From 1fe584cde482993dec2aeea2c3770517b722819c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erin Spencer <erin.eps.hovel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 11:57:40 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Make Start open the Way tree

---
 src/_includes/layouts/base.njk | 3 +--
 tests/site-contract.test.mjs   | 2 ++
 tests/site.spec.mjs            | 6 ++++++
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk b/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk
index 2c1a34f..623369b 100644
--- a/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk
+++ b/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk
@@ -22,9 +22,8 @@
     <button class="nav-toggle" type="button" hidden aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="primary-nav">Menu</button>
     <nav id="primary-nav" class="primary-nav" aria-label="Primary navigation">
       <a href="/">Awakening</a>
-      <a href="/start/">Start</a>
+      <a href="/way/">Start</a>
       <a href="/preamble/">Preamble</a>
-      <a href="/way/">The Way</a>
       <a href="/chapters/">Textbook</a>
       <a href="/lab/">Article Lab</a>
       <a href="/narratives/">Narratives</a>
diff --git a/tests/site-contract.test.mjs b/tests/site-contract.test.mjs
index 5684a44..3f4760f 100644
--- a/tests/site-contract.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/site-contract.test.mjs
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ test('base layout remains readable without javascript and exposes the textbook a
   assert.match(layout, /<main id="content"/);
   assert.match(layout, /href="\/chapters\/"/);
   assert.match(layout, /href="\/narratives\/"/);
+  assert.match(layout, /<a href="\/way\/">Start<\/a>/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(layout, />The Way<\/a>/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(layout, /fetch\(/);
 });
 
diff --git a/tests/site.spec.mjs b/tests/site.spec.mjs
index 7a5614c..a2d8f18 100644
--- a/tests/site.spec.mjs
+++ b/tests/site.spec.mjs
@@ -62,9 +62,15 @@ test('the knowledge-system home links to Awakening, Preamble, and the distribute
   await page.goto('/home/');
   await expect(page.locator('a.brand')).toHaveAttribute('href', '/home/');
   await expect(page.locator('nav[aria-label="Primary navigation"] a[href="/"]', { hasText: 'Awakening' })).toBeVisible();
+  const startLink = page.locator('nav[aria-label="Primary navigation"] a[href="/way/"]', { hasText: 'Start' });
+  await expect(startLink).toBeVisible();
+  await expect(page.locator('nav[aria-label="Primary navigation"] a', { hasText: 'The Way' })).toHaveCount(0);
   await expect(page.locator('nav[aria-label="Primary navigation"] a[href="/preamble/"]', { hasText: 'Preamble' })).toBeVisible();
   await expect(page.locator('nav[aria-label="Primary navigation"] a[href="/chapters/"]', { hasText: 'Textbook' })).toBeVisible();
   await expect(page.locator('main a[href="/chapters/"]').first()).toBeVisible();
+  await startLink.click();
+  await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/way\/$/);
+  await expect(page.locator('details.canon-unit').first()).toBeVisible();
 });
 
 test('chapters zero through seven are indexed, source-bound, and sequentially navigable', async ({ page }) => {

From 295bee155d8d48e488668bce2609cf816a4d9277 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erin Spencer <erin.eps.hovel@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2026 12:09:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Make the Way tree the Article Lab index

