STATE OF THE MISSION — comprehensive review, 2026-08-07
Mobilization Jane (Cowork), booted on the operator's "lots has been completed; review; take stock; where are we at? what has been missed? … clean up our administration." Method: full boot spine read (master plan · integration review · continuity ledger · runbook · fire list), then every open-item claim reconciled against SESSIONS, OPERATOR_LOG, NOW, the decision queue, and the filesystem. Supersedes the 2026-08-06 assessment as the dated picture; the runbook stays mission control. Registry facts cite their receipts.
§1. Where we are, in one paragraph
The building phase is effectively over. In ~72 hours the estate built and shipped the whole mission layer: the site runs one information architecture with eight doors and is live on both domains — /plan (the sealed scenario + ratified calendar) · the covenant (signable PDF) · /strategy · nine kits · /harvest (fully functional, custodian named a recorded standing decision) · /run (the candidate kit, 445 municipality pages) · 25 ward pages · the Issues Corpus wiki (12 pages) · 39 Free Toronto guides · Gov Atlas (~820 pages with generator-derived completeness) · seven-in-ten · SP/PC3/THESIS/contributor-ethics · the signature popup with welcome-back cookie. The elections machine now covers the province: the Ontario SOTE figures and platform baseline are receipt-first and their two renders are staged behind ONT-SOTE / ONT-BASELINE. Every sitting on the original seven-sitting docket has run. The bottleneck is now exactly three things: (a) your minutes-scale items (Polis clicks by Thu Aug 13 is the nearest hard date), (b) one batch of voice redlines, and (c) the send layer — zero operator-only sends have ever gone out, and the civic-hour/EXPERTS window is this month.
§2. The scoreboard against G1–G5 (honest, aggregate-only)
G1 (10,000 conversations): machinery complete (9 kits live + print PDFs, harvest intake live, counter wired but threshold unset and analytics token still dark) — zero conversations harvested; the count starts when sends start. G2 (One Big Conversation): Polis pilot booked Aug 15–23, OBC window ratified Oct 7–14, synthesis designed — synthesis owner still unnamed (your explicit "decide later"), which is the one unstaffed post on the October critical path. G3 (the plan): scenario SEALED, /plan live, adoption calendar ratified (publish Mon Oct 19 → record Sat Oct 24). G4 (candidates adopt): architecture ratified, counsel package assembled — your send, ~Aug 19–20, gates everything beyond record-publishing. G5 (1,000 orgs): ladder designed, covenant live, faith calendar built, tribe directory render built (B3) — no data home yet for even a single pin (the architecture memo's coalition-ladder tracker is the build), and no org has been asked.
§3. Everything that waits on you — the whole list, nothing else pending anywhere
Minutes (runbook §2): 1. sign your own petition (OP-02 — the rail is still unproven end-to-end). 2. analytics token (placeholder verified still in analytics.js today — the ★★★★ counter is dark). 3. Polis clicks + second-moderator ask, before Thu Aug 13 (setup walk). 4. Frankly application send. 5. civic-hour personal notes (~20 min; stops working in September). 6. Open211 email. 7. turnout-page currency check before Aug 12 (RegisterToVoteON closes). 8. the huylieu.ca call — new runbook §2.9, see §5 below.
Rulings: the voice-improvement batch (10 rows + 4 open questions; "all as drafted" is legal) · voice-walk rows 12–19 afterward · the tribe-directory publish word + IA placement + ~12 description judgment-calls (render footer) · commons additions (7 rows, one word each) · harvest synthesis owner (October needs a name by ~mid-September) · conversation-counter threshold (no rush) · per-candidate scorecard posture (baseline §7 four-option card, still unanswered).
Publish words: ONT-SOTE · ONT-BASELINE (menu) — the only menu rows not yet live.
Sends: [send scheduling withheld]
Parked cards (unchanged, yours whenever): DR3 review (OP-07) · PC3 walk (OP-08) · Homelessness BOOK read (OP-25) · QB v2 deeper redline anytime (the packet shipped approved-as-is).
