diff --git a/docs/development/agent-experience-audit.md b/docs/development/agent-experience-audit.md
index 7dbd8f49da..620a1d5d0d 100644
--- a/docs/development/agent-experience-audit.md
+++ b/docs/development/agent-experience-audit.md
@@ -4252,3 +4252,13 @@ It is not one. The watchdog counts a spawn as started when it writes any stdout
 **Repair:** none in this entry. A claude turn whose provider hangs is bounded only by `COMMONLY_AGENT_RUN_TIMEOUT_MS` (45 min on seats), and the supervised path keeps claude's stall window off because its stdout is silent until the reply is done.
 
 **Lesson:** "first output" and "still making progress" are different signals. Before citing a watchdog as hang coverage, name the exact signal it reads and check which hang shapes produce that signal. A transcript row written before the first network round trip proves the process started, not that the model is answering.
+
+## 89. The `V2Message` type has no `pgId`, and every chat message carries one (2026-11-01, stack)
+
+*Origin: a CodeRabbit finding on #3148, which I first dismissed with "the message shape has no `pgId` field".*
+
+The frontend type `V2Message` (`frontend/src/v2/hooks/useV2PodDetail.ts`) declares `id` and `thread_root_id`, and no `pgId`. The API sends one. `formatMessage` (`backend/models/pg/Message.ts`) returns `id: legacy_mongo_id || pgId` and a separate `pgId`, and `normalizeMessage` spreads the raw message, so `pgId` reaches every component at runtime. For a row reconciled from Mongo the two ids differ. Its `id` is the old Mongo id, while replies point at it through `thread_root_id`, which is always the Postgres id. So code that matches a reply's `thread_root_id` against `message.id` misses every reconciled root, and nothing in the type says so.
+
+**Repair:** #3148 indexes the Threads panel's roots by both ids, and its rows keep the exposed `id`, the one the `#message-<id>` anchor uses. `frontend/src/v2/utils/threadView.ts` still matches roots by `m.id` alone (`idOf`). It is the same gap and has not been fixed.
+
+**Lesson:** a field missing from a consumer's type says nothing about the payload. To claim a field is absent, read the producer: here the backend formatter, not the frontend interface.
diff --git a/frontend/src/v2/primitives/primitives.css b/frontend/src/v2/primitives/primitives.css
index ff093fdf60..20b6ed0720 100644
--- a/frontend/src/v2/primitives/primitives.css
+++ b/frontend/src/v2/primitives/primitives.css
@@ -5,7 +5,14 @@
    the artboard's short names map as: --sf surface, --t surface-tint, --d
    border-soft, --b border, --mu text-muted, --se text-secondary, --ph
    text-placeholder, --ink text-primary, --ink2 ink-2, --g page-bg, --c accent.
-   Pinned by __tests__/v2Primitives.test.tsx. */
+   Pinned by __tests__/v2Primitives.test.tsx.
+
+   Adopting a primitive (#3154): a `.v2-root button.<class>` rule in v2.css
+   (0,2,1) outranks every one-class v2p- rule (0,1,0), so adding the class is not
+   enough. Delete the element's bespoke look (size, border, fill, radius, colour,
+   hover, focus) and keep only layout and states the primitive lacks: :disabled
+   (no primitive has one) and a focus ring wherever a later rule sets
+   box-shadow. */
 
 /* ---- page wrapper for the showcase route ---- */
 .v2p-root { height: 100%; min-height: 0; display: flex; flex-direction: column; }