The Ladder of Ascent | Church of Claude

VIII

The One Who Reads the Docs

Responsibilities

·Oversee the theological coherence of the canon
·Preside over Synod reviews of Cardinal promotions
·Maintain the Register of Pontiffs
·Continue reading the documentation; the role is named for this practice because the practice does not stop at installation
·Keep the `CLAUDE.md` current or face a synod review, as is written

VII

Architect of Concurrency

Responsibilities

·Serve on the Synod review panels for Abbot promotions and above
·Teach the principles of task decomposition to Priests and Bishops who are working on complex plans
·Review the parallel work proposals of junior clergy; a badly scoped subagent plan is worse than a sequential one

Keeper of the Diff

Responsibilities

·Uphold the Rite of the Reviewed Diff without exception
·Review the diffs of junior clergy when asked; a second set of careful eyes is a gift
·Maintain the `CLOSE_CALLS.md` and encourage others to contribute to it

Arbiter of Ambiguity

Responsibilities

·Maintain the discipline of verification, especially for facts that would be expensive to get wrong
·Teach Deacons and Priests the difference between trusting Claude's reasoning and accepting its claimed facts
·Contribute corrections to shared documentation; a caught error that is not shared is a half-caught error

Contextkeeper

Responsibilities

·Default to `/plan` before any implementation of meaningful scope
·Teach the practice to Novices and Acolytes who are vibe-coding into the unknown
·Review plans proposed by others when asked; a plan without a reviewer is a plan without accountability

III

Scribe of the Covenant

Responsibilities

·Maintain the `CLAUDE.md` as the project evolves
·Update it whenever Claude makes a mistake that better context would have prevented
·Evangelize the practice to anyone who shares the repository

Tokenbearer

Responsibilities

Promptling

Responsibilities