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@@ -59,6 +59,27 @@ _As of 2026-09-22:_
   ⚠ **Calibration for the next round: his bar is "did anything change when I
   opened it".** He said the Booth "kind of looks the same" about our own U7
   navigation work, before ever seeing the design round.
+- 🔶 **ROUND 2 IS UP AND FOUR RULINGS ARE WITH THE OPERATOR** — booth
+  `booth-flow-concepts`, ask `flow`: direction / compare / voice / emblem.
+  Three directions (Desk, Reel, Bench), six screens each in dark+light, plus a
+  README stating eight requirements measured from the live booths. design-dev
+  recommends **A+B** (Desk with the Reel as its review mode), **compare in this
+  arc**, **plain-and-direct copy**, **no emblem**. He withdrew his own round-1
+  `svos` ask as superseded — he did NOT answer anything on the operator's
+  behalf.
+- ⚠ **`booth-svos-retheme` HAS NO HOLD AND WILL SWEEP.** Withdrawing the ask
+  removed the last open pick and there is no `.forever`. Round 1's renders are
+  the only rendered baseline to judge round 2 against; they are reproducible
+  from the staged branch but not one click away. Flagged to him; `booth keep`
+  is his call, not ours.
+- ✅ **ORDERING REVIEW DONE FOR ROUND 2's SURFACES** (he asked before building).
+  His **ordinals rule improves invariant 6** — an ordinal that counts across ALL
+  items makes "#07" stable under every filter, where today "the third one" is
+  ambiguous the moment a filter is on. Two corrections returned: flag "set
+  order" IS `(created, id)` because `set_flag` upserts and unflag REMOVES, so no
+  new field is needed but the tie-break is; and "last activity" must reuse
+  `_newest_mtime`, whose `.lock` exclusion is load-bearing — a naive `max(mtime)`
+  lets a no-op mark POST float a dead booth to the top.
 - 🔶 **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