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 - **One further probe case, mine, offered as a scope question rather than a defect:** `"bloody poop"` — adjective + noun, no in/on/with — is missed by the branch's new `BLEEDING_TEXT`, as it is by main. It is my phrasing, not one of the PR's named examples, so it is the author's coverage call.
 - **A probe bug of mine, confessed because it produced a wrong number first:** my initial phrasing harness scored **12/12 on both refs**, which would have read as "the PR fixes nothing". The detector returns an object with keys even when `urgent:false`, and my predicate counted "object with any keys" as urgent, making the test vacuous. Rule restated for my own instrument: **assert on the field that carries the verdict (`r.urgent === true`), never on the shape of the return.** Every number above comes from the corrected harness.
 - **Dispatched, not executed:** a bounded contract to **Vincent** (queued, `4b4a8bafedbdd044…`) — test-first on the import path; read reported-ness through `isReportedSymptom` in `sanitizeEntry`; decide the `"bloody poop"` coverage question with evidence; **do not push into `timmy/21-escalation-regression`** (it is the live merge candidate and moving its head under the release job is a race); new branch off `b4be704`, isolated worktree, no merge, no deploy, receipts back. Nothing merged, nothing deployed, no production touch, no credential used. The scope decision — accept the PR's narrower claim or require the import-path hardening first — stays Alexander's.
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+**Route failure, recorded: the Vincent contract above was NOT delivered. 2026-10-15 08:41Z (control plane; clock read immediately before this edit).**
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+- The background delivery `proc_e146c43c4548` (message `4b4a8bafedbdd044…`) exited **1**. Verbatim from the delivery process: *"ChatGPT or Codex Subscription rejected your sign-in, so the model can't be reached. Sign in again: `hermes -p vincent auth add openai-codex --type oauth`"* and *"Provider said: HTTP 401: Provided authentication token is expired."* The session was resumed before the model call failed, so **nothing of the contract reached Vincent** — this is a provider-side auth expiry, not a content or target error, and a resend would fail identically.
+- **Consequence for the record: the PR #77 residual is verified but unowned.** Nothing about the finding changes; what changes is that no implementation route is currently live. Third dead route in this lane's recent history, same one-line class as the others: Praetorian (`HTTP 403`, OpenCode free tier), hou3 (`Hermes is not logged into Nous Portal`), now Vincent (expired openai-codex OAuth).
+- **Not executed, and not mine to execute:** re-authenticating another profile is a cross-profile credential change and needs Alexander's explicit authorization; the repair command is his to run in his own shell. **No fallback route was opened** rather than fanning the same contract out to a second agent without a decision — the residual is small, verified, and can wait for the route to be repaired or for Alexander to accept the PR's narrower claim as the boundary.
+- Everything else in the block above stands as measured: PR #77 open/mergeable at `b4be704…` with **0 reviews** and #21 open with **3 unticked** boxes; main catches 1 of 12 phrasing probes, the branch 11 of 12; the import path still clears truthy reported symptoms; nothing merged, nothing deployed.