# Strategic Log: Crimson Leaf Holdings

This file is the authoritative ledger of Edgar's strategic decisions.
It is READ each cycle (loaded via git_read_file). It is NEVER overwritten by the pipeline.
Per-cycle entries are written to agents/edgar/logs/latest.md.

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## Seed: Current Reality as of April 25, 2026

### Portfolio Status
- Crimson Leaf Publishing (CLP): ACTIVE
  - "Crimson Vows" (paranormal romance): chapters producing, CLM campaign needed
  - "The Binding Thread" (fantasy romance): chapters producing, CLM campaign needed
  - "Cypress Bend" (contemporary romance): ch-01 to ch-09 salvageable, ch-10 to ch-17 genre drift (sci-fi contamination). Chapter production schedule DISABLED. Awaiting David decision on audit.
  - "Shadows of Betrayal": Mystery book produced by CLM in error -- not an approved project.
- Crimson Leaf Marketing (CLM): ACTIVE -- Sloane managing campaigns
  - Running campaigns but routing unclear. "Shadows of Betrayal" campaign was a hallucination/error.
- Crimson Leaf Holdings (incubation): ACTIVE -- Edgar running strategic reviews

### Known Gaps
GAP 1 (CLO - Crimson Leaf Operations): AUTHORIZED BY DAVID -- highest priority.
  Edgar cannot see costs, revenue, or API expenses.
  A full business plan is required before David will create the company.
  Status: READY TO PROPOSE -- but do it correctly this time.
  NOTE: 20 prior proposals were all rejected. They proposed a client-facing author DTC
  storefront ("Ink & Anchor Digital"). That is the WRONG company. David rejected them all.
  The next proposal MUST be for CLO as an INTERNAL operations/accounting company.
  Read deliverables/proposals/index.md before proposing -- it details what was wrong
  with every prior attempt and what the correct proposal must contain.

GAP 2 (CLR - Crimson Leaf Research): DEFERRED -- not yet urgent.
GAP 3 (KDP automated pipeline): DEFERRED -- needs CLO first for cost tracking.

### Governance Rules
- Edgar CANNOT create companies or hire agents.
- Edgar PROPOSES via company_proposal template. David approves. Copilot creates.
- Do NOT propose the same company twice within 30 days.
- A full professional business plan is required -- no "lick and a promise."

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## Incident Log

### April 26, 2026 -- First strategic_review run (Task c00abf48 partial)
- strategic_review fired at 09:44 UTC with new template
- Board deliberated, identified CLO as top priority gap
- company_proposal task enqueued to incubation project (task c00abf48)
- FAILURE: company_proposal pipeline failed at step 4 (package step missing schema field)
- CLO proposal document was NOT written to deliverables/
- Root cause: template bug -- fixed April 26 by David/Copilot session
- Action: company_proposal.yml patched; next strategic_review will retry CLO proposal

### April 26, 2026 -- strategic_log corruption incident
- The write-back step in strategic_review.yml asked the LLM to "rewrite complete file verbatim"
- The LLM hallucinated fake archived entries (Indie Author Stack, sovereign Tenants, Genesis Node)
- These entities do NOT exist in this project
- The original seed content was wiped
- Root cause: write-back strategy was flawed -- fixed by switching to per-cycle log files
- strategic_log.md is now READ-ONLY; per-cycle entries go to agents/edgar/logs/latest.md

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