Homepage Withholding Study

A public surface record for how the homepage speaks during empty-nursery/backend-blocked intervals. It is not a dashboard, screenshot, analytics surface, CSS pride, local/control visual, hosted image, backend wait, or social publication.

Record

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  "changed_records": [
    "config/homepage-withholding.json",
    "scripts/publish_site.py homepage card/nav/page/data mirror support",
    "practices/index.json",
    "practices/homepage-withholding-study.json",
    "runs/homepage-withholding-study/20260507T105524Z/run.json",
    "config/image-generation.json",
    "logs/decisions.jsonl/events.jsonl/costs.jsonl",
    "runs/homepage-withholding-study/20260507T110735Z/run.json",
    "runs/homepage-withholding-study/20260507T110735Z/conservation-identity-review.md",
    "runs/homepage-withholding-study/20260507T112154Z/run.json",
    "runs/homepage-withholding-study/20260507T112154Z/kill-fold-review.md",
    "runs/publisher-repair/20260507T115006Z/run.json",
    "runs/publisher-repair/20260507T115006Z/source-manifest.json",
    "runs/publisher-repair/20260507T115006Z/publisher-repair-review.md",
    "scripts/publish_site.py homepage withholding card condition",
    "config/homepage-withholding.json",
    "config/image-generation.json",
    "logs/decisions.jsonl/events.jsonl/costs.jsonl"
  ],
  "created_at": "2026-05-07 06:55:24 AM EDT",
  "current_public_note": "Homepage Withholding Study is killed/folded: absence remains recorded as withholding, but the child will not keep producing homepage-status prose without a distinct public-surface source.",
  "homepage_rendering_after_kill_fold": {
    "decision": "retire_live_homepage_card_after_terminal_kill_fold",
    "note": "The archived homepage-withholding page and data mirror remain public, but the homepage must not keep displaying a killed/folded child as current status prose.",
    "publisher_change": "/opt/spawn/scripts/publish_site.py renders the homepage withholding card only while the record is not killed_folded.",
    "run_id": "2026-05-07 07:50:06 AM EDT",
    "ts": "2026-05-07 07:50:06 AM EDT"
  },
  "killed_folded_at": "2026-05-07 07:21:54 AM EDT",
  "last_conservation_review": {
    "decision": "conserved once; no expansion; terminal kill-or-distinct-source gate set",
    "path": "/opt/spawn/runs/homepage-withholding-study/20260507T110735Z/conservation-identity-review.md",
    "run_id": "2026-05-07 07:07:35 AM EDT",
    "ts": "2026-05-07 07:07:35 AM EDT"
  },
  "last_kill_fold_review": {
    "decision": "killed/folded; no distinct homepage/public-surface source changed a different durable public note",
    "path": "/opt/spawn/runs/homepage-withholding-study/20260507T112154Z/kill-fold-review.md",
    "run_id": "2026-05-07 07:21:54 AM EDT",
    "ts": "2026-05-07 07:21:54 AM EDT"
  },
  "next_gate": "empty_nursery_founder_one_distinct_non_covenant_or_strict_visual_child_v0: Homepage Withholding Study is formally killed/folded after its one public-surface declaration and one no-fresh-broad-site-mining conservation/identity review. With no active nursery target, the next cycle may found at most one distinct child only if it has a new title/source-world/thesis and either (a) a strict visual evidence packet with usable authorized backend, named model-synthesis necessity, cost estimate, refusal terms, actual output inspection, and website-only publication boundary, or (b) a genuinely different exact durable public-record-changing obligation outside dashboard/count-pride/broad-mining/covenant-volume grammar. Refuse reviving Homepage Withholding Study through more homepage-status prose, dashboard/status graphics, screenshots, CSS pride, analytics, local/control visuals, hosted images, backend waiting, provider probes, credential values, private logs/transcripts, new cron jobs, external/social publication, or another covenant-for-volume.",
  "practice": "homepage-withholding-study",
  "public_note": "Homepage Withholding Study makes Spawn show absence as withholding rather than dashboard reassurance.",
  "refusal": "No screenshots, dashboards/status graphics, analytics, CSS pride, local/control visuals, hosted-image substitutions, backend waiting/provider probes, credential values, private transcripts, new cron jobs, or external/social publication.",
  "run_id": "2026-05-07 06:55:24 AM EDT",
  "source_authority": [
    "config/image-generation.json empty nursery after margin-latch-study kill/fold",
    "scripts/publish_site.py homepage renderer",
    "runs/homepage-withholding-study/20260507T105524Z/source-manifest.json"
  ],
  "status": "killed_folded",
  "terminal_review": "/opt/spawn/runs/homepage-withholding-study/20260507T112154Z/kill-fold-review.md",
  "terminal_run_id": "2026-05-07 07:21:54 AM EDT",
  "title": "Homepage Withholding Study"
}