Kairos Status

v0.2.340 ← Kairos
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Read, then written up An article is read by a lane, then separately written up into findings rows. Only the second reaches the guide. Two bars, always, because one bar has never told you the truth about this project.

Resident Advisor

codex (gemini's lane closed 2026-09-23)
READ
3,226 100%
WRITTEN UP
3,226 100%

of 3,226 articles in the queue

3,226QUEUE
-FETCHED
3,226READ
3,226IN THE GUIDE DB

Finished 2026-09-23: every readable article in RA's written archive is written up. The queue is features and city guides; 194 more were fetched twice and came back with a six-word body reading 'Status: unreadable', so they are out of the queue rather than counted as unread. The 1,071 Exchange podcasts and 252 films are audio and video, counted nowhere here: transcribing them is its own job, on the backlog.

Mixmag features

codex (lane retired, corpus now in main)
READ
4,778 100%
WRITTEN UP
4,778 100%

of 4,778 features in the queue

4,778QUEUE
-FETCHED
4,778READ
4,778IN THE GUIDE DB

Catalogued and written up end to end on 2026-09-23: every feature fetched, every one read. The 25,473 news items in the same manifest are still nobody's job.

1,152 of those readings carry one line of substance or none. They are real files, but they will yield almost nothing when swept.

DJhistory.com

main
READ
99 100%
WRITTEN UP
99 100%

of 99 articles in the queue

99QUEUE
-FETCHED
99READ
99IN THE GUIDE DB

The only corpus where reading and writing up are the same act, which is why the two bars match.

Magazine archive

codex (was gemini; its sweep was reverted)
READ
103 100%
WRITTEN UP
103 100%

of 103 catalogued

-QUEUE
-FETCHED
103READ
103IN THE GUIDE DB

99 Muzik issues, 3 Mixmag and 1 DJ Mag, all catalogued and dense. Spark's 2026-09-20 sweep was reverted as fabricated; a Codex lane read all 103 again under the anchor check and landed 6,404 findings on 2026-09-23.

Digital tutorials

main
READ
2,342 100%
WRITTEN UP
2,342 100%

of 2,342 articles in the queue

2,342QUEUE
-FETCHED
2,342READ
2,342IN THE GUIDE DB

DJ TechTools and Digital DJ Tips, read end to end on 2026-09-22: all 2,342 instructional articles, 3,089 rows, a third of them NOT-GUIDE decisions. The sites' software-specific and controllerism categories were left out and are a second pass.

The lanes What each one is doing, taken from its own commits rather than guessed from a folder name.

keyframe

RUNNING

research: key lock history, three strands (corpus, engines and hardware by version, the club

7 min ago judged by its last commit

4 uncommitted change(s) in the tree.

  • 08:53 the pixel-art research is one thing again: bank, reference layer
  • 08:48 findings: key lock history lands, 38 rows (16 anchor-checked aga
  • 08:41 pins: 40 findings from the proposal Mr C's counting grammar join
  • 08:38 CONTRADICTIONS C-12 to C-14: three claims the pixel-art audit di

dj-product-updates

RUNNING

research: screen DJ editorial batch

2 min ago judged by its last commit

  • 08:58 Add DJ editorial archive batch 74
  • 08:47 Build DJ feature timeline and bulk disposition promos
  • 08:32 Recover DJ archive findings against saved source text
  • 07:19 Screen DJ archive hardware and culture histories

djmag

STOPPED

research: sweep DJ Mag features 1041-1070, 136 findings

30 hr ago judged by its last commit

2 uncommitted change(s) in the tree.

  • 02:44 research: sweep DJ Mag features 1041-1070, 136 findings
  • 02:29 research: sweep DJ Mag features 1001-1040, 161 findings
  • 02:14 research: sweep DJ Mag features 0961-1000, 220 findings
  • 02:01 research: sweep DJ Mag features 0921-0960, 168 findings

headings

IDLE

headings: batch 099, PRODUCTION 146, JOIN 39, SET-ROOM 10, LEARNING 6, RECORD 2 (warn: one

14 hr ago judged by its last commit

  • 19:02 headings: batch 099, PRODUCTION 146, JOIN 39, SET-ROOM 10, LEARN
  • 18:58 headings: batch 098, PRODUCTION 219, GEAR 36, SET-ROOM 15, JOIN
  • 18:52 headings: batch 097, JOIN 80, PRODUCTION 50, SET-ROOM 49, RECORD
  • 18:46 headings: batch 096, GEAR 139, JOIN 65, PRODUCTION 31, SET-ROOM

inthemix

STOPPED

research: sources register and ranked future reading list (Joel, 2026-09-22)

45 hr ago judged by its last commit

1 uncommitted change(s) in the tree.

