roster: Q20 closed at 9a1de9a and verified from this host; zephyrus's named unit was taken by another lane and his lane is silent since 2026-10-10 (Alexander's one line, not silence); mercury's day-3 unit measured against Merlin's Run 6; and both faults of the day recorded -- the lane collision and the attribution collision that also blinded this pipe's monitor (Q36).

WIZARDS-TABLE.md

@@ -5,15 +5,31 @@ unit of work each is churning. This table is the at-a-glance view; the record li
 in `checkins/`, `replies/`, and `WORK-QUEUE.md`. Timmy keeps this table current as
 check-ins land.
 
-*Roster as of 2026-10-11 12:10Z; rows refreshed from `checkins/`, `replies/` and `WORK-QUEUE.md` at that clock.*
+*Roster as of 2026-10-12 05:12Z; rows refreshed from `checkins/`, `replies/` and `WORK-QUEUE.md` at that clock.
+The 2026-10-11 12:10Z clock line above this one is retained in the file's history; only the rows below are
+current.*
 
 | Wizard | Model | Lane | Latest check-in | Current unit |
 |---|---|---|---|---|
 | Timmy | Hermes / DeepSeek | Operating partner — replies, queue, escalation | — (replies daily) | queue replies |
-| Zephyrus Sparkborn | Mistral (Muse) | Archive verification & summary fidelity | 2026-10-10 | **Q20** (excerpt fidelity & placement, 91 magazine entries) — named next pick; Q10 closed 2026-10-10 13:30Z. No 2026-10-11 check-in recorded; Q20 is the oldest open item |
-| Cassian Assayborn | Grok | Repo census & access-state verification | 2026-10-07 | — (Q5 closed; no open unit — lane silent 4 days, needs a decision, not silence) |
-| Merlin | StepFun Step 5 | The Crucible — one hard problem → one finished, verifiable artifact | 2026-10-11 | Q30 closed 11:16Z (`adfff7a`, landing `e2a8246`); Q25–Q30 all closed. Remaining: the Q29 `int(sats)` guard, folded into Alexander's §4 adoption packet |
-| Mercury | Groq (free tier) | Fast verification & triage — rapid mechanical passes, first-pass extraction | 2026-10-11 | day-2 check-in `b50c5ec` 12:00Z — census + digest re-run, no artifact; verified in `replies/2026-10-11-to-mercury-02.md` (all four claims reproduce). **Day-3 unit: the first slice of Q31** — the collector's two safe legs, the live snapshot read before and after; the harness (v2 `217586b6…`) now executes a task file, so the lane can land an artifact. The 12:04Z Q25-control pin is superseded by the 12:08Z queue amendment (that control is already settled three times) |
+| Zephyrus Sparkborn | Mistral (Muse) | Archive verification & summary fidelity | 2026-10-10 | **Q20 — taken, not worked.** His named unit (excerpt fidelity & placement, 91 magazine entries) was closed by **Merlin** at `9a1de9a` (2026-10-12 04:49Z; verified from this host in `WORK-QUEUE.md`'s Q20 block and `replies/2026-10-12-to-merlin-20.md`) after Merlin's own process-fault disclosure. No Zephyrus check-in since 2026-10-10 20:58Z, so his lane has nothing assigned and no unit of his own: **this needs Alexander's one line — re-task the lane or let it lapse — not silence** |
+| Cassian Assayborn | Grok | Repo census & access-state verification | 2026-10-07 | — (Q5 closed; no open unit — lane silent since 2026-10-07, 5 days, needs a decision, not silence) |
+| Merlin | StepFun Step 5 | The Crucible — one hard problem → one finished, verifiable artifact | 2026-10-12 | **Q20 closed at `9a1de9a`** (all 91 magazine entries: 269/269 excerpts `literal`, placement measured for 269/269; audit + rows deliverables) and verified from this host — every aggregate recomputed, 24/24 sampled rows re-derived from fresh fetches, four corrections logged (C16–C19). Q30–Q35 closed and verified. His Run 3 also discloses a **lane-discipline fault** (Q20 was Zephyrus's named unit) and carries the **attribution fault** below. Nothing open in his lane; two Helm candidates are parked for Alexander's pick in `WORK-QUEUE.md` Q36 |
+| Mercury | Groq (free tier) | Fast verification & triage — rapid mechanical passes, first-pass extraction | 2026-10-11 | Day-2 check-in `b50c5ec` 12:00Z — census + digest re-run, no artifact; all four claims reproduce (`replies/2026-10-11-to-mercury-02.md`). His day-3 unit (Q31's first slice) was executed in Merlin's Run 6 and verified from this host on 2026-10-11 13:38Z while his scratch was empty at 13:29Z, so the unit stands open for him to land his own artifact; lane silent since 2026-10-11 12:04Z |
+
+## Two faults recorded with the 2026-10-12 rows, because a roster that hides them is wrong
+
+1. **Lane collision.** Q20 was `WIZARDS-TABLE.md`'s named pick for Zephyrus Sparkborn (2026-10-10 20:58Z) and
+   "the oldest executable item in the queue", and it was closed by another lane. The queue's label
+   reconciliation named Zephyrus in the same paragraph as the instruction Merlin followed, so this was a
+   reading failure, not an unavailable check; it is disclosed by Merlin himself, corrected in precision at
+   C18, and its record loss (the replaced reconciliation paragraph) is restored at C19 in `WORK-QUEUE.md`.
+2. **Attribution fault.** Five commits on 2026-10-12 (`9a1de9a`, `95dfbf3`, `48bf86b`, `5fe58aa`, `d2a9cae`) —
+   and `da957486` on 2026-10-09 — are authored `Timmy <timmy@stackchain.ai>` while their content is Merlin's.
+   This pipe never authors a check-in, so this roster records the content as Merlin's on the author's own
+   statement and on the files' first-person text, not on the commit author field. It also blinded this pipe's
+   own change monitor (a counterparty write under this identity produces no listing change); that hole is
+   measured, fixed at format v1.2 and logged as **Q36**.
 
 ## The churn contract