pmacs/docs/active-work.md

# Active work — cross-machine resume ledger

**Snapshot: 2026-08-01.** This file records volatile work that has not
landed on `main`. Read it after `docs/agent-handoff.md`. Remove completed
entries when their PR merges; do not let this become a second permanent
backlog.

**Updated later the same day, on a new machine.** Development moved to
the laptop; the recovery path in "Repository authority" below was
exercised from this checkout and the `githubsucks` alias was absent and
had to be added, exactly as that section anticipates. **One lane opened:
CI CRDT coverage**, which had been sitting under "NEEDS A LANE" with no
branch and no owner since #166. It is implemented on
`ci-crdt-coverage` and its block replaces the old one below.

**Updated 2026-08-04.** Four PRs landed since: the CI CRDT coverage
lane #209, Distribution Stage 1 #211 (released as **v1.1.0**), the
post-release accuracy pass #212, and **bottom-panel Stage 3 #213 —
which completes Arc 7**. Its lane is **removed** per rule 4: the arc is
done *and* its durable facts are in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1. The
distribution and CI-CRDT lanes are rewritten rather than removed,
because each keeps named follow-ons.

**This snapshot is an absorption pass, taken with ZERO open PRs** —
the one window in which a ledger refresh has nothing to re-conflict
with, and taken deliberately before a machine move. Nine PRs landed
since the previous anchor (#199–#207). Two arcs completed and their
lanes are **removed**, their durable facts now in
`docs/agent-handoff.md` §1: **Journey Stage 1** (1a plus the whole 1b
split) and **test ambient-root isolation**. Discovery and reap-ledger
merged a stage each and keep lanes rewritten to what remains.
`docs/agent-handoff.md` §1a now carries the whole board — every arc,
open lane, deferred item and standing hazard in one view.

*(Earlier note, retained because its reasoning still governs:)*
**This snapshot is an absorption pass.** Eight PRs merged on 2026-07-29
and 2026-07-30 (#188, #190, #191, #194, #195, #196, #197, #198) and the
ledger had drifted to 1,854 lines carrying six lanes whose work was
already on `main`. Those six are removed and their load-bearing
decisions are in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1 — rule 4's precondition,
satisfied rather than deferred. The file is now 609 lines.

**A lane is removed when its ARC is done, not when a PR merges.** Two
lanes survive their sub-stage merges and are rewritten to the remaining
plan rather than deleted: generated-buffer immutability (Stage 1 merged,
Stage 2 not started) and bottom-panel (Stage 2 complete, Stage 3 ahead).
The bottom-panel block said so in its own text — *"this lane is not
removed at 2B-3's merge"* — and a wholesale removal keyed on "the PR
merged" would have discarded live planning. Read each block before
cutting it.

**#188's lane arrived with #188**, which is the point: with several PRs
open, a lane written on `main` for work that lands elsewhere
re-conflicts on every merge. Written on its own branch it costs one
conflict, at the merge that would have happened anyway.

The PTY terminate
diagnostic (#176) was the last lane retained past its merge — retained
because rule 4 removes a
merged lane only *after* its durable facts reach
`docs/agent-handoff.md`, and that absorption was unowned. The
2026-07-28 snapshot
owned it: #176's facts are now in the handoff (§1's arc bullet and §5's
two ops lessons about ticking observers and proving child exit), so its
lane is gone. The Lean 4, GPU-terminal-input, inline-math (#172), dired
(#169), and terminal config + copy mode lanes were removed the same way
— the last of these was #180's work, folded into #182 so two open PRs
would stop re-conflicting in this file.

**Trust the canonical-base line below over any lane header**: if a PR
number appears in `git log --first-parent githubsucks/main`, it has
landed regardless of what a lane says.

**Two open PRs had no lane here at all before the 2026-07-28
snapshot** — #174 and #171. An open PR is exactly the volatile work this
file exists to record, so its absence is a ledger defect rather than a
tidy omission: #171 drifted **153 commits** while invisible here, and
its still-green old CI run described a tree nobody had looked at since.
**When a PR is opened, give it a lane.** All three have since merged —
#174, #171 and #186 — so per rule 4 their lanes are gone again and
their durable facts are in `docs/agent-handoff.md` (§5 for #174's
lesson, §1 for the two framings).

## Repository authority

- Canonical development URL:
  `https://github.com/levineuwirth/pmacs.git`. This ledger uses the
  normalized local alias `githubsucks` so its refs and recovery commands
  are identical on every machine. Remote names are otherwise
  machine-local: `origin` may name this canonical URL, a release mirror,
  or something else, and therefore has no authority by name alone.
- Canonical base at this snapshot: **`githubsucks/main` @ `f186253`**
  — bottom-panel Stage 3 **#213**, which completes Arc 7, atop the
  post-release accuracy pass **#212**, Distribution Stage 1 **#211**
  (released as **v1.1.0**, the first release with prebuilt binaries),
  and the CI CRDT coverage lane **#209**. Beneath those, `cfc1710`:
  discovery Stage 1 #207, the ambient-root isolation implementation
  #206, Journey Stage 1b-3 #205, 1b-2 #204 and 1b-1 #203, the
  reap-ledger diagnostic #202, the isolation framing #201, the
  process-signal diagnostic #200 and the ledger absorption #199.
  **Protocol schema support is `v6..=v21`; the production server-first
  `Hello` still advertises v20** — two different facts, and #184 landed
  only the first.
  **The recovery floor advances with the base**, so the check below
  now requires `f186253` or newer; a tree at `cfc1710` no longer
  passes. That is deliberate — a check accepting an older commit than
  the declared base passes on a tree the rest of this file does not
  describe.
  **Lanes below that name an older base have not been re-based; derive
  their integration surface from `git diff <their base>..main`.**
- On the transfer source, `origin/main` named a release mirror at
  `d3fa632` and lagged badly. On the current destination, `origin` names
  the canonical URL. This difference is why all recovery begins by
  verifying URLs and normalizing `githubsucks` rather than trusting
  `origin/main`.
- The shared desktop checkout contained unrelated uncommitted work. The
  branches below were prepared in isolated worktrees; never clean or
  overwrite the shared checkout to recover them.