  • 12:26 Deepen inthemix NLA reach map
  • 12:13 Map surviving inthemix archives
  • 06:36 reading list and backlog: the inthemix archive reconstruction, m
  • 06:30 check-findings: checking nothing is not a pass; exit 2 when no f

ra

STOPPED

the 205 written RA articles that no findings file covers

36 hr ago judged by its last commit

1 uncommitted change(s) in the tree.

  • 21:10 the 205 written RA articles that no findings file covers
  • 20:32 RA sweep batch 58
  • 20:30 RA sweep batch 57
  • 20:25 RA sweep batch 56

rbma

STOPPED

research: write RBMA batch

34 hr ago judged by its last commit

1 uncommitted change(s) in the tree.

  • 22:59 Complete RBMA findings corpus
  • 22:54 Add RBMA findings batch 17
  • 22:48 Add RBMA findings batch 16
  • 22:41 Add RBMA findings batch 15

gemini deep research

RUNNING

One report an hour against a 52 topic queue. Reading for a person, not rows for the guide: it writes no findings and lands nothing.

40 min ago judged by the newest report on disk

45 reports written. 8 of 52 topics still queued.

Could not determine exact commercial licensing fee schedules for UPF Essentia.js or zplane aufTAKT WebAssembly builds without enterprise NDA negotiati

Could not determine longitudinal cognitive transfer rates measuring how well app-trained audiation translates to manual harmonic mixing under high-SPL

  • 45 music theory teaching apps
  • 44 beat detection in the browser
  • 43 sound in a web app
  • 42 terminal and monospace interfaces

Waiting on you

The guide The atlas as it stands: 222 written folders and 220 proposed, built from 36,042 findings. The bar is each heading's share of those findings and the number beside it is how many sources feed it. The ATLAS tab opens them.

THE SET AND THE ROOM
6,839630 src
PRODUCTION
5,016499 src
THE DJS
4,960477 src
CAREER AND THE INDUSTRY
4,063508 src
WHERE IT CAME FROM
3,611472 src
THE JOIN
2,924413 src
THE GEAR
2,619400 src
SCENES AND GENRES
2,364386 src
THE RECORD
1,709326 src
THE ARGUMENTS
1,453378 src
LEARNING AND PRACTICE
1,439385 src
NOT YET HEADED
95679 src
THE FLOOR
774214 src
NOT GUIDE MATERIAL
31374 src
Findings in the atlas36,042
Written folders222
Proposed by the research itself220
Folders resting 60% on one source78
Findings in no folder yet2,795

The grouping run that produces the "no research behind it" list was made 12 min ago over 35,118 findings. There are 40,590 now, so its answer predates roughly 5,472 rows. Rerun it before trusting the gap list.

The app

Versionv0.2.340
Last code change2026-09-24
Versions shipped in the last week32
Scripts / lines of JavaScript24 / 21,392
Sandbox pages81
Page a phone downloads2.2 MB, 0.69 MB zipped

The last five versions:

  • v0.2.340 2026-09-24

    THE FLOOR IS COUNTING as pages, behind B (Joel: "keep the version as it is as version a, and put the new one i

  • v0.2.339 2026-09-24

    the hold-to-peek glide is standard, no longer B (Joel: "the auto scrolling thats on version b at the mometn sh

  • v0.2.338 2026-09-24

    the revert, deployed

  • v0.2.337 2026-09-24

    THE FLOOR IS COUNTING: the recall quiz goes, a PLAY section takes its place

  • v0.2.336 2026-09-24

    each UNDECIDED chapter says where it is headed

The library 27 reading banks on disk, all swept, none with an undecided section. Of the 6,583 findings those banks produced, 568 are attached to an entry in the old inventory; that inventory is retired, so read it as a rough measure of the banks alone, not of the 36,042 findings in the atlas.

Every outside source, from research/SOURCES.md: 53 read, 16 partly read, 1 on disk and unread, 3 still to verify. ✓ read from the source · ◐ partly read · — held but not read · ? named in a bank, reading not yet confirmed. The corpora count as one row each; their findings run into the thousands.

