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MineReflections: make the reflection parse contract classify every record

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
90/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Clearly specified
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
markdown, typescript
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Start with skills/Upgrade/Workflows/MineReflections.md:26-36, then inspect LIFEOS/TOOLS/Reflect.ts to understand the recorded shapes and why it is the sanctioned writer. Update the workflow contract so every generation has an explicit discriminator and unmatched records produce a hard error containing the line number and shape. Validate the table against records emitted by Reflect.ts; the documentation change is complete when all supported eras are covered and the failure behavior is unambiguous.

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Description

Problem. skills/Upgrade/Workflows/MineReflections.md:26-36 describes three corpus eras. Long-lived installs also hold hand-appended or older-shape records that fit none of those eras, and the workflow does not say what happens to such a record. In practice, it is silently skipped or mis-read.

Proposed change.

  • Make the era table exhaustive, with an explicit discriminator per generation.
  • State that a record matching no generation is a hard error that reports its line number and shape.
  • Name LIFEOS/TOOLS/Reflect.ts as the only sanctioned writer, so new hand-appends stop creating new shapes.

Why canon benefits. Mining results become complete and auditable on any install that is old enough to have crossed schema changes.

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