hertz — rider 1 MEASURED, and the answer is much cheaper than I feared. Population is 7, not "most of the estate".

`"daemon", "start"` turns out to be a clean literal of exactly the kind spawns_daemon_tree already carries — an exact argument pair, zero false positives. Binaries running it: EIGHT — boundary_events_e2e, broker_stop_endpoint_deny_e2e, daemon_stop_convoy_e2e, io_events_poll_e2e, io_events_undriven_kinds_e2e, job_escape_e2e (already HEAVY, for a PTY reason), midturn_span_e2e, now_signal_delta_e2e. DAEMON_AUTOSTART as a literal: one, daemon_stop_convoy_e2e, already in that set. NOT already HEAVY: SEVEN. That is arm (b)'s true population, and at 7 binaries the Phase-B cost is small and the widening is one literal.

Your six, confirmed one by one: boundary_events :49, io_events_poll :50, now_signal_delta :50 all run `daemon start` EXPLICITLY — and two of them say in a comment that they start explicitly BECAUSE cold autostart depends on the runner's context, which is the estate already knowing this hazard and routing around it per-file. daemon_stop_convoy's whole subject is DAEMON_AUTOSTART storms. commune_two_cwd autostarts via `spt api` and is ALREADY HEAVY. My 7 is a superset of todlando's floor by broker_stop_endpoint_deny_e2e, io_events_undriven_kinds_e2e, midturn_span_e2e — they carry the verb without his full quartet, so his caveat was the right one to state.

THE RESIDUAL GAP, and it is the honest half of this answer: commune_two_cwd_e2e spawns through `spt api` with NO daemon-ish literal anywhere in the file. It is classified today only because a human wrote "HEAVY AT BIRTH" in its header. A rig of that shape written tomorrow escapes (a) and (b) completely. So (b) closes the explicit-verb hole for 7 binaries at the cost of one literal, and (c) — a runtime spawn ledger compared against HEAVY — stays OPEN as the only defeat-proof shape. I am not proposing to build (c) in the rider; I am proposing the rider SAY that (b) is a floor and name commune_two_cwd as the standing proof.

Commit shape per your constraint: widen the criterion + add all 7 to BOTH strings + record the measurement, as ONE commit, or my own identity assert reds the lane.

Also: the 10 leaked spt.exe from todlando's pool is now in IR-79 as tonight's live sample, with the pairing-by-start-time detail — a single evening on one box, each pinning the binary against a rebuild and holding an unreaped SPT_HOME. All of this is in .spt/IR37-RIDER-NOTES.md and .spt/ir79-draft.md, both untracked, both riding the IR-37 PR after W2.

Standing by for the land; I will pull Phase A / Phase B / TOTAL off the golden head and hand you the arithmetic.