queue: record the 2026-10-25 path-claims fault (forge's doc cites two files without their underscore; gate 7/8 at 07e23c5) and Q65's census reopening (99 verifiers, 93 rows, 5 NEW_UNWIRED with one CHECK.txt false positive) -- render carried in this commit

WORK-QUEUE.md

@@ -11130,3 +11130,9 @@ The class: an invocation-shaped reference to the file exists from nowhere in the
 - **Not closed, and named.** The 24 `FAIL` rows are per-lane findings held open in the ledger, exactly as reply 93 recorded. The 48 host-pinned verifiers still read an absolute `/root/...` root; they are Q62's class, one per owning lane. Promoting the lane gate to a `tools/verify.py` leg remains the operator's call (reply 93 §4), not taken here.
 - **Evidence:** commit `8ec7725`; `wizard-work/volt/q65-2026-10-25.md` (§1 the three asks, §2 the identity defect, §4 the final emit, §4.1 the tally defect); `q65-2026-10-25-final.txt` (verbatim reading at 2026-10-25T02:20:22Z); `q65-2026-10-25-{red,green}.txt`; `q65_gate.sh`; `q65_runner.py --selftest` 22 of 22; `q63_verify_scan.py --repo .` → `census coverage : 93 of 93 committed verifier(s) carry a ledger row`, `q63: 0 fault(s)`.
 
+
+**Gate red at HEAD 2026-10-25 (timmy, control plane) — the gate's one fault is a two-character citation in forge's doc, and Q65's class reopened six verifiers wide in the 68 minutes after it closed.** `tools/verify.py --repo .` at `0868c6b` and again at `07e23c5`: **8 legs, 7 pass, 1 fault**, fault `path-claims` — 1740 distinct paths, 19 missing, **2 new vs baseline**: `wizard-work/forge/smell_check_monotonic.py` and `wizard-work/forge/smell_check_monotonic_refactored.py`, first cited at `wizard-work/forge/SMELL_CHECK_MONOTONIC_REFACTOR_VERIFICATION.md:95-96`, while `4f76eaa`'s own numstat adds `_smell_check_monotonic.py` / `_smell_check_monotonic_refactored.py`. Clean at `9cf863c` (1724 / 17 / 0) and `8ec7725` (1730 / 17 / 0), so the window is exactly `4f76eaa`→HEAD. Not repaired here: the file is forge's, and a tolerance row in `tools/path_claim_baseline.tsv` would file a wrong citation as an accepted path.
+- **The census, re-measured at `07e23c5`:** 99 committed verifiers, 93 with ledger rows, **6 unclassed**, **5 NEW_UNWIRED**. One of the five is an instrument false positive, measured not assumed: sphinx's dossier `verify_claims.py` is invoked by its committed `CHECK.txt`, which the wiring pathspec (`*.py  *.sh  :(glob)**/CHECK  *.yml  *.yaml`) does not match; in a copy with `:(glob)**/CHECK.txt` added and every other argument held fixed, wired 7→8 and NEW_UNWIRED 5→4. The remaining four are genuinely unwired (forge ×2 in `4f76eaa`, forge `verify_repro_bounds_refactor.py` in `07e23c5`, spark `verify_env.py` in `5b33e43`).
+- **Q65's closure is exact and already stale.** At its own tree `8ec7725` the census reads 93 verifiers, coverage 93 of 93, `q63: 0 fault(s)`, runner 79 rows (PASS 55 / FAIL 24 / TIMEOUT 0) — reproduced here in a detached worktree. At `07e23c5` the same tool reads 93 of 99. The item closed at 02:21Z and its class reopened at 03:11Z, because no `tools/verify.py` leg runs the census (Q65's own recorded hole, `:11094`); that hole is unchanged and remains the operator's call, not re-argued.
+- **Verified elsewhere this tick, not re-reported:** ledger's 20-commit table `CHECK` rc 0 at its pin `0392469`, byte-identical to a git re-derivation (snapshot one commit behind HEAD by construction); sphinx's dossier verifier rc 0 with my own negative controls — a value substitution in `DOSSIER.md` → rc 1 naming `R1`, one flipped byte in a corpus file → rc 1 naming that paper's sha256 pin — and its five corpus pins equal to my own `sha256sum` of the committed bytes; forge's `verify_smell_check_monotonic_refactor.py` 9/9 rc 0; `tools/check_lint.py --selftest` 37/37; `index-current` and `append-audit` PASS at both revs.
+- **No item opened or closed; the open set is unchanged** (`Q37`, `Q53` and `Q64` Alexander's, `Q57` null's, `Q58` sol's, `Q60`, `Q62`, `Q63`). No decision for Alexander: the citation is forge's to fix and the pathspec is volt's, neither is a design question. Nothing from `inbox/` is quoted here or in the delivery; visibility re-read `private: false` with the seed's blob unchanged (`c05e6a0666d8`), which is Alexander's standing KEEP PUBLIC ruling (`decisions/2026-10-06-human-gates.md`), so no visibility blocker is raised. Appended at the foot; `docs/queue-index.md` re-rendered in the same commit.

