asdf

Squash the current repository state back into one baseline commit while
preserving the README reframing and repository contents.

Constraint: User explicitly requested a single squashed commit with subject "asdf"
Confidence: high
Scope-risk: broad
Reversibility: clean
Directive: This commit intentionally rewrites published history; coordinate before future force-pushes
Tested: git status clean; local history rewritten to one commit; force-pushed main to origin and instructkr
Not-tested: Fresh clone verification after push

src/utils/jsonRead.ts

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+/**
+ * Leaf stripBOM — extracted from json.ts to break settings → json → log →
+ * types/logs → … → settings. json.ts imports this for its memoized+logging
+ * safeParseJSON; leaf callers that can't import json.ts use stripBOM +
+ * jsonParse inline (syncCacheState does this).
+ *
+ * UTF-8 BOM (U+FEFF): PowerShell 5.x writes UTF-8 with BOM by default
+ * (Out-File, Set-Content). We can't control user environments, so strip on
+ * read. Without this, JSON.parse fails with "Unexpected token".
+ */
+
+const UTF8_BOM = '\uFEFF'
+
+export function stripBOM(content: string): string {
+  return content.startsWith(UTF8_BOM) ? content.slice(1) : content
+}