# HANDOFF — 2026-11-09 (TASK 33 policy; vertical checks passed)

## State

- `main`. TASK 21 (video layer + soundtrack), TASK 64 (green/blue screen) and TASK 32·4 (fragmented MP4)
  are complete; TASK 49 is retired (YouTube owns chat moderation — we just don't paint tombstones).
- **Starting art**: `Assets/starting-background.jpg` is the corrected onboarding screen (earlier
  images in `Assets/archive/`). Bundled art is hash-keyed into the layout DB, so
  `StampDefaultBackgroundAsset` compares bytes and re-stamps on a mismatch — no version bump.
- 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 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 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
  business days). No app IDs, no store page, Release entitlement fails closed.

## Landmines

- **The preview pane draws frame-source layers from a whitelist of DataTriggers.** A layer type with no
  trigger is invisible in the preview while its decode looks healthy. Add the trigger with the layer
  type; pin it with `MediaPreviewDisplayTests`.
- **A bundled-art "version" heal cannot work**: the constant and the embedded resource are compiled at
  different moments, so a bump can race the image it is meant to ship. Compare bytes
  (`LayoutStore.AssetMatches`). Also: `AllBackgrounds()` returns only the LIVE scene's rows.
- Pack URIs for bundled assets must be assembly-qualified (`/LlamaCasty;component/Assets/…`): the
  unqualified form resolves against the entry assembly, which is the test host under `dotnet test`.
- Media sessions are keyed by **path + look** (`MainViewModel.MediaSessionKey`); never acquire by raw path.
- **The audio pipe allows ONE server per name**; DEBUG suffixes it (id, else pid), Release does not.
- Integration tests constructing `MainWindow` must set a temporary `LayoutPathOverride` and clear it in `finally`.
- Bundled FFmpeg stays outside the single-file exe (`ExcludeFromSingleFile="true"`).