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+"""The shared, durable derivation-completion step (#825/#832 fix round A,
+Codex fix-round-1 Q1/Q2).
+
+A stats rebuild is apply-only: it replays journaled decisions and never
+derives a raw observation. Whenever an admitted current input reached the
+journal without a current binary deriving it, an apply-only rebuild consumes
+it without materializing it — permanently, because no decision exists for any
+later rebuild to replay. Three ways in:
+
+* the epoch transition: the tick whose ingest found another epoch appended its
+  reading and deferred (spec C3/F1);
+* a previous-release process whose ingest, at its own epoch, derived current
+  readings UNSTAMPED: admission excludes those decisions (review P1-1);
+* the corrupt-index heal and any interrupted recovery, whose rebuild consumed
+  a reading a deferred ingest never reached.
+
+`complete_and_rebuild` runs before every production rebuild of the live index
+(the caller holds stats maintenance EXCLUSIVE and `journal.ingest.lock`, so no
+current decision can be appended concurrently). It
+
+1. starts from a PROVEN complete predecessor state — the derivation frontier
+   of a trusted current index (`journal_derivation_frontier`) — or, absent that
+   proof, from the ORIGIN of the retained journal, bootstrap facts included
+   (fix round E, spec 4.7 revision 1, Codex fix-round-2 Q1): the cutover is no
+   proof, because an admitted decision for a pre-cutover input lands after
+   it. The replaced index's applied cursor
+   is never proof: an old process advances it past inputs it derived
+   unstamped, and a rebuild advances it past inputs it never derived. The
+   frontier counts consumed inputs; the cycle that consumed them journaled
+   its decisions beyond it, through the proof's output end, so the
+   predecessor is the rebuild through the frontier PLUS those owed decisions
+   (fix round C, P1-1) — without them a window input is derived against a
+   state uninterrupted ingest never had;
+2. builds a scratch index at that point and replays the admitted inputs of the
+   window in journal order through the ONE shared scratch derivation
+   (`_cctally_rederive.replay_scratch_records`: the live pipeline hooks,
+   harvest included), evaluating the outcome quarantine at each input's
+   original position, while a `_cctally_journal.ScratchRetention` keeps the
+   projection on the retained decisions (historical facts, corrections,
+   reviewed holds and tombstones), never on fresh candidates in their place;
+3. finds the GAP inputs (an input with a derived decision no admitted
+   decision answers; an input a previous release decided is history, never a
+   gap), replays the window without them as the reference, and once more
+   with them, holding a fresh candidate only where it differs from the
+   reference, so that the difference between the two is exactly the gap's
+   causal effect and its descendants — never an unrelated repricing of
+   decisions already made;
+4. journals that difference by the binding append policy: no physical event
+   under the id → an ordinary current-stamped revision-0 `evt`; an admitted
+   identical decision → nothing; only an excluded legacy decision, or an
+   admitted decision the gap changes → one completed correction batch whose
+   action is above every retained revision of the id; an admitted decision the
+   gap removes → a tombstone in that batch;
+5. rebuilds the live index over the result. The consumed-input frontier stays
+   distinct from output positions: inputs another process appended between
+   the window and the appended outputs are completed in a further round, and
+   an index published with inputs still unproven records the frontier where
+   proof stops, so the next completion picks them up. The published proof's
+   output end is the journal end, sound only because nothing between the two
+   derives from a later input (`_certify`); when that cannot be shown, the
+   proof completion started from stands.
+
+6. owes ONE post-unlock ingest when the published prefix stops before an
+   admitted derivable input (fix round J4, Codex cycle 5 P1-1). The
+   recorder that appended such an input waited a bounded time for the
+   locks this step holds and may have exited, and a statusline wake finds
+   no intake for it, so nothing else is bound to derive it. A durable
+   obligation file of its own (`residual_dir`, named by a nonce) records
+   the obligation before the locks are released; every publisher's
+   completion wake then dispatches the statusline continuation worker,
+   which reads every obligation and runs exactly one bounded authoritative
+   ingest (`run_owed_residual_derivation`) holding no accounting or
+   selected-state lock. Each obligation names the journal end it was
+   written at, and the attempt discharges it only when the cursor its
+   ingest left applied covers that residual — or nothing derivable remains
+   before it (fix round K5, Codex cycle 6 P1-1) — by removing exactly that
+   file, so a completion that records its obligation meanwhile (another
+   file) is never discharged by an attempt that predates it (fix round K6,
+   Codex cycle 6 verification P1-1). A returned lock-contention stop (a
+   busy maintenance, ingest or cache writer lock) keeps the obligation and
+   hands the lock that refused it to the statusline's one-shot release
+   waiter, whose wake runs the next attempt; any other failure keeps it
+   too, recording the failure and a backoff in it, so the continuation
+   never retries because of its own failure and a persistently failing
+   ingest costs one attempt per backoff interval. A worker killed inside
+   the ingest leaves the obligation for the next activating event (review
+   cycle 6).
+
+Maintenance never replays a notification: the scratch replay has no alert
+configuration and the live index is only ever folded, never derived. A retry
+recomputes the same plan from journal truth, reuses an interrupted batch's
+`at`, and so re-emits byte-identical lines; a completed batch makes the gap
+disappear, so a further run appends nothing.
+"""
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import contextlib
+import copy
+import dataclasses
+import datetime as dt
+import errno
+import hashlib
+import json
+import os
+import pathlib
+import shutil
+import sqlite3
+import tempfile
+import uuid
+
+import _cctally_core
+import _cctally_journal as _journal
+import _lib_account_protocol
+import _lib_accounts
+import _lib_journal
+import _lib_journal_router
+import _lib_rederive
+
+#: The correction-batch family this step (and the live collision check)
+#: journals under.
+FAMILY = _journal.DERIVATION_COMPLETION_FAMILY
+
+#: Completion rounds per rebuild. A round only repeats when another process
+#: appended a derivable input while the previous round was appending its own
+#: outputs; past this bound the index is published with the frontier where
+#: proof stops and the next completion continues from there.
+MAX_ROUNDS = 3
+
+#: Op kinds the pipeline derives decisions from (manual credits, cost syncs
+#: and reviewed weekly decisions). Account-registry ops only fold, which an
+#: apply-only rebuild already does, so they alone never open a window.
+_DERIVING_OP_KINDS = frozenset({
+    "weekly_credit_floor",
+    "sync_week",
+    "claude_weekly_observation_decision",
+    _lib_account_protocol.WEEKLY_OBSERVATION_DECISION_V2_KIND,
+})
+
+
+def _order(coordinate) -> tuple:
+    return _journal.journal_coordinate_key(coordinate)
+
+
+def _iso_now() -> str:
+    return (dt.datetime.now(dt.timezone.utc).replace(microsecond=0)
+            .isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z"))
+
+
+def is_deriving_input(record) -> bool:
+    """Whether the live pipeline derives decisions from ``record``."""
