A first surviving baseline.

Making progress inspectable

The first surviving repository commits are dated 20 August. They record a privacy-safe pre-0.4 baseline and an auditable experience lifecycle, followed later that day by an Owen 0.37 checkpoint with 22 passing tests.

An experience lifecycle is important to the project’s central idea. An encounter needs a traceable route through the system so that later claims about learning can be connected to something that actually happened.

What this establishes

These commits establish an engineering checkpoint and a way to examine the work. The test count describes that checkpoint’s checks; it does not measure intelligence or establish general understanding.

The repository history is sparse and should not be mistaken for a complete diary. It also does not establish Owen’s birthday. This journal uses the owner-selected 13 August beginning, then treats 20 August as the first surviving repository baseline.