diff --git a/docs/screenshare-audio-exclusion-impl-plan.md b/docs/screenshare-audio-exclusion-impl-plan.md
index 745b5c9..d7d7016 100644
--- a/docs/screenshare-audio-exclusion-impl-plan.md
+++ b/docs/screenshare-audio-exclusion-impl-plan.md
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@ and successful exact-channel relinking are built, validated and committed locall
 (`d09ee9b`). **The Row 1 mutation-edge identity gate and the Row 8d/8e fail-closed
 construction gates are built, validated and committed locally in PixelPass (`6be07ef`).**
 **The independent Row 6a/6b/6c refusal gates are built, validated and committed locally in
-PixelPass (`956534f`).** The remaining Phase 6 matrix/qualification work, plus phases 7–9,
-is not built — nothing
+PixelPass (`956534f`).** **The revised Row 9 positive/negative late-arrival partition is built,
+validated and committed locally in PixelPass (`7b11827`).** The deterministic Phase 6
+link-manager matrix is complete; its production-path three-arm leak qualification, plus phases
+7–9, is not built — nothing
 released to date changes the feature's user-visible behaviour. **Phase 6 remains the current
 front.**
 **Date:** 2026-07-21 (v4); status line refreshed 2026-08-21
@@ -767,6 +769,24 @@ ancestry becoming unsafe.
 > 966 MiB disposable release cache was removed and disk space returned. Next is the revised Row
 > 9 positive/negative partition; Phase 6 is not complete.
 
+> **Revised Row 9 slice — built, validated and committed locally as PixelPass `7b11827` on
+> 2026-08-21.**
+> The former single music-only late-arrival fixture is now four independent controller gates
+> carrying Phase 5's exact Firefox partition across the Phase 6 mutation boundary. Music-only
+> and a Firefox output whose microphone is on a different Device each create exactly two stereo
+> links and reach `Captured`. A Firefox output whose input reads the same Device receiving
+> tainted playback, and one reading that sink's tainted monitor, each retain
+> `tainted-owner-bridge`, make zero link-creation calls and hold no proxies. Every case is
+> re-driven unchanged to prove idempotence.
+>
+> Full PixelPass validation is 345 passed, 0 failed and 12 ignored; all four focused Row 9 gates,
+> strict all-target Clippy, formatting and `git diff --check` pass. The three serialized live
+> Phase 6 mutation gates — late eligible fan-out/cleanup, sink replacement/relink and SIGKILL
+> cleanup — pass, `pixelpass --doctor` passes, and the final Pulse/PipeWire/process residue scan
+> is empty. Nix is unavailable, so this slice used system Rust 1.96.1. The deterministic
+> link-manager matrix is now complete. Phase 6 remains open on its production-path three-arm AEC
+> leak measurement re-run, whose naive positive control must exist only behind a test seam.
+
 Failure ⇒ report the stream unsupported. **Never** fall back to the default monitor — and after
 0d that fallback is unconstructible in this mode, by either path.
 
diff --git a/docs/screenshare-audio-exclusion-plan.md b/docs/screenshare-audio-exclusion-plan.md
index f326df7..7dad197 100644
--- a/docs/screenshare-audio-exclusion-plan.md
+++ b/docs/screenshare-audio-exclusion-plan.md
@@ -1420,9 +1420,16 @@ three Row 6 cases also pass optimized release, strict Clippy and `pixelpass --do
 The `port.exclusive` case remains an injected-graph gate under v1's accepted no-Port-binding
 limitation; a live exclusive port still degrades through the separately tested link-failure path.
 
-1. **Continue Phase 6:** carry the revised Row 9 partition forward: music-only and a
-   different-device microphone
-   stay eligible; same-device capture and a tainted-monitor capture are excluded.
+PixelPass commit `7b11827` carries the revised Row 9 partition through the real fan-out
+controller. Four independent late-arrival gates prove music-only and a different-device
+microphone each create both stereo links and reach `Captured`, while same-device capture and a
+tainted-monitor capture retain `tainted-owner-bridge` and make zero link calls. Full validation
+is 345 passed and 12 ignored; strict Clippy, all three serialized live Phase 6 mutation gates,
+diagnostics and residue checks pass. This completes the deterministic link-manager matrix, not
+Phase 6's separate live signal qualification.
+
+1. **Continue Phase 6:** build and run the production-path three-arm AEC leak measurement re-run,
+   keeping its deliberately naive positive control behind a test-only seam.
 2. Preserve the new live mutation slice's ownership, serial-revalidation, fail-closed,
    exact-channel, all-links-active and crash-cleanup gates while finishing the phase.