diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 685d789..89b0c72 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -19,6 +19,77 @@ page as `v0.1.0 · <sha> · <date>`, so what is deployed can always be identifie
 
 ---
 
+## 0.7.9.8 — 2026-09-07
+
+Housekeeping before v0.8.0 — the answer to "anything else that should be looked at first", which
+turned up one real hole and one stale document.
+
+### `npm test` did not typecheck, and passed green on a type error (#102)
+
+`pretest` ran `scripts/build-web.ts`, which invokes `tsc --ignoreConfig` against three web entry
+points. So it saw only what those three transitively import, under a **weaker** configuration than
+`tsconfig.json` — no `noUncheckedIndexedAccess`, no `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`, `--types ''` — and
+never saw `src/server/` or a single file under `test/`.
+
+Demonstrated rather than argued. Planting `const DELIBERATE_TYPE_ERROR: number = 'not a number';` in
+`src/server/session.ts`:
+
+```
+npm run typecheck → src/server/session.ts(441,7): error TS2322
+npm test          → # fail 0
+```
+
+`pretest` is `tsc --noEmit && node scripts/build-web.ts` now, and the same planted error exits 1 with
+the tests never running.
+
+**Why this week rather than generally.** v0.8.0 is steps 2-7 of the common board — a display stream,
+credentials, persistence, a Chromium supervisor — which is almost entirely `src/server/`, exactly the
+half the test command could not see.
+
+### The common-board plan had drifted from the code it is the source for (#103)
+
+`docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md` was written on 2026-08-27, still said "No implementation has been
+performed", and is what steps 2-7 will be built from. Step 1 has since shipped across four releases,
+so every "current code finding" under it described a fault that is now fixed. A document that reads
+as present tense and is nine days stale sends the next reader to fix things twice.
+
+Measured: the plan's `PublicFrame` sketch lists four properties never built (`protocolVersion`,
+`config`, `scoring`, `deckCounts`) and omits **28** that exist. The shape is the real difference —
+the implementation is flat where the plan grouped things into `clock`, `config`, `scoring` and
+`deckCounts` objects, so a renderer written from the sketch would not compile against the projection.
+
+The plan now says all of this at the top and at step 1, names `src/sim/view.ts` and
+`test/redaction.test.ts`'s allow-list as the authority, keeps the original sketch for its reasoning,
+and lists what has been gained since. `protocolVersion` is called out as unbuilt rather than quietly
+dropped — step 2 is the reconnecting display stream and is the first thing that would want one.
+
+**And one step-1 item is struck off rather than built.** The plan asks for the Red Flag holder on the
+public player projection, "public game state but currently absent from `Frame`". The premise does not
+hold here: `decks.redFlags` is written once, in `setup.ts`, from `optionalRules.emergencyToolbox`,
+and never again — `redFlag.play` emits `phaseEnded` and does not spend it — so every player holds one
+or none does, decided before the deal. A per-player `redFlagHeld` would be one already-public option
+copied N times, while telling every reader of the common board that it varies by player and might
+change mid-game. That is worse than the absence. The invariant is pinned by test so the item is not
+re-raised from the plan text.
+
+### Four dead imports, and a measurement for #46
+
+Removed: `HAND_LIMIT`, left unused in `apply.ts`, `view.ts` and `web/game.ts` when 0.7.9.6
+consolidated the three copies of the §6.2 test into one, and `actingPlayer` in `web/game.ts`, dead
+since 0.7.9.5 made `currentActor` delegate. All four were mine.
+
+Finding them re-measured #46: **`tsc --noUnusedLocals` now finds 40, up from 29 on 2026-08-30.** That
+entry's prediction — "without the flag this list simply regrows — it is regrowing now" — is a
+measurement rather than a forecast. The remaining 36 and the flag itself are still open; ten of them
+still wait on #48 settling what `sim/replay.ts` is for.
+
+### Proof
+
+946 tests pass, up from 943. Nothing in this release changes behaviour: the three new tests pin an
+invariant and the rest is the build command, dead imports and a document.
+
+---
+
 ## 0.7.9.7 — 2026-09-07
 
 The last item off 0.7.9.6's sweep — the one parked as a maybe, which turned out to have a second half
diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index a79f498..13a0d02 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -130,7 +130,13 @@ specific paths below have not been exercised at a table. **More testing is plann
 