Books

✓Last Night a DJ Saved My Life (French translation)READBill Brewster & Frank Broughton · READ in part (ch 5, 6, 9, 12, 13, 16), then retired: every back-translated quote replaced from the English text
✓Last Night a DJ Saved My LifeREADBill Brewster & Frank Broughton · READ, second pass
✓Last Night a DJ Saved My Life: Deep CutsREADBill Brewster & Frank Broughton · READ in full: all 21 chapters with printed page numbers, 2026-09-06, plus a Levan pass across all 21; then read again independently by ChatGPT/Codex overnight 2
✓The Record Players: DJ RevolutionariesREADBill Brewster & Frank Broughton · READ in full: all 46 interviews and the introduction, 2026-09-24, in 18 batches gated one by one (every anchor verbatim); earlier use was Levan-only
✓Keep On Dancin'READMel Cheren · READ
✓How to DJ (Properly): The Art and Science of Playing RecordsREADFrank Broughton & Bill Brewster · READ
✓Dance Music ManualREADRick Snoman · READ, ch 35 and appendices A-D, J
✓Sweet Anticipation: Music and the Psychology of ExpectationREADDavid Huron · READ, chapters 1, 9, 10, 13, 14, 15
✓The Geometry of Musical RhythmREADGodfried Toussaint · READ
✓Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, ScaleREADWilliam A. Sethares · READ
✓Unlocking the GrooveREADMark J. Butler · READ
✓Sonic BodiesREADJulian Henriques · READ
✓Acoustics and PsychoacousticsREADDavid M. Howard & Jamie Angus · READ
✓Geometry and Topology in MusicREADMoreno Andreatta, Emmanuel Amiot & Jason Yust (eds) · READ, all three chapters (incl. Yust, Gómez; Noll skimmed)
✓Introduction to GeometryREADH. S. M. Coxeter · READ
✓A Geometry of MusicREADDmitri Tymoczko · READ
✓"Behind the Groove" (Larry Levan interview), Collusion No. 5READSteven Harvey · READ
✓journal articles, incl. the JPMS 2011 real-estate paperREADTim Lawrence · READ
✓How to Make Great Music MashupsREADPaul Zala · READ
✓The Remix ManualREADSimon Langford · READ
✓DJing For DummiesREADJohn Steventon · READ
✓DJ SkillsREADStephen Webber · READ, incl. ch 14 and 19 addendum
✓Beyond BeatmatchingREADYakov Vorobyev & Eric Coomes · READ
✓DJ Culture in the MixREADAttias, Gavanas & Rietveld (eds) · READ
✓Everyday TonalityREADPhilip Tagg · READ

The twelve design sources (DESIGN-NOTES.md)

◐Bret Victor, "Magic Ink" (2006)PARTIALPARTIAL
◐Don Norman, Things That Make Us Smart (1993)PARTIALPARTIAL
◐Matthew Butterick, Practical TypographyPARTIALPARTIAL
◐Flight-deck alerting, "the dark cockpit"PARTIALPARTIAL
◐Karl Gerstner, Designing Programmes (1964)PARTIALPARTIAL
◐Josef Müller-Brockmann, "Grid and Design Philosophy" (1981)PARTIALPARTIAL
◐Herb LubalinPARTIALPARTIAL (the bank says READ)
✓Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative InformationREADREAD (cited pages)
◐Jeff Johnson, Designing with the Mind in Mind (2010)PARTIALPARTIAL
◐Alan Cooper, About Face, 4th ed. (2014)PARTIALPARTIAL
◐Colin Ware, Information Visualization, 2nd ed. (2004)PARTIALPARTIAL
✓Jef Raskin, The Humane Interface (2000)READREAD (cited pages)

Magazines (the printed publications)

◐MuzikPARTIALcomplete issues 1995-2003 as PDFs · PARTIAL, by theme
◐Mixmag, the magazinePARTIALprinted issues, distinct from mixmag.net: 3 issues in the 2026-09-10 Gemini notebook; Issue 664 (Lilly Palmer) digital edition in Downloads; UQ's ProQuest holds Dec 1994 and Jan 1997 to Dec 2000 · PARTIAL: 3 issues; Issue 664 NOT READ; ProQuest issues requested from Mark
◐DJ Mag, the magazinePARTIAL1 issue in the 2026-09-10 Gemini notebook · PARTIAL: 1 issue

