docs(shell): record the clip, and the four things only a device showed

CLAUDE.md gains the surface beside the keyboard model it shares, and
NOTES.md the measurements: the 83px clip with its screenshot, the probe
that established a top-layer dialog escapes paint containment from
inside a view, the UA stylesheet's 354px, the focus steal a longer
retry cannot beat, and the submenu this change pushed off-screen before
it pulled it back.

The last of those is also a note about scope: the issue was claimed
saying the submenu would be measured and filed, and the measurement
said fix it.

.planning/NOTES.md

@@ -4707,3 +4707,81 @@ measurement taken was of a screen with `job-band` on it and the art at
 route other than its own** (#175) — it was still up, full-screen and
 intercepting pointer events, after `AddLibrary` succeeded through the
 binding, and was gone after a relaunch. Filed.
+
+## The context menu was clipped on the device, and the fix needed four measurements nothing here could make (measured 2026-08-21, TLP301 / Chrome 113 / 424x439)
+
+#60 had been diagnosed from the Web Awesome source and was right. What
+the device added was the numbers, and three things the reading had not
+reached.
+
+**The clip, reproduced before any code was written.** Long-press on the
+lowest visible track row at 424x439:
+
+| | |
+|---|---|
+| viewport | 424x439 |
+| `.main-panel` | 0 to **318**, computed `contain: content` |
+| menu panel | 191 to **401**, 210px tall |
+| clipped away | **83px, three of seven items** |
+| `wa-popup` computed position | `fixed` |
+| `HTMLElement.prototype.hasOwnProperty('popover')` | **false** |
+| row height | **29px** (against a 44px floor and a 48px ask) |
+
+A screenshot shows the menu sliced off flush with the mini player's top
+edge. Both halves of the diagnosis are therefore measured, not inferred.
+
+**"A dialog escapes containment" was the premise, and it was untested.**
+Every dialog in this app is mounted in `index.html`, *outside*
+`.main-panel` — so nothing here was evidence about a dialog opened from
+inside a view, which is what this change needed. A probe `<dialog>`
+appended to `track-list`'s shadow root and `showModal()`n paints to
+y=439, over the mini player and the tab bar. A top-layer element's
+containing block is the viewport, paint-contained ancestor or not.
+Checking that first cost ten minutes and would have cost a rebuild.
+
+**The UA stylesheet is the thing that makes a naive sheet look wrong.**
+That same probe came out **354px wide on a 424px screen**, centred,
+because a native `<dialog>` carries `max-width: calc(100% - 6px - 2em)`
+and `margin: auto`. `max-width: none` and explicit margins are four
+declarations that are pure undoing.
+
+**A retry loop cannot win against a steal that happens later.**
+`MenuKeyboard` focuses the first item and returns as soon as it lands;
+`wa-dialog` then focuses `[autofocus]` or *itself* on the frame after
+`showModal()`, and it cannot see our first item to prefer it — the
+panel is slotted through `menu-surface`, so the dialog's own
+`querySelector` stops at the `<slot>`. Measured: the sheet opened with
+`document.activeElement` on the `<dialog>` and every arrow key went
+nowhere. Lengthening the retry budget does not help, because the first
+attempt *succeeds*. The surface announcing `menu-shown` after
+`wa-after-show`, and the keyboard re-asserting, is the fix.
+
+**The submenu was made worse before it was made better, and only a
+measurement caught it.** `#playlist-submenu` is a
+`placement="right-start"` flyout anchored to its row. Making the menu a
+full-width sheet moved that anchor to x=0, so the flip put the playlist
+picker at **x −182 to 0 — entirely off-screen**, and "Add to Playlist"
+led nowhere at all. Before the change the anchor row started at x≈245
+and the same flip landed it on screen. It is a `menu-surface` too now
+and stacks as a second sheet. Two lessons: a change that moves an
+anchor changes every flip decision downstream of it, and *the scope I
+declared on the issue was wrong* — I had said I would measure the
+submenu and file it, and the measurement said fix it.
+
+**And the sweep found two call sites the conversion missed.** Twelve
+were converted by hand; `menu-surface.test.ts` reads every source file
+and fails on a `<wa-popup>` outside a three-file allowlist, which
+immediately named `queue-panel`'s add-to-playlist popup (a real menu,
+converted) and `now-playing`'s cover preview (a hover affordance in the
+bottom bar — allowlisted, since a touch device never opens it and
+nothing clips it). A thirteenth menu written as a bare popup would pass
+every tier here and be clipped on the device, which is precisely why
+the guard is a source sweep rather than a rendered assertion.
+
+**What no tier here can see remains the clip itself.** This runner's
+Chromium and CI's WebKit both have the Popover API, so the popup is
+top-layered and correct and a "not clipped" assertion passes on the
+broken build. The specs assert the *mechanism* — that the surface is a
+native `<dialog>` at phone width — which is the same move
+`queue-as-a-screen.spec.ts` makes about containment and for the same
+reason.

