diff --git a/AGENTS.md b/AGENTS.md
index 0a6efe5..f0e4406 100644
--- a/AGENTS.md
+++ b/AGENTS.md
@@ -66,8 +66,9 @@ what exists today and what does not.
 
 ## Build, Verify, Deploy
 
-Nothing deploys from this repo: the Idunn target `ghostlight` is retired and no
-recipe exists on main. Kernel and verse tests run on Linux on Yggdrasil (the
+Nothing deploys from this repo: the Idunn target `ghostlight` is braked and stopped (deployment and
+lifecycle brakes engaged, unit stopped; retirement waits on
+`ghostlight-verse:follow_up:idunn-v2-target-retirement`) and no recipe exists on main. Kernel and verse tests run on Linux on Yggdrasil (the
 `ygg-verify` stopgap), not on the workstation; a Windows compile is not evidence
 about Linux, so say which host you used. Do not run `idunn up ghostlight`.
 
diff --git a/notes/local-live-smoke.md b/notes/local-live-smoke.md
index 941c6e4..7170047 100644
--- a/notes/local-live-smoke.md
+++ b/notes/local-live-smoke.md
@@ -5,8 +5,14 @@ No live smoke exists in this tree. The ignored test this file once documented,
 ran the production tick driver and the Active elaboration sweep against a real
 CodexConnector; the play agent's Cut 1 (`d69e9d4`) deleted both, and the test
 with them. A command that names it now matches nothing and exits 0. No
-replacement exists. The real-model gate that does exist is the Idunn recipe's
-`accept-real-persona-membrane` step (`deployment/idunn/recipe.toml`).
+replacement exists. The recipe that once gated a deploy on a real model is
+gone from main, and so is its `accept-real-persona-membrane` step. The one real-model test
+left is the ignored `controllers::tests::real_local_model_cognition_modes_commit_speech`
+(`crates/ghostlight/src/controllers.rs`). It has no automated run: it needs a model server
+on `GHOSTLIGHT_LOCAL_ENDPOINT` plus the `GHOSTLIGHT_CONTROLLER_*_MODEL`,
+`GHOSTLIGHT_ACCEPTANCE_RUNTIME_ID` and `GHOSTLIGHT_ACCEPTANCE_PERSONA_PROSE_LOG`
+variables, and a person runs it by hand with `cargo test -p ghostlight -- --ignored
+real_local_model_cognition_modes_commit_speech`.
 
 What remains true and stays here: bringing up a real CodexConnector and a
 built Claude SDK sidecar. The seed lane (`world.seed`) still runs real