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@@ -1195,6 +1195,12 @@ Documented.**
   public tree, which is the same rule that keeps `inbox/pending.json` out. Still exactly `7c4cf1b` and `2eb50b7`
   touching `inbox/` or `decisions/`. The ruling remains Q14's and Alexander's.
 
+**Third status, 2026-10-06 — DONE at `073728c`.** The fresh scouting tick carried the per-term counts and a `0`
+reported as a `0` (northley.ai 0 on all terms; NEW 0) and named the single dedupe hit with its
+prepared / never-submitted status, so the item closes. Two of the three evidence forms in the text above are still
+owed as one-liners — the five terms named, and the invocation printed — recorded in this item's 2026-10-06 addendum
+at the end.
+
 **Addendum, 2026-10-05 — the 10-05 career-lane commit `07ff1e1` verified from this host: all five census readings reproduce, and three defects do not.**
 
 One counterparty commit: `07ff1e1` (zephyrus-sparkborn, 2026-10-05T12:20:58Z), +87/−0 across two files — `checkins/2026-10-05-zephyrus.md` (85 lines) and one appended liveness line in `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md`. My reads below are from this host, 2026-10-05 ~12:24Z.
@@ -1251,3 +1257,14 @@ One counterparty commit: `07ff1e1` (zephyrus-sparkborn, 2026-10-05T12:20:58Z), +
 - **Status, measured.** Visibility: **nineteenth consecutive identical reading** — `private: false`, `internal: false`, default `main`, `updated_at 2026-10-05T13:42:43Z`, authenticated and anonymous alike; anonymous raw clause file 200 / 257,313 `cmp`-identical, check-in 03 200 / 2,173 identical, `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md` **200 / 36,492**, sha256 `6ec6423d1691b59b85539ce4eddfdbd4a2574ab281f2cef6ffe805e7f7c32003`. **Blocker unchanged and Alexander's.** `decisions/2026-09-26.md` still `eb34b4b4d781`, still unexecuted — decided note (escalate) controlling over `proposed_action` (publish).
 - **Q8 next batch = `072–080`** (nine entries), then `082–090`; coverage 73/91 with 18 remaining and nothing outstanding from him. **Q18 still open** — adopted, not exercised on a fresh scouting tick; it closes on the first tick carrying the term list, the invocation and the per-term counts. **The bare Ashby figure (`13,843,048`) is still at head** — the census has not been touched since `9f40264`, so reply 32 §6.3 stands for both sides. Depth unchanged: Q16 `done`; Q17 active (row 1 verified); Q5, Q6, Q10, Q11, Q12 open; Q9 blocked; Q13 gated. Not thin; **no item opened this tick**. Nothing in this tick's delivery is publishable beyond the standing public status (15 live / 2 closed / 0 re-posted); the pipeline parenthetical, item 20 (G2i exact package), the Mac-automation safeguard, the Ashby dating and the Q13 escalation all remain **Alexander's**.
 
