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@@ -26,6 +26,16 @@ not for anything else in it. Where this document and ROADMAP.md would disagree,
 document wins by default, full stop; there is no need to cross-check. FABRIC.md is the
 living document now.
 
+**NEXT SESSION — FIRST TASK, before any 4.4-series work:** Captain Bob flagged 2026-08-11
+night that punch-list items are scattered throughout this document (interleaved with
+narrative/design reasoning) rather than collected in one place, and the document is getting
+cluttered as a result. **Refactor so all punch-list items live together at the end of the
+document**, reorganizing what exists today rather than just changing the rule for new
+entries — a full pass, not a partial one. Do this *before* resuming 4.4w or anything else in
+the punch list, per Bob's explicit instruction that it's the first thing to do. Preserve
+every item's content (including its `> Done`/blockquote history) exactly — this is a
+structural move, not a rewrite, and must not lose or alter any decision already recorded.
+
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 ## 1. The claim