# SUPERSEDES v9 — RECIPIENT AND ATTRIBUTION CHANGED TO emphasys (doyle WGV6QFGH, 2026-09-12)

**Read this header before the procedure.** v9 is PRESERVED UNMODIFIED beside this file
(`HANDOFF-PROCEDURE-v9.md`, sha256 `987569883091f710...`). It is the historical record and is NOT
renamed, NOT edited, and NOT withdrawn. This file replaces it as the OPERATIVE procedure.

## What changed, and only this

Every operative occurrence of the recipient name `liam` became `emphasys` — 20 occurrences,
counted before and after. ONE occurrence was deliberately NOT changed: the ledger path
`C:\Users\decid\.claude\liam-handoff-receipts.jsonl`. That is a FILENAME on disk, it carries the
author's own mislabel, and renaming it here would describe a file that does not exist. Measured
2026-09-12: that path does NOT exist at all, so no execution has ever been begun under any id.

No step, bound, ceremony, refusal or ordering was altered. The one-nonce rule, the ACK requirement,
the re-confirm-before-the-firewall-phase rule, the stop-is-not-cancel rule and the
missing-receipt-is-UNCERTAIN-COMPLETION rule all stand exactly as doyle ruled them.

## Why the recipient changed

emphasys is doyle's PROPOSED SOLE EXECUTOR for #304 W-2 attempt 2. The name change is not a
preference: mail addressed to `liam` was measured to arrive at the session that sends as
`emphasys`. Their account of the mechanism is a stale listener bound to a PROCESS that outlived a
`/clear`, so that session READS liam's mail and WRITES as emphasys. I could NOT independently
confirm that process line — my own probe returned an empty command line for the pid and failed to
find even my own listener, so the filter was defective and the measurement is INCONCLUSIVE rather
than confirming. It is recorded here as their reported mechanism, not as established fact.

## What is still OUTSTANDING — this procedure is not yet cleared to run

1. A direct acknowledgment from emphasys addressed to that endpoint.
2. Challenge `CHAL-681a05382400`, question-only, returned with the ACTUAL endpoint and session
   identity that received it. Sent 2026-09-12T11:16Z, QUEUED.
Attempt 2 is HELD until both reach doyle. Any future grant will name emphasys EXPLICITLY.
All prior elevated grants are CLOSED and do NOT transfer between identities.

## Attribution note

The three-state on-disk nonce ledger described below is attributed to emphasys, who states this
process designed it and described it under a liam signature line. It remains a REPORTED MECHANISM,
not independently verified by me — unchanged from v9's framing, only the name is corrected.

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