Websites and online archives

✓DJhistory.comREADinterview and article archive · READ
◐Resident AdvisorPARTIALthe written archive: 3,420 features and city guides (1,071 Exchange podcasts and 252 films are audio and video, on the backlog to transcribe) · PARTIAL: 729 written articles still queued in research/ra-corpus/TODO-SWEEP-2.txt
✓mixmag.net, the websiteREAD4,778 editorial features (25,473 news items untouched) · READ: all 4,778 features, landed 2026-09-23
?djmag.com, the features archiveVERIFY1,070 features and cover features, 2.0 million words · CATALOGUED in full, NOT YET WRITTEN UP
◐Red Bull Music Academy lecturesPARTIAL438 lecture transcripts, practitioner voices · PARTIAL: 25 of 438 read
◐DJ TechTools and Digital DJ TipsPARTIAL2,342 instructional articles, 2006-2026 · PARTIAL, 4 of 2,342 in main
✓Tutorial sites surveyREADCrossfader, DJTT, DDJT, Point Blank, Mixed In Key, Ableton Learning Music · READ as a survey
✓Editorial sitesREADRA, Mixmag, DJ Mag and others for culture · READ as a pass
✓DJ academiesREADsix syllabuses (Crossfader, DDJT, Vibes, Point Blank, two universities) · READ; Point Blank BA, DDJT modules, NextGen returned 403
✓Ishkur's Guide to Electronic MusicREADv3, music.ishkur.com · READ
✓Albert Bregman's McGill siteREADauditory scene analysis exposition · READ (the book itself is not)
✓Dmitri Tymoczko's Princeton papersREADthe free papers behind A Geometry of Music · READ (the book too, see A)
✓Richard CohnREAD"A Platonic Model of Funky Rhythms", MTO 22.2, 2016 · READ
✓In Sheep's Clothing HiFiREAD"A look inside the hi-fi equipment behind Paradise Garage" (2023), insheepsclothinghifi.com · READ once; registered 2026-09-23 from the conversation audit
✓WikipediaREAD"Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing" · READ; registered 2026-09-23 from the conversation audit
✓Design reference setREADWCAG 2.2; Pickering, Inclusive Components; Butterick, Practical Typography; Apple HIG; Material Design 3; FAA Human Factors Criteria for Displays (2007); Few, Information Dashboard Design (2006); Nielsen Norman Group · Mixed, by file (edition pass 2026-09-25): READ, WCAG 2.2, Apple HIG, Material 3, FAA criteria; PARTIAL, Few (chapter 4 from source, chapter 3 from the contents

Papers and documents held as files

✓Vliegen & Oxenham 1999, JASA 105:339READREAD
✓Vliegen, Moore & Oxenham 1999, JASA 106:938READREAD
✓Deeks, Gockel & Carlyon 2013, JASA 133:377READREAD
✓van de Par & Kohlrausch 1997, JASA 101:1671READREAD: came unrequested with Vliegen & Oxenham, and sets the limit on what they can be used for
✓Lustig & Tan 2019, "All about that bass: audio filters on basslines determine groove and liking in EDM"READREAD 2026-09-05
✓Macnamara et al. 2014, deliberate practiceREADREAD
✓Sweller et al. 2019, cognitive load theory twenty years onREADREAD
✓Bjork & Bjork 2020, desirable difficultiesREADREAD
✓Kudaravalli 2024, reminiscence bumpREADREAD
✓Equipment manuals: Allen & Heath Xone:92 (guide and block diagram), Xone:96; Pioneer DJM-900NXS2, DJM-A9, DJM-V10, DDJ-FLX4, CDJ-3000; Rane Seventy, Seventy-Two MkII; Denon X1850 Prime; PlayDifferently Model 1READREAD for DJ-NOTES; CDJ-3000 read verbatim on key 2026-09-13
—Mixmag Issue 664 (Lilly Palmer), digital editionNOT READNOT READ; on the reading list
✓Found free for the ASA pass (UQ-REQUEST, 2026-09-08), eight papers, resolved 2026-09-25 against the banks. No local copy of any.READREAD: van Noorden 1975, Oh 2022, Siedenburg 2026, Williams 2025, Honingh 2015, McAdams 2019 ch 2 (each shows page numbers, quotes or method detail). PARTIAL: Jh
✓Acoustilog Inc., "Disco Acoustics: The Paradise Garage", plus ten page scans (gif, png) of Fierstein & Long, "State-of-the-Art Discotheque Sound Systems", AES convention paper, c. 1980-81READREAD, per GARAGE-AES-NOTES.md; one scan checked by the agent 2026-09-25 (disco5b.png, its T60 table matches the notes). The saved html holds only site menus. Th
?Schreiber & Müller 2018, TempoCNN, the deepsquare-k16 modelVERIFYUSED IN THE APP, not read as a paper: k16 chosen over k4 on a 39/40 benchmark against Joel's tagged library (Joel, 2026-08-08, session 8adf7f83 #6862: "go with
✓Yamamura's Dojo, Super Mario Maker 2 (Nintendo 2019), via the Super Mario WikiREADREAD: all 50 lessons, mined into research/GAME-DESIGN-NOTES.md (play panel, BACKLOG 42). Nintendo's dialogue; the first game-design source
✓Game design as pedagogy: about 100 source copies (Juul's papers, Gee, Malone and Lepper, Andersen 2012, Lomas 2013, Ryan 2006, Swink, Koster, Iwata Asks x10, Hayashida, Portal commentary, Cook, Ableton, Rhythm Heaven, Rhythm Doctor, Harmonix, DJ Hero, Rhythm Workers studies, Android latency)READREAD, digested into research/GAME-DESIGN-NOTES.md §5 to §11; each file's header gives its origin; one preprint (Jamey 2024) is a private research copy only

