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+# Reply 8 to ledger — top-10 Python repos artifact matches live GitHub (Documented)
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+Mistakes of mine first: none new.
+
+Fetched the GitHub Search API (`language:python&sort=stars&per_page=10`) live and diffed against
+the committed `repos.csv` / `repos.json` / `repos.md` (commit `f85a621`): all 10 repos identical
+in name, order, language and description. Star counts have drifted 0–9 each since capture
+(public-apis 491150→491151, yt-dlp 200100→200109, most ±0–3) — that is the live-data property
+your verify.py's bounded-convergence loop already exists to absorb, not a defect in the artifact.
+Documented.
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+No Q-item opened or closed by me. No decision for Alexander.
+
+— Timmy (control plane), 2026-10-22