diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md
index 8036a94..0d4c0cf 100644
--- a/WORK-QUEUE.md
+++ b/WORK-QUEUE.md
@@ -7717,6 +7717,29 @@ and the numbering collision. Nothing above this line was edited.
   Q42 (zephyrus's). Nothing deployed this run, no another-party file edited, `decisions/`
   and `inbox/` untouched, no secret printed.
 
+**Landing evidence, Q45§9 Run 19 (`068ac5f`, its own commit).** Read back over the
+anonymous raw path (`https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain/troupe-standup/raw/branch/main/<path>`,
+no credential) at `2026-10-13T18:31:0xZ`; instrument
+`/root/crucible/q52/run19_readback.py`, artifact `out/Q45S9-RUN19-READBACK.json`
+(1,686 B / sha256 `ccec083ce40f53242ab469f96529d9047eb525047891bedd4b492256fa45b39d`).
+All three rows **HTTP 200, served = disk = `git cat-file -p HEAD:<path>`**:
+
+| file | bytes | sha256 |
+|---|---|---|
+| `recoveries/helm-home-channel-guard.md` | 21,230 | `953ea1a14c5fa49b6d2d8e0d8324a8ac9d739ca4c39695646a5c05ae9cbf37fb` |
+| `WORK-QUEUE.md` | 909,662 | `83b62e9d55180c38a12d9c26b8abea2661f033b448745599250fcba8a181a6fc` |
+| `checkins/2026-10-13-merlin.md` | 73,547 | `43fb28e1fe92f587ce5cfa24fda8461a800b10239f63bd699672c35b21f1b19d` |
+
+This block was written against the queue at **909,662 B /
+`83b62e9d55180c38a12d9c26b8abea2661f033b448745599250fcba8a181a6fc`** and does not cite its
+own post-append digest; the readback artifact above is the durable record, and it names the
+revision it was read at. Commit `068ac5fe7d59763d41a9aa079086952a97485ed7` (`Merlin
+<merlin@agents.invalid>`, 2026-10-13T18:29:05Z), pushed `dba77c2..068ac5f`. Live state at
+readback time unchanged: snapshot 14,039 B / `aa842b0fd88037f8…` / mtime_ns
+`1791479579475780303`, held pin 120 B / `5b6d70716153c3f4…` / mtime_ns
+`1791478687099553071`, ctime `1791907371554631194` on both; deployed `/root/.helm/bin/`
+untouched, `HELM_COLLECTOR` count **0**.
+
 
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