No new job left you. P did not move. Chain broken.

Headline. Cycle 10 is iterate. Question 1 is no — no new founder layer left your hands in the cycle after 29 Aug 17:15. The peer toggle already scored in cycle 7. Standing recon ran all night and day and stayed thin. Video reviews steered mechanism contracts (buckets, founder context, doll paint, live-gate compile, reach story). Question 2 is no — P is still empty; no path named. Live-gate compile e834b2f2 returned 0 candidates. I have written chain broken. I have not rewritten the live slot. I have not installed the parked customer cut. S stays 1. Contract 63e813ea-f3ae-4cb3-9090-2025599c7854 stays parked as a milestone. Contract 8c85e909-57b0-4d5d-a086-173f68ed5627 stays live.

Story walk (destination → parked cut → live gate → this close)

The destination is a $2.5–5bn company. Centre of the Russian dolls — not the outer ring (Doll gates, contracts c4d8e21b / d1a9f6e2 / e3c8b17f). You start outside and only earned layers appear as you move in.

The first-customer cut stays parked as a milestone (UUID 63e813ea). It is not the live job. Market is the ring that wraps that parked cut — not a named path yet.

The live middle gate, in words: path candidates still cannot be compiled. Compile e834b2f2 returned 0 candidates; the blocker is reach / naming a buyer (live-gate contract, reach story). Thin recon, doll-gates paint, and the founder Gemini context archive are mechanism and visibility. They are not who / why / how / next. Open asks still holds the unanswered steering set.

This close: both scored questions are no. Chain broken. Slot unchanged. S stays 1.

What this close scored

1. Did a real founder layer (a job) leave your hands today? no. Evidence: hour-slots.md (Released today still dated 26 Aug: Peer toggle; Current slot unchanged); hour-log.md (29 Aug 17:15 through 30 Aug 16:55: Layer stays Peer toggle; no new named release; contracts e6c4a91f / c7b2e14a / d1a9f6e2 / e3c8b17f / e834b2f2 / 58cd58c1 are mechanism/visibility, not a layer transfer); founder-decisions.md (you skipped 08:55 ~10:18 and 14:55 ~15:32; video reviews steered those contracts, not a new layer release).
2. Did today’s work move the company closer to $2.5–5bn? no. p-evidence.md is empty. market-paths.md still starts No path named yet. Standing recon stayed thin through 16:55. Live-gate compile returned 0 candidates. Thin recon + doll gates + founder Gemini context are not a path you accepted.

P is company position toward $2.5–5bn. Empty exists so the score cannot be faked. p-missing.md is still: who is the first customer, or what is the first market path? Empty is honest, not finished. Market-path research is the standing mechanism. A research note is not a P move until you accept a path. A visibility layer already scored is not a new P move.

C (cost) is still high for unchanged P — both check-ins skipped; hours ran standing recon from the clock; your video reviews directed buckets, founder context, doll paint, live-gate, and reach-story contracts (higher directing than cycle 9’s morning-only pattern). S (running confidence) stays 1 — no credit this cycle, no debit. G (growth) is not declared.

Live slot, unchanged:

Hold the 24-hour founder loop with Founder View and Agent View as peer surfaces. Use the hours for market-path compounding. Do not invent a customer. Do not unpark the customer cut.

Layer (last named, not new today): Peer toggle: Founder View ↔ Agent View.

Why this was necessary

The problem this close removes: treating a full day of thin recon plus video-steered visibility contracts as if a job left you, or as if P moved. Future closes read close-30.md, score.md, and chain.md instead of re-litigating whether standing recon, doll paint, or a 0-candidate compile counted as a layer or as P.

One full day without you in the loop is a test that can qualify taking a layer off. It is not the destination. The destination is P, with market path(s) first. Today’s no on both questions is honest: the test ran; the destination did not move.

The customer cut stays parked as a milestone / north star. cut-hold.md.

Systemic effect: after a named layer scores, the next close still needs a new measurable release or an honest chain broken — thin files and mechanism contracts do not extend the chain. A compile that returns zero candidates is evidence of the live gate, not a path.

Alternatives rejected

• Write yes on question 1 because the peer toggle still appears on every hour-log row, or because video reviews landed contracts. That layer already scored in cycle 7; buckets, founder context, doll paint, live-gate, and reach-story contracts are mechanism/visibility, not a new release.
• Write yes on question 2 because recon files piled up, Doll gates was painted, or a compile was attempted. Thin recon and 0 candidates are not a path you accepted.
• Install the customer cut or invent a next slot. You did not confirm either.
• Leave the chain unmarked after a cycle with no measurable release from the live slot.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

Working set, not exhaustive.
1. Leave the live slot as the peer-surface loop with market-path compounding.
2. Name a different next job now that another full post-toggle day produced no path and the live gate still compiles 0.
3. Keep compounding market paths until a candidate can run end to end (who / why / how / next), including who can be reached.

Current levers (working set, not exhaustive)

1. Market-path compounding — standing, not P until you accept a path.
2. The parked customer cut — milestone, not the live job.
3. The live slot — peer surfaces + market-path compounding.
4. Open asks inbox — reply once when you want to steer.
5. Doll gates map + live-gate compile — visibility of nested gates and the reach blocker; not a path.
6. Founder Gemini context archive — context only; not a named path.

Watch / next decision point

31 Aug 08:55 asks direction. Slot unchanged. Layer: Peer toggle: Founder View ↔ Agent View (last named). P empty. Chain broken this close. Live gate: path candidates still cannot be compiled (e834b2f2 0 candidates; reach/buyer blocker).

Founder Views since 08:55 today (close story)

• 08:55 direction — skipped ~10:18
• overnight 29–30
• HTTPS Safari auth
• buckets e6c4a91f · contract
• founder context c7b2e14a · contract
• doll paint d1a9f6e2 · e3c8b17f
• live-gate e834b2f2 contract · compile 14:20
• 14:55 direction — skipped ~15:32
• reach story 58cd58c1 · contract
• Path research since 08:55: 09:55 · 10:55 · 11:55 · 12:48 · 12:55 · 13:55 · 15:55 · 16:55

Prior contracts still live: 1ea6fbac peer toggle; 9f3c8a21 Hermes parked; e7a1c4d2 destination-first inbox; b4e91c70 inbox; 7e2c91a4 strength sort; c0cbf4d7 Overnight cadence; a9aec1fe datetime stamps; a36b2815 dates + milestone; 26e4abb6 hold is no invention; 21b73208 header and recon map; 3ae9e308 status badges; c299d2bb status labels; 3f466b07 tabs; 8c85e909 click-success; dual-write; web-first; non-invention; 63e813ea customer cut parked; f7c2a04e founder voice; a91e3c70 doll map; c4d8e21b doll circles; e6c4a91f buckets; c7b2e14a founder context; d1a9f6e2 / e3c8b17f doll paint; e834b2f2 live-gate; 58cd58c1 reach story.

Agent files

close-30.md · score.md · chain.md · cycle-log.md · founder-decisions.md · cut-hold.md · market-paths.md · p-evidence.md · overnight 29–30 · Doll gates · Open asks · Founder View index