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 - **Battery adversarial test: PASSES.** Corpus built (23 docs via the `docs` fetcher); after the three
   scoring fixes the engine reads demand-net rising (+3.9) while **supply stays flat at 0.0** — correctly
   rejecting Cantor's *announced* $2B and borrower-side collateral claims as not-realized-supply.
-- **Strike adversarial test: QUEUED & auto-firing.** The independent leg (What Bitcoin Did, Stephan
-  Livera, Kevin Rooke, Anita Posch, Cafe Bitcoin, + River research — all independent) is nearly done
-  transcribing on the fixed local Spark path. `run_strike_pipeline.sh` (a background watcher) auto-runs
-  extract → embed → `two-sided STRIKE2022` (live vs test reflexivity) when transcription hits zero.
+- **Strike adversarial test: RUNNING (extraction phase) — no result yet.** The independent leg (What
+  Bitcoin Did, Stephan Livera, Kevin Rooke, Anita Posch, Cafe Bitcoin, + River research — all
+  independent) is ~586/671 transcribed (60 stragglers). `run_strike_pipeline.sh` proceeded on that
+  partial corpus and is in the SLOW extraction phase (~600 podcast extract jobs on local Qwen);
+  `two-sided STRIKE2022` (live vs test reflexivity) has NOT produced a result yet — watch
+  `data/strike_pipeline.log`. If it stalls, resume manually: `run-extract` → `embed-claims` →
+  `two-sided --conviction STRIKE2022 --modes live,test`. The Spark **audio fix** (semaphore-of-2 +
+  retry-backoff) is committed and validated (~2.5× faster, zero episode aborts).
 - **§7.1 power-infra backtest:** qualified YES (corpus-gated; runway/precision caveats in `DESIGN_v2.md`).
 - Corpus now spans bitcoin podcasts, SEC/FMP company filings (incl. 6 major banks + Robinhood, a new
   `banks` cluster), the Battery text corpus, and River research. EISC edges seeded for the bitcoin cluster.