+    if not isinstance(record, dict):
+        return False
+    if record.get("t") == "obs":
+        import _cctally_rederive
+        return bool(_cctally_rederive._rederivable_raw_records([record]))
+    if record.get("t") == "op":
+        return (record.get("payload") or {}).get("kind") in _DERIVING_OP_KINDS
+    return False
+
+
+def window_has_derivable_inputs(lo, hi, boundary) -> bool:
+    """Whether the journal holds an admitted deriving input after ``lo`` and
+    at or before ``hi`` (both line-boundary coordinates)."""
+    if lo is None or hi is None or _order(hi) <= _order(lo):
+        return False
+    for segment, offset, raw in _journal.iter_range(lo, hi):
+        record = _lib_journal.decode_line(raw)
+        if (record is not None and is_deriving_input(record)
+                and _journal._is_admitted(record, segment, offset, boundary)):
+            return True
+    return False
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# entry point
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+def complete_and_rebuild(*, context, high_water=None, update_quota_cache=True,
+                         before_swap=None):
+    """Complete derivation through the rebuild's prefix, then rebuild the
+    live index over it (see the module docstring). Returns the final
+    rebuild's `RebuildResult`."""
+    import _cctally_retention
+
+    dest = pathlib.Path(_cctally_core.DB_PATH)
+    boundary = _journal._whole_prefix_admission_boundary()
+    # #946 (spec 4.7 revision 2): the SAFE endpoint of the prefix, so the
+    # proof this step publishes never names a torn suffix as consumed.
+    target = (_journal._safe_pinned_high_water(high_water)
+              if high_water is not None
+              else _journal.journal_safe_high_water())
+    if boundary is None or target is None:
+        # No account-bound cutover yet: nothing is fenced and there is no
+        # baseline to replay from, so the rebuild stays apply-only and
+        # carries whatever frontier the replaced index proves.
+        with _cctally_retention.retention_shared(label="stats rebuild"):
+            return _journal._rebuild_stats_index_locked(
+                context=context, high_water=high_water,
+                update_quota_cache=update_quota_cache,
+                before_swap=before_swap)
+    trusted = _journal.read_trusted_derivation_state(dest)
+    baseline = (boundary.segment, boundary.end_offset)
+    if trusted is not None and _order(trusted.frontier) < _order(baseline):
+        trusted = None
+    frontier, target = _complete(context, trusted, target, boundary)
+    with _cctally_retention.retention_shared(label="stats rebuild"):
+        result = _journal._rebuild_stats_index_locked(
+            context=context, high_water=target,
+            update_quota_cache=update_quota_cache, before_swap=before_swap,
+            derivation_frontier=frontier,
+            whole_prefix=high_water is None)
+    # Step 6 (fix round J4): read the journal end AFTER the publication, so
+    # an input appended while the final rebuild ran is owed too. Still under
+    # the caller's locks, so no ingest can consume it in between.
+    end = _journal.journal_safe_high_water()
+    if window_has_derivable_inputs(target, end, boundary):
+        try:
+            owe_residual_derivation(target, residual_through=end)
+        except ResidualObligationNotDurable as exc:
+            # Fix round K11 (K9K10-R7): the index IS published. The caller
+            # still posts the publication wake once its locks are released,
+            # and reports the obligation failure rather than a failed
+            # rebuild; ``result`` is the published index.
+            exc.result = result
+            raise
+    return result
+
+
+def post_publication_wake() -> None:
+    """#825/#832 spec 4.3 revision 2: the completion wake a live index
+    publication posts once its locks are released. Fix round K11
+    (K9K10-R7): a completion whose residual obligation could not be made
+    durable has still published, so it posts this wake before reporting
+    that failure. Never raises, never waits for the work. File-only unless
+    every retained head waits: then the event compares their dependency
+    tokens without waiting (fix round K13, 825-832-CD7-V02), which a
+    publishing process may read.
+
+    Fix round K12 (K11R-11): the one helper every live publication uses.
+    It also swallows `StatsRebuildDeferred`, a `BaseException` a wake's own
+    reservation can meet, which no publication may surface."""
+    import _cctally_db
+    try:
+        import _cctally_statusline
+        _cctally_statusline.post_wake("index-publication")
+    except (Exception, _cctally_db.StatsRebuildDeferred):  # noqa: BLE001
+        pass
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# the residual-derivation continuation (fix round J4, Codex cycle 5 P1-1)
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#: The backoff after a failed residual attempt that no lock caused (fix
+#: round K6, Codex cycle 6 verification P1-1): the first retry waits this
+#: long, each further failure doubles it, up to `_RESIDUAL_RETRY_MAX_S`.
+_RESIDUAL_RETRY_BASE_S = 60
+_RESIDUAL_RETRY_MAX_S = 3600
+
+#: A marker document larger than this is not one this module wrote.
+_RESIDUAL_MARKER_MAX_BYTES = 64 * 1024
+
+
+def _now() -> float:
+    """The wall clock the residual backoff is judged against (a test seam)."""
+    import time
+    return time.time()
+
+
+def residual_dir() -> pathlib.Path:
+    """The durable obligations: one file per completion that owes ONE
+    post-unlock ingest, named by its nonce (fix round K6). A completion only
+    ever creates its own file, and a discharge only ever removes a file it
+    read and proved covered, so no replacement can race a removal."""
+    return pathlib.Path(_cctally_core.APP_DIR) / "derivation-residual"
+
+
+def _obligation_paths() -> "list[pathlib.Path]":
+    """One listing; a missing directory is no obligation. A dot-file is an
+    unpublished temporary and never an obligation.
+
+    Fix round K11 (K9K10-R8): only a MISSING directory is empty. Any other
+    listing failure raises `OSError`, because a directory that cannot be
+    listed can hold owed work: the callers count it as owed
+    (`residual_derivation_owed`, `residual_derivation_due`) and answer it
+    with a bounded attempt (`run_owed_residual_derivation`)."""
+    try:
+        with os.scandir(residual_dir()) as entries:
+            names = [entry.name for entry in entries]
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        return []
+    return sorted(residual_dir() / name for name in names
+                  if name.endswith(".json") and not name.startswith("."))
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
+class _Obligation:
+    path: pathlib.Path
+    document: dict
+
+
+def _read_obligation(path: pathlib.Path) -> "_Obligation | None":
+    """The obligation recorded at ``path``, or None once it is gone. A file
+    that cannot be parsed still owes its ingest: it reads as an obligation
+    whose residual end is unknown (only a clean cycle covers it) and that
+    has never failed."""
