The two dated log sections had never been split, so every one of their 29 entries sat inline and the startup index had grown to 372 lines — which is the cost the two-tier scheme exists to remove, paid on every session that reads the file. 27 entries were over threshold. All 29 now have a detail file under persistent-memory.d/ and a one-line index entry that routes rather than restates. Index: 372 -> 93 lines. No archival. The soft cap fired, but every entry in this repo is dated 2026-09-21 or later, so the under-14-days guard held all of them back — and the split alone took the index well under the target without moving anything out of the active file. The in-flight section is rewritten for the post-release state: nothing is in flight, no gate is outstanding, and the next unit is explicitly recorded as the operator's undecided call rather than as a plan. The session's recommendation (U4, on three grounds) is written down so it does not have to be re-derived, alongside the two alternatives and why they are alternatives. Two dated predictions are carried forward with their dates and their instruments: the U5 adoption re-measure on 2026-09-29, which already reads 3 of 24 announced and 2 with a why from peers told nothing, and the .forever re-count a fortnight AFTER U4 lands, which is U4's own success criterion and is destroyed by running it early.
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booth marks / booth answer got real exit codes
2026-09-22 · booth
booth marks / booth answer got real exit codes, because
a read that CRASHED was indistinguishable from a read that said no. marks
printed a traceback and exited 0 (a caller's jq saw success and got
nothing); answer --wait read a damaged file as "not yet" and spun for the
full hour before blaming the operator. Now 0 ok · 1 unanswered/timed-out · 2 no such pick · 3 unreadable, and read_error() was added to marks.py so
the CLI can ask the question the browser must not: the page stays lenient, the
machine consumer gets the truth. Also --wait now prints ONCE — it was
emitting a whole JSON document per poll, so a captured --wait held several
concatenated values and parsed as none of them.