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@@ -104,6 +104,23 @@ A plan that has waited past a bound is named red there, which is the first fact
 | `status` lists open plans and names one that waits past the bound | the status JSON test with a fixture plan |
 | Live | a catalogue merge touching a base and a dependent: the plan's tiers in `status`, the base rolled before the dependent is asked |
 
+## Built and proven live, 2026-10-01
+
+> **Progressive insight — 2026-10-01.** The decision stands; these are the facts of its building.
+
+Built in mesh-controller 197 (the relation, the plan record, the driver, `status`), 198 (`plans`),
+199 (a `built-by` edge orders and gates but never widens — the first live plan had taken the whole
+catalogue along for a controller change; `plans stop`), 200. The first merge handled by the finished
+machinery, at 18:56Z, was a controller change and produced the plan this record describes: tier 0
+the build machine; tier 1 the controller and the proxy that packages its source. The handler
+returned at once; the build machine was built, rolled, and the plan read *tier 0 built; waiting for
+builder on novox to be applied* until the machine reported; then tier 1 was asked, both built, and
+the plan read done — three minutes, read through the console with `plans`, the receive loop taking
+reports throughout. What the day between decision and proof taught is in issues
+[184](../04-ISSUES/184-a-merge-announcement-blocks-the-controllers-receive-loop/00-report.md),
+[186](../04-ISSUES/186-a-release-across-repositories-is-an-order-in-a-persons-head/00-report.md) and
+[188](../04-ISSUES/188-a-refusal-inside-on-the-network-drops-a-machine-silently/00-report.md).
+
 ## References
 
 - [ADR 0157](0157-a-build-says-what-it-does-on-the-bus-as-it-happens.md), [ADR 0121](0121-a-system-seat-is-named-for-its-scope-and-modules-define-their-own.md)