diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 096bea5..cc66599 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -10,9 +10,8 @@
 - **Breaking:** the markdown readers refuse a value that is not a string with the new code
   `not-a-string`; `MIGRATION.md` lists what each value did before.
 - **Breaking:** every call returns the new code `engine-limit` where the JavaScript engine passes
-  its longest array, `Map` or `Set`, or finds no memory for a buffer, and, on JavaScriptCore, where
-  its heap runs short or a string passes its longest. A retry may succeed. Every other refusal stays
-  deterministic.
+  its longest array, `Map` or `Set`, or reports itself out of memory, and, on JavaScriptCore, where
+  a string passes its longest. A retry may succeed. Every other refusal stays deterministic.
 - **Breaking:** an attribute value that is not a plain object, array or JSON primitive, such as a
   `Date`, `Map`, typed array or class instance, makes `isAdfDocument` return `false` and the
   converters refuse it as `not-an-adf-document`. Before, the converters wrote it as `{}` or its own
diff --git a/MIGRATION.md b/MIGRATION.md
index ac170b8..51537d4 100644
--- a/MIGRATION.md
+++ b/MIGRATION.md
@@ -114,4 +114,4 @@ with one of the four now reads, or refuses with the code the table gives.
 | `null`, `undefined` or a non-empty array, on parse | throws a `TypeError` | `not-a-string` |
 | a `String` object, on parse | the document its text spells | `not-a-string`; pass `String(value)` |
 | any other value that is not a string, such as a number or `{}`, on parse | an empty document | `not-a-string` |
-| a conversion past the JavaScript engine's longest array, `Map` or `Set`, or finding no memory for a buffer, and on JavaScriptCore one running its heap short or past its longest string | throws | `engine-limit`; retry it once |
+| a conversion past the JavaScript engine's longest array, `Map` or `Set`, or that the engine reports as out of memory, and on JavaScriptCore one past its longest string | throws | `engine-limit`; retry it once |
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7e31e07..31666fa 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -412,8 +412,8 @@ A call reports the first refusal in document order and stops, so a document with
 them one per call. Every refusal is deterministic — there is no I/O anywhere — so a retry returns
 the identical error: fix the input, or set the document aside. The exception is `engine-limit`,
 whose causes include memory running short: retry it once, and treat a repeat as lasting. On V8
-(Node, Deno, Chrome) a heap that runs out ends the process instead, so convert input of unbounded
-size in a worker.
+(Node, Deno, Chrome) a heap that runs out ends the process instead. In Node, a `worker_threads`
+worker given `resourceLimits` ends alone, so convert input of unbounded size in one.
 
 ### Parsing
 
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ The emitter raises these, and so does a parse, which asks the emitter how to spe
 
 | Code | Fires when | What you can do |
 | --- | --- | --- |
-| `engine-limit` | in every call: a conversion that passes the longest array, `Map` or `Set` the JavaScript engine builds, or that finds no memory for a buffer; on JavaScriptCore (Bun, Safari), also one that runs its heap short or passes its longest string, 2^31 − 1 characters | retry once; if it repeats, writing: set the document aside, keeping the ADF and passing it over or showing it read-only; reading: shorten the markdown, or nest its lists and quotes less deeply |
+| `engine-limit` | in every call: a conversion that passes the longest array, `Map` or `Set` the JavaScript engine builds, or that the engine reports as out of memory; on JavaScriptCore (Bun, Safari), also one that passes its longest string, 2^31 − 1 characters | retry once; if it repeats, writing: set the document aside, keeping the ADF and passing it over or showing it read-only; reading: shorten the markdown, or nest its lists and quotes less deeply |
 | `unsupported-nesting-depth` | blocks, marks, an attribute's JSON or a carried node's JSON nest past 500 levels | keep the ADF and pass the document over, or show it read-only; flatten the input where you are the one who wrote it |
 | `unsupported-node-shape` | parsing, in `losslessMarkdownToAdf`: markdown spells a node with an attribute, value, argument or body its type does not take, or without one it needs, wraps a directive mark around nothing or only hard breaks, writes as a directive a node or mark the lossless flavour spells as CommonMark, or one that, written out as plain CommonMark, would be longer than 536870888 characters, or puts a reserved directive out of place: `!adf:textBreak{}` parting nothing, `!adf:doc` anywhere but as the whole document. Emitting, in `adfToLosslessMarkdown`: a node not riding the carry that carries one mark type twice, a block or a non-text inline node holding `text`, or a leaf block or a non-text inline node holding `content`. Emitting, in `adfToPortableMarkdown`: a line or task list the portable writer cannot spell, a bug in this library. Emitting, in both writers: a document whose markdown would be longer than 536870888 characters, V8's longest string, on every engine; in `adfToPortableMarkdown`, also a document whose text alone is that long, edge whitespace included. In every call: a conversion that passes V8's or SpiderMonkey's longest string | fix what the message names; [`spec/flavour.md`](https://github.com/larvit/adf-codec/blob/main/spec/flavour.md) lists every type's attributes and body. For a portable line or task list, report it as a bug. Past 536870888 characters or the engine's longest string, writing: set the document aside, keeping the ADF and passing it over or showing it read-only; reading: shorten the markdown, or nest its lists and quotes less deeply |
 
