diff --git a/docs/spec/offline/offline.md b/docs/spec/offline/offline.md
index c5007106..7341aff7 100644
--- a/docs/spec/offline/offline.md
+++ b/docs/spec/offline/offline.md
@@ -375,6 +375,12 @@ void submit(const MyAction& action) {
 }
 ```
 
+That free function is app-layer by design, not by omission:
+`examples/IMPLEMENTATION.md` rule 1 would otherwise keep this code inside a
+model, and
+[Disposition: app-layer by design](#disposition-app-layer-by-design-the-rule-1-carve-out)
+below is the recorded carve-out that puts it here.
+
 `SyncWorker` closes the loop on the *read path*: on reconnect it `drain()`s the
 same queue and replays each payload. The two halves share one `IOfflineQueue`
 instance (see [End-to-end integration](#end-to-end-integration)) — the
@@ -387,6 +393,73 @@ entirely the caller's (`QueueItem::payload` is an opaque `std::string`), and it
 is the caller's responsibility that the same format round-trips through the
 `SyncWorker::ReplayFunction`.
 
+### Disposition: app-layer by design (the rule-1 carve-out)
+
+The example above puts domain-adjacent code in a free function at the dispatch
+site. `examples/IMPLEMENTATION.md` rule 1 would otherwise forbid exactly that
+placement — "nothing domain-shaped may live in presenters, QML, `main()`, or
+free functions." The placement is deliberate, and this section is its recorded
+disposition (morph#197), so a reader who finds
+`if (!monitor.isOnline()) queue.enqueue(...)` outside a model knows it is a
+sanctioned exception rather than an oversight.
+
+**Rule 1 is not being overridden here; it fired.** Its final clause is "If
+logic can't be expressed in a model, that is a finding," and that document's
+prime directive says the same of the framework itself. This carve-out *is*
+that finding's outcome, not an argument that the rule is wrong.
+
+**Why a model cannot host it.** `enqueue()` is the write path's last act before
+the wire, taken precisely when the wire is unavailable. In the canonical wiring
+this file and `ARCHITECTURE.md` both show, the client keeps an in-process
+`LocalBackend`, so a client-side model does exist and could in principle own
+the decision. On a **remote deployment** — models behind a server, reached over
+a `Bridge` — it does not: the one machine that must decide "queue this instead
+of sending it" is the one machine with no model on it. morph offers no seam
+there, and none of the framework's own offline types fills the gap: neither
+`NetworkMonitor` nor `ReconnectCoordinator` enqueues, and the queue stays
+passive by design (above).
+
+**What the carve-out covers, and what it does not.**
+
+| Belongs in the write-path seam | Stays in the model |
+|---|---|
+| Probing `NetworkMonitor::isOnline()`, or catching a failed `execute()` | Validating and authorizing the action (`Context::principal`) |
+| Minting the idempotency key, serialising the payload, calling `enqueue()` | Deduping the replayed op against the journal |
+| Surfacing queue depth to the UI | Classifying a stale base version as a conflict |
+| Client-local bookkeeping that keeps *this client's own* queued items consistent — e.g. a per-entity version ledger so a second offline edit chains onto the first rather than colliding with it | Everything the payload *means* once it lands: replay re-dispatches it as an ordinary typed action |
+
+The last row of the left column is the sharp edge: it is genuinely
+domain-shaped, and the carve-out sanctions it only in a **dedicated app-layer
+write-path class** — never in a presenter, a QML bridge, or `main()`. The
+domain semantics of the queued action never move out of the model; only the
+decision to queue it, and the client-local state that decision needs, live in
+the seam.
+
+**Reference shapes in the ladder.**
+
+- `examples/lims/include/lims/offline/field_outbox.hpp` — the reference for the
+  domain-shaped half. A plain, non-Qt, app-layer class that stamps each queued
+  capture with a base version from its own local ledger and advances that
+  ledger on enqueue, so a client's second offline edit chains onto its own
+  pending first edit. Replay still goes through the model
+  (`SampleModel::execute(QueuedCapture)`), which owns validation, authorization
+  and conflict classification.
+- `examples/kanban/gui_lib/board_qml_bridge.cpp` — the transport-shaped half
+  only: probe, mint an op id, serialise, enqueue, update queue depth. It lives
+  in a presenter, which rule 1 names as forbidden for *domain-shaped* code;
+  nothing there is domain-shaped, so it stands as glue under rule 2's
+  "pure glue with no domain logic" justification. Anything with a domain
+  invariant in it belongs in a `FieldOutbox`-shaped class instead.
+
+**Scope, and when to revisit.** This is the "explicitly dispositioned in the
+spec as app-layer by design" branch of `examples/IMPLEMENTATION.md`'s promotion
+rule, taken at **two** occurrences of the transport-shaped seam (kanban's
+bridge, lims' outbox) and **one** of the domain-shaped version chaining (lims'
+outbox). No framework primitive is owed yet. A third rung independently growing
+its own enqueue-on-offline path is the trigger to reopen the question of a
+framework-owned outbox dispatcher — a standing disposition must not become the
+reason a third reinvention goes unexamined.
+
 ## SyncWorker
 
 Replays queued actions from an `IOfflineQueue` on reconnect. Drains the queue
diff --git a/examples/IMPLEMENTATION.md b/examples/IMPLEMENTATION.md
index 09ee1695..183e540e 100644
--- a/examples/IMPLEMENTATION.md
+++ b/examples/IMPLEMENTATION.md
@@ -28,6 +28,27 @@ The user-code contract is: **you implement Models; morph exposes them.**
   plain, single-threaded model classes with typed actions — nothing
   domain-shaped may live in presenters, QML, `main()`, or free functions.