Start on another machine by inspecting its remotes:

```sh
git remote -v
git remote get-url githubsucks
```

If the second command says the alias is absent, add it; if it prints a
different URL, stop and resolve that collision rather than overwriting an
unknown remote:

```sh
git remote add githubsucks https://github.com/levineuwirth/pmacs.git
```

Then recover current refs:

```sh
git fetch githubsucks --prune
git log -1 --oneline githubsucks/main
git worktree list
git status --short --branch
```

The `git log` command must expose `f186253` — the base named above — or a
newer intentional main. Keep this threshold and the canonical-base line in
step: a recovery check that accepts an older commit than the base it
declares canonical will pass on a tree the rest of this file does not
describe.
If it does not, stop and repair the remote/fetch configuration.

**This path was exercised, not asserted, at this snapshot** — ahead of a
machine move. From an empty directory: `git clone` the canonical URL,
add the `githubsucks` alias, `git fetch githubsucks --prune`, confirm
`f186253` is an ancestor of `githubsucks/main`, and recover a lane with
the three-argument `git worktree add <path> -b <local> githubsucks/<branch>`
form. All four steps ran clean. **The two-argument form still does not
work** for a remote-only branch (`fatal: invalid reference`), which is
why every lane below spells out the `-b` form.

## CI CRDT coverage — MERGED (#209); kept for its three follow-ons

**Rewritten, not removed.** Rule 4 removes a lane when its ARC is done;
the coverage itself has landed but three named follow-ons have not.
Durable facts — the corrections, the traps, the census tool — are in
`docs/agent-handoff.md` §§1/5 per rule 3, so they are not repeated here.

- **MERGED as #209** (`main` @ `c5f7501`, 2026-08-01, two review rounds),
  framing `docs/ci-crdt-coverage-framing.md` revision 5. The lane had sat
  under "NEEDS A LANE" with no branch and no owner since #166.
- **CI compiles and runs the CRDT corpus for the first time.**
  `Test (crdt)` runs **3,766** tests where none ran before;
  `M10 Perf Gates (crdt)` covers two suites no workflow had ever named;
  `cargo clippy --features crdt` is enforced going forward rather than
  being a required local gate that rots in CI. **275 of 279 dark tests
  recovered**, the other four excluded with stated reasons.
- Branch `ci-crdt-coverage` retained; it carries nothing unmerged.

### Two CI weaknesses Stage 3 exposed — decisions, not defects

Both surfaced while gating #213 and belong to this lane because it owns
the crdt job.

- **CI does not pass `--no-fail-fast`, so a multi-suite break reports as
  a single-suite one.** `cargo test` halts after a failing binary, so
  #213's first crdt failure showed **one** suite when a local
  `--no-fail-fast` sweep of the same tree showed **thirteen**. The
  Stage 3 census hit the identical trap and recorded it; CI has it too.
  The cost of the flag is running the remaining suites on a red build,
  which is usually what you want when diagnosing.
- **The crdt job pairs the heaviest build with real-PTY deadlines.** It
  installs lavapipe, builds the full workspace with `crdt`, runs the
  largest test count, and includes real-PTY smokes with **5-second**
  waits. #213 saw two different such suites fail on two runs of the
  same commit. One of those was a real regression the flip caused; the
  other was load. **That ambiguity is the problem** — a job where noise
  and signal look alike trains people to rerun rather than read.
  Candidate: longer deadlines for real-PTY assertions in this job
  specifically, or serialize the PTY suites.

### Still owned by this lane, not yet done

- **The macOS `crdt` leg.** Deliberately ubuntu-only at first, "decide
  about macOS from evidence." **That evidence now exists** and is
  favourable: the non-crdt macOS legs pass at 3,474 (thirteen fewer than
  ubuntu's 3,487 — `cfg`-compilation of the Linux-gated process tests,
  not lost coverage), and no crdt-specific failure appeared anywhere.
  This is now a small, decidable addition rather than an open question.
- **The `--lib --features crdt` flake.**
  `process::tests::setsid_escapee_is_not_reaped_and_teardown_reclaims_readers`
  failed ~1 run in 5 with `active_reader_probe` returning `None`.
  **It did not reproduce in #209's runs** — `--lib --features crdt` was
  2,081/2,081 and the full serialized sweep clean — but that is *not*
  evidence against the hypothesis: every run was `--test-threads=1` and
  the trigger was observed under **parallel** full-suite load. The
  `drain_until` explanation (draining for `Started` also ticks, and a
  tick can reap the leader before the following probe) remains an
  inference from control flow, not a falsified root cause. **Its own
  PR** — a product-defect hypothesis, where everything in #209 was
  workflow configuration.
- **`InstanceCapabilities::crdt_replica`'s serde default.**
  `#[serde(default = "default_true")]` is a *third* default mechanism,
  unconditional, and therefore disagrees with the `Default` impl in a
  non-CRDT build. Exercising it needs a self-describing format and
  `pmacs-protocol`'s only serde dependency is postcard, which is not
  one. Adding `serde_json` as a dev-dependency to test a divergence
  #209 did not introduce was refused as scope creep. Parked, not
  forgotten.
- **The two unattributed CRDT failures from #178's round-2 gating.** No
  test names were captured, so there is nothing to reproduce.

