Defense: amends digital-read.md so starving sentences name the action, optional percent progress, and a plain cause (no machine is thinking / research is taking the thought / thought isn't reaching it) instead of reservoir fill fractions and protocol words. Process start logs, Operations progress, and frontend chrome drop "thought reservoir" and "processing sink" from player copy. Clears the starved-sentence findings-queue line; agent smoke and rail-collapse pins follow the new wording.