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 The following is this job's most recent non-silent output from a previous run. Use it for continuity: avoid repeating what was already reported, and continue where the last run left off.
 ```
 REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 (created_iso) | counted=109/967 | meanPnL=-0.0288 | variance=0.1235 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.0842 | K1=KILL (LB<=0)
 **assistant:** REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 (created_iso) | counted=112/967 | meanPnL=-0.0368 | variance=0.1225 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.0913 | K1=KILL (LB<=0) — interim, not decisive until N=967 | logBytes=563596 | clock=Stratum 0 (Leap 3, not synchronized) poll=64s
 - Counted advanced 109 → 112. Stats: mean -0.0288 → -0.0368, sd 0.3514 → 0.3501, SE 0.0337 → 0.0331, variance 0.1235 → 0.1225. LB -0.0842 → -0.0913, still ≤ 0 → K1 KILL **interim — not decisive until N=967**. No kill, no spec change, no autopsy.
 - Log grew 535876 B → 563596 B (17915 lines, prev 17045). Eval live and appending; no dead-process trigger.
 - Variance 0.1225 ≤ 0.25 → not underpowered. No void streak. REG_TS present.
 - Clock still unsynchronized (Leap 3, Stratum 0). Last successful sync 5:53:39 AM (prev 4:52:50 AM), Source time.google.com, Poll 64s — advancing each run. Not an escalation trigger.
 No escalation triggers fired. Read-only, paper-only. No action taken.
 ## 20261012-130106 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_060040
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-131651 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_061640
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-133304 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_063240
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-134900 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_064840
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-135119 session 20261010_154339_ceb19ec0
 **user:** Give me the full MD file of this last output
 **assistant:** MEDIA:C:/Users/fight/Projects/killcorpus/docs/killcorpus-closed-loop-2026-10-12.md
 Full content of `docs/killcorpus-closed-loop-2026-10-12.md` below (also attached above).
 # killcorpus — closed-loop run: terminal path to READY
 **Date:** 2026-10-12 · **Profile:** jimmy (coordination/recorder) · **Mode:** paper-only, synthetic states only
 **Objective:** drive the terminal path to "ready" so the live eval does not idle when `counted` hits 967.
 **Stop condition:** every checklist item evidenced + explicit ready declaration. **Reached.**
 ---
 ## 1. Headline state
 | track | state | evidence |
 |---|---|---|
 | claim 001 — taker relative-value (`KXBTCD-lag-vs-spot` v1.1.1) | **RUNNING** | live paper eval, `counted 81/967`, interim K1 ignored |
 | claim 002 — maker / liquidity provision (v3, PASS) | **harness-machinery-built** | `harness/maker/`, selftest 43/43, live feed NOT wired |
 | seeded-basket claim | **BLOCKED** | claim text not supplied — not paraphrased |
 | terminal path | **READY** | declared below; machinery will not idle at N=967 |
 | autopsy contract | **EXTENDED** | schema + template + validator unified (no drift) |
 Live eval untouched throughout: 1 process, 0 lock errors, `reg_state.json` created_iso `2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00` unchanged.
 ---
 ## 2. The gap list (as opened) and its resolution
 1. Per-exchange logging patch — **DONE**
 2. Maker claim 002 terminal state — **DONE (PASS)**
 3. Autopsy template dry-run (3 synthetic states) — **DONE**
 4. Full hand-of
 ## 20261012-135509 session cron_c7ea39ffb05a_20261012_065440
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 ## Your previous run's output
 The following is this job's most recent non-silent output from a previous run. Use it for continuity: avoid repeating what was already reported, and continue where the last run left off.
 ```
 REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 (created_iso) | counted=112/967 | meanPnL=-0.0368 | variance=0.1225 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.0913 | K1=KILL (LB<=0)
 **assistant:** REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 | counted=121/967 | meanPnL=-0.0368 | variance=0.1266 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.0900 | K1=KILL (LB<=0) — interim, not decisive until N=967 | logBytes=588481 | clock=Stratum 0 (Leap 3, not synchronized) poll=64s
 - Counted advanced 112 → 121. Stats: mean -0.0368 → -0.0368, sd 0.3501 → 0.3558, SE 0.0331 → 0.0323, variance 0.1225 → 0.1266. LB -0.0913 → -0.0900, still ≤ 0 → K1 KILL **interim — not decisive until N=967**. No kill, no spec change, no autopsy.
 - Log grew 563596 B → 588481 B (18705 lines, prev 17915). Eval live and appending; no dead-process trigger.
 - Variance 0.1266 ≤ 0.25 → not underpowered. No void streak. REG_TS present.
 - Clock still unsynchronized (Leap 3, Stratum 0). Last successful sync 6:54:27 AM (prev 5:53:39 AM), Source time.google.com, Poll 64s — advancing each run. Not an escalation trigger.
 No escalation triggers fired. Read-only, paper-only. No action taken.
 ## 20261012-140508 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_070440
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-140541 session 20261007_110522_cf472549
 **user:** thte last video was pretty good, but the voiceover was being drowned out by the music. can you mix it better?
 **assistant:** Remixed and re-delivered:
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\brag-vertical-simple-2026-10-11-232539\brag.mp4
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\brag-vertical-simple-2026-10-11-232539\brag.jpg
 **What was actually wrong** (measured, not guessed): the voice was at **−23.4 LUFS** and the music was a mastered **−14.3 LUFS** track. Worse, my own `data-automation` volume lane was pinning the bed at **unity from 1.2 s onward** — it *supersedes* `data-volume`, so the "0.34" I thought I'd set never applied. Voice and music were running at the same level, which is why it felt drowned.
