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@@ -8613,3 +8613,17 @@ Read-only, set in the harness (`/root/troupe-harness/mercury-task.txt`): **R5-a*
 - **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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