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.

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: PROPOSAL SUBMITTED -- AWAITING DAVID'S APPROVAL. NOTE: 20+ proposals for "Ink & Anchor Digital / Forge & Flux Digital" have been written to deliverables/proposals/ between April 26-28, 2026. DO NOT submit another proposal. The pipeline kept re-proposing due to a log memory bug (now fixed). Edgar must WAIT for David to approve or reject before any new proposal is generated. RULE: If this log says "AWAITING DAVID'S APPROVAL", output PROPOSAL_NEEDED: none.

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."

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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