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@@ -438,6 +438,25 @@ do. Read them before writing anything that touches the same mechanism.
waits for a reply already delivered elsewhere. A reply needs an identifier
the protocol guarantees, not a field it happens to have
+- **One errand, two halves, and the first one's refusal cancelled the second.**
+ Removing a member is the node half (stop wrapping the group key) then the hub
+ half (stop them reaching the node at all), in that order because it fails
+ safe. The node call was not guarded, so anything it refused ended the whole
+ callback — and it refused the commonest case there is: a person invited to
+ the wrong group has no member row on the node, only an unredeemed code, so
+ `set_status` matched nothing and answered "no such member in that group".
+ The removal never reached the hub. They stayed a member in the list (the hub
+ answers it), in the owner's other sessions and in the administrator's view,
+ the code emailed to them stayed live for its seven days, and the interface
+ offered no second way to take back either — the same button, every time,
+ reporting that the person it was listing was not there. Two rules, and the
+ second is the one that generalises: **a half that only ever removes access is
+ not the half to skip when the other is in doubt** — report the refusal after
+ doing what can be done, never instead of it; and **an operation that is
+ refused for the state it was invented to fix is not a refusal, it is a
+ missing case**. `test_member_removal.py` holds the seam, and the node tests
+ hold the case
+
- **A refusal that never rejects.** Denying Chromium's `fullscreen` permission
does not make `requestFullscreen()` throw — the promise never settles. The
deny-everything handler was written from a true sentence ("nothing here needs