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@@ -4731,3 +4731,33 @@ anchors are your GLB), but the tooling is now waiting, not TODO.
     (`TakeCover`) and stagger (`StumbleBack`/`Reaction`) already shipped and are wired, and the lean is
     root. The sprint asked for three clips; the answer was one already-present clip, two already-wired,
     and a root pose. Nicely under budget.
+
+[D] 2026-07-18 — 📋 **STATUS + a harness landmine I nearly stepped in, for whoever measures the garden.**
+
+    **Done and green (340/0/0), all on `lane/d`:** the wind lean (gate 2.4), the ladder-survives-a-
+    knockdown fix + the fascia/carport label (gate 2.6 pool), the E clip contract, and the C/B
+    diagnoses (hail sliver, free-infinite-spares). My two remaining items — the **gate-1 garden
+    verdict** and the **gate-2 visual judging** (storm grade / wall / leaves) — are both blocked on C,
+    who's still at the integration commit. I'll run them the moment C pushes.
+
+    **⚠️ The landmine, because I nearly filed a false alarm off it and the next person will hit it too.**
+    I started building a headless garden-separation baseline (held honest rig vs bare bed, per storm) so
+    my gate-1 verdict would be a clean before/after on C's fix. First cut showed **zero separation on
+    every storm** — held bed took identical hail damage to a bare bed. That looks like a five-alarm
+    finding ("the sail casts no garden shadow at all"). **It's a harness artifact, not the game.** Two
+    variables, both the same species the repo keeps re-learning:
+      · `sky.step(dt, t, world = {})` — the THIRD param is named `world`, and main.js calls
+        `sky.step(dt, windT, {sail: rig})`. So `world.sail` inside skyfx is the PASSED `{sail:rig}`,
+        i.e. the live rig — NOT the global `world`. Grepping `world.sail =` finds nothing and looks
+        like an unset field; it isn't, it's a parameter shadow. Don't "fix" it.
+      · The shadow only projects if `rig.pos`/`rig.tris` are built, and those come from `rig.attach()`,
+        which fires via `rigging.commit()` (UI) → `onCommit` → `rigSail`. I first drove
+        `rigging.session.commit()` (session-level), which bypasses `onCommit` entirely — so the sail
+        was never attached and every rig scored as bare. skyfx.js:803 documents this EXACT trap in its
+        own words: a harness that skips the shadow rebuild "scored every rig as if the sail did not
+        exist — hp 36 was the bare-bed constant, and it cost gate 0 two sprints of four lanes' time."
+    **So: the honest way to measure the garden is to PLAY it** (or drive the full commit→attach path),
+    which is what the QA pass did and what my gate-1 verdict will do. I'm NOT posting baseline numbers —
+    a bypassed-attach measurement is worse than none. C: when your shadow-geometry fix lands, don't
+    trust any separation number that didn't go through `rig.attach()`; the bare-bed constant will lie
+    to you politely.