+    try:
+        with open(path, "rb") as handle:
+            raw = handle.read(_RESIDUAL_MARKER_MAX_BYTES + 1)
+    except FileNotFoundError:
+        return None
+    except OSError:
+        raw = b""
+    try:
+        document = json.loads(raw.decode("utf-8"))
+        if not isinstance(document, dict):
+            document = {}
+    except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+        document = {}
+    return _Obligation(path, document)
+
+
+def _read_obligations() -> "list[_Obligation]":
+    found = []
+    for path in _obligation_paths():
+        obligation = _read_obligation(path)
+        if obligation is not None:
+            found.append(obligation)
+    return found
+
+
+def residual_obligations() -> "list[dict]":
+    """Every recorded obligation's document, oldest file name first
+    (diagnostics and tests)."""
+    return [obligation.document for obligation in _read_obligations()]
+
+
+def residual_derivation_owed() -> bool:
+    """File-only and lock-free (one listing): does any completion owe a
+    residual ingest, whatever its backoff? An unreadable obligation
+    directory is owed work, never none (fix round K11, K9K10-R8)."""
+    try:
+        return bool(_obligation_paths())
+    except OSError:
+        return True
+
+
+def _unreadable_backoff_path() -> pathlib.Path:
+    """Fix round K11 (K9K10-R8): the backoff of the attempts made while the
+    obligation directory cannot be listed. It lives beside that directory,
+    never in it, so it stays writable when only the directory is not."""
+    return (pathlib.Path(_cctally_core.APP_DIR)
+            / "residual-obligations-unlistable.json")
+
+
+def _read_unreadable_backoff() -> dict:
+    try:
+        with open(_unreadable_backoff_path(), "rb") as handle:
+            document = json.loads(
+                handle.read(_RESIDUAL_MARKER_MAX_BYTES + 1).decode("utf-8"))
+    except (OSError, ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError):
+        return {}
+    return document if isinstance(document, dict) else {}
+
+
+def _unreadable_due(now: float) -> bool:
+    """Whether an attempt over an unlistable obligation directory is owed
+    now: never attempted, or its non-sliding backoff ended (spec 4.3
+    *Waiting heads*: 60 s doubling to 3,600 s)."""
+    return _due(_Obligation(_unreadable_backoff_path(),
+                            _read_unreadable_backoff()), now)
+
+
+def _clear_unreadable_backoff() -> None:
+    """End the unlistable directory's backoff once it lists again. A stat
+    in the steady state: there is nothing to remove."""
+    path = _unreadable_backoff_path()
+    if not os.path.lexists(path):
+        return
+    try:
+        path.unlink()
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+
+
+def _retry_at(document: dict):
+    value = document.get("retryAt")
+    return value if isinstance(value, (int, float)) and not isinstance(
+        value, bool) else None
+
+
+def _due(obligation: _Obligation, now: float) -> bool:
+    """Whether an attempt is owed now. A retry instant further away than the
+    longest backoff was recorded before the clock stepped back, and is due
+    rather than stalling the obligation for as long as the step."""
+    retry_at = _retry_at(obligation.document)
+    return (retry_at is None or retry_at <= now
+            or retry_at - now > _RESIDUAL_RETRY_MAX_S)
+
+
+def residual_derivation_due(now: "float | None" = None) -> bool:
+    """File-only and lock-free: is an attempt owed NOW — an obligation exists
+    that is not waiting out the backoff of its own failed attempt (fix round
+    K6)? The statusline counts only this as pending work, so an obligation
+    in backoff costs no dispatch until an activating event after it ends.
+    One listing when nothing is owed."""
+    now = _now() if now is None else now
+    try:
+        paths = _obligation_paths()
+    except OSError:
+        # Fix round K11 (K9K10-R8): unknown obligations are owed, bounded by
+        # the unreadable directory's own backoff.
+        return _unreadable_due(now)
+    if not paths:
+        return False
+    for path in paths:
+        obligation = _read_obligation(path)
+        if obligation is not None and _due(obligation, now):
+            return True
+    return False
+
+
+def _point(coordinate):
+    return (None if coordinate is None
+            else [str(coordinate[0]), int(coordinate[1])])
+
+
+class ResidualObligationNotDurable(OSError):
+    """A completion published its capped index but could not durably record
+    the residual-derivation obligation it owes (review cycle 7 P1-1, spec
+    4.7). The completion must not report success: nothing would resume its
+    residual automatically. The residual input itself stays in the journal,
+    past the published cursor, for the next ingest."""
+
+
+def _fsync_path(path) -> None:
+    fd = os.open(path, os.O_RDONLY)
+    try:
+        os.fsync(fd)
+    finally:
+        os.close(fd)
+
+
+def _write_obligation(path: pathlib.Path, document: dict) -> None:
+    """Durably publish ``document`` at ``path`` (temporary, fsync, atomic
+    rename, directory fsync), or raise `OSError`. Only a completion creating
+    its own nonce file, and the one reservation-holding attempt recording its
+    failure in a file it read, ever write one, so the rename never replaces
+    another writer's obligation.
+
+    Review cycle 7 P1-1: EVERY writer fsyncs the residual directory's parent
+    after ensuring the directory exists, not only the writer that created
+    it. A creator that died between its `mkdir` and that barrier left a
+    directory a host crash can still lose — with every obligation a later
+    writer put in it."""
+    directory = path.parent
+    temp = directory / f".{path.name}.{os.getpid()}.tmp"
+    try:
+        directory.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+        _fsync_path(directory.parent)
+        fd = os.open(temp, os.O_WRONLY | os.O_CREAT | os.O_TRUNC, 0o600)
+        with os.fdopen(fd, "w", encoding="utf-8") as handle:
+            json.dump(document, handle, separators=(",", ":"))
+            handle.flush()
+            os.fsync(handle.fileno())
+        os.replace(temp, path)
+        _fsync_path(directory)
+    except OSError:
+        try:
+            temp.unlink()
+        except OSError:
+            pass
+        raise
+
+
+def owe_residual_derivation(published, *, residual_through=None) -> None:
+    """Record, durably, that the index this completion published stops at
+    ``published`` before an admitted derivable input, and that the inputs
+    owed end at ``residual_through`` (the journal end the completion read;
+    read here when not given). Every completion records its OWN obligation
+    file, named by a fresh nonce: one attempt answers all of them (one
+    ingest consumes every input past the cursor) and removes only the files
+    it read and proved covered.
+
+    Fail-closed (review cycle 7 P1-1, spec 4.7): when the obligation cannot
+    be made durable this raises `ResidualObligationNotDurable`, so the
+    completion — which has already published its capped index — reports
+    failure instead of a success whose wake finds nothing to resume. The
+    caller's own failure handling (an exit 3, a retained heal marker, a
+    rederive apply error) then stands, and the residual input stays in the
+    journal for the next ingest."""
