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VALID_QUOTE_TRANSITIONS was a complete-looking quote state machine that nothing consulted, so status changes were unvalidated. Mapping every writer of quotes.status (quoteService.js is the only one -- dealsService, projectService, adminDashboard and customer.js all read) showed the table itself was wrong: six legitimate transitions were missing. sendQuote allows draft/declined/expired -> sent but the table had draft only; adminAcceptQuote allows draft/sent/expired but had sent only; adminDeclineQuote allows draft/sent/expired but had draft/sent; recordResponse had no same-status entry. Enforcing it as written would have broken accept-on-behalf from a draft, resend-after-decline, every expired revival and the 15-minute response-toggle window. So the table is reconciled to reality first, then assertQuoteTransition() (409, QUOTE_INVALID_TRANSITION) is called at all seven sites. Two things worth carrying forward. Nothing in the codebase ever sets 'expired' -- the header comment says "set by the scheduler" and there is no such scheduler; sent -> expired is retained as documented intent only. And the backstop's added value is narrow: every reachable invalid transition is already caught by a call site's own better-worded guard, which fires first. What it newly catches is a status the machine has never heard of -- a legacy or corrupt row like 'cancelled' sails through adminAcceptQuote's guard, which only excludes accepted/declined/converted, and used to be silently overwritten. That is what the new tests pin. Refs testplan REPORT.md B4.