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When a seed audit should stop

Module 5 of Recovery Phrase Field Audit exists because unfinished audits that continue anyway create the worst logs: partial truth written with confident handwriting.

Hard stops

Unexpected visitor. Camera discovered facing the table. Disagreement about which media ID is open. Offline device unexpectedly requesting a network. Any one of these ends the session — reseal first, discuss later.

Soft stops

Fatigue after a long workday, argumentative tone, or missing witness. Soft stops are scheduled retries, not failures. Record them as aborted with a reason code so patterns become visible.

Culture check

Teams that punish stops teach people to hide mistakes. Celebrate a clean abort the same way you celebrate a clean complete — both are disciplined outcomes inside a Seed Phrase Audit Workspace.

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