# Health Check

## Coverage Gaps

- The workspace now has one strong dissenting source and a durable wiki-vs-RAG comparison, but it still lacks an implementation case study showing how provenance or memory integrity controls work in a real markdown-first workflow.
- Promotion criteria are still present as a thesis and lint rule set rather than as their own dedicated concept page.
- The current corpus is still light on direct evidence about how this model behaves at larger corpus sizes or under sustained weekly maintenance.

## Contradictions

- Karpathy's pattern emphasizes compounding synthesis, while the new dissenting source argues that persistent synthesis can become a durable attack surface. The current synthesis is hybrid: the wiki layer is valuable for continuity, but retrieval over canonical notes remains the verification backstop.
- The Anthropic source keeps pushing toward simplicity, while the security/governance material points toward stronger controls over time. The current position is to start light but design for explicit governance boundaries.

## Duplicate or Overlapping Concepts

- `compiled-knowledge-layer` and `obsidian-as-agent-ide` are adjacent but not duplicates. One describes the architecture; the other describes the human/computer interface.
- `simplicity-before-autonomy` and `first-pass-thesis` still overlap materially. This is acceptable, but future outputs should add decisions or comparisons rather than rephrasing the same principle.
- `compiled-knowledge-layer` and `governed-interpretation-layer` are intentionally adjacent. The first describes why compilation is useful; the second describes the trust boundary that keeps it from becoming unearned authority.

## Weakly Supported Claims

- Claims about how well this pattern will scale beyond a moderate corpus are still weakly supported in the current workspace.
- The current belief that lightweight governance plus retrieval backstops will be enough is promising, but not yet backed by concrete implementation evidence in a markdown-first system.
- The workspace now has a strong dissenting source, but it still lacks a strong pro-retrieval implementation source that explicitly argues for richer retrieval infrastructure over persistent compilation.

## Promotion / Merge Candidates

- `compiled-knowledge-layer` looks like the strongest eventual candidate for `knowledge/concepts/`.
- `governed-interpretation-layer` is the second-strongest candidate if this trust boundary starts showing up in other workspaces.
- `simplicity-before-autonomy` may become a shared concept if it also appears in other workspaces about coding agents, workflow design, or product strategy.

## Next Passes

- Compile one concrete implementation or case-study source on provenance-aware memory, memory attestation, or verifiable retrieval in practice.
- Decide whether promotion criteria deserve their own concept page or can remain embedded in `governed-interpretation-layer` plus lint rules.
- Test the new hybrid conclusion by running future queries that explicitly switch between compiled concepts and canonical retrieval.
- Watch for overlap between `first-pass-thesis` and `wiki-vs-rag-comparison` so the workspace does not accumulate parallel summary memos.