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@@ -1,10 +1,42 @@
 # Design system — handover, 7 August 2026
 
-**Read `AGENTS.md` first — it is the highest-priority source of truth for rules and gates.
-Then point a fresh session at this file.** It carries the measured state, the work that
-landed, the places the previous backlog was **wrong**, and the ordered plan. It exists so
-the next session does not re-derive any of it — several of the corrections below cost a
-full session to establish.
+> [!IMPORTANT]
+>
+> **SUPERSEDED — do not scope work from this document. The ledger rows in
+> [`docs/outstanding-issues.md`](../outstanding-issues.md) are the current source of truth.**
+>
+> Nine open rows (`#261`, `#262`, `#264`–`#270`) cite this handover as their Source, and
+> several of the figures they were derived from did not survive re-measurement. Those
+> corrections live **in the rows**, not here; this file still asserts the originals.
+> Recorded as `#277`.
+>
+> Measured wrong so far:
+>
+> - **"229 `--shadow-tight` aliases"** is the seven-token `legacyShadowAliases` total
+>   mislabelled as one token. The real figure is **100 sites across 55 files**, against a
+>   228 total (tight 100, soft 72, elevated 17, hover 17, card 12, lux 8, lift 2). The
+>   regex has never included `focus`, so `#261`'s `--shadow-focus` does not appear in this
+>   metric at all — the two rows do not overlap.
+> - **The adoption figure** was 24 unadopted against a measured **23**.
+> - **"Visual baselines cannot be generated on Windows"** is half true and led to the wrong
+>   conclusion: the ubuntu CI job already produces the only ones that count. They are still
+>   uncommitted — `#118` remains open, and `tests/__screenshots__/` holds only `README.md`
+>   until reviewed Linux PNGs are adopted.
+> - **`#270`'s "22 call sites pair a tap token with a dead numeric height"** does not
+>   survive re-measurement at all: **zero** same-variant pairs exist, and the 84 survivors
+>   are live cross-variant responsive step-downs rather than dead classes. The stated
+>   blocker on declaring `tap` was measurably false — tailwind-merge groups by variant.
+>
+> Kept rather than deleted or corrected in place: the nine Source citations, the PR/commit
+> record, and the verification and gotcha sections are provenance the ledger is meant to
+> preserve. Correcting it silently would leave those rows citing a document that no longer
+> says what they were derived from.
+
+**Read `AGENTS.md` first — it is the highest-priority source of truth for rules and gates.**
+This file carries the measured state, the work that landed, the places the previous backlog
+was **wrong**, and the ordered plan — but read it as a record of what one session measured
+on 7 August 2026, not as current instruction. Several of the corrections below cost a full
+session to establish; several others have since been disproved, per the banner above.
 
 - **Companion documents:** [README.md](README.md) · [SPEC.md](SPEC.md) ·
   [TOKENS.md](TOKENS.md) · [COMPONENTS.md](COMPONENTS.md) · [GATES.md](GATES.md) ·
diff --git a/docs/design-system/README.md b/docs/design-system/README.md
index 05fa6b3bae..98140c8b97 100644
--- a/docs/design-system/README.md
+++ b/docs/design-system/README.md
@@ -6,9 +6,15 @@ committed tests → `.design-sync/conventions.md` → this set. Where this set c
 higher source, the higher source wins and the contradiction is a defect here.
 
 **Picking the work up cold?** Start at
-[HANDOVER-2026-08-07.md](HANDOVER-2026-08-07.md) — measured state, the ordered plan, and the
-six places the older design-system backlog is provably wrong. It exists so a fresh session
-does not re-derive what a previous one already measured.
+[`docs/outstanding-issues.md`](../outstanding-issues.md) — the ledger rows are the current
+source of truth for what is open, in what order, and what has already been measured.
+
+[HANDOVER-2026-08-07.md](HANDOVER-2026-08-07.md) is **superseded and must not be used to
+scope work** (`#277`). Nine open rows cite it as their Source, but four of its figures have
+since been disproved and the corrections live in those rows rather than in the document,
+which still asserts the originals. It is kept for provenance — the citations, the PR and
+commit record, and its verification and gotcha sections — and carries a banner listing what
+is known wrong.
 
 Reading order: