diff --git a/docs/requirements/custody-schema.md b/docs/requirements/custody-schema.md
index ca9c8b36..f0516fd9 100644
--- a/docs/requirements/custody-schema.md
+++ b/docs/requirements/custody-schema.md
@@ -116,6 +116,23 @@ consent row's `id` and its `user_id`, so events from two subjects'
 grants to one ceasing grantee are attributable to their exact rows
 and subjects, witnessed with a two-subject case (F12).
 
+Revision 7 (sol r6 F15): the reconciliation try-acquire no longer
+discharges a locator for the cycle — a failed try-acquire QUEUES the
+locator within the same cycle, and before the cycle completes the
+sweep revisits every queued locator with a blocking acquire, running
+the same locked observation and token-conditioned repair. A
+triggered reconciliation cycle is complete only when every in-scope
+pointer has been processed under its locator lock, so the §4.5
+one-cycle orphan bound holds unconditionally on lock contention;
+the retry terminates because every §3.7 hold is transaction- or
+session-scoped and session end releases the lock automatically.
+§7.10 adds the lock-held contention control (sweep pass skips
+without blocking; cycle completion waits for the queued repair;
+the orphan is deleted before the cycle reports completion), its
+repeated-contention variant, and a third static control failing an
+implementation that defers a skipped locator to a later cycle
+(F15).
+
 This contract binds the profile-category registry (§2), the custody
 placement rule (§3), the pointer schema (§4), the consent schema and its
 evaluation (§5), mode application (§6), witnesses (§7), and disclosed
@@ -417,10 +434,24 @@ with contract 6 (`mode-conversion.md`), identity with
    at most one cycle, and repair performs no database content write.
    Per-pointer repair runs under the §3.7 locator lock: before
    observing content absence for a pointer, reconciliation acquires
-   the pointer's locator lock (a try-acquire is permitted — a
-   locator whose lock is held is skipped and repaired on the next
-   cycle, so the sweep never blocks behind a writer), holds it
-   across the observation and the DELETE, and releases it after.
+   the pointer's locator lock, holds it across the observation and
+   the DELETE, and releases it after. The sweep pass MAY use a
+   try-acquire so it never blocks mid-pass behind a writer, but a
+   failed try-acquire defers the locator, never discharges it: the
+   skipped locator is queued within the SAME cycle, and before the
+   cycle completes the sweep revisits every queued locator with a
+   blocking acquire and runs the same locked observation and
+   token-conditioned repair, retrying until the lock is acquired. A
+   triggered reconciliation cycle is COMPLETE only when every
+   in-scope pointer has been processed under its locator lock;
+   deferral moves work to the end of the cycle, never into a later
+   one, so the one-cycle bound above holds unconditionally on lock
+   contention. The blocking retry terminates: every §3.7 hold is
+   transaction- or session-scoped and session end releases the lock
+   automatically (§3.7), so no holder — live or crashed — can hold
+   a locator past its session; a cycle whose retry is still blocked
+   has not completed, and the orphan is deleted the moment the lock
+   becomes available, before the cycle reports completion.
    The repair DELETE is additionally token-conditioned like §4.7
    step 2: it records the row's `id` and `generation` when it
    observes the content absent and conditions the DELETE on BOTH —
@@ -845,13 +876,33 @@ declared profile table" means `profile_answers` (§3.5).
     observation and content removal inside the writer's
     step-1-to-step-2 gap and asserts the witness DETECTS the
     resulting acknowledged-write loss, establishing that the lock is
-    what excludes it. A
+    what excludes it. **Lock-held contention control (one-cycle
+    bound):** starting from a PRE-EXISTING orphan, a §3.7 writer
+    session holds the orphan's locator lock while the triggered
+    reconciliation's sweep pass runs. The witness asserts the pass
+    completes without blocking and without repairing the held
+    locator (the try-acquire skip), that the cycle does NOT report
+    completion while the lock is held, and that after the holder
+    releases, the queued blocking retry deletes the orphan under
+    the recorded (`id`, `generation`) token BEFORE the cycle
+    reports completion — the orphan is gone by cycle completion,
+    proving the §4.5 bound under contention. A repeated-contention
+    variant hands the lock to a second holder the moment the first
+    releases and asserts the queued locator is retried until
+    acquired — the orphan is still deleted by cycle completion once
+    the last holder releases, never dropped after one failed
+    attempt. A
     static control asserts the deletion implementation conditions on
     BOTH the recorded row `id` and `generation` — not on
-    `content_hash` and not on `generation` alone — and a second
+    `content_hash` and not on `generation` alone — a second
     static control asserts the managed-deletion and
     reconciliation-repair implementations each acquire the §3.7
-    locator lock before their observation reads (§4.5, §4.7).
+    locator lock before their observation reads (§4.5, §4.7), and a
+    third static control asserts the reconciliation implementation
+    queues a failed try-acquire for a within-cycle blocking retry —
+    an implementation that defers a skipped locator to a later
+    cycle, or that reports cycle completion with a queued locator
+    unprocessed, FAILS.
 11. **Default-deny and granularity witnesses:** an agent grantee with
     no active row is refused; with a `granted` row for category A
     only, category B is refused; with agent X granted, agent Y of the
@@ -1029,7 +1080,9 @@ UPDATE` as the first statement of its transaction, and the
     per-locator advisory lock spanning both steps — held, per
     revision 6, by EVERY blob/pointer mutator for the locator:
     ordinary writers, managed deletion, and reconciliation repair
-    (try-acquire), so live interleavings between any two mutators
+    (try-acquire with the revision-7 within-cycle blocking retry,
+    so a failed try-acquire defers repair to the end of the cycle,
+    never past it), so live interleavings between any two mutators
     are excluded by one serialization protocol (§3.7, §4.5, §4.7,
     §7.16).
 17. The compare-and-delete managed-deletion step: deletion step 2 is