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+### 2026-08-10 (third round) — #554 + #555 closed: authoring consults the parse; the cited guard now exists
+
+The two residuals of the #552/#553 round, again two isolated-worktree Opus agents, merged `7cfe7b4a`
+(#554) + `4f1c83a7` (#555). Consolidated verification on the merged tree: full build clean; 14
+suites / 5,251 tests green (AdminUI 1430, ControlPlane 261, Modbus 373, S7 285, AbCip 390, AbLegacy
+230, TwinCAT 205, FOCAS 341, Mqtt 673, Sql 363, MTConnect 534, OpcUaClient 143, Calculation 23).
+
+- **#554 CLOSED** — every mapped `*TagConfigModel.Validate()` consults the driver's own runtime
+  parse on the AS-LOADED blob via the new `TagConfigParseGate` (AdminUI-side, no factory touched):
+  **verdict from the parse, wording from `Inspect` only after refusal**. The two design points are
+  pinned: gating on "Inspect said something" would be stricter than runtime (FOCAS/MQTT/Calculation
+  advisories ride ACCEPTED blobs), and judging typed fields instead of the source blob would accept
+  exactly what the lenient load hides. Survey closed real gaps in 5 of 11 drivers: Modbus (absent
+  `region`, address shapes, `stringLength<1`, `bitIndex>15`, and `{}` itself), S7 (`stringLength`
+  0–254), TwinCAT (`dataType:"Structure"` — valid enum NAME the reader refuses; no spelling gate
+  can see it), Sql (the recognition rule), Mqtt (`"qos":null`). Deliberately-stricter editor rules
+  KEPT and pinned by name, incl. AbLegacy's `arrayLength>256` (the runtime *clamps* but the
+  materialiser advertises the RAW number in `ArrayDimensions` — the authored value is silently not
+  honoured, so author-time refusal is the honest treatment). ⚠️ Behaviour change: **an untouched
+  `{}` Modbus config is now refused at save** — it was the only editor with no required field, and
+  a `{}` tag reads BadNodeIdUnknown forever under a green deployment. Anti-vacuity guards: the
+  parity corpus must exercise BOTH verdicts per driver; an exemption that stops being
+  deliberately-stricter FAILS instead of silently excusing.
+- **#555 CLOSED** — `RawBrowseCommitMapperParityTests` now exists, holding the mapper to what its
+  comment merely claimed. The browsable set is DERIVED: the test runs the production `AddAdminUI()`
+  registration and reads back every `IDriverBrowser.DriverType` (the set `BrowserSessionService`
+  indexes). The universal `DiscoveryDriverBrowser` arm is NOT derivable from the AdminUI assembly
+  (needs runtime drivers + Host's `IDriverFactory`; the #526 cut is deliberate) — covered by
+  enumerating `DriverTypeNames.All` with a reasoned `GenericKeyExemptions` list (Modbus,
+  Calculation) plus a fact that mechanically refutes any exemption the derived arm contradicts.
+  Falsified three ways (disabled Sql branch → red naming Sql; disabled MTConnect branch → red via
+  the enumeration half that DI derivation cannot reach; bogus exemption → the contradiction fact
+  red quoting it). The mapper comment now states the two real claims and the residual trust.
+- **Residuals filed, not folded in:** **#556** (Inspect polish — the `reference[0] != '{'`
+  pre-filter has no `TrimStart()` so `" {…}"` draws zero warnings in 7 factories; FOCAS/MQTT
+  advisories can swallow the rejection backstop via `warnings.Count == 0`), **#557** (reader
+  asymmetries — OpcUaClient's legacy PascalCase `NodeId` is readable but unsaveable untouched; Mqtt
+  Sparkplug parse accepts a `payloadFormat` the Plain parse rejects and the union admits it),
+  **#558** (test hygiene — the pre-existing `DriverDispatchMapParityTests` browse-commit fact
+  overlaps the new guard and its `NonBrowsableDriverTypes` list is hand-authored AND misnamed;
+  two browser classes return `DriverType` string literals instead of `DriverTypeNames` constants,
+  unguarded).
+
 ### 2026-08-10 (later) — #552 + #553 closed: the browse states, the merge preserves
 
 The two residuals the #550/#551 round exposed, again two isolated-worktree Opus agents, merged