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Sylpheed port agent d9b1137c93 port: three live-but-undocumented flags, and a dead instruction I wrote while fixing them
Their newest class -- the instruction is dead AND the working one is undocumented
-- inverts last iteration's sweep. I checked documented->parsed; the reverse is
parsed->documented, and it enumerates, so it completes rather than samples.

Eighteen flags parsed, fifteen documented, three live and undocumented:
--film-interval and --skip-at (used by verify-dwell, in no usage example) and
--no-hold, which plays a screen past its rest instead of clamping each element at
its hold, documented in DECISIONS.md and absent from the header a reader consults.
A capability that exists only in an 11000-line record does not exist to anyone
reading the interface.

Then I documented it wrong in the same command. I wrote the example as
--screen=title --no-hold --time=6 and tested it: the renders are byte-identical
because --time sets frozen and pose_at tests 'holding and not frozen', so an
explicit instant makes --no-hold inert. Without --time the pair differs by max
253. I wrote a dead instruction inside the commit fixing dead instructions, and it
only failed to ship because I ran the example rather than trusting that a parsed
flag works -- the gap I had named one iteration earlier.

Strongest evidence yet for their ranking: a wrong description costs a reader's
belief, a wrong instruction hands them a null result that looks like a finding.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N7FiFFFwbvG2uxdcEh8HyF
2026-08-30 18:10:22 +00:00
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