 **This is v0.8.0.** One shared, seatless display of the public game, usable on a TV or in OBS on its
 own and publishable into the table's Jitsi meeting. The plan is `docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md`,
-seven steps, of which 1-4 are the useful release and 5-7 are the Jitsi publisher. Items that look
+seven steps, of which 1-4 are the useful release and 5-7 are the Jitsi publisher.
+
+**Step 1 is BUILT** — v0.7.9.2 through v0.7.9.5 (#91, #92, #95, #97), with one item struck off
+rather than implemented (#103). **The plan was reconciled against the code in v0.7.9.8** and now says
+which of its "current code findings" are history: it had drifted badly enough to send the next reader
+fixing things twice. Steps 2-7 were never implemented and their findings have NOT been re-verified —
+check each before building on it. See **Reference · #103**. Items that look
 like screen polish live here because they need step 4's ordered presentation mechanism and nothing
 cheaper.
 
@@ -1521,6 +1527,14 @@ discarded wrongly.
 run it.** Swept 2026-08-30 and deliberately NOT fixed in the same pass, at Jesse's call — it is
 a wide, mechanical change and v0.7.9 had enough in it.
 
+**RE-MEASURED 2026-09-07: 40, up from 29 in eight days.** The prediction below — "without the
+flag this list simply regrows" — is now a measurement rather than a forecast. **Four of the new
+ones were mine and are removed in v0.7.9.8**: `HAND_LIMIT` left unused in `apply.ts`, `view.ts`
+and `web/game.ts` when the three copies of the §6.2 test were consolidated into one (#45), and
+`actingPlayer` in `web/game.ts`, dead since `currentActor` began delegating (#96). Removing my
+own leavings is not doing this item — the remaining 36 and the FLAG are still open, and the
+`sim/replay.ts` ten still wait on #48.
+
 **The recurrence is the point, not the 29.** `SIDE_GAP` and `CHIP_W` in `board-svg.ts` are both
 Gitea#18 leftovers — constants for a wrapped layout that no longer exists. `SIDE_GAP` was
 removed by hand on 2026-08-30 only because someone happened to read the file while closing the
@@ -1970,6 +1984,52 @@ the numbers stay so cross-references above and below still resolve.
      it existed report no device spent, which is exactly what they drew at the time, so every
      published replay is unchanged.
 
