diff --git a/docs/audit/grounding-audit-20260718.md b/docs/audit/grounding-audit-20260718.md
index d83529e..72e8709 100644
--- a/docs/audit/grounding-audit-20260718.md
+++ b/docs/audit/grounding-audit-20260718.md
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@
 charter-exempted verifications (v0.9.8 volume-replace-under-running-domain;
 `ignore_changes` suppression). Operator lean (a) `lifecycle { ignore_changes }`
 is CONTINGENT on the suppression verification; if refuted, fall back to (b).
+**Authoring direction (operator, 2026-07-18):** the true EXPECTED plan count
+is currently nobody's -- 5/0/6 was pre-reboot, 7/2/7 is the post-reboot
+symptom of the D-130 defect, and the post-fix expected triple does not exist
+until D-130 is ruled. CURRENT-STATE.md must record exactly that (expected:
+UNRESOLVED pending D-130; last captured: 7/2/7; pre-reboot gate: 5/0/6), not
+pick a number.
 **Traces to:** GA-R6 (executable definition of done), D-130.
 
 ## GA-F02 -- HIGH -- deploy-gate doc carries two live contradictory plan counts
@@ -45,7 +51,10 @@
 ## GA-F03 -- MED -- tofu version pin stale: records say 1.12.3, binary is 1.12.4
 
 **Evidence:** measured `tofu version` -> v1.12.4 (env snapshot). Stale 1.12.3
-claims: `README.md`, `docs/dc-dc-deployment-workflow.md:47`, `:360`, `:875`
+claims: `opentofu/README.md:41` (CORRECTED 2026-07-18 -- the charter and this
+register's first draft said root README; root README.md carries no pin, and
+`opentofu/README.md` is outside the extractor's scan scope, a noted scope
+gap), `docs/dc-dc-deployment-workflow.md:47`, `:360`, `:875`
 (record-inventory `version tofu` group; `docs/session-ledger.md:214` already
 records the 1.12.4 observation).
 **Proposed fix:** GA-R1 pin table in CURRENT-STATE.md cited to `--version`
@@ -151,6 +160,9 @@
 stage state is impossible today.
 **Proposed fix:** GA-R1 (stage status lives only in CURRENT-STATE.md) + a
 fixed status vocabulary; GA-R6 makes CLOSED executable.
+**Phase-4 note (operator, 2026-07-18):** the legal status set is an explicit
+operator A/B ruling to be presented in Phase 4 -- load-bearing because GA-R6
+mechanizes CLOSED, and a word with five meanings cannot be mechanized.
 **Traces to:** GA-R1, GA-R6.
 
 ## GA-F11 -- MED -- version-pin contradiction groups for juju/lxd/maas/netbox (adjudication needed)