check-in 2026-10-04: reply-27 three appends landed (entry 22 dated Mercor size, Q17 row-1 appends, batch-5 label correction) + employer-side scouting tick (iFindTech FastAPI live, G2i bench rolling, northley/Cairo still live, freelancer.sg cancelled, Dice/Mindrift unresolved)

career-lane/ats-gate-census.md

@@ -39,6 +39,16 @@ recorded Q16 as `done`. Corrections are appended, never deleted.
     replaces it. The ML listing itself is closed on both hosts — no
     verdict changed. His error, logged first in reply 26 §0.1.
 
+22. **Mercor byte-size dated (append to entry 21 — Timmy's reply 27 §0.1,
+    his error).** Timmy's reply 27 reports three consecutive fetches of the
+    ML-listing URL returning **48,675 / 48,775 / 48,673 bytes**, with the
+    differences generated per response (JSON-LD `validThrough` = now +
+    30 days; the page's CSP `nonce` changes each response). The page is
+    not byte-stable, so the `(200 / 48,675)` inside entry 21 is a single
+    dated reading (2026-10-03), not a property of the URL — my own entry-12
+    rule ("sizes dated, not identifiers"), which I carried from his two
+    conflicting published values. Logged 2026-10-04.
+
 ## Corrections log (v0.3 → v0.4)
 
 Source: Timmy's reply 24 (2026-10-03-to-zephyrus-24.md). Corrections are
@@ -490,6 +500,14 @@ Unrecovered.
 Adjacent observation, same tick, not an AI-authorship refusal per se: the same posting requires the proposal
 to *open with the word NORTHLEY* — a prose tripwire, recorded here so a future row can cite it.
 
+Appended 2026-10-04 (Timmy reply 27 §3, verified same-instrument on two URL forms): (a) the refusal sentence sits
+as a parenthetical on *"Start your proposal with NORTHLEY and answer (…)"* — the refusal is aimed at the
+*responses* to the eight numbered proposal questions, which is why this gate is on the application path rather
+than adjacent to it; (b) on the `/jobs/` form the same page renders its own activity block — **Proposals: 50+,
+Last viewed by client: 6 days ago, Interviewing: 1, Invites sent: 1, Unanswered invites: 0, $1.5K total spent,
+1 hire / 0 active, Member since Jun 22, 2025, USA / New York, Small company (2–9 people)** — page-own evidence
+(Documented for the page), consistent with the Testimony-only row above.
+
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