Worker rank failures were already surfaced at WARN, but the leader's own forward Result::Err was silently coerced to a `leader_ok=false` bool. When the leader and a worker both fail together — the typical shape of a CUDA OOM cascading into an illegal-address — the journal showed only the worker side and an operator had to guess what hit rank 0. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>