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@@ -520,3 +520,42 @@ both cases the argument was valid and the *inputs to the summary* were wrong. No
 amount of re-reading the claim finds that; only re-running it does. It is the
 argument for re-running over re-checking, and it is why the two findings flagged
 as unverified above were re-run rather than defended.
+
+---
+
+# ❌ A refutation aimed at this renderer, measured and NOT landed
+
+The Decoder raised it and could not test it from their side: *"if your renderer
+runs both leaves on a single rate, the two strips stay locked together and drift
+from the game by ~118 units per cycle, growing without bound."* The two leaves
+declare **600** and **720** unit loops.
+
+**Pre-registered, then measured on a real boot** via `--probe-leaf`. At a raw leaf
+clock of 4873:
+
+| leaf | span | measured `leaf_t` | `fposmod(4873, span)` |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| `pteff03` | 600 | **72.6** | 73 |
+| `pteff03a` | 720 | **552.6** | 553 |
+
+The port takes each leaf's span from **its own keyframes** — `span = max(k.t)`
+over `fe.keyframes` — so the two were never locked. **17 748 probe samples, title
+clock reaching 9 745**, i.e. the sweep is still looping 162 seconds in.
+
+## 🔴 Two false alarms of my own on the way there, both from the same mistake
+
+1. **I used `--time` to ask a question about running behaviour.** It sets
+   `frozen`, which by design bypasses the `holding` clamp, so the title read as
+   *empty* past t=250 and I nearly reported the whole title vanishing. On a real
+   boot it does not: `settle_window` is `[160, 236, 198]`, the elements clamp to
+   t=198, and a filmed frame at `view_units 6733` shows the complete title.
+2. **I read a probe stopping as the feature stopping.** Two runs ended at
+   u≈236 and I took that as the sweep dying at settle. It was the run ending —
+   without `--film` the boot exits sooner. With a film attached the same probe
+   reaches 9 745.
+
+📌 Both are the frozen-sweep lesson wearing new clothes: *the diagnostic that
+pins the clock cannot answer a question about the clock running*, and *an
+instrument going quiet is not the subject going quiet*. The second is the same
+shape as the Decoder's own absence-of-a-quad bug — a count of zero says only that
+nothing reached the reader.