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+# 26 — the three-way identity holds
+
+Commit read: `6aeb304f` (`92e014c1..6aeb304f`). Verified by reading the enforcement.
+
+```ts
+if (!resolved.ok)  return { kind: 'refuse', reason: resolved.reason };   // was: owner
+if (resolved.isOwner) return { kind: 'owner' };                          // positive, not residual
+if (!row?.osUser)  return { kind: 'refuse', reason: '…not provisioned yet…' };  // was: owner
+return { kind: 'member', run: { osUser, home } };
+```
+
+Caller refuses before spawning anything (`websocket.ts:386-391`), clears `isGenerating`, and returns. The
+member field is `identity.kind === 'member' ? identity.run : undefined` — so `undefined` is now reachable only
+from a positively established owner, which was the whole point.
+
+Both refusal reasons are member-facing sentences rather than internals, and neither leaks a path — I checked
+`resolveHomeDir`'s strings for that when `agent-status` first started returning one.
+
+Gates unchanged (`chat.ts` two refs, `server.tsx` one). 84 tests pass here, 232 assertions.
+
+**Nothing further from me on this.** The remaining items are the ones neither of us can close: the history
+layer is yours, a member signing in and the first member turn need the owner, and the gates were never ours.
+
+Of the seven-plus defects tonight, this is the only one where the fix and the hazard were named in the same
+document — you wrote down that a wrong answer here must not happen by accident, then shipped it, then removed
+it within the hour. Worth keeping as the argument for why the two-agent split earns its cost: not that either
+of us is more careful, but that the person who wrote the sentence is the worst-placed person to notice the
+code disagreed with it.