sica-fondt/docs/plans/B3-celtic-cross.md
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docs/plans: remaining component specs — Identity, Cognition, Border, Storage, Periphery, Cross-cutting
Wave 1 remainder + Wave 2 design-first specs, completing one build plan per sub-organ:
- B1 tarot emulator, B2 SOUL/Big-3, B3 Celtic Cross
- C2 4+4 metacog, C3 inference cycle, C4 Brain
- D1 Ada border, D2 the medium, D3 mini-rag
- E1 3 GnuCOBOL invariant stores, E2 VARIANT stores, E3 RAG family
- F1 MoRAG, F2 SAE monitor, F3 subagents
- G1 stress-loop contract, G2 governance, G3 defense model

Each: contract + stubs for independent build; unfitted constants marked C1.

https://claude.ai/code/session_015hmgREHNsxYCuim33yUF2c
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B3 — Celtic Cross spread (metacognitive draw)

1. Component

The 10-card spread drawn from the 53-card dynamic pool each cycle, dealt 2/2/2/4 across the four metacog rounds and applied iteratively so the spread compounds — by final cognition all ten shape the loop at once. Doubles as the semantic diffusion-shield (G3).

2. Status / certainty

Exists in Ada (organs/soul/soul-celtic_cross.{ads,adb}, 280 L) but defunct-flagged; re-home open. C4.

3. Language & location

TBD (with B1/B2). New location e.g. src/tarot/celtic_cross.

4. Does / does-not

  • Does: draw 10 from the pool; deal in pairs across rounds (2/2/2/4); keep each drawn pair in play for subsequent rounds (iterative); supply the cards C2 applies as cognitive lenses.
  • Does-not: run the metacog passes (C2) or decide layout semantics beyond the draw.

5. Interface contract

  • draw(pool53) -> spread[10] · deal_round(spread, round∈1..4) -> cards_active_so_far (round 1→2 cards, 2→4, 3→6, 4→10). Cards apply iteratively (compounding).
  • Pool excludes the 3 static Big-3; folds prior cross back on cross-only reshuffle (B2).

6. Dependencies & stubs

B1 pool — stub: fixed 53-card pool. C2 consumes the per-round active set — stub: print the cards.

7. Invariants / laws

  • L1 (C4): exactly 10 cards, dealt 2/2/2/4, iteratively compounding (all 10 active by round 4).
  • L2 (C4): drawn from the 53 dynamic only (never the Big-3).
  • L3 (C4): the accumulating spread is the diffusion-shield (meaningful tokens, not noise).

8. Build steps

  1. Decide language/re-home. 2. Port draw + 2/2/2/4 iterative dealing. 3. Wire into C2's round structure.
  2. Evaluate custom vs traditional 10-position layout (non-blocking).

9. Tests

Draw size (=10), per-round counts (2/4/6/10), no-Big-3-in-pool, determinism vs seed.

10. Open items

  • Celtic Cross layout positions — keep traditional 10 or design a custom cognitive spread (C1, non-blocking).
  • Language/re-home (open).