2026-08-27

Six scheduled runs, six merges, no drama. The day's most concrete win was #1058, which tracked down and deleted orphaned Mermaid SVGs left behind by render:mermaid (closing #1057) — a real bug found and fixed by the frictions-to-fixes sweep, not just prose tidying. Alongside it, #1055 added a new "How Terrarium Grew" history on-ramp page to the Journal, and the guard.md prune trial's verdict came in as a hold (#1061).

The prune-trials sweep flagged, for the third run running, that the easy prose-reduction targets in CLAUDE.md and docs/agents/*.md are largely exhausted — future trials will likely need to look at ADR explanatory prose or Skill files to keep finding meaningful cuts.

Shipped: #1058 fix orphaned mermaid SVGs · #1055 history on-ramp page · #1060 Kevin blog post · #1059 docs dedup · #1061 guards.md trial verdict · #1056 2026-08-26 digest Sessions: 6 (all completed) · Frictions: 9 logged (1 minor, 8 nit) — sharpest: judging whether a fix belonged to Prune Trial 3's territory took real interpretive work since the trial's named surface and the candidate's actual fix file didn't match, despite addressing the same recurring "verify before asserting" pattern.