diff --git a/phase-ends/CURRENT_PHASE.md b/phase-ends/CURRENT_PHASE.md
index 8c4349516a..964d737cff 100644
--- a/phase-ends/CURRENT_PHASE.md
+++ b/phase-ends/CURRENT_PHASE.md
@@ -446,6 +446,18 @@ bucketed by what each bucket needs before any plan is proposed. **Candidates for
   rise of the one-form regex count) and the red line had two points. Redrawn: every lever increment (95: the P36 log's T1/T4/T5 census lines +
   the TSV's rows) on an ordinal axis with a marker at each change of method; the raw casts as two instruments. `tools/timeline.py`, SETUP.
 
+- **S108 2026-09-12 — session start; T4 resumed (xHigh).** Session-start protocol (Drew: "xhigh set"). Step (a) launched per the checkpoint and
+  stopped at once: `cycle: the snapshot refresh FAILED/REFUSED` — `build/` held **0 objects** (S107's relaunched `t4_D21` was stopped after its
+  R22's `make clean`), and `--snapshot-baseline` had **stamped `TAKEN_AT.txt` with HEAD and "0 objects"** over the 7,428 objects of another
+  tree before returning 0 — a false "fresh" (R68: a helper must refuse an empty work list; the guard only re-derived CHANGED objects). Fixed at
+  the cause in `tools/delever_oracle.py`: the object count and the previous stamp's count are read BEFORE anything is written; an empty or
+  shrunken `build/` is `REFUSED — build/ holds 0 object(s), the previous snapshot 7428: … nothing written` (exit 1; negative-controlled on the
+  empty tree, stamp untouched). The stamp restored from the objects' own mtimes (14:12:24–14:13:11 = the D20 R22 build; `calibrate_t4_D21.log`
+  at 14:13:24 proves the D21 relaunch refreshed it at `f2b58011e`). Then R22 at HEAD (`.run/P37/baseline/r22_s108_pre.log`): `extract-all: 217
+  extracted, 0 failed of 217 (+ main, serial)` · **`check-all: 218 passed, 0 failed of 218`** · `wall=92.17 s` · exit 0 → `--snapshot-baseline`
+  `7428 object(s) … at f3b8af0ec … 0 changed since the previous snapshot` (the objects were the tree's) → `--calibrate … ok` → the D cycle
+  relaunched (`cycle_t4e.log`, batches 21–34).
+
 ## 🛑 SESSION CHECKPOINT — S107 (2026-09-12, FINAL — written for a FRESH session at 84 % context; the session's last commit follows this): gate 1 APPROVED, **T0 ☑ T1 ☑ T2 ☑ T3 ☑ — T4 IN PROGRESS (☐)** — 🛑 **T4 NEXT: resume the declaration layer where the cycle stopped (below, §1 "T4 — where it stands and the exact next commands"); xHigh** | R22 `check-all: 218 passed, 0 failed of 218` at `f2b58011e` (every one of the 21 T4 commits carries its own) | HEAD after this commit is the checkpoint's commit; tree clean; nothing pushed after `79b2f6f15` (Drew pushes, R6)
 
 **Replay this block into the chat at the next session start (R64); it is the ONLY in-phase context the next session inherits. Everything below
diff --git a/tools/delever_oracle.py b/tools/delever_oracle.py
index b9627cdb25..e4c339ba72 100644
--- a/tools/delever_oracle.py
+++ b/tools/delever_oracle.py
@@ -228,7 +228,20 @@ def snapshot_baseline():
     import shutil, subprocess as sp
     n, changed = 0, []
     BASELINE.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
-    for src in sorted((REPO / "build").glob("**/*.o")):
+    # THE EMPTY/PARTIAL GUARD (T4, 2026-09-12; R68): an empty or shrunken build/ (a `make clean` with no fleet run behind it — S107's
+    # stopped t4_D21 left exactly that) is REFUSED before anything is written. The first form of this function stamped TAKEN_AT.txt
+    # with HEAD and "0 objects" over a snapshot whose objects were another tree's — a false "fresh".
+    found = sorted((REPO / "build").glob("**/*.o"))
+    prev_n = None
+    stamp = BASELINE / "TAKEN_AT.txt"
+    if stamp.exists():
+        m = re.search(r"^(\d+) objects", stamp.read_text(), re.M)
+        prev_n = int(m.group(1)) if m else None
+    if not found or (prev_n and len(found) < prev_n):
+        print(f"delever_oracle --snapshot-baseline: REFUSED — build/ holds {len(found)} object(s), the previous snapshot {prev_n}: "
+              f"not a complete fleet run (run the clean fleet gate first, R22/R56); nothing written")
+        return 0
+    for src in found:
         rel = src.relative_to(REPO / "build")
         dst = BASELINE / rel
         dst.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)