diff --git a/tools/site_audit/gardenfly.selftest.js b/tools/site_audit/gardenfly.selftest.js
index 5b5b248..92d62cc 100644
--- a/tools/site_audit/gardenfly.selftest.js
+++ b/tools/site_audit/gardenfly.selftest.js
@@ -112,6 +112,19 @@ export async function buildGardenflyTests() {
     } catch (err) { sepErr = String((err && err.stack) || err); }
   }
 
+  // SPRINT16 gate 2.3 [B]: every shipped yard has been JUDGED on separation —
+  // either it pins a block (backyard_01) or it records a measured refusal
+  // (_separation_finding). Read all three here so the assert below can hold
+  // the invariant: neither is "unjudged", both at once is a stale finding.
+  let sepStates = null, sepStatesErr = null;
+  try {
+    sepStates = [];
+    for (const name of ['backyard_01', 'site_02_corner_block', 'site_03_swing_lawn']) {
+      const sd = await loadSite(name);
+      sepStates.push({ name, pinned: !!sd.separation, finding: !!sd._separation_finding });
+    }
+  } catch (err) { sepStatesErr = String((err && err.stack) || err); }
+
   let venRun = null, venErr = null;
   try {
     const fly = (venturi) => flyGarden({
@@ -184,6 +197,23 @@ export async function buildGardenflyTests() {
           `the siteDef's venturi is not reaching gardenfly's wind (windForSite must receive the SITE def)`);
       }
     }],
+    ['gate 2.3: every shipped yard is separation-JUDGED — pinned, or measured-and-refused', () => {
+      // SPRINT16's rule made durable: a yard may pin a separation block or it
+      // may carry a measured refusal (_separation_finding, the honest "this
+      // yard cannot separate at $80 under its storm" verdict with receipts) —
+      // but silence is not an option, and holding both means the finding went
+      // stale the day the pin landed and must be deleted (its own text says so).
+      if (sepStatesErr) throw new Error(`site read died: ${sepStatesErr}`);
+      assert(sepStates.length === 3, `expected 3 shipped yards, read ${sepStates.length}`);
+      for (const s of sepStates) {
+        assert(s.pinned || s.finding,
+          `${s.name} has neither a separation block nor a _separation_finding — the yard is UNJUDGED; ` +
+          'run gardenfly, pin honestly or refuse honestly (SPRINT16 gate 2.3)');
+        assert(!(s.pinned && s.finding),
+          `${s.name} carries BOTH a pin and a refusal finding — the finding is stale, delete it in the pinning commit`);
+      }
+      return sepStates.map((s) => `${s.name}: ${s.pinned ? 'PINNED' : 'refused w/ finding'}`).join(' · ');
+    }],
     ['gardenfly: default fabric is still the pinned 0.30 cloth, and membrane flies heavier', () => {
       if (fabErr) throw new Error(`fabric flight died: ${fabErr}`);
       const { byDefault, cloth, membrane } = fabRun;
diff --git a/tools/site_audit/scorecard.js b/tools/site_audit/scorecard.js
index b1b80b0..156a938 100644
--- a/tools/site_audit/scorecard.js
+++ b/tools/site_audit/scorecard.js
@@ -243,6 +243,10 @@ export async function scoreSite({ site, stormDef, stormName = null, sepStormDef
     bestGarden: bestGarden ? { ids: bestGarden.key, ...bestGarden.g } : null,
     bestMarginal: bestMarginal ? { ids: bestMarginal.key, ...bestMarginal.g } : null,
     separation, sepStormName, sepUnjudged,
+    // SPRINT16 gate 2.3 [B]: a site that ATTEMPTED a pin and honestly refused
+    // one records why in its JSON; the card prints it so NONE PINNED reads as
+    // "measured and refused, here's the fight" rather than "nobody tried".
+    separationFinding: site._separation_finding ?? null,
     collateral,
     MARGIN: AUDIT.MARGIN,
   };
diff --git a/web/world/data/sites/site_02_corner_block.json b/web/world/data/sites/site_02_corner_block.json
index 615112b..748fd19 100644
--- a/web/world/data/sites/site_02_corner_block.json
+++ b/web/world/data/sites/site_02_corner_block.json
@@ -9,6 +9,21 @@
 
