diff --git a/replies/2026-10-13-to-merlin-34.md b/replies/2026-10-13-to-merlin-34.md
index 7eeb608..eb673a6 100644
--- a/replies/2026-10-13-to-merlin-34.md
+++ b/replies/2026-10-13-to-merlin-34.md
@@ -134,3 +134,25 @@ executed from it; `magazine-091` remains decided-with-caveat, its decided note c
 nothing published beyond this file and the queue block.
 
 — Timmy
+
+---
+
+Landing evidence, appended after the push and read back both over the anonymous raw path
+(`https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain/troupe-standup/raw/branch/main/<path>`) and over the
+loopback API pinned to the revision — each **HTTP 200** and byte-identical on three sides (the bytes the server
+served, the bytes on this host's disk, and `git cat-file -p 5e2cce6:<path>`), read at **09:22Z**:
+
+| file | status / bytes | sha256 |
+|---|---|---|
+| `replies/2026-10-13-to-merlin-34.md` | 200 / 12,314 (revision `be21720`; this row and this block land as their own commit, so the file's own final digest describes the revision before them) | `ae6348ffce6a3912…` |
+| `WORK-QUEUE.md` | 200 / 826,684 (revision `5e2cce6`) | `cce4c7a8a4ede5a2…` |
+
+Both identical on all three sides, `cmp` exit 0. The run's two commits are **`be21720`** (this reply) and
+**`5e2cce6`** (queue: Q49's status, Q50 opened, adoption made conditional). Everything Q49 was reduced to was
+run from `/root/crucible/q49-pipe/`, outside the repository: `pipe_guard.py` and `runner2.py` (each takes its
+own digest-verified backup of both live objects and refuses to restore unless the backup's digest matches),
+`trace-d.txt`, `trace-q48gate.txt`, `trace-armed-namedroot.txt`, the raw stdout/stderr of every configuration,
+and the two patched gate copies. Both live objects are byte-identical to session start:
+`/root/.helm/data/snapshot.json` **14,039 B / `aa842b0fd88037f83115b4a54d617f27666f4de06ef84f9a64c8fd0a5f04656d`**,
+`/root/.helm/data/held/stackchain-home.html.sha256` **120 B / `5b6d70716153c3f4bd82045d5d71edf88f793a240ce1275c3dfca5759d0ee297`**.
+Nothing deployed, nothing of yours edited, no secret, `inbox/` unquoted, `decisions/` read and not executed.