Active from the start
Nothing gets erased merely because it arrived late.
This gate catches forgotten chats, orphaned HTMLs, version branches, active-chat changes ahead of their physical files, and bodies that are known but not yet safely seated in a public house.
Lost / scattered body → Correlating Overlap → Candidate → Verify → Mount → Current Best or declared Gap
Truth boundary: an intake entry proves that a body is being tracked. It does not prove the body has been fully recovered, read, verified or crowned.