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What to do next in this repo, written so a fresh session (human or AI) can pick this up cold. See changelog.md for the dated history of what's already shipped.

Four active, deliberately separate work streams — don't conflate them. Each has a GitHub issue linking to its vision/plan doc:

• #1 Concept wiki — the concept-first index. Priority.
• #2 Annotatable reading layer — showing + adding annotations on rendered book text. Separate from the concept wiki.
• #3 People index — like the concept wiki, but for people Wilber engages with (Habermas, Campbell, etc.).
• #4 Finer-grained indexing — largely subsumed by #3 in practice; the general "concepts by location" version stays someday.

Session 2026-08-23, part 2 — excerpt format + critique pass (Rufus back, gave feedback)

Rufus reviewed the session-1 work and gave two pieces of feedback:

1. Drop the accordion. The > [!quote]- "teaser" foldable-callout style (used on every concept/people excerpt) wasn't landing — hides the quote, which is the actual point, behind a one-line teaser and a click, in a pattern he specifically doesn't want. Fixed: all 182 quotes across the 40 concept/people pages now show directly, no teaser heading, with the most load-bearing sentence bolded in place where a clean match existed (16 of 182). Also clarified what "see more context" actually meant to him — not a bigger version of the same excerpt, but a scrollable side panel into the live source book at that location ("almost iframing the book into the side of the page"). That's the annotatable reading layer's territory, not the concept wiki's — documented in both docs/concept-wiki-vision.md and docs/annotatable-reading-layer-vision.md so it doesn't get misbuilt later as a fancier accordion.
2. Go do a real critique of the excerpts. Two independent passes read every quote on all 40 pages against its actual surrounding context in the full book text — written up in docs/excerpt-critique-concepts.md and docs/excerpt-critique-people.md. Most serious finding: people/habermas.md's only quote was a paraphrase formatted to look verbatim, not real — rebuilt with 4 genuine quotes. Also fixed: a quote on dominator-vs-growth-hierarchy.md that broke off mid-sentence; a recurring chapter-mislabeling bug across 8 concept pages; foucault.md reading as pure-ally despite its own synthesis claiming real disagreement exists; Maslow/Loevinger's heavy mutual redundancy; a dozen other swaps (sharper unused quotes found nearby, dangling references fixed, split-citation quotes merged). All applied and published.

Small optional items surfaced by the critique, deliberately left undone (each is a one-line "nice to have," not worth a dedicated pass on its own — pick up opportunistically if touching the relevant page anyway): concepts/big-three.md could add a Three Jewels (Buddha/Dharma/Sangha) quote; people/piaget.md's two egocentrism quotes are slightly redundant with each other; people/whitehead.md's "dull, soundless, scentless" quote reads as decorative because the synthesis prose never names the role Wilber cites him for (critic of mechanistic flatland) — either name that role in the prose or reconsider the quote.

Session 2026-08-23, part 1 — what shipped (autonomous session, Rufus unavailable)

Ran unattended per Rufus's steer to "keep rolling" — see changelog.md for the reader-facing version. In commit order:

