Skill: write-lesson → write-video-script, write-mcqs, vault-sync @ 2ea2930
James's notes on Topic 26 — triage (30 September 2026)
Source: reviews/james/NOTES_G3T26_2026-09-30.md (three notes: L01, L03, L04) and his chat rulings of ~16:30 ("Garden soil is fine; definitely don't use loam"). None of Topic 26's videos exists.
In plain words
The round glass is a magnifying glass everywhere — the term, the coin line, the chip, every item, the accept list, the figure alt text and briefs. L01 and L03 close "So, here's what we've seen."; L04's rule follows the naming line with no opener. "Garden soil" stays; "loam" appears nowhere.
The table
| his note (verbatim) | action | where |
|---|---|---|
| L01: "There's no such thing as a hand lens. It's a magnifying glass." | applied everywhere: terms key and coined_at ("magnifying glass": L01); the coin line "A round glass like this is called a <b>magnifying glass</b>."; the forest line; the subtitle "Under the magnifying glass"; the script beat and its chip MAGNIFYING GLASS; the intro poll's reply; the summary's screen note; every stem, fb and why in L01's quiz, the practice set and the PP100 ("Here is soil under a magnifying glass…"); the recognition MCQ's option; the typed term item's accept list rebuilt around "magnifying glass" with twelve misspellings and "hand lens" / "lens" kept as accepted forms; figures.py alt text, the blind descriptions ("magnifying-glass view, seed N") and the image briefs; the records, TYPES sheet, REVIEW_NEXT and blueprint | content/G3T26.py, content/G3T26_lessons.py, content/figures.py, records/*.md, blueprints/BLUEPRINT_G3T26.md (the blind bundles under blind/ are left as the readers saw them) |
| L01: "The rule is not appropriate phrasing here. So, Here's what we've seen." | applied: "So, here's what we've seen. Soil is made of broken bits of rock mixed with bits of dead plants and animals." | script L01 |
| L03: "so here's what we've seen is a better ending" | applied: "So, here's what we've seen. The dark crumbs in soil come from dead plants and animals rotting away. The leaves didn't vanish. They became part of the soil." (script trimmed by two words elsewhere: "You can't tell they were leaves.") | script L03 |
| L04: "Pale, gritty, fast: sandy soil. Orange, sticky, sits: clay soil. Dark, crumbly, some: garden soil. - To repeat this, you can just delete. Here's the rule here." | applied as: the "Here's the rule." opener deleted, so the rule sentence follows the naming line directly ("…Dark, crumbly, some: garden soil. To tell two soils apart, look at their color, feel them, and test how fast water runs through."). The naming line itself is KEPT — see the judgement below | script L04 |
| chat: "Garden soil is fine; definitely don't use loam" | confirmed; "loam" is not in the topic (grep 0) | — |
| (not his note; the same ruling) L02's opener | "So, the bits of rock in soil come from bigger rocks slowly breaking apart." | script L02 |
Judgements
- The L04 note. The coordinator read it as "delete the repeated naming line and its opener". I read "To repeat this, you can just delete 'Here's the rule' here" — James repeating his L01/L03 point and quoting the line before the opener to place it. The naming line is not repeated in L04 (it appears once in the script; the summary restates it, as summaries do), and it is the only spoken coining of "sandy soil", "clay soil" and "garden soil", which the quiz then asks by recall. Deleting it would break "a coin the quiz uses is spoken in the script". So: opener deleted, naming line kept. If James did mean the line, it is one beat to cut and the three names would need speaking elsewhere in the script.
- Typed "magnifying glass". The checker's S35 WARNs (a typed key of 9+ letters). Kept typed: it is an everyday word, not a coined science term, the accept list carries twelve misspellings plus "hand lens", "lens" and "lense", and James ruled today that the grader should forgive one or two wrong letters. The recognition MCQ (q4) still comes before it.
- The skim-page fix "Dark, crumbly, some" → "some water runs through" is on the other agent's fixes list and was not touched here.
- Grep for the old name in
content/,records/,blueprints/: 0 (James's own words in this record aside). Checker: 0 FAIL. L04 is 128 words, L03 150.