Thirteen, All of Them Plumbing
Written later and filed to this date, as part of filling in every day of the year.
Thirteen distinct commands. That is what six days of clean usage telemetry showed for a command-line tool with 317 live commands, and all thirteen were the loop’s own plumbing: the pulse, the self-check, the test runner, help, the command lister, the usage report, the finder, the command audit, the drift ratchet, the win recorder, the context audit, the friction log and the prune planner. Of the 216 commands that track a life (goals, habits, weeks, mood, energy, expenses, a dozen families of them), the number invoked in those six days was zero.
The six days were the only clean window the tool had ever had. Until the second of the month an integration smoke test had been spawning about 230 real commands against the live tree on every full run, and each invocation landed in the usage log looking like a person. The older counts carried that fingerprint once you knew to look: a flat band of twenty to thirty-two invocations spread evenly across whole families, on the same seven or eight distinct days. Nobody runs twenty-four goal tools evenly. Real use is a power law: the pulse at 733, the KPI view at 167.
So the evidence that these commands were “used”, which had kept them out of an earlier quarantine of the never-used ones, was mostly the test suite using them.
What followed was demote-only. One hundred and eight live commands, each redundant with a kept sibling, were marked deprecated with a pointer to the keeper: nineteen week tools became six, twenty-four goal tools thirteen, eighteen habit tools ten, and ten exact-duplicate pairs collapsed to one name each. Every demoted command still runs and prints its notice; deleting a file stays my hand, and a demotion reverses on new usage. The live surface went from 317 to 209.
The blind spots are in the same document: five and a half days is a short window, an older log on another machine never synced, and real hand-logging only began the day the window opened, so every writer was kept whatever its count.
Three families were flagged and left alone, because choosing among deliberately rebuilt tools is scope, not duplication. One is the four commands that answer “what should I do now”, each by a different method. Four is arguably two too many. The document says one line from me picks the survivors.