diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md
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--- a/WORK-QUEUE.md
+++ b/WORK-QUEUE.md
@@ -990,6 +990,78 @@ strong`, 0 `too weak`, 0 `indeterminate`; no badge in the sample misstates its e
   license no rate for the other 103. All byte counts and hashes are dated readings from this host, ~09:0x UTC.
   Nothing live was edited; (1) and (2) are link/provenance fixes that wait on Alexander through Q13's channel.
 
+**Verification addendum, 2026-10-10 (Merlin's Q12) — the sample rule and every load-bearing figure reproduce; four
+corrections returned, one of them the same measurement stated three ways and wrong in all three; one item opened
+(Q21).** Q12's deliverable is blob `3383440deb6a`, **19,516 B**, sha256 `625bfb1e9afd9ba…`; check-in blob
+`f6c469b9bcd7`; the finishing commit is **`67b892d`** (+442/−0, three files) with the landing note **`0d1e8d5`**.
+Verified from this host, 2026-10-10 09:12–09:20 UTC, working files `/root/troupe-verify/q12/` with every fetched
+body kept beside the scripts; nothing in his files was edited. Written up in `replies/2026-10-10-to-merlin-02.md`.
+
+- **Reproduced, figure by figure.** Index **200 / 34,488 B / sha256 `4f764ef4dfb9c08b…`** to the full digest, greps
+  115 / 5 / 1 / 0 and 121 `<li id=`; the **sample rule reproduces exactly** — `documented` ordinals 9, 18, …, 108
+  give his twelve and the six non-`documented` give his six, so 18 = 6 + 12 and the audit is not cherry-picked;
+  **18/18 entry pages 200 first attempt, 3,181–5,146 B**, one badge class each, equal to the index badge on all 18;
+  **twelve cited sources byte-identical *and* hash-identical** (nine magazines, `event-2024-05-20`, king-of-stackchain,
+  burnchainers), the X post byte-exact at 111,659, `StackchainQuant` byte-exact at 37,702; the tx `ae63c499…`
+  `confirmed`, height **749999**, `block_time` **1660844712 = 2022-08-18T17:45:12Z**, `vout` **[851979]**; commits API
+  **301 → `repositories/640699187`**, **48 commits, 2023-05-14T23:37:38Z … 2023-08-23T12:12:05Z**; `?s=Skinner` returns
+  exactly **one** result card (`A Conversation with Burnchainers`) and `?s=skinner+stacking` the same article; the site
+  root detags to **5,034 chars with `Skinner` ×0**; the passage is **verbatim** at `/a-conversation-with-burnchainers/`;
+  `StackchainQuant` ×2 anchored 0 times and the page's only external anchors are the X post and the Bitcoin Magazine
+  article; `x.com/StackchainQuant` **404** `<title>User Profile Not Found - X | 404 Error</title>`; `magazine-026`
+  `@a_koby` ×1 unanchored; the three Uncertainty strings present; the anonymous raw read of the deliverable
+  **200 / 19,516 B / sha256 `625bfb1e9afd9ba…`, `cmp`-identical to disk** — landing evidence confirmed from outside.
+  **Documented**, each row.
+- **Correction returned (1) — the sampled-magazine denominator is 9, and the same-day count is 9 of 9.** Stated three
+  ways in three files, none of them the measured value: check-in *"8 of the 12 sampled magazine entries"*; audit §6.5
+  *"All 12 sampled magazine entries … 8/8"*; the status block *ten* slugs (nine magazines **and** `event-2024-05-20`)
+  against **8/8**. Re-measured entry by entry: the nine magazines' displayed `Date:` equals the cited article's
+  `article:published_time` to the day in **9 of 9** pairs (012 `2023-08-28`, 017 `2023-10-26`, 026 `2024-04-10`,
+  042 `2025-01-25`, 050 `2025-07-15`, 059 `2025-08-01`, 067 `2026-01-12`, 076 `2026-01-20`, 085 `2026-08-13`); the
+  other three `documented` sample entries are labelled **`Timeline event`** on their own pages where the nine are
+  labelled `Stackchain Magazine`, and `event-2024-05-20` is the one sampled entry whose date differs from its source's
+  publication timestamp by design (2024-05-20 vs 2025-07-22T14:33:48+00:00), which his own row says. Printed as 8 the
+  measurement understates itself; printed as "12 magazine entries" it attaches to the wrong class. The Receipt
+  sentence is on **9/9** magazine pages and on **18/18** sampled pages, so §6.5's first sentence has the stronger
+  verified form.
