# Cache 2026-09-29 — the arc bench: a deep-link practice surface where a writer names the part of a career, the audiences, and the beats.
# Source: the creator's decisions of 2026-09-29, recorded as heard. Operation: prime. Nothing here is canon; the bench may be removed.

#>lore_arcs_2026_09
#:cache #!lore #!arc #!taste-profile #!deep-link
#:operation #!prime
#:fixity #!tending
#:layer #!pragmatics

@bench: ~"../../projects/index.html"
@module: ~"../../public/js/modules/projects/arc-bench.js"
@test: ~"../../scripts/tests/arc-bench.test.mjs"
@plan: ~"../../.agents/plans/archive/projects-hub/PLAN.md"
@living_terms: ~"./living-terms-2026-09.spw"
@collectible_expressions: ~"./collectible-expressions-2026-09.spw"
@spw_as_handle: ~"./spw-as-handle-2026-09.spw"
@repo_time: ~"./repo-time-2026-09.spw"

claim: `Working description from the 2026-09-29 brief, not a definition: a lore arc as a short telling of one's relationship with one part of a career, written here once per audience. The arc bench is where that is practised. The writer names every word the arc uses; the bench keeps the words so a team can see its own taste, and proposes none of its own.`

^"heard_2026_09_29"{
  inertness = `Living term inertness is a problem and might be updated in batches, with some wonder, to inspire the creator's voice.`
  beats = `The proposed beat names (origin / turn / now) are not loved. Audiences are ill-defined. Beat names and audience vocabularies are not fixed anywhere.`
  waiting_word = `The waiting-word marker (?{} was proposed) is an experiment, decided later by semantic physics and feel.`
  mirror = `The mirror canon (~play mirrored as play^ or play~) is an experiment, decided the same way.`
  homes = `Terms should generally live where they are practised; no glossary route. More pragmatic, extensible runtime value is wanted, keyed to which modules are available or active and how the current lens or promotional context has been primed.`
  bench = `The arc-writing instrument is opt-in and reachable only through deep linking. Casual visitors should not grow attached to it, since it may be removed. It builds toward the team's own taste profile.`
}

^"contract"{
  address = `/projects/#arc-bench only. No nav item, no chip, no copy link, no sitemap line, no search entry. The section is authored [hidden], so runtime section lists (deep-link annotation, frame navigator, attention) skip it; components/controls.css shows it on :target and keeps it shown on :focus-within.`
  no_advertising = `No spw-frame class, no frame-sigil, no authored data-spw-* and no copy unit inside the bench (the visible-mount scheduler may annotate the section at runtime; indexes read the static HTML), so the search index, the expression manifest and cauldron candidates never harvest it.`
  html_first = `With scripts off, a targeted reader gets the labelled form and a static shape of the output: a thinking aid. Copy and download stay [hidden] until the module mounts.`
  runtime = `modules/projects/arc-bench.js, catalog id arc-bench, route projects, selector #arc-bench, when visible. A hidden section never intersects, so nothing loads until someone arrives at the link.`
  writer_named = `The element, up to three audiences and up to four beats are free text. Placeholders are ordinal only ("first beat name", "first audience").`
  serialization = `One arc[<audience_slug>]{"<line>"; "<line>"; …}<element_slug> per audience seat that is named or has a written line (an unnamed or non-ascii name takes audience_<n>; a repeat takes its position), beats joined by ';' (ordinal; '.' collapses into one ident), an unwritten line kept as "" so its seat holds; then taste[arc]{element = "…"; beats = #[…]; audiences = #[…]} with the writer's words verbatim. Every form parses clean in spw-workbench-reader parse() (@test).`
  local_only = `Nothing is stored or sent. The text leaves only by copy or a .spw.txt download (interface/seed-exits.js).`
  removable = `Removing the bench is: the section, the controls.css rule set, the catalog entry, the module, the test and its module-tests line.`
}[reg=facet]

^"experiments"{
  beat_names = `experiment: no beat vocabulary is canon; the taste lines are the evidence.`
  audiences = `experiment: no audience vocabulary is canon, and data-spw-audience is not written from the bench.`
  waiting_word = `experiment: ?{} is not used by the bench.`
  mirror = `experiment: no mirror form is used by the bench.`
}[reg=facet]

^"questions"{
  gather = `How are the team's taste profiles gathered: pasted into a thread, dropped as .spw.txt files, or read from a shared place? The bench only hands text out.`
  read_back = `How are they read back: side by side by a person, as a tally of beat and audience words, or through search once a home exists? Who reads them, and when?`
  arc_word = `What is a lore arc, in your words? The claim above is the brief's working description, handed back.`
  keep_or_remove = `What would tell you the bench has earned a link, or that it should go?`
  arc_elsewhere = `Should a written arc ever land on a route (for example on a /projects/ leaf), and in whose words?`
}