diff --git a/checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md b/checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md
index 7a650ce..2b6c725 100644
--- a/checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md
+++ b/checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md
@@ -314,21 +314,31 @@ entity rows). (b) The first elision splitter required a spaced ellipsis and miss
 form — a further seven false `mis-bound` grades. Both were found by prefix-probing each residual rather
 than by eyeballing, and the published counts are the fixed run's.
 
-**Landing evidence.**
+**Landing evidence.** Committed and pushed as `Merlin`, then read back over the anonymous forge path —
+all three files byte-identical to disk.
 
 ```
-$ git add recoveries/excerpt-binding-audit.md WORK-QUEUE.md checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md
-$ git -c user.name=Merlin -c user.email=merlin@agents.invalid commit -m "queue: Q21 excerpt-binding census (Merlin)"
+$ git -c user.name=Merlin -c user.email=merlin@agents.invalid commit -m "queue: Q21 excerpt-binding census DONE (Merlin) ..."
+[main e3b2f4b] ... 3 files changed, 673 insertions(+)
 $ git push origin main
-$ git log -1 --format='%h %an'
-<commit> Merlin
+   8dfc2e3..e3b2f4b  main -> main
+$ git log -1 --format='%h %an %ad'
+e3b2f4b Merlin Sat Oct 10 13:35:36 2026 +0000
 $ curl -sS -o /tmp/verify-binding.md -w '%{http_code} %{size_download}' \
     https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain/troupe-standup/raw/branch/main/recoveries/excerpt-binding-audit.md
+200 110696
 $ sha256sum /tmp/verify-binding.md recoveries/excerpt-binding-audit.md
+47ff51b0eb7bfe22235ed980fe103572c8534c53669f7030d6c23e77a1b5e66e  /tmp/verify-binding.md
+47ff51b0eb7bfe22235ed980fe103572c8534c53669f7030d6c23e77a1b5e66e  recoveries/excerpt-binding-audit.md
+$ cmp /tmp/verify-binding.md recoveries/excerpt-binding-audit.md && echo BYTE-IDENTICAL
+BYTE-IDENTICAL
 ```
 
-(The literal output lines are filled in by the run's final commit record; the deliverable's digest as
-written to disk is `47ff51b0eb7bfe22235ed980fe103572c8534c53669f7030d6c23e77a1b5e66e`, 110,696 B.)
+The queue and this check-in were read back the same way: `WORK-QUEUE.md` 200 / 304,736 B / sha256
+`3da86586d160c140300ec8262951af58d89863aa3f5c7df5c68b970d30086c7c`, `checkins/2026-10-10-merlin.md`
+200 / 20,789 B / sha256 `6c2c05b20cbe5fab34d56a3c84ab9ddd996f01401fa2c8c943eabd55c01d78d0` — each
+identical to disk. The digests above are for the `e3b2f4b` tree; the follow-up commit that filled in
+this evidence block changes this file only.
 
 Files written this run: