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 **The MTA-STS routes of Gitea #123 add `2`**, the third of the three parallel rounds and the one that shows what this figure means from now on: `stalwart` goes from **2** assertions to **4** — one `parentRefs` and one `backendRefs` assertion for its new MTA-STS route — and **the chart count does not move at all.** Every earlier entry in this history grew because a chart *joined* the list; this is the first that grew because a chart already in it gained an **object**. That is the ordinary shape of the next one too, now the sweep is done.
 
-Measured under the same delta rule, and worth stating precisely because three branches were in flight at once: **`60` assertions over `22` charts**, read on a branch that **did** contain `rss-bridge` (it had merged by then) and did **not** contain the realm hostnames of #122. So `58 + 2`. Against the `62/22` above — which is `rss-bridge` plus #122 and not this round — the three deltas are `+2`, `+4` and `+2`, and the total once all three have landed is to be **read off the first run on `main` that holds all of them**, not added up here.
+**And this is where the delta rule gets cashed in: `64` assertions over `22` charts, `0` failed.** The three rounds ran in parallel on branches that contained none of each other, so each published a delta — `+2` for `rss-bridge`, `+4` for the realm hostnames, `+2` here — and each deferred the running total to *"the first run on `main` that holds all of them"*. This round was the last of the three to merge, so its own run **is** that run: rebased onto a `main` already carrying the other two, `ci/run-httproute-match-test.sh` reads `64` over `22`, with `stalwart` contributing `4`.
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+Worth keeping the intermediate figures legible rather than tidying them away, because each was correct for what it was measured on and none of them is the total: `58/22` on the `rss-bridge` branch, `60/21` on the realm-hostname branch, `60/22` on this one before #122 landed. `62 + 2 = 64` happens to agree, and that agreement is a **check, not the source** — the number above was read, and the arithmetic is only reassuring because nothing else moved in between. Where a round changes an existing chart's routes rather than adding a chart, the deltas would not add up like that at all.
 
 And it only counts because the overlay was extended to enter the new shape (`ci/httproute/stalwart.yaml` carries an entry with a `clusterIssuer`, one without, and one host on a subdomain). An overlay left alone would have added a route this test never rendered — the anti-vacuum rule biting on a **second** object inside a chart that already passes, which is a gap no per-chart "has an overlay" check can see.