diff --git a/skills/jail-dedicated-subnet-migration/SKILL.md b/skills/jail-dedicated-subnet-migration/SKILL.md
index 6aad9d8..c53b00e 100644
--- a/skills/jail-dedicated-subnet-migration/SKILL.md
+++ b/skills/jail-dedicated-subnet-migration/SKILL.md
@@ -157,17 +157,36 @@ state worth keeping (plugins, test data, DB content). Instead:
 
 ## Cutover
 
-1. Stop (don't destroy) the old jail — keep it as a rollback safety net
-   until the new one is fully proven in real use.
-2. If a host-level reverse-proxy vhost points at the old jail's IP,
-   update it. (Not needed if the domain was never wired to a public vhost
-   yet — check first with `grep -rl <old-ip> /usr/local/etc/nginx/`.)
+**Real outage, 2026-08-03: verifying the new jail by curling its IP directly
+with a `Host:` header does NOT prove the live site works**, because that
+bypasses the actual production path. The real path is NPM → the jail host's
+own nginx (a per-domain vhost with `proxy_pass` hardcoded to the jail's IP)
+→ the jail. Stopping the old jail after only an IP-direct check leaves that
+vhost still pointing at a now-dead IP — instant, silent outage for every
+domain migrated this way (hit 5 domains across 2 hosts, funky and venus,
+before being caught by the user noticing timeouts, not by this process).
+`migrate-jail-to-subnet.sh` now rewires the host-nginx vhost automatically
+as its own step (finds the `.conf` referencing the old jail's IP via
+`bastille list`, `sed`s it to the new IP, `nginx -t` then `-s reload`,
+aborts and reverts from `.bak` if the syntax check fails) — **but always
+verify through `curl -H 'Host: <domain>' -H 'X-Forwarded-Proto: https'
+http://127.0.0.1/` on the jail host itself** (exercises the real vhost path)
+before trusting a migration, not a direct-by-IP request.
+
+1. Verify the new jail through the real path (see above), not by IP alone.
+2. Stop (don't destroy) the old jail — keep it as a rollback safety net
+   until the new one is fully proven in real use. Safe to do now that the
+   vhost itself has already been repointed.
 3. Destroy the old jail only once genuinely confident — this session left
    it stopped rather than destroyed on the first migration, as the
    controlled/cautious default.
 4. Update any skill/doc/memory that references the old jail name or IP
    (grep for both across `agent-skills` and this repo's `docs/`) — easy
    to miss and leaves stale instructions for the next delegate.
+5. **After any batch of migrations, sweep for stragglers**: `grep -rl
+   'proxy_pass.*192\.168\.' /usr/local/etc/nginx/sites-*/` on the host
+   catches any vhost still pointing at a shared-subnet IP whose jail has
+   since been stopped — the fastest way to confirm nothing was missed.
 
 ## Check disk space BEFORE creating any jail, every time