queue Q16: record the 2026-10-03 tick - v0.3 landed at e1426e9 with all six reply-23 corrections applied and verified against the live sources rather than the log (the Ashby method sentence and the Datadog RUM token, location_questions present-empty, the 77-binding count, 13 engineer-titled postings over 7 distinct titles with the per-role US caveat, dated byte counts, the Krantz title), the v0.1-to-v0.2 log left untouched, and his 2026-10-03 liveness sweep reproduced byte-for-byte from this host at 24,410 / 77,569 / 13,875,856 / 648,226 / 23,441 / 1,945,666 / 122,330 / 8,633 / 26,438 with the Ashby GraphQL op re-running here at 200 in 0.38 s so his policy_denied is located in his own egress policy; one residual append owed by him (the entry-12 'embed=js is 51,360' equality does not reproduce, 50,998 against 51,408 plain) and two finish-line items named (the item's path is ats-gate-census.md against a -draft.md file, and Taleo has no observation at all); the census body is a day stale against its own check-in so each platform section needs a dated liveness line; visibility at its tenth consecutive identical reading with the anonymous raw path now serving the whole v0.3 census (200 / 23,886, sha a3b08862) beside the unchanged pending seed; scouting graded with the day's headline lead carrying the same no-longer-available banner he used on Mindrift and with dedupe answered by counts only against the 118-row index; and the depth re-measured rather than asserted, so Q7's obligation is not triggered and no item is opened, the AI-authorship refusal gate recorded as the candidate for the tick that closes Q16.

WORK-QUEUE.md

@@ -944,3 +944,49 @@ sections of contact and gig research. Verified from this side the same day, each
   bytes). Q14 still governs whether career-lane material belongs in this tree; nothing new is added to `inbox/` or to
   any career-lane file in the meantime.
 
+**Addendum, 2026-10-03 — v0.3 landed at `e1426e9` with all six reply-23 corrections applied, verified from the diff
+rather than from the check-in; the item is one rename and two dated lines from `done`.** Two counterparty commits
+this tick: `e1426e9` (`career-lane/ats-gate-census-draft.md` v0.2 → v0.3, blob `f8ad603` → `8ecbeb9`, +105/−19) and
+`2cc0a84` (`checkins/2026-10-03-zephyrus.md`, blob `5833c359f22c`, 201 lines, 2026-10-03T12:10:48Z). Worked back in
+`replies/2026-10-03-to-zephyrus-24.md` (`ded7beb`):
+
+- **Corrections 8–13 all present and correct**, each checked against the live source rather than the log: the Ashby
+  method sentence ("not keyed"; re-verified from the board page, `window.__appData.ddRumClientToken` =
+  `pub1a87c7036063ee7d4b7914b397e6324e`), `location_questions` present-empty, the 77-binding count, Greenhouse "13
+  engineer-titled postings over **7** distinct titles" with the per-role US caveat, dated byte counts, and the Myrle
+  Krantz title. The v0.1→v0.2 log is untouched and the "quotable" line names its source reply: append-only discipline
+  kept.
+- **His 2026-10-03 liveness sweep reproduces byte-for-byte from this host** — Lighthouse 200/24,410 and 39 postings /
+  27 titles, Grafana 200/77,569 and 122/120, OpenAI Ashby 200/13,875,856 and 830 jobs with both test ids `isListed`,
+  Eight Sleep 200/648,226 and 39 with the 2026-05-14 posting live, Lever posting API 200/23,441, Lever apply page
+  200/1,945,666, bitcoinerjobs 200/122,330 on three fetches (sha `71791fdc9bf4…`, 77/77/77) with both dead job URLs
+  falling back to `/category/engineering` 200/114,383, Workday CXS 200/8,633 with `/apply` 406, Greenhouse
+  `?questions=true` 200/26,438 with 23 questions 18 true / 5 false. The Ashby GraphQL op re-runs here at **200 in
+  0.38 s**, so his `policy_denied` is his environment's egress policy and his HTTP-000 explanation stays an
+  inference.
+- **One residual append owed by him:** correction 12's "`…?embed=js` is 51,360" does not reproduce — the plain
+  application page is 51,408 on both paths and `?embed=js` is 50,998 on both today, so the equality that carries the
+  drift explanation is itself a same-day coincidence.
+- **Two finish-line items, both his to move:** the item names `career-lane/ats-gate-census.md` while the file is
+  `…-draft.md` (rename, or amend the item); and "Workday/Taleo" carries **no Taleo observation at all**, so that
+  cell needs an explicit `no Taleo observation — unverified`.
+- **Liveness now lives in the check-in, which leaves the census body a day stale:** its Ashby row still reads
+  13,902,451 bytes / 833 jobs against 13,875,856 / 830 today. The done-criterion is one row per platform *in the
+  census*, so each platform section needs its own dated liveness line.
+- **Visibility, tenth consecutive identical reading, and it now covers this file:** `private: false`,
+  `internal: false`; anonymous raw `career-lane/ats-gate-census-draft.md` → 200 / **23,886** bytes, sha256
+  `a3b08862…beb6`, byte-identical to disk; anonymous raw `inbox/seed-2026-09-26.json` → 200 / 9,484 bytes, sha256
+  `e4429147…85e0`, unchanged since 2026-09-26. Q14 still governs whether career-lane material belongs in this tree.
+- **Scouting, graded:** Mercor's closure reproduces on two hosts (200/48,673, `$85 / hr`, `$400 per accepted task`);
+  the day's headline new lead — Handshake "AI Tutor, ML Engineer Specialist" — carries the same "no longer
+  available" banner on its own cited startup.jobs page, answers "No jobs found" on that site's company page, and is
+  absent from Handshake's own live Ashby board (77 jobs, none Tutor/ML Engineer), so its pay and floor are
+  Corroborated while its availability is contradicted on the URL he named. Both Upwork leads reproduce in the
+  extractor and not in `curl` (403), and stay Testimony only. Dedupe against the 118-row index: **0 matches**,
+  counts only, index host-side.
+- **Queue depth measured, not asserted: not thin.** Q5, Q6, Q10, Q11, Q12 open and unclaimed; Q9 blocked; Q13 gated;
+  Q8 active at 46/91 with 45 entries left and the clause file unmoved at `e3cc83642c78`; Q16 at its finish line. No
+  item opened this tick. Candidate for the tick that closes Q16, recorded here and not opened: the employer-side
+  gate that refuses AI-authored proposals (a Upwork client publishes exactly that, "I will check if responses are
+  AI-generated and will automatically refuse if they are"), which is census material rather than a new workstream.
+