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I03 Black Box

TRACE

Tooling Residue, Artifact Custody, and Evidence

Know what the tools leave behind.

01 READ THE SYSTEM

Spec versus field.

Every module keeps the formal idea separate from Spencer’s lived implementation. The interface can be playful without pretending a draft standard has been satisfied.

WHAT THE SPEC SAYS

What did the tools leave behind?

Classifies prompts, transcripts, snapshots, scratch files, credentials, telemetry, and other tooling residue as evidence or governed risk.

SPENCER’S FIELD IMPLEMENTATION

Black Box

Build logs, AI sessions, prompt provenance, workspace residue, adopted memories, and deletion records.

SYSTEM GUARD

Draft means draft.

The source is under active development. This page is an interpretation and field notebook, not the normative specification and not a conformance claim.

02 FIELD TOPICS

What belongs here.

These topics are publishing hooks, not formal spec registers. A single field log may belong here and cross-reference several other modules without being copied.

  • 01Build logschannel ready
  • 02AI sessionschannel ready
  • 03Prompt provenancechannel ready
  • 04Artifact inventorychannel ready
  • 05Retention and deletionchannel ready

03 FIELD LOG

Receipts from real life.

Writing, experiments, intake notes, resources, and journal entries are published once and indexed against every system they touch.

No public field logs yet.

The TRACE channel is wired. Reviewed journal entries, experiments, and resources will appear here without duplicating them across connected systems.