Postmortem method

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Failed routes are valuable only when the report remains falsifiable, reversible, and free of sensitive data. Record:

1. the original observation;
2. the mutually exclusive hypotheses;
3. the evidence that rejected the earlier conclusion;
4. the trust boundaries changed by the attempted fix;
5. the evidence that rollback was complete;
6. the earlier point in the timeline where evidence should be captured next time.

For example, a Magisk boot problem requires a timeline of early counters, properties, key state, and module decisions. Reading 0 after Android finishes booting does not prove the value was 0 when the earlier decision was made. Binary patching is not a diagnostic method; first build repeatable observation and recovery paths.