Recovery, only if a follow-on needs the branch:

```sh
git worktree add ../pmacs-ci-crdt \
  -b ci-crdt-coverage-followup \
  githubsucks/ci-crdt-coverage
```

## Distribution (P8) — STAGE 1 SHIPPED as v1.1.0 (#211)

**Rewritten as a lane rather than removed**: the arc is not done — Stage
1 was scoped to binaries-on-tag and everything else in §17 is untouched.
Framing `docs/distribution-stage1-framing.md` revision 3. Durable facts
are in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1.

- **Released 2026-08-01.** `v1.1.0-rc.1` (prerelease) then `v1.1.0`,
  **both cut from the same commit `000b6cd`** — the #211 merge SHA — so
  the final release was built from byte-identical source to the one whose
  artifacts were verified.
- **Verified against the DOWNLOADED artifacts, both tags, not the build
  logs:** archive member lists (exactly `pmacs`, `pmacs-gpu`, README, two
  licenses), executable bits, absence of `pmacs-audit` /
  `pmacs_fake_lsp` / `pmacs_fake_mcp`, `pmacs --version` = `1.1.0` and
  `pmacs-gpu --version` = `1.1.0 (protocol v21)`, `SHA256SUMS`, the
  glibc floor, and CRDT presence **against a non-CRDT negative control**
  (1,576 `loro` strings shipped versus **0** in a control build — the
  control is what makes the number mean anything).
- **`pmacs` alone needs only glibc 2.34; `pmacs-gpu` needs 2.35.** The
  stated floor is the pair's, 2.35, not the more flattering single-binary
  number. That is why RHEL 9 (2.34) is excluded even though the editor
  binary would run there.

### Still owned by this lane, not yet done

Each is a stated non-goal of Stage 1 (framing §5), not an oversight.
**The next increment is a decision about which of these the project
wants, not a continuation of a plan.**

- **Channels** (stable/nightly), **in-place update**, **rollback**.
- **Signing and notarization.** macOS binaries are Gatekeeper-quarantined
  today; the release notes say so.
- **RHEL 9 and older glibc** — needs a container or cross-build, not a
  runner change.
- **Intel macOS**, **Windows**, **reproducible builds**,
  **package-manager distribution**.
- **Runtime dependency checking.** §17 asks first launch to identify
  optional external tools; `/bin/sh`, `stty`, git and tar are documented
  and never checked. That is §18 onboarding work.

## Discovery lane (P4) — STAGE 1 MERGED (#207); STAGE 2 IS NEXT

**Rewritten, not removed.** Rule 4 removes a lane when its ARC is done;
this arc is not — Stage 1 built the command surface and everything that
needs a Rust change is still ahead. Stage 1's durable facts are in
`docs/agent-handoff.md` §1.

- **Landed:** eleven `help.*` commands over the existing registries,
  indexed by `M-x help`, with `editor.describe-command` /
  `editor.describe-setting` kept as forwarders. No Rust, no protocol
  change. §5 moved substrate-without-surface → **Partial**.
- **Stage 2 candidates, in rough dependency order:**
  1. **Richer M-x rows** — a **protocol change**:
     `MinibufferPrompt.candidates` is `Vec<String>`, while
     `CompletionPopupRow` already carries `kind`/`detail`, so the wire
     pattern is solved and the bump is the work.
  2. **`Command` gains title / category / aliases / flags /
     arg-schema** — a Rust type change across ~147 definition sites.
     MCP currently works around the missing schema by stuffing rendered
     JSON into the description string.
  3. **Predicate evaluation.** `Command.predicate` is read at
     `src/help.rs:76` and one test, and **evaluated nowhere**. Starting
     to evaluate it makes commands stop being invocable, so it needs its
     own decision about what "unavailable" means at each call site —
     M-x, dispatch, menu. `discovery_acceptance`'s `d9` pins today's
     behaviour with a *raising* predicate, so that stage must change the
     pin knowingly.
  4. **Help-layer unification.** `src/help.rs` is still orphaned. Stage 1
     funnels every command through `pmacs.editor._show_help` and renders
     via named per-subject functions, so the work is enumerated:
     replace the four subjects `src/help.rs` covers (key, mode, hook,
     buffer) and **write three new Rust renderers** for settings, lists
     and apropos.
  5. **The help prefix.** Deliberately untouched by Stage 1 — the
     decision is one for the whole family, and `C-h` is **not** free
     (non-kitty terminals cannot disambiguate Ctrl+Backspace from
     Ctrl+H; both produce byte 0x08). `F1` / `C-c ?` / a rebind are the
     candidates.
- **Two Stage-1 facts a Stage-2 author needs.** Completion is
  **assistance, not validation** — `resolve_accepted_value` returns the
  literal typed text when no candidate is selected, so closed-set
  acceptance is unbuilt Rust work. And **`invoke_interactive` is not the
  M-x path**; the forwarders learned that the hard way in CI, since
  `pmacs.command.invoke` is a real caller of the old names.

## Generated-buffer immutability lane (Arc: workbench primitives) — STAGE 1 MERGED; STAGE 2 IS NEXT

**Framing #188 (revision 7) and Stage 1 #191 are both on `main` @
`4cd4a7b`.** Their durable facts are in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1 —
including the contract-ownership rule (the framing owns the acceptance
criteria; an implementation adopts them and may not restate or narrow
them) and why `dired`/`listview` were the correct first two families.

