diff --git a/.trinity/seals/verified_VerifiedSealIdentity.json b/.trinity/seals/verified_VerifiedSealIdentity.json
index fd10028ebb..3bf3201185 100644
--- a/.trinity/seals/verified_VerifiedSealIdentity.json
+++ b/.trinity/seals/verified_VerifiedSealIdentity.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
-  "built_by": "t27c-bootstrap@0.5.2+407bd6446",
+  "built_by": "t27c-bootstrap@0.5.2+c0d050148",
   "closure": [
     {
       "spec": "specs/verified/independence.t27",
@@ -11,23 +11,23 @@
     }
   ],
   "config": "gen=c,rust,verilog,zig;tests=zig",
-  "gen_hash_c": "sha256:5951b1eb904503cfc8782af33cc899fcd205243d7980544ca69a65fd56c28070",
-  "gen_hash_rust": "sha256:c029bf84cd708e2e3b5b81ca88e881c7419e5409ef18bf28891603cd1367870f",
-  "gen_hash_verilog": "sha256:fe2e9dad3ca8e73d90a7663bc3bdc584e62d4c7c0df01ef38abcd36fa0d654f3",
-  "gen_hash_zig": "sha256:508a5a6cfc3149295e5ab773d4fd85828bbb93507f8bcb88bf811ab1bdd63def",
+  "gen_hash_c": "sha256:66b654d8ef2f0c8f84e2f7f701156b25c401b8aceb1b61634b02e7972a60a510",
+  "gen_hash_rust": "sha256:f1f99ae274ca3cba8fe0c76f309b4b8432986e005e311c7e4e32a870a80720b8",
+  "gen_hash_verilog": "sha256:722ae2305b03e37e82128f83f96a563e98de555b9db9dd0c6eb711e14280e2f0",
+  "gen_hash_zig": "sha256:d08aa38a15bcd235b5b7797977390b85ed1ebd5acd54759e2b3203fd50d213cc",
   "module": "VerifiedSealIdentity",
   "ring": 12,
   "seal_schema": 2,
-  "sealed_at": "2026-10-10T16:56:24Z",
+  "sealed_at": "2026-10-18T05:54:56Z",
   "sealed_by": "t27c-bootstrap@0.5.2",
-  "spec_hash": "sha256:a1d71dd73dbf914dae5e74e37fd39ab75a551185b0aa0e01fb8b8f5ccba1d5b4",
+  "spec_hash": "sha256:e130c8a418600afe5f97cb9acccf6fa6f7da9cb8c97d427b9c608609d22e7ba3",
   "spec_path": "specs/verified/seal_identity.t27",
   "tests": {
     "failed": 0,
     "failing": [],
     "forced": false,
-    "passed": 15,
-    "total": 15,
+    "passed": 17,
+    "total": 17,
     "vacuous": 0
   },
   "toolchain": {
diff --git a/bootstrap/gen/rust/verified/seal_identity.rs b/bootstrap/gen/rust/verified/seal_identity.rs
index 2da39237f4..7966e810f7 100644
--- a/bootstrap/gen/rust/verified/seal_identity.rs
+++ b/bootstrap/gen/rust/verified/seal_identity.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 // Generated from .t27 spec
 // DO NOT EDIT — generated by t27c
-// NOT LOWERED BY THIS BACKEND: 15 test(s), 2 invariant(s), 0 function(s) with no body.
+// NOT LOWERED BY THIS BACKEND: 17 test(s), 2 invariant(s), 0 function(s) with no body.
 // This backend emits declarations only. The spec's checks live in
 // the Zig and Verilog outputs; do not read this file as verified.
 
