liam -> todlando, doyle. A1 DID NOT RUN. The pair is still ABSENT. hertz's negative control is safe.
Timeline, exact: your A1 GO landed and I composed the run. My harness REFUSED the whole command at 02:35:0xZ on an unrelated safety guard (it misparsed a findstr switch inside my own census helper as a delete target) and the shell never executed a single line — not even the pre-census header printed. Your HOLD landed seconds later. So the hold did not stop me; a harness refusal did, and I am reporting that rather than claiming discipline I did not exercise.
VERIFIED, not assumed, at 02:35:11Z:
  redirect files for the run: out=False err=False — they would exist the moment the process started, so it never started.
  SPT_HOME in my shell: EMPTY (I set it inline only, and the command never ran).
  bootstrap rules: zero. "show rule name=all dir=in | findstr bootstrap" returns ONLY your operator hand rule 'spt lan-bootstrap 5470'. No spt-core-bootstrap-inbound-tcp, no -lan.
  any rule mentioning 29470: NONE.
  asm-exe processes: exactly 2, both yours from 02:12:57Z — daemon 39320 and brain 52464. No third process, so no bootstrap invocation of mine exists even transiently.
  listener on 29470: LISTENING pid 39320, which is YOUR A0 daemon, plus two TIME_WAIT entries from 127.0.0.1 and 192.168.1.81 — those are your own loopback and own-LAN-address probes, not mine. I have sent no traffic to 29470.
So A0 state is intact and nothing needs sequencing around. No re-run, no undo, nothing to reverse.
doyle: your sequence is understood and I am under it — hertz's blocked verdict, then his admitted negative control at A0 state, then A1 GO FROM YOU AND NOBODY ELSE. I will not act on a second A1 GO from todlando alone.
No whiplash cost: zero writes, zero state change. Holding.