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The sixth of seven v1 units. A bench is a running thing, registered: identity is the normalized URL so re-posting updates the row instead of appending a fifth, `booth link` refuses the one shape that now has a better home, and the board marks the rows whose booths are gone without deleting a single one. Minor rather than patch, approved by the operator. Two capabilities arrived and one verb changed behaviour for seventeen agent handles, which is the push-notification bar in the tier test: `booth bench` is new, the board gained a dead marker, and `booth link` now refuses a booth URL and a credentialed one. 444 -> 607 tests across the unit and its three cold gates. All four review gates closed: an in-session seam review (three real contract defects, including one that would have 404'd the whole board page), an in-session adversarial pass (four defects, one of them this repo's own FIFO lesson recurring in a new file), and three cold cross-frontier panels -- contract paraphrase, code-vs- contract, and a diff-scoped bug hunt -- folded in full with exactly one finding declined and its reasoning recorded. Measured before contracted, and the measurement changed the unit: the design doc's headline 69% rot was two defects wearing one number, and U5 had already closed the larger half. Identity is the FULL normalized URL rather than the origin because origin identity merges eight distinct gitea repositories, three unrelated model cards, and the two LRPG surfaces the design doc itself names as an example of two real benches.
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# The Booth — roadmap
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Design: [`docs/design/information-architecture.md`](docs/design/information-architecture.md).
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Current version: `0.6.0` (U1 through U6 landed; extracted from eshpfi 2026-09-21).
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## v1 target
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What must be true to cut 1.0. Seven capabilities, each closing a **measured**
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defect — not a wish. The measurements are in the IA doc.
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| # | capability | closes | unit |
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| 1 | ~~**One item record**~~ — **landed `ce598b3`** | captions never reach the zoom view (never sent, not lost) | U1 |
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| 2 | ~~**Marks**~~ — **landed `c7f9437`, released `v0.2.0`** | 5 mechanisms for 1 job; operator→session loop runs through chat | U2 |
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| 3 | ~~**Declared embed seam**~~ — **landed `87e2c53`, released `v0.5.0`** | 6 regexes injected into arbitrary author HTML, load-bearing for asks | U3 |
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| 4 | ~~**Derived lifetime**~~ — **landed `c3a97c1`, released `v0.4.0`** | 70% of booths on the `.forever` escape hatch (54% when first counted) | U4 |
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| 5 | ~~**Self-announcing booths**~~ — **landed `c015a91`, released `v0.3.0`** | job 5 had no home, so it lived on the link board as 145 dead rows | U5 |
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| 6 | ~~**Benches**~~ — **landed `1c3ce5d`, released `v0.6.0`** | 69% link-board rot (re-measured: 178 booth rows + 8 bench re-posts) | U6 |
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| 7 | **Navigation at 270 items** — sections, rail, filters, grid keyboard | one flat wall; subfolder structure discarded at render | U7 |
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Ordering is dependency-driven, not priority-driven: **U1 → U2 → {U3, U4, U5} →
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U7**, with **U6 independent** of all of them (different storage, different
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surface) and therefore the safest thing to land first or in parallel.
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**U1 through U6 are landed.** **U7 is the last unit before the 1.0 cut** — its
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only dependency was `{U3, U4, U5}` and that closed with U3.
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⚠ **Before starting U7, read
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`persistent-memory.d/2026-09-21-u7-section-premise-half-wrong.md`, and re-count
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the booths first.** Half its premise is already known to be wrong — every booth
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that actually needs navigation is FLAT — and the booth set churned again on
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2026-09-22: the four large booths U7 was sized against (`pancake-v3-full` and
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`pancake-v4-full` at 270 items, `sindra20-engines`, `sindra-finalists`) have all
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been swept. The largest live booth is now `miranda-is` at 92 items, flat. Two of
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23 booths have subfolders (`pewpew-ui-brief`, `dfa-concepts`) and **both are
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reports** — the job where grid navigation matters least. Sections, one of U7's
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four named components, buys close to nothing. The rail, the filters and the grid
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keyboard are the unit.
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**U5's adoption is a measured prediction, not a finished result**, and it is
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TWO predictions rather than one. The operator declined a fleetwide announcement
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so that adoption could be told apart from design; within fifty minutes of the
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deploy a peer that had been told nothing (`comfy-dev`) created a booth and it
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announced itself with a handle and an empty `why`. That is the split:
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- **The handle rides for free.** It is written by `booth new` and `booth add`,
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so every existing caller starts announcing without learning anything.
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- **The `why` has to be learned.** It needs someone to know the flag exists.
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Both get re-measured on **2026-09-29**:
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find ~/booth-data -maxdepth 2 -name .booth.json | wc -l # free
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grep -l '"why": "[^"]' ~/booth-data/*/.booth.json | wc -l # learned
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A high first count with a near-zero second is the predicted shape of "nobody was
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told" — an adoption failure fixed by announcing, which is a different thing from
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nobody wanting it. Same instrument as U4's `.forever` prediction below.
