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@@ -83,6 +83,9 @@ survives real multi-turn use (the 2026-08-14 delete-too-early lesson).
 
 ## Status
 
-Harness written 2026-08-19; bf16 staging in progress. **The destructive run has
-NOT been executed** — the dry-run tensor-map verification and the capture/screen
-are the gates before it, and the go is the operator's.
+Harness written 2026-08-19; bf16 fully staged (18 shards). **Dry-run PASSED
+against the real checkpoint (2026-08-20):** 1199 tensors, 333 vision preserved,
+`down_proj=64 o_proj=16 linear_out=48 mtp=2 embed=1`, coverage gate 6/6, exactly
+**131** tensors to orthogonalize — the recipe maps 1:1, no name drift. Next:
+`--capture` (direction + sink screen, no write), then the `--out` write on
+operator go. **The destructive run has NOT been executed.**