CLAUDE.md

@@ -1367,8 +1367,17 @@ against the real components:
   `wa-dropdown-item` sets its `role` in its *own* first update, so a
   `[role^="menuitem"]` query at `updateComplete` finds nothing — which
   reads exactly like a menu that opened and refused to take focus.
-- **`focus()` on a popup that has not positioned itself is a silent
+- **`focus()` on a surface that has not shown itself is a silent
-  no-op**, so the first focus is retried across a few frames.
+  no-op**, so the first focus is retried on a *time* budget rather
+  than a frame count — the thing being waited for is another
+  component's animation. And a retry is not enough on its own for the
+  sheet below: `wa-dialog` focuses `[autofocus]` or *itself* on the
+  frame after `showModal()`, and it cannot see the first menu item to
+  prefer it, because the panel is slotted through `menu-surface` and
+  the dialog's own `querySelector` stops at the `<slot>`. The first
+  attempt therefore *succeeds* and is then overwritten, which no
+  amount of waiting fixes — so the surface announces `menu-shown` when
+  it has settled and `MenuKeyboard.refocus()` re-asserts.
 - **Focus is only taken back if the menu had it.** A click elsewhere
   closes the menu too, and pulling focus to the row the user
   right-clicked a moment ago is worse than leaving it.
@@ -1376,6 +1385,69 @@ against the real components:
   moving focus without setting it leaves the highlight on whichever
   item the mouse last touched.
 
+**And a menu is drawn where it fits: a popup on a desktop, a bottom
+sheet on a phone** (#60). `components/menu-surface/` is that one
+decision. The host renders the panel it always rendered and slots it
+into whichever surface is up, so `ContextMenuController` still drives
+`.active` and `.anchor` as though it were talking to a `wa-popup`, and
+fourteen call sites changed one tag name each and nothing else.
+
+**It is a correctness fix, not a taste one, and the failure was
+measured on the device rather than inferred.** Chrome 113 has no
+Popover API, so `wa-popup` takes its own documented fallback and
+positions with `strategy: "fixed"`; `.main-panel` carries
+`contain: layout style paint`, and paint containment *clips* fixed
+descendants. On the reference device the main panel spans 0-318 of a
+439px viewport while the open menu spanned 191-401 — three of its seven
+items cut off, with no way to reach them. `showModal()` is Chrome 37
+and uses the real top layer, so a dialog is immune by construction.
+
+Six things about it are load-bearing.
+
+**"Dialogs are fine" needed checking, because every other dialog in
+this app is mounted in `index.html`** — outside `.main-panel` — so it
+was not evidence about one opened from inside a view. A probe dialog
+appended to `track-list`'s shadow root paints to y=439, over the mini
+player and the tab bar, with the contained ancestor still in place. A
+top-layer element's containing block is the viewport, contained
+ancestor or not.
+
+**The sheet has to un-do the UA stylesheet.** A native `<dialog>`
+carries `max-width: calc(100% - 6px - 2em)` and `margin: auto`, which
+drew a 354px panel floating in the middle of a 424px screen.
+`max-width: none` plus explicit margins is what makes it a sheet.
+
+**The row sizing lives in `contextMenuStyles`, not in the component.**
+The panel is the *host's* light DOM — it stays in the host's shadow
+root, so only the host's stylesheet can reach it. `menu-surface` puts
+`data-sheet` on the panel and that shared stylesheet does the rest,
+which is how fourteen menus went from 29px rows to 48px ones in one
+edit.
+
+**A dismissal has to travel back.** `wa-dialog` closes itself on
+Escape, which would leave the controller believing the menu is open —
+and the failure mode is not a stuck sheet but the *next* long-press
+doing nothing, which reads as the gesture breaking. `menu-dismiss` is
+that signal; the three surfaces that do not use `ContextMenuController`
+bind it themselves.
+
+**The playlist submenu is a sheet too, and it had to be.** It is a
+`placement="right-start"` flyout, and making the menu full-width moved
+its anchor — measured at x −182 to 0, entirely off-screen, so "Add to
+Playlist" led nowhere. It stacks as a second sheet over the first,
+which is also why `menu-shown` does not re-assert focus while the
+submenu is open.
+
+**And which call sites exist is swept, not remembered.** A thirteenth
+menu written as a bare `<wa-popup>` works perfectly in every tier here
+and is clipped on the device, so `menu-surface.test.ts` reads the
+source and fails on one outside a three-file allowlist —
+`menu-surface` itself, `job-indicator` (in `.top-bar`, which no
+ancestor contains — the contrast that proved the diagnosis on #62) and
+`now-playing`'s cover preview (a hover affordance, which a touch device
+never opens). **The sweep found two of the fourteen**; twelve were
+converted by hand.
+
 **And a menu opens from a finger, through the event it already has.**
 `utils/long-press.ts` is one document-capture listener installed once
 from `index.ts`: a touch that holds still for 500 ms dispatches a