diff --git a/planning/claude-code-channel.md b/planning/claude-code-channel.md
index 7fb3a32..7a3a90a 100644
--- a/planning/claude-code-channel.md
+++ b/planning/claude-code-channel.md
@@ -348,6 +348,17 @@ put that backlog into context on every Claude Code restart. Decided (§14 C):
   position" and gives no count, since the retained window is not a backlog this agent owes. Its
   wording is first-run safe ("if you keep checkpoints, run your catch-up"), and `resync` uses the
   same wording.
+- The cutoff stays local: `started_at` minus `BACKLOG_SLACK`. The API has no server clock that
+  shares a basis with `created_at`. The HTTP `Date` header is generated at the HTTP layer and can
+  be rewritten by an intermediary, so it cannot safely move the boundary in either direction: a
+  Date ahead hides live events, and a Date behind pushes retained history as live. If the local
+  clock is more than the slack ahead of the message clock during a first-run replay (an older
+  server that ignores `start=head`, or an explicit `--start beginning`), a live event in that
+  window can be summarised as first-run backlog instead, and an unrecognised event can be
+  consumed as history. The first ping ends first-run suppression, so the exposure is the replay
+  window. A server-provided timestamp generated by the same clock as `created_at`, or the feed
+  head position on a beginning stream so history can be classified by event id without clocks,
+  would remove the exposure (#255).
 - The replayed window on a first run also holds old room events of kinds this channel does not
   push (`group.renamed`, `app.installed`, and so on). With no earlier position none of them was
   missed, so an unrecognised event older than the process start time minus 60 seconds owes no