Bound broker reply deadlines (separate read/lock/send budgets, BROKER_BUSY-before-mutation, fresh post-handle send budget → closes drop-after-commit window); fail-close empty/truncated read → GATE_UNAVAILABLE deny. De-flakes the 1917 acceptance surface. terra CODE APPROVE (pi) + Opus SECREV APPROVED (claude) — RoR comment 18143. Promote-lease-lost-ACK residual = fail-safe two-generals observability-gap, routed to WI-3 D2-v5 as named-disclosed-bounded-residual (route i). Gate-16 3-principal author=gpt-sol. closes #838
WI-2: mutator-class guard for the compaction directive-freshness mechanism — command-position parser (prefix x var-indirection unified) + primitive-anchored invariant backstop + all-tools-hook fail-close. Parser-complete on principle: realistic evasion matrix RED-regression-covered, residual exotic evasions proven backstop-caught (B-tests), lens-convergence reached. closes #829