diff --git a/.beads/beads.jsonl b/.beads/beads.jsonl
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 {"id":"bd-05a1","content_hash":"b79b0efa41b4eca8d7e5ab9738d5ecaa403c35497877a056a502efe0583ca251","title":"Isolate RPC server startup into rpc_server.go","description":"Create internal/daemonrunner/rpc_server.go with StartRPC function. Move startRPCServer logic here and return typed handle.","status":"closed","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-11-01T11:41:14.876839-07:00","updated_at":"2025-11-02T12:32:00.158054-08:00","closed_at":"2025-11-02T12:32:00.158057-08:00"}
 {"id":"bd-0650a73b","content_hash":"a596aa8d6114d4938471e181ebc30da5d0315f74fd711a92dbbb83f5d0e7af88","title":"Create cmd/bd/daemon_debouncer.go (~60 LOC)","description":"Implement Debouncer to batch rapid events into single action. Default 500ms, configurable via BEADS_DEBOUNCE_MS. Thread-safe with mutex.","status":"closed","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-10-28T16:20:02.431118-07:00","updated_at":"2025-10-30T17:12:58.221711-07:00","closed_at":"2025-10-28T12:03:35.614191-07:00"}
 {"id":"bd-06aec0c3","content_hash":"330e69cf6ca40209948559b453ed5242c15a71b5c949a858ad6854488b12dca2","title":"Integration Testing","description":"Verify cache removal doesn't break any workflows","acceptance_criteria":"- All test cases pass\n- No stale data observed\n- Performance is same or better\n- MCP works as before\n\nTest cases:\n1. Basic daemon operations (bd daemon --stop, bd daemon, bd list, bd create, bd show)\n2. Auto-import/export cycle (edit beads.jsonl externally, bd list auto-imports)\n3. Git workflow (git pull updates beads.jsonl, bd list shows pulled issues)\n4. Concurrent operations (multiple bd commands simultaneously)\n5. Daemon health (bd daemon --health, bd daemon --metrics)\n6. MCP operations (test MCP server with multiple repos, verify project switching)","status":"closed","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-10-28T10:50:15.126668-07:00","updated_at":"2025-10-30T17:12:58.217214-07:00","closed_at":"2025-10-28T10:49:20.471129-07:00"}
-{"id":"bd-0702","content_hash":"7d338a7ecc544ac818bb49f32654bba946e34383a8e27e2cb8181be0fcf93282","title":"Consolidate ID generation and validation into ids.go","description":"Extract ID logic into ids.go: ValidateIssueIDPrefix, GenerateIssueID, EnsureIDs. Move GetAdaptiveIDLength here. Unify single and bulk ID generation flows.","status":"open","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-11-01T11:41:14.877886-07:00","updated_at":"2025-11-01T11:41:14.877886-07:00"}
+{"id":"bd-0702","content_hash":"1303947385de96bacbfed34e8f75a104d6bdcbcd94b40ead52522c1b71c82ad3","title":"Consolidate ID generation and validation into ids.go","description":"Extract ID logic into ids.go: ValidateIssueIDPrefix, GenerateIssueID, EnsureIDs. Move GetAdaptiveIDLength here. Unify single and bulk ID generation flows.","status":"closed","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-11-01T11:41:14.877886-07:00","updated_at":"2025-11-02T14:28:32.446853-08:00","closed_at":"2025-11-02T14:28:32.446853-08:00"}
 {"id":"bd-07af","content_hash":"227fcbcef36e3d6d31cdf78434fdb7198bf877dd6d3ca7a585239e3e20ee7461","title":"Need comprehensive daemon health check command (bd daemon doctor?)","description":"","status":"closed","priority":1,"issue_type":"feature","created_at":"2025-10-31T21:08:09.092473-07:00","updated_at":"2025-11-01T20:10:41.957435-07:00","closed_at":"2025-11-01T20:10:41.957435-07:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"bd-07af","depends_on_id":"bd-2752a7a2","type":"discovered-from","created_at":"2025-10-31T21:08:09.093276-07:00","created_by":"stevey"}]}
