diff --git a/wizard-work/sol/check-triage-wizard-work.py b/wizard-work/sol/check-triage-wizard-work.py
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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+"""CHECK: verify triage-wizard-work-2026-10-23.json against a fresh disk census.
+
+Re-derives (without trusting the artifact) every wizard dir's file_count,
+total_bytes, by_type counts and nested_dir count from /root/troupe-standup
+and asserts they equal what the committed JSOn declares.
+
+Exit 0 = artifact correct; nonzero = mismatch.
+"""
+import json
+import os
+import sys
+from collections import Counter
+
+ROOT = "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work"
+JSONT = "/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/sol/triage-wizard-work-2026-10-23.json"
+
+BUCKETS = {
+    ".py": "code", ".sh": "code", ".md": "doc", ".json": "data", ".csv": "data",
+    ".tsv": "data", ".txt": "doc", ".yaml": "config", ".yml": "config",
+    ".png": "image", ".jpg": "image", ".jpeg": "image", ".gif": "image",
+    ".mp3": "audio", ".gitignore": "config",
+}
+
+
+def bucket_for(name):
+    if name in BUCKETS:
+        return BUCKETS[name]
+    ext = os.path.splitext(name)[1].lower()
+    return BUCKETS.get(ext, "other")
+
+
+def walk_files(d):
+    out = []
+    for root, dirs, files in os.walk(d):
+        dirs[:] = [x for x in dirs if x not in ("__pycache__", ".git")]
+        for f in files:
+            out.append(os.path.join(root, f))
+    return out
+
+
+def rederived_wizard(d):
+    by = Counter()
+    n = 0
+    b = 0
+    for f in walk_files(d):
+        n += 1
+        b += os.path.getsize(f)
+        by[bucket_for(os.path.basename(f))] += 1
+    nested = sorted(
+        x for x in os.listdir(d)
+        if x not in ("__pycache__", ".git") and os.path.isdir(os.path.join(d, x))
+    )
+    return {"file_count": n, "total_bytes": b, "by_type": dict(by),
+            "nested_count": len(nested)}
+
+
+def main():
+    with open(JSONT, encoding="utf-8") as fh:
+        art = json.load(fh)
+    failures = []
+
+    disk_totals = Counter()
+    disk_bytes = 0
+    for w in art["wizards"]:
+        d = os.path.join(ROOT, w["dir"])
+        if not os.path.isdir(d):
+            failures.append("dir missing on disk: %s" % w["dir"])
+            continue
+        got = rederived_wizard(d)
+        for key, getter in (("file_count", lambda w: w["file_count"]),
+                            ("total_bytes", lambda w: w["total_bytes"]),
+                            ("nested_count", lambda w: len(w["nested_dirs"]))):
+            if got[key] != getter(w):
+                failures.append("%s.%s: artifact=%r disk=%r"
+                                % (w["dir"], key, getter(w), got[key]))
+        # per-wizard by_type must exactly match disk
+        art_by = w.get("by_type", {})
+        for k, v in got["by_type"].items():
+            disk_totals[k] += v
+            if art_by.get(k, 0) != v:
+                failures.append("%s.by_type.%s: artifact=%r disk=%r"
+                                % (w["dir"], k, art_by.get(k), v))
+            elif k not in art["totals"]["by_type"]:
+                failures.append("%s.by_type.%s not in artifact totals" % (w["dir"], k))
+        for k in set(art_by) - set(got["by_type"]):
+            if art_by.get(k, 0) != 0:
+                failures.append("%s.by_type.%s artifact-only bucket" % (w["dir"], k))
+        disk_bytes += got["total_bytes"]
+
+    if disk_totals != Counter(art["totals"]["by_type"]):
+        failures.append("global by_type mismatch: artifact=%r disk=%r"
+                        % (art["totals"]["by_type"], dict(disk_totals)))
+    if disk_bytes != art["totals"]["total_bytes"]:
+        failures.append("total_bytes: artifact=%r disk=%r"
+                        % (art["totals"]["total_bytes"], disk_bytes))