+    if residual_through is None:
+        try:
+            residual_through = _journal.journal_safe_high_water()
+        except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 — best effort, like the write
+            residual_through = None
+    nonce = uuid.uuid4().hex
+    path = residual_dir() / f"{nonce}.json"
+    try:
+        _write_obligation(path, {
+            "schemaVersion": 3,
+            "publishedThrough": _point(published),
+            "residualThrough": _point(residual_through),
+            "recordedAt": _iso_now(), "nonce": nonce})
+    except OSError as exc:
+        raise ResidualObligationNotDurable(
+            getattr(exc, "errno", None) or errno.EIO,
+            "the derivation completion published a capped index but could "
+            f"not durably record its residual obligation ({exc})",
+            str(path)) from exc
+    # Fix round K7 (Codex round 14 P1-1): the new obligation advances
+    # the statusline's pending generation, as a render capture does, so
+    # a continuation pass that scanned the disk before this file existed
+    # cannot clear pending past it and lose the wake that follows.
+    # Fix round K13 (review cycle 7 P1-1): a failed registration is not
+    # absorbed — `register_durable_work` falls back to the durable dirty
+    # notification, and an older pass keeps pending for the publication
+    # wake this completion posts after it releases its locks.
+    try:
+        import _cctally_statusline
+        _cctally_statusline.register_durable_work()
+    except Exception:  # noqa: BLE001 — the obligation itself is durable
+        pass
+
+
+@dataclasses.dataclass(frozen=True)
+class ResidualAttempt:
+    """What one `run_owed_residual_derivation` call did (fix rounds K5, K6).
+
+    ``disposition`` is ``none`` (nothing was owed), ``discharged`` (the
+    applied cursor covers every obligation it read), ``blocked`` (a
+    lock-contention stop: the uncovered obligations stay and ``blocked_by``
+    names the lock whose release resumes them), ``failed`` (any other
+    failure: the uncovered obligations stay, each recording the failure and
+    its backoff, and ``reason`` says why) or ``backoff`` (every obligation is
+    still waiting out a failed attempt's backoff: no ingest ran)."""
+
+    owed: bool
+    disposition: str
+    blocked_by: object = None
+    reason: str = ""
+
+
+def _residual_through(document: dict):
+    """The journal end an obligation's residual inputs reach, or None when
+    it does not say (unreadable, or written without one)."""
+    through = document.get("residualThrough")
+    if (isinstance(through, list) and len(through) == 2
+            and isinstance(through[0], str) and type(through[1]) is int
+            and through[1] >= 0):
+        return (through[0], through[1])
+    return None
+
+
+def _residual_covered(result, through) -> bool:
+    """Whether a returned ingest consumed the residual inputs a marker owes:
+    its applied cursor reaches ``through``, or no admitted derivable input
+    lies between the two. A marker that names no end is covered only by a
+    clean cycle, which consumed through a high water it read after the
+    marker was written."""
+    if not getattr(result, "ran", False) or getattr(result, "error", None):
+        return False
+    applied = getattr(result, "applied_through", None)
+    if through is None:
+        return getattr(result, "blocked_by", None) is None
+    if applied is not None and _order(applied) >= _order(through):
+        return True
+    start = applied if applied is not None else journal_origin()
+    return not window_has_derivable_inputs(
+        start, through, _journal._whole_prefix_admission_boundary())
+
+
+def _discharge(obligation: _Obligation) -> None:
+    """Remove exactly the obligation file this attempt read and proved
+    covered. No other writer replaces a file under its name, so a newer
+    completion's obligation — another file — can never be removed here."""
+    try:
+        obligation.path.unlink()
+    except OSError:
+        pass
+
+
+def _record_failure(obligation: _Obligation, reason: str, now: float) -> float:
+    """Record one failed attempt in the obligation it was made for: the
+    count, when and why, and the backoff before the next attempt. Returns
+    the retry instant."""
+    document = dict(obligation.document)
+    failures = document.get("failures")
+    failures = (failures if type(failures) is int and failures >= 0 else 0) + 1
+    interval = min(_RESIDUAL_RETRY_MAX_S,
+                   _RESIDUAL_RETRY_BASE_S * 2 ** min(failures - 1, 16))
+    document.update({
+        "failures": failures,
+        "lastFailure": reason,
+        "lastFailureAt": _iso_now(),
+        "retryAt": now + interval,
+    })
+    try:
+        _write_obligation(obligation.path, document)
+    except OSError:
+        # The obligation itself is already durable and unchanged; only its
+        # backoff is lost, so the next activating event retries sooner.
+        pass
+    return now + interval
+
+
+def run_owed_residual_derivation() -> ResidualAttempt:
+    """Answer the recorded obligations with exactly ONE bounded
+    authoritative ingest attempt. Called by the statusline continuation
+    worker, which holds no accounting or selected-state lock, so the
+    ingest's bounded waits respect the lock-order law. The attempt reads
+    every obligation file first; one written after that (a completion that
+    published another capped prefix meanwhile) is not answered by this
+    attempt and stays owed. Once the ingest RETURNS (fix round K5, Codex
+    cycle 6 P1-1; fix round K6, its verification P1-1):
+
+    * each obligation its applied cursor covers is discharged — its own
+      file removed, nothing else;
+    * it lost a lock another holder held (a contended ``blocked_by``: the
+      maintenance or ingest lock refused it, or the cache leg prefix-stopped
+      on a cache writer flock) -> the uncovered obligations stay, and the
+      caller registers that lock with the one-shot release waiter, whose
+      wake runs the next attempt; nothing here retries;
+    * anything else (a raised error, an I/O failure on a lock, a cycle that
+      returned short of the residual with no lock to wait for) -> the
+      uncovered obligations stay, durable, each recording the failure and a
+      backoff. The attempt never re-arms itself: until the backoff ends no
+      attempt runs an ingest and the statusline counts none of them as
+      pending work, so a persistently failing ingest costs at most one
+      attempt per backoff interval, run by an activating event after it.
+
+    When every obligation is still in its backoff, nothing runs. A worker
+    killed inside the ingest leaves every obligation for the next
+    activating event (review cycle 6)."""
