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2026-10-30 — itd-2610262127138979 step 3, review round 1: the test comments that call a running preflight one 'in its test stages' (machineload/slots_test.go, implement/load_slots_test.go, load_race_command_test.go, load_whole_run_test.go, surface/cli/implement_load_slots_test.go) stay as written. Each describes a fixture whose preflight is running its stages, which is literally true; the reviewer graded them a nit that ships unfixed, and the code comments and taught text that said the gate admits test stages are reworded. The taught sites (LOAD rule, commands/implement.md, the implement brief chapter, machineload/race.go) now say once that a records-only change takes a shorter rule that waits at no gate. Agent decision in an autonomous run.