Live probe on yggdrasil: the queued deployment is not starved. Each time a
continuity restart completes it seals and publish_expected replaces the one
Expected slot for odin with the candidate's; the incumbent's next heartbeat
fails activation-expected-projection against its own catalog and it exits.
notes/odin-cycle-mechanism-2026-09-10.md carries the timeline, snapshots'
decode, the authority map, and the fork to decide. projection_authority_probe
is the ignored dev test that decoded the captured projection versions.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>