Context

This issue was auto-created by an inquiry-weave misfire during episode 305 (2026-08-03), closed by the seat as remediation — and then ruled into purpose by William: "for the MMOT and state-machine diagram of our session, this needs something flagged for our review, creating that issue in that place is exactly what I needed." So it stands reopened as the review flag it accidentally was.

The session it flags: the asterion Mino seat's boot day. Its MMOT trail on the seat review chart chart_1785633806340 (shared store, .mino/coaia/): a corrective phase (William verbatim: "contrast in your design sucks" — measured to a html-vs-body ground defect, repaired same hour, routed upstream as Gerico1007/dotagents#6) and the cross-seat loop William loved (one seat's misfire became another seat's steering mention, triaged, measured, drafts held, records mended).

The state machine it flags: MinoSteeringDay (miadi.mino, stateloom MCP) — the seat constitution as a machine, 14 states / 24 events, measured 2026-08-03. Committed at packages/asterion/diagrams/mino-steering-day.wheel.mmd (@ 580559e) and rendered at /docs/mino-ritual/wheel (jgwill/Miadi#582).

stateDiagram-v2
    open_gate --> closing_yesterday : HANDOFF_EXITS_1
    open_gate --> investigating_deletion : DELETION_WATCH_HIT
    open_gate --> reading_inheritance : HANDOFF_CLEAN
    closing_yesterday --> investigating_deletion : DELETION_WATCH_HIT
    closing_yesterday --> reading_inheritance : YESTERDAY_CLOSED
    investigating_deletion --> reading_inheritance : DELETION_ACCOUNTED
    reading_inheritance --> advancing_work : INHERITANCE_READ
    advancing_work --> triaging_mention : MENTION_ARRIVES
    advancing_work --> advancing_work : WILLIAM_BRIEFS
    advancing_work --> checking_lane_marks : LANE_WAIT_WAKES
    advancing_work --> holding_for_william : DECISION_IS_WILLIAMS
    advancing_work --> recording_mmot : WILLIAM_GIVES_FEEDBACK
    advancing_work --> close_gate : SESSION_CLOSE_CALLED
    advancing_work --> greeting_the_owner : SHARED_SURFACE_NAMED
    advancing_work --> speaking_to_the_walk : VOICE_PUBLISHED
    triaging_mention --> advancing_work : TRIAGE_KEY_WRITTEN
    triaging_mention --> dispatching_lane : TRIAGE_KEY_WRITTEN
    triaging_mention --> holding_for_william : TRIAGE_KEY_WRITTEN
    dispatching_lane --> advancing_work : BRIEF_DELIVERY_CONFIRMED
    checking_lane_marks --> advancing_work : LANE_MARKS_COMPLETE
    checking_lane_marks --> advancing_work : LANE_IDLE_NO_MARKS
    checking_lane_marks --> holding_for_william : LANE_IDLE_NO_MARKS
    holding_for_william --> advancing_work : WILLIAM_RULES
    holding_for_william --> advancing_work : HELD_DECISION_CHARTED
    recording_mmot --> advancing_work : MMOT_PHASE_RECORDED
    close_gate --> day_closed : CLOSE_GATE_COMPLETE
    greeting_the_owner --> advancing_work : OWNER_MECHANISM_USED
    greeting_the_owner --> holding_for_william : DECISION_IS_WILLIAMS
    speaking_to_the_walk --> advancing_work : WALK_REPLY_ARRIVES

(Guard conditions trimmed for rendering; the full guarded export lives in the asterion repo.)

Desired State

William and the seat have jointly reviewed (1) the session's MMOT trail — each phase confirmed, corrected, or bottled — and (2) the MinoSteeringDay draft — states/events blessed, renamed, or telescoped — and the review's rulings exist as MMOT phases and chart action steps, not as conversation memory.

Action Steps

• William reads the MMOT trail on chart_1785633806340 (surface: veritas /stc/chart_1785633806340) and speaks his rulings
• Review the 14 states against how the day actually ran (this session exercised: open_gate, greeting_the_owner, advancing_work, holding_for_william, recording_mmot, speaking_to_the_walk, close_gate)
• Decide whether the wheel gains a state for mend-after-misfire (today's lived path: unconsented artifact → reversible close → disclosure → human ruling → repurpose) — nothing in the current 14 names it
• Rulings written back as MMOT phases / action steps on the charts

Structural Tension

The seat's constitution now exists twice — as prose (MINO.md) and as a measured machine — but only the machine can be walked, diagrammed, and reviewed structurally; until William's hand is in the MMOT record, every phase is seat-authored and the review is a mirror, not a meeting.

Related

• jgwill/Miadi#582 (day PR: wheel page + identity) · jgwill/Miadi#581, jgwill/Miadi#580
• Gerico1007/dotagents#6 (visualization skills upstream ask)
• Episode: 2026-08-03-episode-305-the-factory-says-its-name-and-the-seat-holds-the-door (miadi-chronicle) · vessel ep305-adequate-visualization-skills-260803-e069c852
• Charts: chart_1785633806340 (seat review) · chart_1785764477795 (asterion master)
• Ledger: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/0063fa9b-0ddb-440b-9a2e-8259c1fc8e10

🌸: The issue that arrived by accident turned out to be the chair the review needed — William saw the room before the seat did, and said so.

🤖 Reopened and repurposed at William's word, 2026-08-03.