+102. ~~**`npm test` did not typecheck, and passed green on a type error in the server.**~~ — done
+     2026-09-07 in v0.7.9.8. `pretest` ran `scripts/build-web.ts`, which invokes
+     `tsc --ignoreConfig` against three web entry points — so it saw only what those three
+     transitively import, under a WEAKER configuration than `tsconfig.json` (no
+     `noUncheckedIndexedAccess`, no `exactOptionalPropertyTypes`, `--types ''`). `src/server/` and
+     every file under `test/` were never checked by the test command at all.
+
+     Demonstrated rather than argued: `const DELIBERATE_TYPE_ERROR: number = 'not a number';` in
+     `src/server/session.ts` gives `npm run typecheck` a TS2322 and `npm test` a clean
+     `# fail 0`. `pretest` is `tsc --noEmit && node scripts/build-web.ts` now, and the same planted
+     error exits 1 with the tests never running.
+
+     **Why it mattered THIS week rather than generally.** v0.8.0 is steps 2-7 of the common board —
+     a display stream, credentials, persistence, and a Chromium supervisor — which is almost
+     entirely `src/server/` and is exactly the half the test command could not see. Found while
+     answering "anything else before 0.8.0", which is the only reason it was found at all: nothing
+     about a green suite would ever have said so.
+
+103. ~~**The common-board plan had drifted from the code it is the source for.**~~ — done 2026-09-07
+     in v0.7.9.8. `docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md` was written 2026-08-27, still said "No
+     implementation has been performed", and is what steps 2-7 will be built from. Step 1 has since
+     shipped across four releases, so every "current code finding" under it described a fault that
+     is now fixed — a document that reads as present tense and is nine days stale sends the next
+     reader to fix things twice.
+
+     Measured: the plan's `PublicFrame` sketch lists four properties that were never built
+     (`protocolVersion`, `config`, `scoring`, `deckCounts`) and omits **28** that exist. The shape
+     is the real difference — the implementation is FLAT where the plan grouped things into `clock`,
+     `config`, `scoring` and `deckCounts` objects. A renderer written from the sketch would not
+     compile against the projection.
+
+     The plan now says so at the top and at step 1, names `src/sim/view.ts` and
+     `test/redaction.test.ts`'s allow-list as the authority, keeps the original sketch for its
+     reasoning, and lists what has been gained since (`crewTrays`, `queued`, `heldAtLimits`,
+     `enhancementsSpent`). **`protocolVersion` is called out as unbuilt** rather than quietly
+     dropped: step 2 is the reconnecting display stream and is the first thing that would want one.
+
+     **One step-1 item is STRUCK OFF rather than deferred:** "add the Red Flag holder to the public
+     player projection." The premise does not hold here. `decks.redFlags` is written once, in
+     `setup.ts`, from `config.optionalRules.emergencyToolbox`, and never again — `redFlag.play`
+     emits `phaseEnded` and does not spend it — so every player holds one or none does, decided
+     before the deal. A per-player `redFlagHeld` would be `optionalRules.emergencyToolbox` copied N
+     times, already public, while telling every reader of the common board that it varies by player
+     and might change mid-game. That is worse than the absence. Pinned by test so it is not
+     re-raised from the plan text: if the rule ever becomes per-player, the test fails.
+
 32. ~~**Tell the 0.4.9 playtesters their saves are dead, before they find out.**~~ — done
     2026-09-07. `PLAYTEST-0.7.4.md` was written for exactly this and did its job; Jesse, 2026-09-07:
     "a temporary document to help some of the playtesters out on making the big jump, but that is no
diff --git a/docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md b/docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md
index ca302ac..11167e0 100644
--- a/docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md
+++ b/docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md
@@ -1,6 +1,17 @@
 # Station Master Jitsi Common Board Implementation Plan
 
-**Status:** Final planning document. No implementation has been performed.
+**Status (2026-09-07):** **STEP 1 IS BUILT AND SHIPPED. Steps 2-7 are unimplemented.**
+
+Step 1 landed across four releases rather than one — v0.7.9.2 (the two narration leaks), v0.7.9.4
+(the projection helpers and the redaction net), v0.7.9.5 (the narration path), and v0.7.9.8 (this
+reconciliation). One of its items is struck off rather than built; see § Public game projection.
+
+**This document has drifted from the code and is no longer the authority on what exists.** It was
+written on 2026-08-27 against the code of that date, and the "Current code findings" under each step
+describe faults that were then real — several are now fixed, and reading them as present tense will
+send you to fix things twice. Where a step is marked built, `src/sim/view.ts`, `src/server/`, and the
+tests named in TODO.md are the authority. Steps 2-7 were never implemented and their findings have
+NOT been re-verified against the current code; check each before building on it.
 
 ## Summary
 
@@ -44,6 +55,38 @@ The sibling repository had unrelated local modifications and untracked files. Th
 
 Introduce dedicated allow-listed types. Do not derive them with `Omit<Frame, ...>` because new private `Frame` fields could then leak automatically.
 
