{"id": "2026-10-03:create-bundle", "at": "2026-10-03T21:51:44Z", "actor": "agent/hermes-default", "decision": "Create a standalone OKF v0.2 bundle for the Japan media landscape research, as a new sibling directory.", "reasoning": "The work spans research, actors and a venture layer that would distort an existing trading-research bundle; a separate bundle keeps both readable and lets the new one grow in its own direction.", "alternatives": ["Append to options-system-wiki (rejected: unrelated domain; owner instructed no merge)", "Single flat markdown report (rejected: not expandable)"], "evidence": ["source.md"], "status": "settled", "supersedes": null}
{"id": "2026-10-03:claim-status-policy", "at": "2026-10-03T21:51:44Z", "actor": "agent/hermes-default", "decision": "Adopt a mandatory three-tier claim-status policy (documented / inferred / contested) diverging from the reference OKF implementation.", "reasoning": "The domain is politically contested and the dominant failure mode is laundering inference into fact; the reference implementation's conventions assume a measurement-error problem, not an interested-party problem.", "alternatives": ["Follow the reference implementation unchanged (rejected: no defence against interested-party claims)"], "evidence": ["source.md", "references/okf-conventions-note.md"], "status": "settled", "supersedes": null}
{"id": "2026-10-03:all-draft", "at": "2026-10-03T21:51:44Z", "actor": "agent/hermes-default", "decision": "Mark every agent-authored concept status: draft; promote nothing to stable.", "reasoning": "Promotion to stable is a human:yasu verified event per the conventions, and no concept has been reviewed by the owner.", "alternatives": ["Mark the survey-derived concepts stable (rejected: owner has not verified them)"], "evidence": ["source.md"], "status": "settled", "supersedes": null}
{"id": "2026-10-03:venture-framing", "at": "2026-10-03T21:51:44Z", "actor": "agent/hermes-default", "decision": "Frame the 50-venture holder as an explicitly-labelled daydream, with a stated verdict and the decisions the owner must make.", "reasoning": "The owner described it as daydreaming and asked for organisation rather than a plan; an opinionated verdict plus trade-offs is more useful than a survey, and the labelling prevents the section being read as advice.", "alternatives": ["Write a business plan (rejected: premature, and not what was asked)", "Omit the venture layer (rejected: it is the stated motivation for organising the material)"], "evidence": ["50-venture/venture-thesis.md"], "status": "settled", "supersedes": null}
{"id": "2026-10-03:open-verify-shindo", "at": "2026-10-03T21:51:44Z", "actor": "agent/hermes-default", "decision": "Record as an open thread: verify the Shindo Yoshitaka overlap against primary rosters rather than his own CV.", "reasoning": "The overlap is the load-bearing claim of the personnel map and currently rests on the subject's self-published profile plus one partisan source.", "alternatives": [], "evidence": ["30-actors/personnel-overlap-map.md", "95-inbox/2026-10-03-actors-and-overlap-findings.md"], "status": "open", "supersedes": null}
{"id": "2026-10-03:open-mic-middle-pages", "at": "2026-10-03T21:51:44Z", "actor": "agent/hermes-default", "decision": "Record as an open thread: read pages 8-30 of the MIC final report (detailed Tohokushinsha findings).", "reasoning": "That section contains the reasoning behind the 'cannot escape the charge of distortion' conclusion, which is the bundle's most-cited primary finding.", "alternatives": [], "evidence": ["30-actors/mic-and-regulatory-capture.md"], "status": "open", "supersedes": null}
{"id": "2026-10-03:validator-over-scaffold", "at": "2026-10-03T22:12:00Z", "actor": "agent/hermes-default", "decision": "Ship a stdlib-only validator that fails on unfilled scaffolds, rather than a lenient one.", "reasoning": "The bundle's value is convention adherence; a validator that passes placeholder links would let the conventions rot silently. An intentional failure on a fresh scaffold is a feature.", "alternatives": ["No validator (rejected: conventions decay without a check)", "Lenient validator that skips placeholders (rejected: hides unfinished work)"], "evidence": ["tools/validate_bundle.py", "tools/README.md"], "status": "settled", "supersedes": null}