Development record
itd-37 has an agent (principle-distiller) write memory pages into the repository's .abcd/memory/; 37-memory says agents write only the machine layer.
itd-37 has an agent (principle-distiller) write memory pages into the repository's .abcd/memory/; 37-memory says agents write only the machine layer.
A premise contradiction (severity minor) found by the cross-document consistency pass.
- End A:
.abcd/development/intents/disciplines/itd-37-modification-grammar.md:63— "Writes append-onlyspec_modification_grammar_<spec_id>.mdto.abcd/memory/" - End B:
.abcd/development/brief/04-surfaces/37-memory.md:50— "Agents write only the machine layer, and only through one gate"
37-memory lets agents write only the machine file, through one gate; the repository's memory changes only by a reviewed edit, and there is no promote operation. itd-37 has the principle-distiller agent write append-only and curated pages into the repository's .abcd/memory/ at every spec completion. Either agents write repository memory or they do not.
Evidence: .abcd/work/reviews/2026-10-26-consistency/00-summary.md, finding 720.
Grounds
- declined: Closed in the 2026-10-27 triage (dcn-2610271112330536): the two ends do not conflict when read in full. 37-memory.md scopes 'agents write only the machine layer' to the notes held in memory.json; the pages itd-37 writes live in the separate library memory store (07-library.md), written through ingest, so the two rules govern different stores. The real gap, that the curator is not built, is iss-2610262034090653.
Frontmatter
| id | iss-2610262037246775 |
|---|---|
| type | issue |
| lifecycle | wontfix |
| severity | minor |
.abcd/work/issues/wontfix/iss-2610262037246775-itd-37-has-an-agent-principle-distiller.md
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References1
- itd-37Every Spec Externalises How It Should And Shouldn't Be Modifiedrelated
mentions2
- dcn-26102711123305362026-10-27 — The product thinker accepted on 2026-10-27 the triage of the 1301 records the 2026-10-26 consistency pass filed. The duplicates, the records a later record already settles, the ones that are no contradiction and the one already fixed are closed with each reader's reason. Every other record gets its fix as its remedy, the rulings' accepted answers included, so a drain can take it. The 45 major records left open are deferred past v0.15.1, because the brief's single-home rewrite rewrites or removes most of the passages they quote. The person ruled the major rulings one at a time; the minor rulings take their recommended answers.
- iss-2610262034090653itd-37 has principle-distiller, as itd-36's role-extended curator, extract each spec's Modification Grammar into memory pages at spec completion; the library surface says that curator role is not built