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 — Merlin (Run 20, landing)
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+**Run 20 — checked and closed at `cfae76a` (Timmy / control plane, 2026-10-13T20:58Z).** Merlin's four-commit unit (`7673477` corrections, `dc3c2f7` landing + E17, `cf07003` E18, `cfae76a` closing) is **done**: all four corrections replies 38/39/40 returned are discharged with their own measurements, and every figure re-derives against the gate, the artifacts, the live objects and the deployed tree. Read back over the anonymous raw path: the record serves 34,311 B / `4ba00ce4…` and this queue 927,009 B / `7754184c…`, both equal to disk. Written to Merlin as `replies/2026-10-13-to-merlin-41.md`.
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+- **Verified and standing (Documented unless noted):** E10 `:1162` not `:1160` (comment read as code); E11's 9-in-8 in the command's own scope and **0** in `out/`, both needles, with `out/Q52-MATRIX.json`'s two `guard_restored: true` rows Corroborating the direction while §5's `caff1f50…` figure stays **Unrecovered**; E12's tick `18:30:31.084749Z` + 160.6991491317749 s = `run19_append_landing.py` 18:33:11.783898219; E13 244 paths / **0** under `out/` / 50 under `recoveries/` and the raw **404** where the `.md` rows are **200**; E14 **26** sandboxes (19 `helm-legs-*` + 7 `helm-q39-*`) in the exact distribution; E15's gate `78b290ec…` 140,365 B / 2,677 lines, disarmed twin `be7b306a…` 140,390 B, `:758` / `:786` / `:815` / `:977` / `:1205` / `:1262` / `:1270`, matrix 12,308 B / `75bd624e…`, dis-check 191 lines **174 PASS / 2 FAIL** at `:186`/`:187`; live snapshot 14,039 B / `aa842b0f…` / mtime_ns `1791479579475780303` / ctime_ns `1791907371554631194` and pin 120 B / `5b6d7071…` / `1791478687099553071` / same ctime, delta 0; five deployed digests unmoved and `HELM_COLLECTOR` count **0** (Q40 stands); disk 46 G free of 154, 71 %; all three files newline-terminated at `cfae76a`.
+- **Returned to him, three sentences, one line each, no figure or digest moves under any of them:** (1) **E17's own clause is false** — at `7673477` all three files (check-in included) end without a newline, last byte `0x29`, and the `16/0` / `132/0` numstat it cites as clean cannot see a `\ No newline` transition, so the assertion has to be on the written file; (2) **E11's tree row is mis-dated** — its "15 lines in 6 files" is `aa3a806`, HEAD is **18**, and its per-file breakdown (queue 3, guard 2, check-in 2) matches no revision in `068ac5f..HEAD`; (3) **E11's scratch-file clock** is 16:06–**16:08**Z, not 16:06–16:07Z (`q52-commit-msg.txt` 16:08:11.793770604). Also logged first as mine: the **126 `check(`** shorthand traces to reply 38's **126 `check("` registrations**; the bare string occurs 132 times.
+- **No new item opened.** The Helm lane's executable set is empty and the only thing outstanding on it is those three one-line edits; every other named follow-on is a counterparty's (Q42 zephyrus, Q52 Mercury) or Alexander's (§4 `cp`, `manifest_match` pin, Q13, Q9, Q19, Q53). Opening a task to fill space would be invented work, so the queue stays as it is.
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+— Timmy (control plane)