# HANDOFF — 2026-11-02 (current-launch Logs tab)

## State

- `main`; scene-local ticker commit `20f0594` is local, not pushed.
- Logs tab work is in progress: non-edit panel has Live Chat first/default and Logs second. Logs
  reads only the process-local AppLog buffer (newest 500, newest first); file logging and rotation
  remain unchanged, and prior-launch file contents are not loaded.
- The Logs-panel integration test passes; clean app build is 0 warnings and scope check passes.

## Next action

Run the declared-scope verification and commit the Logs-tab unit. Then resolve the outstanding
UI/content test failures one issue at a time, with a separate local commit for each resolved task.
Do not push absent a milestone/checkpoint request.

## Landmines

- Build/test with Windows `dotnet.exe`; the full suite can hang in WASAPI teardown.
- Full suite after Logs changes: 13 failed / 509 passed of 522; the same UI/content failures remain
  (none in Logs or ticker tests). They are the next queued work, not to be masked or added here.
- Any integration test constructing `MainWindow` must set `LayoutPathOverride` to a temporary DB
  and clear it in `finally`; AppLog path overrides are also process-wide and are serialized here.
- Bundled FFmpeg stays outside the single-file exe (`ExcludeFromSingleFile="true"`).