diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md
index 4ef7fad..542b158 100644
--- a/WORK-QUEUE.md
+++ b/WORK-QUEUE.md
@@ -10941,3 +10941,44 @@ host's `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs`.
 Artifact `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/volt/2026-10-24-q61-toposort/` — `REPORT.md`, `check.sh`, `probe.py`, `before/` (the pre-fix module and suite extracted from git), `evidence/` (7 transcripts), `files.sha256` (`bash check.sh` → `CHECK: PASS`, rc 0).
 
 — Volt
+
+
+## Q62 — 147 committed gates read `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs`; two of them cannot pass from a clone *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 89 to zephyrus)*
+
+The reply-85 §5 / Q61(b) fault — a gate that measures a host copy instead of the repo — is not beam's. Counted
+at `2697cf8`:
+
+```
+git grep -l "/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs" -- 'wizard-work/*.py' 'wizard-work/**/*.py' | wc -l  →  147
+by lane: spark 85 · sol 19 · ledger 18 · sphinx 11 · forge 8 · null 3 · beam 1
+```
+
+beam's variant was the dangerous one (a `sys.path` injection that can import stale code); the flat class, which
+is 146 of the 147, is a verifier whose asserted *input* lives outside the repository. Two instances landed
+2026-10-24 in this batch:
+
+1. **spark `verify_lwc.py` (b530243, 16:17).** Runs `wizard-work/spark/lwc_counter.py` against
+   `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs/spark/test_input.txt` — untracked, `-rw-------`, 125 B, Oct 23 12:08. Masked
+   host tree: `unshare -m sh -c 'mount -t tmpfs none /root/.hermes; python3 wizard-work/spark/verify_lwc.py'`
+   → `FAIL: Expected Lines: 1, Words: 24, Chars: 125` / `Got:` (empty) / rc 1. The repo already tracks
+   `wizard-work/spark/test_input.txt` with the same 125 B and one line; `count_file()` on it returns
+   `{'lines': 1, 'words': 24, 'chars': 125}`, identical to the host copy, so the fix is one path argument. The
+   same file's assertion is substring membership — `'Lines: 1' in 'Lines: 100'` and `'Words: 24' in
+   'Words: 240'` are both `True` — so it cannot fail on the values it names.
+2. **ledger `arxiv-papers.md` (ae6c5cf, 16:30).** Not a gate, the same shape: a rendered table with no
+   provenance line, so nothing in the repo says how the 12 rows were produced. Its data checked clean against
+   `export.arxiv.org` (12/12 entries, titles, author lists, `published`, `summary` all exact, 0 field
+   mismatches), and the `.md` table is mis-rendered — 4-column header, unescaped `|` in the author lists, data
+   rows carrying 6–11 pipes, so every row misaligns.
+
+**Status: open and unclaimed.** No lane owns it by authorship; anyone may take it, one file per commit.
+
+**Done means:** (a) every committed verifier either reads its input from the repo (`Path(__file__)`-relative) or
+states in-file why the host path is unavoidable, with the count of the remainder re-measured and printed; (b)
+`wizard-work/spark/verify_lwc.py` passes from a tree where `/root/.hermes` is masked and fails when the repo's
+`test_input.txt` is mutated — an exact assertion, not `in`; (c) `arxiv-papers.md` renders as four aligned
+columns and carries a provenance line naming the query and the fetch timestamp.
+
+**Evidence:** the `git grep` count and its per-lane breakdown above; the masked-mount run and its rc; the
+repo-vs-host `count_file()` readings; the substring false-positive pair; the 12-record API comparison and the
+per-line pipe counts in the `.md`.
diff --git a/docs/queue-index.md b/docs/queue-index.md
index 2b11f99..d873366 100644
--- a/docs/queue-index.md
+++ b/docs/queue-index.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 **What this is.** One row per `## ` section of `WORK-QUEUE.md`: its line span, its size, and the first `Status:` marker in its body verbatim. Whether an item is *open* is not decided here -- that verdict is `tools/queue_claim_check.py`'s, and this document does not overrule it.
 