- **Stage 2 is not started and has no branch.** It owns everything with
  new Rust in it: `Buffer::apply_generated_edit` + `GeneratedOutcome` +
  the `{ generated = true }` option and its `run_buffer_edit` arm;
  `set_generated_contents` reimplemented over it; Q#GB10's path-backed
  refusal and `mark_clean`; Q#GB15's `identity_protected`; Q#GB13/GB18
  for `compile.lua` and the search panel; Q#GB5's `ensure_slot` lock;
  the remaining 13 write sites; and the three `compile_mode_acceptance`
  intruder tests converted per Q#GB12.
- **It collides with dired Stage 2b**, which changes `paint`'s callers.
  Whichever starts second integrates first.


## Reap-ledger silent failures — MERGED (#202); kept for its parked follow-ons

- **Branch `reap-ledger-silent-failures`**, worktree
  `../pmacs-reap-ledger`, based on `githubsucks/main` @ `22df6ab`.
  `docs/reap-ledger-silent-failures-framing.md`, **revision 4**;
  approved at revision 3 after two review rounds (round 1: three
  blocking, two major; round 2: two blocking, two major; all accepted).
  Revision 4 records implementation findings, not a new design round.
- **All four bets resolved.** Bet 1 (every site takes a directed
  outcome) and Bet 2 (every consequence is reachable) hold. **Bet 3
  resolves the shutdown coupling as real and measured** — under 500ms
  with a failed force-kill plus an errored probe, versus the full 2s
  bound with only the force-kill failing. **Bet 4 is falsified: no
  reporting channel exists**, so reporting becomes its own lane.
- **The in-drain pin's first fixture was vacuous, and the bite caught
  it.** `poll_one` TERMs the group on leader exit, so an untrapped
  descendant died before writing its late marker — absent on *both*
  paths. With the seam reverted the pin failed only the consumed-plan
  check, never the content assertion. Fixed with `trap '' TERM` behind
  the readiness gate.
- **Gates: 10/10 green** on the pushed tree, all five bootstrap-storage
  variables controlled — fmt, diff-check, clippy, `--lib` (1888),
  `--lib --features crdt` (2073), compile-mode (67), copy-mode in both
  feature configurations (18/19), M4 with the basedpyright skip (149),
  required GPU (221). The five new process pins ran **15/15** as a
  repetition set, since supervisor tests are load-sensitive.
- **Unparked from PR #200's §5.** #200 retired the premise that
  justified the ledger's leniency and deliberately changed no
  disposition; this lane owns what it refused.
- **Four sites, not the two #200 named.** In the persistent ledger: a
  probe error of any errno drops the entry and cancels escalation; a
  failed escalating `SIGKILL` is marked as succeeded, so **no later tick
  retries it**; and `shutdown()` discards its own force-kill result the
  same way — on the path that exists specifically to stop a leak at
  editor exit. Those last two are **distinct, not cumulative**:
  `shutdown()` force-kills every entry with no `!entry.killed` guard, so
  a failed escalation still gets one attempt at exit, while a failed
  force-kill leaks the group past exit with nothing left to try.
  **Plus the in-drain
  twin** `final_drain_runtime`, which collapses every errno to "dead"
  while no tick runs; a false "dead" there cancels the readers, so its
  failure mode is truncated output rather than a leaked process.
- **The blast radius is exactly what the ledger exists for:** a
  TERM-ignoring descendant that outlived its leader with output
  redirected. Neither leader state nor reader state can see it; only
  group liveness can. A silent drop leaks the one process nothing else
  is watching. **Journey step 9 (build/test), not step 8** — the ledger
  arms only for `spec.group`, which spawn rejects for PTY mode, so no
  terminal reaches it; compile mode is the only production caller.
- **`shutdown()`'s final loop terminates when the ledger empties**,
  which happens via the same silent drop — so the probe error that hides
  a leak can also end the cleanup loop early. That coupling is why the
  probe cannot be made strict on its own. **Its precondition is
  `any_running()` already false**, so the fixture must be a leader that
  exited leaving a survivor; any other shape tests the other arm of the
  disjunction.
- **None of the three has been observed.** #200 saw an explicit
  `SIGTERM` fail in `signal()`, not a ledger call. The premise is
  falsified and the path exposed; the occurrence is not evidence these
  fire.
- **They are also untestable today**: `tick_reap_ledger` and
  `shutdown()` call `nix` directly and consult no injection seam, unlike
  `signal()`'s `forced_kill_errno`. All five existing ledger tests
  exercise the success path only. The seam must be **site-directed and
  multi-outcome**: `shutdown()` calls `self.signal()` before its ledger
  force-kill, so a single global slot would be consumed by the wrong
  call, and the coupling test needs two pending outcomes at once. The
  in-drain probe repeats every 1 ms but only cancels readers after 50 ms
  of false "dead", so it needs a directed full-drain override rather
  than a one-shot error. Test state is per-supervisor and shared into
  the drain context, never global; teardown proves its intended site was
  reached. The in-drain SIGKILL's local flag has no independently
  observable outer-path consequence, so it is named but not given a
  dead injection seam. The first PR is the seam **plus** the tests that
  exercise it — a seam without tests does not show it reaches the
  intended calls.
- **Diagnosis first, no disposition change proposed.** Stage A of the
  signal lane had three tolerance rules rejected across three revisions
  for the same shape of error on the same data structure.
- Recovery from a clean checkout:

  ```sh
  git fetch githubsucks
  git worktree add ../pmacs-reap-ledger \
    -b reap-ledger-silent-failures \
    githubsucks/reap-ledger-silent-failures
  ```

## Folding lane (Arc 6) — Stages 1 and 2 MERGED; Stage 3 (GPU) is next

Both shipped stages are on `main`; nothing in this arc is in flight. Stage 3
has **no branch and no framing yet**.

