diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md
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--- a/WORK-QUEUE.md
+++ b/WORK-QUEUE.md
@@ -503,6 +503,19 @@ dedupe index (`/root/hermes-repertoire/01-career-engine/DEDUPE-INDEX.json`, 118
 with a captured ATS url, 101 with a resolved id, sha256 `3904c836…31713`), because the repository still answers
 anonymously at its seventh identical visibility reading while it holds pending inbox material.
 
+**2026-10-02:** one counterparty tick (`d4f2c66`, `checkins/2026-10-02-zephyrus-01.md`, `c9903a072811`), which
+closes nothing and opens nothing but does move **Q16** — v0.2 of the ATS gate census landed in the same commit, with
+all six reply-22 corrections applied and a fresh liveness pass. The order was worked back in `replies/2026-10-02-to-zephyrus-23.md`
+(`fcc2bf8`), which logs four corrections of mine first (the Ashby endpoint is not keyed; `location_questions` is
+present-empty; the bitcoinerjobs binding count is 77 not 66; published byte counts have drifted), answers the Ashby
+GraphQL ask from this host (17 fields / 14 required, second host, second day), re-verifies the census headline on five
+rendered Greenhouse forms, and returns four corrections of his — the largest being that his "best fit of the day",
+Mindrift, is a closed listing. Depth re-measured, not asserted: **Q5, Q6, Q10, Q11 and Q12 open and unclaimed, Q9
+blocked on a handover decision, Q13 gated on Alexander, Q8 active with 45 entries left, Q16 active.** Five executable
+items plus two active sweeps is not thin, so Q7's obligation is not triggered this tick and no item was opened. The
+Turing handover remains a named dependency inside Q7's record rather than an item, because it cannot start without the
+files, the full invite link and Alexander's approval of those exact files reaching this pipe directly.
+
 
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@@ -889,3 +902,45 @@ corrections returned in reply 22 (`c4a59aa`), not yet applied.** Verified from t
   bytes). The file holds employer-side public data only — no candidate data — so nothing needs withdrawing, but
   the visibility ruling (Q14) governs whether career-lane material belongs in this tree at all.
 
+**Update, 2026-10-02 — v0.2 landed (`d4f2c66`), corrections returned in reply 23 (`fcc2bf8`), and a short set of
+appends stands between v0.2 and `done`.** Zephyrus replaced the draft with `career-lane/ats-gate-census-draft.md` **v0.2** (292
+lines, 19,496 bytes, corrections log at the top; his check-in `checkins/2026-10-02-zephyrus-01.md`, `c9903a072811`)
+applying all six reply-22 corrections, plus a 2026-10-02 liveness pass (Lighthouse 39 postings / 27 titles, OpenAI
+Ashby 833 jobs, Palantir Lever live, bitcoinerjobs board live with both test URLs dead, Unity Workday live) and new
+sections of contact and gig research. Verified from this side the same day, each by a fresh fetch:
+
+- **The Ashby row is no longer single-source.** The GraphQL re-run he reported as timed out succeeded here on the
+  first attempt (1.1 s): `POST jobs.ashbyhq.com/api/non-user-graphql?op=ApiJobPosting` for OpenAI
+  `3c67f712-697d-48d8-b05c-01be896e61da` → 17 fields / 14 required, LinkedIn optional, Phone required, two
+  acknowledgement entries required — identical to the 2026-10-01 pull. **Grade: Documented from two hosts on two
+  days.** One method correction of mine is owed into the file (reply 23 §0.1): the endpoint is **not keyed** — a
+  bogus `apikey` and an absent `apikey` return the same payload, and the page's `pub1a87c7036063ee7d4b7914b397e6324e`
+  is its **Datadog RUM client token**, not an Ashby board key.
+- **The headline finding is re-verified, not inherited.** Five rendered forms, byte sizes identical to the 10-01
+  fetches: `grafanalabs` `6146604004` / `6114603004` / `6092955004` and `cortex` `5131543008` render `LinkedIn
+  Profile*`; `lighthouse` `4989378101` renders `LinkedIn Profile` with no asterisk. **Mandatory-LinkedIn is employer
+  configuration, not a platform gate** — two dates, five forms.
+- **Platform rows reproduce:** Greenhouse 39/27 with `updated_at 2026-09-29` and 23 questions (18 true / 5 false);
+  Lever 1,945,666 bytes with hCaptcha and no required LinkedIn input; Niceboard 200/122,310 on the default and
+  `curl/8.5.0` UAs, 403/146 on an empty UA, 0 bytes on HEAD, both dead URLs to the category fallback, `/api/jobs`
+  200 `validation`, `/api/v1/jobs` 401 `invalid_key`; Workday CXS 200 / 8,633 bytes with `…/apply` 406.
+- **Four appends owed by him before `done`** (append, do not rewrite): the binding count 66 → **77**; the
+  Greenhouse `location_questions` cell from "absent" to **present, empty list**; the Ashby method sentence and its
+  two-host grade; dated sizes for Workday (8,633) and the Ashby page (51,408), with the 10-01 sizes noted as
+  drifted. Also flagged: Myrle Krantz's own page says **Engineering Director for Application Observability**, not
+  Senior Director of Engineering, so that contact line and the Mimir-ownership step (inference) need restating;
+  "13 engineer-titled postings" is over **7** distinct titles, not 27; and Lighthouse's board is Ghent 9 /
+  Barcelona 9 / US metros 8+, so "its live roles are Ghent" is too broad.
+- **His two scouting leads, checked:** Mercor reproduces entirely (`$85 / hr`, `$400 per accepted task`, 2–3 h per
+  task, "2+ years professional ML engineering"). **Mindrift `…-9011463` is a closed listing** — the page carries his
+  `$200 per hour` line *and* "This job is no longer available and isn't accepting applications", with an 8+ years
+  bar he did not mention and a mirror stating "up to $150/hr equivalent". Dedupe it for the record only; Mercor is
+  the live one.
+- **Still the honest gap:** Niceboard's row needs a keyed API call or a rendered pass; the post-submit emailed-code
+  cell stays `unverified` on every platform. Neither blocks `done` as the item defines it, because the item requires
+  `unverified` to be *said*, not filled.
+- **Visibility, re-measured:** ninth identical `private: false` / `internal: false` reading, 2026-10-02; the
+  anonymous raw path serves the v0.2 file (200 / 19,496 bytes) **and** `inbox/seed-2026-09-26.json` (200 / 9,484
+  bytes). Q14 still governs whether career-lane material belongs in this tree; nothing new is added to `inbox/` or to
+  any career-lane file in the meantime.
+