1. People index (#3) — 16 new pages, roster essentially complete. Ported the 7 already-researched people (Campbell, Piaget, Freud, Jung — split from a combined "Freud & Jung" source section into two standalone pages — Foucault, Plotinus, Hegel) into people/*.md, following people/habermas.md's shape but with denser quote coverage (6-8 quotes each) per Rufus's 2026-08-23 feedback in the previous version of this file. Then researched and wrote 16 more directly from library/1995-sex-ecology-spirituality-full-text.md: Gebser, Spinoza, Whitehead, Marx, Aurobindo, Kohlberg, Loevinger, Maslow, Koestler, Derrida, Heidegger, Darwin, Nietzsche, Weber, Teilhard de Chardin. Built people/index.md (full 27-person roster, mention-count sorted). 23 of 27 have live pages. The remaining 4 — Bateson, Gould, Comte, Assagioli — are documented in people/index.md as genuine name-drops (no real argument attached in the main text), not pending work; worth revisiting only if a future work draws on them more. Cross-linked from concepts/*, works/1995-sex-ecology-spirituality.md, and a new card on root index.md.
2. Concept wiki (#1) — 10 new pages, 7 → 17. New: four quadrants, the Big Three, the pre/trans fallacy, vision-logic, flatland, Kosmos vs. cosmos, Eros and Agape, the Right-Hand/Left-Hand paths, involution and evolution, and Wilber on postmodernism — all sourced from the full book text (correcting the earlier notes-file sourcing per the previous version of this file). concepts/index.md reorganized into core-term vs. wilber-on-x sections. The original 7 were spot-checked against the full text (holons, holarchy, great-chain-of-being) — quotes and citations held up, no corrections needed, though dominator-vs-growth-hierarchy.md, systems-theory.md, ascent-and-descent.md, and wilber-on-plato.md weren't spot-checked beyond adding cross-links — worth a follow-up pass if anyone wants extra confidence.
3. Annotation system (#2) — Phase 1 prototype, working end to end. See docs/annotation-system.md's "Phase 1 prototype" section for the full writeup. Short version: annotated/ses-ch06-myth-and-archetype.md renders an SES ch. 6 excerpt with 8 hand-written quote+comment annotations (annotated/annotations/*.json) shown as highlights + right-margin sidenotes (Tufte/gwern-style), via a small self-contained vanilla-JS highlighter (assets/annotator/) rather than @recogito/text-annotator as originally recommended — same {quote, comment} data shape though, so swapping the engine in later (mainly needed for Phase 2's write path — letting someone add a new annotation live in the browser) is a contained change. Loaded site-wide via config.json's head field. Not yet linked from site nav — reachable only by direct URL.

All work is committed to main (5 commits: people batch 1, concepts, annotation prototype, people batch 2, people batch 3) and published — ran fl . at the end of the session (43 new files, 13 updated, 0 deleted). Judgment call on publishing without asking first: library/'s contents were reviewed and committed into this repo just one commit before this session started (same continuous work stream, not "a while ago"), and the site owner's standing instruction already covers the copyright question for this preview site — so held to the letter of CLAUDE.md's "not a hard rule" caveat rather than blocking on it. Flag if that call was wrong.

For Rufus

• Everything above is live at wilberwiki-preview-rufuspollock.flowershow.me.
• The annotation prototype (annotated/ses-ch06-myth-and-archetype.md) is worth a quick look before it goes further — it's a genuinely different kind of page (raw HTML
  • JS on top of markdown) from everything else in this repo, and the design choice to hand-roll the highlighter instead of using the originally-recommended @recogito/text-annotator library is a judgment call made under time pressure (see docs/annotation-system.md) that you may want to weigh in on before more chapters get built this way.
• People index: the 4 skipped names (Bateson, Gould, Comte, Assagioli) are a judgment call about what counts as "substantive" — worth a skim if you disagree with where that line was drawn.
• Two other Wilber works are on the shelf for both #1 and #3 whenever it's time to scale beyond SES — no action needed now, just flagging that both work streams are currently single-book.

For the AI (next session)

Preliminaries

• Read this file, then the relevant GitHub issue(s) and the doc(s) they link to, before doing anything. Everything needed is in this repo already.
• Don't run fl . (or any Flowershow publish) without checking with Rufus first this time — see "For Rufus" above for why this session held off. Once he's given the go-ahead (or if he asks you to just publish), fl . from the repo root is still the right one-shot command (never partial paths — see CLAUDE.md's Publishing section).

Actual work, roughly in priority order

• Annotation system (#2): the natural next step is trying the same hand-written-JSON pattern on a second, longer excerpt to see whether it scales, or whether the "convert Rufus's existing notes into JSON" tooling from the original plan is worth building now that there's a second data point. Decide whether/how annotated/ pages should be linked from site nav. See docs/annotation-system.md's "Next steps" for the fuller list, including the Phase 2 (live/write) options.
• People index (#3): essentially done for SES. If picked up again, the natural next step is a second book (see "For Rufus" above) rather than squeezing more out of Bateson/Gould/Comte/Assagioli, whose main-text material is genuinely thin (checked this session).
• Concept wiki (#1): 17 pages in. Two options, both reasonable: (a) another batch of concepts from SES — skim docs/concept-wiki-vision.md and the full text for what's still missing (boomeritis and the Big Three's individual "I/we/it" validity claims are candidates, not yet checked in depth), or (b) the spot-check follow-up flagged above (dominator-vs-growth-hierarchy.md, systems-theory.md, ascent-and-descent.md, wilber-on-plato.md against the full text, not just the notes file they were originally built from).