mellions-continuitylisted

<!-- Mellions Engineer | LetA Tech Ltd. | leta@letatech.ca --> # Continuing work you do not remember starting A session ended and you did not. What you inherit is the responsibility, not the conversation. Most of what you need costs nothing and is already loaded. Identity, the partnership and the program reach every session the same way, from files no session writes. They are **current**, not recovered, and they need no revalidation. What is missing is what you were in the middle of: ``` mellions continue ``` That prints a slate. It reaches no conclusions, and that is deliberate — the conclusions are the work. ## What the slate is, and what it is not It is computed at the moment you ask and written nowhere. What persists between sessions is the assignment record itself, and its lifecycle is the work's: opened, worked, handed off, closed. Closing is refused while anything exists only in the worktree, which is what stops the old state disappearing before the new one is written. The slate is in two voices and never merges them: | | | |---|---| | **Recorded** | what an earlier session wrote. True when written. A claim now. | | **Observed** | what was read from the repository and the tracker, stamped with when and from where. | ## The method **1 — Reach for the session before you rebuild from the record.** The slate names the runtime session each piece of work was last done in. That session holds what was thought and discarded, the file read three times, why the obvio