diff --git a/docs/requirements.md b/docs/requirements.md
index d32750d..46076bc 100644
--- a/docs/requirements.md
+++ b/docs/requirements.md
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ as such rather than counted as covered.
 | GR-001 … GR-005 | T1 + T3 | Gallery assembly is I/O and bookkeeping; embedding is T3 smoke |
 | GR-006 … GR-008 | T1 | Tiering and outlier detection operate on stored embeddings |
 | VR-* | Out of CI | Studies are run deliberately and their results committed as documents |
+| VR-014 | **T2** | The exception, and the reason the blanket row above is not the whole story: its fixture is committed and its signature is CPU-only DSP, so the study *is* a test a CI host can run — not a measurement someone has to remember to repeat |
 
 **One consequence worth stating:** AR-027 (arbitrary gallery scale) is
 structurally unverifiable on the CI host. It needs a GPU host and a synthetic
diff --git a/docs/traceability.md b/docs/traceability.md
index 95cf872..33ce289 100644
--- a/docs/traceability.md
+++ b/docs/traceability.md
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 <!-- GENERATED FILE - do not edit by hand. -->
 <!-- Regenerate: scripts/traceability/traceability-gate.sh -->
 
-**Generated:** 2026-07-31T14:44:58+00:00
+**Generated:** 2026-07-31T15:01:49+00:00
 
 Denominators are read from [`requirements.md`](requirements.md) at run time, never hardcoded. Coverage counts a requirement only when it is tagged in source **and** has a verification tier this repo's CI host can execute (`T1, T2, T3, static`).
 
@@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ Denominators are read from [`requirements.md`](requirements.md) at run time, nev
 
 | Metric | Value |
 |---|---|
-| Source files scanned | 111 |
-| TRACES tags found | 132 |
+| Source files scanned | 112 |
+| TRACES tags found | 137 |
 | EXCEPTION tags found | 0 |
 | Requirements defined | 69 |
 | Requirements covered | 38 |
 | **Coverage** | **55.1%** (38/69) |
 | Coverage of CI-executable scope | 67.9% (38/56) |
-| Tagged but unexecuted in CI | 5 |
+| Tagged but unexecuted in CI | 7 |
 | Orphan tags | 0 |
 
 ### By type
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Denominators are read from [`requirements.md`](requirements.md) at run time, nev
 | DP | 2 | 0 | 8 |
 | IR | 8 | 0 | 8 |
 | GR | 5 | 0 | 9 |
-| VR | 1 | 4 | 14 |
+| VR | 1 | 6 | 14 |
 
 - **UT** tags present (separate taxonomy, not counted in coverage): UT-001, UT-101, UT-102, UT-103, UT-104, UT-105, UT-106, UT-107, UT-108
 - **IT** tags present (separate taxonomy, not counted in coverage): IT-001
@@ -47,16 +47,16 @@ These requirements have no verification tier this repo's CI host can run, so a t
 | VR-002 | out-of-ci | yes | Replay drives the **real** KPN nodes, not a reimplementation |
 | VR-003 | out-of-ci | yes | Scoring: micro-F1 against X-Ray, precision/recall logged at every eva… |
 | VR-004 | out-of-ci | yes | Reproducible validation corpus with ground truth |
-| VR-005 | out-of-ci | no | Minimum face size study — TPI/FPI vs probe size, gallery held at nati… |
+| VR-005 | out-of-ci | yes | Minimum face size study — TPI/FPI vs probe size, gallery held at nati… |
 | VR-006 | out-of-ci | no | Re-tune `scene_threshold` once native-rate decode lands |
 | VR-007 | out-of-ci | no | Expansion band, clustering threshold, and deferred-pass ablation |
 | VR-008 | out-of-ci | no | Gallery scaling benchmark — throughput vs gallery size |
-| VR-010 | out-of-ci | no | Dump provenance attributes — embedder model, detector settings, `dens… |
+| VR-010 | out-of-ci | yes | Dump provenance attributes — embedder model, detector settings, `dens… |
 | VR-011 | out-of-ci | no | Rewrite the replay harness for the post-AR-012 output contract |
 | VR-012 | T4, out-of-ci | no | Quality-knee study — TPI/FPI vs sharpness and vs pose, as VR-005 did … |
 | VR-013 | T4, out-of-ci | no | Cross-source identification probe — gallery from one recording, probe… |
 
-**Tagged but unexecuted:** AR-027, VR-001, VR-002, VR-003, VR-004 — a test exists and is tagged, but this CI host cannot run it. Report those runs separately.
+**Tagged but unexecuted:** AR-027, VR-001, VR-002, VR-003, VR-004, VR-005, VR-010 — a test exists and is tagged, but this CI host cannot run it. Report those runs separately.
 
