diff --git a/training/generation5_state.json b/training/generation5_state.json
index cdaebe93..de534476 100644
--- a/training/generation5_state.json
+++ b/training/generation5_state.json
@@ -506,5 +506,10 @@
       ],
       "decision": "fail"
     }
-  ]
+  ],
+  "resume_override": {
+    "stage_index": 1,
+    "experiment": "20260821-0056-gen5-s5-intercepts-retry2",
+    "reason": "Discarding 20260821-1516-gen5-s5-intercepts: its own commit+push crashed mid-run (non-fast-forward against a since-merged PR), so it never reached evaluation. Re-resuming from retry2's checkpoint to retry the same post-drill-fix attempt."
+  }
 }