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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.
2026-09-22 17:38:40 -07:00

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U7 is three-quarters built and blocked on one word

2026-09-22 · booth

The last v1 unit, decomposed by what the operator has already ratified versus what he has not. ROADMAP's U7 row names four components. Three were already approved there and are built, tested and deployed (a306e2d). The fourth is a scope departure and is deliberately not built.

component ROADMAP state
sticky rail ratified landed — totals + per-filter counts
filters ratified landed — all / flagged / annotated / unanswered
grid keyboard ratified landed — ←/→ f n Enter Esc, bound only when a grid exists
sections → filename groups departs NOT BUILT

tests/test_navigation.py::test_no_group_rail_is_shipped_yet fails the moment somebody builds the group rail anyway, so the departure cannot arrive by accident while the ruling is outstanding.

The question, and why it is his

Drop subfolder sections for filename-prefix groups — yes or no?

Measured (see 2026-09-22-u7-remeasured-before-scoping): zero of eleven gallery booths have a subdirectory, so sections buy nothing; stripping a trailing digit-run from the stem yields 5–16 sensible groups on four of the five large galleries and degenerates to one group on the fifth. The replacement is better on the evidence — but swapping a ratified component for an unratified one is scope direction, not implementation.

Contract at docs/contracts/u7_navigation.contract.md, status PARTIALLY LANDED, with the departure named as the operator's call.

Decisions taken under stated assumption, both cheap to reverse

  • unanswered means HAS AN OPEN PICK — the U4 hold predicate, which already exists. The other reading ("has no mark at all") is a genuinely different question and stays an open question on the contract.
  • Filters are LINKS, not scripts, resolved server-side, so the gallery keeps working with JavaScript off. U3 cost the verbatim path its no-JS operation and said so plainly; the gallery is the surface the operator actually reviews on, and this unit does not repeat it there.

The vacuous falsifier, written an hour after the entry about them

test_filtering_never_reorders compared each filtered view against the unfiltered response — so a mutation reversing the order reversed both sides and it stayed green under the exact change it forbade. Caught only by running the mutation rather than trusting the assertion.

Rewritten against an independent truth: U1 INV-3 says the order IS sorted(rel), so each view must be sorted, full stop, with no reference to another response. Re-verified RED. Every new falsifier in this session was mutation-checked after this, and that is the practice to keep — see 2026-09-22-vacuous-falsifiers.