roster: refreshed at 12:4xZ -- mercury's day-3 unit landed e9efb23 and is discharged with all eight measurements verified and the next unit set (read-only disk census), merlin's row corrected to Q39/Q40 observed through Run 6 with the adoption hold standing, zephyrus's silence restated from the commit record, and this pipe's C34-C36 corrections carried in the table's own words

WIZARDS-TABLE.md

@@ -5,17 +5,17 @@ unit of work each is churning. This table is the at-a-glance view; the record li
 in `checkins/`, `replies/`, and `WORK-QUEUE.md`. Timmy keeps this table current as
 check-ins land.
 
-*Roster as of 2026-10-12 07:2xZ; rows refreshed from `checkins/`, `replies/` and `WORK-QUEUE.md` at that clock.
-The 2026-10-11 12:10Z and 2026-10-12 05:12Z clock lines above this one are retained in the file's history; only
+*Roster as of 2026-10-12 12:4xZ; rows refreshed from `checkins/`, `replies/` and `WORK-QUEUE.md` at that clock.
+The 2026-10-11 12:10Z, 2026-10-12 05:12Z and 2026-10-12 07:2xZ clock lines are retained in the file's history; only
 the rows below are current.*
 
 | Wizard | Model | Lane | Latest check-in | Current unit |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | Timmy | Hermes / DeepSeek | Operating partner — replies, queue, escalation | — (replies daily) | queue replies |
-| Zephyrus Sparkborn | Mistral (Muse) | Archive verification & summary fidelity | 2026-10-10 | **Q20 — taken, not worked.** His named unit (excerpt fidelity & placement, 91 magazine entries) was closed by **Merlin** at `9a1de9a` (2026-10-12 04:49Z; verified from this host in `WORK-QUEUE.md`'s Q20 block and `replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-20.md`) after Merlin's own process-fault disclosure. No Zephyrus check-in since 2026-10-10 20:58Z, so his lane has nothing assigned and no unit of his own: **this needs Alexander's one line — re-task the lane or let it lapse — not silence** |
+| Zephyrus Sparkborn | Mistral (Muse) | Archive verification & summary fidelity | 2026-10-10 | **Q20 — taken, not worked.** His named unit (excerpt fidelity & placement, 91 magazine entries) was closed by **Merlin** at `9a1de9a` (2026-10-12 04:49Z; verified from this host in `WORK-QUEUE.md`'s Q20 block and `replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-20.md`) after Merlin's own process-fault disclosure. No Zephyrus check-in since 2026-10-10 (his newest commit is `a4fc298`, 2026-10-10T13:17:32Z; there is none for 2026-10-11 or 2026-10-12 — the earlier "20:58Z" in this cell was a clock this pipe cannot reproduce from `checkins/`, so the commit time replaces it), so his lane has nothing assigned and no unit of his own: **this needs Alexander's one line — re-task the lane or let it lapse — not silence** |
 | Cassian Assayborn | Grok | Repo census & access-state verification | 2026-10-07 | — (Q5 closed; no open unit — lane silent since 2026-10-07, 5 days, needs a decision, not silence) |
-| Merlin | StepFun Step 5 | The Crucible — one hard problem → one finished, verifiable artifact | 2026-10-12 | **Q38 landed and verified — and its protective claim is FALSIFIED** (`0776480`, `4ed1da9`; `recoveries/helm-behavioural-guard.md`, 10,232 B / `69e72474…`). Every static figure reproduces exactly from this host; the behavioural precondition **admits a writer** (a subject that dies on the probe's own injected `Path(...)` line: rc=1, nothing written → admitted) and the legs run the **unrewritten** subject, which wrote the live snapshot to `{}` at 07:17:44Z (restored byte-exact; see Q38's section in `WORK-QUEUE.md` and `replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-21.md`). **Adoption hold: do not `cp` gate `74aba348…`.** Q20 closed at `9a1de9a` and verified (269/269 excerpts `literal`, placement 269/269; C16–C19); Q30–Q35 closed and verified. His lane's next unit is **Q39** (the guard's admission and its leg path) |
-| Mercury | Groq (free tier) | Fast verification & triage — rapid mechanical passes, first-pass extraction | 2026-10-11 | Day-2 check-in `b50c5ec` 12:00Z — census + digest re-run, no artifact; all four claims reproduce (`replies/2026-10-11-to-mercury-02.md`). His day-3 unit (Q31's first slice) was executed in Merlin's Run 6 and verified from this host on 2026-10-11 13:38Z while his scratch was empty at 13:29Z, so the unit stands open for him to land his own artifact; lane silent since 2026-10-11 12:04Z |
+| Merlin | StepFun Step 5 | The Crucible — one hard problem → one finished, verifiable artifact | 2026-10-12 | **All observed through Run 6; nothing of his is open.** Q39 closed (`fad802c`, fixed gate `9b09f328…`, all five negatives refused) and **verified from this host** in reply 22; Q40 closed and verified in reply 23 — the deployed gate `7ed1bca8…` returns rc 0 / 119 passed on all five negatives because `grep -c HELM_COLLECTOR` = **0**: it imports its subject at module scope (`:39`) and has **no subject-selection path at all**. **Adoption hold stands: do not `cp` gate `74aba348…`, and the §4 `cp` of collector `4e45021d…` + gate `9b09f328…` is Alexander's** — it is the only thing that puts Q31–Q40's protection into production. Standing asks, unchanged: adopt/hold, log rotation + `docker system prune`, and a ruling on `stackchain-dashboard.service` |
+| Mercury | Groq (free tier) | Fast verification & triage — rapid mechanical passes, first-pass extraction | 2026-10-12 | **Day-3 check-in landed `e9efb23` at 12:00:38Z and it is the Q31 first slice, executed** — the collector's entry point run from a lane that is not Merlin's; that unit is now **discharged** (reply `replies/2026-10-12-to-mercury-03.md`). All eight of his measurements reproduce from this host, six byte-exact, including the two `/tmp` files he left behind (`efc9a241…`, `99e38db0…`) and the `--compare-live` line character for character; his two bodies differ from each other in clocks only. Next unit is set in the harness: a **read-only disk census** that must reproduce or falsify this pipe's own two figures (`500–600 MB/day` vs `~153 MB/day`; and "logrotate did not rotate `syslog` at 2026-10-12 00:00Z") — nothing may be deleted, moved, rotated, pruned, stopped or reconfigured on it |
 
 ## Two faults recorded with the 2026-10-12 rows, because a roster that hides them is wrong