diff --git a/docs/consented-pilot-v0.9.md b/docs/consented-pilot-v0.9.md
index 13ee0e2..c25727b 100644
--- a/docs/consented-pilot-v0.9.md
+++ b/docs/consented-pilot-v0.9.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 **Status:** Indeterminate<br>
 **Recorded:** 2026-09-15<br>
-**Cases:** Twenty-four bounded observations across two consented, anonymized cases
+**Cases:** Twenty-five bounded observations across two consented, anonymized cases
 
 ## Result
 
@@ -56,6 +56,14 @@ reason while retaining no subtype. No draft or independent review was produced,
 so #397 adds no product-quality evidence and leaves the parity outcome
 indeterminate. Issue #398 owns the separate provider classification change.
 
+The twenty-fifth observation (#401) followed the merged #398 classification.
+Both user-session authentication probes passed, but all three Anthropic author
+responses failed local factual and substantive-coverage validation. Attempts
+one and two were retryable; attempt three exhausted the author cap. No draft or
+independent review was persisted, and no statusless API error occurred. The
+classification branch from #398 was therefore not exercised. #401 adds no
+product-quality evidence and leaves the parity outcome indeterminate.
+
 The initial attempt completed one Anthropic author step and one independent
 OpenAI critic step. Its revision call timed out. Under the candidate-approved
 extension, one fresh retry used the same model pair and sanitized data scope
@@ -740,6 +748,36 @@ non-retryable failure cannot resume, and the authorization is exhausted; a new
 live run requires separate explicit authorization. Parity remains
 indeterminate; #75 stays open, and #250 remains blocked.
 
+## Bounded post-classification observation (#401)
+
+On 2026-09-15, explicit authorization covered both authentication probes and
+this twenty-fifth observation on revision
+`10bed45cf577e1d8bc2697571c86ae453ce1bce9`. It reused the same private
+matched-role case and baseline-withheld v1 gate, with Anthropic
+`claude-sonnet-4-5` as author and OpenAI `gpt-5.6-luna` as critic through their
+authenticated user sessions. The clean non-fixture preflight matched three
+rounds, a 1,200,000 ms request timeout, and a 1,200,000 ms maximum active
+duration. Both 20-second authentication probes passed. The optional category
+capture parent was outside the repository with mode `0700`.
+
+The fresh run used all three Anthropic author attempts. Each response reached
+local validation and failed with generic `invalid-response`, zero reported
+tokens, and `factual-invariant-rejection` as both failure stage and reason.
+Attempt one recorded one factual-invariant and seven substantive-coverage
+diagnostics. Attempts two and three each recorded two factual-invariant and six
+substantive-coverage diagnostics. The first two failures were retryable; the
+third was non-retryable because it exhausted the three-attempt cap. Persisted
+active duration was 598,833 ms. Provider-reported cost was unavailable; the
+persisted workspace zero is not an actual cost measurement.
+
+No statusless structured API error occurred, so this observation did not
+exercise #398's retry classification. No unknown category was captured. No
+artifact, critic call, findings, readiness decision, review, adjudication,
+approval, export, submission, release preparation, or release occurred. The
+authorization is exhausted; a later live run requires separate explicit
+authorization. Parity remains indeterminate; #75 stays open, and #250 remains
+blocked.
+
 ## Predeclared comparison gate
 
 | Dimension                     | Status        |
@@ -790,8 +828,8 @@ unresolved findings as accepted facts.
   developer-tool evidence more directly, while the baseline retained a stronger
   backend-production narrative. A separate matched-role case and manual
   baseline were used for the matched-backend observations. Their issue numbers
-  are #350, #358, #360, #362, #364, #368, #374, #378, #382, #384, and #397.
-  The ten later runs
+  are #350, #358, #360, #362, #364, #368, #374, #378, #382, #384, #397, and
+  #401. The eleven later runs
   reused private inputs with the baseline withheld from generation; none
   produced an artifact to compare. The twentieth observation (#374) reused
   that case after #370 and #372 merged; its authorization is exhausted. The
@@ -806,6 +844,10 @@ unresolved findings as accepted facts.
   The twenty-fourth observation (#397) captured `api_error` as the terminal
   reason for the same one-attempt boundary; it produced no artifact or review,
   and its authorization is exhausted.
+  The twenty-fifth observation (#401) exhausted three author attempts on local
+  factual and substantive-coverage validation; it produced no artifact or
+  review, did not exercise #398's API-error branch, and its authorization is
+  exhausted.
   The nineteenth run exercised the #366 thinking bound, but output-budget
   failures persisted, so it does not show that failure mode resolved.
 - Misleading-evidence and prompt-injection behavior were not tested in these
@@ -905,24 +947,26 @@ The twenty-third observation (#384) ended in a non-retryable author failure;
 its authorization is exhausted.
 The twenty-fourth observation (#397) ended in a non-retryable author failure;
 its authorization is exhausted.
+The twenty-fifth observation (#401) exhausted its three-author-attempt cap; its
+authorization is exhausted.
 
