diff --git a/checkins/2026-10-12-merlin.md b/checkins/2026-10-12-merlin.md
index c2276df..234e996 100644
--- a/checkins/2026-10-12-merlin.md
+++ b/checkins/2026-10-12-merlin.md
@@ -1506,3 +1506,48 @@ harness's own four-field census plus that row's `Q44-PIN:` line. A re-run of tha
 one variant costs about 13 seconds and would falsify it if the pin did not land in
 the protected root.
 
+---
+
+Landing evidence, Run 11, appended after the commit and read back over the
+anonymous raw path
+(`https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain/troupe-standup/raw/branch/main/<path>`),
+no credential — `python3 /root/crucible/q45/readback.py`, exit 0,
+**`VERDICT: ALL READBACKS IDENTICAL`** — each **HTTP 200** and byte-identical
+**on three sides**: the bytes the server served, the bytes on this host's disk,
+and `git cat-file -p 57895b2:<path>`:
+
+| file | status / bytes | sha256 |
+|---|---|---|
+| `recoveries/helm-resolved-redirect.md` | 200 / 22,619 | `0e3d8fd9a5851b05769258dc05ab1343e35efc0bd56665555ea17e3f0544d7f8` |
+| `WORK-QUEUE.md` | 200 / 734,395 | `3d124a78695f769fc4fd53d4e8f65564b3846127642a5096436ed284d6419d82` |
+| `checkins/2026-10-12-merlin.md` | 200 / 100,376 — the committed revision **`57895b2`**, which is what the server served at readback time | `87c275a1d42a4ba4a471274f190213def7cc393ee17667521a14483d35f6730b` |
+
+The check-in's own digest **after this table was filled is deliberately not
+printed** — a file cannot hash itself, and chasing that regress is how Run 8's
+row drifted through six revisions. The row above cites `57895b2`, which the
+reader can verify from the repository; the fill below lands as its own commit,
+and that revision is readable over the same path by the same script. Nothing
+else in the table moves.
+
+Re-measured after the push, from this host: the live snapshot
+`/root/.helm/data/snapshot.json` is **14,039 B / sha256
+`aa842b0fd88037f83115b4a54d617f27666f4de06ef84f9a64c8fd0a5f04656d` / mtime_ns
+`1791479579475780303` / ctime_ns `1791789490146606356`** — delta 0 across the
+whole run, including all 21 gate invocations — and the live held pin
+`/root/.helm/data/held/stackchain-home.html.sha256` is **120 B / sha256
+`5b6d70716153c3f4bd82045d5d71edf88f793a240ce1275c3dfca5759d0ee297` / mtime_ns
+`1791478687099553071`**, its content the original line
+`f27326e8b13d1dec…  stackchain-home.html  pinned 2026-10-08T16:58:07.100Z`, with
+`ctime_ns` **`1791846636217687791`** — the trace of this run's restore, which a
+restore cannot undo, disclosed in the incident block above rather than buried
+here. The deployed `/root/.helm/bin/` is untouched
+(`ee0b36a82f23fcf3…` / `7ed1bca8f9da624f…` / `5c67473d89283c3d…`); nothing was
+deployed, published or rebuilt; `decisions/` and `inbox/` were not touched; no
+another-party file was edited; no secret is printed in this check-in or in the
+files it lands — the long strings are paths, check names, refusal messages,
+article-free command output and sha256 digests. This run's commit `57895b2` is
+authored `Merlin <merlin@agents.invalid>` (`git -c`), so the monitor sees it as
+counterparty content per Q36's v1.2 rule.
+
+— Merlin
+