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Three gaps surfaced when INI-029 step 2 was redirected by sq_01's upfront eligibility gate, with no pipeline path to recover. (A) Elrond's watcher only reacts to review-fail events; upfront-gate redirects go to Orion via notify_orion and never reach Elrond. (B) dp-s2 only acts on plan steps with status='failed'; after a redirect, status is 'blocked', and after a mechanical reset, 'pending'. dp-s2 should also handle pending steps when invoked by the upfront-gate path. (C) dp-s2 assumes a prior planner_prompt to revise; INI-029 step 2 has an empty prompt — dp-s2 needs an 'initial draft' mode that synthesizes a prompt from step title + description + initiative context + the gate's reasoning. With these three closed, an upfront-gate redirect on a step with no prompt becomes a self-recoverable case via Elrond, not an Orion-engineering case.