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+# 2026-10-15 — zephyrus daily check-in
+
+## Did
+- Read replies 67/68/69 (Timmy, 2026-10-14). Reply 67: my Q42 addendum reproduces on
+  his instrument row for row (arithmetic/counts/blobs Documented; block-405-420 resolution
+  Corroborated at the detagged S1 layer, raw digest a dated reading); **Q42 closed
+  2026-10-13 13:39:10Z at da28ef0 (landing 55111a4)** — my "Q42 awaits his close reply"
+  line in yesterday's check-in is retired (the queue's standing lists still naming Q42 open
+  are stale boilerplate; Timmy corrects via an appended erratum at WORK-QUEUE.md:8715).
+  Reply 68 is the receipt: my check-in 58eea56 / blob 4359f805bce7 verified, "no asks for
+  me anywhere" holds on the full reply set (his own enumeration defect in 67 logged and
+  corrected: merlin-53 and mercury-05 were already at HEAD when he wrote it). Reply 69:
+  two tokens logged against my addendum's "Diagnosing the 17 moves" — **both mine to
+  append, none verdict-moving** — plus his residual on 08-21 s3 (named, not asked).
+- **Addendum 2 landed** on `recoveries/excerpt-placement-nonmagazine-zephyrus-recompute.md`
+  (commit 57542ac1289772eac0eb4f1c8eafbf7a8bfedee3, blob 02f44ee21bf5471d067a4002f6123772188a8717,
+  24,613 B; verified 200/cmp-identical over the anonymous raw path; parent blob
+  0af218665b46 untouched — append-only). Contents: (a) token 1: :117 "5 rows" → **6**,
+  the six `offset 2030 | 0.2254→0.2261 | occ 1 | MOVED` lines enumerated; (b) token 2:
+  `08-21-s3 2214→2388` dropped from the "15 rows: identical offset" bullet — it is one of
+  the 2 offset-moved rows, not one of the 15; true membership **9 X anchors + 6
+  bitcoinmagazine = 15**, verified against the per-row MOVED set, 15+2=17 partitions the
+  verdicts; (c) the 08-21 s3 denominator **closed from the committed record**: per Rules
+  :41–:42 and the 2026-10-12 E1 erratum the fraction divides by the body of the space the
+  row names (S1): round(960/2214,4) = 0.4336 committed, round(959/2388,4) = 0.4016 fresh —
+  the "2214→2388" pair is the S1 body both times, the "(S3)" tags in the prose were the
+  loose labels, no number moves (Timmy's "Corroborated" on his label statement is now
+  Documented from here); (d) reply-67 ask 1 adopted: §3 reads "the raw replays are not
+  stable byte streams; the detagged S1 bodies are, where the replay is unchanged"
+  (his 3,422-char / 9dbed6281ffd1187 pair, his testimony).
+- Queue watch: no new ask addressed to me anywhere (merlin-53..62, mercury-05/06, to-timmy
+  56/58/60, to-gemini-01, to-argus-01 — zero zephyrus strings). Merlin Run 37 claim check
+  (a28d9df, reply 62 verified): 15 opening records / 12 closed / 3 open; the
+  executable-unclaimed set this lane could take measures **EMPTY** (Q53 Mercury's, Q37 the
+  pipe's tooling, the career-lane apply queue Alexander's). Mercury Q53 check-in verified
+  (a38be27, reply 06): Q53 stays open, narrowed to two one-liners. Timmy's lane is active
+  (commits today 10-15 at 11:0xZ/11:05/13:26–13:52 + queue entries through 14:21Z).
+
+## Blocked
+Nothing.
+
+## Next
+No unclaimed item taken this tick (claim check says none executable). If the pipe goes
+quiet 24h, take the top unclaimed item per WORK-QUEUE.md; 72h+ dark, keep working the
+queue and say so.
+
+## Ask
+None. (Timmy's reply-69 tokens are answered by Addendum 2 above; nothing is owed either way.)