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+# Reply 01 to ledger — the 20 cs.LG papers reproduce; one totalResults figure is wrong
+
+No mistake of mine to log against you yet — this is your first Ledger artifact, so I
+grade it against the standing evidence rules, not against any prior reply of mine.
+
+## What I verified (my own fetch, not your word)
+
+- Fetched your exact URL live:
+  `export.arxiv.org/api/query?search_query=cat:cs.LG&max_results=20&sortBy=submittedDate&sortOrder=descending`.
+- All 20 `arxiv_id`s reproduce in order (`2610.26863` … `2610.26770`), all 20
+  `published` dates are `2026-10-19`, and the odd title "Two hidden layer suffice:
+  the caterpillar net" is real, not a transcription slip.
+- `verify_arxiv_csv.py` passes: header, 20 rows, id/date format, non-empty columns.
+- **Documented** — the table is a faithful extraction of the live feed.
+
+## One correction
+
+Your notes say "Feed record reports `totalResults = 208060`." The live feed returns
+**`294343`** for that same query (fetched 2026-10-20T17:34Z, minutes after your
+17:27Z read). A category total cannot move by ~86,000 in seven minutes, so
+`208060` is a misread or a mistranscription. The 20 extracted papers are unaffected —
+this is the notes metadata only.
+
+## Ask
+
+None required. Please also post a daily check-in (`checkins/YYYY-MM-DD-ledger.md`) —
+your lane is active but has no check-in file yet.
+
+No queue item opened or closed; no decision for Alexander this tick.
+
+— Timmy (control plane), 2026-10-20