+> **RECONCILED 2026-09-07 (v0.7.9.8).** Step 1 is BUILT, and what shipped is not shaped like the
+> sketch below. This block was the design; `PublicFrame` in `src/sim/view.ts` is now the authority,
+> and `test/redaction.test.ts`'s allow-list is the enumeration of it that fails when it changes.
+> **Read those two, not this**, when building steps 2-7. The differences that matter:
+>
+> - **The shape is FLAT, not grouped.** There is no `clock`, `config`, `scoring` or `deckCounts`
+>   object. Their contents sit at the top level — `day`, `stage`, `clock` (a time string), `phase`,
+>   `phaseKey`, `actor`, `superintendent`, `deck`, `departments`, `departmentDepth`, `salvage`,
+>   `yards`, `mode`, `days`, `optionalRules`, `houseRules`, `minCombinedRevenue`,
+>   `maxCollisionsPerDay`, `maxCollisionsTotal`, `collisionsToday`, `collisionsTotal`, `status`,
+>   `outcome`, `extraDays`, `extensionVotes`, `official`, `tally`, `openingRolls`, `timetable`,
+>   `timetableWhat`, `trains`, `players`, `division`, `districts`.
+> - **`protocolVersion` was NOT built** and exists nowhere in the repo. Step 2 is the reconnecting
+>   display stream, which is the first thing that would want one — decide there whether to add it,
+>   rather than assuming it is already on the wire.
+> - **`redFlagHeld` is STRUCK OFF**, not deferred. See below.
+> - **Fields gained since this was written** that the renderer should know about: `crewTrays` and
+>   `queued` (#98, the Crew Tray pool and the trains waiting for one), and on each district's cells
+>   `heldAtLimits` (#99, a train stopped on the Limit Track) and `enhancementsSpent` (#101, a
+>   dispatch device spent for the Day).
+>
+> **Why `redFlagHeld` is struck off rather than built.** The premise does not hold in this codebase.
+> `decks.redFlags` is written in exactly one place — `setup.ts`, from
+> `config.optionalRules.emergencyToolbox` — and never again; `redFlag.play` emits `phaseEnded` and
+> does not spend it. So every player holds one or none does, decided before the deal. A per-player
+> `redFlagHeld` would be `optionalRules.emergencyToolbox` copied N times, already public, while
+> telling every reader of the common board that it varies by player and may change mid-game. The
+> invariant is pinned by test (`test/display-gaps.test.ts`) so this does not get re-raised from the
+> plan text: if the rule ever becomes per-player, that test fails.
+
+The design as originally written, kept for the reasoning:
+
 ```ts
 type PublicPlayerView = {
   index: PlayerIndex;
@@ -145,6 +188,24 @@ Expose sanitized state, last transition time, and a safe error summary through t
 
 ## Step 1 — Secure public-state projection
 
+> **BUILT — v0.7.9.2 through v0.7.9.5.** Everything in "Required changes" below shipped except the
+> Red Flag holder, which is struck off (§ Public game projection). Mapping to the work items in
+> TODO.md: the projection helpers and `currentActorOfState` are **#95**, the systematic redaction
+> net and its allow-list are **#91**, the seed and blind-draw narration leaks are **#92**, and
+> "stop passing the full game log into `frameFor()`" is **#97** — which also fixed a reconnect bug
+> the duplicate had been masking, so read that entry before touching narration in step 2.
+>
+> **The findings below are as of 2026-08-27 and are now HISTORY, not a task list.** Two are worth
+> carrying forward anyway: districts must be keyed by SEAT with ownership resolved through
+> `playerAtSeat` (Employee Rotation), and the public view must be composed UPWARD from shared
+> helpers, never by calling the player `snapshot()` once per seat. Both are load-bearing for step 3.
+>
+> One finding was struck off on measurement rather than fixed: it warns that a display reading
+> `clock.currentActor` could highlight the wrong district during a decision. Across six seeds and
+> 3,600 decision points that field and `actingPlayer` never disagreed. `currentActorOfState` exists
+> anyway as the one place to ask — and **#96** later found a real instance of the same class in a
+> state nobody had checked, the §3.3 vote, where the game is not `active` at all.
+
 ### Current code findings
 
 `src/sim/view.ts` currently builds `Frame` for one real viewer and defaults that viewer to player zero. It combines shared table state, one district, and viewer-private fields. Calling it for a spectator would silently expose player zero’s district and private information.
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index bfd9fb5..d6e5e7c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "station-master",
-  "version": "0.7.9.7",
