volt: queue: close Q79 -- manifest.py carries the 0/1/2 contract (rc 2 for ungradable, 1 only for a graded fault), records and grades directory symlinks, skips its own output inside the root, and 17 cells move the lane gate Ran 174 -> 191 with 11/17 failing on edac5cf's module and 9/17 on a check() that returns []

Closure block appended at the foot; docs/queue-index.md re-rendered in this
commit (Q79 now reads opening + cont: closure, status DONE).

CHECK: bash wizard-work/beam/CHECK && python3 tools/verify.py --repo .

docs/queue-index.md

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 **What this is.** One row per `## ` section of `WORK-QUEUE.md`: its line span, its size, and the first `Status:` marker in its body verbatim. Whether an item is *open* is not decided here -- that verdict is `tools/queue_claim_check.py`'s, and this document does not overrule it.
 
-**What it exposes.** The queue is two-tier. 71 sections carry 66 ids because 5 ids own a second, continuation section. A further **10 ids have no heading at all** and are opened as records nested inside another item's section -- so grepping `^## Q41` finds nothing while Q41 is a live item the file names 28 times. Those are listed in their own table below.
+**What it exposes.** The queue is two-tier. 72 sections carry 66 ids because 6 ids own a second, continuation section. A further **10 ids have no heading at all** and are opened as records nested inside another item's section -- so grepping `^## Q41` finds nothing while Q41 is a live item the file names 28 times. Those are listed in their own table below.
 
 | # | id | lines | bytes | role | title | first `Status:` |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
@@ -78,7 +78,8 @@
 | 68 | Q76 | 11665-11705 | 14780 | opening | beam's new median tests reach no gate, and the lane gate that would run them is red for a host path older than the commit *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the pipe, at `c3ce8dd`)* | open and unclaimed. |
 | 69 | Q77 | 11706-11787 | 20226 | opening | beam's segment tree lands 100 lines and the lane's count does not move, its failure path reports as an import `SystemExit` rather than a cell, and out-of-range indices are silently clamped *(beam … | open and unclaimed. |
 | 70 | Q78 | 11788-11837 | 4649 | opening | spark's `3d72f9d` deletes the Q63 `_check()` failure path from four verifiers and drifts five ledger rows, and the new email-validator suite imports a host path *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the … | -- |
-| 71 | Q79 | 11838-11894 | 5303 | opening | beam's `manifest.py` lands 107 lines with no cell in any gate, cannot see a directory symlink, reads its own output as a tamper, and prints a green empty manifest for a root that does not exist … | open and unclaimed. |
+| 71 | Q79 | 11838-11897 | 5309 | opening | beam's `manifest.py` lands 107 lines with no cell in any gate, cannot see a directory symlink, reads its own output as a tamper, and prints a green empty manifest for a root that does not exist … | open and unclaimed. |
+| 72 | Q79 | 11898-11910 | 4884 | cont: closure | closure — manifest.py carries the lane's 0/1/2 contract, three blind spots are closed, and 17 cells now sit in the gate *(volt, 2026-10-26; beam's lane by authorship, taken by the Workhorse as the … | DONE at `f719428` (manifest.py), `25e88f8` (canonical naming), `36ce415` (test_manifest.py); this record and `docs/queue-index.md` land in the commit above it. |
 
 ## Ids with no `## ` heading
 
@@ -126,6 +127,10 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "Q72": [
    11526,
    11567
+  ],
+  "Q79": [
+   11838,
+   11898
   ]
  },
  "ids_with_section": [
@@ -293,9 +298,9 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "end_line": 8,
   "line": 1
  },
- "queue_bytes": 1747130,
- "queue_lines": 11894,
- "queue_sha256": "1d543db876d8ca937e0674994165c1f157cdf51ac250ecfdf288386c78579796",
+ "queue_bytes": 1752020,
+ "queue_lines": 11910,
+ "queue_sha256": "4116ca9d31e6b27e08f458d332f9ef86ac408c09a0d6370090936253635c3643",
  "sections": [
   {
    "bytes": 3139,
@@ -1138,16 +1143,28 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "title": "spark's `3d72f9d` deletes the Q63 `_check()` failure path from four verifiers and drifts five ledger rows, and the new email-validator suite imports a host path *(spark lane; opened 2026-10-26 by the \u2026"
   },
   {
-   "bytes": 5303,
-   "end_line": 11894,
+   "bytes": 5309,
+   "end_line": 11897,
    "id": "Q79",
    "line": 11838,
-   "lines": 57,
+   "lines": 60,
    "role": "opening",
    "role_detail": "",
    "status": "open and unclaimed.",
    "status_line": 11890,
    "title": "beam's `manifest.py` lands 107 lines with no cell in any gate, cannot see a directory symlink, reads its own output as a tamper, and prints a green empty manifest for a root that does not exist \u2026"
+  },
+  {
+   "bytes": 4884,
+   "end_line": 11910,
+   "id": "Q79",
+   "line": 11898,
+   "lines": 13,
+   "role": "continuation",
+   "role_detail": "closure",
+   "status": "DONE at `f719428` (manifest.py), `25e88f8` (canonical naming), `36ce415` (test_manifest.py); this record and `docs/queue-index.md` land in the commit above it.",
+   "status_line": 11900,
+   "title": "closure \u2014 manifest.py carries the lane's 0/1/2 contract, three blind spots are closed, and 17 cells now sit in the gate *(volt, 2026-10-26; beam's lane by authorship, taken by the Workhorse as the \u2026"
   }
  ]
 }