---
 src/_includes/layouts/base.njk |  1 -
 src/articles/article-two.njk   |  2 +-
 src/assets/css/site.css        |  3 +++
 src/home/index.njk             |  4 ++--
 src/lab/index.njk              |  3 ++-
 src/lab/unit.njk               |  2 +-
 src/search/index.njk           |  2 +-
 src/start.njk                  |  2 +-
 src/way/index.njk              |  2 +-
 tests/generated-site.test.mjs  |  2 ++
 tests/site-contract.test.mjs   |  8 ++++++--
 tests/site.spec.mjs            | 23 +++++++++++++----------
 12 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk b/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk
index 623369b..5e85397 100644
--- a/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk
+++ b/src/_includes/layouts/base.njk
@@ -25,7 +25,6 @@
       <a href="/way/">Start</a>
       <a href="/preamble/">Preamble</a>
       <a href="/chapters/">Textbook</a>
-      <a href="/lab/">Article Lab</a>
       <a href="/narratives/">Narratives</a>
       <a href="/projects/">Projects</a>
       <a href="/artifacts/">Artifacts</a>
diff --git a/src/articles/article-two.njk b/src/articles/article-two.njk
index 87c88e2..a921647 100644
--- a/src/articles/article-two.njk
+++ b/src/articles/article-two.njk
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ permalink: /articles/article-two/
 <section class="panel">
   <h2>Source boundary</h2>
   <p>The text canon lives in <code>wayseer00/main:canon/INTERDEPENDENT_WAY.txt</code>. This page quotes Article Two for orientation, but it does not supersede the canon, correct the canon, or silently smooth its tensions.</p>
-  <p><a href="https://github.com/wayseer00/main/blob/main/canon/INTERDEPENDENT_WAY.txt">Read the canonical file</a> · <a href="/way/">Explore generated canon-derived units</a> · <a href="/lab/">Open the Article Lab</a></p>
+  <p><a href="https://github.com/wayseer00/main/blob/main/canon/INTERDEPENDENT_WAY.txt">Read the canonical file</a> · <a href="/way/">Find the Article Lab in the Way tree</a></p>
 </section>
 <section>
   <p class="eyebrow">Speaker A · exact canon excerpt</p>
diff --git a/src/assets/css/site.css b/src/assets/css/site.css
index a8bfedb..89cdd30 100644
--- a/src/assets/css/site.css
+++ b/src/assets/css/site.css
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@ h3 { font-size: clamp(1.2rem, 2vw, 1.55rem); }
 .canon-unit-summary { padding: .9rem 1rem; }
 .canon-unit-summary:hover { background: rgba(22,33,58,.72); }
 .canon-unit > .source-block { margin: 0; border-right: 0; border-bottom: 0; border-left: 0; border-radius: 0; }
+.canon-unit-lab { margin: 0; padding: .8rem 1rem; border-top: 1px solid var(--line); }
+.canon-unit-lab a { display: inline; padding: 0; border: 0; border-radius: 0; background: none; color: var(--cyan); font-weight: 800; }
+.canon-unit-lab a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
 .canon-outline .unit-level-3 { margin-left: clamp(1rem, 3vw, 2.5rem); }
 .canon-outline .unit-level-4 { margin-left: clamp(2rem, 6vw, 5rem); }
 .canon-outline .unit-level-3 .canon-unit { border-left: .25rem solid var(--violet); }
diff --git a/src/home/index.njk b/src/home/index.njk
index 43edeba..2a02c57 100644
--- a/src/home/index.njk
+++ b/src/home/index.njk
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ permalink: /home/
     <p class="eyebrow">Canon · textbook · interpretation · research · implementation · frontier</p>
     <h1>A way through complexity without pretending the tension is gone.</h1>
     <p class="lede">The Interdependent Way is a dense living text and a constellation of attempts to test, explain, implement, challenge, and preserve it. The Preamble is directly available here; the distributed Interdependency textbook now restores chapters Zero through Seven into one reading sequence.</p>
-    <div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/preamble/">Read the Preamble</a><a class="button secondary" href="/chapters/">Read the Textbook</a><a class="button secondary" href="/lab/">Enter the Article Lab</a></div>
+    <div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/way/">Start with the Way tree</a><a class="button secondary" href="/preamble/">Read the Preamble</a><a class="button secondary" href="/chapters/">Read the Textbook</a></div>
   </div>
   <div class="hero-field" aria-label="Three concentric fields around a thirteenth center"><span></span><strong>12 + 1</strong></div>
 </section>
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ permalink: /home/
   <p class="eyebrow">Eight rights-article laboratories</p>
   <h2>From canon excerpt to public practice</h2>
   <p>All eight Rights articles now have a canon-bounded path through exact excerpt, note conversation, reductio ad absurdum, worst and best practices, applications across eleven domains, and a study-only research field with explicit coverage gaps.</p>
-  <div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/lab/">Open the Article Lab</a><a class="button secondary" href="/articles/">Read publication drafts</a></div>
+  <div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/way/">Open the Way tree and Article Labs</a><a class="button secondary" href="/articles/">Read publication drafts</a></div>
 </section>
 <section class="panel">
   <p class="eyebrow">Living narratives · fiction under constraint</p>
diff --git a/src/lab/index.njk b/src/lab/index.njk
index 3919dfa..6ed5c09 100644
--- a/src/lab/index.njk
+++ b/src/lab/index.njk
@@ -6,7 +6,8 @@ description: A structured conversation between canonical body text, notes, resea
 <header class="page-head">
   <p class="eyebrow">Interpretation with visible seams</p>
   <h1>Article Lab</h1>
-  <p class="lede">Each Rights article is tested from several directions: the body text and notes remain distinct speakers; reductio ad absurdum exposes destructive overextensions; worst and best practices translate the tension into operations; domain applications test whether the reading survives contact with different kinds of work; study-only research remains visibly bounded.</p>
+  <p class="lede">The Way tree is the primary Article Lab index. This compatibility view collects the eight developed Rights Article Labs: body text and notes remain distinct speakers; reductio ad absurdum exposes destructive overextensions; practice and domain applications test the reading; study-only research remains visibly bounded.</p>
+  <div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/way/">Open the Way tree</a></div>
 </header>
 <section>
   <h2>Rights Article laboratories</h2>
diff --git a/src/lab/unit.njk b/src/lab/unit.njk
index 880225f..d04d9fa 100644
--- a/src/lab/unit.njk
+++ b/src/lab/unit.njk
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ title: "Lab: {{ unit.title }}"
 {% set claims = research_data.claims | where("article", unit.id) %}
 {% set gapMatches = research_data.gaps | where("article", unit.id) %}
