The first version answered "what is the state of the work" but not
"what actually has to move", which is the question a machine change
asks. Audited it instead of assuming.
Most of the risk turned out to be already retired: spikes/ is tracked
(106 files), the editor-t4 worktree is clean with zero uncommitted and
zero untracked, there are no stashes, and every commit on every local
branch is already on origin. There is no unpushed work on this machine.
What a clone still will not give you, now enumerated: the gitignored
root HANDOFF.md (18KB, not regenerable, deliberately kept out of git),
.claude/settings.local.json, and — outside the repository entirely —
the 21-file agent memory directory both threads have been accumulating
track notes in.
One real exposure found: the branch ref editor-t4-packet2b exists here
and not on origin, which has only refs/heads/main. Its commits are
reachable through the f33673d merge so nothing is lost, but the pointer
is local and should be pushed before this machine is wiped.
§4 is restructured into before-wiping, on-arrival, and then-work, since
two of those steps have to happen while this machine still exists.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01QjsEnYhm1gPpf6ii2iFxFV
Levi Neuwirth
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