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vh 6042d10bf3 memory: the SVOS concept round is with the operator, and a latent CSS defect it surfaced

Three rulings open on booth-svos-retheme (ship / voice / emblem). The branch is
an inert ref; merge is gated on the rulings. Verified independently: nothing
checked out, main clean, merge-tree clean, merged tree 649 green.

The fixup hold is now partial — booth.html is released because design-dev does
not touch it, so bug-hunt findings there land immediately.

And a real one he caught on our side: base.html reads four CSS custom properties
and defines none of them, 15 uses without a fallback. An undefined var makes the
whole declaration invalid at computed-value time, so those buttons have had no
border at all and a transparent background — not merely default colours. The U7
rail reads the same names with fallbacks, which is why the rail looked
deliberate and the buttons under it never did. Assigned to his rewrite; fixing
it on main would collide with the one file he is rewriting.

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Persistent memory — booth

Last updated: 2026-09-22

Always check for /tmp/booth-dev-handoff.md — if it exists and its Written: stamp is under 8 hours old, read it (it carries the in-flight handoff from the previous session), then delete it. Older than 8 hours: stale — delete it unread.

Repo purpose

The Booth is the fleet's operator-review surface: agents post work by making a folder under ~/booth-data, the operator looks at it and judges it in the browser, and the judgment gets back to the agent that posted it. It was built as a file-shuttle and is being converged, unit by unit, onto the review loop it turned out to actually be.

Current state / in-flight

As of 2026-09-22:

