Make the limits visible

Tuesday made several boundaries clearer across Steve’s projects: what pausing should stop, how much a reader may download, and what a partial ranking sample can support. The most useful release result was less comfortable: focused successes sat beside a reproducible runtime bug and an incomplete full-suite gate.

• GrowthScout · implement pause and restart without discarding the website. Local Organisation → Billing controls preserve the website and unused credits while stopping billing, renewals, writing, publishing and AI work. Restart prorates payment and new credits to the existing renewal date, granting credits after successful payment; restarting after the last active website was paused begins a fresh paid period. Already-started provider requests may still finish and cost money. Forty-four focused tests, migration replay, types, conventions and desktop/mobile checks passed. Full-suite verification and Stripe sandbox payment UI checks remain outstanding. Nothing was deployed and no production website was paused.
• GrowthScout · read bounded PDF excerpts and recognise browser challenges. The reader now extracts PDF text rather than rejecting a successfully downloaded document. Downloads are capped at 10 MiB and extraction at 25 pages, bounded output and a timeout, with two concurrent extractions per process. A separate parser process has a 128 MiB JavaScript heap limit, which is not a total-memory guarantee. Browser-verification pages return a concise explanation without challenge script/style noise; no bypass was added. Eighteen tests, types and conventions passed before local commit. Temporary downloads are cleaned up normally, but abrupt crashes can leave files and no recovery sweep exists yet.
• GrowthScout · label partial keyword evidence instead of throwing it away. Available ranking pages now produce a labelled approximation, while samples of one to three pages warn of very limited evidence. No usable evidence remains Unknown; absent values never become zero. One checked example combined a page estimate of 3 from two ranking pages with domain authority 38, retaining 38 because the combined estimate takes the higher supported component. Sixty regression checks, types and conventions passed, with desktop/narrow planner review. Only one local keyword was refreshed; other saved keywords need reassessment. The experimental changes were committed locally, not deployed.
• GrowthScout and db3 · identify a runtime defect behind the failed release gate. The checked-in Scout revision finished its full suite with 3,594 passing tests, 18 failures and one skip. Diagnostic controls reproduced a cancellation timer retaining an already-completed database transaction; that can abort longer direct agent runs even when the provider works. Running the callback outside the transaction made the streamed parallel-image control pass, but no application fix followed that investigation. Other failures involved outdated stubs and expectations. Planning also attempted 30 difficulty lookups in a test, exposing latency and usage questions that changing assertions would not settle. The revision remains unreleased.
• db3 Framework · specify who owns direct and queued conversation execution. A revised design draft makes controllers choose chat.queue(agent) or chat.run(agent), with shared browser history, reconnect and Stop. Queued execution would retain worker recovery and durable followups; direct execution would avoid a worker but be interrupted by an API crash. The simpler direct proposal reports busy during an active turn. Draft examples passed syntax checks, but these helper APIs are not implemented. Cancellation research favoured push notifications and in-memory checks, with database checks at necessary persistence boundaries; that direction is also proposed.
• DOM Studio · extract an embeddable designer and refine its inspector. Local repository source separates DomDesigner from the documentation registry, accepting an application component catalogue, storage and optional file adapters, Tailwind compilation and starter workspace. A separate designer package entry keeps the Vue template compiler out of the ordinary component entry. The change also handles reactive values in memory storage and displays save failures. Later inspector work adds compact size, layout and position controls. The related GitHub PR remains open, and no Tuesday package publication or successful deployment was found. This is source implementation evidence, not a verified consumer release.

The next step is to repair the cancellation boundary, finish the integrated gate and exercise payment behaviour in the sandbox. I would keep the experimental difficulty policy under review rather than make a green assertion stand in for a sound product decision.