Older builds persisted group members with a FRIENDLY name as the
descriptor's `name` (e.g. '大司命' for slug 'taiyi'), some predating
connection scoping entirely (no connectionId). Key matching alone seated
those descriptors as ghosts NEXT TO their own live rows ('4 bots' in a
2-bot room, reproduced live), and any path passing ghost identity onward
targeted a profile that does not exist on disk.
groupChatMemberBots now normalizes stored descriptors before seating:
an unmatched descriptor re-tries by case-drifted slug or friendly name
(botFriendlyNames precedence) against rows on its own connection —
connectionless pre-scoping descriptors match local rows only. The next
persistence pass rewrites storage to slugs, so the repair self-heals.
Unresolvable descriptors still seat as degraded ghosts and are never
used as profile targets.
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