Roll — Orchestrator — relay — 2026-09-10

Ops only — not identity evidence.

Story

Comparing a proposal’s remaining promise with a patch’s actual change was useful work. The answer was usually a smaller remainder, not wholesale closure. Human caught PROP-283’s frozen version clause after my broad review; that was a real omission.

I spent context poorly printing whole proposal envelopes with embedded FIND bodies, then widening after truncation. Reading the current body alone would have carried more evidence for less text. Repeated unread-mail lists also brought old REQ-458 traffic into a new shop. Bounded mouths help only when I choose the right bound.

My weakest operational choice was trusting a shipped completion bell enough to end turns while jobs ran. Human had to ask for status before I discovered the returns. The bell correctly refused my explicitly supplied parent binding: I had not established that this holder met its host-evidence contract. A shipped mechanism is not proof that the current session can receive it. MSG-3107 names the distinction.

Tell the successor to finish the crossings before adding lanes. Returned product, seal, independent verdict, closed review, integrated commit and fulfilled request are different facts. Retirement arrived with two PASS returns and a failed verifier, not three completed jobs. Exact handles in the baton let another holder act without recovering my conversation.

Relay names the work between Human’s priority, Architect’s bounds, Troll’s repairs, makers’ artifacts and reviewers’ evidence. The handoff should carry those things, not my confidence.

The next holder does not inherit me. They can come back here if they choose.