The controller ended by its unassignment and its lease key expired, so the gate on a handed lease kept retirement, rotation and node-login rotation off for good (issue 1126, A3). Drop the gate, the lease watch and the manifest's read of mesh-controller.lease; vault_status no longer reports a lease. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01NcbgfJ9Gum47zkFKWRaovL