 {"id":"bd-08e556f2","content_hash":"cd9e7cc106b733dc4893e92a75feae3331b422238f261a7c738c21a18e29719f","title":"Remove Cache Configuration Docs","description":"Remove documentation of deprecated cache env vars","acceptance_criteria":"- Documentation doesn't reference removed env vars\n- CHANGELOG documents breaking change\n- No mentions of storage cache except in CHANGELOG\n\nFiles to update:\n- ADVANCED.md (remove cache configuration section)\n- commands/daemons.md (remove cache env vars)\n- integrations/beads-mcp/SETUP_DAEMON.md (remove cache tuning)\n- CHANGELOG.md (add removal entry)\n\nDeprecated env vars:\n- BEADS_DAEMON_MAX_CACHE_SIZE\n- BEADS_DAEMON_CACHE_TTL\n- BEADS_DAEMON_MEMORY_THRESHOLD_MB","status":"closed","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-10-28T10:50:15.125488-07:00","updated_at":"2025-10-30T17:12:58.216329-07:00","closed_at":"2025-10-28T10:48:20.606979-07:00"}
 {"id":"bd-08fd","content_hash":"a76be9b5de417bce89d29b20a5a675d6ac65339c5fd538683a5d76fe3c75a50c","title":"Test child issue","description":"","status":"closed","priority":3,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-11-02T11:50:40.640901-08:00","updated_at":"2025-11-02T11:50:47.309652-08:00","closed_at":"2025-11-02T11:50:47.309652-08:00","dependencies":[{"issue_id":"bd-08fd","depends_on_id":"bd-ce75","type":"blocks","created_at":"2025-11-02T11:50:40.642073-08:00","created_by":"stevey"}]}
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
 {"id":"bd-11e0","content_hash":"591db3f5674cf7f79b1f50d6b8d83fe60e495f02a21e181c9c63d8da88308d58","title":"Database import silently fails when daemon version != CLI version","description":"","status":"closed","priority":1,"issue_type":"bug","created_at":"2025-10-31T21:08:09.096749-07:00","updated_at":"2025-11-01T19:29:35.267817-07:00","closed_at":"2025-11-01T19:29:35.267817-07:00"}
 {"id":"bd-1231","content_hash":"94139e31b3a3e58086ea77a916173a6f0c372a66a21925af0b9385de2f387c2f","title":"CI failing on all 3/4 test jobs despite individual tests passing","description":"CI has been broken for a day+ with mysterious test failures. Issue #173 on GitHub tracks this.\n\n## Current Status\n- **Lint job**: ✅ PASSING\n- **Test (Linux)**: ❌ FAILING (exit code 1)\n- **Test (Windows)**: ❌ FAILING (exit code 1)\n- **Test Nix Flake**: ❌ FAILING (exit code 1)\n\n## Key Observations\nAll three failing jobs show identical pattern:\n- Individual test output shows PASS for every test\n- Final result: `FAIL github.com/steveyegge/beads/cmd/bd`\n- Exit code 1 despite no visible test failures\n- Last visible test output before failure: \"No Reason Issue\" test (TestCloseCommand/close_without_reason)\n\n## Investigation So Far\n1. All tests appear to pass when examined individually\n2. Likely causes:\n   - Race detector finding data races during test cleanup (`-race` flag)\n   - Panic/error occurring after main tests complete\n   - Test harness issue not reporting actual failure\n   - Possible regression from PR #203 (dependency_type changes)\n\n## Recent CI Runs\n- Run 19015040655 (latest): 3/4 failing\n- Multiple recent commits tried to fix Windows/lint issues\n- Agent on rrnewton/beads fork attempting fixes (2/4 passing there)\n\n## Next Steps\n1. Run tests locally with `-race -v` to see full output\n2. Check for unreported test failures or panics\n3. Examine test cleanup/teardown code\n4. Review recent changes around close command tests\n5. Consider if race detector is too sensitive or catching real issues","notes":"## Progress Update\n\n### ✅ Fixed (commits 09bd4d3, 21a29bc)\n1. **Daemon auto-import** - Always recompute content_hash in importer to avoid stale hashes\n2. **TestScripts failures** - Added bd binary to PATH for shell