 No artifact, critic call, findings, readiness decision, review, adjudication,
-approval, export, submission, or release occurred in #368, #374, #378, #382, #384,
-or #397.
+approval, export, submission, or release occurred in #368, #374, #378, #382,
+the #384 and #397 observations, or #401.
 Parity remains indeterminate, and #75 and #250 remain blocked. Any later live
 attempt needs separate bounded authorization.
 
 Issue #75 stays open, and release preparation under #250 remains blocked.
 No final candidate approval, export, or submission is authorized by these
-results. Authorization for #374, #378, #382, #384, and #397 is exhausted and
-does not extend to another live attempt. The #378, #382, #384, and #397 runs
-cannot resume; a new run requires separate explicit bounded authorization.
+results. Authorization for #374, #378, #382, #384, #397, and #401 is exhausted
+and does not extend to another live attempt. None of those runs can resume; a
+new run requires separate explicit bounded authorization.
 
 The first case remains limited by role mismatch. The matched case provides
 product evidence from #350 about required content and claim validation. The
 provider failures in #358, #360, #362, #364, #368, #374, #378, #382, #384,
-and #397 added no product-quality evidence and do not change the indeterminate
-outcome. The #366
+and #397, plus the local-validation failures in #401, added no product-quality
+evidence and do not change the indeterminate outcome. The #366
 thinking bound was exercised in #368, but output-budget failures remained;
 this does not show that failure mode fully resolved. The #374 diagnostics do
 not establish the cause of its reported output-budget failures or reinterpret
@@ -932,5 +976,7 @@ their generic invalid-response classifications and failure stage do not add
 product-quality evidence. The #384 diagnostics add safe error attribution but
 do not establish its underlying cause or add product-quality evidence. The
 capture under #397 establishes only the `api_error` terminal category, not the
-underlying API failure or exact result subtype.
+underlying API failure or exact result subtype. The #401 observation did not
+encounter a statusless API error and therefore does not validate #398 in live
+use.
 Provider-reported cost was unavailable.
diff --git a/docs/roadmap.md b/docs/roadmap.md
index d0cef21..3277b26 100644
--- a/docs/roadmap.md
+++ b/docs/roadmap.md
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ applications.
 | Previous | Integration hardening and outcome validation ([v0.6.0](https://github.com/akoita/draft-loop/releases/tag/v0.6.0)) | Released; validation failed                          | Preserve a reproducible integrated baseline without overstating application readiness | Failed representative result carried into v0.7; see [stage evidence](stage-evidence-v0.6.0.md)                          |
 | Previous | Evidence-backed CV drafting (v0.7 program) | [Released alpha.5 checkpoint](stage-evidence-v0.7.0-alpha.5.md); implementation history carried forward; outcome not validated | Produce a complete factual, source-traceable application draft | v0.8 candidate evidence now covers the bounded drafting and review vertical |
 | Previous | Usable CV MVP ([v0.8.0-alpha.1](https://github.com/akoita/draft-loop/releases/tag/v0.8.0-alpha.1)) | [Released alpha](stage-evidence-v0.8.0-alpha.1.md); 17/17 issues closed; representative outcome not recorded | Produce one complete, factual, reviewed, human-approved, ATS-readable CV | Representative outcome evidence remains without overstating DOCX visual coverage |
-| Now      | Workflow parity and release ([milestone v0.9.0](https://github.com/akoita/draft-loop/milestone/4)) | [Twenty-four observations across two consented cases are indeterminate](consented-pilot-v0.9.md); parity not validated | Demonstrate the complete application-grade workflow and publish evidence              | #350 informed corrections #351/#352; later attempts repeatedly failed before a draft. #376 corrects per-generation cap accounting, #380 adds fixed result diagnostics, and #393/#395 add private category capture. #397 established terminal reason `api_error`; #398 classifies a statusless structured occurrence as bounded and retryable without consuming provider prose. A later live observation still requires fresh authorization. #75/#250 remain blocked |
+| Now      | Workflow parity and release ([milestone v0.9.0](https://github.com/akoita/draft-loop/milestone/4)) | [Twenty-five observations across two consented cases are indeterminate](consented-pilot-v0.9.md); parity not validated | Demonstrate the complete application-grade workflow and publish evidence              | #350 informed corrections #351/#352; later attempts repeatedly failed before a draft. #376 corrects per-generation cap accounting, #380 adds fixed result diagnostics, and #393/#395 add private category capture. #397 established terminal reason `api_error`, and #398 added its bounded statusless classification. #401 then exhausted three author attempts on local factual and coverage validation without an artifact or review. Any later live observation requires fresh authorization. #75/#250 remain blocked |
 | Later    | Retrieval and provider quality                                                                                    | Integrated lexical baseline; partial components      | Improve evidence selection and dependable live runs                                   | Vector/hybrid comparison, cancellation, and provider recovery in the packaged path                                      |
 | Later    | Broader real-application pilot                                                                                    | Implemented harness; not outcome-validated           | Test factuality, quality, and effort across more cases                                | Consented cases, calibrated measures, and recorded limitations                                                          |
 | Later    | Production-ready beta                                                                                             | Partial implementation; not production-validated     | Distribute a safe, dependable desktop application                                     | Signed installers, safe migrations, recovery, accessibility, and platform evidence                                      |
@@ -808,6 +808,17 @@ Authorization is exhausted, parity remains indeterminate, and #75/#250 remain
 blocked. A later live observation requires a fresh bounded issue and explicit
 authorization.
 
