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2026-10-17 — The reservation sweep also deletes a reservation branch that lapsed without ever being released, once its lapse is seven days old. A lapsed lease already lets any session take the record over, so the branch protects nothing, and keeping it only adds to the pile-up the sweep exists to clear. Decided by the facilitator during the autonomous run of 2026-10-17, in place of asking the product thinker.