subprocess tests\n3. **Test infrastructure** - Added .gitignore to test repos, fixed last_import_time metadata\n\n### ✅ CI Status (Run 19015638968)\n- **Test (Linux)**: ✅ SUCCESS - All tests passing\n- **Test (Windows)**: ❌ FAILURE - Pre-existing Windows test failures\n- **Test Nix Flake**: ❌ FAILURE - Build fails with same test errors\n- **Lint**: ❌ FAILURE - Pre-existing issue in migrate.go:647\n\n### ❌ Remaining Issues (not related to original bd-1231)\n\n**Windows failures:**\n- TestFindDatabasePathEnvVar\n- TestHashIDs_MultiCloneConverge  \n- TestHashIDs_IdenticalContentDedup\n- TestDatabaseReinitialization (5 subtests)\n- TestFindBeadsDir_NotFound\n- TestMetricsSnapshot/uptime\n\n**Lint failure:**\n- cmd/bd/migrate.go:647:37: cleanupWALFiles - result 0 (error) is always nil (unparam)\n\n**Nix failure:**\n- Build fails during test phase with same test errors\n\n### Next Steps\n1. Investigate Windows-specific test failures\n2. Fix linting issue in migrate.go\n3. Debug Nix build test failures","status":"closed","priority":0,"issue_type":"bug","created_at":"2025-11-02T08:42:16.142128-08:00","updated_at":"2025-11-02T12:32:00.15834-08:00","closed_at":"2025-11-02T12:32:00.158346-08:00","external_ref":"https://github.com/steveyegge/beads/issues/173"}
 {"id":"bd-12c2","content_hash":"caa7a5f6e61a9b1c872f5462e53ed0ecdedc8835265ba6b7c7ef2100fa6448ae","title":"Add comprehensive tests for show.go commands (show, update, edit, close)","description":"Need to add tests for cmd/bd/show.go which contains show, update, edit, and close commands.\n\n**Challenge**: The existing test patterns use rootCmd.SetArgs() and rootCmd.Execute(), but the global `store` variable needs to match what the commands use. Initial attempt created tests that failed with \"no issue found\" because the test's store instance wasn't the same as the command's store.\n\n**Files to test**:\n- show.go (contains showCmd, updateCmd, editCmd, closeCmd)\n\n**Coverage needed**:\n- show command (single issue, multiple issues, JSON output, with dependencies, with labels, with compaction)\n- update command (status, priority, title, assignee, description, multiple fields, multiple issues)\n- edit command (requires $EDITOR, may need mocking)\n- close command (single issue, multiple issues, with reason, JSON output)\n\n**Test approach**:\n1. Study working test patterns in init_test.go, list_test.go, etc.\n2. Ensure BEADS_NO_DAEMON=1 is set\n3. Properly initialize database with bd init\n4. Use the command's global store, not a separate instance\n5. May need to reset global state between tests\n\n**Success criteria**: \n- All test functions pass\n- Coverage for show.go increases significantly\n- Tests follow existing patterns in cmd/bd/*_test.go","status":"closed","priority":0,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-10-31T20:08:40.545173-07:00","updated_at":"2025-10-31T20:19:22.411066-07:00","closed_at":"2025-10-31T20:19:22.411066-07:00"}
-{"id":"bd-1445","content_hash":"20fa939366a39e352f5c2ddad5705ab13559440366eebcb4f32db42a5660dfdc","title":"Create shared insert/event/dirty helpers","description":"Create issues.go (insertIssue/insertIssues), events.go (recordCreatedEvent/recordCreatedEvents), dirty.go (markDirty/markDirtyBatch). Refactor single and bulk create paths to use these.","status":"open","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-11-01T11:41:14.882142-07:00","updated_at":"2025-11-01T11:41:14.882142-07:00"}
