diff --git a/changelog.d/10203-traversal-feedback-hot-tls.md b/changelog.d/10203-traversal-feedback-hot-tls.md
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@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+### fix(json): route the traversal-feedback counters through the hot thread-local cache
+
+`json/traversal_feedback.rs` declared its two per-thread counters with a raw `thread_local!`, which the thread-local policy ratchet (`scripts/check_thread_locals.py`) rejects; they now use `crate::perry_thread_local!` like every other runtime declaration, so the per-parse read lands in the hot TLS cache instead of a `_tlv_get_addr` call.
diff --git a/crates/perry-runtime/src/json/traversal_feedback.rs b/crates/perry-runtime/src/json/traversal_feedback.rs
index f3017b0305..55f3ea2d2f 100644
--- a/crates/perry-runtime/src/json/traversal_feedback.rs
+++ b/crates/perry-runtime/src/json/traversal_feedback.rs
@@ -40,9 +40,8 @@ const SCORE_MAX: u8 = 8;
 /// the evidence keeps being refreshed.
 const RESAMPLE_EVERY: u8 = 16;
 
-// Two byte counters read once per parse: plain `thread_local!`, not the hot-TLS
-// macro, and no heap pointer can live in either.
-thread_local! {
+// Two byte counters read once per parse. No heap pointer can live in either.
+crate::perry_thread_local! {
     static SCORE: Cell<u8> = const { Cell::new(0) };
     static EAGER_RUN: Cell<u8> = const { Cell::new(0) };
 }