Docs: page render bound

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

3 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 427fdaa..adc2fb5 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ not import from it.
   facts from both: the text page went inline, the image-only page as a
   `pdftoppm` render.
 - A page render needs a bound: at `-r 150` a 3000 pt page came out
-  6250x6250 at 171 MB peak (review probe). Renders use `-scale-to 2048`.
+  6250x6250 at 171 MB peak (review probe). Renders use 150 dpi lowered to fit 1600 px; `-scale-to` also upscales, and a 600x300 pt scan sent as 2048x1024 with a second image took the model process down (router: `proxy error: Failed to read connection`).
 - tesseract is installed with no language data, so OCR is the model's
   vision, not tesseract.
 - A Unix socket path is limited to 108 bytes: a test socket under a deep
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 6a8c767..530ef99 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ connection stays open.
 
 `files` is a list of absolute paths, at most 8. Text and code files and
 PDFs are read and inlined, sharing half the free context (a PDF page with
-no text goes as an image, at most 4, rendered no larger than 2048 px);
+no text goes as an image, at most 4, rendered at 150 dpi, at most 1600 px);
 images go as image parts to a model that reports seeing them. History
 keeps the text and, for images, the path and hash: a file that changed or
 moved is reported as no longer available when the conversation is
diff --git a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-16-attachments-design.md b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-16-attachments-design.md
index 2b56f7d..1f6a923 100644
--- a/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-16-attachments-design.md
+++ b/docs/superpowers/specs/2026-10-16-attachments-design.md
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ starts) and nothing is sent to the model:
 | --- | --- | --- |
 | text | a `text/*` mime type, or a code suffix (llamachat's list) | the file as UTF-8 (errors replaced) in a `--- file: name ---` block |
 | image | png, jpeg, webp, gif | an `image_url` part, a base64 data URL |
-| pdf | `.pdf` | `pdftotext -layout` per page in one block; a page with no text is rendered with `pdftoppm -r 150 -scale-to 2048 -png` and sent as an image, at most 4 such pages (further ones are listed as not shown and the chip is truncated) |
+| pdf | `.pdf` | `pdftotext -layout` per page in one block; a page with no text is rendered with `pdftoppm -png` at 150 dpi, lowered so the longest side stays within 1600 px (never raised), and sent as an image, at most 4 such pages (further ones are listed as not shown and the chip is truncated) |
 | other | anything else | refused, see above |
 
 Text blocks share a budget: half the free context,