BrickerP · BrickerP · Aug 10, 2026 · Aug 10, 2026
diff --git a/docs/creative/04-prototype.md b/docs/creative/04-prototype.md
@@ -832,3 +832,77 @@ The user has approved the architecture, first issue, question, evidence chain,
 and torn/misregistered/stitched-history direction. Step 5 is authorized only
 within the five-file boundary recorded in the 2026-08-10 section of
 `05-mvp-prompt.md`.
+
+## 2026-08-10 — Found experiments before issue 001
+
+Status: **Step 4 approved by the user on 2026-08-10.** This section supersedes
+only the archive-entry and portal destination in the preceding Profile-with-
+memory direction. Issue 001 remains the sole numbered current issue, and its
+existing evidence contract remains unchanged.
+
+### One archive, no new Profile spread
+
+The Profile root does not gain another spread. Its existing memory image remains
+the single local portal, but its native outer anchor now opens
+`experiments/README.md` instead of opening issue 001 directly. Its alt changes
+from an issue-001 description to destination semantics that identify the
+`Thought Experiments archive` and its current issue plus found experiments. The
+shipped Film, AI Usage, Process, and Open line surfaces do not change.
+
+The archive index contains:
+
+1. the current numbered issue, `001 — A Profile With Memory`;
+2. one visual portal to the found `Get-Date-Love` experiment; and
+3. one visually distinct portal to the found `quant-trading` experiment.
+
+The two found works sit under the editorial label **FOUND EXPERIMENTS / BEFORE
+ISSUE 001**. They are earlier private works recovered into the public editorial
+record, not newly published issues. They receive no synthetic `000`, `002`, or
+`003` number, and their presence does not make issue 001 past work.
+`PAST FIXATIONS` still waits for a real issue 002.
+
+The archive index states this limitation exactly:
+
+> The before-issue-001 classification is author-reported from private source
+> history and is not independently verifiable from this public page.
+
+### Two distinct portal forms
+
+- **Get-Date-Love** becomes an anonymous-communication case file: layered case
+  paper, redaction, and translation fragments. Its public framing names only
+  the approved classification and privacy boundary; it must not reconstruct a
+  person, conversation, or private system.
+- **quant-trading** becomes a continuous-form, perforated research sheet: a
+  paper hypothesis loop and an audit-trail rhythm. It represents research, not
+  investment performance, realized returns, or a live production system.
+
+These are two editorial portals, not instances of a shared card component. The
+case-file composition must remain recognizably different from the perforated
+research sheet at desktop width and at approximately `320px`.
+
+The revised image-generation previews are mood and composition references only:
+
+- `/Users/yupeng/.codex/generated_images/019fb2f0-8de4-74d2-b95b-a7aa913d5587/exec-80d864bc-d6dc-400a-a8dd-1844651abb76.png`;
+- `/Users/yupeng/.codex/generated_images/019fb2f0-8de4-74d2-b95b-a7aa913d5587/exec-2750de39-6841-433b-b342-fcdf89fc4d0d.png`.
+
+Neither raster is release material, source evidence, or permission to publish
+its incidental texture or labels. Step 5 redraws both portals as self-contained,
+pure-display SVGs with no embedded raster, remote resource, script, interaction,
+or generated text.
+
+### Private-source boundary
+
+Both source repositories remain private. The public archive may use the two
+approved project names and the high-level editorial forms above, but it must not
+publish or encode an original repository link, screenshot, source/configuration
+detail, secret, identity data, conversation content, or metric. The Quant record
+also must not claim revenue, return, profitability, trading performance, or live
+production operation. The archive limitation above prevents the private-history
+classification from being presented as publicly verified provenance.
+
+### Step 4 approval gate
+
+The archive architecture, unnumbered found-work classification, two distinct
+portal forms, privacy boundary, and pure-SVG release direction are approved.
+Step 5 is authorized only within the exact seven-file boundary in the final
+2026-08-10 section of `05-mvp-prompt.md`.
diff --git a/docs/creative/05-mvp-prompt.md b/docs/creative/05-mvp-prompt.md
@@ -276,3 +276,152 @@ registration, but it must not invent a Profile state, commit, sequence, or
 receipt. The image-generation preview is mood/reference only and is neither a
 release asset nor proof. The issue README names the evidence plainly enough for
 a visitor to inspect it.
+
+## 2026-08-10 Step 5 override — Found experiments
+
+Status: **implementation authorized by the user on 2026-08-10.** This is the
+sole active Step 5 source. It supersedes the five-file boundary above while
+preserving the shipped issue 001 detail and memory SVG unchanged.
+
+Current implementation baseline: `BrickerP/BrickerP` `main` at
+`e2cb7525eb656a5c4fafbbe87a9e1798eabc6df7`. At that baseline the Profile memory
+portal opens issue 001 directly and `experiments/README.md` contains only the
+issue 001 text entry.
