Let the garden keep what she was given, not only what she sought

Two halves of the same idea, both read out of work Petal already
records.

Planting: an accepted collocation is a learnable chunk, so it becomes a
phrase card. The scheduler didn't need to know — a three-word chunk
climbs the ladder exactly like a looked-up word. What needed care was
deciding what *isn't* a chunk (single words are word choice; a
six-word-plus "collocation" is a rewritten sentence, and sentences make
miserable flashcards), and that the example must be the *corrected*
sentence — the stored draft still holds the phrasing she just left
behind. Re-accepting the same chunk leaves the existing card alone
rather than resetting a schedule it has been climbing. The whole thing
is best-effort: accepting an edit must never fail because a flashcard
couldn't be made.

The growth journal: kept this month beside kept the month before, the
phrasing that stuck, the patterns that faded. The queries were the easy
part; the honesty is the feature. "Stuck" needs the phrase in a *second*
document, because one document is just the edit where she left it.
"Faded" says nothing at all unless she has been writing lately —
otherwise a month away from Petal comes back to her as progress, which
is the one way this could lie. And a suggestion had to start recording
when she *decided* it, not when the model proposed it, so 0012 adds
resolved_at and backfills the old rows to their created_at.

It lives as a second tab in the garden, and it feeds the kitten: after
an accept she now sometimes hears something true of her alone, once per
line, half the time, never waited for.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016y6gyuHkQXPiEuW8RGQyua
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@@ -459,6 +459,24 @@ CREATE TABLE personal_words (
created_at DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
PRIMARY KEY (user_id, lang, word)
);
`,
},
{
// The growth journal reads the suggestions table as a record of what the
// writer has been learning, and that reading only works if a row is dated
// by *her decision* rather than by the model's proposal. `created_at` is
// when a checkpoint offered the edit; a suggestion offered in April and
// accepted in June is June's growth, not April's.
//
// Existing rows are backfilled to created_at — which is exactly the
// approximation the journal would have had to make anyway, and is very
// nearly right in practice since edits are settled minutes after a
// checkpoint. Only pending rows keep a NULL: nothing has been decided.
name: "0012_suggestion_resolved_at",
stmt: `
ALTER TABLE suggestions ADD COLUMN resolved_at DATETIME;
UPDATE suggestions SET resolved_at = created_at WHERE status != 'pending';
CREATE INDEX idx_suggestions_resolved ON suggestions(status, resolved_at);
`,
},
}