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 ### 22.5 Open
 
-1. **The resting floor.** A VM that goes quiet loses capacity; if it wakes it may not
-   regain it fast enough. The obvious guard is a floor below which a quota cannot fall —
-   but that is a tuned number, which this design otherwise avoids. Decide it deliberately.
-   A principled alternative: floor a VM's quota at the mass of its pinned patrons, which is
-   not a tuned constant but a derived one.
+1. ~~**The resting floor.**~~ **RESOLVED by item 1.2 (§25.2), 2026-08-04.** A VM that goes
+   quiet loses capacity; if it wakes it may not regain it fast enough. The obvious guard is a
+   floor below which a quota cannot fall — but that is a tuned number, which this design
+   otherwise avoids.
+
+   **Floor = max(mass of pinned patrons, one message-sized cell).** The first term is the
+   principled alternative this section already named: derived, not tuned. The second term
+   closes a gap the first term leaves open on its own — a VM with zero pinned patrons would
+   otherwise get a floor of zero, and a VM with zero quota cannot receive anything, including
+   the message that would be the reason for it to wake up and regrow via §22.1's
+   density-gradient feedback. That is a deadlock: no capacity to receive, no way to ever
+   regain capacity. One message-sized cell is itself derived, from §23.3's cell sizing rule
+   ("size the cell so a typical message is exactly one cell"), not a second tuned constant —
+   so the discipline this section wanted to preserve still holds with both terms in place.
 2. **What arbitrates a transfer, concretely?** §7 says Hera. Under §22.3 a transfer is
    arithmetic on two integers, so the mechanism is trivial — but *when* she does it, and on
    what signal, is not yet stated. It should read off the density gradient (§22.1) rather
@@ -2263,9 +2272,14 @@ document and committing that amendment as its own item.*
   > Item 3.1 is now unblocked on this item; the ninth wire and the reserved header bytes
   > (§23.3) are the concrete carry-forward.
 
-- [ ] **1.2 — The resting floor.** Whether a VM's quota has a floor, and whether it is the
+- [x] **1.2 — The resting floor.** Whether a VM's quota has a floor, and whether it is the
   mass of its pinned patrons (derived) or a constant (tuned). *Refs:* §22.5 #1.
 
+  > **RESOLVED 2026-08-04.** Floor = max(mass of pinned patrons, one message-sized cell).
+  > Both terms derived, neither tuned — the second closes a reachability gap the first term
+  > leaves open for a VM with nothing pinned (zero quota means it can never receive the
+  > message that would let it regrow). Full argument in §22.5 #1.
+
 - [ ] **1.3 — What triggers a capacity transfer.** Hera arbitrates; on what signal, and how
   often. Should read the density gradient, not a schedule.
   **Constraint, not optional:** arbitration mutates patron mass, so §18.5's invariant binds