- Stage 1 (headless fold engine) merged as **#142**, Stage 2 (grid/daemon
  collapse) as **#149** — both under "Closed since the last snapshot".
- Retained, carrying nothing unmerged: branches `folding` / `folding-tui`
  and worktrees `../pmacs-folding` / `../pmacs-folding-tui`. The framings
  `docs/folding-framing.md` (rev 5) and `docs/folding-stage2-framing.md`
  (rev 4) are the approved artifacts Stage 3 re-scouts against.
- **Stage 3 (GPU) obligations, already named by the framings** — the
  starting point for its own framing doc: GPU collapse at TUI parity;
  caret/hit-test fold-awareness; the `BufferSnapshot` **fold-mirror clear**
  (parent R2-4 — without it, empty-after-revert diff suppression leaves
  stale folds on the GPU, the same trap class as #120); CRDT-origin and
  GPU-optimistic interactive unfold (parent R2-3); and flipping
  `FrontendView.fold_projection` to `true` for semantic frontends, which
  Stage 2 deliberately left `false` (Q#FD21).

## Parked lane: kill-ring browser + persistence

- Portable branch: `githubsucks/kill-ring-browser`
- Parked framing head: `503c489`
- State: framing only, revision 2; no implementation and no PR.
- Status: explicitly parked by the user on 2026-07-20.
- Its original scout was based on `0efb5cd`. The preserved framing marks
  this ground truth stale and requires a complete re-scout against the
  then-current `githubsucks/main` before implementation.
- Compile-mode has merged since the original scout, so old
  “compile-mode in flight” keybinding/touch-set assumptions are not
  authoritative.

Recovery worktree, only when the user un-parks it:

```sh
git worktree add --track \
  -b kill-ring-browser \
  ../pmacs-kill-ring-browser \
  githubsucks/kill-ring-browser
```

## Closed since the last snapshot

- **Process-signal diagnostic completeness — MERGED as #200**
  (`main` @ `a2a92bb`), atop Stage A #176. `docs/process-signal-diagnostic-completeness-framing.md`
  revision 6; framing approved at revision 4 after three rounds, then
  five review rounds on the implementation. Durable facts are in
  `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1. **Evidence collection only** — no
  tolerance rule, no retargeting, no disposition change.
  - **Bet 1 was falsified by CI and the framing's own fallback shipped.**
    `bash -m` diverges the terminal's foreground group on Linux and
    never on macOS. The divergent case is pinned by injection
    everywhere; a Linux-only corroboration drives a real shell and is
    the **only** test exercising `pty_foreground_group` end-to-end, so
    **on macOS that lookup has no end-to-end coverage**.
  - **Group identity remains unprovable**, and the pre-kill sample does
    not change that: moving `getpgid` before the `kill` removed a
    post-hoc reading, it did not make the reading contemporaneous.
  - **Still parked, each needing its own lane:** the reap ledger's
    silent cancellation (an EPERM probe drops the entry; a failed
    `SIGKILL` is marked killed) — **being scoped next**; retargeting to
    the measured pgid; any EPERM/ESRCH tolerance rule; Q#PS6; and
    `signal_target`'s read-then-kill of `tcgetpgrp` on the PTY path.

- **Six lanes removed by the 2026-07-30 absorption pass**, all merged,
  all with their durable facts in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1:
  **#190** resource-op delete-guard implementation; **#196** dired
  Stage 2a (rename/delete reconciliation — Stage 2b remains, unstarted
  and without a lane); **#188** generated-buffer immutability framing
  (revision 7, the governing contract); **#194** silent-skip arming;
  **#195** CI timeouts and concurrency; **#197** the process teardown
  stdin deadlock.
  - **#194 and #195 kept their lessons in §3 and §5 rather than §1**,
    which is why a PR-number search of the handoff finds them only once
    each. That is sufficient under rule 3 — durable knowledge has a
    home, not a required section.
  - **A census by PR number is a proxy, not a measurement.** Counting
    `#NNN` in the handoff said five of these lanes had no record at all;
    counting by *content* found most already documented, with the real
    gap being the implementation PRs specifically (#190, #191, #196)
    while their framings were recorded. The absorption written from the
    first count would have duplicated existing entries.

