diff --git a/LOTUS_TESTING.md b/LOTUS_TESTING.md
index c0c3bb7f6..2015fbeb1 100644
--- a/LOTUS_TESTING.md
+++ b/LOTUS_TESTING.md
@@ -847,3 +847,7 @@ Implemented and gate-green; confirm each per `LOTUS_TESTING.md`, then delete the
 **Verified working in live testing (2026-06):** A2, B1–B4, C1, C3, D (mic/camera/deafen/screenshare/fullscreen/more-menu/PiP). Denoise quality in D is still poor — tracked under the denoise project, not a regression.
 
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+
+### Green CI but the fix isn't live?
+
+`curl -s https://chat.lotusguild.org/index.html | grep -o 'assets/index-[^"]*\.js'` gives the deployed entry chunk; grep it for a string unique to your change (`curl -s https://chat.lotusguild.org/<that path> | grep -c <string>`). If it's 0 after ~15 min, the deploy trigger was lost — push again (any commit) to re-fire the `lotus-deploy` webhook. The deploy log lives at `/var/log/lotus-deploy.log` on LXC 106.
diff --git a/LOTUS_TODO.md b/LOTUS_TODO.md
index 7b24f6d54..883a5e68d 100644
--- a/LOTUS_TODO.md
+++ b/LOTUS_TODO.md
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ Also flag-gated: `lotusTransparent`/`lotusTheme`, `lotusDenoiseSource=1` (in-sou
 edit → commit → git push origin lotus
 → Gitea Actions (.gitea/workflows/ci.yml): npm ci → build + npm test + tsc + eslint + prettier (ALL hard gates) → audit + bundle-size (informational)
 → lotus_deploy.sh on LXC 106 polls the "Build & Quality Checks" status → npm ci && npm run build → rsync → live (~11 min)
+   (a push that lands while a deploy is mid-build is queued and deployed right after — matrix@b6ea4a3; before that it was dropped)
 ```
 
 Before marking a feature complete: `npx tsc --noEmit` (0 errors) · `npx eslint src/` (0 new) · `npx prettier --check src/` · `npm test` (Node runner via tsx, hard CI gate — colocated `*.test.ts`) · update `README.md`/`landing/index.html` for Lotus-custom features · visually verify on `chat.lotusguild.org`.