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Bernardo on #121 (shipped in 0b464af): "Let's leave it honestly. Sounds too
much work for a negligible gain." Agreed, and his own reasoning is the
argument: the fix worked, but it substitutes into a buildCommand nixpkgs owns,
which couples us to wrapper internals and has a SILENT no-op failure mode —
so it also needed a permanent check, because nothing about a returning
duplicate breaks a build. That standing maintenance cost buys ~195 MiB of
download and ~19 MiB of disk. Boring beats clever at that exchange rate.
Removed the overlay and checks.chromium-single-closure. The template HM closure
is back to 9.38 GiB with the duplicate present — verified by closure, not by
reading the diff. overlays.default now carries a comment saying the duplicate
is known and deliberate, where the next person will look for it.
The ROADMAP entry stays, downgraded from ✓ to ✗ decided-against: it holds the
measurement, the approach that worked (self-contained -wv copy; repoint the
wrapper's share/* symlinks; .override composes with overrideAttrs), and the
commit to recover it from. The bug is real and worth an upstream patch — the
wrapper should take its desktop entry from the variant it wraps, which helps
every NixOS user with enableWideVine, not only us. Revisit locally if #120's
netinstall ships, since download is the one axis this moves.
What survives is worth more than the fix, and is stamped on #120: closure size
is not disk size and is not image size — measure the artifact. Removing a
687 MiB path moved the ISO by 8 KiB, because mksquashfs dedupes duplicate files
and auto-optimise-store hardlinks them. Without that caveat, #120's "drop the
pin, save 4 GiB" would have evaporated at the squashfs exactly as this did.
V0: nix flake check --no-build passes.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Agent instructions + loop state
Everything an AI agent needs to work on Nomarchy, vendor-neutral and git-tracked. Protocol: LOOP.md. Entry point for every harness: repo-root AGENTS.md.
Instructions (how to work)
| File | Who writes | Role |
|---|---|---|
| LOOP.md | Human | One-iteration protocol (orient → pick → work → verify → commit → record) + the V0–V3 ladder |
| VERIFICATION.md | Human (agents propose) | Enforcement: preflight, honesty rules, visual protocol, hardware-blocked checks, reporting |
| DELEGATION.md | Human (agents propose) | Capability tiers, scout/runner roles, token economy, parallel fan-out |
| GOALS.md | Human (agents propose) | Pillars, quality bars, non-goals |
| CONVENTIONS.md | Human (agents propose) | How to write code/menu/state while shipping |
| THEME-DESIGN.md | Human (agents propose) | Theme/visual design instructions |
State (what's happening)
| File | Who writes | Role |
|---|---|---|
| BACKLOG.md | Both | Prioritized queue — only executable work list |
| JOURNAL.md | Agents | Append-only iteration log (read last 3–5 entries; older → JOURNAL-ARCHIVE.md) |
| MEMORY.md | Agents | Curated durable gotchas |
| HARDWARE-QUEUE.md | Agents append, human checks | On-hardware V3 tests only Bernardo can run |
Product / design docs (not a queue)
| File | Role |
|---|---|
| ../docs/VISION.md | v1.0 product themes — agents slice into BACKLOG PROPOSED |
| ../docs/ROADMAP.md | Design history + shipped log |
| ../docs/README.md | Full docs map |
Harness adapters (vendor-specific, thin)
Shared content never lives in an adapter — adapters only register/route into the files above, in whatever format their harness requires.
| Path | Harness | Role |
|---|---|---|
| ../AGENTS.md | any | Entry point (CLAUDE.md is a symlink to it) |
| ../.claude/settings.json | Claude Code | Tool permissions |
| ../.claude/agents/ | Claude Code | nomarchy-scout / nomarchy-runner role defs (contracts in DELEGATION.md) |
Do not put backlog items, vision text, or policy under an adapter directory — it is not shared with other agent runners.
Rules of thumb
- Execute from BACKLOG only (NOW → NEXT; never PROPOSED without human triage).
- Orient with GOALS + CONVENTIONS + MEMORY + last journal + BACKLOG; when the task is product-shaped, also read the relevant VISION §.
- Record lasting design in ROADMAP ✓ when something ships that future humans should know; delete the BACKLOG line.
- v1 branch is human-only — never advance from an agent session.