{
  "scope": "Only ERR_HQ.c and new ERR_EngineerMinePosts.c; controller and tests separate peer patches.",
  "behavior": "Original physical squad can make a second finite engineer attempt at a genuinely newer delivered, globally separated post, subject to4 lifetime attempts per exact original record/source and32 mission attempts.",
  "ledger_lifetime": "HQ-owned and never reset by ERR_HQUnit registration, ReleaseAssignment or release. New HQ instance starts a new round. Strong original record/task/assignment identities and scalar snapshots survive mutable task/report values; weak group identity cannot create new quota via a reused source.",
  "ordering": [
    "Current mission/server and old-job Tick first.",
    "Existing unit task/order/combat/physical arrival checks.",
    "Canonical Force registry record and StatusSampler ownership/strength binding.",
    "All retained jobs BlocksNextPost(record): active or unsettled removal blocks same original force.",
    "Copy detached prior selected sites; Consume validates/snapshots exact chronology and quota before one site query.",
    "Refused query still consumes attempt. Selected site retained before Begin, including refusal.",
    "Begin receives only old sites; shared exact-item tombstone array remains unchanged."
  ],
  "limits": [
    "Conservative >160m separation applies to every consumed mission post, even selection/no-stock refusal. This is new bounded policy, not claimed original parity.",
    "Four is lifetime per original force; owned predecessor reset its four-per-deployment counter on a new order.",
    "No same-post retries, expiry extension, new supplies/forces, defences widened, or native route guarantee.",
    "Existing32 jobs and2 active jobs,128/4096/65536 selector work caps unchanged. Extra ledger checks scan at most32 entries.",
    "Existing controller.Stop and late callback behavior is handled by companion patch, not duplicated in HQ."
  ],
  "validation": {
    "apply_check": "passed against target working tree",
    "actual_method_tests": "delegated to /root/player_admission_review; pending at source freeze",
    "native": "not launched",
    "full_suite": "not run",
    "target_writes": false
  },
  "test_expectations": [
    "Initial consumed attempt then a genuinely newer post can Begin once; baseline lifetime latch suppresses it.",
    "Repeated task/assignment/message/revision or non-new queued/observed times refuse.",
    "Four/32 caps include no-site/no-item refusals; unregister/re-register cannot reset original record/source quota.",
    "Source reused by another record, samegroup under anotherrecord, or record changing source/group/strength refuses.",
    "Exact160m and below refuses, >160 passes; no target-live-position query.",
    "Unresolved old removal blocks new post; prior site copied before own selectedpoint and retained even Begin refuses.",
    "Nonfinite/negative/future time, expired task or nonfinite position refuses without consuming."
  ]
}