_check_disk_fallback converted transition_seq outside its try, so a status.json whose sequence is not an integer would raise out of the subscriber's main loop; such a status is now ignored with a warning, like a stale one. delegate_started_recorded returned 1 before looking at the registry's events.log when the audit-log root could not be resolved; it now skips only the audit check. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>