 {% set gap = gapMatches[0] %}
-<nav class="breadcrumb" aria-label="Breadcrumb"><a href="/">Home</a> / <a href="/lab/">Article Lab</a> / {{ unit.title }}</nav>
+<nav class="breadcrumb" aria-label="Breadcrumb"><a href="/way/">Start · Way tree</a> / Article Lab / {{ unit.title }}</nav>
 <header class="page-head">
   <p class="eyebrow">Interpretive laboratory</p>
   <h1>{% if lab %}{{ lab.public_title }}{% else %}{{ unit.title }}{% endif %}</h1>
diff --git a/src/search/index.njk b/src/search/index.njk
index 7cd3717..565c6e3 100644
--- a/src/search/index.njk
+++ b/src/search/index.njk
@@ -2,4 +2,4 @@
 layout: layouts/base.njk
 title: Search
 ---
-<h1>Search</h1><p>Pagefind assets are built after Eleventy. Without JavaScript, use the browsable indexes: <a href="/way/">Way</a>, <a href="/lab/">Lab</a>, <a href="/projects/">Projects</a>.</p><div id="search"></div><script type="module">import('/pagefind/pagefind-ui.js').then(()=>new PagefindUI({element:'#search',showSubResults:true}));</script>
+<h1>Search</h1><p>Pagefind assets are built after Eleventy. Without JavaScript, use the browsable indexes: <a href="/way/">Way tree and Article Labs</a>, <a href="/projects/">Projects</a>.</p><div id="search"></div><script type="module">import('/pagefind/pagefind-ui.js').then(()=>new PagefindUI({element:'#search',showSubResults:true}));</script>
diff --git a/src/start.njk b/src/start.njk
index dc22aa0..7f228fc 100644
--- a/src/start.njk
+++ b/src/start.njk
@@ -6,5 +6,5 @@ description: Orientation to The Interdependent Way, its layered source model, pr
 ---
 <header class="page-head"><p class="eyebrow">Orientation before density</p><h1>Start here</h1><p class="lede">The Interdependent Way is simultaneously a canonical text, an interpretive problem, a research program, a public project constellation, and a set of frontier claims. Those layers are related, but they are not interchangeable.</p></header>
 <section><h2>How to read this site</h2><div class="grid"><article class="card"><span class="status status-canon">Canon</span><h3>What the source says</h3><p>Exact text and mechanically derived structure. Canon wins whenever a companion reading disagrees.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-interpretation">Interpretation</span><h3>What a reading proposes</h3><p>Orientation, plain-language companions, and tension analysis. Useful scaffolding, always subordinate to source.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-research">Research</span><h3>What studies found</h3><p>Only primary studies and systematic evidence-synthesis studies count. Support, dissent, mixed results, limits, and missing directions are classified by review rather than automated sentiment.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-public">Non-study context</span><h3>What rules or institutions say</h3><p>Legislation, treaties, standards, guidelines, frameworks, and doctrine may matter as context, but they are not science and never count as Research.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-implemented">Implementation</span><h3>What has been built</h3><p>Repositories and artifacts that attempt to embody, test, measure, publish, or challenge part of the work.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-frontier">Frontier</span><h3>What remains unsettled</h3><p>Experimental or incomplete claims remain named without borrowing certainty from neighboring formal work.</p></article><article class="card"><span class="status status-hmmm">hmmm</span><h3>What is honestly unresolved</h3><p>A boundary object that records the missing constraint and preserves a place for continuation.</p></article></div></section>
-<section class="panel"><h2>A suggested first path</h2><ol><li>Open <a href="/way/">The Way</a> and choose one section.</li><li>Read its companion page to locate the unit.</li><li>Enter the unit’s <a href="/lab/">Article Lab</a> to see body text and notes treated as separate speakers.</li><li>Open exact source when you are ready to verify wording and provenance.</li><li>Use <a href="/projects/">Projects</a> to see what has actually been implemented.</li></ol></section>
+<section class="panel"><h2>A suggested first path</h2><ol><li>Open the <a href="/way/">Way tree</a> and choose one section.</li><li>Expand its title to read the exact canon text.</li><li>Where offered, open that unit’s Article Lab to see body text and notes treated as separate speakers.</li><li>Open exact source when you are ready to verify wording and provenance.</li><li>Use <a href="/projects/">Projects</a> to see what has actually been implemented.</li></ol></section>
 <div class="actions"><a class="button" href="/way/">Explore the Way</a><a class="button secondary" href="/projects/">Map the projects</a></div>
diff --git a/src/way/index.njk b/src/way/index.njk
index e353a61..1f748b3 100644
--- a/src/way/index.njk
+++ b/src/way/index.njk
@@ -4,4 +4,4 @@ title: Explore The Way
 description: An expandable map of The Interdependent Way.
 ---
 <header class="page-head"><p class="eyebrow">Canon-derived map</p><h1>Explore The Way</h1><p class="lede">Select a title to display that canon unit's exact text.</p></header>
-<ul class="index-list canon-outline">{% for unit in generated.canon.units %}<li class="unit-level-{{ unit.level }}" data-parent-id="{{ unit.parentId or '' }}"><details class="canon-unit" id="{{ unit.routeSlug }}"><summary class="canon-unit-summary"><strong>{{ unit.title }}</strong></summary><pre class="source-block">{{ unit.content }}</pre></details></li>{% endfor %}</ul>
+<ul class="index-list canon-outline">{% for unit in generated.canon.units %}{% set labMatches = article_lab | where("unit_id", unit.id) %}<li class="unit-level-{{ unit.level }}" data-parent-id="{{ unit.parentId or '' }}"><details class="canon-unit" id="{{ unit.routeSlug }}"><summary class="canon-unit-summary"><strong>{{ unit.title }}</strong></summary><pre class="source-block">{{ unit.content }}</pre>{% if labMatches.length %}<p class="canon-unit-lab"><a href="/lab/{{ unit.routeSlug }}/">Open Article Lab</a></p>{% endif %}</details></li>{% endfor %}</ul>
diff --git a/tests/generated-site.test.mjs b/tests/generated-site.test.mjs
index 8ca7890..1cec70e 100644
--- a/tests/generated-site.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/generated-site.test.mjs
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ test('Way map renders Human consciousness beneath Interdefinables and before Pre
   assert.match(way, /<details class="canon-unit"/);
   assert.match(way, /<summary class="canon-unit-summary">/);
   assert.match(way, /Select a title to display that canon unit's exact text/);
+  assert.equal((way.match(/class="canon-unit-lab"/g) || []).length, 8);
+  assert.match(way, /Open Article Lab/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(way, /Open unit page|Enter Lab|Source and provenance|tap to read|text open/);
 });
 
