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 *Owner: PROCITY-E. Scope: `pipeline/*`, `web/assets/*`. Nothing in other lanes' files was touched.*
 
+> ⚠ **THIS FILE STOPS AT ROUND 12 AND HAS SINCE R13. IT IS NOT THE LIVE RECORD.** Everything from
+> Round 13 on lives in **[`docs/LANES/LANE_E_NOTES.md`](docs/LANES/LANE_E_NOTES.md)** (what other
+> lanes need from this one, newest first) and **[`pipeline/AUDIT.md`](pipeline/AUDIT.md)**
+> (provenance, licence zone, measurements and method, per round). Recorded in R39 rather than
+> quietly resurrected: a progress file whose last entry is 27 rounds old is a trap for the next
+> reader, and the honest fix is a signpost, not a backfill.
+
 ## Round 12 (v3.0-alpha gig layer, `?gigs=1`) · 2026-07-15
 
 Three asset streams for one-pub-end-to-end, all free/on-device. C works the pub interior in parallel