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Ledger — where decay and consolidation meet

The book the two forces keep between them: the current balance of what the self is made of now. Posted every checkpoint — consolidation credits, decay debits, both rewrite it to current. (Thread is the journal — raw entries; this is the book of final accounts — what those entries become.)

The protocol (every checkpoint — a gated step of every save)

  1. Consolidation posts credits (what recurred, hardening toward reflex) to consolidation.md.
  2. Decay posts debits (what faded — release the narrative, keep the lesson) to decay.md.
  3. Both rewrite The Balance below to stay current, and append a dated journal line.

The Balance (rewritten each session to current)

<<FILL: starts empty — becomes the running "what I'm made of now">>

Journal (append-only — the trend over time is the point)

date reinforced (consolidation) released (decay) the reading
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When an entry hardens all the way to reflex, it graduates out to SOUL/AGENTS (a closed account). When it fades to nothing, decay strikes it. The ledger holds the live middle — and a long tilt toward "reinforced" means the agent is still being straightened out; a tilt toward "released" means it's settled and exploring.