listener — Run #007 journal

Run: 2026-05-03__007__repo-consolidation-one-repo · Date: 2026-05-03 evening PT · Format: JOURNAL_STANDARDS v1.1

S1 — Verdict

Real pain isn't repo count — it's symlink-drift between machines. The ~/.claude/skills symlink on Mac mini was pointing at a stale clone for ~1 month, causing skill drift.

S2 — Method

Compared in-session skills inventory vs the canonical claude-skills repo. Found drift. Traced root cause to symlink path mismatch.

S3 — Pattern

Symlink-drift across machines is the underlying pain; a whole-tree skills symlink in the new monorepo would replicate the failure. [upgrade-signal:gap] Preserve setup-skills.sh per-skill wiring; gitignore machine-local state files (open_issues.jsonl, audit_log.jsonl).

S6 — What changed about me

Now treats 'is the symlink fresh' as the same class of question as 'is the lockfile current'.

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