diff --git a/context/build-and-run.md b/context/build-and-run.md
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--- a/context/build-and-run.md
+++ b/context/build-and-run.md
@@ -39,6 +39,23 @@ run\run.cmd [EGG]      # default DEV.EGG; cd's to content\ and runs btl4.exe -eg
 - **cwd MUST be `content\`** — the engine resolves `BTL4.RES`, `VIDEO\`, `BTDPL.INI`, eggs relative
   to cwd (the `loadTables` gotcha: `L4VIDEO.cpp:849` `fopen("VIDEO\\REPLACEMATS.tbl")` is relative +
   unchecked → fread on NULL if cwd is wrong). Logs to `btl4.log` in `content\` (or `BT_LOG=<file>`). [T2]
+  **Since 2026-07-26 the exe enforces this itself** (`BTEnsureContentDirectory`, btl4main.cpp): if
+  cwd has no `BTL4.RES` it probes from the exe's own directory (`..\..\content` for the shipped
+  layout, plus flattened / in-content cases) and `SetCurrentDirectory`s there, before the log file
+  opens. The boot line says so when it had to look. ⚠ **The landmine it defuses** (field report):
+  a bare `btl4.exe` launch from `build\Release` found no resources ("Resource file btl4.res
+  v1.0.0.0 is obsolete!"), wrote a stray `bindings.txt`/`environ.ini`/`btl4.log` NEXT TO THE EXE —
+  so the player's real ones in `content\` looked like they were never created — and killed the
+  mission generation the menu launched (the child inherits the parent's cwd). Invisible for years
+  because every launcher `cd`s to `content\` first; it became reachable once glass became the
+  desktop default and a zero-arg launch started opening the menu.
+- **Why this is a BT411-only hazard [T1].** The 1995 pod shipped ONE folder — `BTL4OPT.EXE` sits
+  next to `BTL4.RES`/`VIDEO\`/`GAUGE\`/`AUDIO\` (it is still there in `content\`) — and RP411/RP412
+  keep that shape (`pack-dist.ps1` copies the exe and every asset dir into one dist root). BT411's
+  two-folder split (`build\Release\btl4.exe` + `content\`) is not a design decision: `mkdist.py`
+  zips TRACKED REPO PATHS verbatim, so the dist inherited the repo's developer layout. In the
+  authentic single-folder shape cwd is right by construction and a double-click just works, which
+  is why the other games never hit this.
 - Interactive: **WASD** drive; weapon groups (keyboard, task #43) **1/Space** = lasers, **2** =
   PPCs, **3/Ctrl** = missiles; **X** all-stop; **V** cockpit/chase view. Default egg = `DEV.EGG`
   (map=grass, time=day). Swap mech via the egg's `vehicle=` — **ALL 18 ModelList names