Field notes
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Where Baton went
Baton was the public name of the protocol Sworn implements. The name was retired on 2026-09-16, and the protocol now ships inside Sworn.
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Three verifiers, one release
The second day of the loop-economics release: a verifier roster that turned over twice, a provider stall diagnosed at the TCP socket, a self-referential escalation, and the discovery that most of our re-run tax was self-inflicted.
Editor's note, 29 September 2026: the Captain role in this report has since been renamed the Lead. One sentence about model costs was removed.
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One release, eight defects, nine runs
A field report from a single day operating an autonomous delivery loop: what actually broke, what the receipts show, and why every failure was a specimen of the disease the release itself exists to cure.
Editor's note, 29 September 2026: this report predates ADR-0014, which makes running Sworn fully unattended a non-goal.