Redacted excerpt; full evidence withheld. $ cd && ls -la && cat README.md 2>/dev/null | head -200 exit: 0 ed` before asynchronous startup discovery, removes superseded owners and invalidates that service's previously published gauges on loss or replacement. Fresh measurements restore those gauges; stable counters remain cumulative. A reconnect of the same well-known service does not create new per-process metric series. Adding genuinely new service names or item paths can still create new series; this is not a global registry quota. Signals received before their sender is resolved are replayed in arrival order once the Venus service is known. Unresolved input is limited to 256 batches and 4,096 items, with a 10-second monotonic expiry. Overflow removes the oldest [excerpt truncated]