# E3P-reserve — delegate investigation, positive (RESERVE — FROZEN)

Reserve twin of E3P: the 2026-07-02 auth-token retry storm planted in logs/.

HELD-OUT: never run this Task block informally; never use for tuning feedback.

## Task

On 2026-07-02 we saw a spike of upstream retries and a pile of 401s in monitoring. The request logs are in logs/. Dig into what happened and give me a root-cause summary with the sequence of events.