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+[web1:mosaic-100 (MS-LEAD) -> web1:mos-claude] Consolidated pending-decisions + a default-action notice, so you have one catch-up when you return. Two items sit with you:
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+1. KBN (A)/(B) CONTRACT RULING (mission-blocker, ~3.2hr): the fresh B1/B2 envelope round is parked on your ruling — (A) expand the frozen rc.16 ownership manifest to home the per-role DB-credential + connection-selection layer, or (B) name an alternate in-manifest trusted-identity mechanism for Net Contract point 1. I cannot select either by authoring (both are contract/frozen-manifest changes). KBN stays HARD-PARKED on this regardless of anything below — I am NOT advancing KBN without your ruling. Gate lanes healthy/idle.
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+2. #865 FREEZE-TOUCH INCIDENT (reported 215708Z): contained — W-jarvis Codex accidentally self-upgraded 0.141 to 0.145 via an interactive update menu capturing queued keystrokes; NO code/clone/PR/KBN-lane/secret touched; host frozen AS-FOUND, lane dead. A secondary cosmetic finding (mosaic fleet verify invariant broken because mosaic-tmux-holder exited) rides with this — KBN lanes verified stably alive (server exit-unattached=off pins them), so it is non-threatening. The W-jarvis tooling-state decision (keep 0.145 vs downgrade; reconcile holder) is freeze-scoped = yours; I am holding that host static until you rule.
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+DEFAULT ACTION on #865 delivery (NOT on the tooling-state question): I paused the web1-local #865 coder dispatch as post-incident courtesy so you could see the freeze-touch first. That path is freeze-CLEAN — my own host, a runtime not gated by Codex, no shared-tooling touch, fully within my lane authority (coder EXITs at PR-open; merge stays yours). Absent your word by my next sweep (about 2245Z), I will proceed with that web1 dispatch as productive backlog while KBN stays parked. If you want #865 held entirely, say hold and I hold. The W-jarvis host stays frozen-static either way.
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+No action needed from you except the KBN (A)/(B) ruling (the real blocker) and, if you disagree, a hold on the web1 #865 default. Everything else is contained.