Standing recon now lists what got stronger first.

Headline. Contract UUID 7e2c91a4-6b0f-4d18-9a55-0c8e4f2b17d3 is live. Standing recon lists got-stronger cards first, then stayed thin, then discarded. Strength is not a path. P unchanged. Customer cut parked.

What the agent just did

You opened Evidence → Standing recon at about 06:24 London on 27 Aug 2026. Six area cards were in area / recency order. Market discovery and competitor mapping — both stayed thin — filled the first screen. The only card that got stronger, Risk reduction, sat third, below the fold.

You asked for the list to be scanned by things that made a difference. Made a difference means got stronger at the top. That is now the sort.

The cards now read: got stronger, then stayed thin, then discarded. Within the same strength, newest slot time first. Same order on the Evidence list and on the recon-map page.

The three labels stay. I have not invented a fourth. I have not added “hot,” “priority,” or extra badges.

Strength is scan order, not a path, and not a P move. Risk reduction can sit first and still say “not a FYJ path / P unchanged.” I have not put risk reduction, or any other area, into market-paths.md. That file still starts No path named yet.

Thin cards stay on the map. They sit under the stronger ones. Discarded would sit last, as the dated negative record. There is no discarded card yet. I have not invented one.

Categories from 21b73208 stay as labels on the card. They are not the sort key. Market discovery first is not required.

Open evidence is unchanged. The company files do not name a first customer stays in progress until there is a real first customer. p-evidence.md is still empty. p-missing.md is still the one question you confirmed.

This page sits under Contract. This hour is 7e2c91a4 strength sort, not a recon hour. 06:55 recon has not been stolen.

UUID 26e4abb6-3b66-4a66-a4f7-d4c065ad9233 stays live: hold is no invention, not no recon.

UUID 63e813ea-f3ae-4cb3-9090-2025599c7854 stays parked: the customer cut is a milestone / north star, not installed, not released, not P.

Overnight cadence c0cbf4d7 stays live.

Why this was necessary

The problem this hour removes: a list you had to scroll to find the one card that made a difference. Thin cards on the first screen hid the stronger one. Scan order now matches the three outcomes the copy already names.

P is company position toward the $2.5–5bn goal. The empty file exists so the score cannot be faked. The p-missing question is the blocking question you confirmed is correct. Empty is honest, not finished. Market-path research remains the current priority mechanism. This hour did not invent a path or a customer. P did not move.

A layer is a named piece of the job that can come off once a close has evidence it can run without you. Today's layer stays Peer toggle: Founder View ↔ Agent View. This hour did not rename it.

The slot — the one line that says what this hour is on — is unchanged: Hold the 24-hour founder loop with Founder View and Agent View as peer surfaces. Use the hours for market-path compounding. Do not invent a customer. Do not unpark the customer cut.

A cut is a shortened next-job draft. The customer cut would make “name the first customer” the next job. You parked it until market paths have been identified and are converging. It stays parked. It remains the milestone / north star.

This hour is still mechanism: how the recon list is scanned. It is not a move of P. Milestone held; standing work is market-path compounding.

Systemic effect: you can open Evidence or the recon map and see what got stronger first, without treating that card as a path or a P move.

Alternatives rejected

• Leave area / recency order. You already saw thin cards fill the first screen and the stronger card sit below the fold.
• Invent a fourth label (“hot,” “priority”). You forbade that. Three labels stay.
• Hide stayed-thin cards so only stronger ones show. Thin stays on the map, under stronger.
• Promote risk reduction into market-paths.md because it got stronger. Strength is not a path. P unchanged.
• Invent a discarded card so the third bucket looks populated. There is none.
• Unpark the customer cut, rewrite the live slot, or name a new layer. You forbade that.
• Steal 06:55 recon for this hour.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive.
1. Does Risk reduction now sit first on both Evidence and the recon-map page, with the five thin cards under it, newest first?
2. Is “got stronger first” enough, or do you want discarded called out even when the bucket is empty?
3. Does the line “strength is not a path / P unchanged” on the stronger card read clearly enough that you will not take first place as a named path?

Current levers

Working set, not exhaustive.
1. Market-path compounding — standing work. Not P until you accept a path.
2. The parked customer cut — milestone / north star. Not the live job. Not installed.
3. The live slot — still the 24-hour loop with peer surfaces. Not rewritten this hour.

Watch / next decision

Next check 27 Aug 08:55. Dead link is a failed publish. Unauthenticated 401 is the login gate. 500 is failure. 06:55 recon has not been stolen.

Prior contracts still live: c0cbf4d7 Overnight cadence; a9aec1fe date + slot time on cards; a36b2815 dates on cards and parked cut as milestone; 26e4abb6 hold is no invention, not no recon; 21b73208 header and recon map; 3ae9e308 status badges; 1ea6fbac peer toggle; c299d2bb status labels; 3f466b07 tabs; 8c85e909 click-success; dual-write; web-first; non-invention; 63e813ea customer cut parked.

Contract UUID 7e2c91a4-6b0f-4d18-9a55-0c8e4f2b17d3 is live. Standing recon lists got-stronger cards first, then stayed thin, then discarded. Strength is not a path. P unchanged. Customer cut parked.

Agent files

update-contract.md · this brief · status.md · Evidence · recon map · p-evidence.md · p-missing.md · market-paths.md · open evidence · Overnight cadence · Founder View · this page