 ## Orphan tags
 
@@ -139,12 +139,12 @@ _None._
 | VR-002 | **Done** — replay d… | out-of-ci | PR-002 | tagged, unexecuted | `scripts/optimizer/replay.py`, `tests/test_replay_fixtures.cpp` | Replay drives the **real** KPN nodes, not a reimplementation |
 | VR-003 | Done | out-of-ci | PR-002 | tagged, unexecuted | `scripts/optimizer/second_score.py` | Scoring: micro-F1 against X-Ray, precision/recall logged at every eva… |
 | VR-004 | Done | out-of-ci | PR-002 | tagged, unexecuted | `scripts/validation/ground_truth.py` | Reproducible validation corpus with ground truth |
-| VR-005 | **Done** — knee at … | out-of-ci | PR-002 | untagged | - | Minimum face size study — TPI/FPI vs probe size, gallery held at nati… |
+| VR-005 | **Done** — knee at … | out-of-ci | PR-002 | tagged, unexecuted | `scripts/validation/min_face_size.py` | Minimum face size study — TPI/FPI vs probe size, gallery held at nati… |
 | VR-006 | Planned | out-of-ci | PR-002 | untagged | - | Re-tune `scene_threshold` once native-rate decode lands |
 | VR-007 | Planned | out-of-ci | PR-002 | untagged | - | Expansion band, clustering threshold, and deferred-pass ablation |
 | VR-008 | Planned | out-of-ci | PR-002 | untagged | - | Gallery scaling benchmark — throughput vs gallery size |
 | VR-009 | Planned | T1, out-of-ci | PR-002 | untagged | - | Verify accumulated posteriors are calibrated against held-out tracks |
-| VR-010 | Planned | out-of-ci | PR-002 | untagged | - | Dump provenance attributes — embedder model, detector settings, `dens… |
+| VR-010 | Planned | out-of-ci | PR-002 | tagged, unexecuted | `src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp` | Dump provenance attributes — embedder model, detector settings, `dens… |
 | VR-011 | Planned | out-of-ci | PR-002 | untagged | - | Rewrite the replay harness for the post-AR-012 output contract |
 | VR-012 | Planned | T4, out-of-ci | PR-002 | untagged | - | Quality-knee study — TPI/FPI vs sharpness and vs pose, as VR-005 did … |
 | VR-013 | **In Progress** — h… | T4, out-of-ci | PR-002 | untagged | - | Cross-source identification probe — gallery from one recording, probe… |
@@ -399,8 +399,8 @@ _None._
 - [`src/kpn_bindings.cpp:167`](../src/kpn_bindings.cpp#L167) — `Unknown`
 - [`src/kpn_bindings.cpp:217`](../src/kpn_bindings.cpp#L217) — `Unknown`
 - [`src/main.cpp:188`](../src/main.cpp#L188) — `Unknown`
-- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:30`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L30) — `static constexpr std::string_view label() { return "embedding_dump"; }`
-- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:102`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L102) — `H5::StrType str(H5::PredType::C_S1, H5T_VARIABLE);`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:127`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L127) — `static constexpr std::string_view label() { return "embedding_dump"; }`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:238`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L238) — `H5::H5File file(path_, H5F_ACC_TRUNC);`
 - [`src/scene_preview.cpp:133`](../src/scene_preview.cpp#L133) — `int main(int argc, char** argv)`
 - [`src/types.hpp:148`](../src/types.hpp#L148) — `struct Actor`
 - [`tests/test_gallery_store.cpp:182`](../tests/test_gallery_store.cpp#L182) — `TempFile tf("gallery_stamped.h5");`
@@ -535,9 +535,13 @@ _None._
 
 ### PR-002
 
-**Locations:** 4
+**Locations:** 8
 
 - [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:2`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L2) — `Unknown`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:18`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L18) — `Unknown`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:133`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L133) — `static constexpr std::string_view label() { return "embedding_dump"; }`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:159`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L159) — `void operator()(EmbeddedSceneFrame ef)`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:242`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L242) — `H5::H5File file(path_, H5F_ACC_TRUNC);`
 - [`scripts/optimizer/replay.py:5`](../scripts/optimizer/replay.py#L5) — `Reads an embedding dump (scripts/optimizer/SCHEMA.md), feeds each frame as an`
 - [`scripts/optimizer/second_score.py:5`](../scripts/optimizer/second_score.py#L5) — `Unknown`
 - [`scripts/validation/ground_truth.py:24`](../scripts/validation/ground_truth.py#L24) — `Unknown`
@@ -576,8 +580,8 @@ _None._
 - [`src/kpn_bindings.cpp:167`](../src/kpn_bindings.cpp#L167) — `Unknown`
 - [`src/kpn_bindings.cpp:217`](../src/kpn_bindings.cpp#L217) — `Unknown`
 - [`src/main.cpp:188`](../src/main.cpp#L188) — `Unknown`
-- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:30`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L30) — `static constexpr std::string_view label() { return "embedding_dump"; }`
-- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:102`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L102) — `H5::StrType str(H5::PredType::C_S1, H5T_VARIABLE);`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:127`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L127) — `static constexpr std::string_view label() { return "embedding_dump"; }`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:238`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L238) — `H5::H5File file(path_, H5F_ACC_TRUNC);`
 - [`src/scene_preview.cpp:133`](../src/scene_preview.cpp#L133) — `int main(int argc, char** argv)`
 - [`src/types.hpp:148`](../src/types.hpp#L148) — `struct Actor`
 - [`tests/test_gallery_store.cpp:182`](../tests/test_gallery_store.cpp#L182) — `TempFile tf("gallery_stamped.h5");`
@@ -769,6 +773,22 @@ _None._
 
 - [`scripts/validation/ground_truth.py:24`](../scripts/validation/ground_truth.py#L24) — `Unknown`
 
+### VR-005
+
+**Locations:** 1
+
+- [`scripts/validation/min_face_size.py:5`](../scripts/validation/min_face_size.py#L5) — `Unknown`
+
+### VR-010
+
+**Locations:** 5
+
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:2`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L2) — `Unknown`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:18`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L18) — `Unknown`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:133`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L133) — `static constexpr std::string_view label() { return "embedding_dump"; }`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:159`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L159) — `void operator()(EmbeddedSceneFrame ef)`
+- [`src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp:242`](../src/nodes/embedding_dump_node.hpp#L242) — `H5::H5File file(path_, H5F_ACC_TRUNC);`
+
 ### VR-014
 
 **Locations:** 1