Captures the answer to "would the cascade/FSM design still hold up with
a real active cooler instead of heat-only + passive loss": PID/plant
model already generalize (symmetric y range, sign-agnostic plant math,
existing COOL state/pid_inner_cool), but the actor-level max(0, y)
clamp in tasks/heater.py is the one thing making today's tuning
mismatches free - removing it exposes both Outer.y_hold_min and
pid_inner_cool as live, untuned negative-power paths.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01M2ierBoxW3v7nUbDw3M2pE