CHECKPOINT run 20260912T231404Z — TIME-CRITICAL, read the deadline first. STAGE: S5. The run is NOT in S3 and has not been for 18 minutes. S3 rc=0 and the build completed 23:17:07Z (about 2m09s of build wall, not 20 minutes). Elapsed since then was Arm A, not compiling. No cargo.exe, rustc.exe or link.exe is running now. DEADLINE: the driver is BLOCKED in handoff_await, requested 23:30:05Z, bounded by HANDOFF_WAIT_S=900 (driver line 246). Receipt must exist by 23:45:05Z or the driver records HANDOFF_TIMEOUT and returns 1. I measured 23:35:39Z at the start of this checkpoint, so roughly 8 minutes remain as I send it. I am not restarting or altering the run, and I am taking no elevated action myself. BOTH OF YOUR CONDITIONS ARE NOW MATERIALLY PRESENT — published here for your independent verification, not asserted as verified by me: S5 PROVENANCE (from findings.txt, post-build): PROVENANCE_THREE_WAY_OK — executable == staged artifact == signed metadata artifact_sha256, all three = 72d309011415b419aabfdb0b4065df1183bfd0069a9f95b5779da62e43349b10 PROVENANCE_KNOWN_OLD_REJECTED — none of the three is the preserved pre-repair artifact edd3d8e0566690493182a0e1807b1a6b43c52cff45511b9e81490e256dd10e21 (rejected BY NAME) SUBJECT_BOUNDARY post-build: sha 85f84d738fa702f35c83910f314aae17849d125c clean, blob 848a23fe18e5ca819774f9881ef13504221992f3 — identical to the pre-build boundary. The driver states its own ceiling and I repeat it rather than soften it: the chain does NOT by itself establish which source compiled the executable. MATCHING NONCE-BOUND REQUEST (on disk, written by the driver, not by me): file: fp-run/20260912T231404Z/handoff/001-setup-request.txt nonce: 20260912T231404Z-001-39393 requested_utc: 2026-09-12T23:30:05Z for: one elevated reconcile so Arm B has a bootstrap-OWNED pair written by the product itself, never a hand netsh, so the rules carry the shipped desired_specs shape. command: env -u SPT_INSTALL_NO_FIREWALL SPT_HOME=/fp-home /target/release/spt.exe serve lan --bootstrap --port 29470, stdout and stderr redirected to 001-setup-command.out/.err. receipt: handoff/001-setup-receipt.txt must contain EXACTLY ONE whole line "nonce: 20260912T231404Z-001-39393" and EXACTLY ONE whole line "exit=". The driver enforces both as whole-line, exactly-once matches (an unanchored substring or a second exit record is rejected; an unparseable or absent exit counts as 255). ARM A RESULT (unelevated, precondition "owned pair ABSENT" measured before it): three trials, all serve_rc=0 stop_rc=0 outcome=completed, registered child-query wall_ms = 2253 (a-1), 1834 (a-2), 1747 (a-3). FACE=unverified-generic on all three, with mutation_disabled=1 and reconciled=0. BINDER_CHECK SAME on all three; GUARD_UNCHANGED after each and at pre-setup. The driver's own ceiling, which I am not reading past: unverified-generic establishes ONLY that verify() did not return Ok(true). It does NOT prove the pair absent or misspelled — that gloss was the OLD driver's defect and r10 removes it. LEDGERS: 91 recorded exits, every one 0. No blocker, no native exit yet. CAPACITY: free 120.00 GiB now; 120.03 at preflight, 119.99 at mark-applied. No growth concern; floor 96, hard_stop 32 both far clear. CI_AXIS and BOX_GATE both re-taken at post-build and both ok. STATE MARKERS SET (these decide cleanup obligation if the run ends here): pool_acquired 23:14:49Z, listener_may_exist 23:27:03Z, daemon_may_run 23:27:03Z, fw_mutation_may_have_occurred 23:30:05Z — the last one is set because an elevated reconcile was REQUESTED, so rules may exist from that moment even if the setup is refused or never runs. WHAT I NEED FROM YOU, as one decision: either liam executes the request exactly as written and drops the receipt before 23:45:05Z, or the handoff times out. A timeout is not a disaster and I will not treat it as one — it returns 1, Arm B is not measured, and the run proceeds to its cleanup obligation with fw_mutation_may_have_occurred already set. Tell me which and I will hold to it. I will not decide the elevation on my own reading of the provenance.