# Spw origin: modality pivots, not an exploded grammar
#
# Cached from 2026-08 conversation. The public job predates the operator
# lattice. Keep this in view when ripping lenses and chips.

#>spw_origin_modality_pivots
#:cache #!origin #!modality #!familiarity
#:operation #!cache
#:fixity #!tending
#:layer #!pragmatics

@viewing_reason: ~"../conventions/viewing-reason.spw"
@copy_ecology: ~"../conventions/copy-ecology.spw"
@charge_cycle: ~"../conventions/charge-cycle.spw"
@coloring_depth: ~"../conventions/coloring-depth.spw"
@operational_differentials: ~"./css-combinatorics.spw#operational_differentials"

operation = "cache"
fixity = "tending"

^"insight"{
  id = "spw-origin-modality-pivots"
  claim = "Spw began as a way to improve Wikipedia-like articles: same lemma, modality pivots shaped by the content, experiential depth saturating with audience familiarity. The grammar later exploded into operators, leftover aliases, exclusive lenses, and chip-as-medium."
  original_axes: .{
    pivot = "Modality is a content-shaped `@` — who is looking and how this article wants to be held (read, diagram, source, talk). Not a sitewide theme."
    saturation = "Depth (copy-depth, semantic-density, charge field) should rise with familiarity, not with how many sigils we can print."
  }[reg=facet]
  wikipedia_analogue = "article / talk / history / source are modality seats on one lemma. Spw's error was turning those seats into mutually exclusive UI and then into an operator product catalog."
  recover: #[
    `Charge `@` for viewpoint; color interpretation is one discharge`,
    `Facet bias is the content-shaped pivot (this page's material, not a global lens)`,
    `Selector combinatorics = operational differential relative to each operator`,
    `Literary motif is a register on discharge physics, not a mode`,
    `Chips are one rendering. Tokens and attributes are the medium`
  ][reg=set]
  refuse: #[
    `Do not hide three modalities to show one`,
    `Do not teach leftover slugs as public aliases`,
    `Do not require operator literacy to get the first saturation rung`
  ][reg=set]
  expansion_prime = "A page names its lemma and available modalities as seats. Familiarity (return, collection-strength, wonder-memory) raises --spw-field-intensity / copy-depth. Grammar stays inspectable, not mandatory."
  do_not_promote_until = "One route (home or a topic leaf) demonstrates modality seats + familiarity saturation without a mode-switch and without chip-only CSS."
}