Reconcile a written-down stagebox against the one on the wire. The hardware wins every
disagreement and each one is reported.
A field the observation does not carry is not a disagreement: reac-pw publishes none / 0x0
while it is still probing, and the caller passes those as absent. Reporting a contradiction
against a box that has not spoken yet would fire on every boot and teach the operator to
ignore the one that matters — the failure mode the "warnings must stay worth reading" rule
names.
Reconcile a written-down stagebox against the one on the wire. The hardware wins every disagreement and each one is reported.
A field the observation does not carry is not a disagreement: reac-pw publishes
none/0x0while it is still probing, and the caller passes those as absent. Reporting a contradiction against a box that has not spoken yet would fire on every boot and teach the operator to ignore the one that matters — the failure mode the "warnings must stay worth reading" rule names.