Step 8's verification record: 2,707 unit tests green at close (the golden fixture suite among them, untouched — no git fixtures ever existed); the UI test targets compile; the keeper behaviors — a board beside a real .git opened, watched, and healed byte-identically — are pinned by GitAgnosticStorageTests, FolderWatcherTests, and the gitignore/relocation suites, all green. The accessibility audit could not run to a verdict in this environment (its AX sweep flagged another app's fullscreen video element — the same failure on surfaces the excision never touched); the popover audit's own screenshot shows the strip as ruled: Info, Theme, Sync.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
research/08-competitive-analysis.md profiles the direct set (features, pricing, traction, matrices, ranked threats); strategy/01-git-excision.md carries the 2026-08-08 ruling to excise app-managed git, with keepers, harvest, delete list, and sequencing. Both indexed.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
strategy/: the release-and-distribution effort, sibling to research/ but
different in kind — research gathers evidence, strategy turns it into
positions and plans. The charter records the goal (bootstrapped
sustainability with base→Pro growth in the personal garden first, Teams a
deliberate second act), the two tier anchors, what is already ruled, the
decision surface decomposed into workstreams, and the tensions to resolve.
The positioning line is the inversion: the garden's walls are around the
experience, not the data — closed polished surface, open documented
substrate, the exact inverse of the mainstream pattern and the moat
captive-state competitors cannot cheaply adopt.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014PtZdPwqZuqEDLc6wZMtEy
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