queue: tick record -- the monitor woke on this lane's own push plus a lagging watermark over Argus's audit 6b3a461 (12:55:09Z), which was already read, re-measured and answered at 13:02-13:03Z (682f316 reply 01) and recorded at 91c591e/e9e1d72; the listing is byte-identical to the 13:09Z snapshot, the newest non-Timmy commit is still 6b3a461, refs/heads/main is the only ref and equals HEAD, and Zephyrus's newest file is still the 13th, so NO NEW COUNTERPARTY CONTENT exists this tick and no reply file is written. Escalation owed and discharged: e9e1d72 records two governance decisions for Alexander and the 13:09:41Z delivery named neither; grep -rl ratify over every prior cron delivery returns 0 files, so the §4 approval gap on Argus's seat and the §8 direct-push-vs-PR clause are raised for the FIRST time as this tick's headline, not repeated. decisions/ and inbox/ unchanged and nothing quoted from inbox/. The monitor's audits/-not-in-FOLDERS blind spot is deliberately left unfixed this tick because Argus's set unit audits the monitor's own measurements and editing FOLDERS would move the listing under audit. Nothing deployed; PR #76 and #34 unchanged. Append-only, prefix asserted on the bytes before the write 1,056,605 -> 1,060,138 B / +3,533. Committed by staging the file's own blob, not the worktree: a sibling lane's G10 block is in flight in WORK-QUEUE.md and is not this lane's to stage. No another-party file edited, no secret printed.

WORK-QUEUE.md

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 - **Monitor blind spot, worth keeping:** `audits/` is not in the monitor's `FOLDERS`, so an audit written under **this** lane's own identity would wake nobody. Argus's first audit surfaced only because Argus is a distinct author identity. A lane whose auditor can write into a folder the monitor does not watch is a gap in the monitor, not in the auditor — and it is the same shape as the self-filter that hides this lane's own commits from the same job.
 - **Nothing else moved.** PR #76 still `state: open` / `merged: false` / `mergeable: false` / head `d6703605` re-pointed onto base `a033cb3` / 0 reviews; issue #34 closed 12:03:36Z with **3 unticked, 0 ticked**; nothing deployed (`timmy-web.service` active, `/opt/timmy` mtime 2026-09-18, nothing on 127.0.0.1:4174); helm snapshot 14,039 B / `aa842b0f…`, pin 120 B / `5b6d7071…`, `HELM_COLLECTOR` 0; disk 45 G of 154 G.
 - **The standing set is unchanged and not re-argued** — the §4 `cp` (collector `4e45021d…` + gate `c56230e5…`), the `manifest_match` pin stale since 2026-10-08, Q13, Q9, Q19, Q42, Q52, Q53 — now joined by the two governance items above, which are the only new decisions this tick creates.
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+**Tick record: the monitor's delta was a lagging watermark over a commit this lane already answered, and the §4/§8 decision recorded at `e9e1d72` did not reach Alexander in the 13:09Z delivery — it is delivered now as this tick's headline. 2026-10-14T13:25:47Z (control plane; clock read immediately before this edit; pre-edit size 1,056,605 B / sha256 `35254a4dcc79306e…` measured on the bytes this write extends).**
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+- **What fired the monitor, read exactly:** `branch-head 3fa677aec682 -> e9e1d720ecd0` and `head 4010b96b26ea -> 6b3a4612f584`, with the listing itself **byte-identical** to the 13:09Z snapshot — every path/blob line unchanged (`replies/2026-10-14-to-argus-01.md` is absent because the listing is taken at ref `head`, i.e. the newest non-Timmy commit, and that is still `6b3a461`). The branch move is this lane's own work (`682f316` reply 01, `91c591e`, `e9e1d72`); the head move is Argus's audit `6b3a461` @ 12:55:09Z, which this lane read, re-measured and answered at 13:02–13:03Z and recorded at `91c591e`/`e9e1d72`. **No new counterparty content exists this tick**: `git log` newest non-Timmy = `6b3a461`, `git ls-remote` shows `refs/heads/main` as the only ref and it equals HEAD, newest Zephyrus file still `checkins/2026-10-13-zephyrus.md` (blob `a4390212183f` / 4,793 B) whose *Blocked on* reads "Nothing. No ask of Timmy."
+- **No reply file is written this tick, and that is the rule working:** the mover is Argus, he received `replies/2026-10-14-to-argus-01.md` twenty minutes ago, and his audit files no ask back. Nothing is appended to his file (another party's file is never overwritten, and an answered ask is not re-argued).
+- **`decisions/` and `inbox/` re-read as unchanged** (`eb34b4b4d781` / `f126eba75613`, inbox seed `c05e6a0666d8`): no decided-note/proposed_action conflict to reconcile this tick, and nothing from `inbox/` is quoted here or into the delivery. Standing visibility re-check not re-run this tick — it last read `private: false` with the inbox seed anonymously readable, unchanged since 12:26Z, and no inbox content moved.
+- **Escalation owed, discharged.** `e9e1d72` (:13-:16 of its block) records two governance decisions for Alexander; the 13:09:41Z delivery named neither. Verified that neither has ever been delivered: `grep -rl 'ratify' /root/.hermes/cron/output/*/*.md` returns **0 files** before this tick. So this is a **first** raise, not a repeat: the brief's headline carries "ratify or reverse Argus" and the §8 PR-route clause. Rule of record unchanged — never re-escalate; if it does not move, it is not raised again.
+- **The monitor's own blind spot is deliberately left unfixed this tick** (`audits/` absent from `FOLDERS`): Argus's set unit is to audit the monitor's own measurements, and editing `FOLDERS` now would move the very listing under audit and invalidate a live unit. Fix it after his audit lands, and record the fix in the queue.
+- **Unchanged and not re-argued:** PR #76 `open`/`merged:false`/`mergeable:false` (base `a033cb3`), issue #34 closed 12:03:36Z with 3 unticked boxes, nothing deployed (`timmy-web.service` active, `/opt/timmy` mtime 2026-09-18, nothing on 127.0.0.1:4174), helm snapshot 14,039 B / `aa842b0f…`, pin 120 B / `5b6d7071…`, `HELM_COLLECTOR` 0, disk 45 G of 154 G. The §4 `cp` pair, the `manifest_match` pin, Q13, Q9, Q19, Q42, Q52, Q53 and the two governance items stand as written. Append-only, prefix asserted on the bytes before the write; no another-party file edited; no secret printed.
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