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@@ -189,9 +189,14 @@ See [`structures/ui-composable-bundles.md`](structures/ui-composable-bundles.md)
   title capture cannot separate the two — its resting elements are all
   `0xffffff`. A screen with a coloured primitive, captured, would.
 
-* ❔ **What marks a focused state in the file.** The pairing rule that shipped is
-  a naming convention, not a decoded field. `kind = 0x3002` is a button record;
-  whether a bit of `kind` marks the focused variant is the cheapest probe.
+* 🔴 **What marks a focused state in the file — NOT the declaration entry**
+  (2026-08-24). Swept disc-wide and asserted: **54** name-paired focused/base
+  pairs, **all 54** with identical `kind` (all `0x0`), **no** bit ever set on the
+  focused entry and clear on its base, and the only words of the 60-byte entry
+  that ever differ are **`+48`/`+52`, the pivot**. The naming pairing is not
+  standing in for a field — there is no field.
+  ❔ Still open: the `.rat` record, the RATC child stream, or the game's code.
+  See [`structures/ui-rat-layout.md`](structures/ui-rat-layout.md).
 * ❔ **What makes a bundle a screen rather than a fragment.** `is_composable`
   admits 1 786 extra bundles, mostly 2–5-element button+glow fragments.
 * ❔ **What `opt ` links.** Refuted as focus; unexplained otherwise.
@@ -337,7 +342,10 @@ is what the autopilot needs in order to CHOOSE a target. One run in:
   freeze (the control is therefore measured twice: 27 and 24 lines, same single
   pair), and the earlier freezes came in a cluster — so this is a ~30-minute
   lottery per run rather than a dependable step. `freeze_watch.sh` waits for one
-  unattended and snapshots the probe at the moment it lands. `frozen.py` detects the state in one call; `ob_hunt.py` /
+  unattended and snapshots the probe at the moment it lands. **Three** runs in a
+  row have now failed to freeze (the third ended in GAME OVER), and the probe's
+  healthy control is measured three times — 27, 24 and 36 lines, always the same
+  single pair. `frozen.py` detects the state in one call; `ob_hunt.py` /
   `ob_flag.py` abort on it. **Roughly two runs in three.**
   See [`mission-freeze-resume-spin.md`](mission-freeze-resume-spin.md).