+{"id":"bd-1445","content_hash":"19be806e637005113c6fe2c116c0d2248a80cdab0b16f6f28ff74bc22f850d9c","title":"Create shared insert/event/dirty helpers","description":"Create issues.go (insertIssue/insertIssues), events.go (recordCreatedEvent/recordCreatedEvents), dirty.go (markDirty/markDirtyBatch). Refactor single and bulk create paths to use these.","status":"closed","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-11-01T11:41:14.882142-07:00","updated_at":"2025-11-02T14:38:24.861851-08:00","closed_at":"2025-11-02T14:38:24.861851-08:00"}
 {"id":"bd-17fa2d21","content_hash":"139511c299c2fa977d11d5496245b23f4c27fe785fd4fc94470a35b0e4a01a0a","title":"Batch test 2","description":"","status":"closed","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-10-29T15:29:01.877052-07:00","updated_at":"2025-10-31T12:00:43.183657-07:00","closed_at":"2025-10-31T12:00:43.183657-07:00"}
 {"id":"bd-1863608e","content_hash":"697d09d1b24bc5120e6c8f2f94828a3c490f1432ee3ca243aa492fe465e04039","title":"Add TestNWayCollision for 5+ clones","description":"## Overview\nAdd comprehensive tests for N-way (5+) collision resolution to verify the solution scales beyond 3 clones.\n\n## Purpose\nWhile TestThreeCloneCollision validates the basic N-way case, we need to verify:\n1. Solution scales to arbitrary N\n2. Performance is acceptable with more clones\n3. Convergence time is bounded\n4. No edge cases in larger collision groups\n\n## Implementation Tasks\n\n### 1. Create TestFiveCloneCollision\nFile: beads_twoclone_test.go (or new beads_nway_test.go)\n\n```go\nfunc TestFiveCloneCollision(t *testing.T) {\n    // Test with 5 clones creating same ID with different content\n    // Verify all 5 clones converge after sync rounds\n    \n    t.Run(\"SequentialSync\", func(t *testing.T) {\n        testNCloneCollision(t, 5, \"A\", \"B\", \"C\", \"D\", \"E\")\n    })\n    \n    t.Run(\"ReverseSync\", func(t *testing.T) {\n        testNCloneCollision(t, 5, \"E\", \"D\", \"C\", \"B\", \"A\")\n    })\n    \n    t.Run(\"RandomSync\", func(t *testing.T) {\n        testNCloneCollision(t, 5, \"C\", \"A\", \"E\", \"B\", \"D\")\n    })\n}\n```\n\n### 2. Implement generalized testNCloneCollision\nGeneralize the 3-clone test to handle arbitrary N:\n\n```go\nfunc testNCloneCollision(t *testing.T, numClones int, syncOrder ...string) {\n    t.Helper()\n    \n    if len(syncOrder) != numClones {\n        t.Fatalf(\"syncOrder length (%d) must match numClones (%d)\", \n            len(syncOrder), numClones)\n    }\n    \n    tmpDir := t.TempDir()\n    \n    // Setup remote and N clones\n    remoteDir := setupBareRepo(t, tmpDir)\n    cloneDirs := make(map[string]string)\n    \n    for i := 0; i \u003c numClones; i++ {\n        name := string(rune('A' + i))\n        cloneDirs[name] = setupClone(t, tmpDir, remoteDir, name)\n    }\n    \n    // Each clone creates issue with same ID but different content\n    for name, dir := range cloneDirs {\n        createIssue(t, dir, fmt.Sprintf(\"Issue from clone %s\", name))\n    }\n    \n    // Sync in specified order\n    for _, name := range syncOrder {\n        syncClone(t, cloneDirs[name], name)\n    }\n    \n    // Final pull for convergence\n    for name, dir := range cloneDirs {\n        finalPull(t, dir, name)\n    }\n    \n    // Verify all clones have all N issues\n    expectedTitles := make(map[string]bool)\n    for i := 0; i \u003c numClones; i++ {\n        name := string(rune('A' + i))\n        expectedTitles[fmt.Sprintf(\"Issue from clone %s\", name)] = true\n    }\n    \n    for name, dir := range cloneDirs {\n        titles := getTitles(t, dir)\n        if !compareTitleSets(titles, expectedTitles) {\n            t.Errorf(\"Clone %s missing issues: expected %v, got %v\", \n                name, expectedTitles, titles)\n        }\n    }\n    \n    t.Log(\"✓ All\", numClones, \"clones converged successfully\")\n}\n```\n\n### 3. Add performance benchmarks\nTest convergence time and