Found on a fresh HA install with a judge machine: the leader saw the policy's judge missing while init was still fetching it, served one itself, and its entry replaced init's, so a second judge ran off the judge machine. The keeper now waits ten minutes after it starts, and a serve job it starts gives way to a model added meanwhile (AddNew). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>