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[AUTOMATED] fix(captain): stop truncating the handoff note --status exists to deliver - #445

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#438 put the round's notes into --status because nothing was delivering them to the
next tick. It capped each at 700 chars, and I justified that in the commit as avoiding
"a payload nobody finishes reading". That was a guess, and the round-4 captain measured
it for me. Its own note reads:

NEXT-TICK ORDERS (--status truncates at ~700 chars -- read the note above WHOLE
from rounds/4/round.json before deciding anything)

A cap that forces the reader to open the file anyway saves nothing and removes the
point of the fix. The captain adapted by telling the next tick where to go, which
works, but that is a workaround for my choice, not a resolution of it.

The NEWEST note is now delivered whole -- it is the actual handoff, the one written
specifically for the tick that reads it. Round 4's is 4,283 chars. Older notes are
context rather than instructions and stay capped, at 2000 rather than 700, and say
where the full text lives.

The general shape is worth keeping in mind for this codebase: a truncation, a default,
or a summary that drops the thing the reader needed is the same failure as not
delivering it at all, and it is harder to notice because something did arrive.

tools/repipe/smoke.sh 138/138.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) noreply@anthropic.com

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…xists to deliver

#438 put the round's notes into `--status` because nothing was delivering them to the
next tick. It capped each at 700 chars, and I justified that in the commit as avoiding
"a payload nobody finishes reading". That was a guess, and the round-4 captain measured
it for me. Its own note reads:

  NEXT-TICK ORDERS (--status truncates at ~700 chars -- read the note above WHOLE
  from rounds/4/round.json before deciding anything)

A cap that forces the reader to open the file anyway saves nothing and removes the
point of the fix. The captain adapted by telling the next tick where to go, which
works, but that is a workaround for my choice, not a resolution of it.

The NEWEST note is now delivered whole -- it is the actual handoff, the one written
specifically for the tick that reads it. Round 4's is 4,283 chars. Older notes are
context rather than instructions and stay capped, at 2000 rather than 700, and say
where the full text lives.

The general shape is worth keeping in mind for this codebase: a truncation, a default,
or a summary that drops the thing the reader needed is the same failure as not
delivering it at all, and it is harder to notice because something did arrive.

tools/repipe/smoke.sh 138/138.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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