diff --git a/docs/port/HANDOFF.md b/docs/port/HANDOFF.md
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@@ -128,6 +128,20 @@ is untested and is the reading that would matter for authoring a default.
 
 ## 🔴 2026-08-30 — do not hardcode the menu's initial focus; the sources disagree
 
+> ⚠️ **SUPERSEDED the same day — read this line before the section.** Both of its
+> claims have been overtaken and neither still holds:
+> * *"the sources disagree"* — **settled**. Initial focus on a fresh boot is
+>   **`NEW GAME`**, measured directly on two fresh boots, both the first menu entry.
+>   The reader that produced the conflicting `TUTORIAL` was two items out.
+>   → *"the item NAMES below were wrong, and initial focus is NEW GAME"*
+> * *"never once run: whether focus persists"* — **it has been run**. The main menu
+>   **persists**; `EXTRAS` **resets**. → *"EXTRAS resets, the main menu persists"*
+>
+> Kept, not deleted, because it is what you were told at the time and a reader
+> arriving by grep needs to know it was overtaken. Nothing below this line is
+> current guidance.
+
+
 **New, and it is a warning rather than an answer.** `menu-navigation-semantics.md`
 records initial focus as **`TUTORIAL`** (2/2 boots). But `boot_menu.sh`'s own
 closing line says **`NEW GAME`**, and `menu-state-in-memory.md` reaches `EXTRAS` in