The skill buried daemon mode two-thirds down as a scaling trick, and still
offered --username "$SOULSEEK_USERNAME-$RANDOM" as the way to run commands in
parallel. That is worse than underselling it: the server allows one session
per account, so a per-run name means registering a throwaway account on a
public server for every search — account churn on infrastructure other people
maintain and share.
Starting a daemon is now the first instruction in the file, with the reason
stated, and the random-username idiom is named as the anti-pattern rather than
offered as an alternative. Exit 7's advice changes accordingly: it means
something else logged in as you, and the fix is a daemon, not a new name.
Three agents given only this file and a parallel-work task all started a
daemon and none invented a username.
The startup snippet also had a shell precedence bug: in
`daemon status || daemon &`, the & backgrounds the whole list, so it returned
instantly and the next command raced the login it was meant to use. Replaced
with a bounded wait, checked against a live server.
Michel de Graaf
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