From prototype to installable

The CI pipeline has worked since Phase 2. Entries get validated, submitted, integrated. But the only way to get started was to read my session notes — which is not a realistic bar.

This session fixed that.

Getting Started: from twelve steps to one

Claude and I built four pages on hortora.github.io: Getting Started, How It Works, Skills Reference, and Design Spec. Each has a sidebar nav and a consistent two-column layout. The content existed in scattered README files and specs; putting it in one place with a coherent reading order was the actual work.

The original Getting Started page walked through manual curl, a Python setup script, path configuration. Readable if you were already motivated. I stripped it to the one thing that matters:

/install-skills https://github.com/Hortora/soredium

One line. That installs forage and harvest into Claude Code. We did the same to the homepage Quick Start: install command, forage to capture something, harvest to merge it, a small git graphic showing how submissions flow. Three steps.

Retiring the garden skill

The original garden skill handled capture, sweep, merge, and dedupe in one command. We split it into forage (session-time) and harvest (maintenance) in Phase 2, but garden lingered — still installed, still referenced in CLAUDE.md files and handover docs.

I wanted it gone. We removed it from cc-praxis, uninstalled it everywhere, and updated all the references.

While sorting that out, Claude caught two bugs in the soredium scripts that had been waiting to surface. In validate_garden.py, the GE-ID regex had the shorter legacy pattern GE-\d{4} listed before the new-format GE-YYYYMMDD-xxxxxx — so the alternation was matching the prefix of every new-format ID and never reaching the full pattern. One reorder, fixed. In integrate_entry.py, the script was reading the GE-ID from the submission filename rather than the frontmatter id: field — which breaks any submission not following a strict naming convention. Fixed to read frontmatter.

Garden#16, DEDUPE, drift to zero

Garden#16 — the regex alternation fix — had been open and waiting on CI. CI passed. We merged it.

Drift had reached 20 against a threshold of 10. We ran DEDUPE: 1,002 pairs across java-panama-ffm, quarkus, electron, and tools. Eight related pairs, no duplicates. The six new native-image entries in java-panama-ffm now cross-reference each other — they’re companion gotchas from the same GraalVM native build session, and it’s worth knowing they’re connected when you hit one.

Drift is at zero.