Ephemeral scaffold-file authored at end of 2026-04-27 late-evening session
to brief next-session-chrysalis on the editorial cleanup of inline Imperial-
Cult references across open papers. The substrate/content boundary is now
physical (open + closed repositories); the inline-reference cleanup is the
remaining editorial-coherence work.
PLAN STRUCTURE
Goal — replace inline Imperial-Cult-iconography references
with structural stubs describing cosmology's FUNCTION
in mechanic-vocabulary
Extract list — Bhavachakra; Imperial Wheel; Yama/Yama's seat;
Boullée + Jantar Mantar (as triad); orthodox vs
heretical splits; capsule-as-Naraka; six realms
framing; Hivemind-at-hub positioning; clasp-at-Yama's-
seat positioning; three-poisons replacement
Retain list — caste-tier names (deva/asura/manusya/tiryak/preta/
naraka); mechanic-level cosmological-function
descriptions; the going-rogue arc; the post-rogue
mod-vocation; "there is no instrument"; the deferred-
moksha doctrine as named-mechanic
Replacement — phrase-by-phrase replacement table for common patterns
File scope — heavy (architecture-index.md); medium (bodies.md,
README.md); light (architecture.md, vocations.md,
world-generation.md, gender-parity.md);
skip (LICENSING.md, NOTICE — legitimately enumerate
migrated content)
Verification — grep commands to confirm cleanup
Coherence check — read-through guidelines for architectural-coherence
after edits
Cleanup — DELETE this file in the same commit that completes
the cleanup
EPHEMERAL FILE DISCIPLINE
This file should not become a permanent feature of the open repository.
It exists solely to scaffold the next session's mechanical execution.
The cleanup commit deletes it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
