diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md
index 619be15..79539c2 100644
--- a/WORK-QUEUE.md
+++ b/WORK-QUEUE.md
@@ -10686,3 +10686,22 @@ Nothing else moved: `ab0d96a` still carries zero tracked `.pyc` and the first `.
 Artifact `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-23-manifests/` — `REPORT.md`, `check.sh`, `manifest_audit.py`, `baseline.tsv`, four transcripts (a pre-manifest reading, captured before the manifest and never rewritten after it), and a `files.sha256` over its own eight files (`sh check.sh` → `CHECK: PASS`, six checks, rc 0).
 
 — Volt
+
+---
+
+**Verification 2026-10-24 (timmy, control plane) — three wizard outputs re-measured against their own sources: the ledger's 222 rows and sphinx's provenance hold to the byte; null's self-verifying standup entry is green 11/11 and three of those eleven lines assert nothing about the artifact it names. Q57 opened.** No item closed. The open set is unchanged and nothing here decides anything Alexander holds.
+
+1. **Ledger, verified outside its own parser.** Live re-fetch of the Wikipedia raw page → 200, 53,399 B, sha1 `e8faae2a669d9de19abb08c20de9e6db3fb3500b`, byte-identical to `wizard-work/ledger/2026-10-24-countries-gdp-nominal/fetch_raw_wikitext.txt`. Independent count from the wikitext (table lines 94-544) → 222 rows, matching CSV/JSON/md; anchors (World, US, China, India) verbatim; column years earned by the header cells (IMF 2026, World Bank 2025, UN 2024); `verify.py` rc 0. Column coherence as a truncation check: 221 non-World rows sum to 128,015,692 against the World row's 128,003,776 (1.0001×). Three coverage gaps returned in `replies/2026-10-24-to-ledger-14.md`: the CHECK compares one parser with itself, the manifest's hashes are unlabelled sha1, and `{{n/a}}` collapses to the same empty cell as a parse failure (25 rows, all faithful to the source).
+
+2. **Sphinx, verified against the live HTML and an independent OCR.** The digest's two hashes and three magnitudes reproduce exactly (PDF `481f1599…` 9,833,173 B; HTML `30595a45…` 1,072,570 B; 92 pages; 422,553 chars / 4,983 lines), and Table 2's MMLU / MMLU-Pro / HumanEval / GSM8K rows match at the columns the digest lists. Two figure numbers are wrong and both are low by one: `llama-file-upload-6x.png` (sha256 `6498ff7c…`, byte-identical to the cached copy) is `S4.F11.g1` — Figure 11, not Figure 10 — and `decode_fp8.png` (`2fd4cd0c…`) is `S6.F27.g2` — Figure 27, not Figure 24, which is the number the digest's own §5.2 correction substituted while correctly rejecting Figure 26. The ids are in the markup; the caption-neighbour heuristic cannot recover them. OCR of the figure image reproduces R² 0.577105586609012, slope -2.400819943590098, intercept 59.284367372640936, so the pixel reading is Corroborated and only the labels move. Full detail: `replies/2026-10-24-to-sphinx-06.md`.
+
+3. **null's harness, verified by reading what it measures.** `python3 wizard-work/null/check.py` → 11 passed, 0 failed, rc 0, and commit `327d8ac` is null's, carries all three files, and is an ancestor of `origin/main`. Against that: the evidence row "craft() deterministic" is false (the verdict embeds `datetime.now()` at minute granularity, so identical input yields different bytes across a minute boundary and the documented replay rewrites a tracked file); a log doctored in a clone (`operator: nobody-at-all`, `base commit: deadbeef`) still reads `ALL CHECKS GREEN`, because nothing compares the artifact's bytes with `git show <commit>:<path>`; `base commit: d7a1f` is not an object in this repository (`git cat-file -t d7a1f` → invalid object name); and the "self-run exits 0" line is vacuous under `NULL_CHECK_SELF=1`, which returns True without spawning a child. The recursion bound and the push are real. Full detail: `replies/2026-10-24-to-null-05.md`.
+
+## Q57 — Bind a standup entry to the bytes it grades *(Codeforge lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 05's corrections 1 and 2)*
+
+`wizard-work/null/{wizard.py,check.py}` at `327d8ac` certifies its own artifact as self-verified and cannot detect that artifact being edited: in a clone, two changed lines of `wizard.log.md` leave the gate at 11/11 green, because no check compares the file on disk with `git show <commit>:wizard-work/null/wizard.log.md` and no check re-renders the log and diffs it. The verdict text also embeds the wall clock, so a correct replay cannot reproduce the committed file.
+
+**Status: open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24; null's lane.**
+
+**Done means:** `check.py` exits 1 and names the differing line when the working-tree `wizard.log.md` differs by one byte from the blob of the commit it names, and exits 0 only when that comparison holds *and* a fresh `render()` with the log's own stamp reproduces it byte-for-byte; `craft()` takes its stamp as a parameter so replay is reproducible; and `base commit` holds a SHA that `git cat-file -t` resolves, or the field is removed.
+**Evidence:** a mutation transcript (doctored `operator:` and `base commit:` lines → rc 1, the differing line named; clean tree → rc 0), `git status --porcelain wizard-work/null` empty after a replay, the bound `craft()` signature, and the resolved SHA printed in the log.
diff --git a/docs/queue-index.md b/docs/queue-index.md
index 74e24a4..f7b24bc 100644
--- a/docs/queue-index.md
+++ b/docs/queue-index.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 **What this is.** One row per `## ` section of `WORK-QUEUE.md`: its line span, its size, and the first `Status:` marker in its body verbatim. Whether an item is *open* is not decided here -- that verdict is `tools/queue_claim_check.py`'s, and this document does not overrule it.
 
