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 - Left panel alert stack shipped: Steam licence indicator pinned at row 1, event rows LIFO, click →
   About or Logs with the event's lines painted. Detail: `docs/ai/ui-surface.md`.
 - Site: demo video (silent loop) is the hero; Starting screen is in the scenes section.
-- **TASK 33**: policy + planner done (`bc62bd8`, `555ff5c`); remaining — VM subscribe, encoder
-  restart, toast, capture-cost shed. **Creator hands cleared 2026-11-09**: vertical camera check 1–6
-  pass, vertical cadence 29.8 distinct/s (no defect).
+- **TASK 33 complete** (`0fa3006`): cause-classified step-down — shed our capture cost, then fps →
+  resolution for the machine; bitrate only for the upload; one-way with recovery behind a flag.
+- **Creator hands cleared 2026-11-09**: vertical camera check 1–6 pass; vertical cadence 29.8
+  distinct/s (no defect).
 - Tests: 588 green; `FAST=1 ./scripts/verify.sh` ≈ 4 min.
 
 ## Next action
 
-- **App queue starts at 33** (bandwidth step-down), then 34/35/37/40/50/55, Move transitions, 9·5.
+- **App queue starts at 34** (scheduled streams — cite its two research flags first), then
+  35/37/40/50/55, Move transitions, 9·5.
 - Site repo commits are local (`llgit.llamachile.tube`); deploy is `./deploy.sh`, not a push.
 - Do not push the app absent a checkpoint request.
 - **Steam is a wait, not a task:** identity verification pending, tax review in Valve's queue (up to 30