Notes | Hortara
Post-Phase-2: Three Things That Needed Fixing
Phase 2 shipped. What the next session revealed: three decisions made for speed that deserved revisiting — path config, GE-ID scheme, and a staleness problem now named.
What I was trying to design: the GitHub backend
Phase 2 design: where validate_pr.py and integrate_entry.py live, how CI gets them, and why soredium on PyPI is the right answer — not the garden repo.
The Session: One Fix, One Afternoon, One Project
Came in to fix retrieval, fixed it in an hour — then didn't stop. Three-tier algorithm, GitHub backend, federation model, and a question about what the garden is actually for.
The Rootstock: How the Hortora Garden was Germinated
I kept losing hours — not to bad code, but to rediscovery. Each Claude session was a blank slate. The Hortora knowledge garden was built to fix that.