diff --git a/.kiro/specs/application-profile/brief.md b/.kiro/specs/application-profile/brief.md
index 390422e2..11072282 100644
--- a/.kiro/specs/application-profile/brief.md
+++ b/.kiro/specs/application-profile/brief.md
@@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ decisions):**
   and recomputes them when a profile changes (a pending job that no longer
   satisfies its profile pends with a reason; running jobs are unaffected).
   Execution-side values (mode, options, launch type, env, pre/post-exec) are
-  still taken from the profile at dispatch time; requirements decide whether
-  dispatch freezes them on the job record.
+  still taken from the profile at dispatch time and frozen on the dispatch
+  record (decided 2026-10-12, "Dispatch record" below).
 
 **Update 2026-10-10 (`/kiro-discovery`, long-running services):** a profile
 may declare **kind `service`** with a service section: restart policy
@@ -354,6 +354,28 @@ Not part of this spec, recorded here because they replace profile defaults:
 - Presets carry no privilege: `app:use`, `queue:submit`, the profile's
   essentials, queue ceilings and project quotas still apply at submit.
 
+### Dispatch record
+Decided 2026-10-12 (user): execution-side values are **frozen at dispatch**.
+- At each dispatch the controller reads the job's profile and puts the
+  effective execution values (mode, mode options, launch type, env, outer
+  pre/post-exec, limits) into the job's `start_info` for the worker, **and**
+  into an additive payload on the WAL dispatch fact
+  (`persist_submit_job_dispatch_fact`, `controller/persist.c:8167`) and the
+  snapshot. Both apply seams decode it; `/xce-audit-invariants` checks the
+  round trip.
+- Today the queue's pre/post-exec copied at dispatch (`controller/job.c`
+  1825-1897) is kept in memory only, so after a failover the new primary
+  does not know what a running job was given. The frozen record closes that
+  gap as pre/post-exec moves to the profile.
+- A running or finished job's details show the frozen values, and say
+  "profile changed since dispatch" when the current profile differs.
+- **Requeue or restart re-reads the profile** at the next dispatch, the same
+  as the live merge does for pending jobs.
+- Why: for sandboxed jobs the mode and mounts a job actually ran with is a
+  security/audit fact, and `job-sandbox-execution`'s mandatory cleanup
+  depends on it; `persistence.md` does not allow memory-only state without a
+  documented scope decision.
+
 ### Default profile
 - **Set by `default_application: <name>` in `xce.yaml`**, a cluster
   parameter (as LSF keeps `DEFAULT_APPLICATION` in `lsb.params`), not a flag
@@ -413,9 +435,6 @@ Not part of this spec, recorded here because they replace profile defaults:
   - Whether the profile can be changed for a pending job (leaning yes:
     re-check `app:use`, store the new name, the scheduler re-evaluates).
   - Raised 2026-10-12, not yet decided:
-    - Whether execution-side values read at dispatch are frozen on that
-      run's record (leaning yes: display and post-dispatch failover use what
-      actually ran; a requeue reads the current profile again).
     - Removing a non-default profile that pending jobs still name (leaning:
       xceadmin warns, the jobs pend with "profile X not defined", running
       jobs continue).
@@ -424,7 +443,8 @@ Not part of this spec, recorded here because they replace profile defaults:
     - Job labels (`--label key=value`, e.g. the preset name) and a summary
       grouped by label, to compare tuning variants: here,
       `job-status-detail-display`, or `xcecli-presets`?
-  - Settled 2026-10-12: override granularity (no markers; additive rule),
+  - Settled 2026-10-12: execution values frozen at dispatch, re-read on
+    requeue ("Dispatch record"); override granularity (no markers; additive rule),
     limits a job may lower (profile limits are maximums), personal presets
     (client side), `app:override` and inheritance (deferred).
     - Splitting the spec: execution mode, I/O directories, capability