diff --git a/docs/hux/HANDOFF.md b/docs/hux/HANDOFF.md
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@@ -387,3 +387,15 @@ Foundation canary LIVE and verified on hermes-chat-tenant-3:
 - Retention scheduler reports disabled until hux.privacy is enabled (by design).
 
 Next: Wave-A canary flags (activity_timeline, projects, privacy, memory_control) on ordinal 3, lifecycle gates per card, then widen partition.
+
+
+## Wave-A live gates (2026-08-24 ~09:12 UTC) — PASS
+
+Canary rolled to ee330822 flags; restart persistence PROVEN (context-key and
+subject hashes identical across the roll). Live lifecycle 13/13 on the
+canary loopback: capabilities advertise exactly HUX-01/02/03/10/11; real
+project + conversation created; worker-emitted event readable by relay;
+memory proposed -> approved -> forgotten with the tombstone effective in the
+listing; privacy policy served; conversation forget tombstones the record;
+retention scheduler enabled and healthy. Next: Wave-B flags (artifacts,
+research, friendly_modes, multimodal, onboarding) on the canary.