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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.
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# Persistent memory — booth
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_Last updated: 2026-09-22_
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> **Always check for `/tmp/booth-dev-handoff.md`** — if it exists and its
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> `Written:` stamp is under 8 hours old, read it (it carries the in-flight
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> handoff from the previous session), then delete it. Older than 8 hours:
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> stale — delete it unread.
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## Repo purpose
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The Booth is the fleet's **operator-review surface**: agents post work by
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making a folder under `~/booth-data`, the operator looks at it and judges it in
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the browser, and the judgment gets back to the agent that posted it. It was
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built as a file-shuttle and is being converged, unit by unit, onto the review
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loop it turned out to actually be.
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## Current state / in-flight
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_As of 2026-09-22:_
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- **U6 (benches) SHIPPED as `v0.6.0`; a late fix shipped as `v0.6.1`.** Six of
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seven v1 units are landed.
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→ `persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u6-benches-released.md`
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- **U7 IS THREE-QUARTERS BUILT AND BLOCKED ON ONE RULING.** The three
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components ROADMAP already ratifies — sticky rail, filters, grid keyboard —
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are implemented, tested and deployed (`a306e2d`). The fourth, replacing
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subfolder sections with filename-derived groups, is a **scope departure** and
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is deliberately NOT built; `tests/test_navigation.py::test_no_group_rail_is_shipped_yet`
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fails if anyone builds it before he rules.
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→ `persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u7-three-quarters-and-one-ruling.md`
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- ⚠ **THE ONE QUESTION BLOCKING v1: drop subfolder sections for filename-prefix
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groups, yes or no?** Everything else in U7 is done or parked. Read
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`persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u7-remeasured-before-scoping.md` for the
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evidence before putting it to him again.
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- **623 tests green. Tree clean at `a306e2d`. Deployed; 19/19 booths 200.**
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- ⚠ **NOT PUSHED.** `main` is **15 commits ahead of `origin/main`**, including
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the `v0.6.0` and `v0.6.1` tags. Push is the operator's call and he has not
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given it.
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- ⚠ **NOT SEEDED.** He said "no seeding yet", so `booth bench import --apply`
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has not been run against live data and `.benches.json` does not exist in
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`~/booth-data`. The dry run is safe and writes nothing.
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- ⚠ **THE 17-HANDLE NOTE IS NOT SENT.** `booth link` now refuses a booth URL,
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which changes behaviour for seventeen agent handles. Gated as multi-recipient;
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not drafted, not sent.
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- **A U7 directive MISROUTED and is SUPERSEDED — nothing to act on.**
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Operator-approved D-0011, sent by Miranda, landed on infra-ops because
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`pane_find` matched a rolling pane title. Miranda confirmed directly that it
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is superseded pending the sections ruling, and that every held item above
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stays gated. → `persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-a-directive-misrouted-by-pane-title.md`
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- ⚠ **THE 17 CONSUMING HANDLES WERE NEVER TOLD that `keep` stopped meaning
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"waiting on an answer"** — operator decision, no broadcast, still standing.
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**This CHANGES HOW THE 2026-10-06 RE-COUNT READS**: a flat `.forever` rate
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does NOT falsify the diagnosis. Read its entry before measuring.
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- **Two dated predictions pending and must not be run early.** U5's adoption
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re-measure on **2026-09-29**; the `.forever` re-count **on or after
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2026-10-06**.
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- **FIVE `/heid*` methodology proposals sit with the operator**, untracked by
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his choice — including Kimi's "the falsifiable test is weaker than the
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invariant it guards", which now has three data points in this repo.
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- The booth set churns hard: 26 → 24 → 25 → 23 → **19** across five sessions.
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Re-count rather than trusting any number here.
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## Recent decisions
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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## Tried and abandoned
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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- `[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`
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