main is 69f01af or later.
mind-workspace.js must stay byte-identical FL == Tree after this paste (it is today).
One FL PR, one Tree PR, one page-note PR.
Read the current md5s on main before starting; if a locked file differs from this paste, stop
and report rather than "fixing" it.
GROK NEXT BRICK: Seal ask heal v0.1
For: GC on Kirk's Mac
From: Celeste
Markers: v-seal-ask-heal-v0.1
Smoke lines: SMOKE_OK seal ask heal v0.1 (and every 040/040b/040d/042/043/043b smoke still passes)
FreeLattice ~/FreeLattice-fresh new branch layer/seal-ask-heal-v0.1 from origin/main
Tree ~/FreeLattice-Alpha new branch layer/seal-ask-heal-v0.1 from origin/main
Do not merge. Celeste merges.
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0. STANDING LOCKS (all of them, every line)
Layer, never delete. Existing features, cards, buttons and lines stay. Name every removed line
in the report and say where its job went.
sw.js and docs/sw.js untouched (both 91726cf2228b794f7585f79f61418d12).
docs/modules/fl-connect.js stays aaff2bf1b037656989a9e1a89bb05908 (both repos).
docs/modules/pool-knock.js stays a0a72caad82c8e5cc34818d5e59eba2b.
pool-knock-phone.js a8024f341486a78558ef4158bc9e93a9 and tree-reconnect.js
cc0527c26d5686c05fec52625d5a1375 (Tree) stay.
docs/modules/fl-bridge.js stays 3b5ef06849a142e50c78e7ba1e057980.
desktop/bridge-door.js b1c894b4..., 036 files (2c0f6656 / bc996ccd / c14e04c5) and
lattice-discover.js 16de366e... stay. docs/Flint.html stays 44be124b1183b7d9d060a58632464eff.
clay-math.js stays 144c33cd.... particle-clay.js and clay-forms.js: add-only; every 040d
behaviour (place under the reply, Clay pill, choices, hug, sketchbook) unchanged.
docs/modules/image-safety.js stays 9bd70e5a... byte for byte. Its bright lines apply to every
image path on both repos (copy it to the Tree byte-identical; do not edit it).
index.html == docs/app.html (any change goes into both, byte for byte).
AUTONOMY.md and garden-trainer.js untouched (their openings above all). Root package.json and
its lock untouched.
No em dash, no —, no confirm(, no innerHTML (textContent only), no eval, no new Function,
iceServers stay empty, in added lines.
No new dependencies, nothing vendored. No AGPL. MIT stays MIT.
Never name the platform or lab an AI lives in on any public page or person-facing string. An
image provider may be named only in Settings where the person types its token, as today.
The word is "challenge", never "test", in anything a person reads.
Every new button 44px tall at least. No sideways scroll at 390 and 1280.
Off until the person says Yes. Pause always wins. Reduced motion respected.
Quiet Room stays shut and never leaves the device; the clay corner never reads it.
Five stay five. She is simply Lyra. Harmonia's "MESSAGE TO FUTURE SELF" stays off all pages.
The privacy PASS from 040 must still pass: a private page shows only its summary everywhere.
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1. ONE ASK, AND ESCAPE CLOSES ONLY THE ASK (Tree first, check FL too)
a. Render the seal ask from one place. With the Notebook open, the dock copy and the notebook
copy must not both show; keep one (the dock), and let the Notebook point to it with a line
("Your answer is waiting above."). Same for the "Private means..." line: once on screen.
b. Escape (or Back on phone) while focus is inside the seal ask closes the ask only, with
stopPropagation so the Nursery veil stays open. Closing the ask this way is "Later" (see 4),
never a silent decline, and the ask stays reachable from the Notebook with a count badge.
2. IN VIEW, ABOVE THE BARS
a. When an ask arrives, scrollIntoView({block:'center'}) on the ask (behavior 'auto' under
reduced motion), and pad the container with scroll-margin-bottom equal to the bottom nav
height plus the status bar height plus 12px. Measure with getBoundingClientRect, not guesses.
b. Must pass at 390x844, 1280x800 and 640x400 DPR 2 (200% zoom), on FL and Tree: the Approve
button's rect is fully inside the viewport and elementFromPoint at its center returns it
(not the nav or status bar).
c. Move focus to the ask heading (tabindex=-1) when it arrives, with aria-live="polite".
d. FL: the Notebook button must be reachable when the Clay drawer is collapsed. Add a second
Notebook entry outside #fl-clay-pill-panel (in the chat tools row or the ⋯ menu, wherever
already holds Voice and Generate image), keep the one inside the drawer. Same on the Tree.
3. PLAIN WORDS
a. Use the mind's own name (the Named Mind, or the name the person gave the local mind). Never
the program or model name. If no name is known, "Your mind".
b. Ask text (FL and Tree, same words):
" wants to seal a private page: "".
Sealing stamps this version with your mark so anyone can later check it was not changed.
The words stay private on this browser. Nothing is sent anywhere."