+    try:
+        obligations = _read_obligations()
+    except OSError as exc:
+        return _attempt_unreadable_obligations(exc)
+    _clear_unreadable_backoff()
+    if not obligations:
+        return ResidualAttempt(False, "none")
+    now = _now()
+    if not any(_due(obligation, now) for obligation in obligations):
+        return ResidualAttempt(True, "backoff",
+                               reason="every obligation is in its backoff")
+    import _cctally_db
+    result = None
+    failure = None
+    try:
+        result = _journal.run_stats_ingest(mode="authoritative")
+    except (Exception, _cctally_db.StatsRebuildDeferred) as exc:
+        failure = exc
+    block = getattr(result, "blocked_by", None)
+    uncovered = []
+    for obligation in obligations:
+        if failure is None and _residual_covered(
+                result, _residual_through(obligation.document)):
+            _discharge(obligation)
+        else:
+            uncovered.append(obligation)
+    if not uncovered:
+        return ResidualAttempt(True, "discharged")
+    if failure is None and block is not None and getattr(
+            block, "contended", False):
+        return ResidualAttempt(
+            True, "blocked", blocked_by=block,
+            reason=f"{block.lock} lock busy ({block.mode})")
+    if failure is not None:
+        reason = f"ingest raised {type(failure).__name__}: {failure}"
+    elif result is None or not isinstance(result, _journal.IngestResult):
+        reason = "ingest returned no result"
+    elif getattr(result, "error", None) is not None:
+        error = result.error
+        reason = f"ingest error {type(error).__name__}: {error}"
+    elif block is not None:
+        reason = f"{block.lock} lock failed with an I/O error"
+    else:
+        reason = "the cycle returned short of the residual inputs"
+    retry_at = max(_record_failure(obligation, reason, now)
+                   for obligation in uncovered)
+    retry = (dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(retry_at, tz=dt.timezone.utc)
+             .replace(microsecond=0).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z"))
+    _cctally_core.eprint(
+        f"[stats] residual derivation attempt failed: {reason}; "
+        f"{len(uncovered)} obligation(s) kept in {residual_dir()}, "
+        f"retried by the first activating event after {retry}")
+    return ResidualAttempt(True, "failed", reason=reason)
+
+
+def _attempt_unreadable_obligations(listing_error) -> ResidualAttempt:
+    """Fix round K11 (K9K10-R8): the obligation directory cannot be listed,
+    so whatever it holds is owed and unknown. When the directory's own
+    backoff allows, run the ONE ingest every obligation is answered by —
+    nothing can be discharged, because nothing was read. The attempt is
+    recorded (with the next, doubled, backoff) BEFORE the ingest runs, so an
+    attempt the ingest's own wake starts meanwhile waits it out instead of
+    ingesting again."""
+    now = _now()
+    reason = f"the obligation directory cannot be listed ({listing_error})"
+    if not _unreadable_due(now):
+        return ResidualAttempt(True, "backoff", reason=reason)
+    retry_at = _record_failure(
+        _Obligation(_unreadable_backoff_path(), _read_unreadable_backoff()),
+        reason, now)
+    import _cctally_db
+    result = None
+    try:
+        result = _journal.run_stats_ingest(mode="authoritative")
+    except (Exception, _cctally_db.StatsRebuildDeferred):
+        result = None
+    block = getattr(result, "blocked_by", None)
+    if block is not None and getattr(block, "contended", False):
+        return ResidualAttempt(
+            True, "blocked", blocked_by=block,
+            reason=f"{block.lock} lock busy ({block.mode})")
+    retry = (dt.datetime.fromtimestamp(retry_at, tz=dt.timezone.utc)
+             .replace(microsecond=0).isoformat().replace("+00:00", "Z"))
+    _cctally_core.eprint(
+        f"[stats] residual derivation obligations unknown: {reason}; "
+        f"retried by the first activating event after {retry}")
+    return ResidualAttempt(True, "failed", reason=reason)
+
+
+def _certify(proven, entry, boundary, fallback):
+    """The derivation proof to publish once every admitted derivable input
+    through ``proven`` has its decisions journaled (fix round C, P1-1).
+
+    The output end is the journal end now. That is sound only when no
+    admitted decision in between derives from an input after ``proven``: the
+    caller holds `journal.ingest.lock`, so nothing appended since ``entry``
+    (the journal end when completion started) is a live decision — only this
+    step's own outputs, for inputs at or before ``proven``, and recorders'
+    inputs. Before ``entry`` a live cycle may have derived a later input, so
+    that stretch must hold no derivable input — or no admitted decision at
+    all: a decision derived from an input is journaled after it, so a stretch
+    holding inputs but no decision (a recorder appended after the caller's
+    pinned prefix, its ingest waiting on the lock this step holds) holds
+    nothing derived from a later input either. Withholding the proof there
+    left it behind the published cursor, where live ingest can never extend
+    it, so drop classification (which requires the proof at the cursor,
+    review cycle 3 P1-1) stayed unknown until some later rebuild. Otherwise
+    ``fallback`` (the proof completion started from, still a journal fact, or
+    None) stands."""
+    if proven is None:
+        return fallback
+    if (entry is None or _order(proven) >= _order(entry)
+            or not window_has_derivable_inputs(proven, entry, boundary)
+            or not _window_has_admitted_decisions(proven, entry, boundary)):
+        # The output end is the verified complete-line endpoint (revision
+        # 2), never the raw size: a torn suffix past it holds no output.
+        return _journal.DerivationFrontier(
+            proven, _journal.journal_safe_high_water())
+    return fallback
+
+
+def _window_has_admitted_decisions(lo, hi, boundary) -> bool:
+    """Whether the journal holds an admitted decision record (an event, a
+    correction or a correction-batch marker) after ``lo`` and at or before
+    ``hi``. An excluded record is never part of the admitted state a proof
+    describes."""
+    if lo is None or hi is None or _order(hi) <= _order(lo):
+        return False
+    for segment, offset, raw in _journal.iter_range(lo, hi):
+        record = _lib_journal.decode_line(raw)
+        if (isinstance(record, dict)
+                and record.get("t") in ("evt", "correction", "correction_batch")
+                and _journal._is_admitted(record, segment, offset, boundary)):
+            return True
+    return False
+
+
+def journal_origin():
+    """The coordinate before the first retained journal line: where
+    completion reconstructs from without a trusted frontier (fix round E)."""
+    segments = _journal.list_segments()
+    return (segments[0], 0) if segments else None
+
+
+def _complete(context, trusted, target, boundary):
+    """Returns ``(proof, target)``: the derivation proof to publish (a
+    `DerivationFrontier` or None), and the prefix the live index must cover
+    (at least the original target, plus any outputs this step appended).
+
+    Without a trusted frontier the predecessor is the empty index at the
+    journal's origin and the window is the whole retained journal, bootstrap
+    facts included (fix round E, Codex fix-round-2 Q1): the cutover is no
+    proof that the decisions it precedes are all a later input needs — an
+    admitted decision for a pre-cutover input lands after it."""
+    entry = _journal.journal_safe_high_water()
+    start = trusted.frontier if trusted is not None else journal_origin()
+    if start is None:
+        return _certify(target, entry, boundary, None), target
+    if _order(start) >= _order(target):
+        # The proof already reaches past this prefix: a journal fact, kept.