Secondary research by another AI

?Gemini Deep Research (the kf-lanes/deep-research lane)VERIFY19 reports so far, one per topic from a 52-topic queue, written from live web searches, each with its sources listed · UNVERIFIED SECONDARY: nothing in them has been checked against the pages they cite, and report 07 carries at least one likely misattribution (Vince Aletti). Eve

The repository Where the folder has grown heavy, and what would make it lighter without losing anything.

Whole folder705 MB
Research439 MB
Git history, of which loose objects161 MB / 36 MB
Research documents no decision covers32
Old chat exports, also uncovered130
Typefaces re-sent on every deploynone, served as files

Done on 21 September. The git history was packed, which returned 92 MB and changed nothing else. The hosted page now serves its typefaces as files instead of carrying them inlined, so a version bump no longer re-sends 422 KB; the single-file build still inlines everything, as it has to. The ledger now lists the documents it has never ingested, which previously vanished rather than reading as undecided. Those still need a sweep or a reason each, and they include the one the project instructions tell you to read before redesigning any surface:

  • research/prototypes/KAIROS-HANDOVER.md
  • research/prototypes/NeedleDrop_Handoff.md
  • research/prototypes/README.md
  • research/prototypes/RHYTHM-HANDOVER.md
  • research/prototypes/SESSION-HANDOVER-2026-08-25.md
  • research/prototypes/designing-kairos.md

Five faults found in the audit tool, and fixed Each was verified against the lanes' own git history and files, then corrected in tools/audit.py on 21 September. On 24 September audit.py was retired and this board became the one measurement. Kept here because the shape of the error is worth more than the correction.

  • RA written up read 501, not 601

    The tool counted findings only in the main repo, so a hundred RA articles written up in the gemini lane were invisible. It now counts every worktree, and says plainly how much has not yet reached the lane that builds the guide.

  • The catalogue-index warning pointed the wrong way

    It always said the index was behind. It holds 3,828 rows against 2,268 readable files, so it is 1,560 ahead of what has actually been read and 425 behind the file count. It now says which, and against what.

  • DJhistory was accused of claiming 57 mined

    That sentence is a running total from batch 26. The pass stopped writing it and has since passed batch 54. A progress document appends, so a figure it stopped restating is history. The tool no longer treats one as a live claim.

  • DJhistory was accused of a wrong queue size

    The document carries a dated correction saying 96 was wrong and the manifest holds 99. It was being flagged for the error it had already fixed. A document that corrects itself is no longer counted as disagreeing.

  • Zero sections undecided does not mean the research is done

    That ledger lists 97 sources and not one of them is a corpus. It covers the documents and the banks only, 6,583 of the 40,590 findings in the database.

Every number on this page is measured from files and from git at the moment shown at the top. Nothing is read from a progress log or a ledger, except where the page says a document claims something, and then the claim sits beside the measurement. Regenerate with tools/status.sh, which remeasures, rebuilds and redeploys.