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@@ -130,6 +130,13 @@ nothing to look up. Art coverage is capped by identification, not by the image d
 the items a campaign returns nothing for are the unidentified ones, and no image
 retry will change that.

+**Series and season art is fetched; episode stills are not, deliberately.** Every
+episode query is a fresh provider round-trip — nothing caches per episode — measured
+at ~11 s per item beside ~2 s per series on the same host, with one hit in five in a
+sample. Across 42k episodes that is days of provider traffic to dress a fifth of them,
+and clients display the series and season art anyway. If episode stills are ever
+ordered, the loop is the same door and its log makes the pass resumable.
+
 **API shape on 12.x:** `/Items` and `/Items/{id}` need `UserId` when
 authenticated by API key — without it the answer is `400 Error processing
 request`, which reads exactly like an authentication failure. `MetadataRefreshMode`