diff --git a/workplans/STATE-WP-0079-retirement-strangler.md b/workplans/STATE-WP-0079-retirement-strangler.md
index 8c18d3d..3242588 100644
--- a/workplans/STATE-WP-0079-retirement-strangler.md
+++ b/workplans/STATE-WP-0079-retirement-strangler.md
@@ -118,10 +118,8 @@ registration suite passes (`20 passed`).
 ```task
 id: STATE-WP-0079-T04
 status: wait
-needs_human: true
-decision_id: 913b924b-b616-4317-a324-8d5234373251
 blocked_on: message-from:hub-core
-blocking_reason: "Receiving records do not prove callers have switched. Non-D2 route-switch receipts are still absent, and production writer changes wait on decision 913b924b. Opening it is not the cutover."
+blocking_reason: "Founder authorized production writer changes on 2026-10-05 (913b924b). No route switches until hub-core, repo-manager, activity-core and ops-hub route-switch and rollback receipts exist."
 priority: high
 state_hub_task_id: "3a454438-1955-547f-a491-8eab7cd25710"
 ```
@@ -432,9 +430,11 @@ direct route are live owner residual `RAIL-FAB-WP-0028`. Evidence:
 the non-D2 repo-manager/hub-core/activity-core/ops-hub route receipts and the
 explicit writer-change authorization already stated above.
 
-2026-10-05: that authorization is decision
-`913b924b-b616-4317-a324-8d5234373251`. The task also waits on a hub-core
-receipt. No route was switched.
+2026-10-05: the founder resolved `913b924b-b616-4317-a324-8d5234373251`
+and authorized production writer changes. No route was switched. The task
+stays wait until hub-core, repo-manager, activity-core and ops-hub
+route-switch and rollback receipts exist. Hub-core message
+`02f62cd0-5318-444d-a649-b40354813d2b` records that gate.
 
 **Cutover re-baseline 2026-09-05.** Replaced the obsolete slice-readiness
 snapshot in `docs/retirement-cutover-slice-plan.md` with a family-by-family