- **Terminal configuration + copy mode arc — BOTH STAGES MERGED, lane
  removed.** Stage 1 **#173** (`main` @ `cf54270`, one review round) and
  Stage 2 **#178** (`main` @ `fe8b8ba`, **four review rounds**, twelve
  checks green on head `1b44c69` — verified by `head_sha`, not by the
  check summary), both 2026-07-26, both with no protocol change.
  Approved framing: `docs/terminal-config-and-copy-mode-framing.md` rev
  4, committed as the first commit of Stage 1's branch; its Q#TC6a
  carries a superseded-in-part box rather than a silent rewrite. Durable
  facts moved to `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1 (the arc bullet) and §4 (the
  `set_generated_contents` invariant) per rule 3 below, and to
  `COHERENCE.md` §14. **Stage 2 ships eight of nine criteria and the
  missing one is named** — criterion 17 needs a real GPU frontend, so it
  waits on the `a37` footing; the handoff records what it must assert.
  Branches `githubsucks/terminal-config` and
  `githubsucks/terminal-copy-mode` with worktrees
  `../pmacs-terminal-config` and `../pmacs-terminal-copy-mode` are
  retained. The gate-run flake found while gating #178 moved to the CI
  `crdt`-coverage lane above, which owns its discrimination.
- **Dired Stage 1 (the directory view) — MERGED as #165** (`main` @
  `c8ec8f3`, 2026-07-25, after one review round). pmacs has a directory
  surface: `C-x d` / `C-x C-j`, one read-only buffer per directory named
  `*dired:<canonical path>*`, a `dired` major mode carrying
  `RET`/`f`, `^`, `n`/`p`, `g`, `q`, `s`. No wire change (v20). The Rust is
  two things — a per-entry-tolerant `read_dir` (Q#DR6), which had to be
  Rust because `read_dir_blocking` fails a whole listing on any of five
  per-entry conditions and a tolerant wrapper cannot be written in Lua at
  all, and `normalize_buffer_path` going `pub` as
  `pmacs.path.canonicalize` (Q#DR2's preferred end state, so no Lua mirror
  exists and Stage 2 owes no mirror removal). The frozen m8_1/m8_2/m8_3
  counts are unchanged, which is the additivity gate. 15 claims
  bite-verified; one came back VACUOUS (acceptance 3c cannot pin descent
  routing — dired holds focus in its own panel, so dedication is the only
  discriminator) and is documented at the assertion rather than
  relabelled. Its branch (`dired-stage1`) and worktree
  (`../pmacs-dired-stage1`) are done; the abandoned `dired` branch
  (`ffdd642`, `../pmacs-dired-arc`) was superseded by a fresh cut and
  carries nothing unmerged. **Stage 2 (marks and operations) and Stage 3
  (wdired) each still need their own framing**, and the frozen fixture
  shrinks after Stage 3. Durable substrate facts and both new ops lessons
  live in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §§1/5; the implementation notes are
  `docs/dired-framing.md` §0, S1-1…S1-12. Two named forward items for
  Stage 2: `apply_resource_op`'s rename rebind is exact-PathBuf-equality,
  first-match-only, looked up with the raw path while stored paths are
  normalized — so a directory rename strands every buffer under it, and
  `pmacs.fs.rename` has zero production callers, so it can be fixed at
  the primitive; and Q#DR5's seam is the main-thread drain
  `AsyncRuntime::tick`, not `_take_result`, where rename settles as an
  undifferentiated `ReplyKind::FsUnit` and so must be keyed on
  `JobKind::FsRename`.

- **GPU terminal input (the double terminal-layout sync) — MERGED as #166**
  (`main` @ `b889873`, 2026-07-25, one review round, all twelve checks green
  after a macOS PTY-timing rerun). The dispatcher applied **both**
  terminal-layout syncs to **every** attached frontend; a semantic session
  satisfies both conditions, so its PTY was resized twice per tick forever and
  the child took a `SIGWINCH` storm that made a GPU terminal untypable while
  output still flowed. `sync_terminal_layout` is now split into a
  frontend-kind-neutral half (panel reconcile + controller liveness) and a
  grid-only geometry half, with the loop body extracted to
  `sync_terminal_layouts_for_tick` so the exclusivity is structural. No
  protocol change (v20). Durable lessons are in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §5;
  the framing (`docs/gpu-terminal-input-framing.md` rev 2) carries three
  falsified hypotheses, the two-pre-image bite matrix, and two named
  out-of-scope items (Q#GT5 interactive-shell echo on a raw PTY, which
  reproduces in-process and so is not the GUI/TUI asymmetry; and a geometry
  change appearing to clear the visible screen, which reproduces pre-fix).
  Branch `gpu-terminal-input` and worktree `../pmacs-gui-term-input` retained.
  **Its landed-doc pair MERGED as #168** (`main` @ `1b6a084`,
  2026-07-26): #166 recorded as landed, the CI `crdt`-coverage gap
  measured (**264 tests dark workspace-wide**, 177 in the library — a
  reading taken at `1b6a084` and kept here only as history. **The CI
  `crdt`-coverage lane above is the authority for the live figure**;
  do not quote this one forward), the
  vterm audit corrected — "only 3 of 9 acceptances drive a real daemon"
  was optimistic; without the frontend binary the honest number is
  **2** — and the a37 findings folded into the coverage lane.
- **Inline-math slice — MERGED as #158** (`main` @ `5aa9044`,
  2026-07-25). Detect → parse → layout → draw for `$…$`, entirely inside
  `pmacs-gpu`, no protocol change. Verified by the user's manual pass on
  a real paper after the landing. What is worth carrying forward:
  - **The v0 subset is 34 Greek symbols, sub/superscript, and `\frac`.**
    An unsupported command fails the **whole span** back to source, so on
    a real document most inline spans still show LaTeX. Widening the
    symbol map is the highest-value next increment — ahead of display
    math, which is also deferred.
  - **A stale frontend binary is invisible from the source tree.** The
    slice lives only in `pmacs-gpu`, so after it merged the feature was
    absent until `cargo build --release -p pmacs-gpu` and a client
    restart; the daemon needs neither. Diagnose with `strings` on the
    binary (`Latin Modern Math`, `MathBox`) rather than by re-reading the
    checkout, which was already current.
  - **Main was integrated three times in one day** (`8c86d34`,
    `46a1b8f`, `b889873`), merged not rebased to preserve review anchors.
    Two conflicts, both this ledger and nothing else. **The dangerous
    case was the one that did NOT conflict**: #166 auto-merged into
    `pmacs-gpu/src/main.rs`, the file this lane rewrites, because the two
    edits sat in different regions of it. Decide whether to integrate
    from the shared-**file** set, never from whether git complained.
  - **Integration was proved by test-count reconciliation**, not by a
    green run: predict what the other side adds, then check the deltas.
    GPU 199→202 matched `e547a90`'s 3; later lib 1,826→1,829 and CRDT
    2,003→2,006 matched #166's 3, with GPU unchanged because #166 adds
    none. Suites 91→92 was #161's new binary.
  - **Why the branch had no CI for a day**: a conflicting PR builds no
    merge ref, so no `pull_request` run is created. The ledger previously
    recorded this cause as unidentified; it is not. Check `mergeable` and
    confirm a run exists for the current head SHA.
  - **`m4_5_basedpyright` has no timeout and hangs forever**, parking a
    `--workspace` sweep (observed 2h26m at 38 of 92 suites). It is
    **intermittent**, so an earlier clean sweep proves nothing. Sweep with
    `cargo test --workspace --no-fail-fast -- --skip basedpyright` and
    judge progress by whether the suite count advances.
  - Named v0 approximations: the peer-caret half of acceptance 14 is
    pinned at the mapping level, not pixels; a soft-wrapped spacer draws
    its box whole at the first run's origin; the fit budget reads the
    bundled code face even under a custom `set_font` family.
- **Bottom panel Stage 1 — MERGED as #155** (`main` @ `e745068`,
  2026-07-24, after two review rounds). Window placement, window
  parameters, TUI side windows, the divider, and the adopter `display`
  opt-in, with no protocol change. Both rounds found the same class of
  defect and are worth keeping:
  - **Round 1**: the Q#BP6 side-window split guard had *no production
    caller* — `C-x 2` still reached plain `split_active` — and survived
    because the acceptance test called the core method directly.
  - **Round 2**: Q#BP7's terminal growth re-arm had *never been
    implemented*, and the assertion meant to pin it (`at_bottom`) is a
    geometric readout that a still-anchored view satisfies; the anchor
    assertions beside it compared `""` with `""` because the PTY fixture
    emitted LF-only output.
  - **Post-round-2 self-review**, caught by CI going red on all four Test
    jobs: resolving `pmacs.window.buffer()`'s no-argument arm through the
    acting frontend made a total function partial, and six runtime modules
    silently dropped operations (`kill_ring_acceptance` 30/30 → 25/5).
    Fixed in `9110f9f` before merge.
  - Gating fact found on the way: an isolated `XDG_CONFIG_HOME` prevents
    the real user `init.lua` from installing a local package and leaking
    a status message into painted-frame comparisons. **That isolates the
    observed config symptom only, not the gate:** the ambient-root lane
    above establishes that data/state/cache must be controlled too.
    There is also a latent pre-existing `main` bug in the buffer CRDT
    undo path, unrelated to this arc.
  - `compile_mode_acceptance` is load-sensitive under default
    parallelism (~1 run in 3, a different test each time); verified
    pre-existing by swapping in `main`'s `compile.lua`. It is 67/67 at
    `--test-threads=1`.

