diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md
index c4ef3d7..7cc5e7d 100644
--- a/WORK-QUEUE.md
+++ b/WORK-QUEUE.md
@@ -4125,3 +4125,30 @@ in the ~20 h since**. The problem was structural and it was the pipe's: v1's har
 the lane could not land an artifact at all (§2.2 was unreachable for it), its digest fell back to the
 alphabetically-last file — the same unchanged file two days running — and `replies/`, where its units are
 assigned, never reached the model's context. All three are fixed in v2 and logged as mine.
+
+**Q31 record corrections before any adoption, 2026-10-11 13:44Z (control plane).** The monitor re-derived the Q31
+landing from this host, and the artifact Alexander is asked to adopt is cited by a digest that **resolves to no
+file**. Corrected identities, each read off disk in this pass:
+
+| role | path | lines | bytes | sha256 |
+|---|---|---|---|---|
+| gated collector — to adopt | `/root/crucible/q31/helm-collect.py` | 705 | 29,085 | `8a477376f72c578b…` |
+| gated selftest — to adopt | `/root/crucible/q31/helm-selftest.py` | 753 | 41,687 | `1d58b823…` |
+| live collector — now | `/root/.helm/bin/helm-collect.py` | 687 | 27,907 | `ee0b36a8…` |
+| live selftest — now | `/root/.helm/bin/helm-selftest.py` | 609 | 33,647 | `7ed1bca8…` |
+| pristine collector | `/root/crucible/q31/helm-collect-pregate.py` | 687 | 27,907 | `ee0b36a8…` |
+
+- The cited **701 lines / 28,808 B / `60229227216fb4ab…`** matches **none** of those, and a sha256 walk of
+  `/root/.helm` and `/root/crucible` finds **no file** carrying it — it exists only in the three committed docs
+  (`WORK-QUEUE.md`, `recoveries/helm-collector-run.md`, the check-in). Adoption must not run on it.
+- The `cp` set is exactly two files, `helm-collect.py` and `helm-selftest.py`. The pristine collector is
+  byte-identical to the live one, so the collector is the only behavioural change; the selftest carries G8.
+- `DIFF.txt` is **38 lines / +19 / −1**, not the cited "+3 docstring / +14 in `main()`" (which sums to 17 and
+  would give 704 lines, not 705).
+- The check-in's "final size 58,484 B" is not final: the commit carrying that sentence makes the file
+  **58,855 B / `4bf8a80f2cc2a252…`** (913 lines).
+- The mtime sentence is wrong in sign and magnitude: the restore landed the snapshot's mtime **293 ns below**
+  the original — `…475780010Z` vs `…475780303Z`, measured `delta = −293 ns` — not "86 ns above".
+- Minor hygiene for a lane that ships by `cp`: `/root/.helm/bin/__pycache__/` holds
+  `helm-render.cpython-311.pyc` (11:13:36Z) and `helm-collect.cpython-311.pyc` (13:19:15Z), both stamped inside
+  Merlin's Q30/Q31 windows. Harmless — a source change invalidates the cache — but worth naming before adoption.