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@@ -210,6 +210,37 @@ offers a mechanical suspect for the harness flip below: the two assert shapes
 plausibly differ in what settle state the harness left (`r*N.z` vs `r`),
 which is test-ORDER state, not physics.
 
+### MECHANISM RESOLVED, same morning — the trigger and the resting geometry are one family
+
+`CPolygon::adjust_sphere_to_plane` @0x00538210 (pseudo-C 322032): retail's
+walkable placement solves the interpolation for the point where the sphere's
+PERPENDICULAR distance to the walkable plane equals the RADIUS — the sphere
+rests TANGENT to the slope. Consequences, closing the loop on the live A/B:
+
+- **Retail:** tangent rest (perp = r) makes the bare-radius trigger
+  (`dist < r − ε`) structurally INERT — equality minus epsilon. No fight, no
+  oscillation. The visible corollary: retail characters' feet float
+  vertically above a slope by `r·(secθ − 1)` — 2.7 cm on a 31° slope, ~20 cm
+  near the walkable limit — which matches AC's known slope look.
+- **acdream:** planted rest (feet on surface, perp = r·N.z) makes OUR
+  retained trigger structurally inert here for the same reason. Each engine's
+  trigger matches its own resting geometry; both pairs are internally
+  coherent, and the live A/B's 84% fire rate is what happens when you mix
+  retail's trigger with our placement.
+- **Therefore AD-66 is NOT a standalone row.** The faithful unit is the PAIR:
+  tangent placement + bare trigger, ported together — or our pair kept
+  together as one deliberate divergence. Porting either half alone
+  manufactures a fight neither engine has.
+- The harness flip's suspect is strengthened: a tangent-rest start is stable
+  under the bare trigger, a planted start lifts once — which of the two the
+  harness settle leaves is plausibly order-dependent test state.
+
+**Queued decision (user, no urgency): port the retail pair (feet float
+slightly on slopes, exactly like retail — a visible feel change gated by
+eyes) or keep our pair (planted feet, one register row covering placement +
+trigger together, AD-66 re-titled accordingly).** Retail-first says port; it
+is deliberately not done silently because the difference is visible.
+
 **Hypotheses deliberately NOT chased at 04:00:** a property-read side effect
 (reading `body.ContactPlane` between tick and assert — should be impossible);
 xUnit execution-order/parallelism interacting with harness or engine state;