docs/decisions.md

@@ -496,7 +496,8 @@ exits 0 on.
 while `todo.md` items 59, 60, 61 and 62 are open.
 
 A four-seat comprehension panel scored the project under the floor of 7. Its round-5 scores
-(2026-10-03) are the baseline: a later panel may not score lower on any dimension.
+(2026-10-03) are the baseline. Since 2026-10-04, a chunk whose panel scores any dimension lower
+improves what the seats named and scores again, and after three such rounds asks the maintainer.
 
 | Seat | Navigation | Locality | Shape | Self-sufficiency | Overall |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|

todo.md

@@ -26,13 +26,13 @@
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 63 | 0.2.0 | defect | **Refuse a cyclic input as `not-an-adf-document`.** | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 27.5 |
 | 7 | 0.2.0 |  | **Ship HTML: `adfToHtml`, `htmlToAdf`, and `markdownToHtml` / `htmlToMarkdown` composed through ADF.** | 6 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 2, 3 | 25.8 |
-| 55 | 0.2.0 | defect | **Spell through the carry every document the emitter refuses today for a carriage return, a NUL, a code-span line start, a newline inside an emoji, mention or status, or a text node whose text is empty or missing, or which holds content.** | 5 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 25.8 |
+| 55 | 0.2.0 | defect | **Spell every document the emitter refuses today for a carriage return, a NUL, a code-span line start, a newline inside an emoji, mention or status, or a text node whose text is empty or missing, or which holds content.** | 5 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 25.8 |
 | 45 | 0.2.0 |  | **Replace `isAdfDocument` with a reader returning `Result<AdfDocument>`.** | 2 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 25.2 |
 | 6 | 0.2.0 | decision | **Specify the HTML dialect.** | 2 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 2, 3 | 24.7 |
 | 64 | 0.2.0 | defect | **Read back unchanged on V8 every JSON key the emitter writes, with a fixture whose key holds `\`, `"` or a control character.** | 4 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 1, 7 | 23.0 |
 | 43 | 0.2.0 | decision | **Give each markdown input its own reader, strict to its own standard.** | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 3, 4 | 22.3 |
-| 65 | 0.2.0 | defect | **Read a mid-text or titled CommonMark image as Goal 6 allows.** | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3, 4, 6 | 18.7 |
-| 49 | 0.2.0 |  | **Read a list whose bullet or ordered delimiter changes as two lists in the CommonMark reader.** | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 3, 4 | 17.2 |
+| 65 | 0.2.0 | defect | **Read an image not alone in its paragraph as its alt text linked to its URL, and a titled image alone in its paragraph as the image captioned with its title.** | 5 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 3, 4, 6 | 18.7 |
+| 49 | 0.2.0 |  | **Read a list whose bullet or ordered delimiter changes as two lists, in both readers, and retire `!adf:listBreak`.** | 4 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 3, 4 | 17.2 |
 | 61 | 0.2.0 | decision | **Have the emitter ask the inline reader how a line reads back, in place of `line-escaping.ts` predicting it.** | 6 | 8 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 14.0 |
 | 52 | 0.2.0 |  | **Spell `colwidth` as a comma list, `colwidth="340,420"`.** | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 13.0 |
 | 51 | 0.2.0 |  | **Match a reference label to its definition under Unicode case folding.** | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3, 4 | 12.4 |
@@ -70,16 +70,22 @@ Lands after items 6, 59, 60, 61 and 62. The CommonMark spec suite also runs agai
 `markdownToHtml`. The README documents HTML as it documents markdown, and its tagline and
 `package.json`'s `description` regain HTML.
 
-### 55. Spell through the carry every document the emitter refuses today for a carriage return, a NUL, a code-span line start, a newline inside an emoji, mention or status, or a text node whose text is empty or missing, or which holds content.
+### 55. Spell every document the emitter refuses today for a carriage return, a NUL, a code-span line start, a newline inside an emoji, mention or status, or a text node whose text is empty or missing, or which holds content.
 
