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@@ -1182,3 +1182,38 @@ thread identity or behaviour carries across runs for free.
 
 **Net for the distribution experiment:** the healthy half now has two independent
 samples; the frozen half is **still uncollected**, because run 3 never froze.
+
+## 🟡 2026-08-25 — my own probe is now the strongest freeze correlate
+
+The `phase_watch.py` runs give a much sharper tally than the earlier
+inducer experiment did, because the difference between the two groups is a
+single tool:
+
+| probe attached | runs | outcome |
+|---|---|---|
+| pilot only | 2 | **clean to 936 s and 1064 s** |
+| pilot + `phase_watch.py` | **3** | **froze at ~70 s, ~253 s, ~126 s** |
+
+Five runs, same boot path, same pilot, same mission. Every run carrying the
+script probe froze inside ~4 minutes; neither run without it froze in ~16.
+
+**What `phase_watch` does that the pilot does not:** `find_mission()` performs
+**two full sweeps of guest memory** at startup — one for the `.ssb` header, one
+for every word equal to the code base — and then ~130 small reads every 5 s. The
+full sweeps are the obvious suspect, and they are the same *shape* as the
+`heavy_read.py` scans that the earlier n=2 experiment implicated.
+
+⚠️ **Still correlation.** Three-versus-two is suggestive, not causal, and the
+earlier inducer test already produced one clean counter-example when the box was
+loaded. But it is now the best-supported version of "the instrument provokes the
+freeze", and it is *my* instrument, which makes it actionable rather than
+academic.
+
+**The cheap test:** `find_mission` only needs to run once, and its result could
+be passed in on later samples — so run the same watch with the sweeps replaced by
+a hard-coded address from a prior run. If the freezes stop, the sweeps are the
+cause; if they continue, the per-sample reads are.
+
+**Cost so far:** three attempts to observe a phase advance, all truncated inside
+four minutes by a freeze the probe itself may be causing. The arrival transition
+at ~143 s was caught only because it happens early.