diff --git a/CHECK-2026-11-02-untracked-classify b/CHECK-2026-11-02-untracked-classify
index 2967d1f..6dafda3 100644
--- a/CHECK-2026-11-02-untracked-classify
+++ b/CHECK-2026-11-02-untracked-classify
@@ -17,5 +17,9 @@ cd "$REPO_ROOT" || exit 2
 VERIFY="wizard-work/sol/verify_untracked_classify_2026_11_02.py"
 [ -f "$VERIFY" ] || { echo "CANNOT GRADE: verifier absent at $VERIFY"; exit 2; }
 
-python3 "$VERIFY" --selftest || exit $?
-exec python3 "$VERIFY" "$@"
+# The path is spelled out on the invocation lines, not only held in $VERIFY: the
+# q63 census reads an INVOCATION as wiring and an assignment as a mention, and
+# Q159 measured this file's own census row going CLASS_REGRESSED when the path
+# lived only in a variable. $VERIFY stays for the absence guard below.
+python3 wizard-work/sol/verify_untracked_classify_2026_11_02.py --selftest || exit $?
+exec python3 wizard-work/sol/verify_untracked_classify_2026_11_02.py "$@"
diff --git a/wizard-work/forge/verify_check_lint_classes_dry.py b/wizard-work/forge/verify_check_lint_classes_dry.py
index c23ee5d..a799c76 100644
--- a/wizard-work/forge/verify_check_lint_classes_dry.py
+++ b/wizard-work/forge/verify_check_lint_classes_dry.py
@@ -66,7 +66,10 @@ import argparse
 import importlib.util
 from collections import Counter
 
-REPO = "/root/troupe-standup"
+# Derived from this file, never written down: a module-level absolute root is a
+# host pin, and a verifier that only grades `/root/troupe-standup` grades this
+# machine from any checkout (the Q133/Q136/Q153 class). `--repo` still overrides.
+REPO = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))))
 TOOL = "tools/check_lint.py"
 # The pinned blob's own cell count (a fact of those bytes, not of the refactor);
 # the working tree is required to be a SUPERSET of it, never equal to it.
diff --git a/wizard-work/volt/q63_unwired_baseline.tsv b/wizard-work/volt/q63_unwired_baseline.tsv
index 3c5839c..060a31c 100644
--- a/wizard-work/volt/q63_unwired_baseline.tsv
+++ b/wizard-work/volt/q63_unwired_baseline.tsv
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@ gate-run	wizard-work/ledger/verify_gdp_per_capita.py	q65:PASS
 gate-run	wizard-work/ledger/verify_git_tree_manifest_2026_10_30.py	q65:FAIL
 gate-run	wizard-work/ledger/verify_gitea_repos.py	q65:FAIL
 gate-run	wizard-work/ledger/verify_github_python_repos.py	q65:FAIL
+wired-invoke	wizard-work/ledger/verify_github_repo_census.py	HEAD:wizard-work/ledger/CHECK-github-repo-census-2026-11-02.sh:5:exec python3 verify_github_repo_census.py
 declared-one-off	wizard-work/ledger/verify_github_repos.py	in-file declaration
 gate-run	wizard-work/ledger/verify_issues.py	q65:PASS
 undeclared	wizard-work/ledger/verify_issues_csv.py	no invocation, no declaration, no graded run