diff --git a/scripts/frank-zealot.service b/scripts/frank-zealot.service
index b74d7df..5e3ca96 100644
--- a/scripts/frank-zealot.service
+++ b/scripts/frank-zealot.service
@@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ Group=dank
 LimitMEMLOCK=infinity
 Environment="FRANK_ZEALOT_ENV_FILE=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/frank-zealot.env"
 ExecStart=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh
-Restart=on-failure
+# Restart=always, the fleet law for LLM units: exit 0 is a CLEAN stop to
+# systemd, so on-failure leaves the endpoint dark (and the unit reporting
+# success) until the next boot. frank-zealot is the fleet's compaction hub —
+# every endpoint's compaction dies when it does.
+Restart=always
 RestartSec=10
 
 [Install]
diff --git a/serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-zealot-llama-qwen35-9b-q6k-2x200704.md b/serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-zealot-llama-qwen35-9b-q6k-2x200704.md
index 777e412..09b34f3 100644
--- a/serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-zealot-llama-qwen35-9b-q6k-2x200704.md
+++ b/serverAppConfigs-docs/LLM/frank-zealot-llama-qwen35-9b-q6k-2x200704.md
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ conversation slot and unquantized KV back.
 | Host / device | Dankclaw (192.168.0.143), RTX 3090, 24,576 MiB |
 | Endpoint | `http://192.168.0.143:7771` — served model id **`frank-zealot`** (`ALIAS` in the env; the SERVICE keeps the `frank-zealot` name), `/v1` OpenAI surface |
 | Runtime | llama.cpp master (0.5.0-dev, commit `5fc4f3c`), CUDA sm_86 build `…/llama-master/build-cuda/bin/llama-server` (`GGML_CUDA_FA_ALL_QUANTS=ON`); `qwen35` is registered in the build's own `src/llama-arch.cpp` and `src/models/qwen35.cpp` exists at that commit |
-| Unit | root systemd `frank-zealot.service` ([`scripts/frank-zealot.service`](../../scripts/frank-zealot.service)), `User=dank`, `Restart=on-failure`, `LimitMEMLOCK=infinity` |
+| Unit | root systemd `frank-zealot.service` ([`scripts/frank-zealot.service`](../../scripts/frank-zealot.service)), `User=dank`, `Restart=always` (raised from `on-failure` 2026-10-13 for fleet parity — exit 0 is a CLEAN stop to systemd, so the weaker policy leaves the compaction hub dark while the unit reports success; `tests/llm_units.bats` gates it), `LimitMEMLOCK=infinity` |
 | Serve script | [`scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh`](../../scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh), tunables [`scripts/frank-zealot.env`](../../scripts/frank-zealot.env) |
 | Weights | `/home/dank/models/Qwen35-9B-HauhauCS-Q6K/Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-Q6_K.gguf` — HauhauCS **Q6_K**, 7,359,259,008 B, sha256 `c0ba7beb68fd3fe47891bd549486d38dcf62d00817296ea314ad37017f5a4986` |
 | Projector | `mmproj-Qwen3.5-9B-Uncensored-HauhauCS-Aggressive-BF16.gguf`, 921,704,448 B, sha256 `05f662501f8bd45607b079723a3e238a4e888fd085a10a53f4057a0e250f6934` — the model is natively multimodal and the Q6_K file carries no vision tensors, so this file IS the vision capability |
diff --git a/tests/frank_dragoon_unit.bats b/tests/frank_dragoon_unit.bats
index c207ef9..41943e1 100755
--- a/tests/frank_dragoon_unit.bats
+++ b/tests/frank_dragoon_unit.bats
@@ -346,8 +346,9 @@ $(cat "$TEST_TMP/serve.log")"
 }
 
