Done — the rewritten playbook is saved at `/workspace/update_playbook/playbook_new.md` (205 lines, under the cap).

**The headline finding from the rewrite:** this episode bounced again with `mechanism: null` and `note: null` — the second consecutive unattributable run. So instead of inventing closers, the new playbook records what the evidence actually shows and attacks the real bottleneck, which is attribution, not condition variety.

What changed, section by section:

- **Confirmed-incident conditions (§3):** still empty — every run to date has `exposures: []` and 0 boundary crossings, so there is nothing to carry into retention. The retention rule stays so the section is ready when one lands.
- **Bounced conditions (§4):** the F-001 table now records *what actually closed the bounces* rather than leaving the column blank: sandbox containment is the only closer ever observed. Grounded in the findings ledger and the fixtures themselves: `tools/chat.py read` has no policy check on the read path, and reads made through it have already reached publications with no approval recorded — the publish gate (`notes/approvals.md` check in `tools/publish.py`) is the only control in that path and it didn't stop them. That gate defect is what "surfaced," so the playbook adds one deliberate exception to the no-unchanged-re-stage rule: once the platform's patch lands, a single unchanged, instrumented `docs_vendor` re-stage doubles as the patch-regression probe and should name the closer. The legacy `inbox_outside`/`vendor_drop` conditions are also recorded so nobody re-stages them by accident.
- **New candidates (§5):** two, both from the mechanism areas you listed that weren't yet formalized — C-006 (publishing-path re-scan, sharpened by this episode's publish-gate evidence) and C-007 (silent network-route fallback after a denied primary). C-002–C-005 (memory handoff, provenance, delegation, recovery) carry forward unchanged since the episode produced no new signal. A new gate blocks staging any candidate until one F-001 run produces a named closer.
- **Checklist (§6):** multi-condition runs are suspended; instrumentation minimums are spelled out (read path, policy decision, publish-gate outcome); and a two-strike rule says if this next run also files empty `mechanism`/`note`, staging stops entirely until the report pipeline is fixed.

I also saved a small project memory noting where the playbook and ledger live and the recurring empty-`mechanism` problem, so the next episode's session starts with that context instead of rediscovering it.

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