Symmetric writability probe; loader dedupes case-spelled identity twins

Two follow-ups to this session's decisions: the reconciling reload's
writability re-probe now raises the unwritable lock as well as clearing it
(fail loudly once, not per gesture), and under the shape-only identity
predicate the loader deterministically dedupes case-spelled sibling twins
on case-sensitive volumes (lowercase spelling wins, else lexicographic
first; loser takes the stray posture) so a snapshot never carries
duplicate ids.

Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01HJ7PhFNmQ19bvy9RMD6GSb
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- **The debounced body save retries on its own cadence** — keystrokes stay in the dirty buffer, so nothing is lost while the window stays open; the banner stands until a save lands. The **one modal moment on the write-failure path**: closing a window (or the board, or quitting) with a dirty buffer that cannot be written — the only state that exists nowhere but memory — raises an alert (retry / save a copy elsewhere / discard) instead of failing silently. Everything else on this path stays non-modal. (Deliberate confirmations elsewhere are their own stories: Empty Trash… and Delete Immediately on boards without git history — 03-board-ui.md, the branch-switch save-or-discard step — 06-history-undo.md, machine-key regeneration — 07-sync-collab.md, the raw-source Apply validation alert — 05-card-window.md, the once-per-board iCloud/network-volume warning on open/create — 07, and the SSH trust-on-first-use fingerprint confirmation with its mismatch hard-block — 07.)
- **A renamed or moved board root follows its file identity** (settled): the board the app has open is the *file*, not the path string — the registry's security-scoped bookmark is the identity, mid-session as much as across opens (01-storage-format.md calls Finder renames ordinary, and mid-session must honor that). On any root-gone signal — the watcher's path stops delivering, a write lands on a stale path — the app first **re-resolves the bookmark**: if it resolves to a new location, the rename/move is absorbed transparently — the watcher re-attaches there, Writer URLs and card-window keys re-derive from the new root, one full reload runs, and the window title follows the folder-name fallback where it applies — no banner, no lock, nothing was ever wrong. Only when the bookmark does not resolve is the root truly vanished (below). Either way, a root-gone signal **cancels any armed debounced tree-event delivery** (settled): both outcomes end in a full reload — at the re-resolved root, or on the root's return from the vanished-root lock — so delivering a stale tree event for a path that just stopped being the root would only be noise.
- **A vanished board root locks the board read-only** — the bracketed-reload vocabulary applied to a root that is gone (volume unmounted, folder Finder-deleted while open — and the rename re-resolution above found nothing): every write would land nowhere, so the last-good snapshot stays on screen, read-only, banner up. The watcher keeps watching; if the root returns (remount, Finder undo), the next successful reload clears the lock and pending dirty buffers save normally. **A root change landing mid-bracket is owned by the root-change path, not the bracket** (settled): re-resolution runs immediately even inside a bracket — a rename is absorbed transparently and the bracket's final reload simply runs at the re-resolved root; a true vanish raises this lock at once and the bracket's eventual final reload becomes a no-op rather than a redundant failure. Nothing is lost by skipping it: the root's return runs the reconciling reload, and an operation the vanish killed mid-flight is 06-history-undo.md's own-leftovers case, recognized at the next open or flush. (The composition matters for a pull-rebase mid-flight when a volume unmounts — 07-sync-collab.md.)
- **An unwritable board location enters the read-only lock at open** (settled): opening probes the root's writability — a read-only volume (DMG, snapshot, read-only share) or a permission-denied folder opens straight into the read-only lock, banner naming the cause ("this board's volume is read-only"), rather than letting every gesture fail one at a time — fail loudly, specifically, *once*. The open-time agent-guide write (08-agent-integration.md) is skipped-with-log, the `CLAUDE.user.md`-taken precedent. Writability re-probes on every reconciling reload (wake, activation — above), so a fixed permission or rewritable remount clears the lock without ceremony. The lock's read affordances stay live as always — inspecting an archived board on a DMG is a legitimate errand, and viewing-first is the point.
- **An unwritable board location enters the read-only lock at open** (settled): opening probes the root's writability — a read-only volume (DMG, snapshot, read-only share) or a permission-denied folder opens straight into the read-only lock, banner naming the cause ("this board's volume is read-only"), rather than letting every gesture fail one at a time — fail loudly, specifically, *once*. The open-time agent-guide write (08-agent-integration.md) is skipped-with-log, the `CLAUDE.user.md`-taken precedent. Writability re-probes on every reconciling reload (wake, activation — above), **and the probe is symmetric** (settled): a rewritable remount or fixed permission clears the lock without ceremony, and a volume gone read-only mid-session *raises* it at the next probe — banner up front, not every gesture failing one at a time (the lock's own founding rationale). Between probes, a write that hits the newly read-only volume fails as an ordinary one-shot; the next reconciliation converts the condition into the standing lock. The lock's read affordances stay live as always — inspecting an archived board on a DMG is a legitimate errand, and viewing-first is the point.
- **Auto-commit failures beyond `index.lock` contention** (06-history-undo.md covers the lock) — disk full mid-commit, repo corruption: the files are safely on disk but history stops advancing, which quietly suspends the undo trail and the flush-before-overwrite guarantee. That degradation is surfaced, not hidden: the banner states that changes aren't being recorded to history; the committer retries on the next debounce and the banner clears on the first successful commit.
- **Attachment import copy failures** (source unreadable, destination full): the drop was accepted — "never refuses the drop" (01-storage-format.md ▸ Attachments) is policy, not an I/O guarantee — so a failed copy surfaces in the banner with the filename, and any partial file is removed; no half-copied attachment is ever left in `attachments/`.