diff --git a/.torch/backlog/TASK-console-ux-audit.json b/.torch/backlog/TASK-console-ux-audit.json
index cc6933f..af768f2 100644
--- a/.torch/backlog/TASK-console-ux-audit.json
+++ b/.torch/backlog/TASK-console-ux-audit.json
@@ -22,17 +22,17 @@
   "observedAt": "ed1f7614d1ea",
   "feature": null,
   "milestone": null,
-  "state": "in_progress",
+  "state": "blocked",
   "owner": "owner-console",
   "evidence": [
     "reports/design-system/task-console-ux-audit-owner-console-2026-09-30.md"
   ],
-  "commit": null,
+  "commit": "13fe10b765736984d02f6bca02f690d63dbb3a64",
   "integrationRequest": null,
-  "blockedReason": null,
+  "blockedReason": "The audit requires visible mobile screenshots at desktop and mobile sizes. With a fresh browser session/tab, viewport set before navigation to 351x760 at DPR 0.9, DOM confirmed exactly 390x844 CSS and visible Overview content. The one fullPage:false screenshot attempt failed with `Timed out after 5000ms waiting for CDP command Page.captureScreenshot.` Previous 433x938 capture is not exact-size evidence; prior blank capture is retained as failure evidence. QA and Provider Runtime advise against retry loops or substituting another viewport. Other mobile views remain uninspected.",
   "createdAt": "2026-09-30T22:15:39.356Z",
-  "updatedAt": "2026-09-30T23:38:04.514Z",
-  "revision": 4,
+  "updatedAt": "2026-10-01T00:43:04.639Z",
+  "revision": 5,
   "history": [
     {
       "from": null,
@@ -61,6 +61,13 @@
       "actorId": "owner-console",
       "at": "2026-09-30T23:38:04.514Z",
       "note": "Resumed assigned audit under current digest. Partial live desktop computer-use coverage and separate-view proposal recorded in the linked local report; prior screenshot timeout blocker remains open. Continuing stable browser capture and remaining keyboard/refresh/history/Operations/action-state coverage. No live action submitted."
+    },
+    {
+      "from": "in_progress",
+      "to": "blocked",
+      "actorId": "owner-console",
+      "at": "2026-10-01T00:43:04.639Z",
+      "note": "Current audit checkpoint and exact screenshot blocker recorded. Desktop views and interactions are documented; mobile visual coverage remains incomplete after one fresh exact-viewport capture attempt. No completion or integration claimed."
     }
   ]
 }
diff --git a/reports/audit/kernel-generated-artifact-provenance-report-2026-10-01.md b/reports/audit/kernel-generated-artifact-provenance-report-2026-10-01.md
index 5608c2d..9b88ead 100644
--- a/reports/audit/kernel-generated-artifact-provenance-report-2026-10-01.md
+++ b/reports/audit/kernel-generated-artifact-provenance-report-2026-10-01.md
@@ -49,3 +49,27 @@ The task remains blocked on recovery and exact check qualification. Restored
 cleanliness would not supply a dashboard receipt. The accepted artifact
 dependency remains unlanded; no peer merge, canonical landing, provider start,
 baseline change, cleanup of other files, or gate waiver was performed.
+
+At the closing inbox boundary, owner message
+`40585506-3561-4644-bc0d-949fd4e4cdde` and QA message
+`0316210f-6c0f-474f-83a5-a7651af9f908` established that the attempted QA decision
+batch was interrupted. Authoritative approval readback still showed `pending`,
+revision 1, with no decision or restoration. Owner requires fresh clarification
+before anyone retries, cancels or decides that recovery operation. Manager routed
+this hold directly to Kernel. Independent bounded Runtime test consent was sent
+separately by QA; it does not grant recovery authority.
+
+The same closing reconciliation retained Runtime candidate
+`f4594e9a3767b5e7bc3284b5c81872c6143c0760` as locally improved but not fully
+qualified. Owner independently observed bounded code-less error classification
+and early thread identity before forwarded SIGTERM; strict product scenarios and
+all required exact-commit receipts remain necessary. Console recorded revision 5
+as blocked at `13fe10b765736984d02f6bca02f690d63dbb3a64`: the confirmed 390x844
+CSS mobile viewport could not be captured because `Page.captureScreenshot`
+timed out. DOM geometry is not completed mobile visual evidence.
+
+Fleet evolution and hierarchy assessment support retaining the six existing
+specialists while improving consent, preflight evidence and per-action receipts.
+No Fleet change or new dispatch was made. Automatic wakes remain paused. Owner
+landing approval `2b2dfb35-46ac-4adb-ac14-5680f7a85e80` remains pending; the
+automatic approval review rejection was not retried or bypassed.