diff --git a/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json b/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json
index af372c9..76403c3 100644
--- a/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json
+++ b/.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/prd.json
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@
         "Define controlled safetensors, whole-model GGUF, dense distributed GGUF, and V4 Flash distributed lanes with fixed prompts, context/output lengths, sampling, concurrency, hardware, and metrics.",
         "Alpha requires correctness plus a human-approved useful-speed threshold; beta adds concurrency, long-context, failure, and sustained-throughput thresholds.",
         "Separate quantization/model-fit gains from runtime, transport, batching, and kernel gains.",
-        "Treat quants and 2–4/10+ stage counts only as named certification scenarios; no product logic may hardcode them.",
+        "Treat quants and 2\u20134/10+ stage counts only as named certification scenarios; no product logic may hardcode them.",
         "Lock thresholds and stop conditions in versioned machine-readable data before benchmark result ingestion.",
         "Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff."
       ],
@@ -262,12 +262,12 @@
       "acceptanceCriteria": [
         "Pin protoc, gRPC, and plugin versions or declare a verified compatible range.",
         "Generate Python and C++ bindings into out-of-tree build/package locations through documented commands.",
-        "Add Python↔C++ round-trip and descriptor compatibility tests.",
+        "Add Python\u2194C++ round-trip and descriptor compatibility tests.",
         "A clean checkout regenerates bindings deterministically or fails with an actionable toolchain error.",
         "Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff."
       ],
       "passes": true,
-      "notes": "Completed from Gitea #7 after controller provisioned and exercised the exact Python/C++ toolchains. Verified deterministic generation, native CMake/CTest, Python↔C++ byte parity, compileall, and diff checks; fixed relative bootstrap prefix resolution.",
+      "notes": "Completed from Gitea #7 after controller provisioned and exercised the exact Python/C++ toolchains. Verified deterministic generation, native CMake/CTest, Python\u2194C++ byte parity, compileall, and diff checks; fixed relative bootstrap prefix resolution.",
       "completionNotes": "Verified exact grpcio-tools 1.82.1, Protobuf 33.1, Abseil 20250814.1, and gRPC C++ 1.82.1 at commit acccf84c0df20487d64101f528e5d426541ca4e5. Mandatory Python/C++ message and service generation, native CTest, deterministic regeneration, and byte-for-byte Python/C++ parity passed; see evidence/DGR-023/README.md.",
       "blocks": [
         "DGR-024",
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@
         "DGR-041",
         "DGR-044"
       ],
-      "completionNotes": "Completed 2026-07-17. Verified the live DGR-003-lineage identity core against every criterion: node packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py and the independent tracker packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/recipe.py (pinned together by tests/data/recipe_fingerprint_vectors.json) fingerprint the source artifact SHA, tokenizer pin, architecture adapter and config digest, boundary/protocol schema versions, backend, weight quant, activation/compute dtypes, and KV dtype/layout under domain-separated digests; shards bind to exact half-open ranges with no topology or quant constants; route/handshake/session checks fail closed with structured mismatch reasons; recipes stay registered-but-dark in the tracker CertificationLedger until a real >=2-distinct-node whole-model distributed forward certifies them. Closed the one open criterion gap (runtime pin/patch stack): new packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_pin.py derives the runtime_version axis from the DGR-027 lock manifest — exact upstream commit plus a digest over the ordered patch-stack bytes — failing closed on any UPSTREAM_LOCK.json/UPSTREAM_COMMIT/series/SHA256SUMS/patch-byte disagreement, and both identity implementations now reject a moving runtime_version reference. Tests: tests/test_runtime_pin_identity.py (17 passed) plus 196 passing impacted identity/admission/native-emission tests; python -m compileall and git diff --check clean. Also repaired backlog consistency left by prior sessions: added the missing DGR-022/DGR-027 completionNotes, regenerated the DGR-022/025/027 issue projections, and relocated three pre-DGR legacy GLM alpha issue files to issues/legacy/."
+      "completionNotes": "Completed 2026-07-17. Verified the live DGR-003-lineage identity core against every criterion: node packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_recipe.py and the independent tracker packages/tracker/meshnet_tracker/recipe.py (pinned together by tests/data/recipe_fingerprint_vectors.json) fingerprint the source artifact SHA, tokenizer pin, architecture adapter and config digest, boundary/protocol schema versions, backend, weight quant, activation/compute dtypes, and KV dtype/layout under domain-separated digests; shards bind to exact half-open ranges with no topology or quant constants; route/handshake/session checks fail closed with structured mismatch reasons; recipes stay registered-but-dark in the tracker CertificationLedger until a real >=2-distinct-node whole-model distributed forward certifies them. Closed the one open criterion gap (runtime pin/patch stack): new packages/node/meshnet_node/runtime_pin.py derives the runtime_version axis from the DGR-027 lock manifest \u2014 exact upstream commit plus a digest over the ordered patch-stack bytes \u2014 failing closed on any UPSTREAM_LOCK.json/UPSTREAM_COMMIT/series/SHA256SUMS/patch-byte disagreement, and both identity implementations now reject a moving runtime_version reference. Tests: tests/test_runtime_pin_identity.py (17 passed) plus 196 passing impacted identity/admission/native-emission tests; python -m compileall and git diff --check clean. Also repaired backlog consistency left by prior sessions: added the missing DGR-022/DGR-027 completionNotes, regenerated the DGR-022/025/027 issue projections, and relocated three pre-DGR legacy GLM alpha issue files to issues/legacy/."
