Purpose

Resolve merge conflicts in compound-managed LOOM docs without breaking compound fences.

When To Use

• You see <<<<<<<, =======, or >>>>>>> in LOOM_CHANGELOG.md or LOOM_ROADMAP.md.
• A merge/rebase touched compound-managed blocks and left conflicts.

Procedure

• Open the conflicted file and locate every conflict hunk.
• Preserve the compound fences exactly:
  • Keep <!-- BEGIN:compound:... --> and <!-- END:compound:... --> lines unchanged.
  • Do not duplicate or reorder fence lines.
• For conflicted list entries inside fences:
  • Prefer keeping both sides' entries, then dedupe exact duplicates.
  • Maintain consistent bullet formatting: - <timestamp> <note>.
  • Keep ordering stable (typically newest-first if the file already uses that pattern).
• Remove all conflict marker lines (<<<<<<<, =======, >>>>>>>) after selecting the final content.
• Sanity check:
  • No conflict markers remain.
  • Markdown renders as a single list (no nested accidental - - unless the file intentionally uses it).
  • The file contains exactly one BEGIN and one END for each compound block.
• Run docs sync to refresh derived indexes/managed blocks (so downstream agents don’t learn from broken docs).

Manual notes

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