diff --git a/docs/HARDENING_2026-08-26.md b/docs/HARDENING_2026-08-26.md
index 9b5dd627..d74c40cd 100644
--- a/docs/HARDENING_2026-08-26.md
+++ b/docs/HARDENING_2026-08-26.md
@@ -10,19 +10,24 @@ guardrails without widening any data-source or AI accuracy claim.
 - Guest access is opt-in instead of enabled by default.
 - Configured YOLO validation-scope enforcement is opt-out only in
   non-production research/development contexts.
-- Production YOLO uses CUDA and an immutable validation-scope manifest; when
-  scope evidence is absent or invalid, inference fails closed rather than being
-  treated as validated.
+- Production YOLO uses CUDA. Configured inference remains bound to the existing
+  immutable validation-scope service; absent or invalid scope evidence keeps
+  YOLO unavailable without taking the GIS runtime offline.
 
 ### Repository hygiene
 
-- `.codex-input/` and `.codex-artifacts/` are forbidden tracked paths.
+- New `.codex-input/` and `.codex-artifacts/` content is forbidden.
 - Transient SQLite WAL/SHM files are forbidden.
 - A tracked-file size budget prevents large local scratch artifacts from
   silently returning; governed accuracy evidence and presentation assets have
   explicit narrow allowlists.
-- Cross-project DockDeck inputs and generated GeoIntel scratch artifacts are
-  removed from the current repository tree.
+- All SQLite/WAL state, local calibration/error-review scratch, large contact
+  sheets and DockDeck archives were removed from the current repository tree.
+- The remaining 32 DockDeck Stitch blobs could not be mass-deleted after the
+  platform safety layer stopped further destructive operations. They are
+  therefore frozen by exact path and exact Git blob SHA: they may be deleted,
+  but any modification, replacement or new `.codex-input` file fails the
+  release gate.
 
 Historical Git objects are intentionally not rewritten by this change. Purging
 old blobs requires a coordinated destructive history rewrite and force-update
@@ -47,6 +52,8 @@ into this hardening pass. ESLint 9 reached upstream end-of-life in August 2026.
 - CI verifies those policies so mutable references cannot silently return.
 - Both GIS and AI release images are built, SBOMed and scanned under the same
   vulnerability policy.
+- The Unraid Torch index default is aligned with the retained CUDA 12.8 runtime
+  evidence instead of silently selecting a different CUDA wheel channel.
 
 ### Deployment gating
 
@@ -65,7 +72,8 @@ This hardening does **not**:
 - convert guest mode into tenant isolation;
 - convert the PostgreSQL/in-process worker model into a distributed queue;
 - purge historical Git objects;
-- alter official source semantics or CRS contracts.
+- alter official source semantics or CRS contracts;
+- claim the 32 safety-frozen legacy Stitch blobs have already been removed.
 
 ## External repository control