diff --git a/docs/testing/wine-proton-phases.md b/docs/testing/wine-proton-phases.md
index 4eb3be7..d124813 100644
--- a/docs/testing/wine-proton-phases.md
+++ b/docs/testing/wine-proton-phases.md
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ At the start of every phase session:
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | 0 | Native exclusion foundation | none | `wine/native-hook-exclusions` | Fast-forward merged into wine-access `hunter`; not pushed |
 | 1 | Ready record, spawn evidence, mixed-prefix spawn semantics | `wine/ready-and-spawn-evidence` | `wine/ready-and-spawn-evidence` | Accepted and merged into `hunter` in both repositories; not pushed |
-| 2 | Live Wine settings | `wine/live-settings` | none | Not started |
+| 2 | Live Wine settings | `wine/live-settings` | none | Accepted and merged into `hunter`; not pushed |
 | 3 | Wine preferences tab | `wine/preferences-tab` | none | Not started |
 | 4 | Live verification and final results | `wine/verification` | Defect branch only for a proven helper cause | Not started |
 
@@ -279,6 +279,57 @@ profiles cannot change the governing Wine list.
 Stop boundary: report the diff and evidence. Do not begin the
 preferences tab in the same session.
 
+### Accepted handoff (2026-11-01)
+
+- Session: `wine-2-jefferson` (`fallow-puppis`,
+  01a19a90-0c47-71a3-931e-404257a1fefe); coordinated from the master
+  session (`still-enceladus`).
+- Starting commit: Cthulhu `a60a251` on `wine/live-settings`.
+  Wine-access untouched (Cthulhu-only phase).
+- Committed after maintainer acceptance: Cthulhu `9a10a15`
+  ("Read Wine settings live at poll and spawn"), 13 files,
+  +327/-51, then merged into `hunter` at the maintainer's
+  direction. This ledger update rides a separate docs commit on
+  the phase branch. Not pushed.
+- Behavior: the manager reads a live global-only Wine snapshot once
+  per poll and uses it for that poll's restart/spawn decisions;
+  global applies republish it (`setGlobalSettings`), per-application
+  profile switching never does. Decision 17 restart-on-addition and
+  the absolute no-downgrade rule are preserved and now live-driven.
+- Automated evidence (phase session; `internal/wine`,
+  `internal/config`, the focused app live-settings tests, `go vet`,
+  and gofmt independently re-run green by the master session at
+  landing): race-enabled wine suite including live-source
+  transitions; TOML → config store → global apply test proving an
+  addition governs the same manager with no reader restart and that
+  application-profile switching cannot change the governing list;
+  build and brlapi-tagged wine/config suites. One `internal/app`
+  failure (`TestEchoSpeakerSwitchesBothVoicesTransactionally`,
+  sandbox unix-socket restriction) reproduced on clean `a60a251`;
+  recorded as pre-existing environmental, as in Phase 1.
+- Live evidence, by kind: installed-binary — maintainer-rebuilt
+  Cthulhu from the phase tree. Audible speech — maintainer smoke,
+  2026-11-01: baseline Wine Notepad read normally beside Diablo IV;
+  after adding Notepad itself to the exclusions and reloading the
+  reader, Notepad no longer spoke (expected native gating); after
+  removing it and reopening, reading returned. An attempt to edit
+  the settings file externally while the reader stayed alive did
+  not take effect; this was investigated and recorded as a
+  methodological note, not a defect: neither Go nor legacy Python
+  Cthulhu has ever auto-reloaded the main settings file on external
+  edit (legacy reloads on explicit triggers such as preferences
+  Apply/`loadUserSettings`), and decision 3's live trigger is
+  preferences Apply, whose Wine values arrive with the Phase 3 tab.
+  Physical input beyond launching, and Braille-display evidence:
+  none this phase.
+- Not exercised: a user-accessible no-restart Wine addition (no
+  Wine control exists until Phase 3; the backend chain is covered
+  by the applyNext-level test), full `go test ./...`, the Phase 4
+  live corpus and Braille regression.
+- Ready for maintainer review: yes. Accepted by the maintainer on
+  2026-11-01 ("a good state for phase two") after the external-edit
+  question was settled as above.
+
 ## Phase 3: Wine preferences tab
 
 Status: not started. Contract decisions: 6, 9, 13, 19.