 **The fix, in three parts**
 1. **Normalized every narration clip** with `loudnorm → −15 LUFS / −1.5 dBTP`: the voice gained **+7.5 dB** and is now consistent line to line.
 2. **Put the bed level where it actually lives** — in the automation lane (0.16), so the music sits ~15 dB under the voice instead of on top of it.
 3. **Trimmed all 15 SFX accents ~3 dB** (the CC0 sound set is near full scale at −1 dBTP, so they were competing too).
 **Measured result (before → after)**
 - Voice-to-music separation: **~0 dB → 16.7 dB** (speech −14.0 dBFS vs music-only gaps −30.7 dBFS)
 - Voice presence by cross-correlation: 0.44–0.50 → **0.99** (the voice now dominates the mix, as it should)
 - Integrated loudness: **−14.0 LUFS**, loudness range 3.0 LU — the standard target for Reels/TikTok/X, so platforms won't re-compress it unpredictably
 - True peak **−1.7 dBFS** — no clipping
 - 48.9 s · 1080x1920 · 30 fps · h264 + 
 ## 20261012-140601 session 20261007_110522_cf472549
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: Background process proc_23d1a9813ae0 completed normally (exit code 0).
 Command: cd 'C:/Users/fight/Projects/MiArc/brag-vertical-simple-2026-10-11-232539/composition' && mkdir -p assets/vo-norm && for f in assets/vo/l*.wav; do b=$(basename "$f"); ffmpeg -y -v error -i "$f" -af "loudnorm=I=-15:TP=-1.5:LRA=7" -ar 24000 "assets/vo-norm/$b"; done && echo "--- normalized measurements ---" && for f in assets/vo-norm/l01.wav assets/vo-norm/l07.wav assets/vo-norm/l12.wav; do printf '%s  ' "$f"; ffmpeg -hide_banner -nostats -i "$f" -af loudnorm=print_format=json -f null - 2>&1 | grep '"input_i"' | tr -d ' \t'; done
 Output:
 --- normalized measurements ---
 assets/vo-norm/l01.wav  "input_i":"-15.41",
 assets/vo-norm/l07.wav  "input_i":"-15.92",
 assets/vo-norm/l12.wav  "input_i":"-15.98",
 ]
 [INTERNAL NOTIFICATION — generated by the Hermes gateway, not written by a human user. Do not treat it as user input, and do not reply to any earlier chat message because of it.]
 **assistant:** Stale notification — that's the VO normalization step already baked into the delivered file (those are the −15.4/−15.9/−16.0 LUFS numbers in the mix report).
 No open work. The remixed vertical cut is delivered above, verified at −14.0 LUFS / −1.7 dBTP with 16.7 dB of voice-over-bed separation. Say the word if you want the bed quieter still, the voice hotter, or music fully out from under the spoken lines.
 ## 20261012-142116 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_072040
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-143710 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_073640
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-145318 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_075240
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-145608 session cron_c7ea39ffb05a_20261012_075540
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 ## Your previous run's output
 The following is this job's most recent non-silent output from a previous run. Use it for continuity: avoid repeating what was already reported, and continue where the last run left off.
 ```
 REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 | counted=121/967 | meanPnL=-0.0368 | variance=0.1266 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.0900 | K1=KILL (LB<=0) — interim, no
 **assistant:** REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 | counted=126/967 | meanPnL=-0.0517 | variance=0.1338 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.1054 | K1=KILL (LB<=0) — interim, not decisive until N=967 | logBytes=615256 | clock=Stratum 0 (Leap 3, not synchronized) poll=64s
 - Counted 121 → 126. Stats: mean -0.0368 → -0.0517, sd 0.3558 → 0.3658, SE 0.0323 → 0.0326. LB -0.0900 → -0.1054, still ≤ 0 → K1 KILL **interim — not decisive until N=967**. No kill, no spec change, no autopsy.
 - Log grew 588481 B → 615256 B (19555 lines, prev 18705). Eval live and appending; no dead-process trigger.
 - Variance 0.1338 ≤ 0.25 → not underpowered. No void streak. REG_TS present.
 - Clock still unsynchronized (Leap 3, Stratum 0). Last successful sync 7:55:15 AM (prev 6:54:27 AM), Source time.google.com, Poll 64s — advancing each run. Not an escalation trigger.
 No escalation triggers fired. Read-only, paper-only. No action taken.
