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operator_cycle.sh: brain fallback must not re-escalate a claude failure onto claude. Now gated on _LAST_BRAIN: escalate deepseek-failure -> claude catch-up (the original intent, unchanged); a claude failure stays on deepseek instead of re-escalating onto the thing that just failed.