seam-handoff's wait loop had a different byte-shape than the seven already patched, so the sweep missed it; all eight now poll /status for 'state live' — the strongest correct target for these pre-seeded steady-state recipes, closing both the starting window and the storage_ready->serving flip for suites that subscribe immediately. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>