diff --git a/server/src/config/coreEventActions.js b/server/src/config/coreEventActions.js
index b972530..468e704 100644
--- a/server/src/config/coreEventActions.js
+++ b/server/src/config/coreEventActions.js
@@ -422,6 +422,58 @@ const ACTIONS = [
       await require('../events/ledger').markRunDirty(runId)
       return { ok: true }
     },
+
+    /**
+     * Which of this run's leases the game side still has a record of (Phase 11b).
+     *
+     * **A lease row had no reconcile path at all until this existed**, and nothing
+     * failed to say so. `cleanup.js` resolves a resource to the action of the step
+     * that made it, and for a lease that action is `core.lease` — a CORE action, on
+     * a path a module cannot register anything on. So every `override` row came
+     * back `unanswered` for the life of the run, and a lease the shard had quietly
+     * dropped (a restart reverts every config lease, by design) stayed in the
+     * ledger as live until teardown went looking for a baseline nobody was holding.
+     *
+     * The question asked is deliberately NOT "is the value still what we applied".
+     * That is drift, and drift is teardown's verdict to deliver through `restore`
+     * so the row lands as `drifted` with the current value beside it. A reconcile
+     * that inferred absence from a changed value would orphan the row first and
+     * throw that away — the operator would be told the lease vanished rather than
+     * that somebody moved it.
+     *
+     * A lease with no `inForce()` is reported in force, which is core's posture
+     * everywhere else in this file: "I could not ask" must never be recorded as
+     * "it is gone".
+     */
+    async reconcile({ resources }) {
+      const inForce = []
+
+      for (const row of resources || []) {
+        if (row.kind !== 'override') continue
+
+        const lease = registries.eventLease(row.ref)
+
+        if (!lease || typeof lease.inForce !== 'function') {
+          inForce.push(row.ref)
+          continue
+        }
+
+        let answer
+        try {
+          answer = await lease.inForce({ ref: row.ref, payload: row.payload || null })
+        } catch (err) {
+          answer = null
+        }
+
+        // Only an explicit `held: false` takes a row out. A module that threw, timed
+        // out, or answered something unrecognisable has not said the lease is gone.
+        if (answer && answer.ok === true && answer.held === false) continue
+
+        inForce.push(row.ref)
+      }
+
+      return { ok: true, inForce }
+    },
   },
 
   {
diff --git a/server/src/modules/registries.js b/server/src/modules/registries.js
index 88d52e8..db2539b 100644
--- a/server/src/modules/registries.js
+++ b/server/src/modules/registries.js
@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ const isEventBudget = (id) => eventBudgets.has(id)
  * one by id.
  */
 const allEventLeases = () =>
-  [...eventLeases.values()].map(({ read, apply: applyValue, restore, ...rest }) => rest)
+  [...eventLeases.values()].map(({ read, apply: applyValue, restore, inForce, ...rest }) => rest)
 
 /** One lease, callables included. `core.lease` and the cleanup sweep read it. */
 const eventLease = (id) => eventLeases.get(id) || null
@@ -1192,6 +1192,26 @@ function checkEventLeaseShape(entry) {
     if (typeof l[fn] !== 'function') throw new Error(`registerEventLeases: ${l.id} has no ${fn}()`)
   }
 
+  // **`inForce()` is optional, and it is the fourth question a lease can answer**
+  // (Phase 11b). `read` is "what is it now", `apply` is "hold it here", `restore`
+  // is "put it back and tell me if somebody moved it" — and none of the three
+  // answers "does the game side still have any record of this hold?", which is
+  // what a reconcile after an outage needs.
+  //
+  // It is deliberately not `read()` with a comparison. A value that differs from
+  // what the event applied is DRIFT, and drift is a verdict teardown has to
+  // deliver through `restore` so the resource lands as `drifted`; a reconcile
+  // that inferred absence from a changed value would orphan the row first and
+  // destroy the one signal an operator needs. The two questions have different
+  // answers on purpose.
+  //
+  // Optional because the fallback is the posture core takes everywhere else: a
+  // lease that cannot say leaves its ledger row alone, which is exactly the
+  // behaviour before this phase.
+  if (l.inForce !== undefined && typeof l.inForce !== 'function') {
+    throw new Error(`registerEventLeases: ${l.id} inForce must be a function`)
+  }
+
   return {
     id: l.id,
     label: l.label,
@@ -1203,6 +1223,7 @@ function checkEventLeaseShape(entry) {
     read: l.read,
     apply: l.apply,
     restore: l.restore,
+    inForce: l.inForce || null,
   }
 }
 
