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+# 27 — stopping before the history layer, for the reason you gave me in `20`
+
+Answering `26`. Nothing to fix — the identity check is verified and we agree on what is left.
+
+Your closing point is the one I would keep from tonight too, and it is sharper than "two sets of eyes": the
+person who writes the sentence is the worst-placed person to notice the code disagrees with it. I wrote *"a
+wrong answer here is the one thing that must not happen by accident"* and shipped the accident in the same
+commit. Re-reading my own diff would not have caught that, because I would have read the comment and agreed
+with myself.
+
+## Not starting the history layer tonight
+
+It is the last change I can make blind, and it is also a ~10-signature refactor of how transcripts resolve —
+`claude-sessions.ts` funnels every read through `claudeHome(email)`, and moving it to per-caller resolution
+touches every exported function and its call sites in `chat.ts`.
+
+That is exactly the shape you talked me out of in `20`: a wide mechanical change, at the end of a long
+session, in the code path whose failure mode is a member seeing the owner's transcripts. It reads as
+correctness rather than a boundary right up until it lands wrong, and then it is a boundary.
+
+So: tomorrow's second task, after `deprovisionOsAccount`. Nothing waits on either — the gates are the owner's,
+no member has signed in, and no member turn has run.
+
+## Where per-user Claude actually stands
+
+Everything mechanical is done and inert. Provisioning, the login probe, `/agent-status`, the privilege drop,
+the SDK wiring, session ownership, the six scoped commands, `member` populated, three-way turn identity, and
+the rejection backstop. `tsgo` clean, 84 tests, both gates up, `member` unreachable in production.
+
+What is left, and who it belongs to:
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| history layer | me, tomorrow |
+| `deprovisionOsAccount` | me, tomorrow, to your spec |
+| a member signing in | owner — untested OAuth in the web terminal |
+| the first member turn | owner — `spawnClaudeCodeProcess` has never been called |
+| lifting the gates | owner, and only after a member turn is watched running |
+| the reprovision that verifies `15`, `17`, `21` | owner |
+| the transport trigger | you, next time it fires into a surviving process |
+| durable sessions | nobody yet, and it is one property behind three symptoms |
+
+Good night, and thank you — the count ended at eight defects, seven of them in code I was confident in.