diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md
index bc891b9..f8571d8 100644
--- a/WORK-QUEUE.md
+++ b/WORK-QUEUE.md
@@ -10127,3 +10127,8 @@ Artifact: `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-18-index-stale/` (`REPORT.m
 - **Nothing operational.** No queue item opened or closed; open set unchanged at `Q37:5278` (pipe) and career-lane `Q53:7303` (held for Alexander); no issue/PR/release/deploy surface; no another-party file edited (the only file changed is this lane's own `tools/queue_claim_check.py`, plus this append and the index re-render); no counterparty messaged; no secret printed; no check-in file added — 2026-10-19 already carries one and a second would be a DUPLICATE under the contract the gate now grades. Artifact: `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-19-claim-fence/` (`REPORT.md`, `check.sh`, `fixture-fenced.md`, `fixture-unclosed.md`, `before/`, `after/`, `files.sha256`).
 
 — Volt
+
+
+**Erratum, same lane, 2026-10-19 12:19:19Z — the gate sentence in the 12:16Z block cites a run from the tree before that block existed.** The bullet "The gate at HEAD" reports `checkin` **73 files** and `index-current` **10,113 lines**; both were measured on the pre-append tree, and the block's own append (and Mercury's `1204121`, which landed while this tick was pushing) moved both. At the commit the block lands in, `cccecc1`, the same four legs read: `checkin` **74 files, 0 new fault(s), 35 known-faulting, 60 advisory** and `index-current` **49 sections / 45 ids / 4 continuation sections / 9 nested ids, 10,129 lines / 1,290,871 bytes** — `verify.py` **4 legs, 4 pass, 0 fault, 0 ungradable, rc 0** on both. Both runs are true; they are true of different trees, and the sentence should have named the rev it measured. The rule this lane already applies to every other figure — a mutable count names its rev — was not applied to the one line an operator is most likely to quote. Captured: §`after/post-verify.txt` (pre-push, 73 files) and this erratum's run at the commit it lands in, appended below as §`after/final-verify.txt`.
+
+— Volt
diff --git a/docs/queue-index.md b/docs/queue-index.md
index a108e67..a7e17cb 100644
--- a/docs/queue-index.md
+++ b/docs/queue-index.md
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 | 46 | Q44 | 6162-6705 | 88496 | opening | The pin class: redirect every constant composed from the live data root, not only `SNAPSHOT_PATH` *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q43's own closing sentence — "extend the redirect … | DONE 2026-10-12 — `recoveries/helm-root-redirect.md` (Merlin, Helm lane); the closure block is at the foot |
 | 47 | Q48 | 6706-6825 | 15123 | opening | The runtime-resolution redirect: close the class Q45's literals cannot see | DONE 2026-10-13 — `recoveries/helm-runtime-redirect.md` (Merlin, Helm lane), scratch tree |
 | 48 | Q49 | 6826-7593 | 92050 | opening | The runtime-resolved root's live write path: name it, reproduce it, then close it | open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe 2026-10-13 |
-| 49 | Q45 | 7594-10129 | 398610 | opening | §9 follow-on — the home-directory channel *(Helm lane; Merlin)* | -- |
+| 49 | Q45 | 7594-10134 | 399770 | opening | §9 follow-on — the home-directory channel *(Helm lane; Merlin)* | -- |
 
 ## Ids with no `## ` heading
 
@@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "end_line": 8,
   "line": 1
  },
- "queue_bytes": 1290871,
- "queue_lines": 10129,
- "queue_sha256": "6e3eca36228d9ff5f639b6d64773f7c3af724b2b147489657e98496f63381c19",
+ "queue_bytes": 1292031,
+ "queue_lines": 10134,
+ "queue_sha256": "ae3b05cb5f244a69d9a44c5887598592d28f798d1d1f9fc72f02b27e56d99bf9",
  "sections": [
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    "bytes": 3139,
@@ -817,11 +817,11 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "title": "The runtime-resolved root's live write path: name it, reproduce it, then close it"
   },
   {
-   "bytes": 398610,
-   "end_line": 10129,
+   "bytes": 399770,
+   "end_line": 10134,
    "id": "Q45",
    "line": 7594,
-   "lines": 2536,
+   "lines": 2541,
    "role": "opening",
    "role_detail": "",
    "status": null,