The assigner took record.novox.nats away as stale in the same second the operator's yes was written (the yes counts only while the ask is there), and rewrote it under the id the router already kept, so the teller never asked it again. The stale test compared a module's ask with the whole node's composition; it now reads the module's own have, and restore and record asks are numbered by their writing's time as hold asks are. Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01JG73KEq4zoDfM9WtYpcQgZ