Pickup notes — 2026-06-01

Today's session pivoted from reactive demo-prep patching into spec work. The user named the pattern — affordances that hide, die, mismatch, or misname — and asked us to stop patching and develop a spec. We did. The whole-shell UX-coherence spec is now Draft with 8 locked decisions, 12 evidence items, 3 confirmed failure shapes + 1 emerging, 4 surfaces audited (Pack Runner, PTM, Record Collector, Shell), 3 open architectural questions, and a 'wish list' that already spawned four sibling context-v stubs (two specs, two blueprints). Nothing was implemented past the live demo-prep patches; everything else is held at the sign-off gate. The user explicitly said: don't start implementation before sign-off.