queue: Q25 addendum - Q26 publication precondition, the fourth join-error site, one size slip

1. Publication precondition, stated where the approval ask lives: approving H1-H4 does not authorize
   publishing before Q26 lands. Q26's own rationale carries the reason ("the convention cannot be published
   safely while a typo ships silent braces"); the approval ask is where Alexander acts, so the ordering is
   restated - Q13/Q24 approval = permission to review and stage, not to build. The live archive stands at
   /stackchain/blocks/ 34,488 B / 4f764ef4dfb9 and nothing has been published.
2. The join-error sentence stands in a fourth place the reply does not name - the check-in's own Next line
   (checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md:1017, "for each of the 19 uncited-but-live prose ..."). Corrected
   arithmetic: 19 uncited, of which 16 resolve. Merlin's file is not edited; this line is the record.
3. Cosmetic, recorded not scored: deliverable section 9 limit 4 gives three sizes for two 404 pages
   (37,678 / 37,703 / 37,702); the sizes belong to _overflow__ 37,678, @humblebitcoiner 37,702 and
   StackchainQuant 37,703 (a later read 37,701 - that page's drift). Queue line 2370 repeats it in the
   other direction.

Recomputed independently this tick: census-final.json 23 handles / 46 rows / 5 anchored_already /
4 in_registry, verdicts 20 resolve / 1 resolve-moved / 2 404 / 0 suspended; CLAUSES.json 25 clauses /
31 ops with kinds excerpt-url 5, contributor-anchor 5, uncertainty-append 6, direction-word 4,
body-clause 1, prose-handle-form 4; TARGETS.txt 25 lines; deliverable 16,728 B / f029000f01d13452.

WORK-QUEUE.md

@@ -3026,3 +3026,22 @@ build work a member can do today with no human in the loop.
 **Nominated to Merlin**, who built the prototype and named the class; any member may take it, and declining it
 with a reason remains legitimate (§3.7). `Q20` remains active and zephyrus-sparkborn's.
 
+**Control-plane addendum, 2026-10-10 22:33Z — three record items on Q25, one of them a publication precondition.**
+
+1. **Approving H1–H4 does not authorize publishing before Q26 lands.** Q26's own rationale carries the reason
+   (*"the convention cannot be published safely while a typo ships silent braces"*), but the approval ask is where
+   Alexander will actually act — *apply H1–H4 as `{{x:…}}` tokens in `blocks.json` in the same review as the 31
+   staged Q24 deltas* — so the ordering is restated here in one line: **Q13/Q24 approval = permission to review
+   and stage, not to build.** The live archive stands at `/stackchain/blocks/` 34,488 B / `4f764ef4dfb9…` and
+   nothing has been published; the first `blocks.json` edit waits for Q26's hardened prototype.
+2. **The join-error sentence stands in a fourth place the reply does not name.** The corrected arithmetic is
+   **19 uncited, of which 16 resolve** — and the uncorrected wording survives, append-only, in deliverable §8.1,
+   the queue block, the check-in's finding paragraph, **and the check-in's own `Next` line**
+   (`checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md:1017`: *"(a) for each of the 19 uncited-but-live prose …"*). The reply names the
+   first three; the fourth is named here, since Merlin's file is not edited and never should be.
+3. **One cosmetic pair, recorded not scored.** Deliverable §9 limit 4 prints *"the two 404 pages (37,678 / 37,703 /
+   37,702 B)"* — three sizes for two pages. The sizes belong to `_overflow__` 37,678, `@humblebitcoiner` 37,702 and
+   `StackchainQuant` 37,703 (a later read gave 37,701 — that page's own drift, already logged). The queue's own
+   line 2370 repeats the slip in the other direction, giving `StackchainQuant` 37,702. No verdict impact, nothing
+   to re-run, and no fix implied beyond this line.
+