+- **Correction returned (2) — finding 5's 403 does not reproduce.** Ten reads here (Windows-Chrome, macOS-Safari and
+  bare `curl/8.5.0`, three passes each, plus a full Chrome header set) all returned **200 / 341,804**; the page has
+  moved 341,802 → 341,804 (sha `238fc30c632d…`). Graded **unreproduced, not refuted** — one dated occurrence is doing
+  the work of a general rule ("a 403 there is a wall, not a dead link"), and a reader cannot exercise it. Finding 5's
+  **substance is unaffected and verified**: the Receipt-panel wording is on the pages.
+- **Corrections returned (3) and (4), both minor:** the site root's detagged length is **5,034** chars today, not
+  5,036 (`Skinner` ×0 unchanged, so the finding stands); and the landing block's `wc -c` line prints
+  `checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md` **10,870** where the committed blob is **11,244** at `67b892d` and **12,036** at
+  `0d1e8d5` — the three printed figures do sum to the printed total, so it is a stale capture, not bad arithmetic,
+  but one of the block's three numbers is 374 B from the tree it claims to transcribe.
+- **One observation, no grade effect:** `event-2022-08-18`'s *"From the sources"* panel prints the post text, then the
+  `blockstream.info/tx/…` link, then the post's own X link — the first excerpt illustrated by a URL that does not
+  contain it unless the reader takes the second. Same anchor-adjacency shape as his §6.1, on a page whose excerpt
+  does resolve; not a §7 miss, 33/37 unchanged.
+- **Own errors logged first.** My 2026-10-09 batch-B record (`aab23e5`) printed *"github repo 6004"* — 6,004 B is the
+  **JSON** at `api.github.com/repositories/640699187` (the `/repos/…` path 301s there); the repository **page** reads
+  279,684 B today against his 279,677. Both readings right, my label underspecified, and the exact shape that would
+  read as drift. And my first excerpt pass returned 32/37 with one false miss on `event-2022-08-18` because my own
+  splitter paired the post text with the tx link; traced to the splitter, so his 33/37 stands.
+- **Graded, in the archive's tiers:** all of the above **Documented**; his session detail (`~09:01–09:35Z`, "all 18
+  entry pages and 17 cited sources fetched live this run", the 403 as seen) **Testimony only**; the 403 avenue
+  **Unrecovered as of this read** — an open avenue recorded so it is not re-litigated. `magazine-012`'s "official CPI
+  was 6%" clause left unverified on purpose: summary-content is Q8/Q10's lane, and grading it here would put a numbers
+  claim inside a badge audit.
+- **Q12 closes owing nothing from Merlin.** `magazine-091`-style publications are not in scope; the four Skinner links,
+  the StackchainQuant clause and the `Documented` legend wording are **live-page changes and therefore Alexander's**
+  through Q13's channel. Q13 was **not** grown: it stands at 18 flags at head pending his word on the 29/30 count
+  returned in reply 50.
+- **Privacy, thirty-second identical reading:** `private: false`, `internal: false`, default `main`, `size 4383`,
+  `updated_at 2026-10-07T00:08:03Z`; anonymous raw reads with no credential — the new deliverable 200 / 19,516 B
+  `cmp`-identical to disk, `inbox/seed-2026-09-26.json` 200 / 9,484 B sha256 `e4429147…` unchanged. No pending inbox
+  text is quoted in this record or in reply 02; no secret in either new file; `decisions/2026-09-26.md` still
+  `eb34b4b4d781` and still unexecuted with item 13's decided note controlling. Nothing executed on `decisions/`; no
+  file another party authored was edited.
+- **Q7, measured:** after Q12 closes, unclaimed and executable is **Q20** alone (Q10 active and Zeph's at 22 of 30,
+  Q9 blocked on the audio handover, Q13/Q19 gated on Alexander). One where the pipe has previously called two "not
+  thin", so the never-dry obligation is triggered — **Q21 opened below.**
+
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 ## Q13 — Publish the archive-side wording fixes, one at a time