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Update notes for handoff to a fresh session - #136

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Documentation only — no code changes.

Adds notes/HANDOFF.md as the entry point for a fresh session, and reconciles the two existing notes now that #130 is merged.

Why this is not just an addition. A fresh session reading notes/ would have found handoff_130_pytest_config.md and re-run a plan that is already executed — and two of that plan's instructions were wrong. It now carries an EXECUTED banner naming both.

The session log also contradicted itself once the red-team section was appended, so three claims in its earlier text are corrected in place: the "224 tests in tests/real_world/" figure (it is 388 — 224 counts decorator lines), the claim that a bare pytest was harmless while no config applied (it aborted on master and ran zero tests), and a table implying the two candidate guard fixes were interchangeable (only one is safe).

Verified on master @ 760432c: tests/unit/ 79 passed, test_billable_safety 60 passed, flake8 91, #130 closed, #133/#135 open.

🤖 Generated with Claude Code

https://claude.ai/code/session_012gTBDPK16HUZ3kHQ2QyjuU

Adds notes/HANDOFF.md as the single entry point: current state, the
environment traps that cost time (no usable venv, pre_push_check's PATH
requirement, the flake8 gate that can never pass), the billable-test guard
invariant and why it must not be "simplified", prioritised next steps, and
the working agreements established in these sessions.

Also reconciles the two existing notes, which had gone stale or
self-contradictory now that the work is merged:

* handoff_130_pytest_config.md gets a banner marking it EXECUTED. A fresh
  session finding it in notes/ would otherwise re-run a completed plan --
  and two of its instructions were wrong. Its Step 1 recommendation
  (switch the #109 guard to config.invocation_params.args) is unsafe: it
  opens PYTEST_ADDOPTS and -o testpaths= bypasses to billable tests.

* session_130_pytest_config_execution.md gains the red-team section, which
  the merged version predated, and three corrections to its own earlier
  text: the "224 tests in tests/real_world/" figure was a count of
  decorator lines (it is 388); the claim that a bare `pytest` was
  "harmless while no config applied" was wrong (it aborted on master and
  ran zero tests); and the table suggesting the two fixes were
  interchangeable is now marked superseded, since only one of them is safe.

Verified on master @ 760432c: tests/unit/ 79 passed, test_billable_safety
60 passed, flake8 91, #130 closed, #133 and #135 open.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_012gTBDPK16HUZ3kHQ2QyjuU
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