Long Claude Code sessions routinely produce transcripts larger than 10
MB. The previous cap at miner.py:65 silently dropped them at line 732
with `if filepath.stat().st_size > MAX_FILE_SIZE: continue` — same
silent-failure pattern as the .jsonl extension bug.
The cap exists as a safety rail against pathological binaries, not as
a limit on legitimate text. Downstream chunking at 800 chars per drawer
means source file size does not affect storage or embedding cost.
500 MB leaves headroom for year-long continuous transcripts while still
catching accidental multi-GB binary mines.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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