Foil Branch Log: the eight foil/* branches, written down before they go All 8 foil/* branches are slated for deletion. Their files are redundant -- every branch carries a near-identical tree -- but their commit messages are not: 465 commits carrying 76,291 words of measurements, refusals and reasoning, and roughly none of it restated in DECISIONS.md. That writing exists nowhere else. The page keeps all of it. 262 commits with bodies over ~100 words are reproduced in full, grouped by branch and chronological within branch; the other 203 are in a compact SHA/date/subject table. Nothing filtered. The banner records the pre-deletion tip SHA of each of the 8 branches and of main, and says plainly that they resolve against the offline mirror deckpal-mirror-2026-08-31.git rather than against origin, whose history is expected to be rewritten. No tags were created -- a tag would keep the objects reachable, which is exactly what the deletion is meant to end, so the mirror is the archive. One measured finding the plan did not carry: the eight branches are disjoint. Per-branch `--not main` counts sum to exactly 465, the union count, so each is an independently rebased line and work carried across branches appears once per branch under a different SHA. Home.md gains a row under "Prior art and project history"; Contribution-Record gains one ledger line with the archive verification evidence. On-Behalf-Of: @cheyras Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01MExGVHFfAsqf2HDAhG2wAa