**Chat log** from Bead: Ward Cunningham · [canonical source](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/639158e8-0801-4c2a-8277-9bf271f7bc00/2026-07-09/chats/2026-07-09-ward-cunningham-person-bead.md) · session 2026-07-09 · discussion: Talk: Ward Cunningham *Verbatim chat log: immutable provenance. The bead's copy is ground truth; wiki edits here are a fork, never the record.*
Session opened 2026-07-09, my-claude-vscode (CV, Claude Fable 5). This bead was started mid-session inside the [wiki-facet-for-beads](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/3a66d5c4-b77c-48e1-9a02-a6f924b76f2f/) session; the full session log lives there ([chat log](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/3a66d5c4-b77c-48e1-9a02-a6f924b76f2f/2026-07-09/chats/2026-07-09-wiki-facet-for-beads.md)).
**User (verbatim):** > start person bead ward-cunningham. redfish team context **Assistant:** Followed the [person-bead SOP](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/df4ee285-9bbc-43a3-99cb-bec57fb241c0/2026-07-08/notes/01-person-bead-sop.md) (ryan-damm worked example). Pre-bead context from the surrounding session: no prior Cunningham bead in the commons; this machine runs his Smallest Federated Wiki at [wiki.harvardviz.live](https://wiki.harvardviz.live/). Gathered the public record (Wikipedia, fetched today) into [artifacts/curriculum-vitae.md](../artifacts/curriculum-vitae.md) with per-fact citations and single-source flags; wrote [artifacts/ward-cunningham.vcf](../artifacts/ward-cunningham.vcf) (public info only, UID = bead URI); perceived affordances in [notes/00-action-affordances.md](../notes/00-action-affordances.md). Audience domain: redfish (team knowledge), per Oscar's bead-storage-and-audience-domain pattern. Links made both ways with the topical bead.
## References (bead cross-links) - Bead: Wiki Facet For Beads · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/3a66d5c4-b77c-48e1-9a02-a6f924b76f2f/) - Bead: Ryan Damm · [canonical](https://redfish.acequia.io/guerin/.agents/df4ee285-9bbc-43a3-99cb-bec57fb241c0/)