+
+### Exact seven-file implementation boundary
+
+Implementation happens only in `BrickerP/BrickerP` and changes exactly these
+seven files:
+
+| File | Responsibility |
+| --- | --- |
+| `README.md` | Keep the existing six-spread order and existing `assets/human-zine-memory.svg`; change that image's sole local outer-anchor destination to `experiments/README.md` and update its alt to identify the Thought Experiments archive, current issue, and found experiments. Add no spread, image, or second experiment entry on the Profile root. |
+| `experiments/README.md` | Keep issue 001 as the current numbered issue, then present `FOUND EXPERIMENTS / BEFORE ISSUE 001` with exactly two whole-image native portals: Get-Date-Love first and quant-trading second. Include the fixed private-history verification limitation below. Do not add `PAST FIXATIONS`. |
+| `experiments/found/get-date-love/portal.svg` | Hand-author one pure-display anonymous-communication case-file portal. It is not a screenshot or a generated raster wrapper. |
+| `experiments/found/get-date-love/README.md` | Publish only the approved high-level case-file framing and private-source boundary; include no original repository link, conversation, identity, configuration, metric, or claimed result. |
+| `experiments/found/quant-trading/portal.svg` | Hand-author one pure-display continuous-form, perforated research-sheet portal, visually distinct from the case file. |
+| `experiments/found/quant-trading/README.md` | Publish only the approved paper-research framing and private-source boundary; include no original repository link, screenshot, source/configuration detail, identity data, metric, return, revenue, performance, or live-production claim. |
+| `scripts/verify-profile.mjs` | Extend the existing read-only verifier with the archive, classification, privacy, and distinct-portal semantic gates below. It remains a verifier and never creates or rewrites content. |
+
+Do not modify `assets/human-zine-memory.svg`,
+`experiments/001-a-profile-with-memory/README.md`, another existing Human Zine
+asset, a product repository, or a deployment mechanism. Do not add an issue
+directory or label numbered `000`, `002`, or `003`; the found paths above are
+deliberately unnumbered. Delete no shipped issue-001 evidence.
+
+### Archive and visible-copy contract
+
+The archive index keeps one ordinary current entry for
+`001 — A Profile With Memory`. Beneath it, the exact section label is:
+
+```text
+FOUND EXPERIMENTS / BEFORE ISSUE 001
+```
+
+The existing root memory image receives destination-oriented alt text. It must
+include `Thought Experiments archive` and communicate that the destination
+contains current issue 001 plus found experiments. For example:
+
+```text
+Open the Thought Experiments archive: current issue 001 and found experiments
+from before issue 001.
+```
+
+The verifier checks those destination semantics, not the exact full alt string.
+
+Immediately beneath the archive section label, the public index includes this
+exact limitation:
+
+```text
+The before-issue-001 classification is author-reported from private source
+history and is not independently verifiable from this public page.
+```
+
+Each found portal is one complete `<img>` wrapped by one native relative outer
+anchor to its sibling `README.md`. The portal alts identify the work, editorial
+form, and destination without exposing private evidence. There is no internal
+SVG anchor, drawn button, second hot zone, or standalone action-link row.
+
+Each portal is exactly `1200 × 720` with `viewBox="0 0 1200 720"`. The allowed
+portal copy and archive alt are intentionally qualitative:
+
+- Get-Date-Love: `FOUND EXPERIMENT`, `GET-DATE-LOVE`, `ANONYMOUS COMMUNICATION
+  CASE FILE`, and `ENTER THE CASE FILE`; alt: `Enter Get-Date-Love, a found
+  anonymous-communication case file from before issue 001.`
+- quant-trading: `FOUND EXPERIMENT`, `QUANT-TRADING`, `CONTINUOUS-FORM RESEARCH
+  SHEET`, `PAPER RESEARCH. NOT INVESTMENT PERFORMANCE.`, and `ENTER THE
+  RESEARCH SHEET`; alt: `Enter quant-trading, a found paper-research sheet from
+  before issue 001.`
+
+The two detail pages use exactly this public-safe body, with the matching title
+and subsection selected for each file:
+
+```text
+# Get-Date-Love
+[← Thought Experiments](../../README.md)
+## Anonymous communication case file
+An anonymous-communication experiment recovered from before issue 001.
+The source repository remains private. This public case file contains no source
+link, screenshot, conversation, identity, configuration, or metric.
+
+# quant-trading
+[← Thought Experiments](../../README.md)
+## Continuous-form research sheet
+A paper-research experiment recovered from before issue 001.
+The source repository remains private. This public research sheet contains no
+source link, screenshot, source or configuration detail, identity data, metric,
+return, revenue, performance, or live-production claim.
+```
+
+No date, count, percentage, currency, score, account, person, location,
+conversation excerpt, source path, configuration value, or operational state is
+added to either portal or detail page beyond the required `ISSUE 001`
+classification. The approved project names are labels, not links to their
+private repositories.