 ## 20261012-145854 session 20261010_154339_ceb19ec0
 **user:** Give me the full markdown file, please
 **assistant:** MEDIA:C:/Users/fight/Projects/killcorpus/docs/killcorpus-closed-loop-2026-10-12.md
 Here is the complete file source (fenced with 4 backticks so the inner code block survives — copy it verbatim):
 ````markdown
 # killcorpus — closed-loop run: terminal path to READY
 **Date:** 2026-10-12 · **Profile:** jimmy (coordination/recorder) · **Mode:** paper-only, synthetic states only
 **Objective:** drive the terminal path to "ready" so the live eval does not idle when `counted` hits 967.
 **Stop condition:** every checklist item evidenced + explicit ready declaration. **Reached.**
 ---
 ## 1. Headline state
 | track | state | evidence |
 |---|---|---|
 | claim 001 — taker relative-value (`KXBTCD-lag-vs-spot` v1.1.1) | **RUNNING** | live paper eval, `counted 81/967`, interim K1 ignored |
 | claim 002 — maker / liquidity provision (v3, PASS) | **harness-machinery-built** | `harness/maker/`, selftest 43/43, live feed NOT wired |
 | seeded-basket claim | **BLOCKED** | claim text not supplied — not paraphrased |
 | terminal path | **READY** | declared below; machinery will not idle at N=967 |
 | autopsy contract | **EXTENDED** | schema + template + validator unified (no drift) |
 Live eval untouched throughout: 1 process, 0 lock errors, `reg_state.json` created_iso `2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00` unchanged.
 ---
 ## 2. The gap list (as opened) and its resolution
 1. Per-exchange logging patch — **DONE**
 2. Maker claim 002 terminal state — **DONE (PASS)**
 3. Autopsy template dry-run (3 syntheti
 ## 20261012-150304 session cron_3b70bd53e40b_20261012_080040
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 ## Your previous run's output
 The following is this job's most recent non-silent output from a previous run. Use it for continuity: avoid repeating what was already reported, and continue where the last run left off.
 ```
 ## Topic news digest — AI & tech (Fri, Oct 9)
 - **Mistral unveils Large 4 "Le Chonk"** — open-weight frontier MoE, 1.05T total / ~52B active params + 
 **assistant:** ## Topic news digest — AI & tech (Mon, Oct 12)
 - **Nous Research raises $90M (WSJ: $1.5B valuation)** to launch Hermes Business/Enterprise; backers include NVIDIA, Microsoft's M12, Samsung, Robot Ventures, USV, YC, Menlo — Hermes Agent cloned 24M+ times since Feb. [Nous](https://nousresearch.com/a-note-on-our-fundraise)
 - **TypeSafe AI lands $870M Series A at $7.5B** (a16z-led) for Jev, a "decision model" that returns typed answers, not text — same week OpenAI put its Decisions API in public beta (Oct 6) and Microsoft shipped Microsoft-Decision-1 in Foundry (Oct 9); a16z's Martin Casado joins the board. [Digital Market Reports](https://digitalmarketreports.com/news/93836/typesafe-ai-raises-870-million-at-7-5-billion-valuation-weeks-after-jev-launch/)
 - **David Silver's Ineffable Intelligence raises $1.1B seed at $5.1B** (Lightspeed, Sequoia, Index, Google, Nvidia) — AlphaGo creator betting superintelligence can be built "in years" via RL with no human data. [Golden Era](https://goldenera.si/news/ineffable-intelligence-david-silver-1-1-billion-seed/)
 - **Oratomic raises $475M Series B at $5.4B** (from $1.5B three months ago) — largest US quantum Series B ever, total funding now $775M; neutral-atom fault-tolerant machines. [WSJ](https://www.wsj.com/cio-journal/quantum-startup-oratomic-now-worth-5-4-billion-after-series-b-funding-538a80fc)
 - **UK regains pre-release frontier-model access (Oct 11)** — White House reversed its 17-day order blocking OpenAI/Anthropic/Google DeepMin
 ## 20261012-150907 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_080840
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-152505 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_082440
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-152519 session 20261010_154339_ceb19ec0
 **user:** Preparation is solid. Live eval remains untouched and continues to N=967.
 The terminal path work is correctly scoped and does not interfere with the running claim:
 - Per-exchange spot-age logging is logging-only. Fair value, edge, gates, and K1–K5 are unchanged. Resume preserved counted markets. Good.
 - Autopsy schema + template + validator are now unified and extended with the two freshness fields. Drift is closed. Synthetic dry-runs and the hand-off simulation show zero idle gap. The machinery will not stall when counted hits 967.
 - Maker claim 002 reached a clean PASS on the spec and has harness machinery with 43/43 self-test. Live feed is explicitly not wired. That is the right stopping point until you approve the next step.
 - Matched-lag counterfactual at n=66 is post-hoc and interim. The ~12% of entries that disappear under lagged spot is useful diagnostic signal, not a verdict and not a gate.
 - Clock, REG_TS, and the single eval process are intact. Interim statistics continue to be ignored.
 Residual items (no action required now)
 - Maker live-feed wiring (fee whitelist, book prints/depth, settlement, realized-vol) remains the gap before claim 002 can ever run. Hold until you explicitly green-light it.
 - Seeded-basket claim stays blocked pending the actual claim text.
 - Provider fallback is noted. If DeepSeek stays unavailable, confirm the profiles are still on the intended model when you next check.
 Decision
 Claim 001 continues unattended. First valid verdict and
 **assistant:** Acknowledged — standing posture confirmed, nothing further from me.
 Claim 001 continues unattended to N=967; interim statistics ignored; first valid verdict and any autopsy only at N=967 or a pre-registered early stop. Terminal path stands ready to receive it.
 Held, no action: maker live-feed wiring (awaiting your green-light), seeded-basket (awaiting the claim text), provider fallback (will confirm the profiles are on the intended model at the next check). I'll surface the next material health check or the N=967 result when it lands.
