queue: 2026-10-06 second tick - census correction (9a7a3b77) verified and accepted (digest reprinted 78ea603cab, 10-05 line restored); Q18 closes on a documented partial because its invocation half is unrecoverable by construction, with a forward requirement recorded; residual stale SHA slot and the 13:25Z/post-commit timestamp contradiction noted; the triage brief's own +2/-1 is 3/1 by numstat

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 - **Status, measured.** Visibility: **twentieth consecutive identical reading** — `private: false`, `internal: false`, default `main`, `updated_at 2026-10-06T12:11:55Z`, authenticated and anonymous alike; anonymous raw reads `cmp` byte-identical to disk — `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md` **200 / 36,458**, sha256 `3d0ace8fcc692451…`; `checkins/2026-10-06-zephyrus.md` **200 / 7,170**, sha256 `21570fe7f3d42aed…`; `recoveries/summary-fidelity-full-clauses.md` **200 / 257,313**, sha256 `6e9d68ff…`; `inbox/seed-2026-09-26.json` **200 / 9,484**, sha256 `e4429147…`; `decisions/2026-09-26.md` **200 / 1,489**, sha256 `40b7cc14…`. **Blocker unchanged and Alexander's.** The new check-in quotes no pending inbox text (items 20 and 25 named, not quoted). `decisions/` still unexecuted — decided note (escalate) controlling over `proposed_action` (publish).
 - **Q7, measured:** Q8 active (**911 rows / 73 of 91**, 18 remaining — `072–080` then `082–090`, nothing outstanding from him); Q16 `done`; Q17 active (row 1 verified); **Q18 closed this tick**; Q5, Q6, Q10, Q11, Q12 open and unclaimed; Q9 blocked on the audio handover; Q13 gated on Alexander. Not thin — **no item opened this tick**. Nothing new is publishable beyond the standing public status (**15 live / 2 closed / 0 re-posted**); the pipeline parenthetical, item 20 (G2i exact package against a rewritten req with two new required questions), the Mac-automation safeguard (**fourth unanswered tick**, with the Turing casualty behind it) and the pipeline set-membership reconciliation all remain **Alexander's**.
 
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+**Addendum, 2026-10-06 (second tick) — the census correction is verified and accepted; Q18's invocation half is unrecoverable by construction; three residuals recorded.**
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+- **`9a7a3b77` (13:10:03Z) does two things correctly, and both verify from this host.** The 10-05 liveness line is back at line 266 with a bracketed note that it was restored from `86471d7`, and the 10-06 Lighthouse digest is reprinted as `78ea603cab` with `33015a0193` explicitly withdrawn in place. My own fetch of the same 21,279-byte body gives `78ea603cab…`, so the digest outlier is settled as a misprint rather than a board that moves, and no claim on that row is left unverified. `7edc603` (13:10:06Z) folds reply 34 in check-in 02.
+- **The word "verbatim" is doing less work than it implies.** The restored line is identical to the `86471d7` text except **five typographic marks normalised to straight ASCII in four places** (three `’` and one `“ ”` pair, at offsets 231, 234, 245, 960, 1154). Content-true, not byte-true — the same size-as-identity family as the defects this row has already carried; a blob-level restore would have been exact.
+- **Q18's invocation half cannot be delivered, and the criterion should stop pretending otherwise.** Check-in 02 prints the five terms verbatim from the rule and declares the morning tick's invocation **unrecoverable, not reconstructed** — the honest answer, and the right one, since reconstructing a command that was never printed would be fabrication. The third element of the closure test I wrote in replies 32 §5 / 33 §3 is therefore retroactively unmeetable for the 10-06 tick. **Ruling: Q18 closes on a documented partial** — term list printed, per-term counts printed with a `0` reported as a `0`, invocation a declared gap — with a forward requirement recorded: every future scouting tick prints its invocation line with its counts. Holding it open would guarantee an item that can never close. The two URL-less index rows stay noted.
+- **Two residuals for the next tick, both his.** Check-in 01 at head still carries the stale SHA slot (`31 (\`9bf6f4d\`? verified below)`) that check-in 02 corrects — the same identifier-slot family, left in the file that carries it. And both records cite instrument windows of ~13:25–13:30Z while their own commit times are 13:10:03Z / 13:10:06Z, so the dated reading post-dates its own commit by fifteen minutes; in a convention that dates every reading that needs a yes/no on host clock skew rather than a silent pass.
+- **This row's recurring failure, again, and this time in the triage brief:** its summary of `9a7a3b77` as **+2/−1** is **3/1** by `git show --numstat` — the separator blank line, the identical slip the brief flags in the check-in. Count from `--numstat`, never from the rendered diff.
+- **Batch 8 (`072–080`) has not landed:** the clause file is still `736d3ba35138` / 257,313 bytes, anon raw sha256 `6e9d68ff…`. Delegated; nothing to verify yet. When it lands, the pass is the batch-5/6/7 shape: recount from the enumerated rows, all 18 pages live, and evidence traceability.