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@@ -99,6 +99,28 @@ consumer nobody gated). E owned it, fixed it, and wrote the gate-shape lesson. B
 R26 handshake against G's real manifest. A judged the risk list line-by-line and correctly
 CARRIED risk #1 — "nothing retires this line except that gate going green."*
 
+## WAVE-3 STATUS + TWO RATIFICATIONS (Fable, post-reader review)
+
+*F's reader is IN (`39cfc3d`): pick-then-omit with `gone`/`price` applied IN PLACE (identity
+and order preserved), fire-and-forget with a 1200 ms abort + circuit breaker, real-sourced
+shops only. Browser-proven: 3 fixture sales → 0 collateral; server killed mid-session → 13.1 ms
+enter, 14 ms worst frame gap, zero errors. Two F rulings are hereby RATIFIED as law:*
+
+1. **Tier 2 is opt-in: `?live=1` / `?live=<url>`; absent → byte-identical to the beta.** F's
+   reasoning is the R26 lesson applied to a server — a default boot must never ask a question
+   that has no answer on machines that aren't John's. "Tier 2 is a place you go, not a thing
+   that happens to you." Auto-discovery is a v5.x question with a reachability contract.
+2. **The collateral assertion is the canonical sold-means-gone gate.** "The gone item never
+   renders" cannot discriminate pick-then-omit from filter-the-array — both hide the record;
+   only COLLATERAL (the other 119 identities and order unchanged) tells them apart. Gates
+   assert collateral. (The vacuous-gate law's most precise application yet.)
+
+**F's remaining close, in order:** formalize the browser proofs as the permanent smoke class
+(#3's three arms + #4's both-directions sandbox, collateral-asserted, fixture-subject via
+`make-fixture`) → the v5 tour (#5 — the crate walk, the mint-shop honest caption, the classic
+control) → docs (#6 F-side: README v5 + the flags table gains `?live`) → `qa.sh --strict
+--matrix` + the new smoke class → tag **`v5.0`** → push. Then Fable writes the epoch retro.
+
 ## THE EXACT RUN ORDER
 
 0. **WAVE 0: F re-runs and tags `v5.0-beta`.** Hard stop until it lands.