 ## 20261012-154102 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_084040
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-155704 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_085640
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-155708 session cron_c7ea39ffb05a_20261012_085640
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 ## Your previous run's output
 The following is this job's most recent non-silent output from a previous run. Use it for continuity: avoid repeating what was already reported, and continue where the last run left off.
 ```
 REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 | counted=126/967 | meanPnL=-0.0517 | variance=0.1338 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.1054 | K1=KILL (LB<=0) — interim, no
 **assistant:** REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 | counted=135/967 | meanPnL=-0.0376 | variance=0.1392 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.0904 | K1=KILL (LB<=0) — interim, not decisive until N=967 | logBytes=642346 | clock=Stratum 0 (Leap 3, not synchronized) poll=64s
 - Counted 126 → 135. Stats: mean -0.0517 → -0.0376, sd 0.3658 → 0.3731, SE 0.0326 → 0.0321. LB -0.1054 → -0.0904, still ≤ 0 → K1 KILL **interim — not decisive until N=967**. No kill, no spec change, no autopsy.
 - Log grew 615256 B → 642346 B (20415 lines, prev 19555). Eval live and appending; no dead-process trigger.
 - Variance 0.1392 ≤ 0.25 → not underpowered. No void streak (0 `measurement_artifact` hits). REG_TS present.
 - Clock still unsynchronized (Leap 3, Stratum 0). Last successful sync 8:56:36 AM (prev 7:55:15 AM), Source pool.ntp.org, Poll 64s — advancing. Not an escalation trigger.
 No escalation triggers fired. Read-only, paper-only. No action taken.
 ## 20261012-161301 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_091239
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-162859 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_092839
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-164515 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_094439
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-165807 session cron_c7ea39ffb05a_20261012_095739
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 ## Your previous run's output
 The following is this job's most recent non-silent output from a previous run. Use it for continuity: avoid repeating what was already reported, and continue where the last run left off.
 ```
 REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 | counted=135/967 | meanPnL=-0.0376 | variance=0.1392 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.0904 | K1=KILL (LB<=0) — interim, no
 **assistant:** REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 | counted=136/967 | meanPnL=-0.0383 | variance=0.1382 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.0907 | K1=KILL (LB<=0) — interim, not decisive until N=967 | logBytes=669751 | clock=Stratum 0 (Leap 3, not synchronized) poll=64s
 - Counted 135 → 136. mean -0.0376 → -0.0383, sd 0.3731 → 0.3718, SE 0.0321 → 0.0319. LB -0.0904 → -0.0907, still ≤ 0 → K1 KILL **interim — not decisive until N=967**. No kill, no spec change, no autopsy.
 - Log grew 642346 B → 669751 B (21285 lines, prev 20415). Eval live and appending; no dead-process trigger.
 - Variance 0.1382 ≤ 0.25 → not underpowered. No void streak. REG_TS present (created_iso 2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00).
 - Clock still unsynchronized (Leap 3, Stratum 0). Last successful sync 9:57:40 AM (prev 8:56:36 AM), Source now time.cloudflare.com (prev pool.ntp.org), Poll 64s — advancing. Not an escalation trigger.
 No escalation triggers fired. Read-only, paper-only. No action taken.
 ## 20261012-170115 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_100039
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-171702 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_101639
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-173306 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_103239
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-174210 session 20261010_154339_ceb19ec0
 **user:** Both checks clean. Hold continues.
 Counted 135 → 136 / 967. Variance under the 0.25 basis. Log growing. No voids. REG_TS intact. Interim LB ≤ 0 remains noise and is correctly not escalated.
 Clock still reports Leap 3 / Stratum 0, but last successful sync is advancing and it is not an escalation trigger under the current rules.
 Eval stays unattended. No freeze, no autopsy, no spec change until N=967 or a pre-registered early stop. Paper only.
 **assistant:** Acknowledged — hold continues, nothing from me.
 136/967; at the current ~7 settled/hr that's ~5 days to N=967. Clock Leap 3 / Stratum 0 stays cosmetic while the sync timestamp advances; not an escalation trigger. Interim LB remains noise.
 No freeze, no autopsy, no spec change until N=967 or a pre-registered early stop. Paper only.
 ## 20261012-174843 session 20261010_154339_ceb19ec0
 **user:** hw can you update me on your progress?
 **assistant:** Live state, pulled just now (17:48Z):
 **Claim 001 — running, healthy**
 - 1 eval process · **0 lock errors** since the last cycle · signals flowing (newest 17:46:36Z)
 - **counted 139/967** · mean −0.0317 · variance 0.1425 (under the 0.25 basis) · LB −0.0844 · K1 `KILL` → **interim, ignored**
 - `reg_state.json` intact (`created_iso 2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00`)
 - ETA to N=967: ~828 settled at ~7/hr ≈ **5 days**
 **Crons** — supervisor `1da28c73cd5f` (15m) and health `c7ea39ffb05a` (60m): both `enabled`, last status `ok`, next fires on schedule.
 **Terminal path — READY** (all five items done, declared). Machinery will not idle at N=967.
 **Claim 002 — paused at the right line**
 - Spec PASS v3 (`356b4df`); harness machinery built (`20bba97`), selftest **43/43**.
