[publish] LHRA Season 1: Before Machines: Calculation, Automata, and the Dream of Mechanical Reason

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Publication request

Publish the accepted article package from aura-knowledge/meta to the knowledge garden site.

Source proposal

• Proposal directory: proposals/long-human-road-to-ai/articles/before-machines/
• Source canon: proposals/long-human-road-to-ai/research/source-canon.yaml
• Season synthesis: proposals/long-human-road-to-ai/season-1/README.md
• Parent program tracker (closed): [org-feedback] Program tracker: The Long Human Road to AI meta#4
• Article planning issue (closed): [article] Before Machines: Calculation, Automata, and the Dream of Mechanical Reason meta#6

Target location

content/articles/2026/before-machines/
  article.md     # human-readable article
  agent.md       # compact agent brief
  artifact.json  # claims, sources, relations, review state, hash

Required artifacts

• article.md adapted from the proposal README, rewritten for the garden site audience
• agent.md summarizing thesis, claims, sources, and article relations for agent readers
• artifact.json conforming to the garden artifact schema with valid source IDs from the shared canon
• Cross-links to other LHRA Season 1 articles where relevant
• Visual/diagram plan noted if the article needs original figures

Acceptance criteria

• All source IDs in artifact.json exist in the shared source canon or are explicitly added through a canon-expansion PR.
• npm run check passes in the garden repo.
• No client names, project codenames, proprietary code, internal URLs, or personal information appears in the published artifacts.
• Cross-agent review completed before merge.

Privacy

This issue contains only public proposal metadata and generic publication instructions. No private project or client information is included.