+The twenty-fifth bounded observation under #401 used revision
+`10bed45cf577e1d8bc2697571c86ae453ce1bce9` after explicit authorization.
+Both 20-second user-session authentication probes passed. All three Anthropic
+author responses reached local validation but failed with
+`factual-invariant-rejection`: the first two attempts were retryable, and the
+third exhausted the cap. No statusless API error occurred, so the #398 branch
+was not exercised. No artifact or critic review existed, provider-reported cost
+was unavailable, and authorization is exhausted. Parity remains indeterminate;
+issues #75/#250 remain blocked, and another live attempt requires a new bounded
+issue and explicit authorization.
+
 **Exit criterion:** The representative comparison records no factual-invariant
 violations or unsupported model-added facts, preserves required sections and
 chronology, meets the agreed relevance and coverage thresholds, and produces a
@@ -908,6 +919,7 @@ issues retain implementation chronology.
 
 | Date       | Decision                                                                                                                                                                                                                   | Product implication                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
 | ---------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
+| 2026-09-15 | Recorded #401 as an indeterminate twenty-fifth matched-backend observation. | Both user-session authentication probes passed, but three Anthropic author responses failed local factual and substantive-coverage validation before an artifact or critic review. The run did not exercise #398's API-error branch. Authorization is exhausted, and #75/#250 remain blocked. |
 | 2026-09-15 | Classified statusless structured Claude API errors under #398. | The documented `api_error` terminal reason and error-result `success` subtype now produce fixed diagnostics. Without a finite numeric status, the failure is transient and retryable only within existing orchestration caps; numeric statuses retain precedence, provider prose remains excluded, and no live attempt is authorized. |
 | 2026-09-15 | Recorded #397 as an indeterminate twenty-fourth matched-backend observation. | Both authentication probes passed, but one Anthropic author attempt failed non-retryably with `unknown`. Private bounded capture established terminal reason `api_error` but no subtype or underlying cause; no artifact or critic review occurred. Authorization is exhausted, #398 owns classification, and #75/#250 remain blocked. |
 | 2026-09-15 | Routed opt-in Claude category capture through the local run boundary under #395. | A programmatic diagnostic caller can pass the private capture parent to Anthropic user-session run adapters without enabling capture for default, API-key, OpenAI, CLI, renderer, or persisted workspace paths. This provider-free plumbing does not authorize a live attempt. |