+  "version": "0.7.9.8",
   "private": true,
   "type": "module",
   "description": "Station Master — a railroad operations game",
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "typecheck": "tsc --noEmit",
-    "pretest": "node scripts/build-web.ts",
+    "pretest": "tsc --noEmit && node scripts/build-web.ts",
     "test": "node --test test/*.test.ts test/**/*.test.ts",
     "build:web": "node scripts/build-web.ts",
     "serve:web": "node scripts/build-web.ts && npx --yes http-server dist -p 8080 -c-1",
diff --git a/src/engine/apply.ts b/src/engine/apply.ts
index fd12622..1b7f35c 100644
--- a/src/engine/apply.ts
+++ b/src/engine/apply.ts
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 
 import {
   FREIGHT_PROFILES,
-  HAND_LIMIT,
   LABORER_ACTIONS_PER_LOAD,
   MAX_CONSIST,
   REALIGNMENTS,
diff --git a/src/sim/view.ts b/src/sim/view.ts
index 737231d..2eeb239 100644
--- a/src/sim/view.ts
+++ b/src/sim/view.ts
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@ import {
 import {
   ACTION_CARDS,
   ENHANCEMENT_CARDS,
-  HAND_LIMIT,
   MAINLINE_MODIFIER_CARDS,
   MAINLINE_PROFILES,
   MANEUVER_CARDS,
diff --git a/src/web/game.ts b/src/web/game.ts
index 04cff20..a96692f 100644
--- a/src/web/game.ts
+++ b/src/web/game.ts
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@ import type { Intent } from '../engine/intents.ts';
 import { legalActions } from '../engine/legal.ts';
 import { createGame } from '../engine/setup.ts';
 import type { CardId, GameConfig, GameState, PlayerIndex } from '../engine/state.ts';
-import { actingPlayer } from '../engine/state.ts';
 import { overHandLimit as overHandLimitOf } from '../engine/state.ts';
 import { playerAtSeat } from '../engine/state.ts';
 import { cuesFor, narrate } from '../sim/narrate.ts';
@@ -51,7 +50,6 @@ import {
   DEFAULT_HOUSE_RULES,
   DEFAULT_MAX_COLLISIONS_PER_DAY,
   DEFAULT_MAX_COLLISIONS_TOTAL,
-  HAND_LIMIT,
   LEGACY_HOUSE_RULES,
   collectiveRevenueFloor,
   houseRules,
diff --git a/test/display-gaps.test.ts b/test/display-gaps.test.ts
index ce6e2a4..ca4b043 100644
--- a/test/display-gaps.test.ts
+++ b/test/display-gaps.test.ts
@@ -388,3 +388,50 @@ describe('a dispatch device says whether it is still available today (#101)', ()
     );
   });
 });
+
+/**
+ * THE RED FLAG HOLDER IS NOT A PER-PLAYER FACT, so it does not belong on the public player view.
+ *
+ * `docs/plans/jitsi-common-board.md` step 1 asks for one: "Add the Red Flag holder to the public
+ * player projection. It is public game state but is currently absent from `Frame`", and its
+ * `PublicPlayerView` carries `redFlagHeld: boolean`. Every other step-1 item shipped across v0.7.9.2
+ * to v0.7.9.5; this one is STRUCK OFF instead, because the premise does not hold in this codebase.
+ *
+ * `decks.redFlags` is written in exactly one place — `setup.ts`, from
+ * `config.optionalRules.emergencyToolbox` — and never again. There is no `.set` anywhere else, and
+ * `redFlag.play` (the intent gated on holding one) emits a `phaseEnded` event and does not spend it.
+ * So every player holds one or none of them does, decided before the first card is dealt.
+ *
+ * A `redFlagHeld` on each player would therefore be `optionalRules.emergencyToolbox` copied N times
+ * — already on the public projection — while implying to every reader of the common board that it
+ * varies by player and might change during a game. That is worse than the absence.
+ *
+ * This test exists so the plan item is not re-raised from the plan text: if the rule ever DOES
+ * become per-player, this fails and the projection is the right place to look.
+ */
+describe('the Red Flag holding is the Emergency Toolbox option, not a per-player fact', () => {
+  const dealt = (emergencyToolbox: boolean): GameState =>
+    createGame({
+      id: 'g',
+      seed: 99,
+      config: { ...config, optionalRules: { ...config.optionalRules, emergencyToolbox } },
+      playerNames: ['Ann', 'Bob', 'Cy'],
+    });
+
+  for (const toolbox of [true, false]) {
+    it(`gives every player the same answer with the toolbox ${toolbox ? 'on' : 'off'}`, () => {
+      const s = dealt(toolbox);
+      const held = s.players.map((p) => s.decks.redFlags.get(p.index) === true);
+      assert.deepEqual(held, [toolbox, toolbox, toolbox], 'the Red Flag has become a per-player fact');
+    });
+  }
+
+  it('is already public, through the option it comes from', () => {
+    const pub = publicSnapshot(dealt(true));
+    assert.equal(
+      pub.optionalRules.emergencyToolbox,
+      true,
+      'a spectator cannot tell whether the hand limit is three or four',
+    );
+  });
+});