diff --git a/CONTEXT.md b/CONTEXT.md
index cd07603..f9aee8e 100644
--- a/CONTEXT.md
+++ b/CONTEXT.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Living document, unlike CLAUDE.md (timeless conventions). Read this at
 the start of a session; update it at the end of any session that changes
 project state (the `new-feature` and `pr-prep` skills enforce this).
 
-_Last updated: 2026-07-13_
+_Last updated: 2026-07-14_
 
 ## Active branches & worktrees
 
@@ -12,13 +12,13 @@ _Last updated: 2026-07-13_
 |---|---|---|
 | `main` | `vectorDB/` (primary) | Stable; PRs merge here |
 | `dev` | — | Integration branch |
-| `banchmark` | — | Benchmark work (merged to main via PR #6) |
-| `chore/ai-workflow` | `vectorDB/` (current) | This AI-workflow setup |
+
+`banchmark` (PRs #6, #8) and `chore/ai-workflow` (PR #7) are merged and
+can be deleted.
 
 ## In-flight work
 
-- **AI workflow setup** (`chore/ai-workflow`): skills, agents, specs,
-  this file — pending PR.
+None — working tree clean, all branches merged as of 2026-07-14.
 
 ## Recent decisions
 
@@ -30,6 +30,16 @@ _Last updated: 2026-07-13_
 - **Spec-first workflow adopted** — features start from
   [docs/specs/TEMPLATE.md](docs/specs/TEMPLATE.md) via the `new-feature`
   skill; specs are the design record.
+- **E2E benchmark baseline captured** (PR #6) — `cmd/bench` harness;
+  100k-vector baseline in
+  [bench/results/](bench/results/baseline_20260713-173909.json), tables
+  and version-tracking log in [bench/README.md](bench/README.md).
+  Headline: recall@10 = 0.681 at efSearch=50, flat recall curve points
+  at fogfish/hnsw graph-construction quality as the ceiling.
+- **Maintenance landed via PR #8** — GitHub Actions CI (cgo + nocgo),
+  portable relative paths in the default config, and removal of the
+  legacy `db/`/`storage/` brute-force scaffold (CLAUDE.md updated in
+  the same merge).
 
 ## Next up
 
@@ -38,8 +48,7 @@ _Last updated: 2026-07-13_
   needs real amd64 hardware for benchmarks.
 - Consider insert-time vector normalization (cosine → dot product; halves
   FLOPs, changes stored-data semantics) — needs a spec.
-- Planned maintenance (branches not yet created): GitHub Actions CI
-  (cgo + nocgo, amd64 + arm64); remove the legacy `db/`/`storage/`
-  brute-force scaffold (update CLAUDE.md when it lands); portable
-  relative paths in the default config (`config.yaml` has absolute
-  macOS paths).
+- Benchmark baseline flagged two index issues worth specs: `efSearch`
+  not clamped to `k` in `HNSWIndex.Search` (recall@100 = 0.40), and the
+  per-result Badger `Get` hydration tax in `Engine.Search` (7x QPS loss
+  at k=100).