diff --git a/TOOLING.md b/TOOLING.md
index 5765c46..490343d 100644
--- a/TOOLING.md
+++ b/TOOLING.md
@@ -232,15 +232,15 @@ for u in 0ct0ber19 kimxxlip withaseul cher_ryppo zindoriyam official_artms; do
 done
 ```
 
-Counts after the 2026-08-20 run, to diff against:
+Counts after the 2026-08-22 runs, to diff against:
 
 | profile | files |
 |---|---:|
-| 0ct0ber19 | 3151 |
-| official_artms | 6714 |
-| cher_ryppo | 3031 |
-| kimxxlip | 3019 |
-| zindoriyam | 2253 |
+| 0ct0ber19 | 3160 |
+| official_artms | 6760 |
+| cher_ryppo | 3056 |
+| kimxxlip | 3021 |
+| zindoriyam | 2256 |
 | withaseul | 1760 |
 
 A stories-only run adds few files and often **none** — profiles frequently have
@@ -357,31 +357,36 @@ broken; these are decisions not yet made and cleanups not yet done.
 
 ### Fetching
 
-- **The first unattended run has not happened yet** — 2026-08-21 ~09:36. Until
-  it has, the timers are unproven in the one condition that matters: firing
-  with nobody watching. Check it with "Verifying a run" above; the 20h floor
-  means a manual run beforehand would make the automatic one a no-op.
+- **The timers are DISABLED** after the 2026-08-21 scraping warning; see that
+  section. Their one unattended firing did the wrong thing — it skipped every
+  source on the 20h floor and reported success — so re-enabling should wait on
+  the four fixes listed there, not just on the account settling.
 - `mattellite`'s `~/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub` is in the NAS's `authorized_keys` for
   `agentapi` (added 2026-08-20, alongside the workstation's existing key), so
   the fetch host publishes straight to the archive and no `sshpass` step is
   needed. **That key is what makes the timers work** — remove it and every
   scheduled run will fetch successfully and then fail at publish.
 
-- **5.3 GB of stale staging on `mattellite`** — `~/gdl/staging` and `~/gdl/out`
-  (2.2 GB each, from the 2026-08-17 run) and `~/gdl/staging-0820` /
-  `~/gdl/out-0820` (446 MB each, from 2026-08-20). Every file in all four was
-  verified present in the live archive, so they are safe to delete. 46 GB free,
-  so there is no urgency — but nothing will clean them up on its own.
-- **No daily stories run is scheduled.** Stories expire in 24h and cannot be
-  backfilled, so this is the *only* surface where waiting loses content
-  permanently. `--only stories` never seeds and costs roughly six requests for
-  all six profiles. When scheduling it, randomise the minute and avoid the hour
-  boundary: a job firing at exactly 09:00 daily is obviously a machine.
-- **`--abort 50` is opt-in and nothing uses it yet.** It is the right setting
-  for routine runs — it cut a 2151-post profile to 7 enumerated posts — but it
-  stops noticing **edited carousels** (test case 15), which only a full
-  enumeration finds. A full-sweep cadence has not been decided; quarterly was
-  suggested and never agreed.
+- **5.4 GB of stale staging on `mattellite`** (`~/gdl`, 44 GB free): `staging`
+  and `out` at 2.2 GB each from 2026-08-17, `staging-0820` / `out-0820` at
+  446 MB each, plus `staging-full` (78 MB) and `staging-stories` (66 MB) from
+  2026-08-22. All of it was verified published, so all of it is safe to delete.
+  Staging is wiped per-run by `gdl-cron.sh`, but the `out-*` publish targets and
+  anything created by a direct `gdl-sync.py` call are never cleaned up.
+- **Stories currently depend on someone remembering.** The daily timer exists
+  but is disabled, so the one surface that cannot be backfilled has no
+  automation behind it. Every day nobody runs `gdl-cron.sh stories` is a day
+  of stories gone. That is the central unresolved tension: the cadence that
+  protects stories is also the most machine-like pattern here.
+- **The scheduled modes have not been reconciled with the pacing used by
+  hand.** The 2026-08-22 runs used `--sleep-request 12 20 --rate 500K`;
+  `gdl-cron.sh` still passes the defaults (6-10s, 1M). Re-enabling the timers
+  as they stand would make the automation *less* careful than the manual runs
+  that followed a warning.
+- **`--abort 50` is opt-in.** `gdl-cron.sh full` passes it and the manual runs
+  used it; `sweep` deliberately does not. It stops noticing **edited
+  carousels** (test case 15), which only a full enumeration finds — which is
+  what `sweep` is for. The quarterly cadence was proposed and never agreed.
 - **The `seeded` flags in `<db>.state.json` were hand-written**, reconstructed
   from the 2026-08-17 log rather than derived from the archive DB. They assert
   "the skip-archive already knows this source". If `artms.db` is ever rebuilt,