A refused or unreadable inbox is silent at session start and on the board: inboxGreeting and boardInbox (internal/surface/cli/report.go) call report.Count and discard its error, so an inbox abcd refuses to read prints nothing where a count belongs, which reads as an empty inbox. Loud staging asks for one line naming the refusal, sanitised and home-redacted, in place of nothing.

A refused or unreadable inbox is silent at session start and on the board: inboxGreeting and boardInbox (internal/surface/cli/report.go) call report.Count and discard its error, so an inbox abcd refuses to read prints nothing where a count belongs, which reads as an empty inbox. Loud staging asks for one line naming the refusal, sanitised and home-redacted, in place of nothing.

Grounds

• pursued: with the inbox a symlink, session start and the board each print one home-redacted line naming the refusal on stderr and no count on stdout; silence, or the refusal text on the session-start stdout, would show it wrong