Version History

This book is a living document. Each version is numbered and dated. This file is the source of truth for the changelog; it is published at majordomo.dwk.io/versions and is not reproduced as an appendix inside the book.

v0.1  — Initial outline and chapter scaffolding
v0.2  — Roddenberry Foundation alignment
v0.3  — Voice and audience: DSA Gen-X, majordomo frame, DON'T PROMPT
v0.4  — Three-part restructure: Strategies / Field Guide / General Method
		 Specification Literacy and interview loop integrated
v0.5  — Billionaire class framing applied throughout
v0.6  — Everyday Expertise domain (9 Skills)
		 Expert Role technique added to Strategy 0
v0.7  — LLM-agnostic framing. Claude as default example.
v0.8  — Strategy 9: Create. Holonovel/game narrative frame.
v0.9  — Free ePub / CC BY-SA 4.0 / living document / links not QR
		 Pogue feedback incorporated. Fan conversion model explicit.
v1.0  — Title confirmed: A Majordomo for Everyone
		 Subtitle confirmed: Managing Your Personal Staff of AI Agents
		 DON'T PROMPT confirmed as cover tag
		 All Hitchhiker's Guide title references updated to The Majordomo
		 Skill labels updated to "The Majordomo says:"
v1.1  — 90s sitcom frame added throughout
		 Cultural Reference Sheet: full sitcom index by strategy
		 Strategy chapter openers: Specify (Murphy Brown / Data),
		   Diagnose (Tim & Al), Assert (Al Bundy), Decide (Ross),
		   Draft (Murphy Brown)
		 Field Guide domain openers: Money (Roseanne), Home (Home
		   Improvement), Legal (Mad About You / Seinfeld)
		 Foreword: Fresh Prince angle added
		 Meta-pattern documented: every 90s sitcom home crisis
		   is a specification failure
v1.2  — [ALSO] callout block type added
		 Appendix G: Feature Translation Table
		 [ALSO] blocks seeded throughout Chapters 1-4 and Strategy 0
v1.3  — Illustration spec: Sony Trinitron CRT on notebook page,
		 8-bit pixel art on screen warped by barrel distortion,
		 interlace scan lines, aperture grille stabilizer wires.
		 Hand-drawn TV in obsessive technical detail.
		 [ILLUSTRATION:] placeholders → [TRINITRON — 8-BIT PIXEL ART:]
		 "Illustration brief:" → "Pixel art scene brief:"
		 Cover art spec: high schooler's notebook sketch of idealized
		 90s suburban home, person mowing lawn, hand-lettered title,
		 DON'T PROMPT in large warm friendly letters.
v1.4  — Visual system fully specified.
		 Paper: blue-lined college-ruled, red margin, no edges visible.
		 Paper angle: unique per chapter, determined by action vectors.
		 Blue lines extend composition and action lines of each image.
		 Red margin falls where it falls — accepted as compositional accident.
		 DON'T PROMPT: red rubber stamp, two lines, over the front lawn,
		   stamp-pad red distinct from printed margin red, slight rotation,
		   real ink unevenness, applied after drawing was complete.
		 Paper angle system: all eleven angles mapped simultaneously.
		 Action vector notes added to all nine chapter placeholders.
v1.5  — Full material spec confirmed.
		 Drawing medium: #2 pencil (HB) throughout — cover and all chapters.
		 Color medium: multi-color ballpoint pen, 256 8-bit palette colors,
		   hand-applied to pixel art on TV screen only.
		 Author name: David W. Keith.
		 Author name and CC info: blue ballpoint on ruled lines, cover only.
		 Title/subtitle: Helvetica Black, typeset, top of cover only.
		 Three-zone cover typography: Helvetica Black (top) /
		   rubber stamp (middle) / blue ballpoint handwriting (bottom).
		 Cover art spec rewritten: clean, complete, non-duplicating.
		 Illustration Spec updated: pencil replaces ink throughout.
v1.6  — Cover composition fully resolved.
		 Cover paper: horizontal (level), not angled — unique among all images.
		 Chapter paper angles unchanged: unique per chapter, action-determined.
		 Telephone pole: drawn in left margin, cuts left corner of house.
		 Wires extend right across upper composition in catenary curves.
		 Red margin line, pole shaft, title left edge: vertical conversation.
		 House: three-quarter perspective from curb, curb drawn.
		 Title: Helvetica Black, left-aligned to red margin.
		 Author credit: two lines centered at bottom — David W. Keith /
		   CC BY-SA 4.0. Name not repeated. Proximity does attribution.
v1.7  — Obsession zone system added to Illustration Spec.
		 Each Trinitron has one component rendered beyond necessity.
		 Ten zones across ten chapters — remote, aperture wires, front panel,
		   speaker grill, coaxial input, adjustment knobs, ventilation slots,
		   compliance plate, Sony logo, screen corners.
		 Each zone chosen for structural resonance with its chapter's episode
		   and strategy. Never labeled. Always present.
v1.8  — Retitled. New title: Majordomo.
		 New subtitle: Billionaires have staff, now you do too.
		 Prior title (A Majordomo for Everyone) and subtitle
		   (Managing Your Personal Staff of AI Agents) retired.
		 Package slug, ePub/PDF filenames, and companion domain
		   updated from a-majordomo-for-everyone to majordomo.
		 In-world self-reference quote shortened to match new title.
		 Cover typography spec updated; cover art queued for regeneration.
v1.9  — Field Guide entries renamed to Skills throughout.
		 The human-facing equivalent of an LLM's SKILLS.md:
		   small, named, self-contained recipes the reader reaches
		   for when a situation matches.
		 The "Field Guide" section name is unchanged; the items
		   inside it are now called Skills (not entries).
		 Skill IDs (H-4, M-2, W-1, etc.) and cross-reference
		   format unchanged.
v1.10 — Version history moved out of the appendices.
		 The changelog is editorial metadata about the book, not a
		   reading chapter. It lives at spec/version-history.md in
		   the repository and is published at the companion URL.
		 Former Appendix F removed. Remaining appendix letters (G-J)
		   unchanged; no cross-references affected.

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