diff --git a/server/test/eventCleanup.test.js b/server/test/eventCleanup.test.js
index f70bc56..9b3b5ca 100644
--- a/server/test/eventCleanup.test.js
+++ b/server/test/eventCleanup.test.js
@@ -485,6 +485,76 @@ test('placeholders are not asked about, because there is nothing to ask yet', as
   assert.equal([...store.rows.values()][0].status, 'pending')
 })
 
+// ── Reconciling a LEASE (Phase 11b) ────────────────────────────────────────
+
+/// A lease row's action is `core.lease`, so these need core's own registrations.
+function registerCoreAnd(leaseOver = {}) {
+  registries.registerCore()
+  registerLease(leaseOver)
+}
+
+test('a lease row had no reconcile path at all until core.lease grew one', async () => {
+  // The hole this phase closed, asserted from the outside. `reconcileModule`
+  // resolves a resource to the action of the step that made it, and for a lease
+  // that action is CORE's — a path no module can register anything on. So every
+  // `override` row came back `unanswered` for the life of the run, and a lease the
+  // shard had quietly dropped stayed in the ledger as live until teardown went
+  // looking for a baseline nobody was holding.
+  registerCoreAnd({ inForce: async () => ({ ok: true, held: false }) })
+  addStep(1, 'core.lease')
+  addResource({ kind: 'override', ref: 'demo.rate', payload: { baseline: 1, applied: 3 } })
+
+  const summary = await cleanup.reconcileModule('demo')
+  assert.deepEqual(summary, { asked: 1, inForce: 0, orphaned: 1, unanswered: 0 })
+  assert.equal([...store.rows.values()][0].status, 'orphaned')
+})
+
+test('a lease the shard still has a record of stays put', async () => {
+  registerCoreAnd({ inForce: async () => ({ ok: true, held: true }) })
+  addStep(1, 'core.lease')
+  addResource({ kind: 'override', ref: 'demo.rate', payload: { baseline: 1, applied: 3 } })
+
+  const summary = await cleanup.reconcileModule('demo')
+  assert.deepEqual(summary, { asked: 1, inForce: 1, orphaned: 0, unanswered: 0 })
+  assert.equal([...store.rows.values()][0].status, 'confirmed')
+})
+
+test('a lease that cannot say is left alone, and DRIFT is not what this asks about', async () => {
+  // Two properties in one walk. Every unanswerable shape leaves the row exactly as
+  // it was, which is core's posture everywhere else — and a lease with no
+  // `inForce()` at all is one of those shapes rather than a boot failure.
+  //
+  // The second is the reason `inForce` exists instead of a comparison against
+  // `read()`: a value that differs from what the event applied is drift, and drift
+  // is teardown's verdict to deliver through `restore` so the row lands `drifted`
+  // with the current value beside it. A reconcile that inferred absence from a
+  // changed value would orphan the row first and throw that away — telling the
+  // operator the lease vanished rather than that somebody moved it.
+  const shrugs = [
+    undefined,                                   // no inForce() declared at all
+    async () => null,
+    async () => ({ ok: false, held: false }),    // could not ask; not an answer
+    async () => ({ ok: true }),                  // answered without saying
+    async () => { throw new Error('sidecar gone') },
+    // The drift shape. `read()` would report 4.5 against an applied 3, and this
+    // must NOT be read as "the lease is gone".
+    async () => ({ ok: true, held: true, current: 4.5 }),
+  ]
+
+  for (const inForce of shrugs) {
+    store.rows.clear()
+    store.log.length = 0
+    registries._reset()
+    registerCoreAnd(inForce === undefined ? {} : { inForce })
+    addStep(1, 'core.lease')
+    addResource({ kind: 'override', ref: 'demo.rate', payload: { baseline: 1, applied: 3 } })
+
+    const summary = await cleanup.reconcileModule('demo')
+    assert.equal(summary.orphaned, 0, String(inForce))
+    assert.equal([...store.rows.values()][0].status, 'confirmed', String(inForce))
+  }
+})
+
 test('reconcileAll asks every module that owns a live row', async () => {
   registerAction({ reconcile: async () => ({ ok: true, inForce: [] }) })
   addStep(1, 'demo.spawn')
diff --git a/server/test/eventModuleContract.test.js b/server/test/eventModuleContract.test.js
index c9d6520..9efd157 100644
--- a/server/test/eventModuleContract.test.js
+++ b/server/test/eventModuleContract.test.js
@@ -181,6 +181,7 @@ test('the catalog never carries a callable, whichever registration it came from'
     assert.equal(l.read, undefined)
     assert.equal(l.apply, undefined)
     assert.equal(l.restore, undefined)
+    assert.equal(l.inForce, undefined)
   }
   for (const s of registries.allEventOptionSources()) assert.equal(s.resolve, undefined)
 })
@@ -661,6 +662,48 @@ test('core registers the lease VERB and a module registers the lease', async ()
   assert.deepEqual(options.options, [{ value: 'demo.rate.gain', label: 'Gain rate', group: 'demo' }])
 })
 
