The owner asked for everything except publication to move into their list,
so the member-signature gate, the cheap backward walk and the gate against a
constant multiplier now sit in docs/backlog.md. Each entry carries the facts
an agent needs to start — the missing transitTo in the snapshot, the 1.7ms
against 178ms, what complexity_guard does not measure — rather than a
pointer into the handoff, which is rewritten every wave and would decay.

The handoff drops its own copies of all three. An item kept in two files
drifts, and the copy nobody edits is the one that ends up lying; what stays
there is the state of the tree and the findings the owner did not take.

Writing into the backlog is otherwise forbidden to agents by AGENTS.md. This
edit is the owner's instruction, not an agent's initiative.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Uox8hLVY5Ho8K6fofJd9g7