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@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@ on 2026-09-29 a third time (Navigation 7.0, Locality 5.6, Shape 6.3, Self-suffic
 
 This round, in order:
 
+- Collapse the four path walks into one loop switching on a plain mode field, check,
+  cover, probe or draw, with no call through an interface or a type parameter, and run
+  it against `perf_test.go`'s allocation gate. It holds: replace the decision "The four
+  path walks are four loops" with one recording a single loop, and land the collapse;
+  all nine seats named the four loops among the hardest. It fails: keep the loops, and
+  rewrite that decision's rationale to match `descend` and `pathProbe.readRow` today,
+  where `readRow` makes `drawn` on first use.
 - Key the survey's visits and reads by a pin set's rows spelled as a string, and delete
   `pinsID`, `pinsLink` and `readSurvey.pinIDs`: five seats stalled on the interning.
   Start `replayPairs`' pin set as a clone of the earlier read's pins, deleting the