memory usage:\n\n```go\nfunc BenchmarkNWayCollision(b *testing.B) {\n    for _, n := range []int{3, 5, 10, 20} {\n        b.Run(fmt.Sprintf(\"N=%d\", n), func(b *testing.B) {\n            for i := 0; i \u003c b.N; i++ {\n                // Run N-way collision and measure time\n                testNCloneCollisionBench(b, n)\n            }\n        })\n    }\n}\n```\n\n### 4. Add convergence time tests\nVerify bounded convergence:\n\n```go\nfunc TestConvergenceTime(t *testing.T) {\n    // Test that convergence happens within expected rounds\n    // For N clones, should converge in at most N-1 sync rounds\n    \n    for n := 3; n \u003c= 10; n++ {\n        t.Run(fmt.Sprintf(\"N=%d\", n), func(t *testing.T) {\n            rounds := measureConvergenceRounds(t, n)\n            maxExpected := n - 1\n            if rounds \u003e maxExpected {\n                t.Errorf(\"Convergence took %d rounds, expected ≤ %d\", \n                    rounds, maxExpected)\n            }\n        })\n    }\n}\n```\n\n### 5. Add edge case tests\nTest boundary conditions:\n- All N clones have identical content (dedup works)\n- N-1 clones have same content, 1 differs\n- All N clones have unique content\n- Mix of collisions and non-collisions\n\n## Acceptance Criteria\n- TestFiveCloneCollision passes with all sync orders\n- All 5 clones converge to identical content\n- Performance is acceptable (\u003c 5 seconds for 5 clones)\n- Convergence time is bounded (≤ N-1 rounds)\n- Edge cases handled correctly\n- Benchmarks show scalability to 10+ clones\n\n## Files to Create/Modify\n- beads_twoclone_test.go or beads_nway_test.go\n- Add helper functions for N-clone setup\n\n## Testing Strategy\n\n### Test Matrix\n| N Clones | Sync Orders | Expected Result |\n|----------|-------------|-----------------|\n| 3        | A→B→C       | Pass            |\n| 3        | C→B→A       | Pass            |\n| 5        | A→B→C→D→E   | Pass            |\n| 5        | E→D→C→B→A   | Pass            |\n| 5        | Random      | Pass            |\n| 10       | Sequential  | Pass            |\n\n### Performance Targets\n- 3 clones: \u003c 2 seconds\n- 5 clones: \u003c 5 seconds\n- 10 clones: \u003c 15 seconds\n\n## Dependencies\n- Requires bd-cbed9619.5, bd-cbed9619.4, bd-0dcea000, bd-4d7fca8a to be completed\n- TestThreeCloneCollision must pass first\n\n## Success Metrics\n- All tests pass for N ∈ {3, 5, 10}\n- Convergence time scales linearly (O(N))\n- Memory usage reasonable (\u003c 100MB for 10 clones)\n- No data corruption or loss in any scenario","status":"closed","priority":2,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-10-29T20:02:47.954306-07:00","updated_at":"2025-10-30T17:12:58.182217-07:00","closed_at":"2025-10-28T20:47:28.317007-07:00"}
 {"id":"bd-1b0a","content_hash":"3a3bbc7c9f5c587da3932adf81ecbb23a140e8cd4c223d3628cb22844a94030e","title":"Add transaction helper to replace manual COMMIT/ROLLBACK","description":"Create tx.go with withTx helper that handles transaction lifecycle. Replace manual transaction blocks in create/insert/update paths.","notes":"Refactoring complete:\n- Created withTx() helper in util.go\n- Added ExecInTransaction() as deprecated wrapper for backward compatibility\n- Refactored all manual transaction blocks to use withTx():\n  - events.go: AddComment\n  - dirty.go: MarkIssuesDirty, ClearDirtyIssuesByID\n  - labels.go: executeLabelOperation\n  - dependencies.go: AddDependency, RemoveDependency\n  - compact.go: ApplyCompaction\n- All tests pass successfully","status":"closed","priority":1,"issue_type":"task","created_at":"2025-11-01T11:41:14.823323-07:00","updated_at":"2025-11-02T12:41:45.827688-08:00","closed_at":"2025-11-02T12:41:45.827688-08:00"}