diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 54d51c9..e38cfd4 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -240,9 +240,17 @@ These come from how gacha games actually schedule things, and they cause most bu
 - **Prefer a source that states machine-readable times.** wiki.gg emits ISO timestamps with a timer
   per server region, which is the only reason `regionEnds` carries real data anywhere.
 - **Silent drops are the dangerous failure.** A date format the parser does not recognise makes
-  events vanish with no error. Abbreviated months (`Apr. 29 - May 13, 2026`) are supported for
-  exactly this reason. When adding a source, compare the parser's event count against an
-  independent count of the page.
+  events vanish with no error. Abbreviated months (`Apr. 29 - May 13, 2026`) and slash-dated open
+  ends (`09/02/2026 - TBA`) are supported for exactly this reason. When adding a source, compare the
+  parser's event count against an independent count of the page.
+- **A source resting on one row is a source about to read zero.** `eventCount` in a snapshot's
+  `.meta.json` is the count the whole lane depends on, and a small one is a warning rather than a
+  fact about the game. Endfield's Game8 page read `1` for a week — one row of an *upcoming* table,
+  while four live events sat in a card grid the parser cannot see — and when Game8 re-cut that table
+  for the next version in a notation `parseOpenRange` did not know, the source read `0` and the
+  refresh reported a shape change. Neither number was ever a count of the page. When a source's
+  count is far below what the page shows, find out which shape is being skipped before the count
+  reaches zero and the gate has to guess for you.
 
 ## Event IDs are localStorage keys
 
diff --git a/docs/INGESTION.md b/docs/INGESTION.md
index 5d4a569..c0e5a46 100644
--- a/docs/INGESTION.md
+++ b/docs/INGESTION.md
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ All live in `src/ingest/dates.ts`, each returning null rather than inferring any
 | `parseIsoOffsetInstant` | `2026-08-03T21:00-07:00` (a machine-readable `<time datetime>` attribute; **offset required**) | Stella Sora |
 | `parseDayMonthYearClock` | `12 August 2026`, `10 September 202604:59:59` (day-first; the offset comes from the **column header**, and a clockless boundary keeps its printed day) | Nikke |
 | `parseZonelessClockRange` | `July 20, 2026 04:00 – August 10, 2026 03:49` (reads the clock and **discards** it — the page states no zone, so only the printed day is publishable) | Infinity Nikki |
-| `parseOpenRange` | `Jul. 24, 2026 - End of 4.6`, `July 10, 2026 - Permanent` | Star Rail, Wuthering Waves |
+| `parseOpenRange` | `Jul. 24, 2026 - End of 4.6`, `July 10, 2026 - Permanent`, `09/02/2026 - TBA` (**a year is required**, in either notation) | Star Rail, Wuthering Waves, Endfield |
 
 **A day-precision result is 00:00Z, and that is a placeholder rather than a time.** Every reader
 above returns `precision: "day"` when the source printed no clock, and stores the date at UTC
@@ -168,7 +168,18 @@ reader rather than for the earliest of them. Being generous by nine hours costs
 the bottom of a list; being strict costs a live one.
 
 `parseOpenRange` is tried last because it is the most permissive — it accepts any leading full date
-and reports no end.
+and reports no end. It reads **both** notations, month-name and slash, because which one a page uses
+is house style rather than a statement about certainty: Star Rail writes `End of 4.6` after a month
+name, and Endfield's Game8 page published its entire 1.5 schedule as `09/02/2026 - TBA`. Reading only
+the first notation made all nine of those rows undatable, and an undatable row is dropped in silence —
+the source went from one event to zero and the run reported a shape change. What it may never do is
+infer a missing year: Game8's summary rows write `08/12 - 08/24`, and this being the last reader tried
+means a year guessed here becomes a confidently dated event with nothing left to catch it.
+
+The open-end vocabulary is listed in two places that must agree — `parseOpenRange` decides whether the
+row is datable, and `RANGE_PREFIX` in `game8.ts` strips the range off the cell to recover the blurb. A
+word the first knows and the second does not still yields the event, with the leftover end tacked onto
+the front of its summary (`- TBA Sign-in to get extra pulls for Typhoeus!`).
 
 `parseAdjacentFullRange` and `parseYearFirstSlashRange` are anchored at both ends and require a year
 on each half, which is what keeps them from eating prose. `August 12, 2026 Day 3 rewards are doubled`