- Engage (and seed from a stale stop) below REFUSED_BELOW_W, the probe's own 100 W answer, not below saturation_w: a battery derated to 100-499 W was held at 0 W ~93 % of the time. - A reading of 100 W or more in the held direction ends the refusal, probe or not: at a 1 s meter SETTLE_CYCLES is 12 s, shorter than a healthy reading's lag, and that held a healthy step at 0 W until the next probe. - test_refusal part 5b and a seed test; DOCS states the N>1 limit; the DECISIONS record carries the traced cause of the replay's extra trips. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>