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   never a player character (see rule (g)).
 - Graceful close matters — a hard kill leaves ACE holding the session
   ~3 minutes.
+
+---
+
+## Connected gate RESULTS — 2026-08-05 (user-run, user-accepted)
+
+Run against the exact `e0f96a55` Release binary with the retail UI
+(`ACDREAM_RETAIL_UI=1`), `ACDREAM_PROBE_CHILD_CELL=1` and
+`ACDREAM_PROBE_LOCAL_TELEPORT=1`, live ACE at `127.0.0.1:9000`.
+Log: `c4-gates.log` (731 lines). **User verdict: "works great."**
+
+Three of the four owed gates were exercised in one session. Probe evidence,
+because a clean-looking session is not a pass:
+
+**Route 3 (portal) — PASS, unambiguous.** Three `[local-tp]` lines, every one
+`status=Committed hookTail=ran leash=armed`, across three distinct
+destinations (`0x00070143`, `0xA9B40019`, `0x1134001F`). `leash=armed` is the
+load-bearing observation: before the round-2 R3 fix the field read
+`IsFullyConstrained()` and was structurally incapable of printing anything but
+`unarmed`, so this line proves both the arm AND the corrected probe.
+
+**Route 7 (child cell) — PASS, but THIN.** 17 `[child-cell]` lines:
+13 `cause=attach`, 3 `cause=delete`, **1 `cause=propagate`**. The stated pass
+criterion (at least one `cause=propagate`) is met, so the gate passes — but
+propagation across a parent cell crossing is the slice's entire purpose, and
+one sample proves the path executes rather than that it is robust across
+repeated crossings. A future session should run several equipped landblock
+crossings and expect `propagate` counts in double digits.
+
+**Route 6 (drops) — PASS on visual only.** Route 6 has no probe (zero
+production lines by design), so this gate rests entirely on the user's visual
+confirmation. That is inherent to the route, not a gap in the run.
+
+**Gate 4 (4b-3 `cause=cellless`) — STILL NOT RUN**, as expected: its recorded
+trigger was invalidated by route 7 and the replacement is UNESTABLISHED.
+
+### Not exercised — recorded, not glossed
+
+- **Route 3's autorun cancel never fired.** All three portals report
+  `autorun=unchanged`, meaning the local player was not auto-running at
+  arrival. The `PlayerTeleported` @0x006B32B0 `SetAutoRun(0,1)` port is
+  therefore live-unverified. To close it: engage autorun, then take a portal,
+  and expect `autorun=cancelled`.
+- **AP-144's autonomy divergence remains unreachable** (`TrySetAutonomyLevel`
+  has zero production callers), so nothing in this session could have
+  exercised it either way.
+- Per both round-2 reviewers' condition, **this session is explicitly NOT
+  scored as covering #318** (the end-to-end presentation composition test).