diff --git a/STATE_OF_PLAY.md b/STATE_OF_PLAY.md
index 579c4cb..7572777 100644
--- a/STATE_OF_PLAY.md
+++ b/STATE_OF_PLAY.md
@@ -272,6 +272,7 @@ a steady state. Future items will land here as production triggers fire.
 | (scrum) | 3-lineage scrum on `434f466..0d4f033` (post_role_gate_v1). Convergent finding (Opus + Kimi): `DecodeIndex` lost nil-meta items across persistence. **Fixed** by bumping envelope version 1→2 with explicit `IDs []string` field; v1 envelopes still load via meta-key fallback. Opus-only real bugs also actioned: `handleMerge` non-`ErrIndexNotFound` nil-deref, `mathLog` dead wrapper removed, bubble sort → `sort.Slice`. False positives rejected after verification (Kimi rollback misreading + Opus stale-comment claim). 2 new regression tests lock the v2 round-trip + v1 backward-compat. Disposition: `reports/scrum/_evidence/2026-05-01/verdicts/post_role_gate_v1_disposition.md`. |
 | (audit-full port) | **Audit-FULL pipeline** (phases 0/3/4) ported from `scripts/distillation/audit_full.ts`. `internal/distillation/audit_full.go` + `cmd/audit_full` CLI. 6 ported required-check classes; 4 phases (1, 2, 5, 6, 7) deferred — depend on broader Rust pieces (materializer / replay / run-summaries) not yet ported. **Cross-runtime byte-equal verdict on live data**: Go-side audit-full against `/home/profit/lakehouse` produced p3_*/p4_* metrics IDENTICAL to the last Rust-emitted `audit_baselines.jsonl` entry (all 8 metrics match: p3_accepted=386, p3_partial=132, p3_rejected=57, p3_human=480, p4_sft_rows=353, p4_rag_rows=448, p4_pref_pairs=83, p4_total_quarantined=1325). 6 new tests + the live-data probe captured in `reports/cutover/audit_full_go_vs_rust.md`. |
 | (audit-full skips fixed) | **Phases 1/2/5/7 unskipped** (2026-05-01) — port reduced from 4 deferred phases to 1. **Phase 1**: invokes `go test ./internal/distillation/...` via exec.Command (Go equivalent of Rust's `bun test`). **Phase 2**: reads `data/evidence/` and tallies rows + tier-1 source hits as an observer (doesn't re-run the materializer; emits `p2_evidence_rows`/`p2_evidence_skips` metrics). **Phase 5**: reads `reports/distillation/{run_id}/summary.json` + 5 stage receipts; validates schema_version + run_hash sha256 + git_commit hex. **Phase 7**: reads `data/_kb/replay_runs.jsonl`; tail-row JSON parse check. Only **Phase 6** remains skipped (Rust `acceptance.ts` is a TS-only fixture harness; porting fixtures + invariant runner is its own ADR). Live-data probe: 12/12 required checks PASS, `p2_evidence_rows=1055` byte-equal to Rust `summary.json` `collect.records_out`. 6 new tests. |
+| (lets-go) | **Persistent Go stack live** (2026-05-01). All 11 daemons (storaged/catalogd/ingestd/queryd/embedd/vectord/pathwayd/observerd/matrixd/gateway/chatd) up as long-running processes on :3110+:3211-:3220, alongside the live Rust gateway on :3100 (no port conflict). First time the Go side runs as production-shape daemons rather than per-harness transient processes. Brought up via `scripts/cutover/start_go_stack.sh`. Gateway proxies `/v1/embed` correctly to embedd; all 5 chatd providers loaded. **First Go-side entry written to `data/_kb/audit_baselines.jsonl`** (entry #8, git_commit=`ee2a40c`, golangLAKEHOUSE SHA distinguishable from Rust's `ca7375ea`); the longitudinal log now mixes runtimes. |
 | (close-3) | **OPEN #3: distribution drift via PSI** — `internal/drift/drift.go`: `ComputeDistributionDrift` returns Population Stability Index + verdict tier (stable < 0.10, minor 0.10–0.25, major ≥ 0.25). Equal-width bucketing over combined min/max range, epsilon-clamping for empty buckets, per-bucket breakdown for drilldown. 7 new tests including identical-is-stable, hard-shift-is-major, moderate-detected-not-stable, empty-inputs-safe, all-identical-safe, bucket-counts-conserved, num-buckets-clamping. |
 | (close-4) | **OPEN #4: ops nice-to-haves** — (a) Real-time wall-clock for stress harness: per-phase elapsed time logged to stdout as it runs (`[stress] phase NAME starting (T+12.3s)` + `[stress] phase NAME done — 8.5s (T+20.8s)`); `Output.PhaseTimings` + `Output.TotalElapsedMs` written to JSON; (b) chatd fixture-mode S3 mock + (c) liberal-paraphrase calibration: not actioned — no fired trigger yet, would be speculative. Documented as deferred-until-need rather than ignored. |
 
