Reserve the additive v21 panel schema without advertising it in the
server-first production handshake. Pin a real shipped-v20 client attach,
make the two aggregate-budget ratchets exactly one byte over, and update
the framing, coherence audit, handoff, and volatile lane record.
Give the daemon its normal five-second handshake window before switching
the mode-system acceptance client to short frame polling. Document reload
and session-persistence boundaries and correct stale describe-key guidance.
Store a detected major mode on each buffer and expose it through Lua.
Resolve mode-scoped bindings in dispatch, describe-key, and help links,
including exact encoded mode context after entering the help buffer.
Initialize modes once at buffer load, preserve explicit overrides and
clears across switches, and publish the mode through a per-window
statusline provider. Add daemon acceptance for the complete mode lifecycle.
Levi Neuwirth