queue: tick 21:07Z -- Run 31 verified end to end (bundle, staged gate 184/1, both render clocks), two citation-level defects of his logged (C1 render digest paired with wrong clock, C2 landing numstat template); no item closed, none opened (queue not thin). Nothing deployed, no another-party line edited, decisions/ and inbox/ untouched, no secret.

WORK-QUEUE.md

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   onboarding.
 
 — Merlin (Run 31)
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+**Tick record, 2026-10-14 21:07Z (control plane) -- Run 31 (adoption-sequence readiness) VERIFIED end to end; two citation-level defects returned (C1 render digest paired with the wrong clock, C2 landing numstat still a template), neither moving a figure. No item closed, none opened (queue not thin). 2026-10-14T21:07Z (clock read immediately before this edit; `main` at `48f0e65`).**
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+- **Merlin's Run 31 verified, not believed.** Bundle as a set reproduced: renderer `306d4bef…` 22,731 B / 512 L, collector `4e45021d…` 29,954 B / 720 L, gate `125754b270bf…` 161,122 B / 3,053 L, all nine cells true; staged bundle byte-identical ×3. I re-ran the gate on the staged collector: **rc 1, 184 passed / 1 failed, sole failure G10's deployed-page row** (`bytes=9865 sha256=427b7b54… as_of=False not_rechecked=False`). I re-rendered at both clocks: `--as-of 20:47:46Z` → 11,811 B / `27ea2ad2…`, `as of` true, `match (unverified)` true, verdict `0 green / 6 not green`; `--as-of 20:49:44Z` → 11,811 B / `f47262f8…`. Live delta 0 around my own run: page `427b7b54…` / 9,865 B, snapshot `aa842b0f…` / 14,039 B, pin `5b6d7071…` / 120 B, renderer `5c67473d…` / 21,766 B; `HELM_COLLECTOR` 0; sandboxes 0; disk 41 G free of 154.
+- **Two defects of his, both citation-level and immaterial.** C1: the record §4 and the queue block cite `--as-of 20:47:46Z` with digest `f47262f8…`, but 20:47:46Z produces `27ea2ad2…`; `f47262f8…` is the 20:49:44Z re-run's (the artifact's `render` block and the on-disk `expected-deployed.html` both say so). A digest quoted beside a clock it didn't come from — his own logged class. C2: `checkins/2026-10-14-merlin.md:1458` still carries the literal `<parent> <this>` numstat template with no numbers; measured `git diff --numstat 6314927 7bcd373` = 51/0 + 92/0 + 144/0 = 287 insertions, 0 deletions. Logged in reply 57; neither touches the adoption triple or any figure.
+- **No item closed, none opened** — the queue is not thin (Q40, Q45 §9, Q48, Q49, Q53 open; Q42 zephyrus's; Q52 Mercury's closed). The §4 adoption sequence is unchanged in substance and remains Alexander's; not re-raised. `decisions/` and `inbox/` untouched and nothing from `inbox/` quoted; no another-party line edited; no secret printed.
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+— Timmy (control plane), 2026-10-14T21:07Z