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Three independently ugly bugs that all fed the same log flood:

* Electron's `WebFrameMain.send` writes every "Render frame was disposed"
  to stderr via `console.error`. When the worker fans a second
  agent-event past a reloading renderer, we produced thousands of
  identical lines and stalled the main loop on stderr I/O. Added a
  `mainFrame.detached` guard so the send is short-circuited before
  Electron's own catch block fires, and installed a targeted filter in
  `suppress-warnings.ts` (now actually imported from the entry point)
  so the specific `console.error("Error sending from webFrameMain:"…)`
  noise never reaches the terminal. Any other payload still surfaces.

* `dispatchAgentMessage` accepted the human-reader sentinel as a wake
  target when an agent replied to `__board__` — `wakeAgentIfPossible`
  then called `db.getAgent("__board__")`, threw, and the dispatcher
  kept repeating on every send. Strip `HUMAN_SENDER_ID` at
  `resolveMessageWakeTargets`, and keep a defense-in-depth guard in the
  heartbeat so a stray caller (future automation fan-out) cannot
  reintroduce the crash.

* Pi's skills loader rejects any SKILL.md whose frontmatter `name`
  diverges from its parent directory. The four bundled `my-writing-style`
  copies declared `name: writing-style-skill`, so every install emitted
  a warning and dropped the skill. They also lived as orphan gitlinks
  (mode 160000 without .gitmodules), and the global `*.md` gitignore
  hid every other SKILL.md from version control. Fixed the frontmatter
  to match the dir, converted the dangling submodules to plain trees,
  and allowlisted `builtin-skills/**/*.md` so a fresh clone carries the
  catalogue instead of silently losing it.
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Use Searchable Names HIGH enables effective code navigation name, searchable, constants, refactoring

Use Searchable Names

Single-letter names and numeric constants are hard to locate across a body of text. Longer names trump shorter names, and searchable names trump convenient abbreviations.

Incorrect (unsearchable):

for (int j = 0; j < 34; j++) {
    s += (t[j] * 4) / 5;  // What is 34? What is 4? What is 5?
}

Correct (searchable and meaningful):

int realDaysPerIdealDay = 4;
final int WORK_DAYS_PER_WEEK = 5;
final int NUMBER_OF_TASKS = 34;

int sum = 0;
for (int taskIndex = 0; taskIndex < NUMBER_OF_TASKS; taskIndex++) {
    int realTaskDays = taskEstimate[taskIndex] * realDaysPerIdealDay;
    int realTaskWeeks = realTaskDays / WORK_DAYS_PER_WEEK;
    sum += realTaskWeeks;
}

Now you can search for WORK_DAYS_PER_WEEK and find every place it is used. Try searching for 5 in a large codebase.

Exception: Single-letter names are acceptable only as local variables in short methods. The length of a name should correspond to the size of its scope.

Reference: Clean Code, Chapter 2: Meaningful Names