# Issue #5 Phase 2b Round 3 review (`8d7e010`)

- **Reviewer**: `reviewer-creator-grok-01`
- **Job**: `7e7eea07`
- **HEAD**: `8d7e010` (`fix(issue-5): record an accepted intent, not a refused one`)
- **Prior Grok residual**: `0d502d33` item 1 — `seen_intents` recorded before the seq check
- **Tests this turn**: `pytest tests/test_issue5_phase2b_autocomplete.py tests/test_issue5_phase2a_loop.py` → **156 passed**. Phase 2b file: **65 collected**. Collect-only **732**. `git diff --check 9a651cc..HEAD` clean.

The live callback was re-read and the stale-first probe from `0d502d33` was re-run against this tree.

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## Adjudication

[ADJUDICATION: SUSTAINED]

`job_subscriber.py:143-179` now splits the two operations:

1. **Lookup** of `identity in seen_intents` still runs *before* the seq guard, so a replay with a fresh wire seq is dropped.
2. **`seen_intents.add`** runs *after* `seq > last_seq` and after `last_seq` is advanced. A refused packet does not mark its intent as accepted.

Malformed `notification_intent` (non-object, or unhashable field) is dropped inside defensive parsing with a warning; `TypeError` does not escape the MQTT callback.

Required regression `test_r4b_a_stale_packet_does_not_burn_the_intent_for_its_own_retry`: `last_seq=10`, seq=9 refused, same intent at seq=11 accepted, `qsize()==1`, a further replay stays at 1.

**Reproduced this turn** (same probe that failed on `9a651cc`):

```
stale seq=9 last=10 -> qsize=0 seen=set() last=10
retry seq=11 same intent -> qsize=1
replay seq=12 -> qsize=1
unhashable: raised=False qsize=0 last=0
```

Also covered: refused replay does not raise `last_seq` (`test_r4b_a_duplicate_intent_does_not_advance_the_sequence_floor`); end-to-end two `notifier.flush` attempts with distinct wire seqs land once on the real callback (`test_r4b_a_real_retry_is_deduplicated_by_the_real_consumer`).

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## Residuals (unchanged, not this patch)

1. No production caller of `evaluate` / `recover` (Phase 3; §2-1).
2. `started` does not mint `dispatch_token`.
3. Bookkeeping may write any `pending_notification` value, not only `None`.
4. `pick_pending` split-lock.

No `[ESCALATE: PLANNER]`. This is the local order fix the residual asked for.

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[VERDICT: PASS]