diff --git a/docs/ISSUES.md b/docs/ISSUES.md
index 107fec3d..5f56a824 100644
--- a/docs/ISSUES.md
+++ b/docs/ISSUES.md
@@ -206,6 +206,29 @@ and trace validate_walkable @0x0050d010 / transitional_insert @0x0050b6f0 /
 adjust_sphere_to_plane @0x00538210 WHILE the glide happens — the diff
 between retail's live inputs and ours in the same scenario IS the answer.
 
+### LIVE RETAIL TRACE 2026-08-08 — the glide IS cliff_slide, firing every tick; the divergent branch is pinned
+
+cdb attached to the PDB-paired retail client while the user glided the
+45-degree protocol (`345-retail-glide.cdb.log`): `edge_slide` and
+`cliff_slide` fired **594 times each, in lockstep** (~30/s through the glide
+windows) with `set_sliding_normal` tracking at 538; **`step_up` fired ZERO
+times**; `adjust_sphere_to_plane`/`walkable_hits_sphere` zero (outdoor
+terrain walkables go through `validate_walkable` only). Ours in the same
+scenario: the edge family fired 18 times total and the stuck ticks
+dead-looped on insert retries without reaching it.
+
+**The divergence, exactly:** retail's `transitional_insert`, when the
+walkable validation refuses the steep plane, proceeds INTO the
+step-down-failed/edge_slide path on every tick — the D0 pass's
+"Adjusted just retries from scratch" reading missed the branch retail
+actually takes here. Ours retries the insert without entering the edge
+family, exhausts attempts, restores. The fix target is that one branch in
+our `TransitionalInsert` against retail's @0x0050b6f0, with the edge-entry
+anchors already mapped in the #32 research (step-down-failed at
+~0x0050b8xx-0x0050b921). The response machinery downstream is already
+proven faithful AND live-healthy (this morning's 18 firings all applied
+clean constraints).
+
 **The two prior validations (both now resolved — the user's observation
 answers 1 and mandates 2's runtime session):**
 1. **The cheapest decisive test needs no debugger: the USER walks their
diff --git a/tools/cdb/345-glide-profile.cdb b/tools/cdb/345-glide-profile.cdb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..7f46270a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/cdb/345-glide-profile.cdb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+.logopen C:\Users\erikn\source\repos\acdream\345-retail-glide.cdb.log
+.sympath C:\Users\erikn\source\repos\acdream\refs
+.symopt+ 0x40
+.reload /f acclient.exe
+
+r $t0 = 0
+r $t1 = 0
+r $t2 = 0
+r $t3 = 0
+r $t4 = 0
+r $t5 = 0
+r $t6 = 0
+r $t7 = 0
+r $t8 = 0
+
+bp acclient!OBJECTINFO::validate_walkable "r $t0 = @$t0 + 1; .if (@$t0 % 500 == 0) { .printf \"[c] vwalk=%d tins=%d edge=%d cliff=%d adjplane=%d whits=%d stepup=%d vtrans=%d slidn=%d\\n\", @$t0, @$t1, @$t2, @$t3, @$t4, @$t5, @$t6, @$t7, @$t8 }; .if (@$t0 >= 20000) { qd } .else { gc }"
+bp acclient!CTransition::transitional_insert "r $t1 = @$t1 + 1; gc"
+bp acclient!CTransition::edge_slide "r $t2 = @$t2 + 1; gc"
+bp acclient!CTransition::cliff_slide "r $t3 = @$t3 + 1; gc"
+bp acclient!CPolygon::adjust_sphere_to_plane "r $t4 = @$t4 + 1; gc"
+bp acclient!CPolygon::walkable_hits_sphere "r $t5 = @$t5 + 1; gc"
+bp acclient!CTransition::step_up "r $t6 = @$t6 + 1; gc"
+bp acclient!CTransition::validate_transition "r $t7 = @$t7 + 1; gc"
+bp acclient!COLLISIONINFO::set_sliding_normal "r $t8 = @$t8 + 1; gc"
+
+g