A municipal building authority is the first sector that the line a
case walks could not describe. An application is returned for the
drawing it was missing and walks the same stretch again; an appeal
ends the moment the authority changes its own decision, without ever
reaching the board; an applicant may withdraw from anywhere, while a
refusal may only come once the papers are in.
`reached_from: { <stage>: [<stage>, ...] }` says where a stage is
entered from when the line does not. A stage named there is entered
from exactly those stages and nowhere else, so saying where a refusal
may come from also says where it may not - which `turned_down_from`
could not, being one list for every bad ending at once.
Found by replaying fifteen real building cases through portal's own
engine against a throwaway JetStream: it refused three legal paths and
accepted two illegal ones. Portal needed no change - hand-writing the
correct graph into aggregates.yaml, cycle and all, was accepted and
enforced exactly. The rebuilt site now produces that same graph from
the plan, and the access policy follows it.
Also: a public view is of a bucket, not of a need. A permit register
holds the owner's small application and the approved firm's large one
and is one page either way; the rule refused to publish a bucket the
moment any role filed into it. A bucket only a role ever writes to is
still refused.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Work from another session, committed as found (tests green):
- `plan` reads an intake into a plan.yaml (a model decides needs,
stages, forms and budgets; a person reads the result before build).
- Plans gain `doors` (a first question before the forms, when a front
door would carry more than five needs), `groups` with labels that a
select may draw its options from (`options_from: groups`), `private`
fields kept off public pages, `multiple` selects, and `max_fields`
as what the intake said the person will tolerate.
- `card.rs`: an alternative as the visitor meets it, in text, so the
answering visitor and `rate` read the served card, not the heading.
- `rate` reads followup pages from the repo and reports "what happens
next" as not measured rather than zero when it cannot.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01L4jrCgLiKKHAEFuZUJjckH
Every prompt and reply is now kept under <out>/llm/. An empty reply is
a retry, not a fatal error; a spec that never parses stops the run
before the structure phase; --visitor-llm lets a different model play
the visitor. The file-block parser finds markers anywhere in a line,
accepts a short END and lets a new FILE close an open one, after a
reply glued two files together with `<<<END>></think>`. The reference
gains a language section: copy in the intake's language, identifiers
in ASCII.
runs/rehab-entreprenor-no-2026-09-21: nemotron-3.5-lightning:30b-a3b
did not produce a loadable site. Written up with the reason and the
way forward: structure from needs.yaml deterministically, words from
the model.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01L4jrCgLiKKHAEFuZUJjckH
`portal-trainer generate` turns a plain-words business intake into a
content repo in three phases, each held to portal's question_lint:
needs.yaml (then frozen, so the generator cannot weaken the spec to
pass), structure (revised against the lint's findings until green),
and wording (personas answered blind, misroutes fed back; a rewrite
that breaks structure is reverted). Model output is written to disk
only under aggregates.yaml, site.yaml and questions/**.yaml.
`portal-trainer answer` is the blind answerer alone.
The LLM is an external command, prompt on stdin, text on stdout:
engines/ollama.sh (local Ollama), engines/anthropic.sh (API key),
engines/mailbox.sh (hand each prompt to an agent or a person).
portal-portal/ is the onboarding site as a portal content repo: the
front door is the intake interview, records land in `onboardings`
(open -> drafted <-> revising -> live | declined), and it passes its
own needs spec.
runs/uhhm-2026-09-21/ollama: qwen3:8b and granite4.1:8b as blind
answerers on the same eight tasks.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01L4jrCgLiKKHAEFuZUJjckH
