diff --git a/lib/recall.js b/lib/recall.js
index 2ccca02..8915fe3 100644
--- a/lib/recall.js
+++ b/lib/recall.js
@@ -811,6 +811,20 @@ export function segmentRecallBudget(hits, options = {}) {
   const average = costs.reduce((sum, cost) => sum + cost, 0) / costs.length
   const count = Math.max(1, Math.min(topK, Math.floor(budget / Math.max(1, average))))
   const retained = rows.slice(0, count)
+  // ★ `slice` copies indexed elements only. `degraded` / `degradedError` /
+  // `skipped` are NON-enumerable by design (so the phase-A golden fixture and
+  // every serialised log keep their shape), which means a plain slice silently
+  // drops them — and the degradation notice would then never reach the model.
+  // Re-attach every out-of-band channel the recall path is known to carry.
+  for (const key of ['degraded', 'degradedError', 'skipped', 'skippedDim']) {
+    if (Object.prototype.hasOwnProperty.call(rows, key)) {
+      Object.defineProperty(retained, key, {
+        value: rows[key],
+        enumerable: false,
+        configurable: true,
+      })
+    }
+  }
   const singleHitOverBudget = costs[0] > budget
   Object.defineProperty(retained, "budgetNotice", { value: singleHitOverBudget ? `[Memory] Top note estimate ${costs[0]} tokens exceeds memory budget ${budget}; retained without truncation.` : count < rows.length ? `[Memory] Recall limited to ${count} note(s) by memory budget ${budget}.` : "", enumerable: false })
   return { hits: retained, budgetTokens: budget, source, singleHitOverBudget }