The tiny-archive rule (dropTinyArchives, both indexers): a settled single archive of one article and 2-100 kB under a release-like name, spaces allowed, outside the exempt groups and without an e-book, subtitle, crack, cover or sidecar word: the 2015-17 exe-stub flood in miniature, 1.66M catalog rows (LOG.md (131), (133)). PendingLadder.discard scanned every waiting row against the dropped signatures and classes, 9+ minutes a sweep inside the claim, stalling every lane: now driven from the dropped classes and signatures into the indexes. The namer feeds the indexer the span's overview text chunk by chunk (one string of it topped V8's limit) and gives up spans over 3M articles. Migration 7000: a partial index on the taken probe candidates for the prober's start. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>