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@@ -279,6 +279,33 @@ SQLite is right for the runtime tier (mutable, concurrent, queried) and
 wrong for the other two (Nix can't read it at eval time; it fights the
 declarative manifest trust model). Keep the tiers separate.
 
+**The DB file is host-resident, not owned inside the orchestrator unit**
+(decided in review). Two reasons:
+
+- **Durability across restarts.** Re-adoption sweeps the registry after an
+  orchestrator restart, so the state *must* outlive the orchestrator
+  instance's lifecycle. A host-resident file (the slice-1 default under
+  `~/.cache/bot-bottle/orchestrator/`) is the simplest durable store; the
+  orchestrator VM/container mounts it rather than carrying it.
+- **Integrity via access-scoping, not location.** Agents can't touch the
+  DB directly regardless of where it lives — they're network-isolated in
+  their bottles and only ever speak to the control/data plane. The real
+  risk is a *compromised agent-facing data-plane service* (egress/git-gate,
+  which parse hostile bytes) writing the registry and forging attribution.
+  The control is a **read/write split**: writes (register/deregister) come
+  only from the **control plane**; the **data plane gets the DB read-only**
+  for attribution lookups. A host-resident file makes that split
+  enforceable (mount `ro` into the data plane, `rw` into the control
+  plane) — which owning it "entirely inside" a monolithic orchestrator
+  would not.
+
+Implementation note for the VM slices: SQLite **WAL** over a guest share
+(virtiofs/9p) is finicky (the `-shm`/`-wal` files need real mmap/locking),
+so the durable-DB-on-host may want a small **host-side owner** the
+orchestrator reaches over the control-plane RPC, rather than a shared
+mount. Decide this at the Firecracker slice; `sqlite3` itself is stdlib, so
+"the host needs SQLite" is a non-cost.
+
 ## Sequencing
 
 Jump straight to the **virtualized** end state (not a host-daemon stepping