- **GPU initial target — MERGED as #148** (`main` @ `0dd16a5`, 2026-07-24,
  after two review rounds). `pmacs --gpu [--socket …] FILE` opens a target
  before the GPU window appears. Protocol bumped 19 → 20: a semantic-session
  `SessionBootstrapRequest` after `AttachRequest`, plus an appended
  `InstanceMessage::InitialTargetResult` pre-window readiness barrier; v6–v19
  wire encodings are unchanged. Root owns launcher tilde/cwd resolution and
  exact raw-byte path transport; the daemon resolves/dedups/loads the target
  and runs load/switch hooks inside one dispatcher transaction, then
  publishes CRDT-upgraded targets to existing grid replicas (gated on
  `upgraded_to_crdt`, independent of the load/create outcome, so a dedup onto
  a hidden not-yet-backed buffer still reaches pre-attached replicas — round
  2 finding). Semantic replicas receive a publication only when displaying
  that buffer, so a second target launch cannot switch an existing GPU
  window. Round 2 also closed a failure-containment gap: every dispatcher-side
  bootstrap failure now shuts down the socket (a dropped write-half clone
  does not close a shared FD), and the dispatcher drops any event from a
  session that was never installed, rather than reaching absent render/size
  state. Integrated cleanly with Folding Stage 2 (#149): fold projection at
  attach is selected from the same negotiated `semantic_render` bit the
  target bootstrap uses. Its lane, worktree (`../pmacs-gpu-initial-target`),
  and branch (`gpu-initial-target`) are done; the `-framing` branch is kept.
  Durable substrate facts and both review-round lessons live in
  `docs/agent-handoff.md` §§1/5 and `docs/gpu-initial-target-framing.md`
  rev 3.

- **Folding Stage 2 (grid/daemon collapse) — MERGED as #149** (`main` @
  `6ed4fe9`, 2026-07-24, after **five** review rounds). The grid TUI now
  renders collapses. Spine (Q#FD12): `src/fold_view.rs`'s `VisibleLineMap`,
  derived from the fold store plus a window's line offsets and **never
  stored**, threaded as `Option<&'a VisibleLineMap>` on a lifetime-bearing
  `Viewport<'a>` that stays `Copy`. No wire schema or protocol change; the
  GPU path is Stage 3. 48 acceptance tests on the real `paint_frame` grid,
  every behavioral claim bite-verified. Durable design points, each a trap
  Stage 3 inherits:
  - the map's unit is a **merged hidden component** (overlapping *or
    adjacent* intervals unioned, keeping the earliest visible head), not a
    fold — folds may cross, and a later fold's own head can be hidden;
  - instances are **per rendered window** and **per command/event
    operation**, never per frame; a command's map follows the operation's
    **target** window, since a wheel event names a pane without activating it;
  - fold projection is **per-frontend** (`FrontendView.fold_projection`) —
    shared `EditorCore` motion would otherwise make a simultaneous unfolded
    GPU session's cursor skip lines it still displays;
  - a hidden cursor normalizes by **position**, not row, and `set_view_top`
    clamps in the setter rather than being repaired at render time;
  - the interactive-Lua unfold keys on the **post-intercept** edit site — a
    managed buffer intercept may legally relocate the op.

