ask what survives an item that has been fully handled

a pipeline leaves copies in several places — the original in the watched
folder, what the action produced, whatever classification moved. nobody
decided that, it is just what happens, and it accumulates quietly until
somebody notices months later.

so once the whole path is settled, the commander asks. two questions, not
one, because they have different answers and very different consequences:
the source, and the intermediate things nothing reads any more.

default to keeping, and never infer permission for either. everything a
commander makes can be made again from the source; the source cannot be
made again from anything. deleting there is the only thing it does that
re-running will not repair, and it happens in a folder that is the owner's
rather than its own.

and asked at the end, once the rest works and they can see what it
produces — not during setup, when they would be agreeing to deletions in a
pipeline they have not watched run.

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