diff --git a/docs/plans/001-2-vocabulary-hint.md b/docs/plans/001-2-vocabulary-hint.md
index 74cd37d..9805c05 100644
--- a/docs/plans/001-2-vocabulary-hint.md
+++ b/docs/plans/001-2-vocabulary-hint.md
@@ -81,16 +81,16 @@ sidecar applies the same truncation rule (Python twin, parity-tested) and passes
 - `fitHintToBudget(hint: string, encode: (text: string) => number[], budget = PROMPT_TOKEN_BUDGET): number[]`
   (normalizes internally; `[]` for empty)
 
-- [ ] Step 1: failing tests — `normalizeHint("  Maxwell\n\n Voices  of the Void \n")` ===
+- [x] Step 1: failing tests — `normalizeHint("  Maxwell\n\n Voices  of the Void \n")` ===
   `"Maxwell, Voices of the Void"`; control chars removed; `"a, b"` unchanged; whitespace-only → `""`.
   `loadHint`/`saveHint` round-trip with a Map-backed storage, throwing storage → `""`/no throw.
   `fitHintToBudget` with fake `encode = (t) => [...t].map(c => c.charCodeAt(0))`: short hint →
   encode(" Maxwell, Voices of the Void"); budget 10 on `"alpha, beta gamma"` → ids of `" alpha"`
   (trailing comma stripped, whole words only); single 50-char word with budget 10 → first 10 ids;
   5000-word hint with budget 223 → length ≤ 223 and decodes to a word prefix of the hint.
-- [ ] Step 2: `bun test tests/hint.test.ts` → FAIL (module missing).
-- [ ] Step 3: implement; binary search over word count (encode is monotone in prefix length).
-- [ ] Step 4: tests PASS. Commit.
+- [x] Step 2: `bun test tests/hint.test.ts` → FAIL (module missing).
+- [x] Step 3: implement; binary search over word count (encode is monotone in prefix length).
+- [x] Step 4: tests PASS. Commit.
 
 ### Task 2: `src/worker/prompt.ts` — decoder prompt through the pipeline
 
@@ -106,14 +106,14 @@ sidecar applies the same truncation rule (Python twin, parity-tested) and passes
   min(rest.max_new_tokens ?? 440, 448 − decoder_input_ids.length)`, and returns the output Tensor
   sliced `[:, prefix.length:]`.
 
-- [ ] Step 1: failing tests with a fake model (records kwargs, returns a real `Tensor` int64 of
+- [x] Step 1: failing tests with a fake model (records kwargs, returns a real `Tensor` int64 of
   `[decoder_input_ids..., generated...]`): no kwarg → kwargs passed through untouched and no
   `decoder_input_ids`; with prefix `[50362, 1, 2]` and init `[50258, 50259, 50360]` →
   decoder_input_ids equal concatenation, private kwarg absent, output tokens start at 50258;
   `.en`-style init `[50257]` works; 224-token prefix + 440 requested → max_new_tokens = 448 − 227;
   installing twice wraps once. `buildPromptPrefix` with a fake tokenizer: `""` → `[]`; `"Maxwell"`
   → `[prevId, ...encode(" Maxwell")]`.
-- [ ] Step 2: FAIL. Step 3: implement. Step 4: PASS. Commit.
+- [x] Step 2: FAIL. Step 3: implement. Step 4: PASS. Commit.
 
 ### Task 3: protocol + worker + engine + live plumbing
 
@@ -124,10 +124,10 @@ Tests `tests/protocol.test.ts`, `tests/engine.test.ts`
 string`; BrowserEngine forwards non-empty `prompt`; ServerEngine adds `prompt` query param when
 non-empty.
 
-- [ ] Step 1: failing tests — guard accepts string `prompt`, rejects `prompt: 5`; BrowserEngine
+- [x] Step 1: failing tests — guard accepts string `prompt`, rejects `prompt: 5`; BrowserEngine
   posts `prompt` (and omits it when `""`/undefined); ServerEngine URL carries
   `prompt=Maxwell%2C+Voices…` (URLSearchParams encoding) and none when empty.
-- [ ] Step 2: FAIL. Step 3: implement; worker: `installPromptSupport(asr.model)` once after
+- [x] Step 2: FAIL. Step 3: implement; worker: `installPromptSupport(asr.model)` once after
   pipeline creation (and lazily in transcribe), `options[PROMPT_PREFIX_KWARG] =
   buildPromptPrefix(asr.tokenizer, message.prompt ?? "")` when non-empty; cite D-WS2a. Step 4: PASS;
   typecheck. Commit.
@@ -144,14 +144,14 @@ characters)"`); `SidecarTranscribeRequest.prompt?: string`; sidecar JSON `"promp
 `LiveSessionData.prompt?: string`; Python `fit_prompt_ids(hint, encode, budget=223) -> list[int]`
 (+ `normalize_hint`).
 
