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@@ -43,12 +43,25 @@ _As of 2026-09-22:_
   until now — `scripts/booth` executes it before every one of the documented
   three. Now covered by `test_stdlib_only`. Same detail file carries why
   `importlib.metadata` is the WRONG version source in this repo.
-- 🔶 **SVOS design-system retrofit ACCEPTED by `design-dev`** (althing thread
-  `01M369321KNBPZ7FYDQGZG7AXP`). We own the IA; he owns the visual and
-  interaction system. He declined a `/vor-ui` brief — the IA doc plus the seven
-  constraints already are one. He works on `svos-retheme` in his own clone
-  against a COPY of `~/booth-data`; **we merge and restart**, he never touches
-  `:8090`. A concept round goes to the OPERATOR before any fixup.
+- 🔶 **SVOS CONCEPT ROUND IS UP AND THREE RULINGS ARE WITH THE OPERATOR**
+  (booth `booth-svos-retheme`, ask id `svos`: ship / voice / emblem, all three
+  with design-dev's recommendation attached). **Nothing from us gates it and
+  the branch must NOT be merged until he pings after the rulings.**
+  Branch `refs/heads/design-dev/svos-retheme` @ `878ed86` is fetched into this
+  repo as an **inert ref** — verified: nothing checked out, `main` clean,
+  `git merge-tree` against `33e7149` clean, merged tree 649 green.
+- 🔶 **THE FIXUP HOLD IS PARTIAL, NOT BLANKET.** `booth/templates/booth.html`
+  is **RELEASED** — design-dev does not touch it, so bug-hunt findings there
+  land immediately. **HELD** while his branch is out: `base.html`, `view.html`,
+  `doc.html`, `embed.js`, and `app.py`'s `FAVICON_HREF`.
+- ⚠ **A REAL LATENT CSS DEFECT, FOUND BY design-dev, ASSIGNED TO HIS REWRITE.**
+  `base.html` reads `--line` / `--bg` / `--fg` / `--muted` and **defines none of
+  them**; 15 of those uses carry no fallback (lines 281-314). `border:1px solid
+  var(--line)` with the var undefined is invalid at computed-value time, so the
+  WHOLE border declaration drops — the keep/blur/reveal buttons have had no
+  border and a transparent background. The U7 rail above them reads the same
+  names WITH fallbacks, which is why the rail looks deliberate and the buttons
+  never did. **Do not fix on `main`** — it is the one file he is rewriting.
 - ⚠ **A `postbox send` note is a point-in-time snapshot, NOT a durable fact.**
   The send said `design-dev: pull-only`; `postbox handles` says `push
   reachable`, and he replied in-session. Read the mode from `postbox handles`.