diff --git a/notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md b/notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md
index 36cfc20..519399d 100644
--- a/notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md
+++ b/notes/fresh-workspace-handoff.md
@@ -728,8 +728,8 @@ steering surfaces unless the user explicitly asks for archaeology.
 
 ## Current Next Action
 
-The Persona extraction and Epiphany handback are complete. The current local
-candidate is an acceptance-hardening pass, not the older deployed release. It
+The Persona extraction and Epiphany handback are complete. The deployed
+Starfire release is `f8c515129ce73a03aea2bc5ae23a00d1ee5ed781`. It
 adds per-attempt DeepSeek usage/cache/error receipts, splits world and agency
 compilation, minimizes Projector/Persona/Interpreter context by authority, makes
 cell identity/membership/revisions runtime-derived, and prevents demand-model
@@ -750,6 +750,20 @@ direct source text to the causal world seed, and narrows narration to the latest
 causal turn. Browser strings use text nodes and the laboratory inputs have
 programmatic labels.
 
+A later human compiler trial exposed a fourth authority failure: a request for
+Mars in Zhestokost space reproduced the location and cast of the Corvid First
+Exodus fixture. VoidBot had labeled Worldbuilding, old Stories, generated Ink,
+and site artifacts with the same requested repo lane, so the evidence model
+could promote a fixture into `direct_seed`. The deployed repair derives typed
+authority from source paths at the Vault boundary, locally forbids narrative,
+draft, design, and fixture lanes from seeding new branches, and filters global
+agency through the same canonical witness set. A live regression request for a
+Corvid courier in late-Pre-Elysium Zhestokost Mars produced Cargo Bay, Service
+Tunnels, and Zhestokost Waystation 7; it contained no Blackbox Aviary, Kesh,
+Maela Voss, or First Exodus string. The preview retained honest layout and cast
+gaps and cited the promoted Corvid naming canon. Evidence lives at
+`F:\GameCult\GhostlightDungeon\acceptance\mars-zhestokost-authority-20260820`.
+
 The first clean-seed diagnostic then spent its correction attempt on a verbatim
 stake/knowledge mismatch. The assessor now deterministically appends each
 bounded typed finding to the corresponding visible stake before validation and
@@ -795,9 +809,10 @@ outcomes, zero rejected pulses, exact member binding, no player mutation, and
 Mira's persistent identity across consolidation. High-risk custody, relation,
 and named-member effects receive an independent same-snapshot semantic verdict;
 ordinary preparations remain deterministically bounded without paying that
-model tax. The next action is to commit this exact candidate, deploy its
-optimized immutable build, and repeat authenticated browser/restart/persistence
-checks against the served commit before the two-tester playtest.
+model tax. Human playtesting may continue against the served commit. Nightwing
+needs a reboot before the next large Vault reindex: its NVIDIA userspace is
+`580.173` while the loaded kernel module is `580.159.03`, causing Ollama to
+report `size_vram: 0` and embed on CPU.
 
 The pre-human surface audit found that snapshot-bound assessment, destination,
 and fission approvals were appended to long-lived forms. Recompilation could
diff --git a/notes/ghostlight-current-system-map.md b/notes/ghostlight-current-system-map.md
index 39243c2..0b320aa 100644
--- a/notes/ghostlight-current-system-map.md
+++ b/notes/ghostlight-current-system-map.md
@@ -372,6 +372,19 @@ remote institutions receive deterministic coarse profiles with distinct
 authority and explicit unknown facets. The Pro agency stage profiles only local
 actors, populations, and institutions where semantic subdivision is useful.
 
+The Aetheria Vault adapter derives document authority from the exact source
+path before any model sees a witness. `Worldbuilding` is reusable canon;
+published `Fiction` and legacy `Stories` are historical reference; static
+interactive output is a fixture artifact; `Brainstorming` is working draft;
+and `Game Design` is design reference. Only reusable canon may enter a new
+branch's `direct_seed` lane or the global-agency compiler. The classifier may
+further narrow canon by relevance, but it cannot promote a lower-authority
+document. Direct-seed projection and receipt selection repeat this local guard,
+so a malformed or stale classifier output cannot smuggle a story cast into the
+world seed. The live AetheriaLore retrieval archive is correspondingly bounded
+to `Aetheria/Worldbuilding/`; durable facts discovered through fiction must be
+promoted into Worldbuilding before they become reusable campaign canon.
+
 Compiler, expansion, fission, fork, and reset routes follow the same projection
 rule. Approval previews expose the public decision surface—topology, cast,
 pressures, player role, source-use coverage, gaps, and assumptions—without raw