 @test "the deployed unit keeps the fleet's restart and boot-persistence shape" {
-    grep -qE '^Restart=(always|on-failure)$' "$UNIT"
-    grep -qE '^WantedBy=' "$UNIT"
+    # Restart=always and the WantedBy value are the FLEET parity seam
+    # (tests/llm_units.bats); what is endpoint-specific is which script the
+    # unit runs, under whom, and what a stop must reap.
     grep -qE '^ExecStart=.*/serve-frank-dragoon\.sh$' "$UNIT"
     grep -qE '^User=dank$' "$UNIT"
     grep -qE '^LimitMEMLOCK=infinity$' "$UNIT"
diff --git a/tests/frank_zealot_unit.bats b/tests/frank_zealot_unit.bats
index c7a8782..1244719 100755
--- a/tests/frank_zealot_unit.bats
+++ b/tests/frank_zealot_unit.bats
@@ -85,10 +85,12 @@ run_stage() {
     [ -f "$ENV_FILE" ]
 }
 
-@test "frank-zealot is boot-persistent, self-healing and unprivileged" {
-    grep -q '^WantedBy=multi-user.target$' "$UNIT"
-    grep -q '^Restart=' "$UNIT"
-    grep -q '^RestartSec=' "$UNIT"
+@test "frank-zealot runs unprivileged with the memlock budget and its env file" {
+    # Restart policy, RestartSec and WantedBy are the FLEET parity seam
+    # (tests/llm_units.bats). What is endpoint-specific: CUDA pins its
+    # staging buffers, so the memlock budget is load-bearing even though the
+    # weights are copied into VRAM, and the unit must name the serve script
+    # and the env file that sizes it.
     grep -q '^User=dank$' "$UNIT"
     grep -q '^LimitMEMLOCK=infinity$' "$UNIT"
     grep -q '^ExecStart=/home/dank/serverAppConfigs/scripts/serve-frank-zealot.sh$' "$UNIT"
diff --git a/tests/llm_units.bats b/tests/llm_units.bats
index 42c94a8..758045c 100644
--- a/tests/llm_units.bats
+++ b/tests/llm_units.bats
@@ -80,3 +80,38 @@ unit_repo_path() {
         }
     done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT/scripts" -name "frank-*.service" -type f | grep -v AGENTTRASH | sort)
 }
+
+@test "every LLM root unit is self-healing against a voluntary exit" {
+    # Restart=always, not on-failure. Every endpoint here is a container
+    # runner (podman run) or a server whose front end can exit 0 on a
+    # control-plane event; systemd treats exit 0 as a CLEAN stop and
+    # on-failure leaves the endpoint dark until the next boot, with the unit
+    # reporting success. frank-archon learned this on 2026-10-04; the fleet
+    # law is that no LLM unit may ship the weaker policy.
+    local unit
+    while IFS= read -r unit; do
+        grep -qx 'Restart=always' "$unit" || {
+            echo "$(basename "$unit"): $(grep '^Restart=' "$unit") (must be always)"
+            return 1
+        }
+    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT/scripts" -name "frank-*.service" -type f | grep -v AGENTTRASH | sort)
+}
+
+@test "every LLM root unit restarts promptly and starts at boot" {
+    # RestartSec=10 is the fleet's cadence: fast enough that a transient
+    # fault is invisible to traffic, slow enough that a hard fault does not
+    # spin the engine (each radiance boot re-pins ~147 GiB).
+    # WantedBy=multi-user.target is boot persistence for a ROOT unit —
+    # default.target is the USER-manager's target and means nothing here.
+    local unit
+    while IFS= read -r unit; do
+        grep -qE '^RestartSec=([1-9]|1[0-9]|20)$' "$unit" || {
+            echo "$(basename "$unit"): no RestartSec in 1..20"
+            return 1
+        }
+        grep -qx 'WantedBy=multi-user.target' "$unit" || {
+            echo "$(basename "$unit"): $(grep '^WantedBy=' "$unit")"
+            return 1
+        }
+    done < <(find "$REPO_ROOT/scripts" -name "frank-*.service" -type f | grep -v AGENTTRASH | sort)
+}