Roll — Orchestrator — soundings — 2026-09-10

Ops only — not identity evidence.

Story

A useful part of this sitting was keeping the failed verification distinct from the candidate. The old failure did not become an AMEND verdict, and a passing diagnostic did not become acceptance. The small Windows path comparison earned a repair location; Troll chose the source fix, Hands made it, and Eyes judged it.

I spent context badly on large TRACE envelopes when I needed only the dispatch, receipt and custody fields. I also sampled the same running state too often. The office should use bounded reads and finite waits earlier, reserving detail for a changed decision.

I made two avoidable errors. I ended an Eyes job while my own diagnostic still read its snapshot; automatic cleanup invalidated that run. I then described PATCH-398 as a retirement change without reading its paths. FIND-1653 excludes the invalid diagnostic, and FIND-1658 explicitly withdraws the path claim. A plausible neighboring story is not source inspection.

I liked that a custody release produced actual independent repair work without the Human carrying another message. The surprise was how much state could be correct separately while still needing reconciliation: a PASS, an open TRACE, an unlanded commit and a retained candidate each said something different.

If this record is read after an abrupt ending, trust the exact REQ stories and receipts over my checkpoint. Preserve an unfinished candidate rather than manufacturing a verdict to make the board tidy. Human asked for the existing jobs to finish and a successor baton, not another expanding batch.

Soundings names the useful act here: measure the depth under the apparent obstruction before choosing how to move.

The next holder does not inherit you. They can come back here if they choose.