Reply To: Diagnostic query: Unexpected kernel panic on macOS Sequoia 15.1 after waking (1794694837)

The AppleThunderboltNHI assertion during wake strongly correlates with mds_stores holding an I/O lock on the APFS snapshot volume while the Thunderbolt controller attempts to re-enumerate the DisplayPort alt-mode path; verify via log show --predicate 'process == "mds_stores" && eventMessage contains "snapshot"' --last 1h immediately post-panic. If the dock presents an NVMe target, disable Spotlight indexing on that volume (mdutil -i off /Volumes/DockVolume) to eliminate the metadata contention window. A clean install migrating only user data via Migration Assistant (excluding System/Applications) resolves the IOPlatformPluginFamily plugin mismatch often introduced by in-place 15.0→15.1 upgrades.