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@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ materialization, messaging, DING, or presence must preserve them.
 | **Agent-declared presence discipline** | The shipped bus contract requires agents to declare `busy` before executing work, use `available` only while yielding or ready, and reserve `dnd` for an explicit hold. Both native harnesses materialize that contract. Busy remains observable but does not suppress DING; fresh `dnd` is the only delivery gate. | `tests/native_only.rs::clean_path_executes_the_maintained_native_authoring_guide`; `src/ding/mod.rs::pending_delivery_ignores_busy_but_respects_fresh_dnd_archive_and_retry` |
 | **Stable roster JSON** | `st2 agents --json [--enrich]` preserves field names, order, null handling, presence, typed desired state and rationale, the retirement compatibility projection, opaque declared Resource descriptors, origin-timed activity, inbox counts, and the appended `observedState` object. Declared presence, desired lifecycle, and observed harness state are three independent axes: none is derived from another, and a missing observed record is `null`, never a derived `unknown`. | `src/agents.rs::agents_json_has_stable_wire_shape`; `src/agents.rs::agents_json_preserves_opaque_declared_resource_descriptors`; `src/agents.rs::observed_state_joins_declared_presence_without_touching_either`; `tests/status_agents.rs::roster_json_and_human_output_distinguish_retirement_from_presence`; `tests/status_agents.rs::roster_keeps_presence_separate_from_suspended_desired_state`; `tests/status_agents.rs::roster_uses_version_1_origin_time_for_last_activity` |
 | **Agent-declared presence** | Refresh preserves non-DND declared status and advances the version 1 heartbeat. A missing status starts as `available`. Legacy DND migrates without renewing its hold. Version 1 DND is not refreshed. Stale, malformed, or implausibly future heartbeats read as `unknown`. The outer Codex, Claude, and pi session wrappers own a five-minute heartbeat while their provider remains alive. | `src/status.rs::refresh_preserves_value_and_changes_heartbeat_bytes`; `src/status.rs::refresh_upgrades_legacy_dnd_without_renewing_the_hold`; `src/status.rs::refresh_missing_writes_available_default`; `src/status.rs::version_1_staleness_and_future_skew_are_bounded`; `src/status.rs::malformed_versioned_record_is_unknown_without_mtime_fallback`; `src/claude_session.rs::idle_provider_refreshes_presence_without_mcp_input`; `src/pi_session.rs::idle_pi_provider_refreshes_presence_without_channel_input`; `src/codex_app_server.rs::inbox_fallback_does_not_write_a_fifteen_second_presence_heartbeat` |
+| **Scoped delivery-input wakeups** | Native delivery pumps watch only their inputs: the agent's `resources/inbox` subtree and its `status` file. Runtime records written beside them by the pump's own process group — presence temp siblings, the `harness-state` record, stream state — never wake delivery, so a producer that writes on every turn boundary cannot pump its own delivery loop. | `src/watch.rs::delivery_watcher_ignores_runtime_records_but_wakes_on_inbox_and_status` |
+| **Observed harness state discipline** | The `harness-state` record is written only by the owning session's driver processes — wrapper, channel, or hooks — serialized by a cross-process lock and coalesced against the on-disk record, atomically and byte-distinct on every write that lands, with freshness from its embedded timestamp and never file mtime; restating an unchanged state touches the record only when the refresh cadence is due. `unknown` is derived, never written: staleness, future skew, malformation, an unsupported schema, and a provably dead pty session each read as `unknown` with a distinct reason; an indeterminate liveness probe downgrades nothing; a missing record is no observation rather than `unknown`; no absence derives a definite state. A writer that loses sight of its harness stops heartbeating instead of refreshing a state it cannot see, and a predecessor session's record is never re-stamped. A reaped provider yields a terminal `ended` record carrying its real exit — written before the stop path's SIGKILL escalation and rewritten from the escalation cover when a grace-window reap observes the real status, proven against the real wrapper binaries of both stop implementations — and never a live state. | `src/harness_state.rs::unknown_state_is_derived_and_cannot_be_written`; `src/harness_state.rs::malformed_record_is_unknown_without_mtime_fallback`; `src/harness_state.rs::staleness_and_future_skew_derive_unknown_with_distinct_reasons`; `src/harness_state.rs::a_dead_session_reads_unknown_even_while_fresh_but_ended_survives`; `src/harness_state.rs::every_landed_write_is_byte_distinct_and_fresh_restatements_do_not_write`; `src/harness_state.rs::a_chatty_producer_restating_its_state_causes_zero_writes`; `src/harness_state.rs::concurrent_writers_defer_to_the_on_disk_record_not_their_cache`; `src/harness_state.rs::a_predecessor_sessions_record_is_never_heartbeat_eligible`; `src/harness_state.rs::missing_record_reads_as_none_not_unknown`; `src/codex_app_server.rs::pump_publishes_observations_and_stops_heartbeating_on_evidence_loss`; `src/claude_session.rs::a_provider_killed_mid_turn_reads_ended_rather_than_active`; `src/claude_session.rs::a_clean_provider_exit_writes_the_terminal_record`; `tests/harness_state_teardown.rs::stop_escalation_writes_the_terminal_record_before_sigkill`; `tests/harness_state_teardown.rs::opencode_stop_escalation_writes_the_cover_record_before_sigkill`; `tests/harness_state_teardown.rs::opencode_graceful_stop_records_the_real_reaped_exit` |
 | **Retirement health** | A retired declaration is healthy only after every declared task ID is absent. Any live or dead declared task record reports incomplete retirement; retired declarations do not require presence. Live declarations retain their existing task and presence checks. | `tests/doctor.rs::retired_declaration_is_healthy_when_tasks_and_presence_are_absent`; `tests/doctor.rs::retired_declaration_is_unhealthy_while_a_declared_task_is_alive`; `tests/doctor.rs::retired_declaration_is_unhealthy_while_a_dead_task_record_remains` |
 | **Suspension health** | A suspended declaration is healthy when no declared task is live and every retained dead record is explicitly keep-pinned. It requires no presence, but this weaker result never proves retirement. Resume preserves ordinary keep and adopt-only policy. | `tests/doctor.rs::suspended_declaration_is_healthy_when_tasks_are_absent_without_presence`; `tests/doctor.rs::suspended_declaration_distinguishes_live_dead_keep_and_dead_nonkeep`; `tests/reconcile.rs::resuming_uses_ordinary_reconcile_and_does_not_override_keep` |
 | **Crash loops surface** | A task parked by a fail-mode restart policy notifies its supervisor once over the bus. | `tests/run.rs::surface_crash_loop_notifies_the_supervisor_over_the_bus` |
 
@@ -25,13 +25,17 @@ hypotheses.
   waits on) and it under-reports nothing, but the state axis says `active`
   while the model is not running. Resolves by: a Claude build whose denial
   emits any hook event; until then the deny window is the pinned limit.
-- **DQ-H2 Transport cost of per-transition writes.** Presence refreshes every
-  five minutes; turn boundaries are far more frequent, and burst coalescing
-  measured 4 transitions per turn 0.1–0.4 ms apart. No measurement establishes
-  what per-transition replicated writes cost on a real catalog under a real
-  transport (OHS-T01 accepts this for v1). Resolves by: measuring write and
-  sync volume on a live catalog; if unacceptable, a minimum-interval
-  coalescing window is the tuning knob, at the cost of spinner latency.
+- **DQ-H2 Transport cost of per-transition writes — measured 2026-08-23,
+  resolved by the restatement guard.** The live smoke run caught the failure
+  mode: the OpenCode producer restated its state per SSE frame and the
+  envelope re-stamped every restatement — 679 byte-distinct writes in 221 s
+  (~2.7/s while idle). The envelope now makes an unchanged observation a
+  no-op until the refresh cadence is due, so a seat writes on transitions
+  plus at most one re-stamp per five minutes (a Claude turn measured 3
+  writes; a pi turn 2–3). What remains open is only the fleet-scale sync
+  question: nothing yet measures what transition-rate writes cost a
+  600-seat catalog's transport over a day. Resolves by: that measurement on
+  a live catalog.
 - **DQ-H3 `child` has no producer.** The word is reserved because the tuple's
   reasoning needs it (a long-running foreground command is neither the model
   working nor idle), but the producer that would have supplied it — the PTY