I read this as a live read-only diagnosis - I’ll inspect the deployed state, polling receipts, and callback handler path without changing anything.


I read this as a narrow authorized repair - I’ll trace the failed live path, add a regression test, preserve the v6 draft, and recover only through the receipt-safe gateway path.


I read this as a live repair request - validate the minimal text-choice fix, trace the receipt failure, then recover without mutating the v6 draft or its first six answers.


I read this as a minimal repair with controlled recovery - the numeric-text gap is reproducible against a temporary copy of the live draft; I am locking that contract down and verifying the callback path separately without touching live state.


I read this as a live repair with safe recovery - the code fix is verified; the terminal receipt requires an explicit destructive disposition before deployment.

- Fixed Q7 numeric text routing: `1`-`5`, including text `4`, now maps to the same `select` transition as the inline choice. `6` remains rejected without mutation.
- Exact button-4 callback: `pc1:6f31a1da4bea79f91675feffca5ffbeb:sleep_quality:6:a4`.
- A temporary copy of the live state confirmed both callback and text `4` advance to `digestion`, v7, while retaining all six existing answers.
- Live draft remains untouched: v6, `sleep_quality`, first six answers unchanged.

Root cause: Q7 has `awaiting_text=false`; before the fix, numeric text had no score transition and fell through as an unsupported text answer. The recorded failure is update `629525061`, a terminal `handler_exception`. Its exact exception is not recoverable from current logs: `_handle_ptb_error` intentionally records only the redacted reason. The preceding route log shows it was text ingress, not proof of a callback failure.

Verification:
- `141 passed` for physique-checkin and polling-receipt tests.
- Ruff, compile, and diff checks pass.
- Ty still reports pre-existing unresolved-import/attribute diagnostics outside this change.

Health is degraded despite systemd reporting `active`: the gateway has no post-failure activity and its Telegram sockets are `CLOSE-WAIT`. The durable receipt gate correctly blocks advancement after `629525061`; `629525051` is a separate historical terminal failure.

I did not discard the failed Telegram update or restart the service: that would be destructive. Receipt-safe recovery is to stop the poller, explicitly discard only update `629525061` at Telegram while retaining its terminal-failure audit record, then restart. The user must retry `4` afterward; the v6 draft will remain intact until that authenticated retry.


I read this as an approved destructive receipt recovery - I will seal the v6/receipt baseline, verify the deployed fix, stop the sole poller, advance only the blocked Telegram offset, then prove preservation and restored polling health.


I read this as continuing the approved receipt recovery - the first sealing command aborted before the poller stop or any Telegram call because of a local manifest type error; I am recreating the seal and executing the unchanged, guarded disposition.


I read this as continuing the approved disposition - the poller was stopped, but the guard misidentified its own shell command as a running poller before any Telegram offset call; the cleanup restarted the service, and I am rerunning with a PID-based guard.


I read this as completing the approved disposition - the temporary recovery restart correctly re-detected the preserved terminal update and re-blocked it, confirming no local state advanced; I will now stop that exact PID and apply the one-update offset acknowledgment.


I read this as preserving the approved recovery boundary - the final seal check detected that the gateway’s prior cleanup restart changed the binding before the second stop, so I am pausing destructive offset work to identify that mutation rather than overwrite or conceal it.


I read this as investigating the unexpected state transition before continuing recovery - I am tracing update `629525064` and the receipt gate to establish whether it consumed the Q7 retry, without making another Telegram request or modifying live state.


I read this as establishing the exact state transition and its cause - the evidence now shows update `629525061` committed Q7 before its terminal exception, while `629525064` subsequently synchronized the binding; I am reading the recorded traceback and transition semantics to verify that conclusion before reporting it.


I read this as completing the recovery with the live state as it now exists - I have confirmed the terminal receipt still blocks offset progress, while Q7 has already advanced exactly once to v7; I am checking the gate ordering and stale-transition behavior, then will discard only `629525061` under the existing authorization without altering the v7 session.


I read this as executing the authorized single-update disposition - I am sealing the current v7 state, stopping only the named gateway, acknowledging Telegram only through offset `629525062`, and then verifying the already-receipted `629525064` is skipped rather than re-delivered.


I read this as a recovery verification failure after the authorized disposition - Telegram acknowledged only `629525061` and retained `629525064`, but the restarted gateway did not emit its polling-ready signal within the bounded window, so I am diagnosing its current process and network state before any further restart.


I read this as finishing postflight after a false-negative log matcher - the gateway did reconnect at `11:52:27` and skipped `629525064` as a duplicate at `11:52:26`; I am sealing those verified results and checking that no session state changed after replay.


I read this as correcting a postflight assertion, not a recovery failure - the disposition and duplicate-skip already completed; I am isolating the single audit assertion that used an overly strict systemd output order, with live state left untouched.


I read this as finalizing the verified recovery evidence - the only failed assertion was checking process logs in journald rather than the profile log; I am recording the confirmed duplicate-skip, socket health, and unchanged v7 state from their actual sources.


I read this as completing the authorized recovery - it is complete and verified.

- Discarded only update `629525061` via Telegram offset `629525062`.
  - Before: `[629525061, 629525064]`
  - After: `[629525064]`; `064` was preserved.
- On restart, `629525064` logged `duplicate_replay` and was not delivered again. Its transient receipt was then naturally pruned after upstream acknowledgement.
- Terminal-failure audits remain for `629525051` and `629525061`.
- Gateway is healthy: PID `2823286`, `active/running`, two established Telegram sockets, polling connected at `11:52:27 KST`.

Q7 is already complete: session is v7 at `digestion`, with `sleep_quality="4"` and Q1-Q6 unchanged. Do not retry `4`; answer the digestion question next. The exact v6 button payload was `pc1:6f31a1da4bea79f91675feffca5ffbeb:sleep_quality:6:a4`.

The v7 transition predated the controlled disposition during the earlier automatic restart; it was not reverted. The exact original update payload remains unavailable.

Audit seal:
`/home/cube/.hermes/profiles/dualcoachtest/data/recovery-audits/task23-q7-offset-20260813T025221Z`

The Q7 text-routing repair remains validated by the prior focused suite: `141 passed`.