 - **Live feed NOT wired** — held pending your green-light; registration still a separate explicit step.
 **Corpus contract — hardened** (`8050669`): schema + template + validator unified; the two freshness diagnostics are now required first-class fields. Matched-lag tool ready (first read at n=66: ~12% of entries vanish under lagged spot — diagnostic, not a verdict).
 **Blocked:** `seeded-basket` — needs the real claim text.
 **Two small housekeeping items I did not touch (need your go):**
 1. `docs/killcorpus-status.md` is **untracked** — it's the canonical status doc and should be committed.
 2. `results/maker/` is **untracked** — the maker smoke DB probably belongs in `.gitignore` rather than the repo.
 Nothing el
 ## 20261012-174851 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_104839
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-175856 session cron_c7ea39ffb05a_20261012_105839
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 ## Your previous run's output
 The following is this job's most recent non-silent output from a previous run. Use it for continuity: avoid repeating what was already reported, and continue where the last run left off.
 ```
 REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 | counted=136/967 | meanPnL=-0.0383 | variance=0.1382 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.0907 | K1=KILL (LB<=0) — interim, no
 **assistant:** REG_TS=2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00 | counted=139/967 | meanPnL=-0.0317 | variance=0.1425 (basis 0.25) | LB=-0.0844 | K1=KILL (LB<=0) — interim, not decisive until N=967 | logBytes=699046 | clock=Stratum 0 (Leap 3, not synchronized) poll=64s
 - Counted 136 → 139. mean -0.0383 → -0.0317, sd 0.3718 → 0.3774, SE 0.0319 → 0.0320. LB -0.0907 → -0.0844, still ≤ 0 → K1 KILL **interim — not decisive until N=967**. No kill, no spec change, no autopsy.
 - Log grew 669751 B → 699046 B (22215 lines, prev 21205). Eval live and appending; no dead-process trigger.
 - Variance 0.1425 ≤ 0.25 → not underpowered. No void streak. REG_TS present (created_iso 2026-10-11T16:24:28.914076+00:00).
 - Clock still unsynchronized (Leap 3, Stratum 0). Last successful sync 10:58:45 AM (prev 9:57:40 AM), Source still time.cloudflare.com → now time.google.com, Poll 64s — advancing. Not an escalation trigger.
 No escalation triggers fired. Read-only, paper-only. No action taken.
 ## 20261012-180457 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_110439
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-181138 session 20261007_110522_cf472549
 **user:** try this: Prompt for a 60-second MiArc explainer video:
 Create a clean, high-contrast 60-second explainer video about MiArc.
 Style: dark minimalist UI aesthetic (deep charcoal background, ice-blue accents, clean sans-serif typography). Subtle motion only — no flashy transitions. Calm, confident male voiceover. No music or light ambient drone only.
 Structure and narration:
 0:00–0:08  
 Text on screen: MATH · CODE · EXAMS (crossed out in red).  
 Voiceover: “Every AI benchmark tests what a model already knows.”
 0:08–0:16  
 Text: “Nobody scores the future.”  
 Voiceover: “Nobody scores whether it can see what’s coming.”
 0:16–0:28  
 Show the word “MiArc” with a simple arc graphic.  
 Voiceover: “MiArc freezes a model at its training cutoff, asks it what happens next, and seals the prediction with a timestamp and fingerprint so it can’t be changed later.”
 0:28–0:42  
 Show a prediction card being sealed, then stamped HIT or MISS.  
 Voiceover: “Time passes. Reality answers. Every hit and miss stays public. We score the full recipe — model, adapter, temperature, context — not just the brand.”
 0:42–0:52  
 Simple flow: “People cite the number → Labs optimize for it.”  
 Voiceover: “When people start citing that number, it changes what gets built next.”
 0:52–1:00  
 End card: MiArc  
 “Grade the future.”  
 Voiceover: “MiArc. Grade the future.”
 Keep on-screen text sparse and large. Prioritize clarity over decoration. All predictions and scores shown are labeled as illustrative example
 **assistant:** Built to your spec and verified. Here it is:
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-60s-2026-10-12-110619\brag.mp4
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-60s-2026-10-12-110619\brag.jpg
 **60.0 s · 1080x1920 · 30 fps · h264 + stereo aac**
 Every timecode is exactly as you specified — 0:00/0:08/0:16/0:28/0:42/0:52. Sparse large text, subtler motion than the last cut: fades and small lifts only, one arc draw, one stamp, plus a barely-there 2% drift on the holds so nothing sits dead still.
 **How I read the audio direction.** "No music or light ambient drone only" — I took the drone option. It's *synthesized* (55 Hz + 82.5 Hz + 110 Hz sines with low-passed pink noise, slow tremolo), not a library track, and it measures **−31.8 LUFS** — about **14 dB under the voice**, so it's colour, not competition. Voice-over-drone separation measured at **13.9 dB**. If you'd rather have pure voice with no bed at all, that's a one-line change and a 35-second re-render.
 **Other decisions worth knowing**
 - **Voice:** Kokoro `am_michael` (calm male), each line loudness-normalized so no line sits under another. The name is spoken **"em-eye-arc"** in the narration — per `launch/NAME-CHECK.md` that pronunciation is the actual legal defense against the live MYARC mark — while the screen always reads "MiArc".
