src/scribe/services/plugin_context.py

@@ -618,8 +618,7 @@ async def get_autoinject_config(user_id: int) -> dict:
 
     THE TWO NUMBERS COME FROM THE REGISTRY NOW (#4102). They used to be read and
     clamped here, and identically again in `get_writepath_config`, and again in
-    three rule arms, and once more in `reply_preferences` — the duplication the
+    three rule arms, and once more in `reply_preferences`. That was
-    shape ledger counts as canon #2860 across 295 of 372 siblings. That was
     tolerable while the values were shipped constants. It stops being tolerable
     once a tool is expected to MOVE them, because a tuning surface cannot be
     consistent across arms that each spell their configuration differently.

src/scribe/services/retrieval_surfaces.py

@@ -4,9 +4,10 @@ WHY THIS EXISTS
 
 Six push arms each carried their own loose copy of the same shape: a settings
 key, a default, and a limit that was usually a module constant nobody could
-change. `_threshold()` was duplicated so widely that the shape ledger counts it
+change. The read-and-clamp was written out separately in `plugin_context` (twice
-as canon across 295 of 372 judged siblings (snippet #2860). That was survivable
+over, for auto-inject and the write path), in three rule arms, and again as
-while the numbers were shipped constants an operator occasionally edited.
+`reply_preferences._threshold`. That was survivable while the numbers were
+shipped constants an operator occasionally edited.
 
 It stops being survivable once the numbers are meant to MOVE. The operator's
 decision for this step: