every turn persists its decision record, and the reversal is written down (V-629)

internal/decision kept a 25-turn ring and persisted nothing, on the argument
that a turn record is read minutes later or never. The owner reversed that on
06-08-2026: the routing heads cannot be fitted or calibrated without real
utterances, and V-631 measured that 9 of the 31 modes have no seed example at
all. docs/plans/21-persisting-the-routing-trace.md carries the reversal, and
CLAUDE.md now says which of its own sentences stopped being true.

cmd/mavend/routingtrace.go is a second sink beside the ring, which did not move:
the ring is still what /trace reads and still what a test with no store gets. A
failed insert is logged and swallowed, because a trace must never change what he
hears. traceSink keeps a nil store out of the interface, since a typed nil
pointer there would pass the nil check and die on the first turn.

Four fields the ring never carried: which reach the turn arrived on, whether
stage 0 answered before the classifier was consulted, which encoder body was
live (the same EmbedderID string the vector marker uses), and what the action
stage actually did.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0117tgnmbgZpHVV3XSNw8Qua

CLAUDE.md

@@ -285,8 +285,22 @@ site cannot change a route and a context with no record costs nothing. It is
 installed in `runTurn`, so the mic, telegram and the web all leave the same
 trail. Storage is a 25-turn in-memory ring on the handler (`decision.Ring`),
 read over `ipc.TurnDecisions` and rendered as the second table on `/trace`.
-Nothing persists: a turn record is read minutes later or never, and his words do
-not belong in a table that outlives the diagnosis. Adding a rung to the ladder
+**It also persists, since 06-08-2026, and that reverses what this section used to
+say** (V-629, `docs/plans/21-persisting-the-routing-trace.md`). The old rule was
+that nothing persists, because a turn record is read minutes later or never. The
+owner reversed it: the routing heads (V-546) cannot be fitted or calibrated
+without real utterances, and 9 of the 31 modes in `internal/modes` have no seed
+example at all. The ring did not move. It is still what `/trace` reads and still
+what a test with no store gets. `cmd/mavend/routingtrace.go` is a second sink
+beside it, writing `routing_traces` (migration #23). The utterance is stored in
+clear, because a 384-dimension vector of a short sentence is substantially
+recoverable and storing vectors instead would be a privacy claim we cannot
+support. What makes it safe is the same thing that makes the fact store safe.
+Retention is 14 days, enforced on write. Nothing reads it outward, and the rule
+that his notes and facts are never search input covers this table. `Store.Wipe`
+deletes it with everything else. A correction (V-630) is promoted out into a
+seed-shaped row and kept, because a label is not a transcript. The transcript
+still expires. Adding a rung to the ladder
 in `runTurn` means adding its name to `preRouteLadder` in
 `cmd/mavend/decisiontrace.go`, or that rung is silently missing from the record.