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   means EXPLICITLY CONFIGURED, so creating a subnet addresses nothing and the carve is still
   owed; and NetBox's LIVE API returns `scope.name` as the display name while this repo's dumps
   normalise it to the slug, so a dump-written tool matches zero objects live.
+- **SKILL SWEEP NOT DONE AND NOT OWED -- DEFERRED TO THE STAGE-5 CLOSE by operator direction
+  2026-07-27** ("Leave the skill sweep for the stage close"). GA-R6 ties the sweep to a STAGE
+  close and this session closed none; batching it there also avoids regenerating the dated
+  Chat snapshot twice. **ONE CANDIDATE, recorded so it is not lost to a transcript:** the skill
+  carries "A CHECKER THAT CANNOT FAIL IS NOT A GATE" -- this session established that **the
+  INVERSE also bites**. Three gates were built (`dc-plane-ipam`, `dc-node-v6-carve`, the
+  render-baseline fixtures) whose every live run FAILED, because everything they assert was
+  absent; each needed a constructed fixture case to prove it could go GREEN. A gate only ever
+  observed failing is as untrustworthy as one only ever observed passing. `dc-node-v6-carve`
+  then demonstrated it live -- flipping dc0 to PASS while dc1 still read FAIL. This is a
+  COMPLEMENT to an existing invariant, not a new one, so it folds into that paragraph.
 - **RENDER-PIPELINE STEP 3 IS COMPLETE 2026-07-27 -- ALL FOUR LAYERS, BOTH DCs.** (Heading
   corrected at session close: it read "MAAS, lib-net AND APEX HALVES COMPLETE", which was true
   when written but became an UNDERSTATEMENT once the node carve landed above -- a reader