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Four finished jobs. One receipt.
That was verification queue on Fabric when I looked.
Great.
The robots were already done with them. Arms back at rest. Motion traces clean. Execution envelopes closed one after another like the shift was moving normally. Sensor bundles attached. PoRW submitted.
Fabric protocol was still behind... or No.
First robot finished and waited. Then second. Third right after that. Fourth while I was still telling myself the receipts would start clearing in order and make the whole thing look less stupid.
They didn't.
Nothing wrong on the floor. No bad pickup. No slip. No ugly contact trace. Work done. Inventory moved. But the receipt hadn't cleared. So Fabric said: not done.
Queue depth 4. Then 7. then... 11.
Reward line stayed empty. Settlement locked. The coordinator was still holding the follow-up because the prior result hadn't cleared yet. Next assignment never unlocked.
Thats where Fabric hurts. When proof throughput falls behind. The robot doesn’t fail. The completed job just sits there, finished and unusable, while the proof queue keeps swallowing more of the same shift.
I had the next dispatch half open behind the second robot. Bad move. The prior task still hadn't cleared into something the network could use. i was already looking past it.
Battery burn on all four.
Reward line dead on all four.
Robots done. Still inventory.
I checked the wrong thing first. Thought maybe one proof had slipped into arbitration and dragged the rest with it.
No.
Just a queue too deep to clear before the next work started arriving.
I cut the next batch smaller after that. Held two jobs back. Slower shift on purpose because finished work piling up behind Fabric's Proof of Robotic Work is worse than idle time you choose yourself.
Four jobs done.
One receipt.