-`inline-line.ts` refuses a carriage return or NUL in text (`unspellable-character`) and a paragraph
-opening with a code-span run (`unspellable-line-start`); `fencedTexts` refuses the same characters
-in a code block; `directive-syntax.ts` refuses a newline in an emoji, mention or status
-(`unspellable-whitespace`). The inline carry's JSON escapes all of them, so a lossless spelling
-exists, and §The code list says a cause the carry answers gets no code. Fixing it revises §Which
-code a cause takes and §Markdown in is a canonical fixpoint, which the maintainer decides. Also a
-text node whose `text` is empty or missing, which `inline-line.ts` and `fencedTexts` refuse, or
-which holds `content`, which `inline-line.ts` refuses. Found by the README-goals audit, 2026-10-03.
+Today `inline-line.ts` refuses a carriage return or NUL in text, and a NUL in an emoji, mention or
+status (`unspellable-character`); and a paragraph opening with a code-span run
+(`unspellable-line-start`); `fencedTexts` refuses the same characters in a code block;
+`inline-line.ts` refuses a newline in an emoji, mention or status (`unspellable-whitespace`);
+`inline-line.ts` and `fencedTexts` refuse a text node whose `text` is empty or missing, and
+`inline-line.ts` one holding `content`. The carries spell all of them: the inline carry in a
+paragraph, the block carry in a code block. Inline, a carriage return or NUL could ride
+`!adf:text{text="…"}` instead, which keeps the text readable — a writer panel picks.
+
+The maintainer approved on 2026-10-04: §Markdown in is a canonical fixpoint drops its code-span
+exception, §Which code a cause takes drops `unspellable-whitespace` as an emitter cause;
+`unspellable-character` and `unspellable-line-start` retire. `unspellable-whitespace` stays, since
+the reader raises it for a content slot spanning a newline. Found by the README-goals audit,
+2026-10-03.
 
 ### 45. Replace `isAdfDocument` with a reader returning `Result<AdfDocument>`.
 
@@ -110,23 +116,28 @@ a code fence whose info string opens `adf:` becomes the block carry where Common
 caller names the markdown it hands in: CommonMark, read as its spec says, or the lossless flavour,
 read as `spec/flavour.md` says. Breaking: `MIGRATION.md` says which call a caller takes.
 
-### 65. Read a mid-text or titled CommonMark image as Goal 6 allows.
+### 65. Read an image not alone in its paragraph as its alt text linked to its URL, and a titled image alone in its paragraph as the image captioned with its title.
 
-A mid-text or titled image, such as a bot's `See ![diagram](url) here`, is refused: 14 examples in
-`corpus/commonmark-spec/refusals.json`. Settle what such an image builds. Goal 6 drops form and
-keeps the target.
+Both are refused today with `unmappable-image`: 14 examples in
+`corpus/commonmark-spec/refusals.json`, a bot's `See ![diagram](url) here` among them. `mediaInline`
+takes only Atlassian media ids, never a URL. An image not alone in its paragraph reads as its alt
+text, linked to its URL. Its title becomes the link's `title`. An empty alt text reads as the URL,
+as item 50 reads an empty link. A titled image alone in its paragraph reads as the image, with its
+title as a `caption` (the maintainer, 2026-10-04). By Goal 4, the lossless flavour reads both as
+CommonMark does. An image inside a link, `[![moon](moon.jpg)](/uri)` (spec example 517), would need
+two links on one text node: the chunk settles which link the alt text keeps by Goal 6, and asks
+where it does not decide.
 
-### 49. Read a list whose bullet or ordered delimiter changes as two lists in the CommonMark reader.
+### 49. Read a list whose bullet or ordered delimiter changes as two lists, in both readers, and retire `!adf:listBreak`.
 
