@@ -51,7 +51,12 @@ export const SESSION_STATE_FIELD_OWNERS: Readonly<Record<string, readonly string
   pendingRecordAndHeal: ['src/daemon/session-replay-coordinator.ts'],
 
   trace: ['src/daemon/handlers/trace-runtime.ts'],
-  postGestureStabilization: ['src/daemon/deferred-interaction-outcome.ts'],
+  // #3471 and #1542 share one field: what the session still owes after its last mutation. The two
+  // variants are mutually exclusive by construction, and every transition — a gesture marking the
+  // capture-side loop, a press recording its resolving tree (#3471), a side effect retiring it, a
+  // capture discharging it — lives in this module, so neither mechanism can quietly overwrite the
+  // other's claim about the surface.
+  deferredSurface: ['src/daemon/deferred-interaction-outcome.ts'],
 
   // App identity follows open, deployment and observation through named patches.
   appName: [