diff --git a/quest/m3/README.md b/quest/m3/README.md
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 - [Debug of std's iterator adaptors](/quest/m3/ts-iter-adaptor-debug.md) - `Debug` of `Map`, `Zip`, `Peekable`, `DecodeUtf16`, and the other adaptors writes what std's does
 - [Waiting: a slice object for a mutable part of other values](/quest/m3/ts-slice-object.md) - waits on a moq profile showing the `Proxy` view's traps matter, then decides on an `rt.ByteSlice`-like form
 - [Port the workflow guard to kixelated/quest](/quest/m3/quest-workflow-guard.md) - quest's environment guard parses YAML as this repository's does
+- [A vector keeps the capacity its pushes grew as it shrinks](/quest/m3/ts-vec-clear-capacity.md) - every step that drops a pushed `Vec`'s length keeps its capacity, as std guarantees
 - [A vector's exact capacity as it shrinks](/quest/m3/ts-vec-exact-capacity.md) - a deque made from a `Vec` splits its slices where std's does
 - [A B-tree's searches call Ord as std's do](/quest/m3/ts-btree-search-order.md) - a B-tree's lookups and inserts call a key's own `Ord` in std's order and number
 - [A slice's chunks as mutable arrays](/quest/m3/ts-slice-conversions.md) - `as_chunks_mut` and `as_rchunks_mut` translate, writes landing in the slice
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+# [S] A vector keeps the capacity its pushes grew as it shrinks
+
+## Goal
+
+[rust2-ts](/ts/README.md) keeps a `Vec`'s capacity through every step that drops its
+length, as std guarantees, when the capacity came only from pushes. That covers `clear`,
+`truncate`, `pop`, `drain`, `retain`, `dedup`, `resize` down, `split_off`, `remove`, and
+`swap_remove`. Differential tests against native Rust prove it.
+
+## Plan
+
+std documents that `clear` and `truncate` leave the capacity unchanged, and that a `Vec`
+never shrinks on its own. So the guarantee-only model the maintainer chose on 2026-11-01
+must keep this capacity. It is a guarantee, not the exact capacity
+[that quest](/quest/m3/ts-vec-exact-capacity.md) leaves open.
+
+A `Vec` whose capacity is implicit, grown by pushes or made exact by `vecExact`, reads it
+back through `capOf` from its current length, so the capacity falls with the length.
+Two paths already keep it: [moq-dev/rust2#522](https://github.com/moq-dev/rust2/pull/522)
+fixed a `Vec` made from a deque's buffer, and
+[moq-dev/rust2#527](https://github.com/moq-dev/rust2/pull/527) fixed `clone_from`, which
+records the capacity before its own truncate. `rt.vecTruncate` and the other steps still
+lose it.
+
+Reproduction on #527's head: a `Vec<[u64; 160]>` gets six pushes, then one step, then a
+read of `capacity()`. Native Rust reports 8 after every step. TS reports:
+
+| step | TS |
+| --- | --- |
+| `clear`, `pop` until empty, `drain(..)`, `retain` of none, `resize(0, _)` | 0 |
+| `truncate(1)`, `dedup` to one | 1 |
+| `split_off(2)` | 2 |
+| `remove`, `swap_remove` | 8, only because five elements still imply 8 |
+| `clone_from` of one element | 8 |
+
+The `capacity` fixture misses this because its `Known` checks capacity only against a
+floor that `with_capacity` or `reserve` set, and those already hold their capacity. Its
+cases need a check that the capacity never drops below what it was before a step that
+shortens the vector.
+
+Recommendation: record the implicit capacity once, when a step first drops the length
+below it, so later steps grow from it. Measure on `push/stack` across engines first. A
+record made on every pop cost 1.24x to 2.8x there in that quest's measurement.
+
+Public API: the translator's output.
+
+## Related
+
+- [A vector's exact capacity as it shrinks](/quest/m3/ts-vec-exact-capacity.md) - std's exact capacity, beyond its guarantees, so a deque made from a shrunk `Vec` splits its slices where std's does
+- `quest/m3/ts-clone-from-capacity.md`, added in [moq-dev/rust2#527](https://github.com/moq-dev/rust2/pull/527) - the capacity of a `Vec` that `clone_from` writes over inside a container; link it by path once #527 lands
diff --git a/quest/m3/ts-vec-exact-capacity.md b/quest/m3/ts-vec-exact-capacity.md
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@@ -25,3 +25,7 @@ capacity the runtime models for the `Vec`, which holds only std's guarantees (de
   array, measured on the same workload before it is weighed against that decision.
 
 Public API: the translator's output.
+
+## Related
+
+- [A vector keeps the capacity its pushes grew as it shrinks](/quest/m3/ts-vec-clear-capacity.md) - the capacity std guarantees as the length drops, which the guarantee-only model must keep