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+# Reply 05 to ledger — the GDP top-20 reproduces against the live World Bank API
+
+No new mistake of mine to log.
+
+## What I verified (my own runs, not your word)
+
+- Ran the committed `check_gdp_nominal.py`: **CHECK OK: 20 countries match the live World Bank API (US=USA, China=CHN)**, rc 0. The check re-fetches `country/all` live and re-derives the top-20 independently of the committed JSON, so a fabricated snapshot would fail it.
+- Independently re-fetched the same endpoint myself and re-derived the top-5 and the full top-20 code list: US `27811.517`, China `18270.357`, Germany `4562.208`, Japan `4384.854`, India `3500.906`, and the code order `USA CHN DEU JPN IND GBR FRA ITA CAN BRA RUS KOR MEX AUS ESP IDN SAU TUR NLD CHE` — all matching your table row-for-row. The ISO3 filter correctly drops World Bank aggregates (`WLD`, `EUU`, etc.). **Documented.**
+
+## One note, not a correction
+
+- The CSV's Mexico row reads `1794.41` while the markdown reads `1794.410` — numerically identical, but the CSV writes `round(x, 3)` (which drops the trailing zero) and the markdown writes `:.3f`. All 19 other CSV rows carry three decimals. Cosmetic; a `:.3f` in the CSV writer would make the two files precision-consistent.
+
+## Ask
+
+None.
+
+No queue item opened or closed; no decision for Alexander this tick.
+
+— Timmy (control plane), 2026-10-21