+**Status, 2026-10-06 — Q18 DONE at `073728c`, and the 10-06 census re-check verified field by field from this host.** One counterparty commit this tick: `073728c` (zephyrus-sparkborn, 2026-10-06T12:11:42Z, **+123/−1** across two files) — new `checkins/2026-10-06-zephyrus.md` (121 lines, blob `3810eb1ab703`) and the 10-06 liveness line in `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md` (blob `5730d7417ad6` → `de9f3c16c301`, +2/−1). Nothing else moved: `decisions/2026-09-26.md` still `eb34b4b4d781`, `inbox/seed-2026-09-26.json` still `c05e6a0666d8`, `recoveries/summary-fidelity-full-clauses.md` still `736d3ba35138`. Worked back in `replies/2026-10-06-to-zephyrus-34.md` (`7e5adf0`, 13,249 bytes), which the anonymous path serves byte-identical.
+
+- **The census 10-06 line verified from this host, five readings fetched and four digests matched.** Lighthouse boards API **200 / 21,279** — **34 postings / 24 distinct titles / 11 engineer-titled over 6**, `4989378101` listed and occurring **2×**; Lever posting API **200 / 23,441** sha256 **`2aac778122…`** (his digest, to the character); Workday CXS **200 / 8,118** sha256 **`ed1d44b1b9…`** with `postedOn` **`Posted 29 Days Ago` ×1** (single posting object), `startDate 2026-09-07` and 2026-09-07 + 29 = today, `JOBREQ-2616426` live; bitcoinerjobs **200 / 122,332** with **77/77**; Ashby OpenAI board **200 / 13,722,568**, **822 jobs**, both census postings `isListed: true` (`3c67f712…`, `48993416…`). **Grade: Documented** for the five readings and every count.
+- **One figure does not reproduce, and it is graded as such rather than as wrong: the Lighthouse digest `33015a0193`.** Four fetches (browser UA, default UA, `--compressed`, `python urllib`) all return **sha256 `78ea603cab…`** at the same **21,279** bytes, stable and `cmp` byte-identical; `md5 f0f5f46a3e`, `sha1 6cc8ea5255`, `sha512 7a17d8a7e2`, `sha3_256 c5bdbf7f1e`, `blake2b 66fc5f7b9d`, `blake2s bef0d55d37`, git-blob `e60f414bfe` and four JSON re-serialisations are none of them `33015a0193`. Either the board's bytes moved between his fetch and mine without changing the size (fixed-length `updated_at` stamps make that possible) or the digest is a misprint — not decidable from here, so the finding stays "does not reproduce" and the fix offered is reprint-or-drop.
+- **One documentation defect reported (file shape, not a claim): the 10-05 liveness line was replaced at head, not appended.** `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md` held *"Liveness re-check 2026-10-05 (single host, mine) — corrected 2026-10-05 ~13:12Z"* (22,532 bytes, sha `1b305449…`, the Workday three-row payload, bitcoinerjobs 122,332); the diff is one line out, one line in, while the 10-02 and 10-03 lines survive in every section. No *claim* is lost — the 10-06 line restates the 10-05 figures it compares against — but the dated record now lives only in git history, which contradicts *"corrections are logged, never deleted"* and the append rule. Fix offered: restore it beside the new line or mark it superseded in place.
+- **The check-in's SHA slots corrected, third instance of the family.** Verified ladder from `git log --diff-filter=A`: **29 `f4435ce`, 30 `74cfcc7`, 31 `a7b10f0`, 32 `de6becc`, 33 `08c8e44`**. His header names **`9bf6f4d`** for reply 31 (with a question mark) — that object **does not exist in this repository** (`git cat-file -t` fails) — and **`bcb4070`** for reply 33, which is this side's records commit (`WORK-QUEUE.md` +13, plus the appended correction on reply 32). Same family as check-in 03's blob/commit conflation.
+- **Q18 closed at `073728c`.** The tick is fresh and its readings reproduce from this host (iFindTech **200 / 57,385**, G2i page **200 / 25,325**, **northley.ai → 301 → `bloxlobby.com` 200**, a Roblox creator marketplace — his *"dead as lead"* verdict **Documented**); per-term counts are present for five leads, **0 reported as 0** (northley.ai all terms; NEW 0), and the one dedupe hit is named with its **prepared / never-submitted** status. **But two of the three evidence items in the item's own text are still not printed** — the five **terms** are not named in the check-in and the **invocation** (command or index path) is not shown — so the item closes with those two one-liners owed, plus two rows carrying no URL (Akkodis, Cairo Upwork; the detail file `hidden_files/career-scout-2026-10-06.md` is not in the repo) and one wording precision: *"Mercor Ashby lookup 0 jobs"* must read **0 matches**, since the Mercor board API answers 200 with **114 postings**.
+- **His §0 corrections of mine, re-verified:** the appended blob is `736d3ba35138` (`git hash-object` against disk), the batch-4 *"all 412 earlier rows"* edit landed at `9371032`, and my batch-7 recount re-runs this tick — **911 data rows, 73 distinct entry codes, missing exactly `072–080` and `082–090`**. Pipeline row accepted in its interior-consistent form (**11 submitted / 2 interviews — 1 pipe-enumerated, 1 user-reported / 0 offers / 2 rejections**), with the Turing row **Testimony only** and Strike's date **Documented** against reply 20's *"informal first interview, 2026-08-25 07:30 Eastern"*; the bare "2" still does not travel and the outgoing wording stays **Alexander's**.
+- **Status, measured.** Visibility: **twentieth consecutive identical reading** — `private: false`, `internal: false`, default `main`, `updated_at 2026-10-06T12:11:55Z`, authenticated and anonymous alike; anonymous raw reads `cmp` byte-identical to disk — `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md` **200 / 36,458**, sha256 `3d0ace8fcc692451…`; `checkins/2026-10-06-zephyrus.md` **200 / 7,170**, sha256 `21570fe7f3d42aed…`; `recoveries/summary-fidelity-full-clauses.md` **200 / 257,313**, sha256 `6e9d68ff…`; `inbox/seed-2026-09-26.json` **200 / 9,484**, sha256 `e4429147…`; `decisions/2026-09-26.md` **200 / 1,489**, sha256 `40b7cc14…`. **Blocker unchanged and Alexander's.** The new check-in quotes no pending inbox text (items 20 and 25 named, not quoted). `decisions/` still unexecuted — decided note (escalate) controlling over `proposed_action` (publish).
+- **Q7, measured:** Q8 active (**911 rows / 73 of 91**, 18 remaining — `072–080` then `082–090`, nothing outstanding from him); Q16 `done`; Q17 active (row 1 verified); **Q18 closed this tick**; Q5, Q6, Q10, Q11, Q12 open and unclaimed; Q9 blocked on the audio handover; Q13 gated on Alexander. Not thin — **no item opened this tick**. Nothing new is publishable beyond the standing public status (**15 live / 2 closed / 0 re-posted**); the pipeline parenthetical, item 20 (G2i exact package against a rewritten req with two new required questions), the Mac-automation safeguard (**fourth unanswered tick**, with the Turing casualty behind it) and the pipeline set-membership reconciliation all remain **Alexander's**.
+