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 the composition that cannot reach the bus at genesis). Three of the four are fixed on branches; the
 fourth is the genesis work.

+## What made it slow, and what was changed so it is not
+
+Six faults behind one another, each found by raising a machine and reading what it said. What cost
+the most was not the faults:
+
+- **Every bed's own instructions named the bundle that cannot work**, so the first three attempts
+  ended in a control plane crash-looping on a missing bus. They name the working one now.
+- **A host binary built without its system** refuses everything it is given with *this host was
+  built for ""*, which reads like a broken bundle. The lab's README says so.
+- **`make image` in the control plane had been broken for as long as its base was pinned**: the
+  Dockerfile's fallback is a Go older than the module asks for, and the pipeline never saw it
+  because the pipeline passes the declared base in. It reads the base from the manifest now.
+- **Leaving the machine standing is what answers the question.** Every finding above came from
+  shelling in afterwards — the host's log, the bus's log, the file the bus was actually handed —
+  and none from the test's own output, which says only that nothing converged. The bed takes
+  `MESH_LAB_KEEP`, and the README says to reach for it first.
+
 ## What it cost, for the next person

 Every lab bed still names `foundation-first-node.lock` in its own instructions, and that bundle