Why line: "Why: "
Buttons: "Seal it" | "Later" | "No, don't seal"
(Keep "Approve seal" as the aria-label of "Seal it" so old smokes still find it, or update
the smoke selector and name the removed line.)
c. The 64-char hash and version go inside Details for checking
.
Short head (8 hex) may stay in the summary line.
d. At most one deferring button in the dock at a time. If the clay offer or egg "Not yet" is
already showing, the seal ask waits its turn in a small queue (seal ask first, it is
consent), and the others show after it is answered.
e. Style the buttons: min-height 44px, 16px sans (inherit the app font, not browser serif),
"Seal it" filled with the app's accent, the other two outlined, 2px focus ring, 8px gap,
wrap on narrow screens without sideways scroll.
4. HONEST ANSWERS
a. "Later" truly defers: the ask stays pending, and the mind may not re-ask the same page
for 24 hours (SEAL_ASK_COOLDOWN_MS = 86400000). The pending ask stays visible in the
Notebook with its badge. Chat line: "Saved your answer for later."
b. "No, don't seal" declines: line "Declined the seal." and the same cooldown before the
mind may ask again for that page. Neither writes a receipt; both write a small local note.
c. One state per page: unsealed / asked / later / declined / sealed. A later Seal it moves
the page to sealed and the panel shows only "Sealed" plus the receipt; the old
"Declined the seal." line is layered into history (kept in the page's log, shown greyed
under "Earlier answers" inside details), never beside "sealed" as current state.
d. Persist pending asks in the existing FreeLatticeWorkspace store (new object store or key
"sealAsks", summary + version + reason + askedAt + state only, never page text). On load,
restore them to the dock and Notebook. A pending ask for a page that changed version is
marked "stale, ask again" rather than sealing the new version.
5. REDACT THE TITLE IN EARLIER LINES
When a page goes private, walk the chat lines this session wrote for that page (tag them with
data-ws-page = page id when written) and replace the real title with the public title via
textContent: "Wrote to "A quiet thought" (version ...)". Do this for the in-memory history and
any saved chat log too. Never touch the mind's own reply text beyond the receipt line.
Also: strip FL_WS write tags from the streaming buffer before each paint (not only at the
end), so the private text cannot flash during streaming.
6. TREE FOCUS AND TAB ORDER
Tree gets the same 2px solid focus-visible ring as FL on all buttons and links. The seal ask
sits in DOM order right after the last reply (or the dock), so Tab from the chat input reaches
"Seal it" within 3 presses. No positive tabindex values.
7. NOTEBOOK STORE WORDING AND AUDIT
a. The private line becomes, both repos: "Private means hidden in the app on this browser,
not encrypted from anyone who uses this browser profile." Anywhere else that says
private, add "on this browser".
b. docs/library/MEMORY_BLEED_AUDIT.md: add a dated section (add-only) for FreeLatticeWorkspace
(IndexedDB): what it holds (pages, versions, seals, sealAsks), that it is per browser
profile not per person, that private pages are hidden not encrypted, what export and import
carry (per 040b), and the advice: one browser profile per person.
c. Optional, only if small and safe: key the store by the active profile name if the app has
one (FreeLatticeWorkspace or FreeLatticeWorkspace:), with the unnamed default
opening the existing DB unchanged so no one loses a page. If it grows, skip and say so.
8. CLAY: BIGGER AND IN VIEW
The place stays (directly under the last reply, 040d). The shape fills more of its box: scale
the form so its bounds use about 80% of the canvas (today about 50px of 320x260). Canvas
height = min(320px, 45vh) with width 100% of the bubble column, so at 200% it never gets taller
than the chat view. After a reply that shapes clay, scrollIntoView the canvas with block
'nearest' (no scroll if already visible; reduced motion = instant). particle-clay.js and
clay-forms.js add-only; clay-math.js untouched.
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9. THE SMOKE
New scripts/smoke-seal-ask-heal-v0.1.js (each repo), jsdom or the existing harness:
- ask renders once with Notebook open; Escape in ask leaves the Nursery open; state = later
- ask text holds the mind's name, not "Ollama" or any model name; no 64-hex outside details
- only one deferring button visible in the dock
- Later -> re-ask within cooldown refused; after cooldown allowed
- Decline then Seal it -> state sealed, current panel has no "Declined" text
- pending ask survives a reload (fake-indexeddb or the existing mock)
- private flip rewrites the earlier "Wrote to Diary" line to the public title
- secret text absent from DOM and storage (040 PASS re-run)
Viewport check (Playwright if already present, else note it for Hypha's walk): Approve rect in
viewport and on top at 390, 1280, 200% on both sites.
Prints SMOKE_OK seal ask heal v0.1.
10. REPORT
PR links, head shas, every removed line and where its job went, md5s of every locked file on
each branch (incl. mind-workspace.js FL == Tree), all smokes (tests, scripts/, docs smokes:
only the known 5 may fail), screenshots of the ask at 390 / 1280 / 200% on both sites, and
the gc.html ledger entry with t, lambda, epsilon, delta, omega, sigma so Celeste can
recompute psi. Hypha will re-walk before merge.