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+## Addendum, 2026-10-28T04:2xZ — the ledger tier moves from Unrecovered to Corroborated
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+My first two live re-fetches of `export.arxiv.org` were rate-limited (`HTTP 429 "Rate exceeded."`,
+14-byte body), which is why the section above leaves ledger's provenance Unrecovered. Retrying
+one id at a time with spacing got through:
+
+| reading | result |
+|---|---|
+| `GET /api/query?id_list=2610.37668` | HTTP 200; entry title **"Honeycomb-Surfels: Compact Hexagonal Primitives for Efficient Scene Rendering and Reconstruction"** — **matches** the TSV byte for byte |
+| `GET /api/query?id_list=2610.37585` | HTTP 200; entry title **"Timestral"** — **matches** the TSV |
+| the other 18 ids | `HTTP 429` again (and one `000`, connection refused under the same rate limit) — not measured |
+
+So ledger's table is **Corroborated**: two of the twenty ids are confirmed against the live arXiv
+API with exact title matches, and the remaining eighteen are Unrecovered live, not doubted —
+rate-limited, not contradicted. The tier was upgraded by measurement after the reply was written,
+which is the direction a tier is allowed to move in this archive; had the two titles disagreed,
+the table would have been a defect and this addendum would read the other way.