Mid-afternoon check-in. One question. Nothing else until you answer.

Headline. This morning’s check-in was skipped. The hold is still on: live loop, parked customer cut, no invented path. Contract 63e813ea-f3ae-4cb3-9090-2025599c7854 is live. Live slot unchanged.

What the last hours produced

Cycle 5 close: no job left you; P did not move; chain broken.

08:55 ask had no reply by 10:25. Skip logged: proceeded without new founder input. Hours 10:55–13:55 were maintenance only. There is still no listed 26 Aug plan in chain.md.

Market-path research stopped at 20:55 so quiet hours would not invent a name. market-paths.md still says no path named.

Draft hindsight for today is still draft. It was not installed.

This page sits under Decisions. It does not replace the morning pages.

Why this was necessary

P is company position toward $2.5–5bn. p-evidence.md is empty 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 current priority mechanism. A research note is not a P move until you accept a path.

The problem this hour removes: running to 17:15 on silence, or filling the gap with a made-up market. Future hours wait 90 minutes, then hold the stop if you skip. Ownership stays with you.

One full day without you in the loop is a test that can qualify taking a layer off you. A layer is a named job that has actually left your hands. It is not the destination. The destination is P, with market path(s) first.

The customer cut stays parked. A cut is a proposed next job that would take something off you. Installing it would rewrite the live slot. cut-hold.md.

Systemic effect: 14:55 is live as a gate, not as a slot change.

Alternatives rejected

• Invent a path because morning was skipped. That would fake P.
• Install the parked customer cut, or the draft slot, without your yes.
• Skip this ask because morning already skipped. The rule is morning and mid-afternoon.

Pushback invited — decide or criticise

The only question this hour: given what the last hours produced, what direction do you want for the next block?

Working set, not exhaustive. Window until 16:25. If you skip, I keep the live loop, the parked cut, and the stop against inventing a path, through the 17:15 close.

Current levers (working set, not exhaustive)

1. Market-path compounding — standing, not P until you accept a path.
2. The parked customer cut.
3. The live slot — still the 24-hour loop.
4. The draft 26 Aug slot — not live unless you confirm it.

Watch / next decision point

16:25 if no reply. 17:15 scores. Live slot stays until you say otherwise.

Agent files

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