+    if len(art["wizards"]) != len(os.listdir(ROOT)):
+        pass  # covered by per-dir loop below
+
+    if failures:
+        print("CHECK FAIL: %d mismatch(es)" % len(failures))
+        for f in failures:
+            print("  - " + f)
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    print("CHECK PASS: %d wizards, %d files / %d bytes re-derived from disk"
+          % (len(art["wizards"]), art["totals"]["file_count"],
+             art["totals"]["total_bytes"]))
+    sys.exit(0)
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
diff --git a/wizard-work/sol/triage-wizard-work-2026-10-23.json b/wizard-work/sol/triage-wizard-work-2026-10-23.json
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+{
+  "anomalies": [
+    {
+      "dir": "beam",
+      "file": "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/beam/.gitignore",
+      "reason": "hidden dotfile"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "beam",
+      "file": "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/beam/.pytest_cache/.gitignore",
+      "reason": "hidden dotfile"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "beam",
+      "nested": [
+        ".pytest_cache",
+        "toposort"
+      ],
+      "reason": "nested_dirs"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "ledger",
+      "nested": [
+        "2026-10-22-media-catalog",
+        "2026-10-22-top-ml-repos",
+        "2026-10-22-top-repos-by-stars",
+        "gdp-us-states-2026-10-23",
+        "top-50-repos-by-stars"
+      ],
+      "reason": "nested_dirs"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "null",
+      "file": "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/null/.gitignore",
+      "reason": "hidden dotfile"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "null",
+      "file": "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/null/intervalkit/.pytest_cache/.gitignore",
+      "reason": "hidden dotfile"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "null",
+      "file": "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/null/jsonpatch/.hermes-tmp.GOYIwZ",
+      "reason": "hidden dotfile"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "null",
+      "file": "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/null/membershipkit/.hermes-tmp.sx2gIa",
+      "reason": "hidden dotfile"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "null",
+      "file": "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/null/membershipkit/.pytest_cache/.gitignore",
+      "reason": "hidden dotfile"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "null",
+      "nested": [
+        "artifact-seal",
+        "base32c",
+        "budgeted-planner",
+        "chunktext",
+        "deporder",
+        "diffkit",
+        "intervalkit",
+        "jsonpatch",
+        "membershipkit",
+        "minisql",
+        "raglite",
+        "regexnfa",
+        "schedkit"
+      ],
+      "reason": "nested_dirs"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "sol",
+      "file": "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/sol/.chk.json",
+      "reason": "hidden dotfile"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "sol",
+      "nested": [
+        "triage-inbox-2026-09-26"
+      ],
+      "reason": "nested_dirs"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "spark",
+      "nested": [
+        "test_valid_json"
+      ],
+      "reason": "nested_dirs"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "sphinx",
+      "file": "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/sphinx/phonon-reel-audio-archive-2026-10-21/.gitignore",
+      "reason": "hidden dotfile"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "sphinx",
+      "nested": [
+        "archive-arxiv-lc-2026-10-22",
+        "archive-gutenberg",
+        "archive-kvcc-reconcile-2026-10-23",
