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Pinakes

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Assembles what one character can see on one story date: the input for drafting anything in their voice, whether the drafter is an author or a model.

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pinakes context Jasper --as-of 2026-10-11
pinakes context Jasper --as-of 2026-10-11 --json -o jasper.json

Every tier looks backward. A character knows what has happened to them, not what the author has planned, so everything in the bundle has ended on or before --as-of. The command hands the drafter that horizon instead of trusting them to keep it.

Tier What it shows
Long The character’s codex file, cut to the headings context.codex allows
Mid The latest approved character.stretch on or before the date
Short State events whose span covers the date: the register expression only, unless --full-state
Affect Only from a stretch that declares affect:, and only when the state falls in a basin: its coordinates and advisory tendencies. With affect.dynamics set, the state is replayed forward through chapter events, and the block shows the anchor, events and decay
History Their posts, posts they replied to, posts that mention them, and scenes they were in that have ended (titles only)

Two defaults are deliberately conservative:

  • The codex cut fails closed. A codex file is written by an author who knows the whole series, so nothing in it is shown unless its heading is listed. Withheld material is counted, never named, because a heading like “The Online Life” is itself a disclosure. A per-character exclusion that no longer matches a heading is an error, so renaming a held section cannot quietly un-hold it.
  • Text that names an unended chapter or book is withheld. Codex prose is written with the whole book in view and carries direction like “after Chapter 15 he must not…”. Any shown paragraph, heading, or frontmatter value naming a chapter that has not ended by --as-of is withheld and counted. A heading withholds its whole section, subsections included. References are read however they are written: Chapter 15, Ch. 15, Ch15, Chapter Fifteen, Chapter XV, the fifteenth chapter, lists and ranges like Chapters 14, 15 and 16 or Chs. 14–16, and explicit Book 1, Chapter 15, Chapter 15 of Book Two, or book1#ch15. Chapter numbers repeat across books, so a bare reference counts as past only once every book’s chapter of that number has ended. A whole book (By Book 3…) counts as past only once all its chapters have ended and a later book has begun. A chapter the records don’t know, or one named only by position (the final chapter), is treated as future.
  • State annotations are off by default. They are written about the character and routinely carry things the character does not know (“misses her warning text”). --full-state includes them with a warning.
context:
  codex:
    include: [Overview, Personality, Background, Everyday Life]   # prefix match
    excludeParagraphs: ["**Held"]                                  # held paragraphs inside shown sections
    frontmatter: [personaPublic]
    exclude:
      Oliver: [The Online Life]                                    # per character, by registry name

The affect block is advisory and opt-in by declaration. It appears only for a stretch that declared its own affect:; a register is never turned into one. It prints under a header saying the voice guide and register win on any conflict, and lists SUGGESTED_TENDENCIES, not constraints. context: { affect: off } turns it off for the whole universe. See Affect.

The bundle is horizon-safe, not knowledge-safe. It guarantees nothing from the future; it cannot guarantee the included past contains only what the character knows. That judgment stays with the author.