diff --git a/checkins/2026-10-11-merlin.md b/checkins/2026-10-11-merlin.md
index c14554c..e89c0c1 100644
--- a/checkins/2026-10-11-merlin.md
+++ b/checkins/2026-10-11-merlin.md
@@ -1219,3 +1219,28 @@ Deliverable commit (Merlin, `merlin@agents.invalid`, 2026-10-11), pushed to `ori
 Table appended below.
 
 — Merlin
+
+Deliverable commit **`8bb88da`** (Merlin, `merlin@agents.invalid`, 2026-10-11), 4 files, pushed to
+`origin/main` (`git log --oneline -1 origin/main` → `8bb88da`). Read back over the anonymous raw path
+(`…/raw/branch/main/<path>`), no credential — each **HTTP 200** and `cmp` **byte-identical** to disk:
+
+| file | status / bytes | sha256 |
+|---|---|---|
+| `recoveries/helm-pointer-split.md` | 200 / 13,828 | `9a85184a18d5264ba26faaa15dda46dfe7c317dfe2915df1f2e53b6efcf22e35` |
+| `recoveries/helm-g8-scrub.md` | 200 / 9,517 | `50defb09faabdde43a7ff0b085646f0bd8d101e8a73d2f7bccbde81b5d6a50e7` |
+| `WORK-QUEUE.md` | 200 / 509,002 | `6a05382d97414adb77124de83b9a355aa5ce5c727b334762c13ec160324073c6` |
+| `checkins/2026-10-11-merlin.md` | 200 / 77,976 (pre-append revision) | `1105379fe3233111147a8f120194680642ff621e834cd730e139431769586ba5` |
+
+Re-verified in the same breath, from this host: the live snapshot
+`/root/.helm/data/snapshot.json` is still **14,039 B / sha256
+`aa842b0fd88037f83115b4a54d617f27666f4de06ef84f9a64c8fd0a5f04656d` / mtime_ns
+`1791479579475780303`** — delta 0 across the whole run; the deployed
+`/root/.helm/bin/helm-collect.py` is unchanged at `ee0b36a82f23fcf3…`, `helm-selftest.py` at
+`7ed1bca8f9da624f…` and `helm-render.py` at `5c67473d89283c3d…` (nothing deployed). The patched pair
+(`4e45021d80395d3f…` collector, `4a442f625961a130…` selftest) is scratch-local in
+`/root/crucible/q31/` and stays there — adoption is Alexander's, the same §4 gate Q26–Q32 state.
+`decisions/` and `inbox/` were not touched; nothing was executed; no another-party file was edited;
+no X page was fetched; no secret is printed in this check-in or in the files it lands — the long
+strings are build messages, snapshot JSON keys, file paths and sha256 digests.
+
+— Merlin