CSS Facsimile (the "no pixels" lane)

Proven zero-to-one: Cross & Plough v11n3 (Ladyday 1945), 16/16 pages, 2026-07-03 — full issue = 872KB pure vector vs 17MB image-gen. Reference run: CIA/publishing/CLM Publishing/Cross & Plough/_facsimile_css/v11n3-run/.

The three documents (in authority order)

1. v11n3-run/RULEBOOK.md — the distilled per-page method. A bench reads THIS and nothing else. All gates, all element recipes, all learned rules.
2. v11n3-run/PIPELINE.md — the loop architecture, fidelity standard v2.1, escalation policy, illustrations lane.
3. v11n3-run/LEARNINGS-RUN.md + _facsimile_css/LEARNINGS.md — full rationale, escalation-only reading.

Reference implementation to clone: v11n3-run/pages/folio-12/build/ (or the freshest page of the newest run).

Fidelity standard (v2.1 "page-anchor", Charlie 2026-07-03)

Page's FIRST and LAST body words match the scan (threading integrity across pages) + headers land in their scan columns. Everything else: free natural threading, best-practice justification. NOT line-for-line — that was v1, retired (forced breaks create unjustifiable lines).

Staffing (hard-won 2026-07-03)