Worker A's 0x80033DC8 (360 B) and 0x8006A98C (132 B), plus two gp symbol rows
(D_80122724, D_80122728) that unblock 0x800A4CA8.
PROCESS DEFECT FOUND AND FIXED. Worker C and worker D both matched 0x800320D8
independently and D overwrote C's source file. Nothing corrupted -- both spellings match
and the region still reports 276/0/MATCH -- but one worker's effort was duplicated. The
partitions are genuinely disjoint (273/279/278/271, union 1101 = sum), so there was NO
assignment error: the gap was that no worker could know another had started a row, since
the registry only knows about MERGED claims and both started before either merged. The
root cause is the adjacency rule (cookbook 99, 4-for-4) crossing partition boundaries --
the best dispatch heuristic found so far invalidated the assumption the assignment rested on.
Fix: .run/p11/inflight.tsv (write-ahead log alongside the merge registry's commit log),
with the protocol written up in docs/ORCHESTRATOR_WORKFLOW.md so the next orchestrator
inherits it.
Christopher Williams
6b7239d83d