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Ask #1 measured: held at the title with no input the plate oscillates ~23 cycles per window with no decay and NEVER goes off -- floor 159 thresholded pixels, pulse bottoming at 714. A glow alone cannot do that (0 -> 80 -> 0); a steady base plus a pulsing glow can, and 714/1520 are base-only and base-plus-glow. The port already had the base right: ptbtn00's fade to 0 at t=244 is its EXIT ramp, and while held the base sits at alpha 255. The glow was missing. The defect was in the renderer, not the entry I deleted on 2026-08-29. _draw treated a looping record like a focused one -- drawn INSTEAD of the base, which is right for a focused button and wrong here. I deleted the right thing for the wrong reason. A looping record now draws OVER the base and the entry is restored. Rendered: 95.68 base only, 115.52 at peak, period 1.980 s against a declared 120 units = 2.000 s, ratio 0.990. Visible on the boot path; not under --screen --overlay, where a static overlay poses at its arrival by design. Authored in UNITS on their instruction, with their three limits verbatim: one boot, does not distinguish boot from attract title, and 714/1520 is not an alpha ratio so no duty cycle is inferred. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01N7FiFFFwbvG2uxdcEh8HyF
Authored decisions
Everything here is a decision we made, not something the disc said. It is
hand-written, committed, and survives a re-export — unlike export/, which is
regenerated wholesale and must never be hand-edited.
Every entry carries a why. When the RE agent decodes the real answer, delete
the entry and let the exporter emit it; that deletion is the measure of
progress.
See docs/FORMAT.md for the schemas and docs/BLOCKED.md for which HANDOFF
question each placeholder is standing in for.