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@@ -3846,6 +3846,36 @@ Two smaller, lower-risk items flagged in the same pass:
   functions (e.g. `session_set_pinned()` / `session_is_pinned()`); nothing, including existing
   Stadium code, reads `STADIUM_FLAG_PIN` directly off the patron header anymore. Session is
   the sole authority for both write and read, not just the write path.
-- **Elevation trigger not yet usable (H.5/H.7).** Rides Hermes messaging, which per this
-  document's own standing completion criterion (D.1) isn't the real implementation yet.
-  Correct on paper, not usable until that substrate exists — expected, not a flaw.
+- **Elevation trigger, updated 2026-09-02: closer to usable than first thought.** Rides Hermes
+  messaging — at the time this risk was flagged, assumed to not be the real implementation
+  yet. §H.7's later verification found the messaging substrate (`CH-REQUEST`/`CH-ACCEPT`/
+  `CH-CONFIRM`/ACK-NACK) is already real, working code. What's still missing is only the ACL
+  gate itself (H.8) and the `ELEVATE-REQUEST` message type/handler — smaller gaps than
+  originally flagged, not a missing substrate.
+
+### H.11 — Gap analysis, refreshed (2026-09-02, end of session)
+
+Full sweep across the whole design pass, not just a re-list of §H.9's original ten items — 7
+of them are now closed (1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8). New sub-gaps surfaced while closing the old
+ones. This supersedes §H.9 as the current accurate picture; §H.9 itself is left intact above
+as historical record (each item already carries its own closure annotation inline).
+
+**Genuinely open design question (never asked):**
+1. Whether more cards exist beyond the four named (VM, word, block, message).
+
+**Small design pieces still undecided:**
+2. Where exactly creator-ceiling enforcement (§H.3) lands in the capsule birth flow.
+3. Zuse's eligibility-list exact representation/storage (§H.5).
+
+**Pure implementation gaps — design fully decided, nothing coded yet:**
+4. `stadium_birth_hermes()`/`_artemis()` don't exist (§H.1).
+5. The `Session` struct + its own header don't exist (§H.2).
+6. `BMAPFMT`'s code edit to `block_subsystem.h`/`.c` (§F.4/§H.6 — field/API design fully
+   closed).
+7. The message card's ACL gate isn't wired onto the real `CH-REQUEST` (§H.8).
+8. Creator-ceiling enforcement itself, once item 2 above is answered.
+
+**Explicitly deferred, not rejected (intentional non-goals for now):**
+9. VM card multi-owner support (§H.4).
+10. Elevation trigger alternates — live-console `sudo` path, pre-signed capability tickets
+    (§H.5).