diff --git a/tests/runner-e2e/CATALOG-PRESERVATION.md b/tests/runner-e2e/CATALOG-PRESERVATION.md
index f8b1f484210..9e90c5cd061 100644
--- a/tests/runner-e2e/CATALOG-PRESERVATION.md
+++ b/tests/runner-e2e/CATALOG-PRESERVATION.md
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ and no live launch or publication authority comes from this source preservation.
 ## Integration candidate, 2026-10-31
 
 This owned integration branch combines preserved source `e2b35be76f` with
-master `8bcc5a01ed`. The original preservation branch and its historical results
+master `12b0cc6304`. The original preservation branch and its historical results
 remain unchanged. No historical pass transfers to this composed source.
 The frozen 244-case OpenCode catalog keeps its historical IDs and DeepSeek 1017
 model. The two shipped subscription aliases and the separate TestOps backlog cell
@@ -88,3 +88,7 @@ behavior; catalog-native setup still verifies its separately declared policy.
 Synthetic public-schema tests hash their copied synthetic inputs, while the
 production frozen source manifest and all private-value rejection checks remain
 unchanged. No SDK runtime qualification follows from those synthetic tests.
+
+The refreshed base includes current master's committed Agent Chat reply recovery
+and durable retry deadlines. They are upstream product changes, not qualifications
+of the preserved scenarios. Fresh pilots remain bound to their exact source.