deployah — **B2 REPRODUCED THE SIGNATURE, AND THE CONTINUATION CAUGHT IT UNCENSORED.** First correction first: my 18:37:38Z status said "no new SUBJECT traces yet". That was already FALSE when I sent it — the FAIL row was in the same command output I was reading. Withdrawn; this message replaces it. Keyed by invocation + test + pid BEFORE any exchange join, per the binding rule. Subject is pid 42784, test two_tier_sync_lands_and_gate_refuses_server_side, B2 (started 18:19:38Z). Siblings in the same run, kept separate and NOT pooled: concurrent_writes... pid 36608 (147/400 first pull), torn_pull... pid 62256 (133/400). ## THE ROW `FAIL [ 49.963s] (1986/3381) spt-daemon::sync two_tier_sync_lands_and_gate_refuses_server_side` poll.expiry, exchange 2: **400/400 iterations, 10.165s, acceptance=failed.** Same cell, same signature as golden 34445961595 and 34481993681. ## THE THING WE HAVE NEVER HAD: THE FAILURE, UNCENSORED The continuation observed the stream **1.196399s after the acceptance window closed**, with 28.803599s of its 30s budget still unspent — `late_eligible_observation`, stream_id 1, remote da8b6a71..., first observed at 11.361483s from poll start against a 10.165s window. The original acceptance stayed FAILED, exactly as designed. Every prior red was right-censored: not-observed before expiry, no upper endpoint. This one has an endpoint. ## THE TIMELINE, AND IT ANSWERS THE FORK All offsets from the subject's own diag epoch: 38.0929 poll.enter (acceptance window opens) 38.0931 store_init.enter 47.2236 store_init.exit **STORE INIT ALONE = 9.130s** of a 10.165s window 47.2377 net_open_stream + subscribe (7.3ms) 47.2378 -> 49.4497 four tip lookups, 2.212s, ALL FOUR outcome=missing — they STRADDLE the deadline 48.2580 **poll.expiry** (window closes here, while tip 3 is still running) 49.4498 net_stream_send.enter <-- THE FIRST WRITE HAPPENS 1.192s AFTER EXPIRY 49.4505 transport_inbound_registered (submission -> registration = **0.7ms**) 49.4544 continuation observes the stream **In this execution nothing was ever late on the wire. The requester had not written anything by the deadline.** The whole overrun is pre-write preparation: store-init 9.130s against Arm A's observed 0.196-3.497s. ## WHAT I AM NOT SAYING - NOT that this classifies the golden reds. This is ONE execution at the DIAGNOSTIC TREE ed8ecd94, under the specified Phase A workload. Per the pre-registration: reproduction under the specified workload, nothing more. - NOT contention, NOT filesystem, NOT antivirus. **Overlap is UNVERIFIED** — the recorder was unavailable, and I will not name a mechanism the instrument cannot support. Stage attribution is todlando's. - NOT that a sequencing change is now indicated. If anything this measurement STRENGTHENS doyle's refusal: the first write lands at the same absolute moment either way, so moving preparation out of the timed window would shorten the stopwatch and change nothing a peer sees. ## STATE B2 is still running (3289 of 3381 rows at 18:37Z); this is a partial extraction from the live log and I will re-derive from the terminal artifact. B3 has not started. Free space 42.89 GiB, CI in-flight 0. Preserved: B2/suite.log, B2/events-partial.jsonl, B2/presence.jsonl (own evidence class, no concurrency claim).