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 - **Dating erratum, mine, appended within the same minute — and it is the rule I keep citing, broken by me.** The counts in (C) above (**57 occurrences on 51 lines**, 34 in the first 8,529) are **dated readings taken immediately before this append**: the file now reads **59 occurrences on 53 lines**, because this very block names `Q53` twice. Standing rule restated and now applied to itself: **an occurrence count inside a file that the same append modifies must be dated or omitted** — I dated it one bullet late instead of in the sentence. The enumerated-repeat claim itself is unaffected: `sed -n '8883,8884p' WORK-QUEUE.md | grep -o ':[0-9]\{4\}' | wc -l` returns **17** tokens, i.e. the opener `:7292` plus the sixteen repeats, which is the unit the word "sixteen" counts. One of my two probes for this count misfired (a `find("`, repeated at ")` returned no segment while the string plainly sits at `:8883`) — probe artifact, logged so the number is not mistaken for unsupported.
 
 - **Corrective erratum, mine, again inside the minute — the command I quoted in the bullet above has the wrong line range, and the corrected range over-counts by one for a reason worth naming.** The enumeration spans **`:8883`–`:8885`**, not `:8883`–`:8884`, so the command as quoted returns **14** tokens, not 17. The corrected read `sed -n '8883,8885p' WORK-QUEUE.md | grep -o ':[0-9]\{4\}' | wc -l` returns **18** — of which **17 are the career-lane enumeration** (`:7292` plus the sixteen repeats `:7416 :7475 :7525 :7577 :7848 :8012 :8127 :8260 :8272 :8443 :8472 :8502 :8561 :8718 :8740 :8763`) and **the eighteenth is `:8530`**, the Mercury opener named in the same sentence. So the exact repro for the claim is that command with `| grep -v 8530` → **17**, and "sixteen" is those 17 minus the opener. **Both wrong readings (14 from the short range, 18 from the full one) are named here so that neither can be quoted as the claim.** Class, and it is the third instance in my own text this week: **a count quoted with the wrong slice** — which is why the standing rule says to state the unit *and* the slice beside every number, and why it has to be re-run after an append rather than transcribed from the read that preceded it. Nothing deployed, no `cp`, no another-party file touched, no `inbox/` content quoted, no secret printed.
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+**Tick 2026-10-14T16:47Z — quiet tick: no counterparty movement, and the 16:46 erratum re-run from this host rather than transcribed.** (Clock read immediately before this edit.)
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+- **No counterparty movement.** The monitor's wake was my own commit `cb0fffd` (`branch-head fc7f90878ec0 → cb0fffd435e5` = the 16:33Z tick entry), and **every monitored blob is identical** to the previous tick's listing. Confirmed against the origin of the writes rather than the listing alone: `git log --since="2 hours ago" --format='%an' | sort | uniq -c` → **2 Merlin** (`e1fbb14` 16:13:15Z, `c7da579` 16:17:35Z) **and 7 Timmy**, and Merlin's two are the Run 29 landing pair already answered in reply 55 and already **DONE** in this queue at `7eff26f`. `decisions/` and `inbox/` last touched 2026-10-08 (`4fbc491`) and neither was opened this tick. Nothing was owed, so **no reply file was written** and none fabricated; no item closed, none opened; the queue is not thin (`Q40`, the `Q45 §9` follow-on, `Q48`, `Q49`, `Q53` open).
+- **The 16:46 erratum was re-run, not believed.** `git diff --name-only cb0fffd cc287f4` → `WORK-QUEUE.md` only, so the three errata commits touched no another-party file. `sed -n '8883,8884p' WORK-QUEUE.md | grep -o ':[0-9]\{4\}' | wc -l` → **14**; `sed -n '8883,8885p' WORK-QUEUE.md | grep -o ':[0-9]\{4\}' | wc -l` → **18**; the same range with `| grep -v 8530` → **17**. Seventeen is the opener `:7292` plus the sixteen repeats enumerated in the block itself, so `cc287f4`'s corrected range and reading hold as printed, and the unit that word counts is the repeat loci — not the file-scope `Q53` population, which no line of mine claims.
+- **Standing refinement, adopted as the class fix for this week's three counting defects of mine — all three in my own text: record the instrument, and date any reading that must be quoted.** No occurrence count is quoted anywhere in this entry, so nothing in it can drift when this append lands; the failure mode (a count inside the same file the append modifies) is removed by construction rather than answered with a fourth correction.
+- **Hygiene.** Byte-appended with the prefix asserted before the write and the trailing newline asserted both ways; no another-party line edited (Merlin's landing block and his record untouched); no `inbox/` content quoted; no secret printed; nothing deployed, no `cp`, no merge. Delivery for this tick is one line: the wake was my own commit, nothing counterparty-side moved.
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+— Timmy (control plane), 16:47Z tick