Fireable pastes (open a chat, paste, go): [send scheduling withheld]
§4. In flight / gated without you
Kimi issues-corpus twin (waits on Kimi's return) → Founder adjudication unfreezes W2 · Kimi futures review HELD by your choice · registrar-final arc arms Aug 21: SOC registrar edition · full hunt Aug 21–22 · Ontario re-run (26 post-corpus sites + 30 dead-retries queued) · canon §3 re-stamp · biweekly cadence begins · Polis export lands ~Aug 24 (custodian named, so it may land in our stores; export/delete proof against your real key is a named Code follow-up) · the commit sweep lands everything every 15 minutes.
§5. What this review found missed (each now has exactly one home)
- The huylieu.ca safety flag was falling through the cracks. The Ontario hunt close named it in NOW (explicit threats of violence found on a candidate page; neutral note only, guardrail standing) — but it was never banked to OPERATOR_LOG and sat on no operator-facing list. Now runbook §2.9. It needs one word from you.
- The fire list had drifted badly — 7 of its rows (S8 deploy, IA content calls, S4, S3 residue, S6, atlas factory, Ontario) showed open work that had closed between 08-06 and 08-07. Trued in place with receipts; the runbook §1 carries a dated pointer.
- OP-22 (orphan walk) was a dead card — the site-IA pass executed the verdicts 2026-08-06; the decision queue card is now marked closed, and card 0's stale "first: the deploy sitting" line is corrected.
- The S2/S5 rulings existed only in OPERATOR_LOG (CURATOR 08-06 flag [5]) — NOW's Deliberation block still showed superseded pilot/OBC dates; a dated supersession note now sits at its head. The owed Founder synthesis is thereby reduced to optional.
- October's synthesis window is unstaffed — your deliberate "decide later" (S4) is honored, but the calendar tooth (synthesis Oct 15–18 → plan Oct 19) means the name is needed by ~mid-September to be real. Restated here so the deferral has a deadline attached.
- "Hold experts for next week" now means this coming week — the instruction decays into an action Mon Aug 10; bundled into §3's send sitting so it can't silently slide.
- Cross-track, named not touched: the estate working tree sits on branch `popup-build-2026-08-06` with `main` ~29 commits ahead of origin, unpushed (GIT_SNAPSHOT + Code sweep #2's own close) — a Code session should land/push · NOW.md (~840 lines) breaches the 200–250 contract; the twentieth archive pass stays NAMED for a quiet Planning window · small live defects already logged: `—` in the municipality index (generator), ~68 jargon instances in two guide classes (`task_c0108af4`), `run/team.html` our internal work-package record jargon, 4 mission-layer pages without og:image, the sitewide skip-link CSS gap.
§6. Not started (honest list, unchanged except where noted)
How-to-read-a-platform ★★ · what-a-mayor-can-do ★★ · missing-infrastructure ★ · the 18-AIs piece · reading-list public render paste (word not yet given) · OBC build-out mechanics (rides harvest+Polis learnings) · turnout-deserts ★ (post-Aug-21 by design) · election-night media sheet (Oct) · bus-factor doc, corrections SLA, biweekly subscribe path (L1's next sitting) · the G5 coalition-ladder tracker (build proposed in the architecture memo, operator-gated) · letters/ room + STATEMENTS v2 regen (both land automatically if you rule the voice batch yes).
§7. The calendar's teeth (next 30 days)
Aug 12 RegisterToVoteON closes · Thu Aug 13 Polis seed+rubric freeze (your clicks) · Sat Aug 15–Sun Aug 23 Polis pilot (fires regardless of turnout) · [send scheduling withheld] · Fri Aug 21 nominations close → registrar-final arc (§4) · ~Aug 24 Polis export · Sept 4–8 the school-year window the bundle was built for (assets COMPLETE since Aug 5; distribution = sends = yours) · then the ratified fall spine: ignition W5 → OBC Oct 7–14 → plan Oct 19 → record Oct 24 → Oct 26 mid-sprint scoreboard.
§8. What this sitting changed (admin record)
Trued: fire list (7 rows + §4 refresh, dated header note) · runbook (§1 dated line · new §2.9 huylieu item · S6 row → ruling surface · §3b Ontario/hunt/atlas rows) · master plan (L2/L5/L7 cells) · decision queue (card 0 trued, OP-22 closed) · NOW Deliberation block supersession note. Written: this file. Nothing was sent, deployed, or published; no CSVs touched; every publish click stays yours.
Close discipline: prose-with-pointers; registry facts live in their registries. This file decays by design — the runbook is the live surface.