diff --git a/docs/testing/wine-proton-phases.md b/docs/testing/wine-proton-phases.md
index fb41963..2cef9c4 100644
--- a/docs/testing/wine-proton-phases.md
+++ b/docs/testing/wine-proton-phases.md
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ At the start of every phase session:
 | 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 | Accepted and merged into `hunter`; not pushed |
 | 3 | Wine preferences tab | `wine/preferences-tab` | none | Accepted and merged into `hunter`; not pushed |
-| 4 | Live verification and final results | `wine/verification` | Defect branch only for a proven helper cause | Not started |
+| 4 | Live verification and final results | `wine/verification` | Defect branch only for a proven helper cause | In progress; paused 2026-11-02 for further input; interim results fast-forwarded to `hunter`; not complete, not pushed |
 
 ## Phase 0: native hook-exclusions foundation
 
@@ -430,8 +430,11 @@ regression in the same session.
 
 ## Phase 4: live verification and final results
 
-Status: not started. Contract decisions: 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15,
-24.
+Status: in progress; paused by the maintainer on 2026-11-02 for
+input from other folks before proceeding further. This is an
+interim freeze only: Phase 4 is not accepted or complete, and the
+contract is not Final. Contract decisions: 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14,
+15, 24.
 
 Branch: `wine/verification` in Cthulhu, refreshed from `hunter`
 after Phase 3 has landed there. Open a narrow wine-access defect
@@ -469,6 +472,37 @@ running helper—updating foreground gating and silencing or
 detaching pre-attached edit subclasses—rather than relying only
 on helper restart plus fresh-process semantics.
 
+Interim results recorded through the 2026-11-02 pause (detail and
+evidence in the contract's Phase 4 results section, currently
+through `d6a54fc` plus this freeze record):
+
+- Automated baseline: full Cthulhu suite passes unsandboxed;
+  vet, parity, and brlapi-tagged suites pass. Wine-access CTest
+  is display-environment sensitive (review-capture versus
+  foreground-focus invert between the live desktop and bare
+  Xvfb); one quiet-live-desktop 7/7 run is still owed.
+- Passed so far live: Diablo IV, Mistworld, Wine Notepad
+  mixed-prefix, keyboard-only preferences round trip, preliminary
+  Braille movement/edit navigation, and basic Notepad++
+  navigation/editing/Braille tracking.
+- Open and blocking until resolved or the maintainer amends the
+  done criteria: the localized Wine window-title failure (no fix
+  session or defect branch started yet); Battle.net login not
+  reading, with investigation deferred by the maintainer; and
+  completion of the physical-Braille pass, including menus.
+  Cut, undo, menu return, copious Unicode, read-only mode, and a
+  very long line in Notepad++ were not separately reported and
+  are not claimed.
+- The maintainer's debug log used to localize the title failure
+  remains a local, uncommitted diagnostic file in the Cthulhu
+  checkout; preserve it.
+
+Interim Phase 4 documentation/results commits are fast-forwarded
+into `hunter` at this pause so other folks review the same state.
+That fast-forward is not Phase 4 acceptance. Nothing is pushed;
+pushing and marking the contract Final remain separate maintainer
+acts.
+
 Fixed live corpus:
 
 - Diablo IV: excluded, anti-tamper path; controller speech by ear