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@@ -5019,3 +5019,56 @@ reading `free: 3` had no way to tell that number from a real one, and only found
 
 fleetd #416. Found by the fleet01 lead on a live daemon; the same shape as #404, where a status
 field read a different source than the behaviour it described.
+
+## The startup log tells "off" apart from "running on the built-in default"
+
+**What.** Two startup lines report whether a backend-classification is running. The
+backend-**error** line no longer says `off` when no profile sets an `errorPattern`, because that
+classification is still running — it falls back to a built-in pattern. The backend-**exhausted**
+line still says `off`, because for that key it is true.
+
+```
+backend-error classification: built-in default for all profiles
+    (no profile customises errorPattern; profiles: [gx, local, opus, xf])
+backend-exhausted classification: off
+    (no profile has an exhaustedPattern configured; profiles: [gx, local, opus, xf])
+```
+
+**The knob.** None. Both lines are logged at INFO at every startup.
+
+**Why it exists.** The old line was produced by one shared helper that knew only the key's name, so
+it worded both keys the same way. But the two keys disagree on what "unset" means:
+
+- an unset `errorPattern` falls back to `CompletionResolver`'s built-in
+  `(?i)\bAPI Error\s*:` compatibility pattern, so classification keeps running;
+- an unset `exhaustedPattern` has no fallback, so it really is off.
+
+One string, two meanings — and the false one was the reassuring direction. It told an operator a
+live classifier was disabled while it was running, which is the worst thing to read when you are
+debugging a false quarantine. The fact needed to word it correctly was written down about 1600
+lines away, in `FleetConfig`'s javadoc, and the method that got it wrong had no way to reach it.
+
+**Gotchas.**
+
+- **The classification really is live even with no `errorPattern` anywhere.** The built-in pattern
+  is narrow but it can still fire on a member's own prose that quotes an `API Error:` line. That is
+  why the outage policy needs the line twice before it acts.
+- **"no profile customises it" is the useful reading**, not "nothing is configured". If you want a
+  different pattern for a backend, set it; the absence of the key is a choice of the default, not
+  an off switch.
+- **`off` for `exhaustedPattern` is real.** Do not assume symmetry between the two lines — that
+  assumption is the bug this entry describes.
+- **The wording is now the caller's responsibility.** `coverage()` takes a required
+  `UnsetMeaning` argument, so a third pattern key cannot compile without stating what unset means
+  for it. There is no permissive default to inherit.
+
+**Measured, and worth keeping.** The first fix was correct and still not safe: its tests all passed
+the meaning in themselves, so they proved the wording and not the pairing. Swapping the two
+arguments at the two call sites recreates the original bug with the keys exchanged, and that left
+**all 1506 tests green with `BUILD SUCCESS`**. The call sites are now extracted into two named
+factories and pinned by `FleetdPatternCoverageLineTest`; the same swap gives 3 failures. The
+general rule: when a fix adds a parameter so the caller can supply a missing fact, test the
+**caller's choice of value** — a test that passes the value in itself tests the half that was never
+broken.
+
+fleetd #415. Found by the fleet01 lead on their own startup log.