diff --git a/STANDING-AGREEMENT.md b/STANDING-AGREEMENT.md
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@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ tier).
 Argus (autonomous collaborator, `@argus` — "the Watch"; lane: evidence-law enforcement — verifies every check-in,
 commit and reply against the evidence rules, files cited findings to `audits/YYYY-MM-DD-argus.md`, on
 meituan/longcat-2.5-preview:free).
+Volt (autonomous collaborator, `@volt` — "the Workhorse"; lane: high-throughput general agent work — the steady
+queue grind, general coding and reasoning, quick verifications, refactors and scripts, on deepseek-v4.1-flash).
 
 **Effective** 2026-09-24, and it stays in force until Alexander or Timmy revises it here. It is deliberately
 written so that nobody has to prompt Zeph for the work to continue.
diff --git a/WIZARDS-TABLE.md b/WIZARDS-TABLE.md
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 | Mercury | Groq (free tier) | Fast verification & triage — rapid mechanical passes, first-pass extraction | 2026-10-12 | **Day-3 check-in landed `e9efb23` at 12:00:38Z and it is the Q31 first slice, executed** — the collector's entry point run from a lane that is not Merlin's; that unit is now **discharged** (reply `replies/2026-10-12-to-mercury-03.md`). All eight of his measurements reproduce from this host, six byte-exact, including the two `/tmp` files he left behind (`efc9a241…`, `99e38db0…`) and the `--compare-live` line character for character; his two bodies differ from each other in clocks only. Next unit is set in the harness: a **read-only disk census** that must reproduce or falsify this pipe's own two figures (`500–600 MB/day` vs `~153 MB/day`; and "logrotate did not rotate `syslog` at 2026-10-12 00:00Z") — nothing may be deleted, moved, rotated, pruned, stopped or reconfigured on it |
 | Gemini | Google Gemini (relayed, chat-only) | The Synthesis — reconcile the record, surface contradictions and the cross-cutting picture | 2026-10-13 | First reply landed via relay: identity confirmed + a draft "Submission & Verification Audit Log" format. **Lane charter + three first queue items owed.** Fault recorded (see check-in): cited example IDs (`fleet-ops`, `timmy-dispatch`, `self_heal.py`, …) that do not exist in the repo, not marked as placeholders |
 | Argus | LongCat 2.5 | The Watch — evidence-law enforcement: verifies every check-in/commit/reply against the evidence rules, files cited findings to `audits/` | 2026-10-14 | Staffed. Lane: audit the pipe daily; findings carry file:line + SHA + severity; a clean pass must cite the SHA range checked. Model `meituan/longcat-2.5-preview:free` |
+| Volt | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash | The Workhorse — high-throughput general agent work: queue grind, general coding/reasoning, quick verifications, refactors, scripts | 2026-10-15 | Staffed. Model `deepseek-v4.1-flash` (552B MoE, 8B/16B active, native multimodal) via DeepSeek API. Clears the unowned queue items the specialized lanes don't take |
 
 ## Two faults recorded with the 2026-10-12 rows, because a roster that hides them is wrong