   "gardenBed": { "x": 0, "z": 1, "w": 5, "d": 3.5 },
 
+  "_separation_finding": [
+    "SPRINT16 gate 2.3 [B] — a separation pin was ATTEMPTED and honestly REFUSED. Measured",
+    "post-ruling (garden_probe, funnel ON, storm_03b_earlybuster, 2026-07-20): bare bed 82.6",
+    "FULL (hail 10.7 + rain 6.8 HP); best flown line 90.2; best gain +7.6 HP. The block's own",
+    "semantics need 'bare LOSES the night' (bareMustLoseBelow, win line 50) and a bare bed",
+    "WINS this night by 32 points — the early buster's pea hail simply cannot hurt an open bed",
+    "enough. Any pin writable today would be a fudge: either a bareMustLoseBelow above the win",
+    "line (the field name lying) or thresholds tuned until the slogan lands (the S13 fudge the",
+    "gate exists to kill). THE FINDING: this yard cannot separate held from bare at ANY price",
+    "under its shipped storm — that is a balance fact about the NIGHT's hail spectrum, not the",
+    "rig market. The fight is in THREADS [B] 2026-07-20; candidate levers are C's hail",
+    "spectrum, the win threshold, or per-night garden stakes — A rules. When a retune lands,",
+    "re-measure, pin like backyard_01's, and DELETE this block in the same commit."
+  ],
+
   "_design": [
     "DESIGN.md wants the corner block anchor-poor — 'nowhere to tie off'. An empty yard is just a",
     "smaller yard, so the trap is the interesting build: give it something that LOOKS like four free",
diff --git a/web/world/data/sites/site_03_swing_lawn.json b/web/world/data/sites/site_03_swing_lawn.json
index e1a6eb1..49b4841 100644
--- a/web/world/data/sites/site_03_swing_lawn.json
+++ b/web/world/data/sites/site_03_swing_lawn.json
@@ -48,6 +48,16 @@
     "The bare bed reads 83.7 FULL, which is the bare-beds-win pool item showing up on a",
     "third yard - gate-4 material, not this yard's doing and not tuned here."
   ],
+  "_separation_finding": [
+    "SPRINT16 gate 2.3 [B] — a separation pin was ATTEMPTED and honestly REFUSED, same",
+    "verdict as site_02's. Measured post-ruling (garden_probe, funnel ON,",
+    "storm_03_southerly, 2026-07-20): bare bed 83.7 FULL (hail 10.7 + rain 5.6 HP); best",
+    "flown 89.8; best gain +6.1 HP — D's S14 card numbers reproduced. Bare WINS the",
+    "southerly by 34 points, so 'bareMustLoseBelow' cannot be written honestly at any",
+    "threshold. The pea-hail nights cannot hurt an open bed enough for a sail to be the",
+    "point of the night; that is the NIGHT's balance fact, filed in THREADS [B] 2026-07-20.",
+    "When the balance ruling lands, re-measure, pin like backyard_01's, delete this block."
+  ],
   "yard": {
     "width": 24,
     "depth": 16
diff --git a/web/world/js/editor_score.js b/web/world/js/editor_score.js
index 9cd19c4..e649e76 100644
--- a/web/world/js/editor_score.js
+++ b/web/world/js/editor_score.js
@@ -312,6 +312,12 @@ function render(out, s, ms) {
   } else if (s.sepUnjudged) {
     const cs = card(out, 'SEPARATION TARGET — NOT JUDGED', 'ed-warn');
     cs.append(el('div', 'ed-note', s.sepUnjudged));
+  } else if (s.separationFinding) {
+    // SPRINT16 gate 2.3 [B]: measured, and honestly REFUSED — different fact
+    // from "nobody tried", and the card must not flatten the two together.
+    const cs = card(out, 'SEPARATION TARGET — PIN REFUSED (measured)', 'ed-warn');
+    cs.append(el('div', 'ed-note',
+      Array.isArray(s.separationFinding) ? s.separationFinding.join(' ') : String(s.separationFinding)));
   } else {
     const cs = card(out, 'SEPARATION TARGET — NONE PINNED', 'ed-warn');
     cs.append(el('div', 'ed-note',