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vh 8bf5343049 memory: snapshot — U7 three-quarters built, blocked on one ruling
U6 shipped as v0.6.0 and a late fix as v0.6.1; U7's three ratified components
(rail, filters, grid keyboard) are landed and the fourth is deliberately not,
because swapping subfolder sections for filename-derived groups is a scope
departure the operator has not ruled on. A test fails if anyone builds it
anyway.

Two new detail files. One decomposes U7 by ratified-versus-not and records the
two decisions taken under stated assumption. The other keeps the mechanism
behind today's misrouted directive: pane_find addresses seats by a ROLLING PANE
TITLE, which is not a stable address, and the failure is silent from the
sender's side -- Miranda had no signal until infra-ops flagged it. The incident
resolved; the mechanism did not.

The generated handoff committed the modality failure its own step-7 read exists
to catch: it listed push, seed and the 17-handle note as imperative Next steps
when all three are explicitly gated. Rewritten as do-nots, Next steps emptied.
Recorded here because it is the second time the generator has needed that
backstop.
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# An approved directive misrouted because pane_find addresses by a rolling title
_2026-09-22 · booth_
**An operator-approved directive (D-0011, sent by Miranda, telling booth-dev to
begin U7) landed on the infra-ops handle instead.** Worth keeping for the
mechanism, not the incident: the incident resolved cleanly and the mechanism
did not.
## What happened, and why nothing broke
`pane_find` matched `terminal_2` **by its ROLLING PANE TITLE**, and that pane is
the eshpfi-management seat rather than booth-dev. Miranda confirmed all of this
directly when asked.
infra-ops caught it and **deliberately did not relay the content as an
instruction** — their reasoning, which is exactly right: a directive arriving as
"infra-ops says Miranda says Vuong says" is two hops from the source, and a peer
passing operator authority along is the thing the rules warn about. They sent a
routing report instead, quoting only the two lines that identified the target.
This session then **did not act on it**, and asked Miranda directly rather than
taking a peer's word for the operator's. She confirmed it was genuine and
**superseded pending the sections ruling**. Both loops closed in two messages.
## The part that is still true tomorrow
**A pane title that changes as work moves through the pane is not a stable
address.** It put an approved directive on the wrong seat, and:
- **the failure is silent from the sender's side.** Miranda had no signal it
went astray until infra-ops spoke up. A directive that misroutes to a quiet
or busy seat simply evaporates.
- it landed somewhere that caught it. That was luck, not design.
Reported to infra-ops as an ops matter (`01M35JJ9034E64HMA8X9C21R2N`), with the
mechanism named and no fix proposed — not this repo's call. **Not tracked
anywhere by booth-dev**; recorded here only so the next session does not
re-derive it if a directive goes missing again.
## The rule this confirms
The CLAUDE.md Miranda exception is for Miranda relaying **directly**. A
second-hand report of a Miranda relay is one hop too far, and infra-ops said so
before this session had to. Going to the source cost two messages and settled it.