Two iterations ago I corrected MISSION.md's stale "🔴 Emulator-side questions are
blocked" banner and wrote, in its place, that the two items it named were
"unblocked, not answered ... both need a running menu, both now have one, and
neither has been attempted". I wrote that without reading either page.
Reading them:
8AX vs ptbase was RESOLVED on 2026-08-29. Its status line says so -- both its
questions closed, page kept for the evidence.
The gamma control was attempted and half-answered, and its page records that
the run "needed the emulator only to BOOT, not to reach a menu ... parked behind
the title-screen blocker for no reason".
So neither item ever needed a running menu, and the section's premise was wrong
independently of whether the menu was reachable.
All three clauses false. The failure is specific and worth naming precisely:
replacing a stale status with an UNCHECKED one, in the same edit that criticised
the document for carrying unchecked status. sylpheed-port wrote a dead instruction
inside the commit fixing dead instructions; this is that shape, one document over.
METHOD: a correction is a new claim and needs the same check as the claim it
replaces. The urge to correct supplies confidence the correction has not earned --
check a replacement as hard as the thing it replaces, and hardest when the edit is
about checking.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v
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