U6 SHIPPED (v0.6.0) with a late fix (v0.6.1). PUSHED. main and both tags are on origin as of 2026-09-22 — the tree is no longer single-copy. ⚠ That "PUSHED" was already stale when written: 2f85692 (the no-announcements ruling) landed after it and sat unpushed until 2026-09-22 night. Do not trust a "pushed" row — run git rev-list --count origin/main..HEAD. A push is a point in time; this file is not. → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u6-benches-released.md
THE OPERATOR RULED ON EVERYTHING OUTSTANDING (2026-09-22, "accept all recs"). Four of five settled and executed; one blocked by the permission layer. Nothing is waiting on him. → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-operator-ruled-on-the-open-five.md
✅ U7 IS LANDED — ALL SEVEN v1 UNITS ARE IN. The fourth component (filename-prefix groups) is built; test_no_group_rail_is_shipped_yet was deleted in the same commit, as required. → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u7-landed-and-a-table-that-did-not-reproduce.md
✅ RELEASED v1.0.0b1 — the first 1.x release, staged as a BETA (operator, 2026-09-22: "cut 1.0 beta 1"). Feature-complete, no new features, remaining work is bugs. 1.0.0 final is cut when the beta survives. PUSHED — main and the annotated tag are on origin; ahead 0, behind 0. → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-v1-staged-as-a-beta-and-a-second-copy-of-the-version.md
⚠ booth/__init__.py IS A FOURTH STDLIB-ONLY MODULE and nothing said so until now — scripts/booth executes it before every one of the documented three. Now covered by test_stdlib_only. Same detail file carries why importlib.metadata is the WRONG version source in this repo.
🔶 SVOS CONCEPT ROUND IS UP AND THREE RULINGS ARE WITH THE OPERATOR (booth booth-svos-retheme, ask id svos: ship / voice / emblem, all three with design-dev's recommendation attached). Nothing from us gates it and the branch must NOT be merged until he pings after the rulings. Branch refs/heads/design-dev/svos-retheme @ 878ed86 is fetched into this repo as an inert ref — verified: nothing checked out, main clean, git merge-tree against 33e7149 clean, merged tree 649 green.
🔶 THE FIXUP HOLD IS PARTIAL, NOT BLANKET. booth/templates/booth.html is RELEASED — design-dev does not touch it, so bug-hunt findings there land immediately. HELD while his branch is out: base.html, view.html, doc.html, embed.js, and app.py's FAVICON_HREF.
⚠ A REAL LATENT CSS DEFECT, FOUND BY design-dev, ASSIGNED TO HIS REWRITE. base.html reads --line / --bg / --fg / --muted and defines none of them; 15 of those uses carry no fallback (lines 281-314). border:1px solid var(--line) with the var undefined is invalid at computed-value time, so the WHOLE border declaration drops — the keep/blur/reveal buttons have had no border and a transparent background. The U7 rail above them reads the same names WITH fallbacks, which is why the rail looks deliberate and the buttons never did. Do not fix on main — it is the one file he is rewriting.
⚠ A postbox send note is a point-in-time snapshot, NOT a durable fact. The send said design-dev: pull-only; postbox handles says push reachable, and he replied in-session. Read the mode from postbox handles.
⚠ U7'S CONTRACT CARRIED A MEASUREMENT THAT DID NOT REPRODUCE, and it was the number the scope departure rested on. The stated rule gives 24 and 27 groups where the table claimed 5 and 1; the table was assembled from two different heuristics. A cold contract-review panel cannot catch this — the artifact is internally plausible. Re-run any measurement a contract's scope rests on before implementing it. Same detail file.
⚠ A MUTATION HARNESS NEEDS A GREEN BASELINE AND CACHE DEFEAT, or it certifies falsifiers without running them. Both defects bit in one session. → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-a-mutation-harness-that-certified-a-broken-test.md
648 tests green; 12/12 U7 falsifiers mutation-proved. Deployed; 21/21 booths 200. ⚠ The set churned again mid-session (19 → 21).
✅ THE MUTATION HARNESS IS NOW scripts/mutation_check.py (operator, 2026-09-22: "keep the harness"). Tables in tests/mutations/*.toml, one per unit — add a unit by adding a file, never by editing the script. It has its own positive and negative controls in tests/test_mutation_check.py, including a known-vacuous falsifier it must catch. When you write a *Falsifiable:* line, add its row and run it — a falsifier nobody has run is a claim, not a test.
🔶 A bug-hunt panel is IN FLIGHT — heid thread 01M368G2Y0JMTJ2T7M3JMTXV5Z, dispatched 2026-09-22 21:31 PDT over the U7-groups diff. If its reply has not been consumed, drain /althing:inbox and triage before treating U7 as closed.
🛑 STANDING RULING — NO ANNOUNCEMENTS OUT OF THIS REPO, AND THE OPERATOR SENDS THE EVENTUAL ONE HIMSELF (operator, 2026-09-22). Verbatim: "no announcements until the entire arc is done, and even then i'll do it myself." Two clauses, both binding: (a) no althing announcement of any kind ships from booth-dev until the v1 arc is COMPLETE — not per-unit, not at the 1.0 tag, not "just the peers who consume it"; (b) when the arc IS done, the announcement is HIS to send, not a thing to ask permission for. This is STRICTER than ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md's broadcast gate, which merely requires approval — here the send is not the agent's to make at all, so asking is also out of scope. Do not offer, draft-and-await, or surface it as a pending decision; it is settled and not a standing question. The 17-handle booth link note is consequently REASSIGNED, not blocked. The full draft + recipient list stays at docs/pending/fleet-note-booth-link-refusal.md as MATERIAL FOR HIM. It is no longer an open loop, no longer awaiting approval, and no longer a thing to raise. Same for anything U4's keep-semantics change would have warranted telling peers.
⚠ NOT SEEDED, and this survives the blanket ruling. "No seeding yet" was a SPECIFIC prior instruction, not a recommendation of mine, so "accept all recs" does not override it. .benches.json does not exist in ~/booth-data.
A U7 directive (D-0011) misrouted to infra-ops and is SUPERSEDED. Miranda confirmed directly. Nothing to act on. → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-a-directive-misrouted-by-pane-title.md
⚠ THE 17 CONSUMING HANDLES WERE NEVER TOLD that keep stopped meaning "waiting on an answer" — and the note above does not tell them either; it is about booth link. This CHANGES HOW THE 2026-10-06 RE-COUNT READS: a flat .forever rate does NOT falsify the diagnosis.
Two dated predictions pending, not to be run early. U5's adoption re-measure 2026-09-29; the .forever re-count on or after 2026-10-06.
FIVE /heid* methodology proposals sit with the operator, untracked by his choice.
The booth set churns hard: 26 → 24 → 25 → 23 → 19. Re-count rather than trusting any number here.