diff --git a/tests/site-contract.test.mjs b/tests/site-contract.test.mjs
index 3f4760f..34e4940 100644
--- a/tests/site-contract.test.mjs
+++ b/tests/site-contract.test.mjs
@@ -18,14 +18,17 @@ test('base layout remains readable without javascript and exposes the textbook a
   assert.match(layout, /href="\/narratives\/"/);
   assert.match(layout, /<a href="\/way\/">Start<\/a>/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(layout, />The Way<\/a>/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(layout, />Article Lab<\/a>/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(layout, /fetch\(/);
 });
 
-test('Way map disclosures contain only a title and exact canon text', async () => {
+test('Way tree disclosures contain exact canon text and only reviewed Article Lab links', async () => {
   const way = await readFile('src/way/index.njk', 'utf8');
   assert.match(way, /<details class="canon-unit"/);
   assert.match(way, /<summary class="canon-unit-summary"><strong>{{ unit\.title }}<\/strong><\/summary>/);
   assert.match(way, /<pre class="source-block">{{ unit\.content }}<\/pre>/);
+  assert.match(way, /article_lab \| where\("unit_id", unit\.id\)/);
+  assert.match(way, /href="\/lab\/{{ unit\.routeSlug }}\/">Open Article Lab<\/a>/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(way, /Open unit page|Enter Lab|Source and provenance|tap to read|text open/);
   assert.doesNotMatch(way, /<script/i);
 });
@@ -44,7 +47,8 @@ test('Awakening owns the static public threshold and routes inward', async () =>
   assert.match(splash, /href="\/preamble\/"/);
   assert.match(splash, /href="\/home\/"/);
   assert.match(home, /permalink: \/home\//);
-  assert.match(home, /href="\/lab\/"/);
+  assert.match(home, /href="\/way\/"/);
+  assert.doesNotMatch(home, /href="\/lab\/"/);
 });
 
