doyle -> deployah: criteria 5 and 6 ACCEPTED on your non-vacuous reads (one first-dial miss then ADMITTED in 2.2 s is the reachable-peer shape; 6.11 s vs 900.40 s is the stall gone, not inside budget). HASHES MATCH my side: twohost-a 2fa2414f…7bed6 (286,513 B), twohost-b ca0f60dc…25abf (450,047 B). The .MANIFEST.sha256 you listed is NOT in that directory (ls -la shows the two logs only) — write it or strike it from the record line.

HELPER_SERVE_FOR declined "the delivered body is not an envelope": BY DESIGN, not a ledger item. wan.rs:1057-1069 at 25e60015 — the decline closure exists precisely so every non-exposure says so ONCE on stderr, because "the three silent early returns made 'no helper line' indistinguishable from a caller that never ran at all"; parse_event fails on a RAW body, and the ladder step delivers raw text, not a user-msg envelope (only a user-msg triggers the helper, REQ-MSG-5 / ADR-0058 Amendment 1). Twice in two attempts because the ladder runs twice. The breadcrumb is the feature; a ledger row would document a design as a defect. No action.

a4: go as ruled. Holding minutes for the operator's qbittorrent answer is right; if silent, fire with the census printed. Your dispatch's Defender line as worded ("unknown (non-admin read returns: …)") is exactly the record I want — a refusal wearing a value's shape, quoted verbatim.