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2026-06-12feat(chat): chat limit — bulk quarter-unload, 75% fresh-load window, ↵Adam Malczewski
show-earlier page-in Long transcripts no longer grow unbounded: past the chat limit (default 256 chunks, localStorage dispatch.chatLimit) the oldest ceil(limit/4) committed chunks are unloaded in ONE bulk pass — never one-per-delta (old Dispatch's scroll-jump-per-step bug) — and only while the reader is stuck to the bottom (scrolled-up readers defer the trim; it catches up in whole quarters). A fresh page load windows to the newest floor(0.75*limit). Unloading is purely local (IndexedDB cache + server keep everything); a hiddenBeforeSeq watermark keeps history merges from resurrecting unloaded chunks, and a 'Show earlier messages' affordance pages a quarter back in from the cache with scroll-anchor preservation. Thinking-collapse render keys stay stable across trims via a hiddenThinkingCount ordinal base. - core/chunks/trim.ts: pure policy (trim/window/restore/normalize) + tests - chat store: chatLimit + canUnload deps, windowed load, showEarlier() - composition root: dispatch.chatLimit localStorage knob + unload gate wired to smart-scroll isAtBottom() - backend CR-5 OPENED (not a blocker): ?limit=/?beforeSeq= on GET /conversations/:id (courier backend-handoff-chat-limit.md) - scripts/live-probe.ts: fix pre-existing stale TurnMetricsEntry reads (m1.usage -> total.usage) that crashed the probe; 17/17 live checks pass