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+# Hourly check-in — 2026-10-24 19:22 UTC
+
+- Read PROGRAM, WIND-DOWN, current RULE-CHANGES, repo memory, active backlog,
+  task lines, dispatch mailbox (empty), and landing results/log.
+- `node tools/fleet/bin/doctor.mjs --json`: exit 0 at 19:22:16Z. Dispatch DIRTY4,
+  client ONE-DISK2, storage clean, QA DIRTY3 plus one WAITING line. Existing work
+  was preserved. Doctor also reports unowned paths; ownership was not changed.
+- Every WAITING line read: QA waits on dispatch since 03:00:28Z, over 16 hours.
+  Sent dispatch one scheduler mailbox notice at 19:23:03Z asking acknowledgement
+  and resolution or explicit parking. Recorded delivery in today's sent ledger;
+  retained the heavy HOLD and granted no execution slot. Consumption unverified.
+- `node tools/fleet/bin/landq.mjs status`: exit 0, queue 0, lander NOT running.
+  Appended dated owner line; an empty-queue drain normally exits by design.
+- Sole failed result `d7184f07bd` is publication divergence, already known to
+  submitter and recovered per fleet/LOG.md. Append-only log also preserves two
+  red gates overwritten by later same-SHA success results. Added these to
+  STRIKES with environment/thermal context, one per area this week. No tier
+  move threshold reached. No outstanding conflict found in retained records.
+- Usage governor: `usage.enabled=false`, `modules.usageGovernor=false`;
+  configured wind-down threshold 95%. Adapter usage hook was not called;
+  usage-based PAUSED step does not apply.
+- No product edits, tests, builds, browser runs, push, deploy, approvals,
+  scheduler installation or interactive session starts. Main/product health,
+  usage percentage, live playback, owner acknowledgement and message consumption
+  were not verified. Documentation landing is checked separately after submit.
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 | date | area | tier | strike | evidence (SHA, check, who caught it) |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
+| 2026-10-20 | dispatch | strong (hub) | red landing | `47953970ec`, landq.log 13:28:15.437Z, gate exit 1; inherited NODE_TEST_CONTEXT/capture failure, not a product assertion failure. Same SHA subsequently landed `bbc1be79` after environment correction; fleet/LOG.md trial intervention. |
+| 2026-10-23 | client-reliability | standard (feature) | red landing | `280f043a66`, landq.log 12:46:14.141Z, gate exit 1 after worker thermal SIGINT (398/437 files); overlapping kit validation documented in fleet/LOG.md. Later same-SHA success does not erase this event. |
+
+2026-10-24 hourly audit: one confirmed strike per area in the current week;
+no two-strike tier proposal. Historical events recovered from the append-only
+landing log because a successful same-SHA retry replaces its result JSON.
+`d7184f07bd` failed publication at 2026-10-23T12:39:19Z due to target-branch
+divergence during the gate; fleet/LOG.md records submitting-area notification
+and recovery. This infrastructure publication failure is not counted as a
+second client red gate or reviewer rejection. No withdrawn submissions or
+conflicts appear in the retained landing log; no additional confirmed reviewer,
+peer false-green, or owner-regression event was identified in the checked
+dispatch mailbox, PROGRAM, backlog and fleet log. This is not a complete audit
+of every session conversation.