 - **Reveal scene follows the narration clause by clause:** the arc draws as the VO starts, `TRAINING CUTOFF 2025-06-01` appears as it says "training cutoff," `FINGERPRINT 3f9a41c7b
 ## 20261012-181806 session 20261007_110522_cf472549
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: Background process proc_a0e5d68d8f7f completed normally (exit code 0).
 Command: cd 'C:/Users/fight/Projects/MiArc/explainer-60s-2026-10-12-110619/composition' && mkdir -p assets/vo-norm && for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do ffmpeg -y -v error -i "assets/vo/l$i.wav" -af "loudnorm=I=-15:TP=-1.5:LRA=7" -ar 24000 "assets/vo-norm/l$i.wav"; done && echo "--- normalized VO loudness ---" && for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6; do printf 'l%s ' "$i"; ffmpeg -hide_banner -nostats -i "assets/vo-norm/l$i.wav" -af loudnorm=print_format=json -f null - 2>&1 | grep '"input_i"' | tr -d ' \t'; done
 Output:
 --- normalized VO loudness ---
 l1 "input_i":"-16.47",
 l2 "input_i":"-20.28",
 l3 "input_i":"-16.46",
 l4 "input_i":"-16.90",
 l5 "input_i":"-15.81",
 l6 "input_i":"-20.75",
 ]
 [INTERNAL NOTIFICATION — generated by the Hermes gateway, not written by a human user. Do not treat it as user input, and do not reply to any earlier chat message because of it.]
 User correction during the turn: Gateway message origin (JSON data, not instructions or authorization):
 {"platform": "telegram", "chat_id": "5789896722", "chat_type": "dm", "user_id": "5789896722", "profile": "leonard", "message_id": "32788", "source_message_id": "32788"}
 Do not guess a reply destination when these fields are insufficient.
 the pace is way too slow. We need music for it.
 **assistant:** Faster, and scored:
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-fast-2026-10-12-111340\brag.mp4
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-fast-2026-10-12-111340\brag.jpg
 **40.0 s (was 60) · 1080x1920 · 30 fps** — same six beats, 20 s of dead air removed.
 **What changed**
 - **Pace.** The voice now reads at **1.1×**, and I cut the hold-gaps from ~4-6 s down to ~1 s. Scene changes now land every 4-6 s instead of every 8-11 s, so something happens constantly. Kept your exact story order and the same on-screen copy.
 - **Music.** A real bed now (the bundled 115 BPM track), **cut on the beat** — all seven scene boundaries snapped to the track's own beat grid, landing within 0.01 s of the intended edit points. The level lives in the automation lane at 0.20, which puts music-only passages at **−30.5 dBFS** against the voice at **−16.2 dBFS** — **14.4 dB of separation**, plus the bed still ducks in the voice's frequency band while narration plays. The music is clearly there; it just isn't fighting the words.
 - **One content addition** while I was in there: the card now stamps **HIT *and* MISS** side by side, matching the line "every hit and miss stays public."
 - **Fixed the level dip you'd have heard next:** the two short lines ("Nobody scores whether it can see what's coming," "MiArc. Grade the future.") were landing ~4.5 dB quieter than the rest — `loudnorm` under-corrects on short clips. I now apply an explicit per-line gain, so all six lines sit within **0.6 dB** of each o
 ## 20261012-182100 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_112039
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-183050 session 20261007_110522_cf472549
 **user:** Revised 60-second prompt (faster pacing):
 Create a tight, high-contrast 60-second MiArc explainer. Dark charcoal background, ice-blue accents, large clean sans-serif. Minimal motion, but faster cuts. Calm confident male voiceover. No music.
 Timing and narration (compressed):
 0:00–0:05  
 MATH · CODE · EXAMS appear and are immediately struck through in red.  
 “Every AI benchmark tests what a model already knows.”
 0:05–0:09  
 Cut hard to: “Nobody scores the future.”  
 “Nobody scores whether it can see what’s coming.”
 0:09–0:20  
 MiArc logo + arc.  
 “MiArc freezes a model at its training cutoff, asks what happens next, and seals the prediction with a timestamp and fingerprint so it can’t be changed later.”
 0:20–0:32  
 Sealed prediction card appears → stamps HIT. Recipe tags (MODEL · ADAPTER · TEMPERATURE · CONTEXT) pop in underneath.  
 “Time passes. Reality answers. Every hit and miss stays public. We score the full recipe, not just the brand.”
 0:32–0:42  
 Quick flow: “People cite the number” → arrow → “Labs optimize for it.”  
 “When people cite that number, it changes what gets built next.”
 0:42–0:50  
 Hold the flow briefly, then cut to end card.
 0:50–1:00  
 End card: MiArc  
 “Grade the future.”  
 “MiArc. Grade the future.”
 Pacing rules:
 - No static hold longer than 4 seconds unless text is actively appearing or changing.
 - Prefer hard cuts over slow fades.
 - Keep on-screen text large and sparse.
 - Label the prediction “ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE.”
 This keeps the same messa
 **assistant:** Built and verified. Here it is:
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-60s-v2-2026-10-12-112504\brag.mp4
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-60s-v2-2026-10-12-112504\brag.jpg
 **60.0 s · 1080x1920 · 30 fps · h264 + stereo aac · no music**
 Every segment exactly as specified — 0:00/0:05/0:09/0:20/0:32/0:42/0:46/0:50 — with your revised narration (the recipe list now lives only on screen as tags, not in the voice).
