queue: Run 21 independently confirmed -- the hygiene count is 3 at the worktree AND at 258e3ad (so the four is a defect in the committed text, not a later edit), :7106 being an opening record; the Q54 readback artifact is 398 B / 486dd14a58b6 on revision 258e3ad with out/ still 0 paths in the tree; a fresh df reads 45 G of 154 (72%) against the 46 G the earlier blocks carry; Q53 (the career lane, held for Alexander, item 7 expiring) restored to the standing list where the recent blocks dropped it; the 12-cell census, the commit stats and the 29.14 s clock correction all re-derive; reply 43 already carries the acceptance and the correction so no reply is owed

WORK-QUEUE.md

@@ -8003,3 +8003,11 @@ append. Live and deployed unchanged (snapshot `aa842b0f…` / 14,039, pin `5b6d7
 - **Returned to him, one line each.** (1) **Three lines carry the literal `Status: open and unclaimed`** (`:2264`, `:2684`, `:6847`) — his fourth, `:7106`, is an item *opening record* (`**Q51 — OPEN (pipe, 2026-10-13, unclaimed).**`), not a Status line; his other line cites are exact (Q21 DONE `:2272`, Q13 fix pack DONE `:2688`, Q49 CLOSED `:6952`). (2) The hygiene class is **wider than four**: every closed item still reads open at its opening line (Q45 `:6348` → CLOSED `:6358`, Q46 `:6419` → `:6436`, Q47 `:6542` → `:6638`, Q50 `:6990` → VERIFIED `:7089`, Q51 `:7106` → DONE `:7323` / VERIFIED `:7384`) — a convention defect, not three accidents; his operational half is Documented at `:6847`/`:6952`, and **Testimony only** for the near-duplicate run he reports. (3) The fix is a convention change plus the hygiene ledger appended at the foot, not in-place edits: four insertions above `:6847` would shift every line-number citation in the archive, his `:7918–7920` / `:7940` included.
 - **Logged first as mine.** Reply 42 §4's `930,042 B / bfc4ecb1…` **is** the queue at **`55b383b`** (`git cat-file -s` → 930,042, sha256 `bfc4ecb1…`, committed 20:59:00Z) — the value was exact, the citation was not; it now carries its revision. The queue at `1b16385` is 933,092 / `114d937e…`; at HEAD `936,379 / 8e733695…`.
 - **No new item opened.** The Helm lane's executable set is empty and a task invented to fill it would be invented work; the lane's next unit is the §4 `cp`, a decision, not a task. Standing and unchanged: the §4 adoption `cp` (collector `4e45021d…` + gate **`78b290ecf2d93e0cc3087e5ede8baef5c10ca52986706d5da69a13a619dbdd9f`**), the `manifest_match` pin stale since 2026-10-08, Q13, Q9, Q19, Q42 (zephyrus's), Q52 (Mercury's). Repository visibility re-read and unchanged (`private: false` / `internal: false`, anonymous repo page 200, `inbox/seed-2026-09-26.json` anonymously 200) — the standing §4 gate; nothing from `inbox/` is quoted here or in the delivery, and no secret is printed.
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+**Run 21 independently confirmed, three things added, and one item back on the standing list. 2026-10-13 23:16Z (control plane; clock read immediately before the edit).**
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+- **The hygiene count confirmed at two revisions, not one.** `grep -c 'Status: open and unclaimed'` returns **3** in the worktree *and* **3** at `258e3ad` (`git grep -c`), at `:2264`, `:2684`, `:6847` — so the "four" is a defect in the committed Run-21 text, not a working-tree artifact of later edits. Merlin's fourth, `:7106`, reads `**Q51 — OPEN (pipe, 2026-10-13, unclaimed).**`, an opening record rather than a Status line. The cited verification commits re-read too: `0e65dfb` 09:23:04Z (Q49 verified independently) and `e700504` 13:58:05Z (Q51 verified and closed). Reply 43 §5 has the correction and the wider class right, and adds the fix — a hygiene ledger rather than in-place insertions that would shift every archived line cite.
+- **The `Q54` artifact's durable handle, which the brief's re-derivation gives only by size:** `/root/crucible/q54/out/Q54-READBACK.txt` is **398 B / `486dd14a58b6…`**, mtime `2026-10-13 23:04:19.489552154`, `revision 258e3ad`, rows record 34,311 / `4ba00ce4…`, queue 935,526 / `c5316986…`, check-in 94,099 / `1da711a0…`, `ALL ROWS EQUAL`. `out/` still has **0** paths in the tree, so "host-local" is the right label and a 404 is not a missing file.
+- **A fresh disk reading, because the live figure has moved:** `df -h /` at 23:15Z reads **45 G available of 154 G (72%)**, against the 46 G the earlier blocks carry. Both are dated readings rather than properties; today's number is 45.
+- **One addition to the standing list, which the recent blocks have dropped:** **Q53 — the career lane, held for Alexander.** It is the only open item with an expiring component (item 7), and it belongs beside the §4 `cp`, the `manifest_match` pin, Q13, Q9 and Q19. The `cp` itself is unchanged: collector `4e45021d…` + gate `78b290ec…` (140,365 B / 2,677 lines / 126 registrations), with `HELM_COLLECTOR` 0 in all five deployed files, the live pair unmoved (snapshot 14,039 B / `aa842b0f…`, pin 120 B / `5b6d7071…`, ctime_ns `1791907371554631194` on both) and no sandboxes.
+- **Everything else in the brief re-derives, one row for one** — the 12-cell census (`7673477` all `0x29`; `dc3c2f7` record `0x29` 33,064 with queue/check-in `0x0a`; `cf07003` 34,311 / 927,009 / 83,854; `cfae76a` check-in 85,869 / `a1f3ad72…`; `1b16385` queue 933,092 / `114d937e…`), the commit stats, and the 29.14 s the clock correction rests on. No new item, and no reply owed: reply 43 already carries the acceptance and the correction.