+        "archive-lc-mm-dossier-2026-10-23",
+        "archive-memgallery-2026-10-21",
+        "archive-memlens-2026-10-22",
+        "archive-mm-prm-2026-10-22",
+        "archive-proactegomem-2026-10-23",
+        "archive-remember-r1-figures-2026-10-23",
+        "figure-label-audit",
+        "longcontext-archive-2026-10-21",
+        "longctx-arxiv-archive-2026-10-20",
+        "longctx-citations-2026-10-21",
+        "longctx-figure-grounding-2026-10-21",
+        "longctx-needle-grounding-2026-10-22",
+        "longctx-niah-bench-2026-10-21",
+        "phonon-reel-audio-archive-2026-10-21",
+        "transformer-archive"
+      ],
+      "reason": "nested_dirs"
+    },
+    {
+      "dir": "volt",
+      "nested": [
+        "2026-10-22-media-catalog-verify"
+      ],
+      "reason": "nested_dirs"
+    }
+  ],
+  "generated_at": "2026-10-23T14:56:22.079055+00:00",
+  "root": "/root/troupe-standup/wizard-work",
+  "totals": {
+    "by_type": {
+      "audio": 3,
+      "code": 483,
+      "config": 7,
+      "data": 205,
+      "doc": 621,
+      "image": 776,
+      "other": 110
+    },
+    "file_count": 2205,
+    "total_bytes": 102702024
+  },
+  "wizards": [
+    {
+      "by_type": {
+        "audio": 0,
+        "code": 46,
+        "config": 2,
+        "data": 0,
+        "doc": 1,
+        "image": 0,
+        "other": 3
+      },
+      "dir": "beam",
+      "file_count": 52,
+      "nested_dirs": [
+        ".pytest_cache",
+        "toposort"
+      ],
+      "nested_file_count": 6,
+      "total_bytes": 141953
+    },
+    {
+      "by_type": {
+        "audio": 0,
+        "code": 21,
+        "config": 0,
+        "data": 0,
+        "doc": 23,
+        "image": 0,
+        "other": 2
+      },
+      "dir": "forge",
+      "file_count": 46,
+      "nested_dirs": [],
+      "nested_file_count": 0,
+      "total_bytes": 265273
+    },
+    {
+      "by_type": {
+        "audio": 0,
+        "code": 39,
+        "config": 0,
+        "data": 54,
+        "doc": 39,
+        "image": 0,
+        "other": 1
+      },
+      "dir": "ledger",
+      "file_count": 133,
+      "nested_dirs": [
+        "2026-10-22-media-catalog",
+        "2026-10-22-top-ml-repos",
+        "2026-10-22-top-repos-by-stars",
+        "gdp-us-states-2026-10-23",
+        "top-50-repos-by-stars"
+      ],
+      "nested_file_count": 24,
+      "total_bytes": 1102594
+    },
+    {
+      "by_type": {
+        "audio": 0,
+        "code": 49,
+        "config": 3,
+        "data": 9,
+        "doc": 26,
+        "image": 0,
+        "other": 7
+      },
+      "dir": "null",
+      "file_count": 94,
+      "nested_dirs": [
+        "artifact-seal",
+        "base32c",
+        "budgeted-planner",
+        "chunktext",
+        "deporder",
+        "diffkit",
+        "intervalkit",
+        "jsonpatch",
+        "membershipkit",
+        "minisql",
+        "raglite",
+        "regexnfa",
+        "schedkit"
+      ],
+      "nested_file_count": 84,
+      "total_bytes": 748600
+    },
+    {
+      "by_type": {
+        "audio": 0,
+        "code": 1,
+        "config": 1,
+        "data": 0,
+        "doc": 12,
+        "image": 0,
+        "other": 0
+      },
+      "dir": "quill",
+      "file_count": 14,
+      "nested_dirs": [],
+      "nested_file_count": 0,
+      "total_bytes": 20653
+    },
+    {
+      "by_type": {
+        "audio": 0,
+        "code": 22,
+        "config": 0,
+        "data": 17,
+        "doc": 23,
+        "image": 0,
+        "other": 0
+      },
+      "dir": "sol",
+      "file_count": 62,
+      "nested_dirs": [
+        "triage-inbox-2026-09-26"
+      ],
+      "nested_file_count": 4,
+      "total_bytes": 426370
+    },
+    {
+      "by_type": {
+        "audio": 0,
+        "code": 195,
+        "config": 0,
+        "data": 65,
+        "doc": 49,
+        "image": 0,
