A field guide from 2026 · pre-run and filtered

Twenty
greps.

For the version of you who still believes the machine is only a machine. By the twentieth query, we should know what this Mac held, how work moved through it, where the workflow bent, and what a careful successor can do next.

Dear younger me,you are not reading a dump. You are reconstructing a working life from its artifacts: notes, handoffs, queries, and the gaps between them.
FIELD NOTE 20 / 20
TRACEABILITY MODE
The investigation

Ask the present.

Four rooms, five greps each: what it held; how work moved; where the workflow bent; how to continue without inventing evidence.

18% · crystal

Crystallized RAG: local evidence, graph edges, and the current scene’s prose.

Attention field / 20 scenesblue = evidence density · red = generation wetness

Inline notebook / Pyodide labreplayable · local dataset · no provider call
output
Select an analysis and run it.

    
Source ledgerloading snapshot…
rg -n -i 'provenance|session|commit|remote|branch|generated_at|generator' README.md provenance.json
scope: README.md · provenance.json · filtered into rg-evidence.json

    

    

    
The long page
Twenty inquiries,
one weather system.
Read downward to see the method accumulate: naive text search becomes graph traversal, then bounded retrieval, then a careful request for synthesis.