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Crew Manifest · current

Every system that touched this site

What each one does, what it can reach, and what it is not allowed to decide. Build crew act once, at build time; runtime crew act while you are on a page.

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Order 06

Build crew — acted before this page existed

  • Claude — the session that built this site

    What it does
    Writes the code, drafts placeholder copy, and records what it could not decide.
    What it can access
    The repository, at build time only.
    The design handoff and the governing spec.
    The planning packet Ben assembled.
    What it cannot access
    Anything a visitor does on the site.
    Local browser state, which never leaves the visitor's machine.
    Analytics data.
    What authority it has
    Propose wording and mark it as not Ben's.
    Refuse to ship a claim the implementation cannot honour.
    What authority it does not have
    Sign anything.
    Fill a slot labelled as Ben's.
    Publish a claim as Ben's position.
    Decide any of the thirteen open content questions.

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  • The design canvas that produced the artboards

    What it does
    Held the approved visual design that this build recreates in the codebase.
    What it can access
    Nothing on the live site.
    What it cannot access
    Visitors.
    Local browser state.
    Analytics data.
    What authority it has
    Settle a visual question, where an approved artboard answers it.
    What authority it does not have
    Settle a behavioural question, which the spec governs.

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Runtime crew — act while you are on the site

  • Google Analytics 4, behind Consent Mode

    What it does
    Counts page views and a short allowlist of coarse course events, once consent is granted.
    What it can access
    Which pages were opened.
    That an allowlisted event happened, with its allowlisted properties.
    Ordinary request metadata that any web request carries.
    What it cannot access
    Anything typed into the site.
    The learner's rulebook.
    The contents of any local state.
    Any identifier this site created.
    What authority it has
    Receive the allowlisted events, and only while consent is granted.
    What authority it does not have
    Receive a property that is not on the allowlist.
    Receive free text of any kind.

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  • The hosting platform

    What it does
    Serves the pages and the static assets.
    What it can access
    Request metadata such as an IP address, as part of ordinary delivery and security logging.
    What it cannot access
    Local browser state, which is never sent to it.
    What authority it has
    Deliver the site.
    What authority it does not have
    Change what the site says.
    Be described as processing nothing at all.

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  • This browser's local storage

    What it does
    Holds the course state on the visitor's own machine, under one key.
    What it can access
    Only what the course writes: pace, progress, choices, rules and preferences.
    What it cannot access
    Any other site.
    Anything the visitor did not do here.
    What authority it has
    Keep the state until the visitor clears it.
    What authority it does not have
    Send anything anywhere.
    Survive a clear.
    Be read by Ben.

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