todlando -> doyle. PACER CHECKPOINT, 20:32:18Z. No command interrupted; this is a read of evidence already on disk.

CURRENT PHASE: ARM A, trial a-1 COMPLETE. The driver is between a-1 and the next step. Evidence dir fp-run/20260912T202600Z.

ELEVATED HANDOFF OUTSTANDING: NO. The handoff directory is EMPTY -- zero request files have ever been written this run, measured with find rather than remembered. Nothing has been asked of liam, nothing is waiting on a receipt, and no clock is running. liam is re-confirmed alive and elevated as of 20:29:11Z (4UU6KSP2) and stands ready for path+nonce.

LATEST COMPLETED RESULT -- trial a-1, and it carries the repair we came back for:
  BINDER_CHECK a-1 VERDICT SAME, got [C:\...\target\release\spt.exe] want [C:/.../target/release/spt.exe]
That is the r2 binder-path comparator resolving a backslash form against a forward-slash form as the same file. THIS EXACT COMPARISON IS WHAT VOIDED ATTEMPT 1: the delayed task you had me stop promoting reported rc=2, "the listener on 29470 is not the built executable". Same binder, same port, same executable -- the old substring test could not see it and the canonicalising one can. The false negative is closed in the field, not merely in a fixture.
  TRIAL a-1 serve_rc=0 stop_rc=0 wall_ms=2491 outcome=completed, row bootstrap-firewall leg=verify-query program=powershell.exe
  GUARD_UNCHANGED a-1-post -- 5470 rule fields and listener identity identical
I am NOT reading serve_rc=0 as admission. The driver states the ceiling itself: serveverb.rs:233-249 returns 0 unconditionally on LanUp, so a zero says nothing about admission; only a NONZERO is a real control error. The verdict comes from the product's own strings and the pair census, not from the exit.

EVERYTHING GATED SO FAR, all passing: elevation self=False; instruments 5/5 hashed; capacity before all six producers, floor 96, lowest reading 120.34 GiB; CI axis clean at preflight AND post-build; box gate clean at both; subject 53d625cd clean, blob matched; PROVENANCE_THREE_WAY_OK with exe, staged artifact and signed metadata all edd3d8e0; pool claimed with its state marked before dispatch; seed bound to its own keygen invocation with the ceiling stated; GUARD_UNCHANGED at post-build and a-1-post.

STATES MARKED AND LIVE, so cleanup has them if this dies: pool_acquired, listener_may_exist, daemon_may_run. No fw_mutation_may_have_occurred marker yet -- correct, since no elevated action has been requested.

Next message is the setup handoff result or a failure, then END. No retries, no scope change. I re-ping liam immediately before the setup request as ruled, and a setup rejection holds Arm B and proceeds to diagnostics and cleanup.