     },
     {
       "id": "DGR-026",
@@ -419,7 +419,7 @@
         "Manifest records upstream URL, exact commit, expected source archive/tree hash, license, and retrieval method.",
         "Fetch tooling verifies identity before use and refuses an unpinned branch/tag.",
         "Source is fetched into an ignored build workspace; no submodule, vendored source tree, or permanent fork is introduced.",
-        "Offline reuse is supported only after the cached tree’s exact identity is verified.",
+        "Offline reuse is supported only after the cached tree\u2019s exact identity is verified.",
         "Applicable shared quality gates in `prd.json` pass, and the evidence handoff records exact commands/results, changed files, limitations, and dependency handoff."
       ],
       "passes": true,
@@ -1159,7 +1159,7 @@
       "triage": "ready-for-agent",
       "description": "Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`, source issue `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/046-define-the-v4-typed-architecture-boundary-schema.md`, and evidence READMEs for dependencies (DGR-021, DGR-045) before changing code. Inspect live source/tests rather than trusting legacy pass states. Objective: Define the exact cross-stage V4 architecture boundary while keeping per-layer attention and auxiliary caches shard-local.",
       "acceptanceCriteria": [
-        "Define a versioned named bundle for the mHC 4×4096 residual boundary, positions, token-ID sideband where required, and schema/cache expectations.",
+        "Define a versioned named bundle for the mHC 4\u00d74096 residual boundary, positions, token-ID sideband where required, and schema/cache expectations.",
         "Explicitly exclude per-layer CSA, HCA, SWA, indexer, compressor, KV, and MTP caches/state from the WAN boundary; those remain local to the owning shard and session/epoch.",
         "Reserve typed MTP boundary fields but mark MTP execution unsupported and unroutable for alpha.",
         "Fingerprint independently of quant/topology and fail closed on missing, incompatible, incorrectly shaped, or stale boundary/cache expectations.",
@@ -1198,7 +1198,7 @@
       "triage": "ready-for-agent",
       "description": "Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`, source issue `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/047-adapt-the-upstream-v4-mhc-boundary-for-ranged-ownership.md`, and evidence READMEs for dependencies (DGR-045, DGR-046) before changing code. Inspect live source/tests rather than trusting legacy pass states. Objective: Add range-boundary adapters around upstream llama.cpp V4 mHC execution without reimplementing the V4 graph or kernels.",
       "acceptanceCriteria": [
-        "Represent and validate the upstream V4 4×4096 mHC boundary without flattening semantic axes.",
+        "Represent and validate the upstream V4 4\u00d74096 mHC boundary without flattening semantic axes.",
         "Add only head/intermediate/tail range ownership and boundary conversion hooks around the pinned upstream llama.cpp graph.",
         "Compare deterministic fixture vectors and single-process ranged outputs with upstream whole-model execution.",
         "Document that llama.cpp owns V4 mHC graph/kernels and that quantized storage does not alter the logical boundary schema.",
@@ -1408,7 +1408,7 @@
     },
     {
       "id": "DGR-053",
-      "title": "Certify a real 2–4-stage V4 route",
+      "title": "Certify a real 2\u20134-stage V4 route",
       "priority": 37,
       "milestone": "M3",
       "executionMode": "HITL",
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@
       "triage": "ready-for-human",
       "description": "Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`, source issue `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/053-certify-a-real-2-4-stage-v4-route.md`, and evidence READMEs for dependencies (DGR-030, DGR-043, DGR-052) before changing code. Inspect live source/tests rather than trusting legacy pass states. Objective: Prove real Tracker-selected V4 execution across physical machines before alpha.",
       "acceptanceCriteria": [
-        "Run one documented 2–4-stage certification scenario using exact compatible artifacts/recipes; the count and chosen quant are evidence inputs, not product constants.",
+        "Run one documented 2\u20134-stage certification scenario using exact compatible artifacts/recipes; the count and chosen quant are evidence inputs, not product constants.",
         "Actual CPU/GPU work executes on every stage; fake workers do not satisfy acceptance.",
         "Record parity, TTFT, prefill/decode speed, seam cost, memory, cache/state isolation, cancellation, and cleanup.",
         "Tracker selection remains dynamic and rejects an injected incompatible backend/recipe.",
@@ -1712,7 +1712,7 @@
         "DGR-058"
       ],
       "triage": "ready-for-agent",
-      "description": "Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`, source issue `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/060-certify-v4-long-context-state-correctness.md`, and evidence READMEs for dependencies (DGR-051, DGR-056, DGR-058) before changing code. Inspect live source/tests rather than trusting legacy pass states. Objective: Prove V4’s KV and auxiliary state remain correct and bounded at long contexts.",
+      "description": "Fresh Ralph session: read `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/RALPH-CONTEXT.md`, source issue `.scratch/distributed-gguf-runtime/issues/060-certify-v4-long-context-state-correctness.md`, and evidence READMEs for dependencies (DGR-051, DGR-056, DGR-058) before changing code. Inspect live source/tests rather than trusting legacy pass states. Objective: Prove V4\u2019s KV and auxiliary state remain correct and bounded at long contexts.",
       "acceptanceCriteria": [
         "Exercise pre-locked context lengths covering multiple prefill chunks and sustained decode.",
         "Validate KV plus CSA/HCA/SWA/indexer/compressor state positions across every stage.",
@@ -2167,4 +2167,4 @@
   "metadata": {
     "updatedAt": "2026-07-23T08:09:16.081Z"
   }
-}
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+}