Version. 0.1
Date. 2026-08-01
Status. Read-only inspection brief. Completes change request A's Step 0, items two and three. Hands to Claude Code. No draft, no build, no change request.
Author. Claude.ai. Operator: Marvin Percival.
Filing. loomworks-record/inspection-briefs/
Companion. loomworks-b29-b27-b5-engine-inspection-findings-v0_1.md — the engine half, complete. That document's §4.5 and §8 name this brief as owed.
B-5 is the Manifestation screen. The engine half of its Step 0 ran on 2026-07-31 and found the engine much closer to ready than the evidence base suggested: all four required routes exist, walk-audit W-16 was wrong when filed, and the staleness marker is a wire rather than a build because GET /engagements/{id}/memory-status returns both halves of the state contract in one call.
That session covered item one of change request A's Step 0. It did not cover items two and three, and said so plainly:
> "Did not cover the Operator Layer. Change request A's Step 0 items two and three stay owed." — findings §8
Those two items are:
RoomView.tsx vocabulary wall against the seed's plain-terms discipline.
Both are reads in /Users/dunin7/loomworks. This brief is that read. Until it runs, B-5's change request cannot be drafted without reconstructing the Operator Layer from memory, which the project does not permit.
Repository. /Users/dunin7/loomworks only — the Operator Layer. Believed at 99f7f64; confirm and report actual HEAD.
Do not touch loomworks-engine. The engine belongs to B-29 for the duration, per the governing brief's §7 ordering context. This session reads a different repository and must not open a second engine front, even to look.
Do not touch loomworks-record except to write the deliverable.
No build, no install, no run. No npm install, no npm run build, no npm run dev, no test suite, no call against :8000 or any other perimeter. Every finding is a static read of source.
Do not clean the working tree. Report anything unstaged and leave it. The record's untracked candidate-seeds/loomworks/loomworks-seed-transfer-v0_1.zip is known and stays.
No proposals. Where a gap is found, size it. Do not design the fix, do not draft it, do not recommend a component structure.
Where a read overturns a position in the evidence base, name the prior position alongside the current one. Do not smooth it. The engine half overturned four positions including W-16, and did so by reading source rather than inferring from a browser pass — the same standard applies here.
Two positions are carried in and should be tested rather than assumed:
Prior position — the walk audit. The Manifestation and Shaping rooms are hardcoded placeholder EmptyRoom components. Source unverified in this chat; treat as a claim to confirm or overturn.
Prior position — Operator Layer HEAD 99f7f64. Sourced from past-session retrieval, not read. Confirm.
Anything reported must carry a file:line anchor. A finding without an anchor is not a finding.
Locate every component that renders a room. For each of the four — Memory, Manifestation, Shaping, Rendering — report:
EmptyRoom (or its equivalent) is defined.Report the Memory room in the most detail. It is the one room believed to work, and it is the pattern B-5 follows.
For the Memory room specifically, and any other room with a real implementation:
fetch — report what is actually there, not what is idiomatic.This establishes the pattern B-5 must follow rather than invent.
memory-status is already consumed
Sweep the repository for any call to /memory-status, memory_status, memoryStatus, or MemoryStatusResponse.
If it is already wired anywhere, report where and what it does with the response. The engine half established that this endpoint returns both manifestation_engagement_version and current_engagement_version in one call. If the Operator Layer already calls it, part of B-5's staleness wire exists and the change request shrinks again.
If it is not called anywhere, say so plainly.
Establish whether any of the four Manifestation routes is called from the Operator Layer today:
POST …/manifestations/previewPOST …/manifestations/deriveGET …/manifestationsGET …/manifestations/{manifestation_id} — and specifically whether the version query parameter is available in whatever client layer exists.The engine half found the version pin exists as a query parameter rather than a path segment, which is why the walk audit missed it. Establish whether the client layer would surface it or hide it the same way.
ManifestationResponse.organized_groups carries assertion references — identifier and version — not text. The room must fan out to fetch content.
Establish whether a fetch-an-assertion-by-id-and-version path already exists on the client side, and whether anything already does N-at-a-time fetching of assertions. If the Memory room lists assertions, report how it gets their content.
B-5 lands the rule that a room cannot say nothing here without having looked.
For every room component with a real implementation, establish how it distinguishes:
organized_groups is null on pre-Phase-19 Manifestations.Report the existing state representation if there is one, or report that empty and not-yet-loaded are conflated if they are. This is the single most important verification in the brief.
Read RoomView.tsx and every room component. Enumerate every operator-visible string — headings, labels, button text, empty-state text, error text, tooltips, aria-labels.
For each, report whether it uses plain terms or codebase shorthand. The seed's plain-terms discipline requires that Memory, Manifestation, Shaping, Rendering, engagement, assertion, Operator and Companion appear in plain terms on operator-facing surfaces; codebase shorthand stays in code-translation contexts.
Report offenders with anchors. Do not fix them.
Sweep the room components for disabled buttons, greyed-out options, disabled= attributes, and anything rendered in an unavailable state.
The seed commits to only showing what is available: no disabled buttons, no greyed-out options, and a feature that is not available does not appear on the surface. Report every violation with an anchor.
Establish how a room is reached: URL shape, route file, whether each of the four rooms has its own route or whether they are tabs within one, and whether the Manifestation room has a route today.
Report whether routes are prerendered and how many exist in total.
Report what test framework the Operator Layer uses, where room tests live if any exist, what the established pattern for a room component test looks like, and the current test count if it can be read from source without running anything.
Four B-5 design questions are surfaced by the engine findings and are not reads. They travel to B-5's scoping note as Operator decisions and must not be answered here:
memory_has_changed, which is driven by whether any Memory-content category is non-zero rather than by version comparison. They can disagree: a Manifestation can be twenty-five versions behind and correctly flagged current. The room shows one, or both with the difference made plain./history route; Manifestations do not. Building one is small and only warranted if the room needs it.organized_groups is null and only counts remain.If a verification produces evidence bearing on any of these, report the evidence and name which decision it touches. Do not resolve it.
Produce loomworks-b5-operator-layer-inspection-findings-v0_1.md in loomworks-record/inspection-briefs/, mirroring the engine findings document's form.
Per verification: verdict, evidence with file:line anchors, what it settles for B-5, and flag if it contradicts a carried-in position.
The document must also carry:
Commit to loomworks-record on main by explicit path. One commit. Push. Report the SHA.
Report and stop rather than continuing if:
.git/index.lock is present in either repository.99f7f64 in a way that suggests another session has been building — report the delta and stop.For everything else, complete all ten verifications and produce the findings document.
DUNIN7 — Done In Seven LLC — Miami, Florida Loomworks — B-5 Operator Layer inspection brief — v0.1 — 2026-08-01