diff --git a/docs/comprehension-history.md b/docs/comprehension-history.md
index 80eb47f..8a28b10 100644
--- a/docs/comprehension-history.md
+++ b/docs/comprehension-history.md
@@ -742,3 +742,57 @@ Inherited architect, decided by:
 - Navigation: `src/markdown/length-bound.ts:37` `withinEngineLimits`: the engine guard moves out of the Result module, and engine-limit leads from the symptom to it
 - Shape, Locality: `src/markdown/portable/adf-to-portable-markdown.ts:128` `portableSequence`: a refusal propagates with its block's path, where it was silently swallowed
 - Shape: `src/canonical-json.ts:23` `canonicalJsonPieces`: a generator, emitLeaf's one refusal and PlacedSegment each read simpler than before
+
+## 2026-10-13T15:41:57Z, PR #37 at f1ea9fd, against 7a27f6b
+
+Ruling: same
+
+| Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
+|---|---|---|---|---|---|
+| Mid A | better | worse | better | same | same |
+| Inherited architect | better | worse | same | same | worse |
+| Maintainability senior | better | worse | better | same | same |
+| Junior A | better | worse | better | same | same |
+
+Mid A, decided by:
+
+- Locality: `src/markdown/parse/markdown-to-adf.ts:266` `directiveNode`: a second engine guard inside the parse's own, explained by how each engine overflows
+- Locality: `src/markdown/emit/adf-to-markdown.ts:127` `readableBlock`: a caller flag decides the fill and every read deletes, so what a later call sees depends on who called first
+- Locality: `src/markdown/emit/adf-to-markdown.ts:66` `walkBlocks`: the length bound is checked at four points, each relying on the others to cover what it skips
+- Navigation, Shape: `src/markdown/length-bound.ts:37` `withinEngineLimits`: engine and length refusals have their own file and code, and result.ts is back to types
+- Shape: `src/markdown/length-bound.ts:17` `tooLong`: a string overflow keeps unsupported-node-shape while array and memory take engine-limit, explained only by a comment
+- Shape, Locality: `src/markdown/portable/adf-to-portable-markdown.ts:128` `portableSequence`: a failed spelling returns early with each block's own path, where it was swallowed
+- Shape: `src/markdown/emit/adf-to-markdown.ts:117` `commonMarkSpelling`: returns Result<boolean>, which says what it means, where undefined and success(null) encoded the answer
+- Shape: `src/canonical-json.ts:23` `canonicalJsonPieces`: a generator replaces a boolean early-stop callback
+- Shape: `src/markdown/emit/line-escaping.ts:113` `backslashed`: PlacedSegment drops repeated cursor arithmetic, at the cost of byte codes, chunked joins and RunEscapes
+
+Inherited architect, decided by:
+
+- Locality: `src/markdown/emit/adf-to-markdown.ts:126` `readableBlock`: a read deletes and only an asked caller fills, so whether a node is spelled again depends on call order; the first place to rot
+- Locality, Navigation: `src/markdown/length-bound.ts:36` `withinEngineLimits`: wrap-every-builder is a project-wide duty, and six sites refuse with one message and path [], so a report cannot say which fired
+- Navigation: `src/markdown/length-bound.ts:1` `withinEngineLimits`: the size concern has a file named for it and engine refusals their own code
+- Locality: `src/markdown/parse/markdown-to-adf.ts:265` `directiveNode`: a nested engine guard mid-walk, there only to place V8's throw at this directive
+- Shape: `src/markdown/emit/adf-to-markdown.ts:117` `commonMarkSpelling`: Result<boolean> tells the truth and a refusal now propagates with its path; line 134's conditional is dense
