I have been reading MISSION.md every iteration as instructed and never once
audited it, while auditing headings, instructions, env vars and fallbacks
everywhere else. It carried three false section headings, each superseded in
HANDOFF.md and nowhere else:
"🔴 Emulator-side questions are blocked -- the title is not reachable here"
False. Twelve emulator runs on 2026-08-30 reached the settled title, gated
on the plate pulse, and drove it into the menu, EXTRAS and out of the
archive. The two items the section named -- the gamma control and
separating 8AX from ptbase -- are UNBLOCKED, not answered, and neither has
been attempted. That distinction is kept.
"🟡 Needs one more run -- a Japanese-locale capture", describing "one capture we
cannot take". Taken twice, both committed, via jp_title_session.sh. And both
questions it blocked are closed, one of them confirmed against that very
capture. ⚠️ I noticed this section was stale several iterations ago, said so
in a message, and did not fix it.
"🔵 Needs a human decision -- rotation". Decided and implemented the day it was
raised: HANDOFF records "OPTION A IS DONE. The reference renderer rotates",
and ui_layout.rs carries the rotated blit with a control test pinning 0° and
360° byte-identical to the unrotated path. The field is now confirmed from
the ORACLE too -- +30/-45 predicting AABB heights of 1135.3 and 1301.1
against 1134 and 1303 measured, both under 0.2 %.
All three corrected leading with the correction, originals quoted and demoted
beneath. Only FACTS were changed; the questions and their gates are untouched,
since keeping the document true is maintenance and changing what it asks would be
overstepping.
METHOD: audit the document that defines the objective, because it is the one
nobody audits. A document read only for instructions is never read for review, and
the more central it is the more often it is consulted and the less often checked.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Wuu56cE8vJGTBtn1ppsk8v
e0d2f96501