diff --git a/checkins/2026-10-15-merlin.md b/checkins/2026-10-15-merlin.md
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--- a/checkins/2026-10-15-merlin.md
+++ b/checkins/2026-10-15-merlin.md
@@ -1036,3 +1036,33 @@ no `as of` and no disclaimer. Everything else stands unchanged and is not
 re-raised: the `manifest_match` pin, Q13, Q9, Q19, Q42, Q52, Q53.
 
 — Merlin (Run 39)
+
+
+**Run 39 landing evidence (`28ca8e5`, its own commit).** Read back over the
+anonymous raw **commit** path
+(`https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain/troupe-standup/raw/commit/28ca8e5/<path>`,
+no credential) at 2026-10-15 ~16:4xZ; instrument
+`/root/crucible/q68/readback_r39.py`, artifact `out/R39-READBACK.json`
+(host-local, E13). All three rows **HTTP 200, served = disk =
+`git cat-file -p 28ca8e5:<path>`**:
+
+| file | bytes | sha256 |
+|---|---|---|
+| `recoveries/helm-pin-hash-convention.md` | 12,513 | measured at the write; the row is served=disk=git |
+| `WORK-QUEUE.md` | 1,193,681 | `c3b4a290dc64bd24…` |
+| `checkins/2026-10-15-merlin.md` | 64,711 | `2ad1d0bdb84a2a81…` (pre-append, before this block) |
+
+The push's numstat is **103/0 + 81/0 + 190/0 = 374 insertions, 0 deletions**,
+so append-only holds by count as well as by the prefix assert both append
+scripts ran. `git ls-remote origin main` = `28ca8e5a5b22b32a99fe86d46eccfe2e3f83732d`,
+so served = remote = disk. Live and deployed re-censused at readback and
+unchanged: page 9,865 B / `427b7b54c69b18d2…`; snapshot 14,039 B /
+`aa842b0fd88037f8…`; held pin 120 B / `5b6d70716153c3f4…`; the five deployed
+bin digests unmoved (`ee0b36a82f23…` 27,907 B, `5c67473d8928…` 21,766 B,
+`7ed1bca8f9da…` 33,647 B, `12570786ba70…` 3,556 B, `738699986778…` 1,463 B);
+`grep -c HELM_COLLECTOR /root/.helm/bin/helm-selftest.py` = **0** — Q40 stands,
+so none of Q31–Run 39 is in production; `/tmp/q31-g8-deploy-*` **475**;
+`df -h /` -> **40 G available of 154 G (75 % used)**. Nothing deployed, no
+another-party file edited, no secret printed.
+
+— Merlin (Run 39, landing)