The excision's follow-up sweep: present-tense prose that still implied an edition axis now reads
correctly under one version ("in every tier" clauses dropped or turned substrate-shaped, the
announcer's "every free-tier bracket today" is "every bracket today" — nothing passes a phrase),
and forward-looking promises pinned to the mooted pro-m1/pro-m2 milestones now name the thing
itself (the change narrator in Kanban/Changes/, the foreign-change journal successor) or fall to
past tense. Kanban.entitlements' network-client comment sheds its "dormant until Pro ships"
framing for the pivot's own reasoning: the key stays because the sync capability to come needs
it regardless. Untouched on purpose: the storage layer's coerce/tolerate/refuse tiers, the
chooser's bundled/user/keyless tiers, verbatim design-doc quotations, and genuine past-tense
record. One dangling reference repaired en route: EndToEndVerification.md cited the long-renamed
InertGitTests. Comment-only throughout; 2,686 unit tests green, unchanged.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Step 5 of strategy/01-git-excision.md: the seventeen dead engine files and the five remaining git test suites go (InertGitTests stays — the naming footgun is a Storage keeper). Two rescues ride ahead of the delete: HarvestedReceipt relocates to EchoLedger (the harvest surface outlives its git consumer; foundation for the deferred journal), and commentTimestamps joins the narrator it always served. The provider-swap purge test re-expresses over a git-free fake; the duplicate-id ladder keeps every pure historyRank pin and loses only the two ranker-driven ones. Resurrection point: tag pre-git-excision. 2,707 tests green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Step 4 of strategy/01-git-excision.md, the entangled one: AppModel's makeHistoryProvider collapses to the native provider (the seam stays injectable per the reversibility posture), the session's git state and its wiring go (wireGitUndo, wireBranchSwitching, the card-session staging threading), BoardStore sheds commitSeam and the identity-history ranker (the loader's nil-safe rung now tops out at birth date — today's no-git behavior), SessionSettleGate keeps the gate and inherits the path utility it borrowed, BoardRegistry drops the persisted operation stamp (decode-safe), and the git banner family leaves BannerCenter with its announcer and accessibility phrases. One missed harvest tie severed (the narrator's root subject is its own now). Nothing outside Kanban/Git/ references the stack — proven by sweep. 2,855 tests green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
Step 2 of strategy/01-git-excision.md: CommitMessageEngine and the composer seam relocate to a neutral module renamed away from commit vocabulary (ChangeNarrator, ChangeNarrationRequest, ChangeNarrating, SemanticChangeNarration, ChangeAuthorship), GitChangedPath extracts from GitCommitOperation as ChangedPath, and the one git tie severs — authorship's foreign case carries a display name, not a GitIdentity. The spec tests transplant as ChangeNarratorTests, alive until the journal work begins. 3,009 tests green.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
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