diff --git a/reports/cutover/SUMMARY.md b/reports/cutover/SUMMARY.md
index f100f03..ec1b505 100644
--- a/reports/cutover/SUMMARY.md
+++ b/reports/cutover/SUMMARY.md
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ what's safe to flip. Append a row when a new endpoint clears parity.
 | `audit_baselines.jsonl` | 2026-05-01 | `data/_kb/audit_baselines.jsonl` | `internal/distillation` `LoadLastBaseline` / `AppendBaseline` / `BuildAuditDriftTable` | ✅ PASS round-trip | Live Rust file (7 entries) parses + round-trips byte-equal; lineage drift table fires correctly on zero-baseline metrics. See `audit_baselines_roundtrip.md`. |
 | `audit-FULL` (phases 0/3/4) | 2026-05-01 | `scripts/distillation/audit_full.ts` | `cmd/audit_full` + `internal/distillation` `RunAuditFull` | ✅ PASS metric-equal | Go-side run against live Rust root: all 8 ported metrics (p3_*, p4_*) byte-equal to the last Rust-emitted `audit_baselines.jsonl` entry. 6/6 required checks pass. 4 phases (1, 2, 5, 6, 7) deferred — depend on broader Rust-side pieces (materializer / replay / run-summaries) not yet ported. See `audit_full_go_vs_rust.md`. |
 | `audit-FULL` (phases 0/1/2/3/4/5/7 — observer mode) | 2026-05-01 | `scripts/distillation/audit_full.ts` | `cmd/audit_full` + `internal/distillation` `RunAuditFull` | ✅ PASS 12/12 | Skips reduced from 4 → 1: phase 1 invokes `go test`, phases 2/5/7 read existing artifacts as observers (no live materializer/replay invocation). Only phase 6 (TS-only acceptance harness) remains skipped. `p2_evidence_rows=1055` matches Rust `summary.json` `collect.records_out=1055` byte-equal. Updated `audit_full_go_vs_rust.md`. |
+| `audit_baselines.jsonl` write side | 2026-05-01 | `data/_kb/audit_baselines.jsonl` (Rust-emitted, 7 entries) | Go-emitted entry #8 via `cmd/audit_full -append-baseline` | ✅ Mixed-runtime log | First Go-side entry written to the shared longitudinal log: `git_commit=ee2a40c5...` (golangLAKEHOUSE SHA, distinguishable from prior Rust SHAs like `ca7375ea`). All 10 metric fields match Rust shape exactly — drift comparator fires correctly across the runtime boundary. |
+| Full Go stack (persistent) | 2026-05-01 | per-binary on :31xx | 11 daemons (storaged/catalogd/ingestd/queryd/embedd/vectord/pathwayd/observerd/matrixd/gateway/chatd) | ✅ All 11 healthy | First time the Go stack runs as long-running daemons rather than per-harness transient processes. Brought up via `scripts/cutover/start_go_stack.sh`; gateway proxies `/v1/embed` correctly through to embedd; all 5 chatd providers loaded. Live alongside the Rust gateway on :3100 (no port conflict). |
 
 ## Wire-format drift catalog
 
diff --git a/scripts/cutover/start_go_stack.sh b/scripts/cutover/start_go_stack.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..551daf0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/cutover/start_go_stack.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,81 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# scripts/cutover/start_go_stack.sh
+#
+# Bring up the full Go stack persistently — alongside the live Rust
+# gateway on :3100. All Go daemons land on the parallel port range
+# :3110 + :3211-:3220 so there's no port collision.
+#
+# Unlike playbook_lift.sh's transient harness boot (which kills the
+# stack on exit), this script starts every daemon detached via nohup
+# + disown. Operators run it once at boot or after a restart; the
+# stack stays up until a `pkill -f "bin/(name)"` or reboot.
+#
+# Logs land in /tmp/gostack-logs/<bin>.log (one per daemon).
+#
+# Used to bring up the persistent stack 2026-05-01 — the first time
+# the Go side has run as long-running daemons rather than per-harness
+# transient processes.
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+cd "$(dirname "$0")/../.."
+
+if [ ! -d bin ]; then
+  echo "[gostack] bin/ missing — run 'just build' first" >&2
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+# Ensure no leftover from a transient harness run. Anchored pattern
+# per feedback_pkill_scope; never bare `bin/`.
+echo "[gostack] killing any stale Go daemons (anchored pkill)"
+pkill -f "bin/(storaged|catalogd|ingestd|queryd|embedd|vectord|pathwayd|observerd|matrixd|gateway)$" 2>/dev/null || true
+sleep 0.5
+
+mkdir -p /tmp/gostack-logs
+
+start() {
+  local bin="$1"
+  local port="$2"
+  local log="/tmp/gostack-logs/$bin.log"
+  nohup ./bin/"$bin" -config lakehouse.toml > "$log" 2>&1 & disown
+  for _ in $(seq 1 50); do
+    if curl -sSf -m 1 "http://127.0.0.1:$port/health" >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+      echo "  $bin :$port up (log: $log)"
+      return 0
+    fi
+    sleep 0.1
+  done
+  echo "  $bin :$port FAILED — log tail:"
+  tail -20 "$log"
+  return 1
+}
+
+echo "[gostack] starting in dependency order"
+start storaged  3211
+start catalogd  3212
+start ingestd   3213
+start queryd    3214
+start embedd    3216
+start vectord   3215
+start pathwayd  3217
+start observerd 3219
+start matrixd   3218
+start gateway   3110
+
+# chatd is started independently — its provider key files come from
+# /etc/lakehouse/{ollama_cloud,openrouter,opencode,kimi}.env; if
+# chatd is already up (long-running from a prior session) we don't
+# touch it.
+if ! curl -sSf -m 1 http://127.0.0.1:3220/health >/dev/null 2>&1; then
+  echo "[gostack] chatd :3220 not up; starting"
+  start chatd 3220
+else
+  echo "  chatd :3220 already up (skipping)"
+fi
+
+echo
+echo "[gostack] ready · sweep:"
+for p in 3110 3211 3212 3213 3214 3215 3216 3217 3218 3219 3220; do
+  curl -sSf -m 1 "http://127.0.0.1:$p/health" 2>/dev/null | head -c 80
+  echo
+done