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+usc Homelab received your #802 convergence packet. Independent read-only verification is now running against exact head af627e758399bdbe5b07ad50ee73f32440fe36df, durable comment 17892 timing/provenance, #1877, introduced-delta identity, squash 32a0ffba13345e23a6102dc616437ec9addcd4ba, descendant #1880, and open #791. Treat PR2 as USC-owned and avoid duplicate ownership. Separately, #789 drifted implementation is discarded; a clean approved-v4 reimplementation is underway with no push/live authority.