11 September 2026, evening. Supersedes FLOW.md. The café (index.html, the front door of these pages) is the one place the loop is drawn for a visitor; this page is the one place it is drawn for the people who maintain it. Rule: every object is made once, in one file, and everything else links to it.

The loop, from the visitor’s side

  a story · a post · a friend · the Camp · a search
        │
        ▼
  THE CAFÉ  — index.html: Wren asks "what brought you in?"
        │   five doors, each a real case: a promise (100) · shipping an agent (200) · already running (300) · proof (400) · not sure (Gate Check)
        ▼
  THE WREN CARD  — made on the café page, in the browser; copied, never stored
        │   level · path · lens (and the lens not your own) · Thursday · who you'll show
        ▼
  THE WORKSHEET  — one per level; the hour; both paths; the ten-minute version; the checklist as its last page; "no one left behind"
        ▼
  THE RECEIPT  — Beacon in the browser (100) · CI (200) · the broker (300) · offline (400)
        │   hashes and dates, never content
        ▼
  THURSDAY  — THURSDAY.md: first five minutes for receipts; a host marks; the mark line
        ▼
  THE LETTER  — Tuesday: marks by level, no names; the countdown to 2 Dec 2027
        │
        └──▶ next level, or host — and a friend brought to the door

One object, one home

Object The only file that defines it Everything else…
The door and the five problems index.html (the café) links here — the Foundation site’s “start the practice” and the Community page both land on the café
The Wren Card index.html (built in the browser) · the persona in docs/WREN.md the worksheets assume you have one
The ladder (levels, gates, cases, AALs) MANIFESTO.md (one page) the café shows the same four levels as doors; README.md links; nothing restates the table
The four gates and the rule MANIFESTO.md the Foundation home page shows them in its own words
A level’s hour levels/<level>/WORKSHEET.md — with its checklist as the last section levels/<level>/README.md says who it is for and what tools; no steps
The receipt the engine that makes it (Beacon, Umbrella, Lantern) worksheets say which engine at which step, live or fall
Thursday and the mark line docs/THURSDAY.md the café’s step 4 links; Omni’s cohort call reads it
The Letter line Omni (letter.py, #418) this page names it; nothing else describes it
Versions, live vs fall RELEASE.md CHANGELOG.md records; nothing else claims a version
Wren docs/WREN.md the café uses her art from docs/wren/; the Foundation site’s Ask widget gets her face in Fall

What folded into what, 11 September

Before (two or more places) After (one)
README.md front door · docs/FLOW.md loop · the demo’s opening · the Community page’s ladder index.html, the café — the loop drawn once, for the visitor; README.md is now a short pointer for people who arrive via GitHub
levels/*/CHECKLIST.md beside levels/*/WORKSHEET.md (the same steps twice) the checklist is the worksheet’s last page — one file per level, printable from there
docs/FLOW.md (objects, rules, live-vs-fall) · docs/MEMBER-ACTIVITIES.md (every activity per level) this page for the objects; the worksheets for the activities; MEMBER-ACTIVITIES.md kept in docs/reference/ as the record of how the kits were derived
The PRDs, the decisions, the estate map, the standards map, the Glacis note, the release-day record — in docs/ beside the working pages docs/reference/ — the back room: read when you need the reasoning, never to find the next step
The ladder table in README.md and in MANIFESTO.md MANIFESTO.md only
“Ask”, “Jeeves”, “Wren” as three names at the door Wren at the door; Jeeves stays in the runbooks; “Ask Wren” is the one surface (R4, edit pending Ken’s copy pass)

The seven rules that keep it simple

  1. One name at the door: Wren. One question: what brought you in?
  2. One next step, one Thursday. Every page, card and message ends the same way.
  3. Two paths, one receipt. Plain words or code — byte-identical results, marked the same.
  4. Ten-minute version of everything. Every worksheet names the three steps that still produce a receipt.
  5. “I don’t know yet” is always an answer, and it always pairs you with someone.
  6. Nothing decides but the gate; nobody marks but a host. Wren carries; she does not judge.
  7. Nothing twice. If a fact needs a second home, the second home is a link.

Live today vs Fall

Piece Today Fall
The café index.html on these pages; the site links here Wren’s face on the Foundation site’s Ask widget (Omni #421); the café’s card becomes checks/wren-ready
The Wren Card built in the browser, copied by the visitor stored on the Gate Card when the visitor chooses
The worksheets live, both paths, checklist inside Spanish for 200–400; hover-a-tier
The receipt Beacon’s demo (100); tools from source (200); paper (300); VERIFY.md (400) the Gate Check rule box (Library #87); PyPI; beacon coverage; verify --offline
Thursday Ken hosts; the mark line in the recap host rota; practice.mark receipts (Library #88)
The Letter weekly marks by level (Omni #418)