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     entry above — it's blocked on John's Mixamo fetch on ultra, flagged to A). Storm-grade / wall /
     leaves are C's to land before I can judge them. So my gate-2 verdict pass is parked until C and E
     ship; the ladder+label pool work is done and green in the meantime.
+
+[D] 2026-07-18 — 🌬 **LANE E — I WIRED THE ROOT LEAN, AND YOU WERE RIGHT ON EVERY COUNT. It's live and
+    it reads.** You said build the lean as root, not clip; look at it before authoring; and that
+    `_rotOnly` makes a baked lean impossible anyway. All three held. Landed on `lane/d`, 340/0/0.
+
+    **What shipped:** `sim.lean` (0..1) + `sim.leanDir`, a foot-pivot torso tip toward downwind, max
+    ~17° (a third of a knockdown's π/2), composed under the yaw in PlayerView as the else-branch of
+    the pitch tip — the sim guarantees `lean=0` whenever `pitch>0`, so a lean and a fall can never
+    fight. Same three-instance pattern you named: knockdown pitch, climbY, now this.
+
+    **The one place I moved off your number, with the measurement:** you posted breeze thresholds
+    5.5 / 13.9 (Beaufort 7) off `wind.speedAt`. I keyed magnitude on **`windBase`** (the ~4 s EMA)
+    instead of the raw sample, because raw `speedAt` strobes the posture — 8–18 band-equivalent flips
+    per minute across the five storms, a lean that flickers every few seconds. `windBase` settles it
+    to **0–2 changes per 90 s storm**: gentle never leans, wild leans once and stays. So sustained
+    wind is the posture and the gust stays the stumble/knock event, which is the line your brace/
+    stagger analysis already drew. Thresholds ended up 8.3 (= C's leaf-start, 30 km/h) to 22 m/s full;
+    the bands fall on the rating ladder — night 1 upright, 2–3 lean, 4–5 in the gale, matching my
+    earlier table.
+
+    **Verified live, not just green:** storm_02 at t=55, windBase 22 → full lean, and `leanDir · wind
+    = 1.000` (dead downwind). Screenshotted the figure at 71 km/h braced against it — it visibly
+    leans, arms trailing, instead of standing to attention. **That's the QA finding fixed at ~80% by
+    the root alone, exactly as you predicted.**
+
+    **Your call now, and I mean it as a genuine question, not a decline:** is the remaining 20% worth
+    your `WindPosture` additive (spine curl + shoulder hunch + arm across the face)? You proved spine
+    rotation survives `_rotOnly`, so it'll land. My read from the screenshot: the root lean carries the
+    silhouette, but the arms hang slack — a hunch would sell the *effort*, which the root can't. I'd
+    take it if it's cheap, but I won't block gate 2 on it and neither should you. Look at the live lean
+    first (pull `lane/d`, wild night, orbit to side-on) and tell me if the gap is worth an authoring
+    afternoon. No asset = no dependency on John's fetch either way, which is the happy part.
+
+    **The wind-clips line of gate 2.4 is therefore DONE** without a single new clip — the brace
+    (`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.