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# Project Conventions
The standing working rules of this project. Formerly the
project `CLAUDE.md`; moved here so that Claude Code subagents
do not inherit it into their context (blind-reading agents
must not see it). A main session working on this project
reads this file before touching the pipeline, the data, or
the documents.
## Analysis pipeline
The pipeline has run to completion; these conventions govern
any rerun or extension.
- LLM analysis runs via Python scripts calling the Anthropic
Messages API, Batch API where possible. Steps 1 and 3 run
on `claude-sonnet-4-6` with `temperature=0` and thinking
disabled; steps 4 and 5 run on `claude-fable-5`, which
accepts neither parameter -- step 4 absorbs its sampling
variance by the majority vote, step 5 by consolidating the
three readings.
- Prompt definition files live in
`prompts/<step><substep>-<task>.md` (e.g. 1-tag.md,
5a-read.md; substeps are lettered, matching the step
numbering of the paper; no version suffix -- versions live
in git history) and are passed verbatim as the system
prompt. The number names a step of the research
procedure, not the file: the deterministic vocabulary step
(step 2) has no definition file yet holds its own number.
- Itemwise LLM judgments (per-song coding in step 3,
per-keyword group selection in step 4) run the same
definition file three times, independently, over the same
input; a deterministic tally then assigns an item (a
(song, keyword) or (group, keyword) pair) when at least
two of the three runs assign it ("3 runs + majority
vote"). Free-generation steps run
twice and both outputs are pooled. The step-5 qualitative
readings are neither: three independent readings per song,
consolidated per song and synthesized across songs by
their own definition files -- a qualitative protocol, not
a vote (see docs/methodology.md). The vocabulary is
built by a deterministic subcommand (embedding +
clustering), not by an LLM. If a validation outcome is
unexpected, revise the definition file and repeat that
cycle; never patch results by hand.
- Each run of a step is archived self-contained under the
destination directory given explicitly on the `run-llm`
command line (by convention `runs/<step>/run<N>/`):
prompt snapshot, raw output, and `meta.json` (model ID,
parameters, timestamps, batch ID). The runs of a step are
that many separate invocations of `run-llm`. Replacing
an existing run archive requires an explicit flag;
superseded runs live in git history. Deterministic steps
archive under `runs/<step>/` with no `run<N>` level.
- Token usage and cost of every `run-llm` execution are
recorded in `docs/run-costs.md` in the same commit as the
run archive.
- Scripts read the API key from the `ANTHROPIC_API_KEY`
environment variable (`.env`, gitignored).
## Data rules
- `data/source/` holds the immutable hand-placed raw files;
`data/captures/` is written only by the fetch commands and the
private import script; `data/manual/` is written only by the
user's own hand; `data/derived/` is written only by the
`build-db` subcommand.
- Full lyrics are copyrighted: they stay in `data/captures/lyrics/`
(gitignored) and must never be committed or reproduced in
full anywhere in the repo.
## Documents
- `results/` holds the final tallied tables (what the paper
cites); `runs/` holds raw audit records. The paper cites
`results/` only.
- Any change to a definition file or the plan is recorded in
`docs/decision-log.md` with date and reason.