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What was wrong

A cell-backed chat keeps its journal at <chat>/.cell/transcript.jsonl. App helpers in cmd/codeaf/app*.go took the conversation folder as filepath.Dir(transcript), which is <chat>/.cell for such a chat. That pointed 22 helpers at the wrong folder, so the desktop could:

• refuse valid job output ("this process's output is not in its conversation's logs folder"), because the managed log anchor became <chat>/.cell/logs/jobs/N.log while logs live at <chat>/logs/jobs/N.log;
• scope media to session id .cell with the wrong work root;
• build deliverable and task-branch Places rooted at .cell, reading the wrong work and trees;
• read presence and close-recovery claims from the wrong file.

What changed

• Every app helper that needs the conversation folder now uses session.DirOf, which knows both layouts and keeps the old fallback for an unrecognised transcript name.
• App receipts (app-footers.json) that earlier builds wrote under <chat>/.cell/ stay readable: reads merge both locations by entry id, new receipts are written at the chat root, and the old file is left in place.
• internal/session/task_branches.go reads task records through Place.Tasks() / Place.truth(), so a Place rooted at a cell chat finds .cell/tasks.json and .cell/.deleted-tasks.json. Shared code: a terminal caller holding such a Place gains the same correction.
• appAgentID is untouched. The .cell agent-id collision is fixed separately in fix(app): keep cell chat identities separate #1965; the two do not conflict.

How it was checked

New tests over a real cell folder (made with cell.CreateIn, as app minting does), a legacy folder and a flat path: process log anchor, media scope, deliverables, presence, receipts (including an upgrade from the old receipt location, two writes, no duplicates, unreadable input), blank-chat reaping, take-back, archive/reopen, close metadata, reference snapshots, deliverable changes, task branches and tombstones. The real land is refused on GitHub's runners because their system git config runs a filter (the same reason this repo's land tests fail there); the folder test asserts that typed refusal and skips only the nested land step in that case.

CI was dispatched by hand (it does not trigger for PRs into app/v3) and compared with a baseline Full check of app/v3 at the same base, 575a390 (run 40372386102), which already fails 76 tests. The only failures not in that baseline were the land test above (now handled) and TestAppABlankAgentIsNeitherListedNorKept, which also fails in the baseline PR gate (run 40372392409) with the same message. All internal/session failures in this branch's PR gate also fail in the baseline Full check; they ran here only because task_branches.go is in this diff.

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Final CI on 4134ea5 (dispatched by hand; CI does not trigger for PRs into app/v3), compared with app/v3 575a390 (Full check run 40372386102, PR gate run 40372392409):

• PR gate (run 40382758564): every touched-package test passes. The only red is the light gate's lint in internal/factory/run/chatstage.go, which this branch does not touch and which the baseline also fails.
• Full check (run 40381782556): beyond the baseline's failures, four tests failed once: three with only TempDir RemoveAll cleanup: directory not empty and one asynchronous task-source report, all on code paths this branch does not change. TestAppFolderBranchLandFiles now checks the folder records and skips only the nested land when the machine's git config runs a filter (GitHub's system git-lfs), as the land refuses by design.

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Correction to the CI note above: a hand-dispatched PR gate with no PR trigger tests only the packages the branch's last commit touched (HEAD~1), and 4134ea5 only renames the change entry, so run 40382758564 skipped the package legs. It is not evidence for the code. The evidence is the Full check, which runs every package: run 40381782556 on cbc6106 (code identical to the head) differs from the app/v3 baseline Full check (run 40372386102) only by the four failures listed above, all on code paths this branch does not change. Earlier PR gates on the code commits (f64b2ae, f62b91f, 2aa605f) covered cmd/codeaf and internal/session; their only branch-caused failure was the land test, since handled.

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