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 # Implementation plan: whole-desktop screen-share audio without self-echo
 
-**Status:** 🟢 **v4 — three review rounds applied. Approved to start Phase 0a.**
-**Date:** 2026-07-21
+**Status:** 🟢 **v4 — three review rounds applied.** *Progress as of 2026-08-07:* phases 0a, 0b,
+0c step 1, 1, 2, 3, 3r, 4 and 5 are merged, and the **phase-5 major gate PASSED on 2026-07-26**
+(§1). The current front is **0c step 2**, sliced S1–S5: S1 and S2 merged, **S3a built but
+unmerged** (pixelpass `s3a-module-ledger`), S3b/S4/S5 not started. **0d and phases 6–9 are not
+built** — nothing merged to date mutates the graph, so the feature has no user-visible behaviour
+yet. Phase 6 is the first mutation.
+**Date:** 2026-07-21 (v4); status line refreshed 2026-08-07
 **Design of record:** [`screenshare-audio-exclusion-plan.md`](screenshare-audio-exclusion-plan.md) v3.4 (`8768cd2`), converged round 7.
 **Scope:** *ordering, gates and acceptance criteria only.*
 
@@ -100,13 +105,20 @@ if it differs, failing closed.
 1 (r8 carriers) ──────────────────────────────────────► 5 (re-run)
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-⚠️ **Status 2026-07-25 (evening): 3r is BUILT AND MERGED; the re-run has not happened yet.**
-The phase-5 gate failed on its first live run and put 3r into the DAG; 3r's own four-part
-gate now passes, including the live prop-recovery row on this host. Phase 5's machinery is
-built and correct — it is the audit that found the defect, twice — so "5 (re-run)" is a
-*re-run of the matrix*, not a rebuild. **Phase 6 still does not start** until a passing
-results file exists. **Phase 1 is a hard prerequisite of the re-run for both carriers**
-(plan §3).
+✅ **Status 2026-07-26: the phase-5 gate PASSED on run 2 — all 13 §5.1 rows completed.**
+Record: [`screenshare-audio-exclusion-phase5-results.md`](screenshare-audio-exclusion-phase5-results.md)
+(audit build pixelpass `main` @ `91c4ded`, release profile). Phase 1 was the hard prerequisite
+of the re-run for both carriers (plan §3) and was satisfied — rows 4 and 5 passed at the real
+tagging sites. **Phase 6 is no longer blocked by this gate.** What still blocks it is the rest
+of the DAG: `0b → 6` is satisfied and merged, but `0c → 0d → 6` is not — **0c step 2 remains
+open** (S1 and S2 merged; S3a built but UNMERGED on pixelpass `s3a-module-ledger`; S3b, S4 and
+S5 not started), and **0d has not been built at all**.
+
+⚠️ **Superseded, kept for the trail — status 2026-07-25 (evening): "3r is BUILT AND MERGED; the
+re-run has not happened yet."** The phase-5 gate failed on its first live run and put 3r into
+the DAG; 3r's own four-part gate then passed, including the live prop-recovery row on this host.
+Phase 5's machinery was built and correct throughout — it is the audit that found the defect,
+twice — so "5 (re-run)" was a *re-run of the matrix*, not a rebuild. Run 2 is that re-run.
 
 ⚠️ **A smoke run of the audit against the fixed observer immediately found a second defect
 (design v3.6 §6.8): a fail-closed `unresolved-ancestry` mark was being promoted to permanent