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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Wait for the in-mission freeze and capture the evidence at the moment it lands.
+#
+# Written because catching it by hand costs a tool call every 25 s and the freeze
+# takes anywhere from ten seconds to never: roughly half the runs that reach
+# flight freeze, and the other half do not
+# (docs/re/mission-freeze-resume-spin.md).
+#
+# "Frozen" is two screenshots byte-identical (frozen.py); it is checked ONLY
+# while the flight HUD is still on screen, because the GAME OVER screen animates
+# and a run that ended there is not a freeze.
+#
+# On detection it snapshots what the stuck-wait probe has said, so the comparison
+# against the healthy-run baseline (one thread polling one Event) is made from
+# the same instant rather than reconstructed later.
+set -u
+export HOME=/sylph-home/re
+DISP="${DISPLAY:-:98}"
+SD="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)"
+LOG="${1:-/sylph-home/re/shots/probe-canary.stdout}"
+OUT="${2:-/sylph-home/re/logs/freeze-evidence.txt}"
+DEADLINE=$(( SECONDS + ${3:-1800} ))
+: > "$OUT"
+
+while [ $SECONDS -lt $DEADLINE ]; do
+  if ! pgrep -x xenia_canary >/dev/null; then
+    echo "EMULATOR GONE at ${SECONDS}s" | tee -a "$OUT"; exit 4
+  fi
+  if python3 "$SD/frozen.py" 5 >/dev/null; then
+    if python3 -c "import sys; sys.path.insert(0,'$SD'); import frozen; sys.exit(0 if frozen.in_flight() else 1)"; then
+      {
+        echo "FROZEN IN FLIGHT at ${SECONDS}s"
+        echo
+        echo "=== stuck-wait probe: (thread, object) pairs ==="
+        grep -oE 'thread [0-9A-F]+ has timed out [0-9]+ times in a row on object [0-9A-F]+ \(type [0-9]+\)' "$LOG" \
+          | sed -E 's/has timed out [0-9]+ times in a row //' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
+        echo
+        echo "=== last 12 probe lines ==="
+        grep 'wait-probe' "$LOG" | tail -12
+      } | tee -a "$OUT"
+      exit 0
+    fi
+    echo "frozen but NOT in flight (mission over) at ${SECONDS}s" | tee -a "$OUT"
+    exit 5
+  fi
+  sleep 20
+done
+echo "NO FREEZE within ${3:-1800}s" | tee -a "$OUT"; exit 1