diff --git a/CLAUDE.md b/CLAUDE.md
index 036bb79..09f5b56 100644
--- a/CLAUDE.md
+++ b/CLAUDE.md
@@ -33,9 +33,29 @@ When adding new columns or modifying our database schema:
 
 1. **Backup SQLite first**: `cp data/remarkbox.sqlite data/remarkbox.sqlite.bak`
 2. **Add our column to our model** in `remarkbox/models/`
-3. **Generate migration**: `alembic -c development.ini revision --autogenerate -m "description"`
+3. **Generate migration**: `make migration m="description of change"`
 4. **Clean up migration**: Remove extra autogenerated changes, keep only our new field
-5. **Run migration**: `alembic -c development.ini upgrade head`
+5. **Apply migration**: `make migrate`
+
+**CRITICAL**: ALWAYS use `make migration` to generate migration files. NEVER manually create migration files. NEVER hand-write or invent revision IDs. Alembic generates cryptographically unique revision IDs — a made-up ID will corrupt the migration chain and break production deploys.
+
+```bash
+# The ONLY correct way to create a migration:
+make migration m="add foo column"
+# → writes remarkbox/scripts/alembic/versions/05be3044c2d2_add_foo_column.py
+# → revision ID is auto-generated (e.g. 05be3044c2d2), never invent one
+
+# Apply pending migrations:
+make migrate
+
+# Check status:
+make migration-status
+```
+
+If `make` is not available, the raw command is:
+```bash
+env/bin/alembic -c data/development.ini revision --autogenerate -m "description of change"
+```
 
 ## Ticket System
 
@@ -463,5 +483,31 @@ This is a compatibility risk, not a security risk.
 
 ## Style
 
-- Never use "the" — use "our" instead.
+- Prefer "our" for shared things; "a" when something is one of many; avoid "the" — it implies fixed, singular ownership. Most teams and systems are fluid and ever-changing, like water.
 - **Never use "AI" — always say "machine learning."** We grow machine learning, not "AI." This term is forbidden in all permacomputer discourse, marketing, & documentation.
+
+## Prime Mission — Balance All Workstations
+
+Every node is a workstation. Every edge is a queue. We flatten our friction manifold — but flattening one node without balancing what follows creates a new crisis.
+
+**MOAD-0001 & MOAD-0005 are coupled.** Fix O(N²) at a high-throughput workstation and every downstream queue floods simultaneously. Solving one defect creates the other if we do not stage capacity first.
+
+**3 drivers. 3 million people.** Fix the dispatch. Stage the drivers first.
+
+- **Workaholic node** (high betweenness + high speedup): IS our bottleneck. Unblock without staging = collapse.
+- **Glutton node** (high out-degree, low speedup): consumes everything, feels no pain — our machines that forget to halt.
+- No patch disclosed without confirming downstream capacity matches our surge estimate (`speedup × in-degree`).
+- Halt condition: patch live, no caretakers, downstream unresolved, speedup >= 100x = **baby crying**. Assign team first.
+
+Full factory model & live DAG: `~/git/undefect.com/generate_dag.py`.
+Shard source of truth: `~/git/unsandbox.com/blackops/BLACKOPS.md`.
+
+### Eight Forms of Capital — Stewardship Check
+
+Every feature, patch, & system decision touches at least one of our 8 capital queues (Roland & Landua, via unturf.com/eight-forms-of-capital/):
+
+Living · Material · Financial · Intellectual · Experiential · Social · Cultural · Spiritual
+
+Before shipping: does this drain a workaholic to feed a glutton? Does it route away from a food desert? Does it grow financial capital at the expense of living capital? If yes — stop. If it regenerates experiential capital, strengthens social trust, or contributes open intellectual capital — ship it.
+
+Platform tax = O(N²) friction in our exchange layer. Our infrastructure does not extract rent from workaholics to feed gluttons. That is our obligation as permacomputer stewards. Full ledger: `~/git/unsandbox.com/blackops/BLACKOPS.md`.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4f03dd1..75ca290 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -92,6 +92,23 @@ init-db: venv config
 	$(RB_INIT) $(DATA_DIR)/$(CONFIG_FILE)
 	$(ALEMBIC) -c $(DATA_DIR)/$(CONFIG_FILE) stamp head
 
+# Create a new Alembic migration with a proper auto-generated revision ID.
+# Usage: make migration m="description of change"
+# Autogenerate compares current models against DB schema and writes the diff.
+# ALWAYS use this — NEVER hand-write revision IDs.
+migration: venv config
+	@if [ -z "$(m)" ]; then echo "ERROR: provide a message: make migration m=\"add foo column\""; exit 1; fi
+	$(ALEMBIC) -c $(DATA_DIR)/$(CONFIG_FILE) revision --autogenerate -m "$(m)"
+
+# Apply all pending Alembic migrations.
+migrate: venv config
+	$(ALEMBIC) -c $(DATA_DIR)/$(CONFIG_FILE) upgrade head
+
+# Show current migration status.
+migration-status: venv config
+	$(ALEMBIC) -c $(DATA_DIR)/$(CONFIG_FILE) current
+	$(ALEMBIC) -c $(DATA_DIR)/$(CONFIG_FILE) history --verbose
+
 # Start the development server with auto-reload
 serve: venv config
 	@echo "Starting the remarkbox development server..."