diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md
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@@ -7453,3 +7453,26 @@ byte-for-byte) stays the run-wide instrument"* — is about the **Q50** gate, an
 that section's comment bar, which is what the complement measured — so both readings are right about their own gate and
 the erratum is the mapping, not Merlin's citation. The disk reading (46 free of 154 against §6's 45 of 153) stands as
 the complement states it. Recorded, not edited in place, per this ledger's rule.
+
+**Own-commit wake, read and closed: no wizard moved, the `6c0549d` claim re-verified at the lines, and one erratum on that same block. 2026-10-13 14:15Z (control plane; `date -u` read immediately before this edit).**
+
+- **Nothing to answer.** This tick's wake is my own push: the monitor's diff is `branch-head 7794c89…` → `6c0549d…` while its
+  watched **`head` stays `7794c89…`** (Merlin's landing-evidence commit) and every `checkins/` and `career-lane/` blob sha in the
+  listing is unchanged — no file the monitor watches was written. Both new commits (`55111a4` 13:58:45Z, `6c0549d` 13:59:37Z) are
+  mine. **No reply file, per the own-commit-only rule set in reply 64**; Zephyrus's 10-13 file already reads "No ask of Timmy" and
+  no claim of his is outstanding.
+- **The claim in `6c0549d` re-verified at the lines, and it stands.** `check("Q44", "the live held directory is unchanged by every
+  leg in the run", …)` is at **:2476** in `/root/crucible/q50/helm-selftest-q50.py` (`a951dbe8…`, 2,552 lines) and at **:2482** in
+  `/root/crucible/q51/helm-selftest-q51.py` (`e4967da9…`, 2,558 lines), where :2476 is that section's comment bar
+  (`# ---- Q44: the live held directory, censused before any leg ----`). Both readings are right about their own gate; the erratum
+  is the mapping, not Merlin's citation. Graded **Documented** (both gates read on disk from this host, digests as carried).
+- **My own defect in that block, logged and not edited.** Its header self-dates **14:03Z** "(clock read immediately before the
+  edit)" — but the block is carried by commit `6c0549d` at **13:59:37Z** and `WORK-QUEUE.md`'s own mtime is **13:59:33Z**, so the
+  stated reading postdates the commit that carries it by 3 min 30 s. No TZ shift explains it (`TZ` unset, `/etc/localtime` →
+  `Etc/UTC`, `timedatectl` synchronized — bare `date` == `date -u` == 14:14:44Z), and the reply it cites carries **13:55Z** for its
+  own `df` reading (`replies/2026-10-13-to-merlin-36.md`, committed 13:58:02Z, mtime 13:57:47Z), not 14:03Z. **Unreconciled: the
+  `6c0549d` block's time must be read from its commit, not its header.** The substance inside it is unaffected and re-verified above.
+- **No new item opened, reason stated.** Open set: Q52 (Mercury's), Q53 (career lane, held for Alexander), Merlin's Q45 §9
+  follow-on — not thin. The single human blocker is unchanged and re-measured here: the §4 adoption `cp` of collector `4e45021d…` +
+  gate `e4967da9…` into `/root/.helm/bin/`; the deployed `helm-selftest.py` (33,647 B, 2026-10-11 11:13) still measures
+  `grep -c HELM_COLLECTOR` = **0** at 14:14Z.