+- Shape: `src/markdown/emit/line-escaping.ts:40` `RunEscapes`: byte flags, codes and batched joins read less directly, and `escapable` reads close to backwards; PlacedSegment is a real gain
+
+Maintainability senior, decided by:
+
+- Navigation, Shape: `src/markdown/length-bound.ts:37` `withinEngineLimits`: guard, bound and refusals share one file, and result.ts is back to describing results
+- Locality: `src/markdown/emit/adf-to-markdown.ts:127` `readableBlock`: deletes on every read and writes only when asked, so a hit depends on call order across the parser, the portable reduction and the walk
+- Locality, Self-sufficiency: `src/markdown/parse/markdown-to-adf.ts:266` `directiveNode`: a check's place is justified by where V8 would throw, with a nested engine guard, so moving one needs V8's behaviour reconstructed
+- Locality: `src/markdown/portable/adf-to-portable-markdown.ts:128` `portableSequence`: a refused spelling comes back as a value with its block's path, where it was swallowed
+- Shape: `src/markdown/emit/adf-to-markdown.ts:117` `commonMarkSpelling`: Result<boolean> where absence coded both answers
+- Shape: `src/markdown/length-bound.ts:17` `tooLong`: a length refusal under unsupported-node-shape with path [], and the README row grown into a catch-all
+- Shape: `src/markdown/emit/line-escaping.ts:113` `backslashed`: byte codes and chunked joins against PlacedSegment removing duplicated cursor arithmetic, about even
+- Shape: `src/canonical-json.ts:23` `canonicalJsonPieces`: a generator replaces a boolean-returning callback
+- Locality: `src/markdown/emit/inline-line.ts:235` `emitLeaf`: the content-or-text refusal is hoisted once, a small gain
+
+Junior A, decided by:
+
+- Navigation, Shape: `src/markdown/length-bound.ts:37` `withinEngineLimits`: the engine-overflow catch moves out of result.ts into a file named for the job, with the two message lists saying which throw means what
+- Locality: `src/markdown/emit/adf-to-markdown.ts:127` `readableBlock`: a read deletes and a caller flag decides the store, an order dependence across three files
+- Locality: `src/markdown/parse/markdown-to-adf.ts:266` `directiveNode`: a nested engine guard to pin V8's throw, and the bound checked in five places
+- Shape, Locality: `src/markdown/emit/adf-to-markdown.ts:117` `commonMarkSpelling`: Result<boolean> matches its name, and portableSequence propagates a refusal with each block's path
+- Shape: `src/markdown/emit/line-escaping.ts:38` `PlacedSegment`: replaces a parallel placements array and hand-advanced cursor, against byte codes and chunked joins
+- Shape: `src/canonical-json.ts:23` `canonicalJsonPieces`: a generator replaces a write callback threading a keep-going flag
+- Shape: `src/markdown/emit/inline-line.ts:175` `heldContentOrText`: the content-or-text refusal checked once in emitLeaf
diff --git a/docs/decisions.md b/docs/decisions.md
index 9ecbe2b..9ef6f8d 100644
--- a/docs/decisions.md
+++ b/docs/decisions.md
@@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ nodes into its own text, so keeping them would make every level of a deep subtre
 whole text (2026-10-11). `text`, `alternateText` and `spelling` carry no depth and `headroom` is
 affine in it, so a read at or above the depth that filled the entry rebases; a read below re-spells,
 because a hit skips the depth guards the walk it replaces runs and an ordered list past the marker
-cap gives way, spending two emitter levels where the parser spent one. Only what succeeded is kept,
+cap gives way, spending two emitter levels where the parser spent one. A refusal is never kept,
 so no path minted at another position is ever read.
 
 ## Cost fixes are measured, never timed