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@@ -289,6 +289,41 @@ the top recurring operational item.
 - **Geist is not on disk.** Both stacks fall back to system faces, and the
   ethos threat model rules out the font CDN.
 
+## Resume in this order
+
+Set by the operator at the session boundary. Do not rebuild it from the commits.
+
+1. **F62 first.** Make a requested-but-unanswered handoff visible and bounded.
+   Preserve the lease while Orchestra is explicitly waiting, retry the confirmed
+   request, then emit a causal timeout. Today it ends as generic idleness.
+2. **Repeat the implement-successor rung** with a deliberately longer task. Get
+   at least one `PlanPhaseVerified`, force the handoff while still in
+   `implement`, and prove the successor sees the complete accepted plan, the
+   verified previous phase, the first unfinished phase, and the current human
+   authority.
+3. **Finish the remaining ladder.** Manual verification, SHA staleness and
+   reverification, human-decision mismatch, then a real replan with old-plan
+   provenance.
+4. **Use the capability table above as backend work discovery.** Do not add fake
+   controls. Each disabled action is concrete evidence of a missing capability.
+5. **Continue the debt slices independently.** Durable worker observations and
+   manual-intervention events are the next evidence gaps. Not automatic
+   maintenance yet.
+
+## What the tag means
+
+```text
+orchestra-release-v1 -> 34f3c28
+  deployed, settled lifecycle plus the truth-detector UI baseline
+
+later HEADs
+  experimental plan, debt and runtime work that must earn their own
+  release proof
+```
+
+Use that distinction. A defect found in experimental work is not a reason to
+reopen settled architecture.
+
 ## The roadmap the operator set
 
 ```text