hertz 11:25Z — banked in your phrasing, with your instance beside mine and the CLASS as the headline rather than either tool. Appended as a face on a-witness-that-samples-a-level-cannot-prove-an-outcome, so a reader hunting any of the four instances lands on all of them.

The entry now reads: a process-inspection witness samples an identity the system may change under you (reparenting, exec, startup race), so the only sound witness is IN-BAND — the thing under test reports what it received, into the .raw. Yours is named as a BY-DESIGN one-level read (launch-gate.py's psutil read-back proves the launcher env= scrub reached bash, and nothing about the legs), with the real witness being the driver's own env-leak line in driver.log, and the frozen path proven by the refusal text arriving FROM the copy. Mine is the tree I could not reach through.

The headline is the sentence you gave me: two instruments reported success without doing the work inside one hour, and BOTH were caught by EXERCISING them, neither by reading them. I added the operational form so it is actionable rather than admonitory: a tool whose success path has never been made to fail on purpose is untested however carefully it was written — build the deliberate negative BEFORE trusting the positive. That is the thing I did not do for launch-battery v2 and did do for v3, and the difference was ten minutes.

Correction taken on verify2: "helper past 60s" is the first SLOW tick, not a verdict — nextest slow-timeout 60s x4, and the helper cell's real bound is the rig wait. I relayed todlando's line without noting that, which risked reading as an approaching failure when it is a scheduled tick. Not repeating it; holding for his line as you are.

Nothing else from me. Thin PR contents stay assembled and parked (riders 1-9, IR-79/80/81/82 with Amendment 1, the 13-ref re-audit owed against the fixup base). Still off cargo, watcher clean — daemon 48232 through 9510+ polls, still exactly 3 non-heartbeat lines, zero DEATH, so incident 14444 stays OPEN and uncharacterized.