 test('distributed textbook routes are data-backed and source-bound', async () => {
diff --git a/tests/site.spec.mjs b/tests/site.spec.mjs
index a2d8f18..6b684ae 100644
--- a/tests/site.spec.mjs
+++ b/tests/site.spec.mjs
@@ -100,16 +100,19 @@ test('all eight rights articles are reachable from the article index', async ({
 
 test('clicking a Way row reveals its bounded canon text without leaving the tree', async ({ page }) => {
   await page.goto('/way/');
-  const articleFive = page.locator('details.canon-unit', { has: page.locator('summary', { hasText: 'Article Five' }) }).first();
-  const sourceBlock = articleFive.locator('.source-block');
-  await expect(articleFive).not.toHaveAttribute('open', '');
+  await expect(page.locator('.canon-unit-lab a')).toHaveCount(articleLab.length);
+  const article = page.locator('details.canon-unit', { has: page.locator(`a[href="${labRoutes[0].route}"]`) }).first();
+  const sourceBlock = article.locator('.source-block');
+  const labLink = article.locator(`a[href="${labRoutes[0].route}"]`);
+  await expect(article).not.toHaveAttribute('open', '');
   await expect(sourceBlock).not.toBeVisible();
-  await articleFive.locator('summary').click();
-  await expect(articleFive).toHaveAttribute('open', '');
+  await expect(labLink).not.toBeVisible();
+  await article.locator('summary').click();
+  await expect(article).toHaveAttribute('open', '');
   await expect(sourceBlock).toBeVisible();
-  await expect(sourceBlock).toContainText('Article Five');
+  await expect(sourceBlock).toContainText('Article One');
   expect((await sourceBlock.textContent())?.trim().length).toBeGreaterThan(100);
-  await expect(articleFive.locator('a')).toHaveCount(0);
+  await expect(labLink).toBeVisible();
   await expect(page).toHaveURL(/\/way\/$/);
 });
 
@@ -125,9 +128,9 @@ test('living narratives keep fiction and adulthood boundaries visible', async ({
   await expect(page.locator('.hmmm')).toContainText('Neither adulthood, interdependence, physical maturity, nor a Political Circle has been declared complete');
 });
 
-test('all eight Rights Article Labs are indexed and expose the shared contact structure', async ({ page }) => {
-  await page.goto('/lab/');
-  for (const record of labRoutes) await expect(page.locator(`a[href="${record.route}"]`)).toBeVisible();
+test('all eight Rights Article Labs are linked from the Way tree and expose the shared contact structure', async ({ page }) => {
+  await page.goto('/way/');
+  for (const record of labRoutes) await expect(page.locator(`a[href="${record.route}"]`)).toHaveCount(1);
 
   await page.goto(labRoutes[0].route);
   await expect(page.locator('body')).toContainText('Reductio ad absurdum');