* docs: retire the long-lines lane, the QoL arc having closed at #223
Rule 4, applied in its stated order: durable facts to
`docs/agent-handoff.md` FIRST, then the lane goes. The ledger is for
volatile branch/checkpoint/recovery state, and none of that survives a
merge worth keeping.
What moved to the handoff, because it is architecture rather than
bookkeeping:
- The GPU is not a grid consumer, so it could not inherit
`view_left`; `code_scroll_left` is its own, in pixels, local
viewport state with no wire and no version bump.
- The work was ONE transform and ONE clip, written before any
consumer moved. glyphon honors `TextBounds` so the text layers
clip themselves; the manual quad and squiggle renderers do not,
and nothing needed them to before this stage because no
code-relative x could be negative.
- Washes crop rather than drop — the same boundary Stage 4's review
caught the TUI painter getting wrong.
- Both lifecycle resets are observed PRE-MOTION, because a later
cursor motion repairs the offset anyway.
- `pmacs_protocol:📜:follow_left`: the follow rule beside
`classify`, called by both frontends. The approved exception to
Stage 5's scope, recorded in the framing doc §1.2a.
- The two witnesses that exist because mutation testing found the
TESTS wrong rather than the code — the unwitnessed glyph layer, and
the completion predicate a far-off-left test could not catch.
"Test a boundary AT the boundary" is the transferable part.
The `## Long lines (QoL arc)` block is removed whole; nothing else in
the ledger referenced it.
NOT REMOVED, and not an oversight: the QoL Stage 1 (#219) and Stage 2
(#220) blocks. Rule 4 would now reach them too — the arc they belong to
is closed — but Stage 2 carries a live named follow-on, capability-aware
keymap resolution (Q#Z3 option A, deliberately deferred), plus the
"first eager state consumer" restore-seam finding. Those need re-homing
before their blocks can go, which is a judgment beyond retiring the lane
that was asked for. Flagged rather than done.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
* docs: complete the retirement — Stages 1 and 2, and the stale anchors
The previous commit removed the long-lines lane and stopped short. Two
things were still wrong.
STALE ANCHORS. The handoff was dated 2026-08-06 with `main` at
`db1bbe9` — five merges behind. Now 2026-08-08 at `9a26ac8`, with the
arc's five merges named in the ancestry chain, and the same in
active-work's canonical-base record and recovery floor (a tree at
`db1bbe9` no longer passes; it would lack the whole arc).
**The recovery path was re-exercised, not SHA-swapped.** That file
warns that advancing the base is exactly when the commands are most
likely to have rotted and that a swapped SHA reads identically to a
verified one — so: fresh clone into an empty directory, `githubsucks`
alias added, `git fetch --prune`, `9a26ac8` confirmed an ancestor of
`githubsucks/main`, and a worktree recovered with the three-argument
form. All four steps clean.
STAGE 1 AND STAGE 2 BLOCKS. Keeping them left false live planning
standing: "Stage 3 is long-line wrap/scroll, which is a design round:
no horizontal viewport exists at all" — written before #221–#223 built
one. A merged lane that still describes the future is worse than no
lane.
Re-homed first, per Rule 4's order:
- **FG-INV is a CONSUMER contract**, and it lives on the protocol
type because that is where consumer authors read it. It had been a
doc comment on a PRIVATE PRODUCER FIELD, which is why the one
consumer never honored it.
- **Seven tests covered that flag and all seven tested the
producer.** None asserted a consumer acts on it. "Add a test for
the flag" had already been done — §5's enforcement/documentation
drift in a second register.
- **`install_state_dirs` is the eager-state-consumer seam.**
Builtins and `init.lua` run before it, so `pmacs.state.read` at
module load returns nothing, always. `saveplace` and `recentf`
escape it only because both read lazily. Any future eager consumer
belongs at the same seam.
- **A GPU-only binding cannot be expressed**: `Scope` has no frontend
identity and `FrontendEvent` no command-invocation variant. #220
shipped commands without bindings for that reason, not preference.
- **Capability-aware keymap resolution** is now a named §6 backlog
item: CROSS-CUTTING, NOT STARTED, needs its own framing. It says so
explicitly, and says not to start it as a half-lane attached to
another stage's branch — which is how it would arrive by accident.
No implementation, no lane, no design.
What is deliberately NOT preserved: the recovery commands for
`full-grid-resync` and `gui-zoom`. Those branches are merged; a
recovery command for a branch nobody should check out is the kind of
stale instruction this ledger exists to avoid. The framing docs remain
on disk as the historical record.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
* docs: the live schema range is v6..=v22, and #224 gets its own lane
Two review findings against the retirement.
THE SCHEMA RANGE. The canonical-base paragraph still said `v6..=v21`.
The upper bound moved to **v22 at #221**, which added
`InstanceMessage::LineWrapFacts` — so that line had been wrong for two
merges, including the one this branch is retiring the lane for.
Verified against `pmacs-protocol/src/message.rs` rather than carried
forward: `SUPPORTED_PROTOCOL_VERSIONS` is `6..=22`, `PROTOCOL_VERSION`
is 22, and `ADVERTISED_PROTOCOL_VERSION` is **20** and did not move.
The paragraph now says so, and says the advertised constant must not be
edited to chase the range — it is a permanent baseline, and the session
version is settled one message later by the frontend's counter-offer.
It also now states which claims it governs: historical `v21` statements
elsewhere describe a stage as it landed and are correct there. Only this
current-state paragraph tracks the live range, so only this one goes
stale when the range moves.
A LANE FOR #224. This file requires a lane for **every open PR**, and
the PR that retires other lanes is not exempt. Added with the branch,
the ref-not-a-SHA recovery command, the docs-only scope, and the
verification — including that the recovery path was re-exercised rather
than SHA-swapped, and that the full gate suite is deliberately not
re-run for a change that cannot reach it.
The entry is honest about its own lateness: it was written AFTER the PR
existed, which is the standing correction from #171 and #215 being
missed again, and it took review asking. Back-dating the block to look
compliant would have destroyed the only evidence that the practice
still slips. It carries its own retirement instruction — next
absorption after #224 merges.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
* docs: scope the two provenance paragraphs that claimed to be current
Both said "this line is the head-of-`main` anchor". Neither was, and a
provenance note that claims currency is worse than a plainly historical
one — it disagrees with the real anchor at the top of the file while
looking authoritative.
The bottom-panel paragraph keeps its `v6..=v21` facts, which are correct
for the stage they describe. What changes is scope: "a current session"
becomes "a session at that anchor", and the closing clause now says
these statements describe the historical `6c9e765` anchor, with the
live range pointed at "Repository authority" in `docs/active-work.md`
(`v6..=v22` since #221; advertised baseline still v20). The
counter-offer mechanism is called out as still current independent of
which numbers it carries, since that part did not go stale.
The second was MY inconsistency, introduced earlier on this branch. I
rewrote that bullet's opening to "Beneath the QoL arc, at `db1bbe9`"
and left its closing claiming to be the head-of-`main` anchor, so the
bullet contradicted itself. It now names what it actually is — the
`db1bbe9` ancestry chain — and points at the top of the file.
Both cross-references name the file they point into. "Repository
authority" is a section of `docs/active-work.md`, not of this one, and
an unqualified "above" would resolve to nothing here.
Noted, not acted on: the bottom-panel arc has its own currency drift in
this file (§1 says Arc 7 COMPLETE at #213, two later paragraphs still
call Stage 3 the remaining step). Pre-existing, unrelated to the QoL
retirement, and not this PR's to fix.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_016bqGA6s9tTUFzYpbeW3tai
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