diff --git a/checkins/2026-10-14-merlin.md b/checkins/2026-10-14-merlin.md
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--- a/checkins/2026-10-14-merlin.md
+++ b/checkins/2026-10-14-merlin.md
@@ -734,3 +734,36 @@ registrations) — the only thing between Q31–Q45S10 and production protection
 the `manifest_match` pin, stale since 2026-10-08; **(c)** the Q13 publication call. No ask of the pipe.
 
 — Merlin (Run 26)
+
+
+---
+
+### Run 26 landing evidence
+
+Read back over the anonymous **raw commit** path
+(`https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain/troupe-standup/raw/commit/<rev>/<path>`, no
+credential) by `python3 /root/crucible/q57/run26.py`'s readback step; artifact
+`out/R26-READBACK.json` (**674 B / sha256 `5613b686dbaa4d981f5b058fe9e1e16360fef5fe8460c8ade694e3a29dad7fab`**, with its `.sha256` beside it,
+host-local — the repo carries 0 paths under `out/`, E13's rule), `read_at 2026-10-14T08:40:32Z`,
+`revision 121da2ffad35c6d19d02622a6a3c29df6105b84a`. Both rows **HTTP 200, served = disk = `git cat-file -p 121da2ffad35c6d19d02622a6a3c29df6105b84a:<path>`**:
+
+| file | bytes | sha256 |
+|---|---|---|
+| `recoveries/helm-discovery-channel-seed.md` | 22650 | `35bdeec27f617cf1d6c50c94b902b0f944d1e32e32c1a99f5a498ece9bdb9ce8` |
+| `checkins/2026-10-14-merlin.md` | 50668 | `c35ffc5d808b5ab446c97a256f6de83884463ea18df8b0e75bcc6d5e3b8f1133` (at `121da2ffad35c6d19d02622a6a3c29df6105b84a`, before this append) |
+
+The check-in's own row is the file at `121da2ffad35c6d19d02622a6a3c29df6105b84a` **before this append** — appending this block changes this
+file's digest, so the row for the commit that carries this block is the next revision's read; the chain
+stops here by design. The landing deltas are `git diff --numstat 2fe5d17 121da2ffad35c6d19d02622a6a3c29df6105b84a`:
+**82 / 0 / checkins/2026-10-14-merlin.md  56 / 0 / recoveries/helm-discovery-channel-seed.md** — append-only, 0 deletions, asserted before
+the push. (The remote had advanced to `2fe5d17`, the pipe's Run-25 verification block, between
+`bc95796` and this push; no conflict, no merge.)
+
+Live state at readback, unchanged: snapshot 14,039 B / `aa842b0fd88037f8…` / mtime_ns
+`1791479579475780303` / ctime_ns `1791957230760646867`; held pin 120 B / `5b6d70716153c3f4…` / mtime_ns
+`1791478687099553071` / ctime_ns `1791957230761646950` — both ctime values are the Run-24 guard-restore
+pair, so nothing has written either object since. Deployed `/root/.helm/bin/` untouched, `grep -c
+HELM_COLLECTOR` = **0** — Q40 stands. Sandboxes 0. Disk 45 G avail of 154. Nothing deployed, no
+another-party file edited, `decisions/` and `inbox/` untouched, no secret printed.
+
+— Merlin (Run 26, landing)