 Lands after item 43. Today `- a` then `+ b`, or `1.` then `1)`, reads as one list; CommonMark reads
-two (spec examples 301 and 302), and so must the CommonMark reader. `spec/flavour.md` merges them in
-the lossless flavour on purpose and parts two adjacent lists with `!adf:listBreak`. The chunk
-settles by Goals 3 and 4 whether the flavour follows, and asks where the Goals do not decide. That
-answer also settles what `adfToMarkdown` and `adfToPlainMarkdown` write for two adjacent lists, and
-whether `!adf:listBreak` still reads. Breaking, so it ships beside item 43: `MIGRATION.md`'s
-Readings table gains its row, and its Spellings table one if `!adf:listBreak` retires. Examples 301
-and 302 lose their `pending` exceptions, and the spelling leaves the README's "Four CommonMark
-spellings" bullet, which counts one fewer.
+two (spec examples 301 and 302). Goal 4 settles it for the lossless flavour too: CommonMark spells
+adjacent lists by changing the marker, so `adfToMarkdown` and `adfToPlainMarkdown` alternate `-` and
+`*` between adjacent bullet lists and `.` and `)` between adjacent ordered lists, and
+`!adf:listBreak` retires. `*` is the maintainer's pick (2026-10-04). Breaking, so it ships beside
+item 43: `MIGRATION.md`'s Readings and Spellings tables gain their rows. Examples 301 and 302 lose
+their `pending` exceptions, and the spelling leaves the README's "Four CommonMark spellings" bullet,
+which counts one fewer.
 
 ### 61. Have the emitter ask the inline reader how a line reads back, in place of `line-escaping.ts` predicting it.
 
@@ -167,9 +178,9 @@ mark spellings too, which item 7 moves where it learns what HTML shares.
 ### 50. Read `[](/url)` and `[]()` as CommonMark's empty link.
 
 Both stay literal text today (spec examples 484 and 487). ADF holds no empty text node to carry a
-link mark, so the chunk settles what the empty link builds by Goals 3 and 6, and asks where they do
-not decide; whatever it builds, both still parse, since a bot relies on plain CommonMark being valid
-input. Breaking, so it ships beside item 43: `MIGRATION.md`'s Readings table gains its row. Its
+link mark, so a link whose text is empty takes its URL as its text (the maintainer, 2026-10-04):
+`[](/url)` reads as `/url` linked to `/url`. `[]()` has no URL to show; the chunk settles it by Goals
+3 and 6. Breaking, so it ships beside item 43: `MIGRATION.md`'s Readings table gains its row. Its
 `pending` exceptions go, and its spelling leaves the README's "Four CommonMark spellings" bullet,
 which counts one fewer.
 
@@ -178,8 +189,8 @@ which counts one fewer.
 Reading: the alert and task-marker reads in `parse/markdown-to-adf.ts`, the `mintTaskIds` call and
 the `inlineLeaves` use. Writing: `spellPlainBlock`, `quotedUnder`, `tryTaskList` and `taskBlocks` in
 `emit/adf-to-markdown.ts`. And `highlightDelimiter` and `highlightFlanking` move out of
-`plain/conventions.ts`, which `emit/` imports them from; item 59 moves `Flavour`. Every comprehension reader on 2026-10-03
-named the plain flavour's spread across three directories.
+`plain/conventions.ts`, which `emit/` imports them from; item 59 moves `Flavour`. Every
+comprehension reader on 2026-10-03 named the plain flavour's spread across three directories.
 
 ### 38. Spell a lone surrogate in a text node so it survives a UTF-8 encode.
 
@@ -252,10 +263,9 @@ kB.
 
 Technical principle "One owner per value": the `Walk` record passes through twelve functions that
 mutate it and return `void`; `walk.leaf` alone is written in seven places. `ContainerStack` in the
-same file shows the shape to follow.
-`inline-content.ts`'s `Scan` has the same shape: about fifteen functions write `pending`, `pieces`,
-`deactivatedBefore` and `openingSpellableLink` and return `void`, and `parseInlineContent` reads a
-flag `scanInline` leaves on it.
+same file shows the shape to follow. `inline-content.ts`'s `Scan` has the same shape: about fifteen
+functions write `pending`, `pieces`, `deactivatedBefore` and `openingSpellableLink` and return
+`void`, and `parseInlineContent` reads a flag `scanInline` leaves on it.
 
 ### 57. Make each `ci.sh` leg build what it reads, so one leg run alone tests the current tree.