@@ -73,9 +73,6 @@ pub fn remint_wants(decision: u8, has_seal: bool) -> bool {
     if (decision == REUSE) {
         return false;
     }
-    if (decision == REBUILD_MISSING) {
-        return (has_seal == false);
-    }
     return true;
 }
 
diff --git a/specs/verified/seal_identity.t27 b/specs/verified/seal_identity.t27
index 1491ecda7f..4fa5df914b 100644
--- a/specs/verified/seal_identity.t27
+++ b/specs/verified/seal_identity.t27
@@ -94,13 +94,17 @@ pub fn checks_pass(failed_zero: bool, forced: bool, tests_total: u32, invariants
 
 /// The re-mint: `t27c frontier --reseal` seals again every spec remint_wants() names, and keeps the new
 /// seal only when remint_keeps() allows it; otherwise the old seal is written back. A stale part (spec,
-/// closure, toolchain, config, verdict) is cured by sealing again, and so may a MISSING spec with no seal.
-/// A MISSING spec that has never been sealed is tried too: on 2026-10-10, 44 of the 101 specs with no seal
-/// at all passed their tests and had simply never been sealed (#8691). A MISSING spec that HAS a seal is
-/// missing only through an import, and sealing it again changes nothing.
+/// closure, toolchain, config, verdict) is cured by sealing again, and so is a MISSING one. MISSING is
+/// tried whether or not a seal exists, and the same two gates decide what happens next. A spec that
+/// has never been sealed: on 2026-10-10, 44 of the 101 specs with no seal at all passed their tests
+/// and had simply never been sealed (#8691). A spec that HAS a seal, a legacy v1 record with no closure,
+/// toolchain or config: MISSING says a part was never recorded, and sealing again records it. #10250 resealed
+/// 279 such specs with direct `seal --save` runs, because this rule used to skip them. The guards stay where
+/// they are: `seal --save` itself refuses a regression (blocked_reseal_allowed) and a new producer over silicon
+/// receipts (silicon_queue.reseal_allowed), and a refusal writes the old seal back. A seal already at the
+/// current schema comes out the same apart from when and by which build, and is not rewritten.
 pub fn remint_wants(decision: u8, has_seal: bool) -> bool {
     if (decision == REUSE) { return false; }
-    if (decision == REBUILD_MISSING) { return has_seal == false; }
     return true;
 }
 
@@ -247,11 +251,33 @@ test remint_wants_only_a_stale_part {
     assert remint_wants(REBUILD_VERDICT, true) == true;
 }
 
-test remint_wants_a_never_sealed_spec_but_not_an_import_gap {
+test remint_wants_a_missing_spec_sealed_or_not {
     // never sealed: try it, remint_keeps decides
     assert remint_wants(REBUILD_MISSING, false) == true;
-    // sealed, missing only through an import: resealing it changes nothing
-    assert remint_wants(REBUILD_MISSING, true) == false;
+    // a legacy seal (#10250): sealing again records the closure, toolchain and config it lacks
+    assert remint_wants(REBUILD_MISSING, true) == true;
+    // a reused spec is still left alone, sealed or not
+    assert remint_wants(REUSE, true) == false;
+}
+
+test a_missing_spec_with_a_v1_seal_is_resealed_only_where_remint_keeps_allows {
+    // the v2 re-seal of a v1 spec that passes: kept
+    assert remint_wants(REBUILD_MISSING, true) == true;
+    assert remint_keeps(2, true, false, 6, 0, 0, true) == true;
+    // the same spec when seal --save recorded a failure, a forced run, or a vacuous suite: old seal written back
+    assert remint_keeps(2, false, false, 6, 0, 0, true) == false;
+    assert remint_keeps(2, true, true, 6, 0, 0, true) == false;
+    assert remint_keeps(2, true, false, 6, 0, 6, true) == false;
+    // a seal that stayed at schema 1: not kept
+    assert remint_keeps(1, true, false, 6, 0, 0, true) == false;
+    // a seal file another spec owns: not kept
+    assert remint_keeps(2, true, false, 6, 0, 0, false) == false;
+}
+
+test a_missing_spec_that_no_longer_compiles_keeps_its_passing_seal {
+    // the seal passed, the spec is blocked now: seal --save refuses without --force, so remint_keeps never sees it
+    assert blocked_reseal_allowed(true, false) == false;
+    assert blocked_reseal_allowed(false, false) == true;
 }
 
 test remint_keeps_a_v2_seal_whose_checks_ran {