2026-08-31 (later) - three checks staged for the next hardware run

Console available again, so the questions the last run left open go on the wire now. Added, all green under make host and the guards/caps/counts gates (171 checks, 36 sections):

Two surprises worth recording. First, an over-eager sed -i deleting unsigned int refused = 0; by exact-line match also removed the identically-worded declaration and increment in check_direct_memory_query_flags - a reminder that line-literal edits across a file hit every match, not the one in view; restored both. Second, counts --write is a no-op without --root .. (it defaults the root to the working dir), which read as "wrote, but drift persists" until the missing flag was obvious. See D266. Unlike the previous entry's note, the host make check is clean now - the parallel-session selfdump.c breakage is resolved.