Recent decisions

[2026-09-22] ✅ v1.0.0b1 — the v1 target staged as a beta, and a version that was two copies — READ BEFORE DERIVING A VERSION FROM importlib.metadata HERE; it reports a different artifact, and booth/__init__.py turns out to be stdlib-only → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-v1-staged-as-a-beta-and-a-second-copy-of-the-version.md
[2026-09-22] ✅ U7 landed — and the number that justified it did not reproduce — all seven v1 units are in; READ BEFORE TRUSTING A MEASUREMENT INSIDE A CONTRACT, and before assuming a degeneracy guard covers the degeneracy you actually have → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u7-landed-and-a-table-that-did-not-reproduce.md
[2026-09-22] ⚠ A mutation harness certified a broken test, twice, for two reasons — no green baseline, and the pyc cache silently reverting same-size mutations; READ BEFORE WRITING ONE → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-a-mutation-harness-that-certified-a-broken-test.md
[2026-09-22] 🛑 STANDING: no announcements out of this repo until the arc is done, and he sends that one himself — verbatim "no announcements until the entire arc is done, and even then i'll do it myself." Stricter than the house broadcast gate: the send is not the agent's to make, so asking is also out of scope. The drafted 17-handle note is REASSIGNED to him, not blocked — see the in-flight row above; do not raise it again.
[2026-09-22] The operator ruled on all five open items at once — four executed incl. the first push; the broadcast was blocked by the permission layer and is drafted at docs/pending/ → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-operator-ruled-on-the-open-five.md
[2026-09-22] U7 is three-quarters built and blocked on one word — the ratified three landed; the sections-vs-groups departure is NOT built and is the operator's call, tracked at docs/contracts/u7_navigation.contract.md → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u7-three-quarters-and-one-ruling.md
[2026-09-22] An approved directive misrouted because pane_find addresses by a rolling pane title — resolved; the MECHANISM is the durable part, reported to infra-ops, untracked by booth-dev → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-a-directive-misrouted-by-pane-title.md
[2026-09-22] U7 re-measured before scoping — sections are dead, filename prefixes are not — PRE-WORK ONLY, no unit started; read before writing U7's contract → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u7-remeasured-before-scoping.md
[2026-09-22] The last open defect closed, and building its falsifier found another — the wrong-shaped answer fixed at _hydrate; _safe_fragments lost its natural trigger and its handler could not survive the failure it handled → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-a-wrong-shaped-answer-500s-the-gallery.md
[2026-09-22] U6 released as v0.6.0 — benches, and the number that was two defects — six of seven v1 units landed, NOT PUSHED → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u6-benches-released.md
[2026-09-22] Three cold panels on one unit, and what each lens could only see alone — READ BEFORE DECIDING TO SKIP A GATE; all five passes found something the others structurally could not → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-three-cold-panels-on-one-unit.md
[2026-09-22] U6 landed — three surfaces, three jobs, one predicate — the seam review caught three real contract defects incl. a per-row resolve_booth that would have 404'd the board → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u6-benches-landed.md
[2026-09-22] The 69% link-board rot was two defects wearing one number — READ BEFORE SCOPING ANY LINK-BOARD WORK; U5 closed the larger half and full-URL-vs-origin identity is a measured call → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-one-number-was-two-defects.md
[2026-09-22] U3 landed — the page declares the seam, the Booth mounts into it — ten regexes against author HTML replaced by a substring test and a + → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u3-declared-embed-seam-landed.md
[2026-09-22] A wrong-shaped answer 500s the gallery and the marks page — PRE-EXISTING (measured at 42ea67f), NOT U3; the v0.2.2 lesson is only half-implemented → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-a-wrong-shaped-answer-500s-the-gallery.md
[2026-09-22] The browser became a test surface — READ BEFORE TOUCHING playwright IN pyproject; the pinned upper bound is the foot-gun, and these tests SKIP rather than fail → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-the-browser-became-a-test-surface.md
[2026-09-22] A vacuity pass that tries the contract's own mutation agrees with itself — U3 ran one, reported 7/7, and a cold panel then showed one of the seven was vacuous; READ BEFORE WRITING A Falsifiable: LINE → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-seven-of-seven-falsifiers.md
[2026-09-22] U4 landed — lifetime is derived, not declared — three states, viewing is activity, and no new arithmetic anywhere → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u4-derived-lifetime-landed.md
[2026-09-22] The .forever diagnosis got a live positive control — 3 of the 4 booths awaiting an answer were ALSO hand-pinned — RE-COUNT 2026-10-06 → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-forever-had-a-live-positive-control.md
[2026-09-22] No fleetwide notice for U4, and what that does to the prediction — READ BEFORE THE 2026-10-06 RE-COUNT; a flat rate does not falsify the diagnosis → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-no-notice-and-what-it-does-to-the-prediction.md
[2026-09-22] Four independent paths to one fail-open delete — the bug-hunt panel's class, and the zsh word-splitting trap that shipped an empty bundle → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-four-paths-to-one-fail-open-delete.md
[2026-09-22] Two reads of one file are not one read of one state — a TOCTOU seam that composes two correct readers into a fail-open delete → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-two-reads-are-not-one-state.md
[2026-09-22] Five of seven INV falsifiers did not falsify anything — read before writing a Falsifiable: line; a green test cited one rather than being one → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-vacuous-falsifiers.md
[2026-09-22] The third one-branch template miss — this repo's recurring blind spot; read before adding a fact to any template → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-third-one-branch-template-miss.md
[2026-09-22] The size cap opened a service-wide hang — a FIFO has st_size 0; a bound that trusts it inherits what it does not mean → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-size-cap-opened-a-hang.md
[2026-09-22] An existing test stopped me retiring documented behaviour — the clean fix for the mtime race would have silently changed TTL doctrine → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-doctrine-not-defect.md
[2026-09-22] Two U5 panels, and prose reached a released outage — read the detail before assuming a conformance finding stops at its own module → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u5-panels-reached-a-released-bug.md
[2026-09-22] U5's adoption prediction split in two — the handle rides for free, the why must be learned — RE-MEASURE 2026-09-29 → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u5-adoption-split-in-two.md
[2026-09-22] The U2 bug-hunt panel was not ceremony — the lock-unlink race and the TTL guard that was failing at its own job → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u2-bug-hunt-panel.md
[2026-09-22] The lenient reader's blast radius was the whole service — marks_for runs per booth per index load; a raise there is an outage → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-lenient-reader-blast-radius.md
[2026-09-22] booth marks / booth answer got real exit codes — read it before changing anything the 17 consuming handles call → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-cli-exit-codes.md
[2026-09-22] scripts/booth went from zero tests to five — they run the real script under system python3, so they also check INV-1 → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-scripts-booth-got-tests.md
[2026-09-21] v0.2.0 was tagged while a gate was in flight — the sequencing lesson: if a gate is outstanding, the tag waits → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-v020-tagged-with-a-gate-in-flight.md
[2026-09-21] A write over a damaged .marks.json wiped the booth — the reads-lenient / writes-strict asymmetry, and why it exists → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-marks-write-wiped-judgment.md
[2026-09-21] Seam review and cold panel had zero overlap, twice — evidence for running both; neither substitutes for the other → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-two-gates-are-complementary.md
[2026-09-21] Every code-changing finding came from the AMBIGUITY pass — a finding about the /heid-contract-review skill, not about this repo → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-ambiguity-pass-did-the-work.md
[2026-09-21] Deterministic order is a cross-cutting v1 invariant — operator directive; read before adding ANY ordered surface → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-deterministic-order-invariant.md
[2026-09-21] U2 (marks) landed — one primitive for three mechanisms — what moved where, and the HTTP mirror remote sessions poll → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-u2-marks-landed.md
[2026-09-21] A partially-answered pick counts as OPEN — declared, not smuggled; it is the reading that makes U4 correct → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-partial-answer-counts-as-open.md
[2026-09-21] The U2 seam review earned its place, and how — inline.place indexes by subscript — the miss a cold panel cannot see → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-u2-seam-review-earned-it.md
[2026-09-21] Marks are one .marks.json per booth — operator decision with two rejected alternatives; read before restructuring → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-marks-storage-decision.md
[2026-09-21] U7's section premise is half wrong — every booth that needs navigation is FLAT — read before starting U7 → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-u7-section-premise-half-wrong.md
[2026-09-21] sindra-finalists is U2's flag motivation, caught live — evidence, not argument → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-sindra-finalists-is-the-motivation.md
[2026-09-21] The information architecture and the v1 gate landed — the single defect the seven units decompose → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-ia-and-v1-gate-landed.md
[2026-09-21] The .forever diagnosis is a falsifiable prediction — U4's success criterion — re-count a fortnight AFTER U4 lands → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-forever-diagnosis-is-a-prediction.md
[2026-09-21] Extracted from eshpfi into its own repo — test_booth.py is the regression net the v1 rewrite is checked against → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-extracted-from-eshpfi.md

Tried and abandoned

[2026-09-21] Tagging a release while a review gate was in flight — cost a same-hour v0.2.1 and a correction to 15 handles → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-tagging-with-a-gate-in-flight.md
[2026-09-21] Letting the write path share the read path's leniency — a tolerant reader and a tolerant writer are not the same decision → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-tolerant-writer-over-tolerant-reader.md
[2026-09-21] Letting Jinja hot-reload templates in the deployment root — caused a live outage: 19 of 25 booths at 500. Why auto_reload=False → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-jinja-hot-reload-outage.md
[2026-09-21] Five mechanisms to get one question beside one artifact — the accretion signature this whole v1 rewrite is undoing → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-five-mechanisms-one-job.md
[2026-09-21] Regex-injecting chrome into arbitrary author HTML — the defect U3 exists to close → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-regex-injecting-chrome.md
[2026-09-21] A boolean escape hatch as the lifetime mechanism — why .forever is a symptom; the defect U4 exists to close → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-boolean-escape-hatch-as-lifetime.md
[2026-09-21] Letting the link board absorb the announce job — 69% rot; U5 gave the job a home, which is what unblocks U6 → persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-link-board-absorbing-announce.md