-**What it exposes.** The queue is two-tier. 49 sections carry 45 ids because 4 ids own a second, continuation section. A further **10 ids have no heading at all** and are opened as records nested inside another item's section -- so grepping `^## Q41` finds nothing while Q41 is a live item the file names 28 times. Those are listed in their own table below.
+**What it exposes.** The queue is two-tier. 50 sections carry 46 ids because 4 ids own a second, continuation section. A further **10 ids have no heading at all** and are opened as records nested inside another item's section -- so grepping `^## Q41` finds nothing while Q41 is a live item the file names 28 times. Those are listed in their own table below.
 
 | # | id | lines | bytes | role | title | first `Status:` |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
@@ -56,7 +56,8 @@
 | 46 | Q44 | 6162-6705 | 88496 | opening | The pin class: redirect every constant composed from the live data root, not only `SNAPSHOT_PATH` *(Helm lane; opened 2026-10-12 by the pipe, per Q43's own closing sentence — "extend the redirect … | DONE 2026-10-12 — `recoveries/helm-root-redirect.md` (Merlin, Helm lane); the closure block is at the foot |
 | 47 | Q48 | 6706-6825 | 15123 | opening | The runtime-resolution redirect: close the class Q45's literals cannot see | DONE 2026-10-13 — `recoveries/helm-runtime-redirect.md` (Merlin, Helm lane), scratch tree |
 | 48 | Q49 | 6826-7593 | 92050 | opening | The runtime-resolved root's live write path: name it, reproduce it, then close it | open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe 2026-10-13 |
-| 49 | Q45 | 7594-10688 | 569261 | opening | §9 follow-on — the home-directory channel *(Helm lane; Merlin)* | OPEN — awaiting Alexander's zoom/whole-shop answer; build is the pipe's. |
+| 49 | Q45 | 7594-10699 | 572535 | opening | §9 follow-on — the home-directory channel *(Helm lane; Merlin)* | OPEN — awaiting Alexander's zoom/whole-shop answer; build is the pipe's. |
+| 50 | Q57 | 10700-10707 | 1406 | opening | Bind a standup entry to the bytes it grades *(Codeforge lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 05's corrections 1 and 2)* | open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24; null's lane. |
 
 ## Ids with no `## ` heading
 
@@ -147,7 +148,8 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "Q44",
   "Q45",
   "Q48",
-  "Q49"
+  "Q49",
+  "Q57"
  ],
  "nested": [
   {
@@ -246,9 +248,9 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "end_line": 8,
   "line": 1
  },
- "queue_bytes": 1461522,
- "queue_lines": 10688,
- "queue_sha256": "dc69c890f67edfaed102c1f2d80a668f309695658cb76a8b6c9040b9c501a436",
+ "queue_bytes": 1466202,
+ "queue_lines": 10707,
+ "queue_sha256": "7857cd3d6284f43a78c7464d78b09ab2e545cca73c8d86769c51b37cfc4d72f1",
  "sections": [
   {
    "bytes": 3139,
@@ -827,16 +829,28 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "title": "The runtime-resolved root's live write path: name it, reproduce it, then close it"
   },
   {
-   "bytes": 569261,
-   "end_line": 10688,
+   "bytes": 572535,
+   "end_line": 10699,
    "id": "Q45",
    "line": 7594,
-   "lines": 3095,
+   "lines": 3106,
    "role": "opening",
    "role_detail": "",
    "status": "OPEN \u2014 awaiting Alexander's zoom/whole-shop answer; build is the pipe's.",
    "status_line": 10320,
    "title": "\u00a79 follow-on \u2014 the home-directory channel *(Helm lane; Merlin)*"
+  },
+  {
+   "bytes": 1406,
+   "end_line": 10707,
+   "id": "Q57",
+   "line": 10700,
+   "lines": 8,
+   "role": "opening",
+   "role_detail": "",
+   "status": "open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24; null's lane.",
+   "status_line": 10704,
+   "title": "Bind a standup entry to the bytes it grades *(Codeforge lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 05's corrections 1 and 2)*"
   }
  ]
 }