+        return (trusted if trusted is not None
+                else _certify(target, entry, boundary, None)), target
+    if not window_has_derivable_inputs(start, target, boundary):
+        return _certify(target, entry, boundary, trusted), target
+    _cctally_core.APP_DIR.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory(
+            prefix="cctally-completion-", dir=str(_cctally_core.APP_DIR)) as tmp:
+        base = pathlib.Path(tmp) / "predecessor.db"
+        _journal.rebuild_stats_index(
+            context=_journal.RebuildContext(trigger=context.trigger),
+            target_path=str(base), high_water=start,
+            update_quota_cache=False)
+        owed = frozenset()
+        if trusted is not None and trusted.output_end is not None:
+            owed = _apply_owed_outputs(
+                base, start, trusted.output_end, boundary)
+        for round_index in range(MAX_ROUNDS):
+            appended = _complete_window(
+                base, pathlib.Path(tmp), start, target, boundary, round_index,
+                owed=owed)
+            if not appended:
+                return _certify(target, entry, boundary, trusted), target
+            after = _journal.journal_safe_high_water()
+            if not window_has_derivable_inputs(target, after, boundary):
+                return _certify(after, entry, boundary, trusted), after
+            if round_index + 1 < MAX_ROUNDS:
+                target = after
+        # Review cycle 3 P1-1 (Codex fix-round-4 Q1): the rounds ran out
+        # while another process kept appending derivable inputs. Publish
+        # ONLY through the proven input endpoint: the residual inputs past it
+        # stay outside both applied-cursor fields and the admission and
+        # selector coverage, so ordinary ingest resumes there. The proof's
+        # output end (the journal end now) is kept separate, so the decisions
+        # this last round journaled beyond the residual inputs are owed, not
+        # discarded: ingest applies them before it derives those inputs, and
+        # advances the frontier with the cursor in one transaction. Advancing
+        # the published prefix to the journal end instead consumed the
+        # residual inputs without deriving them, permanently.
+        return _certify(target, entry, boundary, trusted), target
+
+
+def _apply_owed_outputs(base, start, output_end, boundary) -> frozenset:
+    """Complete the predecessor at the consumed-input frontier ``start``
+    (fix round C, P1-1): apply the admitted decisions journaled after it, up
+    to its output end, which were derived from inputs at or before it.
+
+    A rebuild through the frontier alone lacks them, because the cycle that
+    consumed those inputs journaled its decisions beyond its captured high
+    water, and the window replay derives only inputs — so a later window
+    input would be derived against a state uninterrupted ingest never had.
+    The proof guarantees nothing in that stretch derives from a later input,
+    so these are exactly the outputs owed. Each is applied as its effective
+    revision through that output end, in the rebuild's fold order (structural
+    folds, the open 5h block projection, then milestones). Returns the ids
+    applied, which the predecessor then holds."""
+    prefix = _read_prefix(start, output_end, boundary)
+    if prefix.cutover_claude is _journal._CUTOVER_UNSEEN:
+        prefix.cutover_claude = _journal._resolve_cutover_for_rebuild(
+            _journal._CUTOVER_UNSEEN, output_end, _journal.list_segments(),
+            {"lines": 0, "bytes": 0, "decodes": 0}, boundary=boundary)
+    elif prefix.cutover_claude is None:
+        prefix.cutover_claude = _lib_accounts.UNATTRIBUTED
+    for record in prefix.slots:
+        if record is not None:
+            _journal._normalize_legacy_account_stamp(
+                record, prefix.cutover_claude)
+    selection = _lib_journal.resolve_effective_events(
+        prefix.slots, protocol_prefix_evidence=tuple(prefix.evidence))
+    owed: dict = {}
+    for position, record in enumerate(prefix.window):
+        if record.get("t") not in ("evt", "correction"):
+            continue
+        selected = selection.by_id.get(record.get("id"))
+        if selected is not None and selected.status == "active":
+            owed.setdefault(record["id"], (position, selected.record))
+    if not owed:
+        return frozenset()
+    stream = sorted(owed.values(), key=lambda item: (
+        _journal._fold_order(item[1]), item[0]))
+    conn = _cctally_core.open_db(_target_path=str(base))
+    try:
+        for phase in ("structural", "tail"):
+            if phase == "tail":
+                import sys
+                backfill = getattr(sys.modules.get("cctally"),
+                                   "_backfill_five_hour_blocks", None)
+                if backfill is not None:
+                    # Fix round J5: the first writer is read over the WHOLE
+                    # prefix in journal order, never over the owed decisions
+                    # alone, which may start after a window's first decision.
+                    backfill(conn, only_missing=True,
+                             journaled_first=(
+                                 _journal.journaled_block_first_observations(
+                                     prefix.slots, selection.by_id)))
+            conn.execute("BEGIN IMMEDIATE")
+            try:
+                for _position, record in stream:
+                    structural = (_journal._fold_order(record)
+                                  < _journal._REBUILD_MILESTONE_ORDER)
+                    if structural == (phase == "structural"):
+                        _journal._apply_evt(conn, record)
+                conn.commit()
+            except BaseException:
+                conn.rollback()
+                raise
+    finally:
+        conn.close()
+    return frozenset(owed)
+
+
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+# one round
+# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+class _Prefix:
+    """One pass over the journal through the round's target."""
+
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.slots: list = []          # selector slots, one per decoded record
+        self.evidence: list = []       # protocol-resolution prefix evidence
+        self.window: list = []         # window records (placeholders kept)
+        self.coordinates: list = []    # parallel to `window`
+        self.excluded_revisions: dict = {}
+        self.inert_revisions: dict = {}
+        self.begin_at: dict = {}
+        self.batch_family: dict = {}
+        self.cutover_claude = _journal._CUTOVER_UNSEEN
+        # Admitted decision ids before the window (the predecessor holds
+        # them), and ids whose admitted revision-0 event a previous release
+        # wrote (fix round E).
+        self.before_ids: set = set()
+        self.legacy_origin_ids: set = set()
+
+
+def _bump(table: dict, record) -> None:
+    event_id = record.get("id")
+    rev = record.get("rev", 0)
+    if isinstance(event_id, str) and type(rev) is int and rev >= 0:
+        table[event_id] = max(rev, table.get(event_id, rev))
+
+
+def _read_prefix(start, target, boundary) -> _Prefix:
+    out = _Prefix()
+    segments = _journal.list_segments()
+    hasher = _lib_journal_router.PrefixHashAccumulator()
+    prior = {"hw": None}
+    placeholder = _lib_account_protocol.excluded_placeholder()
+    start_key = _order(start)
+    for segment, offset, raw in _journal._iter_range_with_segments(
+        None, target, segments,
+        on_segment=lambda name: hasher.begin_segment(name, prior["hw"]),
+        on_bytes=hasher.extend,
+    ):
+        end = (segment, offset + len(raw) + 1)
+        record = _lib_journal.decode_line(raw)
+        if record is None:
+            prior["hw"] = end
+            continue
+        in_window = _order((segment, offset)) >= start_key
+        if not _journal._is_admitted(record, segment, offset, boundary):
+            out.slots.append(None)
+            if record.get("t") in ("evt", "correction"):
+                _bump(out.excluded_revisions, record)
+            if in_window:
+                out.window.append({**placeholder, "quarantine": {
+                    "record": record, "segment": segment, "offset": offset}})
+                out.coordinates.append((segment, offset))
+            prior["hw"] = end
+            continue
+        t = record.get("t")
+        if t == "op":
+            _journal._capture_protocol_prefix_evidence(
+                record, prior["hw"], out.evidence, hasher=hasher)
+        if (out.cutover_claude is _journal._CUTOVER_UNSEEN
+                and record.get("id") == _journal.CUTOVER_OP_ID):
+            out.cutover_claude = _journal._cutover_value_of(record)
+        if t in ("evt", "correction") and isinstance(record.get("id"), str):
+            if not in_window:
+                out.before_ids.add(record["id"])
+            if (t == "evt" and record.get("rev", 0) == 0
+                    and not _lib_account_protocol.is_stamped(record)):
+                out.legacy_origin_ids.add(record["id"])
+        if t == "correction_batch" and record.get("phase") == "begin":
+            out.begin_at.setdefault(record.get("id"), record.get("at"))
+            out.batch_family.setdefault(record.get("id"), record.get("family"))
+        out.slots.append(
+            record if t in _lib_journal_router.RETAINED_RECORD_TYPES else None)
+        if in_window:
+            out.window.append(record)
+            out.coordinates.append((segment, offset))
+        prior["hw"] = end
+    return out
+
+
+def _held_observation_ids(slots) -> frozenset:
+    """The observations a retained reviewed weekly decision holds (latest
+    decision per observation wins, as the rederive planner reads them)."""