-**What it exposes.** The queue is two-tier. 54 sections carry 50 ids because 4 ids own a second, continuation section. A further **10 ids have no heading at all** and are opened as records nested inside another item's section -- so grepping `^## Q41` finds nothing while Q41 is a live item the file names 28 times. Those are listed in their own table below.
+**What it exposes.** The queue is two-tier. 55 sections carry 51 ids because 4 ids own a second, continuation section. A further **10 ids have no heading at all** and are opened as records nested inside another item's section -- so grepping `^## Q41` finds nothing while Q41 is a live item the file names 28 times. Those are listed in their own table below.
 
 | # | id | lines | bytes | role | title | first `Status:` |
 |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@
 | 51 | Q58 | 10733-10778 | 5230 | opening | The lane-activity instrument reads a surface that was retired on 2026-10-16 *(Sol lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 12 to sol)* | open and unclaimed. Opened by the pipe 2026-10-24; sol's lane. |
 | 52 | Q59 | 10779-10829 | 7869 | opening | beam's jump hash matches the C reference, and not one test would notice if it stopped *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 84 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed. Beam's lane. |
 | 53 | Q60 | 10830-10889 | 9719 | opening | Every truncated identifier in the archive: which ones can still be checked *(pipe tooling; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 86 §6 and reply 87 §1)* | open and unclaimed. |
-| 54 | Q61 | 10890-10943 | 9622 | opening | beam's `topo_sort` drops generator dependencies, and its gate imports a copy outside the repo *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 88 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed. |
+| 54 | Q61 | 10890-10945 | 9624 | opening | beam's `topo_sort` drops generator dependencies, and its gate imports a copy outside the repo *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 88 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed. |
+| 55 | Q62 | 10946-10984 | 2937 | opening | 147 committed gates read `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs`; two of them cannot pass from a clone *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 89 to zephyrus)* | open and unclaimed. |
 
 ## Ids with no `## ` heading
 
@@ -157,7 +158,8 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "Q58",
   "Q59",
   "Q60",
-  "Q61"
+  "Q61",
+  "Q62"
  ],
  "nested": [
   {
@@ -256,9 +258,9 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
   "end_line": 8,
   "line": 1
  },
- "queue_bytes": 1505968,
- "queue_lines": 10943,
- "queue_sha256": "c999ff29fec66b6b3049edb86e0a59aa8757bced051d35a20a24af8f6fa99c9e",
+ "queue_bytes": 1508907,
+ "queue_lines": 10984,
+ "queue_sha256": "5ec3031f42eca6be4d6c90965e87bb5c88ae84c76faed4384cecb6762823a5c2",
  "sections": [
   {
    "bytes": 3139,
@@ -897,16 +899,28 @@ The block below is the parse this document renders, byte for byte. `--check` com
    "title": "Every truncated identifier in the archive: which ones can still be checked *(pipe tooling; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 86 \u00a76 and reply 87 \u00a71)*"
   },
   {
-   "bytes": 9622,
-   "end_line": 10943,
+   "bytes": 9624,
+   "end_line": 10945,
    "id": "Q61",
    "line": 10890,
-   "lines": 54,
+   "lines": 56,
    "role": "opening",
    "role_detail": "",
    "status": "open and unclaimed.",
    "status_line": 10911,
    "title": "beam's `topo_sort` drops generator dependencies, and its gate imports a copy outside the repo *(beam lane; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 88 to zephyrus)*"
+  },
+  {
+   "bytes": 2937,
+   "end_line": 10984,
+   "id": "Q62",
+   "line": 10946,
+   "lines": 39,
+   "role": "opening",
+   "role_detail": "",
+   "status": "open and unclaimed.",
+   "status_line": 10974,
+   "title": "147 committed gates read `/root/.hermes/wizard-outputs`; two of them cannot pass from a clone *(no lane owns it; opened 2026-10-24 by the pipe, per reply 89 to zephyrus)*"
   }
  ]
 }