   If logic can't be expressed in a model, that is a finding.
+  - **Named carve-out: the offline write-path enqueue seam.** Deciding
+    *"the backend is unreachable — queue this action instead of sending it"*
+    is app-layer by design and sits at the dispatch site, outside any model.
+    This is not an exemption from the rule; it is the rule's last clause
+    having fired. The finding was raised
+    ([morph#197](https://github.com/LASTRADA-Software/morph/issues/197)) and
+    dispositioned as app-layer under the promotion rule above; the reasoning,
+    the boundary, and the reference shapes are in
+    [`docs/spec/offline/offline.md`](../docs/spec/offline/offline.md)
+    ("Ownership: who enqueues" → "Disposition: app-layer by design"). The
+    carve-out covers the decision to queue and the client-local bookkeeping
+    that decision needs — probe/mint-key/serialise/enqueue/queue-depth, plus
+    a per-entity local version ledger so a client's own successive offline
+    edits chain instead of colliding. Everything the queued action *means*
+    on replay — validation, authorization, dedup, conflict classification —
+    stays in the model, which replay re-dispatches through as usual. The
+    sanctioned home is a dedicated app-layer write-path class
+    (`examples/lims/include/lims/offline/field_outbox.hpp` is the reference),
+    **not** a presenter: kanban's copy in a QML bridge
+    (`examples/kanban/gui_lib/board_qml_bridge.cpp`) stands only because it
+    is transport-shaped glue under rule 2's glue justification.
 - Follow [`bank`](bank/README.md)'s established shape: `BRIDGE_REGISTER_*`
   macros in the model header so every call site sees the `ActionTraits`
   specialisation; stateful models keyed with `BRIDGE_KEY_FROM`/
diff --git a/examples/lims/README.md b/examples/lims/README.md
index 61ab1027..5da4ac7c 100644
--- a/examples/lims/README.md
+++ b/examples/lims/README.md
@@ -361,7 +361,9 @@ The write half could not use a framework seam either: there is no
 enqueue-on-failure hook, and the machine that must make the decision (a
 disconnected field client) has no model on it at all.
 `include/lims/offline/field_outbox.hpp` is the app-layer answer, and
-morph#197 is the finding.
+morph#197 is the finding — now dispositioned: `IMPLEMENTATION.md` rule 1
+carries a named carve-out for this seam, and `FieldOutbox` is the shape it
+points at (`docs/spec/offline/offline.md`, "Disposition: app-layer by design").
 
 So neither end of the offline round trip goes through a framework seam. That
 is the honest summary of §7's framework story.
@@ -716,7 +718,10 @@ files no uploaded report contained. Fixed here.
   application's job at the dispatch site; and a disconnected field client has
   no model to put it in anyway. `FieldOutbox` is this rung's app-layer answer,
   and it carries a real invariant (a client's own successive offline edits must
-  chain), not glue.
+  chain), not glue. **Dispositioned as app-layer by design:** rule 1 names the
+  carve-out and `docs/spec/offline/offline.md` records the reasoning and the
+  boundary; a framework primitive is reconsidered when a third rung grows its
+  own enqueue path.
 - **[morph#172](https://github.com/LASTRADA-Software/morph/issues/172)
   — `MORPH_BUILD_OFFLINE_SQLITE=ON` breaks the build on macOS with a non-Apple
   clang.** `FindSQLite3` resolves the SDK's whole `/usr/include`, which is then
diff --git a/examples/lims/include/lims/offline/field_outbox.hpp b/examples/lims/include/lims/offline/field_outbox.hpp
index 91d6647a..849340f2 100644
--- a/examples/lims/include/lims/offline/field_outbox.hpp
+++ b/examples/lims/include/lims/offline/field_outbox.hpp
@@ -16,16 +16,21 @@
 /// @file
 /// The field client's **write path** for offline capture (README §7).
 ///
-/// @par Why this is not a model, and why that is a finding
+/// @par Why this is not a model, and why that is sanctioned
 /// `examples/IMPLEMENTATION.md` rule 1 says all domain logic lives in models.
 /// It cannot here. `docs/spec/offline/offline.md` ("Ownership: who enqueues")
 /// is explicit that the framework supplies no seam for it — *"detecting an
 /// offline/failed `execute()` and calling `enqueue()` is the application's
-/// job"*, and its own worked example puts that code at the dispatch site. A
-/// disconnected field client has no model to put it in either: a rung's models
-/// live server-side behind Lightweight/ODBC (rule 4's WASM clause), so the one
-/// machine that must decide "queue this instead of sending it" is the one
-/// machine with no model on it. See morph#197.
+/// job"*, and its own worked example puts that code at the dispatch site. This
+/// rung's field client is deployed remotely: its models live server-side
+/// behind Lightweight/ODBC and are reached over a `Bridge`, so the one machine
+/// that must decide "queue this instead of sending it" is the one machine with
+/// no model on it. Filed as morph#197 and dispositioned there: rule 1 now
+/// carries a named carve-out for the offline write-path enqueue seam, and this
+/// class is the carve-out's reference shape for the domain-shaped half (see
+/// `docs/spec/offline/offline.md`, "Disposition: app-layer by design"). The
+/// domain semantics stay in the model — replay re-dispatches each queued item
+/// through `SampleModel::execute(QueuedCapture)`.
 ///
 /// @par What it actually does: chain a client's own edits
 /// The trap the README names, and the one ODK Central hit: a client that edits