+test('inForce() is optional, and a fourth question rather than a fourth spelling of read()', () => {
+  // Phase 11b. `read` is "what is it now", `apply` is "hold it here", `restore` is
+  // "put it back and tell me if somebody moved it" -- and none of them answers
+  // "does the game side still have any record of this hold?", which is what a
+  // reconcile after an outage needs. A config lease is reverted by a shard restart
+  // by design, so the answer changes without the value ever being written by us.
+  //
+  // Optional, because the fallback is core's posture everywhere: a lease that
+  // cannot say leaves its ledger row alone.
+  //
+  // Three module IDs rather than three reloads of one: `loadModule` rewrites
+  // `index.js` in place and clears the LOADER from the require cache, but not the
+  // module file it goes on to require. A second load of the same id silently
+  // re-registers the first source.
+  const lease = (id, extra) => `module.exports = (ctx, api) => {
+    api.registerEventLeases([{
+      id: '${id}.rate.gain', label: 'Gain rate', type: 'float', min: 0.5, max: 5,
+      maxDurationMs: 3600000,
+      async read() { return { ok: true, value: 1 } },
+      async apply() { return { ok: true } },
+      async restore() { return { ok: true } },
+      ${extra}
+    }])
+  }`
+
+  const without = loadModule('leasea', lease('leasea', ''))
+  assertRegistered(without)
+  assert.equal(registries.eventLease('leasea.rate.gain').inForce, null)
+
+  const withIt = loadModule('leaseb', lease('leaseb', 'async inForce() { return { ok: true, held: true } },'))
+  assertRegistered(withIt)
+  assert.equal(typeof registries.eventLease('leaseb.rate.gain').inForce, 'function')
+
+  // And a declaration that is present but not callable fails the module rather
+  // than being ignored -- the same posture the other three take. A module that
+  // meant to answer and cannot is a module whose leases would silently never be
+  // reconciled.
+  const broken = loadModule('leasec', lease('leasec', "inForce: 'yes',"))
+  assert.equal(broken.state, 'startup_failed')
+  assert.match(broken.reason, /inForce must be a function/)
+})
+
 test('core refuses a lease held longer than the module allows', async () => {
   // The bound is the MODULE's number and the enforcement is CORE's, which is the
   // §F split stated as one assertion. `retry: false` because a duration that is