Protocol 4 Recursive Harmonize

Protocol 4: Recursive Harmonize

Apply Protocol 1 to the changes just made, then repeat on the new changes, continuing until a pass produces zero findings. Each iteration's scope is the files touched by the previous iteration's fixes plus all files that cross-reference them.

Trigger

"Run Protocol 4" or "Recursive harmonize"

Procedure

1. Seed scope — Identify the files changed in the most recent commit(s). This is the initial change set.
2. Expand scope — For every file in the change set, grep the wiki for cross-references (file names, shared concepts, IPs, paths, service names). Add any referencing files to the scope.
3. Run Protocol 1 on the expanded scope — find anachronisms, contradictions, tone issues, and missing clarifications. Run Protocol 3 verification for any findings that depend on ground truth.
4. Apply fixes — commit and push.
5. Check for convergence — If the pass produced zero findings, stop. The wiki is harmonized with respect to these changes.
6. Recurse — If fixes were made, the changed files become the new seed scope. Return to step 2.

Convergence

The process converges because each iteration fixes contradictions introduced or exposed by the previous iteration. The scope narrows naturally: first-pass fixes touch many cross-references, second-pass fixes touch fewer, and subsequent passes typically find nothing.

If a pass produces only "possible" findings (not certain or likely), present them to the user and stop — do not recurse on speculative fixes.

Guardrails

• Maximum depth: 5 iterations. If the fifth pass still produces findings, stop and report the remaining issues to the user. Infinite loops indicate a structural problem that requires human judgment.
• Do not re-fix already-fixed findings. Track findings by file and line across iterations to avoid oscillation (fixing A to match B, then fixing B to match A).
• Each iteration gets its own commit with a message indicating the iteration number (e.g., "Protocol 4 iteration 2: fix 3 issues across 2 files").