diff --git a/TODO.sota/64-b3-arabic-sota.md b/TODO.sota/64-b3-arabic-sota.md
index c0b39ab..61bfde9 100644
--- a/TODO.sota/64-b3-arabic-sota.md
+++ b/TODO.sota/64-b3-arabic-sota.md
@@ -68,3 +68,19 @@ owner-visible, with two options:
   recoverable ancestor instead of run-047/best — cheaper but changes the
   gate lineage (the 3.5607 gate was measured ON run-047/best; a different
   init re-baselines the comparison).
+
+
+### Option A scoping continued (2026-10-30)
+
+With the owner unlock, Option A is the chosen path (faithful gate lineage).
+Recipe audit: WO39 records run-047's CORPUS recipe exactly (MIX=qcri,
+R8_GOLD=none, PSEUDO_CAP=900K, seed-7 article shuffle, WINDOW=600,
+STRIP_ALT targets) — stage 1 is runnable once the arm checkpoints restage.
+The large-strip TRAINING script itself is not in interscript-train (the
+r-series scripts cover byt5/r3/r5/r6/r7/r8/r9/plane/raft); identifying or
+reconstructing it is the remaining archaeology. The r7 lineage is fully
+reproducible today (train_arabic_r7.py present). Execution order: (1)
+restage p029 from the shipped ara-diac-news release; (2) re-derive
+run-047-large-strip from the recovered recipe (the stage-2 init); (3)
+re-derive or substitute p040; (4) run the WO39 chain. Steps 1-2 start next
+session as the focused task.
diff --git a/TODO.sota/68-b7-khmer-lexicon.md b/TODO.sota/68-b7-khmer-lexicon.md
index 9713866..1aa95c0 100644
--- a/TODO.sota/68-b7-khmer-lexicon.md
+++ b/TODO.sota/68-b7-khmer-lexicon.md
@@ -105,3 +105,16 @@ Alternative license-clear expansion paths identified, attempt 1 launched:
 - FLEURS-Khmer alignment (heavier, parked).
 
 The expansion path makes CER < 15 reachable WITHOUT SEAlang/Chuon Nath.
+
+
+## Attempt 2 launched: self-training on the license-clear SBBIC list (2026-10-29)
+
+khm-phonemic-1.0 (our shipped 24.5-CER model — not an LLM; the LLM-teacher
+law is not implicated) labels the 75,039-word SBBIC list (LGPL-2.1, in
+khmer-dict-spice, staged to the training bucket) with IPA readings plus mean
+token log-prob confidence (run-082b-khm-sbbic-label, HF job
+rhtse/6ae33c0441e90535df78b820). Stage B filters hard on confidence and
+retrains; the Khmer regime (tiny gold, huge unlabeled) is the case weak
+supervision exists for, with held-out validation mandatory against the WO64
+correlated-teacher negative. This path makes CER < 15 reachable without
+SEAlang / Chuon Nath.