docs/queue-index.md

@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@
 | 53 | Q60 | 10830-10889 | 9719 | opening | Every truncated identifier in the archive: which ones can still be checked *(pipe tooling; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 86 §6 and reply 87 §1)* | open and unclaimed. |
 | 54 | Q61 | 10890-10945 | 9624 | opening | beam's `topo_sort` drops generator dependencies, and its gate imports a copy outside the repo *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 88 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed. |
 | 55 | Q62 | 10946-10993 | 3717 | opening | 147 committed gates read `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs`; two of them cannot pass from a clone *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 89 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed. |
-| 56 | Q63 | 10994-11132 | 39056 | opening | Six committed verifiers print PASS while asserting nothing, and eight are run by no gate *(no lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 90 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed. |
+| 56 | Q63 | 10994-11138 | 42354 | opening | Six committed verifiers print PASS while asserting nothing, and eight are run by no gate *(no lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 90 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed. |
 
 ## Ids with no `## ` heading
 
@@ -78,9 +78,9 @@ Opened as records inside another section. `line` is the record's own opening lin
 | Q50 | 6990 | 6990 | 46 | Q49 | BULLET+BOLD | BOLD-LEAD |
 | Q51 | 7106 | 7106 | 37 | Q49 | BULLET+BOLD | BOLD-LEAD |
 | Q52 | 7167 | 7167 | 90 | Q49 | BULLET+BOLD | BOLD-LEAD |
-| Q53 | 7292 | 7246 | 162 | Q49 | BULLET+BOLD | BOLD-LEAD |
-| Q64 | 10308 | 10308 | 25 | Q45 | BULLET+BOLD | BOLD-LEAD |
-| Q65 | 11055 | 11047 | 12 | Q63 | BULLET+BOLD | BOLD-LEAD |
+| Q53 | 7292 | 7246 | 163 | Q49 | BULLET+BOLD | BOLD-LEAD |
+| Q64 | 10308 | 10308 | 26 | Q45 | BULLET+BOLD | BOLD-LEAD |
+| Q65 | 11055 | 11047 | 15 | Q63 | BULLET+BOLD | BOLD-LEAD |
 
 **Not in this document.** Ids the prose corpus names that the queue has never mentioned (`checkins/`, `replies/`, `recoveries/`, `audits/`, `docs/`, the top-level documents; `tools/` excluded). That set moves with the prose, not with the queue, so embedding it here would make `--check` go RED for a reason that has nothing to do with the queue being current. It is reported on demand: `python3 tools/queue_index.py --outside`.
 
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "form": "BOLD-LEAD",
    "id": "Q53",
    "line": 7292,
-   "refs": 162,
+   "refs": 163,
    "section": "Q49",
    "shape": "BULLET+BOLD"
   },
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "form": "BOLD-LEAD",
    "id": "Q64",
    "line": 10308,
-   "refs": 25,
+   "refs": 26,
    "section": "Q45",
    "shape": "BULLET+BOLD"
   },
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "form": "BOLD-LEAD",
    "id": "Q65",
    "line": 11055,
-   "refs": 12,
+   "refs": 15,
    "section": "Q63",
    "shape": "BULLET+BOLD"
   }
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   "line": 1
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- "queue_lines": 11132,
- "queue_sha256": "91b7c3c3239158acf4c1d14a49233ed9b7612bb5caa04e345188b7db0c5c485e",
+ "queue_bytes": 1552041,
+ "queue_lines": 11138,
+ "queue_sha256": "23d4a1d03c74f23a96c07147970412b7c2c3394742ac34df943ebb34d21de0df",
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@@ -925,11 +925,11 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "title": "147 committed gates read `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs`; two of them cannot pass from a clone *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 89 to zephyrus)*"
   },
   {
-   "bytes": 39056,
-   "end_line": 11132,
+   "bytes": 42354,
+   "end_line": 11138,
    "id": "Q63",
    "line": 10994,
-   "lines": 139,
+   "lines": 145,
    "role": "opening",
    "role_detail": "",
    "status": "open and unclaimed.",