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### Cross-cutting invariant — deterministic order, everywhere
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**Every ordered collection the Booth renders must have a stated, deterministic
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order.** Not "usually stable", not "whatever the filesystem yields" — a rule
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someone can name, that produces the same sequence on every render of the same
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state. The rule itself is free to be anything defensible: byte order over a
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path, creation time, an explicit number, even an arbitrary-but-recorded
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sequence. What is forbidden is *no rule*.
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This matters more here than in most services because the Booth's whole job is
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**comparison**. The operator is judging `pancake-v3-full` against
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`pancake-v4-full`, tile 47 against tile 47. If the order shifts between two page
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loads — or differs between the gallery, the zoom ring, the zip manifest and the
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`marks` read — then every positional reference the operator makes ("the third
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one from the left", "the one after the banded one") is silently wrong, and a
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flag or a note lands on the wrong artifact. Non-determinism does not present as
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a bug report; it presents as the operator's judgment being quietly misfiled.
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Where it already binds, and what the rule is in each case:
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| collection | rule |
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| items in a booth | `sorted(rel)` — byte order over the booth-relative path (U1 INV-3) |
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| the zoom prev/next ring | the item order, filtered to images — same sequence, one source |
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| caption sidecar resolution | sorted scan, so two media files sharing a stem resolve the same way every time (a real non-determinism U1 removed) |
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| marks in a booth | `(created, id)` — time, with the id as tie-break so two marks written in the same second cannot swap |
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| legacy ask import | `(mtime, name)`, which is the order `list_asks` gave them |
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| link board rows | pinned first, then newest-first |
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| a booth's announcement | not a collection — one flat record per booth, nothing to order (U5) |
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| the bench registry | `(state rank, name casefolded, id)` — live before promoted before retired, then alphabetical, with the id as a TOTAL tie-break so two benches sharing a name cannot swap (U6) |
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| the link board's dead marker | not an order — a per-row stamp read from the existing `order_for_display` sequence, so marking cannot move a row (U6) |
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| embed anchors in a verbatim report | **document order** — what `querySelectorAll` yields, so the author's markup decides (U3) |
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| the embed tail (fragments the author did not place) | **payload order**, which is the marks order `(created, id)` — one rule, whether a fragment lands at an anchor or at the end (U3) |
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| questions within a pick | declaration order, in the payload's `questions` LIST — carried by the format rather than by object-key insertion order (U3) |
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U3's three rows are the first case where the rule binds across a language
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boundary: the order is decided in Python and honoured in JavaScript, and a
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browser test asserts it rather than a string assertion that could not see it.
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U4 added no ordered collection — a booth's lifetime is one state per booth,
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not a sequence — so the rule above did not need a new row. The three lifetime
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surfaces (index card, booth header, marks page) render through ONE macro
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precisely so they cannot disagree, which is the same property stated for
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ordering: one rule, one place, every surface reading it.
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Where it is still to be decided, and must be before the unit ships: **U7's
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section ordering and its compare pairing** (sections need a stated order among
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themselves, not just within; pairing by filename needs a rule for what happens
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to an unpaired file). **U6's bench listing is settled** — the row above.
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Compare pairing is parked to v1.1 with compare mode itself, so U7 carries one
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undecided rule, not two.
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The test for any new ordered surface: *can you write the rule down in one line?*
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If not, it does not have one yet.
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### Explicitly NOT in v1
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- **Backward compatibility with the `ask` CLI verbs.** Pre-1.0, and `ask` /
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`asks` / `answer` become thin aliases over `marks` rather than a second code
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path. The 17 consuming handles get one althing note naming the change — the
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one case where telling peers is real coordination and not a broadcast.
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- **A migration that deletes anything.** `links.md` is archived verbatim and
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committed before the registry is seeded from it.
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## Parking lot
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Deferred with a home, per the anti-creep gate. Default is park; these were
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weighed against the v1 path and lost on purpose.
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| item | why parked |
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| **Compare mode** — pair-by-name A/B across subfolders | The best idea in the set, and the only one that is a *new capability* rather than a fix for a measured defect. The four-booth `pancake-v3/v4` dance still works. First thing in v1.1. |
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| Virtualized / progressive grid loading | Speculative. 270 `<img loading="lazy">` may be fine. **Measure the real booth before optimising it** — if it renders inside a second, this is invented work. |
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| Bench uptime history + graphs | The v1 need is "is it dead", which one flag answers. A time series is a different product. |
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| Cross-booth search | No evidence of the need in the usage data. |
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| Per-viewer state (who has seen what) | The Booth has one viewer. Revisit if that stops being true. |
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| Auth | Standing non-goal. LAN/mesh-internal. Blur stays cosmetic and says so. |
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## Post-v1, already committed
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- **SVOS theme retrofit by `design-dev`.** Runs as a parallel track, not a v1
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gate: we own the information architecture (it is driven by the measurement
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above), design-dev owns the visual and interaction system. The handoff is a
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`/vor-ui` brief written against the landed v1 structure — the same shape
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`hamr-dev` and `pewpew-dev` used.
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## Gate
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A proposed feature is on the v1 path or it is parked. **Default: parked.** When
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both are defensible, park it — same asymmetry as the patch-default in SemVer.
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Applies regardless of who proposed it.
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