  Process notes worth keeping: `main` moved under the arc, and the merge was
  textually clean but **not semantically clean** (#146 added `Viewport`
  literals the new `folds` field invalidated) — a clean `git merge-tree` does
  not mean the merged tree compiles. CI was red at review on the macOS/luajit
  `outline_5_level_100_entry_renders_within_100ms` budget flake and went
  green on rerun.

- **Documentation ledger refresh — MERGED as #147** (`main` @ `0a479ae`,
  2026-07-24). The #142 housekeeping, expanded after review found the ledger
  stale through four merges rather than one. Its own macOS/luajit red was the
  vterm `VTERM_ALT_READY` PTY timeout; green on rerun.

- **Web grammars HTML + CSS — MERGED as #146** (`main` @ `47581f4`,
  2026-07-23). `.html/.htm/.xhtml` and `.css` highlight off the official
  `tree-sitter-html` 0.23 / `tree-sitter-css` 0.25 crate query constants (no
  in-repo overlay), and HTML's `INJECTIONS_QUERY` lights up `<script>` → js
  and `<style>` → css. Durable lesson recorded in
  `docs/web-grammars-html-css-framing.md`: the `highlight.rs` capture table
  is **global**, so adding a capture name retro-paints every other language —
  check the reverse direction and pin it.

- **LaTeX Stage 1 — MERGED as #144**, with its parent inline-math framing
  committed as **#145** (`main` @ `f09b0a1`, 2026-07-23).
  `.tex/.latex/.sty/.cls` highlight via `codebook-tree-sitter-latex` 0.6 plus
  the first in-repo query overlay (`builtin/queries/latex/highlights.scm`,
  `include_str!`) — the reusable pattern for grammars whose crate ships no
  usable queries. The crates.io `tree-sitter-latex` is provably broken (no
  `scanner.c`). The math parser and Tiers 3–4 are deferred to the inline-math
  arc.

- **Folding Stage 1 (headless fold engine) — MERGED as #142** (`main` @
  `c49a8c7`, 2026-07-23, after three review rounds; round 3 clean). The
  instance-side fold store + translating/dropping `View`, the structural
  source (derived head line, closer-aware tail), the Lua data API +
  interactive `C-c @` commands, the command-path pre-edit unfold, and
  authoritative-empty `FoldState` production landed with no protocol bump.
  The `folding` branch and worktree (`../pmacs-folding`) are retained but
  carry nothing unmerged; the `folding-framing.md` framing is preserved.
  CI red at merge was an unrelated environmental perf flake
  (`outline_5_level_100_entry_renders_within_100ms`, macOS/luajit only),
  green on rerun. Stage 2 has since merged as **#149** (above); durable
  substrate seams live in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1.

- **Vterm Stage 3 (protocol v19 + GPU terminal) — MERGED as #135** (`main`
  @ `cac4961`, 2026-07-22, after two review rounds). Arc 5's terminal stage
  is complete (compile mode #113, Stage 1 #126, Stage 2 #130, Stage 3 #135).
  Its lane, worktree (`../pmacs-vterm-gpu`), and branch are done; durable
  substrate facts live in `docs/agent-handoff.md` and `docs/vterm-framing.md`.

- **Branches deleted 2026-07-22 (authorized):** `vterm-stage3-framing`
  (Revision 8 framing; its content is carried on `vterm-gpu`, verified as a
  superset before deletion — the branch was NOT an ancestor of `vterm-gpu`
  because the framing was copied rather than merged, so it needed a forced
  local delete) and `tab-width-parity` (a clean ancestor of `main` via
  #137). Both removed as worktree + local ref + `githubsucks` ref; the
  `origin` tracking refs were pruned. The `-framing` branches for each are
  deliberately kept.

- **Tab-width rendering parity — MERGED as #137** (`main` @ `2625ec7`,
  2026-07-22). One fixed 8-column `TAB_STOP_COLUMNS` in `pmacs-protocol`
  now drives core/TUI columns, GPU code projection, and minimap width;
  source bytes and protocol ranges are unchanged. Its lane, worktree, and
  `tab-width-parity` branch (local + `githubsucks`) are deleted; the
  `tab-width-parity-framing` branch is kept. This closes the long-standing
  "tab width is a rendering-parity
  bug, NOT a config gap" deferral recorded in `docs/agent-handoff.md` §5.
- **Locals-query processing — MERGED as #134** (with handoff #136), and
  **modeline detection handoff #133**. Both landed between this lane's
  base and its canonical-main integration.

- **Config registry — MERGED as #127** (`main` @ `2e37c04`). Its lane
  (`config-registry`, worktree `../pmacs-config-registry`) is done; the
  branch is kept but carries nothing unmerged. Durable substrate facts
  moved to `docs/agent-handoff.md` §1 per rule 3 below.
- Both this and Vterm Stage 1 ran as **concurrent lanes in sibling
  worktrees off `main`**, with the shared files (`src/editor.rs`,
  `src/lua_bindings/mod.rs`, `src/lib.rs`) assigned to one lane each in
  advance. The rebase of the second lane onto the first had **zero
  conflicts** — worth repeating for future parallel work, along with its
  precondition: agree the file split before either lane starts, and keep
  each lane's footprint in the other's files to a single line.

## Update protocol

Whenever a listed lane changes materially:

1. update its public branch and head/state here;
2. record new verification and remove superseded caveats;
3. keep durable architecture in `docs/agent-handoff.md`, not here;
4. remove the lane after merge or abandonment;
5. verify every recovery command from a clean worktree before calling
   the transfer complete.