2026-08-05 — Third smoke test

Third smoke test (2026-08-05, post-get-ex restart): clean pass, 24 evals — the previous round's fixes verified in the field (get-ex returned the CancellationException as a value; the tenant then derefed a catch on the cancelled task "accident-on-purpose" and reported the propagation as the doc's exact claim confirmed — the sharp edge is now a documented behavior a tester validates rather than a trap it falls into). Two observations, neither a defect, both closed:

1. The dotimes orphan trap: its first async attempt spawned __q/sleep from dotimes — semantically correct silence (orphans, cascade-cancelled at form settle), but the reach itself was the gap. Closed as the eighth pattern namespace, patterns.iteration: repeating work has two honest shapes — qfor for parallel, plain imperative code inside one task for sequential, because virtual threads make blocking cheap — and one named trap between them: imperative iteration constructs spawning tasks. __q/sleep composed properly is fine — (qdo (__q/sleep 1000) (fire!)) is delay-then-do; the trap is discarding what it returns. All three shapes verified live before writing (trap returns immediately, sequential ticks 3/3, parallel [0 1 4]). Candidate for Quiescent's own skill too — the reach-for-dotimes prior is a user-code hazard, not just an eval one. The deeper diagnosis, underlined in the instructions the same day: the implicit qdo's synchronous veneer invites the trap — (__q/sleep 100) as a top-level form works, because grounding waits for it, so "tasks just run" generalizes exactly one paren too far. The instructions now state where the veneer ends ("inside a form you are writing ordinary async Clojure"), quote the trap literally, and point at the iteration pattern.
2. ;; evicted 1 read as a count: now ;; evicted id 1 / ;; evicted ids 4, 5, at both rendering sites (the response footer and the queued cross-session eviction news).