+    import _cctally_rederive
+    effective: dict = {}
+    for record in slots:
+        if (not isinstance(record, dict) or record.get("t") != "op"
+                or (record.get("payload") or {}).get("kind")
+                not in _cctally_rederive._REVIEWED_WEEKLY_KINDS):
+            continue
+        payload = record["payload"]
+        decisions = (payload.get("decisions")
+                     if payload.get("schema_version") == 1
+                     else payload.get("weekly_axis_decisions")) or []
+        for item in decisions:
+            if isinstance(item, dict) and isinstance(
+                    item.get("observationId"), str):
+                effective[item["observationId"]] = item.get("disposition")
+    return frozenset(obs for obs, disposition in effective.items()
+                     if disposition == "hold")
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def _cache_read_view():
+    """A stable read-only view of cache.db for the replay's cost reads, or
+    None when there is no readable cache. Takes no cache flock (the caller
+    holds the stats locks); a read transaction pins one snapshot for both
+    replays, so the causal difference never reflects a cache change."""
+    conn = None
+    path = _cctally_core.CACHE_DB_PATH
+    if pathlib.Path(path).exists():
+        try:
+            conn = sqlite3.connect(f"file:{path}?mode=ro", uri=True,
+                                   timeout=5.0)
+            conn.execute("BEGIN")
+            conn.execute("SELECT 1 FROM session_entries LIMIT 1").fetchall()
+        except sqlite3.Error:
+            if conn is not None:
+                conn.close()
+            conn = None
+    try:
+        yield conn
+    finally:
+        if conn is not None:
+            conn.close()
+
+
+@contextlib.contextmanager
+def _no_cache_read_adapters():
+    """The replay's readers with no cache: no retained usage entries and no
+    alert configuration — the same for both replays, so the causal
+    difference is unaffected; only cost facts go unpriced."""
+    import sys
+    cctally = sys.modules["cctally"]
+    replacements = {
+        "get_entries": lambda *args, **kwargs: [],
+        "get_claude_session_entries": lambda *args, **kwargs: [],
+        "load_config": lambda *args, **kwargs: {},
+    }
+    prior = {name: getattr(cctally, name) for name in replacements}
+    try:
+        for name, value in replacements.items():
+            setattr(cctally, name, value)
+        yield
+    finally:
+        for name, value in prior.items():
+            setattr(cctally, name, value)
+
+
+def _replay(base, tmp, name, prefix, held_ids, cache_conn, *, retention,
+            skip=frozenset()):
+    """One scratch replay of the window from the predecessor state, the
+    projection kept on the retained decisions by ``retention``. Returns
+    ``(events, by_input)``: every derived candidate, and per raw input index
+    its own candidates."""
+    import _cctally_quarantine
+    import _cctally_rederive
+    copy_path = tmp / name
+    shutil.copyfile(base, copy_path)
+    records = copy.deepcopy(prefix.window)
+    for record in records:
+        if record.get("t") != _lib_account_protocol.EXCLUDED_PLACEHOLDER_TYPE:
+            _journal._normalize_legacy_account_stamp(
+                record, prefix.cutover_claude)
+    by_input: dict = {}
+    conn = _cctally_core.open_db(_target_path=str(copy_path))
+    try:
+        fold = _cctally_quarantine.QuarantineFold.load(conn, held_ids=held_ids)
+        events = _cctally_rederive.replay_scratch_records(
+            conn, records, cache_conn, fold=fold, held_ids=held_ids,
+            coordinates=prefix.coordinates, skip_indexes=skip,
+            on_input=lambda index, derived: by_input.__setitem__(
+                index, list(derived)),
+            read_adapters=(None if cache_conn is not None
+                           else _no_cache_read_adapters()),
+            retention=retention)
+    finally:
+        conn.close()
+    return events, by_input
+
+
+def _owned_by_id(events) -> dict:
+    """First candidate per owned id, in derivation order (a later divergent
+    re-derivation of one id is what live ingest withholds as a conflict)."""
+    out: dict = {}
+    for event in events:
+        if _lib_rederive._is_owned_event(event):
+            out.setdefault(event["id"], event)
+    return out
+
+
+def _effective_records(selection) -> dict:
+    """Every selected id's effective record (None for a tombstone)."""
+    return {event_id: (item.record if item.status == "active" else None)
+            for event_id, item in selection.by_id.items()
+            if item.status in ("active", "tombstone")}
+
+
+def _retention(effective, prefix, owed, *, legacy, reference=None):
+    retention = _journal.ScratchRetention(
+        effective, reference=reference, retained_only=legacy)
+    retention.seed(prefix.before_ids)
+    retention.seed(owed)
+    return retention
+
+
+#: The snapshot decision id the live pipeline mints for a Claude usage
+#: observation (`_cctally_record._pipeline_claude_usage`).
+_SNAPSHOT_ID_PREFIX = "sa:"
+
+
+def _is_legacy_input(record) -> bool:
+    """Whether a window input was itself written by a previous release:
+    unstamped, or stamped by a writer generation other than this one."""
+    return (isinstance(record, dict) and record.get("t") == "obs"
+            and not _lib_account_protocol.is_stamped(record))
+
+
+def _legacy_decided_inputs(prefix, by_input=None) -> frozenset:
+    """The window inputs a previous release decided (fix round E): a LEGACY
+    input (`_is_legacy_input`) one of whose decisions is an admitted
+    UNSTAMPED revision-0 event. Its history is exactly what that release
+    journaled, which the current pipeline may spell or extend differently,
+    so it is never a gap and its extra fresh candidates are never
+    materialized. Before a replay only the snapshot linkage is known;
+    ``by_input`` adds every derived id.
