diff --git a/docs/CHALLENGES.md b/docs/CHALLENGES.md
index 97335a5..5e0313f 100644
--- a/docs/CHALLENGES.md
+++ b/docs/CHALLENGES.md
@@ -8540,7 +8540,8 @@ trace and a speech listen too: a trace was lost at session end with no word.
 
 A recording and a trace leave audio's note (280), so a later status or stop names
 the cause instead of "nothing is recording": another client's quit, `daemon stop`,
-a driver switch, a shutdown.
+a driver switch, a shutdown. `clean-stop.sh` counted the new notes as a daemon left
+running until it learned them too, as it had to for audio's.
 
 **Measured:** with a running recording, all five clients on the Android 15
 emulator; Python, exit without quit and a trace on the iOS 26.5 simulator. pytest
diff --git a/docs/checks/clean-stop.sh b/docs/checks/clean-stop.sh
index c4c42e9..e2d3083 100755
--- a/docs/checks/clean-stop.sh
+++ b/docs/checks/clean-stop.sh
@@ -282,10 +282,11 @@ if [ -d "$state/daemon" ]; then
   # it waits for the next status or stop to report it (CHALLENGES 280).
   # Counted as one, it made this check fail with nothing running, and
   # --quit could not clear it. CHALLENGES 285.
-  n=$(ls -A "$state/daemon" 2>/dev/null | grep -v '^audio-.*\.json$' | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
+  notes='^(audio|recording|trace)-.*\.json$'
+  n=$(ls -A "$state/daemon" 2>/dev/null | grep -Ev "$notes" | wc -l | tr -d ' ')
   [ "$n" = "0" ] && note "daemon socket/pid" "cleared" || bad "daemon socket/pid" "$n file(s) left"
-  lost=$(ls -A "$state/daemon" 2>/dev/null | grep -c '^audio-.*\.json$')
-  [ "$lost" = "0" ] || note "lost audio captures" "$lost noted, for the next status or stop to report"
+  lost=$(ls -A "$state/daemon" 2>/dev/null | grep -Ec "$notes")
+  [ "$lost" = "0" ] || note "lost captures" "$lost noted, for the next status or stop to report"
 fi
 
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