diff --git a/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md b/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
index 5c27d75..e236fba 100644
--- a/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
+++ b/docs/ARCHITECTURE.md
@@ -32,8 +32,9 @@ carrier SIP trunk ─► media termination (RTP/SRTP + local real-time reflexes)
 ```
 
 **Horizontal platform** concerns are services *around* the core, independently scaled: number
-inventory, billing rollup, analytics, multi-region orchestration, the management API, and the agent
-brain itself.
+inventory, billing rollup, analytics, multi-region orchestration, call placement (the
+session→node directory — which node owns which live call, the routing layer above N cores),
+the management API, and the agent brain itself.
 
 This **replaces the founding three-plane framing**:
 
diff --git a/docs/adr/0005-event-bus.md b/docs/adr/0005-event-bus.md
index 8f0d94a..460c586 100644
--- a/docs/adr/0005-event-bus.md
+++ b/docs/adr/0005-event-bus.md
@@ -53,6 +53,10 @@ Recommending "Redis" undercuts the data-ownership pillar ([ADR-0002](0002-north-
    persistence (RDB/AOF) is async-ish — fine for transport / replay / fleeting retention, **wrong**
    for "the CDR that proves what we billed." CDR and recordings emit **durably to object storage**
    in their own services; the bus only *flows* events into that pipeline and lets services *react*.
+3. **Constraint 2 governs the durable CDR, not enforcement counters.** The spend gate's
+   live accounting state (spend/pacing/rate counters) is ephemeral control state and DOES
+   belong in Valkey KV at N>1 — see the
+   [ADR-0009 amendment 2026-07-04](0009-spend-gate-honest-rescope.md#amendment-2026-07-04--enforcement-locality--accounting-locality).
 
 ## Consequences
 
diff --git a/docs/adr/0009-spend-gate-honest-rescope.md b/docs/adr/0009-spend-gate-honest-rescope.md
index ff7e16a..8e37c8f 100644
--- a/docs/adr/0009-spend-gate-honest-rescope.md
+++ b/docs/adr/0009-spend-gate-honest-rescope.md
@@ -82,6 +82,32 @@ security-constitutive), but its guarantees are restated precisely:
   [market feature scan F5](../reviews/2026-07-03-market-feature-scan.md), since integrator unit
   economics run on cost-per-contained-call).
 
+## Amendment 2026-07-04 — enforcement locality ≠ accounting locality
+
+- **Status:** Proposed (pending maintainer ratification)
+- **Origin:** [2026-07-04 scalability & infra-fit review](../reviews/2026-07-04-scalability-infra-review.md),
+  finding M5.
+
+Guarantee 2 above prescribes where the **check** sits — in-process with the tap and the
+provider call-control client. It is silent on where the **accounting state** lives, and at
+N>1 core instances that silence becomes a correctness trap: per-instance counters make
+every spend/pacing cap silently N× the fleet intent, and toll-fraud thresholds never trip
+because attempts spread across instances.
+
+Clarification, binding on the step-6 implementation:
+
+1. **Enforcement is in-process** (unchanged — constitutive; guarantee 2 stands).
+2. **Accounting is shared.** The gate is built against a ledger trait with atomic
+   check-and-reserve semantics from day one: an in-memory implementation for single-node,
+   a Valkey-backed one ([ADR-0005](0005-event-bus.md)) for fleets. The check path never
+   assumes counter locality.
+3. **ADR-0005 constraint 2 is not a counter-argument.** "The bus is not the source of
+   truth for billing- or call-loss-critical state" governs the *durable CDR*. Live
+   enforcement counters (spend/pacing/rate state) are ephemeral control state — exactly
+   what Valkey KV is for. Losing them on a Valkey restart degrades fail-safe (re-count
+   from zero, provider-side caps as the backstop per this ADR's deployment guidance) —
+   not to billing corruption.
+
 ## References
 
 - [ADR-0002](0002-north-star-and-fused-core.md) — the pillar this amends