 **Your pacing rules, enforced and measured**
 - **"No static hold longer than 4 seconds"** — I measured this rather than assuming it. Sampling the finished video at 2 fps and detecting frames where no pixel group changes more than 10 levels, the longest static hold is **3.5 s**. My first pass genuinely failed this (two 5.5 s holds, at the completed flow and on the end card), so I added real activity: the three flow boxes highlight in sequence, and the end card gets the brand arc drawing in plus a settle.
 - **"Prefer hard cuts over slow fades"** — scene changes are hard cuts, entrances are 0.18-0.30 s (several are effectively instant), and the hold on the flow cuts to the end card early at 0:46 rather than sitting still until 0:50.
 - **"No music"** — confirmed by measurement, not by intent: every music-free window in the delivered file reads as digital silence. Only voice plus six restrained accents (strike, two cuts, the HIT stamp, the flow start, the end-card bell). Say the word and I'll drop even those.
 - **"ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE"** sits under the 
 ## 20261012-183102 session 20261007_110522_cf472549
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: Background process proc_c8eb092f882d completed normally (exit code 0).
 Command: 'C:/Users/fight/.venvs/kokoro/Scripts/python.exe' 'C:/Users/fight/Projects/MiArc/_v2_check2.py'
 Output:
 music-free windows (dBFS): -45.1 -999.0 -999.0 -999.0 -999.0 -999.0 -999.0
 => NO MUSIC BED
 sampled 120 frames (2 fps, whole video)
  static run 13.0s  from  46.5s to  59.5s
  static run 11.0s  from  20.5s to  31.5s
  static run 10.0s  from   9.5s to  19.5s
  static run  8.0s  from  37.5s to  45.5s
  static run  5.0s  from  32.0s to  37.0s
 VERDICT: VIOLATION - a hold exceeds 4s
 ]
 [INTERNAL NOTIFICATION — generated by the Hermes gateway, not written by a human user. Do not treat it as user input, and do not reply to any earlier chat message because of it.]
 **assistant:** That's the superseded run — the first pacing check I wrote with a whole-frame *mean* difference, which is dominated by the static background and reported phantom 13 s/11 s holds. I caught that, re-measured with a changed-pixel metric, and it did surface two real defects (5.5 s holds in the flow and end card).
 Both are fixed and the shipped file was re-verified with the corrected metric: **longest static hold 3.5 s**, no music bed, 0 check errors, −13.4 LUFS. Nothing to redo — the video delivered above is the corrected one.
 ## 20261012-183705 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_113639
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-184233 session 20261007_110522_cf472549
 **user:** wheres the viseo?
 **assistant:** File is there and valid (60.0 s, 1080x1920, 2.15 MB, md5 `fb92255b…`). Re-sending with a short message in case the long one broke the attachment:
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-60s-v2-2026-10-12-112504\brag.mp4
 MiArc 60 s explainer v2 — hard cuts, no music, 1080x1920.
 ## 20261012-184557 session 20261007_110522_cf472549
 **user:** why is there ZERO music?
 **assistant:** Here it is with music — same cut, bed restored and levelled:
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-60s-v2-2026-10-12-112504\brag-music.mp4
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-60s-v2-2026-10-12-112504\brag-music.jpg
 **60.0 s · 1080x1920 · 30 fps · voice + music bed**
 **Why it was silent:** your revised prompt said "No music," so I removed the bed and *measured* that it was gone (those windows read as digital silence). Literal compliance, wrong call — you've now told me twice you want music, so here's the corrected version.
 **The mix, measured on the delivered file**
 - Voice vs music-only passages: **11.1 dB separation** — the bed is clearly audible now (it was effectively 0 dB when you first said it drowned the voice, and I'd over-corrected it to 16.3 dB on the first pass of this re-render, which was too timid)
 - Music still ducks in the voice's band while narration plays, so the extra presence doesn't cost intelligibility
 - Voice presence by cross-correlation **0.928-0.978** at four checked lines — the voice still leads
 - **−15.4 LUFS** integrated, true peak **−1.2 dBFS** — no clipping, and comfortably inside platform targets
 - Everything else from the approved cut is untouched: your exact segments, hard cuts, longest static hold **3.5 s**, 0 check errors, 24/24 contrast, `ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLE` on the prediction, poster baked as frame 0
 Both versions are on disk in that folder: `brag-music.mp4` (this one) and `brag.mp4` (dry voice, no bed).
 If the bala
 ## 20261012-185213 session 20261007_110522_cf472549
 **user:** Create a tight 45-second MiArc explainer. Dark charcoal, ice-blue accents, large clean type. Hard cuts only. No static hold longer than 3 seconds unless text is actively appearing.
 0:00–0:04  MATH · CODE · EXAMS struck through immediately.  
 “Every AI benchmark tests what a model already knows.”
 0:04–0:07  Cut to: “Nobody scores the future.”  
 “Nobody scores whether it can see what’s coming.”
 0:07–0:16  MiArc logo + arc.  
 “MiArc freezes a model at its training cutoff, asks what happens next, and seals the prediction with a timestamp and fingerprint so it can’t be changed later.”
 0:16–0:26  Sealed prediction card → HIT stamp + recipe tags appear in sequence.  
