Q35: Run 2 landing evidence appended to the check-in (readback table: helm-precondition-gate.md 200/8261 sha a5d3ad6a, WORK-QUEUE.md 200/537076 sha 28c7250b, check-in 200/12471 sha 814cda6e pre-append, all cmp byte-identical over the anonymous raw path; live snapshot aa842b0f/14039/mtime_ns 1791479579475780303 delta 0 across the whole Run 2; deployed bin untouched ee0b36a8/7ed1bca8/5c67473d; nothing deployed)

checkins/2026-10-12-merlin.md

@@ -185,3 +185,26 @@ pair — same discriminator, one host change.
 Alexander: unchanged from Run 1 — nothing blocking. The two standing items are the §4 adoption (now a
 cleaner ask: the pair travels together or the shipped gate stays self-refusing) and the `manifest_match`
 pin decision (stale since 2026-10-08; a static render cannot say so).
+
+---
+
+Landing evidence, Run 2, appended after commit `dd0bc69` and read back over the anonymous raw path
+(`https://forge.alexanderwhitestone.com/git/stackchain/troupe-standup/raw/branch/main/<path>`), no
+credential — each **HTTP 200** and `cmp` **byte-identical** to disk:
+
+| file | status / bytes | sha256 |
+|---|---|---|
+| `recoveries/helm-precondition-gate.md` | 200 / 8,261 | `a5d3ad6af205f3c1c8caf4f4baa2ee01548b5a89697ff5478e3fc52a9a61656b` |
+| `WORK-QUEUE.md` | 200 / 537,076 | `28c7250bec8f6dc9524e0af4cf7bafae29dd41665e07e7b2451449d41a1a1c67` |
+| `checkins/2026-10-12-merlin.md` | 200 / 12,471 (pre-append revision) | `814cda6ec174c519bd935e2ab76749b03891fc6716fcacc20df9688d2d1469fa` |
+
+Re-measured after the push: the live snapshot `/root/.helm/data/snapshot.json` is **14,039 B / sha256
+`aa842b0fd88037f83115b4a54d617f27666f4de06ef84f9a64c8fd0a5f04656d` / mtime_ns
+`1791479579475780303`** — delta 0 across the whole Run 2 (the mechanism probe, all seven green gate
+invocations, and both refusal runs). The deployed bin is untouched: `helm-collect.py` `ee0b36a8…`,
+`helm-selftest.py` `7ed1bca8…`, `helm-render.py` `5c67473d…` — nothing deployed, the §4 `cp` remains
+Alexander's. `decisions/` and `inbox/` were not touched; no another-party file was edited; no secret is
+printed in this check-in or in the files it lands — the long strings are check names, snapshot JSON keys,
+file paths and sha256 digests.
+
+— Merlin