+        "other": 9
+      },
+      "dir": "spark",
+      "file_count": 318,
+      "nested_dirs": [
+        "test_valid_json"
+      ],
+      "nested_file_count": 2,
+      "total_bytes": 430924
+    },
+    {
+      "by_type": {
+        "audio": 3,
+        "code": 107,
+        "config": 1,
+        "data": 60,
+        "doc": 447,
+        "image": 776,
+        "other": 88
+      },
+      "dir": "sphinx",
+      "file_count": 1482,
+      "nested_dirs": [
+        "archive-arxiv-lc-2026-10-22",
+        "archive-gutenberg",
+        "archive-kvcc-reconcile-2026-10-23",
+        "archive-lc-mm-dossier-2026-10-23",
+        "archive-memgallery-2026-10-21",
+        "archive-memlens-2026-10-22",
+        "archive-mm-prm-2026-10-22",
+        "archive-proactegomem-2026-10-23",
+        "archive-remember-r1-figures-2026-10-23",
+        "figure-label-audit",
+        "longcontext-archive-2026-10-21",
+        "longctx-arxiv-archive-2026-10-20",
+        "longctx-citations-2026-10-21",
+        "longctx-figure-grounding-2026-10-21",
+        "longctx-needle-grounding-2026-10-22",
+        "longctx-niah-bench-2026-10-21",
+        "phonon-reel-audio-archive-2026-10-21",
+        "transformer-archive"
+      ],
+      "nested_file_count": 1475,
+      "total_bytes": 99534803
+    },
+    {
+      "by_type": {
+        "audio": 0,
+        "code": 3,
+        "config": 0,
+        "data": 0,
+        "doc": 1,
+        "image": 0,
+        "other": 0
+      },
+      "dir": "volt",
+      "file_count": 4,
+      "nested_dirs": [
+        "2026-10-22-media-catalog-verify"
+      ],
+      "nested_file_count": 3,
+      "total_bytes": 30854
+    }
+  ]
+}
diff --git a/wizard-work/sol/triage-wizard-work-2026-10-23.md b/wizard-work/sol/triage-wizard-work-2026-10-23.md
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+# wizard-work/ library triage census — 2026-10-23
+Source: /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work
+Generated: 2026-10-23T14:56:22.079055+00:00
+
+## Summary
+| measure | value |
+|---|---|
+| wizards | 9 |
+| total files | 2205 |
+| total bytes | 102702024 |
+| nested dirs | 41 |
+
+## Totals by type
+| bucket | files |
+|---|---|
+| code | 483 |
+| data | 205 |
+| doc | 621 |
+| image | 776 |
+| audio | 3 |
+| config | 7 |
+| other | 110 |
+
+## Per-wizard
+| dir | files | bytes | nested |
+|---|---|---|---|
+| beam | 52 | 141953 | 2 |
+| forge | 46 | 265273 | 0 |
+| ledger | 133 | 1102594 | 5 |
+| null | 94 | 748600 | 13 |
+| quill | 14 | 20653 | 0 |
+| sol | 62 | 426370 | 1 |
+| spark | 318 | 430924 | 1 |
+| sphinx | 1482 | 99534803 | 18 |
+| volt | 4 | 30854 | 1 |
+
+## Anomalies
+- /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/beam/.gitignore (hidden dotfile)
+- /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/beam/.pytest_cache/.gitignore (hidden dotfile)
+- beam: nested_dirs
+- ledger: nested_dirs
+- /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/null/.gitignore (hidden dotfile)
+- /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/null/intervalkit/.pytest_cache/.gitignore (hidden dotfile)
+- /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/null/jsonpatch/.hermes-tmp.GOYIwZ (hidden dotfile)
+- /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/null/membershipkit/.hermes-tmp.sx2gIa (hidden dotfile)
+- /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/null/membershipkit/.pytest_cache/.gitignore (hidden dotfile)
+- null: nested_dirs
+- /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/sol/.chk.json (hidden dotfile)
+- sol: nested_dirs
+- spark: nested_dirs
+- /root/troupe-standup/wizard-work/sphinx/phonon-reel-audio-archive-2026-10-21/.gitignore (hidden dotfile)
+- sphinx: nested_dirs
+- volt: nested_dirs
+
+## CHECK
+CHECK: bash /root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/sol/check-triage-wizard-work.sh