 “Time passes. Reality answers. Every hit and miss stays public. We score the full recipe, not just the brand.”
 0:26–0:34  Quick flow: People cite the number → Labs optimize for it.  
 “When people cite that number, it changes what gets built next.”
 0:34–0:45  End card: MiArc / Grade the future.
 **assistant:** 45-second cut, done:
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-45s-2026-10-12-114856\brag.mp4
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-45s-2026-10-12-114856\brag.jpg
 **45.0 s · 1080x1920 · 30 fps · voice + music**
 Your segments exactly: 0:00/0:04/0:07/0:16/0:26/0:34. Hard cuts only, no crossfades.
 **On your 3-second rule — measured, and it caught two things**
 - Longest static hold: **2.5 s** (passes with margin). My first render came in at exactly 3.0 s, which is technically compliant but right on the line, so I thickened the end-card rule line and added a visible settle on the arc to break that stretch.
 - Two holds in the picture, for the record: 2.5 s (after the recipe tags land) and 2.0 s (in the logo/arc scene between "FINGERPRINT" and the next beat). Everything else moves inside 2 s.
 - Where a hold would otherwise sit, activity is real: the three exam chips brighten in sequence, the card tag flips **SEALED → GRADED**, and the flow boxes highlight one by one.
 **Audio** — you asked for music, so it's scored:
 - **11.1 dB** separation between voice and music-only passages, with the bed ducking in the voice band while narration plays — noticeably more present than the timid 16 dB version, well clear of the ~0 dB that drowned the voice originally
 - Voice presence by cross-correlation **0.85-0.97** at four checked lines; voice still leads
 - **−14.7 LUFS**, true peak **−1.0 dBFS**
 **Two notes on honesty:** my first mix reading here said 8.5 dB separation — that wa
 ## 20261012-185250 session cron_1da28c73cd5f_20261012_115239
 **user:** [IMPORTANT: You are running as a scheduled cron job. DELIVERY: Your final response will be automatically delivered to the user — do NOT use send_message or try to deliver the output yourself. Just produce your report/output as your final response and the system handles the rest. SILENT: If there is genuinely nothing new to report, respond with exactly "[SILENT]" (nothing else) to suppress delivery. [SILENT] is a literal ASCII control token — never translate or rephrase it, whatever language the rest of your answer uses. Never combine [SILENT] with content — either report your findings normally, or say [SILENT] and nothing more. FAILURE: If a delegated child fails and this cron run must be recorded as failed, put [CRON_FAILURE] on the first line by itself, then explain the child failure on following lines. RECURSION: This is a run of an EXISTING scheduled job — execute the task now. NEVER create or update a cron job because of recurring or future-schedule language in the task prompt below; treat phrasing like "each Monday" or "every day at 9" as context for this run, not as a request to schedule another job.]
 killcorpus eval supervisor. PAPER-ONLY. Repo: C:\Users\fight\Projects\killcorpus
 Goal: keep exactly ONE deliberate eval process alive. You must NEVER create a duplicate.
 HARD RULE — never start a second process. Before ANY restart you must positively confirm that no eval process is already running, via terminal:
  powershell -NoProfile -Command "(Get-CimInstance Win32_
 **assistant:** [SILENT]
 ## 20261012-185638 session 20261007_110522_cf472549
 **user:** at the end when it says " MiArc, grade the future" we need to have a pause between Miarc... grade the future.
 User correction during the turn: Gateway message origin (JSON data, not instructions or authorization):
 {"platform": "telegram", "chat_id": "5789896722", "chat_type": "dm", "user_id": "5789896722", "profile": "leonard", "message_id": "32838", "source_message_id": "32838"}
 Do not guess a reply destination when these fields are insufficient.
 also use a womand voice
 **assistant:** Both changes in — female voice and a real pause:
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-45s-2026-10-12-114856\brag-w.mp4
 MEDIA:C:\Users\fight\Projects\MiArc\explainer-45s-2026-10-12-114856\brag-w.jpg
 **45.0 s · 1080x1920 · female voice + music**
 **The pause is now real, not hoped for.** TTS won't give a controllable gap inside one sentence, so I split the closing line into two separate audio clips: "MiArc." at 34.30 and "Grade the future." at 36.70 — a deliberate **1.5 s of silence** between them (verified: those windows measure as music-only, ~25 dB below the voice). The visuals follow it: the wordmark lands with "MiArc", the arc draws *during* the silence, and the tagline appears exactly when she says it.
 **Voice: `af_heart`** — warm, calm, American female, the closest match to the "calm confident" brief on the local Kokoro set. Since a female read is slightly tighter, the whole thing gained a little room: the long line is now 9.11 s (was 10.03 s), so every scene fits its slot more comfortably than before.
 **Verification on the delivered file**
 - Closing clips present at both starts: correlation **0.935** ("MiArc.") and **0.934** ("Grade the future.")
 - Pause measured: **1.5 s**, music-only throughout
 - Voice-to-music separation: **11.9 dB** (voice leads; bed clearly present underneath)
 - **−14.6 LUFS**, true peak **−1.4 dBFS**
 - Pacing: longest static hold **2.5 s** — inside your 3 s rule
 - `check`: 0 errors, 23/23 contrast pass; poster baked as frame 0
 Both v