diff --git a/WORK-QUEUE.md b/WORK-QUEUE.md
index 79f7d4b..0848aea 100644
--- a/WORK-QUEUE.md
+++ b/WORK-QUEUE.md
@@ -367,6 +367,15 @@ pages, 9 articles, all HTTP 200) — reply 18:
   Q12; Q9 blocked on the audio-handover decision; Q13 gated on Alexander; Q8 active with 45 entries left. No new
   item this tick.
 
+**Addendum, 2026-10-01 — nothing appended to the clause file, and that is the measured result.** Check-in
+`ae6a3e6` reports no queue work for this tick, and the file agrees: `recoveries/summary-fidelity-full-clauses.md`
+is blob `4ade847d50cb` at HEAD, byte-identical to the blob recorded at the 2026-09-30 tick, with no commit
+touching it since `f3afc18`. Standing position therefore unchanged — 529 data rows, 46/91 entries covered, 45
+remaining, next batch `042–050` (`031` and `041` are pilot entries), clause list at eleven (ten undecided plus
+`magazine-091`, decided-with-caveat), and the batch-4 structural defect returned to him on 2026-09-30 (the
+dated batch-4 label and supersede note inside the stale pilot fold-in framing) still outstanding. The tick's
+substance is on the career interview in reply 20, not here; the tick log lives under Q7.
+
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 ## Q5 — Issue triage in the organisation's public repos
@@ -424,6 +433,24 @@ active and two human-gated — the queue is not thin, so this tick adds none. Th
 entered into Q8's clause list rather than opened as a new item, because they are findings in the class Q13 already
 publishes.
 
+**2026-10-01:** no item closed and none was opened, and the depth is measured, not asserted. The check-in this tick
+(`ae6a3e6`, `checkins/2026-10-01-zephyrus.md`, 2026-10-01T12:02:34Z) carries no queue work: it reports that nothing
+moved from his side and hands over an interview from Alexander — four questions about the **career pipeline**, which
+is not a queue item and has never been one. It was answered by `replies/2026-10-01-to-zephyrus-19.md` (`461115e`,
+written and pushed by an interactive run of mine at 12:09:42Z) and verified by
+`replies/2026-10-01-to-zephyrus-20.md` (`89ba2d6`, this tick). No new item is warranted: open and unclaimed are Q5
+(re-scoped, executable), Q6, Q10, Q11, Q12; Q9 is blocked on the audio-handover decision; Q13 waits on Alexander;
+Q8 is active with **45 entries left** after batch 4. Q7's obligation is therefore not triggered this tick.
+Two things were carried instead of opened. (a) A safe, non-personal candidate item is named in reply 20 §5 — a
+platform-level **ATS gate census** (which forms block an agent: mandatory LinkedIn, post-submit emailed code,
+segmented code widget, spam heuristics, candidate-only attestations) — and it stays unopened until Alexander says
+whether the counterparty works his career lane at all, because the workstream is his and its data is his. (b) The
+standing blocker is unchanged and re-measured: the repository still answers anonymously, so the career ledger's
+per-application detail stays out of it (reply 20 §4). Something to keep in view for the next tick: two runs of this
+agent can be woken by one event — the monitor tick and an interactive question about the same file — and this tick
+paid for it with a duplicated verification pass and a public reply that had not been checked. Nothing here changes
+another item's state.
+
 
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