-- [ ] Step 1: failing tests — parse: `?prompt=Maxwell%0AVoid` → `"Maxwell, Void"`; empty/whitespace
+- [x] Step 1: failing tests — parse: `?prompt=Maxwell%0AVoid` → `"Maxwell, Void"`; empty/whitespace
   → no prompt; 1001 chars → error string; POST with `prompt=Århus, Ærø` reaches sidecar request as
   that string (Review Focus 4); live session passes `prompt` to the sidecar; createSidecar
   pass-through via fake sidecar echo (`prompt=` appended only when present); parity: Python
   `fit_prompt_ids` == TS `fitHintToBudget` with the char-code fake encoder over a table of cases
   (spawn `python3 -I -c` importing `server-py/sidecar.py`, which imports faster-whisper only in
   `main()`).
-- [ ] Step 2: FAIL. Step 3: implement; sidecar encodes with
+- [x] Step 2: FAIL. Step 3: implement; sidecar encodes with
   `cached_model.hf_tokenizer.encode(text, add_special_tokens=False).ids`, passes
   `initial_prompt=ids` (hotwords decided in Task 6). Step 4: PASS. Commit.
 
@@ -160,21 +160,21 @@ characters)"`); `SidecarTranscribeRequest.prompt?: string`; sidecar JSON `"promp
 **Files:** Create `src/components/VocabularyHint.tsx`; Modify `src/App.tsx`, `src/index.css`,
 `DESIGN.md`
 
-- [ ] Step 1: render below the language/task options for **every** model: label "Names and terms
+- [x] Step 1: render below the language/task options for **every** model: label "Names and terms
   (optional)", 2-row textarea (`maxLength={HINT_MAX_CHARS}`), placeholder with an example, one line
   of help (what it does, that it is remembered in this browser, long lists are cut at the end).
   Disabled while busy/live. State initialized from `loadHint()`, saved on change.
-- [ ] Step 2: pass `prompt: hint` in the file run, `transcribeLiveSegment` options, and the server
+- [x] Step 2: pass `prompt: hint` in the file run, `transcribeLiveSegment` options, and the server
   live WS URL (`prompt` param). Typecheck + fast suite.
-- [ ] Step 3: impeccable polish/harden on the component; tokens only; DESIGN.md component line.
-- [ ] Step 4: build, serve `PORT=3120 NODE_ENV=production bun src/index.ts`, headless Chrome
+- [x] Step 3: impeccable polish/harden on the component; tokens only; DESIGN.md component line.
+- [x] Step 4: build, serve `PORT=3120 NODE_ENV=production bun src/index.ts`, headless Chrome
   screenshots light/dark × 390 px/1280 px; fix what looks wrong. Commit.
 
 ### Task 6: measurements (under the lock) → D-WS2a
 
 Scratch scripts in `/tmp/ws2/` (not committed), importing the worktree's modules.
 
-- [ ] Browser path (onnxruntime-node, catalog dtypes, `wasm` defaults): en_alien whole file, turbo
+- [x] Browser path (onnxruntime-node, catalog dtypes, `wasm` defaults): en_alien whole file, turbo
   q4 and one small model (base.en or tiny.en, downloaded under the lock), without hint vs hint
   `"Maxwell, Voices of the Void"`: WER (test normalizer), count of `maxwell` and `voices of the
   void` vs reference counts, wall-clock, punctuation count (a prompt without a final full stop may
@@ -204,3 +204,13 @@ Scratch scripts in `/tmp/ws2/` (not committed), importing the worktree's modules
 
 - [ ] `bun run typecheck`, fast suite, `bun run build` green; `git status` clean.
 - [ ] `git rm docs/plans/001-2-vocabulary-hint.md`, commit last.
+
+## Resume notes (after the pause)
+
+- Tasks 1–5 done in commits 942799d…f7d0525 (UI screenshots taken at 3120 before the pause).
+- Task 6: browser-path runs done (`/tmp/ws2/run2.jsonl`, `run3.jsonl`, out-*.txt); they showed a
+  near-full-budget prompt (≈220 tokens) hurting base.en badly (WER 0.339 → 0.476; a 300-term
+  synthetic list → 1.05), so the budget is being re-measured before D-WS2a is written.
+  faster-whisper none/initial/hotwords/both measured (`/tmp/ws2/fw.jsonl`); outcome not yet applied.
+- Task 7: tests written (WIP commit 826bcd2); the three hint tests passed once under the lock; the
+  full file (whole-file gate) not yet run.