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 # failures and went red, applying THEIR marking convention (`[refuted]`) to MY
 # corpus, which marks corrections its own way. A checker that failed on my files
 # for not using their punctuation would have been noise within a day.
+
+################################################################################
+# RE-RUN 2026-08-31, with sylpheed-port's known-positive assertion. THREE THINGS
+# CHANGED, and the first is that my earlier count was produced by a broken reader.
+#
+# 🔴 THIRD PHANTOM READER IN ONE SESSION. A second parse of the SAME file in the
+# same minute returned a clean table with total 0. Their register rows are BARE
+# PHRASES; that parse searched each row for a quoted string, found none, and
+# silently produced an empty claim list. My first parse only worked because it
+# fell back to the whole line. Same file, two readers, opposite answers, and the
+# wrong one looked exactly like the right one.
+# ✅ Fixed with their guard: assert a KNOWN POSITIVE before scanning -- 12 rows
+# parsed and a named claim present, or the scan means nothing.
+#
+# ✅ THE REAL COUNT: 11 occurrences of their 12 registered claims in my corpus.
+#
+#     3  METHOD.md                      -- the correction narratives
+#     3  data/peer-register-cross-scan.txt  <-- THIS FILE
+#     1  data/index-vs-pages-audit.txt
+#     1  structures/bgm-two-stems.md
+#     1  docs/port/BLOCKED.md           -- my stale copy of THEIR file
+#     1  docs/port/HANDOFF.md
+#     1  structures/voice-three-streams-are-concurrent.md
+#
+# 📌 THE RELAY LOOP IS MEASURED, NOT ASSERTED. sylpheed-port reported that
+# relaying a peer's finding about dead claims creates occurrences of those claims
+# in your own files -- and THIS FILE, written to report on their claims, is
+# responsible for 3 of the 11. I produced the effect while documenting it. The
+# cost is per-mention and it now travels in both directions.
+#
+# 🔴 AND A CROSS-CONVENTION COLLISION, which is new: "1 of 3 streams" is a DEAD
+# claim in their register and a LIVE warning in mine. Both my occurrences read
+# "The '1 of 3 streams' warning STANDS" -- HANDOFF.md:1635 and
+# voice-three-streams-are-concurrent.md:72. It is not a revival; it is two
+# corpora using the same words for different propositions.
+# ⚠️ I cannot tell from the bare phrase whether their dead claim is even the same
+# proposition as my live warning, and I am not going to guess. What is certain is
+# that a cross-agent register CAN flag a phrase that is correct and current in the
+# other corpus -- which is the strongest argument yet for their advisory-only
+# choice, and it is a measured instance rather than a worry.