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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Two U5 panels, and prose reached a released outage
2026-09-22 · booth
Two cross-frontier panels on U5, and a paraphrase panel reached
a production outage two modules away. 3-of-4 flagged the contract's "4 GB"
case as letter-compliant but purpose-defeating; the conformance round found that
unbounded read live in U5's code; walking it to the sibling found the SAME hole
live in released v0.2.2 — marks._read_raw catches (OSError, ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError) and json.loads on deep nesting raises RecursionError,
which is none of them, so 400 KB of brackets in one booth returned 500 for /
and /healthz across all 26. The v0.2.2 round HAD flagged it and I closed half:
a finding with two call sites is not closed when one is. The reusable
instruction — walk a conformance finding to the sibling module even when the
sibling is out of scope. Five of ten conformance findings were tests of mine
that pass on the regression they exist to catch, three of them asserting an
ARTIFACT of the property rather than the property; that is three nights running
on the same shape. Two real bugs neither my tests nor I could see: a bare
booth add wiped the why on the one sequence the feature exists for, and
--title was write-only. Full triage in
persistent-memory.d/2026-09-22-u5-panels.md.