Agent: codex-root. Workstream: application. SESSION_EXECUTION_AUTHORIZATION: continue tasks, test, repair backlog and use Willman for delivery, as authorized by the user. Primary implementation writer: codex-root in the allocator-created ticket032 canonical checkout only. Current preflight observed no active peer checkout/reservation; independent protected fencing is required before source edits. Scope is the remaining PLF-010 empty-inventory shortcut defect, accepted base 276a8d20a52656f005220881425456c31e9a7230. Prior ticket027 publication has a preserved external rejection checkpoint and is not silently closed.