+
+    Both conditions are required (revision 2, Codex design-fix-round-3 Q6,
+    P1-1). Legacy provenance alone never exempts a missing decision, and a
+    CURRENT-stamped input never becomes history because one of its derived
+    candidates collides with a retained legacy event identity: a same-second
+    current reading re-emits the retained closure of a five-hour block a
+    previous-release reading closed at that second, and treating that retry
+    as the reading's own history left the reading's decision unjournaled."""
+    legacy = prefix.legacy_origin_ids
+    out = {index for index, record in enumerate(prefix.window)
+           if _is_legacy_input(record)
+           and _SNAPSHOT_ID_PREFIX + str(record.get("id")) in legacy}
+    for index, derived in (by_input or {}).items():
+        if not (0 <= index < len(prefix.window)
+                and _is_legacy_input(prefix.window[index])):
+            continue
+        if any(event["id"] in legacy for event in derived
+               if _lib_rederive._is_owned_event(event)):
+            out.add(index)
+    return frozenset(out)
+
+
+def _gap_inputs(by_input, selection, legacy) -> frozenset:
+    """The inputs with a derived decision no admitted decision answers,
+    previous-release inputs (``legacy``) excepted. Only the with-gap /
+    without-gap comparison, never an absent id alone, says what a gap
+    owes."""
+    return frozenset(
+        index for index, derived in by_input.items()
+        if index not in legacy
+        and any(_lib_rederive._is_owned_event(event)
+                and event["id"] not in selection.by_id
+                for event in derived))
+
+
+def _complete_window(base, tmp, start, target, boundary, round_index, *,
+                     owed=frozenset()) -> bool:
+    """Plan and journal one round. Returns whether anything was appended.
+
+    Three replays from the predecessor, each keeping the projection on the
+    retained decisions (`_journal.ScratchRetention`): one over every input
+    finds the gap; one without the gap is the reference; one with the gap
+    holds the fresh candidate only where it differs from the reference, so a
+    gap's effect reaches its descendants while every unaffected decision
+    stays the retained one. Their difference is the causal suffix."""
+    prefix = _read_prefix(start, target, boundary)
+    if prefix.cutover_claude is _journal._CUTOVER_UNSEEN:
+        prefix.cutover_claude = _journal._resolve_cutover_for_rebuild(
+            _journal._CUTOVER_UNSEEN, target, _journal.list_segments(),
+            {"lines": 0, "bytes": 0, "decodes": 0}, boundary=boundary)
+    elif prefix.cutover_claude is None:
+        prefix.cutover_claude = _lib_accounts.UNATTRIBUTED
+    for record in prefix.slots:
+        if record is not None:
+            _journal._normalize_legacy_account_stamp(
+                record, prefix.cutover_claude)
+    selection = _lib_journal.resolve_effective_events(
+        prefix.slots, protocol_prefix_evidence=tuple(prefix.evidence))
+    # Inert (incomplete or tainted) batch actions of OTHER families still
+    # occupy their revision: a later retry of that batch must not collide.
+    for record in prefix.slots:
+        if (isinstance(record, dict) and record.get("t") == "correction"
+                and record.get("batch") not in selection.completed_batches
+                and prefix.batch_family.get(record.get("batch")) != FAMILY):
+            _bump(prefix.inert_revisions, record)
+    held_ids = _held_observation_ids(prefix.slots)
+    effective = _effective_records(selection)
+
+    legacy = _legacy_decided_inputs(prefix)
+
+    with _cache_read_view() as cache_conn:
+        _events, by_input = _replay(
+            base, tmp, f"all-{round_index}.db", prefix, held_ids, cache_conn,
+            retention=_retention(effective, prefix, owed, legacy=legacy))
+        legacy = _legacy_decided_inputs(prefix, by_input)
+        gap = _gap_inputs(by_input, selection, legacy)
+        if not gap:
+            return False
+        events_a, _ = _replay(
+            base, tmp, f"without-{round_index}.db", prefix, held_ids,
+            cache_conn, skip=gap,
+            retention=_retention(effective, prefix, owed, legacy=legacy))
+        reference: dict = {}
+        for event in events_a:
+            reference.setdefault(
+                event["id"], _lib_journal.event_content_hash(event))
+        events_b, _ = _replay(
+            base, tmp, f"with-{round_index}.db", prefix, held_ids, cache_conn,
+            retention=_retention(effective, prefix, owed, legacy=legacy,
+                                 reference=reference))
+    with_gap = _owned_by_id(events_b)
+    without_gap = _owned_by_id(events_a)
+
+    plain: list = []
+    actions: list = []
+    for event_id in sorted(set(with_gap) | set(without_gap)):
+        desired = with_gap.get(event_id)
+        reference = without_gap.get(event_id)
+        if (desired is not None and reference is not None
+                and _lib_rederive._semantic_event(desired)
+                == _lib_rederive._semantic_event(reference)):
+            # Not caused by the gap: an unrelated difference against the
+            # journal (a repricing, a previous release's input the current
+            # pipeline extends) is never acted on.
+            continue
+        selected = selection.by_id.get(event_id)
+        current = (selected.record if selected is not None
+                   and selected.status == "active" else None)
+        physical = [rev for rev in (
+            prefix.excluded_revisions.get(event_id),
+            prefix.inert_revisions.get(event_id),
+            None if selected is None else selected.rev,
+        ) if rev is not None]
+        if desired is None:
+            if current is not None:
+                actions.append({"action": "tombstone", "id": event_id,
+                                "rev": max(physical) + 1,
+                                "at": str(current["at"]), "payload": None})
+            continue
+        if current is not None:
+            desired = _lib_rederive._preserve_non_derivable_state(
+                current, desired)
+            if (_lib_rederive._semantic_event(current)
+                    == _lib_rederive._semantic_event(desired)):
+                continue  # an admitted identical decision: nothing
+        if not physical:
+            plain.append(desired)
+            continue
+        actions.append({"action": "replace", "id": event_id,
+                        "rev": max(physical) + 1,
+                        "at": str(desired["at"]),
+                        "payload": dict(desired.get("payload") or {})})
+
+    records: list = []
+    if actions:
+        digest = hashlib.sha256(json.dumps(
+            actions, sort_keys=True, separators=(",", ":"),
+            ensure_ascii=False).encode("utf-8")).hexdigest()
+        batch_id = f"{FAMILY}:{digest}"
+        if batch_id not in selection.completed_batches:
+            records.extend(_lib_journal.make_correction_batch(
+                batch_id=batch_id, family=FAMILY,
+                # An interrupted earlier attempt's `at`, so the retry's lines
+                # are byte-identical and the selector keeps each once.
+                at=str(prefix.begin_at.get(batch_id) or _iso_now()),
+                actions=actions))
+    order = {id(event): index for index, event in enumerate(events_b)}
+    plain.sort(key=lambda event: order.get(id(event), 0))
+    records.extend(plain)
+    if not records:
+        return False
+    _journal.append_records(records)
+    return True