diff --git a/forgetest/forgetest/baseline.py b/forgetest/forgetest/baseline.py
index 930c2a3..0c19c7b 100644
--- a/forgetest/forgetest/baseline.py
+++ b/forgetest/forgetest/baseline.py
@@ -65,6 +65,21 @@ FIXED_SYSFS = [
     ("head/white_led", "0"),
     ("thermal/heater_pwm", "0"),
     ("thermal/tec_on", "0"),
+    # Purge air runs continuously, as on the factory machine: the engine
+    # turns it on at start and only a listening (the quiet hold) switches
+    # it off, which puts it back on release. A check that switches it off
+    # to measure it and forgets leaves the machine one job away from an
+    # airflow hold mid-cut, judged against the floor that same check just
+    # wrote, and nothing notices until the daemon restarts: the engine's
+    # idle phase never re-applies its own duties. The airflow check did
+    # exactly that, and it reached an operator's first fire.
+    ("head/purge_air", "1"),
+    # The lens motor at rest: hold current, half step. The lens checks and
+    # the sheet cards take it to the run current in full or half step and
+    # must hand it back, or the motor sits hot and the next reference
+    # starts from a state nobody chose.
+    ("head/z_current", "1"),
+    ("head/z_mode", "1"),
 ]
 
 # The subset the GRBL controller writes at its start: checked and restored
diff --git a/forgetest/forgetest/runner.py b/forgetest/forgetest/runner.py
index b8e546a..49b4067 100644
--- a/forgetest/forgetest/runner.py
+++ b/forgetest/forgetest/runner.py
@@ -994,7 +994,21 @@ class Runner:
             run.log(traceback.format_exc().rstrip())
         self.fixture_release(run)
         try:
-            self._baseline_post(run, captured)
+            left = self._baseline_post(run, captured)
+            # A test hands the machine back as it found it. Anything left
+            # behind was recorded here and nothing more, so a check that
+            # measured correctly and walked away with the machine in a
+            # state nobody chose still passed: that is how the airflow
+            # check came to leave the purge fan off, and an operator met
+            # it at their first fire instead of the bench meeting it here.
+            # The pass is now conditional on the machine being whole. A
+            # leftover the baseline put back still fails: the restore is
+            # the bench cleaning up after a defect, not the defect's
+            # absence.
+            if left and result == _campaign.PASS:
+                result = _campaign.FAIL
+                message = ("the machine was not handed back as found: %s"
+                           % "; ".join(str(x) for x in left))
         except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001 - never lose the result over the cleanup
             run.log("baseline: post pass errored: %s: %s" % (type(e).__name__, e))
         duration = int(time.time() - run.started)
diff --git a/forgetest/forgetest/suite/commission_dark.py b/forgetest/forgetest/suite/commission_dark.py
index d9ed910..9c22d05 100644
--- a/forgetest/forgetest/suite/commission_dark.py
+++ b/forgetest/forgetest/suite/commission_dark.py
@@ -167,7 +167,8 @@ def check_sensors(ctx):
                   "for 35 s, the purge is measured on and off, and five settings are written: the "
                   "four floors at 55 percent of steady and the grace from the slowest spin-up. Each "
                   "fan must read at least 1000 rpm. The five settings are put back as found at the "
-                  "end and the controller must be running again.")
+                  "end, the purge fan is on again and drawing over the floor the check just wrote, "
+                  "and the controller must be running again.")
 def check_airflow(ctx):
     keys = ["cool_tach_exhaust_min_rpm", "cool_tach_intake_min_rpm", "cool_tach_air_assist_min_rpm",
             "cool_purge_min_current", "cool_fan_grace_s"]
@@ -186,6 +187,20 @@ def check_airflow(ctx):
         for k in keys:
             ctx.check(s.get(k) == floors.get(k), "%s reads %r, the check wrote %r", k, s.get(k), floors.get(k))
         ctx.log("floors: %s", json.dumps(floors))
+        # The check switches purge air off to read its off current. Leaving
+        # it off costs the next job an airflow hold mid-cut, judged against
+        # the very floor written above, and nothing puts it back until the
+        # daemon restarts: the engine's idle phase never re-applies its own
+        # duties. Prove the machine is whole, not just measured.
+        purge_on = ctx.sysfs("head/purge_air")
+        ctx.check(purge_on == "1", "purge air reads %r after the check, expected 1 (on)", purge_on)
+        gate = ((ctx.forgectrl.get("/cool/status")[1] or {}).get("fan_gates") or {}).get("purge") or {}
+        ctx.evidence["purge_after"] = {"purge_air": purge_on, "gate": gate}
+        ctx.log("purge after the check: commanded %s, drawing %s against the %s floor",
+                purge_on, gate.get("reading"), gate.get("floor"))
+        ctx.check((gate.get("reading") or 0) >= (gate.get("floor") or 0),
+                  "purge draws %s, under the %s floor the check just wrote: the next job would be held",
+                  gate.get("reading"), gate.get("floor"))
     ok = ctx.wait_for(lambda: (ctx.forgectrl.get("/mode")[1] or {}).get("controller") == "running", 60)
     ctx.check(ok is not None, "the controller did not come back after the check")
 
diff --git a/meta-forgefirm/recipes-forgefirm/forgectrl/forgectrl-pin.inc b/meta-forgefirm/recipes-forgefirm/forgectrl/forgectrl-pin.inc
index f499d56..fe0cb92 100644
--- a/meta-forgefirm/recipes-forgefirm/forgectrl/forgectrl-pin.inc
+++ b/meta-forgefirm/recipes-forgefirm/forgectrl/forgectrl-pin.inc
@@ -2,5 +2,5 @@
 # only SRCREV and PV here - the image manifest leaves *-pin.inc out of the
 # layer content hash because the component entry already identifies the
 # pinned source (forgefirm-image-manifest.bbclass).
-SRCREV = "468ee215dd1148b92c979decacecc41aa6a75ccf"
-PV = "0.1.12"
+SRCREV = "a2d73efeb9af376e122e0877a4988d92d021cfa7"
+PV = "0.1.13"