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+# Workflow-to-CHASM ownership handoff evidence
+
+## Violated invariant
+
+After destination creation may have committed, V1 must not execute work represented in that
+snapshot unless it first proves that its exact destination stage was aborted. An existing CHASM
+scheduler is a successful retry only when it records the same migration ID and snapshot revision.
+
+## Deterministic response-loss sequence
+
+`TestMigrationCounterexample_LostCreateResponse` uses one pending manual `ALLOW_ALL` action and a
+fixed logical start of `2022-06-01T00:00:00Z`:
+
+1. V1 submits a migration snapshot containing the manual action.
+2. The test records the CHASM snapshot as committed and returns `Unavailable`.
+3. V1 treats the error as permission to run `processBuffer` and starts the transferred action with
+   a newly generated request ID.
+4. With migration still enabled, a retry receives `AlreadyExists`, which the activity converts to
+   success without checking ownership. With migration disabled, V1 continues independently while
+   the committed CHASM scheduler remains present.
+
+The test runs the sequence at workflow versions 12 and 13 with both flag outcomes. Its native
+control returns an error before commit and correctly leaves work only at V1. The destination copy
+uses the converter's deterministic request identity, while V1 generates a different request ID,
+so request deduplication cannot collapse the two manual executions.
+
+## Deterministic collision sequence
+
+`TestMigrationCounterexample_ForwardDestinationCollision` supplies an unrelated existing CHASM
+scheduler for the same namespace and schedule ID. `CreateFromMigrationState` reports
+`AlreadyExists`; `MigrateScheduleToChasm` discards the distinction and returns success; V1 then
+completes although the destination never accepted its buffered action or schedule state.
+
+The current CHASM create request carries only namespace ID and the transferred state. It has no
+source incarnation, migration ID, revision, phase, or receipt that could establish ownership.
+
+## Causal production path
+
+- `scheduler.executeMigration` snapshots state before awaiting a local activity with a five-second
+  start-to-close timeout and one workflow-level attempt.
+- `handler.CreateFromMigrationState` calls `chasm.StartExecution` by namespace and schedule ID.
+  The engine documents that returned errors may have ambiguous commit outcomes.
+- A migrated scheduler is active immediately and schedules generator or callback work.
+- The activity accepts every non-sentinel `AlreadyExists` result.
+- After an activity error, the workflow immediately processes backfills and buffered starts.
+- After an accepted collision, the workflow immediately returns and retires V1.
+
+## Safety disposition
+
+The source must freeze after its first stage request and reconcile every outcome by immutable
+migration identity. That change cannot safely activate by itself: a frozen source still accepts
+workflow signals while staging, and finalization has no accepted-prefix fence. The required
+cross-service protocol is specified in `scheduler-migration-handoff-protocol.md`; until it is
+available, forward migration must remain disabled rather than shipping a partial ownership patch.
+
+This path adds no proposed ordinary scheduler hot-path work. A complete protocol adds only
+migration-state writes and identity reads while the migration is pending.