Development record

2026-08-30 — Cycle 1 restarts on v0.6.9 (facilitator): baseline v0.6.9-4-g976575f9; the orchestrator is Fable, research and implementation sub-agents are Opus 5 in fresh contexts; the merge target is the integration branch `experiment/cold-reading` in a worktree outside the checkout, never main — the final PR to main is the facilitator's to test and merge. Widening decision (20): the orchestrator also runs the two adversarial reviews and the dependency-ordered merges onto the integration branch autonomously; the only stops are gate weakening, a security BLOCK genuinely unresolvable, and a new Go dependency (allowed only if absolutely necessary, logged). Improvisation inside the rules is allowed and logged, never quiet.