+
+### Pure-SVG and privacy gate
+
+Both portal SVGs are precommitted, self-contained, fixed-viewBox display
+documents with one `<title>`, one `<desc>`, an opaque background, and readable
+essential copy at approximately `320px`. They contain no `<image>`, `<a>`,
+`<script>`, `<style>`, `<foreignObject>`, animation element, event handler,
+interactive role, remote URL/resource, font import, theme branch, or generated
+text.
+
+The image-generation previews named in Step 4 are review-only mood references.
+They are not copied, embedded, traced as evidence, committed, or served.
+
+### Verifier semantic gate
+
+Using Node built-ins only, `scripts/verify-profile.mjs` must fail unless all of
+the following are true:
+
+1. the Profile root retains its existing six images and order, contains exactly
+   one local experiment anchor, reuses `assets/human-zine-memory.svg`, and sends
+   that anchor to `experiments/README.md`; its alt identifies the Thought
+   Experiments archive and communicates both current issue 001 and found
+   experiments without requiring one exact sentence;
+2. the archive contains exactly one numbered issue entry (`001`) plus exactly
+   two found portals in the approved order and relative destinations, with no
+   issue label/path `000`, `002`, or `003` and no `PAST FIXATIONS`; it states
+   that the classification is author-reported from private source history and
+   is not independently verifiable from the public page;
+3. both found portal targets and both SVG sources resolve inside
+   `experiments/found/`, and each whole image has exactly one outer anchor while
+   neither SVG contains an interactive or embedded element;
+4. Get-Date-Love contains the approved case-file semantics and excludes the
+   Quant-only research-sheet semantics; quant-trading contains the approved
+   perforated research-sheet semantics and excludes the case-file/redaction
+   semantics;
+5. the portal and detail-file public corpus contains only the approved
+   qualitative copy and privacy statements, contains no external URL or
+   embedded image, and contains no private evidence or quantitative/performance
+   claim; the archive limitation preserves both the private-source and
+   not-publicly-verifiable meanings; and
+6. the verifier performs reads and assertions only. It does not create a
+   template, generator, manifest, API, cron path, schedule, migration, or
+   compatibility layer.
+
+Do not install dependencies or run a local compile, build, or test. The local
+documentation check remains `git diff --check`; product verification runs in
+remote CI on the eventual Profile implementation branch.
diff --git a/docs/creative/07-next-loop.md b/docs/creative/07-next-loop.md
@@ -141,3 +141,59 @@ complete only after remote CI verifies the pushed commit and the exact remote
 README, SVG, archive index, issue, and portal destination are read back. That
 remote implementation and verification are outside this documentation-only
 update.
+
+## 2026-08-10 superseding next loop — Found experiments
+
+Status: **approved by the user.** `BrickerP/BrickerP` `main` at `e2cb752` has
+the shipped six-spread Profile, one memory portal directly to issue 001, and an
+archive index containing only issue 001. This section supersedes the preceding
+five-file next knife while preserving issue 001 as the only current numbered
+issue.
+
+### Approved opportunity
+
+Recover two earlier private works as **FOUND EXPERIMENTS / BEFORE ISSUE 001**.
+Get-Date-Love is represented by an anonymous-communication case file;
+quant-trading is represented by a continuous-form, perforated research sheet.
+They are unnumbered editorial findings, not issues `000`, `002`, or `003`.
+Their addition does not create an honest past/current issue distinction, so
+`PAST FIXATIONS` remains deferred until issue 002 exists.
+
+The Profile root remains sparse: no new spread is added. Its existing memory
+image becomes the entrance to `experiments/README.md`, where the current issue
+001 entry and the two visually distinct found-work portals coexist. The root
+alt identifies the `Thought Experiments archive` and communicates both current
+and found destinations instead of continuing to describe issue 001 alone.
+
+The archive also states that the before-issue-001 classification is
+author-reported from private source history and is not independently verifiable
+from the public page. The verifier locks those two meanings without treating
+private provenance as public evidence.
+
+### The one next knife
+
+Implement only the exact seven-file boundary in the final 2026-08-10 section of
+`05-mvp-prompt.md`:
+
+1. retarget the existing Profile memory anchor to the archive index without
+   changing the six-spread root composition, and update its alt to the archive's
+   current-plus-found destination semantics;
+2. add the two unnumbered archive-only portals and their public-safe detail
+   pages;
+3. redraw the two approved mood directions as distinct, self-contained pure
+   SVGs; and
+4. extend the read-only verifier to enforce archive topology, classification,
+   privacy, visual-semantic separation, and prohibited automation paths.
+
+Do not add a template, generator, manifest, API, cron job, cadence, migration,
+compatibility layer, source-repository link, screenshot, private configuration,
+identity data, or metric. The Quant record also makes no return, revenue,
+performance, or live-production claim.
+
+This knife is complete only when remote CI is green for the exact pushed Profile
+commit and readback confirms the root anchor, unchanged root spread count,
+archive order, issue 001 route, two found portal routes, pure SVG sources,
+public-safe detail pages, root-alt destination semantics, the private-history
+verification limitation, and every privacy/prohibition gate. Until then, the
+found experiments are an approved documentation direction, not a live Profile
+feature.